AMERICAN VOLUNTEER.
BY SANDERSON & CORNMAN
CARLISLE:
.THURSDAY, JULY 18, I*3l>.
OUR FJj-ttCi'
“Now our (las is flung to tlie wild wind Iree,
Let it float o’er our ‘floliw land,”. , .
And the guard of its spotltes'fame shall be,
Columbia’s chosen band!"
FOR PRESIDENT IN 1840,. '
MARTIN VAN BUREN,
and an
INDEPENDENT TREASURY.
An Independent Treasury ,—whose officers re
sponsible to the people, instead of privileged
corporations, shall guard the people’s money.—
Democracy asks in vain, what claim-, have the
banks to use this public treasure ns tlieu* own,—
again to convert It into an engine ot ruinous ex
pansions and contractions of the currency, and ot
new political panics and pressures, to enforce
submission to the Money Power.— Hqn, James
Ducharian's Toast .
The balance of the volunteer toasts drank
at ■ the two democratic celebrations in this
county will be found on our first page. We
have still in reserve two or three “sand
blasts,” which we may serve up to our read •
ers hereafter.
f- f
Benjamin Ciiampnbvs, Esq. has been ap
pointed"'by the Governor, President Judge
of the 2d judicial district, in the place of
Oristus Collins, ousted by the Supreme
Court.
Military Encampment.—A three days’
cncampmentof the 2d Battalion of Cumber
land Volunteers will take place at Mechqn
icsburg on the 3d, 4th, and sth of Septem
ber. A general invitation is extended by
the commanding officer, Maj. Jacob Reiirar,
to all other volunteer companies in this and
the adjoining epurtlies, who may feel a de
sire to unite in the encampment. Several,
we understand, have already signified'an
intention to do so. His Excellency, Gov.
Porter, as Commander in Chief, has, at the
request of Maj. Ilehrar agreed to review the
troops during the encampment. Should the
weather prove favorable, our Mechanicsburg
friends will no doubt have an interesting
time of it. We wish their fondest hopes may
be more than realized..
The Herald of last week denies, whether
byjiuthority from a higher quarter or not
we are unable to say, that the remarks of
one of the students to which we made allu
sion were intended for any particular party.
Now, whether the dish in question was in-,
tended fur the stomach's" of the democratic
portion of the audience, is a matter of no
consequence; but that it was received as
such, we have the unqualified testimony of
more than fifty gentlemen of that party who
happened to be present. All with whom we
have conversed on the subject since, assure
us that they took the precise meaning out of
the offensive remarks that we did ourselves
—all consider it ns having been a dish of
high-seasoned party politics, expressly in
tended the gratification of fedeial hear
ers, and insulting to the democratic party.
We therefore fully endorse our remarks of
last" "week, and "asserC that the speech in
question was discreditable to the author,
and also to those who had it in their, power
to have prevented its.delivery. At thosame
time we would state,that we dld nbt theri sup
pose, (and we still, hope that our supposition
lege,-who have .the control of such matters.
intentionally Suffered the objectionable parts
of the speech to be delivered. We rather
suppose—at least charity would induce us
to believe, tliat if passed through their hands
•without that necessary scrutiny which is
•"gen erally-had 4m such; cases? —Thisris.only
our.individual opinion, however,' and may
be taken by the community for just what it
is worth. * ; : ,•• • i
, We have no disposition to .say any thing
farther on .{lie subject, unless”we are, com
pelled to do so from a sheer sense of duty—
and even then it will be done with consider
able reluctance, as we are disposed to be
friendly, to the College So long as it is pro
perly conducted. But vve will just whisper
a word or two in the ear of those who are
most interested ih its' success, and.thafis—
beware of .tampering with public opihlon—it
is overwhelming in a republican government.
