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Doctor Win. EVAN'S'
SOOTHING SYUUP
For children Teething,
PREPARED BY HIMSELF.
To Mothers and A'arses.
THE passage of 1 1 e TYeih through the
gums produces troublesome and dan
gerous symptoms. Il is known by moth
ers that there is great irritation in the
moulh and gums during this process. The
gums swell, the secretion of saliva is in
creased, the child is seized with frequent
a-i'l sudden fits of crying, watching, start
ing in the sleep, and spasms of peculiar
p.uts, the child shrieks with extreme vio
" If nee, and thrusts its fingers into its month.
, If these precursory symptoms are not spee
dily alleviated, spasmodic convulsions uui
versallv supervene, and soon cause the
dissolution of the infant. If mothers who
have their little babes afflicted with these
distressing symptoms, would apply Dr
.William Evans's Celebrated Soothing
Syrup, which has preserved hundreds of
infants hen thought past recovery, from
being suddenly attacked with thai fatal
malady, convulsions.
This infallible remedy Itas preserved
hundreds of Children, when thought past
"recovery, from convulsions. As soon as
the Syrup is rubbed on the gums, the child
will recover. This preparation is so in
nocent, so efficacious, and so pleasant, that
no child will refuse to let its gums be
. rubbed with it. When infants are at the
age of four months, though there is no ap
pearance of teeth, one bottle of the
Syrup should be used on the gums, to
open the pores. Parents should never be
without the Syrup in the nursery where
tliere are young children; for if a child
.wakes in the night with pain in the gum?,
the Syrup immediaiel' givesease by open
ing the pores and healing the gums; there
by preventing Convulsions, Fevers, Sir.
To the Agent of Dr. Evans' Soothing
Syrup: Dear Sir The great benefit
afforded to my suffering infant by your
Soothing Syrup, in a case of protracted
and painful dentition, must convince every
feeling parent how essential an early np
plication of such an invaluable medicine
is to relieve infant misery and torture, My
infant, while teething, experienced such
scute sufferings, that it was attacked with
convulsions, and my wife and family sup
posed that death would soon release the
babe from anguish till we procured a bot
tle of your Syrup; which as soon as ap
plied to the gums a wonderful change was
produced, and after a few applications the
child displayed obvious relief, and by con
tutuing in its use. I am glad to inform
o, the child has completely recovered,
and no recurrence of that awful complaint
as since occurred; the teeth are emana
daily and the child enjoys perfect
"Midi. I give you my cheerful permission
1 make this acknowledgment public, and
M1 gladly give any information on this
Clrcumstance.
. When children begin to be in pain with
l.eir teeth .hoof.n in their gums, put a
h e of the Syrup in a tea-spoon, and
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REGULAR AGENTS.
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MESSAGE
From lhc Governor of Nnrlh Carolina.
to (he General ,Jsse nihhj of the. Slat",
at the commencement of the Session
of 140.
To the Honorable the General Assembly
of Xorth Carolina:
Ogntlemen: The declarations of the
people against lhr administrations of the
Federal and most of the Slate Governments
the deep sensation and embittered feel
ings of the contending parties as to the
cause, mut necessarily geatly deepen the
in'erest which usually attends the meeting,
Kid ineretsothe responsibility of your hon
orable body.
Hut, while we have, in the confident
hope that it will restore the country to its
former happy and prosperous condition,
abundant c.iusc to' rejoice over this peace
ful revolution, yet we should remember
that our fellow-citizens of the administra
tion pirty,vith the exception, perhaps of
officers and aspiran's, althongb mistaken,
as we believe, in their views, can have
but one common interest with ourselves,
and are rather entitled to our sympathy
and conciliation than toourbaired and per
secution. Their fortunes have failed in their own
bands, ami under their own management;
and it becomes us, as those on whom the
responsihlity has devolved, calmly to sur
vey the positions we occupy and prepare
ourselves with energy and dignity to meet
the crisis.
