Newspapers / The North Carolinian (Wilson, … / Feb. 27, 1841, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The North Carolinian (Wilson, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
'CHARACTER IS AS IMPORTANT TO STATES AS IT IS TO INDIVIDUALS; AND THE GLORY OF THE STATE 13 TEE COMMON PROPERTT OF ITS CITIZENS." HOLMES & BAYNE, Editors ana Proprietors FAYETTEVILLE, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1841. Volume 2.-ATumber!Oi TERMS OF THE NORTH CAROLINIAN. Per tnaum, if paid in advance, $2 50 Do if paid at the end of 6 months, 3 00 Do if paid at the end of the year, 3 50 Rates of Advertising : Sixty cents per square, for the first, and thiry cents . for each subsequent insertion. A liberal deduction win be made to advertisers by t tho yar. Veurt advertisements and Sheriff's sales, will be - charged 25 per c nt. higher than the usual iates. All advertisements sent for publication should have the number of insertions intended, marked upon them, otherwise they will be inserted until forbid, and charged accordinsrly. j No paper disco itnnied u Jtil arrearages arc paid, except at the optio i of the Editor. , No tubSuription received for less than twelve months. iCTLetters on business connected with this estab lishment, must be addressed Hol.mes&Batnk, Editor of the North-Carolinian, and in all cases post-paid. SC3 Subscribers wis'rn t make remitfanc s by mai!, w 11 rtm.-m'ier ihat thy can do so freo of postage, as Po-?n:ist -rs ar ant'miz d bf law t. frank letters enclosing remittances, if written by themselves, or the conte its known to th- m. Prices of Job Work : t-HAND BILLS, pinud on a tn' dnim, royal, . or np. r roya! she-1, for 30 cop es, 2 5 " Ft 50 coi s, 3 00 1 Aid for every additional J 00 vop'ee; 00 -HORSE BILLS, on a sheet from 1-2 to 13 inches square, 3 ' crpir s, 3 0'J Over 18 inrhes, and rot exceeding 30, 5 0i CARDS, large i e, s'iosJb pack, 3 00 And for every additional pa k, 1 25 Smaller siz,'s i pro ocfion. BLANKS, when printfd to order, f r 1 quire, 2 00 And fur tvery additional quire, under 5, 1 Ci Exceeding 5 quire-, 75 CIRCULAR.?!, INVITATION TICKETS,- and all kinds of BOOK & JOB PRINTING, executed cheap for CASH. THE FOLLOWING " BLANKS! Kept constantly on hand AND FOR SALE AT TIJk CAnoztiarzA?; office : CHECKS, on Bank of the State, and Cape Fear Bank. PROSECU PION BONDS, Supr Ct MARRIAGE LICENSES VENDI EXt'O., constables levy COMMISSIONS to takf depositions in equi ty, and Supr. court APPEARANCE BONDS WRITS, Sup rior and Co. Ct. CA. SA. Suir. Ct. INDICTMENTS for Aff ay, and Assault "and Paitr-ry, Co. and Sup. Ct. CERTIFICATES, Clk. Co. Ct. - -JURY TICKETS OllDEltS to over-iefrs of Riad3 BASTARDY. BONDS TAX RECEIPTS WITNESS TICKETS EJECTMEN I S PATROL NOTICES LETTERS of ADMINISTRATION Bonds Deeds, common, Sheriff's Deeds, Constables Ca. Sa. Bonds, Do Delivery do Appeal Bonds, .. Equity Subpoenas, Superior Court Fi. Fa. County Court Sci. Fa, to re vive judgment. County Court SubpCnas, Superior Court Warrants, Bonds for Col'rd. Apprentices. NEW GOODS. W ILLIAM McINTYRE MAS just received and offers for sale, Superior Black, Invisible Green SijBIue Cloths ; Bea ver & Pilot Cloths ; Double-Mill'd Dr b & Lyon Skin i Sattinnctts, Kentucky Jen n., Strong Twill'd Ke3"seymerci, Flannels, Vesiines, Blankets, Blanket-Coats; French Mcri noes &" Circassians ; Cali coes, Mus'ins, Mouslih D'Laina ; Shawls; Plush, Musk-Rat & Seal-Skin .Caps ; Wool & Russia Fur Hats '; Boots & Shoes ; Hoeds & Florence Braid Bonnets. GROCERIES. Tens, Loaf-Suga Wines &. Liquors, Cheese ; Kaisinp, half &qttarter Boxes, White Fis in Buses; .Window-Glass, Putty & Whits Lead. Hardware Cutlery. Carpenters $ Blacksmith's Tools; Collins, & Co's. Axes, and Whettmor's Cards, &c. Fayetteville, Dec. 1 2, 1840, 94-! sGt LANDS EOR SALE. (By Decree of the Court of Equity.) I SHALL expose for salp at public Auction, a: theCfturt House in the Town ofFayMteville, at 12 o'clock, M. on Monrday the first day of March 1841 (it being the firpt Monday in the month.) th? following valuable real estate, to w-it: The lot and stom on Hav street, j ining Kyies at p-esont occupied by -WMiam Wutson. Warehouse on Franklin street, joiningThomosJ. Curtis. The lot and store on Market square, at prescrt occupied by John B. Marsn. The lot and dwelling house on Union sfreet and Maiden Lane, at present occupied by William S. Tho terms of the Sale will be Notes negotiable and payable at the Branch of ihs Bank of the StaM in tWs place, to be approved by the dire tors thereof. ARCH'D. A. T. S V1 ITH, c. & m. e. Fayetteville, February G, IS 11. 