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et- its In JMI V; f- 1U nit !H- 'id- rm, .ill .1 iriii !il. rfl tuf- ,kt p. ...a 1T rr CAROLINA WATCHMAN. V - , Salisbury, If. Ci THURSDAY EVRNING, OCTOBER IT, 1849. Til' 'CAROLINA -WAT ClMAN. 1 i . . M i ' BRUNEI & JAMES, Editors $ Proprietors. - Keep a checx upox all yovr RCLERS. DO THIS, AXD LlBETT IS SAFE." Gen'l.IIarrifn. NEW SERIES, VOLUME V.-LnUMBEU 21. FOR rRESIDENT, SALISBURY, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1848. JENERAI, ZACIIARY TAYLOR, their armor for the great battle on the 7th ' the form of our Government. OK LOUISIANA. 1 FOR VICE TRIDENT, MILUIH) FILLMORE, OF NEW YORK. iviiici i:L,rx'Toiis. Ptrr. No. 1 KEN NET I i RAYNER. 2 EDWARD BTANLY. 3 IIENRY W. MILLER. 4 W. II. WASHINGTON. 54(iEORCE DAVLS. CvJOlIN WINSLiOW. 7 JOHN k'ERR. RAWLEY CALLOWAY. 9 JAMES W. OSBORNE. 10 TODUf R. CALDWELL. 11 JOHN BAXTER. THE WHIGS AND THE WAR. Our readers, we are sure, will be astonished. if any thing from that quarter can astonish them, That these November. I were the motives which influenced Mil- Resolutrons u-pre nassp.d dfPrmimnT i n lrd Fillmore, is evinced by a fact care- attend the Mass Meeting at Rocky River tepJJrZ.ieW hS . h,S det,ract0,:s' ! b ,he following remarks of the government ... .1. . . mai xur. r nimore aia every ming in organ : on the 14th, aivl ftalisbury on the 25th.- his pmver to deny tQ Giddings an oppor. omims arm animaieu speecnes were tunity ot making a speech in his own de made by Messrs Scott, of the Club Charlotte,, who ha vorfd usjwith a pointed speech, conclud Whigs sustain the war ! Some patriotic. honest whigs did enter the service of their conn- From the National Intelligencer. A FALSE CHARGE DISPROVED. It is not an easy matter to prove a negative. Hut a false and absurd imputation on General Taylor, renewed at this moment, after being more than a year ago fjllv eiamined and re- j fated in this paper, we have it in our power. i A 1 t mm . . . Uarringer, Loner and lence, tor having presented the obnoxious i "ucn cauea on, went 10 -Mexico, ana tought upon trie testimony ot the Administration itself. ; and Mai Youn of resolutions. An extract from the journals I weu nul now w when they returned 7 , ny whose Inends it is now revived, utieily to nnnprl ffl hp nr.nK f, wil1 sufficiently sustain this fact, and make j "umrous (it not in all) cases they renounc. demolish. c had the charge preferred in the win iiru iu uc ijn M.nr, I1 .mi . y. . i . . . !ed their rnnnntiAn with t h ivkirr 4t 9 gross inilisf irf nf T nnnfnnn nmcc . in-, with happy anecdote illustrative of Extract from (he Journal of ihe Houge of Re. Air. Cass position towards the South, ! presentatices, 2d session 27th Congress, ! which was loudly cheered. Several of the ! March 22i, 1842, page 573 ' ! centlemcn tickled the demoeraov in thP "Pending the motion of Mr. Weller, for the htCllOIl, Tuesday (lay Of AOVCniber. short ribs with their old friend Martin nnt Previous question, Mr. Giddings inquired of the j7 We rr nuthriz il to nnnomVp SAvrF.r. (lAiTirr.R, 0f l)viilHon county, ns n Candidate for the ofiice i tir Grnefal if the 1th Division of North Cnroli- ijih'.iiia, vacated by the resignation of Maj. CJcnerol vaum. . j O U R T 0 W N Wrsents quite a business appear tic;- The McrchalM are receiving tliuir Fall iupply of Qoods in great abundance ; and, Lc learn, can sell many articles lower L : iir I .1 Li .L .1 3jan ever., i Ave nave no uouui, inai ine grounding public will find it greatly to heir advahtnge to visit Salisbury and hake purchases. No inland Town pre- ents such inducements in the way of Gro trirs and goods of i every description. Before closing this brief article, we de- lire tocall the attention of the people to the r,ev advertisements in this paper of M forgetting occasionally to wield that "bro kren sword" with great efTect against the 44 mock hero" of Hull's surrender. Rounds of applause followed, each other in rapid succession until the meeting finally ad journed in a " blaze of enthusiasm" not "lighted," however, by "Gen. Butler." You may depend upon old Cabarrus do ing her whole duty in November. A WHIG. t Concord, Oct. 12, 18 18. chair whether the effect of that question, if sua