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IHUIItlF*
Itch Ointment!
'TW1IIK extensive sale and established reputation of Dumfries’
1 Itch Ointment, encourage* the proprietor to recommend
it with renewed confidence to the public us a most innocent
As well as powerful application for this annoying disease._
TUs most inveterate eases have been cured in one hour bv
this esteemed Ointment. It contains no Mercury, or other
noxious ingredient, and may he confidently applied even to
ths youngest children, or pregnant femafes. Price 37 1-2
•cats.
111*. KHfe’s
A N T I BILUO |J S P I 1, L S .
tor Indigestion, Loss of Appetite. Listlessness, Head
ache, Costive ness, Flatulence, Cholic, liillious Af
fections, i$r.
fPO comment on the efficacy of these Pills, after a sue
l cessful experience of ninny years in F.iigluml and Arne
rieshss established their reputations, is needless. Suffice it to
observe, that for redundancy of Bile, Flatulence, Coslivenen,
Headache,dtc. Arc. they will undoubtedly prove lar more
serviceable than those drastic purges too frequently employ
ed, and will n t only at the same time tend to remove the of
fending cause by gentle motions, and to strengthen the di
gesiivc organs, but to improve the appetite and renovate the
system. Price 50 cents.
OR. KKLFK’M VRBBTABLK •PKC'IFIC',
For Sick HeacUich, Sec. Price 50 cents.
Observe that none are genuine without the written
signature of T. Kl DDF.lt, on the outside printed wrapper.
KJ* A large discount to those who buy in soil again.
"mm None genuine, unless signed on the oiitaulo printed
wrapper by the side Proprietor, T. K I DDFU, successor to the
late Dr. Conway. For sale, with all the other "Conway
Medicines," at his Counting Boom, No. 1W, next door to J.
Kidder’s Drug Store, corner of Court and Hanover Streets,
near Concert Hull, Boston ; and, bv his special appointment
by J. T. BOVALL, ; .
IIOWEI. DAVIS, $ tits, i<yuC|||)Urg>
V.arge discount to those who buy to sell again.
June 11 f> 12m
•Horns •Hnlliranlis Slips.
10,000 Moms Mulficaulis Slips just
received, and (orsale at low tales, by
•IP ANDR. C. ELLIOTT.
N. II. — I h ive also a small pan el of
ROOTS, which are for sale by A. C. K.
March 25 is
fsDOKGi; BAVBY,
OFFERS FOR SALE AT LOW PRICES
for cash or barter :
SUGARS, tVc.
15 Ithds. Porto Rico ami St. Croix,
18 do Prime N. Orleans,
5,000 lbs. single ami double Loaf,
5 tierces N. O. daubed.
1,500 lbs. Crushed.
200 bags Coffee, comprising almost every grade,
apart selected particularly foi families.
MOLASSES.
12 lihds. N. O. and English Island,
15 tierce* and barrels N. O.
SALT.
200 sacks Salt.
CANDLES.
30 boxes Common and Patent Tallow,
20 do do do Sperm,
VARIETIES.
10 boxes Turpentine Soap,
50 whole, half and quarter boxes bunch Raiswis,
25 Nests iron bound Tubs,
10,000 lbs. Cotton Yarn, Lynchburg Factory, No.
5 to 17,
10,000 lbs. Western Bacon,
2 tierces Carolina Rice, new crop,
5 barrels Maccarel,
18 barrels Rump Pork.
20 kegs Dupont’s Ildle Powder,
GO do Blasting do,
1,500 lbs. Bar Lead,
10 tons well assorted bar Iron,
5000 Nails and Brads 4d to 60d,
1,500 lbs. good and damaged Sole Leather,
120 lbs. Spanish Ilo'ant Indigo,
150 lbs. Dutch Madder,
),200 lbs. American Blistered Steel,
10 barrels Tanneis’ Oil,
50 bushels Northern Potatoes,
20 bags Shot,
50 teams Writing and Letter Paper,
15 bis. Sweet Malaga Wine,
10 boxes fine Oronoku Chewing Tobacco,
20 boxes Young Hyson, Imperial and Gunpow
i dei Tea,
\ 20 barrels N. C. Tar,
\> 20 doz. Lines and Bedcords,
1 bale Hops,
Pepper, Ginger, Allspice,
Goshen and Pine Apple Cheese,
Wrapping Twine, Clover and Timothy
Seeds,
Muscat Wine, West India Preserves,
Window Glass, Half Bushel Measures.
Brown Shirtings, Bedticking,
Chocolate, Shoes, Hats,
Tar C^n*. Horse Buckets,
Soaps, Wrapping Paper.
.fit* on Consignment,
40 M. Cigars of various grades
March 21 *»
SC PE Kilt FRENCH NEEDLE WORK.
JUST received, the most splendid assortinem o!
French worked I-'apes and Collars, that the Nor
thern markets will afford, at all prices, IromijL 50
to $15. Lathes wishing something really exquisite
in tins line, will do well lo t all on
ANDK. C. ELLIOTT.
March 2l ts
£AM now in receipt nf the largest portion ol my
SPHIIUI STOCK,
which is large and complete : it embraces almost
every article in the Fancy line, and will be sold low
lor caBh. Persons wishing desirable and cheap
Goods, will do well to call and examine my Stock
before purchasing. ANDR. C. ELLIOTT.
March 21 is
Latest French shape Corsetts.
JUST opened, a splendid slock of the newest
shape Corsetts, from the most celebrated factory
in Philadelphia, which will be sold low, at ibe Fancy
Store of ANDR. C. ELLIOTT.
March 21 ts
NOTICE T O FAR !»I E R S .