93 ids. GARDEN 'S E-E-I S UST RECEIVED an as-ortuient of Garden Seeds growth ot 1840 warranto SJIM'LJLMIMS, TOFICE7 . i i finHE late firm of Nost & Starr being ci.oivca II V . . -nr 7;t;:,.m TVrft nfsaid firm. Ytiee is hereby given by the Subscriber, as Suryiv S? Partner, to "all person, having da.n.s apaans satd firm, to present them for payment; and to a 1 Persons indebted to them, whose notes and accounts SSX, that immediate payment is required, as the cssoftnenr SwvivingPvtner. fayetteville FEMALE SEMINARY. I should express to its former patrons and frie ,ds my to .nd. iic-, that i.t h hands f Mr. Spenc. r ir will be- conducted with ability and fuiiht.ih.e-s, on the son, rut p an herciolore pursued. Mr. Spencer as a teacher, is laborious, accu ate und p. rev rin. R. W. BAILEY. THE Subscriber w;il open the Seminary on the lot ot Oci. b -r nex', and h p s bv giving his en? rea-id xclu ive attention to th:; b is n ss aid-cl ?n e:ichdep.iriment by omp -lent, efikiert FEMALE TEACHERS to merit th peonage heret..forc b-siow.-d. In regard to the plan he in tends ti p'lrsne. h hns uilv to sav.at present, th .t he is DETERMINED to i ive a comse of ins'r'ic lion in each d- p rtinentasTHOi? OUH a rossihle. I be Academic year wiil he thesamc as befjie; c,m-m-ici. " on the I 5th Ot t ,b r, and closing on ihe 15th J rlv, a?.d divided into two s-'ssions. Pnp ls charged fr un tim ; of e itrant e to clcsfl of seaso n, and no tlerluctiju made for absc-ncf, except in cases f sickm ss. TEltllb In Advance. Eu menfary pepartmit, or Se cond tlass, Firi CI is-5, Fr nch Lnnniinjje,. Dn in ad P intins', Jlii3 c 'in lb fi.inn P o't" cornpa-ii'd hy the Voice, Music on Guitar, Use of P ano, Incidental?, S3 00 per ses: lti On 10 0 lo 00 ion ac- Auff .pt I, 1840. 25 00 " 2S 00 3 uO " 50 G. SPENC Ell. 75- LAND! LAND! LAND! 4 MM vsgmts&m SNOW offer for sale a v-ry valu dde farm on the Ea-tern Fide of Cape Fenr River in the county otB'aden, about 16 miles below the Town of Fay e?tev:l!e, and immediately on the River. Th re are 76)r.cres of land (rivt r survey,) and 12 acr-s of back land jn"n'n th?? Mine. About 250 acres were in cuhiva'ion ih pres nt year, and th re arc suitable bu ld!n:s for the convenience of the farm. Per-ons are .requested to examine the same before the ciop is housed, as they can then judre properly of its production. It is unnecessary to sav it is a first rate farm, as all will be satisfied of that fjet when they see if. Terms will be mnrie to suit the conve nience of the purchaser. JOHN T. GILMORE. Fayetteville, Oct. 31, 1S40. 83-tf The Observer will copy. FIVE DOLLARS REWARD. AN OFF on the 22d inst., from my residence on the Cape Fear River, 8 miles above Fave.ttville. my nejro man A PRILL. He is a little bright complected, with thick bushy hair, very bow-lesiied, when walking r!f"ks vrrv mm h 'iml h-.o o net imnr'flimi'nt in Vi5 ?r!fli nnrti.. ularly wh'-n frighten d. Said boy is about, five feet five or six inches high, and weighs about 145 lbs. ; ard about 30 years. The above reward will be paid for his delivery to me at ray residence, or for confining b m in any Jail so that I &et him again, and alt reasonnble expenses paid. It is more than probable that he may make an attempt, to so to Mr Arch'd. McArns, Robeson County, near Gilchrist's bridge, who owns one of his brothers, whither he has made the attempt to go heretofore. HENRY R. KING. October 31, 1840. F8-tf MOUNTAIN BUTTER. Firkins (assorted.) Some verv superior, at prices from 5 to 26 cents per pound ! for sale by . GEO. McNEILL. Nov. 24, 1840. STOVES & STOVE-PIPE THE Subscriber has on hand, and offers forsa'e, the largest assortment of STOVES ever be fore rlr red in the State, consistins of Box-Stoves, Six, Seven and Nine Plat ed Stoves, Boiling, Baking and Cooking Stoves, of the most appioved patierns, Chu ch Stoves, suitable for Churc'ies. Court and School Houses, Manufac- -gtoriee, etc., assorted, fr'm 3 ALSO. Pine and Fire- Place Franklins, with an assortment of Srove-Pipe and Elbows, togeth r w':t' n lare and vei v g neml assortment of J V PANNED and PLAIN TIN war, at WHOLESALE and RETAIL, all of which he will sell on the best terms !3-Hestjll cotimes to manufacture every ar ticle -n the COPPER, TIN and SHEET IRON ware line, at the shortest notice. JAMES MARTINE. Fayetteville, Nov. 27, 1940. 