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From the New Haven Palladium.
THE JACKSON CANDIDATES FOR
CONGRESS. 

Never has there been before the people of Con-
necticut a weaker Congress ticket than that now
presented by the Jackson party. Look at it rea-
der, and if you know any thing of the character
or abilities of the men composing it, you will
sav we speak the words of truth and soberness;

J

there is

ZALMON XVILDMAN, of Danbury, whose thirst
for office is insatiate and ungovernable. He
has resorted to all the arts of the practised dema-
gogue to effect his purpose ; but as he has not
sufiicient talent or cunning to hide his designs,
he has disgusted even those who are generally
but little disposed to censure intrigue. He will
receive the smallest vote where he is best
known.

Aunruzw 'I‘. Jonson, of Canterburry is one
of the small beer politicians, a man of perfumes
and essences. soft words and effeminate actions.
An old democrat, upwards of 70 years of age,
gave in this city in a few words one of the best
sketches of Andrew T. Judson that we have

'et heard. The old gentleman remarked that

e knew him from his infancy. “\Vhen he
was aboy,” said he “he was little pzzfl'--now
that he is a man, he is bigpz1fl'."

Docroa LAUNCELOT HELPS, of Barkham-

ty. \Ve believe him to he a harmless inoffen-
sive man; as well qualified for Congress as for
the Presidency. The doctor would be as much
astonished to find himself in Congress as his
neighbors would be to see him there.

Emsru HALi~:Y, of Groton, is, we believe, a
good Universalist; a great enemy to everything
that in his quixotic mind smacks of Church and
State. \Ve know not however how he gets
along with the Rev. 0. B. Brown and the Post
Office. In consequence of his religious views
he is considered by those who think as he thinks,
as a very liberal minded man ; he is one of the
original Jackson men; is no twadler, but ex-
tremely bitter towards all who happen to differ
from him in opinion, especially on religious sub-
jects ; he has however more common sense than
a score of such men as Andrew T. Judson.

SAMUEL INGHAM. of Saybrookis “twaddleuin-
dee twaddleumdum ;” he is one ofthe fencemen
—was lately denounced as such by the Hart-

 

NORVVALKAGAZETTE.
TUFSIJAY MARCH 17-» 1835.

WHIG

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICAN’
N'©'lEEN'Al?E©.~.bl§e

FOR GOVERNOR,
SADIUEL A. FO0TEs
non LIEUT. GOVERNOR,
THADDEUS BETTS.
rort TREASUREIK,
ISAAC SPENCER.
I-‘OR SECRETARY,

THOIVIAS DAY.

FOR CONGRESS.

NOYES BARBER.

JOHN LVI. HOLLY.
EBENEZER JACKSON. Jn.
JOSEPH TRUMBULL,
SAMUEL T\VEEDY,
EBENEZER YOUNG.

SENATORS.
10th District, THOMAS B. OSBORNE,
11th do. STARR FERRY.
12th do. CHARLES HAVVLEY.

XVHIG MEETING.

At a meeting of the Democratic Republican
Electors of the town of Norwalk, at the Hotel of
George Selleck, on Tuesday evening last, Mr.
Charles Thomas in the Chair, and Messrs. Ed-
win Lockwood and A. E. Beard, Secretaries,
after hearing the report of the Delegates to the
State Conuention; two persons to represent this
town in the next general assembly were ballot-

ed for, when

 

 

 

fidence ” ‘he voters remains to be seen.

_. ,,__ -
ISAAC ’Toucr:r,o o#E§

about and we must rely on the Hartford Times
for a description of his character. It appears
that Luther Looinis was the candidate of the
twaddlers in Hartford County, and that John
M. Niles was the candidate of the Times party.
As neither party could procure the nomination
of their favorite man, the disaffected of both par-
ties turned upon Toucey, and he became

the choice of the Convention by a majority of

one. It is pretended by some that both factions
are satisfied ; yet others say'that the breach in
the party is wider than ever. \Ve now proceed
to the extract from the Hartford Times which

exhibits the political character of the candidate

of Hartford County, who has now become a pa-

tcnt democrat. _ .

From the I:[artforal,Tlmes, of jlfarch 25th, 1823.
“In the two most efficient operations in get-

ting up the opposition in this town to Major

Seymour as Senator are Noah A. Phelps and

ISAAC TOUCEY. As to the former gentle-
man we shall go no furtlier for the present into
the development of his political character and

conduct than we have in our paper of this week.