tained, would bo to exclude him from giving his reasons why the resolution should not pass ? "The Speaker decided that if Mr. Giddings desired to be heard in his defence, and claimed it as a matter of privilege, he would not enter tain the previous question at this time, as it would cut him off from his right of defence. their reasons for so doino- on ihe unnnirlnii' " X camliH mm ( i-iilir niri- -vn . ;n course pursued by them in regard to the war. look at the facts presented on th.; utlioial recorJs Call you this sustaining the war? No; the of the country, can fail to see that, if there he whigs, as a party, opposed the war, and did all any fault resting any where on the score of the in their power to prolong it, in the hope that march of our army to the Rio Grande, General the enemy might obtain some advantage, if they j I'aylor comes in lor a full share of it. He it is did not welcome' our soldiers, (old Zack to boot) who first advised and urged that movement, and it with bloody hands, to hospitable graves.' " was not sanctioned by the National Adminis Can any man read, without indignation the J tratlbn until after Mr. Slidell, and the protfeis assault made in this paragraph, by the organ of ; of negotiation with which he had been charged, the American Government, upon a great por- had been spurned with contumely by the Mx. lion of the American people ? Look at its reck- ican Government, and war had been actually less assertions. "Some Whigs did enter the : declared on its part, not merely fr the purpose service," thereby conveying the idea that their of recovering the territory said to be in di.ute, number was insignificantly small ! Rut when hut the entire btate From the -High!,;.,.! Amendment or ibe (V Repealed efforts hive in f .f. -made to amend ibe Conttitu i . ; sereral particulars. In the f.r.t ; tors are apportioned amortl.c ; lies of the State according lo lig ation paid by each, and not white population. Hence it rr white man in the county cf M u: weight in electing the Senate; -rBfn have in some other parti c f ; , the next place' no man can be a : he own, ihree hundred acres i member of the Home of Con : owns one hundred acres cf lar. !. All attempts to change thc5 till very recently, Ixenconf.nr ! ot the western part of the St.y?. twenty years ago Got. Morelr senting the county of Rock i n h t r . of Mr. Reid the Democratic car vernor, advocated these cban" tut ion. Gor. Swain also, ,c this county of Runcombe, co. speeches insisted on these alter. not only these prominent WLi-. wvst formerly occupied this gr. however, in the yar 1S33 pt: mendment in some repccts u:. getting any thing more, the . efforts. From the course, however, .' counties hare tuken in the 1 are inclined to hnp that they n ing to do us justice, by con$c:. ! But when hut the entire Slate ot Texas. Then it xvas " Mr.sGiddings then moved that the further ! they returned, "in numerous (if not in nearly that the movement suggested and urged by consideration of this subject be postponed until all) cases they renounced their connexion with General Taylor was u--i u ed to at Washing. 'PlllircJo r ivank i- a r I I lk .A U I. ! I I. WU:.- .. I l 'I'L. I1M 1 . . Thursday xveek next, to the end that he might prepare his defence. ' Debate arising on this motion, Mr. Fill more submitted that debate xvas not in order, terations ; and in common xvo I great mass of the western pe ; ' vocate earnestly these amcnJ.T, It is true, houever, that we c course of Mr. Reid, the Dernocr who seems to havo caught uj : , of Gov. Morehead, who was il man. We denounced Mr. Rei i ! he proposed to make the last From the New Orleans Bee. MILLARD FILLMORE TRIUMPH ANTLY DEFENDED. Case of the Creole Mr. Fillmore's Votes Another Calumny Exposed. In the batch of slanders which Locofocoism the Whig party! !" The Whigs, as a party, ton and that not as an act of aggression, but opposed the war, and did all in their power to as a purely defensive- measure defensive a prolong it, in the HOPE that the enemy might I gainst hostile incursions, not upon territory in ' tions, thai is to abolish the fit obtain some advantage, it they did not xvell. dispute between the two nations, hut upon the fr Senator K n)irtil in i una