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Since writing the abov*, w* (the Editor* of the En quirer) have seen * long, manly and masterly letter from Amos Ktndall to Mr. Gouverneur of N York, of the 22d August.'—He goes into the whole common sense V’iew of the subject—says, lie has no legal authority to instruct the Postmaster* “to*exclude the whole series of aboli tion publications from the Southern mails"—that he is only deterred from doing so. “by a want of legal pow er"—"but (siys he) if 1 were situated us you aie, 1 would do as ym have done”—and that “as a measure of great public necessity, you and the olliei Postmasters who have assumed the responsibility of stopping these iniluuitnutnry pipers, will, I have no doubt, stand justi fied in tint step before your country and nil mankind.” --Fo.- our own parts we have to this moment heard no dissentient opinion—Fr on the very hollo n of our hearts we thank Messrs. Krndill and Gi/uvcmcur tor the course they have pursued. Toe N. Y. Evening Post, in re-publishing this letter, “calls upon the Executive of the United States, whose awoni duty it is to see all laws faithfully executed, to dismiss Samuel I. Gouverneur from that station, for which he is not only unfit in many general respects, but also by his positive and wilful violation of his trust in the mutter to which Mr. Kendall's letter refers.” The Post-may call soirits lrmn the vasty deep; but will they come when lie does call them ?— If the newspapers have any power of invocut on, wr. would, most respectfully ,call tip m Mr. hcnd.il! nut to dism.s.* Mr. Gouverneur—and upon the President no' to dismiss Mr. Kendall. No.nu: Mr L-ggett is a man of acknowledged talents—we admire his genius we have g ? lie rally b?-cn proud to coincide with him—but hi this case he is entirely out. lie is not aware of the injury he is doing, North arid South. Ilis doctrine is quoted by tin; Fanatics of the North, nnd by the Fac tious of the South I le is misled by a specie* of political uic.aphy sics,which will allow ofnoexcoptions tli 'Ugh lorc e I upon u*by extiaordiuary circumstances. The principles or his Philosophy admit of no friction. Hut, still there is is one great principle, which however dangerous it may to apply it frequently, and only right in extreme cases, is applicable to tins emergency—S.ilus pouuli, suprema let —Cull upon the Executive to dismiss Mr. Gouver neur? Why not call upon the President to dismiss Mr. Kendall* wlc> will not dismiss Mr. Gni'vr .near?_And outhis whole principle,.ill up .n the II of K.autinpeacl) the President* who will notdistniss Ker< tail, wha will not dismiss Gouverneur? Old Hickory, how ever, will again take the Responsibility, and throw him •elf upon the justice of his Country. We fear him not. THE TIMES. We are literally overrun by article*, both in man Uicrijit and print. We uiuhI lay many of them by, I jr our next-—and amokig other*, the views which we in tended to take of the present crisis. A few words must Hutiicc fur the preftrnt: We have had three objects before u«—1st. To save the Rights and Peace of the South, from the outrages of the Abolitionists— lid. To save this blessed Union front the danger* of dissolution—3d and 1 ist of all, to allow M irtin \ an Boren, who has been assailed, now as the Abolition candidate, and then as the Northern candidate, a lair chance of having Ins due pretensions duly woigl.e 1, in despite of the open and insidious attacks of Ins enemies, both in the North and in the South. l'or this purpose, the moment we saw that the Aholi tionsts were in greater force, and had ampler means of annoyance, than we originally supposed—the moment wo saw Mississippi threatened with insurrection—sus pected hmissaries here and there—and above nil, the ef forts that were made to eliminate poison from the Press ond circulate it through the mail—we dismissed all party' f clings; and cheerfully joined with the Whigs in piping all hands upon deck, to save the ship. The effort of our « o mtrymci. is succeeding. We are avoiding the rock, on llle koutli and the L nion itself threatened to strike i lie People are a wakened to their danger—the Police is strengthened—Emissaries are intimidated, and will not dare to cross the Potomac—The public mails are inter dicted to them, and their Incendiary publications almost entirely nrreated through that channel. We agree with V'c Whig that they will surcease the transmission of their papers to the South. If they should now and then attempt to smuggle n box of their papers, like contraband good*, a* t n/wktei d.ay•‘*li,“d**lphia,they may meet the fate which that Pandora s box experienced from her vigi lant and patriotic citizens. They will probably be destroyed belore they can reach their place of destina linn. The South has also appealed to the North—and the an pej has been met in an American spirit. The people of 1 orlland, ot Boston, of Bath, of Augusta and of N York, have responded to our call, in a manner, which i must cheer the South while it damp., the disturber* of! our peace. We have laid ail these previous proceedings I 17 Wc shall publish in our next the clo- \ quent Addresses of Messrs. Sprague and Fletcher of Bos- 1 aMMveunw add the Proceeding* of the great Meeting ot ' ; W. not in as good taste as others. They bring in metaphysical reservation*, which only take from their < tec., and give a handle to the discontented politician to c-rp at the very spirit which dictated them. Our fel low-citizens of the North should not unnecessarily moot points—but they might tell mat once, “Whether we have the undoubted right or not to discuss your Institutions we ought not to do so.—W* ought not to medJle with what concenu yourselves so much, and which so deeply touches your interests and your lives.—We are willing to leave it in your own hands, whore the sacred compact 1 which binds us together seems to hove left the subject ” I But still we do justice to tbe People of N York.—Their spirit is with tlu- South—They go against the Fanatics, and rnr/i th. ir brethren in the Soutli-a..d for the Union! What is thought ot these proceedings of the North, by our own citizens who u:* now on the spot, will sp pe»r *roin the three following Letters, received yrbterduv morning The fir^t is from a full-blobded Virginian— <lycd in the wool in all our Stale Bights doctrines and Whi Crn fe<,,,nC*-an en,‘g>‘leoed and an honorable EitraU of a letter from JYew York, Wlh August. .i « e11!-031 °Vr c,l'**ns are becoming too warm on the Abolition question. The sense of the people this way and North ot this, is almost unanimous against it. ‘l have not heard a single voice raised in defence of it. I was at the Boston meeting; it was exceedingly crowded. I never heard warmer, nor more patriotic, or frutcrn.il sen t.merit* expressed on any occasion, nr more determined resolution manifested to uphold the South in all their constitutional rghls; and those rights were defined with I as much liberality .as the most scrupulous Southerner i ro ild have desired, or could h ve defined them. A few ! cold blooded f a natics (comparatively) constitute the corps ; •J tutor go niters; and some of those few, I think, begin to shrink from the ranks, under the influence of public sen Extract of a letter from another intelligent citizen of Richmond, devoted to the South,but not to the Adminis- I tratunt: , “New York, Aug. 28. I was present at the great meeting yesterday, and !£™iW ll■*uT' ti“,l it *n»nner that slio.i d be highly gratifying to every citizen of the South. I here was but one dissentient voice, and he was speedily hustled out. Alderman Monroe, with whom I had been, was called on to make a speech; but he thought it bettor that it should be a decided act ..f the North without the interference of a Southerner, “because said be, my sword should be unsheathed in their de lence, and the moment the question came to issue, if such should ever be the result, 30,000 are ready to march a a lew hours warning to their rescue."—Rely upon it, there i* no fear of the City of New York Th.- asser ion, that 19 out of 20 are opposed to the Fanatics, is ?K-rn«.