BY G. SANDERSON «j E. COIINMAN.]
VOLUME 26, NO 62.
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SPJBECIt
The Iffon. William S. Mam set;,
Delivered July 4, .1839, at. the Democratic
Celebration near the borough .of Carlisle.
Jifter the subjoined toast was read.
“Hon. William S. Ramsey.—Our repre
sentative in Congress. dlis.lalents, integri
ty and ardent attachment to, and efficient
support oftirepublican principles, have been
too marked to escape the abuse of his polit
ical opponents, but arc known and appre
ciated by the democracy of this. Congrcs--
sional District; His affability of manners,
and gentlemanly, deportment combined with
untiring habits of industry, are a guarantee-,
that the interests and wishes of his constitu
ents will be faithfully represented.”
Mr. Ramsey rose ami addressed the com
jianysas follows:
Gfnllpmeri:— Under ordinary circumstan
ces, I should have'willingly permitted-the
compliment just paid me to have passed in
silence, as the mere evidence of personal re
gard. But the relationship that now exists
between us, enjoins upon me the duty of ac
knowledging your kindness.
Another year has elapsed, and another
page has been added to the history of onr
country since we last assembled arpund the
festive board. Within that period; we have
witnesstd_.the bright prospects'ol (ho far
mer vanishing under the withering influence
of a tropical suri, Nhd again viewed our fields
waving with the-fruits of agriculture, , We
have seen the mighty ocean subjugated to
the power of steam, and beheld the rise and
fall of political dynasties. , ■
Witfiin our own bprtWs we have not been
the mere spcctatorspf passing events. Many,
nay.all of us,,havj£jiarti<;ipated in the glori
ous struggles thafliSvg-Jed. to the emanci
pation of our Commonwealth from inisrule
and anarchy*-;; YoUtfire familiar with’ the
scenes attendant op the recent Saturnalia of
Federalism in •FeiißSyivania. 1 therefore
make no apology foirdwelling on a few dark
passages ju llie modern folloWr
ers of Lucius Sergius_ Cafaliiie, who are
identified as.fhe’prPmihcnt nctors in the
drama.. Cataline was a ,distinguished Ho
man Senator, descendeiLof a' noblß'familyr
When he had squandered away his fortune
by his debaucheries-an,d extravagance and
been refused the consulship, he secretly med
itated the ruinof his country and conspired
with manyjof the most illustrious of the Ro
mans as .corrupt as himself to extirpate. the
Senate; plunder the treasury/'jn‘d : dissolve
the gbverifnvent.' CicerD Avas- at that- time
Consul, and.frustrated by his prudence and
management, combined with, his eloquence
the'plans pf the conspirators. Bolingbroke
remarks in connection with the event, that
■to little purpose would Cicero have attack-,
cd Cataline with all-the vehemence that in
dignation and even fear added to eloquence,
if he had trusted to this weapon alone. This
weapon alone would have secured neither
him hor, the Senate from the poinard of the
assassin.; He would have had no occasion
to boast that he had driven this infamoug
citizen out of the walls of Rome, ahiit, cx
' cesait , evasit, erupit,- '.if he had not made it
beforehand impossiblefor him to continueany
longer in them. - As little occasion would he
have, had to„assume the honor defeating
without any tumult or any disorder the de
signs of those who conspired to murder the
people of .Rome, to destroy the Roman em
pire; arid "to extinguish the! Roman nartie, if
he had not united, ny skill and management
in the coramdn cause of their country orders
of men the most: averse to'each other—-if he
had riot' watched'all the machinatioris of th.e
conspirators .in: silence, and. prepared a
strength sufficient to’resist them at Rome and
in the provinces, beforehe operied this scene
Qf villairiy to the Senate and tKe pCople.
