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VOL. V.............

WASHINGTON, MAY 4, 1832.

$2.50 PER ANNUM.....BY DUFF GREEN.

...No. 5.

The following official denunciation of both And upon whom should rest the responsibility, Houses of Congress appeared in the Globe off Congress have done nothing? Who does not the 25th ult. : know that the partisans of the administration "They have filled both branches of Congress have acted with Mr. Clay and his friends, on with unbecoming altercations, and have sunk the pension and tariff bills? It will be remem the dignity of the National Assembly by mak-bered that Mr. Tazewell said the project preing it the general reservoir for all the calum sented by Mr. Wilkins was had, that by Mr. nies generated by party malignity. It is no Clay worse, and that by Mr. Marcy worst of all! longer a deliberative and legislative body Whose fault, then, is it that more has not been It appears somewhat like a court of scandal, in done? But it is not true that Congress have done which libels of all sorts are uttered and inqui-nothing. We call upon those who are best acred into, and where all breaches of the peace quainted with the deliberations of Congress to arising thereupon are to be made cognizable bear witness that, at no previous session, has and punishable." either House been more engaged in the dis.

A conversation between the President and charge of its duties. In the House, there have a minister of the Gospel, in the presence of been five hundred and fifty-four bills reported; several other persons, relative to the arrest of two hundred and five bills passed, and sent to Houston, in which the President is said to have the Senate; sixty-two bills from the House have denounced both Houses, so much in the lan-passed the Senate, and become laws; two bills guage of the Globe, has been for some days from the House have passed the Senate, with past the subject of remark. The similarity of amendments, and not yet become laws; fiftythe language used by the Globe and that attri-seven bills from the Senate have been receivbuted to the President, leaves no room to ed in the House; ten bills from the Senate have doubt that the article in the Globe is in confor. passed the House and become laws; three Semity to his opinions, and its publication accep. uate bills have passed the House, with amend table to him. Taken in this view, it raises aments, but not become laws; there have been question deserving the most serious attention of four hundred and fifty-one reports from comthe American people. mittees, of an interesting or important charac To give more force to this assault upon Con-ter, which have been printed by order of the gress, the Globe sets out by saying, "Look to House; and the committees have acted upon at the results of the present session of Congress, least one thousand memorials, and other subwhich has been sitting almost five months-jects, the reports upon which being, generally, what has been done? Not a solitary bill of ge. of an adverse character, have not been printed; neral interest has been passed." there have been presented to the House three

The great measures of the present session thousand one hundred and thirty petitions and have been the Bank, the Tariff, and the Appor. memorials; there have been six hundred and tionment and Pension Bills. At the commence-twenty-seven subjects of inquiry, raised on rement of the session, Mr. McLane, as he him-solutions adopted by the House; and there self construed his conversation with a member have been about thirty resolutions of inquiry of Congress, asserted his ability to present a moved by members, but which have not been tariff bill which would be acceptable to all agreed to by the House. We will be borne parties. Why has he not done so? He out by the experience of the oldest members, was requested to do so; and has not, when we say that, at no previous session, have up to this day, handed in his project.-members of Congress been more arduously enSuch a bill should have been prepared at the gaged in their legislative duties. Treasury before the commencement of the But, says the Globe, Congress "is no longer session. We know that Mr. Ingham, the late a deliberative and legislative body. It appears Secretary of the Treasury, had been, for a long some what like a court of scandal, in which libels time, earnestly engaged in preparing the de of all sorts are uttered and inquired into, and tails of such a bill; and we do not hesitate to where all breaches of the peace asising thereupon, avow our belief that, but for his removal, he are to be made cognizable and punishable.” would have greatly contributed to the adjust- This direct allusion to the proceeding now ment of this embarrassing question. With what before the House, is conclusive of the view enface, then, can the Globe, the organ of the tertained by the Executive of the powers and Treasury and of the Ex-cutive, attempt to duty of the Congress relative to assaulis upon throw upon Congress the responsibility of de-its members for words spoken in debate. The laying to act on the tariff? The Secretary of object cannot be misunderstood. It is to impair the Treasury, whose duty it was to prepare the standing of members of Congress as such, the bill, has failed to discharge his duty, and to counteract the influence which their and upon him rests the responsibility.opinions, and the proofs of fraud, and the mal

