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FROM THE H. T. JOURNAL. OF COMMERCE.
; CURRENCY. - .
Messrs. EiiTORs::--That any person in
these days should put forth the dogma that
there is not specie enough in the world to
serve as a basis for the circulation or curren
cy, would indeed be surpiislng, if any absur
dity were too grtat not to find some support
ers. We have," as you state, specie enough
(more than eighty millions) in the country,
and if we want more, there U in France
alone from three to four hundred millions of
dollars, in silver and gold. And yet we are
sending specie to France; and why? Simp
ly because we have flooded ourselves with
paper circulation in all its forms; bank notes,
"-post notes, bank bond?, State and Corpora
tion stocks, land engagements, and all sorts
of speculations, and are importing largely at
the. same time. - If we had twice as much
specie, it would make no difference, except
that it would go from us the faster, inasmuch
as we should put out more paper. Go it as
certainly would, as water runs down hill, un
til the necessity of having it ourselves should
check us, and oblige us to lessen our engage
ments, and bring our prices down to a rate at
which our products would sell abroad, and
until our imports should bo kept within proper
limits. We should then have specie enough.
The remedy for the. present scarcity is thej
simplest in the world; it is only to do less to
' keep within any reasonable bounds. With
out this moderation, all the specie in the world
would only make the matter worse it would
be like drinking more rum. With moderar
Hon, specie must always be abundant.
In regard to the resumption, nothing can
be more true .than your view of this matter,
and the country is indebted to you for the
course you have pursued. The difficulty lies
as every one now sees, not in having resumed
too soon; but in a part of the country not hav
ing resumed in good faith, and with the de
termination to meet their engagements.
They resumed, to be sure, but immediately
extended themselves by borrowing in every
direction, and putting out paper, and raising
prices, and speculating in cotton, and in car
rying on improvements, and in various othet
ways, instead of paying their debts. What
can be more evident than that the present dif
ficulty in the South and West is owing to the
misconduct of their banks in making a show
of resuming while they were actually issuing
irredeemable paper, and extending in all di
rections? And then, to cover this, is it not
a little too bad to be told that we resumed too
soon? As well might the drunkard say that
leaving off drink would exhaust him, and that
the true way to become sober is to take more
brandy.- Look at the dishonored engage
ments ofthe Southern banks now lying here
unpaid, because they have chosen to employ
their means in combinations to effect an un
natural and mischievous rise in prices; a
combination which, if persisted in, must ine
vitably ruin all that are engaged in it. This
must now be evident to the actors in it, and
they must see that they have only one course,
and that is, to curtail and bring themselves on
solid ground. And we are glad to see that
the whole country is beginning to understand
mis and that the whole system of bank post
notes, bank bonds, bank speculation, and
bank borrowing, is admitted to be radically
wrong, pernicious, and mischievous, both to
the banks and the community. It has been
fortunate for the country that we have been
checked by the Maine question, by the short
grain crops, and consequent scarcity of money
in England: by the lessened consumption of
cotton, and opposition to our cotton combina
tions; and by various other causes. We
should otherwise have had the same elemen-
at work as in 18367, and a similar result.
In regard to Treasury notes, the sooner
they are got rid of the belter. All these paper
contrivances are bad. We are looking out
wardly for a remedy to evils that lie within
ourselves. We have only to be quiet and les
sen our engagements, and not hurry our pub
lic improvements, or push individual specula
tion. Time and money will accomplish all
haste will bring waste and ruin. Nothing
can be better than our position, if we are
wise; our crdps will do every thing for us, if
we win only do our part.
FROM THE SAME.
THE CURRENCY.
At the request of a subscriber, we publish
on another page, a letter from D. A. Smith,
Esq. of Baltimore, to John Brockenbrough,
president of the Bank of Virginia. We would
not be considered as concurring in all the
views which the writer presents, particularly
his intimation that the resumption of specie
payments by the banks took place too soon.
