The failure of the United States' Bank, the repudiation of debts by several of our States, the foolish opposition we made to the suppression of the slave-trade, and above all, the bad faith in the business of the boundary question has lowered us down, down, e'en a'most to the bottom of the shaft.' "'Abednego,' sais I, 'we want somethin' besides boastin' and talkin' big; we want a dash--a great stroke of policy.

Washington hanging Andre that time, gained more than a battle.

Jackson by hanging Arbuthnot and Anbristher, gained his election.

M'Kennie for havin' hanged them three citizens will be made an admiral of yet, see if he don't.

Now if Captain Tyler had said, in his message to Congress, 'Any State that repudiates its foreign debts, we will first fine it in the whole amount, and then cut it off from our great, free, enlightened, moral and intellectual republic, he would have gained by the dash his next election, and run up our flag to the mast-head in Europe.