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ini. uc'Ver, acd was foi J.
U Adam.;.
rh°*nas E, Cochran editor of a Federal news-,
paper.
’i'. H. Patterson, speculator.
A. Gaboon, merchant, and was for J Q. Adams.
Isela liadger, one of the judges of the election in !
the >• orthern Liberies of Philadelphia, in JfiJi, v.i.cre
such frauds were perpetrated. To sa more of him
13 unnecea- are.
Nl'ff jf.raf.y.
Asa \\ hothead, lawyer, and was for John Quincy ‘
Adams.
Dudley S. lottery broker, and was for J.
Q. Adams.
f ho mas A. Hartwell, lawyer, and fjr John Q.
Adams.
John 15. clerk on a steamboat, and was for ;
John Q, Adams.
Craig Molfit, lawyer, and was for Edams, if old e- j
nough.
Robert E. llorner, nrinter, and was for John Q.
Adams.
DUAWH'I.
Thomas Rodney, a gsi.tleinan of leisure, and was
for John Q, Adams. I
Brest.y ioiiruance, merchant, and wast for JohnQ. !
Adams. I
Peter F. Causey, merchant, and was for John Q.
Adams.
Joshua G. Baker, school teacher, and was for John
Q. Adams.
Vv’rn. J). Waples, a dismissed mail contractor, and
was for John Q. Adams.
, MAIIVI.ASD. ‘
Reverdy Johnson, lawyer, and director of the Bank
of Maryland when it blow up, and ruined hundreds.
Henry 1 ’age, lawyer, and was for John Quincy ,
Adams.
Wrn Price, lawyer, and was for John Q. Adams. ]
Richard J. Bowie, lawyer, and was for John Q. •
Adams,
John Leeds Kerr, lawyer, and v.as for John Q.
Adams.
J. N. Goldsborough. planter, and was for John Q. ‘
Adams. 1
James Moores, planter, and was for Joho Quincy j
Adams,
Ashton Alexander, physician.
VIRGINIA,
Benjamin Watkins Leigh, lawyer, and a leading j
member of tin- Harrisburg Convention. He made a
speech in the Virginia Convention, in which he con- J
t< ndrd that the fog cabin men. whom he called the |
peasantry, ought not to he entitled to the right of I
f olfrage, my more than the slaves, as they wore 1
not ipialitiod tojudge of political affairs. Now, I pre- j
same he is the verp pink of Democracy, and is ex- ;
ceedingly fond of hard cider.
James W. Pegram, lawyer, and was for Julwi Q. j
Adams.
Edward R. Chambers, lawver, and was for John i
Q. Adams.
VVm. C. Mofubv, lawyer.
Festus Dickinsou. lawyer.
iVilloughby Newton, lawyer.
Henry Berry, lawyer, and was for John Quincy
Adams.
Augustus Waterman lawyer, and was for J hn Q-
Ad inis.
B. G. Baldwin, lawyer, and was for John Quincy ]
Adams. j
Jesse Eddington, lawyer, and wa.-> for John Quincy j
Adams. ‘ ’ I
Wm. S. Archer,lawyer, once a Jackson man, but j
has been violently opposed to the Democratic party !
•■vet since Mr. Stevenson received the appointment
of Minister to England.
John Janriey, lawyer, and was for John Quincy
Adams.
Jones Green, lawyer, aril was for JohnQ. Adams.
General J. B, Harvey, merchant, and was for John
Q. Adams.
Daac A. Coles, planter, and was for Julia Quincy
Adams.
NOR I II CIP.Of.INA
James Mebane, planter, and was for John Quincy
Adams.
I‘rederick J. Hill physician, and was for JohnQ.
Adams.
Charles 11. Kurnev, lawyer.
John 15, Kelly, lawyer.
W. H. 8.-fnle, (aw er.
Burgess . Gaither, lawyer.
Jonn C. Washing 'on merchant, an ! was for John
Q. Adams.
fsaac Burns, physician, and was fur John Q.
Adams.
U m. F. Davison, lawyer, and was fur John Q.
Adams.
Nathaniel M. Roan, physician.
Henry VV. Miller, lawyer.
Jo-e'ili R, Lloyd, lawyer, and was for John Q,
Adams.
\\ in. W. Cherrv, lawyer, and was for John Q.
Adams.
KENTI/CKV.
Leslie Cos nbs, 1 iwyer, land speculator, “Chickasaw
A iib.noufor,’* mid wa.- for John Q Adan s.
J am.-T Shelby, one of i lie most ext< nsivc and wcai
-1 IV c.i ; ••'it ;ers in the estate of Kentucky, and was
I >r John Q. Adams,
tdi'-iiij M. Gluv, lawyer, and was for JohnQ.
Adams.
U in. Pres'o i. an aristocratic lawyer, and was foi
John tg.. Adams.
t a. 1 1 Ban.-. hank officer, and was for JohnQ.
Adams.
ATarrhiiH Key, clerk of a ۥ urt, and was lor John
Q. Adams.
OHIO.
N. G. Pendleton, lawyer, and a twiee and fated
catt'tid ;te t ir Congress. and was tor John Q. Adams.
I l.'iij.iuun Bently, president of a bank.
J hti Juliiison, a Hamiltonian Federalist, and was
fr John Q Adams.
Cyrus Falconer, physician.
Win. Id. Alurphv, lawyer, and the same man whose
card, denouncing Bcnatoi Aden, was paraded in the
columns of the Aladisonian not long since. The rea
son of his bullying prechtm itions-.id be duly appreci
ated when tiie fact is ma le known, that the atiresa'd
AVilliam B. .Murphy was a candidate for congress, m
1833, against Mr. Allen, and only received one vote
in the (own m which he resided, and hut lifly-five vo.es
iu the whole district, out i.f six or eight thousand!
John ,\I. Creed, lawyer, and a defeated candidate
(or Congress.
Ira Bclknapp, speculator, and was for John Q. A-
dams.
Benjamin S. Cowan, lawyer, abolitionist and bank
attorney.
