The Wabash Courier, Volume 11, Number 40, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 10 June 1843 — Page 2

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From the Indiana Stat* Journal- .-»•• TO THE PEOPLE OF IlfDIANA.

iS The Locofoeo Pnrty and the System of interWf nal improvements in India**."—*Tl*e iiectlon of that Part? with the SygU»m.lt«

Locofoco raismaniMsenient. A lexander Morriaon. John VVoodburn. Elfftha none. L® cofoco Defalcation. Whi* Mnnacement of the System fnlly approved by the L-ocofocos,

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Having fully demonstrated the Locnfoco incnplion, passage and exclusive appropriation of the System of Internal improvements, with an entire knowledge of its estimated cost, together with their endorsement of the Representative principle in the Board of Public Works, we proceed now to develope the facts ^$in reference to the management of that System. Having stripped from the wire-^k* crs.of that partv their fabricatgjjf"d ™ls® **cuKfor it. iupnnrt, lo.^ftrTKat theT wore -fccriwrf into it if lymjrat.malc. of

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.,jLpWrttbgonly subterfuge, viz: that the sysbeen under exclusive Whig manage,Nflintent and thnt such management has been cor"a! it has met with •a:

rupt and wasteful, andf their uniform hostility. ',

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first we pronounce the allegation false, which a I ledges the System to have been under exclusive Whig management: and secondly wc shall prove gross violations of the law and official corruption in prominent Locofocos

who

have been entrusted with its confrol. Mr. JOHN WOODBURN, of tho town of Madison, (where the Locofoco candidate for ^Lieutenant Governor and the "Deep Diggins" reside,) is as noisy and bustling and thorough a Locofoco as the State of Indiana affords. This gentleman was a MEMBER OF

BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS from the YEAR OF ITS PASSAGE until the year 1839—a period embracing all the extravagancies and State involvements which the system

has entailed: a period covering THIRTEEN EXTRAVAGANT LETTINGS OF

PUBLIC WORKS, and embracing tho legislative efforts for a classification of the Public Works. Lives there a man who can point to John Woodburn's protest against anv net of the much complained of Board of Public Works? Was his voice ever raised against this harped-of theme of extravagance and folly? Never! (ZrBut on the contrary, it ioas under HIS DIRECTION\ as Commissoner upon the Madison nnd Indianpolis Rail-road. that THE STATE OF INDIANA HAS BEEN SUBJECTED TO THE PROFLIGATE EXPENDITURES UPON THE "DEEP DIGGINS"—the leveling of a liill beneath which lifs buried more of the Stato's funds than all the bnlance of the Public Works havo needlessly consumed. In this conclusion, if we mistake not, even the citizens of Madison will concur, whose city js now (so far, nnd so far nlone, tis the Railroad is concerned,) but a thorough faro, linking a chain of travel, which sweeps it by, to

Louisville and Cincinnati. Nor is this tho worst feature in Mr. Locofoco Woodburn's career as a manager of the System of Internal Improvements. It is also a f^pt, Locofoco as he is, that as Commissioner, ho exceeded his power*, and over-let the Public Works contrary to law in the sum of FIFTY THO UitSAND DOLLARS, for which SUITES brought upon his official Bond!

MR. ALEXANDERS MORRlSON.also the very personification and spiritual embodiment of Locofocoism, the old Editor of TIIG DEMOCRAT—theconceiver of the System and yet tho writer of Locofoco Addresses in which Aedares tfc rail against tho System and its management—ALEXANDER F. MORRISON was also a Locofoco member of the Board of Public Works, and was also a Commissioner.

And what was Aw MANAGBMKNT(!) of the System during his connection with it? Why this liend and front of Locofocobility, in his rapacity of Commissioner, over-let the Public Works to THE AMOUNT OF NINETYTWO THOUSAND DOLLARS —and this, too. IN THE LITTLE SPACE OF SIX MONTHS! Yet this over-letting early friend to the System,—this upsetter of the law in the rail-road speed of six months, now has the presumption to affix his Locofoco name to an Address to fhe people of the State railing against the System and its management!

WILLIAM HENDRICKS, Esq., (nor is it spoken to his discredit) was a member of tho farfamod MADISON BOND COMPANY, nnd every-body knows this "ex-Locofoco U. S. Senator, Governor, and Candidate for elcctor on tho Van Burcn ticket.

