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T H K >1 \ 1)1 SON 1 A N
WAIHIHCfON CITY.
WEDNUDAY EVENING. DECEMBER !i7, 1843
IN TH VIE lHINb* WHICH III EIIANTIAL LET THEME
E CHIT??IH MOM E1IENTIALI, LIDEBTT i AND IH ALL
THINCI CHAEITT.?.fuffuHin.
No Hank?a Revenue Tlnirr? no DimthiHUTION?NO
AHOLITIONIMM?A STUICT CONHTEUO
TION Of THE CoMHriTUTION, Aa bV JKKI tHHON?
NJ PUBLIC DeHT?AN EC ONOMICAL ADMINI# I NATION
or Pubuc ArrAiRH?and Univehhal 8urthaCe
with Umvehhal Education.
T " ' -rT; 1
THE PRESIDENT'S HOUSE
Will, as usual, lie rx'ii on New Year's day, lor
the reception of tucti ot his fellow-citizens, aud
strangers, as may be disposed to exchange salutations
with the Ciiiei' Mauimthatc or rut:
United Stated.
LAY ON MACDUFF!
Yesterday's Globe contained the lirst regular
and characteristic assault of the Jacobin Club
on the Administration, since its election as
priuier. If at.y moderate Democrat was inclined
to doubt whether the Van linreti managers'deliberately
designed to endorse the vile
slanders of ihe Globe, duiing the last year, we
presume their approbation of its course, since
the selection of its editor as their organ, will
constrain him to acknowledge that the interpretation
we put upon the proceedings in Caucus,
was the correct and proper one.
M.o-r. HI.;, lUninn on.l iK. .iihllmr mm.
ter Burke?our Marat, Robespierre, and IJanton?lield
a solemn Caucus on Christinas
night, and resolved that the Democratic parly
should identify the President and the friends of
his Administration with the Whigs, and demolish
them all in a lump. To this end the long
editorial in yesterday's Globe was prepared, the
joint production of the three master spirits of
the Van Buren faction, which is to be followed
up by their faithful editorial sercanls throughout
the Union.
Such being the case, it is obviously our duty to
repel their assaults, as well as we can ; and, also,
when an opportunity offers, to " carry the war
into Africa." And the article under consideration
affords us the opportunity.
That our readers may not suppose we are en-1
gaged in an unprovoked war, we will make seve- j
rat esuuuis irum mc vjiulk' 3 arucit* 10 suuw wno j
are the assailants:
From the Globe of yesterday.
"The p> licy of the Administration, as distinctly indicated
iu the message, as well as in the reports of
the 1 reasury, War, and Navy Departments, is that
of increasing expenditure, and increased taxation?
whether in the form of Government paper money,
enhanced duties, or direct levies on the pockets of the,,
people, is of little coiistquence ; for thry must pay all,
. in the beginning or the end. * * The Secretary
of the fieasury, after having, by a' forced
consliuction of the law, commenced w ith three millions
of Government paper money, now applies U.
Congress to issde twelve millions more. The Secretary
*f War presents great projects, involving great
additional expenditures; and last of all, the Secretary
of the Navy strongly advises a system which w ill require
the appropriation of several millions more.
Not a word is said about retrenchment <
or economy. These have become "obsolete ideas"
with the Administration. They are no longer the
cherished maxims of the Government which would
assume the name of Democracy. It is always asking
for money, to be obtained by new loans.
But it is worth while to inquire where all this is to
end. Under the system pursued by this extraordinary
Democratic Administration, the inevitable result will J
be either direct or indirect taxation to an enormous
and yearly increasing amount. *
To lay additional duties will be impracticable while
the People are crying out lor a reduction of those already
laid ; and, if it were practicable, it would not
answer the end proposed. The present high tariff"
has already greatly contributed to the decrease , f the
revenue ; and every additional burden will only prove
an irresistible incentive to evasion or opposition.?
There then only remain the last two alternatives? \
Government naoer monev or Government Inum It 1
is quite immaterial what is the amount of these at j
first. The incipient step is all ami everything. The
entering wedge splits the log, and the rest only re- !
quires a succession of more feeble efforts.
This is the coujse pursued by Mr. Tyler's adminit- j
tralion, which, professing Democracy, acts precisely
on the system and principles of the upponcnts of Democracy.
It began with small sums, until the ring
was pretty writ hied in the noses of what certain
Whig orators were wont to call "the swinish multitude
and now, from three millions, we come, at a
single jump, to fifteen. The finger of the 1
I Government has got deeply into the pocket cf the
people ; and they must struggle hard, or it will only i
get deeper and deeper. A public debt is a cancer ; ,
it buries its fibres in the flesh , it eats and eats its \
way to the very vitals, and never stops while there is
aay wholesome flesh to consume."
Now, what we shall state in rrplv to (he ul-1
leged extruragance of President Tyler's Administration,
will be found to be true, by a refe- j
rrnce to the public documents on file in the f
T......... ...?
The average expenses, per year, during Mr. Van j
Huron's administration were $28 000,000.
Tolal Expenditure* - - - (113,000,000
The expense* per year during thi". Administration,
average $34,000,000.
Total expenditure to March, 1845 - 90,000,000
Reduction ot espendiium under tin*
Administration, derived from authentic
and official information - $10,000,000
During Mr. Van Iluren's ailmunstration
the average amount of revenue received
per year was $31,000,000.
