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Tarboroush, (Edgecombe County, X. C) Saturday, March 23, 1839
Vol XV o. ,2.
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.iiiu - I o J '
received his
Fall and Winter
ConIs'ing of supeifine blue and black
Cloths
Invisible green and brown do.
Sniped and corded Cassimeres of various
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Plain black and figured Vestings,
do black and figured Velvets,
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do do Marseilles,
Plain black and fancy Slocks, Umbrellis,
13oson, Collars, Gloves, Suspenders, &c.
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He trusts by due attention to business,
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him with their orders.
Me alo will keep constantly on hand
anassortmcnt of
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11. Johnston,
EOS leave lo inform his customers
a.id the public, that he has
lleceivcd hi Fall Supply of
Of all the most Fashionable Articles,
Suitable f;r Gentlemen's wear.
SUCH AS
S iperfine Cloths, Cassimeres & Vesting,
leaver rluth and Lion skin, for overcoats,
Camblet for cloaks,
kiks. Collars, Bosoms, and black silk
Cravats,
Sjspcuders, of superior quality.
He also has a f?w
Tine black beaver Hals,
Of the latest lashion. Gentlemen wish
to purchase Goods in his line, will do
'11 to call :nd examine before they pu-
as he is delei mined to sell low for
("si, or ou a short credit to punctual
cii-itorners.
Tarboi-i,', Nov. i5:h, 1S3S.
At the cheap Cash Store.
JAMES WEDDELL,
JAS now on hand a large and general
assortment of
Groceries, Hardware, cutlery.
C) '
""''in. Glass and Earthenware, Cot
w Dll3ins Hope, Twine, S-c be
pr!ch he uffers cheap for Cash, country
Un 6' r n a S,,0rt cre,,t ,G P,,r,(,ual
nov. a-itn, is..
Cotton Yarn.
subscriber has iust received n
liU'nl ,nrUy of Co,,on Yirn differeni
ftivPr fS' lhe fnc,ry at the Falls Tar
r winch le win sell on reasonable
JaccoinmodaiinS terms.
'farbo
GEO. HOWARD.
ro j February 27.
REMARKS OF MR. STAXLY.
On the motion for an inquiry into the
late defalcations of Pubnc Officers.
T UE SO A V, J A N UA UV 17, 1839.
concluded.)
If I lnd ime I could give him manv in
stances of democratic nbolitionists. Only
one more now, sir: You know, sir f r
there arc many things you know Mr. Spea
kerthat there was an election recently
held in Massieh.netts, in which a brother
o Mr. Woodbury received the votes of the
abolttionsts; they refusing to vote for eith
er ot the other candidates. Now, sir, the
Ulobe, (which never departs from the truth,
you know, sir) in the piper of Thursdu
mght, December 27th, 183S, has the fol
lowing article:
"Another Abolition Misrep;iesent
ation. -In mentioning the result of the
In c election for Congress in Mr. Parmpn.
ter's district, where the choice was nreven-
tea dv anon l ion -votes, several of the Fede
ral papers, a id ?among them that mo:!el of
candor, the Intelligencer, Jiave remarked
that a gre t part of the abolition votes were
thrown for James T. Woodbury, a brother
of the Secretary of Treasury.
"We regard this transaction, upon the
facts which have been communicated to us,
is one of the most palpable illustrations f
the' intrigues and management between
whigery and abolitionism that wc br.ve
heard of. While they unite in opposing
the Administration on account of the uo
flinching support it accords to the rights of
property guarantied by the Constitution of
the United States, they have sought out
the nameof a person who is the brother to
a member of the Administration, well
known throughout his whole political lifi
to be totally opposed to I heir disorgani
zing' schemes, and this brother, a clergy
man, settled in an obscure parish, and have
cast enough of their votes for him, 7 ndou h t
edly against his consent, for the double
purpose of defeating an election and, at the
same lime, affording some possible ground
for suspicion and prejudice ngaint the sin
cerity of the Administration! This
scheme, in refinement, even exceeds the
joint management of the abolition whigs in
New York, and may afford a beneficial les
son to the Public."
