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k ' JSC g fefe g .'fVoe JVo. g ()Ci. Tarborough, (Edgecombe CountyX C ) Saturday, July i5. 1843 rol. XIX Xo 28. The Tarborongh JPrcas, BT OEOUGE HOWARD, Is puhlished weekly at Two Dollars and F'lflV Jf"' per year, tf paid in advance or Lure Uollarsat the expiration of the subscription year or an) period less than a year, Toenti-fice Cents per month. Snhscrihera are at liberty to discontinue at any time, on rivinT notice thereof ana paying arrears those residing at a distance, roust invariably pay in advance, or give a respon sible reference in this vicinity. Advertisements not exceedinr square will be Inserted at One Dollar the first insertion, and -25 cents for every continuance. Longer advertise ments in like proportion. Court uroers. ami ju dicial advertisements 2.r per cent, higher. Ad ertisements must be marked the number of in sertions required, or theywill he continued until otherwise ordered and charged accordingly. Letters addressed to the Editor must be post paid or they may notbe attended to From the Washington Republican. TO THE FREEMEN OF THE Eighth Congressional District of North Carolina . Fellow-Citizens: By a late act of Congress, (he ratio of representation anion the several States hs been changed, and the number of Representatives t which North Carolina was entitled, has been re duced from thirteen to nine members. Conseq iently the districts have been enlar ged, and the counties of Catlerei, Craven. Greene, Nih, Edgecombe, Pitt, Beiufoit. Hyde, Washington and Tyrrell, now com pose the eighth district. My name hiving been brought before you by a respectable portion of the Repub lic party, as a candidate to represent this district, in the next Congress of the United Stales, it is a duty I owe, injustice both to you and myself, to state the princi ples which will govern me, should I have the honor of being your representative; and if any apology were necessary for pub lishing this circular, it would be found in the extensive circulation of reports the inaccuracy to which all verbal statements are liable, and the extent of territory now embraced in all the congressional dislik'ls throughout the State, l" st great as to place it beyond the power of any candidate to borne in mind, that Congress will assemble counteract the efforts of error or falsehood. J again in December n xt. ami mav add to by any other means than those I hivejthe sums already appropriated, as thought it my duty here to adopt. The' was done by the W hig party in object of this communication, therefore, is 1841, when Ihey added over five mj. to give to the freemen of the Eighth Con- j lions of dollars to the amount that had Deen gressional District, a plain and concise j appropriated by the Democratic party for statement of my views ami opinions up-; ihe service of that ear. The amount ap on some measures that were acted on impropriated solar in advance, can no' he re- Ihe last Congress, and such as are m stjgarded as the limit where expenditures j likely to be brought before the next; and , which, inmv opinion, are calculated most: deeply to affect your interest. 1 doubt ' not, that attempts will he made, by dt sign- ing politicians, to misrepresent aim perveri nonureu ann sixty-one dollars.; tne sum my meaning; but nevertheless, I send forth ; appropriated by the Democr..ti. parly this publication, rely ing, with an honest for the service of th:it year, instead ol run confidence, upon the fiimnes and iuW Hi- i ning up to twenty five mililions eiht bun genceof the people. jdred &. eighty-two thousand three hundred For.the last two years I have had the : and sev enty-three dollars as before stated, honor to represent the district in which 1 It should be recollected that the respou resided, and my public acts are now before sibility of making appropriations rests upon the country, free for examination; and to J Congress and nt t the President ; fur in ihe vvhirh I invite ihe ful Ir si investigation. It j language of the Constitution "no money afljrds me, however, much satisfaction tojshall be drawn from the treasury but in state, that so far as 1 hive been able to consequence of appropt iatior-s inaile by . .1 . I learn, it has met the entire approbation of those whom I had the honor to repr. scut. My political opinions were publicly and n penly dechred b. fore my ele -tion, and in no instance have I varied from the true Re publican principles by which I have always been governed. Fortunately for the coun try, the twenty-seventh Congress has now terminated, and the Whin party that had a President of their own choice, and control ling majorities in both branchesof Congn ss. have no longer the control of legislation; but their acts are now spread bi fore the country, & it only remains for you to decide whether their pledges have been fulfilled. It should be lecollected that they were as liberal in promises of benefits to the peo ple, should (ieneral Hairison be elected, as they were in charges of corruption