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Tarborough, Edgecombe County, t Saturday, September 21, IS 11.
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The 'tfarlidrmijjli Iress,
By George Howard. Jr.
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To Ihe Democracy of the Union.
The Democratic Associations, the Hicko
ry lit1' YuhjS Hickory Clubs, anil other
Democratic Clubs and Associations now
or liiize 1 through ti t the United Stiles,
are most respectfully and earnestly solici
ted, if they have not already done so, to re
port themselves, without delay by letter,
postpaid, to the Executive Committee of
the Democratic Ass ci tion'in Washington
city, D. C. They arc requested to give
llie n tmes of tlv'ir members, &c &c
It is important that this stpp should be ta
ken to secure a mot e thorough and efficient
organization of the democratic party than
now exists, for these reasons:
1st. That each association shall keepthe
other well informed of the condition of par
tics. 2d. That authentic and correct informa
tion may be disseminated far and wide.
3d. That the leturns, whether of Slate
or federal elections, may be circulated in a
form authentic and official, and which can
be relied upon by our friends for any pur
pose, especially to counteract the false im
pressions which may be)created by the pub
lication in the whig journals of the results
of elections.
It is already ascertained that that party
have a well organized system of falsehood,
not only in the publication of erroneous re
turns of elections, but by the publication of
tracts and documents. Ihe whig and
some of the neutral papers in every section
of the Union attend to the first branch of
the fraud, and the congressional whig cen
tral franking committee at Washington are
attending to the latter, by publishing and
disseminating one set of opinions by Mr.
Clay for the South, and another set for the
manufacturing and abolition districts of the
North and West: also documents for the
North making Mr. Polk a free-trade man,
and documents for the South making him
a tarifT man. These frauds have been de
tected in this city; therefore we warn otir
friends to guard against them. Discredit
everything coming fiom a whig source,
until substantiated by information derived
from those whose efloit will be not to de
ceive, but to enlighten with the truth
We do not hesitate to say that the election
returns which have ben. and are being
published in the Globe can be relied on by
our friends for any purpose. They are as
accurate as unofficial relUi ns cart pos-ibly
he, sonic of which, from necessity, being
copied from whig papers. The official ie
turns will be published in the Globe as!
soon as they are received. When the or-!
Ionization proposed by this notice is com-!
plete, the facility for getting the coirect
returns will be such as is desired We ap
peal to the democracy in those sections of
country where no associations exist to
forthwith organize and report in accord
mice with the above. Wc make this ap
peal not from any doub of the strength of
our cause or lhat we have not the iitim
hers to carry it on to Victory. We must
Pot despise the enemy however corrupt or
weak they may be; but knowing them to
fco weak and corrupt should make
fJ more vigilant and active to guard
against the unfair and unjust means to
which they will from necessity resort to
cover their weakness. We can assure our
frtenrjs that that we have no doubt Polk
nd Dallas will be ejected. We must,
nevertheless, do our duty. Wc make the
Appeal with another view; that channels
may be established through which we can
develop lo the American people one of
tl'e most corrupt and villanous schemes ev
r concocted by any party which has been
, set on foot by whiggery to subjugate re
publican liberty, and bring our institutions
down to the footstool of the tyranny of the
Old World. We do not fear the scheme.
ts exposure will not only defeat its object,
b'H will overwhelm the men and the party
xvho conceived, and are attempting to ma
ture it, in infamy so deep that the friends
f civil a.rd, religious liberty throughout
the world4 to the remotest generations,
ydl execrate there very names. When
ine organization is complete, the exposure
yn be made, and . their jdan rendered
Abortive Therefore organizc-organize
forthwith North, South, East, and vVest.
P. S. This is to give notico to the de
mocracy, lhat the whig centra! committee
in this city are publishing documents pur
porting so show the votes of Mr. Polk
which, in fact, if they do not in a cases
actually falsily his votes, aupprvss some of
the facts connected therewith, and thus
give a false aspect to them. It willbe the
duty of the democratic party in every sec
tion of the country to discredit these doc
uments, denounce them as vile .whig slan
ders, as they arc, ask a suspension o? pub
lic opinion, and write immediately to
Washington to the executive committee of
the democratic association to send the real
facts in each case, to be derived from the
Congressional archives, as authenticated
by the clerk in charge of Ihem.