As it is the pirt of wisdom to profit by
experience, it is necessary and proper to
reler to the causes ot the revolution, and
particularly where connected with our
peculiar interest, the better to enable us
to avoid the evil and embrace the good.
The Bank of the United States, which
grew out of the necessities of the country,
at two periods of great distress, (and which
would seem almost to give sacredness to
its existence,) and which answered every
purpose promised by its most sanguine
friends, or anticipated by the public, was
doomed to Executive hostility, because it
would not yield political obedience. It
was re-chartered by Congress, but vetoed
by the President. The public money wns
then removed from its lawful place of de
posite, in the Bank of the United States,
to thu local Banks, by the President, un
der the plea that it was unsafe. This
ground, taken by the President, was dis
approved by a report from a committee of
Congress.
The Senate of the United Stales be
came alarmed at these indications of vio
lence and usurpation, and declared the re
moval of the deposites unconstitutional.
The president appealed to ihe people, a
gainst both the Bank anil the Senate de
claring the Bank dangerous to the liberties
of the country a monster of foreign mate
rials; and that abetter currency could be
given by the local Banks, without the dan
ger; and that the Senate had done him
gross injustice. The appeal was sustained.
Nothing was recollected but his splendid
and successful military career. Several
of the Slate Legislatures were filled by his
partizans, who supported his opposition to
ihe Bank, and instructed their Senators to
expunge the resolution declaiing his act
unconstitutional for removing the de'posits,
or to resign their seats to more unscrupu
lous hands; and it was done. Some yield
ed lo the servile act, in defacing the journ
als of the Senate; and others, through a
cherished though mistaken abstraction,
abandoned their posts; which has impaired,
and, if continued, will destroy, the most
siableand valuable part of our Constitution,
and in all probability, the government it
self. The House of Representatives could not
but feel the influence of the will of the peo
ple concentrated in the Executive. II is
power was tremendous enough to intoxi
cate the brain of a less philosophical chief.
The fate of the Bank was decided. The
deposites were retained in ihe local Banks,
and recommended to be loaned out. Banks
increased rapidly, and discounted freely.
The disbursements of the government in
creased some fifty per cent., or about twelve
millions of doliars annually. Property
and labour of all kinds rose in price. Pub
lie works were commenced, and some com
pleted, of vast magnilude; and general
prosperity reigned, not only in this coun
try, but in Europe. Up to 1S34, under
the operations of the "bill of abominations"
the payment of the public debt, mostly
due to Europeans, filled that country with
money seeking investments; a great deal of
which was taken by our States, Banks, Kail
lloads, Canals, and Manufacturing Com
panies, and returned to this country at a
rate of interest higher thin had been given
by the government. Whether design d
or not, this command and disbursement of
larg- amounts of money, comnletelv, at
Ihe lime, covered the consequences of
me destruction ol the ISank ot the United
Slates, and gave to Ihe country a hollow and
f.ict itious prosperity.
Notwithstanding the great increase of
expendituics, some forty millions of sur
plus had accumulated in the vaults of the
local Banks. Upon a previous occasion,
the President bad advised distribution; and
after a fierce struggle in Congress, an act
was parsed directing it lo be deposited
with the Slates; and although his views had
subsequently undergone a change, he re
luctantly approved the measure.
Foreign capitalists, used to wars and
convulsions, watched the operations of ouv
government with a vision true to their in
terests; and, taking alarm at the attack of
the President on foreign capital, his revo
lutionary spirit, and daring usurpations,
withdrew their funds, in time, to a place
ofsilety. The Banks comenced curtailing,
to meet the provisions of the distribution
act. But it was soon discovered that it'
could not, with other demands, be met;
anil a suspension of specie payments ensu
ed throughout the land. A tremendous
and frightful revolution, in every branch
of business took place; and credit and
confidence were shaken to the centre. Mo
ney became more scarce in both hemis
pheres; it seemed, indeed, to have vanish
ed. Interest rose, and with difficulty ne
gotiations could be effected on any terms.
