ton and of Mr. Webster are unanswered and caught in the snares of the great magician, be unanswerable. cause they sat, side by side, at the table, and walked arm and arm. It was whispered that, The Globe, of the 19th, informs us that its let who would oppose the nomination, Mr. present circulation is: Daily, Weekly, 1194 3369 '1680 5650 11,893 Webster would not; and hence we find that Mr. Van Buren's Albany friends, to whom his secret thoughts were made known, in their letter of condolence, after assailing Mr. Calhoun and Mr. Clay, say, "of him (Mr. Webster} we had hoped better things." (We quote from memory.). Now, admit this to be true, what is the com- The tone now, however, is changed. Al mentary? Had the editor of the Telegraph as-though it was perfectly right-the very quintsented to perform the dirty work which the Globe was established to do, these 11,893 subscribers would have been added to our list!! But this is not all. We have voluntarily relinquished the patronage of the department, worth more than these subscribers. And are the people so blind as not to see that there must have been an adequate motive for such a sacrifice? essence of diplomacy in Mr. Van Buren, when he wanted to obtain Mr. Webster's vote and influence in aid of his nomination, to walk arm and arm with the "Goliah of the east ;" now, it seems that to travel in the same stage, or be seen in the same northern city, incurs the pe. nalty of excommunication! Thus, the Albany Argus gravely tells its readers, that Gen. Root and Mr. Webster tra. velled in the same stage; and the last received Louisville Advertiser informs us, that "the Hon. Daniel Webster and the Hon. George Poindexter were, at our last advices, travel. ling very lovingly together through the northern cities;" and adds, "apostacy gives a man strange bedfellows !" In addition to this, we have incurred the risk of a sacrifice of that which we value more high. ly than all-our good name—and, although we have found men enough who are ever ready to call upon us to vindicate them, we have found few, we should say none-no, not one-to defend us when we are assailed. We have seen the wicked in his prosperity-and we have lived to It is thus that the pensioned press poison the see him humbled in the dust. But, although public ear. Mr. Poindexter has not visited clouds and darkness may overshadow them for a the northern cities, in company with Mr. Webseason, truth and fortitude will be triumphant.ster or any one else; and Gen. Root's misforUpon these foundations, we build our hopes. tune in being upset in the stage and having his arm fractured, had as little connection with Mr. Webster as the editor of the Argus has with consistency and truth. The Globe of Saturday copies from the Kentucky Gazette, a scurrilous attack upon the editor of this paper. The editor of the Gazette is an unfortunate man. He was an ardent, and Governor Miller, in remarking upon the conwe had hoped, a generous and honorable man. duct of the apostate editor of the Enquirer, His relative, Mr. Pope, had been, for many compared the occasional action of truth upon years, the political rival of Mr. Clay, and we his press to the operation of galvanism upon a were not surprised that he was induced to pur-lifeless toad. This remark was forcibly brought chase the party press, then under the patronage to our recollection by an article in the Globe of of Mr. Barry and his friends, in opposition to Mr. Saturday, boasting of the economy of this âdmiClay. For some time the paper was conducted nistration!! with a moderate share of ability, and a general egard for propriety; but the editor was, at Tast compelled to throw himself on the Post Of fice Department for support, and now rivals the Globe itself, in scurrilly. It gives a parallel between the disbursements of the navy department for three years of the last, and the three years of this administration, from which it would appear that there is a balance in favor of this administration of We have heard that the editor, or his father-$527,486 67 cents per annum. Pitiable, inin-law, receives a gratuity from the Depart-deed, must be the condition of the President, ment in the shape of an additional allowance, on a post office contract, of three thousand dollars per annum. This fact speaks for itself, and shows the use to which Mr. Barry applies the surplus funds of this Department. It is also a commentary upon Mr. Grundy's solicitude to keep up the postage as a means of increasing the circulation of the purchased press. when his partisans are compelled to resort to the adininistration of that department for his justification! If there be merit there, to whom does it belong? Certainly to Gov. Branch, whom it has been the policy of the Executive favorites to destroy. We know not whether the sums given in the Globe be correct; for we see and know enough of Mr. Kendall's ability, to distrust whatever comes from his pen-but we adIt will be recollected, by those who note the mit its truth, and congratulate the country upsigns of the times, that, before Mr. Van Bu-on this symptom. This administration came inren informed