The Columbia Democrat. (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, September 19, 1840, Image 2

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lourths Oi a milo l Brown's hon?o; thai ho' to tho phs 0f t'to murder corioipontluig
" " ""sooirtva worn m ub.ut fifteen I with if.r children's bare feel, ami with the
H'I;hki s before li re i-i-ncil I'mm Ilia houso
alarm; lhat ' en he rruchr-d homo,
mom! tho thmr h "Led d turning to
wjrh IM'Uonaii-liy'ri house, n gun was fir
"l "nl a IihII pii- .u! nuar tits rigal ep.civ-
t in rr-at p thnton UirnioT f'i" head
1
nor? r
prucrt1
1 it
I to sre ironi whence tlm lin
another 1 i passed thr .-h ',,11
r, :u :: ,jr ihe cheek ami t ':inff
o i i' i" lower part irt Ins c;ir, that I"? i.ume.
t1 ' I; l inked to the place whence the ihot
i it? i : unit tie f:iw a mnn rise up, put Ins
: 1 on the log, :uul lo'!; out through the
rrj.i A ,f i;c ,,jf, a, ill," bam; he saw him as
) 1 mi a i.c fvi i ,w him. IT WAS ROB
1 'I M'CONAiUaiY; he immediately
i n to the barn', but the man had jumped
dov. n the mow hole, and was gone; he run
iii'i tho mow ami found his Brown'
two ritlea, the handle of the door and homo
tobacco that was in the chest when he left
Tiocpp, he then went' to the house,' opened
the door and run to the back room to get
hi! s'mt pouch, but not finding it he looked
re-1 , i r ' "aw his son John under the bed,
' ' : turn. "John?" "John U" but he
i . "sver; he then stooped down and
turned hi.n over; lis was DEAD! Blood
and water were running out of his mouth !
lie run to where two men were at work and
gave the alarm, and sent others to spread
the alarm still farther; one man returning
wit i him. they entered the house, there
wore two loaves of bread, still in dough, in
two bas cts on a chair in tho room, the
douj'i, !nJ run over the baskets, and was
on tho c iir, there was dough also iu the
rhc t. Tim rooms were both wet as though
1" ,v washed up; in the bod under which
Joh, lav, the wife of Mr. Brown and the
mother of tho tnurdere'd children was then
found with a quilt thrown over tier. She
had a 1 iro wound over the right eye four
incites long, and deep into the brains, her
throat was cut through to the neck bone.
O'.her persona ooon came, and Brown was
a tp stcd, and tied as the murderer ; a great
many got,iired through the night, and re
inained until next morning. .Larly next
inoMth'g persons were sent to M'Conau
jjh's m there, where M'Conaughy was to
tell the nwa, and to get them to come
down. By th,'w time suspicion rested on
tho Id'Ci.iiaughy's, and the messengers
t- .rc rciuc5ted not to let these suspicions
jo knnsvo: when tiic nev3 was told to tho
family ftlrs. M'Conaughy, Robert's wife
was greatly distressed, screaming dreadfully
but Robert lay and made no signs of sorrow
or distress.; finally he and his five brothers
came down, and from an examination of
Robert, the suspicions became so strong a
gainst hiai, that Robert was tied; search bo
in-? -nude, the bodies of all the other ehil
dran were found butchered in a most shock-
ip ier;Georee and David, the first six
Uui ji-.ii nid and the other ten,were found
n'mut half a niiie from the house, George
had hu raw bone broker his arm- broke and
lus throat cur, his throatf head and face.ea
tentiv'tsomo uTJaTt: David, ten years old
wis lend about one hundred yards from
Georc. with a slight flesh wound from
ball, and strangled to death by tho grasp of!
hands, Elizabeth fouiteen years old, aud
Jacob youngcr.were found in a different di
rection about eight roi's Irora the house.
Ja"ob was shot through the head with two
ba'.lr, Elizabeth's head was mashed in
wit ton'. Tiley were all covered over
wiui 1 ivcs. Elizabeth was found over in
the f. Id somo distance from Jacob, where
b1 i b 1 run on her way back home, and
t ere tho raurdrrer had caught her her
bonn"t and bcr '?t was found near her;
th'y v. ere all bi..i;;t;t home, nd buried in
one 1 r c grn ; one of the neighbors had
been at Brown's on the day of the murder,
at.l - ,t Minie lie had left there, Mrs.