TThe Institution was once, if we mis,take not,
sunk in .the Cliaryßdian whirlpool of relig
ious hctanmism~\t might how,be.'dashed
id pieces on the Scyllaian rock of party poZ
ilics. : Again we say—beware. ■
The Mountain in labor. —Afterncairiy
... four’monthg of excessive labor arid tdil' the
"iVmorable Charles JUM P<OUT-OF-THE
Nl li a B causeii to be pub-
Jished in at Harrisburg, - which will
doubtless (he gmallOivfry m
the State, a long-windedr, ot j. t; „ bombastical
declamation, purporting to feyi^eh-- 1
speech delivered by ,Idm -.1% ,tte
reply tothe/frat speech del!T6jod- ii : i --thni'
body by Col, ( Paraons of Lycoming. lathis
harangue, tli e.Kbhorable speaker talks learn -
edjy about federalism, democracy, batiks,
riots, mobs, butchers and bullies', but since
lie lias at this late day sent forth this pro
duction to the world, he might as well have
-informed the people that this is (or at least
•purports to, be) the self-same three days’
speech which dieted the cutting, sarcastic
and overwhelming reply from Col. Parsons,
and whiqh so effectually used upjiis honor
that he has never since attempted to make
another speech in the Senate. If ever poor
knight was literally flayed alive, it .was
Penrose in the reply of Mr. Parsons-to the
speech which is now for the first time pub
lished in the Harrisburg Chronicle. Even
since that drubbing, poor Penrose has, more
than any thing else, been the exact personi
fication of “Patience on a monument smiling
at Grief”—he smiles, ’tis true, —but under
that smile the most casual observer can per-,
ceive the gnawings of a worm which is feast
ing, upoil his very vitals. Disappointment,
■Ambition and Grief, incurable and uncon
trolled, are depicted in his countenance,"and
however much he may fendeavor, to keep up
appearances for a season,'tfiey will ere long
crush him to the earth. He may well adopt
the language of Cardinal Woolsey, and ex
claim:".
“The third day comes a,frost, a killing frost,
And when he thinks gobd tasy man full surely
His greatness is a ripening—nips his, shoot,,
.And-then be falls—ns I du. :
I have ventured, like little wanton boys thal
swim on bladders,
These many summers on a sea of glory—but
Faf beyond my depth- My high-blown pride
At length broke under me, and has left me
Weary and wretched to my fate.’’
Public Sentiment. —By papers received
from almost every quarter of the Stale-.and
also of the Union, we are enabled to gather
public sentiment respecting the next Presi
dential election. The 4th of July is a day 1
on which the people not only commemorate
their independence from the galling yoke of
British tyranny and oppression, but also ex
press their sentiments about public jnenaml
public measures. These sentiments, thus
honestly and fearlessly expressed, furnish
an Index of the public mind, from which we
can learn, with some degree of certainty,
who are their favorites among our public men
and who they intend to honor with their suff
rages.
Assuming, then, our position to be correct,
that public sentiment on the anniversary of
our National Independence is a sure index
of popular feeling, we have no hesitation in l
avowing it ns our firm belief that Mr. Van
Buren will be elected with an overwhelming
majority. The resistless current of popular
opinion is now strongly in his favor—lie Ims
been “tried in the balance and not found
wanting’.’—the measures of his administra
tion are becoming daily-more, popular—the
s,well of the tide is onward—the feeble bar
riers of the opposition are hourly giving way
—the,monied power, against whose encroach
ments on the rights and liberties of the peo
ple he is thcWcomprbmising foe, is becom
ing more and more odious to the great mass
—and the current will still gather force and
increase in velocity, until It shall finally
sweep, as with the besom.of destruction, the
“last refuge pf lies” from the infuriated
grasp.of expiring aristocracy. This is not
vain and empty surmise, growing' out of
excited and'overheated imagination—by no
means/ It is the Jruth, as all who arc ac
quainted \yi*h the state of public feeling
throughout the Union must readily acknowl-
'
The more knowing ones of the federal
party are now almost.ready to yield without
a-struggle.—They-seethefatethat-israpidly
.approaching their party. Defeat, certain and
inevitable defeat,staves them full in the face;
\Vlucjveyer way they look—to whatever
direction they turn their eyes, they see the
people rising in the majesty of their, power,
and preparing to put the s.eal of cpndemna
tion-uponThe high-handed-acts-of-the Bank.
