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: THE EVAXSVIttSJOCaXAU TCJLISHD KVIRT IHCESDAT. - v TERMS: ;. , a.$1 50, J A4ince $3 00, cf end o the year."-Advertisements inserted at $1 for three insertions of 12 . . .
- nzs;t ana centf'joreaci ' -t " , continuance. " .
I FROM THE tMTEB STATES GAZETTE. . . THE PRINTER'S DOOM. .1 - " J ' . BY THOMAS SIACKE1LAR. I : , A printer weary and wan, . 'v, ; His face ail mortally pale, -As ha wearby plodded his homeward way . ' Before the breaking of early day, n. -. breakout in a bitter, wail 1 - 1 His voice was husky and low, - : - 50 , As though his lungs were goue; , Aad be caugh'd, . and gash'd, and caugb'd - - .. : again, ' J" : : : . And he-press'd his hand on his heart tn pain, . . - While thus his plaint lan on: -.. . - , -v..- k f. t ; : "A world of toil :a this! v; , ; : u It hath no joy toraeJ :- , ; ; -Tis labor by day, aad labor by night, ' I By the light of the sun, and by condle-Tight , Labor cbciUcua'.ly. t . -i Some men have a day of .est, ' "i But Sabbath for me ii iiot: 'It is toil all the week, and toil on the day . That God has given to rest and to piay .. - . Xo! this is the printer's loti ' "Vyhen I was a boy,n he said,---. " '' , . ' 1 p!ayl cn the hills of green ; , I swam i&Jthsstream I fish'd in the brook I And bkbsed was I to sit and to look ; Unfetter'd on nature's stene. : , ... ,.-:,;. - ' - . "For twenty sad, years or more, : , ' ' My life has worn away - - In mnsky rooms of poisonous air, - " 1 -
When Tve veara'd for a8!ght-of the valleys
' And the light of one n day. . - . v. ; ' - v..,i- " : MAn, innocent prisoner dom'd, ; : My heart is heavy wfthia; Oh why shoulcfa man untainted by guilt, Who the blood of a creature nerer bath split, . Be penl, like a felon for sin ' The printer then caogh'd aud slgh'd " The surs were growing dim, - J And be upwards glanced at the morning sky, fc And he inly thought H were good to die, And death would be rest to him.- "' . ..... .-.-... - - . . .
" Hi3'neart was. fired of beating - -
- --' - He pray'd the Lord above , - . To pity a man whose heart had "been rriven By toil, for other men's interest given,"' ', And he wept for His mercy and love. He hied to his humble horn;? - - ' His infant awoke to cry, .
"Ohfather'.oh mother I'm hungry for bread!" And the printer bow.'d down, with an aching head,"1 -'-".' On his Mary's Jap lo dle.-
TO THE HONORABLE, THE SENATE ' AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED. TheMemorlal of the undersigned, citizens of Indiana and others, , would lespectfulUrepresent unto your Honorable Body ; That by an' act approved March 2d, 1S27, a certain quantity of Land equal to one half offive Sections in width on each side of the line of the Wabash and Erie Canal, reserving each alternate section o( land to the United Stales was granted by Congress to the State of Indiana, for ihe purpose of aiding the State, in opening said canal to unite at navigable points, the waters of the Wabash river with those of Lake Erie. By the first section of said Act, it 13 provided; "That" said Canal when completed, shall be, and forever remain A PUBLIC HIGHWAY FOB" THE USE OF ,TEE Go vekxmeSi't of the United States, fbke F20XANY toll os other chAkgb whateveh FCK XXT FEOPilRTY OF TH'k X'XITED STATES Oli PEKSOXS IX ,THEIE - SESVICE PASSING through The same." " By the act of May 25th, 1830; there was granted to said State twenty-nine thousand five hundred and twenty-eight acres and "seventy-eight hundreths of the public lands, t6. be ' .selected by iIkj Canal Commissioners of said State of ludiana from the "alternate . Sections reserved ' La the Unifed Stales, in the division 'made under the before recited Act of March 2nd, lS27,"in' lieu of the "aforesaid quantity of land before that time Isold by the Unijed States and permanently-reserved by treuty to jndividualsand located byjndividualgran'ts before the division aforesaid, and which would otherwise have become the property of said State in virtue of the act above refered Co.',. By a further act of Congress,uppoved June30ib, 1S34, it was provided; "That "in lieu of the lands sold or otheiwise1. disposed of by the -Ur.i'.sd States within the State oj Qhiojandwhkh would .otherwise become the property cf .the State of Indiana by, virtue of the grant made, to that State under the act of March 2nd, 1827," the- State' intent select
an' eqaal quantity ojf nd from the alteruate sections which wouidotherwise belong" to
the United .Slates in the division under
said act, orrfrQm' other lands in the ueTghborhcod near the jhie ol the canal, as should be thought proper, and the lands thus selected should be vested to, said State f Indiana and disposed of for the use "of said caual, as other laqds appropriated . by the act first recited;" ;:;-..;r : . . . : ;7 U.no.eT. these, sayeral acts of Congress, the lands doriated fcy the General Govefgrnent to the State of Indiana," "for the purpose of opening a canal lo unite at naviqablb roiT3 iiiewate.ra.jit tim iv-ir,.-; t- -.u-.r,, r.
