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POLITICAL. FHOJI THE CLOBEn THE FEDERAL PARTY AND THE PUBLIC EXPENDITURES, Jy letters from. States where elections are now pending, we learn that the federal ivhi" orators, abandoning the theme of defal cations, which involves too many of their own devoted partizans. to be available, rest their main attacks against the administration noon alleged extravagance in. the public e.i j:..,a This is a very convenient wea- "u . - mav hp. 'the. use made of u..um unfair mav be the use pou, rVMB mnst ignorant of their w u j : --- - It. D W(11 as the mo it knavish, to state Ac amount of expenditures m a given year of Mr Monroe's administration, in comparison with a given year of Mr. Van Bureu's, and be cause the latter exceed the former charge the increase, without taking the trouble to- inves- i nw - Xm S -rf w HI bo induced, hhoul . ilif true reason, to S ecV fa admmiUon. It bb cv -uL. .n cxocctatioD, that the people - ncoratinn. to tump 3uiiansVthe friends of the administration on that account In this, as in all other ef their misrepresentations to mislead the people, they are doomed to a sig nal disappointment, Washington rHhRr Duroose of giving instances illustrative of the general progress of our country, which, from year to year, continually and necessari ly enlarges tne numuer oi persons empioyeu J . i i .,ki: Q the gOVernillcJ.il, auu auua iu tut; puuiib va- wnditures a nrocess which must go on un til our territory is settled our population, be- ,mes stationary, and our trade ceases to m- was eieht years, Jefferson President T-i & Jnma Oitir venrs. ana i.ir. eimt. Nobody will now question the econo my of Mr. Jefferson's administration. let the public expenditures under his adminis tration far exceeded those under ashing- - The expenditures of Jefferson's last four vearswere $23,927,245 Those of Washington's last four were - 12,092,204 Excess of Jefferson's adminis tration $11'S35,04 Thus Jefferson's expenditures nearly doub led Washington's for their last four years, and fr.r ih'ftir whole administrations, more than doubled. Yet. who chames Mr. Jeilerson witn ex j w tiavagance? Acain: The expenditures of the last four years of Madison's were $108,546, OSS Deduct those of Mr. Jeffer son's lust four 23,927,245 Excess of Madison's admin istration, $S,61S,S43 Thus, Madison's expenditures are more than quadrup'.e those of Jefferson, and were about nine fold those of Washington. But, say the federalists, those were war ex- nenriitiirRK. And are not a. large portion of those which they charge upon Gen. Jackson and Mr. Van Burcn war expenditures also? Was not Mr.- Madison even more responsi ble for the war of 1S12, having approved the declaration, than Gen. Jackson was for the 'Black Hawk' and Seminole Wars, which were commenced by the enemy? And is it right that they should hold the one responsible for war expedrtures and not the otJierl But let us look a little further. Tne expen ditures of Mr. Monroe's last four years, which were years of peace, were v $45,665,420 .Deduct Mr. Jefferson's :- 23,927,244 Excess of Mr. Monroe's ' $21,738,175 Thus, the expenditures of Mr. Monroe's last four years nearly do'ibled Mr. Jefferson's, and almost quadrupled Gen. Washington's. So the expenditures of J. Adams' four years we're $55,501,-011. Deduct Mr. Jefferson's last four years 23,927,245 xccss of J. Q. Adams over - Jefferson $26,574,666 Thus, the expenditures of J. Q. Adams' Four years more than doubled Mr. Jefferson's last four years, and more than Quadrupled Washington's. The expenditures of Washington's third year being the first in which the public ac counts appear to have boon systematized, were but $1,991,590, whereas those of Mon roe's third'.wero $16,300,273, showing an increase oT eight to one, or more than $14,-000,000. Upon the general and sweeping ground as sumed by the federalists of the present day, Jefferson was guilty of extravagance because he spent more than Washington, and Madison and Monroe because they spent more than Washington of Jefferson. But is not the cause of this constantly increasing expendi ture perfectly apparent and- completely satis factory? "Is it not to be found in the constant and rapid growth of our country! From thir teen States we have grown to twenty-six: from three millions of people we have grown to sixteen.' ' Our territory has been more than