loiranccs made to favorite contractor, without any:
adequate service rendered by them, at the mere
svill and pleasure of the Postmaster General or his
subordinates. To make up for this deficiency, the
mail route all through the country have been cut
down, and the people are made to sutler for this
mismanagement of the department. This is not
all : the Postmaster General has presumed to bor
bow large sums of money from the State Banks up
on the faith of tho department, in direct violation of
the Constitution, which declares tbnt Cimress
alone shall borrow money upon the faith of the Go
vernment !
Darin tire last summer, therefore, when among;
you. I did not hesitate to pronounce the department
rotten to the core. Some doubted, others blamed
me; but what is the fact 1 The House of Represen
tatives appointed a Committee to examine into the
condition of the Post Office Department during the
vacation. A majority of the Committee was com
posed of the devoted friends of the Administration,
and the unanimous report of that majority sustains
every charge preferred against the department. 1
will not detail facts, but give you their conclusions:
1st. That the finances of the department have
been managed without frugality, system, intelli
gence, or adequate public ability. The cardinal
principles of an enlightened enconomy have been
violated. Expensenses have not been kept within
the limits of income, and expenditures have not
been proportioned to the benefits to be purchased."
44 2d. That the form of making and preserving
mail contracts is both negligent and confused, and
that an ocular inspection of the mail contract books
can alone convey an adequate idea of the careless
and confused stute in which they are kept."
"31. That the mode of advertising mail con
tracts has practically inverted the end of the law,
and rendered the system of lettings, in regard to
the more important routes, an empty form, or a bit
ter mockery. And,
'4th. The practice of granting extra allowan
ces has, at various dates in the history of this de
partment, run into wild excesses; some illegitimate,
and, therefore, without an apology ; and others legi
timate, but very questionable as to their expedien
cy. To this source may be ascribed, without ha
zird of error, much of the embarrassment of the
department ; and, in whatever aspect this commit
tee has had opportunity to examine it, it strikes
them that its practic al operation has been fraught
with much more of evil than of good. Among its
other achievements, it has signalized most eminent
ly the too ready faith, and too loose business method
of the department. The letter of a contractor,
suggesting an improvement, and soliciting an extra
allowance, not unfrequently has served the double
office of an authority for the grant, and of a record
of its existence. Some dark corner of a contract,
or loose scrap of paper, is commonly the only olfi-
cial evidence of the order for large disbursements J principles of free trade, equal rights, retrenchment,
of money under the name of extra allowances. It and enconomy in our public expenditures, and re
is a puzzliug problem to decide, whether this dis-J form an I correction of abuses in the Government.
cretionary power, throughout its whole existence,
has done most mischief in the character of impos
tor upon the department, or seducer to contractors.
It has, doubtless, been an evil doer in both guises."
This is the report of the majority of the Com
mittee. The minority i still more unfavorable,
and concludes with a strong intimation that the
Po.stmasfer-General ought to be imjxached.
Cut these disclosures, though enormous, are not
all. There are abuses still hid in the recesses of
the department, to w hich the committee were not
allo.ved access. It was ascertained that the Post
master, since he came into olfice, has removed
upwards of thirteen hundred Postmasters! .Many
of these m"n were known to be able, well tried,
ljng tried, faithful public servants. Their succes-
)T were, in many instances, both incompetent
an J dishonest. The committe wished to k iow the
causa of thes'i removals; but the Postmaster-General
refused to permit the examination, and the
representatives of the people were not allowed ac
cess to their own records, to see whether injustice
ha-1 not been done to free American citizens.
This refusal of the Postmaster-General creates
the strongest and most unfavorable inference against
him. Guilt alone seeks concealment ; and I fear
the examination would have disclosed the melan
choly fact, that these sweeping removals have been
mads without oivse, to control the freedom of
elections, and to dictate to the people who shall be
their next President,
If the Postmaster, General has removed these
meritorious officers w ithout cause, and for such cor
rupt purposes, I hesitate not to say he ought to be
impeached and removed from office. So thought
James Madison so thought General Jackson. In
his letter to Mr. Monroe, in 1617, he advised him
to select 44 officers fr their probity, virtue, capaci
ty, and firmness, without regard to party." In
his memorial to Congress in 1S19, he declares,
that 44 if a public oificer is to be removed to create
a vacancy or to gratify the ambition of a favorite
partisan, then will the patriot have cause to trem
ble for th honor of his country and the perpetuity
of her republican institutions." And in his inau
gural address in 13"J, he declared that he consi
dered among his most sacred duties 44 the correction
of Zio.ve abuses which hare brought the patronage
of the Federal Government into conflict with the
j'reedom of elections." These are patriotic srnti
m nts, honorable both to his head and his heart.