mat ine motion lor me previous question come our soldiers, (Ulu iach to hoot) " with territory ot one ot ine JMates ot this i-nion. (by Mr. Weller) should be now entertained by i bloody hands to hospitable graves! ! !" Of the history of the movement of the army the Speaker. i We need not stop to point out the glaring upon the Rio Grande, proving it to have been " The Speaker thentlecided thai, in his judg- ! contradictions which the above paragraph gives peremptorily ordered by the Piesident after ment, the matter before the House was a ques- j to itself hoxv its " some" in one sentence is Gen. Taylor had refused to as?u:ne the r.pon- Thus he xvas willing, he r ai who did not own land should vt ator, btit he nevertheless ini! should be elected by them i.:.' three hundred acres of land. II tion of privilege ; and that on a question involv- ! quite inconsistent with its "numerous" in the ,' sibility of such a movement when merely ad- that poor men should vote fr ! ing the privilege of a member of the House, the previous question could not be applied, and consequently, that the motion for postponement was open for debate. " From this decisien Mr. Fillmore took ap- in Louisana has fabricated, in the desper ate hope of injuring Gen. Taylor by stri rown fa Son and Brown & Elliott. king at him through Millard Fillmore, by peal to the House, and after debate, 1 ' ' 1 a . - . 1 1 . ; .... . Their assortment of goods. are excellent. 1 ,ar ll,e mosc Pror"lntint is ine charge. that " 1 he previous question on the appeal was all and sec them, and if not too hard to ,r , ?, y . , --. i J. . .u' : i ' .- in J- iiuiiuic uiucu nun itutjiieu oiuuings, ; u u, . uuun iitc nmiii uuesiiou ue now .lease, we know no one, m want of wear- ! the Abolitionist, in his infamous attempt ! put ?" ag apparel, or any thing else, can go a- j to justify by solemn resolution, the mutiny ! And passed in the affirmative. Way without buying. ! and murder perpetrated by a number of i Un the next day lne queston w P"t, viz M. Brown & Son also, have a large lot ! V irginia slaves on ooaruot ine ung ore- I rin i i n i Wliooks, which should attract the alien- ! ne cnarge is laise t orn beginning r. , ,. ... . . loenu n is lountieu on laisehoou, sustain un ui mo itfiiitiz puiiiiu. uinr 5- next hoxv it charges the Whigs with " oppos- vised to it, conclusive prr.ol xvill he lound in an he would compel them to elect t- ing the xvar, and, in the same breath, with do. ; article in the preceding page ol this paper, co- holder, aud not one of thcmf!n . ing all in their poxver to "prolong" it ! But we appeal to ihe people, whigs and democrats alike, to judge by their own knowledge of facts, whether the above charges against the whi party have the slightest foundation. lhere never was a nobler exhibition of pa- pied from the National Intelligencer ol June lje wat mso for pfjjj retainir 21, 1847. We republish that article not so basis of the Senate, by xvlich t much to convince our adversaries, who have man jn certain of the eastern c no desire to be convinced, as to fuitily those as much as those of six or ei; who are disposed to resist the odious imputa- west. He took this ground . Hon which is now attempted to be fixed upon Democratic friends, who rr triotism than that shown by the xvhigs of this Gen. Taylor of having advised the Admiuistra- the cast, are able br this un'ut " Shall the decision of the chair stand as the judgment of the House ?" And it xvas deter mined in the negative : Yeas 64, nays 118. So that Mr. Fillmore's views were mantained c( hx ingenious and dishnnpsit irnrhlmrr . , lblishmrnt is the onlx' one in Town ad- r i i i . i I ou the House, and Mr. biddings was thereby iDiisnmpni is me oni one ia l own, aa Congressional records.and wantonly palm- Zf,i h rni.;nZ ; .uc limSolAVinnt fn 4 1 1 litAsnwn (ncdn notarl! r . ! . 1 L .1.. ..1 f . I Miciaij tasiis 3 c. a3 cu upon me fieupie ui Louisiana ny a par- his odious resolutions. ihe nodv. we trust thev mav be xve re- : tv, vvnose solitary cnance ol success rests nA nnw Whia nnA n i ..... . ; . a warded for their trouble and risk. We u,Pn ,hc possibility ot deluding and mis- : laid bare to you the disreputable juggling of UXV risk, becausrrrhas been heretofore " :i(,m l,,e puonc minu. v e nave lauen that party which seeks toxetam power hy Iraud ft i , , i. , . 