92-3m HUJSL 1 lllf LAFAYETTE HOTEL. Fayetteville, North Carolina. THIS ESTABLISHMENT will be open after the 1st of August, uiderthe management and direction of the Subscriber. The House has been thoroughly repaired, and will, in a few days, be well furnished; and every cHbrt will bo made to render it worthy of patronage. EDWARD YARBROUGH. Jugusl 3, 1S39. 23-tf ttJThc A-iusta Chronicle (weekly,) Raleigh Register and Standard, Wilmington Advertiser, Greensborouoh Patriot, Salisbury Watchman, and Cheraw Gazette will insert the above three mouths and forward their accounts to the subscriber. E. Y. For Sale- Being desirous of embarking in an other business, I now offer the establishment of the WiLMiNCfTON Adveutiseii for sale. J I do uot know of a more eligible situation for persons desirous of embarking in the printing business, than Wilmington, North Carolina. Terms accomodating. Application post- P3id F. c! HILL. Wilmington, N. C. 9-tf- Splendid. Iiotteries D. S. GREGORY, & CO. MANAGERS. 40,000 DOXzLAP-S VIRUiMA. MONONGALIA LOiTERY, Class A, for 1841. To be drawn at Alexandria, Vra.," on Saturday February 6lh, 1841. BRILLIANT SCHEME: $40,000 1 prize of 1 1 1 50 -50 50 " - $5,000 3,000 2,500 2.297 1,000 3,00 200 Tickets only S10 Halves, $5 Qrs. $2 50 Certificates of Packages of 26 whole tickets, $13 l0 do" 26 hall do 65 ' Do do 20 Quarter do 32 50 S cUbII FORTY of Sl-,500. Virginia Wellsbiiigr Lottery, Class B, for -1841, To be drawn at Alexandria, D. C, oa Sat urday, 13lh February, 1841. GRAND CAPITALS. $35,395 $1, 1 1 1 1 1 prize of t (( 40 Prizes of 50 of Tictets SI O Halves 6 Ce;t fleated of packages of 25 whf.le tickets $130 Uo il, 25 half do 65 Do do 25 Cuarter d 32 50 6,C00 4.CO0 ' -3,500 3,C0U 1,500 $200 -Ctuartcrs 2 SO, 25 S3,! PRIZES OP 82000 VIRGINIA LEESBURG LOTTERY Class B for 1S41 To bo drawn at Alexandria, D. C. on Satur day, February 2Cth, 1841. GRAND GAPITALS 830,000 $10,000 I Prize of $6,000 1 1 1 1 n - 5,000 3,0J0 2,500 2,195 C TWENTY-EIVE PRIZES OF $2000. Tickets $10 Halves $5 Quarters $2 50 Ceitifii &tes of packas of25 whole tickets $130 il Do Do do 25 ha!i do 65 do 25 Quarter do 32 50 IN FIVE prizes of $10,000 ! 14 drawn numbers out of 75 ! ! 1 ' 1 " 1 4t 1 u 1 ( VIRGINIA MON ONG ALIA LOTTERY, Class B, for 1841, To be drawn at Alexandria, Va., on Saturday Febiuary 27, 1S41. 10,000 lo,ono 10,000 10,000 10,000 2 of $5,000 $2,500 $2,120 25 Prizes of $1. GOO 20 of $500 20 of 40030 of 300 40 of 250 &c. &c. &o. Tickets 510 Halves, $ Q.uarte,s $2 50 Certificates of packases of 25 whole tickrts, 8 1 20 Do do 25 half do 60 Do do 25 Quarter do 30 For Tickets and shares, and ceitificates of Packages ia the above splendid Lotteries, i j uuurtss D. S. Gregory, & Co. Managers. Washington City, D. C. Drawings ent immcciately a tcr they are over all who order as above. NOTICE. Trust Sale. rjjlo be sold on Fiiday t'ie 26 h inst- at th .Var Ja. ket Ho-ise in the Town f Favctttville, N C. hftwesn the flours of 10 and 4 o'c'ock, on thtdiv, Bv Virtue of a De"d of Trus? mad to the Sub scriber, by John Atki? s, for certain pt.rpses thesein nenf ioneif, the (low:nProf erty,to wit: two pieces of Land, on ib Ea?t sidenf Cfcprt F ar Rivt r, join ing F. C. A nn'tr in and othe s aboTit nine miles above the Ciarindon Bridge containintf about 424 Acres n.ore or les SAMPSON BOON, Trunee. Fayetteville, 4. Feb'y. 1341. 102-3ts. 1-oco Foco FRICTION MATCHES. M iflS GROSS, HOLMES1 Improved Fric- qPMF tton Matches, "just received,, and for sale by the Gross or Dozen, a superior artie'e. and warranted. Apply to JAMES MARTINE. A constant supply of the above kept on hand, and will be sold low, to sell again. Fayetteville, September 5, 1840 FO-tf TRUST SALE. MY Viitue of a Deed of Trust, secured fo me by JchnC.,Ivi.i,forths purposes thejein men tioned. 