"CHARACTER IS A3 IMPORTANT TO STATES AS IT IS TO INDIVIDUALS; AND THE GLORY OF THE STATE IS THE COMMON PROPERTY OF ITS' CITIZENS."
H. Li. HO tMES, Editor and Proprietor.
FAYETTEVILLE, SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1839.
VOL.. 1 . NO. 26.
; - - TERMS.
2 50 per annum, if paid in advance ; S3 if paid at
the end of six months ; or 93 50 at the expiration
of the year. Advertisements inserted at the rate
of sixty cents per square, for the first, and thirty
cents for each subsequent insertion. .
JCJLiCtters on business connected with this estab
lishment, must be addressed H. L. Holmes, Edi
tor of the North-Carolinian, and in all cases post
paid. SPRING GOODS.
E hav received and are now opening
our Spring suppl v.which comprises a large
and extensive afsoitfiient uf
Dry Goods, Hardware and. Cutle
ry, Iioots and -Shoes, Leghorn and Tuscan Bon
netsuFu'V VVool anrt Palm Leaf Hats, Yriti-r J
Wrapping Paper, Cotton and Wool Cards, D.-ugs
and Medicines, Paints, &c.
Also, Groceries, &c.
60 bags Rio and Lajruira Coffee. f
10 hhds. New Orleans and Porto Rico Sugars
125 casks Nails t
00 pair Bright Traces
12 qr. casks Malaga and Mad. ira Wine '
100 dozen Weed in 5 Hoes
25 do Patent and Dutch Scythes ,
5 hhds. Crckery
30 box-'S Window Glass ' -
10 do Collins' and King's Axp.,
Which we ofH-r at Wholesale, at a small advance
for cash, or on time to punctual customers.
KOTT &. STARR.
FayeUeville, April G, 13"3. 6-tf
NEW GOODS.
"E are m.w recrivinjr a Itnridsnm and well
pelertPil stock of tarl-s fi".l Fnncv D v
Goods, HATS, SIIOE-5 and BONNETS, which
we offer Jo".v (or cash, or o:i time to punctual ci:s
tomers. IT. & E. J. LILLY.
N. B. Wo cxci to remove (aho :t tli middle
of August.) to slore formerly occupied by Mr.
H. I'. Peck, adjoining tUe store of .Messrs. Nott &
Starr.
H. &. E. J. LILLY.
July 6, 1830. 13 4t.
THE
ETorili 1 a roll iri an
PUBLISHED IX FAVETTEVILLE,
BY II. L. HOLMES,
Has nearly donhl-.v! its suhst.-riptiori list (amount ins
now to EIGH T liu N I )it i) within the first three
months. It will continuo to support t'n? Administra
tion of the Genorv.' Government, so lonsr cs Air. Van
Paren adheres to tlio Drnmcrut it
i.L piiolican coiii sf,
ptli sued as I'resi-
whicti he has so far, consiston
dent.
TERMS. Two Dollars and Fifty Cents per ann.
if paid in advance; Three Dollars at the end of Six
Alonthsf or Three Dollnra anil fitly Cents tit (Jo ci
piration of the year.
III
Hhds. Prime Petto Rico Sugar,
5 Hhds. N. O. do.
iO Cas s ,'' Tho-nastown Lime,
SO Hhds. Molasses, .
5 Barrels N. O. do.
20 Boxes Ear Soap.
1 Hi i Sacks Blown Salt,
2 Boxes Fayettcviilj ifould Can 'les,
1 i Boxes Smoked Kerrins-s,
For Sale bv GEO. McNEILL.
June !5. " lfitf.
FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD.;
RAN OFF, on Saturday the 2nd
of June, , from Columbia, South
Carolina, my negro man FRANK,
He is a bright mulatto, with thick
bushy hair, a few grey hairs inter
spersed, grey eyesV blood shotten,
with a down cast look when spo
ken to. - He is about five feet
eight or ten inches hirh, and about
35 or 40 years of age. The reward of fifty dollars
will be paid for his delivery : to me, at Columbia,
fcouth Carolina; or in any jail eo that I can get him
again.
