Madison Daily Courier, Volume 1, Number 33, Madison, Jefferson County, 6 June 1849 — Page 2

DAILY COURIER.

S. F. A J. H. COVI?ff;TO, Ero. I-5i OC 1 1 AT I C -TI I A A T I O " . TOR GOVERNOR, JOSEPH A. WRIGHT, 07 f C0U.M7. ICR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, J A 31 E S H. LANE, OF rEAF.OR COUNT T. TOR CONGRESS, SECOND rTSTPICT. CYRUS L. DUNHA3I, OF WASHINGTON COUNTY. IT New Pc:a;ces, from New Orleans, have made their appearance in the Cincinnati market. Price on!- fifty cents a peck. A erocery house in Cincinnati' received, not long since, f.te thousand bags of Couee at one importation. This, we presume, is the largest importation of Coffee ever brought to that c;ty. CJ The Vincennes Sun predicts that Cel. Gorman will bat his whig competitor for Congress in that district, Mr. John S. Watts, fifteen hundred votes. O lion. John I. Morrison has disposed of the Salem Democrat to Messrs. Williams and Owen.-?, by whom the paper will be hereafter conducted. We wish the new proprietors the best success both pecuniarily and politically. Mr. Morrison has our best vvihhcs in his retirement. Close Race. The Madison Eelle and the Louisville mail-boat, Eeiie of the West, had a close race on Monday. The Madison Utile was about passing the Belle of the West, some five miles below Cincinnati, when the Belle of the West locked her, and in this way they ran to Lawrenceburgh, a distance of seventeen miles, licaufie should notenira-re in such strifes. O The Cincinnati Commercial says that there is but one frame house on Main meet, in that city, from the river to the canal, a distance of thirteen squares. (SJ The candidates for Governor have now travelled over enough of the State for accounts of their speeches to be coming in. Mr. Wright makes a most favorable impression wherever lie has been, and there is no doubt but that he will greatly increase the democratic majority in this State, at our next August election. Cf A gentleman who heard Messrs. Dunham and Dunn last Monday, informs us that they are setting along very pleasantly in the canvass. There is no necessity for their being otherwise. Mr. Dunham confidently expects to be elected, and should, therefore, LV in perfect good humor all the time; and Mr. Dunn certainly had no expectation ol being elected when he entered the canvass, and therefore, has no cause of complaint, even though the prospects are no; flattering lor him. rrrwe e told that Mr. Dunn is making 5 at artv thereby to g3t Democratic votes. It will not do. The- people have not yet forgotten the no-party promises of Tavlorism brforo the election, a d it- utler disregard of iho--e promises alVr the election. Better try something -'. Mr. Dunn. We i n 1-om Banner, of this r-orning, that the? d wehlng-house of Mr. C W. Van Iloutrn, two irries southeast of Indianapolis, was consumed by fire yesterday morning. A small part of the furniture only was saved. over three hundred daily exchanges. What uouid yon who think u is no trouble to edit a daily paper, do, if you had thiee hundred newspapers thrust under your nose every morning ia the week, for nxaniination. Add to this an extensive correspondence which is to be rend and carefully considered, and then you are jus; in the "baker" of editorial lab"?. CT V,"e received a i-lt'graphic dispatch frcr.i Cincinnati yesterday afternoon, elating that twenty-three cases of choitra and five deaths ": -V! el' ;1.-;-;:. had occurred ounng tb.o preceding twenty-four Loin If any one f-cls cu riou to know bow we iiv 1 here in Cincinnati, we advise him to t.tk a turn through tu- market one of thes-e bright morn11 gs, and aspect the rich suppiv of good tilings : spread oat in piennful oro.'us.o'a on t.i.- v.rij; 1 Uh'e? of the market men fjin. At!a. A.I vtry we.i. cut you don't te I'.S 'H3W :v;e::: off

33The fork Tribune hais always been very? in msdling with other State elects and Indiana has had a bountiful &. . of its attention. In times past, it bis bea the regular whig organ for this State. The Tribune now urges a union of the whigs and free-soilers in this State; and inasmuch as the views of the Tribune editor and Mr. James H. Cravens are very similar in many respects, and particularly on abolitionism, the presumption is that the Tribune wants the whigs to support that gentleman for Governor. Wonder if the whigs will gratify the wishes of their great socialist master who resides in the city of New York.

