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Pi m. - •Y. Eve* Pont.
H* rrison is the Presi-j
and ru elect of the United States; the 1
.eturns from the western counties
of New York have decided that!
question. The time for a “change” !
has at last arrived; the time when
the people in order to he convinced
of the benefits of a democratic pol
icy, must try a taste of its opposite.
There is no teacher like expe
rience. No man values the bless
ing of health like him who has just
t isen from a sick bed—no man en-j
joys the sweets of liberty like him
who has tasted the bitterness of op
pression. We suppose that it is
just so with nations;; —to keep up
their attachment to a wise and lib
eral government, which respects
the rights and liberties of all alike,
it may he necessary that now and
then they shotild submit to see their
affairs administered on principles
winch exalt the few at the expense
of the many.
The democratic paity will watch
the conduct of the new administra
tion, we hope, in a spirit of fairness,
but with a determination to contest
every inch of ground, in the at
tempt which will doubtless he made
to revive exploded principles and
pernicious measures. If they suc
ceed in forcing a national hank up
on us, we shall never cease to call
for a repeal of its charter. If they
return to the policy of internal im
provements which prevailed under
the younger Adams, we shall de
mand that they be abandoned, the
moment the democratic party is
again in the ascendancy. If they
revive a protective tariff we shall
claim that it be rescinded. Every
step that is taken in violation of
the constitution and the principles
of equal rights will be retraced the
moment their brief hour of author
ity is past.
The first step will undoubtedly be
to propose a national bank. They
see that the commerce of the coun
try is rapidly reviving, and the mo
ney market gradually recovering
from the state of confusion into
which it was thrown by the failure
of our banking system, and they
will be in haste to apply their grand
remedy, in o„ r der that it may have
the credit of bringing about the fa
vorable results which must infalli
bly take place, and in fact, are now
taking place without it. Let them
create their national hank, nnd let
those subscribe in its stock who are
willing to contribute their capital to
an institution which has only four
years at most to live. Its charter
will scarcely outlive the period pre
scribed for filling up its stock.
We enter upon the contest whicli
lies before us, not only with a firm
resolution, but with the most cheer
ful hopes of the issue. Democrat
ic principles have taken deep root j
in the hearts even of many who j
have been led, by a popular delu- j
•ion, to assist in the overthrow of
the present administration. The
young men of the country, with no
very numerous exceptions, are in
doctrinated in Democratic princi
ples, friends to the freedom of trade,
inclined to those plans of legisla
tion which interfere least with men’s
employments, which create fewest
offices, and which are founded on
an honest and rigid construction of
the constitution. ‘The moment the
whig party begin to move in those
projects which their leaders have
darkly hinted at, hut which they
dared not distinctly proclaim, be
cause they knew them to he unpop-j
ular, we shall have this class of
young men instantly upon onr side.
r l his dispute which lias now.been
decided againsUthe democratic par
ty, has been conducted by them in a I
manner highly to their honor, with
a frank avowal of their doctrines
arid intentions, and for the inost
part with the weapons of fair con
troversy. Thrir adversaries on the
contrary, keeping their own future
policy out of sight, and taking ad- j
vantage of thp embarrassments of!
the times, which they artfully and
unjustly laid to the door of the ad- !
’moistralion, have gained the ma
joritv by the propagation of a gross
“elusion. If our party has fallen, it
•ms fallen with honor.
If our adversaries have triuirph-
i, their triumph is their disgrace,
inasmuch as it is the fruit of a fraud.
I; wilJ be short too; for the fraud
is sure to be detected, and all delu
sion is hut for a time.
‘Vo have heard people say that
thcy*are sorry lor Mr. Van Bitten,
who iias been defeated in the can
vass for a re-election: For our
part we envy Mr. Van Buren. We
envy him for the high moral stand
ing to which he is raised by this ve
ry defeat; we envy him for the hon
orable place his name will hold in
history. He is defeated because he
would not betray the trust which
the people had reposed in him; be
cause he would concede nothing to
expediency; because he would not
join with those, by whose fraud the
majority has now been changed, in
their conspiracy against the people
and the constitution. He has been
defeated simply because of bis in
tegrity and inflexibility, and be
cause lie would not swerve from the
principles upon which the welfare
of his country depended, for the
*■ :k:> of securing the present a seen-!
dancy of his parly. , ‘ i
From the Globe.
j the election. I
It becomes our dutv to announce to the
public, that we. have received returns of the
j elections in a sufficient number of the States
j to render the final result no longer doubtlul.
i Gen. Harrison, the standard bearer of the
j Federal and Abolition parties, lias been elect
led, if the process by winch this result has
bpen biought about can be caiied an election.
What that process has been, vve have during
the canvass endeavored to point oui, and it
jis not our purpose notv to g<j into that sub
ject. We shall endeavor, in due time, to
give it the attention its importance demands,
in reference to the purity of our elections,
| the preservation of onr popular institutions, ,
iand the maintenance of the public morals.
In Ibis Important duty we trust that we shall
not be disappointed in a confident reliance
oil the powerful co-operation of the entire
Democratic press of the country.
Democratic Pennsylvania (ibr she is such
now, as she ever has been.) being, unfortun
ately, the headquarters of that new species of
voters, called “pipe layers” has given her
vote to the standard bearer of Federalism,
by a majority of from one hundred and fifty
to two hundred and fifty, in an aggregate
vote of two hundred and eighty two thou
sand. New York, where in general oiw De-
mocratic friends have discharged their duty j
with a spirit and energy deserving of all
praise, vve have lost by the blindness and j
fanaticism of the Anti masonic and Abolition ;
fictions in a few counties, called the infected j
district. In other parts of the State, the
Democracy have exhibited an increase suffi :
cient to have redeemed and rescued the Slate
from the hands of the profligate and corrupt 1
cabal which now control it, had the same j
spirit prevailed in the counties referred to.