1 will on iSafi.day 20t: March next at the r silence of saij Colvin, expose at pubhc sale, for c sh, the iollovvinj: cr. pe tv, viz . One Negro man, One v oaian, ana Tiir -. Chil.re t. JOHN McNEILL, Ti ustre. Ftb. 15, 1S41. 104-41 Political. SPEECH CP MR. BENTON OF MISSOURI. In Senate, Tuesday, January 26, 1S41. - The bill to establish a permanent prospec tive pre-emption system, iu favor of settlers on the public lauds, who shall inhabit and cultivate the same,, and raise a log cabin thereou, was taken up, and having been read through, the question being on the motion of Mr Critteudeu to recommit the bill, with in structions to report a bill for the distribution of the proceeds of the sales of the public lauds among the States. Mr Mangum addressed the Senate at much length in ppositiou to the bill, and iu favor of the recommitment. Mr Be.iton rose ia reply, not to tha Sena tor who had just taken his seat, Mr Man gum, but in reply to a Senator who had spokeu on Saturday, Mr Webster, and who on that day had amended an argument in favor of the laud dist:ibution bill, which he had used on Thursday. On that day he Mr VV. rested the whole argument in favor of the constitutional power of Congress to pass ihe bill, on the terms and conditions of the cession acts' and deeds from the different States. He relied- on nothing else. He (Mr B.) had replied to him on the spot, show ing the utter inadequacy of this argument showing that it did not cover the bill, or hard ly touch it that the bill applied to all the lands of the United States those purchased from Spain and France, as well as those ac quired from the Slates. The answer was conclusive; it was mathematical; it was the logic of the exact sciences; and every one saw its effect. It put an end to the debate; and, to all appearance, it had put an end to the question, ihus the debate oi lhursday terminated. t ' On Saturday the Senator from Massachu setts renewed tne discussion, and amended his argument. He brought torward new matter, which had escaped his view on Thurs day. He took a new position, establishing himself on that clause in the Constitution which authorizes Cougress to dispose of the territory of the United States. Upon this clause he took position, and deduced from it a new argument in favor of ths distribution bill, broad enough to cover all the lauds, come from whert- they might, but not valid enough to stand examination. Ho deduced from it an unlimited authority in Congress to dispose not merely of the lands, but of the land revenue itself, according to its will and pleasure, without either guide or restraint from the Constitution. " Ke made Congress absolute over that brauch of the revenue, dis criminating it from custom-house and inter nal revenue, and making it a tund tor tne unlimited exercise of legislative discretion. The argument was a startling one, wholly foreign to the nature of our powers, and vest ing Congress with the same power over the whole property of the United States, which was claimed for the lands. This was im mediately shown by the Senator from Ohio, Mr Allen, who pointed to the words of the Constitution, and showed that the word terri tory was coupled with that of other property, so that, if Congress had unlimited authority over the lands, it also bad it over al! the other property of the Union. This was a startling view of -the new argument, both for tne im mensity of the property it would cover the whole, iu fact, which the Government owns, or may own- and the arbitrary, despotic na ture of the power which it claimed for Con- gress. 