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1 :1 f f - i j' -i! e if i ' ."J L 7 'I ii TH1B HOKTH - C AIROIilNIAM grown up from a trifle to a large amount with iu a few years past, and amouuted to $91, 995 for the year 1839- Previous to General Jackson's administration it rarely exceed two thousand dollars per annum; for the years 18 36, '7, and '8, it amounted to about $220,000. 9. Duties refunded to merchants was ano ther of the new and large items which had lately grown up among our Treasury pay ments. From 1824 to 1832 it was un known; yet in 1S39 it was $179,304, in the year 1833 it was $701,000 and for 1836, 7' and 8' it amounted to above $800,000. This was a favor or an act of justice to merchants, granted by acts of Congress, or by judicial decisions, or by reversal of previous construc tions of the laws. It is no part of the Gov ernment expenditure, though, being refunded from the Treasury, it goes into the enumera tion to swell the general aggregate to swell the cry of extravagance and to prove the hostility of the administration to merchants. - 10. A tenth item to be deducted was the sum of $714,857 for collecting materials for the increase of the navy. This was an ex penditure for the future defence of the count ry, and averaged about $S00,000 per annum since the commencement of General Jack son's administration, though only $423,000 in 1820. It is clearly no part of the ex penses of Government, but an outlay of mo ney for the benefit of after years and of pos terity. 11. Permanent public buildings is another of the large items of recent expenditure. For merly these buildings were of perishable ma terials, and sunk under the decay of time, or the ravases of fire: for some years past dura ble materials have been selected and fireproof edifices constructed. The expenditure for this purpose in 1839, was $1,248,044, and near the same for the three preceding years. This again was an expenditure for the benefit of posterity, and not chargeable as an ex pense upon the actual administrations. 12. The sum of $735,570 for bridges and fortifications, was the twelfth item which Mr. 15. pointed out for deduction, being both of them expenditures for the benefit of posterity; the expenditure extraordinary and temporary, but the benefit general and permanent. 13. The sum $1,491,000 for the improve ment of rivers, harbors, and roads, exclusive of the Cumberland road, was another expeudi ture of the same character. In 1824, it was $56,955; but took a start then which would have known no bounds had it not been for the Mayesville veto. 14. Providing arms for the militia of the States and cannon for the forts is another ex penditure for future times and for posterity. It amounted to $474,906 for 1839, and ave raged above half" a million a year for each of the three preceding years. In lb24, it was but $171,155. 15. Pensions, except those to invalids, was the next item noted by Mr. B. for deduction They were gratuities from the Treasury, and not an expense of Government, lhey a mounted in 1839 to $3,033,764, being near three times what they were in 1824. lhey had been an enormous drain upon the L rea siirv for thft last spvpn vear. nmnnntms in 1S33 to $4,4S5,000, and subsequently aver aging about half that sum. 16. Purchase of lauds from Indians was another large item to be deducted, and which had vastly increased of late. In 1824 this head of expenditure only amounted to $429, 9S7; in 1839 it was $1,708,123; in 1S36 it was as high as three millions. In 1837, $2,4S4,000, and in 1838 it was $4,603,518. There were heavy expenditures, incurred for the great object of relieving all the States from the incumbrance of an Indian population; but though heavy, it is not money gone from the Treasury never to return to it. It all returns, and with profit, in the sale of the lands acqui red; yetthe vast sums paid on this head, is cited against us as ruinous extravagance, for which the Goths should be driven from the Capitol. 17. Removal of Indians and their wars was another item nearly connected with the last, and subject to the same remarks. It hd grown up of late, and was directed to the good of the States. In 1824 it was nothing; in I39 it was $1,775,914, in the three pre ceding years it was, respectively, in round numbers, $8,000,000, $6,500,000, and $5,- 500,000. N This is one of the largest heads of increased expenditure in recent years, and one of the nost indispensable for the States of the Souih and West. It is appurtenant to the purchase of the Indian land.s; and, altho' large, yet the sales of the land will far more than reimburse it. 18. And, finally, Mr. B. noted the sum of 5232,36y lor miscellaneous obiects, not re duceable to a precise head which swelled the list of expenditures without belonging to the expenses ol the Government. 