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SPEECH or MR. WILDE,
OX THE TARIFF
.Mr. \Vn pr. bogged permission, before he pro
ceeded, u correct a nisUpprehonsion whic.i
might naturally arise from an observation of the
honorable gentleman from Massachusetts, Mr.
Are. ::ton, respecting himself. That go.ntl ■-
man had referred to the Journals ot the 1 Mo
Congress, to tax him [Mr. YV.J with mMiis
tency m voting against a proposition to reduce
tile dutv on brown sugar from three :yij a half,
to two or two and a half cents. The price of the
article ,v n then from sixteen to nineteen cents,
and the duty he voted for, as a rercAueduty, was
twenty per cent. The honorable genii- mail
could have found a more just and recent cause
of complaint againt him. Asa member of the
Committee of Ways and Means, at this vety :
session, ho had voted for reporting a hill, in
which the same article now valued at about live
cents was proposed to be charged with a duty o!
two cents, or forty percent. —His apology was
to be found in his unwillingness, by a sudden
change, to ruin large bodies of men—in bis at
tachment to the union, the harmony, and the hap
jiiness of his whole country. Which vas strok
es!, his love of Peace, ortho gentleman's
of Justice ? This sample of their fabrics wouhri
enable the committee to determine.
A short time since, he had urged the observ
ance ufa sound legislative rule—majorities vote,
minorities talk. It might seem, ns sometim s
happens to better men than himself, there was
some slight disagreement between precept and
example. In reality it was not so. lie had the
ready justification of a politician’s alibi —a
change of circumstances. He had been in the
majority, and voted ;he i ms in the minority, and
he talked. Properly understood, and a proper
understanding, were indispensable in all things.
He was perfectly consistent. Yes, sir ! said
Air. W. we were in a majority ; it was not con
tested. We arc in a minority. How does it
happen? Has our majority thawed away under
-The melting breath ofexecutive pleasure .’ lias
it been dispersed, like a nullifying mob, by the
President’s Proclamation I Have w• . en rou
ted bv the Siamese twin logic of the gentlemen
from Connecticut, [Messrs. Ellsworth and
Hus tingtos] or the more powerful lungs of;
the gentleman from Pennsylvania ? [Air. Ale- i
Kennan.] The inquiry may not be wholly un- j
interesting to a portion of the people of the i
United States. If the motion of the gentleman !
from Connecticut. [Air. Huntington] prevail,!
this bill is defeat* and In the present temper ofj
the committee, it must prevail. In the Commit
tee of the Whole on the state of the Union, we ■
cannot have the ayes and noes. W c cannot!
catch the eels in the gill-net; and as the people j
of the South will be unable to imagine whv such i
concessions, as they thought were ofi-T i. j
should be refused, he felt it to be his duty to us-,
sist their inquiries.
He considered this, in effect, a proposition to j
continue the present tariff', for the purpose ofcar- j
tying on the war against South-Caroliria, The
merits of the controversy were best summed up j
by the pithy saying of an eastern manufacturer
—m\wi:u u-c Yi i*.i ‘’ v moil m.u !#■■■A” b-mV
and what good will the Tariff do 113 without the
Union ? The proposition to the South, then, is
this : “ You shail pay taxes for the conquest of
South-Carolina.” Jiotr, sir, said Air. IV., i put
it to vour candor to say, if we are to fight for |
manufactures, whether the manufacturers ought
nat to pay the expense of the war ! So far a •
his voice went, they should do so. lie would
not vote a man a musket for any such purpose.