The loss of these two large States decides
the election against us.
Virginia has nobly sustained her ancient
Democratic character, and has confirmed her
claim to be invincible from all the assaults j
and influences of Federalism and a post a cy. i
New Hampshire lias also well supported her
proud title of the Granite State. Her De
mocracy are as firm and stable as her ever
lasting hills. In this severe conflict, in which
the Democracy of other States have been
overthrown, she occupies a proud pre-emi
nence. And in all the States, the honest De
mocracy have nobly discharged their duty.
The lault is not theirs. In every State they
have sustained their usual voles, and in most
of them greatly increased them. This proves
that there has been no changes against the
Administration, and that the sound Demo
cracy of the country have stood last by their
principles, and nobly sustained the candidate
who has proved himself so able and honest an
exponent of them. They have been beaten,
but not conqnored. At this very time the
Democratic party is more firmly united, and
will poli more votes than it ever did before,
when it has been victorious. They have
been beaten by anew description of voters,
some having flesh and bones, and others
mere men of straw. The former have been
raked and scraped from the sewers, jails and
penitentiaries, who have been culled together
at the log cabin rendezvous, and organized
for the first time for political action! The
latter consist of pipe layers, the illegal and
fraudulent voters, who ‘have been trained
and instructed by the Stevenses, the Rod
gerses, and the: Glentworths, to perpetrate
frauds, by voting twice, changing their
names and dress, going to different polls,
putting in two votes, and in everv way that
the ingenuity of man could devise.
Money has been the chief agent in pro
ducing these abominable frauds and enormi
ties, and millions have been expended in this
election. It is, however a mockery to call
this an election- Il is a result brought about, |
not by the free action of the popular will, re- 1
suiting from the popular intelligence, “but in j
defiance of it. It is the first instance in our!
Republic of the triumph oi the power of
money over the intelligence of the country- I
j This contest forms a netv era in our political j
j history, and has disclosed a source of danger
to out fre6 institutions, that” demands a re
| rnedy which, if not speedily provided, w ill
j Drove fatal to our liberties. To provide that j
| remedy, will present anew and most mo-1
mentous issue, in support of which the whole
Democracy of the country will rally as one
man.
Mr. Van Buren has been beaten, whilst be
has received a popular vote probably exceed
ing by more than twenty percent, thal bv
which be was elected in i836, or which any
of his predecessors received. This proves
either that anew description of voters have
hen brought into the elections, or that im
mense frauds have been practised. Ti:e
vast increase of votes has, no doubt, proceed
ed frombi th sources. These new species of
voters have been mercenaries—the hired, I
bribed, and purchased wretches which the j
corruption fund has secured for the Whig!
ticket.
Let the profligate leaders of these combin
jed factions rejoice, and make the most of a
| victory obtained by fraud and corruption. ,
Their triumph will be short. They are on
ly gathering up wraili against the day of
j wrath. They will yet learn, that though’
: profligacy and corruption may obtain a tern
: porary triumph, the spirit of ;i free ar.d mor- :
!at people cannot be easily overcome. There j
: is a divinity within us that shapes our ends, j
j rough hew them as we may. rite re is ail i
i overruling Providence that directs the affairs i
of men and o! nations; and in public, as in j
private co:. cents, seeming evils are often on
ly tire means of working out a more abundant
j t itid lasting good. And we firmly be'ieve i
i brnt tiie temporary triumph of the aristocracy,
effected by debauching and corrupting the
most degraded of the people, will result in
i tnc.r ns. e complete prostration and disgrace.
: i hose wit t have been deceived by their hol
low p;\ tensions, will now have an opportuni- •
to lest tl em by their acts, and to-learn
■'’hat their real principles and purposes, are.-
L lie honest Democracy of the country have
no reason to be discouraged. We will not
; now allude to their course for the future, fur
j (her than to say, that this is no time for them
;to r :ax their vigilance or their exertions.
They will not disband, but keep and improve
j their organization, and keep their arms in
, their hands, ff, when in the majority, their i
constant vigilance was necessary to frustrate
the schemes of the enemies of liberties, when
those enemies me in power will there not be
much more necessity for their exertions and
watchfulness? Whether in a majority ora
minority, they have ever been the defenders
of the Constitution, and of the rights of the
States and the people. Nothing out their
ceaseless vigilance can now resist tiie mad
schemes of profligate factions, wi’h >ut even
any pretence of fixed principle, and a mere
nominal Executive, to be used as may suit
their se'fish purposes. Although a minority,
they can yet save the Constitution and the
country from faction and fanaticism—they
can arrest the mad schemes of speculators
j who desire a Bank, and of the fanatics who
are nothing loath to break up this glorious
Union. They can save the South, notwith
standing a portion of it. in a moment of in
fatuation, shooting wild from their spheres,
have lost sight of their own interests, iheir
own safety, and united with tlieir most deadly
enemies. In the distractions of those com
hined factiot s. each having their own obj cts
in view, the Democracy alone can save the
country.
Fro™ the (i'-ohn.
THE ABOLITION TICKET.
Since the formation of parties in this coun
try, few schemes bars been concocted show
ing more completely the absorbing object of
federal aim than their contemptible union
I wi'h this party. Power and its patronage, the
* *
live of office, and the aching desire for the j
emoluments of station, were the moving
springs of the unnatural coalition. We did
nit supposj such motives strong-enough to
influence the stubborn nature of Federalism
to the exten’ necessary to the tennation ot the
, most periect union which seems to have been
consummated throughout the North and West.
Men differing totally upon all the legitimate
1 questions of ptAlic policy, by nature as dis
similar, and apparently as incapable of close
union, as oil and water, have, aided by the un
natural influences of corporate funds and so
: reign gold, so unblushingljr. used and unspar
ingly lavished since the visit of Mr. Webster
to the Barings of London, acted throughout
I with all the perfect harmony to be expected of
men embarked in a common cause, and de
! voted entirely to the success of its principles.
In Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Pennsyl
vania, die Abolition ticket Iras scarce been
heard of. In Ohio, from the returns published
in the National Intelligencer, we do not learn
that it received a solitary vote. From the re
ports which we have received, but one vote in
j Franklin, and nine only in the strong abolition
I county o; Muskingum, are mentioned, while
all our letters inform us ifet the abolitionists
| have rushed to the support of trie Harrison
! electoral ticket w.nii s zcai bordering upon
! fury.
Abolition gave him the nomination for Presi
dent at Harrisburg; furnished the efficient
power which turned the scale against the de
mocracy of the North and West, which filled
the ballot boxes: and if the South has now un
fortunately fallen in the snare, the day which
! places General Harkison in the Executive
! chair will be hailed by them as an abolition
i jubilee. No doubt thousands of the Southern
I wliigs hate and dread the fell spirit of fins fa
naticism, and would not, ibr the vain hope of
i attaining some p- rsonal distinction amid the
j confusion produced by its uncontrolled raging,
! associate with it, and warm it into effectual
| life by securing its permanent triumph. The
!sp rit of Abolition is not of a nature to be
j checked or tamed by kindness in the hour of
| victory. It is childishness alone which leads
to a hope of guiding or soothing a fanaticism
which, in the delirium of its most sober and
reflecting moments, seeks success only by
breaking through all forms of law, and, in
violation of the sacred compromises of the
Constitution, would hurl its incendiary brand
into the happy abodes of our southern brethren.
The unnatural compact has cherished a ser
pent with fangs peculiarly adapted to strike
with fatal results into the domestic policy of
the South. To the North and West the in
jury will be less d-sastrouo. The defeat which
the democracy has sustained, and the triumph
which the moneyed power and federalism
have won, (if won) will be but temporary.—
The democracy of the free States have prin
ciples to contend for which remain yet sacred.
The party is untarnished by fraud and crime,
and the shafts of abolition will fall harmless at
their feet. They are barbed, but yet unstained
by any virus which Jls fatal to thoir peace or
the r domestic institutions. What would be the
c n lition of the South should they assume the
attitude of a neutral, who feeling that hisallv
has been unfaithful to his own interests, with
draws his opposing force, and offers to the in
vader an unmolested passage 1 hrough his own
peaceful territory. They might possibly tran
quilize their local feuds, by leaving the ques
tion of domestic servitude to the” defence of
those whose all is suspended upon the issue,
and thereby regain their lest ascendancy in
the councils of the nation, should the North
ern democracy assume this attitude, we can-;
not find language adequate to the just ex- j
pression of our tears for the result. Friends I
of your country, democrats of the North, do j
not do it. Such a triumj h would be inglorious, j
humiliating. If you have been abandoned, if
you have been sacrificed to the cause of your
brethren, still you have labored in the defence
of righteous principles. You have performed
a public duty, which you owed to the. patriot
fathers, who bequeathed us this glorious I
i Union. It is still worth defending as the last,
ti e proudest hope of the friends of republican
j freedom. If the South has done wrong, it is
no cause why you should prove recreant to the
calls of duty. If the party in interest has aban
doned the field, and left you to be slaughtered
by their most deadly foe, whose onward pro
gress you have heretofore firmly and steadily I
impeded, it is because they were deluded and ;
cheated—because they have been betrayed \
and cajoled, and knew not what they did.
From the Goshen (Indiana) Democrat.
MR. VAN BUREN AND THE WAR.
Perhaps no subject, lias Mr. Van Buren been j
j more vilely and grossly misrepresented by the
| Federal party, than in relation to-his course
j during the war. He has been stigmatised as I
! its opponent, even by those who themselves
; plotted treason against the country, and the
sacred ashes of the dead have been violated
i for the purpose of attaching to his name the
i odium of Federalism. Do Witt Clinton, one
| of the greatest men and purest patriots of that
dark and gloomy period, lias been denounced ,
i as a Fedeialis', and Mr. Van Buren has been i
j classed with the same party on account of his j
I support of that distinguished citizen. To
! place this matter right before the people, sev-!
eral of our citizens addressed a letter to Mr. !
: Van Buren, containing certain inquiries rela-
I tive to that subject. His reply is contained
! below; and while it fastens the falsehood up- j
on his calumniators, its bold, frank, and manly
: style will fix its author deeper in the affections j
: of iiis fellow-citizens.
MR. VAN BUREN’S LETTER.
Washington, Oct. 3,1840.
Gentlemen. Your letter of the 13:h ult.
did no ; reach me until last evening.
Sensible of i ho trouble to which my friends
in remote par':- ot the Union re exposed by
, persevering of my course
in relation to V ; war—misrepresentations as
to which it W’.-ulii be an abuse of charity to
I suppose that .many of those who are most in-I
• dustrious in ; vg . hem circulation are Iheru
! selves deceived—a. id, entertaining the highest j
respect for the rnohves m which your appiica- |
i tion originated, I cannot hesitate to comply \
with your request.
J was in favor of “the restrictive and defen- j
sive measures of the Administrations of*
Thomas Jelforson and Janies adisoa, which I
resulted in the declaration of war,” and which !
are referred to in your first question.
The misrepresentations of my opponents j
have led to the publication of some of the po-!
htical proceedings of that early day, in which I
I participated, affording eotemporaueous evi— |
dence of the statement: here made. I regret j
that it is not in my power to send you a copy i
of the lull statements which have been made ,
1 upon this subject. The enclosed extract j
will, however, supply you with a portion of!
them, from which you will perceive that as j
early as January, 1809, (during the admmis- !
tration of Mr. Jefferson,) I prepared and uni- J
te>in adopting a resolution, at a public meet- i
ing held in niv native county, in which we
“solemnly engaged to support the Government
in the measures they had adopted, or might
adopt, to obtain redress for our national inju
ries, and pro ectiou to our national rights—that
we never would bo dr,veil from the fair and
| manly support of that resolution by the power
| of our enemies or the threats of faction; and
that, should Government be found to abandon
the pacific policy it had pursued, and to un
sheath the sword, we would be found at our
j posts, ready and willing to sacrifice our lives *
and fortunes in our country’s cause!”
