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The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1842-11-22

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The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-05-14
MR.. MANGUM.

1t Is not our purpose to throw back the low
and vulgar epithets applied to this paper on
Wednesday last by the high-minded and chlval-
rous Senator from North Carolina, from his
place in the Senate Chamber-ay, in the Sc
nate of the United States of America That
we are not in the habit of publishing :" filth" and
"caumny" in the Madisonian, our readers
must Judge, and we are proud to state that the
number of our readers, should they brand the
Senator with the stigma of uttering libel, is
noav sufficient to raise I" thunder gust about
his ears. Those who are in the habit OF listen
ing to the conversation of the Senator, and those
in the habit of reading the Madisonian, may
compare notes
But we desire to call the attention of our
readers to portion of the political history OF
Mr. Mangum. 1t is no wonder he is now con-
spring with Mr.. Benton in the war against the
Madisonian We will give them both the
coup de grace. Our only regret is that all our
enemies have not the courage to avoW them
selves. We are smiled upon every day by
politicians who are secretly laboring to injure
us. We have the comfort however, of kaoa0-
Register, edited, we believe, by son Of the lste
Secretary of State
Mr.. Gays NoMrNATIoN.-Th his nomination is
calculated to bring up some "reminiscences not very
creditabe to the candor and consistency of some OF
the leading Wings ofthat State. We happen TO pos
sess copy of political address written during the
Presidential campaign of 1928, in which the names OF
several of these parties figured largely 1t was writ
ten by George e. Badger late Secretary of the Navy,
and writer of the late invitation to Mr. Clay to come
to Raleigh to be nominated; and the ticket it was m
tended TO support contains the names of John NJ
Morehead, the present Wing candidate for Governor,
and Willie p. Mangum, the present Senator in Con-
g1ess, who echoes Mr.. Clay in all things. The adj
dress contains a severe examination Of Mr. Clay S
vote for Mr.. Adams as President, which is directly
charged to have been the result of dshonorabe bar
gain He voted for Mr.. Adams in expectation of
being made Secretary of State, and the expectation
decided his pote! says Mr. Badger, and for this con-
duct his position and claims to public confidence were
further likened to Aaron Burr. Among other i'm
putations were those Of boodhrstiness in his duel
with Mr.. Randolph, malignity in his treatment OF
General Jackson and impiety in the coarseness of his
elcctioneering speeches. Badger wrote this TO help
the election of Morehead and Mangum; and now
Badger, Morehead, and Mangum, are supporting Clay
for President
The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-05-14

at had been said-and he was much struck with
the phrase-it had been said by the honorable baro-
net, the member for the Tower Hamlets that the
right honorable baronet's plan a vulgar method,
hear hear.l If by vulgar were meant common he
wished that there much more of such vulgarity,
at least in state affairs; but if by vulgar meant
that it was not done in private he must say that men
in private did pay their own debts they did not, In
common terms, outrun the constable, (cheersl II
honest they did pay their debts and did not
endeavor, by sde-wind, to get rid of their fair
debts. They did make their expenditure and their in
come equal If they were honest men they did that,
but if they dishonest, and if they went on from
day to day making their expenditure larger than their
income, they would inevitably to the last result
it would be stand-stil; it would be bankruptcy
if they were traders and if not there would be a
moral bankruptcy-they were ruined The morality
of private life might be extended to nations minis
terial cheers.] He could not understand in what
sense it would be vulgar to pay ones debts (hear,
hear. i"
Sir Robert Peel has not acknowledged that the
Government had reached the limits of fiscal demand
on the consumption of the country, that his income
tax was the only the indispensable alternative for
supplying the deficit equalizing the receipts and
expenditure of the Treasury. On the contrary, he
has admitted that, by reducing the duty on foreign
sugars, he might obtain larger sum than the income
tax would yield. But he has adduced this tax as tit
for season Of waras the best precaution, the sole
security, against political horizon overcast and por-
tentous on every side, to which he has repeatedly
pointed. 1t is not irrelevant exorbant to ask
place for the following remarks in his speech of
the 23d:
"Whateyer might be the evils of direct taxation,
they never conld exceed those which resulted from
indirect taxation. Could it be denied that the latter
to an enormous extent, encouraged smuggling, and
encouraged at any rate to equal degree as direct
taxation, the crimes of perjury and fraud? He did
not propose income tax merely to make up the
deficiency which had arisen in the revenue, but it
was also with the view of enabling him to propose
great alterations which must in the first instance,
produce an effect in the revenue'
The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-05-14
THE STATUE OF WASHINGT ON