19. The Exploring Expedition was the last of the items. It was of recent origin, amounting to $97,968 in 1839, and to about $a50,000 tor the three preceding yeais. These are the" eighteen heads ofextraordi nary expenditures, said Mr. B. and the a mount expended for each: and now let gen tlemen of the opposition say for which of these they did not vote to which they now object, and for which they will not vote again at this session? With this view of the tabular statements, Mr. 13. closed the examination ot the items of expendituie, and stated the result to be a reduction of the 37 millions aggregate in 1S36, like that of the 32 million aggregate in 1624, to about one third of its amount. The . very first item, that of the payment of public debt in the redemption of Treasury notes, re duced it 11 millions of dollars; it sunk it from 37 millions to 26. The other eighteen items amounted to $12,656,977, and reduced the 26 millions to 13 1-2. Here, then, is a re suit which is attained by the same process which applies to the year 1824, and to every other year, and which is right in itself; and which must put to flight and to shame the at tempts to excite the country with this bug bear story of extravagance. In the first place , the aggregate expenditures have not increas ed three-fold in fifteen years; they have not risen: from 13 to 39 millions as incontinent ly asserted by the Opposition; but from 32 millions to 37 or 39. And how have they risen? By paying last year 11 .millions for Treasury notes, and more than 12 millions for Indian lands, and wars, removals of In dians, and increases of the army and navy, and other items as enumerated. The result is a residum of 13 1-2 millions for the real expenses of the Government; a sum 1 1-2 millions short of what gentlemen proclaim would be an economical expenditure. They all say that 15 millions would be an economi cal expenditure; very well! here is 13 1-2! which is a million and a half short of that mark. The authentic tables show that the aggre gate expenditures for 1824, came within five millions of those of 1S29; consequently that, without a deduction for extraordinary expen ditures, the charge of extravagance, waste, ruin, profligacy, &c. mignt have been raised asraiust the Administration of that day, and some uniformed persons excited against it by a groundless clamor, yet no one thought of raising such a clamor, in lc24. io one then thought of chartering, as extravagance, payments on account of the public debt, and for indemnities to merchants, and other extra ordinary expenses. Then all parties made the proper deductions for paymeut eitner tern .. - . TVT porary or extraordinary in tneir nature, io one sought to mistify or to impose upon the ignorant. INo one thought ol palming a sto ry of thirty-two millions upon the country. All that has been reserved for the present time; it has been reserved for our day ; and may have been attended for a while with the ephemeral success which crowns for a mo- . . .- j ment the petty arts ot delusion practiseu up on the ignorant. But the day for this delu sion has gone by. The classified tables, now presented, will reach every citizen, and will . - , .11 ! clear up every doubt. X ney win euapie every citizen to see every item of expenditure to iudsre it himself and to demand ot the Up position gentlemen, it they dm not vote ior u memseives, auu uuiey uuw uujc-i w . " king the extraordinary items as they rise, and beginning with the first, the sum of eleven millions paid for the redemption of Treasury notes; and it can be demanded if that pay meut was not right! and so on through the nhnlo list, amounting to twelve aDd a half millions. The ordinary and permanent expenses, amounting to thirteen and a half millions, no one objects to: all admit that that sum is a million and a half within the mark of merito rious economy. It is on the extraordinaries it is on the difference between thirteen and a half and .thirty-seven millions that the at tack is made; and now we produce these ex traordinaries. We give a list of them, item by item, with the amount paid on account o each; and call upon the gentlemen of the op position to name the one to which they ob ject: to name the one for which they did not vote! This is what we do; and I will tell you, Mr. President, what they will do; they will not name one item to which they now object, or against which they voted! They will not name one, and the reason is, because they cannot! They voted for all the country wil approve all, except part lor pensions and bar bors, and of those the opposition were the leading advocates. And thus these gentle- extraordinary light of goiug ubroad to make a general denunciation of the administration & ... i i for extravagant expenditure, ana wneu we how them the bill ot particulars, and asK ot them to point out the extravagant items, or the ones for which they did not vote, they wil: remain silent! 