douoieo, ana our seuiemcnis exieuaeu. uur commerce has increased beyond all precedent; And the growth nf the country cease when Gen.'Jackson became President? Have no new, states been added to the Union; has there been no increase in our population; no netr settlements formed; no new territories established; no new cities sprung into exis tence; no new land offices created; no exten sion of frontier; no increase of commerce; no new ports of entry designated; no additions to Congress or the judiciary nothing whatso ever of that rapid growth of our country which has hitherto justified and made necessary a constant increase in the expenditures of our Eovernment? The new States of Michigan and Arkansas; the swarms of people now cul- Mississippi ana Indiana, of Illinois and Missouri; the already populous Territories of Wisconsin and Iowa; the numerous commercial towns wnicn nave sprung up on the shores of our lakes and riv ers; tho rapid increase of old states and old cities still advancing in population, traue, and wealth, while sending swarms ot emigrants into the interior, all, all answer this question in language which no man can misunder stand.0 Never has our country, in so short a time, made such rapid strides as within the ast ten years. There is nothing to equai n iu the history of the world. - f . AY hat is the natural and lnevitame couse- ouence? WThv, a considerable increase ot the nubhc expenditures: tne estaonsnmeni oi new custom houses and additions to me lorce of the old ones; the creation of new land of- jiti lnrrpasfi of the armv and navv: an extension of the national iudiciary; an addi timi nf four senators and a larae number ot representatives to Congress; a proportionate augmentation ot iorce m the Executive ue- oartments. All these are the necessary inci dents to the growth of our country, and they produce a necessary increase of the public ex penditures. This the federal orators well know; bu they keep it out of sight, and endeavor to make the people thiuk that the administration is extravagant because the public expendi tures are not as small as they were fifteen or twenty years ago! Let us illustrate the absurdity of this posi tion by reference to the Post Office Depart ment, which more than any other crows with the growth of the country. In 1825 the number ot post offices was In 183S it was ' In 1825 the number of post routes hi operation was about In 1838 it was about In 1825 the revenue of the depart ment was $1,262,C61 In 1S38 it was -4,262,145 Within this period 6,900 had been added 1 to the number of post offices, 1,661 to the number of post routes, and $3,000,000 to the revenue of the department. Inasmuch as it is the practice of the department to apply the entire revenue to the mail service, it followed as a necessary consequence that the expendi tures were increased about $3,000,000 also. Will any man say that the establishment of new post routes by Congress, or of new post offices by the Postmaster General, increasing the expenditures of the department more than three-fold, are matters for which the adminis tration is deserving of censure? Wrere they not necessary for the accommodation of our enterprising and prosperous people? Would not the administration have been wanting in duty, if it had not promoted this increase of public expenditure, it beir,g necessary to ex tend the b&nefits of the mail system to the How settlements and towns, and increase the facilities of the old ones? Or will the federal orators undertake to persuade the people, that every mail route and post office established since 1S25, ought to be discontinued, and every improvement in the speed and frequen cy of the mails withdrawn, that the expendi tures may be reduced to the level of that year? JL he common sense of the people would laugh to scorn any such proposition. 