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THE NORTH - CAROLINIAN . riously in British interests. They oppose the passage of the Independent Treasury Bill, when they know its tendency will he to curtail the monied influence in this country, and conse quently in England. They now advocate the assumption of the State debts by the General Government, at the recommendation of Chan cellor Baring-of the British Exchequer. Their whole course of conduct as a party has been British; and the inevitable result ol'all their mea sures would lead to the advancement of British interests. What reason then have they to com plain that we call them British YVhijrs.' As another evidence of the justice of the ap pellation we have bestowed upon the opponents of Democratic principles, we perceived, in that old fashioned British Whig paper, the Boston Centinel and Gazette, received by yesterday's mail, that the first column had as its head the names of "Harrison and Tyler;" the second had the portrait of His Royal Highness Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emmanuel, Duke nl" Saxe, Prince of Saxe Coburg and Got ha, Knight of the most noble order of the Uarier, and of the Golden Fleece; and the third had the bloom ing likeness of Queen Victoria's most excellent majesty This, at any rate, is a most remark able coincidence; and is certainly characteris tic of the principles of the opposition. Their financial and political policy tends to prolon gate the existence of the British aristocracy; for they must know that with the abolishment of 'the present paper and funding system of ihe country, and the advancement of democratic principles, England's throne will totter to its base: the abolishment of the one, and the ad - vancenient of the other, they oppose. It is mainly by the sustenance derived from the labor of America, through the sponging operations of Batiks and State debts, that England's aristoc racy are powerful, and her working people kept in bondage. Why then shall we not call their defenders British Whigs. Jew York JVtic Era. The Man with 'one Idea. Scene. A log cabin, two stories high, in laid with Brussels carpeting, and covered with clapboards, painted white, with green window blinds situate at North Bend, Ohio. (Enter a Loco foco) Loco. Good morning General II.? how is your health? Gen. H. Well, I am not exactly permit ted to answer any questions until after elec tion. You are at liberty, however, to ask "my committee." L. If you are not permitted to answer all the interrogatories put to you, I presume you will not hesitate to answer such questions as are of moment to the country. Every candi date who allows himself to come before the people for their suffrages, is, according to the democratic creed, and according to the spirit of our republican institutions, solemnly bound to give his views on all matters of political or national interest. I would there fore inquire what are your views on the sub ject of a National Bank? Gen. H. I have no views, Sir, ask my committee. L. But you must at any rate have formed an opinion on the subject of abolition. Are you in favour of the immediate abolition of slavery: Gen. II. Ask my committee. L. Are you an advocate of slavery? , Gen. H. Ask my committee. L. Are you in favor of or opposed to the Sub-Treasury? Gen. H. Ask my committee. L. Did you actually vote to sell white men into slavery? Gen. H. Ask my committee. L. Did you run for the woods, and send back word to Croghan to abandon Fort Stephenson to the British, and follow your "discreet example? Gen. H. Ask my committee. L. Is it a fact that the Ladies of Chiili cothe voted you a petticoat, and Croghan a sword, for gallantly defending the fort that you had ordered him to abandon?" Gen. H. Ask my committee. L. Did you encamp on the ground select ed and pointed out to you by the hostile In dians, and were your men most cruelly cut to pieces, as toe consequence? Gen. H. Ask my committee. L. Do you think you are fit to be Presi dent of the United States? Gen. H. Ask my committee. L. V ho would discharge the duties of the office, if you were to be elected? Gen. H. My committee. L. Are you not rather unwdP. what is the matter have you drank too much hard ci der? Gen. II. Ask my committee. L. Do you think the people of the United States are such consummate fools as to vote for a man that has but one ideal and that the property of a committee?" Gen. H. Ask my committee. L. Who is it that has made you appear to me worm nice a stupia asst . Gen. II. My committee. Loco. That is a fact good by to you. Rochester Republican. The Committee The New Orleans Sun, a paper with an ac knowledged inclination to Whigery, thus des cants on that most ludicrous of all political movements, the surveillance committer: Tippecanneism. Our observation of the po luteal world has led us to remark that politicians, in their ambidextrous attempts to defeat each other's machinations, are oftentimes guilty of the most unaccountable absurdities. But a re cent movement in relation to General Harrison, seems