the public of his acceptance of the mission to England, he visited the springs, and there paid great court to Mr. Webster. It was even given out that Mr. Webster had been to power as the advocates of economy and retrenchment; and this appeal to the only evidence of a desire to act out its principles, is a proof that the public mind is awakening to the Making, in three years, the and leaving a balance against The attempt to hold Congress responsible for an excess of appropriations, will not do. Have the appropriations exceeded the estimates? Have not all the appropriations received the sanction of the President? What is more, have not those who have been most opposed to those excessive expenditures been denounced by the subsidized press as factious oppositionists. The true principle, then, to take the words of Mr. Mangum, of the Senate, is to hold the administration responsible for the entire expenditures; and it will not do to test this administration by Leaving a balance against the last, because it came into power pledged to the economy of this adeconomy and retrenchment. We should test ministration of it by that of Mr. Munroe. How stands the account? The expenditures of this administration have been: Making, in three years, 5,963,638 75* $16,663,675 91 $4,384,620 62 4,686,642 20 4,699,602 76 $13,770,855 58 $2,892,810 33 $3,686,888 89 3,477,704 25 3,770,927 75 $10,935,512 89 $9,728,152 02 Yet the War Department is one of the favor rites of this administration; and he who admintered it under the administration of Mr. Monroe is now the special object of its bitterest caumnies. Again:-Let us compare the economy of the other favorite department:The expenditures on account of foreign intercourse, and of the civil list, and miscellaneous expenditure, under this administration, were: Making in 3 years showing that this administration have expended, in three years, the sum of more than the last administration did in the same time. But the total expenditures under the adminis tration of Mr. Monroe were, In 1821 In 1822 In 1823 In 1830, In 1829, $36,705,871 99 $3,971,063 54 Making the sum of $3,101,514 87 3,237,416 04 3,343,485 92 $9,682,416 83 Under the last administra- Making the sum of Leaving a balance against nistration of $8,062,200 16 $1,629,216 67 But, to carry out the comparison: Munroe's administration, were: In 1821, $10,396,659 36 In 1822, which, deducted from the sum expended in the three years of this administration, leaves a balance against the economy and retrenchment of this administration, of So much for the profession and practice of those now in power. But we are gratified to find, that they are brought back to the profession of economy. We will put their especial claims to another test. By the treasury reports, we find that the expenditures of the War Department, deducting pensions under the present administration, were, In 1823, Last quarter estimated. $2,223,121 54 1,967 996 24 2,012,093 99 $6,203,211 77 $3,479 205 06 Such are the results which a comparison of was, however, selected by the people as the the economy of this with the extravagance of rallying point for those who believed that the former administrations gives to the American will of the people had been disregarded in the people!!! Such are the results of promised re-election of Mr. Adams, and came into office form!!! And we would further call them to under the most solemn pledges to reform bear in mind that Mr. McLane proposes a sys-abuses, and more especially that which brought tem of taxation which will require an annual in the Executive patronage in conflict with the crease of the expenditure of, at least, ten mil-freedom of elections. So deeply sensible of lions per annum beyond the present extravagant the impropriety of any interference in the disbursements; and that this administration is choice of a Chief Magistrate was he, that, in his doing all in its power to rivet on us a system of short but impressive inaugural address, he pensions which will annually consume a sum renewed the pledges which had been made in equal to the interest of a debt of one hundred his name during the canvas. millions of dollars! We say, let the people look to these things, and let him sleep who can!!! GOV. POINDEXTER. Our correspondent "Fiat Justitia," has rebuked, in a tone and manner which it deserves, the unprecedented outrage committed by the Courier and Enquirer, by the publication of an extract from an old newspaper of sixteen years date, reviving calumnies which were met and put down at the time, in such a manner as to silence every whisper in relation to them. The whole course of Gov. Poindexter's public lifethe high trusts repeatedly conferred upon him by his fellow-citizens-the able and eloquent defence which he made for the individual who is supposed to have revived, if he has not instigated, the publication of this exploded ca. lumny, are witnesses whose force cannot be re. sisted, and would put to blush any one not so hardened as to be incapable of shame. BALTIMORE CONVENTION. But what have we seen. No sooner was Mr. Van Buren associated with him in the government, than