And GKN. ELISHA LONG, of whose devotion to tho Locofoco principles no man can doubt—(a long-tried leader among theni within and out of the legiilative halls) was also a mrmberof the Board of Public Works, and was also a Commissioner. And what was his MANAGEMENT of the System of Internal Improvements Why, to begin, he overlet the Public IForJts in THE SUM of ONE

HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FOUR THO US AND DOLL A RS A nd, (wo regrot to add, but the truth must bo spoken.) ho converted SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS OF THE PUBLIC MONEY TO IjlllS PRIVATE USES!

So much for the management of tho System of Internal Improvements. Wo now proceed to redeem our pledge by proving to the people that the acts of the TVhig met hers of the Board of Public Work* and the Agents crmncctcd therewith have been PUBLICLY APPROVED by the leaders of the Locofoco Party, and in doing this we promise to consume but little space,

We begin this evidence as for back ?isr *88, \whon tho Bill passed, before party capital makers bent the knee to falsehood. In that year, speaking of the State Board of Internal

Improvement, Mr. BOLTON, as tho organ of the Locofoco Partv, uses the following language through the Indiana Democrat, viz

Wemiwt permitted to congratulate our friends thai the good cause is committed to W* HIGH-MINDED. ENLIGHTENED.

AND ZEALOUS MEN, as the mmbtrs of mr STATE BOARD of INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS."

Here is commendation at ^nearly day full-blown panegyric it is too. We add here the unequivocal approval of the acts of •. the Board of Internal Improvement, for year* •subsequent to the above publication, by such men of the Locofoco Party, as Messrs. Woodburn, Long, and Morrison, who acted ajttf them and tanciianed their acts. We come now down to the years, and to the session of the Legislature, of 1841-2—the period «Aca the System was wound up and its officer* were disbanded by the action of the Legislature, it ft well known that at the Session of aj84l_a, the Board of Internal Improvement

disbanded. In that year Doctoa MASON and JESSE L. WILLIAMS ware of the Retard of v*- I

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Engineer, had been connected intimately and for a very long period with the System of Internal Improvement. The reason assigned for disbanding the Board and for abolishing the office of Fund CommissioneY, then filled by NOAH NOBLE, war not because of any faithlessness or inefficiency in those officers, or in either of them but because of the Pwblic Debt and the absolute necessity^of tbe suspension of the System^ in Upon that occasion, the Hon. EDWAKll A. HANNEGAN, now the Locofoco United States

Senator,

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was a member of the House

of RenreseDtatives and delivered a speech, in his iriace, from which we make the following extract. The reader will observe how indignantly Mr. Hannegan repels the desire to disgraci the Whig officers by the abolition of the offices which they held. The extract is as follows, viz "I have no particular wish, for my part, to retain any of the present Board in office, nor do I know that they are desirous of continuing themselves but there is one of th^m, sir, Jesse L. Williams, who is entitled to better treatment at the hands of his political friends here. That gentleman, sir, like Gov. Noble, is my uncompromising political opponent but, so far as my personal feelings are concerned, 1 know of no one who possesses a greater hold on my esteem as a private citizen AND A PUBLIC OFFICER, "But we are told we must not abolish the Board, lest tho act may be construed into a censure upon the conduct and character of Gov. NOBLE We must not abolish officers acknowledger! to be of no further utility, and recommended to be abolished by the Governor of the State,—because, in so doing, we will legislate Gov. Noble out of Office By the act of 1838, we legislated Thomas H. Blake, Elisha Long, John Woodburn and others out of office. In 1840, we legislated Samuel Lewis, as« member of the Board of Internal Improvement, and Lucius H. Scott as Fund Comnrissioner, out of office. Were all these gentlemen disgraced 1 There are some men

in that list, Mr. Speaker, that you must know jigjlt

well, and who. whatever difference of opinion

disgrace Thomas H. Blake or Furrington

fhe public welfare and promote t/te interests of the people." In addition to this testimonial of Mr. Hannegan wo have before us a Iqtter from ROBERT DALE OWEN, Esq., a distinguished Locofoco, (which letter w^ have not the space to publiuh,) wherein prominent whigs connected with the System are fully sustained by him in their official transaction?. We close the evidence on this point with a statement of tho fact, that the Locofoco Legislature, of the vear now alluded to, evinced their firm confidence in the integrity and their sanction of the character of Doctor Mason, the remaining Whig member of the Board of Public Works, by electing him OVER ONE OF THEIR OWN Party, as tho Agent of the White-water Canal, f*