Instead of coolly investigating the causes,!
and applying such relief as his elevated
and powerful position might command,
to save thousands from ruin and distress,
ihe President denounced the local Banks
as worthless and faithless pursued them
with an inveterate rancour and turned up
on them the full tide of public indignation
made them the stalking horse of the dem
agogue robbed them of the people's con
fidence, and paralyzed all their useful ener
gies. But, by his own act, the deposit of
the public monies, the Banks had been
stimulated to wild expansion; they were,
for the most part, controled by his political
friends, and were the creatures of his devo
ted States.
In the Treasury Circular, the President
added another link to the already length
ened chain of Executive usurpation. This
circular required specie only to be receiv
ed at the land offices, which checked sales,
and, by further alarming the capitalists,
added another blow to the already sinking
credit of the Banks. Congress ventured
on a vote of disapprobation, by a large ma
jority in both houses, repealing the order.
But the President placed it in his pocket,and
thus defeated it.
The President's popularity' was )-et so
powerful as to contribute very largely to
the election of his successor, the present
incumbent, whose other claims on the con
fidence and affection of the American peo
ple, were certainly questionable. He pro
mised, however, to tread in the footsteps
of his illustrious predecessor, and declar
ed that it was glory enough lo have served
under such a chief; and the people were
satisfied.
The present incumbent came into pow
er at a period most unfortunate for him
self and for the country. A re-action, as
we have shown, had comenced in a bloat
ed and boasted prosperity; and he had
pledged himself to the course best calcula
ted to urge it on. He had, in his zeal to
to support the views of his predecessor, de
nounced a Bank of the United States as un
constitutional, and cut off all relief from
that quarter. The local Banks had been
denounced as unworthy of public confi
dence; and he sunk them yet lower by con
curring in their condemnation. The af
fairs of the country had become desperate
money scarce and Bank notes deprecia
ted the prices of property and labor tum
bling down improvements suspended
and bankruptcies numerous. Indeed, so
gloomy were the affairs of the country,
that ihe President convened an extra session
of Congress, to devise means of relief; to
whom he gravely recommended the with
drawal of the public monies from their
former places of deposite, and to lock
them up in safes and vaults, as the reme
dy. As a part of his argument for a Sub treas-
ury,
he dccnetl institutions wnicn nau
been
used, from the establishment oi me
. ,ar.n!tirioC! onrl wtlli'Vl. Ill
rovcrnmeiu, as ucjjuntmvo, ...
times of emergency, responded patriotical
ly to the calls of the government; and
which had aided the great interests of this
country to enter honorably the list of com
petition, in all necessary and valuable
works of improvement, with those of
the old world. At the first moment
of difficulty, they are condemned as un
worthy of public confidence, and even
dano-erous to liberty. Again, in Decem-her,1837-3S,
this Sub Treasury is press
ed on the consideration of Congress, as the
grand panacea of all our woes.
Congress was composed of a majority of
his friends, and it is quite immaterial
1 whether the v considered his project i
f petent lor the crisis defective in pro
incom-
principle.
or nerveless in
expediency it w:s re-
j?ct d.
The President now seemed to take the
matter seriously to heart. The only mea
sure he had eoncoe'ed, by the aid of the
Secretar y of the Treasury, must not he
treated so lightly. Ilis forces are mar
shalled anew the uufai'hi'ul discharged,
and more supple tools put in their places.
They open their buiery on the dead Bank.
The dying and living Banks they repre
sent then as the hvdra headed monster, a
gainst which Ihe former President had to
exert his Herculean strength to keep in
check. Corporations of all kinds were
declared dangerous to liberty, to the poor,
and to democracy. Congress convenes,
and the President draws a strong and vivi'l
picture of the distresses of ihe country, and
again recommends the locking up of the
public money in safes and vaults, as the
means of relief. This doubtless was pro
forma, as he had no money in the Treasu
ry to be locked up. The fact that he has
had to issue, from time to time, Treasury
notes, shews how preposterous it is to ex
pect relief at present, at. least, from a
scheme on which ihe government is des
titute of the materials lo operate.
