Washington telegraph., 1850-12-04
A MODERN AND AN ANCIENT
PROCLAMATION.

| gle ter most admirable political hit,
undeI ,his heading The Eagle quotes
at length the recent missive of the Exc.
cutive of This State. and applies to it
the battery Of both common sense and
ridicue. After showing that Cengress
has made no ''unjust and insulting dis
crimi,ationsi' against the South, as as
serted by the Governor, it asks why he
SHOULD see in the enactment OF Southern
laws,a threatened war upon slavehold-
lug inst4lstions 1t thus answers its own
questions:-Natches Courier.
Why.-because The Governor was Itch
nag to write procaa na tiou and to send
ia TO the Legislature a message, all fury
aud mes;becanse the extinction Of the
Cuba INVASION left him nothing particu-
lar to do; because it lad been prophesled
by the stree\ politicians Of Jackson that
the Union dIsnembered, AE would be
the first Presiien. of that misty phantom
of diseased minds, The Southern Con-
fezeracy. He had heard the "al hail
hereafter OF crazy politicians and boy
lawyers in the Meets of jackson, and the
vision of folly and madness awoke the
unquiet dream OF restless ambition.
Besides, pro,lamation. of the right
kind is so very feroic Many remarka-
bic heroes have issued their proclama-
tions-Sancho Pnza had his, to the in-
habitalas of Bara,ara. 'Fhe venerable,
highly esteemed AID most veracious his
lorian. Diedrich Knickerbocker, in his
ancient history Of New York, refers to
one most Notable proclamation, which
doubtless. Gen. Quhman had in his eye
Diedrch says Of William the Tessy. that
"no sooner had this bustiigg little poten-
tate been blown by Whit Of fortune
into the scat of government than he
called his coun I'll together TO make them
a speech on the state of affairs"
In this point there appears the most
perfect correspondence of action between
the ancient Dutch Governor of Gen.
Quitman's native State and Gen. Quit
man himself Having assembled his
council, William the festy made them a
speech, as Gen Quitman will doubtless
sepd them message. Having intro
seced this fact. Diedrich Knickerbocker
thus graveiy proceeds in has history Of
William the Testy: al nb.4.
"As ray readers are well aware Of the
advantage po,entate has of handling
his enemies as lie pleases in his speeches
and buhetins, where Ae has the talk all
OF his own side, they Elay rest assured
that William the 'Festy did not let such
an opportunity escape of giving the Van
KEGS what is called "a taste of his quail
ty. Ia speaking Of their inroads into
the territories of their High Mightinesses,
he compared them to Gauls who desoa-
ted Rome, the Goths and Vaudals who
cverrsn the fairest places of Europe; but
when he came TO speak to the unparal-
leIed suaaeity with which shey or Wealth
ersficld had advanced their patches up to
the very walls of Fort Good Hope,
threatning to smather the garrison in on
ions. tears of rage started in his eyes, as
though he nosed the very offence in ques-
ton. of bHs aul Ytlea
"Having thus wrought uphis tale to
climax, he assumed most bellIyerent
look, and assured the council that he had
devised an instrument, potent IN It's effects,
and which he trusted would soon drive
the Yankees from the land. So saying,
he thrust his hands iuto one of the deep
pockets Of his broad skirted coat and drew
forth, net an Internal machine, but an in
strument in writing, which he laid with
great emphasis upos the table.
The burghers gazed at it for time in
silent awe, as a housewife does gun,
fearful it may go off haa-cocked. The
document in question had a sinister look
it is true; il was Grabbed in text, aud
from broad red ribbon dangled the seal
of the province about the size OF buck
wheat pancake. Still, after all, it was
but an instrument in writing. Herein
however, existed the wonder of the in-
ventIcn. The document in question was
, a Proclamation, ordering the Yankees
to depart instantly from the territories OF
their High Miahtinesses, under pals OF
suffering all tie foEleitRres aud punish
ment in such case made and provided
1t was on the moral effect OF this forInid
able instrument that Wilhelmus kieft
caieuIated; pledging his valor as gov
ernor that, once illuminated against the
/ Yankees, it would, in less than two
months, drive every mothers son OF them
across the borders. ~ aHI
"The council broke up in perfect Won
der, and nothing was talked OF tor some
time among the old men and women OF
/ New Amsterdam. but the vast genius OF
the Governor aud hls new and cheap
mode of fighting by rfocianalion
No one eau fail to perceive how close
ly the New Yorker Governor OF Missls-
sippi initiates the ancient Dutch Govern
or of his native State; aud who can
blame him for adopting SO venerable a
.modes
The louisville Courier of a late date
says kady of that city, was dragged to
prison with tears streaming from her gen-
| tie eyes. the day previous, for the tritiing