The Greensborough patriot [July 2, 1839]

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VOLUME I. GREENSBOROUGH, N. G, JULY 2, 1839. NUMBER 20.
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COMMUNICATION.
Far the GrcensbarouRh Patriot.
Stoke* County, June llth, 1639.
MB. EDITOR:
1 liavo bin a thinkin for some
time I should like to rite to you consar-nin
poll)licks, but my nabors said I had
better not, becaus as you was a whig
and a< 1 waaon totlier aide, you wouldeut
Iirint my ritins for me. Well totlier day
sees one of your papers anil I seed so
much printed thcro that is rong, that I
have concluded to rite you a frondly let-ter
in li<i]ir, ili.it it will aid you in seeing
the error of your ways and induce jou to
turn; and this is a private Utter as I
dont want printed in the paper?, for I
only rile it becaus I lliort it my duty.
It seems tli.it you are agin .Mr. Hill
our candidate for kongrcs, and it does
appear to mo to bee the most strangest
thing in natcr that any body can be agin
him, for you know Mr. Hill is in favot
of the president and Mr. Shcppcid is a-gin
him—why sarlinly you have never
saw Mr. Hill. Why Ivc known linn al-ways,
and he is a nice clever man, and
he is so frondly to the pore pcplo in per-tickler.
Now you shortly dont know
whats good for you, or you would not
be agin Vanburcn. If you could onlv
hear Mr. Hill talk a bout it, I know youd
turn—he dont talk so pretty when he
makes big speeches, but it is when In-takes
you out by yourself—O he dose
■plain it so nico! Mo and Mr. Hill is
old fronds, and he talks to mo jest as
same as if I was a big man, and he looks
so smilin, and he will stand and talk jest
as long as I please. So one day lie told
me how a man hailort to do;—he says it
is jest as easy for a man to be |kipltr as
Otipoplcr, for Ifhe will keep his eye skin-ned
be can always sic how ibe wind's
about to blow. Ho cays that ho was
cotch^d onco and only once, an.] lit
lalfi d mighlly when ho told me of it—
it was when Jackson fust ContO out : he
aayi that ho read the papers ami heard
the people talk, and thort thai CralTord
would be the poplar man, so he went for
CratTord, and be was a candidate lor the
Scmhly that year, ami out comes Shover
for Jackson and heats him ; be says that
before thfl lection was over ho seen ho
was on the rong trail, and wishl many
mid many a time tint he bad of took up
at lust for Jackson, but it wag too late.
Ho says that when they was Icel.onocr- j illVor,| Mr. irj,| rouM „„, anspI j, a|,
in that year Shove, .old1 the people all a. .,,„„„ ,|„, jacksoll or no JK^
bout how Jackson had lout for urn, and „11!M lhi w0, , ,„„ Vanburin a
that it took amasin well. He says that
this sanu Shepperd was poling for the
commons thai saim year and he wos for
Jackson too, and maid some speeches for
Jackson, and they hurt Mr. Hill pretty
considerable, and he hainl forgot Shop,
pord for that yel. Well so ho says that
next year he come out for Jackson, find-in
as he was the poplorcst, ami that the
people liked him becaus he had lout for
urn, and that year he beat Shover al!
holler.
Well he says he hung on to Jackson
very close tell Jackson killed the bill
that kongrcs past rcniiing the chapter of
the United Slates bank, and then he laid
mutral for a w bile, for he had always thorl
the bank was a mighty good thing, and
he had never hearn nothing agin it be-fore
and he did not beleeve tiic people
would like Jacksons killin it, and ns he
had bin cotch once he wos determine '
not lo lip in the dark agin. So he wait-id
lell Ibe bill was fotch into kongrea
agin, and then when he seed that the
members of kongrcs who had voted for it
afore they know'd Jackson was agin it,
then voted agin it and call it a monster
and heard the people say it was a inon.
strr and onconstitulionable, for giner.il
Jackson (aid it wos—he know'd winch
way to steer then, and so he conic out
agin the bank.