1 hey would say that although the 6,90O new post oflices added 6,900 men to "the army ot omce hold ers" whom it is attempted to render odious, and although the 1,661 additional mail routes added at least 3,000 men to the recipients of public money, and although both togetherhave adued $3,000,000 to the public expenditures, yet, inasmuch as they were necessary to the public accommodation, ana yield a revenue sumcicnt for their support, the covernment would have deserved censure if they had not been created, and would be justly denounced if they were to be abolished. x he same principle pervades every other department of the government. The growth of the country produces a necessity for en largcd establishments for its accommodation and defence, as a matter of course increasing the public expenditures. To build up these enlarged establishments in obedience to law, so tar trora being a crime m the administra tion, is its imperative duty. It would de serve the public reprobation,, if it did not take ... : :n .rf 1 1 f and instlv rkK- lioii would do wauuug j j noxious to attack, if it did Jiot recommend a nmmniA that increase. vye do it tor the j.. . rrease. The fact that the public expenditures have ncreased is, therefore, no argument against the administration It is its duty, to' recom mend and promote an increase as the neces sities of a growing country require it. Giv ing these considerations their due weight, the people w ill disregard and contemn this gene- ral and sweeping argument oi me ieuerai ora- tors. They win can upon me ueciaimers to specify the cases- in which the administration has called for unnecessary appropriations or made expenditures not required for the public good or authorized by law. For such and such only are the administration justly answer able. ' We assert that the increase of expenditures which the administration has recommended or fav ored, Is only such as was necessary in con sequence of the rapid growth of our country, or ot emergencies anecting tne pupae peace which it could not avert. Weaver lurtber, that much the largest portion of increase now complained of by the tederal declaimers, nas been forced upon it against its will, and main ly by the very party which now makes it a weapon ot attack. 1 n another article we will endeavor to il lustrate these positions, and exhibit some of the arts by which the public intelligence is at tempted to be misled. 4,677 12,567 1,209 2,870 FROM THE GLOBE. THE FEDERAL WHIG ORATORS AND THE PUBLIC EXPENDI TURE. It has been the uniform struggle of the Fed eral leaders, for many years, to increase the re venues of the Government as the means of pro tecting their special interests, and furnishing banks with a capital to do "business upon at the expense of the people. To keep the du ties high, they have endeavored to create new channels of expenditure and enlarge the old ones. The internal improvement policy of the Clay and Adams administration, and the project so zealously pressed of distributing the proceeds of the public lands among the States, are two of their principal projects looking to that result. The distribution policy would cut off a source of income, and throw the Government entirely upon duties on imported merchandize for support, and the internal improvement policy would afford an outlet for as much money as the advocates of high du ties could desire to collect. ' The vetoes of Gen. Jackson upon the Maysville Road bill, and upon Clay's Land bill, thwarted tho leading measures by which the Federalists hope to increase the public expenditures, and his opposition to the high tariff, combined with the attitude assumed by South Carolina, forced a reduction of the du ties. But for events which the Administra tion could not forsee or prevent, the great ob jects of the Rebublican party the payment of the national debt, and a reduction of the re venue to the vants of an economical Gov ernment would have been accomplished. The Bank of the United States, after attem pting in vain to force a restoration of the de posites by pressure and panic, suddently in creased its issues about twenty millions of dollars, and its example was followed by most of the other banks. A spirit of wild, unpre cedented speculation, was thus engendered, which seized hold of the public lands as well as the ordinary objects of trade. The con sequence was a pertect deluge ot money in the public lreasury, as well, from duties as ands. It may be safely assumed that the country will have no security for economy in the ap propriations by Congress when the reasury is overflowing with means. No legitimatete effort of the Executive branch can, under such circumstance, restrain the expenditures of the Government within moderate bounds. Ihcso positions are illustrated by the events of the last few years. . The Executive Departments every year submit estimates to Congress of the amounts necessary to carry oii the Government under existing laws. These