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"The tendency of Democracy It totcard the elevation of the tnduitrton$ctats$,the tncrtmte of their comfort, theanaertton of Ihttr dignity, the eatobliehmtnt of their power.1
BY ROBERT WILLIAMSON, Jr.
LIXCOLXTOX, X. C, NOVEMBER 3 1841.
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RELIEF !
What has Congress done at the late Ex
tra Session for the good of the people I
Let us sum up their acts:
1. They have given away by the act to
distribute the proceeds of the public lands
among1 the Slates, about THREE MIL
LIONS of the people's annual income,
making it necessary to raise by increased
taxation UPWARDS OF THREE MIL
LIONS OF DOLLARS ANNUALLY to
supply its place and pay losses and the ex
penses of collection.
2. To make up the deficiency thus crea
ted, they have already passed an act impo
sing a tax in the shape of import duty on
salt, sugar, molasses, and numerous other
articles brought from abroad, equal to
ONE FIFTH of their value, so that for
every five dollars the people pay for these
articles, they pay one to the government.
The effect upon the farmer is the same as if
the government took from him every sixth
bushel of grain, or one-sixth of any other
article of produce he may sell to get money
to buy these articles with.
3. They have passed an act to create a
permanent debt of T'vVELFE MILLIONS
OF DOLLARS at an interest not exceeding
six percent. At 5 1-2 percent, the rate
at which a pnrt of ihe money has been bor
rowed, it will create an annual charge of
SIX HUNDRED AND SIXTY THOU
SAND DOLLARS, which the people must
l)e taxed to pay.
4. They charged the late administration
villi gross extravagmce and came into
power under re-nerated promises of re
trenchment and economy. Rut before Con
gress met their principal organs said they
afield no idea of any retrenchment in the
aggregate exepenscs.of the government;'
on its meeting their Secretary of the Trea
sury told the public, that the expenditures
of this year were to exceed those of the last
about three and a half millions of dollars;
and Congress at the late Extra Session ha's
added to the appropriations of the vear
FIVE MILLIONS FORTY-THREE
THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED
AND FIVE DOLLARS.
5. They have given to the widow of the
late President Harrison twenty-five thou
sand dollars, and conferred vpon her the
franking privilege for life, thereby setting
an example, which if followed out, will
lead to the establishment of a PRIVI
LEGED ORDER to be supported and en
riched by taxes on the salt of thepoor
0. They have appropriated over a mil
lion two hundred thousand dollars for the
repairs of fortifications, some of which are
worse than useless.
7. They have appropriated six hundred
thousand dollars for the purchase of ord
nance and ordnance stores for the use of
the Navy.
8. They have appropriated s'eccn hun
dred eight y-nine thousand three hundred
and ten dollars to increase the Navy by
establishes a home squadron, instead of
creating it out of the force now afloat, still
asserting there is no prospect of war.
9. They have added to the expenses of
foreign intercourse seventy-two thousand
dollars, and shown their economy over the
last administration by increasing the mis
sion to Spain from a Charge des AfiYirs as
Mr. Van Buren left it, to a full minister,
thereby making necessary a nsw outfit of
nine thousand dollars, and increasing the
annual expenditure from four Ihousandfve
hundred dollars to eleven thousand dol
lars for salaries to a Minister and Secretary
of Legation, besides increased contingent
expenses. Their retrenchment is also
shown by raising the mission to Brazil, for
the first time, to a minister at an immedi
ate cost of nine thousand Collars and an
increased annual cost of six thousand f.ve
hundred dollars.
10. They appropriated twenty-six thou
sand four hundred seventy-seven dollars
fifty cents for one quarter's extra pay to the
clerks and others employed about the capi
tol, &c. &c. thus giving them a double sal
ary for three months.
