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RALEIGH, N. CFUBLISHED (wstKtT8 LUCAS AND. A.H. BOYLAN. turn, rniiwmiT rii'ni ' mi 1 lVnt ' 17- OHfe 'v-r-FRIDAY, :lSl2l ; ipx Ho. 846 Political !. fOa. THE M1NKRVA. - , f ' ' f' CSanntuof'tiowatit.' " v - ' At the May aess'opsrniosVgcrieraHy In 'each rear, yo rc calleOpon.by yo' Wloir, citizens 7 ....mhr that an election ibr reoresentatives in the general assembly will take place the dnsutng ilugust. In reobiidft& yw of this cuaurtstance ou i at tbe samp time' tyaftcjuainte& ith Lo thelfcr &Mfc pottyeaiy t.f Urf 6ttbfiy the,twae wUicb the custom Mthon- jjilghi be miUedsfeci offaUe delicacy ere I la attempt cohciliatiag your p'uy and chari . Depend upon( it, mah ia a frail machine mg nanrmoui'and "Godlike .'iiiaome reipectlbut in others let hin be in the way of error Tor a timet though, he toaths it at first, at length 1( beebmea habitual His propensities weaken th$ arguments h coold h,ve once used against it; jUet mm grow richer than his fellows, and sip the nectar' of Independence by himself, and tiia desiieadanti tor a tew generations ; me ma iruiis., uui scww ly the grafts are changed, Let honours be neaped upvn him'at hrst, possioy as mucn oy accaet, as induced by merit, and lo ! he is assured roer-it gives him that which in the firs case fell ujion him factit'rauslv. Nothing Kratifies hisambition. anV if h chance he misses one aim of his hear n him Tvminp fted ncaenme wun mseuu. ana. oui o i,.t.i, in tma if i 'an ofSce. Wbetb.er btflan if our tree cansUtcHoft ia : prtcttcei, Contra cold fill it with any aort of credit to himselt qr idictory fliatifltt M legislation, ukv. we juimuaray others. Yia, let ven the sacred flame at liberty j growth have towereu tneir ncaas,. wavea ia tnc forthe first time in his life fire his breast; he is, breezes, looked green and luxuriant for a few all inimi'.ion, benevolent, a lover of virtue, gives " little years," but at length are perishing by the his sDare'morsel to those whu need it, hates tyd superabundance of their exuberance. - Among ranis and scowls at oppression. Bat oy ana oy ne some m tnesejare,v" oromerce is a mere nunemuy arid i" cohveyed ir we of Mr. Granger's political band boxes to the different redoubted .patriots. HcS ttiihi I Long foad to Canada 1 1 1 By and by Captain Ograbme stalked1 along the a sore the fight was trashed up 4he sun went down, and so endcJ the campaign of Logocracy,' Xhe wheels of the fcoverhraent have trundled aloia- oVer nonv intercttyr8c8 noivimportations alleged repeals of kei; wthtwt even locking ncei,.:0ut turning gotintthe sloughs' of impoverished treasure, national pepury, individual deprivations of honest earnings, and at length may be pronounced lite, tafif ;' Oh ye plantation nd, goyetmcntal out fcjcattfai W3tSsai b cne aad - i i tkA.. Mia.-! a a oii 1 1 r i u BBgaatr wiwnfeu 1 hidmpliedrirjth- forms n tinleirclef rarricttortshakesff armo this repullic, and but a secondary consldcra tepetd solicitations to become a candidate for old friend, who has not been so fortunate as him tion." Domestic manufactures, and agriculture the House of eommons-linexperieoce in business, teif, enlarges" his sphere of superiority ...believes that's you sort and desperation to the French ltc.-ifall of which wise sayings are oftener literally tj&tnec'tssary which he once thought damnable.... tyger and the British lion." Yet it comes to pass ik.n nfherwisiii-thouir! intended bt their ' infiinl .he talks of families-and distinction t arid j that after having stripped Commercta.pf her best antharsto produce quit n oppasite belief upon the people. Laying aside hacknyed phraseology of Uiis dtscripliori I know and am sensible that without making objections to m)self, there are otbers whseiiMerestbemg opposite to mine, would wilmgly Jffasp any circumstance- prpvided they believed it could be wielded to my disadvantage. lest, noUritbstanding, I should be charged with partially concealing facts from those who nave iteen without tnt means 01 iniormauou, i shall fterf take toe liberty of . anticipating such as r williiie; heralds of mv disaualificationS. It is a w . honours, and upstarts : winces at tne rammar vul garity of a republican form of government ; wdn- ders why poiiUeians wont ionow me iracs wiucii he would point out: which Would be to govern the nation himself if you would let him. ' Some thing like this picture I think is pot inapplicable advantages we are1 chock full of fight for that which is scarcely