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PIANO FORTES.
rOW opening, and lor bAJ-.fc-, at the J-emale
Seminary.
One Extra, Grand Action Piano Forte, elegant
Crotch Mahoaony, Gothic Architecture, with every
modern Improvement, manufactured by Wake and
Glenn, - - " " $i70
One ditto, Rose Wood, C J Outavcs, by Wake and
Glenn, - - - - " 5385
One ditto, Mahngony, by Wake & Glenn, $340
One ditto, by Gcib and Walker, - 350
One ditto, Comr.iuii Action, by Dubois, Dacon &
Chambers, - - - - - - 900
These Piano Fortes have been selected carefully,
bv th besr mast r in New York, and will be held
at a liberal discount from the regular prices, and a
cred-t on irood paper, to suit the times.
A L S O
S.-veral PIANO FORTIES, which have been in
use in the Seminary, a:e offered at r at bargains.
R. W. BAILEY.
FayettcviKe, June 13, 1S-10. 63-tf.
Faycttcville
FEMALE SEMINARY.
MAYING declined further supervision of the
FEMALE SEMINARY, it is but just tha'
I should express to its former patrons and friends
mv ,o ifiJenc", that i:i ihn hands of Mr. Spencer, it
will be conducted with ability and faithfulness, on
the general p'an heretofore pursued. Mr. Spencer
ai a teadicr, is labjriou?, accurate and persevering.
R. W. BAILEY.
LOTTERIES,
MAGNIFICENT SCHEMES,
JFer October ana JYovember.
D. s. gregoryT&o.
M A N A GERS.
FIVE OAPITALSOF
20,000 Dollars
AMOUNTING TO
$100,000 ! ! !
MARYLAND STATE LOTTERY
Class A, for 1840.
To be drawn at Baltimore, Saturday October
JVO. 34. rwiiolc KiimJier S7.
17th, 1840.
prize
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THE Subscriber will open the Seminary on the
loth of October nex', and hopes by giving
his ent re and exclusive attention to the business
aid' d in each department by competent, efficient
FEMALE TEACHERS lo merit the patronage
heretofore bestowed. In regard to the plan be in
tends to pursue, he has only to say, at present, that
he is DETERMINED to jve a course of instruc
tion in each department as T HOROUH as possible.
The Academic year will be thesame as before; com
mencing on the 15th October, and closing on the
15th July, and divided into two sessions. Pupils
charged from time of entrance to close of session,
and no deduction made for absence, except in cases
ofsicltness.
Certificates of Packaees of 25 whole tickets
Do do 25 half do
Do do 25 quarter do
MOST SPLKND1D
Capital $CO,GOO!
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$30,000 $15,000
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More Prizes tlian lanks.
TERJflS I n Advance,
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cond Class,
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French Lanstnage,
Drawing and Pointing,
Music on the Piano Forte ac
companied by the Voice,
Music on Guitar,
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10 00
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August I, 13 40.
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75-tf
ERAMBERT.
H.
TAILOR)
espectfullv informs liis frieno.3 and the public
uft' senerallv. that he has re-comrnenccd the Tai
loring Business in the house next door to John
Huske l Son, on Green Street 6 doors above the
Market House, where lie will thankfully receive all
orders in hi3 line for cash inly, finding the credit
system a bad one. All orders from the country for
work must in all cases have the cash enclosed, other
wise tliey will not be attended to. He begs leave
tp assure those who may favor him with their orders,
that no pains shall be spared on his part to give
general salislaclion.
HE HAS OX IIAXD
An assortment of Shirts, Bosoms, Collars, Stocks,
tsuspendcrs, and Drawers, ol the best quality.
WANTED.
Three or four Journeymen Tailors, none need
".iy put good workmen, and ol steady habits.
aLipO,Two Boys wanted to the above trade.
Tr0rat,le coun,ry WN be preferred.
a: Extra cutting done at the shortest notice.
ayetteville, April 25, 1840. 6I-3m.
J. & J. KYLE
HAS just received by the late ar
rivals from the North, a large and
splendid assortment of
a
.Imong tr hit h are
"7eM c' B'ack, and assorted colored Cloths
ff .Pr,!S Sattinets. Vesting, Mennoes
lomf i n d ains. Challeys, Black and Co
C n"ks PlQin Figured, Black Bomba
157,'p a,,dPoint blankets and Negro Cloths
BultT58 Vi,,co' VCfy pap, 3-4, 4-4, 5-4, & 6-4
Anfc n f . Krown Shntinas and Sheetincs, and
All f . ? P CXos, with many other articles.
