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A<Ur. I certaini.< telt them.’ Sot
wilhsLtf* ng this \>{>ert, .zealous, and frank
a Town <f his federal principles from the mouth
of General Harrison himself certificates and
letters from third persons are circulated m
tire newspapers to prove licit lie was not
what i.e himselt says lie was!.!
A mac is said to be known* in private life,
bv the company lie keeps. 1; tins maxim be
true in [mlitics, the nominee of the Harris
burg Convention moat certainly be recognised
asa° Fedeiflfet. lie is warmly and openly
supported by John Quincy Adams, Henry!
Clay, Francis Granger, John C. Clark, and
William Slade. However worthy tht.-t men
may be in their personal relations With socie
ty, it surely will require no exposition of
mine to show that they have been, on all
leaning questions of principle or policy, our
constant and undeviating opponents. Dan
iel Webster, too, the most powerful, admi
rable, and consistent Federalist in the United
States, lias espoused his cause. On the 28th
of March, 1840, writing of Harrison, in a let
ter to the editors ol the Harrisburg leie
graph and Intelligencer, lie says:
‘He has now been selected by the general
voice of those w hose political principles agree
with his own, to go to the head of the coiumo,
and to bear up the fl ig under which it is
hoped those principles may be mantamed
and defended. I net only wish his nomina
tion success, but intend also to do all that
mav become a good citizen to insure i>.’
Webster here declares he intends to do all
dial may become a good citizen, to insure |
General Harrison’s election, because he con
siders him the representative of his (Mr. Web
ster’s) principles, and because he has been se
lected to go to the head of the column, and
to bear up the flag under which it is hoped
those principles may he maintained and de
fended. Are the people of the Slate of Geor
gia, and particularly the State Rights men,
prepared to fight under that “flag?’ Do
they not know that Bank—lnternal Improve
ment — Tariff —assumption of State Debts
by the General Government —reception ol
Abolition petitions, and al! the odious and
latitudinarian doctrines which gave birth to
the Proclamation, and constitute the very e
sence of Federalism, are indelibly inscribed
on it? The intelligence and candor of the
people whom I have the honor to represent,
will save me the trouble of collating and addu
cing, in this paper, the numberless proofs
which compel an affirmative answer to this
last question. Adams, Clay, and Webster,
support and advocate the election of Harri
son— Why? ‘Ay, there’s the rub.’ Would
that I could propound this question respect
fully, but earnestly, to every intell gent man
in Georgia, because I know that the answer
would show the reasons why I, as a State
Bights man, ought not to vote for him.
Great merit is claimed for General Harri
son as the poor man’s friend ; he is pointed
to vvitli exultation as the Log Cabin, and
Hard Cidf.r Candidate, for the purpose, 1
presume, of attempting to identify his inter
ests and associations with that meritorious
portion mil* population who earn their
bread by the sweat of their brows.
For myself, having lived in a fog cabin for
many years of my life, and drank cold water
instead of hard cider, I shall not be influen
ced either to support or oppose him on account
ol the humility of his dwelling, or the peculi
arity of his drink. But instead of living in
a log cabin and drinking hard cider, Gen. H.,
I understand, is a gentleman of sufficient for
tune, residing in a comfortable mansion, on
one of the best farms in the west, and is a
bundantly supplied not only with hard cider,
but with wine of the most unexceptionable
quality. Be that as it may, I presume he
came by his property honestly, and ‘should
be permitted to enjoy it without incurring
the odium which is distinctly implied upon
competence ami affluence by the clap-trap
appendages to which I have referred. There
is however, a fact, connected with the Whig
procession which moved through Baltimore,
at the late Harrison celebration in that city,
which I deem of infinitely more importance
to the people of Georgia, as indicative of the
principles of the party \vh ch will come into
power if he is elected, than the immaterial
question of his wealth or poverty. It is this;
and I am permitted to stale it upon the au
thority us a Member of the House of Repre
sentatives: in that procession a flag was
borne up and advanced with this significant
motto upon it, ‘Tip, Tyler, and the Tariff!’
You have been told by General Harrison,s
keepers, that all interests were ably represented
in the convention which nominated him for
the Presidency ; and he has been emphatically
denominated ‘the fanner of North Bend ,’
with a view to secure for him the support of
the great farming interest of the country,
with which, it is said, he is identified. I
submit, without comment, for your inspec
tion, a short analysis of the component parts
of that convention, that the fanners and me
chanics of the South —the bone and sinew of
the Slate—may judge for themselves whether
their interests were ‘ably represented’ in that
body, or not. It will servo to show, too, what
sort of men they were who selected General
Harrison t'to go to the top of the column,
and to bear up and advance the flag under
which it is hoped their principles may be
maintained and defended.”
That convention was composed of—
Lawyers, 96
Bank officers, 31
Merchants, 24
Manufacturers, 19
Planters, • 7
Speculators, 6
Doctors, 3
Parsons, 3
Whig editors, 3
Schoolmasters, 3 ’
Lottery-office-men, l
Abolitionists, SO
Apostates from Democracy, 9
Farmers, none
Mechanics, none
Workingmen, - not one.
Os the above, 143 were, ami are, open
and avowed friends and supporters of John
Q. Adams.
—i ■_ ■ 1 ‘■sgt’-L-.a--"uaiag"! “i'±
CAUTION.