But it is necessary to inform the public who
Isaac Tout-cry is. About four years since he

he came in to this town from Fairfield County,
and opened his office as a young FEDERAL

LAWYER. He called upon a number of the
oldest and most t.‘ioroughgo2'ng federal lawyers
in town to whom he had letters, and positively
and unreservedly declared his politics FEDE-
ceptibleiof the fullest proofrbiitiit is a faizt that
this his great coadjutor and patron, the other
gentleman above nientioned, has said he knew

is friend Toucy to have been a federalist, not-
withstanding about a year since he declared in
the Mercury that he was an old school republi-
What now is the part we find this gentle-
Just what we should expect.—-

can.
man acting?
He was one ofthe most active in getting up the
meeting of the 21st inst. and at the meeting he
was the most clamorous in favor of Elias Per-
kins and Thomas Day-—men of whose political
life, his own is a copy. \Ve could state more
other conduct of this gentleman that would cor-
respond well with what we have stated—-but we
will postpone for the present.

Is this a specimin of the firm and decided

men that the Times has been so long croaking

for? Is this the democratic Candidate of Hart-
ford County ?

water !"

 

PaoscruP'rxoN.——lVIuch has been said by the
Jackson party about the proscrption and intoler-
ance of the last legislature in removing from of-

fice certain Judges of County Courts, Courts of

Probate, and Justices of the Peace. They have
labored and are still laboring to prejudice the
public mind against the \Vhig Party because
they “turned out,” as they would have the ignor-
ant believe, certain incumbents ofoffice, and fill-
ed the vacancies, thus made, with other gentle-
men, of better qualifications, but not so devoted
to the idol at whose shrine they worship. Ifthe

members of the Legislature had been guilty of

the offence, with which they are charged, there
would be more foundation for complaint; but
the truth is, not a solitary instance of removal
took place at the last session. All our legisla-
tive, executive, and judical officers, with the ex-
ception of Judges of the Superior Courts, and
Sheriffs, are appointed annually. All there is
about it is, the term oftheii appointment had ex-
pircd, and they were not all re-appointed.—
Should any part of the members of the Senate
and House of Representatives fail of being elect-
ed at the coming election, they could, with the
same propriety set up the same cry, and charge
the electors with proscription and intolerance.
But admiting failure to re-appoint, without
satisfactory reasons, to be a species of proscrip-
tion, who was proscribed by the last Legisla-
ture? The cry has been sounded long and loud
through the State, that Chas. Arnold is a pro-
scribed and abused man, because he was left out
ofthe Probate Office at Harlrlam; and no doubt
there are individuals, in the State, who are un-
acquainted with Charles, and his legal qualifica-
tions, who honestly believe that he was left out
because he is a acksoninan, when that party
pzcdorninatcs. But what are the facts in the
case? Every indivdual that knows Charles
Arnold, knows that. although he may be a wor-
rhy man and a good citizen, nature never de-
signed him for a Judge of Probate. But at the
incorporation of the District he succeeded in get-
ting into the otlice, and in finding a clerk capa-
ble ofdoing the duties of it. Though a large por-
tion ofthe District have always been dissatisfied
with him, yet he has always by some means or
other, succeeded in obtaining a re-appointment,
contrary to their wishes. At the last session of
the Legislature, it was thought advisable to make
the Judge defacto the Judge dcjurc, and coiise-
quently Charles was left out and his clerk ap-
pointed. But is this proscription—is making
the man who is capable of doing, and actually
does the business, the Judge, prescribing the man
who is not capable of doing it, and who does not
do it? If this is prescription, it is certainly ofa
Some men ifthey cannot engross all
the offices in the gift of both the people and Le-
gislaturc, are always complaining about pro-
scription; and the more their voracious appe-
tites for office have been gratified, the more they
will mutter 3.311 Complain. Ifwc go through the
State we shall find most ofthe cases of non-ap'-
pofutmeut based on reasons, if not so palpable,
yet erpially sutisfurrtory. Some ofthem we think

of no‘ icing lirgi-r-rift;-r,.——-lIurttbrd l’.cvic-w. .

____l\lO_AH, WIIICOX. of 0ld,lj5°l_l-_.-,-tat},-——~
CHARLES W. TAYLOR, of Sauvgatack,
were chosen, and nominated by a unanimous
vote of the Meeting as the Whig candidates of
the town for that office.

Committees of vigilence were then appointed
for the different districts, and the Chairman and
Secretaries authorised to apprise them of their
election.

On motion, the Chair appointed a committee
of five to draft a series of resolutions for the con-
sideration of the meeting. The following were
then reported, and adopted by acclaim.

Resolved, That we cordially approve the spir-
it of unanimity and mutual concession which
distinguished the proceedings of the members of
the State Convention at New Haven; and that
we will unite in the use of every proper exer-
tion to secure the success of the ticket presented
by them to the electors of this state.

Resolved, That in no instance will we suffer
any personal feeling or consideration to weaken
our interest in the common cause of liberty and
democracy at the approaching election; and
that, putting aside, for the time, all local jea-
lousies or private prcdilections, we will agree in
every patriotic endeavour to continue the go-

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sponsible hands, and to sustain it in the election
ofa sound \Vhig Legislature.

