Dhole Xo. 098.
flic Tavborough lress,
BY" GEORGE HOWARD,
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TOR THE TAnuno" I'll ESS.
Thoughts on the approaching Congres
sional Election.
No. -1.
Having at length, fellow citizens, dispo
sed of a tedious mass of mailer which I
could not with .propriety pne'ermit, 1 ad
dress mvsclf with real satisfaction to the
original "design of these papers, viz: to of
fer'some " Thoughts on the approaching
Congressional election." I propose, there
fore, to trent this subject in short successive
numbers, from a belief that limy will be
more acceptable than in lengthy essays.
A reflecting freeman at the very sound
of the word '-election," recalls with con
scious pride and holy enthusiasm, to his
mi
nd the sacred right of free suffrage, that his proved the foundation of those poli
stimable right which his brother mauialcrrors.inlowhiehwnn.il .-,! , ..:.rl
ines
in the old world, has treely penned out his
blood to secure, but lias never enjoyed;
that precious right of which you alone, my
countrymen, of all civilized nations, can
boast the enjoyment; and yet hov mortify
in? to freemen is the reflection, that in ma
nv instances it is so thoughtlessl y exerci
sed, and frequently criminally thrown
away, from ignorance of its value. Not
more sacred are the duties of our holy reli
gion, than the duties -comprehended in the
words 4 'right of suffrage." Casting aside
all personal prepossessions and prejudice?,
the good of our common country alone,
should direct our votes. This right is sa
cred, because it furnishes the civil arms,
with which freemen mlist defend the con
stitution, preserve our institutions, and
spare the effusion of brother's blood, by
arresting revolutionary disorder and by
staying the mad Career of aristocratic and
despotic power, which seeks to trample to
earth our rights and privileges, and to pros
trate the Government which the will of
the people, has appointed to preside over
the great interests of this h ippy Confeder
acy. These defensive arms, used peacea
bly and virtuously at the ballot box will
accomplish every thing for us-, because
lifre there is none to make us afraid.
Here is no lordly tyrant ro aristocratic
patron, to say to the poor man, "thus
shall you vote, or bo turned out with your
lamily to misery and want." Here no da
ring faction can compel the humblest man
ia society to cast his vote in its favor. Here
"o bank nor merchant dares to bribe, or
threaten the poorest individual with their
Vengeance for opposing their dictates.
Here no mercenary bayonet, are lifted
ainst the breasts of freemen, to inti
midate them into silence and inaction.
How degraded then must that man appear,
u'Jw wuuld sell this bright inheritance
''tor a mess of pottage,'' for money, for a.
treat, or for the flattering smiles of a candi
date. Would to heaven, that every frec
nian in exercising "the right of suffrage,"
sa religious duty, with his hand upon his
'lc'art,apt)ealingto heaven to direct his judg
cnt, would advance to the ballot box and
deposit his vole for the good of his country,
a'One, and according to the suggestions of
lrutn and patriotism. Then indeed would
0l'r rights and liberties be eternal.
1 elluw citizens, wc arc on the eve of the
most impoi taut election since the adoption
ot our constitution. The contest is between
'"ecmcn contending for a pure Republi
can government on one side, and the slaves
J advocates of Hanks, Federal ami Abo
jjhon government on the other. Can the
Republicans of old North Carolina hesitate
f moment in their choice? 1 will not believe
lX- The statesmen and philosophers of the
M world were pleased to denominate the
ttahlishmentof our Republic after the re
volutionary war, an experiment of popular
government. Some of these sages tiraw
lnS their analogies of government from
'he theories of antiquity and from the su
perannuated errors of former ages the
r'cnds of monarchical and aristocratic insti
tution?, and believers in the "divine right
Jj kings," prognosticated with confidence
failure of thisexperiment; while others
v'th inborn and generous devotion to the
JjKjsc of freedom and the rights of man, in
J.ldthe enthusiastic hope, that the prac
lical demonstration of the capacity of the
People for self-government was at hand.
