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culture and manufactures. Their report, either way, was not final. It was mereintroduce the subject before Congress for their deliberation- to make the subject of consideration by 231 members, chosen to represent the wants and wishes of the people. Here then we have 4 or 5 of the committee of 7 (for some of them were for reporting) with holding the subject matter, so interesting to socie- ty, particularly to Pennsylvania, from the deliberation of 231 members, because 4 or 5 of them had got into a quandary about it. But to the resolution: "Resolved, that the committee on manufactures be vested with power and authority to send for persons and papers." Verily, the profundity of the understandings of a majority of this committee must have no bottom.

They, forsooth, want not only to be transformed into a court of justice, but to send for persons and papers, and act as inquisitors over both, their powers, by the constitution, are merely legislative. Could they force men from Maine or Louisiana to dance attendance upon their committee? Where is their right to send for or examine any man's papers, to be is the principle or precedent to be found in the government of the Union, for such a step? When the whole tariff of the United States was to be formed, who ever thought or dreamt of the existence of such a power, when its exigency, if it ever could have been of use, from the immense extent and magnitude of the object, might have been thought serviceable? Nobody. How then could it be necessary, when the attention of the committee is asked to five or six objects only, instead of the whole tariff, which was legislated upon without any such expense, vexation or delay? Why, because the representation in Congress being equal, and every part of the country fully represented, it would be a solicismn to suppose that enlightened body would not be fully competent to all the calls of legislation. But it is said that Baitish legislation is sometimes enlightened by sending for persons and papers, which justifies the exercise of it here. There is no foundation for any such analogy.

Our situation is as different from theirs as day is from night. We have a constitution prescribing the powers of the Legislature -they have none but the will of Parliament. Their House of Commons is merely the shadow of a representation of the people, without any reality, whilst ours is an equal and full representation of the people, chosen by themselves. If Congress, composed of 231 representatives, chosen and scattered as they are over the whole surface of the Union, are not capable to represent the true interests, the wants and wishes of their constituents, it must arise from a neglect or indisposition to do their duty, which no one would wantonly impute to that distinguished body, But would the American people be prepared to say, that the growth and prosperity of this mighty nation should be confided to the examination of a divided committee, selecting their witnesses according to their will and wishes and caprices? We do not pay our Congressmen six and eight dollars a day to abridge their august and sacred powers, by creating committees with extraordinary powers, to select and report a statement of facts, at a most expensive rate, which they, in their legislation are to make the groundwork of their action. It is the duty of Congress to know the necessities and desires of the immediate constituents of each member, and he either does or ought to know them better than any witness a committee might from choice, or accident, or any other cause, pick up; and if they do not qualify themselves by such knowledge, they are unworthy of their high station.

What! the Pennsylvania Delegation ignorant of the depression of our agriculture, for want of a home market, and of our labouring classes wanting steady, regular and industrious employment for want of manufactures on our boundless water power, in every part of the state, being unused and useless, for want of protection against the factories of Europe, which are yearly draining millions upon millions of our money, to feed and clothe their poor and pamper their people in luxury, while our own are left heartless pennyless, for the want of that very money being employed at home amongst our own labouring class, to warm, clothe, feed cheer them. No man who knows the intelligence and ability of our members in Congress can believe this. Why then this delay, why the expense, why the vexation, why this putting into a thimble this subject, according to this resolution, which ought to be exposed to the broad face of day, on the floor of Congress, and there be expounded and dealt with according to its real merits? What can be the motive for this extraordinary measure, when the committee have the whole information of nine successive years, on these subjects, developed by the prayers of the country and the opposition of the merchants and foreign agents, as well as by the debates in Congress, at repeated sessions? Many, very many, think the majority in Congress are reluctant to act on the subject, least they should be forced to make known their sentiments on this Home Policy, this A- merican System, which will relieve us from being longer hewers of wood and drawers of water for foreign nations, whilst the heart's blood is departing by i it from our own people. They point to the talked of adjournment of Congress in March -to its being supported by all the friends of General Jackson, and by them alone, and to the delay inevitably secured by this resolution, as assuring to Congress the complete protection against acting upon it at all, and of course to their disclosing their sentiments upon it. And, to be sure, looks so plausible, that unless these things are very soon retraced Congress, this prebability will grow lip into proof positive that they are enemies to this protec tion.

