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 From the Boston Morning! Po^^ — Extra. 
 THE IDENTITV OF THE OLD HARTFORD CONVEN- 
 TION FEDERALISTS WITH THE MODERN WHIG 
 HARRISON PARTY, CAREFULLY ILLUSTRATED 
 BY LIVING SPECIMENS, AND DEDICATED TO THE 
 YOUNG MEN OF THE UNION. 
 
 Old party distinctions are revived. The fund- 
 mg and national debt and National Bank sys- 
 tems of Hamilton, which Jefferson weakened, 
 Jackson vetoed, and Van Buren abolished, are 
 strenuously urged a?ain by the party that so clam 
 '. orously support William H. Harrison for Presi- 
 dent. While General Harrison is held up at the 
 South as opposed to a United Stales Bank, he is 
 known to be under the guidance of men at the 
 ^v North, who mean by "Reforai" the restoration 
 N^of a tJnited States Bank. 
 
 To disguise the end, it is pretended by those who 
 " use Harrison as the "instrument" to revive Fede- 
 ralism and the Bank, that they are in fact the 
 Democratic party, the disciples of Jefferson and 
 Madison; while Jackson, Van Buren, and the sup- 
 porters of their administrations, are the old Fede- 
 ralists ! 
 
 Fatuity could not have feigned, nor credulity 
 compassed, that such a pretence would be set up, 
 had we not seen that there are men among us, 
 claiming to have rational souls, who make the 
 drinking of hard cider the rallying test and stimu- 
 lus of their party. Having seen this, we may 
 ■well be prepared to see any thing, however absurd, 
 from such a party. 
 
 In the Boston Atlas of August 4, 1840, may be 
 found the following: 
 
 "The present Whigs are not the old Hartford 
 Convention Federalists. We all know that that 
 class of politicians became dissatisfied with John 
 Q,. Adams, and pending the second canvass went 
 over to Andrew Jackson ! The great Republican 
 party adhered to their allegiance, and were then, 
 as they now are, true Demacrats of the Jefferson 
 school, constituting the present Whig party." 
 
 The recklessness of Wliigery leaves nothing 
 sacre J. History must be turned out of doors, and 
 falsehood put in her place. Since, then, this al- 
 leged change of old parties is to be falsely assumed 
 
 monument of Jefferson, and place it over the bones 
 of Federalism, thank themselves for having com- 
 pelled^ns to restore it to- its right place, with its 
 true inscription, and expose the rottenness it has 
 beenmade to cover. We would pain no living 
 man connected with those scenes. Many of ihem 
 are venerable, and most estimable in private life. 
 We would tread lightly on the ashes of the dead; 
 but truth — historic truth — eternal truth — must not, 
 and shall not, be sacrificed. 
 
 Assertions are so recklessly made in these times, 
 by systematic writers of falsshood, that the man of' 
 truth is rarely believed on his mere word. We 
 shall therefore support every assertion with proof, 
 and this will necessarily make the detail of evi- 
 dence somewhat voluminous. Its importance will 
 repay a patient examination. 
 
 The assertion of the British Whig party, who 
 support Harrison, is that they are the true Jefferso- 
 nian Democratic Republican party; and that the old 
 Hartford Convention Federalists have gone over to 
 Jackson and Van Buren in a body ! 
 
 This assertion is impudently made here in Mas- 
 sachusetts, in the leading organ of Mr. Daniel 
 Webster. Here, then, it should be examined; for 
 iVIassachusetls was the cradle of the Hartford Con- 
 vention, as she has been, and will continue to be, 
 the death bed of old parties. 
 
 This assertion in the Atlas has a meaning. It 
 follows close upon the display, of "the significant 
 banner" at Baltimore, by the Boston Harrison De- 
 legation, and closer still upon the declaration of 
 Mr. Daniel Webster, at t'he Log Cabin gattering ia 
 Alexandria, in the District of Columbia,. the llth 
 of June last, when he pledged his men of the 
 North to go with the men of the South, in elect- 
 ing Harrison to the Presidency. 
 
 That was a meeting ominous to the South, de- 
 ceptive to the North. 
 
 The secret policy of tampering with the Aboli- 
 tionists of the North had been perfected, so far as 
 it could be carried without endangering the South. 
 Mr. Webster relied on party machinery to carry 
 the Whig Abolitionists of his section, let him say 
 what he would to the South; and he took the occa- 
 sion at Alexandria, just upon the diselosure of G&" 
 
 to practice on the young men who have not ex- neral Harrison's secret letter to Mr. Ev^ns, to pro- 
 amined the subject, it becomes indispensable to pat claim an alliance with the South, in the hope of 
 it right. Let those who have sought to seiae the ' strengtheaiHg General Harrisoa in that section, and 
 
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 doing away the effect of the discovery of Mr. Wil- 
 liam B. CalhouQ's correspondence with the Aboli- 
 tionists ol Massachusetts. 
 
 liiQi^c are the memorable words Mr. Webster 
 used on that occasion : 
 
 "WE HAVE MADE WlLLIAM HeNRY HaRRISON 
 THE BEARER OF OUR STANDARD !" 
 
 Who are ihey, and what is their standard? 
 Where have they ever been, and where do they 
 ever mean to be? 
 
 This is not the first time that Mr. Webster ha^ 
 officiated in the ceremony of a l°ft-handed marriage 
 between the Federalists of Massachusetts and the 
 Whigs of the South and West. 
 
 The 10th of November, 1837, Mr. John Bell, of 
 Tennessee, appeared at a great Whig meeting in 
 Faueail Hall, Boston, and standing beside Daniel 
 Webster, who presided in that meeting, Mr. Bell 
 exclaimed, " Tennessee is in principle with Massa- 
 chusetts." 
 
 The sam« men who stood by Mr. Webster to 
 ratify that alJ: ncc — the John Davises, the Benja- 
 min Rusfcels, 1..2 I. C. Batcses, and the Saitonstalls, 
 are now his vouchers for the pledge at Alexandria 
 Who and where are ihey? 
 
 Daniel Webr.er was the author of the Rocking- 
 ham Circular, adopted by a convention of Federal- 
 ists in New Hampshire, denouccin,:^ die war, from 
 which he WiS transferred to Congi'^ss. Previous 
 to this, in 1606, he delivered »n oration, the 4th of 
 July, before " the Federal gentlemen " of Concord, 
 tfew Hampshire, in which he inveighed against 
 President Jefferson, and denounced him for his love 
 of peace and regard to economy. 
 
 "Patriotism," said he, "has given place to the 
 spirit of economy. Regard to national honor is 
 absorbed in a thirst for gain, and a desire to save." 
 
 In his pamphlet against the embargo, Mr. Web- 
 stej said of Jefferson — 
 
 " When a man's pretensions are utterly incon- 
 sistent with his actions, his pretensions must be 
 false. The motive assigned for laving the embar- 
 go was never the true motive. When we have a 
 British war, we of course [shall] have a French 
 alUance, and surrender our liberties and indepen- 
 dence to the protection of Bonaparte." 
 
 In 1812, at a Federal convention held m Brent- 
 wood, Mr. Webster reported rejoluiions justifying 
 the public enemy, and condemning his own Go- 
 vernment. 
 
 While in Congress, he opposed the war at every 
 step. Among volumes of speeches, denouncing the 
 war and the Administration, he said — 
 
 " Utterly astjnished at the declaration of war, I 
 have been surprised at nothing since. I saw how 
 it would be prosecuted, when I saw how it was 
 begun. Tbere is an unchangeable relation between 
 rash councils and feeble execution." 
 
 "They (the Federalists) know the limit of con- 
 stitutional opposition. Up to that limit they will 
 walk, and walk fearlessly." 
 
 He thus e> ulted at the defeat of our arms and the 
 murderous lOioads of the savages: 
 
 "This is not the entertainment to which we were 
 invited. We are told that these disappointments 
 are owing to the opposition which the war encoun- 
 ters. This is no new strain. It is the constant 
 Suae of every weak or wicked Admiaistratioa !" 
 
 Let the recorded votes of Mr. Webster in Con- 
 gress s!tow where he was and ever has been. 
 
 July 1, 1813, Dan-el Webster voted against a 
 bill for asiressing and collecting taxes to sustain the 
 war; July 9th, against a bill for duties on refined 
 sugars and sales at auction. 
 
 January 7, 1814, he voted against a bill to fill 
 the ranks of ihe army; January 10, against a bill 
 to detect and punish traitors and spies; January 
 22, against a bill to erilist troops duriijg the war, 
 in a minority of seven.; January 25, against en- 
 forcing the noK-importation laws; February 8, 
 against raising five regiments; March 29, against 
 •calling out the militia to execute the laws and re- 
 pel invasion; December 1, against providing 
 revenue for maintaining the public credit; De- 
 cember 10, against calling on the States for their 
 qno'as of militia to defend the frontiers; on the 
 19th, against a bill to provide for the expenses of 
 the war, and against a bill to provide foi rebuilding 
 the capital and public offices, which had been burnt 
 by the enemy ! 
 
 In thi same spirit, in 1836, when we were 
 threatened with a French war, and it was proposed 
 to put meEfeis in the hands of Andrew Jackson to 
 defend the country, Daniel Webster exclaimed in 
 the United States Senate, "I would not vote for 
 the bill if the enemy were battering down the 
 walls of the capitol." 
 
 A very natural sentiment from the man who 
 voted against rebuilding the capitol after the ene- 
 my had burnt it down. 
 
 So much for the army. What did Mr. Web- 
 ster do for the navy? He now pretends that 
 was his favorite in the war, and the Federalists 
 lately gave him a cane made from wood of Perry's 
 flag ship. What did he do for the navy? 
 
 The 7th of January, 1814, Mr. Webster voted 
 against an appropriation of one million for de- 
 fraying the expenses of the navy! This was less 
 than four months after the victory cf Perry on the 
 lakes, so that had the country depended on 
 Daniel Webster, the gallant Perry's flag ship could 
 not have been kt'pt afloat. 
 
 The catalogue is nut full, but it is sufficient. 
 
 And who are Daniel Webster's associates in 
 Massachusetts, who have made William Henry 
 Harrison the bearer of their standard ? We will 
 identify some of the leaders. 
 
 John Davi?, (the Federal Harrison candidate 
 for Governor against the patriot and incorruptible 
 Marcus Morton.) And where has John Davis 
 been? We have ju«t stated that, in 1814, Mr. 
 Webster voted against rebuilding the Capitol. How 
 his associate, Mr. John Davis, received the news 
 of that outrage, will appear from the following 
 statement: 
 
 From the Worcester Palladium. 
 SENATOR DAVIS. 
 
 "John Davis is the man who gave three 
 chEERs, in the streets of Worcester, when he re- 
 ceived the news that the British army had sacked 
 the city of Washington, and edrnt the Capitol." 
 
 This statement we made on the authority of an 
 unimpeachable witness, who stood within a few 
 feet of Mr. Davis at the time. All three of the 
 Whig papers of this town, the Spy, the .<Egis, and 
 the North Bend, have denied that any thing of the 
 
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 %ind ever occurred, and have hurled at the Palla- 
 dium the keenest shafts their malice could com- 
 mand. But not intending to be browbeaten by 
 them out of what we believed to be truth, we have 
 persisted in the truth of the statement. The ^Egis 
 has pursued us with singular virulence, declaring 
 as follows: 
 
 "It is FALSE that ever a man of our population 
 rejoiced that the Capitol had been captured, sacked, 
 and burned;" and that "there is no person, gentle- 
 man, or of other description, now residing in Wor- 
 cester, who Will say that he ever knew or heard 
 Mr. Davis, by word or act, exult over any victory 
 of the British, becaase such an act was never done 
 by him. It is a libel on our town to affirm that 
 any of its citizens shouted when the intelligence, 
 which stirred every breast with indignation, of the 
 •capture of Washington, was received." 
 
 Now mark how plain a tale shall put our reviler 
 down ! 
 
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 From the Jfutional JEgis of August 31, 1814. 
 "Horrible depravitf. — When the news of the 
 capture of Washington reached this town, some 
 of the LEADING FEDERALISTS openly ex- 
 pressed their GRATIFICATION, mingled with a 
 REGRET thai the PRESIDENT was not involved 
 la the DESTRUCTION OF THE Capitol!" 
 
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 If we are rightly informed, the Democratic ^gis 
 of 1814 (not the Federal Mgis of 1840) was under 
 the control of a brother of the present Editor of 
 the ^gis. Of course we shall have no more de 
 Dials from that quarter, that "some of the leading 
 Federalists" of this town were so horribly depraved 
 as to openlj express their gratification at the de- 
 struction of the Capitol. Shall we have any re- 
 strictions'? Our accusation against Mr. Davis 
 lags far behind that of the ^gis of 1814. We 
 have not accused him of expressing a regret that 
 the President was not involved in the destruction 
 of the Capitol" though from the temper of his 
 writings at that time, there can be little doubt that 
 ihe destruction of Mr. Madison would have sent 
 a thrill of joy through the frame of a man whose 
 daily habit it was to calumniate him as base, per- 
 fidious, cowardly, ond a "buffoon." 
 
 In 1816, the year after the war, the same Mr. 
 John Davis delivered an oration on the 4th of 
 July, before the Federalists of Worcester. We 
 give a few extracts, to show the character of that 
 oration. 
 
 " Could Federalists ex«lt in the discharge of se- 
 vere and ungrateful duty, they might look back 
 with proud sati?faciion on their career." 
 
 " What is our remuneration for the toil, the la- 
 bor, and the peril of that season of calamity? [the 
 war.] Are the Canadas subdued? Have we any 
 safer passport on the highway of nations? On 
 these subjects the boasted treaty, which was sealed 
 •with the hlo )dof thousands, is silant. What, then, 
 are the Uo\ nies of that obdurate combat? National 
 glory? And what is that national glory, achieved 
 by the blood of thousands? Ask that blazing me- 
 teor which coBsumed Moscow, and, shorn of its 
 
 beams, has set in the Wester Ocean? [NapoIeoa.J 
 
 " Our lesson, though less disastrous, ls not much 
 less humiliating. 
 
 "When the tax gatherer knocks at your doors, 
 remember that the tribute he demands, is the pur- 
 chase of national glory. 
 
 " When the fishermen sees his occupation gone, 
 let him remember that his Government have made 
 sacrifice for national glory. 
 
 " When the merchant murmurs that he is shut 
 out from the We.^t India trade. let him remember 
 it was abandoned in quest of national glory. 
 
 "When in the disguise of double duties you pay 
 an exorbitant tax on all foreiga commodities, [the 
 tariff,] let it not escape your minds that this too is 
 a tribute for national glory. 
 
 "When yeu see the page of history which re- 
 cords the sacking of Alexandria, and the deslruc- 
 tion of the Capitol, remember that these were only 
 propitiatory offerings on the altar of ambition, to 
 secure the blessings of national glory. 
 
 "The Federalists are gratified that they have 
 erred so Utile, that they have boldly confronted the 
 menaces of power, the wiles of ambition, and ia 
 the darkest times advocated those great measures 
 which were calculate'd to accelerate the prosperity 
 and promote the permanent interests of the nationj 
 while they have strenuously opposed that narrow, 
 self-destroying policy, which was founded in party 
 animosity, adapted to a foreign climate, and drew 
 after it poverty, war, and the loss of invaluable 
 national privileges." 
 
 This is the eulogy which that modem pretender 
 to the Jefferson school, "honest" ("ay, honest") 
 John Davis, pronounced on the administrations of 
 Jefferson and Madison. 
 
 In the same oration, he extolled "the heroes of 
 Chippewa and New Orleans, who had redeemed 
 their country from infamy," while the only indi- 
 rect allusion to Harrison, was as one of the actors 
 "in that storm of vapid proclamations which, 
 howled along our Northern border." 
 
 Mr. Davis now holds the office of United States 
 Senator, under the Massachusetts Federal Whigs, 
 and is also their candidate for Governor. 
 
 For several years he was their agent to collect 
 the militia claims of Massachusetts for her share ia 
 achieving what Mr. Davis sneered at as the mooa- 
 shine of national glory ! 
 
 Take a brief history of another of these "Whigs 
 of the Jefferson school," who is associated with 
 Mr. Webster in making General Harrisoa the 
 bearer of their standard. 
 
 Isaac C. Bates, one of the Harrison electors for 
 Massachusetts, and a missionary of the Harrisburg 
 Convention. 
 
 July 14, 1812, this same Mr. Isaac C, Bates was 
 secretary of the Federal Convention for Hamp- 
 shire, Franklin, and Hampden, held at Northamp- 
 ton, to denounce the war, every living man of 
 which Conveation, save one, is now a Harrison 
 Whig. Mr. Bates was chosen one of the Commit- 
 ee of Safety, with Lyman, and Strong, and oth- 
 ers, every living man of whom is now a high 
 Whig, viz: Joseph Lyman, the Whig Sheriff of 
 Northampton county, a surviving member of the 
 Hartford Convention; Richard E. Newcomh, Judge 
 of Probate for Fra»klia Lewis Strong, son of 
 
Governor Caleb Stron?; Elijah Alvord, Register of 
 Probate for Franklin; George Grennell, Whigmem- 
 Ijer of the last Congress; and 
 
 Oliver B. Morris, Judge of Probate for Hamp- 
 den, and Mr. W. B, Calhoun's confidential corre- 
 spondent, to whom he wrote the letter (not to gel 
 into the newspapers) to be used to satisfy the Abo- 
 litionists that General Harrison was with them, 
 and would do all in his power foir emancipation. 
 
 That Convention, of which these living Whigs 
 "were most prominent members, adopted a memorial 
 calling on the President forthwith to make peace 
 •with Great Britain; and they 
 
 "Resolved, That our rulers [James Madison, &c.] 
 have prostrated our national character, sacrificed 
 our vital interests, and finally involved us unpre- 
 pared in the calamities of war." 
 
 This manifesto was signed by Isaac C. Bates as 
 secretary. 
 
