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7 'Th ttnitncyof litmocratytttorar&thUttionorthlnAtlrioHcltt,thi iter tat of thtir comfort, thtaturlla oflhttrdt-mUy,tht tttmMithmtmt of their pmtrr.' BY. ROBERT WILLIAMSON, Jr. MtfCOIrTOtf,. O., DECEMBER 8, 1841, VOLUME V, NO. 28. . - N E W T E It M S OF x TJIE LINCOLN REPUBLICAN TERMS OF PUBLICATION'. . Tub Lijcolx Republican is published even' Wednesday at $3 50, if paid in advance, or $3 if payment be delayed three months. ;To subscription received for a less term than twelve months. No paper will be discontinued but at the optiuo ef the Editor, until all arrearages are paid. A failure to order a discontinuance, will be con siJeieJ a new engagement. TERMS OF ADVERTISING. AnvKitTTSBXESTs will bo inserted conspicuous ly for $1 CO per square for the tirst insertion, ond 5 cents for each continuance. Court and Judicial Advertisements will be charged 2o per cent, more than the above prices. A deduction of U3 per cent, trom the regular prices will be made toycarly advertisers. The number of insertions must be noted on the manuscript, or they will be charged until a discon tinuance is ordered. TO CORRESTOXPFNTS. To insure prompt attention to Letters addressed to the Editor, the postage should in all cases be paid. From the Warrenlon Repor ter. DEMOCRATIC MEETING. At a meeting held in the Court House in Warrcnlon, on Tuesday the 23rd inst. in order to appoint delegates to the Con vention to nominate a candidate for Co verner, nnd to take into consideration the proceedings of Congress diirin? the extra session on motion. Daniel Turner was railed to the Chair and Anderson F. Hrame .va appointed Secretary. The objects of the meeting bein explained by the Chair man, Mr. Win. Eaton, Jr. arose and offer ed a resolution itiat the Chairman he re quested to appoint a Committee of 7 per sons to report resolutions expressive of the sense of the meeting. Whereupon Win. Eaton, Jr. George I). Baskervi'.le, Henry Fitts, Sr. William C Clanton, John II. Hawkins, It. C. Pritchard, and William G. Jones, were appointed who, afier ha ving retired for a few moments reported the following resolutions and recommended tlieir adoption. The question being taken on the said resolutions, they were unanim ously adopted. 1st. Resolved, That we disapprove the rail of the late Extra Session of Congress as unnecessary, inexpedient, and calcula ted to increase considerably the public ex penses at a time when rigid economy in every department of the Government was necessary to prevent the imposition of ad ditional burdens of taxation upon the peo ple. 2nd. Resolved, That the iate Distribu tion Law, by which the proceeds of the Public Lands are givtn to the States is un just, unequal, and unconstitutional, and that we regard it as an appeal to the venal ity of the people and not to their reason, and a reflection upon their intelligence and public virtue That while it professes to give to the people its inevitable tendency is to tax the people, and the reception of this money by the States can only be ex cused upon the grounds of an obvious ne cessity" of wresting it from the hands of wasteful and extravagant politicians. 3rd. Resolved, That we very decidedly condemn the provisions of the late Tax or Tariff bill, in which gems, tortoise shells, unmanufactured ratans, and other articles which contribute neither to the comfort nor convenience of man, are left free of duty, whilst a tax of 20 percent, is retained on iron, steel, sugar, and molasses, and a con siderable duty is left upon sail and other articles of prime necessity. 4th. Resolved, That we regard a Na tional funded debt in time of peace, as de serving the reprobation of all lovers of a plain and economical administration of the Government, and for this reason we very much condemn the twelve Million Loan Dill lately passed by Congress, and regard, with sentiments of great disapprobation, the intimation lately given out by Mr. Clay, the leader of the Federal forces, of a still further loan of sixteen millions to be attempted at the next session of Congress. 5lh. Resolved, That although we had no agency in elevating President Tyler to his present high.station -we stand as ready. frankly AO applaud his pood deeds as fearlessly to condemn his bad. Gili. Resolved, That in vetoing the Fis cal Dank Kill and the Fiscal Corporation Bill passed , at the late Extra Session of Congress, he exercised a high and much valued conservativs power designed as a shield to the people and to public liberty against the rash and vicious assaults of am bition, and in so doing he evinced a" manli ness of purpose and patriotic devotion to the Constitution. 