that no steps should be taken to preserve one Noah and the bank. Yet he is permitted to portion of it at the expense of another. enter old Virginia as a munificent benefactor!! "CALL YOU THIS BACKING YOUR FRIENDS."

6. And be it further resolved, by the authority aforesaid, That confidence of one interest n the aid and fellowship of another, is the true We lately accused the Archers, the Stevenshield of safety of the friends of the protected industry, and that such condence should be sons, the Forsyths, with Thomas Ritchie, of cultivated and relied on throughout the Union deserting the cause of principle, and sacrificing 7. And be it further resolved, by the autho. the interests of the south with a view to their own personal advancement. Mr. Ritchie varity aforesaid, That connected as the prosperi ty of agriculture and manufactures are, with liantly defends himself against the charge; but the successful financial operations and sound says not one word in defence of his associates currency of the country, we view the speedy in the charge!! We understand him. He rechartering of the Bank of the United States knows too well the political course of these gentlemen, and the motives which govern them as of vital importance to the public welfare.

8. And be it further resolved, by the autho. to attempt a denial. He understands how rity aforesaid, That the Governor be requested greedily they have been in the pursuit of ofto transmit these resolutions to our Represen. fice; and as a means of recommending themtatives in Congress, to be laid before their re-selves, how silent and inefficient, as to the great questions which now agitate this distractspective bodies. The resolutions were passed unanimously.ed country, and how bold and forward, upon mere party questions, they have been.

We copy from the Globe, of Tuesday last the following article:

A NEW SCHEME.

But we will not excuse Mr. Ritchie on his mere denial-He is a degraded man-he has so frequently, of late, forfeited his word, that we The Clay prints are expatiating on Silas we would ask him, how long since he made must pronounce him to be unworthy of credit. E. Burrows' liberauity, for the purpose of dithe most solemn asseveration that Mr. Van Buverting attention from his connexion with the ren would not be the candidate for the Vice United States Bank. Engravings of the monument to be built at his expense to the mother de lare that he would not support him if he Presidency, and whether he did not solemnly of Washington, are now peddled about New was? He knows that he has forfeited his word York. The object is palpable. Will the pre-in both these particulars, and therefore he sent generation-will the high-minded Virgi-must excuse us for requiring better evidence nians-leave it in the power of posterity to re-than his own words, before we can believe that proach them for permitting an individual of the expects nothing for himself or any of his such suspicious fame to identify himself with friends.

such an enduring testimonial? Is it to be

doubted that the people at large would not MR. VAN BUREN WILL NOT DECLINE.” contribute a hundred times the amount requi- Such is the language of the official in an site, rather than to submit to Burrows' con- elaborate article of yesterday. The very emnexion with the monument under all the cir-phasis which it assumes is itself proof of the cumstances of the case? We have nothing to doubt which the managers of that concern feel. do with Mr. Burrows' private character-we The assertion of the official, on this point, know him only through public documents, and, we hold to be no evidence. But a short time till some explanation is offered of his evasion of since it asserted that Mr. Van Buren would not the officers sent in pursuit of him by the Bank be a candidate, and that he would not be nomiCommittee, we think public opinion will inter-nated at Baltimore. Those predictions are alpose many and strong objections to his propos-ready falsified; and the present, that he will not ed agency in establishing the monument.-Ro decline, may as easily, in a few months, share chester Rep.

the same fate.

COMMENT.-We confess our surprise that In truth, we do dot look to the Globe or the "highminded Virginians" should permit the Richmond Enquirer, or even to the Albany Arindividual in question to rear the monument. gus, for the first indications of the moves of Mr. But, considering that the President of the U. Van Buren. The Courier and Enquirer is the States has pledged himself, in writing, to Mr. authentic source of the earliest intelligence Burrows, who was then an inmate of his house, on this point. We all remember that that print that he would deck the pageant by attending in early predicted that Mr. Van Buren would be person, to lay the corner stone, we are more sur-the candidate of the party for the Vice Presi prised to find such a notice of it in the Globe. dency, which its then associates combined to Nothing but our respect for the character and discredit. Again, it not long since predicted feelings of some of Virginia's nobler sons, some that Gov Throop, of New York, would not be a who, even in the days of her humiliation, feel candidate for re-election. This the Argus as their sires were wont to feel in the green stoutly denied; but, to its discredit, Governor days of the republic, restrained us from speak-Throop has already declined a re-election. ing of this matter as we believe it deserves. With this evidence before us, we must first Burrows, it seems, charged two and a half look to the Courier and Enquirer for the earper cent: brokerage on the transaction between liest indication of the retreat of Mr. Van