1 ney win name no uein, De cause they cannot. Mr. B- said that this Administration, and that of General Jackson, were ready for a comparison with any that preceded them ferson purchased Louisiana at fifteen millions I for sustaining and carrying ; on the f-lftlL? Anrl hocould think of charging Government which our ancestors provided k lnrore sums which had been for us. pfa to inguHbicg Mh. earn. ri .SaSriTS in removing Indians! une wouia as soon iu Hm ' " :K a nH r fu r.vn.nco. f a ment to understand virtue to choose and prudent and thrifty farmer in purchaaing ad- su res which are best for .selves. I do ditionalland, and inclosing it with fences, or not believe m the idiical idw, l covering it with improvements, aneextinc- peup.e are ikuumw, ' tion of the Indian titles the acquisition of have no enlightened views of men or mea their lands for settlement and cultivation sures; that reasdn, truth, and sound argument, and the removal of the Indians themselves are iosi upon mem, as Peu. from all the States, was one of the great mea- swine; that the only way to govern them is sures which illustrated General Jackson's aa- iooamDoozieaDuueui.uu.u ,. - ministration, and was beneficial both to the in none of these monarchical opinions, and Indians and to the States. So great an ob- have never practised upon them. 1 have iect could not be effected without a large ex- never addressed myself to the supposea igno- penditure of money; and wno is mere now io ruuee, veuamy, mu., "f": v ----- stand up and condemn the Administration trymen but always to their intelligence, virtue, for this expenditure? Who wants these In- and patriotism. The argumcntum adig- A,na hafhl Whn wants Ueoreia. Alabama, norunuum uas uau i.w " "V 'f ' Mississippi, and all the other States, again the argumentum ad judicium nas Deen my incumbered with the Indians wnicn nave Jen aim. . . . , i cannot say tnai i nave sbokbu wmi juuff - I . . . -m t 1 That the expenses of the Government had ment, but 1 can arhrm mat l nave aiways ;nrrMpH in iho last twelve or fifteen vears, paid my countrymen me compuuieuiui opcn- Mr. B. said was just as certainly true as it ing to their accredited judgment never to was naturally to have been expected. The their supposed folly. I have spoken to the uit v,n,l ;nrrM, in that timetsev- rational minds, to the virtuous hearts, aud the eral new States had been admitted inti the lofty, generous and patriotic feelings of my Union, aud several new Territories had been countrymen; and I am too wen coiueui wuu created. An additional impetus had been the etlect wnicn mis pian oi speaKiug nas uau, "iven to the public defences in the iccrcase to change it now. acts and reasons, are of the army and navy wars with several my materials simplicity my style. Away Indian tribes had intervened vast purchases witn exordium away wuu perorauuu aa; of Indian lands had been effected whole with holyday phrases away with theatrical tribes, nay whole nations of Indians, had display away with all figures but figures of been removed, and removed to a vast dis- arithmetic; and of these I give many, and tance, and at a vast expense. This latter never more than in this short speech. expenditure was chiefly tor the benefit ot the Ihis Has been my pian oi bpeaniug, auu South and West; but where is the man in any this it is now. I have procured plain state quarter of the Union that can stand up aud ments to be made out, and have endeavored condemn it? to make myself intelligible on a subject in Sir. I admit an increased expenditure; and, which intelligibility is somewhat dimcuu on UUU1 France r v ... nn- T ovh iK it onH nrnr. nim which it is casv lor me soeaiver 10 till WUvui wagy m f .... ' " i w it. I display the items; they are spread out himself and his hearers into a fog. 1 have in the statements now under discussion; I aimed at perspicuity, and flatter myself that I NORTH-CAROLINIAN. atrarejyates asainst aggregates, or items gainst items, they were ready for the compari son. If any one shall say that the expenses of the Government were thirty-seven millions in 1S39, or thirty-nine millions in 183S, we answer that this is only five or seven millions more than the aggregate of 1824, that the ag gregate was then thirty-two millions, and the increase is only in proportion to the increase of the country. If, descending from aggre gates and going into items, it is said that six teen millions must be deducted from the ag gregate of 1S32 for payments to the public debts, and eight millions more for indemni ties and other extraordinaries, we answer that eleven millions must be deducted from the ag gregate of 1S39 for the redemption of Trea sury notes, and twelve and a half millions more for Indian wars, treaties, and