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THE MADISONI AN. '
W AVHINGTON CITY. ,
SATURDAY KVEMNO, NOVEMBER 18, 18?. 1
U mull TMIHftl HHIlH 1HI (IIMTIiL AST TUBUS
S umitT im NON-SMBNTIALl, UftlTI , AMU IM ALL f,
TUMI CMABITT.?I
I No Bans?a Kiubvi Tahiit no Divihi t
ilTloN?MO AsOUTK'MrtM -a MTMUT I'ON.HHI l I
tion of tm? Comfmrriow, *? by JematioN? I t
no Public Debt?an economical aominibtba- <
tion ok Public ArrAtan?and L'nivlubal Sir- 1
kbaue with Univekhal Kducation. '
FOREIGN INTERFERENCE?MR. MONROE'S )
DECLARATION. 4
A friend has brought to our notice, and fur- t
uished an with a translation of, a Inter froui ?
Paris which appeared some time ago in the
Courier dee Etat* L uis, a French newspaper '
published ill New York, wiih editorial coin- ,
nienta. The editor, after referriug 10 the " de- t
plorable spectacle" exhibited in this country in (
the scramble lor offices, which seems to be the ,
main object and result of every electioo, and iu ;
which the mighiiest and meanest intellects of
the laud are alike absorbed, says that he hopes ,
that the publication of this letter, will '?recal ,
the Americana from the pitiful contests for per- ,
aonal interests in which they are engaged," and j
arouse them to a 'sense uf the danger which (
threatens one of the most important and most
exposed interests of the Country, and even the
existence 01 tue union. I
The letter itself, which is dated from Paris
in April last, and bears (lie signature of the
writer, is a sensible aud well written composition,
and is intended to awaken the attention of
the People of the Southern States of the Union
to the object, nature and extent of the designs and
intrigues of Ureal Britain against slavery iu this
country. We allude now to this letter?which
we should publish entire but lor its length?
merely to show that the dangers which menace
the country have been much better, or at least
much earlier, understood abroad, than by ourselves;
as bystanders are said U> see more of a
game than those who are actually engaged in it.
It is impossible for us, after the disclosures
in Parliament in August last, to doubt
the deliberate purpose of the British Government
to interfere, indirectly in manner, but
directly and avowedly in lutention, with the institution
of slavery iu this country ; the mode of
interference is made known, and its certain results
boasted of. Lord Brougham declares, in
Parliament, that abolition of slavery in Texas
*' must ultimately end in the abolition ol slavery
1 ...;??.iw ,i...
Ill nuicrica , ?UVI lie nn*iv?io.j imjuuia W. ?..v
Minister of Foreign Affairs what steps had been
taken to procure the abolition of slavery in Texas?
The reply is, that her Majesty's minister*
are pressing the matter ''by means of urging
the negotiations, u* veJl us by erfry other
means in their pover but Lord Aberdeen declines,
froiu prudential motives, 10 reveal the
state of the negotiations.
It certainly could not have been I he understanding
with these " noble lords," that the abolition
of slavery in the United States was to be
effected, through its abolition in'Texas, peaceably,
and with the concurrence of our slave-holders
; for why go toituouly and indirectly to
work to procure their concurrence and assent 7
They understood, of course, as we do, that the
effect of the proposed measure would be to
throw the slave-holding interest of this country
in a hopeless minority, upon which the majority
abolition or d.sunVon-her ??
prouuccu d|d not cure which ihoug
But .he ^ "Q Igtetfere, di.ee.1, or ?nU??
ot ovtoVn,
diiecly, w..h he .
again>t ?tir^*Jw?iT!ltatration of Mr. Monroe,
> *?vthe sages and patriots of the IUvolu'llfwho
guided the dratmics of our country,
auch questions were very promptly answered.
The People were then ready instantly to resent,
not only interference with the concerns of our
own coun'iy, but even interference, from Kurope,
with any independent Stale on our Continent.
In the year 1823, the F.uropean powers
which were parties to the Holy Alliance, were
undeisto< d to entertain a design of assisting 1
SSpain in the attempt to recover some of her re- '
volted Colonies. In his message at theopenn g ?
of Congress, in December of that year, Mr. ^
Monroe alluded to the threatened interference a
in the following spirited terms ; v
" Of events in that quarter of the glolie with Which 11
we have so much intercourse, ami from wloeli we p
derive our origin, we have always been anxious ar.d
inttrested spectators. The citixrna of the United
(states cherish sentiments the most friendly in favor
of the liberty and happiness of their fellow men on
that side of the Atlantic. In the wars of the Kuropean
powers, in mailers relating to themselves, we V
have naver taken any part, nor does it comport with | c?
our policy to do so. It is only when our rights are i |>
invaded, or seriously menaced, Iliat we resent inju
ries, or make preparations for our defence tt '(. I
muTcmfou in this hemisphere, Wf are, of nrccs. *
aity, more immediately connected, and hy causes c?
which must be obrioua (o all enlightened and impnr- "*
tial observers. The political syslrm of the allied
powers I* essentially dliferent, in this respect, from
that of America This difference proceeds from that lrl
which rusts in their respective governments And ?f
to the defence of our own, which has been achirsed
by llie loss of so much blood and treasure, and ma- r'{
lured by the wisdom of their most enlightened citi- ?
zens. and under which we hare enjoyed unexampled
felicity, this whole nation is devoted. We owe it, * 1
therefore, to candor, and to the steatite relations sat
esistmg between the l.nitrd Sun s and Ihotc power-, *r
to declare, that we should consider anj attempt, on
their part, to extend their sjstein to unj portisnof '' <
this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace ami safely, 'hi
With existing cnloniet or dependencies of any Kuro- 'h<
pean power, we hare not interfered, and ahall not in- l*?