7th. Resolved, That we deny in the most decided terms that the decision of the people in favor ol Gen. Harrison lo the Presidancy, was in any mannei, favorable to the establishment of a U. Slates Hank, and in proof of this position we call upon our fellow citizens of both political parties, Federal and Republican, in North Caroli na, to revert o the fact that the late Secre tary of the Navy, a gentleman of undoubt ed abilities, in a public speech delivered at Oxford, in March-1840, which speech was endorsed by the "Whig Central Commit mitlee of this State and circulated from the sea-board to the mountains, most positively asserted that (Jen. Harrison was opposed to a National Bank, and denounced the charge of his being friendly to such an in stitution as "false" 8th. Resolved, That we congratulate the Republicans of the country on their late triumphs in almost all of the States in which elections have been held since the "disclosure of their principlesybr the pub lic eye" by the Federalists, and thai we are confirmed in our opinion, uniformly enter tained, that ihe federalists can never hold power long in our country, when their measures meet with so prompt and so sig nal a rebuke at the hands of the people. - 9sh. Resolved, That the late Bankrupt Law, embracing within its scope all class es of society except tiie small debtor, is vicious and demoralizing in its tendencies, and destructive of social rights. 10th. Resolved, That we approve the Democratic Convention to be held in Ra leigh, on the 10th of January next, and that whilst we very highly commend the virtues and talpnts of the gentleman pre ferred by our Republican fellow citizens of Franklin, we deem it unnecessary to make any nomination for ourselves, but submit ih$ whole matter to the wisdom of the Convention. 11th. Resolved, That the Chairman be requested to appoint 12 delegates to repre sent Warrren County' in said Convention. 12ih. Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be published in the Warren ton Reporter, and the Republican papers of this State, and, likewise, the Richmond, (Va.) Enquirer be requested to copy. In obedience lo the 11 ill resolution the Chairman appointed the following persons as delegates: Gen. M. T. Hawkins, Hen ry Fitts. Sr. Dr. a Hall, XV m. O. Jones, Saml. T. Alston, Thos. J Judkins, James Clanton, Dr. Peter Hawkins, Washington Vaughan, Wm. C. Davis, Edward Alston, and Whitmel II. Kearnev. DANIEL TURNER, Chin. A. F. Brame, Secretary. From the Globe. MONEY MILLENNIUM. The organ of the Adminisiration gives us a happy prospect or a Government reg ulation for the currency, which will con ciliate the conflicting interests of the va rious classes who seek privileges in money making, and of those who want a simple standard of value as a medium of exchange for the products of labor. Our motto is "the world is governed too much." We think the Constitution is tew enough upon this subject out if more and better can be done than giving the constitutional stan dard the sound standard of actual value, (not credit,) and leaving every man free to apply it to the best advantage, we hope it will be accomplished constitutionally and by constitutional provision; for currency is an element which cannot be committed to the hands of individuals oi classes to be in creased and diminished at pleasure without inevitably subjecting the rest of the com munity it fraud anuVrohhery. To express our opinions to our Democratic friends briefly, clearly and with emphasis, we re sort to a letter under date of the 11th Oc tober, from one who is the great light of ihe age the Champion of the cause of equality in political, civil, and social rights of freedom as ihe guarantee of all; a man opposed to privileges of all sorts, and es pecially to such as enable bodies politic or corporate, by force of law, to impose on the psople that which is intrinsically worthless as something possessing ihe high est value. extract-3 "I cannot think that Mr. Tyler will re commend a Fiscal Ager.l in ihe shape of a Bank, with individual stockholders. There is no such power granted to Congress; nor can Congress, consistently with the Con stitution, create any fiscal agent, and place it beyond the legislative power of Con gress. The Federal Government is cloth ed by express grants with fail power to preserve itself, and to carry into effect all the objects for which it was established: it therefore cannot place the fiscal means be yond its legislative control. Hence, 1 sa-, that no fiscal agent can be established by Congress, that it cannot alter or repeal at pleasure; and more particularly, when Con gress violates the Constitution and its duty, in placing its revenue in deposits beyond its legislative control. Congress cannot constitutionally pass any law authorizing the