well tcndcJ or stirred every uay as it sliouul be, or
ag some pour particles may adhere to our lump of
butter, it is prudent lo use a very small quantity of
saltperire and of sugar in our f?alt. One tea-spoon
ful of saltpetre and two of loaf sugar will be suffi
cient for a dozen pounds of butter, and these will
tend to rorrect any acid or impurities that may
have intruded.— Ciiltiralors AlmaiUK’.
Flan «t* il Fiscal Agreiit.
• From Jilt! M'ld.'sonian.
A FISCAL AGENT for the GOVER^'MXET,
AND A CVHIXESCY FOR THE PEOPI.i;.
Let Gov'ernmcnt establisii depositories for the safe-
koeping^of its inonf’ys at all the important commer-
rial pr>ir.>rs thvnughouf the Union. Call these dc-
posiiaries. agencies, offices, Hanks of deposite. snb-
trf'as’jrier, or nny thing else fiuicy may sucfi^est.—
Place enci) of them rmrb'r the care of three difl'er-
ent individuals, one of wiiom shall be called the re
ceiver. anotlior cashicr, and the other teller. The
receiver should receive, the cashier should keep,
and the teller should pay out all moneys deposited.
Ij'-t each of these oflicers be ajipointed by tlie Pres
ident, by and v*-;ih the ndvice and consent of the
vSenate, Give to each one of them, when necessa
ry, an assistant. iio shall act as first book-keejier
in his depnrJni^jr, an 1 who shall also receive his
appointiiiei'it from the K.vecutive and Senate. If
deemed necessary or wise, after full discussion, itt
the constituti jii or lav.' bo so r.mf-nded as lo secure
to the President, in relation to fhof^c t'ffirer., the pow
♦ r of temporary suspension, but not of linal rfino-
val, without th(' coi'.-sent of the Senate.
T.iOf the obligation of dutv resting upon cach and
all of them be of such a character and so prr.^^crib-
ed as to make them answ('rable. in some measure,
for tiie miscoii'luct of cach. e.=: well as compel them
to watch, supervise, and check each other, and re
port delinquencies, when discovered to head quarters.
Thus far the interest r)f the government alone
■would be provided tor. !5'if the necessities of the
people re(iuu'e the agency of /;?'■ which
will furnish them with a national currency, or me
dium of exchange, of upda.tbtr s'ihslaiiflu! am! irai-
form, value. In onlt'r to accotnpiish so high a ben
efit for the currency, it is proposed (hat governmei.t
should cause to bo prepni/'d a v.>AvVr’ i,uantit',i of
certificates of deposit or Trcastiry notes, in denomi
nations of twenty dollars an I upwards, and in con-
'venient forms and with suitahlf' oi^i'^tvings for circw-
lation amongst the people. Let these cirtiticates of
deposite or Treasury notes be d istributed amongst the
diflerent government depositories in such portions
as may meet fully thedcaiand for them. I.ct eve
ry citizen llirouglioutthecountry have the privilege of
depositing any amount of specie in these depositories,
and the right occurring tliereupon, to demand in
exchange for the same tiie certificates or notes of
govonment, payable on demand af (hr -plare of dr-
jiosite in speci.r^ and rcce.ivahh. crn-if tr/'/rre l/i pnn-
r-icnt for f^overninevt due$ cnd for pvhllc hind^.—
This privilege would place it in the power of eve
ry individual to convert his local bank notes, when
payable in specie, into a n.Tiional currency, based
dollar for dollar on the specie depositel, receivalle
at all points for public dues; and cn^Iorsed by the
highest authority and the best guarantee known to
‘he people—that of their own government The
qiian'tity of such national currency which would
thus be brought into circulation, would ha prccti^rlij
commensurate icith the demand for ii—no less, and
probably no more. The regulating power cin’}
state banks exerted through the voluntary action of
the people in withdrawing ihe specic from them and
•'onverting it into tilt* national currency, would prove
to be abimduntly sufncient; potent beyond rr;is-
lanre. The tendency of this process would be to
encourage the introduction and retention of the pre
cious metals, and sustain practically the gold and
silver standard of value—a lino of its dutv W'hich
the government seems studiously and purposelv to
liave avoiJed from 1701 to A commenda
tion the most conclusive ai-d decisive in favor of
such a scheme of furnishing a national currcncy is.
