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V THE NOiaTM - CAROLINIAN . than ttie rest; others may have supposed anoth- I er; but all ajjree that the whole responsibility is to be shared among them; and in what exact proportions U is not thought very material to inquire. . But what, after all, is the great evil they have produced? Is it any actual diminution of the resources of the country? This, perhaps, they have effected to a great extenl; but this is little or nothing compared to the real evils. These are transferring by stratagem and fraud, from A to B, the hard earnings of the latter, not by a regular and slow process, but by the quick and unseen movements of a mountebank, defeating that tendency to equilibrium at which our in stitutions aim; leaving the one parly overwhelm ed in amazement and distress at a poverty which has rushJ Upon hitu like an armed man; the other pantinff with that feverish thirst for wealth which sudden success begets the deep est curse of him who feels it resembling in kind and intensity that of the fabled Tantalus; or wnll.iroiiur "in an ostentatious luxury, at war with our Republican institutions provoking imiitttent envv in some,- in others, less wealthy, ruinous effort's to vie in splendor. Individual mid a.rnrecriite misery is the inevetahle conse quence." A man is Sited, by a graJual increase or reduction i ins means, 10 uc.n inc in.i Aiiiiniii or minimum with calmness, while sudden rever ses either way bring in their train the loss ol content, and, with it happiness. In either case, the passion ol avarice is stirred to madness. This is the real curse under which we are at present laboring. . This is the agony through which we are passing, of which I spoke yester day. A picture, drawn by the hand of an an cient master, is not inapplicable to our times. Sailust, in one of his epistles to Caesar, thus ex presses himself: lit process of time, the ascendency of wealth became complete. Its excellence was universally acknowledged, and power and honors followed in its train. From the same era, the decline of virtue may be dated. Pov erty was now held as ignominious. Inno cence of heart and simplicity of manners were interpreted into a satire tm tho times. Tims the. vonth. tauffht to look up to riches will only let them alone. A bad currency is ! a curse to the community in which it exists, ad the State Legislature will soon be torcea by a community which feels the - smart, to ap ply the proper correctives; and States haying no resources but those derived from direct taxation, to pay debts and carry on works of internal improvements, win oecome vc.y chary in contracting the one, and quite pru dent in conducting the other. The Senator from Kentucky Mr. Critten den tauntingly reminds iis that the present Administration, on coming into power, (bund the nation in a high stale of prosperity; but the Senator well knows it was a deceptive prospe rity; it was that state of pleasant delirium which some poisons produce. The raging madness had not then disclosed itself; lethargic prostra tion had not supervened. The Sena tort from Kentucky Mr. Critten den presents, in glowing colois, the oil-drawn picture ol the prosperity lor which we are in debted to the credit system. Uur numerous s team boats, canals, railroads, villages, and fast multiplying States, are all attributed to this credit system. In this argument the Senator, I think, falls into two lallicies; one, in attribulinjr too much to the credit system, and another, in assuming that the friends of the Administration are warrinir unon it. I will not say that the credit system has no share in the production of these great results, bill I do say that they are mainly to be ascribed to the ureal national ad vantaWs which Heaven has vouchsafed our country to that elastic spring which exists among the inhabitants ol all new countries, hut chieflv to our glorious free const itutions, founded on moral principles, to which men have flocked in crowds from other lauds. To the credit system, I, Sr one, am no enemy hut I am for leaving it to the Slates, to be fashioned accord ing to their fancy, and I am well satisfied that they will not much abuse it. I am for withdraw ing, at once and forever, our awkward inter meddling with it. With us it is like bladders in the hands of boys at one time we hlow it up to its highest tensions, and at another explode it with a rreat noise. Let us cease from this foolish and frivolous, not to say dangerous em as the sovereign good, became apt pupils in Payment. And in addition to this, let us cease 09 U1 f . V? . ' . r, . hv our vicious examn es to nemetuate the laLse ih sohrtol of luxury. Avarice aud pride supplied their precepts. Rapacity and profu sion went hand in hand. Careless of their own fortunes, and eager to possess those of others, shame" and remorse, modesty and moderation, every principle, gave way. All rushed into a profligacy that heeded no re straint, either divine or human. And why, we are tauntingly asked on the other side, did we not prevent these evils? Tn turn T will ask another question: Has not the Democratic party been striving a gainst them inefficiently, it is true, but still striving from time immemorial? We read a parable in Scripture of a certain husband man, who sowed good seed in his field; but, while he slept, an enemy came and sowed tares among his wheat. Would it not have been an aggravation of the wrong, had that enemy taunted him to his face, by asking him why he suffered tares to grow among his wheat? We are the descendents of those (politically, I mean) who sowed the good seed of Democratic principles in our constitutions, and yonder-are the descendants ot tnose wno sowed the tares ot t ederausm among u; nd notions nreva ent in the country, mat snow anu wealth and pomp are the only elements of hap piness, and that viriure and talents are worm less, except .so far as they contribute to these. Let us, on the contrary, present abiding exam ples of economy and republican simplicity. These. Mr. President, are my remedies, and I do not think it would he saying much for il.em merely to declare that they are far preferable to the one to which the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Crittenden') looks with such ectalic dev lion. I do not think this the proper place f r discussing the merits of Presidential candidates; hut are we to sit here from day to day and hear the President of the United States denounced on the other side of this chamber as utterly un fit for the station he fills, and other men "ap- olauded to the very echo,"' as endowed with every quality which can fit a man to govern, nml iidmii hv our silence, the trutli ol all tnal is aliened? Aan American statesman- -as a lov er of mv country, I feel that it is wrong, ami that It is mv solemn duly to nut in a counter iilea. The Gheber looks to the East fir his God, hot the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Critten den) looks to the West, and, as might he ex pected, his eye encounters a setting and not a rUinor uminarv. Mot a giant rising in ins .1 1. ..,V.j ro hova nnt rirpvpnted Eiremrtli. and reiiicillr to mil Ills Course, nut a now 1 i it: v siatk u wlat " . . 1 1 j t ' . their erowth. They point exultingly to this being worn out and exhausted, unfitted lor ac- selves cajoled or torcea u into, anu laugu , i8ltlirmuni!ed bv n , gl.,ry, b.n, hke us for not having avoided them, althougn liKe . ,n described hv Moore in his song, struggling men, in attempting that which we weepjllj -'behind a cloud" (I will not say "li.r would, we have been fon-.ed to do that which ti,e maiden's shame," because that might tie 1.1 Tho irntt hank dpl.osite SVS- ciininispil to have a sinister allusion, Idltl lor Wc wuuiu uui j.. 1 j 1 : ' 1 - - . - . wore nrpssed into shame that wliile a portion 01 ins countrymen I . 1 I I - I . .1... . . 1 . t.n .... 1 I, .(-, fri-im ttv I are taUUIIIg llllll 10 ta.c rric- a tem, they know well, we bv them in our efforts to escape more dangerous system ot me uniteo. ouues Bank. It was to us a half-way house, as they have endeavored since to make it for them selves, between a United States Bank and a total disconnection of the Government from banking affairs. But they ask us farther why we do not cor rect these evils, now that we are fully aware of their existence. Mark again the insulting cruelty of this inquiry. They bind a man's hands behind his back, and cast him into the water, and ask him to swim. Have we not been have resi diate seized a malady rin whe envenomed as "Not poppy nor mand razors, Nor all the drowsy syrups of tho world ' O in ever int d vine th -e 10 that sweat sleep Which thou od'dst yes:e:day.: Yet,'in talking of remedies, they always in dicate to us such as consist with their mista ken notions of the disease, aud are for ad ministering those which must inevitably ag gravate its symptoms. Still there is some thing we have done, and something, I trust in God, we will yet do, if not to heal the dis ease, at least to prevent its spread. We may stand, like Mose3, between the living and tne dead, and prevent its extending to those who are yet healthy. And it we cannot binder its extending itself through the whole living mass, we may prevent its transmission to pos terity. This can only be done by success fully resisting the mad schemes of those who are continually administering fresh poison in the form of high tariff" United States Bank and a statesman, he is compelled to rememner ilie old nroverh. ''Praise undeserved is censure in diswiise." Reposing on his own estate, (not in a lour cabin, as some have pretended, hut in a splendid mansion, as I am told.) perlectly un conscious ofany merit, his friends insist upon dratririnc him forth to dissolve, by his presence, the fanciful conceptions of his great qualities which they have conjured up in the public mind. There was a lime when some of the leaders of the party who are now seeking In make political capital out id" military fame, de clared lhai the election ofa military chieftain to ili- PreKidencv of the United Slates was the him for ita display, and then I have learned that high authority pronounced mm, in aovancc, utterly unfit for the station to which he was assigned, and that, in the event he managed, so dexteriously as to have himself rebuked as an officious intermeddler with matters that did not concern him. But as the great physician, who is to "purge the general weal," what may we conjecture will be his probable practice? Homeopathelic, so far as administering the same drugs which have a tendency to produce the disease will make him so, but altogether wanting in the prudence of that practice,' so far as the amount of the dos es is concerned. As a black cockade Federalist of the old stamp, he will, of course, oppose every thing approved by the Democratic party, and will deal largely in Federal nostrums, and must ot course he very popular with the Noith ern and Western Democracy. As a iuvenile member of an Abolition society, he will, in his old age, be particularly acceptable -to Southern slaveholders, and more especially as he has avowed, in advance, his approbation of the be nevolent design of converting the public domain nt.. nr.M i tint an American sun mnv ni.t shine 11M011 n' single slave. As the advocate of a tariff, which was not to be relaxed "until grass should grow in the streets of Norfolk and Char leston," he will doubtless prove a great favorite with the Southern people in general, and espe cially the Nullifiers. But not to be tedious, I will urtre his noliiicalexcellenc.es no farther than merely to add, that as the advocate Ut selling tree white men, who cannot pay cosis, out 01 . .. . . 