to us, of all the political absurdities, the most gross and palpable ever witnessed in this country. We speak feelingly in relation to the matter because we acknowledge ourselves to be opposed to Van Uuren, and resolved to contri bute the aid ol our vote to his opponent. But if the friends ol General Harrison are seriously de termined, as in some instances they seem to be, to make judies of themselves, for goodness' sake let them take the responsibility upon their own broad shoulders, and save the old man the con tempt which some of their operations seem cal culated to excite. If he-is to be loaded with the indiscretions of all the donkeys who seek to profit by his popularity, he will surely be dis tanced in the race for the Presidential chair. Not long since, an Association in. Oswego, New York, addressed a letter to General Har rison, requesting to know his opinion upon some public questions of vita! importance. The let ter was answered by four gentlemen of Cincin nati who intimate in express terms that they IbtTO 'his Confidential Committee." They late that, the General will make no further declaration f. his opinions for the public eye, while occupying his present position," and in- vite the impression that they will perlivm that duty for him. It is not the least singular fea ture of this very droll document, that the Com mittee say to the association, "If the policy ob served by the Committee should not meet with your approbation, you will attribute the error rather to ourselves as his immediate advisers than to General Harrison?" The letter is a clumsy, bungling affair, disfigured by errors in sense and grammar, but its substance alone is sufficient to establish the conviction that it is the most ludicrous specimen of political manoeu vring ever displayed before the eyes of the American people. Whaf are the inferences fairly' and honestly deducible from this letter? Why, that the con fidential friends ol General Harrison have seen fit to put the old penlleman in keeping, lest he sy or do something calculated to injure his own cause. It wears the appearance of a Irank admission, that every thing his opponents have sa'id of his imbecility is true, and that the proofs must, he concealed. The true object, we have no doubt, of this most ill-judged movement, is to save the old soldier a great deatol labor, and prevent misrepresentation; but the course has been unfortunately chosen, for its manilest ten dency is to confirm the distrust in the public mind respecting the feebleness of his intellect. As a political expedient it is certainly absurd even to laughter. Tempora mutantur, et nos mutamur in illis," Times change and toe change with them. la the third year of the 117th Olympiad, and in the "leafy month of June" it is recor ded that one of the patriotic society of the sukophantes went out of Athens to look after the execution of the excise laws, when he was caught in a pouring rain and took shel ter under the broad foliage of a fig tree nothing could be more comfortable. In the December following, he was overtaken in the same straight, run under the same branches and got a thorough soaking nothing could be less comfortable. "What is the meaning of this" said he "I come here in June-I am dry and warm I come here in Decem ber and drip and freeze the rain-has chang ed its nature it goes through a fig tree to day, that was able wholly to keep it off a few months ago." Admirable reasoner? Con clusive philosopher! Why couldst thou not have been spared to our day, to write articles on political consistency! If the frost hath cut the foliage from the tree, or the storm torn the roof from the house, wise men will look somewhere else for shel ter. If the banks have in a few short years changed from a goodly and green grove to an assemblage of rotten and falling trunks we shall be cautious how we sit down near them. If the whigs have within a few short years, banded together in the State and Federal Legislatures to sweep away the peaceful and protecting shelter of the laws from our social institutions, we shall be careful not to keep by their side little heeding their vociferations that we thought better of them when they be haved better. Proatltutioi to Party From the Globe, of a S.-icrcrt Character Purposes A left r from Virginia infirm us that "Gris wold, a sub-elector, declared in his speech that he had heard Mr. Van Cjben deliver a speech in oppo sition to the tear, lie is a minister of the Gospel. a?id to deny flatly a statement within his personal knowledge, is rather a delicate maUi r, as you may sup; os ; but yet we have ventured to do so, on the authority of the letters of Messrs. Wright anl Butler, and also a speech of N. P. 