We have always regarded that early resump
tion as highly honorable to the banks, and
highly advantageous to the country. There
were only two courses for the banks to pursue
after the. suspension; one, the course which
our banks did pursue, viz: curtailment for
they were too much extended) preparatory to
resumption; die other, that pursued by some
ofthe Southern banks, viz: throwing out large
issues, disproportionate to their means of re
demption. Which was the" wisest course, we
at least, have no doubt. , "Ye shall know them
hy their fruits." : "
Resumption has not diminished the aid
afforded by par banks to the conwnunity, but
increased it. Both their circulation aud their
loans are greater now than before the resump
tion, (speaking of the aggregate of chartered
banks in this Slate,) by several millions. Or
to be more exact, their aggregate loans and!
discounts on the 1st of January, 1838, four
months before the resumption, were $60,999,
770; on the 1st of January, 1339, eight
months after the resumption, $63,330,486;
increase $7,000,716, Their circulation on
the 1st of January, 1838, was $12,432,478;
1st of January, 1839, $19,373,149; increase,
$6,490,671. Their circulation at the last
mentioned date, was as great, within two mil
lions, as it was on the 1st of January, 1S37,
,or 1st of January, 1836; their loans and dis
counts, only $4,000,000 less than -on the 1st
of January, 1836, and $11,000,000 less than
on the 1st January, 1837. : So that, in spite
of both the suspension and resumption, we
have about a fair average circulation, compar
ed with former years, and nearly a fair aver
age of loans and discounts. The banks have
gone as far, we presume, as they thought they
could do with entire safety to themselves, and
they have done well. ;
This view of the effect of resumption upon
the condition of the money market, is applica
ble, essentially, to most of the Northern
States. ,
We are compelled to infer, then, that they
thn pnrlv resumotion, would
have had the bauks extend themselves on an
"irredeemable" busis much further than
they have done on a specie basis, and further
ihan they were accustomed to do before the
suspension. Otherwise we see uo motive
for wishing to postpone the resumption; for
we take it a dollar redeemable with specie, is
as good, for any purpose, as an irredeemable
dollar.
It may be true that if irredeemable bank
paper had been issued freely, Instead of a
moderate issue ofthe excellent currency with
which we are now favored, sundry useful en
terprises which have been delayed by a lack of
the needlul, would nave Deen pusnea on wuu
greater vigor, and completed at an earlier date
than thov will be under existing circumstanc
es. The same plentiful ness of money (if
mnnfv it mav be called1) might have caused
larger importations, and in various ways giv
en a stimulus to trade, business and specula
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tmn- which.- tor me time oeing. migui oe
deemed prosperity, but which in truth would
be nreciselv the reverse. As intimated by
Mr. Smith, we have already overacted in these
matters. We have driven our internal Im
Drovements too fast; we have imported too
many goods; and we have done many other
foolish things which naturally result from a
great abundance of money. We . are now
getting back to a healthful position as fast as
could be expected, and a great deal faster than
we should have done if the unnatural stimulus
of a redundant currency were added.
We can readily imagine that to numerous
individuals and companies, it would be very
convenient to have monev plenty, whether
good or bad, if only it would pay debts, and
in other respects perform the usual functions
of money. There is no dispute on this head;
but the question is, whether such a state of
tnings can exist, wiuiuui aggravauug mo ur
ease which it is -designed to remedy. We
think not. And we are not quite sure but it
would have been better for the country if mon
ey, a part of the time since the resumption,
had been less plentuul than it has been in
fact.
The Idea of getting out of such a scraps ns
that which we srot into in 1836 and 1837,
without distress, is absurd. Much less can it
be done by an abandonment of sound princi
ples, whether of banking or otherwise. The
only escape is by backing out. Putting on
more steam would only drive the ship further
on, and render escape more hopeless.
The experiment of an irredeemable curren
cy has been thoroughly tried in Buenos Ayres.
The result is, that bank paperin that capital is
worth at this time about 6 1-4 per cent, on its
FROM THE GLOBE. " ;
OPPOSITION CONFESSIONS.