I)*it there was something still more extinct •
ry.— i’he !r; h tariff'party of the Xorth and as;
say they pay an equal, or greater portion of'th -*
taxes : and they only ask for the poor privilege j
ofbeing allowed to tax themselves lor theprotcc
tion of their own industry! And so sir, they,
mean to fight us for the light to tax them.-. tees,
an 1 insist that, in Justice, we must pav the cost
ol the campaign. * - aiiiared with this Doctor
Franklin's i ; euic.i; (itli hi- nol . i
and rdaiquahle. Air. W. said he puttfais propo
sition, not to South-Caroliua—she had decided ;
•but ho put it to Virginia, to North-* aroiin
Who says she. sleeps when liberty is in dm; .
and Nathaniel .Macon lives .’ Hcput it to t.-e-•.
;;ia, to Alabama, to Alississippi, to Tenners ,
to Kentucky. All had an interest in the ques
tion ; and he reminded all, “ Tan res o itur pa
ries cum proximus ardtt‘ m ’ South-Car lim savs
f-he will endure this system no longer. Ifvor
insist on ruining the concern by your dishonesty
and extravagance, she asks leave to wit ltd: ,
from tie partner-hip. You -ay she shall ;.r.
and be ruined; and if she won’t, you ask us to
Surly you to blow her brains out ! 0, most holy
i.ion, which must be preserved liy cannon and
bayonet! Happy Republic! by the grace of
God and gunpowder, one an ■ indivisible ! Shall
we not head o = r bulletins like revolutionary
France, when, in an exlacy of affection for all
mankind, she proclaimed fraternity or death!
Slay we not say with her poet, the keenness of
bn : epigrams nothing can equal, but the ,n
----: t ui t-nt which would have rewarded him had
he he::: discovered ?
“■ A In be! ns?, quand I’liommc dit al’homme,
“Soyons freres! on jc t’assomine!
lie begged pardon of the House for his bad
French ; at least, his had pronunciation ol it.
ifthey knew und [ r what circumstances his little
knowledge of the language, was acquired, they
would excuse hi.a. He would not venture to
translate, mindful of the proven';* but a free
ver ion, adapted to the times, might read,
“Ot Massed age! when loving- Senates vote,
“Let u be brothers! or I'll cut your throat!”
Aye, sir, redress is refused—secession is de
id .-u—oppression is continued—and the sword
‘-f the Federal Executive is to be (lung into the
sea of the Federal Judiciary ! Discordant
concord and perpetual union, are proclaimed by
sound ol'trumpet, and upon pain oi'deutli I’er
netual union ! on such terms, it is the Dutch inn
keeper’s universal peace ‘ When the amiable
enthusiast, whose memory Paul and Virginia
would preserve, when his philanthropic visions
were forgotten, published his proposal for paci- j
t ing the world, mine host seized on the idea |
a new sign. -It was in c ibe 1, in k e “.7
jla paix utuecrsclle but the design was a
; i hurchyard / Such tuts not the peace ot the
peacemakers to whom the benediction was giv
en. 1 was not the peace ot God, or the peace
of freedom ; it was the peace of those described
by Tacitus :
“ S litudiuom faciunt, par, ‘lll appcllonL”
Bui it is said, what other coinse tiian coercion
j, left us t Soutu-t arolma has mtlUftedail i'.iritf
laws, wliCtlv r for r< venue or protection. hwe
pa-;- tins .ill, will sh, not nullify it also ? Mill
H saiistv her ! Mr. VV. said he had no authori
tv to speak for South-Carolina. If he could say
it irj U i>- satisfactory, lie should be cautious of
ioi-ig so. For that very reason, might be un
■ unsutisfaetorv to others, ibis was one ot he
instances in which t ontenette s maxim applied ;
i if you have your handful of truth, do not open
! more than your little finger. films much w a
certain. L’he bill by no means concedes all
that Carolina claims as a matter ol strict right :
Out it may present ; rms wnich for the sake o:
harmony, -he would accept. At all events, it
suspends liie operation of her ordinance, it we
pass it. On this point there seemed to him to
be an erroneous impression. Nothing could be
clearer, than, if any law passes, the Convention
must be called again ; and in the meantime, the
Lj.iw operates. It the law afforded even reasoti
hi>le hope of a return to j aster councils, could it
be doubted that South-Carolina would pause !
