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W I I A E A A N
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•.THTM^O*" N. HA1IR1SOX.
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PERFECT POETMV.
The following exquisite lines were addressed, by
tl»e first of English ports, Thomas Campbell, to a
child whom he accidentally met, only four years old:
I hold it a religious duty,
To love and worship children's beauty
They've least the taint of earthly clod—
They're freshest from the hand of God.
With heavenly looks they make us sun
That heaven that made them must be pare,
Wc love them not in earthly fashion,
Bat vith a beatific passion.
I chanccd to, yesterday, behold
A maiden child of beauty's molftlj
The little charmer, to my ^iew,
Was sculpture brought to life ffflWt
Her eyes had a poctic glow—
Her pouting mouth was Cupid's bow,
And through her frock I could descry
Her neck and shoulders's symmetry.
'Twas obvious from her walk and gist,
Her limbs were beautifully straight,
I stopt th' enchantress, and was told,
Though tall, she was but four years old—
Her guide so grave an aspect wore,
I could not ask a question more—
But followed her. The little one
Threw backward, ever an anon,
Her lovely neck, as if to say,
I know you love me, MISTER GBBTJ
For by its instinct childhood's eye
Is shrewd in physiognomy
They will distinguish fawning art
From sterling fondness of the heart
And so she flirted like a true
Good woman, till we bade adieu.
'Twas then I with regret grew wild—
Oh beauteous, interesting child-
Why asked I not thy home and name!
My courage failed me—more s the shnHW*
But where abides this jewel rare,
Oh! ye that own her, tell me where!
For sad it makes my heart and sore,
To think I ne'er shall see her more.
London, April, 1841.
THOUGHTS ON LOVE.
As this is an age of wonders, as well in the
world of romance and love, as in the political
wor]d—what
more fit for the times, and pleas­
ing to the ladies, aye, and the gentleman too,
than a short dissertation on love 1
Love is Heaven, and Heaven is love!
Born in passion, fed with smiles,
Cradled in a maiden's cyes
So says the poet, and so say all who h#ve
passed the ordeal of requited lov#» Lovo i«
emphatically the offspring of passion waring
with reason from its first existence. It is true,
we are told, that Love and Keason oncc took a
walk together, and that I.ovr—unwilling to
listen to the timely advice of Reason, fell into
many snares
r,nd
vexatious trouble?, and at last
s-iiik into the gloomy confnvs of sorrow and
despair. But this is om? of Reason'- decep
tive tales. Love ini^ht have fallen into snares,
as every one does when in bad company but
it mn«t have been the folly of reason. Love
is that which makes t:s forget all that pertains
to reason, and the dull state of things of this
wrrid. and wander in dreams of pure unalloy
ed joy. Who that has been in love does not
delight to linger over the painful memory of by
gone hours, and feel as the shadows of depart
ed years flit before him, how sweet it is to con
jure up in memory's magic circle, reminiscen
ces of by-crone pleasures, and unforgotten joys,
proceeding from the fountain of love! VVliu I its
«iot felt thiillinir tmi« of il»o pure sweet and
long from love's lips? Who hss not gazed
with delight upon those magic eyes, and that
form divine, and listened to those dulcet tones
echoing from tle fountain love, svveel as Angel
ic strains? Oh, music thou art indeed the
queen of coquets! Thy voice entrances and
beguiles the senses—thou art the food of love,
and thy voice lingers sadly on the ear. Cupid
waits upon thee, and leads captive to the Altar
the unsuspecting victims.
But enough of the past—it makes the mind
feel sad. Header, hast thou not felt the agony
of love? It may be that some of you are at
this moment, drinking deep of the stream
which gushes, and steals among flowers from
this fountain called love—if so, thou hast al
ready tasted more than imagination can paint,
and can bear testimony to its magic power.
There is something sublim i in love Some
thing that elevates the soul above the deprav
ity of human nature, and renders the heart a
source of the purest, and noblest feelings which
can animate the human breast. It leads the
young heart captive to deeds of noble daring
makes subservient every thought and action,
to the advancement of its owu pure desires,
and stimulates to action, the noblest traits in
the human characicr. Love is the Promethe
an fire of youthful genius the primeval source
of all that is noble, generous, patriotic and vir
tuous.
The young, the generous, and all who are
susceptible of the finer feelings of our nature,
will know how to appreciate these sentiments.