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practices of the government, developed by Con- self, put an end to the power of Lewis, Kengress, will have on the public mind. It is a spe- dall, Hayward, and their associates, with that cies of the same bullying by which the politi. of their chieftain, the Kinderhook intriguer? cians of the Nashville school would hush the Can any man doubt, that at least two thirds of voice of truth. It is part of the plan to overawe this community abhor the present corrupt state the Congress of the United States, and to con- of things, and those who have brought the vert the representatives of a free people into country into it? and that there would not be the servile slaves of the creatures of a corrupt the slightest prospect of the continuance of and profligate administration. We have much their power, provided the honest of all sides more to say in relation to this subject; but we could unite against them, which they certainly rejoice to find the organ of corruption thus la- would do, if the country was not divided on boring in its vocation-thus speaking in the the tariff and other questions connected with open day. The people will repel, with the in- it? This, the corrupt corps, who are in dignant scorn which it merits, this calumny up- possession of power, well know; and while on their representatives. they have the audacity to charge others, with exciting the present distraction, they would be the very last to bring it to a termination-be cause it would seal their doom.

The purchased press, headed by the Globe, are striving to make an impression, that the Vice President has an interest in keeping up That they should exhibit an apparent anxiethe present distracted state of the country, and ty to adjust the tariff, is not at all surprising; with that view they charge him as being averse but when we reflect on the project to effect to the adjustment of the tariff question. Never that object, presented by the Secretary of the was a charge more unfounded. Instead of being Treasury, at the commencement of the session, interested in keeping the up unhappy divisions and the bill since reported by the Committee which now distract the country, every motive, of Manufactures in the House of Representapersonal, political, and patriotic, impels him in tives to enforce the present system, (and which a different direction. Instead of profiting by originated in the Treasury Department,) a bill the present state of things, his prospect, as a more odious than the tariff of 1828, we cannot public man, has been, and is more injuriously believe that a sincere desire to terminate the affected by it than any other prominent indi-present controversy, by a fair and honorable vidual in the country. We venture to say, that adjustment, which would bring down the duthere is no other public man who stands higher ties to the proper revenue point-which would with the intelligent and patriotic portion, as do justice to all the parts, by equalizing the well as with the great bulk of the community, burden as nearly as may be, enters into the for private worth, public integrity and servi- views of those now in power. Under this imces, than the Vice President. Remove the pression, we predict that when the scheme of objection to him arising from the tariff, on the Secretary of the Treasury comes in, it will the part of the manufacturing States, and his be found to fail in all these particulars, by opinion on the ultimate constitutional remedy an adherence to which alone, any permanent in reference to the protective system, and we or satisfactory adjustment can take place. That venture to assert, that there is no other public instead of bringing down the revenue to the man against whom there are so few objections, as point that the economical and constitutional against Mr. Calhoun; and yet, in th. face of these wants of the country require, it will be gradufacts, the corrupt organs of power dare to make ated at a rate exceeding that of all the preceed. the charge that he is opposed to the adjustment ing administrations, excluding the public debt; of the very question, the existence of which and that instead of equalizing the burdens, it alone stands in the way of his future advance- will distribute the duties in a manner to act ment. To such absurdities are the partisans most unequally on the several portions of the of power and corruption driven, in order to country. We come to this conclusion, not ondestroy, if possible, the confidence of the peoly for the general reasons which have been asple in the integrity and patriotism of the Vice signed, but from other indications. The SePresident. cretary has been collecting evidence, as we unThere are, it is true, those who do profit by derstand, in reference to the operations of the the present unhappy distraction of the country, tariff, and consulting with certain individuals on but it is neither Mr. Calhoun nor his friends. the same subject. We shall be greatly surAs much as the satisfactory termination of the prised if he has consulted a single individual present state of things would advance their in-connected with the great planting interest of terest, in the same proportion would it oppress the country, or has collected a particle of testhose, who by the most corrupt means, grow. timony in reference to the manner in which it ing out of existing circumstances, have ob'ain. may be effected by his proposed adjustment. ed possession of power, and who can retain it The calcultation in that quarter is to rely, not no longer than the present corrupted and dis-upon its interest, but on the fidelity of faithful tracted state of things continues. Who does partisans, who, for some cause or other, take a not see that an adjustment of the conflicting in-ter deeper concern in the presidential questerests of the several sections of the country, ion than in the public harmony, or in the inwhich would bring the sound elements of the terest with which they are more particularly country together, would almost instantly, of it. connected.

