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Ad vertisements must be marked the nuraner o i tsCrtions required, or they will be continued until otherwise ordered and charged accordingly. - betters addressed to the Kditor must be post paid or they may not be attended to. From the Salisbury Carolinian. AN ADDRESS Of the Democratic Convention, when mei at Salisbury on the 20th day of May. 1S42 to the People of North Carolina: (continued.) Now, the Democrats do not object to paying 1axes for the reasonable support of Government, but they are utterly opposed to paying taxes to enrich the manufac turers. A high duty on foreign good- necessarily raises the price of them, and enables the Northern manufactories to charge more for all they sell. Our fore fathers in establishing the Constitution, in tended to secure equal rights to all classes of the community, but this new Protec tive Tariff imposes high taxes on th" culti vators of the soil, and mechanics, for the benefit of great capitalists, who have in vested their millions in splendid manufac turing establishments: It is taxing the peo ple generally for a few rich money-holders. Why should the farmers, mechanics, and other classes be taxed for the benefit of the manufacturers? Besides the great injustice of the "pro tective policy," we object to it on another ground: like the Banking system, it cre ates a privileged class of men in the coun try, and will eventually subvert the very nature of our Government itself. The He publican portion of the Committee of Man ufactures, in their report again-t these high duties, have taken this view of the ques tion, and have furnished several striking examples of the effects of this sys'em in England; there, it has made theitf rich, and the many poor; there the rich are very rich, and the poor are wretchedly poor. Let every friend of equal rights read and consider the following extract from the '-Minority Report of the Com mittee on Manufactures," submitted to Congress on the 5lhof May, 1S42, pages 4 and 5. "As evidence of the effect of this system upon the large landholders and upon the day laborer in England, we have only to turn to any newspaper of that country, which finds its way to this. As an in stance nearest at hand, w e give the follow ing extract from an E igli-h paper, found in the National In'elligencer of the lUili in stant. "It is said that, by the death of the late Duke of Cleveland, his eldest son succeeeds to S0,000 a yeT, or nearly 45390,000; Lord William Pawlett h;is a legacy ol 560,000, or more than 2,500,000; and Lord Harvey another of 440,000, or up wards of J52, 000,000,; there is a legacy of 200,000, or nearly 31,000,000, to a grandson; the Dowager his the Yorkshire estates, the house in London, and an im mense amount of plate, jewellery, and furniture. A large portion of the unen tailed estates in Durham goes lo one of his daughters. His Grace, it is said, had 1,250,000, or about 56,000.000 in the 3$ percent, consols besides plate and jewelle ry to the value of 1,000,000. " "In the same paper we find the death of the Marquis of lien ford announced, with the remark that he died worth 2,000, 000, or upwards of S9, 000, 000. "Now, let us view the reverse side of the picture. . We extract the following, from the first paper at hand as a recent re port. The cases stated are accompanied by others of like character, and are n doubt, true representations of thousands and tens of thousand of cases in England, Scotland, and Ireland: "'Let us peep into te report of lh poor law commissioners, that we may th better understand this new dotOrine, which the humanity of Great Britain is about t engraft on the law of nations. 'These commissioners visited fue poor in their abodes of wretchedness, an the following are a few of the facts selected from their report: ''One witness says: l am counted a good laborer, and when lh r is employ ment to bo h id, I am seldom idle. I am idle for about three mon'hs in the year, on an' average. In the. hctrinninir of the summer I was idle for three weeks, one day after another. I had no provision I sold every article in my h mse, rather than let my wife o out: you may he sure we eat the price of them very sp iringly ; at lat I sold the pot I had to boil my potatoes, a. id I walked out of the door mvself, my wife and six children. We went uT where we wire not known, and bended. ' 44 'Another says: I would engige lo work at home every day in the year for eight pounds without food or support of any kind." ''Another, in answer to the, question, do your family generally use milk with their potatoes, say.: 'Milkman! IsolemnU declare, before my neighbors here, tint 1 have been lying in my h.-d having blister alter blister on me, and did not drink a quart of milk, but eat potatoes and salt her rings, and had no drink but cold water. A great many of us would pray the Almighty to take us off; it would be better for us than to live in our poverty and need." Here, we have a sample of the effects of Protective policy," and of unequal law.s in England. We see the privileged few, rollni" in riches, wrung from the hard earn ings of the many, we see them glittering in jewells, and toasting off of gold and silver plate, while the poor "eat potatoes, and salt herring." And yet, with all these things before them, Uie Wjug members, ol Congress, at this very time, are striving to fix this system on the American people. Yes, at this very moment, they have a Bill before Congress to re-es'ablish, and make permanent the protective system on this country. It is a remarkable fact too, that they are doing this, at the very time, when the British Government has abandoned it as a source of misery and suffering