The Georgia mirror. (Florence, Ga.) 1838-1839, August 25, 1838, Image 2
THE LOAFER’S SOLILOQUY ■
I have a faint recollection of having been sober
at soiu- early period of my life before, and things
looked v“rv much then as they do now. It’s dis
tressingly to think how ugly sobriety makes every
thing look. Yesterday I thought myself an un
common ban Iso me young man, and now I’ll be
hanged if I don’t look so much like a ragged old
beggar that I’m actually ashamed of myself.
There amt half so many stars in the sky as there
were last night, and they don’t dance half so mer
rily as they commonly do. They say its July;
hut I believe they lie ; for I shiver like December.
I once heard tha* idleness would bring a man to
a morsel of bread ; now I wish it would bring me
to a drop of something short to cool my burning
tongue, for I haven't got a tonic, and the bars and
cellars are all shut. Wonder if Dives was half so
hot in Tophet as 1 am. 11l do something if I
don’t there’s no suak'**. I'll go and hold up that
post, for it's so drunk it can't stand still, that’s cer
tain—Where shall I sleep to night? These ere
brick would do as they have a many a time before;
but I’ve got no brandy to warm’em. 1 think I’ll
go to the watch house. Hallo ! watchee, hallo !
Murder! All, them cursed druuken Charlies
are all a.‘leep, as usual; the last trump would’nt
waken ’em. They’ve no humanity—no bowels.
If it feels so bad to be sober, l wonder every body
isn’t drunk, llow I pity the poor Temperance
Society! They want us to drink water and noth
ing else ; for dogs won't drink brandy, they say.
That's because thev’ir irratioual brutals, and
don’t know what’s good. Now I’m not a dog,
hut a man. and I’ll stick to brandy—l wish it would
stick to me. I wish my throat was a mile long,
so that I could teste it ail the way down. 11l had
mv wav, there should'nt be any stores and dwell
ing houses, but all barrooms and taverns, and I'd
drink till every body else was dead, and theu I’d
set up a tavern myself. Ido feel awful sick, and
if there was no water in the docks I’d go and
drown myself. What a pity they aru’t fill’d with
something short. Would’nt I jump in ? The
corporation ought to see to it. Now 1 think ofit,
I'll slow myself away in this here gutter, and hold
on to the ctirbe stone. The sides maybe, will keep
me from rolling off. Ido believe the Queen ot
England haint got such a bed quilt as I have; it's
the blue vault of heaven I wish it ware tucked up
a little closer around the edges.—l say, Miss, sup
pose you've got lucked out as I have, but never
mind : I’ll take care of you. Creep underneath
the counterpane. Tsh! it's nothing but a dog,
and I’ve thrown away my politeness. Go away,
dog! I'm meat for your master. Now the wicked
cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest.
1 feel a notion to deliver myself up to religions
reflection, and I’m in a proper frame of mind for
it. All good men git drunk, the Bible says so
Noah got so corned lie coulfi’tit stand, sit nor lie
still. Lot got boozy ; and Hamon’s heart was mer
ry with wine. Moses got as fat ss butter. Zounds !
believe all the patriarchs got drunk.—-Quit!
quit! I tell you ! What's the use of poking a
fellow’s ribs so? Breakfast arnt ready yet.
Watchman.-—No, but the watch-house is, and
the Police Court will beiu the inoruihg.
THE CUTEST THICK YET.
The following trick to raise a good bottle of
wine “free gratis for nothing,” is the “cap sheaf’
of all the pieces of impudence that we have heard
of lately. In the present case, a genteel looking
loafer entered a store in this city, where he knew
they had a splendid article in the shape of wine,
and at a time when he knew the master had gone
to dinner, and nobody but a sin ill boy left in atten
dance. Entering with all the importance of a reg
ular wholesale dealer, our loafer commenced
with.
“Is Mr. in ?”
“No sir, he’s just stepped out—he’s gone to
dinner, sir.”
“What time do you expect him back, my boy ?”
“Not short of one hour, sir; it generally takes
him about an hour to eat dinner.”
“Not under an hour? Well, I’m told Mr.
——— has a line specimen of old Madeira. He toid
me to call aud taste it, but as he isn’t in, and I am
in something of a hurry, I wish you would bring
out a bottle as a cample, and I’ll see what.it is.”
“Yes sir,” said the boy, who immediately
brought forth a bottle of the pure old stuff itself.