In the able article on the currency, which
we extracted yesterday from the Journal of
Commerce, are theJbllowing Opposition con
fessions, which it may be well to remember;
1. "We take it a dollar reaeemaow wim
specie is as good for any purpose as an irre
deemable dollar.'! -
What will Messrs. Clay and Preston say to
this, who argued in favor xf the latter? Or
the Baltimore Chronicle, whicn considered
the currency best when the least specie exis
ted in the country. -
Is a dollar in specie, or redeemable in spe
cie, a good currency for the Government and
a bad one for the people?
2. We have driven our internal improve
ments too fast."
What say Ritner and Burrowes to this in
Pennsylvania? What say Wallace and No
ble in Indiana?
3. "We have imported too many goods."
What say the ex-President of the mammoth
Bank to that? who with his'disciples, in 1837,
insisted that there had been uo overtrading.
4. "In our own case, what was it that
compelled the bank to suspend specie pay
ments? It was precisely that which would
result again from a long continued plethora of
money, viz: overactioii."
What say to this all who have heretofore
railed at the removal of the deposites at the
Specie Circular at the mode ot making
transfers at Cen. Jackson and Mr. Wood
bury as the cause of the suspension of spe
cie pavmentsT
It is now at length discovered that the true
cause was oreraction, the same which was as
signed to Congress in September, 1837, by
President Van Buren and the Secretaiy of
the Treasury, and for doing which they were
then both abused as incompetent and stupid.
5 "It was the possession and use of too
much CREDIT that aggravated the disasters
of 1837."
Where are tho eulogists of the boasted
credit system now? The Tallmadges, the
Riveses, and the Biddies, who would live and
breathe, and exist on credit, and credit alone;
and whose well regulated credit system is now
admitted to have been very ill regulated, and
to have been used quite too much.
6. ''Treasury notes have been very useful
already, notwithstanding the opposition they
encountered at the outset."
Yes, opposition to the knife though the
notes were limited in amount and character,
temporary, and guarded with the most scru
pulous caro and rendered necessary as well
as convenient in an, exigency by the failure
of those very banks to make payment to the
Government whose friends oppose the use of
these Treasury notes.
At length, however, after the showers of
abuse on the Administration for the measure,
the notes are discovered and admitted, by the
leading organ of the merchants in this coun
try, to have been very useful.
In a few years more the Administration is
likely to have most of its abused measures, by
confirmed lj puoitc wjjtitoii us io e.iuu Hp
probation from the most violent of the Opposition.
nominal value. In other words, a dollar "of Jlhe scrutiny of time and argument, so well
paper is worth obout o 1-4 cents in specie.
All the rest has been sunk aud lost. And who
has been benefitted by the process? Possi
bly individuals may have been, if permitted to
pay debts in such trash; but in such a case
others must have been the losers. It is the
same, in effect, as if a law should be passed
authorizing debtors to cancel their indebted
ness by paying a part of what they owe, in
stead of the whole. . .
In our own case, what was it that compelled
the banks to suspend specie payments? Ii
was precisely that which would result again
from a long contiud plethora of mouey,
viz: OYi-action. It was the possession ana
use of too much credit. We need not recapi
tulate the history of those days. Suffice it to
say that fast as was the increase of bank capi
talandof the circulating- medium, neither the
one nor the other could keep pace with the
progress of business, speculation, and adven
ture. When the banks were used up,, resort
was had to the shavers, then to the gougers,
and finally to the shark; then came the panic,
then the run upon the bauks, and then the
blow up.
We hope our countrymen are prepared to
profit by this dear-bought experience. It was
impossible that such a drama should wind up
with any thing but insolvency in regard to
number.
Notwithstanding the present scarcity of
money, and the apparent hardness of the
times, we consider the country to be far more
prosperous now, in reality, than it was in
1S36. Then it was dissipating, and getting
sick; now, it is undergoing medicnl treatment,
andetting well. Many who were tempora
rily prostrated by the disasters of 1837, are
now free from embarrassment, and others are
becoming so. The scarcity of money warms
them to avoid new engagements, except those
ofthe most urgent character to live cheap,
aud manage cautiously. Not a few of these
"broken" ones nay, some who were suppos
ed to be bankruptwill hereafter be the safest
men in the community. T.hey before pos
sessed every quality of perfect business men
except one, viz: prudence. This they have
now acquired, though against their will.