WE ate compelled to defer receiving any other
Wheat than that engaged lor the present
season, as our nulls require repair, and the quantity
on hand is as much as we can grind by the com
mencement of the approaching harvest.
Our term of co-ptuluerslup expires on the 1st
of July. All persons having claims against us.and the
concern of Langborue & Burton, will bring them
forward lor collection, and those indebted will please
make immediate payment, as it is desitable that the
business should be completed.
LANGHORNE. BURTON & LANOHORNE
• March 18 2w
I
Trust Salt of Valuable
MMIW.
lJlRsI ANT to the provisions of two deeds of
■ trust, executed by David S. (iarland, ...
to the undersigned. John M. Otey and Robert Tins
ley, bearing date the Oth day of April, 1828. and the
other to the undesigned Robert Tinsley and Mau
rice II. (iarland. beating date the (lay of April
1828, both of which are of record in the Clerk's Of
lice of Amherst, we shall on Friday, the lllth day ol
May next, upon the premises, that is to say,
at the residence of the said David S. (iarland,
pioceed to sell, for ready money, to the highest hid
der, all the remaining property "conveyed to the said
deed, or so much thereof, its will lie sufficient to
satisfy the debts (hereby secured. The said prop
erty consists III lie Traci ol' I,and. on which
the said David S. Garland resides.lying in the countv
ol Amherst, on built sides ol Rufl'aloe River, and a
round tbe town ol New Glasgow, including Ins W’a
lei Grist Mill, on Hullaloe, < lurry Hill Plantation,
llie Wiiiion House and Plantaiion, ihe House wlieie
ihe said David S. Garland it’sides, with ihe appurte
nances,supposed to contain upwards ol
.*1,000 Acre*.
A 1. S O ,
.Several Houses at id #,ots,
In ihe town of New Glasgn i, to wit:
the Store I louse Lot,with the improvements thereon;
Ihe Tavern Lot, including tlreNew Glasgow Hotel A
oilier improvements ; the Yellow House and Lot ad
joining Ihe Tavern Lot; the White House null Lot
on the east sole ol the road, lornierly occupied bv
Samuel ,\|. Wolf ; and tile two Houses ami Lots oil
ilie west side,of ihe road, formcily occupied by
Jesse Wade and McKesson.
f, I he Lands are very valuable and well improved.—
There are two excellent Dwelling Houses, with oili
er buildings and improvements, necessary for the ac
commodation ol (amities or fur farming operations.—
Ihe Tract may be conveniently divided into three
or more parcels, and will be if necessary, to suit pur
chasers. It is intended to have it surveyed and divi
ded into tenements of c onvenient size, plats ol w Inch
will be exhibited oil the day of sale.
1 lie undersigned, acting as trustees, will only coll
rey such tule as is vesieil in them, lint they believe
lhe title to be good. JOHN M. OTEY.
ROBERT TINSLEY.
Trustees under the first deed. ]
ROBERT TINSLEY",
MAURICE If. GARLAND,
Trustees under the lust named deed.
March 4 iiiuwy
\ I a meeting of tut* Board o I I rosters nl Wash mg
ton (’ollege, held on the l?‘Jnd day of I)ecembe%
1KJH, Oil motion Resolved, Thai Samuel NI« I). Reid,
A. T. Barclay. Reuben Grigsby, Ruben White, and
Jolm Alexander, be a Committee to si ll the Man's
bottom 'Tract of Land, a«. d also the IM «>ti nisi in 'Tracts
ami the Tract of Land called the Lower Plantation *
that the said Committee advertise the time «Vc. of
the sale mx weeks, in such papeis as they may think
proper, and then to sell at Public Auction, the seve
lal tracts oi land above specified, reserving one bid,
winch bid the said Committee shall be authorized
t*» nnkr ; and that the said Committee he requested
to oiler the said lands upon the usual payments ol
laud sold in this vicimt v.
A true copy from the minutes.
' KDW. GRAHAM, Sec/y
IN conformity with the above order of the
Trustees ol Washington College, the undersigned
will offer for sale by way of Public Auction, at
Hart’s Bottom, (seven miles South n( Lexington on
the North River) on Monday the 22ud ol April next,
the several
Trad* of Land
therein mentioned. Plats of Survey will be exhibited,
and any information in the mean time will be cheer
fully given to persons wishing it. It is only neces
sary here to say that Marl’s Bottom,containing uvet
Eight Miami rut .Irm,
has always been considered among the best, if not
the very best, Tract ot Land in Rockbridge county.
The Mountain T'K%M€?TS ate intended to be
sold as appendages of Hart's Bottom, affording
abundance of timber, and excellent range lor Cattle,
and a good deal of excellent tubacco land. The
Mountain Tracts contain about
Twelve Hundred Acres,
The Lower Plantation contains about
9 HC.VDRER ACRES,
and will be sold separate ; it lies on the North Riv
er, about two miles below Hart’s Bottom. On this
Tract there is a large proportion of good fainting
land. The produce of these lands can be sent to
maikel at all seasons of the year by the River, A lies
from ten to twelve miles above the Blue Ridge Ca
nal, to which point the Navigation is good from Rich
mond and Lynchburg, and the improvement of the
whole is expected to be completed by the James
River A Kanawha Company in a few years. It is
unnecessary to say more, persons wishing to pur
chase are respectfully invited to examine the lands
and judge for themselves before the day of sale.—
They will be shown by Capt Tinsley, or Mr. John
Sales, living on the lands as tenants.
SAML. Me I). REID,
A. T. BARCLAY.
REUBEN OR IGSBY,
ROBERT WHITE,
JOHN ALEXANDER.
Committee of the Board of Washington College.
Lexington, March II I22A
1'omniiNMioiH‘i'K' Kali* of Valuable
I,and in Itcdfbrd.
