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.“The powers granted under the Constitution, being derived from the People of the United i\e reeumed by thcin, whenever perverted to their injury or oppression.”—Madison.
-Editor and Publisher.
VOLUME I,!
CHARLOTTE. N. C., NOVEMBER 23, 1841.
NUMBER 37.
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VVceklv Almanac for Xovcmber, 1S41.
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Mooy’s PHASES-
Last (Quarter,
Xew 3I00P.
First liuarter.
Full Moon,
D. H. M.
5 10 53 E.
i:i 0 14 M.
21 0 55 M.
25 I E.
i
j\e» Casli Stove.
CHARLES E. MOSS & CO.
AKK now KECKIVING and OI'KMNG a
Sj'lc/ifU'l of
In till" Brick Store tormorly occupied by Samuel A.
llarri=. Their (roods were purchased in New-l ork
nr.l Philadelphia for CASH ENTIRELY, by one
, tlie firm. They Hatter themselves that their
^^*t.- k will be found cheaper than any ever oflered
l >r acile in this place. As they intend to do an ex-
clu>ive (’ASH BUSIXES.S, they hope that none
^vlU e:;ue.n to p’lrchaoc on Hr.
i'h:ii\oUe. Xoveinb«;r 2. ISll.
THE CHARLOTTE j
Female Academy
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE OF
Valuable Property !
AS Admiui.-5trator on the estate of the late Wil
liam Cook, deceased, the subscriber will expose
at public auction, at the late residence of said de
ceased. on Fj'iday, the lOtk (lay of Dtccmber 7it\vt,
die foliownig property, to wit :
Elve or six valuable
{/ichi a vcrif lihehj young Blacksmith ;)
A SET OF
^lSfarli5mitlv\ 9*ccf^ ;
Horses, Cattle,
ANO
Hogs;
A quantity of Seed CoUon; Com, Hay.
and Fodiler,
With numerous other articles not here named.
ALSO,
Will be offered for sale at the above time and placc,
A valuable Plantation,
C ONTAL\L\G
170 Acres of Ijaiid,
Or therenbouts. Said PIcntation lie.s immediately
on the Camden road, eiglit miles below Charlotte,
and adjoins the lands ot Col. Aujruslus Alexaiuh*r.
Charles G. Alexander, Esq., and others. There arc
BUILDINGS on it, and a Spring of excellent wa- ]
ter. Persons desirous of piirchasiiif^ the Plantation, | halrhet, and etccit^ra b .Knie^n.”
ON THE DEATH OF 4n INFANT.
“ Suffer little children tn comc nn^ofne, and forbid them, not,
for of such 'S the Kinguhn of Heaven
How calm aro thy slumbers, thoo sweet httle stranger,
Unmindful of sorrow—regardless'f danger i
Thy mild spirit left thee as pure as it found thee,
Ere the cold cared of life spread tl*ir darkness around thee!
Thy spirit owned not this world of confusion,
Its joys deign’d no rcli‘4h for “fancy's illusion
I'hine eye clos’d upon them, thy pilgrimage ended,
Thy soul mounted upwardj by angels attended.
Sleep on, lovely cherub! No more slialt thou waken,
Thy body lits tenant lens, cold and forsaken.
Nu more shall tha arms of a parent enfold the^',
No more shall the eye of afTection behold tliee.
Though now the frad body in death is rechning,
Thy brigljt, spotless spirit with ingels s shining :
I'or our Savior to us an assurance has given.
That "of Kuct;” as thou art ‘ is the K-ngdom of H-nvcn’*
Politics of the Day.
A Hoositr Cvstnrntr.—Tlie Picayune gives a queer
account of an uncouth look.n^ Hoosier who wont
into an ironmon^rer’s .‘?tore in Chatres street, whist-
linji, on somewhat a low key, ‘‘Yankee Doodle,”
and seeming as independent as an eagle m his eye.
He threw his eye down alone the well arranged
store, as a captain of nulitia w»uld look along the
lines oTa training day, and then addressed the clerk,
who, with well combed hair, stood impatient to know
what tlie Iloosier wanted, tJnt he might at once sup
p!y him, and return to peru^■ n; James’ last novel.
‘ Stranger, you fro it raytl, *r cxtensiv’e here in the
are invited to go on it and examine lor themselves.
Tcrnitt of the Sale—Six months credit, purt'luvsers
‘’•IvhifT bond with approved sccuritv.