1 I I . - ... M... jail as liond servants, lie is iiKeiy 10 ire a mag- nus Apollo sculapius, 11 you piease an over the country with the "huge. paws, as the la boring men of the nation have been contemp tuously called by that party whose hopes ol sue cess rest upon a false estimate of their worth and good sense. 1 have too much confidence in the people ot these United States, to fear an elevation to the Presidency of such a man as this. 1 hey can. lint preler him to the present talented incum bent, who has wisely studied and eloqueiuly described the disease prcvniL' on the health of the countrv. and who u ill give it none id the dangerous prescriptions it would be doomed to take from the hand ot his rival. Like every wise physician, he has much confidence in the vis medicatrix nutura the medical power ol nature, doibiing at the same lime whether dis eases are often cured by men "who pour drugs, of which they know little, into stomachs of which they know nothing." He heheves mat naiure needs but little assistance; and that, if not dis concerted by officious iniermeddling, her works are common 'y performed salt ly and ethcacmus- lv. Attempts may be made, and uouniiess win be made, to deceive the people into the belief that there is no material difference in the politi cal opinions of the two rivals. 1 tie people will easily detect the fraud, for an unerring index is furnished in the fact thai the ardent and leading advocates of the one have ever leen the cease less opponents and traducers ol the other. It is not the lirst time 1 have heard tne snoui of triumph from the Federai camp on the eve fa battle. I thank Uod I have seldom heard it alier it was over, uia not iue r etiei unis shout lustily in advance, their lungs would snl. ter for want ol exercise. 1 scarcely know whe ther to attribute this premature boasting on their part to that hliud confidence and eiitnusiasni so natural to an assailant, or to political cun ning, in which they are so well versed, calculat- ug thereby hi confirm the timid ol their own party, to induce the same class oi ours :o unue wilh them, and to decuie in ineir lavor ine le- tioiis ol the wavering. o inn unn ;i'unu I rather incline; hut having so oiien laiieu in obtaining by it success, 1 would advise them to lay it aside, ami adopt sn:e oilier expedient. And no-.v, having undertaken to advise my Federal friends, 1 would-warn them against another practice whi"h, I verily be'ieve. has of ten contributed to their del-'ur. 1 mean their custom o givinggreat political feasts with the hope id making a strong impression, and con vincing men of ihe insure of their cause by lick ling their palates and addling their brains. The practice springs out of their great radical mis take that man is more of an animal than an in tellectual fiein. But nxin their own basis they miscalculate. It is never the mass of voters who are invited to these feasts; it is ihe elite of the pany, the favored few, and, as a matter of course, no one of opposing politics is there. Vh1t is the consequence? There is no fellow ship between ihe ins and the outs. The mass of the people finding themselves excluded, toge ther with ihe leading men of the Democratic party, cannot fail lo perceive that a common destiny has visited both, and ihey are naturally drawn mm association with those who have Ci different sense from that in which they were used j invasion was the destiuction ot our sn'P unaer officer in whose capacity and bravery th. . . . .1 ...nnn.i l..f I hull l.mi rnmmmtnro Pi rrv at PrmaUG Isle, and DOatS and I ,. , J , , , . J. "'0 sarcastic allusion to the entertainments given to the stores ut Cleveland. These were looked npon with President during his tour, last summer, tnrougn we soucituae by me tstmsn-wrre reB.-.v , State of New York. These entertainments were on one or two occasions, were attemplea 10 pe aes- altoaether diff -rent from the Federal feasts to which troyed, by landing the force on board their Itcet. f oliTuW Th Intter seem to be civen for no ob- They have also failed to account for the moyemeut jret but to produce effect, and act upon elections; of the whole British forces down the lake, in tne J - .... f. . j I j,m,: c r i,l oxr! F.rln hrfre their deh at the tunner. were tne mere icuuiuuu m nra"; -a.i.i vt v...o. - --- - - . . the outpouring of good fcehn toward, a dlftin- at f7jAJ S. CUlBhed fellow citizen, upon nis return aucr a iung xuuihu umcs, nug uc.u..v. -r - -- ihsence from his native State. They were due to der of the place. I hey naa Kepi out oi u. ies aior j . .: ,i riinrtn ho fi.nf.npA I Otnnhan tn nhanitnn and burn Fort Stephenson to one political party. Of what ingratitude to his that his refusal to obey, and failure to arrive at head .1 . ..711 - in tho i:hiet niaoistrnie oi i.m mat iinini narrisou uiiu uatiunuo. i uie man, dui niu iuum w " - o -7 . :i , . n n .v, .,i fK .h T HapoIv regret that the political treat to the interior, after burning all the auppl c '.u j.i;.ta ohnl.l have caused these I which he had collected that he ordered M State. 