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IIUJ inch of the territory she claims. Inssmuch,
therefore, as this controversy with tiicat Britain has
assumed an aspect by no means suspicious lo tlie tu
tare harmony of the two nations, I am foi placing
teforeonr countrymen this report as evidence of the
justice of our claims, and of the position which not
Usftn roem has taken, in order that the public judg
ment, a il with it the public energies of the nanos.
may he ronrentiated in support of that claim, in any
emergency to which its adjustment may give rise.—
With this view, I shall vote lor the punting ol the
largest number.
Mr. Clat said that, among other considerations
Svhicboperated with him. he confessed that lie wislied
the subject to be acted on this day. (Mr. C. was un
derslood to allude tn its being the 4th ol July) Ashe
advanced in life, he acknowledged the influence ol
feelings and sentiments which might be retarded as
bordering o»superstition. There was, at all events,
it appeared m him, peculiar fitoesa in resolving, mi
tbs 4th ol July. 1838, in maintain the integnty and
inviolability ol'llie old lliirieeu lulled Stales, whose
independence was proclaimed on that memorable
4iv.
Tbs question was then put on the adoption of the
resolutions reported by ilie committee, and they -
wete agreed to arm. con., and on motion, twenty
thousand additional copirs of the report aud resolu
tions were ordered to be primed.
The bill to provide for theauiveying and marking
the North-Eastern Boundaiy, according to ilie pro
w-won of the treaiy of peace of 1783, was reported
back tw the House of Representatives by the Com
mittee to whom il had been referred without amend
meat, and ordered to lie on the table. Mr. Fair- |
field, from the Committer, oflVreil two resolutions,
which were unanimously adopted—expressing en
tire confidence in the practicability ot marking the
boundary in accnrda- ce with the stipulations of ills'
treaty ol 1783, and the conviction ol the justice md
validity of the title of the l’. States lo the disputed
territory. They also express a drsue that the ne
gotiation be brought In a close and (lie final decision
ofthe dispute made as early as practicable.
THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO.
Mr. Howard from lire Committee on Foreign Re
lations, made a report on Saturday last in the House
•f Repiesentativrs, upon the Message ol the Prcst
dent of the United States at the commenc ement of
(he Session, and the several stihsequeni Messages
«n the subject of our relations with Mexico. Ii
ie due to the gravity of the subject that tins report,
with ■ minority report by Mr. Cushing, one ol the
members of the committee, should he published hi
tbte pa|»er, at large, as early as practicable ; and this
•hall be done.— Mean w hile, we are enabled to state,
front a hasty look at the report, that the committee
iocline lo consider the conduct ol the Mexican tio
errement to have been less direct, in reference to
the propose I mediation, than is consistent with lair
ness of purpose, but do not consider any legislative
action necessary on the subject at the present mo
ment, sud tltereloru refrain from recommending
•ny
Mr. Cushing is of opinion that the oiler liv Mcx
leo l«» •iiliimt lo urbitr.itinti hm been mail* in pood
frith cui«I with ImiicMt intent, lint, at tin* name* time, it
It should afiprir othcrwinr, lie would be .is |irompt
•s any oilier itieiuber to iniciii a diflcieut |>iu|iohc uii
the part of Mexico, .should mucIi |*ui|io*n* In* made
evident. | Xaf. Int.
Tn ax.—In the Home ol R^presrutativen oil Sat
Uiihy, Mr. Adams rrxiiitied tin* floor m slip poll of
Ims amendment on the subject ut I'oxa*. and uonlin*
lined to occupy the morning houi nil it expired. He
was on #iat pan of In** argument in wliuh lie» liaigm
on the last and present Administrations a ioiiim* of
duplicity mid hostility in regard to Mexico, and a
covert design from the beginning, to wrest from Iter
the province of Texas. In illustration of tins posi
lion he read several documents, and in particular, a
fetter from President Jackson lo Mr. Pulton, now
of the Senate, proving that lie was at the tunc it was
written (Dec. lit, 16,'iO) fully apprized ol the cxis
tedcf ol nsecret conspiracy, with tine. Houston at its
fiend, to effect llns object, nn.l was utteilv hostile
So it, accomplishment. The reading of lettei was
lieieued lo with profound attention.
Correspondence of the Journal of Commrree,
Wxent.'rBTnM, Wednesday, July lilt.
Mr. Clay of Ky. presented a memmial It out eiti
Kens of Westmoreland comity, Va. against the Sub
Treasury System, anil in favor of the establishment
of a National Hank. Mr. Clay said this was the
county which gave birth to Washington—auditaciti
Kens had scut their memorial to him lor pn ..filiation,
• because built of llteir own Senators were opposed lo
one of the objects of their memorial.
Mr. Clay might have added that the comity ol
Westmoreland, which is in the “Northern Nctk,"
between the Rappahannock and Potomac iivets,was
the birth-place ol three Presidents. Washington
was there bom. Madison was burn in die same
county, at Port Conway, now a part of King I it urge
county, but then a part of Westmoreland. Mr. Mon
roe was born in the same county, and there read
law, before the revolution, and, alter it, cotiiiiieuced
the practice of his profession in the same county.
Hit uncle, Joseph Jones, E«q. a very distinguished
lawyer, resident in Kinglieurge county,un the Rap
pehanock, twrlve miles below Fredetieksbiirg, was
She patron nf Monroe, through Ins emit ,e ol lile, and
left him what at that day was considered alt ample
fortune.