The loafer took the wine, held it up to see its color,
drew the cork, took a small sip, smacked his lips
and enquired,
“Boy, have you any ice?”
“No sir, we never keep any.”
“Never mind, it’s about cool enough. Any
thing in the shape of crackers and cheese in the
store? They serve to get a correct idea of the
wine.”
“Nothing of the kind, sir.”
All th<* same thing. I believe I have some in
my pocket. I always carry them with me when l
go out purchasing,” said the loafer, at the same
time taking out a paper of the above mentioned
articles, and commenced munching and drinking.
“Thisis a delicious article; what does your mas
ter ask for it ?”
"I don't know, sir.”
“Don’t know, eh ? Got much of it ?”
‘’Considerable.”
“Well,” said this new sample of the DiddW
tribe. as he finished his cheese anil crackers, and
the last of the old Madeira—“ Well, I should like
the lot. Just inform Mr. that a gentle
man called and examined his wine, and has a very
favorable opinion of what little he lias seen of it.
Good afternoon."
“Say, had’nt you better wait till Mr.
comes in?—he’ll be along shortly.”
“No, I’m in somewhat of a hurry now, but will
cal! again.” So saying, the loafer departed, and
needless it is to say has not been seen since.—
N. O. Pickayune.
Steamboat Fare. —An Irishman, with his wife
and child, wishing to secure a deck passage down
the Ohio river, made application to the captain of
a steamboat, in the following manner :
“Copting !—are you the mate ?”
“To be sure not- -but what is wanting ?”
“What do you charge fora deck passage for
three of us up to Cincinnati ?”
“Four dollars a piece.”
“Four dollars a pace!—But that’s dear. Well
Capting, do you ate us, or do we ate ourselves ?”
J’ut yourselves, to be sure.
Rath mistaken. —Two honest Ilirbern'ians, with
a .gentle smile on their faces, discovered each oth
er across the street—each one thought that lie
•ceognized the other as an old friend of the Em
erald Isle. They advanced towards each other
until they discovered their mistake, when one of
tuem exclaimed. “Och! good mon, I thought
’twas you and you thought ’twas me, and faith it
is ueitljes’ of us/’
A Boneless Arm. —Mr. Brown, a worthy and
industrious provision dealer in llerne street now
thirty six years of age, in his 18th year had the
misfortune to have the right hoinerous fractured
nearly in the middle. He was holding, under
disadvantages, an enraged cow by the horns ; in
some unexpected movement of the unruly ani
mal both fell, and the bone of his right arm was
broken in the fill. Under the care of a judicious
surgeon, a re-union was favorably going on ; but
before the curative process had complete.!, Mr.
Brown accidently had another fall, and broke o
pen the old fracture agian. Notwithstanding a
most vigilant and untiring devotion to the injured
limb, the divided extremities would not adhere,
and to the surprise of the medical attendant, the
shaft of each part of the divided hone began to
diminish in size and shorten in length. By a
gradual action of the absorbents, ihe whole ol the
arm bone, between*the shoulder and elbow, was
at length completely removed, and that too with
out any open ulcer, so that not a single particle of
it was left. It has now been ill this state many
years, and probably will remain so for life, as
there will never be a disposition of bony matter in
that place, nor even a cartilaginous substitute,
which, will materially change it from its present
very singnlar condition, Mr. Brown presents
the spectacle of one short arm and one long one.
The right forearm and hand are of a size to cor
respond with the sound one on the left side, and
under certain circumstances, are equally as strong.
Ordinarily the right arm swings hither and thither,
like a thong with a weight at the extremity; for
the tore arm and hand, with reference to the divi
sion above the elbow, constitute a pendulum, os
cillating according to the movements of the body.
Although it is impossible to push with the defec
tive arm, he can draw a burden towards himself
with it as strongly aud tenaciously as with the
other; and in so doing, the muscles are elonga
ted, so that the arm is extended to its original
length. When the resistance is removed, the
muscles instantly shorten themselves about six
inches. To show the perfect non-resistance of
the apparatus of muscles, arteries, veins and
nerves in the soft boneless space, we saw him
twist the palm of bis hand, the other evening,
twice around, which consequently presented the
strange anomaly of having all the apparatus of the
arm twisted like the strands of a rope. In that
state the pulsations of the brachial artery, and all
its branches and ramiiioations could be felt under
the finger though passing in gyrations, like a
winding staircase, twice round the soft unresist
ing fleshy mass. Under any aspect in which this
curio sty may he viewed either by the anatomist
or philosopher, the resources of nature, and the
admirable manner in which she conducts the con
cealed functions of a living body, are in the high
est degree interesting.— Boston Medical Journal.