that it totally excludes the use of the public money
by public agents or individuals, the discount of
promissory notes, or of bills of exchange, or anv
other act of loaning money, or granting facilities of
credit. It would have no stockholders, lenders, debt
ors of borrowers. Newspaper editors, politicians,
sppculators, stock-jobbers, or any other class, rr,nil
gr-t no accommodation from it. Its issues would be
ronfned to the specie depositiM'—would be predicated
upon and Innited by the sper;r df'posltr. The spe
cic deposites, under the operations of trade and bu
siness, would be/«//?/ equal to the wa/its of ihr
ccvulnj for a currency, especially f'n- a
rnrrencif. When dejjfjsitcd. the speci'^ wo'.ild be
represented in the business of the coiintrv by the
very best and most truthful represent:;!ion that coui I
be devised.
Under such a sy:.tem the productive labor oftlie
country would be the money-creating, the money
making power. The money power would be sejp-
arated from the political pov.'cr,—The money pow
er grows out of (Up right, fhe power lo use. riionci/:
and the vse of vionnj, public or private, is totally
porhibited and excluded from the operatioiis of the
sy.stem. The Government would simply become
the keeper of the treasure of the nation, and in its
issue of certificates or notes to individuals would
incur no other obligations than such as would be
incident to a bank of deposite, or to its character of
keeper of such monej’s.
^J'his relation to the pu.biic would aflbrd the mo.5t
efTective facilities for borrowing money in war and
all public emergencies. Proposals from the Go
vernment to exchange its sotck, bearing a reasona
ble rate of interest, for its certificates or notes in
circulation, would be readily embraced by money
holders. The results would be, the funding of such
certificates or notes by the (Government, and the im
mediate possession and use of the specie originally
deposited in exchange for them; a greater facility
and more prompt mode of realizing cash in any
emergency than coukl be afforded by any other
scheme yet devised.
An indispensable feattire in the scheme v.'ould be
the collection of the public dues ej'cluxt.vely in spe
cie and the certificates and notes of (..»overnment is-
sued in exchange thereof Any connection with
locai banks or the banking system is totally exclu
ded from the scheme. No other bankincr operation
would be necessary than the transfer from point to
})oint, for Government purposes, of the certificates
or notes of government received in payment for the
public dues. Or if Government paper should be
more valuable, and individuals should prefer to pay
their dues to Government in specie, no transfer of
such funds would be necessary, inasmuch as checks
drawn by the Government upon specific deposites
at the commercial points of the country would ge
nerally be more valuable than the spccie itself, and
consequently readily received in payment of Govern
ment dues by Government creditors. In this scheme
all constitutional objections are avoided—no Fiscal
('oTporatwn nor Jit/nk of dmco^nit is established.
A FlscuI Agent for the Government and a Cur-'
Tfncy Ai-e.nt for the people is provided, with i3n-
iimit«H) ca])aci’y ?n do good, and no power to
liar/n
^1 nalloiial currency of the highest possible va
lue and credit, fully eomvienswratc iciih the resour
ces., the uses and necessities of the uchole country,
icould he the certain and inevitable result oj its
operations.
The above brief outline of a system of joint fis
cal and currency agency is submitted to the con
sideration of the Administration of .Tohn Tyler and
of the. people of the L^nited States, by
A Membkr of the 27rH Cuxgress.
Washington, September, 1841.
Trial of 3IcLeoil,
fThc following news in regard to the trial of
-M'jLeod is by one of the Editors of the Albany
Argus, who is in attendance at Utica for the pur
pose of reporting the facts of the case as the trans-
pire ;j
Utica. Sept. 28-
As to thQ AicLeod business. The trial cannot
come on nntil Monday next, if at all: Mr. Spen
cer said almost as much yesterday in court, when
the cause was called for by Mr. Hall pro fonna,
with a view to some tmderstanding as to the time
when witnesses should be in attendance. 'The rea
son (as I liave ascertained) is the unexpected reluc-
I tance of certain important u'itnesses on the part of
the ilefence, to attend personally at Utica, w’hich re
fusal was not known to the prisoner's counsel until
after the commission had closc'd both at Toronto and
Kingston. I have learned eiiough to know that
they are deemed material witnesses to ro/nplete the
cluiin of evidence relied on to prove an n.labi., and
that McL'^od’s counsel would not feel at liberty to
go to trial without their testimony in some shape.
iNIeanwhilo’ a cloud of witnesses against McLeod,
came down this morning from Buffalo, Chippewa,
Detroit, &c. McKenzie. 'J'heller. Sutherland and
other conspicuous Patriot leaders are on the ground.