and mis rule against ihe late administration. Of the long list of complaints against the late ad ministration, none were so persr veringlv persisted in as that of extravagance in the public expenditures. And allusion has been frequently made to ihe thirty-seven millions of dollars appropiiated in 1S36 and the impression produced, that th hole of that sum had been expended, when in fact the administration left unex pended, at the close of the year 1836, of that appropriation, upwards of eight mil hons of dollars. The extraordinary bur M lhrovvn uPon the first two years oi Mr. Van Buren's administration on ac count 67 the Florida and Creek wars, bui) j ding new custom and other hou-es, porch ise of lands from the Iudims, and th ir remo- ii iu men iikw imiiici estOI me :IS- sippi, constituted a heavy drain on the treasury; but it was known that thes- bur thens were rapidly passing away, and in view of this, expenditures were brought down, in 1840, to S22.HS9.356, ( twenty -two millions three hundred and eighiy- nine thousmd three hundred and fifty six dollars ) Now how does that compare with tne nrst year ot the present Whig admin istrafion? The expenditures, from the 4'h March, 1841, to the 4th March, 1842. were twenty-five millions eiht hindred and eighty-two thousand three hundred and seventy-thrve dollars, b i-.g upward. of three trillions four hundre I thousand dol lars more the first y.-ar of this Whig admin tstr.ition th m they were the last year of Mr V.tn Buren's The 1) ?mofraic party, just before they went out of offii-e, made appropriations for the year 1841, which amounted 'o $2i) 8t4 561; and to avoid the necessity of an extr a sea-ion of Congress. g;ive authmity to issue five millions of Treasury Notes, amounting to 25. 844.56 1, (twenty-five uul'ions eight hundred and forty four thou sand five hundred and sixty-one dollars,) for the service ol the year is 11 Bm the Whig party, not content with tint sum, at the ex'ra session of congress ma-le new and aldi'ional appropriations, amounting to upwards of five millions of dollars; thus adding to the appropriations made hy the Democratic party, whom they had denoun fed for wasteful extravagance, t ere v in creasing ihe necessities or wants of me govt rumerit, which they h id hern assem bled to relieve. The appropi ti ns for the fn st two years of the Whig administra tion, with an empty Treasury, exceeded the last two years of Mr. Van Buren's bv upwards of three and a half mil ions of dol lar! and this, too, after the Tre:1MJrv ia, been relieved from nearly all the heavy ex penditures growing out of the Florida war. I and other causes to which 1 have before al-i luded, for that war. under the manage nient ol Mr. Viin Buren's administration was about terminating when the Whig par ly took possession of the Government, and to no act or deed of theirs can its termina tion be attributed. Congress, at its last session, (as staled by the Clerk of the House,) appropriated twenty-nine millions forty-four thousand two hundred and fifty-five dollars, (1529, 044,255,) for the year 1S43. and half the year 1844; and this sum has been assumed as the amount thai will be expended up to the 30th June. 1844. But it must be will .stop if so, the expenditure? ef the Whig party, for the year 1841, would have sinpppd at S20.S1 1.561 . (twenty mi lions 'eight hundred and forty four thousand five' 1. l l l Ill V.I law. l tie rresulent, then-lore, is not responsible for the amount appropriated, hut only for its faithful application; and he responsibility rests upon the Whig ma jority in Congress, and from it there is no escape. At the session b fore last. 1 voted against ihe "Bill making appropriations, for cer tain fortifications " One item of which contained a small appropriation for Fori Macon, in this State; and as my opponent (Mr. Stanly) disspproves of that vote, it is, therefore, proper that I should state ihe reasons that influenced me in giving it; as a s parate measure I should have given my vole cheerfully for the small appropri ation for Fort Macon, and would willingly have used myrexertions to obtain the f w ne cessary appropriations to complete the work, but I c uld not vote for the appro priaiion for Fort Macon without voting in favor of the entire biil, which appropria :ed in the aggregate, t o hundred anil seventy-eight thousand dollars; and consider ing the embarrassed condition of the treasu ry, and the credit of the nation sunk so low under Whig misrule, that it was with diffi culty the government could, upon any terms, obtain money to meet its engage ments, I was unwilling to add to that embai rassment , by volirg away two hundrer and seventy-eight thousand dollars, mere Jy because a small portion of it was to br expended in my own State. I have often heard it urged as an objection to a candi date that he was too extravagant or was?e- ful with public money: but I believe this is the lirst time I have ever known one char- ged with being too saving, or careful with It. . And vet ibis ohieciinn