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xfjj itttt am 'character is as important to STATES as it is to individuals; and th clout op the state is the common property of its citizens.' II. t" HOL31ES, Ed itoi anil Proprietor. FAYETTEVILLE, SA TLTRDAYt MAY 9, 1840. VOJL. 2. NO. lO. Whole Number 63. TERMS. SO oer annum, if paid in advance ; S3 if paid at the end of six months ; or S3 50 at the expiration i -,, Advertisements inserted at the rate r iTtv cents per square, for the first, and thirty are paid, twelve rcnls lor en"- i-- v .nar di'coatinued u..tii arrearages v. . ;at t'ie o! tio i of Hie k-Ii'or. sPtat;..,;,tir,n received fr less than mo tii-" re: 1,, advertisements and Sheriff's sales, will be sharped 25 per c nt. higher than the usual rates. 1 r . - ..ki:.,:., ciij Al' O T ;Man?lwi m.,vl?i .m..n "hem, X'wise they will be inserted, until foroid, .nr charged aecordinjrly. - .t etf.ra on business connected with this estab &ent,must be addressed-H. L. Hoicks, Edi tor of the North-Carolinian, and m all cases postpaid. s STOP THE THIEF. OME Scoundrel stole from my stable, o nrsday nis;ht, a sma'l soriel HORSE Said horsi is on Wed- with a not in s o ci-aix in rns succ- .., r, . nnsid iab'y scanned bv the g'ar, and has - hark. The thi- f carried off a wa?;on bridle .. ;fW.-n b -ass tacks in ent h llind. I have every re-ison to believe that the notorions thiel and house u. .. k. r Jonathan Bak r, is th :n p i', as lie had Ve i th - iin'tu dia'e n iiihbo! hood the ay bef re A Unn h nken one-! a noose ncl mor?inana mue and annoy the House, while they keep tip the declared they would uo louger labor for their I pretence ot discussion, in tnis Jbusiness emolovers without an advance of their waps. hey labor by relays some eating and sleep- They said the laborer was not properly paid, ng, while those on duty keep up the wear and and that others also onoht to be oaid. tear upon the endurance of the faithful and The whigs, in whose employ ihey were. patriotic men who strive to legislate. But no seized these laborers; tore them from their sooner does it become troublesome to the families, and put them into jail. Here ihey time wasters to continue on the floor, than lay in prison among felons, and term after they again toil the attempt to get any ques- term were dragged into court to defend them tion, by retiring and leaving no quorum; and selves, for the cuine of asking higher wages, then come on again calls of the House These are tarts which are in the rieollpf-tinii summoning members by the Sergeant the of all our citizens. round of excuses and yeas and uavs the The federalists who imnrisonerl ihp hihor. titling, and reconsiderations of fines imposed, ers, and the whole party who went with them, etc. etc. y this mode of systematized oh- iu niukinir it a crime to demand hi.u-her wno-ps. (.traction, it is as easy for the Federal party to are now, just before the election, concerned consume a week, without adjournment, as twol about the reduction of wages. Does any oue oays ana a ntgut, as they have repeatedly misunderstand the object? Does any oue done. We see no way in which the majority believe that the rich employers are afraid they can obtain control in the House, so as to do cannot pay their workmeu sufficient com- uusiuess, against a minority resolved to ahuse peiisatton: i ne operatives,' as they call la the forms of proceeding to its otter defeat, borers in Europe men without civil rights but by getting the attendance of every mem- who cannot vote where the whole power is uci ui icuim Tunc uaiiy, sick or wen, so as piaceu m uie nanus or me ru n wnere latior to make a quorum, without the aid of the re-I is regulated bv laws laws made bv emnlov- tiring Federalists, and then, by laying every ers, to oppress the employed - have merely a thing else on the table, the House may take bare suhsistance given. If they demand from use, !ete ted and driven rffm Wednesday n!n. and has nut ber;n seen r.bout hrr ante tf war i libera1! v any p r-on wi.o n.p tlio thierand hrrs, or siv as will enable me to recover the hor?e. 1 Will fleliver to mo such iniformatio I TUOS. Mav 1st, 1340. ASHE. 62-tf. k- 'ILLIAM McINTYRE, ia r.ow opening i.ncral as.-or'mei.t of DiiY GOODS, Hard ware and ' -ntslery, Carpenter's and Bla smith's To i's. Whi:e Lead and Window Gl liars and Sin s, Umb ella and P.nii's. fine E.mnrt, new sM 1 s foo s an'l Pai n H;.ts, Win s anl a'l kin l oi Liq-mr, Impe i i' T a and Lo fSn "ar, Avht'? Havana and superior brown SUGAR. A 1 tliose who wish ra' v.ilue tor ihir c sh, an' ii i i rcs;cc'tu IV reqii3Siea to can anu pure ase ne iy, Apiil 25, 1310. 