Having said thus much in connection with
the first paragraph of Mr. Smith's letter, we
commend some of the subsequent views to
the notice of our financiers. Treasury notes
have been very useful already, notwithstand
ing the opposition they encountered at the
outset; and are, tossay the least, as good a
basis for" bank issues as State stocks, which
the new order of banks in this State are allow
ed to discount upon. We do not,' however,
feel so keenly the lack of specie as does Mr.
Smith, believing there is enough in the coun
try to serve as a basis for bank issues. There
is probably at least $30,000,000 of specie in
the United States, and our bank circulation
never amounted to $150,000,000, and is not
now much, if any, above $100,000,000.
True Enough. A wagish Whig asked
another to name the three main props of their
ide. "To be plain, they are Money, Impu
dence, and Slangwhanging." . "You have hit
the nail on the head," said the inquirer, and
on, fully satisfied with the answer.
Columbian Con. Register.
East, to make him esteem it his duty to en
deavor to satisfy his frends, that it would be
unadvisable to press his name Deiore ine Ra
tional Convention."
And the Philadelphia Star retorts: :
"The Cincinnati Whig is mistaken. Mr.
Clay's duty to his friends, and their duty to
him is the same. They should not destroy
him, nor he them by unyielding repugnance
to abandoning the field to a more popular
candidate. To say nothing ot ine great, na
tional interests at stake, personal pride and
the Republican right of personal preferment,
will be consulted by accordance wun nianuesi
policy and the advantages of harmony. We
have profited more by the result than the exam
ple of the Wolf and Muhleuburg suicide, if the
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Pennsylvania drama snail dc reversea as iu
parties, and extending as to scope, in the na
tional struggle between tne two great parties
or principles at issue. It would be self-destruction
here, and treachery to the party in
sister States, if Mr. Clay perversely persists
in trying again an oft lost chance, in defiance
of popular desire and apparent policy. Penn
sylvania can vote for Gen. Harrison, but
won't for Mr. Clay. Albany Argus.
Prospects of JVIr. Clay. According to
the leading Whig organs the election of Mr.
Clay to the Presidency is hopeles, if he re
ceives the nomination of the Whig National
Convention. The -Philadelphia Gazette, a
warm friend of Mr. Clay, says:
"With regard to the National politics in
this State, and the prospects of Presidential
candidates, we must candidly say, that we
have no confidence in Mr. Clay's success.
A Whig paper of New York, Freedom's
Sentinel, says:
Mr. Clay cannot obtain the electoral vote
of New York." -
The New York American says:
The course of events proves that in the
South Mr. Clay notwithstanding his famous
anti-Abolition, or, rather, pro-slavery speech
has no such hold as to warrant the expecta
tion of his obtaining the support of a. single
Southern State, except, perhaps, Louisiana
while the very objectionable toue and doctrine
of that speech have chilled the warm feelings
once entertaiued for him by hundreds of thou
sands of votes in the free States."
And the Cleveland Herald, after discussing
the ooDularitv of Messrs. Clay and Harrison
io that State, concludes thus:
"How, then, do we stand in Ohio? By
our divisions, POYERLESS."
Thus it will be seen, according to the Whig
calculations, that four great States, N. Ycrk,
Pennsylvania, V irginia and Ohio, are against
Henry Clay, Vetvoit t ree rrcsa
Another Devtlopemenll The attempt of
the Federal and Conservative taction in tne
Senate, at the last session of Congress, to re
vive the odious gag-law policy of the old
Adams' administration, shocked the Republi
can sense of the country, so far as it could
be shocked by any thing coming from men
whom it had loug known as the unscrupulous
enemies of Republican liberty
We now have another development of the
I i ..t.r ttfalcK-liwU' a 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 il I" Might
FROM THE GLOBE.