July 6, 1839.
JOHN SINGLETON.
19-4t.
AVE Ju-t rucntveef a la-e assortment" ot
Anker Boltm.- OlOTTisr Which n be sold
cheap. Ai ril lf. 1S3D.
POLITICAL.
Rockingliam Female
institute.
f ElHE undersigned take this method of oxores-
S sing the pleasure they deiivcd, in witnessing'
the performances of the scholars of this Institution,
at the public examination, on the 13th ult. Althoueh
they were suhj ?ctcd to a thorough and most rigid
examination upon the various branches of their re
spective studies, which was well calculated to (est
the system pursued in this institute; yet the prompt
ness and precission with which they answered and
explained all questions propounded cleaily evinced
that that system but too common of late, of impart
ine a superficial and parrot-like knowledge of he
difi:rent branches of study, and hurrying- the pupils
along, to use a familiar phrase without leading the n
into uie "why and the waereiore, ' has no plai
Mrs. Green s school.
The specimens of was and ornamc
in
tal works sub
mitted to the committee, were xquisitdv fii?. and
the perfor nances in n usic, upon the Guitar and
Piano forte, plainly indicate that the true principles
of music and t e art of i parting instruction, are
well understood by the worthy teacher of tHs school.
Upon the whole, theco r itt"e say thct thev nev
er witntssjd an txamintli m with so it t ch pleasure,
and which reflected more credit epen the head of the
Institution.
c. rum.yso.y,
J jv. cut 7.w ; r.v,
J.iMES. P. LEAK, yCommlli
I VJ1 L 1 , It L : l. tlJiK,
JOII.Y IV. LEAK.
fV.M. ti. COLE.
Mr. Robins n one of the co ..mittse, was absent
at the examination.
July 6 8 9. ' . i;-2t
ft?
VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE.
THE plantation on the C.-pe Fear River, re
c ntly owned and cultivated hy John M. D h
bin, Dic'd. better known as th'N rthm ;ton Ferrv
plantation" Eiibrnc.ii:g in : 1' aiv.ui 2260 iicres--much
of it in a hthstulo of cultivatio'i. a::d vv-ll
fenced, h balance well timherod with Oak, Hi kg
ry an Pine. It ha3 on it two comfortn!e dwi'l
hngH.jusos and other convenient outbuildings,
fine water, streams on which are now standi ig n
indl anl Gin House. The Ferrv is also included
and bein? on the best road to Chape I Hill and
Hillsborough, with but little attention niirht be
profitable property. D.stancc from FavfUeville
about 32 miles. Capital ites for Cotton Factories.
The plantation is su.sctptihl!" of a division into two
or three parts, which would bo made to. suit pur
chasers. If ths above property cannot be sold at
private sale before the ensuing Fail it will then on
lurther notice be dixposed of at public sale. Per
sons residing in the b,w country and others desi
rous of purchases a healthy sit-iation and valua
ble plantation -would do well to examine it. For
further particulars apply to, ?
Julv6,l839. -MESaDOBBUVr. ;
, FROM THE GLOBE.
THE MONORCHIA J, PRINCIPLE AP
PLIED TO THE BANKING SYS
TEM BY THE FEDERAL PARTY.
liEcei-y banking insli ulion now acts for
itself, ami only xeiih a view to promote its
own interest and safety."
Such is ihe language of ihe New York
Express, one of the leading journals, whose
groat object is to impress upou'the people the
necessity of a Bank of the United States.
The inference it draws from this state of
things is, that these banks must have a mas
ter to control the individual selfishness by
which thry are actuated. That master is a
great institution. linked iu with the powers of
the Genera! Government, and wielding a cap
ital so pt tent in its concentrated eneigies, as
to-curb the individual and grasping propensi
ties of the nine hundred paper miUs which are
now grinding the country into bran; undermining-
every vestige of security in commer
cial operations; rendering the occupations of
men the sport of their policy and interests;
and distracting the people of the United States
from one end to the other, by combinations
for monopoly, or conflicts among themselves.