THIS is to forewarn all persons from trading for
two promissory Notes made by myself to Gran
ville White, as the coasideration for which said notes
were given has entirely failed and I am determined
not to pay them unless compelled by law. The notes
read as follows: By the Ist day of January, 1841,
1 promise to pay Granville W hite the sum of live hun
dred dollars, for value received, this 15th of January,
1840 in small notes not exceeding thirty dollars,
nor less than five dollars. The notes are to be such
as James B. Brown and C. A. Smith, shall judge to j
he good, and the o her note is the same as the above, j
cmiv it is not due till the Ist day of January, 1842,;
with my signature to each one of the notes.
JAMES BUSSEY.
Florence, Ga. May 27th, 1840. 17 3t
GEORGIA, HEARD COUNTY.
& l E7’HEItEAS Thomas Watts, administrator on
* ? the estate of Themis J. Whitaker, hath ap-;
plied to me for letters of di-mission as administrator j
on said estate.
These are therefore to cite and admonish ail and {
singular the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to j
be and appear at my office, within ‘he time prescribed I
by law, to show cause, if any they have, why said s
letters should not he granted.
Given under my hand at office, June 3, 1840.
17.n6m BAILEY BLEDSUE.c. c o. j
months af er and to application will be made j
to ihe Honorable thu Interior Court of Heard j
cp intv, Georgia, while sirti g as a court of erd nary,!
to seif lot of land No. 238 in the 3.1 district off irmer- !
|v Coweta m v Heard county, as the property of Robt.
Y. Blair, deceased.
HAYLIis R. CROSBY. Ad.n’r.
■ tine 3. 1841. n_Y
BOARDING,
TfeH” RS LUCAS having taken that large and com
modtfhis two-story h-'.ti>o on Front street, .tirect
lyoppotils Mr. VV':... P. Yonge’s residence, would be
widincto a con mod ate a few respectable Boarders.
NoMebii? those of Strictly moral habits need apply.—
Terms to suit thr time,;. June I U L’. !i it j
“i -i—y i m_L
SENTINEL & HERALD.
COJ.UMBIiS, JUNK 13. 18401
“ This Institution is one of the most deadly hostility
rxisting against the principles and form of our Consti
tution. The nation is, at this time , so strong and united
iji its sentiments, taut it cannot he shaken at this mo*
merit. Jiut suppose a series of untoward events should
occur , sufficient to bring into doubt the competency of a
Itepubliean (government to meet u crisis of great dan
gor. or to unhinge the co’fhlencc of the people in the
public functionaries; an institution like this penetrating
I by Us branches every part of the union, acting by com
mand and in phalanx , may in <* critical moment, upset
the government. / dan i rut. government safe, which is
under the vassalage of any self constituted authorities,
or any other authority than that of the nation, or its reg
ular functionaries. IVhat an obstruction could not t/us
Bank of the United Stahs. with all Us branch bunks,
beta time of war ? It might dictate to us the peace we
should accept, or withdraw its aid. Ought we then i„
give further growth to an institution so powerful, so
hostile? —Thomas Jefferson.
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICAN TICKET.
FOR PRESIDENT,
MARTIN VAN BUREN.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
JOHN FOII.SYTH.
REASONS
WHY UFA - . W. If. HARRISON SHOULD
NOT HE ELECTED PRESIDKNT.
Gen. Harrison's Op nivtis on the subject of Abolition.
“TO THE PUBLIC.
fry* “ Fellow Citizens.— Being called sud
denly home to attend my sick family, I have
but a moment to answer a few cajumnies
which are in circulation concerning me.
“ I am accused of being friendly to slavery.
From, my earliest youth to the present mo
ment I ha ve been the ardent friend of human
liberty. At the age of eighteen I BECAME
A MEMBER UF AN ABOLITION SO
CIETY, established at R'chmond ; the object
of which was to ameliorate the condition of
slaves, and procure their freedom by every
legal means. My venerable friend Judge
Gatcli, of Claremont county, wasaisoa mem
ber of this Abolition Societv, and'has lately
given me a certificate that I was one. * The
obligation which I then came under I have
faithfully performed. * * *
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON.”
Again, he says in a recent speech :
“ Should I be asked if there is no way by
which the General Government can aid the
cause of emancipation, I answer, that it has
long been an object near my heart to see the
whole of the surplus revenue appropriated to
that object
Gen. Harrison the Nominee of*the Abolitionists.
From Garrison’s Liberator.
“ Nomination of Gen. Harrison.— The
National Whig Convention, assembled at
Harrisburg on the sth December, nominated
William H. Harrison for the office of Presi
dent of the United States. On the first and
second ballots the vote stood, for Henry Clay
103, for Harrison 94, for Winfield Scott 57.
On the third ballot the vote was, for Harrison
14S, for Clay 90, for Scott 16. All the slave
States voted for Clay. We regard this as
another important sign of the times—as a
signal defeat of the slaveholdingpowea in this
country. —Had it not been for Abolitionism,
Henry Clay would undoubtedly have been
nominated. We have faith to believe that no
slaveholder ivill ever again be pesmitted to fill
the Presidential office of this republic .”
From the Emancipator, the organ of the Abolitionists
in New York.
The Harrisburg Convention. —Well, the
agony is over, and Henry Clay is—laid upon
the shelf. And no man of ordinary intelli
gence call doubt or deny that it is the anti
slavery letl.mg of the Nortli which has done
it, in connection with his own ostentatious and
insolent pro-slavery dernoiTjtralions in Con
gress. Praise to God for a great aiilJ-Mavery
victory! A man of high talents, of great
distinction, of long political services, of bound
less personal popularity, has been openly
rejected (or the Presidercy of this great Re
public, on account of his devotion to slavery.
