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' V . Nr A Weekly Tamily Newspaper, derotcd to Tteligion, Morality, Politics, Science, Agriraltnre and General htelligi cnce. VOL. III......NUMBE ASIIEVILLE, N. C., MARCH 24, 1843. WIIOIE NUMBER 139. R 35. 4Ui ' ! I II .... - . Pnblfshcd Weekly, BY J. II. 'CHRIST V Ac CO. Tbif paper it published at Twa Dollars a year, ' in advance 1 wo yojiers an? r my vcnis in six moHths oft Tlirce pollen at fbe end of the year. propeciu,, Acvertisements inserted at One DoHnr per xjimro .for the first, and tl'wenty-Ffve Centa for each continuance. Court Orders will be charged twcnty-$re per cent, extra. HIGHLAND MESSENGER. Friday. March 91, I83. CotTecttonj. tooino two or threo typo graphical errors in last week'i ppor unfor tunately escaped tlio notice of tho pfiof. reader. In the list of United States Sena tors, J. J. Crittekpen, of Ky., should have marked ns a Whig, and the whole numbeXpf Democrats set down at 23 in stead of 33 gainst thoxwall where his own gun was lying on a rack- seized it and fired upon ISewman, and llier both fell dead In fe seconds. TUB BBML'PT LAW. The course pursueU-hv our National Legislature for the last eigbior ten years has been such as unquestionablylitnds ma terially to injure tho permanency ofVany system calculated to facilitate our prosper rity. Tho constant practice of doing and undoing, enacting and repealing, resolving sod rescinding, is ever calculated totinset tlo the whole political and commercial ope rations of tho country. We noticed but hc other day that less revenue bad been re. "-celfcd 'from thc-iatofrfrlrousea-ameo the passage of tho Turin than what was-Usu. filially received in the same time previously -a fact which- is no doubt owing to tho threats of the Democrats to have tho law repoalcd thus preventing capitalists from resting their funds in trade as every one would prefer "his. money to Jio idle rather than to purchase largely, and import goods under the provisions of a Tariff, have that: lariff repealed and tho goods still on hand to bo sold at n ruinous sacrifice. The Dunk nipt law has been repealed, just whon its -objectionable features were ceasing to ope. rate, whon its retrospective influences were wiHl nigh spent, and just when, if suffered Jo remajnTTTmigTii have began totenefit the" JilioJcjKimmuxjUyWewere-BevoF-pirtwl to it as it first passed Congress, but always RELATION WlTflYmiSD. From the message of the President of the United wales to both Houses of Congress which wes sent in some days before the ad journment of that body, and which we might t I. f' I. .1 . V iiuvo piioiisneo sooner out tor tne crowded state of our columns, it will be seen that our difficulties with England are not yet, a was happily supposed at on end. There seems to be a quite different view taken by the two Governments as to the 8ih article of the Into treaty. It was and still seems to be distinctly understood by the Americas Government and the American people that England had unreserve Jly given up her claim to a right to search A,merican ves sels which she might suspect to be engaged in the slave trade while Sir Robert Peel, thej'rimo Minister of England, declared that no concessions whatever had been mndu on that subject in addition to this, tho questions aa to the right and settlement of the Oregon Ter. ritory are about to diff-r the two Govern. merits. Webster, il is said, will be sent as Minister to Enuland, and we are satisfied "X. w - that a more-competent man, in view of com- ioc diircu!ties?Vpuld he hard to find. President's!! eftsmge. The Speaker, on the27ih. laid before riTie riomrr tne following message irom tne President ef tho United States, hvnpswer to a resolution ef this House, en the sublet of the construction of lhaL portion of 'th renty of Washington which relates to the right of visitation ; . , ; Washington, Feb. 27, 1843. To tlie House of Representatives ; In compliance with the resolution of the iJousc of Representatives ot theZZdtnst, requeuing me to communicate to the House " wbatv:'r correspondence w comrounica tiou may h ivo been received from the Iij. tish GoveriiQicni respecting the President's construciion of the lute' British treaty con eluded at Washington, as H oncerasn alleged right to visit Americai: vessels," I herewith transmit a report made V the Secretarv of btate. mo by believed that it might have been so amend ed as to have been of great benefittdthe whole country, and this" is what should have beeaJono. Tho consequences of the re peal will bo a return to the. insolvent laws of the different