, BUT NO.CiIILDKKN.
making; up bread, she.was
v?rv i-l "' ar- v . iaou "u u "j
rrr, t.-lii 13 h-Mr. Brown would soon 6e
ho t b'le'- ! r and when about six
liuvUrvi yan Vom the house, ho heard a
p .n nnd . !.jg bark iu the direction of
BrJWi.Mnu stu worK ot deam was
then '-oing 0 1. The general testimony be
ei ' at jv.- i-tated.wenl to prove other
t.r umi.i;ie.-, iinnlieating M'Conaughy,
and pri ing I 13 ? rM. WhtH first charged
Wi'. t e mur.! r lie said he could not have
t' i',for hn at his brother's grubbing
-r. t!:v hour .-.forward he denied this; he
j' . u-d h w a in Hare Valley that af-
- 1. ll iv 1 proven that he was not in
I - i' ''fit 1 t u' plaeo he named until the
n i l was sun and wlwn seen there firaj,
tt'ifi'it sundowii. he fltd from there to his
1 r t'.jr'e in tarns vallev, steppinj at
t 1 o.- t'irei' ii'.ii'r:nt'Ji.to plaees and inquir
inr ,1 thete -,.la s for a hoose to rnt, and
pt,. it iidm.k ?.t e.u-h place, going a dis-
laiii of tlirc .r lnvir miles from nine o
c!c" ti'l m-'lown-.ho stated l some that he
,l la'en a 11-1 :n! 't about eleven miles to
tit i 1 Hure V.i leV, and that b inir in doubt
v ' oilier he would ro or not to get a house
1. ii.id set J iwii fin a log on the read de;
t-i f u'ne he h set therr 1. 10 hours, to
o' .ert f-.ui I and to oth'TS good hmg
bor.ti M' wiruucjhy liad on wheu atreetei).
and the sjuie he hart oil the any ol tnc mur
der the samp man's tracks were lso found
from near the barn and followed up the
mountain in a direct course to Wall's over
the mountain, where he, himself,' said he
first wont, when he wont to Hare Valley for
a house. On examination of hit person, al
so, blood wasounti on his right hand nl the
side of the nail on the lililo finger,
where, the side of the nail joins the flesh, on
his hand the crease at that place wna deep
and it was full of blood, pressed deep and
evidently the remains of a large quantity
that had been washed oft. On his shoulder
was a lare bruise, which appeared to be
the eraspof a hand, supposed to be given
by ucotge. r or the blood ami the bruise
he could give no account. Such 111 sub
stance was the testimony in connection with
Brown s which condemned the man. INo
testimony was offered in his favor of any
kind and his counsel had to rely solely an
the hope ol destroying Brown's testimony,
but this was vain.
Brown was sustained in all his evidence,
by the most respectable witnesses, up to the
time tie arrived at lus house and his descrip
tion of M'Uouaiighy as he saw him ' when
he idiot at him was fully sustained by funr
or live witnesses who saw him verv soon
afterwards in Ilaro valley, where ho fled
after shooting at Brown. As Brown had
been all the week from home and could nnt
have seen M'Conaughy iluriug his absetice,
and as he described his dress so minutely.
even to his having his trhirt sleeves' rolled
up, and as "this minute description was the
same as given by the other aula of murder,
the motive too agreed with tho acts; had
M'Conaughy succeeded in murdering
Brown, he would have been solo heir in
right of his wife to Brown's farm of 130
acres, with all the personal propertv. sub
ject to the claim of one other child in a-
nother county, but who could afterwards
have been despatched. In short, after view
ing all evidence adduced, it was impossible
for tho mind to draw any other conclusion,
than that which the jury done; it was M'
Conaughy and no other. In llio beautiful
-ingrrage oTSlrr Taylor; "When wo looks-
round aud endeavor to find any other man
than Robort M'Conaughy who could have,
done this deed.an improbability, high as the
rneeeu mountain iuatbtiktMiu. of.
'JTHUTH WtttMut"!
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Ss1TVIUi.1V, SKrEMMEH 19, 140.
PRRSIDBNTIAIS ELECTION 1840.
For PtefltDBNf,
MAIiTIJV VAN BXJREN.
. For Vtcfc Prksident,
RICHARD M. JOIINSOJf.
ANO THK-
CONSTITUTlONAIi TREASURY.
an absurd conclusion
On Friday the prisoner was, brought out
10 receive his sentence. An immense crowd
filled the Court House.and after ihe prison
er was seated a short iime,ho was called on
to stand un and recrive his Sentcnee. He
had been sick the day and night before.attd
when he rote up to his led his appearance
was truly awful no pen can, show him as
he then "appeared hi eyes rested upon
COUNTY' TICKET,
CONGRESS.
