Vol.. V, No. 41.] TERMS OF TIM HUNTINGDON JOURNAL. The" JOURNAL" will be published every ' Wednesday morning, at two dollars a year, kf paid IN ADVANCE, and if not paid with in six months, two dollars and asbalf. Every person who obtains five subscribers, and forwards price of subscription, shall he furnished with a sixth copy gratuitously for one year. No subscription received for a less period than six months, nor any paper discmui ued until all arrearages are paid. 0•All comMunications must be addressed td the Editor, POST PAID, or they will not be attended to. Advettisementg not exceeding one square, will be inserted three times for one dollar, and for every subsequent insertion, twenty five cents per square will he charged. If no definite orders are given as to the time an advertisement is to be continued, it will be kept in till ordered out, and charged accor dingly. AGENTS. The Muntinadon Journal Daniel Teague, Orbieonia; David Blair, Esq. Shade Gap; Benjamin Lease, Shirleys-' burg; Eliel Smith. Esq. Chilcottatown; Jas. Entriken, jr. Ceffee Run; Hugh Madden, Esq. Springfield; Dr. S. S. Dewey, Bir mingham; James Morrow, Union Furnace ; John Sister, Warrior Mark; James Davis, Esq. Weat township ; D. H. Moore, Esq Franketown; Eph. Galbreath, Esq. Holli daysburg; Henry Neff, Alexandria; Aaron Burns, Williamsburg; A. J. Stewart. Water Street; Wm. Reed, Esq. Mo ,- rie township; Solomon Hamer. Arre Mill; James Dysart, Mouth Spruce Creek; Wm. Murray, Esq. Graytwille; John Crum, Manor Hill; Jas. E. Stewart, Sinking Valley; L. C. Kessler, Mill Creek. POETRY, THE LOST PLEIAD, OR THE STAR OF NEW JERSEY. 'Tis done! Our glorious standard Droops blotted on the air: The star that earliest rose and shone Is veiled in v-pours there. From that bright constellation Whose rays illumined the world, One Pie lad fire is quenched in gloom— One ancient orb is hurled. The light that like a beacon First cheered our fainting sires. When rushing tempests shook their bark, By impious hands expires. The State that suffered sorest, When Freedom was unchained, With all her venerable scars Denied the prize she gained. The battle ground of Freedom, The brunt of war that braved, Dishonored w.th a broken seal— Disfranchised and enslaved. Was it for this at Trenton Was drawn th' av enging sword? Was it for this on Mon mouth plain Heroic blood was poured? I. this, great shade of Mercer! The harvest of thy strife? Was it for this thy wounds were horne— For this was paid thy life? Rise, sons of gallant fathers!— Did foreign fod invade, I know inch breast would bar his march, Each hand would find its blade. What matter who th' oppressors That on our rights have trod? Rise all!—with just yet bloodless arms Redeem your native sod! Away with paltry jari ings When laws are overthrown! Each true son of a sovereign State Should make her shame his own, Take nobler ground than party When Freedom is your plea!— It little boots who reigns or falls Let but the State be free. Then speak!—one voice of thunder Will rend the gloom in twain, And 'mid the broken clouds reveal Our ancient star again! CHANCE. "Tis priestcraft all,' the impious atheist cries 'The world was made by chance—the Bible lies!' 'Tis useless such assertions to repel ; But what if chance has also made a hell? T E JOURNAL. HUNTINGDON, PENNSYLVANIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1840, TENNESSEE CONVENTION. The great Southwestern Convention took place in Nashville, (Tenn.) on the 17th test.—the Hon. E. H. Foster, Pres ident. Fourteen states were represen ted, and the meeting is said to have sur passed even that at Baltimore in May last The accounts by the papers show that it was a splendid gathering. We copy from the Whig a hasty abstract of Mr. Clay's remarks:—U. 8. Gazette. MR. CLAY'S SPEECH. Mn. CLAY, was called for with an en thusiasm which seemed* to contain no bounds, and when he came forward, with those haracteristic smiles playing all o ver his remarkable countenance, the air was rent with nine such cheers as it has seldom fallen to the lot of any man to re ceive. When these had subsided, he commenced somewhat as follows, Mr. President—Gentlemen of the Convention—Ladies—Friends and Fel low Citizens—This clay may be likened to the glorious and genial sun that now shines upon us. Clouds are occasional ly flitting over it and obscuring for the moment its beaming rays, but truth will break through the mist and shine the brighter for having been for a time sbscu red. By November next, the dark clouds which have