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Ca oli a, i'l be roc iveJ at this Department tint 1
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NORTH CAROLINA.
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th .' se vn;e propos I.
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a postmaster, or i ther cq iival-nt testimony, that
the 5'inrani,.r3 :rr-- m n ol pioprty, and aole to
rnuke good t'leir guuant-e.
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6eil (I, eadors d, "Propo-als lor route Nr.; "
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N O T I C E.
THE PuMic is hereby caut onerl against some
vil anous-sconnrlrel who is lnrki -g about se
c:e ly, a-l commit ins thefts on iho homes of indi
vidn.Jj, in t' e open clav a d aiso in t hi- n;gh'. Vn
Tues by last, .hi- r 'gue bet ween 9 and !e o'c'oek
1 i t' e room ng ente erl my rlwliini house- and s'o'e
te.c'rointhd foliwin articles. A pliin Silver
Lo i 'on Watcli, with pati nt ci rysta!, wiih h-or,
rniri'iteand sec nd hand?, a large silver ease with
flit stem, titling remnrkab y clos and tight, attach
ed to it is a bra-s ehai i co isistini ot 6 Hn-! sran-ls
a slide and rin .', a large brass kev, washed with
fi ou, ttoJ uy Wjt, apm.iil en ck in the
pipe. Un- n e blue dre-s eoat wnn gum Duimn;
h.eh had b en worn bu. a few time, 'finins white.
Oi e tine blue double breast"d vist, with two rows
if '.ood metal buttons on it, the baek draws with
s:lk sTings wuh tassels at the end of them. In ibe
vest pocked wer! some papers with my name at
tarheJ.to them, which I had paid to persons to w!loin
tuev,wirn ori i ia ly riven, Isaac W.Lane and Bed
reililen Carawiy, and al.o an order from H'-roM
Blaikmnre. Thne nnni'ra T rkiilkt rt.t hr will t-n
d. avor to pass, or trade whim be gets out of this
ne;2h!oriiood. All persons are caution d affainst
.'.rami lor tliern, exp -et nj mn to pay them ai:ain,
M l sha I not do it. He also took a while and blu
Mlk handkerchi-f, and a blue cotton Umbrella
about half wo n. I have no doubt that he is a
wnite man. I w j!I give Twenty Dollars reward for
f hn .11' r- . -
" mifpry oi this rosue tome with the articles
oe nescr bed, or Ten Dollars for either the rogue
w me articb e.
TURNER WILKINS, his X mark.
Witness: Josiah Johnsov.
Sampson Co. June 13th, 1840. 69 2t.
VOL. 2.-KO. 17. Wliole Number 70.
Political.
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ortment of
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CW . , G- B. ATKINS,
26 1839. S5tf. Fooi Hay-Mount
From the VtrA Carolina Standard.
Address To tbe Freemen and Voters of North
Carolina.
The immense importance of the next Pre
sidential Election, and the deep interest it has
awakened, from our apology for this Address
to the Freemen and Voters of North Caro
lina. Collisions of opinion, which grow out of
political controversies, are. conducive in the
end to the discovery of truth) and a frank in
vestigation of the measures of our govern
ment Oljcht never , to be - cliaoiirncH. Rot
every sober minded man unites in the senti
ment that now a days there is too much pas
sion and too little reason; too much Party
and too little regard for Principle in the dis
cussion of public measures; and that in ex
amining the characters of our public officers,
mere is a teai tul disregard of Truth and Jus
tice. True, the line between a fearless exposure
of crime, and a prejudiced attempt to pervert
the acts of a public servaut, may not always
be easy to discover; but then it is certain that
few of the enemies of Mr. Van Buren seem
to be as watchful to observe it as they are
industrious to conceal it from others.
Great efforts are made to impress the pub
he mind with the false opinion that our pros
perity is decaying, and that a firm but judici
ous exercise of their authority by the Con-s-litutional
Agents of the People is despotic.
These things ought not to be so. There is
no Nation where all the solid blessings of life
are more enjoyed than they are in the United
States; and there never was one in which
they are secured to the great body of the peo
ple by such slender sacrifices. The admin
istration of the Government has been con
ducted by lr. Van Buren, we believe, with
as pure intentions, and certainly with as
respectful a consideration for the opinions
and feelings of others, as ever actuated the
Chief Magistrate of any country; and it is
alike unjust to him and injurious to the peo
ple, to denounce the President for faults he
has not been guilty of, and to depreciate the
condition of our country below the high rank
it proudly occupies. hy should a People
be roused into hatred against the constituted
authorities of the land, or taught an habitual
distrust of the Government they have formed,
except there be some wUh to reconcile them
to its overthrow? Let those who entertaiu no
such treason against our government, beware
of encouraging this detestable habit, and let
the men of talents and character in the op
position rise above the level of such a3 are
mere tools of Faction, and cultivate a higher
and nobler aim than barely to render odious
those who are posessed of power in the. gov
ernment, in order that they may be dispos
sessed and others may vault into their vacant
seals!
