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here is it great public measure demanded by
the cotintry, passed upon and approved by
the Representatives of the St-ates‘and the
People, rejected by you as President on
grounds having no origin in conscience. and
no reference to the public good. The rejec-
tion of this measure. too, continues the-purse
with the sword in the hands of the Execu-
tive. from which we strove to wrest it in the
contest which elevated your predecessor and
you to power. I cannot concur in this your
course of policy. In or out of office my
opinions remain unchanged. I cannot aban-
_ don the principles for which, during all my
political career, I have struggled ; especial
ly,I ‘cannot be one of the instruments by
v‘vl1‘ic'li‘ the Executive wields these combined,
accumulated and dangerous powers.
These sir, are the reasons for the impor-
tant step which I have felt it my duty to take
und I submit them as its justification.
I am very respectfully yours,
To the PRESIDENT. T. EWING.
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MR. WEBSTER'S LETTER.
: WAsni.\‘e1ox, Sept. 11, 1841.
MY DEAR Sin,--I thank you for your
kind and friendly letter.
You will have learned that Messrs. Ewing
Bell, Badger and Crittenden. have resigned
their respective offices. Probably Jllr Gran
ger may feel bound to follow the example.——
This occurrence can barely cause you the
same degree of regret which it has occasion-
ed to tire, asthey are not only friends, but
persons with whom I have had, for some
tiine, a daily official intercourse. I cannot
partake in this movement. _
It is supposed to bejustified, I presume by
the differences which have arisen between
the President and Congress, upon the means
of establishing a proper fiscal agency, and
restoring a sound state of the currency
and collateral matters, growing out of
these differences. I regret these differences
as deeplyas any man; but I have not been
able to see in what manner the resignation
of the‘ Cabinet was likely either to remove.
or mitigate the evils produced by them.
On the c'o‘ntr'a'ry, my only reliance for a
remedy forthose evils has been, and is, on
the union, conciliation and perseverence of
the whole whig party, and by no means des-
pair of seeing yet accomplished, "by these
means, all that we desire. It may render
us more patient under disappointment in re-
gard to one measure, to recollect, as it is
justly stated by the President in his last
message, how great a number of important
measures have been already successfully car-
ried through. I hardly know when such a
mass of business has been despatchcd in a sin-
gle session of Congress.
The annual winter session is now near at
hand; the same Congress is again soon to
assemble and feeling as deeply as I ever did
the indispensable necessity of some suitable
provisions for the keeping of the public mon-
ey-, for aid to the operation of the Treasury.
and to the high public interests of currency
and exchange, I am not in haste to believe
that the party, which has now the predom-
inance will not, in these respects, yet fulfil
the expectations ofthe country. If it shall not
then our condition is forlorn indeed. But
for one, I will not give up the hope.
_ My particular connection with the Adiiiin~
istration, however, is with another depart-
ment. Ithink very humbly-——none can think
more humble of the value of the services
which I am able to render to the public in
that post. But as there is, so far as I know
on all subjects affecting our foreign relations,
a concurrence in opinion between the Presi-
dent and myself; and as there is nothing to
disturb the harmony of our intercourse, I
have not felt it consistent with the duty which
I owe to the country, to rim the risk, by any
sudden or abrupt proceeding. of embarrass-
ing the Executive, in regard to subjects and
questions now immediately pending, and
which intimately affect the preservation of
the peace ofthe country.
I am, with constant regard, yours, &c.
DANIEL ‘Witns'ri;R.
H. KE'rciiUiii, Esq. New York.
. A D D R E S S
or THE WHIG MEMBERS or CONGRESS TO THE
PEOPLE or THE UNITED S’.l‘A'l‘l-ZS.
FELLOW Crriznxs :—-The Extra Ses-
sion of Congress has, at length been brought
toa close. The incidents which belong to
the history of this session, and especially
those which have marked its termination,
are of a nature to make so strong an im-
pression upon the country, and to excite so
much interest in the future action and rela-
tions of the VVhig party, that the Whig
Representatives in both Houses of Congress
have thought it their duty, before separating
to adlress their constituents with a brief ex-
position of the circumstances in which they
conceivethemselves to be placed by the events
which have recently transpired.
