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"CHARACTER IS AS IMPORTANT TO STATES AS IT IS TO INDIVIDUALS; AND THE GLORY OF THE STATE IS THE COMMON PROPERTY OF ITS CITIZENS." H. L. HOLMES, Editor and Proprietor. TERMS t 50 per annum, if paid in advance ; S3 if paid at f the end of six months; or S3 50 at the expiration I f the vear Advertisements insetted at the rate I of sixty cents per square, for the first, and thirty I cents for each subsequent insertion 'tr-jLetters on business connected with this estab lishment, must be addressed H.L. H olm ks., Edi tor of the North-Carolinian, and in all cases post -paid. MISURIi Li A X ICO U S. 4 , n 6 From the Beauties of Washington Irving. ft. WET SUNDAY IN" A COUNTRY INN. It was a rainy Sunday, in the month of No vember. I had been detained, in the course of a journey; by a slight indisposition, from which I was recovering; but 1 was still fever- fish, and was obliged to keep within doors all day, in an inn o the small town ot Uerby. A wet Sunday in a country inn! whoever has had the luck to experience one, can alone udgeof my situation. The rain pattered against e casements; toe Dells tolled tor cntircn wan elancholy sound. I went to the windows in quest ot something to amuse the eye; but it seemed as if I had been placed completely tout of the reach of all amusement. The win- clows of my bed-room looking out among tiled k . i a u ' - .1 -i oots ana stac-KS oi cnimueys, wuue hioc ui ly sitting-room commanded a full view of the table-yard. I know of nothing more calcu- ted to make a mau sick ot this world than a table-yard on a rainy day. 1 ne place was ittered with wet straw that had been kicked bout by travellers and stable-boys. In one orner was a stagnant pool of water, surround- ng an island of muck; there were several alf-drowued fowls crowded together under a part, among which was a miserable crest-fal- ft 11 f 11 1 . leu cock, drenched out ot an lite anu spirit Jus drooping tail matted, as it were, luto a ingle feather, along which the water trickled "rom his back; near the cart was a halt-dozing ow, chewing the cud, and standing patiently ;o be rained on, with wreaths of vapours ris- ng from her reeking hide; a wall-eyed horse, red of the loneliness ot the stable, was pok- ng his spectral head out of a window, with he rain drinpins on it from the eaves: an un happy cur, chained to a dog-house hard by, ittered something every now and then, be- iveen a haik and a yelp; a drab of a kitchen each tramped backwards and forwards rough the yard in pattens, looking as sulky tbe weather t-J; euwy thing:, ru .short, was mfortless and forlorn, exceptiug. ciew or iard, drinking ducks, assembled like boon ompanions round a puddle, and making a Oiotous noise over their liquor. I was louely and listless, and wanted flniusement. My room soon became insup portable. I abandoned it, and sought what is technically called the travellers' room. This 5b a public room set apart at most inns for the Accommodation of a class of wayfarers, called travellers, or riders; a kind of commercial Knights errant, who are incessantly scouring he kingdom in gigs, on horseback, or by loach. They are the only successors that I Vnow of, at the present day, to the knights er-utofyore- They lead the same kind of living adventurous life, only changing the nce for a driving-whip, the buckler for a ' Wtern-card, and the coat of mail for an upper , lenjamiu. Instead of vindicating the charms - peerless beauty, they rove about, spreading he fame and standing of some substantial radesman, or manufacturer, and are ready at my tune to bargain in his name: it being the ash ion now-a-days to trade, instead of tight, vith one another. As the room of the hostel, p the good old fighting times, would be bung jouud at night with the armour of way-worn Yarriors, such as coats of mail, falchions, and Owning helmets; so the travellers' room is mriusnea wnn me naruessiug oi uieir ut- sors, with box coats, whips of all kinds, urs, gaiters, and oil cloth covered hats. I was in hopes ot rinding some ot these orthies to talk with, but was disappointed. "here were, indeed, two or three in the room; ut 1 could make nothing ot them. Une was st finishing breakfast, quarrelling with his ad and butter, and hurling the waiter; ano- r buttoned on a pair of cleau gaiters, with ny execrations of boots for not having eaned his shoes well; a third sat drumming the table with his fingers, and looking at e rain as it streamed down the window glass: iy all appeared iufected by the weather, and .v Wppeared one after the other, without ex- ( jauging a word. I sauntered to the window and stood gazing the people, picking their way to the chuich, petticoats noisiea m laieg nign, and dnp- ig umbrellas. The bell ceased to toll, and streets became silent. I then amused my- lf with watching the daughters of a trades- n opposite; who, being confined to the use for fear of wetting thoir Sunday finery, yed off their charms at the front windows, faciuate the chance teuauts ot the inn.