Has Mr. Van Buren been treacherous to
he pledges and the principles upon which he
was e'evated to his present high station?
Let his dishonosty be proved by presenting
the Facts to our understanding! Are the
measures of his administration unwise or un
constitutional;" -rXet it be shown by an appeal
to our reason! Do bis opponents propose
measures which are better tor the Kepublicf
Let them be pointed out and recommended
to our judgments! Do his enemies hold doc
trines that are more congenial to the Rights
of the People? Let them declare such senti
ments plainly and unreservedly, and leave an
intelligent community to decide! Does the
President hide his opinions and shun the
open enunciation of his political principles?
Let his enemies shew this, by exhibiting their
calls upon him for an expression of his senti
ments, with his refusal to answer them! If
those who are resisting the electiou of the
President a second term, are not willing to
meet his friends upon grounds like these,
then they have no right to complain, when
the clamors by which so many are endeavor
ing to alarm the public niiud, are reprobated
as the mere ravings of disappointed ambition
or the muttering of a factious spirit; whose
influence depends uiion creating political dis
cord, and who would siuK tutu iusigtiificauce
iu a time of perfect tranquillity.
The Republican party, the friends of the
administration, believe that the President is
entitled to public confidence; and relying up
ou the intelligence of the People, we fearlessly
invite an examination into the facts. It these
do not establish the claims of Mr. Van Buren
to the support of the People, they have the
sense to see it and the right to turn him out
of office. If these do not fix a reproach upon
his enemies who have been mot active in
defamiti" his administration, then are we
greatly deceived in their character.
CHAPTER I.
Abolition the Banks, and the Independent
Treasury.
In November, 1836, Mr. Van Buren was
plpr-tpH President. In March. 1837, he took
possession of that high station, iu accordance
ivith the Constitution and the will of a ma
jority: and iu his Inaugural Address he open-
v rf.hukRd the fanatical spirit ot Jiooimon, oy
a clear declaration of his undisguised hostili-
ty to it. As before his election he nad pledg
ed himself inflexibly to resist this Demon of
disc-ord. so did he now renew that vow before
the Nation and the World, and give assurance
to the people that he would VJi.1 U any rui
ivhir-h mioht be Dassed on the subject! He
heeded not the violent ravines of the Fanat
ics, and bent only upon doing Right, he also
overlooked tbe unmerited distrust oi a oou
them Opposition
Was he not faithful and wise and patriotic
in this?
In less than three months after his admin
istration begun, and before he had done a sin
gle act which by the remotest possibility could
nave nad any iniurious effect upon the Banks.
those of them iu which the public treasure
was deposited, from one eud of the Union to
the other, stopped payment, and by one con
certed act betrayed the Nation's trust. Whig-
Jianks and Bank-Whigs forthwith united in
a common cause of hostility to the admin is-
tratiuu. Tho.o Potu f the Government"
were no sooner guilty of this dishonesty, than
they became favorites of the ODDOsition. and
they have carried on a joint warfare against
,ue aummisiraiion ever since. JNo little em
barrassment was experienced in executing
me laws, aner all the money of the JNatiou
had been seized by the keepers of it; and in
September, 1837, the President convened
Congress to advise and to provide by law for
me renei ot the people and their government
In compliance with the mandate of the Con
stitution, he is bound to give Congress "in
formation of the state of the Union and re
commend to their consideration such mea
sures as he shall judge necessary and expedi
ent." Article 2. Section 3. He had no
right to be silent, even if he had desired to
shrink from his duty.
The connexion between Banks and the
Government having been dissolved by the
faithlessness of the Banks, the Presideut
"judged it necessary and expedient" to have
nothing more to do with them: To divorce
Bank and State: To separate the Banks
and Politics: To let the Banks alone, and
to put no more of the public money into their
hands; and believing this, he met the respon
sibility of his office aud "recommended" it
accordingly. This is the INDEPEN
DENT TREASURY!