worth the money we are borrowing, as prima facie evidence of our manhood. Without men to manufacture, or men to build factories, this nursling of political sagacity has been taken pro confesso and heard ex parte ; and like the 'animal fto a portion living under our republican form pf spirits' of thencient metaphysical dreamers, has o-oirnment. We had not oniy once a consinu i never circuraiea rnrougn mc ouu auu smews 01 thers gtades of offices down to the lowtst that constitution also directed that each mm feet then that our Siate Constitution rtq'ii. es sixlofthe republic, possessing the requisitequalifica Inonths, residence previous -to the election; and jtions, should -4e the judges of thaiwbrk Nw CD this ground it has been said I am disquaUned l U seems our Congress and btatejegisiatures nave if elected. ; In answer to this I reply first, that it j become the constitution and, bill of rights. They is nutorious lid the annals of our Xegislature ofjin their dependant anaVtndi vidual capacity hold &rth young gentlemen, having been elected I caucuses and recojnmerrd....VVha't ? Way the old token their seats, and retained them, who had not bridge that has-trn tnem over saie....very na heen resident more than two months DTevious to rural i thatii, accorflirig to the notions of weak the election ?dut of twelve. The thing was not quVkiioned by the county or the Legislature. Why J) tbef because there was no opposition-- and corrupt politicians. But by and by ihe mul tllliac CrOWCI aiOlllJ UVCl liic aami. uiu uimjt-, auu nat is the corraequehce ? The poor old way worn thei politics were of the) right stampr.or i hauhtir , machine totters... and tottering,, sinks the shud deruic crowd into urownmar annmuanon. At the dawn of Mr. Jefferson's administration, thigh a child, my little heart bounded w:th de seat was a matter of- no great consequence any Way. But i say the substantial lact was mat mcy fiasult, our tiMtr at tit (tkriotfS ckanrc which I antf.ipiitcrtO; connnnlnl k&nisj pocketed grimace, take place; when the then reigning partv shcfuld minisitW qtiifcet', Napoleontic falsehood, confis- share a portion of that disappointment which they! cation an.! burning, and poet Barlow's scire facias iters eligible &nd therefore competent. First bt- Suse tkeir abttelgSf a tepowry. j&9 busns as stodents, er otherwisefand therefore a case hich the. irarners rthe constitution never in tended o embrace; Their property and interests were in the cotmty and having none more substan tial in a other place, had consequently never lcsitheir citizenship. 1 answer secondly that I am a citizen of Rowan alone.... have always been 4 freeholder there, and nowhere else....have.paid cal, it would be faction and madness to talk taxes in the c6unty, and no other ; that I am se- changes.. Our only redress would then be, tied in no -other county only temporarily. That make the best of a bad bargain....reclaim the during the year and a half past, my absence, ar monarch from his frailty or insufficiency by the the longest peridd, has riot bten five months... and best anodynes in our power.. ..iT an aristocracy, that I have frequenUyretxirned at inter h of two rouse the princes of great men to a sense of honor of three, and passed a part of my time. Thatland virtuous action by the specifics which our ra tion which directed that the most worthy inthe lour national prosperity. .Agriculture8, the reputed nation should fill the highest btation in it, and o grand dam of commerce aud manufactures, Has become old and stricken in years ; a lady of very teeoie raous anu conirrce spirit ; sleeps a greater part of the day, and at night complains of head ache 8c eostivencss-tlies down again 8c ejaculates " perhaps all is for the best, but the Lord knows 1 have seen better days my present puny, state is unaccountable to me." "iWith the elegant Sir Thomas Smith, when speaking of the hardships of the English tenures in Chivalry, wt may feel ingly complain. After haing soU ouf infant navy, ani substituted a pitiful gun boat system, whose officers, as I am creditably informed, in fhe ea ports whtre they are stationed, receive little of no at-xnaon ftom the citizerisrun head long after Frtneriet politics and iliuminism ; courted the emp)rorartr hi beet sugar manufactory ; atld as the prium of our ardent aCfecttons, given up had sedulouslv meditated for others, and when I thought it high time that'they should recede from that administration which they had abused ; whilst freedom