terfer*. Hut with lhs> government* who hare de ha
clared their independence ami maintained it, anl ,n<
whoae independence we hare, on great consideration wl'
and nn just principle*, acknowledged, we could not res
new any interposition for the pur|>ose of oppressing
them, or rim/riJ/fug, in any nlher mannrr, lhi\r destiny. ru'
hy any Kuropean power, in any other light than as 'hi
the manifeatation of an unfriendly disposition towards 'he
the United States."? Mtsngr of the opening nj (,'??- 'he
rreat, P*t 2, 1823 Pr*
. 0l '
This declaration of Mr. Mot.roe was like a plt,
trumpet-cnll 1u the spirits ol (he American Pe->- ,r>e
pic ot that day. It awakened a re*pon ire throb
in the bosoms of the whole nation. The deter ( nl
mmation ao boldly and frankly proclaimed, was lon'
applauded, not only by the press, but in the |Vr,
messages of the (iorernors of 8'ates, and in prin
unanimous and spirited resolutions adopted by P*r,:
their Legislator*. The messnge ivai unmedi p,
ately translated and circulated throughout all n?m<
Spanish America, and our country waa hailed
with confidence and gladness, as the bulwark
vf the Comment against European ioteiference. *
x ' > y
u ttwrap* liie rataiiufi rrflHi wm nardly leaa Ik
liau ou oui owii Coutmeut , and 1'ie Carte I
' L'loite," a Ministerial paper, (Kiaiice being | i
hen under (he sway of the legitimate Hour- j t
out,) denounced the audacity of our Chief
ifagialrate in the following term-:
"Mr Monroe, who u not a aovercigu, alio bat |
limself told u? that he it only the fiiat delegate of L
he people, haa taken in tils uteaaage the tone of a ,
K>wt ilul monarch, whose artalea anil flirts are ready (
o go forth on the first signal He due* more he j
irescribt. to the i'ulentates of Kurojie the conduct _
liey are to pursue in certain circumstances, it they i (
lo not ?i-.li in incur I>1> diepleasuie. Hucll i* the |
rohibilion w hich lie issues against their ever think- ,
ng of any near colonization in the tiro Americas."
But however nutating or humiliating this re>uke
from our President waa to the pride ol the j
It -pels of Europe, they were compelled to en- I
lure i , and the threatened interference was 1
ibandoned.
Th? present ease of British interference in i
1'exas comes strictly a itliin both the letter and
ipiril of Mr. Monroe's tit claiaticn. We have;
ilremly kliuwii evidence ol a design on ll?e pari
>1 the British Government, in the ve.ir 1839,10
tab!i-li a colony "ua tin* north frontier ot
Mexico" as an tut lum lor'free coloieJ persons,
rin* location was obviously selected with the
new of its i If ct on our slave-ho'ding Stales in
llie immediate vicinity. The idea of a colony
was abandoned, hut it seems in name ou'y : lor
if Texas can be brought so far under the influence
of Great Britain, as lou sentloa measure
Involving suclf important consequences to us as
well as to herself, slie will he in fact hut a colony
of Great Britain, and her retaining the i
name of an independent State will ben mere i
illusion. She* must necessarily become a fo-j
reign and la stile na ion to us ; and we shall have
the humiliation of seeing a teriitory once belonging
to us, and people I from our own country,
become u land of enemies, and a theatre ol [
operations for our most powerful and insidious!
enemy.
If the same spirit, therefore, exists now among
our People as in the days of the | at riot ic and I
upright Monroe, it canuot be denied iliut a similar
and even more imperative necessity for its'
exercise is presented to us.
MR. TYLER'S DEMOCRACY.
We omitted to state that the Intelligencer, in I
copying the resolution, said to have beeti passed j
at Albany, teferted to yesterday, look occasion 1
to comment on it to some extent, and in the
cour?e of it? remarks entered somewhat into j
the political hi-tory of Mr. Tyler. It appears |
from the showing of the Intelligencer, und it is j
susiatutd by documentary evidence, if the acts j
oi Air. 1 yier ue comparm mm mu.it u. ...t
gentlemen whom the Globe is graciously pleased
lo permit the party to recognise a* Democrats,
there is not one of litem who has been so
consistent and uuiform a Democrat of the Jeflersouian
school.
We do not allude to these fact*, nor quote
the Intelligencer to induce any portion of the
Democratic party to embrace Mr. Tyler as their
leader; I tit merely to show, by their own confession,
that the Whigs supported an unadulterated
Democrat in 1840, knowing him to ' e so,
and that they have since charged him Xvitb
treachery because he would not abandon Ins
principles.
The Globe copies a portion of the article from
the Intelligencer, and comments on it as follows;
" After this endorsement, how can the Democratic
national convention refuse to put Mr. Tyler on n<
list of candidates for the presidential nomination 1
lluw iiU.U-cdjjrs ' "
telhgei'ccr calls tl) must reconsider their resolution.
Now whether the Intelligencer's confession
of'. ihocoogH koo.UJs. _ot
do* Deuioe.?-ie or not, we care not; ?nj so
1 the resolution of the ?' Albany Democracy
according to the Globe', phraseology, (1f
such a resolution was ever passed) we do not
care whether they "must reconsid. r" it or not
we know, and the country knows, that Mr. Ti
ler is a good enough Dennvm r?, , i, ? i,
0 me a cupif
and the Con-thution. If any man doubts his j
Democracy, let him doubt; if any party can be
stimulated by venal editors to proscribe him,
let them proscribe: it may be that Mr. Tyler
has not so numerous a body of partisans as
some of the leaders, but ue think his friends, !
whatever may be iheir number, are as devoted,
true, and resolute as any of them can boast.?
'
And so if war is to be waged, blows can be
[tven as well as received. Mr. Tyler and h.s
riends ask no indulgence, no favors whatever;
nH if hostilities must ensue, although they
rill not be the aggressors, they will do their ullost
10 maintain their poailiou?that of indeendent
Consti'u'ional Republicans.