This session of Congress was called as
almost the first measure ofthat illustrious &.
lamented citizen whose election to the Pres-
idency was no less significant ofthe general
sentiment of condemnation of the acts ofthe
preceding Administration, than it was ex-
pressive ofa wish for an immediate and rad.
ical change in the public policy. The im.
providence of those who had just been ex-
pelled from.power had rendered it inevita-
ble, and the country hailed the meeting of
a new Congress as the sure pledge of relief
from all those evils which the disastrous in-
competency of the men at-the head of affairs
had brought upon it.
The People desired the early adoption of
the policy which had been promised them
by the Whig party. That policy had been
brought to the consideration ofthe Country
throughouta contest ofnearly twelve years’
duration, maintained with unexampled devo-
tion; and its principles were illustrated by
the precepts and practice of the most emi-
nent and patriotic of our citizens in every
form by which they were able to address
themselves to the intelligence of the People.
No one misapprehended these principles;
they were identified with the labors. of that
great party whose unparalleled success was
both the token 56 reward of the general confi-
dence oftbc Nation. They promised reform-
lst. In the restraint of Executive powers-.
patronage.
2d. In the wholesome regulation of the
Currency, and the advancement and interests
of Industry: and
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3d, In the establishment of an economical
administration of the finances.
They proposed to accomplish the first of
these objects by limiting the service of the
President to a single term; by f01'bl(_l€l”"g
all officers of the Government from inter-
fering in elections; and by‘a voluntary self-
denial, on the part ofthe Chief Magistrate, in
that excessive use of the Veto power which
had recently become so ofiensive to the
Country as an instrument of party supre-
macy. ' _
'l‘hey hoped to achieve their next object
by the establishment of a National Bank;
by an adjustment ofthe system of duties up-
on a moderate and permanent scale, adapted
as nearly as practicable to the interest, and
conformable with the views of every portjon
of the Union ;; by the establishment of a
imiforin system of Bankruptcy ; and by the
distribution of the proceeds of the public
lands amongst the States——a measure recom-
mended not only by considerations of justice
to the States thetnselves, but also by a sad
experience of the einbarrassnient produced
in the currency resulting from the adminis-
tration ofa fund of such variable amount as
an item in the ordinary revenue ofthe Gov-
ernment. The establishment of an economi-
cal administration ofthe finances they ex-
pected to attain by cutting down all useless
offices; by enforcing a strict accountability
ofthe public agents; and more conspicuous-
ly, by making exactand adequate provision
for the ascertainment and eventual liquida-
tion of the public debt which the past Ad-
ministration had created by permitting their
expenditures to overrun their receipts, and
which they had concealed from public obser-
Government notes. .
These were the protninent points to which
the policy of the I-Vhig party had been d.-
rected, and which constituted the great issues
before the country in the recent Presidential
election. VVe are aware that our adversa-
ries in that contest now deny these issues,
founding their denial chiefly upon the fact
that no manifesto was put forth to declare
the terms upon which we insisted. We chose
rather to appeal to the widely-diffused knowl-
edge of our principles which had been im-
pressed upon every man’s mind in that long
struggle of years gone by ; with which our
party had been identified, and of which its
very name was an exponent.
lt need not be said that, in a representa-
tion spread over a territory ofsuch extent as
that comprehended by oui‘Union, and exhib-
iting interests so diversified, what might be
called the characteristic principles of the
Whig party, throughout this wide sphere,
should be subject to occasional modifications
dependent upon local influences; and that it
was incumbent, therefore upon the party to
move tdgetlit-i' in a spirit of mutual conces-
sion and accommodation of sectional difibr-
ences of opinion. It need not be told that, in
the system of me.hsnres which we have enu-
mcrated, conflicting views might naturally
exist between the Representatives of distant
portions of our Republic, and that only by
the yielding of minor interests to the estnh.
lishment of the general good, entire harmony
was to be obtained in the action of Congress.
This was natural. and to be expected. But
we feltaproud consciousness that in the pa-
triotism of the party all such difficulties
would vanish, and that the demands of an
enlarged welfare would be met and fulfilled,
through the virtue of that spirit of compro.
mise and forbe.-trance, that liberal and com-
prohensive. sentiment ofsell-denial and con.
cession, which rests at the heart of our con-
fcdracy, and which constitues the living prin-
ciple of our Union.