 And he is the same man who, in February, 1812, 
 pronounced an oration before "ihe Washington 
 Benevolent Society" of the county of Flampshiie, 
 ia which he eulogized Ames and Hamilton as pa- 
 triots, and denounced Jefl'ersGn and Madison as 
 traitors. Hamilton's system of, revenue — the very 
 thing Mr. Van Burea and the Democracy are op- 
 posing — he called 
 
 "The main artery of the boJy politic, which 
 even the Vandal band of this administration [Ma- 
 dison's] dare not cut." 
 
 Of the British treaty, the famous Jay treaty, he 
 said, " We owe to it more of our prosperity than 
 I can recount." 
 
 Of Jefferson and Madison he said: 
 
 "By none were the>e measures and President 
 Washin,7ton himself assailed with more fatal efllect, 
 than by Mr. Madison and Mr. Jefferson. The one 
 led the opposition ia the House of Representives; 
 the other a*9andoned hi? cabinet." 
 
 Mr. Bates also sneerin«ly compared Thoma's Jef- 
 ferson to Tom Paine, and exclaimed, ^'Par nobile 
 fralrum!'" Here is a right "Jefferson Whig," truly. 
 
 Mr. Bates is also the man who, in 1813, as a 
 member of the Massachusetts Legislature, opposed 
 the \var at every step. He also was prominent in 
 supporting resolutions that the admission of Lou- 
 isiana into the Union was a violation of the Con- 
 stitution, and directing the delegation in Congress 
 to obtain a repeal of the act of admission. Opp«- 
 sition to Louisiana was a cardinal virtue with the 
 Hartford Convention Federalists. And now these 
 same men appeal to Louisiana to help them elect 
 Harrison; and this same Mr. Isaac C. Bates was 
 a principal asent in the nomination of General 
 Harrison at Harrisburg, and is now at the head 
 of the list of Harrison electors for Massachusetts. 
 He also holds the office of commissioner on militia 
 claims, growing out of the war he so vehemently 
 Jopposed. 
 
 Hon. Leverett Saltonstall is another of Mr. 
 Webster's associates in making General Harrison 
 the standard bearer of the old Federal party, under 
 their new name. 
 
 Mr. Saltonstall, in July, 1812, was chosen, with 
 Timothy Pickering, delegate to the Federal rebel 
 Convention held in Boston, August 6, 1812, to op- 
 pose the war. He voted for an address on that 
 jsJCcasioDj which says: 
 
 "In an evil hour, Mr. Jefferson gained the Presi- 
 dent's chair. 
 
 "Our country, then prosperous, has been grier 
 vously oppressed by ruinous commercial restric- 
 tions, which for many years have been wantonly 
 imposed by the Government of the United States; 
 snd its measure of iniquity is now filled up by a 
 declaration of war against Great Britain — a wai' 
 impolitic, unnecessary, and unjust. 
 
 "In this awful state of things, it is the urgent 
 duty of the freemen of Massachusetts to consult 
 together. This duty has become the more imperi- 
 ousby the condition of the Government of this Com- 
 monwealth, (Massachusetts,) of which op.e branch 
 the Senate) is in the hands of usurpers devoted to 
 the iniquitous sy«tem of the National Government^ 
 (James Madison.) 
 
 "Our ccmmon interests, liberties, and safety are 
 now (1812) more injured, opposed, and endangered 
 by the doings of our own National Government, 
 than they were when, in 1775, we took up arms 
 to protect and defend them against the measures 
 of the British Government." 
 
 Mr. Saltonstall, who adopted this abuse of Jef- 
 ferson and Madison, July 21, 1812, at the Essez 
 Junto Convention, is now held up as a Jefferson 
 Democrat, (Heaven save the mark!) and is one o( 
 the great Whig Executive Committee who are go- 
 ing "to restore the days of our patriot Presiden;s." 
 What Presidents? 
 
 The Senate of Massachusetts, in 1813, which 
 Leverett Saltonstall denounced as "usurpers de- 
 voted to the iniquitous system of the National Go- 
 ve;nraent," had a majority of Democrats, friends 
 of Jefferson and supporters of Madison and the war. 
 Of that Senate Marcus Morton, now the Demo- 
 cratic Governor of Massachusetts, was clerk, and 
 Samuel Dana (deceased) president. Mr. Morton, 
 the clerk, wis turned out the next year, when the 
 Federalists got the power. 
 
 Mr. Salior.s'all was a prominent Federal mem- 
 ber of the Massachusetts House in 1814, '15, and 
 'IG. The journals v/ill sliow where he then was, 
 
 October 13ih, 1814, Mr. Saltonstall was placed 
 second on the committee to report upon the Hart- 
 ford Convention: William Sullivan was chairman: 
 Mr. Saltonstall was the prominent mover in the 
 committee. 
 
 Obtober 15, Mr. Saltonstall debated through the 
 day in support of the convention. 
 
 [Extract from (lie Boston Centinel of October 15, 1814.] 
 . "The tilth resolution (calling the Hartford Con- 
 vention) was debated through the day. It was sup- 
 ported by Messrs. Knapp, Hilliard, Longfellow, 
 Saltonstall, Hubbard, and others. It was opposed 
 by Messrs. Webb. Green, Worthington, Aiken, El- 
 lis, and Lincoln. The debate was able and spi- 
 rited. Yess260, nays90." 
 
 Of the above who supported the convention, 
 three only survive, and are now Whig?. Of those 
 who opposed it, five survive, all but two now De- 
 mocrats. 
 
 January 27, 1815, Leverett Saltonstall voted to 
 approve the doings of the Hartford Convention, 
 and 10 appoiat three commissioners to apply to (he 
 United S'ates Government for the separation of 
 Massachusetts from the States, in theJefeaceof he? 
 territory. 
 
This same Mr. Saltonstall is now a Whig mem-' 
 ber of Congress, and one of the "Whig Executive 
 Committee" for the nation, who tell the people thai 
 their object is " she restoration of the Government 
 to^thedays of her patriot Presidents.''^ 
 
 Mr. S. has violently opposed or denounced every 
 Republican President from Jefferson to Van Buren. 
 He never approved any administration but of the 
 two Adamse?. He was chairman of the commit- 
 tee of arrangements at the great Whig; dinner in 
 Salem to Mr. Webster, in the panic o'f 1834, and 
 was master of ceremonies in rf'eceiving Mr. John 
 Bell, in 1837, when he came to lay Tennessee at 
 the feet of the Federalists of Massachuseits. 
 
 We will sketch but one more of General Har- 
 rison's aid? in supporting the Federal Standard. 
 
 Major Benjamin Russell, the Editor of the Boston 
 Centinel through the war. To show where he now 
 is, we quote tlie veteran's toast given at a celebra- 
 tion of the last 4th of July by the Whigs of 
 Boston. 
 
 "By Major Benjamin Russell. The powerful 
 American Whig Locomotive, with its attendant 
 cars — The ConstituiioK, public prosperity, liberty, 
 equal laws, the poor man's rijht?, and rich man's 
 privileges — may the progress of their passengers to 
 the Harrison polls be onward, forward, and straight- 
 ward, hand in hand, shoulder to shoulder, and their 
 Journey be crowned with such success, as will in- 
 duce all other Locos to join company, and unite 
 cordially in the shout, "go ahead — for we now know 
 the Whigs are right." 
 
 Major Russell now knows that the Whigs are 
 right; he scents the black cockade of General 
 Harrison ! Then the V7higs were right when, 
 ■with Major Russell, who was a member of the 
 House during the war, they voted for r.l' the 
 measures of the Hartford Convention. The 
 Major has not changed. He has the virtue and 
 honesty to avow his ancient Federalism. At the 
 polls, at the last election, he said, "I have always 
 been a Federalist, and am now a Wliig, which is 
 the same thing." He was a Whig, then, when he 
 published the following Federal Whig doctrines; 
 
 [From the Boston Centinel of July 13, 1812] 
 
 "The union of the Northern and Southern 
 States is not essential to the safety, and is very 
 much opposed to the interests, of both sections. 
 A peaceable separation would be for the happiness 
 of all section's." 
 
 [From the Centinel of Jane 26, 1813 ] 
 
 "The events of this most abominable war make 
 a very melp^ncholy impression on all who are not 
 pecuniarily interested in its perpetuaiion. Besides 
 the horrid effudon of human blood, the monthly 
 expenses of the war are six millions." 
 [June 30:h.] 
 
 "The sailors begin to find oui that the war is car- 
 ried on to protect foreign seamen on board our ves- 
 sels, and to lake the bread out of their mouths." 
 
 [A remarkable identity with the attempt of Mr. 
 John Davis to pervert the speech of Senator Bu- 
 chanan into an attempt to destroy the wages of 
 labor.] 
 
 [Centinel of June 28, 1813.] 
 
 "It is not conceived that any future naval en 
 counter, should we prove successful, can be of 
 more consequence to the] country than a race 
 
 gained by the horse Telescope, bred in Jersey^ 
 would be over the horse Sweetbrier, imported froea. 
 England. Our navy is not intended, by the Ad- 
 ministration, to protect our commerce; and for the 
 purpose of impairing the strength of the British, 
 navy, it would be almost as reasonable to expect 
 some Gulliver to swim over the British Channel, 
 and bring it out of Plymouth in his finders." 
 [From the Centinel of March 30, I816.--Exlract 
 from the Federal address to the people.] 
 
 "The malignant blasts of Democracy haveswept 
 over us like a pestilence. Why she aid we vot^ for the 
 Jeffcrsons, the Madi.scns, the Monroes, and theic 
 modern satellites, who exhausted our resources, 
 ruined our commerce, and chilled the life blood of 
 our prosperity by A WICKED WAR, to gratify a 
 foreign monster. Come forward, then, and brand 
 with infamy the profligate ringleaders of Demo- 
 cracy." 
 
 After the election of Governor Btooks over 
 Samuel Dexter, the Centinel of Apt il 10 ex- 
 claimed — 
 
 "Democracy is like the clump-footed cabbage. 
 It sprouts in the wet and shade, but when the sun of 
 Federalism shines, it decays and putrefies." 
 
 "Mr. Jefferson, about this time, is repealing his 
 exclamation, 'The devil is still in Massachusetts!' '' 
 
 Here is one of your modern Whigs of the "Jef- 
 ferson school," and he says he knows the Whigs 
 are right in supporting Harrison. 
 
 We might give more full leEgths of prominent 
 Harrison standard bearers of the blue light school, 
 but they are so numerous W3 must group them. 
 Of these men, as above described by themselves 
 who will not say: 
 
 "They are where they ever have been and evei 
 mean to be" — Federalists? , 
 
 THE CONTEST BETWEEN JOHN ADAMS 
 AND THOMAS JEFFERSOI)? IN 1804. 
 
 Where were the supporters of Harri-on then? 
 
 The Federalists of Massachusetts, then in power 
 were so eager to defeat Jefferson, that they vio- 
 lently changed the mode of choosing electors froa 
 di<!tricts to a general ticket. This roused the Re 
 publicans, and the whole electoral ticket was car 
 ried by the p 'ople for Jeffcjrson, by a majority o 
 3,533. It was the largest vote that had ever beei 
 given in Massachusetts, then including Maine. 
 
 Major Benjamin Russell, editor of the Centinel 
 the Federal oigan, said: 
 
 "The state of our national affairs, and the ac 
 tivity of the partisans on both sides, has given ai 
 extraordinary activity to the election; and in m 
 instance, since the existence cf the State, will b 
 found so great a number of votes given in. It ha 
 been, emphatically, a struggle whether Ma-sachu 
 setts would consent to become a colony of Virginia 
 or a fi-ee and independent State." 
 
 At that period, the supporters of Jefferson £alle 
 iheir party Republican; but they were universal! 
 nicknamed, by the Federalists, Democrats, as 
 term of reproach. The Centinel thus announce 
 the result of- the choice of the Jefferson elector! 
 ticket: 
 
 "The whole number of votes was 55,000. Th 
 highest on the Democratic list had 29,310 vote 
 The lowest on the Federal ticket, 25,126. Tl 
 general result may be thus stated: For the Feder; 
 
ticket, 25,777; for the Democratic ticket, 29,310; 
 <)dds, 3,533." 
 
 The following extracts from the Boston Centinel 
 cf that day will show the lines between the two 
 parties, and ihe bitterness of the then Massachu- 
 setts Federalists (now Whigs) against Jefferson 
 Democracy and Virginia: 
 
 "If Massachusetts is doomed to become a satel- 
 lite of Virginia, no blame can rest on Suffolk. 
 
 "TI.e result of the electoral choice in this State 
 (for Jefferson) will not materially lessen the faiih 
 of any genuine Federalist in the ultimate triumph 
 of the principles of the Ccnstitiition as administer- 
 ed by Washington and Mams. 
 
 ' 'Tis not in mortals to command success; 
 They can deserve it.' " 
 Before the election, the Centinel called for a ral- 
 ly of its party, under the name of "the true Re- 
 publican Federalists from 1788 to 1804." 
 
 Of the Democratic electors chosen in Massachu- 
 setts, it said, "They are all pledged to vote for 
 Jeffeson aad Clinton," and added — 
 
 "The white Virginians of the North dare no 
 more deviate from their pledge to vote lor Jeffer- 
 son, than the black Virginians dare disobey the 
 orders of their drivers." 
 Again, the. Centinel said: 
 
 "The Democrats continue to profane the revered 
 name of Washington, by opposing it to that of 
 John Adams, and connecting it with that of Jef- 
 ferson." 
 
 The same paper gives a list of members of Con- 
 gresT elected, and says: "Those in Italics are De- 
 mocrats." 
 
 Alden Bradford, the Federal historian of Mas- 
 sachusetts, says of the success of the Jefferson elec- 
 toral ticket, in 1804: 
 
 "The Democratic party triumphed, much to 
 the disappointment and mortification of the Fede- 
 ralists." 
 
 When Sullivan was elected Governor, the same 
 ■writer says: 
 
 "For the first time after the Federal Government 
 ■was established, all branches of the Government in 
 Massachusetts, in 1807, were Democratic, and 
 again in 1810 and Ml." 
 
 This is pretty conclusive as to what was m?ant 
 by Fsderalist and Democrat in those days. Let us 
 see, then, where the leaders are now. Mr. Al- 
 den Bradford is now a very strenuous Harrison 
 man. He was Governor Strong's secretary in the 
 •war. 
 
 In 1804, Massachusetts, including Maine, gave 
 19 electoral votes. 
 
 Where were the men who were identified in that 
 contest between Adams and Jefferson, thirty-six 
 years ago? and where are the survivors nov/? 
 
 Of the Democrotic ticket of electors, headed by 
 James Sullivan and Elbridge Gerry, not one is 
 living. Like the immortal'signers of the Declara- 
 tion, all have gone to their long homes. 
 
 Of the Federal John Adams ticket, headed by 
 David Cobb (the avowed monarchist of the reign 
 of terror) and Oliver Wendell, but two are known 
 to be now living, viz: Ebenezer Mattoon, of Am- 
 herst, and Samuel S. Wilde, of Hallowell. Where 
 are these men now? and where have they always 
 Deeu? 
 
 It was exultingly announced in the Whig paper© 
 that, at the celebration of the last 4^h of July in 
 Barre, where Daniel Webster was tfee Whig ora- 
 tor, the veteran General Ebenezer iVlaltoon, a R»- 
 yolutionary soldier, was present, and gave his voice 
 in favor of Harrison ! 
 
 And who iSiEbenezer Mattoon ;Whom the Whigs 
 so exultingly parade in their log cabin proces- 
 sions? 
 
 He is tihe same man who, in 1804, was run as a 
 John Adams elector against Thomas Jefferson, 
 and was defeated by the Democrats of Massachu- 
 setts. 
 
 He is (he very same man who, in 1811, was re- 
 moved from the ofiice of sheriff of Hampshire by 
 Governor Gerry, afterwards Vice President with 
 Jamas Madison. He was then taken up by the 
 Federalists, and elected a member of the Legisla- 
 ture. ^ 
 
 And further, this General Mattoon, whose sup- 
 port of Harrifon is exultingly proclaimed by the 
 "Harrison Democrats," as they style themselves, 
 was a Federal member of the Massachusetts Legis- 
 lature in 1812, and voted for all the Hartford Con- 
 vention measures, and signed the violent protest to 
 Congress denouncing James Madison's war. 
 
 In 1814, he was appointed one of Governor 
 Strong's peace major generals, to prevsnt the 
 Massachusetts troops doing any fighting! 
 
 Such was and is this "Harrison Democrat,'' 
 General Mattoon, a John Adams elector in 1804, 
 a Harilord Convention Federalist in 1812, a 
 "peace party" general in 1814, and a hard cider 
 Whig in 1840. Verily, he is "where ha ever has 
 been and ever means to be." 
 
 The other survivor of the John Adams electoral 
 ticket of 1804, is Hon. Samuel S. Wilde. We 
 speak only of his political life. As a man and a 
 Judge, he is learned and venerable. Where has he 
 been? In 1814, he was one of Governor Caleb 
 Strong'v- council, and sanctioned the refusal of that 
 enemy of the Union to call out the militia as re- 
 quired by the President. 
 
 The 18th of October, 1814, he was chcsea & 
 member of the Hartford Convention, and sat in se- 
 cret conclave in that treasonable council. 
 
 He was subsequently appointed a Judge of the 
 Supreme Court of Massachusetts by Governor 
 Strong, and in 1816 was chosen, by the Federal 
 Legislature of that State, to vote against Monroe 
 for President, and for Rufus King, the very man 
 who proposed, on the floor of Congres.^, to furnish 
 James Madison with a halter ! 
 
 He is now a Judge of the Massachusetts Su- 
 preme Court, and a Whig, or "Harrison Democrat," 
 one of Mr. Webster's associates under "the signi- 
 ficant banner !" He, too, is "where he ever has 
 been and ever means to be." 
 
 This was the beginning of the two parties. 
 Federal and Democratic. Let us look a little 
 farther. 
 
