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" " AS IMPORTANT TO STATES AS IT IS TO INDIVIDUALS; AND THE GLORY OF THE STATE IS THE COMMON PROPERTY OF ITS CITIZENS." il. X. HOI-MES, Editor and Proprietor. at on ite irty id, !ve be TERMS. 52 50 per annum, i' v - , 1 j n.nnth. nr S3 S( t lfi Migration tile ena ui r-- of the year. Advertisements inserted at tne rate of sixty cents per square, tor me nrsi, ana mi c nV ,ilicpnnent Insertion. , No uaper di-sco.tinued u .til arrearages are pa sxc- pt at l ie . , - V ., . , No snbsnVtin received for less than twel Court'advertisements and Sheriff's sales, will ij,ared 25 per c nt. nigricr tnan iuo usuai u.ikb. AH advertisements sent for publication should Have the number of insertions intended marked, upon Ihera, otherwise they will be inserted until forbid, n- charged accordingly. ;ryLeUers on business connected with this estab lishment, must be addressed H. L. Holmes, Edi tor of the North-Carolinian, and in all cases post paid. . -jj Subscribers wishing t make nrrvitfanc's by mail, will remember that thry can do so free of postase, as Postmiist-rs ar ant'ioiized by law to frank Ictt'TS enclosing remittance, if written by themselves, or the contents known to tbrm. FAYETTEVILLE, SATUUDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1840. PIANO FORTES. TBJ"OW opening, and for SALE, at the Female Seminary. One Extra, Grand Action Piano Forte, elesant Crotch Mahoony, Gothic Architecture, with every nio-Iern r.nprovemcnt, manufactured bv Wake and Gl.nn, - - - - - - $470 One di:to, Rose Wood, 6 J Octaves, by Wake and G!enn, - $385 One d:tt--, Maliognny, by Wake & Glenn, S340 One ditto, by Gciu and Walker, - S350 One ditto, Common Action, by Dubois, Bacon St Chambers, - - -.-"-'. $-0 These Piano Fortes have been Felectf d carefully, bv the beet matters in xscw York, and will be held at a liberal discount from the regular prices, and a. credit on ood paper, to suit the tunes. ALSO Sacral PIANO FORTES, which have been in cbo in the St-miliary, are offered at groat bargains. R. W. BAILEY. Fayctteville, June 13, 1S40. 68-tf. Fayetteville FEMALE SEMINARY. "AVfXG declined furt' er supervision of the FEMALE SEMINARY, it is but jut that I siiouM express to its firmer pafons and friends inv co-.fnh-nc, fiat in ihn hands of Air. Spencer, it will b- conducted vi;h ability and fiiihfLiess, on the sen' ral p'an heretofore purud. Mr. Spencer as a teacher, is lab jriou, accurate Tnd ncrev- rin. R. W. BAILEY. " THE Subscriber will open the S-ninary on the Ut'i of Octnb-r next, and hi-p's by givir.g en' re an.) exciu-ive at!e-i!:o:i to th" b is.ncss d n crc'i !ep-riment by competent, efficient FE'.'ALE I'E.-ICHERS to merit the patio:ngc l-,crpt'-fore b' sto--d. In r sard to the plan he in-ie.Tl.-: pnrs:e. hoh -s only to say, at present, that he is DETERMINED lo tiveacninse of ins'ric tion in each department as THOltOUtT as possible. The Acadcnvc year will lie thesame as before; com mencing on tb: I5th Ortob'T, and closing on ihe 15th J :lv, and divided info two sessions. Pupils cli.irced from tims of entrance to closn of session, and no deduction mad-; for absence, except in cases ofsickri'Ss. TJEJtJrrsJCn .Idvance. Elementary Department, or Se cond Class, Firt Class, French Language, Dri wing and P.-intinr, Mus'e on ihe Piano Forte ac- co'npanipfi hv the Voice, Music on Guitar, Use of Piano, Incidental?, Aiij-ist I, 1840. S3 00 per session IB On " 10 CO " lo 00 " 25 00 " 25 CO " 3 1 0 50 " G. SPENCER. 75-tf NOTICE, LAND FOR SALE. THE Subscriber wishing to move to the West, will off ;r at public sale, on the 27th of this month, my plantation, with all the adjoining tract of land, belonjrirg thcr to, on both sides of the Turnpike and Chicken Roads, SEVEN MILES "West of Fayetteville, and runs across Beaver Creek on the East side, with an excellent MILL SITE thereon. The above lands are as well limbered as any lands within the same distance of Fayetteville, with pine and oak. ALSO AT the same time and place, I will offer my stock of Cattle, Hogs and Sheep, together w ith Household and Kitchen Furniture, Farming Utensils, &c The lands will be sold to suit purchasers, in sepa rate tracts if requested the terms will b made easy, and known on the day of sale. DUNCAN BU1E. Fayetteville, A u?. 8, 1840. 