ting-it between these points. 'That most of lands, in the Vihcennes land district, was ap-
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Ob ye who have never known The richness that' in a ciAist " Whn nothing is found on the desolate shelf. And the suSerer's pocket is empty of peltj - Receive mj story on trust. ;
of Lake Erie," ha ve been recei ved by said State aiid applied in. accordance wilh the
jterms of the grant, to the construction of a
canal from the Maumee Bay on said L,nbe, la the t-own of Lafavette oa the River Wa
bash and the caaal between said points .has! been.completed and is successfully navigated'. After the completion of the caual to Lafayette, the question arose, where is the X4VIG able point on the River Wabash at
which said canal shall terminate? The sub
ject was referred to theCominissibner Gen
eral ol the Land Uince, . oy nun to me Attorney General, arid it vis ultimately determined,' tfier a full examination of the matter in all its bearicgs,'and by h liberal coristruction of ihe act of 2nd of March, ;lg27,v that Terre Haute, oa the Wabash;- was- the navi
gable point on ilmt river wittitn the meaning
the heavy jobs have been completed ton the
tine to wit : ' 1 be. embankment on White river and the deep cutting on Patoka " on which already have been expended $279,000. That the amount required to"- complete the whole Hue from Evansville to Ter-re-Haute, according to the estimates of 1839 -10, was $r,659,192. ; : From this deduct the cost ol finishing the twenty five mile3 (now under contract as before stated,) from Terre-Haute to the feeder dam on Eel river, fixed by the same estimates at 77,299, and it wdt leaye the balance necessary to complete the canal troin Evansville to the feeder dam on Eel river, at 1,581,899. But as these estimates were made at a time " when the prices of laboriprovisions &c; were' much fiTgher then they' are at present, it is reasonable to suppose that a deduction of fully one fourth maynow.witb safety be made irom tlie same, thereby redtfcliiw; the 'coat cf 'the unfinished part of the canal to a sum not exceeding $i,iso,42L -: ;y:-; The expenditure of which sumvill' , furnish a couti'nuous line cfintemal . navigation from Toledoon the Mamee B iy to Evansville, on tlie Ohio River a distance of about four hundred and fifty miles,passhig -through a "country rich inso-l. and abounding with all lire elements hecessary to make a great, prosperous arid happy people.. ' " ' Z.:' Your memoralists would further represent:
That so far .as (he. United State? are con-, cerned, the stoppage of ihe Catial ' at Tene Hau;e,on the Wabash, reniuns it perfectly useless as 4,a public highway" for l!;e use o'f the Government.'-' - The Wabash' Itiver, (as' is kuown to all acquainted wilhit,)isnot navigable oil-an average for more, than .four j rnoaths in the year. The obstructions at the ( Rapids ofihat River, prevents lite passage of, the Boats, one year with another, longer than the period above stated, and even if .these were removed, such is the scarcity of water in ieiver itseU, that it is doubtful whether
it cculd be nayigated more tlian .one half of
the year, ft then appearing that the Wabash
has no r.aigable point at nil seasons, even below the Rapid of that lliver, short of its conilueuce with the Ohio, and it being im; practicable to extend the Canal to the month of the Wabash; would it not be in accordance with the spirit of the original grant, aud infinitely more advantageous to the Government and Peopie,to make the. Ohio the terminus of the . Caual? Ytmr memoralists believe that this when completed wjjj bp & great Natiwal Yohk. " It 13 ihe only one in the United States known to your memoralisis, in which the Government has an interest. When
grant shows it was intended lo be, in a Rational point of view, n great .'Public highway for the use of the Government of the U-
nited States free; from any toll, or other charge whatever for any properly of the U-
mted stales, or persons in Uicir service pass:
ins through the same. . Let any one tase
die map of the United States, and cast his
eye along the valley oirbe Mississippi, tfom
its mouth to the mouth pt theUhio. 1 hence up. that stream to Evansville. Thence along the line of the canat to Lake, Erie. Thence lo Buffilo to New York-- to Boston. Let
proved March 26th, 1804. - The first public
sale of lands in that ' district, took place in 1807, at Viucennes and from "that time to the present, the Land offices have been open there, for the private entry of lands in that district.' By the returns from ihe. Commit sioner of the General' Land Office, to . the date of September 30th 1843,lhere had been sold in the district 2,992,594,55 acres Remaining unsold atthesa'me date 1,635,131.73 acres Total land in the" district, 4,627,729,28 acres'. Thus it will "be seen that af
ter an exposure, to public and private sale, of