 The war of 1812, and the Hartford Convention 
 of 1814, were decisive tests of the two parties. 
 How many who bore up the standard of rebellion 
 in those days are now enlisted with Daniel Web- 
 ster, John Davis, and their associates, in making 
 General Harrison their "standard bearer !" 
 June^O, 1812, a majority of the Committee of 
 
Foreign Relations in the House ijj Congress, to 
 whom Mr. Madison's- message was referred, re- 
 ported a manifesto as the basis of a declaration of 
 war. 
 
 The men who made that report were John C. 
 Calhoun of Houtb Carolina, Felix Grundy of Ten- 
 nessee, Ebenezer Seaver, of Massachusetts, John 
 Smilie, of Pennsylvania, John A. Harper, of New 
 Hampshire, and Joseph Detha, of Kentucky. 
 
 The three first named still survive. Need we 
 ask where are they? Two of ther^ are distinguish- 
 ed Senators, supporting the Democratic adminis- 
 tration of Martin Van Buren. The third resides in 
 Roxbury, Massachusetts, excluded from public life 
 by Federal malignity, ever since ne voie^f or the 
 war, but uniformly Democratic. At the recent 
 celebration of the 4th of July, he wrote a sound 
 Democratic letter to the Democrats of Medfield, 
 full of the pure doctrine. 
 
 William Sullivan, of Boston, another of Mr. 
 Webster's associates, who died within a year in 
 the fall faith of British Whigery, (and who, were 
 he now living, would rally around the Federal 
 standard bearer. General Harrison,) held up these 
 men to scorn in his Familiar Letters, published in 
 1834. 
 
 Mr. Sullivan was the ambassador of the Hart- 
 ford Convention, sent to V/ashington in 1814 to de- 
 mand of President Madison the separation of New 
 England from the Union, in carrying on the war. 
 He was an active partisan Whig to the time of his 
 decease; and none better understood the motto of 
 that party, borns on its significant banner at Balti- 
 more: 
 
 "We are where we ever have been, and ever 
 .mean to be." 
 
 Mr. Sullivan thus identifies the Federalists of 
 1812 and the Whigs of 1834. He says: 
 
 "When Mr. Madison came to the Presidency, 
 tha opponent party were the Federalists. The op- 
 ponent party of this day (1834) are citizens known 
 by some other name, but they are meaof the same 
 principles." — Familiar Letters, p. 282. 
 
 Again, he says, (p. 366,)in'mourning over the 
 disbanding of the Federal party by the second 
 election of Jefferson: 
 
 "The name (Federalist) became so odious that 
 it was abandoned. It ought ever to have been the 
 most honorable that any citizen could assume." 
 
 In this we may see a shadowing forth of the 
 second election of Van Buren, and the fate thai 
 awaits the various names of "Harrison Demo- 
 crats," "Lng Cabin Whigs," and "Hard Cider 
 Republicans." 
 
 At that period, the Federah'sts were exulting in 
 the blind hope of defeating Mr. Van Buren's first 
 election, just as they are now of preventing his 
 second choice by the people. Mr. Sullivan talked 
 then just a's the hard cider boasters do now. Hear 
 him: 
 
 "Are the people of the United States so far gone 
 in despotism that they must submit? or can ihey 
 in any way wrest their personal freedom, their Con- 
 stitution, their honorable fame, the last hope of 
 civil liberty, from the grasp of usurpers? 
 
 "They have a formidable adversary to contend 
 with. There is the President, (Andrew Jackson,) 
 
 with a head and heart not better than Thomas Jef- 
 ferson, but freed from the inconvenience of that 
 gentleman's constitutional timidity," &c. 
 
 "But there are encouraging indications of late. 
 There is a hope that the real sovereigns cf ihe land 
 are opening their eyes and their ears to realities. 
 The day is near at hand wh-'n the people can save 
 themselves and iheir Constitution, at its last gasp.** 
 
 "But that which is astonishing and ludicrous is, 
 that this army of patriot.? (the othce holders, &c.) 
 announce and maintain that the people know, un- 
 derstand, and approve of all their doings ! " 
 
 "There is not the least doubt that a large majo- 
 rity of the American people are disgusted and as- 
 tonished by the usurpations of Andrew Jackson.'* 
 
 Judge Hopkinson, of Pennsylvania, another 
 veteran Federalist and modern Whig, who is now 
 associated with Mr. Webster ivi supporting the 
 Federal "standard bearer," exuliingly exclaimed, 
 in the Pennsylvania Convention, Dec. 23, 1837, 
 when the bank suspensions had given new hopes 
 to the Opposition: ' 
 
 "Notwithstanding all the calumnies that have 
 been uttered against the Federal party, yet they 
 are always at their post ia the hour of danger. 
 Their principles are always invcked to rescue the 
 country from difficulties it is plunged in by the 
 rashness of their opponents. Thus in times of 
 difficulty they triumph, and they are now again 
 COMING INTO power. I sec somc honest faces pre- 
 sent who are not ashamed to avow themselves Fe- 
 deralists." 
 
 Such is the identity of the old "Federal Republi- 
 can" and the new "Whig Republican, " or "De- 
 mocratic Whig" party. But let us return to the 
 war and the Hartford Convention, and see where 
 the present associates of Mr. Webster, in holding 
 up their "standard bearer" Harrjson, then were. 
 
 The war was declared June 18, 1812. We all 
 know where Daniel Webster was then, and his 
 motto says: "I am where I ever have been ajad 
 ever mean to be." 
 
 How was the d€claration received in Massachu- 
 setts, and where are the men now? 
 
 Hon. Samuel Putnam, of Salem, then a mem- 
 ber of the Massachusetts House, offered r. resolve, 
 (June 2, 1S12, before war was ieclare'",) depre- 
 cating the measuie, and reported a strong memo- 
 rial to Congress against it, which passed, 406 to 
 249. The memorial was disclaimed by the Repub- 
 licans of that day, as humiliating to ii?, and mean- 
 ly submissive to Great Britain. 
 
 Of those who voted for this Federal protest, we 
 have ascertained that thirty-nine are now living, 
 and of these, all but one man are active, de- 
 cided Whigs, associates of Mr. Webster in sup- 
 porting Harrison as the "standard bearer" of Fe- 
 deralism J 
 
 We will give the name- of the most prominent, 
 
 Samuel Putnam, of Boston, now a judge of 
 the Supreme Court, appointed by Gov. Strong in 
 1814. 
 
 David Wilder, now the treasurer of the Common- 
 wealth, elected by Whigs. 
 
 Jonathan Hunnewell, an ex-Senator of Suffolk 
 and now a modern Vvhig. 
 
 Benjamin Russell, the old editor of the Fedexa 
 
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 Centinel, and a toaster of Harrison at the last 4th 
 of July dinner in South Boston. Visited the Bri- 
 tish Seet off Boston in the war, and received John 
 Bell in Faneuil Hall in 1837. 
 
 Benjamin Whitman, of. Boston, an ex-judge of 
 the Police Court, and a modern Whig. 
 
 Isaac F, Davis, & present Whig meinber of the 
 House from Boston, signed the Whig protest 
 against Gov. Morton's address. 
 
 Charles Jixkson, an ex-judge of the Sapreiue 
 Court, apf^ointed by Gov. Strong, concurred in the 
 opinion of the court in sustaining Strong in refus- 
 ing to call out the militia in the war, and iu 1832 
 was chos n a Whig elector against Mr. Van Buren 
 for Webster or Harrison, against the patriotic 
 Jackson. 
 
 IVilliam H. Sumner, of Roxhury, ex-adjutant ge- 
 neral, a prominent psitison of leg cabins, and an 
 extensive specnlalor in lands. 
 
 Daniel Messir\ger, of Boston, ex-member of the 
 Legislature, and an active British V/hig, anda vice 
 president of the Washington Benevolent Society in 
 1814. ^ 
 
 JLynde Walter, (father of the Editor of the Tran- 
 script, a Whig paper,) ajiisiice of the peace. 
 
 Lemuel Shaw, Chief Justice of the Supreme 
 Court. Decided Whig. 
 
 James Savsge, Whig member of Governor 
 Everett's cbuncil, Suffolk ex Senator, present 
 Whig member of the House, a signer of the pro- 
 test against Governor Morton, and principal in 
 contriving to "nicely count" the people out of his 
 election ! 
 
 Joseph Tilden, Prrs-ident of the Massachuset's 
 Life Insurance Company, a great monopoly corpo- 
 ration. Acii-'p Whig. 
 
 Dudley L, Pickman, of Silem, brolher-in-Iavv of 
 Mr. Saltonstall, Whig member of the Legi^^lalure 
 in 1S34, and father-in-law of Richard S. Fay, who 
 wrote the infamous circular to the Democratic 
 workmen it; 'he Sandwich Class Company. 
 
 John Pickering, (son of Timothy Pickering,) and 
 now Whig city Solicitor of Boston. 
 
 Thomas Greenleaf of duiacy, a modern Whig 
 hard cider Hrrrisonite. 
 
 Minot Thayer,of Braintree, Wh'g member of the 
 Legishture, Harrison runner, and getter up of hard 
 cider carousals. Signed the Federal Whig protest 
 against the anrnirable address of Governor Morton. 
 How this modern Whig stood in the war, will best 
 be shown by (he following pithy extract frcra the 
 old Republican Patriot and Chronicle, which we 
 hope to quoie again, next November, when a true 
 Dsmocra; sl<all be chosen in place of this "head- 
 Long FederaiisL" 
 
 Ft cm '.he Chronicle of May 13, 1813. 
 
 "In BraiKtre-% a Republican Representative has 
 seen chosen by a very handsome majority, in the 
 liace of Minot Thayer, a thoroughgoing, headlong 
 Tederalist." 
 
 He, too, is "where he ever has been aad ever 
 Qeans to be" 
 
 Barnabas Hedge, of Plymouth, a prominent 
 iVhig, just deceased. 
 
 Nahum Mitchell, State Treasurer and Senator 
 Lnder Governor Strong, and a member of his 
 ouncil} a Federal Judge, and now a Whig mem- 
 
 ber of the Legislature from Boston; signed the pro- 
 test against Governor Morton. 
 
 William Baylies, of Bridgewater, ex-member of 
 Congress, from the district now .represented by the 
 talented Henry Williams; voted against the remo- 
 val 6f the deposites. Mr. Baylies tried once to be 
 a Jackson man, but it was in vain he washed his 
 old Federalism and cried, "Out, damned spot." 
 He went back again, and is now very active in. 
 the log cabin campaign; promised, it is said, to be 
 elected U, S. Senator in place of John Davis, if he 
 gets in Governor. 
 
 Samuel Crocker, of Taunton, holding a State 
 office under Governor Everett, and member of a 
 corporation which threatens to turn out all opera- 
 tives that won't vote for Harrison. 
 
 Horatio Leonard, of Raynham, now the Whig 
 Sheriff of Bristol county, an active Whig partisan. 
 James Crowell, of Yarmouth, holding a State 
 office, and an active Federal agent, now, and for- 
 ever, of Mr. John Reed, the life member of Con- 
 gress. 
 
 Joseph Bowman, of New Braintree, a Whig ex- 
 counsellor of Governor Lincoln in 1833. 
 
 Edmund Dwight, now of Boston, Whig member 
 Of the Senate, and Director in the Western rail- 
 road. 
 
 Ebenezer Mattoon, of Amherst, recently exhi- 
 bited, at a log cabin gathering in Hampshire, as 
 a RevohUionary veteran, in favor of the hero of 
 Tippecanoe. Described before as a John Adams 
 elector. His son, Ebenezer Mattoon, jr. is one 
 of the signers of" the protest against Governor 
 Morton. 
 
 Ephraim Hastings, of Heath, an ex-Whig Sena- 
 tor, and the defeated Harrison candidate in Frank- 
 lin county, at the last election. 
 
 Thomis Longley, of Hawley, a Federal Senator- 
 in 1824, and voted against Seih Sprague's motion to 
 Hxpunge the infamous resolution of J. duincy, 
 pass'd in 1813, that it was immoral and irreligious 
 to rejoice at thi' victories of our country ! Also 
 delegate to a Whig convention that nominated 
 Webster or Harrison in 1836, pledged to either or 
 both. Mr. Longley was the man v;ho attempted 
 to carry the Antimasons of Massachusetts for Har- 
 rison or Webster, and failed in his plot. He was 
 a Harrison elector in 1836. 
 
 There are others of lesser note, but these will 
 suffice as a sample of the whole. 
 
 Not a man who signed the anti-war protest, ex- 
 cept on», is now living, who ever voted any thing 
 but the modern Whig ticket. How well they ful- 
 fil the meaning of the motto of "the significant 
 banner" of the Boston Delegation at Baltimore. 
 
 "We are where w? have been and ever mean 
 to be !" 
 
 Of the protest against the war, (in Congress,) 
 which these men approved, William Sullivan, the 
 ambassador of the rebel Hartford Convention, 
 says in his Familia Letters, p. 318, it is much su- 
 perior to the Declaration of Independence ! This 
 protest was drawn up by Josiah Cluincy. The 
 surviving Massachusetts members of Congress, 
 who signed ir, are Josiah duincy, of Cambridge, 
 and Laban Wheaton, of Norton, Whigs. It was 
 also signed by Mr. Reed, father of John Reed,- 
 now Whig member of Congress, who voted against 
 
every measure to sustain the country during the 
 war, and by Thomas Wilson, a brother of General 
 James "Wilson, of New Hampshire, the Federal 
 itinerant lecturer in Massachusetts. 
 
 This was just before the war. Now let us go 
 into the war. 
 WHO WERE THE MEN THAT OPPOSED 
 
 THE WAR? WHERE ARE THE SUR- 
 VIVORS NOW? 
 
 Governor Strong sent a message to the Massa- 
 chusetts Legislature, June 23d, 1812, announcing 
 and. denouncing the war. It was referred to a 
 committee. The only survivor of that committee 
 is Chai'les Jackson, of BostPn, the Webster and 
 Harrison elector in 1832. He repoit. d an address 
 to the people, bitterly denouncing "Madison's 
 war," which passed, 165 to 56. 
 
 A committee was forthwith appointed to report 
 a fast "on account of the unexpected and calami- 
 tous declaration of war." 
 
 The only survivor of that committee is Edmund 
 Dwight, now a Whig Senator for Suffolk. 
 
 Seth Spragne, of Duxbury, (now a veteran De- 
 mocrat, who sent a letter in support of the Inde- 
 pendent Treasury to the Democratic celebration of 
 the last 4th of July in that place, and was the De- 
 mocratic 'cahdidate for Senator last fall,) was a 
 State Senator in 1813, and, on his motion, Janua- 
 ry 29, the Senate, then Democratic, (wiih Marcus 
 Morton, now Governor, its clerk,) voted to build, 
 provision, and equip a 74 gun ship, to be called the 
 Massachusetts, and present it to the United States 
 Government, to be employed by President Madi- 
 son, during the war." 
 
 This order was reported against in the House, 
 by Charles Jackson, (the ex-Judge and Flarrison 
 elector above named,) and defeated, 310 to 159. 
 
 Of the 13 Senators who voted against the rbove, 
 there are slill living, Solomon Strong, (a Judge,) 
 Silas Holraan, Daniel A. White, (a Judee,) John 
 Wells, Peter C. Brooks, and Harrison Gray Otis, 
 all Whiss. 
 
 MEETING IN PANEUIL HALL AGAINST 
 THE WAR. 
 
 July 15th, 1812, a great meeling was held in 
 Faneuil Hall, which denounced the war, and vili- 
 fied James Madison. The most prominent actors 
 in that] meeting were Daniel Sargeant, Harrison 
 Gray Otis, and Josiah Q,uiacy, They<:are now liv- 
 ing, two in Boston and one in Cambridge, and are 
 zealously contributing to try to elect General Har- 
 rison. Two of them recently furnished means to- 
 ward erecting the miserable log cabin on Charles 
 Street, in their ward. 
 
 Of Mr. Otis's philippic against Madison, at the 
 Faneuil Flail meeting, the Federal historian says: 
 "Like Demosthenes rousing the Athenians against 
 Philip, his address awakened the citizens of Boston 
 to a virtuous jealousy of the inirigues of France, 
 and of those who are co-operating with her ruler 
 to destroy the liberties of mankind." 
 
 FEDERAL MEETING IN MIDDLESEX. 
 
 July 15, 1812, a meeting of Federalists in Mid- 
 dlesex county denounced the war. Of the most 
 prominent actors in that meeting, four are now 
 living, and all ardent Whigs, viz: 
 
 Samuel S. P. Fay, Judge of Probate, re6ently 
 ehairman of a great Whig meeting, and father of 
 
 R. S. Fay, author of the infamous circular to the 
 workingmen in the Sandwich Glass Company. 
 
 Naihaniel Ausiin, Agent of Watren Free 
 Bridge, appointed by Governor Everett; and Rev. 
 iMr. Ripley, now living in Concord, one of the 
 political preachers against the Governmant in the 
 war, and a uniform Federalist, /saac fii/ce, regis- 
 ter of probate. 
 
 REBEL CONVENTION IN BOSTON. 
 
 This was held August 6, 1812. Cul. Sumner, 
 now ex-Adjutant General Sumner, (as above,) was 
 secretary. Among the delegates, ihote nov/ living 
 are, Charles Jaclsson, (as above,) Arlemas Ward, 
 just resigned as chief justice of the court of com- 
 mon plea?; William Parsons, son of Chief Jus- 
 tice Parsons, (an extreme Whig;) Warrea 
 Dutton, an ex-Whig member of the coun- 
 cil, and Benjamin Gorham, ex-Whig member of 
 Congres= — all now Harrisonites. 
 
 Leverett Saltonstall, member of Congress, and 
 one of the Whig Execative Committee for the 
 Union, was also a delegate. 
 
 WORCESTER CONVENTION AGAINST THE 
 WAR. 
 
 In August, 1812, a violent Federal conventioa 
 met in Worcester county. Francis Blake, the 
 most rabid Federalist and disunionist of the day, 
 (not now living,) was at its head. He drew up a 
 declaration in caricature imitation of ihe Declara- 
 tion of Independence, which the convention adopt- 
 ed. It was of a highly treason ble character, call- 
 ing upon the people to withdraw from the Govern- 
 ment all voluntary aid. 
 