sums are generally ap propriated, with the addition of such items as Congress themselves may think it necessary or proper to add. How the surplus in the Treasury operated on Congress may be seen by the toiiowing statements ot estimates and appropriations since 1831: Estimates. Appropriations more than was estimated for, was appropriated by Congress to pay their owirex pen ses ho will say that ihePREsiDENT was responsible for the protracted session, or from the applica tion of the money which was expended by their own agents, under the direction of their own officers and committees? ' ' " -At the same session $975,000 were ap propriated for building light-houses, which"was not asked for by the Executive. Yet, who will deny that it was. the duty of the Presi- dekt to cause mis money to ue expeuaea ac cording to the iulentionspf Congress? -These . instances roighf be multiplied; but. enough has been given to Ehow, that for up wards of $36,C00,C00of the appropriations Tor those two years, . Congress, and : not 1 the Executive, are the power which 13 cruelly responsible to the people. Nor is the Executive in the least responsi ble for a large" portion of the estimate. On the contrary, it is the- imperative duty of the several departments to lay before Congress estimates of the amounts which, in their opin ion, will be necessarv in the execution of existing laws. If they wilfully omitted this duty, they would be proper objects of censure, and orooer subiects for impeachment. The number of officers in the army, and their compensation, are fixed by law. it is the indispensable duty of the Executive to in form Congress, by estimate, how much money it 'will tnkp. to nav them. Congress add a new regiment to the army, increasing thereby the number of officers, and of course requiring an increased amount of money for the military service. It is the duty of the Executive there after to increase the estimate accordingly; but is the President, cr any part of his admin istration, censurable for any part of this in crease in the estimates or expenditures'? Some years ago Congress passed an act whlrh added manv thousands to the list of Revolutionary pensioners, requiring an ad ditional annual appropriation and expenditure of about three millions of dollars to meet the claims thus created. Of course the estimates of the Secretary of the Treasury have been, pvpr sinr.fi. two or three millions ereater on that account.- Will any one say that the Ad ministration is at all to blame for this increase of the estimates and expenditures? Congress a few years ago added two judges to the Supreme Court, and largely extended the Federal iudiciary, for the accommodation e iUo riw States, which added to the annual expenditures mi account of the judiciary. It is of course the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to include the amount in his an nual estimates; and is he therefore liable to lUSt In 1S36 an act passed requiring the reven ues of the Post Office Department to be paid into the Treasury, and directing die Postmas ter General every year to submit to Congress an estimate of the amount which will be wan ted for the mail service of the next year. This added at once over four millions of dollars to the annual estimates, which have now increas ed to five, and will go on inccasing as the f . 1 I 1 I J pons oi emrynavo oeen iuu,upa upon our the responsibility of doing so, whatever might l,aya, lakes and rivers; customhouses, and be the consequent increase of the publtc ex- quenty increased in a duo proportion, besides - the necessary increase of officers in the old establishments. An extended frontier has; roauired.an increased army to defend it. An enlarged commerce has required an augment- " cd naVv for it3 protection. Fortifications for .. A ..... ' tne oetence ot our cuies, ana navy yarus ior A few instances will make this matter plain: 'lheact act of 1832, extending the pension- 1 m system, Drougnt into tne war department appli cations tor pensions by ten thousands which required some ten additional clerks at an an nual cost of $13,450 to examine them. Who - tha construction of ships have necessarily does, uot know that it was the duty of" the ad been multiplied Our judiciary system has been enlarged with the extension of .our set tlements. :The Executive Departments have required more torce to discharge the multita rious ministerial