Some are struggling for inordinate gains,
others for existence; and as in all other wars,
the people are the sacrifice.
And what is the Federal panacea for all
these ciyiug evils? A great National Bank
a master, who will concentrate or control all
these conflicting interests, aud out a Kr
Into the months of these hungry squabblers.
What is this but the great principle of abso
lute despotism brought to bear upon us in a
new disguise? Is there any one so destitute
of the power of tracing effects to their causes,
as not to see that such an institution would be
a despotism of the most mercenary, mean, and
despicable character a moneyed despotism,
concentrated iu one institution, governed by
one man, and superceding that of the oUgar-
fhv of hanks which the Express accuses of
acting solely with "a view to promote its own
interest and safety?" According to this wri
ter, it has come to another '-battle of the spurs,"
and suites ui pcul is the universal cry of the
banks.
Is it, then, come to this? Has the Federal
system at length brought us to that state of pe
cuniary disorganization, that dissolution of
! ihe elements ol society, wbicu cau oniy be et-
fectualiy remedied by the people corning to
gether and choosing a tyrant to reigu over
them! Is IhH tiie condition to wrucn we nave
been brought by the policy of the party which
claims to have monopolised not only the
wealth, but the wisdom and virtue ot the na
Hon: iotning, it seems, will now save us
but a master, whose merits are to be estima
ted by the weiuht of his purse; and thus, i.t
effect, the people are to be put up to sale, and
knocked down to the highest bidder. Atter
lapse of little more than half a century, we are
culled u:ion to sell ourselves to one Coesar,
older to escape the petty, vexatious, and har
rassing oppressions of a multitude of tyrants.
Has ilc-ome to the question whether it is bet
ter to be crushed by one millstone, or pound
ed to death in mortars?
This is no idle declamation, but a direct,
inevitable dedu- tiou fsom the Federal do ti ine
of necessity the necessity of a Nationa
I i . . ..
1U.iK. - , XI SeCtlia UljJIB IS uuw u. power tit
the Ge.ieral or State Governments to re.-traL
oruni.-h the excesses, or reform the abuses
of the dyua.-ty, not of "the thiity," but the
ni.ie hn. idied tyiaists, who .-now .rule our des
tinies by the magic of thir paper - wands.
Their influence has become so nll-pei vading
aud pjwtirliil, accord ug to the advocates ot a
National Bank, that the General and State
Governments want either the power or the
will to contiol them. We must, therefore.
call to our aid a power more potent than either
that is to say, a power greater than the people
have ever before entrusted to their legitimate
rules. . Is it not so.' Is not this the iuevita
hie" inference? ' ,f - t . .
. He will admit, if you please, for the ' sake
merely of argument, that this despot would be
strong enough to reduce the eight ur nine hun
died little tyrants to obedience, and restrain
their selfishness within tolerable bounds. But
this is not going quite far enough for our pur
Dose. Who is to restrain the selfishness of
the crreat despot itself? It will be, after all
but a moneyed despotism, having precisely the
same interested selfishness for us basis, and
o-overned by the same passions. Tts "conn
sellors will be but men after all moneymak
iog, money-loviug men irresponsible to the
people and above the laws. For, who is to
govern them? The power of the General and
otate iovernments, it we taRef me great ar
gument in favor of a National Bank, is in
S!ifFicisnt,to manage the very institutions
which the great Bank is intended express! y to
restrain; and . how cau these Governments,
separate, or even united, expect to' curb that
stronger influence, when the weaker ones
placed them at defiance?
