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SATURDAY, JUNE 19. 1841. (J"We nre requested to state, that a public meeting will bo held at the Court House in this place on Monday evening next at 5 o'clock, to make some ar rangements for celebrating the ensuing An niversary of our Independence. (JQn our first pige will be found an interesting description of the exercises at the recent commencement of our Univer sity. We are truly gratified to learn, that the institution is in a prosperous condition, and that this county sends to it such a res pectable number of students. Four of the graduating class, viz: Robert R. Uridgers, John S. Dancy, Leonidas L. Dancy, and William F. Dancy, are from this county, and there are also five members of the oth er classes from this county. Repeal of the Sub-Treasury . The Globe of the 10th inst. contains the deci sion of the Senate on Mr. Clay's bill for the repeal of the Independent Tieasury law. A long and spirited debate was witnessed in the Senate on the passage of the bill. The question was taken at 7 P. M. and the result was, yeas 29, najs IS. YEAS Messrs. Archer, Harrow, Bates, 13 jyard, Men- ien, Choate, Clay of Ky., Clayton, Dixon, Evans, Graham, Henderson, Huntington, Keer, Mangum, Merrick, Miller, Morehead, Phelps, Porter, Prentiss, Preston, Rives, Sim mons, Smith of Indiana, Southard, Tall rnadge, White, and Wooilbri Ige -29. NAYS Messrs. Allen, lienton, Cal houn, Clay of Alabama, Fulton, King, McRoberts, Nicholson, Pierce, Sevier, Smith of Connecticut, Sturgeon, Tappan, Walker, Williams, Woodbury, Wright, and Young -18. The bill now goes to the House of Re presentatives for concurrence. or nriviWes from the community, but in themselves of the right to coin money, 1 . ? r i: f, nnlhmir lint (JThe Raleigh Register gives the fol lowing as the majorities in the several Congressional districts in this State, at the rctent election. It must be borne in mind, however, that in several of the districts the strength of the parties were not exhib ited, there being no regular opposition. IVhig maj. Pep. maj. First District, Second do. Third do. Fourth do. Fifth do. Sixth do. Seventh do. Eighth do. Ninth do. Tenth do. Eleventh do. Twelth do. Thirteenth do. 142 1320 2Sg 1G24 S6S 2294 5374 1G13 43 1 122 3370 4S6 767 14,331 6,108 6,103 Aggregate Whig maj. 8,223 Another Financier. The Hangor, Me. Democrat states that the president of the Frankfort Dank has been arrested on a charge of swindling, and bound over for trial. The substance of the charge against him is, that he took funds of the bnik, purchased stock of various persons at fifty percent, sold it at par, kept the profits, and paid the bank in wild land at 2 50 per acre that was worthless. If things go on as they have done of late, the Democratic parly will have but little opposition the next four years, as a majority of the Federalists will have either gone to Texas, Canada, or the penitentiary. JOll THE TAUBORO' TUFSS. No. 4. The Opossom Fighter's thoughts. Now, George, I pome to the book; for I arh for the book, whether I preach law or gospel. I now shall hunt old Mary's cat, (implied power,) to the State or Congress in the constitutions to charter a bank. In the declaration of the bill of rights of the citizens of this Slate, section the 1st. 'That all political power is vested in and derived from the people only." This is sound doctrine. Sect. 2. "That the people of this State ought to have the sole and exclusive right of regulating the internal Government and police thereof." Question. Has the State, or people of this State, surrendered this right to Congress? You know better fortius would be to violate their own rights and ihcir ownconstitution, and give upiheir claim to freedom. So then I put it down, that the people r this State a.e free and independent of Congress Secl.3. " That titled to exclusive no man or set of men are en- consideration of public services Now, George,' I ask you, what public ser vice has been rendered to the community by hank stockjobbers, that the bankers should be entitled to this exclusive privi lege, above the community and poor foTks, to have the privilege of getting the interest of three dollars for one? Say, and tell the truth. Nothing, no public service rendered, so no title to this privilege. Then this privilege granted to bankers, is a violation of the constitution by the Gen eral Assembly, as plain as the nose on your face. I refer you io the United States constitution, to