Upon the passage of this bill, or one similar in
principle, depended, he believed, the peace and
mtegrit of the Union, If it was lost, he repeat
ed, the people of the South should know how,
whv, and by whose tank it was lost. It the re
sponsibility rested on their representatives, they
would hold them to a strict account. If on oth
ers, thev would learn to distinguish between re
al and pretended triends. —How was the pres
ent measure brought forward ?—Air. IV. adver
ted to the President’s inassag at the beginning
of congress, recommending, i.i strong and plain
terras, a modification of the tariff - . Has he,
asked Mr. IV., at any tunc advanced other
opinions ? I las-he esoteric and exoteric doc
trines < Was any gentleman authorized to say
the President did not desk, the passage of this
bill, or at this time ? He would yield the floor
for such a sentiment. Xo. There was every
indication that he desired it should puss—that it
| should pass at this session—speedily—at once,
i Next in its official importance, on questions
j of revenue, was the opinion of” the Secretary of
the Treasury. This was well known from his
; annual report, anu his communications with the
I Committee of Ways and Aleans and the *Jom
! mittee on Manufactures. lie spoae of public
! and official transactions, not of conversations,
! secret or confidential. There were none such.
I if there had been, he trusted he knew better
what was due to the sanctity ofsocial intercourse,
than to violate it voluntarily. Nor would his
vanity, if he hud be n the depositary of a State
sectet, the first and, no doubt, the last he would
have- been trusted with, have induced him to hint
at tiie important ami mysterious character ofkis
charge. He spoke of matters open and avow
ed; of things authorized to be comeaunieated,
and, in fact, stated to the house by the c inirman
! of t an. MimulaiAiira s^LM. 1, Hoff- !
“man. | lie as warranted, then, in saying that;
the hill had me ap robutinn oi the Secretary ofj
the Treasury ; that It w-.uld give the n. ct-usury
amount of revenue, without, in His opinion, leav
ing any inordinate excess, or destroying the j
manufacturers. -The character ol til Secretary
was a guaranty that whatever he uttered he *>e
lievcd. He [Air. IV.] was no eulogist; but
when he had occasion to speak of any man, he
would do equal anu exact justice. No! ho re
tracted that expression ; equal and i xact justice
v.us beyond the power us man. But he would
,no his friends a little less than wiiat uc thought
was justice, that he mi lit not flatter them
through partiality ; and ■i- adversaries some
what more, mat hetnighi notcensu othem from
prejudice. Vi hatevercl. e the Secretary was,
h< want ‘-ivi! coinage.—On that >ot, •
wheri mom n im oust, hi .
right oi wiong, were always boldly avowed and
manfully defended. Had bechanced sincetheu?
. . 1 i any one assett it . a ilier any one
wlio won!: : azard the assc on mat Lou
v. i wore two faces, uttered a l’alsc
hm. ,oi betrai a iritnd ! There could not
atirioim ‘ .n, 1,. ii fore, any more than to
t ,<■ Piesident, two sets of opinions, private anu
public.
Mho else w as there, then, whose views of this
mutter could oo supposed to exercise a material
influence on she fate of the bill’ The Vice
•re ,id nt elect ; Is not he too said to be in fa
vor of a iuction of tuiiii <to tin revenue siand
ard ! so not he, too, desirous that a bill should
pass for shat purpose, at this session'! IVe
have the strongest assurances that it is so. But
til ,ay i is sceptical, and demands proofs. The
position of that lgcntlCu.au is in many respects
critical and full of difficulties, fur be it from
me to add to his embarrassment. But at this
■ time and on this subject, there can be no falter
ing. llis past conduct in relation tc it is not
; clear from ambiguity. The temptations that be
set him are'slrong. What then ! Truly, great
men are ever greatest in the crisis of their fate.
