Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-06-11

Election for GoEernor-In recent conversation with Capt. NICHOLAS DAVIS on this subject, we understood him to say, that he does not intend taking any tour through the State this summer; that he thought aspirants to the office which he socits should be held excused from the usual course of eectoneering; and that he trusted he had been long enough before the people for them to have obtained competent knowledge of his opinions and charac- ter. We most cheerny concur in this opinion. We presume that successfully contend for that high office, that have not already obtained notorlety for their talents or public servces and in wide field of operation as the whole State would afford the candidate could comparatively but few of the people, and they would obtain but little addition al knowledge of him. Furthermore Capt. DAVIS thinks that the dignity of the office would. in some measure, be compounded by the common course of electioneerng -Aheni0n 4h inst
 Aristocratic Dignity.-rhe Hon. Nicholas Davis, candidate for Governor of this State. declines min gng among his fellow citizens previous to the cleo
 on, because he thinks Me dignity of the office tcond 66 conprOniifted by u.-Tnscaioosa Ingnirer.
 The Inquirer certainly ascribes the very worst of intentions to what nine tenths of the American peo pie have admitted to be commendable in any ind- vidua offering for responsible station. In all the States north of the Potomac, candidates for the Gubernatorial chair do not mingle with the anxious l the purpose of hucksterng and barteIing for votes immediately preceding an election, but remain at home and trust to the good sense of their fellow citizens to determine whether their conduct in other stations, had been such justify higher trust There is nothing censurcable in such course, no- thing like aristocratic arrogance, and has been ap- probated in line and in precept, by all the dlsin- guished men of our country, from Gen Washington down to most of the present Governors of the old States. It is no proof that candidate is either sell fish or naughty to him stand aloof the of an election His peers certainly cannot decide mpar- tially when he is eternay drumming in their ears that Tam the real Simon Pure. To interfere at such crises is like attempting to place ones self upon jury, for the trial of 10 which the same ndi vidual is a party; and although eectioneering is so common in our State, yet the individual who trusts his pretensons to the unbiased choice of his codntrymen, deserves more than passing notice. Men can form but very imperfect opinion of the merits of a candidate when they see him hurrying from place to place on the eve of an election, to check some report to cheer the dropping spirits of lis partisans with the promise of The in- dividnal seems to be all compassion, patriotism or friendship; yielding any point with the accommo- dating faith, hope, or charity. But such signs are like deathbed repentances and not often to be trust ed in the obdurate sinner. For men must be judg- ed of by the general tenor of their lives and not by the meekness the glare of its smaller portions | "s .k th'n the iu ing passion, there alone 1h. wise ar. const nt, ai.d tho cunning known "
 Still the reprehensible practice of Jarfering for roes did not originate in these States but like the curse fnegro slavery, imported for us from the mother country In England it Las gone to such fightiul lengths that representation has lost its charms, and that country once under the dominion of its sturdy yeonanry, is now grooming for refor nation or revolution.
 In Liverpool, Manchester, and other great towns votes regularly bought and sold like merchan- dize at auction; and seat in Parliament from one of her rotten borouehs costs member from fifty to one hundred thousand pounds. We have no expec- tation that such corruption will exist under our form of government, but the mode of choosing off, cers is susceptible ofimprovement with less danger to the morals of people, who seek by appeals to reason, to nfuse into their laws, their manners and customs, spirit ofreform which will be felt through all their social relations.
 We do not subscribe to many of the absurd enact mens of Temperance Societies, which would inter- dict some of the choicest bountes onature to the taste and to the comfort of man; bat that they have done much good, no need deny who has witnessed the reformation wrought in town and country, and more especially upon the conduct of candidates, many of whom have been restrained from the beasy practice of drenching their fellow men to intoxicaon, or frown upon those who are destroying the peace of their families, and burning out their lives by the too free use of ardent spirits. Every one acquainted with Maj. Davis will admit the urbanty of his man. ners and the kindness of his heart and that his pre- sent conduct has not been dictated by any thing like aristocratic pride or want of social feeling.
 A Norfolk correspondent of the New-York Con- mercial Advertiser, under date of the 21st ut, says understand that orders have been received at the Navy Yard, to fit out vessel for the purpose of con. veying Major EATON to Russia, where he is to suc- ceed Mir RANDOLPH. Mir R. Is expected to return to his native State early in July.
 | The Correspondence. Richmond Enquirer states, the best authority, that MT CRAWFORD is about to make final reply to Mir CALHoUN-that he IS collecting testimony and materials for the pur- pose-but that he will take bls own time for it-and when he does out, it will be under fictitious character, but under his proper signature"
 Mir Branch the late Secretary of War, has con- sented to become candidate for Congress in the Halifax District of North Carolina. In answer to committee which was appointed to address him at a meeting in Berthie county, the following reply is extracted:
 My official connexion with the present Admin istraon has been dissolved under circumstances nainl O me: vet rest assured that no considerations