'f allmadge." It is remarkable that Fed rulism' never fails to pro-titute the cleric d charict r to its political pur poses whenever they can fin I a j rolessoror p.each er of religion base enrurh to lend his sacred func tion to their unhallowed dfstgns. Durins the war, they had their OaCooDs and Parish ks thundering from the pulpit that England was the bulwark ol our r 1 gion, and calling down the vnge;ince of Heaven against those w ho defended their country its rights, and I heir own firesides. Now they cut travel ing Federal preachers into th' ir service, as sub-electors, and employ them in revt-nging their political party who were overthrown by iVIr. Van Bdren during the war, as enemies ot the country bv charging that he was oppus d to the war. The histoiv of the countrv the Ieffisljlive retort's ol the State of New York prove Griswold's state merit to he one of the grossest and most impudent falsehoods ever uttered. Mr. Vas Kurr.v rai-e J his political reputation upon the ratty, bolrf, inn xi ble, and, persevering xertio:i which he gave to his country in the last contest ith Great Britain. As Mr. Butler, late Attorney General of the United States, and now D st'ict Attorney fur New York, shows in his letter to Mr. Garland, Mr. Van Bo- ren embakd in the controversy against Great Britain, wiih the General Adini:as:iution, before ihe war commenced. Air. Butler says: "There was no person in the Stale of his own age, who had given a more efficient support to the measures of the lieneral Irovernment during the whole pet tod of the restrictive system, man Mr. van bcres." lie snys "that the great mass of them (ihe R pull Cins Mr. Van Buren act d) so far fro:n beinsr opposed to all belligerent measures ngnir-sf Great Britain, were in tavor ot a more decided policy than had been pursued toteards her. la regard to Mr. Van Bu- RCN, THIS was peculiarly the case; and yet in another part of the letter we nave named from Virginia, we are told, "He (Mr. Griswold) alleges that Mr. Van Buren did oppose the war until pub lic opinion drove him into the support ! The public documents which we have pub'ished, taken from the archives at Albany, show that Mr. Van Buren was, from hist to last, the rishc arm of Gov. Tompkins in prosecuting the war and putting down me federal part; who bad command in the House of Representatives of New York. His elo quence resounded not only in the holla of legisla tion, but in great public meetings, in behalf of the measures of the Government af Washington, while the struggle for ascendency was wacd in the State of New York, between the war and anti-war par ties. The press teemed with productions from his pen, appealing to the patriotism of the neoole to sus tain their Government against the double attack of treasonable Federalism operating insidiously to paralyze the energies of the Government, and the physical force of the foreign enemy in the field. Of these appeals we have recently submitted con siderable portions through the Globe to ihe public They were not made in vain during the war, and we trust their republication by us now will not be useless. The Republicans triumphed und r the lead of Tompkins and Van Buren. The Federal party was put down in bolh branches of the Legis lature of New York, and Mr. Van Buren's classi fication bill, called by the Federalists the conscrip tion bill, was destined to throw the weiht of the great State upon the lines of the enemy. This, more than any other event, contributed to turn the tide ngainst the British in the North. If New York had fallen into the Hartford Convention scheme, a very different fortune might at this day attend our now peaceful and prosperous Union. It was at the gloomiest period ot. the etruffffle of parties in New York, that the Federalists at Hud son passed the resolution refusing to render militia service. 1 hose who acted on this resolution, when called on to do military duty, refused, and were court martialed and they appealed to the civil courts for relief. They were met by Mr. -Van Buren who exerted his eloouence tn hrlnxr them tn niiniuhmAnt JjJ 'the judgment of the court to which they appealed. The Federal party now, through their corrupt f jr ot retaliation, reverse the Tacts, and This new species ofrevenge, which consists in Invincr thpir nffitnrcs uDon the man who pun'sbed them, is not confined to the newspaper organs of the Federal party, or sucn missionaries as utkis wriT n Mr. Sa ltnnttall. a member of the House of Representatives, who, as a member of a committee of the Massachusetts Legislature, brought in the resolution whit-h originated the Hartfoid Conven tion, is one of "the Executive Committee, of the Federal junta at work dailv in this city, in scattering such Bank nvsrepn sent;tions as we have now ex posed, against the Chiel Masistrate, whom, from the moment he entered political lift-, to this hour, they have always looked upon as a most formidable enemy to their "principles and designs. From the Globe. Mlcliigan. Continued news of the snccess of De mocracy in the spring elections in this State, reach us by papers and by letter. Four coun ties show a Democratic gain, which, in the aggregate, amounts to more than the Federal majority in ihe whole Stale at the last elec tion. Last year, in one county, where the Democratic candidate for Governor received 1S16 votes, and the Federal candidate 1965, this spring the Democratic