Did the President force or endeavor im
properly to force this measure upon the Na
tion? On the contrary, the same message
which first recommended it also urged it up
on Congress to suggest some plan for keeping
aud disbursing the public money that was
better than this, if in iheir wisdom any such
a one could be devised; and he also distinct
ly promised to give to their will his most
hearty co-operation. There being a majority
in the House of Representatives who were
hostile to the administration, they rejected
the I.NBtrENDENT I'hKASURV, but proposed
no substitute in its stead.
Is there any fault iu the President here?
Again: 1 he same Representatives of the
People met in Congress iu December, 1837.
It was the same Congress at another session.
Did the Piesident attack their right of iude
peudeut judgment or exhibit in any form the
insolence of Office? On the contrary, he
calmly reviewed the objections that Banks
and partizans had urged against the Inde
pendent Treasury, and pointed at the
daring impudence with which the Banks had
arrayed themselves against the country; and
seeing no alternative but absolute submission
to the irresponsible control of associated
wealth, or the adoption of some system which
like the Independent Treasury would make
it the interest of the Banks to be honest and
let politics aloue, he was compelled, by his
oath, his patriotism and his station, to renew
his recommendation! He did it and the
House of Represeulatives refused their assent
to it! Mr. Van Buren did not stop here.
He entreated your Representatives, at all e
vents, to agree upou some law prescribing
severer punishments against public agents
who should steal the public money, and to de
clare it a Felony in auy officer to loan or use
the public money for private speculations.
I'he same House ot Uepresentaiives reiuseu
their assent to this also.
He deprecated to Congress the allowance
of auy large discretion iu the Executive over
the public purse. He pointed out to your
Representatives how the dishonesty oi me
Banks had in effect suspeuded the existing
laws for regulating the Treasury of the Union,
aud earnestly invoked the aid of this the Law-
making power to pass some out wnicn wouia
take the purse out of Executive discretion and
put it, where it should be, under the gnaraiau-
ship of LAW, aud if they did not concur in
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the measures ne "juagea expeuiem uu ne
cessary," then to devise some better one for
the permanent relief ot the feopie ana meir
Government. His words we do not profess
to repeat, but only the substance of his recom
mendations.
Now what more could HE do? These
reasonable "recommendations" of our Presi
dent passed iu the Senate, but they were re-
jected in ine otner Drancii oi uujjicoo,
finally nothing at all teas aone. i"g
Session of seven months or more was con
sumed in forming new parties; starting can
didates for President, and m violent invec
tives against our Rulers; but no act was pas
sed, and we do not recollect that the opposi
tion in the House of Representatives ever se
riously proposed any measure instead of this
Independent Treasury and the others which
they had rejected. Now what less could any
Congress have done for the good of the Na
tion? Was it patriotic to leave the couutry
without necessary laws, of some sort, for
keeping the public money and guarding it a
gaiust any dishonest use of it? Let the Peo
ple answer for themselves! Let the immense
defaults of Sioarlwout and Price, after this
neglect by Congress, aid them iu determining
the question how far it was proper to declare
such offences elonies ana punisa un; -
Again: The same Congress met in De
cember, 183S; which, however, expired by
law on 4th March, 1S39, to give piaee w
present Congress, more "fresh from the peo-
TheTres"deut never recommended this
measure to aay Congress which had been
elected to oppose it. A very large propor
tion of that Congress which preceded the pre
sent one, waj chosen by the people before the
Bank explosbn of 1837, and before the Pre
sident recommended the Independent Treasu
ry at all. He 'believed," in the languag-e of the
Constitutioahat this measure was "expedient
and neccssarj." Hisexperienc and sagacity
supplied no bther that the Constitution sanc
tloued. The wisdom of Congress, although
thrice assembled, suggested none; but at the
very first election of Representatives to anoth
er Congress the People have sanctioned this
recommendation of the President. He stood
firm zud unmoved when timid counsellors
shrank and treacherous Democrats forsook
the people's standard, under the combined
pressare of Party clamors and Bank panics.
"In tlis alone has the President offended."
Tcoverturn the Administration and sustain
the Banks, elections have been fraudulently
condtcted; and iniquitous means resorted to
by Stite functionaries to counteract the pub
lic vo:ce. But in vain; the present Congress,
w hich is the first aud only one elected since
the Itdependent Treasury was proposed, is a
fair ecponent of the popular will upon that
subject, and a majority are in favor of Mr. Van
BureaVs recommendation. It has passed in
the Senate and will pass in the House of Rep
resentatives, in obedience to the will of the
PEOPLE, and against the resistance of
eight hundred BANKS.
