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JL. femoi at least, on ilio part of Mr, Clay or bis friends, at " bargain and corruption," Lr inaJo by a responsible ana Known person rsucn an assertion us wr. viujr wuiuu- tices and be immediately camo out whh "a direct, unqualified; and indignant de nial. He stated that ho neither mada nor authorized, nor knew of any proposition whatever to cither of the three candidates who wero returned to the House of. Renre. ,Bcbtat!vcs at" the last prcsideotial "election or to he friends of cither of bem, Tot the. purpose of 'influencing tlio resale of tW ; clocti6Ti7cforrjftny-other purpose And all allegations; intHnatiorisyand fntiuetidas, that his votq on that occasion whs offered to be given, in consideration of any stipu lation or understanding, express or implied, director indirect. .Written or verbal, that ho was, or that any other person was not to bo appointed becreliiry or Stato, or that he was, in any olhor manner, to be personally benefitted, wero devoid of ull truth, and destitute of any foundation whatever. And ho demanded tho name of the member of Congress dluded to by Gun Jackson in bia letter to Carter Beverly. , . ; .On seeing Air. Cluy's prompt, explicit, and unqualified, denial of this charge, and his demand for tha nama of ilia person alluded lo, Gen. Jackson issued an address to the public, dated Hermitage, July &, 1827., in which ho said,, referring to his letter of tho 5th of June, to Carter D?virl y , : " This disclosure was mada to mo by Mr. James Buchanan, a member ot Con. gress from Pennsylvania, a gcutleman of inn nrsi respectability ond intelligence. " Tho character of Mr. Buchanan, with mo, . forbid3 the idea that ho was acting on his own responsibility, or that, under any circumstances, he cuuld have been induced to proposo any arrangement unless possessed of satisfactory assurance, that, if accepted, it would be carried fully into effect. A weak mind would seldom or ever be-thus disposed to act, an iutelli gent ouo never." From this it appears that it was all a matter of inference with Gen. Jickson Air. Buchanan had a conversation with hurry and ho inferred thajjie called upon him as Mr. Clay's friend and Mr. Clay authority ! Bt W'j!t does Mr. Buchanan himself say the onln witness called upon or named by Gen. Jackson, to support his charge what does he say 7 Read. . . Exract from Air. Buchanans letter to ' the EdXtoroT 'thcLancu"sl&r Journal, dated 8lh Amzust, 182TT-" " I called upon Gon. Jackson on the oc casion which 1 havo mentioned, solely as his friend, unon mv owt individual responsi bilily , and not as the. agent of Mr. Clny or any other person. J never have been the political friend of Mr. Clay, since ho be. camo a candidate for tlio office of Presi dent, as you very well know. Until I saw Gen. Jackson's letter to Mr. Beverly of the 5th ult., and at the same timo was informed by ft letter from tho. editor of the United States' Telegraph, that I was the person to whom ho alluded, ilia conception never once entered. my mind, that ha behoved mc to havo been the agent of .-Air. Clay or his friends, or that I intended to propose terms to turn jof any kind tor them ; or that ho could have supposed me capable of express, ing tin 'opinion that it was right to fight such intriguers with their own weapons.1 I liad no aullwrUy from,Mr. Clay or his friends, to propose any terms to Gen. Jack son in relation to lluir voles, nob hid I evkh MAKE ANY SUCH PROPOSITION 5 Olid I trust 1 would, bo as incapablu of .becoming a rhes. scnger upon such an occasion, as it was known Gen. Jackson would bo to receive such a message.'1 Hero, then, :s the wholo testimony o Gen. Jackson's own witness 'the only one called, or pretended to exist to sustain this often repeated and heinous charge of f bargain and corruption. L4 any man .of candour "point out tho paragraph, the sentence, tho word, tho sy llable, that sus tains the charge ! Do not every word and every scutcnco give a plain, explicit, down, right denial of the. chargo, and of every ; circumstance of it?."Most clearly, posi. tivcly, and unequivocally, beyond the pos. sibility of a doubt. But will it bo believed that tho chargo was iterated and reiterated ....after this, positive refutation of it? it was even so. It was gut up to excilo the pre jiJdiccs.of the people against Mr. Clay, nnd those who first brought it forward, "finAling that it answorcd their purpose so well, had no thought of giving it up or retracting it, even though they Ikcw it to be a falsclwod cf the basest kind, an J had been proved to bo so. It was tho instrument of as foul, as base, as" malignant a conspiracy, as ever was formed for the destruction of man. No man, who then had a