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*nto the trunk the articles necessary fur her pur- |
pose, Iler resolution was lixetl—she resolved to
leave Iter husband. Tilt’ miseries of her present
situation were, more than she could bear and it was
now the only remedy left. She was young—life
is sweet-—and the course she was about adopting
seetned more its a duty enjoyed upon her by the
will of Heaven than any inclination of her own—
AVi'h the single exception of old Margaret, Man
t. 1, the servant, was the only one in the establish
ing.if tii,;t seciuad to take any interest whatever i:i
tier G» ret; in fiances hadlatterally indroriueei
them in each oilier, and iu the resolution she had
taken he greatly aided her, and was perhaps her
adviser thoughnut. Many and painful were the
struggles that agitated her maternal bosom at the
thoughts of leaving her child—perchance to nev -
er see it again! But leave it she must—she could
not with consistency take it with her.
'-Vs she finished packing, the clock on the tnnn
tlp-piece struck six, and the twilight of evening
beg.m in close around iier. She pulled a bell,
andd. sjied th servant who answered it to furnish
her wit* a light. A Vamp wasbrought, afterwliieli
she f asti nod the diror of the apartment and snt
dow ti to compose a letter. Tear after, tear many ami
last, trickled down her colourless cheeks, as with a
trembling hand she traced the anguish of a bursting
heart! She finished it, scarcely able to sign 1h r
name ;;t the bolt mu, &nd superscribed it to her
husband.
It was now ten o’clock—another hour, and then
farewell to her home ! She went out upon the
1> 1 ony. and taking a seat ujvon the place where
r > oftnp she hade at w uh her husband, whiled away
the intervening hour with a retrospect of the past:
me days of her childhood—courtship—the death
of her mother— -marriage—-the birth of her babe ;
and then her present pitiable condition. As the
/n atiiem of her departure approached, her fears—
••r rather her regrets,of the idea of leaving her
< iiiki. augmented.
“But lie will take care of it—oh, yes! It never
<identicJ him if I have, and against his own lie
♦oirelv cannot harden his heart!”
'i’iie clock strikes—eleven—.aud a slight cough
is heard beneath her window ?”
‘•ls it you Manuel /” .
“Yes—drop the trunk—and as you no me
through thuhidl be careful not let any of the doors
-s.aiu. Mr. West is up aud pacing his chamber—
i heard him.”
The trunk w is droppednnd caught by Manuel,
•duna shut down the window, put a hat and cloak
■*':!, hastened tbrouirh the entry , down the stairs,
t.trough the hall, and as she issued from the door
■'*> is promptly met bv Manuel with the trunk upon
ids .-holders, fie begged her to make haste for
1 ear of acisifjent or discovery. She took his arm.
ftW they ‘hurried down to the river, w'here ttie
boat Jay moor 'd with a man r tklv at the oars.—
•'he enter.' I. bale adieu to Manuel, pud charged
loin to write whenever she sent u letter herself
-Ite promised to do so, show and oft' the boat, and
t irne.l h.s stops towards the mansion again, -whilst
the stroke of the oars reached his cars—and lot
laughed within himself at his own success,
T.n night was so dark that Julia could not dis
tinguish the face of the rower; and not a word
'•a- -;u k'mby him she deemed it advisable to keep
, silence herself, —expecting every moment tube
1 uidejl oh tlie opposite shore,—there to enter a
• arri igt V-.liieh she supposed was iu readiness for
her. 'l'eu minr.tes at least kad passed, and still
t.u- r.< v l continued his exertions. She knew the
* ump'i.-ativc width of the river—it certainly couhl
■ a t 1 -• so long merely to cross it—ami “he was
•■pontiie point, of making known, when
tne boat ci'oc übruplV, against rite side of a
♦vkooae* riding at anchor iu the stream. Im
mediately the steps were throw n over the vessel’s
‘ode, oral Julia was desired to ascend. In amaze*
r'iftit she did so, nnd before aware of what she was
riding found herself upon deck.