Charles T. Sherman, lawyer.
Cvrus Prentiss, in reliant, canal-contractor.
Tracy Bronson, physician, abojuonist, and was for
John Q. Adams.
Holland Green, morcha’t, and was for John Q. A
danis.
John S. Lacy, tavern-keeper.
INDI ISI.
Douglass M'Guirc, printer, and for John Q . Adams.
Amos Clark lawyer, and war- for John Q. Adams.
James Perry, lawyer, and was for John Q. Adams.
IVl'lton Slapp, lawyer, and was for John Q. Adams.
R. W. Thompson, lawyer, and was for John Q. A
datns.
Samuel Hanna, merchant, and was for John Q. x\-
dams.
LOUISIANA*
J. Mason Graham, planter, on Red siver.
MISSISSIPPI.
T. D. Tapper, lawyer.
Anderson Miller, land-speculator, and gentleman of
pleasure.
ILLINOIS,
Georg? tV. Ralph, lawyer.
\V. S. Newberry, merchant.
William L 5. Warren, merchant.
ALABAMA.
llenrv Hillard, lawyer, preacher, and editor.
W. 11. Smith, editor.
John M. Swope, merchant.
MISSOURI.
W. 11. Russell, lawyer, and was for Adams.
Logan Hunter, lawyer, ai.d was lor Adams.
Uriah Wright, lawyer.
MICHtO AN.
Georg? C. Bates, lawyer, an old federalist,and was
for Adams.
Thomas J. Drake, lawyer, and for Adcms,
A. S. M Reynolds, merchant.
A K SO NS AS.
B. H. Martin, lawyer, and a gentleman of pleasure.
Mr. VV. again resumed his remarks. He
paid the information he had been prevented
from laying before ihe House, would show
whose candidate General Harrison was. It
would show what kind of “conscript fathers, i
as he had seen them termed by the VV big press i
had assembled at Harrisburg, and nominated
him. It would show that, in that convention, j
there was every hue of opinion—slaveholders :
and abolitionists, high tanllius, and those who j
are for ‘free trade,’ Hartford Convention f ed- j
cralisls and apostate Republicans, latitudinari- j
ans and those who profess to be strict construe
tionists. No wonder they did not publish an
address to the people o! the United States set- j
ting forth their principles. No wonder Mr. j
Teiijli of Virginia violently opposed, and the •
convention almost unanimously voted down
such a proposition. They knew very well,
that if all their conflicting principles were
spread out be fire the American people, they I
could no longer humbug and delude thousands
who are honestly co-operating with them. |
They thought it their best policy to continue j
their old crusade against theßepublic.an par- ;
tv —without showing their own hands —by !
misrepresenting facts—impugning motives — |
crying out corruption—prodigal expenditures i
—^defalcations—bankrupt Treasury—distress j
—ruin l —blood-hounds —bull dogs —and ras-.;
cality generally. Sir, with these weapons
they have been fighting for years; but thanks
to the patriotism and intelligence ol the coun-,
try, such slang ami slanoer make no more
impression on (he minds of the honest-hearted j
and sturdy Democrats, than the falling of a
tun-parchcd leaf upon ti e Rocky Mount"'ins. [
Ifitbad, sir, you would have heard much
! offener the roar of cannon,’ and the vo ce of
Federal orators, celebrating Whig victories.
It would show, also, Mr. Speaker, tliat
|aside from their ring-streaked and siriped
‘politics, nine-tenths of the in the
Harrisburg Convention were lawyers, doc-
j tors, traders, speculators, bank officers, and
merchants, who hailed from the cities, towns,
•villages. This fact fully explains why it is
‘that the Whig newspapers have been teem
ing with the proceedings of Harrison meet
ings, responding to his nomination, to use
their own language, in such gallant and en
■ thusiastic style ? All the delegates had to do,
• was to return to their respective towns and
’ villages, call together a few counter-hoppers,
.brokers, pettiloggers, quacks, and skin-flints,
[appoint a chairman and secretary, draw up
j a long preamble and resolutions denunciatory
jof the whole Democratic parly make a few
j speeches in favor of “OM Tip,” fire a few
guns, raise a few shouts and huzzas, drink a
[few bottles of Champaign and call it hard ci
der, sing a few Tippecanoe songs, and then
what a soul Stirling time they Had of it —what
| a glorious Whig revival —what wonderful re
* actions! The very next number of tiie vil
lage, town, or city paper, as the case
i may be, contains a glowing account of the
I most numerous gathering of the people that
had been known for years—a spontaneous
movement of the bone and sinew of the land
! —when, in fact, the real people, the inmates
jof tiie “log cabins,” had no part nor lot in
j the grand farce, and not a solitary political
j feeling in common with the prime movers
and participators in it. Hence tiie reason
why the Wiiigs are so often deceived in re
gard to the elections. They mistake (he
[ voice of the few, for the voice of the many.
| They do not recollect that one Whig blusler
jer about a town can, and does, make more
1 noise than one hundred Democrats in the
j country.
Passing, Mr. Speaker, from this National
I Whig Convention to their State Conventions,
and we find them composed of the same ma-
I terials, both as it regards their professions
and politics. 1 have seen it stated, that there
were appointed to tiie late Whig Convention
of Ohio, five hundred and forty-two bank of
ficers, directors, &.C., seven hundred and
thirty-three office-holders, three hundred
and forty-six lawyers and doctors, one thou
sand and forty-eight merchants, cleiks, and
speculators, and upwards of five hundred
j Abolitionists,
SENTINEL & HERALD.
COLUMBUS, AUGUST 22, 1840.
