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To (he n< inor iali<- Itepilhiiiaii
I*ariy «»' Alabama.
CIBCIL IC.
Sut: Willi a view to counteract the
unparalleled exertions of our oppo
nents, we respectfully suggest, through
you, to the republican party of your
country, the following means of organ
izing the party, and disseminating ;
among the people of every county in
the State, political information as to
the principles of the two parties, and !
the issues which are involved in the
approaching Presidential election.
Ist. A call of the republican party !
in each county should la: made at as
early a day as a general attendance
cau he had, to nominate the strongest
candidates liir the offices to In: filled
by the August election, where candi
dates arc not yet in the field.
2d. A committee of from fifty to a 1
hundred of the strongest men in cwrv
part of the countv should lie tip; ohn
ed. to he called the Republican C< unt\
Committee.
lid. This coiiiiniitec should select
three or live of th< ir number, near the
Court-House, or some central point,to
be called the Central Republican Cum
milter, whose duty it should Ik: to fix
the place and call nv'-etuvis of ru:-
party for the purpose of discussion,
select the individuals who are to ad
dress the party, and propose, when
they think proper, public discussions,
challenging their opponents to meet
for that purpose. They should .also
collect funds from the members o| the
party, for the purpose of disseminat
ing political information iu newspa
pers, books, or pamphlets, report to
some republican newspaper their pro
ccedings at the time of the organiza
tion, setting forth the names of the se
veral committees; correspond with
similar committees iri other counties,
and with some one ol the undersigned,
giving from l ine to time the results of
the ir organization.; and should, at least
once a fortnight, have a complete re
port from every part of the comity,
through the (anility Committee, ol
prospects ol the republican ticket.
4tli. It should be the duly of the
County Committee to report from
the ir icspeciive neighborhoods to the
Central Committee as often as requir
ed ; use their exertions to procure a
full attendance tit the meetings of the
party ; disseminate such information
us may be procured bv the county
committee, and report what sort of
info hi million is most required in their
neighborhoods. In short, they should
use all lair and honorable means to
procure the success o| tile republican
ticket, and do whatever can properly
be done to aid the good cause of Re
publican principles throughout their
co mtv. Among oilier things, they
should report I lie names of such per
sons in tneir neighborhood, as would
read with interest such political infor
mation ;is we might send to them, de
signating their appropriate post-olfices,
and tinougli the central committee,
have a full list of all such persons in
the county forwarded to us as soon as
possible.
In suggesting the propriety of rais
in" a /•««(/ for the dissemination of
inlormati .11, it is mi part of our pur
pose to exempt ourselves from the
duty wo have always willingly as
sumed, of circulating, in addition to
pul-lic documents printed 1 y Congress,
speeches, circulats and pamphlets,
published at our own expense, a mi cal
culated to sustain, unit own views of
public men and measures. Wo have
not been, nor do we intend to be. re
miss in assuming this expense, lint
what are our individual inoans of cir
uulating such information, against a
committee of our opponents, who, with
immense funds, collected from a pnrtv
numbering in tlreir ranks a large ma
jority of the mercantile and profession
al classes, and backed by the Ranks,
in a contest waged against the present
administration, mainly to restore to
these institutions the use of the public
revenue, and the credit which the go
vernment has heretofore given to tlieir
notes by receiving them in payment
of the public dues ! With all the aid
we can hope to receive from our re
publican friends, we are convinced
that our circulation, will not tic com
parable with that o| cur opponents.
We, however, promise that a/n/ funds
yon may send oit In. us, shall be em
ployed in bringing into circulation such
papers, prniipli/cls and speeches, as
are calculated to advance republi
can principles; and; relying on the
justice of our cause, we til not doubt
that, with the small aid which may be
given to our indi\idual means, the peo
ple wiil be prepared with sufficient in
iorniation to meet the great issue which
is to settle the character of our Gov
ernment, as one of liberty anil equali
ty. or of monopoly and privilege.
We also urge iqioti you to extend
the circulation of republican newspa
pers. The republican press hnsadapt
ed itself to the pecuniary condition of
the country ; and to arrest the misrep
resentations of our opponents, cheap
publications may be had :<t a subscrip
tion price of one dollar, from this un
til the Presidential election, and even
at a less price, for several subscribers
who may send on their names.
Wc again urge o:i you the necessity
of immediate action in organizing your
county, in publishing your organiza
tion, and in sending on to us, forthwith,
a complete list of the names of per
sons. and the appropriate post-offices,
to whom we should send pukhc docu
ments ! It is also important we sliould
know who constitute j our committees, I
and the post-offices where we may i
address anv one of them. In making
out lists of names, we wish them
made out without respect to parties, as
we believe that many of our oppo
nents only want cot reel information to
form a correct judgment. I.et the
lists include all who feel sufficient inte
rest in public affairs to read the infor
mation we may furnish them.