candidate for sher iff in that county received 2316, and the Fed eral candidate 1970; showing a Democratic gain of 500 votes. "A proportionate gain," says the Free Press, "throughout the State, upon the Demo cratic vote of last fall, would amount to 4S94, which would give a Democratic majority in the State of 3647 over the Federal vote of last year for Gov. Woodbridge. A proportionate gain of both theDemocratic and Whig vote of last fall, would give a Democratic majority of 3597." The following extracts from letters, will show what course the Federal party pursued. "Every effort was made by our opponents, and never were the expecfations of a party more completely dashed. They gathered in their maimed, their halt, and blind; and, in fact, every one that was able to be carried in wagons, whilst there were no particular ex ertions made on the part of the Democrats.'' Such is the popularity oj Gen. Harrison in this section, for on his merits, be it recollec ted, depended these elections. A private let ter, written from one of the most populous counties in the State, says: "The very cita del of Whigery, in this county, has been wrested from the eneuiy. The W higs there had their strongest men on their ticket; but they have been beaten from supervisor to con stable. Such contests, insignificant as they are in the immediate results, assume no mean importance when their bearing upon the fall elections are considered. In this view, they are highly cheering in their indications of success to the Democrats of our State." ascribe the very resolution, for passing and act ing upon which thev were arraigned and nmumtu) by Mr, Van Buren, and to Mr. Van Buren himself) From the Globe. It affords us very great pleasure to repuhlist the following excellent resolutions adopted at a meeting ol the Democratic voteis ol "the oU Eighth Ward" of" Baltimore. They are written witli much point and spirit. The Democracy of the monumental citv have been always true to their principles, and have alwavs nobly main lained them. LTi:lcss we are greatly deceived in our intormation, the Wlng will sustain Waterloo defeat in that city in November next. Klzhth IrVard. At a meetinjr of the Democratic voters of the Eighth Ward, held at Vauxhall Gardens, on 1 ucsday evening, the 21st mst. Mr. Joseph fs Donovan was called to the chair, and J. II Johnson appointed Secretary. The lolluwing resolutions were unanimously adopted: 1st. Resolved, That the Democrals of the Eighth Ward of Baltimore see no cause to change their men or their measures, and that if they did, they never could consent to change ihem fin- Federal men and Federal measures. 2d. Resolved, therfore. That we will again support, with ha ml and heart, those consilient Democrats, Mariin Van Buren, of New York, and Richard M. Johnson, of Kentucky, and go as lar lor Ihem as he who goes Ihe larthes!. 3d. Resolved, That when the banks through out the land, as il by concerted plan, played the grab game on the government, by stopping specie payments in a time of profound peace and holding on to the specie deposited with them ny Uovernment, lor sale keeping-, thev gave the strongest evidence thai tfiey were no longer worthy to be trusted with the Govern ment lunds. 4lh. Resolved, That a second suspension in the short space ot tnree years, shows that they were let oil" too easy "lor the first, and were thereby encouraged to set the people and the laws at defiance. 5th. Resolved, That a million and a quarter of dollars stolen from the Government by Samu el swartwnut, (a Whig.) fifty thousand stolen Irom tt.e Manhattan Bank by New hold, the first teller, (another Whig,) a trillion of dollars sto len from a bank in Philadelphia by cashier Levis, (anoiner v nig,; ami eight hundred thousand dollars stolen from the Bank of Virginia by V illiam Beverly Da hue v, (another Whig,) not to say any thing of the Bank of Maryland, the savings Institution and Dc1ot Dyott, (more Whigs,) show that if the Whigs have "all the decency" and "all the talents," tfiey have not an i ne nonesiy. 6th. Resolved, That the Whigs have offered no reason why we" should s'.ippdrt old Harrison now, that they dm not offer when we rejected him three years ago, except that "he lives in a log camn and drinks hard cider, and this we don't believe any more than they do; and iT we did believe it, would not consider it quite cori- ,iuivc oi ms qualifications tor the Presidency. 7lh. Resolved, That 'he Whigs show that they consider the old man less fit now than they did when they tried him before, because they then suffered him to go at large and speak for himself; and now they confine him and al low hitn to answer no question having put him under the keeping of a committee of old Federalists. 8ih. Resolved. That the aha shirt W higs from Champagne to cider is a little too sudden to be sincere, and that we have rea son to believe it another Jersey fraud. lh. Resolved, That it the Whigs rejoice at the result of the late cha rtfr pier-linn n il.u of New York (as some of them pretend to do) we will give them similar cause, lor reioicin" cvery where next November. 