States, which have always proved so inefficient in -their operations The door will again be thrown open to fraud. -ukmt--asigtwm-nts-f propcrtyfr-.iBsrgn: wants for the benefit of some creditors to tho exclusion of' others. ' This state of public aflliirs, we fear, will not ba.remedie.d.4mjil public, attention. I called to the subject, and tho public mind enlightened so far that talent and iroral worth will havo precedenco of tact and de. magoguism. The low buffoonery and per- sonnl vitunaratioa.now-common in dec.? tio&ccrinz canvasses are such ns to drive buudredof high-minded, honorable men from the fiehl-mcri who would render the Country efficient -, service, refuse to place their feelings and character at the mercy of .L . . . . 1 I ' I ne populace, where cacti arunKen juckoii pe fuels at liberty to kick either to and fro like a foot-ball honce in our State and Na tional' Legislatures we loo often fiudjnen devoid alike of talent and character. If a man lauirh loud talk at rand6m- tell a smutty anecdote abuse every body who may happen to have more decency and character than himself and especially if some pefsou tolls of .his meanness, o that can raise theory of persecution, he lands a pretty fuir chance. for succeBs. On the other hand, if he be honorable and high-minded if he scorn to act tho dema gogue and play the buffoon if he pursue a trnightforward, independent, manly course and particularly if he (iossess tulent and character, he may as well slay at home. These remnrks, of course, not apply to kyLtherajtfe many.loluji4ley-Ja aPP'yTid for such they are intended. - rubier Two men in Mississippi nam d Newman and Sanford, had some difB eohy for sometime, when latdv Newman 8a"l to effect a reconciliation. After con versing awhile, the? parlies ahook hands, and s S;inford supposed, their difficulties Were amicably adjusted : but as hia side' was 'urned townrds. Newmonl the latter fired L1 "Ul a double barrel gun, .charged with buckshot, and lodged the whole load lo San, 'ord's abdomen. Sanford daggered back cnte copies of Lord Aberdeen s letter ol ihe39Th December,, 19 ltvo M r,-Eveeett Mr. Everett's letter of the 2pd Dcdember, ill reply thereto, and extracts from several LcdJers of Mr. Everett to the Secretary of State. I cannot forego the expression ef my regret at tho apparent purport of a part of Lord Aberdeen's despatch lo Mr. Fox, I had cherished the hopo that all possibility of misunderstanding as to the true construe lion of tho 8th article of the treaty lately .CftBcJidcjrnuQjE Pritaiajnd tje Unitcd States, was precluded by tho plain and well weighed language in which it i expressed. 'Ihe uesiro of botU uovern inents is to put en end as speedily as possi ble to rha slave trade, and tkat doaire, I need scarcely oddis as strongly and as sincerely folt by the Lioitcd btatea as it can be by Great Britain. Yet it most not be forgotten that tho trade, though now uoi. versally reprobated, was up to a late period prosecuted bnll who chose to engage in if, aild there were inf w luoateJy but very few Christian Powers whose subjects were not permitifcd and even encouraged to share in tho profits of what was regarded as a perfectly legitimate commerce. It origi nated at a period .long" before the United States had become independent, and was carried on within our borders in opposition to the most , en rncst,rcmonst ranees and ex postulations in some of the colonies in which , it was most actively prosecuted. Those encaged in it wore ns little liable to inquiry or interruntion as nnv others. Its charac ihna fivpd hv common consent and general practice, could only be changed by the positive assent of each ana eve.ry noiion, expressed cither in the form of mjnicipal law or. conventional arrangement. . me United States led the way in efforts to sup press it. 1 hey claimed no ngnt to oicinie to others, but they resolved, without waiting for the covoperotion of other rowers, lo prohibit it to their own citizens, and to visit its perpetration by them with condign pun ishment. I may snfefy affirm that it never occurred to this Government that any now maritime right accrued to.it from the posi tion it had thus assumed in regard to the sfervedly bo exposed to universal condeinna. lion, since it would bo an establuhed rule of maritime law, incorporated as a princi- pie into me international codo t-y the con. sent of all nations, into a rule and principle adopted by a single nation, and enforced !y by jts assumed, authority,' To seize and detain a ship upon suspicion of piracy, wna prooouie cuuse- and in good faith, of. fords