The associations throughout the Union
will be pleased to pay the postage on all
communication sent to the executive com
mittee of the democratic association - at
Washington, whose communications will,
in all cas'-s, bo postage paid.
The democratic pap-is throughout the
United Slates will suberve the cause of
the democracy by giving the fullest public
ity to the above, until it shall be seen in
ihe remotest parts of the Union. They
are earnestly requested to do .so.
I3y order of the executive committee.
JAMEs TOWLES, Ch'n.
C. P. Sengs I act:, Scc'y.
From the Democratic Signal.
AN ADDRESS
To I he Freemen and footers of North
Carolina.
Ff.li.ow Citizens:
A solemn conviction that the lasting in
terest of our beloved country is in a grevt j
degree dependent upon the approachirg'
Presidential Election, forms our apology
for this address. The contests of parties
par
have driven the leaders of that one which
advocates the cause of Mr. Cy, to a
position which is dangerous lo the safety
of the Republic; and they arc fast forcing
their followers into a course which the ac
tual people surely do not realize, or in
North Carolina, the "Southern land of
steady habits," there Would hardly be a
division of opinion as to the propriety of
making resistance to Mr. Clay and his par
ty before it is too late. Those questions
of mere policy in which the theory of to
day may yield to the experience of to
morrow, without any permanent injury,
are not the only questions about which trie
Candidates for President are disputing,
and Upon Which the vote of the people will
be regarded as decisive of their will.
Such questions, though some of them are
confessedly important in themselves, yet
Milk iulo insignificance, When contrasted
with the momentous consequences of
ALTERING THE CONSTITUTION
OF THE UNI TED STATES conse
quences w hich no human wisdom, can fore
tell. Fellow-Citigens of North Carolina, arc
we mistaken in supposing that thousands
ofyou have been led into error or arejempower the President to touch in the
kept In ignorance of the design of Mr.
Clay and his parly TO ALTER YOUR
CONS I I I U TION? We cannot believe
that party excitements have so blinded j
you to the peril of tampering with the sa
cred Charter ol our Union and our Liber
ties) that a serious warning will be censu
red, and a Candid appeal to your understan
dings despised; and if we did, it should
not prevent us from making one more ef
fort to icason & to demonstrate with such
of our countrymen as own no fealty to par
ty that supercedes their allegiance to the
Constitution. We approach you upon the
subject with a manly sincerity, and shall
address you in that plainness of speech
which the occasion inquires.
To the various propositions which have
been made from time to time for more than
40 years past, to alter the Constitution of
the United States, North Carolina has
herfoforc replied: 'No, il is . very good as
it is, and we do riot wish lo change the
Charter of our Union.' And arc you
ready to reverse that answer now, by elec
ting Mr. Clay President, when he stands
pledged to exert all the powers of that
high station to effect an object you have
hitherto so constantly and so wisely depre
cated? If you would, under circumstances
mote favorable to harmonious and wise
counsels, give your countenance to this
spirit of innovation, will il be quite pru
dent or entirely safe to disturb the holy
bonds of our Union to touch the sacred
legacy of our fathers with the rule hands
of Party? Think you the leaders of the
'Clay-Party of 1844, or the leaders af any
party maddened as Ihey are by political
animosities, will be exactly qualified - Jo
Reform the noblest work, of the Whig
statesmen of 1776.' and to amend the
Constitution which WASHINGTON and
Jiis compatriots bequeathed to us with
their blessing? True it is a human work,
and of necessity therefore, it must partake
of the imperfections belonging to all lhat
man can uo. ru.une 'amendments' lo it j
must also proceed . lrom human hand, not
more infallible than those which formed it.
The illustrious body of Patriots who fram
ed the instruments were as wise if not wi
ser, and as pure if not purer, than the
Partizans of our time. American Stales
men of the past age loved each other, and
their Whole country as well, if not better,
than the politicians who have succeeded
them. Happy would it be for our com
mon country, if the present generation ft-It
the same aficction and practised the same
loyalty to the Union and the Constitution
that our Fathers felt and practised.