76-3t H. ERAMBERT, TAILOR, Respectfully informs his frieno? and the public . generally, that he has re-commenced the Tai loring Business in the house next doer to John nuske & Son, on Green Street 6 doors above the Market House, where he will thankfully Tcceive all orders in his line Tor cash only, finding the credit 'y&tem a bad one. All orders" from the country for wor must in all cases have the cash enclosed, other wise they win not De attended to. Ho beers : leave "assure those who may favor him with their orders, D? pains shall be spared on his part to give general Sati8faction. r - -r An HE HAS ON HAND assortment of Shirts, Bosoms, Collars, Stocks, spenders, and Drawers, ol the best quality- , WANTED. .n:,tCor four Journeymen Tailors, -itotw need AT rt ood wkraen, and of etcady habits.; l . ,. Eor- wo Bys wanted to the above trade.--v !r' tne country will be preferred. K . cutting done at the shortest notice. , 1 -yettcville, Arx,l 25, 12i0. 6!-3m. , - ScliOul for YOUNG LADIES MISSES JANE and JESSIE B. SIMFSON. w. 1 op n n Sch ,o h,r Young L idies, m Faycfev.l e, on ihe sc-eootl Mon lay i.i October TERMS Ter Session, ensiling of twenty-two weeks. El -mena y Department 3? Frs '"l i-s 16 , French L ii'.guaffe 10 Draw i g and Painting 10 Mu-ic . " - 25 Use f Piano 3 Co it ng -nt Expenses 50 rfS Fayetteville, Septembers, 1340. - 80-tf VOL. 2. XOi 28. Whole dumber 8 1. Loco Foco FRICTION MATCHES. GROSS, HOLMES' Improved Fric P'T lion Matches, jiit received, and fur sr.lu hy the Gros or Dozen, superior article. nd warranted. Apply to JAMES MAR TINE. A constant supply of the above kept on hand, and wil be sold low. to se aa'm. Fayeitevilie, September 5, 1840. gO-tf PIANO FORTES. A GOOD assortment of Piano Fortes may con stantly bi found for sale nt the Female Semi narp. Enquire of the PRINCIPALS of the SEM INARY, or of Coi.. S T.HAWLEY. i-ayettcville; Nov. 30 1839. 40 tf. Political. The Hoot oasc and the A". Carolina election. That the good people of the old North state may have the earliest information of the im position that has been practised upon them by those who, lakiug advantage of the unguarded expressions of a District Attorney, (himself a slaveholder) have misrepresented the feelings and opiuions of the President upon the sub ject of the Hooe case, we have obtained a cepv of tho following letter, with permission to lay it before them. It was addressed to a citizen of their own state, some days since, but may not, perhaps, be immediately publish ed. The letter of the Prtsirlpnt hnlrU lh light of truth to one of the base inventions by which the most desperate and unscrupulous faction that ever made war ujou freedom in any country, expect to establish their profli gate rule over this great Republic, and demol ishes utterly the scarecrow, which that faction had concocted to operate upou the particular quarters of our country most interested in this question of slavery. T.he federal party have determined to act up to their old character nt the election. They solemnly resolved at the Harrisburg conven tion that their principles would not "avail" them in the contest; and that, therefore, a declaration of them was inexpedient. But the swarm of " lies and calumuies," which have, since that convention, darkened every section of the country, like the locusts of Egypt, indicate too clearly, the character of the weapons which they then, formally, though secretly, determined to substitute. The mo ment one is put down, they w ithout hesitation or remorse, supply its place with another not at all abashed by the detection, but con soling themselves with the greater or less ef fect which the calumny may have produced before it was exploded ; perhaps, at times, in securing to them local power, but always in confirming and sustaining the fundamen tal axiom of their political creed, " that the people may be gulled and cheated, aud are incapable of self-governmeul." In Virginia they carried the election by the "standing army," story, of which that adroit manager, Thaddeus Stevens, is reported to have said to a member of Congress in this city, "that hum bug might do for Virginia, but would be use less in Pennsylvania." ror the latter state, the " Ogle" mixture was prescribed, tne com pounder of which was chosen from the old Keystone, because it was expected to work well upon the " dumb Dutch," as the federal ists call them. The more reputable portion of the Whig members, while Ogle was prepar ing it in the House, turned up their noses at him, and raised their bands with well affected astonishment and disgust ; but no one doubts now, that although they allowed him to do the dirty work, they intended to make great use of it when it was done. That such electioneering materials should be pressed into the service of any party, espe cially among a fre and enlightened con stituency like the people of these states, must be a melancholy renection to au uouei uuu virtuous men. Globe. Washington, August 1840. Sin ! I havA received vour letter, asking me, for yourself, and in behalf of the citizens of Martin county, North Carolina, to give wnn a statement of the case of Lieut. Hooe, of the Navy, with my views upon the subject; a request wim whicn. i no not nesnaie iu wm- ply. , - :-:- , - ; t onnH frniTT the official report of the case, made by the Secretary of the Navy to Congress, that Lieut. Hooe was tried by a court martial,, upon several charges, portions of-which: were for causing several personato be flogged on board of the United States ship xrji: romirH of the internal regula- l auuana. u u j, .... - e tions of said ship, and iu direct violation of .1 i r thn hoi ir nnvcm mRHl Ul UK? J.w lit! UC1.1UI .