Ills somewhat remarkable that the humble me
morial nf the ancient anil renowned county id West
moreland should have come forward at this late day,
in support of the principles of her illustrious sons,
Washington, Madison, and Monrnc ' ! What a
traiu of recollections is struck by these names! How
far different were their principles, views, and acts,
from those wlticn arc now proclaimed ,s exclusive
ly democratic ! A memorial in favor of a National
Baok comes well from such a county, and, peculi
erly well, on the Anniversary of American Indepen
dence. The memorial was ordered to be printed.
HARBOR BILE.
Upon the consideration of the “Old Harbor Bill'
in the Senate, a new evidence wa\ given by “the
party" of the disposition to throw power into the
hands of the Executive. The bill pioposed to expend
about a million and a half of dollars. Mr. Preston op
posed the bill as inexpedient and extravagant, m tin
present condition of the Treasury—but several ol
the Whigs were dis|iosed to favor it as a measure ol
national importance, until they riisrsvered the «b
Ject of the leaders. Mr. Wright, finding the bill
likely to succeed, offered an amendment, giving ;
discretion to the President In decide upon the timer
end amounts of expenditures.
This proceeding was denounced in emphatic terms
■s a measure of unparalleled character by the Op
position members, and it was so sartling and auda
cious, that even Mr. Norvellof Michigan, revolted,
If gentlemen would thus practise on their friends, he,
for one, would not go w ith them, and would not sub
mit to such treatment.
Wright's amendment was eventually adopted._
•yes 19, noes 16; and this at once set several of the
criglnal friends of the bill against it, ami it was re
jected.
The uext day a reconsideration was moved by Mr.
Merrick—the obiiosious section was stricken out_
end the bill was passed, with a restriction that upon
■II eingle appropriations, fifty per cent, only should be
expended this year, and the balance in 18119.
Thua were the unscrupulous advocates of Execu
tive discretion again signally defeated.
THE MADISON PAPERS.
The Senate, on the 4th nut. passed a resolution
providing for the publication of'tlie Madison papers
purchased by Congress. These papers comprise
Ihe debates of the Convention that foimedthc Con
atitution, and will be a most valuable accession to
tbe political history of the country. Thev will form
aboutIbrec volumes octavo. The residue or .Mr.
^Wuss'l papers, including all hu essays, state pa
pma, correspondence, &c.t were not included ill the
purchase by Congress, and are in the course ofpub
liestron, separately. This portion of his works will
form about ais volumes.
We sincerely wish that the country was already in
poseeteion of these valuable papers. The people
•nd ourrulers could not fail to profit by the wisdom
eftbat illustrious man, who has been called the
rather of tbe Cooatiiutioo.
STV A M B()AT ST ATI S'TI < S
In the I louse of Representative* a few days «?»•
Mr. Sergeant asked lta*c to oirer the following reso
lution, which whs adopted unanimously :
Resolved, 'I'hat the Secretary ol the Treasury he
requested to collect and report t«» Con green, on the
first day oft he next session, all the information that
can he obtained as to the use of steam engines in the
United Stales, and the accidents and loss of life or
property which have attended then use, and especial
ly that lie ascertain andiepott:
1. The whole number of steam engines in the
United States, and by whom they were constructed ;
where they are used ; how long they have been used;
their capacity and power respectively ; and the pur
poses or use to which they are applied, and whether
high or low pressure.
2. The explosions or other disasters which have
happened !«» such engines, when and where, with as
man) of tiie circumstances attending the same as
can be collected.
3. The causes, so ns far as they ran be ascertained,
of such explosions ami other disasters.
4. The loss of life or property, or injury to per- .
sons or property, which has ensued ill each case, die
tiiiguisbing ilie* mode of ol injury, by burning, scald
ms!, wounding, or otherwise.
5. The disasters to steamboats, when, and where,
and how they have occuried, by explosion, collision,
lire, or otherwise; the sr/.c, capacity or burthen of
the boats; their age, ami where mid ly whom
built.
b. I low such steamboats were manned, and wheth
er intoxicating liquor was served out t< , or permit’
cd to be used by the hands and per-on* employed on
board the same.
7. The names of the owner and master or com
manders ofthe boats to winch such disasters have
happened, and of officers and crew thereof.
H. In case* ol hosts to which no disasters have
happened, the burthen ami size of the same; when,
where, and by whom built; and the names of
ilie owners and m ister, or commander* and engi
neers.
9. Any such other information as may seem to j
Iiiiii material.
0 o (I i: IT 1C ITTBLLI (. I £ A CB.
From the Xtishnllr Whig.
INTERESTING KIU>M TI1K CHEROKEE
COUNTRY.
Ill All VHTKHH, r.AITr.ll* DIVISION, ?
Chemkee Agency, June !J2, IHJS. \
Sin — I h ive much pleasure in saying to your Ex
cellency, (liiit of the Cherokee* who yet remained in
the country, oil the *J4»h tilt, probably more than
three fourth* have already hern collected lot emigra
tion by the irro|i* under try eoinmand. The other
fourth, it is expected, will he collected in eight or ten
day* more
About 000 were sent to the West, between the
1st and 17.h mst., when, apprehending that tile warm
season might prove highly injiirioil* to the Indians,
1 was induced in suspend fait her emigration until the
lit st of September next.
In the mean time. 1 propose to hold all the Indians
yet to be emigrated, guarded by regular troops, at
and around this place, Ross’ and Gunter's Lauding.
I have the honor to be, with great respect, your
Excellency’s most ob’t serv’t.
WINFIELD SCOTT.
P. S.—I have already commenced the discharge
of the Tennessee milifi.i of this army.
Ills Ex. N. Cannon, (iov. of Tennessee.