You next ask me, “under what evreum
! stances, and by what party, De Witt Clinton
was nominated and supported for the Presiden
cy, in 1812, in New York!” and you state that
it is represented that he was at that time, a j
Federalist, and was supported by me as such, i
I will proceed in my reply to your second ques-1
tion, with a denial of the allegation that Mr. i
Clinton was at that time, or had ever before |
been, a Federalist. He wac the reverse in all<
i things, and had, tor maflV ydars previous, and t
down to that period, been the leader us the
Democratic party in New York. He was the j
private Secretary of his uncle, George Clin
ton —was a member of the Legislature in
1797 and 1800, and sustained the Democracy
in the “reign oi’ terror” against the “BiacX
cockade” party. He was chosen United
States’ Senator in 1801 by the former, occupi
ed by their choice various public stations in
New York; was in the State Senate for sever-
al years before the war; elected Lieutenant
Governor by them in 1811, which office he
still held in 1812; acted with his party to that
period, in support of the pleasures of the Gen
eral and State Administrations, under Madi
son and Tompkins; was to that period abused
with unsparing bitterness by the Federalists,
and in return, he applied to them his well re
membered description “of a party who would
rather rule in Hell than serve in Heaven.”
The Republican members of the Legisla
ture, chosen in the spring of 1811, and who
held their seats until July, 1812, and most of
the Senators for a longer period, met, with
the exception of perhaps half a dozen, in cau
cus at Albany, in May, 1812, and nominated
Mr. Clinton for the Presidency. He was nom
inated by men who were in favor of pushing
the assertion and maintenance of our rights
to the extremity of war; was elected as one
entertaining the same sentiments himself, and
was subsequently supported by them as a
friend to the war, after it was declared, and in
favor of its more vigorous prosecution.
War was declared in June following. The
s me Democratic Senators, who had united in
the nomination oi’ Mr. Clinton, passed a reso
lution the next day after the declaration of
war, but before information of that event had
reached Albany* oh the last day of the ses
sion, (19th June,) declaring that “the existing
state of the country demanded an unequivo
cal expression of sentiment from every mem
ber of the Union; and that under this im
pression the Senate pledged, themselves to sup
port such measures as shall he adopted bp the
General Government , for the vindication of our
violated rights and honor ” —and to a man vo-
ted against an amendment proposed by Judge
Platt, a leading Federalist, (which amend
ment received the votes of the seven Federal
ists in the Senate,) declaring that “neither
the honor nor the h teres*s of the United
States require that a war should be declared
against either of the belligerent nations of
Europe; and that the system of non-inter
course and embargo, as lately practised by the
Government of the United States, is hostile
to the best interests of the country.” A copy
of the resolution of the Senate was sent to
Mr. Madison.
I was not in the Senate when Mr. Clinton
was nominated, or when the proceedings last
alluded to took place, and had no agency in
either. My Senatorial term commenced in
November, 1812, and at the session for the
choice of Presidential* electors, I voted for
electors in accordance with the Democratic
nomination oFihe previous May. There were
three tickets; the regular Republican ticket
for Mr. Clinton agreed upon at a caucus of
Democratic members, which had in its favor
a majority of the Democratic members of
each branch of the Legislature, and which,
on joint ballot, had seventy-four votes —the Re
publican ticket opposed to Mr. Clinton, which
had tivruty-six voles; and the Federal ticket,
which had forty-eight rotes; and there were
seven blanks and scattering. Those who
composed the ticket for Mr. Clinton were Re-1
publicans; and these who voted for it, (ex
■ cept in joint ballot, when a few Federalists
i t hrew their votes in its favor,) were, every
j man, elected as Democrats.
j In supporting ihe nomination cf Governor,
j Clinton tor the Presidency, 1 consulted what
I believed to be the wishes of the Republi
cans of the State. My efforts in Ins behalf
were confined to the State of New York.
W ith thoce made by liis friends in oilier
! States, 1 had no concern. The relation which
i I then occupied towards the Federal party be
ing the same in which 1 had always before,
and have ever since stood, was not for any
period, nor in any degree, changed by what
took place in the .Presidential election ol 1812,
nor has it been changed an any perion of my
political career.
At the ensuing session of the Legislature,
: which commenced in January, 1813, the po
| litical relations previously existing between
i Mr. Clinton and. my self were dissolved, and
never again resumed.
In reply to your last question, I have only
i to say that I did “support the prominent mea
| sures of the administrations of Madison and
i Tompkins, to their close.”
I am, gentlemen, very respectfully, your
: friend and obedient servant,
M. VAN BUREN.
Messrs. E. M. Chamberlain, E. W. 11. Ellis,
E. G. Chamberlain, and A. N. Ilascall.
Goshen, Elkhart co. la.
From the Pennsylvanian.
The long and anxious struggle is at last
.over—-Democracy has been defeated, and it
j may now be announced that William Henry
Harrison is the President elect of the United
States. There are many reason? which ren
| der this result one deeply to be deplored; but
j still, defeat is not disgrace, nor does a tem
porary failure in the cause of piinciple prove
either that our doctrines were unsound or that
| they will not hereafter prevail, triumphing
the more effectually and the mote glor.ously
for having been obscured by.the shade of
j momentary reverses. Such at least is our
; firm {conviction, and we are sure that the
!same feeling animates the whole Democratic
; party. There is a power in truth which bids
‘defiance to hostility. It may for the time be
beaten down—prejudices and delusions may
•dig pit-falls in its path; but the day of its su
premacy can only he deferred. It must in the
end, force its way to the convictions of men,
i and under (this assurances, vve may
[observe the effects of the “change” which
1 lias been brought about by the efforts of our
opponents.