whioh hna hon r us 'd against me for refusing to vote away, tonesweep, two hundred and seventy- eigni mousand dollars, to my astonishment, comes from a party who has hitherto boas- having called an extra session of Congress, ed so much of economy ! i for the purpose of paying off the public Much has been said astothe debt incur debt and providing a sufficient revenue to red by Mr. Van Buren's administration, ' meet the wants of the government, why. and many exaggerated statements have let me ask. were nnt those objects aceom been put forth, and great efforts made to plished? How does it happen that this debt raise doubts in the minds of the people as j of eight millions and a quarter has. by the to the true amount of that debt. And . financial skill of the Whig patty, in iw whilst the whigs unite in proclaiming to j short years, been run up to nenly thirty 'he world, (hat it is an immense debt; yet millions of dollars. Does not this fact possessing all the means of obtaining cor- jaloue cle u ly prove thai their system is rect information as to the precise sum I P'-nd -ions, &. if persisted in, will finally with Whig secretaries Whig commit tees and a Whig Congress it is a re markable fact, that there is seldom to be lound any two statements made by them j tribute the proceeds of the sales of the pub that will agree. In order to ascertain the 'c lands among the several Stat s, thus precise amount of the debt incurred for j withdrawing from it one of its mo-t fruit the support of government, during the ful som ces of revenue, which may be fa r four years of Mr Van Buren's adminis- I.V estimated at three millions of dollars 'ration. I invite vour Darticular attention per annum. But. av the advocates for to an official document from the Secretary of the Treasury, (House Doc. iNo. 1S5, 3d ess., 27th Con.,) transmitted, since its ti'jonrnment, in answer to a call made by the House of Representatives, just at the close of the last session, in which the whole amount of the public debt on the 4th of March, 1S41, the day on which Mr Van Buren's administration terminated, is slated to have been gS,38l.555, (eight mil lions Jhree hundred and eighty one thou sand five hundred and fifty-five dollars;) from which the following deductions ought to be made, as I will proceed to show, be cause ihey were not contracted, as will hi seen from their character, for the support of government, during Mr. Van Buren's ad ministration; but had come down as old debts liom former administrations. They are follows, viz. Debt of the corporate cities of the Dis trict of Columbia, assumed by the United States the funded debt, principal and inte rest the unfunded debt registered certi ficates treasury notes issued during the late war, and Mississippi ceitificates, amounting to Si, 771, 698, (one million seven bundled and seventy one thousand six hundred and ninety eight dollars.) which being deducted from g8j3Sl555, (eight millions ihree hundred ahd eighty one thousand five hundred and fifty-five dollars.) the amount of the public debt on the 4th day March, 1841, (asstated by the Seretary of the Treasury, in the official document last referred to, and which bears date t'te 19th of May, 1843,) will leave 6 600,57, (six millions six hune'red and nine thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven dollars,) the amount of debt contracted under Mr. Van Buren's administration, and left unpaid at its close. And yet the outstanding balances of appropriations left unexpended at the close of Mr. Van Bu ren's administration, are charged, by the Whig party, as so much debt! By reference to the official document last referred to, House Doc. No. 183, 3d Sess 27th Cong., it will be seen that the outstanding appropriations, on the 4th day of March, 1S41, (the day on which Mr. Van Buren's administration terminated,) amounted to $26,977,611, (twenty-six millions nine hundred and seventy-seven thousand six hundred and eleven dollars:) and on the 4th of March, 1843. the out standing appropriations amounted to S31, 569,337. (thirty-one millions five hundred and eighty-nine thousand three hundred and thirty seven dollars;) a larger amount left outstanding by the Whig administra tion. on the 4th of March last, by upwards of four and a half millions, than there was at the close of Mr. Van Buren's adminis tration; but it is not fair to charge the th rty-one millions of outstanding appro priations, as an additional debt, to that al ready contracted by the Whig party, be cause it is not yet expended; and an unex pended appropriation is not a debt. If so the Secretary of the Treasury would have so reported it. The amount of debt which the Govern ment owed on the 4th of March, 1841, and which had been contracted under Mr. Van Buren's administration, was S6,609,S57, (six millions six hundred and nine thou sand eight hundred and fifty-seven dollars;) to which add the Sl,77i,69S, one million seven hundred and seventy one thousand six hundred and ninety-eight dollars, which comd cown as old debts from former administrations, and you have $8,381,555, (eight millions three hundred and eighty one thousand five hundred & fifty-five dol lars;) the whole amount of the public debt, on the 4'h March, 1841, when the Whig party took possession of the Government. 