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jnr ihem presented. In my case they were pre sented and referred to Committees on subjects U on ..ri.ich Congress had the right to act. I am a Tory and Abolitionist. Air., Clay nnd Mr.Shepperd pre- ,.nt and have them rcterred to tne Committee on he District of Columbia. Those gentlemen are Vliigs and patriots. Lc-t us now see how stand Mr. Van Buren and Gen. Harrison on this question. Mr. Van Buren, in a letter in answer to one addressed to him by certain gentlemen, a part of whom were then op posed te his election, uses the following conclusive language: -Ware ft lith, 1B3U. "I recognize, in the fullest extent, the propriety of- every dollar, bv the banks of your own State this desire on your part, to know his opinions, and . .1 " . ..... ' although there is nothing in your letter making the whenever they stop paying specie for their notes. T - tli.. t 1 ...... 1 . . . . li avowal necesBiii j, mai ijv. i.mjr jiu, uui mi the people of the United Statfs, shall now under stand that if the desire of that portion of them which is favorable to my elevation to the Chief Magistra cy shoul 1 be gratified, I must go into the Presiden tial Chair the inflexible and uncompromising oppo nent of any attempt on the part of Congress to abolish slavery in tho District of Columbia, "against the wishes of the slaveholding States; and, also, with tho A -termination equally decided to resist the slightest interference with the subject in the States whera it exists." To this pledge, thus candidly given, lie still ad heres. Gen. Harrison, in 1822, when a cantTi late for Congress, in his add ess to the public, usis the fol low ing language: "I am accused of being friendly to slavery. From my earliest youth to the present moment I have been the ardent friend of human liberty. Jil the aire of eighteen I became a member of an Abolition Society, established in Richmond, Virginia; the ob ject of which was to ameliorate the condition of Slav s, and procure their freedom by every legal ' means. The obligations trhich I then came under I hare faithfully performed." Let us see the legal means by wlikh Gen. Har rison proposes to discharge these obligations. In 1S25 he held the following language: ''Should I be asked if there b : no way by which the General Government can aid the cause of Emancipation? I answer that it has long been an object near my heart to see the whole of the surplus National Revenue appropriated to that object. With the sanction of the States holding slaves, there ap pears to be no constitutional objection to its being applied, embracing not only the colonization of those that may be otherwise freed, but the i urchase of the freedom of others. By a zealous prosecution of a plan fjrmed upon ths basis we might look for ward to a day not fir distant when the North Amer ican Sun .uij ncti,;.i down upon a Slave." L, tii!s piopi sKio i, so peer t Uen. Harrison's heart, he claims tor Congress the power of appro -r;at;ng "the vrhcle of the surplus National Jitvc mu" fo emancipation. G(n. Harrison is a Tariff man, aive h m the power he asks for Congress, and he w 11 tax the South to raise a revenue, and then a; ply it to emancipate their slaves. As to the "s. nction ot the States:" 1 heir consent can confer no power on Congress, not already granted bv the Constitution. Concede this power and a m jority ot congress will soon be found to tree our slaves, without such aan-tion. If Gen. Harrison wishes to r move all doubt as to his opinions, kt him an swer your inquiry. If his friends in the Sou! h be as anxious to protect their country as tiiey are zea lous for the success of the:r party, let them call up on bun to answ er. A word to his friends and supporters. ?Co can did man cm deny tha fact that he owes his noiuina ti miotic influence of the Abolition party. I.i Congress, at its present session, on the proposition t exclude Abolition memorials a proposition in tended to be so worded by the Whigs as to drive from its support the Democratic members from the Is'orth only one supporter of Harrison from a non slavvhol.iing State voted for it; whereas twenty seven Democrats were found in its support, and to them, are we indebted for its passage, as the vote stood 114 for, and 1 18 against. Such are the facts and circumstances involved in this matter, from which are to be deduced the fol lowing cunculsiuns: 1. That the mtrnoi ials pre sented by me, wore from the Society of GLuakcrs, in principle and religion opposed to slavery cm bracing matters on which Congress wa then ac ting. 2. Thespccialref riT.ee to Committees, not having cognizance of the Abo'ition of Slavery, was no admission, on my part, of the powrr of Con ?res