removals, and a dozen other extraordinaries. This brings the thirty-seven down to thirteen and a half, and at that point complaint ceases. Mr. B. said that the tables which were pre sented treated every Administration alike. Beginning in the last year of Mr. Monroe, they came down through the term of Mr. Adams, and the two terms of General Jack son, and the three years which had elapsed under Mr. Van Buren. All were treated alike. The same rule was applied to the ex penditures under each one. Ihe aggregate was given in every case first; and then the extraordinary, separated from the ordinary expenditures, and the same items charged and credited in every case. In looking at ihe aggregates, it will be seen that every Admin istration needed this classification; that the aggregate under Mr. Adams's Administration was not thirteen millions, as repeated so ma ny millions of times, but about the double of that! and that this thirteen millions for that gentleman's administration was only attained by deducting extraordinaries! by going thro' the very process which reduces the expend l ture under Mr. Yan Bureu to thirteen and a half millions. The smallest aggregate in the whole table is that ot lS3o, under General Jackson's administration, when the public debt had ceased, and the Indian wars had not begun. The aggregate tor that year was sev enteen millions and a half. Even including the extraordinaries of that year, and the ag gregate was but seventeen millions and a half I And so it will be again. As soon as we are done paying the Treasury notes, which are issued iu lieu of our misplaced revenue, and so soon as our Indian troubles are over, and the payments completed for removal of Indians, and purchase of their lands, the ag gregate expenditures ' will come down to about what they were in 1835; and the ordi nary expenses will be within fifteen millions. Mr. B. demanded whoever deemed it an expense of the Government, when Mr. Jef- point them out to the country. I say they have been understood. 1 wisn tne couiuiy will he found nrincinallv. in the navy in the to judge the expenditures of the Government t in th I thr n:irtirnl:iis as well as the aggregate and ll l 1 1 1 1 li U1C 1IIUIUU UIIUIHMVU ... mw ...v i - era nonsmns in inn ifht house establishment mereiore piace me wuoie uc.uio mc Fu..v. attack the affirreeate. Let 1 1JU Id lA U (11 J lUV Ubivuvw v avu...-w vu. o North and West in fortifications in pre- them examine the particulars, aud name the paring arms and ammunitions of war in one to which they object, and for which they the legislative department in permanent aud did not vote! durable fire proof public buildings and in as suming the foreign debt, and making olher expenditures tor the Uistrict ot Columbia. In these branches of the service will mcrea ses be principally found, and I support them all except the increase for pensions, haibors, some of the lighthouses, and the book print ing part of the legislative expenses. I sup ported all except these; but the gentlemen of the Opposition supported all mat 1 did, and these besides; and now go forth to raise a cry of extravagance. Mr. B. said the opposition not only voted for these increased expenditures, but in some instances greatly augmented them. This was the case in the Indian expenditures, and position sat themselves up lor the guardians of these Indians: they seemed to make poiiti cal alliance with them. The Indians became parties to our politics: the opposition became allies to them; and the result was double trojble, and double expense, and double de lays, and double vexation of every kind with those Indians; until it required a military force to compel them to comply with treaties which gave them millions more than they ought to have received! The Opposition not only voted for all the increases, and caused some ot mem to be Saturday Morning, Slay 30, 1810. REPUBLICAN NOMINATION. FOR PRESIDENT. FOR GOVERNOR OF NORTH CAROLINA. Romulus 31. Saunders. Appointment hy tbc President. By and with ihe advice and consent of the Senate. C. C. Cambreleng, to be Envoy Extraordi nary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia. The "Annihilation of feudality and aristocracy." "Eqnalify the most perfect, before the law." "The abolition of primogeniture in the descent of protirr augmented, but they attempted many enorm- lv.: "National representation, and its natural con -ous expenditures which the Democratic mem- soqence, the rendering the representative Cham bers opposed and prevented. X.et auy one ber a c,-n!rii point of influence and authority." look to the bills which were rejected, either Xhe fau ot the ecclesiastical regime, with its s cu- m the Senate or in the House of Itepresenta- , riches and temporal power." And more than lives; let any one look to the number of these bills, and the tens of