From the Fredericksburg Arena.
ATTORNEY GENERAL.
TheGlobu Htinoiincr* that Felix Grcndv lias
been appointed, by and with the advice and consent
ol the Senate, Attorney General of the II. Slates,
rice II. F. Butler, h signed.
We did not expect this arrangement, though as
one of the rejected by the people, we knew Air. |
(im Ni>\ would be piuvided for. The appointment, I
we presume, on the score of qualification, is about
is good as could be expected. Of one ihiuj we
are very sure, that a more pliant iinscitiptilnuH Law
officer, than Air. Biti.Kit, could not he found.
Tl • re are acts of subserviency ol which he has been
guilty, dm ng the past an I present administrations,
which place him alongside of those \itornev Gen
erals, who, m English History, as the tnoLnl aihi
trary power, and the enemies of public liberty, arc
< oosigned to infamy hy the unanimous suffrage of
postei ity.
But the appointment of Mr. Felix Gnijndy is
the fiilfilmeiit of ancient prophecy. Duet not Vir
gil tell us that it is
Felix, ui /mtuit rerum cognnscere C at mas.
The South Carolina Legislatutr, during its late
extra session, adopted but two measures: it pissed!
a lull for re-building the City ol Charleston, and tes
oluiiuits instructing the South Carolitrt Congres
sional I ielegation to go for the sub-treasury system.
It Sf mu d to think that the object of its convoca
tion was to it build a city and destroy a country.
I Louiscdle Journal.
COMMERCIAL BANK OF FLORIDA.
The Mobile Advertiser furnishes the following
| particulars of a dating attempt to defraud the ciodi
tors of this institution, by the principal Stock
holder :
By a gentleman just arrived here from St. Joseph’s,
we learn the following particulars in relation to this
institution, and we give them just is they have been
communicated to us. It appears that Stevenson,
the purchurer of the said Bank, attempted to ab
scond with its assets, hi the steamer “ Ion” from
Columbus to Texas, via N. Orleans, and with that
view sent the Cleik of’the boat in ?dvance to St. Jo
seph’s to obtain the necessary clearance pnpeis, and
to rejoin the boat at the Point at the entrance of the
Bay. Immediately after the arrival ol the Clerk at
St Joseph’s, the F. States steam packet Florence,
bound fiom Tampa Bay to Mobile, put in there,
and the Cleik supposing her to be the Ion, and fearing
if she reached the wharf it would frustrate their de
signs, decided to go and meet her down the Bay, and
i offeied a large amount to an individual to put him
onboatd. Tins excited suspicion, anti he was arrest
ed and eoeiced to make known the intention uf hit.
Hsit. Upon these being known, E. J. Wood, with
several other citizen*, made application to (’apt.
Johnson of the C. S. Steamer to put out and meet
the Ion. and in a shoit time they were side by side.
The citizens o! St. Jc sepha wcie put on board the
Ion, where they found Stevenson, and his family,
lie lii.d $9000 in specie, besides a large amount in
Commercial Rank paper. He had a hearing lit fore
the authorities of St. Joseph's, and was committed.
The Mobile Register says—** We learn hv let
ters received here fiom Pensacola, dated VMili inst.,
that the Commercial Bank ol Florida, at St. Josephs,
lias railed—ill the Officers of the Institution hail
left.*’
Richmond Manufactories. — Wc extract the follow
ing from the Wilmington Advertiser of the 6th Ju
ly “The Wilmington and R. R. Road Company
received, on the 4th, an additional Locomotive upon
then road from the factory of D. 1. Burr A Co. of
Richmond.”
\ fusion t Wine Convention.—This body as
sembled at Montpelier on the 27th uK About eight
hundred delegates were present. The Hon. Silas
H. Jemson was nominated tor lioveruor, and David
M. Cantp fot Lieutenant (inventor.
Katiibun aci^ittteu.—A postscript in the Buf
falo Advertiser of Friday slates that the juty in the
| case of Benjamin Kathbun, whose trial tor peiiury
has been going on for several days, brought hi a ver
! diet of not gnifty. When ihe verdict was announced
| the court room tang with applause.
The New Oileans Bulletin states that the new
steamer Constellation, from New Orleans fur Nash
ville with a lull cargo, struck a snag on the night of
2oih June, near Island No. t>4. and imiiieiliately sunk
to her mam deck. The principal part of lu r cargo
had been put onshore in a damaged state, and hopes
were entertained of raising the boat. No lives lost.
Afflicting Dispensation —We have been fa
voted with the perusal of a letter from a clergyman
at I lyniouth, N. 11. from which we extract the fid
lowing particulars uf a moM teuntrkablc and afflict
mg dispmsatiou ot rioudeme, with which Judge
I.itcimute'i futility li.i* b«- it *mlrtl.— Saltm I!egi>
ter,
*• Yesterday after noon I rode to Judge Livermore h.
I The family were in great affliction. Samuel, llieir
' fourth son. was on Ilie 1*utuwWi slew*.beat, of whose !
destruction they had just heard. \Mer conversing
.and praying with the family i started for my chant-. !
On reaching the door, a most terrific clap of thun
der broke hi litr immediate vicinity o! us. — .My Imric j
leaped and reared, and struggled to get loose, bur
being well secured, no harm was done. J had scarce
ly arrived at a neighboring house before the cry was
heard “ Horace Liveimore was killed hy that flash of
lightning." I immediately hurried back and found it ,
even so.—-The little boy, 10 years old, was at school
a few rods from his father’s house, sifting directly
under the stove funnel; the fluid killed him instantly,
passing through from his head to Ins left fool—mar
king ilie foiehead, singing his hair and eye brows,
scarring his breast and back, and passing out of his
left foot, rending it •*» pieces. They had just brought
the body in when I arrived. We poured c old water
upon it, and although the body was warm, there was
no sign of life, lie was entirely dead. This occur
red between three and four I*. M. I remained with
the afflicted family nil near night, w hen i left them
mourning the certain death of one son, and the prob
aide death of another. There was no lightning rod
upon (he school house."