The total amount of revenue for four
years was - - - - 84,000,000;
During this Admini-tration, the average
amount of revenue received per
ye?r, has been $18,000,000. The total
amount for four years computed at 72,000,000
$12,000,000
Thus it will he seen that the revenue accruing
under Ihit Administration has turn twelve millrnnft
li ?*. than fl?*? antnnm tulnnl. ? ? *s,,,1
iMr. Van Burrn't Administration.
When Mr. Van Buren ejme into office there *11 ;
a balance in Ike T r?nry of $lG,0B7,47d,(Ml
Ihie the Government, and
Treaeuijr note* issued . - 8,.r>7f; ?i?)7,63
fa?,6ti3,'J76.5l
So if appear* (from official document') that
Mr. Van Buren had the neai Imlo turn of f25,000,000
a* a capital, or l? gscy, lo commence hiAdminiatration
with. And yet, with that aunt
on hand, and the $8i,000,000 he received after. '
wards, he left a deficiency, or dehl, to be diacharged
by this Administration of i7,0(0,000!
Mr. Van Buren had #25,000,(.(t0 to commence
business w ith, hut Jniltd. Mr. Tyler
uot only had no cai Hal to begin with, but lound
a large drht retailed on hini by his predecessor! |
And yet the hlohe talks about) extravagant
expenditure*, public debt, Ac.! and exclaims!
that " not a word is ??id about retrenchment
or economy !" The Globe will not look at the
fact!?it want* something "?aid " The tlf>,I
000,000 already " rcouomued" and retrench
ed" go for nothing.
Kut the (ilobe, and Col. Henlon, and
master Kurkc, denounce the present Tariff
a? a Whig and Administration urea
tore. Thirty-five ll'higt in the I/nute
voted again/it it, and tventy Demoehath
voted for it. It passed by a majority of one.?
In the Senate, it passed by the casting role of
Mr. Wright, the peculiar friend of Mr. Van Ku
ren, and next in authority to Col. Kenton ! The
present Tarili could never have existed, if it had
not been for the support of the Tan tinren Democrats
in both Houses of Congress.
The (ilobe savx, "the linger of the Hovemment
has got deeply into the pocket of the People."
This is a most unfortunate observation?
and not alone because it is unfounded in truth
'/'hit Administration has bred no defaulters.?
Kut the milliviit stolen from the "pocket of
(lie People" under llie last Administration can
never be forgotten. Nor can it be foigotlen tliut
the (ilube shared the spoils pretty extensively.
|lCliHTtu?" baa our thanks for lite indignation
he manifests at the abusive language and coarse
epithets applii d to the Piesidenl by the meeting
of "Federalists" at , Illinois. Put really
the epithets used by them are too revolting to be
copied, even when commented on in just terms.
When the misguided men who framed the resolutions
shall have reflected calmly on what
they have done, we doubt not tiieir consciences
will punish them far more severely than any
thing we might say, or print, could do. Vile
terms applied to '.he President by ignorant and
profligate politicians, may excite pity in his
brea3t?but not anger or alarm. Conscious of
1.1* ....... r../.i;t.wl? ho ia I... I ItTiro.. t I.. I
Iiis unprincipled foes, in any party, may say or
do. lie relies upon the justice of the Ptoei.t,
and expects bui little' of parties, us at present
managed.
If "Curtius" will come and sit with us some
pleasant evening, we will show hnn, in forty
different numbers of the "Globe/' language even
more offensive than that used by the meeting
in Illinois. And yet the Democratic majority
in Congress endorsed it all by one act! And
what is worse?the abuse heaped upon the President
at the meeting of "Federalists," 1 rasfor
his alleged agency in electing that Democratic
majority ! ! !
THE WORKMEN.
Our readers will see by the proceedings in
Congress, yesterday, that Mr. Parmenter introduced
a bill to enable the Secretary of the Navy
In I ri? n?zf'pr Pertain fnrwla nlrpurlir finnrnnriat*#!
for his Department, and now on hand, so that j
the workmen in ihe several navy yards could
recommence their operations. They will also
see that \lr. Cave Johnson opposed the bill and j
arrested it. So the odium and blame will be
laid at the proper door. The Secretary and the j
President are anxious for the workmen to be
employed and paid.
THE BALTIMORE WHIG CONVENTION.
We see bv the Ilalfimoro Patriot it.at ih.,'
banner and two distinguished live coons, arrived
in thai city yesterday, and were escoit>d to)
the Head Quarters. The show, next year, as we
have always said, will exceed that of 1*40, nnd !
so will the majority, if they have the same man
to operate against.
"The Demociacy of the Union is very apt to remember
those public men who consult the. good of
the country, in a difficult crisis, rather than their
own ambition, 01 the ardent wishes of their friends."!
? Clobt, vj Xjiiitrdai)
J. DUDLEY'S STATEMENT.
J. Dudley, Esq., a Senator, from Franklin and I
Owen couulies, being called upon,' made the f > I lowing
statement on the floor of the Senate: One!
day, in January, F. I', itlair came into
the Senate Chamber, seated himself near me, and
inquired niy opinion on the resolution passed requesting
our members of Congress to vote for General
Jackson as I'resnlent of the United Slates.- Mr. II
desired that I would write leltrrs requesting the members
and particularly D. White, from this district, to
consult with Mr. Clay and vole as he might desire
To this 1 objected, and ga?e my reasons therefor
Mr. li. appeareil surprised that I should raise any
objections, particularly as I w as opposed to the resolutions.
lie said that a number of members of both
houses, who voted for the resolutions, had written
such letters, and that I could do it with more propriety.
lie said it Mr Wl.it. K- -J 1 ?
vote fur Mr Attains hr would obtain the rote of Kentucky,
and with it tbc votes of most of the Western
State*, which would elect turn, in winch ra-? Mr
Clay would obtain llie uppo.iilinnit ol Secretary ol
State. I llien inquired bow that fact had been ascertained'
His answer w as that letlrrs had been received
from gentlemen of undoubted veracity at
Washington city, containing such information that I
might rely with confidence on that statement. I replied
that, although I was opposed to ttie resolutions.