UY virtue of a Deciee of the County Court of
Bedford, pioimunced at the January term. 1830
in the case of “ Cabell’s liens vs. Lellwich,” the un
dersigned, who were therein appointed commission
ers, for the purpose, will proceed to sell, by way of
public auction, to the highest bidder, on the Premis
ses, on Tuesday the lGth day of April next, that
Valuable Tract ol' Land,
yjng on Ivy Creek in the county of Bedford,
owned jointly by John O. Leflwicli, and the heirs ol
John 1. Cabell, deceased, containing , by recent sur
vey, about If'Jtf Acres.
This Traci of Land is believed to be one of the
most valuable in the county ol Bedford, and is about
7 miles front tile town of Lynchburg.—Persons de
sirous to purchase, ait* invited lo come and view
the Land, which will at all times lie shown by Mr.
Lefiwich or Ins agent Mr. Oibbs, who resides on the
premises. The title is believed in be good, but the un
dersigned, selling as commissioners, will convey
such title onlv as is vested m them by the decree.
Terms_1, 2 and 3 years credit—the puichascr
giving bond with good personal security, and the
title retained as luriber security for the purchase
money, except for a sum sufficient to defray the ex
pense of sale, which be required in cask.
C. DABNEV,
C. L. MOSBY,
Commissioner*.
March 11 _ ll(iA_
iTWA BUSHELS CLOVER SEED,
75 biurets Mountain Whiskey,
5 bales Hops,
For sale low for cash, , „
LANCASTER * BRYANT.
March 11
tiii: leotxoKi-: M'uooii,
#•«« i'ttr.vtj
*' lhu Ml,l''lonrt i«r .lotin.mu's) N|iriug», nrnr tin
1 n.
S( IIOOL founded by 11 ie subsetiber nl
, l-iberty, w ill, on the Aral of March, betian.
M.e,I t„ the very pleasant Watering place, o,igu.,.l
I) established by In. uncle, Mr. Cha.lrs John.to..,
and l.i(ely kepi by Mr. 1
I lie quietness and beauty ol the place; the ele
Sauce and extent of it. atcommoilatioti. ; the bene
hr lor the yom g. «f excellent Mineral Water.;
1 'e",l".V ul Ihe region ; the ftnrneia of the See
iirrv around ; the eommaml whit It the Siinatmii uf
'r'r " ',IU- Dardens, greet, F.eld.
ol whatever makes the rtniniry fittest to hired up the
I'laee ... smgi.la.lv lor e„
l.wtallllslMiicni Ol . ...
scriber has bee.duced lo purchase the property, m
°r< er lo l'eVole 11 f>t*iin.incmly to (hot exclusive pur
pose.
Kxpericnce has shown him dial, in the ill Die ult work
of giving an Kducatioti, sueli as Munition ,huulU bt
' high and pure, every iufltienee capable ol anting
in an elev.ued result must he courted : that, lor this
purpose, Situnlioii is an agent ante to wnik great
good or decisive ill : ihat the Associations which |
vou bring to act on the young—the circumstances,
die habits, the very objects ol external Nature, with
which you surround them, enter into the Fduealimi, I
along u ult the studies, and either powetfully assist
Ol perhaps totally defeat them: that to breed up
girls to anv thing solid in Knowledge or uirieet in
Manners is impossible, in situations wlieie a prim
cions Indulgence otl'eis drum the ruinous delights ul
mixed Society, fit only to spoil the vety young, as j
they spoil it : that not only the access of Company, '
hot Its distant sight,or even the notion ihat it is at hand,
must lie excluded, as certain lo put to flight the
c|inr( tastes,the pure thoughts,!lie steady disciplining
of the timid, which should make the sole business
ol diis pan of life : dial out of this period ol youth, 1
(already rendered hut loo short, hy piem.itute uitro
duciion into company.) there is nothing to spate to
mete \ acuity or Frivolity, to occupations that teach
tin good, and Amusements that steal the affections |
from all knowledge or virtue : llnf, ill a word, it is
only in Ihe initial nl Nature, far from all hustle, out
of die way ol Idleness and Dissipation, m the centre
ol a quid, animated only hy improving studies, and |
the healthy and innccent pleasures id the cnuntiy,
that woman can be properly Lioughl up—at least by
Schools.
I o sueli ideas as these is the system adapted,
which the Principal is labouring to set tin loot.—
Without the privacy, the tranquility, the simple
lasies, die rational occupations ol the country, it can
be carried into only vety imperfect effect. With
their assistance, one may keep nut Nonsense and
precocious folly long enough lo allow some Sense
lobe pul into the Muni, some serious Virtues into 1
diet haiarier, some unaffected t J races into the Man
nets. W it limit this help nl Piivacy, little ran lie
dour against the prevailing faults ol Kdueatton ;
wli cli he almost as much perhaps, m the extreme !
I udutgeuee, til n hicli chtldien ate the sacrifice at
hnine, as m ihe (Quackery ol w|iicll they ate so often
die victims abroad.
i lie plans pursued in the original establishment o I
the School, have satisfied of (heir advantage, all (the
Principal believes) who have seen their operation.
They will ol course, l#o continued, with ty im
provement which the Public Encouragement prom
ises at all to requite. it w ill be the Pi me ipal’s aim
to render the establishment not leas solidly good, as a
School, tinm it is agreeable, as a result nee.
Visitors will lor the future, he excluded, except
ilie martied or lemaleconnexions ol Inflates. The
Institution will hum. with its teachers and pupils, a
little rommunity of its own. A Post Office is at
(ached to it; but no Store nor place ol Entertain
ineut. The transfer ol Pupil* to'lie pit scut School
will he made without cost to their parents.
