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The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1849-04-14

Peter Dor, Miltohsburg;' l|0Bi
JohnsM. Round, Summeriield;A .d, .;;t ~
/, J E,& G. A. Boyd, Carlisle;
VIM. s. J. Myers, New Castle; ,19HaNs sai
Hanes & Pancoast, Jamestown; 9es baG AliaI'
% Anshutz, Pollock & CO.. ClaIingtop;,b yirsias
Isaac Welsh & Co., Bealsyille., I. $3.50, 49,,
Dec. 0. 16iS '''''
Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1849-12-28

extended our exposed western frontier,
and rendered its defence more difficult.
That treaty has also brought us under
Obligations to Mexico; TO comply with
which the military establishment is not
materially changed as to its efficiency
from the condition in which 1t stood be.
fore the commencement of the Mexican
War. Some addition to il will therefore
be necessary, and | recommend to the
favorable consideration of Congress- an
increase of The several departments OF
the army at our distant western posts,
as proposed in the accompanying report
of the Secretary Of War. Great en-
barrasment has resulted from the honor
able rank in the Army, heretofore given
to Brevet and Staff Commissions The
views of the Secretary of War on this
subject are deemed important, and il
carried into effect, will. it is believed,
promote harmony in the service. The
plan proposed for retiring disabled Off
GERS, and providing an asylum for such
Of the rank and file as from age, wounds
and other infirnilies, oecasioned by SER
vice, have become unfit to perform their
respective duties, is recommended as a
means of increasing the efficiency of the
army, and as an act of Justice due from
grateful country TO the faithful soldier.
The accompanying report Of the Sec.
rotary of the Navy presents faithful aud
satisfactory account Of the condition and
operations of the Naval service during the
past year Our citizens engaged in the
legitimate pursuits of commerce have
enjoyed its benefits. Wherever or ma
tional vessels have gone they have been
Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1849-12-28

of general interest, and founded, as it was,
under the auspices of him whose immortal
name it bears, its claims to the fostering
care Of Congress present themselves with
additional strength. Whatever can con-
tribute to its prosperity must enlist the
FEELINGS of its constitutional guardins, and
command thcir IA vorable consideration.
Our goveramennt is one OF limited pow
ers, and its successful administration emf
nently depends ON the confinement OF each
of its coordinate branches within its own
appropriate sphere. The first section Of
the constitution orlains that all legislative
powers therein granted shall be vested in
Congress of the United States. which shall
consist of Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives. The Executive has authority
to recommend, not to dictate, measures To
Congress. Having performed that duty,
the Executive department Of the govern
ment cannot rightfully control the decision
Of Congress on any subject of legislation
submitted to the President for approval.
The check provided by the Constitution,
in the clause conferring the qualified veto,
will never be exercised by me, except in the
case contemplated by the Fathers OF the
Republic. view it as an extrems meas
ure, to be resorted to only in extraordinary
cases, as whereit may become necessary to
defend the Executives against encroachmsnts
OF the legislative power, and to prevent
hasty and inconsiderate, or demonstrations
al legislation. by cautiously combining this
remedy within the sphere prescribed to it
in the contemporaneous exposition Of the
Constitution. The will OF the people le-
Ultimately expressed on all subjects Of leg
islation to their constitutional organs, the
Senators and Representatives OF the United
States will have its full effects as indispen-
sable to the preservation of our system Of
self-gosemment. The Independence Of the
Representatives of the States and the peo-
pie is guaranteed by the Constitution; and
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His next account showed balance Of forty
three thousand dollars in the hands Of his agent,
and the following one Of forty-two thousand, more
than a hundred thousand dollars less than the
Wings allowed to remain in the hands Of bis pre-
decessor We think this plain statement Of facts
constitutes am ample defence Of the Secretary Of the
Navy The agent Of Mr. Denby-Mr. Osborne,
Of Richmond, merchant-faed, on account Of
commercial embarassments abroad, and ruined
Mr.. DENLY II Fitch, Brothers a. Co., had broken
during the Harrison dynasty, the Government
would have lost twice as much as has been endan-
gered by the defalcation Of Mr. Osborne Let the
Republic remember these facts when il next treats
Of this subject
So much for the Pennsylvania. Did
FITcH & Co. receive their funds Uia Rich
mond, through the hands of house at
liberty to use them in commercial specula-
tons If they did not, the cases arc not
parallel.