D-The County Board ha3 been in session since Monday last. The business, with the exception of fixing the rate of taxation for the current year, ha3 been unimportant, having been chiefly in locating neighborhood roads and making allowancesThe rate of taxation for the current year on every one hundred dollars valuation is as follows: For State purposes, 25 cents; for Insane Asylum, one cent and seven and a half mills, for Deaf and Dumb Asylum, two cents two and a half mills; for the Education of the Blind, one cent; total State tax, 30 cents. For County purposes, 40 cents; for Road purposes, 8 cents; total amount 78 cents. The Auditor has not yet reported, formally, his statement of receipts and expenditures for the year just closed, but we gather from his books the following statement: Amount collected on the Duplicate, $17.739 44. Incidental receipts for the year, 4,961 75. Total receipts, $22,701 19. Orders have been drawn on the County Treasurer, during the year, amounting to 825,399 40. From this it appears that the expenses for the year just closed, have exceeded the receipts by 2,693 2i. The expenses of paupers for the year amounted to S4,370 96. This is a great deal too much, and some plan ought to be adopted to lessen it. The poor must be provided for, it is true; but thy certainly can be provided for at less expense. The City contributes a considerable amount for this object, and we feel confident that if the City and County would unite and adopt some systematic plan, the Door could be as well cared for as they now are, and at greatly reduced expenditure. OThe weekly report of the Louisville Board of Health was published in the papers of that city yesterday morning. From it we learn that, for the week ending on the 4th instant, theie were four cases of cholera, two of which terminated fatally. The Board of Health also states that "they have never known the general health of the city, trie first of June, to be as good as at this time.'' Constant vigilance as to cleanliness is urged by the Board. rr-We are informed, unofficially, how ever, that those excellent articles upon the sui ject of cholera, which have appeared in the Louisville Courier, are from the pen of Dr. Bell, a celebrated physician of that city, and a most successful practitioner when the disease prevailed in that city in 1832, and the years immmediately following. He recommends the free use of lime, and cleanliness, as the best preventives; and m yesterday's paper we find the following paragraph, upon the same subject: "An ounce of preventive is worth a pound of cure," '1$ read, these cholera times, "A half-bush-oi of lime is worth more than a Medical College Faculty." 0 Our New York market reports have got to be regularly irregular. We telegraphed our Cincinnati correspondent yesterday a: one o'clock, to know if they had been received there. He replied: "No New York reports. No cause assigned, as usr.il." We have the satisfaction of knowing that if we are without thm, we are no worse off than our Cincinnati and Louisville neighbors. The fault is with the New York reporter. CO" Fine large cherries have made their appearance in the Cincinnati markets. Is" The Bank clerks in Lombard street, London, carry their checks and bills about them in cases chained to their arms-. The thief cannot steal the ease without carrying off the clerk. Gold, at the Lombard street bauking houses, is toid by weight, and the teller count- rmall sum Hy tvo 8ui tbr.-es at a time.