11. They have appropriated four hun
dred ninety-seven thousand six hundred
fifty-seven dollars to pay the debts of the
Post Office Department, being one hun
dred and fifty thousand more than the a
mount represented by the Department it
self to be due, thus, for the first time, sad
dling the cost of mail service upon the
Treasury and selling an example which if
carried out, will create a demand for addi
tional taxation to the amount of untold mil
lions. Fifteen thousand dollars of this
money, however, is to be applied to pay
for the services of additional clerks in the
office of the Auditor, for the Post Office
Department.
12. They have appropriated twelve thou
sand dollars to pay the compensation of an
agent, and expenses in negotiating the loan
of twelve millions.
- 13. -They haw appropriated . one hun
dred thirty-nine thousand six hundred
sixty-six dollars six cents to pay Navy
Pensioners, who have heretofore been paid
from a fund created by a deduction from the
pay of officers and seamen of the Navy,
thus throwing upon the Treasury the bur
den of one of the most outrageous systems
of public plunder that ever existed, a sys
tem by which some officers of the Navy,
not so disabled that they cannot manage any
public or private business, are receiving
fcll pay and full pensions, and at the
same time living at home and carrying on
farming and other operations for their own
emolument.
14. They have appropriated three thou
sand five hundred dollars for the support ,
of the lunatics of the District of Columbia
during the present year, in addition to three
thousand dollars appropriated at the last
regular session, and then stated by those
who ought to have known to be sufficient,
thus making the lunatics belonging to this
ten miles s-quare or territory cost SG.500.
15 They have given fifteen thousand
eight hundred and six dollars to repair
the free bridge across the Potomac, at this
city, thus making the people of the United
States pay the tolls or ferriage of all who
approach or leave the city by that avenue.
16. They made an appropriation to pay
the faneral expenses of (general Harrison,
which, according to the bills rendered a
mount to S3,088,09.
17. They have repealed the act for the
safe keeping of the public money, by which
it was kept for public purposes alone, ac
cording to the letter and obvious ni aninsr
of the Constitution, and caused it again to
be deposited in barks to be loaned out to
traders and speculators, plundered by fraud
ulent bank officers and exposed to be lost
by those contingencies which are over
whelming the whole banking system with
confusion and ruin.
18. They have renewed and extended
the charters of the banks in the District of
Columbia while they were in the state of
suspension., and have authorized them to
pay out the notes of banks which do not
redeem, them in specie, thus sustaining
these institutions in violating the laws of
the land, and in depriving the people of a
currency of gold and silver or its equiva
lent. 19. They have passed an act to enable
bankrupt speculators and others to whip out
their debts, refusing to include bankrupt
banks in its provisions, thus saving from
merited destruction those instrumeuts of
fraud and villainy, that they may enable
their favorites who avail themselves of the
relief offered by the bankrupt Ihw, to try
their luck again at fortune-making with
new loans from these banks, while an hon
est people incur the hazards and bear the
loss.
20. At the same time, they have struck
a fatal blow at many of the banks by this
very law which will sacrifice the property
of their debtors at forced sales, nnd annihi
late millions of debts Jue to them, which
would ultimately he paid under the indul
gences and by private arrangements.
21. They have knocked down the price
of the slocks of the Slates and lessened
their ability to borrow money or maintain j
their credit, by throwing into the market a
stock more highly prized and becoming
their competitor in the business of borrow
ing.
22. And to pay for these services ren
dered to the Slates and the people, they
have appropriated for their own compensa
tion and the expenses of tiie extra session,
(in part only it is believed,) three hundred
seventy-six thousand four hundred and seventy-seven
dollars and sixty cents, not
omitting to provide fifteen thousand dollars
TO PA Y FOR THE ST A TIONER Y
USED BY THE WHIG CONGRES
SIONAL COMMITTEE IN ELEC
TIONEERING for tip and rr
.VIS 10.
Mr. VV right stated on the floor of the
Senate, that he had investigated this item
and found that all or most of it, was pro
duced by stationery used during the recess
of Congress lail year.
