UNITED STATES MAGAZINE, AND DEMOCRATIC REVIEW. TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS. In a crisis like the present, minor considerations must give way. It is our chief object to put this No. of the Review in the hands of our readers at the earliest possible moment, in the hope that it may, perchance, contain words that will stimulate them to make one final and strenuous effort to secure the ascendancy of democratic principles in the election now so close upon us. That the Review may reach our distant southern and western subscribers in time, we have determined to issue it some days before its regular period; and as our engravers, from previous engagements, could not keep pace with us, we have had to postpone to the next number the plate intended for this. We have, also, reserved for conclusion in our next, the popular article of MR. H. WIKOFF, relating to his visit to Prince Louis Napoleon at Ham. [EDITOR OF D. R. vemocratic Party, under the lead or Andrew Jackson, destroyed the dangerous progeny of federal corruption, and established the great principles for which they had so long and so arduously toiled. A combination of circumstances, aided by the unsoundness of Van Buren's principles, his evident corruption and truckling to England at the expense of the northern patriots, conspired to throw the election of 1840 into the hands of federalism, and an "availability" candidate succeeded in undoing, in a year, all that the democracy had so long striven to perfect. The tariff was raised, the nucleus of a national debt created, the land revenues distributed among the states, internal improvements projected. a fraudulent bankrupt law passed, the independent treasury abolished, the pet bank system restored, and a summer spent in endeavoring to re-charter a national bank; all this was the work into the German, Swedish, and French languages, and that the most respectable periodi cals abroad are not backward in bestowing upon it the meed of applause. The present edition is dedicated, by permission, to Mrs. General Gaines. ESSAYS ON THE PROGRESS OF NATIONS, in Productive Industry, Civilization, Population and Wealth. Illustrated by various statistics. By Ezra C. Seaman. Baker & Scribner, 145 Nassau-street. This is a very elaborate work, comprised in a handsome octavo volume, embracing a great variety of statistical matter of considerable interest and use to most people. They are, however, for the most part used by the author as illustrating the protective system, of which he is an advocate. As that system is now so utterly exploded throughout the commercial world, and its monopoly and deleterious influence upon general industry so universally acknowledged, the arguments advanced in the work fall to the ground, and leave with the reader regrets that so much skill and industry should not have had a more stable foundation. We intend hereafter to recur to the work. COTTAGES AND COTTAGE LIFE; containing places for country-houses, adapted to the means and wants of the people of the United States; with directions for building and improv ing; for the laying out and embellishing of grounds; with some sketches of life in this country. By C. W. Elliott. H. W. Derby & Co., Cincinnati; A. S. Barnes & Co., New-York. The judicious expenditure of money in the construction of cheap country-houses is a great object with a large class of persons in this country. Much money and vexation may always be avoided by commencing understandingly in the first instance. To do so, the pursuit of the information afforded in the work before us is indispensable, and it will doubtless be appreciated, not only by those who build, but by those who buy, live and dwell in the many beautiful cottages with which the face of our country is annually becoming more thickly dotted. MAN AND HIS MOTIVES. By George Moore, M.D., Member of the Royal College of Physicians, &c. Harper Brothers. This work, forming No. 26 of Harper's New Miscellany, is recommended to favorable notice by the former publication of the same author. It is of a religious tendency, being lessons drawn by the writer from the phases of the mind as developed on the sick bed, which he rightly asserts tells the man almost as much as the martyr's pire. HOME INFLUENCE: A Tale for Mothers and Daughters. By Grace Aguilar. Harper Brothers. This is of the class of religious novels, and possesses much general interest. The scere is laid in Wales, and the plot is well developed and carefully sustained. THANKFULNESS: A Narrative comprising passages from the Diary of the Rev. Allan Temple, author of "Records of a Good Man's Life." Harper Brothers. A very clever and interesting work. UNITED STATES MAGAZINE, AND DEMOCRATIC REVIEW. TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS. In a crisis like the present, minor considerations must give way. It is our chief object to put this No. of the Review in the hands of our