see the same doctrine preached therein. Constitution. section 44. "That the de claration of rights is hereby declared to be part of the constitution of this State, and ought never to be violated, on any pretence whatever." Mark them words, of these blessed pdriois, (on no pretence whatever.) Yet the General Assembly has violated the declaration and violated these sacred words of caution, from the purchasers of liberty to their posterity, on the small pretence of bank jobbers and fictitious bank notes, with out surety or certainty of not losing the notes thev bold in hand. And the bank can depress their value at will, by refusing to pay specie. Now then, George, 1 have diligently and carefully gone through the declaration of rights and the constitution and amend mcnts of this State, and after cleaning my spectacles well, I cannot find Mary'scat nor get a glimpse of her. However, she may be in the United States constitution, in some hole or corner there; so then 1 shall ramble about there, to see if I cm get a glimpse of Mary's (implied power) bank ing cat. Dull think before I go, that she will be hard to find, except 1 hail F. W. spectacles. Since Mary's cat is here, there, and every where, at.d no where, she is hard to come at; however, I shall try the trick. United States Constitution. Section 8 2. "To borrow money on the credit ofthc United States." This is a power the Slates have given to Congress in the con slitution. Is this the track of Mary's rat? I answer, no. First, because there was no United States bank then in Ameiica, when these words were written. What sort ol money did Congress first borrow? Why, French crowns of silver from France. Sec ond, bank bills are not money; they are bills of credit and not money, the constitu tion being judge. In a word, according to the sense of the constitution, nothing1 is money but gold and silver. Dank bills are nothing but a fraudulent floating paper, that is ruinous to poor folks, but greases the fat sow with gain. Curbed system, the more 1 write upon it, the worse I hate it. Sections 5. "To coin money, regu late the value thereof and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and meas ures." This I have already written upon, and Mary's cat. is not there. 6. "To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the secutities and current coin of the United States." Now a few or emit bills of credit, or make nothing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts given this power to Congress to charter hanks and emit bills of r.rirlii? I answer no; and prove it to your face, ffom the con stitution. Section 8 5. Congress shall have pow er "To coin money, regulate the value thereof and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures. lviarK the words, to coin money; not banK Dins Mark the words, foreign coin, not foreign bank bills; and current coin of the United Slates. Mark the word coin; not bank bills of credit. Thus the power given Con gress trom the States, although they pro hibit themselves from emitting bills of cre dit, this clause sheweth that they never gave to Congress the power to emit bills of credit; but to coin nothing but gold and silver, as they had deprived themselves of this right. Soalsoitis to be understood from this clause, that the States deprived Congress also of this privilege of emitting bills of credit, the curse of any nation. No find de cat yet. So then, George, I have examined the bill of rights, the constitution of this Stale, and the constitution of the United States, with their amendments, and 1 say I have looked with all the power of my specs, and I can't find neither power direct, nor pow er implied, given by the people to the State, nor by the States to Congress, to h u ter a bank; and I do not believe I ever shall, without 1 can borrow a pair of F. NV. spectacles, and then it is very doubtful whether in my old age they would suit my eyes. So I shall give over hunting Ma ry's cat, since she is here, there, and eve ry where, and no where. So I shall say, implied power is no where given in either constitution, to emit bank bills of credit. Thus I say, banks and bank bills are un constitutional, to all intents and purposes; and to cstauiisn mem, is usurp-u power over the rights of the people, and that the people ought not to suffer one in the Uni ted Slates, to trample on the constitutions and their sacred rights. Now as I have probed the wound, I will tell the people how to cure and kill every bank in the United States. First, stay at home and work and mind your own btisi ness, and attend to that diligently and take care of what you earn. Secondly, never buy any thing but necessaries, and not al ways them; for it is superfluities and idle ness that bring men in debt, and not the necessaries of life, for they are but few, and not that few long. Thirdly, never let a iy man borrow one cent out of the bank, and they will die as dead as the clog by the hay. 1st. And to kill the United States bank, let the Slates have all iheir opossom tails tied together. 