61 3t. TlkUNCAN LA MONT, s.r. of Duncan La MJr niont, wli removed fmrn the P:irih of Ciiwa . Arirvleshue. c.otian!, America. ah.,ii eiirii'v years nn. leavinu three pisiers in that ki'iml"m, will find il lo Ins interest ! apply t.i ( . ).ivu d ol tins rnimtv, or to Hus nffi f. Ir mf nitaliii lioiki Scoiland of imic.li im "urtanct In tiitii. The name of L unnt is often prwiMiirced Lamnmn. F iv-.-in-vilf, April lOMi. 1340. 59-tf NOTICE. fi nd r ali w i' :h aw .Ap i REQUMNT d p da io s bavin mi te . o i the U i ivi SM.'rs A s f -. &c. m k s i i t in ut ir r.nv S ,'iV! s o:' pe w.. ot c lor w 1 -c a .i r.ly i ura s d, im u os (u cj to t n- iit.i.osi ri r o !v ! s ro. it t ill i i!o i m b i v i 1 b ken a rj : bn coti n i! Gr un i - t 'res ar to vidian s r.rd si a s : pcrs n - IS t 1 C -3t. Wm. Rancy PORTRAIT PAINTER UlLU rt'st eu:iu iv m cr:n trie snhabtrnt f f F..v t'cvi'.ie un'd i vicm'.tv, that h w ex cu'e P'rr'raHs of all Fiies, in oi , at m xlcrate prices. L k enres arr- rtcd. He may be ?e-n by i nquirine itfh'.- Stole cf Mcpsrs. Nolt & Starr. January 13. I84i, 47 -tf up and amend the rules, so that a majority may act and govern. Last night the House sat until after 11 o ciock, ouring wnicn time, we learn, it was more, they are treated as the Federal nabobs of Thompsonville undertook to treat their la borers as crimmals. The Thompsonville whigs cited the ens twice paralyzed in the attempt to take a ques- toms of Europe as justification and precedent tion for want of a quorum. It continues in for them. Labor iu Europe is ground down session up to the hour of nutting our paper to in the dust, not bv haul money, but bv ni is press to-night. t Jllllll'UI ff'htjr ZiOiric. In Sardinia, T" . I - ' .... nremen, etc.. mere is a metallic currency. id those governments collect and disburse the revenue by their ow n officers. Conse quently, the governments are despotic; and hereditary nobility is established, and the peo ple are reduced to a degraded state ot ignor ance and poverty. aherefoke, "a specte currency has ever been the mo.t powerful agent in the hands of despots ai.d tyrants to enslave mankind." Consequently, no specie should ever be for circulation in a free country. Philadelphia Times. tocratic weatin and power and oppressive laws. There is an aristocratic feeling iu this country, which is to be found among the whig employers not among the demociatic labor ers. But the aristocracy are asking that power may be put in their h inds to take arc of the democracy. The banks want to take care of the people. The employers want to take care of the employed. The idle w ish to lake care of the labor. The rich want lo lake care of the jioor, Political. From the Gli bo. Abolition of the Easiness Faculties of Con. gi-ess. The Opposition are Abolitionists in more senses than one. They have now brought to higher perfection than ever before, the sys tem on which they have practised for several sessions back that of clogging, embarrass ing, and Firini t'e Globe, n agti of Labor, A late number of th3 ISew i orK Christian Advocate and Journal contains au intcierst- iiig tetter naaea "urf.ece as it is, irom Ihe pen ot lh Hev. Lit. ULin late president of Randolph-Macon College, Virgiuia, and president elect of the Weslevaji University, Connecticut. It is dated at Athens, Decem ber 19th, 1839. In it he says.- "JjiitKir is hetter paid lor here than m any country of Em npe " We recommend this short sentence to ihe a1te..tioti of those who think, that, where pa per money is not used, wages must necessa rily be low. In no place, peihaps, are they lower than in Ireland, where banks are nu merous? They are low in Autria, where notes of the value of ahout two do.lars and fifty, cent- are in circulation. Lower still probably in Denmark, where notes are issued of the value of about fifty cents of our cur rency, bower still in Sweden, where notes are circulated of the value of six cents Fed eral money. And they are low io Russia, where the paper ruble is of the value of about twelve and a half centsj In Greece, we be lieve no bank has as yet been brought info operation. And there the Rev. Dr. Olin de clares, "a&or better paid for than in any country cf Europe." He makes this decla ration after having spent considerable time in England, r rauce, Italy, and other coun tries of the Eastern hemisphere. have been in jeopardy; when the mutual strug gles of all iu the cause of the Nation's houor are forgotten, it is time that their acts should not only be scrutinized, but when found de void of patriotic feeling, should be held up to execration as the efforts of a faction striving to prostrate a Nation's honor at the feet of the Moioch of Party. As a tree