1 had no doubt they contained the truth, and therefore
I could not say one word to induce our members
of Congress to Oelicvc otherw ise. I further protested
against Mr. ('lay's accenting any office under Mr
Adams, whom I considered a Federalist of the lloslon
stamp in 179w and 1H00, and thenceforward inrnrnn
of the Went, you hare it a* my opinion that if they
were muted, they would sink together."
f Virre ?fn/n</ewer nf ikt Italtimnre Sun.
MARYLAND LEGISLATURE.
Annapoi.ii, Dec. 26, IH4.1.
Annapolis i* now alire with legislator* and strange-*,
who add largely to the |>roportional population
of the place. A sufficient number of member* to
form a quorum in each House hare assembled, and
the Senate have already organized by the election of
it* officer*.
Mr. Thomaa, of St. Mary'*, ha* been re-eleeted
I'rr-idcnt, Mr j. II Nicholson, Cliief Clerk, an I Mr
Joi n N. Watkin*. Reading Clerk . Mr. W ui*low wa*
appointed Chaplain and Mr Jo*eph N. Cordon, Jr ,
and VVoolman J Gibson, Committer Clerk*. Door
keeper and Messenger the same aa la*t year.
1 he llou?e of Delegate* wa* called to order at the
ti*u*l hour, and *ereral member* appeared, were
qualified, and took theiraeata An election ofSpenker
wa* then gone into, which resulted in the choice of
William II. Wataon, Kaq. (Whig) of Baltimore. He
receired forty-fire rotes, ami Jamea A. Stewart
(IVm.) twenty-eight rote* The Speaker, unon tak
ing the Chair, made n suitable addre?? <i Brew. r
was elected Chief Clerk, and Benjamin B. Daunt, '
Heading Clerk The Committee Clerks are It. I)
Dough, J W. Ilider, It W. Carter, William I,e
eompte, and Otto Shipley I.. J M. Broadwater n a<
appointed Scrgeant-al arrna, and W B.Tahler, Doorkeeper.
The R?\. Joseph Merriken an elected
Chaplain. After the elect on of officers a committee
waa appointed to wait upon the Dovernor, and it |?
e*|ccted the Mesa age will be received to-day.
"Panrr.art" i* Amkric*.?t)n Tuevlay. at one I
o'clock, ail estate in Maryland, United Stales of
Ameriea, comprising about 12,400 acres, w as put up
for sale at the auction mart. It wa? describee to he |
rich in t mber and mineral resource-, and it was stated
that a s milar property in Kngland would lie worth
some hundred thousand of pounds. It is bounded on '
the south by the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, the Bnl
tunorc and Ohio railway, and the riser I'otomac. and
on the north by the great western turnpike.road from
Bdtimorr and Washington to the western states, and
is only 17 days journey from Kngland. Some of thr
oak trees growing upon it were 100 feet high and (j0
feet from the lower limb, and the pines were 121) leet
high Not a Single bidding was offried, though the
property had been most eiOnsieely adrertised ?
l.nmlon r*ftr .Vor 29
ton JUL iUUiaoMAX.
THE PRESIDENT'S MK8SACE OF
DEC. 4. 1613.
I'Ut JlfMijjt proceed* to inform u* lh?i uui
iaocient ally, (lie People of the land of Lafayette
and all the real of Europe are at amity aud good
feeling wuh us. As to our affairs with Great
Britain and Mexico, we may feel assured from
what we see of the correspondence of oui Secretary
of State, and our Minister at Mexico,
that the honor of this nation has beeu entrusted
to safe hands by the President.
If we understand national honor to denote
the principle of a uatiou, who, strictly observing
the rules of justice herself, will neiihet^o, nur
endure wrong ; who neither brooks insuWior be
trays tear, and rises in piide as her enemies rise
in strength ; it is ditlicult to conceive a greater
interest than that of preserving the reality, qnd
the reputation of such u lofty spirit: and it re
j quires lio violence 01 expression in comprelietiu
under national lionor every object of legitimate
hostility !
The constant petty vexations, petty did I say?
I should have said serious vexatious front the
Harlotry Corsairs have been such that Europe
has at last been compelled to put an end to this
continued and predatory warfare. If Europe
can keep her borders ipuet, why not the I'nited
States? by similar means. If such is the law
of nations on the Eastern shore of the Atlantic. I
why not on the Western 7 And again :
Great llritaiu fiuda it to Iter safety and ag
grandizement to seize upon a part of the Territory
of Spam, and thus by her Gibraltar clu-ci
all the commerce going in and coming out of
this great Estuary. 11er station in the Levant
keeps ull secure towards the rising sun. Her
stations on her own Island and on the Western
coast of Africa, and at St. Helena and the Cape
of Good Hope, give her greut influence on nil
the shores of the continent laved hy the ocean
of Atlas on its Eastern side. While her for1
tresses at Nelson, and Churchill, and Halifax,
and the Durmudas, and her posts in the West
Indies, and at the Falkland Isles, keep in check
all the commerce of the Western Atlantic
Now, can there he any good reason why we
sllnlllll no! follow ?? rrooil ml ovumiilu > I !
look a hull' to our safety in I lie Gulf of Mexico.
