TMJK NOITM CAROLINIAN.
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curing the residue ot me year, suuu.u
,haSi Easier 'than the adoption of mea
sures which roust increase theexpeiises oflS41,
so as to exceed its authorized fiscal means, and
thus not only to cause embarrassment, but
impair the pecuniary credit ; of the General
Government, and leave no alternative except
greatly increased taxation of some kind, or a
permanent national debt.
But it is a matter of congratulation that
these financial evils have hitherto been avoid
ed, though severe commercial convufions,
protracted Indian hostilities, and a periodical
reduction of the revenue (forri customs, have
nt times piessed heavily"' on our operations.
Without doubt they can be longer avoided
by a continued reduction in the nuLIic enae-
:ents, mrougn perseverance and economical
chy. Many of those who participated in the
late " yhig " abominations, are ashamed of
their course, and are bringing forth fruits meet
for political repentance, by denouncing their
betrayers. Others brave it out but are suffer
ingnmder the inflictions of the gnawings of
that worm that never dies while others glo
ry in our country s shame neither fearing
God nor regarding man.
The Bank's Management
Mr Biddle's fifth letter says, in reference
to Mr Jaudon, "I doubt whether there is
one single man who has paid in any thing
IiKe the same proportion of his debt." I bus
Mr Biddle gives a rule by which to judge of
the prudence with which he loaned the ttank s
money. Mr Jaudon has paid better than any
i budy else, and Mr Jaudon still owes the snug
retrenchment, and the careful shunuiuc of 'sum' i of 1 17,000 dollars, borrowed four years
causes tor new or increased exnense. In
deed, it must be a source of sincere satisfue
lion ta the President, personally, as welt to
the commuuity atlarge, to see his administra
tion close without foreign war, domestic in
surrection, or any other calamity, requiring
heavy burdens ot any kind to be imposed on
the people by the General Government
without the creation of any permanent public
debt whatever, or even of a temporary one,
that might not be discharged within the year,
if proving as prosperous as many have anti
cipated, without any increase of taxes; but,
on the contrary, many old ones reduced
without any claims due and authorized by
Congress and the accounting officers, which
have not, as a genera! rule, been paid w ith
specie or its equivalent and with promptitude,
however much the Department has been in
commoded by revulsions in commerce and
bank suspension, and, in fine, without a
Treasury either empty or bankrupt, but its
obligations in high credit, and the means in
its control, probably, enough to discharge in
the usual man tier and extent, throughout the
the year, every expenditure that has yet been
sanctioned by Congress, or requested byyour-
self or thi3 J department.
Respectfully,
LEVI WOODBURY.
Secretary of the Treasury
ago. nat excessive puuciuitmjr: uiau
excellent set of borrowers the Bank must havo
had!
Mr Jaudon, too, paid in such an agreea
ble and winning manner ! He received from
the Bank seven thousand dollars a year and
upwards, for spending-motiey, and paid off
a part of his debt, by what he charged lor nis
services, each year, above his snug 7,000
dollars. We suspect the Bank might collect
all its debts in the same way: Seven thou
sand dollars a vear, presented to each of its
debtors to live upon, and the debtor to pay off
his indebtedness by charging the bank seven
ty or eighty thousand a .year in addition.
Who would not like to owe a big bank, and
to pav it off iu the same delightful meth
od ? '
Another thing is worthy of note, in this
filth letter. The Ex-President says: "of
his (Jaudon's) account with the Bank, I know
nothing and never did know any thing."
A most excellent President of a Bank, truly !
He never troubles himself to enquire whether
the officers of the Bank borrow all its money
or not. And a most trustworthy Cashier, that
borrows more than half a million of the Bank,
without ever informing the President how
much he bas taken. "What a marvel that the
Bank has not made more money I Pennsyl-
vanian
From the A". C. Standard.
The Carnivals.
