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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