BENJAMIN A. BlDIiACK.
SENATOR.
SAMUEL P. HIS ADMIT'
DANIEL SNYDER-
COMMfSHIONM.
CHRISTIAN , WOLF
TJiEdSUJfSR. LEONARD B UUPEitT
, AVMTOli.
JOSEPH CRAIG-
SHERIFF.
CORONER.
ANDREW iKELEK.
TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF
PENNSYLVANIA.
Tho Central Committee takes.this oppor
tunity of apprizing their democratic broth
em throughout Pennsylvania, that having
received intelligence ,of lite death of Col.
John Thompson, of the 1st district, Phila
delphia county, one of the candidates for
lector on the democratic tickot, they have
slaughter rise up atid forbid us reaching such P.TT-QttfiE W. SMICK, Esq.,
Brown ;;3 th"
Mr"1. P'.iwn "
am!
li
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was
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h.- In
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b in, air!
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II. .)' m '
CIV
, uie about g 'tig to gel a
; -r ic, for he li.td jot ao aer
1 ! .fr. Brown, hU fatber-in
I tfjtti. made garden and
,. . !..i4 (ft fofi 1f lil4
. i.ian was to hav helped
. put up Siis house, and none
' of his itUOtlttK (
f . Un WIIOKt.
1 I. ,'r ), U'jr.ke www i'tM-
the floor, and when called upon 10 look
the judge, the weight often thousand guilty
emotions weiglieu lliem wiu'iiniiu.riiey. leu
again on the floor; he could not look up;
whon aoked if he had any thing to say why
the sentonce of the court should not he pass
cd upon him, after his attorney had explain.
ed the question, his head rolled kw!y from
side to side, his eves cast down, his mouth
partly open and drawn in at the corners.and
with a faint, trembling voice he whined
slowly out: "I am not guil
ty."
Never wus a face so expressive of horror
guilt, remorse; it was haggard, pale, distor
ted and trembling, as if before the fiends of
darkness; he trembling stood before the
Judge, while he pronounced liisseutence.
Deeply did Judge Bumside feel the so
lemnity of the rwful duty he was about to
discharge, and truly solemn and affecting
was the manner in which it wa3 performed.
He' called to the prisoner's recollection the
crimes for which he had been tried; he
elanoetl at the manner la which- the trial
had been conducted, and then told him that
the verdict of the Jury fixed his guilt; but
when ho came to detail the crimes he had
00 rami lied, and to trace the fiend through
all the scenes of blood, his own heart mol
ed at the afflicting detnil, and his own e-
motion rolled through lite aisemhlv; it was
indeed an affecting picture ot the bloody
tragedy drawn by a master hand. We saw
the artful murderer, as lie allured his victims
from their mother s fide, and one by one
slaughtered them with fiendish barbarity;we
saw rum when, with hellish cruelty, no re
turned and struck down the kind aod aged
mother; we saw him when, like the tiger,
he lurked in his hiding plaee, and drove tfte
fatal bullet through the heart of her firsl
born, and draggvd him l the bed where lav
his murdered mother;anu we saw mm when
he aimed his last bullei at the brains of the
aged father ! Yes ! ve saw all this the
murdered group, the aged mother and her
slaughtered ones, from her iirat born to the
child of her old age, lying around her; 1
was truly a masterly prodiic'ion. The pri
goner was ordered back to prison, and sen
tenced to be hung ey th neok until dead;
tiid never did a sentence of the kind fall
uoon a mora guilty wrdteh the enormity
of hid crime, as Judge Burnside declared,
was sever equalled by the Pirate of the
seas, er the Savages of the wilderneu.
Sueh wwr ihe conclusion of this bloody tra
of said district, to
obtained the required written pledge ot iu
S in case of his election, thai he will vote
in the Electural College for .MARTIN VAN
BUREN as President, and RICHARD M
JOHNSON, as Vice President of the Unt
tod Stales. '
They also beg learo to apprize their
friends, that ALL the candidates on tho de
mocratic electoral ticket have given similar
pledges,. as fe.qujryd bj he( democratic. lth
of March Convention '
The following may be rsljed on as a cor
rect list of tho names transcribed from the
signatures of tho candidates themselves.
