No.
HAi.riGii, (i.c.) nn day, n.r.iu
; TIIK srAi:,.
' Jj.Virl.i-Ccr,.':s.i CAttie,
- T1ELL A. LA WHENCE. .
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' fa advance, I 1 r"er'iotiiio-J, but at
HapitHipf lliKi,iur.oultiitl a r r-rrr
'are iJ. VdiTti!inti, not ettMiiinj f
urn Ut,rtt4 Ikret lii for one eUJrf,
s i tfntT-6 ' (or ftcii r H.ui.uiiicc
A il leiier to lb e4ilor tnun L pott-paid.
; co mmun i c voox. '
. .. ,-. ro i rxw , , ,'. ,
r: ' '" 'SaMpk reKT, 1824. '
r Ctvi-LFM!, Ia consequence of
!Tnry Seu ell, Esq. declining to have
ti name placed on the Electoral Tick
et of tVis state, in favor of "William II.
Crawford, from constitutional doubts,
holding he doev at, present, as an-
Eiintment under the government of the
Dited States, it, therefore, becomes
necessary to substitute some other name
fnr that o Mr. Seawell's; and it is with
much pleasure the Committee of Cor
respopdence have it in their power to of
fer that of Nathaniel Jones of Crabtree,
Waks'couny.-r '-'ry .";.;'.
V. a presenting this- venerable man. to
the citizens, ol; North-Carolina, as' a
candidate (or their suffrages at the ap
proaching election of Electors, the Com-,
ttiittee ttot only consul! their inclina
tion, but their duty, by offering to you
a citiien. who has often served the state
la the- same office-r-whose private vir
tues and inflexible republican opinions
are' only equalled by bis long services
and sound judgment r.;'. ' . Y'
Byordel of the Corresponding Com
mittee, ' ;v, RUFFI&
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J THF CAUC(?$ CANDIDATE" V
'01 V. vJfO; II.
Perhaps, Messrs. dales & Sonyou
calculate to effect 'a revolution in pub
lic opinion, favourable to the honorable
Secretary at the Treasury, by publish
"ing, as original articles, communications
against Mr.Xalhoun which have long
since appeared in some of the xqtrehn
papers, and which have been often refu
ted, mean f Cussim;" yrhty is as inv
potent as he is elaborate, and as sophis
tical -as-Jiis;1 charges are unfounded.
But,' gentlemen,' if such, be your expee
tationsyou will be sadly disappointed;
for MrV Caxhoun holds 4 place ui'the
affections of. his,, countrymen, "too per
manent to be shaken, by such malicious
Writer as " jCassius" and the Radi
cal;" the last: onT which, I see, is
roughly handled, and so far, complete
ly defeated by a writer in Ae National
Intelligencer vver the signature of " A
Republican;" and I lave no doubt, that
kfterhe has made7ie,i?at'ca'(?.' hang
: hirhary upon thewillows,?' that Cat;
Mu? will be -.apt to feel tliC lightuing
' of his pen. ; V hat other;' motive "but
disappointment in his aspiring views,
and deadly hostility towards Mr. Cal
ioun, far refusing, ta suffer him to pock-
ew thousand of the 'jiubli& rnoney,
ould iriduce this i writer ta undertake to
Wnsack; scrape up; and search ou pld
documents and .reports, to shew the ex
. trayajatce of the Secretary, of "War?