Painful as it is to find so large a portion of
! the people have swerved from tlieir support
of that policy.which we believe of vital im- |
| porta nee to tiie purity and welfare of the I
j Republic, and serious as may be the evil |
i consequences which are likely to result from
I surrending the reins of power for four years
| to a party which never held authority hut to
j abuse it, yet we are satisfied that eventually
• good will follow. We have been defeated,
not by argument or demonstration —not by
j convincing the publiamind that our mode of j
! administering the affairs of the nation was !
j inconsistent with its prosperity, and by point- !
1 ing out auothcr system more likely to be pro
i ductive that end, but by incessant, unvvea
! lying appeals to the love of change—by
I creating a vague feeling that new mep and
; new measures might in some unknown way ’
i be individually benefieial; and that all who;
| had sqffered from die excesses of the banking j
j system, would find a better era dawning up
on them if their votes were cast for the can
didate of disguised Federalism. This unde
j fined idea was aided by the wiki excitement,
■ inconsistent with thought and calm reflection,
j which the immense means of our opponents
i enabled them to continue throughout the can -
! vass. In the midst of turmoil and agitation,
| while calumnies were poured in an unceasing
j torrent upon the principles of the Admiuistra
[ tion —when all that its friends uttered was
perverted and falsified, and every nook and
[corner of the Union was crowded with hired
j orators and flooded with appeals to prejudice
; and passion, the tru h was for the moment
I overwhelmed. But the storm has passed
I uvay and with it goes the time for the use of
j -*uch hollow pretences as those by which sue i
loess has been accomplished. Harrisonism is
j now to be brought to the lest of action—to
joiak-* manifest .its policy, and by deeds, to
j demonstrate its superiority io all that has pre
ceded it. What its coyio-e will be, we shall
not venture to predict; but we feel assufed i
that like an unskilful warrior, in whose hands
victory has been placed by accident, the new
administration will be surety embarrassed
with tis tnuiiipit. ll it does noth)no—n the
Independent treasury is allowed to remain
the lawot (he land„ti is a confession t..ai the
whole movement against Martin Van iiuren
was nothing more than a sellish and ilisciedit
abie struggle lor power and place. If it
plunges into the Federal system of creating”
an enormous National Bank, of obeying the
orders of foreign capitalists by the assump
tion ol State Debts, and embarks in monstrotfe
schemes of expenditure, such as those ad- !
vocated under ihe rule of the younger Ail- ‘
am>; if it unsettles the Tariff Compromise, 1
the country will be made to set forth on the
same career of unnatural, fleeting prosperity
and quick disaster, from winch vve have but
just recovered.—D,faculties, springing direct
Irom its electioneering svslem of false pretenc
es, environ the friends of General Harrison at
every step. They have promised much, and
we are yet to see how those promises are to
be fulfilled.
As for ihe democratic party, though now
laboring unde*- adverse it has ;
at least the proud satisfaction ol knowing
that it lias fought the haule- upon principle
alone —(hat it has descended lo nothing un
worthy of tl3 name, and nas appealed to the
country with arguments which have never
yet been refuted. It is there!’re prepared to
take its new position with cheerfulness and
unrelaxed energy—to oppose what is wrong,
and to give proper credit to what may tie
iight, in the conduct of its opponents. The j
Coming four years are in fact but a portion ol i
the trial to winch the democratic faith is to 1
be submilled. It is part ol the ordeal; tor!
those who are its enemies, are new lo prove i
by contrast, if they can, that it is unsound
and dangerous. Their-assertions to that es
feet have been long and loud—the time for
actual proof is at hand, and it may lie sin
cerely said that we have no lears for the re
sult. The advocates of Harrisoni-sm come
into power at a fortunate period lor them
selves, and have every advantage that they
could desire. Under Mr. Van Buren’s wise
and patriotic administration, prosperity has
been restored—business of ail kinds is re
viving, and-industry every where receives its
due reward. ‘Bet. 03 see whether hv any
course ol legislation, his assailants can accom
plish better results than these, or pretend to
have luifiiled their pledges without, claiming
as their own deed that which was effected by
the energies of the country, while the reviled
Independent Treasury was in existence.
In regard to the President, vve cannot bet
ter express our own sentiments and those of
every democrat who remained true to the
great principles of his administration, than
by quoting the following admirable passage
from the editorial columns of die New York
Evening Post :
‘•We have heard people sav I hat I hey are j
sorry lor Mr. Van Boren, who has been de
feated in (he canvass for are election. For
our part vve envy Mr.Van Buren. We envy
Ihii for the high moral standing to which he
is raised by this very defeat; we envy him
for ihe honorable place his name will hold in
h story. He is defeated because he would
not betray the trust which” the people had
reposed in him; because lie would concede
nothing to expediency; because he would not
| join with .those, by whose fraud the majority
lias now been changed, in their conspiracy
against the people and the constitution. He
has been defeated simply because of his in
tegrity and his inflexibility, and because he
would not swerve from the principles upi;.'>
which the welfare of his country depended. |
for the sake of securing the p esent ascenden
cy of his party.”
CROItGI A L.ECJISJG A TUIIE.
SENATE.
Monday, Nov. 2, 1810.
Ou motion of Mr. Miller, the Senate pro
ceeded to the election of a President; and on
receiving and counting out the ballots it ap
peared that the lion. Thomas Stocks, Senator
from the county of Greene, was duly elected.
On motion of Mr. Thomas of Oglethorpe,
a committee was appointed, consisting of
Messrs. Thomas, .Christian and Bryan, of Ma
con, to notify him of his election and conduct
him to the Chair.