■'/' nr Heaven's sake, what does this mean?”,
'be exc.aimed, finding words and coming to a
sue of her situation. A dark night—on board
»/t a strange vessel—and around me I know not
" hotu ?”
“ 1 h ■'e are tionfflvui'friends here,” said a voice.
*' 4 -ds way,” u hen at the same moment the cabin
door wa; opened and she was Ttuked to enter.—
Jhfssively she romplie'd'and ith sceiiileiVthe steps-—-
a lamp hung in the middle “of the cabin, and bv
t i I. .it it atiorded she recognized the features of
lu*i cousin—Edward Byard ?
‘ My cousin !” site exclaimed.
" Vv-s-Your cousin that loves you, Julia—lftvcs
'•‘yam !’’
“Udfrayednetutyed 1”
( Tv be Continuhl.)
KOI M) ROBIN
One of the best, legal stories we know of is that
s'i Hound Robiu, as it is familiarly called in the lmv-
circuits of North Carolina, and owes its humor
1 “ the very fertile and cultivated mind of a lawyer
who is still alive but hi a distant Western State.
AU inf’ lawyers attending court about the year
H-Ju boarded at the Hoti.se of Mr. S s-I ,
v h<> at the beginning of his life as a publican was
as-Muons and provident, hut riches multiplied
and Boniface became lazy , crusty and parsimoni
ous. Elis Hceointnodations, as they areusttallv.
Ito tii using the very best had by degrees d'“gene ra
ted into the very worst in the whole rountrv.
This was home with mnttrrings from time to time
until iu a lit of desperation, the whole" fmternitv of
lawyers, alter mature delibnvtiuß iti Congress
assembled, Resolved to quit the house and goto
another in the same village. Thodutv ofanoonn
eing the separation was devolved upon the gentle
man above specified, who wrote th*> following,
and sent it to the Landlord, signed with the
names of all the decidents in a round ring below:
A DECLARATION.
“ W ken in the course of human events, it
becomes necessary for a half hungry, half fed.
Imposed on'-eAt ,5 f men, to dissolve the lands of
Landl»id and boarder, a decent respect for the
opinious of mankind requires that they should
declare tae causes which have impelled them to
tlm separation.
We hold these truths to be self evident thkt all
juen arc created with mouths and bellies; and
that they are endowed by their Creator with cer
tain unalienable right*, among which, is that no
man shall be compelled to starve out of mere
‘‘•unpiaisaucp to a l andlord ; am) that every man
lias aright to fill his* belly and wet his whistle
with the best that’s going.
J lie history of the present Landlord of White
Lion isaEtuitiqy of repeated insults, exactions and
injuries, id! having in direct object the establish*
ment-of absolute tyranny over their stomachs and
-throats. r i'o prove this let tacts to a
candid world.
IL* has r •fused to keep any thing to drink but
■ bv whiskey-.''
l/e lias refused to set upon his table for dinner,
any thing hut turnip soup with a little bull beef
and sour erout, which are not wholesome and
necessary for the public good.
He lias refused to let his only servant blink
eyed Joe put more than six grains of coffee to
one gallon of water.
He has turned loose a multitude of fleas and
swarms of bed bugs, to assail us in the peaceful
hours of the night and eat our .substance.
He has kept up in our beds and bedsteads
standing armies ol these merciless savages with
their scalping knives and tomahawks, whose rule
of warfare is undistinguished destruction.
lie has excited domestic insurrection amongst
us. by getting drunk before breakfast and making
his wife and servant so before dinner whereby
there is often the devil to pay.
Ue has cut off -our trade with foreign ports
and brought in his ball faced whiskey, when w e
sent him to buy to better liquor abroad, and with
a perfidy scarcely paralleled iu the most barbarous
ages, he lias been known to drink our foreign
spirits aud till ourbottles v uh the most dire po
tions.
lie-has imposed taxes upon ns, to an enormous
amount, against our consent, and w ithout any rule
bat his own arbitrary will and pleasure.
A landlord whose character is thus marked by
every act which may define a tyrant and a mis u\
is unfit to keep a boarding house for Cherokee
'lndians.