shrieked for her prostrated immunities. Was our nation either" monarchical or aristocrati- of to iny absence has been owing to th mode of life I j fcatf chosen, ccnneaed wih my education, Sec' endeavouring to -prepare for some grade of use. fulness and respectability, which I presume every iibnest man; has a fight to do....That I am a resi dent, and have Ttio certainty of ever being a citken f thy u'pthif TOUhry I could not forbear this sketch, since m travelling through some pflfo' Counties lately, several gentlemen (with whom I am, in other respects, on terms of imhnacy and irkndship) have byay of half joke and earnest, iiitiniated that; were I elected, it should be con tested imagining perhaps that the political course perience furnished. But it is monstrous to hear! the political gablers of the day talk of a superior claim, a continuance of eight years like the great " predecessor" and then he will be-wfc to re- timJWith dignity. If man's period of life was as certain as eight years, it is as precisely the same to insist upon three score and ten years as eight And in human calculation, virtue and disinterest edness,, would be a rara avis like the phtnix in any sort government if directed by one man or any set ot men tor that p .nod. JUy this I would not be understood to mean, that it is impossible for men to commence vntuously and not to con chosen, thoueh my individual exertions tinue so. I mean ohly that the history of nations should be futile, might yet by possibility be a drop ' and of governments, affixes an indelible signature m taej, bucket. tor the soul ot me, lean think to each tooch of legislative and executive proba. otsno other objection on that score. Nor do I ap- jtion.; that the most sublime and wisdom wrought prenena a contest w api event. With the con theories when entrusted too long with any set of Stitutton and common sense for my main sail, I , men, have failed and vanished. I am almost tempted to stay on this side the Atlantic and rest the incoptiovertibility of this assertion upon our own ephemeral progress A part we may say are satisfied, i he conhaence ot many ventures to asst rt that it is a majority. Another part,, and may venture to say with equal confidence, as vir tuous, -as patriotic, as learned, arid as well skilled in the transactions of mankind ; together with the sort of government calculated to cherish liberty ancLsecure. independence at home and abroad, jire not. The nation groans under foreign wroi gs of proMaie heroics,, returned with this indorsement notling done. Sig.ied BarlqwFen Kitfe, Grand F'enipotensh. Add to this matvufactures epito- "zed ; agriculture denationalized ; vessels, raw materials tor exportauorr, gooas, wares ahdmer. chantliz, rotten and pulverized, Wholesome coun cil ere he evil day came, stigmatized ; boasting ot a rich treasury, arid national plenty, when almost the next day, on examination, we found ourselves bankrupts. Despised abroad, poor at home, tri! stilted by Great Britain ; for what ? The pusilla- nmious and pocampnshtnei,policy which has datv kened the horizon ol these A mencan States. Add to this the ujaUrn e f ahd expensive -war in which flefy the malicious. squibs and poppings of pai ti tan landlubbers, and picaroon logocraphers. I Wwtld here Whiw citieens enter into a critical ex amination of the reasons that will govern any ex, rtion4 j?o point in the event of your patronage ; and ato of the rise, progress, publications, and master pieces of conclusive flr5,aitfnfi'iircukted, and endeavoured to be crammed towh the throats of such as are believed incompetent to judge for themselves, did I ridt feif Tfespassing upo your patience. It is perhaps unfair for any; individual r party to speak tauntingly of another...-and even "hen done Should carry moderation in its princi palfeatUTts. .Otherwise..! should almost be Ttempt M to erase argument in the sentence above and insert with its adjunct eoncawtve, ntnscnae whose spect is to share in the loives and fishes issued from the public granary ; whose tendency is ine quitable, aod should the reins of government in lewyears begin to berawniight'e'ry'-'wiltve tppressivccontroul the wills of those who now ooast with propriety of freedom whoseeal obi v,,uc,igC cq prove us political arm tuture utility 'Vuh the Vitcinia orator. P. Henrv. Imiirht aim, and byhangtng one wc?i of bis sentence, "ulJiiety WOUid anthnric th rlamitrinn ik ne electoral law may have beautiful features for " election of Mr. Madison? but