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BRATTLEBORO, Vt JANUARY 11, 183 9.
NO, 19.
KBRIQJVT JPHQEJVIX.
puiilIshkd every frIday .mornino, bv
WM. E. RYTHEll.
Curri'iinlciico of tlm llaiton Alia.
yritR. PilHNTISS OV MISSISSIPPI.
VA8iHNqxoN, Dec, 27, 1838.
On repairing to the House of Repicscnla
lives, il is morning, I found more people in
hilijallerH'i'ii.hiipt.havoHVerjnel there since
the, opening ol this session, Air Prenlistot
jMississ.ippi, it tvns known to every boily, wits
entitled to llio flour; mid thu announcement
of.lhe fact whs suitiqif nt to ntlinci n crowd.
Thu Indies besides filling their own gallery
To overflowing, occupied the greatest num
ber of thu seals, in that appropriated to the
neji, which commanded a view of the
House, and the orator.
It was fear.crf. nt one time, that the huge
and brilliant assemblage would be, disap
pointed ; for the- Report of the Wisconsin
Contested election had been assigned as the
special order of this day j but it wns post
poned to next Thursday ; and instead of a
dull discussion upon the facts of a contest
.for Congress, we Imd the captivating and
impressive eloquence of Air Prentiss.
Tie House again resolved itself into com-
.lniltcc ol the whole, John Quincy Adams
nguin look the chair, and " The gentleman
of AIis5isippi" arose.
There was perhaps scarcely one stranger-
present witli whose notions ol Air P.rentisss
cnnrocler ana genius his first nppenrnnce
did not iar in a greater 01 less decree : but a
few minutes listening was sufficient to make
them forget his figure, and to engross their
minds entirely and exclusively with his sub
ject, amj the spirit and vigor with which he
treated it. Seldom has there been a more
siriuing example ot tno " icus magna, in
carporc parvo." .
It is exceedingly difficult to report Mr
P 'realist at any lime. He thrown out his
ideas so rapidly, and scatters his imagery
witn so much prodigality thnt, with the
quickness of his enunciation, and a, habit he
Jias of lowering his voice almost to a whis
per, it is almost impossible for the most skil
ful stenographer to follow him. On the ores-
vnt occasion the difficulty was increased by
(he, circumstance that muny of the best parts
ot the speech consisted o comments on re
ports, letters and other documcts. Without
these papers, no abstract of his remarks
would be intelligible. I will, therefore, con
lent myself with noticing a lew of his prin
cipal points, arguments, and illustrations.
His subject was to show that the Presi
dent of the United States, and his Secrctaiy
ofthe Treasury, in the remarks thty have
respectively made on the recently discover
ed defalcations have attempted lo play off
upon the people of this country a wretched
imposition ; nnd that the whole adminis
tration PARTY IN, CoNORESS AUK AID-
iso and abetting them. He said he
would prove this upon tho President, as the
person first, and chiefly responsible, accord
ing to the doctrines of his "illustrious prede
cessor," He. would fasten the charge of cor
rupt collusion and fraud upon the Secretary
ofthe Treasury, so thul it could not be
thrown off, unless some of liis friends should
put in for him n plea of his being "non com
pos mentis." Ho compared the conduct of
the Executive and his pnrtjzuns. in showing
ftp these instances of defalcation, lo that of
art ancient tyrant who inflicted upon his bo
dy several apparently severo wounds; then
exposed tlicm to his countrymen, declnritig
they were made by an assassin and asked
tin additional' guard of soldiers for his protec
tion. Once possessed of this accession of
military force, he seized upon the supreme
authority, nnd made himself master of their
rights' aiid liberties. So this Administration
comes forward, showing us the defalcations
which were produced by its own system)
rind asks for additional offices to be filled by
the Executive's c tea lures hud partizans; for
' the'purpose ofhrenking down the freedom
nnd independence ofthe country.
The parly give up Swarlwaut, as the pur
sued bear drops one of her cubs to save the
rest I But (Premiss said) ho would follow
the old dam to her den, nnd call on the peo
ple to crush the whole brood I
Mr Prentisi commented with great pun
gency 'on the President's suggestion that thu
application of public money to private uses,
by nn, officer .of the Government, ought to be
visited with ignominious punishment; and
on his wonderful discovery that "the Ap
pointing Power cannol always bo well ad-
. yised in its selections." He adduced cases
in which the Executive had failed to remove
men ; and hud re-appointed, men whom he
knew to have committed Offences which he
now wishes should be stigmatised as felony,
find punished with disgraceful punishment.