Power of Resistance in the Riving Skull. —
The Boston Medical Journal gives a case of a
boy whose head was run over by an ox cart with
out even cracking the skull. Au instance in
which the skull of a boy resisted a very heavy
weight, falling with much force on it, not long
since came under our observation. The boy was
in a blacksmith’s shop, sitting on the hearth, im
mediately in front of the fire. Avery he ivy tire,
from one of the wagons which travel on our turn
pikes, was in the fire, heating for the process of
welding a part that had burst. Suddenly the tire
fell, the top of it striking the bov on the forehead
and completely stripping the skin from his head
backwards, without fracturing or injuring the
boric iti the least. The boy was stunned for a
short time, but very soon recovered, and his head
being dressed, w\.s playing as usual with his little
Companions.— Ball’more Sun.
An Alligator Team.— The Captain of a steam
boat engaged in the Red River trade has informed
us, although we are inclined to think he was a jo
king. that a wealthy individual up that way lias
tamed and trained a couple of alligators so that
they will swim in harness, and haw and gee about
as regular as oxen, So well, indeed, have they
been broken that their owner frequently tackles
them up, hitches them to a ‘dug out,” and cruises
about the bayous and ponds, when the waters are
too high to admit of his going on horseback.
On a late occasion, while sailing along quietly
under the bank of a bayou with his “critters” har
nessed abreast, he was seen by a hunter, who sung
out,
" “I say, there! hallo! drap your dug out n«tern
and give me chance to plug one oftheui varmints.”
“Don’t shoi t this way—take care, don’t you
see I’m after them ?” said the owner, as the back
woodsman levelled his rifle,
“I see you’re after ’em, and you'll see a ball
followin’ on the same trail in less than two minits.
Look out for yourself, stranger; here goes for a
crack at the varmint this way.”
“Stay, hold up your rifle. That’s my team
that you are aiming at. Look at the harness,,
there, just cm the water. They are hitched to
the canoe, and 1 am ona little jaunt out back to
look at and enter some lands.”
“Well 1 declare !” said the old hunter, “if that
don’t beat all the (loins I’ve heer’don wav in the
thick settlements. 1 reckon you understand ani
mal magnetism, as they call it a few.”
“I understand training alligators.”
“Well, yon can pass—hope you’ll have a pleas
ant excursion.”
The man now stirred tip his team, and was
soon under way at a rate which would leave a
common high pressure steamboat out of sight in
no time.—-Yete Orleans Picayune.
Hard Feed. —A fellow, in describing the eata
bles of a tavern at which he put up, gives the fol
lowing upon a plate of ham; “Item, a plate of
ham, which I most sincerely recommend to the
next Texas volunteers t’orshoe heels. Being very
fond of ham. I went so far as to bend my fork and
turn my knife in the handle in endeavoring to cut
it. It was no use, however, for it seemed as if
the indwelling obstinacy of the animal had re
turned to protect its mortal remains.”
He should have served it as Jotham did Uncle
Nehemiah’s thanksgiving goose—drilled a hole
in the article with the aid of a steam-engine, filled it
with gun-powder, and touched it off.
Talking of harking, two gentlemen the other
day, at a public table, got into a violent dispute
upon a subject on which it was quite evident that
both were profoundly ignorant. A big bull dog,
which had been quietly sleeping on the hearth,
became roused by their violence, and began bar
king furiously. An old gentleman who had been
quietly sipping his wine while the disputants were
talking, gave the dog a kick and exclaimed, “Hold
your tongue, you brute, you know no more about
it thau they do.” The laugh of the whole table
was turned immediately upon the noisy braw
lers.
THE GEORGIA MIRROR.
Chinee * Anecdote. — A man accustomed to deal
in marvels, told a country cousin of his, that he
had three great curiosities in Ins possession; an
Ux, that could travel five hundred miles a day, a
Cock that tells the hour of the night, and a Dog
that could read in a superior manner. “These
are extraordinary things indeed!—l must call
upon you and beg a sight of them,” said thecousiu.