the lamls in tins Uislnct for thirty-six years, there yet remains the large ainount of one million six hundred and thirty-five, thousand one hundred and thirty-four acres and 73-100 of an acre" of refused, land., Which jf the fund bces are kept open for. a half a century 4o come, will not be disposed of.-. These laiida it is believed, WouW, if the canal was completed, become valuable.,5 As the country now is they are comparatively worthless to the Governmenc, and yielding- but little, if any revenue. .That they ate' refuse lands, and seldom purchased. That they afford but a small sum to the Government after de: ducting expenses, is evi.lent from the sales made at tiie land office at Vincennes,fotihe year ending.' SeptemberS0tb, 1813. ' The whole amount of sales fortbat year, in round
Bombers; was 10,253, and from that sum
is to be deducted the salarics:of the Regis
ter and receiver, their, pet cehtttge, and all
be expenses of the 0U3ees,'Ieavi;ig probably
to the Goreinmenl a nett receipt.- for, the
year of only about $ 14,000. ... ''X y
Your memoralists helieve, that tinder hTs
3iaie of things, it would be far better for the
United Staies,for the Interest of the citizens
cf Indiana-and for tlwr.e of ihe irliole.Uuicn that a grant jould be "made of s.ild lands, 10
the btatc of Indiana, for hjepnrpose of completing the great work of lutemanmprove,-
ment abovp refored to,, thns opening a diiect communication between the Like and tli6 Oliio. j. A work - deeply interesting to the Government itself. .' National in its. charac
ter; and in the completion of which so large a portiou of our coniederacv are interested.
The State of ludiana has not the means cf
prosecuting this-great work to its completion. She has already expended, as will be seen, the large ' sum of 517,092,00 on it. The. work is now abandoned, and must re
main so. unless the chief pnrty interred in
were constantly going to England for ready made clotbingy that by the-steamship Great Western J in one irip, there were measures to London-for 1200 full suits of clothes, to be be made to order for New Yotk and Philadelphia, f :' a -? " i'" - . : ;,By ihe boots and shoes brought -in" the single cargo here mentioned, American journeymen shoe, - makeis were directly deprived of patronage "to theamount of at least $15,000 and more- - probably ot $25,000, all of which was so much casu taken directly from their pocket?., And jn reference to 4he clothes ordered at one trip of the .Great Western, the journeyman tailors to 'say notJiing Of their employers, in like manner suffers di-; recily from, their pockets in '"the Joss of so much Work, to the amount of at least ,$5,CG0 cash; for ihe making of the 12,00 coa.s alone would have amonnted to $3,000 o them And t.i4, let it be' understood, was losfto American JOUK.iiEaiEN shoerdakers jrnd taTlor?, in about two ixstaxces, without referr ence to the- hundreds of others, of similar character, in theirnpt)rtation of leady-mady cloihirig, bats, cabinetfQrniti'ire&, . to fin the shojs in our large 'cities. - : ' "--' i - .Now we, wish our working men of 'all clas-
it, the Government of th& L nited States, comes to the rescue. It ia beyond ihe teac.li of private enterprise, and but for: -aid from the U. States, this great National work; must
acoinpieioa oy
Say not in your earless scorn, What boots the tale to you? ' The rhymer who traces these roegly-writ rhymes, '' " : " " " Hath known cf suchsufeters, in otherrday-
times, ' ' ' And the main of his
rhvmes is true,
of said act. frursuant to that decision, a quantity of land equivalent to lh'al granted by the act of March 2nd, 1827, that is to say uor.e half .of five sctjons in width oh , each side ot the canal," has bepu selected, surveyed and partially sold to Complete the" canal from, Lafayette to. Terre ""Haute, and the same is now- under contract the whole dis-
him look at the various lines .of cororaunicarioa terminating on lake. Erie, Aud let him ask himself the question (with the map before him) what, work now .made, or to be nude, opens so direct a communication be
tween Lake Erie, and the immense country
bordering on the lower. Mississippi? What work can be" completed so cheaply, and so
direcily aud advantageously afiectiug the. in
terests of so manvoi trie btates otthe Union
It is ho sectional work. It is National in
ev2rv point of view. In what work of Inter
nal improvement are so many Stales of the
confederacy interested as this I lenninat-
tance. The canal wilUToubtless be complet-Jiug but a short distance (some 7 miles) be
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Remember this holy truth, - -
" "- The man who aloof hath stood When a heart broken brother for succout did crave, - ' - And he stre xh'd not a finger to bless and to save, . Is verily guil'y of blood! -
'Pour. X Hero. Tim Locosbaviug hail, rather btrd Juck io banting up heroic iu behalf tf their candidate's ancesicr, aro deivrmiucd, iveeu8, to make a hero of Ihe man luiiiso! f. The lollwwirig iseXtracled from paiupnlet entitled "Polk
and Dallas Songsier.1' It would fiuve been merciful it the editor had condescetidid lo inform
oa in what fields W&rriur Polk Uus diaiiuguwh-
ed hiwaell : la ihe EKMitH he drew botli pes" anrt woab,' Aiui rduni inrfKel !o'li (!erl and word, Ti:o red cont- aim re-i skins aid flc, - . ' Fruu basdv Jmi f Teiiiieet-e! . - - . k . . . When r"d men rvagI- l!i rough tlie SpU'li,--Ilia voice w aa in the ride's uiuuih, Tho trieud o btae out 11 ick-o-rr,-Stood baudy Jim cf Teuuesaee!" - - . . ..
