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Tarbnrongh, Edgecombe Cottnftf, .V. t SfttUtotafo February 3, 1 84 i. Vbt XX J. 0. The Tar!roiih Prtvx, By tiEOKGE HoWAKP. .lit. Is published weekly at Tvo Dtifirs per year, if p ud in advance or. Ti n Dollars and Ff ) Cents ai the, expiration nt the su'srriition year S,.!,s,ril,ers are at li'yty to .liscomnu at any,ri,e u, n,C(.srv ftr fat.i!it in,r ,,e bui tiinc on giving notieehercHf iiil paying arrears, r .1 n . " " .,7; , , i- ' , luessot the M.x so. Advertisements n t exr:ee.h;ig a square will he f, inserted at 0i n.ifa- the first insertion, ami v?"! ''H'' (aid th" Constitution) should tents for every continuance. Lo-iger f,ivrtise- not. have power to abridge ihe free lom of hients at that rite per square. Court Or.lers andj 'he press, and vet I uvs were made on that Umhr-ial Ad vertiseinents 2.') per cent, hijiier. A.I- . i,..rt viih .. Ki ,u .u 11 r i . . I I., i f i J L u,m nicn Mi'1 House was fimt Verlisements must be marked llie niimliernt m-ier- : . ii . , , , tions required, or they will he r.n.i-M.e.l until 1 1 1 "."t ll .w ',s 8 "A 1 1,,s n,Ie violated the btherwis.- directed, and elrrged acc.nlin -rty. Letters addressed to the ) litnr must lie post. ! patil, r mey may uoi in; aut-mieu in. ku v-y mM am ai aw Front the llichnt ):id Enquirer. VI VE LA BAGATELLE. Jmw Whig Song fir tht fourth Tlniwlay in Pr"' ! this rule was repealed In : this there "The above cut represents Henry Play a he j was ureal f tllacv. The H'M.e knew what actually was in hi early boyhood a mill bi.yjthe rule as It wns that no peti ion, me Tidinff to mill, almost literally in his shirt tail a I 0101 i il. resolution, or uther paper praying fcape grace, in the way ( truancy stoppinpr t.i i 1 lie ah ilition ot slaverv in tb" I ) tst 1 tct of iflinir 111 every squirrel or old hare that crimes across him it may he, to get down to take a round at boxing with some neitrlihnriinT urchin ;always overstaying his time at mill, and prnliaMy getting birched fr it when he gt Imme. and put suppeTless to b'd." Richmond Whig, Jpril, Young Harry (-lay to the mill has g-uie, I5y tle roadside you'll find him. The corn bag, while, he is perched un in, And his shirl tail streams behind him. "Old buck-hare, said the Wde lad, "Since mi body now sees me, One fling at thee I'M -have, 'by dad!! Tho' birch and willow tease me." Old cotton tail like a boh has fl vvn. Young Harry stands confounded: For I3.il t isolT. down ibe. road has gone, Tlie me tl bag lies now grounded. Now Tommy Smith doth ride this way, With whortleberry basket, Of whom our doughty Harry Clay Thus petulantly aakt-J-: 'Yu ticky scamp, wi'h crosseyed face, My horse you let go by you; Get down, you dirty scant-o'-grace, And let your master try you." When whortleberries all are ripe i In Old Hanover county! If t'wards a man, your nose you wipe, Hy dads! he'll qnickly mount ye. - So Tommy Sraith, chock fall of fight. Like bucks in rutting season. On Harry leaped, po,r lireechless wight, And seized him by the wrasand. Young Hnrry came off second best. As oft since has betided So, of his horse, he went in quest; And then to get cowhided. Wherefore we all, my brother whigs Our President will make him; For these and various other rigs, The Locos, damned, shall take him. "THE SAME OLD COON." fc Hxmam M mm MiMMl Abolition Petition. MR s UNDER VS SPEECH. We copy from 'he (Hobe the following sketch of the Remarks made by Judge Saunders in C-.ngr-ss. on the 19 h ult. on ., . . me report 01 me Select Lommi tee on me Itutes. ; replied to some remarks made by the gen Mr. Saunders took ihe floor, and com-j ileman from Massachusetts Mr Hudson mcr,ced with a lew preliminary remarks, ion this branch of the ubjeei : and he pro , in too low atone to be heard. He then 1 ceded to say that the Constitution express went on tosav, that he should proceed at ly provided that Congress should not tak" once to reply to th nhj-ctums 'hat had ptivite pioper 1 y onb ss it were tor public been urged to ihe 21st Rule. We have; us-, and then onh on making cotnp' nsa '(s.iid h ) repeatedly asked those gentlemen j Hon 10 the owners of the property. The w ho arc opp"e I t the 21 t rule, what it 1 gentleman fnon New York admitted that vva iney meant ny me aci(t ngnt 01 pe- tition, when they talked of its being viola ted? W h re did it commence, and whee di'l it end? If they -aid tint the people had .the right to petition when and where 'hey pleased, and on any subject, lor the redn-s- of grjevaii'-es, wheth'-r real or imaginary, then he would sav that there was no ueces fcity for their travelling up 10 Magna Char t ta to support that position, for no one ques ' tioned it. He would go one step farther ''thin some of these gentlemen bad done He admitted that the people not ordy had .the right to petition, but the right to an un qualified answer from this House. Even .on his