(Gentlemen connected with the press are also here,
from Xew-York and elsewhere, and are busy, par
ticularly the former, making preparations for for-
v.arding the news by express daily during the trial
'i'he Attorney General gave notice that he shoulil
a'^ain call on the case to-morrow: but that cannot
expedite matter?
Fr.iin .iiiotlior Torv ^ ponit':'.r.
Uticv. Sep> iS'll.
If is very certain that the trial of McLeod v/ill
not come on until Monday of next week.—
There have been subpaMiaed on the jiart of the peo
ple something more than r»0 witnesses, a large num
ber of whom had arrived yesterday; and some of
whom are leaving, as it is said, because they are
too )>uor to stay.
'i'he defence will consist principally of depositions
which have been taken by commis.son in Canada.
Mii^s 'i’liompson. hov.ever, v/ill appear in person.
The case now stands thus; 'I'he steamer Caro
line. the property of William Wells, was destroyed
at Schlosser, on the night of the 27th of December,
1837, in which traii-saction Amos I Uirfec, a citizen,
was killed. The persons concerned in the matter
have been deemed by the authorities of this State to
have committed the crimc of murder, and to be amen
able to our laws therefor Mcjjeod was charged
with having been a participator in the transaction ;
and coming within the State, he was arrested, and,
on examination, committed by a magi.^trate to pris
on. >o answer On the (>th of November last, he
was indicted, and the indictment having been sent
tn ttie oyer and terminer of Niagara county, from
the gcueral sessions, where it was found, the ijriv'^r,-
or moved it into tbiC Sllpvenie court by cortiori. which
court has srnt it down to the circuit of (>neida coun
ty to be traversed. Here it is now to be tried, as a
civil suit, by the circuit judge, and not by the oyer
and teminer, in wdiich the county judges preside
with the circuit judge.
Perhajis your readers would like to hear how the
man looks, to whom such notoriety has been given
He is rather comely, and a stout, athletic man. of
about o.'i years of age- measun s 5 feet 11 inches,
and weitrhs about 210 lbs Has a light complex
ion. randy hair, blue ej-es, full face, and broad jaw’-
bonts. nose a little turned up. large mouth, teeth
regular and very white, and in his manner of speak
ing he is moderate
His history is this; Alexand. r McLeod is a na
tive of Perthshire, in Scotlanrl. and was one of a
numerous family of inu:gent parents. At an ea^ly
age he enlisted as a soldier in one of the regimcntb
of crnavds. where be rose to the rank of a sergeant,
and then obtained his discharge, and emigrated to
Upper Canada and locate*! hiniself in the Niagara
district, where he was appointed a deputy sherifi'by
the .-'heriff, Hamilton, another Scotclnnan ; and when
the rebellion broke out in Canaila in 1837. he took
a decided stand for the British government. 'J’he
residue of hi': history will be given on hi^ trial.
C. C.
FIIOM FLOMinA.
Forrr King, Sept 22.
The expre.ss from the We.=;t is just in. A letter
from Tarnpa says, "about 50 of flo.spitaka's people
have .surrendered, and Col. Worth is in communica
tion with the balaiico (250)—but little doubt is en
tertained that he will bo successfiil in his negocia-
tions with them. ' The writer also states that there is
reason to apprehend the yellow fever has made its
appearance at Cedar Key. (iod grant us a happy
release from it.'j miseries.
OUTRAGE oftTHE NORTHERN ^’RONTIER.
[From the St. Alban’s Messenger, extra., Sept. 24.]
DARING OUTRAGE ’—OUR TERRITORY INVADED,
AND AN AMERICAN KIDNAPPED BY
BRITISH ARxMED SOLDIERS.
Sinco the announcement' in our last paper of the
gross outrage- Gommitted upon our rights as a na
tion, and upon the lives and liberty of individuals,
in the forcible sei^zure and abduction of Col. James
W. we’have been enabled to gather fur
ther testimony in relation to the afTair,- which we
lose no time in presenting to our readers. As might
have been anticipated; such an outrage could not
but be followed by the exasperation and excitement
of the people, and it is highly creditably to our
fellow’-townsmen that immediately upon the arrival
of the news of Col. Grogan’s seizure, they made
due preparations for the procurement of indisputa
ble facts which they might lay before the Governor
of Vermont and the proper authorities at Washing
ton. At large and respectable meetings at the Court
House, on the 2lth and 22d mst., the public senti
ment was manifested and facts and resolutions were
presented for the consideration of the people gener-
ally.
