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' mmST67m: mi ' ' " nnw TITT.- mi mi i w mi i n IL u. mmammnmmmi Whole jVo. 833. Tarborough, (Edgecombe County, JY 6'J Saturday February 6, i4 Tic Tarborough Press, BY GEORGE HOWAHD, Is published weekly at Two Dollar and Fifty Cents per year, if paid in advance or Three Dollars at the expiration of the subscription year. For an) period less than a year, Twent y-fict tents per month. Subscribers are at liberty to ' discontinue at any time, on giving notice thereof and paying arrears those residing at a distance, tnust invariably pay in advance, or give a respon sible reference in this vicinity. Advertisements not exceeding a square will be Inserted at One Dollar the first insertion, and 05 tents for every continuance. Longer advertise ments in like proportion. Court Orders and Ju dicial advertisements 25 per cent, higher. Ad vertisements must be marked the number of in sertions required, or they will be continued until otherwise ordered and charged accordingly. Letters addressed to the rMitor must be post paid or they may not be attended to. Robert Novjkct, THROUGH this r.ied um returns hi sincere thanks, for the very liberal patronage received since his commend ment in business. Gentlemen, wishing lo procure a suit of cl thes rq - 1 i" ry respect to the best that can be made in the United Slates, can do so by giving ' him a call. Always on hand, Ji good Stock of Cloths, Cassrmcres and Nestings, of the newest styles. And an assortment of stock, cravat, ho soms, gloves, silk and wool hirts ami drawers, hats, pumps, hoots, timbrel lar, &c. &c. Tarboro', Feb. 1, IS 12. JYotiee. RS A. C. HOWARD inform her friends and the pir he, thai -he has usi received a fresh sepplv n! (i.uxU sun able for the season, viz: Bonnets, 'Ik Satins, Ribbands, Flown, Curls, $, which makes her assortment complete She has also received some new and bean lilul patterns for dresses, S-c. Tarboro', Dec 3, 1 841.' JYotice. fpHE subscriber inlorms the merchants and farmers of Edgecombe county, that he has just finished a new and com plete FLAT, ami intends gdng master of her himself, and hopes by punctual and Strict attention to the business to share a liberal patronage, Irom that quarter. All persons wishing to employ him, will be SO good as to call on the subscriber in Greenville. JOHN H. BROOKS. Greenville, N.C. Feb. 16. IS 12. 7 3 Cotton Yarn. THE subscriber has jnt rreciv-d a quantity of Cotton Yarn, different numbers, which he will sell Jit llcducid Pi ices, On reasonable and accommodating terms GEO HOWARD Tarboro', Jan. 14th, 1513. titaie of JVortli Carolina, EDGECOMBE COUNTY. Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, Nanny Edwards Petition for re vs. f prooineoj emeu John S. Edwards, VVi I i Edwards's Wit rll Will. liams Edwards and others, "1TN this case affidavit being filed, that two of th defendants, to wi, John S. Edwards and Williams Elwatds, art non residents: No' ice is iht iefore herein given, to the said John S. Edwards and Williams Edwards, to be and appear at the next term of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions to be held for the Coun ty of Edgecombe, at the C urt House in Tarborough, on the fourth Monday in February next, then ami there to plead or demur to said petition, or answer the same; otherwise, it will be taken pro con fesso and heard ex p'trte as to them. J NO. NO R FL E E T, Ct'c. Tarboro,' January 17'h, 1842. 4 Turner $ Hughes' NORTH CAROLINA AIL MIAN AC, For 1842, Just received and for sale at this Office at the Raleigh prices, viz: 10 cents single, 75 cents per dozen, S3 50 for half a grope, 6 for a groce, &c. Oct. 1841. Constables' Blanks for sale, AT THIS OFFICE. m M si e mm. From the Fayetfevillc Journal. CORRESPONDENCE, Between Louis D. Henry, Esq., the Nominee of the recent Democratic State Convention, assembled at Ral eigh, and the Committee appointed to inform him of his nomination. (concluded.) INCREASED EXPENDITURE AND ENORMOUS PUBLIC DENT. The Whigs promised the people to tes sen expenses, and to administer the Gov ernment wiih fifteen million of dollar per year. Let us examine how they have redeemed their pledg- s of economy. Mr. Woodbury, one of tne ablest and mos! faithful Secretaries of the Treasury we h ive ever had, elates that the expenses o' the Government, the last year of Mr. Van liuren was about twenty-three millions ol dollars The President, Mr. Van Buret) himself declur -s, in his annual message t" Congress Dec. 1S41, from which 1 now quote, as follows. The expenditures of IS39 was reduced six millions of dollars Those of 1S40, exclusive of disbursements of public debt and trust claims, will proba bly not exceed twenty-two and a half mil lions, being between two and thiee mil lions less than those of the preceding year, and nine or ten millions less than 1S37." Here then we have ihe evidence of the President of the United Sta'es, when under his official oath, in Dec. 1S40, corroboia ted by Secretary Woodbury, tint he had reduced the expenditures in three years. about ten millions, and that when he quit office, they did not exceed twenty-two and a half millions. The whig leaders told the