The great National Bank will be the roas
ter of the people and their Government, or it
will be too weak to achieve the miracle for
which it is expressly to be created. It may,
and doubtless will, be restrained by chartered
limits, in order to render the pill more palata
ble. It will be forbidden this, and forbidden
that; it will be subjected to the examination of
members of Congress who owe it money, and
made liable to a forfeiture for an abuse or ex
cess of its privileges by the very legislative
power which it holds tributary, n6t by the
sword, but the purse. It is useless to talk
about restraining an institution expressly crea
ted to do what, according to the writer iu the
Express and die Bank orators in Congress, is
out of the power of any or all the existing au
thorities to do at this moment.
In self-defeuce, and for the purpose of exe
cuting the ordinary functions of Government,
the General Administration must crouch to, or
conciliate this Bank despot, or it must become
its ally a tsd helpmate, or ,its master. The
atter is impossible; for it cannot, says the
Express and its associates, control the lesser
power. J low, tnen, can it control the great
er? Thus the people aud their Government
will be surrendered into the hands of a great
concentrated power, and the future policy of
the country be consecrated exclusively to the
.jams of the Lank and the mysteries of bro
kers. The national honor will be estimated
y the price of stocks, and the national pros
perity by that of those who gamble in them.
ihe people otthe United States will have no !
influence over such an institution, for they
have no money to invest in its stock, and no
oice in the choice of directors; ttieir Govern
ment will be little else than the slave of aboard
f directors.
Is not this hlicer despotism, in the disguise
of a Bank charter? Is it not a full recogni
tion of the monarchical principle in its broad
est latitude, to all intents and purposes? Iu
le firM place we are to have a . tyrant to re
train, not trie, excesses of a people incapable
of self restraint, but ofafow thousand manu
facturers of paper .money. "We, the people,"
must, it seems, put the bit into our mouth and
the ring in our uose for what, and where
fore,? Simply beoouee M;Ht or nine hundred
lesser hanks, in which uinety-nine hundredths
of . mm TbjMvt xt.a.jarjjr.Ie of direct personal. in
terest, and over which we arc not permiifea
to exercise any coutrol, cannot be kept in
order. For this we are called upon to piace
master over the Government ol our choice,
and chain it forever to the behests ot a great
moneyed power? For this, we must, as a
matter of stern necessity, sacrifice our birtn-
right, and submit to the worst ot tyrannies a
sordid, despicable PAPER money dynasty.
f" we analyze the bederal policy, we snail see
that whatever form it may assume, or whatev
er disguise it may wear, the better to approacn
and undermine the citadel of liberty, "to this
complexion it wilt come at last." It ends in
consolidation, and is now at work preparing
the way for a consolidation of the money
power, of all others the most men, interested,
and insatiable. Ihe despotism or genius ai
least briwhtens1 the fetters of slavery: the des
potism of the sword calls into activity many
of the highest qualities of our nature; but the
despotism of money is the grave ot all mat
ennobles a nation.
We scout and scorn this slavish doctrine,
that the stupendous evils of a phrenzied credit
system can only be restrained by the creation
of a bank despot. They are "already in the
process of cure; they are curing themselves,
as we say when those great causes, predesti
ned and set in motion by the will ot frovi-
dence alone, are beginning to operate. W e
mean the common sense of mankind, guided
by an experience which never leads them
astray. Already a conviction is settling deep
into the minds of the people of the U. States,
of all classes except one the speculating fry
that great, if not irremediable, evils have
flowed, and are still flowing, with an increas
i.ijr cu:reut. from the abuse of a system, which
caTries withi :i itself an irrepressible tendency
I0nl)uc nud excess. Men of all ra. ks aud
degrees, except this one, begin f sicken at
the baseless, bottomless fahiic of ideal 'pros
perity, whu h has for years been cheating them
i;. to dreams of bouudles wealth. They are
wearied and worn nut by those harassing vl
cissdudes, those multiplied ai.d innumerable
Uiiceitaiuties, which have been added to the
natural and inevitable mutability of all created
things, and loig for the repose, net of a bank
despotism, but of freedom from bank abases.
