AMERICAN VOLUNTEER. CARLISLE: THURSDAY, AUGUST 1830. our Mm “Now our fUg is flung to the wild wind free, Let it float o’er our ‘father land,” And the guard of its spotless fame shall be, Columbia's chosen band FOR PRESIDENT IN’lB4O, MARTIN VAN BUREN, . AND AN INDEPENDENT TREASURY. An fnde/iendeni Treasury^ —whose officers re sponsible to the people, instead of privileged corporations, shall guard the people’s money.— Democracy asks in vain, whatv claim have* the hanks to use this public treasure as their own,— again to convert it into an engine ot ruinous ex pansions and contraction* of the currency, and of new political panics and pressures, to enforce submission to .the Money Power.— lion* James Buchanan's 7'oast. "Wo understand from good authority that Sena tor Penrose, at the Buckshotoriian meeting in the County Hall on Monday evening' week, amongst other unfounded assertions, stated in substance that the Jury in attendance at Court were yacked by the Sheriff and Commissioners—and, as an evidence, said that out of forty-eight on the list, not more than TEN belonged to his party! Wo have enquired of the officers implicated in this sweeping charge, and have likewise examined the Jury list ourselvcS—and now pronounce the said assertion of the said Speaker Penrosb, with out any qualification whatever, a wilful and deh'b- sraie FALSEHOOD! He knew it was false, for ho received, but a few hours before, the list from •ur pu v n liand r in the Court House, and was oc cupied for- about half an hour in examining it.— Wc again charge him with lettering a LIE, and wc now dare him or any of his vassals to the proof. On an examination of the list, wo find that out of the 41 in attendance not more than 2*2 are known ~,.s»vbe\ong to the democratic party—and of the 7 who were summoned but did not attend, but two or three are members of that party. Here then wo have Itr—out of 48 Jurors, the democrats have 25 and the federalists 53. If any one doubts the cor rectness of our estimate 1 , wo shall publish the names of the Jurors to prove our asscrti6h. , ,We also examined the Grand Jury’ Hat, and find that out of 21 in attendance, bat 10 aro democrats —and yet the foul-mouthed slanderer will assert that ty reason of the political complexion of the Jury, they [the federalists] could not expect to - have justice done theml —Avauntll thou~hypocriti cal defamer ofhonest men! Art thou not ashamed to. look the men thou hast basely slandered in tho facel Penrose, in his speech in the County Hall; de nounced the democrats aa Gamblers and Drunkards and JnJUela , and spoke of Mr. Pray, a member of the Legislature from the county of Philadelphia, in particular, as one of the .greatest blackguards and most abominable infidels in all creation. We do not believe a word of it—on the contrary, we p'ronounce the assertion entirely destitute of truth. Mr. Pray is a gentleman and an honest man, and that is more than can be said of some of his political opponents, A word to bis- accuser. Admitting for the sake of argument (for it' would be a slander on the democracy of Philadelphia county to admit that the charge was true,) that- Mr. Pray is an infidel—we would vastly prefer him for a representative to a black-hearted, malig nant, sneaking hypocrite, whoso touch carries with it a poison more withering and blasting to the cause of religion and virtue than the writings and exaniplo of a score of avowed infidels. A Paine ora Voltaire are known, and can bo met in the open field of argument; but the hypocritical wretch, ele vated to a high and influential station in the com munity, who conceals under the garb' of our holy religion, the blackest'designs and treasonable in tentions against tho righ'ts -md the liberties of, his.country, i man, and a greater stumbling I 1 of the Gospel, than any other obstacle we can possibly think of; - - This, it may be said, iff plain language. We designed it.to be.so—and leave-thc application-to the individual forwhose benefit it-was written. William S, Ramsey appears to be a shining mark for the'poisoned arrows of the profligate crew that surround' the Herald. Nearly die whole side of 'the.last, number of thaj eheet is devoted to him. During a short' absence of this gentleman on an excufsionfor the benefit of his health; the occasion, was stealthily embraced" to circulate through the district he represents in Congress, the most delib- crate and. wilful calumnies fbTttar purpose-of-irr*- juring his private character —he was.pursued from place to plaqe, by the blood-hounds whp have fol lowed in his wake for years, intent, on slaking their vengeance in hiS mangled reputation. Whilst far away, forgetful of scenes enacting at home, and, as an invalid, intent onlyonrecreation- and-exer * creiso—the guilty, trembling assassin, seized the moment to brandislutho glittering knife, and pre pare-the faggols forhis immolation—but fortunate ly the dagger returned bloodless to its sheath—the miscreant who wielded it, foiled in his attempt, the public"ga^T^asKed : ah'd t eph-' founded, overwhelmed .with shame and confusion! „ Since Mr. Ramsey’s return,, these outlaws have ,the impudence to charge him with setting the - ex ample in traducing private-character, : and on that ground placed extenuation for their depravity. When; and how has My.,Ramsey.assailed private character? . We pointto his speeches and writings on recent occasions, and'darc his libellers to show a single instance ia which, as they say, ho “has pursued individuals oftheir party into the trans actions of private life?” In the keep jackall no- smg.foi materials to, patch up fish woman, tales of slander, against him, the very ashos-oj the dead have-becn uncovered bythat master-spirit of ini the,saintly .scoitm4reVof bank-bought noto riety, but we have yet to leant m whatmarmer Mr. Jlnmsoy has merited the roedntdaubteg his ohar _ustw has received-from the rogues, in budkraih,' “Who olbtho thoir villainy in odds and ends stolon forth of holy writ.t’ . Ladiea' Cbmjwm’pn.