THE OPPOSITION AND THE EX
PENDITURES. We have examined the journals of the last
three sessions cursorily, and we believe wc
shall be able to prove by the record by the
yeas and nays of the Opposition members in
Congress that every appropriation bill passed
during the last Congress had a majority of
Whig votes in its favor. We proved iu our
articles, during the last summer, that Opposi
tion members had proposed, and a majority of
them voted for many millions beyond the es
timates of the Departments. The journals
will show that, at the last session, as at for
mer ones, they voted for vast sums beyond
the estimates, and for appropriations defeated
by Democratic votes. What must the people
think of a body of partisan representatives,
who go amongst them, making the expendi
tures of the Government the theme of inces
saut denunciations against tho Administra
tion, when it appears on the record that a ma
jority of themselves voted for every public ap
propriation for more than the estimates of the
Departments for more than they could tempt
a sufficient number of Democrats to aid them
in passing, with all the lures of their log-rolling
system put into requisition!
It is our purpose to prepare and publish, as
soon as possible, a complete list of the yeas
and nays of Federalists upon every public ap
propriation bill during the last Congress.
From the examination we have already made,
we think it will appear that all the expendi
tures now so loudly and universally condemn
ed by the Federal members ofthe body, would
have been passed by their own votes if there
had not been a Democrat in Congress.
But the country shall have the record which
brazen Federalism has' made to rebuke itself.
Mr. Webster's withdrawal from the course
and country, for a foreign tour, has not proved
to be so long a stride towards the adjustment
ofthe conflicting preferences of the Opposi
tion, as some ofthe Federal organs affected
to believe ot the time. Mr. Webster's
ample, lauded as it has been, as a piece of
iua-uamnuiy and patriotism worthy of all
praise, has not thus far, at ail events,' proved
cbntagious. The Federal availables in the
field for the Presidency are as numerous as
before, and apparently with as little disposi
tion on the part of their adherents to withdraw
their favorites as ever.
A Harrison paper in Philadelnhia Cthe Str
urges Mr. W.'s example home upon some of
ureuuier cauaioates and their friends, appeal
ing particularly to Mr. Clay to go and do
likewise. The Whig at Cincinnati, where
we believe Mr. Clay sojourned a short time
on his tour to the East and North, takes it
upon itself to answer the appeal, on behalf of
Mr. Clay, and in a manner at once direct and
significant. It says:
We should think the Star too late. Mr
Clay cannot now very consistently alter his
position to those friends who wish him to be
a candidate. It is true. h
upon the real sentiments of tho combined Op
position to ine democracy, and proves in
consistently the unchanged Toryism of the
ederal party. We refer to an article which
lately appeared in the National Intelli
gencer, published at Washington, the leading
r ederal newspaper m the United States, ;
sailing the Republican doctrine of a FREE
PRESS! Free discussion, freedom of the
press, the right of each individual to utter,
print and publish facts and arguments in favor
of what he believes to be truth, is a fundamen
tal principle of Republican liberty.
Augusta (le.) Age.
The New York Evening Star, though op
posed to the circular, is "glad it has been
published," because it will convince the South
ofthe necessity of a great moneyed institution,
to bring the cotton crop advantageously to
market It convinces the south ot no sucn
thing. -The revulsions and oppression which
the circular lays at the door of a great money
ed institution across the water, .convince us
of the danger of trusting power in the hands
of a great moneyed institution on this side.
We are ; neither willing nor necessitated to
rely on the tender mercies of a great Northern
speculating machine. When its own profits
or .Northern interests stand in the way, - we
know from experience how it operates in
bringing cotton to market; and as to the ad
vances needed, there are southern capitalists
who arc ready to make them on more liberal
and impartial terms, than the "great and con
trolling power."-Charleston JMercury.
Instinct Col- Stone, of the Commercial
Advertiser, from his propensity to royaltze
every thing having an aspect impressed by
hirh nualities. eives the following account of
ZD "I ' O "
the great democratic display:
"Ihe President then rode up moaoway,
preceded by the troops, surrounded by friends,
and tollowed by a large procession oi car
riages, horsemen, and lootmen. He was
mounted on a fine black charger, which from
his proud and noble carriage, we should hold
to be of decided Whig blood. The President
rode with a royal air, and managed his steed
like a cavalier. In truth he is as good a
manager of horses as he is of men and so
that they are well bitted, when well booted
and spurred, he rides both to admiration.
