The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1845-05-15
FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENcER.
THE WICKED DIGGETH A PIT

Ever since the time of that ingenious arIi-
fcer who presented TO the tyrant Phalaris a
brazen bull TO roast men in, and was himself
the first victim of his own invention, it has
been held that they who helped the bad to
power were very sure TO pay for it.
If we remember, the bull-maker had so
managed his machine that when the victim
was put into it and the fire kindled beneath,
his cries, by a vocal mechanism in the throat
of the image, were converted into the bel
lowings like those Of the animal. Certain
sounds that are now issuing from S. Carroll
ma remind one exceedingly of this part of
the story.
Speaking of the late removals from Office,
the Charleston Mercury says of that of the
Collector of Boston:
"Mr. Calhoun and MIR. Williams were col
lege classmates and warm personal friends.
The latter was a thorough free-ir:de and
State-rights mana faithful and competent
oficer-and neither he nor Mr.. Calhoun had
any thing to do with creating the vacancy
which ne had been invited 10 fill. We have
not seen a reason given for his removal
But Ex-Governor Morton, a most persevering
Van Buren, man, is put in his place. He is
a man who ought, in mere policy, receite no
favors from a Democratic President; for his
violent abolition opinions, ~coarsely express
ed as OFT en- as he had a chance, have been
a perfect pest to the party in the South
trumpted against us by all the Wing presses
at every election as proof that the Democrats
and Abo l~itionists OF the north we've all of a
family. But he was a Van Buren, man."
The Mercury also complains of the remn-
val of Gen. HARDIN from the Collertorship
of the port of Savannah; and intimates pref
ty strongly that it is because the General
"was an old Srate rights man, and particu
!arly as his successor, Gen. BULLOCK, was "a
warm Proclamalionist!
The following paragraph from the Mercu-
nv, too, affords matter of reflection:
"There is a curious coincidence that de-
serves to be noted. There were three men
in the Baltimore Convention who were con-
spicuous for fighting after the battle was lost,
who would not give up, aud could not abide
the nomination of Mr.. Polk. These three
men were Messrs. Bancroft and Morton, OF
(Mass.) and Mr.. Shields, Alabama. The
first is in the Cabinet, the second Collector
of Boston, and the third sent on a foreign
mission. Strange, is it not2 Does Mr.. P.
Mean 10 say that it was a very nasty business
making him President, or does he wish us
to understand that he Furnishes his supporters
and rewards his opposers, because he is com
PEELED TO act at tue dictation of others?-
One or the other seems TO be the natural
conclusion.
There was another gentleman in The Bal
timore Convention, who, besides being Mr.
Van Buren's spokesman there, was consplc
uous for the threat which he hurled at Iha
body, that they would get enough OF Texa'
annexation before they were done with it,
, Yet Mr.. B. F. Bias pressed 10 take aseat il
/ The Cabinet, and on his refusing was appoint
] ed to an office worth $4,000 a year."
The Mercury does not consider. If Nh
: CALHoUN could not be kept in himself, how
can it be expected that his friends and fol
, lowers should be? Shall the Ensign be say