There is another matter connected with this view of the subject, which is very impressive. The Legislature of Pennsylvania, which is Jacksonian, and which entered with ardor into the protection of these objects, when Messrs. Porter's and Wilkins' resolution was presented, are said to be getting into a yawning mood, since the talismanic resolution at Washington has reached them, that it is thought they are going to take a nap upon it, until the spell is dissolved by Mr. Stevenson, the necromancer of the non-protecting corps of the General at Washington. Pennsylyania is wide awake, looking to the movements of her representatives in Congress and at Harrisburg, to know whether this extraordinary measure at Washington, and the apparent zeal at Harrisburg, which gave rise to the resolution in the Legislature, wnich is now so cool, are designed as an electioneering manouvre of the Jackson men, to conceal their and the General's opposition to the protection of agriculture, manufactures a home market.

A FARMER. We published in our daily paper the address of Mr. Clay, and a small portion of the documents referred to in the work. We are of opinion that a perusal of the address and evidence will be followed by a firm conviction in every unprejudiced mind, that no "proposition touching the Presidency," ever proceeded from Mr. Clay or Mr.

Adams, or any of their friends; that the reports upon this point, which have been spread to the most remote corners of the Union, and made to assume the force and produce the effect of facts, arose entirely from error and misrepresentation, and that General Jackson ginated them. We are aware that this 1S a serious assertion, but the proof is irresistible and conclusive. It is established that the whole story arose from the conference between Mr. Buchanan and General Jackson. General Jackson says the proposition was made to him, gives Mr.

Buchanan as his authority. Now it must be remembered that they were a- lone--no third person was present at the interview; therefore, either Gen. Jackson or Mr. Buchanan must have given currency to the report. Mr.

Buchanan could not have been the author, for he says a proposition of the kind never entered his imagination, and he did not believe that Gen. Jackson deemed him capable of being the bearer of such an overture, until the latter asserted it. The error then originated with General Jackson, and with him alone, for as before stated, no other person was present at the interview. It must he held in remembrance also, that very shortly after this pregnant interview, the story of the proposition was communicated to Mr. Kremer, who proclaimed it in the famous letter pubfished in the Columbian Observer.

Kremer denied being the author of the letter, but when called upon for his authority his proof, refused to give up either the one or the other. Major Eaton, the bosom friend of General Jackson, was closeted with Mr. Kremer the evening previous to the appearance of the letter; 1 from all which it is fair to conclude, that Gen. Jackson conceived the Major Eaton told it, and Kremer published it. But whoever may have been the author of the Kremer letter, the conclusion is as clear as the sun in the firmament at noon day, that the contents were furnished by Gen.

Jackson, for no other person was privy to the conference on which it was founded. From the publication of the Kremer letter until that of the Beverly communication, a period of two years, Gen. Jackson indulged himself in the promulgation of the calumny, public places, on the highway, at taverns on board of steamboats." The blasting fabrication was repeated by ten thousand tongues, modified, enlarged upon, and dressed up with expletives, until it was believed by many, and, as before stated, acquired the force and performed the office truth. Admit that Gen. Jackson honestly misconceived the purport of Mr.

Buchanan's visit, he ought, as an honorable man, as soon as his error was discovered, to have made amends by promptly correcting it. He has done nothing of the kind. He has injured, deeply injured, both Mr. Clay and Mr. Adams by his declarations, and yet withholds reparation.

He has not to this day retracted his assertions, and his friends and partisans, if not himself also, continue to repeat them. To say that this defence of Mr. Clay's was unnecessary, and that he ought to have reposed upon the good sense and equity of the people, is to declare that General Jackson and his advocates are so notoriously unworthy of belief, that it is unnecessary to repel any assertions they may please to make. Will the advocates for Mr. Clay's silence admit this to be the established character of General Jackson, the Nashville Committee, Major Eaton, Mr.