Great ltriiain has Iter chain of military posts on
all the .shores of the Atlantic?and it is plain
that these stations, coupled with her immense
marine, give her, in time of war, countless advantages.
She has no business in the Gulf of
Mexico. That Gulf receives the waters of the
Mississippi; and the myriads of people, who
are soon to fill up this " Father of Lands,'' reuders
it necessary that we shall not he incommoded
in that little hay, hv any Gibraltar, or
any such thing. Great Jlrituiti seizes fir-1 upon
one station, then another, as it suits her. On
III
the other side of the globe, she has possessed
herself of Mauritius and llouiboo, all East of
the Indies : she now. -inc. tier Inf.r....... .1.?I. I
, f ?>wvv ..V ? Iiinillll/U j ovltlt IV
on Affghanislau, lias made herself mistress of,
the gates ai d pnsses of the great wall which I
separate* the Northern from the Southern Asia ; j
and she hus New Holland and Van Diemen's j
land and New Zealand ; and her kindness to j
China in furnishing that ancient and tuo-t inte-:
resting people with opium made hy their African
slaves in India, warns us of what she would do j
to us if we let her get a foothold in this little j
outlet of the Gulf, where our great internal <
i.:_L -ir
lUgiiixiy empties iiseil.
Let us be true to ourselves ; our President
speaks in a language not to be misunderstood.?
It is a repetition ol' that held by Mr. Monroe to
ihe Holy Alliance. And we shall be faithless
to ourselves, if we permit the haughty domination
of Cheat Britain to touch us in so vital a
point.
Having taken a view of other*, we now come
to look to ourselves, and the Message next in
forms us that the receipts I.ill short of th disbursements.
All this must sooner or later get
right. " The operation* of the Treasury how
rest m/wim the act of 1789, and the r 'solution
of 1810. And those laws have been so administer!
d us to produce as great n quantum of good
to the couniry as their provisions are capable of
yielding."
The country owe sincere thanks to the Pre j
sident for the restoration of the public credit, bv I
prt aervation of tin* public land*. The United
State* slock i? not now disgraced on the exchange.
Many thank* arc due lor steering eh a'
of all arts of incorporation for the benefit of the
few, at the expense of the People at large.
It is difficult to scan and criticise ourselves
There is an ancient fable which sheds great
light on the constitution of the human mind.?
Jupiter hot mude nt oil villi voile!* on our
Imcka; the front pocket it for the faullt of
othert, the hind pocket for our ovn. It i* not
easy to put any thing into the hind pocket.
We exhibit a most extraordinary speciacle to
all not in the mists of faction. In 1837, Van
Huren called a special Congress in order to devise
some plan to collect, lake care of, and disburse
the money of the People. That Congress
met, wrangbd, received their mileage, pen
knives, stationery, bocks, ntnps and per diem,
and this, loo, in hard money, at a premium, and
went home. There were lour oilier regular
sessions of the Congress besidi s, under Mr Vail
Huren. Gen. Harrison h id Ins extra Congrcs*,
and Mr. Tyler has seen two regular si ssions of
that body. This makes eight separate consecutive
sessions of Congress, anil ' thr operntiom
of the Trtntury nov rett upon th> art oj 178'J,
uml the retolution of 1SI?V, and the exchanges
of the whole country are equal; and the stork
of the United Slates at par or above.
What a comment on parly spirit, and the re
cu; cauvr energies 01 tins wonderlul People.
As far a? the operations of the Treasury have .
been concerned, 11 is as il there bad been no
Congress m session since 183(V As far as any
measure for collecting, securing, and disbursing
the money of the People is concerned, il is as if
tbere bad been no srssinn of C< ngress at all?
since 1810,-1 should have said. One thing i?
obvious, even lo one nearly blind, anil thai is '
lliis: that ihe proe< ss of legislation, the modes
of transacting business in our dt liberauve body ,
?our Congress?has not reached that point of
perfection, I oyond which there is no rational
h >pc for future improvement.
And here it may not be amiss to observe thai
i proposition was made at the meeting of Con
gri?s in 1837 to adopt a new rule in important,
cases?it was tl.is :
To r? quire the two patties, which then and I
since have Jividrd the country, each to appoint )
its own committee of five, that these commit-1
V
Itl'a should <U.l ?tJ)<4!4Uly , UUli 4p4fl ilOUl i'&cii
alher: to (hem should have been referred this
much vexed question ol huance : thai each commillee
should diaw up a bill, and n |>uri, allowing
in what uiauuer (hey au|i|K>aed the public
nec< aaiiiea could be alleviated : thai Ihcse reporia
aliuuld be made siinuliaucously at the
Cletk'f table, and instantly printed, and all this
should be done without letting uuy one kuuw
whence either report came. When printed,
live copies should be scut to every courl-lfuuse
in the United Statei. This would not have required
much more than 7,(Hit) copies. Some ol
the People would read, digest, and explain these
reports, and thus a thinking class insensibly be
produced. Tlie two plans being before the uatiorf,
and the l'eople examining them, and comparing
them together, Congress would feel ilsell
compelled to set seriously to work.