1 undertaKo to add uotamg to tne view which that Senator presented iu hu lumi nous reply, but proceed to expose the fallacy of the new argument ur.der a different as pect. And. first, Mr President, I wish to remark upon the fallacy of the sense in which a term, vital to the argument, is constantly used here, and elsewhere. It is the term cession, as applied to the acts and deeds by which Vir ginia, Georgia, and some other States, con veyed their rights in these lands to the Gene ral Government. That term is constantly used in the sense of gift, gratuity, donation; and not in relation to jurisdiction, or a right of purchase from the Indians, but in re lation to the soil itself in relation to the land itself which is supposed thus to have been gratuitously bestowed. This is a mis take an error a fallacy an illusion. The ceding States ceded no land gave no land conveyed no landt to the General Govern ment. They ceded nothing but that which they had; and they had nothiug in these lauds but the right of purchasing them from the Indians, or the rijjht of conquest in the event of hostilities. From the time of William Penu, this is all that the grantees of the. crown, the colonies, or the Slates, have claimed in the Indian land covered by their grants or charters. Each for itself claimed the right of acquisition ofahat which was within its limits; and this right of acquisition is all that the ceding States could convey, or did con vey, to the United States. They conveyed nothing but the right of purchase; and this has beeu the understanding of all the paities the States, the Indians, an-d the Federal Government from the first day of the ces sions to the present hour. Never, in a sin gle instance, has the Federal Government occupied one foot of this ground until after it was purchased from the ludiaa tribe which claimed it. rTever has she sold an acre until she had first bought it .of the Indians; and where they have refused to sell, she has re fused to disturb their possession, and either waited their time, and their price, as iu' the case of the Cherokee lands in the Southern States: or became their agent to sell the whole for ihtir beuefit, as in ilia case of tha Chickasaw lands in the State of Mississippi. This is the exact state of all these cessions; so that it is indubitably true that, so far as land is concerned, and that is the only thing which the present question touches, the Uni ted States is a purchaser from the Iudians, ami not a donee from the Slaves. She holds uuder Indian treaties, and not under Slate cessions. The same with the Florida and Louisiana acquisitions. We acquired from France and Spain precisely what we had ac quired from the States the same, and noth ing more nor less. We obtained jurisdic tion ovef the ceded territory, and acquired the right of purchase from ths Indians. Wc have taken possession of no ground, not an acre, in Florida or Louisiana, until purchas- ed troai the: indiuns who claimed it. he have acted by ihe lands ceded by France and spam precisely as we nave acted by those ceded bv ths Slates. We have bought them from their Indian owuers, or claimants, be fore we touched them. They all come to us, so far as we have acquired them, in the same manner by Indian treaties, and not by foreign treaties by purchases fiomthe In dians, and not by cessions from thecrowns of France and spaiu. Thu?, sir, all the lands of the United States are held by the same tenure, and acquired iuthe saemode. ah our proprietary ngnis are uie same; uiey are all held by purchase, and all paid for by money taken out of the: treasury of the Union. All our acquisitions are purchases, and large i3 the amount which has been paid for them: to France, fifteen millions of dollars; to Spain, five millions; to the Indians, eighty five miliipns; to some of the States large sums, as to Cjfeorgia, to which State the Fed eral GoveraSjeut paid a great sum, besides extinguishingt for her benefit, at a great cot.-, the Cherokee title within her limits- Bightv five millions is the purchase money paid to the Indians alone, besides annuities yet to run, and other indemnities, amounting now to about $775,000 per annum. Four hun dred and forty-two millions of acres is the quantity ihus purchased trom the Indians; eighty-five millions the amount paid to them; besides the running annuities; twenty mil lions paid to Franco and Spain, and several millions to Georgia for the right of purchase: in all, above one hundred and ten millions paid for theie lauds. Nov, where did all this money come from? Sir, it came from the Treasury of the United States, and has not yet been reimbursed to it; for the