Well Mr. Hill says he wos in Ihe same
fix agin when Jackson took the public
mono* out of the United States hank be-caus
it wonldent lectionocr for him, and
give it to some Stale hanks that wos wil-lin
to lectionocr for him: he says he
know'd it was rong, and laid still toll he
found Which Way the people would go,
and when he found thev would go with
Jackson he come out and went thai way
too,—and he says he found that the pi o
pail of the oiimfi>iim d people coiiipi
in about any ol their acts, he ji si tells
about how J.iok.-on I,ml for Hie coil.i
til, and if hi bodlm bin a friend to tin
country he would, nt ol f. ut so for it,
sud that Jackson knows V,ml,men, and
he recommend, d him, and that Vanbor, n
Mad promised to tread in J.icksons foot-steps,
and that no true Jackson man will
complaint and thai none will complain
but bank whigs, fcdralists and tones,
and that they aro all ogin Jackson and
Vanburcn because they are friends to the
country, and that ourn is the only rcpib-licnn
parly, and that all lhais agio our
parly is either bank whigs, f- drslcsla or
lories, why be says they eoiuea over
preily considerable quick. And he says
•ts best lo keep the peple with their at-tention
turned lo Jackson, for if they
once lose site of him and examin the
measures of the administration, and lei
each measure siand or fall upon its own
merits, Ihat a body would never know
where to find the peplo, and then candi-dates
would havo to stand or fall upon
their own merits, and nono but men of
merit could be lectcd to any oflicc.
Well this was on tuzedy of cort week
and then we quit talkin becaus he said
he wanted to look over his speech, as he
and Shepperd had lo speak the next day.
Well wensdy I coinus on lo cort to
hear the candidates speck. I am fond
of hearin candidates spcek, becaus if the
the Ihing works right I think I shall come
out myself afore long—anil in the eveniu
we' all comes into the cort house and
Shepperd he made along speech all about
mailers—he lolled all about his gtiinc for
Jackson in all things lhat wos Wright and
agin him in all things that wos rung ;
he said he would support no man in a
measure which he thort would injer the
country—hi: told about public ollicers
being turned out becaus they would not
Inctionccr for Jackson and Vanburin, and
about Ihir piiltin in some lhat would
lectioneer for urn and lay out a p.ut of
there salrvs in leetioneeriu—and he read
Where it WOI proved that they did have
lo lay out part of llnr salrys for tin. party
in leelioneering—he then told all about
a hcep of them saim officers gitliu a hole
chance of Ihe peple's money in thir hands
and rofbsin to wise it up—and a man bv
the name of Woodberry thretniii to turn
urn out if Ihey did not give it up, and
tint some of Mr. Vanburin's freuds nl
In him not 10 turn mil out becaus they wos
his frends and had influence, arid if he
turned urn out fhev would go agin him
and so would all thir I'rcrn!,—and that
arter a while some of urn broke and we
lost all the money that ihey had, and ihe
others run away, and lhat one of urn that
run away carried a million and a quarter
of dollars of our money, end that all of
urn that run away carried preltv consid-erable
of money—ami he red some books
where all of that wos printed down
And be said he was agin Iho sublioshorv,
becaus if that past he was ufeerd Ihe pres-ident
would appiutsome more that would
keep the money, and some more that
would run away, lie said he wauled
kongrrss lo fix the mode and manner of
keipin the money. Well when Iliad
; beam all ibis I was skeerd becaus I was
and
if
and
Ins men was mighty hid folks.
So up Mr. Hill g.ts, and he looked so
smilin that I nateily love him. He did
not portend In read any books to sliow
what Shepperd had red was not so, bul
the way lie pill il to Sin pperd wos ills-
I trcssin. lie said he was no great poli-lislnoncr,
but he know'd what was rile
fiom what WJS rung, (he wos cold soboi)
—he tl lied how Jackson had font for the
Country, how he praised Yanburen and
recommended him, and how the peple
had elected Mr. Vsnburen, and then he
I browed liimsi If hack and put on a smile
thai would make any man vole for him
.ii.il sayi he, gentlemen arter all this can
any one helceve that Mr. Vaiihuren would
fnjrr us in the way ihat my honorable
euuipeliter says he does? Thai seemed
to satisfy the peple mighty well. And
then in anserine; about the officers keep,
in the public money ami runuiii away
with it, he did mil deny it, but said they
wo, wings, and that Swurwort presided
ala whig meelin in newyork, and lhal
the wings wos about lo run him for vice
president,--at that maybe the peple
dident lair. He said he wos for the sub-treasury—
that the peple had looted the
piesiilenl and he would lint iupr them—
tint he would nppinl good men lo keep
ihe money. And lie did kill the whigs
so ded when he said that these matters
had nolhin to do with his election—that
the true question now before the peplo,
and lobe decided between him and Shop,
peril, wos who shall be next president :
Will you elect Vanburcn, a man of Jack-son's
own choosiu, or Clay who wenl agin
Jackson >
Well arter they was dun speikin I
went to Mr. Hill, as I wanted In know
siiiuthiii about all this money what Mr.