Thi Faithless Fiiidet A Scathin-j Rtbcke. George Lippard, Esq-, the distinguished author, of Philadelphia, was on of those Democrats who supported Gen. Taylor for the Presidency, oa the faith of hie no-party pledges. He took the stamp for Taylor, and urged his brother Democrats to support him, with all the energy and fervor of his nature. His wide-spread reputation as one of the most popular writers of the day, and the leal with which ha had exposed the follies, the osurpations, and the crimes of the pampered children of wealth, in their persecution of those who toil for their daily bread, gave Mr. Lippard an Immense influence over the minds of the class of persons to whom his labors were chiefly directed. Mr. Lippard has addressed to Gen. Taylor the following letter, clothed in respectful though energetic and truthful language, which most, if his conscience be not entirely seared, and if every honest Impulse of his heart be not perverted by the corrupting influences which surround him, cause most unpleasant sensations. New Albany Democrat. MR. LIPPAKD's LETTER TO GEN. TAYLOR. Philadelphia, May 22, 1849. Will you pardon me if I make bold to say a few words with you in explanation of the reasons which induced me to support you for the office of President of the United States? These reasons may also give some idea of the motives which swayed hundreds of thousands of your fellow-citizens. I am no politician. I never yet asked for an office, and shall certainly not ask one at your hands. In speaking to you, I do not lav claim to any political influence. I am backed by no clique ; I control no body of voters. I only speak to you as a citizen of the United States, having no influence beyond my vote, and the truth which I utter. In the year 1847, while a member of the Demcraiic Association of the county of Philadelphia, I began the first of a series of four works upon the history of Mexico. That first book of the series was intended to comprise a history of your campaigns in Mexico. While writing that work, I became vividly impressed with the frankness, the iron common sense, the unswerving sincerity of your character. Sick of the warfare of parties, I looked to you as the man who had been called by Providence to put an end to the mercenary bitterness of this warfare, by assuming the position of Washington not with parties, but in the hearts of the people. And this idea of your character, embodied in the work to which reference is made, was diffused by its pages among a class of voters entirely distinct and separate from the whig party; a class of voters who, imbued with the progressive spirit

of Christianity, are opposed to the principles of the whig party, as embodied in the history of the whig corporation of Philadelphia, and who are in favor of judicial and national reform who advocate the freedom of the public domain, and the right of labor to the harvest of its toil. This idea induced me to desert my party associations, break party lines, and advocate Zachary Taylor as the candidate of the people. In the month of April, 1843, your chances for the Presidency were vague and uncertain. The whig politicians in Philadelphia at least, the most prominent of them all fairly laughed at the mention of your name in connection with that high office. When the Baltimore Convention assembled, it was the earnest hope of thousands of the democratic masses that you would receive the nomination at the hands of the representatives of the democratic party. This hope proved fruitless. But at the whig convention, assembled in Philadelphia in. June, 1843, party lines were finally broken: the very spirit and front of the whig party were crushed. Henry Clay, balloted ior in the name of the whig party, failed to receive its votes; and Zachary Taylor, nominated "in the name of the people," was presented to the people without any other platform than his independence from the spirit and trammels of party. Doubtless, yon have often had described to you the scenes which marked the history of this June convention the dismay of the whig politicians of the veritable whig school the curses, both loud and deep, with which they breathed your name the three fold sacrifice of whig principles, whig platforms, and Henry Clay, at the feet of Zachary Taylor. Nominated at this convention amid the ruins of whigism, and nominated in the name of the people, the whig party did not dare to claim you as a veritable whig, of the true whig stamp, till about the 5th of July, 1843, when news came to Philadelphia that Hon. Bailie Peyton had. in New Orleans, solemnly endorsed you as a whig, and placed your feet somewhere amid the ruins of the demolished whig party. This statement gave inexpressible pain to thousands of your friends in Pennsylvania. Well aware that yoa had not been nominated as the candidate of any party, certain that you could not by any chance be elected in the name or on the platform of the whig party, your friends I speak of the masses, who loved you for yourself and your independent position received the statement with an emotion that was not to be mistaken or evaded. They felt that either Mr. Peyton was in error, or that Zachary Taylor Lad falsified his often-repeated pledges. Under the influence of this wide-spread feeling, I made bold to write and tend to you the following letter-

Its Tery abruptness of styls indicates the sincerity j which impelled iti composition : ! Tnnjzzz.rmk, July 5, 1S43. j General: Will you regard a word from, a I

