VOL,. Ill]
CIMBLOTTE, X. C. TVESBAY, JULY 10, 1827.
[NO. 138.
P(TBLISHEI) WEKKT.Y
By LEMUEL BINGHAM,
T/iree Dollars a year^ paid in advance.
No paper will be discontinued, unless at the
discretion of the editor, until all arrearages are
T'
pui
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Advertisements will be inserted at the usual
Versons sending in advertisements, are
r.ites.
requested to note on the margin the number of
insertions, or they will be continued until forbid,
.snd charged accordingly.
\Yatc\\cs 8c
Thomas Trotter ^ Co.
I SPKCTFULLY informs the public that
they have received and offer for sale a few
silver patent lever Watches, (gentle-
Slen and^‘ad‘iLV'a few good plain Watchts,
M'arranted; gentlemen aiul ladies gold Chainb,
Seals and Keys ; some handsome Breu^st I ms,
Finger Kings, Kar Kings, Pearl and Filigree
.,ul Paste in setts, ?.c. f.c. ; all or any part of
vhicl> wc will sell low for cash. , , , .
Clocks and Watches repaired at the shortest
iiotice, and warranted to pertoriii. Cash gi vt*n
tor crold and silver. , i. *
X. K. We expert to rcccive in a short jme
cnint clot-ant Military and plated Goods, ac.
Charlotte, May U, 1827.—30
HE Rev. Thomas P. Ilnnt informs the citi
zens of Kurtli-Carolina tliat, by authority of
Mrs. Leigh, he has appointed John B. Cottrell
and Dr 1). K. Dunlnp, of Charlotte, N. Caiolma,
Agents for correcting impediments of speech.
T he above named agi^nts having received full
instruction and auth(uity, give notice to the
conununitjr in general, that they are prepared
to receive Stammerers of every grade at the
residence of Dr. 1). H. liunlap, in Charlotte,
where lie or Mr. Cottrell may at all times be
found. They do not hesitate to warrant a cur>
(on condition of their attention to instruction)
to all who may come well recommended for in
tegrity and honesty ; and no others need apply.
Children, above tliree years of age. of respect
able parents, will be received. From this it
may be understood, that :ill adults must bring
certificates of their standing in suciety. Adults
may be cured in from one to ten days; children
require longer time. Prices are reguLted by
circumstances, and will be made known on ap
plication. Beard can be had on reasonable
terms.
N. Mr. J. H. Cottrell was a stammerer of
tlie worst kind, and has been cured on Mrs.
Leigh’s system.
Charlotie, Jane 27, 1827.—3int49
OC/’The editor of the Pioneer, Yorkville, and
of the Carolinian, Salisbury, will publish the
ibove three times, and forward their bills for
ayment.
DOCrORS
B. Watson,
J WINC associated in the practice
of Medicine, respectfully tender
’their services, in the several drparN
ments of their profession, to the citi
zens of Charlotte and its contiguous
'country. They promise punctuality
and faithfulness, in every applicati jn ; and their
eharges will be made to correspond with the
V.ardness of the times.
Charlotte, June 15, 1827-—
All persons indebted to the estate of Church
ill Anderson, deceased, are requested to
come forward and make payment, or they will
find their n(tes lodged in an otiicer’s hands for
collection. Also, those to whom said intestate
is indebted, are re quested to j)resent their ac-
ounts within the time specified by law, regu
larly proven, otherwise the statute of limitation
will be plead as a barrier iigainst them.
KOBF.HT WALK UP, > ,
ALEXANDKU H. LNURAM, 5
Lancaster District, S.
Twelve Mile Creek, June 23, 1827.—4t40
DOCTORS
Thos. L Johnson & Thos. Harris,
Having associated in the practice of MKD
ICINE, respectfully tender their services,
in the several departments of their profession,
to the citizens of Charlotte and its contiguous
country. They cun at all times be found, at
their newly established shop, on the lot form
erly occupied by Dr. Thomas Henderson, two
hundred yards south of the Court-llonse, ex
cept when professionally engaged. 1 liey are
in daily expectation of afresh ami genuii.o as-
tortment of Mcdicine from I’hiladelphia^and
Kcw-York. 23*
\a\xiab\e r\t\uVaWou
FOR SALE.
The subscriber, in
contemplation of his
^removal to another state,
I offers fur sale the farm,
wliereon he now resides, 3 miles from the vil
lage of Charlotte, and containing about 900
acrcs, *qual in fertility of soil, to any body of
land within the county. On the al -.ve tract
the re is a two itory dwelling-house, and other
improvements; asufhciency of land open for the
tmployment of between 20 anil 30 hands, ir
great proportion of which land has been clear
ed within a few years.