 This conventioa was composed of 80 members. 
 Of these, 40 are known to be dead; 20 are not 
 known to be living, probably dead; and the surviv- 
 ing twenty are every one known to be Harrisoa 
 Whigs. 
 
 Elijah Burbank, of Worcester; Nathaniel P. 
 Denny, of Leicester; Nathaniel Chandler, of Pe- 
 tersham; Rufus Bullock, of Royalston, (jus- 
 tice;) William Drury, of Holden, (justice;) 
 Samuel Read of Uxbridge, (Whig member of the 
 Legislature, 1837;) Nathan Howe, of Shrewsbury, 
 (Justice;) Philip Delano, of New Braintree; Solo- 
 mon Strong, (now a Judge of the Court of Com- 
 mon Pleas; William Crawford, of Oakham, (Coua- 
 ty Commissioner;) Aaron Tufts, of Dudley, (Jus- 
 tice;) James Draper, of Spencer; Aaron Whi'e, of 
 Boylston; Nathaniel Crocker, and Braddock Liver- 
 more, of Paxton; Daniel Tenney, (Justice;) Artemas 
 Bullard, and Jonathan Letond, (Justice,) of Sutton; 
 Jonas Kendall, of Leominster, (of the Gluorum;) 
 and Salem Towne, of Charlton, (Justice,) one of 
 the committee to receive Mr. John Bell, at Wor- 
 cester, in 1837. 
 
 John Davis of Worcester, now the Harrison. 
 Federal candidate for Governor, was not a mem- 
 ber of that convention, being then at New Haven. 
 WHO WERE THE ACTORS IN THE HART- 
 FORD CONVENTION, AND WHERE ARE 
 
 THEY1 
 
 In October, 1814, Caleb Strong, the British Go- 
 vernor of Massachusetts, called an extra sessioa 
 of the Legislature, and sent theia a message, de- 
 nouficing the war. 
 
 On the 5th of October, Mr. Low, of Lyman, 
 Maine, (deceased,) moved to raise a commit;ee 
 
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 from all the New England States, to go to Wash- 
 ington, and compel James Madison to resign, for 
 having, "by the nefarious plans of his administra- 
 tion, ruined the country !" 
 
 This old Tory threat of rebellion has since been 
 copied by the Boston Atlas, in 1834, in calling for 
 an army of 40,000 men, to go to Washington, and 
 compel the tyrant Jackson to restore the deposites 
 — and by Robert Gould, one of the Whig Commit- 
 tee of New York Merchants, in 1837, who de 
 clined being on a distress committee of fifty, but 
 demanded 10,000 armed men to force Mr. Van 
 Bureu to rescind the specie circular and take 
 broken bank bills. 
 
 So uniformly does Federalism, from the begin 
 ning till now, run in the same kennel of vaporing, 
 bullying, and rebellion ! 
 
 This low motion, as the Chronicle and Patriot of 
 that day called it, was the basis of the Hartford 
 Convention, which was reported October 13, 1834 
 THE HARTFORD CONVENTION ORIGI- 
 NATED ABOLITION AS A MEANS OF 
 
 DISUNION. 
 
 The fifth resolve was the test question of that 
 measure, and to this we now call the attention of 
 our Southern brethren, and the friends of the 
 Union. It proves that old Tory Federalism was 
 the father of Abolitionism, to dissolve the Union, 
 as well as of modern British Whigery. 
 
 The fifth resolve, after providing for delegates 
 from the New England States, to meet in Hart- 
 ford, to redress grievances, and prepare for a sepa- 
 rate defence, &c. adds: 
 
 "And also ta lake measures for procuring a con- 
 vention of delegates from all the United States, in 
 order, to revise the Constitution thereof, and more 
 effectually to secure the support and attachment of 
 all the people, by placing all upon the basis of 
 fair representation." 
 
 This secret de>ign of the Hartford Convention 
 to disturb the original compromise of the Constitu- 
 tion as to slave representation, has been studi- 
 ously concealed, until it has been entirely for- 
 gotten. 
 
 We will HOW demonstrate that the Southern and 
 Western Whigs, who suppou Daniel Webster's 
 " standard bearer," in the person of Harrison, are 
 directly allied with the Hartford Convention men, 
 ■who were the first disturbers of the constitutional 
 compromise, and that they called for disunion, or 
 abolition of the slave representation, during the 
 war, precisely as the modern Abolitionists now do. 
 
 Mr. Harrison Gray Otis, in his published defence 
 of the Hartford Convention, affirms that its pro- 
 ceedings were more ia conformity with the public 
 sentiment of the Federalists of Massachusetts than 
 any measure which had been adopted by that State 
 since the acceptance of the Federal Constitution. 
 [Letter 3, to the Editor of the Centinel.] 
 
 In another letter, (No. 9,) he says that one of 
 the objects of that convention was " to diminish the 
 representation of slaves." 
 
 And this amendment was sought, not in the 
 mode provided by the Constitution, but by a con- 
 vention of all the States, (not the people, but the 
 Legislatures,) which was a direct measure of revo- 
 lution. 
 
 This is precisely what the extreme Abolitionists 
 
 now contend for — a dissolution of the Union — or 
 as ant^rJisent oft he Constitution, by the force of 
 a general convention, in order to give Congress 
 power over slavery in the States. 
 
 Mr. Daniel Webster, one of the "standard 
 bearer's " aids in the Harrison canvass, followed 
 up this prominent object of the Hartford Conven- 
 tion, in a report made by him to a meeting of Fe- 
 deralists in Faneuil Hall, in 1816, ii\ w hich he re- 
 ported resolutions declaring it the duty of Congress 
 to abolish the transfer or sale of slaves from- one 
 State to another. 
 
 This was cited, and made the basi5 of a report, 
 in the Massachusetts Senate, in 1838, upon the 
 petition of Judge Oliver B. Morris, the confiden- 
 tial Abolition correspondent of Mr. William B. 
 Calhoun; and the same resolve, recommended by 
 Mr. Webster, was passed, for interdicting the 
 transfer of slaves between the States. 
 
 The report of the delegates of the Hartford Con- 
 vention, was fully adopted by (he Massachusetts 
 Legislature, January 27, 1815, by a vote of 155 
 to 48; Mr. Saltonstall in the affirmative. 
 
 That report afl[irms, that, as soon as the new Ad- 
 ministration was established, under Jefferson, a 
 fixed determination was perceived of changing the 
 former system, (Hamilton's,) which had given to- 
 the nation a prodigious impulse toward prosperity. 
 "Under the withering influence of this new system, 
 the declension of the nation has been uniform and 
 rapid." 
 
 This everlasting cry of "ruin" would be enough 
 'of itself to identify the old Pederal and modern 
 Whig party. It is their never-failing Shibboleth, 
 insomuch that, during the last war, when a mer- 
 chant of Philadelphia said to Tuu it hy Pickering, 
 that the country was abundant in resources to car- 
 ry on the war, Mr. Pickering started in amaze- 
 ment, exclaiming, "Why, sir, I thought you were 
 a Federalist !" . 
 
 So it is now. The New York Journal of Com- 
 merce (a Whig press) insists that the country is 
 prosperous, even with the Sub-Treasury, and all ' 
 the Whig presses cry out against it, Locofoco t 
 Every man who talks of his country's prosperity, 
 is set down by the Whigs .as a Locofoco. 
 
 But to come back to the slave question. 
 
 The Haftford Convention report, (p. 15,) after 
 attributing all the evils in the world to Mr. Madi- 
 son's administration, says: 
 
 "But it is not conceivable that the obliquity of 
 any Administration could, in so short a period, 
 have so nearly consummated the work of national 
 ruin, unless favored by defects in the Constitution. 
 To enumerate all the improvements of which that 
 instrument is susceptible, is a task this conventioa 
 has not thought proper to assume." 
 
 They then propose the indispensable amend- 
 ments, and say: 
 
 "The first amendment proposed, relates to the 
 apportionment of Representatives among the 
 slaveholding States. This cannot be claimed as a 
 right. Those States are entitled to the slave re- 
 presentation, by a constitutional compact. It is 
 therefore merely a subject of agreement, which 
 should be conducted upon principles of mutual in^ 
 terest and accommodation, and upon which no sen- 
 sibility on cither side should be permitted to exist. 
 
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 It has proved unjast and unequal in its operalion; 
 and had this efifeci been foreseen, the privilege cer- 
 tainly would not have been conceded." 
 
 In conformity to this recommendation, thie Hart- 
 ford Convention adopted, and the Federal Legisla- 
 ture of Massachusetts approved, the foilowing: 
 
 "Resolved, That the following amendment of the 
 Constitution of the United Slates be recommended 
 to the States, to be proposed by them for adoption 
 by the State Legislatures, and, in such cases as may 
 be deemed expedient, by a convention chosen by 
 the people of each Stale. And it is further recom- 
 mended that the said States shall persevere in their 
 efforts to obtain such amendments, until the same 
 shall be effected," viz: 
 
 "First. Representatives and direct faxes shall be 
 apportioned among the several Stales, according to 
 their respective numbers of free perEons, excluding 
 Indians not taxed, and all other persons." 
 
 This was, in effect, the first public agitation of 
 the dissolution of the Union, growing out of the 
 slave question. Surely, then, it becomes a matter 
 of vital interest to the friends of union and State 
 rights, and of non-interference with the slave 
 question in the States, to look to the "standard 
 bearer" under whom Mr. Webster invites them to 
 enlist. Nei'.her can he be trusted on the other side, 
 for he is secretly pledged to both, and will there- 
 fore belray both. 
 
 General Wilson, of New Hampshire, tells the 
 ,people of Massachusetts, in his speeches through 
 that State: 
 
 "Thai General Harrison owes his nomination to 
 the Massachusetts delegates to the Harrisburg Con- 
 vention, and that he is therefore emphatically the 
 Massachusetts candidate for the Presidency." 
 
 Mr. Webster says to the Alexandria Whigs, (in 
 his own name arid that of Mr. John Davis, the 
 Massachusetts Whig candidate for Governor:) 
 
 "We have made William Henry Harrison the 
 bearer of our standard." 
 
 Two, at least, of the Harrisburg delegates from 
 Massachusetts, who secured the nomination of Har- 
 rison, were the elders of the old school, viz: Hon. 
 Samuel Hoar, one of the strongest advocates of the 
 Hartford Convention, and Hon. Nathaniel M. Da- 
 vis, who was a member of the Legislature in 1814, 
 and voted for it. , 
 
 IDENTITY OF THE HARTFORD AND HAR- 
 RISBURG CONVENTIONS. 
 
 Hon. Leverett Saltonstall, one of the Whig com- 
 mittee engaged in "restoring the days of the pa 
 triot Presidents !" voted for all the measures of 
 the Hartford Convention, upon slave represen- 
 tation; he has just made a labored defence of 
 that convention in Congress, and has affirmed 
 hat it was as innocent as the Harrisburg Conven- 
 tion. 
 
 He says this truly; for both conventions aimed 
 
 at a sectional division of the country, and botSi 
 
 struck at the rights of the Southern States: the 
 
 fornier boldly and openly, the latter covertly and 
 
 I cowardly. 
 
 In 1814, the Southern and Western States up- 
 held the country in a most fearful crisis, when 
 every State at the North, except "Vermont, was 
 under the control of the British party. Abolition 
 ■was then highly popular at the North, and therefore 
 
 the Hartford Convention seized upon it, as an ad- 
 junct to their designs of breaking down Virginia 
 and the Republican Administration. 
 
 The same men, under their new name of Whigs,, 
 have now "made William Henry Harrison the 
 bearer of their standard," and, by his secret letter?, 
 through the agencies of such Noriliern Federal- 
 ists as William B. Calhoun, Evans, Gates, and 
 others, are striving to secure the aid of the Abo- 
 litionists against the South, to enable them to put 
 down the Democratic administration of Mr. Vaa 
 Buren. 
 
 Lei the South ponder well on these teachings of 
 the history of the past. Let the North never trust 
 a man v>ho, like General Harrison, "palters in a 
 double sense." 
 
 WHO WERE THE HARTFORD CONVEN- 
 TION LEADERS, AND WHERE ARE 
 
 THEY NOW] 
 
 At his speech at Alexandria, June 11, 1840, Da- 
 niel Webster, who appointed General Harrison his 
 "standard bearer," exclaiiHed: 
 
 "Fellow-citizens, we must not stop or falter in 
 our oppoc-ition to the Administration, till our lost 
 prosperity is restored !" 
 
 When the Federal Massachvisetts Legislature as- 
 sembled to oppose the war, preliminary to the Hart- 
 fore Convention, Benjamin Russell exclaimed ia 
 his Centinel: 
 
 "All the branches contain majo'i'ies of the 
 friends of peace, and whatever can be done to re- 
 store their country to its lost prosperity, will be at- 
 tempted." — Boston Centinely'May 96. 
 
 The Federal measure to restore lost prosperity, 
 in 1814, was the Hartford Convention. The 
 Whig measure to do the same in 1840, is to restore 
 the lost influerice of the Hartford Convention men, 
 by means of the Harrisburg Convention, under 
 Harrijon and hard cider ! 
 
 LIST OF SURVIVORS WHO VOTED FOR 
 THE HARTFORD CO:JVENTION. 
 
 In the Massachusetts Senate, October 8, 1814, 
 Harrison Gray Otis reported the bill for the Hart- 
 ford Convention, which was carried. 22 to 12. Its 
 p'-incipal advocates were Messrs. Otis, duincy, and 
 White, all n>iw Whigs. Of those who voted for it, 
 there are now living: 
 
 Josiah Cluincy, President of Harvard College, 
 Harrison Gray Otis, Thos. H. Perkins, and Daniel 
 Sargeant, of Boston. 
 
 Essex.— Samuel Putnam, a Judi^e of the Su- 
 preme Court, app«in!ed by Gov. Strong; Daniel 
 A. V/hite, of Salem, Judge of Probate and presi- 
 dent of a Bink panic meeting, and also of the 
 great Whig dinner given to Daniel Webster ia 
 1834, when the decapitated figure-head of the 
 frigate Constitution was exhibited by Parker H. 
 Pierce, then chairman of the Boston Whig Com- 
 mittee of Safety, and Subsequently the fugitive 
 president of the Whig Commercial E^nk; Caleb 
 Foote, the furious Whig Editor of the Salem Ga- 
 zette, and an ex-member of Governor Everett's 
 Council, is Judge White's son-in-law. 
 
 Worcpster Silas Holman, of Bolton, holds a 
 
 State office from a Whig Governor. 
 
 Hamilton and Franklin.— Samuel Latbrop;^ 
 Samuel C. Allen. 
 
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 Bristol. — Samuel Crocker, of Taunton, merjber 
 of a great Whig carporatirn, and an office holder. 
 
 Plymouth. — Wilkes AVood, Judge of Probate, 
 and now nominated for Harrison Elector for Ply- 
 mouth District, by the V/hig Conveniion, held at 
 Worcester, the 17th of June last— voted for and to 
 approve the Hartford Convention, and to send am- 
 bassadors to Washington. 
 
 Judge Wrod headed the hard cider procession, 
 with canoe -and cabins, that marched from Middie- 
 boropgh to Bridgev/ster, the 4th of July last, to 
 hear Robert C. Winthrop, esq. the Whig Speaker 
 of the Massachusetts House of Repretenlaiives. 
 Wilkes Wood was chosen a Federal Senator from 
 Plymouth, in 1814, over Nathan Willis, then of 
 Rochester, who was a Republican Senator for that 
 county in IS 13, with Seth Spra;?ue, and voted with 
 with him for his resolve to build a 74 gun ship, for 
 the use of ;he United States, to carry on the war, 
 and against Josiah duiacy's resolution not to re- 
 joice at eui- naval victories. He was chairman of 
 the ccm.iiitt-.'e that reported that Marcus Morton 
 was chosen clerii of the ScMiate in 1813. Mr. 
 Willis, new of Berkshire, is the Deraocraiu; candi- 
 date for Litntenant Governor, while Mr. Wood is 
 a candidate for Harrison fl-jctcr! 
 
 Of the above 11 survivors, out of the 22 who 
 voted for the Hartfoiti Convention in the Senate, 
 all but one are Whigs and Hairi.<on men. Mr 
 Allen, of Franklin, is a decided Democrat. He 
 was one of those whom ivlr. Oti^ described as not 
 exactly Federali.^ts, but " the flying squad." In 
 his 8th letter, Mr. Otis speaks of " the Federalists," 
 (or persons compoMng the majoriiy,) for, he adds, 
 there were among them a few of the "flying squad" 
 ia both Houses, in the session of 1814, when the 
 convention wus formed. • Mr. Allen declined 
 Toting on the first motion for the Hartford Conven- 
 tion. 
 
 Neither can we positively speak as tp Mr. La- 
 throp, who has taktn no part in politics for some 
 time. All the rest are earnest supporters of Harri- 
 .son. They are 
 
 "Where they have be^^n and ever mean to he." 
 SURVIVING MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE. 
 
 It is a diflicnk task to obtain a full list from so 
 numerous a body. In what we have got, we have 
 taken great pains, and carefully studied accuracy. 
 If there is any error, it is inadvertent, and we beg 
 it may be pointed out. 
 
