0 AMERICAN ;EQME f
REV. ALBERT BARNES. . . ,
jle following ' eloquent, 'and , truthful
re 0f an American home, from a ser
P1 a jjy tjjc ReV. AlbertJ3arnes,;cannot be
3 without both pleasure and profit.
ft fa, indeed, admirably drawn :; -
Iloiv many lender and beautiful con
ations enter here into the meaning of the
C5rJ hme 1 l is not.mer ine place of
M i.irth; nor the place whereTour father
pother our; brothers and sisters live ;
Yis not merely the place where we have.
-whood : it is not that our house is more
beiatiAil or splended than can be found
in other lands ; it is hot that weaVe cloth
ed in fine linen find fare sumptuously e v
efj daybut; it I is that- thero; clusters "a--foand
an American homeVwhai is rarely,
if t ver to be found in any other Jiabita
i tinnof man. All homes in our land are
' pft indeed, precisely the same- but
there is a beau ideal which easily conveys
the conception, ana wnicu will tind its
original, in thousands of abodes in this
Republic, and not often in the older por
tiohsoof the worldrarely except in our
-tio;
0n native land. 1 the abode of Liberty:
Xke father is allowed to pursue his' own
nIan,T6r the gocd of his family, and, with
his sons, to labor1 in what profession he
chooses, and to enjoy the avails of his own
labor. The res dts of his toil are not lia
ble to be torn a way by rapacious officers
of Government ; nor is he subject to the
will'of another, us to the. amount of labor
which he shall perform, or. the kind of
fOTployment which he shall pursue. 'He
nay purchase a field as his own he may
plant, or sow, or build where and what
jiojchooses-and there undisturbed he
may lio down and die.. It is the abode of
wuiuksx, innj i ana competence. It is not
the wretched n,ut ol the Greeniantfer or
(he Cairrariari.cr the" underground abode
of the Kamscfcitkan, "or the style of
the Hottentot. It is the abode of tntelli
gence. 'We associate with the word in
stinctively the idea that those who reside
there can read : that they have the bible;
that they are hot strangers to other books
and other modes of transmitting -'.thought.
They are acquainted with the constitution
of their countryj; they know theirrights
as citizens, they know the value of a vote ;
they know whereto find redress if they arjr
rrongedr they feel sure thaCif they are
wronged they xc ll have redress. It is the
abode nf contentment and peace. The bond
that unites all, i s love and mutual respect.
Afatherand mother are respected, obeyed,
arid loved,' ThyHavc intelligence and
virtue which constitute a claim to respect
and they have laid the foundation for this
, fa the careful training of their children. It
is the abode of kindness. There is kind
ness to each othsr and to all who have a
claim to compassion The, poor neighbor
has a sriare in thempathy existing there
and is sure that! he shall not be sent emp
ty away. It is the abodp of 'safety. On
'my own father's house, which has stood
Vnow fori nearly lial.f a century, there has
never been a lock or a bolt ; nor, when
alone as it has; often been, has it in
any way been secured against robbers--f.
npd yetlt has nf ver been entered fbran
evil purpose. If, to these t hings, as they,
might be expanded and illustrated, you
were tol add the lidea , of. religion of i he
blessings of the Gospel in the purest formt
known since apostolic times, producing
kindness, contentment and peace sus
taining the soul n adversity, and in pros
perity Ipiding the heart aVp toJGod with
gratitude ; incliding his daily worship in
the ha)if alien, and the ordering of the
plans of life in jaceordance with princi
ples of jreligion. you' would have comple
ted theimage of jan American Home.