Richmond. Inly 12.
MuRDF.n.—An Irish laborer on the Canal, by the
name of John Murphey, was killed by a blow struck
by a fellow laborer on Tuesday evening. An in
quest was held over the body ol the deceased yes
terday morning ; the verdict was, that the deceased
came to bia death b v a blow, oj blows, received from
Win. Welsh. Welsh has been apprehended and com
mitted to prisou. [Compiler*
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Nkw York, July 5.
Last evening an occurrence took pl.»ce at the Carl
ton House, which resulted seriously and perhaps I
fatally. A. Mr. Van Zandt, whose conduct during
the evening had been rude and boisterous, had an
altercation with Mr. Flynn, and struck him several
times over the head. Mr. Hamblin interfered, and
drew upon himself the asault of Van Zani, who, af
ter striking him several times, turned again upon j
Flynn, when the litter drew a sword cane, and
warned the assailant that lie should defend luinselt
with it ; not heeding this intimation. Van Zandt
rushed upon him, and icceived a wound hi the ab
domen, w hich is feared in iy prove /iiral.
[.V. Y. American.
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Fatal Affhat in Arkansas.—A friend at Lake j
Providence, La. under date ol the 17th mst. gives,
us the following account of an affray, which came
oil'in Arkansas, on the 7th, a few miles above Co- j
luinbiu.
It seems the estate of a man, who died sotnc months
ago, w.is advertised by the administrator to lie sold, i
and the day of sale fixed. A son-in-law of tiie de
ceased claimed the whole of it by virtue of v ritten
documents supposed and believed to be foigcd. He
was a sort of out law, who had been indicted lor
killing and stealing cattle, and for that and other
peccadilloes, was in bad odour with Ins neighbors,
ind had been in vain hunted by the myrmidons of the
law. These II.irons (irub’em were always l iiuto re
turn von rsf invent ms, for the worthy object of their
vengeance, despising courts, juiies, and the posse j
coiintatus, was a true disciple of the late Speaker I
ol (lie House, and went armed lo the teeth, and
moienver always shewed Ins pursuers a clean pair ol ,
heels. On the day of sale he had collected the pro- 1
petty, consisting of cattle, f»0 or 70 head, in an en
closure near Ins cabin, threw himself on Ins reserved
lights, determined to do or die, constables, sin nil's,
and administrators to the contrary noiuithstanding. !
The whole vicinage was turned out, and approached
linn front, flank and rear. As a constable a> d ins
gang approached, lie ordered a halt, winch not being 1
obeyed, lie raised his rifle to shoot him, and threat
ened death to him if lie came one step nearer, but
Ins assailants were too quiek—three of them fired, 1
and the culpnt fell, pierced by three bullets, and |
tiled in a lew minutes. 1 hail llie tacts from an eye
witness.
Scrinui Affray.—Captain Isaac Smith, a bank a
gei.t. was killed on the 1 Hili June, at Hainesvillc,
Ala., in an affray with (’ol. It. (’. Scott. The latter
with a brother and brother in law, wctc immediately
arrested.
ANoTIIKR MURDKR.—The Montgomery
( Mil.) Advertiser of the 29th inst. says, dial on I lie
evening ol the 25th, a rencontre took place in that
city between J. N. IMnIpot ami Hoyle TV min, which
resulted in the dentil of the letter. After a full inves
tigation ol tin* ciicutiisiances connected wiili tlie af
fair, Mr. IMnIpot was bound over, by the Justices, to
appear at the next term of the Circuit Court, and an
swer to the charge preferred 'gainst him.
\ survey is about to be made of the Monotigahela
river, w ith the view of making a slack water naviga
tion lor steamboats from Pittsburg to the Virginia
line, a distance of ninety miles. The l iver is a noble
one, passing tlnough a line country abounding in
bituminous coal, and men of experience entertain no
doubt ol the feasibility of the project, which will en
tirely correct the existing irregularity in the naviga
tion.
(i rent Sale of Durham ('attic.
Mr. 0. S. Clarkson, of this city, in the course of
last week, sold at auction, on his farm in the neigh
borhood of Cincinnati, his stock ol Durham cattle.
The whole amount of the sale fell but a little short
of $20,00t‘. This is believed to be the largest sale
of the kind ever made by one individual, in the 17.
States. One fine bull sold tor $1450—one cow sold
for $975—another cow ami calf, for $1,075—anoth
er now for $1000—a heifer, a year old, sold for $859;
— he balance for various prices, ranging from $*17 4
up to $800. [Cincinnati W hig.
During the late anniversary of the Weslev in Mis
sionary Society, liebl in London, upwards of lhn ty
thousand dollars were collected. A sum unprece
dented at any charitable festival.
When Daniel Webster came in contact with Mr.
Calhoun, he encountered a lion.— Charleston Mer
cury.
Yes, but Daniel, Id- e his namesake, the prophet, is
iio< afraid to encounter a w hole den of lions.—Cren
ticc.
JOSKPII D. 1VA!\* A ( O.
l.ltPOttTKKS
Cliinn, lil;i<wt ami rnrllicii lVnrr,
l.i/nrhlmru. IVr.