'l'lie liar returned home and told his wife what
had happened, saying he had got into a scrape
and knew not bow to get out. O, never mind,”
said she, “I can manage it.”
The next day tiie countryman called and inquir
ed after liis cousin, was told that he had gone to
Pekin. “When is he expected back?” “In
seven or eight days.” How can he return so
soon ?” “lie’s gone off upon our ox.” “Ap
propos of that, l am told that you have a cock
that marks the hour.” “Yes, that is he: lie not
oulv tells the hour of the night, but reports when
a stranger comes.” “Then, your dog. that reads
books : might I b*g to see him ?” “ Why to speak
the truth, as our circumstances are but narrow,
we have sent the dog out to keep school.”
A fellow*, whose countenance was homely en
ough to scare the old one, was giving some extra
flourishes in a public house, when he was observed
by a Yankee, who asked him if he did’nt fall into
a brook when lie was young. “What do you
mean, von impertinent scoundrel?” “Why, l
did’nt mean nothing,” only you have got such
an all-fired crooked mouth, I thought as how
you might a failed in the brook when you was a
boy, and vour mother hung you up by the mouth
to-dry. —Bnffah Star.
From an Edinburg paper.
IToic to catch Owls and Rabbits. —The Ameri
cans have a plan of catching owls and rabbits which
is rather curious. Owls.—-When you discover
one on a tree, and find that it is looking at you,
all you have to do is to move quickly round the
tree several times, when the owl, in the mean
time, whose attention will be so firmly fixed, that,
forgetting the necessity of turning its body with its
head, will follow your motion with its eyes till it
wrings ifs head off. Rabbits.—-Place apples in
the parts where they frequent, after sprinkling
them with snuff; and when they come to smell, the
sudden effort to sneeze which they make never fails
to break their necks, and even, in some cases, has
been known to cause them to tumble heels over
head a considerable distance.
Curious notion of Discount. —lt chanced one
gloomy day, in the month of December, that a
good humored Irishman applied to a merchant to
discount a bill of exchange lor him at rather a
long, though not an unusual date; and the mer
chant having casually remarked that the bill had
a great many days to run, “That’s true,” replied
the Irishman, “but then, my honey you don’t
consider how short the days are at this time of the
y ear.”
“It was once in my power to have sliot Gener
al Washington !” said a British soldier to an Am
erican, as they were discussing the events of the
struggle at the concluding of peace. “Why did
you not shoot him then ?” asked the American—
you ought to have done so for the benefit of vour
country men.” “The death of Washington would
not have been for their benefit,” replied the En
glishman, “for we depended upon him to treat our
prisoners kindly ; and bv heaven ! we’d sooner
liave shot an officer of our own!”
Lowell Advocate
Industry. —The following anecdote may give
some encouragement to the industrious husband
man :—Not long ago, a country gentleman had
an estate ofiiOOL a year, which lie kept in liis own
hands, until be found himself so much in debt,
that to satisfy his creditors, he was obliged to sell
the half, and to let the remainder to a farmer for
twenty one years. Toward the expiration of the
lease, the farmer coming one day to pay his rent,
asked the gentleman whether he would sell the
farm. “Why, will you buy it?” said the gentle
man. “If you will part with it, and we can agree,”
replied the farmer. “This is exceedingly strange/
said the gentleman. “Pray tell me how it hap
pens, that while I could not live upon twice as
much land, for which I paid no rent, you are reg
ularly paying me a hundred a year for your farm,
and able, in a few years to purchase it ?” “The
reason is plain,” answered the farmer ; “you sat
still, an i said, “Go.’ I got up, and said, ‘Come/
you lay in bed, and enjoyed your ease ; I rose in
the morning and minded my business.”
THE SABBATH.
Accustomed as we are to view the Sabbath as
a religious institution, we forget to reflect on its
importance in a moral and civil point of view.
True, in this respect it is not of that great inter
est toman which the welfare of liis immortal spir
it requires, but independent of its religious influ
‘ence, there is perhaps no one thing which contri
butes more to elevate the character of inau, to era
dicate tha ruthlessness of his savage nature, to
make him a moral, social and upright being, and
to establish the great principles of civil liberty,
than the institution of the Sabbath. At one and
the same time, all nature, as it were, is hushed to
repose; man ceases from his accustomed avoca
tions and retires to scenes more congenial to
thought and reflection—and the beasts of the field,
released from their labors, enjoy the like repose.