The Senate then proceeded to the election
of Secretary, and on receiving and counting
out the ballots, at the time the” President was
about to declare there was no election, one
ballot, was discovered in the hat that had not
been counted.
Mr. Miller moved that the Senate proceed
to a second ballot.
Mr. Echols that the vote be counted.
Mr. Jones that the counties be called and
each Senator answer whether lie voted or not,
which was lost; the motion then occurred
upon Mr. Echols’ motion to count the vote in
the hat, upon which motion the yeas and nays
were called for, and were yeas 43, nays 43:
there being a tie, the President voting in the
negative, the motion was lost.
The Senate then proceeded to a second
ballot, and on receiving and counting out the |
ballots it appeared that David J. Bailey, Esq.,
was duly elected.
Tuesday morning, Nov. 3.
On motion of Mr. Cone, Resolved, That
the Secretary inform the House of Represen
tatives that ihe Senate is now organized and
ready to proceed to business. Also,
That a committee be appointed by the House
of Representatives to wait on his Excellency
the Governor and inform him that both branch
es of (he General Assembly are now organized
and ready to receive any communication he
may think proper to lay before them or either
branch thereof.
On motion of Mr. Jones, leave of absence
was granted lo the Senator from Macon, for a
few days.
Mr. Cone, front the committee appointed to
wait on his Excellency the Governor, and in
form him that both branches of the General
Assembly were organized ayd ready to receive
any communication he might think proper to
lay before either branch thereof, reports that
the committee has performed that duty and
have received from his Excellency the Go
vernor, for answer, that he will this day, at
the hour of three o’clock, P. M., lay his an
nual message with accompanying documents.
On motion of Mr. Calhoun, Resolved, That
the Senate and the House of Representatives j
will meet in the Representatives’ Ilali, on :
Friday next, for the purpose of electing a
Senator to represent the State cf Georgia iti
the Senate ot the United Stales for six years 1
from and after the 4th day of March next -
Afternoon. Mr. Jones introduced a bill to J
compel the incorporated companies of this
State to mee* iheir engagement., and to ena
ble the bill holders to collect specie from the
banks without tlelav.
Mr. Jones laid on the table the following
resolution:
Resolved, That a committee of be
appointed to meet such committee as the
House may appoint, with power to send for
persons and papers, to examine into the state,
condition, and progress of the W. & A. Rail
Read; to know what contracts have been.
made; how they have been made; how they i
have been fulfilled; and how paid, and to in-!
quire and ascertain all things concerning said
Road, and report the same to the Legislature.
Mr. Jones laid on the table the 101 l owing
resolution:
I Resolved by the Senate and House of Repre- \
scnlatives of the Stale of Georgia, in General
Assembly met, That the Commissioners of the
VV. &. A. Rail Road be and they are bereby
• hrected immediately to suspend all operations
on said Road, west or north of Burroughs in
Cass county, and that they inform *the con
tractors oil said road that they and each cf
them may resign their contacts and bepkidy
for all the work they or any 01 them may have
done; but that it they now refuse to take ad
vantage of this otter, the State will bold them
strictly to the contract, subject to all forfei
tures tor failure in time or measure oi execu- j
tion.
Resolved, That the commissioners be, and
they are hereby, instructed to have the bridges
put in condition to pass road wagons and
other passengers, so soon as it can be done, j
Mr. Blackshear introduced a bill to change
the time of holding the Superior Courts tor
i the county of Thomas.
Wednesday, Nov. 4.
! On motion of Mr. Calhoun, ttie Jollowing
’ resolution of the House of Representatives
was taken up, read and concurred in.
Resolved, That both houses of the General
Assembly will convene in the Representative j
chamber on Friday next, at 11 o’clock in the i
forenoon, for the purpose of electing a Judge
of the Superior Court of the Coweta circuit; ]
also an Attorney General for the Middle cir-1
cuit, and Solicitor General for the Eastern, ‘
Northern, Southern, Western, Flint and Oc- j
mulgee circuits.
Mr. Sinead laid laid on the table the follovv
j ing resolution:
Resolved, That both branches of the Gene
ral Assembly will convene in the Representa
tive chamber, on Friday next, the tub inst. at
12 o’clock, for the purpose of electing a Briga
dier General for the 2d brigade, G. M, 10th
brigade to fill the vacancy occasioned by the
formation of the 13tli division of G. M., and
the including in said division Thus. J. Holmes,
! late Brigadier General of the said 10th divi- !
| sion.
I BILLS INTRODUCED AND KFAD FIRST TIME.
, By Mr. Creach: A bill to he entitled an act
I to alter and amend the road laws of this State,
so iar as relates to the county of Montgomery.
By Mr. Jones: To authorise the return of
sheriffs, constables, coroners, and justices of
the peace, to be traversed, and to point out
the manner in which the same shall be made.
By Mr. Miller: To confirm the purchase ol
the bridge across the Savannah river at Au-
guste.; also,
To carry into effect that part of the first
sec tion of the third article of the Constitution ‘
which requires the establishment of a Supreme
Court for the correction of Errors, and to or
ganize the same, and to regulate the proceed-!
mgs thereof.
By Mr. Strickland: To compensate grand j
and petit jurors in the county of Ware, and 1
to authorise the Inferior Court of said county ;
to levy an extra tax to pay said jurors.
By Mr. Kinzey: To alter and amend so
much of the Judiciary of this State as relates
to tho binding of defendant’s property, traded
after the rendition of judgment.
On motion of Mr. Blackshear, the bill to
change the time of holding the Superior!
Courts for the county of Thomas, was taken I
up, read a second time and committed to a
committee of the who’e.
On motion of Mr. Gondeiyone hundred co
pies each of the bills relative to taxes, and the
organization of a Supreme Court for the cor- j
rection of Errors, was ordered to be printed, j
Thursday, Nov. 5, j
BILLS RETORTED AND HEAD FIRST TIME.