M'Duffie, Mr. Randolph, Beverly, and the thousands that follow in their wake? It is the quintessence of cant and fastidiousness to pretend that the reputation of General Jackson and his advocates ought to be dear to the country, and has become of consequence to the American character, when they are sacrificing such men as Mr. Adams and Mr. Clay. It is proved by the testimony of Mr.

Large, Mr. Crowsdill, Mr. Sloan, and Mr. Howe, that Gen. Jackson declared that Mr.

Adams obtained the presidential chair by a "corrupt bargain intrigue," and if he have made the same promises and to Mr. Clay that Mr. Adams had done, he would then, in case, have been in the presidential chair," that these declarations were made puband in the presence and hearing of a number of gentlemen. To say that Mr. Clay is unaffected, that Mr.

Adams is untouched by these calumnies is, we repeat, to declare that the promulgator of them is totally unworthy and belief. "We freely admit that the country is indebted to Gen. Jackson for his military services; but is the achievement of a successful battle to be an indemnity for the sacrifice of the lives and characters of her citizens? She has far more at stake in the integrity of her laws, and the honor and purity of her civil magistrates, than in the reputation of a successful warrior. Is it of less consequence to her that her Chief Magistrate his Secretary should be charged with "corrupt bargain and than that a favoured General should be proved to have uttered presume not. Away then with the false insidious partiality that would recommend a silent submission to them.

Penn. Gaz. ADMINISTRATION MEETING. At a meeting of a number of the citizens of Wrightsville, and its immediate vicinity, favorable to the present istration of the General Government, held at the house of Tempest Wilson, on the evening of the 4th instant, Dr. ALEXANDER SPEER was called to the Chair, and SAMUEL YOUNG and WILLIAM GREEN appointed Secretaries.

Chairman having stated the object of the meeting, a motion. was made to appoint a committee to draft resolutions, expressive of the sense of the meeting, when the Chairman nominated the following persons, viz: James Jordan, Esq. William Kirkwood, Henry Snyder, Sen. John! S. Futhey and James E.

Mifflin, who after retiring a short time, reported the following preamble and resolutions, which were separately considered and unanimously adopted. WHEREAS in times of great political excitement, when the spirit of party runs high and the that undue measures are taken-and improper means used to effect the wishes and further the views of ambitious politicians and greedy office hunters, it becomes the duty as it is the privilege of -all virtuous citizens, who have the good of their country at heart, and feel an ardent desire to perpetuate those institutions which have been handed down to them by their forefathers and preserve them pure and unsullied, to meet together and express their sentiments with regard to men and measures -therefore Resolved, That we have the most unshaken confidence in the talents, integrity and sound republican principles of our present chief magistrate, JOHN Q. ADA.MS, and highly approve of the manner in which the affairs of our country have been conducted since his election "to- the Presidency. Resolved, That we view with concern and astonishment the measures adopted and acted upon by the opposition to the administration of General Government, their slanders of the President, their charges of corruption against him, while we rejoice to find that defeat has attended every attempt to sustain their charges, yet we consider it the duty of every good man in our country to oppose such measures by giving a firm and decided support to the cause of the present administretion and of the country. Resolved, That we will, acting upon the above conviction, use every honorable exertion to promote the re-election of JOHN QUINCY ADAMS to the Presidency.

Resolved, That we rejoice in the success of the friends of order and good government in the late special elections for Representatives to the state legislature, both Lancaster and Adams counties having elected friends to the administration, and view it as a presage of our success at the next Presidential election. Resolved, That we cannot find a single act in the life of General Andrew Jackson which would prove his fitness for the station of President of the United States, to which he aspires; but we believe there are many acts of his life, both public and private, which should entirely disqualify him for that station, and we will therefore use honorable means to prevent his e- every lection. Resolved, That a committee of vigilance be appointed, consisting of the following persons, viz: Wm. Collingwood, James Collingwood, George Murphy, John Kellar, Garry Everts, Henry Snyder, sen. Christian Rupp, Jacob Hinkle, Geo.