no just ground either for comolainl on the part of the nation whose flair alio bears or claim of indemnity on the part of K. mi . . . " ruio owner, ino universa law sancuoua. and tho common cood reauircs. tho exist- encef such a rule. The right. UBder such lances, not only lo visit and detain. but to seareb a ship, is a perfect rieht. and involve neither responsibility nor indem nity. But witkthis single exception, no nation has, in time of peace, any authority lo detain the ships ofNuiuthcr upon the high seas on any pretext whatever beyond the limns ot mo territorial jurisdiction. And such I am happy to find, is substantially the doctrine of Great Britain heraclf, in her :. . 'i i i . most recent ouucmi oeciurauona, ana even in those now communicated to the House. mi i .... x incae aectarations may we 1 lead us to doubt whether the apparent difference be-1 i ween tne two uovernmcnts is not raineriy one of defiaaiion than of principle- . Not I only is the right of search, properly so called, disclaimed by Great Britain, but even that of. mere visit and inquiry ia as. serled with qualifications inconsistent with the idea of a perfect right. In the despatch of Lord Aberdeen to Mr. Everett of tho 20th December, 1841, as Iso that just received by the British Minis ter in this country, made to Mr. Fox, his lordship declares that if, in spite of all the precaution which shall be used to prevent such occurrences, an American snip, by reason oj any visit or detention by a tin tish cruiser, ""altould suBer loss aiiJiiijury, it would be followed by prompt and ample remuneration ;" and iu order to make more W-hr- B4onionsTinr -ts respect, rdeen, in tne despatch uf the 20tb of Deceaober, makes known to Mr., Ever ett the nafhre ol the instructions eivcn to the British crufears. These are such as, if faithfully observed-, would enable the British Government to approximate the standard of fan- ndVxnnny, ., , I IvaV Gi(arnmcBt has several- cases fulfilled hero mises in this particular by makjug adequatoYspera. tion fur jdumngea done to our comnie It seem obvious to remark, that a right hiofe is only to be exercised under such rcatrictiens and precautions, and risk, a Case of a By assignable damage, to be fol lowed by the consequences of a trespass, Hlf hljr siccsitrat4 BY OLD UCNOBED. My deardandias and belles, fops and flirts ana other stragglers down tho lull of life, my text to day rs that much used and abus ed saying, "Does your Holher know you are out? Poor silly inflated ikub-worms, I would say from your shines sikI. capers that she don't know you're out. You vounv lady. with a parasol like a wet .cabbage leaf on a ram-rod. ami. chains of Mt.3kwn.cach cheek, like a botilc-tailed spider dipped in Drackinjr, had been makms bis everlastine elopement, over your rougc-cbvercd face, TTeSvlng"iibroad trace behind him, and c-Xj 1 .havo also xtmiihVlfSiamxSa scarclyTie ccmsfdered anTIhTng more cruisers, this ireeoom was hw, m ur ion, in Jhe least abridge4 by oar municipal legislation. . . ... Any other doctrine, it is plaio, would" subject to an arbitrary and ever varying system f-maritime- policeadopted-Bt will by the great navnl f ower lor tne ume ucmjui the trado of the world in any places or in any arlicjes which such Power might see fit to prohibit to its own subjects or cmzens. A principle of this kind could scarcely be acknowledged without subjecting commerce la the risk of constant barrassing vexation. - The attempt to justify auch a pretension from the right to visit and detain ahips opon reasonable suspicion of piracy would de- slnve trade. II, before our laws for ns sunnrcssion. the flag of every nation might ' . ' i l. 1 1 . .j-tt- -Tr-Tfzrrrr- .isjt rrnve7seeccanTnTnie8noneu uj i Crv sure, nas ootn ine incnnaiion anu mc ... . ,j I . . ... j-nv.ij i. ...:n than a privilege asked fori Aflii either con- eeded-c; -withheld on thi osoal principles of internuttonol comity. ' :e .' . The principles laid" down in Lord Aber deen's despatches, and the assurances of indemnity therein held out, although the utmost reliance, was placed on the good fuiili of the British Government, were not regarded by the Executive as a sufficient security against the abuses which Lord Aberdeen admitted might arise in even the most cautious and moderate exercise of their nmrmariiime "police "nd; tbereforev in my message .at the opening -of the last session, I set font tba vimi ntariai ned by the Executive ou this subject, 'and .sub. stantially affirmed both our inclination and ability to enfocce our own laws, protect our fl.ig from abuse, and