After six days labor, “tired nature” seeks for a
“restorer;” and after, a day of rest, men seek their
several employments, with renovated vigor of both
body and mind. Suppose there was no Sabbath,
no weekly assemblings of the people, man would
plod his course of time in one quiet round of for
getfulness ; as nature left him at his birth,
so at his death she would find him, the child
of ignorance ; unused to the social pleasures of
life unaccustomed to the duties which civilization
impose, his life would be but an Anchorite’s dream
—liis mind but
“One dark waste,
Where fiends and tempests howl.”
Science would lose her votaries, and the aca
demic groves would lie forsaken, and man in every
station in society would feel its painful effects.
Covington Free Press.
THE CORONATION.
A correspondent of the Charleston Courier thus
speaks of the deportment of our Minister, aud oth
er Americans, who attended the Coronation of
Queen Victoria.
“Onr Minister, Mr. Steverson, who resides im
mediately opposite the Marshal, in Portland place,
had a colossal Eagle, grasping in its talons the ol
ive blanch and the arrows, and bearing the nation
nal motto, “E pluribus Oman," with large irra
diated letters V. R. on eitlieir side—these bril
liantly lighted with gas, produced a very fine effect.
Not to be behind the rest, the inmates of the house i
where we lodged, (mostly Americans) which is in ]
the immediate vicinity of the above, had caused a j
transparency to be executed, representing Britan- !
ilia on tiie one hand, supporting the British stand
ard with tiie Goddess of Liberty on the other,
sustaining that ot tiie United States; aud both
supporting a laurel wreath, in tiie centre of which
were the letters \ . it and upon a scroll below
the words “Peace, Plenty and Prosperity.”
['lie principal emblems in use were Crowns aud
stars, many of wbicii were most beautifully exe
cuted and brilliantly illuminated with gas, which
is admirably adapted to such a purpose. Tliev
letters V. R. were almost invariably exhibited,
where the words Victoria Regina were not given
at length.”
Office of the Southern* Life )
Insurance Sc Trust Cos.
St. Auuustine, July 6th, 1838. \
TO THE PUBLIC.
In the “Florida Herald” of tiie 7th insr., which
has this moment made its appearance, we perceive
an editorial statement in tiie words and figures
following :
■ .“Two thousand dollars in notes of the Southern
Life Insurance Trust Company, were ofi’cred at
Public Auction at the Market House oil Monday
last, tor specie, and sold as follows :
s>soo at sdl per 100
500 “ 53,183-4 “ 100
1000 “ 43 “ 100”
At the time of this sham sale—for not a respec
table person in our City believed for a moment,
that it was a real sale or that a dollar of our notes
changed owners under it —at that time we were
freely selling drafts at sight on New-York at
eight, and on Charleston at Jour per cent.
We have on tecent intelligence reduced the
rates of exchange. We liad also officially advis
ed the public of our purpose to resume specie
payments, whenever the Banks of South Carolina
and Georgia should resume. And we are con
stantly curtailing our circulation, at preseiit re
duced to an inconsiderable part of our capital
paid in—that we may be prepared to pay specie.—
This must account for our considering it our true
position not to discount oil the numerous and
pressing applications of responsible citizens-—un
til we shall have returned to specie payments.
Outlie morning ol the sham sale made in the
shambles of "the Market,” a respectable, enterpri
sing, and responsible merchant of this City, dis
connected with the Bank—offered to conie for
ward and purchase such of our bills as should be
offered at the pretended auction, if Treasury Nutts
could be received in payment. The Auctioneer
refused to take or accept any bid not made in specie
—of which last named commodity, probably not
one dollar in an hundred enters into the present
circulation of the City. No one attended the
pretended auction on the part of the Bank—and
tLe Bank employed no one to attend it. This at
tempt to surprise the Bank and injure its credit,
we are happy to state for the honor of this commu
nity, was limited to a few, aud has signally failed.
The sham sale opened the eyes of our upright
and industrious citizens to the actual design of the
ictors—to wit:— to depress our bills—far below
the existing rates of exchange ; and pocket the diff
erence, by compelling the innocent bill-holder to lake
or lost Fifty cents in the dollar of Muncy that has
been , and will continue , to be sought and sustained
and passed at par by our citizens and the inhab
itants of Florida generally. But forthe impression
that an account of this shainsale has been sent to
distant papers for publication, fortheobject of im
pairing the credit of this institution abroad, we
should have passed it by, as unworthy of notice.