people in 1S40, thai the exjenses of the Government under Van Buren's administration had a- mounted to 39 or 40 millions. This was false, because they spoke against the Book, which was btfore their eyes. For on the 4th of May 1M0, in compliance with a re solution of the Senate, the Secretary of the Treasury reported to the Senate (see Sen ate's documents 26th Congress 1st Session 450 pages 2 and 6) that the expendi'.ures for the year 1S37, . (independent of pay menis on account of the public debt, fund ed or unfunded) amounted to S37,243,214 24, from which the sum ol fcG,18b,42ii on account of trust furds, indemnities, claims of States, for war debts, three per cent, on lands sold, is to be deducted, and it leaves Mr. Van Buren's highest year chargeable for expenses proper, the sum of only, S3!,056,7ti4 84. Now mark the contrast! President Ty ler and his Secretary Mr. Forward, declar ed to the present Congress, in the (Message and report) that the last year's expendi tures of the government amounted to more lh.n thirty-two millions of dollars, which includes a pay ment of about five ami a half millionsof the public debt; so that Mr. Van Buren brought the expenditures down to about twenty-two and a half millions, his last year, at an average diminution for three years, of three millions a year, and the whigs in one ytar, 1841, increased them over four millions of dollars. Thus, President Tyler in his message, and Secretary Forward in his report to present Congress, December, 1841, say the expenditures of 1S41, were $32,025,070 70 Secretary Forward in said report, says the payments in 184 1, on account prin cipal and interest Treasu ry notes, and public debt, are as follows: Treasury note re deemed principal and int., 55,027,811 13 Public debt 27,080 64 3d quartet, interest on loan 70,000 00 3d quarter, principal & int. on Treasury notes, 503,183 95 5,628,075 72 Nett expenditures of whig year 1841 526,396,994 9S Document No. 31, House of Reps. 27th Congress, 2d session statement laid before House by Mr. Fillmore, chairman of Committee of Ways and Means, contains Secrela ry Ewing's letter to said chairman, dated July 7, 1841, in which letter Mr. Ewing reports to him statement No. 8 of said document, showing expenditures for last 12 years it page 26 we hive the aggregate nett expenditures of Mr. Van Buren's last year, 1840, independent of Treasu ry notes and public debt to be S22,3S9,350 31 This bilance is whig in crease of expense in one year, g4,007,63S 67 This statement then, (as it shews,) is made up m the authority of President Ty ler, and the two Whig Secretaries, Ewing and Forward. The Whigs cannot question it! Having shown how the whigs have in creased the expenditures of the Govern men, I'll now show how much they pro pose to augment the public debt. Mr. Woodbury states in a late speech in he Senate, that the public debt left by Mr. Van Buren was between 5 and 6 millions, for the issue of Treasury notes. Mr. For ward the present whig Secretary of the Treasury, reported to the Senate on the l()lh Jan. 1842, that the debt for Treasury notes issued under Mr. Van Buren, was on the 3d of last March, 56,607,361 54 and that the public debt for Treasury notes and loans, on 23d of Dec. 1841, was $512,959, 504 51. They differ in these statements, from about one-half lo a million of dollars, in respect to Mr. Van Buren's debt. I will take Mr. Forward's statement, merely because, it is most against us, and therefore cannot be impugned by our adversaries. Whig debt, on 23d Dec, 1841, 512,959,504 57 Van Buren's administra tion, on 3d of March, 1841, 6,607,361 54 Increased Actual debt Add the balance of the loan, authorized by the act of 21st of July, 1841, 6,352,143 OS 6,422,524 12,774,667 03 Add the following items on account of extraordinary expend ituies, proposed by the Secretaries of the Whig Cabinet, and for objects strongly recom mended and approved by President Tylerin his late Message: Mr. Forward, Secretary of Treasury, a new issue of Treasury notes, Postmaster General, to pur chase partnerships in Rail roads, Secretary of the Navy, to increase our Navy to half the size of the British Navy, say from 66 to 4 or 500 vessels of war, the annual expenditure for which, is variously esti mated from 15 to 25 mil lions, say, however, for two years, Secretary at War, propo ses, among other things, to increase the standing army, and extend a chain of military posts to the Rocky mountains. This cannot be estimated at less than The Piesident, besides ap proving the foregoing objects, proposes a Go vernment Bank, with power to create a debt, by certificate, notes, and loan, the further amount of 5,000,000 00 8,000,000 00 20,000,000 00 2,000,000 00. 35,000,000 00 82,774,667 03 Here ihen we have an actual and ?ro posed debt by the whigs in less than ten months after they got into power, of more than 82 millions of dollars. But this is not the worst. We are taxed under the new whig Tariff, upon the necessaries of life, according to their own estimate at the Extra Session 55,774,000 00 Secretary Forward, in his late annual report propo ses, a further tax of 54,718,570 00 Total taxes 10,492,570 00 Add to this the public debt as above 82,774,667 03 Also one year's interest on public debt as above. 