millions, in the aggre gate, with which they were freighted, and then say what the expenses would have been it me wpposmon nad been in power, one of the bills alone, the French spoliation bill. was for five millions of dallars; others were for vast sums, especially the harbor bills. They were rejected by the votes of Democrat ic members; and if they had not been if they had passed they would have swelled the thirty-seven to near fifty millions; and would have been charged upon us as reckless, wasteful, horrible extravagance. lur. B. said that the financial statements were a difficult subject to handle hard for a speaker to understand himself, and harder still to make himself be understood by others. It was a point at which the most unfounded impressions might be made on the public mind on which the greatest errors might be propagated. Yet it was a point on which correct information should be disseminated all and above all, a public opinion, ever vigilant to detect any abuse of authority, and ever ready to de mand ameliorations in tbo institutions of the court try." All these are what the spirit of Democracy has accomplished for the people of Prance in the last fifty years, as will be seen by the eloquent extract below, from Governor Cass's work, entitled, "France its King, Court and Government," as published in the April and May number of the Democratic Re view. France, was ruled by an absolute monarchy; it suffered all the horrors of the worst sort of des potism. It is now a limited monarchy, with many of the strongest Democratic features in its repre sentative Government. France has now no house of lords as in England. No established church as in England. No descent of property to the oldest child as in England. A free press a free people. All of this her Democracy have gained for the peo ple. Ours is not the only country then, where De mocracy is, as it ought to be, all in all in its influence upon government aflairs. Let us take care that in tho mfom hnvA nrlnnted. But in . "v- " . . ;r.,., tnere are many part ies,ecnwim ro of opinion, from the extreme of uncontrolled mon archy to that of the freest democracy. It will be recollected, that if the spirit ot inquiry is iioiuitob. in England, by that reverence for its institutions which springs out ol past recoiiecuo, in these old countries enters so often into the habits of the people, and can be broken only by a revoiu-. iioii, ii is sun eviaeni. iuji u wmn i - tion, and that impresses the efforts which are made at amelioration with a character of discretion, that seems too often to degenerate into timidity or in diBerencv. But the "French Revolution made al most a tabula rasa of a large portion of the scc:al system of France, and fifty years have been epent in remoddeliing it, building up and pulling down, doing - and undoing in succession. The associa- thus obliterated, and time enough has not been allowed to substitute for these the convictions of the present. The Abso lute Monarchy, the Constitutional Monarchy, the Republic, the Consulate, the Empire, the Restora tion, the Monarchy of July, all have in turn gov erned the kingdom, and each has found advocates and opponents. These rapid and successive chan ges have produced their natural tffects upon the ar dent temperament of the French people; and where polemical discussions are so lively, and the liberty Iho nrnsa Bn nnf..l torprl it iJ not Surmising that these have been followed by the propagation of every shade of opinion, and accompaniea Dy i warmth, and, I may add, a bitterness, of sentiment, which are Ibrtunately unkown in our political dis spnainnu. MinHa h.ivp become exalted, as the French say, to a point which, with a portion of the population, seems inconsistent witn me nw-tsMrj and salutary restraints of even the freest govern ments. The supply and demand of the necessary articles of life are in such a near equilibria, in Europe, for the working population, that veryt&crht causes suffice to derange the elements of produc tion, and to throw out of employment, and into idle ness and miserv. a lare class Ol society. Anu though this is generally the result of social, rather than of political causes, anil in tne densely crowo ed state of the European nations would seem to be inse parable from any form of government, still the masses which teel the evil, do not stop to lipwi" the causes, but attribute the distress which from time to time presses upon them, to the operations of the government, arisins out of a defective con stitution, or a vicious adminislration. And these opinions are fortified and disseminated by Ihe oppo- itnn innmals. which, in free governments, are prone to throw upon their adversaries, me Dittinen of all the troubles which affL-ct their state." We gave our readers, last week, an abridgment of General McKay's ppeech, on the