Aristocracy. ')Flfe federal leaders are 'coit
vincedof this—and yet they still attenipt to
throw dust in.,the eyes of their unthinking'
followers. ...
These are pur honest sentiments, founded
in some degree on the'enthosiastic feeling
for Mr. Van Buren, manifested at the innu
merable celebrations which took place on the
,4 th Inst. Can we be mistaken in the “signs
of the: times?” Never.' The token is too
unerring to admit of doubt, ahd the indica
tions on the political horizon are so clear and
satisfactoryi that “he who runs may read”
in 'them the downfall of federalism and aris
tocracy and the complete triumph of demo
cratic principles."""
> Stale fam. —The Secretary ofthe Com
monwealth has. given notice tha't.'in obedi
ence tolbe requisition of the "act authoriz
ing a permanent loan to pay temporary
WnOj” which will become diie the present
summer, lie will, receive proposals at hia
office until, the Ist’day of August, for loan:
ipg. to. the Commonwealth, for thfe purposes
set forth .in the said act, the sum of sl*lso
- at a ratenf interest not.exceeding five
p‘er cent- per annum,' payable half-yearly—-
the.principal- to^^jrelmbnrsib|e : by.the.State
|s»ithin twenty-five- years, and in- suchi n
stalmcbta ; qb; maV be' agreed npen.fiy; the
1 parties.
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. — :.
tCT*A correspondent enquires: “Who is
• Col. Hetrick, that figures so largely as the
President of the Omnium Qalhtrum cele
bration of the. 4th?” Answer—we cannot
fell, ns we never heard of such a Colonel
before. We suspect, however; that it is the
self-same John Hetrick, who, on the morning
of that day, denounced the federalists and
anti-masons as the veriest scoundrels and
blackguards in all creation, and declared
that he would never more be caught ihtheir
company—the same individual, we opine,
who afterwards went out to the democratic
celebration; but not being used to such com
pany, (and moreover being looked upon in a
somewhat suspicious light by several present
who'knew him,) began to dream of “butch
ers” and "bullies”—"witches & warlocks,”
got frightened, and escaped for life.over to
his federal friends at Henderson’s Grove I- 1 —
They seeing the sad plight he was in, and
fearing that his excited imagination might
conjure up “hobgoblins dire” afresh, and
cause him to streak it a second time, kindly
allayed the perturbation of his mind and
secured him, from another retreat by meta
morphosing him into a kind of automaton
President! These are our own notions of
the valiant Col. and we merely throw them
out by way of suggestion to our correspon
dent.
JVcwi.-4-An able writer" in the Piney
Woods Planter, estimates the interest on
banking capital paid by the people of Miss
issippi, at $16,128,000 per annum! - His
enumeration of the various.classes of inhabi
tants is” singular* he says there are in the
stale 35,000'free white male citizens over
21 years of age;-C>f4lus number he estimates
that 1,000 are engaged in mixing liquors,
750 in makingyja/ier money, and about 1,000
in the laudable occupations of pleading law,
expounding the scriptures, and “teaching
the young idea how to shoot.” The aggre-,
gate, number of idlers, is estimated at 3,640
—leaving 31,360 .persons engaged in agiT
culture, commerce, and the mechanic arts.
DOG eat DOG.—A correspondence is now
going on, says the Baltimore Sun, throiigh
the public prints of Vicksburg,,Miss., be
tween persons connected with the. Commer
cial and Rail Road Bank, of that place,
calculated to open the eyes of the communi
ty to a species of villainy, seldom, if ever
before, exhibited to'the world. The Senti
nel, in conclusion of an article off this sub
ject, says—-“It is not surprising, however,
that the people of Vicksburg are distressed,
when brainless, beardless, though mustach
oed fops, with a salary of four or five thou
sand a year, are permitted to control a four
million, bank, keep'stables full of blooded
and trotting horses, a pack of dogs, carriages
and liveried servants, and spend more money
than a Minister Plenipotentiary of the U.