LKNJ. MORROW, Admr.
Mecklenburg county. Xov. 10, 1S4L -Iw
N. B. All persons indebted to the above estate
are once more, andjor the last time, called upon to
come forward and make payments. It this call is
not complied \Mlh in a .«liorl time, debtors will have
to settle with an officer ‘*to a dead certainty. —
Those holdins” claims on the estate ^re also tincc
roorc rc«vxo«u.:i to present them lor paymonL w iii -
in the time presciibed by law', legally authenticat’ d,
or their payuicnt will be barred.
BE\J. MORROW, Admr.
Nov. 10,1'^n.
w
ILL be re-opened on
the 1st day of Octo
ber next. Pupils c an be ac
commodated with board, ei
ther in respectable tainilies
in the village, or in the Aca
demy with the Teachers, at
^9 per month.
Terms of Tuition per Session.
THIRD CLASS.
^vc:ldinL^ Spelling, with the Elements ^ q. g -q
of Gc'Vgruphy and Arithmetic, S '■*
SKCOM) CLASS.
Reading. Writing, English Clrammar, J
Emerson's second part Arithmetic and > SIO 50
Olney-s CJeography, '
FHIST CLASS.
Inchiding the studies ol the second, wi^^
larger sj’stems of Arithmetic and Geci^j
graphy, Algebra, Composition, Bota- ^
nv, History—Natural, IVloral and Men- j* oO
tal Philosophy. Astronomy, Chemis- \
try, Rhetoric, &c., &c. J
EXTRA BRANCHES.
Instruction in Music on the Piano, per Session. S25
The French Language per session, .... 10
Drawing and painting in water colors, per sess, 10
Oriental Teinting, per course, 10
Wax Fruit or Flowers, do. ti
Embroidery in Silk and Chenille, \\ orsted ^
Lamp Mats, Ottomans, &c. vScc S
Frciich Sachets, Screens, and Work Baskets, ^ -
per course, S
S. D. NYE HUTCHISON.
Principal.
Charlotte. Sept. l-k 1S41. 27...t
].at Notice.
The subscriber hereby notities all persons in
debted to the laie lirm of lle.cand r^ ihoth-^
crs. that the business of that concern must be clo.sei*
forthwith. All wlio do not comply with this notice
between this time and the 1st ot January next, bj a
settlement of their notes or accounts, may rest
red of having to settle them with an oHicer. 1 ms
is positively the hist iwtice we shall give on this sub-
ADAM ALEXANDER,
One of the Surviving Partners of the
firm of Alexander & Brotiiers.
ject.
Rather.” said the clerk, .:.^umin£r a bland tone,
but w.^'hlng the lioosier on b «ard his Hat boat; do
any thing tor you, sir ^''
Well, I guess you can, young feller,” said the
Hoobier, ‘-you sefin to be a right kind of a nice
man. Wiiy, your hair is jisl as greasy and as glos
sy as if you eat nothing but bar meat, you raccoon-
looking crittur you. Why -m*. airtli don’t you make
a clt\77'inr on your chin ? (tj.c clerk w'ore an imperi
al.) Out west, we ne ver le ivo a sttnnp standing
that vve don't cut down.
^ “S:. /’ i^aid tlie clerk, pe ni:/, !y, ‘*do YOU v.'idh to
buy '• t • ‘ '
‘* Haint you got locks'?" said the Hoosier, perlect-
Iv composed.
■ ‘‘ Yes,” said the clerk, “ we liave locks of every
desf'ription, padlocks, spring locks, patent locks, and
double shooting locks.*’
“Yes, stranirer,'' said the Hoosier, “but I .lo all
my shooting with a ritle. I don’t want none of them
locks. I want a lockjaw, for Pve tried every means
to stop my old woman's tongue, and 1 believe noth-
iiitf '•Ise will silence her.’’
‘‘ Don't deal in the article,'’ faid the clerk gruffly,
returning to read the ‘“Ancient Regime.’
‘‘And. darn you, couldn’t you say so at first,-’ re
plied the Hoosier, you half-leathered, lialf-starved
looking prairie chicken.”
The Hoobter left the store whistling Hai! Colum
bia :
EXTRACTS FROM THE SPEECH OF
Tlie lion. Levi Woodbury,
Delivered at the Democratic Meeting at Fanieul Hall, Boston,
October 19, 1641,
Speaking of the last Presidential Election,. Mr.