We tire, very respectfully.
Your obedient servants.
WILLIAM It. KING.
CLEMENT C. CLAY.
REUBEN CHAPMAN,
DAVID HUBBARD.
DIXON H. LEWIS.
Wasiu.xuto«, May 14, 1810.
TO THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICAN
PARTY OP ALABAMA.
/'allow-Citizens: The extraordina
ry exertions which are making to mis
lead the public mind on the approach
ing I’r* svleutTal election, and which,
we arc informed, have extended to A
fabama, induce us to address you on
the propriety of adopting a political or
ganization in every county throughout
the States, which shall insure a union
of effort in defence of our principles,
as effective as that with which they
are assailed. The two great parties,
which have always divided the coun
try, tire again in the field, struggling
for mastery ; wc, under our appropri
ate name and principles, contending
for a strict construction of the Consti
tution, which shall protect the rights of
the many against the encroachments
of a privileged few ; while our oppo
mr Is, under the hope of concealing
their politictil identity, have assumed
the new name of Whigs; but are true
to their old principles: That ours is a
Government, not of equality, but <d
privilege; and that under the Consti
ti:lion, Congress can confer on favored
individuals not only the exclusive pri
vilege of manufacturing a paper cur
rency of the whole Union, but the
right to convert the whole revenues of
the Government into so much bank
capital, to lie used and loaned out for
their individual benefit. 'I his is the
true issue which is involved in the pre
sent contest of politictil parties, and,
to insure another signal triumph to the
Republican cause, it is only necessary
that the question should be fairly un
derstood. The great body of the peo
ple, who have no favors to ask but an
holiest and equal administration of the
Governmont, are, and ever have been,
essentially Republican. If any por
tion of them have adhered with stric
ter fidelity than till the rest to these
cherished principles, it has been the
Southern pcple. With th t», Repub
licanism is not merely a sentiment, con
secrated bv education and tlieir earli
est political recollections, it is to them
a citadel of defence against the en
croachments of the stronger sections
of the Confederacy ; a fortress for all
their rights and institutions ag-inst the
assaults of a tariff’, a bank, or tlieir still
more formidable enemy, Abolition.
With what propriety, then, can the
Southern people, unless under a most
woful misconception of the contest, be
expected to throw tlieir strength a
gninst the re election of a Chief Ma
gist rate, who, by bis unffineliing sup
port of republican principles, lias been
designated by bis opponents, ".I An; th
em President with Southern pnuci
files."
Hut, fellow-citizens, in relying on
the justice of our cause, and the strength
ol our principles, let us not underrate
til,- efforts of our adversaries to mis
lead and deceive the-people. It is not
Gen. Harrison’s popularity wc have to
meet; it is not the naked face or the
naktd weapons-of our old Federal op
ponents we have to contend against;
it is their still more powerful allies
which are to give heat and violence to
the contest. The. whole hanking pow
er of the count/ y, with a very few ho
norable exceptions, lias taken up arms
against the present administration.
The number of these institutions is a
liovc eight hundred, dispersed through
every State and Territory in the U
uion. To judge of their power and
influence, it insufficient to say, that, at
the period of the general suspension of
specie payments, there was due to
them from the people, tlie enormous
sum of live hundred millions of dollars.
What a weight of influence is this to
throw around the consciences and opi
nions of men in a contest, by which
the banks are struggling to regain their
lost power and privileges-! Is it to be
wondered at, that lour filtlis of the po
litical press, the citadel of popular
rights, have surrendered at discretion
to this immense power, and are doing
its bidding by writing up Gen. Harri
son and writ’ng down Mr. Van Boren ?
j Need we be surprised at the books,
pamphlets, documents, essays, speech
es, caricatures, and lives of Gen. .Har
rison, with pictorial representations,
which are pouring in upon a central
committee of members of Congress at
this place, who frank them off - in the
t 1
proportion of uuigou lom/s to the bush
rls sent by the Republican members ?'
Need we wonder at the perfect organ
ization of this party throughout every’-
State, and in every county in the l’-
nion? That this central committee,
have found their way to almost every
post office in Alabama ; and that eve
ry human means arc used to cause the
people to ground their arms before
these potentates of the paper system,
and the political party to which they
are allied. Need we wonder, that
when the makers of paper money have
so much at stake in the coming elec
tions, they should avail themselves of
a pecuniary pressure in England, still
more intense than exists in this coun
try —a pressure which the hoard of
trade of the great manufacturing
town of Manchester have proven
conclusively to be produced by the
joint action of tl e Rank of England
and British hankers—a pressure which
has reduced our cotton in English mar
lads to the lowest price—need we he
surprised, that this moment should be
seized on as a favorable one, to in
crease the pecuniary sufferings of the
people, with a view of furnishing
ground of accusation against the pre
sent administration ? Need we he sur
prised that travelling emissaries of
hank power should he sent abroad to
preach to the people, that tl e hard
times are produced by the Sub-Trea
sury policy of the Administration, be
fore that policy has been either adopt
ed or put in force.