J-Iow fully do ihe fuels which wo have been considering forever silence the base falsehood that Whigs have had the exclusive management of tho System of Internal Improvements! And how fully do these facts convict them of falsehood, from their own mouths, in the chargo that tho Whig management of the System has been fraudulent and corrupt 1 for, how abundantly has it been proven by the declaration of their leading Press made at the birth of the System by the acquiescence of their own members in the acts of the Whig members of the Poards of Public Works by the public declarations of their own honored son, made when the System expired, nnd by their own act, in the re-election of a Whig member of that Board to office, how abundantly has the charge of Whig corruption boen thus falsified by their own lips!

Our next numoor will close the series. In that number we shall show thai it is to the Whig Party, and to them alone,(notwithstanding the Locofoco Party had repeated power to do it,) that the People of Indiana are indebted for the winding up of the System of Internal Improvements for the investigations which havo been had into the conduct of their public officers an2 for the legal measures which are now ]n progress for the punishment of the guilty.,

THE BAMBOO.

Tho bamboo is a native of the hottest regions of Asia. It is likewise found in America, but not in that abundance with which it flourishes in the old world. It is never brought into this country in sufficient supply for anv useful purposes, being rather an object or curiosity than utility. But in the countries of -Ki production it is one of the most universally useful plants. "There are about fifty varieties," says Mr. Loudon, in his Botanical "ffcfttijdtiary, "of the Arundo Bamboo, each uf (he most rapid growth, rising from fifty to eighty feet the first year, and ihe second perfecting its timber in hardness and elasticity. It grows in stools which are cut every two years. The quantity of timber furnished by an acre of bamboos is immense.' Its uses are almost without end. In building, it forms almost entire houses for the lower orders, and enters both into the construction and furniture of those of the higher class.— Bridges, boats, infests, rigging, agricultural: and other implements and machinery carts, baskets, ropes, nets, sail-cloth, cups, pitchers, troughs, pipes for conveying water, pumps, fences for gardens and fields, &c., are made, of it. Macerated in water it forms paper the leaves are generally put round the te* sent to Europe the thick inspissated juice is a favorite medicine. It is said to t» indestructible by fire, to resist acids, and, by fusion with alkali, to form a transparent permanent glass.

may have existed respecting matters of policy, Magazine of Natural History. you must have respected and esteemed for |Vi The Blackbird destroys a great namber of the virtues which adorn their characters as gruj,Sf SfC—"Last August, I observed eight gentlemen of unimpeachabTe integrity. Were

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character destroyed by the provisions of the •{ir(]ens bill now under consideration? No sir no At the season, to repay the man can be disgraced by the adoption of a gardener for the tithe ofhis crop, their naturmoasuro like this, intended only to subserve

Arcbadeaoon Paley, speaking of ha lady and daughter, used to say, "I never let my wamcB, when they shop, take credit I alnn ante dm* |»y i«dy mowey,**, S3SL~£g-B: SSZt££. ESTSrf ready money is such a check upon the litoftg- aesrly Wt oarce «f umwhsaJisi.«

PLEA VOK THE BUDS.

A* the season Is at haw! when tbe Birds begin their labors in onr fields and gardens, it bccomes their friends to interpose for their protection, from the wanton pertecution whioi pursues them as regularly as they make their apnerance. No fact in natural history is more certain than their

really

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the titmouse and bulfinch, usu

ally supbosed to be so mischievous in gardens, have actually been proved only to destroy buds which contain a destructive insect.— Ornithologists have of late determined these facts.