Before the appointed day arrived for the
meeting of Congress, and at the expiration
of but one short month from the day of his
inauguration, our beloved President was
snatched from us by the hand of death ; too
soon for the happiness of his country, but
not too soon to awaken in our bosoms a deep
and awful sense ofthe irreparable loss which
we have sustained in the deprivation of a
great 5.-. good man—not too soon too convince
us how long and how bitterly our country is
doomed to deplore this heavy niisfortune. In
this our calamity, we hoped to find consola-
tion in the character and principles of him
whom the Constitution has designated to fill
the office of the departed chief. It is true,
that towards that individual, even at the mo-
ment of his selection forthe Vice Presidency
no very earnest public attention had been di-
rected; and it is equallytrue that but a pas-
sing regard was bestowed upon the current
of--his previous life and opinions. VVe only
knew him as one professing'to be a member
of the Whig party, and as seeking to ident-
ify himselfwith those great leaders of that
party whose opinions and principles were
deeply engraven in the most conspicuous
acts of our political history. and were read &.
understood by every citizen in the land. In
this connection. where he had sought to be
prominent, we discerned what we conceived,
and what doubtless he meant, to be a pledge
of faithful adherence to the cardinal doctrines
for which we struggletl,&with which the hopes
of the country were inilissolubly bound up.
\Ve hoped to find consolation also in the
fact that his accession to the Presidency
brought him into communion arid intimate
political fellowship with-the chosen vanguard
of the VVhig party—the‘first selection made
by Gen. HARRISON ofa Cabinet, distinguish-
ed for its paramount ability, integrity, and
fidelity to the glorious cause in which we
had coiiquered——a Cabinet eminently crown-
ed with the public confidence, in whom all
men trusted as in the very embodiment of
theprinciplcs of the party to which they
belonged ; who were inseparably-associated
with its glory, and in whose generous and
honorable relations to the President we had
the security ofwise and prosperous counsels,
and be the pledge of a cooperation which
should enable him to accomplish all that the
nation desired. These hopes were still fur.
ther enlivened by the encouarging tone in
which the President referred in his first ad.
dress to the nation to the ‘ ever glorious ex-
ample’ afforded him by the Fathers of the
great Republican school, andt e declaration
of his determination to walk in the path
which they pointed out. .,
In the indulgence ofthese hopes, Congress
entered upon its labors. By adopting rules
for the despatch of bu. iness conformable to
the emergency of an ex ra session, and in
vation by the device of repeated issues of the Representatives of many sections ofji
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view ofthe great amount of legislation \\’l1lCl'l‘§;
the times required, we have be'en‘enabled to,
constituents could have "demanded at our h
hands. The leading and great measures of, j‘
Congress and out of it, for many years past,’,‘-'3"
and little remains to be said beyond a repeti-;\fi
tion to former debates.
in the circumstances or position of either,,"
therefore, felt themselves entitled to give to,
the extra session the character of a Congressc‘
bate ; and we feel assured that in this etfor‘ .
we have done no more than respond to llltjg;
just expectations ofthe People. ,
First in urgency amongst the bills passetf‘
during the session, and that to which llltjfi
the notice of Congress. was the repeal‘ ofthe.
Sub-Treasury Law. Our next care was lllfy
enactment ofthe Land Bill. This was fol-1;
lowed by an act converting the debt which‘.-'
the preceeding Administration had ent.a_iled,"‘
upon the country into a. loan of twelve mil-g"
rendered necessary not only as a" provision .1.
towards the extiuguishment of the loan, bull
also as indispensable for the supply of means 3;‘
been passed, under circumstances wh l‘
country.
As a measure standing alone, it migi"
perhaps have been destined to a further (S
lay ; but being brought, as it was, into th
series of measures which were supposed L
embrace the scheme of reliefivbich the n-
tion at large required, it met from a VVhl,
Congress that stipport of which the chic‘ n
argument and highest value are derived fro 3
the respect which every one felt to be do: 0
P
il
quire. The importance, in the present pos~;
lishing a Home Squadron, of repairing and
nation at large into a state of readiness a-
gainst l]OSlllc21g‘gl‘I?SSlOl“l—-In regard to which ,.
they will meet the undivided approbation of
exhibit what we have done.