Mth the exception of an amendment j
made with the concurrence of all the States the exception of Mr. Madison, vetoed a
in IbO'.i, and a clause introduced in 1 7U3, ' Bank bill; and Mr. Madison. Veto gave
to prohibit suits against STATES so as a clear intimation simultaneously by
to prevent collision between them ami the! remodelling the Hill his Veto might be
Courts of the Union, the Federal ConsUlu-' evaded, and lhat intimation having been
lion remains just what il was when it was juried upon, he finally approved and sin
adopted by North Carolina. So let it br i ed Ihe ac?. Wherefore neither General
We have lived under it" a free, united and j Washington nor Mr. Adam9 nor. Air. Jef
happy people, for Fifty years. During' f rso:i, nor Mr. Madison nor Mr. Monroe,
all that time, as well as man's w isdom eanj was at ny time constrained to put a veto
lo it, it has guarded popular rights against! upon and favorite privilege to Bankers,
the encroachments of Power and protected j Biokers and ether Capitalists. Their Ve
the rightful authority of Goverment from I ToK eoi.fheted with no peculiar measure
the turbulence of unregulated liberty, of the Money-Part); no interested
nut iiioi u couio we expeeir w nai more
can we want? We have the best Govern
ment in the world, ami why should it be
al'ered? Let not the ambition of Dema
gogues nor a restless desire for change, noi
the frantic delusion of a Party struggling
for offices, (hough backed by the trengUi
of associated wealth tempt you to put in
pt ril all or any of the blessings we eniov
Under it, bv making experiments upon
your CONSTITUTION. We had better
'bear the ills we have, than fly to others
we know not of.' You had better say at
once, to any and every aspirant for the
high offices of Government, when they
solicit your support, that they cannot win
it by these attempts to alter the organic
law of the Union. You had better teach
the young men who enlist in their service
as partizans, that the find; duty of an A
merican patriot is lo revere the 'CONSTI
TUTION AS IT IS.' And should time
anil experience point out the necessity any
ior amendments, let the necessity he such
as men of all parties see, and men of all par
ties first feci to be indispensable, before
you give your assent to them. The pres-j
ent point of attack is the Constitutional ) which Jackson s veto let fall upon its gull
VETO of the President. Let it succeed ; ty head, and Bank corporators and their
and no man knows what may or may not ! ambitious party allies ?aw the privileges ol
be the next. It is the Clay-party w ho are
striving to attain power now, by making
war upon this point of your Constitution.
Another election may find Some oihcr par
ty, stimulated b Mr. Clay's success, to
make further arid greater inroads tl.jon the!
Charter of your liberties!
The VE I O of the President is a ncga-
live power. If was designed as a check
upon Congress, the servants of the people, j this contest has been carried on ever since
and not the people themselves. It may I with a degree of violence and corruption
prevent incalculable nvschicf. It cannot' Unknown before, in the political coutro
do harm. It may occasionally intercept j veisies of the country. kite Union bus
the passage of laws, of which by universal ; had no repose, and the order, of the gov
ernment we have too many rather tliati loo! eminent has been disturbed, and the cur
few. It cannot do more. It does not ; rent of business in the Nation has been in-
slightest degree the privileges of property j spirit ever ounces VMse men ot every
of the people, but it only enables him tojshadc of political opinion must perceive
forbid such interference by others, where
he has good cause to apprehend it, he as
signing Ins reasons lor it at the same time.
And more than all, his VETO falls harm-
h sfdy to the ground, if after a reconsidera
tion, tlOo thirds of Congress should pass
the Act, his 4 Veto notwithstanding S
It was engiafted upon the Constitution
by tho3s who knew what liberty was
Worth, and how it might be shielded, and
who suffered much to gain it for them
selves and their children. And to de
nounce it as 'MONARCHICAL' and
'anti republican,' (alter the manner of ma
ny,) is an insult to your understandings,
and an ungrateful censure upon the Con
vention of '87 who formed the Constitution
the wisest, purest, and most illustrious
body of Republican Statesmen that the
world ever saw!
The facts in relation to the introduction
of the VETO in the Constitution arc at
once remarkable and instructive when put
in contrast With the Combined efforts of
ambition, selfishness and party spirit, in
our day, to decry and id destroy it. On
4th June 1787, the Convention "Resolved
"that the National Executive shall have a
"right c to NEGATIVE any legislative
"Act, which shall not be afterwards pass
ed unless by TWO-THIRDS of esch
"branch of the National Legislature."
This is the. Veto of the Constitution.
Agiinst it there were only two votes in
the Convention and on the 21st of July,
after nearly two months for consideration
and debate, it passed UNANIMOUSLY
in the AFFIRMATIVE. (See Journals
of Convention of S7, pages 5G. 107.)