An English paper tells us that some df the large farmers in Devonshire, under a st*w*g prejudice, determined a few summers ago, to try the result of offering a great reward for the heads of crows but the issue proved destructive to the farms, for nearly the whole of tbe crops failed for three succeeding years, and thev have since been forced to import birds to re-stock their farms. We add a J0* other facts collected from experience: f®: "Every Crow requires at least one pound of food a week, and nine tenths,of their food consist of worms and insects one hundred Crows then in one seasqs destroy four thousand seven hundred and eighty pounds of worms, insects, and larvre from this fact

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they, too, disgraced? There are some of pjajn ja front of my house, and the grass them, "sir, whom 1 have known well and long,

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and even now wear in my "heart of hearts" from hejr mischievous operations—and ihe as the tried and proved friends of years' gun

pUr8Ue their game undisturbed, and that

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Did they disgrace Elisha Long and will '{'hjs js another instance of the utility of preGoverjwr Noble's reputation be sullied or his

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soon regained its verdure.—-

ing birds on farms, and in pjrehards and

«roifnre nnd nvnmntetit*, intp.rp.sts of treeg of more deadly enemies which infest them, and tho small caterpillars, beetles, and various insects now constitute their only food nnd for hours at a time they pay be seen feeding on the all despoiling canker worm which infests our apple trees and elms.

they fail not to assist in ridding his

NullaVs Ornithology. Tho Boblincoln is perhaps next to th#U*dar bird or Canada Robin, the greatest destroyer of tho canker worm. Building her nest and rearing her young under the oipple trees, as this bird often does, she requires an immense number of worms for their subsistance just at the time that they are tnost destructive. "I have observed one of these birds/'saysa neighbor, "go round the limb of an apple tree inn spiral direction, and do* stroy in this way every worm »n the tr^B, in an incredible short time. No man" added he, "can calculate the value of birds on a farm. I have no doubt but that they save me equal to the labor of one man for the season besides preserving my trees from destruction. f?Birds, then, not excepting the hawk and owis, are vastly more useful than injurious to man. None of them should, under any pretence, be destroyed.—Newark Daily AAv.

NATIONAL HATRED.—The time is not very remote when the English and French recipe rocally thought it their interest to preverft the growth and prosperity of each other, an$ the long war between them strengthened that feeling: and so it was also for a considerable period between England and America. But continued peace, and increasing commerce, has convinced the more intelligent in all countries, that every addition to the wealth and happiness of any single country is directly bcncficial to every other. Englaiw is more useful to France, and France to Eng* land, now, by commercial interchanges,than they ever were before and the most tiffling and temporary interruption to tho~ prosperity of either of these countries is sensibly fe|t a* an injury to theotl$r whilst between Amer ica and England the connexion is now so close and so strong, that it is as impossible for the one to be depressed and embarrassed, without the other partaking of the suffering, as for any one limb of the human body to be afflicted with wounds or disease without the whole body being afflicted by the calamityBuckingham*s America.

DEATH OP NOAH WEBSTER. Noah Webster, L. L. D., and popularly known as the great American Lexicographer, died in New Haven on Sunday evening at 8 o'clock. Dr. Webster has been a long time before the public as a prominent individual in various departments of social life.— He was early distinguished as a political writer of great ability, and be afterwards engaged in the business of pablic instruction.— His publications, as valuable assistants in the work of education, wero widely known and favorably received. In 1807 he entered upon tbe arduous task of compiling a new and complete Dictionary of tbe English language, which, after various difficulties and discouragements, be succeeded in completing for publication in 1828. "Dr. Webster had enjoyed remarkably vigorous health till within a few days ef his death. On Monday of last week he was slightly unwell, hot no alarm was felt iy his family. His disorder, however, soon took tho form of pleurisy, and be gradually sunk under the attack, till, at the time above mentioned, in the foil possession ofhis reason, he died with entire composure and resignation."

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though we are not prepared to admit this to be their only or their highest claim to oar regard. It has been ascertained by various and careful experiments that they protect our choicest fruits from the ravages of the insect tribes. That they are sometimes mischievous in the autumn is not denied, but the li tie harm they do in the fulness of the year is more than compensated by the destructive havoc thev make amongst the insects and vermin of ihe spring. The quantity of grate destroyed bv crows, and of caterpillars and their grubs by the various small birds, is immense. Other tribes of birds, which feed on the wing, as swallow*, &c. destroy ijitUrons of winged insects, which would other wiseinfest the air, and become insupportably treat** some.

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be formed of the benefit

much persecuted bird of tho farmer.'