hand in this nefa rious attempt to destroy tho fair fumoof Air. Clay, can now be found who is willing to acknowledge hi3 agency in it, or that he ever believed there wis tlio least truth in htrliA linn in n lr'Hnr mlilrnjci,l l.i Mr I A:v 1 jlurinhcpast winter, candidly acknowl "" y " fidged tlvo wrong he did him, and made the .most anip!e apojogy. . ()lhcrs Jiowevcr, tnore guilty, want the magnanimity and gfaco to doAIr. Clny that poor justice, even At this late dv, XTho Ul&lj of-recantation from.' Mr. Be. yerly to Mr.. Clay, is dated Vibcisia, Mid- PLESEX COVNTV, UeANA, Feb'y 8, 1:12. Ifa says, "It will bo no diniht a matter of some astonishment lo you in receiving from me the present address. I will not preface it "with any kind of apology, because, in doing it, I justify my mind iu tho discharge of an act of conscience and a duty that I feel the utmost pleasure in "performing. " Although tho time is quite farjjono since I became very innoqently instrumen tal in circulating throughout the country a very groat attack on your character and virtue as a gentleman, and certainly very heavy one us a public man, I feel expeed ingly desirous to relieve you, nj far as I can, frcm the slander) and my own feet ings from the severe compunction that is within mc, of having been, though neither directly nor indirectly your pcrsaial occu. : . aer, yet thdt 1 fras" draw!! indirectly Into tho rcprcfeDtatioaaLan attack, upon you ' , 4 nis le-ior w iiutujieu vu biiuw yuu uu ingcircustaoocs pi inocoimtry and govern, mont. have lohg a go .convinced me that the very greatest injustlco was dono you in the chargo made. I had. top, on opportunity lately, of reading over Wry calmly 'bud djspas5ioualeb a.iIIu,oLiicwspapcrs cou taipng the whole nfTiir"; ond carefully di taedrupon it. Mr. 'Buchanan, who was represented to be your accuser, exhibited noproof whatever: hgainst jpu and be even dehiedTiavTng "ever rnade7tKo charge upon you. ' 1 have discharged my rhind In' addressing myself so fully to )t)u;'nnd can only odd, if a publlcatfon of this letter can render1 you any essenttal service (though I do Bol dcservo it,) you. have full liberty from mo' to let- the public see it.-- -' ' " I again B iy that I urii most thoroughly convinced that you were most untruthfully, and, therefore, unjustly treated ; fori have ncvor seen any evidence to substantiate at nil tho charge. - . . .. . ' w ' Signed, ' " " CarYer Beveblt." It is unnecessary to add nny thing further in "refutation of this TouP and unfounded chargo of " bargain and corruption." The great mass of tho American people arc fuvon of justioe, and when convinced that injustice hn1eeh bono, have that gwne'rous spirit nnd kind feeling which prbnpptahem to repair injury, r mudiccwill doubtless, however, induce eomo to close their eyes against the light ortruth, and their heart agninst Conviction. Iritoihe mindsof such thoush truth shone with the brightness of tho sun at noon-day, its rays couki not penetrate all would bo darkness. Still, however, it may not be useless, and is but justice to Mr. Clay, to add the lestimonyr the solemn ftsservation, of one individual niorc. lItAl fj Clayjivas guilty of tho chargo alleged, ha could not havo becrr the only oerson cirilty : if there' was n " bargain, there must have been another party to it and that, party,' MrrAcramsrby-wlHwft4Ir Clav was annointed Secretary of State which office he held during the four years of Mr. Adams's administration. A committo appointed by citizens of New Jersey, having addressed ftir. Auamf on his retirement from Office, he transmit ted to them a reply, from which the follow iri2ls ft tv extract r tFrrorrTtm-( Mft-Cluy Uheloulcstslaxu ders have been showered. Lionji Known and appreciated, as successively a membe of both houses of your national legislature1, as" the unrivalled speaker, and, at the sumo tunc, most efficient lender of debates in one of them; as an ablo and Succcssfn negotiator foronr interests in war and in peace with Foreign powers ; and as a power nil candidate lor tne highest ot your trusts tho Department 'of State itself was a station which, by its bestowal, could confer neither protu nor honour, upon mm, but upon which' he has shed unfading honour by the manner in which he has Qischarged its duties. ' Prejudice and passion have charged him with obtaining that office by bargain and corruption'. Before you, my Jelow citizens, m the presence of our coun try and of heaven , I pronounce thai charge totally unfounded. This tribute of ju- tiec is due from me to him, and I seize with pleasure, tho opportunity afforded me by your letter, of discharging the obiiga. lion." " "''' ' At the late barbricuo given to Mr. Clay, by his friends nnd neighbours at