l? act on tnat question, and a negative of any fair inference r.f my concurrence in the wish s of the meni;;rh.lis:s. 3. The presentment of a me mo ial from the same Society by my successor, nnd its referenc to the Committee on the District of Columbia, and his support by Mr. Morehead and the Whig party, with a knowledge of the fact; is a full answer to their present out-ry against me. 4. That Martin Van Bnren is pledged to veto any bill that may be passed by Congressj whereas General Harrison has net given, and rUiisrs to give, any fr-uch pledge. Lastly, The votes of the Vhi rnem bers in Congress fioui the non sLv, holdino-lstates, establishes ths alarming fact, of what they would do, had they the majority. With such facts as these brfore them, I have no fears but that the people of our State will do jus! ice to themselves and to the country, and in doing that they will do justice to me. And though the ser pents of faction may hiss around the altar, the pat riotic devotion of our people will preserve inviolate the Constitution and Union of our beloved country; whilst the cause of Liberty and Democracy shall rise triumphant, so long as we enjoy the high pri- '.-sui i.prcscmative tjrovernment. With sincere respect, Your obedient servant, R. M. SAUNDERS. ansiocraey or the Government an.l Opprcs- r ewj mm me jnoney 1 o wer. Asainst Democracy or the Will of the Whole People. (Continued.) i here is a class in this country; as well as England, who are aristocrats, and the chief mark which points them out, is the mere pos session and control of money and property. 1 his class of people have the management of the hanks in almost every instance; and we mean to show that ihcy have more power in their hands, than the government ol the United States or the States. We last week exposed the tyranny and inso lence of conscious power, in the United Slates Bank, as an enemy in the field of political quar rel, under its leader and President waging war against the government, and we showed that he same Bank, (under another charter,) was still struggling lor power in hopes that by the election of Harrison, it may again get the public treasure to lend out. How powerlul the struggle of this crippled out huge monster is, for prolonging its existence to the destruction of liberty, let every one see who observes the efforts of the Pennsylvania Legislature to compel it to resume specie pay ments. How uncontrolable this 35 million Bank is, let it be observed that so long as it pleases to refuse the payments of it notes in specie, so lor.g W1'l all the banks in our State remain in the same situation. Yes! The cry is, whatever t!e banks in Philadelphia do as to paying out ecie, all the banks in our State must do also. disproves that our own banks hold us in bondage and the old Biddle monster in Phila delphia holds our banks in bondage. This, shows a wheel within a wheel, both little; Take the town of Fayetteville lor an example, as it is the most familiar, and nearest home. The banks here refused to pay specie for their notes, and the result that every hundred dollars of their money which jou hold lulls six dollars below what it was worth before they refused. It will buy six dollars in amount of merchandize, less than it would -before they refused to pay specie. Here then, you are taxed six dollars in every hundred, or six cent in THE NOHBTIHI - C ABOILINIAN . 6 mums; to powder the best interests and ihere- the dearest rights of the citizen. No government over your heads has the Pwer that your banks have. Just look at it a And every man is this dav sufl'erino- ir ihai r- ...... amount from the stoppage of the banks in this Stale. But some lriend of the Bank power, may tell you this is all a "humbug." He may say you are not taxed six dollars in the hundred by the stoppage of your banks. Well, enquire fairly into the truth of this. We do not wish tt5 mislead you,- but only to let you see the naked truth, that you may judge whether it is not worth while to rouse up and oppose the evil. If you area merchant in Clinton, Wadesbo rough, Rockingham, Fayetteville or elsewhere in our State or District, and owe a debt in New York for goods bought there, last Tall or last spring, and come to a New York agent in this place, or his attorney, with money of the State or Cape Fear Bank, to pay the debt, you know thalyou must pay six dollars premium in the hundred to a broker to buy a check or draft on New Yoik, or else advance the agent 106 dol lars of our State money for every 100 dollars you owe him. Is this any "humbug?" Is not this a tax put upon you by the mismanagement ol the power put into the hands of banks, by their charters? You must answer yes, i( you tell the truth. Well, this surely