Noble and gen rous spirits rise with the danger,
and are equal to the emergency. In this he is
confidently affirmed to be with us; but I warn
some of his friends who have been with us, but
ire with us no longer, that the best evidence,
perhaps the only evidence, which the tlouth will
accept oi'lns sincerity, is th ir votes. To them,
then, I appeal; to them ’’addres myself. Os
what use is it to speak to the high tariff’ men of
the House ?—the opponents of the administra
tion and yet the advocat* sos coercion. Their
choice is made—their sanguinary purpose utter
ed. To whom, th- n, out to our political friends
shall we look in the day oI trial ! Where else
shall we ask aid ? Where else can we find
hope ? To them I turn, not to exhort, I have
no vocation ; not to lecture I am no professor;
but to expostulate, as friend with friend. Until
recently we stood in the some ranks, fighting
’ the same battles, struggling against th- same
; adversaries, acknowledging the same leaders,
j Ifthey now waver in their faith or courage, may
i we not without offence entreat them to stand by
a in ‘his oe.s, last great danger? Is it not due
jto them,ns well as to ourselves, that our thoughts 1
!of eac h other should b. expressed frankly, but
not bitterly ! If we have con.e t<> the point at
which wo can no lonptr t together without
the violation of some duty, >'< th- abandonment
of some principle, let the fact oe avowed and
! the motive admitted, rims, mid thus only il
jwo iiuist separate, ear. both escape teproai h,
and liotvrutci, in. ithci can complain ofbeing de
; sev-'-i oi - “ IVI (i. I invite tin m then, to ex
amine the stroii itli and v.cakiu soi their own
position. The circumstances under which the
bill came forward, had already been adverted
to. All the auspices, whether of men or days
! were happv ; all the omens favorable. Mho
e.i.fii he better fitted lorn work of conciliation
than his honorable friend from Ncw-York ?
[Mr. Verplanur.]-—Where t mild we look for
■ much zeal tempered by so uuieh prudence,
mil above all, for sincerity unsullied by a doubt ?
she very sun shone forth upon hit- bill at she
moment ot its first reading; and, in its earliest
stages, it was borne along by triumphant major
ities composed in part of the very gentlemen to
whom I now address myself. By r whom is this
destructive motion made ? By an avowed ad
vocate of the high tariff and restrictive system ;
by an ardent opponent f the pro ent adminis-;
tratioii ;by a determined adv t , sary of the favor- ;
j ite and leading politician ot N cw-York.
By whom is it supported ? by the most reso- ;
lute and unwavering enemies of State Rights, I
the doctrines ot Jefferson, and the republican
school of politics.
For what purpose ? To destroy the bill.
The object is not concealed ; on the contrary, it
is distinctly announced. When I said to the
gentleman from Connecticut, [Air. Hunting
ton] the other day, that according to his arc i
meat, the bill would not give us revenue enough,
and his motion went to reduce it still more, he
felt the force efithe objection. What was his
reply . “True, but the gentleman from Geiu
gia must be aware that the motion, if successful,
will be followed up by others to raise other du
ties, and thereby to get the increase of revenue
required.” In plain terms tea and coffee must
be made free,that wool and woollens and cottons
may b. subjected to prohibitive duties. The
gent! men to w hom this appeal is made, held the
fate ofi the bill in their hands, If this motion
succeeds, and it will succeed, if they support it
tin- bill is lost. V> ill they hear with me while
I hazard some conjectures en the consequen
ces t I have no gift of prophecy. I possess no
powers, and employ no instruments of divina
tion, other than such as are common to every
<>no ot ordinary sagacity . but what will be, must
spring from what is, just as what is must have
proceeded from wnat lias been. To transmute
the past into tha future, is the true alchyniy of
intellect. I .ot us see what we can extract from
the aUmbick.
