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[From the Richmond Enquirer. J
ROYAL MUNIFICENCE AND “LOG CABIN !
LIES.
Our friends \vd! pay no attention to the efforts of
the R. Whig and that unprincipled subaltern Ogle
of Pennsylvania, to excite a prejudice against the ,
Presidenton account of furniture. Mr. Davis of
Ky says, “(he Opposition is not pledg< d to retrench!
inent.” Mr. Evans of Maine admits, that the Whigsy
have voted for all these and other extravagant ap-f
proprialions. Mr. Rhert of South Carolina says, !
the Whigs are to blame for ihe appropriations be- I
yond estimates. Mr. Barnard of New York char
ges too much economyon the President.—Mr. Lin
coin, a gentleman of manly bearing, (a Whig,) says
Ogle’s “is a small business,” and that Mr. Van Bn
ren “is not to blame for the furniture of the White
House,” but that the Committee on Public Build
ings, of which he is himself a member, “deserve
censure if any he due ” What said Mr, L? “He
(Mr. Lincoln,) was no friend of Mr. Van Buren, bat
he would do him the justice to say, if there was i
4 any thing wrong in relation to the furniture of the L
\While House, the President was not to blame
«ta>the contrary, he (Mr L.) knew his great diPT
LfCACY ON THE SUBJECT, AND WOULD ASSURE THE I
GENTLEMAN THAT, WHENEVER THE COMMITTEE ‘
HAD CONSULTED 'fIUE PRESIDENT IN RELATION TO j
ANY ADDITION A I/TPJ RNITURE, HE HAD INVA- ;
RIABLY EX PR ESSE D HIS RELUCTANT? K 'IX) I
HAVE ANYTHING EXPENDED FUR TTAT
OBJECT. He (Mr L) would state, from his own i
knowledge, that NOT A SINGLE ARTICLE OF FURNI- i
TURK SUPPLIED DURING THE LAST THREE YEARS, |
HAD BEEN SUPPLIED AT THE REQUEST OF THE
President. The committee alone were an
swerable, AND THEY WOULD ASSUME THE RE- 1
sponsibility. But so far was llie President from
desiring any additions made to the furniture, that,
about two years ago, it actually became necessary
for himself, and the other members of the commit
tee to do what he had never done before, nor would
he ever do it again. Did gentlemen wish to know
what that was? He would tell them. It was to go
through every room in another man’s house,to see
how much furniture he wanted, and what conveni
ences were required. He hoped that gentlemen j
would take notice of this fact, and remember it
whenever they attempted to cast censure on the !
president, in relation to his furniture.' "finr. L.
/'that the furniture is not “unnecessary or mapprhpri-i
' ate to suen a building;” that none of it can he dis- |
penned with unless the Whigs intend to “build a log
cabin for Gen. H. to live in” when elected, in which
event he supposes “a few of the articles might be
dispensed with.” He repeats that Mr. Ogle, in ob
jecting to the furniture of the President’s house,
was guilty of “a small business indeed.” Mr. An
drews, another Whig, belabors the miserable ca- |
lumniator from Pennsylvania in a similar vein of
criticism and reproof. Yet the effort is still conti
nued by the subalterns (the R. Whig and others) to 1
excite an unfounded prejudice against the Presi- !
dent. This Whig proof, we hope, will throw some |
light on the subject and satisfy our friends that here, I
as in most. Whig complaints, there is nothing wrong. |
Fortunately there is honesty and candor enough in |
their own ranks to give the lie direct to t teir own
infamous and hellish falsehoods. Some abuse Mr. j
V. Buren for too much economy, and some for too
much extravagance. In the rjame of heaven and
justice will not the people of this country stand by
and vindicate from reproach their faithful public
servant?
Nothing proves more decidedly the desperation
to which the Federal Party are driven, than the re
course which the R. Whig and other presses hava
had to this Speech of Mr. Ogle. Notwithstanding
the vile taste, and low balderdash, and the con- i
temptihle sophistries, and the gross impositions i
which run through the whole of it, they have seized
upon it as a part of their fixed ammunition. No
rthing shows theexiremities to which they are driven.
The Colleagues of this very man blushed at the in
decencies and falsehoods to which he descended.
As one proof of his extreme littleness and shameless
audacity, lie brings up the old story of the gold
spoons, though it was nailed upon the spot by Mr.
Andrews.—\ et VV. C. Rives-does not hesitate to
.repeat the story.
We deduce the following facts from the late :
speech of Mr. McKay, of N. C. in reference to the j
retrenchments which have been effected by Gene
ral Jackson and Mr. Van Buren. Look well to it,
fellow-citizens:
Ist. That Mr. Van Buren, in Ins last message, 1
expressed a desire for economy, and that if Con
gress did not exceed the estimates, there would be
a reduction of five millions in expenditures.