Such is the first scene in the drama of
Whig retrenchment and rtform !
What is to be expected from them in fu
ture, e will endeavor to show in our next.
From the Richmond Enquirer.
THE PYRAMID RISING.
The" Philadelphia Spirit of the Times
commemorates in the following lines the
elevation of the Democratic Pyramid to
which almost every day seems to add a
new tier in some new State, rescued from
the hands of the enemy. May New
York crown it with a magnificent capi
tol: "Building the Pyramid. The result
of the elections which have taken place in
several of the States, proves the irresistible
power of mind when directed to the
building up of cherished principles which
had been trodden down in an evil hour un
der a misguidance of reason and judgment.
The ballot box has now been emphatically
shown to be a better regulator of govern
ment and political affairs than the cartridge
box !
"Within. one brief year how wonderful
has been the revolution in public senti
ment, and yet with what little noise and
parade has the astounding result beer) ac
complished. "The delusions of Federal Bank Whig
gery are now happily dispelled, and the
people of a might)' nation have once more
emerged from the gloom of a moral and po
litical midnight, to the marvellous light of
an unclouded mental perception.
"The evidence that the people have re
turned to their "sober second thoughts," is
strikingly displayed in the triumphant
majorities every where given in favor of
libera! and soundly Democratic princi
ples. "Since the Presidential canvass, the
following States have held elections, and
spoken in thunder tones their political
predilections:
In Alabama,
6,000
9.000
12,000
13,000
15.000
10,000
10,000
22,000
Tennessee,
Maine,
Vermont,
Indiana,
.Maryland,
Georgia,
Pennsylvania,
97,000
And Ohio, probahly 20,000 more.
Showing a total Democratic gain in less
than twelve months, of
97.000 votes' say 117,000!
The reaction is tremendous ! The revo
lution is sublime, and gloriously grand.
In no age of the world has the like been
witnessed. Truly, we may exclaim, the
voice of the people is the voice of omnipo
tence! The Democratic Pyramid begins
to rise again. May it reach the Heavens
and be eternal. This is the work of a free
and noble people. Behold it and re-
joice;--
10 W A
MAINE,
ILLINOIS.
GEORGIA,
INDIANA.
F L O R 1 D A,
MISSOURI.
ALABAMA.
ARKANSAS.
MARYLAND.
N E W II A M PS II IRE.
P E N N S Y L V A N I A.
TIIE POPULAR EXCITEMENT,
Change! Change! CHANGE !
When the Whigs cried out during the
last year, for Change, they litile dreamed
so soon a "change would come over the
spirit of their dreams." But they have
ttie comfort of knowing, that as they sowed
the wind, they are reaping the whirl
wind. Never has there been a more moment
ous Revolution, than has been effected in
the last six months. Seldom has a more
sublime example been exhibited and nev
er a more impressive moral lesson pro
claimed by the voice of the People.'
This wonderful revolution has extended
from Maine to Georgia and from Ohio to
New ork. It rings in the ears of the
Whigs the most fearful lessons that can
be taught.
It teaches them, that no party can long
succeed, who conceal their principles from
the people whose suffrages they are solici
ting. It teaches them, that no triumph can
long await a party, who so far despises the
People, that they will not address their
understandings, but attempt to seduce their
senses by ridiculous pageants, and to hum
bug them by the lowest and most contemp
tible devices.
It teaches them, that no party can profit
long by corrupting the weak, buying votes
with bribes, and employing the vilest agents
to pipe-lay anil poison Liberty at her very
source. (Witness within the last few days
the developments at Cincinnati and New
York; the charges against Mr. . Collector
Curtis, who still remains mute to the accu
sations of Hamilton and the evidence
which has been laid before the Legislature
of Ohio in relation to the pipe-laying of
Slew art.)