Tho President, in this very" recommendation;
'pronounces on hiuiself and his own course
the most decisive' condemnation 1
Alr Prenlisshun went to the Secretary
o? tlm Treasury ; and gove) him n flagella
tion that will not soon bo foi gotten, H
took up that, functionary's report communt
eating the'eorreponduncu, 'between, the Do
f
kqqw not how many. I heir.napie is legi
on, , This dpc.upient hu pronounced to be a,
moral, politicuj, jind literary curiosity, It
renpnded him.ofthp cauldron in .which (h
wiicne3 in. fliaebein mipgieq tn.eir Hell
brjuili I It was.a collection of (he most he-
nnd.'he 'nb;v Undertook 'to" show from this
correspondence that ,tjie most enormous
rREASUriV; Pf.PARTMENTjn ,ih.af (jie
ENCUMBENTS IN OFFICE AND RE-Ar-POINT'
ED TJIEM AFTER THEIR TERMS bf SERVICE
HAD EXPIRED. .
So farns talking went. thtS Secretary trnve
it to the defaulters pretty severely. They
have it linu upon line nrccent unon nre-
cept hero a 1 ml o and there a great deal
.I...5. -i l .'
uiiiii lin u vino iiiiisi uuvu uecn urea some
what with ihe tedious repetition of n twenlv
times told tale. ,Uut the mischief ia it never
went farther than mere talking; when what
was wanted wns action.
, TJie.firstJnstancejif defalcation cited by
Air Prentiss, wasHthot of Spencer, a receiwr'
ofthe laud office nt Fort IVaine. Indiana.
in 1830. "I will show vou an examnle."
said he. "If you nre a laughing philosopher
you will have plenty of food for merriment--if
ofthe contrary sect, you may weep for Un
balance of VOlir lives." He then rend a se.
ries of letters addressed nt different times by
the Secrelury of ihe Treasury to this indi
vidual, couched in the mildest terms, reques
ting him to render his monthly nccounts,
and deposit thu very largo buhuiro of public
money ip nis possession ; una other letters
to different persons on the s.imo subject, in
one of which the Secretary says: "It would
ptodure an unpleasant political excitement
if ho were removed, he has influential
friends better let it be." As for tho last
phrase Air P. said he did not exactly under
stand it ; perhaps it was n cant expression
nmong office holders, like the language of
the swell mob in England.
At last answers are received from Air
Spencer, in one of which hesnys " I have
deposited 8101,000 in silver the rest in
fold and paper (about 800,000.) I have still
in my hands, and have not deposited it, be
cause my democratic friends think I had
heller not leave until ufter the election."
This letter was dated early in October the
election referred to was to lake place on the
7th November ncit. So that this large
amount of money was to be kepi in the hands
of the receiver for at least a month beyond
the legitimate period for depositing it.
"These men," said Mr Prentiss, ''hnd be
come like tho Pushas of the Sultan, loo pow
erful to remove they did not dare lo re
move them." It wns stated repeatedly by
the Secretary ofthe Treasury that the duty
of making monthly deposits of the public
money was a paramount duty. Yet it was
not paramount in Spencar's case he had
higher duties to fulfil.
One man was permitted to resign quietly,
without prosecution, with a coal sixty thou
sand of the public money in his pocket!
The correspondence shows that the Secre
tary knew all the time that this officer had
applied this amount to his own private uses.
That amiable functionary had written re
peatedly to his subordinate, noticing the de
Talcation, and earnestly calling on him to
"pay up" nndnt last told the defaulter that
the President had directed him (the Secreta-
ryj io write decisively, that unless the nc
counis were seuiru at an cany aay, ne
should be dismissed.
But he was not dismissrd, although he
resolutely held out hirain.-l tho lequisitions
and menaces of both President and Secreta
ry I he correspondence shows nn entire
want of common energy and spirit ofordi
nary manhood on the part both of Air Van
Buren and Air Woodbury. After the lapse
ol weeks, the threatened uelaulter receives a
letter from the Secretary. Is it the an
nouncement of his removnl ? Not at ull.