14 Such is the home that is loved that
we revert to wihnpieasurer when far a-
ay, aid when ve are tossed on the bil
lowsojlrfe ; and that wellovc to revisit
jftgain after wee ha ve been absent rnany
Jwr J And, it 'njay be added, it is in such
a home, and . injVthe. strong aUachment
-i which is formed for it, thatthstaljility of
.onr insjttutions jUes. f You have an in
, dissoluble hold oil the virtue and good pon
duct ofyour sonsf, as long as home is what
it should be,. and as it shall seem to them
iwoerf here or tthnabroad, to be the
j most : pleasant spot ' on the eartjr Our
Vtrengtas apei)ple;-'is there; our hopes
rre there lK firnnr!ntinn nf Yt rpnnh-
M restjthere. We have no arithmetic to
(Tni.i iL:v 'k ' ! .1 fi . ? n
'jica wie -vaiue oi mis suent inuueiice
Tora year, or even for a day. Who can
I jtell hov much the dews that fall around
our dwellings at night are worth 1 Some
I jjiche sipce an ingenioustitilitarian attcmpt
ed to estimate the value in this country
i the national Wealth o a single day's
'JttnsMjie i but cjuf arithmetia is not well
, adapted to such; things. There are influ
xes fcollatora , unobserved, or -remote,
J lhedey-dro, and the-, sun-beam, and
ihc training in' a virtuous home, which
i5'u cannot bring within the compass of
- i yor;saiculationsl,,i -, : ' i ,
STcrnwProfessor House,
.je ingenious electrician and inventor of
jhe rnagnetic printing telegraph, 'is ma-
jmg extensive arrangements to manuiac
;tn.re his printing telegraphs and : put up
ires for .transmitting intelligence to anv
Part of the V. S. - He has iust comnleted
T - rt . CZl - - - - r
:;!? - i magnetic printing telegraphs
Vf a company n England, to. be used on
Jle of ihe greatthoroughfares of thatcoun ,
Iry His telegraph perhaps will take the
lacAn a very few, years, of .all the old
elegrphs on the great routes of Europe
' "pw using the variations of the hen-
ls as ja mode of registering the intelli
'. c In this of Professor House, there'
!?e ?ineedles rior arditrotx iigns to give
l Jtelligence transmitted,'out a simple,
,vl heautiful contrivance which prints off
intelligence as fast, as a mart can read
4 ,lhe letters of the alphabet. ;
"IT
BRUMR;:& .'JAMES,
Editors Sc Proprietors " ;
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InffenollV History of the War
?e lMen so much interested in
such extracts as we havesernffom Jhe
above vvtjrkrthatfwe are concerned to find
it assailed in various quarters tbrjinaccu
racies, some of them of so gross a nature
asjto expose .the author tolhe imputMion
of;M malignity towards the dead. - With
all its imperfections, however, (which can
be cpjfecfed,) -wer thinkit will: prove a
valuable contribution to History, j. '
The Boston J)aily Advertiser thus a
muses itself with one of the errors: - '
Mr.-Ingersoll in his history of the last
war has fallen into a very singular error.
In his account of the barbarities commit
ted by the Indians on our frontiers he
quotes a Hevolutionary document vhich
he gives at length. Thisls taken from A I
mon's Remembrancer, and is, he'vell says,
so disgusting as to seem almost incredible,'!-
The document in question purports
to be a letter from Captain Gerrish of the
New England militia accompanying eight
packages of American scalps taken from
the Indians on an expedition to Canada.
With the scalps he sends a letter from
James Crawford, an English emissary to
tlieCovernor of Canada, giving a; minute
description of the scalps, and the emblems
on them, denoting the manner in which
they were taken. But this elaborate and
curious - account of atrocities which Mr.
Ingersoll has printed as history is neither
more nor less than a burlesque .written by
Dr. Franklin, when in Paris, and printed
atVprivate bress as an imitation of the
" Boston CllT)nicle.,, The piece is writ
ten in the stjfle of Swift's " Proposal for
Eating Irish Children," and "Defoe's Short
est Way with the Dissenters," and is fully
equal for grave irony-to either of those
productions.. And the Dissenters actual
ly fell into the same error with regard to
Defoe's jue d'esprit, that Mr. Ingersoll has
in this of Dr. Franklin's, taking! it as a
serious proposal to hang all the dissenters.
Mn Ingersoll is more credulous thari the
Irish bishop, who said there were some
things in Gulliver's Travels that he could
not swallow. It is almost incredible that
Mr. Ingersoll should be such ar govemouche
as to swallow the luxuriant enumeration
of enormities ; but so it is. He omits one
ot the finest touches at the conclusion,
probably because it was not in Almon.
It is as follows M It is proposed to make
them urin decent little packets (i. e. the
scalps) seal and" direct them, ono to the
King, containing a sample of every sort
for his museum, one to the Queen with
some of women and little children, the
rest to1)edistributed among both; houses
of Parliament, a double quantity to the
bishops. I he whole production may be
found in Sparks's Works of Franklin, vol.
V, page 125. where we advise Mr.,Inger-
soll to look and see what history is made
of."