WK shall receive from KMil,AND. by the Ship
litchmnnd, that left Liverpool a lion I the first
of June, the pnneip.il part of our Kail Supply of
China autl Karthenware. Tile patterns will be of
the latest order, and the assortment verv general;
comprising chiefly lltose articles suitable I'm the
country trade.
(dl A 1 /{V J/K/ft’/M.VjT.V are respectfully
invited to call, ami examine terms and prices before
going North, as >ve have not the shadow of doubt
hut the inducements held out will ensure their cus
tom. Prices generally the same as northern prices for
tile same articles.—I'ailieular attention paid to pxek
"'«• JOS KIMl I). KVA NS it CO.
July 1-J -j t if
The Abingdon Statesman and Knoxville licgister
will copy the above three times and forward their ac
TIM ft 4'OPPEK VVAUi:
#Vf <’TO« I’.
„ min;\ Ki;i:n,
One floor .Yorlh of
■>K. II. DAVIES’
nttiJU storm:.
HAS on hand a large assortment of Tin Ware.
which he will sell very low. Merchants
who deal in this, article, w ill do well to call on
him, as he warrants his work to he well executed
as at any other establishment in the State.
He has also hand, and is prepared make. Stills,
Kettles, and every kind of Ware in his business—
House-Covering and Spouting w ith Tin or Copper
on the most approved plan, and low prices.
NTOVKS, otditfetcui kind* and sixes.
I ebmaiv 111 w „ „
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■.vm iiM’RO.JIi-v io. isoin.
BUCKINGHAM ELECTION.
We subjoin lull returns of the recent special elec
tion in Buckingham county :
O. If. Kyle (Whig.) /J. 1'. (lunch (Van.)
Courthouse, 260 149
New Store, 89 *15
Oakrille, 89 8!)
Allen’s 78 81
< loodwy n's 31 36
547 305
In tile apt ing, Jones had 486 and Hubbard 393
MR. (LAY A: MR CALHOUN—ABOLITION
A N I > <;( )LON I Z ATION.
Tlic Washington correspondent of tlie Baltimore
Patriot, under dale of July 3, says :
“ In tile sketch I gave you last week of some pas
sages that occurred between Messrs, ('lay and Cal
houn, there were several points to which 1 was com
pelled, by want of tune, to make only cursory allu
sions. The Washington Chronicle, having hi the
course of its systematic and incessant misrepresen
tation of Mr. ('lay, assailed him for his course on
that occasion, it is hut just to Mr. Clay that I should j
s' tte a little more fully the substance of his observa
tions.
“ Mr. President (said the distinguished States
man; there is one remark of the Senator (Mr. Cal
houn) whit h I cannot allow to puss without notice.
That Sen itor has again alluded to the subject of j
Abolition—a portion of the public press, and amongst
others, a paper in this place, supposed to be the or
gan of the Senator, has made a charge upon me
which every Senator on this floor knows to be false. I
They have charged me with being an abolitionist—
I an abolitionist !—I an abolitionist! !—I, sir. who
represent slaveholders; and who am as ready as any
m in on this floor or elsewhere, when a case occurs
of real danger to that or any other right secured hy the |
Constitution, to defend it to the utmost. I have seen
no such danger—much as I have seen to regret and
condemn in the conduct of the abolitionists—I have
seen no such indications of danger of interference
with our rights hy the action of the States or of this
(•overnmeut, as to justify a resort to those desperate
measures which will endanger our glorious and hap
py institutions—nor have I seen any thing to satisfy ,
me that the hdtsh epithets and violent denunciations
of the gentleman can have any other than the must I
injurious effects—and 1 say, here in my place, that 1
the course of the .Senator has made more abolition
ists in the last two years, than all the power of the
abolitionists themselves ever would have made;—
and, 1 say further, sir, tint there ate those who agi
tate. this delicate and dangerous subject, from mo
tives of selfish and personal ambition—I understand
the game, sir ; it is intended to unite the South on
this and other kindred topics; and when that section
is consolidated into a dense and excited mass, some
other topic will be started, to conciliate the neces
sary support in some other section. I believe this,
sir, nothing tho less, because gentlemen are eternally
asseverating that they do not expect or desire of
fice ; and affect with the loftiest scorn, to trample
the highest honors of the republic under their feet.
“ Sir, I will not countenance such unholy schemes,
nor will I hesitate to denounce them wheiesoever and
hy whomsoever started : 1 go for the Union, the
whole Union, as we received it from our fathers: —
I go for no sectional interests, or parties—no South
ern paity, no Western, no Northern, no Kastern par
ty. But I desire to see the (<overunienl administer
ed in a spirit of broad, expansive equal justice;—on
such principles alone can it he preserved, or is it
worth preserving. Sir, my destiny has been cast
among a slave-holding people, and whenever a con
flict shall come in defence of our rights to our s’aves.
(which (iod avert!) here or elsewhere,l shall he found
in front of that Senator!”
Whether Mr. Calhoun made any reply to this elo
quent and indignant rebuke, or if he did, what was
the character of that reply, we are uninformed. We
suspect, however, that he was as effectually silenced
as he was on a former occasion by his colleague, Mr.
| Preston, when that gentleman overthtew and pinion
led liim to the Round with his own arguments—
I turning upon him the very battery which he had
I erected, and pouring upon him whole broadsides of
! the balls which he had heated in the furnace of his
imagination, for the demolition of his antagonists.—
' We confess we like to see these arrogant and pre
sumptuous engineers, whose inflated vanity so often
renders them ridiculously conspicuous, “ hoisted
with their own petards.” They who soar on waxen
. wings too near the Sun deserve to have their pinions
. melted, and to be tumbled headlong to the earth.—
j It is foi the Kagle alone to gazo uublenched upon
l his noon-tide splendor.