The co victiou is strengthening every da.V
every hour, every momeut, that the abuse of
the "credit system," as it is called, is the niost
deadly enemy to the morals, industry," econo
my, and prospeiity of nations and individuals,
that ever was devised by cunning beggars to
cheat the honest, prudent, aud industrious, out
of the earnings of their lahor, A little, while,
and this convicliou, . operating on the good
sense, the iutegi ity aud the interests ot the
people who are the sovereign here, as yet,
and until they surrender that sovereignty to a
National Bank a little while,"and they
themselves, aided by an Administration faith
ful to their purposes, remedy the evils of an
excessive and abused system of banking, h3'
enforcing on erring or degenerate legislators,
a great and radical reform. They want no
despot bauk to chain them down under prc
teuce oF, keeping others quietj They,. will
never consent to become a second time sacri
fices to atone for offences of wfiich they have
themselves been the victims already. That
glonous common sense that sure and divine
instinct of justice, which. Providence hath im
planted in all human beings as an unerring
guide that innate consciousness of right and
wrong, which, like the star of the mariner, al
ways occupies the same place in the heavens
will guide them to the haven of rest as
surely as the needle points to the pole. They
will never put the bit in their own mouths to
prevent others from running away. '
The cure will be brought about calmly,
peaceably, cautiously, and without violence or
precipitation. . The people of tie U. States
arc not destructives. Their patience has been
well tried of late. There is not a citizen
among them who has not his stake in the
community, in his personal property or per
sonal rights; and which of them all does not
know that obedience to the laws is the safe
guard of that property and those rights? They
wish to reform, not to destroy. By ihe same
means they have lost a portion of their equal
rights, will they recover them. What they
have been deprived of by partial, they will re
gain by general legislation; and the same
power which committed the fault, will be in
voked to make atonement. The feais, real
or pretended, for ke safety of property, are
totally destitute of foundation as respects the
action of the people. Nine-leuths of them
have property themselves, and will unite in
its defence, should it ever be assailed, lhey
are doing so at this moment. lhey are
arousing themselves, and shaking their manes
at the encroachments of the great paper sys
tem, the most fatal and deadly enemy to the
labor and real property of the country that ever
appeared. It has rendered the value of both,
the sport of monopolies, expansions, and con
tractions; it has destroyed the basis of all ra
tional calculation as to the wages of labor or
the price of the products of the land; it has
created artificial scarcity where the bounties
of Heaven were showered in the grea est
plenty; it has destroyed all confidence between
man and man; and, by a strange apparent
contradiction, produced indiscriminate credit
since, as its votaries never expect to pay,
they trust every body, upon the principle of
gaining impuaity, by doing as they would be
done by.
It is net property, but the gigantic spectre,
the em.ity bubble of property, its antagonist
principle, against which the people are array
ing themselves. The cry of hostility to pros-
- , FROM THE CHARLESTON COURIER.
Mr. Jaudon. The London correspon
dent of the New York Courier and Enquirer
holds the following language with reference to
Mr. Jaudon and his agency: : . .
"It may be important to explain the true cir
cumstances of the closing of the London
agency of the United States Bank, in reply to
a much distorted and entirely unfounded
statement which appeared in the city article of
.1. T I r,-. - -
uie j.onaon x imes, ot iUonday last, and
which will probably be seized upon with avi
flty for extract and comment, by the Ameri
can editors who are hostile to the interests of
the Bank.
In the Times it is represented that Mr.
Jaudon is about to wind up his agency aud
leave England, in consequence of the want
of success which has attended his mission in
this country; whereas, I am enabled to assert,
on the most unquestionable authority, that
Mr. Jaudon is certainly about to make prepa
rations for winding up his affairs and return
ing to the United States, in the ccyge of
sorne six months from the present time; but
the discontinuance of the special agency in
England has no connection whatsoever, with
such circumstances as are so falsely set for
ward by the Times for the mission of this
gentleman was never iutended to be perma
nent, but arose only out of the extraordinary
state of the money market succeeding the
panic of 1S36; and now Ihe business being
brought into satisfactory train, it is iutended
that the permauent agency of the Bank of the
United States is to return into the hands of
the eminent house of Baring Brothers, ft Co.