I’he committee appointed to collect testimony re
lative to this illegal transaction reported on Wednes
day evening, and read to a very large audience sun
dry affidavits, the substance of which we are about
to communicate to our readers.—Those affidavits
indicate plainly that rumor had not magnified the
atrocit}' of the act.
It appears from one of the affidavits that on the
19th inst, there were present at the tavern of J. M.
Sow’les, at Alburgh, a short distance this side of the
line, sundry persons from Canada, in company with
.lames W Grogan, and among the rest a dragoon
who urged (jJrogan to brink, and was praticularly
attentive to him. so much so that his courtesies be
came suspicious, and these suspicions were communi
cated to (irogan and he was advised that a plan was
afoot to kidnap him and to transport him to Canada,
(irogan finally Ibllowing the friendly advice given
him, went to Alburgh City, so called, and afterwards
went to pass the niglit at the house of Mr. Wm. Brown,
his brother-in-law, who resides about three miles
from the boundary line.
From the aflidavit oi’ another, it appears that
! Win. Brown and his wife were awakened about 2
o'clock in the morning of Monday 20th Sept., by
a noise occasioncd by the breaking open, and forci-
i)le entrance of a gang of armed men into their
dwelling. This gang, consistingof fifteen, or more,
were in the uniform of Brt/ish Soldiers, and, as
could be seen by the lantern they carried, fully arm-
rd Mr. BroAvn sprang from the bed upon per-
ceivIniT the intruders, ar vas met at the door of
his sleeping-room by a British ruffian, who presen
ted his gun and bayonet, and ordered him to remain
quiet. Air. Brown called aloud to bis sons who
wen; sleejiing above, and was threatned by the sol
dier that he would certainly be shot unless he de
sisted speaking. The remainder of this gang rush
ed into the abjoining room, where Col. Grogan was
sleeping, crying out as they entered, Here he is !”
‘‘Here he is' !’’—" Shoot him—blow his brains out.’’
They seized iiini and dragged him from his bed,
and carried him by force through the house, and
conveyed him to the road, where were vehicles in
readiness to take him across the line. Mr. Brown
testifies that he was apparently strangled so that he
could neither speak or make even a show of resis
tance.
It appears hom another aflidavit that the son of
•Mr Wrn Brown came down at his lather’s call as
soon as he could put on his clothes, and was met b\*
one of the British dragoons—an Irishman, as he
thought—who cocked his gun and ordered him to
return, or he would shoot him. Soon after they
had gone off' with Grogan, young Mr. Brown dis
covered a drab-colored hat, a British Bayonet, and
a cotton bankerchief wdiich they dropped in the
hurry of their proceedings. Soon after day-light
a British Dragoon was seen riding towards the
house of Mr. l^rown, apparentl}’ in search of the
articles which the ruffians had accidentally lost.
As soon as he saw he was discovered, he ran his
horse back to Her Majesty’s dominions.
From another affidavit, it appears that a gentle
man going from ('larenceville to Misisquoi Bay
overtook a wagon, in which was .Tames W*. Grogan,
4 armed soldiers and a driver, and 4 mounted dra
goons riding and keeping guard by the wagon.—
(Jrogan was placed in the bottom of the wagon.
Upon their arrival at the Bay, Grogan remained
in the wagon surrounded by a strong guard in front
of the guard house—for about a quarter of an hour,
after which he vras ordered into the Guard House,
and from thence taken to Montreal. Grognn ap-
pearcil badly wounded and bruised—his face was
very much disfigured, and it was with great diffi
culty he could walk or step The party that brouirht
him to the guard house from Alburg, icas f'ormallif
dismissed in true miliiary style, by Sergeant Read,
irho belong?, in ('nptain Jones' Company of Liokt
Dragoons in h>'r Mn jesty s service.. It was report
ed in Missisquoi liay, that on the evening previous
to the transaction above detailed, Capt. .Tones had
been heard to say, that he had despatched a squad
of men after Col. Grogan and Grogan would, with
out fiiil, bo taken that night.
The substance of the above affidavits (save one)
was read aloud at the meeting held at St. Albans,
Wliiff Evidence.