It is not often, sir, I see that paper, nnd
the article might have passed without no
tice, but that I soon after saw the letter of
Mr. Woodbury, the brother of the "Mv
dear sir" of the Representative from Ham
ilton county, Ohio. I want this cditori.il
article and his letter lo appear together in
my speech.
. "rfcton, Dec. 15, 1S3S.
"HnoTttER Piiklps: The resolutions of
our late anti-slavery meeting at Concord, as
they ultimately passed, pleased me, partic
ularly those about questioning candidates.
I could not well stay to meet you in com
mittee on the same, as Pdesired and design
ed. On reflection, I see the nronrietv and
the necessity of holding the candidate to
his firs answer. It that answer be doubtful
or defective, I think it musi be designedly'
so; for the interrogatories are few, and un
ambiguous, and simple.
"I believe fVe the People9 of the N'orth
are becfinninir to find out what we have to
D O
do withslaverv, and, what is far belter, are
beginning faithfully and consistently to do
it. I believe that this carrying our abolition
to the ballot box may, with great propriety
he made a test question. VVhat is the a
mountofall our talk, if we refuse efficient
ly to act for the sUve? The Richmond
Enanirer man iust bceins to tremble about
abolition. W hat! go to the polls and vote
lor a man as Keprescntative lo the united
States Congress who will not declare him
self in favor of immediately abolishing slav
ery in the District of Columbia and the U
nitcd States Territories, and the internal,
or, if you please, infernal slave-trade?
I could, with my present views, no more
do it, than I could be a slaveholder or a
slavedealer in the District of Columbia or
own one of those slave ships that ply be
tween Alexandria and New Orleans; for the
one, in effect, enacts the laws under which
the other carries on the bloody business.
And any man, on slight reflection, must see
this. I am confident that all true abolition
ists vvill very soon come up to the mark on
this point, and let all the world see our con
sistency. "Yours in labor and sacrifice for the
slave. JAMES T. WOODBURY."
I hope this will satisfy the gentleman that
a democrat, a friend of this Administration,
may be an abolitionist. - -
But let us return to the letter.
Every thing the writer said in the last
fpw of the wealthy rjro-
prietors) t look as if pestilence and famine
had been making their sad innovation." It
is remarkable how fond all these followers
of Mr. Van Buren are of railing against
wealth. In this sentence we have a little
of it. The gentleman's speech repeatedly
reerred to the "anti-republican tendencies.
of associated wealth. He railed aginst the
moaeyed associations" of our country.
' nai letter continues, sir (and I hope you
will remember that this coarse, horrible
due is applied to North Carolina as one
of the slave-holdinor Statps
"The anger of Go J and the vengeance of
Heaven seem to rest upon every thing up
on which you can cast vour eye3. Every
prospect seems to be withered and wilted
by the frown of disapprobation of aven
ging justice and violated humanity. In
srnrt, almost every prosperity, public and
priva e, seems to be sicke iing and dving
trom the corrupting and ccrr ;ding effj; ts
o' shvory. Jut the curse be on the head
of those who s istain such an institution."
Now, sir, I ask you if you have ever
hear I or read from any avowed abolitonist
more horrible, shameful, miserable, mali
cious slander, upon slaveholders and the
sl ivcholding country, than I have here re id
in this letter from this defender of the Ad
ministration? Did the gentleman from
Aiassachusetts (Mr. Adams) in all his in
temperate, unjustifiable remarks about sla
very, ever assert any thing half as abusive?
Mas the gentleman from Vermont, (Mr.
Sla-le,) who is regarded as tne great leader
of ihe abolitionists of this House, has he
ever used such expressions so unworthy a
man of feeling, so unbecoming a Represen
tative on this lioor? No, sir; no, sir; nei
ther one of them, or any other abolitionist
has ever done the South greater injustice,
has ever given expression to such de estable
opinions. And yet, sir, this man wiio says
slavery '"involve in it, as well in i s pres
ent possession as in its future operations,
crime, fraud, theft, robbery, murder and
death!' who says "but the curse be on
the head of those who sustain such an in
stitution" tnis individual is Who, sir?