is any thing else but a mere "humbug-." But, if you are a merchant, you tell us, this loss of the six dollars, is no tax on us; it doe3 not fall on our sIiduIucT. Gir when we sell our goods, we raise the price six dollars in the hundred higher to make up the loss; and when we buy any thing from the wagons or farmers, wc are obliged to give (hem six dollars in the hundred less than we did before the bank .stopped, in order to make up the loss. So then, the merchant is not the loser bv - -j litis tax in the end. But what has ihe wagoner to say to it? What has the farmer to say to it, who holds the plough, when he sees he gets six dollars less in tlie hundred lor his labor, and pavs six dollars more in the hundred for his sugar a fd coliee, sait and iron and every lhinir that lie buys? Will the farmers and wagoners say litis is a 'humbug? Do the managers of hanks think that these plain county people are so ignorant, are such fools that ihey cannot understand a matter so plain? Do the friends of banks think they can gull Ihe intelligent larmer of this free land, into the belief that this oppression ol the banks is al1 a "humbug? If your Legislature should tax you six dollars in every hundred ofyour money and property, you would call that, no "humbug." No! You would almost rebel; you would Nullify; you would turn out '.he men that passed the law, and they wou'd be branded as tyrants and op pressors. You would not pay the tax if you could avoid it bv any reasonable means. But the bank; lax you, (as we have been trying to show) and because thev have done it so lon and so often in the same way that they do now, and have, ever since last October, your necks have got used to the yoke! It does not even chafe or gall you at all! You work as o-entleas the best broke oxen! The banks Dat vou on the neck (by a small loan now and then,) and like good cattle, you switch your tails, and go ahead, with any load they please to put on you. If an editor on the Democratic side, dares tor tell you of these things, and warn you of the danger ofyour liberties, some bank editor laughs at it and argues, with, all possible gravity that it is all a "humhugthat it is not'the banks that do this mischief, but that it is General Jackson Well, the best way we know of, to find Dut the truth, is, to treat the subject in a plain fa miliar manner, and stale nothing but what all parties, both Democrats and Federalists, or the advocates of the banks, or Whigs, oi whatever you please to call them, will admit to be the truth. The friends of President Jackson and Presi dent Van Buren, say that they are not to blame for I his six dollar tax; but that the manao-ers of the banks themselves are to blame for it. The friends of the banks say that they (the managers of the banks) are not to blame for it; but that President Jackson and President Van Buren are to blame for it. Let us see how the truth stands, as to what these opposite parties say about this matter. In the first place the enemies of General Jackson, have been complaining of his "war upon the currency," (as they call it.) ever since May 1832, when he refused to put his name to a new charier for the old United States Bank. That act of his, they say, was the commence ment of the evil, and the main cause of the pre sent six dollar bank lax, which does so much mischief. And the opposition parly have been laboring from that day to the present, a space of now nearly eightyears to prove this charge against President Jackson. - On the floor of Congress, Mr. Clay, Mr. Webster, Mr. Adams, and Judge White, all of them since that time, candidates for the office of President, with many other members, hare been delivering speeches to prove this charge true against General Jackson, and to render Mr. Van Buren unpopular for "following in the foot steps of General Jackson. Speeches have been sent out to the people by the thousand. News papers, by the hundred, have done little else in these last eight years, but strive to show that this charge against General Jackson is true, and that Mr;, Van Buren is as much to blame as General Jackson. Democratic members, on the other side, (men, not candidates for the Presidency,) have sup ported the two Presidents and blamed the banks and their friends. They have sent their speech es amongst the people. Newspapers, friendly to the two Presidents, (though not half so numerous as their adversaries) have upheld this act ol General Jackson, against Mr. Bid dies Bank, and blamed the banks and their friend 8 for the derangement in money matters. Now, what has been the result of all this-effort to blame President Jackson, and uphold the banks? What have the people of the United States' said at the ballot box, after all