- - ; . - V hat he was acquitted upon a portion ot tne - 1 . alM - VAfilHllO charges, and convictea upon ";'rv that in the course ot nis triai, xwi seamen belonging to the crew of the vessel i i -,h;K ha was Kp.rvfnsv were of- uu uuaiu -. ...w - - . i-; fered as witnesses to substantiate a portion ot the charge ; that they were onjecioa iw Hooe, but admittea . ry tne cwii, ."Jfvv. of which was composed of southern officers ; that Ihe proceedings of the court martial were referred by thb Senetary of the Navy, iu the abseuce of the Attorney General, to the At torney for this Distric t, a native of" a slave holding sslat and subsequently to the Attorney-General himself, for their opinion iu regard to the objection that had beeu made on the trial, as to tne competency of the color ed witnesses ; that these gentlemen united in the opinion, that inasmuch as the testimony given by those witnesses, was not material to the guilt or innocence of Lieutenant Hooe, in respect to the charges upon which he had been, convicted (that question having been decided upon other testimony) the objection raised to their competency ought to have no influence with the Secretary iu nassius unon the rinding of the court; that the sentence of the court by which Lieut. Hooe was directed " to be dismissed from tho West India squad ron, after having been reprimanded in Gen eral orders by the Secretary of the Navy," was thereupon approved by the Secretary; and that, upon an appeal to me by Lieut. Hooe, I declined to interfere in the decision. The simple question presented by these proceedings, was, whether the admission of illegal evidence (assuming it to be so) to sub stantiate parts only of the charges, ought to allowed to invalidate the rinding of the court in regard to those charges which were estab lished to the satisfaction of the court by other and unqestionable evidence ; in other words, whether Lieutenant Hooe ought to be su;ver ed to avoid the consequences of a conviction upon proof admitted to be legal, and deemed to be sufficient, because the public prosecutor attempted to sustain other chaises against him by proof which the accused claimed to be illegal. T he court martial thought not the Secretary of the Navy thought not and I sustained their united opinion. No princi ple is better established in courts of law, than that a new trial will never be granted on the ground of the introduction of illegal testimony, when the verdict complained of is fully sus tained by proof to which there w as no objec tion ; the common sense and justice of which rule will be at once obvious to every ingenu ous mind. This disposes of the cas of Lieut. Hooe, as far a3 it was passed upon either by the Navy Department or myself. But it does not, as you will perceive, touch the question as to the legality of permitting fro blacks to testily against white persons in naval courts martial. It is obviously not so much the individual case, as the general principle, which has ex cited your attention, and it is theretoro due to you to give you a wider view of the subject. By your State laws, blacks are prohibited from testifying against white men. You very naturally, as well from that consideration as from your own feelings, look with repugnance upon their admission as witnesses before the Federal tribunals. Tho first question is, whether the law, as it now stands, authorizes their admission ; and if it does, the next is, whether the law ought to be, and how it can be, changed. There is no act of Congress w hich prohibits the admission of colored per sons as witnesses in courts marti il. It is be lieved that the practice of permitting them to testify, has been uniform, and I have not found that the question has ever before been brought up for decision. Indeed, I did not perceive that, except by the accused, the il legality of their admission is even now ob jected to in any quarter. The officers con stituting the court, a large majority ot wnom were Southern gentlemen, of highly respecta ble standing, cognizant of all their rights, and, in no sense, liable