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o 1 f MP III II Commttninitions ron thj: fkke tukss. Mr. IlGward: I should not trespass upon your wanton forbearance, hut from my firm conviction of the importance of the subject under consideration, find the necessity of attracting public attention to its complex relation with their interest, comfort and happiness. Confiding io the wisdom of our present, venerable Chief Magistral!;, and equally devoted to the policy of his subordinate executive offi cers, "l should be the last who would at tempt to impair the confidence? of the people in the security of I heir lives and fortunes under the present Administra tion. That to secure our rights eternal vig ilance is requisite, and that knowledge uud inlbrmtion can alone impart energy and efficiency to this great republican maxim, is a truth which in this age of wisdom and unexampled intelligence none will dare to question. The clash ing of conflicting statements, and the violence of party animosity which so em inently characterise the course of the par on tho conduct of our public funC0na- promulgated in your last paper, has giv-j give a round sum for him, iWe time the rics in order to palliate the sup0Sed en us quite a novel and amusing defini- amount of the deposites at least. Tim tion of the word which he has thought fit to assume as a suitable cognomen for his extremely consistent self. If his doc trine be consistent with his name, then it is very manifest that the great lexico graphers Johnson, Walker, &c. have kept the world in gross darkness as it regards the definition of the word consistency. This rare pnk of consistency says, he "has voted for Jackson three times," and in "still a Jackson man, though he be lieves him to he an usurper of powers, as well in the cabinet as in the field of bat tle." Pray, what "powers" did he "us urp" "in the field of battler Why, I sup pose, the "power" of flogging the enemy, a merciless pack of bloodhounds who were yelping at the gates of Orleans for Beauty and Booty. And pray, Mr, ofience which the Postmaster G,eral has given in the proposed curtailing of our mail facilities from Tarborou" to Fayetteville. It is indeed an alaning crisis with the people on the routbe tween those respective places. I,firoy part, would be willing that my lettered newspaper postage should be incrcied to double its present amount, rather lari submit to those disastrous inconveuin ces. But such is the condition ot thiis, and such only the means of remedy. them. Congress, or a curtailment in te extent of mail accommodation on t most unproductive routes, can alone r. lievethe Department of its pecuniary cl barrassment, and restore harmony an peace among an industrious and intoll, UC n t neonle. The war which has been waged by at what "powers" has he "usurped" "in the imitated and factious Senate on the Ex-cabinet!" Why, I suppose, the "power" ecutive and his subordinate officers, isof opposing with all his "power," a still perhaps unparalleled in the history ofnore formidable and dreadful enemy national legislation. It is. Mr. Editor, ajian the one of Orleans a monster that n war between men. Principle, law, rea son, nor even the paramount considera tion of the people's interest, operate no remorse of conscience in these lawless lizans of the present day, would seem desperadoes. They will feign discover however to exclude the possibility ofar riving at a correct conclusion on the pros ent condition of our national affairs. It is a fact admitting of no concealment, (a thing by no means required,) that the curtailment about to take place in our mail facilities and accommodations, has wrought gloomy foreboding upon numer ous citizens in the vicinity of Stantons burir, and although none are so rash and inconsiderate as to become disaffected with the Chief Executive, 1 believe there are many who would question the ability of his subordinate officer, Mr. Barry. "We are willing to extend our greatest degree of impartiality in scrutinizing the conduct of officers; and allowing for the zeal of party ambition will for the sake of argument admit, that both committees have erred in their reports in regard to the indebtedness of the Department. But the question at issue is not whether the Department is in debt, or whether Mr. Barry is capable of discharging its duties; but, whether he has not conformed to the proposed policy of his predecessor. The leading object under the adminis tration of Judge McLean, was to extend the greatest number of accommodations; to diffuse information generally and although Mr. Barry has increased the accommodations to double th amount of his predecessor, and acted in obedience to his injunctions, yet his ability has been questioned. In his late elaborate and masterly address he has clearly shown, from the receipt of a letter addressed to him by Judge McLean, at his coming into office, that "it was deemed good policy in him (Judge McLean) to permit the expences to go beyond t lie receipts, in order that the surplus of former years might be absorbed. It is the true policy (continues he) to keep the funds active, and never suffer a large surplus to accu mulate." If it be true, as I will not permit my self to doubt, that when Mr. Barry come into office, the responsibilities