' In the history of the famous Roman con
spiracy,’ and the means applied for its sup
pressiori, we read the events of later days
-within,the confines of our own Common
wealth* Cataline and his band of incen
diaries had imitators here, who, . thirsting
for power,, aiidT defeated in their aim, were
willing to turn the bayoaets of an armed sol- ■
dicry on the people of Pennsylvania, destroy
the republic, and reduce us to anarchy.--
These are bold and startling assertions, but
we cannot slumber over the distant muttcr
ings of the earthquake,-nor-bccome-sudden.-.
ly insensible to'the loud explosions that
rpeked our political fabric to ita centre.- —
We saw the capital of our State, converted
into a military fortress. We beheld a thou
sand men paraded in all the pomp and cir
cumstance of war, and marked for a time
the complete dissolution of government. —
That these events were the results of a dark
conspiracy to carry out the principle of de
feating the popular voice as expressed 'con
stitutionally at the polls, cannot now be de
nied by the most sceptical of political devo
'tees. Indeed, after the close of the late
canvass for Governor," the proclamation Was
boldly and- unblushingly. made, that the e
lection was to be treated asrif it had not
happened, and that the votes of the freemen
of Pennsylvania were to be scattered like
chaff to the winds. This insult, although
coming from a high.public functionary, was
looked upon at first as the idle menace of a
desperate adventurer; and not until the
meeting of the legislature wc.i;c the citizens
pf the Commonwealth fully aroused .to a
sense of their danger. "We then beheltl lhe
Secretary of State, the minion of the Ex
ecutive, withholding the/ returns of elections
from the House of Representatives under
pretences the most sophistical, in violation
of law and custom. 'The members elected
to"'the' ilotrU&.fithfP-fftie-of the counties of the-
State by overwhelming majorities, were to
be excluded by the Secretary and his coad
jutors, and, under illegal and fraudulent
certificates, the minority candidates were to
be forced into their scats at the point of the
bayonet. In the Senate, the Speaker in ac
cordance with previous, concert, and'irrdis=-
regard of established'usage, seized the chair
before the organization of that body, for the
purpose of pcrforming'tho iniserable.part as
signed him in the plot. Two individuals,
the automatons of the triumvirate, appeared,-
were permitted to be sworn as members’ of
the Senate without the shadow of right,;and
and in violation of the common principles of
honesty. In addition, preparations were si
lently making to,annul thc-popular election
of Chief Magistrate, and publications issued
under the eye of the Executive, threatening
an appeal to arms if these high handed mea
sures were resisted! ,
Was it to be expected (hat (he patriotic
citizens assembled at Harrisburg; would sub
mit in silence to these iniquitous violations
of (he constitution? Did the conspirators
contemplate the same quiet victory over the
people’s rights, that they achieved in re
chartering the Bank of the United States?,
If so, they were wofully mistaken. The
spirit of patriotism that glowed in the bo
som's of our revolutionary ancestors when
they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and
their sacred honor, on (he. altar of their
country, was. not yet extinct. Their sons
witnessed a more daring attempt against the
liberties of theircountry, than the mere im
position of a stamp tax. They bcjhcld an
evident design to unite the Legislative and
Executive branches of the government, ami
to perpetuate the power of the Chief JVlagis
trate. They saw before them the shadowy
outlines of a despotism, which can thus only
be formed by the union of all the depart
ments; of the State in the hands of one indi
vidual—and is it surprising (hat they pre
pared for resistance? Had they submitted
in silence," the constitution was a dead let
ter, and future generations would hqye pass
ed into slavery, or become rthe, victims of
revolution and anarchy. :
; The" adyocates~T)lk;ai;biti'ary""government"
dwell .upon what they, call the scenes of tu
mult—
a season. ; They sanctimoniously represent
themselves as the exclugiVe' friends of social
order, and invoke public-censure upon the
citizens who frowned into'insignificance the
attempt to;subvert the constitution,' We
are also continually "denounced. as dema
gogues, mobocrats, and revolutionists, with-,
oh t principle or patrloti3in, whil3t.they claim
to possess all the decency, talents, and or
derly deportment as the peculiar-attributes
of their party ori parties, whether hydra
headed or -monotonous;" These sage advo
cates of ihc.supremacyof theTaws seem to ’
forget, thavthey, immaculate as they are,
were.in theirq'Wivproper persons the individ
uals .who raised thW s torm, and only,from
sheer necessity advocates.of
p'eace when, they found tliav,(he: spirits of
the deep would not obey their'shy,. They
held in remembrance the days of tifolder
Adams, and the reign of terror—
seen Eagle paraded with inrJ
punity through the streets of Philadelphia
shrouded iti black. Their papers had threat
enedthe flashing of pistols’Wdd Ihe gleam
ing of .dirks. l They had heard' Mr; Clay
their great champion-declare that, we-were
in the midst of a revolution bloodless ds.yet,
. and Mr. - Webster pronounce ex cathedra,.
