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an apology for my vote for Mr. Winthrop-I can not apologize for doing what is right—but to expose the hypocrisy and misrepresentations of Southern Democratic editors, who are either willfully or ignorantly misleading the honest people of the South. "Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

"E. C. CABELL."

BOWLIN, JAMES BUTLER.

THIS gentleman was born in the county of Spottsylvania, Virginia, in the year 1804. His parents, who were poor, but respectable, removed with him to the Valley of Virginia, and settled in Harrisonburg, Rockingham county, where he was brought up and educated. He was reared a mechanic, but, having obtained a common school education, ordinarily good, he early abandoned his trade, and for some years alternately taught and went to school, with the design of preparing himself for the bar. In the latter part of 1825 he removed to Greenbrier county, Virginia. He commenced the study of the law in the following year, and was admitted to the bar in the spring of 1827. For six years he practiced in the courts of Western Virginia with a reasonable share of success; but, finding the profession too crowded, and the theater of action too small for a full development of his energy of character, he resolved upon emigration to the West. In September, 1833, he left Virginia, and on the 19th of October landed at St. Louis, where he has since resided. We have heard him speak in terms of grateful acknowledgment of the encouragement and kindness which he received at this period of his life from the late Senator Linn. He says: "A stranger in a strange land, he extended to me the hand of fellowship and welcome, encourag ed me by his counsels, and animated me by the buoyancy of his own generous heart."

On his arrival at St. Louis, the great political struggle between the United States Bank and the general government was at its height. He found there two Whig papers supporting the bank, and no Democratic paper to sustain the administration in the contest. Unwilling to be idle, and dreading the usual ordeal through which young attorneys have to pass in a strange place, he determined upon starting a paper, and employing his leisure time in sustaining the principles upon which the gov ernment was then administered. He accordingly purchased

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