The furthest from it possible. It is a mild,
gentle, timid, almost obsequious reinon
strnuce with him for withholding the public
money, aud hopini; thnt hereafter hu would
not fail lo deposiiu it lo thu credit of the
Government, as he wns bound to do. Real
ly, Air Vu Burenaml Al Woodbury must
be the lineal dascendants of Jon j for patience
equal to theirs wns never exhibited since his
dny.
Tho best of the aflair is, that in ihe end,
the defaulter resigned. He wus not re
moral, for Ihe anion of the Executive had
never gone beyond a'suvere menace ; and In'
carried ofl not 800,000,-but TWO HUN'
DRED AND NINETEEN THOUS
AND DOLLARS.
Truly did Air Prentiss say, that no man
nossessini? ordinary sensibility and nut riot
ism, could read the letters which had passed
in this case, and others contained in the re
port, without mourninu over the deteriora
tion of the country.
He noticed, in this connection, the case of
the Receiver in AIissismppi, referred to in
thu Secretary's report, :Wllo was rccommen
(led to a continuance in ollice on the exptess
ground that, although he had speculated
largely with the public money, yet his
HANDS WERE NOW FULL J AND HE HAD
NO REASON NOR TEMPTATION TO SFECUL
ATE MORE I
This is very bad : but the Receiver who
succeeded him made a case vere little better
He embezzled the public property, in t
shape of lands, to the Wmount of 30 or
thousand dollars.' The honest, pura mind
ed people of this country may see frdm this
how thu system of thu spoils partv works.
It is only one example. The rich lands of
the Southwest have been" bestowed, in fee,
On these public plunderers: Never did the
Norman Conqueror of England givu his
feudatories possessions half so ample, or so
(iiuuiii-iini no mi3- ixcjiuuiKan, AUiiunisjru
lion1' bestows on its favorites" olid partisans.
One ofthe best things jn tho whole, of
Prentis? 3 Speech was'his .sarcastic c'orhhfen
tfiry '6nJthe code or morality, by which' Alt
Secretary Woodbury appears to havu been
teguiaieu, in uu ma iiucivuuiaw wiiii,iuu, ue
faulting pels and favqrKes' of tho" party.,
He gave Mr Secretary p napie wJiicn,
VRP'ff'tfNVYi'l .etlslf lOihun. He com
"Patil.CliiTord.vi nr as she was lumiliam-
ed.hfs mild advces. fb .tbo .Lecf-Treatf
urers to tho gentle Jadm6nitions. with
which that famous matron, when inspired
by the spirit of moralizing, addressed -leetle
Prentiss read aloud from Bulvler's Nbvcl
tho advice of Airs Lobkins ; and it struck ev
ery body as so oppoite an illustration of the
Secretary's mornihv, that every 'sehlcnri.'
was received with thi' keenest rntovmeiU.
'Mind thy kittychism. child, (said I lit
"dame) and reverence old agtf. Never
jieai i specialty wnen any one is tn ine
. j . -1 r ,t .11.. . . . .
tcay. (Loud laughter.) HUcinodesn-Panl.
"and slick lo your situation in life. Read
your Bible, nnd talk like a pious son.
People goes moio by your Woitn lhan your
actions. (Renewed Intirhter.) If vou
" want what is not your own, try nnd do
" without it ; and if you cannot do without it,
"take it nway by insinitalion, not bluster.
" They as swindles does more, nnd risks
" less than they as robs "
I can give you no idea of ho delectable
manner in which PrtMiss recited this: nor
of the impression it produced on his audi
tors. Hail it been in order. Ihe calleries
would have tisenand huzza'd.
Belter was to come. Mother Lribkins put
in Paul's hand the sum of five half nence
and one farthing. "There, boy," quoth she,
(and she stroked his head foudlv. as she
spoke, much nfter the fashion in which Air
secretary MnoQthrd down his subordinates.)
rou noes right not lo play lor nothing.
it s loss ot time i t$ut, remember, nlnv
with those as bo less lhan yourself: and
THEN YOU CAN GO FOR TO BEAT EM IF
THEY DAYS YOU OO FOR TO CHEAT 1"
Air Prentiss wrought un with creot pow
er the application of this last passage. He
reminded the House that to "g o lor to beat
those teho say ynu go for to cheat," wns the
very spirit ol Jacksomsm. the law intro
duced by Jackson was club lau. Air IFire
wos an example. While puxhwc the in
vestigations into ihe abuses ofthe Executive
Departments two sessions ago, he wns oblig
eo to co about, wilh "his harness on."
