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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.