Fisher, Saml. Abbott, Gen. Jacob Kline, Jacob Opp, Jonathan Barns, Cornelius Sigler, Joseph Reider, John Mann, Philip Sipe, Charles Barnes, jr. John Hinkle, Charles Barnes, sen. John McFall, Jacob Flury, Joseph Wilson, Charles Barnes, (of Charles) Wm McCauly, Abraham Harris, Conrad Butting, Thomas Miffin, John Smith, Henry Libhart, Daniel Flury, Samuel Mifflin, Charles Otis, James Darden, James Coyl, John J.

Miller, John Haughey, Henry Holsinger, Daniel Flury jr. Eneas Barnes, Robert Wilson, Philip Duffield, Tempest Wilson, John Wilson, John S. Futhey, Wm. Kirkwood, James Jordan and James E. Mifflin, who are present at this meeting, and that they have leave to add to their number the names of any others, not present, whom they may see fit and who are favorble to the cause.

Resolved, that the above proceedings be signed by the Chairman and Secretaries, and be published in the newspapers of York and Lancaster counties friendly to the present, administration. ALEXANDER SPEER, Chairman. WILLIAM GREEN, 2 Secretaries. SAMUEL YOUNG, The Editor of the Fayetteville Obser-1 ver, in whose paper the charge of corruption and intrigue, against Mr. Clay first appeared, backed by a responsible accuser, declares after the greatest deliberation, that in his opinion, the charge is not sustained by proof.

Such candor is highly honorable and in entire keeping with Mr. Hale's whole character. He has set ae example worthy of imitation, to those associated with him in the support of Gen Jackson. Will they follow it? Marylander. At a late city election at Pittsburg, for Select and Common Council men, the Jacksonites, with their usual determination to make every thing turn on the Presidential question, spent several weeks in organizing their plans, and in getting up a tioket exclusively Jacksonian.

They proclaimed the ground they had taken, and maintained it until they were fairly beaten by the superior strength and numbers of the friends of the administration, who at the close of the election found themselves 140 ahead of their opponents. And so will it be throughout the state, whenever a fair occasion occurs of bringing the pretensions of the two presidential candidates to the test. We cannot repeat the fact too often-Pennsylvania is beginning to see her own true interests. Political truth on this question is dawning. The night of mistakes and imposition and ignorance is far spent, and the day is at hand.

No doubt now rests on any observant mind, that before the next election, truth will have so diffused itself throughout the state, that thousands who have been huzzaing for Jackson will wonder at their past infatuation, see where their own interest and the interest of the country lie, and give a vote in favor of the present administration the "4American System." Of the progress of opinion we have proof every day. Look at Lancaster, look at Adams county, look at the instance before us at Pittsburg, remember the fact that in 1824 Mr. A- dams received only 18 votes in that populous city, and that on the 1st of January 1828 the Adams ticket succeeded by a large majority over the Jacktonian on a contested election. Dem. Press.

The legislature have removed from one of the most responsible offices of the government, William Clark, Esq. one of the best of officers. No fault is pretended to be found with the manner in which he conducted the affairs of office, his allegiance to the democratic party was unsuspected, his only fault was thinking, as every freeman should do, for himself. Had he resigned this right to the Jackson party in the legislature, he would have been reelected. But he was too much of a freeman, too much of a patriot, too much a lover of the liberty which the constitution guaranteed, and to defend which he had drawn his sword, to make the will of any person or number of persons his guide.

With colonel Reed, he might exclaim, though poor, very poor, the legislature, are not rich enough to buy me." Mr. Clark retires from public "life, but not long to remain so. Virtue and firmness and disinterestedness will not go unrewarded. Some of those who assisted in setting his claims aside, and who owed a debt of gratitude to him for their elevation, may find that the sovereign people will command home again." So prominent were Mr. Clark's claims at the present time, that many could not believe the legislature would venture to put him out.

The vast sums of money that have been paid out and are now paying out, the loans that have been effected, the extensive works that are going on, made it extremely desirable that the treasurer should not be removed. That these considerations had weight with Messrs. Lehman and Wilkins, does honor to them; by not bowing to the idol they manifested they were not dangerously affected with the epidemic so prevalent among our members. Argus. Jackson Meeting in that some of the wits of Connecappears ticut have been playing off' a pitiful hoax on the Washington Jackson paper, in sign of the times" of a Jackson meeting in New London.

