Newspaper Page Text
ronJiug the foul harpies of ignorance
which malignantly hover round the civic
least to which our ancestors, from heav
enly seats, invite advancing generations.
Light must visit the mind. The Egyp
tian statue of Memnon was a synibol.ol
tins truth. It was made -of marble, its
face turned towards the East, and it sent
forth lovely sounds when the first rays
of the rising sun fell u|M>n it; man is
mute and dead till the radiance of heav
enly light awakens him.
the great superiority which distin
guishes moTem patriotism, consists, not
so much in the skill of invention, as in the
beneficence of instruction. \Ln are no
longer revered lor being, like obsolete
weapons, “plunged to the hilt in musty
tomes and rusted in.” It is nobler to dis
seminate hoarded treasures among the in
digent and unfortunate. The goddess of
■wisdom must he brought down from her
high throne of purple-cloud, to teach in
the open fields; anil thus to assimilate ail
classes of persons to the dignity ol her
native worth. Christians are the depos
itories'of vital principles, which, when
divinely enforced, can arrest the cor
rupt tendency of enregenerate mind.—
As in the ocean which surrounds the
earth, whatever is sordid, is borne away
and transformed;, so the tl.ime of reli
gious love purifies the temple in which
it burns, and surrounds it with an atmos
phere of health.
‘■The cross once seen is death to every vice.”
The uncouth ruggedness of depravity
is to be subdued by spiritual influence,
as the genial sun melts the iceberg into
tin element full of salubiity ami use.—
Hence, to be a missionary for Christ, is
to labor in the front ranks of honor; to
scatter tracts arid Bibles, is to sow the
world with seed whose fruit reduplicates
in unceasing harvests of immortal trea
sure; and to plant a sabbath-school, is to
found, a college of the highest learning
and worth, of which, since God himself
is the President, every matured Chris
tian should be a teacher and the whole j
world of youth, the alumni.
Let us indulge the hope, that this dis
cussion has led our readers to perceive,
more clearly, the importance of promot
ing a higher tone of moral sentiment
throughout the world.
We deprecate, most earnestly, all un
hallowed alliances between church ami
state; but, as citizens, as patriots, wo
wish' to see more of the salt of divine
influence cast into the fountains of learn
ing and legislation. This is the key-stone
to the arch. Our salvation, as a repub
lic, depends on personal integrity, and
sanctified public faith. At the very core
of the body politic, combustibles are al
ready cumulated in profusion, and if they
be allowed to become ignited from the
incendiary torches of demagoguism or
phrensied zeal, then will this great nation
tumble to pieces, like a shattered globe
rent with internal fires.
To prevent a catastrophe so dreadful,
next to the interposition of an Almighty
arm, I know of nothing more to he de
sired. than a fresh accession to the cat
alogue of noble chtistian heroes. Oh,
for the men of devout consecration to
the great interests of humanity,—the
moral giants, who, when heaven vouch
safes them, walk our earth in the light
of wisdom and with the trend of might!
Give us Pauls to write with pens dip
ped in heaven, and Appolloses to speak
in tones that shall reverberate in accents
ol convicting and saving truth. Nor let
the daughters of the church think lightly
of their appropriate work. When the
Spanish Armada threatened England,
Queen Elizabeth repaired to the camp
at Tilbury, clad in a steel corslet, and
rode on horseback bareheaded through
the ranks of her army. “I know that 1
have tlie body but of a weak and fee
ble woman,” said she. “but 1 have the
heart and devotion of a king, and of a
king of England 100. Wherefore I am
cotne to you at this time, being resolved,
in the midst and heat of the battle, to
live and die amidst you all; to lay down,
for my God and for my kingdom, mine
honor and my blood even in the dust.”
Twenty thousand voices responded to
those words of queenly eloquence. But
to lead armies, or harangue popular as
semblies, is neither the privilege nor glory
of American ladies- They occupy a no
bler sphere. The mother who educates
her son for a useful life; the sister whose
intelligent approbation excites and nour
ishes the virtuous ambition of some gen
erous youth; or she who sows the seeds
of knowledge in some rustic mind, per
forms a deed of patriotism, which tire an
gels will commemorate when the name
of England’s queen shall have faded from
Gabriel’s memory, arid the fame of war
riors has sunk in eternal oblivion.