General Jackson had hut lo whistle, nnd llu-
Rhoderick Dim men were ready to obey his
oeucsi.
" Thnt whistle garrisoned the glen
At once, with full five hundred menl"
They were driven, to the wall, nnd slain,
who dared look into the abuses and corrun
lions ofthe Government. The man, who,
animated with a love of his country, and ha
trcd of oppression, and scorn for corruption,
boldly expressed ins sentiments, carried his
life in his hand 1 He fell hu might nt any
moment oe exposed lo the bludgeon or pistol
In the State of Mississippi, two gentlemen of
mcnignest character, public and private
were snni aoicn, lor tneir pains in vxamin.
ing and attempting to expose the frauds, the
corruptions, the abuses in which thu author
ized, pelted nnd pampered officers of Gov.
eminent hurl indulged for years. It was for
this Air Senator Poindtxler was persecuted.
It was because he dared to look into alleged
defalcations, that the whole influence ofthe
Administration and the whole exertions of
those who were bound together by the co
hesive power of tho plunder of thu public
wer directed against him. Air Prentiss
took occasion to pronounce a eulogy on' Air
j.-omuexicT, nsjusianu mcrucu,as nuns ei
f-J-J-j- . i i
oqucnt n the expression.
Prentiss is excellent at illustration and
telling n siory. While commenting on the
slowness ofthe Secretary, nnd the Adminis
tration, lo discern the existence of any defal
cations, he introduced the followingdtalogue,
which is no less illustrative of the position
of Air Woodbury, than the policy of Air
Van Buren :
A Fadle, " And how did it happen Pat,
.. .1 .' .1 Y1 . . 1 ' 'l .
nun nnsincr van uurcn aiwnys itepi in
"with iheould General as he did?"
" Why.. I'm thinking Alurphy, it wos be
"cause ho always hud sich a bed cowld
"jisl,"
"And what had his having a cowld to do
" with me matter al all .at al '
"wny, aiuye mver nenr, .Murpny, my
" boy,,of ihe.fox thnt had a cowld ? thin I'll
" tpll ye. Once there was a lion that wont
"ed to know how polite nil the bastes were,
" so he mndu a great smell in his dei with
" brimstone or .something else; Idon't mind
" what jisl. but it smell enough lo knock you
"down iniirely, and then ho called in the
"bearr, and says ha. 'Good morning t'ye
" iUislhor liearr, nnd what d ye think of the
"smell herethis.mor.ning?' And says thu
"benrr,, says he,. Why it smells bad,',
" Whot's that you say V says tho lipn ; 'take
"that,1 says ho (tiling him up .altogether
" 'talte thai, nnd seo tl it will teach yer po
"lileness, ye unmannerly son of a cub."
bo, wnen me ocarr was ate up, me lion
"calfedinlhe monkey, nnd, asked him the
same question precisely, pinw tno mpn'
" key seeing tho bearr that the lion had swnl'
"lowed lying dead in Oiu corner, says hu,
"'Aloy it please yer mujesty,' says he, 'it, a
"jisl the. most delightful smell I, 'ever srpell
" in my life nt, nil.' 'So it is,' said the, lion,
" patting linu on the head with his, paw osy
"like, so ns to bate the brenlh clnne, out of
" his bodv 'so it is.' snvs he. 'and
now
" you'll pot el another lie $pon, .I'm think-.
nir'
" Now when thc.lion liaq ,lfit, tho bearr
" rtnd the mpnke.y, he , Pnljed ip the fox lo
" urn, and saVsJii'. lookinn very savnire and
"all ready to ate, him up i( Ijo.shqqlj make
" te Instuof. (pau,at nl ,'Gqqd morpLng.
" Fox,' says he, 'how does my. parlor smell
" today?' And says the fox, (wipins his
imap yiwi ion uiuau u( ills ijll, ,nu pu
'...!. I. 71.- t,..-.7.l. l' L' .Zl J' 't .'.
,l ing, rtfid, It's me llint can't stnel at'nij' at
"'hjl,' 8p'jriIjpnaiied,.njid JwH the
" straddle wide enoucK. 'and all the other
t w' (jqwn lig p.yultditfijiis paw,.rs,rh,uch
"as)o jay.Jdpybu see ,any,gresn there., my
honey ,"'fiiifh, pays; lie, iiiSy ,it plasq yer,
' rriaiestv. I've a ve'rv baa enivfd this 'morn-,
es should mind him, or he would ate
m up ns he had done thebeurr."