To make this Sub Treasury scheme a
law, the State of New Jersey has been
disfranchised her legal and official altesta
tiors trampled under foot her sovereign
ty violated her rights disregarded anil
insulted, by the friends of ihe present ad
ministration in the House of Representa
tives, by refusing seats in their body to
persons regularly commissioned under her
authority, and clothed with all the attri
butes of her sovereignty. By this act, ev
ery State in the Union has received a blow
which should not be disregarded. By the
request of the Governor of New Jersey,
I herewith submit Ihe resolutions of her
Assembly on this subject, marked A.
While the rights of New Jersey were
being desecrated in the House of Repie
sentatives, the Senate was engaged .in pas
sing a resolution, gratuitously refusing to
assume the debts of the Slates, alike insul
ting to their feelings and injurious to their
character. If, undercircumstances of pe
culiar hardship and distress, a State were
to petition Congress to assume her debts,
and Congress was to do so, it would not
differ in principle from assistance granted
to an ally in distress by war, or to the re
lief afforded Carraccas suffering from the
effects of an earthquake, or to New York,
when almost devastated by fire. At all
events, a Stale would be entitled to a re
spectful attention and friendly considera
tion; but to refuse without being asked, is
marked with the grossest impropriety and
injustice. The Senate knew that many
of the States were engaged in improve
ments of great importance, and depended
on negotiating loans in Europe to complete
them, and requiring unimpaired credit for
advantageous success; which was necessa
rily injured by that action of ihe Senate,
and the works most probably defeated.
It is true that North Carolina has no
public debt; but il is not the less injurious
and insulting to her character, to be told
by her servants, (who are presumed to
know,) in the Senate chamber, that she is
unworthy of credit; and such a declaration
by the Senate, when seen in distant parts
of the world, where negotiations for mon
ey are sought, must be injurious to her
credit and probably wouiu nave aeieauu
her obiect, if she had attempted to procure
the loan contemplated by the act of your
last session.
Now, gentlemen, I have shewn you the
destruction ot the National uanK, in toia
disregard of the wish of Congress and the
mprnuntilp nnd eomimercial narts of the
nation; the violation of law and contract,
in the removal of ihe public treasure from
the place where the representatives of the
country directed, under a false allegation;
the issuing a Specie Circular, at the Exe
cutive will, and the continuing rs opera
tion afier Congress had condemned it.
placing the public money in favorite local
Banks, and urging them to use it in ex
panding discounts and, because they could
not return it when called for, denoun
cing and persecuting them: the outrage
upon the sovereignly of New Jersey; the
gross and gratuitous insult on the character
and credit of all the Slates; were enough,
surely, without referring to the operations
of trade, or the abuse of the Banking pri
vilege, to alarm capitalists as to the stabili
ty and integrity of our institutions to
banish money and destroy credit in fine,
fo produce the teirible pecuniary revulsion
which has shaken our country to its centre,
bringing ruin and distress on thousands.
And the-Sub Treasury remedy, gentle
men, for diseases like these! Surely the
Sanrado theory never has been so gra
phically illustrated. The weakness and
inadequacy of the proposed remedy is,
indeed, like sporting with our wrongs and
sufferings.
What good can result from the with
drawal of all governmental connection all
its fiscal operation from the Banks, and
leaving the States to regulate the currency
among themselves as they best may? It
is like separaiing the head from the body,
and expecting their joint functions to be
continued. The President says that the
Banks form a chain of dependence from
o e end of our country to the other, and
thaiii'M-eac es across the ocean and ends
in London, the cen're of the credit system-'
and with this chain of dependence
of mighiv magnitude, he will have noth
ing lo do, but leave us to the tender mer
cies of the English to regulate our curren
cy and cielit, perfectly indifferent to our
fate, so that the government and its officers
get their dues in gold and s'dver.