■ ,, ... •■■•••■» |« o- iSMhiecppppecrrdil ssaaiidl t wwaass Ilno-satt,, aanndd aaxxeedd I nn--
pie would sustain any th.ng that Jackson bout it, 1 he »id ,. wos lost, but lhal
might do, and denco lien he has no. bin „ ».s lilk(,„ ,1V „,,. , ,-,.„., of „ .„,.
so canskMW, but JO. goes on for Jack, ministration, ami that we who are raal
W,'o I"0" ,""f ?' I",'0H*"l"'1'1'™" ••'■'■' frond, of Jackson and
. how the people is, and » he finds ,ny| Vonburcn ort no. lo say aothin aboul il
M •■ 11, bo I, says I, you said in your speech
thai Ihe) weio whigs lhat took this mo-ney.
Well, s ys he, so I did; bul 1 did
noi know what oih r turn lo give it, and
thai will answer very well, for Shepperd
can only deny it, and the peplo will be-leeve
me, as I am on the popler Bid., and
uiey will not find out any better afore
iln election. Well of course this satis-
Jii.d me fully, and I think on lo satisfy
any reasonable man who is a republican
■i* goes with Ihe popler aide.
I axed Mr. Hill to tell mo what was
'In- rial pints of difference atween him
and Mr. Shepperd. Why,says he,in ra-nlity
there is no difference alwoen us—
except Mr. SbepfM rd thinks the public
money ort to bo kep in such way as kon-gres
shall direct, and be subject at all
tun s to the supervision of kongres—and
I tell Ibe peple 1 think il had ort lo lit
kep by men appiuted by Mr. Vanburcn;
and, says he, I think mine is the poplcr-est
docturn, for Mr. Vsnburen served
under gineral Jackson, and you know
Ihe peple loves Jackson. But, says 1,
where is all that goold and ailvcr that
vou used to promise us > Why, says he,
I must be honest, as you know I am at
all times and on all occasions,—that
goold and silver talc was all a humbug,
but we wos obliged to promise it in or.
der lo git the peple ritely agin the Uni-ted
Slates bank ; and now that they are
fully agin it and think il is a raal mon-ster,
there is no danger in tellin um lhal
Ihe goold and silver aiul coining at all—
in faei ihe revenue is no! to be collected
in goold and silver al al, but is to be col-lected
in the notes of ihe different Slate
banks. Well, says I, I had rather have
had Ihe goold ami silver, hut I aint a
guine lo doaart my party for nu'hin.
Hut, says I, ami thaie no other pints
of difference atween you ? O^ says he,
ihare is one more—Mr. Shepperd thinks
that as Ihe public lands belongs to tin-whole
people of Ihe United Slates, as
much to ihe old Stales as to the new,
when Ihey are sold and ihe money paid in,
that when Iheygnlodivide itweort to have
our share. And says I, aim that rite ?