“ J'/.ii Institution in one of the moat deadly hostility
existing against the principles and form of our Consli
lul.imi. ‘i r he nation is, at thin tune, so strong and united
in its sentiments, that it cannot be shaken at this mo
ment. But suppose a series of untoward events should
occur, supficient to bring into doubt ihe competency of a
llepubtican Government to meet a crisis of great dan
ger, or to unhinge the confidence of the people in the,
p ’blic functionaries; an institution like this penetrating
by .1. brunches every part of the union, acting by com
mand and in phalanx, may in a critical moment, upset
the government. I deem no government safe, which is
under the vassalage of any self-constituted authorities,
or any other authority than that of the nation, or its reg
nlar functionaries. I ! r hat an obstruction could not this
Hank if the United States, with all its branch banks,
he in time of war / It wight dictate to us the peace we
should accept, or withdraw its aid. Ought we then to
give farther growth to an institution so powerful , so
hostile ■ —Thomas Jefferson.
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICAN TICKET.
FOR PRESIDENT,
MARTIN VAN BUREN.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,
JOHN FORSYTH.
FOR ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND
f ICE-PR E SIDE NT.
WILLIAM B. BULLOCH, of Chatham.
JOHN BATES, of Murray.
MILNER ECHOLS, cf Walton.
SAMUEL BEALL, of Wilkinson.
WILLIAM B. WOFFORD, of Habersham.
JOHN ROBINSON, of Jasper.
SAMUEL GROVES, of Madison.
THOMAS WOOTTEN, of Wilkes.
SEABORN JONES, of Muscogee.
EDWARD HARDEN, of Clatk.
JAMES ANDERSON, of Burke.
FOR CONGRESS.
ROBERT W. POOLER,
D. C. CAMPBELL,
A. IVERSON,
JUNIUS IIILLYER,
JOStAH S. PATTERSON,
JOHN 11. LUMPKIN,
E. J. BLACK,
WALTER T. COLQUITT,
M. A. COOPER.
The Democratic Republican par
ty of Muscogee have organized the
column to bear up and maintain the
principles of Jefferson, a strict con
struction of the federal constitution,
no monopolies, equal rights and
equal burthens, and have placed at
the head of the column, to repre
sent the county in the Senate,
Col. ALEX. MDOUGALD.
For Representatives.
TIIOS. LIVINGSTON, Esq.
TUGS. W. V/ATSON, Esq.
Col. JOHN L. LEWIS,
HENRY L. BENNING, Esq.
The Dcmocrtic party of Stewart
have placed at the head of their
ticket that well tried soldier, and
faithful Representative, for the Sen
ate,
Capt. GREEN B. BALL.
House of Representatives.
THOS. J. STELL,
TOMLINSON FORT,
GARLAND STATHAM, Esqs.
The Democratic Republican par
ty anticipate the pleasure of hearing
addresses from those distinguished
statesmen, the Hon. John Forsyth
land John C. Calhoun at the Indian
Springs, on the 2d of September.
We recommend to all of our friends
who can conveniently attend to he
there. We can assure them that
they will find the friends of the
I constitution. And, although it was
buried at Macon under a stake, on
the summit of which was placed]
! a cider barrel, yet, with the demo
cratic party, it is alive, above ground, j
and tiieir guide and polar star. Let
the friends of our glorious constitu
tion still rally around it.
INDIAN SPRINGS DINNER.
At a Convention oft he Democratic Kepub-
I lican Party, ho'den at M.lledgeviiie, on the!
Ith day of July last, the following resolution
was entertained by the Convention, and uua
nmouslv agreed to;
Resolved, That a public dinner be given to
our Senators, Messrs. Lumpkin and Cuth
bert. and our Representatives, Messrs. Coop- ]
er, Colquh, and Black, at the Indian Springs,
in Butts counrv, on the first Wednesday in]
September next, as a testimonial of our re-1
,-ard for the aiee and faithful discharge cf
their duties, and their maintenance of princi
•iY> ;;i which the South feci so great an itr#-
teres!, and that a general invitation be ex- i
tended to our fellow citizens throughout the
State, without distinction of parties, and
our candidates for Klectors, and the balance
of our Representative Ticket for Congress,
be specially invited to attend.”
In pursuance of the above resolution, and
for the purpose of carrying out the wishes ofj
the Convention, the Cotnmi'tee of Invitations |
are pleased in being able to assure the friends ,
of (he Administration, that every necessary j
preparation has been made for the contem- i
plated dinner, and they earnestly and re- 1
spectfufly invite ail of their fellmv-cilizens in- j
eluded in the above resolution, to be present i
with them on the occasion.
August 1, IS4O.
3
INTERMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION- ]
Sonic of the Tip and Tys arej
much disconcerted, and professed
to he offended at our notice last
week of this burial of our glorious j
constitution—and seem to think that
we are disposed to give a perver-i
sion of their intentions. We have
learned from some that they intend
ed it as emblematical; that they
had planted themselves on the con-1
stitution. If so, then we are still
right, and it is proper the people
should know it now? We have
charged them for some time as look
ing on the constitution as dead;
and we suppose as the party with
whom they have allied themselves,
who have been making war on it
ever since the days of Alexander!
Hamilton, believe that they have
destroyed it, thought it due to give
it a decent burial, and that no time
and place so fit and proper as the
late carnival at Macon. They there
fore believing it dead and buried,
could well plant themselves upon its
grave. If the constitution have
friends, we entreat them to aid us in
disentombing this glorious safeguard
of our liberties, and let us,, when
we have done so. not ruthlessly plant
it six foot deep, but let us, as patri
ots and freemen, rally under it and
around it as the sheet anchor of out
safety.
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.
The Columbus Enquirer of the
12th inst. lias nearly three columns
devoted to a Mr. G. Drummond, of
Virginia, the object of which is to
prove that Drummond was a soldier
and wounded under Harri
son at the seige of Fort Meigs, anti
that Col. A. B. Fannin, long favor
ably known to the people of Geor
gia, had represented otherwise.
Suppose that it was all true that
Drummond was at the seige of Fort
Meigs, that Fannin never was, of
what consequence is it to the people
of Georgia, and suppose lie was not
there, or Fannin had so said, what
do the public care? But we have
no doubt hut Bit*. Drummond may
have been there, and would have
believed it, even if the testimony of
a Mr. Thomas M. Nelson had not
been procured. There are times
when a witness may say too much;
and we think Mr. Nelson would
have done well to have confined
himself to the interrogatory pro
pounded. lie was not asked wheth
er he served in Congress with Gen.