10th. Resolved. That irnnr Wiln ,.r ,K gallant old fourth hone tO hfar llio olrl siirhlh again this fall, they must shake another reef out ol their topsal, for we mean to crowd every thing on our Old Ironsides, from her truck to her tafierel. r,,oh Itolved That Matthew Shaw, Wm. I K'ce, George Ferguson, David Reddick and John Reynolds be appointed delegates from this ward to the Democratic Slate Convention, and they be empowered to fill any vacancy. OS. S.DONOVAN, chairman. J. H. Johnson, Secretary. " From the Charlotte Journal. Democratic Bleating. In pursuance of previous notice, a large number of Democratic Republican citizens of Mecklenburg County, met at the Court House in Charlotte, on the 11th instant, for the purpose of respondinff to the proceedings of the State Convention held in the City of Kalciihon t!ie 8th of January last, and to nominate Candidates for the next General Assembly. On motion, Doct. Stephen Fox, was called to the Chair, and Capt. John Walker, re quested to act as Secretary. The objects of the meeting be ing britfly stated by the Chairman, oa motion, it was Resolved, That a Co-nm'ttec of two persons from each Captain's heat, ba appointed by tho Chair, to select fur the coatideraiion of this meeting, pro per pi'rso s to be nomi:iatd as Candidates to represent the County of Mi ckler.burg, in the Sen ate and House of Commons of ihe n xt G-neral Assembly, and also to prepare resolutions expres sive of the objects of tlii-. met ting. Whereupon the following pt-rsons were appointed that Commit tee, viz: John Caps, Col. Stinson, Col. Dunn. Capt. John Potts, Kobert Leinmois, Mj. C;ilvi Wilson, Col. Lowry, Col. Bl .ck, Jno. K. Hamsun, Dan. McC ond, H. Black, A. Todd, Wm. .cum-mervill.-, Mi j. .Wm. Wilson, Col. Thos. Bo.xd, WHiam A 1 zander, Thos. L.. Hutchinson, Wm. B 'rryhill, Esq. Wm. Jameson, Dr. Sianhope Har ris, Maj. Wilfoi, Ja. Irwin, man., Rob't. McComb; Jo. Reed, and Grunderson Alexander. On motion by Col. Stinson, G. W. Caldwell, was request d to address the meeting, which he did, wiih much force and perspecnity, clearly id- nlifying the present. Whig party with the old Black Cockade F. detalist a of 'S3. The Committee then requested the late Repre. sentatives, to say, whether, provided they fhould be nominated, they were wil'ing to serve asain, all as sented except Dr. Fox, (the old Senator,) who rose and after tendering his unfeigned and heaitfelt ac knowledgements for the (list nguished honors con ferred on him for some years past by the Cit:zns of Mecklenburg, observed, "during the last can vass in 1838, I "apprised my friends, and the people generally, that I should not be a Candidate asain, and as no subsequent occurrence, has in the least decree disturbed that determination, I beg to be excused." After a short retirement, the Committee returned, and submitted the following resolutions: Resolved, That Win. Pyrn, Esq , be nomina ted by this nieeling as a suitable Cnnriida'e t' re present this County in the fcenate oi uie nexi Eislature. w Resolved, That G. W. Ca'dwell, Dr T. T. J. Orr, and Mj. Berj. Morrow, be nominated as tuit able Can lidates to represent this Cu-itv in the House of Commons in the next L.efi-:slature. These resolutions bfinr unanimously adopted bv the meet ns, the Conmittee then presented the fol lowing resolutions, viz: Resolved, That this meeting entertains undimin ished confidence in Ihe po itical integrity and sou 'ill ness ff ihe Re ublican principles of Martin Van Bnr n. and that we will use a.l honoia'ol'; means to insure his re- letion. Resolved, That we are in five of Mr. Van B'l- ren. because we believe he is of ihe Ji'tTi-rsonjan School of Politics because he is o;posl t-, and denies the constiluiionality of a ISaMonal Bank because he is opposed to a system of Internal Im provement by the ijreneral ijovernineni o cause he is opposed to a TariflTfor protection and though last not Itast, because he i bound by the most sol- NORTH-CAROLINIAN. Saturday Morning, May a, 1640. REPUBLICAN DOMINATION. FOB PRESIDENT. Martin Van Buren. FOR GOVERNOR OF NORTH CAROLINA. Roinuliis M. Saunders. rhe editor of this paper is sli d absent. READ THIS MORE PROOF, The falae cry of Forgery exposed completely!! We entreat every honest man who loves his coun try; every independent farnir and mechanic, to read the following remarkable correspondence, and particularly the hum Hating letter fiom Harrison' "confidential commi:tee." The letter corrtsponc's peculiarly with the one so voc ferously and indig nantly pronounced a "Forger yn with the exception of not haviig the signature ot the notorious Wright. What a disgusting; disgraceful specta cle of party managemi nl! Will a free and enligh t ned people countenance 3'ich conduct? Will they vote for a man to be the President of our glorious Republic who requires the nursings and watch ings of a committee? Never. It cannot be. Wadesborough, April 20, 1840. .Vr. Holmes: Sir, F.nc'os-d we sen I yoi for puVi'-ation in tin "No.th Can linian,"' a letter wi.ii h we n ceived from Gei. Harrison's "Confi i ential Comn.i t e," in roply to o ie wh ch we ad dress :d him on the 28th ot lj-t D. cnsl.