Resolved, That we regard the approaching
election as a political contest of more than usual
importance; upon the rezult of which may de-
‘pend the question of our continuance under the

. . II I. “

Resolved, That this country owes to the firm,
timely, and able defense of the Constitution in-
terposed by the Senate of the United States, and
its uniform and effectual opposition to the en-
croachments of the Executive Power, its present
hopes of liberty and success.

Resolved, That the Whigs have, after a ina-
ture and deliberate examination, the fullest as-
surances of a triumphant majority at the en-
suing election in this state; and that to secure
so desirable an object, we will neglect no honor-
able means.

Resolved, That a general meeting of the W'hig
Electors of this town he called at this place on
the Friday evening (April 3d,) preceding the
election.

CHARLES THOMAS, Chairman.

Enwm Locxwoon,

A. E. BEMID. §Secrelar2'es.

 

EXECUTIVE PA'l‘RONAGE.——It would be ask-
ing too much of the Tory party to require them
to reconcile their pretended dislike of monopo-
lies, monied aristocracies, and incorporated soci-
eties, with their support of that monstrous anom-
oly in our government——that giant of monopo-
lies and aristocracics—an uncontrolled and al-
most unlimited Executive Patronage. V-Vhcn
John Quincy Adams was President of the Unit-
ed States, we find the then democratic party
taking the same grounds that the \Vli'igs take
new; with this difference, that, in 1826, when
Thomas H. Benton made his famous report,
breathing the same republican spirit that Mr.
Calhoun’s does now, execvtive patronage had not
been exercised to one thousandeth part of the ex-
tent it since has under Gen. Jackson. No such
things as the Post Office abuses, the appoint-
ments, the removals, the disgraceful quarrels,
the extravagance, the pretensions to almost so-
vereign power, the direction of men’s consciences,
the doctrines of abject subserviency to the Pre-

(fgb The \Vhig Meeting held at the Hotel of
George Selleck, on Tuesday evening last, an ac-
count of which is given in the proceeding col-
umn, was highly respectable, unanimous, and in
the fullest sense of the word, .large—for the
room could afford accommodations for no more_
All present concurred in the opinion that the
Whigs had no cause for fear. This appeared
to be the settled, considerate and calm reflection
of every mind, which was shown neither in the
hurrah nor uproar of the servants of his majes-
ty, Andrew the first. It was not composed of
men fresh from the influence ofa pot house cote-
rie or an electioneering ramble; but of quiet, de-
termined, and well informed, tradesmen and
farmers, just from thefield, the shop and tliei’o-
inestic fireside. Their meeting was cordial, not
noisy ; social, not bacchanal ; and conducted
throughout as became the land of steady habits,
decently and in order. These are the men who
think and then vote—and vote understandingly,
and with the single view to their country's good 3
who have no darling schemes of party or per-
sonal advancement; no pledged candidate from
whom to expect private favors; no political hob-
bies to ride for the amusement of their masters ;
but men of stem, unbending integrity, equally
above the want and the desire of oflice. And
of such men we have a good round majority in
this town—in this district—in this county; and
when we include the county, we include the
State. Connecticut is safe. It is impossible to
think otherwise. The tricks, tales, false esti-
mates, scandal, bragging, boasting, of the tories,
are all understood ; all set down at their max-
imum value.

 

Inroarx-.\"r I.\"rnLLior;NcE.—\Ve understand
information has been received from Albany, di-
rect, by some of the faithful, that the Tory ticket
will have a majority of twenty seven-not to
mention fractions—in this town at the election
'11 A til next. No bo

sident, were known, or anticipated, unless by
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“Ify
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he supports them.
cur with him.

unjust exercise.

Tories of this.

Let them be read with attention.

House officers in the city of New York:

one spirit, must he trememdous in anelection

Qf\C§ a-.. ..I '— 4- -—.. An. an-an .- "
bver a ma "'5 supporffias alwayis 'lit‘:‘.": 

the daily support of individuals, professional

The evils then so strongly deprecated by that
Senator, he has been instrumental in bringing
about; and now, as if to prove their paternity,

The whole tory party con-
Those powers, the abuse of
which, were to denote the approaching dissolu-
tion of the Union, or its total absorption into the
executive functions of one man, are now defend-
ed in their fullest, broadest, most tyrannical and
If itwere prudent and expedi-
ent to restrict them under the mild, economical
and equal administration of John Quincy Ad-
airs, what shall we say of their restriction now?
\Vhcre are the democrats of that day? In the

The following passages are taken by the New
York American, from the Report of Mr. Benton.

