Poster the time of holding the District To provide for the means of extending the Court of the United States for the Western benefi's of vaccination, as a preventive f smallDistrict of Louisiana; pox, to the Indian tribes, and thereby as far For improving Pennsylvania avenue, supply as possible to save them from the destructive ing the public buil ings with water, and for ravages of that disease; paving the walk from the western gate to the capitol with flagging;

mas Knowles, James Lang, and W. Steel, re-sentatives of Dr. Samuel Axon, d ceased; spectively; To enforce quarantine regulations; Making provision for the sale and disposition Supplementary to an act to incorporate the of the public ground in the cities of St. Au-trustees of the F male Orphan Asylum, of gustine and Pensacola, and to reserve certam Georgetown, in the District of Columbia; lots for public purposes, and to provide for For altering the time of holding the District their repair and preservation; Court of the United States, for the District of Indiana;

Providing for the postponement of the trial of cer in cases now peading in the superior Court of Arkansas Territory, and for withholding from sale or entry certain lans in sad Tern Massachusetts;

1 relation to the penitentiary for the Districte rt of Key West, an the district of Key West; For ne di charge of sundry j dgments For the re- prepration of certam nag inst the form macshado The ca pede alances of toriner appropriations, and of Pennsylvania, and for the relief of J

To extend the time of issuing military land HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 14th July, 1832. warrants to officers and soldiers of the revolu. DEAR SIR: Your lever of the 6 stant I tionary army; have read, and duly considered is contents. To provide for the extinguishment of the In-You rightly suppose that no report is contem. dian title to lands lying in the States of Missou 'ri and Illinois, and for other purposes; Supplementary to the several acts making appropriation for the civil and military service during the year 1832.

plated by the special committee on the subject of live oak. I felt some hesitation in an. swering your enquiries. The delay of the report alluded to did not arise from any he trust doubt or difficulty about the questions you ask, but from the determination of the committee to collect all the facts in their power relative to the general question, and the occurrence of engrossing public questions. But as the report has been for some time expected, and I have not lately made any move it, Id emi. proper in this manner to tate: That the document referred to in your letter was not suppressed, but was by you, (as Secretary of the Navy,) communicated to the Naval Committee, as appears by the report of the present Secretary.

2dly. There is no ground disclosed by the documents and evidence for the slightest suspicion, that you, while Secr tary of the Navy, on the ground of favoritism, or any other ground, improperly increased the allowances or the wages of live oak agents. In fact, these wages were not increased at all. In answer to your last question, I will copy the words of the report of the Naval Committee of the 26th February, 1831, which bear directly on the point; they are as follows: "The committee are of opinion, that the examinations of the public, and other lands, to ascertain the quantity and quality of the live oak, should be prosecu ted with increased industry and adequate force." Very respectfully, your obedient servant, THOS. T. BOULDIN.

The Hon. JOHN BRANCH.

FROM THE NEW ORLEANS EMPORIUM,
LOUISIANA ELECTIONS.

Gen. Thomas has been re-elected to Congress from the Florida district.

Mr Bullard received a majority of 114 votes for Congress in the parish of St. Mary.

The united Pari-hes of St. Bernard and of

WASHINGTON CITI, July 6, 1832. SIR: Having understood that the special com mittee on live oak affairs will not, from their numerous engagements, have it in their power Plaquemines, have elected Mr. Casimir Lacoste to make a detailed report on the several points as Senator, by a majority of 88 votes over air. referred to them, I have to request that you Milligan.

will, as chairman of that committee, say, whe- The Parish of St. Bernard has elected Mr ther the charges made in the House of Repre- D. M. Ducros, as Representative, and the Parsentatives against me, viz. suppressing an im-ish of Plaquemines Mr. Forstall.

portant document in relation to the quantity of
live oak growing on the public lands, and in-
creasing the salaries of the agents to an un-
usual and improper extent, are, in your opi-
nion, from the data furnished you by the Secre-
tary of the Navy, shown to be unjust, and also,
whether the Secretary of the Navy was not
urged, in the most earnest manner, by the Na-
val Committee, in February, 1831, to increase
the number of agents, as was subsequently

done..
I have the honor to be, your's, respectfully.
JN. BRANCH.

To the Hon. Mr. BOULDIN,

A failure to notify the editor of an intention to discon tinue will be considered a renewal of the subscription, which will not be discontinued, except at the option o Chairman of the Committee on Live Oak.the editor, until all arrearages are paid.