These are the plain circumstances of the case
i:i answer to tha malignant assertions of the
Times, against a geutleniau whose ability and
gentlemanly manners have procured for him
an influence iu the city of Loudon, which
shows how ably he has represented the Bank
of the United States.
pertty,
from lb
ty they can call their own who owe more
of public credulity, aided by a public necessi
ty, created by their own wilful policy. This
it is against which the people, under the ban
ner of a Democratic Administration, are wa
ging a war of self-defence. Their object is
uot to destroy, but reform; not to assail the
rights of property, but to protect them from a
system of legislation which filches away those
rights, to bostow them oil its bastard represen
tative. '
FROM THE EDENTON GAZETTE.
MR. CLAY'S GREAT REGULATOR.
The Federalists are clamoring loudly for a
National Bauk. They say that the wheels of
Government cannot be propelled without it;
that the country must be ruined without it as
a regulator, and then cite us to the old Bank
of the U. States. That was indeed a "regu
lator" i;i good earnest.
In the year 1830, the U. States Bank regu
lated fifty members of Congress by loaning
them $292,161.
In 1S31 it regulated fifty nine members by
loaning them $322,195.
In 1833 it regulated fifty two members by a
loan of $374,766.
In 1834 it regulated fifty two members by a
!oauof$288;5SG.
It regulated Noah and Webb by a loan of
$.52,970.
It regulated Gales and Seaton of the Na
tional intelligencer hy a loan of $62,170.
It regulated Henry Clay, a Kentucky law
yer, Senator of the United States, and the
Federal expectaut of the Presidency, with a
fee of $K,')ol.
It regulated the godlike Webster with a fee
of $58, 0
Ii regulated John Sargent with $40,003.
It REGULATED numerous others by
smaller sums; showiiig most conclusively that
it was just such au institution as the Feds de
clare it to have been A GREAT REGU
LATOR. Sandyhill Gazette. ;
Remarks. Before Air. Webb was regula
ted he declared that the Bank "was buying up
voters like cattle in the maiket."
Before Mr. Clay was regulated he declared
iu a speech in 1S11, that the power to create
a hank was a vagrant power; that the power
to charter companies was uot in the Consti
tution, aud was of a nature not transferable
by mere implication. ' '
Before Mr. Webster was regulated he said
in a speech made in 181 ti.
"W'hoever shall attempt to restore the fallen
credit of ihe couutry, by creating of new
banks, merely that they may create new pa
per, will find himself miserably deceived. To
look to a bank as a source capable of afford
ing a circulating medium to the country, cau
end only in disappointment." 1
'I can view this (the Bauk) only as a sys
tem "of rank speculation and enormous mis
chief. " If we are to be saved, it is not to be
by such means. ' If a safe circulating medium
be wanted for the community, if will not be
found in the paper of such a corporation."
; Verily, the United States Bank had great
regulating powers! ;.
A GLANCE AT THE FIELD.
Wo hardly 'sec why the Federalists trouble
themselves so much about their Presidential
candidates, since thase is nasort of prospect
of any one of them being elected. Their
strength in the Union just now is absolutely
insignificant. The last eighteen months
have been months of woe to them. Ever
since the elections commenced ia 1S3S thf
have bee a rapidly losing ground. Nvcrdid'
a parly drop astern faster. Maine loTlji since
ousted her Federal rulers and took her appro
pi iute station in the bright line of Democratic
i5totC9 ' yC H Tt&J nun - vtv wm vmf- nmttig
utterly to rout the united forces of Rkner aud
the Bank, and giving noble evidence of her
Republican character. New Yotk exhibited,
at the close of her compaign, a cheering gain
for the popular cause of six or seven thou
sand as a sort of earnest of her returning
allegiance. In New Jersey the triumph of
the people wc3 glorious. Five Democratic
Congress men were elected, to the dismay and
consternation of the federalists, who have
concerted a most foul and wicked plan to
deprive them of their seats a plan however,
whose only consequences will be disgrace
aud ignominy to its false hearted contrivers.