N. II.—New Pupils must endeavor to he ready
to join their classes on the 41h ol March, when the
School will organize itself.
TkrMs as heretofore published, with only one
change—that those who have, in the School, learnt
French well enough to begin to make it the medium
of other Studies, will be taught Italian, without any
additional charge. Such a class will ho set out, at
the term now beginning. The arrangements as to
Teachers remain yet unchanged. An additional
I* rench Master will probably be employed. The
Farm attached to the Institution contains near 5UU
acres. The Stage from Fincastlc to Salem passes
the placed limes a week* The main Building (ui
Hotel) is of brick, and large enough to accommodate
60 pupils, in an excellent manner The Cabins are
also of brick, and will be used as School and Music
Booms, and as lodgings for Teachers. Pupils will
not sleep in them, except under the care ol martied
persons. Dress and Kxpcnset will he regulated a*
heretofore. Pupils must bring a Table and Tea
Spoon each; 6 common Towels; 6 each of every
article of dress, except Under Frocks and Robes:
ol the former, lour Summer and two Winter; of the
I nter two Winter and three Summer. Outer Dress,
good Calico, of small pale blue stripes or vines, lor
Summer, with Capes and Pantalets of the same.—
Winter Dress, plain bottle green Circassian, with
Capes, iV'c. All Clothing marked. Two pair of
good leather Shoes; one or two of black Kidd, Mo
rocco, oi Prunella. Bonnet. Cane or Chip, Nun s
pattern, trimmed with sky blue fur Summer, and
crimson for Winter.
N- B.—The School at Liberty will pass into tlie
hands oi the Reverend Nicholas 11. Cobbs,a gentleman
in whose cate it gratifies the late Pimeipal to leave
the children of a place, to which he owes much kind
ness and esienn.
EDWARD WM. JOHNSTON.
Jan. 21 is
$.?o /:t:u\ntn:
j llHIaS 1*11 ■!*■**, wlio was confined in the
Jail ot (tiay.son county, on a charge of volunta
ry and malicious stabbing, made bis escape from the
said Jail, on or about (he 13lh met., and is now go
ing at large.
1 will give the above reward of fifty dollars for the
apprehension and delivery of the said James Phipps,
at Grayson Court [louse, (hat he may be dealt with
according to law.
JKRKMJAH JENNINGS, Jailor.
» JE SCKMJP TMOJV,
Huul l'hipps is about 14 or 15 years of age, lair
complex ion, ami hair inclined to be red or sandy.—
The description td clothing not tecollecicd.
J. J. Jailor.
Feb. 28 l»i
Ward .Election.
FI^IIK ward election lor six Aldermen, and six
-I Common Council men, in each ward, in the
town el Lynchburg will t ike place, pursuant to an
act of Assembly, entitled “ an act to amend an act
entitled an act dividing the town of Ly n< hburg into
wards, and lor other puposes,” passed Feb. Mr, 1830.
on (be first Tuesday in April next—and will be held
in Lynch Ward No. 1. being all that part of said
town below the 1st alley, extending Irom the river to
12ih sheet, in the tenement oh Main street, lately
occupied by John B.Tilden as a tinner’s shop, one
door below James B. Renwick’s grocery store, and
m Henry Ward, No. 2. being all that part of town
above 1st alley,extending from the river to 12th street,
m the r>>mn ofthe tenement occupied.by the Virgin
ian office. HENRY DUNNINOTON.
Sergt. ofthe Corporation of Lynchburg.
Feb. 28 ° _ ule
BLANKS
f®>' sale at this O/lic.
I
KMCCTION OK SI N \Tt>U.
Remarks of Mr. /»/ \ /i>.\ vf /; nnoke an,/ 7>W
tou rt, m reply to Mr. Lanchome of .Wo folk coun
ty. and in vindication of the consistency and lie
publiciinism of the Conservatives.
Mi mton said, lie wan gratified dull the decis
ton ol the House opened the way for him ; ns the
assault which had been made upon the t'onsrrva
lives by the gentleman (tom Nmf.dk made it drsint
hie that something should he said m vindication ol
iheir position and principles. Mr 1\ said, that af
tci nominating Mr. Kives lie had determined not to
participate even in the gurtilla warfare, much less in
lhe extended and discursive debate growing out id
(Ins exciting couttnversY, unless lus political friends
were assailed m a manner otVeusive to a piopet sell
respect and demanding a reply. Ol this chatnetet,
in Ins conception, Said Mi. IV.’weie the observations
ol the gentleman from Norfolk, (Mr. Inttighnine.)
and us such, injuneil that they should be met lull
m the lace at the very instant, before they were lor
cotton.
rii.u gentleman, said Mr. Pevton, alter eaieering
through many visionary speculation* with a strength
ol wing woiluhy ol the loltiest and sulihuiest ilights,
at last darted with falcon rapunty upon Ins prey._
Hie poor ('onservatives.who were gar.mg w it It tinsus
peeling admiration upon the intellec tual gylatioti* ol
the griitlemnn, were utterly amazed when they found
themselves the devoted vivtmi* ol his wrath. Not
content, Mr. Speaker, with contemptuous allusions
to then numcmal weakness. In* had impugned then
integi11y. in charging that they were f>rrtnuling to
htvor \\ lug principles to scrum Whig support in the
election ol Senator, when m fact they had not the
slightest intention id abandoning the Administration
«»r amalgamating with ths oppostiou.—(i lero Mr.