Set up a moument of progress there. Let
the wind tell the tale—let the slaveholders
hear the news—let foreign nations hear it—
let O'Connell hear it—let the slaves hear it:
A slaveholder is incapacitated for the Presi
dency of the United States. The reign of
slavocracy is hastening to a close. The
rejection of Henry Clay and the nomination
of William Henry Harrison by the Whig
Convention, taken in consideration with all
the circumstances, is one of the heaviest blows
that the monster slavery iias received in this
country.
Proof that General Harrison is the Nominee of the
Federalists.
“ He (General Harrison) has now been selected by
the general voice of those whose political principles agree
tenth his own, to go the head of the column, and to bear
up and advance the fag under which it is hoped those
principles may be maintained and defended.”
Daniel Webster.
Proof that he is a Federalist.
“ Gen. Harrison declared that in issuing
the Proclamation General Jackson had
accomplished more good for the country than he achiev and
by his splendid victory at the battle of New Orleans.
Georgia Journal.
* * # #
“Gen. Harrison is a FEDERALIST, and
his election to the Presidential Chair would
give to the Federal Party such an ascendancy
in the administration of the Government, as it
has not possessed since the formation of our
Government.” Ibid.
# * # #
“Gen. Harrison is an avowed opponent of
! our doctrines, and would, no doubt,|shouid he
think ii expedient, put into to practical ope
ration the principles of the proclamation
force bill. ’ Ibid.
• * * #
“Gen. Harrison promises nothing that will
advance the principles that we contend for.
On the contrary, lie is a foe to their advance
ment, and to be consistent, should occasion
present itself, he must aid to put them down.”
Ibid.
John Randolph, in tlie Senate, in the year
1326,said :
“He was an open, zealous, and frank sup
porter of the sedition-law and black cockade
administration ; and I was as zealous, frank,
and open opponent of the black-cockade and
sedition-law administration. We differ fun
damentally and totally; we never can agree
; about measures or about men. I do not
| mean to dictate to the gentleman; let us agree
i to differ as gentlemen ought to do, especially
natives of the same State, who are antipodes
to each o.her in politics.”
Gen. Harrison in reply, by way of admis
j aion of the truth of the charge, says :
‘ The gentleman had no means of knowing
j my political principles,unless he obtained them
| from private conversations. As I was on
5 terms of intimacy with the gentleman, it is
j very probable that lie might have heaid me
| express sentiments favorable to the then ad
j ministration. I certainly felt them —so far,
; at least, as to the course pursued by it in re-i
| lation to the Government ol France. For Mr. i
: Adams, I entertained at that time, and have!
i ever since entertained, the greatest respect, j
I believe bin? (o be an honest man and a pure ;
patriot; and iiis conduct during (hat session I
proved him to be such. This opinion, i know j
was entertained by those two able and tip- 1
rioht statesmen John Marshall and James A. !
Bayard.’
Grn. IFnrrison in favor nf4hc t'artjf
‘-In an address delivered before the Aijri- j
cultural Society of Hani lton cmtntv, in 1831, j
1 *' c ‘ ll nviy he a:kcd whether, under wry!
circumstances, I would be willing to abandon
the tariff; I answer without hesitation, in the
affirmative; whenever the streets of Norfolk
and Charleston shall be covered with grass,
and our southern friends find no market for
their, produce, and this state of things can be
directly traced to tlietariff, I would then in
stantly give my vote for its modification or j
entire repeal.”
Gen, Harrison in favor <f setting free while persons for !
FINKS and COSTS .
Extract from the journal of the state of Ohio.
Tuespay Jan, 30,1840.
Senate met pursuant to adjournment.
The Senat.a then, according to the order of
the day, resolved itself into a committee of j
the whole upon ‘the bill from the House enti- j
‘led an act for the punishment of certain of
fences therein named,’ and after sometime
therein spent, the Speaker (Allen Trimble) re
sumed tbe chair.
Mr. Fithian then moved to strike out the
19th section of said bill as follows:
‘Be it further enacted, That when any per
son shall be imprisoned, either upon execu
tion or otherwise, for the non-payment of a
fine or cost, it shall be lawful for the sheriff of
the county to sell out such person as a servant
to any person within this state who will pay !
the whole amount due, for the shortest period
of service; of which sale public no tic- shall!
lie given at least ten days; and upon each ,
sale being effected the sheriff shall give to the
purchaser a certificate thereof, and deliver
over the prisoner to him, from \r!uch time the
relation between such purchaser and the pri
soner, shall be that of master and servant, until
the time of service expires ; and for injuries
done for either, remedy shall be find in the
same manner, as is or may be provided by
law in case of master and apprentices. But
nothing herein contained shall be construed to
prevent persons being discharged from impri
sonment according to the provisions of the 37 ih
section of the act to which this is supplementa
ry, if :t shall he considered expedient to grant
such discharge. Provided lhal the court in
pronouncing upon any person convicted Under
this act, or the act to which this is supple
mentary, may direct such person or persons to
be detained in prison until the fine be paid or
the person or persons otherwise disposed of
agreeably to the provisions of this act.’
Upon this motion of Mr. Fithian to strike
out the above section, the vote recorded as
follows:
‘Yeas—Messrs Beasly, Brown, Fithian,
Gass, Keaton, Jennings, Lucas, Matthews,
McLaughlin, McMilton, Newcomb, Robb.
Russell, Scofield, Shelby, Spencer, Stone,
Thompson, and Womeleof—2o.
Navs—Messrs Baldwin, Coie, Foos, Fos
ter, WILLIAM H. HARRISON, McLean,
Dswall, Pollock, Reggies, Roberts, Wheeler,
and Speaker.—l 2.