It may therefore be asserted upon the
evidence of the Journals of the Conven
tion which first framed our constitution
that the VETO wa passed "by a UNANI-,
MOUS VO l'E. And whatever may be1
our respect for the individual who faVor
i, it is difficult to treat With courtesy the!
proposition that it. is an odious Feature F
Monarchy unwisely introduced into the!
charter of American Liberty.
The circumstances which have Contrib
uted more than every thing else to suggest
mis exper iment of a i'arty upon the good
old Constitution, are in themselves, still
further calculated to alarm into vigilance!
the jealousy of the people. General'
Washington exerted the Vela power under
the Constitution) and so we belieVe did the
elder 1damsy and Mr Jeffersaru and Mr.
Madison, and Mr. Mojitve, during their
several administrations, without serious?
complaint. None of litem however, w ith J
j scnemes ot assoi iaiei weann And it
was fortunate fur lluir own repose that it
was so.
But whilst General Jackson was Prrsi
dent it so turned out that lie put his VE
TO upon a bill to re-charter the Bank of
the United States. We say rlolhing at
present of the expediency of a National
Batik. It is Milficiont that the bill thus
vetoed by General Jackson, was One which
would have enriched the owners of the
Stock (fortigneis and natives) to an im
mense amount, besides giving to them oili
er valuable privileges.- And what follow-
j ed this exercise of a Constitutional power
; by the r; OiuC.il of the Nation? Then fur
the first time iir our history, you heard
the strong language of denunciation against
ihe VETO power. Then for the first
time, the tones of indignant reprobation,
real or affected, Were raised against It as
a "one man power." Until it had been
j thus exerted upon the tent per cent inter
ests of associated wealth, you heard noth
ing of its being "anli-Republican" Until
a corrunt irresoosible, heartless monev
corporation staggered under the blow
monopolies about to give place to the high
er privileges of the people, there had been
no party organized, and o far as we khow,
not an eminent Statesman df America,
who had eVcr proposed lo abrogate this
power of the Constitution. Immediately
alr lhat time however, the Bank of the
j United States became an undisguised parly
organ, and wilh Mr. Clay for ilS leader,
1 tcrrupted by the very madnefis of' party
the prevailing cause of .all this in the baul
ked ambition of Mr. Clay, who has been
struggling for 20 years lo be the Chief Ru
lerof the Nation, and thb determination of
the LEADERS of the party in alliance
with him to accomplish their Schemes at
every hazard to public liberty. Rule dr
ruin seems to be their maxim.
Mr. Clay once opposed to the National
Bank as inexpedient and unconstitutional,
became the candidate of the Bank party
for President, lie himself upon the floor
of the Senate before the election of 1832,
distinctly made up the iSstle between him
and General jacksdn. , Thdt issue waS
made, and met, and tried tiport Jackson's
Veto. It was "Clay and a National Baiik,
or Jacksdh and No Bank." We rpieak to"
those, many of whom rhiist remember thi,
and if arty shoilld deny it, the facts are in
delibly recorded In the debates of the Seri
ate. The panic and violence of that event
ful period need Only to be alluded to.
Words could not pourtrey to stich as did
not witness it, how the elerrienis of parly
strife were stirred into a hurricane by the
compined influence of assdeiated wealihj
perverted talents, unfluShing briberies, and
what were denominated ''business transac
tions," aided it is true by honest advocates
of a Bznk, Whom ci feu rh stances had for
the time sillied to the Bank party. To
those who witnessed it, memory will sup
ply our Want of language to depict it.
Time has since revealed, what many sus
pected befoie the disclosure was made,
how political leaders arid members of Con
press had been accommodated with loans
at the Bank upon slender securify how
ihe puichaseable public Presses had been
bi ibed, and the money of the People there
by applied to silence the sentinels of liber
ty ; how the debtors had alternately imhfl"
ged, and 'pressed Coaked, and alarmed"
But the people of North Carolina, and the
People of the Unite ! States nobly With
stood the asa,ulf, and successfully met lhat
crisis. They resolutely stood by thg
-Constitution as i) ,'' and by the vol
of an immense majority, sided with "Jack
son and No Bank." And so ended the
ttiintat. .
