The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1837-08-08
PRACTICAL EFFECTS OF MRVANBUREN's
PRINCIPLES.

The following, which we extract from the Bati-
more Chronicle, is but one among thousand of
the practical commentaries upon the late and
present administration of the General Government,
that are daily coming to our knowledge, and not
only from the South, but from every section of the
country. As respects Now England she is already
experiencing her reward for her support of the CHI
mcrical measures of the "exclusive metallic cur
rency men, in the prostration of her manufacturing
and mechanical interests-her commerce and her
agricultural industry-and although from tire pecu-
liar nature Of her institutions she may not be DOOM
ed to suffer so severely by foolish and unwise "ex-
periments" upon our institutions and government
as other portions of the country, yet from
the injuries she has already sustained, we should
learn in future selection of rulers distinguish
the real patriot who takes Office that he may do the
estate SERVICE from the imprudent, ignorant and
unprincipled demagogue, whose only ambition is to
gain power and advance his own seidsh interests.
Agentloman said to yesterday, 81 have just
arrived from New Orleans iii sixteen days, by way
| of the Ohio river. You complain here of the
curse inflicted on the country by the Experiment,
and yet your suffering is not 1.-THE of that of the
people of the Southwestern States. Every mile
from the point at which the paper of the local banks
is issued the discount increases until the paper be-
u: New Orleans ten per cent, and was glad to get
them at that. a bill orexchange can be purchased
at no price. I made application to the banks for a
draft on the East. The answer was uniformly, 'we
have none to SELL Gold and silver has disappear
ed almost entirely. The Mississippi is almost COW
cred with hickory leaves, as the hardy hoatmen
call the small notes, and if you do make haste
to spend them at the town where they issued
you will soon find them worth less than much
blank paper. The distress among-the planters of
the Southwest hardly be exaggerated l wat
shown by merchant at New Orleans letters from
planters in Mississippi, begging an advance of few
dollars to keep themselves and their hands from
starving. The appeal in these ofef
to had hardly the means ofkeeping their own fam
lilies from want.
/ looked forward, to be sure, for change. A fam
Inc cannot long prevail in country for which ma
ture has done SO much. Their crops of cotton an,
sugar promise an abundant yield, and these will
supply them with money to purchase food. The
have also partaken too largely of the evils of tam
pering with tn currency for them to favor any NOR
experiments They know, too, that under wis
administration of laws general bankruptcy an
ruin would not have ensued.-They believe tn
men now in power have abused their trust, an
they go for putting others in their places.
They hesitate not to declare their change of sen
timent on these subjects, and, giving way to tn
warm feelings of the south, they not over choc
in the words of their denuhciatlon. You must pas
through this country to realize the deep feeling
cited against the Administration. The advocate
| of General Jackson in the South are now as scare
as abolitonists in Vicksburg-and during my voyag
from New Orleans, | met but two men who ha
the hardihood to declare themselves in favor O
the Administration, and learned, on inquiry, tina
these office holders"
The gentleman who made to us the above state
ment was once himself advocate of Genera
} jackson, and only renowned and denounced hin
} when he laid violent hands on the public purse
when that act was done, we recollect the emphat