this writ ing and speaking to them on both sides? In November 1332, six months after General Jackson's veto of the Bank charter; the Great Jury of the whole people gave their verdict in his favor and elected him a second time, after trying him four years. Mr. Clay was then the Bank candidate, or opposition candidate for the Presidency. Well, what was the further result of ali this hot contention and party strife? The further result was, that in November 1836, the same Great Jury, with all the facts, and all the evidence before them, were again etnpannelled, and again they gave a verdict in favor of thh measure of General Jackson's and against the Bank party or opposition parly, by electing Mr. Van Buren President, who was pledged to "follow in the foot steps" of General Jackson. Mr. Webster, Wiliiam H. Harrison and Judge White were the Bank or opposition candidates at that election. Do not these two solemn verdicts of an in te li tre ni and enlightened people, settle this question forever? or are they such fools that they cannot understand so plain a question, when every man of them is so directly interested to give a right verdict? The friends of the banks say, that the people gave a wrong verdict on both these trials. liii?'1''" 'he Deonle were not nrnnprlv inform. - - i i i -j ' - ed, or not suitable judges, or that General Jack son's popularity as a "military chieftain" over awed them, and that ihey ought to have electee William H. Harrison instead of Mr. Van Buren Harrison is no greater, nor wiser, nor better, nor no less a "military chieftain" now, than he was in 1S36. The people were informed, and were proper judges, and were not so weak as to be overawed by General Jackson, or any body else in 1832 and 1836; and in 1840 (next November) the venire will be returned and they will be empannelled again. And their verdict will be, again -for the people and against the banks. Treason against the South X We republish an extract of a letter from John Qttincy Adams, and beg to C3ll more particular attention to it. This extract, with the actual proofs of Harrison's often expressed and long cherished desire to see slavery abolished, will arouse every southern man to a sense ot the danger which threatens the millions of property in slaves, if not the bloody horrors of a scene like that which abolitionists accomplished in St. Domingo. Who are the leaders of this dangerous trea son at the North? We do not mean preachers and fanatic leaders, but great political leaders. We refer you to Adams' own words and his own course in Congress, to show that he is one of their chief leaders. His letter proves it- What is the object of this conspiracy against the south.' we nave no Hesitation in assertion- that the great object of the fanatics is not the good of the slaves, but solely and substantially, to elect a Whig President and by gaining influ ence in Congress, to prevent the addition of any new slave Slate to the Union, and "gradu ally weaken the strength of the len slave States in Congress, until they can finally amend the Constitution, destroy the compact by which the South may loose twenty-five members in Con gress. Tlais is not the only instance in which Adams has expressed his bitter hostility to the compromise by which our slaves entitle us to twenty-five members in Congress. When the subject of nullification was before Congress, Adams took occasion to speak of our slaves as "southern machinery," and openly avowed that if the Constitution was to be form ed anew Ihe north would not "compromise" against their interests, so far as to allow three- filths of the slaves to be represented in Con gress. And again, when the Abolition peti tions were rejected, during this session of Con gress, Adams gave the south fair warning that the subject was not done with by that rejection, and that the South need not think to get clear of the measure so slightly. Will any body in the south doubt for a moment, that this man is favorable to Abolition? No! reader, no body doubts that he is an Abolitionist of the most dangerous character; he desires not the aboli tion of slavery only, but the abolition of the Constitution which guards and guarantees it. The mere fanatic religionist looks on the surface, and would lop the branches off the tree, but this man Adams, looks further and strikes deep er. His blows are at the root, and nothing will satisfy his purposes but the destruction of the constitution itself, knowing that while that stands, the rights of the south are safe. These opinions of such a man as Mr. Adams are surely not to be lightly overlooked. They are not the- mere passionate out-break of his splen etic humors, when in a state of excitement and irritation, for this