edto Terre Haute before the expiration' of
two years, thereby furnishing a complete and perfect internal navigation from Toledo on Lake Erie to Terre Haute in Indiana, a distance ofabont three hundred roiles--the long
est work of the kind in the Uuited 'States and probably in the wprld!" In the vstem of
Interual Improvements auopiea uy me o.ais
Qfludiaaa in 1830, u was proposed to con
low the mouth of Green River in, Ky., the
whole southern portion of Kentucky, Indiana
ana liiinois, are uuerestea in us coinpienon Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana,. Arkau sas, and .Missouri are equally if not more in
terested, and we may add Alabama, and the
Florid is. Passing on through to Lake Jt.ne
the i hoi them portiunsof Ohio and 'Pennsyl
vaniathe great State pt Aew York, and al
is fast crumbling into decay, and the 517092,00 already expended he lost to her citizens. . , '.,-..
Yonr memorialists believe, that incase of
warr the saving alone in 'one year to the U. States, in the transportation of their troops, aud munitions of war, from the East and
North East, to the West "and South. West.
with the great facilities afforded the same
noriions of the Union, tn the exchange of
their products, would more than 'repay the whole sum' to be expended, aside from the
fact ofan increase of great agricultural wealth
in the Va!!ey-of (he Mississippi, and the new
bond which such a work would create be
tween the distant portions of our common
country. - - . ' ' ."-' - - '
Ju view of all which tour memorialists
would respectfully ask of your Honorable
Body to pass- an act; granting fo the State of
Indiana, the lands in the Vincennes Liistrict
unsold, or so much thereof as may be deem
ed necessary to complete the work above re
ferred to, thereby opening a direct com
munication between Lake Erie and the Ohio
river. " ' r "
- And as in duty bound, we will ever pray:
I with the locofocopafty,would consider these
lacts well; and tlien without reference to the past preferences, -eCcordTng'to the dictates f their Own sober "judgment, judge which policy is best cnicuhuedJo sirppoit their own interests and thoseof the country." ' One' single fact I ke that of the '-arrival of ; lt3,CU0 pairs of French boots iand'shoes in one cargo, is worth, more to enable them to reach a coirect coixlusioii than-all ' the theories in the-vWorld. "' A journeyman shoientaker'or tailoK when he find? he -is discharged, and himself and J -iraily -st5rTcving through his" want of employment, afld. because the -'article's upon which he work ate.jiijtide jn Paris or iu London at prices below which" he cannot possibly make a decent living,"' does not want to read ten columns about 'democracy,Vpoor manVrighls,T and banks, iand so oni to understand his p6silidd. He sees at once, if he. looks at the subject without prejudice,that both hisfaterest aud his eights
are sacrificed through bad policy ofthe goy- .' . .J'A.ll.."f ! i. . ' -5.1.-1
ernmeui, woicq anows ior.'egners io aate 'away his subsistance, by - depriving him 'of the patronage to which he is entiiled.? The
same rule applies to'every branch; of indus
try... - - .v - ' ,
But yays a locofoco detnagogui5, ' anxious
to conceal the real issue from the- people
wpaft has all this to do :AVith the Presidential question?. We answer it has everything to do
with tt.and upontba settlement fit lires-
amtstiodu muusiry. -rnrynciay has always
been the steady advodrto-cu.- noft.
