Newspapers / The Tarborough Southerner (Tarboro, … / March 31, 1838, edition 1 / Page 2
Part of The Tarborough Southerner (Tarboro, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
as related to the question of a National Bank, and as one highly interesting to the Southern States particularly, that both the prices of thur great staples, and those of property generally, had, since the removal of the deposites, and the going down of the Bank of the United States, been higher, so far as he was able to inform himself, than they had through any scries of the same number of years, during the existence of, the National Bank. Is or was this esti mate made by the standard of bank notes, Xyhich were, perhaps, generally, at this time, at some three or tour per cent, dis count; but, allowing for the difference be tween notes and specie, would hold cood. It was certain that, during nearly the whole time of the existence of the charter of the JNational Bank, the whole nlaintns interest of the Southern States was, with the ex ception of a few prosperous years, almost entirely prostrated. That the tariff had a highly pernicious effect on those interests he did not doubt, nor did he doubt that the operations of the National Dank had like wise greatly aggravated the injury. He believed, at this time, that the Southern States enjoyed more real, substantial pros perity, as a whole, than they had done at any time since the Revolution, lhat there was some scarcity of money, and, in places, some commercial distress, he ad mitted; but he believed the great mass of the planters were more really prosperous Jlnan at aoy lormer time. Mr. Brown here makes some remarks -in reply to Messrs. Clay and Rives, and concludes his speech as follows : The Senator from Virginia, in making IT.? 1 f if . ins puuucai survey 01 puouc senumeni, in 4he different States of the Union, had in vaded the limits of the State which he in part had the honor to represent, and con jectures, from the elections held there in August last, for members of the Houe of Representatives, that the majority of the Slate is agninst the present Administration. lUr. B. said, without undertaking to de- cidc what public sentiment was, in that State, in reference to the policy of the Ad ministration, he could, at least, assure that gentleman, that he had formed an opinion respecting it, on grounds which were very fallible. It was true, that a majority of the members of the other branch of Con gress, elected from the State of North Ca rolina, at the last election, were in opposi tion to the Administration, but it was equally true that a majority of them, in 1S34, were likewise against the Adminis tration, and that it had continued to be the case from that time to the present period, with this difference, that the Opposition had gained one mo-e member in ti e last elections than they before had. It would, therefore, be seen that the Opposition were, ii 1834, represented by a majority of mem bers from North Carolina, and that at the elections of 1835, the same relative num ber vvas again returned. Never, said Mr. 13. had the great political questions of the day been more directly carried to the polls, in the State of North Carolina, than on the question of his own re-election; and, on no occasion, had the mends of the Adminis tration succeeded by a more decisive ma jority elected to the Legislature, the great question of the removal of the deposites then being before the people. According to tho modern Whig logic on the subject of instruction, which assumes every rule to instruct representatives but the right one, it would have been his duty, because a majority of Opposition members then represented North Carolina, and were re elected at the next year's elections, to have considered himself instructed then, and to -have resigned his seat, or have united with the Opposition, although just re-elected by so large a majority. His colleague, who so "Ably and honorably fills a scat in this body, was likewise elected to it when a majority ,of the members, in the other end of the Capitol, from North Carolina, were op posed to the Administration. Mr. B. .Said, in io State in the Union were the great body of the people more inclined to re-elect their Representatives, even some times of opposite politics, than were the people of North Carolina, in their elec tions, politics were not always made the Only test, as he believed they were not in gome of 4.he recent elections in that State. There had been no public meetings, as far as he was informed, in North Carolina, on the important questions now before the Senate, execptin the single county of War ren a county long celebrated for its ster ling Republican sentiments, and whose citizens had long been the .'friends and neighbors of that illustrious-friend of civil liberty, the I a to Nathaniel Maoon. A nore spontaneous and -unanimousiexpres-sion of sentiment