admission, he was prepared so sus . tain the 21st tule. W hat was the. language of the Constitution, on which gentlemen relied in the:r opposition to ihe 21st rule? It was, that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, 01 prohibiting the fiee exercise ihceof; or , abridging the freedom of speech or of the press; of the right of the people peaceablv to assemble, and to petition the (iovern- ment for a redress of grievances." Now, ; Ihe rule passed b, Congress, called the one ' hour rule, which limited the speeches of member to one hour's time, was an abridg ement of the freedom of speech. Hut the t advocates of that rule contended that there ; was an existing ahus impeding the trans .action ol the business of ihe House, which I required correction, and the rule was pas. s-d for that purpose Th- role establish-j m; mi- piei .u-i qip-tnn wis not only an abridgment of the freedo n of speech, hoi a total suppression of it, as it eui off deha'c; hot that was jns'ili-d hv annimpni thai thl' 1 ,JiM' 1)1 Pc Ho, h'caus it did !''' it ions ( deliberated upon not allow In this tlvre was a gcc-it error A col!cigue of hi bul said the IL.u-e could not kno v vhf-'h. r the petition" prayed fir a contitu tuinal or an uuc'insut utional :c or inU...l ! lor an iniur ux r act. iciIp tlio i.Ptiiinnc i'" 1 "ere herd; and a gentleman from 0 d Mr Duncan hid oaid that the inhabitant ol tics I) strict could not petition for the iholit ion of ! very in this District, unless Colombia, or any State or let rMory. o she slave trade b- tw.'ni the States or IVni 'or les ofihe U;i:ted Sutes in wlvCh it now exists shdl lie revived h. tl) llous or e itt i t niic d in any way wh . ever. That wis the- rule which the Speaker, as the piesiding, idfi.-rr of this lluusc, Was i. qui ied to enforce; and he could not enforce 'hat rule until ihe aent of the petitioner n ul Minuunced the put port of the petition vMiii h he rose to pu-s nt. The IIoue was ben informed of the pin port of such peti io'is, ;md tin- petitioners weietlieu hown. oy that rule, that the House had coniib r ed the subject and given iis judgment. IL re. then, the facts wi re aceriaint d, the pia er was hcatd, ami it was then n et hv " e speaker, as the pn siding uflieer. who inteipo-eil this rule a ihe j"iigment of tie I I louse tlo reon. I le illtMial' d this noini 1 in various ways, and then came to (he ques 1 1 011 whether ihi ru'e 'va ric;bt and proper, lie undei iood tie gentleman from New Yoik Mr. Heardsb y to say, the other day. that a petition asking; the Hourc to in terlere with slavery in the States, was to ask Congress to do that which it could not do; and that he would not receive such pe tilion. Wh)? Hecause it. aked for an un constitutional thing Hut the same gen tleman said, when a petition askei! Con- giess to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, that that was aiiiflferent question, and it then became a mailer of expediency whether the petition should be received and acted noun. Now, he intended to meet the gentleman from New York on ma' pop iMliun. N ho was to decide on the con - t i t ional 1 y or on cons1 it ul i-mali t y ol the subject prayed for? It muM be done by a ni.ijurity of the members of this .House. Now he (Mr. S.) as-erted that ,t'ony,tes possessed no power to abolish 'slavery in 'he D-strict of Columbia. Con : aress could not exnend the nuhiic rnonev jfor such a puipoe. The right of t be own- j ers of laves to that species of property I was admit ted 10 be as conclusive as the t ight in anv other proper ty. The right to this proper'y was n cognised in M .ryland 1 71 5 Maryland being th-n a colony. He showed what v- re the laws on this suhieci in eleven slavehohiiiur Slates, and laves were prn ate property ; he said, like- wise, th d Congress might emancipate the slaves but he diil uoisiy whether Con-! gress should make compeiisn ion for those slaves. He dodged that question But. he (Mr. S. ) contended that Congress could j not take the public money for any such putpos'S. The eighth se dioo ol 1 lie 1st article of the Constitution contained an en umera'ion of the powers ol Congtess; but no gentleman could tell him thai il contai ned any such powers. The honorable gentleman went into a long argument to prove the position he as sumed; in the course of which, he look oc easion to show what had been done by otiress heretofore in relation to this class of ptitioners, and how the gentleman from Massachusetts Mr. Adams had voted thereon. He read various resolutions of the House adopted in the year 1S36 & 1.