It is with profound and poignant regret l
that we find ourselves called upon to invoke
you} nttontionitu t.lii=r_jii')iiit. [Tprm the gT8ft'l.
our anxious endeavors to respond to the ear;
by an act as unloolcerl for as it is to be la--l_
mented.
the exercise of that power in the Constitutiorl 5
which has ever been regarded with suspi-
cion, and often with odium, by the Peoplc——-
a power which we had hoped was never tc, 5
be exhibited, on this subject by a VVhig Presl ._
ident-we have been defeated in two attempt
to create a. Fiscal Agent,’ which the want.
the most absolute form of proof, to be emi°_-A‘
emergency.
agency ofa corporation adapted to that end, ‘
and twice has it been our fate to encounter
the opposition of the President, through the
application ofthe veto power The char-
acter of that veto in each case, the circum- c
stances in which it was administered, -and
the grounds upon which it has met the deci-
terest with us, and will doubtless acquire it
with you, from the unhappy developments
with which it is accompanied. ‘Va are con.
strained to say that we find no ground to jus- r
tify us in the conviction that the veto of the 9
tion solely upon conscientious and well con-
to his duty in the case presented. On the
contrary, too many proofs have been forced
the apprehension that the President has per-
mitted himself to be beguiled into an opinion
that by this exhibition of his prerogative, he
ministration intoa channel which should
present divisions of party in the country, and
who elected him, at least, have never con- 1
ternplated. .
We have seen from an early period ofthe 1'
session. that the Whig party did not enjoy E
the confidence ofthe President. With mor- ll
tifications we have observed that his associa-
tions were more sedulously aimed at a free
communion with those who have been busy
to prostrate our purposes rather than those
whose principles seemed" to be most identified
with the power by which he was elected.
and influenced by those who have manifested
least interest in the success of whig measures. b
VVhat were represented to be his opinions
and designs have been freely, and‘ even
insolently put forth in certain portions, & c
those not the most reputable of the public
press. in a manner that ought to be deemed a
offensive to his honor, as it certainly was if
to be his friends. In the earnest endeavor
manifested by the members of the Whig
party in Congress to ascertain specifically
the President’s notions in reference to the
details of such a bill relating ton Fiscal A-
nails’ in Oonsressto acquire. or even l9i‘}S'ti‘; all {IS the bill of the President.
ufv. D|’Ol|'3°l€dd|SC“53l°“3i and the m"l°“lYl“_ct, it was known to contain provisions in sentziiives ofthe people and the States, with
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of action and decision, rather than one of de»,[,j;, m,.mbe,- of me _C-,,bmet_
resident had even informed more than one
lions of dollars, which is limited for its re-{M
deinption to a period of 3 years. Associated ,3.‘
with this measure was the Revenue Bill ‘figasu,-9,
finally producea state of things which those perfect respect by all.
ytit remain to be effected.
llie President has occasioned bitter mortifi-
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tion, the frequent changes of his opinion 55. A
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ly secured against all dangers from the abu-
singular want of consistency in his views ses. encrnachmenis. or usurptions of the Ex-
it hope of adjustment with him impossible.
Congress early in the session, called upon
a Fisciil,*Agent; the result of this call.
sa bill,-which was reported in detail,
'1'h€'-Te W53 nolhlngiiiitli an argument in its favor, and it was .
w_e had a right to regard it, received secure obedience to the public will, as that Gen Felix Houston, late of the 'Iexan army
In shall be expressed by the immediate Repre- and Lewis Saunders, former Statc’s Attorney
ference to the assent of the States, which"
rresponded with the private opinion of
This bill the
ember of the House _he would be willing
sign if passed by Congress; yet it con-
ined provision for local tllscourtling, in re-
rd to which his Veto Message affirms his
public command most imperatively dreiigy jocvtionlo be altog-Q[he1‘jnsuperabl(*_ The
esident has subsequently declared that this
'-is not his measure, and that when he said
would sign this bill he had not read it.
he plan of an Exchange Bank, such as
_s reported after the first Veto,;the Pres-
nt is understood by more than one ment-
of Congress to whom he expressed his
'nion, to have regarded as a favorite
"It was in view of this opinion, suggested
Lit is in his first Veto, and aftei using
cry proper effort to‘.a'st'ert:iin his precise
l° meet the ofdlnaly afld necessald’ “llP'D'.’iiieii's upon it, that the-"Committee of the
priations of the year. The Banltrupt .4\_,c"'t.,l°7Hoiise of Representatives reported this se
so earnestly and so long solicited by a la e mud bill,
and meritorious class of our citizens, l_ ilpwiihout the privilege of local discounting,
and was adapted, as closely as possible, to
t‘-MOO‘ but Wflecl the highest 50001‘ Utfijthat class of mercantile operations which
It made provision for a Bank
the first Veto Message describes with ap-
robation, and which that paper especially
lnstrates by reference to the ‘dealings in
the exchanges, of the Bank of the United
States in I833, wliichthe. President afiirms
‘amoiinteii to upwards of one hundred mil-
lions of dollars.