Press, but, we trust, ever free from the licentiousness which would destroy its usefulness, while it administered to the cravings of the disappointed aspirant, we shall continue to expose the course of those rest less zealots, who seek to strip the south of its independence of character, by urging its citizens Kbe haruessed to the car of Jugger naut, only that they may . be ci ushed by its weight. marring the ordinary business of Congress. Iu 1834 and '36, they succeeded iu their endeavors lo arrest the public busi ness to favor the Bank parties. They post poned the usual appropriation bill, which they knew would give great relief to the public, through the public expenditures, to a period later than the present, but it has never occur red except in the times of bank parties. In looking back twenty years, these two cases stand alone and conspicuously. Every man in the country must see, in the repetition of this specie3 of warfare now, the renewal of the design which induced the harrassing and worrying experiment upon the country which signalized the panic years. The nation will inquire why does the majori tyiu the House permit this? We must frankly state that it cannot prevent it. All money bills must, under the rules, be considered in the Committee of the Whole, and there the previous question cannot be called to cut off interminable debate. And even the exhaust ing process by which the majority have en deavored to sit out ths discussion, allowing the Opposition to speak itself out of topics, has been foiled by their new trickery lately introduced. When all their speakers have exhausted themselves in speaking against time, and the question is about to be made, to rise, aud report the bill to the House it is frustrated by the withdrawal of the mass of the Opposition bebiud the bar of the House, or a refusal to answer to their names. Then a call of the House becomes necessary, and the Sergeant-at-Arms is employed for hours in summoning and bringing in members. Next follows the delay of hearing excuses of absentees, and questions on fines after this a succession of motions for the release of fines. In work of this sort, a sufficient number of hours is consumed to enable the managing and speechifying portion of the Federal party to concoct new schemes of de lay, and to bring in budgets of stuff to read ncinWRnin. The Bay State Democrat thinks there are not less than one hundred houses going up in Boston at the present time. Star. T hat is a place where the banks are not suspended, and the currency is sound. Globe. From the Savunmh Gecrgim. Rights of the South. Jis understood by the H VtJgs of the JVbrlh. A paity is sought to be formed ar the South, to coalesce with the Aoithern A big party, and if posssble, p!a'e the nominated candi dale ot the latter iu the highest and most responsible office to be conferred by the peo ple The greatest virtue possessed by Harrison, in the eyes of some of his admirers, is, ihat he M, unlike the President of the people, un pledged to veto au act abolishing slavery in the District. The Whig presses, however, applaud Har rison for his pretended love of Southern in riitutiotis, concealing from public view his exclamation, when leaving "Virginia, and would make their readers believe that Van Burt mi, not Ilainson, is supported by the enemies ot the South. But lads coutouud them in their assertions. Their misrepresen tations, will, sooner or later, be exposed, ai d an indignant people will hnil them from the' high and responsible duty of sentinels on the watch-tower, for having omitted to warn them of the mining approaches of ihe incen diary, and the threatening batteries erected against their strongholds. rl he people of the South must wake up fo the delusion. 1 hey must discriminate friends from foes. Their sentinels of the South must not cry. "All's icell! ' when a Northern party aiming at pow- er, are invoKiug me spun oi me partisan throughout the country, merel- to exercise au influence prejudicial to the interests of ihe Southern people. But the other day, the Northern Democrats in the House, were seen fighting side by side, with those of the South on the question of abolition. But oue Whig of the North was found in the same ranks. Now, what do we see? In the Senate, but one Northern Whig (Mr. Dixon) sustaining the rights of the South, aud with them, our rights as a nation. And this is the party that the people of Geor gia are called upon to uuite with, to attempt . .i. i" !.? r"i to thrust ttom nisoisiiuguisnaeu seat, in wnicn he was placed by a confiding people, a Presi dent, who is ready to interpose, if necessary, the shield of his veto, to protect