<) yes, says he, but I am compelled to
say I differ with him becaus you know
kongrea past a bill one lime called Clay's
laud bill, iliviilinglhc money in that way,
and gineral Jackson killed it because
he wos ngin it and wos for the new states
havin all the lands ; and now you know
if I wos lo go for diWdifttrtbe money as
Mr. Shepnotd wants it divided, they
would say I WOSagin Jackson. And be-sides
Clay fotch in that bill what Jack-son
killed, and vou know at that time
Clay wos mighty onpoplor, and that helpt
lo niiike Jackson's killin of it so popli r,
—and besides, says lie, Mr. Van Huron
is agin dividin the money anil wants lo
lo give all the laud lo the new s'ates;
and, says he, Mr. Vanburin wril lo me
that he went for lhat to git the new
states lo vote for him agin, and ho says if
he caul git the new stales he cant he c-leeted,
and so, savs he, if we dont go for
givin the land lo the new states they will
beat Mr. Van Huron,—in foot, I find,
says he, ilia' unless 1 slick lo Jackson
rile or rong ihare is no gitling along. I
lovO the peple, and should like for them
to have their share of the money, but as
I have said before you know the peple
will sustain Jackson in any thing he dose,
and whojomever is with Jackson is on the
safe side. Well this was rather ticklish
talk to me, but as Mr. Hill said he loved
the peple I ihort he menl rile and so I
spose I am aalistide ; but I must confess
I should like lo have our part of Ihe
money what ttiey sell ihe land for—per-tickler
as I understand that it was this
money tint Harris and Knyd took and
never paid back to Mi. Vanburin : and
I shouldeiit like lhat part .of the hizuess
much if it warm lhal ihey are raal friends
of Mr. Vanburin.
Well about Ibis time says Mr. Hill,
lets go and drink siiuithin. So we weul,
and he culled for a quart and we driukl
ihe most of il, but nather of us warnt
drunk, ami we got lo talking aboul Ihe
free school law, but how the conversa-tion
In gnu I limit recollect, as I was a
looilcsnrli rdrinkv,—bul any ho'V I went
on to tell what I thort of Iree schools, for
I was mighty for um, brill as I am a pore
man and a heap of mv naber'is pore and
dill! able to ■ deeule thir ch'ldern. I tol-led
him that pore men thais got no prop-i
rty at all, and lhal- got a heap ol rhil.
den. aint abb- row "o -end lliirchilder'i
io skool a single bn IHTISUS tie y has lo
pay the skool ni.islerai»ht dollars a year
for each ol the childcrn, nnd that if we
gits the common skools accord in to the
new law ihees pore men wont hove to
pay much ol the lav, and them thai is too
old lo pay a pole tax wo-il hive to pav
none at all, and lhat nil thir childern can
Co to skool and the rnosl of the lax will
fall upon Ihe rich peple that is able lo
pay il. And I lolled him it wos rile be-the
pore childern could not help thir fa-thers
being pole, and lhat ihey stood as
much in need of edecation ns the rich
men's childern. and that if they had ede-cation
Ihey could stand their hands bet
ter in the world, thai Ihev could not be
cheated so i asy, that Ihev would not
have (o sine notes and papers without
knowin what was writ in um, and that
ihey could keep llnr own accounts, and
read the scripturs. and read other things
newspapers, and sich, and beconio inform-ed
and know what wos going on in the
world, and then ihey would be able lo
form opinions of their own and not have
to look up lo demagogs more ignuranl
than themselves, except that they
can read for their opinions and for advice
as to how they shall act and vote. And
I felled him that if all tbo pore childern
woa cdecaled we should find among them
some mighty amart fellera that would be
ablo to stand their hands with the rich
folks; and instead of havin to be in-structed
bv ignurant demagogs, they
would teach these demagogs what is what;
tbey would detect and expose their du-plicity
and ignorance.
When I got threw I lookt at Mr. Hill
nnd diskivered that he had taken the
fidgets very considerable. Says he, I
know what you say is Irue, and that if
Ihe people was to accept of the skools it
would perduce all the benefits and good
ed was the raal argiments for puttin down
ihe skools; and besides, says he,you bad
or: to tell um that in votiu for freo skools
they will part with their liberties—thai
ihey will Ihcrcby.conscnt to bo taxed,
and lhal they cannot arterwards withdraw
their consent, snd the Sunlily will go on
taxin um lull they will bare to be sold
for thir taxes, the/and thir children—*nd
that the rich whigs'will buy um, and they
will all havo to be whigs. Abrat that
time Mr. Hill he laffed out rite loud, and
says be, if you make um believe that
tbejr will have to become whigs it they
voto for it Ho inshore they dont do it, for
Ihey think these whigs aiel hardly hu
man, and tbon ho laffed agin and winkt
at me and says he lets drink sumlbing. I
said nuthin to thai—but says I, doctor,
I amafeerd Ihey wont believe these things
you and Mr. Hill has bin tellin me lo tell
um; but howsomover I can try it, and he-sides,
says 1, doctor, I am 'sprised lo find
you agin free skools becaus 1 have always
eons, queiiccs you mention and a gralc hearn that you got all of your larnin at
many more. But, says be, what would freo skools.