Harrison the session that ‘northern
politicians, and Mr. Van Bitten
among the number, endeavored to
exclude Missouri from the union,’
&<:. Now this Mr. Nelson, like
some witnesses we have seen be
fore, knows a ‘lectio’ to much. For
Gen. llarrison was not, nor was Mr.
Van Buren a member of Congress
at the time of the admission of Mis
souri into the union. Gen. Harri
son was a member of the Ohio Sen
ate and voted instructions to their
Senators in Congress to exclude
Missouri, unless restricted from
slavery in her limits, and similar in
structions were passed by the New
York Legislature, of which Mr.
Van Buren was a member; although
no vote was ever taken on them,
and there is no evidence that he
was present, or in their favor. Mr.
Van Buren was not an opponent of
the war of 1812; and Mr. Thomas
M. Nelson states that which was
not true and he knew it. There
fore if he, unasked, will state a
falsehood, we have a just right to
question the truth of what he has
stated in reply to what he is asked.
As to the certificates of Messrs. J.
B. and 11. 11. Green, and Harda
way, they must have fine memories
or are older men than we took them
for, as the seige of Fort Meigs was
28 years ago. We will not doubt
their words, however, as they say
they knew Mr. Drummond was
one of the Petersburg volunteers,
and shouldered his musket in de
fence of his adopted country; and
we must believe they were present
when Gov. Cass discharged them
also, as they are enabled to qjote
his very words.
The Tippecanoe Club of our city,
it seems, found some difficulty in
crossing the Itchaconna bridge with
their Log Cabin, on their way to
the Macon carnival. It seems these
Hard Ciderites had selected for
their motto that Muscogee could do
her own voting and fighting; and as
the Itchaconna boys believe them
selves able to do theirs, they con
sidered it a banter; and as they had
reconnoitred and learned the great
numbers of those who, by their
motto, were antagonists to them:
like prudent warriors, throw up for
tifications and such other precau-
Itionarv steps as placed them on an
equal footing with their opponents;
but learning that our Hard Cider
friends did not intend their motto as *
ja banter for them, after a parley
permitted them to proceed unmo
lested.. We regret the misunder
standing, and however our Iteha
eonna friends were mistaken as to
the intention of our Hard Cider
neighbors, we are satisfied that they
are not entitled to the term of’
‘ruffians.’ That the disgusting mum
mery of log cabin on wheels, deco
rated with coon skins, buck horns,
red pepper, dec., may have misled ■
them into acts of imprudence, we,
have no doubt; hut as to the con-|
temptible charge that one of Amos J
Kendal’s deputy postmasters plan- j
tied, it is worthy only of such little |
souls as those who believe that no
man is honest nor independent, and
that so soon as a man assumes office,
that moment he becomes a corrupt
villain. Men are apt to ascribe to
others the contemptible motives that
actuate and govern themselves.
We do not justify the interruption
of the revellers, nor are those enti
tled to our respect or sympathies it)
speaking of it in this manner.
The Columbus Enquirer, of the
12th, in giving the returns of the j
Alabama elections, says, that as far
as heard from, they ‘give the facts
as they received them, leaving it to ■
the Van Buren men to do the ligur- :
ing.’ In the House of Reprcsenta-j
lives there are 100 members; the j
whigs have tiie majority, and then
sum up Harrison 48, \an Buren
9. These were not the ‘facts,’ as
fur as heard from. They had not
heard that the whigs have the ma
jority in the House of Representa
tives. If they had heard so, they
knew that they had heard that which j
was not true, and they had heard of
more than 9 \ an Buren Represen
tatives that were elected. What
temptation could induce these veri
table high-minded editors to suggest
falsehood and suppress truth, we
are at a loss to imagine, unless like’
the thief who stole that which he I
himself nor any one else wanted.
They do so merely to keep their
hands in.
The Elections.So far as heard
from, Alabama has gone for the Ad
ministration, by an increased major
ity of the popular vote, with major
ities in each branch of the legisla
te re.
Indiana and Kentucky have both
gone for the Federalists, with in
creased majorities.
North Carolina, the result of as
yet uncertain. The whig candidate
Morchcad, it is expected, will he
elected by a small majority.
Illinois the Administration has
carried.—Also as far as heard from
Missouri, each by largely increased
majorities.
A letter from Mr. Van Buren to
several gentlemen in Virginia will
lie found in today’s paper. Like all
his productions, it shuns ambiguity,
and leaves nothing to conjecture.
Frankly confessing the right of vo
ters to interrogate candidates in re
lation to both constitutionality and
expediency, he gives evidence of his
sincerity by practising what he pro-,
fesses, thus contrasting strongly to
his imbecile but deceptive competi
tor, who refuses on the subject of
abolitionism to respond to friend or
foe.
Reiterating what be has repeat
edly advanced in relation to a Uni
ted States 5 Bank and the light of
Congress to interfere with slavery
either in the States or Territories,
Mr. Van Buren is deeply impressed
with the opinion that that body is
inhibited by the Constitution, from
| appropriating money, at the request
of any State or States, to aid inj
manumittingslaves, and consequent- j
ly that the suplus revenue cannot he j
so expended without impinging the!
national charter. Occupying on a!! I
these themes impregnable positions, i
well may he he by the bankites and
abolitionists considered thegenius of
their evil.