—The. August No-, of:this ■valuable, periodical is before us, and - contains, as ■usual, a variety of excellsnt'roading, ; The Cpm . panion is .edited by Mrs.'iSnrt S/ SUphe™, tFTj JV, SnowtUn ani-Benry F, Barrington j whoSenaiiifig alone are sufficient to rocbmmcnd tba work.to the .putfonnje ofth.a.pnlilis.; .; V i, : : I v Three States arc yet to elect, vlzn Maryland, Rhode Island and, Mississippi, with 13 members in all. Of these we shall undoubtedly carry sin Maryland and 2 in Mississippi, which will make the Democratic majority in the next Congress 14 Huzza for the Independent Treasury! We bespeak for the subjoined letter of Gov. Porter to the democratic committee of Bedford county an attentive perusal. “It is written,” says the Keystone, “with the same pith, point and force, that characterises all the productions of his Excellency—and breathes that firm, fearless and dignified spirit, ho is so well known to possess.— It adverts with groat propriety, to the scenes in December last, and the ruffian attacks on the pri vate character of the Governor. It also contains a weirdeserved notice of tiic often abused “Com mittee of Safety.” .“What'jviH the cravcn-heartcd traitors of feder alism [such as Penrose, Burrowes and Stevens,] who figured in December, and the poltroon calum niators, who were allied with the Peg Beattys, the Stonebreakers and Sturgeorts to LIE DOWN Gov. Porter, say to this bold and scorching rebuke? tlic_.dark, like’detected.bur glars, and vent their venom through the columns of their miserable lying journals.;— “This letter, we venture to predict, will raise the Governor in the respect and esteem of all true hearted democrats. ..The similarity of character,, for fearlessness and manly resolution,-between Gen. Jackson and Gov. Porter has been often re marked, but never was it more strikingly exempli fied, than in the tone and temper of; this letter.— We see the *old Roman’ in every lino and every thought. Witliouftho slightest effort at imitation, the directness and vigor of the style of the-produp. Übhs”dri)btirtKese excellent men dre“surprisirigly alike. 'Both the object of ca lumny and abuse- without measure-;—both ~aTC~objects~of-federabhatred—und-bqth are beloved" and respected by the greatdemocratic party. ,Wo are pleased that Pennsylvania has a governor who can, and who dare set his foot upon and crush the federal vipers, that- are.hissing about him on all sides.”. • , ■' For the flattering manner in .which ycmTiavo been pleased to advert to my public' course' be 'Pcased to accept my thanks. I was but the can didate in whoso election democratic principles tri umphed, and it was to the indomitable firmness and inflexible republicanism of the people of Penn sylvania and not to any personal merit or claims .of the candidate that tve are indebted for the result. Still,, after the crusade against private character, to which y ou.have referred, it would bo worse than affectation not to admit that the result was personally gratifying to ipo. But the trials of the democratic party of Pennsylvania did' notend with the known result of the election of thrfii Tuesday of October last. A daring attempt was'made-by some reoldeag politicians to ‘retain, by force’ or fraudf situations of Which -the public-'voice bad ocolas-ej tboia ottworthy.aiid the scenes which oofiunenosdrdn thedth of December last,'dt Jlarris trarg,-ana-Wore continuod for. some wteks, afford lamentable proofof. what bad men will attempt, anff gratifying evidence of what FREEMEN, de tetianled tp “ask.for nothing but What Upright arid to bothingiAat is accomi TheDemoCTitlC'RepuhlicanPepfesentati'irStjf the Senate,deserve-immortal honor for their final ness 'and: patriotism during^thosertiying.-aoencs! Summary of Election Wows. Tennessee.— ln addition to electing a Governor id six out of thirteen members of Congress; the imocrats have carried a.jnajority in the State Vgislature. “This will secure two administration j jenators in Congress. time of Judge White will expire -tfith the next and as tho clcctions in that State arc biennial, it will de volve on tho Legislature now chosen to elect his successor.' Mr.