acquit ourselves or ail our duties and obligation on tb high seas. In view of those assertions, tho Treaty of Washington was negotiated, and upon con sultation with tho British negotiator as to the quantum of force necessary to be cm- ployed jo order tu attain these objects, the result to winch the most deliberate estimate led was embodied in the eighth article of the treaty. Such were my views nt the time ot negoti ating that treaty, and such, in my opinion, is its plain and fair interpretations. I re garded the eighth, article as removing all possible pretext, on the ground, ol mere necessity, to visit and detain our ships upon the African coast because of any alleged abuse of our flag by slave traders of other nations. We bad taken upon ourselves the burden of preventing any such abuse by stipulating to furnish an armed force re garded by both the high contracting parties as sufficient lo accomplish that object, Denying, as we did,, and do, all color of right to exercise any such general police over the flag of independent nations; we did not demand of Great Britain any formal renunciation of her pretension, still less had wc the idea of yielding any thing ourselves in that respect. We chose to make a prac tical settlement of the question. This we owe to what we had already done upon this subject The honor of the country called for it ; the honor of its flag demanded tbat it should not be usod by others to cover ao iniquitous traffic. This Government, 1 am : (From Um Albion.) : " The Uitlssk ' limine." Bare waa our burn brae, December' blast had btawn, , The Ikst flmrer wrae dead. . An' fbe brown leaf bad fa'n. ( It was dark ia the deep gkn, , Hoary was our hill. The wind free the eauld north Blew heavily an' chill. When I mid. " fare ye weel," To mj kith an' my kin, Mr barque it by ahead An' my cot-house ahio. I bad nocht left to tvne, I'd a wide warld to uy, But my heart it wad aa lift An' my eye' it wad na dry. I look'd hng at the ha ' Through the niiit ' my tears, W here the kind lassie lived I had ran wi' for years. E'en (be baogha where we sat, Wj their broom eorer'd knows. Took a kstnv. oa atj heart Tbat I ne'er can auloose. I ha'e wandrr'd sin syne, ' 7 fy tmp!cs aa towrs, W here I he uogaOWd soioe Scents the breeze in their bow'rs. Ot ie scenes I can bac WWMl pain or fe ret. But the last look o bama I never can forget. your back a peck of bran, and your min eing gait, like you were' picking your way among rotten eggs, or wss barefooted in a Drier patch, and your arm linked to a brain less dandy, (but 111 come at him as soon as I am done yea,) wriggling along the street, and for what? to bunt op indigent virtue, or suffering innocence, to pour balm on the wounded spirit of poverty, or only to smear your own giddy heart with the rroding grease of vanity, to hear fools whisper as you pass: " what a fair girl!" Remember, vain one, beadty Is but skin deep, and thevstorms of matrimony and the bknkindsjO$jciioj leaves the countcnaitccbare and unbecom ing as a wcaihcr-bcatcnsbam door, unless you putj on a eoat of the lasting paint of meekness, worth, and love", oniW.tlic var nish of beauty. If you can laugh hTfahim who wins, and know that you are still tovtal; and lovely, and that you arc still beautiful, now that the gloss which hid your worth and goodness beneath its dazzling glare is gone, you shed a happy influence on all near you, make us poor erring mortals feel just like a man almost frozen feels tvhen he sets down by a cheerful Arc at his own home. your tailor, nearly lisp by note a line for some milk and cider poet sentimentally, cat oysters gravely, smoko cigars lazily, make silly girls act the fool shamefully. I sayV does your mother knew you're out, poor useless toad f I am alraid you have no mo ther nor pever hud. You arc no more use in this woilJ than a time piece in a beaver dam, or a hair ma tress in a hog pen. You fill no longer space in the world's eye than the toe nail 6 musquito would in a market house, or n stump tailed dog in all out doors ; you are as little thought ol as tho fellow who knock ed his grnndmother's last tooth down her throat, and as for your brains, ten thousand such could be preserved in a drop of brandy nod havo as much sea room as a tadpole in Lake Superior ! and as for ideas, you have but one, and that is stamped on your leaden skull an inch deep, that tailors and femalus were to be culled by you, and that all may envy you your appearance. Poor useless tobacco worm, you are a cr.se. Does your mother know you're out? It is lunch tune; so start, buy a brandy toddy