Price f TXC,ns bouSht at the -lowest package
Cheap
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ash,
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Political.
Letter or Mr Poinsett.
Washington, Sept. 2S, 1S40.
Dear Sir : I send herewith, a letter ad
dressed to my fellow-citizeus of Charleston,
aud beg that you will present it to them.
Having been assailed by opposition orators
and letter writers from Maine to Georgia, I
avail myself of the privilege secured to every
citizen in this country, of being heard in his
own defence, to plead before a tribunal whose
jurisdiction I have always acknowledged, and
to whose verdict I shall cheerfully submit.
I have the honor to be, dear sir, faithfulTy
jour, J. It. POINSETT.
DrJosErii Johnson,
Charleston, South Carolina.
Washington, Sept. 26, 1840.
Fellow Citizens : Shortly after I accept
ed the office I now hold, and when last I had
tho honor to address you, I exhoi ted you to
sacrifice all former feuds on the altar of our
common country, aud to lend the aid of your
talents and influence in support of those, who,
equally with yourselves, are animated by an
earnest desire to promote its happiness and
prosperity, aud firmly determined to maintain
its honor abroad, and preserve its institutions
and peace at home. 1 assured you that the
administration, of which I formed a part,
would never violate the principles of the Con
stitution, nor suffer them to be violated by
others ; and that the peculiar tights and in
terests of the South would be protected. And
pledged myself, should any of the jrreat
laudmaiks cf democracy be disregarded, to be
found once more in your ranks, ready to aid
you in vindicating the rights of the people.
Ihe period has arrived when I feci called
upon to appeal to you to decide whether the
assurances I then gave you have been fulfilled,
or whether the allegations which have been
so freulymade against the administration are
true. It is on its trial before you, not only
upon general charges of alleged misconduct,
w hich, if substantiated, would render it utterly
unworthy ot your confidence and support ;
but those charges are, in no inconsiderable
degree, founded on official acts of my own.
200
100
50
Alexandria JLottery,
Class 15, for 1S40.
To be drawn at Alexandria, D. C. on Satur
day, November 14th, 1840.
$BLD,0DDn,
1 Prize of
1
tc
$30,000
15,000
10,000
1
ct
CI
c.
Citizens of my own State, between some ot
whom and myself relations of personal friend
ship formerly existed, have felt themselves
justified in arraigning me before you, and
through me the administration of which I am
a member, for acts of weakness and extrava
gance, and even for devising plans stigma
tized as designed to subvert the liberties of
tue toui.i.
Called upon by a committee of Congress,
at a moment wheu the country was threatened
with war, to prepare for its defence, and to
reorganize the militia, 1 submitted a plan for
that purpose, which has been a fruitful theme
of attack by the opponents of the administra
tion. It is unnecessary to recapitulate the
objections which have been urged against
this measure. They are known to you all.
But I will briefly explain its provisions, in
order that you may judge how fai the objec
tions are valid and applicable. It is propos
ed to diminish the burden now imposed upon
the people, by turning out for training every
able-bodied man in the country at the same
time a system which operates as a direct tax
upon you, amounting to many minions an
nually, and is as unnecessary as it is ounnen-
i - It .
some ; tor under no circumstances can . uc
required to bring into the field two millions ol
8 000 men ; one-twentieth of that number is amply
7 000 sumcieni ; ana it was inieuueu inai una iuiwc
J I , ij -llJ rnnrrniont seasons.
6,000 for ten jjjyg m eacn year, and that you should
5,000 all be trained in turn. Depots of arms were
4 000 to be established at convenient stations, in
' , . 1 1 1 -ti . V, 1,1
2 500 order mal wnen turneu out to arm, you miuuiu
State, and only when on the borders out of
your own districts : and when on the ground,
be furnished with United fctates arms ana
ammunition, and be ryd. for the time you
were so employed which need not have ex
ceeded ten days of every year for four years,
after which you would have been exempt lroin
militia duty, except in cases of actual invasion
or insurrection. You were to have been
commanded by officers of your own choice,
as now, and if subjected to the rules and ar
ticles of war when in service, as you are un
der the present law, you were to be tried for
all military oneuces by your own onicers oniy
your neighbors and friends, from whom you
have no injustice to apprehend, in tnis man
ner, the least onerous that could be devised,
an efficient force would have been in constant
readiness, to suppress insurrection or repel
invasion, at a trifling cost, to be delrayed Dy
the General Government.