2d. That, the Ways and .Means Chairman had
said that the estimates in some items had been re
duced, in all probability, showing that a retrench
ment of some twelve millions had taken place in
three years of this administration.
3d. That though expenditures were larger, they
furnished no evidence of extravagance.
4fh. That in a new country like ours, expendi
tures must, to a certain ex em, keep pace
velopement of resource.-, wealth,'pupulatiqHoa(.
sth. That, according to this test, expcbJfures !
had been less since Gen. Jackson’s election than
before.
6th. That, according to this test, the Federal Gov
ernment had been more economical, and had ex
pended less than the States of New York, Penn
sylvania and Maryland, leaving out of the count !
their vast outlays in Internal Improvements.
7th. As evidence of the great develovement of
the resources of the nation and consequent expen
ditures, he alluded to the extension ot mail facili- [
lies, the number of post offices increased from 7 to ■
]4,otK>, without adding any thing to the burdens on j
the people, postage being the same, and the reven
ues from $ 1,600,000 to §->,100,000 per annum.
Bth. That the President has no control over the
expenditures.
9lh. That Gen. Jackson was opposed to heavy I
expenditures, (see messages,) and hy his veto on
the Maysvill road saved one hundred millions to
the people.
10th. Tnat no new tax had been laid since Jack
son's election, but that a great many It ad been ta
ken off—amounting, in 1331, to §3,728,000 —in’32,
to 7,300.000—in ’33 to 19,789,000—in ’34, to 24,445,-
000—hi’35, to 27,453,000-in‘36, to 34,633,000 —ma- j
king in those years §117,407,000 of raxes taken off, !
which added to taxes above saved, would be 217,-
ii i > T- V ’ et nu retrenchment! ! !
11 . * *? ar ’ ln * asl * olir years, the reduction on
mi u '\? S ar ? er t,la n the whole amount of receipts j
™. administration.
. “‘‘Ohe tariff nf '2S tiad remained nn
more w °uld have been 100 millions
Zn The mm") l t e *, “oration of Gen . Jack .
necessaries reul J l tiou had been effected on,
ofthissnfn , n ,j' sa ' ei , llic P e,, pl e about one bait
effected iu~3 n u art,c 15.000,000 had been
effected m 3 years-coffee, 13,000,000-sugar and
13th. That the Surplus Revenue ~Q o
of increased expenditure—that those w ho""
repeal of duties were responsible-that Mr Claym
33 admmed his system was m danger from friend”
of the administration; that compromise saved it from
overthrow ,n 1836,admitted, that surplus was*for™
seen at time of compromise act, and attempted to
guard against üby distributing proceeds of public
land,. II views of the executive had been curried
out, as to tariff, taxes would have been reduced
still farther.
14th. That increased appropriations begot in- J
i creased estimates, and ih'al Congress was responsi
ble for both, &c.
15th. “Mr. K. then showed that even the esti
mate, and existing laws, fluctuated, Sopp’ies to
■ the army and navy being influenced hy the state of
j the ‘urrency of the country, cost mure some years
than others; th,s was one cause that coutritiuted to i
1 swell the appropriation during ‘he last and present
Administration, the prices of provision during that,
period being very high. He then went mto-an ex
amination in detail, and showed the large amounts j
appropriated to nationakohjects during that lime, j
exceeded hy many millions appropriations to such :
objects during the adminislrationof Mr. Adame. He
examined in detail all the appropriations which made j
up the excess over the administration of that gen
| tlemun, and showed conclusively that many of tiie \
of those appropriations originated with the
[Opposition, and that that party had invariably vot
| ed tor all the appropriations, for the increase of
which they wished to make the' present Adminis- j
Ration accountable. The remarks of Mr. McK.
i will be published in full hereafter.”
These are facts; and we dare the devils to deny
then—ift hey do we will publi-h the proof. Take
J care of the Federal “log cabin” slangwhangera !
j\The bigger the cabin, the bigger the hbcl. A
i [From the Globe.]
CASE OF LIEUTENANT HOUR.
Every thing that transpires in relation to t his case,
proves that neither 3lr. Boots nor Mr. Taliaferro
were prompted m the courseihey have pursued by ;
a regard to the local laws or personal-right's of the
south, which they maintain have been violated in I
the person of Lieut, tlooe. It was intended to an- '
svver the purpose of political calumny and misre
presentation; and having attained their object, these
! faithful representatives of southern feelings, south- i
j#rn laws, and southern institutions, perceiving that
rany sincere and,practical attempt to settle the qties
; tion they have themselves raised, would place them
j at issue with their friends and allies, the Abnlition-
I ists, are now voting with that faction to all
I furtlier proceedings on the subject, in the hope that,
; having now made all the use they ever intended to !