on tick from some good natured landlord, and eat lunch until you are ns tight as a drum, autwK to Dec and ttilnlC of nothing until you fall asleep, to dream of apes, pant Straps, and tailor's bills, not to awake until tho dinner bells call you to cat again. . llow many harmless, shallow morta-a of another order go scudding about on the sur face of the world's treat waters, without n motive guided only by chance, whim or impulse, like a mellow bug in a big eddy unuera shady willow, until they are swat lowed op by the greedy bass of death, and the first thing that they know, they know nothing ; when I see one of these, I always tniiiK poor Dug, your mother don t know you re out. .PLoxiJyiiiyjJtUDeglec ness and got after some foolish pleasure and chase it, and keep chnsiug it like a boy after a butterfly, until ihiv gmrnm ifm hat of constitution, beating tho ground wkh debts tb is is not so. The landr, I repeat, are the property of the States, held in trust for them by the general government, and now they require but the usa of a small portion, tofrea them rem their embarrassment. A man deeply involved in debt, and wjho bos no meant to liquidate it, unless liernortjajjea a portion nt a.sufrsWte belonging; to him, caunot be lioftcst if ,h refuses ia do & and still allow bis creditors lo suffer bis dishonesty would certainly be apparent to all. So is it with the Statc-Mt is a part uf flieir own estate they wish to mortgage, in order to redeem their liobili. Ues. and plaee the country in the station she onoa . occupied. The people acquire but their rights ; the petitions they daily present do not ask for sssump, ton. . i , W, ability to do this ; and,"" if need be, it will not content itself with a fleet of eighty gunsbut sooner than any foreign Govern menl shall exercise the province of execut ing iU laws and fulfilling its obligations, tha-highesLof . wlu'chJsJLo protect jts flag alike from abuse or insult, it would, I doubt not, put in requisition for that purpose its whole natal power. The purpose of his Government is faithfully'to fulfil tbe treaty on Us psrt, snd it will not permit itself , to doubt that Great Britain will comply with it on bers. In this way, peace will best be preservedVand ihe most amicable relatione maintained between the two nations. JOHN TYLER. , happy once more. But have you done this! I am afraid that you a'ro but a butterfly, born a worm, to die aa insect. " Ah, I don't half like that lough it was forced; you pretended to bo pleased, with iftaYfooTa wii,"wTicn'ybii'knewii wasaiofen! Oh, why such deceit, giddy fluttering worm of the cnbbnec patch ; you arc sold, soul and body, for a little empty, windy, use less adulation ; yes, sold to that old snnkc with the fish hook on his tail the. same snake that fooled your mammy in Adam's truckpatch and oh, scissors!' how he will strip that finery and raise a dust for a milo around, with that peck of bran, bay flower-sucking butterfly, docs your mother know yon re out 7 If she does, she is un- faithful to her trust ; snd ought not to be trusted again, any more than the man who stole a handful or acorns from the blind sow. Go home; eossamerl and try to prepare yourself to be a woman, and then when you are abroad, any body will know that your mother knows you re out. x Now you that was cut out for a man, but wasso villainously spoiled in making tip, I'll attend to your case. For what end did you burst upon the world's door and rush in uncalled, like a man chased by a mad bull what good do y oil "'expect to bestow on your Tcllow man- 'some useful invention, some heroic act some great discovery, or even one solitary remark ? No, those that look for sny thing useful or good from you, will be hist as badly fooled as the rr.an who caught the skunk and thought it was a kit ten ; or the woman when she made' greens of gunpowder tea. You know where the neatest, tightest pants, with the strongest straps, can be got en ' tick, but you don't know where the next useful lecture is to be be vain hopo of ditching the swift phantom nally full into some hidden pit cover- h flowers to rise no morel I then think poor fool, your motlier don't know you re out: nor you won t be out soon again. When 1 see a young man step in the skiff ol dissipationxand start down the stream of pleasure, using the oars of imprudence, while folly holds he helm, passing the shores of propriety Water than a streak of lightning can pass a sick, crew, and at last drawn over the fulls of total destruction and dashed into as many atoms, as a drop of water from a four story roof, Nhen ask of cant