Thus you see that this section has not been
permitted to disgrace the statue books of Ohio.
And for the information of sceptical of the
piebald parly, we will append the folovvtng
certificate, from the Secretary of State which
is endorsed upon its back—to wit:
Secretary of State's Office, }
Columbus, O. Sept. 10. 1836. £
I certify that the foregoing is a true and ac
curate copy from the journals of the Senate of
the State of Ohio, being the first session of
the nineteenth General Assembly, held at Co
lumbus, Dec. 182,0.
See page 303. 304, 805,
CARTER B. HARLAN,
Secretary of State.
05"” The citizens of Randolph counly op
posed to Harrison and in favor of Van Buren
are requested to meet at Cuthbert on the 3d
Monday in June, for the purpose of appoint
ing delegates to tbe great Republican meet
ing at Milledgeville on the 4th of July next.
CITIZENS OF TALBOT
Opposed to the election of Wm. H. Har
rison and in favor of the re-election of Martin
Van Buren, will meet in Talbot fobfori the (3<h
Wednesday in June next, for the purpose of
conferring upon the measures of the great Re
publican party, and to appoint a delegatir n to
confer with our friends in Milledgeville, oi the
aniversary ofour Glorious Independance.
Many Republicans
Talbolton, 28th May, 1840.
HON. EDWARD J. BLACK.
We publish this week a part of
the address of this gentleman !o
his constituents, &c. The crowd of
advertisements precludes our pub
lishing it entire, which we regret
much, as we think it is certainly a
very able vindication of his course,
and no Stale Rights man can read
it, in our opinion, and not he con
vinced. We beg our readers to
peruse it. It will he found on the
first page of our paper.
We acknowledge with pleasure
the receipt of Judge Colquitt’s re
ply to the Editors of the Georgia
Journal and the Chronicle and Sen
tinel, in their strictures on his Cir
cular. It is certainly one of the
ablest and most unanswerable pa
pers that we have ever read. The
candor, the manly tone and style in
which it is written, contrasts with
the low and vulgar style of all of
those who have made war on the
Judge’s Circular. We are in hopes
we will he able to lay it before our
readers ill a few days. On the
subjects of Harrison’s Abolitionism
and Federalism, he is certainly con
clusive.
CORRECTION.
We are called on by the last Co-;
lambus Enquirer, as an act of jus
tice, to correct a statement made by
us, predicated on a misstatement
contained in an article of the En
quirer over the signature of ‘ One
of the People,’ in which the writer
makes the first meeting of General
Harrison and Mr. Randolph in
1816 ; which statement we charged
‘ One of the People’ making, when
he knew that it was otherwise. The
Enquirer says that tlie mistake did
not originate with ‘ One of the Peo
ple,’ hut with them, and that they
by typographical error, published
‘ 1816’ for * 1799.’ It affords us a
pleasure at all times to give publi
city to any correction which any in
dividual may desire to make as to
any mistake they may have previ
ously fallen into, hut it does seem to
us that the Enquirer assumes too
much; and if the correction is made
and 1799 inserted in lieu of 1816,
the sense of the article will be!
I changed, and in fact it would he a
self-contradiction. Let us see how
the following sentence of the cor- j
j reeled article would read: ‘-Evi
dence is now given that may he re-1
lied on, that Mr. Randolph and Gen. J
Harrison did, at that time, (1799) |
‘ differ fundamentally and totally,’ j
the one opposed the great Republi-!
can War measure, the other periled i
his life in its support. Who was
the Federalist, then? Not General
Harrison.’ Now, we would like to
know what War measure, except;
the War that the elder Adams was
then making on the liberties of the
people, the rights of the States and
the Constitution : wc have no knowl
edge of any other. But if * One of
the People’ intended the War of
1812, the correction comes with a
had grace from any quarter except
from ‘ One of the People’ himself.
Stub errors as these may he correct
ed on the same plan that signing of
Flournoy’s petition by ‘ O-ne of the
People’ was. that he could not re
sist the importunities of Mr. Flour
noy, although he told him if elected
he should vote against it ; so then j
|said the Enquiier for him. Now,
we will not say that the Enquirer
did not make the mistake, for they
say they did, hut this we will say,
that their blunder made sense to
the article, and by their correction j
they mak*e nonsense ; and the only j
way to fully correct it is to strike;
out the whole article. If wc are!
wrong, (and it is not our intention
to misrepresent,) wo beg the En-j
quirer to publish the article as in
manuscript, that we may he enabled |
to render that act of magnanimity j
we are called on for. And since!
correction is the order, will ‘ One
of the People’ give his authority for
saying, in the last Enquirer, that
Morris of Ohio, Dr. Duncan, now a
Representative in Congress from
that State, the Governor of Massa
chusetts, and the brother of the Se
cretary of the Treasury, were Ab
olitionists ! and if so, what these
facts are, for we know of no author
ity to make the charge. But we
do know that Dr. Duncan i$ no Ab
olitionist, and that he lias repeated
ly on the fioor of the House of Re
presentatives said, that the charge
was untrue and the authors calum
niators. We also say that it is not
true that the Democratic members
of the New York Legislature gave
their support to Jerret Smith in
January or February last for Sena
tor ; and one of the people has no
good authority for so saying, and
we defy him to produce it. And we
ask ‘ One of the People’ when he
swears to say the whole truth, and
say who were the supporters of Ab
olition men and measures in the
New York Legislature; if they were
not the friends of General Harri
son.
HARRISON, TYLER AND REFORM.