Broadway was well thronged for the occasion,
and the windows of the houses were filled. In
the vicinity of the Park, the crowd wa3 great,
and the scene quite animated."
lhe horse, it seems, was "proud and no
ble," hence the Colonel infers . he was of "de
cided Whig blood." The President "man
aged this 'steed like a cavalier." and therefore
"he rode with a royal air." Certainly he
who rides the Whigs "booted and spurred?
must be royal. Their whole scheme of poll
tics tends to this end. Ulobe.
The. Whig's are anticipating great results
from the co-operation of a paper, by this time
in operation in Portland, called the "Eastern
Argus revived," published by Ira Berry and
Co. and to be edited, as his friends assert, by
Hou. F. 0. J. Smith. The Whigs are wel
come to all the good they can derive from
such a source, and may, if they please, as
they are now doing, saddle themselves with
its support. - Whatever the talents of the indi
vidual may be, and whatever his influence
may have been, he is as harmless as the viper
without fangs." .Lucifer, the "Son of die Mor
ning," was the most gifted of the angels, yet
he fell, never again to rise. So shall it be
with every renegade and apostate from the
Republican ranks. The moment they take
up arms against their former benefactors, that
moment their doom is sealed, aud they plunge
into that political abyss from which all .the
Dlaudits of Ihe AVhfirx cannot ra (hem.
They may, if they please, "steal the livery of
Heaven to serve the devil in," or they may
steal the name of a paper to subserve their
purposes, yet it will avail them nothing.
Democratic (JIe.) Republican.
POLITICAL SCRAPS.
ofthe popular will, during his tour NorthWnd J er.
Some of the Whig presses are complaining
that in the President's speech at his flattering
reception in Castle Garden, New York, he
employed the phrase "his Democratic fellow
citizens;" thus, they infer, openly avowing
the electioneering character of his tour. Now,
what more comprehensive phrase indicative
of his countrymen, iCeonnection with - their
peculiar political institutions, could the Presi
dent have employed? Are we not all citizens
of a Democracy? But if the President had
even intended to give his tour a party charac
ter, which we do not admit, have not the
V higs, as a body, set the example of a politi
cal demarcation by the manner of the Presi
dent's reception in New York? Have they
generally and heartily united in doing honor
to the nation's representative? or have they
kept aloof from these outward demonstrations
of respect in which the great mass ofthe peo
ple of that city have united? Let them first
set a better example of liberty before they as
sume to be the preachers of political tolera
tion. Southern S. C. Patriot.
Selected Toasts from the Celebration at
Worcester, Massachusetts.
The Whig Thermometer: "As the country
rises Whigism sinks; as Whig ism rises, the
country sinks.
ByA. H. Ward, Esq. one of the Vice
Presidents. A "Strong Team:" Webster
and Swartwout, Whig candidates for Presi
dent and Vice President both gone to En?-
land to qualify themselves, by the study of
jji iwi. LuniLn, uiscuarge me uuiiesoi ineir
expectant offices thwtuition ofthe one paid
by the Whigs the other stolen his from the
public chest. -
Wm. C. Rives and F. O. J. Smith: The
head and tail of Conservatism equally well
calculated to perform their respective func
tions from the position they hold.
By Nathaniel Sibley, 2d Levi Woodbury:
The able and indefatigable Secretary of the
Treasury; his integrity and industry are only
equalled by the malice and falsehoods of his
political foes.
Henry A. Wise, and Mr. Pleasants, editor
of the Richmond Whig, after calling each
other all sorts of hard names, have allowed
mutual friends to say, that they both lied in
what they published about each other, and
made up Boston Post.
Note. Tbey spoke the truth of each oth-
COMMUNICATIOXS.
FOR THE KOKTH CAROLINIAN.