Who is he, Mr. Speaker? Why, sir, he
is the Representative from Hamilton coun
ty, O-hi-0. A locofoco democrat the
vcrv personification of Ioco-foco democracy
the ''dear sir" of Amos Kendall and Le
vi Woodbury the beloved defender of the
measures of Martin Van Buren! And has
he, sir, lost any of the love and confidence
of the President or his friends since he
wrote tis iciter? No, sir, far from it. At
the iasi session he published a speech, "by
authority," which was i.ever spoken; and
now, sir, we find him (ddressing letters to
the heads ot the Departments, asking in
formation for the purpose of enabling him
to make some reply in favor of "the Ad
ministration and the Democratic party !"
tie tells us in his speech to-day that he had
"information furnished," and he has shown
us, by letters he read, from whom the in-
forma'ion came. Mr. Van Buren is a
irv'at frigid of the South, but he loves those
who anh'ir slavery, and the abhorrers love
him. D es not this strengthen the evidence,
the stroug evidence before the world, that
the Piesiuent is but
"A buvcring temporizer, that
Canst with thine eyes at once see good and evil,
Inclining to them both?"
Sir, the gentleman who deals so largely
in figures, (and I again give him the credit
of dealing in figures, and 1 believe he can
take as many strong pints in a case as any
democrat on this floor) the gentleman
surely never has been in a country where
slavery was tolerated. Are there any evi
dences ot the "anger oi bod, and the ven
geance of Heaven" to be seen here, except
what locoloco democracy has mlhcted upon
us? Did he see the evidences of the
"blighting effects" of slavery in Kentucky?
The Kentucky line is not far from his
home. Where are you, Representatives
from old Kentucky? Ye who come from
that State which has been proudly called
"the land of the brave and home of the
free?" Is this a correct account of your
homes? Does your fair land "bear the
impress of poverty and dilapidation," and
does it look "as if pestilence and famine
had been making their sad innovations?"
Here several voices were heard, "o, no!
lalse, false!" &c. &c Where is the Rep
resentative from the district in Kentucky,
near Hamilton county, Ohio? Does "lean,
hungry sterility, squalid wretchedness,
seem to cover" the face of your district?
Is every prospect there withered and wil
ted by the frown and disapprobation of
ayengmg justice and violated humanity?
Are aliyour institutions sickining & dying
from the corrupting and corroding effects
of slavery?
Here Mr. Southgate, of Kentucky
said: It is a foul libel, a base slander, upon
my constituents and upon my State.
Mr. Stanly: Mr. Speaker, my blood
runs cold when I read such expressions as
these and think of my home and my con
stituents. I sicken at reading such dis
graceful slander upon men of all parties,
upon Christians of all denominations, who
are slaveholders. Nothing, sir, but the
rules of the House restrain me from ex
pressing, in language which my Jeelings
would dictate, my abhorrence, detestation,
and contempt of the author of such senti
ments otthis "dear sir" of the party, of
the Caliban pet of the Globe, who writes
thus of slaveholders, and then votes with
the South upon all the caucus resolutions
''eept that which lays petitions on the ta
ble!
VVould it he unkind, Mr. Speaker, to
'iMv a me gentleman from Ohio attended
the caucus? Would it be respectful, sir,
to hint that these resolutions were so delib
erately prepared, so carefully worded, as
to allow anti-abolition abhorrers to vote up
on them, and yet be consistent? Could it
have been, sir, that these resolutions were
reconsidered and amended to please such
democratic friends of the South as these
anti-sbolitionists? Verily, sir, 1 suspect
as much.
Towards the conclusion of the letter the
writer says, "he has been unable to concur
in abolitionism;" he "fears the elfects would
b? more fatal lo the unhappy and unfortu
nate African than even slavery itself!"
How kind how full of philanthrohy, how
full of feeling for the'unhappy an I unfor
tunate African!" butfor the whites not a
word of pity !