A Paris correspondent of the National In
telligencer states that the observance of the
Carnival had led many females, elegantly
dressed, to the commission of suicide. A
cotemporary asks " what do they have the
carnivals for at any rate?" Our opinion is
that carnivals and other festivals are encour
aged in monarchies, to prevent the people
irom thinking ; it is a device of despotism to
cheat a deluded and oppressed people into
gaiety. The Carnival as now celebrated is
derived from the Christian Romans, who re
tained the feast of Saturnalia among their
holidays, in commemoration of the happy
reign of Saturn, when freedom and equality
prevailed, when truth, confidence and love,
united all, and violence and oppression were
unknown. It continued at first oue day ; !
then three; afterwards five; and finally, un
der the Caesars, seven days, viz: fiom the
17th to the 23d of December. The celebra
tion consisted iu freeing the slaves from re
straint, who were feasted at their masters'
tables ; jests and freedom every where pre
vailed ; and all ceased from their various occupations.
The modern carnival precedes the fast of
the church, which commemorates the 40 days'
fast of Jesus in the wilderness. It is said to
derive its name from came levamen, Latin
terms, which signify the taking leave of flesh.
Of all the festivals known to the preseut age,
this exceeds in gaiety and licentiousness.
The streets are paraded by people with masks
and-other disguises, and plavs, tricks, and
every kind of freedom abound. It is celebra
ted with the greatest show and spirit ot Venice
and Rome. In the former place it begins
after Christmas. The celebration at Paris:
to which the correspondent alludes, was no
doubt conducted with all the unrestrained in
dulgence of a volalite people. In this view,
it is not hard to account for the commission
of suicide by well dressed females.
But the instruction to be derived from these
facts is the chief point with us. It shows that
those who wish to rule the people and keep
them in vile subjection, will command both
good and evil into their service ; and while
t r .1
trie people are struck with awe at the pomp
of church and state mummeries, they are de
lighted to find the indulgence of the grosse
passions sanctioned by high authority ; and
to see laoac whom trey look upon as thei
superiors, encouraging by their presence and
by their cheers the licentious orgies of appe
tite and pa .so ion.
Such were the parades and such the ob
jects of ihe immoral aud blasphemous mum
meries which preceded the late Presidential
Election. Prayers, and preaching, and shout
ing, and drunkenness, and revelry, and curs
ing, were all commingled in a mass of abo
minations, m republican and enlightened
America, to promote the de-signs of those who
would bring this republic at the feet of a mo
narch. At the Baltimore Convention, where
the insolent aristocrats bore on their banners
the inscription, " we stoop to conquer " and
at other celebrations, in this city and else
where, the dark spirit of Federalism called
into its service, at the same moment, the re
sources of Heaven and of Hell. A swagger
ing, staggering throng paraded our streets,
singing bacchanalian songs, and tricked out
with decorations fantastically vulgar, and
with banners bearing inscriptions, in every
word a lie the vhole a mockery of reason
and a derision of popular intelligence and
these, even these, were cheered on in their
licentious course, by the waving of hauker
chiefs and other demonstrations of approba
tion from the virtuous and the fair!
Let us no longer be at a loss to understand
why " CarnivaU '' are encouraged in Kurope,
when we see, that with us, the object of those
who wish 10 live iu splendor on the hard-
earnings o( the industrious, is to dethrone
reason, and lead men captive through their
passions and appetites. We have the conso
lation to believe that our time is not yet come
that our country is not abandoued of God,
aud the people left to the mercy of a heartless
aristoerasy or a cruel and tyrannical monar-
The Constitution "useless.
It is a fact that the greatest encroachments
on the constitution of the United States have
been, and are daily, proposed by the very
men who profess a gratuitous quantity of
patriotism, and who have for years villihed
Gen. Jackson for setting himself above that
instrument. It will not be forgotten that
Gen. Harrison, in one of his numerous
speeches last summer, boldly declared that he
had constitutional scruples on a national
bank, yet, if a majority of congress proposed
that measure, he would not withhold his sanc
tion of it. More recently the N. Y. Courier
and Enquirer, in commenting on President
Tyler's address infers from it that he has the
same objections to the measure, but will
defer them, if it should be proposed by Con
gress.
What is this, in effect, but discarding the
constitution and setting up in its place a bare
majority ot Congress: lhere might as well
be no such instrument ; we might as well
dispense with it altogether, and substitute in
its stead the fluctuating, inconstant and bri
bable approbation of the House of Represen
tatives. Curious logic this for those who
profess to be peculiar guardians of our rights
and liberties! JMobtle Register.