was submitted to him, was objected to on a
Yetlthis plan, when it
our ground. The last Veto has narrow-
d the qticstion of a Bank down to the basis
fthe Sub Treasury scheme, and it is ob-
to a comprehensive policy, whose scopsl vious from the opinion ofthat message that
should include every interest in the nationl we count;-p is not to expect any thing better
It ls 3 ill-"ll l0!‘ lhe l79n€lllOl the COUm1’_V. ol'-llian the exploded Sub Treasury or some
|'Cm=1l“3l0 be Ollered O1‘ lmPTOV9Cl. OS the-'lln9aSU1’e of the same character, from MR.
public wants may hereafter be found to re- '1‘;-1,;-,3,
In the midst ofall these varieties of opin-
ture of otir afliiirs, of attending to the nation-ijoman impenetrable uiystc,-y Seemed to hang
al defences suggested the measu res of estab- over the whole question.
There was no
uch frank interchange ofsentimcnt as ought
arming the F0l‘tlfiC3llO11S. Of P|'OVlCllOg fOl' to chai'acterizetl'ie intercourse of a President
the defence Of llle I-a'1l(€5'.aDd Of brimiing lllejland his friends. and the last persons in the
Governmcnt who would seem to have been
ntrusted with his confidence on these em-
measures, as great unaiiimity prevailed in .b;irmssingtopics were the constitutional ad-
Congress. We may safely assure ourselveé fvisers which the laws had provided for him.
In this review of the position into which
our constituentsthroughout the wboleUnion.,‘ the late events have thrown the \Vhig party,
This rapid review, fellow citiznns, will,-’ it is with profound sorrow we look to the
What “'0 h3VCl course pursued by the President.
failed to do remains to be told. j -V'l'(‘.‘Sl.e(l from us one of the best fi'uits of a
He has
ongand painful struggle, and the consum-
mation of a glorious victory; he has even
“periiaps thrown us once‘ more upon‘ the field
and leading measure_touching this question, of political strife, not \vet1lt't*ned in numbers.
nor shorn ofthe support of the country, but
nest prayer ofthe nation have been fi'ustmte<'1 stripped ofthe at-ms which success had plac-
d in our hands. and left again to rely upon
\Ve grieve to say to you. lllfll ll that high patriotism which for twelve years
ustained us in a conflict of unequal asperity
and which finally broughtus to the fulfilment
of those brilliant hopes which he has done
o much to destroy.
In this state of things, the whigs will nat-
iirally look with anxiety to the future, and
iinquire what are the actual relations between
of the country had demonstrated to us, in. jhe Pi-esi.lent and those who brought him
i into power; and what, in the opinion ofilieir
nently necessity and proper in the pi‘eSenl friends in Congress, should be their course
T\\‘l<‘6 l1aVO “'9. With the UH hereafter? On both of these questions we
most diligence and deliberation, matured feel it to be our duty to address you in per-
plan for the collection, safe keeping, and dis-' {ect ft-gm],-ness and without
bursing Of the Public money. through tl1r‘,the same time, with due respect to others.
reserve, but, at
In regard to the first. we were constrain-
ed to say, that the President by the course
he has adopted in respect to the application
ofthe veto power to two successive bank
harters, each of which there wasjiist reason
to believe would meet his approbation; by
his withdrawal of confidence from his real
ded disapprobation of your friends in Con—' friends in Congi-ess & from the members of
.91‘?-SS. are Sufliciently apparent in the public3 his Cabinet; by his bestowal of it upon oth-
documents and the debates relating to it. :_ ers notwitlistziiiding their notorious opposi-
This subject has acquired a painful in-ition to the leading measures of his adminis-
tration, has volunt-.irily separated himself
from those by whose exertionss 56 uffrages he
was elevated to that office through which be
cached his present exalted station. The
xistence ofthis unnatural relation is as ex-
President has been interposed on this ques- traordinary asthe annunci:-ition of it is pain-
ful .9; mortifying. VVhat are the consequences
sidercd opinions of constitutional scruples as Va"-,nd duties which grow out of it?