WASHINGTON, AUGUST 6, 1832.

VOL. VI................$2.50 PER ANNUM...........BY DUFF GREEN. .........No 21.

EDITORIAL.

LIBERIA.

THE BANK.

all." "I shall use every means to defeat the amendments in the Senate, because I believe them to be iniquitous and unjust. If those According to the political economy of the amendments should pass, the bill as amended friends of the American system, what a thriving by the Senate, will be a better tariff than the settlement Liberia must be. A letter from the present one, for I bave yet to learn that any commander of the United States schooner reduction is not an advantage to the people. I know some of our political Solomons are enBoxer, published in the Globe of yesterday, states the exports of the colony to be $120,000 deavouring to impress on the public mind, that altho' this bill evidently contains a reduc80,000 Imports tion, it is no relief to the south. "I am very $40,000 glad to see some certain honourable gentlenen What a profitable business! They exchange in North Carolina, alive to the rights of the the value of 120,000 for $80,000. The editor people, in relation to the tariff. I remember of the Baltimore Weekly Register must, no two years ago that a very different sentiment doubt, be highly delighted at such manifest prevailed with some of them. I was then, as I signs of the prosperity of the colony. Quere. am now, in favor of taking such measures as will effectually relieve the south, for really I Is the balance paid in gold and silver. thought I saw no evidence of a returning sense of justice in our oppressors, and then gave it as my opinion, in a speech on the reduction of We are not advocates of the bank, but as the the tax on cotton bagging, that the "South friends of truth, we cannot permit to pass un- would be justifiable in declaring the tariff unnoticed the gross misrepresentation in the constitutsonal and throwing open their ports." Globe of yesterday, relative to the first stock-The idea which I then meant to convey, was, holders of the Bank. It is there stated that, that if this tariff was to be considered the law "by these fictitious subscriptions, the bona of the land, and the settled policy of the counfide subscribers were cheated out of a large por-try, the south ought to have a general convention of the stock which properly belonged to tion, and take such steps as would effectually them, and the whole concern was thrown into relieve us. But what was the response? Why, the hands of a few speculators and stockjob- by some of the very men who I now see very bers." The editor of the Globe is either gross active in a certain course in our State, under the ly ignorant of the circumstances of which he deceitful mask of pretended opposition to the speaks, or he wilfully states what he knows to tariff, it was openly reprobated as amounting be untrue. The "fictitious subscriptions" had to treason. But now when, by the unremiting no effect whatever to prevent any bona fide exertions of Gen Jackson and his friends, the stockholder, or any one else, from having system is about to be attacked, and that in such whatever portion of the stock they chose to a way as promises in the end a restoration to purchase. So far from that being the case, at good old principles, we hear those men cry out, the closing of the subscription, the whole of Nullification, if the protective principle is not the stock had not been subscribed for. Shares speedily abolished. Down with Van Buren! to the amount of rather more than $2,000,000, because he voted for the tariff, and give us were not taken until after the period fixed by Judge Barbour for Vice President who is oplaw for the closing of the books. Mr. S. Ge-posed to the tariff."

rard then took the balance.

The above is from the North Carolina Constitutionalist. The object of the writer is to FROM THE NORTH CAROLINA CONSTITUTIONALIST. justify the course taken by him and his coadju"Extract of a letter from a member of Congress tors of the south, relative to the tariff, and to

dated Washington, July 9th, 1832. say all that can be said in its favor. But it will "Dear Sir: I am much pleased to learn, through not do. Unless the people of the south are the columns of your valuable paper, that the determined to be deceived, they cannot much course which the friends of the Union have longer remain blind to the real nature of the pursued in relation to the tariff, has met with new bill. Even those who voted for it, denounce the approbation of our friends in North Caro-it. The honorable member tells the people, lina. For one I certainly had no other object that the "bill is by no means what the south in view, but the peace and harmony of the ought to have." Why then did he vote for it. country, and altho' I am free to admit that the Why did he and the other Van Buren Jackson bill, as it passed the House of Representatives, men strive so strenuously to pass the bill? Why is by no means what the south ought to have yet did they who are styled, par excellence, the I think it decidedly better than no reduction at friends of the President, exert all their influence

