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Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1841-08-20
BY lNLOEs & BROTHER.

BY lNLOES & BROTHER.
REGULAR SALE DAYS Tusst,ys. Thur.I,v, an, g..
SIify LIBERAL cash advances made Goods intended
On SATURDAY. Auguss q. 1911. eop,nsD.f,v =, -,
Furniture GroeeTss az more, an s5sortmoni 81
Mahogany -iIe5OaTis
dozsn CnaTs as.or,edgpaIi,i..
inzsnI Nurse Chars
DO Wash AM Candle sand,
f Fsa e2f n Low az. F:'i ns Ss';'sads
CURED H.ir and shuek Mattresses
- Secretary aud BOOK Cases. &C
.rnuFe Also snail !o Or Dry Goods Fsney GSois
GROCERIES.
t'in' hraniy, "hss >, CORDIAL
T1ep C~na,es Eac,i
CLOCKS, GILMAN SILVER wAPE. q,
SILVER lea a6e -a sraons Sue T Re- hmm
TIE CoDaEss OF LIBERTY.
used At ie f Gaas.s3,9 f tie Goddess sf Lib
sa@ lSIoEs s BROTHER. Aae,L
STOCK OF DRY GOODS.
or MONDAY NCRNINC Au.u-. ~ eo,rn,s,.r.- :,
b., Coo I.r ,,,f'' III 'sii ne enure stock Z
L'5I1rcs, NusIrs. Cinrhims
Brown ~ d Bls,saei nestle.
- lisfeN -Ei C sIr-tG
so Couon srd w,r.,.l Hosiery
lsSLnCa. Sa'rF. spool Tlr-a-
TERNsm at ss 'aa T'2S' ganoHs'at Needle &c SC.
FURNITURE.
AND LEASE OF The AMERICAN TOTET.
On "EDNEsDAY Morning. August .. =, c ,r,I,.k
Sa aa, 90 R5siSs 70 2sT e
great variety NJ EclI kent F-tfcIas. a. 1900 '--'"s
Feather Beds. Bedding sad B-sg..,gs
Mahogany nHi1s Tliss
D. Gre}.asI 5'
Spring Sea, sofas
MIaoEany Siieboarts
MauicI and Tui.e,fs Gr,sses
m m1FTaTo1s, :, Toilette Tables
Carpets ant Hearth Rugs
Work Tables. Waslssrfs
H trls, Es9i 5. : ,gveis aud longs
kitchen Utensils, Sc. &c
ALSO
IdE BAR, FIXTURES AND LIQUORS.
ne bar on" o. tic best the CITY, s finely furnished
H D" complete REAR. The Liquors are OF superior Gs
! THE LEASE, at 10 o'clock
~ ~ o'clock precisely, we will cell the uue1nirea lea Sc
.-l'inE over four years rum u this aT.e agG sr
grs Guiding It's situation, the corner Of Main ana iZh
sutaIe for s'ora Restorative The srsnB i ~
1'--s-n % Merchants ant Tsyern Keepers generally
'"l' INLoEs 4 BROTHER, Aue.s.
| GROCERIES, LIQUORS, FURNITURE &c
9, 49, % MokNING August a. commencing a,
heIi i'gr 90 Capt James RicAIa) We will sell his -
| variety. 49, eL'-'--'is me usual
ALSO,
Immediately after the above sale a. C;r,-,-5. ~ 3,
| ''Hsgnoli ans kucach Furugrre. -'' al '''
aa = LNLoEs BROTHER, Aus,s.
BY ROBERT HILL * co.
- HARsEs. &c. AT AUCTION
~, W. - llhDAh NEXT, the 2stInstant We vi sell IN
L"Lt sl o.l auction store, commencing A. Nd o'-.g
sadie aad Harness HORSES s.verai y9u1g ri r.
| ---' knHERT HILL & CO, Agcts.
] 49,. ADDITIONAL
WI be added 10 our sale on SATURDAY l,r-a ard
Es'N young Mules Just iTogn Ecufuc ~ Sae vyfrfr ~
! '7.rSS.1 kOBT HILL & CO. Aucts
Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1841-08-20
BY ROBERT HILL * co

t.. Gc- AT AUCTION
On SATURDAY NEXT. the 2Isfinsf,3f ~. ,.iI s.rr -.
- y. ~ auction store commencing 10 O'clock 5
-. an ia-IItsa hph-E-r several MULE 4
-- koHERT HILL s CO, Agcts
49,. ADDITIONAL.
WI be added 10 our sale on SATURDAY 1. r,r-. , 4,
Esey young Mules just nom Ecuuc ~ sale gitisl, re-
rSS0 kOBT HILL & CO Aucts
Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1841-08-20
CHAsTAIN CLARKE
J. G. GREGORY s. CO.
MA ~ = GERS

OFFICE ilafH 2Hi doo- 5..grr corner Of Main and
lith .frssls.
Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1841-08-20
IfNM RENE.