I make of it, tiie whole subject will be dropped, un
-1 til some new occasion may arise to make it again
i the subject of an attack on the President,
i But wo are determined the subject shall not drop
i thus into the grave. We tire determined the peo
| pie of Virginia and the South shall see the conduct I
, of these pretended chapipions of their laws and
1 rights in its true colors, and for this purpose now
1 proceed to lay before thorn the latest proceedings
of the House of Representatives in relation to this
matter.
On that occasion, Mr. Chapman of Alabama,of- j
sered the following resolution;
“ Resolved , That the Committee on the Judiciary,
to which was referred the case of Lieutenant Hooe.
be required to report forthwith io tins House who
arc legal witnesses under the existing laws, before 1
j courts martial in the navy of the United States; and
further to report who shall hereafter In* examined
| as witnesses in trials bes re such courts.” j
L Mr. Mitchell, the member from New York who j
i signalized himself so greatly in the negotiation for/
i securing Lite profits nf the public printing to the j
National Intelligencer, objected. Mr. Chapin in
moved a suspension of the rules, and demanded the
yeas and nays. “He was determined,” he said,
“to press the matter norne, now it was begun, and
to bring other gentlemen to the bullring.” A call
of the House was oidered, and the question then
recurring on the motion to suspend the rules for the
; purpose of submitting the resolute n, was decided
; by yeas and nays, as follows—yeas 100. nays til.
1 Will not the good people of Virginia and the south ;
I take it for granted that their great champions,
1 .Messrs. Bofts and Taliaferro, voted with those who
i were desirous of bringing the question involved m
j th° ca.-e of Lieutenant liooe, to a speedy issue?—
; That, they would press the' subject on the House,
! and distinguish themselves above all others, jn a
i cause of which they have affected to be the lead
ers? But no such thing. Among the opponents nf
Mr. Chapman’s resolution, s»ute by side, m loving
communion, we find Messrs. Bolts and Taliaferro
I with Mes-rs. Gales, J..G. Clark, Evans, Hunt,
Calhoun of Massachusetts, and the n-t of the most
confirmed and rancorous enemies io'me institutions
! of 'he south !
Yes! there they' are, theib names cheek by jowl
hy the side of the Abolition leaders, and reinforced
| by all the rabid \\ lugs, among v. horn we find those
apt personifications ot tiie feelings and interests of
the south, who are identified with a faction aiming
at the overthrow of their institutions.
Messrs. Botts and Talliaferro, the hooted, belted,
spurred champions of the South, are seen among tin*
f remost in oppo-ingihe remedy. Thev voted m con
junction vvi li the abolit onist leaders against sin pen
ding the rules to pass the resolution of Mr. Chapman
—“That the Committee on the Judiciary, to
• WHICH WAS REFERRED THR-CASE OF LiEUTKNAn\
! i looE, BE 11 EQUIRED TO REPORT WHO ARE THE ’
LEGAL WITNESSES UNDER THE EXISTI NG LAWS .
j BEFORE COURTS MARTIAL JN THE NAVY OF TJIIT
United States, and further report who
SHALL HEREAFTER BE EXAMINED AS WITNESSES
IN TRIALS BEFORE SUCH COURTS.”
Here the question is freely p'-esentef, and the
issue met m the very teeth. Will not the people of
Virginia and the South, look to Messrs. Bolts and
Taliaferro ns foremost in the van on this occasion ?
But they wil look in vain. They will be found hid
away among the Abolitionists; shrunk m o more
than their usual littleness; they blinked the qtus
; lion: they 7 dared not oppose tl eir hrethern and as
sociates, the Abolitionists; “they would .not
COME UP TO THE BULL-RING.”
It will he seen in yesterday’s proceedings, given
I in another column, that Mr. ( hapmnn of Alabama
put Mr. Bolts and Ins .Northern and Southern Fede
ral friends to"another severe test. He proposed to
exclude by 7 law the enlistment of black sailors in the
i navy of the United States. This would at once
| exclude all negroes from the participating in any
way in sudors' rights. It would exclude them from
. coming within the jurisdiction of naval courts, and
destroy the foundation of the judicial d -ci-fan com
plained of But Mr. Bolts, Mr. Stanly, and the rest
1 of these Sotuuern Harrisonites. who court North
ern Abolition support for their Presidential candid
ate. dare not press the Southern principle to a f.rac-
I ticai result. They know that the Abolition party
fcfltid their Northern Federal allies, desire that a
I hia<*k sailor should be entitled to all the rights of a
white sailor—they know that the Abolitionists would
be glitti to see such a proportion of black sailors on
oor .-hips as would make our crews as checkered in
color as the black and white regiments in Canada.