be the sitiation of the country if all woa
informed as you aay, and as I know they
would be 1 Who would thar bo to direct
public sentiment if every man bad an o-pinion
of his own. Says he, why then if
a candidate happened to make a miatako
in his speech they would all know it, and
if he happened lo advocato principles
fraut with danger to the rites and liber-ties
of the peplo they would dcti ct and
expose it. If ihe peple all was well in-formed—
ifacamlidatc went for any meas-ure
because the president wos for it, or
agin any measure because Ihe president
wos agin it, why they would laffat him
and Ihey would beel him to death. And
besides you say that if the thing works
right you think you will come out as a
candidate before long. Now suppose the
people was all edecated and informed as
you want um to be, take my word for il
if you did not know adzactly what you
wos aboul, why they would beat you in-to
a greasy spot, and the son of tho poic-est
dirtiest man in the county might be
the man lhat would beat you.
Well this put me to considcrin ; so
while 1 was consideriu Mr. Hill wenl
back and look another drink, and by the
lime he got back to mo 1 was very per.
tickler agin the schools, and when I tol-led
him lhat 1 begin io think he was rile
and that I had been in a log, he laffed,
cleared up his throat, wiped his moulh
With his hind, and laid his arm on my
shoulder and siyi he, now sencc you
have seen and acknowledged your error
I will tell you that you must not talk lo
the peple as you havo bin talkin to
me, for if Ihees ulees lhat you have been
exprosain to me once lind their way into
the beds of these pole devils they'll eve-ry
man of um vole for Ihe school's. Well
but, savs I, what argimcnl must I use a-gin
the schools ? And about this time 1
lookt around and who should be standiu
tile thar but doctor Wilson ! I reckon
you never seed doctor Wilson—he is a
aal nice little man and a fust rale di in-ocrat.
He Is for Jackson and Vanburcn
and agin all banks, and a raal freed lo
pore peple. He was a candidate in this
county for the sinil last year, and O he
did make some sweet speeches—they
say he attempted to put ill two tickets
for himself on tho day of Ihe lection, bul
I dont belccvc It, for Mr. Hill says it is a
lie raised on him by ihe whigs; but, says
I, Mr. Hill one Vanbureu man it lied mo
he seed bun do il. Ah, says he, the kus-std
whigs hired that roan to say so and
dont you helceve it- So I promised Mr.
Hill nol lo belecve it.
And then, says I, but Mr. Hill you
haint tolled me yit what argimcnl I must
use with the pi jiie agin the skools. Why,
says he, tell um that the law was past
by a whig Irgishitur—that the object of
it is lo tax the pore peplo lo cdeeate the
childern of the rich—that it will cost the
peple, and in pertickler the pore peple,
mure than Ihey will ever be able to pay—
and that districts of six miles square is
too large, tint if the skool houses is bill
in the stiller the childern livin in the cor-ners
will havo to walk over fore miles,
and lhat Mr. Ilayden a good skool mas-ter
says srj—Hist all of the pore peple
will live in Ihe remote corners of the dis-tricts,
and all of the rich in or near Ihe
senior—that tho rich men wont let tho
pore men bild a skool house or. thir land,
and il thev do ihey wont let pore men's
childern drink water out of thir springs
nor set by fires maid of thir wood—and
lhat the rich men's childern will make
uglv faces al the pore men's childern, for
Mr. Hi)den says so. But, says I,can I
induce the peple to believe these things I
O JeSi says he, if Ihey seem to have any
So I did, says he, but wharc I was
raised they are all edecated, the pore as
well as the rich, and I found thar that 1
could not be considered a grate man, for
thar wor tharo some fellers whose fathers
were not worth n cent—ihey out larn'd
me at skool and when we quit skool thev
could beet me at every thing, so I cut
out for a country whar tbo pore wos not
edecated, and North C'arlinar wos thai
country. I stopt here in Stokes, and now
jeat as I amgitlin to be considered some-thin
more than common, if they begin lo
idecale the pore here, why I shall be
strip! of all my importance, and in that
event I shall Icavo Ibis country, and he
talked alternated. Well, says I, doctor
■ifnre you shall leave us, I will say or do
any thiog for you. Well then, says he,
do you use jest the argiment that me and
Mr. Hill has told you ;—why says ho you
had ort to do it on your own accounl, for
if ibis skool law dose go into opcialion
all the consequences that me and Mr.