But the Old Bachelors," whose hearts are as
cold and invulnerable as an iceberg, will no
doubt spurn them witli disdain, as a mere fan
cy of the imagination.
Fools blind to truth, nor know the erring soul
How much more the pleasures of requited
love is worth, than all the pretended enjoy
ment of "Old Bachelor's" solitary hours ovtr
his sugar and his wine, in that secluded dee of
gloom°calIed "the Bachelors Room."
While he lives, no one cares for him.
With no warmer friends than a warming pan,
The lonely life of the bachelor ends,
Nobody mourns him, aud and nobody sighs
Nobody misses him, nobody cries,
Nobody grieves when the bachelor dies."
Melancholy indeed is the fate of thesu heart
less beings Hasten then Old Bachelors"
to duty woo and wed some fair maid, to share
your joys, and seoth your seriowt. I you can­
O S I U E S S
not succeed in marrying a young, beautiful, per
fect, angelic being, wed an old maid," and
though the "honey moon" may not be quite so
sweet, you will fulfil all the high duties for
which you live, and shed lasting honors upon
your children.
To the young, the gay, and the lovely, no
better advice can be given, than to enter into
the nuptial bands the first good chance you
have while Cupid has power oner the heart.
If already inwove—haste to the hymenial al
tar! lest by delay, you be left to pine orer
Love's labors lost.
Hawkeye. AMOROSO.
EVIL INFLUENCE or FASHION.—Never yet
was a woman really improved in attraction by
mingling with the motley throng of the beau
mande. She may learn to dress better, to stop
more graceful her head may assume an ele
gant turn, her conversation become more pol
ished, her air more distinguished but in point
of attraction €he acquires nothing. Her sim
plicity of mind departs her generous confiding
impulses of character are lost—she is no lon
ger inclined to interpret favorably of men and
things—she listens without believing—sees
without admiring—has suffered persecution
without learning mercy, and been taught to
mistrust the candor of others by the forfeiture
of her own. The freshness of her disposition
has vanished wi:h the freshness of er com
plexion hard lines are perceptible in her very
soul. No longer pure and fairtas the statue of
alabaster, her beauty, like that of some paint
ed waxen effigy, is tawdry and meretricious.
It is not alone the rouge upon the cheek, and
the false tresses adorning the forehead, which
repel the ardor of admiration it is artificiality
of mind with which such efforts are coonect
ed, that breaks the spell of beauty.
IMPRISONMENT FOR DKBT.—The Philadel
phia Gazette lays before its readers the tollow
ing revolting picture, faithfully portraying the
evils*, the unjust system of imprisonment for
debt:
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It is estimated that at least GO,000 persons
are lying in the prisons of the United States
for debt. Probably, with but few exceptions,
these 00,000 people are husbands and fathers,
and have been torn away from helpless, de
pendent and weeping families, not for ciime
but for misfortune. In inost instances, no
doubt, this imprisoned muliidtide are willing
and able to labor and earn a subsistence for
tlieir families, and something towards the ex
tinguishment of their liabilities. But from
every duty, and from every blessing at home
and freedom they are cut off and no useful end
is accomplished by their imprisonment. They
are so many dead and buried men. 1 hey are
sufficient in numbers to people a State and
make it ring with the notes of joy and the din
of cheerful industry. They p-e a larger body
of men than that which achieved our national
independence, and yet they pine in pestiferous
celi«, tide by side with thieves, pirates aud
murderers, under the sanction of the law."
THE CONTRAST.
Do
you see this proud, overbearing
man riding in his gilded carriage Look
he stops before a magnificent mansion,
and liveried hrquies, obedient to his nod,
assist him to descend.
Do you see that poor, miserable boy,
whose tattered clothes scarcely shield him
from the inclemency of the weather!
Mark willi a beseeching look he solicits
the rich man to purchase a pencil or a
card of pens mil behold how contemptu
ously he is spurned
Twenty five years ago that pompous
man was poor, as friendless, ane as
wretched as tha urchin he dispises.
Twenty five years have passed aineft
that day. The same parlies met Io the
contrast.
The once poor boy stands in the pride
of manhood, active, intelligent, rich. —A
lovely woman, his wife, leans upon his
arm, ann three blooming girls are by his
side. Grace in every action, benevolence
in every expression, and nfHucnce smiles
in his unostentatious adornments.