The President certainly looks to a total
destruction of all Banks when he says,"lt
is moreover a principle, than which none
is better settled by experience, that the
supply of the precious metals will always
be found adequate to the uses for which
they are required. They abound in coun
tries where no other currency is allowed."
Like Ihe fabled appearance of men in
Rhoderick Dhu, it is only necessary to
taitl, and we shall have a plenty of specie,
which seems to be so clear to his feelings.
He overlooks, or forgets entirely, the sac
rifices to which we must submit to obtain it
in competition with those countries, where
it is now held. It will be first necessary
to make the balance of trade preponderate
in our favor in order to effect this, (the aid
of B.mk credit and our hitherto liberal and
enlightened policy having been dispensed
with. ) We must submit to the European,
and Asiatic prices of labor, their rigid eco
nomy, their grinding slavish habits of toil,
before we can successfully compete with
them in trade, agriculture and manufac
tures, or produce a balance in our favor to
be discharged in coin. To expect a per
manence of the precious melals from a
forced and unnatural importation, would
be about as rational as to attempt a suspen
sion of the laws of gravitation.
The President says, "in a country so
commercial as ours, banks in some form
will probably always exist," and thinks the
sub-treasury will deprive them of the
character of monopolies, and be a salutary
regulator and keep them in check. In
this expectation of the continuance of Banks
he may be sincere; but the recent des
truction of these institutions in the District
of Columbia, shews very conclusively the
wish and intention . of his party. The col
lection of gold and silver in the dues of the
United States may have some influence on
the banks in the large cities, where large
disbursements are made; arid where the
balance of trade concentrates, they will no
doubt be least injured and enabled to exist:
and on New York he must have had his
attention fixed, when he made this asser
tion as to the probable existence of Banks:
but to remote places, agricultural and inte
rior States, what other than a deleterious
influence can it have, whence the specie
must be drained constantly in payment of
the dues to the United States, without any
probability of an invigorating reflux?
It is due to the State, and necessary to a
restoration of our happy, prosperous, and
honorable condition, as far as in our power,
to mark with unqualified reprobation, this
infringement on the rights and credit of
the Slates this war on the institutions and
capital of the country. For when the ac
cumulation of wealth is the result of in
dustry, economy and skill, it is certainly
honorable to the owner; and whether it
consists in land, chattels or stock, is un
questionably entitled to the stern protec
tion of the law; and the person, matters
not what his standing or position in socie
ty, who indulges in the practice of mis
representing and detracting from the val
ue of either, deserves its severest lash.
Let us put the seal of reprobation on the
unfaithful officer who violates the Consti
tution in letter o spirit. Let us inform
the President that we consider the purpo
ses of Government to mean something
more important, as the regulator of 'lrai!e
and commerce with the States," than mere
ly picking out the gold and silver from tie
currency, in the discharge of the public
dues, to pay out to the officers. That the
currency of ihe country, no matlerof what
it consists, must be the medium of ex
change, and is as essential to "trade &. com
merce with the Slates," as the circulation
of the blood is to the animal existence, and
as necessary to a healthy State, to be regu
lated by a central power, as the oilier is
to flow from the heart. Gold and silver
are tests of the value of the currency be it
what it may, and if so applied, are valua
ble: but their intrinsic value is of small
consideration, compared to the advantages
of bank notes, checks, & bills of exchange,
as a medium of exchange. What pow
er should apply this regulator? Certainly
the United States, for none other can.
The object to be attained, is a unijorm
currency throughout the Union, based
on specie and on the credit of the Slates,
or of the United States. How can this
be accomplished? is the rightful enquiry.
I have no fear in the answer, that it can
only be effected by. an arrangement enter
ed into by law, between the State and