Editors of newspaper and those having
care of the printing and.distiibation of tick
ets, will do well firsl to compare theni with
this list, a? the names at the hejids of many
of the democratic newspaper ate inaccn-
raj- "
- ELECTORAL TICKET.
Jakes Clajucb, of Indiana, 1'
Geo. G. IEtPBR, of . Delaware!
STANDING ARMY HUMBUG.
Of .all the humbugs raised by the whigs
io gull the people, the standing army hum
bug stands among tho most prominent.
Knowing that there is not n si 11. word in.
the bill to bear them out in their statements,
they refuse to publish the bill a reported,
while they publish column nfior, column of
misrepresentation of its details, and cull up
on tbe people to believe their absurd and
false statements, without oven examining
fur ihs'mselves. But they are mistaken.
The ' sober second thought of the people"
will eventually put all things right, and rea
son aud judgement prevail .in' opposition to
log cabins, hard cider and koon skin argu
ments. .
The following extract from a speech dc-
dnlivcisd by Senator BuehaiiHtm, nt the Lan
caster Convention, is a complete refutation
of the whig hug-bear stories about 'a stand
ing army and shows conclusively that 110
such thing was aver contemplated, or even
thought of
From every Whig orator in the land, we
have heard it over and over agair. reiterated
that Mr. Van Bui on has attempted to estab
lish a Standing Army of 2U0.0U0 men.
On what does this ridiculous charge rest ?
On a plan or hill reported to Congress at lite
!... c
iut icooiuih in tiueuii'iiutj at nu ruqitssi 01
a Committee of the House of Representa
tives, by Mr. f oinsett the Secretary of War.
Now the first striking fact connected with
subject is, that Mr. Van Buten not only did
not approve this ptau, btt was ignorant of
its existence. In the emphatic unguage
of the Secretary himself, " with ii or its de
tails ho (Mr. Van Buren,) hod nothing to
do." At is tho usage in such cases, it was
sent to Congress " wihout being previously
submitted to flic President." It is,. there
fore, emphatically and exclusively tho plan
ot Mr. romacii, aim not ot Mr. Van Jiu
ren.
But what is this plan ? There arc nt least
0110 million five hundred thousand men in
ihe United State subject 10 militia, duty;
and probably not much, if any, less than
two millions. From thiii mass" it was pro
posed by Mr Poinsett to take one hundred
thousand mon betweon twenty Jand thirty
sevon veaw of age, by dmft or by volun-
cram, or 0110 man 111 every fifteen, which
ihe acTiTerrfitAvtOuitihe aocrotarv calls
iMadition, Mmoc r.i.J J.t. 1, n, have, dnr
ing the last half en; i ., ,ti! uicpnunctuhd
similar plans toCongu s uiJ this suljt ct
has uoen Urged upon Coti ;uss thirl u-uno
times, uy ontercni iiepurtnieuis of the
eontivo GroVBrnaient, slnoe t.e adontmn nf
the Fedefal Constitution.
The principaUieasons upon which thrsn
great and good men, ever since tho origin
ot otir.ttoveriiHient, havo advocated a stun,
lar plan for re-organising the militia, aic,
that whilst the present militia sysii ni was
a heavy bt.rden and expense both of tiu0
and money to the people, they acquired but
little useful instruction iu the rt ot defend
ing their country. It was th; ivlwrt', darn
ed by them to be wier to eli.gbif' i,r.d m.
struct a small portion-of the yomiter men
or tae great mass, and relieve the reu,,a.
der altogether from the burden of imhua
duty. Their recommendation howWr,
have never found favor with Congress. Re
ports were nuanimously made iigs.inst ulr,
Poinsett's plan bv the Committee on tliu
Militia, both in hc Semite and 111 the House;
and if iheie wafj single Democruic mem
berof GongiessHi faiorof its adoption, I
known not ihe man. , For :ny on 11 part, 1
was always opposed to it, believing that tho
true defeuce at the country consists iu ihu
brave hearts and strong inns of the mass of
the people. Whenever danger is impend
ing from a foreign foe, hundreds of thous
aitds tjf ?uch men will volunteer to defend
their country; and under the impulse of pat
riotism, they will then acquire nioto knowl
edge of the military art in a shoitor period
than they could ever do, in theso equips of
instruction, during a tirne of profound pencx-.