In reply to this clamor of hard
times, we put the question to the
hanks, why tliev, who have tile exclu
sive privilege of furnishing a hank pa
per currency, have not furnished the
country with a sufficient and sound pa
per medium. We hold them to their
responsibility, and demand an answer
to the question. The Sub-Treasury,
which they ailed to dread, has not
been put in force, and the banks are,'
from the necessities of the case, to a
great extent the depositories of the
public money, The hills of all specie
paying banks arc still received in pay
ment of public dues. The Legislatures
of tlie several States have imposed no
disabilities on them. On the contrary,
it lias been matter of exultation on the
floor of Congress, and in the opposi
tion press, that Democratic Legisla
tures have shrunk from the responsibi
lity of enforcing any measure of re
slrictioii or forfeiture on the suspended
hanks. In this condition of exemption
from all legislative interference on the
part of the States or the Federal Go
vernment, why do not the banks re
lieve the present pressure? I (able,
where is their apology for not doing it,
except a determination to drive the
people, by sutlering, against thy pre
sent administration ? If unable, does it
not prove the utter worthlessness of
these institutions, stud of the hank cir
culation ! Why should they throw the
bkunc on the Government, which lias
no control over the question, except in
the collection ol its own revenues,
which it now does in bank paper, and
which the present Sub-Treasury bill
does not propose to discontinue fur
yetirs to come? 'lf the banks, when
they Imre crrnj thing in their own inn/,
are not able or willing to furnish a> suf
ficiency of sound currency for the de
mands of the country, they might as
well be abolished, and let us return to
a metalie currency at once.
The first manifestation of relief un
der the present pressure lias been, not
Iro n the banks, but from private capi
talists. Money is now abundant in
New York, on good- security, at less
than the legal interest ; and we have
the authority of the Whig correspond
ent of the National Intelligencer, that
In that city the difficulty is not in. find
ing lenders at legal interest, but sound
borrowers; so utterly lias the hank sys
tem destroyed any thing life sound
credit.
But, fellow-citizens, whatever are the odds
against us in this contest, we look with confi
dence to the people, as the only power which
I can triumphantly sustain the cause ofequali
ty, against the powerful foes by which it is
assailed. It is a question for the industrious
producing classes—mechanics and sturdy ag
riculturists of the country—how far they
will degrade the pursuits of labor, by giving
to the manufactuer of paper money an ascen
dency, which shall make labor still more tri
butary to the exactions of the paper svstem.
From the beginning of time, a perpetual war
lias been waged by pricilege on popular
rights. The same struggle is still going on,
for the purpose of giving to the cormorant
appetite of the banks, a larger slice from the
loaf of labor ; and it is for tins reason we urge
on you to take timely means to arm the people
in '/■fence of the people. Let them know that
the banks have been for three years urging a
doubtful battle with the Government, for the
possession and use of the public purse, and for
the privilege of having a fictitious credit given
to their notes, by being received in exclusive
payment of the public dues. Let them know
that this lias been avowedly the ground of
dispute between the political parties ever
since the time when, by a general suspension,
these faithless depositories reduced the gov
ernment, with a redundant treasury, to tem
porary bankruptcy. Let it le known that,
for resisting this claim of bank privilege, Rlr.
Van Buren has been the doomed victim ol
bank vengeance. Let them know that the
party sustaining the insolent pretensions ol
these purse-proud corporations, have brought
forward General Harrison as a candidate for
the Presidency, with the avowed intention ol
restoring these privileges to the banks. Let
it be known who constituted the convention
by which he was nominated—how little the
great productive classes, who fill the ranks of
the republican party, had to do with that nom
ination. Let them, in shor*, comprehend
what we believe to be the true issue, whether
the banks or the people are to govern this
country, and we have no fear of the verdict
which the popular voice will pronounce.