D Ate alton b. ra'i.I iu the salo delinquent Stucs
he tno River a kanlWha Company, al thc once Of
Company ~ 10 o'clock, A. NJ 1h.s pay. au5l-lt
The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-10-16

ANOTHER EXPLOIT OF EDWARDS, THE FoRGGR.-
The lion Daniel Webster has addressed letter to
the editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser, enclosing
letter lately received by the former from Earl Spencer
in England, and another purporting to be from Mr..
yards to his Lordship, and speaking of him bis
" valued FRIEND" &c. &c. This letter, which Of
course is forgery, presented to Earl Spencer,
accompanied by from Edwards himself, asking
temporary loan of ESQ, and telling the old story Of
the two hundred negroes the mpossIblliy Of obtain
ing any assistance from the American Minister in
consequence of his hostility the subsc of slaves,
&c He told his Lordship that he brought a similar
letter to Lord Brougham from Mr.. Webster, hat Lord
B. being on the Continent, he (Edwards) found HIM
self awkwardly situated, and actually without the
means of providing for his passage, and that Of
his son, to New Orleans. The letter had every APP
pearance of being genuine, and Lori Spencer, from
personal friendship to Mr.. Webster, let Edwards have
the money without hesitation.
The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-10-16
THE MADISONIAN
THE NEW CABINET.

"Strange" and odious" as the doctrine may
seem to some Of our contemporaries, Cabinet
has been reconstructed with reference as well to
the unity, independence, and responsibility of
the Executive, as to the great interests of the
Republic, and upon probable conviction that
the latter will be best promoted by an observance
of the true theory of the Constitution in refer
ence to the former
We see in this reorganization practical and
triumphant refutation of the threat that, if he
dared to Veto Bank, the President would be
left stranded wreck upon the beach, deserted
by all honorable men, without the possibility
left him of a choice of Cabinet from the ranks
of the Wing party. 1t is also practical rebuke
of that modern heresy that the Cabinet are the
administration which is one thing, and the
President is the Executive, which is another
The Government and the country are now
brought back to the true theory and to the Re-
publican tack. We have Cabinet that recog-
nize the Presidentas their Chief, and upon whose
good faith, unity of action, and attachment to
the Constitution, the People may confidently re-
ly. Without exception, they were advocates of
the Reform Of 1910, and with one exception
only, supporters of the principles upon which
Gen. Jackson came into power in 1929. With
John Tyler al the head of the Government, and
such men at the head of the respective Depart
ments, may we not confidently expect not only
an honest Republican administration, but one
also of great ability and energy. May we no,
look to it for carrying out the Republican princi
Piles, upon mere professions of which other ad
ministrations have risen only to fall again by
neglecting TO practice what they preached.
The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-10-16

DESPERATE AFFRAY-Two Men MURDFRED.-We
learn from the New York Sun the following facts in
relation to the murder on Sunday night, at Staten
island
"About nine o'clock cries of distress heard on
the shore, accompanied with the noise apparently Of
oar splashing in the water. Several boats imme-
diatey put off. The from MI. Sylva's, with
Messrs StiIlweI, Nye, and Sylvia, were the first who
reached the of bloodshed and murder, and when
they reached it they found IL boat with one man in it,
who was cut and lacerated in the face and arms and
the boa. Aired with blood and water. The perron in
boat stated that there three persons in the
boat that they all got to fighting, and that after hard
fight, he had, in seldefence succeeded in saving him
self, and that the other two had been killed and
thrown overheard. They were all fellow countrymen
from Ireland and all in liquor. The survivor gave
out confused and imperfect account of the bloody
tragedy. He said he fought in selfdefence and was
saved by empowering the others. He was taken to
Fort Hamilton and there danced in the dungeon to
await the process of the law. One of the deceased
was name Joey Losee man about five and thirty,
who has left a wife and five or six small chIldren
The other deceased was stone mason, by the name
of Christopher Quinn
The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-10-16
WHO ARE THE PATRIOTS,