Woodbury said;
The scenes of degradation and demoralization
which preceded that election, were not of Ameri
can growth; there were basely foreign in character.
They must have bc^en imported by our opponents
from countries where the lower ranks are ignorant
and inexperienced, and accustomed to debauchery,
and where votes are bought and sold like sheep in
the shambles. Their influence must be short-lived,
where intulLigence and virtue among the electors
are not utterly exterminated. Never can results
thus produced, or results attempted to be perpetua
ted by means such as those proposed at the late ex
tra session, triumph long here. Indeed, it is a
part of the providenco of God every where, that
vnlanful means can no more be used with safety
or durable success, than unlawful ends. Hence
they have, in this instance, already proved the seeds
of overthrow to those who used them. The profli
gate engineers have befn blown sky high by their
own shells. The revulsion is not only begun, but
adtranced. The people are not merely awaking,
but awakened. And overwhelming vuin is W’ril-
ten on the walls of the political palaces of our op
ponents. in warning as legible and deep as ever
dismayed tyrants m days of miraculous interposi
tion. [Applause.]
Let us devote a few momr‘nts to a consideration
of some of their means and measures, as a memento
for our children to shun, and as an excitement for
us and all "vvho value virtue or liberty, to punish
such outrages on them at the polls, by the most
sigiial reprobation.
Look tirst at some of the reckless charges they
truinpcd against their predecessors. In tiie front
rank was a host of fabrications; and w’hat
was worse, after bemg proved on ihe floor of Con
gress, bv one of his own jx>litical friends—even by
one of your own E’^-Governors and present collec
tor, to be fuil of exaggeration and h\-pocrisy, t’aou-
sands, calUng themselves honorable men, aided in
disseminating those falsehoods in every section of
the Union. Next came the convulsive horror at
the use of bloodhounds, though employed to detect
the ferocious savage, who had spared neither sex
nor infancy, and had for years covered an exposed
frontier with conflagration and butchery. But
W’hat is w'orse, the very territorial Govci\uir who
iC'.'oai.ii'. iiutt*,' ana w—them, was a Wl.i.:..
addressing whig conventions—and has, by a whig
administration, been rc-appoinled to the office from
which the abused democratic one removed him.—
(Many cheers.) Next came the really laughable
charge of usurpation intended by a standing ar-
A standing army, composed only of citizen
holders through the United States Bank alone.
Even now, after all the tirades against the last ad
ministration on account of Swartwout’s default, we
are told by the very last whig papers themselves
that all the vituperation has been groundless, the
defalcation trifling, and the whole well secured. In
fine, without being too tedious, the past administra
tions were falsely charged with ruin—ruin—gen
eral RUIN—every year since General Jackson’s
election, as well as since Mr. Van Buren’s. Ruin,
from imputed harshness to the Indians in Georgia,
where civilizaMon and Christianity w^ere only then
attempted to be extended—ruin., from the veto of
the bank in 1832, which veto their own President
has repeated in 1841—ruin., from the removal of
the deposites, which the law expressly authorized,
and from an institution that has since failed, and
been pronounced even by some of the Whig parti
sans VL^hlic ?iuisance.
But enough of charges so groundless and absurd.
Well calculated to be sure to mislead foratinr>e, but
yet, after detection, and full exposure, calculated al
so to recoil and overwhelm, as they are now doing,
with shame, desertion, and defeat, their heedless au
thors.
Look next a moment at the reprobate character of
the other practices and principles under wdiich they
November 2, IStl.
Charlotte Journal insert until the 1st of January.
DR. C. J. FOX
Has just received a large and general assortment of
MEDICINES,
Srussi, Otis,
Dye-Stuffs, Perfumery, Thompsonian
Medicines, Wine.s and Spirits for
medical use,
Living T*\^fihiovy.~ should hate to be counsel
in a case like the ibllowin?. A member of the So
ciety of Friends was called to give testimony in a
case of assault, & ('.
Coumel: You were present during the attray,and
iiave heard the preceding witness account ?