Democracy. The Federalists now demand
it, and as an instrument for crushing Demo
cracy, and as a means of enriching them
selves upon the credit and revenues of the
Union. Party positions are reversed, and
the Democrat that now goes for a National
Bank, quits his own party to join the Fede
ralists. He becomes oue of them a deser
ter and a renegade ; and like a Christian
turned Turk, becomes more cruel and perse
cuting than an original enemy This is the
case of many who are endeavoring to shelter
themselves behind Mr Madison's example.
But it wont do: they have not bis purity, and
they are suspected. They cannot like him,
say: I acted ivith the Democracy, and teas
opposed by Federalism. I had no selfish ob
ject to accomplish no votes to icin from old
enemies no money to receive from the new
bank!
All ihis Mr Madison could say, and truly.
Others who try to cloak themselves with his
example cannot say it. Some of them can
not deny getting money from the Bank ; oth
ers of them cannot deny joining the Federal
ists for office, becoming their leader or follow
er, and aiding and assisting them to destroy
the Democracy.
Mr Madison signed the Bank bill to re
store the currency: twenty-five years' experi
ence has proved that the the Bank was the
destroyer of the currency that it has been
the author of all the mischief which has af
flicted the country of all the corruptions
which disgraced it that it has been the au
thor of three suspensions the father of post
notes, shinplasters, the bond system, stock
gambling and State debts every thing that
was ruinous to the currency and that its
crimes have brought shame and disgrace upon
the American name.
General Washington did not sign a charter
to restore the currency, or to furnish a sound
circulating medium. These phrases were
unknown in the year 1791. The currency
had noi then been destroyed by a National
Bank in order to be restored by a National
Bank. Regulation of the currency was not
mentioned in a single speech or report on
the subject. The constitutional currency was
then the currency of the Government, aud
was ample and sufficient it was both plen
ty and good. It was simply as a fiscal agent
that the Bank was created: in the language of
General Hamilton, " To conduce to the suc
cessful conducting of the finances." There
is, then, no authority in General Washing
ton's signature for such a Bank as is now de
manded. It was purely as a machine for the
Federal Government that he signed not as
a regulator of currency furnisher of curren
cy restorer of prosperity, &c. &c. Neither
General Washington's nor Mr Madison's
example can furnish a cloak for the converts
of the present day.
Although the Judge, as a young man, dur
ing the last war, distinguished himself as a
BRAVE SOLDIER and undaunted PA
TRIOT at Lundy's Lane and elsewhere, we
were not surprised at his being removed to
make way for some partisan of the adminis
tration. We were, however, not a little disappoint
ed that Jonathan Roberts should be appointed
his successor. Of all men in the world, he
would have been the last to enter into our
speculations, as likely to receive this or any
other appointment under the present Admin
istration. There is not, we venture to affirm
it without the fear of contradiction there is
not an individual now living in this State,
who has done so much to BLIGHT and DE
STROY the reputation of General Harrison,
both as a military and a civil officer, as Jona
than Roberts. His autipathy to Harrison
may be traced back as far as 1S16, and is
thus recorded in IViles's Register, vol. 10,
page 125:
" The Senate resumed the consideration of
the joint resolution directing medals to be
struck, and, together with the thanks of Con
gress, presented to Major General Harrisou
aud Governor Shelby, and for other purpo
ses. "After some discussion on the expediency
of adopting such a resolution at this time, and
of coupling the names of General Harrison
and Governor Shelby, Mr Lacock moved to
amend the resolution by striking therefrom
the name of JWajor General William Henry
Harrison. This motion was determined in
the affirmative by the following vote:
"YEAS--Messrs. Dana, Gaillard, Gore
Hunter, King, Lacock, Mason, JONA
THAN ROBERTS, Tait, Thompson, Tiche
uor, Twiner, and Vamum 13.
" NAYS Messrs. Barbour, Barry, Con
dict, Morsey, Macon, Morrow, Ruggles,
Talbot, Wells, and Williams 11."
NORTH-CAROLINIAN.
From the Globe.
Mr Madison and the Bank of 1816.