It appears difficult for us to satis
fy our neighbors that we arc serious
when \v ask them to inform us and
the people what these words mean.
Our ears have been almost deafened
with the noise, not made by ‘ thou
sands’ or ‘ tens of thousands,’ hut
by a few clamorous Federalists in
the cities, stage-coaches, and steam
boats, in which we have been ; and
of many of those we have made the
enquiry, and for the life of us wc
cannot find any one that is disposed
to solve the enigma. It is true we
have ‘ lived amidst a suffering peo
ple,’ and have suffered, and are suf
fering, with them, and it is few and
hut very few who are so weak and
so easily gulled. Now, neighbor,
this new ray of light having been
shed on you recently in great abun
dance, be pleased to explain. If
the distresses of the people are at
tributable to ‘ executive misrule,’
what is the act or acts of the Exec
utive, that we may join you if you
are correct, in giving you a wing,
if you and the people need it, to put
the ‘usurper’ down. Has the Pre
sident, Mr. Van Buren, obtained the
office of President by any act of
usurpation ? and if so, state the act.
Has he been guilty of ‘ corruption?’
and if so, give us the act, tell us, we
pray you ; and we ask you in the
spirit of candor to inform ns, what
act of the Executive has led to the
present embarrassments, and that
withholds relief. And when you;
havg told us that, then wo pray you
in behalf of ourselves and many of
our fellow-citizens, toil us how Har
rison, Tyler and Reform is to mend
it ? What is*the relief? Now do
not deal in generalities, but as you
have recently been brought from
darkness to light, let your light fully
shine. If it is the people’s watch
word, we are one of the people, and 1
although we may wear the ‘dunce's
cap,’ vet if is true wc are, on this
score, exceedingly ignorant ; and,
good brothers enlighten us, lor we
have read the life of General Har
rison, we have read ‘Opinions and
Facts, or Who is General Wiilliam
Henry Harrison,’ we have seeti all
of the documents forwarded from
the ‘ Chairman of the Committee
on Pictures,’ the lion. Tlios. Butler
King, and although they all say
‘ Harrison, Tyler arid Reform,’ not
one word of the manner of Reform
do they mention.
FOURTH OF JULY.
The celebration of our glorious j
anniversary by the friends of the!
j present Administration and of those;
1 opposed to the election of General
Win. 11. Harrison, at Milledgeville, j
will, we have no doubt, he the most j
[splendid of any thing of (he kind I
lever in tlie Slate before. We hcarj
jot. meetings being held in many:
lof the counties, and calls for meet- 1
jings in-others.’ We are in hopes;
that every county will be represent-:
:cd there. We urge it upon our
triends in the W estern part of the
State not to be behind in this mat
ter. Call and have meetings, and
where there shall he no meetings,
let all from cfery county, that can,
go. Although Muscogee lias select
ed 50, yet we would be glad to see
1 200 there. Our friends in Harris,
Merriwether, Marion, Sumter, Lee,
Stewart, Early, Baker, Doolv, De
catur, Thomas, Troup, and Upson,
we urge to send their delegates.
Go, anil go all.
♦
The Columbus Enquirer in an
swering our enquiries for the cause
oft he proscription of Messrs. Black, 1
Colquitt and Cooper, says :
1 I hey have consorted with men who are ‘
our sworn enemies—they have been cordially j
embraced by you, Messrs. Democrats—the
right hand of fellowship has been extended to
them by those who have ever fought against
our principles in Georgia.’
In what are we the sworn enemies ;
of the Enquirer ? Is it in our oppo
sition to a National Bank ? Is it in i
our opposition to a protective Ta-j
rid', to a system of Internal Improve-!
ment by the Federal Government,
‘necessary for commerce,’ to the!
assumption of the debts of the seve
ral States by the General Govern
ment ? Is it to the appropriation ‘
of the surplus revenue for the pur- :
pose of abolishing slavery ? Is it
in our opposition to the selling of
free while persons who may be con
fined in jail on execution for fines |
and costs, as slaves? If so, then!
these gentlemen have done well,
we think, to cut their acquaintance.
It is true they have been cordially !
embraced by the Democrats, (and ;
such men are worthy the embraces I
of any Republican.) because they
have had firmness to refuse to he
dragged into the support of a can
didate for the Presidency, who is
the advocate of all of these objec
tionable and anti-republican princi
ples. Now the above principles we
have fought against in Georgia, and
are the principles that ai;o opposed
by the Democrats every where, ari l
as the Enquirer and all the presses
of Georgia, who have recently es
poused the cause of General lluni
son, who is the advocate and has
been the supporter of all of the fore
going principles, have made him
their candidate, they must of neces
sity make his principles their prin
ciples.
The charge of Federalism against Mr. Van
Buren conclusively refuted. — We have seen a
pamphlet copy of a speech recently delivered
i at a convention of Republicans in ihe State ■
jof Vermont, by the Hon. Cornelius P. Van j
• Ness, former Governor of that State, and, for 1
j J
the last thirty years, the zealous, efficient and
| unwavering leader of the Green Mountain
j Republicans. We make from it the follow
ing extracts, in which Mr. Van Ness speaks
from personal knowledge of Mr. Van Buren’s
early political career. In our opinion, the;
charge so industriously and perseveringlv I
made, that Mr. Van Buren commenced his
political career on the side of federalism, is
conclusively refuted.