At one moment the chairman of the Committee
of Ways and Means 111 the Ilouae of Representative*
seemed desirous to have the plan and
rules communicated to him. Rut upon further
consultation it was determined to push the plan
of a Sub-Treasury.
What wouM have been then, and now, if 111
1SU7 both parties had been compelled to produce |
their plans, bills, and reports, and the nation, !
and people at large, put hi immediate possession,
without unv person knowing from what committee
(hey aiiianalcd I
Under this new mode ol transacting business
in (he House of Representatives ilie delay could |
scurcely have been greater than has taken place j
under its present mode. 1 repeal, eight sepa- i
rati; consecutive sessions of Congress have taken '
place : (woof tliem expressly called to pass some i
additional laws for the safe-keeping and disburs- I
mg the People's money, and thi> subject lias j
regularly been brought up by the Executive at
the other six regular sessions. Under the old
mode, that is, the present mode of doing business,
the guards upon the Treasury are exactly
where they were in 1837, before Congress met,
expressly, for a remedy to this.
A severer renroach could not he made to the <
whole method of now doing business 111 Congress
than this rapid expose.
And, it might be added, ihat such scenes have
taken place in the Senate and in the House ol
Representatives of the Congress of the United
States, as have caused the greatest exultation
and triumph to the enemies of American liberty.
But let us hope for better things. The 1'eople,
to a certain extent, have performed a lustration.
We shall sic.
MACON. |
DixitMnca, 1843.
'
it KIT III.lew N MEETING.
At a meeting of the Democratic Republicans of North-1
amplon county, assembled at Capeville uu Saturday, !
the lGlh of December, 1843, pursuant to public no
ticc, oil motion of John L. Upshur, bl ip, Daniel
1'itchett, Esq. was called to the Chair, and, 011 motion
of A T Ci 1 ay, Esq , John E. Nottingham, Esq.
was appointed Secretary.
Dr. Jesse J. Sunpkins then delivered an address,
explanatory of the objects of the meeting. After 1
which, on motion of John I,. Upshur, the following
gentlemen were appointed by Ibe Chair a committee
to draft a picamble and lesolutious expresMve of the
political opinions of the meeting, viz. John L. Upshur,
Jesse J Simkins, A. G. Gray, Miles W Fisher,
Dr. T. J. L. L. .Nottingham, Dr. W illiam A.
Thorn, George 1*. Filchett, N. S. Goliigon, Robert
U. Nottingham, and Thomas Hallelt. The committee
having retired, after some time returned, and reported
the following preamble and resolutions.
The silent, though rapid marches which the Fedc
iii viu< ci iiiiiciii una maun wiiiiui a u w years iasi
past, toward* the consolidation of the States
of tliis Confederacy, cannot but fill with just
alarm the mind of every true friend of constitutional
liberty. The conviction that the liberties
of the I'eople will not survive the consolidation
of Uie Slates composing our Federal
Union, is one which forces itself, with irre
sistible power, upon every man wbo lias carefully investigated
and sciiously u fleeted upon, the nature of
our institutions. The Constitution of the United
Stales is a compact or tr. aty between separate, free,
sovereign, and independent States , and the Federal
Government posscovs no jower which that in*lrumeiil
does not confer. Snrti, however, has been tlic
construction given to that instrument by a certain
party of this country, as to confer upon the General
Government a political omnipotence utterly subversive
of the lights of the Slates, and which must, if
not resisted, prove at no di-tant pei iod destructive of 1
freedom itself. No motives of exptdieney, no tern,
porary benefit to be derived therefrom?indeed, so
alleged necessity, ran justify the slightest infraction
of the compact of union between the Stiles, by the
federal Government?unless the intriesis of the
several States be identical, any other than a most
guarded and strict construction of the Federal Constitution
cannot be resorted to, without hazarding
consequences dangerous in the eatrruie. The history
of man m all ages, and under all governments, i
clearly attests his proneness to whatever interest invites,
and pow er enables him to do, and hence the <
necessity for conventional restrictions upon, and I
chartered limits to, his power. Indeed, the history
of our own country is far from being silent upon tins I
subject. Sectional interests, controlling the action
of the Federal Government have, in more than one
instance, caused the Constitution of this Fnion
to be violated, and the rights <>f many of theHtitra <
to be flagrantly and injuriously invaded. In the
two arts establishing Hanks of the United State*?
in the repented laws establishing protective duties? '
to say nothing of other laws that could be mentioned, '
are clearly recognised infraction* of our compact of J
Union; and infractions, too, of the most dangerous
character. These invasions of the Federal j
Constitution are peculiarly raleulaled toaw.iken the
jealousy, and alarm the fears of the People of the j '
Southern States Differing materially in climate, in '
soil, in pursuits, and consequently in interest, from 1
the Northern States, and overborne in the Federal
Government by a numerical superiority, it is perfectly
manifest, that the rights of the Southern '
Statrs of this Confederacy depend solely upon a
strict construction of the Federsl Constitution, and a
faithful execution of its provisions so construed Now
if thai dependence he destrnyed?it that rn- J 1
in in: iuitcu?ii mai mielil lie broken, he
mull be blind indeed who can fail to see that there 1
will remain for the South no other peaceful resort. 1
Br it, therefore, by the Democratic Republican* '
of Northampton, in public m cling assembled,
Kriolrrd, Thai 111*Constitution of the liniteil Slate*, /
being a c'unpai t . f union for spec die and limited I1
purpoaci1, between free, sovereign and independent t 1
States equally re?pects the right* of a I the States, t
and confers upon a majority of the State* no power
over the right* of a minority of the sa-ee, winch i*
not authorized by a strict construction of that inttrument.