that there were no Sabbaths, in revolution
ary times, and Mr. Binncy on the same
Sabbath proclaim,‘thaL if the Barth . could
not be restored to Ms rights (the deposites)
peaceably, Jt must by the sivord, had:
aiaoon record, the resdlufipmoftiheWy'hig;
military association op'BaUimpre, toencamp
-ten thousand-men on the, capitol hill whilst
the;- vote on the charter of the Bank was;
pending. The -ten cent rebellion in
■York against specie exactions by the goy
eminent'.was also fresh in their mpmoryi-s;'
With all these brilliaiTt.examples of Jaco
binism before their eyes, the. Federalists of
Pennsylvania did not'dream when, tliey;un
furled the black flag of conspiracy and-rc^
“NOT BOUND TOSWEAR IN THE WORDS OF ANY MASTEK.’’^—Horace.
' ‘ • *-• •’ • ~ I * * • ~ : ■ "■ ' 1 r
CAREISEE, Pa. THURSDAY, JUJLY 11, 1839.
bellion, that they would be crushed in the gree that where it is decreasing in amount, .General Jackson and Mry Van Buren have
very onset of battle, by the gallant sons of poverty and.misery.must prevail. The cor- both been charged with the removal ot. d
democracy, who cause our fields to smile, rectness of the opinion is too manifest to re- frightful numberof public agenfsi.-De loc
our work shops to resound with the cheerful quire proof. The united voice of the nation (incvdle n distinguished french wntersays,
hum oftpflnstry, \yhn whiten evory bpa witl\ attests its accuracy. As there is do record- the old Hero dismissed them &IU
their canvass, and compel the extremities of ed example in the history of nations of a re- whigs inform us that Mr. Van Buren
the. earth to acknowledge, our. name*— They- jflu.cti.on 'of the currency, so rapid and so ex- tui ned^outtlic balance,-SO-that we have- toe
had counted their legions and set their tensive, so but lew examples have 'occurred fact more than proved by cxcellent/aulhor
squadrons in the field, but when the crisis of distress so general and so severe as that Sty. Monsieur De rocqueville, tip doubt,
arrived for action, their forces shrunk from which has been exhibited in the U. States, figured in good society whilst in America,
the contest, and, their leader precipitately To the evils of a decreasing currency are and honest Dogberry would pronounce that
fled from the indignant frowns of an insult- superadded those of a-deficicnt currency.— — he and the whigs .were in a tale. I, leave
ed people. In the language of Cicero*™ •cihiit But, notwithstanding it is deficient, it is still them howev cr to settle the matter amongst
cxcessit~ — cvctsit Then were wedc- depreciated. In several of the states the themselves, according to'federal statistics.
| nounced as the folloAvers of Danton and,Ro- great mass, of the circulation is not even os- But by plain old Democratic, method, of
hespierre* heard’raised for the tensibly convertible into specie at the will I have ascertained, and 'can
first time, the hypocritical key-note of adcs- of the'holder. During the greater part of prove, that General Jackson did not remove
perate faction, who, foiled in their effort to the time that has elapsed since the resump- one third of the whole number of Office hol
dcstroy the Republic, - like true political tion of specie payments,-the convertibility of dc.is._in the Union,.and .that .in the city., of.