duties and settle multiplied - accounts, congress, itselt has greatly in- creased in numbers, and its sessions have been ' prolonged. . The survey and disposi , tiou of the public domain have required a 1831 1832 1S33 1S34 1835 1836 11,S52,911 12,864,099 17,995,581 18,425,417 15,610,232 19,738,933 1S37 22,651,442 It was in 1S3 13,5SS,6S1 18,417,751 21,995,782 21,336,920 18,347,012 39,371,825 39,725,363 Excess of ap propriations overestimates 1,735,770 5,553,652 4,709,201 2,911,503 2,736,7S1 19,632,892 17,073,921 ministration to apply for, and appoint those additional clerks? rrL 1 r ' .t . j. ne proaigious increase in tno sales ol public lands, threw upon the general land of fice more labor than the clerks allowed by law could possibly perform, and in 1836, it be come necessary to ask for, and appoint, seventy-one additional officers and clerks, at an uuumouat annual cost ot $4,DoU to bring up large increase of officers.. Even theiiumber me busineas of the offic t out and importance of civilized commercial na- ,u i i . , , r : and importa tions has greatly increased, increasing the number of. ministers and other agents to maintain our foreign relations. There 13 not a man in the nation who will not admit that these and other incidents to -t T t 11 nr . . Otirgsowui as a uuumi, are ,uuy sumcient to increase of force has nnt kn ; Justify and make necessary a constant in- t w,w. u u: S .T n-oA in trirt-miDilc exrenditiirf Thav ma. , .r . .r. . -.... .VT1' ' rr a- , i . . niusiraie a general principle. We doit to WJ , -rre:;" . r.u : fsnow, that so far Horn bowar -censurable for orer y ,w..6lOTT n increase of the nuhK in;f.,r, -j-w- - im,, to the purchasers. Would not the administra tion have been derelict in duty, if it had not asked for and appointed these clerks, notwith standing the increase of public expenditures therein involved? We mention these cases, not because an :oa and Monroe over both. the public service requires it, the administrs- 6, and the first hnlf ,f ibJ7, that tho enormous accumulalion'of pub lic monpv. rr ra'Vior miTklin -. .1 7 i i took place, and the effect was seen in Ae ap propriation by Congress, which nearly doubled the amount estimated for, bv the Kvntiro Department as necessary to the execution of existing laws, congress lound the money in the Treasury, and they directed the Executive to expend it tor spec died : objects. If there was any thing wronjr about it, the blam hmM attach to Congress, and not to the Administra tion. It is the duty of the President to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed " and this duty is not the less imperative Wi these laws direct the expenditure of money for T " .! in iso,one ot tne appropriations made oy congress, wnicn was not estimated for by the Executive Departments, was $300,000 for completing the canal from Georgetown to Alexandria, in the District of Columbia. Who will say that the President was responsible ior mis appropriation: et, who will deny tiin j..... " i .1 . wfus uta uuiy iu expend me money At the same session the sum of $333,000 - revenue of the Department increases. Yet who will say that the Postmaster General is censurable for increasing the estimates in obedience to law? - These instances, being a few selected from many, are sufficient to prove, that the Execu tive is as little censurable for an increase of the estimates made necessary by acts of Con gress requiting an increase of expenditure, as for special appropriations made by Con gress not included in the estimates. It is iii such cases the bcunden duty ol the Executive to increase the estimates, and the officers of that branch of the Government, each in his appropriate sphere, would be justly liable to impeachment it they did not increase them. Indeed, under our Gaverumcnt, the power of the Executive-over appropriations and ex penditures is very limited. Congress eslab. Iishes salary orhecs, creates an army and navy, directs or authorizes the construction of for tifications and light-house, the improvement of-harbors and riveis, and the settlement of claims against the Government, srenerallv fixes the rate of salary or compensation or restricts the amount in fine, originates every object of expenditure, revises the estimates submitted by the Executive," reduce tar in crease the amounts, makes the appropriations, and causes the expendtures to be reported and published. So