"The ttndtneyof Otinocracy lMtowrd tlutUritlonorthilHiuttrtouaclmffJht ei f thtr cotuftrt, thm$trtia mrihtirdl?Uy,th ttabllunt of their potrwr."
BY ROBERT WILLIAMSON, Jr.
L-INCOLTOV. C.v DECEMBER 22, 1841.
V0LU3IE V, NO. 30.
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From the Vermont Spirit of the Age.
CIDERCRATIC LAMENT.
to bk sl'vo br all good "locofocos," ox all
Good occasions.
AIR "My name is Robert Xidd."
i
There's Illinois and Maine, they are gone, they are
gone,
There's Illinois and Maine, they sre gone ;
There's Illinois and Maine
Gone back to truth again,
And from this 'tis very plain.
We ar done, we are doae,
And from this 'tis very plain
We are done,
11
And old Vermont the jade, follows suit, follow
suit,
And old Vermont the jade, follows suit,
And old Vermont the jade,
After all the vows she made,
Has the Giderciats betrayed,
What a brute what a Unite !
Has the cidercraU betrayed,
What a brute !
Ill
And 'Indiana too, what a shame, what a sha ne,
.Aud Indiana too, what a shaue
And Imiiii'it
With iiistmvt . ve,- t.r?
Has washed out all iti-: j 'i
From her nam;, from :et a k. r
Has washed ?.!' thr SVe
FroiH ?iur iiJiue.
: MvT!ini io r.. h. -.kei the trail, tikes the
trail.
And Aiaiyiaim too soon. takes the trail,
And Maryland loo soon,
Has caught oui sleeping coon,
And slung him to the moon,
By I he tail, by the tail,
And slung him to the moon,
By the tail.
V.
And Georgia wheels about, to the right, to the right
Aud Georgia wheels about, to the right,
And Georgia wheels about,
Oh ! hear the rebels shout
"Hard cider U run out !"
What a sight !what a sight !
Hard cider all run out,
What a sight!
VI.
And there's the Buckeye State, gone to pot, gone
to pot, ,
And there's the Buckeye State, gone to pot,
And there's the Buckeye State
Oh curse our wretched fate ! '
To Sammy Houston straight
Let us trot, let us trot.
To Sammy Houston straight,
Let us trot.
VU.
i
In Pennsylvania, gad! what a wipe! what a
wpe !
In Pennsylvania, gad! what a wipe!
In Pennsylvania, gnd !
They've tapewormcd Banks and Thad,
Oh! Bela, that's too bad !
Where's your Pipe I where's your Pipe!
Oh! Bela that's too bad,
Where's your Pipe !
Gaiun chokcs All together ! now then ! now;
Oh ! I wish I was a geese all forlorn, all forlorn
Oh! I wish 1 was a geese all forlorn,
Oh ! I wish I was a geese,
'Cause they eat their grass in peace
And accumulate much grease,
Eatin corn, eatin' corn,
And accumulate much grcass
Eat.iu com.
The game of the British Money power.
How comes it thai this young and
athletic Republic stands a trembling debt
slave before tlotard, bloated, gin-drinking
Britannia ? h is because England, being
the grent centre or heart of our paper system,
can and does "regulate" it as she likes. r
When she would buy our cotton and other
produce at low rates, she Jias only to bring
about a "contraction" and force her debtors
to sell. When she would have us buy the
fabrics of her factory slaves al high prices,
she makes money "easy," allows, cotton
to lake a brief rise, and thus stimulates our
banks into an "expansion" of currency
and prices, which is made to last until she
has sold off her ware". Ths is our mea
sure of value kept alternately expanding
and contracting like a blacksmith's bellows,
and poor, raw-boned Jonathan kepi toiling
and toiling, mortgaging and mortgaging
apparently quite unconscious that he is all
the while giving to the gin-drinking goddess
aforesaid two days work for one !
New Era.
A National Bank. Duane's Weekly
Aurora, of April 2d, 1816, contains the fol
lowing: "Mr. Deinpsey, an English mem
ber of Parliament, at the close of the Rev
olutionary war, said: "Lord North mis
took the means of conquering North Amer
ica. Had he established a Bank of Eng
land, with several millions capital, at Phil
adelphia, he never need have sent an army
thither the thirteen Colonies would have
been as easily managed as Jamaica."