They Know that the Abolitionists would be gratified
i to have emissaries on board all our ships to com
municate with the Jamaica, black freed-men —the
; Haytiens—and all the rest of their black brethren
j in the islands neighboring our Southern States. ;
Such amalgamation in our ships may stand liereai
ter, not merely as an argument , bin at some critical
moment, an efficient force to aid their cause, espe
i daily if Northern white sailors could ever he in
i doctrmated with Abolition idiots. With these dor
■ mant feelings slumbering in the breasts of the Abo- ■
| litionists, the Southern allies of Northern U hiegery
dure not wake it up by demanding a law to exclude
blacks, not only as witnesses, but- from forming a
parfof the naval power of the I nion. Ihe South
ern men, therefore, preferring the advancement ot
their President al candidate’s interests to that of
the Syuth, have voted down the tenders of the |
Northern and Southern Democracy to vote the
blacks cut of the navy 7 , not only as witnesses, but
as sailors. The whole body of the Democracy, as
will be seen by the reported proceedings, voted to
carry 7 these propositions; and if the whole body 7 of
the Southern Federalists had united with them, it
would have been carried in spite of the Northern
Federalists and Abolitionists. ■ The wretched pre
texts offered by Messrs. Botts and Stanly to rally
their Southern friends againstjthe propositions of
Mr. Chapman, will be seen in the report. Mr Bolt
pretended he could not trust the Committee on the
Judiciary 7 to report a bill; yet his friend Stanly 7 held
, the Daiance of power on it, and could have, by
joining the four Democrats, brought in a bill of three
Lines, excluding negroes from ihe uav j, and their
testimony fnm all the courts. Mr. Stanly demur
red to the id<a that he could not be trusted to turn
the scale for the South, and then showed that, under
present circumstances, he could not, because, al
though he must know that it is not their policy,
while the A million dissenstpn is gathering head, to j
1 man our vessels with negroes, yet for lear of affront-
I ing his Abolition allies, he defends the policy of their
| enlistment. We are happy, however, to state that
the Secretary of the Maty has gone very far to
! abolish this old usage in the navy. lie has inter- j
| dieted already the enlistment of black sailors to a
i great extent,and we trust will abolish it altogether,
iiotwilhstanriirtf' the remonstrances of the ojicers of
the navy, if he has the right to do so.
it is a little remarkable that while Mr. Rons would
put the whole Administration into the hands of
j Harrison and his friends, he shoujd admit that he
I dare not trust the committee, in which his party
control, wit i the question he has raised in t he ;
Ilooe case. It is proper to particularize that that
i committee consists of Jive Federalists and four
j friends of the Administration. The five Federalists
are as follows: Messrs. Sergeant of Pennsylvania,
Hoffman and Barnard of New \ork,and Mason of
Objfi, from free Stales, and Mr. Stanly of North
from a slave State; and the four Demo
cratic members of the committee are Messrs. Sa
int c> o Virginia, Colqiit of Georgia, and Turney !
| of Tennessee, from slave States; and Mr. Urary of .
i M chigan, a free State. t _ *
The Democrats were all for Mr. Chapman’s pro- i
positn n. This will show clearly, (unless Mr Bolts
; was opposed to ridding the navy of negroes as wit- i
nesses and sailors.) to whom Mr. Bolls was afraid to
trust, Southern interests!
Is not their real mhtive'novv apparent to the whole
world? is not the paltry purpose for which all this
noise is made, as clear as the light of day? Here
I vva- an opportunity to settle a question every way
high’y important to the interests o, f the navy anil
the harmony of the Union, involvin' the highest
considerations of policy and justice; and what do
these gentlemen do, and where'are they found? —
Dodging the question; herding among the bitterest i
enemies io the rights and institutions of their con- |
! sthnents, and lending their aid in perpetuating these
very evils of which they Complain. Having an- .
| swered their ends, they expect to smother all fur
ther proceedings; having made their slock of politi
cal capital, they hope to sit down quietly in its en
joy merit.
But we tell them they are mistaken. We intend
to ring the changes on these sounding brasses and
tinkling cymbals, till they echo through the South.