An old man approaches. The totter*
ing step, the threadbare garments, and
the painful expression that frets in evesy
feature, too plainly denote a man of want
and wo. Belter dead, than thus to drag
on a miserable existence
This may at the first blush appear to
soine on im probable romance. It is a
truth.
In a country like fmrs, there ts no man,
however poor, if guided by industry, e
eonemy, and virtue, but may rise (rom
the lowest ranks of society to the highest.
—The knowledge of this fact is a blessed
incitement to the young, and cheers them
on to struggle nobly in the ^paths which
lead to honor and independence, despite
the thousand obrtaeles that oppose their
course.—Knickerbocker.
Honorable John W. Bear, who is itill
retained in office, although the whigs
have saiil that he was turned out, was ap
prehended and examined, a few days ago,
in Marion county, for horse steeling. The
whig Justice refused to hear counsel against
him, and he was acquitted. So says the
Statesmen.
Why is this knave not removed Why
was he appointed We ask agaid—are
men in power, in his power, so that they
dared not but appoint him in the first place,
and dare not turn him out now What
other reason can there be His frauds
aud villainies are known, confessed, clear,
unquestionably yet he is relaineb in office
to the exclusion of honest men. How
disgraceful that our rulers should be in the
power of such a villain!—Cincinnati Enq
BLOOMINGTON, IOWA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1841,
SMOMT F.9TEJVT 8EMIMOJY.
av DOW,
JR.
The words of my text for this particular
occasion are as follows:
There's murder murder in th* land,
And Justice must e'ertake it.
My hearers—There is
something fearful and
heart-appalling in the very sound,of the word
Murder. It causes the soul to shrink in ter
ror clear back into the dorsal regions of the hu
man structure, and makes man almost afraid of
himself, lest the seeds of destructiveness are
already lying in embryo in his own bosom,
ready to sprout beneath that manure of innate
iniquity which he inherits through the trans
gressions of his prime-evil ancestors. That
murder should ever lurk in the contemplation
of a human being possessed of reason and a
heart not made of horse-shoes—who knows
that that the lives of his fellow creatures cost
just as much as his, and are as dear to them as
his own is to himself—is astonishingly aston
ishing. But, my friends, there are those a
mong us who, being governed by no more mor
al restraint of their own, than a mad bull in
fly time, spurn the laws of the land—shake
their gory fists in the face of sleeping Justice
—and depart, delighting in their damning
deeds of human slaughter.
Oh, my dear friends there is murder in the
land aye, in thH land of enlightenment, liber
ty, and law And lustice must oftener over
take it, or we we shall none of us feci secuie
in our daily peregrinations, unless fortified
with four pistols, a sword cane and a bottle of
brandy. The incarnate fiends stalk forth in
the glare of day, and bares his bloody arm in
the very centre of society unnoticed and unpun
ished. We can trace his footsteps from the
castles of the rich to the hovels of the poor.
VVe find among his victin:*, not only the stout
est of thestut and the worthiest of worthy,
but poor, helpless, innocent females, whom
none but the exiled monster from the infernal
regions could ever think of harming. Yes, my
friends, we see all this—and where, I ask, is
that Mr. William Wiley, whom they say so
much about?
My friends—Hoboken has lately been the
theatre of a scene too melancholy for the mind
to meditate upon. A few days since, the calm
waters of the Hudson cast from their silvery
bed, the body of a young, beautiful, and love
ly creature of the ijirl »enus, upon which was
written in letters of purple,4*Murder most fail."
Like a damaged pearl cast up trom the bosom
of the ocean upon the barren beach, the soul
case of this terrestrial angel lay, of a V\«dnes
day afternoon, upon the wave-washed shore,
an awful speetacie to behold, aud an appalling
testimony of that diabolical spirit which so of
ten manifests i'self among the depravd subjects
of lust, liquor, love and lucre. Who did the
deed? Aye, thafs the question. The mur
derer may yet escape the vengeance of the law,
while Justice, with her undecisive scales, is
weighing out the golden bribe. Oh, you vag
abond of bell !—whoever you may be that com
mitted the act!—I intend that the thunderbolts
of my eloquence, and the lightnings of my
wrath, shall play around your polluted taber
nacle of depravity and heaven gram that the
words which I am about to utter, may, some
lime or other, pierce through your heart like a
shot through a shingle, and cause the sap of
repentance to oxude superabundantly from the
aperture. You have, in the absence ol God,
and in the presence of Satan, rudely and heart
lessly plucked a beautiful bloss nn from its
native bower, aud trodden it under foot as a
thin" of no more consequence than a toad-stool
in a "barn-yard.—The parent vine now mourn*
its loss, and droops beneath the frost ol mental
anguish and the dewy tears of public sympa
thy that fall on every side, can neither restore
the perished flower, nor stay the blight that
has fastened itself upon the maternal stem.