01 the part of Mr. Van Buren, the Senator quarters, prevented this retreat, and consequent speaks, lam at a loss to understand. Does he destruction of our fleet, millions of public stores, mean to complain that he has administ- red the af- and exposure of five hundred miles of frontier to fairs of the General Government according to his a;!nse of the true interests of the great body of the nation, and not in reference to the local interests anJ peculiar opinions of the people of New York? That he has not betrayed the confidence reposed in him by the who'e American people by providing mainly for that State with which his own personal e - j .1 . f k:. 1,:n,l.o1 ;u ;.lontififrl? This lonuiiB anu uiai ui ins niinn'u . " J : : - . .u r t 1 . 1 ... 1 ,rl .ir.f .nrl I imist fiav it small arms, whrn the fact was noiorious inai ucn X UIIILC:i3L&ilU L J IIIC J " J I Z. ' ' . , . 1 is just such an one as I should have expected, not Harrison w as heard to say, during the siege, wn n r ... .1 1 1... tho ...Hii.nl rharacter 1 the fii inr rould he henrd in his camp, speaking ol iruni me iciBuiiai iiwu . " - i ' - 1 - o - 1 1 . r f il. Ronntr.r And as for the word "Irnitor " Croshan, "the blond be on his head; 1 wash my 1 . , fii , .nn tn the fiesi- I hanrls nt it." not ilnnlilin.o' tor a momeni, not uiu aiui mis bi v . ... " ) -- - . 1 . any one Willi mm, mat uie gauinju " off. the combined rripmv Roth have stated that General Harrison never doubted that Major Crnghan would be able to re pulse an enemy of near two thousand, and which they say he understood to be five thousand, with one hundred and Unity men; nis enecove loree on thi? Hnv of hattle. one six Doundcr. with ammunition for ordv RHVpn shots and about forty rounds of wh rli tho S?n dent of the United Stales, I wonder that the utter ance of it does not palsy his tonnue. Mr. Tallmadge then endeavored to throw the blame of the indications of respect towards the President in the State ot New York, at the time re f. rred to, bumg cnlind toona rarty, upon thj Pre side it himse f, ascrihi'12 it t his addressing him-si-lf4 on h s arrival at the Battel y, to his "Demo cid ic f lluw-ciiizen. Mr. S. aouiii said: I am g'ad the Srnalor from N- w York has introduced tti s topic, as it aflords mean oppoitunity to bear my te.-timony to the gr at unfairm ss wilh which the President has be n treated on this su' j A, and a together fjr political ffjct. Almost as soon as it was known that the P.-esdent intended to visit New Yoik, there were miirrntinnus in the Whi? ranks th-it'there would he no enthusiasm in his recep' eold. and confined to a few ted partisans. His response, at the Battery, to ihfl nilitrnss made him. was seized upon as a pretext to execute what had been Ion? predetermined. It was said he had avowed hitnseif the President of a pirty, by rtspondins to his "Democratic" feilow cilize'ns. Had any other chiss of citizens addressed him, and thus entitled themselves to a response? Did not the orator who addressed him sp ak in he half of his "Democratic fellow-citizens?" Was the President to deny to the orator the character he had assu.ned? And if allowing him the character could he do otherwise than respond to it? Si.ppose .r.tr ImH z.d.'ressed him iii b half of his Ma sonic fellow citiz ns; cr.uld t!ie President do other wise th in respond to his Masonic fel!ow-citi?. ns? If his Whis fellow-citizens really designed to show respect to the President, would they not have se lrcted an oratnr to address him, or have united -with th., Dnmnrrnrv in the selection of a common spokes man? Not having done either of these, could they reasonably expect a response addressrd to them lrnn one to whom they had s:iid nothing? The expectation n ou'd have been unreasonable. It was ntver entertained; and an event which everv one must have foreseen has been spoken of with aff -cted amazement, and perverted to the injury of one who does honor to his State and country, for party pu'pos''S. r Note. .When the foregoing reply to Mr. Tall madce was inad. the speaker was under the im pression that public enteitainments had been siven in New York, to the President, by his polith al friends. He was confirmed, in thai op nion by the Senator 'rom New York, Mr. Tai.lmadce, who hein trom that State, was supposed lo be cogni zant of events trnosi inn? mere, ne nas nnce learned, fiom an imqui stionab'.e somce, that the Pre-ident poitive'y declined the invitations given him top irtake of public dinners. That he never accepted an invitation to a public di int r in his life, although he has been constrained frequently to piiriicipat" in enic riainments which, Irom the nu-mer-'us attendance, assumed tho appearance of a public dinner. APPENDIX, Co!iiaoiiig some evidences of Gen. Ilari-iion's heroic ami political iticrits. The ether vicidenls rrjerreil to in the foregoing speech, connected with his life, being well kvotcn matters of history. In reference to his general political opinions, I believe ihn f:lowi:i2 to be authentic: John Randolph of Roanoke, who despised both the Adamses, on the rloor of lhJ Senate of the United Jtat-s in I8i6, thus withcrinsly retorted 0:1 G'-n. Harris n, for his black cockade doctrines in support of John Ci. who was their President: "Now, sir. the only difference between the gen tleman from Oh o and myself is this and it is viial: That gentleman and tnyse'f diffr fundamental y and tiuhy, and did differ when we first took our seats in Congress he as Delegate from the Terri tory Noithwi