Nor have we been wanting in our attentions to
Mrs. S .or Miss Hally. We have appealed
to their native justice and magnanimity, we have
cohjured them to alter a state of things which
would inevitablo interrupt our connection and
correspondence. They, too, h ive been deaf to tlie
voice of justice. We are, therefore, constrained
to hold all these parties alike inimical to our w ell
being aud regardless ofour comfort.
We. therefore, make this solemn declaration
of our final separation froui our former landlord,
and cast our defiance at his teeth.
An Aff'i a’/ ii g Scene.— An affecting spectacle,
of insanity followed by a melancholy result, was
witnessed a few days ago, at the lunatic hospital
in Saunter. A lady and gentleman went to visit
tlie establishment, accompanied by their child,
ii little, girl five pr six years old. As they passed
one of the cells, the wretched inmate, an interes
ting young woman of twenty five, who hud irre
eoverably lost her reason, through tlie desertion
ol a seducer and the death of her illegitimate off
spring, made a spring at tlie little girl, who had
approached w ithin her reach. Jn tiie height of
the delirium the poor creatu.ie fancied the stran
ger's child her own long lost darling: devouring
it with kisses, siie bore it in triumph to the far
ther end of her cell. Entreaties and menaces
hiving proved equally ineffectual to induce her,
to restore the child to its terrified mother, the di
rector of the establishment was sent for, and at
li'h suggestion the maniac was allowed to retain
peaceable possession of her prize under the im
pression that'exhausted with her own frantic vi
olence, she would fall asleep when the child might
be liberated from her grasp without difficulty or
the employment of harsh means. This calcu
lation was not erroneous; in a few minutes the
poor sufferers, eyes closed in slumber raid ciu* of
tiie keeper's, watching the opportunity, sintclmd
the child from her arms mid restored' it to Its
mother. The sliliek of delight utLirc.l by the
latter, op 'recovering her treasure, awakened the
V'aor maniac,who perceiving the child gone,, ac
tually howled with despair, and in a paroxysm of
ungovernable plrrenzy, fell to the ground— -to rise
no more. Death had released her from her suff
ering — ‘-CalignauT* Messenger.
Col." Forbes has recently related to us an inter
esting anecdote of the celebrated Crockett. At
ih“ commencement of the war the latter arrived at
Nacogdoches accompanied by several volunteers.
.Soon after their arrival they proceeded to the office
of Col. Forbes, (who was then first judge of that
municipality, to take the oath of allegiance. The
Colonel immediately w rote out the following form :
“ 1 do solemnly swear that 1 will bear true
allegiance to tin* provisional lievormncut of Texas,
or any future Government that may be hereafter
declared, and that I will serve her honestly and
faithfully against nil her enemies and oppressors
whatsoever, and observe and obey the orders ofthe
Governor of Texas, the orders and decrees of the
present or future authorities, and the orders of the
officers appointed over me according to the rules
aud articles for the Government of Texas, so help
me God.”
1 "pan off ring it to Crockett, he refused to sign
it, saying that lie was willing to take an eath to
support any future republican Government, hut
• ould not subevibe his name to this form the
future government might be despotic, the Colonel
therefore inserted the word republican between
the words future ami government, and Crockett
readily signed the instrument. The origual has
lately been deposited in the office ofthe Secretary
of War. in which the word -icpublican appears
interlined and beneath it is the autograph of David
Crockett. "T< .ras Tele graph.
I'radh and Abolition. —A curious stow is related,
ol nu \ dolirionist in tlie West.—Scion' after put
ting up :.t i tavern kept by a wag, lie commenced
preaching his Abolition doctrines. He endeavored
to make black Hill, the hostler, believe that lie
was “equal to a white man. It does not appear
That Bill fully understood how that could be : hot
his master getting wind ofit, caused the negro
to dress himself up like a gentleman, and at night
to occupy otre of the best beds in one of the best
rooms of the house.—When the Aboitionist
expressd a desire to retire to rest, the landlord eon
ducted him in to Bill’s apartment, and told him
that the bed wliieh the negro occupied was the one
in which he would have to sleep for the night, lie
tlrew hack Mith aghast at the sight of the curly
headed negro, and gave vent to’his indignation'!