Although not an abolitionist, how kindly
he speaks of them:
"It would be arrogance in me and show
a great want of generosity and liberality,
to hesitate for a moment to believe that,
in the greater number of cases, the spirit
of abolitionism flows from any other than
the purest fountains of charity and humani
ty!" Mr. Speaker, I have in my comments
come to near the end of the letter. I hope
I have not wearied the House, though im
pelled by my feelings, and excited by fre
quent interruptions, I may have occupied
more time than l am aware ot. tJjfore I
turn away from this subject, let me read
from the beginning f the letter the answers
to the first and second queries:
'Question 1st. Do you believe that
Congress should maintain, unabridged, the
right of the People to petition for the abo
lition of slavery and the slave trade in the
Distsict of Columbia?
Here Mr. Duncan, who was standing in
front of Mr. Stanly, answered "I do, "J
There, sir, he comes out like a man, and
anstvers that question here on this floor.
Well, sir, after speaking in favor of the
right of petition, he says:
"So long as I have a seat in Congress, I
will receive, and present abolition and all
other kinds of petitions, proper to be pre
sented. I will also move their reference
to the appropriate committees, and do what
ever else may be proper to be done, to bring
the subject-matter before the body in which
1 may have a seat, for its regular action.
This far I would consider my unavoidable
duty, but as 1 am not interrogated as to the
balance of my duty, it is not expected I
should answer.
A little of non-committal in this avoiding
to answer when not interrogated. But then
comes the second question; and I want mv
democratic colleagues to hear this answer,
and 1 call attention to the coincidence of
opinion between the gentleman from Ohio
and abolitionists on this point:
"Question 2d. Are you opposed to the
admission of any new State into the Fed
eral Union whose Constitutions tolerates
slavery?"
Mr. Stanly read this question, and Mr.
Duncan was standing near, and answered
"I am. "J
Mr. Speaker, here we have from a dem
ocrat, a supporter, friend, and champion of
inis Administration, the concession that he
is opposed to the admission of Florida into
this Cnion. Here, sir, we have the author
ship of this letter admitted, and the queries
responded to in our presence. Let none of
my colleagues hereafter say that this letter
is a forgery ; let then see, now, in his true
character, their democratic friend of South
ern institutions, who voted so well with
them on the Resolutions of the 12th Decem
ber! Mr. Speaker, if any one of my colleagues
should feel alarmed either individually or
for his constituents, on account of abolition;
if he thinks he cannot act with the Whigs,
because some of them are abolitionists, lei
me ask him if he will join that parly in
which this letter-writer is a great warrior;
If, sir, he flies from the cold, icy embrace
of the centleman trom Vermont (Mr.
j
Slade) let me beseech him to avoid the
arms of the democrat representative from
Hamilton county, Ohio! Sir, I could not
predict the consequences of such an em
brace. He would be most horribly "ab
sorbed." For my own part, I had rather
"Lie in cold obstruction and to rot: i
This sensible warm motion to become
A kneaded cldd; and the delighted spirit
To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside
In thrilling regions of thick ribb'd ice;
To be imprisoned in the viewless wind 3,
And blown with restless violence round about
The pendent world;"
Yes, sir, all this, rather than be the vic
tim of such absorption!
It may be a matter of taste, and it may
be bad taste, but 1 had rather pass a night
in FalstafPs buck basket, rammed in with
socks, foul stockings, and greasy napkins,
"atlhcted by the ranKest compound of
villainous smell that ever olfended nos
tril," than to undergo such a locofoco em
brace !
Mr. Speaker, I have finished with the
letter; I quit, I turn away from its disgust
ing details, witn pleasure.
Here Mr. Duncan said, Read the
whole of tire letter.
Mr. Stanly said; there is too much of it,
I can't stand it.
Let nte read it, said Mr. Duncan.