* . ,er? a band in the Western part of this btate, particularly at Wh.te.boro, near Utica, led on hy one Green, who is President ofthe Oneida Insti *“l*» in 7^ok .,< ar,,*‘d «>»n. «nd possessing much influ b f *rn,»®d«‘* neighborhood. The Ladies go «itli Inin, &c., tfec. * “Most, if not all, of the Court of Errors, was at the ,0*-; ‘‘V Crrl bo,"« ,,ow in "esaion in this city. IlH-y are t)le highest tribunal in the Slate, and consist of t?* .-tenant Governor and 24 Senators. Should the I-inattcs press in Congress for the emancipation of slaves !n th* District of C<;luiifci«, tliwc Senator* are likely to have great influence on the question. This will now become the rallying point of the Kanaties-keep your eye on pi They may thus hop* to. establish their So “”*** and Preachers there—open a receptacle for runa ways to operate on our borders,” Ac., Ac. Lxtraet of another letter from „ Virginian in A Vic York to his friend in this City : „ « .. ,, “ Nr.w York, Aug 27. I Feeling Well assured that every thing on the subject ! of abolition will be intereating to the people of the South, and particularly so to the citizens ol Richmond, I hasten i Wn J',Ur*n *CCOUn* result ofthe meeting held in tins City, in th* Park, si 4 o'clock.-I hastened to the spot liop.ng to gel a situation favorable to hear sll .o7r«tC.r,"’ ""d -llthBt P"wd- but lh® crowd was to ” 1 preclude the possibility of the first, and as to the latter, I wss so iamined that I could scarcely see beyond my nose until the Resolution. we,e adopted, wu.ch bad been ottered previous to my arrival. I under stand they are such as will aati.fy tho ^ ,,,« of South, and were adopted, With but one dissenting voice; which was no sooner known, than the person was sought om and would have been Lynched, had he not been res cued by the officers in attendance. You may be sure I *nd w""*oon hy'br’ gentleman’s Joe, not tor the purpose of using violence, but to ascer ■u wV\"nd procure such other information dry „ w. HV,■0,!U, was a stranger here, having just ' * > •“<« 'hakes it his business to travel and preach ! ‘•pen th,s subject. I have seen him in Richmond-his KV™?'"* *nd V1®'0 b,,t little doubt that lie has , " ,r* ■gent in disseminating his dangerous doc- ; stature £?*'* i ^°u‘ fl>r Mm-tfr is .mall, of low | he fmm -in i o-a,*,,.V.?,,rk c-v®* *nd hair, »nd appear* to j phteiZLJ* . Tbrpeop,r ,n th" p»*®®. *• »'”in e'',d,?d iB th*'f “PprwUio* to the /Iho w3d h.. ^ ,ar ,***" <b* meeting on this evening, 1 ,Tl .nr,o.e . .r *r"'r Ratifying to • Southerner. ' *' ,P%',L r0 7T,m u, °r ",,,T® iB •«">d*nco He veral gentlemen addressed the meeting much to the pur Thi* great meeting hi aaid in the New York Gazette to have amounted to 10,000 peraona1 i# *0,"« Tb" !*«*•» ” ri*ing in ? hoffi: *v*Ty th'B< wil1 «® ri«hl -•«<* hm J i/T HnWn ‘»»® chain, kMndsu,together,W,P. be strengthened and bnghtened more chan ever. We call still Tor the ,no*t active vigi I*1*®® on the part of the South -.nd a further n.an.fesu to U«JI» of the patriotic, and sympathetic spirit of the North. Ls-t the whole country speak out, and put down the Marplots who would disturb us. lint if neither our own vigilance, nor the public opinion of the North, should prove sufficient to secure us from the dan»rr which has threatened us, then shall we call upon our Northern brethren to carry out their pledges—and to adopt mea sures which will be sufficient to put down tli.t Fanatics. We canuot permit ourselves to doubt that they will do it in the moat efficient manner—As tor the South, we will , undertake to say that so far, they are sincerely grati fied with the ieni|K»r, which our Northern brethren have displayed—aud which we regard as tip- harbinger ot tlieir determination to w-rvu us, if it should prove necessary, in the most efficient manner. We will as sure her ot the sincere desire of the South to maintain the kindest relations with our patriotic brethren—to i-x tend to them the rites of hospitality, and the right hand ot lelloWKliip—and to jirtairre the Union. “ We predicted, (says the Alexandria Gazette) two iyet*kn t lidt the Abolition into would be put down by the Northern people theunsclves*, and we now add, that . y.,?1.Jr* down—peaceably if it if possible, but forcibly if the occasion requires it. The North is rising in its strength against the agitators. ° “ Several houses in New York iiave advertised in the papers, contradicting rumors that they were favorable to j the views of the sbolittonisU. This would look as if the j threats made at the South of not buying goods of such were beginning to operate.” Already, we hope, the public spirit which has been displayed in both quarters of the Union, has not been without its effect, in diverting the Abolitionists from their mad career.—Wo hail at least a- one good shrn, an essay, which appeared in the New York American of Wednesday last. It is signed Abolitionist:' and is regarded by the Editor as « jilcjoc that tlieir “overt acts will bo intermitted in obedience to the public will.” . h Abu!iiionist, with much cant and many jeremi ads, declares, that— J J “ 1 ublic sentiment in free America has decreed with a voice and power not to bo mistaken, that justice and truth shall I* trodden down, that we shall not write and speak except Uhi!;*# ban? be it w-our duty is olain. Ue )«.v .:u, in such a esse, excite to violence; we arc not.UwActy C6m •fissioned logo where our blood would moisten die earth, .lor may we outrage the laws or the source ot law, the people. We bow, then, to the autho rity which is divinely constituted, and has a ri»ht to re strain us; our overt acts, which are all acts of benevo lence and truth, we intermit—our opinions, that in this day of light and liberty, he who holds his fellow an hour in bondage violates all moral obligations, we abandon never!! And it adds: “There is one, and one only mode of uction left. God bus u church ou earth, and that church has a Law : Let the church—not the Kpisco p, c*,1urc,V lhe. Methodist, nor the Presbyterian, but j the Church of Christ—cleanse her skirts of this damning sin. In the church this is no matter of argument; come then to our lu lp ur all is lost.”—Hut the Church of the tjoutli will disdain and reject these overtures—and that ot the Nor 111, we hope, will soon become more enlight ened and less meddlesome with a subject which the? do not understand. } (From yesterday's llhitr ) _ _ A BREEZE in RICHMOND. On Saturday, Judge Clopton then holding a session of the Superior Court of Law for Henrico county, was ap. plied to for a bench wariant for the arrest of two men of the name of l’ryor, father and son, from Alabama, alleged to be gamblers by profession, (of great wealth) who on a visit to their relations in Henrico county, had been <ruilty as alleged, ol an enormous offence. A young gentleman >y the name of Brown, who preferred the complaint, sta ted that the elder I’ryor had married his aunt—that lie had appeared a few days previously at his house on a visit— that he had made base overtures to his sister, (and the neice ol 1 ryor s wife,! a married lady of the name of An derson—that these had been urged with great solicitation, backed by the offer of money to a large amount, which was rejected; that in her husband's and brother's absence Mrs A . m the power of Pryor, and alarmed at his violence, had seemingly temporized, and intimated that a future time ^■°!,« j ,n<!rc propitious for his purposes—that he had yielded lo the delay, (taking however, many indecent liberties,) and swearing he was never foiled in what he undertook—that in the interval, she imparted what had occurred to her husband, who armed himself, and when 1 ryor again presented himself, fired upon him, lodging many shot in his arm—that the Pry ors thereupon rushed armed into house, driving its occupants before them stabbing a cousin of the name of Brown, and taking nos session ot the house, and splitting the furniture from cellar to garret. This wc understand to have been the amount of the complaint, which being publicly told, created a violent sense of indignation. As the Pryors.it was said, threat ened armed resistance, it was thought necessary to sum