Tl all would not do, however; the landlord gave
him to understand that it was the onlv bed in
house, and that, as it was a favorite theory with
him that negroes were as good as white people lie
could have no objection to his bed-fellow. He
was compelled to bundle with the negro ; hut, it
is said, not before charging Bill at his peril, to
Vemove bis black carcass to the other side as far
ns possible ! BiMAol'd his master next morning,
that the Abolitionist did not close his eves durum
the neight, lint abused him for a dirty black
from the time he laid down until he got up.!
Mobile, Mer. Adc.
Marriage fortraord inary.— We learn from
our Philadelphia correspondent that Miss Angel
ina E. Grirnke, formerly of Charleston was married
on the 16th iusf. in that city to the famous
perfectionist and abolitionist'Theodore Weld
without priest or magistrate.' by taking each other
THE liEOBGIA 3lliSlcOft.
as husband and wife in t,he presence of their invi- 1
te l guests.— Southern Tiinesand £/. Gazette.
We are not informed whether the husband is a
white man or a negro—but as that kind fit mar
riage ceremony is common among negroes, and
iiiegal among the whites wherever we are acquain
ted, tiie inference is m favor of (ts being a practical
abolition marriage.— Macon Messenger.
From the correspondence of the Aug. Sin find.
Washington. May y&, 1638.
1 give you below' the remarks of Mr. Dawson,
delivered at the time the -message of the Presi
dent, accompanied by the communication ot the
Secretary of War, to the i herokee Delegation,
was received in the House of Representatives.—
The question was on referring them to the Com
mittee on Indian Affairs.
Mr. Evkkett, of Vermont, moved to give the
Committee power to send for | ersuns and papers.
Mr. DAWSON said that it was always with ex
treme regret that he ojicncd Ills mouth in that
House ou our relation ; with the Cherokee people.
Whenever he had done so, he had always stated
to the House the true condition ofthe facts.—
From the communication whit ii had been receiv
ed, and of which he had now, for the fir t time,
been apprised, the government seemed I'rsposcd
to enter i>.i a train of action which could not but
be injurious to the Cherokees, while it would, in
the deepest degree, •’» wrong to ourselves, to do
any act calculated to affect them, by bringing the
tribe into a conflict with the authorities of tlie
several State; interested under th treaty. Ii"
there was a pa*ty in the United St ps which ex
pected to make any tiling out of his movement
lie warned them That they won! 1 l>“ mistaken.—
If the men of both parties in the State of Georgia
were so degraded and so corrupt that they couhl
not tell the truth on the subject, and were not to
be believed iu any statement they made in regard
to it, they had reached a poor mass indeed, an 1
were unworthy, any longer to be considered as
members of the National Confederacy. Tlie fin
ger of scorn had been pointed at the State, and
a strenuous effort had been made to bring all the
moral force of the community to bear airainst her,
and all without any ju*t reason; and which effort
1 scorn as a Georgian, aud shall treat it as it de
serves.
The gentleman from Vermont, (Mr. Everett,)
had asked to have the Italian Committee clothed
with pow ers to send for persons aud papers. What
would be the inevitable consequence ? Could anv
gentleman be ignorant of it l Did any gentle
man doubt if ? The certain consequence would
be that John Ross would be brought forward to
dictate a course to this government, and would be
employed to operate in such a manner as to in
flame the political state of the country.
Tomorrow (said Mr. D.) is the 23d of the
month. That is the day limited iu the treaty, o>:
which the rights of Georgia, under tly.t treatv
will vest in her citizens as there Wovi led. Tfie
grantees who hold their ‘•'•"’..ts under the grants
Os Georgia, will. tW day, Lute possession of
their lan< c. On this gentlemen may count with
Certainty. To talk of giving the C-herokccs two
J years io emigrate, when the title to tlieir lands is
actually vested in the citizens of Georgia, and tlie
grants have been actually issued under the broad
seal of the State! If" the Government, by means
like these, seeks to avoid the difficulty of its own
eroadon, it will attempt an imprueticabjlity. The
gentlemen who opposed this treaty, aajl would vi
sit the sin of making it upon Ga- are gifilty of the
grossest injustice, for that is a matter with which
Georgia had nothing to do. The treaty was be
gun, carried on and consummated by the General
Government, and tha General Government alone.