The venerable Chairman, who is reported to have made very able and pertinent remarks," is a halfidiot inmate of the Almshouse; and Messrs. Tossett, and Snantup, named as composing a part of the Committee of Correspondence, are, one a venerable old Negro, and the other, one of the tribe of MoheIndians. Vt. Aurora. gan Cotillion Party.

MR. TOBIAS Has the honor informing the Ladies and Gentleof the city of Lancaster, that his next BALL men will take place on Friday evening the 18th, at Mr. Tickets to be had of Mr. Coopers. Cooper.

January 17. SAMUEL KELLER, ABRAHAM HERSHEY. January 17 16-tf LAST NOTICE. subscribers, administrators of the estate of CHRISTIAN METZ, deceased, and his successors the as assignee of CHRISTIAN STAUFFER, of village of Manheim, merchant, as far as relates to his personal estate, finding that considerable debts, remain- part thereof contracted before assignment, the der part since that time, are yet due and owing in favor of said estate, and being anxious and desirous to close the concerns of said estate with as little delay as possible, they hereby give this public notice, that they receive have all fully monies anthorized due to the said said estate, Christian and that Stauffer the books will be left in his hands until the first day of April next, when the same will be given to the proper authorities for collection. MARIA METZ, SAMUEL KELLER, ABRAHAM HERSHEY.

The Goods and Merchandize of said store are rapidly selling, as heretofore, during the week, at private sale, at reduced prices, and public sale is regularly continued thereon every Saturday, where every article, to the number of from 300 to 410 per day, the given to the hands of the Crier, is knocked down to highest bidder, without reserve and without reflection on cost or profit, to which sales all neighbors others are respectfully invited to attepd. MARIA METZ, DOCTOR CHAMBERS' CELEBRATED REMEDY FOR INTEMPERANCE. THE beneficial effects of this celebrated medicine have been made apparent in the restoration of hunThe drede, if not thousands of the habitually intemperate. medicine has excited the attention of the philanof thropists of the country, has. elicited the encomiums almost every newspaper the Union, has even been the subject of serious though fruitless investigation of the Medical Society of the city and county of New-York.

Additional proofs of its success in this city are continually appearing, and scarcely a mail arrives which does not bring some new testimony of the most respectable character of its complete and astonishing success. All who are unfortunately addicted to this destructive habit ought to avail themselves of this truly valuable discovery. They are sured that it is a SAFE, EFFECTUAL and SALUTARY REMEDY. It is prepared only by Dr. James H.

Hart, and Mr. A. M. Fanning, Successors to Dr. Chambers, at their office in Rutgers' Medical College, and at the Medicinal Store of Dr.

Hart, corner of Broadway and Chamber st. New York. The Medicine is put up in letter packages, suffici. ent for an individual case, accompanied with directions, and can be sent by mail. All orders enclosing the diate usual attention.

price, $5, postage paid, with receive immeN. B. None are genuine unless signed by James H. Hart, M. D.

A. M. Fanning. Sold by R. G.

Moore, Agents, Centre Square, Lancaster. January 17 16-eowta8d. PUBLIC SALE. WILL be sold at public vendue, on Thursday the 14th day of February next, at the public house of Benjamin Flickinger, in the township of Cocalico, A Tract of Land, Containing 10 acres and 129 perches, more or less, Cocalico townahip, Lancaster county, adjoining lands of Joseph Flickinger, John Benage and others. On the premises are erected A good Log House, one and an half stories high, with two rooms and a kitchen on the first floor, a good Swisser barn, about 30 in length, a spring-house over an excellent spring, and a well of water at the door of the dwelling house.There is also on an the premises an excellent orchard of about one and half acres, planted with choice fruit trees, about two acres of good meadow, and the residue is divided into small fields of about an acre and an half each.

The land is of good quality and in an an excellent state of cultivation. Sale to commence at 10 o'clock on the above day. Terms at sale. E. C.

REIGART. January 17. 16-ts To Hatters. F. D.