The Southern Planter says:

"DEAR SIR: By the same mail with this you "Van Burenism-at Natchez.-We under-will receive a Port Gibson Correspondent, stand that the contemplated great Van Buren which contains the proceedings of a meeting meeting at that place, proved a total failure-held in this place, on the 31st ultimo. It is we are credibly informed that when the vote hoped, Sir, you will find in them the consolawas taken on the resolutions, &c., that there tion, that you are not deserted in Missi-sippi, were about twelve persons present!" nothwithstanding the recent attempts made by And yet the Globe publishes these proceed- your personal enemies and dishonest politicians, ings as an evidence of public sentiment in Mississippi.

A correspondent of the New York Daily Ad vertiser says:

to impose a belief on yourself and the public, that that very public censured your course. Although your enemies are active, and descend so far beneath the gentleman in the vileness and coarseness of the epithets which they em. "He denounces the House for arresting Mr. ploy in censuring you; yet you may look with Houston-it has no power to do so-that it is a confidence to the support of the candid, the high handed act of aristocracy-aad that Mr. honest, and the sober-minded of all parties; Stanberry has received nothing more than he and rely upon it, your services, and your capa. deserved. He makes the proceedingt of the cities still for rendering them, will always reHouse a standing theme for declamation. Aceive in Mississippi the high appreciation which clergyman, a friend, and an acquaintance of they deserve." his, lately visited him in company with a lady, and so strong were the President's expressions, MR. VAN BUREN, MR. RITCHIE, AND 'THE that the clergyman felt bound to admonish him TARIF OF 1828.-It is really amusing to see the at his own house, or rather at the house of the tricks and juggling by which Mr. Ritchie is atnation, for the imprudence of his remarks. tempting to palm his favorite upon the good This is the man whom Mr. Jefferson said "one and honest people of Virginia. He knows their might as well make a sailor of a cock, or a sol-deep aversion to the "bill of abominations," dier of a goosn, as a President of him."

which has impoverished the State. He knows

Will the Globe deny that this statement is that Mr. Van Buren supported that bill. The substantially correct.

VIRGINIA VICE PRESIDENT. The Culpepper Gazette contains the follow ing notice, signed by Richard Field, Saml. A. Storrow, William Green, Jeremiah Strother, William Major, George Freeman, Henry Shackleford, William Hurt, W. J. Manifee, Martin Slaughter, and Daniel Brown, Jun.