Lexington, on his retirement from the Senate and re turn homo,' alluding in his" speech to the foul calumny that had been raised and put forth against him, some ono in tho Crowd cried out that Mr. Carter Beverly, who had been the organ ot announcing it, had re cently borne testimony to its being unfound ed. Mr. Clay said it was truo he had voluntarily borno such testimony. But; with' great earnestness and emphasis, Mr. Clay said, u I want no testimony : here Here here, repeatedly touching his heart, amidst tremendous cheers, ' here is the best witness of my innocence." The effect was electric, and ever soul present was touched. -At the close of Mr. Adams's administra lion, on the 3d of March, 1823, Mr. Clay retired to tiro shades of his own quiet Ash hind, to cultivate his farm, and taste once more the sweets of domestic and private life. From these, however, ho was, in ls.il, drawn by the Legislature of hisown state, 'which elected him for the third time to the Senate of the United Slatei. With his public course sinco he entered the So- rintcj where he continued nearly eleven year's, and with the various measures origi- natocl nnd advocated by him, tho public tiro probably more familiar than w ith his public ucis previous, n is me lortune 01 low men W-fiU. QrV In rrrt n cnoAn in nnKtirt aim i n . rJ wcirarc, tiunng a wholo life, as Mr. Clav hasduring this period of his senatorial ser 'Zrzz irr. ' -I.' i r . , , vice, no BCKnowieflirea eaocr ot tne pany-.ta.whicJi.haMQngc,dli.icJiietmea. surcs have originated with hirh, and all of them had his able co-operation and'sunnort. Having been, however, tho creater portion of the time in a minority in the Senate, and the wholo of the time up to tho 4th of March, 1941, in a minority in Congress, neither ho nor tho party to which he be longed could carry any measure through to a frnnl law. In the winter of 1832, the Tariff question come up and was discussed ; on which occasion Mr. CJay delivered a speech in defenceof the Amehican system, in which the policy of protection was most ably and clearly expounded, maintained, and defended, fbis speech was Mr. Clay's crowning effort in defence and support of his favorite system of policy, ancha more profound, comprehensive, lucid, statesman like exposition of governmental policy was never listened to in any legislative body: it was worthy the, important subject, worthy the great people whom it interested, and worthy the vast power of intellect and far reaching sagacity- from whence it sprung. to it coxctnCD n on next. TBEJVJESSENGER, " n iDUMii ivti i onot9T? cniTnoe - rrrwiTrrrT it vt w ry' ' ltzZZZZ. ' " .: 'r" Friday, IVarcb 10, ISiS. National Conventioii.....The Whig mem befs orCongress' hclJ' anicctrng"" Ifi'Tbo' Sena to Chamber on ths 18ih- of February last, onu unanimously recommonded a .National ConvcDUoa to bo heldio Baltimore on thu3d day- of Alay, 1944, to nominate Whig candidates for the- Presidency and Vice Presidency."' The mcastiro will be concurred in ' by a majority of tho Whig parly ; but wo think the convention had be(. tor be held in November next ; for which opinion we could give what seem to us good reasons. This, however, "would be unne cessarythe VVhig members in Congress will go their own way in spite' of .us, ond we go our own way without reference to thcflfi. " . ' - CONGRESS. Tlio bill to repeal the Bauknpt Law passed the Sunato by a Vote of -32 to 13 The law is therefore repealed. tT" A resolution to refund to Gen. Jackson tho'fina imposed upon him at New Orleans by Judgb Hall, also passed the Sonate by a vote of 28 to 20. We liope tho' clamor on that subject will pow cease. Tho Gen. era and his friends scemod never to think of asking for it while he or Kf r, VAsBrREN was President, xr while they had a Demo- cralic Congress, but waited until thore was aprospect of making political capital out of was urged wuh duesu r OCT", Gov. Jones and Ex-Governqr Polk 1:1. f... -?..' 1 T ut thc approaching August election. .We seo from tho papers from that State, that they are beginning to give out their appoint, ments for addressing the people in different parts of the State; and wo judgo thct be tween them and the elections for monbers to" Congress and. the State Legislature ,-the peopTiroTTriar. SXairareMike to have Warm times from this until tho 4th of Ajgust. That, however, is but what they have been lonj used to DISTRICT. COSTEXTM. The communication in anotjicr column from "A Voter," calling for a convention to bo held ot this place during the week of our next Superior Court, in order to unite on some person as tho Whig candidate to represent this District in the next Congress, wo fear comes too late to sccurq op effi. cicnt , action , if such a course should