Be not deceived bv the silly cry of "stand
... " - C i,
iner army" raised dv tne opponents v"?
people's rights, to oppose the efforts of a dem
ocratic administration, and to bring discredit
on them for the attempt to organize the militi..
It is evident that the neome must protect tnem-
quIups. or nnv soldier to nrotect them ' and it
T P A YETTE HOTEL. is equally obvious that they cannot effectually
XJ-1 -fX i X x XJ nrntppt themselves, without heino- organized,
Fayetteviue, aonu v.i r- : . p
. . -,, i v 1 .nr ti&vnlvp thia Hnfir unnn others. Without
THIS ESTAiJUStlMi l wuiwupi"''" . - --v t
the 1st of AuHiist, under the management peril to their liberties, I have as much conn-
x no dpnee as anv man. in tne Drave ueaus nu
strong arms of the mass of the people, and
am willing to rely upon them for the defence
of the country, whenever there is time to pre
pare for it ; but if ever the thunder of the
enemy's cannon shall be suddenly heard in
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those of the Indian, many a brave heart, will
be pierced, aud many a strong arm will be
paralysed, before an efficient force could be
collected, armed and organized, to protect
their wives and children. It may be popular
doctrine, but it is neither wise nor safe to de
ceive the people on this subject, and leave
them to the hazard of one day weeping their
improvidence in tears of blood.
There is no portion of our country so deep
ly interested in this measure as the South.
The South must depend upoii itself for protec
tion, and there never was a period in the his
tory of our Government, when this portion of
our common country was more loudly called
upon, by imperious circumstances, to prepare
for its self preservation. Your enemies sur
round you on every side : the world is up in
arms to deprive you of your property. The
interests of nations, and the fanaticism of in
dividuals, are united ngainst you from with
out while within your own bosom, men,
blinded by party zeal, combine to lull you into
a false and fatal security, and strive to excite
your suspicions against those faithful public
servauts who call upon you to prepare for the
contest. To counteract the attempts of your
friends to organize and arm you, and to enable
you to present such an imposing front a3 may
awe the fanatics who are seeking your de
struction, they cry out "Beware of Executive
influence," beware of "standing armies"
although they know, full ' well, that standing
armies are only necessary where the people
are unarmed and unorganized, and that liberty
is alone endangered by the supineness of its
legitimate guardians. What, in fact, can be
more untrue, or more insulting to the people,
than to be told that they, the source of all
power, are not to be trusted with arms, nor
taught the use of thcini What fear cau there
be that one-tweutieth or one-tenth part of the
militia of each State, composed of your own
fellow-citizeus, of your own friends and rela
tions, will turn their arms against you and
seek to deprive you of your liberties? What
danger is there that you yourselves will do so
wheu your turn comes to assemble at your
own neighboring depot, aud have arms placed
in your hands? Would you march against
your fellow citizens, at the bidding of a ty
rant 1 Surely not. Why, then, should you
be led to believe that your sons, or your
brothers, or your neighbors, who have been
brought up to cherish the same principles as
yourselves, would seek to destroy institutions
which are as dear to them as to you, and turn
their arms against the country ? The idea is
as i resulting to the people as it is preposterous.
have been roused against this plan, and per
severing attempts are made to keep them alive,
notwithstanding the President's distinct ex
pression of the opinion and views entertained
by him upon the whole subject ; views agaiust
which the arts of the opposition have not yet
enabled them to raise a plausible objection.
With respect to the charge of extravagaace, so
loudly made by the opposition, and maintain
ed by the most glaring - misrepresentations
and misstatement?, I again refer you to the
public documents, and plead the facts as they
are there recorded. They prove incontesta
bly that the real expenses of the Government
have increased beyond what the augmenta
tion of our population, and the extension of
our commerce, and the rapid advancement of
our settlements, absolutely required. Stripped
of the extraordinary expenditures which have
resulted from circumstances beyond the con
trol of the administration, the course of the
Government, instead of being marked by a
wasteful and profligate extravagance, as its
opponents would persuade you, has been dis
tinguished by the most exact and rigid econ
omy. The payment of the public debt, which
forms a large item of expenditure, cannot be
charged to the extravagance of Government.