Tfu's is but the. same game which the
Radicals in Congryas have all along been
Wayingtis the same effort la'a"dif--ferent6hape:Tthe
sam? malignant mat
ter under a new guise. 'It is their wish
la make it, appear, that Mr. Calhoun
MS been, unnecessarily; and even prpdi
gallyi extravaguif in the department
oyer whir.U he presidef -withvsoVmuch
vdlstmaiiishecl'ahilitv.";:::.'"'RitH-'Moe:
JWitors, these Radicals,, these pretended
hwiwimm,. nave not satislied us, tnat
98 ever called for one' cent more" than
'as absolutely necessary to efi'ect the
.Wject of the, appropriation; and . the
chief of this very,, department has, , by
ws xigUmce lys known devotedne$s to
Mauys, and hs zeal in his country's
aase, contributed more than any other
WA,to lessen the expenses of goyern,-
l instance, howper
sKct 1$ his system of accountability.' Ex
? mine bis last report to C6rigire&, and
7ou see the beaiityand order of the sys
tem... Fertile vear 1822, out of 291
gents, paymasters, &c. &c. to disburse
upwards of 4i willionsof dollars, yet,
.alter. passing through so many hands,
v m a solitary cent has' been lost to the
government.:;,;: Even the President of
oiaies uimseitsays, in his late truly
'epublican and patriotic massif. nd
ho can ask fur better or higher uthori
J? that; the state of Uie army, in its
. yftrt iiiauon and discipline, lias been
wmvaiiy improving for several vcars,
'iu ias noio teamed a .high degret cf
V i a system ot exono-
J uUccovntalilityt Jva9 been intro
7fw; every branch of the service,
hicu admits of Hah additional im
lrovcment And whow, I would
k. but t J lr. Ciilhouo, is 'this happy
state cf thirds ti te ascriLx-iij TIjw
i. 'le, and how rlkuNiH, tfn, u it,
Mestfi. LJitws, f r )uu, or any U,Jj
de to talk c'niat the extr2''t
aJminiatratiun of lK Wit De;)irta.tnt.
What adtan' t;a vu JJ it bo tu Mr.
Calhoun, eva sv;sjng Corrrei
should allow anno ally more far o'
of ipprorriation t' an he rfcomtnctuleJ?
It would be co brncflt to him. All the
rooney would be unquestionably Lid out
oa public wurks, to 'defend and im
preve the condition of the country. It
is, therefore, J!e to talk about lis ei
trava"ce.' x If he is extrava-ant,
(which is sot adrr.'ttcd.) is it not f th
rcd and rlory bf'hia country? Eut,
Mtf.isrs. Editors, this urXinuk-d tharg
of extravagance comes with an ill grace,
and from an unfortunate tourc(wfA
partiiant of Mr.y Craitfcfd; for, of all
me candidates oelore the nation, lie can
lay the least claim to that magical
word ttonomy, ia-the admistratioa of
his' department. . Witness the unau
thorized Joans of nearly one million of
dollars to different Banks, , which were
known at the time, to be unsafe, & which
have since become insolvent; and the
governihent, in conseqence, will irreco
verable loose the money., If , such be
Radical economy, in the name of com
mon sense, keep us -aloof from all its
supporters- let. us confide nothin-rin
their hands. : Many other instances of
Mr. crawtoru's ICadieal retrenchments
and economy might be! Quoted, tn1 bis
own disadvantage, but I conclude that
the above, which is a matter noJ. to.be
disputed, furnishes, in itself ihciintro
vertable evidence of tit fallacy, ihd, I
may hid, folly, of his claims to econo
my, He bo is more economical thai? any
other maw It U all abait, to talk about
his. economy: . It is a political hoar; .a
Radical trap to Catch the unthinking
and uninformed, by. a mer sound.-. It
is, in fact, intended to render him po
pujar with those who prefertoars and
cents te their country, liberty and free
db with those who would sell their
political ' birth-right for a mess of potV
tage"wiose ptltcv it would be to save
at the spicketnd' loose-atthe bungl
The partisans of. Mr.f Crawford' very
well know that they cannot refer to any
Important deed "or distinguished act in
his political history, that would do on
which A? iest his claims t,o : the Pre'si
dencyj and hence, to have some prep to
sustain and start, him with,, they ..have
filed upon retrenchments and .economy
as his hobby horsey thinking thereby to
gull the intelligent people of thesV Vt.