Hesides 1 believed that 0110 feature of ihu
plan conflicted with the Constitution. But
this plan in now dead and buried, and il
ghosi is conjured up by the Whigs, merely
for the purpose of afliightiwg the tin. id, ur.d
inducing them to oppose a Presid. nt vbn
never approved it, and of supporting a tin
didaio who has been one of the chief advo
catts of a Minilar measure.
But I am not yet quite done with Gener
al Ha rrisou and the militia. Geii'Tui Iiur
rison, whilst a member' of the Ilou'ie, uf
Representatives and Chairman of t'.iS Com
mittee on ihu iNnlitia, made a report on the
17th January, 1817, which ho reiterated rrt
a subsequent tjesoion, strongly urging ihu
uecessiiy of appointing military teachers,
under the authority ol the Federal Govern
ment, to instruct every raalu fcchohr of too
proper sge iu every primary school through
out the United Sutes in military discipline;
" whilst the more scientific pbrt ot the mt
was to be oreanizod into compaTTfeTtTtiascaJ of war should be communicated bv nrofes-
tallions; and Orto fourth of the whole num- prigTtef lUfiltcs to be established in nil iuo
Senatorial
L Liaonro W. Snuck
3 JJenjamin Mifflin ,
freUciicii HUx'ver
StUm. II, timith
4 John F. Suimuwi,
Jnbn Uowliu
Henry Myeri
fi Daniel Jaooby
6 Jesse Jobawi
7 Jacob Able
8 Goo. Chrwtfaan
U Wm. 8iaencr
10 Henry Dcbeff
ti Henry tiogau-
18 Trtaoriclt'ttalth
18 UharlwM5flure
14 -I. M.QeinmoU
16 0. M. HoUeuback
JO Lwiiard ltptfi
17 John Horloujr.
18 Williarrt iiUon
18 Jolin Morrison
ZD Wfetly Vrost. .
SI Jlenj. AnJcrson
83 William WilkUs
!23 A.K. WrUdrt'
S4 John Findloy
H Stephen bi low
the ground betne soft with a previ
gerj
Some afilM Brituli Wft atittom art
highly elated el tbe appearance of a new
article called "Tippecanoe Soup." They
JOHN C, BUBI1ER, Chairman.
James Peacock,
E. W. llulter,
$e
crelanes.
Our Schuylkill friends have nominated
ohn Weaver, of Pollsrille, as their oandi-
ate for the Legislature. Mr. Weaver is a
sound democrat and a popular man, and
will faithfully represent his constituent.
i'hero is 110 douM of his election.'
From all parts of the county, we loam
that there is a general determination to sus-
aln the ticket. The volunteers whe were
defeated in their nomination at the conven
lion, are striving to create division and dis
sention iu our ranks, but from what ire cn
learn, it will avail but little, and that the
whole ticket will Ite Iriomphniuly elected.
RETURN OP LEVIS.
We learn from tbe Ptnrsylvauun, that
II. J. Lbvis, of the Schuylkill Bank, has
relumed from Europe, He arrived in Phil
adelphia on Saturday oil ht last,, from Balti
more, lnleiligeiiae ot this important Uoi
was immediately officially comtnuwaied to
the Board of Directors uf that iHfljiuiioi).--He
it still at largo.b'ut prompt tnejaures for
his art 01 have been taken by the proper
authorities.
her, say 25,000 men. to be determined by
lot, waif to pass out of the at; live force into
what is called the reserve or sedenary force,
was also to consist of 100,000 men. Un
der the system in complete operation, twenty-five
thousand men would pass, each year,
by draft or volunteering from the mass of
ihe militia into the active force; the same
:nurhber of men woald pass each yeorTrom
tho active into the sedentary force; and the
like number would return each vear from
the sedentary force inio the mass of the mi-
ilia (torn which they hd been originally
drawn. Each of the mih'.ta men thus il rut
ted was to servo four ye.irs in the active
force, and was to .constitute a part of the
bederitary force during four years longer.
It waij a new denomination by which to
call a grand division of the Standing Army;
that of sedentary corps; but never was
name better applied. This division of the
grand army ate literally to sit-stlrl, bavhig
perfected their military accomplishments
during their first four yeats' service in the
active force. They arc not to bo called out
even in defenej of the country, until the ac
tive force shall have bren exhausted. At
one fell swoop then, one, half of luo Grand
Army ot two hundred tUouermd men are an
nihilated 1.