1 have, on former occasions, stated this 'ebt to be a little upwards of five and a half millions; but the document last refer red to, and which has come to hand within the last two or three days, reports the amount as here stated. The s me official document last refe-red lo will show, that the public deh on th 4 h of March. 1843, was 27,394.26 1 . (twenty-seven millions three hundred ami ninelv-four fhnueinrt itvn hundred and i sixty-one dollars!) Such are the evils ari j from the legislation of the Whig par- tv, since thev came into nower. Alt r lead to the most disastrous consequences. Instead of affording relief to an exhanste i Treasury, one of their first acts was ro dis I distribution, th.it the withdrawal of this fund from the Treasury and distributing it among the Slates, will operate as a measure of relief to the people! li the withdrawal of this fund adds to the embarrassments ol ti e siovernment, and to that extent increa ses its wants, (which none can deny.) hox can it, in any po-sihle contingency, ope rate as a measure of relief to the peop'e who, it is well known, afier all, nuii, in some form or other defray the expense ol government? Or how can this government, xv hich is dependent upon, and supported by the people themselves, and ge s not a dollar iu any olh' r way than as it isdraun from their pockits. afford relief to that very same people, by firs collecting mon ey from them and linn giving it lo the States? The idea is prepostero r, and a proper solution of this question will clearly demonstrate that this whole D!itiibuiion policy is nothing but a Tai iff measure in disguise. By distributing this land fund, thus withdrawing it from the treasury when it was greatly needed, they increas ed its wants and thereby furnished to them selves an excuse for the imposition of higher taxes. In pursuance of this system of legislation, they brought forward and passed a high Protective Tariff law a law to provide revenue for the government, and to give protection to manufactures And now let us see what has been its effects upon the revenue. By reference to House Document (No 149, 3d Sess , 27 h Con ,) it will be sien that the receipts from customs for the fin l, three quarters of the year 184, under thejly de dined, and praying Congress to levy compromise, when the duties we e lowest, amounted lo $14,045. 052, (fouiteen mil lions forty-five thousand and fifty two dol lai s ) bemg an average for each qoar'er of $4,(i8 l,6i4, (four millions six hundred and eighty one thousand six hundred and eigh ty-four dollars ) It should be recollected that the high tariff went into operation on ' ufacturer. who sells? If the manufacturer the 30ih of August so as to effect ! 'bus pio'ected, and ihe price of his goods the revenue the last quaiter of that ye u t-iih oiced, then he is not only benefitted and what wete the receipts from customs hut you are injured. during that quarter? They only amounted j Bu the manufacturers argue, thaj the to $2.579, 3S9, itwo millions fi.e hundred tax imposed upon imported got ds will re and seventy-nine thousand ihr e hundred jduce the price, and thereby enable you to a..d eighty-nine dollars.) showing a loss to ' purchase at a lower rate; but still Ihey con the revenue for that qiarler alone, below ihe', tend for the imposition of high duties upon average receipts of the three first q jarters of j all articles that come in competition with that year of upwards of t wo millions of dol- such as they manufacture for sale, and op lais! And but for the passage of that odi-'po-e th levying of any tax upon such ar ous measure, the receipts from customs, j tides as are imported for their use, al for the year 1S42, would have amounted j though, agreeable to their own argument, to nineteen or twenty millions of dollars, j they would be enabled to get them cheap The receip s from cusioms the preseutjer. Now is v. to be believed, that the i wr under the hiirh tariff, are eti mated. : mannfaci ut ers are so blind to their interest bv the Secretary of the Tiesury, to am ount to only thirteen millions; showing a loss to the government in the revenue, in one year, (under the high tariff ) of at least six millions of dollars. Cleaily pioving that it has had the effect greatly to reduce the revenue, by cut'ing off importations, for the purpose of affording prulecion to the manufacturers And whai is meant by protection? It is not that they may be pro - tected in the quiet or peacelul enjoyment of their rights and privileges as freemen, but it is that they may be protected against low prices; and the manufacturers ask thp government lo interpose and levy a tax upon all imported goods that come in com petition with those they manufacture so as to increase the cost of the imported article or to prevent its importation altogether, & thereby enable them to sell al higher prices and that the protection which ha been asked for, and which this govern ment, through the legislation of a Whig Congress, has extended to them. To be convinced of ihe gross injustice of this law, it is only necessary to examim Ihe rate of duty which it imposes upon such articles of prime necessity as are prin cipally consumed by the people of the South. 