been lowering above the po litical horizon will all disappear. I con gratulate this vast multitude upon the glo rious prospect Lefore us. _ _ said Air. Clay, is a Convention of the people, anti he asked if he might not, without arrogance, revert to the cause of his appearing before them. Du ring the arduous contest in which he had been long engaged, occasional clouds low med about him, but conscious of the cor rectness of his motives, of the purity of his intentions, he had stood out from the beginning dauntless, erect and undismay ed, Had he visited Tennessee during the campaign to which he had allude►, he would have disabused the public mind in relation to the charges which were made against him. In giving his vote, in 1825, for Mr. John Q. Adams, he •beyed the wishes of his constituents. It had been charged that he did not do this, but the charge was unfounded. It was true that the Legislature of Kentucky at the time made a request that he should give a dlr. ferent vote; but that body, in making the request, went beyond its province; it had no right to interfere in the matter; the right belonged exclusively to his constit uents in the counties of Fayette, Wood ford and Jessemine. Each of these coma ties sustained, approved and ratified his conduct at the time, and neither of them liEs ever to this (lay revoked or annulled that approbation. With respect to his motives for the coarse he pursued, he had nothing on this occasion to offer. Those motives were known to and would be asl judged by his God. He never for a mo- net doilbted that the day would come when, ustice would be dune him. Yes he never doubted that brave generous, patri otic Tennesseeans would be among the first to do him justice. This he felt they had done. The welcome with which he was greeted on his arrival—the pro cession—the banners—and list though not least, the many bright eyes that beam ed, and the handkerchiefs that waved on the occasion--all spoke to him a languag e of true and heartfelt welcome as grate ful as it was flattering to his feelings. It was true that he had some 'vine. tance, some misgivings, about making this visit at this time, which grew out of a supposition that his motives might be misconstrued. The relations which had fora long time existed beteen himself and the illustrious Captain in this neighbot hood were well understood. He feared if he accepted the invitation to make the visit now, that it might be thought by some that his motives were less patriot ic than sinister or selfish. But he assu- red that great assemblage that towards that illustrious individual—their fellow citizen and friend—he cherished, he pos sessed, no unkind feelings. He was a great chHtain— he had fought well and bravely for his country—he hoped he would live long and enjoy much ness, and when he departed from this fleeting vale of tears, that he would en ter into the abode of the just, made per t feet. Mr. Clay said that, in addressing an assembly of so many thousands as he saw around hint, when so many topics were crowding into the mind, he was at a loss to select a theme. Shall I, he asked, dwell upon a ruined currency —upon the prostration of business—the stagnation of trade—and the destruction of commerce ? Or shall I speak of the wasteful extrava gance of the present powers that be? Mr. Clay said that a paper had just been put in his hands, which he had nev• er seen before, that represented in the form of a pyramid, the expenditures of the last three ,Administrations. He held it up to view and explained its meaning. "ONE COUNTRY, ONE CONSTITUTION, ONB DESTINY." A. W. BENEDICT PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR. He read some of the items of expenditure under the present Administration, which isles charcteristically economical, and con trasted them with expenditures, under the same heads, made by the Administra tion of John Q. Adams—an Administra tion whose extravagance so shocked the sensibilities of the whole nation! But, Mr. Clay said, this was not one of the themes be had selected to address the audience upon. He had thought to refer to, among other things, some of the very extraordinary doctrines now advan ced by those who profess to entertain. the greatest tveneration and regard for the State Rights doctrines. In this connec— tion, he broug ht _ up the ridiculous mance vre, in the United States Senate, at the late session, on the subject of the debates of the several States. A long Report was made that the General Government would not assume the payment