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Buren, which will be first indicated by saying a State has no constitutional and peaceful means that the object of bringing him forward was to of defending their rights, and, consequently, keep united the republican party, but that mo- that the entire power is vested in a majority of tive having failed, he makes a merit of sacrifi- the people, taken in their aggregate character. cing his own political advancement to the bar-This is the old federal doctrine, to which he mony and peace of the country.

and his party adhere with fidelity. Taken in Will not Mr. Van Buren be driven to this al- this light, the advice would be natural. There ternative? Will not his best informed advisers can be no doubt that South Carolina will interurge him to this course? Nothing will prevent pose, unless the tariff is satisfactorily adjusted; it but the utter hopelessness of those who now and we put it home to Mr. Walsh and his party, wield the confidence and the patronage of the and to the Jackson Van Buren party, who acGovernment-who, having no hope of continu- cord with him in political sentiment on this ing in office, but in the re-election of General point, to carry out their threat, if they dare Jackson, cling to the chances as a drowning Now is the time to vest the President with the man would seize upon a straw. To Mr. Van dictatorial power which he suggests, and the Buren there remains no alternative but dis- Intelligencer approves. As prudent, as wise grace. Let him turn which way he will, dis- men, acting on the principles which they asgrace, merited, deep, and lasting, awaits him. sume, provision ought to be made for approaching events, and, should they not be made, it is easy to see that their threats will be considered

THE CRISIS COMING.

We extract the following from the National as but empty menace. Gazette: We speak thus decisively because we think⚫ "As the General Government is formally it proper that those who indulge so heedlessly threatened by the South Carolina Nullification in language such as we have quoted, should be party with resistance to the laws, and as doubts brought, as speedily as possible, to a due remay be raised in regard to the President's pow-flection on the utter absurdity of the course ers to enforce the laws, it would be well, per- which they advise a course utterly incompatihaps, that Congress should take the subject in-ble with every sound view of our political systo consideration during the present session, and em, and which cannot be attempted without. give express authority to the President to act tinvolving those who may participate in it in ut in certain contingencies. A declaration of the ter disgrace. Try it when they may, and it will opinion of Congress with respect to the heresy be found that the States, acting as political of nullification is desirable, independently of communities, in their sovereign capacity, on the direct defence of the Union. Nothing is their reserved rights, cannot be coerced by the more sure than that the immense majority of general government; and that, whenever any the American people will remain on the side of one assumes that attitude, a question in contest the Federal Government. No one of the south-is at once transferred from the general governern States even is likely to give aid or counte-ment, and can only be adjusted by the people nance to the nullifiers; though South Carolina of the States themselves, in convention; or, should be much more generally theirs than she appears to be."

The National Intelligencer, of yesterday, copied this, with the following introduction:

which is the same thing, by an amendment of the Constitution granting the power in contest. Let the experiment be made when it may, such will be its end. It is to this feature that our "We take the subjoined paragraph from the government is indebted for its excellence. It is National Gazette of Monday. Every serious the great conservative principle, which, by ar. suggestion from that quarter is entitled to re- resting the course of injustice, will give per spectful consideration; and it is for that reason, petuity to our constitution, our Union, and our and not to express concurrence in it, (the sug-liberty. gestion being entirely new to us,) that we copy the article."

PROFLIGACY.

Not long since, Mr. Walsh said, of South Ca- Lewis, Kendall, and Co. have openly avowed rolina, "let them go." His tone is now chang- their belief that General Jackson's popularity ed. Force is now threatened to hold her in sub. can stand any thing; and, surely, they act on jection. This is the natural course of events. In the principle. Every citizen who has any rethe nature of things, there is no alternative be-gard for the character of the country, can entween force and justice. Injustice necessarily ertain but one opinion of the profligate article leads to discontent-discontent to alienation in the Globe of yesterday, which seeks to enand alienation to division, or-force. list into the electioneering service of the ad

We are amazed that a man of Mr. Walsh's ministration, the massacre of our frontier citi information and experience in politics, should zens. That there has been great remissness not see that the experiment of force applied to on the part of the agents of the Government in one of the sovereign members of this confede- that quarter, in quieting the complaints of the racy, acting on what she conceives to be reserv- Indians, cannot be doubted. But it is no ed rights, is utterly destructive of our entire sys- apology for that neglect to say, that the symtem of governmeut. It would of itself involve pathy enlisted in behalf of the Indian tribes, a thorough revolution. But we forget he be was calculated to make them discontented. It longs to the school that believes that the States was the duty of the administration to counterhave no rights, or, what is the same thing, that act that discontent by informing the Indians,