4,966,480 00 Total of taxes and public debt actual and propo sed 598,233,717 03 Here we have in one year, the whig year lS4l! in taxes, and public debt, actual 7 nd proposed, the enormous sum of NINE PV-K1GH r MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. More than six dollars, per oead, fot every white man, woman and hild in the United States. The whigs are estopped from question ing the principle of this calculation. They promised to administ-r the Govrnmen' with 15 million a vear to economise, re trench and reform. Is this retrench mtnt, a propose, expenditures and taxes which cmnot under anv viw. fj short of the sun of one hundred millions of dl lars? The best way to nvke prodigals, is to talk of expending millions, when sober men, would only talk of hundred.?. It be g Is a contempt for economy in small sums, and is sure in 'he end. to corrupt the minds of men in public and private life. But a bove all, the principal is more than war ranted bv 'he whig charge, in 1840, 'hat Mr. Van Buren proposed to raise a stand ing Army of 200.000 militia. What a signal co, trust between the democratic and whig administrations.'. The two democratic administrations paid off the old war debt of 1776 aod 1812 stopped leaks in the Treasury, which would have carried off 5200,000,000, lo mad schemes of Intern d Improvement h the General Government (as was estima'ed at the lime, Gen. Jackson vetoed the Ma svilie road Bill) carried on two ex pensive wors with Black Hawk, and the Seminole Indians removed Indians, and purchased from 50 to 100 millions of acres of Indian lands paid state claims for war deb s finished ihe public buildings pud double the amount of Pensions, to soldier ifince dead levh d no new taxes -created no loans but the Tariff (axes were bien nially diminishing under the act of.&S3 all this too, at a time, when t!e supplies of the Government for the army, navy, &e. were double the price they are now, and afier discharging all these extraordina ry expenditures, deposited 28 millions (f dollars with the States. M jre th;in thi! brought all foreign na tions to settlement and payment, who owed us for spoliations upon our Commerce; anil exalted the national honor and credit -broad, to a height which caused other na tions to look upon us with wonder and ad miration. Now turn your face to the picture of the whig year 1841 ! You there behold, the national credit tarnished, and the nation itself, covered with a pall of deep forebo ding e loom l i rade depressed the pro fits of the plough diminished the laborer and his family turned out of employment the people dispirited with tow prices and large debts mortihed and deceived with whig promises of better times the nation disgraced by the frauds and failures of the Great Bank the federal treasu ry bankrupt the avowal before the would that this whig administration cannot bor row money upon the honor and credit of ihe country the expenses of Government increased in one year to over four millions of dollars, and taxes and a proposed public debt t g ther, of ninety eight millions of dollars. As a republican, proud of my country, I look upon this picture, more in sorrow than in anger. In summing up millions upon millions of whig extravagance, I cannot condescend to notice such small sums as 56,000 to enhance the gorgeousness of the President's house, called by the Whig- in 1840, the palace oj' Royal magnificence" nor, the sum of nearly half a million ol dollars lor the expenses of the useless Extra Session nor, the sum of 525,000 paid to Mrs. Har rison these, I agree, are contemptible sums in a long catalogue of millions. It were ridiculous, to complain of the sting of viper, when a Giant is sti angled by the folds of the Anaconda! I do quarrel, how ever, witn the principle of the appropria tion to the widow of the President be cause it is the commencement of the horri ble policy of civil pensions. Ji fkr.son died poor and Monroe died poor, both, I be lieve, insolvent, and no pension was given by Congress to their families. No men deserved it more, because they were a mong the fathers and founders of the Republic. Make a beginning and where will you end? You must extend it lo Judges, Governors, Senators, Members of Congress, Secretaries, Ministers, &c, un til it may amount to a landing army of horse leeches sucking the blood of the People. The policy of civil pensions, is the very essence of the Biitish Monarchy which is supported by giving the lands to the oldest son, and taxing the bread of the laborer to enhance his profits, and pioino ting to office the youngtr sons of the nobil ity, and taxing ihe people to support their fumilies. THE TARIFF. True policy dictated thai ihe public lands should be applied to the purposes of the Treasury, and all useless offices and expen ses abolished; this would probably, bring the expenses within the means of the Gov ernment. Instead of which, the whigs have resorted to loans, and tuxes for pro tection. Taxes .on the necessaries ot lite, to protect the manufacturing interest, is a war against agriculture and com merce', and if you