of those debts-- a thing that nobody ever dreamed!, of ! This Report, of which an extraordi nary number of copies was ordered to be printed for circulation, was drawn up, said Mr. Clay, by your fellow-citizeu and !an old acquaitance of mine. And one of the pleasures which I promised myself, in making this visit to your beautiful town, was to meet and talk over matters with I him. But or, my etiq.tiry for him, I learn ed that he was in East Tennessee, ma king speeches in favor of the present Ad ministration! Ah, said I, at his old oc cupation, defending criminals! [The manner in which this was said, surpasses description. Those only who saw it, or who are acquainted with Mr. Clay's gesticula. tions and style of speaking, can Imagine anv thing approaching the reality .1 - But here is this - tlifference, said Mr. Clay, between my distinguished friend's present and past defence of criminals. He is now defending great criminals of State, not before a carefully packed jury, but befoie the free, enlightened, virtuous and patriotic people—and therefore we may well hope that his present defence will not be attended with his hitherto u sual sJccess! Mr. Clay referred to Mr. Van Buren's recommendation, in 1837, of a Bankrupt law, bearing exclusively upon State Banks as an evidence of his regard fur state rights, and mirrored forth the evils of such a law, He reverted to the progress of the Sub treasury bill though its several stages, and discanted upon the manner it was finally got first through the Senate and then the House with great ability and do quence--in which connection he gave a clear and succinct of the manner; and for what cause, New Jersey was so disgrace fully disfranchised. Mr. Clay said that the party in power profess to be Democrats par excellence! Among all their usurpations he knew of none more absurd than the usurpation of this name. He professed himself to be a true Democrat. He learned his De mocracy in the school of '9B and '99. It was very different, he confessed, from the Democracy taught now-a•days in high places. It did not say, in the language of the motto upon the Bedford county banner, which he just read; "The people expect too much from the Government" --"Let the Government take care of itself and the people of themselves." No! the democracy that he had learned was the reverse of this language of the present Democratic President. But the new De mocracy does not stop here. It asks for allegiance to the powers that be. The Democracy of Jefferson asked a candidate for office if he was capable, and would support the Constitution. But the hew Democracy asks very different questions. It asks, how many votes can you bring to the polls? What's 'your influence? Are you boisterous partizans? It also holdi out inducements, and bribes, which Jet . - ferson'a Democracy did not. It says, it you labor in my cause and the people re• ject you, I wil! take care that your reward shall be certain. He instanced the ap• pointinent of Mr. Grundy, and then re— ferred to the appointment of John M. Niles, as Postmaster General, who not four months ago was rejected by the per). pie by 4,500 votes. To be thus beaten was a sure passport to an Executive office. By the bye, he said, the office conferred upon Mr. Niles was not a very enviable one, for he had to take a seat previously occupied by a creature than whom a more despicable creeping reptile could not be named. His fellow citizens, he presu med, would know to whom lie alluded. Mr. Clay here dwelt for some minutes upon the immoral tendency to which such a course of administration, as lie had been alluding to, would lead—But lie trusted it would be checked—that the great physician, the Ballet Box, was near at hand, arid by November the disease would be met by an effective and most salutary remedy. When before had such a state of things as now exists been known? When before such a disregard of obligations? When before have 64 out of 67 Land Officers proved defaulters? When before have defaulters not only been retained in office after their defalca tions were know n,. but absolutely re-ap pointed? He referred to the appointment of Mr. Livingston as Secretary of State at a time when he was a defaulter, but said he presumed the President did not reflect sufficiently upon the tendency such an appointment would have. He referred to the Moor and Latcher case, and to the appointment of locker to the best office in the country for his services in that dark transaction. He had heard that Ho ker had since proved