The world needs anil demands more
efficiency in the department of religious in
struction. One of the bribers long ago,
complained that “once we had leaden
utensils, anil golden priests, but now \w
have golden utensils, and priests of lead.” j
ft docs not become us either to resist or .
commend the application of this remark
to modern times. But there is too much
reason to believe, that “we are passing in
to the relation of great institutions and lit
tle men.” The state of i«?e world in gene
ral, and the emergencies of on r own coun
try in particular, require that our pulpits
sliould be occupied by strong original
thinkers. Our eacred ministrations should
more abundantly furnish the sources of in
tellectual powerand moral progress. An
gels grow up in divine knowledge—brutes,
in savage ignorance—awhile men stand |
hesitating between the two; much depends
on the character of religious instruction,
whether the result shall terminate in weal
or woe.
Probably a large portion of our readers 1
are engaged in some of those great moral
enter prize* which distinguish our age.—
The. opportunities for dofog good, will ter
minate in death- As eternity opens, broad
and brilliant masses oi light Tinting on this
subject, will reveal, infinitely more clearly
than we now see, the fact, that Christianity
was the inspiration of goodness on earth,
the palladium of nations, and the restorer
of the soul to the favor of its God.
Perhaps the spirits of the departed are
still conscious of the lint ones that attend
those whom they have left behind. It so,
from our beaulitic seat, we may be per
mitted to see die rescued parent approach
our grave, and describe to his happy chil
dren, hmv we won him from ruin by our
counsel and timely aid. Or some child of
ignorance ami inheritor of disgrace, \\ limn
we may have elevated from penury, and
enriched with the talismauic power of cul
tivated thought, having won his way to
stations of usefulness and honor, returns
to the grave of his benefactor, and bows
down in gratitude overour< rumbling dust.
His thoughts melt into tears, and, as it
were, i rvstalize into’ a monument of im
mortal glory. Let the acquisition of such
a memorial, most honored in the skies, be
l ; olh the goal and the reward.
‘•Seek Trmii, the pure celestial truth, —whose
hi r lh
Was ia tlie heaven of heavens, clear, sacreJ,
shi inei!
fa rmsnuV light. Nut up she visits earth.
But her majestic, port, the willing tiiiml.
Through laith, may S'uneiuncs see. Give her thy
soul,
N"r faint, though eiror’s surg.-s louillv ‘gainst thee
roil.
Seek Virtue, wear her armor to the fieht; •
Then, 11s the wrestler gathers strength from strife,
Shall thou he nerved to a more vigorous might,
By earli contending turbulent ill ol hie:
Seek Virtue, she alone is all divine,
And ha ving found, be strong in God'sow n slreno-lli
a;ul shine.”
El M.
Richmond, 1/4 July, 1842.
American* Roys. —Boys, when left lo the
uncontrolled indulgence of their propen
sities for quarrel, are probably more dan
gerous than tnen. The three days of Pa
ris aflbrd an assurance of a revolution in
one of the first nations of the earth, effec
ted l>y hoys; and the Polish struggle
was in like manner commenced and main
tained by minors. I’he muster rolls of
our two wars show that a large number
of those who fought were boys; and in
almost every struggle, whether on the
deck or in the field, they proved them
selves worthy of their country. Every
reader remembers that Jackson was a
hero bay of the revolution. With most
of them a fight is only a piece of fun, and
their courage is the absence of the sense
of danger which a more natural discre
tion induces. We remember seeing a
boy about ten years old, clam tiering upon
the side board of one of our old fashion
ed railroad cars, and observing that he
haW one wooden leg, wo cautioned him
against so dangerous an experiment, at the
same ttmg inquiring as to the manner in
which he had lost his leg. lie said that
he had fallen from that car, and it had so
crushed his leg as to make it necessary to
cut it off. ‘ And how,’ we inquired, ‘ can
you venture again upon the ear ? ‘Why,’
i was his cool reply, ‘I never heard of no
! boy what had ever more than one bg cut
off by the cars,’ and he continued to cling
to the side of the ear with the utmost np
paienl indifference to his danger. Av e
ry highly respectable gentleman gives us
an account of a similar development of
American character on the first fatal after
noon of the Kensington riots. A news
boy with his slum lied bat tli’own jiuruilv
aside, and his hands buried in Ins pock
ets, stood in the market house, and looked
laughingly on as the battle progressed.