1 . some pains 10 investigate mis atrocious rrgarueu ns a losing uusmess lo invest , n i i . r.t t i yf 6 .: ; iutni. i,!,,. .,n,i an examination of the Journals rapital in books, ati the demand has not ; r the House of Representatives will con- nation. 1 bey could not, in conscience, sub- i tion to make war upon .Mexico. scribe to the infallibility of the President ofthe Now, for the remainder of the statement of United Slates, and they dared to think and to the Argus, by which it xvould shift from the declare that the war with Mexico might have shoulders of the Administration the rcsponsibil been avoided. So thought and so said some of it y ofthe war, brought on by the march to the the leading members of the democratic party. Ri Grande. That movement, says the Argus, And what earthly offence besides thi have the " was not sanctioned by the National Admin whigs committed. None under heaven. They istraium until after Mr. Slidell and the proffers have presumed to exercise the privilege not only of negotiation with which he had been charged, of freemen but of men, to think for themselves had been spurned with contumely by the Mrxi and to speak their honest thoughts. This is can Government, and war mad hp.en actual- tern hitherto great. AVe clip the folloxving from the Lynch urg V'irgini.-in. The compliment therein (ilfd tb our former Representative is xvell deserved. No man, we are sure, holds a ?! M. Barringcr. He arrived at home last week, and w e learn has taken thVfield in dead earnest for the old Hero. May he have tlie satisfaction of seeing his labors in the cause of right principles, crowned with success, i - ' x RON. MR- ilARniNGER, OF N. C. Weomitipd to mention in our last that the Rough and Heady Club of Lynchburg xvas ad and falsehood. Beaten at all points : baffled and foiled in every effort to deceive the people, and to traduce the fair fame of Taylor and Fill more, it has no other resource than to persist in the desperate game in which it is engaged. Its flimsy pretences hax'e been torn away ; its clusivfly establish Mr. Fillmore's inno cence, ami expose the. unscrupulousness and malice of his adversaries' c 1 r ,u . i r - t r wiiiu garbling; its taise assumptions ; its de sert in theiirst place, that when Giddings ... b r. . , r ,, . i i . . ,. . . ; liberate perversion of truth, have all been ex. presented his incendiary reso utions, a mo- . 'T . ., .u ii . . , . ! posed. Let it go on in the miserable career it tion xvas made to lay them on the table, tu0 r.ltina f rauc.,0i.a u,.a Vger space iu the affections of the peo- I "nd that Mr. b lllmore voted in the nega- Uoen extracted, and its bite is now harmless. e of this part of the State, than Daniel ! l,vo' leaving, tnc bare ana naked inter- j t-iicf, uy iiiM'iuiig i juwiot nnu uegfiaue the extent of thir offence. And for this, the officeholders, from the President down, endea vored to brand them with the foul charge of moral treason. Nothing could extenuate with them the crime of free and independent thought. But the public sentiment would not sustain the daring and despotic assumption by which it was made treason in the freemen of this codntry to calumnies have been nailed to the counter ; its ! differ in opinion from Mr. James K. Polk. The whole nation saxv that, while the xvhigs could rebuke the public servant at Washington for his errors and carelessness, they could set to work with right good will to avert the conse ly declared on its part." We are glad thai this assertion is so distinct and specific a to make it alike impossible to misunderstand it or to explain it away. The issue, moreover, is one of fact ; and all that we have got to do to demolish the charge, is to confront it with a competent witness to its falsity. Stand forth, then, Mr. Secretary of State ! The Executive Document No. GO ofthe last session of Congress contains the correspon dence between Mr. Secretary Buchanan and Mr. Slidell, our Minister in Mexico, and, as frequently to get the corrtrol eft! i He also advocates an equally ! tionment of the House of Cc:r when a member of the Legisla? ; moved to change the