 In the Houfe, the yeas wero 260, nays 90; for 
 Maine, 41 ya?, 21 nsy;; for Massachusetts proper, 
 219 yeas, G9 nays. Those belonging to Massa- 
 chusetts, who Voted for the convention, and are as- 
 certained to be now living, are as follows, as accu- 
 rately as we can learn. We atttich the Whig 
 offices they now hold: 
 
 Boston — ^Jonathan Hunnewell, (an ex-Whig 
 Senator;) Stephen Codman, (of the duorum;) Ben- 
 jamin R-ussell, (a Justice, ex-Editor of the Boston 
 Centinel, toaster of Harrison the last 4th of July, 
 ex-member of Governor Everett's cccncil, &c. 
 &c.;) Benjamin Whitman, (ex- Judge of Pc 
 lice under Governors Linclon and ^ Davis, of '.le 
 duorum;) William H. Sumuer, (now of Rox- 
 bury, ex-Adjutant General, and Jusiice of the 
 duorum;) h-°njamin Weld, (now of Maine;) Oli- 
 ver Keating, of Chelsea; Daniel Messinger and 
 
 William Harris, (who were on the committee tha 
 gave a pretended mechanics' dinner to Daniel Web r 
 ster, Prentiss, of Mississippi, and Menifee, o r 
 Kentucky, in Faneuil Hall, July, 1833; botl \ 
 have been members of the House;) George G 
 Lee, (formerly of the Essex Junto;) Lynde Wal 
 ter, (Justice Peace;) Lemuel Shaw, (Chief JuS' 
 tice of Supreme Court, appointed by Governoi 
 Lincoln;) Thomas Barry; Richard Sullivan, (holds 
 a State office;) Benjamin Gorham, (ex-Whig mem^ 
 ber of Congress;) WOliam Sturgis, (recently ol 
 the Senate and Flouse, made a speech in the IC 
 cent rebellion in Faneuil Hall, May, 1837, said tc 
 the enraged assembly that Amos Kendall would be 
 eaten up, if he was present.) 
 
 Essex Coontt. 
 
 Salem. — Dudley L. Pickman, (member of the 
 House in 1834, voted to denounce Jackson for 
 veto of the bank;) Benjamin Hawkes; Elisha Mack, 
 (Judge of Police Court;) John Glen King, 
 (of the duorum;) and Leverett Saltonstall, 
 ( Whig member of Congress, of the Harrison Ex- 
 ecutive Committee, defesder of the (Hartford 
 Convention) faith in Congress, restorer of patriot 
 Presidents, described by Joh« duincy Adams as 
 "just such a monarchist as Jonathan Jackson, 
 one of the E^ssex Junto, was !" delegate to the 
 "Rebel Convention," with Timothy Pickering, in 
 1812', master of ceremonies to receive John Bell, 
 when he laid Tennessee at the feet of Webster, ia 
 1837, &c. &c.) 
 
 [Mr. Saltonstall must still be a Pederaist, or a 
 very bad man, for he says, "A Federalist turned 
 Democrat is the worst of all politicians."] 
 
 Robert Emery, another Silera member, is now 
 of Springfield. E. H. Derby is also living. 
 
 Danvers. — Nathan Felton, Sylvester Otborn. 
 
 Ipswich. — Joseph Farley, (Justice of Peace.) 
 
 Beverly. — Robert Rantoul; Nathaniel Goodwin, 
 (Cashier of Plymouth Baak.) 
 
 Gloucester. — James Appleton; Jonathau Kim- 
 ball, (now of Salem.) 
 
 Rowley. — Thomas G3ge, jr. (now senior, Whig 
 member of the House in 1833, a Justice.) 
 
 Niwbury. — Josiah Little= 
 
 Ncwburyport. — Jonathan Gage, (Justice of the 
 Peace;) Isaac Ad»ms, (now of Meihuen;) Samuel 
 Newmai^ (now of Andover.) 
 
 Boxford. — Parker Spofiord. 
 
 Andover. — Timothy Osgood. 
 
 Haverhill. — David Howe, (Justice.) 
 Middlesex CouNTyy^ 
 
 Charlestown, — Joseph Hurd, /now of Stone- 
 ham; John Soley, (of the duorunp.) 
 
 Cambridge. — William Hdliatd, (member of 
 ih? House in 1833, recently deceased; Royal 
 Makepeace, (Stock Agent of the Cautoa Co. at 
 Baltimore.) 
 
 Medford.— Dudley Bill, (of the duorum.) 
 
 Weston. — Isaac Pi^ke, (Register of Probate.) 
 
 Framingham. — Abner Wheeler, (of the duo- 
 rum, County Commissioner, and a ^Vhig candidate 
 for Senator.) 
 
 Reading. — Timothy Wakefield, (Justice of the 
 Peace.) 
 
 Groton. — Luther Lawrence, (very recently de- 
 ceased, Whig Mayor of Lowell.) 
 
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 NoRrOLK COONTT. 
 
 duincy. — Thomas Ureen.eaf, (Secretary of the 
 i'ederal Convention that nominated John Brooks 
 or Governor, in 1822, and now a Justice for the 
 IJommonweaitb. He is the only survivor of the 
 eveo oui of all RepublicanNorfolk, who voted for 
 he Hartford Convention.) 
 
 Plymouth County. 
 Plymouth. — Barnabas Hedge, (just deceased, a 
 ustice;) Benjamin Brarahall, (now of duincy;) 
 Nathaniel M. Davis, (now a Whig counsellor, 
 ilected by a Whig Legislature to advise Governor 
 Morton, member of the Harriaburg Convention.) 
 Bristol County. 
 Taunton. — Jonathan Ingalls. 
 Raynham — John GUmore, (justice peace.) 
 Norton — Isaac Hodges.^ 
 
 Scnierset David Anihony, (justice.) 
 
 Berkley. — Apollos Toby, (now of New Bedford, 
 a justice of the quorum.) 
 
 Troy, (now Fall River.) — Joseph E. Reed, (a big 
 Whig, member of Bristol county Whig conven- 
 flion.) 
 
 Westport. — Abner Brownell, (of the quorum.) 
 New Bedford. — Jireh Sv/ift, (then jua.;) J. Wil- 
 liams. 
 
 Barnstable County. 
 Yarmouth. — James Crowell, (justice and com- 
 missioner.) 
 
 Welifleet. — Josiah Whitman, (justice and ex- 
 postmaster, a Whi?;.) 
 
 , [Nantucket and Dukes county sent no member.] 
 Worcester County. 
 Spencer. — James Draper. 
 Uxbridge — Daniel Carpenter; Samuel Read, (of 
 the Legislature in 1837.) 
 Grafton. — Jonathan Wheeler. 
 Lancaster. — William Cleaveland. 
 Bolton. — Stephen P, Gardner, (of the quorum.) 
 Sterling.— Samuel Sav/yer, Thomas H. Blood. 
 Paiton. — David Davis, (then jr.) 
 New Brairitree. — Joseph Bowman, (then jr. 
 * member of John Davis's Council in 1834,) Justice. 
 Hampshire County. 
 Southampton. — Asahel Birge, (Jusiice.) 
 Middlefield. — John Dixon, (Justice.) 
 Granby. — David Smith, (Justice.) 
 Amberst — Simeon Strong, (Justice;) Noah 
 'Webster, (of dictionary fame, an ardent Whig, in 
 I Connecticut.) [Not one nay in all Hampshire.] 
 Hampden County. 
 Locgmeadow, — Calvin Burt. 
 Palmer. — Alpheus Converse. 
 Blanford. — Alanson Knox. 
 Chester. — Asahel Wright. 
 
 Franklin County. 
 Shelburn. — William Wells, (Justice.) 
 Hawley — Thomas Longley, (before described.) 
 Ashfield.— Enos Smith, (now of Granby.) 
 
 Berkshire County. 
 Lanesborough — Henry Hubbard, (Counsellor of 
 Governor Lincoln in 1833, Whig naember of the 
 House, 1836, and of the Q,uorum.) 
 
 |l3^Eighty-five members of the House, who 
 voted for the Hartford Convention, now living, 
 (except three just deceased;) and of these all but 
 two are known members of the preseat Whig 
 party, and supporters of Harrison ! 
 
 Adding the eleven surviving Senators and the 
 six surviving members of the Hartford Conven- 
 tion, who were not of the Legislature in 1814, and 
 of this aggregate of ninety-nine .survivors, all but 
 three are modern Whigs and Harrisonite^ ! 
 
 Of the sixty-nine Massachusetts members who 
 voted against the Hartferd Convention, but twelve 
 survive. Of these, eight are still Democrats, one un- 
 known, and but three are Harrison Whigs, viz: 
 Lincoln, of Worcester, Gurney, of Bciston, and 
 Fi*h, of Falmouih. 
 
 SURVIVING MEMBERS OP THE HART- 
 FORD CONVENTION. 
 
 The Massachusetts Legislature chose these de- 
 legates to the convention, in convention, October 
 18, 1614. The Federalists cast 215 votes— the 
 Republicans all refusing to act in this treasonable 
 proceeding. 
 
 The survivors of the Massachusetts delegates 
 are: Hon. S. S. Wilde, (judge of the supreme 
 court;) Hariisan Gray Otis, (a member of Con- 
 gress in 1800, and voted for Aaron Burr against 
 Jefferson;) William Prescolt, (an ex-judge and 
 justice for the Commonwealth;) Hodijah Baylies, 
 (judge of probate till 1834;) Daniel Waldo, (jus- 
 tice of the quorum;) Stephen Longfellow, of Port- 
 land; Joseph Lyman, (sheriff of Hampshire, and 
 commissioner io qualify officers;) and Thomas H> 
 Perkins, (one oi the commissiouers to treat with 
 the President, signed the Whig handbill in 1832, 
 that Pennsylvania had gone against Jackson.) 
 
 0: Governor Strong's Council, who advised the 
 Hartford Convention, two only survive, and both 
 are Whigs, viz: Nahum. Mitchell, member of the 
 House, and Benjamin Pickman, the son of a dis- 
 tinguished Tory of the Revolution, member of the 
 Essex Junto, and one of the committee to celebrate, 
 in Boston, the restoration of the Bourbons. 
 
 The only known survivors out of that conven- 
 tion, cut of Massachusetts, are correctly ascertain- 
 ed to be, Calviu Goddard, and Roger M. Sherman, 
 of Connecticut; Benjamin Hazard, of Rhode 
 Island; and Josiah Dunham, a s-upernumerary 
 from Vermont, now in Lexington, Kentucky. 
 They are ail Harrison Whigs. 
 
 Here are one hundred and five of the direct 
 original Hartford Convention school now promi- 
 nent Whigs, and Democrats, (1) as is pretended, of 
 the Jefferson school ! Add to these other survivors 
 who supported legislative measures to get up or ap- 
 prove that convention, 17 in number, and the pro- 
 minent men in the primary conventions, still liv- 
 ing, 18 in number; and it gives an aggregate of 
 one hundred and forty-seven men of that school, 
 nearly all in Massachusetts, who are principal ad- 
 visers and actors in the efforts to restore the days 
 of the black cockade, and, in the language of their 
 expounder, Mr. Webster, "have made William H. 
 Har.'ison the bearer of their standard !" 
 
 Who can doubt the character of that flag, when 
 these are the men who rally under ill Who can 
 deny the aptness of t.he motto on " the significant 
 banner?" 
 
 " We are where we ever have been and ever 
 mean to be !" 
 
 Trace it still farther: Mr. Otis, in his defence of 
 that convention, (which Mr. Saltonstall, as one of 
 the Harrison Executive Committe, declares wjis a 
 
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 patriotic bocly,) remarks that the actors in tbat con- 
 ■renlion have continued to I'eceive in Massachusetl& 
 ample tesiimonials of public confidence. 
 
 This is true. In fact, the principal ofBces in 
 the State are now held by them; and ct those whose 
 names are given in this list, ninety -two now hold 
 offices of Whig appointment. 
 
 To tbc.e riien, the prominent Whig counsellors 
 in Massachusetts, General Wilson says, is owing 
 the nomination of General Harrison ! Massachu- 
 setts did it,- at.d if the Whig party of Massachu- 
 setts directed the movement, who doubts that ii is 
 what Judge Hapkins, of Pennsylvania, described, 
 viz: the old Federal party striving again to get into 
 power? 
 
 JOSIAH aUINCY'S RESOLVE. 
 
 As another test of identity, we will trace the 
 resolve offered by Josiah Q,uincy, and .adopted by 
 the Federal Senate of Massachusetts, just 11 days 
 after the gallant Lawrence was killed on board tlie 
 Chesapeake, the news of which had just been con- 
 firmed in Boston. A resolve was pending for a vote 
 of thanks to Captain James Lawrence for the cap- 
 ture of the Peacock by the Hornet. Instead of 
 adopting that resolution, it was voted, on Josiah 
 dtiincy's motion: 
 
 January 15, 1813, "That in a war like, the pre- 
 sent, waged without justifiable cause, it is not be- 
 coming a moral and religious people to express any 
 approbation of military or naval exploits, which 
 are not immediately cor-iiccted with the defence of 
 our seacoast and soil." 
 
 The Index of the old Senate Journal describes 
 this resolve thus — "Declaring it unbecoming a 
 moral and religious people to express approbation 
 of success in such a war." 
 
 It was passed without the yeas and nays. Fe- 
 bruary 12, a motion to erase it from the journal wks 
 reported against by a committee who say in their 
 report that 
 
 "The resolve of the 13ih of June is in itself highly 
 correct and expedient to form the grounds of con- 
 stitutional opposition and patriotic discouragement 
 to the prosecution of the war." 
 
 This passed, 20 to 8; and the survivors who 
 voted for it were Josiah duincy, Thomas H. Per- 
 kins, Samuel Putnam, Silas Holman, Daniel A. 
 White, S. C. Allen, Solomon Strong, Nahum Mitch- 
 ell, and James Richardson, of Dedham— all but 
 Mr. Allen prominent Harrison men, and all now 
 holding Whig State offices, three of them being 
 judges in the land. 
 
 The Massachusetts Senate continued in Federal 
 hands till 1824, when William Eustis, Secretary 
 of War under tvladison during the war, was elected 
 Democratic Governor of Massachusetts, and Mar- 
 cus Morton, Lieutenant Governor. 
 
 Seth Sprague, now a Democrat, who had voted 
 against the dnincy resolution in 1814, was a mem- 
 ber again in 1824. On his motion it was resolved, 
 92 to 15 
 
 ' January 17, 1824, "That the resolve of the 15th 
 of June, 1813, and the preamble thereof, be, and 
 tflc same are hereby EXPUNGED from the jour- 
 Hais of the Senale." 
 
 The survivors who voted against expunging, are 
 Thomas H. Perkins, and Peter C. Brooks, of Bos- 
 ton, (^father-in-lBw of Governor Everett;) S. P. 
 
 Gardner, of Bolton; Thomas Longley, of Hawley, 
 (who, in April 14, 1836, supported in the Massa- 
 chusetts Legislature a law to be passed by Congress 
 requiring twenty-one years' residence in the United 
 Slates of all foreigners before they shall be allowed , 
 to vole ! Aaron Tufts, of Dudley, (committee to 
 receive John Bell;) Benjamin Gorham, (afterwards 
 se»t to Congress;) Lewis Strong, and Joseph Strong, 
 jun. (now Whigs in New York — Lewis Strong is 
 a son of Governor Strong;) Nathaniel P. Denny, 
 and Samuel Hubbard, of Boston. 
 
 Ten out of the fifteen are now living, all Whigs, 
 and each of them holding an office from a Whig 
 Governor ! Of the twenty-two who voted for ex- 
 punging, thirteen survive, of whom nine are De- 
 mocrats and four Whigs. 
 
 The names of the fourteen survivors in Masa- 
 chusetts who voted against the Hartford Conven- 
 tion, are, Eleazer C. Richardson, of Lynn; John 
 Wade, of Woburn; Erastus Worthington, and 
 Abaer Ellis, of Dedham; Gad Warriner, of West 
 Springfield, (a Revolutionary pensioner;) William 
 P. Walker, of Lenox; Phineas Allen, of Pittsfield; 
 Aaron Hobart, jr. of Hanover; William P. Rider, 
 and John Spurr, of Charlion — (Mr. Spurr was 
 the Democratic candidate for Senator last year;) 
 Christopher Webb, of Weymouth; Nathan Gur- 
 ney, jr. of Ablngton, (now a Whig Alderman of 
 Boston;) Thomas Fish, of Falmouth; and Levi. 
 Lincoln, of Worcester. Of these fifteen, there 
 are but four Harrison men, including Mr. Webb, 
 of Weymouth, who has long been enfeebled. The 
 rest continue Democrats. 
 
 OFFICES HELD BY HARTFORD CONVEN- 
 TION MEN. 
 
 Of the survivors of the Federal party, who voted 
 for the Hartford Convention, or against the war, 
 in the Massachusetts Legislature, and were in 
 that convention, sixty-eight now hold "civil offices 
 under Whig appointments. Among them are 
 twenty -nine of the most important offices in the 
 State, viz: 1 Chief Justice of Supreme Court, 2 
 Judges of Supreme Court, 1 Judge of Common 
 Pleas, 2 Judges of Police, 5 Judges of Probate, 
 1 Treasurer of the Commonwealth, 1 member of 
 Congress, 2 Registers of Probate, 1 Counsellor of 
 State, 2 Commissioners, 1 City Solicitor, 2 Sheriffs, 
 I President of Harvard College, 1 Agent of Militia 
 Claims, and 6 members of the Legislature, all mo- 
 dern V/higs. 
 
 Verily are these men made judges and rulers 
 over us! 
 
 THE HARRISON ELECTORS AND HART- 
 FORD CONVENTION. 
 
 Of the fourteen candidates now in nomination 
 for Harrison electors in Massachusetts, all but two 
 apostates are old Federalists, viz: 
 
 Isaac C. Bates, Secretary of the Hampshire, 
 Hampden, and Franklin rebellion convention to 
 resist the war, July, 1812, and orator of the Wash- 
 ington Benevolent Society, and one of the Federal 
 Committee of Safety, to oppo&e the Government 
 during the war, &c. [Mr. Bates continues his 
 warlike propensities against his own Government. 
 At a recent Whig gathering at Greenfield, be ad- 
 vised the Whig^', if they could obtain redress in no 
 other manner, to take down their muskets, and 
 pick their flints !] 
 
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 John B. Thomas, another Harrison elector, is a 
 Federal son of Joshua Thomas, a member of the 
 Hartford Convention. 
 
 Robert G. Shaw, another, was a member of the 
 Washington Benevolent Society ia 1813, '14, or- 
 ganized as Federal clubs to oppose the war. [See 
 Stebbins's Directory of 1813.] 
 