7ny _ _ .
militia ! Yes, a citizen militia converted into an j political debauchery, fr
r voluntarily to destroy their own liberlics, and ; ^adgeri^m and Glenrwcrthis
army
sought and procured power. Their course, as a
party, was to promise nothing, but abuse every
thing. At the same time, fragments of the party ia
particular places promised every thing, and in oth
ers resisted every thing. In one place the frag
ments were l.’nited Slates Bank, in another anti,
bank—in one high tarilV, in another anti-!arifl^—in
one abolition, in another nnti-abolition—in one
pledging all offices to old incumbents, in another
all to new ones.
But as a party, and a whole party, when asked
for their joint common principles for administering
the government, they referred you to nothing, but
their philosphical and argumentative, coonskins and
hard cidi-r. If you inquired tor their plan s of re
form, you were answered only by log cabins or
gold spoons. In fine, the loftiest among them tif.
mitted that their re.«olutiori wastu oppose ever^t/ thing
j.nd propose tioihing.
Even at Harrisburg, where the magnates of then*
cause assembled, you could obtain no opinions on
the Constiiution, the Currency, the Distribution,
much less A bolicion, or the Unued States Bank —
All was concealiiient, noncommittalisin, inglorious
secresy—nothing, in short, about any great princi
ple cr question of constitutional liberty, or public
policy, but simply “ Tippecanoe and I’yler too,'
It was l^ppecanoe and Tyler too,'' morning,
noon, and night, at taverns, pipe-layings, log-cabins,
InUi: ian pivl it Jiot iu churchy. ^ least
in aristoci itic dia’ving room® il was
of black spirits and wiiite, of ail hues, opinions and
crecds, and ail not foi one single great specified ob
ject, except “ Tippecanoe and Tyler too;” and that
to be attained through all kinds of misrepresentation
and delusion, all kinds of mummery and parade, all
kinds of sensual and sordid appeals; indeed all kinds
om treating down to
rthism; and all kinds of m-
that on a most dangerous plan, it was pretended— | consistency, from running two candidates to estab-
but which had its origin in principle under Mash- • Y^tink of the United States, who had both uni-
ingion, end had been particularly recommended by . opposed it; and two to enable them to seize
Harrison himself (Applause.) Shame, shame on j office, who had uniformly de-
! thncn cruiils! nnrl nli rpmnvals for oninion’.si
Shame,
SUCH hypocrisy. But perhaps enough of this scru-1 jounced thos*e spoils, and ali removals for opinion’s
tiny. (Cries of no, go on, go on.) Next then.
came the charge of a forty million debt! Reiterated
over the whole Union, and yet now admitted not to
exceed tioelve; and half that twelve manifestly
caused by tliemselves. This was done by^ them in
one half a year, and near sixteen more was attemp
ted to be created for a National Bank, while their
predecessors were twenty-four half years in for
ming as much as five or six million; and in the
mean time saved and deposited with the States near
And a variety of other articles, all of which he
warrants genuine, and will sell low for cash.
Charlotte, April 27, IS tO.
8....F
Clock and Wateli
REPAIRING.
* -I repair Clocks and Watches in
STILL continues tu .j. j-equested by the ow’n-
the very best niannc ^yith all kinds o.
er to do so. He is well s . jg^vellery Store of S
materials. His Shop is in ti* A. ^ ^he Courthouse
P. Alexander, situated South ^ c; charlotte
between the ‘‘ Mansion House u work
Hotel.” It will be his earnest
luithluUy, so as to possible
His price shall^ be as moderate u
COACH MAKING.
THE Subscribers having entered in
to copartnership, will carry on the above
business in all its various branches, at
the old stand formerly owned by Mr.
Carter Crittenden, opposite the Jail.
All work WARRANTED and Re
pairing done at the shortest notice, for moderate
charges. CHARLES OVERMAN,
JOSHUA TROTTER.
Charlotte, June 15, 1841, ^^m
for CASH.
[Chailotte, July 6, 18^
.eiotfe ^ Matcft
RESPECTFULLY informs the cit
izens ofCharlotte and the public gene
rally, that he has opened a shop in the
town of Charlotte, nearly opposite the
«p^^^nalnn ” where he will be glad to receive
t Ws “e of brines.. Clocks, Watches, &c
^^^ill be repaired in the most substanUal manner, at
short notice, on moderate terms, and warram^^ to
perform well. A portion ol public p o
-respectfuUv solicited.
Charlotte, June 1,18tJ.