HUBLEY has just received, on consignment from Philadelphia, 450 SUPERIOR Spanish Wool Hat Bodies, which will be sold cheap for cash. Also an additional supply of Men's, Boys' and Children's HATS, at cheaper prices than usual. Jan 17 16-3t. STRAY SHEEP. CAME to the plantation of the subscriber in Earl township, Lancaster county, in November last, EIGHT HEAD OF SHEEP.

ears. The owner is hereby that unless they Variously, marked on the arc taken away within sixty days from the date! hereof, they will be disposed of according to law. PETER RANCK, (Farmer.) Jan. 17. 16-4t.

Public Notice. IS given to the Electors of the city of Lancaster, that on the afternoon election of TUESDAY, the 5th of February next, an will be held at the court City, for the purpose of electing PITTEEN persons qualified to serve as members of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth, to serve as members of the Common Council, for the ensuing year, and four persons qualified to serve as members of the SENATE of the Commonwealth, to be members of the Select Council-one of them in the George B. Porter, Esq. for one year, and the other three to serve three years. At the same time and place, are to be elected, one High, and four city Constables, to serve as such the ensuing year.

For the information of Electors, it is deemeed expedient to mention, that the term of the following members to then Select Council viz: Jonas Dowart, Robert Elliot Andrew B. Kauffman, Esqrs. will expire on the day of said election. NATH'L LIGHTNER, Mayor, Mayor's Office, Jan. 5, 1828.

january 10. Conveyancing. The subscriber informs his friends and the public, that he continues the business of a conveyancer and scrivener. Deeds, Wills, Administration, Executorship and Guardianship accounts, all other instruments of writing will be speedilv and neatly done, at his office, next door to Jacob Duchman's Tavern. ZEPHANIAH M'LENEGAN.

Jan. 10. 15 tf. Stray Sheep. CAME to the Farm of the Subscriber, living Strasburg township, Lancaster county, some time in the month of October last.

(Miller.) January 10 p. Thirteen head of Sheep. 3 Ewes, 3 Wethers and 2 Rams The owner is requested to come forward, prove property pay charges and take them away. BENJAMIN HERR, In Baltimore county Court as a Court of Equity. SEPTEMBER TERM 1827.

Jacob Fordney, Michael Fordney, and Charles Diffenderffer, vs. Melchior ney, Philip Fordney, Margaret Glasser, Abraham Schweitzer, Elizabeth his wife, John Upperman and Mary his wife, Charles Lockard and Elizabeth his wife, John Hugerwold, and Mary his wife, Margaret Fordney, and Maria Fordney. Bill in this case, states that Jacob Fordney, deceased, late of Lancaster, in Pennsylvania, devised his real estate in the city of Baltimore, in Maryland, with other real estate in Pennsylvania, to his wife during life, (who is dead) and afterwards to the children, namely, Jacob Michael two of the complainants, to Daniel Fordney, who sold and conveyed his right in the real estate in Baltimore, to Charles Diffenderffer, the other complainant, that the defendants Melchior, Philip, Margaret, Elizabeth, Mary, and beth, are also devisees, and that the other Defendants, Elizabeth and Mary, Margaret and Maria are the children and heirs at law of William Fordney, one of the devisees who is since dead, that the two last, viz: Margaret and Maria are minors residing in Baltimore, that the other defendants do not reside in the state of Maryland, but are believed to reside in Pennsylvania. The Bill prays a sale of the real estate of Jacob Fordney, deceased, which is situated in Baltimore, for the purpose of making distribution the pro ceeds. It is alleged to be incapable of a division mong the parties entitled.

It is therefore this Eighteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven, adjudged and ordered that the complainants give notice to the absent defendants of the object and purpose of the said Bill, by causing a copy of this order to be published in one newspaper published in Baltimore, and also in one published in the city of Lancaster, once a week for four months, previous to the first day day of May next, thereby warning the defendants to appear in the said Court, to show cause, if any there be, why a decree should not be passed as prayed, for the selling of said property. By order of the Court, (True Copy,) WM. GIBSON, December 27. 19-4m.