A hat a triumph to Democracy! What a re
proof to the treachery of venal politicians!
What a rebuke to the insolence of Party!
What an evidence of virtue in our President!
What splendid proof of the integrity of the
People, and of their capacity for self-government!
Had this conflict terminated against
the Administration, it would have been a tri-
umtihof the Banks over the Government of
the United States!! If servility to party aud
cowardly apprehensions of "hard times" had
finally -defeated the Republicans in this con
test, we solemnly believe it would have changed
our Government, for all practical purposes,
from a Government of MEN to a Despotism
MONEY.
This is no empty declamation. The un
prejudiced exercise of his common sense, will
euable any nnu to sec that if the Daukiiig
powers oftlii country can bring the voters
and Government to submit to their doctrines
-"that the Banks are to stop payment at
"pleasure and the laws dare not enforce
"obedience to their charter obligations for fear
"of 'ruin to the people, and that our Free
"Government cannot be conducted without
"the aid of a Bank" then the republican in
stitutions of America will be virtually over
turned, and the capacity of the people to gov
ern theinseivcs practically denied by others and
substantially acquiesced in by themselves.
Who is prepared for this? Such princi
ciples once put into practice and matured by
tirre, who is to subvert them hereafter, and by
w hit power can they be reserved? We are
far from asserting that all those who have
beei hostile to the Administration were de
liberately planning an overthrow of popular
liberty; but where this is the consequence of
theV party operations, what matters it to the
pec pie if those who destroy their rights had no
evil intentions. We fpeak of public dangers
prccecding from the acts of politicians, and
hare nothing to do with the personal motives
of our opponeuts.
In this hasty but faithful sketch, you have
a aistory of the most prominent measures of
th? Administration, and of the warfare that
ht? been waged against the President. Y.u
ste in it how he has beeu misrepresented, and
hv his opponeuts have factiously resisted
al his efforts to carry on the Government
ooposinm everything and proposing nothing.
You see in it the fearless stand Mr. Van Bu
rn has taken in defence of the Constitution,
a id the self-sacrificing zeal with which he
has maintained it, against the combinations
of associated wealth aud inordinate patty spirit.
For himself, it had been easier to betray his
trust! For his country how glorious that he
did not! Had Mr. Van Buren beeu in er
ror, the honesty of his purpose might vindicate
his personal reputation. But he was right,
and the "secoi.d sober thought ot the people"
has sustained him; and generous Republicans
every where, owe it to him and to themselves
to shew their confidence, not merely by a cold
approval of his acts, but by their hearty accla
mations!
CHAPTER II.
Public Expenditures.
Tint tVio unomips of Mr. Van Buren. see-
r,r thai tin ludeneudent Treasury must soon
pass, in spite of all their disorderly resistance
in the past and present congress, ana auiici-n-.iir.r
hnw a short exuerience. will falsify
JM a-w 1 J
their clamors agaiust it, have lately lowered
the tone of their denunciations in respen io
the Indepeudeut Treasury, and are laboring
-. -.7 A ... V. A tUA. nn
to eXClie opposition, nuu ntjs lutu pon s
. . . IZ iKie sriintrv nn Irro.
lUieilllUUS IU U.I up"U i"" .7 " .-
versible Bank dynasty, by their cries for i e
i,..fi( and refm-m in the Exnenses of
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the Government. Have they proposed any
.i i .u .
bills to decrease trie nutnoer or uie salaries oi
officers? One fact is worth a hundred pro
fessions! We believe that there has been but
one measure of the kind, viz: to diminish the
salary of the Commissioner of Pensions.
It passed by the aid of Democratic voles, and
the President had no hesitation iu approving
it. But no sooner was this done, than these
.1 ciaipmpn of the ODoosition be-
Cl.UUllUlt wm-.w 1 I
came dissatisfied with their work, and have
been endeavoring to undo it ever since.
Having discovered, to their chagrin,- that the
Commissioner of Pensions was a Harrison
Whig ! ! their views of the matter of econo
my are altogether changed ! 1 ! Have they
spent their own time at Congress in voting
or in laiktngf Have they not wasted the
public money by voting "fat jobs" to one
Printer sufficient to enable him to let out the
work to another, and pocket TEN THOU
SAND DOLLARS for his share of profits?
TT .1 . . .1 . , . i
xxave iney not aitogeiner negieciea me ap- i
propnate duties ol legislation, and converted
the Iluuse uf tlcM coouttiv-OA into a groot
theatre for President-making and unmaking?