and dealing firmly ahd justly by them. We secution of Mr. Calhoun at this time? What. are induced to take this notice of the article in ver may have been his former sentiment, nothe Globe, at this time, because we see, from a one can doubt his deep and devoted attachment letter published in the New York Journal of to the rights of the States, for which he has Commerce, that the agents of Georgia are made greater sacrifices, and more successful charged with having perpertrated outrages call. efforts, than any other man living. He is no ing for the immediate and energetic action of candidate for office. He seeks not a re-election the Federal Executive. We trust that these to his present office; nor does he aspire to any All the offences charged against him accounts are exaggerated, but they cannot fail other. by Mr. Ritchie, and his associates, occurred to arrest public attention. long preceding the last Presidential election, The apostate Enquirer, speaking of the Vic when he received the support of Mr. Ritchie, President, says that, if his correspondent does and the whole Jackson party, for the elevated not answer the Telegraph, the editor "will office which he now holds. Why, then, we take the task upon his own shoulders." We are ask again, is he attacked at this time?-and on glad to hear this; and, after a careful examina- what possible principle can Mr. Ritchie recon tion, we now challenge Mr. Ritchie to point out cile the inconsistency of his bitter and malignant a single instance, from 1816 to the present time, assaults upon Mr. Calhoun, in reference to the in which Mr. Calhoun ever gave his sanction to tariff or internal improvement, when he is dethe tariff He must not deal in generals-he voting soul and body to the re-election of Gen. must be specific. Give us the time and the oc- Jackson, who is the open advocate of both, and is the daily eulogist of Mr. Van Buren, by

casion.

We venture to assert that no instance can be whose act the tariff of 1828 was passed, and by. given. It is well known that the first move to whose vote a bill proposing to carry the princiintroduce a tariff for protection, as distinct from ple of internal improvement, by the erection of revenue, was made by Mr. Baldwin; and it is urnpike gates, further than it ever yet has also well known, that Mr. Calhoun was deci-gone, was supported? We must again ask Mr. dedly opposed to his project. As to the tariff Ritchie to meet all these questions plainly, diof 1824, Mr. Calhoun's stand in opposition to it rectly, and explicitly, when he "takes the task was open and notorious. In fact, his intimate upon his own shoulders."

and personal friends took the lead in the oppo- As to the attacks upon Mr. Calhoun, but one sition, both in the Senate and in the House, as explanation can be given. His attitude will will appear by a reference to the debate of that explain why he is assaulted. Let any one look period. The next measure, the woollens bill, at the times, and witness the approach of events, of 1826-27, was defeated by his casting vote. and he will not be at a loss to determine the And it is well known that he was prepared to cause. There is a great crisis at hand-a crisis give a similar vote, in 1828, against the bill of in which the liberties of this country must sink abominations, though it should be followed by or be saved, by a recurrence to the great Whig his retiring as a candidate for the Vice Presi-doctrines of '98. Mr. Calhoun's connection with dency. It thus appears, that the whole extent hese doctrines-his clear understanding of their of the charge against him is the support of the principles, and his resolute and invincible spitariff of 1816-a measure which was supported rit in maintaining them, explain the assaults by four-fifths of the American people, and, if which the deserters from these doctrines-the we mistake not, by Mr. Ritchie himself. tories of the present times—are daily making on

As to internal improvements, we trust that him. The Jackson Van Buren party, who have Mr. Ritchie will show wherein Mr. Calhoun has abandoned every principle upon which Gen. ever carried his principles beyond those adopt. Jackson was elected, and who so bitterly deed in Gen. Jackson's Maysville veto message,nounce the doctrines of 98, see, in their triand that he will satisfy his readers how he can re- umph, the certain triumph of Mr. Calhoun, and No one sees this concile his condemnation of Mr. Calhoun with their own utter disgrace.

His

his eulogies upon that document. We ask Mr. more clearly than Mr. Ritchie himself; and Ritchie again, to be specific, and to quote the hence his bitter and unrelenting assault on the precise sentiments of Mr. Calhoun on the sub-great Southerner. ject of the constitutionality of internal improvement, which he holds to be obnoxious. The Globe quotes our remark that "The readers will not be satisfied with general decla-Vice President is not a candidate for officemation; and we know it will puzzle him to spe- so far from standing in the way of Mr. Ritchie's cify his charge. favorite, he is passive, as between the two As to the bank, it would be prudent in Mr. great rivals now before the people," and acRitchie to be silent until he ascertains whether companies it with an extract from a letter of his idol will not sign the bill now pending for one of our correspondents that rechartering; or, at least, if he should not, whe- "Should a ticket be submitted to the people, ther, in the act of declining it, he will not aban- reading thus--John C. Calhoun, President, don his objection as to its constitutionality. In and P. P. Barbour, Vice President; such an the mean time, we would ask him whether he one would find friends even in New England; himself did not approve the rechartering of the and friends, too, quite as numerous as Gener present bank, or, at least, silently acquiesce al Jackson or Mr. Clay's friends would like to But what means this malignant and bitter per see,"