®o mnXftvtniLtVB*
Proposals will be received by the Board of
Wardens of the Poor for Mecklenburg County,
until the 20th of December next, for a STEWARD
to take charge of the Poor House for the term ot
one year from the 1st of January, 1842. ^ Persons
desirous of the situation, will address the^ bids to
the subscriber through the Charlotte P^t-Onice, en
dorsed, “Proposals for Steward of the Poor House.
On the 20th December the Board will meet and
make the election. ■ „ .
BENJ. MORROW, Chairman.
Charlotte, Nov. 16, 1841. 30...5
Charlotte Journal w’ill copy.
WTT T TAM HUNTER would inform his custo
m^rs and the public generally, that he still
^ontinSt the BOOK-BINDING BUSINESS at hie
old stand, a few doors south-east of the Branch Mmt
Hf will be happy to receive orders in his line, and
“edges himseff to spare no pains to give complete
satisfaction. _ .
im=* Orders left at hie Shop, or at the Office of the
Friend: Y ea. * ,
Coii7i!:el: You perceive the contradictory state- thirty millions, though their successors have notuepo-
ment of the afl'air*, as testified by those who have al- j a dollar with them,and will not without the aid of
ready been examined, both as regards the manner ju(.j.0ase(j taxation. Next came the complaint against
of the assault, and the marner in which the plain- .. . . , j r
tiff’s coat was torn. One siys it was torn horizon
tally, another perpendicularly; others, again, trans
versely, and diagonally, and some give it incisions
and contusions. You will, therefore, have the good
ness to represent to the Coif’t and Jury, the precise
manner in which the assault was made, and the eoat
torn. My client relies raaialy on your testimony for
redress.
“Step this way,’- said the witness, “and I Avill be
brief and explicit.-’ (Placing his hands on the law
yer’s collar.) The manner was thus: Friend 1 at-
rick seized the coat of friend Andrew in this way,
nd, according to my apprehension, being in a mind
not savoring of peace. After various w'ords of va
nity spoken by Patrick, which it w”ould be unseemly
to repeat, he shook him af^er this manner. And as
to the coat, (suiting the action to the word,) he rent
it grievously !—Pennsylvania paper.
Qt-ii.p tells a good story of a Newburyport Dea
con, who, upon returning from preaching one Sun
day, perceived that his boys had been making *egg
nogg.” After lecturing them on the impropriety of
doing such things at any time, and particularly on
“ Sabba’ days,” he w^hispered to the eldest— • Is
there any left, John 7 ”—Bostmi Post.
“Say, uncle Ben, what sort o’ animals are them
ere punkins that are all over black, a most blue, and
a little redish ? ” Them, Jonathan, are called egg
plants—wegetable eggs.” “ Eggs ! well, I swan, I
should like to see one of ’em hatched, to see ^\h.lt
sort o' crittur a wegetable am.
Ijcarning how to
the following good story: “ One of the Washin^o
nian teetotallers served his time at the gMcery bu
siness, with a Deacon who was in the habit of ma
king his owm port w’ine, from whom he often had or
ders to “go up stairs andgriwd some logicood^s the
port wine w’as most out.” One Sunday the Deacon
was hard at v/ork over a large cask with a pole in
his hand, stirring up the home-made port wine, when
a member of the same church entered unobserved.
After looking with astonishment for some minutes,
he exclaimed, “ Halloo! Deacon, what are you do
ing ? ” The Deacon jumped round m great^confu-
sion, and, after a little hesitation, replied, * y “Xj *
was afraid I might get ofl in a boat some of these
times, and I w’as learning how to scull /
“ CufTy, go to the meadow aiid catch my hors^
Hif^h Olympus.” “Yes, sar—don’t know so much
’bout de hiOj but he’s limpiis nufT, dat’s sartin.
“ Excuse haste and a bad pew,” as the hog said to
the butcher when he escaped.'-^A’l O. Crescent.
sake.
What could common sense philosophy (^r cool re
flection anticipate to happen, ere long, when the
mask was sripped off from such a chaos and prof
ligacy of principles? Nothing less than what ex
perience soon verified. Those who sow the wind
must expect to reap the whirlwind. TJie end in
one sense came more quickly than any anticipated
—in less than one short month.