We mean to visit them frequently, and pour out on
ilieir heads the concentration of embittered scorn,
I tin ess they demonstrate the sincerity of their mo
tives,hy bringing the question hkpy leave raised to
j a final issue, which, while it settles points of the
■ deepest interest, the greatest delicacy, shall, at the
Mime time, show to the deceived people of Virginia,
whether these gentleman c m be brought to vole
1 upon it. in opposition to the Abolition leaders —
WIIKTIIEJI THEY DARE COME UP TOTHE RULE
- V*s,. —— V
\Front tie Savannah Telegraph. >
f HEAR LIEOT.G. M.IIOOE HIMSELF.
This gentleman’s case lias been quite a“wiudfall”
| for the Southern Harrisouite* —they will find it vet
a “marc's nest." The Richmond Enquirer sacs':—
“We understand that handbills have, been circula
ted, in various parts of this State, aliegiqg that Lieut.
Ilooe had been dismissed from the Florida station,
on the evidence of two negroes. This is false, and
the Executive Committee knew it to lie so. Li nt.
Ilooe, who is an honorable man, says otherwise in
| a communication be lately made to the Frederic, ks
| burg Arena. Hear him nail this wilful and base
falsehood to the counter. However he may have
! permitted his feelings to ho excited on this subject,
: he is incapable of falsehood : •
“inconclusion, having been asked very often hv
friends, acquittances and strangers, concerning the
evidence given by the uogreos against me before the
court martial, I will here take occasion to say, that
: it,was not the testimony given by the negroes that
i complained of, but the fact Eh it they were allow
ed to appearand testily at all.”
A gain he sai s—“] t is the principle I argue against,
| and not the. testimony of the negroes.”
We agree with Lieut. Hour; the principle is a
j bad one. But the President of the United States
cannot alter the /arc —he has to execute it. We will
suppose the testimony of the negroes had been in
'favor of the accused. What then? ’[’lie “whigs”
would have remained as mum as their candidate on
j the subject. \\ hen the democratic members of
\ Congress, moved to refer the subject to the Judicia
ry, that the odious rule should be altered, why did
| ihit the “\V bigs ’ sitovv their sinceritv, and vote to
change, it. ISio —no. Mr. Slade of Vermont, J. i'i,.
j Adams, and all the abolitionists would lie odeeded 1
! And thus to truckle for and obtain abolition votes,
they are willing to sacrifice principle. Such form's
kjtheujff lerial of the Harrison party. Will Sontlc'rn
Va^Tirt such a vacillating crow ? We trust
' [From, the Charleston Mercury."] jr ’
WOODSTOCK, (Comhahee,) Julv 2U, IS4O.
Mr. Editor: Permit me to communicate to yon
an account of a dreadful thunder storm, which passed
over this section of country, (Comhahee) on Friday
( evening, the 17 th instant, in w hich there was an
1 awful destruction of human life. Just previous to
I its bursting upon them, twenty of the negroes heloag
i ig to the Hon. Henry Middleton, being crowded into
a house, whither thej' had repaired as a place of refuge
were struck down by a vivid flash of lightning, and
the following is the result of the stroke. Four of
them escaped entirely—two wore severely shocked
—five were stunned, and horrible to relate, nine were
killed upon the spot. The electric fluid entered the
j house at the door, carrying away part of the side of
the house and gable after doing some other damage,
seemed to separate into different fragments, .as eacli
alternate individual was killed or wounded; it then
j left the. house at the back door, and in its passage
killed two of the people five paces from the house,
into which they wore hastening. The nine who
were killed never moved or m untested unv signs of
1 animation, hut presented a heap of mafigled corpses.
The five who were stunned recovered their senses
only after the expiration of an hour, ami two, who
were only severely shocked, did not Lose their recol
lection. The visible and external marks w ere differ
ent according to the intensity of the stroke upon
each. Those who were stunned were and are much
swollen and puffed no, especially in the extremities*
hut how shall I describe the appearance of those who
were killed, nine inanimate beings, who, hut a few
short hours before, stood up in all the vigor of life
now lay liven and blasted by the dreadful thunder
holt. Ili nr features and bodies,bloated and swollen
! to ill ■ full extent of the akin, were so disfigured as
nearly to obliterate the identity of the individual, the
hiou.l uncoagnlated poured from their noses and oars,
. and the muscles,as is usual, so entirely relaxed as
Ito permit the body to be fixed in any direction. In
■ two, only, of these was there any abrasion of the skin,
and that slight, extending merely to the cuticle.
1 have been induced to give yon tins short account,
! under the impression that such an awful visitation
i shall not he unrecorded.