I’ll ills’ and least which may proceed from
the defeat of this measure, if the blow comes
from the quarter wti’ h tin eatens it, will be to
throw the power of settling this vexed question
into other hands. Is this ar. imaginary danger
What says the horoscope ? Are there rio starry
influences—no impending planetary conjunc
,tjon m- nrmositibn boding evil to the great and
little politicians of the North? Alay not Hes
per regain the ascendant ! In phrase less mys
tical, i it net a law of power that ma jorities di
vide, and minorities combine ! If the North
and East coalesce to support the principles of
me Proclamation, may not the South and West,
to w hom they are less acceptable and familiar,
unite to resist them? And what can be fairer
or more natural: If the giant and magician
eonspiie, how can they be defeated but by
Nullification and Old Harry? Peace is a gift
too precious to be rejected, come from what
hands it may.—The country must be saved, let
who will save it. A civil war must be prevent
ed, whoever is pacificator. The power is in
the hands of my triends.—lt is the first wish of
my In art that thev should use it. I invoke
j then! ye\ rv motive of fellowship, of party, of
i■■•u,ioti-m, ’• hi, auitv ‘ But if thi v refuse;
if the it destiny is > ntl-n-. v-m party spirit 10- ;
ses something of its influence by an unnatural
allian -e with reason and justice,still I repeat, the j
ci un-i v- must he saved, and h*t the honor he his |
to whom the honor shall he due. Have our
friends considered howthey and their leaders, and
their constituents, must teel in such anew coal
ition as their votes will throw them into. Once
more I beseech them to pause, if the part they
wist take is not already tix-ed, the company
they must keep already chosen. bice more, j
I remind the,m, that, if they involve this country!
in a civil war, the administration, sooner or la
ter will have for its adversaries the whole South,
its oldest and most steadfast friends, and for its
new allies those who have pursued it with the,
bitterest ridicule and the deadliest enmity.
—Before they throw themselves into this lalse
position, I invite them to review with me tic
arguments which are used to seduce them from
their Republican principles, their party attach
ments, and their Southern brethren.
IVo have heard that we must not submit to
Ik bullied by a single State. We must not
legislate with a sword over our heads. We
will not be dictated to by South Carolina!
Against listening to the miserable suggestions
of false pride, we were cautioner -d by ny friend
from New York [Mr. Yertlanck] in language
so elegant and touching, that nothing can ie ta
ken from, nothing added to it without in jury.
In family quarrels the best heads and hearts
: are ever ready to make the greatest allowance
for errors of judgementaud infirmities oftetnper.
Stickling on points of ceremony in such cases
is ridiculous: in entering into domestic broils,
tin . tiquette is that fixed in other ‘-uses, by old
1 rede rick of Prussia, “ the greatest fool goes
first,” —-'But had motives will be imputed to us
We shall be said to have yielded to our fears.
And what course of conduct can we pursue, tc
which bad motives cannot be imputed? Bad 1
motives have been imputed to me, Air. Chair- j
man, to you, and to every body else. Is that
to be a reason for neglecting our duty 1 Then
we must never do any thing. The very course
gentlemen are pursuing to escape the imputa
tion of bad motives, will expose them to that ve
ry imputation.
1 For example; an extract was pointed out to
him the ntlu t day in a newspaper, which sta
ted, “it is also said that Judge ilarcy has
written to the Van Buren me mbers of Congress,
that thV\ must stick to the .existing lin ill, and
oppose any reduction of duties until C alhoun
shall be so thoroughly down as to prevent all j
danger ofhis political resurrection. After that
is done, it is intimated that something might
be vi< hlcifto South* arolina.”
New in- [Air. W.] did not believe that Judge
Marcy had ever written such a letter, lie had
too good an opinion of his prudence. He had
no idea the Vico—President elect had ever au
thorized any one to write such a letter. But
the father-in-law of Judge Marcy is understood
to exercise great influence over ahe politics
of Ncw-York; to have a very deep interest in
wool, and to be utterly opposed to any reduction
of duty on it. Judge Alan y and the Vice Pres
ident elect are intimate and confidential friends.