far, therefore, as the esti mates, appropriations, or expenditures, are increased by act of Congress, whether right or wrong, the Executive Departments are not responsible Cor them. Their only agency in the matter is to execute the commauds of a higher power in obedience to the Constitu tion and laws, and in conformity with their oaths of office ! Yet, some of the members of that higher power, John Bell, Henkt Clay, Carter, Graves, Stanly, their associates and organs, are now engaged in throwing on the Execu tive the responsibility of their own acts! They tell the people that the public expenditures have been increased by Gen. Jackson and Mr. Van Buren from about thirteen millions of dollars to forty millions. They are not honest enough to tell them that a part of Jhis expenditure is nominal) and that the balance has been required by acts of Congress bft their own votes and often in known oppo sition to the views and wishes of the Execu tive. . : f : In the expenditures of 1S37 were $4,144, 000, which came into the Treasury .from France and Naples, and was paid out to the merchants to whom it belonged, the Govern ment having received it merely as their ageCt. It was the Administration which brought this-pitical money- into the 1 reasury by . . treaty " without the agency of Congress; and now, so Tar from giving credit for the recovery of these old and almost desperate claims on foreign powers, the Federal orators the payment oftt from the Treasury, an evidence of abase -and extravagance? Is thai fair or honest? , r So, in 1636, all thesesmen then in Con gress voted to require the revenues of th Post Office Department to pass through - the Treasury, which now increases the" annual appropriations, over five mill ions- of-dollar, when, in fact, it does not add a cent to the public expenditures as formerly made up- vet they are not honest enough, to inform the 'pjo-' o, incro -was not probably party in Congress who did not vote, tor the pension law of 1S36, which, with subsequent acts of a similar character also voted for by them has added about three millions of dol- Jars to tne annual esiniKv uu.-, but they are not honest enough to say, a word about that! - , ' So, they all voted, and very property, too, to extend the judiciary, and to increase tne force of the Land Uthce. iraieni uuiro, auu Pst Offlre. adding heavy sums to tne annual estimates and expenditures; but they are not hnnnct fimin-li in sav a word about that! - . . 0 j - T-hv urn not honest enouen to eiv&wcuu Un Hmi'irntiAn fnr thn BCPIlisition of millions of dollars from foreign nations, and millions of acres of land tram the Indian tribes, or to say at home that they , voted for the appropriations to carry, the treaties into effect; but are dishonest enough to "denounce the Administration because, in obedience to their own votes, and in accordance with jus tice and the highest public poliey, the money thus acquired, aud the price of the lands thus purchased, have been paid out of the Treasu ry, seemingly increasing the public expendi tures. They are not honest enough to tell the peo ple that Gen. Jackson, by his vetoes on the Maysville Road Bill, and Mr. Clay's Eand Bill, arrested a scheme of profligate expendi tureprojected and passed by these foes of ex travagance, which would have increased the taxes of the people, and swelled the public ex penditures to tens of ntfMious beyond their present rate! r They are not honest enough to tell the peo ple, that their own constant endeavor has been, by every imaginable, device, to increase the appropriations and expendtures, and that ail- though they have too olten succeeded, they have frequently, been baffled and defeated by the friends of the Administration. They are generally not honest enough to tell the people, that the man whom they intend to support against Mr. Van Buren as an instrument to put an end to pretended extrava gance in tlie Executive, is himself the father and promoter of all kinds of extravagance of tarifis and internal improvements of distribu tion bills and gratuities of special privilages and a National Bank; of sorts of ay devices to use the Government acnn instrument to take money out of tho pockets of tho whole people to increase the wealth of a few. , ISo observing man can be mistaken in the fact, that the party which is now denouncing the Administration is itself a party of extrava