', The first consequence is, that those who
liyoiiglit the President into power can be no
upon our observation to leave us free from lr:ngei', in any manner or'degrce, justly held
sponsible or blamed for the administration
(1 the Executive branch of the Government;
a d that the President and his advisei‘s should
might be able to divert the policy of his Ad- exclusively hereafter dee/med accountable.
But, as by the joint acts of Providence and
lead to new political combinations, and ac- the Peopleheis constitutionallyinvested with
complish results which niustoverthrown the the powers of Chief Magistrate, whilst’ he
remains in office he should be treated with
And it will be the
my ofthe Whigs, in and out of Congress,
.0, give to his official acts and measures fair
iid full consideration, approving them anal
yo-operating in their support where they can,
ntl differing from and opposing any of them
nly from a high sense of public duty.
' The more important question remains to
e touched. What ought to be the future.
inc of conduct of the whig party in the ex-
lr_aordinary emergency v. hich now exists’!
lThe cameinto ower to accent lishereat
Y . P :
We have reason to believe that he has per- aid patriotic objects. By the zeal and per-
mitted himselfto be approached, counselled. sverance. ofthe majorities in Congress, some
o the most important of those objects have
on carried at the Extra Session. Others
The conduct of
iliion and deep regret. Shall the,-party
therefore, yielding to sentiments of despair.
handon its duty, and submit to defeat and
isgrace? Far from sufiering such dishonor-
to the feelings of those who were believed able consequences, the very disappointment
which it has fortunately experinced should eminence over this, no records ofit have
solve only to redouble its exertions, and to comedotvn to us. _
inspire it with fresh courage to persevere with all her age and greatness and power, "1 ‘he Cl8d0Ola-
with a spirit un'subdued and a resolution is now arraigned, in the person of her sub-
. iiilshaken, until the prosperity ofthe country .ject McLeod, to be tried for felony before a Thu-rsdavafiernoon. She had 33 passer) ers-
gent as would. be likely to meet his apprc-, is fully re-establishedtand its liberties firin- Circuit Court ofthe State of New York. fourteen bfwhoin stopped atHalifax. g I
achieve all. and even more than all. lht" °“”ii ve baffled his best friends, and rendered ecutive Department of the Government.
At the head of the duties which remain
for the Whigs to perform towards their
this S€‘SSlOIl have been under diSCllSSlOfl lntt e Secretary of the Treasury for/lhe plan country stands conspicuously and pre-emi-
neiitly above all others-
Firsl. A reduction of the Executive pow-
cf’, by a further limitation of the veto, so as to
no other control than that which is indispen-
sable to avert hasty or unconstitutional legis-
lation. - -
By the adoption of a single term for the
incumbent of the Presidential office.
Bya separation of the Purse from the
sword, and with that view to place the ap-
pointment of the Head of the Treasury in
Congress ; and '
By subjecting the power ofdismissal from
office to just restrictions. so as to render the
President amenable for its exercise.
Seconrl. The establishment by Congress
ofa fiscal agent, competent to collect, safely
keep, and disburse the public moneys, to re-
store the currency, and to equalize the ex-
changes of the country; and
T/zir/1. The introduction of economy in
the administration of the Government, and
the discontinuance ofall senicures & useless
ofli 'es.
To the efi":-ctua'ion of these objects ought
the exertions of the VVhigs hereafter to be
directed. Those only should be.Members of
Congress who are willing cordially to coop-
erate in the accomplishment of them. In-
stead of striking our flag, let it be reared
still higher, with a firmer hand, bearing up-
on its folds in conspicous letters—“T/ie 101...’!
of I/ie Nation /micoritrolled by the WWII of
One Man ; one Presidential Term, afrugal
Gozwrnment, and no Serb-Treas7u'_'z/, open or
(.0‘l.‘e’I'l, in substance or in fact; no Govern-
ment Ban/r, but an institution capable of
guarding‘ the people’s Treasure and admin-
istering to the Pcople’s Wants.”
Rallying under that banner, let us appeal
to that People whose patriotic exertions led
to victory in the late glorious struggle. Let
us invoke the action of the Legislative Coun-
cils of the sovereing States in the Union.
Instructed by their immediate constituents,
let them ascertain and express the Public
Viill in relation to these great questions;
and especially let them, within their respec-
tive constitutional spheres, exert themselves
to give iteffect.
