Southern telegraph., 1838-08-22

imes, the statesman has TO contend with The
shiny snakes Of party, who seek to crush
him in their yenomous folds; with tho bye
mas OF prejudice, and as we we'll know it is
hardly metaphor TO say that sometimes q
roaring lion meets him full in his path. In
the State Of Tennessee such lions have been
met aud often.
Yourpublic servants, fellow citizens, have
retired from what as you have already been
told BY your distinguished guest and others,
has been most arduous contest. They
cannot indeed boast to have brought back
many trophies ofvictory, but like the son of
the Spartan mother, who was bid 10 bring
back his shield or bs brought back upon it,
having gone forth with the broad shield Of
the constitution to fght the battles of the
country--in the midst Of the contest to this
shield they have held fast, and they at least,
can boast, they have brought il back, to be
in future borne Before the country for its
protection and salyatioa. II is indeed
fearful and terrible, 1iing in a country pro-
Tossing to be governed according to the will
of the people, when those very people ceas-
ing TO expect any good aEthe hands of the
constituted authorities, fiff8 their greatest
consolation in seeing these aulhoriiies de-
Prived ofthe power TO do evil. Such, how
ever, is our case, and appeal 10 you, wheth-
er,-when the final adlonrumeaksof Con-
greIs was aHpqf6ced, you die d6t feel as
though an incub% Xere renewed from your
breasts, in the eaAecionsnsss that you were
at liberty for the ensuing six months to pur-
sue your various ayocations, unmolested by
new experimentsi
The course Of the administration, their
professed and acknowledged course, in
leaving the people in the lurch, while their
concern was exhausted in providing for the
safety of the government, may be justly
compared TO the conduct of the officers and
crew, who, in the moment OF danger, should
stow away in the ships boat the best of the
stores and prosisEyns; and cutting adrift
should leave the deserted and unhappy pas
sengers to shift for themselves Some little
sympathy they did express it is true, for the
sufferings Of the people, but they were a
wakened to those sutFerings only when the
disasters of the country began to be followed
by emptiness in the Treasury. Like Don
Juan'S reckless and wicked sailors.
They grieved those who perished in the cutter,
But principally for their bread and butter.
They did indeed experience some com
FUNCTIONS for the sufFerings the people, but
it was only when the skinny finger Of ad-
Versity began to be pointed at them; when
the empty pockets of the office holders no
longer jingled with the tavorite purses OF
gold and silver; when the government ran
low, when the lank and hungry hounds of
the palace growled at the absence of their
daily food, then it was that some feelings cf
sympathy for the sufferings ofthe people be-
gan to be felt
This idea Of saving the government and
leaving the people to shift as they can, does
not correspond with my notions. If in con-
sequence Of the schemes adopted by an ad-
minlstratlon to prosper themselves at the ex-
pense of the people, the country must 90
down. Heaven grant that in such case,
it may at least go down, head-foremost-ad- |
ministration first
Fellow citizens. ] sincerely believe,
that never since the sun shone on this green
earth has there existed an administration
upon the face oft, 30 utterly regardless of
the interests Of the people, nor do believe
that IN any other country situated as ours
was, which unvisited by war, pestilsnce.I
famine, or other natural disaster, should sud-|
denly by the acts of the government be
plunged into such deep distress, the event
would have happened without civil commo-
tion. Even in despotic Turkey, if by some
irnan, the country had been thrown COM
paratively as far back, as ours has been in
the last two years, the Sultan who issued it
would be apt to sleep the next Vorning in
the Bosphcrus, his neck marked BY his own
bowstTlng. stTlng.-Au
The Representatives. cfthe PesQle have in
deed been engaged in feaYGl anNterrible
conflict, and they have returned to invoke
the aid Of q stronger arm, that of the people |
for the still more terrible con-
test that is yet to be fought. For though the
troops Of the administration have been beat
en- and repulsed, like the squadrons of the
lssert, they yield and Fly only in the hope
o form again, and return to the conflict with
'edoubled vigor. Not that have any tears
If the passagetof any Sub Treasury Bill;
hat scheme isitoo justly odious and too uni
'ersally secuted. Indeed it seems to me TO
udge from theiF conduct in relation TO this
natter, that Providence in its mercy had
made the administration mad, and inspired
hem to propose this fatal project as means
f their own destruction. Even now, as
they have just issued new
'ulletin, in which the black flag is nailed to
be mast, and their determination aVowed,
nth the Sub-Treasury to sink or swim,--a
recedure which reminds me ofa story that {
read in my schoOI-boy days, l think in one
ne classics, whichdescribes simpleton,
'ho, in the midst Of storm. overcome by 9
lie. tefrors of impending shipwreck, tied {
imself to an anchor, iE order that when the c
zip went down, he might still safely float |
a the surface! The administration will c
I'D that in clinging to the Sub-Treasury P