letter of his is a reply to a committee nominating him for Congress. , Mr. Adams position shows that one of the leading opposition men, heads and gives life to this dangerous conspiracy in the State of Mas sachusetts. Governor Camp's letter in another column of this paper, shows that there are three thousand Whig Abolitionists in Vermont, and that he does not know more than a dozen, be longing to the Democratic party in that State. The entire Whig vote in the New York Legislature against Mr. Mann's resolution and in favor of abolition, published- in our paper last week; shows lhat the Abolition party in that state are Whigs. Do the south conceive that there is no danger from this union of fanatic madness with the politics of th'e country. Let every, man observe, that the leading- federal Northern Whig, Adams, expressly says in this letter that Mr. Van Buren is with the south, and that the fanatics cannot trust him. If they trust Harrisorij what can be the reason? .Let every reader look calmly on these lacts and act with the deliberation and impartiality mat tneir importance should 6Utrest. Extract from a letter from J. Q. Adams, dated Quincy, October 27, 183S, to a com mittee appointed to inform him of his no- munition as a candidate to the 26th Con gress. I regret that I am not enabled to indolo-n with equal confidence the hope that the right w I'cuiiuu ana tne treeaom ot debate, smoth ered as they have been for nearly three years in the legislative halls of the nation, will be restored in all iheir plenitude and all their purity. Mavery shrinks, and will shrink, from the eye of the day. Northern subser viency to Southern dictation is the price paid by a Northern Administration for Southern support. The people of the North will sup port by their suffrages the men who have truckled to Southern domination and their Representatives have not been shamed out of the distinction between refusing to receive and refusing to read a petition. I believe it is impossible that this total subversion ofeverv principle of liberty should be much longer ! suomilted to by the people of the free Stales of ii tun. a j ui. weir iaie is in meir own hands. If they choose to be "represented bv slaves," they will find servility enoueh to re present and betray them. I have seen with pleasure that even among the most devoted supporters of the present Administration, there have been here and there one, who refused to sacrifice his own rights, and those of his con stituents, to the shrine of party idolatry. i nese, nowever, have been solitary excep tions. The snirit of tnip. frppdom is not vt sufficiently awake, and while she slumbers, all the vigils of the watchman will be in vain. The suspension of the right of petition, the suppression of the freedom of debate, the thirst for the annexation of Texas, the war whoop of two successive 'Presidents of the United States against Mexico, are all but varied symptoms of a deadly disease, seated in the marrow of our bones; and that deadly disease is slavery. THE UNION WILL FALL BEFORE IT, OR IT BEFORE THE UNION. The abolition of slaver; in the District of Columbia, or in the Terri tory of i? londa, the prohibition of internal piracy between the States, the refusal to admit another slave contaminated State into the Union, are all partial ineffective plasters for the great elemental evil. "They will but skin an J, film the ulcerous patt, w mie rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen." I believe it important that the inhabitants of the Twelfth Congressional District of Mas sachusetts should be forewarned, that durinp- the 26th Congress the whole system of the Executive Administration of the Govern ment ot this Union, and all its prominent measures, foreign and domestic, will be, as they have been, and now are, to support, strengthen, and perpetuate the regular mstitu tions of the South. The extermination of the Indian race; the wasteful dilapidation of the public lands; the deadly hostility of internal improvement; the insidious crippling of do mestic industry; the ridiculous imposture of an exclusive metallic currency for the reve nues and expenditures of the nation; the enormous increase of a standing army, and the simultaneous slanders upon the navy and its gallant officers; the sycophantic courtship of the Democracy of numbers, and the ran corous instigation of labor against capital to the summary justice of lynching all these ways and means of JN orthern Administration with Southern principles, have one and the same origin, and are gathering to one issue the riveting in enternal bondage the chains of your Southern countrymen of African decent. As a further evidence of this ABOLITION TREASON against the south, see the