- i .i ey at lengtn were summoned away by a egar-taced mother, and I had nothing tur- r from without to amuse me. What was I to do to pass away the long i aayj i was sadly nervous and lonely: every thing about an inn seems calculated make a dull day ten times duller nu vspapers, smelling of beer and tobacco take, and which I had already read half a en times. Good for nothiug books, that ire worse than rainy weather. I bored my- It to deatn with an old volume of the Lady's agazine. 1 read all the common-place " LM It ' mes oi araumous travellers scrawled on the ns of glass; the eternal families of the iths and the Browns, and the JacWns d the Johnsons, and all the other suns: and deciphered several scraps of fatiguing inn- window poetry, which I have met with in parts of the world. I he day coutmued lownng and gloomy: the slovenly, ragged, spongy clouds drifted there was no variety even in the rain; it was one dull, continued, monoto nous patter patter patter, excepting that now and then I was enlivened by the idea of a brisk shower, from the rattling of the drops - , it r upon a passing umoreua. It was quite refreshing (if I maybe allowed a hackneyed phrase of the day,) when, in the course of the morning, a horn blew, and a stage coach whirled through the street, with outside passengers stuck all over it, cowering under cotton umbrellas, and seethed together, and reeking with the streams of wet box-coats and upper Benjamins. The sound brought out from their lurking ing places a crew of vagabond boys, and va gabond dogs, and the carroty-headed hostler and that non-descript animal yciepted boots, and all the other vagabond race, that infest the purlieus of an inn; but the bustle was transcient; the coach agaiu whirled oil its way: aud boy and dog, hostler a d boots, all slunk back again to their holes; the street agaiu became silent, and the rain continued to rai:i on. In fact, there was no hope of its clearing up, the barometer pointed to rainy weather; mine hostess's tortoise shell cat sat by the fire washing her face, and rubbing her paws over her ears; and, on referriug to the Almanac, I found a doleful prediction stretch ing from the top of the page to the bottom through the whole month, "expect much min about this time!" FAYETTEVILLE, SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1839. POLITICS OF THK DAY. VOL,. -NO. 15. his first appearance in tins form before the public. The author, if we are not greatly mistaken, has already attained a high place in the legal and political world, and by the interesting story which he has so eloquently told in which he has interwoven the cha racter and customs of the aborigines of the southern forests bids fair to gain additional reputation in another field. The new novel contains much to recommend it to the atten tion ot those who are fond of fictitious positions illustrative of American life. Pennsylvanian. com- AaroN Dunn. Small in person, but re maikahly well-formed, with an eye as quick and brilliant as an eagles, and a brow furrow ed by care far more than time, he seemed ve ry different from the arch-traitor and murderer, I had been accustomed to consider him. His voice was one of the finest I ever beard, aud the skill with which he modulated it, the va riety of its tones, and the melody of its ca dences, were inimitable. But there was one peculiarity about him, that reminded me of the depth of tlaikuess whi h lay beneath that fair surface. You will smile when I tell you, that the only thing I disliked was his step. He glided ralher than walked; his foot has that quiet stealthy movement, which involuntarily makes one think of treachery, and, in the course of a long life, I have uever met with a frank aud hjuorahle man to whom such a etep was habitual. Ladies' Companion. THINGS IN GENEUAL. A line of balloous, it is said, will shortly be established by Mr. Green, between Chelten ham and Loudon. It was rumored hostilities had actually commenced between the Sultan and Egypt. Don Miguel, Ex-King of Portugal, has been attacked in Italy by brigands. It is a wouder they did not recognize their old companion! The canal receipts at Albany during the first ten days of navigation were this year $32,465; last year, 19,38 3. Increase $12,570, or about 64 per cent- The corn and cottou crops in the northern pait of Mississippi are represented to be in a prosperous condition. The planters in that section anticipate a larger crop this season than they have had for several years. The Rev. D. Osgod, of Springfield, Mass. has followed to the tomb li LO of his people; baptised 7 or SoO; aud united over 500 couple IVtslern Sleamboais.