to the imputation of being indisposed to sustain them, did not, it appears, hesitate as to the legality of the testi mony. The District Attorney, Mr Key, de clares the witnesses to have been competent as the law now stands. The Judiciary Com mittee composed of professional gentlemen, at least a majority of whom could not be sus pected of a disposition to screen the Depart ment or the Executive from responsibility, if they had sanctioned an illegal act are silent upon tho subject, and the very resolutions even by which the case of Lieutenant Hooe was brought before Congress, although de nouncing the proceedings with great vehe mence, do not, I believe, alledge that the ad mission of these witnesses was illegal. The matter rests unon very simple grounds. The able men who framed the judiciary act of 1789, wisely adapted it, as far as practicable, as many of them had assisted in doing with the Constitution itself, and as they did with most of the early and- fundamental acts of the Government, to the peculiar condition of the different States composing the confederacy in respect to their local laws and domestic institutions. It was to this end provided, "that the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes, of the United States, shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in, the courts of the United Stales, in cases where they apply.- The consequence of this provision in respect to this particular question is, that when the Federal courts sit in a State where, by its own j laws, ; colored persons , are prohibited from testifying, against white; personsi they are excluded in those courts ; and when; the State laws admit them in the State courts, they are admitted in the Federal courts also. Such has been the uniform practice under the acti and all excitement upon the subject hps been. by that means avoided. But this applies 1v to the iudicial tribunals of the country. The law of courts martial has not beea frarue with so much care. Their proceedings nave been exclusively regulated by acts of Congress without reference to Stat laws or State usages. Those acts have never prohibited the introduction of colored persons as wit nesses; and hence their frequent admission in that capacity, particularly in naval courts martial, some of them almost invaiiably form ing a portion of every shij's crew. If it be w rong to admit them, the fault is in the law, and the remedy is to be founr1 o Jy in its al teration. It is surely not necessary that I should say to you, sir, that this can uot be ac complished by me. Were I either to disre gard the law as it stands, when a case for do ing so was presented, or to attempt to chatige its operation, there would indeed because for complaint and denunciation. But whilst I have not the constitutional power to alter the law, I have no hesitation iu saying that I have uot been able to discover a sulficient reason why the rule which prevails with the couscnt and approbation of all in the judicial, should not be extended to the military tribunals of the country. The legislation of Congress necessary to accomplish that object would be very simple, it being only necessary to provide that the rules, in regard to the admission of wituesses in this particular, should be the same in both classes of courts. Some special enactment iu regard to courts martial held at sea, and out of the jurisdiction of any State, might be necessary, but could easily be ad justed. It is thus seen that efforts designed to be useful in the matter should be directed to I Congress, and not to the Executive. I am, sir, very respectfully, Your obedient servant, M. VAN BUREN. To Mr Eugene Burras, Jamestown, Martin County, N. C. From the Old Dominion. Governor TaeweH. We have the pleasure of laying before our reader to-day a letter from this distinguished gentleman. At a meeting of the District Convention, held in this town on the 2tth of last month a Committee waited on Mr Taze well, with a request that he would preside over its deliberations, which he declined in conse quence of feeble health, and having also retired from the busy scenes of political life. But, at the same time, communicated candidly aud frankly to the Committee his sentiments iu re lation to the all-exciting topics of the day. The opinious of Mr Tazewell, as expressed by tho Committee, having called forth invidi ous and liberal remarks, induced one of them, Dr J. P. Young, to address him a letter, and his reply to that gentleman we now publish, and which we are sure will command the at tention of our readers : LETTER OF THE HON. L. W. TAZE WELL. Norfolk, Aug. 23d, 1S40. Sir: Your letter of yesterday was handed me when it was too late