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tf1 2rA lift 11 0ttl tit 9 r "character is as important to states as it is to individuals; and the glory OF THE STATE IS THE COMMON PROPERTY OF ITS CITIZENS."' H. I. HOLMES,1 Editor and Proprietor. FAYETTEVILLE, SATURDAY, JUNE 1 3, 1840. VOIi. 2r-JTO. 15. Whole Number 68. TERMS. . tti SO ner annum, if paid in advance ; 93 if paid at the end 01 si uiuumo , w w .v cix&wuu of the year. Advertisements inserted at the rate of sixty cents per square, for the first, and thirty cents For eacn suosequeni insmiwi. No paper discontinued until arrearages are paid, except at the option of the Editor. -No subscription received for less than twelve WCourt advertisements and Sheriff's sales, will be charged 25 per cent, higher than the usual rates. All advertisements sent for publication should nave the number of insertions intended marked upon them, otherwise they will be inserted until forbid, and charged accordingly. . , jr-yLetters on business connected with this estab lishment, must be addressed H. L. Holmes, Edi tor of the North-Carolinian, and in all cases postpaid. Political. From the North Carolina Standard. Raleigh, 27 May, 1840. To the People of N. Carolina. In November last I was called out to ad dress a Demociatic meeting in Wake Coun ty, and form some cause the speech I made has been much spoken against in different sections of the State. My neighbors and friends have urgently demanded its publica tion. It is contrary to my habit to publish political speeches. I have been some years engaged in politics, and this is the only time I ever yielded to such a request, and it is now done reluctantly. My apology to the public for this intrusion, will be found in the solicitation of my friends, and also in what seems to me to have been an extraordinary misinterpretation of my re marks. I am not willing to appear affected by resistiug the first any longer. I am not willing that a single member of (he Whig par ty of JYorih Carolina should believe that I ever charged him with being au Abolitionist, without shewing him ichat I did say. If any such inference can be made from ihe speech, I can siucerely disavow it. It is their PAR TY whose inconsistency I have attempted to expose, and although I believe that they are deceiving themselves and the South on an impoitant matter, still I have no interest or feeling that could prompt me to say that they areduiug this upon any worse impulses than the very madness of party spirit. That I do think, and I doubt not many of their own par ty must soon open their eyes to it. As the course of the Whig party in North Carolina appears to me alike inconsistent and injuri ous to my country, I owe no apology for re fitting it. The speech that follows is that which I made omitting only those parts of it which were local, and others that were personal to myself. In these, the public at large cannot feel interested. ltespectf"lly, WILL. II- HAYWOOD, Jr. MR. HAYWOOD'S SPEECH. At a Democratic meeting in Wake county, held during the 3rd week in November, 1S39, Wm. II. Haywood, Jr., was pre sent, and after the Committee to prepare resolutions for the meeting had retired, and before their report, Mr. Haywood was in vited to addres the people who were present, and he did so, as follows: Fellow-citizens: The party opposed to us have borrowed a name to which they have no exclusive right, and even their title to share it has been ques tioned bv many. They call theirs "the WHIG party." I confess that so far as my feelings are concerned, I am willing to let my friends of the Opposition name themselves af ter their own taste. The conduct of their party is so bad that I don't wonder at this solicitude on their part to catch up a good name. God knows ihey need a good name bad enough. But the name of Whig shall not screen this party from any investigation of their misdeeds. I propose to lay before you some among the multiplied proofs of in consistency in this Whig party. Their later efforts to take absolute control of this State, and to drive us into a retreat from the long cherished principles of North Carolina, give me this right. Republicans are never defeat ed when the people are warned! Fellow-citizens, the conduct of the Whig leaders has hnpn n AYf.dinrlv inconsistent that I have " o-y - thought it might seem incredible to many of ..1 T 1 1 1 " - t . you, and tnerelore l nave aeemeu it saier to bring wilh me the recorded evidence of their Ibilaified nrofessions. To these records I will refer, acd to nothing else except it may be is a few past incidents, which (though not jecorded) every voter in the State recollects, .and no decent