school lan that fund among the counties, r. while population as it then stoc !, to federal population, that is to i groes, by which means the rich ( counties of the east get a much I ' the money than do the western c large white population. BeiiiM her ofthe Legislature he never uc h change, though he xvell 1 in large letters, that the Whig candidate For Vice President Was, therefore, in fa vor of the resolutions. This falsehood, by implication, may at once be denuded of its flimsy covering. The Journal ofthe House shows that ON E HUN DRED AN D TWENTY-FIVE MEMBERS voted with Mr. Fillmore against laying the resolu tion on the table-; and among these r 1 . I " T ST'T .T r 1 A ITT names xve una those ot juili 15. iJAW- dressed. Saturday night, the 30th tilt, by the j SON, JOHlN MOORE and EDWARD D. occupied in acquiring this information might, won. Mr. Ilairinger, ol N.jC;. Not being in fln, xve were deprived ofthe pleasure of hear iig bini, and insert, therefore, the following no lice of the speech by the Patriot : I HOK. IX M. BARRINGER. Ttis dUtjnguished Whig representative from ino U!d In ort h State delivered an able and in INTERFERENCE OF FEDERAL OFFL CERS IN ELECTIONS ELEC. ! TION IN OHIO. We extract from the Augusta (Ga.) Consti- tutionalist (a Cass paper,) the following extract j C I I- . '. 1XT l I . oi a leuer irom i s raningr0ii correponoent. io ks jn jugt ige fjf he Virginia regi- hie interference with elections on the part of Polk's office holders. Why should the 2d As sistant Postmaster have full information "from almost everv county in every Slate ?" The time Legislature, and not the Govern- r, er to make the amendment. Ik earnest in desiring the change, . been a candidate for the LegU!' xvould have been able to introJj and vote for it. His course proved clearly th-.t ! this- single change merely for h : people, to procure votes enou;-'. and to carry a Democratic mv-: islature. In both of these ech?r the good sense ofthe people, K failed, and met the fate which r ' deserves. We are obliged to Mr. Rri! however. By getting the Per. east, xvhere they constitute thr r WHITE, being the entire delegation jrom Louisiana, together xvith a large number of members from the slaveholding States. This statement proves incontrovertible that IMr. Fillmore xvent xvith the South on the memorable occasion, and that in common xvith p. large ma jority oT the tnetn- we think, have been better employed in attend ing to the duties of his office, for xvhich he re. ceives a large salary. We are pleased, how. ever, to see that Ohio, in her State elections, xvhich take place on the 10th inst., xvill be cer tain against the Democratic candidates for Governor, regarding it as a sure omen that vie part of it, the instructions, by order ofthe Pre- quences of his negligence, and that, around the sident ofthe United States, forwarded by the flair nf ih tmunJ.ru. there was but one nartv Secretary to that Minister. TThc order for that of Americans. ' the march to the Rio Grande, ihe reader must Some whigs entered the service! WThy at recollect, xvas issued on the 13:h of January, least half the rank and file ofthe army were On the 20th day of January, one week xvhigs, to say nothing ofthose rather prominent precisely after ihe date of lhat order, Mr. Buc nersons.Tavlor. Scott, and others. In the very i hanan, transmitting to Mr. Slidell his commis- article from which we make Ihe extract, Ihe L'n- sion, jusi men ratineu uy ine enaic, insirucis port mm on itns issue, he has r him as follows : to the amendment of the ccn?:.' - . . - , , (II 11 . 1 W . - ' 1 &. I f I F W m 1 ment. Were there no whigs in lhat regiment r &nouia me Aiexican uoTcrnmem, nu;ii- arc lor noiatng incm on in ii. Did the strong whig counties or ihe strong de- ly refusing to receive you, consummate the act they shall not only abolish the fi mocratic counties for the State furnish the most of folly and bad faith of which ihey have afford- as ihey have tirlually agree;! t men? What force did the "Tenth Legion" d such strong indications, nothing trill then re. ibey shall a I so consent lo a!x !i raise? And what " old federal Augusta?" main for this Government but to take the redress basis of the Senate ; for it is a But they have nearly all renounced the xvhigs of the wrongs of its citizens into its own howls " justice lo say that every man ri since they returned ! 