On the 27th a party of Indians attacked two citi
zen., residing at Foi^t Ilohne.s, while hunting their
horses. The only damage done was one ho^^e kill-
It is said tiiat a ]>arty of some ten inrlians has
Pn.ATKA, Sept. 20. on the evening of the 22nd, and upon the correct-
gone towards the Okeferinkee Swamp. The troops
are out in all directions to endeavor to intercept
them.
The news from Tampa is still favorable. The In
dians continue to come in daily. A shipment of
some oaO to 450 will soon be made.—Saran. Repnh.
Ihghhj important from Mo.xko—another Itcroln-
(/w?.—Lale last evening we received some hi*dily
Jinportant intelligence from Yucatan and Mexico.
That from Mexico is down to the 27th ultimo, and
from Yucatan to the 1st mst.
Another revolution has broken out in Mexico, and
Santa Anna is again in the ascendant.
On the 18th ultimo, Gnadalaxara, in Mexico, un
der the command of (Teneral Paredes, proclaimed
for the abolition of the fifteen per cent. duty, which
had been recently levied by Government, and m fa
vor of a Congress to be elected by the people.—
1 his created a great deal of excitement.
The news of this great outbreak reached Vera
Cruz on the 21th ult., and Santa Anna iniiiiediately
proclaimed in favor of the same measures. He des
patched troops on fhe 25th lo occupy the principal
castles and forts between Vera Cruz and the city of
Mexico.
On the 29th, Vera Cruz also declared for the re
volution, and then the train was almost complete for
the overthrow^ of the Central Government. On the
same ajternoon Santa Anna, w^ho had about two
thousand troops under his command, sent of!'a suffi-
cient number to take possession of Perote, a castle
the communication between the
citj^ of Al^cxico and Vera Cruz. They reached there
on he 2/th, just as the English mail was leavincr
and it IS by this means that we have received tlTe
ne,\\s. As soon as the General of Puebla heard of
wh.it had happened, he despatched three hundred
horse to the assistance of the Perote, but Santa An-
'‘O na hcyl jio.^session thereof before these troops arriv
ed witnin siXiCagijes ol tlie place.—//craM.
ness of the facts no doubt need be entertained.
1 hey are proof indisputable that an armed force in
Her iMajesty’s service—acting by command of su
perior officers in the service of Her i\lajesty—en
tered upon our territory, and committed a gross out
rage upon .Tames W. Grogan, a natural born Ame
rican citizen, who was in the enjoyment of all the
rights of a citizen of the Untted States.—The affi
davits established, beyond a cavil, that this outrage
was premeditated and brutal beyond comparison—
that our territory has been invaded and all law* and
right been ruthlessly disregarded and trampled up
on. This being the fact, it was obligatory upon
us to search out testimony to establish the assertion
and to transmit it to the proper authorities w'ith a
full and proper representation of the time, and place
and nature of the outrage.—This has been prompt
ly done atid we anticipate such a notice of it as its
extreme brutality demand;?. The papers have been
forwarded to Washington, and to our Governor
and, we doubt not that measures will be taken to
demand redress for this insult and to rescue us from
a repetition of an oflTence which debases even those
British Soldiers who disgraced humanity by their
barbarity and cruelty in the late Canadian insurrec
tion.
Sjcivness (fever) prevails jn the surrounding coun
try to a degree never perhaps known before^ Nor
is the epidemic confined to this section ; we learn
that it is ranging in the neighboring counties of Da
vidson and Rowan. The deaths that occur are very
few, considering the uncommon prevalence of the
disease. The cause of unhealthfulness must be
more general tlian the mill-ponds throughout the
country, to Avhich it was first attributed : thouo-h
the local influence of a foul pond is no doubt elc-
tremely deleterious, and in connexion with the o-en-
eral cause, renders the universality of disease with
in its reach alarming. Our village has so far es
caped admirably.—Patriot 2Sth ult.
[The following article is replete with important
truths, well worthy the consideration of men of all
parties. And what should add to their force is, they
are from a Whig, a member of the party so sev^ere-
ty censured. The editor of the “ Ne-w WorW is
one of the most distinguished Whigs in the city of
N&\V“York.] —
From the New-York New World, of Sept. 25. '
DISMEMBERMENT of THE WHIG PARTY.