charlatans, wheeled 'about, turned about, bank notes into specie has been rather nom- ashington, undei his eye, a large
and bawled out lustily for the supremacy of inal in the largest portion of the., ipnjority of the immediate recipients of Ex--
the very laws therhad attempted to trample Union; On the paVt of the banks, mutual ecu live favors were in opposition to his Ad
undcr foot. So much for the consistency, weakness had produced mutual forbearance, inimstiatiou to the Inst, and continue thus 1
candor anil'corruption of the Ectlro-Whig' fhc extensive diffusion, of bank stocks a- undei IVli* Van Burcn--Still we aic denoun- 1
Antimasonic-Abolition Coalition in Penn- niongst llic great body .of the-citizens, in ced,as a pai ty of Goths and Vandals, .within
sylvamn. . " most of the States, had produced the same whose unhallowed grasp every thing sacred I
But Finay congratulate you, fellow citi- forbearance among individuals. To demand m umbles into dust,, and even at whose birth,
ZC ns cloud is dispelled——the wand banks, when it was known they steeples and uiosa grown towers toppled to
of the magician-is broken, and his book bu- were - unable to pay, was to destroy their own the ground.
ried deeper.than the plummet sound] “in interests, by destroying the credit of the Monstrum horrendum, inferme, mgeps, cut
despair he exclaims. hanks in which the-productive-poriion of lwnen~ademfatum.. -■ ;
The spirits 1 htivc raised abandon me- their property . wee invested. Id ‘ a 'or of The opposition do not announce m whose
Plic spells I have studied baffle me— forbearance was also added the influence of footsteps’ they intend to ticad in the cicnt of,
The romt-dy 1 reck’d of tortured me; (be great mass of bank debtors. Every dql- obtaining power. Their whole policy is one
I lean no nujre on super-human aid, lar ill specie drawn out of the .banks, espe- of mystification. Their secret aim may
rSTfTi“SJHfJL’I!?.’.y*m ,r,Tbn'rru '' cialTv for exportation induced the necessity however. .bq.caaily _diyioed from jthe. move*
It tenet oLrav search'. : ’ of curtailments- ‘ To this portion of the coni-| inents of the party in difierent sections of j
Mv days arc'numbered, and my deeds recorded, manky all other evilswere light, when com- s the Union. The editor of the Evening Star,
Pennsvlvania stands once more on a nroud pared with the imperious, demantl of tiic , a lead mg wing paper published in the Oity
emlnciice, fea'less and lmr palh banks. Their exertions to prevent the drain of N.ew-'Vork“says. <m a recent
strewed wifli tlic blessings of peace, her soil of specie in the possession of those who con- i tec must have a National Bank. Stijlc r the
rich with the '-olden tribute ofam-lculcure, .trolled their destiny equalled the magnitude matter as ice tvill—indulge our parly no-
in the calm enjoyment of of the evils, which'were to be avoided, fn | lions as.we will, to this course icemust come,
happiness ami. prosperity. inost parts bf the Union this forced state of if we have any regard for Hie good.of it h e
In the contemplation of our national af* things is passing away* Ihe convertibility ioh.otc count) y ! llic whigs of Ndith Caro
fairs wetiavc additional reason to feel orate- of hank notes into specie is becoming real : lina, at a recent gathering, adopted the
'providence. whenever it is ostensible. If public opinion! resolution that (hey weredecidedlyin favor
administration of Mat-tin Van Buren has docs not correct the evil ip those States where jof a national Bank, whenever if may,be
bemUcharacferizcd' by events unparalleled' this convertibility is not even-ostensible, iU deemed by Congress expedient to establish
in the history of the 'Union. Coining into will be the imperious duty of those who are) one. AmUGovcrnor Cannon of Tennessee
power at a period when the country was invested with the power of correction to ap- boldly iccoinmcndcd . the measure to the
convulsed by the disastrous explosions c'onsej plylhe appropriate remedy. people in an address lately published,