Peyton repelled, with gieat waiuilh, the iinputaiion
upon the ('onservaties.) lie assured the gentleman
lion, Norfolk that he had wholly mistaken the mo
i .d as well as the* political composition ot this small
hand, il lie suppoM'd lliotti capable of/'/Wrm/f/ig any
thing which they did not Icel, or afraid to avow any
ilimg which they approved. Air. P. said (Inn (lien
position was diNcounei ted w ith, and independent of.
all parties, and he (ell that il was dm* to candour and
to sell respect (hut he should disavow on llit.n pail,
all the lal.se* motives and snrieptiiiotis influence's
whic h had been uiged a* controlling them conduct
in this controversy. — We have neither, said Mr. IV
deprecated the assauhsot our old political UMMocmtes,
nor have we sought dHence and protection under
\\ lug power and Whig alliances, against the tretuen
dons avalanche ol wtatli and displeasuie with which
it is said we are threatened. We stand. Sir, creel
and undismayed, acting under a linn and abiding
confidence in our consistency as Republicans, and tin
ih r a deep and thoicnigh conviction that presetvation
ol those; principle* depends upon the maiolenance of
our position with resolute and unlhinhmg
firmness. NVc, Sir, said Air. Peyton, have
looked upon the financial questions which have
agitated the country tor years past, as que»
(ton* of vast magnitude and importance, unit in
volvitig in no small degres the prosperity and hap
pines* ol tin* great nation. Kuteitamiug these
sentiments, however' strong nitty have been our
p iity atlachmeut*, and however loath we may have
been to separate fioin those by whose side wc had
been battling so long and so succ rcssfully, we felt
that ns patriots we had no altcrualive. Occupying i
position w hich, in the violence ol pally exc itement,
had been ilruouiirecj by the Whigs, and w hich is
now abandoned by muc h the larger poilion of the
Administration who lorinrrly Rtippoiied it, wc must
have been blind not to have appirelated the* exposed
and perilous condition ol the position winch we had
undertaken to maintain. We did forsee all the dis
advantages and chliiculiicw, said Mr. P. ; bill, instead
id being disheartened, wo felt nerved and encouraged
by the weight of rcsponsibilty whic h tested upon ns, J
Air. Peyton said, having accomplished the* object ;
lor which he rose, he felt dmposod to redeem his j
pledge by taking In* neat ; but as sonic facts in our
financial history, pressed themselves upon hi* mem
ory ai this time, which were ol an interesting and
instructive ch iracter, he would occupy the attention
of the Assembly lor a few moments long* r. lie Raid,
that, weaned as he was, and as he believed the
Mouse to he, w ith a discussion that seemed to he al
most interminable, lie would be as nijcciiiI as was
consistent with perspicuity.
A glance, said Air. Peyton, at our political histo
ry will shew that the ('oiiservatives, hi advocating the .
State Ranks as depositotles of the Federal Revenue, !
are acting in perfect accordance w ith the Republican
doctrines, a* taught by their illustrious expounder, j
Thomas JHh-rson, when onr Government was first ,
Fettling upon its foundations, and in exact ronfor- I
miiy with the prac'ice ol his Admimstiation. It will
exhibit hi*beloved successor, the virtuous, and incor
ruptible Madison, maintaining the same doctrine* —
and, wli.it with many persons, s-iid Air. Peyton, will
be §tdl higher;ilitliorty,it will present <•eneral Jac kson
as the bold and ardent and unco'tiproniismg advocate
ol the principles and policy of these distinguished :
Republican administrations.
(>ue of the fir**t questions of interest and magm- j
tude, said Mr. P., which grew out of the Constitu
tion of 17*7, was the right claimed by the General i
Government to incorporate a Rank ol the United j
States. From the time the Constitution was adopt
ed until 1791, when the scheme of a great National !
Institution was first seriously entertained, the public (
treasure was confided to the State Ranks, whose e lf» I
cieucy and fidelity had never been in the slightest cle- ]
gree distrusted. Under these circumstances, when t
the constitutional question was releried by Gen.
Washington lo his i abnirt lor uieir auvice, me
Secretary of ihe Treasury, (tien. Hamilton,) the
great head of the federal party, maintained, null Ins
accustomed ingenuity and ability, the tight ol ihe
federal tJovernment to exercise the power in
question as an incident nci evsary to the carrying out
effectively some ol the |mweis expressly conferred
The Secretary of Stale, Mr. Jefferson, whom
ihe Republicans acknowledge as Ihe highest and
must orthodox authority upon these maters, argued
that (here was no necessity for establishing a fede
ral Rank, as fiscal agent of th.e Government, because
the Stale Ranks would make satisfactory arrange
ments (or that purpose, and transact the business
well_It seemed to be aditiiued on all hands, that
Rank agency was very important il not indispensably
necessary—and the fact, that the Stale institutions
were entirely adequate to a complete and satisfacto
ry management of the federal finances, was relied up
on as the strongest argument to overthrow the very
plausible and ingenious conclusion in favor of a Na
tional Rank, deduced from ihe idea ul its being ne
cessary In a proper management of ills National f x
chequer. Mr. Peyton said that he might remove
every suspicion that Ins political prejudices had
even unconsiously led him into the slightest per
version of their legitimate import, lie would read an
extract from the Cabinet Opinion lo which he had
alluded. It is in these words:
•• The existing Banks will, without doubt, enter
“ arrangements lor lending their agency ; and the
“ more favorably, as ihere will lie a competition a
“ mong them fur it ; whereas, the bill delivers us up
“ bound tu the National Bank, whoaiefree lo refuse
“ all arrangement, but their own teirns, and the pub
*■ he nut free on such refusal, to employ any other
*• bank. That ol Philadelphia, 1 believe, now doss
I “ this business by their post notes, which, by an ar
I •' rangement wall the Ticasury, are paid by any oth
“ er State collector to whom they are presented.