In Delaware we hailed a new member of the
Democratic sisteihocd. For the first timem
that State, we carried our Congress men and
a majority of the Legislature. Mayiland
turned out her federal governor, to make room
tor a republican Chief Magistrate, whose
election was contrary to all the expectations
of our opponents; and Ohio came splend 3d
ly into line with a Democratic majority of
five or six thousand, where the federalists, a
year before had a majority equally large upon
the other side.
Similar have been the results of the elction
the present year. .New Hampshire has anni
hilated almost the monster of Federalism with
in her borders, doubling her Democratic
majority of 1S3S. Connecticut "has gone
more than half way in the process of her re
generation, and knocked ofT3w00 from the
Federal majority by which she was misgov
erned. New York city has been rescued
from the hands of the opposition, aud the
spring elections in that State indicate most
clearly the approaching return of the Empire
State to her ancient position in the Republican
ranks. And then Virginia noble old Vir
ginia the laud of Washington and Jefferson;
how gloriously has she maintained her integri
ty to the old principles of her faith how in
dignantly has she refused to ratify the bargain
of the Kives and Clay coalition how has
she spurned the thought of being made over
to the support of Federalism! Her votes and
influence are safe for Van Buren. Every
thing then, looks well for the Democracy.
The Opposition are a doomed party. They
have lost ground in all directions. Even
old Massachusetts show's some symptoms of
recreancy, and Vermont is fast treeing her
self from ia shackles of Federalism. In
spite of panics in spite of the mismanage
ment of Bauks iii spite of the treachery and
base desertion of pretended friends and the
opeu and desperate attacks of ie'-kless ene
mies the popular cause has steadily advanced
with an impulse wbicn nas made' it triumph
over every obstacle, and bids fair to place it
now upon a highsr and more impregnable
basis than it has previously occupied. Ob-
srured. for a tima, by tha suicidal effoitsof
its enemies, who pi u aged tha whole country
into speculation aud misfortune, in ordf r to
compass their ends, it has burst forth again
with increased vigor and brightness- ad
muably , illustrating that beautiful stanza of
Bryant. . . . ; .
, "Truth crushed to earth shall risj again -1
he eternal years of God are riBrs -
' "VVhil i Error, wounded, writhes ia pain, ' T
Aud dies awong her worshippers.''
Il Ml- ffianAa tlinn UJ f
" ""iuua, wen, uaa ucver oeucr reason
for encouragement. Let them but do their
whole duty let them bo only vigflant, active
and efficient, and the Presidential contest in
1840 will close with one of the most' splendid
political victories on record: So may it be!
JWaine Jirgitf.
Extract- from an Address delivered at Erie,
(Ala.) By J. B. Bittenhouse, Esq.
PORTRAITS of Messrs. CLAY CAL
HOUN, and VAN BUREN.
Admirably well suited is thi3 loosely prin
cipled party, in the very consistent individu
al who stands most prominent amongst their
candidates for the Presidency; I will not
urge Mr. Clay's early and able opposition
to a National Bank, on constitutional grounds,
and rules of interpretation, which no consid
eration of expediency could vary. I will on
ly point you to the fact, that he has lately
written to a friend in Mississippi, declaring"
his readiness to abandon the bank, at any
rate for a season. This we will set down as
No. 1, in the list of his recantations, his dis
graceful confessions of fundamental error.
If there be any of his friends near, he may
check them off on his fingers, and if time
allows, I will give him employment for every
one of his digits.