st of tha Ohio RivTr, I as a member of th other Houe, from the State of Virainia. HE W.1S .flJV OPfiJV. ZEALOUS, FRANK SUP PORTER OF THE SEDITION LJlW .iDMIJV- cut With creat resneet vour obedient servant. JOSEPH DUNCAN. Col. Preston, MiJ. Com., Senate. TTron the subject of hi3 resiffnntion, there is the following testimony from General Armrtrong, late Secretary of War, supported by Gen. Harrison's own htters, greatest reliance may be placed. I shall set out this evening tor the seat ot tiovernmem 1 1 u u ,:k i- 1 . uii' 1 11.1 yc uic uuuui iu m, vriiu uie mehpit ;.t; s, , 6 cw Stone to the same. Head Quarters, cmnatt, May 11, 1813. "I have the honor, through you, to renuPKf the President to accept my resignation of the appointment of Major General in the arm -.1 U . U I 1 .. L. , Ji WI1Q WUICI1 uc was picascu iu no uur me. Lest the public service should suffer before a sue cessor can ne nommaiea, i snati continue (0 act until the 31st instant, by which time I hops to De reiieveu. "Having some. reason.to believe that the1 most malicious insinuations have been mads against me at Washington, it was my iuten. tion to have requested an inquiry into my condact from the commencement of my com. mand. Further reflection has, however, de termiued me to decline the application, cause, from the proud consciousness of hav ing palpably .done my duty, I canuot believe that it is necessary, either for the satisfaction of the Government or the people, that 1 should pay so much respect to the suggestions of malice and envy." The preceding documents established tie following facts: 1st. That the General, when arriving Erie, was not from enmity or envy ordered to repair to Ohio, or otherwise prevented from Messrs. Gai.es and &eaton: navmg rncenuy o-iving hi3 services to the army then on ti see.., in an zt h ie published in the National Intelh- jy; as asserled by his biographer. encer, and entitled a I lo-raphy of Gen. Harrison, x o J .. ., r "J .. ' . ;-,-,t,.f in f mv fc lines and con- 2d. lhat, on the contrary, he was, without duct towaids that officer in the campaign ot 181 3, delay, put in command ot tne army, and as (evidently intended to ihrow upon me odium ot sj.ne( to a service which, had it been perfor. having made necessary the Geneia ' md, would have justly entitled him to anodJ i tia.r. tk.niil-it it inMimhpnt noon me to uisaDuse I ? :ion: that it would be tt, nh tn on thin hrad. and show that every thing er wreath ot laurel. othce ho'ders anrl devo asserted by the biographer, imputing to me hostility 3d. That, by a second order from the See- to the lienrrai in any torm, or irom any mouvc, i. retary he brought down JVlcArtllur's brigadd down.icht fiction, arising either frrma total ino- lh t.Sackelt' HnrfJ miicp of fart, or an utter disregard to truth. Ilie i"""""-" - s. passage thus charactciized is in the following an oraer euineiy uj-piuvtu ouu ccunjr e. wrirds. "Th.. -nr avip r been thus gloriously termina ted within ihe General's own district, he repaired to Erie, and there tendered his services to the army oneratin"- m that cuarUr. umouunaieiy, ine era.- r,.tnrv ot War was there, who felt some old griefs unredressed, and hein, moreover, envious .f the rlv Lut iastlv worn by ihe General. rr4 nnwilino to sfe an" thcr added to ihe wreath, ordered him to repair to Ohio, where he had no fur fhr dutv to iKiform. bavins a:r. a!v brought the ti r'r.s.1 in that Quarter. The order was hp returned to his family, and immcciately resime'd his commission, declaring that he co-ild not honest I v eat the bread of Government when he was denied" the privilege cf rendering service in return." To refute this compound of fa's'boed and ca'um- cuted by the General 4th. That, on the 11th ot May, sixmontM after leaving Sackett's Harbor, he resignec th command of the district, and quitted tie army not, as his biographer asserts, because! deuted the privilege ot serving the tiovera-1 meat, and therefore ashamed to eat his bread; but, as he himself says, because he had soiw reason to believe that malicious insinuatioi to his disadvantage had been made at Via&r mston. 1 JOHN ARMSTRONG. February, 1S40. As to the refusal of his country to besN will hut be necessary to exhibit the fficial on htm a mark of approval n ? it 1 ttre wlkU-ll Tifl?!5(:d between the General and my self at the period, and on the occasion referred tc: General Harrison to the Secretary of War, Buffalo, October 24. ' Before this reaches yon, you will no doubt be informed of the loss of your messenger, Oaptnin Ies s negiste: . 1 I . II II .1 ...... ... I III. 11111 I tl .1.11 '1,1.1 1 11 111 II MM III'MI. . 11. !.- 1 . ...... .... ' - - - " ' " -' endeavoring to remedy tnese evils, ana greatest Mirse mat couiu iau upon me -"" , revellin,r : uea-.ircH ; wbich they have I ISTRrfTION and I was as zealous, trank, and we not encountered from them continual W hy have tt.ey now seiecie.i a ""- Ilol leell invileil part.cipaie. P " ? opponeni of the black cockade and sedition stance? Yet the ev Is admit of uo imme- 'r l"c,r " ; -7 V But lest I may be casting ttearh-I will not. aw Ain,.n,sirBi,on. wo ,u,r n,,. 1.....1 aiauvc. . . w ntm nh:il has hpen sa'd ol hltn. that he IS I . . . . . - .. tot v we, npvi r -nn ao-r. e ahoot measures or remedy. Ihe poison ot avarice Das - f , Wh Uen say bch.re wme-let 1 may he cas.ing away me;i ,n r , Q ch what is the on the heart of the nation, and tbat is ,m in ie t,;ire 0f ,ili,rv glory? Is troo'i.connsei upon itiose i.y w 1. m u win not. ue aSW(.r of G..n. nf Does he deny it? . So far from which admits of no radical cure du- l10(,Zzle Hie people s ninths are said to he J.v"'. "f . -"' it he a-lmits that "it is v. rv probable he (.vtr. k.) r the present generation. Ut nim in M,y the brightness ofa candle " ... "".V . "'V' ."' -k"- V , 7-,1' , y 6 u KA itc i . , ,iinll : ri,nriwri, fl I mv own Slate. 