Much has been said, recently in the Clay papers,
about the patriotism of the retiring members of the
late Cabinet and of those members of Congress who
put forth the dsorganising Manifesto In what does
tue patriotism consist 7 We have been taught to
suppose that it had reference to love Of country and
its institutions. But the of these facous men
have been adverse to both. At time of impending
danger from abroad, when the country is threatened
with war from the most powerful maritime nation in
the world five members of the Cabinet undertake to
abandon their posts, and place themselves in hostile
array against the President! At the very moment
when their counses and experience would be of
value than at any other, they combine to throw up
their commissions. They do this, too, just at the
close of the session of the Senate, thus limiting the
President to two days to supply the vacan lies Had
they held till after the close of the session. the Pre-
sident could have taken his ow time to select new
Cabinet. But the Constitution provides that in case
of vacancies during the session of The Senate, the
President shall send his nominations for the approval
of that body. 1t therefore became necessary for the
Executive to have the names sent in without delay
Bat they reckoned without their host, supposing
that John Tyler could be caught mapping They
were equally deceived in supposing that the President
deficient in the resources to form new Cabinet,
in the decision of character, in concluding what
was to be done such an emergency. AT shorter
notice than undertaken by any former Pre-
sdent of the United States, John Tyler completed
his arrangements, and raised, by enchanment, a
ministry, equal in point of talent and influence
to any Cabinet that surrounded any former Pre-
sident These eminent men, with the spirit of true
patriotism, sgnifed their willingness repair to the
post of honor and usefulness and in so doing they
proved themselves worthy of the confidence of the
President and the nation.
Who the patriotic members of Congress q
Those who seized that moment to array themselves
against the President and to put forth hostile Ma
nifesto, for the purpose Of dismembering the Wing
party BY means. At such time they would
have better exhibited their love of country, by
suaging the tempest, by rallying round the Wing
President, and remaining fast united. They were
sent here for other purposes than to make war upon
their party. Those who sustained the Wing
President and refused to JON the facous coalition,
the true patriots and the country will confde in
them SUCH Meanwhile, those who got up the
disorganising Manifesto at the prompting of the
Dictatorship behind the scenes, will find that in poll
TICS in private affairs, honesty is the best policy
A reaction in the public mind has commenced, which
will throw them into obscurity.
The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-10-16
THE Owe MAN POWER.

$500
So much clamor has been raised about the
/" one man power" that stranger would be apt
to suppose that the liberties Of the country were
about to be trodden under foot by ruthless Die
tator, alike regardless of laws, human and d.
vine. Is there any Government, civilized or
barbarous, that does not commit the Executive
power to one man2 In our own glorious form
of Government, the Constitution clearly defines
the powers OF the Chief Magistrate, and con-
fers on Zone man." certain specific duties and
obligations, and among others, to revise all bills
from both Houses, making it obligatory on him
to approve of such as are proper, and to return
with his reasons such as are not. Under this
provision, the President has no other alterna-
tive; he must stand in the breach, and either
approve or disapprove. But because he exer-
cised this undoubted power, according to the
dictates Of his own honest judgment, he is de-
despot! While this power has been asserted
by Washington-by Madison-by Monroe, and
Jackson, and by the Governors of the several
States, John Tyler has been singled out as the
special object of reproach, for returning an OBJ
noxious bill, which he could not have sanction
ed, without the most gross and palpable incon-
sistency.
But who are those, who denounce the patrio-
tic President for discharging an imperative duty
in the exercise of the Zone man" power I?
They are none other than the ultra partisans Of
a Bank, who countenanced one man in exercis.
ing an irresponsible dictatorship over the pro-
ceedings of Congress- dictatorship equally
unknown to the Constitution and the laws
seeking to control all the measures of the Gov
eminent, under the odious machinery of mid
night caucus. Here is "one man" poa1er, far
more dangerous than any prerogative ever exer-
cised by any President, from the first organiza-
ton of the Government. Take away these agi-
tators, and we shall hear no complaints on &C
count of the rejection of an odious and de-
formed banking corporation.
But after all, the object is not to annihilate
the one man power: the question with these
conspirators is, aoho shall exercise 1t? On this
great issue we are willing to appeal to the Peo-
pie. Shall the just powers of the Constitution
be welded by the President, or by an irrespon"
slble Dictator? Shall John Tyler, or Henry
Clay, decide what laws shall be sanctioned by
the Executive The Constitution imposes the
duty and responsibility on one mam-the Presi-
dent. Faction contends that under the infu-
ence OF one man, deputation after deputation
may 60 to the White House, to instruct the
President how to act. Now, as it is necessary
for some one man to decide in the last resort,
give us a responsible agent, armed with consti-
tutional power, and acting under the sanction Of
an OATH Anything but irresponsible dictaton
The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-10-16
WHOLE NO. $50