follow ing extract: Extract from an article in the Springfield III. Old nickory, ticaaca conspiracy against the njjhts of the People of the United States. A foul plot atiiecica. Durins the past season, the Abolitionists' and Abolition newspapers had shown themselves against Mr. Clay, and had given the most decided manifestations in favor of Gen. Harrison. To abandon Mr. Clay to secure the co-oDera- tion of the ABOLITIONISTS and to procure the nomination of Gen. Harrison, to whom the Anti- Masons and Abolitionists were supposed to be at tached was now the object of the Federal leaders. To serk this alliance openly, they dare not. To proclaim the motive publicly and openly, would be fatal. But to secure the nomination of Harrison, it was necessary that it should be known all over the Union, that the Abolitionists' and Anti-Masons would give him their support. With this view, the "Central Abolition Committep," at Albany, in New York, got up the following Circular, which was directed by Mr. S. Dewitt Bloodgood.a leading Abolitionist in Albany, to various leading men of the Federal party in all the States of the Union instructing them to urge their delegates in the Harrisburg Convention to go for Harrison. . One of these Circulars was sent to Mr. Simeon Francis, the editor of the Sangamo Journal, sup posing, from his station, that he could influence the vote of Illinois. Mr. Francis and the whole Fed eral party of the State, had long been for Clay. And as the vote of this State was cast for Harrison in the Harrisburg Convention, and as all the lead ins Federalists of this State, about that time, be came very friendly to Gen. Harrison, we have ev ery reason t believe that it was under the influ ence of the ABOLITION and ANTI-MASONIC CIRCULAR. Here is the Circular, together with the letter of Mr. Bloodgood: This Abolition Circular, with Bloodgood's letter, and the whole article in "The Old Hick ory" enclosed with a short communication from Messrs. Donglass, Hickex, Walters, Dille and Taylor, the Democratic Central Committee of Illinois, to the editor of the Standard, were re ceived too late and are too long for insertion' this week, and will appear in our next. There is not the slightest question of their being genu ine, as the committee write to Mr. Loring that "The originals are in our possession, with the signature of Mr. Bloodgood in his proper hand writing.' If its' authenticity be denied, we are prepared to prove it." See the whole matter pubisbed in the Standard this week. Here then, is the grand consummation of the Federal (Whig!) Treason, displayed and para ded in the overt act of William Henry Harri son's nomination at Harrisburg. Here too is evidence that this dangerous con spiracy was a general preconcerted movement among the Avhole Federal (Whig!) party in a the States, Ibr the editor of The Old Hickory states that "the circular was directed by Mr, S. Dewitt Bloodgood, a leading Abolitionist in Albany. TO VARIOUS LEADING MEN OF THE FEDERAL PARTY IN ALL THE STATES OF THE UNION!!! Wonder who were these "leading men" in North Carolina! Was such a circular received by any Central Whig Committee-man in the Old North? Speak out. Sneak out. senile men, and say whether you received, or did know of such a circular before vour great Har risburg Convention met? The man who received such a letter and kept it secret, and permitted his party delegates to meet in lhat Convention, and vote for Harri son, deserves the name of traitor. If Jo'.m C. Calhoun, Mr. Shepherd, and General McKay, had left their seats in Congress, to visit Raleigh and meet a full delegation of Democrats from all the counties in the State to eat a great din ner, drink wine and make electioneering flourishes for Mr. Van Buren, how loud and long would have been the opposition shouts about corruption in, of fice, spending the people's money for corrupt elec tioneering purposes! Clay, Wise, and Bott?, go to Richmond in Virginia, on the eve of an election there for members of Assembly, expressly to elec tioneer for Harrison, and the opposition hurrah boys throw up their cap j, and boast of the monstrous din ner, (given to Mr. Clay forsooth.) The Richmond Enquirer assures us uat these federal hangers on to Mr. Rives' tail, will have their dinner-labors for their pains. The Republicans of the Old Dominion, cannot be transferred like sheep in the market, by Rivea' de sertion. Tbey will not submit to bcCGffiS ihe mere tail after any man's movements. The Observer, the org-an of "Ephraim's" 'ail, and the opposition's nose in this town, is "nose and tail" in full cry with the Harrison abolition pack of the north this week. Play out the play, Mr. Editor. Shout your loudest shouts" with these traitors