2nd. Let each Slate assert her own right of sovereignty, and not suffer a branch bank of the United States to be established in any State in the Union; for it is the right of the States, and the wtlfaie of all the banks in the several I States, not to suffer it. For if Congress should chatter a United Slates hank of thirty-five or fifty millions, as is talked of, the Slate banks must be like shrubs under a words here. Arc bank bills coin. You ' tall spreading oak, wither and decay, and many of them finally die. So if ihc M des will take old Lawrence's advice, keep branches out of your State. I assert it is a Slate light, for the States have only ce ded to Congress the right to coin gold and me, that the convention that framed the j silver, and not to emit their bills of credit constitution always had their eyes on gold upon them to destroy their own. Ilow- and silver: that alone they called money, ever, the Stales arc as deep in the mud as Know they nre not; then .Mary s cat ol implied power to Congress to charter a bank is not. here, not even a toe nail. Kcad 11. "Dut no nppinpi iation of mon ey. iol bank bills, lor it seems clear to I i 1 1. I'll r i anu noi oanw nuis, tor they never once mentioned them in the constitution. For bank bills are not money, but paper patronage to the rich, and a curse to the pour. No cat here. Section 9 6. "No money shall be drawn from the treasury," &.c. "all pub lie money." No mention is made in this clause of bank bills. Money, money, is the term used by the framers of the con stitution in every clause, and bank bills arc never used once. And the word money, was used for gold and silver before there ever was a bank in the world; and has al ways been applied to that in all nations, and not bank bills. Dank bills are not money, and does not apply to that term. No cat here. Section 101. -No State shall coin money, emit bills of credit, make any thing but gold and silver coin a tender in pay ment of debts. " In this section of the constitution, we see the States have sur rendered their lights, and deprived them- sellvcs of the privilege of coining gold and Congress is in the mire, for both arc un constitutional to emit billsof credit. George, I believe I now shall give over the hunting of Mary's cat, since she is to be found nowhere, although 1 have a thou sand things to say, but not now; but will come to things equally important to the people. The evils of the banking system. Now come hilher, ye piney woods boys, ye turpentine getters, ye lightwood knot cutteis and tar burners, ye saddlers and tailors, ye shoemakers and carpenters, ye shop joiners and gig menders, ye black smiths and tinkers, ye poor farmers and pedlars, ye day laborers and idlers, ye giog sellers and swindlers, ye poor folks and gamblers, and let you and me have a bit of a talk. For 1 am no office hunter for honor nor gold, but will speak the truth if I know it, without design to oflend or please any man; nor do 1 care a whit for ail the frowns of corporations in the world. Now, gentlemen, stand up to the rack, and hear what old Lnvrpnpp has to sav to ..ve, ui ui eoou.ug onisoi credit; j you upon the evils of the banking system get about twenty-one per centum on his hundred dollars.' Ana you, oecause you are poor, with your ten dollars are shut out ol this privilege ot gelling una iwemy-one per centum for your ten dollars. Thus the banking system is a system of inequality among the citizens of the State, and the rich have an exclusive privilege to make gain, and the poor are oppressed by this hellish chartering ol banks al ttiuu share; which shows us, poor folks, that the banking system is for the rich to make mo ney out of our labor, and we stand in the back ground and look on like hungry dogs to get a bank bill at their will and plea sure. Cursed system. Don't go away, gentlemen, I have not talked half enough yet; for another evil of the banking system