Nor can that of the Indian trust fund, of which
the Government is the trustee, although that
item serves to swell the general amount of
&c. &c. &c.
Tickets only 920, Halves 81 0, Quarters 5,
Eugntns x sui
Certificates of Packages of 2G whole tickets $260
Jjo do at halves
j)a do 26 quarters 65.
Do do 86 eighths 32 J
Ei Orders for Tickets and Shares or Crtifi-
.1 i ki....:fiAAni
cate.S Ot A'acKages in iue auove i.mgnn.t..
Schemes, will receive tne most prompt aueni on,
and an official account of each drawing sent imme
diately after it is over to an wno order irom us.
Address.
Washington Ciiy, JJ. C
bCen thoroughly repaired, and will, in a few days,
ha well furnished: and every effort will be made to
render it worthy of Pgrona yARBROUGH,
iiV0' .hmni,lfl fweeklv,) Raleigh
iL J-1HC USIBiv"-"
Register and Ji Standard vatswWaternan and any of our seaports, which are all now too ac
Drep.nsboroush Patriot, Salisbury ""-"'". A lAr.i.i .1 ,Vtit ho Ap.
" w 1 1 . . .i w ..a rnrAR muuuis
P. !k raw Gazette win mseri me
and forward their accounts to the subscriber.
fj- PAY THE rKIJSTEP. . "
feasible and indefensible, they might be de
stroyed or captured before the Forts could be
garrisoned, or-one .blow-.. be struck to defend
them. Or if ever ourjSouthern planters shall
bo awakened by a yell, more startling than
expenditures ; even tho money received for
indemnities due the nation by foreign govern
ments, and exacted from their justice by the
firmness and decision of the administration,
is charsed to its extravagance because it not
only recovered, but distributed these sums.
The payment ordered by Congress, to li
quidate the claim of Massachusetts, Connec
ticut, and North Carolina, for their expendi
tures during the war, forms another item of
the charge of extravagance. So, too, the
three percent, aud the two per cent, for roads,
payable to the new States, out of Ihe amount
of sales of public lands, under laws, passed
years ago, which increases with the quantity
of land sold every year. Duties refunded to
merchants, which are, to a certain degree, an
evidence of the increasing prosperity of our
commerce, are made to appear an increasing
item of extravagance. So that,in fact, if we
had not paid any portion of the national debt,
and left the Treasury notes unredeemed ; if
we had not honestly executed our duty as
trustees of the Indian fund, by disbursing
thern for the benefit of those tribes ; if we had
not sold any public lands, or had neglected
to pay the new States the five per cent, due
them upon the amount of sales ; and if the
commerce of the country had been paralyzed,
and the merchants failed to trade extensively,
the government would, according to the rea
soning of the opposition, have been adminis
tered most faithfully and economically a re
putation which would have been founded up-
on its oaa iaiin ana uesunciive policy.
These disbursements for the years 1S36,
'37. and-'3S, amount to $2S,152,145 41. To
these items should be added the amount of
appropriations for the' payment of pensions,
for the District - of Columbia, survey of the
coast, taking the census, exploring expedition,
the removal of Indians, which are all of a
temporary nature, and are certainly . not
chargeable to the present administration ; and
those for durable and fireproof buildings, for
arming and equipping the militia, for the im
provement of the navy, (for roads, canals and
breakwaters, and river and harbor improve
ments, tinder laws passed , many years ago,
for fortifications, and the purchase of lands
from the Indian tribes, in order to free the
individual States from the presence of this
population, and to benefit essentially the whole
Union. All which charges, amounting in
the aggregate to a large sum, must be consid
ered as expenditures for the securing of our
common country, and for the benefit of pos
terity, and are not therefore properly charge
able upon the present administration, as they
were authorized before its commencement.
These deductions, including the expenses
growing out of the operations upon our North
ern and Eastern frontiers, to preserve our
national faith with a neighboring and friendly
nation, and those which have been incurred
in protecting the Southern portion of our
country from Indian aggressions, bring the
annual expenditures of those years to the
moderate amount of $13,OCO,000. One word
as to the expenditures growing out of these
wars, which have been a fruitful theme of ac
cusation and repro.ich against the administra
tion. The wars of the Creeks and the Semi
noles originated in the perfidious and cruel
conduct of those Indians. They not only
refused to comply with their treaty stipulations,
but attacked and destroyed the white settle
ments and butchered the inhabitants. The
Government, in the fulfilment of one of
its most imperative duties, took all the mea
sures in its power to protect the country which
was exposed to these merciless savages.