quent on a ruinous banking system, hc has The remedy for the disasters complained V e shall see whether the frec-nreu of
braved the storm, and safely carried the ship of in 1818 ami 1838 will be foil ml in thees- these United States will tolerate a war in
of Slate into harbour. He has fearlessly tablishment of an an Independent Treasu- disguise upon their best They
exposed to his countrymen, the shoals'and m r under proper restrictions, which Will on- have alieady condemned, as uncqnstitu
quicksamls, that lie beneath the ocean’s able the government at all times to meet its tjohal, inexpedient and dangcrousjdr. Bid
surge, and pointed with llic precision of an engagements in the. legal currency of the die’s manufactory of rags, audtvhen they
experienced' pilot to the beacon-light that is country, and to introduce something hke find the same defeated party again in the
to n-uide us hereafter in olir political voyage, system in the emission of bank paper. • flic bold, witli the Clays, the V ebstci s, the
He* 5 has boldly lecommonded to llic Nation- opposition fo this measure is-not surprising Southards, and Sergeants, of bank notoriety,
all.c'dslatore. Tplan for the rexeiptaml when we discover its connection with the at their head, they cannot be deceived into
disbursement of (he public revenue, that vital interes's of the banks. The whole rev- au abandonment o>. their principles. Theclo
will place him high on the list of statesmen, ..etiue of the government lias heretofore been ven.fdot will be too visible, even under the.
' and endear him'.to the scientific world. The so much capital in their hands, upon which mnple garment of Whiggeiy, which conceals
moral counin-c evinced by Ibis act alone in they could discount’, and enrich themselves.' jwithin its folds the tattered remnants of all
opposition to nearly a thousand banks, with' Its withdrawal brings down, of course, the jpnrtics that have oye^oxistedi. under (he I
fheir immense anti complicated interests in- anathemas ol tlic federalists who conttol 'sun* At tins %ci i y would scorn, ;
tenvovon with every department of trade, these institutions, who arc extremely, loath ? ou.r. opponents have no ostensible plan of |
marks him out as the future candidate for to surrender both political and financial pow- operations, suvedn an indiscriminate warfare
the Presidency of those who wish our na- or—hence the note of preparation in the on the alleged abuses of the Administration,
tional curreucv placed on a stable and per- camp of the enemy forthe coming Prcsidcn- *1 he cxpendiluies of the Go\einmcnt, and
(iiancnt basis'* Tlic evil coniplamcd ol liere- *tial„clcction» From.Mainc to Louisiana, tlic the defalcations of some agents of thc,.l ieas
toforc in our monetary system, has been, the advocates of a fifty million bank, arc rally- ury are the fountain heads fioni whence the
too frequent expansions and contractions of; ing their forces i_n_ favor of Mr. Clay, is mighty rivers of eloquence continue to
the circulating medium'through tlic jiffcncy I pkdgcil to,sustain the measure* In despite flow* But let .me f*in the lan
of banks. Political economists all agree that ■nf former denunciations of a National Con- guage of tlic 'Virginia on a icceni
this slate of things is extremely pernicious vcnlion, it appears that our opponents will occasion/ thiough wliose instcunientality the
to the interests of capitalists and dciikrs, S assemble in December nextand-conccntratc cxpendituics ol the Go\ct , ninpht liave been,
and that it operates with peculiar severity their whole strength upon this distinguished augmented? Can a solitary instance be sug
on the debtor class of .the, community, who j champion of the moneypower. But\ycneed gested, iii which the whig party have 1 oppor
include• perhaps nine tenths of our incrch' jdread the result* indications on sed any measuios on the sccic of'.cxpensc?,
ants and manufacturers* The real value ofj the. political-horizon are too brilliant to be the. jouinals of Congress™—examine