As free from the veil too is he on
the subject of reorganizing the mi
militia. Mr. Poinsett’s report,
prepared in pursuance of a re
quest of a committee of the House
ofßepresentatives, at a period when
war was apprehended with Great
Britain, he had not seen when his
message was delivered, nor did he j
see it until after its Submission to ;
the authority that called it into ex
istence. The statement may seem
strange to peisons misled by the
falsehoods of the federal whigs, who !
represent it as having been approv
ed by him and of course t hat lie must
have inspected it before his approval j
could he given. But of such appro
val no evidence can be found either ‘
in his message or anv other docn-j
j ment. lie recommended it not for |
the adoption, but the consideration ;
of Congress, as connected with]
the national defence when a con-:
diet seemed probable with the]
most potent country on earth. |
To their consideration it was his
duty to commend it, corning.!
as it did, from a collateral depart-;
ment of the ministerial branch of
the Government; because, first,
! courtesy is due to the secretary of
] war; and, secondly, in the event of
jail its suggestions being rejected,
!the serious investigation of its de
rails must elicit projects perhaps
! less objectionable and more efficient.
I After all the wind expended by I
: rlie whig hollows aiul noise made by |
their clappers, about his beinjr anx
ious to have at his beck 200,Ut>0 r<>
jgtilar troops —lor by federal whig;
;logic 97,200 militia trained ten da)s|
in the year are transmuted into
200,000 mercenary soldiers ready;
at his bidding to enslave their coun
try, and imbrue their hands in the
blood of their brethren, it turns out,
though he deems Poinsett’s plan less
objectionable, in most respects than
.antecedent reports and laws in rela
tion to the militia, that to it he en
tertains an insuperable objection on
the score of its constitutionality.—
As it confers the right of training
the militia in time of peace to the
United States, while the Constitu
tion restricts such power to periods
of insurrection, invasion or war, it
transcends the grant of authority
made by the States, at least does
so in his opinion; and would there
fore have to encounter the impedi
ment of his veto: for,unlike General
Harrison, he docs not believe that
a majority of the two houses of Con- j
gress can absolve a man from tlie ■
obligations of bis oath of office, and J
license perjury. In short, this letter
of Mr. Van Huron is a manly, can
did and profound production, which,
if nothing else front his pen were
extant, would transmit tiic charac
ter of its author bouyant on the
waves of time long after the last
vestige of his aspersors’ infamy shall
by mercy be sunk under the turbid
waters of oblivion.
The Harrisonites in Georgia af
fect to be republicans, willing’ to be
controled by the majority, and that j
the party to which they belong arc’
the friends of good order and oppo
sed to outrage. But what says their
brother of the New .Jersey State
Gazette, on the 29th nit? “I would
to God 1 might hear roaring from
the democratic whigs of New Jersey
give their [the democratic republi
j cans’] roojs to the flames and their
I flesh to the eagles”
We have the authority of the
Richmond inquirer for saying that
Mr. Preston of South Carolina, in
his recent infuriated harangue in
Richmond, whilst speaking of the
democratic republicans, urged his
brother whigs to “ hule them, curse
them, despise them, rush upon them.
jlf they wound you (he proceeded)
mind it not; push on, turn aside their
bayonets, and crush them to the
earth” He also said in substance,
that “if Mr. Van Omen could not
be displaced through the ballot-box
in November next; that if the evils
of which he complained could not
he removed by an appeal to the polls,
he, tor one, mas ready to resort to such
means as God and nature had put
within his reach to force a change.”
When it is recollected that this
brigand, instead of being denounc
ed or reproved, by the whig press
for the utterance of such inflamma
tory and traitorous sentiments, is ex
tolled as their Southern Magnus
Apollo, and had last week about ten
thousand pair of federal whig lips
to shout hozannas to him in Macon,
can their professions in regard to
peace and good order, and their
readiness to submit to the will of
the majority, be credited? Does
not their co-operation with the aboli
tionists of the north and west prove
that they are reckless of the means,
so that they accomplish their object?
From these remarks we exclude the
common members of their party,
who, with the best intentions, have
become the dupes of their artifices,
jit is to the leaders and understrap-
I pers that we allude.
Harrisburg Convention. —The de
tails of this notorious assemblage,
extracted from the speech of Mr.
vVatterson of Tennessee, republish
ed today, settles its character, if
any doubts of it have ever existed.
It shows conclusively that Harrison
|is the candidate of bank-officers,
j usurers, speculators and the aboli
jtionists; and that our Southern
whigs, who hypocritically affect the
most holy horror at all thoughts of
any governmental interference with
slavery, are ardently supporting
the abolition candidate, and co-ope
rating cheerfully with the abolition
ists to destroy a highly* gifted and
virtuous tnun who in word and deed
has proved himself the devoted
friend of the South, as well as of ra
tioned liberty.
WHIG MEETING.
Hamilton , August. 5.
Mr. Editor —The whigs had a gieat day j
of joy and festivity in this place on the 4ih
Inst. Il does actually seem that the whigs
intend to practice a deception upon the in
dustrious and honest farmers of our country.
They hold meetings in every village and
hamlet, in every nook and corner of the
country, and with the fantastic display of;
log cabins, cider barrels and canoes, attempt;
to deceive and misguide the yeomanry of our j
country, in the high and responsible duties j
■which they are railed upon to perform. I .
shall proceed to give you a concise descrip- j
tion of the proceedings, in the first place, j
the procession of ladies were conducted to i
the stand. The next procession consisted of j
strangers and invited guests. The third j
procession consisted of the citizens of this j
county. These having severally been ac- 1
commodated with dinner, the whig orators |
being toasted were loudly called (hr. The
first was Col. Alford; th : s gentleman, re i
sponded to the call in an inappropriate ad
dress. He condemned entirely the adminis-j
(rations of Jackson end Van Boren. He
remarked that every measure of Jackson’s
Administration had been enforced by the
minions of power. Tins gentleman <i>d lit- j
tie credit to himself or his party. Mr. A?- j
lord attempted, by bis jocular expressions, mj
eradicate from the minds of the people the!
‘cense of r.Migatin.i which they were under |
!?o their c uiatry in taking a staid in the pre-i
( stilt |H!il;cal entiles!. Mr. A iniil was Ini-j
jlowet! by Mr. James A. Meriwether; this j
gentleman’s style was peculiarly interesting. |
j hut in vain be attcinpic t to mark the name o! J
Mr. Van liurcn with obloquy and disgrace,!
jby attaching to him the blame ol having
| Lieutenant ilooe deprived of las connnis
■sion. Mr. Flournoy being called lor, ap
peared, and in his usual style tried to infuse
j into the minds of the people it behel that the
! Harrison cause was the cause of the people;
i but this was a total failure. The citizens ol
Georgia are too wise to their own interest
;to be deceived by political demagogues. Mr.