" Com. Stewart has exposed a more seri
ous class of errors errors affecting his
own and Com. Bainbridge's well-earned
fame, and which there is no excuse for.
since Aoin. o. mrnisaeu nim whii me ac
tual factsand when he heard j t hat they
were misstated in the forthcoming vol
ume, he wrote to Ingersoll, remonstrating,
but received for reply the assurance, that
if he would wait until he saw " the vol
umejof his earnest effort to elevate the
American Navy, md Commodores Bain-
bridge and Stewart as two of its glorious
founders, by the exploits of the war of
1812,' he would be convinced that any
disparagement of either of them was a
thought never harbored. Yet, ! when the
volume appeared, Com. S. found the fol
lowing passages :
. "It was the mere remonstrance of a cou
ple of naval officers against being deprived
of their livelihoud which prevented the
flag, so gloriously triumphant in every sea,
from being veiled before that of Great
Britain," &c. ,
"Stewart had built a privateer called
the Snapper, eventually commanded by
Captain Peregrine Green, and captured as
Hsoon as she cleared the Delaware Capes.
In that privateer, if deprived of the au
thority tvgo forth in frigates, these gen
tlemen proposed to seek their fortunes on
the ocean, serving each rotation as cap
tain or first officer. It was not with themf
therefore, matter of mere national charac
ter, nor were they to be moved entirely
bypuerile,or unselfish considerations :
they uxinted fortunp'as well as fame,' liveli
hood besides distinction. If the Navy was
laid up tiey saw their occupation gone for
all advancement and all acquisition, i
Com. Stewart declares, and establishes
by sufficient proof,- that - these . statements
do him and Com. Bainbridge gross injus
tice. He shows, that they had both then,
recently realized ample fortunes, and stood
in no need of such inducements:4! He goes
on to detail, at great: length circumsVan
cesvof peculiar interest, -connected with
that eventful period, which' .we will briefly
mention, riot' havingroomfor his-whole
statement. ... tr.
It-appears, that "at "the declaration of
war,
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AMSBXRY, N- G:
termined, by President Madison and his
Cabinet, then consisting ofcMr. Monroe,
Secretary of State, Gallatin,-, Treasury,
Hamilton, Navy, and Armstrong, War
to keep all our ships in port, for the dou
ble purpose of protecting the cities against
attack, and of securing, the. ships them
selves against j capture . by. the so much
more powerful Naval force of Great Brit
ain; This remarkable decision, which
now appears so indefensible, and which,
ijf persisted Tn you Id ; have depri ved os:
of the chiefglory and advantage of the
war, Com. S. thinks was sustained by
weighty reasons, though he and Com. B."
labored Iso earnestly to have it revoked.
We had but eight frigates, and a few
sloops of war, brigs and schooners, mount
ing in all only412 guns; whilst Great
Brifafn had one thousand ships of war,
283 of them ships of the line, in all mount
ing 40,000 cannon, spread over the whole
world, sustained by constant practice, and
the proud feeling that they were mistress
of the seas, having vanquished every pow
er with whom they had come in contact
on that element. These considerations,
united with an ignorance of the capabili
ties of our own Navy, and a prudent fear
lesta false step at the outset might involve
a loss of character and endanger the suc
cess of the war) had determined the Pre
sident and his Cabinet, toJayup.the ships,
and to wage the"war.by land, against the
Canadas, which it was believed might ea
sily be conquered and held until peace,
when they might be surrendered to Eng
land asan equivalent for her abandon
ment of the system of impressment of A
rnerican seamen,' Sec. '" !
The two Commodores arrived at Wash
ington two days after war was declared,
and immediately called at the Navy De
partment, where they saw the order then
just prepared, to Com. Rodgers, not to
leave the port of New York with the ships
under his command. They remonstrated
most earnestly, first with the Secretary,
and then with the President, who, says
Com. S. " listened to what was said ; then
rising, he addressed Mr. Hamilton, and
saidthey ought not, to despair of our Na
vy ; that though its! numbers were small,
and ever had been, still its conduct in the
Revolutionary warjjand since, admonish
ed tlfem that it, would do its duty. " Yes,
sir," we said, " it will ;" added, with the
energy his encouraging words inspired
" be assured that eight encounters out of
every ten. with any thing like an equality
of force, will result in victories for our
country. Bui sir, we do not say that we
may not lose our ships by being captured,
the numbers of the enemy so vastly ex
ceed our own, that, after a successful en
counter on our part, fresh ships may come
up while ours are in a crippled state, and
capture them, and retake their own." To
these remarks Mr. Madison replied, " is
victories we want ; if you give us them, and
you lose your ships afterwards, they can be
replaced by others.1 He then informed
Mr. Hamilton that he would assemble his
Cabinet at eight o'clock that evening, and
submit the subject for their reconsidera
tion, with the new information he had re-
ceived Irom us. Late that eveniug we
hous'e. He informed us, to our extreme
disappointment, that all change in the dis
position of the . vessels of war had been
overruled Mr. Monroe, being the only
member of the Cabinet, on that occasion.