among her own people. The late arrivals from England bring the intelligence that the ministry have summitted to Parliament a plan lo reduce the duties on all articles of foreign manufacture down to 20 per cent, ad valorem the precise amount agreed upon in the ''Compromise Act" of 1833: While they are doing this, the tVhigs in Congress are striving to raise our taxes up to the British standard previous to this move of the ministry. Thus the British are coming down to our rates, and our Whigs are rising up to the British rates. Strange, and extraordinary state of things! Thu quesiion is before the People; as they value their rights, let them consider it well. If they vant high taxes, let them continue the Whigs in power and they soon will have them to their hearts con tent; if they do not want them, let them rise in their might, imitate the example of their brethren in other States, turn them out of power and put others in. EXPENDITURES OF THE GOV ERNMENT. The expenditures of the Government during the last year of Mr. Van Buren's administration umounted to a fraction mote than 22 millions of dollars. Mr. Van Bo re n himself, and all his friends in Congress were anxious to reduce them still more, and without doubt, if they had been cont in ued in power, 'this would have been done. The Whig leaders during the campaign of 1S40, declaimed loudly against these ex penditures; they denounced them as extra vagant, and promised, if elected, that they would at once bring down the expenses of the Government to 14 or 15 millions per year. Well, they. were elected, and pla ced in powet ; the quesiion now is have they fulfilled their promises? Have they brought the expenses of the Government down to 14 or 15 millions per yeir? We answer, no; they have neither done it, nor attempted to do it; but on the contrary, during the very first year of their power, they have increased the expenditures ma ny millions; thus falsifying all their pledges During the campaign, they as sured the people that 14 or 15 millions an nually were enough to carry on the Gov ernment, and that they would requite no more. Scarcely, however, were they seated in power, when their leader Mr. Clay, Chairman ol the Committee of Fi nance, declared, and afterwards reiterated the same in a Resolution, that twenty- six millions of dollars was the lowest sum with which the Government could be car ried on. Before the election, they profess ed that 14 miliions were sufficient; after the election, they required 26 millions. Again, the Whig Tariff Committee on :i 1st March, 1342, laid a report before Con gress in defence of high taxes, from which e make the following extract: 4lt is repeated, the precise amount re juiru.l to carry on the Government Is un certain; hut in the opinion of the Com- niuee a Smaller sum than 26,000,000 or i27,ooo,ooo; (twentv-six or twenty-scv-m millions) will not suffice for the ordiua- Jry expenditures." Now, if the Whigs in Congress have so urosiy vioiaieu tneir nieilsres. as, in one year, to have increased the expenditures ol the Government twelve millions of dol lars beyond what they had promised, what nay not be expected from them in a few years more, if they are continued in now- 'r? We leave the subject to the people, and shall proceed to THE NEW NATIONAL DEBT. When the Whigs were contending for power in 1840, they told the people that he Democrats had involved the Govern neutin debt many millions of .dollars, -ome said twenty, some thirty , and some went as high as forty millions. To ascertain the truth of the matter, the United States Senate at an early day in the resent Session, directed the Secretary of the Treasury to report how much the Go vernment did owe when Mr. Van Bui en vent out of office. The Secretary's an swer is contained in Senate Document, No. 41, of the present Session. lie stales that the only form in which any debt was contracted during Mr. Van Buren's term, was in the emission of Treasury notes, and that the amount of Treasury notes outstanding on the 3rd of March, 1841, was S6, 607,361 54. This amount included ab ut one million of Tieasury notes taken up and in the hands of receivers, but not cancelled; thus showing that the only debt against the Go vernment when Mr. Van Buren went out ot office, was. $5, 607,361, in outstanding Treasury notes. This could hardly be called a debt at all, for these notes were receivable for Government dues, and were coming in. Now, let us see what the TVhigs hive doee as respects a public debt since they came into power. During the Extra Session, they passed a law authorizing a loan of twelve millions of dollars. During the present Session, they passed another act authorizing a further loan of Jive millions more, making seventeen mil lions. I he same act authorizing the Go vernment to fund on interest, all the out standing Treasury notes, to the amount of iSS, 750,000; making a grand total of $25, 750,000. Thus when the Whigs received the Go vernment they found it clear of debt, save the 5,607,36 1 of outstanding Treasury notes. But in one year after they came into power, they authorized a funded perma nent debt of tivenfy five millions seven hundred and fifty thousand dollarsl and all this in time of profound peace. Surely, the Whigs must be acting on the maxim of the old Federal party, that aNa tional debt is a National blessing, olher wise they would not have rushed into so large a debt in so short a period of time. Since they have managed in the course of one year to create a public debt of nearly 26 millions of dollars, what may we not expect in the three years to come if the peo ple do not arrest them, in their wild career of extravagance and prodigality? Let all who value their rights and would not wish to see t txes and tariffs entailed on them selves and posterity, come to the rescue be fore it is too late. THE BANKRUPT LAW. Among the acts passed by the Federal party when formerly in power was a Hankrupt law. The Republicans, were univctsally against it, and soon as they came into power, they repealed it. Mark the analogy; among the acts passed by the Whigs at the Extra Session, was the Bankrupt law. I he Democrats are uni versally opposed to it, and as soon as they regain power tpey will, assuredly repeal this most odious Law. 