of the north. Your course is exhibiting a most notable attachment to the interests of the South. Join in publishing the hurrahs for Harrison, from the abolition regions of Ohio, Vermont, Massachusetts, New Fork, &c. which procured his nomination. Everv shot will count one dead pidgcon to Harrison's hopes in Ihe Old North. xne vjuserver says mat Harrison s letter n our paper last week, acknowledging that he was an abolitionist at the age of eighteen, is a forgery. If it is, the xclug abolition paper from which the Richmond Enquirer extracted it, is the forger. It is genuine abolition whig thun der. The Observer must not repudiate it; he is obliged to swallow the whole dose, Blood -good's circular included. Dont gag at the nauseous potion, Mr. Editor, but shut your eyes and gulp.it all down.- The Observer, Register and Advertiser, make a great out-cry about the appointment of Mr Jones, as Marshall in the place of General Dani el whose term of office had expired, and who is a rich man, and has held the office thirty-two years. How lustily these office-seekers whine when the pap bottle is taken-from their lips. Their party removed one hundred and twenty Democrats from office and filled their places with Federalists in one day, in New York. If General Harrison is elected, the Observer's sense of delicacy would not allow him to print tho laws and advertisements of the Unitod States and receive pay for it. Is it posible? What immacu late purity! Do whig committees ever pay this editor for electioneering circulars? Does' the Ob server printfree of charge, for the Committee of Finance of this County? Do let us hear. The Baltimore Convention. We agree with the Patriot, that South Carolina ought to be represent ed in the approaching Convention to nominate democratic candidates for the Presidency and Vice Presidency. It is high time that cur State should get off her stilts, and exercise her just and propvr influence in relation to the chief Magistracy of the Union. Her old position of keeping al.of f.om the contest for the Presidency, as "a degrading scram ble for office," in which it is unbecoming her dignity to engage, savours strongly of the ridiculous any one, with ba'f an eye, can see that this is but ploy ing the old game of sour grapes. Let Mr. Calhoun, or any other of her fa voi ite statesmen stand a fair chance for a nomination, and she will be ready enough, and even foremost, lo scramble for the prize. We take it for granted that South Carolina intends to cast her vote for Mr. Van Buren, and if so, she need not be above taking part in his nomina tion. As Mr. Van Buren will certainly, and of course, receive the nominaron for the Presidency, from the approaching convention, we admit it to be of little consequence, so far as he is concerned, whether South Carolina be represented or not. Charleston Courier. WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT. Corrected weekly for the JVorA Carolinian. Brandy, peach, " apple, Bacon, Beeswax, Butter, Bale Rope, Cotton Yarn, Coffee, Cotton, Cotton Bagging, Corn, Candles, F. F.- Flaxseed, Flour, Feathers, Lard, Salt, per bushel,- Sack, Tobacco, leaf Bale Rope, Wheat, W hiskey, Wool, Iron, bar, Molasses, Nails, cut, Sugar, brown", " lurrp, " loaf, FAYETTEVILLE. 9 0 45" 00 37 00 7 00 23 17 00 8 18 00 12) 00 6 00 16 60 00 18 1 00 ' 4 00 40 10 80 2i 4 a 8 a a 30 a 17 a 5 a 33 a 7 a 8 a 16 a IS a $00 S4 00 42 00 8 00 25 22 00 10 26 00 131 00 81 00 20 65 00 20 1 10 41 00 00 90 21 5 10 80 35 20 6 34 71 124 00 20 00 00 00 lyitMnsGTosr. " -00 s Bacon, - -. Butter, Beeswax, scarce, Bale Rope, dull, Brandy, apple, Corn, per bushel," Coffee, Cotton, per 100 lbs. Cotton Bagging, dull, Flour, per bbl. Gin, American, Lime, cask, Molasses, Pitch, at the Still, Rice, per 100 lbs. Rum, N. E. Rosin, scarce Sugar, brown, Turpentine, soft, per bbl. Turpentine, hard Tar, per bbl. Pitch do Rosin, do Flooring boards, m. Wide do do Scantling do Timber, river rafts, a $00 9 Itf- s' 25 22 a ' -24 6 a 8 55 a 00 55 a L0 11 a 13 71 8 1-2 20 a 6 a 7 55 a 1 25 a I 75 30 a 35 2 00 a 2 25 275 a 3 00 40 a 45 1 50 a 00 8 a 1 80 a half price f 00 a 2 00 a 2 25 a 1 50 8 50 a 9 50 5 50 a 6 50 a 4 50 4 00 a 6 00 The Observer speaks of a letter he has seen from General Harrison, in reply to queries about Abolitionism. Why not publish the letter, and .let the public read far themselves? Come, show your hand Mr. Editor; don't "sleeve the cards." Did the editor of the Observer ever hear of Bleodgood's circular before'' In Clay's late'elcctioneering trip to Virginia, Mr. Bolts, his companion on the tour, declared in a public speech, that Mr. Clay's services would be re quired by the opposition, as the successor of General Harrison, if Harrison