for me to reply to it by the servant that bore it. After the very explicit and often repeated declarations made by me to the committee of which you were a mem ber, that I would not take any part in the fe rocious contest now raging throughout tho country, further than by giving my vote on the day of election, I did uot expect to be called upon again to abandon this purpose, especial by one of the members of that committee. You misunderstand tho reasons which indu ced me to form this resolution, if you suppose it can be changed either by repeating to me the unmerited commendations of too partial friends, or the infamous and malignant false hoods of those w ho I despise too much to call them foes. I have no reason to believe that I could in fluence a single vote, any where, if I would; and I am very sure that I would not if I could My opiuions upon any subject, when regard ed as of sufficient consequence to be sought for by any of my acquaintance, have never been withheld from them, nor will they ever be concealed from any one. These opinions, in regard to the respective merits of the two candidates for the Presidential office, were given to the members of your committee, when asked for by them, as they had been before given to several other persons, of both parties, and as they have been repeated to such per sons since. I obtrude them upon none; but I am as indifferent who may know them, as I am by whom they may be approved. They are my opinions, and would continue to be such although no other being on earth might concur in them. Upon these opinions, as I formerly said to you, I shall act at the approaching election, by giving my sufierage in favor of the present President, and of consequence against his op ponent. I have an acquaintance of some standing with both candidates founded upon a service with each of them for several succes sive vears in the Senate of the United States. This acquaintance justifies me in saying of each, that he is a well-bred gentleman, ot mua and amiable manners and deportment, and so far as I either know or believe, of irreproach able private character.- Gen. Harrison is my senior by several years, I know, aud there fore, he cannot be much short of seventy: Mr Van Buren is my junior by more years, I be lieve than Gen. Harrison is my senior. In their political course, these gentlemen have generally differed; and we were all associated as members of the Senate of the United Stales, it was my fortune to differ sometimes, with both. The-occasions of my difference with Mr Van Buren, wero few and rare; but with Gen. Harrison I do not remember a single subject, involving any question of con stitutional law, or of high political expediency, as to which, we aver concurred. ' Aud on the few occasiopsV ia (' vrhich I differed with Mr; ! Vau Buren, he was associated with Gen. Har rison. Heuce, it can not be matter of surprise to any, that when placed iu a situation where I am to choose between two persons, with neither of whom do I agree eutirely, I should prefer him w iih whom I have often united both iu opinion and action, to him with whom I have invariably differed. . I state these things, that knowing the effect which is sometimes produced upon human minds by frequent aud long continued conflicts of opinion upon subjects of much interest, you may appreciate as you please the sentiments I have often uttered and will therefore, again repeat, that in my judg ment, General Harrison is both physically and intellectually incompetent to perform the many, varied, arduous, aud important duties which must devolve upon every President of the United States; that it is not prudent to expose our country to the certain perils which must await it, should its destinies ever be committed to a President by accident, in times of difficulty and high excitement ; and that such a catastrophe is always probable, when one is elevated to the Presidential chair vho has already reached the full term ordina rily considered as the limit of man's life. To a kind letter from friends in a distant State, inquiring what were my opiuions of Mr Van Buren's administration, I have re cently replied. A copy of this reply is now before Hfja and as it truly represents my sen timents upon this subject, I will transcribe my answer to the iuquiry propounded: "I was opposed to Mr Van Buren when he was . .... ., -r- - I . " I nrsta candidate lor tne vice rresiaenuai chair, and my opposition to him was continu ed when ha was afterwards a candidate for the station he now holds. Upon each of these occasions, there were other candidates who, ( as I thought, agreed with my opinions more exactly, and whom, therefore, I preferred. Entertaining