Then as it regards the renaming 100,000
men of the active force; what duties had
they l perlorui : 1 lie United suites was
iu be divided into convenient districts: and
the President was nuthorized (0 assemble
such members of them as he might think
propel within their respective districts dur
tr,s a period of not lent lhan ten ttor more
than thirty dayt (faring which they wert
10 receive yuy jut ne jjuryjtc iij inairw
lion, discipline, and imnrotimtnt in mill
tary knowledge. 1 Ins, 1 pledge myseli to
you, is kuudiuiiiiaiiy 111c piau, iu y iiuib
plan, and noMnng but the plan Mr. 1'oih
sett, so far as it proposes to make any
change in the existing law. This is the
standing army not ot uu,uuu but ot IUU,-
000 men uuattorrwd at various places over
the United States, fur the purpose of im
proving themselves in the military an; and
that for a period not exceeding thirty days,
iu fuch yeut; and thin the Whigs proclaim
to be portentous to liberty. We havo been
told that ttiese sons were to ride against
their own fathers, and the fathers against
their own children, and were to destroy
their own libertiet; because they were to be
assembled. from ten to thirty days iu caeb
year for die purpose of learning hew to de-
feud their country. Ami it is out ol this
miserable material that tho Whig would
manufacture u panic end induce the people
to believe that the President desires to es
tablish a standing army of 200,000 meu to
usurp the liberties of the country. What
renders this humbug still mere farcical and
ridiculous, if possible is, thai General Har
rison himself whilst a member of Coueie,
advocated and strongly urged the adoption
of a similar plan to cliaify and train ihe Mi
litia. Nay more Washington, Jeifersou,
self, has eer toHi
such a monstrous pionoa
jcamca, mo esr.fiisc to
enormous,. Such
iatrmrtonvcrnn3
tj -feo man, exo7t inm
pionoei'iioi! o'','"d
sider it for a moment. Whut vast pa'"1
ago and power would it confer upon ifo
President, to appoint and pav inilriarv in.
structora for all the primary schools m tho
United States I Besides, ihn vr,,n .
the people would bo
svsleih oFc3ucatiou
country into n Military Despotism. Ht
was a wise nun who said, lei mo direct tho
sports aud the pursuits of the chi'dicn, an i
I mould ihe character of tho men into any
form 1 please. Let all the mule srhr.l .rs of
the country receive military instruction from
public master; instead of the (,'.. 's and
plays to which tbey are aficusti,r.c'.; let
them be marched and aounteimarcii u v 1 'i
tiny mustets upon thejr shouldei; li t their
youthful imaginations 1 fie thus tut a i"i
visions ol military g'.dry, and wlicn ihy
become men they wilt he unfitted f ' the
peaceful and laborious pnrsoitc t cr. it Im.
They would then be tbe fit and the willing
msirumeaia in esiablishing a tplcni id mil
tary dtspotism such ub that 1 f ihu (,i"at
Empt-ror of Franco. Then place eo.i u a
ble und ambitious General in iho Prrui'i-
tial chair, and you furnish him tho very trst
materials with which tojaubvert tlie libcriiea
of his country. Iu addition to il.i, c.oa't)
a splendid Bnk of thotftiiied Sutes, v:di
a capital of seventy trillions of d niarb,
such hm the Whigs now .propose, and you
may live to see the day jwhen tl.e power of
the puree sod the swurid, in the I. m is of
the Pri-sident, will not b.'as now, an empty
iiamc". The -Whigs, in talking about Mr
Poinriett'a standing army, say no.., ing ol
this vast project of General lLinissn for
converting tie into a' military na ion. It
would be abeolutely 8tutling to tha itaagtu
ation, if it wure not for i s absurdity and
felly.
Effect a of the Ltdependnit Trraiur;
Rill. 'Wo are told that all tho manufac
turing establishment!, which were suspen
dad last winter ami ppring, havo commen
ced operations since, tbe passan of the li
dependentTrsasury'Bill. All dr-scriptions
of goods have takoiiia'start, and are advan
cing in prices. As the importers havo aot
now the use of the public money to pur
chttae foreign goads but few orders havo
gone abroad. Iu addition to this,' tho fact
that a portion of llie.'duties are r.-iifirrd to
be pid iu specie, make the banks shy of
large leans to importers, whereas formerly
ihey were favored ouetomers. AVitnoEsing
these things, the mauafuetun rs who arc in
telligent, perceive that' their true inured as
well as that of the country is identified
with the Independence of the Treasury and
its total disconnection from all banks,
JfcirfjrJ Tt;n'S.
, and following liout tiei: ibc houe need it.