ask of him, did his nio- ther know he was out. When I scVa boy leaving tho prison door, after- a lonjjNand drearv confinement, with a pnle face and withered hands, his step weak and tottering skulking along, dodging all he meets like a guilty thing, shading his eyes from the usual -laro of -d yli2lit, cut from the society of his tellow beings, for some trivial offence commjltifcLjh tho thoughtlessness of erring boyhood, ( whti if mild trentmcnt had bfcen resorted to and tlltkcrime buried in silence, and inducements hctuKout to him to think well of himself, pcrhapV4hat boy mi"ht HI hears 'thc'itc"rmTK necd3 it notT'Ts'pave liecn Saved fforh" 1'roMnthd1' slimy delivered, you know the fashionable collar of a vest, but you never studied ike gorge ous hues of a rainbow, unless it was to wish for n piece to make a cravat of ; yon know how a fool feels in dress, but you don't know how a man feels when he eats the bread earned honestly Jiy tbe sweat oflhis own brew ; but you know how a monkey looks ; for you see one every day, twenty times, in your landlady's looking glass, but you don't know how a man feels after doing a good action, you don't go where that sight is to be seen. Oh ! you wssp-waisted, cat-fish mouthed, baboon-shouldered, catterpiller legged, goose-eyed sheep-faced, bewhisk ered drone in the world's bee hive ! what are you good for? Nothing but to cheat road of villainy,) I say, when I sethis, I think of tho grey haired mother al hoi a hovel can bo a home, the scalding tears misery chnsing each other off her high cheek bone, and her bony hand shaking with ago rtncf sorrwfor her only hope-- ber son, while her bo.ld looking eye rests on nothing ; I say fo myiclf, poor suffering woman, you "don t know he is out yes, ho is out ! out of jail j out of friends ; out of credit ; and out upon the world, a scoun drel, for the rest of his days, all for the commission and punishment of n boyish crime, bo the world goes, and so it will go, till it is run down, and I begin lo think, that but few of our mothers know we' ore out! (Prom tbe Albany Evening Journal. Washington's old scr rant. Washington, Feb. 6. The spirit of patriotism within rne has been refreshed this morning by communion with a man whose existence constitutes a link probably the only link which con nects the present with the long, long past.! Having noticed that a bill passed the House of Representatives era mini? a pen sion to John Carey, who was the servant of Col. Washington at Braddock's defeat. and who was also his army servant during a part of the Revolutionary war J Inquired him out, and to-day the Hon. Mr. Briggt of Massachusetts and the Hon. Mr. Morgan of our own state, accompanied me to the old veteran's cabin, which is upon a branch of the Potomac, about a mile from iho navy yard.- Wlte found him in good health and with a strtong feeling of gratitude to God and his country at tho prospect of a pen sion. He siys that the people of Virginia. thirty years ago, tokf him. that if he came to Washington, ho would be sure to get a pension, and though he has suffered many years of disappointment, instead of com. plaining, he has been thankful for the mer- cies and blessings he has enjoyed. NYliea wacooimeujcedoeovorswion with: - hinr bis Voice was remu:ous and bis utte. ranee difficult. Rut' tlnV a Mo CrMnnd roaw-wes-vercome, and he tiim 1 ft j rift hour and a half with much ;n , evincing remarkable intellif gird for truth, and a just se He did not know how oil information d3rived fro him best, ('. . s la's bir that he was severnl MCkilonel" nt Kiau !" ington took him ni a , , tered tne army in 1743, ti;i giveaway his fidJ'o,stop pi; a,,:; and ha would take care of tntii,c, . found him, a kind, good master. He gavo us. a tjrief. but Intelligent account ofthe disastrous battle in which the English Ger' nernl fell. This HvinAchronlcIo of a bat. , From Alexander's Messenger. A National Stock for (0300,000,000. Ever patriot should deem it his duty to exa mine anv measure that mav seem calculated tn benefit his country. The question now before Congress proposing to create a National Stock of EVW,VW,im, based upon the Public Ijinds to be divided among tlic States, is worthy tins attention Iti feature! arc so simple and just, that it cannot full to meet ihe wishes aa well as the wants of the peep, a The Public Lands arc the pronertr of the States kerned by the blood of our forefathers, and held by .the generslavemqient in trust. In order to pay their just debts, and preserve their honor, the State require their trustee to issue this Stock this aull at