The very limited regular force, and the waut
cf proper organization of the miiitia, rendered
those efforts more feeble than they would have
been under other circumstances, and much
more expensive. The militia or volunteers
cannot be brought to act on foot, the best if
not the only description of force suitable for
finding and subduing the roving savages of
r lorida ; and under the most economical ar
rangement for supplying horsemen, its cost,
compared with that of the regular soldiers, is
as six to one ; that is to say, one mounted
militiaman costs the Government as much as
six regular infantry : and yet the administra
tion is blamed for not covering 40,000 square
miles ol territory with volunteer cavalry, and
sweeping the whole territory as with a net
aa J?PeraL'.1n- jh.at would JprobablyfailJj and
men, and cost for one six months, not less
than fourteen millions of dollars, without enu
merating the interminable claims arising
from the loss of horses, or the amount of pen
sions for wounds and disabilities. To some
extent this policy was pursued in 1837 and
1838, when double the force required by for
mer Generals who had commanded in Florida,
was sent there and placed under an active aud
skilful and experienced commander. Volun
teers were brought from Tennessee, Georgia,
and Missouri, men counted among the best
and bravest of their citizens. Indian scouts
were assembled from the western frontier.
Every thing was done that zeal, courage, per
severance and eudurance could effect ; but
still the war was not euded. The Indians
ceased to concentrate their forces, and to re
sist the advance of our men. They scattered,
and became the most terrible banditti that ever
infested and devastated a country. Large
columns of attack became unnecessary, and
the large bodies of volunteers hitherto employ
ed, were succeeded by detachments of regular
troops, who are both more efficient and less
costly. The militia of Florida has been em
bodied to protect their own settlements, and
the regular forces will be charged with the
more active duty of breaking up the Indian
camps, and of forcing these savages to sue for
peace. This arrangement has reduced the
expenses of the Florida war from five millions
a year to not more than two. Stories of the
extravagant expenditures of Government offi
cers, have been made up by insinuations aud
inference equally as unfair as false statements.
It is said that a "steamboat was freighted for
$250 a day, which is $90,250 a year," leav-
in- it to be inferred that Government paid
that sum for the hire of the boat ; when in
point of fact the boat was only taken upon an
- . . t .1 j
emergency and tor a tew aays : mat wooa
was brought from JN ew Orleans to a spot
where it was growing abundantly, without
stating the additional fact that these woods
were occupied by Indians, and that it would
have required a large escort to protect the
wood cutters, and transportation to bring sol
diers to perform this duty, from other stations
where their presence was more needed. I
mention these things only in justice to my
nredecessor. No such transaction has taken
nlaco under the Dreseut administration. It
is equally due to the several commanders in
Florida, to state, and I do it without fear of
contradiction, that in tho Creek and Florida
wars, more Indians have been destroyed
captured and removed, than in all former wars
against Indian tribes since the commence
ment ot our Government : and that this has
heen accomplished under the most difficult
and discouraging circumstances.
Notwithstanding the existence of these
wars, the Administration, by its energetic ef
forts to produce economy in the i upuc ex
penditures, has been enabled to effect a large
reduction in the appropriations, amounting
annually, if averaged, to . not less than
$4,000,000.- ' ,-. , f
I will close tho observations which I have
felt . it my duty: to make on the subject of the
expenditures ot tbc Government, with an ex
tract from a letter addressed by the Presi
dent, on the 15th inst. to a citizen of Te;
cessee, in reply to an interrogatory, wh.
er, in his opinion, there could be any iv:
ther reduction of the expenditures of the Gc.
vernment, without the : detriment to the iuL;
est3 of the people:
'I do not doubt the practicability of a (u
ther reduction in the expenditures of the Qt -vernment,
without detriment to the ictere: ?
of the people; and it has been the object
my active and unceasing exertions to.cvj -it
to be made. The appropriation:: for U. .
year 1S37 were made before I came into c .
fice. Our ordinary disbursements, witao-
including those on the public debt, the ?