be thought necessary by those concerned. We have been requested to announce Mr. Clingman as a' candidate, whicii wo pro ceedto do, agreeably to the request, without having made particular inquiry as to who would most likely be his opponent or oppo. ncnts. Mr. Graham, the formcreprescn. tative, has, we know, been spoken of; but whether he is, or will be ti candijate, is at present unknown to us. Should Both these gentlemen take the field, we have heard it asserted as coming from those who profes. sed to know, that thero would be a Demo. Crat before the people for the same office. In this eyent, it might become pecessary for tho Whigs to come to sonm understand. ing among themselves as to theireandidatc, lest a division might possibly secure the election of a Democrat. The subject "Is 1 worthy attention. In the District next be. low this, a Convention has been called by the Whigs j and indcecMhis manner of se lectingcandidates is becoming generally resorted to byjilT parties. For ourselves, we advocate certain mea sures, not because they are found in the creed of this or that party of men, but be cause we believe them identified with the truo interests of tho country at large, and wc will give our feeble support to the man or men whom we bclievo to be most likely to act most efficiently in carrying out these principles, let them be called by wharhamo they may ; and wc shall endeavor to pursue that course which wc believe to be best caU xmhrtcd-tq-keep up the present WhigjnajLl jority in thcDistrist. . We have no fears of rhC' success of ouropponents this year-Jiut wcbojucyel.itcy.ai5jconcoctin plam and ayLbg schemes at the present, which may, if carried out , make their success more pro bable at another' time. Hence, we shall act in reference both to the present and the. future. " -: We sltould bo exceedingly sorry to seo the Whigs here or elsewhere split into fac tions but we should be" more bo to know that they had sacrificed nny of those prin ciples which have hitherto characterized them as a party; and for which they still so manfully contend. - 0" There was lately a very disastrous and sudden-rise in Red River. An'immerise quantity of property was destroyed, and many pe rsons d ro wned. OCT At Troy, N. Y., lately, there was a and slide, which destroyed a number of houses, and killed several persons. of GreenuviUe Tetocssee, lately ip a public speech at Jonesborfeh; Tcnb.; compared the factious thi rteen Locofocos of the Vsl "Ecgt',urc ofTttaTmreThTrrcfuseoe-ge- into the elccrion of a United States Sena, uiur, iu iiiu3o pairiois who inrcw mu icn pvef boarvl in His Harbor pf Baltimore ;V This expression, tho Joncsborough Whig sdys.he repeated the third fimoVwIich sonic pers6i in the cyowd called put iBiistoo, in place of Baltimore. ' ' k -Thu is about what wo sU juld expect of Johnson, D6withsUndjag hois now a can didato for Congress. He ha& learned by heart something' of tho' "doctrines of his party, with the names of their .prorniiient men and measures or in otlier words, has a smattering of the factious partizan politics of the day, but beyond that his upper story is but little employed. , .'Horriblo Dcath...A short time since, o Mr. Thomaa Robinson, a Tailor to trade, living ten or twelve miles South of this, was found in his shopnvith ono side of his face and neck, one shoulder and arm liter ally burned to a cj ast. The physician who attended him declared, as wo have been in formed, that the flesh was thoroughly cook ed to the bone. Ho was alive when discov cred and under the most excruciting agonies continued to live for a few days, when de&tb kindly relieved him from his sufferings. Thd deceased was of intemperate habits, fnd we have been informed, had . been in- . , 4 . . " . . . loxicaicu lor several days previously to uis Ibcing burned. Oil tho morning of that day, he went to his shop to work , kindled a fire nd is supposed to have fallen in a fit, ond received -tho 4njury before consciousness w restored. When found, ho was lying upon atruckUhod which he kept in theshop. We have never learned that he was at any time able to give any acconnt of his receiv ing the accident. Taken as a whole, the case is another of the many solemn warn ings which from time to time are given the drunkard. England ... We- received last week pews frem-L4verpoe p to February4thT4gree ablyNto an arrangement Which wc some timo since made with a publisher in that city. Parliament was opened by commis sion on Thursday tho 2d, and the royal speech was read by the Lord Chancellor. Money is abundant ; but the cotton market depressed. Sir Robert Peel said in the IIouso of Commons that ho did not intend at this session to make any change in the corn or provision laws. This movement will produce great excitement throughout thekingddm. Lord Ashburton made a speech in defence of the American treaty on tho first day of the session. This treaty was favorably spoken of in the royal speech. " : BAD FARBIXC, COWS, DAY, &t. We have of late been travelling through different sections of this and Henderson counties, and wc do'not recollect to have seen more real poverty-stricken cattle than there now are through these counties, and we much question if in Yancey, Haywood, Macon and Cherokee, it is much better. Now, without any sort of equivocation or mental reservation, we pronounce this state of things to be, in our humble opinion, both a Bhame and a sin.