n.-.'w.L - j i.i .'ii . I " "B ciBimcu or us, was unpeopieo. monosses, many of whom are doubless still act.ngk,, teenmdin;lltbf citizens
From the Tuscumhia North Alabaman. ' ANOTHER LETTER FOR.M MR. CLAY-: We ar indebted to oar worthy fricni Joha M.' Jackson. Esq, ot .Moyltpn.for the subjoined very intertsttBg letter fronv Mt. Ctav, wliicb has been handed us for publication. It wa, drawu trom hi in in reply to a, letter wrtHen him by Mr. Jackson and T. M. Peters, Esq; touch, iug tertaiu matters connected with the annexetioi question. t . .,'.'. ' - ' - AsnLAND. 27ih july, 1844. Gentleman :l buve rereived jour lavor in -forming. m that my views, aa disclosed in tnyIfiurironi Rnli ib on the question " of the annexation ot Texas are misconceived, it notmisrepresented in yonr quarter ; and that it is supposed I have changed ir.y opinion from what it was in 1819.- I endeavored to express myself in rliat tetter as rxpliciiy as I could, and 1' do not think niw tiist-it ca be fairly misinrerpretsii. In 1819, heu I addressed the Il-use of Repre Beniaiires, the Executive had negotiated ihe treaty with Spain, by wliich TeXns was ce-Jecl. to that power. bt Congress hnd not then given any sanction to the csaion. 1 believe now as I lliought Ihert, that the Traty-makint power is,; not ruinpttcm.wiiJiout the concurrence ot Coti rtE9 to cede wey any Territory belonging xo ihe United States .But Congress, by repealed -acts, subtequdtitly . umnift'Sied its approbation " othe, treaty ;ajid these. facts reniierei it as ra'id and obligatory n50iJtte United Slates as il Congress bad gtYen its assent, prior to the.- conelc.
sion.ot the treaty. At lhat period ot 1ST9, Tex
as ss cinimea by
nect "the IVateish and Erie.caaaP with ths i the New England States.have a direct inter
Nicfoo Kctvs. "Tiie . V arsaw Signal eays thai Daniel Spetteer has been electe i mayor of Nauvoo. nro tein. George Mler and W hiHieV
ItnTA hten elected irusieesbl Hie church proper
ty, and under their management the lempie-ta
Southern portion ofthe Central Canal," by
means ot the uross v-ut vjanai iiotn itsi.ie
Haule to the Feeder Dam on . V ime i.iyer,
at the town of Newburrv. in Green cotrntyi
The southern portion ofthe f'Genlral Caiiaf '
terminates at Jjvansvnle, ou tlie tjnio iviver. In the prosecutiou of this undertaking's htrce ambuut of money has been T expended
by the State, both on the "cross cut" and the "central caual.1' Oa the "cross-cuC' froro the Dam on pel River to Tene Haute, a distance of iwenty-Gva miles, most of the Work is compleled, including the dam, and as the couiBiciors on "the Wabash aud Erie canal"
frmn IfitettH i Terre Haute, have con
tracted to riusTj this work also, in , addition lo the " Wabash aiid Erie canal," between the
points above mentioned, there is. ho doubt
that their ojJeratious will be simultaneous, and that tht portion of the "cross cut,nftom the dam on Eel river to Terre-IIaute and the
Wabashaud Erie canal to the. same point
will bo finished at the same 'fi.me. Thus
affordins eu internal navigation ftom Toledo
nri tho M-iiiniPA Xiiv (hv maa'ns'of the' a
W. lily.4.....". " J. - A J ' . , "
f he is elected it will CESTArxtv be estab
lished during his administration upon a basis
so hrm tnai n can never again oe snaKen.
On the other hand, James K. Polk fsand always has been, an -tt vowed opponent of pro
tection and an advocate of f.Jlii.i 1RADL:
he is now supported at the south solely up
on that ground, as all bis party papers and
meetings show, so that if he is successful the protective system will as " certainly be put
down. There is no disguising this issue,
however much demagogues may seek to mys
tify if. Let mechanics then , choose which ofthe two they consider a3 presenting the
clams tcvtheir support. , . -It is to them a plaiu BUSIJJESS" aiATTEK.
nroaresstner raoitltV
Ot ttlc rrypuei. uca i'-v ... . - . , .