1 he J'-esulenlial strile is nit to the thin AdininistraMon certainly felt thrm." ,se bosom the serpent avarice has fixed its Bui m., re in sorrow thai. ,n reproach , do I . General Duncan, tooth, it may with truth be said, declare Ma military renown to ne iikc hi iihwi -j N , Carolina in which mv olleao-ue Governor of llhno s, now a political Ir.e .d of Gen. r- Tnejo. said nf nthpllr,: lMier 01 oresses at a inetre, 1 up . .. ..., - ... .n Af .i,,. ia al Harrison, relaiive to the aflair ot Lower Sandus- mil lor iln occasion, which will not Dear me lorhi ofdav. or the scrutiny of examinalioii.- aTus! where shall we look for Ihe evidences of Hie nagncity and heroism of William Henry Harrison? Are ihey lo be sought lor in that page of history which records Ihe battle of Tip pecanoe: Are Iheylo be found in his surprise and agitation, when Joe Davis carried ihe white banner; ii'.t very hiirh. it is true, nor yet as a flauf truce, bin by necesity and lought un ilerii, or rather i.ve'r it, with desperate valor, snatching in death a victory which had been thrust into the hands of the enemy by the want of skill (to use no harsher lerm) of his chiel I Are ilwv lo hi found in 1 be storv of his consign ing to the slaughter the chivalrous Croghan, with his handful of men, while lie General himself, within sound of the well diiecied and effective fire of Fort Stephenson, stood with some thousandsol stout Americans at his hack, wringing his hands, and crying out "his blood be upon his own head?" Are they registered in the page which tells of the battle ol the l names, wnere ne rciuciamiy struck, and, together with the thanks of Cod gress, preseuted to Major tieneral 11 arrisc and Governor Shelby, and for other purpose After some discussion, Mr. Lacock movfd amend the resolution, by striking therein mg vote: Ykvs Messrs. Galliard. Gore, HudN King, Lacock, Mason, Roberts, Thompson Tait, Jackson. Turner, and armun 12. Nays Messrs. Barber, liarry, tondiU TTorspv. Macon. Morrow. Ruedes, lalbo: j j , , t Hells, and iHtanis 10 In the lCfh volume of Niles's Keaistet, the 4 14th nage. is a letter over Geueral m rison?s own signature, dated July 16, l- from which the following is an extract. "A vote of the Senate of the United Pis has allachid to my name a disgrace, wn am Convinced no time or efforts of nimei ever be able to efface. Their censure indeed, negative: but it is not on thataccoi the less severe.' Abolition. In 1S22, he wrote as lows, "TO THE PUBLIC "Friiow-riTtzEKs: Beins called sudJe or upon Montr, al. Reasons existed lor preferring , nome to attend mv sick family, I have the latter, and have probaoiy cuicriiiinea uai. - - f . fh eahironiq which are in circulation concermug ine- fleet and usual garrison, twelve or fourteen hundred am accused men from the West. in th-j nei even render inset tire ine winter siauon ui t ur wei. - - . i ii j ... ixU.miAriiinhiDiiii I hpea lie J ""I I n prevent inis, it is oeraien aavis.iom iu unw iu- iv. .11 uro ogc m iuiv-.. 111 the tenth volume of TM tl page 125, we read the following as a part the proceeding in the United States SenatJ to wit: "The Senate resumed the consideration c: B:o'wn, with the despatches entmsted To him. Not, the joint resolution directing mediils lo tj therefore, having received your airccuons, anu o - in" entirely ignorant et trie s:ate ot our nmnaiy iincr il : i in in lhls ouarter. I was much at a h ss to , , - , -. , know how to roc efl; nut ih' I-mus huluctui f.M iviih liis bri"ie. would he t.bl.; to setu e Dtro:t and our atlj leei t conq-iests, aft'T hayirj i J i.n ma itik 4i ri-irr r ill- i - . . COiiCMiani su .'nui.-u!, .Mm ...v j..v. ... - " I TVI .-.r f"D.,.rl llarrunn This motion rt host le trihes, 1 c.w.c .uneci inai i comu noi u uc- (T- ... , ... , J .i . . -i..... tv,o tato .. iiti tiw mmnniniT determined in the atnrniative, by the twm I er i ii. I ii in iiii'ii. hi.' " 'i i" .i... ..." ni ' . part of the Irnops. which I shall bring immediately io Fort George, wn-:re I sn;li await your oiaers. Secretary of War to General Harrison, tr Una, Oc tober 30, ICIJ. "I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of viinr letters of fie 5th and 2Uh mst. T. he desra'ch J ii.i -.1 1 1 . lv Can', lirown, ana wnicn, wmi Dim, wag iosi ju Lake Erie, suagoed, as an u te:icr movement, our coming down to the Niagara river, and put- t n 'vours il on the rsint ana rear ot ue itouen- huiff s position betore l" orl ijeorse; w nne jene:ai McClure, wilh nis br'iad; of m Inia, volunteers, and Ind.ans. menaced it in front. 