man will venture to contradict under the sanction of his name. You shall ibe the judges whether they do not falsely charo-p. ua with ihp.ir own nractices. Nothing is more common than for them to clamor against Republicans in our State and charge us wilh faults which a little examina tion into the facts will remove from those they accuse, and fix upon our vvnig accusers. How nnmnnlv' Hnw inconsistent! They gay, for instance and they have been repeating it for years- that it is the practice of our party to seize upon all the pub lic nfiicpc anA irivo ihpm tn nartizans: aud that acting upon a selfish maxim, "to the vic--tors belong the spoils," we have habitually . wur .v "fr ' You read these charges upon ' us in their party press tn their party proceeaings at caucus at conventions, and at all other sorts of Whig associations. I see some of our Whig friends are present, and 1 hope,; they Will slav ami kUr m nt MTiow mv answer whether this charge has not been rung in the ears of the people of North Carolina for more man nve years. :" -'".'. ; '. . - i Now then, suppose I shew that the Repub lican party of North Carolina have not seized upon the public offices that they have not proscribed the Whigs that in fact the Whigs are the office-holders. Then tell roe what epithet will properly characterize these party accusations by modern Whigs? 1 will leave you to choose the language for condemning such inconsistency, mine shall be the task to prove its existence. Here are the Journals of your Legislature, beginning with 1834 (the year I was chosen to represent you) and com ing down to the present time. There can be no mistake about the facts. Read! Hear! Decide forjour selves! ; PROSCRIPTION! The Republican party had a clear majority in 1834. In the Assembly of that year the Whigs were in a majority. This will not be denied, for it was the year in which we re elected Mr. Brown to the Senate and instruc ted Mr. Mangum. Yet these Journals tell us that Gov. Swain (a Whig) was not pro scribed. He was re-elected. Mr. Hill (a Whig) Secretary of State was not proscribed. The office of Treasurer was vacated by Mr. Mhoon's resignation, and the Republican majority did not seize upon it as spoils. " On the contrary, Gen. Patterson (a Whig) was elected over a good Republican compe titor! The office of Comptroller was also vacant by the death of Mr. Grant, aud this same republican majority did not seize upon it as "spoils." On the contrary, Mr. Stedman (a Whig) was elected over a sound republican opponent! As in these the chief offices, so also was it in the humbler offices. The republican ma jority proscribed nobody, but gave nearly all the offices to their political opponents. Mr. H. here alluded to some of the elec tioneering tricks of the Whig party, in the Wake election of 1835, when an effort was made to deprive him of the confidence of the Democrats because he had not been proscrib ing in his course towards Whig State offi cers. Now turn to the Journals of 1835! Again the Republicans had a majority, and although they had been irritated by the violence of the Whig patty and their unjust denunciations about "proscription." "sDoils." "nartiznn- hip," Si.1'.., they did nnr (rtarrIlo ihovo WWi officers. The W:hig Secretary of State was re-elected! The Whig Treasurer was re-elected!! The Whig Comptroller was re-elected!!! The humbler officers of that year exhibit no instance of proscription! JSot one! And much the larger share of them was given to Whig aspirants. True, Gov. Swain being no longer eligible to his office; Ricii'd. Dobbs Spaigiit was chosen Governor in his stead, and I need not remind you what party proscribed him, nor is it necessary I should shew that he was ousted for a difference in political opinion, and for that alone! Now look at the Journals of 1836. his was our first Assembly under the Amended Constitution. Ihese Journals tell us how every member voted, and as the Whigs had a majority in the Senate and the Republicans a majority in the Commons, we shall be able to compare their acts together. Here it is! Compare the one with the other, and then judge betwixt them. 1 his Whig Senate proscribed their Speak er (Mr. Moseley) because he was a Repub lican, and for that cause alone! They turn ed out an ablo aud experienced officer, a- gainst whom they had no charge except his politics, for be was personally a favorite of both sides. They proscribed an upright and impartial Speaker merely for the sake of giv ing his place ("spoils") to a W hig! Look back to 1S34, and compare this Whig Senate of 1S36 with the Republican Commons of 1S34. The latter re-elected Mr. Alexander (a W;hig) without a