Mr Madison signed the National Bank
charter of 1816, and his example has been
quoted by others who have no right to quote
it. He was a pure man, and acted with a
large portion of the leaders of the Democratic
party (the people had nothing to do with it)
in trying the experiment of that bank. It
xwas brought forward by Democratic leaders
who have since confessed their error, and op
posed by Federalists, aud was carried by De
mocratic votes to sustain a Democratic Ad
ministration, and was opposed by Federal
votes and Federal men. The old Bank of
1811 had been suffered to expire, without
doing any thing to increase the specie cur
rency ; there was no specie in the country,
not more than ten millions of dollars; and
the General Government fell into the - hands
of the local banks, which had no specie to
sustain them. Instead of taking measures to
increase specie, the Democrats of that day
in their distress and despair, had recourse to
a National Bank, which immediatelv deceived
all their hopes, and became a political en
gine, a fountain of corruption, and a source
ot favoritism in the hands of the Federalists
Mr Madison signed the charter, but it was at
the instance of the Democracy in Congress.
It was not to please the Federalists, nor to
strengthen them, nor to give them a club to
beat out the brains of Democracy, that he did
it. In signing it he did not become a Fede
ralist. He did not enter the Federal camp,
adopt Federal measures, take Federalists into
his Cabinet, become their leader or follower,
or in any way mix himself up with them or
receive their votes or support. He did not
become a persecuter of Democracy ; he did
cot turn Democrats out of office to make
room for Federalists ; nor did he receive mo
ney from the Bank! He took no money
from it, neither as a borrower, a seller of ex
change, a lawyer, an agent, a commissioner,
a pensioner, or in any other way. In siguing
the Bank charter, lie did not become the
slave, or the servant of the bank ; he did not
put on its livery, or its chains ; and if he had
lived to see its present conduct its total
failure to do what it was created for its im
potence for good, its omnipotence for mis
chief and above all, had he lived to see its
corruptions carried to the two halls of Con
gress, to the halls of State legislatures, to the
elections, and to the press; if he had lived
to see all this, he certainly would not have
signed another charter, even at the instance
ot democrats, much les3 of Federalists. All
is now changed from what' it was in 1S16:
Uiere are now between eighty and one hun
dred millions of specie in the country, near
thirty millions of it gold: there is a plenty to
carry on toe -Government, and tosistain all
good banks. There are" none of the reasons
of 1816 for a bank, nor is it demanded by the
Extremes Meet.
An Ominous Conjunction. Mr John
Tyler was once one of " the straitest sect "
of States Rights men. No man was a truer
exponent of the Arirginia principles of '99-99
than he was in 1819 and for several years af
terwards thoroughly against a National
Bank, Internal Improvements, a Protective
Tariff, Sic. He even went further in his op-'
position thau several of his colleagues. lie
deserted General Jackson on the Proclama
tion, because, he contended, that his celebrat
ed manifesto attacked State RnrhtsI But.
or the same reason, Mr Daniel Webster sup
ported General Jackson. Mr Tyler opposed
the Proclamation, because of its Federal here-
71 TIT . - .
sies. lur ivebster supported it, because ot
those same Federal bearings. And now
what do we see Mr Webster is the Presi
dential adviser of Mr Tyler is urging upon
him to sanction a National Bank, which Mr
Tyler had denounced for its Federal character,
and is recommending the removal of the
stasuchest State Rights officers from the pub
lic service. Rich. Enq.
The fire at Xortis BentU
We see an account which states the loss
on this occasion, which says: " Only a few
articles were lost a trunk of Mrs Harrison's
clothing, a great coat, two silver urns, &c."
Tiro Silver Urns in a log-cabin come,
that's a good joke. Is this a "whig" hum
bug or do the Federalists now confess that
Gen. Harrison's residence is not only not
a log-cabin, but a splendid mansion furnish
ed in princely style? We have no complaint
to make because people buy silver urns, or
silver whatever they choose ; but we do pro
test against their professing to live in humble
log cabin plainness, to cheat the people and
accomplish a political object, when they are
dashing away iu aristocratic splendor. We
do not know that the public press has anv
thing to do with the manner in which any
man chooses to furnish his house, in this free
country: but it certainly has a right, and it is
a duty, to expose such a vile cheat as this.