But if they did receive their funds by
this remarkably unusual mode Of transmits
sion, did their agent fail, and did they fail
TO pay up the balances they owed TO the
Government If they did not, then the
cases are not parallel.
But the Pennsylvania entirely loses
sight of the main feature in the whole
affair. During the employment Of FIrcH
X Co., the American Government was
transacting its business in the old-fashioned
way, by which, during the administration
Of Mr.. TYLER, it never lost cent by de-
falcation. But when Mr.. Polk came into
power, new plan was to be introduced, Of
the baltimore patent, which was to divert
the public money entirely from all private
uses, and was to keep it safer than il could
possibly be kept under the old WIG ar
rangement. Mr.. WALKER had devised a
perfect save-al. Not only were there to
be no more mammoth defalcations, like
those which had immortalized Mr. Secre
tary WooDBURY-not only were there &c
be no more million defcits-but they were
TO make candle end and cheese-parinl
business Of it, and there were to be nj
more Of your petty-larceny operations
Mr.. WALKER reannounced the only con
stltutlonal treasury, and recommended !
in the following terms in his first annua
report cit is believed, under such
system, NO DEFAULTS WOULD TAKE PLACE
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The Peansyivanian tells us that if FITCH
g. Co. had failed in HARRIsoN's time, the
Government would have lost twice as much
money as they lost by Mr.. DENNY. This
is of the same fashion with the logic of
the Union, which told us the other day
that it had no doubt, IN Dieao Of the oppor-
tunities they had enjoyed, the WHO'S had
as much Of the stolen public money as the
DEMOCRATS, considering their "opportu-
mites"
The Union then went on to enumerate
the WIG defalcations, and promised ire
mendous" developments. The nearest it
could get to WIG defalcation was a
fraud committed bya Locofoco bank pres
ident in Massachusetts,, who was indicted
for the offence, and on his trial was de
Tended by WING lawyer! The connex-
ion between this bank explosion and the
Wing party was somewhat remote, but it
was the best thing the Union could do in
that line.
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and that the public moneys would be safely
kept and discussed in gold and silc r."
With majority, as the Union boasts, of
sixty in the lower House, the admlnistra-
ton made just such Sub-treasury law as
they wanted, and then became bound to
make good the pledge they had given to
the country that there should be "no more
defaults" So far then from being paral-
lels, the lines of these two cases cut each
other at right angles.
But MIR. DENLY had been long time
abroad, without receiving dollar for his
support. That might be very good reason
for Mr.. DENNY to come home. But is it
logically deduced from this interjectional
argument, that therefore Mr.. DENNY ought
to have two or three hundred thousand
dollars Of the public money to hazard in
commercial speculation-when the Sub
treasury law was expressly passed to d.
vert public funds from private uses, and
when such appropriation was made by the
statute in terms as felony, no matter in
Ohat capacity the recipient held the funds'
Because Mr.. DENBY was in Marselles,
without receiving dollar for expanding
the public money, when there was no pub
lie necessity for such expenditure-was it
therefore right for Mr. DENNY, Mr. MASON,
and MIR. OSBORNE, to apply public funds
to private usesl 1t was a disagreeable
thing for one of the elite of the distinguished
Democrats of Richmond to be in Marseilles
without public moneys in his pocket. 1t
was natural enough that others of the
elite should desire to aid him in that d.
lemma. But was there no way of doing
it, without putting so vast an amount Of
public money in the hands of his agent in
Richmond, to be employed in commercial
speculations!