\ Foster, the other Senator, has been elected for the next six years, but had pub ished a statement prior to the election, that in case a majority were elected to the Legislature opposed Jo him in political sentiment, ho would resign his seat, and glvo them an opportunity to select a per-, son of their own views. In the last Congress, tho democrats had only three members. North Carolina. —The democrats have elected JVlessrs. Bynum, C. Shcpperd, McKay, Hawkins, Montgomery, Connor, Hill and Fisher, making eight out of the thirteen members of Congress— In the lost congress the federalists had eight mem bers, and tho democrat but live. Now tho tables are turned, and democracy triumphs. Indiana.— This young giant of the west has come up to the mark in fine, style. Two years ago our friends only elected one out of the seven mem bers of Congress. Now they have six , and their, opponents only one. There will also be a decided democratic majority in the State Legislature. Kentucky.— Even here, where tlie people have heretofore been led captive at will by Mr. Clay, democracy is in tho ascendant. In the last Con gress wc had barely one member dut of thirteen now we have three, besides a largo increase in both branches of tho Legislature. Alabama.^— This republican* Commonwealth that never flinches, has also dorte nobly—and, al though ihe Congressional delegation remains un changed— three democrats to two federalists—tho .republican majorities are largely increased. Gov. Bagby is re-elected*with scarcely any opposition". ; This is glory, enough fo last a whole year. ■ * The following table will show- the relative - strehgUi'of 'parties.-in the next Congress, so far aa. 1 results of the elections are known. ‘ Democrats. Federalists, \ 6 2 • Maine,. .. New Hampshire, Vermont, , Massachusetts, Connecticut, Now Ywky ---O'. . New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, „ South Carolinti,' . Georgia, Louisiana, • Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, , Alabama, • Illinois, —Michigan, Missouri, , Arkansas, l2l- GOV, PORTER’S LETTER. — : —-—Bedford, August, 1833. Gentlemen’.^ The state; of my health, and. a dis position to avoid. parade, will deny to me, what otherwise would be,the pleasure of partakingof a public dinner with my Democratic friends of Bed ford county to which your letter of this morning has invited me. , ■ Anxious, however,' to maintain and preserve an unrestrained intercourse, between, the people their , public ftitictionaries, it will give me , great pleasure during my smoum at Bedford, to.seeand converse with such of my fellow citizens as-may find it.convonient to call. •- ' . and the citizens whom the occasion brought to the Beat of Government, by their more than Roman firmness, as well as moderation and prudence, have earned for themselves .never fading laurels, and .justlywntitle-them-to-thewame of- “Thu Commit tee of Safety.” To them aro.thc people of Penn sylvania indebted for the frustration of the nefari ous attempt of theec,traitors to the liberties of our country: an.attempt which for recklessness and corruption was never equalled since the dpys of -Cataline. Terrified at the consequences to them selves of their own guilt, they fled the Halls of Legislation, to brood in secret over some new and less dangerous mode of tampering with popular rights, much as they desired they dared not carry out their declared purpose to defeat the ex pressed will of tho people. Tho calling of troops to the seat of Government to overawe the legisla ture and intimidate the people signally failed— They wore called there without and against au thority of lawj and it is fortunate that no excesses were committed by tho military upon the citizens and their representatives, dr it might have been that the instigators of the mischief might have been made to answer with their blood for their treason. ' There is however a sublimity in the spectacle of beholding the sovereign people calmly yet firm ly and unflinchingly rebuking the usurpers of power, and teaching them anil all who hereafter would endeavor to Jo tho like, that tho people are tho source and depository of all power, and that their will “must and shall be obeyed;” and that he who dares to prevent the legal operation of the will of the people constitutionally expressed at the Ballot Box, will be put down by tho strong and irresistible voice of public opinion. At the time of my induction into office I set forth tho principles on which I intended to act, and have thus far faithfully endeavored to live up to them, notwithstanding the unwarrantable, and factious opposition which almost every measure recom mended for the public good has had to encounter in one, and that the least Democratic branch of the Legislature. Time and the deliberate action of the people, tho sure .correctives of all abuses in. a re public; will purify this, and we may then see a consistent and harmonious action of all the de partments of Government, and' tho State flourish ing as she ought to do under united Democratic councils. i “ ' • r That Divine Providence has these blessings. in. store for us I fervently hogo ariij sincerely believe; and that our past triads may be the cause of in creased watchfulness’in preserving invioldfb the sacred rights to which we were born isythe sincere prayer of Your fellow citizen, DAVID R. PORTER. ‘ To Mr. Nicholas Lyons, and others Committee on behalf of the Democratic citizens of Bedford. 