of the De partment were involved for years in pros pect, to the amount of nearly 100,000 dollars a year beyond its revenues, then the question, with tenfold recrimination, might be asked, why all this abuse and poignant invective against the present pure and honest incumbent! The majority of the committee on post offices and post roads, on application to the Postmaster General for the necessary amount of money that would relieve the Department, wt-re informed that $450, 000 of the money which had been paid into the Treasury by the Department would effect the desired relief, one-third to be reimbursed the first year, one-third the second, and the other in 1837. This was the money which Mr. Barry wishes to avail himself of, the use of which un der similar circumstances he showed was the policy of his predecessor. But such is the rancor of party animosity, that even the grievances of the people are overlook ed aniidsi the turmoils of confusion that prevail throughout our happy republic. 1 have premised thus far, Mr. Editor the greatest defects in the beautiful sys tern and harmonious measures of the present Administration; they would im pose upon the people the belief that an archy and confusion have usurped the place of a wise, vigorous and a most e quitable Administration; and yet they will dare to withhold that aid which our necessities require, and which with an air of conscious ability they would super ciliously disdain to oiler. This like the Bank, is another instance, Mr. Editor, of their efforts to drive men into measures. The people can see that they arc imposed upon, and they will rise in their majesty against these abuses. If magnanimity and fortitude are requisite to insure success to an important enter prise, let us stand firm to the present Chief Magistrate. Let the people see that they would be coerced by a moneyed oligarchy, and that this attack upon the Department is only an effort io force a curtailment in the mail accommodations, from an error entailed on the Depart ment by Mr. Harrys predecessor, and they will repel with indignation these in sidious attempts to decoy them from their warmest and most natural attachments. Let them strike a fatal blow at Biddle, the political Archimedes, who like his prototype of yore continues with his mighty engine to hurl with an impetuous zeal his extinguishable flambeaus of Bank corruption amongst an honest and patriotic people; and who with the unin terrupted security of its present position might with its mighty power undo and subvert the liberties of the people. The sources from which these com plaints have originated, may be traced to the Bank and that party who wish to usher Judge McLean into notice, from the supposition of his having discharged the duties of his official course more effi ciently than the present incumbent. These false and insidious charges should be made to rccjil upon the enemies of the people, with a recrimination propor tioned to the zeal and energy with which they continue to propagate falsehood and the most unfair, unequalled abuse, up on (he present honest, able, and patriotic incumbent. But to conclude, Mr. Editor, the paper currency is the vital air which has impar ted visor to every impulse of wrcckless opposition; it has infused its inebriating qualities into the minds of its servile vo taries, who in the delirium of the mo ment would vociferate nil that they know to the subversion of their own interest and that of all others. Yes, infuriated with its noxious vapors, they by their own desperate course would excite universal alarm, and even in some measure estab lish the position that man is incapable of W. as already the Genius of American Lib rty, in its relentless fangs, ready to car- on its infernal work of a total nnnihila bn of American freedom and indepen dence; hut for the "powers" which Jack sn has "usurped" and exercises over it according to Mr. Consistency's no tins of "usurpation" of "powers." If thse arc his "usurped powers," why, old hero it is well known, is the main oh. stnclc in the way of Nick's entire control of the Government; therefore, he would give no little to gel possession of him. There must be an understanding with Consistency and Nick about the matter. "Consistency" is "a Jackson man," ylf he is opposed to Dr. Hall on account ot his Jacksonism and "anti-internal im. provemeut principles;" when at the sarin time he says, "I myself am opposed to in. ternal improvements." He is opposed to precisely the same kind of internal im provements that Dr. Hall is, yet he cen sures the Doctor for opposing that which he himself is opposed to, according j() his own declaration. Dr. Hall is a Jack son man, so is "Consistency," if he telU the truth; yet "Consistency,, abuse Hy because Hall like himself is a Jackson man. Dr. Hall is opposed to internal improvements, so is "Consistency;" yt "Consistency" censures Hall for oppos ing internal improvements, and attributes the failuro of the Tarboro' and Hamilton Rail Road exclusively to Dr. Mall; wh0 in fact had no more to do with that pro ject than the man in the moon. ftven our county candidates come in for a share of his abuse, on account of their friend ship for Jackson and Hall and their op position to internal improvements, yet Consistency is "a Jackson man," and Li-erty, instead of having aught to fear, "opposed to internal improvements." ha in reality much to hope for from such u:irpations. 