- Perhaps in. what wc say we should except Cherokee, as it has been too recently settled to admit of much im provement in its farming interests ; but in the other counties the great scarcity of hay and the consequent poverty of cattle, is almost invariably owing cither to a want of proper industry or ; economy t or to both. There Is scarce a hill or hollow in either of the counties at all accessible but what might be made to produce good, very good gross, both for pasture and for hay. An acre of land which in this country will produce only about thirty bu.hcls of corn, will afford nea rly oruite-1 wo tons of good hay. The latter requires tho labor of ft hand about four daysnnually tho former ten. The hay will be worth twenty dollars the corn Gftccn. But most excellent grass will grow and may be mown on land too steep to be tilled in corn. ' TeXM.The last accounts which we have received, come by the VahingtdTJ (Texas) papers of the 4tb of Febro There lbcy liave fightings without and tears within. Their internal affairs aro in a deranged state, and they are threatened with the in- vasions of the Mexicans. Wa.Lhink it a little rcmaj-kable that pa- pers from Liverpool should reach here sooner than those from Texas but so it is. Firmtri AdTOflte...An Agricultural pa. per of the foregoing title, has been for some time pospublislicdin Davidson county, in this State. It has just closed its third vol ume and a Prospectus has been issued by the Proprietors for a fourth volume. Sub. scription price, one dollar per annum in ad vance, or one dollar dnd fifty cents after six months, , Address J. Sherwood, at Lex ington, or W. P. Richards, at Browntown, N. C. The Advocato is published on a .'medium sheet in octavo form semi-monthly. V IoT the-last number, we see a commucica. t.on in which . the . writer, jt Mr5, Bindley; says that he das it from good o Minority, tliat Hp. thedraiftcd swiitnplaDj.athIower -ptirfof tlii4 Rfafft, wn hiinr!r6Jl ofid ihroe, bushels of corn were raised at onp crop, in ono season, on one aero of ground. . : raforinatlon wanted. -.Messrs Editors we live away out herein the far West near Rabon up near the foot of the great Mountain I'iekcn,sNoseli.cre we have not much advantage, save now and then a few spelling Books and a chance Dictionary we think :hey call Walkers. Its truo we huvo heard of tho famous state of Buncombe and her Divisions into Counties (viz) upper hogthief, lower hogthiof prom ise, fuir and never pay ond the capitol called Scroamersvillo. . But of kite wc sec n new word in tho news froir. that port called Ly. ccum w hich we do not so well understand we should like' to know if it is the name of a hew "county or the name of somo sort of society or talking parw or some new school politics or what sort of thing it is. Should it be good and, wc could understand it or git a glimpso, of the kind of Dictionary they have in Scrcariersvitle perhaps " we would come from this far west and Join you away over theira where you havo so much new things of so much importance and great things too, wMch we do not 'un derstand hero in this fur west being merely drove to rely upon our own limited means such as our spelling book and Dictionary which leaves us somewhat behind the news. Do ploase Messrs Editors explain tlio mys tery and confer a favor on a Tennessee Riverian. , Well now, Mr. Tennessee Riverian, you are as green as a- tobacco-worm in the middle, of dogdays. Have you not been trainpd under a ministry who thank God that they do not preach from their " lurnin," and boast that they never " rubbed their backs ogainst a college wall"? anJ though ignorant of what Lyceum is, would you not. undertake in on instant to tell with in fallible certainty what certain Greek words mean 1 But you aro " (drove merely to rely on your, own means." Truo enough and you are not the first animal that has been " drovo" in North Carolina, of late, by a long odds; nor are you the first that has brayo4-whileJdng.iiovcJLBuLsccJiejtl mister, analyse tho word pshaw, we for got that you would not know what