But, fellow-citizens, we cannot close this
communication, without bringing to your no
tice what we honestly believe to be another
element of Gen. Harrison’s strength, which,
though not as powerful as the one already j
mentioned, is perhaps still more dangerous to
the south. We will not stop to inquire what
are the opinions and feelings of Gen. Harrison
on the absorbing subject of Abolition. We j
will, for the present, suppose, as his friends j
urge, that lie is free from the infection of this 1
foul fanaticism; but we cannot help reflect
ing, that public men are more or less under
the control of the party by which they are
brought into power; and that it is often
more important to examine the principles of
that party than the individual they propose
fur olfice. This is more particularly just in
relation to a Presidential candidate, and the
party by which he is sustained, for his success
invariably brings that party into power and
otficc. To test General Ilarnson by this
rule, what are his claims on the South. It
will be recollected, that in the convention by
which he was nominated, he received not a
single vote from any slaveholding State. The
Southern portion of the convention, after be
ing out-voted, acquiesced in the nomination;
but not until, by a decisive vote, they had ex
pressed their preference for another. So irre
concilable were the opinions of that conven
tion, they adjourned, without adopting in the
form of a public address, anv exposition of
their principles, or the principles of their can
didate ; and, from that day to this, the opi
nions of both the convention and the nominee
on this vital question-have been purposely
kept from the public. More recently, a great
national convention of Whig young men, pur
porting to represent every portion of the
Union, assembled in Baltimorc.and numbered,
according to their own accounts, twenty thou
sand persons ; and yet this immense assem
blage of the party passed oft' without adopt
ing any address, or avowing a single political
principle, except their determination to place
themselves in |>ower. If there was uo con
trariety of feeling, why did tlyy not publish
an address; and if General Harrison owes
nothing to the support of the Abolitionists,
why does lie not come out boldly, and de
nounce them and their wicked designs. In
striking contrast to tire policy of our oppo
nents, in not trusting the people with an
avowal of their principles—a policy new in
the history of parties in this country, and
based upon a feeling of mistrust toward the
people—the Democratic Convention winch
nominated Mr. Van Buren on the sth ol tiro
present month, among oilier resolutions defi
ning their principles, and to which we art
proud to call the attention of Southern peo
ple--unanimously
“ ttesolmt, Tim t Congi-eg® has no power, under
the Constitution, Vo Hilertere whb or control die do
nie-rir in-ritorioiw of (lie several stoles, nod dint
sneli Siores are toe sole and proper judges of every
dime uppci laiuiiig to llieir own nllnirs, not pmliilu
t.-d l.v die Constitution; dint all efinrts of die uhuli
tiiniists, or otliers, mud,* lo induce Congress to in
terfere with ijncsuons of slavery, or lo lake incipi
ent steps in relation tlicreio, an* calculated to loud
lo die most iilnriiiiii-r and dangerous consequences ;
and that all sueli cflorts have an inevitable tendency
to diminish the happiness of the people, and endan
ger the stability unit permanency of the I nion, and
oiielit lint lo lie countenanced by any friend lo our
political institutions.
The Democratic State Convention in Ohio,
and most of the Demecratiß Legislatures'.
liuvo openly denounced Abolition and Aboli
tionist. We challenge our op|ionents to show
when a 11/tig ('nnenitinn, a Whig Legisla
ture, or any other Whig asscoiation in the non.
siiceholUing Stales, hate uttered a sentiment
of disapprobation of the Abolitionists or their
iiwoiilinry schemes. Mr. Van Buren has not
failed to respond to every cal! which has been
made on him in relation to this question, by
expressing his determination to ti*e the pow
ers with which lie is vested by the constitu
tion, in opposing every project of I lie.se incen
diary agitators ; and yet Gen. Harrison, from
considerations which none can mistake, closes
Ins lips on the subject.
If the silence of Gen. Harrison, taken in
connection with the circumstances under
which lie obtained bis nomination in prefer
ence to Mr. Clay, the idol of the whig party,
did'not sufficiently disclose the Abolition a
geney by which he is presented lor the l’re
sidency, a secret circular issued Irom Albany,
bv S. Dewitt Bloodgotid, a leading Abolition
Whig, lias been brought to light, and repub
lished hr 60iiie weeks without its authentici
ty being questioned, so far as we know ; which
fully discloses the means by which it was ef
fected. This secret circular, it was said, was
sent to the Whig delegates in the non-slave
holding States, as soou as they were minima,
ted to the convention ; and, among many rea
sons why Gen. Harrison could be elected, and
Mr. Clay could not, the circular says of Mr.
Clay, “the Abolitionists gcneralty will op/wsc
han,” while Gen. Harrison was represented'
as a candidate “free from these objections.”
But the following paroxyism of Abolition
exstacy from the Emancipator, the Abolition
organ in New York, in the incautious mo
ment »f receiving the flrst news of Gen. Har
rison's nomination, is conclusive:
“The H.vKßisni'RU Convention.— Well die
agony is over, and Henry Clay i>—laid upon die
shelf. And no man of ordinary intelligence ran
doubt or deny that it is the anti-a'avery feeling of
die North which has done it, in conneetion with
his own ostentatious and infamous pro-slavery de
monstrations in* Congress. Praise to Cod for a
great ami slavery victory. A man of high talents,
of great distinction, of long political services, of
boundless persona! popularity, has been openly re
jected for die Presidency of this great Republic on
account of his devotion to slavery. Set up a mon
ument of progress there. Let the winds tell the
tale—let the slaveholders hear the news—lei for
eign nations hear ii—let Q’Conocll hear it—lei the
slaves hear it—a slaveholder is incapacitated for
the Presidency of the United Estates. The reign
of slaveocracy is hastening to a close. The rejec
tion of Henry Clay by the Whig Convention, taken
in connection with all die circumstances, is one of
die heaviest blows the monster slavery has receiv
ed in diis country."