eince. William i no i"
r. Sidney Rigaonr woo Cia':aeJ ti'e ol tiiectturett on the ground'-of his
only survivor ot tise fissi presicencv
. on tint or. mini of hts havi n
St one time as his successor, has had in claims YeieiMed bv ttia twelve, who have decided urn t i
ihaveone man tor "leader, f-ut ttiat-tfte ch - a ball be governed by tbesisoneciivel---'-
UsaderSu I p bring tits . ami
teen ffitned" ty Js
:rcu
"coun'tj '
UK i r
LoxseVity. ' Wc learn that art otri ivcmannlmedilanah, sat'l to e nil Jnuisn,. died tti this city on the IDih instant, reported to be 137 years "old. -Charleston Couf. . . . -
feeler dam on pel liver in Cb
diana.'. , 'J " . . -, v.'. . .. Yobr memorialists would fufthcr.repfesent that on UiMt portion vftiie.work from the feed- - i "' s.' '...--L i." il.a O'Tin
eroamoii tjtii river w liiisvi).c vu hj -t.i- ( t dis'anceof one bundled and-Seventeen
n-iles,) li.eie hW beeii.expended by the State ihe s un of )17.0iV2: ' la ISJ'J the'. . canal
was fmislicdl'roin Evansville lo 'tlie feeder dam
est in the completioh of this great work.
, It opens the only direct outlet between lake J
Erie and tho valley ot the niississippi..; i uq .Manufactures of the North "will, through this medium, be exchanged for the rich products of the west and South-west, and the latter through the same, will find their market in
theNorth., In case of tear, and the Babze beine blockaded by a foreigu force, vhere
will the whole cotton and ounar ot tne oouui
Western Slates- the hemp and tobacco pf
Teuoessee and Kentucky find a market, but through this ouiletl. . Where the Pork,Flour
and agricultural products of ihe fertile portions of Southern Indiana and Illinois--aud
where we would ask, will the munitions of war, and lhe.troop3 of Goverumeut, find a
safer,, easier, and cheaper route, from, ihe
North tothe'Valley of the Mississippi -than through a canal so direct, and on which the United Stales ate freed "from any toll or charges: uohatevcrV. Your - memoralisis therefore contend that the work is Nationai in. its character in the highest degree, an?
that any grants made to itare freed from aJ those' .constituiioaal obiecttons, .heretofore
la-tiirfed .against simitar uudertakiogs by, thJ.
Government. y , . ' ' , - x . ,s r ', Your metnor-alists.ask no direct pecuniary aid from Government.. Wilbotjt buiiheiiit
iiself. or the people' by -the direct rippucl-
tion of fluids from the National Trea&ury-
or by drawing up;m any resource, oireciy applicable to the"' immediate wants of tie
t :i.nrrrrs fltive the r;wer u
on Pigeon creek,, . (a disymce of twenty nv.!eH,)and boats' then commenced .naviga-
Government. Congress nave the p-iwer
.,.rt.-.i5 ilii nnfii V utin ni. th nrniixrh-faiC.
The &i ctf the disposal of the pubjc j papa's, at about the Samet.me, ;
FACTS FOR MECHANigS.. - We would that- every mecha'uic iu the
land would read, mark, learn, and inwardly
'digest' the. contents ofthe following article, from the Potighkeepsie" Eagle, ll is concise statement ofthe effects which the election of auti-piotection sis will have on all ihe indusfrial ciasses of ourcounlry, and we cannot too strongly cammend it-to their notice.
In the years when the rates ot duties upon all imported articles ranged "at 20 percent. it is well known not only that the foreign im
portations so far exceeded the "exports as to create a ruinous balance of trade against us, but that, owing to the loy duties, in addition to the usual foreign goods brought in,
large quantities of articles made by mechan
ical labor began also to .be imported end
that kind of business was increasing so . rap
id! v, that, had it not been stopped by the
turiifof 1812, it would soon have proved a
vast iuiary, if not utterly ruinous, to a large
portion of American mechanics. -Hardly-a
ship came from England that did not bring
as a portion of her cargo, a large quantity ol
London-made hats; French cabinet furniture
began also to come almost by the cargo,bat
among- the chief mechanical articles were
French boots and shoes,and read made cloth illT. - '
All who had occasion to visit our laire
cities iu those times, could see iu every quar
ter sitrus upon showing; simps filled with
Fienrhboos and shoes, and the ready maue clothini brotiht ftx;m London, could also be
fuuud uhr.e?t as easily. But we wish to call
the auemion of shoe-makeis and tailors, es
pecially the journeyman, to. I wo Btinla facts
which wis noticed particularly m me nuit.