3 / 10. B 1 '-'—l 11 HYPOCRISY. Tho “flying phenomenon,” and his valet place of the Herald, have recently mounted the hobby of religion to “witch the world with horse manship,” and display their ground and lofty tum bling to greater advantage than was recently ex hibited to an admiring audience in the Senate Chamber. These _ sober, moral, consistent and upright harlequins, have recently.charged full tilt into the very front ranks of the drunkards, atheists, gamblers and debauchees, who infest our common wealth, and singular to Telatcrhavc exhibited pro digies of valor in contending these mons ters. An amazing quantity of ink has been shed in the ofcrocodilo tears have scarce yet ceased to flow, and by the latest advices we -discover that “Charles the Bold” and - his trusty squire, Captain Bobadil , are in the very heart of the country infested by the “Blackfeet and Rat tlesnake bands,” slaying their thousands, and carrying devastation before thorn. What a 'truly sublime spectacle do we behold in this magnani mous devotion of these two anchorites to the cause of morality! ” Peter the Hermit and John Rogers will hereafter be scarcely mentioned—the bright star of their fame pales before the rising luminary that now attracts the attention, of all observers.— How truly fortunate are we to live in an age adorn ed by the heroism and piety of these worthy knights errant! After the complete and final extermination of the “Blacltfeet and Rattlesnake tribes,” it is under stood that these heroes, who are as valiant as wrathful doves or more magnanimous mice, in tend to carry the war into Africa, or may be into Kentucky, where a notorious gafhbler, cock fight er and horse racer, by the name of Henry Clay holds his orgies—thence they will proceed to Ohio and chastise a certain debauchee by the name of Harrison for polluting the land with his vices, and with the object of putting an end to the crying of certnin children in the wilderness—thence they will advanefc into the New England States .and “stop the grog’” of a certain Webster, who, in vio lation of the five gallon law, is wobderfuUy ad dicted to “sack and sugar,” They will tlien visit the halls of-Congrcss and enquire whether f-Pise, Graves, Prentiss, Ac. are secundum' or ient, or whether they are bungling assassins of the Robespicrian schod.. They will then march into Poland with drums beating and colors Hying,.and seek out a certain Tlmddeus of Warsaw, a famous blackleg, and formerly a companion in arms of “Charles the Bold”~undoubtodly tfiey will bind! hirp together, with Speaker Cunningham back to back, and hurl them into 'the Baltic sea. These great and 'valorous deeds being performed, it is 'SurmiSHl'tliartlurmagnanimQUsCharlcs ..wiirgtT info, a state, oTretiracy and disgorge his-ill-gotten gains, mduch some pa*ple do-say'-were the price of bribery and corruption; and the creditors of Cap tain Bobadil cannot fail to have their accounts sat isfactorily adjusted by the payment of at least ten cents in the dollar—landlords’ bills and gambling debts included. It is really amusingto hear, the bitter wailing and groaning of the “Buckshotonian” federalists at tlie result of the elections in thoSoutKaridsbutb west. They lied about it as long as they could have any'prospeot of gulling the most credulous of their used-up party, and denied that the first ro portsJrom Terincseeo, Kentucky, North Caroli na and Indiana had any thing ip them worthy of boliof. -Their papera held back thQ 7 nows from their readers as long as they could, and even now they are loath to" of their irretriev able defeat. But;the glorious tidings have been spread-t 6 the fpurwjUds of Haiven, and the oppo nents of an dotuocracyare reluc tantly compelled to acknowledge' that they are prostrate irv-Jhe dust-i-discomfited andf'dismayed entirely annihilated by tho ropublican legions of those patriotic States, y These false prophets, for such they ato , noty bo,; who so confidently predicted the overthrow-oif Mr^, Van Buren’s administration, and wbo induoedithe rank' and filo } efdtoir tha'BUokshotohians; oh asmall seile-—Ur believe that,the .administration was fast, going down, and that ,thd' “odious" - Sub Treasury. would sink ,its projectors and. adyhoates lower than the grave of political dissolution, haye suddenly , disappeared, add instead of boasting and bravado ;they are now ?snesT)£lKoTntterest agony -and distressV rnf : i73 '.ll?(!Ltff.fellDwa!.they,;hayb. had their day-rand-a" sofrjt o'ndltihfe. been for .theeconhtry. ’ • Thdy-have denied out panics and pressures with a liberal hand for tho last four or five years, in tho hope of blinding the eyes of tho people, and riding into power on the strength of their delusion. But “a change has come o’er tho spirit of their dream,” and now after years of toil, and Hardships innu- the Websters and Clays and Harrisons and ’Whites and Bells and Wises and Tallmadgos, find themselves immeasurably farther off tho goal of their ambition than when they first set out in their wearisome journey. And then what still vexes their minds and embitters their feelings yet morn, is tho fact that Mr. Van Btifen enjoys him self “calm as a summer’s morning,” and looks down, from tho lofty pinnacle of fatno to which ho has been raised by the suffrages of a free people, upon these grovelling, hanb-hnught and battle ridden earth-worms, With tho most supremo contempt.— Conscious of