Again, read the following exultations of the
notorious Garrison:
“From Garrison's Liberator.
“Nomination of General Harrison.— The
National Whig Convention, assembled ai Harris
burg onthe Gt! instant, nominated William Henry
Harrison for the office of President of the United
Stares. On the first and second ballot, the vote
stood for Henry Clay, 103; for Harrison *J4; for
Wii.field Seott, 57. On the third ballot, the vote
was, for Harrison, 148; for Clay, UO; for Scott, 16.
All the slave States u ent for ('lay. We regard this
( ns another important sign of the times— as a signal
defeat of the slave holding pou er in this country. —
Had it not been for Abolitionism, Henry Clnv
would undoubtedly have been nominated. IVe
have faith to believe that no slaveholder util ever
again be permitted to fill the Presidential office in
this Rejmblic.'*
The Le Roy Gazette, once edited by Mr.
’ Gate?, a Whig: Abolition member of Congress
from New York, says:
“Very much like, indeed! The editor of the
. Ohio paper abandoned the Whigs because thei/ no
minated the Abolitionists , and joined the Loco Foeos
because they vent for the dough faces, while ue left
the Jacks on party because it adhered to slavery , and
united with the Whigs because they supported Abo
lition.' *
The following extract of a letter from the
sa mu Mr. Gates, ehnwa further the'hopes of
the Abolitionists Irom General Ilar.-ison’s
etertiou:
‘•Yon «i'l have iren hy the last I’tiilunihropiist,
! that (.enurul Harrison is nrluully a lu.tnbrr of an
Abolitionist fcouitiy, and, m 1822. ('.allur’d nut tn
He in favor of slavery at ad, arid excused himself
for his vo'eoii the Missouri ai.d Arkansas questions,
on the yround of constitutional objections, which,
consistently with his oath to support the ( « nstitu
| lion, he lii mphl he conhl not disregard. He also
| claims ilia: he was the first member of Cotgressto
: propose the prohibition of slavery forever in the
I Territory above Missouri. He says, while he has
1 heen the means of lib* rating many slater, he has
nev' r placed one in hnniluge.
“Whether these explanations, taken in connec
tion with the fact that hrs Vincennes speech was
delivered at a time when the principles of modern
Abolition were imperfectly uiiden.toud in t lino, w ill !
render him so far acceptable to Abolitionists in
ynur section, as to induce them In vote lor him in
prelerenee to Van Kuren, who has thrown himself
so lully into the embraces of the S' uih. to secure
the slaveholdit g it flucnce, 1 am of course unable
to predict.”
In a letter from a Mr. llance, a Abo
litionist, published in the “Philanthropist” of
March 17, the writer says:
i*/lave llie Abolitionists not already reason to con
grotubete themselves on the concessions mode to Heir
influence in the nominal.tea of General Harrison? —
Mart assuredly they hate. tVho is there that ran he- ,
lietelhat General Harrison icould havebreaxhe Whig
candidate, hud it not beta fur Clay's anti Abolition
rfierih in the United Male* Senate last spring? Is
NOT THE HaRRISBURG NOMINATION A GREAT ABO
LITION VICTORY. ACQUIREII WITHOUT A SINGLE
iiirect EUFORTor ours? And u:hut doe i this pro
mise us in future , if tee unly remain true to our first
principles."
If the length of this address would permit,
we could multiply proofs of this identity of
the Abolitionists with the Whig party of Hie
North, to an extent which would astound the
Southern people, and perhaps none more than
those who, by clamor and the activity of our
opponents, have, without due reflection, de
clared for Gen Harrison, and who we know
to be as decidedly opposed to the Abolition
ists as we are ourselves. Most of these we
are certain have avowed their preference lor
Gen. llarrison with but a limited knowledge
of his character or his principles, and with no
other fueling than that of op|>osiliou to Mr.
Van Buren, thus furnishing another instance
of the reckless extent to which embittered
party feeling sometimes carries the most pa
triotic aud worthy. We are greatly deceiv
ed if the dissemination of information as to
the views of the Abolitionists, and the purpo
ses they expect to secure by the election of
Gen. Harrison, does not cause thousands in
the South to pause, and, ultimately, to retrace
the steps into which they have been inconsi
derately hurried.
To that portion of Gen. Harrison’s sttnpor
tors who live by banks and the profits of uia.
king paper money, and who have joined in the
warfare against Mr. Van Buren, for no other
purpose than to maintain the paper system,
we have little doubt that even Abolition itself
has fewer horrors than the prostration of bank
power and the loss of hank privileges.
In short, we believe the election of Gen.