Secondly, consider his tariff system, his
bale for bale taxation
"The millions, larg-f as conqest's spoil.
Wrenched from your eiaews and your soil."
The bare mention, methinks, of this atrocious
system of brutal brigandism, should quicken
the blood and whiten the lips of every South
ern citizen. I. dare not trust my feelings in
characterizing its outrage and its fallacies.
I will merely direct the attention of my
audience to the important consideration, that
'Mhe evil that it wrought lives after it;" that
all our late commercial distress, has, in a
great measure, grown out of the surpluses
which these very tariffs accumulated. Yet
we are told he his consented to" abandon
protection. How consented to abandon it?
only on the eve of civil war, 3nd while the
cliii'Ting- curse of endless ages, for blasting
the fairest hopes of man, was staring him in
the fice. Not to mention the even less
reputable motive, which he himself at the
time confessed, that he would thereby secure
some stable protection to the manufacturers,
who were in ; danger of losing all. But is
he altogether separated from this policy,
who had been loudly recommended to the
y ni a -, . . 1
others of the Whig committee at Philadel
phia, on the very ground of his support of
this and other measures which we shall enu
merate? This mode of electioneering, how
ever, must be changed in this quarter; and
what he is supported in the North for ad
vocating, according to tire present cue, he
must be recommended at the South for aban
doning. So let it be then for the present.
This therefore, is No. 2, in his list of discard
ed principles.
Next comes that twin-darling of his heart,
the vile ' associate system of corruption and
unequal disbursements, which was once with
appalling rapidity sapping the very founda
tion of our constitution, and had nearly
brought down the grey hairs of the sasre of
Monticello, in sorrow to the. grave. This,
toovwe are told, he has agreed to surrender,
Mr. Sergeant to the contrary notwithstand
ing. But, if my memory does not deceive
me., he has coupled to his reluctant consent to
yield up this system, the startling' condition,
that a law of permaueut distributions should
be established. A grosser violation of the
Constitution, and a wirTer departure from
strict constitution and State Rights principles,
it were difficult to imagine. Bufwe will ad
mit, to please his Southern partisans, that he
has cordially and unqualifiedly parted with
this hobby. This we will, therefore, classify
as No. 3. of his repentances.
His course on the public lands should by
no means be omitted since it has been one of
most engrossing and immediate interest to
Alabama. If the principles of Mr. Clay's
celebrated Land Bill, and his uniform opposi
tion to laws of graduation and pre-emption,
have ever met with the approbation of our
State or any citizen of our State, I am jet to
learn it. But his letters are quoted showiug
that, iu a certain contingency, he dosen't caro
so much if he lets that go by the board also.
Aud this circumstance is no other than the
one we have just alluded to, the establishment
of permanent distributions. ' But let this pass
also, as No. 4 in our ally.
Next, -and lastly, that I may not fatigue
your attention, let us briefly consider his
course on the subject of Abolition. After hav
ing so long treated it as a contemptible affair,
whose ouly consequence was derived from
artful politicians; after having voted against
preventing the circulation of their incendiary
publications in the South, through the agency
of the Federal mails; after having opposed
Mr. Rive3's resolution, and denounced Mr.
Calhoun's as a bundle of abstractions; after
these incendiaries had been defeated by
means of the Democrats in the Northern elec
tions; "afteieveu John Q- Adams had chose u
to avow himself not practically in favor of their
schemes; he, at last, after much and anxku3
consultation with his f iends, concktdes to
declare, that Abolition is, after all, a very seri
ous business, aud one dese. ving the infliction
of a very lo.ig and carefully written harangue.
Now, i.i the words of the bastard Piantagenet.
' He sppaks plain cannoa, fire, and smok and
bounce, . , , .
, He giv-s the bastinado, with his tOTVSJiej
- Ouears are cud-elicd; not a word of his. ;
But buff.ts bitter than. fist of France,,
' Zounds' I was never so bethumped with worflu
Since I firet called my brother's father dad."