difficulty is to reconcile Virginia to a course so contradictory as the support of a man who supported the bill to which the people of that State are so grievously opposed. The cunning fox knows, that were he to undertake to excuse the tariff, he would but destroy the confidence which the people of Virginia so strangely repose in him. He takes precisely the opposite course, in order to maintain his hold on them. "NOTICE.-A Convention of Delegates He denounces the tariff in the strongest terms, will assemble at Charlottesville on the 12th day and calls a rally to arms to put it down. But of June next, to nominate a ticket of electors this would seem to be fatal to Mr. Van Buren, pledged to support ANDREW JACKSON as by whose management the tariff was fixed up. President of the United States, and PHILIP P. on the country. At this point he displays all BARBOUR as Vice President of the same, at his skill and adroitness. To cover his favorite, the ensuing election. A meeting of the citi- he asserts that he voted under instructions of zens of Culpepper, for the appointment of de- the legislature of New York. The history of legates to represent the county in the above- these instructions forms an interesting item in named Convention, will take place at the court the political management of Mr. Ritchie's fahouse on the 1st day of the next (May) court."vorite.

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Mr. Wright, the present comptroller of New York, and the most influen'ial of Mr. Van BuWe insert, to-day, the report of the Senate's ren's partisans, was one of the committee who committee on the apportionment of the Repre-reported and carried the bill through the It was well sentatives of the several States. The indica- House of Representatives tions given out by the Globe, and the Albany understood that the whole matter Argus, would justify the supposition that the effort to enlist the tariff with the presidenbill, as it passed the Senate, will not receive tial question, by the two parties who placed that the Executive sanction. If such should be its question beyond all others; and each of these fate, the question will assume much more im- was desirous to throw upon the other the reportance than we have heretofore supposed; sponsibility of defeating it. Besides these, and it will become the duty of all to investigate there were two other parties in the House; one and understand the principles involved in the earnestly in favor of the increase of duties, and It was asreport. the other decidedly opposed to it. certained that the manufacturers were opposed to the project as matured by Mr. Wright, and as clearly understood that if that bill were sent to the Senate, it would be rejected by the aid of the votes of the New England Senators. It

We have been permitted to copy the follow. ing extract from a letter, dated Port Gibson, April 8, 1832, addressed to the Hon. Mr. Poindexter.

is remembered by all that the bill as it passed The report of Mr. McLane-the "judicious the House was most strenuously opposed by tariff" of the present-Executive is another step New England members, and it is this bill which in this system of political management; but it Mr. Webster denominated the "bill of abomi-is too late-the eyes of the people are opened, nations." Mr. Van Buren pledged himself to and even the hypocritical Thomas Ritchie will We are prevent all amendments to the bill, and pretended be compelled to abjure the fraud. that the instructions of the N. Y. legislature were gravely told that the Secretary consulted intelgot up for that purpose. The bill was sent to ligent gentlemen, north of the Potomac and in the Senate on the 231 of April, and on the 9th the State of Ohio! And why did he not conof May, 1828, "Mr. Van Buren presented reso-sult intelligent gentlemen south of the Potolutions of the legislature of New York, instruct-mic? Was there no intelligence in Virginia, ing the Senators and requesting the Represen North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, tatives from that State, in Congress, to use every Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, or Louisiaproper exertion to effect such a revision of the na? Or were they all at the disposal of Thomas tariff as will afford a sufficient protection to the Ritchie? Mr. McLane tells us why he did not growers of wool, hemp, and flax, and the ma- consult them. They were to be bribed in, by nufacture of iron, woollens, and every other ar-a permission to buy negro cloth at a duty of ticle, so far as the same may be connected with ten per cent.! How considerate the Secretary the interests of manufactures, agriculture, and is, to take upon himself so great a responsibilicommerce; and declaring, as the sense of the ty!! How can we refuse to make Mr. Van legislature, that the provisions of the woollens Buren President, after so great a concession ! bill which passed the House of Representatives Up with your cap, Mr. R.-huzza for Mr. Van at the last session of Congress, whatever advan Buren and his "judicious tariff." tages they may have promised to the manufacturers of woollen goods, did not afford adequate encouragement to the agriculturist and the growers of wool."

THE GLOBE, AND MR. ADAMS. The Globe of yesterday claims Mr. Adams as the advocate of the measures of the administraWho could have believed that General tion.