contest! Nay more! Although the Republican Com mons of 1836 were thus irritated afresh by this Whig proscription of the Senate and by an unsuccessful attempt of this Whig party in the Commons to proscribe the old Speaker there also, still the Republican party in the Commons did not proscribe any of their Whig officers. But it may be said that the Republican par ty had a majority in joint vote, and they pro scribed the Whig officers of State. Ab.' What; not turn any of them out after this intolerance of the Whig party towards the re publicans? JYo! not one of them! On the contrary the old officers were re-elected, and nearly all the vacant places were filled with Whig office-holders! Here are the recorded facts. Listen! The Whig Secretary of Slate was re-elected! The office of Comptroller was vacated by the resignation of Mr. Stedman, and Mr. Collins (another Whig) was put in his place! Four Judges of the Superior Court were elected Jill Whigs!! Three Soli citors were elected, and two of them Whigs! I do not overlook the fact that Gen. Pat terson resigned his office of Treasurer in 1836, and that Mr. Courts, a Republican, was chosen in his place. It is also true, that Mr. Courts got a large number of whig votes. Candor however, compels me to withhold from that party any credit for this in stance of apparent liberality. Mr. 'Courts' republican frieuds, were unwilling to see htm quit his. post in die Legislature, as it might destroy our republican majority in - the Com raons, and therefore, many of them preferred to nominate some other person. ' - . Nobody distrusted him, all were willing to confide in him, and he was worthey of that confidence. But 1 leave U with you to de cide how far the whigs who supported him were influenced or not by the verv same rea sons which kept off bis republican associates. Take it however, that they were, in this in stance, disinterested and free of nartv-sniriL and yet, it is no more than a solitary ex ample! Let those who are accustomed tn rely upon these general denunciations of our whig opponents, again look at these Journals oflS36! They being with whig proscription. They continue, aud end with it! They begin with Republiban liberality to opponents. They continue, and end with the same! If there be one' incredulous man amongst you after hearing the language of facts like mese, i asK mm to turn to tne Journals ot 1S38. Here the Whig party had a majority in both houses ot the Assembly, and recollect ing, if you please, how they have professed to contemn the "spoils of office," come and see their consistency. These Journals will answer whether they did not take "the Lion's share." Hear!! In the Legislative Department. Both the Speakers Whigs! All the Clerks but two are Whigs! 5 W;higs aud 2 Democrats. Even an En grossing Clerk is proscribed and not allowed to labor for his "Whig Masters," because forsooth, he was a Democrat!! Major Tho mas, lately a citizen of Wake, and a good Clerk too, was the victim of this party malice! In the Executive Department. The Governor a Whig, and his Secretary "Ditto." The Secretary of State, a Whig. The Comptroller of State, Ditto. Seven Councellors of State, All Whigs. The Treasurer of State was the only Re publican amongst them, and since that period he has resigne-1, and his place is now filled by another V hig! So it seems that the office-holders in this Department, are whigs Ml! Democrats none!! In the Judicial Department. There are 7 Superior Court Judges 5 Whigs, and only 2 Democrats. T. here are 6 solicitors 5 W higs! 1 Demo crat! There is an Attorney General, and he is a Democrat. Who then are "the. Office holdcta?" W"ho ".?eize the spoils?" Who abuse office and hold it themselves? The people who are honest, want no answer to such questions, except that which these RECORDED FACTS furnish. v Rayner's Resolutions. But the inconsistency (not to say more) of this party docs not stop here. Indeed it is difficult to look back upon any past political event in our State, since this modern whig party cast off other names and assumed their present one, without seeing some evidence of their inconsistency. Who does not recollect, how this whig par ty every where in our State, stirrred up hos tility to the Assembly of 1834, (the republican majority) lor instructing Mr. langum, our Senotor in Congress? It was called persecu tion aud proscription a party attempt to put down a gentlemau of distinction, and ask him to degrade himself. Such was the substance if these were not the words ot their accusa tions against the Legislature of 1834. Such is their reproof against us still. I wish that my strength and your patience could allow me