The extracts commence after an enumeration
of the names and compensation of the Custom

“A formidable list, indeed! Formidable in num-
bers, and still more from the vast amount of
money in their hands. The action of such a
body of men, stipposingthein to be animated by

and that they will be so animated, is a proposi-
' Power

v.\.. nan: \-

admitted to be power over his will. The Pres-
ident has “power” over the “support” of all
these officers, and they again have “power” over
the “support" of debtor merchants, to the amount
of ten millions of dollars per anmtnt, and over
mechanical, and day-laboring, to whom they ‘be Albany Regency‘
can and will extend or deny a valuable private

protection of a popular representative govern-

Resolred, That the cause of the \Vhigs is the
cause of democracy :—because it is the cause of
the people and not of the office holders; because

' The Times must now support
this same Isaac T.oucey-~-who declared himself
(for so says the Times) “afedcralist of thefirst

it is opposed to the project of buying the peo-
ple’s votes with the people's money; because it
is opposed to misruleand proscription; because it
is opposed to the sovereignty of the Executive 3
because it is opposed to the doctrine of succes-
sion ; because it is opposed to the infallibility of
caucus; because it is opposed to the intention
of creating scisms between the rich and poor,
to deceive the latter for the purpose of pillaging
the former; because it is in favor of equal rights,
equal eligibility to office, the liberty of opinion,
and the purity of the elective franchise.
Resolved, That, as free citizens and unbought
subjects of power, we regard with feelings of re-
gret and alarm, the demoralizing tendency of the
practices and doctrines of the general adminis-
tration of these United States, as well as the
ready and pliant subserviency of the party that
uphold and defend them ; andjthatin the usurpa-
tions of the former and the concessions of the lat-
ter, we recognize the leading principles of ac-

populat freedom Wherever the name of tory is

Tory must necessarily be attached to the pres-
ent dominant party, from t.he absolute imprac-
ticabilit.y of finding any other so fully and forci-
bly expressive of their mode of action, views,
feelings and affections.

Resolved, That we regard with shame and
regret the part attributed by public opinion and
the natural course of the law of evidence, to the
President of the United States, as filled by him
in the despicable conspiricy lately exposed by a
Committee of the Senate at VVashington, to
destroy the fair fame of an honorable gentleman;
and that, whether implicated as the instrument
of a band of conspirators or as the plotter him-
self, the facts in the case, reflect serious discred-
it upon the dignity of an American President.
Resolved, That the corruptions and abuses of
the Post Ofiice Department, stamped with the
seal of reprobation by a unanimous vote of the

sentatives, are not only evidences in themselves
of that laxity of moral principle which marks
the decline of empires; but also afford in their
continued support and countenance by the Ex-
ecutive strong circumstantial evidence of collu-
sion on his part, and lead, irrcsistibly,to the con-
clusion, that the government, as now adminis-
tered, is rapidly approaching its dissolution.
Rcsolved,That the attempts made by the pa1ty
in Congress to put at the unlimited disposal of
the President the sum of three millions of dol-
lars, and the consequent sacrifice of the bill
making the necessary and specific appropria-
tions for the national defence, is at once to be de-
plored and condemned, cvinciiig an abject
and dishonorable subserviency to power and zi
rotrklcss and reprehensible disregard of the W€llli.‘~‘
‘and iiirerests of the country.

tion which have distinguished the enemies of

known ; and that, as a consequence, the title of

Senate and the reports of the House of Repre-

as well as public patronage, according to the
part which they shall act in State as well as in
Federal elections. Still this is only a branch,
a mere prong of federal patronage in the city of
New York. The same Government has in the
same city, a branch of the United States Bank,

military, naval. and post office establishment

bers.

it it if! if it

the President.
States, is the source of patronage.
jobs, and contracts.

system. He makes and unmakes them.

tions to State and Federal oflices.

proved by the exception.
and control of the Senate, without new constitu-
tional or statutory provisions, will cease to ope-
rate. Patronage will penetrate this body, sub-
due its capacity of resistence, chain it to the car
of power, and enable the President to rule as eas-
ily, and much more securely, with, than with-

out the nominal check ofthe Senate.
is is

it it 1?

\Ve must then look forward to the time when
the public revenue will be doubled; when the
civil and military officers ofthe Federal Govern-
ment will be quadrupled; when its influence
over individuals will be multiplied to an idefinite
extent; when the nomination by the President
can carry any man through the Senate, and his
recommendation can carry any measurethrough
the two Houses of Congress; when the princi-
ple of public action will be open and avowed,
the President wants MY vote, and I want ms
patronage; I will vo'r1~: as he wishes, and he
will GIVE me the qflice I wish for. Wliat will
this be but the Government of one man? and
what is the Government of one man but 21 mon-
archy? Names are nothing. The nature ofa
thing is in its substance, and the name soon ac-
comodatesitself to the substance. The first Ro-
man Emperor was stylcd Emperor of the Re-
public, and the last French Emperor took the
same title; and their respective countries, were
just as essentially monarchical before as after
the assumption of these titles. It cannot be de-
nied or dissenibled but that this Federal Govern-
ment gravitates to the same point.