never vvas ..given, by the people of any one county, in favor of a measure, than, he learned, had, on that oc casion, been declared, by their resolutions, in support of the present great measure pro posed by the Administration. In relation to the right of instruction, he would gay now, as he had on other occa sions, that none respected it more than him self, and none would more readily yield obedience .to it; or, if he could not, consis tently with his views of the Constitution, carry out such instructions as the Legisla ture of his State might choose, at any niC to give him, he should consider himself Xipund to return his trust to those who be stowed it, lhat their wishes might be repre sented by others, of like sentiments with their own. He had never considered him self, on any principle as to the right of in struction, bound to go in quest of public opinion, in discharging his duty here, on the great questions that come before him. In the absence of instructions from his Legislature, he made it a rule to pursue the dictates of his own judgment; but when resolutions should reach him, if any such should be. at any time, passed, they would either be obeyed, or a resignation of his seat, in the Senate, would be the only other alternative. In relation to the great right of instruction to Senators, no other rule had ever been contended for by the Re nnhlie.nn nartv. than that which he had v , j , suggested. He congratulated Senators, in opposition who now expressed so much exultation, at the instructions lately given to some of the friends of the Administration, on their im proved doctrines, on the -subject of that great Republican principle. The ready obedience which had been paid them by the senators instructed, was not a mere profession, but it formed an essential part of the political creed of the party to which they belonged. How great was the con trast, and how striking was the degree of resncct naid to their constituents, in the conduct of the friends of the Administra tion now, who are instructed by their Le gislatures, and thatof Opposition members, some years since, under similar circumstan ces! In the one case, it was obedience, respectfully given; in the other, disobedi ence, sometimes accompanied with reflec tions on those who gave them. 1 his es sential difference, on a great question of popular liberty, cannot fail to attract public attention, in deciding the question as to which of the two great parties is hereafter to administer the Government. Mr. B. must again repeat the opinion, that the issue now made up, before the country, and which it was called on now to decide, was substantially one, involving the important question, whether the peo ple or the banks were to rule, and whether the nation was to continue to govern itself, or to transfer its power, in effect, to irre sponsible moneyed corporations. If the Administration is put down iri this con test, he should consider it as tantamount 10 a ueciarauon to me woritj, mat the voice of freedom is extinct in our Republic, and that the national spirit has inglonousiy succumbed at the sordid shrine of thmo- ncyed power. 1 he most renowned repub lics in ancient times, had most successfully maintained their liberties, so long as they had taken for their guide the principles of an elevated patriotism. So long as this spirit had prevailed among them, they had maintained their independence; nut when they were overtaken by the debasing feel ings of avarice, and had yielded to their influence, their declension wafi rapid, till they had fallen into the arms of some ty rannical master, because they were unfit, longer, to govern themselves. The true way, not only to preserve liberty, but to preserve property, is for a nation to act on the high and honorable principles of our nature. Yielding great principles to mere momentary events, from selfish motives, ami a fear of meeting consequences, is, in most cases, in t.u end, but the sacrifice of permanent future good to a mere temporary benefit, and is, when considered as a mere question of interest, a great error. When the Romans, in the last days of their dege neracy, were -invaded by barbarian adven turers, and endeavored to purchase peace DV p:jngmem targe sums ol money, they but invited their return, with increased strength, to sack and overrun their coun try. For the American people now to submit to the demands of the banks and their partisans, is to render their rights and interests, hereafter, more insecure, by thus inviting new demands on them. Now is the time not by any violation of their rights to resist and weaken that great power, by the measure now proposed. If, sir, said Mr. B. the banking interest prevails in the contest, the unavoidable consequence will be to bring the high tariff and old Federal parties into power. Indi viduals of that party, who have been under the ban of public opinion, for their Dolitical misdeeds, for years past, will begin to look for their restoration to power with as much anxiety, as did the royal French emigrants ior me resiorauon ol the Bourbons to the throne of I ranee. Even the survivors of the old Hartford Convention may become inspired with new hones: and Abolition will no doubt join in doing honor to the occasion, with increased hopes of accom plishing its fatal purposes. He now considered it his duty to notice some remarks which had fallen from the Senator frcm New York, Mr. Tall- m.iue, uaving allusion to the future pros peels of the present Administration, in re 0.