Respccfuliy, 1 am, your obedient servant,
L. M. iIESAUSSURE.
THE CROPS.
| The S*a Island crop this year must he a very
, short on'. The incessant rains have stunted and
diseased the plants, giving them red shins ami yel
low leaves; and among the Islands as far as w e have
seen they have not grown to one half or one third
the size usual at the season. The rains iu the low
country kave been more abundant along the coast
than a little inland w hore some crops look well hut
i the long Itaple region generally lias suffered so much
that theri is no hope of recovery, and the Sea Island !
crop mint be a short one.—Every planter whose opi
nion w e aavs asked is of this opiuioA. —Charleston
Me r carp,
NOTICE.- AHpe r-ons having demands again t the 1
subscriber, either by note or account, are requested
to leave tie same at the slure of Messrs. X. K. ButlerAc « 'o.
Jv7 R 9 S. L. BASSFOUD.
A34TOA, Mi 1 1
Saturday Aloruiiiy July 2->, |«*4o.
fLu" I he truuds to which the federal whigs resort, : j
must disgust every honest man; and if such frauds ! (
j succeed, with so enlightened and intelligent a peo- j
|ile, as that of the I uited States, we mav bid a '
long farewell to political virtue, and, of consequence,
to the republican institutions of the country. The
political life of Mr. Van Huron has been shamefully
misrepresented, and his public acts distorted. The
federal whigs have seized with the avidity of vul
tures, every circumstance that could lie miscon
strued; and they have had the shamelessness to per
vert and falsify public records, and documents of
undoubted character. They have stopped at no
thing. Even the manner of taking the census has
• been taken tip by them, and perverted to suit their
sinister designs. They have now the unblushing
face to circulate among the people, that the manner
of taking the census, is a preliminary measure to the
| establishment of direct taxation!! We consider
this charge against the administration as the basest ;
j of all those already so shamefully advanced by the
the whigs. Do the whigs tell those to whom they
| insinuate such a charge,that to the whig members ,
I ofCongress must he ascribed the manner the census
is to ha taken ? Do they tell, that for many years 1
I nuH, it has been the anxious wish of all w. 11 informed
| citizens, of all parties, that the infonintio i to lie de
rived from th' manner the census is to he taken
should he obtained? Da they t'll, that such infor
mation would he of immense value to lae develop- i
nient of the resources of the countrv ? Do they tell,
i that it was for the acquisition of that inform ation
that the hill was passed for taki ig th 1 census, and
that it was not, iu the most remote view, to estab
( lish direct taxation ? .V ; the federal whigs are very
careful to he silent on th Vohj.vts intended to he ac
complished by taking the census as directed by the
| act of Congress.
| On the other hand those federal whigs speak of
t Mr. Vuu Huron’s wish to establish direct taxation.
Do they admit that lie has that power? Is not
the power solely in the hau ls of Congress ? And ,
cun the belief be entertained, that a majority would j
he found to change the mode of supplying the pub
lic treasury with means to pay the expenses of the
!.government ?
Rat admitting for one moment that we could have
direct instead of indirect taxation; would we he j
worse off titan we are ? We believe not. Formally I
years, we, with almost the whole population of the
I countrv, echoed theory of down with direct taxation, j
I Rut we frankly admit that our opinion has changed, i
firmly believe that the time is not far distant,
the people of the United States, will submit
to no other mode of raising supplies for the public
treasury, but by direct taxation. To charge Mr. I
Van Ruren with being-in favor of ibis plan now, is i
ungenerous ami even scandalous, when it is known I
that he- never expressed an opinion upon the sub- j
ject. Jim the whigs take it lor granted that he is in
favor ofdirect taxation, because Mr. Rn tt of South
Carolina, has advocat 'd such a plan. This geutle
, man has only repeated an opinion which lie has en
tertained ever since the ye ir ! .{•»>; and ourselves we
can assert thathefo e Mr. van ilurni was President
: we expressed the opinion that dir ct taxation was I
more republican and democratic than the impost
dutv. With a direct t ixation the people know what I
*' . 1
they pay; with the mod' of raiding supplies as at j
present in force, the people do not know what they ;
pay.
We shall conclude these hasty remarks, by call
ing the attention of the reader, especially the whig
reader, u> the following article from the Philadelphia
North American, a good, zealous, but gentlemanly
whig ]taper.
“Direct Taxation —We notice that some of the I
Whig papers are sotting forto, among the evil de
signs chargeable upon the Administration, an in
lenlion to bring upon the people direct taxation.
Rut surely v\e are laboring under whs in
our national aflairs, in one way or another, without
making a hug-bear of whut oiaiiv c nsid rr most ex- ■
(•clientanil salutary. J’ne (hi ig tube frightened at
is the henry taxation of the p mole. As to the di
rect tuffs oftue taxation, —w.m do s m t wish to know
ttujrinnrh he pays to support the Florida war, the
printers, &c. and when h ■ pays it? Who I
uot rather count out the nmiiev from his own
and know where it is going, than have it j
worm '(I out by a kind ofma _■ ic, winch, although si- '
lent in its operation, is equally exhausting to his j
purse? Who would not r-finer deliver up his pock- I
et book than allow him-elt to he Miiulfoided that it 1
maybe taken without his perceiving its removal? !