The world applies with little discrimination, the
maxim, “ noscitur a sociis anji, putting all
these things together, it is easy to impute bad
motives, and to suppose that one man speaks
the opinions of another. Now, the truth no
doubt is, that the gentleman in question [Mr.
: Knower] docs entertain an opinion unfavorable
;to the modification of the tariff at present. He
j may have expressed that opinion to his political
! friends, as he has a perfect right to do. Nei
! ther Judge Alarcy nor the Vice President elect,
are in the slightest degree, responsible for it :
and the opinion itself may be perfectly honest.
Yet niter all, such is the unchaiitabh ness of the
wor‘ ;, that when men have a personal inletest
i; maintaining certain very honest opinion: , thi
.enesty of such opinions is thought to be a scru
:>le less, then standard fineness. The popular
notion of honesty was best expressed by a bur
b quo toast w hich he remembered. Some years
a a some on ,he forgot at the moment who,
find been toasted as “ the tnan who dares he
honest in the worst of times.” A wag of Bos
ton—where, by the bye, they manufacture the
best toasts, it toasts are not their best manufac
ture—wrote a ludicrous account of an abolition
festival, where Caesar or Cufly was thus made i
to travesty that sentiment; “Do man—who dai j
be honess when he git nothin by him.” 1 hat, j
sir, (said Air. IV.) .is the only honesty which j
wins universal cretlence. A failure to observe j
it was the great mistake of a distinguished gen- \
th man from the West, who, cigiit years ago,
had occasion to give a vote incite House tor.
President, and who afterwards became Secrctu- j
ry of State under the Presidency of the gentle-,
man tin- whom he voted. In that vote the per- ;
son giving and the person receiving it might be
free from the slightest censure. Air. IV. boliev- ‘•
cd they were so. Neither did he mean to be ;
understood as saying, that in consequence of
i hat vote the gentleman referred to got any thing, I
He was not one of those who argue “pcs! hoc, ‘•
irgo, propter hoc.” He had not joined the ml- 1
gar clamor : but that the fact of his taking like
had been successfully though wrongfully appeal
ed to as implicating the purity of liis motives,
admitted of no doubt. His nbnesty had been
assailed because :( did not appear to bo unpro
fitable. Who, tain can expect to escape cen
sure if they profit by their honesty -6 adver
ted to these things not to wound the feelings and
much less the reputation of any human being.
For all the distinguished names ofhis country
ho chtrishei. an habitual ibndnees. He felt he
had an interest in them as an American citizen.
Who ever tarnished their lustre, robbed him of
a portion of his birthright. The matters he re
ferred to were mentioned in no spirit of censo
riousness or unkindness, but as topics ol phi
losophical argument and speculation. They
might serve to show gentlemen that the fear of
having bad motives inputed to them, was no safe
rule of action : lor, in the instance alluded to,
the distinguished c itizen upon whom such mo
tives were, no doubt untruly, supposed to oper
ate was a * fast disposed to decline coming in
to the administration. But his friends persua
ded him that such a retu2.l would be attributed
to llu timidity of an evil conscience, and i.'.yiT
iniparttuiities exposed him through the tear ot j
I danger, to the very danger they feared.
But, sir, continued Mr. W., if it were possi-j
l ie that any friend of the Vice-President elect j
could entertain or inculcate such a course as j
the letter writer mentions, nothing could be at \
once more ignoble and impolitic. Even Sylla
saved his country before he chastised his ene
mies ; and was one as much better than Sylla,
as Sylla was greater than him, urged io remem-
Ler his petty interests and animosities when the
republic was in danger ? Sir the recent experi
ence of the New-Yotk slat: man’s opponents
might teach his lriends this salutary lesson.
Never seem to prosecute a depressed adversa
ry, if you do not wish to raise him above you.
But it will be urged, no doubt, that the Vice
President elect ought not to be indentined with
the gentlemen to whom those considerations
were suggested, nor they with him. They
were not his men, nor any one else’s men.