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FORT! NF. FAN "lis TIIF. BOLD. I 1
11
We extract the following deelarai.on from
estrrday's Spectator. In it, we think, w e re i 1
>2nise the admirable style < f the Hon. R. B. ' c
(j
hett:
"The principles of Free Trade are still with those j
ho formerly professed them, but lliey will not re c
>gni?e Mr. V ?v Ilium as repn aenting I linn; ami v
betaeen bim and Mr. Ci.av, they will go for the ?
tier. The strength of Mr. Ci.sy is in Mr. Vav [In
.N't weakness. Present to the South a man who "
ily represents the great doetrinm of Free 'I'rade? p
w hom and of wlu se friend, ih... ? ?
us: liu uoum il
who has opinion*, and Hill enforce them, without
iiivornling incoiiHort, or ipiailmg to circumstances "
oil Mr ( i sv an I hi* protective principles w ill lie ol
mghtered, without the privilege ol flight It wai ^
ratal step for our party, our Mew York Iriends afli
ing with the Whig*, ami paving the prevent Tariff ill
I; and all their conduct since has tended still more ,
widen the breach they then made in the party, and
:tea?r the distrust and diwpiirl of the Soath. Mad H
ty been true on this great point, and con urn ted to tc
: district system of representation in the orgam/jn
of a .National Convention, there would not now .
ve been the slightest schism in the llemocratir party,
1 no one would have thought of Mr. C'i.at, but as M
th his heifers ot Ashland?an association far mori' (|(
prrtable than with liinnnwcs, the Abolitionist, I
oni lie aeeins lately to have taken into the chaste
braces of his lender sympathies. Kven HOW, with all
se two great causes of difference and distrust in
Democratic pirty hcalrd, we do not despair ol j 1
ir success with any candidate at the approaching I I'1
sidrntial election. But if left ojien, and Mr. \as . an
?i v is the candidate of the Dcmocratr party, ilrs !
i ttie political confidence and great prrsonal rn- ""
rt for him which wre hare evrr enteitaincd, and I ti
e always expressed, we believe ih? I v.
ly will lie ruled rniH beaten from one end of the i
on to the olher. There never wn?, in our opm- ! ",*1
hut one meani of re-eleeting Mr. Va* lltans to j no'
Piraidency ; and that waa, firMly, putting the -r
lidenlial election diMinrlly and unequivocally on
ciplea, and *econdly, hy havu g the Democratic car
y united on thecc they uitained neither ot no
:h, a? thing* now are, can be done with Mr Va> ^p
I V IV Mil candidate The Whig* will have tni
? rxn lly a? they de?ire it to be the old i??t|c? I1'1-1
old prejudice#, without principle* to operate (jilT
, and a divided party to operate on, ^
lie pretieut corrupt party ti.achinvtry tnu?t \
it imiiaheil. Any l'renideiii'a dictatorial 'til*
or four years, would be prefeigble to the Globe'*
ueditaied Dcspotuiu for lift? pciliapa boredtwry.
J. LHJUHEY'd STATEMENT,
J. Dudley, B*h , a Senator, (raa> Franklin and
)waft counties, being called Upou, made lbe Glowing
statement On the Door i f the Senate . Oik
lay, iu January, ltti5, I' I'. IMair cam# into
lie Senate Chain her, sealed himself uear rue, and
inquired luy opinion ou the resolution passed requeslng
our member* of Congress to into for General
Ijcksuii as 1'resident ol the UniteJ Stales. Mr. b
iesired that I would write letters requesting the uieniiers
and particularly L). W hite, from this district, to
-uiiMilt w illi Mr. Clay and sole s* he might desire.
I'o litis 1 objected, and ga-e my reasons therefor
Mr. II. appeared surprised thut 1 should taise any
>b)ectioii9, particularly as 1 w as opposed to the resolutions.
He said that a number ul members ol bulb
houses, who luled I'm the resolutions, had written
inch letters, and that 1 c nil.I do it with uioiepiupn
cty. lie said if Mr. While could be inuuceu u>
?ute fur Mr. Adams lie would obtain the vuU of Kentucky,
and with it the vulea of must of the Western
States, which wuuld elect limi, in which case Mr.
Clay would ubtaui the appointment of Secretary of
Slate. 1 then inquired how that fact had lieeu ascertained?
His answer was that letters had been received
from gentlemen of undoubted veracity at
Washington city, containing such information that 1
might rely with opnfideucu on that statement 1 replied
that, although I was opposed to the resolutions,
I had no doubt they contained the tiulh, ind therefore
I could not say one wold lo induce oui mi:others
of Congress lo believe otherwise. I further protested
against Mr. Clay's accepting any olhoe under Mr
Adams, whom I considered a federalist of the Itoston
stump in 1798 and 1SU", and thenceforward in enemy
of the West; you have it us my opinion that if they
were united, they would sink together."
Tito following extracts of a letter, dated the
lOiii instant, from an old and liigkly respectable
citizen of Indiana, whose nouns of information
arc ample, and whose statements are
every way entitled lo confidence, will show the
present condition ftf that Stae relitive to the
Presidcnti.il election.
"Indiana is, to say the least <f it, very debatcable
field, and the chances of Mf. Clay carrying the
Stale against Mr. Van lluren ire cossidered about
equal. My opiuiun is that CI a' would beat him, hut
it would be a doubtful contest involving all the uncertainties
of the past."
So much for the contest keiwetn those two
>- -i? a.;^ i,?
geilliCIIICll. Ill llliu.llti |X.IH \j, 11115 mill 111
says:
"Cass would beat Mr. Clay sane 11,000 votes, and
if the Democrats would take Ptesidert Tyler up, in
good faith, lie would do quite ai well if not belter."
THE VICE PRESIDENCY.
We have received a letter from tie writel of an
article in a Pennsylvania paper, siggnling a certain
[ktsoii as a candidate for the Ticepresidency.?