to review that matter of the "Instructions to Mr. Mangum." It has been greatly mis understood if not misrepresented. I will do it, should a fit opportunity offer. But at pre sent: Let it be admitted, that the whig party are all sincere in their condemnation of the Mangum Instructions Let it be admitted, that they (the whigs) are right in this, and that the whole was indeed proscribing and wrong altogether, aud then what w ill they make out of their own "Rayncr Resolutions1." Will any candid man among them, tell us what the "Rayner Resolutions" deserve to be called, f the Instructions to Mr. Mangum were any persecution and proscription of the man? If it "was mineral, persecuting uuu yroscriumg to instruct Mr. Mangum to strike out a ceu sure which he had gone out of his way and out of the Constitution, to affix to Jackson, when all the world knows, that Mr. Mangum was elected to the Senate as a JACKSON MAN. What epithet should honest politi cians apply to the "Rajner Resolutions," which were intended to force Mr. Bmtcn and Mr. Strange (our two Senators) into direct treachery against their own party against their own opinions and against the people ot the State, who, (right or wrong) had trice approved of the course which the "Rayner Resolutions" denounce and ask our Senators to reverse? I see how men may differ about the Man gum Instructions, and I understand how some men honestly approve and others nave non estly condemned them. I do not mean to complain, of this. But, how any man of or d i nary intelligence can condemn the Man gum Instructions in such terms as I have al luded to, and then turn round and advocate the "Rayner Resolutions,", does indeed excite my special iconder. When a whole party do Jt, they must expect that public intelligence will put this and that together and judg ac cordingly. " Is there no reason to apprehend that such inconsistency would be practised only for the sake of vacating these' high pla ces, so as to make room forTothes to fill them? For yoq see that our review of the last five years has aheady shown us," how, with our whig-assembly men, in any scramble for office, "Evtry whig dees his duly" . The whig Convention. But, 1 must hasten, to a review of the political doings of a later assemblage of whigs! I mean the whig Convention, which met and adjourned in our City last week. It may or may not, be a Caucus, but no matter about that, if it is only conceded tome, (as must be,) that this was "The tohig party of JVorA Carolina, by their Representatives met togeth er." This highly respectable body of politi cians have just promulgated their conclusions, and although the grounds of them are yet unpublished, it is at once our right and our duty to look into their resolutions. The "whereas," will no doubt be made known in good time. The "Resolutions," are before the world, and they exhibit a degree of incon sistency in their leaders which no ingenuity can defend and no sophistry excuse. I will compare some of their past professions with their present proceedings, and I doubt, if the people of their own ranks can ever sanction the latter. They cannot do it, without con demning the past. This whig Convention then; have nomina ted Henry Clay for PresidenV. John M. JMorehead for Governor!! And (hough there is a little obscruity about it, the party may be regarded as pledged for JV. P. Tallmadge for Vice President!!! Henry Clay for President! Who, I ask have heretofore charged Mr. Clay with bri bery and corruption? Have you forgotten the accusation or the accusers? And do the ac cusers of Mr. Clay, who are now become leadeis of the whig p.irty, intend to confess that they slandered Mr. Clay and persevered in it for years, and still count upon being credited by you for their more recent imputa tions against our President and his suppor ters? If they calumniated Mr. Clay then, how are we to know how can the people know, that they are not tow also libelling Mr. Van Buren? What a spectacle is here! Politicians! North Carolina ns! who stand amongst the most prominent partisans of the whig ranks, who take lead at their meetings, who manage at their Caucuses, and who as pire to the chief places in the gift of their par ty, doing homage to a statesman whom they have so lately denounced as a Traitor to the people another Judas who sold his vote for the spoils of ojficel here is any apology tor this change of positiou? Further vet: When Henry Clay was thus assailed (whether the accusation was true or false, it does not now concern me to inquire) when his present admirers, but so lately his bitter accusers, called upon the people of North Caroliua to come to the polls and re gister