I'llfll Mr lrH,'. firiUI
pWanied the floor, ond moved that the Com-
Willie rise, which was agreed lo; and soon
iftcrwnrds the House adjourned.
In the SennW. the most imDortant mailer
wns the communication from tho Secrttnrn
of the Treasury, in unswer ttf therfesoluiions
Olifllr Hires, calling fbr.informotion respec
itibg tho fiscal relations subsiding between
me uovernmentfnnd the United Slates
isanir, ftir occrclnry seems lo pracliso on
the idea thnt the use of language is-- to con-
ecar thoughts; for nobody could tell from
hearing ii read what tho communication
imnnt. As soon as it is, printed, I will pre
sent it, in substance, lojyour readers.
MAJOR DOWNING.
Tv Ihe Ediloi ofthe New York Express
the Mini! paper my old friend Air. Dwicht
piinled a spell ago.
Gentlemen I send you a JLettcr for
Congress to read under Unele Sam's author
ity, who wishes you lo publish it wilh my
figure headtt the top ou't to show that it is
genwine. Il must be in Washington on or-
bemre XS'ew rears day, lor that is a
day when folks feel limber and shake hands,
un'd dont &al so crabbed and cross grained
as they do on most other days.
Your friend,
J. DOWNING. Alaior.
Downingvillu Aliliiia, 2d Brigade.
TO CONGRESS.
Un.'lc Sam has requested me to give you
my nations about thu abolition matters that
now is taking Up more of your time than he
thinks he can afford to pay for, seeing lhat
other matters want attending to. I Imve
never had but one notion about this abolition
mailer and that is, that it is one of that
sort that gits into the noddlos of old women
of both sexes on account of there having
nothing else there nt the time to occupy them,
nnd then they go to cackling & thnt sets oth
er folks cackling and so arler a spell all get
a cackling till something else, gets upper
most, and then another egg is laid, and then
comes another cackling nbout the new egg
nnd so it goes on Irom time to eternity.
It was jisl so with Anti-AIasonry a spell
ago, Years have come and gone Gene-
... , . .
rai Washington was a mason nnd so wns
pretty much all our good folks, and nobody
ever troubled themselves nbout the matter,
crops como along one nrter the other nnd
nil natur work'd without any trouble about
masonry or nnti-mnsonrv when nil nt once
up rose an awful raekle and it seem'd for a
spell that if folks didn't slir themselves that
all creation would, arter the comintr crons
come to a stnnd stilt the Union melt away
like a snow bull in June and thu pigs git
into the corn fields. There wns my old
neighbor Deacon Dooliltle one ofthe spriest
ota cnaps in raising early garden sass, and
the best pumpkins in the hull county round
a man nllow'd to be so knowing in most
matters, that ir" was common saying that who
ever oougnt tne ueacon lor n looll would
lose money by him he heard the "anti-ma
sonic" cackle nnd took up tho same nblion,
I call'd on him one day and instead of find
ing him in his garden, (which was all over
run with weeds) I found him rending ami
masonic addresses. "Its "all over with us
Alnjor" says he, ."the end of creation has
come at last" and ho fetched a dei'p groan
"it is only wonderlul to me" says ho "that
the country has prospered as it has ever
since the Independence wilh bo many Ma
sons in it and we have all ben so blind too
all the while to the sariin destrnction ull
orouuu us uoril havu mar.cy on us. says
hu and with that old ' Miss Dooliltle and
all the young ones set up an tuvfu! howl as
n tne last day nun come sure enui. J lie
Deacon howuver had one thine to comfort
him, and that ups he said lhat there was jisl
enuf "anti-masons" left to wotk out an elec
tion of a President and Congress who had't
ben on n "hot Gridiron, and ho didn't
mean to raise another Potatoeor Enr of Corn
or Piinktn till that was done. I left thu
Deacpn silting on thul egg, and the next
lime I seed him, was light in about the mid
me oi tne uniieu otuies unnlc war, more
than a year arter, and thu times got lo be
priity pinchy, 1 dropt in upon the Deacon
I louno In in hoeing out some blue grass
among his Cockumbers. I twisted nnd
turn'd nil mailers nnd things of a public
natur. bur the Deacon never said pne word
abputihe masons and anti-masons it wns
pritiy clear that the Deacon hud enuf of a
humbug and (hen, aeain, the last lime I
was dowq lhat Way, right in tho thickest of
wiihwi j'cunans uui tne ueacon
wasn't lo bo cauht but once and4 see. ho
had his eye teeth cut "things go well enuf
rn u.. :..i?r ..i
iwi .ui...,ujv, ouj-a jil,umu niiqy iitun aicues
me neglecting my grounds agin to lockle
with ,li im over any egg lie chooses to throw
in rny nesl, ho is amazjpgly mi$iokenv
''Why" says he "a man. would have nothing
ese to do all his life time if he follow'!! up
all theso idle Tanalics and sometimes politic
al vagabonds who are .utnrnully gelling up
onu skeme arler another first masonry
nnd nriti-iriasonry then nul)jficnljpn t fieri
Banks then npthing but gold tlien aboli
tion and Sub-Treasury, and the tord knows
what next nnd, felling1 us from tjmeto time
that nnv one of these if not nlterided to. to tne
neglect off every. thing else, would iqpstsar
tinly t'nd in sending every created thing1 ull,
etarnal smash."