who advocated the ships being sent to sea." j
Com. S. goes on to describe the deep
mortification of himself and his compan
ion at this result, and the further efforts
they made, by a strong written remon
strance to the President. But all without
avail. It was in this state of things that
Bainbridge proposed, if the ships were to
be laid up, to resign his commission and
goto sea in a privateer which Stewart
and others were building, (and which was
captured on its first cruize, Stewart losing
811,000.) They wanted .active; service,
and to annoy the common enemy as much
as possible.
At length Com. S. got permission to
take the brig Argus, one of Com. Rodg-
ers's ships, and proceeo! to sea at once, to
scour the West India Islandsof their coast
ers and commerce before the British could
hear of the declaration of war. He post
ed off to New York, but found that Rodg
ers, with all his .ships had put to sea be
fore the order came , requiring him; to re
main inlport Ihiithemeanltime: Com.
Bainbridge remained at Vashington, and
finally prevailed in getting orders Tor the
khina to ffo to sea. - These facts are sus-
;nwi Kw If ttr from " the then: Chief
Clerk ohhe Navy Department, who was
familfarVwithUhexircums : -'?fJ;-
c..f rolfc' the following
Com. Stewart relates' the followiri
1 tcresting incident ; T sr,7, - I
x - ?7 ; , c?7. Harrison. :
NOVEMBER 8r 1845
V It was late at night, in December 381 2,
that Midshipman Hamilton arrived with
the flag of the Macedonian, and despatch
es of Conu Decatur, 1 announcing the cap
ture of that ship-He' sought his father;
the. Secretary of the Navy, at a ball with'
whi'ch the citizens of Washington were
then honoring me, in return for one pre
viously given by me on board the Con
stitution., The Secretary introduced the
flag of the. Macedonian, and it was spread
on the floor of the ball-room. . .The Presi
dent permitted, the secretary to read r a
loud the despatches of Decatur, and then
made the remark to the assembled com
pany, which. has been recorded of him in
Dr. I Harris's work : It is to Commodores
Bainbridge and Stewart that we owe these
victories: It " was at their instance and
strong solicitation that the ships were per
mitted to go to sea and cruise "
Com. S. says that Congress exhibited
great reluctance, even after some of the
I f!
most splendid Naval victories, to appro
priate money for adding to the Navy, and
he relates the following curious incident:
" On the 30th November, 1812. a bill
providing, amongst other vessels, for four
seventy-four gun-ships, passed the Senate
by a large majority: in the House of Re
presentatives it met with great opposition,
and the seventy-fours were stricken out
by a majority of three votes. On this oc
casion Mr. John C. Calhoun, (who board
ed at the same house I did,) when he re
turned from the House of Representatives,
suggested tr idea of putting Congress in
a better humor with the Navy. This sug
gestion I, promptly acted on, and a ball
and party were given on board the Con
stitution, then lying off Greenleaf's Point.
All appeared highly gratified. Mr. Cal
houn tooK advantage of this and called for
a reconsideration, which was carried, and
that portion of the bill relating to the severity-fours
was reinserted and finally car
ried by a majority of six votes. Perhaps
Mr. Ingersoll will credit me also with a
want of those ships for the purpose of plun
der, ,as a set-off' for the $3,500, (three
years' pay) the expense of the ball. True,
this would have been a strange bribe for
a poor navy captain, who wanted bread
and fortune."
Since he above was in type, we have
seen, with surprize and indignation, the
following, which we extract
FROM THE BALTIMORE PATRIOT.
INGERSOLL'S HISTORY OF THE
WAR.
Mr. Charles Jarcd Ingersoll, a native
born citizen o,f Pennsylvania, is the man
who holds the opinion that if he had been
old enough to have taken part in the Revo
lution, he would have been a Tory." And
he is the man, who, holding this opinion,
no doubt honestly, did uot hesitate to avow
it, when charged with it; and, with a
frankness in which hardihood and self
satisfaction were principal ingredients,
added that he should never regret that
opinion. We believe he has 'never disa
vowed or retracted it. The Albany Eve
ning Journal well says
" Whatever may be said of him and his
course in other respects, his whole life has
been consistent with that declaration.