States; but, gentlemen, they have, de
ceived themselves; they have buen dis
covered and exposed in their ' shame
ful attempts to mislead the publicvinind
in favor of a man is President,; who, on
a fair comparison of his merits, actually
firesent fewer claimi totheir support
or that distinguished station, than any
other candidate bqw before the Amen-'
can nation, ! I should like, to "know,
since it is not certainly believed, whe
ther he ever originated, in his ilepart
ment, one single measure of retrench
ment? If he can show nong of the fruits
of his priuciples.it is a bad sign.; Where
shajl we look for any? Point us to the
monument which illustrates either his
wisdom or virtues, and I may then be
convinced, of what I never -was before,
that Mr.. Crawford offers fair preten
siofls to the Presidency; Of this, how:
ever; I am satsfied,: I never tshall be con;
vinced. I remember nothing that he has
ever -- achieved for ; his: t country- -no
splendid deed, that will cause his name
to descend to:. posterity with glory and
honor, Xinlesa it be his singularpropo-
sttion lor the , whites to intermarry with
the Indians: For uur fair daughters of
youth and beauty, to ; intermarry with
savage Indians!! Thcyefy thought of it
i3 enough to. make one shudder.. n
some instances, on our western frontier,
perhaps; a tase may novy and then be
found of a white man! intermarrying
with an Indian squaw; and, in all pro
bability, the" descendants , of . all such
unions in.future generations may lisp
the name tit VVro. II. LrawJord, as the
patriot, philanlhophisl and the friend of
man. . ' v-" -: ' vl
s i have' innumerable objections to
Mr. Crawford, and, among others, I am
afraid; should he. be e.'ectcd; that he
would tomphtcty revolutionize the Coun
try; tha.t he would turn out of office a
great many good men, and put in a good
manyjbad ones, J know a number, on
whom, should he succeed, he would be
obliged to confer an appointment, (which,
m many cases, would be very improper,;
and this accounts for their great zeal in
his cause. '. Some would expect to be
foreijn ministers, others judges some
collectors of the customs, and others to
11 the diftVrent Cabinet offices. I hope,
therefore,- my .countrymen , Will pause
and look, to the - consequence; before
they -ive their suffrage to the adherents
of Mi. Crawford; for; should he be the
9t2ccessful!candidate,i(ofwhiclrVhoweyer,
I do not eutertain Uie least IVar.) as t j trary ;
would le.i.JtV.ed to a fey ai-Ue1;' r
I VI '
ul EiCi..!Tlf U.-- i 1.1 honor t )
n t' a. niilLl rvv!-l, t.' it: jr -I
fat c .iff and ; ; .-;.;.., 1. 1, c-f hi.nor
!; 1 pro f.f; aJ, in cf t!.re, I am
t! 1 tf. ' ! Ve wiu'. I p!.icf t'.at I -;i
I i .vcut wncer CaiuC
h. it U .'. ', n a 4 i!i"ni..it If, -cr 1 1:t
XfiT I ad i.-.'iJ,n t. hrxt his pn-u.t aver
sion ta Mr. ('a..'.'H: u. lie cow comes
out, and condemns him far doipj li
duty. uch couJact v. ill uotava'.luue:
the tattered inar.Uc which now, in part,
conceals 1iii txwa puL'tc view, wiil be
removed; e4 t!J trJai.crtfone uf the
f.rtJ. uaA ueu in iKa Coautry will
be etposed in all his -tnerkeJ, hideous
dtTormiiy. Docs cot his principles,
as an elegant writer once said of a po
litical hvpocme, - slicw "an inbred
wretchedness of heart, made up be
tween t!ie vile malignity of a-serpant
and t!ie spiteful imbecility of an inferior
reptile." Such is .the character of
" Casaius,', and such it is given. He
empties his curroded bosom of its gall,
in all the bitterness of conscious mean
ness, in $11 the acrimony of human de
pravity. Before he undertakes to cen
sure otliers, let him examine himself,
aud, I apprehend, he will find enough
to do, to bri.y about a revolution in his
own bosom, and in whose baseness and
corruption, radicalism, it , stem's,' has
formed a worthy trio: at whose shrine,
virtue would find a grave of eternal
forgetfulness, and Vice a monumental
marble of recorded honors;
'A PATRON.
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ECONOMY"--" MR. CALHOUN."
:; no.; iy,' 5 -
'T'hey hate the excellence thej cannot reach
Thet next charge brought by f Cas-
sius ' against Air. Calhoun is, that he
permitted Col. Kin, of the army, to
inflict arbitrary . and tyrannic puuish
ment upon the soldiers of. his command.