The Harrison Cabinet is dissolved, and the ‘great
Whig party’ reduced to its original elements.—
Like one of those ingenious contrivances of the
‘ celebrated Mr. Isaac Edge,’ it has gone ofT with
a bang, and a wdiiz and sparks of infinitely varie
gated fire are scattered to the four quarters of Hea
ven. A large globule of quicksilver has been
struck by a spatula, and lo! innumerable smaller
globules elude the touch and embarrass the the vis
ion. A history of its rise, progress and triumph, is
one of the most instructive lessons of ‘philosophy,
teaching by example,’ that has ever been presented,
its catastrophe is additional weight to the authority of
the maxim, that Honesty for political parties, as
well as individuals, is eventually the only true po
licy.
The W^hig party was an ingenious, and perhaps
as simple a machine as was ever invented by that
class of men, who have more confidence in the re
sults of political manopuvring than in the free and
voluntary stifTrages of the people—of men. who be
lieve with Dr. .Tohnson, ‘that chance wdll elect a
better mayor than a mob.’ It was wholly destitute
of what we, perhaps bigotedly, regard as essential
in a party organization—a basis of common prin
ciple. It is ridiculous, in answer to this charge,
to point to the staring capitals which appeared at
the head of the leading papers, or to the harrangue
of some prominent partisan; inasmuch as they are
of sufficient variety to suit a political weather-cock
at any point of his revolution, as they mijrht be
quoted upon all sides of any question, and are,
moreover, organs merely of different sections of the
party, and not of the party as a whole. The charge
is conclusively proved by the fhct, that the Harris
burg Convention, the only authentic organ of the
party, made no declaration of principles—by the
fact, that a resolution ofTered before it. by a delegate
from Kentucky, that an address should be issued to
the peope of the U. States, embodying the princi
ples and measures of the party, met with such a
cold reception that it was silently withdrawn. It is
plain, that the object was to leave the question of
principle in a state of glorious uncertainty, to unite
men in opposition, whom it was hopeless to attempt
to unite upon any other point. No other policy
would have held out the remotest hope of success.
There were no common doctrines which could be
published, no common measures which w’ould meet
with a general approval, and no candidate in the
whole range of the part}-, whose faith, if at all
known, would have been regarded as orthodox.
It was notoriously by the moans of the non-commit
tal principle, that men from the zenith, and men
from the nadir. Bank and anti-Bank, strict Con-
j structionists and high Taritd men, Jackson Tippe-
! canoes and ‘out-and-outers.’ Federalists and Demo
crats, met and embraced each other. Their politi
cal crtcd was more various than their religious.- —
Men were ailmitted to the same baptism, w'ho no
more could have tmited in the same declaration of
principles, than Calvin and Loyola in the same con
fession ol faith, or a materialist and trancendental-
ist upon the sam.o theory of ideas. By means of
this policy, there v/as pjjt together *a piece of join
ery, so crossly indented and whimsically dove-tailed,
a Cabinet so variously inlaid—such a* piece of di
versified Alosaic—such a tesselated pavement, here
a bit of blackstone, and there a bit of white, that it
was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe
to touch, and unsure to .«tan l upon. 'This culpable
neglect of the great organs of the party, to publish
to the world their principles, put it in the power of its
subordinate agents to practise all the arts of decep
tion and delusion, to conceal the real faith, of the
party or to misrepresent it m such a manner, as
should conciliate the diverse views and interests of
the opposition. In one qiiarter of the Union the
Whigs represented their candidate as a friend, in
another an enemy to a National Bank—here he ’
was an abolitionist, there a slaveholder, in the East a
champion of domestic industry, in the South a foe to
the Tariff'
It would be ea.sy to sliow. tliat a political organ
ization of this kind is corrupt ;m I dishonest—that
no difFerent rule applies to our conluct as partisan,
than as individuals, to parties than to men. If it is
dishonest to obtain the goods of a man under false
pretences, if it is dishonest by the arts of trickery
and delusion, to inveigle him‘of his time, his labor,
and bis money, it is equally dishonest to gain his
political co-operation by the same means; to invei
gle him of his sympath}', his vote, his influence.