Here, explanation is unnecessary—The sham sale,
if it has had any effect, lias most assuredly im
proved the circulation and credit of the issues it
was sought to discredit.
Newspapers that may have published or noticed
the shauisale of our bills, will [ lease do our for
eign bill-holders and ourselves the justice to pub
lish this expose of an abortive attempt to discredit
our bills and profit by the panic it aimed to create,
ANDREW ANDERSON, President.
Arthur M. Reid Cashier.
NEW ORLEANS. July 21.
A Vessel in Distress Inhuman Cruelty.-— The
schr. Kolia, Capt. Douglass, arrived yesterday
from Boston, had a long voyage, having been 43
days in making the Ilalize. On the way. the crew,
in their distress for w-ant of water, me with some
of the most unkind and inhuman treatment we
have lately heard ot. The particulars we have
derived trom the log of the Rollu and are as fol
lows :
On the 14th inst. in lat 23 40 N. long. 87 25
W. Capt Donglass discovered asail at noon stand
ing to the Southward and Eastward. Being in
distress not having had a drop of fresh water for
two days he made sail for the vessel* He aud his
crew had for two days been satisfying their thirst
with salt water mixed with molasses and meal,
and they looked forward with confidence for a
supply. At 5 P.M. on the same dav, they were
alongside the vessel, which proved to be the ship
Ebro. Capt. Wafts, of Hallowcll, eight days out
from Now Orleans.
'The Captain of this vessel refused to supply the
Rolla, because, forsooth ! he might run out and
be obliged to beg some for himself. The mate
besought him, “for God Almighty’s sake,” as the
log says, to let him have one barrel, if no more—
but be still refused. At length, however, he pro
posed that they should have some water if they
would exchange cooks with him. This they ac
ceded to, and received one single barrel about two
thirds full. With this pittance, the Rolla con
tinued her course—and being aided by the rjiins,
she was enabled to make the remaining eight days
of her voyage without farther suffering. It was
afterwards ascertained that tlie'tirst officer of the
Ebro, indignant at tbe want of humanity display
ed by the master, offered to give the Rolla a por
tion of his own allowance, and that this prompted
the Captain to make the offer above mentioned
The cook which the Captain of the Ebro was
so anxious to get rid of was found to be perfectly
worthless. In making the exchange, lie gotan ex
cellent one iri his stead. So, that the paltry sup
ply of water which lie meted out to the Rolla was
paid for at a most enormons price.
We would lain hope that the Capt. of the Ebro
may make some explanation about this business.
As the story stands now, he seens to have acted
in away utterly unworthy of an American tar.
A destructive fire occured in New-York on the
Ist inst., by which upwards of fifty buildings were
destroyed. It commenced on Hammond-street,
and extended to Washington, I’erry and West
streets, estimated loss .$350,000. During the
conflagration, the following incident took place:
“While the fire was raging a female was discov
ered making hoi through the flames into a
housd. The firemen detained her with much
difficulty, aud to their interrogations she only ex
claimed, “My child! my child!” A noble hear
ted fireman rushed t» wi;. . < she pointed, and
soon seen issuing I'ioni the burning buildiug with
the infant in his arms. '1 lie scene was truly af
fecting, aud the generous follow who risked his ow n
life to save that of the child, deserves the warm
est thanks cf every one. We say, God bless
him!”
Prom the Columbus Enquirer.
THE PRESIDENCY.
From all parts of the Stae, as well as from res
pected friends in Alabama, the Editors of this pa
per are called upon to give the people informa
tion in reference to their course in the approach
ing Presidential canvass. We are complained of
for not having taken a stand in favor of one or the
other candidate, now prominently before the peo
ple for that high office, and urged to a decided a
vowal of our opinions in relation to their respec
tive claims. Perhaps it is due to these valued
friends, and equally so lo ourselves to sav, that
our silence thus far in relation to this contest has
not resulted from an indisposition on our part to
hoist our colours, aud we believe we mnv also sav
it has not been from want of courage to meet those
who would attempt to tear them from their place.
We have said nothing with rdereuce to the
Presidential contest, because, in the first place, \u*
have little or nu choice between the contendin’'
partiesin the second place, because we have not
esteemed the contest fairly begun, but have hoped,
and believed, that before this time, the name of
some man more worthy our support than either
of the aspirants now before us, w ould have been
placed before the people. .Such name would
have been suggested by tins paper long since, but
lor the conviction that ourjourual was compara
tively young, and that such suggestion from us,
would neither deserve nor receive the considera
tion w hich would be given to it, if made by our
brethren of the quill older in the cause thau our
selves or by the people iti their primary assem
blies.