•T. W. Campbell, the whig candidate for
elector, addressed the assembly. This gen
tleman’s address was marked by a more hon
orable and high minded principle than any
of the otiier speakers. This gentleman’s j
style was chaster: lie however did not sue- 1
ceed in his attempt to decry the Sub-'Treas
ury. His chief arguments were that ii j
would allow the government to issue large
amounts of paper without coming under the
obligations to redeem. Every person, who
is acquainted with the Sub-Treasury bill,
knows this argument cannot lie substantiated.#
I cannot now conclude my brief aud imper
fect notice of the whig speakers, without
; making a few remarks concerning Maj. Jack,
lof Meriwether, lie was very inveterate
j against the administration, and went on in a
long declamatory speech without tfie least j
proof. In the course of the above descrip
tion. I have neglected the notice of present a
jtionofthe flag. Judge of my surprise on
J seeing that star-paneled banner, which in
iin trying times was seen in the thickest of
conflict born aloft by the patriotic arm of
our ancestors at Brandywine, Stony Point,
and Yorktovvn, desecrated and polluted by
party mottoes and for the purpose of party
triumph.
Arc the true patriots of our country willing
to see the star-spangled banner which waved
so proudly over the heads of our ancestors
in the memorable era of ‘7b, when that glo
rious flag was streaming on the purest breez
es of heaven, the sight of which nerved
every arm and braved every heart, polluted
by the sentiments of the whigs?
It seems, Mr. Editor, as if the whigs for
get the good of our country, and drown the
liberties of our country in the boisterous
scenes of their hiiiarily. What are the ob
jects which they wish to represent by their
log cabins and cider barrels? Is it the cede
finition of any brilliant achievement of Gen
eral Harrison’s, or is it the effect of their
overheated brains? I look upon these exhi
bitions, Mr. Editor, as the evidence of the
contempt of the whigs for the knowledge of
the people. If, sir, 1 should be asked why 1
think General Harrison should not receive
the votes of American freemen, I answer,
because he fias refused to give explicit an
swers to plain questions, and on account of
the stand which the whigs have Pi ken in or
der to ensure his election. These I consider
sufficient reasons why they should not.
If these exhibitions are to deceive the peo
ple, does not their headlong course call down
the indignation of every American. And
still, sir, there can he no doubt of their mean
ing; they intend, sir, to captivate the people
by addressing the fancies and caprices of the
i people instead of their judgment and reasons.
It is something truly astonishing that Mr.
Flournoy, in the course of his remarks, should
so far forget personal friendship of Judge
Colquit, as to deal out slander against his
name and to use the most degrading language
concerning Mr. Colquit, whom he claimed in
the course of his remarks as his friend. This,
Mr. Editor, is another design to entrap the
people and deceive them in their honest ex
ertions. Mr. Flournoy, the abject light in
which he considers a friend. Mr. Alford said
nothing that could be called reasonable, or
any thing that was worthy of hi? station. In
the course of his remarks, he observed that
he was learning his children how to sing
Tippecanoe songs, f would say to the hon
orable gentleman, that unless he improves
greatly in oratory he had belter devote the
remainder of his life to singing Tippecanoe
songs. A man who entertains so low an idea
of the intelligence of the people as Mr. Al
ford manifests, is unfit, for their representa
(ive. The whigs pretend, Mr. Editor, that
their cause is pro bono publico; yet the cause
of Democracy shall overwhelm it with eternal
destruction; and that the awful convulsions
and groans of tire whigs shall terminate in
the same manner that the Latin poet describes
the labor of the mountain as terminating
when he says, ‘Montes parluriant radicitus
mus nascentur.’ A LOOKER ON.
COMMUNICATED.
Receipt for making a Whig. —
Take an old federalist of 1798, and
put him iu a large kettle about two
thirds full o {'ley. Put it over a slow
fire made of Dartmoor Reports and
Hartford Convention proceedings;
and when it begins to boil, sprinkle
in equal parts of anti-Masonry, Na
tional Republicanism, Independent
Republicanism, Toryism and Abo
litionism, and tiie renovated man
becomes a pure patriot fully qualifi
ed to worship miniature log-cabins
and to practice other kindred vir
tues. SHANK.
To Vie Editors of the Columbus Enquirer.
G Ejrr lejieu— l have read, with surpi isc and aston
ishment, an editorial in your last paper, under the
caption of “meanness exposed” in winch you accuse
one J. X'. Henderson of being the author or writer of
a Communication signed “one of your subscribers.”
In reference to the article above alluded tc, you use
the following language: “that Communication turns
out be a villanous effort on the part of a locofoco of
the county to prejudice the cause of Harrison among
his people, to do which in locofoco style he does not
hesitate to offer a direct and palpable insult to the
feelings of two worthy gentlemen of his county, whose
only sin consists in their being hard working industri
ous men, but who are as far above the wri'.cr in mor
al character as they are above the reach of his poison
ed arrows, in the estimation of their fvliow-citizeU3.
she writer of the article tn question is one J. T. Hen
derson, whose name we now hold up to the scorn and
contempt of those whose feelings have been than wan
tonly assailed.” In reply to the above, Messrs. Edi
ter-, allow me to say,that I am alocofocoin the strict
application of that term, and I am proud to boast of u,
and deeply and sincerely regret that you are not one.
But if it be a “villanous effort on the part of a loeofbeo
to prejudice the cause of Harrison among his people,”
jit was some other locofoco besides myself, ft may be
locofoco style, as you say, but I am inclined to believe
it is whig style, as it sounds something like the plan
“secret circular,” signed by Alfred Jveli v. My own
opinion is, that it was written by some Vv'bm t rumy
of mine, fir the purpose of injuring my feelings and
wounding the feelings of the party to which 1 belono;
and it is one out of many despisable, corrupt and base
! electioneering devices to which some of that party re
| sort to for the purp se of carrying th-.-ir elections.