 George Grincell, another elector, was a member 
 of the same Federal conspiracy, and one of the 
 Committee of Safety! appointed in 1812, by the 
 Hampshire and Frailklm Federal Convention, to 
 oppose the war. 
 
 Wilkes Wood, another elector, voted for the 
 Hartford Convention measures in the Massachu- 
 setts Senate; voted to approve the acts of thai con- 
 vention; voted against a vote of thanks to Andrew 
 Jackson for the battle of New Orleans; voted 
 against admitting Louisiana into the Union; voted 
 not to provide for the United States' direct tax to 
 sustain ihe war of 1814, &c. 
 
 WHIG OFFICE-HOLDERS. 
 
 Every one of these candidates for electors is a 
 Whig office holder, viz: Mr. Bates, agent cf mili- 
 tia claims; Mr. Shaw, commissioner for building 
 the custom-house, president of a board, and direc- 
 tor cf a railroad; Mr. Phillips, mayor of Salem; 
 Mr. Sprague, justice of the quorum; Mr. Willard, 
 a State Senator; Mr. Barton, judge of probate; Mr. 
 Wood, judge of probate; Mr. Grinnell, master in 
 chancery; Mr. Pomeroy, justice of the quorum; 
 Mr. Mixter, justice for the Commonwealth; Mr. 
 French, justice of the quorum; Mr. Tripp, the same; 
 and Mr. Thomas, clerk of the courts, Mr. Long- 
 ley is only a justice of the peace. 
 
 This may serve as a specimen of the sincerity 
 of the Whig horror of office holders. 
 FEDERAL ELECTORS WHO VOTED 
 AGAINST MONROE. 
 
 The Massachusetts Legislature chose twenty- 
 two electors, Nov. 1816, to vote for Rufus King, 
 the Federal candidate for President, against James 
 Monroe. They had 198 votes in the Legislature, 
 which then contaiaed but 46 Democrats, who re- 
 fused to vote. 
 
 Of those electors, seven are now livings, all Har- 
 rison men, viz: Benjamin Pickman, Samuel S. 
 Wilde, Daniel A. White, Thos. H. Perkins, and 
 Stephen Longfellow, already described in the fore- 
 geing list. Also, Joseph Locke, Judge of Police 
 in Lowell, and .Tonas Kendall, of Leominster. 
 
 Rev. Henry Colman, now Whig Commissioner 
 on Agricultural Survey, appointed by Governor 
 Everett, was the messenger to carry the votes to 
 Washington. 
 
 OLD FEDERALISTS NOW IN CONGRESS 
 FROM MASSACHUSETTS. 
 
 In the present Massachusetts delegation, there 
 are Daniel Webster, the bitter opposer of the war 
 from the beginning, and John Davis, the author 
 of the WorcLSter 4 th of July oration in 1816; 
 Leverett Saltonstall, who supported the Hartford 
 Convention in the House; Abbott Lawrence, a 
 member of th« "Washington Benevolent Society" 
 to resist the war; [see Stebbins's Directory, 1813;] 
 John Reed, elected to Congress in 1813, over 
 I. L. Greene, who had voted for the war. Mr. 
 Reed was a member of the Barnstable Federal 
 Rebellion Conventioa to denounce the war, of 
 
 which "Squire David Scudder" was president. 
 While in Congress, he voted against every possible 
 measure to sustain the war, and virulently de- 
 nounced Madison and Jefferson. William S. 
 Hastings, a cniform Federalist, is the son of Seth 
 Hastings, a Federal member of Congress in 1801, 
 who voted for Burr against Jefferson. Wm. B. 
 Calhoun, always a Federalist and United States 
 Bank man, supported the ten million bank in Mas- 
 sachusetts. John duincy Adams need only be 
 nanied. Levi Lincoln is an apostate Republican, 
 now acting with the men who opposed his father, 
 Levi Lincoln, from 1800 to his death, and his son 
 till his desertion in 1826. Mr. Briggs, we believe, 
 is also an apostate. Gushing is too young to have 
 acted in the war, but has since been plated all over 
 wiih Silver Greys, and petted by the Essex Junto. 
 
 William Parmentcr, who now supports Mr. Van 
 Buren, was Secretary of a Republican Middlesex 
 Convention, to nominate officers, in 1814, and a 
 uniform war Democrat. 
 
 MASSACHUSETTS REPRESENTATIVES IN 
 COiSGRESS DURING THE WAR. 
 
 Of these, every living man then from Massachu- 
 setts, but one who opposed the war in Congress, is 
 now a Harrison man, viz: Soloman Strong, (judge;) 
 John Reed, (now a member;) Laban Wheaton,, 
 William Baylies, Harrison Gray Otis, Josiah Q.uin- 
 cy, Ariemas Ward, and Daniel Webster, then of 
 New Hampshire. 
 
 Massachusetts, since the Con.slitution, has elect- 
 ed 175 men as members of Congress. Of these, 49 
 are now living; 37 were elected as Federalists, and 
 of these all but two are now Harrison men; 12 
 were elected as Democrats, among them Marcus 
 Morion, and all but five are now oppoed to Har- 
 rison; 2 doubtful. The apostates are Crowning- 
 shield; John Holmes, a Federalist in 1804; Shaw, 
 Silsbee, and Judse Storv- 
 
 THE OLD FEDERAL NEWSPAPERS OF 
 MASSACHUSETTS. 
 
 These are all now .supporters of Harrison, viz : 
 
 The Boston Daily Advertiser, Repertory, Centi- 
 nel, Palladium, and Gazette, united as the Ad- 
 vertiser, edited by Nathan Hale, one of the stand- 
 ing committee of the Washington Benevolent 
 Society during the war. One extract from his 
 paper will show where he ever has been and ever 
 means to be. 
 
 "My plan is to withhold our money and make a 
 separate peace with England." [Boston Daily Ad- 
 vertiser, 1814.] 
 
 The Boston Evening Gazette, a Harrison paper, 
 is conducted by W. W. Clapp, who was printer 
 of the Daily Advfrtiser, and a reember of the 
 Washington Benevolent Society during the war. 
 
 The Transcript, another Harrison press, is edited 
 by a son of a member of the above society, who 
 voted for the Hartford Convention. 
 
 The Courier, an ither Harrison paper, is edited 
 by Joseph T. Buckingham, who now glories in 
 the deflaration, "I will live and die in the faith 
 of the Hartford Convention." 
 
 The reasons why he supports Harrison are thus 
 given by himself: 
 
 From the Boston Courier, July 18, 1840. 
 
 The Hon. Mr Fowler, who was a member of 
 Congress with Harrison, has published a letter, in 
 
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 ■which he says that he knew Harrison as a supporter 
 of the elder Adams, and that he has seen him wear 
 the black cockade.— ^ornin^- Post. 
 
 |X^ Well— he could not have worn a more ho- 
 norable badge, nor could hs have supported a belter 
 man. Now, we shall certainly go for Harrison. 
 
 [Courier. 
 
 The Whig Rf publican, a vehement Harrison pa- 
 per, has juH been started in Boeton by Dr. Joseph 
 Palmer, editor of the Centinel till transfered to the 
 Advertiser, Mr. Buckingham, of the Courier, thus 
 vouches for him: 
 
 "He has one qualification, which we are almost 
 afrcid to name, lest it may do him an injury with 
 some of our exclusive patriots; but yet we feel so 
 proudof the concurrence of seniiment on poliiical 
 matters, which has always exisied between us, that 
 •we cannot refrain from adding that Dr. Palmer is 
 a pupil of the old school of Washington and Adams 
 Federalism — true to the heart's core, and not 
 ashamed to avow his principles." 
 
 The Boi^ton Alias was not established until 1832. 
 It has uniformly been under the comn 1 of the Bos- 
 ton Federalists, and outstripped all others in abuse 
 of Jackson, Van Buren, and Morion, and in sup- 
 porting Hartford Convention men and the United 
 States Bank. The Federalis's of Boston make it 
 their principal Harrison organ. 
 
 Throughout Massachusetts there is not now a 
 paper which opposed the war, that is not a sup- 
 porter of General Harrison. 
 
 The V/orcester Spy, now one of the most virulent 
 Harrison papers, is also the oldest Federal press in 
 Massachusetts. In 1814, it was edited by John 
 Davis, who is new the Whig candidate for Gover- 
 nor against Marcus Morton. The following ex- 
 tracts from Mr. Davis's editorials, in the midst o( 
 the war, just after he had exulted at the burning ol 
 the Capitol, the 24th of August, 1814, will show 
 where he ever has been and ever means to be: 
 Exb acts from the Spy, edited by John Davis, in 1814. 
 
 ?'We have uniformly entered our solemn protest 
 against this desolating war, which originated in the 
 wicked, ma'igaant passions of a corrupt and imbe- 
 cile G^vprnment. 
 
 "No Republican people were ever so harrassed, 
 perplexed, and disgraced, by a captions and cor- 
 rupt set of rulers, as the people of this country."* 
 ^, "Such a Government is worse than none. 
 
 '5The truth is, oiir Democrats love to talk of war, 
 and swagger, and boast, and vaunt, but they abhor 
 fighting. When danger approaches, they skulk 
 like dastardly poltroons. 
 
 "The evils the Federalists have long predicted 
 are thickeniog upon us; and in our affliction, let us 
 always remember it is James Madison and his party 
 that have brought these calamities on us. 
 
 "We hope and believe the people will soon be 
 convinced that Mr. Madison is totally incompetent 
 to hold the reins of Government. 
 
 "If the people have not become stocks and stones, 
 so as to bear any thing, they must feel ashamed of 
 
 'Almost the words used by Abbott Lawrence, the Whig 
 member of Congreea from Boston at the ten cent rebellion 
 meeiing about specie for postage in Faneuil Hall, May 17, 
 1837 —"No people on God's aanh has been so trampled on and 
 aubsedby their rulers as the people of the United Siates," said 
 JSf, Lawrence. | 
 
 their President; and their indignation will never 
 subside till he is impeached, and the Government 
 committed to other hands. 
 
 "This wanton waste of property, this perverse 
 neglect of duty, is sufficient to brand any adminis- 
 tration with eternal infamy." 
 
 In this violent Federal press, Mr. John Davis, as 
 its ediior, applied the following epithets to James 
 Madistm: 
 
 "This modern Nero, this worthless confederate 
 of Bonaparte." Despised at home and abroad." 
 "This obstinate, infatuated i man plunges us into 
 a wanton, wicked war — a cringing coward." "Our 
 cowardly Captain General galloped his poor beast 
 thirty miles from the battle ground." "The base- 
 ness, cowardice, and perfidy of James Madison." 
 "The crazy head" — "disgraceful conduct — idle 
 vaunting and braggadocio, the more cowardly he 
 acts, the more heroically he talks," &c. &c. 
 
 "The conduct of such a man, (says John Davis,) 
 is in the highest measure disgusting and degrading! 
 Can we wonder that England dailies with us, when 
 she has such a buffoon to deal with?" 
 
 Such is the old Federal phrenzy of John Davis, 
 the man these pretended "Harrison Democrats" 
 and "Jefferson disciples" now seek to make Go- 
 vernofr of Massachusetts, over one of the truest 
 Democrats that ever lived. 
 
 Thus much for the identity of old Hartford Con- 
 vention Federalisni in Massachusetts with the 
 mjdern British Whig Harrison party. 
 
 The same result might be shown in the other 
 New England States, and elsewhere. We have 
 not access to the records. A sample will suffice. 
 VIRGINIA. 
 
 The Richmond Enquirer of August, 1840, states 
 ihe fact, that, in 1800, the eity of Richmond gave 
 254 votss for John Adams. 33 survive, and all 
 but one are Harrison men. 91 voted for Jeffer- 
 son. G survive, and all but one are for Van 
 Buren. 
 
 CONNECTICUT. 
 
 Two members of the Harifoid Convention, and 
 the secretary of that convention, are now living, 
 viz: Roger M. Sherman, Calvin Goddard, and 
 Theodore Dwight. All are Harrison Whigs. The 
 Connecticut Courant, the organ of the Whig parly 
 in that State, and always a Federal paper, is 
 edited by Theodore Dwight. It is not excelled 
 for bitterness, intolerance, and every thing anti- 
 Democratic. 
 
 A friend in Hartford writes — "So far as I am in* 
 formed, the connections of every member of tbe 
 Hartford Convention from this State are 'Whigs.' 
 Truman Smith, the member of Congress, and one 
 of the Whig Executive Committee with Salton- 
 stall, Clarke, Botts, &c. is a nephew of Nathaniel 
 Smith, a deceased member of that convention." 
 VERMONT OLD FEDERALISTS AND HAR- 
 RISON MEN. 
 
 Hon. C. P. Van Ness, in a recent address before 
 a Democratic Convention in Vermont, states tbe 
 ©'lowing fact: 
 
 "In the year 1813, the Federalists obtained a 
 majority in the House of Assembly of this State. 
 A resolution was proposed that the members of 
 both Houses should convene, on a day mentioned, 
 10 offer up thanks to Almighty God for the victory 
 
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 obtained by the Ameiican army under Harrison, 
 near the river Thames, over the combined forces 
 of the British and Indians. On the question of 
 passing the resolution, ninety-five, all Republicans, 
 voted in favor of it, and every Federalist against it, 
 there being one hundred and eight Federalists (that 
 is, for war with their own Government,) and I af- 
 firm, that but one of these has come over to oar 
 party. I also find that thirty-three of them are 
 now dead. BUT OF THE SEVENTY-FIVE 
 LIVING ONES, EVERY MAN— except the ONE 
 already alluded to— IS A THOROUGHGOING 
 MODERN WHIG." 
 
 In an address before the Mountain State Demo- 
 cratic Asscci uion, July 19lh, 1840, C. G. East- 
 man, esq. cites notices calling meetings of the 
 Washington Benevolent Society, by i!s Secreta- 
 ries and Committees, to oppose the war, from 1812 
 to 1815, which were signed by Horace Everett, 
 (now Whig member of Congress;) David Pierce, 
 (now judge of the county court;) Thomas F. 
 Hammond, (now judge of probate;) Oel Billings, 
 (now register of probate;) Darius Jones, (Editor 
 of a Whii; Harrison paper;) and Norman Wil- 
 liams, (clerk vf the court;) all leaders of the pre- 
 sent Whig party. Mr. Everett, the member of 
 Congress, was "agent of the Washingtonian" in 
 1814, a vile Federal print, published by Josiah 
 Dunham, a volunteer member of the Hartford 
 Convention, and now a live Whiz ! 
 THE WASHINGTON BENEVOLENT SO- 
 CIETIES. 
 
 The character of these treasonable Federal 
 clubs, which perverted the name of Washington, 
 as the modern Federalists do that of Whig and 
 Democrat, and their close affinity to the present 
 Whig associations, with their Harrison banners, 
 shows, and parades, will be seen from the follow- 
 ing facts: 
 
 The preamble of the Constitution of the Massa- 
 chusetts V/. B Society, organized February, 1812, 
 says: 
 
 "The V/. B. Society of Massachusetts was 
 founded by a number of patriotic (?) young men, 
 determined to exert themselves to restore the reign 
 of Wa-hington principles and measures, and to re- 
 lieve those of their brethren who, by the pressure 
 of the times, might be reduced from a state of com- 
 petency to wretchedness and ruin." 
 
 This is the origin of the modern Whig cry of 
 ruin, laid to the Administration. It was also the 
 same trick now practised to seduce the laboring 
 classes. Each member was required to sign a 
 pledge, as the Whig Harrison Clubs now require, 
 and there were to bs monthly meetings and ad- 
 dresses, and public celebrations and parades. Wil- 
 liam Sullivan, the Hartford Convention ambassa- 
 dor, thus describes these Federal clubs, in his Fa- 
 miliar Letters of 1834, page 325: 
 
 "In 1812, the opponents of the Administration 
 (Madison) found it necessary to combine, to obtain 
 that protection which their rulers seemed volunta- 
 rily to have withdrawn. For such reasons, they 
 associated, under the name of the 'Washington Be- 
 nevolent Societies,' throughout the State, (Massa- 
 chusetts.) The difl!erent vocations among the me- 
 chanics had their respective banners, bearing ap- 
 propriate emblems of their calling. There were 
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 other banners which bore the mottoes of peace^ 
 union, fidelity, patriotism, etc. In the annual pro- 
 cessions, these banners were carried through the 
 sireels. The frowns and attempts of the war party 
 (Democrats) to make these societies objects of sus- 
 picion, and render them odious, served only to 
 strengthen them, and convince their members of 
 their nece.'siiy. If the day shall ever come wheu 
 the like perils shall overtake the good citizens of 
 the United States, let them remem'oer this ex- 
 ample." 
 
 Who can doubt that this hint of Mr. Sullivan 
 has led to the present Tippecanoe club?, with their 
 banners, parades, pledges, log cabins, and hard 
 cider? 
 
 Mr. Sullivan add?: "When the causes which 
 produced these combinations [the war] ceased^ 
 these also ceased; but their banners are still pre- 
 served, and are occasionally produced to decorate 
 the 'cra( I: of liberty.' " 
 
 Some of the'.e banners have been exhibited, to- 
 3:ether with a portrait of Caleb Strong, the Federal 
 Governor in the war, at recent Harrison meetings 
 in Massacbutetis. One, at least, was at the con- 
 vention that nominated John Davis for Governor. 
 
 Thomas Power, esq. was the Whig orator for 
 the 4th of July last, in the city of Boston. This 
 same gentleman delivered an oration, July 4th, 
 1815,|befora thei Washington Benevolent Society, 
 at Warwick, Mass. He now goes strong for Har- 
 rison, is clerk of a court, and is one of the pretend- 
 ed ''Jefferson school," in the Atlas Harrison tac- 
 tics. Id his oration, in 1815, he said: 
 
 "Jefferson imported a French Editor to subvert 
 Federal principles, and establish his own on their 
 ruins. This man was exalted to the highest office 
 by the unceasing exertions of a party which, un- 
 der the various names of Democrats, Jacobins, and 
 Republicans, retained the same principles and 
 views by which they were first distinguished. 
 Charity can never form a veil to hide the dark 
 atrocities which signalize that memorable period, 
 [Jefferson's administration.] From that time, the 
 clouds of adversity blackened our political horizon, 
 and the sun ©f liberty was dimmed with the pesti- 
 lential vapors of a desperate faction." 
 