“ It is now thirlvrsis years since I com
menced my exertions in die great cause which
has brought us together this day, and I have,
at different times, seen dark days, but, thank
God, they have generally been followed by the
, cheering rays of a bright sun. And it affords
me the highest satisfaction to recognize many
now present of those who have labored with
me,side by side, and remained faithful,through
fair and through foul weather, through good
and through evil report, and whom I have
ever remembered with feelings of the most
sincere attachment and gratitude. Others of
the same class of friends have, indeed, left us,
and gone to their eternal home; but there are,
doubtless, present, the sons of a portion ol
those, who are animated by the spirit of their
fathers, and towards whom, as such, I enter
tain the same kind and grateful feelings.
My friends, we have a great and important
contest before us. The vanquished and scat
tered fragments of our old enemy, with an
accession of modern pretenders and apostates,
have been rallied and united, and threaten us 1
with anew and formidable, attack, Let us
then once more buckle on our armour, and !
prepare to defend to the last extremity, the j
citadel of liberty erected by our fathers, and j
bequeathed to us with the solemn injunction I
to preserve it unimpaired for our posterity, j
*#*#
After the defence I have already made of;
the administration of Mr. Van Buren, 1 deem 1
it wholly unnecessary to notice the abuse so j
steadily lavished upon him, except as it re- i
gards one charge, about which I will say a
lew words. He has been accused of having
at the commencement of the last war with I
England, acted with the federal party, or at j
least, of having opposed the war; and this!
story has been bandied about the country, j
even after having been repeatedly explained ;
I and disproved. With respect to the politicalj
i course of Mr. Van Burer. from his very youth, i
I not under the necessity of depending. |
for any thing in relation to it, upon hearsay
evidence, nor second-hand information, hut
am myself perfectly acquainted with it.
He commenced both his prolesoional and
political career with the year ISO 4. and I was
present at the firs political meeting at which
lie took part after having become of age.
That was a Republican meeting held in his i
native town (and mine also) in The month of
March of th? year just mentioned, and there ;
lie made a speech in favor of approving the j
nomination made by the Republican members j
of the Legislature, of General Morgan Lew
is for Governor, and against the pretensions
of Col. Burr, who was brought forward by a
minority of the Republicans, and supported
by the greater portion of the federalists. And
from that period he constantly rose in the
party until he arrived at the head of it. And
•so uniform has he been in his course, that it
may he safely averred .that no man who has j
figured on the political stage in the United ;
States has had less connexion with the feder
al party than he has. Indeed, whenever j
there .was any division in the Republican
party, he was always sure to be with that
portion of them, against which were the fed- ;
eralisls. In the year ISO 6 ! removed to this;
‘State, but as I uniformly visited that part of
the country every year, and always
ed to feel a particular interest in the political j
concerns of my native State, I Was as well;
acquainted with the course of Mr. Van Bu-.
ren, after that period as before.
The nomination of De Witt Clinton as a !
I candidate for President in I*l-2, was entirely i
a republican movement so lar as it regarded
the Siate of New York ; and Mr. Van Buren,
on the principles of the party in that Slate, j
could not do otherwise than suppoit the mess- •
ure. But so far from even waveiing with
, respect to the war, he was one of its most de
cided and efficient supporters from the begin
'ning to the end of it. Mr. Clinton, at the
time of his nomination was, and had been for
several years, the most prominent Republican
in the State, and had but shortly before de- j
dared in a legislative speech that the federal
party would 1 rather reign in hell than serve ;
in heaven.’ And from the moment it appear- !
ed that, in consequence of his defeat, lie be
gan to lean towaids the federal party, Mr.
Van Buren became his uncompromising po
litical opponent. Every person, therefore,’
who has stated that he was a: any time op
j posed to the war. has proceeded upon incor
;rect information, on has given currency to
; that w hich knew to be unfounded. And j
I who are they, let me ask, that haVe brought
i forward this charge against Mr. Van Buren
iof opposing the*war ? Why, the very men j
! who were doing all in their power at that time
| to embarrass their own Government, and, in
directly at least, to favor the enemy, or those
j who are now united with them, and have he-!
I come, politically, ‘bone of their bone, and
flesh of their flesh.’ Would it not be well
i then, if the abhorrence of such persons on ac
j count of opposition to the war should begin
i its operations nearer home ?
1 Col. John H. W atson, the Chairman, at a
j previous meeting instiueted to select a com
j mittee of 50 persons, to represent those op
posed to the election of Wm. Henry Ilarri- j
son, and in favor of the re-election of Martin I
j Van Buren, of the county of Muscogee, an- j
j nounces the following persons who, together
| with all other of our Democratic fellow citi
zens, are respectfully invited to attend the
: celebration of our glorious National Anniver- j
! sarv, at Milledgeville, viz :
j* 0 7
; Maj, P. T. Sc-hky, Dr. J. J. Bosw.ll,
! Cot. John 1.. Lewis, Henry L. Kenning, Esq.
| Jnmes H. Campbell, Esq VVin.’W. Pool,
Col. Alex. McDougald, Wm. Kirk,
i Thus. W. Watson, Esq. A. I.svison, Esq.
j Tlioa. Livingston, Esq. P. H. Briitan,
| J. M. Guerry, Esq. Jos. L. Morton,
| Kinchcn Grier, Esq. John
j Hon. Joseph Sturgis, Joseph Smith,
| John D. Howell E. C. Bandy,
j John Schley, Esq. Littleton Atkinson,
; Col S. R. Bonner, Col. Henry Kendall,
i F. A. Nisbet. Esq. ITenry R. Jackson,
John C. Hamilton, Esq. Alexander Moss,
Dr. James M. Lyons, J. K. McCook,
Dr. Wm. K. Schley, Pryor Dozier,
James Wilson, * Uriah Hein s,
Edward Barnaul, Geo. W. Way,
John A. Norton, Benjamin V. Iverson, Esq.