a desire to appoint him his successor became the passion of his old age. This passion has led him into the grossest inconsis tencies; the violation, of his most solemn pledges, and thrown the power and influence of his office into the hands of sycophants and and statesmen who contributed so largely to his flatterers; whilst those distinguished patriots elevation, and whose recommendation and confidence overcame the fears of the people, are not only driven from him and proscribed, but are persecuted with a bitterness heretofore unknown in this country. We say that the nomination of Mr. Van Buren, under such circumstances, cannot fail to excite the deepest alarm, and to arouse, if there be a dormant spark remaining, the spirit which led our fathers to liberty. Is it not time that the wise and virtuous should awaken to the actual condition of the country? Is Andrew Jackson to be the first of a line of Presidents who are to use the patronage of the government to control the choice of his successor? And, having paid off the debt of the revolution, and of the late war, are the southern States to be used as dependant coloWe have not heard from this meeting, but nies, upon whom heavy contributions are to be we cannot doubt that their proceedings will re-levied, to be used in subsidizing a portion of sult in the nomination of Mr. Van Buren as a their own citizens, and enriching and perpecandidate for the Vice Presidency. His no- tuating the power of their oppressors? mination will present much cause for serious reflection to the American people. In what will our republic differ from a monarchy, if the people relinquish to the President the power of nominating his successor. We have been toid, by one of his favorite editors, one kao to be P. S. Since writing the above, we have heard in his confidence, that the plan was, to get up that a committee of one member from each a candidate in every State, and then nominate State-all except Missouri being representMr. Van Buren, nolens volens, as the only means ed--had been appointed and agreed on the orof making him President. We have seen the der of proceeding; that Gen. Lucas, o Ohio, steps by which his partisans in different sec-was recommended as President; George Kretions have been brought into office, and have mer, of Pennsylvania, and others, Vice Presi noted the manner in which this convention, dents; that the committee propose that each composed chiefly of those office-holders, their State should be entitled to the same number of relatives or dependents, has been brought toge- votes, by the respective delegates, to which ther; and the people are fully informed of such State is entitled in the electoral college; the influence which the President himself has and that it shall require two-thirds of the votes brought to bear in aid of his favorite. It has, thus given to make a nomination. We have in fact, become, to use the language of his sy-also understood, that a small majority of the cophants and flatterers, a question of "whether the President, chosen by the people, shall be thwarted in his favorite measure. Virginia delegates had agreed to support Mr. Barbour; and that Kentucky and Indiana would vote for Col. Johnson. We yet incline to the General Jackson has, at all times, been im- opinion that Mr. Van Buren will be nominated. patient of restraint; self-will, and an obstinate We understand that the New York delegates perseverance in its gratification, are prominent say, that the nomination of an anti tariff canditraits of his character in early life, and form-date for the Vice Presidency will defeat the ed, with many citizens, an insuperable objec- ticket in that State. Oh, how delightful it is tion to his elevation to the Presidency. He for friends to dwell together in harmony! tages. THE ADJUSTMENT OF THE TARIFF. king an application for appropriations, or ever There can be no honest man, or true lover of receiving them, in violation of their construchis country, but must feel great solicitude in re- tion of the constitution. If to this we add, that lation to the adjustment of the tariff. It is, in- the side which entertains constitutional scrudeed, a question of magnitude-we were going ples contributes far the largest proportion to to say, frightful magnitude-which, unless ad- the public treasury, it must be apparent that justed, we fear is destined to shock our system the present dangerous sectional conflict canto its centre. But there are many who talk of not terminate so long as there is a surplus. Nor is the equalization of the burden, or at adjustment without due reflection, and without fixing in their mind the least conception of the least some approximation to it, less necessary. principles on which any modification, deserv- He who knows the human heart, and how deep. ing to be called an adjustment, must rest. It is ly the principle of equality is planted there, time that such loose conceptions on a subject must feel the force of the assertion. It is imposso vitally important, should cease, and that all sible that, among a people so intelligent and high sides should duly reflect on what