Shot alter shot whistled by him, and
many were killed and wounded around
him. Slill he looked on with the same
comfortable, careless enjoyment of the
scene, until a stray shot si ruck him in the
breast, glancing first under the skin arid
inducing it copious gush of blood. He
seemed surprised, and opening his coat
sitid, * Why, dod blame the scamps, they
have shot me!' laying especial emphasis
upon the last word. tSoim* one near him,
insisted upon his leaving the ground.—
‘ Well,’ said he, ‘ I guess I had better,’
anil thrusting his hands into his trousers
pocket, he walked leisurely away. —
[Philaj. Chronicle.
SPOUT COMING.
A correspondent from the State Capi
tol of Missouri to the ‘Missouri Reporter,
holds the following language in relation
to Col. Benton’s re-election, and his
movements there-nfier.—We may look
for more sport after the inauguration of
Mr. Polk,its that w ill determine whether
he goes “North” or comes ** South.”—
We shall watch the flare up as it progres
ses—in the mean time we give the ex
tract :
‘ For the information of your readers,
and of the Democracy of the whole Un
(on, it should be published at once, that
j it was known here at the time of Col.
Benton’s re-election, that he hod declar
' ed in St. Louis, just before leaving for the
East, a few weeks ago, that if Col. Polk
! put the word “ immediate annexation”
uto his message, or failed to expel from
his confidence those concerned in what
has been termed “the Texas intrigue,”
he ( Col. B ) would make Col. Polk’s ad
ministration hotter than John Tyler’s
ever has been. The time for commenc
ing the onslaught was fixer! by Col. Ben
ton for April next. The source whence
I have derived this information, as well
a3 the course of Col. B. since tire nomi
nation of Polk and Dallas, leave not the
slightest doubt on my mind that Col. B.
has gone to Washington to war upon the
Democratic party.”— Ex. Paper.
A book has been published in Hartford,
Conn., ‘calculating to impress upon the
minds of boys the true characteristics of
a gentleman.’ Such a work is no doubt
j needed in other places beside Hartford.
, Death i's a Veteran. —Major Benjamin
Russell, the veteran Printer and Editor
of the old ‘ Columbian Sentinel,’ died
: recently in Boston. He was widely!
uown and universally respected.
_ OLITIC AL .
From the Washington Constitution.
JOHN. QUINCY ADAMS.
The Almighty offers to his cleature
man, long hie as a blessing; fir, when
devoted to die true purposes of divine
beneficence, the end of such a life is
crowned with veneration and honor, it
was at the approach of a person thus full
of wisdom and of years, that, anciently,
the young men rose up and kept silence.
Anil, even now, all our better (feelings
prompt us io revere and do honor to ihr
honry head , when dignity, virtue, and
truth, are added to the impressiveness of
experience and wisdom. But the indi
vidual whose name heads our article has j
reversed the order of Providence. He
has perverted die blessing of long life in-’
to a curse. The thiol use he makes of
the boon, is the prostitution of all his wa
ning powers of intellect to the unworthy
purposes of personal hatred and revenge,
instead ol adding any thing to his coun
try’s glory, or to his own fame, lie bn!
extends from day to day the lengthening
and humiliating record of impotent mal
ice, undying malevolence, and pitiable
disgrace.
Tite hatred which he seems to hear to
bis country —that country, of which, by
die forms of the Constitution, fie was once
made President—leads him, not only to
espouse the side of till foreign Govern- j
merits in every question affecting tiie in
terest or welfare of his own, but also to
assail with a bitterness and perserver- ’
ante wholly without parallel, all those
whose patriotism or services are exhibit-;
ed it. favorable contrast to his own.—
General Jackson especially, whose patri
otic deeds and increasing fame, tire a
part of his country’s glory, is the object o‘‘
his merciless and unceasing assaults.—
His enmity will not sleep. His hatred
cannot die. And, for reasons wholly in
explicable, the same feelings extend to
Mr. C. J. Ingersoll and Mr. A. V. Brown.
These gentlemen, however, have replied
to Ins unprovoked and malignant charges
with a Ibrce and success which leaves
him without refuge or excuse. Their
sarcasm withers—their facts destroy.
From the Madisonian.
MR. TITER AND THE CLIQUES—JtfR.
TYLER AND MR. TOLK’t, FRIENDS.