pejriepcejnShe matter ns.ou know, ijn.the,
first nlnce I liavo'sfoDt all cacklmtr-r-w.hen
mf work' Istdone,, and I Have no businesson
,hnd in' family mottejsI, xvndjhf'Ue'l
speii ana men i (axe a iook into we von
lo
XJnt.snysiI, Deacon how, go you manage
through' em all,?, ;Wull," says.' he,'jAajor,
Ijll .tefl yoii nnd t have, had n leetle ex,
stituthn of 'the United States occosionlly,
and n.t election times I select out the best
and jtoiiestest rnen 1 enn find to vole for
nnd if every bodv would do the same thinrr.
jny notion is we would bring things out
r.r nil (., 1,1.. I i .L? . "
.... iiuuuiu uiiu fir i every tiling io woric
smooth & right, and Wp should hear1 no more
ofthose dreadful things thtitsoine folks are
talking ubbut thnt nTu lb bring ruiri on the
country." But, says I, hurt is trohblo now
in Congress about this' plagy abolition ques
tion pno set bring in bushels of petitions,
and nnotherset any they hadn't ought to be
receiv'd nt nil how is that to be managed
suys I ? "Well" says ho "Alajor 111 tell
you, I would take cm all in, but without
stopping other business to read em just yet,
for suppose they are priity much nil alike,
and then I would say that ns soon at they
are done coming, so as to give all a fair
chance I'd appoint n committee who should
agree to read em all over carefully, and see
if there is any ihinginemtoshowthatanvpart
ofthe Constitution is violated by not granting
wnui uic petitions nsi; tor dut it on the con-
trary.any one of them petitions asksConjrress
lo do anything contrary to the clear meaning
ol the (JonslUution,m it w& undeistood when
it was made nnd agreed to then I would call
that member of Congress, who offered such
n petition right up nnd give him a copy of
the Constitution and tell him to git that by
neun, ana me nexi time ne attempted,, anoth
er JsuchJ unlawful aif l'd send him home."