mon a posse to execute the warrant of the court, and these rapidly advancing to the spot of the oulr ge, met those individuals three miles on the Brooke Turnpike, on tlieir way to the city, in a carriage and four, with a tra velling carriage as a tender. They surrendoij? them selves without difficulty, and being escorted by what had grown a troop were carried before Judge Clopton, and i>} turn turned over to the county magistracy. They were examined before Messrs John Shepherd, Jesse Sneed, and Isaac A. Godden, Justices of the Peace, I upon the evidence of young Brown and others, (Mrs. Anderson not present,) R. T. Daniel, Esq. acting lor the Commonwealth, and Conway Robinson and PM*. . y Garter, Laos, for the prisoners, and admitted to i ‘H, lvhr ■“"* °* $r,00° each- Wither (which is not probable) unable to give the bail, or thinking the jail more secure lor the present, they were conducted thi ther accordingly, and there remain to be confronted with the evidence to be acquitted if innocent, and punished it guilty. It was rumored on Saturday night, that hav ing deposited the amount of their bail, they would be discharged without farther investigation; which obtain tug currency occasioned no small degree of popular excitement. The officers of the law, however, pledged themselves that nothing of the kind wan purposed, but that the prisoners should be forthcoming lo meet the charge, or at all events discharged, if discharged, in the day time. It would be indecorous and unjust to say a word upon the probable guilt or innocence ol these men. Public opinion, however, categorically demands this—that the attair shall lie lully investigated—that if guilty, they s.iall not be permitted to escape through the length of their purse— that if ten thousand dollars bail be not sufficient to secure their presence to meet their trial, that bail be increased—and that i( innocent, they shall go forth un harmed, and with the regrets of all that they have been subjected to the inconvenience and the injury. If inno cent, they have nothing to fear, for no people ever curbed their indignation more completely, or manifested more r*.ff*rd,for th« *upreraacy of the law, than did the people of Richmond on Saturday. If innocent, they will not wish to depart, until that innocence he avouched to the W’orld. II guilty, it is not their wealth that should pur chase them impunity. A Bonuri: !—The incendiary publications remaining in the Richmond Poat Office, wort* on Saturday taken out and publicly burned in the Main street, under the su perintendence of the Post Office Committee. It is pro bable we think, that (he Abolitionists will surcease their labor of love in sending those publications to Southern 1 eople.—Ft. t_,. AVAILABLE CANDIDATE. here is lie? Dicmihi, 1‘utr, (as the Bard says.) et tu ens Magnus Apollo! is it General Harrison* The Georgetown (Kentucky) Sentinel says st once, he will net do—“that of his popularity even his warmest admirers do not pretend to hoast. In fact, in the broadest calcula tions which have been made, his prospect for success has been limited ton portion of the Northwest. If there is a single State in this section wlieru his friends can rea sonably count upon his success, we most candidly con fess that we are ignorant of its existence. In this State, I where the Opposition is peihaps strongest, we confidently anticipate lus defeat." 1 The Frankfort Argus says the same—“that the hoot- j nrg and baw ling of the Bank-Whigs about General liar- | rfson * popularity in tiie West is all a piece of humbug gcry. and although it 'makes the very welkin ring,’ yet the echo will neither frighten the Democracy from the field, nor decoy them from their posts. All the Gene rsl s popularity, aided by the trickery of the Whigs, who ineffectual in procuring the vote of either Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, or Illinois, as would be the attempt, to storm a well constructed fort with a pop-gun. I’he Argus seems to hit the nail upon the head when with ns much humor as force, it throws into general’orders the Wmg plan for the campaign; to wit:—“Gen Web ster in consideration of his brilliant services during the late war, and in the Senate of '34-6, has been appointed to the command of the Eastern division, comprising the Hartford ConventionisU,of lol4.and the Bank-Whigs of IH;I4; Gen. White, iri consideration of his treachery to his Democratic friends, his secret services to her Roy al Highness during the late session of Congress, and his ready concurrence in the intrigues of Speaker Bell, has ! been promoted to the command of the Southern dvt’arh- I merit, composed of the Nullifier* and land mark oblitera Ironist*,arc Ac. Gen Harrison has been advanced to the station of commander-in-chief of her Majesty’s forces in the West, and is to have concurrent jurisdiction with Gen Webster in the Middle and Northern Slates, v/hile C.lay, Calhoun and t o. are to lie bock as a corps de restrrt, to be | brought in and clone the action, and to aid in the arrange- > mentfor distributing the spoils, and celebrating the vic tory in the House of Representatives.'' The Phdsdelphia Inquirer (Whig) fortifies this state- j m*iit fully and 'U’jrAnrvn it am it* present tmpreinion, I that flier* will b* four candidate*; three in addition fo i Mr Van Buren Mr. Webster, in the New England States, and possibly in New York, although Gen. Ilar noon appear* to be gaining ground there—Judge White m the South—In such Mutes, for example, s* North and South Carolina, Georgia, l^uisiana, Tennessee—and u. litt,,nZn ,n Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Kentucky. Some of our friends may manifest smprise at the opinions we cypres? with regard to the latter can didate. We can only assure them that we care not a farthing ror the man personally—never saw or received a line from him—but we nevertheless believe him more available, at this moment, as a candidate than any other ” The Boston Fourier is indignant at Mr. Webster's be ing shoved off the stool by Gen Harrison—and remark ing on the Islington Observer’s raising the flag of the nsw military Chieftain, asks—“Are we to understand by this, that Mr. Clay and his friends intend to support Gen Harrison, and to desert tbs New England candid»t«> — And is such the return which the Whigs or the Northern States receive for their good faith, and wrul, and perse verance in support ot Mr. Clay 1 The New Tork American also takes the stud—He is fiercely out agamst General Harrisoi.-declares, we have had enough of these military chieftains, and nails hi* to the mast in the following chivalrous manner l or onrH. lves, we are content, nay jjroud, to be ranged unborn M‘Tm- l!nd°r ihe °™”‘r ^ l,K‘ Constitution, Dm. tv ,r:,UK V"* a,K‘ t,,routf»* vv,l report—by d m bn; r' i“,d ,'vr P«‘*«r **v‘» d* feat under it, to dangerous victory under any military banner ** But it will not do, inv worthies—Rhode Island has blown U Burges*, sky-high-and though the next smallest htate this Union, even .he w.ll scout an election by the Mouse of Representatives. The people Ot this t moil never will consent to it—tfV it when you please. * iou «/ia i! We hare exhausted the Pillbox st Ust._thank.be to the length of our columns ! We have be-n compelled to awallow the whole—and we should pity the wight who thought himself obliged to read, what we five Sr; iradx,i° vrnt-Whai an c«„ Ury has the Doctor given us, upon a text of about I 12 ■ lies l ufortunate expression of‘*Old Albemarle” which has druwn down u|mo, our poor heuchg the pelting of such a p.tikas storm. —The Doctor is the second man in this ComiwonweaUh, whom we should be unwilling to pro ib* “I'ghtest mention of his nanfe The s^ .Ue iTJLfarfK ,h‘ ',fia>- V,'“ " lh suraoie interest. tor every word lit, receives he a' lTong°Talk ,,e “ n,«'v,l,uu* man’for a l.ong talk, Such a variety of all sorts does lie tL tlfiukUu£,n'" t || fmUf «r«P»,lli»t it is prodigious to Hunk upon, llis writing reminds us of the talk S!vSd "l,um. ,a" Classic wains yoU toa\ oid.