receiving in payment of the revenue any thing but gold and silver coin. The Government cannot pay the debts of the Union in any thing but gold and silver. What absurdity tiien to argue that Govern ment, clothed with the power to coin mon ey, regulate the value thereof, to collect taxes, imposts, Sic. Sec to pay the debts of the Union, and provide for i is defence, can receive these imposts, taxes, &e. &c. in paper currency, in which it cannot com ply with ihe injunctions of ihe Constitution. Sir, 1 tell you that the eyes of ihe people are getting wide awako lo the3e absurdities, and it behooves the Democratic papers to J bring to their view the real constitutional powers of Congress with regard to the re venue, its collection and safe keeping; and I vouch for it, that in less than one year, the Independant Treasury bill will he re vived by tfie voice of nine-tenths of ihe vo ters of this Union. "My; own opinion is, that Mr. Tyler's fiscal system will be substantially the Sub Treasury, with power to the keepers of the public revenue upon the deposit by indi viduals of sums of money, to give a Trea sury draft for"T like sum on the place where the individual wanls the money thus deposited. This would be a very ques tionable policy, and might lead to a substitu tion of Treasury notes for Treasury drafis, and introduce thereby a Government pa .per money instead of specie, which would soon dppreciate, and be a great curse, in stead of a blessing, to the country. "The sages who framed the Constitution wisely intended commerce, and all other branches of business, to rest upon their own capital and credit protecting all, and grunting exclusive privileges to none. This is the true policy, and, when once adopted, we will have purity of legislation and prosperity, in all branches of business, with a happy and contented people. To control the over-banking of the States, the Federal government must exercise all its constitutional power, which is, to extend the bankrupt law over them. This will put an end to over issue and to suspension, and nothing short of this will effect it." From the Globe, The National Intelligencer of this mor ning has an article about the late Federal discomfiture, imputing it altogether, not to its want of power, libut to its loss of tern.' per," and it congratulates the parly on the result, because, as it sjs: 'It is surely much more auspicious to the continued success of the princi ples which triumphed at the last nation al election, that it should have happen ed thus early, than that it should have been postponed till the next year, when more important elections are to be held, upon which disgust and apathy, such as has been lately evinced by the Whig part i, would have .exerted an influence fatal to its ascendency." I he article concludes with the following very comfortable assurance: "That influence has now spent its force upon the whig phalanx with no worse ef fect than a wavering in its ranks, which indicates1 surprise, and some want of con fidence, along with a vexed spirit, rather than any change of mind or want of reso lution. The reaction is to come. That it will come, we have entire confidence. With means of information surpassed by few, we are satisfied that the great mass of the whigs, in all parts of the country, un shaken and unchanged by any thing that has happened, wilt rally to the rescue, and, when the signal is given for the elections of the next year, bear themselves as gal lantly, and sustain their cause as glorious ly, as when, just one year ago, they prov ed to their opponents that the strength was theirs, and that the will only was wanting to insure them the victory." The sanguine temperament of Federal ism was never more strongly manifested. The suggestion that its defeat "indicates surprise and some want of confidence," "rather than any change of mind," shows an nbsoiute blindness to the history of Fe deralism in this country. It has thrice, by stealth, readied power in ihe Govern ment, and never retained public confidence an hoar after - it was compelled, in the course of its administration, to disclose its principles. The first Adams was in a mi nority among the people in the first year of his administration. The second Adams was in a minority immediately on the pub lication of his first message. The extra session put a Mill more sudden extinguish er upon the last Federal accession to power brought about by fraud and chicane; ami yet the National Intelligencer, which knows thai Federalism has never been able to command confidence a moment after il was exposed, talks about reaction in us fa vor, as if its principles had ever been in the ascendency. One would suppose, from the tone of the Federal press every where, that