their detestation of Mr. Clay and his bargain with Mr. J. Q. Adams, and to shew their love and gratitude to Gen. Jackson, who was chosen as their agent and instru ment to record this condemnation of JIr. Clay? I have here the Central address and the names of the Jackson Electors of 182S! I find amongst the Electors' names, that of JIr. John 1J. JMorehead of Guilford. He was elected. He and his associates, met in this City, and recorded the vote of North Caroliua against Mr. Clay aud this bargain. And now, what is it we see? The whig par ty of the State have presented us a Ticket with Henry Clay for President and this same JWr. JMorehead for Governor! Even so, these party leaders have coupled on the whig ticket of 1S40, the names of Henry Clay and John M. Morehead! This is extraordinary enough. I suppose they will ask the people to re verse their former decision, and to falsify this recorded judgment, and for what? How can they unsay their former decision against Mr. Clay without substituting another against his accusers1. It is impossible. What an alter native! Does any one present doubt the fact that many of the most prominent leaders of our modern whig party were ouce the open accusers of Mr. Clay? If such there be let him look back at the proceedings of Jackson meetings in 1827 and 1S28 let him recur to his own memory (for it is not a great while ago) and honestly ask who were they the.nl ho are they now? A determination to be unexceptionably "courteous to all men" and to avoid bringing into a public debate the names and opinions of private individuals deters me from the easy task of designating many of them. However questionable may be my right to do this, I presume nobody de uies the propriety of a recurrence to the names of candidates for office! to the list of public Committees aud to published addresses! in proof of any historical events and the extra ordinary mutations of" party. Look back then and see who were the Central Commit tee of the Jackson party, iu 1827? Who were the Wake Committee of that period? Do they all still adhere to the cause of the peo ple, or do they now belong some of them to the list of whig office holders, and some to the list of Clay-whig-party-leaders? You can judge for yourselves, and I dare my whig friends who are present to examine the facts, and see for themselves. 1 hold in my hand, fellow-citizens, a publi cation at the election of President in 1828, which ' the Central Committee addressed to the people to recommend the elect Ton of the Jackson Electors, and amongst these Elec tors was Mr. John M. Morehead! Hear it; In speaking of Mr. Adams' election in 1824, it says: -'. ; ; ' . r "Mr. Clay, of Kentucky, was , one of the "four candidates! for Presideut, hut having the "lowest number of electoral ' votes was exclu "ded from the House. The State, from which "he came had instructed her members in the "event which happened ; to support; General "Jackson, but under -the influence :; of Mr. "Clayyx man - of intrigue CmarJs that! and "of eloquence, and of unbounded ambition, "mark that! and of talents above mediocri ty, these members with those of other Wrest "ern States voted for Mr. Adams, and his "election was the result. "Immediately after his elevation, Mr, Ad "ams appointed Mr. Clay Secretary of State "-in power and influence the second station "in our Government, and generally thought "to be an introduction to the -. Between "tnese two gentlemen there had been previ ously neither confidence nor affection, and "Mr. Clay had publicly expressed, in lan guage not to be misunderstood, a disbelief "of Mr. Adams1 political ittttgnty and pa "triotism!: Mark- that, my countrymen! 'How then are we to account for Mr. Clay's "support of Mr. Adams, in opposition to the "declared wishes of Kentucky? &c. &c." "Take these facts (says this address) and "answer for yourselves, whether it be harsh "or uncharitable to conclude that he voted "for Mr. Adams in the expectation of being "Secretary of State, and that this expectation "decided his vote. Let the friends of Mr. "Clay protest against this conclusion with "whatever of earnestness they may press iu- "to the service, and the common sense of "mankind will still find in his conduct the "ground of serious suspicion." Was there ever such another instance of reconciled antipathies, as that which these Whig partizans now exhibit to Mr. Clay, ex cept it may be the extraordinary case of Mes srs. Clay and Adams, to which this address makes a very suspicious allusion. Yes! We have here the proceedings of a party the Whig party! by which they have nom inated Mr. Clay for President, and associated on his ticket, as their