 

Mr. J. S. Powell, of Burlington, N. J. has
published the second monthly number of the
“Spirit of the English Religious Magazines,”
which is hereafter to be issued mice in two
weeks. The design and scope of this periodical
are explained in its title ; which natiiratly opens
upon the mind the promise of a large, rich and
varied store of rcligious literature and intelli-
gencc, gleaned from the multitude of original
works ofthe kind, hourly coming from the Eng-
lish press. The number before us is full of en-
tertainment and instruction. The price is two
dollars ti year in advance ; which is exceedingly
cheap.

ff?‘ \\''e have rcccivcil no tluily;’Coiii'icr 6.’
Enquirer for the last two weeks. i ‘

wielding a capital of many millions; a large

ajudiciary, with its appropriate officers; pres-
ses, which print the laws and public advertise-
ments: and a long list of contractors and job-

The whole of this great power will centre in
The King of England is the
“fountain of honor ;” the President of the United
He presides
over the entire system of Federal appointments,
He has “power” over the
“support” of the individuals who administer the
He
chooses from the circle ofhis friends and suppor-
ters and may dismiss them, and, upon all the
principles of human action, will dismiss them,
as often as they disappoint his expectations. His
spirit will animate their actions in all the elec-
Tliere may
be exceptions, but the truth ofa general rule is
The intended check

amount of tickets polled?
language of Mr. Cambreleng, “figures don’t lie,’

Congress were presidents of banks.

just before adrawing, with large letters display

this otlice!” The iplacards had their effect

calculations.

came up blanks.

alosing and a bad cause.

Senate of New-York have turned out all the old

long as it may help the party. The tory press,
at the same time, are uttering the most lamen-
table cries about prescription. \Vhat a pity it is
that besides all the offices and all the money,
some small gratuity could not be voted them as
a solace to their afflictions.

9 -—:———-——~———.—T—#._.

0:? \Ve are given to understand that the
twenty seven tory majority estimated for this
town, has grown out of that remarkable discre-
pancy in orthography for which the “heroites”
are distinguished ; every marker having “a way
of his own” in spelling the name of the individ-
ual put down, gave a variety and volume to the

burn small and blue.

serves.

The Editor is anxious that the whigs should
change their name. That will depend upon a
change in the doctrines of the tories, whose op-
posites we must remain; and being thus oppo-
site, cannot be other than VVhigs. \Ve are not
particular about names ; although naturally so-
jicitous to preserve the purity of language and
give it its legitimate expression.

 

{[?"\Ve have received a copy of the Eman-
cipator, with the following paragraph marked
for our attention. \Ve republish it for the grat-
ification of those who attended the meetings in-
dicated; and who, consequently, know better
than we do, what “portion of the audience" is
comprehended in the conversion.
From. the .Emancipator.

MR. PHELPS, AT Norwalk.—-Rev. A. A.
Phelps, agent of the American Anti-Slavery
Society preached at Norwalk, Conn. Sunday
before last; and lectured on slavery in a popu-
lous section of the town on Monday and Tues-
day eveuings following. A gentleman who was
present on the occasion, informs us that the
house was thronged to overflowing, that a very
large portion. ofthe audience arc con.s-zdered con-
vcrts to the genuine doctrines of abolztionism.

 

The Rev. 0. B. Brown, late of the General
Post Office Department, is assailing the Com-
mittce of the Senate who lately put him so so-
vcrely to “his purgation,” through the Globe.-
Mr. Grundy, a Jackson member of that commit-
ec, tells the reverend gentlcmanho libs. Tlicre
is nothing left of his clerical character but his
cloth.

 

(53% The comniiinication of“Enquircr” is im-

dcr consideration. \Ve do not wish to get up a

new excitcinciit until our political one has stib-

sitlcd. \Vo rcfcr kcc yin" ublic attention fix-
P I a

cd upon iiipttcrs of more iiniiicdiatc intcrcst.

J . tise of e reseiitalivcs.