-3S. How stood the question in !iS? Then they had the famous lesolution declaring 'hat Congress had no power to interfere with slavery in the Slates, and that such iideifcieuce would be a breach of public laiih. Mr. Heardslev said the gentleman had miapp ehended him upon this question He had not said tint all he desired was 1 h a these petitions should be received and lam upon the table. He had added a qualifica Hon that, if the House was ready toad up on them, as he himself had always been in ueh case, he Cared not whether they were laid upon the table or not, the mere recep ion was sufficient to meet the requirements of the Constitution. He ha. I added th it. in his opinion, the expedient and proper course was to send them to the committee not favorable to the prayer of the petition, to the end that they might see what such committee would advise the Country to do under the circumstances. Mr. Saunders siid he understood the gentleman now to say that he had made up his mind that slavery ought not to he djoli shed. Mr. Heardsley said he had so declared, perhaps a hundred times. Mr. Saunders said he was gTad to find 'bathe was not misrepresenting the gent le man. All that the gentleman desired wa that the petitions should be receive ! and laid upon the tabic; he did not desire that they should be considered. Why? He caugo his mind was made up upon the sub ject. To what? Not to abolish slavery. He admitted, that if the majority there thought that they ought toabolish slavery they ought to receive and consider the pe titions; but it was because the majority were not in favor of the abolition of slave ry that the 2 1 si rule ought to be establish ed. W hen the peiition was laid upon the tabic, it was an answer, and showed thai i the prayer of the petition was refused. Suppose a petition were presented to that House asking to apply the torch of d s ruction to the capttoll ought such a peti ion to be received? No; because it was asking to commit a felony. And did not th' s- petitions ask the destruction of the temple of liberty itself? Where was the ddl-rence, therefore, between receiving such a petition as he had alluded to. and te 'eiving abolition petitions, which pray for a thing which all admit ought not to be done? The 21st rule, so far from being wrong, was, in fact, perfectly right in ii-s-lf. It was the judgment of the House upon the subject; and so far from being productive of injury, it had been produc tive of good: why? Hecause it had kept off that continual clamor which would other wise have prevailed, about the abolition of slavery. He must be permitted to say to the gentleman from New York, in good feeling, that he was deceiving himself by supposing that the discussion which was going on there produced no mischief else where. Yes, the Very proclamation which the gentleman from Massachusetts had made, that he had triumphed upon I hi? question, was already producing mischief elsewhere. As soon as the colored popu lation were led to believe that they would receive especial encouragement and protec tion from the Congress of the United Mates they would be ready lor almost any act of insubordination. From the Kaleigh Standard. We promised last week, and no'.v pub Ish, the remarks of Mr. BROWN, of Ten- "-ee, delivered in the House of Repre sentatives on the subject of abolition peti lions. Mr. Brown takes the right ground and he makes his position impregnable to the ass.Mjlts of the fanatics. Let every man read it. Mi. A. V. Brown said there were three distinct propositions now to be decided by the House The first one was, not to re ceive abolition petitions; The second, to receive, but not to refer, report, or debate upon them; the third, to receive them, and, treating ihem like other ordinary petitions, to refer them to a committee, to report up on them, and to debate them. Mr. H. said he had always voted for the first of those propositions; he was prepared 1 to vote for il now, and to vindicate and maintain ihat vote here, and every where, What objection, said he, is urged to the 21st rule excluding these petitions. I ask not what the raving fanatic out of this House has said, but what honorable mem bers here have told us in this very debate They tell us this 21st rule has violated the great constitutional right of petition. 1 den) it. They tell us that it has turned these petitions out of doors, and driven ihem with scorn and con'empl from these halls. I deny it. The gentleman from New York has said it; the gentleman from North Carolina has said it; the gentleman from Massachusetts has said it; others have said it. 1 deny it; and stand here to day to defy them, one and all, to defy them to whai? To the proof. Where is that proof? It lies on our ta hle. It is in the public records of this House. Well, what do they tell us? Take that petitition, as it was said, with fifty thousand signatures; or take that huge roll that adorned the table of the gentleman from Massachusetts last session; or take that one for ihe dissolution of the Union-. r that one from New York, praying to be separated from the institutions of slavery; take any one or all of these, and let us ee if we either violated the right of peti tioners, or turned them, unheaid, scornful ly from our doors. ts! The people assembled peaceably, brinsj out your candidates -men that wilt Did we violate that right; 2d They peti- not vot for a slaveholding Speaker men tioned for the redress ol red or imaginary ill it will be safe to trust on the Committees zrieo.nce Hid we pr-vent that? 3d.' men who will be able in debate to es I 'hey sent them to th ir own elprted pouse and sustain our cuie: if those who agent Did we prevent that ? 