His maturity has fully vindicated his youth
ful predilections. If he was not old enough
to oppose the establishment of Republican
Institutions, he may console himself with
the reflection of having contributed large
ly to their desecration."
I fiut an ordinary"man might have found
his gratification' in desecrating the institu
tions, without libelling the men of the Re
public. Mr. Ingersoll is not one so to be
gratified. He has recently written what
he calls a " History ot the Late VVarwitn
England in which the men who took
part in the events of that time, and who
are now alive, are greatly hepraised,'even
though they be in politics never so j much
opposed to the' author of the praise He
did not venture to slander the living, but
he could not forbear traducing the dead.
On page 190 of his work he thus speaks
of General Harrison
"Thus closed the military career of
William Henry Harrison; who afterwards
served as a member of both Houses of
Congress, on a foreign mission to Colom
bia, in South America, which he solicited,
was elevated from the clerkship ot a court
in Cincinnati to presidency, and after one
short month of treacherous triumph in that
office, crowned his good fortune by prema
ture aeatn in me presiaeniuu munsivu.
The house wasthronged with people, even
the chamber in which he died, not tree
from idle intrusion. He expired with in
coherent, words of patriotism on his lips,
befor&difficalties and distractions, to which
his administration was inevitably destin
ed j leaving the world with mast men of
all parties inclined to think well oi nis
character, to magnify his virtues, extenu
ate his foibles, regret his death, and cele
brate his memory "
This is the true Falstaff courage an
inferior animal kicking a dead lion. But
the man who is slandered will not find his
peaceful rest nTine grave disturbed by his
outpouring o( malignity, and the people of
tt.o TTnitprI States, who bowed down their
heads aria-acknbwle
r n : TIrriinn. pvp'n at the
hresbold khis presidential career, was
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NUMBER 28, OF VOLUME II.
national affliction theyrwill not be slow
to conclude, that what'in him excited Mr.
IngersolVs ire, was his viriues and patri
otism virtues which Mr. I; cou Id not even
aflect,and a patriotism which he had ne
ver censed to hate, from the day when he
declared himself a tory. The Albany
Evening" Journal, therefore,wellconcludes
that little confidence will be placed in a
work ostensibly written to commemorate
the events of a war that occurred more
than thirty years ago, but' which thus
reaches forward to assail and calumniate,
with all the rancor and malignity pf a
partizan, -the character and memory of
that beloved Soldier, Statesman and Pat
riot, William Henry Harrison.
From the Greensboro' Patriot.
A VENERABLE SCRAP.
." The mutilated document copied below.found among
the old papers of a gentleman of a neighboring county,
was perhaps the earliest declaration or the American
Colonial Congress of ' the causes andjiecssity of taking
up arms.' Dated a year before the Declaation of Inde
pendence, it is a noble sample of the times. Not being
embodied in any of our popular histories of the Revolu
tion, any of our editorial brethren who could procure it
entire, might, by giving it space; do their countrymen a
service, and gratify their patriotic pride. Thirfragment
in our hands is printed on a slip by itself, unconnected
with the newspaper, from its shape, in its torn condition,
we judge we have about three-fourths of the document."
The document which accompanies the above
paragraph in the Patriot, says the National In
telligencer of the 30th ult., is signed by John
Hancock, President, attested by Charles
Thomson, Secretary, and dated Philadelphia,
July 6, 1775. It is entitled, " A Declaration
by the Representatives of the United Colonies
of North America, now met in General Con
1 gres3 at Philadelphia, setting foith the causes
and necessity of their taking up arms."
As the Editor of the Patriot appears to be
uunaware of the origin and. occasion of this an
cient document, it may be acceptable to him,
and perhaps to others to learn something of its
history. This Declaration of July, 1775, was
the most important and jne of the best known
public papers of its time. It is to be found in
many collections of Revolutionary documents,
in one of which it now lies before us in extcn
so, belonging to the valuable antiquarian libra
ry of our friend and neighbor P. Force, Esq.,
to whom we are indebted fur some historical
notes' connected with the paper in question.
which may refresh the memories of many of
our readers in relation toome important inci
dents of that heroic age.