The discussion incidentally introduced in the
House in relation to the statue now in the rotun-
do, has resuscitated public interest about the
proper location of this work of art Neither
critical knowledge of sculpture, nor special
investigation of the merits Of the various pro-
positions which have been made with respect
to the location of the statue in question, enable
us to speak our own opinions on the subject
In the few words we WRITE we but echo the
sentiments we have heard from various sources
entitled to respect.
We hear but one opinion-and that is favor
able-in relation to the plan proposed by Mr..
Maher, the public gardener. Instead of con-
fning the gigantic statue of Washington to the
narrow limits and INSTRUCTED light Of the rotun-
do, he proposes to place it over the central en-
trance of the enclosure to the grounds, on the
west side, accompanied by a suitable pedestal,
supported by an arch, decorated in such man
ner as to be worthy of the high conceptions of
the merits of the statue itself, as formed by its
admirers. Persons, in the correctness of whose
taste we have reason to place implicit confidence,
have spoken in terms of unqualified approba-
ton of this plan. They say, that while it will
give the most appropriate position to colossal
statue, the changes in the grounds which are
projected will be equally ornamental and
useful
Without wishing to interfere with the implied
privilege of Mr.. Greenough to place the creation
of his own genius as his ideas may suggestive
cannot forbear expressing the opinion that we
are inclined to advocate the proposition of MIR.
Maher, as we understand it, from the represen-
tations of those who have inquirnd into its de-
tails.
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THE PRESIDENT-HIS COURSE.

Surrounded by difficulties unprecedented In
the annals of American history; unavoldabiy
subjected to evil influences never experienced
by any other President; embarrassed by such
factions as were never before encountered by
the Government we ask the People OF this
country if the course of the President has not
been honest, manly, firm, and consistent
Whatever charges of vacillation, dupicity, and
deception may Justly lie at the door OF others,
we think we may venture to assert that John
Tyler is free from stain or blemish. If he is
grasped in apparent friendship by the right hand
of the man who stabs him with the left, he
stabs not back again. His bearing is frank,
open, generous. He deceives no one. Let the
humblest citizen enter his door to ask justice at
his hands for any oppression that may have
been inflicted on him, he will have patient
hearing, and if justice is on his side, it will be
secured to him. The ruthless war OF party Or
gans having completely absolved all mere party
obligations on the part of the President in call
Q men to his assistance in the "faithful exc
cution of the laws,' Wing has no right to
claim any thing at his hands that would be de-
MED to q Democrat A Democrats grievances
will be listened to as freely by him as those OF
Wing. We appeal to our common countrymen
if this is not contamination they have wish
ed Will not its beneficial effects be felt and
acknowledged even after this generation shall
ha, passed away? Will it not deservedly re-
buke those whose unholy arts are employed to
attain the Presidency, to the exclusion OF the
best interests of the country, both in and out OF
Congress There are those out of Congress
who are sacrificing every thing and every body
to attain the Presidential seat. We k''oac It,,
and we assert it.
The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-05-14
MR.. MANGUM.