such sentiments, I have watched his course, since he came into power, with a vigilance that might not perhaps have been used by me under other circumstances. Yet, with all this vigilance, I have not been able to detect a single unconstitutional act that has been done or proposed by him, during his administration. This is not a slight merit, at least in my eyes ; and when I connect with it that the whole scheme of his policy, in re gard to all our relations, whether foreign or domestic, has evinced much sagacity, pru dence, and forbearance, and this too, under circumstances of great difficulty, I cannot withhold my approbation from such a course. "These are not the sentiments of one who has any claim, or even pretension, to be con sidered as a friend of the present President. They are the result of a careful examination into all his public acts, since he has occupied his present station ; an examination made with as much candor and impartiality as I could command. Tht3 examination was com menced, I own, with no expectation that it would end in such a result. But it has so terminated ; and common justice, as well as common honesty, compel me to award him a meed, iu my judgment, he has so well deserv ed. The support he has llni3 fairly earned, I will willingly give him, so long as he shall continue to merit it. Nor will I ever concur in the attempt to remove any tried servant, who, as I think, has deserved well of his country." And now, sir, having satisfied all your in quiries, to the end that 1 may not be compell ed to undergo the same labor again, I commit this letter to you, to be used as you may think proper. - I am sir, respectfully, Your most obed't. serv't. LITTLETON W. TAZEWELL. Dr J. P. Young, Portsmouth, Va. From the New Era. Prospecta of Mr Van Buren Sontn aud South West. We firmly believe that in the contest for Presidential electors, to take place in No vember next, there will be found but one single slave-holding State on the side of the Opposition. It is more than likely that Ken tucky will show her devotion to her once glorious statesman, Henry Clay, by hugging to her bosom the poor embecile military chieftain, who, despite his anathema of "War, pestilence, and famine," has supplanted her favorite, and been the means of his being pushed off the ladder of bis ambition, never to mouct again. But in every ower ofthoBe States the cause of Democracy will as suredly triumph, and Abolition Whiggery be crushed to the earth, if not totally annihilated. Our pi os peels of the result are indeed every way cheering.. What though we have, as was the case in 1837, experienced a transient dis comfiture in Louisiana and North Carolina? It is nothing. ; The British Whig organs at New Orleans now admit that their victory iu Louisiana is more attributable to our local dissensions than to the strength of their par ty; a nd they tremble with apprehension at the certainty of being put to the rout in Novem ber; when the entire Democracy shall rise in its might, and charge upon them in one uni ted, broad,: unbroken column- Our oppo nents are boasting loudly of the present ad vantage gained, which was also the case in 1S36, and which was: acquired now only by means of the most reckless - and shameful misrepresentations in regard to the negroes testimony produced on the trial of Lieutenant Hooe; But that matter w-ill be properly un derstood by the people , before the time ar rives for the final contest, and the vain-glorious British Whigs will meet there : with such a signal? defeat aa will 'completely i asiound theia. Norifc Catolisa will .di swer S &ora the principles cCher Macon. Tf If we tarn to Virginia We will find that our adversaries practised there likewise all manner of fraud to delude the people. Their doubtful success iu that quarter was owing in a measure to the infamous' document, put forth just prior , to the election, by some of their most profligate leadeis in Cougress, wilfully misrepresenting the character of the bill for the re-orgaaia-tion of the militia; and deliberately charging the President with a design to raise a stand ing army of two hundred thousand men, to be arrayed against the liberties of his country! That falsehood has been met and exposed by Mr Van Buren himself, in a way thct rill bring upon its authors the deep execration of the people, and insure the overthrow of their baseless fabric. Virginia will be true to the pure, philanthropic principles of her Illustri ous Jefferson. In Missouri and Alabama we have already spiked their cannon. South Carolina and Arkansas will not afford them a corporal's guard. A desperate effort will be made to muster their scattered forces in Geor