sales of the lands have net been equal to the cost of their acquisition and management. Cau we distribute cusiom-houe or direct tax revenue? It is admitted that we cannot. The whole argument that we hear, and the bill in question, oil admit it. All egrcc that we caur.ot. But, behold the wonders of the juggliug art! Wo cannot take the uiony out of the Treasury and divide it, but we may take the money cut of that same Trea sury and convert it into land, and the: re convert ihe laud into money, and then make the division! This is what the new argu ment of the Senator from Massachusetts amounts to! It is a mere circumvention of the Constitution. It mkes mockery and derision of that instrument. It is a lesson in legislative alchymy, by which, nci ba.-e metals are transmitted intogr.ld, but unconstitutional acts are metamorphosed iato cotititulioual ones. This is ihe character and effect cf tha new argument, and where is the limit to its appli cation where the limit to the division of money which Congress may m;Mie under it? Our public lauds are already estimated by the dislribution paitv at one billion two hundred millions of d divided out. died millions foundries arsenals navy 'a;ds public buildings of all kinds this Capitol: all these may be divided out; for they are other proper ty; and all the other property ot the United States is subject to the same power of dis position which applies to the territory. In addition to this we may go on to convert and reconvert, to the end of the chapter. We may buy, and sell, and divide, as long as money, or land, or property of any kind can be found. Such is the end of the Senator's new and amended argument. Wre have heard of latitudinariaas in religion and in politics. We have heard of dexterous constructionists, who could construe them selves out of any creed, or any fundamental law. We have seen some wide construc tions put upon our own Constitution. But who ever heard of the like of this before? Whoever heard before that the Congress of the United States was without a limit, with out a restriction, without a guide, upon the exercise of its money powers'? that it may, by a juggling trick of its owri contrivance, throw off every - constitutional restraint upon the power loraise, or to use money take its owu will for its sola guide, and go oa to dispose of hundreds of millions, or thousands of-millwo of dollars, according to it own will and pleasure. Certainly, of all lUt j J narian constructions of the Constitution, it is the widest and m-st dangerous. It 1? nl so one of the most flagrantly unfounded indefensible; so that the Senator from Mils chuselts, unfortunate as he was ia his pear ' and stinted constitutional argument of Thurs day, was still more so iu the new acd amex ded and boundless one of Saturday. I now come, said Mr B. to a subject which has become connected with this debate, 3id which hrs assumed a form to require a ir, deliberate consideration. I allude to question of a foreign interference in bur tat-i Presidential election. I tin need to refer t this interference in a late spee h; , tha Sen ior from Kentucky Mr Crittenden denied it, md the Senator from MassachusetTs Webster has reiterated the denial. Uae these circumstances it becomes my duty i : advance, or to recede to sustain my ass . tion, or to retract it; and, as truth and justi . will not permit me to do the latter," nothi remains but to goon with the accusation Jr.: -bring forward the proofs. This Imesn do, and with the g.av'ty and inoderat:.. : which is due to thu occasion.. It is net an c casion for invective, for denunciation, fore v sertion without evidence; it is an not occas.: ' ( for passion or personality. It is an occa:-". which requires cahnnes?, fairness, consider : tion, and precision. It is a case which . quires the proof to follow the charge, tiJ .f whole to be conducted with .the gravity m " ; equity of a juJicial investigation. Lev cerus foreigners, who are not here to .: for themselves; it concerns the safely td independence of our form of govern. r-er. '. which should not be lightly subjected to s cions which weaken its strength. I 1": ; ths responsibility of my position. J feel my self