All should remember (what is undoubtedly true) i
that if we were directly taxed, we s.muid be taxed
much less heacilp."
“THE INDEPENDENT PRESS.”
It is with sincere pleasure we announce to the
Republican Democratic Republican Party of Geor
gia, that the first number of a paper, under the above
head Ims been issued at Washington, Wilkes Coun
ty, Hinder the edituisliip of Mr. Simpson Fouche. I
Tlie talents ami the political principles ofthis gentle- :
man, must ho considered as the surest guarantee of
the correct course bo will pursue during the present '
political contest. High minded and honest as he I
is, the influence of the paper will he duly apprccia- {
ted: it cannot fail to m el an efficient support. We ;
copy tiie following remarks from this first number: j
QGr’We publish to-day the first number of “the In
dependent Press.” We have no promises to make,
save that the paper shall, so long as we are connect
red with it, he what its title indicates, and that we !
shall endeavor to deal candidly with our readers mid
fairly with our political opponents. Believing that
we are engaged in the cause of truth and our coun
try, we will not stoof) to any means alike unworthy
of such a cause and of ourselves. Planting our
selves upon tin' plain sense mid intention of the Con
stitution, and rim great R miMicau doctrine of a
strict construction of that instrument, as the only
means of resisting eff ctual y. the progress of fede
ralism, consolidation and monarchy; we shall resist
all those who resort to doubtful and constructive
powers or support those who do, as tederali-ts.—
And judging them by their acts and the measures
they sustain, rather than by tie ir assumed name or
delusive professions, we shall warn our readers
j against all the seductive arts by which they are now
endeavoring to worm their way into power. We
have long regarded the great muss of the people of
Gorgia,of all parties, as sound republicans, and we
regard the re-organization ol parties now taking
place upon the great qu stems of national politics, :
involved in the Presidential election, as amounting to
an act of purgation, which will ultimately bring to
t gether the sound parts of all parti-s, under the broad |
: banner of Republicanism; wane tin- federal fragments
i of our people will he found rallying in support of an
L. Rank ami otic r measures of federal on mu
: nature and tendencies.
I Casting behind us all merely personal and party
considerations —looking above and beyond these, to
the success ol the great experiment of self-govern- i
mnnt, ever endangered in the hands of federalists
and the triumph of the great principles and meas
ures of the Republican party of the Union, we will
follow no local or otner party, in its aberrations from
those principles as expounded by Jefferson and un-
JcisiuuJ bv outsell es. \v c will nut surrender to
party leaders the prerogative of thinking for us and
marking out our course. In their eager pursuit ot
the loaves and fishes, they are too apt to forget the
principles and objects with which they set out. 100
manv temptations lie in their wav. “Generous con
fidence” is no part ofour political creed. On the con
trary, regarding free government as the onspnng o
jealousy, not of confidence,” we reject as federalists
those, who, while veiling their opinions from the
“public eye,” are beggars of confidence and /r«.*/m
themselves. Such party leaders and politicians
.want submissive slaves to do their bidding, not lui
bulent nullitiers to remind them ol their principles
and their duty. Against all such we wage open
an war in which we will neither give nor ask quarter.
BEWARE OF IMPOSITION.
We copy the following from the Athens Banner:
We understand that a large amount of spurious
money is afloat in the South, purporting to Ihj notes
of Banks in New York. The Cashier of the Cen
tral Rail Road and Bunking Co. at Macon, cautions
all persons against trading for a receipt given hv him
for $ j,OOU in Bank of Vernon notes, which were re
cently deposited in that Bank, he has reason to be
lieve they were not genuine. A quantity of the same
kind of money was offered bore a few days since.—
The Bank is one ofthose established under the New
York Free Banking law, and all its genuine hills are
countersigned by the State Comptroller or Register.
The hills offered here had no such signature, and of
course are emitted lor purposes ol fraud and decep
tion.
[for the constitution VI. IST.]