ia other-re-JPecis it has oxi .awful quiutinz ; it squints to. e are engaging, in order that ouf poverty rnay be made comuletely splendid." (Jur acquisi.iohs may ftossiMr be a few wolf DKins, anu oiner pciiry a mue more icmtory than queen Dido surrounded wih a bull's hide, but not half so fer tile : The simplicity of our in. tellectual and moral character revolutionized and changed ; for what ? for the jargonistical vollies, and sputtering of a few military coxcombs. Lead republicans, to an offensive war and you1 make of them fiends and despots. Knowing but little, their ignorance and insolence is the more intolerable from the incongruity of their notions respecting freedom. But in the name of the eighth wonder, it we are to fight (as much as l disjtke the pre sent war) let us not be backward in this inexpe dient, yet it seemsUernier- resort of the present government. - We had better kill a hundred ene mies than permit one" patriotic life to W lost by any unnecessary backwardness, when the thing is inevitable. Hut I see no reason why.jthe abovmna ble masioi of nni and not measures, should any longer sh&k s to diswlution. Have we not tried them suflicientlj ? We could not be worsted with scarcely any other president who !nd any claims to intelligence Vftay-1 feel satisfied . ws' hbnldle bettered, "ivfany. are ribjw basking in tha snn&hlrie of ea-, ar i s-ty. -let us" alone ; ouf government inflicted by the friends of incipient intemalisnijjs well enough f lministered. So can some say & continued hy the unparalelled policy ot two bel. nn the most desr'0Mc and'degraded governments hotte cnBti,!. Hv Sinele war harykln Oct house lhrtWWWaens.imgni in uwvuiwjiw....- the tilo,apd tha mct of ihfs appeal they fr v andwWQSC.Paventk, M,d I were to Kxwfc a naW inWbiting the publication, -F- ter the injunctioritsr4tIlLy 8Peech5f V;, mad WUlo in stem; aissrwit, - Whetftet lhi fi ' intetidlEcl -of hot, I cannot fay j but judging fro A ' a Ithf. hintwi in which thvtuMr ,K Mtkttj. k -V has beftUni!uehted t)y the very accurate report- published by tjjettiber'of the last debate of that ' kind, r rfo not; tWnV it imprflbable. That, Oae . tetgn cf terror ii (mraendi andt aat XH Tree; 1 s dom of debaw trlwch the majority : fcT Urinz I Uhe whoft tlfitfLK 'Hofft et tht frffefc. j tea , -r: .-vif - f jr .:;'.? i Mf. aritaotpli; vtf prboablyjn iirrcipaUotf of the infcnded conclave) rose to submit a motidts 1-1 affecting our foreign relations, , -.H WmjhtaTSfi -extensive tiewDf our ' relative end political situa " . tion, ; and wth much energy and conclusiveness' of reasoning, proved by documents Submitted tV- congress, tha the Berlinand Milati ttecjfees not repealed, He" ihert shewed lhat the order : ? in council didnot forrh a groiind for wur. .ttt ? distressed tne bjockadtug decrae of May, 18d ; ' . shewed the acuie'sence of otir goverhmeht frt itt and contended that' it was rhathtained with afcrce v suflficienf, acedtdirigj; to the law bt' nations, to " ;: make it, perfectly legal, and that our goVerhmerit ; had been obliged to resort to Bonaparte new , doctrine that to make -ant efficient tyocftadc must be by land. as well as by sea. ,-fter ', pre, pressing with great ability for upwards of an lionr, ' ' 't he warmed into a mdst aarwr'straih tf clo quence, declaring that if the United Steves with; out indemnity for jthe pa$t bt secutlQr or (he . f u ture, if undei th( '.jplcseo't' :'dfttMlances they made themselves virtually apart ph Rhe side of ' Prance in her war against fJtat'britSin, it would, prove the tfuth of every assertion '"hitherto madet'l--, 4 that there does t jcUt la this government a '-fatal and undue French influence. s , , Sir. said he. such an event, thank tieaveiis. ha riot yet talten place f but is it ces, this govero-; 1 ment will stancr Dranaed (unless a tree, pres -should be overwhelmed in the common ruitta the minions, the parasites, the syscophants, thef tools of France to the latest prostertty t It wauldl , be a war unexampled and without parallel, With , ' such an extent or ocean separating us frora Eu rope to abandoU the deance of our donwot t . ' - engage In the qffarrelr of ptheAa. It would bt like. anan's goiJteotttat mt in scotch, f rp.- j saasins with aaiiauROTea oagfets pomted at hra breasi. It is caOed a war fo commerce white ia was deprecated by the whole commercidT world by New-York and New-England, the strong hold of Commence. " I give you but a faint idea ptJ the nalflfe 6t hia argument. At that period of his speech to which I have ust adverted, Mr. Randolph was interrupt ed by Mr, Calhoun, Who said he was' not in or der to go into such an extensive discussion with out mentioning the proposition which be intended to offer to the house. 