4tb. That have befri-nded us thus far will not go far agent brought 1 htn within tbes. haIN, and 'her if h- of Masachne!ts ifSlade and presented Wuixn to this House. Did we Clark and (lates shall falter in their course, prevent thai? d wn with them; everything for our cause, What next did that ageut do? he rose up and nothing lor men in his p ire; and, when all ey es were turn- TtiH. sir, was the abolition cty, and we ed upon him, and all ears open to his were forced to retrace our steps to resort voice, he informed this Houe who they to the Atberton resolutions; from them we were, what they Complained of, how tbev were forced to the 21trulej and now we reasoned on the subject, and what redres are told we musi surrender all. they prayed f.r. j I wish nov to tell the gentlemen of the Tne-e are the facts; the record proves North why we of the South are so much them and gentlemen know them. Now opp 3d to referring these petitions. If thcque'iion is, fitice. we cloven down theiyou reler you must report; if yu report, rignt of petition? Have we driven the pe-j you must debate; if you debate, you annu tioncrs with scorn from our door-? No wei'ly qution our title. This must finally have not. We have heard them by their j dimim-h, if not d' SUcy, the value of our own selected agent. Tbev did nut come j property An annual suit for a tract of themselves -they came by their agent I land suit after suit is brought; will not We received that agent. He spoke for ihem, and made known to us their prayer. The moment their prayer Was heard i iherr right of petition was perfected. Thfir right was to petition our duly was to hear Wrhen we did hear them, through their 'gent, their right wis ended All after that was oar right. To decide at once, or to go thr ii'h the tedious formalities of leg illation. Was for us to determine Under ihe 21st rule, we decided promptly at once what these gentlemen nearly all say we ought finally to htve done. Let me xplain ail thih by a domestic illustra tion, which none can fail to Understand The mother, with her darling Child, busied as she may be in her ordinary pursuits, is yet bound to hear dl the complaints that child ihe child his a tight to be heard. But, being heard, what next? If the request be unreasonable or impossible, she may answer promptly, No! If shO be doubtful, she may answer. I will consider ol it, or I will tell you by and-by. In a case like this, whatever the child might think of the impatience or Unkind ni ss of the decision, it could never say. My parent refused to hear me. This is the 2lst rule, and this ihe prac tice undei it, which has been so much mis represented and misunderstood Gentlemen may tell me that the fact of its being so much misunderstood is a ground for its abandonment. Why. then, was not a rule reported, clearing Up this misconception, by deflating on its face that these petitions should be teceived. bu going no further? Why did not the gentle man from New York, Mr. Brjardsley. propose to go that far? And because thai was all that ihe right of peiiiion could re quire, why did he not stop there? Slopping there, the South, if not satisfied, would yet have been safe safe in the enjoyment of her constitutional rights, and perhaps sale from the fire of insurrection. Stop ping there, too, the people of the North would have bi en safe in the enjoyment of their Constitutional right of petition: and more than this, the Democratic North would have been sale from ihe imputation of her enemies, that she sought the alliance 01 the propitiat ion of the abolitionary fanat icism of the day. What do gentlemen tell us in favor of the total abandonment of ibis rule? h v , they tell us thit il is the mot effectual wa to put down abolition. They had as well tell us that the be! way to save a city, is to pull down all her fortifications; ihat the surest way to repel invasion, is to surrend er all the mountain passes and strongholds where you might overcome ihe enemy. Pul down the abolitionist by granting four out of five of the very things ihey ak for; first, they ask you o receive their peti tions; second, to refer them; third, to re port on them; fourth, to lei Ihem be deba ted; and filth, to abolish the institution of slavery. These are the five things asked for; and the argument is, to put them down by granting four out of five of them. Why refer them? Do you doubt? No Why report on ihem? Do you mean to pass ihem? No. Why debate them? W hy, you