. lie eyes of both enemies and friends were
Tarhorough,
7 "P "s uP'n our great men or. he re--volution
, and upon the immortal minds who;
conceive: :im nnr i .
t..i; , , r-"v.ciuu our glorious consti
tution with breathless interest. To the ene
mies i.is well as 1 befriends of rational govern
ment,cvery step taken in assuming our rank
Tiongthenationsoftheearthwa.sthesu,iect
ol profound speculation; To the dovoted
exertions of our Washington.., Jefferson.-,
Mad.sons, and a host of other worthier ar,:
we indebted for the impulse given to the
great political machine; and for the wis lorn,
t'-ength and beauty of our institutions.
1 he most unonuivmvil cimnoo f .i.
experiment, consoling & encouraging to the
hopesof the friendsof liberty throughout the
world. A full tide of prosperity urged di
wuds the pursuits of industry & enterprise
o' this h ippy political community In the
midst of moral, soci d and political advan
tages, allotted to no other civilized nation,
the hydra of party raised her snaky eivsi
spreading discord and contention through
out this happy community, exciting "its
various interests to hostility and reeipTocal
oppression. Our National Legislature in
the excitement of parly, lent itself to
the most deleterious construction of our
constitution, never contemplated but pow
erfully opposed by the framers of it; and
before the first term of Washington's ad
ministration expired, the usurpation by
Congress of powers not enumerated in tin;
constitution, or of doubtful powcis, justly
alarmed the friehds'of liberty, for the per
petuity of our free institutions. Tne exer
cise of the power; by Congress of giving to
associated wealth, exclusive privileges and
monopolies, not granted by the letter, but
forbidden by the spirit of the constitution,
itie-
lV a
period, and became the fruitful
term of
the hateful state of parties of the present
day, wiih their degenerate affiliations, and
diabolical tactics. Thcambition of unprinci
pled political libertines, such as yourClays,
(J rangers, Harrisons, Websters, your J. Q.
Adams's, &c. w hose sole object is self-aggrandizement,
co operating with the bloated
repletion of associated wealth, has shaken
and still threatens to mar the beautiful
structure of our government, and shatter to
atoms, that Union which guided by the
temperate patriotism of sound Republican
ism, would have given immortality to it,
and furnished to the most remote ages
a model of rational government. The cel
ebrated Fisher Ames has (profoundly re
market), "that associated wealth as the
dynasty of modern nations," and none can
more feelingly attest its truth than our
own. Associated wealth in its insolent
advances to supremacy, has nearly made
it a question whether the people shall sur
render its government at its feet, and w he
ther the gte.it agricultural interests of the
South "shall expire under its tremendous
oppressions. Such is the fatuity which
attends it, so madly does it affect omnipo
tence, that corrupting all within its sphere,
it seems to aim, at determining our great
political institutions, to speedy caducity
and decrepitude. Rut its powers of cor
ruption are the most alarming. We can
not forget Mr. Tyler's report in the Sen
ate, which states, that the Representatives
of tiie people in Congress received accom
modations of millions and millions of dol
lars from the United States Rank, during
its struggle for a renewal of its charier.
To facts like these we 'cannot shut our
eyes.