Make them Shell Out. New Jersey
is about to behave genteelly. A bill has
been introduced into the Legislature requir
ing the Banks to resume specie payments
on or before the fourth day of July next,
under a forfeiture of their charters. The
bill has been ordered to a second reading.
The day for resumption is isther distant to
be sure, but better late than never. We
hope the bill will pass, and a similar one
also, in every Legislature where the State
is cursed with a rag money currency. It
is high lime the bank swindlers and thieves
were made honest and respectable men.
Sp. Times.
Voon Skins Exempted. A bill was re
cently introduced into the Gtorgia Legis
lature to incorporate company for Tan
ning." After it had been duly read one
of the Whig members moved an amend
ment to the effect that "CWr akins should
be exempted from the process of the estab
lishment, as they had, within the last few
months, been tanned sufficiently."
Jsnesborough Sentinel.
From the Globe.
"t W. :-v. .!;;) . hiiv;:ig acieii in ad
vance of the people, and endeavored to
forestall public opinion upon all ihe great
measures involving the national prosperi
ty, it is now found that the uncalled-for
called session and its doing, are universal
ly condemned. What will be the course
of the bold majority which undertook to
lead the way, now that they find the peo
ple will not follow ! Will they recede and
acquiesce in public opinion! Or will they
undertake to drive or drag the reluctant na
tion, which refuses to take the course laid
out for it by those who have undertaken to
be its masters?
From an article which appears this morn
ing inthe National Inlelligencer.speaklng for
the Federal majority in Congress, we infer
that the voice spoken by the country at the
polls, will be held utterly null and void, by
the parly whose measures have been con
demned by it. We give the passages from
the Federal oracle of this morning, from
which we draw our inferences :
"If there be, however, nothing particu
larly novel, or much more than usually re
markable in the present condition of our
domestic or foreign affairs, there is, it must
be admitted, something peculiar in the po
sition in which Congress finds itself at the
opening of the present session ; so pecul
iar, indeed, that nothing like it has ever
before occurred, to our knowledge, in the
history of this Government.
We refer to the fact, as being without
example, of the absence, of the presenl
session, of any thing like a defined or re
cognised line of division, in either House
of Congress, having reference to the poli
tics of the Executive branch of the Gov
ernment. Heretofore, there lias been at
all limes a considerable portion, and most
frequently a majoritybut, whether a ma
jority, always a powerful bodv of mem
bers in each House regarded as the party of
the Administration: and whatever have
been the party divisions and designations
among the people, and consequently among
their representatives, the President has in
variably, from the beginning of the Gov
ernment to the present time, been identified
in fact.and in the public opinion, with one or
the other ofthe two great parties into which
in free Governments, the people are prone to
divide. At is 1ns absence of party organ
ization in reference to the Executive
this fusion, if we may use the expression.
of the dividing line between Jldministra'
Hon and the Opposition' that consti
tutes the political problem, to which,
without attempting its solution, we invite
the attention of our readers.
'Not to waste words in vain regrets for
the causes which led to such a slate of
things, it may be assumed as notorious that
rupture look place, three or four months
ago, between the President and the party
by whose suffrages he came info power;
and that, in the recess of Congress, (to
put no worse construction vpon the mat
ter,) nothing has been done towards heal
ing il. Whilst the Whigs are thus sever
ed from ihe PresiJent, the opposite party,
though exulting at the schism, and upon
that foundation building magnificent hopes
of future triumph, have not, as far ,as we
can discover, any disposition to desert their
own colors to rally around any new party
standard that may be raised. So that the
President, in possession of a great patron
age, and exercising more than regal pow
ers, cannot, however, he may have been
casually sustained in his views by those
who opposed his election, count upon sap
port for his Administration, on mere! par
ty grounds, from cither side of the house.