But, a word on the subject matter of the debate re
ferred to, and of that other topic, Colonization, which,
differing from it in every essential feature, and really
I occupying niltat’iillist ftrnnnil, ns the deadly hostility
| ol the Abolitionists to the Coloni/.:ilioit Society
j clearly demonstrates, js yet treated as if it were a
blossom of the same had (tec.
That Mr. Clay should be suspected of Abolition
ism at all, (if, indeed, he be really so suspected, even
by those who are most busily endravoting to generate
j this suspicion in the minds of others, which wc do
not believe,) is most astonishing. When it is recol
leet°d tint he is not only a native, a resident A' a repre
sentative of a Slavehohling State, but that he is himselj
a large slaveholdt the preposterous character of the
allegation that he is an Abolitionist, in (lie odious sense
of that term, is self-evident. If lie be an Abolitionist,
w hy does he continue to reside in Kentucky, instead
of (lying to Indiana oil one side of him, or to Ohio
on the other, in both of which States slavery is
torbidilco ? < )i it, neddcil to Kentucky by ancient re
collections and !>y gratitude for long continued and
never withdrawn confidence ami favor, lie is reluctant
to abandon the field ol his early struggles, and the
community by whose smiles those struggles have
; been crowned with such brilliant success, still it may
i be asked why does lie not manumit his own slaves,
and thus give the strongest evidence of his attach
ment to Abolition principles, and at the same time
offer an influential example to Ins neighbors, with
whom, as with other men, we presume an ounce of
practice would be worth a pound of precept f The
idea <d a man preaching Abolition doctrines, such as
are held by the Northern fanatics, while he holds
slaves, is so superlatively ridiculous, indeed, that
common sense revolts at the bare supposition
•d the existence ol such a case. No man cun believe
Mr. Clay to be an abolitionist, wnose mind is not the
slave of prejudice. Hut it is t lie climax of impudence,
in a supporter of Martin Van Huron, whose course on
the Missouri question, and whose vote in the New
^ ork Convention, in favor of conferring the right of
suffiage on free negroes, arc yet fresh in the public
memory, even indirectly to insinuate such a charge
against Mr. Clay. Men who indulge in imputations
ol this sort should themselves come into court with
“unspotted garments,” which they do not, who sup
port O Missouri Restrictionist and an advocate of
Free Negro suffrage !
The truth is, however, this charge upon Mr. Clav
is not often made by the original V an Horen men,
but is, lor the most pail, confined In I Ik new arcruits,
• I the Calhoun school, wIm, twclvc motitbs ago, en
deavored to identify Mr. Van Buieh with the
Abolitionists quite a« anxiously as they now do to
connect Mr. Clay, whom they then vindicated from the
imputation, with that odious combination ofknavcs
and fools. Their object is to prostrate Mr. Clay in
the South, fur Ihehcntfil of Mr. Calhoun, who, while
he declares “that lie does not desire office,” and “ af- I
lecls, with ilia loftiest scorn, to trample the highest
honors of the Republic under his feet," is iu reality
continually inflamed by the fires of disappointed but
yet not hopeless ambition—a man who, his “oiiginal
brightness” not yet wholly obscured, presents a signal
monument of the fatal effects of a too eager anxie
ty for office, outstripping the public appreciation of
Ins merits.
Among the evidences, however, relied upon to
sustain the charge of Abolitionism, against Mr.
Clay, arc these: 1st, that he was, in Kentucky, ma
ny years ago, an advocate for gradual emancipation ;
and “illy, that lie is now i’icsideiit of the African
Colonization Society. As to the first position, it
is only necessary to say that Abolitionism, at the
South and at the North, arc very different tilings.—
Certainly the Calhnuniles do not intend to class Mr.
Jefferson, Mr. Madison, Mr. Monroe, Judge Mar
shall, Win. C. Kives, TIio.J. Randolph, Tho. Rit
chie, J. II. l’li'iisaiits, fee. cVc. who, at various
periods, have advocated the aduptiun of some safe
and effective scheme of gradual emancipation, w ith
the Tappaus, the Harrison, the Remans and the
Welds of the North. Mr. Clay is no more
guilty than thousands of Virginians now me,
if a mere doubt of the utility and propriety of sla
very, in llio abstract, be all that is necessary to
consttute an Abolitionist. There are liun
dicds ol thousands of suck Abolitionists in the
South: but these very men will gn as far as
he who goes farthest in repelling foreign interfer
ence with our chartered rights, and in resenting any
attempt, “from without,*' to touch, either as friends
or foes, our dumesiic relations. And for one, in
such conflicts, we should desire no better leader than
llenry Clay. There be some who might talk more
loudly ol their €lc v..ill,ii ia Southern rights and inter
ests—but it was a maxim of John R imlulph, (|,„n
whom there were few neuter observers, that “ hark
ing dogsdon't bite.” It is nut upon the blustering bul
ly that men are wont to rely in the hour of peril; but
upon him whose courage and fidelity are not the less
unquestionable and unquestioned, because lie does
not “tear a passion to tatters," but is cool and
collected in ihe midst of angry excitements—ilie
more calm as the billows become more agitated by
the storm. These are the pilots upon whose skill
and intrepidity the ship’s crew rely amidst the dan
gers of the tempest, and not upon his, who,
over confident in his own sagacity whilst sailing oil a
smooth sea and under a serene sky, becomes con
fused and helpless when the heavens are darkened by
angry clouds, and the storm-spirit walks upon the
face ef the deep.