To alter and amend a part of the second j
section of the fourth article of the Constitu
tion oi the State of Georgia, so as to require
all elections of the General Assembly to be
made viva voce.
By Mr. Strickland, of Ware: To alter and
amend an act passed 30th December, 1830,
entitled an act to appropriate a sum of money
to improve the navigation of the Big Satilla
j river.
’ By Mr. Creach: To authorise the treasurer
;01 the common school fund of the county of
I Montgomery, to loan out said fund and collect
all and any’ p?rt of the same on certain condi
tions. Also,
To consolidate the offices of receiver of
tax returns and tax collector of this? State, so
far as relates to the county’ of Montgomery.
By Mr. Echols: To alter the 23d, 7lh and
12th sections of the first and seovud articles
of ihe third section and third article, and the
fifteenth sections and four'll article Pi *be
Constitution of this State.
BILLS REPORTED.
By Mr. Goode: To incorporate the Upson
Rifiemen, and to give the members thereof
certain privileges.
By Mr. Wiggins: To change the name of
Walter Rutherford Higsmith, to that of Wal
ter Rittheriord Youells, of Wayne county, and
legitimatize the same.
By Mr. Bulloch, of Bibb: To authorise the
Justices of the Peace of the several districts
within the corporate limits of the city of
Macon, Bibb county, to hold their courts in
the court house of said county, and to au
thorise (he Justices of the Peace to require
costs to be paid or secured before the suits are
commenced.
By Mr. Miller: To amend the act incorpo
rating the Georgia Rail Road and Banking
Company.
By Mr. Guess: To repeal the second sec
tion of an act passed December, 1820, making
an appropriation for the benefit of the Univer
sity of Georgia.
By Mr. Vincent: To consolidate the office
! of receiver of tax returns and collector in and
for the county of Clarke.
Mr. Young introduced a bill to exempt
James Hall, of Irwin county, from the several
provisions of the act of the General Assembly
concerning pedlors, and to authorise him to
engage in that business without license.
By Mr. Hammond: To authorise Evin
Howell, of the county of Gwinnett, to esta
| blish a ferry across the Chattahoochie river,
on his own land.
Friday, Nov. G.
By Mr. Christian: To authorise William B.
Dudley, of the county of Elbert, to establish
a ferry across Broad river, on his own land,
and regulate the rates of ferriage thereof; and
| to regulate the ferriage of Henry E. Nash’s
ferry on said river.
By Mr. Williams: To more effectually pre
vent illegal voting.
By Mr. Dunagan: To more effectually pre- j
vent illegal voting.
By Mr. Dunagan: To enlarge the duties of j
the Western and Atlantic Rail Road Com- j
tnissioners, by authorising them to purchase I
i land for depots and trading towns, and lo ap-
I ply the proceeds of the town lots to rhe <ie-!
fraying the expenses of the road, and to pro- 1
vent the Hivvassee Road Company e<tendmg
| their road to our terminus in the direction of j
Red Clay.
By Mr. Strickland, of Tattnall: To alter j
and amend an act passed 21st of December,
1839, entitled an act to appoint additional I
commissioners on the Ohoopie and Canooehee i
I rivers, in the county of Tatnall, passed 27ih j
j December,- 1839, so far as relates to said i
amendatory act, requiring an immediate ap- j
| plication of one half of the funds set apart
ior the improvement of the Ohoopie iver, be- j
: low Bazil’s creek, to appoint additional com-’
I missioners upon the Ohoopie river and for |
oth >r purposes.
Mr. Kinzey presented petition No. 2, for i
i the organization of anew county, which was j
| referred to a select committee.
The Senate then proceed and to the House j
of Representatives for the purpose of carry-!
: ing on certain elections.
Saturday, Nov. 7.
By Mr. Miller: To amend an act incorpo
rating the Bank of Milledgeville with bank
’ ing privileges, located at Milledgeville, and to i
change the name of said Bank.- . j
By Mr. Dunuegan: To amend an act ent.- J
| tied an act more effectually to secure the sol
vency of all the banking institutions of this
i State,” passed the 24th day of December,
1832, and to prescribe a penalty for any non
-compliance with the provisions ui the same
or of this act.
By Mr. Williamson: To* incorporate the
‘ Oxford Female Academy in the county of’
Newton, and to appoint trustees for the same.
By Mr. Waiters: To authorise John J.\
Dodd, Esq., of the coun y of Floyd, to esta
blish a ferry across ilie Oostanauly river on
his own land.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Monday, Nov. 2, 1840.
On motion of Mr. Crawford, of Richmond,
Mr. Osborne was called to the chair and the
i House proceeded to the election of Speaker,
and the ballots being received and examined,
it appeared that Charles J. Jenkins, Esq.,
; member elect from the county of Richmond,
was duly elected; whereupon a committee,
! consisting of Messrs. Crawford of Richmond,
Jones of Harris, and Wales, were appointed
to conduct him to the Chair, from whence he
! addressed the House and tendered his acknow
ledgments.
The House then proceeded to the election
of a Clerk, and the ballots being received, it
appeared that Elbridge G. Cabaniss, Esq. was
;dulv elected.
J The House then proceeded to the election
jof Messenger, and several balloting* being
j had and no election made, the House adjourn
| ed to 3 o’clock.
! T 3 o’clock, P. M.
i iousc met pursuant, to adjournment, and’
resumed the unfinished business of the morn
ing, and upon counting out the ballots, it ap
peared. (hat C. F. Fitchet was duly elected.—
(The House then proceeded to the election of
door keeper, and alter several ballots being
had and nu choice made, the House adjourned.
Tuesday, Nov. 3.
The House proceeded to (he election of
door keeper, and the ballots being received*
it appeared that Henry Kinneday was duly
elected.