'The Democrats are opposed to it because it is a gross violation of the obligations of contracts which exist between debtor and creditor; and because it is demoralizing and corrupting in its influence on the com mit nity. It is now known that this law was pass ed by a combination between its particular friend-, and those who were in favor ol dis tributing the proceeds of the public lands; one set who voted for it, went for plunder ing the Public Treasury, and the other set for defrauding honest creditors. All who are in favor of repealing this most iniquitous law, should remember that it can only be done by turning out of pow er, those who passed it, and who now advo cate it. DIVIDING OUT THE PROCEEDS OF THE PUBLIC LANDS STA TE DEBTS. The Whigs at the Extra Session under ihe influence of Mr. Clay, passed a law to take from the public Treasury the money brought in by the sales of the public Lands, and to give it away to the several States. This was done when the income of the Government was not sufficient to meet the expenditures, and of course doing so would create a still greater deficiency. How was this deficiency to be supplied? Why b taxes on the people and, are the people Willing to give awa three millions of lol-l I us aniuully, and th n see themelves lax e I to replace this amount in the Treasury ? Arithe willing fb empty ihe Treasury by grants ofthis kind, and then by taxes ami twill" to fill it again? One of the arguments in favor of lhi Whig Law, is that a number of the Slates have become deeply involved in debt, ami that Congress i ought to help them by thi grant of money. Is this jul? If other States act foolishly and run into debt, is it right, to tax the people of North Carolina, to nay their debt? Shall we he made to suffer for the folly and extravagance of oth er States? 'The Democrats say, let eveiy State pay its own debts. The People may thank the Democrats o! North Carolina, that our Slate is now ch ar of debt; they always set the r fares a gainst Whig schemes for borrowing money to embark in wild plans of Internal Im ments; but for this, as b id off as the people now are, their condition would be ten limes worse. Even with this escape, our people are suffering immensely from Whig policy and Whig misrule; and now, shall they submit to a tax of three millions an nually to pay for the folly and extrava gance of other States. This abominable law, as well as the Ta riff, and the plan to raise the expenditures ol the Government up to 26 millions an nually, are favorite projects of Henry Cla". He is now the Whig candidate for next President, and if electe I, ihe people ol Nor.h Carolina may expect to taste the bit ter fruits of all these schemes Let the farmers and laboring classes take timely warning, before it is too late. THE PRESENT TO MRS. HARRI SON OF $35,000 DOLLARS. One of the most objectionable of the acts passed by the Whigs at the late Extra Ses sion, is the law making a present of liven ty five thousand dollars to Mis. Hani son out of the Public Treasury. 'The Whigs all went for this law, the Democrats went against it. As large as this sum is, we object to it less on account of the money, than as an e vil example set in our Government; we fear it is the entering wedge of the British Pension system among us. In England, thousands of the nobility and Government favorites, receive Pensions for life out of the Public Treasury ; and the people are ground down with heavy taxes to supply the means to pay them. Shall this system be introduced in our Government? Begin it once, and where will it stop? Besides, why make a present to Mrs. Harrison more than any body else? She stood in no need of it he was not suffering, she wasalieady rich. Was it. because she was a President's widow? If this be the reason, then hereaft r th widows of all Presidents may claim like presents; and if granted to the widows of Presidents, why not to the widows of all Public Officers from the highest to the lowest? Is it. right, at a time when distress per vades the country, when the Treasury is empty and new taxes have been laid, to fill it. 'hat the Whigs should give aw ay $25,000 of the people's money to one al ready rich, and far above want? Look through Ihe land, see how many poor witlows there are toiling b)T day and night to support their helpless orphans is it right j to tax their salt, their morsel of sugar, and their coarse raiment, lo raise $25.0w0 to be given away to a rich old Lady, who lives in a fine house, who owns splendid lands, and is surrounded with all the com forts of life? If this be right, then let the people applaud the Whigs, and prepare for the British Pension system; if it be wrong, then unite and turn out of power a set of men, who, in their short career of reckless ness, have already done more injury to the country than can be repaired in ten years to come. THE VETO POWER. The people ought not to shut their eyes lo the efforts now making by Mr. Clay and his followers to change our lovernment by striking liom the Constitution one of the greatest safe-guards in it against ( onges sional usurpations, we refer to the Veto Power. This clause in the