candidate for Governor, an Elector of 1S28 who recorded the popular sentence against Mr. Clay upon a charge of bribery in his politics (a charge which was over and again repeated by a number of the modern Whig leaders) an Elector who also voted for Mr. Van Buren for Vice President in 1832. unless I am ereatly deceived! It makes no difference to this point whether Mr, Morehead accepts or rejects his nomination. His choice about that will be his own. The FACT that this Whig party, have nominated him upon the Clay ticket involves them in inconsistency, and forces upon them a most extraordinary dilemma! It will be time enough to consider his position after he as sumes it. And further yet: Really it would seem that this Whig Convention were resolved up on trying how much the supposed credulity or ignorance of the people would enduie. The picture of their party inconsistency re quired but a little finishing off, and the neces sary touches are here given to it! They have also nominated an "expunger" for Vice Pres ident! The "Rayner Resolutions" you re collect (in l838)denounced Mr. Tallmadge, with other expungers, as being basely servile to party and guilty of a plain violation of the Constitution of the United States; and this same party in November, 1839, put his name on their ticket for Vice President. Those resolutions are still before the people. The people have not yet been heard upon them and before they are heard we see the very party that passed them acting in the teeth of their own professions. To be faithful to the party and the pledges that elected him to the Senate, was base ser vility. (Vide "Rayner Resolutions.") But to desert the side where no spoils were allot ted to him, and do service to his new allies, is worthy of Whig party honors, and entitles him at once to their confidence and to the office of Vice President! (Vide this nomina tion.) Fellow-citizens of Wake County, I call on you to behold this combination of Whig candidates! Mr. Morehead! Mr. Tallmadge! This is the Clay ticket! the Whig ticket! The ACCUSED for President andhis AC CUSERS for Vice President and for Gov ernor! The censurer of Jackson for Presi dent and the expunger of that accusation for Vice President! The traducer of Jackson for President and his old supporters for Vice President and Governor! Now there is no man who entertains less malice about politics than I do and yet when I read the assaults of my whig frieuds upon the Republican party, and hear their chosen epithet of "Spoilsmen" applied to us, and then look at this picture and recollect how the whig party lured off Judge White from his old friends in 1836 I cannot for my life re press the thought, that with the modern whig party, it is a FACT as well as a maxim, ".Vo to the Victors but to the Traitoks belong the spoils." I use that word however in nothing but a political sense. , The Caucus. The proof of whig inconsistency does not stop here. Now I do not know the fact be cause I was not present to witness it, but I give it publicly as my opinion and belief, grounded upon information . which was satis factory at the time, and no one of the parties so far as I know, has ever ventured to con tradict the fact, that this whig party nomino Hon for Governor, was originally made by a CAUCUS! ; ( ' I think this will not be denied upon any respectable individual authority. I mean a Legislative Caucus! A Caucus of members of the Assembly, . from whom," the people though they had taken away the right to elect the Governor, and; resumed', it themselves. And what follows? The whig party; who have been denouncing a Caucus for more than 10 years, and affected to be indignant at the dictation' ; of a;- Caucus, ' when H was con venient to abuse me Baltimore Convention, have secretly practised what they openly de nounced: ,i More! In a private-party-Caucus held at Raleigh, by the whig members of 1838, tbey have nominated a candidate for Governor of our State, and then set about " calling meet- ings ot tne people, to send Delegates to a whig Conventions to do what? Why jurt what the caucus had planned a year before hand! Really such devices imply a distrust m puuiic intelligence wmcn it was nardiy possible to believe the whig party Could feel. I do not complain of the higs for hold ing as many Convention and Caucuses, as they see fit. Of thiail do riot find any fault at all. The ground of my accusation is this: They denounce it in others aud then practise it themselves. They denounced open caucuses and then hold secret ones them selves. They are inconsistent in all this, and I leave it with the people, if it does not snow tneir parly to be unworthy of popular