-—If you meet him in the streets, he will take you by the button hole, and detain you till he empte-s «H the contents of his brain upon von. Fly such a' , as you would shun the ph.gue.LB'twixt \ 'JV “J The Dy T ' l,'.C C®"»n»*iiUtor on “Old Albemarle.’ 1 he Doctor twice threatens us, «» it were, with a volume God save the mark ! If the public would not rejoice in such a visitation, his opponents at least, might have oe casion to exclaim, with the patient Job, “Ob' that mine enemy would write a Book”! We shall not bore the reader with any stricture, upon the Doctors text. Wc should have occasion to write an Encyclopedia at hast—and in mercy " ,e P“b,,c' we th'”k it sufficient to have tried thi r philosophy once. It would be too inhuman first to bore them with the Doctor, and then to bore tliefu with Ins Critic. Certain it is, if anv other min living will assume the task of dialing Lu, we will not. Home other knife must undertake it Betwixt you and 1, we have neither taste,time, (and the Doctor j*“f add> to kecP UP l»‘e alliteration,) talents for the We might indeed remind him, that our worthy I'rcsi dent had been guilty of most of the high crimes and misdemeanors VHh which lie is now charged, when the Doctor made his excusatory anu iaud«.Ury S—«r.h in the Senate of \ irgiuia, upon Gen. Jackson. Arid we might also ask what has the li.tlc Magician done to forfeit i 2onffl«Sfin,0lfb0 c/,U,rUin1cd ,,f ^ the Conven 7 , * y°“ know wl»at he has done, certainly /do not.-!, yen „?w think it decent and jurtto make man of thc tJlfle Magician, I clfarly do not. But little as you now think he is, / think the People will be very apt to make much more of him, than will suit your wishes or passions. Betwixt You and I, > think youjhad better let our “vir tuous and talented friend’ J. f. B?own, alone. Whether you thought as highly of Van Buren in 1832, as he did I know not—but this / do know, if you do not, that he then pronounced a warn, eulogium upon the Little n dCClTd ,n„*° ",a"y terms that “he has in^ (IS. m) entire confidence ! I have not criticized your facta, though I know some of them o he caricatured by passion, ISnd believe Tome others to be invented oy the imagination ofoU.ers_bVt ! I cai.not but wonder, why we have never heard be- I Conve ntionU,,d hwnbu!'K”‘J "f ^ Baltimore Gonvt ntion of 1832-nor can I very well conceive why jou, like your it lend Gordon, did not foresw ear the whole concern, as soon as you had discovered the intrigue But you waited for the Bank and Senate panic of Jri:t4 to leave the 1 arty—when you thought you might avail yourself of the ltetreat cry of the Bottle of Waterloo— ! future t/ui peut. j 1 have done sir—with one more re.nark-That be twixt you and I, if I am to take any one for my guide i either upon State Rights principles, or as to the merita ' of Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren, I would ! as lief adopt the opinions of old Nat Macon, and Jud-e W in. Smith, as those of Dr. Charles Cocke. Noah quoted the Bangor UepubUcuiTee fat Van Buren 1 and for AMitum.—the only scripture which the inra’ed 1 firebrand could cite to suit its purpose. We suspected from Die beginning that he fibbed—and now we know it The B R. came to u. yesterday, of Aug. i»f>u,. with Mr. Van Buren Hying at its top mast, and with the following a* its leading article : 6 “At Augusta just week, many ofthe most influential citizens or that.place, joined in calling a similar meeting, Whose proceedings have not yet reached us In Maine we believe that there is a vast preponderance of public opinion against the measures of the Abolitionists, and A nil-bitty cry agitators at the North; and it would well become Bangor to follow the lead of Portland and Au gusta in giving an emphatic expression of the views of this part of the State, on the same subject. At this peri od of fearful foreboding at the South, it becomes a duty for the patriotic citizens ofthe North to offer unequivocal demonstrations of their determinate » to maintain in re auty and good fitilli towards the South, the constitutional rights ofthe Slave-holding States.—There would he as much good sense and propriety in our clergy’s preaching up a crusade against Mahometanism, as against sluvery any where North ot.Maryland. We have not among either .Mdhomednns, stave-holders, or the advocates of slavery. Why then, but for effect abroad, stir up an angry and unprofitable subject, where no proselytes can be, made or good object accomplished'” ihe uover, N. II. Gazette of the 26th, replies to ws i "d kMVei t R‘ ,"'!tory of an attempt made on the 10th hr one Storrs, formerly n Methodist clergy rnan. He held a public meeting m Dover, and wax Bt,|v met by Col. Hale, the U. S. District Attorney. And what was the result, though Thompson had publicly and quietly lectured there in February la.t! ‘ * ,'*,A So1c,flJr °| 20 has been formed to aid the purposes of the abolitionists; and public opinion has been bo aroused on the subject that not another abolition lecture can he publicly delivered without eliciting an expression or dissatisfaction more unwelcome to the ears of the abolitionirta than that of Tuesday evening. We speak advisedly we say that not another abolition lecture can be. publicly delivered and patiently listened to in this vil "l!*- Had this not been believed to be the fact Storrs would have lectured a fourth time on Wednesday evening, but so convinced was he tiiat he could not be again heard that he wisely decamped.” J °'npiler soys, that “ the subscriptions to the stock of the J redericksburg and Alxeamfria Rail road Company are filling up very handsomely. One gentleman ,'lllcit)' has taken to the amount of $10,(>IK), another 8.M10U, and so on in smaller sums. We have heard it BUggcsU’d, thatby touching at Rrentsville, in Prince Wil fiam, an inducement might be held out for a branch tb Warrenton, (about 83 miles.) or to the Fauquier Springs ” — I he Commissioners have just invited the public at tention to the enterprise, for which a charter was ob- 1 tamed from the last Legislature. They say, when ac complished, it will complete a line of rail road xlietch mg Irom New England to North Carolina. u’r,;in„ccro,{ ,.1** -r>«e. he. of Mcs.rx. fnj.rxoll, r;0„. k 1*".’ •""1Mr,M'r.h»*'i delivered si ll.e Town Mi-el.n* »■, sh.H m’ r°r pnblisstion. The entire pro/ert o cou ‘,,1- ""d^'e..Uled lhrou*ho,n country. —/MaiUl/tkiu Inquirer uf Saturday. We also sincerely trust that they wilfall be published, flixl circulated throughout the whole country. [Iliehniond Unouire.r. Richmond Police. [lie following resolution was unanimously adopted at a late meeting of the Post Office Committee, and ordered to for published: i ' That the citizens of Virginia, and especial ly those of the county of Henrico, and rity of Rich mond, be, and *bey 3re hereby earnestly advised, to with draw their subscriptions and support, from all and every newspaper, whether political or religious, that may ■ s pouso or countenance the cause of the Abolitionists/’ Pom r/nr£jfqUigiui~dMp.UA Messrs, bailors, there is one other topic, the hearing of which upon the purity and stability of our political m slitutions, and upon the best interests of our country will plead my excuse for noticing, notwithstanding the great, and, I fear, wearisome length to which 1 foresee t this communication must be protracted. • ^ seems, “we have faiien upon" strange, if not “evil times. A new political rtnas'Jiration and nomenclature unheard-of in the time of Mr. Jefferson and Madison’ hare lately been introduced among us In the pure and palmy days of the Republic, when political unmet mere deter iptite. of the political priori plea cf those who usstnned ! them, the modest epithet, “ Republican," was sufficient to designate that class of politicisns who adopted the creed taught by the great Apostle of Constitutional |,j. l/erty, Thomas Jefferson. Hut in these modern times of scientific invention, when Preaidents and Pice Presidents are manufactured by steam nml of polttirul illumination, rrhen Republicans are made to order, by the magic of a name - it seems that "old things are done away, and all things become new." A new polit.cal parly has sprung | "p, whose tlnuble-refned republicanism requires a new ! compound epithet to describe its sublimated purity._ j I»r.MOf ihtic Republican," is the name modestly as sumed by this new sect, that has lately been ushered to the world, headed by that erudite and profound ex pounder of constitutional law, honor Andrew Jackson, Messrs. Kdilors, one is strongly tempted to sus pect that this new-born party are cunningly seeking to make up in sound, what they are conscious of wanting in substance. . Prmarratie. Republicanism, they flatter themselves, will be regarded by the sovereign People— lbcm'—as an impror.rment upon the ample re puhliranism taught by Jefferson, Nkai/ison, Roane, snd John laylor of Caroline; and that its suthors and in rearers will get credit accordingly. As Jefferson was honored as the Father of ’ Republicanism," they hope h~i«' &rN.hilV?,eMr*- E^l;>r"’ 1to',,able u“ lo ••certain how be n*. ,‘T- 114 WCJ' Whether the teneU of he Republican School of *1)8 (whose principle. 