subject of the piivnses of the Government. We oive.liiis week, Mr. Benton's mas'erly speech on the same subject. Here you have the money hat has been expended, and the t.bi- cts to which it has been applied. Study it attentively in the two tali!f;. nnd aDnlv canf ill v Mr. Benton's plain re marks and vou will see how grossly and falsely the people have been deceived by the opposition. They have shown the pe-ipie me gross annual amounts oi money, laid out Dy the uovcrnmcm, out nave, in er ery instance, kept hid the purposes for which the money was paid out. And aiso the fact, that their own members voted for the very extravagance of which they complain. As the positive proof of this, let every reader of the Observer, see in that paper of last week, how the r lain truth is desienedly kept hid from the "'pub lic eye" by the coursiTcf the editor on this aU-iin-Krtant subject. That paper published one table contain! ne the gross amounts, and wilfully, and with the" evident design of hiding the truth, tjSUpprcssed the other table, which would have shewed its readers what the money was expended for. Now, this is one of the newspapers thit charges the government with corruption, about these very expenditures, and when it has the who e matter truly and fairly explained, by pluin tables, so that every brdy may lure a fair chance to understand it, and judge impartially, the editor leaves out th onlv table that is intended to throw lis. lit on the .XfLLvioot juris.'. XC 5Khrtiu.x this is t'siir or candid. More Fair Dealing, The Observer makes a great flourish about a "standing arm v." We published last wet-k, Gtn ral Harrison's own plan tor training the iml.tia, when he was in Congress, and provea that it was more objectionable than Mr. Poinsett's. The Observer does not deny this at all; but knowing thatHarrison had proposed this si':ly prrjsct, attacks Mr. Van Buren, tor "recommending Mr. Poinsett's report to the consideration ot Congress, and talks ot a "stand ing army." Poinselt, the Secretary of War, is c:tl!ed on by Congress to make a report on the subject. He makes it, end what is the duty of the Pre.-4dnt? He recommends the report, not as a fit plan for Congress to pass into a lair, but as a report f roper lor "the consideration cf Congress." Is this any thing but what the President ought to do! N ithcr the Secretary nor the President, can make a law on the subject, but they can only submit it to Con gress to do as they please with it. Now, no laic has passed, on the subject, and it is certain, that Congress will not pass any such a law, as that recomn ended by Poinsett, unless, like tif vast exp-neiituri s, it shall be carried by Harrison's friends, from their attachment to such a law, to favor th old parual ties of the ir dumb candidate. Air. Van Buren has never approved such a law; while Harrison has. Mr. Van Buren never will do it. Let every man then, not jude of this matter, until thev se?, whether Mr. Van Buren's friends, pass such a law, and then whether he will give his assent to it. The cry about tlvs matter supposes the po ple are fools and that they will blame a man for a law which he has never agreed to the passage of, before it passes. Davidson, Randolph, Rowan, Chatham, A Sign. SALISBURY DISTRICT. Vote for Governor in 1836. Dudley (Fed.) Spaight (Dem 1 1287 69 - 1009 H2 1642 H7 932 627 4870 925 Whole number of votes 5795. Federal majority 3945. Vote for Congress last August. f isher (Dem.) Henderson (Fed.) Rowan, 884 508 ' Davidson, 978, 740 Randolph, 668 , 855 Davie, 433 455 Chatham, 590 812 3370 Mr. Fisher's ma 3553 Whole number of votes 6S63. jority 183. Add Mr. Fisher's majority in 1839 to DudleyV majority in 1836, and it shews a Democratic gain in three years of 4128 in this one District. We stated last week that General Saunders would get 1501 in the Salisbury District abovtf Dudley's vote; this was a slip of the pen; We meant tojhave said, "above Spaight's vote." It will be seen that, in that statement, wo did not claim, for" General Saunders even the half of the above 4128 which was our sain last August. Many of Mr. Fisher's friends in the District, think that t8e General's vote will equal Mr.. Fisher's. If this be so, General Saunders will beat Morehead 3248 votes, wiihout a single gain inany other district. Davie has beea taken elf from Rowan since 1836. The Observer chuckled at our mistake of last week, let him figure out the above sum, and laugh on the other side of his mouth. Extract of a letter dated, Burnt Islands, Robeson Co. May 26th, 1840. "In conclusion sir, I would just remark that I live in a Democratic neighborhood, and if there has been a single change, 1 have not been able to as certain the fact. I understand that a noisy old Federalist was in Fayette ville the other day" from Robrson, and that Mr. Hale t Id him he had 