-cr. VI'Ms lett t we wish you to invite all to c 1' and f-ee, both h'gs and Democrats, as we undrrst.md a eimi'ar O ie a l('r'"ss"d to the "Oswego AfB cinticri'' his been b.ani'ed by some of the Whig Journals as a "bnse 'orsrerv." We h:.ve to r-eret thnt we have urfo-tu'iatelv mi -laid ih.rcopy of our letier to Grn. Har i oi. We hope et io b- able to lay our hands on it, bu' as t'ie pul!ic: titn of this correspondence will iu a I probability reach Gen. ilanison's 'Co-omitrea" men, we invite t'lem to publish our lett -r. The queti ns !'-low, w arc c ;!t;iin are those which we asked Gen. H rri.-on to answer. Respect "ully, JAS L. TERRY, E. SINCLAIR, S.W.COLE. Gen. Harrison: Sir, 1st. What are your views in regard to Abo'ition. 2nd. Will ycu, it elected President, vr to any bill to abo'ish slavery in the Oistrxt of Columbia, in . u . :r i, i. : 1 1 i- ...i.i i ... i. i r emn pledges to eto any bill having for us object, v , I i c i I Congress. ine UDOIIIIOII Hi HUlt'l . I , Tl .-mi evnr U 0-, C flk'nt Resolved further. That we are opposed to the J Zt.. r X V r ia ""I " " wm - I M ' il ml CUrullSl Ul liiU uiu Liat. rv v rauc ffi;i ill JJ I 4fh '""y "'!; theiA almost n,,,!, because be is in favor of a ruinous system of Inter- rD ', . , n:.l Improvement by the General Government f Protect on-a Bank c because he is in favor of a high Ta iff-bctar.se he lntfr1 Improvement I. What are your views, in regard to a Tariff ot tho United Stntes, and of y the General Government believes in the conatituiioiial power of Congress niRircnv-ia prrrv to charter a Bank because he believes that Cot UAKiUiUA h Utl-LY. gres has the riffht to appropriate the surplus reve- u""""a" rto- loiu- nuetn buy up s aves tor emancipation and be- Messrs. 1 crry, Ool, and binclair. cause he is in favor of selling free white men for Gentlemen: Your letter of thi 28th" Dec ad' debt. If these claims or power, do not constitute dressed to Gen. Harrison, has been delayed thus such a la'itu linous const uction ot Constitution, as lon i'i consequence of the almo-t .innumerable constitutes Federalism, then we are ata loss to know I calls of a similar kind, and from all sections of tho wnai aors consntuie a r eaeransr, tor all imse doc- united states. Tluse have, at I;i't. so mu lin'irrl. tnnes weie held by tl e t ederalis ts in '98. I as to render it impracticable, nb Jol"fe'-v, for f e Kesoivcd, mat we approve ot the nomination General to respond in person. The dutv, therefore, of Romulus M. Saunders, for Governor of North devolves upon Ihi und rsigned, members of his cor Ca olina, a d tliLt we w.ll give him our cordial responding, an I, we may add, Confidential Com- suppo.i. I mittec; and it Ui3 policy horeattir observed sho-dd Kesolved, 1 hat this meeting have unshaken con- not meet vour entire aDorobation. vou will, we trust. fidence in the competency of Capt. Thos. N. attribute the error rather to ourselves, than General Alexander, our presnt Hi.h Sher fl", and n com-I Harrison. That policy is; that th General make mena i.iin to tne citui ns ol uie county tor re-lec-no further declaration of principle tor the public Von. I eve. whilst orcurvina his Dre.-sent r sition " Resolved, That tha Chairmm appoint eighteen Such course has bei;n rc ommend.-d an i a lort d, persons as a del gat:on lor tli s County to meet simi- not for purposes of concealment, ror to av. id all lar delegations from Lincoln and Cabarrus, on the proper responsibility, b'it, un'er the impression ISth insr., at this placu ter the purpose of selecting that the General's views i;i n-srard t. all tha impor a suitable person to he placed on the Presidential tant and exciting question of th-? day have been E!i ctorat Ticket lor this district, and a:so, for ap- heretofore civen to Use public fdlvand e.p'ici'l; pointing a Delegate to the Baltimore Convention, and that ihnss views, whet !ier cot iicctcd w th con Whereupon the fo 1 winsr persons were appointed, stitutiun.il or other nntinnii r.f rener:.l intfm-t viz: Jno. K. Harrison, Tl-.otiias Boyd, Dr. S. Har- have undersone neither charge nor modification. ns, Col. S. Lowry, Thomas L. Hu chinson, Col. I The committee are now embodv ner in "ramnhlet Dunn, Wm. Alexander, Col. R. H. Stins n, Ca t. those firmer expressed op nions, which shall be for John Walker, Dr. Chas. J. Fox, David Parks, Win. warded to you at ths earliest moment: and which. 'V;! vi.f.l...... vt t-"i t. . i : . ,. .- . ' ' ii ii., m.iuiv.. a in;' , j u "i- o mint ft, sen., i we D-neve, win prove satistactorv. 