James H. Wilson, E. Ezekiel,
John D. C arter, Samuel Koockogee,
Perry Browning, Robert McCrarv,
Jesse B. Reeves. Nathaniel G. Christmas,
Thomas Davis, Esq. Dr. A. G. Roberson,
Capt. Jno. C. Maugham. Willis Baker,
And the Chairman, Col. John H. Watson.
Lumpkin, Stewart County, Ga., )
June Bih, 1840.
Pursuant to previous notice, a large and
respectable number of the Democratic Party
of this county convened at ibis place, for the
purpose of electing Delegates to the 4ih of
July convention, to be held in Milledgeville.
After organizing the meeting in the usual i
way, by calling Dr. 11. F. Rose to the Chair,
and appointing William A. Fort Secretary.
The meeting unanimously appointed Wm.
A. Fort, Dr. Seymour Cafchings, John I).
Pitts, E q. and Maj. John N. Dupree Dde
-1 gates to said convention.
I On motion,
I Risolued, That our proceedings be pub- j
| lislied in the Columbus Sentinel & Ilerald.
! H. F. ROSE, Ch’n
Wm. A. Foet. Sec’y
FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION.
JVUlledqevili.e, June 5,1810.
The undersigned Committee, appointed
by the citizens of Baldwin county, who are
opposed to the election of WILLIAM HEN
RY HARRISON, to the Presidency ol the
United States, hereby give this general invi
tation to the Citizens of this State, who are
united with them in sentiment on this subject,
to attend a celebration of ihe approaching
Anniversary of American Independence, in
this place on the Fourth ot July next.
In the performance of this duty, we add
our warmest solicitation to our distant friends
without regard to former differences of opin
ion, to unite with ns in the festivities of the 1
day, on this interesting occasion.
WM. A. TENNILLE, Chairman,
TOMLINSON FORT,
PARISH CARTER,
C. I). HAMMOND,
C. E. RYAN.
GEORGE LEE YES,
R. ROWEL,
WM. SANFORD,
WM. D. .JARRATT,
BENJAMIN S. JOUR DAN,
ISAAC NEWEL,
E. BRANTLEY,
A. M. HORTON.
VAN BUREN MEETING.
Agreeably to previous no ice a large
and respectable number of the citizens of
i Sumpter countv, friendly to the re-election of
| M artin Van Buren to the
j vened at the Court House in Amencus, on
I the 2d day of June, 1840, when the meeting
was organized by calling Maj. L. B. Smith
to the Chair and appointing Wm. B. Guerrv
Secretary.
Being called upon by the Chai', ‘E. R.
| Brown, E-q. explained the object of the meet-1
| ing to be the appointment of delegates to
j meet in Milledgeville on the 4th July next, j
i for the purpose of nominating Van Buren j
; Electors and remoddeling the Republican
Congressional Ticket.
On motion ofE. It. Brown, Esq. a Com-
I mittee of three was appointed to draught re
! solutions suitable t.> the occasion. The Com
mittee consisted of E. It/Brown, Marshall!
; Douglass and Arnold Godwin, Esquires.
The Committee Iraving retired a few mo i
| menfs, returned and reported the following: <
Whereas, it is now no longer a matter of j
speculation, that Martin Van Buren and ;
Wm. H. Hirrison will be the only candidates I
before the people of Georgia, and* it behooves I
us as freemen and patriots to take calmly into j
consideration which of the two is entitled to;
our confidence and support. As citizens of
a great Republic, and especially the South,
; we deem it our indispensable duty to give our
united support to Martin Van Buren”in pre-
I terenre to Wm. H. Harrison, as the former
Asa ‘ Northern man with Southern principles,’
and the latter is a Northern man with Fede- j
ra 1 principles, and a friend and ally of the!
Abolitionists, and who is wholly incapable to j
do honor to the Presidency of this Union, and ;
iiiio ijiv'lJ, fi ijv4
is every day sinking into the second child
hood of declining age, so much so that his
friends have thought it expedient to place
him under the guardianship of a committee,
in order to conceal his great imbecility and to
cover his obnoxious principles. Therefore,
Resolved, That we give our support to
Martin Van Buren—
First: Because he has pledged himself to
veto any hill that would interfere with our
private property in any manner whatever.
Second : ‘Flint his friends both North and
South are opposed to Abolition.
Third : That he has eustained the policy of
the removal of our Indians, snd
lis every way the plighted and actual flirt. ‘
J of the Sputh, and that he is and ever has been
a true Republican.
Resolved , That we can in no event sup
’ port \\ m. H. Ha rrison—
i First: Because he is wholly incapable of
presiding over the destinies of mis enlightened
fiepubic.
Second ipTh.at he is a Federalist of the old
I Adams school, that he lias pledged himself to
; sanction an act, if the majority say so, in the
:cbarieiing a United Stales Bank, which he
acknowledges to be unconstitutional, by
which he is pledged to violate the Conslitu
; tion which he would be sworn to support.
Third : Thai lie was principally nomina
ted by Federalists and Abolitionists.
Fourth: That the Southern Harrison men
are courting the friendship of the Northern
Abolitionists, whereas we are determined to
come out from among the wicked.
Fifth: That General Harrison refuses to
‘give any satisfaction to the South at aii, and
! especially on the subject of Abolition, for fear
of offending his Northern Abolition friends.
