Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1844-08-29


Buren, thrown. overheard by the Party a, the
South. under the nstigation Of the Richmond
Enquirer, because Of his unfriendliness to the
Annexation OF Texas. And was not JAMss X.
Polk nominated at Baltimore, expressly, and we
might say almost exclusively, because the friends
of the Annexation project had confidence i'm him
that he would carry out their schs me What
that scheme is, so far as the party in South Ca
rolina is concerned, no man can have any doubt,
after the bold avowals Of Mr.. McDuFrII In the
Senate Of the United States, and the expressions
OF popular feeling in public assemblagcs, and by
the presses, of that State. The Texas question
there is evidently used, as Mr.. Benton says, as ga
means to an end'-a disrup,ure Of the Unon and
the establishment OF Southern Republic. II our
political opponents, therefore, find themselves in
bad company, it is surely not the fault of the
Wings. But this is not all the ground We have
for bringing the matter home to them, in this
State. When the Wings of Richmond protested
against the Southern Convention, proposed by the
mad-caps of South Carolina, being held in the
metropolis Of our State, why did the party in
Richmond denounce the conduct Of the Wings
and invite the Convention to meet there, with a
profer of PRoTECTi.Nl Ii their conduct did not
Indicate an approval Of the medita,ed treason ii
tanly evincod a most dangerous sympathy whit
How could the Wings then be expected to keep
stake is involved tho integrity OF the Union, it
would not be merely act OF forbearance, bu;
one Of downright criminalily in them to do Co.,
They believe that the grea, body Of the party in
Virginia are as true in their loyalty to the Union
as they are themselves, however it may be with
some Of their leaders; and they have felt it to be
their dnty-not to asperse or impeach hem-but
to let them know the facts in the case, which had
been ar,fuly suppressed by the organ of the party
at Richmond. All that we can say more, there
fore, is, that il any Of them do not like the ASSOC
citation into which they brought by their party
relations, let them abandon it and them together
The Hon. II. b. RHETr, now the ruling spirit
among the South Carolina hot bloods, Mr.. CAL
HouN not being willing to go the length they de-
sire with them-t appears is traversing the
State, and making speeches, for the purpose Of
exciting the people to resistance against The Ma
tional Government. Tho object is palpably Dis
union; and the expressions, so called, Of the
Tariff, mere pretoxt. This is admitted almost
CI
his late speeches.-Nc complains of "the diff
Guilty of making the people understand its opern-
ton. '-"lhc taxes <hc remarks) are taken from
them without their seeing or hnoping ill., In
other words, the people arc suffering under no
real or sensible grievance, and Mr.. Rhett finds
them unwilling to enlist in the mad project Of
civil war and dsunion, for causes which they
know to be more fancied than felt.
The following paragraph from the Charleston
Courier shows that Mr.. RHErr has good ground
for his complaint.
GOOD NEws.-We learn from an intelligent
gentleman, and an impartial observer, who does
not side with either of the political parties of the
day, jGst from the interior Of the State that no.
litcal calm prevails generally and especially in
Columbia, and in Fairfield Dstrict and that the
qualification and disunion fires, kindled by Mr.
Rhett ind his followers, are likely TO find no fuel
in other parts of The State. "Cahoun and u
nion'' is the general northumberland will be-
come loud and universal enough TO drown the ILL
omened note Of 'Rheit and Disunion."
The last too numbers Of the Winchester Vir-
gilman have contained the following, thrown in as
| an ordinary news item. The editor must think il
first rate bait for the Irish
"Mat.hew J.. Davis, the eulogizer and bosom
friend of Henry Clay, equal in influence with
the whig party to that gentleman, once said of
the naturaiIZed citizen:
'Had the po,cer, I ,coud hare a eaLo,us erect
! cd on erery dock, and H.4NG erery id IRISH
MN that attempted TO Mnd!"
And pray who is this Matthew l.. Davis tina;
is equal in influence with the wing party to Mr.
Clay We will venture to assert that there is
not ono i'll FIVE hundred of the people of the u
MON that know who he is and as TO his be-
ing blossom friend" Of Mr.. Clay, we presume
there is just about as much ground for the asser-
ton as there would be for saying that the editor
OF the Virginian is a cousin 10 the late President
o! flayt! Yet Mr.. Clay is TO be made respon-
sible for the foolish and contemplate expression
of Mr.. Davis, if indeed he ever made such an ex-
preston! lrishmen, it is true, are from what
has been POLITICALLY called the {" Green bIe," but
we imagine the Virginian will find they are not
quite green enough themselves to be caught by
such stuff--whc;her served up to them every
week or every day.
TABLE OF ELECTORAL VOTES.
Maine South Carolina @
New Hampshire 6 Georgia 10
Massachusetts IL Alabama r
Rhode Island Mississippi 6
Connecticut 6 Tennessee IS
Vermont kentucky -
New York SO Ohio %
New Jersey Indiana 10
Pennsylvania % Illinois 9
Delaware 3 Missouri 7
Maryland Arkansas 3
Virginia II Michigan 5
North Carolina IL Louisiana 6
Total 275-necessaTy to an election 1873.