Many an honest voter supported Harrison's
election, because "whig" partisans induced
him to believe that his house and furniture
were of the plainest sort ; and that in this he
gave a practical illustration of the republican
simplicity of his views aud feelings. Ihose
voters were cheated, deceived, humbuffized ;
and although thi3 is very, far from being one
of the worst of the Federal lies circulated dur
ing the electioneering campaign it is one
of the many and a part of the means that se
cured the triumph of the whiggery ; a part of
a system of "delusion" that has caused the
people of the United States to speak a lan
guage foreign to their true sentiments; and
is, therefore, legitimate subject for remark
and exposure. How do the gulls take these
irrefragible proofs, which develope in rapid
succession, the lying and calumnious
character of the politicians who have led them
by the nose ? Are they still disposed to be
the tools of knaves and the slaves of political
tricksters and liars? If they are, let them
begin to " peep about between the legs," of
their political masters, and "find themselves
dishonorable graves." .V. C. Standard.
Saturday Morning, May 8, 1811.
FOR COAGRESS,
E DWARD M'CALLU M.
Congressional Nominations.
1st District: ROBERT II. BALLARD,
is spoken of in this District as a Democratic
Candidate, tho' but little effort has been made
to organize against KENNETH RAY
NER, the Federal Candidate.
2nd. J. R. J. DANIEL, Democrat; YYM.
W. CHERRY, Federalist.
3rd. EDWARD STANLEY, Federalist
no opposition.
4th. Dr. JOSIAII O. WATSON, Dem
ocrat; W M. II. WASHINGTON, Federal
ist. 5th. Gen. J. J. McKAY, Democrat, no
opposition.
6th. Gen. HAWKINS, ARCHIBALD
ARRINGTON, and WM. RUSSEL, all
Democrats.
7th. EDWARD M'CALLUM, Democrat,
EDMUND DEBERRY, Federalist,
Sth. Gen. ROMULUS M. SAUNDERS,
Democrat; Dit. JAMES S. SMITH, Fede
ralist. 9th. DAVID S. REID, Democrat; AU
GUSTIN H. SHEPPERD, Federalist.
10th. ABRAHAM RENCHER and
JONATHAN WORTH, both Federal
ists. 11th. GREEN W- CALDWELL, Dem
ocrat; DANIEL M. BARRING ER, Fede
ralist. 12th. JAMES GRAHAM and THOM
AS L. CLINGMAN, both Federalists.
13th. LEWIS WILLIAMS, Federalist,
RMURCHISON, democrat.
On Thursday the 1 3tli inst.
The people of this State will choose Representa
tives to the Extra session of the 27th Congress.
Does the heart, of any Democrat throb so weak!'
for the cause of Democracy the poor man's cause,
lhathe needs our feeble vcice to rouse hi m to action?
We do not believe it. Then go to the polls ! and
" conquer, brave heaits ."' Strike fur the
" Land of the free and the home of tho brave."
More Traits of the Hyena.
We find the following in the Globe of the 29th
ulto., extracted from the Harrisburg (Pa.) Yeoman:
We last week announced the appointment
of Jonathan Roberts, of Montgomery county,
as Collector for the port of Philadelphia, in
place of Hon. Calvia Blythe, removed.
DEMOCRATIC PAPERS.
" The Charleston Mercury,"
Co:nes to us on ah enlarged sheet, of its former size.
The Editor appeals to the Democracy, of South Car
o'inn, especially, to support him, and M e hope that
they will etudy their own interest by doing so.
It is notorious, that the wealth and aristocracy of
the land are enlisted in the whig ranks, and this ac
counts for tho fact that the whig papers are better
suppoi ted than the Democratic papers. We have
marked well this fact. Take almost any place
where two papers are published, of d;fF. rent politic?,
and nine times out of ten the whig paper is better
supported, by half, than the democratic paper, al
though a majority of the people in its vicinity are
democratic.
The interest of the democrat or poor man is in
direct opposition to that of the aristocrat or rich man;
the rich man knows that the Press in this country
is the great lover by which public opinion is acted
upon ; all they want then is to get the Press under
their control ; to do this they must support well
those that they have and they must buy more ; hence
the great superiority in numbers of the whig papers
over the democratic ; and hence it is that the talent
of the country is not eugaged with the press; for
but comparatively few men of superior talents will
edit a paper merely for glory, (for the sorry pittance
which many of our journals affords cannot be called
a living.)
And again : two-thirds of the merchant?, at least,
are whigs ; consequently the advertising, which we
may call the life-blood of a newspaper, is mostly
received by the whig papers.