gia, Tennessee, and Mississippi. There they will assume a vauntful bearing; but when the Democratic legions come down upon them, they will crouch like the craven Mexi cans at St. Jacinto, crying out "me no Alamo!" Yes we feel assured that the South end the Southwest will be true to themselves that they will maintain their constitutibnal rights, aud that they will not be recreant to those principles which apply with particular stress to their own peculiar institutions. It is notorious that the British Whigs aYe in league with the Abolitionists to destroy South ern influence to overthrow the institutions of the South and to place the poor white man of the North and the Negro on an equal ly degraded level. They would liberate the black s2 ves at the South that their labor may be placed in competition with the labor of the working classes here. They evince no sympathy with the poor white man all is throw n upon the negro; and .should they suc ceed in their wild schemes, the poor laborer of the North would be compelled to wear the chains of abject servitude. The Democracy to a man, are for preserving our constitution al compact inviolate. Can the South dare the South throw herself upon the teuder mercies of her bell ige re ut foes? She cannot, she dare uot, she will not. The interests of the South, social and political, are identical with those of the Northern Democracy. If she fails to protect herself, who would redress her wrongs? Would the North? Her only true friends here are the Democracy, She must be conscious of this fact she is con scious of it and therefore she will go heart and Knnl with tHm n n ft thpu n.ill rtra-irihim - J ..... f together with one united voice "The North ern man with Southern principles, MAR TIN VAN BUREN, for the Presidency. (From the Globe.) Mr Webster in 1836 and 1840. The following is one of the most remarka ble reminiscences we have seen during the whole contest. It equals the Revolution which has taken place in Messrs. John T. Anderson,James Garland, and Senator Foun taine, since the Botetourt, Nelson and Han over Addresses of 1S86. The language ia course and beneath imitation. - Washington, Aug. 20, 1840. Mr Editor: To show your readers what were once Mr Webster's friends'' opinions of his views of Gen. Harrison's conduct at San dusky, I have to request that the following extract from the Bangor Democrat, may be in serted in the Globe: PORTRAIT OF HARRISON. Drawn by the Editor of the Bangor Whig and Cuorler in 1S25-6V "My political course, such as it was, whilst I was connected with the Whig, met the ap probation and applause of Mr Webster. lie saw with deep mortification and chagrin, a large portion of those who had been most clam erous in bringing him to the field, filing off, like a band of mercenary Swiss cowards, tn join the standard of the miserable old man aud half id tot, who has been called the "hero "ivr . i - n i - -v f i oi xvoria jena," ana n was ouncunior mm to repress that resentment which, as a man of elevated principles, he could but feel. Ho saw a body of men, calliug themselves. Whig, ready to abandon his fortunes, and blast his hopes, for the purpose of advancing the inter of a poor old creature, who, when in the Sen of the U. States, was an object of an absolute contempt, and when in the field, was a cow aud. and who. for his cowardice at the battle of Sandusky, had a petticoat voted him, by the gallant spirits who had achieved a victory,' which, if he had been obeyed, would have en m i r - s aea in eeieai anu disgrace, as a. ineua or Mr Webster, and a3 an American citizen, jealous : of the character of my. country, I could not, and would not unite with the wbigs i blu 1AXo iua piaiocs ui inu auu mice; penny 'hero of North Bend,5 and because I woum not piay tne owiss, ana obey the pack that would have me chant hosannas to master Billy Harrison, I was charged with treachery, and with playing into the hands of the enemy." If "the charge applies to me. it also applies to jur veoster; lor l can ten you and tell you truly, that Daniel Webster, under no possible circumstances, can be guilty of the dishonor' of adopting any step, or performing any net, that '' will reuder him 'accessary to tne eleva tion of a coward; of the 'hero of North. Bend; cf man whose genius, small as it may .have been, has been with excitement," and who i me laugniog- stock oi ni ices, ana me priy ' .Nots. Will the Madisonian de-sy that the General had s. rctticrjat 'vcted hinri "new?. $foU& Ferrous.'' . -.'s .. '.,'-. D
The North Carolinian (Wilson, N.C.)
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Sept. 12, 1840, edition 1
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