From the bottom of rev soul I respond to their
truth and justice. Whenever the immense power
and patronage of this Government, with upwards
of one hundred thousand officers and persons in its
jav, is brought to b?ar upon the freedom of our
elections for the purpose of controlling and dicta
ting to the people, then may the patriot tremble
far the safety of our free institutions.
FOREIGN RELATIONS.
There is but one subject more which I feel it
toy duty to touch upon. It is our foreign relation.
Wiih one exception, we are at pence and upon
the most friendly relations with all the world. !
That exception is France. A treaty was formed
with that nation on the 4th of July, 1S31, by which
twenty-five millions of francs (five millions of dol
lars) was stipulated to be paid to our citizens for
epoila'ions committed upon our commerce upwards
.of twenty years ago. This indemnity, although
.it fell far short of the injury sustained by our peo
ple, was every where hailed with demonstrations
of joy, because it removed the only obstacle to a
friendly end harmonious intercourse with our most
ancient ally and friend. Cut to carry this treaty
into complete execution, it was necessary to obtain
the approbation of the Chatnler of Deputies, who
are the representatives of the eople. The treaty
wa9 submitted to them in 1833, and rejected by a
jnajority of eight only. The king of France im
dlatciy apprised our Government of the rejec-
sion of the treaty, but assured hi that he would J
again present it, and use his liest exertions to obtain
the approbation of the Chambers. Thus stood the
matter at tMu opening of Congress. The Presi
dent, smarting under the injustice done to our citi
zens, and the extraordinary delay interposed to the
execution of the treaty, charged the French king
with a want of good faith, und boldly recommend
ed to Congress repri is upon French property,
which must inevitably have led to war with that
great and powerful nation. Congress, however,
has done nothing to encourage such a state of things ;
but on the contrary, its proceedings on this delicate
and imjtortant subject are well calculated to secure
the execution of the treaty and restore peace to the
two countries.
Congress resolved, by unanimous rotes, that the
treaty was founded in justice, that it ought to be
maintained and its execution insisted on, but that
no legislative measure ought to be adopted at pre
sent. When we last heard from France the Pre
sident's message had reached Paris. It had crea
ted, as was to be supposed, very general excitement,
and had produced the most unfavorable eflect.
Cut it was believed that if Congress .should do no
thing to favor the forcible measure recommended
by the President, that the Chambers, who were
new members, would approve the treaty and
make an appropriation of money to carry it into
execution. Sincerely do 1 hope it may be the
ca se. A wa r w " 1 1 1 a n y i lat ion is a g rea t e v i I , bu t a w a r
with France is abhorent to the best feelings of the
American heart. France was our early friend;
she stood by us in the most trying period of our
history, and generously aided us with her men and
money in the achievement of our liberties. Let
us therefore avoid, if it can be done consistent with
ourjionor, a conflict with a eople endeared to us
by so many sacred recollections. To the southern
eop!e a war would be jK-culiarly disastrous: it
would plunge us again into another heavy national
debt, which would call for another heavy and op
pressive tarilF. IJut if war must come, 1 am sure
I but repeat a sentiment common to you all, that
we must then stand bv our country.
ml m
Such are some of the leading topics w hich I have
felt it my duty to bring to your consideration.
Many others I muM leave untouched. Since I have
been your representative, I have seen much to ap
prove and much to condemn. .Many of the mea
sures of the Administration have, in my opinion,
been fortunate for the country, while I have belie
ved others unwise and dangerous in their tendency.