1 hev are Lapt. w m. Kee t, Jos. Kced, John W liliamso.'i, and f strengthened in regard to the propriety of the poli Antzi Houston. I rv. that Gen. H. make no new iiu tn ih rnKti ; .. t t i i. . c c . I . , .. ... , ' cm ...... -cm, ictojicti, i ,mi uz iurfgni n g i irom tn- cons'Oi rat ion t na t the INational Conven be published in ihe Charlotte Journal, and that the tion deemed it impolitic at ihe then crisis (and th Democratic papers in this State be requested to copy me same. STEPHEN FOX, CWrman. John Walker, Secretary; From the North Carolina Standard, Mr. Morehead tn Wilmington. (and the times are certainly unaltered) to publish any thin? iiKoa general mamtcsto ot the views ot the great Whig party. In the mean time, we cannot h'dn exnrcssinir the hope that our friends in Ihe South will receive the nomination of Gen. Harrison with something like Ecnerous confidence. When they (Southerr. friends) Although we were in Wilmington at a "SfJ? time the Federal Whiff candidate for Gover- n linn Knur nhlv nil intprpta an1 .enai.iollw ,ti.tsn nor addressed the people, we did not attend oftheir particular section were represented in that the meeting. We are told that Mr. More- They certainly have a high guarantee, that head's speech was a decided failure, and that rSl! gen: .Harr,80.n sur.rfu' 'Wate r-i- r' j l " for the Presidency, that office will he happily ad many ot bis ti lends were heartily ashamed of minist. red. and under th him, and all very much disappointed all this puncipl-s which directed our Washington, Jeffer- come of the puffing;, vaporing and braszins son. ana Madison. of the Federal Whigery 8 rf!3U0,,eTe,, , op. , . . ot the po1 icy herein pose he did not consider it a proper occasion for electioneering speeches; he is too high minded and honorable to insult the hospitality of the Wilmington and Raleigh Rail Road Company, by converting their invitation to attend the celebration, into a missive for political wrangling. The Companv had no desire that political subjects should be intro duced on that occasion, or alluded to in the remotest degree. Indeed, we were told bv - C .1. . . I . ... . .J concur with us in the propriety nrlnnlfH n Ii m nl..i.(lu. : . r . J 1 1 " (f.avuoufc 1 il o sup- i suoscriDing ourselves, Your friends, D. GWfNN, by R. HODGES, O. M. SPENCER, RUFUS HODGES, H. E. Spencer, Cor. Sec'y. Money. The Banks against Liberty. This, and noth ing but this, is the controversy which is going on in the United Stales. Disguise it as you may; call it by iv hat name yon picas?; the struggle ofihe free had established nn nn i .t, . - ""--"CH 8pot f ., I earth, a home for freerl.im a i 'l Jefferson, and Madison imi, thought they secured to the people ol America, a fi government, free as the wisdom of 'mm invent. But Washington was cheated j (f. son and Madison were deceived. A Alexander Hamilton and the Federal their liberal: constructions on the Const!, ' followed the example of England, and a K ' , , ., " , ,,,a Nation a i nana was tne consequence. Our Slate Legislatures Sdlowing t,e ea() the Federalists in the General Government1 " ta Wished Slate Banks; and Congress anj Slate Legislatures both, at last put a ri" iron in the hands of the Banks, with wliipl . have been perpetually scourging the free rl ..I'll..., tt.ti mi ... .1 P1'"' ... i'.ui.uj, n un ineir paperty lars Ihey have bribed their victims iui,, ,,e lief that thev did them no harm. hui..-j- "j 'ciir.uifj I, utrarif t.l . n 11 . 1 fl.....1i.,.a ' - . v. , , ata uh.iiiii me cuiitiiry paper dollars, (which costs Ihem imrl lliev make everv ihinrr hm and we. fooor dunes and fonU ' j ...... .. . " J musi I .. IT.,., tl.o II..nl. . ... m . jtoio, uauna turn l-'IC SCren (( other way; collect in all their iin plaster, lena out noititng; money (or paper rather) is scarce; pro.ieny oi an sorts lallg t .1 lowest prices, and we say times are bad. Ye when they bribe us with their flood of money, we pull off our caps to our master, and ubfan flip ffirifT sella our nrnrtcrtir K...,.v. .j n nacu the shin plasters with which they have brihj us to worship Ihem, our masters tell us inihei; newspapers, it is Andrew Jackson that maitsf the times hard, it is Maiiin Van Buren th; makes the siieritf sell your properly. Ami fe. low citizens, when our masters ihe banks u!J this, as an excuse for the broad spread ruin i,1 h;.ve brought upon the country; there are pica. ty ol tools liiund to believe it. Plenty of nil.. able dupes who bow Willi p;Iiat)t. ciiogiiiT, t. their linbl - lords and niasu-rs, anil slr.imn, throw u;j their caps and shout, hurrah iTir Ha.-. rioii! 1 1 I . l . . .II . I . r 1 ei ii;ip.s, vou 111:1 v ue umu 111.11 many Ucp.k crats b:ive voted fir a United Slates iJar.k ai. other Hank-', and they are as much to li.-imc; the Fi-dt-raiisis. In reply to this, we say, a United Stales Bank, when first proposed t a Fetleral measure, and the Democrals nppns it. Bat (he last war with Knrland invulvediu country in debt, and after the war in 1316, t! Democra's were, many of them, led to vote lir a United States Bank, as a facility to aid in lie payment of our large National debt But that debt is now paid. The Govern tnent now owes nothing. The people liavehai more experience of the evils of Banks. They have seen, since the close of llie lasi war with England, no less than four, distinct! and full developcmenls of these evils, in the fnii expansions and contractions presented wiiliic that period, and are now able to trace th'; ev 's to their true source without laking an; further lessons in the science of finance. To the people at large, il is totally tromateri-1 al how the hawks have been led to abuse 'mj privileges. They n!y require to see that th; do so abuse them to the constant fijctiniiunn,' the condition of every man from prosppn:yw adversity, and they are not now to betiiJilit the President, the Sub-Treasury, or any other agent except the banks themselves are pr.