-. - oc.inujui. in remarking on the residts of the late elections, in the aiaieoi iew York, that gentleman has, hi empuaiic language, warned the present v..mei .jgisiraic, uoless he changed his course, to beware of the Ides of Nnvom her, lS40,Mr. Tallmadge, having obtain ed permission to explain, said thai he had referred to the next Fall elections Mr. B. resumed, and said that although he had misunderstood the Senator as to dales, yet his remark did not, with the less force,' ap ply to the great issue, which was now'rna kiug up on the next Presidential election, and was to be considered to be intended' as a warning to the President of the Uni ted States, to beware of the fate which, it 's intimated, then awaits him. In reply he could onty say, that if the State of Ne w York, great in resources, great in tntelh-j gence, and equally ciisunguisneu iur high and patriotic Dearmgs, in every uhu cult crisis, gave way and yielded in the present great contest, that her sons would be forgetful of the principles, and of. the revered Republican names, which had so hichlv adorned her annals. That it would mark the extinction of that sacred spirit of liberty and of valor, which had won for her the never-fading honors of Saratoga, where the tide of war in the Revolution was first successfully turned against nroud and powerful invading army. Mr. B. said that the period which mark ed the greatest degeneracy of the Roman empire, before its final dissolution, was lhat in which the office of Emperor was set up to sale by the praetorian bands, and the successful candidate borne to me imperial throne on the shields of amercenary sol diery. If, at this early day, and in the youth of our Republic, the present Chiel Magistrate is to be driven from power, for the high and honorable stand that he has taken, in behalf of the rights of the people and the Constitution, it will mark a dege neracy in our country, equally rapid and ominous of the fate of its free institutions. Borne to the Presidential office by the praetorian bands of the banks, his succes sor would be but the honored tool of the moneyed power, which had triumphed over the Constitution. It had, said Mr. B. been the fate of the ancient Republics of Greece, to loose their liberties at the fatal battle of Chcronea. The Republic of Rome had lost its liber ties at the equally disastrous battle of Phar salia; but the heroic deeds of the brave men who fell in the struggles for them, in both countries, yet lived in fame, and the pen of the historian had immortalized them. But what would be the sentence of the fu ture historian of-this country, who should record that our young Republic had been iugloriously conquered by the moneyed power, and had, thus yielded up all the laurels which its fortitude, wisdom, and valor, on all great occasions, have won for it? He did not, however, indulge in gloo my anticipations, as to the result of the de rision ol the people, on the great questions now at issue. On the contrary, he saw nothing, either in the times, or in the cir cumstances of the limes, to discourage the mends ot tree Government: but everv j thing, in looking t the past history of our country, and its capacity to rise superior to ditiu ulty, to presage victory, and cheer its friends with the bright promise of ulti mate triumph and reruin success. '61 SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1833. tt7We invite attention in ihe Speech of the Hon. 13. Brown, on the Independent Treasury bill, whirh occupies so large a portion of our columns. It will be perused, doubtless, with the greatest satisfaction by the Democracy of this State, who will ex uhingly point to this speech, and to that of the Hon. R. Strange, as correctly repre senting their views on this all-absorbing topic. Independent Treasury This bill passed its third reading and was ordered to be engrossed in the Senate on Saturday night last, at 9 o'clock, by a majority of I WO votes.7 to 25, as follows : Iras Messrs. Allen, Benton, Brown Clav. of Alabama. Cnthhprt bard, King, Linn, Lumpkin, Lyon, Mor ns, ronton, iiles, Norvell, Pierce Koane, Robinson, Sevier, Smith, of Con necticut, Strange, Trotter, YValker, Wall Williams, Wright, Younc 27. AW Messrs Bayard. Buchanan. Cal houn, Clay, of Kentucky, Clayton, Crit- leuuen. uavis, Orundy, Knight, McKean