Rut I pass over the history of the rise of
the various parlies, the various interests
iii i.i ii
enrolled unuer meir several standards or
names, too numerous to detail; and of the
lately risen Conservative party, or armed
neutrality, with the single remark, that
one common feature marks them all, anil
that is, that without exception, they are
anti-republican, opposed to pure Republi
can principles, opposed to the people and
their lights. All these have joined the
Federal league; but I cannot omit the con
sideration of the origin of one of these allies
more infamous than the rest, which wars
not only with the people but directs its
machinations, and skulking intrigues
particularly agunst the South, not for the
purpose of a temporary political triumph
but to annihilate to exterminate it. I mean
Abolitionism. This formidable arm of the
great mongrel party, opposed to the rights
and interests of the people, assuming from
abstract moral speculation that slavery is an
evil (as if it never existed till now) com
menced their career by enlisting public
sentiment in favor of this abstract opinion,
begged borrowed and . collected by all
means fair or foul, just or unjust, by force or
fraud, by the intimidation of weak minds,
by hypocritical importunity, it may- be by
robbery itself, funds perhaps to the amount
of millions, and proceeded to establish
printing presses on an extended scale, by
meansoi which to propagate their diaboli
cal fanaticism. They urge an immediate
emancipation, preach a crusade against the
domestic institutions of the South, threat
ening it with lire, desolation and ruin,
leaving the consequences to God. They
affect to hold them moral convictions more
siron and potential than the constitution
(Edgecombe County, X. C.J Saturday, July 13, 1839
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v... ...,ui u Miuaervienno meir neunn
jie.Mgns. Restrained by no consideration
)ut the want of power, they would crush
m happy Union to atoms, to consummate
er unholy projects, and yet these sacri-
lcgmus hypocrites; or the principal actors!
n this drama of assassination, robbery and!
pm-Kler, profess themselves followers of the!
meek and lowly Jesus! Would you believe
ii, iciiow citizens, that among ninety min
isters of the gospel of Christ, met in con
vention to determine, whether it was law
ful, to prostitute the holy office, to the
purposes of this crusade, and to political ob
jects, ieii only were found, to advocate the
in i Id and peaceful precepts of Jesus. Ten
only, to protest against the sacrilegious
impiety, and to oppose this demoniacal in
latuuion. It is a truth, uncontr adieted.
mat the duel promoters of this unchristian put down the Administration of the peopled
conspiracy, against their brethren of the choice, to elect the abolitionist Clay, with
South, are ministers of the gospel! j his Fifty Million Bank, to strike a blow
1 eler the Hermit, a fanatical prcncher.in favor of his mongrel party, from which
about the close of the 1 1th century having 'he hopes, the Republican party can never
suliered some persecution, and witnessed j recover and to crush the people's rights and
much ol it inflicted on the Christians by j precisions to a share in the government
the iniidels, m his Unlv
City, instigated by a thirst of vengeance
and blood, returned to Rome and deman
ded of the Pope, Martin the 2nd, his aid,
to expel the Mahometans from Jerusalem.
He succeeded, in that age of ignorance and
superstition, in placing himself at the head
ol ;;oo,()00 men, and during his march
though Europe, massacred, pillaged and
plundered indiscriminately, Christians,
lews, and all persons who defended their
property from bis exactions all in the
namcof Jesus Christ, and under the banners
of the bloody cross. It . is well known,
how Europe was drained of her treasure
and her people, for two hundred years, to
accomplish the projects originated by this
fanatical villain. 'I his Peter the Hermit
was first, a fanatic, then a robber, and last a
murderer of thousands of inoffensive men,
women and children, and yet was innocent,
compared with the Abolitionists of this
uay. iikc retcr, they would mamlcst
their philanthropy, their good will towards
mankind, by the plunder and massacre of
millions oftheir brethren born after God's
own image, and all in the name of Jesus
Christ. Fortunately the large mass of our
i-xnrmcrn oretnrcn,arc governed ny very7
different moral and political convictions,
and look with abhorrence upon the uncon
stitutional, and corrupt principles of these
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pretended philanthropists. They arc true
to the leelings of humanity, true to the
obligations ol" good citizens, and alive to
the just claims of the South upon their
friendship, and co-operation. As a party,
these fanatics, receive no countenance from
our Northern friends, but are marked with
contempt. The Abolitionists make them
selves formidable, only by being engrafted
on the Federal or Whig party, with its in-
numerable, affiliations.