The person alluded to lias, acoordrig to the acting
Executive, sold himself /trier to tlat lersonage and
then hotted. When he sought a thrd sale some
months since, the condition of whit b \us a Western
appointment, Capt. Tyler said n??"h will not stay
bought." If he shoulJ ever seek yrferment from
the Whig party, we shall take ihe trotilc of killing
him oir, by an exposure which will pave that be is
in all respects worthy of being asstvuald with John
Tyler, and nobody else.?.V. Y. Cowl. 4 Enq.
The alum1 is one of \\ ebb's irostinixcu sable
assaults on tin* Hon. ,\. P. Taimwdoe. The
[ facts alleged arc. we are qttie sure, with'
out foundation in truth.
FRIENDS OF TYLER?TO Til RL.SCL'KI
To the Editor i f the .Waduvnian
Sik In you- journal of Fridy evening, I
find you holding the follow ing nolAsentiments
"lat us be united or one man. and rely at a moment'
irarnmg, tu share Ike fate, whnli tv r it me be, reserved fo I
the President. Everyman if honor,srlto prof ssts ti
supfun t the Administration, trill not "Silate to do so
H e must resist and oppose the intoteras. and diclutoria
HUbe clique, he the consequences \rhat t'V "iwj
j As a man of honor, who, froj' u"* "? **- ?
I. . ???4jc- , . qftntiont, bui
by acta, and with ?ii ' , ,
i, . , a" It is id'tt and main
1 respond front iU. ????? ,
urai" "ul
of the declaration tbov set tortli. 1, foi
one, if there be not pother to join roe,
I am prepared, and havtVer been prepared,
to share the fate of the ktuot now at the head
of the Government. Let ml,e friends, therefore,
of President Tyler throu-^ul the Uuion, (not
hi? secret foes masked in ( visor of friendshipi
of Whom there are legions t every side and in
the midst of us) unite iLei forces, and resist
unto the death the intolerance the insoleuce, the
'drasgmg totlie stake"' viole-P uf Francis P.
Blair and Henry Clay, and t?jr unscrupulous
tools.
A TniH MAN FRcy -rnr. JIMP.
roR THE 'anisoNiAN.
The Globe has bern pursuing a Course so
universally condemned by the generis asd just,
that many friends are >i a loss to per-civr what
will become of the K-publicans in the neit
Presidential contest. I has done great injury
in Pennsylvania, Ohio, (eorgia, and Maryland^
It will do more, it Mr. 1 y?r and lho?e who prefer
him arc to he denounod as unworthy o'
membership with the Dcmoyatic parly. If the
('resident be xrrak and frie*Ut$t, why ibe>i
?im 7 Is there nothing in histdministraiins
lie Government to arrest the tfr (,f defamation
1.111y pouring foith upon linn frt|, the column*
if tlie Globe ? If he lias many friend*, why
rive ill* in from the parly ? la ittjUt better lo
uncinate ail and offend none/ \\'k want .
orrs?the In t election prove* th(. Pun we1
et them in the way pointed out? \cvcr. In
?e name ol heaven, then, why willthe Globe
erriat in i'? course ? It can do no rw,|. Hut
ie late results in .New Yoik nnd Mirhi4n have
ivited greater aggressions and increase! n< vi- t
ence. Why this? Is it because the lf?,ula I
f Mr. Tyler are aeon in theae vaat multitudesof\ i
ie People calling out for ''justice" lo him wm i
iviok vetoed the Hank ? or has the Globe. n>?- *
king lie events, grown more insolent and ds 11
riuilied lo trample on an already prostraie foe' 1
thia tlie Globe's magnanimity? Here Ihi
i, might not these results he delusion still 3?
ight tliey not resemble those which preceded t
e election of 1840 ? I put these questi n? to c
t deep study and di rper sagacity of the Oh'be 'i
d Richmond Enquirer. Do they wish the,!
rty beaten again? If so, let them go on. v
id knows there is no heller Democrat than I I
i?none who desires more ardently the tri- t
iph of Republican principles erery ir/terethan '
lo. Yet, did policy even demand the sacri- I
r, would I ahu-e Mr. Tyler or deny him mem- I
ship to the Democratic ranks ? No, I won n e
r; hut policy requires no such thing. Mr. 'r
ler is stronger than any other Democratic tt
ididate. He ran carrv five or si* Slates that' it
O'her Democrat would think of getting? let' C
Democrats hut unite on him and a tnum- u
int victory will most certainly follow?let hi
i be abused and vilhfi d and the result, tosay w
least, must he more than doubtful. d>
Vhen I (irst satv that the Wings eipected r?
Mr. Tyler 10 approve a Hauk bill I trembled, but |
despaired ool. 1 im?w be had been autl-tiauk
all bit life?he was selected with this iveil known
fuel upon hiiu by ihe ('uoveniioti at Harrisburg. J
The \VLig? proclaimed it in their ipMcher
I throughout the Uuioti. The Ueuioeraia could i
uot assail him, for he was ^ui'lit*-a. The retir-j
lug Cabinet, therefore, (and 1 tot Is, too, as bae
| been shown in a pamphlet addressed loihe pub
lie under the auibority ol the President) propsouted
an unmitigated lalst hood when they inserted
to the coulrarv. I saw the President
' when on his way to Washington with General
I Harrison to be inaugurated. An old friend said,
"Tyler, we have served iu public lite a long
' time together, I knew you to be a ltemocrat,
bat bow do yuu, how ran you, reconcile your
I principles wih your company?" "Sir, (said
lie,) we liuve an honest mail at the head ol' af"
' ?i _:ii i it.??.
lairs, lie is an cm unman, ami win ?cr|'
in the track?he, / know, will conduct the Administration
on the strictest Republican principles.