For what would the gentlemen have the power of
sending for persons and papers !
(Mr. Everett said, “what do you send the
message to the committee for, if you will not give
them power to act upon it?”)
I oppose the reference. The committee want
to bring John itoss before them, and we are to per
mit the interference of John Ross, who has been
here for months, deserting his own people and
leaving the nation without a head, while he is con
ducting intrigues at the seat of Government, and
it seems influencing the Administration ofthe Go
vernment in relation to the treaty which Georgia
had been told should be executed ut all hazards.
Ves, sir, In- has left the Cherokees under the pro
tection of the laws of Georgia, Alabama, Tenes
see and North Carolina, and they have been pro
tected by those laws, and will continue to be pro
tected by them, but are we to suffer John Ross to
arrest the whole course of the pot ley of tins Go
vernment on the ground that he is the treaty ma
king power ? Sir, 1 think we ought not to permit
it. John Ross knows well that there is no man ou
this floor more ready to do the amplest justice to
the people than I am, anil unless soihe decisive
steps are taken, the whole course of your Govern
ment in relation to its Indian policy, will be arrest
ed by those propositions. The only way to con
duct this matter is to disobey the suggestions, and
not yield to the propositions of the President, No
power of this Government can destroy the rights
of the citizens of Georgia. They will insist on
their right to their own soil, which has been assur
ed to them under the treaty and grants, bearing the
seal of the State, aud they will insist that tiie In
dians who are in possession of that soil shall be
speedily removed from it. And what will you do?
Will you declare war asainst Georgia / Will
you take up arms to Ibree grantees out of the pos
session of their own land that you may give that
land to the Indians who have yielded their right of
occupancy under tlie treaty? Yet that is the
substance of the proposition sent to us bv the
President and which we see now gravely consid
ering. Sir, tio Georgian can go for such a mea
sure. What will be the consequence of attempt
ing it. I warn both sides ot' this House, 1 tell the j
friends of the Administration, and 1 tell the gen
tlemen in the opposition that such an attempt will
certainly be resisted bv Georgia, and her rights
will lie maintained by Her constituted authorities
and in strict conformity to the rights of the State,
although it may he called nullification. The mo
ment this House seriously entertains it, the Indi.
litis will instantly suppose that Congress is about
to interfere to annul the treaty. They will take
an obstinate stand upon the soil and the authori
ties of Georgia will then execute her laws; and I
tell you here in mv place that those laws will be
enforced. Before 1 resume my seat. I shall move
to lav the President,s communication on the ta
ble.
A more dangerous interference with the rights
of the people of Georgia I have never witnessed,
than the message this day received from tlie Pre
sident, when he knows well, that Georgia has dis
posed of the land under the treaty, that the Geor
gia Legislature is not iu session, and that no post- j
ponement of the rights of the State w ill be sub
mitted to. It far surpasses any proposal (because
of the scurce from whence it comes) made in this
House by tlie petitions of morbid philanthropists
or fanatics, it has taken me by surprise, it was un
expected. Why it has been sent to us, 1 cannot
understand. 1 protest agsinst its reference to any
committee.
?>Tr. Dawson immediately thereupon made his
motion that tlie communication of the. President
do lie upon the table.
This was rejected—and the motion to refer to
the Indian Committee prevailed.