the constitu tional rights of every section of our country. and to elevate a mail, whose military talents John Quincy Adams, in a letter to Du- tee J. Peakcm?, of Rhode Island, dated Sept. 7, 1835, uses this lauguage in reference to the federal patty: "1 heartily congratulate you upon your re election to Congress although upon many important public measures,! differed widely in opinion from you iu the last Congress; and although 1 do not flatter myself that we shall agree much better in the next, am yet conrinced that the paily the whig party ipiich has been these tiro years struggling to break you dov:n, the base compound of Hart ford convention federalism and roal arch masoniy. :s so lotleu viih ihe cartujAion oj both its flements, that I hail w ith joy the vic tory which you have achieved over it. They hare no honest principle to keep them together their only cement is a sympathy of hatred to every man of purer principles than themselves. Towaids Mi. BuRGESst himself I chr-i-h a friendly feeling; for, governed as he is by impulses, and bitter as he is in the indul gence of his sarcastic humor, he has brilliant parts, a classical taste, occasional flights of eloquence, and too much honesty for his paity." '1 his is a good portrait, drawn. up by a whig, who ceitainly should undetstaud ihe subject. Mr. Adams being a leading mem ber of the federal party, should be good au thority with cur opponents. tween the two parties The question of a national bank is as ugly a question with the whtgs as that of picking pockets for an ar raigned felon the tariff question, the internal improvement question, the question of a free construction of the constitution, the question of putting the public funds in danger, by de positing them with the state banks all these aud half a dozen more, are questions iu which the whig side has met with little success. The plan is now lo keep these matters as much in the dark as possible, to blink the true grounds of controversy between the de mocratic pa-ty and its adversaries, and hold the principles, the designs and the policy of the whig party in reserve, until by a mixture of dexterity and good luck they get into power. Such was the policy recommended " by Watkins Leigh in the convention at which Harrison was nominated. It has since been carried out by putting Gen. Harrison in the charge of a committee whose business it not to allow their ward to plead to the real and I rue issue between the parties, nor to talk about banks and independent treasuries and such matters, which they rightly judge to be too deep for him and on which it is the policy of his party to preserve silence for the pre sent. Meantime the Whigs were sadly perplexed for "an issue." Whether Harrison was com petent for the post of President was an un promising issue; whether he and his party would pursue the policy most friendly to the national interests and liberties, was a fatal issue; the very issue they wanted to avoid. The W hig party are already on trial before the country for maintaining mischievous prin ciples, and recommending bad measures, and thev wanted to discover an issue which should shift the dispute to some matter of compara tively little consequence. So they are to talk of what Harnsou did at 1 ippecauoe, aud about the popularity of the last war, subjects whu h have no more connection with the real questiou, namely what Harrisou and his ad herents will do when they get into power, than the color of his coat, lhis is the great "issue," by clamoring about which, they think to make the public forget their real views aud designs. A democrat. tA federalist, .Vetc Jllbany irgus. Rail Road ami Capitol Celebration. We understand thit Wednesday, the 10th of June, has been fixed on as the day for celebrating the completion of the Raleigh aud Gaston Road, aud of our State Capitol. R j w w .aieign itegizier. Paper Currency. Seventy five paper dollars money, were recently sold a; seventv-five cents in silver. tioio this enormous appreciation? of Brandon Natthr z for W ho looses The banks , From the Lancaster Intelligencer. The Hantaoniani avud. the Poor Man. In Rhode Island every voter must be ihe owuer of a certain amount of property before he can vote. Rhode Island is for Harrison to the back bone. Whenever it gives a ma jority for the British Whigs, the New York (although he ceased to have confidence him- does i:t ceitainly. the woi kingo-.en whom the speculatois are endeavoring to delude vv itb ihe cry of "reduced wages," are the loseis. Gold and silver can never depre ciate in this way. We put the question for which would you lather work, twenty-five dol lars hard money a month, or