gance, md that if the people w ish to'pgeserto the liberty of-their money, they" should not place the power ofthev Goverment fu -such hands. , ' We intend to show, by parlicluar cases, that tho leading F ederaiists in Congress have not only voted for, or not voted against, the acts which have required the increase of pub lic expenditures of which they complain, but that they have themselves proposed measures which would, if successful, have required an immeans addition to those expenditures, and plunged the country into a new debt of untold millions! in" colors, which :1heir heated imagination conjures up. : Give us the evidence ma u qal demagogue i-nii . stvlo bim. We may then presume you have some ftrth in i fl as sertion tnat the people 01 v-W.6 tain your nomination for an office, which they have generally preferred contributing to filt by their own judgment, rather than trust to that of others.' Not haviug room to extend our remarks, we would merely inquire "Docs the Journal believe there is any chanco whatever of the success of Col. Troup' If it does not another question " lit not the Support of this gentleman amount not onl to doing nothing (a. policy 'which has cursed Georgia too frequently already,) l"t so acting as to strengthen the hands of those who desire to rally around Clay-"the cham pion of a 50 million Bank; the great lamer oi PrntftrtivR Svstem: the advocate of Infer nal Improvements by tho General Govern ment; and in heart and ill principle a lati tudenous constructionist.'- - NORTH-CAROLINIAN. F.1 'JJTTE I'JJjJE: : Saturday Morning, August 3, l83t. ItEPUBLICAN NOMINATION. FU03I THE SAVANNAH GEORGIAN. THE GEORGIA JOURNAL'S NOMI NATION. The Journal is mistaken when it says in its columns that we are "exceedingly annoyed at the position which certain Georgia news papers assume, in reference to the Presiden cy," and gives us credit for a faculty we leave altogether to that paper to exercise. The Journal has admitted all we desired to wit, that it was itself the sole authority for the nomination of Col. Troup. . f- i Of course,, every man has a right to do pleased" with himself and may form the hifihest opinion of his own sagacity, without rerard to the views of others. On these con ditions we are disposed to give tho Journal every credit for its "satisfactory authority" but the people of Georgia may be inclined to take auolhcrview of the matter, and not be so very well satisfied as the Journal seems to be. In one remark, we differ with the Journal. It seems to think that it is not "accountable" for its public sentiments. Now, we hold that the Georgian, the Journal, and every other newspaper, are "accountable" to public opin ion and are bound to explaiu their positions when called on. ' JLhc Journal may say that ithas only dis claimed to be accountable to "Ttc Georgian" for its recommendation. In so disclaiming, we hold that he evades responsibility to pub lic opinion, for the Press is the vehicle of that opinion. But the Journal has condescended to give us his authority. The editor says "We. have nominated him," (Gov; Troup) "because he is not only every way, qualified to fill the important station, but because he is opposite of the political-demagogue whose name is at the head of the Savannah Geor gian." Again "We nominate him. hfr.-ie -we believe the people of Georgia will sustain nomination." for congress: William A. Morris. "Tlic J?lii lis tines he upon thee . Sampson' People of the country! Democrats! Re publicans! Arouse; and muster your forces at the polls! The city and town Aristocrats, the Federal Bank office-seekers,; backed by the, money power, and credit system, are up on thee with their hosts! In the might of the Democracy, jQikc the growth of Samp son's hairs,) prove that the locks of your conquering strength are not shorn: Take on your, giant shoulders the gates of the Federal Gaza. Uplift the house, with the whole host'of the Federal Pliilistia within it,, tumble the walls of the frail tenement about their ears! You'liave but to will it, and the great work is accomplished. Soup with your ban ner, and raising -the war cry of Morris and' Democracy, against Deberry ami Federal Whiggery; redeem this Congressional Dis trict from the grapp of the office seekers! Shout aloud, through the whole District, and arouse every free voter, who regards hi3 rights, to fall into the Democratic Republican ranks, and rally round the ballot box. TO THE POLLS! ..TOTHE POLLS! CO-Let not one Democrat fail to vote next Thursday. , y ' , ' . the Now, we have not a word to urire TUT r xr . "6""' .gw-iroiip. ue is a gentleman of mat scnooi in wmcb we learned the first prin ciples of devotion to our country our State The first balloe ever cast into the box; jusfl ly termed the Conetitutional remedy for unconstitutional laws" was to" mdinV w m&fhoi we believe as pure asthe mountain ptofour own Georgia, and as fearlesaas 4 nor sons. .riace him whim AT.: ,ir t . . , -cwtiu."' van Buren is Jet him. be the choice of pariv we beUeve, to be striving to carry out hiT,2! 