1 ! We need only place " In the mean lime, the President, in antici- vote for Senators, but that the v this assertion before the people, to whose cities, pation of ihe. final refusal of tlic Mexican Go- in the county of Martin slaU x - villages and neighborhoods, the volunteers have vernment to receive you, has ordered the army the votes of eight men in Buik- come back, and leave it to their personal of Texas to advance and take position on the By making these amendmer. --. i i . i n .1 - . l l. . 1 : ,J .! . r.t- ii knowledge to decide its accuracy. t , . . v j j trrestihg speech before the Rough and Ready L,ers he xvould not consent to treat the ne tltib, on Saturday niht. ;Ile warned ihe De mocratic party not to lay ihe flattering unction itMbeir souls, that North Carolina xvas falter ing in her allegiance to ihe Whig cause the iminutiou nf the 'Whig vte in the late election Hr,Gvvornpr was diie to a lecal question, which ould not operate in the President il contest. nd he cou(idenily expressed the b - i- L that the majority! for (Jen. Taylor, in November next, would rung betxveen six and eight thousand ,4 d V' .UP i - ik Kfff t ' farious resolutions with the usual parlia ment courtesy, but xvas in favor of com pelling Giddings to sue for permission to xvithdraxv them. And vet, this vote of These allegations, hoxvever, glaringly incor- rnt aa ihpv are. fade into utter insignificance tory, in the Presidential contest, will perch up- i by lhe a8toun(iiog charge, made by the organ on me sianu:iru oi i ay .or uu i n.m.nc of this government, that the xvhigs as a parly, " Ohio may be set down as certainly for Cass ! opDosed anj so.iht to prolong the xvar in the anu nuuei, s inai ivil-iiuiwiiu wu.hj m , HOPE TH IT THE ENEMY MIGHT OBTAIN SOME left bank of the Rio Grande ; aud has directed the majority ofthe people ban-' that a strong fleet shall be immediately assem- political power, as they ougli i on Monday next a majority for Toombs. In reference to this State, I have been very par Fillmore, xvhich is to be fouud in conjunc- ticular to inform myselfaccurately. Unxvilling tion xvith that ofthe xvhole Louisiana del- I to rely upon such information as had reached egation, is recklessly and flagitiously dis torted by Locofocoism and represented as a vote of aid and comfort to Giddings. Afier Mr, Uarringer had -concluded, Mr. Tun- We xvish the people ofthe State to re call, of Pittsylvania, being called on to address thsmeeling, responded in his peculiar dnd un-rt-ti. i n- A I ' I I " 'voru ijirain oi wn, uumor. anu eloquence. TH addreskea of both Tentlemen were "reeled .1 n . tythe audience with repeated and enthusiastic ppuuse. t ' i HON. N. BOVDEN member that Locofocoism reviles Millard Fillmore for voting side by side xvith John Moore and the lamented 'Dawson and White. This, however, is only part of the evi dence we shall present of the trickery and duplicity of Locofocoism. Much remains to be added. 1 he Cass and Butler press H.r Rfprfntativc in Congress, sine his return, home, jes;ncJy omjts aU reference to another been doing 2od service in the Whig cause when- Qf pillmorc in reference to the "t.rtn opportunity has presented itselt. lie addressed peopleofloid Iredell the Gibraltar of Whig prin- c Pl, t tbrir last Court, and at Newton, Catawba resolutions of Giddings. Before the lat ter withdrcxv his resolutions, another ques tion came before the House to xvit : 'Shall the main question be now put ?" Mr. Fill more, xvith a majority of the House, voted yuniy, last week tn reply to G keen W. Caldwell, the cofoco Klector for! the Mecklenburg District, in a rfu speech. This is (he way to do things. Let lhe rk go on. We call upon every Whig to be up and tatnj. njri?n arp nromisirir for one of the Prnndesl ; . i - ,i . "Ofnpbs which the WTiig Tarty has ever gained. From agree to the resolutions advantage, if the v did not " welcome our sol- diers xvith bloody hands to hospitable graves !" Is there a man who drew his first breath in A merica, capable of such an infamous wish? We do not believe it. We cannot believe it. We