seventy-five pa per dollars that will bring only three silver qnaiters? This question is worthy of the consideration of the people. .V. r. .Veie Era. Connecticut Election. The Hartford Cou rant publishes the official canvass of votes for Governor iu Connecticut, from which it appears that the number legally returned and counted, is for Ellsworth 30,655; Niles 25,933; scattering 142. Whole number of votes polled 56,681). Majority for Governor Ellsworth 4,458. self in them at a most trying period of ihe war) we would not disparage, but who has already invested a Committee with the power to think aud speak for him, lest any thing he may say may commit him id the judgement ot an intelligent and thinking people. His supporters in the Senate are following his example and bury in their bosoms thoughts their magnitude to our commercial (a Harrison paper) styles it a victory over the rabble route of Locofoco- ism." A poor man might as well try to fly as to vote in Rhode Island that great Har rison state. TV .. ... in J.ouisiana none but a freeholder can vote! Louisiana is one of the states that will go for Harrison, according to the British V lugs: A proposition to extend the neht of on suojects vital in suffrage to all those qualified by residence I national existence. and taxation, was recently voted down in the I Will the South tamely submit to be yoked Louisiana Senate bv the Harrison men all to such a party, however transcendant their the Democrats going for it. talents, however sterling their factious op The Boston Atlas,'a leading British Whig position to the people's executive, however paper, came out, not long since, and told the anxious, as the rabid partisan, to be rewar friends of Harrison to "come down into the ded with ihe loaves and fishes which their forum and take the voter by the hand." candidate would dispense. A factory agent in Northampton, Connec- Arouse, Republicans of Georgia, and unite ticut. has ffiven notice to his workmen ihat iu the good work of upholding an admiuistra they must sign a pledge to go for Harrison, tion which has been striving iu your behalf, or be discharged. hut whose efforts have not always been sue A poor man in the ranks of the Harrison- cessful, because party malignity has in too ians is as much out of place as it is possible many instances been interposed to cheeky the for a Democrat to be in the ranks of the Alien current of a prompt and healthful legislation, and Sedition Law men. so that the laborers thrown out of employ by We shall close this article by the following the course ot the desperate Wbigs, might be extract from the Hartford Conn.'i Times, to induced to bend at ihe shrine of Federalism, v , which we invite common attention: THE FEDERALISTS AND THE LA BORERS. in the year idb the panic year a num ber of laborers at Thompsonville, in this state, as the panacea for their ailments. When a party forget thev support they owe under the ' Constitution to their brethren of the South, the readiness of the latter to sus tain the rights of the North whenever they Frcm feJVtto York Eve. Po.it. Some of our readers may have attended the criminal courts, either as witnesses or jurors, or haply as counsel for tl e accused. If so, they may have observed the evident satisfaction testified by an arraigned felon, whose case was otherwise desperate, when there arose some collateral questiou which gave him a chance of escaping a fair trial. With what manifest delight did he perceive ihat the decision of the case was likely to turn upon some defect in ihe proceedings, some trifling controversy of forms and phrases which had nothing to do with his guilt or innocence, aud which would keep out. of sight the ugly question, whether he had pick etTa pocket or committed forgery! We once heard of a notorious rogue who, having had ihe good fortue more than once to escape jus tice in this way, aud having by being frequent ly iu court, obtained some smattering of legal phraseology, used to call this process of dodg- ing the real question, -me oiscovery ot an issue." We are reminded of this story by what the whig prints are now saying about having "discovered an issue." That they have made such a discovery is proclaimed in their journals and great is Ihe rejoicing thereat The New York ccrresponoeiu ot me lation al Intelligencer, in telling a story about some banuer carried through the streets some days since, thus triumphantly announces the nature of the new issue: "Every thing, as I wrote you the other day, is concurring to merge the party divisions of the many here, and to mane an issue upon the last war, and the merits of Gen. Harrison in that war, a great point of