is that of usurped pow er, the power of banks to depress our labor and articles that we have for sale, for which we have labored faithfully. Now you know the banks have their gold and silver locked up in their vaults, and you might as well draw their teeth as get it. And you know they have issued a great many notes and when they call in their notes and re fuse to pay specie, 1 ask you where is the money? Is it any wonder that times should be as they arc, that we can't get but a low price for our labor? There is enougl of it in the eoui.t,-y to jay our debts am irive us a reasonable price for our labor hut the banks are our maess in money matters, and we poor folks slaves at will. So then, banks rule at will, anil we poo: folk- must do as we can; for money is the ruling power, as Caesar said, "give him money and ho could get soldiers, and with soldiers he could get money." So I say by the banking system, let it go on and it will soon be the i tiling power of this country. Dut 1 will tell the people once more how to put it down. U'lvn you come to the ballot box never, no never, vote for a man you know io be in ftvor of banks. This will he a blow at the ro t. I am not, gentlemen, done with you yet; for there is another evil in the banking sys tem, and thai is monopoly. The rich men have acqu red and bought up mot of the gold and silver in the States, and thrown it into the bank vaults. For what? whv, that they may gel fiom 7 to 27 p r cen tum by stockjobbing on the poor people, who shall by any means fall wiihio tiu ii giasp by misforiune to bonow of them. As for gold, it would be enough to make a cat laugh to see an eagle or a half eagle, or doubloon, or guinea; for although 1 have handled SlO.OUO of bank bills in ten years, I never have in any trade received the first piece of gold. ( Ah, precious stuff' for banks,) keep it, the rust and canker there of shall be a witness against you, and burn your flesh with fire. Don'i be mad al scripture truth. Do not rich men oppress you, and drag you before the judgment seats? For monopoly all men must ac knowledge is wrong; whether it be in wheat, corn, meat or money, it is the same in its effects on the community at large. It carries the spirit of oppression wi:h it also, oppression on the poor, but not the monopolist. JOSHUA LAWRENCE. an parted In the exercise rr Christ, and with an earneVJ C death ight h.veiBlu others. " The rirhtP, A ln.V s death." u ua How gentle was the stroke- . Which bow'd his hea.t ; e,duine How peaceful did his so fr ? His friends, his life, hi3& 1 Wvitts Cutter At Tarborm.rrh , w " A en V. - u JUNE 5. Bacon, Crandy, apple, Coffee, Corn, Cotton, Cotton batnrinsr. Flour, Iron, Lard, Molasses, -Sugar, brown, Sal t, T. 1. -Turpentine, wheat, whiskey, per lb gallon lb bushel lb yard barrel lb lb gallon lb bushel barrel bushel gallon 8 9 ?M 4 45 ; u 1 c? 25 15 ' 10 12J 2 3) .5! V s .! S 2 SSI Notice. 1 Fayeltcvite, June 2, 1S41. Cotton, by reason ofthc demand ol the factories in :his town and the back country, Mill maintains its price here, notwithstand ing the fall of oneand-a-half to three fourths of a cent in New York. Indeed the puce! v- in this market during the whole session has been governed by the home demand. Observer. npill-: Mih.ciil.cr takes ,h i-'-mn.ghi.f,,!; s J g-ncrally, ,1 a, l.e lill remV II Grove Mill The place u h!C, ,le ' ral years pa., immediately 0n . k ba le,ds ,u,n Il d.lax .0 Var" , N miles finm Miefo,mfTarifI0 3 uh't, aim is p,ep:m, l-roprr h call on him. N0 pared o ,de:; unrrmii,!R ,nd ; 'Cn.,n lo ,,, n:Hlls M j m,y .avnr him with lhe,rPT y 1 he extoi mil of mv I n'r ,.' A IV t;ihlp ,r..i l shall he well lunched, & mv p,. r ti p u P Pl Smi- tr"ve 1 1 1 1 1, an en ceiiniv, N fj) .!u e 5 h, is 11. 254 j'lde by !h hiH try th" infernal I " br ibers having opened a Pu-. he lluu-e m (;,v' 11,11, W,(rre, county ;orlh Carolina, 11 mil. slVnmUV renion, n the road leading lo II ,!ibx,j, prepued to accomodate iravclh is or p uo vi no may wish board dtinn the 5$ ly season, their charge will he mndV. ate, and their table hall be furnidied wj-, the be! they can procure Their stable will be ai tended oy aitt n'ive cwlers. IUCNliv . J. KE.IIISEI Avy.vy TiiaiFT. May 29, 18-11. 