From this hasty notice of the artificial and
degenerate state of parties you must be for
cibly struck, fellowcilizcnSjWith the Impor
tance, the indispensable necessity of secu
r i g t h e se r v i ces o f A tried a ii d fa i t h fu 1 Re
presentative in the ensuing Congress, an
undeviatingSc inflexible Republican, a sure
depository ofyour confidence who will make
the, will of the nconle his iruide. and who is
ever ready to render obedience to their in- vote for Mr. Clay, and to vote for Clayis
structions. The liberties of a people are to vote for Abolitionism; Clay is an abol
morc frequently lost by the infidelity or j 'tionist as undoubtedly as Harrison or Web
corruption or their Representatives "than j stcr? his anti-abolition speech to the contra
from any other cause. Without stopping ' ')' notwithstanding. That speech was con
to demonstrate this truth, I will merely ob-coclca to operate or the election of Mr.
serve, thai the crisis which hangs over our j Kives of YV. to the Senate of the U. States
political prospects, demands more than at j ani1 prepared by consent and with the
any former period an unflinching friend i knowledge and permission of the Aboli
of popular rights, and above the suspi- j tionists. It was also intended for the fur
cion of an equivocal sentiment, in relation jthcr purpose of catching Southern gulls
to the great questions at issue before the or w,'igs, and Southern Whigs will advo
pcople. j ) cato Clay's election, with the knowledge,
It has been mentioned elsewhere, iha.'lAat nothing bat Clay's election, can
f in, Alwd;ilnn.i will ho anntnA ' Prevent Abolition from receiving its
at the Whig Convention in December next,
as the opposing candidate of Mr. Van Bu
ren. Of these three, Harrison, Clay
Webster, the signs are pretty clear that
the first and last will be unceremoniously
laid on the shelf, and that Mr. Clay will
be the nominee of the mongrel party.
The sagacity of this many-hcaded monster,
has not been slow to perceive, that in an
election before the people Mr. Clay has not
the remotest prospect of success; hence
they will move heaven and earth, to defraud
and rob the people of their right lo elect
a President and carry the election to the
House of Representatives, where the well
known faculties of this gentleman and his
party for chicanery & intrigue may a second
time be employed in electing a President,
against the overwhelming voice of the peo
ple. Mark the prediction fellow citizens,
though I am no prophet nor the son of a
prophet, Mii thing they ivill do, if they
possible can. The only hope of the Federal-
Whig-Conservative-Antim&son-Aboli-lion
party, of electing Mr. Clay is founded
upon the possibility of robbing the people
of the right of electing a President, by
forcing the election out of their hands.
Ts it not self-evident then; that the great ob-
- J. the " U ,0 manaSe and contro1 !
'ressionaleleet.ons, 'y wiih an
eye to the Presidential election and wiih
the desijr,, t0 secure to Mr. Clay, as many
members f;u orable to him as will be suffi
eient to carry his election in the House of
Representatives? Mark . well then, this
scheme of a .lesnerato ennlhmn, tl,; d,rt
conspiracy againM. your riffhts, to devolve
the election on Congress.
Admitting the truth;evcn the probability
of this suggestion, does it not iuimenselv
magtmy the importance of the approaching
Congressional election? Pause then fellow
citizens, repeat this question again and ?.