Five presses in the United States—-just
five Democratic (tresses in all the Limed
Stales —deemed it advisable, anil good
policy, to assail Mr. Tyler and his admin
istration, immediately after the election of
Mr. Polk. These (tresses, which still
deem it Side and good policy to attack
the President without rhyme or reason,
are, of course, die organs of certain
cliques, which were overthrown in the
overthrow of Mr. Van Buren, and now
desire to “ kill oft” in detail the “ influ
ences” which contributed lo bring about
such a result.
But Mr. Polk, his friends, and liis or
gans, of course cannot be reasonably ex
pected to participate in any such gratui
tous crusades. It any such anticipa
tions have been indulged in by certain
“ leading Democrats,” the following arti
cle from the last Nashville Union, should
put an end to the delusion :
JUSTICE TO MU. TYLER.
It is a tact which none can dispute,
that when an impartial historian comes
to wide out a faithful record of political
history, he will' Ire compelled to write
down the years of John Tyler’s adminis
tration as years of unusual prosperity —
No mail has ever been placed in a situa
tion, as President, so novel and embar
rassing. Elected by the Wings with
hardly any other distinct object nr view,
except to get into power, the death of
General Hat risen threw upon Mr. 'l'yler
a weight of responsibility, under which,
lor a season, he staggered. But it was
not long until he saw that he must either
surrender alt pretensions to independ
ence, abandon ail favorite doctrines of his
political creed, and become a mere Char
ley for Mr. Clay, or he must meet with
the tit.relenting persecution ol .the Clay
party, it was essential to Mr. Clay’s
plans, that Mr. Tyler should either be
come subservient to him, or that he should
lie “headed.” Mr. Clay, therefore, set
upon him Ins entire clan of servile fol
lowers, arid no man was ever more vio
lently, and, as we think, unjustly assail
ed arici abused, than Mr. Tyler by tlie
very men who elected him. On the oili
er hand, the Democracy stood aloof, or
gave to him that kind of lukewarm coun
tenance and support w hich is always tan
tamount to killing one with lainl praise.—
In the main, Mr. Tyler’s doctrines have
been soundly democratic, and the great
mass of the* democracy have approved
his administration. The difficulty has
been that the Democrats have held back
and failed to come to his rescue, but have
left Inin to struggle along as he best could
against Mr. Clay anil his followers. Un
der such circumstances we are constrain-I
ed to sav, that Mr. '1 yler s administration
has been eminently successful —the De
mocracy owes Iran much —the country
owes him much —and in spite of all the I
combined opposition of Iris enemies, jus
tice will be clone to him by his country
men.
A buxom young woman in N. Jersey,
resiiiing in one ot the townships of Hud
son comity, bet with a young gentleman
on the Presidential election, the stakes be
ing her own charming sell, lor better or
for worse, the young man winning her in
the case of Polk’s election, and losing
her in the event of Clay’s success. The
result is known. The parties are quite
youne—-the lady about 13, and the man
20. The fun of the matter is that the par
ties had the greatest confidence in the e
lection of Mr. Clav, and although ac
knowledged lovers, had no idea ol uniting
their destinies for four or five years to i
Come. f Gaz.
c ONGRESSI ON A L .
PROt EEDIXOS IN < ONGRKSS.
Wednesday, January S.
In tlie Senate, hie ilav was sjieut in tlie recep
tion of reports from commiuees, anil ilie presenta
tion of peulmns of no particular interest.
HOUSE OE REI RE.SEN I ATIVES.
As s.mii as the reading of the Journal yesterday
had been concluded —
The Speaker staled that the first subject for the
eonsaleration of the House Was the untuiislied hu
siue-s depending at tlie adjournment yesterday;
mat was, me in .toon ol .Ur. Ad.mis, mal me liUti
of me H mse be granted to R >t>ert Owen one day
..in week lor fonr weeks successively, commencing
iivtth Wednesday evening, me loth nisi., for die
, i p >se of delivering lour lectures or discouises on
die improvement of human society.
Mr. A-i.mis modilie I Ins resolution respecting the
use of the Hill for Mr. O.ven’s lectures, »o as lo
allow it but lor one evening in me week.