-kluc-iig those difficulties. Thev have seen in ih period ti many elunges in the ofiii:e of FM-ff lent and the Admiirstraiion of il.e Govermnerit, to believe ibal tlic action of ihe General crnment has, or can have, any -niitr that! a very slight effect upon the progress of llie re-1 sistless fluctuations in the commercial r.nd nn-j neved affairs of the country. They have leant-W ed to look to their own members of Assembly ; regulate ibeir own banks, and will persevert until tiie Legislatures compell ihese intituiions bv l.-i wr to relnrn to llie honest conililion which they have been so prone to stray, and Ihcrebv see to it themselves, that a sound car rency is furnished to the community. The cry is still "thev will not serve in the ranks of Federal Wliiggerv," see the leiterol Mr. L. Ilvals. of this county, to the Chairman of ihe "Whig" Meeting in Fayetteville, and il letter of Mr. Muse, of Moore County. To Solomon B. Council, Esq. Sir, I see that you, a chairman of a p1' ins of the Federal party, lately held in the i''" of Fayetteville, put my name on your lomni'' tee ol Une Hundred. I must ne you i it off, as I cannot act with the Federal parly I am a Democrat, and will support the can l' dates of the Democratic party. vkte L.UV11 ft""1" Cumberland County, April 24, 1840. H. L. II' that a l a recen nnp rf tbn I li.ol.iro Irnl nAltitH.1 1 I we forbidden aVthe! LTJ l u "ut 'he Republicans, and say, Mr. Morehead would have impudently S" " Per themselves, lias no other aim than intruded his talk upon the notice of the com- 10 keep up ani! mainlain lhe terrible oppression, pany at the festival, instead of the day follow- worse than Uniisti tyranny, that now grinds ing. Mr. Morehead is welcome to nil ho 'he liberties and happiness of the people to achieved in New Hanover. It is said th;it powder. We have said before in this paper. he gained a loss of about 25 votes that many that it tvoul I be well for the people or ihiscoun- have deserted the ranks of Whiffsrerv i 11 mil. I I tr In itnciilr nnttr tulillo f Koir K a tro (ha nkitiA sequence of his speech. We infer, from all to do so, whether they have gained much by we can learn that Mr. Morehead is mtPrlv i 1 u 1 r . 1 . . incompetent to the task he has Tdeaken 'he revolu,,on Pchased for them, from old being Z mere common law twatXr, an verT Ennd1 by lhbl'd f tb?r We incorrect as to political events anil very ig- have sa ' that 1 e l0 of lms cniry uvi a tab vi uiiiiv.cii ceo do my I " " j uim.0 am ft 1 fi lu men 10 uie noma, oaious power wcich their Threshing vs. Thresh Th-T.;, Legislatures have put into the hands of their ville City Gazette savs:Som M.i.. Banks VVe nave sa,d so5 and we now rePeat a few days since visited the veteran Harri- il" V e now 8ay'aml il shaI1 our constant son, at his farm at North bend, and found him business to expose the tyranny, of the banks threshing. onr masters. Yes! The banks are the lords If those gentlemen will rail imsm Yia CIam. I and masters of the nthprun$u rtt npnnlu nfth thresheSr Vember wia find him I great country. ivv a.oiiugto.i iiiougui mat ms, anu ins glori ous fellow-soldiers' swords had made America Carthage, April 27th, 1940. .lines, Esq: Havinjr unJentn em . meelintr held by the VM"f" Moore, at this place, that rav name stanu p one of their Committee, 1 avail myself " irliest opportunity of protesting aga'"" ame beini; asrfociaied wiih the W 'IriP ' e; 11 a 1 n... . .1 l .....ell! UC. purpose 01 tieieaiiiii; uie glorious u... - . ocracy and hiierly, I have been from m-v-vU1j up to ihe preseot, a Democrat, ni'd an'.l''1' to acknowledge that I have ever acted wi'n par.ty that sustaineil ihe Ht io of New Orlei'N I am one of those who makes his living "VyjB ing llie soil, and shall support Majji'" Buren fir re-election, and Itunmlus M-1-' . dr r.,r Rov.n...r I t'ollv Kaiisfied, aiino"- lhe Whim are making much ado bunt JJ h 1 - . . ... .1.-. : & not ." r caniHsanu naru ciuer, 1 nnu inai. . .-i o.. c.r Harris""- oiiiiioiiaiiiii 01 ioir cauuis oiai 1 ' " .unty IJ There nn sovfral iifrnv name in lhe C"" i If, of Moore, and if there is a modern Whtgn,"s them, Xdo not know it. Respectfully, yours, T(;ci HENDERSON MUSE- i Hoa.D.HMnl. ihatMr W'e were led into an error instating ui D. Hubbard, one of the Representatives'" . gres from Alabama, was a Federalist, w the earliest opportunity of correOmg tf take, and have the pleasure of "'j, wc do, on good aulhority, that Mr. Hudw firm and consistent Republican.
The North Carolinian (Wilson, N.C.)
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