 Of Madison, he says: 
 
 "Mr. Jefferson's best act was now performedj. 
 he retired from office. To him succeeded Madi- 
 son. A perfect parallel in political feeling, he pur- 
 sued the same ruinous course; a mere satellite, and 
 appendage to a wretch whose friendship is founded 
 in perfidy." 
 
 "The events of the late war completely charac- 
 terize the Administration. It was commenced ia 
 wickedness, prosecuted with weakae^s, and closed 
 with disgrace!" 
 
 "The Administration has nearly ruined our com- 
 merce, lost some of the most lucrative branches of 
 trade, and brought poverty and distress on a great 
 portion of the country." 
 
 After Mr. Thomas Power had achieved this 
 brilliant oration iu 1815, the Federalists gave him 
 this affecting toast: 
 
 "The orator of the day: Eloquent, patriotic, and 
 pathetic, [very!] with the Federal heel of hi^oric 
 truth, he has bruised the heads of our party-colorec! , 
 Democratic French serpents." 
 
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 Who can doubt that this Harrison Whig orator 
 of 1840, Ls "where he ever has been and ever 
 means to be?' 
 
 We have now discharged a great dut)'-, as we 
 view it, to ths country, and especially to her 
 youna; men Laborious as it has been to collect 
 thessfact*, truth and the time^ demand it. V/e 
 should have been reluctant to have revived these 
 recolleciionS; had not our opponents sought to 
 cheat the people, by basely attempting to change 
 the names of the. two parties. This deception 
 cannot avail in New England, for the men who 
 meanly de-ctiid to u-;c it are known; but at the 
 South and West, where all were patriots and all 
 Republic -fr: in the war, the la;;dmarks may be re- 
 moved, or at least disturbed, by these (orj^ers ci 
 false titles to the confidence of the people, if they 
 are noteirp. cj. 
 
 The fac'^ ,e have here disclosed belong to the 
 ■whole cour.lry._ Let them be used by every man 
 ■who loves thai country, to prevent the remotest 
 pojsibili'y of the Democracy of the South and 
 Westcouiirj nnder the old Hartford Convention 
 rule, in the di-puise of Whig Harri^cnism. 
 
 The Bair'soii pany is the reorganization of the 
 old Federr! party. Driven frem power by their 
 real princi: m's, the leaders are desperately strug- 
 gling one: iiere to regain their lost ascendancy, by 
 denyirg th i' o^'t; identity. This, one of their great 
 men foresaw ^bey would do, fifteen years ago. 
 I When the Di rnocratic Eustis was elected Go- 
 vernor of t j^'^^'^^.ohusetts, in 1824, and in his mes- 
 sage place.-^ li-? seal of infamy on the Hartford 
 Convention, Harrison Gray Otis, his Federal oppo- 
 nent, adi-iie: >;d to the Governor a series of letters 
 in defence cf ihat measure. 
 
 Li the tl'^'se of that defence, he threatened that if 
 the Federalists and their "familifs" continued to 
 find then:selves e:; eluded from office in the nation, 
 they would, tirst or last, from feelings of bitter 
 RESESTME.x-^, bc driven to organize themselves 
 again as a ;jdrty; and if they should not succeed, 
 the consequences were to be the old story of ruin 
 to the cour.try. 
 
 The fir: ; -redirtion of Mr. Otis is fulfilled. The 
 last, no XuZis f his will live to see. The Hartford 
 Convenli^: "ederalltts, and "thkir families," are 
 reorganiz ' iw a spirit of more "eitte.i res£nt- 
 ment" ih.'. . '^ . er before inflamed their desperate 
 ambition and greediness for power. They have 
 put forward, a ; their great expounders and re- 
 formers, Daniel Webster and his associates. 
 
 "The si^aificart banner" has been consecrated 
 by the Boston Federalists with its motto: 
 I "We are where we e7er have been and ever 
 mean to be.'' 
 
 And in the natne of the assembled Federal hosts, 
 Daniel Webster exclaims, at Alexandria: 
 
 "We have made William Henry Harrison the 
 bearer of ra^ standard, and while he holds it, it 
 ^aU not .alter, unless we fall along with it!" 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 The fo 'i)wiag disclosures, of recent da^e, throw 
 ■much lig u on the dark designs of the Hartford 
 -Convemi 1 : 
 
 LVIFRESSION THE BRITISH HAD OF THE 
 
 HARTFORD COiNVENTlON. 
 "Colonel G. C. Greene: 
 
 "Dear Sir: The following statement was handed 
 to me, in the handwriting ol Mr. Aaron Wallis, of 
 Ipswich, in June last, without my having the shghl- 
 est previous knowledge that any such facts were in 
 his possession. I have known Mr. Wallis for the 
 last eight years, particularly, and should place im- 
 plicit reliance in his stateaeuts." No man's cha- 
 racter stands fairer for upiightne.^s: he is a member I 
 of the vestry, and ticururer of the Episcopal Church ' 
 in Ipswich. Mr. Y/allts implicates no one. He 
 relates the conversation of the British officer, which 
 he has distinctly retaia'.d ever since it occurred, 
 and which made a deep impression on him. He is 
 lealy to at'est to the statement; but the laws of this 
 Commonwealih wiUnot admit of an extrajudicial 
 ©ath. ( 
 
 "My attention has been called to Ibis striking 
 disclosure of Mr. Wallis by extracts just publish- 
 ed in the Globe, from the British United Service 
 Journal of May last, and the declaration that there 
 is a correspondence in existence, which woald dis- 
 close facts that would fully warrant the statements 
 made by the British Major at. Halifax. 
 
 "Yours truly, 
 "B. F. HALLETT." 
 
 "Sir: Af er perusing Mr. Parmenter's speech, in 
 relation to the Hanford Convention, I find a very 
 important part omitttd, viz: the view the British 
 look of their asfembUng tfgefher. < 
 
 " Being at that time at Halifax, a prisoner of 
 war, at work, with John Shaiswell, of Salem, and 
 Alexander Black, of New York, in the King's Store, 
 on the north side of the Parade, at Melville Island, 
 in the winter of 1314, one Major NicUholds, or Ni- 
 chols, of the 90th t r 92d regiment, (I think tLe 92d J 
 acting, as was i-aid, as a-'sistant quartermaster ge- 
 neral of his majesty's forces at Halifax, came on 
 to the island about 2 o'clock, p. m. After transact- 
 ing some business with the royal .Trtilleryman, with 
 relation to the telegraphic flags, &c. he came into 
 t' e store, where Shatswell and myself were making 
 a chest of drawers, and Black a sleigh, all for Cap- 
 tain Cuchett, of the royal navy, the transport agent 
 for prisoners, and said, ' Well, boys, what are you 
 at?' 'At work for the agent, sir.' After inquiring 
 as to our fare, treatment, &c. he said, ' Well, boys 
 where do you belong?"' Shatswell and myself 
 hailed from Salem, and Black from New York. 
 ' How long have you been here?' We answered 
 according to time; when he immed ately said to 
 Shatswell and myself, that we should be sent home 
 in a few days, as the Nantucket men had beei. 
 We inquired the cause; and he immediately stated, 
 that ' a convention of delegates from the New Eng- 
 land States meet this day at Hartford, for the pur- 
 pose of withdrawing from the Union, and declaring 
 their neutraliiy, when all the New England men 
 will be sent home, as the Nantucket men have been, 
 immediately.' 
 
 " We made inquiry how this was to be brought 
 about, and he replied, ' The whole has been ar- 
 ranged. The fleet in Boston Bay will watch a favo- 
 rable wind, and appear oflf the light, when the troops 
 at South Boston will take up their line of march 
 ihroagh Boston for Charlestown, ostensibly for the 
 
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 protection of the navy yard, but in fact to preven* 
 Commodore Bainbridge trom shedding blood. 
 The fleet will sail up past the Castle, wiih^ut firing 
 a gun; and the troops at Charlestown will imme- 
 diately march into the navy yard ; and the 
 choice officers, already selected, will surround Com- 
 modore Bainbridge, and say to him, Sir, do your- 
 self no harm; you must not burn powder this day; 
 and no one will hurt you. The fleet will anchor off 
 Long Wharf, and rsll will be quiet infimediately, as 
 the naval commander has his orders to place Har- 
 rison Gray Otis at the head of affairs, until ihe 
 pleasure of the Prince Regent is known. All this 
 has been arranged among ihe leading men; but will 
 not be made public until the fleet anchors off Long 
 Wbarf.' 
 
 "Black inquired, 'what will you do with me?' 
 'As you belong to New York, you must ride it out; 
 we shall not go lo New York — rnly to the New 
 England States.' — 'By God,' said Black, 'you had 
 better not go there; you will find old Tompkins at 
 home !' 
 
 " So sanguine wa's Major Nickholds of the s'lc- 
 cess of the whole plot, that he de^^lared his bel-ef 
 that the five-striped flag would fly at ihe State- 
 house in less than one fortnight. He further stated 
 that we should know all about it in a few days, as 
 a gun-brig or sloop-of-war,- 1 think a gun brig,) 
 had sailed for Casiine, a week ago, to fetch down 
 the news, and would be back shortly, when we 
 should know all about it. 
 
 '■ Sir, when you were at Ipswich, last fall, 1 
 staled to you that I supposed I was in possession of 
 some facts, in relation to the Hartford Convention, 
 that I was desirous of making known, but dared 
 not, for fear of the consequences to my family. 
 The above are the facts alluded to at that time. 
 They are how at your disposal, p'ovideJ you work 
 them into the history of our country, where they 
 be lor g. 
 
 "Your obedient servant, 
 
 AARON WALLI3." 
 "To B. F. Hallbtt, esq. 
 
 "Ipswich, June 24, 1840." 
 
 The Briti.'-h United Service Journal of May, 
 1840, discloses the following facts, which tend 
 strongly to corroborate the testimony of Mr. Wal- 
 lis. It is hardly necessary to say that Mr. W. 
 never saw this work, which was published last 
 May, in Great Britain, and which holds a semi- 
 ofQcial rank as the chronicler of the military and 
 naval service. 
 
 [From the British United Service Journal.] 
 "Among the many dangers to which the Ameri- 
 can Republic must always be exposed in a war 
 with Great Britain, not the least is that of a split 
 among themselves, and consequent break up of 
 their Federal Union. The slave question is a 
 wedge strong enough to effect this at any time; but 
 we could employ another nearly as powerful." 
 
 After stating that the Western Siatfs were in 
 favor of the war, the British writer adds : 
 
 "Not so with the New Englaaiers; they, on the 
 contrary, began to cast about to see how they 
 could best extricate themselves from the strait to 
 which the mad policy of Mr. Madison and the Ge- 
 neral Government had driven them. The inhabi- 
 
 tants of the island of Nantucket made an overture 
 to our commander-in-chief to remain perfectly 
 neutral during the war, excluding the armed ves- 
 sels of both belligerents from their harbors; whilst 
 in another quailer, a far more exten: iye scheme of 
 'nullification' was seriously set on lOOt. and begat 
 to make a rapid progress amongst some of the 
 most respectable and influential inh /oi ants of New 
 England." 
 
 With these originated the Hartford Convention; 
 and Ihe object of that body, the British writer 
 say.s : 
 
 "Wa'? to separate the Northern and. Easternfroai 
 the Southern and Western States, to establi'^h a 
 limited monarchy in the first mtmed Slates, placing 
 one of our princes of the blood oa the throne, and 
 strengthening the new transatlantic kingdom by 
 an alliaoce oflTensive and defensive with England. 
 The treaty at Ghent put a stop lo the correspon- 
 dence which was in active progress on this subject; 
 but that correspondence is still in existence; and, 
 however improbable it may appear to Yankee 
 pride, were a war to break out again between us, 
 somethirg similar would occur before the 'United 
 States' were two years oldsr. The destruction of 
 the public buildings at the nominal S;-^* of the Fe- 
 deral Govern nent, it was conceived, would indi- 
 rectly, if not directly, forward the views of the 
 New England separatists." 
 
 [United Service Journal of Mag, 1840. 
 This avowal seems to explain the extraordinary 
 conduct of the British oSicers in destroying the 
 public buildings at AVashington, contrary to all 
 usages in civllizid warfare. Was it to aid the 
 Northern Federalists ia establishing a separate 
 seat of Government eisewherel Was this the rea- 
 son that Mr. John Davis exulted at the burning of 
 the CapitoH Was this the reason that Daniel Web- 
 ster and his Federal associates voted against re- 
 building ill 
 
 The preliminaries to the Hartford Convention 
 had their origin in John Henry'.; mission to New- 
 England, in 1809. The British Governor thus in- 
 structed Henry. 
 
 '■^Gevernor Craig's instructions to Henry, dated 
 doEBEC, February, 1809. 
 "I request you to proceed with the earliest con- 
 veyance to Boston— obtain accurate information. 
 The wealth of Massachusetts— the number of its 
 inhabitants— the known intelligence and ability of 
 several of its leading men, must give give it a con- 
 siderable influence over the other Eastern States, 
 and will probably lead them in the part they are 
 to tako. Your judgment and coiiLiections there 
 will guide you. 
 
 " I use general terms in describing the object 
 in view. It hxis been supposed, that if the Fede- 
 ralists of the Ea.'.tera States should be succesiful, 
 and obtain the decided influence which may 
 enable them to direct the public opinion, it is 
 not improbable that, rather than submit, they 
 will exert that influence to bring about a sepa- 
 ration from the general Union. How far, in 
 such an attempt, will they look to England for as- 
 sistance, or be disposed to enter iaio a conneetioa 
 with us! 
 
 "You are rot to appear as an avowed, agent — 
 continue to obtain an intimacy with the leaders, 
 
20 
 
 .and cautiously advise them, that if tbey wish to 
 enter into any communication wiih this Govern- 
 ment, you will transmit it to me." 
 
 Henry, in his letter to his employer, thus de- 
 !5cribed, in 1809, what acually was begun, and, 
 but for the peace, would have been consummated 
 
 ia 1815. 
 
 "BcsTON, March 6, 1809. 
 
 "I have already driven a decided opinion that a 
 declaration of war is not to be expected; but, con- 
 trary to all reasonable calculation, shoula Congress 
 possess spirit and independence enough to place 
 their popularity in jeopardy by ro strong a mea- 
 sure, THE LEGISLATURE OF MASSACHU- 
 SETTS Vv'lLL GIVE THE TONE TO TFIE 
 NEIGHBORING STATES; V^^ILL DECLARE 
 ITSELF PERMANENT UNTIL A NSW 
 ELECTION OF MEMBERS; INVITE A CON- 
 GRESS, TO BE COMPOSED OF DELEGATES 
 PROM TPli: FRDERAL STATE3, AND 
 ERECT A Sii?.^. RATE GOVERNMENT FOR 
 THEIR COMMON INTEREST. A. B." 
 
 To the Sc.me effect, in his letter from Burlington, 
 Vermont, ihe E;i;ish Spy pledged that Suite to re- 
 bellion, through the Federalists. He '.aid; 
 
 "The Fede.'al party declare that, in the event of a 
 war, |l5^tlie State c'f Vermont will treat separate- 
 ly for itself wish Great Britain; and support to the 
 utmost the stipulations into which it mny enter, 
 without any regard to the policy of the General 
 Government." 
 
 There is one man living, who ha.s in his posses- 
 sion the evidence to prove the destgn of the Fede- 
 ralists to cstabiifb a Ni>rthern ccnfi deration. He 
 declared "his in his reply to Mr. Otis and twelve 
 other kadinsr Federalists of Boston, the 26ch of De- 
 cember, 1828. That man i- J"hn Cluiacy Adams. 
 He is now with the Ftderalists, and, therefore, 
 «nless he should change Egain, will, most likely, 
 let the proof die with him. The fact that he peis- 
 sesses this evidence mny acce^unt for the e xtiaor- 
 dinary docility with which the Bostr»n Federalists 
 bave always submi'.ted to his cEstisations, and 
 always received bim into favor, let him do or say 
 "what he weuld. There is ope passage in his let- 
 ter to Messrs. Oiis, &c. of 1828, which strilnngly 
 coincides v. iih the declaratioa of Major Nichols 
 to Mr. Wallis. 
 
 Exliaclfrcm Jdr. »4f?(t/i)s's Idler. 
 
 "It was in those leiteis of 1808 and 1S09> that I 
 mentioned the deMgn of certain leaders ef the Fe- 
 deral parly, and the e,3tablishment of a Northern 
 confederacy, &c. 
 
 " This plaa was so far matured, that the pro- 
 posal had been made to an individual, at the proper 
 time, to be placc?d at the head of the military move- 
 ment which, it was foreseen, would be necessary for 
 carrying it in'o execution. 
 
 *'The interposition of a kind Providence averted 
 the most oepicralls of catastrophes, and turning 
 over to the recepta.'-le of things lost upon earth, the 
 adjourned convention from Haitford tu Boi^ton, ex- 
 tinguishei'. (by the mercy of Heaven, may it be 
 forever!; the projected New England confede- 
 racy." 
 
 REFERENCE. 
 
 The precr nng statements have been prepared at 
 the soliciial'ou of many friends of the Administra- 
 
 tion in distant States, where the Whigs are assum 
 ing to be the real Democratic party, and are 
 attempting to practise this deception upon the peo- 
 ple. The facts are derived from the public records, 
 the Federal newspapers of that period, and through 
 direct infonaation from persons ne-^r the localities 
 of the individuals named. As nothiog but the 
 names would render the facts indiputable, they 
 have been given, and for no other reason. The 
 details are bilieved to be strictly accurate in every 
 essential particular. It is probable that all the 
 survivors bave not befn ascertained. Their names, 
 however, would unquestionably increase the aggre- 
 gate resulu; as ihey now s and. 
 