-The Louisville Price Current of the 20th ult. states that the whole number of steamboats enrolled on the West ern waters up to that date, was 37S. Oi these, 13 J were built at Pittsburg; S3 at Cin cinnati, 22 at Wheeling. JVeiP IVhig Defin'tion. Proscription, to remove a mau from office after holding it for twenty years. Woman's Influence.--The following beautiful passage is from an oration recently delivered by Judge Reid, of Florida: "On you, fair daughters of my country, will mainly depend the character and fortunes of the new State. Your smiles and your beauties are the roses that border and bloom along the path of human life. They cheer aud comfort the soldier in the battle field the sailor on the bounding billow the sage in the deep reces ses of the closet. W hen you approve, virtue becomes more bright, serene and beautilul; when you disapprove, vice assumes a more dark and hideous aspect. It is to your eyes the first looks of childhood are directed in search of affection; from your lips the first the tiixt lemon m vMir kue, aud manhood follows where you point the way. Exert, then, all vour influence; scatter wide the blessings vou have the power to bestow. Speak the words of instruction and encouragement, dic tated by your own pure hearts, and the State of Florida the new State will be made free, orosperous and happy, by the graces and vir tues of her daughters, and the incorruptible integrity of her sous." Washington was a county surveyor-Frank lin a journeyman printer Gen. Greene a blacksmith Roger Sherman a shoe maker. Princes may make kings, but all the kings in the world cannot make a Washington or a Franklin. "FEDERAL WHIG PROFLIGACY." The editor of the Evening Journal atteinDts to get rid of the glaring profligacy of the late federal Common Council of the city of New xuin., m dispensing aims to the out door poor, by an affected regard for "the poor during the inclement season." Let us look again at the facts as they are presented in the statement made from the books ot the city Comptroller. In the months of October and November, 1S3S, embracing the period of the general election, the federal almshouse coram iss ioners ex pended "forthe re I ief of tut-door poor" the sum of $ 1 U,648: And during the "inclement season" of December and Janury following, the expenditures "for me reiiet ot out door poor" amounted only to $3,734, being less than for the two previous months by $6,914. Wras it the "inclemency" of October aud November, and a tender re gard for the poor, which operated on the alms house commissioners, or was it the general election which induced them to distribute three tunes as much of the people's money in those mouths as duriug the severe mouths of De cember and January? In bebruary, 1S39, five hundred and thirty- five dollars only were extorted by poverty, sickness and distress" from the tender hearted commissionrs of whiggery. whereas in the month ot March, immediately preceding the corporation election, their bowels of compas sion weie so strongly moved that they expend ed the large sum ot five thousand one hundred aud niuety-seven dollars. This must have Deen a very "inclement" month: But not so "inclement" to the commissioners themselves as the following mouth of April, when the peo ple came out in their strength, and had a reck oning with these profligate and unfaithful stewards. The gross profligacy of reporting eighty thousand out door paupers to cover the enor mous expenditures of the money of the peo ple, is apparent to every unprejudiced person who has looked at the operations of the feder al ahns-house commissioners: Aud yet the editor of the Evening Journal attempts toturu public attention from these shameful transac tions, by pretending that the whig aristocracy have a special regard for "the poor, the unfor tunate, aud the sick." The profligacy of the Common Council is only equalled by the hy- poyritMsvl ewut of ik. official orgiatL i n opiwt- thrirt patty. f. i h Vt a la I' n 4 r ifc r ief I W Ree. Dr. IVitherspoon. Letters from Co lumbia state that ill health has compelled the Rev. Dr. Witherspoon to resign his pastoral charge of the Church in that place, and that he will shortly return to his tormer residence iu North Carolina. Charleston Courier. Sardinia and the United States. The King of Sardinia has showu great wisdom in the liberal treaty he has just coucluded with the U. States. Not only all our owu