I
Rnnlrrd, That the Virginia resolutions of "OS, and
the Kentuc ky resolution* of "90 contain the tru" ,
rule* for the rnsi*tru?lion of that Constitution or com
yiet '
Rttolrtil, That we recognise the princip'r* of the
true JrfTersonian school as the only genuine l)emo- <
eraiic R< publican princip'e*
I lUtuktd, That ali >< l aud only da 1
H'tiintly unjust, oppressive, and ruinous, in i's opermI
lion upon the i'eoplc of the Southern Stale*, but It
involves a direct violation of the Federal Constitution,
and a moat palpable usurpation of power by the Cintra
I (ioverninent
Netolrrd, Tlial tlie Federal (Jove rumen I has no
power to foster any one interest of the Stales of this
Uuioii at the eipense of another, and that any attempt
by it so to do odfehl to be strenuously resisted, beeimse
it would tend to estsblisb a monopoly the upiel
odious, and to endanger in the highest degree the m
tartly of our Federal Union.
.. * ' .1- .1. -/ .i? ?r
the Public Lands among the Mveral Stales, in but an
uuidtouj mode adopted by the advocate* of a Protective
Turill to create, if possible, u necessity for tti^li
and i unions protective duties, and thu* force upon the
country that unjust, opprdlme, unconstitutional, and
ollm condemned system.
Uctulrtd, That trie Assumption of State debts by
the General Government, u measure lately proposed
by the Whigs, is, like distribution, the offspring of
the Tariff policy, and thut it is, perhaps, the most
alurming and hateful proposition evir made even
by the federal Whig party of this country.
Krjolrid, That u Hunk of the United States, as a
liseal agent of this Government, would not only be I
an unconstitutional, unwise, and ineipedient institution,
but that it is "absolutely an obsolete ideu."
ttcsvlrril, That the annexation of Texas to this
Union would not uulv be beneficial to the whole
Union, but, also, an elective mode of securing the
eaassultaas t *>u t i t * t ift .a* of lha U/uilhar,. kslluts.u tsaru irtsst
vl "" -6?-?
the machinations and assaults of a rapidly increasing
parly in the Nor.h, and insure the establishment of
that equilibrium of power between the North anil
Souih, which should be most ardently desired by every
ti lie patriot, as it wuuld extend in un equal degree
over every one of these confederated Slates the
protecting ar.m of the Federal Government.
Hiiwlvtd, That the movements of the British Gov- >
ernment in relation to the young Republic of Texas, j
have justly awakened our jealousy and excited* our!
alarm, and that any attempt on the part ot that Government,
either directly or indirectly, to interfere
with the institution of slavery in Texas, ought to be
resisted by the United States in a prompt and deter- .
mined manner.
Rtiolvfd, Thnt we udhcre to the Constitution as it j
has been transmitted to us by our fathers, and will
ever strenuously oppose any attempt to strike therefrom
the Veto power, belies nig it to be among the
great conservative principles introduced into that ;
charter, as safeguards against Federal encroachments
and Federal usurpations.
The meeting having been uddres-ed by John L.
Upshur, Micrs W. Fisher, A. T. Cray, and 11. S.
N'eale, E?q*., in support of the foregoing preamble
and resolutions, on nwitioii of Mr. Upshur they were
unanimously adopted ; and it was further,
Rnolred, That the thanks of this meeting be tendered
to the pastor and trustee^ of the Methodist Episcopal
Church at Cupeville, for their courtesy in allowing
to the meeting the use of their edifice.
Httolvtd, That the proceedings of this meeting bo
-igued by the Chairman and Secretary, and published
in the Madisonian, the Richmond Enquirer, and the
OIJ Dominion.
On motion, the meeting then adjourned to meet at
Eastvillc, on the second Monday in January next.
DANIEL FITCHETT, Chairman.
Juiin E. Nottinuiiam, Secretary.
REMARKABLE EVENTS IN THE HISTORY
OF MEXICO AND TEXAS.
MEXICO.
18:21.?Mexico achieved her independence of Old
Spain.
May 13. 1832.?Iturbide proclaimed Emperor of
Mexico.
Oct. 31, 1*22.?Congress dissolved hy an armed
force.
Ore. 2, 1822 ?Gen. Santa Anna revolts against
Iturbide.
February, 1822. ? Gen. Victoria espouses the cause
of Santa Anna. Battle at Xalopa between Santa
Anna and the Imperial troops. Gen. Guerrero and
Hrono take the field in favor of Congr. ?s. The army
of Iturbide revolts and declares for Congrers.
March 211, 1822.?A Convention to reorganize the
r* .
Aji.il 8, 1822.?Decree of Congress banishing
llurbide, who is forced to leave Mexico.
June 17, 1823.?Congress decree that the new
Congress Mi ill be elected by the People.
June 19, 1823.?Congress decide in favor of a
Federal Government.
Januai) 31, 1821.?Congress decree the act of Confederation.
July, 1824. ? llurbide returns to Mexico.
July 19,1824.?Apprehended as a traitor and shot.
Guadalupe Victoria first Prcsideat of the Republic.
H25 ?Titles of nobility abolished.