It leaches them, that honesty in public,
as in private I fe, is tlie beat policy and
ihiftlhey who win power by tricks and
corruption, and they, who suffer them-,
selves to be intoxicated by the acquisition
of 8udden and ill-got power,, and fly to
measures, such as the Whig party have
j sought to fasteu upon the People by a
wide siveep of proscription, in order to
gratify a leech-like appttue lor oftice by
the establishment of an unconstitutional
and tremendous Bank by first' giving
away the public money, which is wanting
in the Treasury, and then supplying the
vacuum by loans or taxes that a party,
which pursues this mad and mischievous
policy, cannot long retain the respect or
confidence of a free people.
And yet these Federal Whigs pretend to
be bewildered about the causes of their
sudden overthrow. Their own misdeeds
have occasioned their own ruin. Their
own hands have placed , the handwriting
on the wall; and it requires no Daniel to
interpret their fate. They have- been
weighed and found wanting and their
kingdom is taken from them. ib.
VIVE LA BAGATELLE!
Let those who win, laugh!
"O. K."
A little boy ten years old, who, like
most "young Tipps," was a great Whig
ten months ago, was asked what had be
come of his O. K. "Oh! (says he,) it ought
to be K. O. now, for the Whigs are kick
ed out." I thought it too good to be
lost. ib.
For the Lincoln Republican.
REPLY TO EPISCOPOS.
No. II.
Mr. Williamson ;
In my last, I stated
that Episcopos assumed three orders of
ministers in the primitive church, making
the Apostles themselves an order, distinct
from the Bishops and deacons. He sayst
"the Apostles ordained Apostles." Again,
"Timothy had authority over the Bishops
and deacons, thereby showing he had a
higher office than they." Here he has fol
lowed in the footsteps of his predecessors,
and has taken for granted what he should
have proved in fact, the main question.
He assumes, without seeming to notice it,
that there is a succession in the office of
Apostles a hereditary line of descendants
in one office. If his assumption be correct,
ought there not, then, to be but thirteen
Bishops ?
Among the cardinal assumptions in the
numbers of Episcopos, the following are
peculiarly worthy of notice :
1st. That the Bishops in the Episco
pal Church are the successors of the Apos
tles ;
2nd. That Timothy was Bishop of
Ephesus ;
3rd. That none bnt Bishops can ordain
Elders and deacons in the Christian Church.
Respecting the succession of Bishops as
a third order distinct from Elders and dea
cons, to an unsophiscatcd mind it would
seem sufficient to slate, that there is not a
single intimation in the New Testament
that authority to preach, ordain to office,
or dispense ordinances, was vested by the
Messiah in any such line of succession
from the Apostles. No such office was by
him created ; and, therefore, there is no pro
vision made for descent. There can be no
succession, in the officethe office and the
officer are two distinct things the office is
one and invisible the succession is in the
officers and not in the office.
Now, as there were only thirteen sees
in the apostolic age twelve in the confines
of Judea, and one in all the rest of the
world, there could be at most, but thirteen
Bishops as successors of the Apostles in
those sees ; for if a new diocese were con
stituted and a new Bishop created, he could
not be the successor of any one of the orig
inal thirteen; and if by any revolution his
see should become extinct with his life,
he would be a priest after the order of Mel
chisedek without predecessor or succes
sor.
But let us examine the office of an Apos
tle, and we will be the better prepared to
determine whether they can have succes
sors or not. It ia unnecessary to produce
a great many particulars when a few will
answer our purpose. Take the following:
1st. The Aposiles were ordained to be
witnesses of the sayings and doings of Je
sus Christ, and to attest his resurrection
from the dead, Luke XXIV, 43. Acts I,
21. 22. II, 32. X, 29, 41.