Terms will b* accommodating, and made
Inown by application to the subscriber.
WM. J. POLK
Mecklenburg Co. May 29, 1827.—4t36
¥v\bV\c ¥»nter\a\i\A\eut.
rpiIK subscriber informs his friends and the
X public, that he has purch.ased that we_
known establishment, lately owned and occupi
ed by Dr. Henderson, and is now prepared to
i ntertain travellers and others, who may please
To call on him ; and no exei-tions will be spared
i> render llieui conifoilablc, and their stay
grecal)le. His table will be furnished with ev
t ry variety which the country afVords; his bar
with the best of liquws; and his stables with
plenty of provender, ami careful servants will
i>e in constant attendance.
KOBEUT L DINKINS.
Charlotte, April 20, 1826. * 80
House oi*
NI> Stage House, at tlu- sign of the Lagle
L in Charlotte, Norih-Carnlin;!, by
hilJb UOHI.Hl' WATSON.
Xolke.
WIU, be nfiered for sale, on Friday, the
27th of July next, at the late dwelling-
house of Milas J. Robinson, deceased, all the
property belonging to the estate of James Rob
inson, deceased, that has come into the hands
of the administrator, viz :—Negroes, and other
rticles too tedious to mention. Where due
Attendance and reasonable credit w ill be given,
>V JOHN WEEKS, MnCr.
.fiuie 29, 1827.—3t3y
N. B. All persons having claims against tlie
said estate, are requested to forward them as
the law directs.
The Presidency.—The following, says the
Richmond Whig, is the lust i.uniber of a series
of essays published in the United States Ga
zette, Philadelphia, on the Presidential Ques
tion. They are suid to have produced much
efl'ect in Ptniisylvania. They are written in a
nervous style, with great temper and modera
tion. Every paragraph- contains an apthe-
gm. The essay condenses in a few' lines many
truths heretofore deemed sacred in Virginia,
and now for the first time sought to be disre
garded. “ If the high prize of the Chief Ma
gistracy of this Republic, can be conquered on
the field of battle,” adieu to tlie predominancy
of law s, and the pacific spirit of our Institutions.
Men will no longer delve in the closet, when
their ambition can be so much more certainly
and speedily gratified by success in the field.
If the achievement of one victory suffices to
place the victor in the highest civil station,
ambitious men will seek to obtain the prize of
the Presidency by the easy and unlaborious
means. The country will be plunged into
wars, that great men may serve their purposes of
ambition. It is not a question of Federalism or
Republicanism, for both candidates hold the
same opinions. It is not one of measures, for
both will pursue the same measures. The great
question involved in the Presidential election
is between the civil and the military; whether
the people of the U. States will make a man
President, who would be absolutely unknown
to them, but for his victories and the extraordin-
aiy disrcgaid of the Cortstitution, L) which
those victories were attended.
PROM THE CSlTtD STATtS GAZETTE.
THE PRESWEM'UL ELECTION.
Fellow Ciiizcns. — With this number.
Doctors
D. R. Dunlap vfcAbm. F. Alexander
Our Constiiuiion is a civil compact.
The m'7authority must govern—must be
supreme, or that Constiiuiion must pcr-
ibh.
In concluding these remarks, the wri
ter of iheni begs leave to observe, that
he lias no other interest in the great ques
tion at issue, than what is common to ev
ery other citizen of this highly favored
land, which is the land of his nativity,
as well as that of his forefathers.
The writer never had any thing to do
with public life, nor does he wish it.
From early youih he has been engaged
in commercial pursuits, which have fre-
quenlly called him to Europe, when he
has seen enough of the Empire of the
Bayonet, to make him wish lo live and
die under the Empire of the Laws.
Simon Snvuer.
[From the Boston Patriot.]
COLONIAL TRADE.—LETTER VI.
To the Right Honorable Geurge Cunning, First
Lord of the Treasury, kc:
Sir : In my last leller, I showed that
the Baltimore petition wholly failed you,
in ti.e matter for which you cite it.
I now proceed to show that you have
equally mistaken the decision of the
Senate (which you call the decision of
the American Le}3;i;.lature) upon that
petition. I will lirst rej)cat your ac
count of the matter, that it may be mani
fest I do not mistake it.