prinlucts excepting salt, gunpowder, aud manufactured tobacco are admitted, but the produce of other countries exported from America. Our cot ton and tobacco will find a great market at Genoa for its transit from thence iuto the in terior of Germany. It is a singular fact that the first commercial treaty made by Sardinia is with America a land discovered by a Ge noese. Jin English Bank in .Veio York: The New York W hig says: "It is well understood that English capitalists are about to establish a bank iu this city. One of the Messrs. Jo seph, who failed in 1837, is spoken of as the agent, and from his popular maimers and well known integrity, a more judicious choice could not be made. This is a step which we are surprised was not taken before, as the rate of interest in England is only five per cent, may be deeiided on." f Quere. Has Web ster gone over to get the Attorney ship? PO KTICAL. From the West Indies. By the scooner Mazeppa, from Kingston, we have a tile of the Jamaica Despatch, to the 27th of April.- It gives a lamentable account ot matters and things in the islands, but affords no specific items of intelligence that could interest our readers. The staple of the matter contained in the papers, is abuse of Sir Lionel Smith, Lord Gleuelg and the Baptists, with dolorous complaints of the ruin, which it affirms is ra pidly falling upon the planters. If the Des patch may be taken as authority, it would seem that the dav cannot be far distant when the colored inhabitants will be the "party in pow er," in Jamaica, and the island become ano ther Hayti. The negroes are said to be rap idly acquiring property in the soil; and tne prosperity of the plauters is reprexeuted to be entirely .at their mercy. JV. York Commer cial Jidterlizer. Eoneguski b the litre of a novel recently from tbe press of Peter Force, Washington. It is from the pen of an American, who makes Perfection or as near as you can chrerhj come to it. Religion without bigotry zeal without fanaticism liberality without licen tiousness inquiry without scepticism." THE MOSaUI I O'S SONG. In the dreamy hour of ni ' .t I'll hii, Vhei t'i3 hu a i? hus'iiJ of tho weary fly, When the lamps are lit and the cuitai.is drewn, And sport on my wings till the morning dawn, In the festive hall, where all is joy, In the chamber hushed where the sleepers lie; In the garden bowsr whire ths p: i nross smiles, And the chirpia? cricket the htwr bsguilcs; - In t'uesc I'll sport through the summer night, And mortals to vex I'll bite, I'll bite. There's one I view with an evil eye; A flame of pride in his breast I spy; , He breathes in a lute with a master's skill, And listening soul ; the rich strain fill With the rapt ro s thrill of -.nelo-ty; But he carri s his hsad so haughtily, I'll play hi:n a trick in his happi.st swell, When the lingering trill with a tragic spell, Holds all entranced, I'll wing my fli ght, And pop on his nos3, and I'll bite, 111 bite. There's a poet, I know---in the still midnight He plies the pen by the taper's light, And wearied of earth, in a wo.U all his own, With fancy he rambles where flowers are strewn, Of fadt less hue, and he i nages there A creation of beauty in the pure still air. With the world around fro n his senss shut out, He hisds not ths buzz of my roual-ab ut; But when a new iaiage has broken oa his sight, Ere he gives it existence, I'll bite, 1 11 bite. And the 1 .ng-tourted v sioa shall vanish- while I, In a snug little comer, shall watch him, so shy As he thumps his brow in a burning rage. And dashes his pen o'er ths will fill'd page. I sse a young maid in her chamber napping, And I know that lovs at her heait is tapping; She dreams of a yo th, and smiles in bliss, As she pouts her lips to receive a kiss. But As shall not taste the gentla delight. For I'll light on her lips, and I II bite, I'll bite. DEUAT13 IN CONG It ESS. FROM XHE WET CMHA ARGUS. MR. CLAY AND GEORGIA. We discover iu the "Standard of the Uni on" a letter over the siguature of "A Georgia Democrat" addressed to the Hon. Henry Clay. It is well written, and should be pre sented to our reauers at lengtn, did space permit. It indicates we apprehend, the true state of political feeling in Georgia. It states to Mr. Clay his object to "deal candidly" with him, and place him iu possession of the state of his prospects iu that State. That in no eveut can he be benefited by the vote of the State; that if a ('lay ticket is run, it will be defeated, and if a third candidate is pre sented, he will not be considered in the race by a large majority of the people. That no support will be given to him by the Union Democratic Party, and that there are thousands iu the W hig ranks, who will disdain the tram mels of party, and preserve their own princi ples by opposing his election! 