On motion of Mr. Osborne, Resolved, That
toe f ;or.: be respectfully informed to procure
sea's on the floor for the accommodation of
Editors, &c., and that tlier rules governing the
House at their last session be again adopted,
1 and two hundred and ten copies be printed for
the use of the House.
Mr. W iikatas oi Talbot, introduced a bill
lor the pardon of Francis Lawrence, of Tal
bot count} ; which was read the first time.
I Vedfiesday, Nov. 4.
: Mr ; ‘Males presented a petition from sun
dry citizens ol the counties of Union and Ha
. bersham, praying tor au act chartering a com
pany to construct a turnpike road from a point
1 on the North Carolina line, in the county of
j Union, to the town of Clarksville, in Haber
sham county, which was referred to a com
mittee, consisting of Messrs. Wales, Cameron *
and Weiborn.
Thursday, Nov. 5.
BILLS INTRODUCED.
By Air. Mays, of Cobb: For the relief of
the Sheriff atul Jailer of the county of Cobh.
By Mr. Murphy, of DeKalb: To admit
Leonard C. Simpson to plead and practice
Law in the several Courts of Law and Equity
in this Stale.
By mr. Martin: To compel the several in
corporated banks of this State, fp redeem their
1 notes or bills with specie,
j By mr - Barclay: To prevent the depreciat
ing of hank paper.
I By mr. Cavenah: To collect in the funds
; hitherto set apart and appropriated to the im
provement of tire Ogechee river and to de
posit the same in the Central Bank.
By mr. Shaw: To repeal an act entitled an
act to establish a general system<ol Educa
tion by common schools,, passed 2tith Decem
ber, 1837; also an act amendatory thereof,
passed 27th December, 1938..
By mr. Crawford, of Richmond: To point
out a tribunal and mode for the trial of ques
tions t f citizenship in certain cases, and to de
clare what shai.be evidence in the san e..
By inr. Hotchkiss: To incorporate the Bap
tist meeting house, known as Wales’ met tiu<
house, in the county of Scriven, and to ap
point trustees for the same.
By mr. Johnson, ol Troup: To au the rise ■
the sheriffs of Troup to advertise their sah
in some of the public gazettes in Columbus.-
By mr. Meadows: To extend the time to
fortana e drawers for taking out- their grants,,
so iar as relates to the counties 01 originally
Appling, Early, Irwin, Hall, Habersham,.
Walker, Gwinnett and Rabun, and for other
purposes.
By inr. Stroud, of Walton: To repeal the
second a!,< l third sections of an act to appoint
eleven additional trustees of the University of
Georgia, kid 1° provide for a permanent addi
tional fund /or the support of the same, and
for other purpo. ee-
By rar. Hunter: To prevent persons from
driving or bringing any cattle or oxen from
any ot the distempered parts of this State, or
any ther State, into the county of Cherokee,
under certain c mditions and pena.tie3 therein
named.
Mr. Shaw.laid on the taole the following
resolution:
Resolved, Thai both branches of the Gene
ra! Assembly convene ;u the House of Repre
sentatives ai the hour of 11 o’clock, A. M.,
on Thursday next, for the p.urposo of electing
a State Printer, which was read arid agreed
to. Atfiourned.
Friday, 0.
RILLS INTRODUCED.
By mr. Mitchell: To extend ihe time for
fortunato drawers in the c unties of Appling,
Early, Irwin, Hall, Habersham, Walton, Gwin
nett and Rabun, to take out their grants, and
reduce the fees on the same.
By mr. Roberts: To repeal an act further to
regulate the granting of retail licenses and
sale of spirituous liquors, assented to the 29th
day of December, 1838.
By mr. Thompson: To appropriate money
to pay lor Ihe teaching of poor children, for
tiio year 1838.
By mr. Hardeman: To alter and amend the
9th section of the Judiciary act of 1799; and
and th first, section of an act relative to exe
cutions, passed 14th December, 1811.
By mr. U.-iiis: To a nend an act entitled an
act to establish a tribunal for the trial of
slaves widen this State, passed 16th Decem
| her, 181 i, so far as relates to the county of
j M‘lntosh. Also,
| To legitimatize and change the name of
! Samuel Thomas Thomas, to that of Samuel
: Thomas Owings. ’ ■
j By mr. Hotchkiss: To repeal so much of
the 3d section of an act passed the 24th De-
I centner, 1825, entitled an act to change the
| names of certain persons therein mentioned,
an t to legitimatize those persons whose names
arc so changed; so far as relates to the legiti
’ J <r ot and investing Caroline Amanda
I I’uu;e, formerly Caroline Amanda Graham,
5 v ’ kh the rights and privileges of an heir at
i law os her reputed lather, James Tuttle, of
i Sem en county.
| M>. Chisslev laid on the table the following
| resolution: - -
Resolved, That 210 copies of the last semi
j annual reports of the several banks’ of this
| State bo printed for the use of this House.
By mr. M‘Math. To change the names of
i Sarah Carroll and Emily Jane Carroll,‘‘-to that
|of Sarah Bouse and Ernily Jane Bouse, and
to legitimatize the same.- •
By rnr. McMillan: To -dispose of the un
! granted lands lying in originally Early, Irwin,
and Appling.
On motion, the Clerk was directed to in-
I form the Senate that the House of Represen
tatives are ready to receive them into their
chamber to proceed to the elections set apart
for this day, which duty being performed, the
President and members of the Senate attend.
I ed and both houses proceeded to the election
of a Judge of the Superior Court for the
Coweta circuit, and the ballots being received
and examined, it appeared that William Ez
zard was duly elected.
They also proceeded to the election of an
Attorney General for the Middle circuit, and
the ballots being received aud examined, it ap
peared that James Gardner was duly elected.
They then proceeded to the election of a
Solicitor General for the La-tern circuit, and