Merrick, Nicholas, Prentiss, Preston Rives, Robins, Ruggles, Smith, of li.dl na, Southard, Spence, Swift, Tallmadge, ijjiuii, eusier, ivime- uo. r . . rrevious to its passage, on motion of Mr. Cuthberl, ofGa. the 23d section, (Mr. aiuoun s amendment) requiring the reve nue to be paid in specie, wag stricken out by a vote of 21, to 31, Messrs. Brown and Strange voting in the negative.! Mr ... uSici men imrouuced a clause to fill the vacancy, which in effect prohibits the Secretary of the Treasury from making -.y injunction between the different branches of ihe public revenue, as to the Kind of funds, or medium of navment which ihe debis or dues accruing ir th. f1 .... O government shall be paid: which oassed. ayes 37, nays 14. Mr. Calhoun then roP and announced his determination to vnt. against the bill, as the striking out the 23d section would be in effect to rwinrp .u deposite bank system, and the bill without that section "will be as great a farce as wag ever d! t - v - y vuumry, 4. ne engrossed bill will again come before the ! Setiate, and we trust that the specie provi sion will be re-inserted ; we cannot but re gard this as the rnost important and salu tary feature of the bill. CONGRESS. In the Senate, on the 19th inst. a peti tion was presented, praying Congress to nmnnsp 9 L'onirress of Nations for the preservation ol peace. Mr. Morris presented a resolution in structing the committee on the Judiciary to inquire whether the laws in regard to the slave trade, were sufficient lo prohibit ilmt traffic between this country and Texas flaid on the table, 32 to 9 votes. On ttie21st a vote was taken on Air. Rives's substitute for the Independent Treasury Bill, which was rejected 30 to 22. In the House, on the 19ih, several peli lions were presented, praying for the ex pulsion of all who were concerned in the late duel, which were referred to a seleci committee on the subject. On the 21st, a resolution was agreed to, calling for information relative to the capture ol Indians, by Gen. Jesup, under a (lag of truce. On the 23d, the bill making appropria tion for the Civil and Diplomatic expendi tures of the Government, for the year 1 838, was taken up, and is now under discussion. Mn Cambreleng has reported a bill for the re-issue of $10,000,000 in Treasury Notes. CTThe Whig members of the Legisla ture of Louisiana, held a meeting on the 12th inst. and appointed ten delegates to represent that Stale in a National Conven tion to be held hi Philadelphia on the 4lh July next and recommended the nomina tion of Heury Clay of Ky., for the Presi dency of the United Slates. Our State Capitol. We find the fol lowing Communication in ihe last Stand ard, in reply to certain questions asked by ihe Cditor of the Carolina Gazette : RaUigh, March 19th, 1838. Mr. Lorlug: Dear Sir With regard to the Questions in ihe Carolina Gazette, which you handed me today, about when this State Capiiol is to be finished, as well as ihe sum already appropriated and how much more will be required to complete it; I can reply to only one of them in a satisfactory manner; that is, lhat ihere have been $395,000 appropriated by the Legislature, all of which has been expend ed on the Building to about $15,000; so lhat it will require about $20,000 in or der to carry on ihe work with the same spirit till the meeting of ihe next Assembly. In the meantime, the workmen are busily engaged wiih ihe gram arching which lorms at once the ceiling of the Executive omces as well as ihe floor of ihe Halls. And I may mention that besides ihe force employed on the Square and Ouarrv.wp have arlizans employed modelling Plaster Enrichments; wood Carvers, carving Mol dings and capiiols of Columns; Cabinet ana vnair makers about Furniture; Iron Founders, about cast iron ornaments; and aiso that the doors and windows bein," ".ue, we nave the glass as well as the stair railing on the Square, as well as other ma terials, in short the Commissioners have not lost a moment in forwarding the ope rations of this great work, with which they are entrusted by the Legislature. I am, Dear Sir, respectfully, David paton. T" . -r . ape rear uanlc. lbe Branch of the Bank of Cape Fear, for this city, com menced operations yesterday. Rcdeigh Standard. A'ew Hampshire Elect ion.-Gov. Isaac tint, ihe Democratic candidate, is elected by upwards of three thousand majority. I he New Hampshire Patriot sayS lhat eight of the twelve Senators are demo cratic, and lhat there will be from 20 to 30 majority on the same side in the House. 07The Western Carolinian of the 23d mst. states that while ihe Superior Courl was m session in Salisbury, on the Wed "esday preceding, Mr. Richard B,rhp. . juror, was visited with a si-m,- r nlexv. whirh . .. V."oc.ul aP ':'.'V ":u ins me in a few iiuuics. Mr. Barber was a wonhy man ana a most exemplary Episcopal Church. ib. member of the IKlmington Raleigh Rail Road. We learn that bv thp fi-f. r m " ihoct ' t.T , i ii. ;a ..i : . 