States near the Court of St. James. It must
be done at the expense of tholieople.”
President Van Buren. —We learn from
the New York Evening Post, that the Pres-1
ident left that city on his journey to tire j
northern part of the State, on Tuesday week.
He was attended -for some distance on his j
departure, by the Mayor, a portion of the'
Common Council, the Young Men’s Com-1
mittee, on horseback, and a large concourse
of other citizens on horseback; in carriages,
and on foot. The procession, before it i
readied Harlem, extended nearly a mile in
length. Along the road says the Post, peo
ple flocked from all sides, the farmers from
their fields, and the mechanics from their
shops to pay their respects to the President
ns he passed" ' “
Every_where,_through Pcnnsy!vania, New_
Jersey and New York, has the President
been received withThe.greatest enthusiasm.
People all appear anxious to pay their high
est respects to the Chief Magistrate of the
Republic for his lofty patriotism and exalted
clyid^ervices., The~German population, in
particular, are enthusiastic in his favor —lie
being the first: President, of that race who
has ever filled the Executive. cha'ir. .The
following is pn extract from his reply to a
committee'of the democratic citizens of
Easton, in this State, who had invited him
to a public dinner, but which, according’ to
Ins uniform practice, he respectfully- de
.dined:-.. ' , . '■■■■•
I cannot, gentlemen, in justice to my own
feelings, refrain from embracing tins oppor
tunity to express the high satisfaction which
I have .derived from my visit, for the first
time, to the interior of 'your great and'pros
perous commonwealth. From the county of
York, where I entered it, to the..flourishing
borough,; at which I leave it, passing through
the counties of York, Cumberland; Dauphin,
Lebanon, Berks, Lehigh and Northampton,
my route has been through an unbroken suc
cession of German settlements. If any thing
could have added to the high opinion which
I -have long entertained ofthe German char
acter; the hospitality, industrynnd'courtesy
which., abounainthoßeßettlements.would
not fail to have that effect, ilh contempla
ting. the great advantages which-we have al
ready derived from tins source; may. we not
-look, with certainty-to the niost tavorable
results in future,;not onlydn regard to -the
physical condition of the country, butalso
to the maintenance of the trueprinciples of
ourLgovornmerrtv from the great number of
German omigrantswhbnfe daily making this
the law! of their adoption? ■- -s i ,;. i'-,
That such will bo the case to a great and
highly .gratifying extent I cannot doubt, for
among the impressions mgde upon my mind
during a brief visit to Europe, a few years
since, a short portion of which I spent in
some of the, German States, was a strong
conviction that by no other people would
political institutions, as free as our own, be
embraced with more sincerity or maintained
with- greater, tenacity, than by the people of
those States.
During his visit to the city, on the 4th in
stant, the Presidentattended the celebration
of Independence by the Sabbath Schools, on
Staten Island, and partook of the dinner
served up on the occasion. About 20,000
children participated in the celebration. A
more interesting spectacle, it is said was
never witnessed, than that presented by the
disembarkation from the boats in which they
reached the Island,of so many thousands, and
the after-winding among the green hills of
Staten to the rendezvous, amidst the wav
ing of banners, and bursts of music.
The Sun says:—"ln the midst of the woods
was raised a large-tent,-where-the President
of the U. S. and Gov. Seward were received,
with the officers appointed for the occasion.