-The facts in this case are simply; as
follows: la the year. 1818, immediate-,
ly; after ''Mr,, Calhoun, took charge of
tne War Department,, Col. King, at a
distance of 1,000 miles from the scat of
government, took upon himself the re
sponsibii'ity of inflicting summary pun
ishment,' upon ' mifitary") offenders, in
some case infdirect; violation, of law,
and in others' vitliout subjecting them
to the - forms of trial." , The moment
thesei circumstances , were communica
tid'to Mr, Calhoun, l:vi directed Col.
King's arrest,' and brought him before a
court martial for trial. After' a full in
vestigation ;6f the. charges Col; King
was sentenced by the court to a sus
pension of,' all rank; pay and emolu
ments: forf the .space,' -of- five yearsi,"
which s nearly equarin s'everity- to a
dismissal from service;';. This sentence
was immediately submitted to the Pre:
sitient;' approved, And -:a; in a
cot:rse of execution before the subject
was agitated in Congress. ,T1ius it ap-
fears, that Mr. Calhoun most prompt-
and effectually redressed,( by the in
fliction. ofa severC punishment, the a
buse,. which has been so. falsely charged
by. Cassius" upon his administration.
kIo show'' the , extent of: the 'unfairness
and nysrepresentation with" which this
charge has been brought forward.' it is
proper to add, that; Cot.: King, in his
defence stated that Mr.' Calhoun had
brought him" to i punishment with & rigor
Which he considered arbitrary and un-
iust-i-that f his conduct," in bringing
nim to trial; to use Colonel King's own
language, ? . was not to' be reconciled to
the immutable principlcs'.of justice;?
and; that hehad done him "aninjtry
mat ne couuj never repair.";; , ijow. is it
possible for any man; who is not lost to
all sense of propriety and truth, to pro
duce accusations founded upon tacts
like these!-7 Notwithstanding the ample
evidence which has been produced that
air, uainoun, so ,iar irom Deing aeun
quent in procuring, a redress of the a
buse, had acted with equal promptitude,
vigor., and effect, Cassius" has at
teinnted to mafmifv the transaction bv
a recital of the enormities, of which
Col. King; was guilty, dishonorably sup
pressing the exculpation of Mr. Cal
houn, aud thus giving to the whole1 a
false and exaggerated aspect, tor the
purpose of assailing his reputation.' All
this, too, is d'ne in the- face of a lull
and deliberate acquittal by Congress,
to which the. whole subject was rcler
red. Such are the miserable artifices to
which jlr. Crawford's friends are com
pelled to resort, in order to sustain him,
ami to obscure the well-ean: j charac
ter cl Air. Lallioun.- iut to suppose
that such attempts will succeed, would
be offering an insult to the justice and
intelligence of the cominuuity. To
pursue this 'subject,' the system tf pu
r.ishment in the an. j, durir thewhi-l;
course of Mr.. Craw ford's a.dmir.istra-
!tion'cf t'-.e War i
rart:;.er.t, was e.'.hi
.1 tMie is not a sii--J,
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I'raw! .. i's 1 : c- 1 1 .t - '
tratii-n, and Oene tj l ra:.M 1
mor t'..e abu-ei wi.Irh he It ft f r .
Ca'.iioun to rectify. It t . y L !y
aifrted, that if Ys ha'J eif rv- J oue
half of Mr, Ca!!.,un's i glance ar.J a-
o.uty, m d (.l.ar - ; Lis i,r.A
that the cTcccc, t:.e trial, '
emplary puruhmnt cf Col. 1
never hare occurred. I'.
1 tl i f X-
' '11
:'.'V f r
the honor of the countiy, t'.e War De
partment has gone ta better taru'o, and,
Iroui tie hrst moment (T the chai:e, cot
a known case cf illegal punislimeut (or,
indeed, any other abuse) has occurred,
where the remedy lias not been promptly
and affectually applied. .