Hill has described will ensue, and then
what will become of us three '—here
squire Hill wants logo to kongres and he
will stand a pretty good chance for it un-less
the peple shall oiifoitunately gil their
eyes open afore tho leclion—I want to
polo for iho sinit agin next year, and
maybe we shall havo to bring you out for
the commons, and if the skool law passes
it will affect ns now because the law is a
good one and iho whigs will claim the
credit of passing it. But even if we
shou'd all be lectcd now, if that system
goes into operation the people will soon
become so enlightened that WC shall soon
be thrown overboard.
Well 1 listen'd lo these things nnd
promised to go for Mr. Hill ami agin the
the skools ; bul to give conciens fare
play I must confess 1 am in quite a snarl.
I cant see the thing as Mr. Hill and doc-tor
Wilson sees il; llnr seems to be too
much in the dark ; we have to conseol
loo much from llio peple. But it niay
all be rite. I acknowledge I donl know
much about Ihees lug matters. 1 wish
you would rite me a private letter ami
give me your views on (his subject; and
if you do, dont let no body know it,—ar.d
whatever you do, dont let no body know
how you got this letter—dont say a word
aboul it in your paper—and be shore you
dont drop il any wharc, because if you
do doctor Wilson will bi/slioro to find it,
and thin he will have it printed in the
Holly Standard.
A RAAL REPUBLICAN.
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From the. 'Proy Morning M'tif.
RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON.
" The Northern man with Southern
principles," it seems is to spend the sum.
mer solstice at Saratoga Springs* \V c
tlo not wonder that Iho Albany Argus
should feel some anxiely about the re*
ception he will receive among us. A
man who has signally abused the cilizans
of the lOnipirc Stale, is very likely to be
met with more cuffs than kisses. It will
require I higher power of persuasion than
Ihe life pensioner of the Sta e paper pos-sesses,
to induce the people lo law i up-on
a viper lhal Ihey line nourished in
their bosoms until Us fangs have stung
llieui lo Ihe heart.
Let the Argus, with its hundred eves,
look for a moment among the diversified
classes of society, and see if it can find
any which justly owes Van Buren res-peel
or reverence.
He has scoffed at the 'cinharassinenl
of our merchants, and prostrated the bu-siness
of our manufacturers.
He has calumniated those connected
with our banking institution, by clurg
xorciso of tho right of suffrage—an of-tcrico
which, if committed, would havo
s.ibjeclcd them lo incarceration among
the felons in our State prisions. He has
insulted tho feelings of tho religious par.
tion of the community, by receiving for-oign
infidels, mala ami female, into
confidence and favor.
He has alarmed tho fears, and disturb-ed
the rcposo of men of property, by the
countenance he has extended to the woes*
species of agrarianism, and by appointing
lo office tbo leaders rsd instigators ofasa
most disgraceful sad destractive riots.
Ilia whole adminiatratioa has been a
wicked aud malignant crusade upon the
rights of tho people,and the prosperity
of i he north.
Ho has robbed this Slate through tho
influence he has exerted upon the Alba-ny
Regency, of tho benefits of a repre-sentation
in in the Senate of ihe nation,
by defeating tho ro-appointment of the
Hen. N. P. Tallmidgi.
Ho has squandered, through ihe prod-igality
and extravagance of his adminis-tration,
that portion of the surplus reve-nue
to which this State waacntillcd, and
which, if appropriated as it should havo
been, would have educated overy poor
man's child In the Slate of New York.
And is it for acts like Ihcso that his
servile tools would have the people rush
forth with congratulations at his approach
and scatter flowers around the footsteps
of tho intriguing Irailor? Docs respect
"for the Station of chief magistrate" re-quire
this humiliation from ihe freemen
of the north ? No, il never can be so—it
never iri'M be so. Honor heaped upon
the undeserving, is the deepest injury to
the worthy and virtuous. I.et "ihe fa-vorite
son come homo and paaa lo Ins
heartless revels and political intrigues at
the Springs, in silent and -cornful neg-lect.