Other large tents were erected around this
principal one, and when all were sealed,
dinner was served up, if we may so express
it. Recitations, Singing, Salutary Speeches
by the youth, arid music' by the two bands,
occupied the, time till 3,o’clock, when, all
re-embarked for home. A short excursion
was made down the bay; salutes were fired,
from ships at anchor, and returned by deaf
ening "hurrahs” from the barges. A more
enlivening scene was never witnessed. A
bout 6 o’clock the Sabbath Schools disem
barked iiusafjety at-Ncw York.not one acci
dent having happened among the cbhgregn
ting of so many thousands.” •
Gov. Pouter and the Secretary of’the
■ Cpmmbnwcalthi-Mr. Suun'k, have both been
'confined to th’eir chambers by indisposition
i for the last two weeks. They were, how
ever convalescent at the latest accounts..
.!}cdJcnls . —As usual, the papers abound
with accounts of accidents that occurred in
different places on the 4th inf.t. We had
prepared a chapter of them, from our ex
changes, but it has unavoidably been crowd
ed out this week. We shall give it a place
in our next.
A number of advertisements omitted this
week will appear in our next.
For the ‘ Volunteer.
The “Omnium Gatherum” Celebration.
“Now there was Mat and sturdy Pat,
And merry Morgan Murphy, Oi
And Murdoch Mass and Turlock Stjuags,
McLochlin and. Dick. Durfey, O!”
Messrs EniToas:—--Having on last Satur
day evening a leisure rpoment from the toils
of the week I tookkr glance at the Herald,
which had been kindly handed ,me by a
neighbor. The first thing that attracted my
attention was the proceedings of the 4th of
July celebration at Henderson’s Grove, and
the heterogeneous compound of the materials
composing that truly" ludicrous assembly—
being composed of blue-light federalists,
yunhcc- masons, apostate democrats, (by the
way, one renegade is worse than ten torus,)
shilteiOallecs, and the ragging and bob-tail of
the fag end of all factions that have existed
in this county„,far the last twenty years.—
After my curiosity was sufficiently gratified
by looking ovcr; the names that appear as
having participated in the celebration, al
though I do not believe that one-half of them
were present, I took a glance at the toasts.
But, O ye gods and little fishes! how it ex
cited my risible faculties to read one said to
have been given by William Martin. Know
ing ns I do intimately this miserable ninedm
-pbop,- who is almost- too ignorant-to-know his
right hand from his left, and too illiterate to
knowßfrom'a-buU ss-fuot-,—lwasledinvol
untary to exclaim—-Oh;-.-.Billy Martin! O,
poor Billy Martin [--unfortunate Billy Mar- -
tin! O! O! Okdbn’t Billv.Martin—o! O! O!
Recovering from tins'revery, I took a
notber. look,-at the toast, and after turning it
and twisting it info eveiy shape andlform
imaginable,! finally came, to the conclusion
that as Billy was a soger in the Buckshot
war, and consequently came in contact with
some of those ugly big,.Ctt'c/iers that visited
Harrisburg Jus t -wintef, ‘be was dreaming of
calves wad-mutton; and such like-slayables
and. eatables; and only wakened 'from his
dream when his 'name waacalled for a toast.
At-all events,- no one acquainted with Billy
will suppose for one moment that he thinks
more of hip. Conscience than. he:does of his
belly —-and. If he I did talk-about calves in his
toast, it was because his stomach was filled
with the biggest part of a good leg of «ea/i—
-•Och, the steet-bearted-VijjjQth!