1 .,n li.‘. a it" “y aro ;"*rrfteJ in iny natur<) »•«»* bee,, pu. d !'n *^,'7 by l,<* ,l,1,corerits of modern political lii ?i!n\ * yo“ U* *° with mc «*« a Haoty ana ly.i* o» the doctrine, of that day, and of this Rut before entering upon tins tu*k, l beg leave re 1 ton wd y l° *<K y‘!“ '’"** or‘w» questions, wfiicl, I trust | wl .-n . iT'r cat,*fC""c*Ujr, and with that frankness , w i chabou d ever mark the course of one w hose op, i SSn .nrpd,%“' “m"" k"“«" ‘u have a powerful | Rinnence on the public uinid. **l*,b4*"* ”0‘’ An‘,r,*'v Jackson the Head, ehufch » ,Hn,UU W* t “!* “eW “1X‘,u*H*«“t*c-Republican,” , hiTih A|r° ‘hr by lhc head, those taught ! Sll rtte rtH b,V lMS ^’Bowers—and do , they Constitute - He»«ocr*h«4tepublicanism ?** ve'„ *.“"yi,M*'l,CiJ •*" experience necessary to be gi V., ,tu #b "‘ a*,,'»*Mion into the pah* of the church ? ‘Alls r •/°r “J'1’ “dUt3,on to Jachsonism—\lie cry ot i .he .Jwf £e.ri.a"m T? w h,B ProMket'—the watch word, the shibboleth w hich can, und winch utonr con, secure 1 , *d"‘‘ ‘u.iee into tins modern politico-masonic fraternity-1 to th! r "* r! VTy wl,° **» < " •‘hossnna I He*, br'e U’*1 a“d 1 K* ie-t’ a K'>od t’"u"t Democratic I ,S,XnrUUFmoo hart been his political I ,r jru * tJr0m ,',1tra;tU"P to the moment uh.n this song ! oj praise hurstsJrum his lips? I o 6.li'«ByrWl,al n^.'^cr pl that of Jachsonism—w hich i purifies Iroiu all s:u — huvr Messrs. Woodbury, Cass I ;i!!r ;r’/r°r71*:’ Buchanan, Van Uurcn—and that A/«r. locLudc Unit,,note mob, ultra Hartford Cun i U Tanee—been converted into 1 terns11, 4*',! Bepublicuns ?—This latter, it , 11 fC 'T," successor of the great and good an, tiie profound Jurist, who has .0 long presided tver | the supreme judical tribunal of the U. States-cho.en I we are given to understand, to bring back this erring l)cl | paitnnnt to the good old Republican track! This Messrs. E ditors, “ is u consummation devoutly to be w 'shed; but of which / ean see no ground of hope in the contemplated appointment of one, obnoxious to the only objection that ever has been, or could be urged 11,0 'a'e l.l,u*lri',Ui Chief Justice—his political heterodoxy—his ultra-fedeialigm Mr. Taney is ih«. COUI1. terpafl, tl,e ryua/ of Judge Marshall only in that trait of Mo oBiei.l character winch rendered him offensiet to such strict consUuers of tin* Constitution as you und I_in genius power of intellect, und learning—a pigmy to a gtont—to change the order of the comparison “Hyperion 10 a outyr. * * * «>th. Have they, or nny one of tliein, ever renounced j the errors,,I their early political faith? Or, has this been ' /As Rolibf V U7 ter,na of »helr admission into the R< publican ranks? J (*. Adams did so ; but you und I, Messrs. Editors, thought him self-deceived, if not something worse. We believed liim too old reully to change political principles so long cherished, and w ould not trust him. And our distrust was justified by the fact; or. he was hardly warm 111 the scat of power to which he had been raised, in put, by the votes of good Republi cans, hci;,re T-e ‘—“id him returning to Ids curly love snd “budding light-houses of thu shies,” not t« mention «uiidry oilier aberrations from the true faith. This liltle piece o» history bus taught me some caution in taking numis > ° P°UtKkl r"»ciples, a change of paity Will, Gentlemen after you have taken time duly to I consider, and candidly to answer the foregoing interro gutones, ivc will proceed to the comparison-no, to the contrast, I propose to draw between ancient Jeffersonian Republicanism, and modern Democratic Jackson-Van Du ren Republicanism. Among tl,e cardinal principles of' the good old school, were the following : 1st. That the Constitution of the United Stales was a political com pact. ~d. T hat the States, in their sovereign capacity were the parties to this compact. 3d. That the Supreme Court was not the arbiter between the Slate and Federal Government*. 4th. That the General Government was one ot specified and limited powers. 5th. Thai the Consti tution which conferred these powers, should, like all o.lier contracts, be strictly and literally interpreted ; and, as a necessary corollary, that no doubtful power should erer be exercised, titli. The Fathers of this Church felt • holy honor of the evils of u broad and lutitudinous in terpretation id the Constitution, which they endeavored both by their precept ami practice, to impress upon their followers; justly dreading, that in the degenerate days of tli<t Republic, should such errr come upon htr, that such an interpretation might consolidate all power in the hands ol the Federal Government—possibly, in the hands ot one department of that Government. It was the faithful observance of this cardinal princi ple, which above all others, gave form and coloring to the acts of the Administrations of Thos. Jefferson and James ; ladison—It was this which stamped upon them the indelible impress of purs, unadulterated Republican ism—and which will cause the pages of our history that record them, to be looked upon by posterity as the ‘oasis' or the desert—a solitary green spot amidst the desolation and ruin that I awfully tear is coming upon our once admirable political institutions. *1 aking this great principle as the polar star by which to direct their course, Mr. Jefferson urn! Mr. Madison firmly and consistently resisted the exercise of every duubtjnl power, ox every power that could become at only by a j creed and struined implication— 1 beg pardon_Mi Madison did make one false step, did wander for a mo ment madly from his sphere,” when he signed the Hank charter in 1*16; but 1 freely forgive him, for I have no doubt he has been repenting of it ever since. Applying this principle to ihe practical measures of the Government, they ,»,id the Republicans who acted with them, pronounced the Alien and Sedition Laws—the itank charter—Internal Improvements—and a Tariff for protection, unconstitutional, and resisted them to the end 1 he.e vvne the only subjects involving the question of doubtful constitutionality, that occurred in their day, and we mav infer Irwin their course in relation to Mem, what it would have been in relation to a l others. So much for the principles and practice of the Repub licans of the olden time. * Lot us now measure the professions and practice of Gen. JacKson, the great Head of the Democratic Repub licanparty ; for, I take it for granted you have answered me that he is such, (and I should like mightily to see a good Jackson man, especially an office hunter,denying t u tact,) by the standard furnished by the principle* 7 have ascribed to the Republican l'arty, in the diys of Jefferson and Madison. J 1st General Jackson exercised the power of opening a dip omatic intercourse with a foreign nation, which had not been sanctioned by Congiess. la not this a doubtful power ? Vow and 1 thought so, in the time of Mr. Adam*. i ,,e believedI in the constitutionality of a National Hank, at least as late as his Gltli year!