ones restore credit, and bring forth Ihe capital which remains idle for want of the porpcr security for investment. At present, no means exist to furnish e'mpletment to the people the la borer and employer suffer alike wsnt and misery attend the former, and the latter gloomily antici pates the day when the balance of his little means shall be wrested iroui lum. 1 be lime lor parly feeling is past, and the people are now crying aloud for this relief1 at the hands of Congress thev claim it as their right 'manufactures, commerce, and arricultore, are now equally prostrated let this btoeh be issued, and every class will be bene. filed. Firm and decided action should be taken by Conrress, at once, in order that through this excellent measura the people may be recud from their present distress, and tbe States enabled to rede-m their honor.- It is estimated tbat one million of men are out of employment in the United States, owing to die V want of an impulse lo trade; and a proper foondavtf lion or it, whose labor, at Bl per day, (and this is a low estimate, as numbers of ortizans are idle. whs formerly earned from 15 to 90 dollars pet week)) will amount to th bum of ' upwards of f 300,000,000 per annum Urns to tlu laboring fe. it atone only two-thirds of this sum is asked io Nutionaf Stock, based on the public lands as secu rity, tosare to tho people this snormons interest, which Ussy are paying wUkmt tht mm mf tkt Stock. It has been said by vba opponents of lb plan, that ft amounts to an umptum of the Stabs tlo which occurred almost one hundred years ngo, from ihe lips of one of the act ors in tho tame wus deeply interesting. Mr. Briggs showed the old negro a sword longing to General Washington, which by tnanv was supposed to be the one worn at Braddock's defeat. After examining it. the old man said that it was not so; that the " Colonel" had two swords with him in that campaign, both of which he said he had the care ofVand which ho described. Mr. B. informed nim that the sword came from Washington's gtand nephew ; but he pefttdinayrKgiioHt was not used in that campaign, as is tho tact, lor upon the belt-bucklo "U. V..J7o7is engraved, showinc that it was made twKy. affer that battle. llo thcn cava some account of scenes on the- Brandy wine, in -theiJlevolutionary war, nnd of the surrenderor Cornwall! when he was ngntivj Washington's servant, but with less distinctness, sliowj-rr iht the earliest scenes were beKPTernembered." When he hearu of WasliingtotT'ailliicss, he came from his residence to Mount Vcnon, arriving tho day after tho General dicd At first nobody there knew him, or would allow him to scb tho remains, but his im portuniiies finally brought some of the family out, by whom ho wus recognized. At the close pf the war General Wash- ington gave him one of his military coats, which he has carefully preserved, nnd va. lues il as a relic above uny price tho world can oiler. I Ins was shown to ui. It is blue, with yellow facings, nnd Inrjjo metal buttons six of which have been fuluniously cut off by visitors. , In looking of and talk, ing of this precious garment, the old man brightened up and . b.-came enthusiastic n Mr. Briggs asked him for t.ho . He saw the question wn ot in earnest, and barely rcpliiV, ' Don't ask such a question, masca." Mr. Morgan, 'with apparent ear nestw ss, repeated, ' hbw much money shall I givj you for il, John?" At this ho drew up and replied with spirit, that if he hud nothing but rags to wehr, and nothing to eat, all tho money in tho world could not. - buy that coat. But he added, " you may put it on, as a heap of ladies and gentle men have dOhe before." Having been with him more than nn hour. I spoke of goinc, but be urged us so ar- ncstly lo stop that we rem uiiedmucn tong. cr; listening with constantly, increasing In- teres! , to one who has lived to more man fire score and ten years. J . it. . . - jr. , His mental lacuuies arc yei unimpaireaii His vision nnd speech are affected, out bis heaiinz is cood. I lis wile if more than seventy tears his Junior, and Ins only com mi . noninn ana nurse, l ney live in a caoin which he built before the late war. The bill" which has. passed the House, under the auspices of Col. Taliaferro and Mr. Briggsgives him a pension of $80 per annum, comtVicncing, in 1842. A Temperance Temple is talked of at Washing.' ton. A porUao. of the stock baa already been subscribed. , . P 'I ! I
Highland Messenger (Asheville, N.C.)
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March 24, 1843, edition 1
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