With regard to the Colonisation Society, it is on
ly necessary to say that no Southron need apprehend
danger from a Society,—or that it ha* any insidious or
unavowed views,—which owes its origin, to some
extent, to the suggestion of Thomas Jefferson : and
that Mr. ('lay can hardly deserve our anathemas be
I cause he fills a chair, as President of that So
1 ciety, which was successively occupied by a Car
roll, a Marshall and a Madison, of the last of
whom he is the immediate successor. Even John
Randolph, in his better days, with all his pre
judices against such institutions, was amongst
the most active and munificent supporters of the
Colonization Society, which, primarily looking onlJ
to the remov'd of the free blacks from amongst us, for
the benefit of all parties, interferes not, in the remotest
degree, with the relation of master and slave, except
by the voluntary concurrence of both. Such a So
ciety as this—instituted, governed and patronized
by the brightest names which adorn the annals of
our country, both in the North and in the South,—can
1 safely bid defiance to the assaults of Pio-Slavery as
well as Anti-Slavery fanatics, to both of whom it is
alike an object ofbiKcr hatred and vindictive attack.
No Letter evidence can be furnished of its freedom
from all assimilation to the Abolition doctrines of the
North, than the unmeasured invectives of which it is
the subject, by the Abolition writers and orators—
invectives even more violent tliau those which greet
it from its Southern enemies. We wo ild respect
fully suggest, indeed, th.it Mr. Calhoun’s organs
overshoot the mark when they attack this institution,
and Mr. Clay because he has been called to preside
over it—It has too many friends in the South, to
render connection with it odious, or even unpopular
—and few can be ma le to believe that a scheme sus
tained by leading Southern men, and so long in op
eration without producing the slightest prejudicial
results, can deserve the censures,wh ich, for political
effect alone, the disciples of the self-tortured South
Carolina aspirant heap upon it.
CON<i’RESS.—This body adjourned on Mon
j day last, after a session of about seven months’ dura
tion—of the labors of which we can only say that the
people have much more reason to rejoice at what it
lias left undone than at what it has done. Satur
day’s session continued the whole night, and until
8 o’clock on Sunday morning. Just before the ad
journment, there was a call of the House, and many
of the members were fined for absence. Ou Monday,
however, the fines were remitted. Sixteen of the
members, to wit, Messrs. Anderson, liirdsall. Cham
bers, Chancy, Ilainer, Harper, Kennedy, Petrikin,
Plummer, Southgate, Turney, White of Ky., Veil
and (rraut, left Washington in the Kaltimore cars,
on Sunday morning, and refused to obey the order
of the Sergeant at Arms to attend the House. The
matter was entered on the Journal.*, and will be m
( vestigated at the next session.
Qf/4’ When the motion was pending in the Sen
ate, a few days ago, to print fiOOO copies of Mr.
Tflllmadgc’s Report in favor of Dr. Sherwood’s elec
tro-magnetic improvement in the compass, Mr.
Ituchanan remarked that the discovery, if genuine, is
the greatest of modern times.
CANADA.— Considerable excitement continues
, to prevail on the frontier. There can he no hope,
however, of a successful attempt to revolutionise the
! Colonies. The New York correspondent of the
National Intelligencer, under date of July 8, says :
“ The French Canadians, as I judge from their
newspapers, are pretty well satisfied with the course
of the Karl of Durham, and the indication are
that they will come into the support of fiis ad
ministration. Mr. Papinkau, now in this city, ex
presses himself, I am told, very waimly against the
policy of this our Government, which punishes all
enlistments to aid the Canadas, when in London
troops are raised to mingle in civil wrrs in all parts
of Europe. In all probability he despairs of effec
ting the independence of the Canadas at present, un
less the United States are involved in the fight.”
07" In a letter to the editors of the Portsmouth
I imcs, |)r. Mallory, the Representative of the Nor
folk district in Congress, denies that he uttered a j
woid about “ persuading his constituents” to adopt I
his opinions in relation to the Sub-Treasury scheme, !
I °r th.it he inteudcd to make that question “ autocue
I
Wore the people." He iUcl, ,s
such an occaaieu, would have been ,dlv mdecd”_
in which we agree with the Doctor.
A Government Bank /—The Whigs have all
long contended that thcscrle design of the am|lur,*'
the Sub-Treasury scheme, so fat from dimming
and Slate,is to unite them by indissoluble bond, a d
m the very worst form which human ingenuity T
devise. That such will be the result of i|,e schem"*
if it succeed, we have uever for a „ng|e in„ *
doubted. We find that some of it, friends even are
beginning lo throw off the mask, and learlesslv t
avow their designs. We a.e ghid of i,: for „
people can only behold thereat features of tins fina
ci.ll .Mokhanna. the •• silver veil" being „rlppPd from
its visage, there can be no doubt that they «,||
turn from it with unmingled abhorrenceand drigu.i
N. J. Palmer, Esq. one of the candidate. , * , '
Legislatuie of Noith Carolina, i„ Caswell .
dcnce of Senator Bedford Brown, and the most u
nanimously democratic county in the State,) de
Clares, iu a Circular to the people, that he is in favor
of the Sub-Treasury Bill, as it passed the Senate
arid why? We ask attention to his reason: Because
he believes it will contribute to the establishment of
"a NA I lON'AL BANK, founded rrclusirely on the
funds and credit of the Government, with branches
located in each State'’.'.' So that, instead of •• di
vorcing- Bank and Stale, these .w.„„ are to be moro
closely united, in fact, than they ever wore before s
And even a “ Democrat,” it seems, can find in the
constitution authority to establish “ a Monster,"
provided only it be converted into an instrument of
Executive aggrandizement! This, it will be recol
lected, is the same scheme recommended by (Jen.