Messrs. Editors:— The means which the fede
ral party rely upon most strongly,to deteat the ad
ministration in the approaching election, appears to
consist in the stale and systematic cry of corrup
tion. This theme they dwell upon with untiring de
light, and never ending satisfaction, it is one of their
standing arguments, and you will find it in every
whig speech from the dignified senator down to the
brawling pot house politician. Corruption, corrup
tion, is the burden of their song, llto administration
must be put down, the people say they have homo
until “forbearance lias ceased to be a virtue,” ami
they are now determined to take this matter in their
own hands, and drive from power this corrupt and
Vandal administration. It is easy to charge cor
ruption on an individual,or on a party; but the “ipso
j disit” of the whole federal clan is after all but a
| bare assertion, and the charge of corruption,unsup
ported by good evidence, will have about as
much weight with the people in the verdict they
1 will render in the coming contest, as the same sort
of evidence would before a jury of twelve men in
a court, of justice And besides this, the people
know full well, that the same cry has been ringing
in their ears day after day forihe last twelve years.
! Corruption, (according to Henry Clay) was the
principal sin that distinguished Gen. Jackson's ad
ministration. I beg pardon, Mr. Clay’s chief ob
jection to Old Hickory was, his being a military man,
and when I come to think of it, that was a most
grievous fault in the old hero, (so considered by the
j federalists.) 1 am not disposed to find fault with
their inconsistency in now supporting a General for
the presidency, for if he should be elected, no one
need never ft ara subversion of our liberties on air
count of his md'vnnj genia*, and the whigs think
so too, or they would not support him after all their
patriotic fears of whal Generals might do, if they
were made Presidents. But. to return from this di
gression; corruption was the only charge against
i Andrew Jackson’s administration, and men as now,
! the charge was rung from Maine to Louisiana, and
| the people were called upon to pul down that cor
rupt set of men, who held the reins of government,
who were rioting in luxuryon the people’s money;
they T were invoked by the federal orators to resoue
Vheir liberties, which were fast dwindling away,
tinder the grasp-of that modern Caligula, Andrew
Jackson. Hear the wild ravings of Daniel Webster
| and Horace Bimiey,declaring in me streets of B.d
--j timore “ihere is no Sundays in revolutionary i
times.” Listen to the immaculate Henry Clay in *
an apostrophe to the God who made him,“invoking
on tiis country the horrors of war, pestilence and
i famine as a far more preferable aliernative.than the
j re-election of ttie hero statesman. Did the people
have any faith in those charges? did they believe
i those denunciations? did ihey take the words of
the federals on trust? The question is answered
by a merestatement of the fact, that, Andrew Jack
son w as re-elected by a larger majority than any pre
sident ever before received except Mr Munroe. Anil
I now we see these same federals once more in the
field, their war cry is still the same, corruption has
, seized the w hole democratic party, and they alone
j are pure, and worthy men, with whom the reins of
government will he perfectly safe and secure. But
to drop the general charge, let us enquire how fur
the charge of corruption is true as regards Mr. Van
Buren—and in the first place, we can only judge of
a man’s character by his actions—every man is con
sidered honest, until ho is proved the reverse. Mr.
Van Buren is charged with being a corrupt, design
ing and insidious demagogue. Now have these
things ever been proven ? Can the federal party
designate one act of Mr. Van Biiren’s, that
will ever give a coloring to the charges ? Can
they put their finger on the act of duplicity or cor
ruption, that he been guilty of? If they can
not do it, and they have not done it; then let them
hold their peace, and not prove themselves vehicles
of falsehood and detraction, by failing to establish
what they charge. If Mr. Van Buren is the design
ing man they say he is, why did he not desert the
Sub-treasury, and hold on to the State Banks as
depositories for the national revenue? If he is the
magician they say he is, he might have exerted an 1
immense influence over the officers' of all these ’
hanks (some seventy odd in number) and moulded '
them to his every wisb,buthe was willing to cut him
selt ol irom all this power,and adopt the Sub-treasury,
where,with the advice and consent of the Senate he
can appoint four Receiver Generals, and ten or
twelve assistant clerks. Does this look like design
ing, corrupting,insidious demagogueisrn ? But more*
wneu the Congress of the United States laid ten
millions of dollars at his feet, and authority to
out oU thousand men, to guard against
led war: did he use this money iu a designing or
corrupt manner? Did he abuse the high trust re-
posed in him. in the hour of danger? it is a
kno w (act, that the first dollar of tiiat appropriation
was never called for by the President. And vet,
while that very transaction is fresh iu the minds of
all, the federal o.tice seekers charge him with having
usurped the purse oftlie nation, and that he is now H
seeking to fasten upon us a standing army of 200,(Xt0 H
men. “Oh! shame, where is thy blush,” when men H
ofacknowLdged talents, and giant minds, so far fur- Bl
gel the dignity of their high stations, as to stoop to
foul detraction, and base calumny, to insure a tri- H
umph ot their amti-Republican principles. That H
cause can never prevail with the people, w here ar- ■
guinea!, whare proof,waero every tiling is assertion
and assertion only. A. B.