readers at the earliest possible moment, in the hope that it may, perchance, contain words that will stimulate them to make one final and strenuous effort to secure the ascendancy of democratic principles in the election now so close upon us. That the Review may reach our distant southern and western subscribers in time, we have determined to issue it some days before its regular period; and as our engravers, from previous engagements, could not keep pace with us, we have had to postpone to the next number the plate intended for this. We have, also, reserved for conclusion in our next, the popular article of MR. H. WIKOFF, relating to his visit to Prince Louis Napoleon at Ham. [EDITOR OF D. R. democratic Party, under the lead or Andrew Jackson, destroyed the dangerous progeny of federal corruption, and established the great principles for which they had so long and so arduously toiled. A combination of circumstances, aided by the unsoundness of Van Buren's principles, his evident corruption and truckling to England at the expense of the northern patriots, conspired to throw the election of 1840 into the hands of federalism, and an "availability" candidate succeeded in undoing, in a year, all that the democracy had so long striven to perfect. The tariff was raised, the nucleus of a national debt created, the land revenues distributed among the states, internal improvements projected. a fraudulent bankrupt law passed, the independent treasury abolished, the pet bank system restored, and a summer spent in endeavoring to re-charter a national bank; all this was the work VOL. XXIII.-NO. CXXV. 1 into the German, Swedish, and French languages, and that the most respectable periodi cals abroad are not backward in bestowing upon it the meed of applause. The present edition is dedicated, by permission, to Mrs. General Gaines. ESSAYS ON THE PROGRESS OF NATIONS, in Productive Industry, Civilization, Population and Wealth. Illustrated by various statistics. By Ezra C. Seaman. Baker & Scribner, 145 Nassau-street. This is a very elaborate work, comprised in a handsome octavo volume, embracing a great variety of statistical matter of considerable interest and use to most people. They are, however, for the most part used by the author as illustrating the protective system, of which he is an advocate. As that system is now so utterly exploded through. THERE never was an election for a chief magistrate of the United States of greater importance to the interests of the whole country, the integrity of the Union, and the welfare of the democracy, than that which is now pending, and apparently there is less general anxiety as to the result. This should not be; each and every democrat should reflect, that on the event depends all for which the party has striven for fifty years. It was not until the triumph of 1844, and the installation of the present administration, that the country became disenthralled from the old federal heresies that an occasional and transient grasp of power had enabled the enemies of democracy to fasten upon our institutions. More than half a century was required to root out the tares sown by the National Bank and establish the Constitutional Treasury in 1844. In a similar period, the aristocratic protective system, legislating fortunes to the few at the expense of the many, grew up, exposed its deformity, and perished before the free-trade principle, which triumphed in the election of Mr. Polk. The corrupt system of internal improvements, under the patronage of the federal executive, which was shattered by the blows of the vigilant Jackson, is again being re-constructed under federal supervision, and a huge national debt is already regarded as necessary to its development and favorable to the re-organization of a treasury bank." These matters are all again at issue, and require the united, decided, and unmistakable voice of the democracy at the coming election, to declare their permanency. 66 After twelve years' struggle, the people of the Union, acting through the democratic party, under the lead of Andrew Jackson, destroyed the dangerous progeny of federal corruption, and established the great principles for which they had so long and so arduously toiled. A combination of circumstances, aided by the unsoundness of Van Buren's principles, his evident corruption and truckling to England at the expense of the northern patriots, conspired to throw the election of 1840 into the hands of federalism, and an "availability" candidate succeeded in undoing, in a year, all that the democracy had so long striven to perfect. The tariff was raised, the nucleus of a national debt created, the land revenues distributed among the states, internal improvements projected, a fraudulent bankrupt law passed, the independent treasury abolished, the pet bank system restored, and a summer spent in endeavoring to re-charter a national bank; all this was the work |