property never varies, it is always the same, dispelled. Although we may anticipate a the recorded votes of the members, and be
but the' nominal; value in dollars aiiil cents fierce and bitter struggle, the principles of fore you pass-sentence judge for yourselves,
- is madekb. change, wi th every new emission i Democracy are, too deeply .roofed in the af- lyhcther the Representatives in .Congress of
-•qf-bank I papery. chinwe~ J again r willn^-fectibhs^-or-tlie-pe6pVe- : tOrbe-prpslrafed r nt^'-the'very-party^wliich"makeg-the-chargchave-
cvery curtailment, so that tlic individual 1 tfi‘s fate day, by a combination wanting even not been (he most zealous in urging, and
who owes ten thousand -dollars when' the * n the common ingredients of strc.ngtli— sanctioning by their Votes, the very expen
circulating medium is" four ■hundred inil- ' otiioii Of-actions —We-havcrar dituies-wlnclrhavo-formcd-thc ground-work
lions,' must necessarily be in debt twenty formidable array against us it. is true, of- the of so much clamor against the Admihistra
thousand, when it is Veduced tu half'tlirtt a- old blue -Convcntlonigts of tion. JSVe stiquld recollect the; rapid increase
mount, and the lender is benefitted or in- flip north', with their adjuncts, the Abolition- of our country in territory and populatibn
jured'in the sariie ratio. To this ever vary- ists,- the Antimasons & modern Whigs of the the admission of new States into the Union.,
ing nnd ever fluctuiitiiig systenLare we to middle states, the Conservatives and Bank .—the nccessafy multiplication of- jiublic
attribute the comnierciaf disasters That have' men of the south, .all "professing diflefent extended andtr:useful,
befallen our country.' In referrin'"- to docu- principles,' maintaining diflererit intcrestar though .expensive operations of the. .Post
ments cmanaßiig from tKe Tr&Bury Tmd^rrolng^Tiompimy^twhethiJijf Gflice-D'epartment^nd-the-great-hut-ifnaf:
.ment, I discover by a report of Mr. Craw- that which Sir,John'l'alstafl’ marched to the voidable auginentation of expense,resulting
ford, that,all the evils of suspension and de- wars. Their success no doubt‘will be as from these various causes. The national
qiression in (he money .market in the years signal. , Sif‘3ohn declared at thc end of the revenue has also beeh' expended in.dcffay
-1817-18 and ; l9, ,are„statistical!y,.jiroved to campaign, that lie led his ragamuffins where ihg (fiercest of-expensive Indian .Wats'—the
have resulted from’this cause; He says: they were beautifully neppered, there being cxtinguTsWmenUof ■ Indian titl.eiV-by which
The paper circulafiOn of 1813 hhs been <is- but three out of three hundred and fifty left many.millions of acres of,valuable.land have
timated at $62,000(00. ’ At that period liOw- alive, and they were for.the town’s end to beg been acquired, giving peadelto-oursbprdeTs
ever gold and silver formed a fiubstantiul for life. ' ■- aiul enlarging tlic national doniuiu--ihe pay
part of the 'currency. - The condition of the These’modern crusaders inform us that menCof pensions'-rtlio inerease of the Army
old Bank of the United States in 1810, and Mr.'Van - Buren is the ruthless advocate of and Navy. In addition to these considcra
of the sixteen banksiiTlSlS, proves .thatthe proscription, and-reprobate, in, the strongest tions_ it ipustbe obvious that the accumula
demand for specie from the vaults ;,of the terms, the abuse of the patronage of-tfie go- tion in .the Treasury of an immense surplus
[banks was inconsiderable. ...It isVtlilerefore yernment, founded on (lie odious, doctrine revenue, was of itself calculated -to render
Nnble that the whole circulaiiorfin 1813 of to the victors- belong the spoils. The Pre.- the National Legislature less provident Ilian
ambiK*gjj t 0,570,000,000. InTBl5 it is es- sideiit is fairly scouted 'at for removing a they would have been with a revenue at
Hsen to $110,600,000 and portion of the officers of fjie national admin- command not more than adequate to .the
jiiabably augmented ia tstration.. The act is .denpiihcfed as the vin- necessary wants.af the Government., . , ,