analyze moans would you understand us if we were to tell you to divide it ? Perhaps not but we'll fix you ; tako it and tear it in three pieces now you understand us go lJ -T. lit' ' t 1 . .t . . aneaa nrsi, Lyfspeiis lie don l it: we ce spells see, and urn spells vm hence it's lie-sec-um, or, in language less poetic, see. um.lie. Arc you satisfied with that difini tion? If not. tako your dictionary and from it yoj will learn that Lyceum is nrr association of men for literary improve meht." lEcndcmou Judiciary Clique. Messbs. Editors: It is painful to wit ness the manifestation (in many persons,) of a hostile party spirit existing after so long d time. Ion't nx-an a poluicul party spirit, but a river, and a rood, or burnt woods spirit. ' The county is one, and tho people aro, or ought to be pne, os far ns tho interests of the county are at stake. But from old disputes, selfUh motives, and per sonal animosities, thero still remains strong resemblance of the cloveu foot, hvcry action, every appointment, every appropn. alion, every move, seems to bo watched and acted upoo with a jealous, sol fish eye, by one or the other parly. Every well dis posed citizen ought to endeavor to remove and allay all such feelings as far as possible But too often do mens prejudices, outrun their wits, and old grudges their belter sense ond natures. It wa3 well said by a great man when asked of what country he was a citizen, -when ho emphatically answered, " I am a citizen of the world.". So ought we to consider ourselves in a similar sense, citizens of Henderson county, and not of the river or road party.' But to the subject. Tlio manner of nppointiiig Magistrates in our State is in the aggregate very bod. We judge of the tree only by its fruits. ' And it will never be better, till there is some qual ification, some character, some pay institu ted for the still-born system. -There is, I believe, no rule laid down to legally bring a person for a Magistrate before the' As sembly for election. So their appointments arc as various as thMr talcnfs. .:' A public functionary under half pay or fixed fees can do, but when he gets nothing and finds him self, it is a slow .businessjori ..jho . roud of wealth. As for the honor, 1 leave that with ! those who have been promoted to n life in rrcntarro-of- Eso.mresmpr Our -Govern mcnt recognises tho voice of a majority of I nit: H--UJMI., rr iirrnnjr -II ua yivtu vuiuninri ly of by enactment) as superior to every other claim in her domestic affairs. When this is expressed inordinary cases for spc. cial local purposes, it should be kept and obeyed to the letter, as far as it was de signed.- Iliis was dono in more than one or two instances in pur county, during the astyear. Bat from the superior sagacity, :urc patriotism, disinterested zeal, and kiud foresight of a certain' number of the sares, patriots ond philanthropists of our county, this time honored custom was sur. rcptitiously broken in upon, its certificates destroyed, its voice hushed, its design covered, and iu end defeated. And an op. position line, secret in its operations, wrong in its principles, aristocratic in its designsJFra.nklio, there was forty-cight cases oi selfish in its motives and contemptible in its features, was gotten up and dispatched as the urim and thumim of the people's wishes. Now, as for the persons embodied In that famous recommendation, we have nothing to do, but with the manner of U origin wo have. A mere ppp-gun burst the bubble, and neither the clique; nor tho majority got their wishes. So mote it be. And so may that party of adjudicators learn' that the iurnpf y p,.;Bntff :' ing mco.W hundle4hot turna-lhis- county will not bo 'be lead- f hose for whom this is chieflv intended. will understand its drift, ond console them, selves by the fact that if they ore defeated in procuring on army - of packed squires, they havo a new supply of juvenile ex)oun ders ttl tho bar, who, no dvubt, will answer amueh bclier'porposo for tlii general good of the country. And notice is now given that allsilch manoeuvres will .bo-respectful, ly attended to,-ond -perhaps ncKt lime, I shalt firo an clarm gun before thj express starts. . ., Respectfully, yours &c. " ,, ' '' ro tbs McsenaEK. Messrs,, Editors : I w ish to suggest to the Whigs of tho 1st Congressional District of N. C, the propriety of holding a Conven tion in order to select a suitable candidate for Representative in the next Congress of thf. United Stutcs. If the proposition should find fqvor with the party generally, I would narrj$ Ashcvillve as a suitable placs, and Tuesday of Buncombe Superior Court, as the time for holdingthe Convention. With, out some such precautionary measure it is highly probable we shall have a