principles, minded as the Americans, a system can long and on what principles only, this distracting endure which shall place the burden on one section, and the benefit on the other; and that, question can be adjusted. To the reflecting mind, it must be apparent too, under a constitution formed to protect all that one of the great and leading mischiefs of in the equal enjoyment of their natural advan the system is, that it has placed the two great These points being fixed, we may be asked, sections of this country in hostile relations on the great question of taxation and dis-how is this question to be adjusted? We anbursements-questions, above all others, the swer, on no other than the principles which we most dangerous on which geographical divi- have stated, with a free concession as to time. sions of the country can be formed. It must be We feel the full force of the objection that the apparent that, whilst this dangerous sectional labor and capital of a large section of the coundistraction exists in relation to these vital ques-try, have taken a given direction, and that any sudden change might prove disastrous; and we tions, our country must be exposed to the most cannot doubt but that the high-minded and indangerous vicissitudes; that we must be perpetually menaced with the danger of disunion it telligent people of the South, who so justly complain of the system as it is, and who see, in self-not to advert to the necessary consequence of distracting the councils of the nation, its continuance, not only their impoverishment, -corrupting the morals and politics of the but the destruction of public liberty, if they could be satisfied that the two great pointscountry and strengthening, beyond any other first, of preventing an accumulation of a surpossible state of things, the Executive power and patronage. No modification of the tariff plus in the treasury, and lastly, an equalization, as near as may be, of the public burdens, would which will leave the country in a situation so dangerous, can, with any propriety of language, patiently submit to the temporary injustice of be called an adjustment: this brings us to the any arrangement which will ultimately secure to them liberty and union-the great objects point which we propose to consider, to wit; which they have in view. what are the principles on which the tariff mus be modified, in order to terminate this danger-Adams has made his report on this subject. We P. S. Since the above was prepared, Mr. ous sectional conflict? hasten to lay the bill before our readers, and We conceive two conditions to be indispen-will follow it up with the report. We have not sable-first, that there be no surplus revenue betime or space for comment. yond the ordinary and clearly constitutional wants of the government; and in the next place, that the modification shall be such as to equalize the burdens as nearly as practicable-such, at least, as shall not act as a tax on one side, and fa system of bounties" on the other." the BALTIMORE CONVENTION. We learn from Baltimore that the vote in the informal meeting was as follows: Barbour, V. Buren, Johnson. 9 North Carolina, 6 Alabama, 6 1 Virginia, 23 0 3 7 0 15 1. 2 9 2 Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, 0 All the other votes being for Van Buren, gi That a surplus revenue must keep up present distraction cannot be doubted by any one who has witnessed the proceedings of Con. gress for the last few years. It must give rise to perpetual heart-burnings. Very different opinions are entertained in the two great sections of the country as to the constitutional powers of the General Government-the one giving it such a construction as to embrace most ving V. B. 208; Barbour, 49; and Johnson, 26. of the objects on which money may be expend. The question now remains of, what will the ed; whilst the other limits the power of the go-States opposed to Mr. Van Buren do? Will the vernment, in its disbursements, to the powers people of the south and west consent to be clearly enumerated in the constitution. With transferred by the influence of the government this fundamental difference of construction, it to a candidate selected by the President? Or, is clear that a surplus must, of necessity, be ap- will Virginia arouse from the lethargy in which propriated almost exclusively to one section, she has been sleeping, and take the lead in rethe principle of the other forbidding their ma-sisting such dictation? It need not be said, that the question is be- this attempt to injure the character of Judge tween Van Buren and Sergeant. The friends Poindexter, and the signal triumph which he of the Constitution are not called upon to gained over his enemies on that occasion. To choose between them. If those who profess so publish the pamphlet to which I have referred, much solicitude to defeat the election of Mr. at this day, would be producive of no benefit, Sergeant, are sincere, let them unite upon Mr. either to Senator Poindexter or to the public, Barbour, or some other candidate who will pre- and would lacerate wounds which have been sent a rallying point for the friends