The power of Old Spain is obliterated by the sur- i
render of the Ca-ilc of Vera Cru/. to the ahip .Ina
'Hie Ind.pendente of Mexico i* acknowledged by
Great Britain.
|Ki>6.?Difficulties lH-twei'n tlie rival factions Ksco-p^
and Yorkinos.
l.-o;.?Don Jise Montano propokea a reform of
(internment in opposition to the \ orkinot
Isi'JH.?Gen. Bravo banished the Itcpublir.
Pcdraza chosen President by Congress.
Hauta Anna at the head of a body of troops pro- '
claims Guerrero President.
December ?Civil war in all its horrors rages in
Mexico.
January, 1889 ?Guerrero elected to succeed Pedraza.
July 87th.?Expedition from Havana to subjugate I
Mexico fails.
Guerre,o altdiratrs in favor of Bustimenle.
ir>.)i ? wnerrcro apprc liended and ahot.
183d.?Gen. Tcran* troop* cut to piece* by llioaa
i>f Mi ntr/iima
1*34?Gen. Santa Anna join* the Aristocratic ami
Church parly, in opposition to the eour*e lie had
hitherto austained.
May IJ'.h.?Dissolve* the Gorernmenl, and take*
llie power into hi* own hand*.
li*3o. ? Vice President Gomez h'ena* wm depoaed
and Gen. Ilorrajon elected in hi* place.
In June the new plan wa* adopted and the Government
became Central and consolidated.
TEXAS.
IS2I-3.?Gen. Stephen K. Austin establishes a
:olony in Texas.
1832.?The colonists first take up arms against
Mexico.
June 2fi 1832.?Battle at Velaxco, in which John
Austin commands the Texan forces, and I .'gorier lira
the .Mexican , Texans victorious. The Texans espouse
the cause ol the l.iberals in Mexico. Convention
at San Fehppc to frame a Constitution for the
" State of Texas."
April, 1833.?Gen. Austin appointed Commissioner
to Mexico, lie is impriaonnd.
Srptemlier, 1835?Gen. Austin returns The
Texans declare for the 1'cderal Constitution of 1824October
2, 1835 Battle of Gorgole, and (tostonai.i
defeated by the Texans, under Col. Moore. Gen
Samuel Houston airivrs and is appointed General of
Department lx>renzo de Znnala, formerly (?<>vcrn>rof
Mexico, appointed Chairman of the Conxniittcc
if Safetv.
October i, 1835.?Fort at (ioliad taken by the
Frxan* under ("apt. Collingsworth. l>elr.gates meet
it Sun Felippc. (Jen. Auatm appointed Commanderin-Chief.
(Jen. Houston, elected a tncmlier to the
Consultation from Naropdocbe?, join* the arinj.
October 27, 1835?Battle of Conception, under
Ihe command of Fannin ami Bowio?the Texan*
dose one man only, and the enemy one hundred
Nor 3, 1835.?Consultation meet and organize at
san Felippe, ami Or Branch T Archer is chosen
('resident.
Not 7, 1835?The consultation declare for the
Constitution of '24, and elect Henry Nmitb, <5orrnor,
and J W Rohinaon, Lieut (Jovernor
!
Not 8, 1835.?The Texan* gain a Tictory oert
1 the enemy at Bexar.
| Not 25, 183j ? Gen Iturlcso.i succeed* Gen. Aus(
lui tit command.
Dec. 5th, 1835.?San Antonio stormed and Ulci I
under the command of J Milam and Neil, with
\ great lots to the enemy
Dec. 7, 18.15.?Col. Milam killed.
Dec. 2, 1835 ?The enemy, under Gcu. Com, cap.:
I ulates.
Dec. 12, 1835.?Gen Houston imuii Ink Prod
inatioii. Commissioner* are appointed to the ( mini
States to solicit aid in support of the Texan cautr
Dec. 1^^1835.?The 1'rorisionil Goternmem f
Texas order a CooTeotiou. The Orleans Greys, the
Tennessee, and Alabama, and Georgia volunteers arri*e
in Texas.
lH^ti.?Col. Gram and Col. Johnson, with a small
party on their wuy to Melamoras, are cut oil and dc
troyed.
1(830?Santa Anna swears to take Texas or lose
Mexico. Marches against Texas w ith 10,000 choiri
troops, few ofuliuin evtr ritUtn.
March 3.?Han tnlonia besieged.
MarchG ?Storming of the Alamo, under the rom
mand of Santa Anna ; 1,000 well disciulined troons
opposed to I4U raw Texans; fifteen hundred Mexicans
were killed. On this occasion the gallant Travel's,
Howie, Croeketl, and Kvans, were barbarously
murdered after their capitulation.
March 2.?The Convention at Washington. Texas,
unanimously decree a Declaration of ludi peiidem
General Houston appointed Major General and commander-in-chief
of the army.
March II.?Captain King, with 28 men, overtaken
by 1,000 Mexicans, and in an open prairie at llelngeo
barbarously shot. Ward gains a victory ov? i
the enemy, and afterwards attacked by is obliged
to surrender.