'Uical principles, and'wc avh,LI uch.: tlS.? er to . t- . . w uenncr Avould we if r-Tr a y' uecr? 11,3 lalr fame to add a cubit to the stature of Vn It.,-- tJz p ora.0 PwZf Georgia, to believe, for a r f 'ackson, by those who fo7 lack of argument would hurl the AundoSolt bf he.r wrath upon the heads of the adminYstraf tion. Troup, we have a right to does justice to the nlitli : J?. ?e"T hashed the eno?ClaK Z?g most because he fought them with I-lg weapon or taab and honestv H-would-be admirers. ho "f"' - The attention of every voter in our Congressional District, who reads this, is particularly invited to the three letter 3 "printed below. The first tivo arc the letters written by Dr. Montgomery, to the : Editor of this paper, and presented by him, to Mr. William A. Morris, at the County Court of Cumberland, held the first Monday in June last, for the purpose 6f di recting him in ascertaining Mr. Deberry's votes on the appropriations. The third letter is the letter writ ten by Air. Dtberry to Mn Hale, published last week in the Observer and the Carolinian, and also issued in the form of a "circular' accompanied by a few remarks over the signature of "Alany Whigs," from the office of the Observer, on Monday evening last. " "' ,Mr. Morris has been bitterly assailed, with unmea sured abuse by the Qbserver and his political, friends for exhibiting the first two of these'lettcrs before tho people. - . ... Dr. Alontgomcry has been assailed with equal vi rulence in the Observer, for making false charges in these letters against Afr. Dcberry,,and improperly interfering in the Canvass for Congress, in this Dis trict. x Let the voters of the District examine for them selves, as to the truth of these charges against Mr Morris ancj Dr. Alontgomcry, by a careful examina tion ar:d comparison the letters themselves. : - Air. Dcberry says, "he found a number of bills, mak ing appropriations to the amount of $26,1 893 1 had passed the Hous, without the yeas 'and' nays being taken on their passage." Here, remark, Mr Dcberry docs not, and durst not say, he voted against one dollar of this sumj so, by his own sheog, we have a right to say he voted for it: as his Icif, published expressly to shew the peoole hnw K, Ai i ote; he does not deny voting for if, ami did not caU jur me yeas and nays, -t Air. Deberry in his letter says, further, that "on the passage of the bills, for which he did vote, the yeas Jfy8 UkeB ': only pne of them, of 5I,O0,000 to suppress Indian Hoslililir. li. j ded to the former sum makes S2T,1S8,231. for He saya further, "the yeas '.alfa nav ..i on five p-theig, which I voted against, including the appropr,ation8ade intbm issuing Treasury notes, of 80,00 each t tU. ... f epd sessions, to pay the expense of their issue." -uW, wnat nve biUs are these whicbr are all that e says her voted against? He mention-iA r fivchimself -for 820,000 each, and abn, what they were for. He does not deny that the tlaVbor Bill for 8 1,535,00s,. 3, mentioned in Dr. Aft ry'a leUer, was a thirdne of them, that'he "Voted against. Add the amouat of these Jhree bills to the sumof82T,lS8,23I,before MMrft,j11 makes 8,TG3,23,3. Addttaihe " of 8,046,0, being the two 521 IV1 1- k,ha - - t hick, ana we . haw th . v.:;:!;-"cvereyns van bu- ian- 5ver vary- rehthrouah a kalpid! 'r 1 "c . ,v rvi,Vi UA men- own man. Now, Mr. DcberrVs letter f,... .. ake an aggregate of upward. of 3T.Ooi.OoT eitafrL "I"0"' taxe it at the sum he seta dmm : a . the3G,8po,e0.3 fV." 7' UCJ imdwe have the sum of loi.sVettr Z Z amount of th .?' TT TMu, Z """TS 01113 01 the five which S and SOIO th at the paasa-e nf 7 ZZr w lwo Dllw. v4iwjwaa iok, and
The North Carolinian (Wilson, N.C.)
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