Animated by these principles, and guided
by Providence, defeat is impossible, and tri
umphant success inevitable. \Ve may con-
fidently hope that vast nuinbcrs of our fel-
low-citizcns, who have been hitherto sepa-
rated from us, will unite with us under such
a glorious standard; and that majorities in
both Houses of Congress sufificiently large
may be secured to carry any measure de-
manded by the welfare of the nation, in spite
ofthe interposition ofthe power with which
any one man may have been accidentally in-
vested. Disappointed in that, if such should
be our lot, there will remain the hope of an
amendment of the Constitution, curtailing
the Executive power. And ifthat should
fail, we have only to recur to the noble ex-
ample of our ancestors, to recollect the duty
we owe to ourselves and posterity, and to
bear with marilyfortitude three years longer
the sufferings infiicted dtiringthe last twelve
years by the mal-administration of the Exe-
cutive department of the Government. We
shall have the consolation of reflecting that,
in the mean time, if the Presidentcan prevent
the attainment of all the good which Con-
gress is desirous to accomplish, Congress
may check or prevent some of the mischief
which. under a different state of majorities
in the body, he might have the power to im-
pose. ’ J. M. Bisnrtiisiv,
N. ‘P. 'l‘ALLiiutDGi~:,
O. H. SMi'rH,
-Committee ofthe Senate.
J. P. KENNEDY,
S. Miisoiv.
HORACE EVER}-‘.']‘T,
J. C. CLARK,
K. RAYNER.
Commiuec if the I-Irmse of Represcnmlivcs.
VVliereupon the question was taken upon
the adoption of said Address, and it was
'im.(z7ti77zoi4s-"_7/ adopted.
‘Ordered. That twenty thousand copies of
said Address be printed. and circulated
among the People of the United States.
NA1‘HAN F. DIXON, P .d
JEREMIAH Moiutow, E res‘ ems’
K. R.-'tYl\‘En,
‘ S et i .
CHRlSTi)l’HER MORGAN. ecr at as
Great B7'i/(bin, as site is.—The mother of
nations claims to have in existence more than
a thousand years. Her vast dominious cov-
or nearly three millions square miles. She
possesses portions of each continent and a
in ultiiude ofthe Islands of the ocean. The
number of her subjects is over two hundred
millions. Almost one third ofall the inhab-
itants ofthe earth bow to her sway, and are
controlled by her policy. The greatness of
her wealth it is impossible to compute.-—
Tiventy three thousand ships enter her ports
during the year, which are laden with four
and half million oftons ofthe wealth of dis-
tant climes. Twenty thousand carry forth
during the same time, three and a half mill-
ion tons of her stores. Nearly one hundred
and fifty thousand vessels enter and clear her
ports during the year, whichare engaged in
her coasting trade. The stores of wealth
boarded in her bosom are not known; nei-
ther have we an estimate of the bounties of
her soil. Her nobles and learned men are
among the great men of the earth. She has
long been a chejf depository of the only prin-
ciples of truth and virtue known among men.
In a time of usml peace she commissions for
Navy nearly three hundred vessels, which
could form abattery of four thousand six
hundred and ninety six guns. At the same
time she employs an army of ninety nine
regiments of foot soldiers—twenty four reg-
iments of dragoons, besides fourteen other
different regiments. VVhat her strength
would be in an hour oftrouble has never yet
been fully shown. If any empire hus ever
existed on earth which could claim a pre-
Yet this same leviathan,
More Southern Honor.-—-A correspondent
ofthe Picayune says that a duel was to be
fought in Arkansas, by'iwo Louisianians, on
the 6th, between Judge Tenney ‘and C. N.
Rowley, Esq., both of Concordia, Ia., grow-
ing out of decision made by the former af-
fecting the property of the latter. S‘. i S.
Prentiss and J. M. Suffield of the Natchez.
Courier were the Seconds of Judge Tenney,
in Kentucky, were to do the needful for Row-
ley. The parties embarked in a steamboat for
the Arkansas shore on the 5th. Each of the
principals was to be armed with a rifle, pair
ofduelling pistols, and a bowe knife; the ri-
fies to be discharged at 30 paces distance, and
the parties then to advance atpleasure,to the
fall of one or both.
The Natchez Courier tells " sich a good
un” about a man's loosing his identity. It
seems that D at Major Stimmell two
characters formerly well known about Hinds
County, met atRaymond and were put in
the same apartment, immediately over the
bar-room. The former had just returned
from Texas and they concluded to assist the
relation of his adventures with a bottle of
the "inwariable.” The bottle was not full
as it had been, when Stimmell suddenly roll-
ed down the steps into the very midst of the
occupants of the bar.