Another-toast that, excited a momentary
curiosity was,from the pen of.that ‘wonder
wqrkyngeiumn,’ John .Gillen. Gch,. by my
stioul, Johnny;-it would have: cured one of
the king’s evil, to have heard ye palavering
that man ambngiraenr— and consist
tent politician, Maj. John Harper. But then,
Johny eveiy body knows you are-under the
employ of the Major, and that-some folks
(I don’t say yoji are one- of: them,-) are men
ofprinciple in proportion to their interest; —
But, then',-that- is neither here nor there
/ohnny, alid. you have“just"as good a right
to toast your employer as’ -Billy Martin has
to toaat the four-legged odfmo/.which sup
plies his epicurean. stomheh iwith the good
of this lifc. T £Both arc governed by the
same principle, self-interest, but differing in
the details.-: Onegues in foryhe man that
provides him -with-.workj the other loves the
animal that satiates hisgormandizing appe
tite.-'-Pur nohikfrairum, V
There was another toast given by a fellow
who, talked so much and so fluently 'about
Carrion, Turkey-buzzards and Crows, that
one must needs come to'the conclusion that
he is possessed of a real locomotive', stomach)
or he would not be. able to digest one-half
of these eatables, even with the assistance of
a Wee bit ot Porter. ■ As, however, he ap
pears to be fond of such diet, 1 shall leave
him to swallow his meal as well as he can,
and pass on to another. But, stop, I can
not overlook the sixth regular toast, which
most certainly must have crept in by acci
dent, or it never would have appeared in the
proceedings of such a celebration. Here it is:
“The last State Legislature—The hones
ty and patriotism of n few [Butler, Sturde
vant and Montelius] saved the State from
irrecoverable ruin.”
This toast is so’ true to the very letter as
to defy criticism. I have inserted the
names enclosed in brackets merely for the
purpose of supplying the omission, which
was doubtless unintentional on the part of
its author.
I had intended reviewing some more of
the toasts, but the length of my remarks al
ready admonishes me to stop. Some of'.them-,
such as Tommy Craighead’s axe rabid e
nough to be sure; but then they, like their
authors, are.perfectly harmless after all.—
Perhaps, if the Herald, according to prom
ise, publishes spine more, this week, you
shall hear fvom'iuc again.
HANOVER STREET.
July 15th 18S9.
Messrs. Editors:—On looking over the
toasts purporting to have bpen given at the
Conglomerated, Federal, Whig, Anti-ma
sonic, Abolition party celebration, on the 4th
inst. I was’wonderfully struck with thevast
ncss of the. opposition that exists between
their real, and their avowed sentiments and
actions.- ’ProfnMihg. to, .be governed by the
strict rules of morality, they'pafpttWy' aiid
unblushingly transgress and violate its plain
est precepts, by giving utterance to the vilest
slang and'the most slanderous accusations.
It is evident, that without condescending to
pay any regard to the truth or probability of
their assertions, they hesitate not to lei loose
their bile, and deluge Hie land with foul and
stinking abuse. .Clothed in a garment (hat
can be snuffed from, afar—.the very sight of
which causes instant disgust—they find it
absolutely necessary to make use of such
dastardly and degrading means, in order to
turn the public mind from (be inspection of
their cherished principles and aims, by pour
ing out their gangrened and malignant souls
in noisome abuse .and vituperations upon
the democratic party. Verily, if (bis be the 1
party (bat contains within itself all the ‘de-|
cency and talent,’ then have the American
people sunk deep into the mire of corrup-j
tion. But, these “modern followers of Lu
cius Sergius Cataline,” however much they
may arrogate to themselves the decency and
talent of the country, are evidently destitute ]
.of all decency, and are’ wofully deficient in j
those qualifications which constitute states
men. Talent they have, but it is of a pecu
liar order. And onewould Suppose, upon
pcrusing-Jhc productions of (heir writers, or
iistcniifg to the rapid out-pourings of their
orators, that they had taken their degrees in
the fish-market, and been gifted with a di
ploma as a testimonial of their proficiency in
billingsgate, and of their wonderful facility
in disemboguing it upon every occasion.
But without dwelling upon the party and
its principles, let ns turn nur attention to a
few of the toasts given at the above mention
ed celebration. ■ ‘
By William Calf Martin.
“VVoodburn, Gorgas, and Miller; three
calves with men’s clothes on.’’