How could you have the cold brutality to send
a helpless, unsuspecting girl, without a mo
ment of preparation, into the presence of her
»MilkRr
w ttl a
',r i'nper^eC,'ons
Y V O I V a v a a v i
on her
bead?
(fraught of her imperfection could be found in
a being so seemingly pure:) how could you so
far become the master ol your own conscience
as to push her from the precipice of life into
death's turbid wave, at that very season when
the tares of human error are beginning to a
bound with the wheat of good motives, and ere
the harvest of experience Iras gathered the one
into the garner and ca«t the other to the winds
of heaven Oh, think of the sorrow, the sut
fering and the grief that you have by this rash,
deed, brought into the homes of the friends,
relatives and acquaintances of your murdered
victim Go now, in a moment of sober reflec
tion, and meditate over the torn turf that hides
her from
your eyes ponder over the sacrifice
you have committed—then tu n your soul in
side out and see bow much misery, fear and
horror you might have saved yourself, by let
ting her live, as she had a perfect right to do,
amid the sweets and pleasures of the world,
and, perhaps, prove a moral as well as a phys»
ical ornament in the gayest parlor of society.
But there she lies, in the protecting grave
beyond the reach of all future mortal injury.
The worms have taken possession ol her be
witching corporal charms, and the jewels that
deched her immortal soul are treasured up for
ever in heaven. Go, thou heartless homicide,
and groan beneath the burden of guilt that
presses upon thy bosom. The noose of the
gallows thou mayest possibly escape but re
member that justice ni'jot, shall, and will over
take thee—if not in this world of procrastina
tion and careless supineness, it surely will be
fore thou hast travelled three quarters of a mile
into the empire of eternity. So mote it be.!
If the distribution of the land revenue is to
be advocated oil the principle of44 returning to
the States their own," Virginia will be enti
tled to nearly the whole oi the proceeds, for
about all of the public lands which were ever
owned by any state, were ceded to ihe United
States by that state. On that principle, what
is to be done witii the lauds lying west of the
Mississippi,—which
were
bought by the Uni­
ted States, and were never the property of any
state
Detachments of U. S. troops have been sub
stituted in the disputed territory, for the^med
and civil posse of Maine.
FiscJii* compawLaTIOJV.
HOUSE
or
REPRESENTATIVES,
bill creating a
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He said you might fly kites and run race
horses upou this course, as upon the course at
New Market. He said you could not obtain
the discounts by name, it was true but he
asked what the difference was, when he want
ed a discount, between his drawing a bill upon
a friend at New Orleans, for $5,0i»0, and sell
ing it to the bank, and his friend drawing up
on him hero for $5,000, when he wanted a dis
ccunt, and selling it to the agent bank at New
Orleans? He asked, after reading the paper
which he held in his hand, the veto, whether
any gentleman here believed that this fiscal
measure could become a law.
Mr. W. read an extract lrora the veto mes
sage, and asked if tbis was not a bill to create
a National Bank, to operate per se over the
Union. The President did not object to the
form of the creature, but to the power to cre
ate—to incorporate a National Bank to operate
per se over the Union.
