Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1840-08-08
THE HOOE CASE-MR. Bolts BOTH
Erred.


If the people Of Virginia retain the proud spir-
i, which characterized them Of old, they will sure
ly feel deep resentment at Mr. Boris for the pal
paby coulempuous manner IN which he has TIL
fed with their feelings, aud sought to impose up.
on their understandings. II will be remembered
with what alacri,y he laid his garbed statement
of the HooE case beIole the people OF Virginia,
before the record from the Department, showing
tina, the charges on which looE was convicted
were established by white witnesses, and that the
specifications sustained by tho free black sailors
were out Of the case, ~ II came before the Pres
deu,, could be sent to the House. The public re.
| collect that on the earliest occasion. when this
matter was brought up in the House by the Dem
ocrats, TO hasten i; 10 desirable result, IN cor
rectlng or changing the law OF evidence us deer
dcd by the couris--a thing not m the power OF
tho Executive Mr. Bolts was out Of the way,and
his friend, Mr. Wise, who was lei TO mind II, un.
deT.ook 10 play the game Of stayo Oft, TO enable
his Southern comrades 10 escape the responsible
,ty Of severing from, and exposing 10 the South
! the Abolition HarTlsontes an this dshcGte sab-
| isei. II viii be lecollecied that when MIR Bolts
came back, aud il was urged to commit It instant
" TO the Judiciary Committee for report, TO en-
able the House promptly 10 effect what those IN
teIes,od against tho decision Of The navy count
wished,lhe very mover Of this reform fo the South
moved TO lay the whole subject upon the table, like
an Abolition petition.
Having failed in this, we now find that his
friends, who make the majority in the committee,
(Mr Stanly. of North Carolina, uniting with the
Northern Federalisls TO effect IT, have actually
run away with the case, not TO return with re-
ported bill or declaration as TO the existing law,
but to return il with an application 10 be dischar-
ged, as a matter on which Congress ought not 10
octf positively refusing to unite with the Dem
ocrac members of the committee, rs TO what tho
law y or ough, TO be!
-, his,or, Of this Hooe case, as shown of IN
the conduct Of ~. Boz, IN forcing !, forward up
on the House-uoxt, IN us ine'u " use " ,',p
of watchlng--and lastly, the rur1'"g a"
It by his Federal friends, making malor@y eNeu
out by Dir. Stanley, as sort ofial-nlay be
all summed up in the "old Virginia" negro song.
Snake bake Hooe- cake,
Set frog To mind il
The frog he 60 To sleep,
And the lizards come and stole it,
Then bic awuyyou long tail naLnes. ~ Globe.
GENERAL ESTIMATION OF MECHANICS. -
The SILK stocking iederalists have sel up the pre-
ence that they alone are the real friends TO the
mechanic, whose interests they profess TO seek
and serve. The emptiness aud hollow heartedness
Of these pretensinns have on many occasions
been exhibited. Never do they take so deep an
interest IN their welfare RS at The period when
some election is pending, On which patty OF pri.
waite interests is al stake. A, other times they
care nothing about this important class OF people.
The following resolution exhibits pretty clearly in
what light they are regarded; il was offered q,
the Harrison Convention at Baltimore, and repre-.
Sen,s the character Of those vino adopted il as
VOID OF regard for the noble fellows who get their
bread by the constant sweat OF the face. 1t is as
! follows
Resolved, That the locofocos are willing 10
sioop 10 Isrsl With the COMMON PEOPLE, the
TAGS RAGS and non rAlLs, the FILTHY ME.
| CHANlCS of society in order to enlist their SUI.
| Grages IN their unhallowed cause"
Now look on The picture of the workngman
I drawn by Martin Van Buren,
"The Workingman--fie Is to society wha, the
molnmasi IS to the ship ~ y, Planet.
Rood Gad lsaE--Tne Baltimore Sun argues
| That u money. e. specie-be "the root Of e.
VII shinplaseTs must be The leaves.