Truly, this sublime effusion—this effort of
a great mind—this cutting, biting sarcasm
smacks of the fountain whence it flowed.-
Billy! docs your mammy keep a cow? If
she dont, she keeps a c f. Poor fellow!
when you gave utterance to the abdve witti
cism, were you longing for your noon allow
ance of new milk? No doubt, the- uneasy
state of vour stomach compelled
aloud;-’and your brother “rigs’?. were en
chantcd_when the "rove re.-.echoed to' the
harmonious soundVoi ba"!~ba !! bn!! ! Atid
when-you beheld-youi~own -crooked-shins
encompassed.with pants —and your own well
formed body shrouded in a coat—you were
.forced Jtc exclaim, how strange and wondcr
fuljiJhjng it is to see dressed in a
roan’s-clothes! ? 7
But to be serious, ,1s it conceivahle.how
even such ignorance and impudence, as the
above named individual is possessed of, can
w'antonlymssail men - who ..are ,unstained by
any dishonorable,act, and whose .only offence
is, affirm and consistent adherence, to the
principles of Jefferson and Jackson—and a
dignified and manly support of those princi
ples, which their judgments.and consciences
tell them are eqrrect and true;
By,.Thomas. JPinehill Craighead. ,
. “ThomasH. Burrowes; the scholar and
statesman, he stands on that high ground
calumny cannot reach;; the poisoned arrows
of detraction-fall harmless at his, feet;' and
those, who,attempted,to traduce him are now
wallowing in their own slime, "loathsome re :
bels, sots, and vagabonds.” , ;■ ■ -
It is, gentlemen, iTut a natural consequence
that one scholar should admire and.laud an
other. .Thera is an affinity existing.between
mighty intellects, which-inclincs them to re
gard each other with affection and admira
tion; and if opportunity, permitSj weaves, a
round their hearts, the solV.bonds of amity
and .friendship; whilst under the influence of
this ,principle, Orator -Tomtny, pcrchance,
penned,, this puff. The. purity of its style,
and the chastity of its- langdhge.ihdicaie that
no ordinary mind conceived and, brought
forth this sentiment, twhi.qh breathes the. in
dignation of & virtuous heart, and, scathes
the vile traducera! ~ Ah! Tommy. you did
well to :denounce ! the rascally .democrats,
tli'e-loco-focos,: who_compriße.thr_£c : /our//is
of Pennsylvania’s population, as ‘.'loathsome
rebels, sots, and vagabonds,”
But, Tommy, more anon. When time
permits, and the printers agree, 1 shall trace
your life upwards—give a description of
your principles, and negro-loving propensi
ties—and also a description of your classic
figure, particularly of that massive brow of
thine, upon which intellect has set itsm'ark,
&c. &c. t
By John Sycophant M’Cartncy.
“Charles Bi Penrose, and those highmind-
Icd and honorable Senators of the State Le
gislature of Pennsylvania. The able de
fenders of Constitutional Liberty, and the
maintenance, (at the hazard of their lives,)
of the due administration of the Laws, a
■ gainst “mob Law, and hired assassins,” for
the overthrow of civil and religious Liberty.
They deserve to be rewarded by being ele
vated to a more exalted station in the coun
cils of the nation.”
“Birds of a fekther,&c.” —This old maxim,
we see, yet holds good—and it affords a
ready solution for the motives which influ
enced'the author of the above sentiment, to
offer his adulation at his chosen shrine. It '
is natural that one renegade should love,an
other, especially if their apostacy was pro
duced by the-action.of the same cause.— _
What man, but he who was utterly blinded
by his interests or prejudices, or destitute of ,
all regard for truth and honorable principle,
could bestow the epithets of "high-minded
and honorable ” Upon those cowardly ai.d
dastardly conspirators—rwho attempted to
destroy our Constitution and., Laws-r—who
strove to wrest from the firm grasp oi'Hhe
people their sovereignty—-and to establish
cold, sordid, sclfish,.moiiiet| despotism, whose
only aim would be to perpetuate its own do
minion—to grind the poor man into the dust
—to strip him of his birthright of freedom,
j-ahd to reduce him to a level with the despi- -4
i cable serf of Russia.