extend the principle, ii will totally degrade the one and destroy the other. These three interests, left to compete with each other, upon the princi ples o(free trade with all the world, with out monopolies or exclusive privileges to J either, will flounsh bet They will livt an t let five. Hut the moment you tax one for 'he heneli of the Other, you destroy 'his whole-ome balance, displace violently vested rap tal, and derange the whole sys tem Tfv essence f a tariff ax for pro tcctinn h th s: 1st, to nuke the planters farmers and laboring classes, pay higher f r the necessaries of life, salt sugar, iron &e. for the benefit of the manufacturer for if it were no benefi', he would not ask it. 2 I, to deprive us of one of the great est privi'ej;es of freemen the right of free1 tra le, of selling or buying of w hom we pleise. For if we lax out the products of foreign countries, they will soon b gin td look toother markets than ours to buy cot t )n, tobacco, Hour, rice, &c, and by en couraging them will finally shut us out of the best market for our produce. ThliS the eandl.' is m.ule to burn at both ends, taxes at the one end, and the loss of a mar ket at th o h r. Cany it out, and you cut off the main source of the revenue of the Governm nt yon ruin the planters, fatm ers. and thoe dependent upon agriculture, oy depriving them of a foreign market, yo i des'roy commerce, and revert to a state o' b.rbirism Free trade and sailor's rights ought to be the motto of every dem ocral. SPOILS OF OFFICE. The - higs denounced us as the spoilj aity." They conderrned "proscription Jbr opinion's sake," as execrable and tyr annical, and mad. the most solemn promi ses, to "prescribe proscripion. How hive they redeemed this pledge? Why we are told upon the highest authority thai they have removed more officers in six months than the Democrats did in 12 years. 1'io-ctiption, with a ruthless and savage spirit ha been practised every where. Ni tther gray haits, outh, want, nor revolutionary services, could stay its veng'-ful stroke. Look around you! and n.t a place, but presents some poor demo crat, who has been the victim of Whig pro scription. Old soldiers with large fami lies, depending upon a little salary of 300, have been turned out upon the charity of the world, and '-in New York, a boy of thirteen, a messenger (in the custom house,) only because his father was a dem ocrat, was ousted from office." Even in your own State, this party has cast ever v democrat from power or place within their reach, down, down, to the poor door-keeper of the Assembly, and the keeper of the Capitol. Revenging themselves upon the hardworking, uneducated laborer and his family, bcc-iuse, he had exercised the priv ilege of a rep ublican, in voting against the Whigs. Was ever proscription more fiendish and persecuting than this! Its grasping and sordid rapacity, knowing no bounds, could not spare the poor man's hit m b le m ea I, b u t vv i t h a wolfish spirit hunkd up the miserable crumbs of ihe ireasuryW We complain of this, because it was done in ihe teeth of the most solemn pledges, and because of its downright hypocrisy und deceit. The money, bonds and stocks of the State, amount to between two and three millions f dollars, in the literary lund, Internal Improvement fund, Bank9 Sic. This immense money power, so capa ble of being abused, is now under the sole and exclusive control of whigs, not one democrat allowed to remain, to watch, and check, and report to the people, (whose money it is) when any abuses oc cur. The f ct is, that the piople of the Slate have been kept in the dark upon this subject; it was the duty of the Whig legis lature of 1840, thio'tgh Committees ap po.nted expressly for that purpose, to have ins imted the most rigid enquiry,.! actual personal investigation under oath, inter the condition of our Banks, rail road com ities, and the Boards of loans and Internal Improvement. No party can safely be trusted, with so great money power in times like these! Paper checks and pa per i t puris, such as the whigs gave us the last two legislatures, amount lo noihing; they are worth no more than the flour ishing reports we used to have from the United States Bank. The Whigs also promised you, that their appointments to office, should be regulated by the rule, "is he honest, is he capable?" V h t is the fact? In this State, they luve geneial'y appointed their Vfry hottest partizans to office, holding up party ser vices as the test of qualification, in ihe Federal Government, their course has been licentious in the extreme. For in numer- ous instancis appointments have been made, ol men, distinguished far lh( ir want of probity and qualification. But, Gentlemen, my health admonishes me that 1 must close, although my 'subject is not half exhausted. There is however one remark, 1 have lo make before 1 con clude. The people were told that Van Buren's administration, was kept in power by a standing army of 100,000 office holders. How strange, that the Demo crats should have been vanquished vv-th such an army, in 1840! How much more strange, that with this army against them, in the elections of last summer and 0 .jii. ... . . k I. .