In less than one short month—ore the baked
meats of the inauguration, with all its senseless pa
geantry and “glorification,” were cold, they had
falsified most of their pledges against removals, and
the use of treasury notes, which saved froni two to importimities and bickerings, not only embittered
three per cent., on the average, compared with their hurried to a painful grave the gray hairs
twelve million loan. The notes allowed all the ^ (;;'hief Magistrate.
middling classes to participate, while the loan bene- jt is a singular ccincidence, that the cold blooded
fits only banks and nabob capitalists; and the notes, | p^x-secutcrs for the spoils of office were allowing
however derided, did not, on the 4th of March last, timbers of the last log cabin in the capitol, the
e([ual six millions, w'hile our opponents have since emblem of their cause, to be pulled down and
authorized loans equalling more than twenty-hve the dust beside his ashes—w’hen these
millions, and resorted to treasury notes also, when- ‘
ever able, imder former laws. (Loud cheers.)
Next extravagance of expend.iture—being, the
last year, but twenty-three millions, when they con
template twenty-seven or eight this year; being
larger in former years only under large expenses in
Indian wars and uncalled for appropriations for other
purposes made by Congress, to the extent of thirty
or forty millions. The average in Van Buren s
administration did not exceed tw’enty-seven millions,
instead of thirty-seven, as pretended often, and his
last year, reduced to twenty-three millions, was
leading the w’ay to only twenty in this year, that
being only the amount of the average ordinary ex-
jenditure of the whole last twelve years, pronounc
ed so extravagant by those who have exceeded it
seven or eight millions. (Many cheers.) I ought
to pass over other topics of their groundless charg
es, lest too great an encroachment should be made
on your time. (More—more.)
Look at the losses by Receivers, Collectors, &c.,
so falsely presented and exaggerated. A list of the
whole from the foundation of the government, dur
ing half a century, has been circulated and placard-
ed°by these honest politicians on every post and cor
ner as the amount lost during only the twelve ppt
years of democratic rule. Much of it has also
been aUributed to the sub-treasury system. When
in truth the losses have not been a single dollar un
der the sub-treasury, and when its whole expenses
Yearly do not appear to have equahed thirty thou
sand dollars; when all the losses by collectors and
receivers under General .Tackson were not as much
as in various former administrations, with a United
States Bank, or as the losses yet unsettled to the
Treasury by the United States Bank alone; and
when all the losses under Mr. Van Buren—(inclu-
dino- Swartwout himself—recommended to omce at
his^econd term by whigs—voted for by whigs—
chairman of the panic whigs, and once nominated
as a candidate for Vice President by whigs) not
ali equal to the losses in the last four years in more
than twenty cases of broken banks; nor one-twen-
L.lieth of the amount lost by the public and its sotck*
ast were being conveyed from the city.
What has been the fate also of his colleague—of
Tyler too''—before the first half year of his Pre
sidency closed? Burnt and shot in effigy over
lalfthe Union-=-denounced in their conventions—
jalckballed by their presses—and in fine proscribed
in Congresfj itself by all the great leaders of the
great Harrisburg piebald coalition.
What sudden retribution! What changes be
yond the romance of the wuldest Arabian tale!
What a stupendous coalition sapped by its own bad
principles—overthrown, scattered in fragments over
the earth in only half a year! It was almost mira
culous madness, which led them to persevere, a.s
they began, in such an universal disregard for ail
their solemn pledges against removals for mero
onoinion’s sake, pledges given every where and m
every form, and by almost every conspicuous poli
tician. In this matter their wantonness almost ex
ceeds credibility. Did they suppose the whole com
munity had adopted a Paul Clifford rule of conduct
and belief? Did they suppose that the people at
iaro-e had neither memories nor morals ? Is breach
of feith to be a part of the creed of our opponents =-
Can they regard hypocrisy as a virtue? violation
of pledges as honorable? ' Did they expect to re
tain public confidence by breaking it, an to
future trust by a profligate abuse of all past trust?
If they did. it is fortunate that the false disguise has
be n s^rlTp^ off so early, and that they now stand
uLhiggfd-heiote the scorn of many of their own
parTy and the sneers of the world.-(Cheers.)
They have been equally unfortunate, if not per-
fidious, in several other respects Thus, on tho
,rreat and absorbing question of the currency, they
have accomplished little or nothing, except to get
un a malignant family feud. Their magnificent
doings have been chiefly undoings. The ^eposito
act, as to the pet banks, which they had
as indispensable to prevent a despotic
purse and the sword, and to
Executive discretion, they have rep
haste, before any system had become a law in Us