The falsehood aud unfairness which have
characterized their discussions upon the sub
ject of the PUBLIC EXPENDITURES
have been so lately exposed by the "facts and
figures" of Mr. Benton's speech, that very
little need be added to them. We cannot too
earnestly commend that able and conclusive
speech to the real people of North Carolina.
Let Democrats read it for their defence; and
let any unprejudiced opponent of the Admin
istration peruse it, if he dares to give Truth
fair play.
We are in no sense the advocates for ex
travagance. All Administrations have been,
and always will be, imposed upon by some
of their officers. It is the lot of human na
ture, and the best if not the only preservative
against the Government of a people being ex
travagant is to lessen the Taxes. The legis
lators always have spent, and they always will
spend the money, if the people consent to let
it be collected from their pockets and put
into a public Treasury. The present Ad
ministration and its supporters generally have
constantly advocated this doctrine, and have,
therefore, resisted any increase of the Tariff'
or Taxes. These tariff-taxes have been
gradually reducing under the "Compromise
Act," ever since Mr. Van Buren came into
office; aud it is the policy of his friends to
keep these taxes doicn. That Act expires
soon, and the next Administration will be
charged with the responsible duty of revising
the Tariff'. This Administration is commit
ted pledged to the policy of keeping down
these Taxes. It dare not and it cannot aban
don that position! How far, therefore, it
will be prudent in us to change it for one
whose policy is to withhold from the public
eye any of Gen. Harrison's present views on
this and other great subjects, we leave for
you to determine; only repeating that econo
my will never be practically secured as long
as the people are taxed more than is neces
sary for a cheap administration of their Gov
ernment. If money is paid into the Treas
ury members of Congress icill be sure to
spend it!
But why all this clamor against Mr. Van
Buren about the expenditures of the Govern
ment? Is it his fault that the appropriations
are extravagant? By no means. Can the
President make laws either to expend or to
save our money? The Constitution answers,
-VO. Can he take a dollar out of the Treas
ury, except what the Acts of Congress com
mand him to expend? The Constitution an
swers, .VO. Can he refuse to apply the pub
lic money which is appropriated by Congress
to such purposes as the LAW itself requires
whether he approves the object or not? The
Constitution again answers, HE C.9JSWOT.
The President, therefore, has no legislative
powers, aud, of course, no control over the
public money and the expenditures of the
Government, except these'. First Before a
law is passed he may recommend it to the
consideration of Congress. Second After
a bill is passed by Congress he may VETO
it. Now if Mr. Van Buren has failed to
exercise these his only constitutional powers,
or either of them, in a proper manner, and
thereby has permitted any extravagance which
he might have prevented, it is admitted that
to that extent he merits censure. How are
the facts? First His recommendations be
forehand! Look at bis messages to Congress
for these. See there how earnestly and con
stantly he has pressed it upon Congress to be
more economical. Nay, has he not been re
proved by a member of the House, in a pub
lic speech, for going too far? Were not his
opponents disposed to censure him for his ex
ceeding anxiety to prevent extravagant ap
propriations? Did not some of them denounce
him as a trespasser upon the rights of Con-
gress: aeconn nis uiu. a ud j. icsiuiui
cannot rightfully veto any bill which barely
appropriates money to carry into effect a law
already in force. This would be exerting the
tyraut's power of suspending laws, not the
constitutional power of veto upou a bill. Again:
If Congress passes a bill providing the means
necessary to carry on the operations of the
Government, although it may contain numer
ous item, of unpardonable extravagance,
which by themselves ought to be vetoed, yet
the President canuot veto them, because he
has no power to veto a part of the billwilhoxd
the ichole !
He cannot veto the extravagant items and
approve of the rest. He must veto ALL or
aourove of ALL ! If he does the first, the
4ioU of government will be stopped. If
to avoid this he adopts the other alternative,
these extravagant appropriations are effected
in sDite of him. Now aiter this fair exposi
tion of the President's powers, his bitterest
ni.nniieiits are challenged to point out a sin
gle inctance where a Aloney.BM has passed
Vi-in- Air. Van Buren's administration
that he could have vetoed and where he has
not done so. If there has been any such of
ficial delinquency in the President it is on
the Record, and we demand of his accusers
to shew it! But they cannot da it!.
CHAPTER III.
Harriison's pretensions JVomtnalibns Se
cret Committee Log Cabin
Hard Cider, eye.