60 subscribers in the Burnt Islands, and that every one of them would go for Harrison. Now sir, 1 live about the bordeis of what is called the Burnt Islands and there are not 20 voters in the real bounds of the Islands there are but 2 men in the Islands that take a newspaper, and they both take the North Caro'inian and I venture the assertion that there is not one man in them but what will vote for Mr. Van Buron and all tha Democratic candidates both for county and State. With sentiments of the highest esteem, I have the honor to be your ob't SeiVt." on which every citizen should be informed we are not c,,cateJ out of this influence, by the which every one should make it his business canK aristocracy to understand. Economy should be the Here follows the extract: cardinal virtue of a free Government, and th. . "The Revolution of 1789 threw cfT the weiht of despotism which had oppressed France during many ages; but it did not stop, like our own Revo- whole body of the citizens should be the guardians of that virtue. They should iruard lution. at a mere chancre of some nf th -inlitij-nl in the national finances; and for that purpose stitntions rf ihe country; but extended itself into all should unrlpretnnrl thorn Th. cKnl.l i, the ramifications of lite, civil, social, reliffious. It mv, j p t h&s accomplished a vast benefit for France and for how much money was raised, for what pur- the world, thouoh in ioUm hn.u lf. pose, and how expended. They could not phases, it is evident, that with less exaltation of De too jealous of the misapplication of the mmd the same results might have been obtained, public moneys; they could not scrutinize too and ye.a,rs of tr.'1al1nnd suffering spared to the coun- li ,u ui- . rri 'ry. Almost all the existing institutions of France closely the public accounts. Ihose ac- owe their origin to the half century which hasXt counts rnuM nnt k . j i r .e -i . : j"-- io iuu uiiou picacuieu w jjuseu away me ttiiiiimiauon ot leuuaiity and them, nor in a form too simnle and nlwmi.c aristocracy eqality, the most Derfect. belnrn thfi It has been my endeavor, said Mr B both la,-w ,he abohtion 'primogeniture in the descent in llinrr -..-,u u-. . , . of property national representation, and its natural m calling for the Statements which had just consequence, the rendering the represntative cham- me .treasury, auu m wnat 1 ner a central point oi influence and authority th' have said upon them, to rjresent th t;m..l fall of the ecclesiastical res i me with its .pm,I. subject of our finances in a plain obvious riches a"d temPral power the freedom of the and intelliVible form. Mv oE'hTI ' 5, 'A -". - P? t i. -, , ' . upiiniMi ..... i m ueiecr. any abuse ot au to elucidate, and not to mystify to enlighten, thority, and ever ready to demand ameliorations in auu not to contuse. 1 have endeavored to lDe ns,ilu"ns or we country. But with these present a full, plain, and authentic statement ZSSj '8 "1""1?4 calm' sedate i j: l dispass,ona..e spirit of inquiry, and an habitual at. 70 n- -Fu sucn as every citl- tachment to certain general principles, found by ex- iw.(,.,.K,uu. auvei- i h"--" "".OTv.u.ai iu iub prosperity ot thecoun saries present an anmiratf rush t t,, , try, and which ought to be olareH u th;. sions, and endeavor to alarm or to enrace the f .derf tio" 8b.V.t conflicts. of party. In our po- , i , iwaiaim ui wcurageuie htical contests there are pass ons enough awkenH. rt i?uSent Pt"Vnd ask but the struggles which From tune to time a cS tor their deliberate judgment. Sir, I have ried on touch neither the foundations of our govera- confidence in the capacity of my country- m,ent' nor "munitions of society. Our parties men. I have confidence in their cananitr !2.S?2J?!!?LE?le. Poin,5 a" "cognise the for sdf.ffovernm.nf , i jr ""i'"'1"" . S"r institutions to our man- " . " auu imei- nrs ana conamon; and he would be a bold ooliti r v gwfsiuiug uitiiieseives i fwM ny iunaaiqental cnange Bankrupt Law, We are out and out against the passage of any bankrupt law by Congress during its present ses sion. All general laws, passed during the existence of panic in money matters, and undue political excite ment are apt to prova improvident and impolitic. Thry are apt to be like standing regulations on ship-board, adopted while the storm rages. It should be remembered, that no law of such general and mighty importance in its operation, has perhaps ever passed Congress. And, we think ordinary prudence would dictate the appointment of an able committee of three or five, with full au thority, to collect and report tho necessary informa tion, on all the branches of this boundless subject, to the next session of Congress. Let them report, first upon the propriety, and probable consequences of a bankrupt law, to be confined solely to mer chants and traders