I have endeavoured to pursue the line of duty. It
is much more agreeable to a representative to sup
port than to oppose those in power. IJut I cannot
consent to support any Administration rig if or
wrong. Such a blind and slavish devotion would
i!l become the representative of a free people. I
commenced public life, pledged to support the great
These principles I have endeavoured to maintain
trouguout, and these principles I am determined to
maintain and insist on, whoever may come into
power. If, in the suport of these principles, I nm so
fortunate as to have met your approbation, I shall
be proud to again represent you. If otherwise, I
shall return to private life conscious of having en
deavoured to do my duty to you and to the country,
and with no-other feeling than that of gratitude for
j your past kindness to me, and a sincere regret that
I was not able to repay it to your satisfaction.
With sentiments of high regard,
I am vour friend and fellow citizen,
A. RENCIIER.
POLITICAL MISCELLANY".
From the United States Telegraph.
It will be seen, by an article from the X. York
Courier, which will be found below, that Commo
dore Elliot took with him to the Tneatre, as a bo
dy guard, between forty and fifty of the Marines
of the Frigate Constitution. Uy taking so small
a number, we may presume the brave Commodore
intended to show that the imputations cast on his
courage, by the brave Perry and others, were un
fiinded. The Commander of the Marine says,
they wre there to 44 keep order!" that is to pro
tect the gallant Commodore from the hisses of the
audience. A thief under tne gallows need not
have envied the feelings of the Commodore when
he entered the Theatre.
OLD IRONSIDES.
Interference of the Military with the Ciril Au
thority. The United Slates Frigate, Constitution,
got under way yesterday morning and w ent to sea.
I She is destined to France, where in the event of
the rejection of the indemnity Dill !y the French
Chambers, she will receive on board our Minister
and his family ami return to the United States.
IJut should the IJill have become a law, she is or
dered to join our squadron in the .Mediterranean.
Oa Saturday, Commodore Elliot caused a new
figure head, being a bust of Andrew Jackson, to
b placed on her bows, and in the evening he at
tended the IJowery Theatre, o receive the plaudits
of those v. ho arc willing to consider any act or
adulation to the President worthy of especial
commendation. It was very foolishly imagined
that 6orr;e of the Whigs might be present, who
would le more apt to hiss than to cheer the noto
rious Elliot; but in this they were disappointed.
He w.is received with three hearty cheers from
rfu? worshipper of the idol, and coiis. quentlv the
fi fiy-one United rotates Marines in full uniform
and with side arms ! found no employment in de
fending the sacred person of him who has render
ed his name a by-word and reproach throughout
the country.
It is indeed a startling fict to place on record,
but it is nevertheless true, that fifty-one United
States Marines, with a Sergei it at their head, were
in attendance in fhe second tier of the Theatre,
and all of them wearing side arms ! And what is
letter evidence of their object being there, ihe
Sergent w.is heard to say, that he had fifty-one
with him, and if that uumlicr was not sufficient to
preserve order, he could procure an hundred more.
We have taken some pains to ascertain why these
arn.vd .Marines were thus introduced into one of
our public Theatres, and although the parties con
cerned in it are not prepared to admit that they
were sent there to put down any citizens who might
exhibit a dislike to the character and conduct of
Elliot ; yet it is admmitted that they were not in
vited, but that each paid for his ticket of admission,
and that they were regularly marched to and from,
what no diibt was intended to have leen, jhe
scene of a bloody contest, if the Whigs had pot
been timely cautioned, through this paper and other
Kuee, tu.t t present them.l at th Theatre,
or in any way interfere with the public honors in
tended to bo conferred upon the great leader of
the band of sycophants who have discraced them
selves and their public stations by a blind, abject,
and disgraceful sycophancy to the President of the
United States.
Cut whether they were or were not invited by
the manager of the Theatre to be present, is per
fectly immaterial. The simple fact of a large bo
dy of armed soldiers being introduced into a place
of public amusement, to overawe and put down our
citizens, form a new era in our history, and is cal
culated to make us tremble for the fate of the Re
public. We have neither time or space, to-day,
tor the reflections which this unheard of, dangerous,
und disgraceful act necessarily suggests. Well
might Mr. Clay exclaim in the Senate, that 44 we
are in the midst of a revolution," when we thus
see the military power brought into contact with
our citizens, even in their places of public amuse
ment : and if the officers concerned in offering
this insult to our city are not brought before a
court martial and expelled the service, then may
we indeed admit that the liberties of the country
have been destroyed, the reign of terror commenced,
and a military despotism substituted for our once
free Republic.