to be responsible for what I ay -rorj. Vi sible to my own conscience, and to the gr est power of the age-: the moral sense f a": good mon. Under this sense of rep3.isibili ty I proceed to the discharge of iry du'.y, and will first state the question over cgair, that Senators may be corrected of errors into which they have fallen, and my own design i l i r t ue rcaae more clear ana manliest, i. t..iw nothing to do with the loss or gain of ir.s late election. I do not pretend to account h.s:a for its result. I do not think tbe . inqu:ry h fit topic to be introduced into this chamber It is one of party, and belongs to the fo:itni of the people, and not to the bar of the nate. I have a highof object iu view one which rises far above party contests cno which rises far above the question of ptty supremacy one which goes to the iod'. peri deuce and the safety of our form of Govern ment which concerns the feeling3 of ev.vy patriot, be his place what it may in pary politics and which starts the frightful ques tion whether this Republic, like all free Gov ernments, is to become the prey and spoil of foreign interference, and foreign influence? This is the object in view, and this the ques tion which it raises; a question which has nothing to do with the loss or gain of the election vhich has nothing to do with our party contests- which refers solely to foreign ers, and to their conduct in our election to their interference in our election; and thta without even suggesting the effect of that in terference, and how far it might have in fluenced the result. I disclaim and repel a!i this inquiry, and limit myself to ihe mero questiou of interference. Have foreigners interfered in our election? This U my ques tion; and not have foreigners governed th. election? Tho offeuce is in the interfer ence The outrage to our form of Govern ment the insult to every American feeling the attack upon our independence is in the interference itself! in the audacity aud criminality of daring to interfere in our elec tion nt all, and not in the contingent conse quence of more or less effec t from that inter fencet 1 his . is my question. It is one worthy to excite my inquiries worthy to en gage the attention of the Senate worthy to command the attention of all patriots, ba then party politic what they may, and to this ques tion, stripped of all extraneous matter, I now proceed; and shall commence at once with the introduction of proofs. Behold this book, said Mr B. holding up a new and handsome octavo volume. It is 1 f.Vi r,rm t i, 1 i I 1 11 l J 1 11 1 1 !( I il 1:111: ill ril'OCO n v . 1 nrxrM 4 l-v - oibrs. Ail that may be sold and Q0.ltl- .'"DHCJ We have b-sid-s some hun- f.eJt,rnent3 ol th English capitalists in rua- other property forts ships iUn Tt:-j c ' r. V . 1 tne nuaucial position and creuit of such of our states as have contracted debt3 iu Eu rope; with a survey of their wealth and re sources, their ability and disposition to pay their debts, and the dangers to be apprehend- ea irom tne growth and prevalence of Demo cratic principles in the United States. It was published in Londou on the 26th day of December, 1839, being, by a curious coinci dence, the precise time at which the anti aseumption resolutions vre submitted a this chamber. The name of Alexander Trotter, Esq. is placed on the title page, as the author of the work; but it is more the Jwork of a class than of an individual, and evidently speaks the sentiments of the bankers and capitalists of London. It may be quoted and considered as their work. - The author entitles this work according t his fancy; I give it a different name from that which he ha3 inscribed upon it; and draw my appellation from a similar production in, En glish history, aud which must haVo suggested the idea of the plan and design of this work". I allude to the Dooms 'Day Book of William the Conqnerer, commonly called AVilliam the Duke of Normandy. . We all know th it when this French Duke had conquered England , he caused a survey to bo made of the propei tv
The North Carolinian (Wilson, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Feb. 27, 1841, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75