On the 15th of June, 1775, the Continental
Congress "Jlesolvedthat a General be appoint.
ed lo command all the Continental forces rais
ciJor to be raised for the defence of American
liberty." General -4Vashia:gton was ap
pointed the same day, and received his commis
sion of General and Commander-in-chief on the
17lh. Heleft Philadelphia on the 21st of June;
arrived at Cambridge, Massachusetts, and as
sumed the command there r,n the '3d of July,
which dale his first General Order bears. The
Provincial army, previously under the command
of General Ward, before Boston, now became
the Continental army. It was in justification
of this that the Congress published the Declar
ation now brought to notice by the Greensbor.
ough Patriot.
On the 23d of, June a committee of five mem
bers of the Congress (Mr. J. Rutledge, Mr.
VV. Livingston, Mr. Franklin, Mr. Jay,
and Mr. Johnson) was appointed "to draw up
a Declaration to be published by General
Washington on his arrival at the camp before
Boston.". The committee the next day report
ed a Declaration, ""which was read and deba
ted, and after some time referred for further con
sideration till Monday next," the 26th, when it
was again considered,iand, after some debate,
recommitted; and Mr. Dickinson and Mr.
Jefferson were added to the committee. The
Declaration was again reported on Thursday,
the 6th of July ; when, after further debateit
was adopted and entered at length on the Jour,
nal of the Congress. It was read before the
Army at Cambridge on Saturday, the 15th of
July.
The reading of this Declaration at Cam
bridge and at Prospect Hill was thus noticed at
the time :
Last Saturday, July 15th, the several regi
ments quartered injhis i town, (Cambridge.) be
ing assembled upon the parade, the Reverend
Dr. Langdon, President of the College, read to
them A Declaration by the Representatives of
the United Colonies pf North America, now
met in General Congress at Philadelphia, set.
ting forth the causes and necessity of their ta
king up arms. It was received with great ap
plause, and the approbation of the Army, with
that of a great numberof other people, was im
mediately answered by three huzzas. . HU ex
cellency the General, with several other gener
al officers, 4cCm were present on the occasion.
" On Tuesday rooming, the 18th, according
to orders issued the day before by Major Gen
eral Putnam, all the Continental troops under
his immediate command assembled at Prospect
Hill, when the Declaration of the' Continental
PnriTres was read : after which' an animated
and pathetic : address was made fey the Rer. Mr
Leonard, Chaplain to General Putnam s regi
ment; and succeeded by a pertinent i prayeif
when General Putnam gave me signal, M wo
whole army shouted their loud araenby: three
; immediately iipon which acannOn was
I firArl frnm thft fort, and the standard lately sent
a J to General Putnam rTObi tombing in
the. air, hearing on ono side this motto, 4 Ax
Appeal'to IIeavex,' and. on the other side, - -
The whole was conducted with iho utmost -decency,
gf6d order, find regularity and ihe uni ,
versalacceptance of all present; and Philistines ;
on Buuker's Hill J, heard the shout of thelsra-
elites', and, being ; very fearful, paraded thera
selves in.uutuc (ia, . ,
This Declaration was. circulated. throughout
America in newspapers and pamphlets. An
answer to the Declaration nppoared, in a pamph
let of
ninety.two pagesi' entltlfd "-The Rights y
eat' Britain asserted against the Claims of.
of Great
America: being an Answer Jo tne Declaration
of the General Congress.'! This Answer'was
printed and liberally disfrihuted, bolh( jn Grcat
Britain and America, at j the sinstance it was
said, of the DritUb Government. At least eight
editions of the Answer' were printed in Eng
land and one in America, in 1773,"'. ;J,
AMERICAN INSTITUTE.-
The closing" ce remonles " of lhe. ' eighteenth
Annual Tatr of the American 'Institute look
place in New York on Friday the 24th ult., in
presence of a large assemblage of peple.
Gen-TALLMADGE delivered iho, closingad t
dress in the evening.- "Amongst other things he
alluded to the Farmer aTrd Gardeners'; Con
vention, where all but five States' ofthe Union
were represented; and bow important tho agri- j
cultural produce was '--to, this-country. Afew ;
years ago and we had to import . all , our ronrj
lead, Scc.i le sides 815,000,000 of silk annual- "
ly. In a few years more, going oh as we have
gone, and we should have to import "not dol
lar's worth. - 'rr-'Ml -
The importance of the protectire'policy wat
demonstrated. A few years; ago ir was'mado
the boast that Southern Stales exported $53,
000,000 of raw cotton, and jvc had to buy vail - ,
the articles manufactured abroad from our own, '
raw material. Look'a?l"heJransiUon produced ,
by a due protection to American -industry!