a defaulter. Mr Clay said lie would like to address hi mse lf directly to the Democrats within the n und of his voice. He wished to ad• dress them, not as enemies, but as broth ers, as men equally patriotic and equally d evote d to the Whigs, to the best inter ests of the country. We differ said lie but upon what subject do men not differ? Have all your hopes been realized in re gard to the administration of the Govern ment? Have the pledges that were made you, been fulfilled? Take, fur example, the one term of the Presidency. Did not the great Captain promise you that one term was e nough for a President to serve? Nas it carried out? How was the prom ise not to a ppoint members of Congress to office, carried out? How was the prom ise to reduce the extravagant expendi tures, fulfilled? 13 hat principle was car ried out? what promise kept? what pledge redeemed? Is there an Administration I man in this vast assemblage that will an ) swer, shouted the Kentucky orator in the loudest tones of his musical voice! Mr. Clay said he called the present a vast assemblage, sod he would take that occasion to declare that there were more :mople and more banners there than there were at the great Baltimore Convention. And why are there so many people here, coming together from almost every State in the Union? Mr. Clay said he chimed to be a dem. ocrat in the true sense of the word--a Democrat ready to stand by or die for his country. He referred to the geat con test now going on, and asked that noth ing should be done to the injury of our opponents. All he said, were interested alike—all were on board the great ship ot State--all were alike interested in the success of the voyage. B ut there were exceptions to the general rule; there were being in the lead of ihe party who could not be hung too high—beings who set all the baser passions ot men at work—and labor constantly and solely for no good. There was another class—the boisterous office holders, the Praetorian band, the Pal ace Slaves—he was about to say of Mr V. Buren! But then to call such a man a King over such a people as this great concourse! oh, he would not so insult them! Mr. Clay, in conclusion, addressed the Tennesseans particularly. He reverted to the position of Tennessee and Ken tucky. They stood side by side--their sons fought side by side at New Orleans. Kentuchans and Tennesseans now fight another and a different kind of battle• But they are lighting now, as then, a band of mercenaries, the cohorts of power. They are fighting a band of office holders, who call Gen Harrison a coward, an im • becile, an old woman! Yes, Gen Harrison is a coward—but he Nought more battles than any other Gen during the last war, and never sustained a defeat. He is no statesman—and yet he has filled more civil slices of trust and importance than almost any other man in the Union! A man in the cruwd here cried out, "Tell us of Van Buren's battles!" Aid said Mr Clay, 1 will have to use my colleague's language and tell you of Mr. Van Buren's three great battles! lie says lie fought General Commerce and con quered him—that he fought General Cur. rency and conquered him —and that with his Cuba Alies, he fought the Seminoles and get conquered! Mr. Clay rekrred with great good lu• mar, to the 17.000 Whig majority of Ken tucky, and asked if generous, chivalric Tennessee would not enter the list of competition with her? He doubted not they would make a gallant ,effort to not only run up a long side, but to come out head of her! From the United States Gazette. MR. VAN BUREN AND THE WAR OF 1812-THE FLORIDA WAR AND MR. VAN BUREN. Such has been the mismanagement of the National Administration of late, that those who oppose it most earnestly, fail in presenting, in the strongest light, its misdeeds, because they exhibit them "en masse;" whereas, almost any •ne of them supplies an argument for a total change in our rulers. From the many, take the shocking mismanagement •f the Fsoai• DA WAR, and let some •no go over the history of that disgraceful, as well as monnlifut, affair; and there is not an honest man in the nation that would not start from the detail, and pronounce judg ment against the men whose imbeci/ilp to direct public movements, or whose im prudent waste, and misdirection of the public funds, have left that fair portion of our country a prey to a "few hundred Indians," and exposed the flower of our army to slaughter in detail, and the rives of some of the most lovely of one sex, and the most valued of the other, to the