“ This expedient alone suffices to prevent the exis
“ lent-* of that ncessily which may justify the assump
•• lion of a non-enumerated power as the means nj car
•* rying into effect an enumerated one. 'The thing
“maybe done, and has been dune, and well dune,
•• without this assumption therefore it dues not stand in
"that, degree of necessity, which can honestly justify
it."
These doctrines, preached nod practised hy this
cte,it Apustle of Stale Higlits, was prrsevercd in hy
Mi • Madison, mid met the approhation o! that dm
lingtiishcd financier and republican, Albert f lallattn.
It was true, said Mr. I*., that, for a long 11m« after
the war, when the I . S. Ilank had become rivetted
1 pon us hy a twenty years charter, that n political
calm overspread the cotintiy, and hushed into silence
the arguments oil this suhjci i. Hot so soon aa the
penod lor the expiration ol the charter approximated,
and the question ol ils renewal became llit) subject
ol discussion, you find the old banner unfurled,
with llie principles of Mr. Jefferson's cabinet advice
emhlar.oiifd upon its folds, and the whole Kepubli
ran party, wnh (Ion Jackson aa then leader, rally
ing to its auppnit. Hy a buhl and decisive Ntiuke
ol policy, iht* puldic funds were transferred from the
I'mt*d States Hank to the State Hanks—a measure
which stun k the nation wnh prolotitid mil i/cment.
and called forth the imlignani reprobation ol thia
Assembly; but which they ulterwads lecauled,
most ingcnuni’sly, when lime had been given lor
thgir ** sober *cionJ thoughts, lo exert their legiti
mate influence. About this lime, said Mr. I'eyton,
a pmiiuti ol tho Whig party, exasperated and goad
ed on hy the defeats wInch they encountered at every
turn, and abandoning in despair a National Hank, at
least after the model of iki.it which li ul awakened the
fruit and excited the hostility of'llie people, and
which was then in the last agonies, reeling under the
blows ol the I )cmuei acy, In ought forward n scheme
which was ihe emin vo ol tlie present Sub I le.isiiry.
The lesulutioiifl embodying this plan, lie said, weie
introduced hv < iciin ul (I union ; buf, he said, they
were so unpopular—so repugnant to the views, and
feelings, and habits of the whole country, that with
.ill die personal mil political influence of the mover,
and with the strongest appealsto the courtesy u( the
House, only thn:y four votes for its reference could
be obtained.— I hscotit aging as ils reception was in
('ongress, it was, it possible, icreived wnh still less
l.ivm hy the people. From the (tull to the Lakes,
hum the Atlantic slime in the Western frontier, one
utihiokcu voice ul execration piocLiined ils cotidem
nation. Scarcely mi individual could he lound,
whatever might ho the c omplexion of hi» politics,
who would confess himsell us advocate. Whig and
A dm i ms i ration— Federalist sod He public an—all—all
were forward in announcing fioui the lumse-iops
M eii uilei aolini renre ol me new monster, ie»i poi
chance lilt* stigma, lik«' i In* in it i k ol < \iin, should lie
fixed upon lliem,and expose ilium through all time,
to iiniveiN il scorn and contumely. In the midst ol
these assaults upon the Pet Hank system, the p.xe
rutive message invoked the aid ol rveiv Republican
in its defence. And nrvei, said Alt. P , did a high
land clan assemble mote ptomptly or with none alac
lily at the sound ol iIimi « hieli.iuT* bugle than did
the whole parly when sin mmoned lo the delenco ol
this favor he system of (Jen. Jackson’*—Mill* and
vallies. mountains and plains, sent loith counties*
hosts uf ** good men and true,” who weir all valiant
defenders ol the (’atholie faith. The National Hank
lieiet it s, and the Sub-'Treasury itlolaloi*, wete com
pelled cither lo abjure their heresies and abomina
tions, or silently je«|iiiesce in tlie measures and poli
ty dictated by popular supremacy. 'The President
ol (lie P. S —the Secretiuy ol the Tieututy—the
party leaders in <’oogiess uod in the respective Lo
gishiturcs olthe seveial States, and 11 in bar-room,
c ross in id und pot house politicians of the villages
and country, proclaimed that the ,Suite if ink |)epo
wile system was the veiv essence ol Demociury.
The people responded that it was one of tin* ilimy
uine articles. and nil w ho would not subscribe to it
should he delivered over lo fire and faggot.
Air. Peyton siid that, throughout the whole of
tirn. Jackson’s long mid eymini Administration, hr
adhered to the principle* with u»w iveiing fidelity,
and few indeed, were the liege siihj' i iw who, at any
time during tins lung period ictnscd to do fealty.
The organ olthe l.xecuiive, the tilobe, “that foul
sheet,” as it has been aptly and wittily called by the
present Secretary of State, f Air. Horsy th,) giving the
key note ton thousand other mercenary and d« pen
dant “ by authority" piessef, su*lai ed the views of i
its master with gieat force und nhility, and pointed
out with a pencil of light, the blighting and direful
efb ct* of the Sub Trrusuiy upon every department
id industry, and upon the moral and political cotuli
lion of society. Among other tilings, lie said m nub
Kinnee. if not in words, that the Sub Treasury plan
was a luthial concept ion—ail odious Whig attempt
to remove the people's money from the Hanks where
none could touch it. lo place it hi the hands ol Re
ceivers Ciencial and Sub Treasurers, where it would
be. liable lo he plundered by a bundled. The Ureal
Financial head of thu (ioverrinient (,% Fucus a non
luccndo") played the part of a faithful cebo, and
maintained with great zeal (lie superior safety, ••Mi
cieney and economy of lire Slate Hanks as receivers
and disburse!* ul the public revenue. <'olonel lien
tun, who was then, as he is now, one of the most up
proved Oracles of Democracy, delivered seveial
Speeches, coveting snd supporting all the positions
which I have assumed. That distinguished Sen
ator— whom it is so much the fashion in tins Assem
bly to disparage,but who always seems lo me to bring
lo every subject a mind richly stored with valuable
information, and a power of argument, and happi
ness of illustration, surpassed by few—when the ic
charter of the U. S. Hunk was under discussion
hi the Senate, in the course of a very elaborate
argument, made the following very just and forcible
icmarkft :
“Mr. Benton deprecated the spirit which seemed
lo have broken out against State Bank* : »l *B8 a
spirit which argued badly for tilt*»ights of the Slates.