To this end I pledge myself?then try
him?then tru,t him. If he should not (said lie
in a manner and with a look I shall never lorget)
you, sir, knitw me well t u nigh to know that I
w ill quit him." I heard these, or words tautu
mount, fall from the lips of Mr. Tyler on his
way to the inauguration?the day before (I believe)
it took place, and in the presence uhniixl
of him to he inaugurated. It shows that he hud
thus early revolved in his own mind all possible
contingencies, and had deteimiued to do his
duly whenever called upon?he soon raw from
the tone of the Whig press (hat a Rank would
he a^ked for as soon as it cou d he?he did not
deem it improbable that, us Vice President, he
would be required to give a casting vole. I have
never been uble to explain the apparent frankness
of the conversation above alluded to in any
other way than a determination, then formed, to
go against a Rank in all forms and in any capacity
the question might be presented to him.
llad Gen. Harrison livi d, and this contingency
occurred, Mr. Tyler, beyond doubt, at this
very moment, would have been the Democratic
candidate for IV cs dent. The lustre of his vote
us Vice Prcsidtul would have fur surpassed in
brilliancy the Vetoes?brill ant as they are!
There w?uM have been, then, no competitors
for the Presidency with him?there should be
! none note. Say not, then, that Mr. Tyler ever
: betrayed those who elected him ! They betray
ed ! Not lie?and then lied to make good the
I treachery ! Like himself he believed they were
. honest in their opposition to a Rank ; when he
found otherwise, lie wisely determined to stick
to the Constitution and perish with it if he must.
Anti-Rank in Fact.
toll Tilt: MADISONIAN.
> in' , v \ietl> l- <al iviv
I ? III-. I lic.ll I ur.lir. nur. mi i .nwiiu ui.fi . ....
i IN THE DOMINIONS OF GREAT BRITAIN,
THAN THOSE WHO ARK NOMINALLY
SLAVES, AND HOW MANY?
To regard ihe substance of things, and not
the shadow, is assuredly to act the part of wisJdom,
whether such deitrminatiou and course
of policy he the choice of a nation or of individ|
uals. It may be well therefore for us Americans
to inquire whether the zeal of (Jreat Britain to
, give nominal freedom to the blacks of our continent
arises from the extraordinary efforts she
, h?s made substantially to ameliorate the condition
of her own population at home, and in her
i vast possessions abroad. If she has made such
tflbr.s really and truly, they must appear in the
condition of her subjects. By their fruits ye
j shall know them, was a maxim given for out
mnn. It (inni Hriiain lm_i ?|flll^
pect to the grcai masses under her care, we may
j reaj nably believe in the sincerity of her ]>hi
lanthropy, by which I understand not some
isolated favor to a particular object, from obvious
connexions it has with our imincd ate interest,
but some pervading friendship for the interests
; of mankind at large running through a gMieial
course of policy. If in a particular ca>e I liberate
live slaves, that I may s cure the better the obedience
and command ol live hundred, who would
not otherwise be so easily or effectually controled,
I am actuated by a regard to my own selfish
interests, and I cannot call wi h propriety on
any body to imitate my example unless I ran
show them that their individual interests will be
i.-. like manner aispicioutly elected, as I calcu
late mint* will he. The radical principle of my
conduct issilf-love?not universal benevolence
1?and under different cireumttanres front those
in which I am placed, (be dictates of self-lore, |
might lead to an op|*o<i(e, or a wide'y variant
ronduct.
In airiving at a solution of the question which
i heads these remark-, we naturally advert t > the
form of Government in (treat Ifniain, and consider
how thai form of Government is likely to
operate on the interests of the masses ; what
scope it is likely to give to their exertions ; what
prospects it holds out to them ol changing for
the better the condition in which they arc born.
And on asceriaining the facts, we find thai so!
far from the widest scope being given to enable*
the masses to improve their siiuation, the Go-ji
vernment it an aristocracy, organized with pr
ruliar strength in the aris ocrat'cal patl? of il, ,
buttrc?-i d and fort died with an exclusive right '
in tiie eldest son or h- ir to the land d propety, 1
hut so far a? one?the mom powerful branch of !
ill" Legislature is roncrnt'd?enviro nd with i
th" addition 'I si ruriljr of the hereditary powrr d
legislation ; to that no great in a<ure can be
ak< n?nothing done with respect to the whole
ttatf, and the entire organization of the fi I
tance*, army, and navy of the kingdom, wheth- 'j
rr at home or abroad?in llindo-tan or in b
\orth I'.ritain -on the terra firma if China, '
ir in the Mediterranean tea, wi hout their t|
loneurrenee. It is by far the greatest and *|
nost potent aristocracy in the world, seeking to 8
onUol the world. I do not say, ( f course, by mil |s
tary force, (it lias too much discretion for ihat,) i
nit by art where force rinnot be applieil, anil
Mth the eminent exertion of the art ithn r ar- J;
em. Of this aristocracy, the monarch n only In
he great conntcti'ig linh. The aristocracy, *'
or the most part, controls the monarch, either
y adroit Combination, with open display of its Ui
jrci *. or by secret agency of its in ire dexterous j'J
nun-el. This sristoeracv consis's of about ?e ,n
en hundred persons?I mean men grow n to ma di
ire years. The Lords are about one half of J?
; their povverlul retainers in the House of lit
ominons the other half. The Lords could 1,1
ot, indeed, prevent the passage of the Reform v
ill, because a conaiderahle portion of tbem trt
rre its advocates. But although interest divird
them on the question of its passage?mte <?
-t utoJihed thai bill in tlie provisions it adopt y-i
I'd. and ihe mutual mirreat of the Tory and '
Whig arutocracy chocked it m iU operations, j
aud will alivay s contifcue ?o to check it while
that aristocracy eaiaU. Heofe lh? popularity of '
the uuiu hody of the Whigs who were under
the control of die Whig afi-toeiacy ran out iu I
the coiner of ten years. They could not ex- '
tend ihoae practical ameliorations which uiany
ol those wli i had sup|>orird them expected them <
to ell'ret, and die?c aupportera who had give# J
1 ?rt
them the |?r?*|> miuiauce oeeaine iuuii?i?<? ?
tlieir success. The landed Whig aristocracy
like pretty nearly as much the cum laws which
swell their enormous reut-rolL ami other incomes,
as iIip Tory ailstocmcy. Thus between
the two branches of this aristocracy the body
of lhe people are kept on the verge ol starvation,
and not a lew of iheui actually starved.