which Gen. Jackson has in the world, could not assailant is that, poor Ritchie, easy credulous desire to see him placed in a position more de- good soul! acted in the Seminole affair, towards structive of the character and the fame which General Jackson, under false impressions made The be once acquired! In what light, more 'de by the insinuations of Mr. Calhoun. Who can believe that' grading than that in which he now presents thing is too ridiculous. himself, can any one be placed? After having Mr. Calhoun could have given a misdirection to publicly maintained that he acted under the or- Mr. Ritchie's feelings, at the very time when ders of the War Department, and that those he and Mr. Crawford were on the best terms, orders justified the occupation of the posts in and when he was the bitter opponent both of question? After having assaulted the second off Mr. Calhoun and of General Jackson. The cer of the Government for having placed a dif- very supposition supposes a stupidity on the ferent construction upon his orders, and a man part of Mr. Ritchie, and an act on the part of to whom, above all others, he is most indebted Mr. Calhoun, which no one who knows them But Mr. Ritchie still lives to for his present elevation; at this late period, can believe. after the death of Mr. Monroe, the ground is speak for himself. He knows it to be false, shifted, and we are told that he acted under and if he is not utterly lost to all feelings of the secret orders of the Executive!! which, honor and virtue, he will repel the apology as were it true, would prove that he is a man ca- a deeper insult, than the attack which it is inpable of acting under one order, and justifying tended to excuse, as he knows that there is not himself under another; and worse than that, it the slightest foundation for the apology offered would prove him capable of paying a greater him: for between Mr. Calhoun and himself, deference to a secret'intimation of the Execu-there never has been any correspondence, ditive than to the obligations of the Constitution rect or indirect, nor could he by any possibility which he was sworn to support!! receive any of his impressions in reference to

Bat we have not the least idea that this new the Seminole affair, or of General Jackson's position can even be maintained. Mr. Monroe conduct in it, through him, either directly or in

This is a severe trial for Mr. Ritchie. It will

THE TARIFF.

was too pure a man-he had too much respect directly. for the Constitution, to give any such orders as that on which Gen. Jackson now places his show how much of the Spaniel is in him. justification. Besides, we have the private correspondence between Mr. Monroe and Gen. Jackson, on the subject of the construction of The New York papers are taking sides on ins orders, and there is not the least intimation, the question of the tariff. The ultra tariff poin the whole of this long correspondence, ou liticians have produced a deep excitement and the part of Gen. Jackson, that he acted on any other authority than the public orders from the meetings have been, and are being held, War Department. (See the correspondence throughout the State in opposition to Mr. McLane's project for an adjustment of the tariff, between Gen. Jackson and Mr. Calhoun.) Again: Gen Jackson accuses Mr. Calhoun of and public opinion is taking such a direction secret enmity towards him in relation to the that the friends and partisans of Mr. Van Buren find it necessary to act accordingly. We find Seminole affair. He made the same charge in the correspondence, which has been published, in the New York papers the following call for which Mr. Calhoun indignantly repelled, and public meeting in the city of New York,signed by many names of the most respectablefand challenged him to his proof. This he has not influential citizens. furnished, and we venture to assert he never can give. On the contrary, we firmly believe The citizens of New York without distinction he owed his acquital before Congress, in no small degree, to the firm and decided support of party or pursuits, who feel that an arrangeof Mr. Calhoun. In a late statement in the ment of the TARIFF QUESTION during the PREGlobe, Generál Jackson is represented to say, SENT SESSION OF CONGRESS, on principles. of that a slanderer is worse than a murderer; and mutual concession and embracing such modifiwe ask how, in conformity to that maxim, can cations as may allay discontent and restore harthis slanderous statement in the Globe bemony to the different sections of the country, is absolutely necessary for the preservation of justified?

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PUBLIC MEETING.

The article, from which the extract above is PEACE and UNION, are requested to attend a taken, is written ostensibly to defend poor public meeting at the Sessions Room, in the Ritchie from the overwhelming denunciation west end of the Old Alms House, in the rear of which General Jackson himself made against the City Hall, this evening, at 8 o'clock, pretisely. him, in which he said,

Ritchie is the greatest scoundrel in Aemri- We are gratified to see public attention thus ca." "I see that I am attacked in Congress by aroused; but in the present stage of popular Cocke, Whitman, and Williams, AIDED BY THAT delusion in relation to this subject, we have no INFAMOUS PRESS, the RICHMOND ENQUIRER. If hope that any satisfactory adjustment will take such a corrupt press as the Richmond Enquirer place-the political managers have created an were to approbate my conduct, I should think, interest which they can no longer control. The in some unguarded moment, I had committed cure lies in another direction, and in that alone some great moral impropriety." is our hope for the preservation and perpetuity

The apology which is now offered by his then of our Union.