oftener than once year. In this example have
caused the branch at New York to sell drafts the
Charleston branch only to the amount Of $40 665 for
the six days particularzed; which the Charleston
Office, in the same time has sold to the amount Of
1888 ,33l-showing large balance of trade in favor
of New York, greater, fancy, than often takes place
in days. At this rate for the balance of the MONTH
there would be left in the New York branch only
81 OO6 of its capital, which, at the rate,
would last only little over half month so that,
unless can find something to counteract this, ba-
lances would require adjusting every month and
half But have supposed in this example that the
bills purchased by the Charleston banks on New
York, arriving at maturity during this month"; and re-
milted through the New York branch TO be 81 633,-
800 leaving the loss of the New York and gain of
the Charleston Office at one $46,665. The amounts
Of this example all supposed also their relative
proportions, without reference to any data whatever
trust, however, that the amounts are su6aeiently
large 10 cover any emergency and the disproporton
in their relative amounts enough against the plan to
make it q safe calculation. A farther advantage in
this plan would be, in convincing the people that Go
Vernment was willing to do all it lawfully could for
them, and that the evils they suffered from deranged
currency lay at home.
Very respectfully,
UNITED STATES DEPosITE AND EXCHANGE REGIJ-
The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-10-16
EDITORS AND THEIR PLACES.

A few days since, the editor of the Madsonian,
who speaks generally by authority when he talks of
the opinions and views of the Executive remarked that
the recent letter fthe President Mr.. Hobbie touch
ing ce.ain Postmaster editors, "was not intended to
prescribe editors class deprivng them of the COM
privileges of other classes of their fellow citizens
which would be unjust and indefensble" Now we
respectfully ask of our esteemed contemporary OF the
Madisonian, an explanation of the above-and we ask
It on public grounds. We do it the freely, mas
much as we have never been applicant to the tx
ecuve of the nation, or the State nor to any of the
national departments for office, or patronage, and
therefore have favors to bind pen, nor dlsap-
pointment to sour our feelings
Does the President mean that, if man applies for
Office it will be given to him, without inquiry, whe-
ther he is editor, whether he is of some olher
calling? If editor is excluded from Executive ia
vors Of all kinds, cannot be informed why2 If
from certain kinds may we know which, and for what
teasons2
We trust that our contemporary will take our
queries in good faith they intended; with all
anxiety to know the grounds of action and certainly
with respect to the whence we hope to derive
| international S. Gazette.
The queries of the editor of the U. S. Gazette
are taken in good faith, and answered in the
same spirit.
Without undertaking to speak by authority,
for which there would be no necessity, if we had
authority the letter of the President to the then
acting Postmaster General is its own best and
sufficient interpreter. Its meaning is, that the
office of Postmaster, in particular, would give
TO the conductor of political paper" an undue
advantage over all his competitors. "The ap-
pointment," says the President, "to, and con-
tinuance in the office Of Postmaster, of any one
editing political newspaper is in the highest
degree Objectionable" it confers privileges on
one editor, which others cannot enjoy" Surely
nothing can be clearer Far from being gen.
eral prescription, this instruction from the Presi-
dent specifies a single office, which is incompa-
tible with particular pursut-one which gives
to the incumbent, through the patronage of the
Government, immense facilities of correspon-
dence denied to his rivals, with opportunities of
obtaining and transmitting intelligence sooner
and later than these rivals could do. All other
offices are open to political editors; but here,
there is palpabe Inconsistencies much as
there would be in members of Congress being
contractors for jobs given out by the Depart
ments, from which they are properly excluded.
Would it do to appoint packer of pork Com
missary General of Subsistence?
The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-10-16
THE SYRACUSE CONVENTION.