Massachusetts, at tho last census, alone pro
duced $92,000 000 ; now she produces $120,
000,000! New YorMn 1 84 i shipped from
Albany of agricultural produce finly S 94 ,000,-
000 ; now she produces over $140,000,000 !
Even Pennsylvania, depressed and disgraced -as
she appeared to be, by -opening, up her in- "
creased internal resources, sent out in 1843 not
less than 1,208,000 tons of coal ; in 1844, she ;
sent 1,651,000 tons ; and up to this date in 1845
she had sent out 1,800,000 tens, all anthracite," -exclusive
of 600,000 tons of bituminous coal. 4
The result has been that she has" paid the inter
est of her debt. The result to this State. has! -been,
that instead of paying $15 a ton wo how
pay but $o ; and this alone in the quantity ot '
coal consumed here has made a difference-of
$25,000,000 in our expenses. Thus. above all, -the
charm is broken the Rubicon is. passed ;
we have declared we will live by ourselves, and
it is the duty of Government. to protect us. wv
Gen. T. continued for two -hours to "exhibit
the fruits of American genius under the f ster
ing protcctionof the tarifH Ho stated that
22,000 articles had been exhibited at theFair,
and that the average receipts the first week for
entrance was $1,000 a day; this week a Jittle
less. The advance in skill and improvement v
over the last year was at least fifteen per centj
Thc awards of. the Institute' this year were
thus summed up : , "' " -
34 Gold Medals, worth
... 80 Silver "
$410.
ooo
.f 410
139 Silver cups
138 volumes Hooks
400 Diplomas J
Total
200
187 ;V
.... -n-jL
$2ioo ;
OCT A TarifT meeting was . held at the E
change Hotel, Pittsburg, on Tuesday,. 27th ult, .
The Hon. Thomas Burnside presided. Re so-
lutions were passed iir favor of the " I8 fin" f
1842, and it wa9 determined to lioldk'TarifT
Convention at Hollidaysburg on the tlSth' of -November.
"The Pittsburg Gazette adverts to '
the proceedings thus : . .'..' ,
44 The Tariff meeting, thq proceedings of vf
which appear in another column, was gotten up -
under Locofoco auspiees, for the purpese of sa-
ving Pennsylvania from the disastrous effects ofl",
the late election, and from the fatal consequen " .
ces of a course of policy which they, were so
active in bringing about, it is a spontaneous
testimony to the propriety, importance, and wis- I,
dom of the Whig party, and of the Whig Tariff
1S40 wninrr Itv cto rn n(attV ffniTltWlMl " .
' ' AW O J J
whbsc-efforts, on the stump and through tho
press, have tended to endanger the rery. meas
ure they now feel compeHed to endeavor to sus-
tain. There were some few Whigs present-
who doubtless felTit their duty to make any per
sonal sacrifice of feeling to sustain out;. great
interest; but we cannot conceive 'fiow these
Locofocos could have looked them In the I face.
and have asked them to join in sustaining a ta
riff which they, the Locofocos, had so energeti
cally labored to destroy." ' i 514C
- - ' ":-'Vt-- '
C7- Tbe Milledgevillo Recorder of the 21st
ultimo says : One of our friends of this city.
nas maue a trial oi me lODacco.cuuurewuo
extent ofsome seven or eight acres, u lie .sowv
ed the real Cuba seed, arid has given Jt his per.
sonal attention and care, and will, wetrader -stand,
realize fully all bis expectations inirela.
linn tft it. He makes from 800 to 1000 lbs. to
the acre- Its appearance s. altogether, equal,
inthA oninion of thoselwho hare seen it: to this
Cuba tobacco ; and the ease with which it has
been produced places that part of the experi-
ment beyond douDtv.or.ne lopacco soia in nogs,
heads would, wo presume, pay double and nioro .
to the handJban cotton pays, and if further pre-
pared Deiore.oeing sow, manuiaciureu ium.
gmrs, for instance, the product will, we presuaie,
be multiplied foarfold.M 1
States "at tho nextjession of. Congress,
ThWashington Union of th24di ult.;
wyiitlK:reoriedael
nowiU return the Senate of the; United
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