4 consistency savs he is "a Jackson self government. FOR THE FREE TRESS. Mr. Howard: Your supremely sa pient correspondent, "Consistency," in his most exquisitely consistent elucida tion of his own political heterodoxy, as mai," vet he rails out against both Jack son tin! his friends, particularly against thos who were opposed to "his first e lectin," but who have since become his frien's, because of the genuine republi can ourse which he has pursued, and the wisden and fidelity with which he has mann ed the a Hairs of the nation since he has bm "in power." He is "a Jackson man," yet it seems to he wholly incom patible with "Consistency," for "some one or wo score of men of his acquaint ance," and of course every other man who wis opposed to Gen. Jackson when he "wa first a candidate," ever to have supported him at all, notwithstanding "the olehero deceived them completely," and so ar from being an "usurper" and "tyrant,' has turned out to bo a man af ter their own hearts, and the reverse of every thng that was apprehended from him on th? score of his being a renowned "Military Chieftain." Yes, it is wholly inconsistent, according to this profound reasoner'ssonse of consistency, for any man or "store of men" ever to have sup ported Jactsoti, who were originally op posed to bin, though his principles and views are inperfect unison with their own on all maters and things connected with the general Government. He seems to iminuato that those who were originally ojposed to Jackson, should continue to le opposed to him, right or wrong, that or the sake of consistency (that is, for the sake of opposition to Jackson,) it would he better for them to take one of his "spring frog leaps" from their long cherished republican princi ples, than "remfm in statu quo" and sanc tion Jackson's measures, which he knows they are bound to do so long as Jack son s politics and theirs are one and the same. Gods! what a superlatively con sistent "Jackson man" this Mr. Consis tency" is!!! Ycf, Sir, this Mr. Consis tency is "a Jackson man," yet he pro nounces the Jackson men to be the "most open-mouthed, noisy men in the whole country," and in the phrenzy of his over zealous consistency, compares Jackson to a "pack-horse," and his friends to "weather-cocks, spring-frogs and porcu pines." He is "a Jackson man, voted for Jackson three times and would vote for him again," his "usurpations" to the contrary notwithstanding; yet he abuses Dr. Hall because "he is a first-rate Jack son man." Really, Sir, it does seem that he is unwilling for any man but him self to be "a Jackson man?' lie certain ly wishes to monopolize the old hero, have entire possession of him in order that he may sell him to the monster Nick Biddle, the great purse-proud autocrat of the aristocracy and the Opposition generally. Old Nick no doubt, would He certainly caps the climax of Consis tency, and fairly outstrips himself in point of rhetoric, metaphors and pro found logical reasoning. "Pack-horses, weather-cocks, spring-frogs," and the whole generation of "porcupines" and vipers, dance throughout his inimitable production of slangwhang and balder dash in all the mazes of metaphorical confusion, (as the immortal Junius would say,) and yet after all his heterogeneous comminglernents of consistencies and inconsistencies-, together with his most admirable elucidation of his own political principles, or rather political heterodoxy, 1 query if it would not puzzle even the most profound Philadelphia lawyer, (as the saying is,) to tell what he is, whether "Jackson man," Diddle man, no man at all, or whether "frog," or "porcupine." For my own part, I cannot see far enough into a mill-stone to comprehend him; therefore, with your leave, Mr. Howard, I will consign him over to public scrutiny, hoping that some one will finally ferret him out of his dark abode of mystifica tion. Q IN THE CORNER. FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, IS34. JWe understand that the dwelling house of Mr. John Hopkins, in this county, was struck by lightning on Monday evening Lastnearly all the window lights were shattered, and a Mr. Bennet Mayo, lying on the floor at the time, was so severely shocked that it rendered him sense less for a few hours. The rest of the inmates were uninjured. ELECTION RETURNS. Martin County Jesse Cooper, Senate. YaU win Smilhwick and Raleigh Roebuck, Com tnons. Simon M. Smilhwick, Sheriff. Statu of the Poll: Senate Cooper 26S, Samuel S. Shepherd 174. Commons Roebuck 566, Smithwick 462, Alfred M . Slade 404. Sheriff Smithwick's majority 4S. Tyrrell Ephraim Mann, S. Charles M' Cleese and Alexander, C. Halifax John Branch, S. John R. J. Dan iel and William L. Long, C. James Simmons, (no opposition,) Shff. Jesse H. Simmons, (no opposition) Clerk Superior Court. State of the Poll: Senate Branch 259, Willis John ston 245. Commons Daniel 727, Long 6S7, W. M. West G74, Charles Gee 654. Northampton Wm. 13. Lockhart, S. A. B. Smith and Crump, C. State of the Poll: Senate Lockhart 252, Wm. Amis, 136. Commons Crump, 4S1, Smith 455, Samuel Calmt 376. tutwiCJ it.
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