will not believe it even of those who left from almost every county in every yAyof at l$uena Vista, xvith four thousand raw learnt from him that five anti-Taylor trnnn, in lhQ c.ce 0f a splendidly disciplined - - i - army of twenty thousand men ; or of him, w ho admitted to Mexico, the General who dug thou sands upon thousands of ' hospitable graves" for our gallant countrymen. If, then, the xvhigs are willing to attribute these acts ofthe govern ment to blunder rather than criminal intention, ! what shall be said of a charge, brought by the ! organ of this very government, lhat the xvhigs, ! or in other words, half the American people, ! have opposed the war, hoping to see their oxvn j countrymen slain and the banner of their coun ' trr covered with disgrace ? If the charge be true, our republican expe riment has been a most signal failure. No o- ! iherland, upon which the sun shines, has brought t . IM forth such myriads ol monsters. i ne very bled in the gulf of Mexico.' It is thus proved, beyond the possibility of de nial, that the march of lhe army to the Ri Grande was ordered by the President in antici pation of the refusal of ihe Mexican Govern ment to receive Mr. Siid'll, and without any tree country, wui another goii low : It will make the Slate g departments etrongly and pen It is well known that the Wi chiefly in the western countic, nressed bv the present v?'ef; i : pretence of its being provoked by hostile de- the Democracyiof the f ait d 3 t me from excellent sources, I yesterday called on the 2d Assistant Postmaster, xvhose informa tion is full Stale, and Whigs had been regularly nominated for Con. gress, who were not only opposed to Taylor, but ardent1 in their support of Van Buren these men all support Ford, the Whig candidate for Governor, and the probability is, that John 1$. Weller, that noble friend of the South, will be defeated. This is expected, as I stated in my first letter ; indeed it is scarcely possible for it to be otherwise ; but he must be defeated by all of 20.000 majority, or the Slate goes easily and gracefully for Cass and Butler. This is the estimate in Ohio by the best judges." Now read what an intelligent correspondent of the National Intelligencer says ofthe pros, pects in Ohio : "There does not rest the shadow of a doubt xve tear tney win, xve are now i gel what we haTe long dejirr J. We regretted that Mr. Mar.! sion made any such' if sue. hoxvever, that he acted iu ace r views of some ofthe Whig i;i ! It is to lx regretted thatthn? ; livinrr in the midit of Locof k II 1 tg-KM-mm w m v - J no." thereby refusing to entertain the main UP" in" u 1 V. '"t " rx beasts ofthe forest will detend iheir caverns w . . iinnni ivhiir nerp aa in ine resuu. l no auo e House do .... '.- :7t . u ,r monstrations on the part ol Mexico. It cannot, therefore 1 true, but must be ad mitted to be false, that lhat movement was not sanctioned by the Administration until after Mr. Slidell had been spurned by the Mexican Go vernment, and war had been aclually declared on it part. If it were necessary to accumulate evidence on this point, more of it is to be found in the D cu- ficiently apprised ofthe po--:! sr rnent referred to. Mr. iSuchauan, lor example, Mate. Mr. .Manly hoxvever, U in a letter of ihe 'J-!b of January, to Mr. Slidell, eloquently, and most-gallan'Iv ues the fillowing language, xvith other expres- and succeeded iu beating hi sious. showing doubt, at least, mi the part ol the Executive, at that date, xvhether the Mexi. can Government would ically refjse to receive him : Should the Mexican Government, hoxvever, finally refuse to receive you, the cup oftbrar. ance will then have been exhausted. Xolhin; can remain but to lake lhe redress ofthe inju ries to our citizens, and the insults to our Go vernment, into our own liands." question, which xvas. " that tht .i r o mnA firtit Cnr thpir Lind. It was left for renub. mi I IfiTjSI fill ' , . -i. w - - - i rSp; innrnal K'ionwt. will, as they have heretofore been xvith ican America lo give birth to a people, half of I JU ' 1 no nr nmv nfrninHt us. and are running after i t i ja o .r.m; i,. n . . I M . HI. Illl II ...a7 . . . m - - - p. . - w . LTpartoflihe Country the news is cheering. The