We have hastily thrown together these remarks
to show the democracy the necessity of exerting all
their influence to enlarge the circulation of demo
cratic papers. With two whig journals disseminat
ing their misrepresentations and false doctrines for
every democratic one, to answer and refute them,
how tan it otherwise than -.tiappen that the people
are deceived ? With these facts before their eyes
will the Democracy suffer the Press which is sup
porting their cause, and fighting their battles against
federalism and the aristocracy of wealth, to lose its
power and become impotent, while those of t.neir
enemies flourish, thrive, and revel in their downfall?
Then let every democrat put his shoulder to the
wheel! Circulate our doctrines among the peop'e !
And we know of none of better opportunities lor
doing it than our democratic lawyers. They are
always about among the people, and have influ
ence with them. Let each one use but a small ex
ertion and the cause is strengthened Of all curses
that can befall our country protect U3 from the Press
controlled by the aristocracy of wealth !
E.P. H. wa3 notree'd before paper went to press-
The Observer Again.
In an article last week, we asserted that Mr Van
Bureu called an extra session of Congress in 1837,
because he was petitioned to do bo. The Observer
admits a'l the other facts stated, but to disprove the
above mentioned, brings forward the following para
graph, which he says, was Mr Van Buren's answer
to the committee, and a " peremptory refusal."
" You must be aware of the obstacles to an
immediate convocation of Congress, arising
from the imperfect state of the representation
in one branch of that body. Several of the
states have not yet chosen their Representa
tives, and are liQtt to do so for some months to
come. Independent of that consideration, I
do not see at present, sufficient reasons to
justify me in requiring an earlier meeting,
thau appointed by the Constitution."
Well let us look into this paragraph, and see if a
" peremptory refusal ' can be found in it. He eays,
" you must be aware of the obstacb s to the immedi
ate convocation, of Congress." It was an immediate
convocation that they asked, but he proposed an
objection on account of the " imperfect state of the
representation" in the House of Representatives.
Again, he fays, " I do not see at present, suffuient
reasons to justify me in requiring an eailier meet
ing," &c. In bovh of these instances he certainly
gives room to infer, that should there hereafter occur
any tiling ot sufficient moment to require the con
vocation ot Congress, he would call a session. Every
body knows that very soon after, events transpired,
whose shock was Mt throughout Europe and Ameri
ca ; a general suspension of specie payments by the
banks ; they all stoppe d, mammoth and all, even
the great Nicholas could not keep Lis legs. Th s
event dtc mined Mr Van Bimn to call an extra
session. Was it not a mest substantial reason ?
But it matters not, whether Mr Van Buren re
fused the petition of the commercial committee or
not. Our purpose is answered in the fact that the
state of the country was such, that the President
icas petitioned to convoke Congress. Our object is
to prove th;it a necessity existed then which does
not exist now, and that tlv re'b.e, no parallel can be
drawn between Mr Van Buren's convocation and
that of General Harrison's. We ate now enjoing
profound ptace the country is gradually and natur
ally coming to a j-ound state of things, and Con
gross mny s t till doomsday and they cannot better
it much. Then the whole commercial world v as
fanned into a fl.ime of excitement by the United
States Bank th. greatest revulsion and prostration
of business that was ever known, was sweeping
over the' Liml. Is tlr rc any thing of that sort note '
If there is not, then there is no u?e of an extra ses
sir n. and General Harrison has taken steps toppond
HALF A MILLION of d .liars, for no earthly
b''nfir, and when tho wh'g party iscivinsr out that
the Treasury is emvtti, .-.mi the TEOPLE MUST
BE TAXED to replenish it ! oh ! oh J oh !
Free Trader of a late date says : On Sa
turday we saw a ten dollar gold piece sold for
one hundred dollars in Mississippi Railroad
notes ; and on 31onday, a common Mar
seilles vest brought $100 in notes of the
Mississippi SWpping Company. This is
going back to continental quotations.
Here we have a whig, iu one breath sneering at
' Benton's hard money Stat," and in the next rail
in a at tho " continental quotations" to which the
shinplaster factories of Mississ ppi have browht the
people. Beautiful consistency ! Whiggery from
head to foot .'
Ccmmunxcaled.