—if he dors not believe in it. 1 his power, 1 am aure you will agree with me in saying, is doubtfid; for this opinion you de clared five hundred times, when the question of •* Hank or no Dank ? was up. Hut, to be serious, 1 know you have always honestly entertained it. 3d. Ho has always contended for, and often exercised Ihe power of appropriating money for works of Interna! Improvement. Hut. as if to make that worse which was already bad enough, he has interpolated a new piinci pie into Hid Constitution—a principle by which lie pro poses to enlarge the powers of the government under that Instrument, by a previous act oj legislation! Hereto lore, hii the .implicit* of our hearts, we have been the habit of trying the law by the Constitution—now it 1 seems the case is altered, and the Constitution is made i to depend on the law ! Hut, no doubt this is one of the ; improvements in the science of government introduced • by the political philosophers of the enlightened nge the beaut,es of winch we old-fashioned folks may hereafter I learn to appreciate. I need not sav I allude I,ere to Gen. J. s Fort of fcntry doctrines —Now, are not this power ot Internal Improvements and this new principle of construction, at least doubtful? ' 4th. Gen. Jackson maintains and ever has maintained ! the constitutionality of a protective Tariff —For near iH) years you and I have held tins power us doubtful. ‘ 0,0 Jackson is the putative author of the Procla mation—nt least he fathers its doctrines.— You and I have agreed in condemning th m as anti-Republican, and „n warranted by any fair construction of the Constitution and as leading directly and inevitably to consolidation ’ 6th. I he ‘ Manifesto” and “Protest" are his, with all their novel and startling doctrines—for authority for any one of which J would (»#ain to borrow from your die ternary of quotations) thank you to “put your finger upon a single clause in the Constitution. The powers here claimed —and ff acquiesced in by the People, they arc sufficient to make hint who wields them a despot— are at least of a doubtful character. V i 1 ,,ave now g'von you st/. iristat r.es in which Gen Jackson has exercised powers which were and must hare been repudiated by the Republican principle cf interprs Uition held sacred by the Old-School llrpubUcins- not to mention that the two Stale papers last referred to, con tsino! themselves, some Jit* or six doctrines ns unsound and heretical as are to be met with in the annals of u'tru federalism—-Now, if there be a single instone* in which, acting m obedience to the doctrine laid down by JefT. r son mid Madison, and signally enforced by good old Geo. Clinton, in Ins celebrated rusting rote on the Bank Bill, I would be extremely obliged to you to point it oct—for, I would not knowingly pluck frorn the wreath that adorns the hero s brow one leaf that he deserve* to wc„r t»en Jackson then, has udeoeated or ertrristd everv douhtjul power under the Constitution, which Mr. Jef ferson and Mr, Madison, in the course of their adminis tra’ions found themsclvea called on to repudiate and re ject, and some ai'jr or fight others n,t*r thought of by them never dreamed of ertn in the wild visions o/lati tudniurinn federalism J . %0*». '• “honorable man '—is the head of the great Democratic Republican Party, and it is treason to deny his infallibility. Who is faithless to hi, principles- be who adhere* to, ootends and justifies the man who is eonvieted of more sm, against RtvoMUanism, than all the Federalists that have ever liv*d~iye, not excepting the two Adamses, Alexander Hamilton and Timothy Pickering, or he who aenes his worst enemy to point to one act or one opinion y his life at war with the principles he has always pro eased. It | have been tempted to desert those princi ples or to disguise and tuppress them, thank God it has not been beyond my power of resistance And the con sciousness of having stood by them faithfully and fear Usslt/, nthether ns,a tied by J q. Adams or Andrew Jaeh son, is a feeling that | would not exchange for a|f the p”i”'*•* < iW< *»r«. Editors,1 hive no quarrel with the dominant I K off“/tday’ fr irU"n,,,« U‘* high sounding soubri- I Tki I. .lf-^Repttl,,‘CUn They have a right to I lake to themselves any name they please, just as men have, in this laud of religious freedom, the right (I mean ges, and ol falling down and worshiping tUet*r*—but I all iho..." wiK1,l"Mr *k‘‘,r branding as l.ereifcs and infidels ! all those who refuse to bring burnt offerings to the sllar j of ll.efr d^n'* ^ ' 1 d;* P'^'-st "gainst the insolence ot th. ir denouncing and stigmatising as Federalist, eve- I ry man who is honest sud Imid enough to raise his voice ■g illisl the v/tru-federalu.i, of the god of their idolatrr I ilcse who honestly believe, that the ,..I>tienl principles ,Ik‘ Democratic-HepuJUtca., n,i. £,p fi ’ *fl p*'rficl -v v';,rr""»ed in adopting and sus nnn ,g those principles, and assuming a ptrty name that they think descript.ve ol their party Cieed-butfood manners, common decency, and justice forbid their pro fuinng the name °t Jefferson by associating it with doc iTin. B w hich he was all Ins life combatting,—or brand in a US/'<UrU[lt!f l "“c .'v|'° ,*av«“ ««*>rml,, and consistently \ •u*u,n««! tl«‘ doctrines taught by this great apostle of constitutional liberty—by whomsoever, and from what- I ) soever quarter assailed. Edtilun> 1 ••■nsible Of having protracted this address to a most unconacionable. and 1 Year, moat «v°wTn;r,,t ,eMf,,VbUl 1 a',p,“1 * your candor to b?in |r'.f1,,Jcr l,h1C circut.uUncea in which I have u,v ..til ’ >,H C,°U > U \Vuldtd- A vindication oi l n y pubj.c course has been forced on me-and to that v indication a review ot the leading measure, of the bit,. • n# present Administrations, was absolutely necessary ' Irdioua as you may think tins review, it has yet been hasty and summary, as to do but imperfect'justice to the subject—which Jurnishrs matter far a book, instead ot a I.uiricd newspaper essay. to, rv‘1U,1r,,J ui y°ur C rrespondent, of whom, in I this . pisode, I had almost lost sight . <ir,4t e»*a.ge, that of having “changed my coin- I ions on political question., is fully ausweied in the ex position I have given above 'I ho second charge insinuated against me by rour fhI,|toPOSdJ/a’ “ r!:,t iwuxstenry, in condemning the late Baltimore Convention, alter having been a mem “ ■",,,lor l^y which met st the same place in “d .T'„ , V.U,lamtl,,l“ c,,arXc- enquires whether 1 did not address a letter to you in l-e*4 in support of the caucus nomination of Mr. Crawford, and indy fence of the caucus syctein, as the heat and only means of pre sentat'.vel.?’’ t Cl,OM °f P,e,,,<,0,,l *’y «he House of Itcpro i'cm, roossra. Editors, will you toll me whether you, correspondent cannot, or will not understand the differ ence between a Caucus nomination of candidates for tlwr J residency and Vice Presidency, made by members oS C ongress, rep esenlmg equal portions of tbc People, and d.rectly responsible to them for the manner in which they f'df"' *r«e ‘IMS semi-official duty,-and an aum.neia Hon of the candidates of the party made by sut-h « «-on gregiation as that which lately met in “Uie City of Con wili uVl‘" 0,‘firKl. * declared in the Card, wh.ch 1 thank you f.r re publishing, that “ tin*re wct« inany and strong objections to a Caucus nomination"— .n^7!T‘VCf* ““d dangers to be apprehended from it are Inftni.. ly less than those to be apprehended from an election of President by the House of Representatives.’’ • I,T/T > OU’ Editors, this is one of my opinion, that I hurt not changed-and J call history to avouch its correctness. U hat have been the immediate and remote coi.sequences of the refusal of the “Republicans to con forin to u practice, long sanctioned by the party, and to them 'a‘?lrt*i,,,|Pffl lo t,1<?who came recommended lo tin ni, as did Jefferson. Madison and Monroe?” The first Z\T.rty< ,J?ucl,i*ffl w"» deprecating—an Election by the House of Representatives, with all ,ts train of evils— the second was, to bring upon us that “curse,” which mosl aspired moment of ijour life, you foiesaw tl0!d~f0[' U W,a* Pf■^1,aP,- n,,‘ »»ore the misdeeds ° u- i' Adams than the foul means, as we believed, by which he had gotten into power, that brought upon us the dire necessity of uniting upon “a military chieftain," as the only md.vidual who had “the capacity to turn out the incumbent. J But it seems your correspondent thinks it strange that having been a member of the first Baltimore Conven tion, 1 should condemn the proceedings of the last1 Now, will your correspondent permit me to any, that with nie, //i« wonder is, how any honest man, one de voted to the principles of representative government, who lias been in one “Baltimore Convention," can ever consent to go into another—how the utter disregard l !rt.rCF7L'?,m;’-11" intrigue and management which there disclose themselves, enn fail to disgust every such man, with the humbuggerij of such assemblages.