Now, if this intelligence be official—-and
doubtless it is—we fwould suggest the inquiry
whether there may not be some mistake; and
whether the estimate might not have been made
to prove that the tory ticket would receive twen-
ty seven votes, and fractions, as the whole
For, although in the

it might prove to have been some such error as
was committed by the N. Y. Times, when as-
serting that (on out of six of our Candidates for

Our active tor oliticians remind us of the
Y I’

lottery venders in New York, who were in the

practice ‘of putting up their flaming hand bills

ing the capital prizes—“Now is the time! two
blanks to a prize ! Ten thousand dollars for five
—shares in proportion ! All the prizes sold at

for people will be duped by such specious
But, mark the rezult; like the
tory twent.y-seven majority, they had taken the
wrong numbers, and their golden expectations

It is a double loss to throw away our votes on
1' rusrguum U1-‘ uru\'1u1\’.—'.l.'he Govenor and

long established auctioneers in the City of New-
York, and appointed in their places such men
as may suit the views of Mr. Van Buren and
They don’t care what ef-
fect this change may have upon the revenue so

returns quite gratifying. Hence, every man's
name being spelled in a great many different
ways, gave him the inultipled individuality of a
ray of light passing through a five sided prism.
But when we bring these to a focus at the polls,
we are rather inclined to think their lights will

The PATRIOT &DEiuocrtA'r.—'I‘liis is the
curious title of a new tory paper piiblisned at

Hartford, in this st.atc, by John B. Eldredge. The
articles are written with a commendable degree
of ability; and we wish it all the success it de-

The Tory press appears very desirous of
charging upon the Senate the loss of the Fortifi-
cations Bill. The facts themselvés prove the
contrary. That bill, before the three millions
were tacked to it, had been passed in the Se-
nate and sent to the House, at least eight days
before the adjournment; thus leaving ample
time for its arrangement. But with the view to
put into the hands of the Executive the dis-
cretionary employment of three millions of dol-
lars, with the implied understanding that it might
be used to forward the prospects of Mr. Van Bu-

iron at the elections and strengthen the hands of
:tlie party in power, our relations with France
I and the hurry and confusion incident to the last
!day of the session, were taken advantage of, and
the amendment sent to the Senate to invcigle
that body into its adoption. But, the clear
‘sighted members penetrated the flimsy artifice
at once; and, not until the amount was reduced

! to eight hundred thousand dollars and specifical-
ly appropriated, did they consent to its adoption.
But the committee from the House, wanted not
only the whole of the original amount, but also
I that the President should dispose of it as it might
suit his views, without reference to any particu-
lar object. Hence they refused to report until
the hour of dissolution had passed ; and the bill
was lost. No sopliistry can gainsay these facts.
These three millions of dollars, placed at the
unlimited disposal of the Executive, would give
him the power of deciding upon the question of
war or peace with France ; and of bringing into
action some of the most efficient instruments of
party, to achieve the moral subjugation of the

@b\Ve beg leave to express our sense of the
kindness and attention of the Hon. Gideon Tom-
linson, member of the U. S. Senate from this
State, in sending us, during the past session, va-
rious public documents, upon the many impor-
tant subjects which have come before that body.

 

lfik‘ We ask permission to repeat a request
formerly made, that our advertising patrons-—
for whose favors we are always grateful-—would
send in their notices, whenever practicable, on
Saturday. The press of matter on Monday fre-
qucntl y forces them out. First come, first served.

From the N. Y. Evening Star.

\VArt on PEACE.--It is seldom that we quote
from the Journal of Commerce, but the followi _
is the conclusion of a very sensible article in
ply to some folly of the Evening Post:

“The Post may cry coward as it likes. Bef -.e..
we make up otir minds to a war with Fran .
we shall have the courage to inquire whet?
the honor about which we are to fight, is ree_.
of the kind to be worth what it will cost. “
shall contemplate this happy country exuber.‘.;'
with prosperity, and its free and generous sons
making all earth and ocean teem with their en-' '
terprise, in peace ; and its cities deserted, its-
commerce annihilated, its merchants ruined, and
its citizens slatightered in war. We shall turn our‘
eyes on our institutions of religion and learning,
growing up on all sides, in peace, and vice and
violence domineering in war. ‘We shall look
at the allpcrvading supremacy of our laws,-in
peace, and the danger to those laws by the in~'
crease of military forces and the eclat of military
favorites in war. \Ve shall look at the prospect,
such as it may be, ofobtaining five millions of
dollars by peace, and the certainty of its loss,
with five millions more, by war. And finally,
whoever may cry coward, we shall look at

whole country. It would be practically assent-
ing to the claims put forth in his Protest of ju-
risdiction over the military, naval, civil, and
monetary force of the country. It would, in fact,
be virtually conceding to him the sccptre and
the crown. And these were beyond question,
the objects of what the party are pleased to term,

France, our old and faithful friend, contributing
in no small degree to our happiness and honor
in peacc,—but with a warlike population triple
our own, a well disciplined army of three hun-
dred thousand mcn, and a powerful navy, ready
to be let loose opoii our coast in war, defended as
we are with half armed fortifications, and an ar-
my nominally consisting of six thousand men.
It is idiotisni not to reflect on all these things be-

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will so honor him.