the pany had never known what it was lo be out of power, and yet they have never known what it is to be i:i; for its installation has always been follow ed, almost instantaneously, by the loss of public confidence. And what is place, un supported by public opinion ? Right of Search. Official Letters be tween our late Minister, Mr. Stevenson, and Lord Palmerston, relative to the sei zure of American vessels by British crui sers on the coast of Africa, have been pub lished. They show that Mr. Stevenson has been an efficient and faithful represent ative of his government in this as in every other case. The correspondence arose from the fact of the seizure of the Ameri can brig Douglas, of Roxbury, Massachu setts, by the Biitish brig Termagant, in the mouth of October, 1833. The Doug las was bound to the river Brass, with a cargo of merchandise and several passen gers. The brig was bosri'jd by Lieuten ant Segram off the African coast, her pa pers overhaoled, the American flag taken down, the hatches broken open, and a Brit ish master and crew put on board. For five or six days the Douglas was thus held in charge of ihe cruiser, when, on the 29th of October, to the westward of Popoe, on the African coast, the Captain was ordered on board the Termagant, his papers were delivered to him by Lieut. Segram, and he was allowed lo pursue his voysge. Mr. Stevenson demanded reparation for this outrage, as the United States have never entered into any convention with other powers by which tho right of search on the .coast of Africa is admitted. Lord Pal mer ston's reply is conciliatory. He assures Mr. Stevenson that the British Govern ment is desirous of preventing any viola lion ol the Flag of the United States by of ficers of the British Navy. He also states, that the officer in command of the Terma gant will be subjected to an examination; tlie British Government having ordered a prompt and searching inquiry into the facts of the case. North Carolina Standard. From ihe Mecklenburg Jeffer Ionian. CLAY AND A NATIONAL BANK THROWN OVERBOARD." The Albany Evening Journal, the prime organ of Federalism in New York, after advising Mr. Clay to resign his seal in the Senate, and relieve the patty of the odium attached to him as a leader, thus abandons the cause of the Bank hitherto the darling measure of Whigery: "W'e did not go to Washington for any such purpose a the Argus charges. Nor when there did we urge or ask the Presi dent to sign a 'Fiscal Corporation We were openly opposed to the Extra Session of Congress and as openly opposed to the movement in favor of a bank. The whig party has struggled for ten years with a bank mill stone to its neck. We have la bored hard to cut il loose but it ha) stuck to us like a poisoned shirt. For one we are resolved to carry this load no farther. Those who have 'stomachs for ihe fight may fo floundering on till the sky falls if they choose, but this lark is not to be caught again in a bank trap." We hope our North Carolina Federal Whigs will not follow the example cf their Albany rolaborer, in "cutting the Bank mill-stone" from about their necks. Stick on to the monster, Whiggies monopoly is the soul of your creed. Another New York whig paper thus speaks of the causes of their late defeat in that State: "The Flection. The election in this Slate seems to have resulted in the general success of the Loco Foco tickets. The party will have a majority in both branches of the legislature. To us this does not seem so appalling as might at first be sup posed. In the first place, it will teach ihe whigs the necessity of being democratic whigs as well in action as, in profession. It will teach ancient Federalism thai its notions are altogether loo antiquated for modern political tactics, and as the recent sweep has generally driven them from the councils of the stale, we trust that our friends, reorganizing the party for future operations, will select men of known re publican principles; for nothing appears to be more positively settled than that the na tion in its length and breadth is essentially democratic. And wisdom lias long since demonstrated, that any party lo retain pow er, must conform to the expressed will of the people, and avoid all hazardous expe riments.". The Federalists about Raleigh lately gave Mr. Geo. E. Badger a public dinner, in order, we suppose, that he might have a chance to dole out his account of the blow np of the Cabinet, the death of the "Fiscalities," and the wreck f Whigery in general. The toasts on the occasion are of the true-grit federal, anti-Tyler, Clay order. Gov. Morehead wa present and toasted himself as nobody el?e would do it; and Mr. Mangnm, who could not be present, sent a letter, with the request that il