of State healed by the hand of time, and, in some inRights, and of a strict construction of the con- stances, disturb the ashes of the dead. I, therestitution. Will Mr. Barbour forego the favor fore, content myself with an enumeration of of the Executive so far as to oppose his wishes the high trusts to which the Hon. Senator has in this respect? We ask for information on this been called by the suffrages of the people, point, from those who know his views. We among whom he has lived for the last 30 years, will, at an early day, speak more at large of the since this shameful and unprovoked effort to Convention, of the manner in which it was got-calumniate him was made. ten up, and of the materials of which it was composed. COMMUNICATIONS, &c. 1st. In 1817, he was chosen, by an overwhelming majority of the people of the county of Wilkinson, in which he resides, a member of the Convention which formed the Constitution of the present State of Mississippi. 2d. He was, in the same year, elected the first Representative of the new State, in Congress, without opposition. FOR THE UNITED STATES' TELEGRAPH. I have noticed in the New York Courier and Enquirer, of the 15th instant, a journal in the pay of the Administration, an extract from the 3d. In 1819," he declined a re-election to his Lexington Reporter, under date of 28th of seat in Congress; and in August of that year he July, 1815, containing some exparte state- was chosen by the people, Governor of the ments and certificates which formed a part of State, by an immense majority, over General a personal controversy between Mr. Poindex- Thomas Hinds, one of the brave defenders of ter and certain individuals who sought his New Orleans in 1815, and since, a representadownfall at that day. I advert fo this effort to tive from that State in Congress. mislead the public mind in relation to a private 4th. He was appointed by the General Astransaction long since consigned to oblivion, sembly of Mississippi, in 1821, sole revisor not for the purpose of responding to any thing of the statutes of that State, which occupied to be found in those by-gone libels, but to ex- his time, almost entirely, for nearly two years. press my astonishment at the expedients resort- He then declined a re-election to the Execued to by Gen. Jackson and his myrmidons to tive chair, and went into the Legislature to satiate their hatred and malicious feelings to-aid in passing the revised code which he had ward the individual whom it is the object of the prepared; which was adopted, and a resolupublication to assail. tion of thanks to him annexed to it, with the I know that these stale calumnies were, a compliment of a splendid copy of the Encyclo. few months past, revived and repeated by pædia, presented as an evidence of public graGen. Jacksou, in a conversation with several titude, with inscriptions corresponding with gentlemen at his own residence; but it was permitted to pass, as that time, as unworthy of animadversion. I am now at no loss in tracing the publication in the Courier and Enquirer to the same source, and feel called upon to make a few remarks in relation to it. the intentions of the Legislature in making the present. Soon after this, he was afflicted with a stubborn and an unmanageable complaint in his limbs, which rendered him unable to perform any public duty for six or seven years, during which time, he was twice offered a seat in the Senate of the United States, which he The contest of which the papers published was unable to accept. He was appointed by are a part, was conducted with great warmth the Governor Chancellor of the State, which on both tides, and party feeling mingled in it he likewise declined on account of ill health to a very considerable extent, the object be- and in 1830, when confined to a bed of sicking to deprive Mr. Poindexter, then a Judge ness, in Louisville, Kentucky, he received the of the Superior Court of Mississippi Territory, executive appointment to the Senate of the of the good opinion and confidence of his fel- United States; which, in November of the low-citizens. It drew forth from Judge Poin-same year, was almost unanimously confirmed dexter a pamphlet, published in Lexington, by the joint ballot of the two Houses of the Kentucky, in the month of August, shortly af- General Assembly, although strong doubts ter the publication copied into the Courier and were entertained of his ability to render the Enquirer, which completely and effectually service for which he was chosen. prostrated his opponents, and made an impres- I will not insult the intelligent reader by ension on the mind of every man who read it, not tering into a scope of reasoning, to demonreadily to be forgotten, highly favorable to him, strate that no man could have been thus honorand inflicted a deep wound on his reckless as-ed by the unbought suffrages of those to whom sailants. he had been intimately known for a long series There are members of both Houses of Congress of years, if he were liable to imputations such at this time from Kentucky, who will recollect as are alleged in these partisan exparte sta |