Blackbirds busily engaged in the grass

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standing, but who, did they now hold the jng |,e object of the birds' search, I turned places proposed to be vacated by the provi- ^a p}ece turf with the spade, and found sions of this bill, could have no earthly influ- jt fiterally swarming with grubs of various ence whatever on my mind in performing a jzes. 1 need not say that they wore allowed public duty. I ask, did the acts alluded to

were, seemed dying, as was hinted,

suggested as the remedy. Suspect-

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IMPORTANT FROM TEXAS. ~The steam packet New York brings to New Orleans important intelligence from Texas. President HOUSTON, as some of the N. O. papers some time since predicted, has issued a proclamation denouncing Commodore Moore, "Post Captain in the Texan Na

for having disobeyed the orders of the department, in having repeatedly refused to return th^essels under his command and to report himself in person at Galveston. The proclamation again commands him to report forthwith and in case of his failure to obey, or in case he has gone to sea [as he has actually done,] the President declares the Government will not be responsible for his doings, and requests all "the Governments in treaty, or on terms of amity with this Government, and all naval officers on the high seas, or in ports foreign to this country to seize thesaid Post Captain, E. W. Moore, the ship Austin and brig Wharton, with their crews, and bring them, or any of them, into the port ofGalveston, that the vessels may be secured to the Republic, nd the culprit or culprits arraigned and punished by the sentence of a legal tribunal." Th'e Galveston papers are most loud in their condemnation of Houston's conduct, aud the N. O. Bee thinks he will surely be lynched. Anticipating the action of Houston, Commodore Moore, previous to his departure, addressed to the editor of the Galveston Times the following notice

V. «. APRIL 19tb, 1843.

la the event of my being declared by proclamation of the President aa a pirate, or outlaw, you will please state over my own signature, that 1 go down to attack the Mexican squadron, with the conttnt and/«u( concurrence of Col .James Morgan, who is on boanl this ship as one of the Commissioners to carry intoM* feet the secret act of Congress, in relation to the Navy, and who is eoing with me, believing, as he do«, •hat it is the best thing that could be done, for the country. This ship and the brig have excellent men on board, and the officers and men are nil eager for the contest. We go to make one degperate rtrnggt* to turn the tide of t» luck that has so long been running against Texas. ...

You shall hear from me again s« soon as tff Yours, truly, E. W. MOORE. The Indians on the frontier have proved somewhat troublesome, considerable depredations having been committed by the Lipans and Tonkewas.

Intelligence has been brought by this arrival of another Santa Fe expedition. ,It is announced in an extra Civilian of the 16th instant, which stntes that early this spring Col. Snivley received' a commission to Taise a body of three hundred volunteers in the frontier counties of the Northeast, for a descent upon .Santa Fe, and the capture of the tyrant Ar"hiijoand the traitor Lewis, and to inflict suitable punishment for the barbarous treatment visited upon the trading expedition under

McLeodand Cook. The great difficulty was not to raise the requisite number of men but to keep too many from joining. The various counties readily turned out from twenty-five to forty men each. Five hundred, says the Extra, are certainly known to be in ihe field, and it is thought the force is nearer eight.— The place of general rendezvous was Coffee's Station—the time, the 15th of April. The route was on the south side of Red River, and military operations were to be exclusively confined to the territory of Texas and Mexi-' co. From the information from Santa Fe, strong hopes were entertained of the capture both of Armijo and Lewis. The volunteers were all fitted out at their own expense, well mounted, well armed, die.

The Civilian concludes its notice as follows "They are believed to have information of »U the Mexican parlies which were to have left Santa Fe or St. Louis, and will probably intercept them on the road. Their object does not, however, end hew- The city of Santa Fe witl be entered, and, if it is deemed prudent, and if the people of the country are able to wstinguiBh their triends and benefactor! (rom the tyrants and blood-Backers who now oppress them, a descent will be madeupon Chihuahua and the whole of

Northern Mexico may be revolutionized. On tbu. however, the men are determined That they will not return without Armijo and Lewis, dead or alive.

SALES ®F LANDS BELONGING TO THE STATE BANK OF ILLINOIS.—The Alton Telegraph, of the 20lh ult., says: ••On Monday, Tuesday" and Wednesday, of this week, the sale of the real estate ill this and the surrounding counties belouging to the State Bank, took place in this city.— The result has astonished every body and in our opinion, many who have bought, under the expectation of paying in certificates at their present rates, will find themselves badly bit. The property not only sold readily at its appraised value, but, many instances, more than doubled it. This was the case with nearly all the improved property the bank held in this city, and several tracts of land within three miles of Alton, appraised at six and eight dollars per acre, sold for twenty-five dollars per acre. The sales exceeded one hundred thousand dollars and, if the bank is as fortunate in her sales at other points, her real estate, instead of being dead capital to her, will prove a source of profit. This cannot avoid enhansing tbe rates of both her scrip and bill."