j friend as impertinent or obtrusive? It is after a ; j great deal of reluctance that I am induced to j i trouble you again; but having faith in you now, j as I have had ever since I pledged what literary , reputation I possess to yoa in my book "Le- i i gexds or Mexico, or. Balile$ of Tailor" I make ! 1 bold to say a frank word to the General cf the j people. j j This is the case. With thousands of democrats j 1 in this State, I depend upon your declaration that ; ! you "would in no case be the President of a pnrj ty, but the President of the people." Oa this S i ground the democrats of Pennsylvania will vote ! for you by hundreds and thousands. I But we are now told that you are exclusive- ; j ly the candidate of the Whig party, to be run as 1 J a whig, elected as a whig, and to be under whig issues. J If this be the case, the State of Pennsylvania ; will be lost to Taylor and the country. J I do not believe this to be the case. Those who think with me in this county do not believe it. S But to set the matter at rest, will you answer this i letter with one line? and with that line the hun- j dreds and thousands of Pennsylvania will move ! in a body for you. ! General, do not reject this appeal from a man j who loves you, not only for your battles and the ! moral grandeur displayed in them; but loves you, j first and last, because you have taken the position 1 ! of Washington not with parties, but in the j j hearts of the people. i j And as for the line, say simply: "I am still the j i candidate, not of a party exclusively; but if a j candidate at all, the candidate of the whole peo- j pie." GEORGE LIPPARD. j Here, General, was the whole case, plainly ; stated in a line. You were here told that if the attempt was made to elect you as a whig, and J upon whig issues, the State of Pennsylvania would j certainly be lost to Taylor and the coun'ry. At I that time, with thousands of democrats, I believ- ! I ed that your election, as the candidate of the ; j people, would subserve the best interests of the j i country. And, what was your reply to this let- f i ter, which appealed to the best feelings of your nature? On the 9th of August I received your j answer, which I annex : ! Private. Baton Rocge (La.), July 24, '48. j Dear Sir: Your letter of the 5th iust., asking j of me a line or two in regard to my position as a candidate for the Presidency, has been duly re- i ceived. , In reply, I have to say that I am NOT a tar- j TY candidate, and if elected, shall not be the ! President of a party, bc;t the President oe the whole people. ' I am, dear sir, with high respect and regard, your most obedient servant, j Z. TAYLOR. j George Lippard, Esq., Phila., Pa. This, you will remember, was after you had accepted the whig nomination, in a letter which said nothing at all about whi principles. I The publication of y our letter of J uly 21, erej ated a great excitement among the people and the politicians. Whig papers in New York denounced it as a j "locofoco" forgery. The North American, in j Philadelphia (once the organ of Henry Clay, and ! now the northern organ of the Secretary of State), seized upon the word "Private," and, in i weary columns, assailed the person to whom the I letter was addressed, as the betrayer of your confidence. Other journals, however, which circu1 lated among the masses, hailed this letter withun- ! qualified approval, and placed it at the head of j their columns, as "the greatcreed and watchword j of the Taylor party." j I must frankly tell you, that had you not made ! the declaration embraced in this letter, I, for one, j could not have advocated your election, norgiven you my vote. Certain it is, that without this declaration (soon followed by your Charleston letter), you could not have gained the vole of Pennsylvania, famous for her old democratic ma- j jority of "twenty-five thousand." What was the result of this letter, and of the excitement immediately consequent upon its publication? The whig party in Pennsylvania forthwith dropped the very name of whig. They stored it away perchance under the sepulchre of Girard's squandered bequest,' maybe under the ruins of some broken bank jut you well know, and every reader of the papers knows, thatin the late campaign the battle was fought, not unoer the name of Whig, but under the united nams of "Taylor and Fillmore." The democrats were asked to vote for you a the independent candidate the candidate of the people as the man who had do friends to reward, no enemies to punish in fact, as Zjchary Taylor, who, in the case of his election, would not be President of a party, but the President of the whole people. And with your letter in my hand, I addressed thousands of my democratic fellow-citizens, and on the securit1.- of your' unbroken faith, stated that you could not, in sdv event, become the President, much less the creature, of a party. Upon your own solemn declarations, I honestly advocated you as "the President of the whole peopie." j I did not for a moment indulge the thought j that you could ever become the centre of a mre : prty Hdminiftrstson Hsd I cen tM. y you.

