The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1845-05-30
From the National Iaiel!igencer.
THE WICKED DIGGETu A PIT.

Ever since the time oil the ingenious or
tifcer Who presented TO the tyrani Phalarls
brazen bull to roast men IN, and was hun.
self The first victim Of his own Invention, II
has been held that lhsy who beiPed The bad
10 power were very sure to pay for II.
Ii We remember, the bull maker, had 60
managed bis machine that when the victim
was put iuo il, aud the FIRE klnJled beneath,
his cries, by vocal mechanism 10 The
throat Of the image, we're converted Inlo
belloYipgs like those OF the animal. Ger
iuiu SOUNDS tina, ore now lssuiog from South
Carolina remind ons exceedingly of this
part OF the story.
Speaking OF the late removals from Of
fee, The Charleston Mercury says OF the
Collector OF Boston;
"Mr. Calhoun and Mr.. Williams were
college classmates aud warm personal
friends. The latter wBs thorough free
trade aud Suite rights man-a faithful and
competent officer aud neither he or Mr.
Calhoun bad any thing TO DO with creating
the vacancy which he was invited 10 I'll.
We have not seen reason glvea for his
removal. But ex.Goverpor Morton, . most
pefseverin2 Van Buren, mao, is put IN his
place. He IS msn Who ought, IN msEs
policy, 10 receive no fayors from Demo
cratic President for his violent abolition
opinions, coarsey expressed as often as 10
had chance, have been perfect peat 10
tho party 10 the Souh-ttumpe'es against
us BY the " big presses at every election az
proof that the Democrats and Aboltlonlsts
Of The North were oil Of a family. But he
was a Van Buren, man"
The Mercury also complains OF the re
moyel Of Gen. Hardin from the Collector.
ship Of the por, Of Savannah and lnumates
pretty strongly that il is because the Gene
raj "was an old State rights man, and
particularly us bis successor, General Bu!'
| lock, vas warm Proclamailonlst
The following paragraph from the Msr
curry, too, affords matter for reflection;
"Tbere 10 a curious coincidence that de
serves TO be- noled. There we're three
men in the Baltimore Convention who Sore
conspicuous for fighting after the battle was
/ lost, who would not give Up, and could DOT
abide the uominsnon Of Mr.. Polk these
three men we're Messrs. Bancroft and Nor.
ton. Of Massachusetts, and Mr.. Shields, Of
Alabama. The Frat in the Cabnet' me
second Collector Of Boston, and tho ihitd
sen, 90 a Foreign Mission. Strange, Is y
nok1 Doas Mr.. Polk mean ss say that
was very nsety business making him IRE
.deDt. O. does hs sish % TO rndeThan'
that be puuiahos his supporters and Fe"sFa
his opuosers, because he IS compelled TO &C
al the dc,aton Of others Que or ths ON
or gems 10 be the natural conclusion.
There was another gentleman IN tbs
Baltimore Convention, ho, besides being
Mr.. Van Burens spokesman there, wa
consplcuou. for The threat which be huf'ed
at that body, that they would &c! enough Q
Texasn annexation before tbeyWeie done VIII
lii. Yet Mr.. b. +. Butler vas passed 10
sea, 10 the Cabinet, and on his refusing va,
eppoinled to an Office worth IS 600 year
The Mercury does not consider II Mr.
Calhoun could not be kept IN himself nos
can il be expected that his friends aud fol
lowers should bel Shall tho Enslgn b
saved and the Lieutenant or Captain D
condemned What Hasn't the ffesl
dent read Shakespeare J
Casio. "Well, Heavens above all
and there be souls that must be saved, an
: there be souls that must not DC saved
INFO. his true, good Lieutenant
Casio. For mine own psrt-no o
fence to the general, jackson, or any ONE
! man or ounlity-l hope 10 be saved
Tqeo. "Aod so do |, Lieutenant.
E CASIO. "Ay, but by your leave nc
before me the Lieutenant Is 10 be save
before the Ancient."
Inswstd the Mercury must not be prs
spmp,uous, nor attempt 10 look into she II
scrntabls eounses of Cabinets. we te
thai journal that il mus, have faith woTf
are nothing: ell is now sattlsd by an I'll
seen and mysterious rule OF political pr
destination, there be souls that must I
saved and there be souls that must mel
saved
France, they say, by means OF ceF'a
philosophers, fell under the rule OF sci
E, td;uin,uished friends Of freedom and Of pu
,easoD. called he Jscobn Cub. the
Sa,s folks somewhat addicted to what
called tho spoils.' and if man was
- tber way, or was rich, they ior'hw!
Y dnbbed hun 'Aristocra', and chopped
head off. To facilitate this laudable prs
uco. an ingenious artist made them ve
=, nice, rapid, and humane machine when.
n. the child Of his own fancy, he called, al
his own name of Gulllol'n, sa'ito't
We'll. Miss Gulo,ine, dear soul worn
dsliciously and be, about whose NECK =, !
10 threw her tender arms, at the magic Oh
republican touch wa, an oF's'0cta' no % mo M
in. Presently, however, her osp dear tanner lr I.
be came suspected and sweet sl'sa Go'i'o'
o3s was laid upon the Doctors own shou'os
Ola for in those days, as now, 'hey who 'iau
III" head were considered The best republics
ybo what Gulloun has done to merit short
will ipg-unless, perhaps, he rose above 'ne
ess GucaI statue OF the Jacobln Ciuo-we h.
mp' not. He had not managed any MeS'
/, negotiation, nor uttered any memor'
.ho,,t tthe cohesive power oil pu