We are not disposed to quarrel with Mr..
Mangum's language Of affected contempt; and,
did it not receive Fictitious importance from
the station he occupies, we would let it go for
what it is worth with those who know the North
Carolina Senator. If the coarse language he
has chosen most undeservedly to apply to our
paper be necessary to soothe the irritated feel
ings of his friend, Mr. Benton, we can readily
pardon the act for the goodness Of the motive.
But we do think that gentleman who was and
perhaps is q warm stickler for court language
as standard of purity, might have selected
phrases more refined than the vulgar cant OF I'M
hedged statesmen, whose conceit teaches them
to assume the swell of dignity. The repetition
of such stale forms Of speech do but little Gre
dit to Mr. Mangum's powers of invention,
whileit is degradation to the Senate chamber,
and is wholly unmerited by our paper. We
defy even tn e ingenuity of Mr.. Mangum' s
malignity to discover any thing that has appear
ed in the Madsonian during the whole period
that it has Teen under our management, which
can in any manner call for the opprobrious cpl
thets which he has applied to it. Certainly, we
have never penned any article descending SO
far towards ribaldry as the phraseology which
he is reported to have used in reference to us.
Our course has sustained the editorial dignity,
whatever may become Of the senatorial In the
person of Mr.. Mangum. A distinguished gen
teman from the South denomnated him, we
believe, "the conduit-pipe Of Mr.. Clay's malig-
nifty, who forgets the polish of the language in
borrowing the idea' We shall speak of Man
gums organs hereafter. Perhaps we shall re-
print some paragraphs referring to the Presi
dent ranked at the Capitol, and despatched to
the Louisville Journal.
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TMemtp=Se0Fnth Congress.
SECOND SESSION.
IN SENATE,
THURSDAY, May IL, l842.


Mr.. GRAHAM, from the Committee on Claims,
reported, without amendment, the House Dill Tor the
relief of Archibald McCullum.
Mr. CALHOUN presented memorial from the
Chamber of Commerce of Charleston, South Caroii-
ma asking that alteration may be made in the great
Southern mail between Boston and New Orleans,
which it seemed was proposed to be changed from the
railroad and steamboat conveyance, via Virginia, the
Carolinas Georgia, and Alabama, to the Mississippi
route via Washington, Pittsburgh, or Wheeling,
thence on steamboat the Mississippi, to New Or
leans also petition from Captain l.. Morris, pray
ing the aid of the Government in the construction and
equipment of steam vessel to be engaged in the
transportation of the mail from Charleston South
Carolina, to Havana in the Island of Cuba
Mr.. MOREHEAD from the Committee on Indian
Affairs, reported joint resolution from the House,
authorizing the Secretary of War to continue the en-
ploymen Of two clerks for the transaction of business
growing out of the reservations and grants under In
dian treaties which read third time and passed.
The bill from the House, authorizing the Shenan-
doah Bridge Company at HaIpeI's Ferry to erect a
bridge on the land of the United States at the town
of Harpers Ferry, read twice. and referred to the
Committee on Military Affairs
Mr.. BUCHANAN presented memorial from a
large number of citizens of Sangamon county, ILL
nois, requesting Congress to establish such tariff OF
duties will prevent the expectation of specie raise a
sufficient amount of revenue to redeem the nation
from debt, and foster home manufactures and produc-
tons, in order to render the country prosperous IN
peace and independent in war; also several petitions
from citizens of the State Of Pennsylvania complain
ing loudly of the Compromise act, and asking suff-
Gent projection to domestic manufactures, that they
may be enabled to endure foreign competition.
THE FINE IMPOSED ON GENERAL JACKSON.
Mr. LINN moved to postpone the general orders,
for the purpose of taking up the bill providing for
the payment to General Jackson Of the fine of a
thousand dollars imposed upon him in 1915. On this
motion be called for the yeas and nays; which were
ordered, and being taken, resulted, yeas 49, nays Is,
as follows;
YEAS--Messrs. Bagby, Benton, Buchanan, Cal
houn, Fulton, Henderson, King, Linn, McRobers,
The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-05-14
K. JUN ES,
.Adj,.tant General.