contest, as, for example, the parading of such a banner as this through our streets . awakens the masses, both native and foreign born, to an investiga ion of Harrison's services, which involves the popularity or the unpopularity of last war, The issue will be made and met in this city, and I am as confident as any man can be of any future event, that the nigs will sweep all before them npon ii." We congratulate the Whigs on discover ing an issue" They have long been looking for an "issue" which might divert the public from tha real Doints in dispute be- mwmwHi . . F.om fie Be' m. nil Enquirer. T2ie Virginia Elections. We give the returns, as far as we have re ceived them. The contest has been ardous ia many counties. As at present advised, w e have no hesitation in giving it as our opin ion that the Whigs have carried a majority of the Legislature. That the Republicans will carry it this fall, we do not entertain a doubt. On Thursday night (the night of the elec tion) the Wh-igs had an avalanche of rumois, which seemed to bear down all before it. Not'to speak of the city of Richmond and county of Henrico, there were Hanover, Louisa, Caroline, Spotlsylvania. and Stafford, all were said lo have gone for the Whigs! The next day they were still more exulting Powhatan lost to us; then Cumberland, Prince Edward, Amelia, etc. all gone for the Whis! They were crowing aud bragging a ittle too much. They who do not know how to enioy success, do not deserve it. jsm tne evening came, and secured us Diawiddle, and saved Louisa. T.he evening car gave us back Stafford, aud reported Caroline (last for the Whigs) now very doubtful. Whenever Richmond could make herself felt, her great influence, has been exerted. She has made her mark all around her. Her pre ponderant vote has carried Henrico, Hano- ver, f owhatan, and, now ii appears, duck- iugham and perhaps Caroline! As the game stands, we have lost Hanover and Nottaway hv two votes. Priuce Edward by a small ma jority, Morgau, the Senatorial district of Jef- ferson aud f owhatan tor a season, (for, iui- chanx disputes the seat, and we have no doubt he w ill reclaim it- It is said that til teen votes were given against him, upon freeholds, which fell below the value of the constitution al standard, according to the late assessment The question is does this assessment apply to this election: and we have the opinion of one of the first authorities of this laud that it decidedly does- If so, we shall get Powha lan back. Old Buckingham has indeed done nobly. She is almost, if not entirely reduced. She had given Flood, the Democratic candi date, a maioritv of 22 over Bondurant; and the highest Whig Delegate 504, the other Whig candidate and oue of the Democrats 503 each, aud the other Democratic candidate 5 u2. The two Whigs have the Sheriffs re ii n hm rair correspondent iuforms us that the election will be successfully contested. We have gained Dinwiddie and Amelia, nnrl it is reported, a delegate in Hhmpshire If so. the Whigs have gaiued 6, and the De mocrats 3 members. We wanted 3 to tie ihe T .orriibitiii e. at ihe last session. So that throwing out our chances in powhatan, Notto wav. Hanover, Spottsylvania, and Bucking ham, in all which counties it is said the seats will he contested, we now want 6 gains to divide the vole in the Legislature. We may lose as much as we gain. We may lose Roanoke, Braxton and Lewis, Smyth and We may gain Russell, Logan galia. Th? battle cannot, therefore, be defi nitely counted until the smoke has entirely blown away. It may be several days yet be fore we shall be able to collect all the returns. V e have fought under many disadvantages. The Whigs have resorted to such means as iitmuiuj K1- m uiuau iu eruDIOV. int have inundated the country with pamphlets ana nanaoius ot tne most deceptive character. The Stale has been overrun with electoral spouters, and wilh the Nos. of the Yeoman. which went forth before the Crisis could be got up to a'pply the antidote. The cry has been, Ihe low prices and hard times. The humbug of the standing army has operated agaiust us with tremendous force. It has alone KTttred the scale against us, in as many debatable counties as vatty be sufficient to turn the scale in the Legislature. Although this project was not very well suited to snc ceed in Congress; although the details in the bill, which was subsequently reported to Con gress, were not in all probability submitted at all to the President himself, yet their details have been perverted and pressed with an in genuity of misrepresentation and a constancy of purpose, which was calculated to deceive and mislead the people. In no one