If Mr. Van Buren's merits were even less"
than his friends suppose, there is so much in
the course and character of the opposition for
a prudent people to resist and condemD, that
these might of themselves force us into a
support of this Administration, and to vote'
for the re-election of the President. Guided
by the secret counsels of an irresponsible
"Executive Committee" the party, which
heretofore abused the Caucus-System, have
adopted the evil they once affected to abhor
and have fearfully enlarged upon its practice.
The old caucus plan, upon which the Repub
lican members of Congress used ro nominate
a Candidate for President, was one by which
they all met openly together, to select the in
dividual they preferred, and then they laid his
principles before the people, as well as biff
NAME. But now this is substituted by a
private association of Members or Con
gress, who lay before the People the NAME
of their leader, but hide from the public eye
the PRINCIPLES of their Candidate for the'
Presidency.
A party who had heretofore deprecated the
election of a Military Chieftain, as a
greater evil to the United States, than "WAR,
PESTILENCE and FAMINE," are no
banded with others to place into the Presiden
tial chair a Candidate, whose chief merit lies
in the fact that he has been a GENERAL;
and it is not the least remarkable amongst
all the incidents of this extraordinary tergi
versation, that a Proposer of the Hart
ford Convention is one of their Central
"Executive Committee!!"
A party who had pretended to acquiesce in
the public will against the United States
Bank, have now united their strength to the
Banks, and their advocates and dependents,
to force the country into creating another
NATIONAL BANK; and the consciences
of such of them as bad citrple upon the
"Constitutional question" have so far yielded
to the potent charms of a pretended "neces
sity" for violating the Constitution, as at all
events not to hinder the schemes of its assai
lants. A party, who, in our State had been most
hostile to Abolition, in so much, that they
saw in it the greatest danger, and with whom,
a short while ago, it was Treason to the
South, to be even cautious, much more to be
timid m our action against abolitionists; a
party who practised towards all others a com
mendable jeolousy, and in some cases an in-'
tolerant distrust about Abolition; even they
. .
nave uecome "iimt serving partizans, ana
actually united with the Fanatics upon the
same candidate for President, who is too'
selfish to reject the support of the Abolition
ists, and too cowardly to embrace it openly.
A party whose leaders had presumptuously
lectured the spirit of American Democracy, as
if it were a turbulent demon of disorder, and
saw in every warning against the encroach
ments of "associated wealth" and every al
lusion to the "Rights of the JVLAJVF," sign
of evil times and attacks upon the good order
of society and permanency of government,
are now, in fact, resorting to all the arts of
demagogues tor alarming the public mind
and persuading the people these tame Demo
crats,) that their rulers are corrupt and their
Government is oppressive.
And the "Proprietors of Millions," and
"Lords of Palaces." backed by Senators and
others, have become suddenly cured of all
their apprehensions about "arraying one class
of society against another:" "The Poor
agaiast the Rich," and in their awkward at
tempts to play upon the sympathies of the
poor man, are disgusting the intelligent, and
insulting the humbler voters ot North Caroli
na, hy offering them a LOG CABIN AND
HARD CIDER CANDIDATE," who'
shewed his earlier and more disinterested
friendship for LOG CABIJV tenants by ap--
proving ot laws which denied to a free man
his right of SUFFRAGE, unless he had a
FREEHOLD WORTH ONE HUN
DRED DOLLARS, and who evidenced his
love for "POOR FOLKS," by supporting
laws to SELL them for Fines, and to WHIP
them besides for leaving their MASTER'S
service!!
Fellow Citizens: This is a faithful minia
ture of the Harrison party, and in if, we but
present a picture that is familiar to the read
ing portion of the community. We repeat
therefore that the objections to Mr. Van Bu
ren ought to be exceedingly strong before'
the people of North Carolina venture to trust
the party opposed to him. Uut some ot our
accusations will be denied and some of them
have been denied already .-
The usual limits of an address like this1
will not permit us to go fully, at this time, into
all the grounds of accusation against' them;-
but we shall not therefore omit to expose
enough to justify their condemnation, before
an intelligent republican tribunal.
The facts upon which we rely, shall be
fairly stated; and whether the inferences - we
draw from them are corrective cheerfully sub
mit to the common sense of the people. -
CHAPTER IV.
Battle of the Thames Gen. Harrison
Col. Johnson.
We have no motive to detract from the just
claims of General Harrison to all the laurels
he may have won in the Army of the United
States. We are glad that his old age, (for
he is now nearly 70 years of age) should be .
cheered by the admiring plaudits, even of
4hose toho believed it- was unbecoming a