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agraph from the Herald :—

“Junei~; VVniTE—T1—ii: PRESIDENCY.-—Tl]e
present attitude of Judge \Vhit.e of Tennessee,
appears rather calculated to produce an impres-
sion of division in the democratic ranks of a se-
rious character. But this danger will vanish,
when we reflect, that if it should appear fortni-
dable when the National Convention meet, that
bodv will dissipate it in a few minutes by the
vnomyination of Andrew Jackon for a third term; a
measure every way calculated to avert the de-
feat of the Democratic party by the VVhigs;——
and more than justifiable by every principle in-
volved in the contest of the party, who are fight-
ing for popular rights and Democratic Govern-
ment.” ’

 

A srzxsrnmz DISTINCTION.-—Tlle Tories dis-
like the name of Federal, because they are not
federalists, but Tories. Pray, let them have
their choice. They like a strong government
and an expressive title.

- {[§*"\Ve see the “markers” have put down
our friend, L. M. Stevens as doubtful. Vile
doubt whether they could have made a greater
mistake. He may have doubted between the
value of a Tory vote and a yard of red tape;
but in nothing of greater moment.

 

DANBURY.—We are pleased to see by the an-
iinated appearance of the Danbury Gazette that
our excellent friends, the \Vhigs, of that town
are “up and doing.” \Ve have reason to ex-
pect something more than a hundred majority at
the next election.

 

Some young rascals have been tarring and
feathering an old lady in Onondaga County.
New York. This is rather a supef0l‘0.£_,’i1l0TY 39‘
on their part, if we may believe lovers and po-
ets who describe the fair sex as angels With
feathers springing from their shoulders. They
must havc- been sad admirers of Tom Moore.
not to have known that they should stick them
without the aid of tar.

 

0:9“’A coinmunlcation was thrown into this
office a few evenings since, wliich falling into
the hands of some person in the dark, was torn
tip to light a lamp with. Happily the signa-
ture was left, but the great body of the matter
had only contributed to kindle a pyre to illumi-
nate the lonely inscription of “A Bachelor.”-
\Vhat were the solitary cogitations of this biped,
the editor cannot determine ; and therefore must
invite him to make auotlicr essay. Solitude is
the nur.-:-cry of genius.

GIVE US Lioirr.---Jiiilge VVliite, in reply to
a number of gentlemen who solicit his consent
to run for the Presidency, says---“Tlic person
who would re_/‘use to accept such an office if of-
fered by the people of the United States, ought
to have a much stronger hold upon the public
' opinion than I can ever hope to possess." Now
we have read this sentence over some half a
dozen times; we have read it backwards and
forwards, and sideways, and as Davy Crockett
says, slantindicular; we have turned ‘it into
rhyme, and asked crit.icism to beat time to the
chorus; we have reduced it into its elementary
principles of the alphabet by the analysis of log-
ic; we liave applied the square and the coin-
pass, and run it over by one of neighbor Clark’s
stop-watches; and yet we cannot discover that
essential property in it, which is usually regar-
ded as entering into the composition of senten-
ces written by great men, to wit—-sense; not
common sense. or good sense, or nonsense, more-

To be sure we find it put into large capitals
in the letter, as if to invite admiration or a so-
lution, we know not which ; and, therefore we
suppose we have no right to find fault. It is

--~"n-tl1P.l8SS. our individual opinion that some
one of our literary societies——tl‘ic 1'n1 Dela Kap-

’ pa, the Pliilolcxian or Philological or Philoso-
hical—mi hr with the rcatcst iro niet oll'er

P g S l I Y

a prize for an essay explanatory of its sense and

the order of com osition to which it belon s.—

P E
Jud e \Vhite certainl deserves the decree of the
g Y a
Great Obscure, and we hope some university

{G"" The Democratic Hefald, a scini-official
paper of the Party, published at Philadelphia,
threatens the country with a third term from

Gen. Jackson, unless Judge \Vhite shall be
It is pretty apparent that the old
Hero is to be used by Van Buren to intimidate
the Judge; and it is not unlikely should the
Judge still prove obstinately bent upon trying
his hand at the game, the Magician will actual-
ly withdraw and put the old gentleman to the
experiment. The following is the oracular par-

fore we take irretricvablc stops in pursuit of that

plianton---honor."