to get the bill through both Houses? The ob- ber of Congress. The opinions entertained by vious reason is assigned in the above letter. Mr. Ingersoll, are no doubt those of the JackThe bill contained "a reduction." Here is son Van Buren party in Pennsylvania and New the secret. No matter what the reduction was, [York. We beg our readers to compare them whether as regards its nature or amount, it with those of the North Carolina member of was "a reduction," and that was enough. And Congress. Who could suppose they were we have no doubt but that it was owing to this speaking of the same President, the same bill, determination of the administration party of the the same system? They are both friends of the south, that the bill is so very different from what President. According to the member from it ought to have been." North Carolina, he is making war, that is, as it When it was discovered by the friends of the is quaintly termed, he is "about to attack" the tariff, that there were some at the south who system. No, says the ex-member, "the surest would accept and laud any bill that was passed, means to sustain the American system "is to the whole power of the bill at once came into support General Jackson. He is "with the their hands, and they determined to modify it south," says one, and will destroy the protecjust to suit themselves. This they have done, tive system, and bring back the "good old and do not hesitate to avow it. principles" of a tariff for revenue. Not so, But what has the south gained by it to justify says the other, I am "well satisfied, by personal so much praise being bestowed on those who intercourse with the President, that he is inflexiadvocate it, and so much abuse upon those who bly determined to sustain by his official and disapprove of it? The honorable member tells personal influence, every branch of essential us what they have gained-a "reduction" in manufactures." One considers the bill as an the taxes; and, "by the unremitting exertions "attack" on the system, and the other considof General Jackson and his friends, the system ers it as placing the manufactures on a "more is about to be attacked!" "About to be attack-solid foundation than ever." But why need ed!" And this solemn mockery is attempted to we pursue the contradictions further? be put upon the people of North Carolina!

"About to be attacked!" "General Jackson, Extracts from a letter of C. J. Ingersoll. we are told," is with the south, and the people "The long and intimate connexion I have ought to stand by him." He was elected by had with the cause of domestic industry, and the people of the south with especial reference my settled conviction that its protection is esto this very system. What has he done in re-sential to the independence and prosperity of gard to it? After being in office near four years, this country, induce me at the present moment, we are told that the system is about to be at-when that cause has just passed through a great tacked" by General Jackson and his friends. trial, endangering the Union itself, to submit to And this grand, desperate "attack" is to be my fellow citizens, especially of my native city and "in such a way as promises, in the end, a resto-State, the reasons which convince me that, to ration to good old principles."

support the present administration is the surest means of maintaining what is called the American system, and the union of these United States, on which the only practicable American System altogether depends.

This "restoration to good old principles," means either a return to a tariff simply for a revenue, or it means nothing. Now what grounds has the honorable member either in the bill it self, or in any thing connected with the pas- "Residence at the seat of government dusage of the bill, for this assertion. Nothing of ring a considerable part of the late session of the kind was stated by any member of the Congress, afforded me continual opportunities of House, either from north, south, east, or west, being satisfied, by personal intercourse with to authorise any one to draw any such conclu- the President and otherwise, that General Jacksion. But the precise contrary was declared in son has well considered the subject, is well inevery form and shape that the sentiment could formed in its principies and details, and inflexibe expressed. And Mr. Clay openly declared bly determined to sustain, by his official and his intention to advocate an increase of duty on personal influence, every branch of essential any article, in case the present one should not manufactures." be a sufficient protection. And this "is a re- "I can bear witness, and I deem it a duty storation to the good old principles" of a tariff to do so, from actual and unbiassed observation simply for revenue. while at the seat of government, that for the How very different from this is the represen-accomplishment of this vital compromise we tation made to the north by gentlemen of the are all deeply indebted to the personal exertions, same party as this letter writer. There, quite the official courage, and the devoted patriotism a different tale is told, and with a great deal of General Jackson.

more boldness, because what they say approxi- "Now that the crisis is probably over, there mates much more nearly to a true statement of may still be more alarm in the east, and more the case. We have repeatedly called the at- disaffection in the south. But as far as it is tention of our readers to the discrepancies possible to anticipate results, all the great na. and contradictions which exist in the state-tional interests have reason not only to be satisments made by the friends of the adminis-fied, but gratified. The recent act of Contration in the tariff States, and in the south. gress places them all on a more solid founda We have before us now, a letter published in tion than they ever enjoyed before. The revethe Sentinel, by C. J. Ingersoll, a former mem-nue has been taken mostly from articles not re