'I hat they are State Rights men he a Consolidation ist; that they advocate a strict constiuctiou of the Con stitution but that he claims under it the ex ercise of every power which Congress may deem necessary and proper. T" t they op pose a Tariff for protection as unjust, uncon stitutional aud oppressive while he has ever been the champion of a protective tariff, and only voted for the compromise, as he himself declared in the Senate of the United States, to save the necks of a ceitain portion of Southern citizens the Nullifiers from the halter. That they are opposed to the national Bank, and to works of iuterual improvement by the General Government while he is first and foremost iu maintaining them. That they are opposed to the reception and discus siou of Abolition petitions while he, judging from his words and actious iu the United States Senate, is in favor of both. The writer also charges upon Mr. Clay bitter hostility to the interests of Georgia for that iu an early stage of the controversy he took sides with the Cherokee Indians against the rights of Geor gia, and coutiuued his bitteruess until they were fiually removed by the iudefa'tigable ex ertions of the past and present Administra tions. The writer emphatically asks Mr. Clay, what he has doue in his entire political career, to entitle himself to the confidence and support of Georgia? Whether he can expect her vote, when he reflects, that when Secretary of State under Mr. Adams, he sustained the Administration in its efforts to annul the treaty of 1S25 with the Creeks, aud to deprive the people of Georgia of the possession and en joyment of the territory thereby acquired? He asks, if it is thought that a people insulted by au Administration of which he was the master-spirit can soon forget the wrong aud the wrong-doers? Can Mr. Clay entertain the thought of obtaining the voto of the Soulh? such belief cannot be based upon identity of principle, but only on the delusive hope, that personal dislike of Mr. Van Buren will drive the Whig States Rights Southerner to compro mit his principles. But we entertain confi dence, that passion and prejudice will be sub dued by reason. B'limtre Port O R-eVhe rppofatment of Mr. Vansant has been well received by all parties in this city.--Bait. Port. SPEECH OF MR. BENTON, Op Missouri. In Senate, Friday January 4, 1839 On the graauation Dill, and in reply to H. Clay's attacks Upon Gen. Jackson. Mr. BENTON rose, in consenuenrn nf the endless attacks made upon an eminent citizen, now retired from public life, and seek ing repose under bis own viae, and bv the side of his own fire, but for whom, it would seem, there was to be no peace on this side of the erave. He alluded to the lat President of the United States, General Jackson, and to the repeated instances iu which his name had been dragged into this debate, and tyran ny and mischief attributed to him for his con duct in relation to the act for the distribution of the proceeds of the public lands. That conduct had been denounced as tyrannical 1 A?A I anu uucouMuuuonai, ana to u naa Deen at tributed all the late moneyed embarrassments of thh country. The Senator from Kentucky, (Mr. Clay,) is the author of these denuncia tions, also the author of bills, for there were two of them, the loss of which he so much de plores, and for the want of which he has seen so much evil arise. I, said Mr. B. was the cotemporary of these bills. I knew their char acter and their fate; I saw their birth and their death, and great and numerous as are the acts which stamp the character of a hero-statesman on Gcueral Jackson, there are none which exalt him more thau his conduct in relation to these very bills. It was wise, patriotic, con stitutional and heroic conduct. He had the wisdom to see the pernicious nature of these bills; he had the constitutional right to arrest them; and he had the heroism to exercise that right. The bills were of the most seductive character, they were calculated to seduce all unreflecting minds; for they proposed a dis tribution, among tne people, ot near sixty or seventy millions of dollars. The distribution would have left the Treasury bare would hove bankrupted the deposite banks might have debauched the States would have compelled a resort to loans or a new tariff aud woul have set the fatal example of lavishing the public money, and the public property, upon the people, oa the eve of the Presidential elec tions. The first bill passed the two Houses in 1 832, just before the Presidential election, and so near the end of the, session ot Con t Prcsideut had but a few hours, instead