should be elected. So, the Great Western is still at work for number one. He leads out Harrison, so that he may dance the latter end of the jig himself. Three months of the session of Congress had passed, and but one bill enacted into a law. Mr. Lumpkin introduced a resolution to adjourn in May. The Committee on elections have report ed that the Democratic members from New Jersey had a majority of the legal votes. So much for Pennington's broad seal. The salary of the Com missioner of Pensions has been reduced from $3,000 to $2,500. Those who voted for this, should re duce their per diem pay as members, from $3 to $S and so of other offices, or else let the whole matter remain as it is. LOST OR MISLAID. A NOTE of hand made by William Faison, Jr. payable to me, and bearing date February, 1839, and payable one day after d.i te, for the amount of three hundred and twenty four dollars. I hereby forwarn all persons from trading for said note, as satisfaction has been made bv said Faison to me. RICHARD SALMON. Sampson county, N. C. March 14, 1840. ' THIS day personally appeared before me. one of the acting Justic.-s of the peace for said ccunly Richard Salmon, and maketh oath to the above. Everett Carr, j. p, 55 If. ALL persons having claims acainst the Estate of the late Mrs. Sarah Thomas of this coun ty are requested to present them for payment (pro perly authenticated) to either of the subscribers! JOHN WESLEY THOMAS. MARIA THOMAS. Cumberland County, N. C. Marcri 14th 1840. 55 4t JN 0 T I C E. The opposition' do not propose to assume the pay ment of the two hundred millions of state debts openly, but they come at the same thing by a dis tribution bill of the public lands. This is like "come out here McCarty," and "McCarty, come out here." We have prepared an article in' reply to' the Ob server's most totally ill founded attack upon Mr Henry, the Chairman of our late meeting in this county. It will appear next veek. Cession of the Caiifornias. A letter appears in the New Orleans papers, stating that the British Minister is negotiating for a cession of the two Caiifornias to Great Britain. This would be an extraordinary move on ihe Chess boardand one, which we could not help view ins with the keenest suspicion. The letter adds, that Mr. Packenham is likely to .succeed en forced, as the proposition is, by British gold. Richmond inquirer. THE Subscribe-had the misfortune to loose on Thursday of last week, the following notes of hand or bonds, (to wit. ) One on David Barksdale, payable one day after date, for the sum of eighty seven dollars and flfry cents, and dated the 2nd'day of March instant. One other note for one hundn d dollars, on the said David Barksdale, payable one day after date, and dated on the 5th of March inst. Also one receipt from under the hand of William Killen, for two nofrs of hand in his hands for col lection as a Constable in Cumberland County, the said two notes amounting to about sixty dollars as well as I now recollect. The subscriber hereby forwarns all persons from trading or trafficing tor said notes or receipt, and forwarns the said Barks dale and Killen from paying the money for the said notes into the hands of any person excrpt himself. PHILEMON CONN ELY. Fayetteville, March 14th, 1840. 55 3t-pd. HORSE STOLEN. THE Subscriber's horse was stolen from thft Stable of Mr. Henry Branson, on the night of the 12th Inst. The horse is of dun color, with a black main and tail, with a speck in Iris right eye occasioned by the blow of a switch. He is about six- years of age. I will give a reward of TEN DOLLARS for the recovery of the horse and th apprehension of the thief. . JAMES K. DBAUGHON. Fayetteville, March 14th 1840. 55 tf. FISH! pg Boxes Smoked HERRINGS. W700 lbs. DRY COD. For sale by March 14, 1840. GEO. McNErLL. 55 tf. NOTICE. THE Subscriber having rrceived letters of Ad ministration upon the estate of Doctor Hector McNeill dee'd. at March term of Cumberland County Court 1840, hereby gives notice to all per sons indebted to said estate,to come forward and make immediate payment, and those having claims against the estate are requested to present them within the time prescribed, by law or this Notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. ANN WILKISON, Admr'x Fayetteville, March 5th 1840. FUJfcTBLER NOTICE. ON Saturday tba 11th of April next, will-be or fired to sale to the highest bidder at the late Residence of said Dec'd all the perishable propertr on a credit of six months, purchasers to give Not with approved securities. The neffrocfelonffio'' to said estate will be hired to the 1st of Januar 1841.' - - ANN WILKISON, Admr'x. Fayetteville, March th 1840. . 55 3u
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