Mr. S. Mr Speaker, I wish he had an
opportunity of reading the letter to the
House; I should like to ses the Southern
democrats listening to him! If it is in or
der, I would make a motion that he be al
lowed to go to the Speaker's chair, and
explain I should like to see the exhibi
tion? Sir. I have not the nhvsical strength
to read and comment on the whole of that
letter at this time; I h ive not strength of
lungs sufficient to answer all the. remarks
of that good democrat. Sir, a great part
of his speech was about matter! did not
understand; he lnd much about "yelping
and howl, howl, howling." If I should
enter into competion with him in bellow
ing and howling, I should be torccd to
bring a buffalo bull or a prairie wolf in the
House, and get their assistance. I hope
he may have an opportunity yet of read
ing this letter on the floor. 1 intend to
send some conies of the gentleman s
speech and of his letter into my district.
Mr. Speaker, if you will allow me, I will
send some into yours. I should like the
good democrats there to know the opinions
of a friend of the South a democratic
friend of the South upon slavery.
Sir, I have said there was much of the
gentleman's speech that I could not an
swer. I would not, sir, if I could. He
told us a little of masons and anti-masons,
of banks, of abolitionists and anti-aboli
tionists; he gave us, in a smaller compass,
the contents of the official newspaper for
veeks past, dressed up with statements
from the Departments, ready furnished by
"those who assisted him." Sir, I ask
the gentleman to tell us who those were
"who assisted him " Were they his pat
rons, the editors of the Globe? -Were
they his "dear sirs" at the Treasury or
the Post Office Department. I , call on
him to come out and tell us who made
him the advocate to make speeches to sup
port this tottering Administration.
Sir, there weie other things mentioned
by the gentleman, the bearing of which I
could not exactly see. He 'gave us the
genealogy of mules. Mr. D. aid in his
speech the mule is "a mongrel beast, half
ass, half horse! He, with many other
hard names I could not catch, told us
something of one Cresers and ons Hcrvu
Iws; he did not say whether they vvero
whigs, democrats, or mules: he did not tell
us in what part of Hamilton county, Ohio,
they resided. About all these thing3 I
have nothing to say. About the mules
Herculws sweeping some suble, the
name of which 1 never heard before, with
a hickory broom" about all these, the
gentleman's information and knowledge
surpass mine.
The gentleman spoke, sir, of "opening
tombs," and digging, hyena-like, into tho
grave, and "disrobing the dead," in expos
ing defaulters! What else, sir, could wo
expect of one who could write this letter?
How much in character for one who has
written such a letter of the institutions of
your State and of mine! Mr. Speaker, I
have finished with the abolition part of the
democrat's speech. This opportunity has
afforded me much pleasure. I have been
preparing a letter to my constituents, to un
mask the paltry, pettifogging attempts, to
impose upon them the belief that Mr.
Van Iiuren's friends are friends to slave
holders. I have not had time to finish that
tetter, having been too much occupied by
other business. Sir, I have panted anx
iously for an opportunity of saying on this
floor, face to face, in presence of the
would-be exclusive friends of the South, in
presence of the Southern caucus democrats
with Northern feelings, what I have said
and shall say to my constituents. I great
ly rejoice that an opportunity has been af
forded me of holding up in its true light to
the country the character of the Van Buren
democratic friendship for the South.
Mr. Speaker, if the House will pardon
me, I wish to say a little upon a subject
we hear much of, but see little practised
economy, lhe nepresentative irom Ham
ilton county, Ohio, had a little "howling"
upon this subject. I am glad to see, sir,
that the Administration begin to think of
this: the party fear the attention of the
People is awakened. Well may they fear
it, sir. Well may they furnish statements
to their champion to excuse their enormous
increase of public expenditures increased
from thirteen to thirty-nine millions a year
while they have been preaching reform and
retrenchment. I cannot, sir, at this time,
go into an examination of this subject. I
have no "dear sirs" at the Departments or
elsewhere to assist me with tables and
statements, ready furnished for publica
tion. The gentleman has the advantage
of most of us. But, sir, let me call his at
tention, and that of the good democrats,
who with him preach economy, to a few
examples. Let me ask him, sir, if he
knows that the chair in which you now sit,