confidence. In connexion with this subject, recollect how they clamored against the "Baltimore Convention." Ihey called it a Caucus a Caucus to dictate to the people, and this was the pretext with many for desertinz the Jackson standard in lS32! : You know that these are Facts. And in the face of them, you have seen this same whig Convention appoint Delegates to a "Harrisburg Con vention," and pledge their party beforehand to vote for whomsoever that Convention shall nominate Civilian or Chieftain Abolition ist or not one of us or not one of us, they are to go for this Caucus nomination. This is their adherence to principles! This the end of all their affected horrors at Caucus dictation! Mr. Van Buren Abolition 1S37 1839. Fellow-citizens, there is another topic which I feel bound to notice, but abeut which I shall as certainly be misrepresented as I do it. If the Whigs did not still pretend to feel jealous of the President on the subject of Abolition, it would be my choice to omit any allusion to it. charge no one of being an Abolitionist. I know of none such in our Stale. But I am prepared to show that the Whig party of N. Caiolina, who made rash war upon Mr. Van Buren and his friends in 1836, have now put a seal of condemnation upon their own conduct. Their fears about Mr. Van Buren's sym pathizing with negroes, were altogether af fected. It is my right to speak the truth in plainness, but I will do it without adding any denunciations. You can then see whether the Whig clamors against a Northern Presi dent who had fearlessly pledged himself against the slightest interference wilh negro slavery by Congress, were the interested de nunciations of a party, or only solemn con victions of the understanding. Wil' my coun trymen of the whig party who are present, dare to look plain facts straight in the face? I believe you will. Behold then! Did not this Whig party charge it as a crime in Mr. Van Buren that he voted in a New York Convention to give free Negroes owning property the right of suffrage? I know that you remember it. I see some here whose fears were excited by it, and it drove off many Republicans from his support. And now have not this same Whig party nominated as their candidate for Governor a gentleman (John M. Morehead) who gave the self-same vote in a North Carolina Convention? Incredible! But true! I say nothing of the correctness or incorrectness of this vote for that is not the point. Every honest man will however agree that it was not a crime iu Mr. Van Buren to vote for Free negro suf frage in New York, where there are no Slaves, and j'et, no crime at all in Mr. Morehead, to give the same vote in North Carolina, where we have Slaves. That which was a vice hi Mr. Van Buren, could not be a rtY tue in Mr. Morehead. The Republican party maintained in 1836, that such a vote was no evidence of - Anti-Slavery sympathies, none whatever." The whig party denied thw and constantly affirmed the contrary to rouse up your suspicions against Mr. Van Buren, and now they have absurdly nominated a Whig Candidate, who gave the same vote in North Carolina at a much later day! Oh Consis tency! Consistency! - ; T - Again: Did not the whig party at the last Election and since, assail members ' of Con gress for voting to receive and lay on the Ta ble petitions against Slavery in the ' District of Columbia1. This too, excited Southern jealousy, and drove many republicans into the ranks of the whigs. And now what think ye? They have nominated for Governor a candidate who was in your Legislature of 1826, and if you will turn to the 203 page of the Journal of the Commons, you cannot doubt any longer that "Mr. Morehead 'pre sented the memorial of Ihe Female Bentvo "ewi Association of Jamestown, Springfield, "and Kennel on the subject bf SLJt VER Y. "On motion ordered that said Memorial LIE "ON THE TABLE!" ; : J I read to you the words of the record. How will our whig . friends reconcile their party now' with their party ihenl There is no chance for it by pretending to see a dif ference between .Congress and our Assembly upon this point. Although the Constitution of the United States gives to Congress, the power to exercise: f exclusive legislation in all7 cases whatsoever" over the -District of Columbia, it was the Soufcrn doctrine es pecially of thn whig party) that this ; did '..not and does not confer (be power of emancipate . ing slaves. " :W:hy?piBec of setting slaves free, without their-owners eon sent, is uot a "legislative fajwer," jltta 9 i m i i ill -I mi '-A i .11: si if ! l an It it : t. 1 : V- 4.-. - Wt'.1 s. : r m& mi : : hi' . .1 i 1 .1
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