of the ten days which the Constitution auoweu nirn, io examine us provisions, make up his mind upon it, aud to return it to the Senate with his objections in writiuir, disapproved by him. It was retained by him the teu days, as he had a clear constitutional right to do; Congress did not think proper to prolong its session to cover those ten days, as it might have doue; for it was the session whose duration was not limited by the Con stitution aud the two Houses having adjourn ed, he retained the bill until the next session, and then returned it to the House in which it originated with his objections to it. 1 his was the reguiar course prescribed by the Constitu tion, and thanks to the spirit aud intelligence of the people, it was the course sanctioned and approved by them. Instead of being excited against the patriot President by an affected outcry against "pocketing bills," uiid by a per ccpita calculation ot the money each voter had lost, so ostentatiously paraded before their eyes instead of being excited against General Jackson by those means, a:id made to cast their votes against him, the highminded peo ple of our America approved his conduct, and testified their approbation in tbe distinguished honor of the second election. This was the fate of the first bill. It was to have taken the whole proceeds of the sales of the public lands for five years the years 1833, '34.r-'35. '36. '37 and divided them among the States, leaving the Treasury entirely dependent upon the custom-house duties for hs support, which many then saw aud experiei.ee has since proved, would be wholly inadequate without a resort to a new tariff, loans, or Treasury notes, to defray the ordinary expenses of the Gov ernment! , The second bill was a duplicate of the first, but for years its junior in point of time: it did not come on until the approach of the Presi dential election : in 1836, but was made to cover the same number of years, and the same identical years, which were covered by the first one. To do this, it was necessaiy io make this second bill ret roact make it reach back, aud exact from the Treasury so much money as the first bill would have taken out of it up "to that time, aud then for as many years as would complete the original five. In fact, it was the same bill, in evejy paiticular, with the superaddition of the signal aggava tiou of being retroactive, and getting hold of three years' teveuue from the lands for a grand distribution on the eve of the approaching Presidential electiou. This was the charac ter of the second bill; and this character is too important and too necessary to be understood by the people for their knowledge of it to rest upon description. They must see it! They must see the thing itself, and know of their own knowledge what it was that fell, for fall it did, before the stern resolve of GerP. Jack sou; and the loss of which is uow deplored as a uatfonal calamity. The people must see it; aud here it is in the book of tbe bills of the Senate, which I have this moment sent a mes senger to bring me from the office of the Sec retary. It is entitled "An act to divide among the States, for a limited time, the proceeds of the sales of the public lands," &c.; and the si-mature of the then Secret try of the Senate. Walter Lovme, Esq. attests that it passed this body on the 12th day of May, 1S36. I read from the third and fourth sections, which shows the parts which are material to the pres.' ent inquiry. , "Sec. 3. And be ft further enacted: That the several sums of money received in the t reasury as the nett proceeds of the sales of he public lands for the years eighteen hun dred and thirty-three, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, and eighteen hundred aud thirty five, shall be paid and distributed as aforesaid, affile Treasury of the United States, one fourth part on the first day of July eurhteen hundred and thirty-six, and one-fourth part at me ena or eacn ninety aays thereafter, until the whole is paid; and those which shall be 1 t 1 f ! -- "... . - .... receiveu lur me years eignieeu hundred and tniny-six ana eighteen hundred and thirty seven, shall also be paid at the Treasury half yearly, on the hrst day of July and January, iu each of those years, to such person or ner- sohs as the .respective Legislatures of the said States shall authorize and direct to re ceive the same.' - , Sec. 4. And be ft further enacted. That this act shall continue and be in force until the thirty- first day of December; one thou sand eight hundred and thirty-seven, unless the United states shall become involved in war with any foreign power, in which event. from the commencement of hostilities, this act shall cease, and be no longer in force." 