. " Cassius" next attempts to shew that
the reduction of expenditure in the War
Department is not as great as it might
have been, although he admits that great
improvements have been made during
Mr. La.houn sadmmistr2.tioR. Instead
of rising to all his assertions in de
tail, I Subjoin some extracts from Mr.
Calhoun's report to Congress, on the
economy of the army, of the 5th March,
1822; the accurracy of which has never
been questioned by his most violent and
cavilling opnosers. It will appear from
these extracts-whether the reputation,
which Mr. Calhoun enjoys,; as an able
ana emcieni executive Giucer is wen
founded.' ' ; '
From the above data and average
strength of each year conformably to an
abstract of the general returns of the ar
my, table D, it results, as exhibited in
table C," that the average tost of the
army, for each individual,' taking the
aggregate of the officers, professors of
the military academy,' cadets, rnd en
listed men, in the service of the United
States, for 1818; was , v;r-'.y-:''
In expenditure! not material- - -ZT;: -f '
,. ly. affected by administra-
tion,on atiaveragi.each; JJ151 93. j ; v
In expenditures, which may.-'V ,T ,V,1V,
be affected, by administra-' .-v '.'4 . ' ,
tion, on an average; each g299.64 .' ' J '
(Total average cost for officers "
& men, be. each, tor 1818,, V , JJ451 ,57
M war 1819. ' ;-.:
In expenditures of the -first
clast eaoh ; 7''- 8158.73 "7 .;
In expenditures of the second V;n ', I '.'
dag,.eacnf 'rH'i Y 15273 98 hi
Total; amagje cos eaip;-, 4-'v ' v
For tlte year 1820. '.' J-YW'-. '
In expenditures the first " w " '.; vr
class, each ;;;.;; 'R140 45,- "; '
In expenditures of the second
ond -' '.
class, each
,3178 43
Total averaw cost, eachy for ' V ' ; 1
':: For the year 1821.-V'- -;-' '.v'.' .: '
In expenditures 'of. the first -v 4 ' '':;fi
-class, each . ' KX,lib . -
In expenditures of ftie second ' ?? '
class, eacn. .- ' ' X150: 40 t . '
Total average cdst, each, foi;
Mil. -. f:.';;:..;:
-For the vear 1822.'-
Confonnably to the estimates"" ' X-
of the first class, each r ; gl55 30 ; J : '
Conformably to the estimates . '. ' . v'
tnes seconu ciass, cacn feiMjip,.
Total average cost, each, ftrv.r;? f '
1822, ;",;.",i : v vA'- s.-'v R299; ,46
" From the foreo-oinff it annears that
there has been' an annual actual reduc
tion Jn the average expense of each ci3
cer and soldier in the service, -' .
4 In the year 1819, of . y gl6 87 each,'
. In thA vomo ' nf ' f 11 Jin nAn ,
3 1the yeaf 1821, of ' H i 164 55 each,
Andbye8timatesforl822, of 11 each.
The act of Congress for organizins
thp general ,' Staff agreeably to its pre
sent formation, was iiot approved until
the 14th of April 1818; and the change
in the system sfor. controlling the dis:
bursements of the army, under the su
penntendance of the chiefs of each de
partment, located at Washington, could
not be sufficiently matured before the
close of the year 1819, which, with the
additional expense to which the Quar
master's Department was avoidably sub
jected in the year 1819, from occupying
auvauceu military posts on we rais-
soun and Mississippi rivers, will ac
count for; the comparatively little re-
auction in expenuuure m mat year.
" Alter making an allowance lor the
diCerence in prices of articles of sup-
pnes, as aoove suiea, tne results in
fuvor of tlie latter years (1319, 1820,
1821, 1822,) are respectively S158.S8?
74; gl.112,594 92; 21,313,21.8 C6; and
Sl.247,222 50" :
In the foregoing er4imate tht'fear
1817 was not include!, lecause thex-
penses c t..e 8ny
with the . ur an -
v. ere so U
a, as tot rt ' - !t
im;o- '-'h!e to c! .'..'. ;i certain re-- '
tins, l.o'.vtvr, was cue if tlie y
!'r, CrawLrd's r l-'-istra:'
wuit'i hile to c
it
t".re. wi 'i t''. t vf 1
f r
lit a:
1
Irom th.s list sura k.!.. t," t.. j'r
count of rt ;iitoii i f!.cci
of the arucicjoi c-t' .",1'.,':)
And there f n tins the sum f 1, ;'.",, .'