1 have therefere selected the fol lowing because they are consumed by all classes of our citizens, and 1 have also set down the tax imposed on each, to wit: Two and a half cent a pound on brown 'SMn s;x cents a pound on loaf sugarj eight en's per bushel ol 50 pounds, on sdt; iron nearlv 100 pf cent, 'on the val ue; 3 cent' a pjund on nails: 4 cents a pound on chains woolen eoods,' 40 per C 'nt. on the value: on wool hats 18 rents ac h; axes, adz-s, hateheis, plane-irons, chi sels, drawing knives, &c. &. are taxed 30 per cent, onhe value. In short, eVery thing we of the South want, and are com pelled to have, is taxed as high as it can b- ar. and many are taxed so high as 16 amount to prohibition, while articles that are imported for the use of manufactures, uch as drugs and dye stuffs, are made free of dutv ; thus imposing burthens upon the outh for the benefit and protection of Northern manufactures; and yet my op ponent (Mr Stanly) voted for this law. All the members from North Carolina both Whigs and Democrats, vo'ed against it. except rny opponent. If he was right, then the whole delegation from Nor'.h Car olina wf re wiong! Under this law, I re peat, the tax on iron, salt, sugar, course eoiion and woolen goods articles of uni- vetsal cotisumpton w'nh the South has been increased, while drugs anil dye-stuffs, -uch ai tides as are imported for 'he ue of manuf tctur( rs,' pay nowlutv at all. Why s this distinction? Why should this gov ernment permit rich capitalists who have hosen to vest a portion of tl.eir wealth in large manufacturing establishments, to imp ri free of duty, such articles as are used by them, ami then to tax, to the ut tnosi limit, e en to prohibition, such arti cles as would come in competition with those they manufacture. What claims have the manufactured upon this govern ment, that should entitle them to its exclu sive legislation? It is neither right nor ju-t, that the farmers, mechanics and la houring n en, upon whom this govern ment mainly dep nds for its support, should be oppressed and ground down by luxation, for the benefit of a rich aitoera cy a class of citizens who contribute but little to the support of government, upon whom but few or none of its burthens are imposed, and who exercise a greater influ ence over its legislation than any otber. It is lo th;it cl ss, and not to the poor I ' ' -rers employed by them, that protector his been entended. It is the duty of 'b' government to protect alike, all its cit ' ' in the enjoyment of life, liberty and prop erty ; but not to impose burthens or taxes upon one class of our citizens for the bene fit and protection of another. For this protective policy, stripped of all disguise, is nothing more nor less than a bounty to manufattureis, who infest the halls of leg- islation wnh memorials and petitions, rep resenting that the price of goods has great uch a tax as will effectually guard and protect them against foreign competition; thus, in eficct giving them the control of the home market, and thereby securing to them belter prices; which brings us to the simple question, who is benefitted by the increased puce, von, who huv, or the man as to insist upon high dutie, if the effect would be to i educe the price of their own products That high duiies will not only incr ease the cost of the ancles upon which they are levied, but will also reduce the revenue, is fully exemplified from the . fact, that under the compromise act, when 'the dnti s had been brought down to very j nearly th lowest point provided or in the aci, the receipts from customs, for the first hall ol the year 1N42. amounted 10 up wards of ten millions of dollars, while under the present high tariff, the receipts for the whole of the present year, are only estimated by the Secretary of the Treasu ry , at thiuteen millions! Showing a lo-s to the rev enue ol al least six millions of dollars in one year. i is for you to determine which of the two systems is best, and which most like ly to lead to direct taxation. That advn ca'ed & voted for by my opponent, which incieases ihe t x upon all the common ne cessaries of life, and at the same time redu ces the revenue by cutting off importation o thirteen millions a year; or, the one for which I contend, to wit: moderate duties, such as will reduce the lax upon all the common nejessaiie of life encourage ag licullure and commerce, and thereby bring into the Treasury twenty millions of dol. lars a year. The general government mainly depends upon the revenue derive
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