say that you are all of one mind. Why, then, all this round of legislative lor maliiy? Is it done in h pocrisv ? I will not say it, not think it. Is it done to propiti ate, bv showing renect to the abolition ists? I will not say it, because do not feel it. Bui 1 have one conclusive and irresisti ble argument 10 show that this is not the way to put down the abolitionists: you have tried it. On ihe same speech which was made by the gentleman from New York, (if not word for word, cer'ainly on he same arguments,) 'he Tinckney resolu tions were passed. The petitions were re ceived; they wire referred, and rep-rted upon in the most dignified and respectful manner. Did this satisly abolitionists, or allay excitement? No; the very nexi ses sion the gentleman from Massachusetts came walking imo thii hall with filly thou sand petitioners at his heels Under ihat resolution, the cry was raised. Now is the lime the doors of Congrtss stand wide open; put all your machinery in motion; ths land become valueless, and Ihe owner ready to surrender it forever? Il will keep the South in perpetual excitement. And lastly, ou kindle the fires of insurrection. The words of the gentleman from Massa chusetts, uttered here, have often fallen on the ears of the South like the toll of the fire bell at night. Gentlemen surely do not uudersiaud what is going on in the South. Hundreds and thousands of our slaves have learned to read wilh our children, qnder a relaxation prompted by the noblest human ity; hence our annual debates here could not fail to be known to them there The address of the aboliiionist to their masters is there the address of the abolitionist to themselves there; they are read by the flickering light of a midnight fire. They, are lold. in a lafer address, not to kill, not 10 shed innocent blood, but to take horses money and clothes, and whatever Ise nny facilitate their escape, and flee to the free Mates, where friends are waiting 'o conduct them 10 Camda. But what they may do I know not when they shall read (as read they will) the celebrated Pittsburg letter. There a new idea is pre sented. Little does that gentleman perhaps knot what mischief may flow from that address. He believed ihe abolition of &Lcry would be effected in some way either peaceably or by blood; but in whatever way , he Wu a for it." Where did he get that idea from? Not from the abolitionists, for they only said, steal and fly? Did he gel it from ihe bloody scene of San Domin go, where they shed the blood of a sleep ing infant, and stuck a pole through its yet warm and quivering body, and under that standard marched, with the torch in one hand and the sword in the other? These are some of ihe consequences which prompt me earnes'ly to appeal to ihe true and sincere friends of the Constt uition; to Itt this report go back to the coflimittee Let the whole committee he present, and perfiapsdhcy may report back tons the 2ls tule. Ithink they ought to do so. I will vote for It again, as 1 have often done before. But if ihev will not, then l t them report some mollification of the rule, wSch will put ihe rig! t of peti tion out of all cavil & dispute. But if they will do neither of these; if they still per s st ill not onl) teceivingi but referring, re porting, and debating these petitions, then I say let ihe South know it at once. Let h'-r know' her true friends and who are h r false and deceitful ones. Let her know the worst, and prepare for the worst. Ji Lngcrthtn Crush Terrible Occident Millions.- The Richmond Enquirer of yesierdav, says: We sincerely regret to announce a melancholy event, which occur red at the Whig Club house at sunset last evening. The hfu.-e wasjust finished, and about 100 persons had flustered together 0' the ridgepole of ibe roof, which was about 40 or fifty feet from the ground an individual had taken off his hat, and about to prod dm that ihe Rally Would take place to day, when a large portion ofthe roof fell in, carrying flown the whole crowd of per sons. We have not been able to gather the particulars but understand that the fol lowing are the names of the persons whO were the greatest sufferers: Doct. Lemoso; badly; Ed. Allen, very badly; VV. Pear Son, leg broke, W. H. Redwood, leg broke; Mr. Walsh, arm broken in two pla ces; Mr. Adie. arm broken in two places; Mr Pemberion. thigh broken; Hugh Fry and son, badly; Robert Maynard, ancle broke; Mr Mays, arm broken; young Crouch, badly. Some of the hoys suffered very much. A son of Mr. S. H. My res had an arm bro ken in two places A son of Mr. Graeme, also, had an arm broken Two sons of Mr. Walsh were much injured; one having his leg broken, ihe other considerably hurl. Others, whose names we have not been able to learn, were much injured, though not very dangerously. The New Orleans Picayune says that there is a fellow in ihat city so lazy that h writes Andrew Jackson thus &ru Jaxn.