The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1848-11-24
| rrnlain Your dear friend.
MAJOR JACK DOWNING.
\ SCENE IL CABINET COUNCIL.
Potomac giScslte following Interesting
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Fire IA tbs mountains run, boys, run -
+ The cpns'ernaiionuf Mr.. President Polk.
his Cabinet aud his Official editor. on ac.
count Of the terrible news ifum Pennsy IVA.
MA, - very great Yesterday, az | hap.
peued To know, the Cabine, held long AZ. ]
uneasy session. The members If /, were,
one, or another, constantly going from the
White House to the Departments aud
back, With iong, grave faces, pnttendiug
Official despair Al length al was qniet f.,
oul Of doors, in tie White II use neehbor
hood. The Cabinet members we're in
deep council tbiak SEQ Captain
Marcy ri.ing to address his pcc,s on The
subject Of Cd Zach's ? pularity, and ex
claiming, wi'h Cass;us
"Ye god.. Il do,h am-z1 me.
man OF such feeble temper shonld
So ct tie star, Of the maisstc world
Aud bes' The p.lm alone -
And now, seem 10 hear Mr.. Secretary
Buchanan, who was 10 have gone 10 Penn
ssivanla to canvass the Whole State. II
Longslfe,h got but 5000 majority for Gov.
erncr, rise, and, turning h,s head on one
side, say, IN the language Of Macbeth
:" have no spur
TO prick Tho sid \ OF my intent, but only
Nsulting ambition. which o'erlcaps itself,
And falls on the other side"
Nrxt II seems 10 me, see little Mr.
Walker rising 10 say his say. lie had
recently returned from yisii to the Treas
ufy Department, IN front Of which the car.
rage OF The official editor had been stand.
ing for hours (un unusual lhing) Wide the
owner was someuhcrs for some paYp1se.-
Nr. Walker, who had made Presidents aud
Loans, seemed 10 say
VAIN pomp, and glory Of Tai. world | hate yo:
feel my hear, new opeuL O, how wtc,ched
Is taai poor man that hangs on princes f4vors :"
AID now rises The tall, saunr form Of
Mr. Postmaster General Johnson, who
took that rife belonging to Uncle sam
Ills second Assistant is already IN Penn.
sylvanla, interfering in the elections"
Old Cave seems TO address Mr.. Walker,
IN view Of the accom- p,.hment Of an ei.h,
hundred thousand dollar loan, ia pcunsyl.
vania 10 reliere The money marh,f, similar
10 the one Of that emouu, made in New
York the other day, ny Mr. Walker, for
similar purpose, aud To say IN tho language
Of Mr.. Walcot,'s Peter PIndur. that II
would be best
" To bribc the MOB. with brandy. beer and song,
To pu, their greasy fists TO court addresses,
Full of profession kind aud carcssns,
And with a fiddle lead The hogs along"
With this, Mr.. H,lk seems TO agree, and
IN the language OF the same author, 10 say
" Fen grave divines submit to giltcring gold. /
The best OF consciences are bought and sold"
DANIEL WEBSTER on ABOLITION. \
Hon, ID. Webster said in a late speech
say that oil agira,ons aud attempts
to disturb the relations between master aud |
slave, BY persons mol living in the slave
States. are Unconstitutional IN their spirit,
and, in my opinion, productive OF nothing
but evil aud mischief. counicnance none
Of them. Tho manner in which the gov
ernmcnts of those States where slavery ex.
lists are to regulate II, is for their own con.
under their responsibility 20 their |
constituents, TO the general laws of ptopn. I
ETY., humanity, and justice, aud TO God -
Associations formed eises here, spuur,ng [