After stating correctly that the peti
tioners retjuesled the repeal of the dis-
erimiiiatir.g duties on British vessels
coming from whatever ports, you add :
“ It ajipears, from the reports of the de
cisions of Congress, that it was against
the prayer of this petition (but without
we close our remarks upon the important] imjieachment of any of its allegations)
subject to which we have veniured lo 1 that the decision of the American Leg-
call your attention. islature, at the close of the session,
We say irr^portunt, because we consider 1 was taken ; it cannot be doubted, there-
that no question has been agitated since | fQi-e^ that ihe American Legislature had
the adoption of our present Constiiutioti, j whole purport and bearing of the
of so much interest to the American pco-1 ^^05 full before their eyes.”
, ,1 It is not clear what you mean, by “re
TIHS 1 IT) pO***nft'ir*n t/l 1
the simple qn
or (ien. Jacks-m is best qualitied lor ih^ .1 1 •
Presidency Commiltces to whom the subject was
The\iueslion for the consideration of | referred, or reports of the debates,
importance docs not attach to I , ^ ,
' 1 1 \ J : ports ol the proceedinjis of Congress,
tion whether Mr. Adams;* , r
lou may either mean reports of the
,the American people is—(V//j the high\ In the House of Representatives, I
' prize of Ihe Chief Magisttncj/ of thin Ihpub-1 cannot find that there was any report of
H aving associated in the practice oi\ lie, be conquered Upon a field uj battle. i a committee on that petition, and con-
MEDICINE, respectfully tender their | If so, we may soon l)id adieu to that [ sequently »here could have been no dc-
services to their friends and fellow-citizens,
the several departments of their profession
The latter will be found at all times at the res-
idcce of Mis. Ja„e II. Alexander, tl,« e mil.s' “J "'''>'1“"!;
east of Charlotte. No extra charge will be re
quired for consultation.
3t38
“* j vcneralile Constitution, which we liave j that Ijody.
'es tducatcd to consider as the tairesl j Senate, the petit!
petition was refer
Vov Went,
! "‘’.‘'.1* i Tliat committee made a report, consist-
)y nil t ary goti/,, partly of a historical account of the
negotiations between the two govern
ments, and of their respective legislation,
on the subject of this trade.
The report also stated briofly several
points which had been controverted be
tween the two governments, and closed
with the expre.ssion of an opinion, that
it was inexj)edient to pass any law, at
that time, on the subject. 'The reasons
given for that ojiinion were these :
1st. That to admit British vessels,
from luhutsoever port, on the terms of
the most favored nation^ would be to
surrender without an equivalent all we
had to give, and consf(|ueritly to lose
the control of thft means of elFecting a
more desirable because a more equal state
of intercourse between the two govern
ments.
2iul. That it was better to arrange so
complex ati interest by mutual under
standing, rather than by ex purtc legis
lation.
.”(1. 'riiat “ the committee had reason
to believe, tliat an adjustment of the
coninicreial intercourse between the
niiili.tl States and*the Jirltish colonies
Yes, fellow citizens, if
selves to be led captive
our republic must inevitably share the
same futeofall that pieceded it.
In making this observation, we mean
ANI'W ;uid convenient house, on' ,^o disrespect lo Gen. Jackson, whose
the mam street in the town of i,„porianl public services eniitle him lo
(;harlotte. The above mentioned build-, *j. [p. But we apprehend
me IS purticularlv adapted aiul calcu- h”
iSrrir ti" r.om .l>e ,>rece-
central situation will be unquestionably among dent which it would establish, ot lewaid-
the best stands in the place
For particulars, inqnire of
J«)NAI’HAN HARRIS,
4t39
Talweu
pnOM Mr. Dinkins’ tavern, probably by mis-
with ihc highest
ing military services
civil honors.
“One precedent justifies another. Whal
is custom to-day, will be law to morrow.”
“ History, fellow citizens, is philoso
phy, teaching men wisdom hyexampkv”
take, a Cailridge Hox and'Belt, belonging j j.et us not shut our eyes upoii^'lier faith
to tlie subscriber, with his name on tlieni. 'i he ! pages,
person who may have tlu m, will be sn good as '
to return them to the s'ibscriber, or leave itieui
with Capt. Kendriek.
ISAAC S. ALEXANDER.
June 14, 1827.-3t37
i!S.
IV^ANTED, at this OlHoe, two boys, l.'i or
▼ f 16 vears of age, a* Apprentices to the
1‘rinting Business.
^CoVkt.