t®to. tliese- estimates the dictiye ostracism, of party, and. the whole The embezzjcment of moneys by public
®?l!*?. c l'' l O 'U'W .P'Hcd'Btailes h'ad in the country is plunged'into,mourning- fur the officers has afforded a-never ending theme
space, of three. . reduced from unhappy victims of a'merciless tyranny." But for the press and the stump. But dur assail
sllo,ooo,o9o tp S4S,OOONTq. This redixc- they fail to inform us, tliat, in the state of ants do_ not go back to the of the
ti.qn exceeds fifty nine qier the"whole' New York, the magnanimous whig party. Government to discover that these abuses
circulation of 1-815.. Ihe fact cur- have, under the present administration re- have occurred at times evcr.-since its' foun-
in ,1815 and 1M.6 was moved no leSSthan eight hundred dependant dafion, and are inseparable from its very
not sensibly dimmish the ,eucct_ individuals from emnlovoient -on nolitical existence. In the days of. Washington and
community of tliis grearand sudden They'seem to bp forgetful, too, 'Jefferson, we liad our Swartwouts, Prices,
tion. Whatever was its degree of deprecia- direful havoc ipade.afnqngst tlio dem- Gbuverneurs, and Gratiots on a small scale,
lionj it was;still the measure of value. It oc the* statoe of Mine, Connecticut At these periods, banks, chartered monong'
determined the price of .labor and of all the and Mary ani j_ lln der federal authority, and lies, and stockapeculations did
property of the community. A change so are quite iriSw siblato the party prosciaptioo inducements to individuals
Violent could not. fad. tinder the most favor, of the.tecent >^mi„j a t r aUoB' 0 B' in Pennsrlva- magnificent rogues.'.that JKert
able: auspices in other respects, to produce ma, who, not cS tcnt with ' a . general sweep have held out at alater
much .distress, to check the ardor of enter- of the.democratic uq cc | lo lders carried the Reference to the : files of thy ’' ,
priso, ; and seriously to affect" the productive spoils so V t iS"X-vcry partmeutdt wilt be -fbuntt
energies of the nation. • workmen from the pub»K ai'c covered with of
AO intelligent writers Uptni Currency, a-, starve on the barren ’ • ■ ?i' ew ry"ii)eriod of htW-fitstory. No one Ad-
[AT TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM..
HEW SERZES--VOZ..«, HO 0.
ministration' can be censufed more than a
nother for these misfortunes;, In'the selec--
tion of fiscal agents, all govertltnents and all
parties have at times been deceived, and if
Mr. Van Burcn~ did happen to place confi
derite in Mr.’ Stvartwoiit, mav l notask our
opponents whether they toodfd not jamninate -
him for the Vice Presidency? and whether
lus-nominationfor Collector of.the Customs ■'
at New York, was not confirmed by the hdi
vice of a Senate Committee' of- whigs, ’ with
Mr. Silsbee at their head? Ido not blame
the federalists for their course either iu se
lecting Mr, Swartwout as their candidate for
the second office in the Nation, any more
than I censure the same party for confirming
him in .the Senate; but Ido reprobate the
idea of placing the mal-practices of this
swindler .to the account of Mr,,Van Buren,.
he .having exercised all the prudence and
caution that could be reasonably expected
from the Chief Magistrate of the Nation.—
It will be seen 100, that by the recommenda
tion of the President a bill passed the Sen- _
ate to punish thfsefiolations of public trust
as felony, but in the House; where.the oppns
sytion hadf he majority, the measure was not
even acted upon; and should future culprits ’
escape punishment, the Administration will,
as a matter of course, be assailed for neglect
of duty, according -to -the whig--modo-.of-- r
Guerilla warfare. But I need not dwell upon
the .thousand ridiculous' charges brought n
gainst the Gdvcrnment.'tliey arc usually the
fanciful.etchings of a band of pensioned ed
itors, iWhoTare : at ho’tline'alixious about the
truth. •Pfie^y_cry_jiame.of’their .fiarty., is a• _
libel upon the gallant heroes of the Ucvolu- .