Harrison would he the triumph of Northern
Federalism, Bankisnt, and Abolitionism ; that
it would bring irt’o power a political par’y
whose ascendency would be fatal to the rights
anti institutions of the Sou*it ; that it would
be followed by a strong Federal Goveriiinen’,
a high tariff, a nrainmutli Federal Bank, a sys
tem of internal improvements l.ylhe Federal
1 Government, and by all the concomitants of
Federal usurpation, which are subversive of
the rights of the States, and the liberties of
the people.
W.M. R. KIN
C. r. CLAY,
DIXON 11. LEWIS,
DAVII> HI BBARD,
RF.UBF.N CHAPMAN.
IIA It 111 SON WHIG l*() I.!(:'Y.
In order that tin; 7'Ve« People of
these United States may know ilte po
licy of the Wing candidate for the pre
sidency, wo append the following
They most cerfainlv will not tmutde
the “old gentleman,”after so full a "de
claration ofliis principles.”
His conscience keepers have given
notice to the world, “that policy is that
the General make n«n further declara
tion of his principles, for the public eye
whilst occupying his present position.”
OCr 1 Thu old gentleman Inis ait length
thus far, responded to the questions
propounded by the Ostwogo Associa
tion.
On Stare i/.
Wonderling enneatjc em tile cron
old on itn tep cartin. Yenderslieem
eomniondos, de slcavo pr hondngo in
fredmo alaenso dona moi una kask
alo ciderosanc plas? Vl’le von cost
avid moi de bon didra. Lcibitcrc !’
Lirrbrette! ! .
On the Bank.
Humnoetrauned unimurnturnip hes
daketf udeopo Bank de Unis State's
per Ridlo papero de bom com soi grat.
La Engla, La Austria, la hardo dos
monarclio per tuct la Cornu ib gi.Hitos
moro, pasequa hibonis.
On the Bankrupt Law.
Hiqderling selo sqatlo rascal t net
quucslitnwar sojounag petio au devo.
Q.uam canestma eta loso mum bedo
goberno svvartseco rumbaassii? IST>
dos quedmhig predciwa po no scse?
honumb dini tile Bankrupt Law.
It is true, the democracy of the coun
try do not exactly understand the posi
tion of the General yet, but the Feder
alists can, and they have little else to
dothan explain it to the people.
[From the \rtr York Freni in' Post.]
A new political tlmurcr has lately arisen which
we confess gives us some anxiety, although we are
little inclined to despondency. The enemies of the
democratic party tlicaten to put it down by aingimr.
They have pointed at it the whole artillery of the
Irani lit. \\ e are ail to underzo solmiz;. fion; we are
to be destroyed by “the &weetand contagious breath,”
as Jrir Andrew Aeuecbeck has it, of our adversaries.
Here is a sample of the preparations which the friends
of Harrison are making for our defeat. This which
follow s..is from the K veiling Star.
“Sfvkntf.knth Ward.—There w ill he a rousing
meeting this evening, at the Tippecanoe Club of the
17th. Music, public speaking, xfood singing ami
hard cuter. Several eminent persons arc expected
to speak.”
The uext is from the American.
“Fifth Ward Tippkcaxoes.—There will he a
•Treat gathering of the ‘Tippeear.oes’ at the Lop Ca
bin, No. 1 tis Chope4 street, to-night. Good speaking
and spirited singing may he expected, ns several
distinguished members of the party,from New Jersey
and elsew here, will be present.”
i So it seems that the two divisions of the whip par
ty are united in the determination to destroy the de
mocrats with music as we exterminate vermin with
.ratsbane. The readers of the American and the
readers of the Star, the drawing room and the tap
room, are united on this point; while the one set trill
their Tippecanoe ballads to the air o fdi tanti palpiti.
the other thunders them out to the tune of come let
t us atl be jolty.. A regular organization has been set
on toot tor this purpose, Tippecanoe Clubs arc form a
ing udt only iu the various wards of this citv, but
throughout the country, to drink hard cider mid
songs in praise of Harrison. Stores of ballads have
been provided to serve as heavy ordnance lor the po
litical campaign; glee* aud catches are ready 1 to
throw into our camp like hand t: re undoes and Cou
greve rockets; the whi; poets are at work like ar
mourers and gunsmiths, lubricating election rhvines,
and we scarcely open a whig newspaper without
findiug one or two Harrison soups. The plan is to
exterminate us chromatically, to cut us to pieces with
A sharp and lay us prostrate with G flat, to hum ns
down with fugues, overrun us with choruses, aud
bring in Harrison by a grand diapason.