A single shiDthat arrived in the .spring", o;
la'l'i.bef re the whiff laiill'was passed,biought
sirtccu thousand vairs of Paris made, hotels
niulI.i p." viTliii'h jere at once thrown inio
our maiktls. It was arso stat.eu uy ms. wn,
when orJsrs
A PERILOUS DESCENT.On Friday tnorniug last, one of the workmen engaged on the ne;w Ct'tHul.c cbnr'ch, at" the cornerxf Pa'k and - Saratoga streets, descended from the steeple by one ol the -ropes which they hoist bricks and tnrrrtar, and a perilous descent it was. He took bold of the wrong rope, end caitie
down: with aruii when he reached tne ground, be alighted on h4 feet, and Teoctved no injury, buta pretty severe shock, from which . lie shortly alter recovered. We rather suspect that the uext time be takeahotd .-of a rope, lie willj-'mnfee sura, he's .rigbt before be goes a bead." Ba-Sti-more bun.
"YOUNG HICKQRY."-Snalor. Foster -of
Tennessee.since his return houie,mads-a speech
at iVlurlrelsoro, in wmca be saoxa ol ir.
Polk's claims to Ueroisin as foilort's: -r .
tie said; xi r. folk was called hero a yting
hickory and asked What ereat . deeds or hero.
am bestowed upon bun the title- We are (said
Vic l. labout the feameage.' Unnna the late
war when our country demanded the- help of
all her sons, I volunteered to deteml her Irom
Iter enemies. 1 saw Gen. Jacks-"). r nas.-i bis mai
den sword 1 saw him lead his first army tp bat
I'.b and' to victory : - here- was ibis bve days
wonder then? .W lie r wta this hero i Wm t in the army defending his couutry ? Far from -it t
He was by histbeerrul Ufeeitie. in urunay s-iaw
office, conning overBlackston&'a Coramentaries.'
Yet this man is called a bero . -. -
rhat ts Free Trade! Hear the answer toihis
question given by--Geo. II. Dallas, iu a speech iu tbe United States Senate :'-
It is ture as tbe Senator from South Carolina,
has. said, that the political ecunomy of free trade,
hpwerar captivating in theory, is, fndoed, a diev covery of "modern times. It has no existence but ill books. It never bas been tested' and it never ran be tesred, without die Utopian resort to a Congrss Of nations a resort -Tccoinmetnted by some pampbleteerwbose treatise, latd upon our
table w i Hhii a lew weeivspBBi.seeiiia tucome in aid of this" new discovery of niedern times."
Wbat'is the Aiuertcau System? Geurc? M.
DiLl.3 gave the followirrg admirable aoswerto
this question, in a speech rn tbe United ctales
Senate iu trtbruary. 1UJZ; ...
Its foundation, Mr." President, is the broad
and impregnable principle of natiuiinl indepen
dence; and its object aud tciiJeiiey are to giva-
t,o lht Amerieah people, the-. -.entire people, trie
people, as a uitas. tud tu tletaii,. employ uienl oi iheirowh, resources of tlieir'own, sireugth .ut tlteir own, and. ttappiness -uf their own ; which cituiiol be injuriously effected in war or prace, through straiageui or design. by any other people. Ssueb are its eurduial cbaracterisiies, ''
of the United Stalest In 1825 and 1827, titers were but few .inhabitants of , Texas, consisting "-" of some colonists, plain J there under the authority of Mexico.' - At neither of the three periods -aboe mentioned bad any State or, section, in Ithis L'nion, nutnilested auy opposition .to Texas coinp"iing a part of Iu It bss beeit "said s that Sir. -Auanis' adiniiiisiration oSered tr rti-yocinto with Mtxico lor Texas, notwithstanding the ex- . ' islence ol a war between Spain and Melieo,andtbot it cpnrd" not iherefore have believed 'bat f tbe acquisition of Texas, t that . -time, w ould v '
"haVe involved -the United Stales in -war nvith .
Spain; Hence it is argued thai the ratification . o! the Ute treuty couid nor have comproniitted owr- frfice.'. ' '"' . : '"" ' -- : - Mr.'Adams tbovglt it dcftitabUbtstt Textt. 1; Twd toreign power clsimcd it, - Mexico was iu bossesston. and' Spoin was doing, nothing to -assert and enforce her' claim. - Her represermvs had even one so far as to. stipulate,, by a cpn- " -yeliMOn, td acknowledge the . independence of MexicaLtliouglfthat conyentiea was not rati"ed "bi pin ' - ; - - , Mr. Adams hut! s right to authorize the rjegoi ...