2nd. They were ordained not only to
prove that Jesus was the Messiah that fie
died for our sins, was buried, and that he
rose again the third day ; but also to set up
the Christian Church, as Moses was com
missioned to set up the Jewish, lfence
i Paul said he was ordained to be a preach
er and a teacher of the Gentiles in the
truth one thai introduced the gospel
an able minister of the New Testament a
steward of the mysteries of Christ, 2 Cor
III, 513. IV, 1 ; 1 Tim. II, 7 ; 1 Cor.
IV, 1.
Now, without these qualifications can
any one be a successor of these Apostles
of Christ? And are these not the Apos
tles from whom succession is claimed ?
Is it not, then, impossible for the in to have
any official successors !
Paul, although he both saw acd heard
the risen Lord, and received from him in
person a call and mission to the nations
although supernaturally endowed with all
the gifts of the Spirit bestowed upon all
lhe others infallible in all the mystery of
Christ, felt himself so seemingly (not rea
Iy) deficient in one respect, (not having
been the companion of Christ, during his
earthly ministry,) that he represented him
self as an Apostle "born out of due time."
If, then, Paul, with every other qualifica
tion, was in one respect born out of due
time, though this was amply compensated
by his superabundance of visions and reve
lations may we not affirm' that all the
men now living -e born too late to aspire
to that order of men whom Christ designa
ted his Apostles to the nations ? And can
any man be a successor of those Apostles,
destitute not only of one, but of all the es
sential attributes belonging to such offi
cers I
A successor in office necessarily fills the
place of his predecessor. John Adams,
Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James
Monroe, John Q. Adams, Andrew Jackson,
Martin Van Buren, and Wm. II. Harrison
were the constitutional successors of Geo.
Washington, first President of the United
States. But did they not all fill the same
office ? Had they not all the same author
ity ? If, then, the Bishops of the Protes
tant Episcopal Church are successors of
the Apostles, they must fill the same office,
and possess the same authority. It will
not do for them to claim one branch of their
authority and disclaim all the rest ; espe
cially, in the absence of all testimony in
favor of their procedure. Of this, howcv
er, Episcopos appears to have been fully
conscious ; hence his great care to evade
the force of this argument c "The charac
ter of the Aposiles,' says he, "as inspired
men, or as possessing supernatural gifts,
must be here carefully distinguished from
their office, as ministers of Christ, as the
former was enjoyed by them before they
were put in possession of the latter, and
enjoyed by them in common with Presby
ters, deacons, and laymen. We were ac
customed to believe that the Apostles to
fill their peculiar office were endowed with
the various'gifts of the Holy Ghost had
the power of uttering infallibly the oracles
of God could confirm their testimony
with supernatural powers, and impart all
spiritual gifts to others; but here we are in
formed by our friend Episcopos (with how
much correctness the reader shall judge,)
that these tilings had nothing to do with
their ministerial office tht inspiration or
supernatural gifts were common with pres
byters, deacons, and laymen that the
Apostles were empowered, to work mira
cles before they were ministers of Christ ! !!
To what unenviable shifts are men reduc
ed to support an unscriptural cause !
We now call the reader's attention to the
Scriptures that treat on the call and quali
fications of the Apostles, that he may judge
w hether Episcopos was justified in asser
ting with so much carefulness that they
were endowed with supernatural gifts, or
divinely inspired before they wcie called
to preach.
The first passage that I shall cite, )-ou
may find in Luke VI, 13 ; "And when it
was day, he (Jesus) called unto him his
disciples; and of them he chose twelve
whom also he named rfpostles.'' By this
quotation, we only wish to show that their
characteristic name "Apostles," is coeval
with their call. In the next place, we in
vite attention to Mark III, 13 15 ; "And
he (Jesus) goeth up into a mountain and
calleth unto him whom he would : and'they
came unto him. And he ordained twelve
that they should be with him, and that he
might send them forth to preach, and to
have power to heal sickue&s, and to cast
out devils.' Here is no distinction the
call to preach and the power to work mir
acles are siwoltaueoubly given. J See also
Mark VI, 12, 13, "And they went out and
preached that men should repent. AnI
they cast out many devils, and anointed
with oil many that weie sick and healed
them." Further, we wish the reader to
examine carefully the following texts :
Mat. X, 18. Luke IX, 16. Now
we care not where Episcopos may go for
the proof of his position, we have quoted
the "living oracles,' and, that too, at tho
very passages that treat on their call and
qualification for the work of the Apostles
and they show directly the opposite of his
assertion. But, possibly he will torn
Catholic, and say we are to believe the Bi
ble on the interpretation of the Church
and so place the Church before the Bible !