4 ,-.", ' . Mr, Bibb, rwho wasln"trcfiair.UBdet the new rule as the speaker's substitute, decided that Mr. Randolph was in order, and had an undoubted righvif he chose, to finish his remarks before be submitted hj;Wou.;Mr. Randolph proceeded, ! 'but soon after wards Mr. Clay resumed the chair, I and Mr. Calhouu te oewed his call to order. The , I t a nt t 1 t . . apcaner, reversing jviT 110D S GCClsion, otciaet that jthe motion should be intimated by Mr. Han. dolph i before 'heprcceeded further. Mr. Kan dolph endeavejored to prove that accordirg to rule and; usage the mover of a proposition ha,1 a right to preface it with such observations as Went to explain It tiature and object. The speaker told wm'to sir adWn, that he bad decided tha question, and farther Uiat he would f equireia se cond to the motion and that it be reduced to wrU nnd as might be expected, on tht ayes and noes, I It Wasconfirrnejd I . " a . i i - - " . .. '1 1, - i l.l, . . . a S ligerents, whose restless ambition has long sice hooted and spurned at the law ot nations ; nation al and individual rightsTarid christian brotherhood. Away with, the conciliatory policy and efferves cence of patriotic apologies for a weak and instif. ficient rotne of rnseasures, governing; our politi cal relations, at least since 1807. Talkbf Pearce murdered, impressed seamen, and national' ho noiir f leels of volunteering reiterated through out the nation. We talked of the " violent infrac tion of our rights" the unparalled outrage"-, sent a pretty little billet dotix to the President and received sipretty little billet doojx m:jS"fftJ pfthe "high honour" which the President felt m being biUeted; written m a very neat, pretty style first by the chief magistrate, and then copied into. a neat fair hand by a handsome clerk duplu cates forwrtrded'to the different, slang.wh angers of the right kidney, for typographical ebullition) on earth. Very Muerenf Jiowever is the balance of poor degraeti: harnanltyi. A crislrof Mr af fairs Is approaching when we must either be uni led under a different set of men and measures, or feel to our latest breaths, the direful want of pre Cautionary prudence;; June, 1812. i i. f : SPIRIT, OF DESPOTISM. Extract of a tertr from a Member of Cengrew, da. S ted l&aifangton, JMay 29, . v;?.""f , It ia rumored, and correctly believed, that the awful, question of war is to be brought forward by the" committee of foreign relations on Monday next. It iVafso' said, that it is to be debated with closed doors, in which caseTtTiCthe lOpTfiron of most of our friends, that we -should indignantly refuse to take any part in the discussion. No sneaker on our part could .entertain the delusive best acquainted with tbe'rules of the house, voted with the Federalists, such a Macon, Stanford Bibb. and D. R Williams. Mr. Randolph then said, t suppose by this de cision I am compelled to reduce the motion to writing before I close my observations, and under that compulsion I do U. It was accordingly handed to the chair. Mr. It was then proceeds ing, when Mr. Calhoun said, that the motion was now made and seconded, and in possession of the house, he could not proceed to debate it till a question was taken whether fhe house would or would not decide it The speaker at first said mat the rule oin not appiy to the mover ; bus the raurmer3 of the party scon brought him to his political recollection, and he determined that Mr. Randolph should nut proceed. The question after an attempt to defeat in a side-wind manner by a motion to adjourn,, waa taking oh considering and determined in the; ne gative. So that the result is thatone day's work has eaded with a prostration of almost the only retnamlng ptinciple of free debate. If a mem ber rise to snhmit any preposition whatever, Jie may be instantly required to make it known, to reduce U to writing, to procure a second (without being permuted to convince any one by argument 'i ofjheprpprlety of seconding) and that If the pro- . positjon does not pr-cisely quadrate with thje po- UaleelirioO majoritjr he 1$ w dottn hf It a refusal to consider his motion. - -;- "i4 On the Folio wing page wiy It found Mr.Hattj dolph's appeal to his constituents. 1 . - , J
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