It was a cowardly act at best, to bring the Con
stitution to this port to be disgraced by a figure
head of Jackson, because the gallant commander
dared not place it on her bows at Coston ; but
that our city should have been disgraced by the
presence of an irmed soldier at one of our Thea
t resjto prevent the people from expressing their feel
ings against the man who has caused a stain to rest
upon the fair escutcheon of our navy ; is an act
which calls for immediate punishment upon the
perpetrators of it. We hope our Common Coun
cil will this evening cause an investigation into
this highdiauded outrage upon our city, and, in the
mean time, we call upon our fellow citizens of all
parties to unite in denouncing it as the mot dan
gerous of all the 44 experiments" which have yet
been made upon their Liberties.
From the Boston Atlas.
SIGNS OF THE TIMES.
The partizans of Judge White seem determined
to keep the field, notw ithstanding the imploring ex
postulations of the friends of the 44 regular succes
sor, in discussing the resolutions to amend the
Constitution so as to secure the election of President
and Vice President to the people, some heretical
doctrines were broached by Mr. Peyton, of Tenn.,
which called forth the rebuke of Mr. Polk, one of the
faithful among the faithless. We subjoin an ex
tract from the remarks of Mr. Peyton:
Sir, said Mr. P., I cannot shut my eyes to the
signs of the times. There are some grounds for
doubting whether gentlemen are altogether sincere
in their professions of wishing an amendment of the
Constitution at this time. They profess to consider
an elc tion of the President by the House as the
greatest of all political calamities. They carry
their apprehensions so far as to contend, in eflect,
that, to avoid this danger, there shall not must
not be but one candidate of our party. Yes, sir,
that one man shall appropriate to himself, in the
coming election, the entire strength of our over
whelming party. This is saying, that all but one
man of the great republican party in the United
States is disfranchised, and that the mantle of its
strength must fall upon his shoulders. Why, upon
what ground is this argument built up? Cecause
gentlemen say, by possibility the election may de
volve upon this House.
Sir, the namo of Hugh Lawson White, of Ten
nessee, is befoje the nation as a candidate for the
Presidency. lie has been taken up by the People
in ineir primary assemblies, and in their legislative
assemblies, without any solicitation or agency oft
Ins own ; and, having been thus presented, he will
sj continue, unless the same power which brought
forward his namo shall withdraw if. And, sir,
there is another distinguished individ jal of our par
ty spoken of as an aspirant, to the same station.
It is true, he is not yet a candidate, as I understand
his friends, he will not consent that the People
shall have any agency in bringing him forward, but
is waiting to be endorsed by a National Caucus,
before he comes into tho field. This, sir, will pre
sent no difficulty to him. The endorsement w ill
be made ; 'tis already arranged, for it is universally
admitted that none but his friends will attend the
Caucus. Now, as I understand the position of my
honorable colleague, and those who act with him,
the main reason which they assign for supporting
the candidate of the caucus, against Hugh L. White,
is, that by possibility the election may come into
this House. Yes, sir, this is the pretext by which
the jKjople of the United States are to be ind iced
to surrender their right of electing a President, or
even to have the claim of any candidate which
they may choose to present, considered. Why
must they make a surrender of their most impor
tant privileges ? Cecause, forsooth, the Constitu
tion ought to be amended, sous to give them more
power ? Eet their representatives make the ne
cessary amendments. Cut then there would lie no
pretext for a caucus no necessity for a Convention
no excuse for disfranchising any man no argu
ment to force Judge White from the field.
From the Virginia Statesman.
EXECUTIVE PATRONAGE. MIL CALHOUN'S
REPORT.
We present to day some extracts from the very
able report upon Executive Patronage, made to the
Senate of the United States, by a Select Committee,
consisting of Messrs. Calhoun, Cibb, King of Geo.,
Webster, Southard, and Centon. This Committee,
it is said, were unanimous in their views, as to the
alarming extent of Executive Patronage, and the
necessity of reducing it. The Report is from the
pen of Mr. Calhoun, and like every other produc
tion of his gigantic mind, is clear, concise, and
vigorous ; containing the strongest views, the hap
piest illustrations, and the most powerful arguments.