But, I am inclined to believe, that this
1 toast was intended as a sarcasm. If so,
i truly, it i^ ; ,r'-b>tirtgpnc. : It hits, the nail
{right on the heaJTt For a fPWnrftfijr indiVid-’ -
I uals lauded, are worthy of "being elevated
) to'a nmre exalted station,” and had justice
] taken her course, their blushing honors
■ would have beer conferred, in the, presence
! of assembled myriads, by the hands of the
public executioner,
j By Win. M. Baird. ’ •
“I)cmucrac.y;.a name assumed by (he loco-,
'focus to cloak their, designs upon the money
' and liberty of the people.”
■I ■ It is a- common .saying that (he Lawyers
beat the d—l for lying. If true, we must
Isay that this young scion of the legal pro
! fessitnr-bids fair one day to become quite
i eminent in his profession; at least in this
| part.of it. Now, his toast contains rather a
i palpably false assertion, ami evinces more of
j that cuteness we arc yvont to expect from
.j the disciples of Mercury. JJeniocrary is
the .broad banner under which we have bat
tled ever since the parties of nor. country
first sprung into existence; —and whilst our
opponents have marched and counter march
led, \vhceled and turned to the right about,
|am I gone through a variety of evolutions,
our course has been straight forward, under
the well marked and clearly defined flag of
democracy. But the whigs and (heir piebald
allies now wish In filch from os (be name of ■"*
democracy, and hope by the aid of this Ta
lisman to lore the people on to tbeir destruc
tion, and thus be enabled to revel and bat
ten upon tbeir substance. But they have
yet to learn that the people are*governed by
principles,-and not by names; and that they
are too intelligent to be guzzled by such soft
stuff ns daily emanates from the puerile
l stomachs of brats & bcard-\ess aspirants af
ter political favor.
. I have thus, Messrs. Editors, made some
remarks on a few of the Cataliuian toasts;
if these meet with your approbate, I shall
follow them up with others.
I CARLISLE.
For the Volunteer.
The Fourth, day of July went.off, as it has
always dona-in .our.tillage, jin)iri.a.w_grld..of
eclat. Good old republican Shippfcnsburg
you to cry
ever acfjuifirlrer'Sclf“With~crcditon-such oc-
casions; for,- altliough her. citizens may be
suffused with a llip- Van.\V.inklc_drowsincss
-for a six- months beforehand., like beauty
newly awake, her energies are but pent up
to burst forth with renewed vigor to hail the
day of our independence. , Here on every
succeeding anniversary, from the period
whiclrgave it birth down to the present, has
this day been especially.observed; and hero
also op the same spot hnye those primitive
amusements been fostered and annually re
peated, rejoicing each consecutive' crowd
who have sported the happy.hour,‘arid infu
sed the same patriotism which glowed, in ihe
bbsonas 6f,our revolutionary sires'. ,
It is not the least interesting part of bur
admirable system of civil 'government, to see;
all classes of the-comriiuiiity come forward
thus-, spontaneously,' with hearts arid hands,
rejoicing in a nation’s freedom. Here is no
sickly attempt T g6t up by an interested'aris
tocracy, to . express a happiness which is
never, felt:, nor. modern conventional rules of
society i where all is banished but wearisome ,-
forms.. Here; is an unreserved freedori v '.
yyhere none desire to be vicious, and the
chief eriiulation where all arc known, is in
the cause of virtue. . .The sober prosing citi
zen forgets, his spleen,- the calculating jrian
oTmlusiness has a'gleam of' sunshine in his
Siberiari winter, and youth arid -beauty .con
spire with, wit to enliven the scene., Allis
mirth, and jollity-—even gravity relaxes, its
sternness.
—diLthejmorniiig ftf the fourths the Village
.years that sober subdued appearance which
always precedes ah impprtantevent; people
old and youogwcJir-.their holy-day, dresses;
the school hoy, free front Ufc: reach of the
birch for, the time being, _wears a look of
contentment, little dreaming how eyancs
cent are .all these things; and. the '/flag of '
my country” unfolds its banners on cither
side of the rail-road, oh the top or two chor-
/’or the Volunteer.
Tfs e r» llage Celebvation.