It would be easy to snow that such an organization
is the prolific parent of dishonor, fraud, hypocri-
sy, political corruption, national demoralization.—
But we arc not intending to waste our breath upon
this point, to engage in so Quixotic an enterprise,
as to make political parties amenable to the law's of
morality or of honesty. Our censure is directed
to the culpable want of foresight which did not, in
the inception, detect the weakness and instability of
such an edifice. It is not against the dishonesty,
but against the folly of such an organization that
! our lance is m rest. If our voice had been poten-
j tial in that convention, we should have assailed the
policy of organizing without some sure basis of prin
ciple, some manifesto of the doctrtnes w'hich we
maintained, and of the measures for which we
uere contending. If we had discarded all regard
for truth, if we had contemned the opinions of all
honorable men, and could use only such arguments
as a Michaevel or a Catharine de IVledici might con-
sistwnly adopt, we should have said. You are pre
ferring a temporary to a permanent good; you are
securing a momentary triumph by a want of confi-
dence in the popularity of the great principles with
which this party is indetified, by means, which will
heieafter exclude those principles from any share of
popular flivor—Your victory will be like that of
1 hyrrus, your ruin. If your triumph is not one
ol principles devotedly believed and thoroughly
understowJ, if your only cohesion is opposition, you
will crumble into atoms the moment that you are in
power. And what is Avorse, your dismemberment
will be final. For, when the people once discover
that they have been entrapped by your disingenuous
silence into the support of doctrines which they dis
believed, and of measures which they disapproved
they will forever lose all confidence m your integri
ty and honor, all faith in the principles you profess
and will hereafter be in insensible to all arguments
which may be urged in their support. They will
brand you as hypocrites and deceivers—they will
follow the Whig name w'ith that universal detesta
tion Avhich is heaped upon those u’ho abuse a sacred
trust, who employ confidence as a weapon against
the confiding, with the hiss which W’elcomcs a frau
dulent trustee or a dishonest guardian, with the re
lentless hatred with which the dupe pursues his de-
cei\^er. the victim his swindler.
Such arguments were scorned; the mrty were
wedded to their short-sighted poficy, and w^hat has
been the result ? The dismemberment which an
ordinary sagacity could have foreseen, is now a
matter of history, and it will require the trumpet of
the archangel to call together the scattered limbs of
a body wdilch w’as lately rejoicing in the flush and
buoyancy of health. They have reaped the legki-
mate fruit of the non-committal policy. Forget
ting by w'hat a frail tenure their first candidate
already in the grand climacteric, held his life, for
the purpose of conciliating hostile interests, they
nominated for the second office in their gift, a per
son whose views upon the great measures Avhich
divided the nation, were directly hostile to those of
the party who supported him—a man w’ho w-ould
have been driven from their ranks and a curse aver
ted from the nation, if they had ventured upon a
frank and open declaration of their principles. The
party triumphed—within one month the President
w'as dead—within tw’o the Vice President was
damned—-Congress split into a thousand factions,
and the party dispersed to the four winds of Heaven.
Not one of their prominent measures has fully suc
ceeded, the Land bill w’as emasculated, the Revenur,
bill shorn of its locks; the Bankrupt law has defects
to be cured, and the Fiscal Agent has become a by
word and a reproach. Truly honesty with parties,
as w’ith individuals, is eventually the best policy.
Another most striking fault of the Whig organi
zation, W’as an utter w’ant of confidence in the peo
ple. In an age of general intelligence, in a country
w'hose w’hole social and political fabrxk rests solely
upon faith in the people, the party revived all the
worst devices of spiritual tyranny, all the arts of pop
ular delusion, which have triumphed in the worst
ages. Like Pythagoras ar.d the .Tesuit. they have
their exoteric and their exoteric school; one doc
trine for the Initiated and another for the uninitiated ;
one faith to be believed, another to be taught. 7 hey
re-animated a system which lay buried under the
odium of ages, embalmed in the execration of man
kind as the author of I^ogmatism In philosophy and
Jesuitism in religion, to bccome the parent of an
ofispring equall}’’ loathsome and legitimate—availa
bility in politcs. Availability! a term by whicu
w’orth is dishonored that mediociity may be canon
ized—a term which has given birth to a dynasty of
puppets which should be chrislend the available dy
nasty. ‘ We,’ .say the self-constitued arbiters of
opinion, • wo can admire capacity of intellect an^i
expansion of soul—ihe views of the philosophic
statesman—the words of the rapt orator find some
thing kindred in'z/.^to inspire enthusiasm—but sif:h
things never touch the people—never excite ■ Ihc
?nasscs'—thev never can appreciafe a statesman—
they need some more glittering idol, more sh.ininor
pngod—to catch their applause; we must threw
around .some mere negation, the halo ofiniltary glo
ry. We. the ekleltoi, can grasp abstractions, caa
trace principles to their result, can conteiid for mf’nj
doctrine, but ‘the people’ require something to
meditate between their faith and their senses, some
visible symbols, some imposing forms, someembleia
to exalt their sensualized intellect to the comprehen
sion of pure truth.’ To meet the demand of this
dogma. Whig ingenuity w’as tasked, and their abili
ty was equal to the exigency From the resour?r>>
of minds capacious of such things, there was call
ed forth an array of aids lo devotion w’orthy of the
most ideal era of the human mind. As “ hcl\,'
thorns” and pieces of the real cross lift the devout
Catholic by means of his senses into spiritual com
munion, so log cabins, cider barrels, coon skins and
Tippecanoe songs, served the ‘enlighened’ Ameri
can as mediators between the visible and the invisi
ble. as a representative of that pure truth which hi.s
understanding could not reach w’ithout their airl,
as a visible emhodiment of the great political doc
trines for which he was contending.