LAZINESS.—-The Ia2iest man we ever heard of was described as follows, to a friend of ours, by and old lady in Cowen county, Ga. "Perhaps you did'nt know Zeke Gibbens, what lived down here on West Fork well, he was the laziest man you ever hearn tell of. When he and his wife got married they had a pretty good chance of truck, between 'em. But Zeke was to lazy to make crops, and so everything went to rack and ruin. Zeke's wife was a right smart'oman, so she told him one day ho'd got to go to work, says he, '*Hunney, 1 don't know how to work." Can't you plough! "says she. "Don't now how," says Zeke—"well I show you," says she so she geared up the hoss, put him in the plough herself and took Zeke and led him to it, and put his hands on tbe plough-handle, ami do you think the lazy critter did'nt stand there without stirring an inch till the calves eat all hi9 coat tail of

A noble trait in tbe character of the Spanish is thus eulogized by Barrow, in his "Bible in Spain." "To the honor of Spain be it spoken, ft is one of the few countries in Europe where poverty is not insulted nor looked upon with con»mpt.—

Even at an inn, the poor man is never spurned from the door and if not harbored, is at least dismissed with fair words, and consigned to the mercies of God and his mother. This as it should be. I laugh at the bigotry and prejudices of Spain I abhor the cruelty and ferocity which have cast a stain of eternal infamy on her history but I say for the Spaniards, that in their social intercourse no people in the world exhibit a juster feeling of what js due to the dignity of nature, or better understand the behavior which it behooves a man to adopt towards his follow being.

DEMOCRACY*

What is Democracy we mean modem democracy .—The Richmond Whig thus describes the article:

This thing called Democracy is one of tbe most varying and unfixed things in all nature. Like Sir John Falstaff by Dame Quickly, one knotfs not where to have it. With each revolution of the Heavens, with every vicissitude of the seasons, it assumes a new and different disguise—One while, and in one quarter of the country, it is totally different from what it was at another period and a different place—so much so, indeed, that its most intimate acquaintances are puzzled to recogniseits personal identity. At the North, for instance, the very quintessence of Democracy is equal rights and equal privileges universal equality—and consequently, un^ compromising hostility to any man, who by industry has grown richer than the mass, and to the whole institution of domestic servitude, as it exists in the South* In the South however, pure Democracy and Slavery are held to be one and the same thing. In 1816, a National Bank was a Democratic measure —it was chartered by the Democrats, led on by James Madison. John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, Wm. H. Crawford, &c., and was vehemently opposed by the old Federalists headed by Daniel Webster & Co. Now it has become the very personification of Federalism —although many at the north, the west, and even in the city o/ Richmond, who call themselves Democrats, are Bank men, and open confess that a national Bank is absolutely necessary to the restoration of the national prosperity.. In 1834, the sub-treasury, when propsed by Gen. Gordod, was denounced as the vilest offspring of Federalism the country had ever seen. In 1837 the Richmond Enquirer repeal denunciations against this illJated abortion—characterising it as every monstrous and detestable—as increating the patronage of the Executive, already too great for a Republic, snd making two currencies, the better for the office holders, and the worse for the people. But presto, change: -'This reviled monster has Itocome the very test of Democracy. It is not denied, that it will augment the Executive power, and make two currencies but a mammoth Executive, and specie for the office-holders, and rags for the people, constitute modern democracy. Again, in regard to the Tariff Messrs. Van Buren and Dick Johnson and Silas JTright and Buchanan—shining lights in the Democratic ranks—consider a Tariff part and parcel of the Democratic creed. On the other luind, Calhoun, and Ritchie & Co., abhor a Tariff as Satan does righteousness!— And vet they are all the purest of Democrats 1

That we do not misrepresent, we have only to remind the reader, that Wright and Buchanan both voted for the Tariff Bill of the last Session and Col. Dick Johnson, in accepting nomination as the candidate of the Democracy for the Presidency made by the Democrats of Indiana, writes, under date of February 6, 1843, as follows: .•'Taxes collected indirectly by commerce are least felt and most cheefully paid and sf they can be so regulated as to evolve national resources and roar up skillful artificers and manufacturers, the patriot's hope would be consummated. It is the true democratic doctrine, as far as I understand it, to give thts incidental protection to agriculture and manufactures, nnd thus give universal satisfaction to all liberal minded men, by extending a general advantage, equally regarding every section of this great extended confederacy. »]t is the true democratic doctrine to gipe incidental protection."