— let, such is the ease; for T know ninny honorable men, and honest politicians, on whom their experience of the ills of the first Convention failed to produce that loath ing and disgust felt by myself and many others ; among them, my virtuous and talented friend, J. T. Brown c* crucll ^ Wh°Se atL,n to botlier you so if meetings of this sort were called, for the purpose or bringing together the Bcatlered fragment! ol public opinion, on tbe choice of tbe two highest officers of ihe Government, they would still Ik- open to the grossest abuse, and llierelore liable to serious objection. For can you not easily imagine, Messrs. Editors, how skilful in triguers, nitful wire workers, (.should such political pests ever spring up among us,) operating upon an army of of fice-holders and othce expectants, might contrive, through the means of u packed Convention, to pervert and misrepresent, instead of truly reflecting public opinion - Itut, when it is solemnly announced to us, even from the sent oj power, that such assemblages, unknown to the Constitution, are of binding authority ; und that lo “ im peach their acts and doings, is la “assail the virtue ol the people, and to oppose their right to govern,” tbe matter assumes an aspect which cannot fail to excite the a arm of every man who knows how to appreciate the Messing, of free, representative Government. 1 bejr you to look at the composition of the late *Jn tional Convention held at Baltimore, and tell me candid ly, whether ex-member T. I*. Moore, und the office-hold ing Editor, Mr. Few, both citizens of Kentucky, were Representative, fresh from the people” of Illinois?— ivhetlier another office-holding Editor, assuming to re > the county of Mecklenburg, in N. Carolina, but who was disclaimed and disowned by the people of that county, t.i general meeting, is such 'a representative of the people a, makes it treason against them to question his infallibility? And, lastly, what think you of Doctor Rucker kindly volunteering his services to represent the whole Stale oj Jennesste, in this felf-constituted body > is there not something radically rotten in a system which not only admits, but invites to such a mockery of renre sentativc government ? } National Conventions, like nil the oil,or works of men are unpertect at tlieir inception, and require time for the 'lev elopement or their powers and faculties. Ac cordingly, those who were honored with a neat in the first of th. ae political Divans, were not startled by tlie abomi nations llut have characterised the second. Yet, as “coin ing events cast their shadows before," there were those who thought they ww, in the composition and proceed mgs oi t.iat body, strong indications of Hie mischiefs and , dangers which the system was about to engender. There were others, who were able to swallow the first dote but | rejoice to hear, have become violently nauseated at the second ; aye, good and true “ Jackson Van JWn men, who have become disgusted at the trick and ckica niry resorted to by this august body, to palm upon “the Republican Party," that unti-Bank, nnh-lmprovement and rtn/i-J anft iJemocrut, the Don. Dick Johnson ! 1. it true, Messrs. Kditors, that our perception of the moral evil of sin is wonderfully sharpened when we ourselves are the sufferers by it ? How else is it that all the mem bers of the late Baltimore Convention looked upon that body as a Jan and honest emanation from the People—tr*. lyand judhj ally refecting tlieir sentiments—while thru weie recording n Unanimous vote for Martin Van Bswciv as 1 resident—and that some of them should discover I trick, intrigue, management and jugglery in the same ho norable body, when they come to give the casting vote in favor ol the ketduclty-mijtdlu*is principle / The truth W, there was trick ‘ an a’ that" the composition ami in the nets ol the Convention in relationto the first nomination; hut in that instance, our fellow-citi sens of \ irgima wen- the gainers, and compluined' not— but in the second, tl»ey were the sufferers, and have now h id their eyes opened to the radical evils of the system. I have thus given toyour correspondent my reasons for ! changing my opinion about •jYationat Conventions.’ and Whether they will be regarded ns sufficient, or as “little I "do not uuiWriiiko to fur’**," I come now to the last count in the indictment_that in which he charges me—directly contrary to the fuel with having delivered -‘a speech in favor of Mr Van Bnreri in the Convention of 1««.“ U m not true that i J made a speech, or opened my lips in favor of Mr. Van 1 Buien in Die convention-hut it is true, that I submitted 1 sundry propositions, and made divers speeches, in the ’ meeting ot the Virginia Delegation, in which P. V. | Daniel presided, ertry word of which was in orrosiTios 1 to the nomination of Mr. V. It ! It i. true, that before I going on to Baltimore I declared myself in favor of1 Judge Barbour, and ezerted myself to induce his friend* I lo get up meeting* in different part* of the State, for \ the purpose of insuring a majority facarahlr to his nomi nation sat,sfed, as I was, that the People of Virginia I »/» the proportion oj ame to one, would prefer him l;pon gelling to Baltimore, the friends of Judge B. toon found they were greatly outnumbered in the dele gation, owing to the g,eater aeal and activity of the partisans of Air. V. B producing a most irregular and ! disproportionate representation <,| the State. We found that while this congressional district had but three dele, gotes, (and those divided between the two candidates ) I the City o| Richmond and county of Henrico had nine ; delegates, all, I believe, with the caception of one, in favor of Mr. V. B ; and the small republican fraetion of i the county of Loudoun,hed six, unanimous for the New Yorker. In this state of things I submitted a resolution at the ’ first meeting of the delegation, that the vote should lie ! taken by counties or districts, and not per capita, which I motion was diMiitssed at some length; and I distinctly j recollect referring to the inequality of the represents- j (ion, as shown Uy the facts above stated, in support of ! the proposition. Phis motion was after wards withdrawn, 1 being substituted by a direct proposition that the vote of 1 Virginia should be given for Haibour. On both ques tions 1 was zealously and ably supported *>/ (Jen. (Jor don 1 cysitiria minority in the Convention, they did consent withTni jo^U o°f"the ££P°rtr ‘7 ”°‘»,,'al‘on n**dc by the ma m llh'.7y. ,°‘ w,,,ct? “’ey were members. For ,1 did so, first because 1 believed there was an iin rtlSJSd'JiJwii'Vf Ul*t| "UCh OCC8*'<"‘<- “>« minor! tfiAdofe .Ll, 7 A "‘“Jonty—aye, gentlemen, to tho (.oou old-fashioned majority, „ut tlie arbitrary anti-He ,".J,.,„y lau-ljr ZZLSTJiV, c I preferred even Matin, Pan Harm to John Her ««•«" . «r l<» an election by the Senate nether this stale of tacts shews me to have been the warm po.itical friend of Mr. V. B ,” spoken of bv your ecnespendont, t will leave you and linn to detef vomL^ ,J:ditor*' bas it never occurred to you or your Inend, that oven supposing 1 had been iruUtuof the 6,“,^1iMriV “• “ • candidlte^r tLVfea unorTn.p0^ 111 ld|7’.'nh'Ch your C"rrespondent charges P derli’n . r*'<" under the same circumstan^ ces, decline to support him as a candidate for the Presi dency in 183o, without incurring the imputation of cri minal inconsistency ? Some of jour enemies slily and muliQiously hint that you will yet be forced to come out , ‘or oi Col Johnson as Vice President. Should vou oao which / am tar from insinuating, although he was wSth r,'^" ^ thirds of the ‘•dehff.