We cannot express our contempt for this w hole
system of party tactics; we cschew’ all theories
w'hich proceed upon popular delusion. It is a spc-
cies of levelling doicnirard which we cannot toler
ate. We know’ of no intermediate stop between
full faith in the people and an abandonment of fice
Government. An organization of parties uhicli
goes upon an idea that the people cannot appreciate
the true qualification of rulers, are not enlightened
enough to comprehend the leading doctrines which
should influence their vote, may be tolerated wdiere
herlditary rulers make the laws; but It is entirely
foreign to the genius of our institutions—it'is a vir
tual ronuncialion of the gTeat truth upon w’hich they
re.st Wc (b test all this Whig cant w'hich divides the
nation into, - we”—the oracles, and ‘the people’
W’hich makes one class individuals, but calls the
other, compendiously, the “ masses,” as if each unit
of the mass was not a distinct essence and could
think and feel. We rejoice that these oracles, these
demagogues, wn’th fingers in every man’s palm,
and lips at every man’s ear, tiiese general commit
tees and petty cabals, these speech makeis and
troubadours who elevate themselves into notice i)V
strutting and bustle, are but a small portion of the
nation. ‘‘Because half a dozen grass-lioppers un
der a fence make the field ring w’ith their importn-
nate chinks, wdiile thousands of great cattle, repos
ing beneath the shadow of the British oak, clic\v
the sud and arc silent, pray do not imagine that
those that make the noise arc the only inhabitants
of the field; that of course, they are many in num
ber. or that after all they are other tl]an*the little,
shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud a'.ri
troubiesome insects of the hour.’
\A ho that hath a spark of feeling, will fail t"
hea\e a sigh for poor human nature, when he read-
(as you are about to do) the following paragraphs,
detailing the particulars of a recent murder fn New
ork City ? Robbery, murder and all manner of
villainy are so common now-a-days in the crow-dcd
communities of the North, that to give an account
of all, w^ould be surrendering our entire spacc to
such matters. In New^ York City, however, there
exists a refinement in crime of which this is an in
stance—killing a man and deliberately packing him
up in a box and shipping him to St. JjOuisT We
unsophisticated inhabitants of the country dream not
of w’hat scenes are daily and hourly enacted in our
large Cities, and many^imes, w'e may almost sus
pect, winked at by the Police authorities.
We condense the account as given in the N. Y.
Sun :--Ral. Reg.
It seems that a highly respectable master Prin
ter, named Samuel Adams, mysteriously disappear
ed from his acquaintances on Friday the i7th of
September. It now appears that on the night of the
17th ult. (the day he w’as missed) he had called up
on a Mr. J. C. Colt, teacher of book-keeping, and
author of a work on that subject, printed by this
Mr. Adams, and for which Colt was indebted to the
amount of 200 dollars. During the night, noises
w^ere heard in Colt’s room by the tenants of the
building, and in the morning a large box was sent
away from Colt’s room. The room was examined
—suspicious indications of foul w’ork discovered,
and Colt w'as arrested. The box in the vessel was
meanw'hile also examined and found to contain the
body of Mr. Adams, packed up in salt!
Colt has been fully committed to trial, other strong”
evidences of his guilt having appeared at the Cor
oner’s inquest, and on the trial before a magistrate.
By the advice of the Counsel, he denied the charge
imputed to him. and refused to answer questious