Messrs Editors A few days cilice, in or.e rf
my evening rambles on the banks of Cross Creek,
I witnessed a scene, at once beautiful and interest
ing. It was the first of May. The day was bril
liant; all nature seemed animated by the cnlivenrfig
ravs of the glorious pun. I was moving forward,
tilled with admiration at the scene before me, when
suddenly mv attention was arrested by the lro'ic
laugh of blithesome hearts. I paused, and soon os-
c: rtnined that I was approaching a spot, dedicated
that tiay, to the pniposes of innocent festivity, and
nianv persons had assembled to witnes-s the corona";
tion ot n Uueen ot may. I ne place selected :or
the ceremony was judicious: it was in the midst of
a beautiful "grove ; a simple throne was hastily
erected and tastefully decorated with various flowers
and evergreen?. The preparations bring completed,
a procssion was formed in an adjoining greive,
composed principally ot the scholars of Miss M's,
si hool ; the procession arriving at the throne, the
Ctueen e'eet, Miss G. was addressed and crowned
by Miss B ; on being invested with the ensign of
royalty, the Cturcn n sponded to Miss B's. addreps.
Lt eprcsentativf s of he various seasons then present
ed themselves ith appropriate ofivrins, and ad
dressed the Q.ue.n. The ceremonies being endre),
refreshments ver.' provided, of which the company
partook.
I have thus, Messrs Editor?, attempted to gie.
vem a hatv sketch of a scene whlvh was as inter
esting is it was novel fo inc. I fni be;ir to make
other mention of the appearance f th; yonng la
dies. They were attireel in the most fitting costume
of the season, trimmed with flowers and evergreens.
I derived sincere pleasure in viewing this seene o
youthful and innocent gaiety and festivity.
ilMEtllC A.
The Year's Salar3".
The " simultaneous movements" upon the part of
tho administration press, to urge upon Congress
the payment of a " year's salary" to the family of
the deceased President, demands our opinion. To
sympathize with the afflicted is a ruling principle of
a nob!e breast and to relieve the wants of tho ne
cess tons is the part of chat ity. Wc elo not intend
to dispute the ground assumed by our opponents)
that the family of the late President arc not rich. In
common wi'.h the body of the American people, we
feel too deeply our National calamity to do so, at
this time at least nor can we refrain from suppos
ing that this : simultaneous movement" has come
very ill limed to that unhappy family, wfiose afflic
tion is too deep to admit a thought of self. But
there are principles connected with this appeal to
Congress, which, we would be recreant to our duty
not to expose, and protest against. This payment
is intended to be made by an appropriation. For
" no money can be drawn from the Treasury but in
consequence of appropriations made by law." The
Constitution of the United States explicitly enume
lates the powers of Congress, and no power can
have accrued to Congress, but such as have been
expressly "del-. gated." It must, ttrikcevcry one upon
a moment's reflet tion, that Congress has no authoi ity
to appropriate the property ot the United States to
a gilt cannot make compensation for services not
rendered. To the now acting President, the debt
will accrue ; and here will be presented the anoma
ly of p.Tjing two officers for services which can be
rendered but by one only, for upon no other basis
cann appropriation be made than to pay for servi
ces rendered. The Constitution should be most sa
credly observed most rigidly construed. Better
that the unfortunate should suff.r, than that this
medel of excellence should be infringed; once es
tablish this precedent and where can there be a stop.
Tho President ot the United States is but an officer
of the Government the highest true but paid his
regular salary, in no wise differing, save in amount,
from the most inferior. There is another mode of
proceeding less dangerous less pernicious, and
more-complimentary to the objec's of charity. If
the people are dispose ! to he!p,"kt it he done with
out danger to the Constitutor! by latitudinal ian
construction. Let the people individually contri
bute. But we cannot but unhesitatingly assert that
Congress possesses no power to make payments or
bestow pensions, except for valuable or meritorious
services rendered and in that case, the boon
in the present instance must be a pension, and can
not come under the definition of a " year's salary."
And then will arise the question, what valuable or
meritorious services have bsen rendered, which we
have no desire at present to argue. The doctrine
(held, we think by Mr Munroe,) that Congress had
the unlimited right to appropriate moneyhas been
repudiated by Virginia politicians, and Mr Tyler
iuB iCtt, as pernicious, and in ihe hihe
ucjice uaneious."
est
Beautiful Extracts I
We find the following, side by side, in the Mil
ledgeville Recorder, a rank whig paper. They af
ford as pretty an illustration of whiggery, as we re
collect of having seen :
Such is the bankrupt condition of the peo
ple in Benton's hard money State, that the
citizens of one of the counties on the Upper
Missouri have called meetings, with a view to
invite magistrates and executive officers to
resign their places, so that the collection laws
may not be enforced. So says the St. Louis
J ew-Lra.