Well says I, that is a iew notion. "No il
aint" says he, "it's ns old as truth
und ius
ire nnd the Constitution jtself, and they
come of nge pretty much nil nt once, This
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is ine nuu oi inc mnuer iiiajor ine people
have "a Constitution and all laws nnd
regulations must agree with it or they nint
good for nothing, the people send their
agents to Congress not to make or alter the
ionsmuiion anu any man in or out oi
Congress who brings in a petition nsking
the people's agents to grant things contrary
to the Constitution are doing an unlawful
act, nnd il they are ignorant I'd reacA em
what ihe law is, ond if arter the first ofTence,
i hey repeated it, I'd make em feel it. If
something of this kind aint done Congress
will have nothing else to do but cackle over
alt the whims that old grnnnys nil about
the country will be sending in a man
SoUth has jist as good a right to petition
Congress to pass Laws to stop his raising
Pumpkins as 1 have to stop my raising (Jot
ion and on the score of oppression and
slavery, nnd ull that nonsense theie is
nothing in it wo nre all slaves, to the nec
essity of earning an honest living, and nil
necessity to trorAr is nn evil but it is nn evil
like beards nnii toe nails, wo nre born to
some have lo work nt one calling nnd some
al another nnd some work is harder than
another some go down under the oiith
and dig coal ana iron nnd copper nnd lead
nnd gold-nnd silver and some on the face
oftheairth dig, plough and hoe, nnd chop
wood (nnd thnt last kind of work is plusry
tuff in winter away ofT in thu woods, with
snow up to your knees und your dinner
froze as hard as a brick bat,) and some go
on the great deep in storms and tempest and
dont know what it is to have u dry jacket on
for weeks together ond no wife and chil
dren to sit round a fire every evening and
some pick cotton and have this advantage
over all the rest, nnd thai is when they get
sick and old they are taken care of- without
going a begging or be thrust into a poor
house or prison S6mo folks are by natur
dependent on others nnd lean on em like
been vines to polls. Now suppose 'some old
women should gel a. notion to petition Con
gress against letting folks dig awuy .down
intheaitth nrler Coa and Iron, nnd so forth,
and say that a man wasn't born like a wood-
chuck lo live in tho .nirtli, and then noain
to stop folks from risking their, precious lives
nt scrt, as though they were-born within
like ti (ish.'how then, and wlint would be the
ehdon't? Cun any man tell' what would
be the state of things if nny of these whims
was to be "acted on only for one' year jusl
for the trial on't And then ngin; has any
one turned ovcrthe matter lq see what would
be the condition of things if "Abolition,"
should take root kirk up a bobery down
South, and let only one crop of cotton go un
pick'd folks abroad don't think much of
ihis matter, but look at it pretty, much ns we
do at the Chinese, npd carelessly talk of
abolition as a matter of moon shine. Eng
land sends her abolitionists here to keep
em I suppose from deviltry ut home posst
ibjythal iftheir mad schemes were only for
onu season to prosper here, a storm would
howl over England worse than u universal
cholera morbus. Cut of oflTono ourcrops of
cotton only and then let thu Uueen or her
Ministers attempt io tell tho thousands of
spinners and weavers' of England, that ihey
and tlieir fafnilies must submit to go hungry
and unimploy'd, on account of the grea and
glorious came of abolition--nnd if they re
uoin Content and hungry, why then no harm
will vome (rpni that point-r-,but if on the con-,
trnr.y. ihey don't understand the doctrinq
(and Sonic folks do say, that some of John
Bull'sfamily get cross and uglvwhunhungry)
why lhpn there wilj be trouble, and such a
trouble, ris ajnt cooled by sigo or catnip tea,
ana I for one wash, my hitnds on't drid
say "let well alono;"1 . '
"I'll tell wlint it is,MajorJ' says tho Deacon,
"yve-hnve now. ben, working nlong pretty
prosperously forfiflv years upder d Conri-
tulioji that' has kepi us , nil together a hap
py .lamiiy, ana any man who attempts to
disturb any matter or thing guaranteed and
secured by. 'that Conslitutiori,' aint got any
more Patriotism iniiiiri llian a rotlen punkln
and oil petitions to Cbngfess; nsking things
contrary to Ihe (;oniitutioti,nre fist as bad
08ifbr a.'man to nsk'-another.-man's agent to
cq, what he., knows ho has jribirig lit to doi un
derthe power of attorney he hods from his-
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airil Gospel loo." '
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the notion that the Dehcon's doctrine is a-
ooui right, ond we nope you will not disre
gard it. i -
Your friend nnd fellow citizen,
J. DOWNING, Major.
Downingyille Alilitia, 2d Brigade.
Love and Suicide. The Coroner was
yesterday called at a house in John street to
view tnu ooay ot n young1 man named l'ut
rick Duely, aged a jiativo of" Boston,
who committed an suicide tho night previous
by taking laudanum. From the teslimony.it
appears that young Duley came to this city
on Friday lost, occompained by a youhjr
woman named Cathertno Ale Donald, to
whom he had engaged to bo married. It
nppenrs thnt the parties were both respecta
bly connected in liosion their banns of
matrimony had been duly published but
the father of the young lady being a Catho
lic,, objected lo their union previous to Advent,
and to evade this prohibition tbev.cnme to
this citv, lo have thu ceremony performed
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nerc. un arriving, incy sioppca at iurs.