But again Mr.. DENNY was to receive
his compensation in commission of Al
per cent. on his ADVANCES and Msburse-
ments. So says the Blue Book. Is this
statement, thus officially given to the
world, true Was this in addition to his
liberty to use the surplus funds in COM
mercial arrangements Or was it designed
merely as cover TO the real transaction
We will take the liberty to say, in part
ing, that this is no longer Mr.. DENBY's
case, nor Mr.. OsBoRNE's case. Nobody
outside of the private circle in which they
move cares copper about Mr.. DENNY or
Mr.. OSBORNE. They are merely the
pawns on the board-let our friends look
to their king and their castle.
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FRos the YELLOW SrosE cousrRY.-The
steamer TameraDe arrived at ST. Louis on the 9Th
instant from the mouth Of the Yellow Stone rver,
whence she had been with freight for the Black
Feet trade She performed the voyage in forty
three days, being the shortest time in which this
long trip has ever been performed. The St Louis
Republican learns from the clerk Of the Tamerlane
tina, the Indians were all in dissatisfied condition.
and at continual war with each other Two or.
three days before their arrival at the Gros Ventres
village, an attack was made upon these Indians by
twelve hundred Of the Sioux, but they were re-
pulsed.
Mr. Carrot, in charge Of the American Fur Com
pany's for fred his cannon at the attacking party,
and II said they had sworn revenge They
were to return in twenty days, with reinforce
ment Of one thousand men, To exterminate the
Gros Ventres Indians, and destroy the whites in
the fort.
II was understood that grea, numbers Of Indians
we're dying Of cholera at the head Of the Platp
MT A. Pasquier was passenger on the Tanner
lane from the mouth Of Medicine creek. He left
Fort Laramie on the 9th Of July, and contradict,
the report Of the death Of Miss Fanny White, mem
ton Of whose decease in the praires has been made
~ the papers.
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l.. sUNpRy OTHER RoeuEs."

The Union comments in the following
style on a paragraph from a Baltimore
paper, stating that stolen watch had
been found in the possession of ''newly-
appointed" custom-house officer in New
York:
alt is surprising that this Wing ofice-bolder
should fall to stealing so soon after his appoint
ment. IL is "a matter which the organ should look
after, and put among the defalcations We have
heard Of sundry other rogues who had been APP
pointed to office by Collector Maxwell, whom he
was obliged subsequently to remove But, as the
first article in the creed Of Whiggery il to plumber
the Government, we shall, we have no doubt have
beautiful array Of pecuations TO hold mp 10 pub
lie admiration after the present Administration has
passed from the stage"
This is very severe. IL is what Mr..
Foker would call I" sumner" The dit
ference between a Locofoco and a Wing
administration is this When the WHIGs
find a rogue in Office, they turn him out.