_Those Bank* wi re cteated hy the States, and tin* J
works of the States ought to be respected; the stock
in these Banks was hold by Arneri< ail citizens, and j
ought not to be injuriously assailed to give value to
st. < k held in the Fedcial Bank by foreigners and j
aliens. The very mode of rallying on the warefare a
gainst Slate Banks,ha* itself been an injury and a just '
c ause of complaint. Some of the most inconsidera- j
hi* have been picked out -their affairs presented in the !
most unfavorable light—and then held forth us a fair j
sample of the whole. More easy would it have j
been to have acted a more grateful and a more c
quiiahle part—a part more just to the State (iovein
im nts which created those Banks and the American
citizens who held stock in them! Instead of hunt
ing out lor more remote and inconsiderable Banks
* • • and making this high Semite the conspicu-/
ous theatre for the exhibition of their insignificance,
why not lake the higher order ol Sute Banks,—
(hoes whose names and character aie well known
* * • • • •,—those which have reduced ilie Ex
change below the rates of the Federal Bank ; and
which, in every particular that lues the credit,is su
peiior to the one which is receiving so much homage
and admiration ? Mr. B. said there were plenty
of such State Banks as he had described • " *. Some
of them had been selected lo.r cieposite Banks, others
not ; but there was no difficulty ill making a selec- (
tiou of an ample uumber."
In this same speech, Mr. B. siys, “that this
spirit of hostility to the the State Banks was of re
cent origin, and seemed lo keep pace with the
spirit ol attack upon the political rights ofthe States.”
He alluded to the fact, th it in 1791, when the fust
Fedora I auk was created, it was not even made by
its charter a place of depnsite for the public moneys,
lie stated tl at Mr. Jefferson pieferred the Slate
Banks at that time, and so declare d himself in In*
Cabinet opinion to President Washington—and that
Mr. (iallatin deposited a pait of the public moneys
in (he Slate B inks during the whole of the lung pe
riod hew as at the head ofthe Treasury. The speech
frirt w hich these extracts are taken w as delivered in
March, 1834. In less than three months theiealirrsaid
Mr. Peyton, when the whole country from Maine to
Florida was convulsed by die sudden and unexpect
ed removal of the deposilfs, nnd the question of their
restoration was eliciting in the II ills ol Congress the
M -i—. ..■ — .I.' I ■ ft
most violent, the moil inflammatory and denunciatory
attack* upon ilia President and hi* pet syetem, t,'ol.
Henton, who was again the Ajax Telamon of the Ad
miniiir.iti »n, extended In* impenetrable /Efi* fut
the protection of the Government Mantling, and wub
hi* usual addies* rescued it rtoin the tender mer
cies of iis wtieiiiirs.
I pon a motion which lie made to ft mend )h,
(.’lay’s resolution lorihu restoration of tire Deposits*,,
l»> sinking out and inserting in lieu,a provision for the
Depositing of the public money* in State Hank*,
and making legulutiotis for its irruriiy in those iu
hi n in ions, lie uent at laige into the reason* and
coiisicleiHiions which influence* him in pressing the
amendment. lie deprecated almost ill the same,
language winc h I have just quoted from hi* speech
upon the* rechartered the United States Hank, the
spit it which seemed to have broken nut against State
Hanks, and said that it augured badly for the rights
ol the State*, lie said that the strongest etirrcnf of
consolidation w Inch was now observable in the U
nion. h is that which was set in favor of the National
Hank and against tIter Slate Hanks, and threatened
to consolidate all monied power, and with it all po
litical power, in favor ol a great central institution
hum| it' i m I r ii I ol the Slates, anil able, by lie own avow
al, in crush ilin Stale institutions at it* pleasure.—
I le said. Haiti Mr. I1., in lliis veiy strong anil ever
memoriible language, which lie hoped would com
mand thr nttenlinn and Ii* itself in the memory of
every gentleman within In* hearing, that thia spirit
ti gainst the Stair Hanks 1/•</.%• an impulsion of modern
origin—unknown to the fathers of the Hepubtic and
to the early history of the country—and strongest nou\
where the spirit of 1 unsolidation was shonprst, anti
where the defence, of State Fights was weakest, lit*
tepcnie I the fact, that ai thn commencement of tho
federal tioveiotnent there was no federal llank,
| and all the public moneys were kept in Stale lla k#
j and drawn direct and as fast a* they were received
out td the hands ol receiveis and collectors, lledr
| vrhiped fully nil the circumstances connected with
the incorporation of the fust federal Hank, and said
j (lint w lieu it was proposed in 1791, and the keeping
ol the public money* was one ul the sciviccs attribu
ted to it by its advocates, Mr. Jefferson denied ih§
necessity of a Federal Hank for any such puiposes,
and openly declared h imself in favor of State Hanks.