^ tresli trout the 1 eopie, congregated for the purpose of Having the I eopie the trouble of choosing their rulers— I would ask whetlier you would carry your Uwe of con sistency so lur, as to hold yourself bound to vote for itiut us President in 1844? Uotl, you anii ..0ld Albemarle” do me injustice in representing me as the “biller foe” of Mr. Van Burvn OfX V I. f of no onS: , Mr. V. B. as a man I know nothing, and have never fn^A“*at was not lavorahle—but as a politician, in tchose views oj ambition are invoiced the deepest and dtaiest interests oj my country, I have a tight to speak with fr’ed d alUrr.P,UOl'C’ °r would-be public men, ,d ’7*“?d'.,f 1 know «*»y»«lf I have done, and will continue to do it, with candor and with fairness f our correspondent, alter erroneously holding me up as a warm political fricud of Mr. V". B.' appeals to ait^Slk?!vT,?h hir"^ni ,0h> wilh the ,no“l U - ' lrlr h*,n I’™ “«nnot undertake even v/L Sinn* VaKC|Chang?d !n>' sentiinents about Mr. . II , A°AC,P y°u both out of your ditlicultv l w ill tell yOU) Mr. V. B. has done nothing to induce me [to change my opinion as to his fitness for tiic chief ma gwtracy ol this great empire. I have never thought mm qualified lor this station; and in turn would defno you to pomt to one uct of h.s public life upon which ihn. rc,t h.‘“ PrfUn,io““ In this high truit—one net that distinguishes him from tlu> herd of third rate poli ticians, from among whom lie has been dragged—HU ssi s sr "" **■*> ***** - *>«» course I do nut intend to enter upon a review of hi. *;TUw'JTTS*1 lhc cU"* 11,19 conirnunicatlon, which I, » rUy becn ,,rolr9clcd *° “» inordinate length—for such a review, were 1 disposed to enter upon tie task therefore, at this time, with referring to one or two ob jeot.on, which of themselves, are sufficient to induce me to anhho d my support ot i.i.u as a candidate for the risidency-he is too much like “mine Hostess of •»* ,7 , ~ ?° ma* know* where to hate [him.”l For nl >ough we have had many answers to categorical enqui in thi^hsno P°!UfCut Pri™ple*, they have been couched m that happy style ot oracular ambiguity, which enable. T* ,riend9 011 «*c two „dcs of‘Mason .and Dixon1?line" ‘ f‘ J; ver9lon* ot his principles diametrically opposite, ’ZlT'ZZ’ZiZX How else i. it that while you are avouching Mr V “siS: ;rr"“' b,o”: r->v..e.i, -n.., ZZ ZX WS&Sk -thsMvr.C,,lt‘JUr“nf u/"lTaritf> on constitutional ground .n7whoVa former Clay andidu.n. 1/ It /»!/ • A lwd a dlrecl correspondence with Mr. toue,"nS his principles, has proclaimed his determi there*10 *upportiiig him, upon the express ground that Virginia .Te'Iofemnly^ssuriug the Pecpli^Uxit^Nlr“ V Sen 7i7W"/,/h °PP,0“, d lo “Ame^an Systems Gin. fipton, whom 1 heard on the floor of the Senate » 1 UlS“Bl*'■’*ign'fic*ntl,jat the Chair, r^.tiP ‘ an need e*Ppct the support of the West Sujjj I^tem of 1,’ ieh° V1!8 ,'<,t m ,aV°r “, an cn\HrSod and voiraisystem of Internal Improvements,“ should urofrtt hmiseh entirely satisfied with the assurkncesgfvenhm by the f,lends of V,, Fan Horen, as to his o*pZions Z T Tert is Ji* "‘an lr“91'worthy, who, if he does coicea menf a 7 / l° pr0‘a by a Kludil*d “"d artful conceuJinrnt, and a known misapprehension of his oni otiice h?i.VcUki“ni0n8v!nVVV,ng *"• pretensions to l£o Lord C«ltlTrei,b* • T' who r‘v»ls (he late L. rd Lnstlereagh in the dipomatic art of talking or UiXdtonvToZFl1s,lying any thing, hascon ■uvsiieM « "* °Plr,lons >« “uch ambiguous and mystical phrases as enable his friends to give to hi. EXk','1 suited to ,l„. l.U the taste of .1 7 V‘a>' cllHnct‘ to he ! I trust in God thi taste of the people ot this country is not vet so de praved ns to relish such unmixt jesuistry 7 n ",rvex‘ ,,lace>u 18 a sufficient objection to Mr V IL Hut he is the candidate of the office-holder, ami office-seeker, and the nominee of the President To stamp their indignant disapprobation upon the darinir ami attempt of the chief magnate to dictaU IhoMn fi? 'i ''h° “rhal1 he his successor, they ought to ® r !l* choice of any man tlius presented to them even if Hie*. unanimously believed him to possess i verv necessary qualification tor tlie office to be filled Bad wISfteral, WJtS aW,'U\ 'W*'?-*nd the evil to • 1 ,, alluded must be nipped in the bud or it To I kPrec, y “£r,n(f UP a,,d c'*8t “round it the poisLnous and baneful influence of the deadly Upas-tree , Messrs. Lditors, there is in connection with this sub jcct, a little piece of history pregnant with instruction I to which 1 would take the liber t/of calling ycmr andThe ....r Judg. While,’daring ZXZLX WbTE fori ier-rbeg pardon-for he tells us, good, innocent m l he friend." ofC,r.S°,i‘CitCd support of any body" S tlie friends of the former then—including his*Patron. Saint, the 1 rrsu^at— backed by the officin/’Gazette and tlie whole sulwiUwcd press of Hie Government and aided by the taclicun* of New York, were drilling and discip tonbnnliCH10,Wh>l0i <1 lro.°PH throughout the land,in order > i « tl»en> to bear in solid column upon lh^ free Wi a’nohi \ 1Uron '’/iouifietitor for the Presidency, Z „‘a n°blr •‘•""‘tcrestedness and patr.ot.s.n which give I him some claim to the honorable epithet of “old Homan ” was laboring in the Senate to limit and restrain the pa ‘ °f ■ rtr'J office he was seeking, which every one ”"d ““•* Of the Tennessee Senator, delivered on Mr r«ii/^r„' a most m ,dle,Vy^ ' rdnte to the power, ot thw Lxecwuvo Department of the (iovernmenf—an exposition which scatters to the winds the light nod fri vob.us sophistry of the “Manifesto and Profit.” But, gentlemen, | have done I siueere'y rfffTf , ,|J<S necessily which lias forced ...e to obtrude myjflf ‘.non the public, and still more the length to which circum jrtances lu-yond, my coplrol have compelled me toextend - - Ibis conirnuiitoslion. 11,opr an apology for this prollxitv be nurbT'1 mu,‘iPl»city of to^cs necessary to * U touched in the vindication of my public conduct wh. e acting in my late representative capacity,-which has becn ether strange/,, misapprehended, or wantonly misrepresented. If not, I citn only say tliat f ' nei ther time nor patience to m«ke this ./dress shorter --- CH COCK F. Riclt'd U Uui«Maie Price*Current 1oOacco—Lug» $£50-<1 6.10 Common refuacd & SO a 7 So Other refined 7 m Parked com. to mid. 6 50 a 8 00 CooJ and fine 9 SO a 11 00 Ejtra fine Scotch 11 00 n 13 00 Fine manufacturing 10 00 a 5.1 00 —City Mill# 7 on Canal old (dull) fi 3.4 New 0 wh*at—-Red 1 IS o 0 00 White 1 90 a 0 00 torn gQ Corn Meal || 00 2«»* M« GO Oeef.rercwt. 8S>« 7 ^ Pork, per M. I S 0©a 18 00 Boron, per lb. 10 19a II 1 9 eta. Bunir •< 19 1 9 a 1,1 Coffee <« 1434,14 17 Cetlon “ >8 u IS Cot von Yarn*—good an i Colton Varna, 'up. S • 19 M av *»*ar, brown 6 I 2a 111 9 8P«nl*b . 13 o n> Itrnndy, Cog gall. f 1 «*) * | :,7 w '. . *PP'<* 96* 3ft n h,rtS7 . 39 0 49 Rom, VVeat India 80 a 94 *,w England 37 a 38 U m«, Madeira 9 50 a 3 OO „ w'1'!1* Mad.ira 90 a I 00 T L . **’"**, .r, 40 a 65 £”P- «»d Onnp. HO a I 00 loung Hyaon 50 a ftt Molaare* W , -M Halt, per Mrk 9 1-9 1 95 a I 40 3 3 4* 4 1 9 Hhari, perb). fn«w) k 00 Cn» Merringr, new, (I ft II Uholp, •• 4 3-8 ?;• t*0;,’ln«0 frwo 10 t« 15 oonta par foot. Ifonrlur.ta, 7 to 10 i" VHKftr, *M frotek, 5 to ]0 do. COI’N’TR V rVRB. Rnrinnn |0 Mn«kr*t )« | o Mink 90 I *«h r»* j»7, I On? Tea to I 'L«r* Ifl 1 9 I (>u«r Woo j 4 Paicta or Rroen. If. B. Bank 110 u JIO J.4 Bank Va.. (RirM. «nlca. MS 1.9 «»o. N.Yurk M«J Parmora' Bank IJ] | 9 HirhmnnH mil Froi<'k»Hlf. R R Blx k 910 por alum »ix,Vr . | I CfcaaUtfeld It. Road £ J^t i *'«•»••» or f.iraiaor. | N. Carolina Dank Notaa I a I III [ ^onlh Carolina do. i> a V I fl «eor»»a do. 4 00 British dr y goods, h^T>;^, lAnrptit -Out importation of fV/ ftriti»h hrx, haa arrived at City Point, (Jamea R.ver,) and wifi be in atom and opened m a dav or two More will be anid of it anon. V. & / » JAM EH \ CO Sept 1. Market Urutge. TV°.T«E“ oJimh will stand the next Heaaon —Hnrin# ^ at Ohnrfottr Courthou**, Vi.f undsr (Hr mi nar,nent of Maj. R J Oair,« ,nd Col T P Richard •on [Sept I.) 34—4*