We have never read a public document of greater
ability, anil regret that our limits will not admit of
its entire insertion. The subject of w hich it treats
is one of the deepest interest to the American peo
ple, and one which imperiously demands their most
serious and prompt attention. Cy means of the
patronage of the government, the Executive of this
country wields a power truly alarming and dan
ge rous in its character. Although our attention
has leen frequently directed to this subject, yet we
had never fully comprehended the extent of that
power, until we saw it develojv?d in the Report be
fore us. The views there presented, cannot fail
to excite surprise, even in those w ho have long look
ed with apprehension upon the influence of Execu
tive patronage. Ihe extent ot patronage -with
which the Constitution of the country invests the
too i'reat : and
could the action of the Executive, upon this subject,
be confined within the limits there prescribed, it j
... . .1 1 1 r :
would still be a oower, which, in the hands of an
ambitious or corrupt Executive, would he danger
ous in the extreme. Cut xMr. Calhoun's Report
proves conclusively, that this power has not been
confined Avithin its constitutional limits; but that
by direct and indirect means, it has wandered forth,
accumulating strength, and now threatens, if not
soon arrested, to sweep from us every remaining
vestige of liberty. Executive influence (by means
of 4 the patronage ' of the government as now used,)
has rallied an immense army of Office Holders
and Expectants ;--persons either holding or expect
ing office, or so connected with the General Go
vernment as to be dependent upon it. The obvious
and irresistible tendency is to corrupt public
opinion. Let the candid reader examine for him
self the facts stated in tho extracts from the Report
before us ; let him remember the well trained army
of upwards of oxi: hundred thousand persons,
either holding offices: receiving the public money;
or dependant upon the will of the Executive; the
countless host of expectants, who are either seek
ing to displace those in office, or to occupy their
places as they become vacant ' let him remember
that this immense army of Office-holders hold their
places by the tenure of partisan zeal and party
service, and that tins 4 countless host of expectants '
all look- to the'Exccutice for the gratification of
their wishes ; let him remember that the anti-Republican
principle that the spoils belong to the
victors ' is recognized and acted upon by the party
now in piwer ; let him rememler that besides the
immense power wielded by the Executive, by means
of a control of the public offices, that it has now
unlimited control over the public funds, and through
them, over the w hole Ranking System of the Coun
try ; that these funds have been, and may yet be
distributed among the State Ranks, transferred
from one to another at the pleasure of the Execu
tive ; and we ask, can it be denied, that the present
extent of Executive Patronage is dangerous aird
demands a reduction ? This is a question upon
w hich all parties should le united. Heaven for
bid that it should be made a party question ! The
crisis is at hand : The People must act; the
struggle will be between themselves and the
Office-IIoldeks !
Correspondence of the Richmond Whig.
W ashington, March ii2d, 1835.
It is now given out 44 in high places," that im
mediately after the result of the Virginia elections
is known, Major Carry will be sent to Spain, Amos
Kendal installed as his successor in the Department,
and that the General himself will visit Tennessee,
for the purpose of securing the vote of that State
for Van Curen. Will Virginia instruct Mr. Leigh
to resign, that Mr. Rives may take a seat in the
Senate to confirm Amos Kendall's appointment as
Post Master General ? Or what does Mr. Rives
and Virginia say to Amos as the successor of Mar
tin Van Curen ?
I must, while on the subject of Amos Kendall,
record a tact for the amusement of your readers.
You have heard of a lithographic print which was
hawked about our streets at the rate of 81 eacl ?
The scheme originated with a Mr. Riley, the same
who was Amos' instrument in getting up the Hicko
ry Club, who employed a foreigner to execute them.