! The two worthy gentlemen to whomvou allude are
imy personal friends, and the attachment exit;in? be
| tween us is so mutual and reciprocal, that an honest
| difference in political sentiment is incapable of dissolv
j mg it, and it affords, me a superlative pleasure to in
! form you that both of these gentlemen have given me
j convincing assurances that they never suspected me
| of being the writer of the ‘communication’ in question,
j These two gentlemen are indeed highminded, worthy,
i men, and I most fully and heartily concur with you in
S sentiment when you say they are as much above the
writer in moral character as'they are above the reach
jor his poisoned arrows in the estimation of thei-1
S fellow-citizens, though you. Messrs. Editors, had been j
j the writer cf the communication yourselves. The |
| writer of the commucation in question you uneondi
i tion illy aver is ‘cue J. T. Henderson,’ and. as there is
| no other locofoco in ttmc.oun'y but myself who bears
j that cognomen, I take it. tor granted you must allude
to me and will ‘hold me up to the scorn and contempt
of those whose feelings I have thus wantonly assailed.’
Ff you do by this myan to accuse me of writing it, I
rnnst c-scns * mvseil Iroin the charge, bv giving you a
| respectful contradiction, and of dis avowing the aiithor
-1 sii 'I> of his iniquitous production: rn.i as"yoti have no
I 1 proof :o snow : a’ I cm the author f u. esc. pi per
haps a fi-rged utter, I hope you will do me the justice
be:eve my p rrmtA f :nr r u - e tin
j ’ mere” •<” in iff n< \> umber of vour pn-
per. f'l -.vKdiMon, I would only ray, the oconnJi
Iw ~ ;v>i„ I the article and forged ray name, ought
„ 0 t be held up ’•* tin’ scorn and contempt “t
I those w I,; ;e feelings have tiw n thus wantonly assail-'.
I •and, bat t > :li<> scorn and contempt H all good men.
I The publication <f it may :.fT<rel him some comfort
| ami •: ratify Ins brut a! hidings but my feelings arc’
j consoled wi;h th idea thai his satisfaction is a secret
one, as lie dare not acknowledge H.
JOHN T. HENDERSON.
Is- ‘iT:a 15, isio.
T > the Editors of the Columbus -ptirer.
Situs —A very extraordinary article has appeared tnr
this morning’s Sentinel Jl. iaid, headed “Inter
im m of fie Oonsnui-iv.n,” and describing it hi strong
but not sniff :icn‘dy strong language, if sue. inn outrage
has been committed on that sacred instrument, I
maybe told that to # more powerful pen ibaii mine
belongs the defence of the Constitnii >u. il is inn ;
and U will give me much pleasure to see rbctu do it
well; bill I r nonet help thinking tha< many es those
giants of literature, in ihcir eagle-flights, airain such
.(range e!ca:iofw, if.a! ihey become undecided wineh
to worship, iheriorg or the selling sun. I wmsbirv
I net her. There is a national pr.de evident in S'.
| Pail!, when he says 1 am a Homan.. I: was bee ui =
i lie was confident that Home had t ih t! e power and
j HspoAtie nto protect iis citizens, t, humble us 1 am,
feel ns proud even as Si. Paul possibly could in a po
litical point of view, w hen 1 say thai 1 am a citizen ot
this greai Republic; nor do 1 !erl tli it any apology is
necessary for my wishing to have the important so! -
joe! exp! dued. ’ If Ihe “Con illusion tie thus uihVd
with, what must be the inevitable consequent:t f The
loss oflhat firm national character, and ihe degrada
tion of national honor, winch if should be the pride and
duty of her citizens to uphold. Let us contemplate,
evi n for a moment, that one* -lr.Hic.nl fabric, the Ro
man Republic, carrying its arts and arms into almost
every part of lire old word. Monarch® ot mighty
kingdoms brought to grace her triumphs, and her
eagles, feared and respected, waving despotically ov< r
j countless nations. Where now a: o her splendor, her
wealth, her powo r, her glory? time forever. Her
spl iidij ruin . clfirdiug ample blit melancholy evi
dence of her former grandeur: her ciltzers slept at
their posts, and rude batbarians desolated her classic
fields.
i Ini. f'l!otv-ciu ’ ms, a” wv me to renrnJ you, that
you should be watchful guardians of the Constitution.
E v n trit.oa shout! be alt end a 1 to: for lie that could
insult would injure if he had power But if that splrn
did ship, in which we seel, protection, must perish—
which Irglt Heaven forbid—it must be with co’ors
living: for we will nail them to the mast.
K. WHITE.
Cor,. Johnson vs Tecvmseh— Col. Johnson, in a
lain speech, gave some account of the battle ot llui
Thames. In ins speech occurs the following ;
sage:
•My brother James, raid a braver and better
man never lived, charged through the British, with
one half of the battalion, while 1 with tire other half,
undertook to rouse up the Indians in the swamp.
They were not hard to rouse up, for Tt cnrnsch, a man
tramcendantlv superior to Proctor, in point of real
bravery, as Hyperion to a Satvr, had determined to
make that his best and most conclusive battle ground.
We met them and fought them: and, when they lear
ned Proeloi’s British regulars had bet n demolished hv
my brother James, they began to retire. At lies mo
ment my body had been perforated hv five bullets, and
my horse could only be kept on I is legs hv tire grea
test exertions of m bridle hand. In end* avorirg t<r
make him leap over a log in the swamp, he fell and
died, with two more bails in lus carcass than were in
my own. A tall, good looking Indian approached
i e wifn Ins tomahawk ready for a throw. My horse
iay in a position that did not permit me to tie exactly
dismounted. ] pulled out a loaded pistol from my
holsters, and shot him. They say it was Tecumsrb.