Mr. H.immet expressed ins regret at being
obliged under a conviction of duly to oppose tlie
resolution. He thought tiie use of the Hall laid
been much too frequently ltd too indiscriminately
given; and il this tiling was earned much lurllier, it
.could at lengiii coute lo be constdeied a mailer oi
course, pei haps a rig.d, tiut any' body who wauled
to in ike pan ic a.l.nesses of any sort tingm have
the occupation of tiie Uepreseuialives Il.nl. He
thought a ought not to be gt an led at an, or only
on very special occasions. E-peciaily was it ui.li,
and unbecoming mat whoever stalled a uevv-lau
ged theory m politics or morals was lo have tins
rial! lo vein his doctrines: it looked like putting
something ol a Congressional sanction on mm oi
ms opinions. There were other houses in me city
with apui lmenls equally spacious, and omen moit
convenient* lei one win) wished to impart mionnu
tioii, or to make proselytes lo a particular ouiiu n,
nbiain ihe use ol one ot these. Air. it. should op
pose the gram ol the Hail lor any such purposes.
Mr. Arrington renewed the motion made yester
day dial the proposition lie on die table, ibis
was decided in the alHrinalivt—yeas ill, nays bJ.
Mr. Unniigoo.e asset! leave to introduce a bin
‘declaring tlie consent oi Cotig.e.ss dial anew Male
ne formed wnliini tiie jurisdiction ol ibe Republic ol
Texas, aim admitted into me Union.
Tiie reading of me bid was caked lor, and it was
read, and u is as foliows_:
Be it enacted by tlie Senate and liaise of Repre
sentatives of the United Stall s ij Jinteneu in con
gress assembled , and it is hereby matted and declar
ed, Tnai tlie CougrtSS tiolii consent that anew
Male may be erected w ithin the jurisdiction ol Hie
Republic of Texas adjoining the Mates of Louisi
ana and Arkansas, auu bounded also by die Gull
of ALxico, wilu a republican lorm of government,
lo be adopted by the luhunnaiits ol sunt Republic,
assembled by deputies in con veil iron, with me con
sent us the existing Government, in order mat ttit
I said new Male may be admitted into ibis Union.
And be it further declared. Tnai the ion.going
consent ol me Congress is given upon me lodowung
conditions, viz: that lue new Mate shall he lonneu
and its Government adopted p. lor to tne 4tli nl Ju
ly in llie present year, and mat tne boundaries ol
the saiil new Male, conloim.i.g io the oumi.ts tie
hire slated, and containing an area not exceeding
thousand square limes, shad be detiueu by me
convention of deputies, and inserted in the Ctdi.su
muon or lorm ol government; and that me assent
iof ihe Stale shall he also inserted to such boundaries
; ol tlie remaining lerrilnry properly pet laming to
Texas, and lo tie claimed and held by sai . new
Mate on superseding the present Government, as
may he seined and ueiiiud by the Goveiuimeni id
i tlie United Slates by negotiation and treaty or ulh-
I envise.
And be it further enacted and declared , 1 hat, on
the aloiesaul 4th of July m me present year, ihe
said new Male, having been thus h.rmed and di
luted by itie name and style of the State of 'Texas,
snail he received and admitted mlo mis Union as a
new and enure member of the United Malts id
America.
No object ion'being made to its introduction, tiie
i bill was received ana was lead tiie tiist and second
j time.
Mr. Dromgoide moved its rcttici.ee lo the Cnm
iniliee of toe U hole on the s'.aie of the Union;
i which was agreed io.
, THE RiluDE ISLAND CONTROVERSY,
j Mr. Burke asked leave to pusciil le.-mlnlum* id
Mile Li gis.a'uie of Ihe Ngne nl New Hampshire,
! strongly t xpiessivc of me disapprobation of ihui
i Legislature of the mal and imprisonment «and Tim .
| v\ llsOil D nr by the authori,its of the Mate ol
i Rhode Lund;ikcl mug me proceedings in me case
j io he a vi'daiimi ol Hie Conslimii-ili id the Utilled
■ .Siaies, and railing upon Congress lo uiteilirc lor
; me tenet and mdeoiuiiy id AC. Dorr, Stc.
Tiie resolutions were sent m me Clem’s table.
| At this stage objections to their reception came
; I'riiiii various quarters ol tlie House.
The reading ol the res mil tons was called for by
several memheis.
The Clerk read the resolutions throughout.
As they could not, under the rules, l>e received
except by unanimous consent—
Air. Burke moved lo suspend the rules,
The question ol suspension was taken by yeas
and navs, and decided as follows:—Yt as ltd.