Barker's fn Broadway, where they occupied
separate apartments till Monday noon, when
they left nnd took lodgings as man and
wife nt a house in John street, stating that
they wished to remain till Wednesday, nnd
then leave in the Boat for Boston. About
1 1 o'clock on Tuesday night, the girl was
heard to scream and she shortly came: down
stairs and said her husband was in a fit, nnd
was quite speechless and insensible.
Dr. Hotchkiss wns caljcd in, who on as
certaining the cause ofthe young man's ill
ness caused search to be made, and in hfs
trunk was found a phial labeled laudnnuin
nnd entirely empty. The address of tho
apothecary was also on the bottle, nnd oh
enquiry it was ascertained that he had oh
Monday purchased two ounces ofthe poison,
nnd doubtless taken the whole. The Jury
rendered a verdict in accordance with tho
above facts. The body wns ordered, to -bo
deposited in one of the public vaults subject
to the disposal ofthe relatives of the deceas
ed. 1ft Y. Express.
To-morrow. To-morrow. Who can tell
how much is embraced in this expression 3
Though but a few hours intervene between it
and us, though it will soon commence its
course, who is there, that can read its single
page and pronounce the character of its
events ?
To-morrow? Those who ore now gay
may bo cad those wbo are now walking
the avenues of pleasure, led by the hand ol
Hope, may be the subjects of intensuorrow.
Prosperity may be changed into adversity.
Those who nre now on the mountain snm
mitmay be in the valley. That rosy cheek
may be overspread with'paleness the; strong'
step may falter. Death may have overtaken
us.
To-morrow 1 It may entirely change tho
coarse of our lives, if may form a neWera
in ourexistence. What we little expeet-.tnoy
occur. What we fear may not happen.
To-morrow? Away with anxiety. Let
us lean on Providence, There js a Being,
to whom all the distinctions of time are the
same, nnd who is able lo dispose every thing
for our wise improvement. Alheneum,
Tho following curious advertisement up
peared in n northern paper, about the close
ofthe year 1811.
''Lost Supposed to be stolen A lady's
heart. Il is composed of the. tnbsl delicate
materials'; susceptible of thu slightest touch;
affected by the softest breath) ngitnted by
the gentlest found. It shrinks like the
mimosa leaf, trembles 'jku the magnetic
needle, and sighs 'like the -iEolinn harp.
On its weak side it has received some trifling
impressions, which are now nearly effaced,;
and some, wounds so skilfully treated, thai
scarcely a scar can be discovered. On its
reverse side may be (meed words, "Alatonic
Love:'1 which having puzzled the greatest
antiquarian and the wiset philosophers; to
expound,, we do not yenuue to propose a so
lution of them; but are inclined to think
they mean nothing, or are some of those
pleasing self-illusions in which the heart
has been accustomed to indulge itself ; or
one of thosa-masqucrnde moltos with Which
it would impose upon others. Be this as U
may, the heart is in very tolerable repair,
and it is' hoped may bb traced by'the abovd
given description, so ns to be restored to ils
right owner. But if detained wilfully ot
maliciously afterthis notice, the; personguilty
of such detention, will .be .expected to mako
a, remuneration of his own, and also lo pay
al fines and penalties that the utmost rigor,
of thu law can enact,
N. B. All letters; scaled will be duly
answered.,.
Eugene Barton, nn interesting, and pro
mising son of Roy. Warren Skinner, aged
17 months, nnd, six days, died lately at Ca,Yr
endish, Vt. The cause, of its death, wus as
follows; On the.niorning of the 27)h ulu
he, gol choked with a piece pf nn arrori
whitjh he was chewing. His breathing im
mediately beenmu rapid nn'd rather labori
ous; but durm'lhal day and the following1
he continued lively ond playful ns usual:-
Nenr night, pn the day after tho nccidept,
ie become suddenly' mpch worse; and con
tinued tb 'fail lilt Friday evening, 7th -'inot.
wh'en- he sunk' Info the arms of death; Du-
ring 'hV sickness, he nt no 'time' Had sympf
toms which would justify"anfopertion( but
after death n piece of ihoiiftorn. of iha sizu
of a largo pen, 'Woe found 'deeply imbidded
in the.T.right lung .having pnescdpjnta,! ho
bronchial jutw '1$, jta;jrt 4iyjsjojf jrithfnjf
body of e lib ' "'