He said all the power this Government held
was in its national or in its local character.—
If he held it in its local character, it never
could create a bank to operate per se over the
United States and if it held it in a national
character, why steal it from the Constitution,
by cheating the conscience of the President,
by calling a branch an agent, and a bank a cor
poration He asked if any one would pre
tend that a capital of $21,000,000 was neces
sary for the D.strict of Columbia? He claim
ed that it was a National Bank, to all intents
and purposes—to collect and disburse the pub
lic money 1'ioin the Passammaquoddy to the
Sabine, and from the Atlantic ocean to the
most western tribe. It was to be the omni
present Treasury, to operate per se over the
country. lie asked, why press'again upon
ihe President a bill which he had expressly
declared it would be a crime for him to sanc
tion
He said gentlemen had drawn deductions
from the veto message not justified by the lan
guage. He said the change of language of
ine bill would not alter the bill. Neither could
an agent be put in a State without the assent
of the State. He asked why the Sub-Treasu
ry was repealed at the moment it was. Gen
tlemen had overleaped themselves in repealing
it. They might, after the veto, have left him
with the Sub-Treasury unrepealed, to be ar
ranged before the American people, aud gone
home. He said the Houso had pissed the
Bankrupt bill as it had passed the Bank bill,
by dodging it aud had made a minority bill
of it. lie laughed at the idea of throwing at
John Tyler the bloody bones of purse and
sword. He did not believe that he had eyer
had a sword buckled to him and as for a purse,
the nation had none. It had been said that the
Cabinet was in favor of a bank. But who
were the Cabinet Tenants of sufferance, and
not his Cabinet. The Cabinet was organized
with the seeds of its own destruction in it.—
It was an union of the House of York and
Lancaster—of the while and red roses. He
asked who it was that read lessons to the
friends of the President of the United States
par excellence. A disappointed politician, who
failed to get the vote of his ow n party, and
who now not only determined to be the pow
er behind the throne, but the power to stride
over the throne, King and all, like a colossus.
He did not acknow ledge the Cabinet or the
majority here as the President of the United
States. He asked when the President ever
recommended a bank or a distribution of pub
lic land to tax the people eight millions of
dollars, and break the compromise act Any
man who endorsed the. rumor lhat he and his
friends were the Kitchen Cabinet, lied. If
the President had a Kitchen Cabinet, with a
barber to preside over it, another had a man
Charles to preside over his cabinet, and white
('barleys, too, to do his bidding. He said the
friends of 'the President par exccllence had been
compared to a corporal's guard. He would
tell them that they might be a corporal's guard
here, but he would point to the masses.
Tall oaks from little acorns grow,
Lajgc streams from little fountains flow.
He said the Whig party, like every other
monstrous foetus, was pretty much still-born.
It died nefore the inauguration.
Mr. WISE'S hour now ran out.
Mr. TURNEY, of Tennessee, now mored
to strike out rhe enacting clause of the bill.
Mr. WISE now claimed and succeeded in
getting the floor upon the new motion.
He now began upon Mr. Clay, whom he
scored under the image of Rnmer, and show
ed his arguments in relation to the alternatives
in the most true and laughable light. He said
Rumor, a tall, sandy haired, long nosed ora
tor, wished the President to resign, and if the
President had resigned. Rumor would have
considered hitn the most clever fellow in the
world. Rumor might then have got his place.
He said Rumor, without such resignation,
would get but little here below, nor get that
little long. ... v
Mr. PrtOFFIT, of Indiana, (whig) offered
a resolution, declaring that if Congress char
tered a fiscal agent, it should reserve the pow
er to repeal the same whenever it saw nt OD
jected to.
When you hear any one making a
noise aboat himself, his merits and his
good qualities, remember that the poorest
wheel of wago* always creaks the loud
est.
I V O A S U U E
Aug 21.—The
Fiscal Corporation," or the
new bank bill, being under consideration,
Mr. WISE said he confessed he was not
prepared to debate this bill, and he did not be
lieve that any body else was, excepting the
gentleman from Pennsylvania, (Mr. Sergeant)
who had just taken his seat. The bill was
laid upon the table this morning, and he had,
with a friend, been engaged in comparing the
bill No. 14, with the amendment of the com
mittee, and with the vetoed bill. He went on
to give his views as to the difference between
them. lie said his views were half made up,
and crude, and if he wa9 incorrect he would
ask gentlemen to correct him. He said the
difference between the establishment of branch
es, and the establishment of agents was about
the same as between a Fiscal Bank and a Fis
cal Corporation.
i o n s
NO.
47.
Th* Democratic Ground,
The Democratic Review, in addressing Mr.
Tyler, as President, thus expresses itself in
relation to removals from office:
We care not for your offices we feast
none of your patronage. Bestow all you have
to be»tow on those who have been languishiug
for the space of three presidential terms, afar
from the smiles ot executive favor, in the
chil
ly regions of opposition. Let them be but
honest and honorable men, and we care not
who holds the public appointments in your
gift. We would encourage, too, rather t'aan
deprecate, the most searching scrutiny winch
any suspicions may desire, into ary of the de
tails of executive administration, throughout
the whole extent of its widely ramified action.