Nays 74.
Two thirds not voting in the atlii inativc, the
rules were not suspended.
A motion was made by Mr. Cwcn sl at the rules
proscribing ihe routine oi Imsii cssbe sneq ended,
and iliar lfiellot.se rttuuvt itself into Con minteol
the V. hole on ihe stale ol Ihe Union, tin the pur
pose of proceeding ill the consider lion of the vari
ous propositions now before the House for ihe an
nexaliou of Texas io ihe United Males. The mo
tion to suspend prevailed, and the House arenid
mirly resolved iisill into Com nn I lee of the Whole
ou me stale of lire Union, (Air. Hopkins of Virginia.
; in the Oil.lit.)
Mr. Caleb B. Suiilh, of Indiana, was entitled lo
| the floor, and occupied ii in a speech in opposition
1 io the measure of annexation in any and every
j lorm.
He was followed by Mr. Owen, of Indiana, on the
other side, as strenuously in its favor.
Mr. Hamlin of Ohio,'obtained the floor, bul il
1 being past three o’clock, moved liar ihe rising of the
| Cuuimntee.
j Which motion prevailed, and tlie committee rose
I accordingly.
The Hartford Times mentions an amu
sing incident, which lately occurred at the
I’ost Office in that town. A colored man
went to the post office, and (lotting his
nose close up to the delivery box, cried
out ‘Louder!’ Tlie elerk, supposing the
negro to be deaf, and that he was making
a request of him to speak louder, so that lie
could hear, asked him, in a very loud tone i
the name of the person lor whom Ire wan
ted lire letter.
‘Louder!’ cried the negro.
‘What name ?’-yelled the clerk.
‘Louder/’ again bawled the negro, who
now supposed the clerk to be deaf.
The clerk took a long breath, and with
all his might again bellowed out in the
negro’s face the same question—‘What
, name?’ This wasdnne in so loud a tone
that the echo seemed to return from the
far oft' hills.
The negro started back in alarm, shou
ting to the very top of his big lungs:
‘Louder, sir, Louder ! I tole you Louder!
my name is nothing else.’
‘Oh, ah! oh, ho!’ said the clerk, ‘your
name is Louder, eh ? Didn’t think of
that—here’s your letter ; Mr. Louder,
here’s your letter!’
A ‘ stuck up’ sort of a genius entered a
shop, in town, and turning up his nose at
some apples in the window, exclaimed—
‘ Are those apples fit for a hog to eat ?’
‘ 1 doti t know ; try them and see,’ was
the instant teplv of the shop-keeper.
TIIE REPUBLIC.
SAMCEL M. STRONG, Editor.
MACON, JANUARYaT, Iml
MACON COTTON MAIM-. I IT.
\v e are glad to discover indications of
1 a slight improvement in the Cotton Mar
! ket with the commencement of this week,
l Sales here have been made at an advance
lon most qualities of £c to Ac j»r lb. We
j quote to-day extremes 3 a 4^c.
WESTWARD THE STAR OF EMPIRE
TAKES ITS WAV!
Mexico, controlled by wise counsels
would seek to retire gracelully from the
i contested possession ot Texas with this
j country. 11-is in vain for her to expect
| to arrest the progressive march of Anglo
i American Republicanism, either by her
| own strength or through the interposition
of European influence. Home enervated
j by the luxuriesof (he East, and prostrated
j by the intestine discord of her citizens,
I could as well hoped to have hurled hack
the iron framed legions of Alar m and At
lila, pouring down like a resistless avu
j lanche from the summit of the Alps, as
i Mexico either try her own, or the borrowed
j arms of foreign lands, to impede the equal
ly resistless march of the Anglo tSaxorr
| race to the West. It is the distrny of this
| continent to be ruled and governed by
I them; and neither the empty threats of
a M exican dictator, tlie diplomacy of
j England, nor the consolidated inter position
of till Europe can reverse this order and
| decree of Providence.