Ritchefcnd Calhoun awear that "incidental protection" is arrant Federalism! .. This ia but a sample of the identity of principle cxisiina in thia great democracy! The truth p. as Mr. Calhoun observed, they have no principle wve that which is supplied by thscohes.ye power der. They are monarchists, or lories or Federalists, or Jacobins, or Agrarians to suit circumstances.

COM. MOORE.

The Galveston Times of the 16th instant contains a complete history of the difficulties between Commodore MOORE, the commander of the Texas squadron, and President HotrsTOH, from which we glean tho following facts: It appears that Com. MOORE, whilst at New Orleans with his fleet, involved in debt contracted on the faith of his government, received orders to put to sea and^ proceed to Galveston but it was not in his power to obey these orders because his government had not fulfilled its promises to afford him the means required to pay the debts incurred on account of the squadron. Relying on the faith ofhis government,Com. MOORE had pledged himself not to leave New Orleans until he could pay for provisions which kept his officers and men from starving—and clothing, which concealed their nakedness. His officers had also pledged themselves not to leave with him until the debts, which the deplorable situation to which they were reduced forced them to incur, should be provided

Whilst \hus circumstanced, the government of Yucatan proffered him the pecuniary and be was so much in need of, with the express understanding that be riiould repair at once to the port of Campeachy, where the Mexican squadron had concentrated itself.— Conscious that whilst he would be enabled to afford relief to the besieged Yucataneae, he would also promote tbe interests of his own country, Com. MOOBS accepted the overtures of tbe government of Yucatan, and tbe result has already been made knows to our readers. When news reached Texas of tbe proffered aid of Yucatan, Commissioners were sent over to watch tho course of events. They consulted with tbe Commodore and approved of his course. A letter, dated at Campeachy on the 11th instant, has been received at NewOrleans from Col. MORGAN,theTexan Commissioner who accompanied Commodore MOORS to Yucatan, staling positively his acquiescence in all the movements of the latter officer who [Col. M. says] evinced no disposition after their departure from New Orleans to pursue any course contrary to tbe wishes of the Commissioner on board, and would have proceeded direct to Galveston if tbe cruise to Yucatan had not been functioned—Bait. American.

THE AMERICAN 8I/SDIT SCHOOL UNION,—— During a recent address in new York, Dr. Tyng said that tbe American Sunday 8chool Union has under its care 2,000,000, children hmt published 00,000 separate volumes during the last year, besides giving 288 libraries to destitute schools. It has received 14^ 000 in donations. He said that cold and freezing sectoring was the greatest of evils which afflicted the church.

TSWSOAJKS Tourr,—"ReveJutiooary esU water armies the eae drove tbe red tmt* (mm am laod—tits other the red

TO THE4MTHIG EDITORS OF INDIAITA* Brethren will you do us the personal favor to place this article before your Readers?

James Whitcomb charges us with misrepresenting him. If this bo true, it is due to truth that we shall be freed from his si a 3ders in our absence. We therefore make to Mr. Whitcomb the following proposition, based upon the following facts

We have

charged

ries—the

James Whitcomb as fol

lows: 1st. We have charged him with having been an Adam's man and a Clay man. 2nd. We have charged him with having 'sought an interview wtih General Harrison at the close of Van Buren's term, tmd with having had that interview. 3d. We have charged him with addressing letters to President Tyler intended to keep himself in place, and to blast the political prospects of his appointed successor, fe 7 4th. We have charged him as having returnod to Washington, after his interview with Harrison, uttering praise, in public phi- iv ces of the old chieftain, with a view to pave his way for a Whig summerset upder his ad- II ministration.^ 'V* 5th. We have charged him with having endeavored to procure a printing press to establish a Clay paper, in opposition to General Jackson, and in favor of Henry Clay. 6th. We have charged him with voting for the Mammoth Bill, knowing its estimated cost, to be sixteen millions of dollars: and not only so, but with voting for additions to that bill to the amount of two millions* ,? 7th. We have charged him as excusing hisf vote for the Bill upon the ground that he was instructed to vote for it and yet, as excusing his vote fo the additions to it, upon the ground that he so voted with its enemies that he might destroy the Bill.