plurality of caudidates-j-of ihe sano political luiih, an event not only calculated lo divide tho nctu- ' aj strength of tlie party, and thereby give an opposilioncandidate a double advantage, -but also to produce discord ani disgust nmon' tliJ Whigs and actually diminish their Strength in agRregate. How then arc the claims of tiioso who ' aspire to that stution, to be settled ! Every man constitutionally eligible, has an equul right to ask promotion ut the hands of his fullow-citizetw. But arc there not consi derationsof a lughercharacter which should cause him to relinquish that right (for tho time being) and submit" his claims first toa convention of his own political friends? and who that claims to bo a Whig and a patriot in principle that has been an olwcr. ver of the ruinous policy and reckless ad. ventures of modern Democracy, but will forego his own promotion or lay aside m individual preferences in order to promote . the general welfare of the country. Tho position of the Whig party is clearly de. fined, and the measures which we propose for the relief of the people, and as the set- J tied oolicv of tho eountrv are nrnminonllv - bufureuhe pcopLojuLlU evidently approved and sanc tioned by a ma- jority of them ; that majority has the right to require those principles to be acted out by our Representatives in Congress, and liu who will thrust himself unbidden, before the people, and exercise his talents and influ ence in n manner calculated to divide the majority and place the power in tho hamli of the minority, is not a truo Whig, is not devoted to the honor and prosperity of his country. Thenjet the people hold their primary meeting's ond appoint their dele gates, lot those delegates meet in a spirit of friendship and compromise, decide on tho most dvuilublo candidate, and let every true friend of his country's interest prepare himself, regardless of his personal prefer ences, to support the nominee. A VOTER. VORT1IK ME8SE.VUDR. Macon co., N. C, Feb. 2D, 1843. 3Iessrs. Editors: From your long ac quaintance with this county, I presume you have a tolerably correct view of it iu gen. Crul., You are well apprized that IhU is a tolerably good corn and gras growing county, the face of the country rasuch, inn it could be made one of tho most pleasint farming situations in tho mountain parts Tho fertilizing quality of tho soil, wjll w;ir. rant the improver, a bountiful harvest for every species, of improvement done right. I arn glad to see some of tlio fanners exert ing themselves to improve their fencing an! buildings, but most of all, their meadow lands, which, if cultivated, will add much to the improvement of stock, both in quali ty and number. . .,. Asto tho politics of tlio countrvvthey mz somewhat divided, but not as much warm debating as I hare, heard they all agree that something is wrong, ond the effects. . they say, wc all feel, but who is i.i the fault is not agreed. Each ono wishes the sin any where else but at his own door yet they all agree, my horse, my cow, my hog, my sheepris taken away for less than oik " third of its value ; I see many of my friends weep and mourn for the want of the neces saries of life, which yesterday they had plenty but to-day, it is nil gone. Has a friend dono it, oi an enemy? or havo we done the spoil ourselves ? This appears u be a matter of dispute among the people but ifmcnwould reason from cause lo effect, and from eflect to cause, perlmDsfhjajts-. tion Would bo noi loin'Tor n mvWr.rV lney mnttertflje at a very lowebb here 1 'I notwithstanding we live very near the iroldT 'i region. Very low men ore out of danger,' S. fc orxaajncct-their com ract.r Th" people of our county arc very much pressed, and our nation it.appears, is jioi exempts Who hath dono this evil T Has God, who is cood J' i or mo acvii, wno is comuinon f une or vwg other, is at the head of the mischief it sprang not up out of the dust without a cause judge ye who it was. Can a good ' produce an evil T or can an evil produce a ; good? Now the cause must be rr-movedor changed before the cflWt can cease - Who will commence the reform? As to health here, there has been thirty -six deaths of scarlet fever, in six weeks: four of what the people are pleased lo call winter fever; ono by the falling of a tree; one by a log rolling over him ; one by tlv falling of n limb; ono killed by a wnggonj In three miles square, five miles South o! Scarlet fever in ono week. Many of tr parents were hindered from the burial oy their children by the affliction of their fami ly. Oh! what a call to the living, to pre pare For the change. i ; Yours, rcspecsfuliy. ? ... -n t f 4 J 1 si 1 i-
Highland Messenger (Asheville, N.C.)
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