"In such a conjuncture as this, it cannot
but be a matter of great interest to think
ing people of all parties, as it is (f very
deep concern to the national welfare, how
the President will meet Congress in his
annual message, and in what spirit the two
Houses of Congress will be disposed to
receive and act upon the Executive recom
mendations. For ourselves we can only
say that we shall watch the developments
of the next few weeks with intense anxiety.
From all that we have been able to
learn from authentic sources, in all parts
of the country, the Whig party stands
firm, with unbroken front, cn the very
ground upon which it stood little more
than a year ago, when it achieved for
its principles so brilliant a success. A
few individuals may, under various influen
ces, have withdrawn from the main body;
but even ihese individuals are more likely
to rejoin il than to draw others after them;
The State elections during the last autumn
have, it is true, been suffered in several in
stances to go against us. But these ap
parent reverses have been suffered thro
apathy and momentary discouragement,
and not through want of power, when
ever an occasion shall presenl itself worthy
of the exertion of it..
The. Representatives of this great whig
party are representatives of that party in
sentiment as w,ell as in name. They are
the same to-day that they were yesterday.
They come back to Congress unchanged
in any principle that they ever propsed "
-r .iv:-i ,.,: ? i.?c':-:o in (,
- i ;. rin; something more in it,
that "the absence of party organizvlionl
in rrference to he Executive." Does
this organ uf the Federal partv consider the
relations of ihe National Representation
only with an eye to its bearings towards
the Chief Magistrate? Is he the sovereign,
in regard to whom opposition ot support!
decides every thing in the Government?1
We think not. It is the attitude of parties
in regard to the sovereign majority of the
people, which determines their complexion.
It is considering the matter in this point
of view that (brings us to the conclusion,
Trom the Intelligencer's party bulletin, that
the IVhigs (as they call themselves) have
resolved to defy and atteinptjto control pub
lic opinion. We are told that 'the whig par
ty stands firm, with unbroken front, on
the very ground upon which it stood little
more than a year ago."" "The State e
lecfions during the last autumn, il is hue,
were suffered in several instances to go
against Us; but these apparent reverses
have been suffered through apathy and
momentary discouragement, and not thro1
want of power J" Here is the point. The
Whigs think they do not lack the power to
compel the people to reverse the expres
sion of their will, so recently uttered, on
the great questions of policy on which the
late elections turned. They have great
power, it is true banks coalesced wealth
active agents, &c. &c. and their deter
mination seems to be, to renew the pres
sure upon the people, and try again the ef
fect of Mr. Riddle's plan of influencing the
community by its '"sufferings."
From the indications, so far, we appre
hend that the majority in Congress will
stand out to enforce its whole system of
the extra session; and will probably devise
new and stronger measures to embody, at
tach, confirm, and increase the means of
the particular classes on whose activity,
zeal and influence they principally rely, to
drive the mass of the community, from the
position it nas assumed.
The Chicago Democrat enlivpns the
march of the Whigs towards Salt River
wtih the following stanza:
"I see them on their doleful way.
No beams of hope around them play;
Each promise broke, each printed lie
Seems now to stare ihem in the eye;
They're marching out, their feelings low.
Their faces marked with, rae and woe."
TENNESSEE LEGISLATURE.
The Whigs laid a plan on the 1st mst.,
whereby they thought they would caich
the Democrats a napping, and succeed in
fastening two men of their principles on
the people of Tennessee, as1 United States
Senators for the . next six years. But
thanks to the firmness of the "immortal
twelve," (Sam Turney having gone over
to the enemy body and breeches,) it was no
go.
A resolution passed the Senate on the 1st
inst., to go into the election of Senators on
the Hii and 3d. Both resolutions passed
by a vole of 13 lo 12, Mr. -Speaker Turney
voting in the affirmative. The resolutions
were then sent to the House and adopted
in that body by a vote of 42 ayes to 32
nays.. On the morning of the 2d, the
Speaker of ihe Senate pul himself al the
head of 11 whig members and marched in
to the hall of the House, preparatory to go
ing into the election, leaving twelve demo
crats in their seats in the Sen Me chamber.
On calling the roll it was found thai a quo
rum of Senators was not present, whereup
on the door-keeper was sent for the absen
tees who returned with the following writ
ten answer: '
Senate Chamber, December 2, 1841.