that you would evr become the head of an Administration made up of whig politicians, I could no., ia any case, have advocated yourclairns, Eor would you have received the vcta of a heridred! democrats in Pennsylvania. Now, General; the smoke cf the content htw cleared away. You are the President. Elected upon the faith of your solemn pledges, yoa are at the head of the government. Have you fulfilled these pledges ? Ask your own heart call back that iron purpose; thatclrarsouled integrity, which bore you through the carnage of Buena Vuta survey the faces of your cabinet, and the faces of those partsana o." your

cauiuei who uu w eiorm uia inie nouse ICT th spoils of office. Answer me! I have a right to ask an answer. You pledged your faith to me, an humble citizen, and I believed you, and told my fellow- citizens that you had never broken your word, and could not forget to-morrow what you had pledged to-day. Was thatletterof July 24, which I bore through Pennsylvania, only a cunningly devised fable ? Was it your intention to send me forth to the masses of the people with a lie in my mouth ? To vouch for y our "independence of party" in October, in order to find you in May at the head of a mere cabal of a party ? Did you make a dupe of me, so that I might become your agent, in duping and swindling my fellow-citizens into the trammels of the whig party ? You know the whig party of itself, or by its own issues, could never have accomplished your election. You know that the whig leaders, fresh from the slaughter of Henry Clay of that man who has for the last twenty-four years, sacrificed to whigism the best instinct which God implanted in his nature could never have elevated you to the Presidential chair. You were elected by democratic votes. These votes were seenred to you by the force of your independent position. They were not bought with silver, gold, or the hope of office, but won to you by your pledges. And now, sir, you will allow me to ask you one or two questions: In what part of your administration are thesedemocratic votes represented ? Among the army of office hunters who now besiege the doors of the Whit Hous, how many of your democratic supporters t an you discover 1 Sir, the truth must be told; and as I supported you earnestly and sincerely, I will speak the truth with most uncourtly frankness. Your election h is been fruitful only in discontent and dissatisfaction. Elected iu the mmeof the people, you are surrounded by advisers, chosen not even from the mannod of the whig party, but from its veriest hacks and trimmers. These advisers seek to entail upon the country, on a colossal scale, a system of error and misrule such as disgraced the age in the shameless expenditure of the Girard bequest by the whig corporation of Philadelphia. Had you been elected as a whig, and upon the strength of any known whig creed, I would not complain. Is it not a painful thought that you, the man of the people, should fit there in Washington as the leader of the mere fragment of a party as the embodiment not of whigism like that of Henry Clay, which slates its pinciples and fight its battles in the sun, but of whigism which works in dark ness, gathers strength by unholy coalitions, and builds its power upon broke pledges ? And now, sir, as I wash my hands of the last traces of political Tavlorism; as I state my regret that I ever acted the part which your pledge made me act, you at least must admit that I never served you with the hpe of effics that I have, always been among that humble band who, working well and long for you, underthe impression that they also worked for the good of their country; could neither ask nor accept office at your hands; for those hands which wero fre at Buena Vista free in the late campaign are now tied by the trammels which have been fashioned from the very ruins of the whig party. GEORGE LIPPARD. To President Zachart Taylor. One's Mother. Around the idea of one's mother the mind of man eimg with fond afftion. It is the first dear thought stamped upon our infant harls, when yet soft and capable of receiving most profound impressions, and all the after feelings are more or less light in comparison. Our passions, and our wilfulness may lead us far from the object of our filial love; we may become wild headstrong and angry at her counsels cr opposition ; but when death has stilled her monitory, and nothing but calm memory remains to recapitulate her virtues and good deeds, affection, like a flower beaten to the ground by a rude storm, raises up her had and smiles amidst her lerrs. Around that idea, as we have said, the mind clings with fond affection; and even when the earlier period, of our loss, forces memory to be silent, it takei the place of remembrance, and twines the image of our departed parent with a garland of graces, and beauties, and virtues, which we doubt not that the po-esed. IT The true spirit cf r-l gioa cheers as well as composes the soul. It is not the business of virtu to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to rerruidte themThe Heart. Continual prospentv harcn the heart, as continual sunshine does the earth ; but when the one is softened by the tea-s of sorrow, and the ether by genial showers, they yield bote fruit whirh the Decesiti ef men ren-ra.