However widely, then, tlieae sympathies ;<.e
expanded abroad, they freeze like the ice ol
Labrador towards their while tellow-creaturea
at home. While elamoring with loud prot?-stations
of the evils and iniquity of such a subjeeition,
at an American slave-holder who lias one
thousand slaves, (a very rare circumstance,)
| they think it all right and proper that they should
i have (that is, this seven hundred aristocracy)
live millions of slaves in belaud, an equal number
in Kn^lind and Scotland, mid one hundred
millions in llindostan, witli the hope and expectation,
for the vruild's hem lit, and in the spirit
of an enlarged philanthropy, to have one hundred
millions more placed in the ranie category,
in China, in the next thirty years ! Is he a
freeman, really and truly, over whom seven
hundred men, hound together hv an orgamzation
that makes the interest of eaeli that of the
other, to the prostration of the equal rights of
others not comprehended in this organization?
over whom, 1 aHirm, seven hundred men have
the power ofuulimited taxation without his consent,
and who exercise their authority in such
| manner as to leave him hut the bare means of
! subsistence ? Now the whole hundred and ten
I millions of whom I have just spoken are in this
condition. I admit there aie some ten millions
, more who are not so ab<o u<ely reduced and enslaved,
but this enormous multitude is.
i By m< aus of their immense wealth and hereditary
privileges, each of this seven hundred
| has from one to five thousand absolutely under
I Ins control, besides the general power of levyI
ing contributions, ad libitum, on one bundled
'and ten millions, as already stated. He can, by
jibe abuse ol this wealth, if he so chooses, starve
lo deaili many of tlie persons more particularly !
! dependant on him; and nobody, nevertheless,
' unless some rustic and sturdy Republican, shall
: dare to say that lie is a slave-holder, or that
these people are his slaves. There is no con- I
Irol over him in relation to them, hut that of opinioo;
and this is a control which may exist
lover the slave-holder, who is such by legal enactment.
How many could Mr. Richard Ark
| wright, with his forty millions of dollars capital,
have starved, had he chosen so to do / as
many, think you, as a slave-holder having (a
I rare fact) live hundred slaves, and woith per'
haps a quarter, or at most halt a million of dollars
capital, slaves included ? How many operatives
could he have turned out of employ,
1 without such diminution of his own income as
in the slightest degree to feel it in a pecuniary
sen-e ? Might he not do what he would with
his own? Oh, hut he w as too humane; lie
would nut do such a thing. So then, you arc
' reduced to the humanity of the individual, wlicn
a totally 'opposite nVwTnhe
subpet must he taken, when the inquiry is extended
lo the American slaveholder, with not
halt, hi most instance-, not a tenth part of the
j 4Wirt lual yower of the British an-tocracy !
j Mr. Arkwrighl was hut one of a elate which
the system of the British Gov. rnmrnf ha* n !
el reel tendency and a uniform < ft"> ct to bring
| into being and to nourish, with this addition,'
What power of hereditary legislation is accumu- |
| l.ite J upon the power of immense wealth, which j
| many ol them possess, but which he, being nei1
ther a Lord, nor the near relation of a Lord, did (
not. possess. Vindicator. |
fiitn Ihr .Veu- York loin irr A" t'.nquirtr. I '
THE COTTON PLANTER AND THE IRON '
MASTER.
Wc eoniniend to the attention of our n ailers, rnini(>er
one, of a story containing a plain practical <krl(h? '
without poetry or circumlocution, of the compara- c
live condition of two classes ol ojierotirn, now exeit- *
wg the consideration of the philanthropist. We do '
not intend to be understood as advocates of either 1
system We could wi?h in our finite view of things, v
that all the ? ant? of life could be met without the 1
necessity of labor, unless it be that of the most "
healthy or agreeable rhararter?but such seems not r
to be the older of things; by some wise dispensation r
it ever has been and perhaps always will lie?some "
are born with silver spoons in llieir mouths, and soire "
with born ladles?and the most that the benevolent b
Bnd poor can do or should do?as far as prartiea ^
ble (without unnecessarily attempting to war against P
the order of nature by ultra theories er morbid ? n>i- *
bilities mixed up with much rant,) to ameliorate or '
soften the rugged paths of our fellow men, and to M
avoid oppression. R1
It is with a view of arreting this tornado of sensi *
hility coming from ipiartns where its exercise would
find a wider field - that this simple slory, resting on ! ')
i .. i . is l?u . is ' - '
, ? , .. .,ii RimrrNM in a 10 IuriiI-N a quarto r'
volume. Inil a pi? I other matter roiin-rl- iik to In 1
brief. We have another alory in pic kle shout the
pMNl IfafMpNM# a relehralecl Kussian nobleman, '
a ho after securing the services ol a rigid disciplinin.in
to keep his -erf- ill order during his aWnee,
lurpotrs milking a voyage to the ( nited Si tes to
ilggest a plan ol relict to the coloird "jierci/irrl among
I*.
CROntJK AM) JOHN I VANS;
On, A Sionv n? Si trrir.