When the Locos find rogue in office,
they keep him in, on the principle acted
upon by Mr.. Secretary WOODBURY., that
he has got his hands full, and will not
steal any more," or that he has innucn-
tia friends, and that they had "better let
him be" till after election. Why does not
the Union give us single instance in
which the Who's have plundered the Gov
ernment' Plumber being one Of the first
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and the Republic. The vote you have come L
changes my mandate. ! henceforth consider my
self free, and resign It into your handsn Hi:
two colleagues, Saf and Armellini, following hii
example, Immediately gave in their designations
The assembly then named new trlumvlrate, com
posed of Messrs: Salicett, president of the assem-
bly,, Marian, and Calendrelli, commandment of the
artillery. The latter was the officer who, with
much skill directed the Roman artillery during the
course of the siege. The new government carried
on the operations for three days, until the entrance
of the French. Ii put forward preensons which
the French general could not admit. The condi-
tons which il submitted for the surrender of the
city were as follows: General Oudnot shall not
interfere in the policy of the Roman States The
Roman troops Of the line shall do the duty con-
jointly with the French troops. The civic guard
shall be maintained in its primitive state The free
corps shall be established in environments pointed
out by General Oudnot Ii was found TO be I'M
possible to come to AN understanding with the de-
putation presided over by M. Sturbinetti senator
of Rome, dignity equivalent 10 that of mayor In
fine. on the evening OF the LIST of July, the munlcl-
paty took on itself TO open three gates to the
French troops, and the city Of Rome was thus oc-
cupied Internationally"
The Pope has sent the following letter IN reply
TO an address presented to him from the municipal
council of Marsees
''Dear Sons,-Sautaton and Apostolic Benedic-
ton The piety and Difference which you profess
for and for the apostolic see in concert with the
ilustrous French nation, have manifested them
selves in particular manner under the deporable
circumstances which removed us from Rome, and
subjected US to the most severe tribolations We
therefore accept with gratitude the duty which you
wish to perform towards us at this time, and we
thank you for consolihg our sufferngs and our
affections by the expression of the religious feeling
which animaes you in such high degree. Con-
fding in the Almighty, who wounds and heals,
who, while permitting these adversities, would not
shake the faith, but only put it to the proof, we
have never ceased day and night humbly to implore
His divine assistance; but we fear that he will
day punish by some public calamity the disorders
of the city Of Rome and the injuries done to the
church. 1t is for that, dear sons, that you should
persevere more than in PRAYING to the Lord to
turn his Indignation from the christian world, and
to establish peace and tranquility. And we give
you tenderly, and from the bottom of our heart,
to you and to your feow-citizens, the apostolic
benediction, presage Of the divine protection,
and as testimony Of the love which we bear to-
wards you
"Done at Gaeta, the 10th of June in the third of
our Pontifcate (Sgned) PIus, P. P. TX"
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If the fees are as small as represented, we won
der how the ''poor Frenchman" is to make his
''livng!" Will the Republic tell u.s. Does il mean
that our consul shall keep an seating house" as
"living," and refer to our government for an en-
dorsation of his honesty, capacity, and fideityi'
We had always understood that the consuship at
Lyons was profitable and honorable, but it seems we
have been mistaken. IL is neither Union.
Thus discourses the sole organ upon the
Lyons consulship. We cannot inform that
journal how poor HEUDEBERT will make
his living. Whether or not the fees are
as small as have been represented, we
cannot say, as all our representations on
this subject came from Locofoco incum-
bents. If they have made their returns
according to the rules of the department,
honestly, the facts are as we have stated.
But though we cannot tell what Heude-
bert will do, in the absence of fees, under
the pr sent Administration, we can inform
the Union what the late administration did
for one Of the elite of the Richmond Dem
ocrats, when he found himself in similar
situation at Marseilles. They violated the
law, and deposited several hundred thou
sand dollars in the hands of his agent at
Richmond, in order that he might engage
in commercial speculations on the govern
ment funds, whereby the government lost
S155, 900. This is the way the late ad-
ministration made ''livings" for their for
eign agents in the absence of fees. Does
the Union consider this the most "honor-
able" mode of providing our foreign agents
with "living" II may be Lving bust
ness for the agent, but il is killing bust
ness for the administration that permits IL.
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IMPoRrAsr INJUNCTION CAsE-The bill of IN
junction filed against the Wheeling and Belmont
Bridge Company, to prevent the construction Of the
wire suspension bridge across the Ohio river at
Wheeling, Va, came up for argument at Philadel-
phia, on the 10th, before Judge Grer, of the United
Staes circuit court. f. M. Stanton, esq, of Pitts
burg, appeared for the State, and John Cadwaader,
esq, Of Philadelphia, for the defence. In the
course Of his argument Mr.. Stanton read several
affidavits Of eminent business men Of Western
Pennsylvania, going to show that the Ohio river
was the great connecting channel Of the trade of the
West with the public works Of the Keystone State,
and to prove the disastrous consequences to the
Pennsylvania line Of improvements, that the con-
struction Of the contemplated wire suspension
bridge at Wheeling would occasion. The court
resumed the case on the 18Th
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articles of their creed, it must be easy to
substantiate the fact by reference to cases.