23 4 Cheap Good! Gheap Goods!! OR. Much for Link. ! j FJpIIK great qonnti y ol (Inod; which 1 lillle moi.ey will buy at (fsunglon Market, June 1G. Com ivholeale, J1 75 a $1 cO. Hacon sides S a y cents, hams 1 I cents. Naval Stores New dip, &2 i5; Old, 52 00 Scrape, 70 cents. Tar, Si 10. Kih, shad, 7 a jj5s. Herrings, cut, fc3 50: whole, 2 50 a 53 00. Hep. any or separate emoluments! and bound themselves to make nothing hut gold and silver a lender in piymeni of debts. How is it then, that the States have violated the constitution, in granting o.inic chillers and emitted those cursed bank billsof credit? Wh, because Con gress, who should have been the guardian of tho nation, has in the first instance set the bad example in their chartering the first bank of America, and the Slates have fol lowed the example ofthc blow up train, and fluctuating circulating medium of the na tion. For bills must, and ever will, fluc tuate in value, because they have no worth in themselves. Not so wiih gold and sil ver coin, for Congress is authorised to fix the standard value of Kold and silver, but can you find in the constitution a clause where Congress is authorised from the States to fix the standard weight and meas ure of bank bills? No, sir, this would be as hard a task as to catch Mary's cat; for their value every day is changing. Question. Have the States, by depriving He has already told you, that the banking system is unconstitutional and proved ii, and defies the Legislature or Congress to prove to the contrary. So, equally so, I shall try to prove it is not reasonable, by the banking system not admitting (quality among the citizens of the State; lor my creed of politics, gentlemen, is, that all men are born free, and with equal rights to life, liberty, property, and pursuits of his own happiness in that way he may choose, provided he may not interrupt his neigh bor in all this. And first, gentlemen, the banking sys tem is a system of inequality, because the Legislature and Congress have set the price of a share in bank stock al J$lQ0 per share. We poor folks can't spare SlOO lor bank stock, and support our families; and can you tell me why the rich, that are able to put in one hundred dollars, should be entitled to a greater privilege, than the other citizen who is only able to put in one, five, ten, twenty, or fifty dollars, to COMMUNICATED. (TpElders Humph rcu Slallinsrs and John Ward are expected to preach on Thursday, 15th .Tulv, at Spring Green; rnuay, iom,at L,or Uhapel; Saturday and Sunday, 1 7lh and lSih, at Kehukee; Mon day, 19th, at Lawrence's m. h ; Tuesday, 20ih, at Williams's; Wednesday, 21st, ai Deep Creek; Thursday, 23d, "at Rocky Swamp; Friday, 23d, at Fishing Creek; Saturday, 2 lib, at Falls Tar River; Sun day, 25th,at Pleasant Hill; M ondav, 26th, at Upper Town Creek; Tuesday, 27ih, ; t Lower Town Creek; Wednesday, 28th, at Tarboro'; Thursday, 29ih, at Little Co netoe; Friday, 30 h, "at Cross Roads; Sat urday, 31st, at Flat Swamp. DIED, Ath - v. ium v 111 l 1 1 1 v 1 1 1 , v iii. 1 1 1 the 30th of April, Dr. Samuel N. Souther land, in the 36th year of his age. His na me state was North Carolina; he was a Graduate of the Military Arademy at West Point, and a highly accomplished scholar and gentleman. The community in which he resided, has lost one of its most valua ble and valued members. About eighteen months since, he united with the BantUt C.h nrnli in was a most exemplary member and orna- mont nl' lk. PI. ri f wie vnrisiian nengion. lie ue- IVfF ihvap Cash Store, ill :itnr.ish 1 hose who h ive not Iriel he i xpenment. IL; ihen fne inviif pinchaM-ri 10 call and examine his tnd' before p-nrhaing rUcwl; i( wlicn tiirei no g.tod they simuM call, when um'iM ndiff rem t hey shuul.l rail; lui', above ill wh'-n tiirrsare hard like Ihe present, the? -hould c,ill for I l.e sake of their packets For, t'e ii reuiMi.b red, thai CheapCccd! are the only palliatives for hard limes. C dl and try it. T. .1 MACMIR. Tarboro', Stli June, 11. Herrings! Herring Hbls. best Roanoke Cut Ite 1 1" I !' 25 bbls. Cut HriTings from t Sound, (Jatlin's hian-l, 130 do. hesl lirM.i cl & Fagan'sclo F jv sale cheip, by T. 1 MdCSM Tarboro', 5ih June, IS-H. T Cheaper than exer at t':C WELL KNOWN CIBE.1F C.1SBS STOW- James Weddell & Co. KSPKC ITCJJ.Vinvi-etbHr -...I tl n.d) IC, 10 rous customers anu ,- early examination of their present a t- f v 1 1 ru p r ment ol spring uuu romp.iinslhel.irreOtmoM5plenjC 1 1)1 .irvirlon beyuno an uu- j" Cheapest Stock of iicaMaS-' .liul fnshionam ""T 'flr,f Kvfrc.ff.-ied in Tai boro inH n k of those in wan. ol ('";,, Nlheir price examine iheir slock ar.d If'11" hel'nre n!irchaing- Taiboro, May 12, ls,,
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