tion who carried the star spangled banner in
triumph over land' and scar’ Their whole,
history from'the period of the downfall: of ■
federalism exhibits nothing but a masked and
insidous cllbTt to deceit e, the people. Some
Of the old blue light Hartford Conveutionists
have even gone so far as to steal the very
cloak of Democracy, 'wherewithal to cover
tjicir political nakedness, unmindful at this
■’forte hour, that the name of tiro assumed
garment was used in’other'times, as a term
of reproach,by'the self same harlequins',who
now figure so fantastically in their borrowed
plumes. They have filched from us our old
party appellation, and in lieu thereof, assail,
their; conquerors With the soubriquet of
Loeo-foco, at the same time ringing in our
earS’the monotonous changes of Billingsgate
steeple, which has.sp'often tolled the funeral
knell of some talented senator, or departed
fishwoman. Locbrfocpism however, is al
ready viewed with; ah envious’eye by qUr
opponents, and when they abuse the epithet
into something like popularity, we may
reasonably expect (hat they will most 1 mag
nanimously appropriate it to themselves and*
wear it in their caps as one of the- distin
guishing ornaments of their ■ party. IVc
cannot however consent to abandonthename
as yet. After the next, election they shall
have it, and welcome, and we will most
cheerfully salute them as Loco-foco-Tl'hig-
Mnliviasonic-Jiank-democrals, and break a
lance with them too, if-thw choose, under-.
their .new fangled banner. For the prosenfiiv
I merely add • ■
Their breath is agitation, and their life
A storm whereon they ride, to sink at last. ,
In conclusion; gentlemen, -permit me to
thank you for this nejv evidence of regard,
in the toast just ottered.,' I would do vio
lence • -to-my own feelings, should ~ I -goffer 1
this occasion to' pass \\itnouf expressing my,’
heartfelt gratitude for tho repeated mitres of'
confidence I-have,received-hf ,
Be assured, your’Kindncss is vtafnilyjcherjv,,
ished at a momentTike this, when lilopk ji-'if. •
broad,'and rccogrtizeMn; the distant moun*
; talns=aniV^lecpin^\vater^bf“Dur ;
ly valley, scenes associated udth'ihy earnest
impressions. When I find niyse'f in’thc .
the. grey haired-mumfors of riper years; w ho"
know so well-the history of my .-whole life,
Ifeel too; toy own utter insignificance when
I think-of the .ardnous duties I‘shall soon be
called upoffto perform in tlie.councils of {ho
nation; 'and-regrct:for your sake/ that I can--
not- bring-to ’your servied more.than an. or
dinaiy-capacityT-~Bttt-I-ara-stjnnr}afed-rtd-;-
zeal and exertion,' by'the
Once, that the same land indulgence which
has overlooked many past errors* if ill ptill
be extended to me, lylidst I liumbly altempf
-the-performance'of Iny legislative functions, ;
with a mind inte'ht on carrying out. the will
and ,wishes of my constituents, of; the coun
ties ofCiimberknd, Perry and Juniata.-
' ' T&hpcrancc.— lt is stated in the report
of the New York City Temperance Society; •
that the number of licenser! liquor stores in/
this city in 1828 was 3153; in ,1838, wijlr ,
much increased, population, 250?.
There wefe’in the State of N. Yorta now
in 1825, 1120, jdistil lei-ies; the myrere, were
, reduced to about.2oo. In U\/York and
in operation in the city now
vicinity, 1 7 largo grajft, 32,680,000 2r~,
there are but two. Jpfof domestic- spirits.
100 gallons of city; and in 1838,, ■_
were 14,633,000 -gal----/
the preeecdihg., year* or a
lons lessee more thariSS per cent..
double the decrease of any pre
the port of New York, the-last yearThei.f
was also a decrease of 25 per cent. . ,
din- to the latest returns of the bccretarj of
in 1837, there'tVns ,
of 1,258,084 gallons oCrWinSi ns compared,' ,
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Avoid that others. /
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