"We repeat, what we have than once assert
ed that ultimately-ay, two years hence-there
will be but two partiesthe Administration party and
the Opposition, or ultral WING and Loco Foco pory
The Grand Republican Administration party will be
composed of the moderate and conscientious men OF
all parties.
The leading measures Of the Republican party
will be the Exchequer, Tariff for revenue, and pro-
ceeds of the land sales pledged to discharge the ma
tional debt. Those of the Opposition will be Ma
tional Bank, high protective Tariff and uncondi-
tional Distribution"
IPThe Madisonian is right in the position here
taken There can be but the two parties in the
country, and, as the Madisonian shrewdly remarks,
there will be but these two parties two years hence
1t requires prophet to how these parties are to
be constituted. The one will be the old Federal
Wing party with Mr. Clay for its head, and contend
lug for National Bank, protective Tariff, Distrbu-
ton, &c.; the other will be the Republican party,
standing, as it has always done, with firm front
against the nction of the odous and ruinous policy
Mr.. Clay and his party pledged to carry out Let
the President adhere with unbending hrmness to the
principles of the Constitution; let him stand firm
against Bank; against protective Tariff; against
the runous policy of Distribution when the national
debt is rapidly charging; and the Republicans at
least will bear him out lis measures will be sus-
taned and burning efigies will only furnish light to
direct his course in obedience to the public will
Winchester Vi1ginian.
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OFFICIAL.
HEAD-QUARTERs OF THE ARMY,
ADJUTANT GENERAL OFFICE,
WASHINGTON, May 10, 1912.
HARVEY BIRCH.

GENERAL ORDERS,
l. The commander of the forces in Florida having
reported that he dispense with the services OF one
two regiments, he instructed to send by water
the I'd Infantry to the harbor of New York, where
it will find orders to proceed and relieve the 4h Ar
tery, now on the Northern frontier when the 4th
will be brought to the seaboard.
g AS soon as he may think the service in Florida
will permit, the commander, in that quarter, will
send deachments of the 7th Infantry to relieve de-
achments of the Sd Artillery follows tco compa-
MES to Pensacola habor t,cO companies to Fort Nor
gan t,co companies to the Barracks .New Or
leans one company to Fort Pike; and one to Fort
Wood-retainng two companies, ultimately, to garr-
son Fort Brooke or that Fort and Fort King, or Ce
dar Keys, as may be deemed best
g. On being relieved by attachments of the 7th In
fantry the nine companies of the Sd Artillery at the
posts mentioned above will Immediately proceed by
water, in convenient detachments to occupy the fol-
lowing positions: hco companies, St. Augustine Bar
racks t,oo companies, Oglsthorpe Barracks Savannah
three companies, Fort MouItrie one company, Fort
| Johnston, North Carolina and company Fort
| Macon.
4. The companies whose positions are to be chang
ed above, will be designated for their new posts by
the commanders of the Sd Artillery and th Infantry
respectively. The companies named for ST. Angus
tine Barracks may be first embarked for Savannah,
and the two, for Forts Johnston and Macon embark
ed for Charleston, if found most convenient, at the
respective points of embarkation.
s. The headquarters of the Sd Artillery will be
established at Fort Moultre. The Lieutenant Colo
mel and Major of the regiment will take post, respec-
lively, at Oglethorpe Barracks and the Barracks at
St. Augustine.
6. The headquarters of the 18th Infantry will be
established in the harbor of Pensacola. The COM
mander of the Army in Florida will retain the Lieu
tenant Colonel or Major with him for the ultimate
command at Fort Brooke, and send the other to take
post at the Barracks near New Orleans.
BY command of Major General Scott
R. JONES,
.4dji,tant General.
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10 The Editor of the Globe:

TO The Editor Of the Globe:
am no friend-poticay or personaly-to
Mr.. Webster have never written line or
spoken word in his favor, and yet cannot find
the shadow of an excuse for the filth vide Mr..
Manguml which you daily shower upon his
character Whether it is owing to the fact that
renegades always are the most bitter revilers of
their former principles as well as friends, or
that George D. Prentice and James w. Webb
have undergone purgatorial withdrawing IN
your eyes, are matters which require the powers
of Animal Magnetism to decide, so far as your
Southern political friends are concerned. We
are told that there is more joy among the angels
when one sinner is converted than over ninety
nine just persons who need no repentance
Carrying out the scriptural rule politically, have
we not just cause to be proud of the acquisition
of such man as Daniel Webster to the Re-
publican party? Has he not, in spirit of pa
triotism, yielded up his long -cherished predilec-
tons in favor of National Bank High Ia
riff and given in his adhesion to our peculiar
doctrines regarding the right of search? And
vet, like the infurate bloodhound or ravening
vulture, you wish to batten on what you pretend
to consider putrid carcass
He who dictates your articles in regard to the
Secretary of State is too well known to be mis-
taken. The continued reference to Eng fish
history--to Walpole and Queen Anne-can be
traced back to the speeches of the Great Mis-
sourum by the veriest tyro. They are palmed
upon the People and the party as the emana-
tons of the inco~uptible Francis P Blair
Will the Democracy of this country be humbug-
ged by such proceedings forever? | know that
we, who think, cannot be, and ask you to look
at your list of Southern subscribers for an answer
regret that you have any readers in the South,
for those who know best will tell you that the
Extra Globe mainly contributed to our defeat in
Georgia. Louisiana, and Mississippi, and even
made US afraid of Alabama.
Would you ask me why speak of Daniel
Webster2 do not know him personally, nor
do you or the editor of the paper in which
this communication appears. But have read
Webster's speech in reply to one whom | was
proud to call friend Or. Y. Hayne.) l have
read Webster's letter in regard to the Creole
case. have watched his course since taking
his present position in the Cabinet-and, before
my Maker, see much more to admire than
do to condemn. Can lean any patriot-hesi-
tate in giving him that praise which is his. due,
unless led away by that basest and most 3Tovell-
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ing motive of mans nature, which Madame Ru-
NOR attributes to you?
do not seek your aid in giving Mr.. Tyler
and his Cabinet fair play. The fact of your
loing so would, perhaps, be his greatest inju-
ny. Yourself and Johnston, of the Independent,
are evidently par mobile fratrum, SO far as that
is concerned. But still, it is necessary that the
filthy streams wide Mangum] you both pour
forth against men whom the People have al
ways delighted to honor, should be turned from
the channel Mangum has it "sewer"] they
were intended for, and made instruments to
smother you in your own mud.
HARVEY BIRCH.
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Clay or no Clay-Bank or no Bank-High
Protective Tariff or Tariff for Revenue, with
incidental Observation-Disclosures or no Dlstr-
button. These are the questions to be settled at
the next Presidential election. The People of
the United States should understand the merits
of all these questions. We will contribute our
quota of information on the subject. One thing
is certain--Mr. Clay will be the champion of the
affirmative side OF the question. Who will be
the other2 Shall it not be sound Repub-
lican2
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To "Southerner," who inquiries if we will,
insert a series of original communications ad-
dressed to Mr.. Mangum, and Shin of the lion
heart and eagle-eye ?" we reply that we must
first read the series before we can answer the
question. He. is right in supposing our course
will be 'fearess and bold" AS to the ''obga-
lions" he hints at, we can only assure him that
he labors under false impression, in regard to
the four gentlemen alluded to. But the whole
country is under obligations to the one 'particu-
lar ONE" He will ultimately hurl every sob
struction" from his path Of duty
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THE MATTER SETTLED.

Boston has been defeated on fair held.-
Last fall the Intelligencer compared the dlsas-
trous elections disastrous to the Clay party) to
Boston's unexpected defeat at that time. The
first was "disgusted at the conduct of the Presi-
dent,n and the latter indisposed to exert himself
except on some great occasion. Well, he has
had the occasion, did his best, and was over
come. Will the Intelligencer take warning
and lead its "Boston" away from the field p
TYLER is the only nag that ever beat Fashion.
1t was done a, Camden, in 1S41.