We have quoted from the Senate Journal, and it will be seen that the instructions were Jackson would have purchased the eulogies of framed with a view to cover the bill which Mr. an insolvent partisan of Henry Clay, or that he Wright, by the advice and consent" of Mr. would have been reduced to a dependance upVan Buren and the party, had passed through on the support of John Q. Adams?

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So far from citing Mr. Adams's speech as a self to vote against the amendments, without justification, General Jackson should read in which it was well known that Mr. Webster and in that speech his own condemnation. his friends would assume the responsibility of Adams did no more than insist for that conrejecting the bill. Yet, by the violation or his struction of the powers of the Executive for pledge, he voted for the amendments, and after. which he himself had contended when in office, And yet Mr. Ritchie and which had been denied to him then, and to is prepared to sustain him for for Vice Presi. General Jackson now, by the Senate.. Who does not see that the object of the ex-President, and then for President.

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But it will be seen that the instructions did dent is to vindicate himself? It is a poor comnot require Mr. Van Buren to vote for the bill pliment, indeed, to Gen. Jackson, who promisas it passed. They bear upon their face the ed to reform the abuses of the last administrapurpose for which they were got up, and the tion, to find him resting on the precedents of report of the Secretary of the Treasury, is an. that administration as an excuse for a violation other link in the chain of deception, played off of his pledges! But a word to Mr. Adams. Any one converupon the south. It was not then, nor is it now, the interest or policy of Mr. Van Buren to sant with the principles of human action, must quiet the country. All parties now admit that know that his chief solicitude is to counteract the act of 1828, was most unwise, even as the effect which the late presidential canvass measure of protection. It has greatly increased might have had on his reputation. For this purthe difficulty of an adjustment of the question, pose, he came into Congress, and it was early consequent upon the payment of the national foreseen that he would not permit himself to be debt; to the south is unjust and oppressive, considered as a partisan of Mr. Clay. By refuswhile it was to the manufacturers themselves,ing to become a partisan of Mr. Clay, he may illusory and ruinous. Mr. Van Buren, how-counteract, to some extent, the impression that ever, had an interest already established in the there was an obligation, implied or expressed, South. He had already secured Mr. Crawford to do so; by entering the lists in defence of the and Mr. Ritchie, as his authorities, and relying abuses of this admin stration, he can do no more upon their influence in denouncing Mr. Calhoun, than satisfy the public that we have gained but he hoped to keep the south divided, whilst he little in principle by the change; but he runs would come in on the tariff interest as the fa- the risk of bringing upon himself a heavy revorite of the northern section, for he did not sponsibility for the abuses of both, without redoubt that both Mr. Clay and Mr. Adams, deeming himself from the odium which justly would be laid aside by the Presidential election, a taches to the last. For ourselves, we were then decided in the public opinion, in favor of not disposed to consider him as a combatant, but he who enters the lists as a champion, must General Jackson. expect to be dealt with accordingly.

SECRETARY MCLANE VS. GEN. JACKSON.

nomination of 1824! At this period, contrary Our correspondent, "Another Citizen of De-to his usual custom of employing the editorial laware," handles the amiable Secretary secun- department of his paper, Mr. McLane addressed dem artem, and promises to furnish other and to the members of the Legislature three letters further extracts from the writings of the Secre-under the signature of "A Citizen of Delaware" tary; but what he now gives, shows how in relation to the then approaching election of hollow and false is the pretension upon which a President of the United States. It has never General Jackson has made war upon his old been doubted, or denied, that he is the author friend, who defended him in the day and hour of those letters. And the friends of Mr. Crawof trial against those enemies whom he now ford, at the time, were exceedingly active in hugs to his bosom. giving currency to the fact; for they expected Let the reader peruse the following extract much from the authority of his name. from the pen of Mr. McLane, and ask himself expectations were realized; and although the why is it that this man is now the confidential Assembly of Delaware was not in favor of Mr. and bosom friend of Andrew Jackson, while he Crawford, yet two electors were chosen favoris the sworn and bitter enemy of the Vice able to him. I shall not here enlarge upon the President. It speaks a volume and needs no extraordinary measures adopted to effect this bject; but will barely remark, that they are unbecoming the character of a high-minded and upright politician.