But Episcopos teaches us that inspira
tion, or the power to work miracles, was
"common with laymen." That the Apos
tles possessed the power of imparting spir
itual gifts to others whether ministers of
laymen, and that they may have exercised
this prerogative occasionally, will not be
called in question ; but, that it was com
mon with laymen needs proof. Even
Paul, who "was not a whit behind the ve
ry chiefest apostles," does not appear to
have been able to cure the diseases of all
the afflicted that were in his presence; and
he further instructs us that all the official
members of the primitive Charch were not
favored with all spiritual gifts, 1 Cor. XII
29, 30.
But, Mr. Editor, the jit of this whole
controversy, is found in the fact that not
one of the Apostles has hinted to us that
there was in their order any succession ;
or they were the first of a series to be con
tinued through all generations, by which
authority to preach, and dispense the ordi
nances was to be legally communicated by
Jesus Christ to a certain class of individ
uals to the constitutional exclusion of all
other persons.
Be it remembered, that Episcopalians
claim a divine right for three orders in the
ministry Bishops, Presbyters, and dea
cons. We have already said this claim is
unscriptural, and here we repeat it, without
fear of successful contradiction, that thtsrs
is not a single text in the New Testament
which teaches that owe single minister ever
was, or that one should be, ordained first
to the office of a deacon, then to the office
of an eider, and thirdly to the office of a
Bishop ? therefore, if we have three orders
in the ministry, the claim thereto must rest
on other, than a divine warrant. A divine
right must be divinely instituted. It must
rest on an express nnd explicit command
of God.
By your permission, Mr. Editor, in my
next number, I will lay before your readers
some remarks on the claim of Timothy to
the diocese of Ephesus, and Titus to the
diocese of Crete &c.
Yours respectfully,
Jacob Brown Anthony.
Lincoln Circuit, S. C. Con.
Oct. 26. 1841.
From the Charleston Mercury.
SAUL AND JONATHAN A. MYS
TERY. In their deaths, they were not divided.
And now said Mr. Johnson, look at the
operation of this bill upon the States. I do
not say that of late 1 love the General Go
vernment less, but that my love for the
States is increased.
Mr. Dawson, (playfully speaking a
cross,) "especially when you shall be Go
vernor of one of them" (A laugh.)
(Yes, especially then: and I reciprocate
to the gentleman Laughter, and cries of
"fair," "a fair hit."
Journal of the Extra Session.
When this dignified passage of gubernat
orial courtesies, and keen encounter of
wits, graced and enlivened the floor of the
"glorious" House of Representatives dur
ing the ever memorable extra session of
1841; and these Thanes in prophetic vis
ion hailed each other as Claim's and Caw
dor, brother of Maryland and royal, cousin
of Georgia, some malicious person, offen
ded at the scene, compared the distinguish
ed actors in it to two very respectable old
buzzards hobnobbing over something rich,
wherein their benevolent beaks had been
as good as fleshed already. Nobody drea
med then that they would so soon be doom
ed to a Siamese inseperability in the mem
ory of the people as the two vetoed vice
roys of Henry Clay, and their aforesaid
cordial reciprocation of pleasant anticipa
tions come to be regarded, as those of two
jackdaw .old gentlemen in false plumage
but with bona fide appetites, about to exper
ience the hardships of a chamelion diet as
they eat at table aud said grace over two