might not be published ! - Very well thooght of, Willie ! there's already more of your writings and doings on record than is very creditable to your consistency or political integrity. This effort to excite a little sympathy for Mr. Badger, ami make political capital for waning Whigery out of liis misfortunes, will be "no g." And wc advise our opponents lo put off any more feasting until after the next summer elections, when Gov. Morehead, and the whole posse of Federal leaders in this State, will be in a better frame of mind to sympathise with Mr. Badger, and when all their sorrows may be drowned in one general frolic. We charge nothing for this advice. ib. Some of the Whig papers bear their late defeat with a great deal of equanimity and good temper, and occasionally perpetrate some excellent witticisms at the expense of their party -3 for instance, the follow ing from the New York Commercial Ad vertiser: Ib. '-'". "Amusing- The Boston Mercantile Journal closes some jmt reflections upon the injudicious course c, certain newspa pers, by the remarks 'Such conduct must result in the destruction of the Whig parly. 'My conscience !' exclaimed a rogue in the city of Houstion t his lawyer, who ad vised him to run away ; 'ain't I in Texas alreadv ?' " Electioneering. The extra gag Con gress Appropriated ' about - FJFTE EN THOUSAND DOLLARS to pay for the stationery, "blanks, paper, and twine,' used by the infamous Federal Congression al Executive Committee in superintending the Pipe Laying operations in 1840, for Tip and Ty. Mr. Wright stated on the floor of the Senate that he had investiga ted this item, and found that nil or most of it was produced by stationery used DU RING THE RECESS of Congress, last year. These are the licensed robbers who cut down the wages of laborers at Spring field, and the other public works, thirty per cent, and who have abolished the ten hour system to keep tip an empty appear ance of economy. But their duplicity and knavery aie well understood and con demned by a discerning people. Salem Advertiser. The Washington Globe, speaking of trie rumored resignation of Mr. Clav, says: . "Mr. Clay, during the extra session. gave the Democratic members, who com plained of ihe intolerable fatigue of sitting from ten in the morning until the sultry night brought tip the dog star, a recipe against the disease they apprehended. (Rise as I dq, said Mr. Clay) before the sun in the morning spend an hour or two m exercise on horseback or on foot then make a toilette (with the aid of a man Charly, we suppose,) and be ready at ten for business in the Capitol, and I will insure against the maladies threatened by the tide water swamps of the rivers that surround the Capitol even in the Jog days, and the exhaustion of our long sessions. At all events, I will pay the doctor's bills. To these remarks, which we well remem ber, Dr. Linn replied with a warning; and it would seem thai fate has taken Mr. Clay at his word, and that he will have the doctor's bills to pay. We wish most sincerely, however, that he may be only sick of politics sick of the work of the extra session,- and that he is not really suffering in his 'health, impaired by his intense labors and anxieties at the extra session.' We trust that, like old North umberland, he is only 'crafty sick;' but if it be otherwise, and he should visit Cuba for his health, we cannot give a better proof that we do not bear him malice than by recommending him to consult the dis tinguished Cuban physician lo whom we feel that we are indebted for the fortu nate result of our last year's visit lo Cuba. He will find Dr. Meikleham of Havan na, a man of genius and profound skill in his profession, and adorned with many of the noble traits of character which, belong ed to his near kinsman, Sir Jf'altcr Scott. And," what we know will be a stil! srreater motive with Mr. Clay to make his acquain tance, he will find him ihe husband f Mr. Jefftrson's youngest grandaughter, one of the most amiable and excellent of her fam ily race, who, by some strange fatality, are all, for the most pari, banished from the country the independence of which Mr. Jefferson declared and ably contributed to maintain to seek their fortunes in lauds lying under the most despotic rule." For the Lincoln Republican'. TO PRESBUTEROS. Dear Sir: It is an easy matter to take isolated passages ftom an author; and without explaining the context, these pas sages will stem to bear a meaning directly opposed to his opinions. This is pre cisely the way you have done in the case of Jerome, who is "remarkably explicit on the point' of Episcopacy. Had yon read more about Jerome than you could have read in Dr. Miller's letters, you would not have fallen into such a