Niles' Weekly Register. (Baltimore, Md.), Vol. 14, No. 23, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 6, 1836 Page: 14 of 16
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390 NILES® REGISTER—AUG. 6, 1S36- POLITICS OF THE DAY.
judge or justice of a court of record of the county in which the
applicant resides, and the judge or justice will certify that the
applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the court.
10. Whenever any official act is required to be done by a
judge or justice of a court of record, or by a justice of the
peace, the certificate of secretary of the state or of the ter-
ritory, or of the proper clerk of the court or county, under his
seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such a person is a
judge or justice of a court of record, or a justice of the peace,
and that tite signature annexed is iris genuine signature.
11. Tire widows of those who served in the navy, or as In-
dian spies, will produce proof, as nearly as may be, conform-
ably to the preceding regulations, and authenticated in a simi-
lar manner, with such variations as the different nature of the
service may require.
12. The form prescribed for claimants under the 3d section
of the act will be observed by every other description of claim-
ants, so far as the same may be applicable to their cases. The
judge or justice who may administer an oath, must in every in-
stance certify to the credibility of the affiant.
13. In every ease in which the deceased officer or soldier
was a pensioner, the fact should be so stated, and the deceased
pensioner so described as to enable the department to refer im-
mediately to the evidence upon which he was pensioned, and
thus facilitate the investigation of the claim of his widow or
children. JAMES L. EDWARDS,
commissioner oj pensions.
DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the third section of the act of
congress of the 4th July, 1836.
State, territory, or district )
of--583.
On this' day of , personally appeared before the
, of the , A. B. a resident of in
the county of and state, territory, or district of ,
aged years, who, being first duly sworn according to
law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in or-
der tn obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of
congress, passed July 4, 1836. That she is the widow of ,
who was a [here insert the rank the husband held in the army,
navy, or militia, as the case may be, and specify the service
performed, as directed in paragraph No of these regula-
tions.]
She further declares that she was married to the said ,
on the day of , in the year seventeen hundred
; that her husband, the aforesaid , died
on the day of ; and that she has remained a
widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by re-
ference to the proof hereto annexed.
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written,
before —.
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POLITICS OF THE DAY.
Mr. Jarvis, one of the representatives in congress from the
state of Maine, has in the following letter, declined being a can-
didate for re-election.
Washington, June 25, 1836.
To the electors of Hancock and Washington district:
Fellow citizens: When elected a representative in the first
congress which assembled after the election of our present
chief magistrate, I determined, if I retained your favor, that I
would continue to serve you in that capacity during the time
Andrew Jackson would be president. The period 1 assigned
to myself is verging to its close, and as you will in less than
three months be required to elect a representative of the 25th
congress, I beg leave to decline the honor of being again a can-
didate for your suffrages. During the time I have been your
representative, I have steadfastly supported the administration,
and, in so doing, have acted not only in accordance with my
own feelings, but with the views and intentions of a majority
of my constituents. Permit me to indulge the hope that who-
soever you may elect for my successor may serve you with
equal zeal and greater ability; my heart assures me that he
cannot serve you with more disinterestedness, devotion and
fidelity. LEONARD JARVIS.
Hon. Bellamy Storer, of Cincinnati, member of congress, is
now on a visit to Portland, his native city. A number of the
most respectable gentlemen of that city invited him to a public
dinner, a few days since, but he declined the honor in the fol-
lowing letter:
Portland, July 18, 1836.
Gentlemen: On my return to the place of my birth, after so
long an absence, it affords me unmingled satisfaction to meet
once more my early friends. This pleasure,let me assure yon,
is rendered still greater, when the citizens of my native town,
as well my seniors as my former companions, have united to
express their approbation of my public conduct and private cha-
racter. Such kind, such generous feeling, while it meets the
gratitude of an overflowing heart, will furnish, in all after-time,
a new incentive to duty.
You have referred to the distinguished man who is now the
candidate of a numerous and proud-spirited portion of the Ame-
rican people for the presidential chair, in a manner which indi-
cates your patriotic sacrifice of till personal preferences to sus-
tain the principles of constitutional liberty. Your resolution,
thus taken, is a proud tribute to the favorite sun of the west,
and will add new zeal to the already enthusiastic efforts of his
friends.