Hon. Edmund Dtberry: Sir, it is rumor
ed in this district, that you as one of the
"Whigs of last Congress," did, during the
latter part ofthe session hold a caucus, and
did, then and there, agree upon supporting
Henry Clay, and did recommend him to
your Southern Whig friends, as a suitable
candidate far our suffrages in the next Pre
sidential election, and that delegates should
be appointed to the Harrisburg Convention,
who should be pledged to his support.
Now, sir, as one of your constituents, I
would , ask you what right had you to at
tempt to dictate to us in this matter. We
elected you to go to Washington city, not to
nominate a President, but to make good and
wholesome laws; and then as our Lycurgus,
how dare you enter into a secret caucus with
your old friend, J. Q. Adams, (who you should
now be ashamed of, but on whom, I am told,
you pass the highest encomiums,) and that
notorious Abolitionist, Slade, and a host of
others, all calling themselves "Whigs," yet
possessing as many different principles as
there were tongues at the building of the
Tower of Babel, and attempt to palm off on
us, Henry Clay, "the thrice beaten advocate
of the Bank" and Tariff. When we see so
many different parties with you, such as
Conservatives, Abolitionist, Anti-Abolitionist,
Blue Light, Federal, National Republican,
Tariffites, Anti-Tariffites, White, Clay, Har
rison and Webster men, all unite for the pur
pose of breaking down our present Republi
can President, who is so firm to the South;
and putting in hi3 place, your Magnus
Apollo, (Henry Clay,) we may with some
degree of propriety suspect you of forgetting
the interest of your constituents, and labor
ing with all your might for the interest of
the Aristocracy of our land.
I will assure you, that Henry Clay can
never get the vote of this State, or even of
this District, (if we could vote by Districts.)
We have not forgotten the time, when lie
abused General Jackson so wantonly, whilst
the Old Hero was fighting the battles of his
country, and protecting our wives and our
children, from the tomaharwk and scalping
knife, ofthe merciless savage. We have not
forgotten the time when Henry Clay invok
ed "war, famine and pfctilence" on our hap
py country, rather than see the Hero of New
Oeleaks, elected to the Presidential chair.
We have not forgotten the time when the
free' citizens of these United States, honored
General Jackson with a majority of their suf
frages, that Henry Clay entered into a cor
rupt bargain and intrigue with J. Q. Adams,
and prevented Gen. Jackson from standing
at the helm of State. We have not forgot
ten that Henry Clary is the advocate of a
National Bank and Internal Improvement, by
the General Government; and we have not
yet forgotten, that Henry Clay is the man
who imposed on us that odious Tariff, which
came well nigh bankrupting the whole of the'
Southern States, and although much reduc
ed, is now "too grievous to be bourne," and
that we still have to pay a tax of 2 1-2 cts. per'
lb. on sugar, 15 cts. per bushel on salt, 5 eta
per gall, on molasses, 1 l-4cts. per lb. on iron,
4 cents on nails, 5 cents per yard on bagging,
and from S3 1-2 to 50 per cent, on all wool'
lens, and a high duty on almost every arti
cle which the farmer buya, whilst the most of
dye stuffs lind furs, and nearly all articles
which the manufacturers use, come in . duty
free. Now, Sir, bow can you recommend
to the honest, unsuspecting farmers of your
District, a man whose principle? are so hos
tile to theirs. .
I know, sir, that your better judgment
frequently checks you, in attempting to palm
him off on your constituenta, but you h&ve
become such a bitter partizan, and you draw
so well in party harness, that it has destroy
ed the finer feelings of your nature, and you
have while-washed him over so often, that
you will soon think him an excellent Whig-,
(pardon me in the use of this word, for it is
a name which-I love; but, oh, how it is pros
tituted.) The name which was inscribed
with the patriot's blood, on the banner which
floated so successfully over the heads of our
forefathers, in the war of '76, is now seized
on, by a dozen different parties; all clamor
ously appropriating it as their own.