We have received the proceedings Of this
long-heralded meeting of distractionists. They
are sufficiently bitter, yet probably less so than
was, at first, generally contemplated The
"decaration" by Mr. Barnard has threaten
ing head, but tapering tail. Meeting with the
apparent purpose of laundering their denunca-
tons against the President, and of hosting the
banner of Mr.. Clay, they mouth and humble
the one, and tmidly stink from the responsible
ty of the other. Most impotent conclusion
The Lions roar has fallen to nasal twang-
The thunders of denunciation which were TO
convulse the continent, and crack the pillars of
the Capitol, have sunken to tone of pulling
and melancholy complaint, because the Presl-
dent would not commit an act of perjury. De-
spite the sentiments of their "Declaration,"
they publish no rash resolutions in reference TO
the President-they do not even agree, openly,
to join Mr. Clay and his more obsequious fol-
lowers in plucking the Veto power from the
Constitution. They seem to say, "no more of
that, Hal, an thou lowest me-" Even Mr..
Fillmore has consented to believe that Mr.. Ty-
Ter is yet Wing, notwithstanding the bull of
separation in which MIR. F. and his colleagues
joined. There is streak Of charity even for
Mr.. Webster, who, it now seems, has behaved
sensibly in remaining in the Cabinet, although
for Mr.. Granger to have followed his example,
would, in the late opinions of the New York
Wing delegates in Congress, have been treason
to the Wing party. How detestable then is the
injustice with which Mr. Tyler has been pur-
sued from first to last2
For Mr.. Tyler we are not permitted to speak;
but we mistake him most grievously if he will
ever seek 10 obtain the support of men who, for
difference of opinion on a single point could
denounce him as traitor-cause him to be
burnt in effigy, and his name To be mineled.
through false representations, with the curses OF
dupes and their deceivers.
That Mr.. Tyler is sound Republican we
never doubted That he will be faithful TO the
Constitution and his oath Of office, none need
question. And the determined fact, that he will
be the President Of the nation, and not of fac
tion, nothing that he has done or ever uttered
(however understood by the Syracuse Conven-
tion,) will be found to contradict Ofone THING
we are sure, and that is he will act upon one
valuable suggestion of the Convention viz.
THAT being at once charged with, and respon-
sible for, the administrative operations of the
Government in all its departments and places.
it is has right and his duty to conduct those
operations mainly by the hands of his friends. ="
The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-10-16

The Congressional Caucus Manifesto has
now reached the extremities of the Union
The ultra Bank papers have endorsed it, as
"strong and able" Few writers have put forth
a more efficient document. 1t has swept the
country like hurricane, giving to those who
oppose its doctrines, and sustain the Vetoes, the
most triumphant majorities. Wherever it has
gone-wherever its bull of separation from the
President has been re-echoed, and the Presi-
dent denounced, there have the people rushed
in masses to give its doctrines and its authors
the coup de grace. II has scarcely left an ul-
ira Clay Bank Wing standing-th has Frustrated
and buried them, perhaps for aye, in every quar-
ter of the country So much for the Manifesto
and the distractionists.
The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-10-16

U. .. ExcHEaUER. The article under this head in
another column imbodies the original plan from which
a" Member of the 9th Congress" undoubtedly drew
the suggestions which have occasoned SO much COM
ment in the country. The article in the present pa
per was read to US before the "Member" concoctsd
MIS- and since, we have to know has been,
by the author laid before distinguished funconaries
ofthe Government, Executive and Legislative. The
project contains novel features, of the practical
blity of which, many capable of giving better
opinion than we
The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-10-16

McLEoD.-The testimony in the trial Of this
man at Utica closed on Saturday evening. 1t
was expected that the Counsel would occupy
Monday and part of Tuesday in their address
es to the Court and Jury, and that the case
would go to the jury on Tuesday evening"
The decision of the jury is prejudged by many
OF the journals, who seem to be satisfied of Nc
Leod's acquittal.
we select from the mass of testimony the
deposition of Sir Allen McNabb, who was
knighted for the part he took in the destruction
OF the Caroline, and publish it as giving a sor
OF official account of that transaction.
The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-10-16
JITDGE UPSHUR.

Sundry Of the northern newspaper editors are much
at loss as to what sins of authorship to charge upon
Judge Upshur, the new Secretary of the NAVY: We
will tell them He is the author of A Br Enqm-
~ into the true nature, &c. of Federal Consuu
ton" which volume is a most allie exposition and
maintenance of State Rights doctrines, and TO efu'o
which, or even to impair the force Of the arEumeI ,
would greatly perplex any one, or ALL of tho" WIZ
are so anxious to fix charge upon this NTgIr''
absractionst" and stout defender of strict con ru:-
ton and State Rights.-The Farmers Register
The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-10-16
OFFICIAL.

APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT.
JOHN G. SPENCER, of New York, to be Secre-
tary for the Department Of War. t:~~~. .
WILLIAM B. HoDGsoN, of the District of Co.
lumbia, to be Consul of the United States for
the city and kingdom of Tunis.
Francis J. GRuND, to be Consul of the U. S.
for the port of Bremen.
SAMUEL J. DOUGLASS, to be Judge Of the U. S.
for the Middle District of Florida
JOHN G. WATMoUGH, Surveyor Of the Reve
nue. at Philadelphia.
The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-10-16
RELEASE OF GROGAN.

Sir Richard Jackson, in the temporary adminstra-
ton of the Canadian government, promptly released
the person of Grogan and he the 4th instant
handed to the Inspector of Police by the Sheriff
of Montreal to be by the former functionary safely
escorted to the United States lines.