We could meet the whig* on the field of argument
and beat them without effort; if the question were of
principles am! measures, wa should make short work
with them; in that coutest wchave die people fulfv
on our sale, But when they lay down she weapons
of argument aud attack us with musical notes, what
can we do ? We can refute their rcasouiugs, but
liowcauwe stand against their iiiiuiuis crotchets
| and their volleys oi'dcioisemi-quavers linked toge
ther like chain shot ! We care uot for tlieir orator*
and tlieir journalists, tlieir speeches and tlieir para
graphs, but how shall we resist the couuterpoiut ! -
r l here, is a certain beauty of correspondence in
these musical arraugemeuts of the Whigs. Men
w hose brains are muddled at the Tippecanoe club*
with drinking hard cider, qualified with a little bran
dy, to prevent it, as die Highlander savs in one of
Scott’s novels, from being “owre cold for the stu"
uiach,” can neither reason nor understand reason.—
They cannot reuson, but they can shout, and they
feel a strong propensity to lift up tlieir voices. Bv
providiug them witii glees and catches uud chorus
es,two important ends are attained: they both gratify
tlieir inclination for making a noise, ami do iuliuit*
mischief to the party they oppose.
It is said that Mr. V it Buren U so ill-informal«nr
this subject, that he actually expects lobe re-elected
President of the I nited States. We admit, as ulf
the world does, his shrewdness and sagacity, and
bis usual exemption from the delusion of Li lee hopes,
but we fear he lms not a musical ear. We iear he
has not read the bulbuls written against him, and
does not know the times to w iticii they are set.
We bud written thus far when the thought struck
us that we had heard of persons who died of their
own music. Mo/"rt, for example, <Bad of his own
| Requiem*. Vs•• w a d*re reugl ill oilier day, an
| account of a ywuJZi, lady ./ho actually setig and
! played herself to death. The swau, as the ancient
pm t* said, afterscreaiuin* horribly all its life,expire*
hi singing, and who knows bnt this may l>e th j eu
thanasia of the whig party f The idea is verv pro
i liable. As we approach the November election and
| as the iiidicafious oi the final issue grow clearer and
cfenrerglic whig parti,wc are stispieimis, will begin,
us the cunt phrase lias a, to “sing small,” until its
I strains shall die awnv gradually into complete si
-1 I e lice; unless, like the box in one of Chaucer’s tales,
| who cliHtinted lustily with bis throat rut from ear Ift
. ear, it continues to sing alt, rit is liiirii dead. It i<
perhaps presumptuous iu us to iimkr In ■ suggestion
to persons so well skilled iu music as tie* wiiigs, lint
! wo cannot help flunking, that by wav of preparing
for the worst, it would be well for tliciu ro sot a por
tion ol the llarrison bulbuls to “the tune the old ciav
(lied Mi.’ r
J Prom the A*. Y. Evening Post.]
If any of our grave tquf sobercitizen* whoaft
fathers of touug men belonging to the Tippecanoe
clubs iu tins city should find themselves perfectly at
leisure of a line evening, wli-n the clubs are adver
tised to assemble, perhaps they could not better em
ploy tlieir time than by walking out mid dropping in
ut the meetings, which arc public, in order ju t to*
satisfy themselves xv lint til* ir sous arc uhout. Th *v
w ill til ’ll he able to judge fi»r theinselveH wh'liter
these prtMwisetMMis ro ivivinl »-M>ciafioiis are propcn
things to encourage, ami whetii r the newspaper*
perform their duty iu commending them und coun
sel ling th ir reader** to alt nil. We h ive heard that
t!iw number of x omig men xv ho ar • seen at these pla
ces in a state of intoxication is so great as to excite
alarm even in untilv who at first saw xvith Mtisfae
tiou the establishment of the Tippecanoe club# us n
party engine.
At the Anmml Teinpemnec ('onveiitiaii of tho
stab* of Connecticut, held at N *w Haven a few day*
since, Mr. Leonard Bacon, a awl w.*
frr from his language u whig, aft r allud: ig to sum •
other causes which led to backsliding iu ttiiii
peraiiee, said:
“There is another reason why the cause of tem
perance is retrograding. It is, (and I say it with no
wish to offend any pcr-oti,) it is owing in a great
measure to causes of recent occurrence: Within
three or four iiiomhs. LlrinLing ha* heroine the
fmd'e of a political unrig 4 —Th.’ hard money InTftV
bug was hard enough—but tl».‘ hard-cider luimbug,
will prove ii.or.’ to the country,and more
degrading to those concerned in it. Vos, i:»t lligcut
men—m n who have enjox *d t!ie Iwucflts of dirts
• tali teachings—and wlm live in hla ml of* gosjicf
light—-arc culled ujhhi to cxhMot tln'ir cnriiosi'Min iu
npidilical strif’,bx drinking hardrittcr, maffc haul t
1 by laird brandy, for th*’ -lory of General Hhiti-.ii !*
V c«—at these conventions and cominittei- room*,
n any a young mini w ill bike his first lesson* in
dr mkeiuiess, w hich will bring him to the aliushons »
or the prison, and flic drunkard’s grave!—Mur • t'lan
tea thousand men will Ikj made drunkards in on •
year, by t iis “hard eider enthusiasm.”