They were their own men. Undoubtedly.
He intimated nothing to the contrary. But, un
happily again, “circumstance, that unspir
itual God,” bore testimony against them,
and however hard it might be, the rule of
political judgment was the rule of the prize
court. Circumstantial evidence outweighed
positive asservations. The rule was harsh
—oftea-times unjust: but it was therule of
the world, and the world alone could ai
; ter it, Unfortunately these gentlemen were all
well known as partisans. He traced no g title
man through ay -.s .'id noes; but unless his
memory deceived him, upon every test question
of party, they were faithful to their colors; far
beyond hi-..self. The bank of the li. States,
the Choctaw reservations, the breach of privi
lege, the YViscasset collector, all proved their
perfect orthodoxy; and could they who subscri
-1 bed to the whoic thirty-nine articles,boggle atthe
j first question in the catechism'! AYhcre is par
ty discipline more perfect than in New York?
Have they not punished ray friend [Air Ver
ci inch j with the ostracism for a breach of it ?
. nd if all honorable duty is forbidden ought he
nut to ho proud ofhis pnni-l rnent !
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• Numbers. A DAL WALDIE, |
Carpenter near Seventh Street, Philadelphia.
The and g ril k. ded Stallion
Quidnunc, ;
“ft® ;iLL stand al ashington,Wilke*
fliStxSJ ® V county, tl. ensuing “Spring sea- 4
-■riv”- X non, which will commence on the hrst cl ,
wbeis&Adte wh, am. expire on the first of July,
Pit") oOLLAßf'thesineleservice —TWENTY -
l.u L.L A.IV the s ason . and THIRTY DOLLARS the
insurance Fifty cents -.: the groom.
CAUIDNUNC; is a rich blood bay, with black legs,
main, and tail, six years old, fifteen hands tbnec and a hall .]
inches high, of oncoinincn fine limbs, muscle, bone arid . .
action. He has been introduced to this State upon high*|
recoin aendntion, will, a view to improve the stock at v
•Southern hors- -and his high origin justifies the < xpec* e|
tation that this object may be accomplished; ’ “! H .
got by the imported Bagdad Arabian, (who was 51 ‘ a :
New York by Mr. Barclay for jib.l:oo,) —his dam bosa
Carey, was by Sir Arch’ liis grand dam SaUyJonea, bj ,
imported V> rangier—who was by imported Diomed the j
<,fMi Archyi The Pedigree of Cmtidnunc is not on- |
I v fast rate but authentic. (See American Turf Registry J
(Ol- Nov. 1831, page 152.) Adore paitkulars are men-, aj
tioned in hand-bills. ,k
DAVID P. HILLIIOOSE.
ROBERT A. TOOMBS. A
April C—1 —4w -—r i
gold AMD LAKD MAPS, j
OAV ING to the delay of some of the Surveyors, Ml
making their returns, and the consequent deßjgM
fi-.t has unavoidably attended the publication oflhe Gfjifl
ups oi Cl,e.ok<., \ have conclud. dto nduce tho ?<'g
of them from W to SIX Dj ‘LI. \H& lh.-Goh.Ate |
is divided into three parts, and the price ot the three,con-. |
prisiim all the Hold Districts, w.th the exception ot M
ck vcntli, in the first section, which has not yet been
turned, will hrreati.-r he six dollars, or two dollars |
cents each. I have also now preparing, wfndi\w * f
completed in a few weeks, a CflA RT 4|
the QUALITIES of,and I’ TPUOVLMEN'I [ r ,3
-v 1 ot on my Land 1 ar w rich, together with the Map- j
-vlfi bc sold er FIVE i “ LLARS. All p-rsons -j
kuv. mil chased, and all who may hereafter puiiba-
Land Map, shell receive a list ot the Qualities, giaus, j
uo,nplctcd ’ ORANGE GREBN !*
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