Beautiful Currency. The Natchez
Communicated.
On the first morn of May, the car of Phaeton,
immerging from the black mist which has so long
ohsi ureJ its brightness, dashed o'er the blue ethe
real in splendid loveliness, an enchased' witness
of the festive sports exhibited upon that occasion.
The floral beauties of the meiry month were
tastefu'ly arrayed, and a full harmonious concord of
sweet sounds lent an enchantment to the scene.
The selected sovereign of these flowerets fair was
duly coronated with the roseate of royalty. Then
came the render of homage and fealty from suhjpets
as l ege and loyal as they were blooming and lovely.
In all which there was grace and dignity, and " feat
ly measure." -Nor was the young Qiiejn wanting:
in that modesty and gentleness ever the brightest
gems in tho royal diadem.
L.ve blue eye J Q,ucen of flow'rets guy",
Long live ; ,
And may your subjects, day by day
Still thrive ;
May garlands wove by elfin hand,
Around thy tresses flow ,
While circled by thy lovely band
Biicht smiles on all bestow.
In view of winter's dreary day,
'Tis meet to frolic while tis May.
Juxtaposition.
The following resolutions were ofT rod by Air low
ing in the L. S. Senate, Jan. 1, 1S32 :
Resolved, That the practice of removing
public officers by the President for any other
purpose than that for securing a faithful ex
ecution of the laws, is hostile to the spirit of
the Constitution ; was never ccmtempl jted
by its framers ; is an extension of Executive
influence, is prejudicial to the public service,
and dangerous to the liberties of the people.
Resolved, That it is inexpedient for the
Senate to advise and consent to the appoint
ment of any person to fill a supposed vacan
cy in any office occasioned by the removal
of a prior incumbent unless such incumbent
shall appear to have been removed for sufficient
cause.
Tho following is the letter of the Postmaster Gen
eral to the Po?tmast at Columbia, S. C:
" General Post Office,
April 19, 184 1. f
ei Sir: I have been instructed by the Pre
sident of the United States, to inform you
that in his opinion, the public interest will
be promoted by a change of Postmasteis at
Columbia, S. C
" Your obdt. serv't.,
"FR. GRANGER.
" Benjamin Rawls, Esq.,
Postmaster at Columbia, S. C."
Some may say, " why, Air Granger is not respon
sible for Mr Ewing's resolutions. Grant it: Still
we maintain that the party, AJessrs Clay and Web
ster especially, have ad vocated the doctrine, that the
President has not the Constitutional power to remove
an officer at pleasure, and no later than last October,
Air Webster broached this doctrine in his speech at
Richmond.
Now for what fault was Mr Rawls removed 7
The Postmaster General specifies no charge against,
him, and consequently we infer he had none to
make. Is iurther comment necessary 1
Virginia Elections.
The Richmond Enquirer, received yesterday
meaning, in making up the los3 and gain of paities,
makes the republican gain 11, and the republican,
loss 9, being a nett gain of 2, but thinks that the
county of Bath has been incorrectly set down to the
whigs. And further says. -
Assigning, however, both Bath and Mont
gomery to the Uhigs, the vote now stands,
tor the VY htgs as far as heard from, 65 ; leav
ing Fayette aud Nicholas, Greenbrier, and
Hardy to be heard from which gave Whig
Delegates hist spring. The number of De
mocratic Delegates heard from now amount
to 61 ; leaving Braxton & Lewis 1 ; Logan
1 ; Northumberland 1 ; Pendleton 1 ; Poca
hontas 1, which returned Democrats last
Spring, to be heard from. If those counties
should respectively return in like manner at
the late election, then the parties would stand
in the House of Delegates, 68 Whigs, 66
Democrats. We are in danger, however, in
Logan, and perhaps in Braxton and Lewis,
unless Hays, who is the Democratic candi
date for Congress, living in Lewis, may save
that District. But allowing U3 Bath county,
and leaving the other counties to be heard
from, to vote as they did last Spring, the par-