March 18.? battle of fanning and L'rrea near Goliad,
in which 700 Mexicans are killed, and only 7
t . _ n..- ..r . - - -
aiAuid, a lug UI uuL'li IS sell I IU 1110 1 c van <11IJ11 >,
and an armistice is signed by Fanning and General
Urrca ; the Texsns deliver up tlieir arms, are marched
to Goliad, end 400 are treacherously and haMiarously
shot. (
April 21?The memorable and glorious butll
ol San Jacinto, in which Santa Anna and his forces inall
destroyed or taken pris ner-; the Teiaus had 2 killed
and <i mortally wounded?the Mexicans ti.'HI killed
and 7.'IU taken prisoners; General Santa Anna and
all his StafF%re made prisoner*, wiore than livable the
whole effective force of Texas '
September.?General Samuel Houston elected by
the People first President of the Republic of Texas,
and General M. U. Lamar Vice President.
October 3.?First Congress assembled at Colum
bia. |
December.?bantu Anna is lcleased, and goes to
Washington, U. S
The iride|>endence of Texas acknowledged by the
United States, France, England, Belgium and Holland.
1840.?Treaty of Commerce, Lc., ratified between
England and Texas, by the United States and
Texas.
for the madisomav
Mk. Jokf.s : 1 attended the Temperance meeting
at the llall of the Medical College, on Friday even
tug iasi, and listened with much interest to the eloquent
remarks of the two principal speakers, lion.
.Mr. Belser, of (Jeorgiu, and lion. Mr Cntlin, of
Connecticut. These gentlemen spoke with much
earnestness and tiled, and in conclusion each tender
cd to the association, by whose invitation they were
present, tl eir zealous co-operation in proinoling the
t ause of Temperance here at the Capital of the .Vi
tion. Front this we may expect a rich treat tins
w inter, a* often a? their valuable services may he
called into requisition.
With Mr. Belter's history as a Temperance ad*
ale the writer is not acquainted , kit, judging from I
lai- remark* on this occasion, he is a most uncompr<>
mining and formidable enemy of King Alcohol, in
all the various shapes he assumes. With the pa
which Mr. Catlin has taken in the Temperance ir
form I am more familiar, having heard much of In*
recent labors in the city of New York, New Jeiw.
and <lie Slate he in part represents. His adorer :it
the New York Taliernaclc, wn t time siriee, t ?1<
the National Temperance Society, w. a a mash i ?
effort, and was received with great enthusiasm hy t
immense audience convened on that occasion, ai '
was highly complimented by the press of that city
Although much has already been done to lupprc-^
inteinpeianee in this community, it is a lamentable
faet that the " demon-' is not witlicut a goodly nun.
Iier of devoted followers. Any one w ill he folly
satisfied of this, who will take an oerasional pel p in
to the hotels, eating houses, and other public plan in
this city, or who is to unfortunate as to he compelled
to listen to the street br. ils wliieh e,instantly
occur on Pennsylvania avenue, at almost all hour*
the night. And what is even worse, men to whom
our citizens have a right to look for better example- <
are too frequently actors in these disgusting sceneMay
we not hope, for the raitse of humanity ami
the honor of the nation, that it w ill not alwav* he
thus? l?et not the real friends of Temperance lay
down their arms, or neglect a single duty, while >o
much remain* to be done.
TltmUTE OF KB8PKCT.
I NITKll HTATEd DISTRICT COI RT.
Thi kidav, Dec. 21-t.
This morning shortly after the meeting of the District
Court, Mr. I.ee, the District Attorney, announced
in appropriate terms to the Court the death
of Mr. Justice Thompson, one of the Associate Justices
of the Supreme Court of the United States ?
The Court, after expressing the feelings of deep regret
with wtatah it received the annunciation of the
melancholy evispt, ordered an adjournment of the
Court, when the following proceedings were had at .1
meeting of the Bench, liar and officers of the Court
TI1K LATK JUDCE THOMPSON
At a meeting of the member* of the liar and Off
rers of the Court held in the District Court Room
this morning the lion. U. S 11 a a t n having been
called to the Chair, and J??. M Blt.uss.AN, hruj , ap
pointed Secretary,
V. Coli.ims l.v.r., Kaq., U. H. Attorney, rose :i I
niovid the following pieamhle and resolutions, whirl,
wrie unanimously adopted : ?
WalHls, tlie melancholy intelligence lias rearlo ii
mn in;, " inn uruill (> Hie Moil. UnlTII l llliMI
lute one of the Anorulu Jwlma of the Muprem
( ouil of the United Stales, and the liar ol Hultiin
participating deeply in the sorrow which the loss
so honored a patriot arid jurist must occasion, n
only to the profiMHMl but to Uic whole Republic, and
licing desirou* of expressing their sympathy and gt i
at the sad event?he it therefore,
RtmlreJ, That the members of the Flar of Hal
more have learned with sincere regret the death I
the llou. Mmitii Thompson, late an Associate Judf
of the Supremo Court of the United States, whos
learning and virtues, and the unsullied integrity ol
whose private and public character had endeared
him to his country and to his friends, and in icstiin
ny of their sense of the grrat bereavement the Renrli
and Rar of the I'n led States tiavc sustained, and
their admiration of his life and deep sorrow at hidealh?will
wear the ti-ual badge of mourning (
the space of thirty days.
Rrtoltrd, That the I hail man of this meeting be i,
u nested to enclose a copy ot these resolutions to the
tamily ol the late Judge Thompson, and to express to.
them the feelings of the Rarof Baltimore on this mrl
aneholy occaamu.
Rrtolixd, That these proceedings be published in
the papers of tins city and W asliiisgton.
Rnolrtd, That the court he respectfully rerpieslej
to oritur tb? proceedings to be entered on the Iniiuit- s
of tha Court.
V R IIKATH, Chain
Jawos M RrtasKss. Hsc'j
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