Is it a plumber of the Government to
remove rogues Then has Mr.. maxwell
plundered the Government by dismissing
unworthy appointees. But has Mr.. MAX
WELL attempted to conceal and cover up
rogueriesl Has he coanived at UiolatiOas
Of the laU? Has he aided and abetted
the conversion of public funds to private
uses +! Has he assisted any one to hazard
Government money in commercial specu-
lations Has he undertaken to deceive
the President These are the questions
that suggest themselves in connexion with
the Union's charge against Mr.. MAX
WELL.
While we are on this subject, we should
like to know if the Union has heard from
its correspondent We should like to know
if Mr.. Mason has returned to Richmond.
We should like to know if it is prepared
with the full details, that were to be ready
Gin day or two' without thanks to the
Department. We should like to know if
Mr.. WALKER has so far recovered from
the horror of the invasion of the sanctity
of private life, as to be able to inform us
how it happens that we have lost $155, 900
in single transaction, under system by
which he warranted to furnish US "safe"
disbursement Of the public moneys, with
out the loss Of any thing "BY DEFAULTp'
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| tons of the convention. Endeayor TO soi'en down
politcal asperites and sectional anmositles, ana 10
| unite all men for the welfare OF this our common
| country.
Three subjects among those which nave engaged
our deliberations stand prominently 'Yi'' uei''iu
ing your earnest attention.
81, he FIRST of these-a union Of all the British
! American proyinces-it has been proposed in this
convention 10 lay the foundations for making this
country a great nation, upon sound and enduring
| basis.
Impressed with the weight of such measure,
but uncertain as the sentiments of the sister colo
MES this convention has proposed a conference with
those provinces by delegation of some of It's MEM
bers Meantime it recommends this great question
TO your mature deliberations.
The second great movement IN which we invite
your cooperation, Is that for retrenchment and
economy in the public expenditure.
The third is that still more great and vital move
ment we are prepared TO make in favor of ''protec-
ton TO home industry"
Inscribe these glorious rallying cries upon your
banners-glonous, because they will elevate your
country from failure to success--from ruin to pros
perity they will unite with you eventually all hon.
est nen-a men of reason and true patriotism.
Keep them before you in your assemblies. Pro-
cure for them the assent and advocacy OF your
neighbors Support no man at the hustings who
will not pledge himself to wise and salutary re-
Tenchment, WhO VIII not agree to raise his VOICE III
favor of protection.
So shall you elevate this your country into a
great nation of freemen, fostered by and in amity
and connection with Great Britan-preserving her
time-hallowed MISUNDERSTANDING her old trade
principles, under which she has flourshed for cen
turtles, and her people have grown the richest on
the face of the globethose great trade principles
which in the neighboring Union have also been
adopted, and have established that mighty and
prosperous nation.
Forsake these princpes-neglect this advice
then prepare to behold your country, notwithsand-
ing the great advantages which God has given her
her boundess forests source ofexhaustless wealth
for ages-her noble lakes and splendid rivers, the
natural highways of mighty nations commerce
NOTWITHSTANDING her unlimited water-power, her ex-
tensive tracts of rich arabic land, her immense min
era resources, her industrious and intelligent popu-
lation;-prepare, we say to behold your country re-
duced TO state of misery, degradation, discord,
and poverty
To endeavor to avert such calamltles Is the duty
of every freeman and every lover of his country;
it should also be his highest privilege. Rouse your
selves then to these ques-
I'tions, and rescue your country from present and
impending evils.
G. MOFFATT, Chairman.
w W. R GoaDos MACK Join. Secretaries.
Kingston, 3lst July, lS49.