mer cies of the tomahawk and scalping knife. %Ye scarcely receive a mail from the South, that does contain accounts of "Fur ther Indian Depredations," ' , Dreadful Slaughter of Whites in Florida," "More Indian Murders," "Indian key Destroy ed," etc. etc These, our readers know, are the ordinaiy headings of our southern paragraphs; while it cannot be forgotten,' that millions and millions of dollars have been expended on the "Florida /tar," General after General changed, to give efficiency to the efforts of our "army" em ployed in the glides, and along the bor ders of the Gulf. Now, this is a failure un die part of the administration of the general government to protect the lives and property of citizens; and the failure is so evidently the result either of imbe cility, or a diversion of the means suppli ed by Congress to save the territory, that we ask, with confidence, what is due to rulers nho, though they may not be char ged with sending a/etc, to have them de stroyed where many must be victorious, are at least chargeable with wasting the army and its material, by sending a filo where it has long been evident that only the many can effect the object, and return unscathed; with tampering in an import ant affair, involving the lives of thousands of our citizens, and their hard earned property, and heaping disgrace upon our nation, who exhibits herself in the attitude of attempting to arrest from the Indians their land, while it is incapable of protec ting the lives and property, or revenging the death of its own citizens. What, we ask, ought to be the dealings of a people with servants thus incapable, or thus wicked? Let Mr. Van Buren and his fiends answer that important question. W hen,, some weeks since, we exposed to the public the fact, that Mr. Van Bu ren, in 1812, joined the party that was opposed to Mr. Madison, and, in the midst of a disastrous war on our frontier, sought to change-tie executive, and place De Witt Clinton in the Presidency, we were told by some of the mast earnest of Mr. Van Buren's advocates, that though it was a filet that he (Mr. V. B.) was ac tive in attempts to defeat Mr. Madison, yet he . stood justified in the tact, that he and many others believed that the war, the seat of which was on our frontiers, was not carried.on with sufficient vigor, and that an important change in the ad ministration was necessary to secure our northwestern frontiers hum the British and the Indians, and to save our national honor—those not considered safe in the hands of Mr. MAnisoN. Tais was the account given, and the justification offer ed, for Mr. Van Buren's hostility to Mr. Madison, and his co-operation with the party that sustained De \Vitt Clinton. If a change of the administration was required under such circumstances, to defend the honor and the rights of the na tion, how much more is it now required, when the administration, after spending millions of dollars, and wasting almost innumerable lives, is compelled practicals ly to acknowledge its inability to defeat a "handful of Indians," (General Jackson called them a few hundred) who are de stroying our harvest fields, and burning our towns, and slaughtering our citi7ens. Surely it no other charge against Mr. Van Buren and his administration could be adduced, this oldie Florida War would be ample to warrant his dismissal from office ; ;Ind his own conduct iii 1812 would be a precedent to be pleaded fur the action of toe public against him. ILII RITSO.I & TIMER MEETING. At a county meeting, held at the Court House, on Tuesday evening, the 18th of August, on motion of John Williamson, Esq. JAMES SMITH, of Frankstown, was appointed President. Dr. Jacob Hoffman, Samuel Douglass, Andrew %limn, and Benjamin Bubaker, as Vice Presidents. T. T. Cromwell, and Benjamin Leas, as Secretaries. On:motion, the following named persons were appointed a commit. tee, to draft and prepare a preamble and resolutions, expressive of the sense of the meeting: Jacob Cresswell, James Alexander, Sam'l R. M'Kinstry, 1). N. Carothers. John Bumbaugh, John Jimason, John Graff eus, of Birmingham. After retiring for a short time, they re ported the following, which was read and unanimously adopted, [IVItor.E No. 249 Fellow (,Iti:cn3:— We believe this is a crisis in the political affairs el our countrl that ought to rouse every freeman, net on' Iv to inquiry, examination, action and re flection, but to immediate and energetic action—shall we longer tolerate abuses lit our public servants, which we can remove by a