The vindication of gen. Harrison to which you allude is be-
fore the word; ifit shall tend to refute the ungenerous, the un-
manly attacks which party spirit has made upon his well-earn-
ed fame; ifit shall assist to inform the young, that the reputa-
tion ofa gallant soldier has been vilely traduced, or to revive
in the bosom of the aged the recollection of his services at a
time when the whole union did him honor—I should feel that I
had done some service to our common country. I leave the
issue with the enlightened, the patriotic American people.
While I must be permitted to decline the honor of a public
dinner, so feelingly tendered by my friends and fellow citizens,
1 cannot part with them without indulging the ardent hope, that
no son of Portland, wherever his destiny may be cast, will ever
forget his birth-place. The living and the dead are alike to be
honored and venerated.
With the most sincere regard, permit me to subscribe myself
your friend and servant, B. STORER.
Messrs. Levi Cutter, Isaac Ilsley, Luther Jewett,
John D. Kinsman and S. R. Lyman, esqrs.
From the Lexington, Kentucky, Reporter.
It will be seen by the following correspondence, that Mr. Clay
has accepted the invitation to a public dinner, to be given by
the citizens of Woodford county to Messrs. Clay, Crittenden,
Morehead and Allan, on the 26th inst. near Versailles. We un-
derstand that Mr. Crittenden and governor Morehead have ac-
cepted the invitation, and we doubt not captain Allan will also
accept the invitation.
Versailles, July 13, 1836.
Hon. II. CLAY: Dear SIR: At a public meeting held in Ver-
sailles by the citizens of Woodford county, the undersigned
were appointed a committee to invite you to partake ofa pub-
lic dinner near Versailles, on Tuesday the 16th instant, or any
other day which may better suit your convenience.
Your fellow citizens of Woodford desire an opportunity of
meeting you personally, and of expressing their entire approba-
tion Of your private and public character, and their unfeigned
gratitude for the very able, eloquent and fearless manner in
which you and your worthy colleague have discharged the du-
ties of your station, as senators of the United States. ,
With sentiments of the highest personal regard, we remain
yours. SAMUEL M. WALLACE,
ALEX. DUNLAP,
CHARLES RAILEY,
DANIEL DIVINE,
HUMPHREY JONES, jr.
JOHN STEELE,
BEN. P. GRAY,
WM. B. BLCKBURN, JR.
WM. B. KINKAID, &c.
Ashland, July 15, 1836.
Gentlemen: Your letter, inviting me to a public dinner, near
Versailles, on the 26th inst. in pursuance ofa resolution adopt-
ed at a public meeting held in that town, has been duly receiv-
ed; and 1 am highly sensible of the honor then done me, and of
the great value of the testimony winch it renders to the fidelity
of my services in the senate of the United States; and I request
you to make known to my fellow citizens of Woodford county,
whom you represent, the grateful obligations under which they
have placed me.
I had wished on my arrival at Ashland to have remained in
perfect quiet, but considering the shortness of the distance to
Versailles; that I shall there meet with relations whom 1 have
not seen for a long time, as well as friends and fellow citizens;
and anticipating much satisfaction from sharing with those
whom you have also invited, an entertainment tendered by
some of my earliest and steadiest friends, I have the honor to
accept the invitation and will attend, unless prevented by some
unexpected occurrence.
I am, gentlemen, with great respect, your friend and obedient
servant, H. CLAY.
Samuel M. Wallace, and others, committee.
The 4th of July was celebrated by the democratic party in
Philadelphia, by a public dinner, &c. In reply to an invitation
to join in the celebration there, the president of the United
States sent the following sentiment:
“The constitution of the United States—What it does not
authorise is forbidden to those who act under it. A constitu-
tional right to apply , and a necessity for such application, are
the true sources and limits of the power to tax. When the
taxes produce more money than can be rightfully applied, the
appropriate remedy is reduction or repeal. To continue a tax
without necessity, and for the sake of distribution, is to sub-
vert the principles of the constitution, and must end in dis-
troying the liberties of the people.
Mr. Woodbury sent the following, in reply to a similar invi
tation.
The cause of democracy—The greatest good to the greatest
number.
The following was also received from Mr. Kendall, post-
master general.
The new bank of the United States—The monstrous off-spring
of an unnatural connection, it walks abroad with a lie on its
forehead. If palpable wrongs can be made vested rights by
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