Tt is exceedingly difficult for one to observe the
movements of public men, and to compare their
professions with their practice, and still to retain
a favorable opinion of human nature. Perhaps
lofty professions of patriotism, followed by gross
selfishness and venality; pretentions to strict
economy, followed by unbounded extravagance;
high claims to the love of liberty, followed bv
obsequious devotion to Executive power, never
were so grotesquely and shamefully exhibited, as
by the party now in power, it we wii! observe their
course from the tune they first raised the cry of
retrenchment and reform, up to the present time,
lira late speech in Congress, by Mr. Bond of
Ohio, he makes a most s.rikiug exposition of tlie
hollow profession*, and inconsistent practices of
those who are now iu authority, it must not be
t'orgotteu however, (and let it lie remembered in
honor of human nature,) that those who united
in tlie cry of retrenchment and reform, were not
all mere pretenders ; some of them continued to
insist on these reforms being carried into practice.
Tlie consequence was that they were discarded
from the party; but they will be, remembered by
tiie country, as men who have proved by many
personal sacrifices, their devotion <o their princi
ples.
Mr. Bond concludes Lis admirable speech on
this subject by the following striking appeal.—
'l /,'•■. Monitor.
“Sir, has not the country been disappointed ?
Have not site l’ople bet:n deceived and allured by
specious and vain promises? liar, not the Fed
eral Executive patronage inordinatly increased,
and is it not still unrestrained ? Is not the power
over it abused and perverted ? Do not the expen
ses of our General Government far transcend in
amount all our pa t history ? Why are these
things so, and why has not this “plague been stav
ed,” Mr. Speaker, according to vour plighted
faith ! I will tel! you wliv, sir, but 1 prefer doing
so in the language and illustration of one of your
own friends, Mr. Buchanan, of tlie Senate { 0
whom 1 have before referred. p ;1 . n
to which I have already, alluded, apj w |/ en
assaulting the. (then) AtlojiMatrurion, he thus ex
claimed : •• 1 ' of power has a
strou':. a lunurg. to Corrupt the heart.—'
m’ Ust fii dominion grows v. ith its posscc/ibn':
*Uv) lnaa who, i.i hiffribm life, V. as utue, and
j Jffst, has often been tram .brined, L»\ tiie Jong pos
{ session of power, into a monster. In the sacred
| Book, which contains lessons cf wisdom for th'o
politician as well as for the Christian, we find a
h ippy illustration of the corrupting influence of
power upon the human heart. 'When llazael
came to consult Elisha whether his‘master, the
King of Syria, would recover from a dangerous
illness, the prophet, looking through the vista of
futurity, saw the crime:; of which the messenger,
who stood before him, would be guilt v, and he
wept, llazael asked,‘why weepeth in v lord'?’—
The prophat then recounted to him the murders
and the cruelties ot which he should be guilty
towards the children of Israel, llazael, in the
spirit of virtuous indignation, replied: ‘ls tbv
servant a dug, that he should do this thing ?’ And
Elisha answered, ‘The Lord hath shown he slialt
be King over Syria.’ This man afterwards became
King by the murder of his master, and w as guilty
of enormities, the bare recital of which would
make us shudder.*’
1 low true, and, alas! how applicable is this sa
cred illustration to those who invoked its use in
elevating themselves to power ?
Suppose, Mr. Speaker, that somo inspired Eli
sha had been present when you and Mr. Buchan
an, with others, engaged in ’.lie debate which has
been referred to and moved by the sympathetic
tear of tlie propht, you had asked. “Why weepeth
my lord ?>’ how would you have been astonished
in being then told what the People of this country
have since realized!