Mr. Speaker Turney:
The undersigned Senators are now in
the Senate Chamber, in their seats, ready
lo transact any constitutional business
pending before this branch of the General
Assembly, whenever a quorum of members
shall be in attendance.
Respectfully, your ob't servant?,
8. H. LAUGHLIN.
J. S. HARD 'A ICKE,
JOHN A. GARDNER,
B: MARTIN,
SACKF1ELD MACKLIN,
RICHARD WATERHOUSE,
RICHARD WARNER,
ROBERT W. POWELL,
JOHN MILLER,
A. JOHNSON,
M. T. ROSS,
THOMAS J. MATTHEWS.
After the reception of the above letter, a
discussion arose as to the validity of the
proceedings of the Convention as at pres
ent constituted, and its right to proceed in
the election, . which Messrs. Williams and
Reneau of the Senate, and Polk of, Maury,
Fentress,. Hill, Speaker Douglas, Haskell,
Campbell of Davidson, Long and Rogers
of the. House took part.
The ground assumed by Mr. Polk of
Maury, and in which he was supported by
Messrs. Hill, Long, Fentress auk Rogers,
wa that the Convention was nothing more
tii-wi a pritiii!r0'iis asxeoihlv that ihe Senate
:.!'.! j"iriv.j- Ah i .i.U' ; .;-,:"! v. h-u-
rvt'i -viitioui liso Ifcd! q'i::n:. -i t hir.tt.
To 'est the matter, Mr. Polk of Maury,,
(addressing himself to the Speaker of the
House.) moved to take up certain bills on
the table of the House, for the purpose of
proceeding in the business of legislation
irrespective of ihe presence of the members
of the Senate. The motion was not enter
tained by the Speaker of the House, who
held that the Convention was not only
properly constituted, but, a quorum per
capita, being present and the Convention
being a unit, the election which brought the
l wo Houses together, could be legally pro
ceeded with. , The opinion he would not
press, however, as against the decision of
the presiding officer of ihe Convention.
This position was supported by Mr.
Haskell, who maintained that the action of
the whole Legislature, a Tier a meeting in
Convention had been agreed to by concur
rent resolution, could nl be controlled by
nine or twelve members of cither House.
The Senate having agreed to the meeting,
by resolution adopted in full quorum, such
meeting could not be defeated by one third
of that body, the majority having repaired
to the Hali of Representatives pursuant to
the Resolutions.
Mr. Campbell of Davidson maintained the
validity of the Convention for the purposes
named by the presiding officer, (Mr. Speak
er Turney,) at; i in pnof, referred to the
Constitutional riht of each House, with
out the presence of a quorum to elect their
officers, to send for absent members and to
adjourn from day to day. He had jno
doubt, himself, as to the correctness of thi
point made by the Speaker of the House,
the right of the Convention to proceed in
the election which brought the two Houses
together, but was willing to adjourn in or
der that others might satisfy themselves in
reference to this matter.
Mr. Reneau addressed a few words to
the consideration of the Convention, on
the propriety of proceeding with all due
and calm deliberation, in the business
which brought the Convention together.
He was willing to adjourn until to morrow;
bJt was not prepared to assent to the pro
position, that the performance of a consti
tutional duty could be defeated by - one
third of one of the branches of the Legis
lature.'
Mr. Speaker Turney repeated his con
viction of the righl of ihe Convention to
adjourn from day to day, and having enter
tained a motion made by Mr, Foster, of
the Senate, to adjourn until 2 P. M. to
morrow, he propounded ihe question to
the Convention.
Mr. Polk of Maury, protested against the
authority of the Speaker of ihe Senate to
direct proceedings in this Hall, without ihe
presence of a Convention properly consti
tuted, and said he was prepared, as one of
the Democratic members of the House, to
leave the Hall rather than vote upon the
proposition to adjourn. Thereupon M r
P. took his hat and left the Hall followed
by fifteen or twenty members from the
same side.
The motion to adjourn was then put and
carried.
. The above sketch of the debate is taken
from ihe proceedings as published in the
Nashville Whig of the 3d.
From the Globe.