1 care not and 1 know net: l would have shot the bvst
Indian that ever breathed under such circumstancee,
without inquiring his name, or asking tho ages of bis
children.’
WASTED
A NEGRO GIRL, 10 or 12 years <f ago, as a
nurse. Apply al this office.
August 22, 1840.
TO COTTON PLASTERS.
rfa IHE subscriber is now offeiing for sale a quantity
_BL of valuable land. Persons wishing to establish
cobon plantations in anew country, in tho finest cotton
growing region of the South, would do well to exam
ine those lands. ’They he mostly in the county of
Macon, and valuable tracts immediately in the vicini
ty of that beautiful and romantic region denominated
the Chunnenugga ridge, where the atmosphere is pure
and elastic, and abounding with fresh hold fountains es
cool fine water as ran be found in any mountain region
es the South. There are also in ttie neighborhood of
these lands two or three oil improved plantations for
sale—some believed to boas productive as any in
Alabama, as ten bales of cotton to the hand have been
made.
Persons wishing to purchase apply to the subscriber,
at Vaivordi P. O. Macon county, Ah.bnma.
August 16. 27 3m. 11. BLACKMON.
The Columbus Enquirer and Georgia Jeffersonian
will copy the above three months and forward their
accounts to the subscriber. H. B.
CAPTION.
ALL persons arc hereby warned against buying or
trading for three thirty dollar notes and one*
eleven dollar note, made by tho undersigned with Dan
iel Majors security, payable to Reuben Reynolds as
administrator of the estate of Joseph Kemp deceased,
dated February 8,1840, and due 25th December, 1840.
The consideration for which the said notes wore given
having entirely failed, the undersigned is determined
not to pay them, unless compelled by law.
CLEMENT GORE.
August 13; 1840. 27 3t
ST. JOSEPH, FLOUIDA, HACKS.
CALHOUN COURSE.
THE Annual Meeting fur 1841, will commence
on the CALHOUN COURSE on Tuesday,
the 9th day of February nexr, and continue five duo,
free for any horse, marc or gelding, in the United
States.
First Day—l rnile heats—Purse SSIOO.
Second Day—2 mile hea’s—Purse $403.
Third Day—3 mile beats—Purse SOOO.
Fourth Dav—l mile heats—Purse SIOOO.
Fifth Day—Proprietor’s Purse. S3OO.
(mile heats—3 best in 5 )
The Officers of the Club guarantee ‘hat the purses
as advertised shai! be put up be.ore the horses are
started. By order of
JOHN D. G 1A ij President.
Petf.r W. Gautier, Jr., Sec'y.
St. Joseph, Aug, 1 . 1810. 27mtr
NOTICE,
la Tfcß. SCHLEY will continue the practice of Me-
SUP dieme, Surgery. &c. Office at the old stand of
GlapU y & Schlev,on Broad Street.
July 23 1840.’ 24 ts
NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CUED!”
TORS.
A I.T. persons having demands against the estate
EiL cf David Smith, deceased, are desired to present
th’m. duly authenticated,for settlement, and there in
debted to said estate will call and settle the same.
HAMPTON H. GOSPER. Adtn'or.
M AIITHA SM i Til, Admit x.
July 15, 1840. 23 3t
DISSOLUTION.
copartnership heretof>re existing under the
J=L name and stile of S. D. Heard & Cos., is this
day dissolved by mutual consort. Tlmse having
claims against said concern, will present ihtmtoO.
G. Murdock or rlliatti Ansk-y for pavment, and
those indebtod are respectfully requested to call aid
settle llteir respective amounts due with them, who
arc auth rised to use the name of sai l concern m ike
settling of its business.
S. D. HEARD,
• C. G. MURDOCK,
WM, ANSLEY.
Talbofton, August I, JSIO. 25 6t
TIIE SCOUKDKEt.
H) ANA WAY from the sub eriher on the ?d ir*t.,
i> a youth by the name of EDWARD JOHN
SON, bound to me as an apprentice to the Cabinet
business. He is about 1 7 years of age, 5 feet
high, or thereabouts, spare made, dark compiexio..,
dark hair and hazle eye s. with a very L-aa countenance.
Thi - is to forwarn ali persons from employ Ing or har
boring >a.d boy, as I am determined to put in force the
law against all such offenders. I will give a reward
of six cents for any information so I get said troy.
JOHN N. WEBB.
Thomasfon, Upson ootiniv, August 2. 1840. 25 4t.
JAM 55S M. MITUIIELL,
, ATTORNEY AT LAW.
firm of Bull &• Mitchell, having been dis
_3_ solved by mutual agreement, ow.ng to the r> -
mov dol Major J. L. Bull to Columbus, Georgia. The
undersigned will continue to practice law ln a” xU-e
counties of the Chattahoochee Circuit, and m Bar
bour county, Alabama. Office at Lum’pktn, Stewait
county.
REFERENCES:
Columbus— Maj. J. L. Bn!!, Col. IT. Holt, Cok
qunt. Echols .V J,-ter, Foster & Howard.
Luini kin—.• 1 essr.-:. McCuilei ft Perry.
Florence—S. W. Btßuett iz Cos.
Angus’ 1. 1840. 54 gt
LAW.
/Cj'lnE subscribers having connected themsr’ve-t
0- the practice of LA AY, will attend ali the
County Courts of the Chattahoochee Circuit, and the
adjoining counties of Alabama. Office in Mclntosh
Row, itntn* liateiv over Allen & Young’s Store.
ALFRED (VERSON,
June fit. 19'f J.M.GUERRY.
IAiV NOTICE.
- “A 1111 nndv: signed will aiterd ro the PR AC IF C E
S. OF LASV. in the name of JONES & PEN
NING, in m >--r of tlte counties of this Circuit, anji a
few of the a i'.-ming counties of Alabama. Ihr :r
Office will be Ganl near ;h ‘ Og! flmrj r House.
SEA HORN JONES.
HENRY L. BKNNLVE.
Sept 15.V-J7, 3? tC