The Artist, after delivering GOO copies, demanded
payment of his bill. He was put ofl from time to
time, at length brought suit the Justices of the
Peace hold their offices from the President, and the
returning officer selects the Justice before whom
all business is done. In this case, the warrant was
carried before John N. Moulder, Esq., the chief
Clerk in the Second Comptroller's Office. He,
mid
der one pretence and another, delayed the trial
from dav to day, until, after a delay of some months.
he refused to try it at all alledn-'inrr that he would
not be troubled with it. The discomfitted Artist
then employed another constable, who carried the
matter before a certain Squire Welsh, the brother
of a Pennsylvania Editor, and one of the instru
ments of corruption in that State. He, too, had
his difficulties. It was never convenient for Riley
to attend. At length the Artist found a constable
who undertook to bring Riley nolens volens, and
he came. Here follows a copy of the account t
Major Thos. C. Roily to Philip Haas, Dr
(1634) September 1. To lithographic Portrait of
Amos Kendall,
100 impressions delivered to Mr
Reily,
26 100 impressions delivered to Mr.
Miller,
26 .50 impressions delivered to Mr.
Miller,
Oct. 7 300 impressions delivered to Mr.
Reily,
1 ream of paper for same,
57
Credit by cash,
jjo
Remains,
The trial came on, Mr. Reily insisted that the
lithograph had been done by another artist, and
that be was not bound to pay for the paper that
the artist had agreed to deliver the copies at to ir
cents. The aitist proved that the contract had
been for 4000 copies that Reily was hound to
purchase the paper, and failing to do so, that he
had bought it that as to the 820 for lithographing
the Portrait, he had paid that sum to tlie person
who had transferred it to the stone. The magi
strate took the subject under advisement, and then
gave a judgment for ten dollars, reserving for fur
ther advisement the question of to whom the stone
be Ion ged.
I am thus particular, that yon may firm some
idea of the individuals who now administer this
government. Here are a set of government offi
cers, the associates and dependants of Amos Ken
dall, engaged in swindling a poor, unfriended artist,
out of the pitiful sum of fifteen dollars, when they
had made a profit of fair hundred dollars at least,
on what he had charged but fifty -seven for. Eight
hundred per cent, on his labor was not enough !
Cut see the influence entering the halls of justice.
Pshaw ! justice, indeed ! Here it is a despotism
and Virginia is called upon to disgrace her noble
Senators because they have too much character,
patriotism, and public virtue to become the pander
of such a power. Cenjamin Watkins Leigh and
John Tyler, the bondsmen of Ainos Kendall 1 !
Yes, such is the condition to which the madness of
party spirit would reduce the proud representatives
ot
lrgima s sovereignty t an
it be? It is ini-
iSjble much us I have seen to deplore iu the
course,
which some of her degenere sons have
persued. I will be spared this last degradation
and you, sirs, are emu eu wjou gran.
....I., j" t-i.n.r-r.i- nml Cltirit Vt'llh VIII(n Villi O v
tude, for the energy and spirit with which you are
sustaining her interest. Go on : we will not yet
despair the people are not yet so steeped in cor
ruption as to become willing slaves to such masters.
From the Richmond Whig.
THE UNITED STATES TELEGRAPH.
A great effort appears to be making among the
office-holders to put down the United States Tele
graph. They may probably succeed w hen Amos
comes to be Postmaster-General. Some days ago
iu consequence of a combination of journeymen, tho
cessasion of the Telegraph was momently expect
ed. It is said that the President's health has suf
fered greatly from the disappointment of his wish
es for a French war, and that the Kitchen have got
up this war against the Telegraph to amuse his
royal appetite for that pastime as Princes, in for
mer times, hunted the tenants of the forest when
deprived of the more rational occupation of cutting
the throats of their neighbors. We say again, that
the United Stales Telegraph ought to be sustained.
Where the resources of individuals are insufficient,
they ought to unite them, and throw in a mite to
sustain a paper which has literally sacrificed itsrlf
in maintaining the rights of the people. General
Green was prime favorite at the palace in 1629
He disdained to prostitute himself, and longer to
support an Administration w hich no longer possess
ed his confidence. This ought to elevate him
with the people as much as it injured him with
power.
CENTRAL DICTATION.
The time once was when members of Congress
were considered the Representatives of the People,
and as such were selected by the people themselves.
The time has arrived, however, when menders of
Congress are held resjonsibIe to tlie Executive ;
when the test of qualification is not the ability and
fidelity with which they have served the people, but
the servility with which they have sustained the
Executive. To be a supporter of the Administra
tion is now a sufficient recommendation to the
partisans of the administration ; and hence the
Globe, the organ of the party, relieves the people,
and nominates members to Congress. North Ca
rolina is especially honored by the guardianship of
the Executive press, and her citizens will deserve
excommunication if they do not register t lie edict
of their royal master. U. S. Telegraph.