MEDL1NG OF ENGLAND WITH
AMERICAN SHIPS.
The jealousy with which England looks
towards any power which she apprehends
may at any time dispute what she calls her
sovereignty of the seas," is like that of
the Sultan towards such of his pachas as
evince ability lo sei up for themselves.
No nation now excites so much of this
painful feeling in the would-be mistress of
the seas, as the United Slates. The fre
quent mortifications she encountered in her
attempts to subdue "the bits of stupid bun
ting" and make them follow in the wake
of her bulwarks in their "inarch upon the
mountain wave," has torn the heartstrings
of John Bull's proud mistress of the seas,
with a vexation amounting almost to de
speration. The continual spread of our
commerce since the multiplication of our
hardy, intelligent, brave fiishermen along
the coasts of our adventurous, enterpris
ing, indomitable whalers, who sweep the
great ocean from pole to pole of our in
dustrious, shrewd, vigilant traffickers, that
ply their trade in every pari of the globe
are circumstances not likely at all lo allay
the- anxieties which England's disappoint
ments at sea. during the last war, awaken
ed. Har eye has been constantly fixed up
on us where she sees most of us, but with
the long-sighted views for which she is re
markable we have no doubt she has cast
her look beyond the seas and the coasts
beyond the Alleghanies to ihe mighty
back ground of wealth, strength, vigor of
mind and muscle there growing up, at some
lime to communicate its prodigious impulse
to the American movement on the ocean.
Under the influence of feelings to which
past conflicts have given rise, and forebod
ings as to the future, it is evident that Great
Britain seizes every pretext to cramp our
eounneicial activity. She has set tp a
!',!-;: construction of the treaty which
rk ihe distance from her American
shores, where the right of fishing apper
taining to us ceases, and now for the first,
insi-ts that the treaty has application only
lo the shores of the ocean, and that we have
no righl (observing the limit) lo fish at all
in inlets, bays, and gulfs neighboring her
colonies.
But our present purpose is merely to
touch the pretexts under which she has be
gun her molestation of American ships on
the eoasl of Africa. And this we do, be
cause it will be perceived from the articie
annexed, from the Boston Courier, that
American writers are already engaged in
supporting the British pretension. The
asserti in of a British jurisdiction over
American ships on the coast of Africa, on
the pretext of suppressing the slave trade,
is but the renewal of the right of search
which stripped our ships of their seamen
before the last war. Now the assumed
ground of seizing and searching American
ships, is, that ihey are or may be employ
ed in the slave trade. If they he, it is an
offence against their own Government,
which it belongs to it alone to provide for
and punish. Great Britain has no more
right, to interfere and assume authority to
protect Africa against an illicit traffic car
rinl on by her negro chiefs and American
citizens against our laws, than she ha to
take upon herself the punishment of our
citizens for violations of the laws at home.
She has no more right, being at peace with
ns. to subjert our t-h'ips to the laws of her
crtiisers, for wrongs supposed or real, on
th coast of Africa, than we have to lay
hold of her ships on the coast of China,
and pass judgment on their com! net to
wards the Chinese undertaking to dncide
whether they infringe the laws of Eng
land, or the right of humanity in regard to
the Chinese, and how they shall be' dealt
wiih.
It will be seen that the articles from the
Boston Courier evidently lend to vindicate
England in subjecting our flag to her juris
diction, even before the offence assumed to
give it, is committed. The fact alleged in
the case of the two Baltimore ships, which
is to subject our flag to violation at the plea
sure of England, is lhat ihey bore Ameri
can colors lo protect thern until ihey were
transferred and became the property of
Spanish slave traders on ihe coast of Jri
ca. If the suspicion a British captain fnay
entertain, that our flag cover a ship which
may become the property of a slave trader,
is to warrant hjs seizing her, then every
American merchant ship' that sails the
ocean is at the mercy of British cruizers.