Mr. P. said, that Pol. Hentou, after adducing many
quotation* and extracts, going to establish the wis
dom and Republicanism of ihr picsctit position of
the ('onsetvalivr* in rclVrenco to this matter, sums
up by saying, it wastlitis proved liy uii experience of
twenty years—an experience running through tho
whole ol the administration ol Jefleison and Madison
and a pail ol tlicir predecessors—that the public
liroueys may be safely kept hi ihr Stale Hanks, and
that Mr Jcllrrsoii was right In hi* cabinet advice of
1791, when lie give it as Ins snlriim opinion to (ieu.
\\ •ishiiiglun, that tlicie was no necessity tor chartei
ing a f edcialHauk to act as a flu.al ;u# it of the fed
eral Treasury, and tint tho Slate Hanks would ei ter
into nriangeineiits lor that purpose and do the busi
ness well ? In another pint ol the same speech, Mr.
Hentou said that, having shown that he Hood on
JcO'ersoniaii ground, ami upon sale ground, in re
commending the State Hanks lor places ol deposits,
Ac.. Ac , Ac.
Mr. Peyton said, that these extracts wero only *
few giains of sand from the sea shore. The whole
I history of Lien. Jackson's administration, he said,
was an unbroken chain of proofs that the “great
Jat ksou I), iiiocratic Republican pattyf* clung to tbo
tirncral llepositc system, with the iitmotl pertinaci
ty, as one of the strong holds n/ Republicanism, and
dial they were ready to hurl the amithennsnf excom
munication against »H who presumed to question
their infallibility. Vet. sard Mr. I'vyt- u, strange lo
tell, and it is not less true than strange, many of
those ardent and emhiileied spun* who lately led on
the embattled hosts ol Democracy against that •• *
troci'iiiN federal conception," the Hub-Treasury,'
have, with a blindness of zeal without its parallel,
charged so fiercely upon the enemy as to peuetrats
entirely through their ranks, and in wheeling upon
ihelr new positions, to renew the conflict, find that
they have actually abandoned their original princi
ples, and been led by the seductive delusions of.
sell-i iglireousness, or the ingenious sophisms of sow*
moiieru flysses. to believe that they preserved their
consistency in embracing the \ ruin pies of their oppo
nents. Ami what makes the matter still worse, said
Mr. P.. using those assumed pnnciples to break
down and destroy th.it which they themselves hurl
first nourished into importance, and then, in a
freuk of partly presumption, deserted and denounc
ed.
When the charge was first sounded, few anticipa
ted that it would ichiilt in the overthrow ol the priu
i ipletr which it was intruded to vindicate. Whether
it was a ruse de guerre vra political blunder, it was
not within the competency irf the unsophisticated
mass in determine. They had been trained in til*
camp of a veteran soldier. They had been habitua
ted to that hold, straight-forward amt decisive action
(| t ion JmcUhuu, winch secured nun universal sue
i*ms, Mini marked his polilicul campaigns with a se
ries of brilliant triumphs, which called forth the
pa’.ins of Democratic joy throughout the United
State*. 11 is successor, who felt that it was ** gloajr
enough to have set ved under such a Chid,1* prom
ised to ** walk in the footsteps of his illustrious pre
decessor.” This assurance, Mr. I*, said, gladdened
the hearts of the Democracy, and inspired uuiversaf
confidence. All reverted «o the pastas an unerring
guidt in their anticipations ol the future. Hut,Said
Mr. Peyton, the bright hopes and sanguine calcula
tions with which they celebrated the liist moment*
of the Presidential victory, were all blighted by
Mr. Van Huien, who, when he had scarcely got
warm mi hi* exalted scat, turnr d a complete financial*
somerset, and stood forth before the confessed 8ub
Trensury man. The whole party paused for a mo
ment. A small portion, who have since beerrtermeil
Conservatives, obstinately lelused to advance or yiehF
their opinions to those of the President, while the
great mass, as though the spear of I ill u riel had ex
erted it9 magic influence, with singular unanimity
and concert of action, eschewed their ancient seli
mriits, and resolved to •• sink or suirn" with the new
Chieftain of the party. Mr. Peyton said, among
those occupying a prominent position, who resisted
this attempt to force the Sub-Taeasury upou the
country, few were more conspicuous or exercised a'
more extensive and salutary influence than the vene
rable Kditor of the Knquirer. Indignant at the uh
bluslii ng tergiversation which it involved, and deeje
ly imbued with a sense of manifold ev.ls which it
would inflict upou the nation, he raised his prophet
ic voice in warning to the people, ami implored the
President, whose very “person lie loved/* to aban
don a policy ho fraught with distraction to the |mtjr
and desolation to the country. Thousands, sauP
Mr. P., who are subscribers to no other papfcr ftmn’
tile Knquirer, and depend entirely upon the lucubra
tions of its Kditor for the political light which
they enjoy, perused with avidity, day after day,
the appalling pictures which he drew ol the blight
ing effects of this Sub-Treasury system, untiUhey
came at last to view it with perfect Imiror—as *
Pandora’s box. charged with eveiy ill of which w
body politic is susceptible. Hut unfortunately, saitF
Mr. Pevton, for those who had been thus led. by
their confidence in this time-honored oritdc of?
Democracy, to denounce th* leading and fSvorite
t measure of the Administration, it begun to falter
1 in its opposition anti to urge upon all, whatever
might be their principles, to sustain Mr. Van Uu
ifii. This “ sink-or-suim" doctrine. Ml. Peyton*
said, was so adverse to the genius umf spirit of our
instilUtioBS—to utterly abhorrent to moral pio-»
priety and political purity, that the Conseivaiive9
revolted from it, at some leprous taint which could
not he handled or touched without contamination.*—*
They considered it supremely ridiculous to unshew h*
their swords and brandish them in in the facewo#
their opponent.*, aud, in the Mine moment, WutWf