ViriLL be sold, at the Court-House in
Concord, on the 3d Monday in July
next, by order ot the Court ol Fleas and
Quarter Sessions, one negro man named
Kdu'ftrd^ who was committed to the jail
of the county twelve months ago, and
j.aid he belonged to one Johnson, a trader
in negroes. Said fellow is ol micklle
ttaiure, tolerably stout built, and light
color, and is now to be sold according to
act of Assembly, lo u^-o uf the county
and satisfactifjn of jail lees, See.
J W.'HAV.ILTON',
Concord, J!prd 16, 1SJ7. ..r.ivtO
WftVVWUtS,
For this OiTice.
l)eg^,Tori5eliL!-hb O&ce,
To all ivhuin it miiij vonctm.
TAKE jSOTICK,
That bv virtue of an Oitler from tT.e Court ,
of Equity, for Mecklenburg county, to me ,
directed, 1 shall ex])Ose to public sale, at thc-j
Court-House in t^iarlotte, on the LVtbchiyof,
August next, beinir the Monday ot our next
court, ol i,„uuiu„. '.pu...
William Patterson j ceded tliat itiiiiieJise lerril(jr> lo 1 latice.
Whilst referring to rliilitary services,
it may not he imprupi-i- to observe, that
those who devote a long life to the civil
seivice of their country, have, also, some
claims to public gratitude.
I hal wisdom counal, which foresees
and averts dang*r, is often ol equal value,
with that militai y sVall whicU.conquers
viclct v uj>on tl'.e field.
We should d(-ubi very much, ifany mil-
itarv aehievemenl since the surrender of
Loiil Cornwallis al Yorktown, has been
of so much iiiiportance lo this country.
tive, whose views that committee may
be supposed to possess, to meet the Bri
tish Government, on the terms of the
act of 1825. They imply, on the con
trary, the expectation, that before the
next meeting of Congres«, the whole
affair would have been arranged.
This alone is a stiffic'icnt answer to the
whole tenor of your letter, which is,
that the American Government was
unw’illing to meet the British Govern
ment on the terms of the act of 1825-
Your entire despatch is designed to in
culcate a belief in such an unwillingness,
for which there is no foundation in fact.
The first reason of the committee
shows (contrary to much argumentatioii
in your letter) that neither the commit
tee nor the petitioners understood the
act as you do. The petitioners under
stood the act to requrirc that British
vessels, from whatsoever port coming,
and with whatsoever laden, should be
admitted into our ports on the same
footing as our own vessels. So the
committee understood them, and such
an admission, they justly contend, would
be a surrender, without an equivalent,
of all that we could possibly grant in
return for a full equivalent.
This construction, put by the com
mittee and by the petitioners on your
act of 1S25, is its literal and its
correct construction. By the 6 ol Geo.
IV. 111. section 4th, it is enaetcd,
“That the privileges thereby granled
to foreign ships shall be limited to ships
of those countries, which, having colo
nial possessions, shall grnnt the like pri
vileges of trading with those possessions,
to British ships, or which, not having
colonial possessions, shall place the
commerce and navigation of this country
vpon the footing of the most favored
Nation. ”
Under this last italicised clause, in its
literal construction, the United States,
in order to |fet the benefit (I use that
word to avoid circumlocution, I shall
hereafter inquire what sort of a benefit
it is) of the Act of 1825, would have
been obliged, not merely to repeal tho
discriminating duty, on British vessels
from the Colonies, (that they are ready
to do,) not merely to admit the circuitous
voyage of British ships, via our ports,
to the British Colonies, (that they aro
willing to admit,) but they must have
admitted, (&that withoutdescriminating
duties,) British vessels from every port
in the world-, with whatsoever laden,
because there are Nations with whom
our intercourse stands on this footing—
by special treaty.
Certainly this was not intended by
the Act of Parliament of 1825. You do
not so explain it. Yet it is its only
literal and correct interpretation ; tho
Baltimore petitioners appear so to have
understood it ; the Committee of the Se
nate so understood it.
The truth, in fact, is, that by using
the sweeping clause “most favored na
tion,” your Act required much more
than ypu were aware of, much more
than you intended, and much more thar*
you now explain it to mean.
Not only is it true, therefore, (against
your strong assertion,) that the Ameri
can Government did not understand the
Act as you do ; but it is also true, that
the American construction was the liter
al one, and that yours is an arbitrary
and incorrect one. What course, then,
coulil have been more natural than to
suspend legislation and wait for nego
tiation to clear up the mattttr ?