quiring protection. Iron, cotton, and sugar, intention of creating prejudices against those with the accessional branches of industry, are citizens of the south who are striving to rid well secured. Woollen, the only interest re-themselves of the oppressions of the tariff. We specting which there is any donbt, is fortified think it very likely that no such conversation by the enacted principle of what is conceived ever took place; but all will admit that similar to be sufficient protection, which can and no ideas will naturally arise in the mind of every doubt will be hereafter carried farther, if expe- English statesman, and, no doubt, they would rience should prove it to be necessary. The act accordingly. We cannot suppose them to modifications incorporated with the new law, be so inattentive to their own interests, as to especially that abridging credits, are not only shut their eyes to a fair opening for an extenequivalents but improvements, which render sion of their trade, that would be mutually bethe system more effectual by simplifying it; neficial. This circumstance alone ought to make and there is every reason to trust that American the manufacturing portion of our country seriindustry will hereafter, more certainly than here- ously reflect, before they urge their southern tofore, enjoy the home market, without distress brethren into measures calculated so deeply to from foreign incursions, which is all it has ever wound their own interests. required or can expect from Government."

"SIR-Your allusion to the tariff in your speech, relative to our public lands, reminds me of a conversation I had with one of the great political characters in London, in the month of September last, which was as follows:

MANUFACTURERS.

The letter was published to injure the cause of the south. A heated partisan may extract poison from it, but it contains wholsome truths for the cool and wise. They ought to see that the manufacturers are contending against the very nature of things, and that they must neces sarily fail in their endeavors to continue their My friend was very desirous of having my o- oppressions. The south see it and feel it also pinion respecting the affairs of this country. I and it is this certainty of final success, which stated to him that the natural resources of this makes them so patient and enduring. They great country were inexhaustible; that the tariff wish to give their northern brethern every of 1824 had brought some of those dormant re- chance of retracing their steps, and restoring sources into use, while the revenues arising, the legislation of the General Government to its principally from imposts, had enabled the Go- proper objects. The preceding letter will afvernment to pay more than thirty millions of ford a subject for serious reflection to our intelthe public debt, exclusive of large advances ilgent ship owners and commercial men. for internal improvements; that if we enjoy THE WOOL GROWERS AND WOOLLEN peace, and our Government continue to encourage the industry of the country, as I believe it will, it is my decided opinion that the We publish to-day the letter of Judge Buel, United States will soon be the most wealthy, of Albany, relative to the combination of the powerful, and independent nation in the world. manufacturers to purchase foreign wool and My friend admitted all I said to be true. But,' yarn, and thus to depress the price of the wool said he, if we were not so much perplexed with produced at home. It shows how easy it is our finances at home, we would soon put a stop for the great capitalists and large manufacturers, to the rising greatness and prosperity of the U-by their combinations, to affect the price of all nited States. And how?' said I. Why,' said such articles as may influence the price of their he, 'we would instigate the southern States to own productions; and it is equally easy for rebel against the other States; we would convince similar combinations to raise the price of their the people of the cotton growing States that your own productions, as to depreciate those which tariff oppresses them, and we would offer them affect that price. It is true, that when the dosuch protection, and such commercial advantages mestic production equals the demand, combias would induce them to rebel; and in less than nations to keep up the price cannot generally five years we would produce a separation of the be made, or if made, cupidity or a necessity of Union.' selling, will induce some to evade the engage'But,' said I, 'probably you would be disap-ments entered into for that purpose. But until pointed; you know you calculated on the east- this is the case, until the domestic production ern States joining you during the last war, but does equal the demand, it is always in the pow you were disappointed, and probably you would er of the large manufacturers to keep up the be disappointed again.' 'No,' said he, we know price far beyond what will afford them a fair, aetter how to manage these matters; we could, and the usual, profit upon the employment of with our fleets, protect them, and our merchants capital. would take their produce and carry to them ma- The concluding paragraph of the letter nufactured articles, duty free, for their own use strikingly exemplifies the power of self-interest and for the purpose of smuggling into other to blind the mental vision. The pledge charges States, and thus, by these and other means, the manufacturers with want of "patriotism,' (which I understood to be a liberal application and impugns the "purity of their motives" in of secret service money,) we would soon put a buying wool at a low price abroad, when the stop to the increasing wealth, power, and inde- Judge, and his wool-growing friends, would pendence of your country." sell it to them at a higher one.

The preceding letter has been published in several of the tariff journals, evidently with the

Patriotism in buying wool! good one. Why did not the

Well! that is a
Judge and his