Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-08-06
From the Macon, (eeO) Telegraph.
 LOVE, POLITICS, AND FINE WRITING
WASHINGTON C1TY, July 8, 1881.

Dear -: am much distressed to hear that
 my "SOmheTn 10ur' has not reached you What has become of Messrs H. d L.? Have they heard nothing of the books? In March last l left box containing forty copies of the first volume and forty ofthe second volume with Messrs Woodhul & Min ton in New York my own self and paid the freight to Darien those gentlemen promising to forward them that port by vessel to sail in two or three days. The box directed to Messrs H. x L. in l Macon via Darlen; of which apprlzed them; but will you believe it! They ha'n't been polite as 1 to acknowledge my favor with the scratch of pen. I fear they're not friendly; and yet sitch man MT II. would seem proof against any thing but the most rigid honor Q! he's a sweet creature and would make any lady supremely happy wish was young for his sake! You, dear -, don't think "age is dark and unovely?" Iknow you can't | It's vile islander of that old Scotch savage Ossian, when he got to be too lazy to blow music on his bag
 pipes for the dance, and the country girls used to place him in the chimney corner and give him nothing but salt herring and small potatoes to eat
 Ladies get too old to love or be interesting,
 pecially when blest with genius and mistress of an eloquent pen. Remember Eloise. If you visit north wardy next fall or winter, come to my lodgings sans ceremonie, and ill the meantime be satisfied shall not give myself away before the latter part of next session of Congress- am not like modern nirts: no man shall step into the shoes of my departed hus band, patriotic hero ofthe Revolution, before he is well cold in his grave. Waiting to the end of the next session will be paying sufficient respect to his memory; and to tell you the truth, am tired of my weeds Several advantageous offers have been made me. V-n B-n has more than once twice called at my lodgings, and pratted soft things! but i his bald scalp and sinister eye aln at all to my | fancy; besides he's horse -jocky and mysiyng in
 trlguer, which don't agree with my republican and moral principles: showed him the door. Roanoke | R-h wrote me letter from London, so illegi- be as to look like sheet of paper that chimney sweeps pet crow had been scratching. With the balp lpnfM I SDI,la fnn hat han ntfar ed to settle his wide possessions, inherited from his great great Indian grandmother on for life with remainder to our issue if would marry him. Was it not an impndent proposal for colored fellow to make to lady of my standingl But as he is sa- wage in speech and manners well as dress, feel ngs and descent thought it best to touch him light ly, and laconically wrote him,
 would give my buried love- for any love ofvng moud
 R--n, of Kentucky, has also made me tender ofhis hand; but abhor the halfhorse halfagator breed D-l W-r, too, has been very punctous in paying his devoirs, but, after triling with the feelings ofthe mammoth orator. dismissed him with flea in his ear account of hs being q | tarifiite and renegade federaist;-and Col. T-p made love like an angel. He's quite small and so he is; but the very pink ofloveliness gallanry and talens l was too well acquainted with his history | however, to risk my happiness with him: but had that objection been out of the way still would have been reluctant to unite our desnes as the provost martialmigh make me in six months widow again unless could have changed his politics, which are said to be quite irreclamable. So you see the way is yet quite clear. Don't forget to give call, if you come by the way of Washington City.
 | But my Southern T0ur!-What do you think has gone with the box containing the first and second volumesl Can it have gone to Charleston? lift has, I would stake my life the Nullifers have embezzled it distributed the books among their stump speakers and the only splendid passages in their oratons of | ,,lar penl They are vile set; and not bit too good to rob me of my property and labor, without offering an equivalent; but if only get proof, I'll be veneed as sure as my name is Royal. Do write Daniels of Camden, and Landrum of Columbia, on the subject; they ferret out the truth, and not afraid to publish it-they are cGur de Icon. May l. dear -, beseech you to get Mir H. in the mean time, to write to some friend, whom he may know in Darien to inquire for box directed to hlm and his partner? If he refuses to do so, please write yoursef-I can do no more. am surprised you have not seen the books! Mir took them from here. What could he do with theml l sent proof sheet to Mir H. which took i'll your town. 1 am | alarmed at this. Pm sure did Macon justice.
 know but little of what is passing here, having, hardly time to read newspaper l am wounded however by the unfortunate difference between the late Secretaries of the Treasury and War Depart ments. lngham is bad man, and Eaton one of the best of his species. Their quarrel about their wives is lamentable, and was the work of the blueskins, the Presbyterians, Ingham having joined them after he was appointed. The Jackson party have hurt l themselves much by putting bad men and paupers into offices and particularly into the post offices The post masters are the vest of men, and have robbed me of considerable sums. But dear sir the two contendng political parties only underactors in the great drama now going on in our country, and are substantially nothing. It is mere contention for office, and the people have no friend! But worse than all this is the alarming power of the PIesbyte rians and tho United States Bank. They have all
 the money and the presses in the country, except your own State Gin which negroes are allowed to be merchants, and white men to have black wives) and New-Orleans (where the negroes are permitted | to dance Congo Sunday in the little white clover park the basin at the head of the canal) It is only in Georgia and N. Orleans that freedom dwells The Bank and Presbyterians, the two monied mon sers of tyranny, uniting. In fact our liberty is done, you will perceive by the facts in my books, particularly in the Sd volume under St. Louis head Throughout my whole tour, found the Presbyter- in possession of the post offices the travelling routes, the steamboats, with the Bethel flags, (ex- ceptng your State &c) But this is nothing. They have the army and the navy !! and have seized on the annutes of the Indians (paying them in trash, the land. fur and Santa Fee trade; and were going on with high hand at St Louis, when broke in up- on them By the aid and countenance of the army, they kept me from landing two days; but outwit- | ted them at last; and! drove the whole town: five thousand citizens and the army Cor at least the off, cers, the soldiers being twelve miles of) all flew be- fore me! But had like to have fallen into their hands at last. The cannbals had prepared tar and
 feathers, but fortunately escaped, by noble Span iard conveying me privately over into Illinois He was the most majestic looking creature have ever seen, and his voice music itself On the fathers side, he descendant ofthe Castilian hidalgos, and the mothers, of Quetevacca, the last abori- ginal emperor of Mexico, whom Cortez roasted 1; but the roughscruf of St. Louis called my deliverer a Watcbenango. I had inspired him with tender