circumstance of the whole cam paign, were the tricks and deceptions of the Whig so manifestly exhibited, to our disad vantage and defeat. Put they stickled at no thinfr. A biosranhv of General Him'enn w ith the coarsest caricatures, was circulated under the franks of the Whig members of Congress, in all directions- The Old Do minion was insulted by these attempts the became the object of the most infamous ex periments in which, not only her own citi zens, but the members of other States dared to participate. On the very eve of the elec tion, a handbill was thrown, like a firebrand, into the State prepared by eight members of Congress at Washington; and containing the most garbled and insidious statements. A Virginia member of Congress did not hesitate to associate himself with seven members from other States to direct and control this proud ' Commonwealth; she who has been accus tomed lo give tne law, rather than receive it to teach others, rather than be taught by them. In this "Executive Commiftee" of the Secret Cabal, which has raised a privy purse to sub sidize the press, and to scatter the Madison ian, under the franks of the Whig members. there are a secret Abolitionist (Clark of New York) and the preparer of the Hartford Con vention resolutions (Sallonstall of Massacbu- seetts.) These men have bad the insolence to band toghether, to dictate to Virginia, in the exercise of her most important Drivilefre. on ihe eve of the election before any oppor tunity could have been obtained for counter acting tneir gross misrepresentations. But this is not the only instance where the Whigs ii i ... a . o nave caueu in me citizens ot other states to invade our sanctuary, and to control our opin ions. The same thing was done by Messrs. Vinton and Fisher, of Galliopolis, (State of Ohio, who attended the Superior Court of Mason county, and addressed the people. The same thing was also done by Hoffman, of Baltimore, who was associated with W. C. Rives in haranguing our citizens at Win chester. Not the least remarkable Dhenome- non of these unprecedented times, and one of the most indecent of the arfs of the Whigs, is in mis very ex-cenatcrs roaming about from county to county, where the election was considered doubtjul, and addressing and operating upon the voters to elect delegates who will re-elect him. V. C. 11. and J. S. Pendleton, of Culpeper, and have even been "hunting in couples." If these interposi tions, if these stratagems of the Whigs, do not rouse up the blood of the Virginians, then "tne race oi noDie nioods7' is not what it once was. They may then carry the State this spring. Our friends in different counties, who might not have been aware of the activitiy of their opponents, and the extensive machinery which they played off, may have been decieved in their speculations, and thus misled ourselves. But the mischief will now be corrected. "Tha second, sober thought, will prevail." In some of the counties, it appears that our friends battled nobly and deserve well of tho Republic. In others, the zeal of the Opposi tion has surpassed that of our friends. In many of the couuties, our committees have not even been organized; and each member has been fighting upon his own hook- But the Republican party will now be thoroughly aroused. The committees will organize, and enlarge their numbers. We have time enough before us to expose the machinations of the enemy ihe Tippecanoe Club in this city the extent of the franking abuses and tho devices which they are setting to work. The Democracy of this great State will never suffer their immortal principles to be under mined aud prostrated by such a party, with such a cause, with such a candidate, with means so reckless and so desperate. We call upon every man in the State to rouse himself. As for ourselves, we swear to devote ourselves, wilh whatever of energy we possess, that indomitable industry and buoyant spirit, which nothing has yet subdued, to the great cause, to those great principles, which have constituted the boast and glory of Virginia. To employ the expression ' of a strong-minded friend, who wrote us a note in pencil, to an inquiry which we made of him about one of the reported counties, on Saturday evening: "I hope as you, we will not slay beaten.' But if we should, I had rather be a Republican, 'solitary and alone,' than to be a VYbig, alter the present fashion." So say we Randolph. Patrick, Pocahontas,' Wood, Mason, and J and so will gay thousands of Republicans Jackson, MATbhall, and a delegate in Monon- now and henceforth, until November next. '
The North Carolinian (Wilson, N.C.)
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