Constitution was sanctioned by Washingion, Madison, and all the other great Patriots who framed our Government; and afterwards when Washington and Madison, were Presi dents, both of them exercised it. No parly or class of politicians ever found any fault with it, un'il it stood in the way of a Uni ted States Bank. But having defeated Mr. Clay and the Bank men in their schemes, they at once commenced war up on it, and continue to wage it with unmiti vemreance. I hev seem to think if - - 0 - j they can only abolish this part of the Con stitution, that then they can go ahead. But will the people quietly stand by and see ihis vital feature in our Constitution sacrifi ced to an aspirant's ambition, or to Bank cupidity? To say nothing of the evils the tiank will bring upon the country, mark ihe other consequences that will follow. The Veto Power stands in the way of Mr. Clay and the liauk Whigs-lhoy strike from tfie Constitution. After awhile. some, otl er rlause vill stand in the way of some othr aspirant or reckless party; U.ey too will strike it out; and thusour sa cred Consiitutio'n will go piece by piece until it will become entirely subverted, and our Republican form o( Government hcingMl to a Monarchy or despotism. 'The Democratic pari v of North Carolina deprecate these asu l.s on the Constitu tion; we believe it to he an Instrument framed in wisdom, and patriotism; under it, the A mtrican people have enjoyed ma ny blessings; all we ask of the Whigs, or any tthe sol of men, is to preserve it in etter and in spirit, puieaud inviolate. WHIG PROSCRIPTION. When th" Whig politicians were seek ing power iii 1S40, they made a great out cry against ''proscription;" they promised that if they should get into power, to "pro scribe proscription." 'They have kept this promise, like all their others. Never before under our Government have as ma ny men been turned out of office for opin ou'j sake, as during the first four months of Whig power. 'They swept the country from Canada to Texas. Valuable officers, wiih large helpless families have been sent adrift, not for any fault, or neglect of duty, buimeiety because they were Democrats, and to make place for some hungry Whig who claimed his reward for party services. Let the people eontrat th- se practices of the U big leaders, with iheir promises in IS40, and answer are they right? THE AFFAIRS OF OUR OWN STATE. In the political revolution of 1S40, the Whigs obtained the ascendency of the Legislature of N. Carolina, and elected their candidate for Governor. We regret, that the limits of this address, will not allow a full examination into the affairs of our own State. It would be well, however, lor the Democratic candidates for the next Legislature to bring these af fairs before the people; let them procure the Journals of the last Legislature, and read from them to the people; there they will see Whig policy, Whig extravagance, Whig proscription fully exemplified. Never before in N. C, has there been such a reckless, extravagant, and proscriptive Legislature. Scores of hungry politicians in the Legislature and out of it, were there scrambling for the crumbs of office. Many received their reward; some of them who were put in office, are wholly incompetent lo discharge the duties, and thereby the public interests have suffered. Others are now enjoying the "spoils," and mixing up their official duties with Whig politics both Federal and State, trying to con vince the people that the Baukiupt Law the 'Tariff the National Debt extrava gant appropriations of Congress the grant to Mrs. Harrison the Bank doings all, all are right. Let the people consider thece things and judge whether they are right, whether thev mc.-t their approval or their condem- I nation. r liVJiM in3 co in rajn cu wnn i uaiiii ( ES. The people should keep in mind the promises of the Whig leaders in 140, and contrast them with their performances in I S4 1 '42. They then told the people 'that the Democratic administration had brought Ihe hard times" on the country, and thev promised if Gen. Han ison should be elected, that a great change would soon take place, that property would increase in value, that prices would rise, money be come plent y, and general prosperity spread over the land. The people placed confi dence in these promises, and elected Gen. Harrison and put the Whigs in power; the question now is, have they verified their promises? All know that they have not. Money is scarcer, prices lower, dis tress mote general, limes harder now than when the Whigs came into power. Ihe people then have been disappointed and de- . ceivtd, and their deceivers can make no satisfactory excuse for it. One of two things is certain; at the time they made their promises they either believed what they promised, or ihey did not believe it. It they believed that they could do what th'-y said, then the result proves that they Were wholly ignorant of the real caus es of the distresses of the country, and like ignorant physicians were prescrioing in ti e dark and at a ventuie; but if they did not believe that they could perform their promises, then they acted the pi.rt of hyp ocrites, and wilfully designed to deceive the people. Let Ihem take either horn of the dilemma. If they believed it, then they have proven themselves to be too ig- uorant to be lurther trusted- n mey oia not believe it, then they have shown them selves to have teen hypocrius, wilfully making false promises to deceive. But some of them attempt to excuse themselves by laying the blan e on Gen. Harrison's death, that is, at the door of Providence. This excuse will uot bear a moment' examination. It is true, as Sen- itUoi Mangum says, that "the vengeance of Q L