Imagine, sir, the inspired one looking through
the vista of a few brief years and saying, You will
lie placed in power, but will greatly increase
tlie amount of all public expenditures. You will
use the olfices and patronge of the country for
private and not for public, good. Aou will create
odices for favorites. You will enlarge all Exec
utive power. You will deny the right to call for
reasons on a removal from office, and in a few
years w ill remove more than 1500 persons from of
fice Ibr opinion’s sake! You will derange and
corrupt the Post office Department, which you
now admit to he sound, and you will not reform
any of your designated abuses in the other De
partments. You will appoint more members of
Congress to office in four years than has been done
in all the past history o( the Government. Your
bill for the abolition of the power and patronage
over the Press will sleep the sleep of death. Aon
will retain -‘the press, the post office, the armed
force, and the appointing power in the hands of
the the President, and will not sutler them to
change position and take post on the side
of the People.” lou now censure a svnali
appropriation to purchase some nddditional furni
ture for the President’s house, but you will furnish
that house in luxurious style tor General Jackson,
who will be succeeded bv Mr. Van Buren ; and
he, not content with tlie second-hand furniture of
his predecessor, will cast off and make his entrv
into that edifice, with one appropriation of $7,300
for alterations of the house and superintendence
of the grounds, and another appropriation of $20,-
000 foi new furniture, and this, too, in the very
venr when your public treasury will he bankrupt,
aou will increase the expenses of foreign mis
sions and suffer your Ministers to return home on
such brief service as will show their appointments
to have been made lor individual gain rather than
public good. Aon will increase the contingent
expenses of this House from SBO,OOO, the ‘present
annual amount, to *210,000. You will add to
the like expenses of the Senate and to «]l other
expenditures in the same ratio; and the sum total
tor the whole civil list and ordinary appropriations
of the Government, which is now $12,163,438,
will be incieased from time to time under vour
boasted reform, until it shall exceed thirty millions
per year.
AYm now question the right of a Department
to purchase a print or likeness of the immortal
Washington, but will decorate every room in all
the Departments with likenesses of Martin Van
Buren. AYm will, by means of the office-hol
ders—the enlisted soldiers, as you have just called
them—bring ti;e patronage cf the General Gov
eminent into conflict with the freedom of elec
tions, and you w ill resi. t the bill that shall he
brought in to secure the freedom of elections.
You, Mr, Randolph, will go upon wliat you Lew
call a “sleeveless errand,” and afterasaulting the
Emperor of Russia, will make a pleasant sojourn in
old England, and return to your estate, i.\ Virginia
You, Mr. Buchanan, will become an office-holder
aud enlisted soldier, go on tlie very missiou to
Russja, which you are row censuring, aid will
pocket the >IB,*OOU for a twelve month and a day’s
service. You,(to the gentleman from New York,)
Mr. Caruberleng, will oppose aud vote against the
very measure w Inch you now report and recom
mend, for reiii.i mg tfie pay of members, as a
means of shortening the session of Congress.-
\ ou, Mr. Stevenson, will be made speaker of this
House, and appoint its committees, and dispense
its rules, with the promise of a foreign mission in
your pocket. ) ou, Mr. Benton, will vote to lay
oil the table, the bill which you now report, tu
Jake the patronage of the press from the Govern
ment, and your report on Executive patronage
with its sjx accompanying bills, so imposingly in
troduced, will prove to lie but as ‘sounding brass
and tinkling rimbals.’ You, Mr. Van Huron.
who notr, as« member of tlie committee on Ex
ecutive patronage, report a bill requiring reasons
to be assigned lor removing an incumbent from
office, w ill lie made Secretary of State, and in duo
time, President, but from the moment you obtain
power, you will forget your bill, and not only vio
late but refuse to be governed bv its principles.
You, Mr. Dickerson, also a member ol‘ the com
mittee, will be made Secretary cf the Navy; but
the f ;et «rtmt-nt will be so mismanaged under vour
direction, it u ill be truly said cf you, on the floor
ot congress, ‘there is none ro poor a ; to do him rev
erence.’ You, Mr. Woodberry w ill take first the
Navy and then the Treasury Department, and un
der your supervision an attempt to humbug the
people with the promise of an exclusive hardmon
ey currency, will result iu the banishment of all
specie, a hankruj t'i icasury, and the circulation
of shin-plasters and Treasury notes.
Imagine, then, Mr. Speaker,such a response to
have been made,at the period of time w hich I have
suggested. What would have been your, replv,
aud what would Mr. Buchanan, who made the
scripture allusion, have said. Methiuks I almost
see and hear him exclaim, Is tliy servant a dog,
that he should do ~ Uisthit:r r ?
W e arc tub 1 , that notwithstanding the indigna
tion o* Uazacl, he reached the throne of Syria,
oy uuudPring the King his master, and soon com
mitted all tlie enormities foretold by the prophet.