faithful conscientious discharge of our duty at the ballot box? Do we not see oar commerce embarrassed—our to dustry crippled—our labor unrewarded— our manufacturers languishing, and our. rulers sittieg in the lull enjoyment of their salaries, idly and stupidly gazing. upon our snlferings, as indifferent and' careless spectators? Have they not told us, as in scorn of our calamities, Gentle men, you have been imprudent, correct your errors, and provide for yourselves, and the government will take care of it self? Have we not seen experiment al ' ter experiment tried upon our currency— ' finances and business of the country, un til, like the lean kin of Pharaoh, they have swallowed up the fatness of the land?— ' Have not our rulers passed the Subtreas. ury bill, contrary to the feelings of the people, and abhorent to the policy, en terprise, and improvement of the country? and we are tauntingly told "it is the first act in the great drama that is to be acted before the American people?" Have we not seen a standing army of two hundred thousand men proposed by the Secretary of War, and approved of by the President, so to increase the central rower at Wa shington, that the executive can hold the purse in one hand to corrupt, and the bay onet in the other to overawe the Ameri can people, and destroy their liberties? Are we so dead to every feeline of patrio tism, as to remain unmoved al sucl; dan gers as these? Is there an American, the pulsation of whose heart viii net bent indignation at the men who create such engines of power, for the destruction of Republican freedom? Is there any here so base that he would not be a freeman?—• 'ls there any here so vile that he would wish to live a slave? None, none, we must and wilt be free. It is even propo sed to deprive the poor laborer of his only solace, the hope of bettering his condition —say to him in language too 'plain to be misunderstood, if von are born poor, poor shall ye remain. Our public servants are unfaithful stewards; they must give an account of their stewardship to the ut most cent. From the people they came, and to the people they must return.— There fore Resolved, That we will go to the polls and deposite our votes for IN illiam Hen ry Harrison, and place him in the Execu tive chair, as an instrument of good in the hands of Providence, to preserve the lib erties of the country from destruction. Resolved, That in WM. H. HARRI— SON, wr recognise the patriot and soldier, and one who in the Presidential char, %%ill bring us back to a state of prosperity and happiness. .. - Resolved, That the western and south western elections show how. indignant they, who know him best, are, at the vile calumnies heaped upon him by a venal press. Resolved, That the interests of the people will 'be safe in the hands of one who has never violated one of the numer ous trusts confided to him. Resolved, That in JOHN TYLER, we recognise a candidate for the Vice Presi dency, who will do honor to the station Ito which the people are about to elevate him; and that the Old Dominion shall be honored in her honored son. Rtsolved, That the extravagance and prodigality of Mr. Van Buren's adminis tration are such as to make it the duty of the people to rise up as one man, and to proclaim to the world that they consider him an unfaithful steward, and will have him no longer to rule over them. Resolved, That we can entertain no rational hope of an improvement in the condition of the country, whilst the pres ent rulers hold the reins of government; that we have lived long enough upon bro ken promises and violated faith; upon golden phantoms and idle dreams of ex pected good. Resolved, That the experiments of the party in power have well nigh ruined all the substantial interests of the country, and have reduced thousands of our citi zens from wealth to insolvency. Resolved, That the better currency, which was so confidently promised, has been experi:nented into filthy rags. Resolved, That the last experiment to which our heartless rulers have seen fit to resort, (the subtreasury) is fraught with evils, dangerous to the liberties and hap piness of the people. Resolved, That so far as respects its operation upon the business of the com munity, it must and will be paralysing in it s effects ; and that au far as ,•csriectsita political bearing, it will b.! u dangerous engine in the hands of an executive - , Bras. (ping for all the powers of the government to be concentrated in himself,
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