I."t the eyes of those whom he
had insolently injured and basely betray,
ed, be awn. d from his mousing tread.
BltOUgh will be left to do homage at Ihe
footstool, and shout hosannas in praise of
the princely demagogue.- Tower never
yet lacked parasites to surround it—or
the paltriest idol, worshippersal its shrine.
The time for the people to re/'oicc at the
return of the President hat not t/et come.
In 1841 every honest heart in the Ian I
will join in any demonstration of joy
which the Argus may propose to ofle'r
upon Ihe arrival of Martin Van Buran
—at kutili rliook.
nig ihein with ihe foulest frauds, and en*
doubt upon thu subject inforcc the idee deavoring to bring upon tbo m the awcej
that it is a whig measure, am! that th
whigs is all agin Vanburin, and if it be-comes
necessary you may lell um thai
Jackson and Vanburin are both opposed
lo it; but don't let anv kusscd whig hear
lhat.
About this time doctor Wilson spoke,
ami ii suppriied me tnidlin much to find
him Bglll tho skools, lor I had all ways
hearn that he got all his larnin at free
skools, because he is a ynnky. Well he
rattled away, and you may dipend upon
it he argyetl very nice : he lolled me that
tho argiments that Mr. Hill hud mention
Another Joan of Arc.—The govern-ment
of Peru is al present in the hands
of a woman. Madame (iain.irra is a fe-male
Bonaparte ; and though her husband
is nominally the head of Ihe republic, she
is Ihe real sovreigu. It was owing lo her
energy lhal he lose from the ranks of Ihe
army, a common soldier, to Ins present
rank. It is said that she never permits
any subject pertaining to the government
lo be discussed even in privy council,
without her presence; and.-healways ac-companies
the President on his official
visits, especially those made lo foreign
dignitaries. Gen. Gammaramade a visit,
not long since lo our squadron, accom-panied
by tbo different ministers of de-partments.
Mi d line tiaminarra of course
With him. Alii r Ihe customary salutes.
she entered theoomm xloro's cabin, when
refreshments were off red, and tho usual
compliments exchanged. When Mad-ame
Oamarra thought they had remained
a sufficient length of time, aho rose, look-ed
around her with the air of an empress,
and uttering tl.c single word "vamos!"
left the cabin, the others following hct
out like a pack of sheep following their
leader. She always wears pistols and
a dirk, and is said to be a good shot.—
Not long since, finding sonic fault with
the police and discipline of one of Iho
regiments of the army, she sent for the
colonel commanding it, and reprimanded
him in a manner lo which he did nol feel
inclined lo submit, especially from a wo-man
; replied that he would hold himself
responsible to the President, but not to
the President's wife. He was soon taught
however, whom he had lo deal with ; for
Mad line Camarra immediately command-ed
him lo silence, and at tho same time
presenting s pistol, told him that if he
uttered another word of insolence, she
Would drive the bull) I through his head.
Some say lhal her husband has more th,u
once experienced Riich n threat: but we
all know the world is addicted lo scandal.
—Army and A'oJTJf Chronicle.
Suitor's dread of Friday.—"Colum-bus
sailed from Spain on Friday discov-ered
land on Friday, and re-entered Ihe
port of Palos on Friday. These curious
coincidences should havo sufficed, one
might think, lo dispel the superstitious
dread still so prevalent of commencing
a voyage on that ominous day."
To our certain knowledge, the keel of
Old Ironsides was laid on Friday ; she
was launched on Friday ; went to sea on
Friday; fought her first battle on Fn-day,
and discovered she had lost (Jen.
Jackson's figure head on Friday De-troit
Post
It was a golden qui ry of Dr. Franklin.
in answer to one of the importunate ((ti-lers
of Thomas Paine, that "if men were
so wicked with religion what woutdlhov
(state with bribery andcorruplion in thsft be without ;: !"
ing curse of a general bankruptcy law.
He paralysed Ihe vigorous arm of the
mechanic, and struck down idc hopes ol
those who were about commencing an en-terprising
and useful career.
He has filled the pnckoisof ihe usurer
with money wrung from iho necessities
of the honest debtor.
Ho has openly charged, in a solemn
message to ihe Congress of the United
Slates—a libel which will be handed
down lo future generations—more than
S hundred thousand electors of his native