1 S3
Home fifty years ago there was an old man in Kng- wl
and, engaged in the Iron and ("oal business lie hud fee
wo young none, one named <irmgr and the other at
nhn. lie ("Id tin m that it was logh lime for them to pi
e looking ahout for some occupation for themselves gn
ieorgr said he being the oldest, bad the fiml clioire, ?r
nd he would remain at home and follow the same tio
rade of hie father John said as that w as the ease, he dri
Inmld like to go to the new country, turn Yankee, vol
nd try his fortune in America?aod thus it was ar- ap|
inged. John accordingly took passage to Charleston, tro
and <?c orge remained home till his father died, is i
nil then to k up the tegular business Ins falt er l ad | the
.11,,?,1 ... w.u. -
/ milium roai and iron A frw (cr
ar* since these brother* interchanged f isil* ? that is, ap<
ieorge fir?l came over to America anil visited hi* thj
rother Jolmon hit plantation?and after a few week* tic,
ijounng. John accompanied hi* brother tieorge ipu
ick to Kngland, and a pent a* man) weeks w,th hnn mil
i Wales, liolli had accumulated large foitunc* in chr
ir re?pcctive pursuit*. John owned an excellent pla
Rotation, and I'?I hundred and fifty three negro dare.t bar
I it, -and (ieorge owned some eery productive coal I
inea and iron work*, and employed about five hun- of
ed pc.raon* of " freemen ' in them. Ju*t before he facl
ft Kogland to emit hi* brother John in South Caroli- a< ti
i, be had pi-rnme a violent partisan 111 favor of Abo- p. ?
ion, and had w ritten hi* brother some very severe I of *
Iter* on the nhjert, and sent him sundry tior/e and ?r*
fact told him that hi* leading motive in visiting a m
inerica was to induce him to abandon the " hnnthte una
i/fic" Rial send ajl his negroes back to Africa. I
t>n reaching John's plantation, however, he had owr
ireety finished the usual salutation, when he said fai
John - John, nay dear brother, how mnc.h happier elan
would be and I should be, if instead of your ewn- 1
1
ng human beluga?you weia surrounded as w'e an
u tjlglwnd by frtnkeii."
" VVail brother," said John, " till after you bate
een with us a abort tune, and then we will diM - i!
'da subject." During tins triait George amused bun i*
tell' tu v isiling every furl of the plantation ; be mu
iiuimII acquainted Willi every negro on it. S n,,li.td
been unfurled ; oilieit were bm n their , souir
were old and ilifirm and did nothing, and others wh ,
neie able to work bad eacb A a task, according to lux I
or her ability, Kvery family had a separate In .1- ?|
their own, and made quite a village near the plantation
house. YVhatsliuck (ieorge aa a very rrn. ..L ,
able fact, was ll at every negro wbo chose to do -o I
had a little held of Ins own, which he cultivated I .
himself after his tusk was done, and tins t >A wa, [
such that with very cuuimon industry it w.n In.,- . ,
before bail' the day was over. Another curious fact
winch the "Abolition Society" had forgotten to notice,
the master of these slaves never thought ol ran
lug (us own pounry, t?r iui niMiiug m* own egj, cu
hooey, or rare vegetable*, but preferred buying nil I
these ii-our but own slaves , or if lie did not require
a* uiucli ai tbey railed, they were allowed to -i i,j
tbem to tlie market* together with their othei pi
dutlions ; and whatever the master bought oi
slave*, they took eaie to uiukc him pay cusli doe n u?d
Iht highest price. i
'l'hese ifuees were all comfortably rlad and lo kr.j I
happy and contented, beveral ol them had Inldl.
and they would all dance on a moonlight etenii
and then the repealed shouts of laughter that ? ,|j
come from the vicinity ol "tin huts,' would till n,
air with mirth, so much so at limes that t,. < i ,
would say to his brother John, " it is veiy retimiLj.
hie that these e?ry Mac/, people, and all ?Iv. - i,?
should laugh so loud and so long?just hear that I
low now with his " haugh ha?ha?he?ha he
he?ha ? ha?ha?ha! How very odd ! I
" Why Lucie," said a little nephew of Georer
'don't your people laugh too.''' "Not quite loud,
my lillle hoy," answeied George ' m fj, i ,
people need not, if they could, for some of them so
very deep iu'the earth digging coal, and others ui,
the Iron Works, w here the noise is too great ;
then again, freemen don't lan^h unless there is ?
thing lo luugli about." " Well, then, I gues-. sail I
the little Yankee, "your jieople don't see much in I
laugh about, for 1 our boys' laugh in the field, t!.,-v
laugli in their liuts?they laugh in Ihe gins, and tin I
when their work is done and they get at play - (J how I I
tliey do laugli." I
George employed his lime, as tielorc an I
iiis visit, in carefully examining into the whoa ;, I
rangement of Ins brother's plantation?and na- j ai- I
ticularly struck with the comforlable condition of ttii; I
old and infirm, who were unable to do any work, out I
who were comfortably clothed and housed and we,, I
taken care of?as much so as if they had woiked. I
When the period of his departure came, and Jo! I
the planter, w as all pack'ri up lo accompany his bn, B
ther George (the " Iron mash r"i In. k to Ilng/uud? E
a scene occurred as remarkable as it was penetrating
?every negro on the plantation had come to the house I
to take leave of " inossn and such a how ling among
the younger ones, and expressions of sincere grief on
the part of the older ones, was truly distressing-.
" Massa go away oher de sea?he no come hack foi
loiig time, i.nil if niuesa get drown'd, he tuber i on.
back?O, O, O"?and so the lamentation passed
round in the group, till tho two brothers were out (
sight 1
" Well George," says John?"that was a try.n,
scene ; but if you weie to be p escnt when 1 nturn
it would gladden your heart?for there will be tl.r I
same grouping, and such a display of ivory and. I.i nty
congratulations. Now, if by my depattmg fruin I
them, for a brief period only, they discover so muel
grief?what would be the scene were 1 tell theui l!.> y
must all leave me and go to Afiica and never see lie
again ?"