Sir, l fear, that in despite of the protestations
of -Vinos Kendall, the promised reform was an
empty sound, intended to apply merely to a change
of men. But I leave it for this He me and tor the
people of this country to judge whether their cou
!!•’>»•;;•' has not been betrayed and their hopes fijs,
appointed.
Front d.c AY w J or].’ Stwr.
ADMISSION OF TEN AS.
W e have received the very able speech of Mr.
Pn ston ou the admission ol Texas into the Union ;
we fear, however, that it is too kite. It is rumored
that the Texinn Minister in London, after several
interviews w ith the members ofthe British Cabi
net, has received assurances that the indepen
dence ot Texas w ill be recognized by that Govern
ment on certain conditions aud consideratious.
It islvirther said tint an t ariv application has bn a
made to the British .Minister iu Mexico for details
ol the power and reseurses of that republic, and
the prospect ot success in f he repossession of Tex
as, and the reply ha.: been hi e.i ry respect unfa
vorable to tiny attempt winch Mexico may make
to reconquer that territory.
h he first condition required by the British Min
istry is the withdraw al ofthe application toCou
gros made by Texas 10-conieinas one ofthe con
federated States ot tin Union, on the ground that
a proposition to be recognized as an independent na
tion could not be entertained during a pending
application to become a component part of the
American family. The doubts and difficult es
tnrown in the way of annexation by Norliern poli
ticians, and tlie obvious benifits to be derived from
a treaty with England, which of course includes
recognition and treaties from oilier Continental
powers, together with the increasing population
and resourses ot Texas, determined that Govern
nient to withdraw its application for coining into
the Union, and thus a powerful independent na
tion will be established with a Territory half as
targe as tlie whole United States, and with a body
of active, intelligent men, emigrating from all parts
ot the world in ntunders e»lceluted seriously to
alarm Mexico hereafter for the integrity of her
other possessions. England w ill find a direct mar
ker lor an immense amount of her manufactures,
and an indirect outlet through Mexico and the
navigable rivers of this country —the supply of
the Indians and others at a low tariff, taking in
exchange, among other products, from one to two
hundred thosaml bales of cotton annually. It
is an invaluable accession of power and influence
to England in other respects. Hanging on cur
borders on a long line of Territory reaching from-
Nova Seruia, Upper aud Lower Canida almost to
the Rocky Mountains to the North and North
West, England, by this earlv alliance w ith Texafi
exercises a direct commercial nnd political inf*’-*
ence. from the Atlantic to the Pacific, on the Ini’S
line of the Rio del Norte to the and "e
may say thus nearly encompassing she whojcl
ion with her extended territorial arms; kcepiug
also a watchful eye on tlie Mexican mines, aiding
to improve the navigation of the great streams, to
get into the heart of Mcxieo--making valuable
treaties with the immense bodies of Indians and
Mestizoes—pushing on excitement and divisions
among the already divided parties in Mexico, and
finally annexing that country to Texas, including
the ports of Tampico and Vera Cruz, the work
only of a few years, and finally possessing The
great key to the Pacific and the commerce of the
Indians by the Ship Canal across the Isthmus o
Darien. Be thus make Kngtond greater than t’> r
l idied States m affluence as tcell as territory on cut
own continent ! and this has been done from steer
jealousy of Northern politicians towards augtnen
ting the power of the South ; forgetting that ' u
are one family, one people, one nation and one inter
est, and what strengthened one section of the Du
ion benefitted the other. Not content with tint
uncalled for, unpatriotic distrust and jealousy to
wards the South, opposition to Texas was strength
ened by a vile appeal to the passions and * ar,atl ",
cism of abolitionists—ministers of the gospel w!
permitted, we may say, in the only section oft««
Union where church and state are united, to inou
the pulpit and fulminate their doctrines aga' B =*
Texas, and the interests of the South, and "'G
was the excuse ? “It was necessary to keep
1 nion together; Texas would have divided t
L nion.” Is not the period of separation sead u v