JSixth: That he belonged to an Abolition
society at the age of eighteen, and has ob
tained a certificate to that effect from his
venerable friend Judge Gatch of Clermont
county. •
Seventh : That be has declared lie would
not consent to the repeal of the Tarifl till the
grass should grow up the streets of Churles
! ton and Norfolk.
Eighth : I hat he wants the surplus revenue
arising therefrom, to be applied to the pur
chase of our slaves, if bis opinions have un
-1 dergone no change, and his committee say
they have not.
I Ninth: That he voted to sell white people
| into slavery, and if his opinions have under
gone no ciiange, he now wants white men
| sold into slavery, and the negroes set free,
i Tenth : That fie is a weak old instrument
in the hands of a motley hand of desperate
politicians for the purpose of working out
Federal destruction and Abolition insurrec
tion.
\ Alter winch the meeting was addressed by*
.Col. I owns and Col. Campbell, when, on
| motion, the above preamble and resolutions
were unanimously adopted,
j On motion the followirg persons were ap
j pointed delegates to the 4th July meeting in
; Milledgeville: Elisha Bulls, Dr. H. Bailey,
E. R. Brown, 8. B. Smith, William Minis’
and Dr. A. J. Campbell.
On motion of A. K. Ilugg, Esq. it was
Resolved, That these proceedings be signed
by die Chairman and Secretary and published
j in die Columbus Sentinel and Georgia Ai^us.
1 he meeting then adjourned,
j L. B. SMITH, Ch’n.
\hi. B. Guerry, Sec’v.
J
| At the Annual Temperance Convention of
; the State of Connecticut, held at New Haven
j a few days since, Mr. Leonard Bacon, a cler
jgiinnn, and we infer from his language, a
j Whig, alter alluding to some other causes
which led to backsliding in temperance, said:
‘ There is another reason why die cause
of temperance is retrogading. it is, (and I
say it with no wish to ofiend any person,) it
is owing in -a great measure to causes of re
cent recurrence: Within three or four mo:.tbs,
Intemperance has become die badge of a po-
I.Lctil party! —The hard money humbu<r
was hard enough—hut the hard cider him”
bug will prove more disastrous to thecountrv,
and more degrading to those concerned in it’.
Yes, intelligent men—men who have enjoyed
the benefits of Christian teac ings—and who
live in a land of gospel light—are called upon
to exhibit their enthusiasm in a political strife,
by drinking hard cider, made harder lv bard
hr ait<! v, for die glory of Gen. Hairison!—
Yes, at these conventions and committee
rooms, many a young man will take his first
lessens in and. iinkenness, which will bring them
to the almshouse or the prison, and the drunk
ard’s grave !—More than ten thousand men
will le made drunkards in one year, by lh(3
‘ fiard cider enthusiasm.”
COMPARISONS.
Mr. Van Buren never said he was a mem
ber of an abolition society.
General Harrison says he was.
Mr. Van Buren never said it was a ‘ calum
ny ’ to accuse him of being friendly to slave
ry-
General Harrison did.
Mr. Van Buren never expressed the opin
ion that the surplus revenue should be appli
ed to the purpose of abolition.
General Harrison has.
Mr. Van Buren never voted for, nor gave
his sanction to a bill to sell poor white men
into slavery, and inflict ‘ thirty nine stripes’
upon their backs for escaping lrom their pur
chasers.
General Harrison has done these things.
General Harrison has never said that he
would place his veto upon any hill which
Congress might pass, in any manner interfer
ing with the subject of slavery in the district
of Columbia, the States or Territories of this
L* n ion.
Mr. Van Buren has pledged himself before
God and the country, to veto any and every
such bill.
General Harrison has never voted for a bill
to prevent the circulation of abolition papers
and documents through the mails.
Mr. Van Buren did give ihe casting vote
for such a bill, in the Senate of the United
Slates, while presiding over that body as Vice
President ol lire United States.
Mr. Van Buren has not expressed the wish
that the day was not distant, when a North
American sun should not go down upon a
slave.
General Harrison has expressed such a
wish.
Genera! Harrison says the abolition of
slavery is an object dear to his heart.
Mr. Van Buren has said no such thing.
Mr. Van Buren does not conceal his opin
ions, hut answers promptly and candidly such
questions as are asked him by the people.
General Harrison refuses to answer, and is
now in the hands of a committee, who refuse
to permit him to utter his own sentimen s.
Mr. Van Buren has never received an ap
pointment from either of the Adams’s.
General Harrison lias received them from
both.
Mr. Van Buren did not vote 3gainst Troup
and the Treaty.
General Harrison did.
The nomination of Mr. Van Buren was
never procured by the votes of abolitionists,
nor hailed as an abolition victory.
General Harrison’s was.
The federalists and abolitionists do not sup
port Mr. Van Buren.
They do support General Harrison.
Standard of Union,
APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT,
By and with the adviccjind consent of the Senate.
Churchill C. Cantbreleng, to be Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
of the United States to Russia.
Aaron-Vail, to be Charge and Affaires of the
United States to Spain.
Leigh Read, to he Marshal of the United
i States'fbr the Southern District of Florida,
from the Bth day of June next, when the term
of service of the present incumbent will ex
pin*.
Thomas Gatewood, Naval Officer for the
District of Norfolk and Portsmouth, in the
State of Virginia, from the 6th May, 1840,
when his late commission expired.
Captain John B. Nicolson, to he a member
of the Board of Navy Commissioners, from
the 18th May, 18 JO.
John J. Youiiir, t<> be a Commander io the
Navy from the 15-ih April, 1810.
Henry French, t** he a Lieutenant in the
Navv from ihe I!> h el April, 1840.