tialiuit cf a. treatyfor tbe acquisition of Texas1 ". with boib uiieathcr af tlie powers chutuingit. , ll was natural thai he should begin with that pVwer which' bad- the possession of Texas, Spnia bad interposed no obetscif . She Vinade, jno de
cleratiuo that she"would regard the cqu;si!ioa ol Tejrus asn .act of war. ' In point 'of fact no
overture was lornially made to Mexico-to pur cbas'e T$xas,no lieptiatiori-was opened, rio treaty wtis opened,,o treuty was concluded If 4
negotiation nad Tcomroened, oraF a treaty bad beer signed and Spain had protested, the prudent and cautious pulictr' which cbaracterijed H.T . A .1.,. ....... 1 .2 1 !. . .J . -
have prompted bun to quiet Spain, and accmno -
n.-itp inn maitRr. rirejiguT.Jo'egj?"exarioii ci
uieiiiina wsr wit 11 fcpatn. now totaiiygTI
ent are alt Ihe circumstances, under wbifi,wita
ivir. Adains'auihoriiy.lauthonxed the overt
to Mexico, ' from those which attended the re-.
cent ireatrot Mr. Tyler! So far ' from Mexico
being sileut,slie repeatedly ana aoletntily.declsr--ed that she wbulil eonsjder Citnexa lion as wsr with her.' Texas was no longer art tiniritabited. country. It bad Jbnen wrestad from tbe'domitt-' ef &lxico by citizens, many of whom went armed Irom the United-States. The wsr between Mexico. and Texas bad not been terminated by . any treaty ol Peace. . Mr. Tyler not onty tiid' not consult. Mexico, but he announced that her. assent to tbe annexation was filtogether unnecessary. And lie proceeded to conclude a treaty embracing a large extent of. territory and a numerous populat-.on, not comprehended, in tho Tuxas which the United States csded to Spain
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la the mean hm too. a powerful opposition
had arisen in the United States against the an
nexation 01 Texas to them.' Several biates bad
liec ated, through their Legislature against It, &
,brs llnot whole sectiona ot tn- union, ere
believed t be adversu to it.- this was tha
position to the measure, 10 which in my Ralei
letter, I alluded, when I spoke of a consuera-
ble and teepf efjb.e pornon ol tne confederacy. I did not refer to persons lut to Statea or sec
tions. Under such circumstances, I could not bat re.
gard tbe annexaiion of Texas at this tune, coin . promitmg the hoimr of my country, involvtnglt
in a war, In which ine sympatutes ouau curistendoin, would be aaainst us, stid endangering, the integrity of the Onion, i thought then, 8,11a ' till believe, that national dishonor, foreign war. and distraction and diviBioH at home were to9 great sacrifice 0 make for-ihe acquisiiioa of t Texas. , . But, gsndemen you ar desUous of knowingby what policy 1 swould be guided, in the event of my election as Chief Magistrate of tbe United Sistti irt refetence to the qu estion ofthe annexation ol Texas. 1 do not . think it right to announce in advance, what will be the couiao of a . future administration in respect to a question " with a, Foreign power, - I hare, however, no beeitaiion in saying that, far from having auy per. eonal objection to the amiexation of Texa, I; sliwQ.id.be glad to sec it-without dishonor witb ' out war, wuh tbe common consent ot the Union -aud upon just and loir terms. 1 do dot think that the subject of slavery ought to effect the question, cue way or the other. Whether Texaa ba Independent or Incorporated in the United Statea, -1 da hot believe will prolong or shorten th dt . ration of that institution, ft is destined to become extinct, at seme distant day, to my opifi." ton, by the operation of the inevitable lawa of population. It would be unwisa to rcfuae a per
manent acq Qisuion, wnicn win exist as tang as the globe remains, on account of a temporary iusntntioo. . . " "In the cotttingency "of my election, to which -you have adverted, it the affair of acquiring Texas should be governed by the state of fact, sod tbe state of public opiohion existing at tho tuna 1 miglit be caljed opoit to act. Above- alt, I shomd be governed by the jaraiotttrt duty of . presewtng ttiis Union entire and in harmony, regarding it as l ,do as ihe great guaranty of every political and public blesatng, under Providence which aa a Ireo. people, we are permitted, to enjoy. I am, gecllemen respectfully, . Yur obediont servant, " . . .. H. CLAY.
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Messrs. Trips. M Peters 1
M . Jackson)
ird-Jot.
'ANYTHING' FOR' A LEADER. - The Augusta (Maine) Fanner has a leader ot a column lung, beaded Cio it ,w!iWe you're young." aud in tbe course ot the entile the editor exhorts bis teade:rs to becareul bow they 'go ii;". he tells ihem io "go it" fyr early Vising; il' f.-.r ti-'m. fnr ..finriittrtii. intelligence.
In Otis "on the 12th instant, Mr. Aaron Salis- - igdom .&.: a-o it" lor temperance for strict
bury was instantly killed by lightning, Jeavtug : h enesty , '-to xt-' lor matrimony ; end in all your a large tamily in needy ciicutustartces, I go;cgs"a".'n'llorgettotgoit lor ftnewspajjei." -. . - - . " - . . ' -
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