George was a little puzzled for an answer, and confined
himself to the usual English expression, " l.nw
very odd !" As the brothers proceeded on their jour I
ney, Jo'.n related to George many interesting evei and
oce.urrences, in arid about the life of a plantati. i .
with Ins slave,?how thai for some seasons, by c n '
of frosl and by a low state of market, the product
of the plantation would not amount to enough to I
a jacket for a negro?hut tins made no difference
tbern, they would all gel then usual supply. V I
when they got old, or infirm, or siekly.it tnadi
difference to them on the score of being taken i.. H
of?there were no asylums, no |>oor houses?run
planter is eipeoteil to tike rare of Ins own p.uipii"Still,
tins is slavery," says George, ' lftl.isi i
groes were only fittmm, like our workmen in W .,1>it
would all be very well." "But are youi wi ikiin
frtiuun replied John: "Are lliey not dmo to t! ,,
commouest trm?l??and are those wants hotter supplied
by their employers than I supply my it.
are their hopes ol bettering tin ir condition r
to those of mv negroes > Does the | an 1
,.r ..Jirmit* arrests the power of 1,1,. ,
?'fr and children unless they are aide to woik a:
earn their wages, will be taken care ol .,i \<ur v
!?? ii-o, w ithout going to the hospital or |. i "im-t
Geoige w as puzzled again?lie began to .. . t
into the practical philosiyhtj of tlir question?a s
ing Ins head, said, "How very odd !"
I hey armed together at f.ireipool and in,no
ately procerded to George's residence in Wale .
oi l Patrimonial K.tate of the Evans' .Wnt/iy,,
E/ylA, y, the midst of mines and forges?it w a. |
most a nrw srene to John, be had been so long a
sent, but having lieromc something of a Yankee hi I
his long residence in America he was verv curioi
and txutniiialirr The result of In. mr.n..,'. -.1
a 111 ma til u w ill form the subject of my neat com in I
nication. ft < I
PAIN E'S TELESCOPE. I
Mr, I'aike has furnished the Worcester (MjI
r j I In 11 tim with the following description ol lit p I
srful Tn.i.scora which he is now constructing j! In- E
dace of business in the adjoining town of Leices'er I
CLAPfVIILE, AugUSt 7, l-l.'l I
1 >> ah Sir In romplianec with your request, I : I
card you a description of the inatiuinenl we are 11 1
lonstructing. On a solid piece of masonry, thirty- I
is feet square, a circular rail of oine feet ra I
aid. A platform ol cast iron, circular in form, I
wenty-eight feet diameter, supported on twene I
wheels of four feet diameter, traverses this rail. O B
Ins platform the lube of tiie telescope i? elevated, B
he platform, as you w ill perceive, being so construct- I
d a? to enable the manager of the instiument to ill I
ret tbc lube to any part^ular point.of the heavi r - I
i a horizontal line The rotaty motion is given I I
ie carriage hy the action of a pinion in a rark r I
enrath the platform ; the power is'given the pi I
y a ditferential screw, acting on a wheel whose s|,-.,lt 1
asses through the pinion. This arrangement obi
slow and steady movement, and so great i
owerof Ibe hand-wheel (attic bed to thr diffir> B
m-? | (I t ten | - ndi itapfaM to Its irmi 1
ive a motion to ttie entire instrument, Whose w eight I
ill be nearly eight tons. Ten feet from the edge ol I
ie platform an opening five fret w ide,eai< nds to ne.n I
itscenlre; from the outer edge of this opening an in- I
uied plane di 'rends at an angle that would squat' I
ie radios of thr curve of the instrument while <
evaled Irotn a horizontal to a parpenhicular In ? I
us enabling the observer to uiamlain the same an I
e of vision when v i<> Ming the planet in I ha ninth I
in the h'Tieon. On each ?nle of the uhovcinrn I
>prd ap< rlure rise two rati iron support*, reteni- I
ing the sides of a heavy Run ferriage. These sup- I
irts rereive a cast-iron frame-work, which holds I
e power-end of the tube, and forms the rrntre of I
e are described by the tutif, in passing from a hort- I
n,taI "to a perpendicular position. Another cast- I
>n frame-work, whose urn at liase is twelve feet, I
liose ap' x five, and whose height is twenty-four I
St, rises from the platform, the centre of lit suimc I
the top being perpendirular to the centre of tbe I
itfiim t>n the top of this elevated frame work a I
reived purchase wh?el is rigged, over which passe, I
able, one i nd of which is attaehrd to a conienlra I
n ol braces on tlir tube, the other passes round a I
irn which i? worked in the same mam er as the re- I
Iving platform, (hy a differential screwr.) Hy llos I
paratus the lotic, whi h is made from lhi> k Russia I
n, and is 48 feet long aod four ,feel dianirtit. |
aiscd to any required angle. In the. power end ol I
i lube a concave mirror of forty-six inches diann I
and forty feet focal length is placed, h it ii.g an I
irture in its centre of sx and one-ba f inches, I
ninth w ill h OUSS llie lens lull" ?'?; *
, ? ?. nmn n 11 a 11 *
Aclirumatir, at.d Mi ni, m lenaea, lit ami one
irter inr lira in diameter. In the fori I of the larnr
ror juat mentioned, another mirror of fotirtem ina
diameter and Ulirty-aix feet focal length la
red, from which adjuMing ?c rt a a extend to tlm
id of the man ging oliaererr
t it well known that abrrralion of rein i? lire remit
a aery high magnify ng power; and (hit optieal
1 hat led ni iny to aaaeit that dwlioet lelearepn
ion i? limited to ome twelve or eighteen hundred .
rer; for in order to otilain a highly magnified iiingr
n ohjei t, w ithout aberialion, a eonilimation of tenia
requisite ; and it i? eitdent that the more deuae
ed nm beeomoa, the more faint the retle< tion of the
ge patting through It will appear,
ho only part of the inatiument we claim aa our
i it (fie form end temkiaeficn t,f (fie Irani, which, ao
from heirig limited by ng*/rrn /mndred p. or
ma a magnifying power of nun. thoiiikh
bate given you ai cunnae a deacnptivn ?e mjf