1 he enemy s ems lo have been aw.ire of this, or ot seme similar noveim nt. as he becan I. is r t'-e:.t oi the 9th, and did not Hop till he h;idg.iined the head of Burling ton hav. vi here. I understand by report, no yet is. This is his last stronghold on the peninsula; routed fmin this, he must suirendcr, or make seod a re treat to K'nrs'oi. His fo ce is estimated at twelve or fifieen hundred men the capture or des truction ot whom would give a glorious finale to your campaign." The same to the same, Boonsville, Nov. 3, 181 3. "When I wrote von from "YVilna, it was doubtful whether ourattaek would be made upon Kingston, onnecting the Government with banks pursued a retreating foe, while bolder spirits, distributing revenue among the States as suming State debt3, &c. This is all we need do. Let us perform our constitutional duty of furnishing the nation standards of weights and measures, and of the value of property; and freed frpm all distracting influences from - ourselves, the States will be as certain to abide by all these, as that flowers succeed the showers of spring. You have no right to sav to the States that they shall keep their ac among whom, you, sir, stand nobly conspicuous, pressed lorward, and gathered wounds and lau rels, dripping with the same blood? Are ihey to be lound in the tragic Rtory of the river Raisin? Are they found in his resigning his command in May, 1814, amid the very heat of the war, upon the acknowledged ground thai detraction bad breathed upon his name, and he not choosing to court an inquiry into the truth of the imputations? Are they furnished by the deliberate reiection of his name, wnen nis couii .... counts in dollars and cents; that they shall PY was bestowing the meea o .ppn ou deeds of valor? Ifthese are his jewels, they are as worthless as the black diamond to the -lapidary. Deeds like these shine like dark light ning. They will resound through the earth like silent thtindtr. the military fame ol this new Messiah, who is n hrinrneace unon the earth," is a mere makt, wenrht. It is as a skilful diploma list, a profound tKJitician. that be is to commend himself to the heartsof the neoDle. and win from them the oaken chajAton which so many look with a longing eye. As v, h;s diplomacy, I have heard of but one opportu-ity afforded measure cloth with a yardaiick, or their corn by the bushel, or weigh their vCon by the pound; but it is your duty to fumh them with standards, by which value weights nd mnv be tested. You should per form this duty, and having performed it, ask for no more power in relation these subjects. You have all that is needful for liberty, and more can only be desired by tyranny. The. banking institutions, debts, and internal im provements of the States, will soon be brought within the wholesome limits, if you Kess'nn of Congress, we presented on Ibis flxtr resolutions containing l he opinions of" the Legis lature of lhat State, of popular sentiment upon certain great lending questions. We then de clined assuming lor the Legislature a resxnsi- bihty which, according to our understanding ot the Democratic doctrine of instruction, (a di.c trine wt ich we received with implicit faith,) properly rested upon it. We look issue with ihe Legislature, dm we had a ht t. d. .n iiH expressed opinion of popular sentiment; and to enable all parties lo have the issue tried, and at the same time to put ourselves ami our political principles fairly, before the people of North Ca rolina, we avowed our determination to resign hour commissions into the hands of the next Leg islature, whatever political parly might prove to he in the ascendant. That we may not be sup posed to have lorirotten the pledge, or lo repent having made it. I now solemnly renew it. 1 hold my sea. in this body but as a trust Irom the people f my State. As their wish that 1 should bold it has been questioned, to them 1 refer for the solution of a doubt. All I ask is, lhat they will have the goodness, in their next legislative elections; to keep this question dis- inellv before Ihem. and cast I heir votes accord ingly; and to their decision, whatever it may he, I bow with filial submission. It is not imeiy lhat I shall again often trouble the Senate until that decision is made, and in conclusion of what may be the last address I shall ever make it, I ask pardon of the Senate for having so long and so unprofitably occupied its time. r On the dav after the remarks of Mr. Strange, Mr. Tallmadge of New York addressed the Se nate, and, i n the course of his speech, was pleased to consider the observations of Mr. Strange -upon the Federal practice of feasting, a sarcastic allu sion to the entertainments iven to the President during his summer tour through his native State indulging at ihe same lime in some very coarse re marks upon ihe President, which were understood by Mr. Strange lo charge the President with in gratitude to his native State, and of having played the traitor towards it. In reply, Mr. Strangc said: I should not have again so soon troubled the Senate, Mr. President, had not the Senator from New York Mr. Tall madge done me the honor to notice some of my re marks made on yesterday, perverting them to a. -'' sether at Sacliitt's harbor a cons'ulerr.ble military (orce. There are now at that post tour or hve hun dred men of all descriptions sick, convalesci nt, and eft. etive. Col. Kcoli's detachment (aUout 7iiij) is on its inarch thi I her; and it is barely possible that Cel. Randolph's (not aniving in time lo move with the army) may alsn be there. This does not ex ceed 350. McAithui's brigade added to these, will make a force entirely competent to our object. To bring the brigade flown the hike, y u must hive the aid of the fleet, which will b read ly jjiven by Comin-'dore Chauncey. The officers of the several corps composing your division, as well as those at f.t (2eore as those at Detroit, (not neo-ssary to the command of .the jtraons now in the fia d,) should be immediately detacheu ou me i..i.,i.iS"mi.,M.. I need not furthrr invoke your attention to a subjec so important to the early and successful o..eninr o the next campaign, and lo the extent and character of your parucu!ar command. General Haii-ison to the Secretary of War. Head Quarters, JSeicark, Jov. -16, 1813. "Commodore Chauncey, with the fleet, ar stores, and retreat without delay to had quaners, riVef here yesterday, and. mtcrmed me that be ivinjr aito some precautionary iiisuuciiuus UUu. , , ro,.,va tho trnons nnH r k;nn. frlondlv to siiie1 the West Had we not a sufficient corps. From my eariest youlh to the present m ighbmhofid, thev nuirht do mischief, and . J, c - ..rK.imau iw ler insecure ihe "winter station of cur fl, et. I have been the ardent friend of buiion i lie a kv. dar. 