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Extract from a communication, signed "A Citizen of Delaware;" which we are assured was written by Louis McLane, the present SeMr. McLane's preference of Mr. Crawford cretary of the Treasury. over Gen. Jackson, for the Presidency, was not "It is presumed, however, that the federalists merely because Mr. C. was his especial favo of Delaware, in selecting a Chief Magistrate for rite, but that the General was utterly unfit for this great republic, will deem virtue and moral- the exalted station. Indeed, if sincere in his ily necessary ingredients in his character.protestations, as set forth in the following exThey will not elevate to that distinguished tract from one of his letters, signed "a Citizen place a military despot, who deliberately be- of Delaware," Mr. McLane cannot now believe lieves he has authority to hang distinguished General Jackson qualified for civil rule. Here citizens of the United States under a military it is. law, applicable only to foreigners, and who has "It is presumed, however, that the federalists actually shot six militia men WITHOUT of Delaware, in selecting a Chief Magistrate for

TRIAL!"

COMMUNICATIONS, &c..

FOR THE UNITED STATES TELEGRAPH.

SIR: The recent defence, by the Globe, of the political history of the Secretary of the Treasury, would seem to demand a passing notice. I shall, however, content myself for the present, with a brief retrospect of his character and professions; and endeavor to substantiate my statement by a few passages from his own lucubrations, which appeared in the "Delaware Gazette," in 1824.

this great republic, will deem vi tue and moral-
ity necessary ingredients in his character.-
They will not elevate to that distinguished
place a military despot, who deliberately be-
lieves he has authority to hang distinguished
citizens of the United States under a military
law, applicable only to foreigners, and who has
WITHOUT
actually shot six militia men
TRIAL!"

This grave and solemn address by Mr. McLane to the Legislature of Delaware, must have proceeded from the deliberate conviction of his heart; or he must have attempted to practice an unworthy delusion upon the members of that Legislature. His friends may choose To accomplish the objects of his ambition, it for him the horn of the dilemma. Again, we is known and admitted in his native State, that extract from the Delaware Gazette, of January, Mr Louis McLane is not fastidious in the selec-1824:

tion of his means. With party, principles hang. "A reference to the conduct of the General ing loosely about him, and a subservient press in the cause of Arbuthnot and Ambrister, may exclusively at his command, he availed himself serve to show in what estimation HE holds of his advantageous position in the House of the decision of a court martial, as well as the of Representatives, in 1824, to inculcate upon his ficers of our civil court, WHEN THEY COME constituents such doctrines, as, in his opinion, IN CONTACT WITH HIS PURPOSES, and would best promote his own aspiring views. that the failure of such a tribunal to give senRegardless of former sentiments, and of former tence against an object of displeasure, IS NO friends, this Federalist of the Old School" PREVENTATIVE AGAINST THEIR PU. permitted no one to escape the censure of his NISHMENT, when General Jackson possesses Gazette, who hesitated unconditionally to sub-the power, and entertains a wish to inflict it." The fact is well known to the citizens of mit to unprincipled plans for his elevation.

Hence, by referring to a file of the Delaware Delaware, that the pliant successor to the late Gazette, which I shall embrace the earliest op-talented editor of the Baltimore Republican, portunity to transmit to the office of the Tele- Mr. Wilson, was then, as he is now, the mere graph, you will find denouncing Mr. Adams for mouthpiece of Mr. McLane; that nothing of a apostatizing from the federal party, and, at the political bearing, either editorial or otherwise, same time, advocating the democratic caucus-appeared in the "Gazette" without the direc

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