gain, and consider the consequent magni
tude of the duty, which as voters, you have
to perform. Yon cannot now fail to per
ceive the reason of Mr. Stanly's extraor
dinary ellor s to resume his Seat in Con-
iUS. HIS W in i' .i !!!. ilinon, ii
lor;ver. 1 his desperate Coalition bates
the people, hates Republicanism and Dem
ocracy with deadly hatred. Why those
I I I r .. i i i
uuiiuicu names mr me nunureu arms or
branches, which for m essentially but one
party, the Federal parly? Because if the
true and various but hidden interests of
those apparent parties were openly disclo
sed, the Coalition would be shattered to
pieces, and could not by any possible dis
cipline be directed to one Object. In one
object alone they unite, viz: to crush the
powcrpf the people forever, and bringthem
to the footstool of Federalism. '
But this party has affected to deny, that
Mr. Clay is an abolitionist. Will they
deny his own words, and the declaration
of his warmest friend? Surely his friend and
biographer, Prentice, ought to know him
intimately he calls him exultingiy, "the
champion of negro emancipation." HasMr
Clay himself not said that, "slavery is j
monster ol evil a deadly vampire drain
ing away the life of the Republic?" 'Has he
'7
not himself exultingiy prchimcd, that one
ellect olthe I arm (his idol) would be "to
reduce slave labor so low as to make it 'the
j interest of slaveholders to" emancipate their
siavcs: is mere any oppression ol the
Southwhich he has not advocated, probably
On the score of slavery? Hear Mr. Clay's
ardent supporter INo ih, in his "Star" calling
II
j to his aid the abolition clan, and whinin"-
over the prospect of defeat. "If," says he
Mr. V. Buren is re-elected, abolititiou
receives its final blow and the election
of Mr. Clay alone can prevent it." Here
then is one of Mr. Clay's most unscrupulous
organs admitting and proclaiming I hat ilr.
Clay's election alone can save Abolition
ism!!! Hear this1, people of the 3rd Con
grcssional district! ah influential Clayed
itor, calls upon you, to save Jloolition-
ism oy electing mr. uiay. near this, ye
honc?it but misguided men, Who from Want
of due reflection, or same strange infat ua
tion, have once voted for Mr. Stanly.
Will you again rush to aid him with your
votes, and thus save Abolitionism from its
. death-blow? . For to vote for Air. tanly,
and to vote for Abolitionism is One mid the
same thing. lo vote tor Mr. Manly is to
death bloic Strange infatuation ! Southern
men (Whigs) with a deep interest in the
property of slaves, of course, opposed
from interest and conviction to Abolition
ism will yet rush to its support under the
illusion of a name and fix upon us an Abol
ition President; who will inevitably fill the
Departments with his abolitionist slaves
and the creatures of his will, shower on
them bis patronage, procure a majority of
Abohtionisrs in Congress and by new in
roads upon the constitution exterminate
the last surviving rights of the South and
drive the Southern States into a bloody
secession from the Union, or force them
into a Southern confederacy for their securi
ty and protection. A COUNTRYMAN.
foil THE TAKBOHO PRESS.
Mr. Howard: "A Beaufort Voter" is
actually entitled to the credit of telling the
truth, however unintentionally it may
have been Uttered; when he says, the 4ar
ticlc copied in the Republican from the
Tarboro' Press, signed A Voter was not
written by any little captain no little
would-be comptroller concocted this
piece." The "captain" and the comp
Vol. XV Xo. 28.
!ro,,er" ,,ein 0tic anil the same individual
to whom he allude, the mark is suflicient-
ly plain. Yes, sir, "A Beau fr ft Voter'
tells the trufli ! ! UninteminnnlK- no doubt.
inasmuch as truth-telling is wholly averse
to the creed of bis parly. Yet it is never
theless true, that "A Voter" is no "little
captain, nor big ''captain," for he was
never "tied to a sword" nor did he ever
manwiirre a company of -men. Conse
quently never was crdwned with the mili
tary honor and glory of forming thc hol
low square" around a stump for a "little
would-be" Caesar to mount whereupon to
harangue his subjects in arms "in the Spir
it ol a connuetdr." Bv wav of balancing
the account however, "A Beaufort Vo
ter" with all the "deennrv" nrridi.ir lo .1
Whig, introduces a "lie" as a set-off to
the truth when lie says, "a castaway in
temperate wretch, who has beeii declared
unfit to hold office," "is the author of this
letter." Yes, sir, here is a very decent
Hie," introduced as a set-off to a truth,
in the event of one's slipping from his
tongue accidentally; So the account
stands balanced and no truth is suffered
to remain to his credit, llo is true" to tho
faith.