Office, and the trust fund in charge of il
Government, bad been largely increased fca
fore the commencement of my term, by i m
propriations! for the removal of the Ind;aLi;
for repelling Indian hostilities, and for oftr
less urgent expenses which grew out cfe."
overflowing Treasury. Independent of ti.i
public debt and trusts, the gross expenditure
of seventeen and eighteen millions in 1S1-'
and 1S35, had by these causes, swelled j
twenty-nine millions, in 1836, and the im
propriations for 1837, made as before stal z:
previous to the 4th of March of that yo- -;
raised the expenditure to the large amouo. -:"
thirty-nine millions. I caused immed'i.s
and unremitting efforts to be made, througrLz
the public service, to reduce these large ;:
pecditures as speedily and to as low a pr
as could be done consistently with the puL-: .
interest, an object which I have the b if
reason to know was one of great solicitu i
on tho part of my predecessor, though bis : r
forts to accomplish it were greatly imped :-1
by causes beyond bi control. We succefei
ed during the year 183S in somewhat ; se
ducing the amount, notwithstanding the cc :
tinuance of our Indian embarrassments, a
the necessity, for a longer time to make -:
such efforts completely successful. The i
suits of 1S39 were so, to the gratifying e;
tent of a reduction of more than sevenm;
lions below the expenditures even of the pr -reeding
year. Of these facts and resu
Congress were informed at the last essi; .
and you may judge for yourself whether th -
accuracy has been in any way lrnprea.
ed.
"The estimates for 1840 were directed
be subjected to the severest scrutiny, e .
limited to the absolute requirements of ; i i
public service, and our best exertions l- r
made, throughout the year, to effect a ; t;;'
success. The expenditures for the fire, i . :
months of 1S40, compared even with tho
duced amount of 1S39, are, in round nun bt
as follows: In 1839, $12,600,000; fi"
same period in 1840, $10,100,000. Co
pared with 1838, they stand thus: in ti'j,
year, $15,300,000; in the present, $10,10- ,
000. Compared with 1S37, (being those lv.
der appropriations made before I came ir .
office,) they stand thus: for the first six moii '
of 1837, $16,635,000; and, as I have stat
in 1S40, during the same months, $10. 1C
000. Although it cannot be stated with . -
curacy what ine result ot tne whole year v
be, yet, from the best means of information
we have reason to believe that the expend if uu .-
will not exceed $22,000,000. Only us it.
in the accomplishment of that result, the pow
er conterred upon me by Congress lo r,i
pone certain expenditures under enumerate
circumstances, to an extent which is e
ikely to diminish the actual expenditures : f
the year so much as a million below what tho v;
would otherwise have been. If in this v-,
are successful, as I have very little doubt v .
shall be, there will, at the end of the year, t
reduction of the annual expenditures siiic-
1837 of more than eleven millions acr.
half since 1838, of more than ten mil
lions."
The President is charged with the inten
tion of proposing direct taxation, because, by
the provisions of an act of Congress, intro
duced as amendments to the original bill lv
Opposition members, the marshals and thei?
assistants are required, in the progress of to,'.;
ng the census, to collect certain statistical
nformation, which Congress thought might
prove .useful and instructive. It will be up
parent, on the slightest examination, thet no
measure of taxation could be adopted on
these proceedings, as the names of the parties
are not required or taken down by the raar-
shals. It is scarcely necessary to say that
the inference that such was the intention of
the President, or of any member of his" Ad
ministration, is unfounded.
In the case of Lieut. Hooe, of the navy,
which has been repeatedly alluded lo in cider
to prejudice Mr Van Buren in the South, it
is sufficient to say that this officer Was con.
victed of causing persons to be flogged con
trary to law, not on negro testimony at all,
but on the uncontradicted testimony of re-
spectable and unimpeachable white witn5;-:-5;
and that the President would not have-roa
hid duty, as the law now stands, it he ha t t r
fused to confirm the proceedings of the ctv;
because negro testimony bearing ; on r-ib -r
charges had been introduced, ; but which c
not affect the opinion of. the-court. T
colored persons should be allowed
at all times in Southern ports is !ie .
the laws; and Mr Van Buren V.esitr' sr.
act might be passed that should oxj;.1'
vent the admission of negro -.v,,.- -,- u.-t, -;
courts martial equally as ws et -? 4 .--courts
-a measure which -rv.s-. pfOL.wjs- 1
Congress, and failed only by the opposition
of the very men who now are so clamorous in
their censure of the President." .
. Some honorable gentlemen who have par-