Oi diTerer -e i;i t. re f f :. ',-
miustrath
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have never V er
they may jlje rec
I subjoin the lit'
" If Mn Ca!!,
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"i has evince 1 any
vii& n ,,r-'L 11 v.. .u ut '.!, II IS 1. -
uniform ' and devoted atf.uhiuer.t U
economy. W'h'lt a ineii l cr cf Con- )
gress, he succeeded, c ti.i-t the cpiniou
botli of the secretary .f ti e Treasury
and the committee of V'evs and Means,
in abolishins the rower cf transferrin'
appropriations, and is thus fairly c".tit!-i .
to be considered the, author oV ; 'm . c
appropriations, , 'What l,l!ius j .eject
ed,, white in Congress, h4 has siu-rev,-
fully carried into j -rnctice in t!ic W'nr t
Department. Transfers arc now un
honril fif. pvpri in f!n limif.wl
permitted bylaw. 1", iioates in the
War Department, are never exctul .!,
and rigid. accountab.lity is' introduced -
into pvprv branch' of Uio T).nartn-.t:f
as fully appears by the President's Mes- ' v
sage, ana the document accompanying '
it. The sesult has been a saving in the
disbursements of the army alone, after '
allowing for iUreil.:rf! i and change it
the price of the articles of supply, of
21,549,218 06 per annum. If to t)M
we add a. reduction of g 15(5,000 in t'.u
Indian Department, and 75,00!) in t!i3
fabrication ot small arms, which have
been reduced S dollars a stand in tha .
expense of manufacture, and a sum aL ,
least equal to the last in thefortiuciitio:), .
(another branch of the" ordnance dis
bursements,) we shall find that by a fust
only to the uisbuisements, but' to the
supplies, there is i saving to the govern
ment, through the efforts of the; Secre
taryof War alone, of St.C49.2l8 06twr' ' "
. .: : r . : . i it
the year 1818, in which ffie present,
an uc in. i ins. in iour vea!M,jrr. ;iriirro . -
system - went ' into operation, would r
ampunt tO BIX illLUONS, Fiy&HVKDBETir '
& IlfltrT-8lXTHOCSAND',; EIGHT HtN'
DRtD AK i SEVENTY TWO DOLLARS, AND '
twenty. rotia cents; and, it will, to"
that extent, account for IM balance in ; r'
the Treasury, which lias been stated by V
the ' Radical' as resulting from the wotk '
' It appears from the forcsOmz; vi ho is) '.
in , economical -arrangement,, the real
benefactor of his Country. While Mn ,
Crawford has been presiding over the s
ireasury with no other ellect than that
of collecting the: Revenue and dealing - -it
out again, a r cording td the votes of
Longress, r.lr. Calhoun, by a wise, ener- 11
getic yiguent navmsi policy, m admin- .'
istering his Department, accumulated a
balance in the national coiTers," which '-.
has veftectually relieved the Country
from tlie embarrassments of the lasf ft w
years, and Will; with the ordinary reve-t v
nill'S. irlfl-f nil thn i ontanifs nt tha i:rv..;-u
ernment for many years .to come. . .
ONE OF THE PEOPLE. . 'r
C.OIGRES3.
; - Monday, Feb. 2.
Mr. Holmes, of Maine, in pursuance
of notice heretofore given, asked leav-
to introduce a bill -to secure public- J
moneys in the hands of Clerks of Courts, ' "
Attornevs. and Mai-Khflla - nd ihoir
Deputies. Leave was accordingly grant- -.
cd; the Lill was read, and . passed Jo a
second rendlnrr. ' - ' ' .
Mr, Macon presented the petition of
sundry citizens of Newbern and WiU -;-miugton,
" rth Carolina, praying in;
dcinliity : ,'i cnch spoliations previous
to180'J. ikferred to the Commitjco
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