There can be no doubt, that if the rash course
of the executive shall drive this country into 3.
war with France, the journals in the service of
government will be loud in their cry of“m5t'ion-
a/.honor”---“insi1lttoour_/lag“---“cowardlyymzcc
party ”---“traitors,” &c. (Sic. ! butthey will fail
in their objects. If war is unavoidable, the
-icliolc nation, will carry it on; there will be no
division among the people; no two parties in a
contest for the safety of the country; we shall
all act, to a man, becoming Anzcricans; painful
as such a conflict is, there must be, there will be
no sliriuking from it; tlmWar will be unanimous-
ly carried on, and the censure on this adminis-
tration will be equally as unam'mous—the aide
and zibcttcrs in driving us into the conflict wi
be put down by the decided voice ofpublic opii
ion, but the country will be sustained. We sa
this now, because the honest and patriotic cflbr
made by the true friuds of the country to mai
tion peace, construed by the collar presses a
“truckling to a foreign powcr”—“surrendcrin
the rfihis of the country.” \Vhile peace, there
fore, exists, let us cherish its blessings by contin
ually calling the attention of the people to tli
evils of war. There is a large class of peopl
who have uotliing to lose, and who are loud fo

istraiion mainly relics for support, have in tea
ity much, have every thing to lose by war, vi’
the means of earnirig bread for thcz"rfam:ilic.s.__
VVhen the President seized upon the public do
positcs, and a loss of public confidence and
scarcity of money ensued, who suffered? Th
poor m crrliauic-—thc poor laborer-—the poor work
man in his Shop.

Let our merchant vessels be once strippc
and carried up to the ship yards—the warchou
ses locked iip——tlie mechanic and cartmen un
em'ployed—the coast blockaded—-our merchants
traders and others retiring to the economy of
country life until peace cusues—let the wliarve
be dcsolate—lct no buildings be contracted for
let the house carpenter, and the mason, and th
laborer be unemployed—Iet our manufacture
suspend business, and the hands he turned loos
on the world without wages—and to this let DI-
ni-:c'r TAXATION come on the people instead 0
revenue derived ‘from commerce, when wéhave
the least means of paying the tax, and we shall
all feel and all deplore the evils of war, and all
lament in “sack cloth and ashes” the rash, the
unjustifiable, the uncalled for threats and mena-
ces of the President, which drove us into the
contest.

\Vhilc negotiation is open, let it be kept so-
wliile there is a hope of keeping peace between
the two countries, let us cling to that hope—while
the door is open, let us not by any rash act, any
blind devotion to power,'close it upon the coun-
try. .

HORRORS or SLAVEItY.—--A gentleman having
charge of an extensive forwarding establishment,
relates the following :—A fine lookingintelligent
negro, who had been employed on board a Ca-
nal boat during the summer, not liking to be idle-
set his wits at work to contrive some way of turn-
ing an honest penny during the winter, at lasthit
upon the following expedient. Taking with him
a stage driver of his acquaintance, they journe
ed lovingly together to Richmond, Va., ne
which city the negro had formly lived. Here I
was sold as a slave by his friend the stage 2
vet, for eight hundred dollars. The stage (lriv
immediately decamped, and the negro forthwi
took measures to prove, and obtain his freedo..
In this, by the aid of friends and papers in his
possession he succeeded—was liberated and rt
turned home; where, much tohis satisfactioj 7
he found that his partner, agreeable to promis
had deposited four hundred dollars, the half
his purchase money, to his credit in the Savin "
Bank.—Catskill Recorder.

 

 

The Northampton Courier states, that 
Mormons have formed societies in several t()‘'-'’;‘::‘:
in that neighborhood, and have regular religii -..;~=
exercise after their own creed. In South I.‘
ley is a society, partly Perfectioriists and pan;
Mormons.

Zerah Colburn. who, during his youth, 1 :-
considered a prodigy in mathematics, is DI“. * :
preacher at Claremont, N. H., and at the in : '
of a Methodist congregation.

It is rumored that the diikeof O.rlean.' :~.:.
asked for the hand of princess Mary Bcauhas I.
daughter of princess Stephanie B., who m;.
the grand duke of Baden. Princess Step:
daughter of the empress Josephine. The t H
fbrtunc seems to have turned in favor ofthi. . ;: :
ily of this discarded and ill-treated lady.

Runjeet Singb, of Lahore, is about to se-
ambassador to the British court. This 4
wishes to adopt the laws of England, a':
that purpose has despatched a camel to C::'_
to bring to him from thence all the books -3 ‘
gland; not being more, as be supposed. ‘
decent camel’s load!

A clashing young blade, who freqtientt.‘ .'
fasliionahle society at Paris. lately ?1“1l'9_‘5 3‘
self in his ball dress, and gaily entered hi i"
which he had previously prepared with st: 
ed tapers, and a pan ofignited charcoal. :~.. 
hours he was a corpse. This was comr-..-i I ~-
suicide a la mode and secuntlum artem.

 

Excovnxemrnur TO BACHELOR s.-M: w.

is held in such high repute at the remote 1-
inent of the Galena lead mines, that the x 2.
men have formed themselves into a‘Hy..:.r'r‘:=- _
society, and established a set of‘ premium-.: to it
iii’-st members that enter into_ the bonds (-2 \‘~-‘
lock. A suit of clothes, value 5590. to tbt 7‘.-*-r
another, $50, to the second, -.'‘345 to the ll1l’!'

war; yet these very men on whom this admin ,