Whatever abuses may exist, let them be fully
explored by the jealous vigilance of the new
incumbents. Whatever useful reforms may
be suggested from any quarter, let them be
frankly met, and cheerfully adopted. Every
such detection of abuse—every such sugges
tion of reform, is a common public benefit—
and no party has an equal interest in thte puri
ty of the administration with that of the de
mocracy. Let the new brooms sweep aj clean
as they can. This has always been one of the
chief subjects of clamor by the opposition a
gainst the two late administrations, and in the
same spirit in which when supporting those
administration?, we denied the general truth
of those violent and random charges, we are
perfectly willing now, ourselves in opposition,
if it be but fairly and honorably con,icted, to
court the widest latitude of investigation into
them all. Rcduce the action ef the Executive
branch as much as you-choose purify if you
can. In every step which you may take in
such a direction, we will answer for it, that
the democracy of the country will go with
you, heart and hand.''
THE VETO.—The Madisonian this notieee
the reception which the voto has met, and sets
its friends aright on the subject of the Bank
41
As we expected, the Veto is received by
the whig press of the northern cities r. ith de
cided expressions of dissatisfaction, while the
tone of the opposition press is that of cxhul
tation. In insisting, as many of the whij
presses do, that an institution like the one ve
toed, was declared for by the people in the
Presidential election, they expressly contra
dict the message of the President at the open
ing of the present session of Congress, which
staled that no definite scheme of finance was
concurred in by the people at that election.—
From one extremity of the Union to the other,
in nearly all tb1» public addresses made by the
successful party, i/ie question of a National
Bank was decidedly ktpt out of view. The can
didates for the two highest offices of the Gov
ernment never had been known by a vote, or
writing, or speaking, in the whoie course of
their lives, to advocate such an institution
but, on the contrary, if language has any mean
ing, they had upon every occasion placed them
selves expressly in opposition to it. They had
voted side by side against it in Congress, and
they had concurred in their views of the ques
tion whenever and wherever expressed. The
present President had declared the incorpora
iion of a Natioral Bank unconstitutional in
every form of words, and no man in theUnioa
had more often repealed the declaration. The
convention of sagacious and experienced men
at IJarrisburg in ls39, could ryt have been ig
norant of the fact. Their memories need not
have travelled back beyond five years to bring
before them the able and elaborate exposure of
the corruptions, through its discounting pow
er, of the late National Bank, wrought out by
the hands of the candidate they bad selected
for the Vice Presidency. Nor did they need
reminding that he had, during nis life, cher
ished but one set of constituiional principles,
and that he had been firm and consistent in
their maintenance. It would be a libel on that
convenlion lo stipposo that 'hey had selected
candidates of whom they had no knowledge—
and knowing them, they could not have con
ceived such a fraud upon the people, as to pre
sent them in their true characters at the polls,
expecting them to be changed when power
should be attained."
Silas S. Burrows, Esq. in a letter to the ed
itor of the New York Oommercial Advertiser,
says—
"VVe fought for principles too high to be
reached by a clause in a Bank Charter, which
subject it is but honest to admit was excluded
from discussion generally by the whigs during
the last contest. Our opponents desired to join
issue on this subject, but it was resisted almost
invariably throughout the land.
Can the whigs hooestly assert that the qaes
tion of Bank or°no Bank was before the fit*
pie at the last election
MR. BIDDLK.—This notorious personage,
who, a few months since was lauded to the
skies by every whig paper in the Union, and
who they again and again wrote should be
made Secretary of the Treasury, if ever that
party got possession of the reins of go\em
inent, is thus noticed by the New York Jour
nal ol Commerce, a paper which but for its
honesty, would be the leading paper in that
city
ly
"As to Mr. Biddle, the Philadelpbians say
that he has lost his morning smile and lordly
step, and even seems dejected at the universal
neglect with which he is treated by all respec
table men. A few years since, he walked in
Wall st. and Chesnut st. a sort of demi-god.
Thousands flocked to do homage to him and
even to look at him was deemed a privilege.
The merchants of Philadelphia, with few ex
ceptions, were his body guard the newspa-
per*, llwrew h.», lamled
Now"scarcdy respecablfund is held o».
greet him, and nobody cares to see him but
f,.wn upon him. Thus shall It be Wl.h lh»
who builds his fame on delusion, and
all who seek to elevate themselves njron
destruction of the business classes, share
same fate."
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The Madisonian states thst Gen W&jiftl
been nominated by the President to^be
adier General of the United States Ar
my, in the place of Gen. Soo«» promoted.
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