Jackson, in his Message-of 18*-!!i or 1830, the dan
ger of which was so eloquently depicted iu the Re
port of Mr. McDuffie, then chairman ofthc com
mittee of Ways and Means in the House of Rep
resentatives, and at the time a w arm friend of the
(iencral and of his administration—It is a schoine,
which, if it can be once consummated, places ilia
.Sword and the Purse unconditionally in the hands
**l ilia President; and it it do not convert him into
a Despot, places In tils Immts it,,, means of becom
ing one. It arms him with powers more unlimited
than those of the King of (Ircat Britain, and prach
cally divests him of the least shadow of lespousibili
ly. And this is Modern Democracy ! How dif
Icrenl from the democracy of Jefferson ami Madison,
who struggled incessantly to abridge the boundaries
of Executive power, and to surround him with <t>u
trollin g checks!
Mr. Calhoun's Consistency — It is Mr. C'atlionn’s
boast, that he has always belonged to the great Slats
Rights party, (even, wc suppose, when lie was the
chief of the clan which declared it to be “ the climax
of absurdity to say that the States had any rights at
all,”) which parly has “ ever been oppostd, on con
stitutional grounds, to the incui poration of a Nation
al Rank." And yet, in hisspeech on the Removal of
the Depositee, delivered on the 13th of January,
1834, this same Mr. Calhoun remarked, " I might
say with truth that tlir. Hunt, owes as much to sue us
to any other individual in the country ; and I might
even add, that, had it not been for my efforts, IT
WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN CHARTERED!"
And on the Gth of May following, in remarking up
on (ien. Jackson’s opinion of the unconstitutionalily
of tho Rank, this s nne Mr. Calhoun indignantly re
pelled what he was pleased to term an “impeach
ment of the conduct of Washington and Madison,
the former of whom signed the cdinner ot the tint
trank, nod tho latter of tho present, and ofall the. niein
I tiers of both Houses of Congress who voted for the
! acts incorporating them." Anti yet, Mr. Calhoun now
I affirms that he has always belonged to the party which
has opposed the incorporation of a Rank, eu const it u
' t'onul grounds—that it is unconstitutional—nay,that
it is monarchical in its nature aud tendency ! The
Donorable Senator, when looking at these contra
j dictory sentiments—(at least they seem to us to tw
contiadictory, though he tells us that he has “ chang
ed no opinion, abandoned no principle")—may wttl
doubt Ins personal identity, anil, after an illustrious
■ example, might be naturally tempted lo exclaim,
" Am I Giles, or am 1 not ?”
The Washington Chronicle—Wc cannot reply is
the angry ebullitions of tho editor of the Washing
ton Chronicle, w ithout using language which our
past relations to the Editor of that print forbid, un
til lie thinks proper to change them. Wc had iio
idea of goading him into wrath—intending, certainly,
no personal disrespect, in the paragraphs which have
aroused his ire. We hope that subsequent reflec
tion will have shown himlhathc was unduly excited,
and that it will lead him to retiact certain offensives
expressions, which we might, it wc chose, but which
we » ill not, reloit in kind. A suit answer, says the
wise man, turnelh away wrath ; and wc will tty it,
for once.
The Chronicle denies, on the authoiity ot Mr.
Calhoun, that/tc wrote the Report submitted to the
Virginia Commercial Convention by Dr. Mallory
and on the authority of Dr. M. asserts that he is the
author of that Report. We no longer, therefore,
question the fact, though we hail reason tor believing
otherwise—and so believing, we had a riglH t» ex
press that belief, without incurring the harsh re
mark of the Chronicle, that “ lie who affirms what lie
does not know to be true, is just ns guilty as be who
asserts what lie knows to be false”—a remark which
the editor of the Chronicle immediately afterwaids
rendered applicable to himself, by stating wb*t bo
doubtless believes but what he does not hunt to bo
the relations existing between the two editors of this
paper. Rut we forget : Wc did not design to com
ment upon the Chronicle’s remarks.
The Chronicle also denies that “ Mr. hhettownt
! ilie Charleston Mercury, and in partnership with
i Mi. Calhoun, Mr. Lewis and other M. C.'s, the
J Washington Chronicle”—which we stated, as th*
Chronicle well knows, not as a tact within oor own
knowledge, but as a rumor, of the origin of which
lie is equally well informed. We did not " endorse
the rumor, in any sense of the word—wc barely
stated it upon wiiat we believed to be both respects
hie and responsible authority. That the statement
was untrue we have now no doubt : we had jnst *'
little that it was true when we copied it. W c mar
vcl that the Chronicle, which did not even deny t
statement, when first made, should have exhibite
so much rage at its repetition by us. Does
Chronicle never copy articles from other P^P"
thereby “ endorsing the gravest charges against in
dividuals, upon the mere say-so of anonymous ‘c’^
biers who choose to assail private reputation. ",|
out knowing that they are true? Let its extract
from the (ireensborough Beacon, in the same P*Per'
containing foul and false imputations upon Mr. *
answer llie question. But we are again running
into a commentary.
Again : The Chronicle resents our call up"111
for the names of those “ Bank Agents by *ho
it alleged that Congress was beset and its delibef*
rations controlled, as the impertinence of a P'irl ^
san luqmsitot.” Is this the editor sscusc ofjustt*