What Inis the nations of Europe to fear
i from tire predominance of our government
land laws over this Western world? We
j set kno bloodstained trophies. Wherever
| the star-spangled banner floats it waves
over a tire and christianized people.—
1 The fruits of wise legislation and an en
lightened policy-—commerce, agriculture,
the arts, and more than these, civil liberty,
are our characteristic emblems. No na
tion of the whole earth so young in years
Iras been the parent of so many general
blessings. Our commerce feeds lire str
iving millions of the old world; our inven
! lions and discoveries in the practical arts
have developed a thousand eomlbrts and
conveniences that meliorate the condition
of suffering humanity; our free const it u
| lion by' the example it affords, checcks
the innate disposition to tyranny and op- 4
pressiun in the breast of foreign despots.*
i Our missionaries tread tin* (rath of ‘the
| fathers,’ and carry the glad tidings to
those sunless regions where the light of the
| cross had never before penetrated, and
j our boundless expanse of territory open
ed by the God of all the Earth, for tlie
benefit of all whose destiny calls litem
: hither, presents a field where tlie restless
| spirit of enterprise may find foou lor em
ployment, the poor a shelter for their (lov
erly, and the wandering exile a rest from
his journeying*.
Who are they that would re-verse (Ire
decree of God ? Sln.i out the impover
ished millions that seek a shelter upon our
: immeasurable domain build a Chinese
wall around this glorious possession—clip
j the wings of the American Eagle that he
! may become a prey to the British Lion,
jand no longer ‘tower in his pride of flight’
| with an ‘eye that never winks, and a
wing that never tires’ ? Who would, to
I minister to the hyena-cravings of party,
i sacrifice the faiiest possession upon which
the sun ever shone, doom a brave people
to the dangers arid uncertainties of an
j isolated position, restrain the limits of tin
! confederacy within the Procrustean mea
j sure of their own narrow and sectional
| policy, by forbidding tite bans of the
Young Republics published by mutual con
sent, mid sanctioned both bv nature and
j identity of institutions } the one that with
the strength of Hercules litis shaken off'
the evil influences of foreign interference,
and the other like a young bride seeking
i repose and security in the ‘ married har
j monv of states.' 1
They are they in whose gangrened
j hearts, festers till the real toryism of the
j country. 'They are they who sided with
England in 1812, and who irr the event
j of a war would side with her in 1545.
They tire they who held out to Mr. Clay
the delusive hope that he might abandon
| Texas to her fate and still lie President
I of this Republic.
In the great drama just past, Mr. Clay
i played a most unnatural part. The con
test throughout was to him a fitful and
feverish excitement.
Hitherto the trumpet tones of his unri
valled t loquence was heard maintaining
the integrity of the Union, mid resisting
the transatlantic influence of England.—
High throned in the afli ctions of the peo
ple, lie seemed to he like some fabled j
cenius the presiding and protecting spirit
of his country. Europe looked on aston
ished and overwhelmed as he rose supe
rior to the dangers and exigences ol the
late war, inspired the counsels of State,
fired and roused his countrymen to arms,
cheered the navy on to glory and to vic
tory, and after a serif's of brilliant achiev
meuts I y our armies led on by our Jack
sons ami our S(oils, and our navies com
manded by our Perrys, our Lawrences,
and Decaturs —saw the veteran legions j
of Wellington defeated, the invincible bat-'
tie ships of tlie mistress of the seas van- !
qnished, and the American Eagle culmin- j
aring to that point ol glory and renown ,
which has ranked < ur country amongst j
the most potent nations of the earth.
His speeches were once read at the
head of Republican armies lo animate the |
soldiery to deeds of valor, and inspire
them with the love of liberty. His name j
is now launtingly used lay- nn insolent i
minister of a blood stained tyrant, to dis
courage the idea of annexation, as a sanc
tion to the lawless and oppressive mea-,
sures in contemplation by the Government
of Mexico towards a sister Republic.*
He was once the idol of the Republican
party; the great Commoner who advo
cated measures that conferred the ‘great
est good to the greatest number.’
He is now the oracle of federalists and
consolidationists, who would strip the
states of the last vestiges of sovereignty,
erect numerous monopolies lo be sustain
ed by oppressive legislation, and by the
abrogation of tlie veto power transfer an
unprotected minority into the hands of a
i merciless majority, llis name once awed
the insolence of foreign potentates, and
inspired the same fears in the hearts of
Englishmen as the utterance of the name
of William Pitt in the Court of St. Louis.
He is now flattered in the columns of
the Court journals with the appellation of
the Great Conservative, and his recent
de.leat deprecated, beitiuseoj the unhajij/y
effects a demociatie administration may exert
iijhj ■/ the grasping ambition, the insidious pol
\ icy. and increasing power and greatness of
; England on the American continent.