'd March 25. IS3G "About the 20th of July, 1813, General Harrison, then at Lower SandusUy, hearing that the B:i ish armv had crossed Lake trie to Fort Meijrs, being alout five thousand strong, immecliate'y changed his head quarters to Si-neca, seven or eiiiht miles up t'le Sandusky liver, whee he assemb'ed his forces then on the March f.om the inteiior, leaving Ms j ir Cruehan w'th abo-Jl 150 men to defend Fort Sie ih:?nsoti, with an understanding at the time that the fort, then in a weak and wretched condition, was to n b:iud-."J, shoul 1 trie enemy advance wun artillery, but if not, to be defended lo the last ex tremitv. . About Ihia time General Harrison received infor maiion that the enemy had raised the scige at Fort M is, and had started in the direction of Sandus ky and Camp Seneca. On receiving th'ts intelli tencp, he determined to retreat from his position, anil immediately sent an express to Fort Stephen son, which tnived about sunrise, ordring ivl; j r C.nt. han ti burn the fort with all the munitions and he route. &c. On receiving this order, Croghan instantly placed it in the hands of the officers, who were all present, and required them to consider, and express an opin ion of the propriety of obeying or disobeying it. The board was formed, and on putting the qu s'ion beginning as usual with the youngest officer, it was ascertained that a mn jonty ot us were tor destroy ing the order. Croghan returned to the room, and being informed of our directions, remarked, "1 am glad of it; I had resolved to disobey at all hazards," and immediately despatched an express to General Harrison, giving him that information. Immedi ately on the arrival of this exnress. Gen. Harrison despatched Lieutenant Colonel Ball, with his squad ron of dragoons, with orders to arrest Croghan, bring him to head quarters, which was done, and sent another officer to take command. By this lime in consequence of his not arriving agreably to his expectations and orders, the General abandoned all idea .of a retreat, although his munitions and stores were piled up ready to be set on hre as soon Croghan should reach Seneca: and it is notfJL1 .i :z- it i . . ' j:-instaniiy. lout, ii vronan naa arrivea 0CC"SrErie and the General Harrison would haveT. .v.. leaving the whole frontier, 'IZ tEe stores at Cleveland thivT"0,'c,"c"" " object of the inv-"he enemy. laket the n.stori.n of the late war Daw McArographer of General Harrison, have i sm mmsly kept out of the view that the object of the carry them down the lake, and that the reason was so far advanced (rendering the iiavigation dangerous to the smaller vessel) it was desi rable they should be embarked s expeditious lv as nossible. " As a vp.tv small rtart ofhe militia and volunteers had arrived, and yWsituatiou of Sackett's Harbor appearing f require imme diate reinforcement, I did n '"Xf'K proper to take upon myself the resjpnsitility of post poning the departure ot tbtfiroopaor the low er part of the lake, comforiably.ttithe direc tions contaiued in youletter ofte 3d in stant. I he intoma receiu jesterday, from two respect6. citizen?Jat wjV taken UtfTZ : s . ,u "J- .iasi aiH who them off', ""Propriety 0W BHtid troops vr7Z? thatW Mm as far as Z"Z?,? ? vio goinaown jn i Jil ... ,ne regujars lattjback. ate'andmiabring,S hpr of an Abolition society, estai w:,.k.v,.,i. h ni,;drt f which was to lit.lllllUUU) vojv-v " orale the condition of the slaves, and pn .KIr rrtdom bv everv leeal niealtS' venerable friend Judcre Gatch, of Clerffi i nf this socn couiwy, was uisu a mciuuci and has lately iriven me a certificate which came under I have faithfully perform.' WM. TTF.XRY HARRISON deliwreii; in l3. iTPnerai nam"'" Pnurth of .Tnlv Oratlr.!! at ThevlOt. OM which he made the following declaration1 Should I be asked if there be not"? which the General Government can , cause of emancipation, I answer, lhat H long been an object near my heart to s whole of the sumlus national revenue propriated to that obiect. With the saK'l of thfi States hrdrlmrr slavoa. there aPf1 me no constitutional objection to iu ' thus applied, embracing not only the coc zation of those that may be otherwise W but the purchase of the freedom of ' TCv si 17. n hi uc nrncopnllAn nf n nlan W upon this bases, we might look forward j' day, not far distant, when a North Amer" sun would not look down upon a slave' TTnnn ilia o,,!-.: .i ooiiinir nur free W lit j VIlJ(V.l Jl OI.UI.1 w. - . g mora T U.. In nn.osinn Olie ' J aa.wu, . I1U V 1 mv . n;ri .n..i.nnia e,u c... Ohio i'l I'" auiu juiii iiais 'I. niu iL7dJt year 1821, from which the followiug extract: Extract from the Journal of the Serial Ohio. Tuesday, January JO, The San.ntA mft nmpdant to adjl ment. . .J4 r,- a . .. j: Ihfl ui'i m Mnaio inon accoruiu" i - j of the dav. resolved itself into a Comml the Whole ujvn "the bill from the Ho"? i tmea " aci ror tne punisnmeni oi .j let-" uiciem uameu, ana anu d ; pent therein, the Speaker, Alien nfri o . w and are LHcul uie,e,u me ol- Smith, who is 6 resumed the chair. Trin
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