For a short period after It, there Was an
apparent acpuiescence in that determina
ofthe People. In 1S38, all. the candidates
for President Were presented to you as the
opponents of a National Bank. Judge
White and Mr. Van Buren (the Only can
didatcs in North Carolina) were both
pledged against it upon CoN'stiTtJTloN'AL
grounds-, and consequently pledged to
VETO any bill to Charter such an Institu
tion. Ihe was no Anti-Veto clamor
whilst Mr. Clay Was out or ihe field, ex
cept from the ABOLITIONISTS, who.
of course decried 2 1 1 pledges to veto their
fanatical projects, and repugnant to repub
liean principles and adveise to the Cause o"
Liberty and the People. But in the pro
ges of ihe next four years, the Clay p-
ty allied themselves to others ami by tneir
junt thorts, ben. Hairison was elected
President. In respect lo Gen. Harrison's
opinions upon the Bank we shall remark,
only that his declarations and his votes in
Congress were opposed to it, and so hi
supporters in North Carolina denied lh;it
he was in favor of it. His opponent
however persisted in declaring lhat ihey
apprehended the contrary, and the Dr.no--ciatic
party of this .State confidently predic
ted thai the leaders of the Clay party
would go for a National Bank. But that
(Jen,' Harrison was in favor of the VETO
is beyond ;lll cdntrovery. These were his
own words as uttered in his Inaugural Ad
dress a few short weeks before his death.
Hear him:
"The negative upon the acts of the leg
"islaiive by the Executive authority, ahdj
sh.t in the hands of One individual
"would seem to be an incongruity in ouf"
"system. Like sortie others of a similar
"character; hotvever it appears tb be
"HIGHLY EXPEDIENT; and it used
"only with the forbearance and in tho
"spirit Which was intended by its authors
'it may be productive or GREAT GOOD
"and be found one of the best SAFE
GUARDS to ihe UNION." (Qehefet
Harrison's Inaugural Address.)
Wheiefore it is deceptive to sajr that
ihe election of Gen. Harrison Weakened;,
and more so lo assest that it reversed, thg
old decision of the people to stand by theiir
Constitution as it is, and to sustain tho
VETO. , ,
Oen Harrison having died soon after hte
election Mr. Tyler succeeded to hii
high station, and, in accordance with the"
predictions of the Democratic party, a Bill
id charter a National Bank was twice pass
ed thro Congress by a majority less than
two thirds, but it Was as often laid in the
dust by the Veto of the President 4
Mi Ty'er in his lorn was bitterly de
nounced for it, and Mr. Clay again throw
ing himself at the head of the Bank party
upon the floor of the Senate again rhide art
issue before the People against lite VETOj
and it was sent to the people' for -r 1 in.
the elections of 1S42 lo Ihe Co ;,.css of
IS 13. . We need not tell ydti he ii term
inated. A very large majority w 0 il
lumed to Congress in favor of ti.u V'ii'U
and against .Mr. Clay and his Bank pirty;
So ended the. last appeal. The first, it
was pretended, li.icl been indecisive Of the
question because Gcii. Jacksdn was the
candidate, and he had a strong jtartyof
his own. But the last decision of the Peo
ple was made ihe Same way when it was 4
subject of boasting then; and has been ever
since, that Mr. Tyler had no 'party of hid
own.
And wliat has followed? lias there" fjeeii
a"ti acquiescence in the popular will? ti$$
Mr. Clay shown iti any sens"e a RepU'dR-.
can submission to the detcrmiflatio'n tff tha
People? Has he not on the contrary put
him3'. If i ri array against ydur repealed de
cision; againsi all the eminent men tvho ev
er filled the Presidential office beginning
with Washington and ending with Harris
son and Tyler; against the ttnnhimoui
voice bf the framers of our Constitution?
He has surely ddne all this, for he and
his party are now making WAR upon the
Cons -riTUTl-ff itself. He arid l hey were
not content to fight the question, of Bank ,
or No Bai.k over againi but they haye
now gone a Mep further and arb distincly
pledged to go for ALTERING THB
CONSTITUTION OF OUR UNION;
and this is the more indefensible on their
part, seeing lhat the same t wo-thirds which.
Ir requires to amend the Constitution , (if
the people .will it so,) might piss a Bank
act, the Veto notwithstanding, and yet
more reprehensible in Mr. Clay, seeing
that the President of the United SfatrS ha
rightfully no voice in altering the Consti
tution, and therefore he could not HOWEST
ly use his office to effect it This plain
narrative of undeniable facts leaves no
room for doubt, lhat the scheme to change