4 U1 wiayt al ar- chys, 3 m,!es abov i?l,u miles from Wilmin " r thereafter. ?. "' v,,e monll J..v a . ",u,c u" me ist of 5 more Thi -7 of AB, .re' , Th,s WH make 59 miles and a'eVhe "oss roads from Faje teville to Duplm Old Conr. h- r?i . ,e ed tl! whhas recently traVeU Chte l-r "yt""Wy de 'Sbted with our lin? ;of l R and Steam Boats. If the road t1A( i i ? .i ' -...i t i . ue Com. pieieu in me fcivic in wiucn it haj u pnmmrnrpil. it fertatnlv will .. . v uc ine splendid roaa in -me country. The sengers were all highly pleased wiib speed and force." ltl Wp nrp informed llmi AH t. I f .1 I , entI paid in by individual stockholders, and ? ment is now called for, and of course be promptly granted, and the work on t road will be prosecuted with vigor. 1 ' (T?-At the March term of the Soper; Courl for Orange county jQsl c,ns Judge Toomer presiding, Juba, a slaved ' longing to Isaac Griffiths, was for a rape committed on a young h", woman, convicted and sentenced i0 i hung on Friday ihe I3ih of April next ' Ral fa .. o G7The first ground was broken at C0. loinbia, S. C. or. the 9ih inst. in ihe greaj enterprixe of the Louisville, Cincinnati Charleston Rail Road, on which occasion the President, Gen. Hayue, delivered aa' able Address. ib. G7Col. Stevens, of Hoboken, N. j died last week, and w as buried with great honors. He was the next in steamboat in, ventions to Fulton, and built the second boat that ran on the Hudson. He was ike oldest and probably the best Mechanist ia this country, and is well known as the ok. ner, with his son R. L. Slevens, of the bey boats on the North River. On the da? of the funeral, the flags of ihe different boats running, and of alt those lying at wharves in New York, were displayed at half mast. x'6. The price of Cotton At New Orlearu, on Wednesday last, the 14th, 1 ,307 bait! were sold, at the low price of from 73 io 9 cents. On Thursday, 1,391 bales st from 75 to 9. At Charleston, the sales last wee! amounted to 7,411 bales, at from 7 toll cents mostly at 9, 95 and 10. The sales here, during the past wee'; have been from 7 to 81 cents. Tobacco has risen in this market: a salt of 50 hhds. yesterday at a considerable ad vance. ray Obs. Mississippi. A bill to release ihe banks of Mississippi from "damages on nrotesieii paper, passed the Legislature of that Stan recently, and was vetoed by bov. McNott Both Houses were very much inrenseda! the Governor, and came to a determination not to sustain him in his course, hill;; House, thereto was nullified by avoteai 37 yeas and 9 nays. On the vote being declared, the Legislative Hall rang with the most deafening manifestations of joy, In the Senate, the veto was rejected by a vole IG to 5. C7The New York American of Wed-! nesday publishes a letter from Boston,! said to be from the highest authority; which states that the Banks of Boston are ready to co-operate with those of Ne York in the resumptionof specie payments. Baltimore Banks. Wc observe by official statements that the Banks in Balti more owe to New York near seven bar,' dred thousand dollars, which sum is wifnis; two hundred thousand dollars of specie their vaults. To meet the claim, we lean they have a large sum due them from Vir-, ginia and other Southern Institutions, and will be prepared to adjust their balances whenever a general resumption shall tat! effect. This, it is thought, will not be de layed beyond DO days after New Yori shall set the example. j U. S. Bank. The N. York Journal i Commerce says: "We learn that at ths present time just about half the stock oft! U. S. Bank is held in Europe, and as the riJl-'u i vi me snares in London p-w a good profit on the price here, and theli accounts from there warranted the expect i tjon of a further advance, it is probabla that a good portion of what still remain here, will be moving off.' The Patriot "whereabouts." Dc. Dun combe, the expatriated Canadian, address ed a large assembly at the Theatre at Co lumbus, (Ohio,) on the 13th inst. Mr. Alackenzie is about to establish a papers' t Philadelphia. Drs. Cole and Nelson are n errnont on bail. Generals Sutnerl and Van Rensselaer are in prison. c... ouinerianu attempted to bleea himself to death on the 13ih in prison at will be tried when strong enough, ani there seems to be little doubt of his fate. Ihe examination of Gen. Van Rensse- j laer, before Judge Conkling, U. S. Court j at Auburn, has closed, and for want or j bail the field marshal has been transfer to Albany Jail. A, y. Star. j Fearful Accident While tlie I UIIU WU5 lound npnrlv nnne. Uc steamer Sir William Wallace was f going round Dauphin Island on bef passage from Mobile to New Or- f
The Tarborough Southerner (Tarboro, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
March 31, 1838, edition 1
2
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75