House of Representatl ves, 2d bession 27th . . of ffee goi Van Buren, the tre gathering around the standard of Taylor & Congress, pages 507 0 ii ana otV. author of the Sub-treasury and Imore by (housands, and ihe inock hero of modern, mocracy i fast sinking into i significance. Arouse 'nieioi vLu f t: r-. rr i T.:n - - 'vini vaiunim -menus oi lovior auu r m- fT; treasury and a catalogue ot It is true that Mr. Fillmore voted a- ther political iniquities. But these cannot ainst the preamble and resolutions offer- PREVEST us from carrying Ohio for Tay- cd bv Mr. Weller. His object xvas to LOr and Fillmore by a triumphant major- lover f ihe Constiiution and Laws, and place treat Giddings with xvithering contempt, ity ; certainly larger than Mr. Clay's, though r?d,oUl State in a higher and prouder position in as a brainless, crazy fanatic, not to ele- not so large as Harrison's." v V,i ranks than ever. vate him into consequence by ati appear- . i r ' ance of persecution. He wished to sec Kidnapping. At the Fall Term ol Wayne On Wednesday evening, the 11th inst., tjie resolution kicked out ofthe House,'as Superior Court this xveek, true bills of indict- c had a glorious meeting of the Rough the effusion of a madman and besotted menl were returned by the Grand Jury against ani Really Club in Concord. The enthu- biSot- Mr- Fillmore voted against all John p . Williams, of Wayne county, and Need. S that prevailed on that occasion re. proceedings, on the subject, deeming it ham Stephens and Bryant Sanders, of Johnston ;,- f ... , . . ,tn as much beneath the dignity ot the House county, for kidnapping of slaves. We learn and I ?. y camPa,Sn of 40 to discuss Mr. Gidding's insane folly, as it from a gentleman from Wayne, that the prison. a clearly cvined therVhigs are arous- xvould have been gravely to debate a pro- ers have succeeded in having their trial remov. JnJ from their slumbers and buckling on J position to dissolve the Union, or to change cd to Sampson county. Wilmington Journal their own shame. race, and ambitious of their oxvn Richmond Republican. The New York Whig Carlmen. The meet ing of these good and true Whig" at Vauxhall, on Thursday evening, xvas a superb one both as to numbers and spirit. The Star says lhat. aiiiiiip nit s!vs-y ry doubt rnurb if lhere are ihrenj xx ho wonhl have done the sarr. serves all lhe praise which en., htm. We remember once to !, in'which a swifi man carried Ms shoulder and beat his feal ha just ben perform ' Charles Manlr. He carrtcJ . beat Davy Reid. The result proves too the pr Hamburgh, of ',e, Whig party in the State. i luiiy oornc mis, ine exprruue ... not be subjected to any further! So far is the party from havi; : weakened, that we confide:'; lor and Fillmore a larger y.' been given in the Siate, 'I ' prfJuced in part by theco-r; t ocrats, many of whom itter The Cholera. A letter from Sept. l")ih, sis : 44 A number of violent cases of Asiatic cholera have already occurred, prin cipally among the lower orders of the people. Altogether there have been about 'JrO cases within fourteen days since the disease made its first appearance. About half of that number are convalescent. Every precaution has been amj jady" a lift this fall. taken by the authorities to prevent, as much as i it. j - , . nneci a lllA f l X A T I f) n at an early hour, "the room was densely from "Constantinople of .he 31 -t crowded, and before the meeting was organiz- Au2UStf gay lbal ,he cholera was still raging, ed many persons were obliged to leave : the' Letters from Beyrout, cf ihe 25th August. ay Garden outside-was one solid mass of human that the cholera is .decimating the inhabitants beings, there could not have been less V'f2-, ,Prcad at Berlin. 5!Srvi a:h: ! ThetePward of 1&00 case, since peech delivered by David Fan! Brown very beautiful one i its first appearance. Zack' luck always to have i; the battles be has won, an i l a defeat, lhat in the f.rt in-n ed or beaten. In fact, after i ry of Bucna' Vista it was rq for weeks thai fee had been Mexicans. But when the sr of battle have been dissipa?-: been seen triumphant. Ar , tbi contest.
Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N.C.)
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