 For the purpose of giving this assurance to those 
 at a distance who may copy or refer to this state- 
 ment, and to furnith a relerence, should any of the 
 facts be cahed in qnstion in other States, we attach 
 our names. CHARLES G. GREENE, 
 
 B. F. HALLETT. 
 
 Boston, August, 1840. 
 
 TO THE EDITOR OF THE GLOBE. 
 FEDERALISM AND FEDERALISTS. 
 
 My atteiition has been been arres ed by the quo- 
 talioti from t^ie London United Service Journal for 
 May, (a work condi'.cied' under high auspices and 
 patronage) that appeared in your paper ©f the 3d 
 instant, stating that a plan was formed in New 
 England duri'^g the last war for separating the 
 Northern and fisslern from the Southern and West- 
 ern Stales, a!)d e.<tabtishing a limited monarchy in 
 the former with an English prince of the blood to 
 be at its head; the quotation adding that the 
 treaty of Ghent "put a stop to the correspondence 
 which was iu Ective progress on this subject;" and 
 also afhrming that "that correspondence is still 
 
 IN EXISTENCK." 
 
 Here is important history, which I believe to be 
 entirely true, and therefore highly proper to be 
 recalkd at the present junctuie. In connection 
 with the subject, I send you an extract from a mi- 
 nute made of a conversation I had with Mr. Mon- 
 roe in 1813, then Secretary of Stale. It is as fol- 
 lows: 
 
 "October 18th, 1S13. In the course of to-day, 
 Mr. Monroe made to me the following; remarkable 
 communicHtion, viz: that a communication had 
 been msde to him within a few days that there at 
 present existed, and for some time had existed, ia 
 Mapsachusctts, what was called a royalist commit- 
 tee; that it was composed of our own ;Citizens who 
 were the most violent, and some of them the most 
 prominent, members of ihc Federal party; that its 
 object was to endeavor to bring about a disunion 
 of the State.'?, erect New England into a separate 
 Confederacy and invite the Duke of Kent (father 
 to the present dueen of England) to be at the head 
 of it. Mr. M. added that the person making 
 the communication, exhibited to him papers 
 purporting to be copies of letters from the 
 Secretary of the Duke of Gloucester, from the Se- 
 cretary of the Duke of York, and from the Secre- 
 tjry of the Prince Regent, to this royalist commit- 
 tee upon the subject of their plans, saying that the 
 originals might be produced. No names were men- 
 tioned to Mr. Monroe, but ths communication was 
 desigoed to put our Government on its guard." 
 
21 
 
 As further corroborations, let me recall, through 
 your columns, facts upon which history has put the 
 seal of truth. 
 
 1. The proceedings of the legislative bodies of 
 the New England Stafes, but especially of Massa- 
 chusetts and Conneciicut, and the official commu- 
 nications and acis of their two violent Federal Go- 
 vernors, Strong and Griswold, from time to time, 
 during the war, denouncing our own Government, 
 and upholding directly or indirectly the whole con- 
 duct and doctrines of the enemy. 
 
 2. The steady reiusal of the enemy to blockade 
 the harbors of Massachusetts during the war. 
 
 3. The memorable order in council by England, 
 In October, 1812, authorizing the importation, un- 
 der license, of provisions from the United States 
 into the British West Indies, f jllowed by a circular 
 to the colonial Governors, directing that these im- 
 portations should be from the ports of the Eastern 
 States exclusively, should sufficient supplies come 
 from them. President Madison, in communicating 
 this order in council to Congress, on the 24th of 
 February, 1813, accompanied it by a message, in 
 which he held ap to the just reprobation, of the 
 world this attempt to withdraw a portion of the 
 United States from their allegiance to their own* 
 Government — a most atrocious and demoralizing 
 weapon to be used in war. 
 
 4. The final meeting of the Hartford Convention, 
 in December, 1814, who sent on their ambassa- 
 dors, in the per'son of Mr. Harrison G. Otis and 
 others, to Washington, in February, 1815; who, 
 on their arrival there, were met by ihe double news 
 of General Jackson's rout of their British friends at 
 New Orleans and the treaty of Ghent, which not 
 only cut short their unholy embassy, but sent them 
 back to their brother Federalists in New England, 
 overwhelmed with shame, which they have ever 
 since been striving to shift from thsir shoulders. 
 
 Will not the present Democracy of New Eng- 
 land remember these things? And more: will not 
 Massachusetts especially? Will not every patriotic 
 citizen in that quarter of the Republic, desire, by 
 his vote in November, to exclude from the execu- 
 tive chair, a candidate confessedly of the Federal 
 faith; the faith of Caleb Strong, Timothy Picke- 
 ring, John Lowell, Harrison G. Otis, the Rev. Mr. 
 Parrish, and names like these fully consigned by 
 the verdict of history to public odium? Let it not 
 be doubted. Let not the contrary be supposed pos- 
 sible. That more is known in England than we 
 in this country will ever be likely to know of the 
 treasonable designs of the New England Federal- 
 ists during the war, every intelligent man who re- 
 calls facts, and knows how to reason upon them, 
 will feel sure. The United Service Journal would 
 hardly have affirmed so positively that the "corre- 
 spondence is still in existence," without good 
 grounds. What has the Federal party earned at 
 the hands of the American people, but distrust and 
 abhorrence for ages to come? For years after the 
 war, so ashamed were they of their very name that 
 they would not use it; yet at length do we find them 
 rallying under the banner of William Henry Har- 
 rison ! They count upon an oblivion in the public 
 mind of all our past history, but they count with- 
 out their host. REGULU3. 
 
 WHIGERY IS FEDERALISiM. 
 
 The Federal Whigs in some parts of the Unio« 
 are attempting to make the people believe that the 
 present Democratic party is the old Federal party, 
 and that the present Whig party is the old Jeffer- 
 son Republican party ! For this purpose, they have 
 collected some half dozen names of gentlemen who 
 once acted with the Federal party, but, having be- 
 come converts to the Democratic faith, are now 
 supporting the principles and measures of the Ad- 
 ministration. 
 
 To put down this falsehood, C. G. Greene, edi- 
 tor of the Morning Post, Boston, and B. F. Hal- 
 LETT, esq. have collected and embodied a mass of 
 information, which most effectually puts down this 
 Whig pretence, and fixes old FEDERALISM upon, 
 the FOREHEAD of Whigery, black and damnwg as the 
 mark of Cain. 
 
 Daniel Webster and John Davis, the two 
 Whig Senators from Massachusetts, are shown by 
 their sayings and doings to have been thoroughgoing 
 British Tory Federalists during the last war. 
 
 John C. Bates, who heads the Harrison elect 
 toral ticket in Massachusetts; Oliver B. Morris, 
 Mr. W. B. Calhoon's agent to bring the Aboli- 
 tionists over to Harrison; Leverett Saltonstall, 
 one of the Abolition associates of Bell, Botts, and 
 Garland on the Whig Executive Committee at 
 Washington; were violent enemies of Madison and 
 the war, and, with Benjamin Rdssell, editor of the 
 Boston Centinel, in former times opposed Jeffer- 
 son and Madison, as they have recently Jackson 
 and Van Boren; and as they were then Jor the Bri- 
 tish, are now for Harrison. 
 
 Alden Bradford who was Gov. Strons's Secre- 
 tary during the war, is now for Harrison. 
 
 Ebenezer Mattoon and Samdkl S. Wilde, the 
 only two survivors of the John Adams electoral 
 ticket of 1796, in Massachusetts, are now Harri- 
 son men. 
 
 Ebenezer Seaver, one of the committee in Con- 
 gress who reported in favor of the war of 1812, is 
 a Democrat. 
 
 William Sullivan, lately deceased, was one of 
 the ambassadors of the Hartford Convention to 
 Washington, and was a modern Whig at the time 
 of his'death. 
 
 Judge HopKiMSON, an old and leading Federalist, 
 exclaimed, in the Pennsylvania convention, in 1837: 
 "Thus, in times of difficulty, they [the Federalists] 
 triumph, and they are now again, coming into powtr. 
 I see some honest fates present who are not ashamti 
 to avov) themselves Federalists.^^ 
 
££ 
 
 Samuel Pdtnam, in June, 1812, reported, in the 
 Massachusetts Legislature, a strong memorial to 
 Congress against a declaration of war, which was 
 adopted by 406 yeas to 249 nays. Of the Federal 
 yeas, thirty-nine are now living, thirty-eight of whom 
 are now HARRISON WHIGS. 
 
 This memorial was signed also by two Federal 
 members bf Congress, both of whom are now Har- 
 rison Whigs. 
 
 When Governor Strong heard of the declara- 
 tion of war, he sent to the Legislature a strong 
 message against it, which was echoed by the report 
 of a committee. The only survivor of that commit- 
 tee is Charles Jackson, one efthe Harrison elec- 
 tors in 1832. A committee was appointed to re- 
 commend a fast on account of the wicked declara- 
 tion of war; the only survivor of whom is Edmund 
 DwiGHT, now a Harrison Whig Senator in that 
 Slate. 
 
 Governor Morton was clerk of the- Democratic 
 Senate of Massachusetts in 1813. Seth Spragce, 
 now a Democrat, voted to build a seventy-four gun 
 ship, and present it to the General Government, 
 Of the thirteen Senators who voted against it, six 
 are now living, ALL HARRISON WHIGS. 
 
 The three most prominent actors in the Faneuil 
 Hall meeting against the war, in July, 1812, are 
 now living, and ALL HARRISON WHIGS. 
 
 Of the Middlesex meeting, in July, 1812, to de- 
 nounce the war, four of the most prominent actors 
 are living, ALL HARRISON WHIGS. 
 
 Of the Worcester convention, in August, 1812, 
 which adopted a highly treasonable address in re- 
 lation to (he war, twenty members are known to 
 be living, ALL HARRISON WHIGS. 
 
 Samuel Hoar and Nathaniel M. Davis, two of 
 the delegates to the Harrisburg Convention, which 
 nominated Harrison, \f ere old Federalists, the for- 
 mer having been one of the strongest advocates of 
 the Hartford Convention, and the latter having 
 been in the Legislature and voted for it. 
 
 Leverett Saltonstall, one of the present Whig 
 committee of Congressmen, was in the Legislature, 
 and voted for all the measures preparatory to the Hart- 
 ford Convention, in the Massachusetts Legislature. 
 Of the eleven survivors of those who voted for the 
 Hartford Convention in the Senate of Massachu- 
 setts, TEN ARE HARRISON WHIGS. 
 
 Of sighty-five members of the House of Represeta- 
 tivcs recently surviving, who voted for the Hart- 
 ford Convention, EIGHTY-THREE were Har- 
 rison Whigs. 
 
 Of the TWELVE survivors of those who voted 
 against the Hartford Convention, EIGHT are now 
 
 Democrats, one unknown, and three Harrison 
 Whigs. 
 
 All the known survivors of the Hartferd Convention, 
 TWELVE in number, are HARRISON WHIGS. 
 
 Of Governor Strong's Council, who advised the 
 Hartford Convention, the only TWO survivors are 
 HARRISON WHIGS. 
 
 Of those who voted in favor of Jcsiah Q,cinct's 
 resolution, that "it is not becoming a moral and 
 religious people' lo rejoice over the victories of 
 the war, TEN survive, NINE of whom are Har- 
 rison Whigs. 
 
 In 1824, upon the motion of Seth Sprague, then 
 and now a Democrat, this resolution was expunged 
 from the Senate journal. Of those who voted 
 against expunging, TEN now survive, ALL HAR- 
 RISON WHIGS. Of those who voted for ex- 
 punging, thirteen survive, of whom NINE are 
 Democrats, and three Harrison Whigs. 
 
 Of the fourteen candidates for Harrison elec- 
 tors, now in nomination, TWELVE are old Fe- 
 deralists and TWO apostate Democrats. Every 
 one of them is now a Whig office holder! 
 
 Of the Federal electors who voted for Rdfus 
 King, in opposition to James Monroe, in 1816, 
 SEVEN are now living, ALL HARRISON 
 WHIGS. 
 
 Of the ELEVEN Harrison Whig members of the 
 present Congress from Ma^-sachusetts, EIGHT are 
 old Federalists, two apostate Democrats, and 
 one too young to have had any character at the 
 time of the war; Vvhile Mr. Parmenter, one of the 
 Democratic members, is an old school Republican. 
 
 Nine of the old Federal members of Congress, 
 during the war, still survive, EIGHT of whom are 
 now Harrison Whigs. 
 
 Every old Federal NEWfPAPER in Massachu- 
 .SETTS, which opposed the war, now supports Gen. 
 Harrison for Pre.sident. 
 
 Having thus identified old Federalism and Har 
 RisoN Whigery in Massachusetts, the exposition 
 gives a few items from other Slates. 
 
 In Richmond, Virginia, thirty-three Federalists 
 who voted for old John Adams, still survive, THIR- 
 TY-TWO of whom are Harrison Whigs. Of 
 those who voted for Mr. Jefferson, six now survive 
 five of whom are still Democrats. 
 
 It might he added, that B. W. Leigh, who heads 
 the Harrison electoral ticket, became a Federalist 
 in the days of Jbpferson, and begged forgiveness of 
 his God for ever having been a Democrat! 
 
 In Connecticut, the two surviving members and 
 the secretary of the Hartford Convention, are 
 Harrison Whigs, 
 
23 
 
 la the Vermcnt Legislature of 1813, a resolution 
 was proposed fixing on a day of thanksgiving to 
 AlmightjGod for Harrison's victory on the.Tharacs, 
 which was voted down by the Federai majority. 
 Of that majoriiy, stventy-Jive are now living, 
 SEVENTY-FOUR of whom are Harrison Whigs. 
 
 The exposition contains the NAMES of the per- 
 soHs referred to in raosl ca?es,with many other items 
 of information not alluded to in this summary. 
 
 READ IT, Democrats, Whigs, honest men of 
 all parties; and if yon are not convinced thai 
 ANCIENT FEDERALISM and MODERN 
 WHIGERY are the SAME THING under dif- 
 ferent names, "iieither vAll you be convinced though 
 cne rose from Ike dtad.'^ 
 
 The appendix to the exposition affords further 
 evidence, in addition to other recent developments) 
 that the object of the leading Federalist; in Mas-a- 
 chusetts, during the war, was to ESTABLISH A 
 MONARCHY, with one of the royal family of 
 England at its head. Mr. Wallis says, the Brit- 
 ish Colonel NiCHOLs told him, the "Naval Com- 
 mander had his orders to place Harrison Gray 
 Otis [now a leading Harrison Whig] at the head 
 
 OP affairs, until the PLEAStIRE OF THE PRiNCE Re 
 GENT WAS KNOWN." 
 
 What that "pleasure" was to be, appears to 
 •have been already an anged. The British United 
 Service Journal of May, 1840, says, the object was 
 
 "to separate THE NORTHERN AXD EaSTERN FROM 
 
 THE Southern and Western States, to ESTAB- 
 LISH A LliVllTED MONARCHY IN THE 
 FIRST NAMED STATES, PLACING ONE OF 
 OUR PRINCES OF THE BLOOD ON THE 
 THRONE," &c. 
 
 From a communication lately made to us, and 
 published in the Globe, it appears that our Govern- 
 ment was not ignoran*: of this treasonable conspi- 
 racy. In October, 1813, Mr. Monroe, then Secre- 
 tary of State, told our correspondent "that a com- 
 munication had b°2n made to hiaa, within a few 
 
 days, THAT THERE AT PRESENT EXISTED, IN MaJSA" 
 CHOSETTS, WHAT WAS CALLED A ROYALIST COM- 
 MITTEE; that tt was composed of our own citi- 
 zens, who were the most violent, and some op 
 
 THEM THE MOST PROMINENT, MEMBERS OF THE FE- 
 DERAL party; that its object was to endeavor to 
 bring about a disunion op the states, erect 
 New England into a separate confederacy, and 
 INVITE THE DUKE OF KENT [ralhr to the 
 present Q.ueen of England] TO BE AT THE 
 HEAD OF IT," &c. 
 
 It appears from these evidences, that Sarrison 
 Gray Otis was only to be Regent until a syrig of 
 roya'ty could be got from Europe, to mount the 
 Yankee Throne, and be proclaimed KING OF 
 NEW ENGLAND ! 
 
 Do any of our readerj suppose that the old Fe- 
 deralists who support Harrison now are any 
 more patriotic or honest than they were when they 
 opposed our Government and the war in 1813? Is 
 it believed that they are LESS MONARCHISTS 
 now than Mr. Jefferson savs they were 
 prior to 1798, or than it now appears they were in 
 1813? It may be that they HAVE ceased to look 
 abroad for a King, and contemplate an empire 
 somewhat larger THAN New Ekgland: bu^t to 
 suppose that their principles are changed, is to be- 
 lieve that the "Ethiopian CAN change his skin and 
 
 THE leopard his SPOTS." 
 
 Democrats, if any of yeu have been deluded 
 into the LOG cabin of Harrison Federalism, escape 
 from it with all expedition ! It is but the turkey 
 trap of the cunning hunter; and if a majority of 
 our people venture into it, they must expect to have 
 heir feathers plucked off and their necks wrun^, to 
 611 the beds and furnish the tables of a ROYAL 
 MASTER, surrounded by his PRIVILEGED OR- 
 DERS! Startle not! The Royalssm of New 
 England Federalism i? a matter of history; the 
 Ritner conspiracy against the people of Pennsyl- 
 vania, supported by arms, is fresh in your recollec- 
 tion; and BEHOLD, your bank presidents, pen- 
 sioners OF the treasury, and aspiring lawyers, 
 NOW roaming the country and threatening to 
 govern the people by force, ifthey cannot 
 
 GOVERN THROUGH THE BALLOT BOX ! What is thlS 
 
 but MONARCHISM AVOWED?! Will you 
 EMBRACE it, Republicans of America? Then vote 
 FOR Harrison, and PLACE IN POWER THE 
 MONARCHISTS WHO SUPPORT HIM. 
 
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