W e are called upon, however, to lav aside the
feelings which have operated to prevent au open,
public exposition of our views in relation to this
great matter, and with due respect to all whom it
may concern, we have determined here to avow,
Ist. That under no circumstances shall tin*
paper advocate the election of martiS van nun in
or henry clay, l’or we believe them both hos
tile to the South, aud w anting in those elements
of high character which should distinguish the
favorite of a free, independent, and a virtuous peo
ple. While we are constrained to admit the al
most immeasurable disparity between the two
men, for talents, virtue, and principle; while we
cannot but esteem Mr. day as a man of mighty
intellect, of dignified character, and commanding
talents, and Mr. Van Buren *ts the least of ail
pretended great men—the mere reflected ghost of
liis tyranical predecessor,— yet we can make no
allowance for the corruption of the one, nor con
template with pride the talents of tiie other, whilst
both arealike the enemies of the South—the des
troyers of our institutions.
2d. That we do not see the least necessity in
the present hour, for choosing between these par
ties, and that so long as there remains au alterna
tive, we will not do it. It is not the policy of this
journal, to surrender our country into the hands
of such men, so long as there is a single hope of
saving it from their grasp.
The President ot the Republic, who follows
in the footsteps of Andrew Jackson, must ruin it.
The permanent adoption of the great Ameri
can system, of which 31 r. Clay is the father,
and the consistent and indefatigable advocate—
must min it.
Let him who can do it, consistently with liis
own honor atul safety, choose between tliese modes
of overthrowing a happy and prosperous people
as for our humble journal, it sliall go down to the
ground “unwept, unhonored, and unsung ,” before
it shall share in either mode.
The South has men who can never be implica
ted in either of these infamous attempts to des
troy the nation. She has men whose talents,
whose patriotism, whose honesty, w hose popular
ity—whose chance lor success will compare with
either of the candidates. \Ye believe that we
venture not too much, when we say, she has men
that can succeed over them both Where am
Tvler, and Hayne, and Leigh, ami Tazewell, and
Calhoun, and Troup, and Hamilton, and Preston.
Where are these noblemen of the earth, that the
South should be called upon to cast the votes ot
her w orthy sons, on such men as Henry Clay, or
Andrew Jackson’s shadow. It is an insult to the
South to ask her to lend a helping hand in suchs
scheme. It is unholy to insinuate that she would
drown herself in such infamy—she cannot, she
w'ill not do tt.
3d. Believing that it is time for the South to
unite on a Ticket, that she may be able properly
to present the claims of her candidates before the
States, we would respectfully suggest the name
of ROBERT Y. HAYNE, of South Caroliua,
forthe Presidency, and JOHN TYLERt of Vir
ginia, for the Vice Presidency.
And we invite our brethren of the press .through
out the South, to rally in support of these distin
guished men. Let their names be held up, their
claims investigated, their qualifications weighed
in the balance of a well informed public judge*,
ment, and their principles compared with those of
the great apostles of liberty, and our word f° r ls
they will not be found wanting. They are nienol
the highest order of talent—their honesty in P rl *
vate and in public life, has never been questioned.
They are popular men, at home and abroad—
and if the State Rights press will be faithful in ad
vocating their claims, they can obtain a greater
number of votes than Mr. Van Buren could in.®
single contest with Mr. Clay- -their chance t° r
success will be better than any ticket we could rum
At all events, these are our men , and we shall, ' vltil
peculiar pleasure, henceforth urge their claims.
GROSS EXTRAVAGANCE!
Look on this picture !
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS entered the Fr' 3 ’
identiai Chair on the 4th of March, 1825 ; the*'
penditurcs for that year were Si 1,490,459
Now look on this _
MARTIN VAN BUREN entered the F*-’
identiai Chair on the 4th of March, 1837, and
expenditures for that year were $59,104,745 <?'•'
THAT IS he
Martin Van Buren’s Adminisirat on cost
country in its first year, Twenty-seven millions - •
hundred and seventy-four thousand two bimj'p
and eighty-five dollars forty-three cents My
than did the corresponding year of John Q ulDl ’
Adams !