You now feel the force of the srcond
of said town by No. IBl, 01
Trvon street, lielonging to
and others, and lccr. ed to be sold tor their
l)eneht. A ciedit \m11 be given until the tol-
lowir.g Superior Court.
D. It. DUN LAI
6110
c. .V.
liOSt,
the 8th inst.
calf-skin Pocket liook, either at Sugar
Creek meeting-lmu.e, or on the n.ad between
tlicre and Mr. W m. 15. Alexanders, eontaining
two ten dollar bilb., South-Carohi.a ; one ten
five of North-Carolina, ami
J^Y the subscriber, on Friday,
and
two small
„oU>., amoun.iLK to W A'>y I”,.'''''; f";'';
\„e the sHtr.c an.l Icavii.B't »t '
Cauiwba Journal, or restoring it to the ownti,
.hull „= lhankf,,lly
Mccklenburg, June 11, 182?.—-It..H
the ruitish Government, and'that the
negotiations respecting it are expected
to come to definite i.ssue before the next
session of ('utigress.
For these reasons, sir, theComrnittcc
Wvvftnei-’s !^\vkU\v¥s.
ind for sale at tl;is of-
ei.tit ltd, ‘ All
JUST I’l
fice, “
Apology tor
IM ULISIIKl),
Strictures on h book
the I’.ook of i'..dms, b> (u'.beM
Mc.M.tster.’ To which are added, Ut n>;irsk on
u book, [l)v Alexander (iordonj ' ntitli d
design and use ol the lioolv oi I s.» nis
lltMiy IJLrK.'li.U, A. .1.
bv John _M.
'‘hi)ad'.lr>h‘ia. _ __
W 111
•'1 he
.V j.piiiilix,
Napoleon had api>ointed Marshal Her-
nadotte. the present King of Sweden, ^one
of the first warriors of his age) its milita-
rv (iovernor. .
' Commanding the mouth of the Missis
sippi, Trarce would have endeuvoured
lo dismember »nr I oion. — Mr. Jellerson,
loreseeing that clangt-r, averted it by a-
(lo[)ting the wise nieasuic of purchasing
Louisiana. .
Hut mark the diiieretice between civil
and military services, (ie/icral Jackson,
lor det'endinij the capital of this same
Louisiana, is considered entitled the Pre-
hidenry, whereas Mr. JelVerson, v>ho an
nexed that vast tenitory to our Lnion,
V. itiiuut shedding one tlro[) ot human
i)luocl, found it diilkult lo obtain the pri-
vih oi a lottet y, to sell his estate to up^n tJie subject. ”
keep the sherift out ol his house. ^Now, sir, a word or t'.vo on these
hellow citizens, Il.e Olhce ol the I re^- ^rst, bv wayofshow-
of the U. S. IS a cuul othce. No-| -
'hing slu-rt of the highest r-t//qualihca-j
ions’, c.tn enable any man to discharge j
iher witti credji't'or uiiitcily, any di.sposition, on
reason of the committee. Ti.e subjcct
forms one of t!ie special and prominent j they urged was complex and cx part*
olijf;efs which have been committed to j legimlalion, was exposed to misconstrue-^
the Minister of the United Slates at tho j lion at home andabroad; in illustrationof
Court of London ; that a corresponding which, the committee aptly oppeal to
(Ujsiie to arraiige if, on a satisfactory . -
fooling, apjjears to exi^>t on the part of
the conduct of the provincial authorities
in Brunswick and Nova Scotia, in shut
ting their ports upon onr vessels in mid
winter, on an extremely hazardous, incle
ment coast, without instructions from
Great Britain.
But the third reason was one, it would
“though fully agreeing with the me-j seem, if you had any of that real liber-
morialists in the wish to cultivate and ‘ality in your political system, of whicK
extiMid the trade in (juestion, which
they trust may be done to the mutual
advantage of the {larlies concerned in
it, are still luiaiiimunsly of opinion,
i that it is not expedient at this time to
Now, sir, a word
three reasons; and first,
. I ing wh\t-Uicy da not imjily
'I'hey do nol imjjly, neither
its import an I cm ties, e»i
singly
the
ji-fi
your friends claim for you so much,
ought, I willnotsay tohavesatisfied you,
but to have disarmed you. Surely the
peo|>le of England, who know little on
this subject but what they gather from
your partial statements, will be aston
ished when they learn, that the com
mittee, instead making (as would be
inferred from your rey»resentation) a
report adverse to granting any thing
wliirh your government demands, gave
th-^; it ui the fuial and (tVoni its rnture) the