This consequence, however, flows neces
sarily from the rigtit assumed, no matter
on what pretext justified. If an Americar.
ship can be arrested on the high seas, Mid
brought to a.nswer for it at ihefialof a p.ril
ish captain, for any wrong to Africa, t.r .!.
er nation which England may assu:r:e i
protect, it as ' absolutely annihilr.it s ci r
rights as an independent nation, a it" tl.e
mereisuspicions of a British officer was the
condemnation of ihe ship. The conces
sion of Great Britain of the discretionary
power of detaining and making our ships
answerable to every British officer they
may meet on the high seas, at once puts
our commerce, and all our ships and citi
zens engaged in it, at her discretion, sod
makes the nation her vassal.
" Our Government has expressly refused
to concede to England the right to search
our ships on the coasts of Africa, or. any
other coast. As -the representative of a
proud spirited, and independent people.
Our Government dared not (if it desired) de
grade itself bv submitting to England the
execution of its laws, like Spain and Portu
gal (the mere dependence of Eogland.)
Our Government has denounced the slave
trade provided laws to punish such of our
citizens as may engage in it, but does not,
and will not, allow Great Britain to take
on herself the authority to interpret, or ex
ecute, or interfere in the execution of these
laws. If the Government thinks proper,
it may repeal the laws,' and carry on the
olavr trad ft lo the destruction of ihe people
of Africa, as England insists on carrying;
.on her Opium trade to the deduction of
the people of Uhina. J lie course oi uie
United Sntes on the one subject, is as in
dependent of ihe English Government as
that of England is in regard to us on the
other.
It will be perceived from the third num
ber of the Courier's article, (which ihe mail
brought us while making this comment on
the second,) that the writer has brought
himself, by his own reasoning, to admit
the necessity of conceding the right of
search to Great Britain! We are glad to
see, from the note appended by the Editor,
that he repudiates the doctrine to which
his correspondent comes in the conclusion
of his articles, their drift were probably not
perceived when he welcomed them to his
columns. Il hat always been a part of the
Encv,h policy, in every country where a
free press exists, to get up a party for hr
policy, by secretly enlisting citizens to
broach it, as growing out of opinions en
tertained by portions of ihe people on
whom il is to operate. The doctrine now
promulgated through the Boston Courier,
would never have found place in that re
gion, so deeply interested in free trade ant
sailor's rights, were it not for the alliance
which England has made uith the sect of
Abolitionists in New England. To them
she has masked the design of asserting a
righl which puts our irade and our sea
men si her disposal the assertion of which
was the cause of the last war under a dis
guise which she supposes wil enlist all the
fanatics of our country in Us support
Her benevolent crusade to abolish the slave
trade by Spaniards and Portuguese who
carry some thousands of Africans to labor
in the Islands, is to do more than cover her
crime against the millions whom she crush
es into the earth in Asia, and the millions
whom she enslaves al home, in drudgery
worse than even that endured by the s Laves
of Cuba. It is to cover her designs against
our commerce and our independence as a
nation.
The resolutions with which we close
this notice, shows that the patriots who as
seited and maintained the rights of ihe
country in the last war the rights of our
sailors and shipping, are likely 'to be again
their powerful defenders, and again to have
arrayed against them, with the foreign en
em v. a nortion of that "morul and reliz
iou's people," who aided Great Britain in
her last struggle to establisn her suprema
cy over us on the ocean.
Resolutions introduced, into the Legisla
ture of South Carolina by Mr. Carroll.
Resolved, That when the States entrus
ted the Federal Government with the pow
er of de. laring war and making peace, of
regulating commerce and international in
tercourse, they did so under the solemn as
surance that these powers would be exer
cised not only in vindicating the Federal
honor, bui for the protection of each and
every State in the Union, fro foreign ag
gression, direct or indirect, open or dis
guised. - '
Resolved. That the conduct of Gr6at
Britain in detaining and searching our ships
on the high seas during a lime of peace
her refusal to indemnify our citizens for
ihere slave property castaway by perils of
the sea, on her West India provinces, and
their emancipated her, arrogant interfer
ence in ihe Amistad case her approval cf
the conduct of her subjects who violated
our neutrality by an armed invasion of the
territory of one of the sovereign States of
this Confederacy, and her tardiness ::
inmf in a neaceable adjustment cf t-'iS
' Northeastern Bouadary, manifestly eii-jw