Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1834-12-17


On motion of John Dougher!y,
esq,
RESOLVED, That the secretary
of this meeting be directed to pre-
pare the several proceedings Of
this meeting for the press, and
that one or more copies be for
warded by him to each county
committee in this state, to the
chairman of the Polish meetings
at st Louis, New York, and Bos-
ton, and that the expense be de-
frayed by this meeting.
On motion the meeting then
adjourned.
T. w. SMITH, Chairman.
CHARLES PRENTICE, Secretary,
Heroism and fdelity--The fol-
lowing affecting incident, show
ing the fidelity and heroism of a
poor negro, is related in Hannah
More's Memoirs.
"The other morning, .hc caps
tain of one of Commodore John
sons Dutch prizes breakfasted at
Sir Charles Middleton's and rela-
ted the following little anecdote.
One day he went out of his ship
to dine on board another; while
he was there storm arose, which
in short time made an entire
wreck Of his own ship to which
it was impossible for him to re-
turn. He had left on board two
little boys, ore four, the other FIVE
years old, under the care of a
poor black servant,
"Thc people struggled to get
out ofthesinking ship into a large
boat; and the poor black took his
two little children, tied them to a
bag, and put in little pot of
sweetmeats for them, slung them
across his shoulder, and put them
into the boat which was by this
time. quite full the black was
stepping into it himself, but was
told by the master there was no
room for him; that he or the chill
dren must perish, the weight Of
both would sink the boat.
"The exalted, heroic negro did
not hesitate a moment, Very
we'll. said he, give my duty to nv
master, and tell him | beg pardon
for all my faults. And then,
guess the rest-plunged to the.
bottom, never to rise more till the
sea shall give up her dead. l.
told it the other day 10 Lord Non
boddo, who fairly burst into tears.
the greatest lady in this land
wants me to make an elegy of it,
but it is above poetry,
A third Term-The Baltimore
Chronicle and some other Wing
papers are beginning to raise a
panic about general Jackson's
serving third term, Ridiculous!
And upon what foundation does
the Chronicle propagate a report,
to which it processes "hardly to
give credit" Why, upon a dec
laration in the Natchez Courier;
that "gen Jackson said publicly
in Nashville, that to save the
country, he would consent again
to be a candidate for the Presiden-
cy." Now, has not the Chronicle
seen the positive contradiction
which the Nashville Wing has
given to this idle report? 1t calls
it "a contemplate slander,' and
gives it an unqualified contradic-
ton.
ave kno,p (says the Nashville
Whig--pot one of your modern
self,styled Whigs) that gen jack
son sincerely wished to retire to
private life at the end of its first
term, and was reluctantly prevail
led on to become a candidate only
from the well-founded belief that
he alone could prevent Mr. Clay
from coming into power, and car
rying his Objectionable system of
lpolitics into operation. So far
from disregarding the example
set by Washington, and followed
by Jefferson, Madison and Mon4
roe, with regard to a retirement
at the end of the second term, it
has always been his epdeavor s.
intention to conform to the pre-
cepts and examples of those eel.
ebrated patriots.
awe Undertake to say, ;rithouf
fear q contradiction, that gen
Jackson never said in Nashville,
or elsewhere, that he would again
be candidate for the presiden-
cy,"
II has been ascertained that in
London there are upwards of S0,-
600 females who depend upon
crime for subsistence, and Is, 900
orphan girls without home and
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