"A Beaufort Voter" says "any hiaii
who will read this corhrhurticalion in ihd
Press, and the editorial article a week or
two before that giving an account of the
same affair, will sec Several direct contra
dictions. To Use plain language" says he,
''there h a lie somewhere:" "The same
affair," I suppose he means the "affair" of
the "little" vain political lfrog" who in
attempting to siccll hintsclf to the magni
tude of the "o.r," in his belllpolent tirade
of Tarboro' memory exploded into a
"burst of eloquence," in the following
il7nake loco focos icink," maniac "biting"
dog-like "grinning," "shake-shoe" dec
lamation: "I come not here as a supplicant
soliciting your votes, but I cdme in tha
spirit of A CONQUEROR." And here
the little 'frog" did ilburst" sure enough
with a vengeance, and in a manricr "peculi
arly happy" to himself and to the aristoc
racy no doubt. This I presume is Hhrj
affair" about which "A Beaufort Voter"
says, ' 'there is a lie somewhere.' I can
assure "A Beaufort Voter," that the "lie"
which hetbys is 'some where," is actually in
hte own mouth and therehe intends keeping
it no doubt for the sake of "decency" and
for his motto, it being the palladium of
his parly.
"A Voter" "charges Mr. Slanly with
being an abolitionist," says "A Beaufort
Voter." The "cast away" ex-officer who
is sometimes the cat's paw" (not for the
abolitionists though,) but "for the little
captains," has the audacity "in a fit of
drunkenness" to "charge" phoenix of
a "Southern man" Mr. Stanly, "a slave
holder" tod, '-with being an abolitionist."
If Mr. Stanly be not an abolitionist indi
rect, will "A Beaufort Voter" have tho
goodness lo "define his position" direct,
without "lie" mystification or equivoca
tion? According to the Whig faith it is
abominable and even treasonable in a Dem
ocrat to prefer a "charge" against a modern
Whig, especially if there should happen to
be the least semblance of truth in the
''charge." It is a lie if you tell the truth,
upon Ihem. For instance, if you call a
modern Whig a Federalist, notwithstand
ing you tell the truth, you utter an abomi
nable "lie" according to the Whig version.
If you call him a Republican, although you
utter an old-fashioned lie in so calling him.
you tell the Iruth, agreeably with the
creed of the "decency parly." Therefore
a "lie" is the truth and the truth a "lie"
accord ing to whiggish interpretation or ra
thcr "twistificatiou." Just so it is io . re
gard to Mr. Stanly and abolition. Mr:
Stanly in Congress can be an Abolitionist',
(his conduct there tells the black Idle,)
but Mr. Slanly out of Congress iii the 3rd
Congressional district of North Carolina,
among the credulous Turpentiners and
honest Clodhoppers, is no Abolitionist,
"c is true to. the South in that matter,'
says -P. G." one of the little knot of
"would-be" lords of democratic Edge
combe. Mr. Stanly in Congress may tiiko
sides with the Abolitionists of the North,
the avowed enemies df the South, yet Mr.
Stanly at home is "a Southern man a slave
holder" withal; and therefore must not be
"charged" with being an Abolitionist.
It is a "lie" because tho "charge" carries
the semblance of truth on its face. Mr.
Stanly may "solitary tind alone3 as a
"Southern man" vote in a small minority
in company with the renowned chiefs of
abolitionism, the old dotard hero of "jDzs
ky Sally," and his owii dear monke?-like
prompter, of Duncan memory, touching
abolition and sustain the "old abolition
bear" in his contended right of presenting
Negro petitions to Congrcfw, indirectly
praying to be permitted to- cut their own
ers throats and there-by complete the hor
rid butchery which they so laudably com
menced in Southampton-, but which was
so unjustly and cruelly defeated (to use tho
language of Mr. Stanly's prompter, Mr.
Slade,) by the 4 -disgraceful, outrageous
violation of human rights,?' in thoss
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