But his star is no longer in the ascend
! ant ! It has gone down under the bale
ful influences exerted by an unhappy and
(corrupting alliance; and however we may
have looked with awe and veneration
upon its auspicious rising and meridian
splendor, we behold its Occident with our
feelings chastened and our sympathies
consoled with the reflection that no man,
whatever bis former services—however
he may be endeared to his countrymen—
no matter how trafiscendant his genius—
can oppose the popular will and true in
terests of his country, without a loss of
the popular suffrage mul public confidence.
No man can respond lo the wishes of
Adams or Webster and remain a patriot.
They have degenerated into mere sec
tional factionists, and excepting their own
individual aggrandisement, think of noth
ing, dream of nothing but the ruin of the
South. It is now said to be capable of
proof that the first draft of Mr. Clay’s let
ter to the National Intelligencer took high
grounds in favor of the Annexation of
Texas, and gave proof that the war spirit
was not wholly dead within him. His
Federal friends took the alarm and re
monstrated against its publication. It
was accordingly revised, pencil-marked,
and returned; and i» a short time the po
litical death warrant of Mr. Clay, under
his own proper signature appeared in the
columns of liis favorite organ.
The Raleigh letter sealed his fate. And
now that their groat lender has been de
feated upon that question, the whig party
► have done everything but enlisted in the
British army lo prevu nt the consummation
of a measure that involves greater inter
ests, and more portentous issues, than ariv
that has been presented to tlie American
people since tlie revolution.
But think they that the spirit of the age
will conform itself to their grovelling lit -
licncss, and bigotted ideas ol national
glory? Will the Republic pause in its
c areer to gratify the vindictive passions
of a few maddened and disappointed
- talesmen? Are the people to be thwarted
m their purpose bv the perverse and con
tumacious spirit of an infuriated faction?
Does England and Mexico by the aid of
ihr Whig party expect to stay the onward
march of Democracy seeking to extend
die ‘area of freedom,’ upon this Repub
lican continent ? .
Their opposition is boot less. Ihe time
is (last when the weak and timid cotttisi It
of such men as Webster, and Adams, and
Berrien are to rule this government. No
power on earth can prevent the conjunc
tion of the sis'er Republics.
They might ns well attempt to dam tip
old ocean’s Waves with a gossamer's u-ing,
ins to prevent the rolling tide of population
from sweeping over the West, and the
stars and stripes of the American Union
from being planted upon the fertile plains
of Texas.
Tlie interest, the greatness, and the
qlory of our country demands that the
will of die people be carried out. And
Ij u t a few months more will have passed
over us fie 11 ire the opposition of England
and Mexico, and the Whig party will C<>
down before the irresistible Spiiit ol De
j triocracy.
the enreespendence «'f M r - Shannon with
Senor Rejoti, the Mexican Minister.
MEXICO AND TEXAS,
In view of the intestine dissension*
which tit present convulse the misnamed
Mexican Republic, when it is clear that
that doomed country, a prey to the phren
sied ambition of the Tyrant Santa Anna,
cannot command Iter own discordant sp*
rits or restore the salutary checks of a bee
;or regulated government, will the whtgs
(of this country or the opponents of annex
ation by whatever name they may de
railed, still persist that we should ask the
“consent” of Mexico to the annexation ol
Texas? Does not Texas occupy a higher
morn! position in the scale of nations l aa
her would be mistress, in any j? 1 .
which they can be viewed? Mexico, im
potent and distracted Mexico, in t a pt
sent state of her affairs in all the c ( j r,t
of sovereignty, freedom or indepeiK e ’
11,11a far alii of Texas. An.l
scarcely rises above the standar
savage tribes about her. Wbaj fWtM ttf
come of all the whig sympathy for
ml honor, and the r ights ot m L P
nations.
We have launcdmhTm humble bark upon
the New Year with as good P rt ’:"P‘;
we could reasonably expect; and m S’
or ill fortune betide her let ston me
or 8-' I breeds « aft her ».!. »
friendly port —we mean to dot
fearless of all consequences, to our p .
to our country, and to the south.
DEATH OF AX »• at
Senator Fulton, of Arkans ' (he
his lodgings in Washington y
evening of the 3d iost.