8th We have charged upon him that ho opened the campaign for Governor with tho Traitor Kelso, by a speefch from the same stand, in the same town, and by ft publication to that effect -otit

From these charges we have made our own inferences. We now propose to Mr. Whitcomb that if« he will deny the truth of either of tho fore-?' going statements, our columns shall bo open lo his denial, nnd if we shall fail fully to* prove them, the "misrepresentation" will be corrected through the same channel whcnco. it has proceedetfP0*1

We pause fortt reply,—Ind. Jour.

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Frvmtke Baltimore Patriot.

There was an attempt to gut up a ^ryleir meeting in Princess Anne, ^Md.) on Tuos-, day last. The whole country of Somerset had been invited, and as a Tyler meeting any where, but especially in the good olda county of Somerset, would be a rare sight, the attendance of the people was very large. After some difficulty, Mr. LITTENTON DENNIS TEACKLR was allowed to take the chair, and Me&srs. Jones nnd Ouslcy appointed Secreta

votes of these throe gentlemen be

ing all that'was given for the organization, it was necessary that they should forego their usual modesty, and vote for themselves— which they did., There was then an ominous silence,and a speech called for. But no ono responding to the call, Mr. Teackle, seoing no other way of having tho thing dono, proposed a long string of resolutions. On putting them to vote, they were voted down.—. Mr. Jones then requested those opposed to the object of the meeting to withdraw—but no body went. Determined not'to be balked by such impoliteness, Mr. Teackle again put his resolutions to vote, and, although every body voted against them, but him-ielf und tho secretaries, he declared them unanimously adopted. In announcing this flattering vote, Mr. Teackle took advantage of his rising to make a speech in favor of Mr. Tyler—and gulogised him in a way to ensure, we should suppose, according to the practice of theAdministration, his appointment to somo office of high profit.

Mr. Teackle's speech over, a motion was. made to adjourn, but the motion was voted down—the question of adjournment was therefore waived, and the meeting declared dismissed I .«* v, axm.

0^7~The (Portland) Eastern Argus infers from our remark that "nine-tenths of the. Whigs have solemnly resolved to vote next: year for Mr. Clay or nobody" that we admit thrfbther tenth to be opposed to him.—But. that is not within a mile of the fact. Ninetentbs of the other tenth prefer Mr. Clay to any other man, and undoubtingly intend to support him and no other.

We are sorry to perceivd that our friend' of the Argus, justly elated by our praise of' his former prophetic achievment, undertakes to prophesy again, and this time with deplorable ill success. He begins well "We have heretofore said and we now admit, that Mr. Clay has great personal popularity among his political friends, and that it will require activjty and diligence on the part of the Democracy to defeat him."

Very right, sir, onl^ not quite enough sovr —But who could imagine that, directly after* this, the man proceeds to cypher out tbe de-. feat of this very hard-to-beat candidate by four or five hundred thousand votes! What/ a melancholy break-down! Eliphalet says:

uBut

Ae [Clay] will be defeated. Look at

the fads, friend Horace. The Bank question, the Land Distribution question, of the Currency and Exchanges, and the Tariff question, are all dead-set against him. In truth the entire business and labor of the country are against him" 6&c. &c.

And a piece after be adds: -t( •iiy"Mr. Clay'sfriends at tbe South ftto as. much opposed to a Protective Tariff, and a United

States

Bank, as Mr. Webster can be."

Why, friend! slim as you are at prophecy, you are absolutely worse at stating what purport to be facts. How much "Mr. Webster can be" opposed to every thinjg he has hitherto supported, is not now in point but we defy you to name any whig paper or prominent friend* of Mr* Clay at the south who is hostile to a United States Bank. Name if you can! On tbe other hand, there are several Locofoco candidates naming in that section who avow themadvc* in favor of such a Bank. So on, the tariff: while the whigs are almost universally satisfied with Tariff as it is, we have just received tbe leading Loco.Foco paper of Louisiana (the Courier) taking ground in favor of Protective Duties, and rebuking tbe New-Orleans Tyler paper for advotingFree Trade in Sugar! N. Y. Tribune.

Neighbor, look At home.—

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