You tell-us in your address, that Henry
Clay proposed the "Compromise Bill,"
but forgot to tell us that he done it
because he saw the whole system in
danger, and that Henry Clay himself says,
that" that bill is only temporary, and that af
ter its expiration, he will revive it, if the
manufacturers require it, that it is only an
experiment; and yet you harp bo much about
this act, as if he was actuated by motives of
patriotism, as if he had come forward and
magnanimously thrown down his favorite
system, on the altar of Ids country; when
any person, who has just began his "horn ,
book in politics" know3 to the contrary, and
that he was influenced alone from selfish
purposes.
You also tell the people, that Van Buren
voted for the Tariff, and dwell largely on
this point, attempting to show the inconsis
tency of the Administration party, but here
again, you forgot to tell them that Van Bu-,
ren voted for it under the express instruc
tions of his Legislature, and that he really at
heart was opposed to it, that his speech at
Albany is evidence of this fact, and that he
6aid it "originated in the closet of the politic
cian, instead ofthe workshop of the mechan
ic." Now, sir, I trust you will pardon the lib
erty which I have taken with you, I feel it is
a duty I owe you to be thu3 plain, and for fear
you may think an old "enemy hath done
this," 1 will state that I have always sup
ported you, and would do so still, if you
had not hoisted the Clay banner, bearing the
inscriptions of Bank, Anti-Bank, Tariff",
Anti-Tariff", Abolition, National Republican,
Conservative, alias Whis?.
A NO TARIFF MAN.
.nson County, JVC. July 21, 1S33,..
lOR THE WORTH CAROLINIAN.
OUR ELECTIONS.
Lumberton, July 25, 18S9.
H. L. Holmes, Esq. Sir, I think the Re
publicans of Robeson County will do their
duty at the coming election, they appear to
be in good spirits, and are determined to go
for their country, and their country's cause.
Mr. Hale's pronouncing the Republican parly
vith General Jackson at their head, Tories,
has aroused the Republicans, and they will
flock to the polls on the Sth of August, and
endeavor to put down a party whose editor
has the unblushing impudence to call them
Tories. For they well know it was the Re
publican party that fought the battles of our
country, and General Jackson was elected
by the Republicans, in consideration of his
great military services to his country. And
is this the party who are now to be termed
and branded with the epithet TORIES. The
very party that fought for the liberty wc
now enjoy, and gained our Independence, arc
now called Tories, and that by the Whig
editor of the Observer.
After the Republican party had driven
the British from our soil, they then formed
the Republican Constitution, under which
we now live, and under which our country
has prospered and flourished until she is now
the greatest nation on earth. This prospe
rity and" success to our country has been
mainly accomplished by the devoted patriot
ism of the Republican party.' For if the
Federalists had got the majority in the Con
vention which formed the great National
Constitution, we would have had a Presi
dent for life, Senators to Congress for life,
the Governors of our States appointed by the
President or Congress, and perhaps the poor
but honest people not allowed to vote for
persons to represent them. So Republicans,
you see what would be your situation hai
the Federalists got the ascendency. Let
God and our country be your wateh word.
And let me invoke you all to -turn out and
vote for Wm. A. Morris, let nothing but
sickness or death keep you from the ballot
ox, on the Sth of August.
A Robeson Couktt Republican.
FOR THE NORTH CAROLHf IAN .
FRIENDSHIP. ..
How sweet is the memory of joys that are put,
But joys are delusive, as virtue is rare,
And when time cools die passions, and deadens lh
taste,
We hardly remember, that once such things were-
So friendships sometimes, ere they ripen' grow old,
As the frost nips the spring buds that soonest ap-
pear, .
And the heart that first opens, is first to grow cold,
And pretends to forget, that of late such thing
were.
I've seen one, on whom, smiles and earresses were
1 heaped,
Till the burden of kindess seemed heavy to bear,
And the warm grateful heart, in sincerity feap'd.
And swore that 'twould never forget, such thing
were. .
I have heard the professions of friendship the dearcatt
- While suspicion's sharp glance, could not fancy
fear, ...
B,ut the friendship I fancied is the firmest sincer
And e'er will remember, that such things were.
II. R-
III