generally; secondly', to mer chants and traders in cities, towns, and villages; thirdly, to banks and other corporations generally; fourthly to certain classes of banks and other cor porations; and lastly, to all citizens and persons and all corporations. S Has Congress, the necessary information before them, collected from this wide field, to enact a law wisely, upon a subject of such paramount impor tance? We are aware, that the subject is not now before Congress, for the first time. And reports may have been heretofore made, such as we have hinted at above; but the times are constantly chang ing, and reports on such subjects must be changed too, in order to present the truth. Besides, there is not time to do the matter justice, this session. Our sessions of Congress are too long. It is becoming a grievance. Members of Congress, should follow more, tho example of the Rhode Island legislators, that on their return home, having dispatched promptly, the public business, they may say to their constituents, what Caesar wrote to the Senate, "I came and saw and conquered." t w . Watermelons were in market at Savannah, on the 12th instant, v The Observer says, that Waddy Thompson says, ihat N. P. Tallniadge says, that JVlr. Van Buren voted for the tariff of 1828, not because the Legislature of New York instructed him to do so, but that these instructions were in com pliance with his own individual opinions. Show us your proof Mr. Observer. These hearsays of hearsays wont do. Mr. Ta'.lmadre is worse authority against the President than Maria Monk against the Catholics. Your proof! Your proof Mr. Editor. J. Q.. AJams is a strong witness against Tali madre, General Waddy aixl the Observer. He 8ys Mr. Van Buren is a Nor'.fiern man wilh "Southern feelings." Now, either Adams (the Observer's brother fed) lies, or these "Soullwn feeliners" mean nothing, if lhey do not mean anti-tariff" "feelings." If the President is a tariff man why dues fie select such men as Poin sett of South Carolina, Grundy ot Tennessee, and Forsyth of Georgia, 10 fill his cabinet with? Why do John C. Calhoun, and the Slate tight men ofSouth Carolina, support him and why do all the high tariff men who are leaders in politics oppose him? for instance, Henry Ciay, .Ihr. Q. Adams, Daniel Webster, William H. Harrison, J. C. Wright and the Observer. II Mr. Van Buren is not sound upon ihe ta riff question, why were so many of the Demo crats in 1S24 in favor of making him the Dem ocratic candidate in place of Mr. Crawford? But the Observer says "that it (the tariff.) is universally regarded, as the least objectionable mode of raising taxes for the support of govern ment." The Observer gels this high, tariff muion of his, from his desertion of State Rights and deniociacy, and joining Clay, Webster and Adams, the high priests of the high tariff policy. He gets this zeal of his conversion to North ern federal opinions, from Clay's plan of selling the public lands and giving the money to the States, so that this "least objectionable moJe of raising taxes" a high tariff, may be raised high enough to suit the "universal" wishes of the Observer's federal bretheren in ihe North. '1 hese wishes are "universal" only with that fralernity, and men of like kidney in the South, who like the Observer, are "Southern men with Northern feelings." Now, when the Indian lands are sold and the money applied to pay the public dues, it is one mode, ''universally regarded" tby democrats at least) "as the least objectional of raising taxes for the support of government." And when the Federalists succeed in giving ihis immense fund (ONE HUNDRED AND NINETEEN millions of acres,) to the States, then their "mode of raising taxes" will be the only one left) tle tariff will indeed be high enough to suit ClaVi and Webster and the Observer, and the liberties of the South will be ground to powder. Find out your enemies people of North Carolina, again we say "look TO YOUR TAX LISTS" The friends of this high tariff policy are your enemies. Its enemies are your lrieodsN All these enemies o( yours, are inoculated al heart, with the Alexander Hamilton, Gouver neur Morris true oid federal leaven. C53"They are monarchists. For the opinions of Alexander Hamilton, the original founder of the Observer's party, in favor of monarchy, we refer the Observer to the late-i ly published, Debates in the Convention, by the pen of James Madison, pp. 835, 6,7, 8, 9, 905,966. Let the reader notice how warmly the Observer of this week, defends the politic" course of this monarchist Hamilton. But aa the Observer avows that he is 'no democrat we dont wonder that he gets into "a snarl, when we print the political opinions of the federalist Hamilton.' It was to be expected -
The North Carolinian (Wilson, N.C.)
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