"Why, Major! is this you ?” was the
general cry.
"Why no—tbat is——yes, Sir,” said he
with some conftision, as he slowly gathered
himself up, "I rcither believe it is, 7ww.—I
knew some Major had fell, but I thought i
was that d——d Texas Major.”
SELECTED SUMMARY.
Murder‘ of Miss Rngers.—'l‘he New York
police still keep their proceedings in this
matter as secret as possible——and the im-
pression is that tliey now have a clue that
will lead to the discovery of the perpetrators
ofthis horrid outrage. The Courier states
that a Mrs. Loss, who keeps a small tavern
near VVechawken, has been examined before
Mayor '.\'lorris, and states that Mary was at
her house on the evening of July 25th, with
several young men, and that she drank a
glass of lemonade ofiercd by one of them;
she also identifies the clothes found in the
woods near there, as worn by Mary on that
occasion.
Sammmlz Municipal Election---The
cliarter election at Savannah on the 6th inst.
resulted in the choice of eleven \Vhigs on
the Boa rd of Aldermen, and three Opposition
men. It is said to be the first time that the
Whigs have had a majority in that board.
New Orlemts Elestion.—An Election for
three Representatives to the State Legisla-
ture was held in New Orleans a few days
since, to supply vacancies —-Two VVhigs Sr.
one Opposition man were elected: being a.
Whig loss of one member. Whig majority
on joint ballot is still five.
U. S. Bank —The Secretary of the Treas-
ury on Saturday, previous to adjournment,
reported to the Senate that there was due to
the General Government from the United
States Bank of Pennsylvania the sum of
$89,600.
The Rivzg/ioiic.-—The cause of the ring-
bone is a small collection ofwater in the foot
just above. the hoof, which may be felt by
pressing the part affected with the finger. A
little vessel like a bladder contains the mat-
i.er; and if it be carefully cut out—-the horse
being cast to secure the safety of the opera-
toi'—-the disease will be avoided.
M’Carty, the hack driver who extorted
$2 25 from Mr. Stilson, ofthis city, when in
New York a few days since. has been sent
to Blaclt'well’s Island for one year, for his
conduct. The Court also decreed Mr. S.
twenty five dollars, for his trouble in prose-
cuting the scoundrel.—N. Hun.-en Reg.
New Steamer.-—”I‘hc Troy Whig says that
the proprietors of the North River St: amboat
Troy are contracting for the building of a.
new boat to ply between that city and New
York, of still larger dimensions ‘than the
width 65, and tonnage nearly 1000 tons.
Jacob F. Mintziiig, Esq. has been elected
Mayor of Charleston by a majority of 540
over Henry L. Pincltney, Esq.
Amos Kendall, late Postmaster General,
has issued a prospectus for publishing a new
weekly paper in Washington city, to be call-
ed the ‘Union Democrat.’ Price, $2, in ad-
vance. -
The Ecclesiastical Council met at
Rochester on the 14th, to try the case of Rev.
Mr. Van Zant' but the chief witness declin-
ed to appear acting under the advice of her
counsel. The case will be tried before a
Jury early in Deceniber—after which it will
again be taken up by the Ecclesiastical Coun-
ci .
The New Haven Palladium saysthat the
train of cars from Hartford, on Friday night
run over and killed two cows near the city
limits. One or two baggage cars were
thrown offthe track by the collision, but no
injury was sustained.
It is said that a member ofthe oldest and
most respectable of the colored people—those
who have property here, and are of good &
peaceable habits,——a re making arrangements
to dispose of their effects and remove to Li-
beria. That is the best thing they can do.-
We have long been satisfied, that the free
blacks should seek a residence in Africa.—
That is misdirected philanthropy which
would induce their stay in this country.
Cirtciiinati Gazette.
There were at New Orleans, on the 6th
thirty eight deaths from yellow fever—and
22 on the 7th.
Mr. Walwash, in one of his latest letters
from Paris to the National Intelligencer,
says that Mr. Stevens’s “Incidents of Travels
in Central America” are to be immediately
capital. ’
Rev. G. W. Donne. Bishop of New Jer-
sey, and Rev. J. B. Haight-. Rector of All
Saints Church N. Y. city, came passenger
The steam ship Britannia left Boston on
'I‘roy; her length will be 314 feet, extreme-f;_
translated into French, and published in that _
Norwalk Chronicler