From all that we can learn we have reason to Im*-
lieve that Mr. Bacon has neither overstated the so
nor over estimated the danger. Whalevt r r»a\ b*
thought of the prudence and the propriety of soon
of the measures resorted to by the zealous friends of
temperance,there can be no question with any mao,
that it is most desirable to preserve all that tliccom
muiiitx has gained iu the geucrul prevalence of tem
perntg habits, and that any r. lapse towards that vice
which is the par mt of so maiiy criim>, so much po
verty and so many diseases, xvould be most deplora
ble. The relapse, how ever, is going on; going on
rapidly,conttigmudy; spreading with all tliefnix of
aii ;xv fa diion. under tlic auspice*of a party which
pretend* to the exclusive possession of good man
ners and good morals. If there are among liic w big*
any xv ho value the moral aud physical welMa»ii:g of
. tlieir fellow ciliz ns, wv comi't I diem to look to it,
| lest hv tlieir encourage incut or tlieir aeqnicsi ercc
I they bring upou the community a greater and more
j permanent cx il th.in any which, even according ro
I tlieir ow n notions, could arise from keeping the pre
| sent administration iu power.
PKOSPECTTO
lof a new Klv Paper to l»<* pul»li»le*il in .\agu-ta, entitled
Till: ftOITIHiK.XiSR.
“ PIIIYCIPLt:S soT MESF
order to expose ami counteract the uitsrrprr scuta-
J M. turn* ami iai»elit»o U-o uiibluriiiugly re>orir«l to and
dis.veuiiuatcd by the Federal Whig PrPMtrj of the country,
ia the |»re.-»eiit contest for the PieNidencv. and hi order to
place before the People of <Georgia, a faithful account of
past and passing events, a* they relate to the question* at
issue, we shall begin the publication of :i weekly sheet, on
SATURDAY, the Gth of June next, which xv ill terminate
oa the 31»tof October following. We have been urged on
t *the adoption of this uadertakiu?, by many of ourpolit.-
c.d friends, who have seen, as well as ourselves, the un
scrupulous and highly censurable course pursued by our
opponent*, which, i .stead of being marked by honorable
and just feelings, is character act! by a perversion and dis
tortion of well authenticated facts, aud a feeling of hatred
degrading to human n ature, and to the respect which should*
Ik* entertained by citizen* of the same couutry, however
wide may the difference be in tbeir political opiuious.
This paper w ill not be betrayed into a like course towards
b'ii j? w ill ev.qose, in strong language, and
w ith undoubted proofs, themisr.epresentations andfalsifica
tiuos which may Be resorted to, iu order to prejudice the
sensitive mind, to dereive.the uiMveary, and to lead astrav
the unsuspecting. In this undartkking, we hope to receive
a support adequate to the objcrfYn view. By the dissemi
nation of this sheet, much and useful iuformjtion will be
imparted to those who wivh to act, iuthc present contest,
w ith impartiality and u itb a siusle eye to tfie public good.
With these few remarks, we place the undertaking under
the care of our political friends to whatever party denomi
nation they may hive heretofore belonged, for we consi
der a* political friends all those citizens who, governed by
patriotism alone, support mm only for the ?akc of princi
ple, and the welfare of the country*.
We must show to ill- people of t ie United States the
danger of the rights of the States, aid of the State Institu
tions protected by the constitution; threatened a* they are
by a party which, disregarding ho.iest and fair means tee
obtain power, employ the basest expedients torally aroumtf
it* standard inen ot all political descriptions, of all politi
cal hues, and of all degrees of politic d degeneracy.
HTTtif. Southerner will be printed, on a large ?’ ert
every Saturday, from theGtli ofjune to the 31>t October.,
for One Dollar, payable in advance. As postmasters arc
. authorized to transmit money for subscription* to new s
papers, persons wishin? to subscribe to the Sooriverner
can request their respective postmasters to transmit to us
the amount ofsubs, . iptiou. GI.’fEU & THOMPSON’.
EPKditors of papers sii this State aud South Uaroliua .
friendly to the object of the above paper, w ill please give
tliis prospec.usone or tw o insertions.
May I*2 IYO
Deairabu: and vAlr.irleTro.
PERT\ FOR SALE.—As it has been determined
to dispose of the lot belouging.to the Roman Catholic
; Society of Augusta, and on a part of which the church
stauds, pa«po>als will be received by the Trustees, for the
purchase of the whole or parts of the lot. Verv accom
modating terms will lie given. The situation of the lot
so well kuown, that it is unnecessary to state particulars.
: Any person desirous of purchasing, can have all the infor*
mation they wish, by application to the. Rev. John Barn ,
on the premises, aud opposite the depot of the Georgia
Rail Road.
Augusta, April 15,1840.. w 6 [aria