mistake. Let us see if we cannot make Jerome a consistent aefvocate for Episcopacy ; Je. rome becoming incensed at the treatment he received from the Deacons of Romet (who on account of the wealth of the city had become a little arrogant) endeavors to show them the superiority of a Presbyter; and he does this by comparing them with the Bishops. And this accounts for the language which you have quoted. But ereu the quotation you have given is a poar compliment to Presbyterianism. "Before there were" (says the author alluded to) "by tiie devils instinct parties in religion and it was said among the people,' "I am of Paul and I of A polios, &c, the Cburch- pt. iviira rrii v a m rwt V - ilia rrtmmrtn rnnnnil bv....vV of Presbyters." So then, according to Jerome, Bishops were chosen - to check schism among Presbyters. For he ex pressly declares "Afterwards (viz: after the schism among the Corinthians,) when every-one thought that those whom he baptised were his rather than Christ's, it was determined throughout the world that one of the Presbj-ters should be set above the rest that seeds of schism might be ta ken away. Now here Jerome, if he 6ays any thing about Presbyterian govern ment, surely show that it had been fairly tried and that its fruit was schism: to remedy which the order of Bishops was introduced. But you think it was not introduced immediately, although Jerome says it was when the people declared "1 am of Paul and I of Apollosi &c." Now this state of things existed in the time of the Apostles. And if, according to Je rome's own words, Bishops were mads to check schism,' any man can tee that tho remedy ought to be applied when the evil existed, and that it would be folly to wait for two or three hundred years before this remedy was used. Such an eipltnaliort renders Jerome consistent with himself. This testimony amounts to this: The Apostles at first governed the Churches, and then Bishops and Presbytsrs were synonymous terms and governed tho Churches under their (viz: the Apostles) care or in subordination to them. But when each Presbyter began to claim the persons he baptised as his own, (which took place in the time of St. Paul and other Apos tles,) there was one of these Presbyters set over the rest, as Timothy over the Elders or Presbyters of Ephesus and Ti tus over those of Crete. And if you will consult any good author on Chronology, i-t i you win nnu tne appointments oi imnops took place about the time of this schism among the Corinthians ; thus showing that Jerome . was correct. Now, that Jerome believed that Bishops did have authority from the Apostles and were superior to Presbyters, is shown from his writings. He says "The Apostles were thy Fathers because they begat thee. But now that they have left the world, thou hast in their stead their sons, the Bishops.' Does not Jerome here plainly declare the Bishops to be in the stead (or successors) of ihe Apostles? Again in his Epistle to Evagrius, he asks, "What docs Bishop do that a Presbyter may not do except the power of ordination?" . Again "It is the custom of the Church for Bishops to go and invoke the Holy Spirit by im position of hands on such as were bap tised by the Presbyters and Deacons.' Here is the rile of confirmation performed by the Bishops. Now what more docs Episcopos or any other Episcopalian ask for a Bishop. Jerome declares he differs from a Presbyter in his possessing the high power of ordination and confirmation. This is nil we ask. You lay much stress on the opinion of Sherlock and others who think the Fathers contradict them selves, and you try to bring ridicule on Epiocopo by comparing him with them. Did Episcopos say they never contradicted themselves ? Did he not expressly de clare that he did not place such great con fidence in their opinions, believe, (if this will relieve you from your embarrass ment) that the Fathers contradict them- selves in their opinions ; but they d not ' conflict with each other al to the fact that Fpiscopacy was the government establish ed by the Apostles. And who said that the Bishops were not ambitious in the : lime of the suthors you have quoted? Sir, you have in this part of your letter only knocked down the phantom you llimicrlit whs before vou. Thev were am-. - O t . wit hill all that TCniaprtrtria -u1 that this ambition was not in itself suffi cient to prove they usxirpr.d their places. . Tho authors you quote bear testimony to the ambition of Bishops. But do they say ineir amumon enapieu mera io take iruiu Presbyters the right given them by Christ, and that the Presbyters silently submitted to their usurpation? do they say, that tne Bishops had at first no authority, but be- 4
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