1 bese ate the sections of the act of 1836 the act which sunk before the firm resolve of President Jackson -sunk before his resolve! for it died under his known opinion in re spect to it and without having reached his hand. It was the copy of the one which he had retained, and which he had returned with his objections. It was known to be useless to send it to him unless there was a majority of two-thirds for it in each House. Such a majority could not be conciliated; and the bill, after becoming an act of the Senate, died out in the House of Representatives, and was succeeded by another act in the Senate to ac complish a part of its purpose; namely, the bill to distribute, under the name of a deposite, thirty-six millions of the public moneys among the States. 1 his latter became a law; it was only about one-half the magnitude of its pre decessor and progenitor, the five years' land revenue distribution bill. It was only half the magnitude of that bill; but the one-half of it, even, was enough to crush the great depos ite banks. , I was one of fcwfrtio opposed all three of these bill? and especially I-opposed the one from' which two sections Kvejust been read, and tor the loss of which General Jackson has been so inconsistently denounced on this floor, and for the want of which so many evils have been asserted to have arisen. I join is sue upon these assertions. I denounce this bill now, as I did wheu ft was on its passage, as a bill that would have - bankrupted the de posite hanks,' and bankrupted the Treasury, and laid the Government under the necessity of reviving the tariff, or borrowing money to defray its ordinary daily and current expen ses. These were my declarations then when the bill was on its passage in May, 1836; and I expressed myself with such earnestness with respect to the danger to the banks and the Treasury, that a member of the Senate and a fiieud now present, suggested that they would alaim the country if published as de livered; and, in consequence, the speech was hut partially a :.d impeifectly reported. The bill died ia the House of Representatives; ft never became a law; I was satisfied, and should never have troubled the Senate and the country with a revival of the subject, had it hot been now revived by the author of tbe bill, for the purpose of attributing to it a vast merit, aud tor the purpose of reiterating upon General Jackson an oft-repeated denuncia tion. The defuuet bill is resuscitated by its author i esusciated to calm our sympathies, as a measure of beneficence to the country, and to excite our resentment against General Jackson, as the destroyer of so fine a mea sure! Revived, resusciated, dug tip from its grave iu this man tier, and for these purposes, it becomes a legitimate subject for parliamen tary animadversion; and I mean to advert up on it freely, closely, and truly, that the countiy may not only see what it is they are called r.p on to regret, and to censure General Jackson for destroying, but also to enable all men who are of "sound mind and memory" to judge for themselves what this country would come to if its destinies were in the hands of the friends and supporters of stich a bill! I now address myself to the candor and in telligence of all parties, in this chamber and out of it, and invoke their attention, and the decision of their minds, on the case which will be presented. The bill, in its third sec tion, provides first for the distribution of the money which had been received from the sales of the public lands for the three preceding years, and which money had already, in great part, been expended by the Government! It ordered the amounts received from the lands iu the years 1833 '34, and '35, to be divided out; the division to commence on the first day of July next ensuing, and to be accom plished in four instalments, at ninety days apart. This was one clause of the bill, and the amount on which it would have operated was $23,582,882, that is to say, the sum of $3,967,682, for 1833; the sum of $4,857,600 for 1834; and the sum of $14,757,460 for 1835. This would have made the sum of nearly six millions, in round numbers, paya ble out of the Treasury at intervals of ninety days; to wit, on the first days of July, October, January, and April. The whole sum of twenty-three millions and a half would have beda payable in the short space of about nine months and that in addition to thirty-one muV lions which would be required for the service of the Government during the same year. Sto
The North Carolinian (Wilson, N.C.)
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June 8, 1839, edition 1
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