The National Intelligencer, alluding to Judge
White's vote on the three million appropriation,
remarks :
4i The Government Paper say s that, in voting
against the three million appropriation, Judge
White of the Senate 44 parted from the President
and his Cabinet." How came the President and
his Cabinet a party in that question? Neither the
one or the other had recommended the appropria
tion, or even hinted a wish for it publicly. Was
tlte extraordinary proposition, to place three mil
lions of money at the sole disjosal of Executive
discretion, the result of any private intimation from
tlie President ? If not, how was Judge White's op
posion to that monstrous proposition a 44 parting
from the President ?'' We suppose the truth to be,
that all party men are expected to know by instinct
the pleasure of the President, and vote according
ly : otherwise they are immediately suspected of
hiving slipped the collar."
CHIEF JUSTICE MARSHALL.
It was mentioned the other day, that upon the
ccasion of the entrance of the venerable Chief
Justice Marshall into the Senate Chamber at Wash
ington, the most lively manifest;;
I were exhibited, and marked expressions of satis
t l I 0 .'V I
! tact,on wore vble in the countenances and ac-
tions of all present. This silent tribute to the
worth and purity of the Chief Justice, displayed
in the Senate Chamber, may be witnessed wherev
er he goes, and in whatever situation hemav bo
placed. So thoroughly are the American people
of a knowledge of the high deserts of this excellent
man, that on all occasions where it can lie shown,
they give him the spontaneous and hearty exhi
bition of their respect and esteem.
Chief Justice Marshall must now bo upwards of
eighty years of age. Venerable in years, even
leyond tin? ordinary lot of our race, he" vet retains
that blessect gilt, so often denied to men far ad-
j vanced in life, vigor of mind united with health of
j body the sound mind, in the sound body so ar
jdently desired by all to whom Providence'permits
" length ot days." All w ho read the able and lu
minous opinions which he gives, comprised in tho
reports of the cases argued and ad'nidced in the
- Supreme Court ; all who witness his daily atten
! tion to business in the Courts which he holds, and
particularly on the Cench at Washington : all who
' : U . i 1 p l - - . ' .
nit- pic.t.MiTO oi ms acquaintance, and the de
light of his daily conversation, will bear witness to
the nnimnriirtvl ctrorwi-ih .f kl- ,: ,j i .i .
! i " v me muni, auu me uu-
j broken vigor of his intellect. He defects error,
.- iiuiw, iin me same eagie-eyeu knowledge
that distinguished him years ago. He still " un
ties, familiar as his garter," the intricates and sub
tleties of the law : he still administers justice, with
that indexible determination which has made the
decisions of the Supreme Court not only looked up
to here, as the highest authority in jurisprudence
which can be quoted, but regarded in Europe with
the utmost attention and respect.
Long, long may his life be yet spared to him,
and to his country ! Far, far removed be the day
when the Nation w ill have to mourn his loss !
Alexandria Gaxcttc.
S7in hffmrtit tho . J .L - w..
V? ii i c 1,tl t,more. Uate states, that Mr.
m..uuau,m .ew iiampsnire, whilst acting as Chair
man of a Committee of the Whole House, on Tuesday,
during several successive hours, found himself in a
state which required repletion. He accordingly des
patched a meenger down stairs, who quicklv return
ed. But the unfortunate Chairman, whilst endeavoring
to smuggle the glass of some sustaining beverage l
his hps, trying to avoid observation mhis elevated
sent, was visited by some invidious and unforeseen ac
cident which suddenly emptied the whole draught upon
the floor. He was soon afterwards relieved from his
hard duty by the Committee rising to report.
The Tennessee papers are, almost unanimously,
violently opposed to the Baltimore Convention,
which they justly call "a packed jury." The Nash
ville Banner say s Tennessee has sent no dele
gate to this Convention, and its nomination will
ht i- -v 1 -.
iii. inimeuce on ner vote. She voto for
White." Ruhifh Star.
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