applied to public works undertaken by the
. i 4 ttfhts ana,
: ,nAU..r h. nnlv form m
HIGH VUIICUI CAUU IIUIIUI C' - J . .
.1 i , ci .u. konerit 111 me.
wnicn me people couiu ieei w "
At first, sir; the object of di.tributiou was
Hirud: h.,t now. victorious, tbev are.
e . . .-
it is openly proclaimed
iHassaciiuseiis, ulu6" - j:fr;u
j i w. that he presses tne dtstribu
motive, declares inaiuF
Au nne aroong the states, iu viev
rft .ppfcSi pa-enfof their debts;
md for this he finds constitutional authority
la the obligation of this Government to up
hold "the credit ot mo oiuics, wnicn, ne iu
has been rudely assailed. Am
it was, at this point of his:
argument that the Senator broke forth in the k )ourfc
S T denunciation ofJhose bv whom htgvibratc throughout the I.
alS his assault to bavebeen made. Butf Bank of England- .peak
II IU UdVV OUCH U1UOC. - o i- . - , J
u . .i GSworld. that your pnper system did not. quiver
Iu what manner, then, bvm1'. f 7 i
assailed the credit
forms us
nere
ho are they?
means, have they
of the States? Will it be believed (and
yet it is true) that it was the democracy to,
whom he alluded? He adverted, first, to ex
tracts ill a British paper, taken from the Globe
of this city, styled by him the organ of the
administration. Next, having referred to
measures with which he kuew the Democratic
members of this body to have been associat
ed, he pronounced these things as an attack
upon State credit; and then declared that
"the man who would impair the State credit
is an enemy to America, by whatever
name he .nav call himself." What, sir ! the
democracy assail the credit of the Stales! the
democracy enemies to America! lhcy who,
on all occasions, havo ever defended, most
zealously,- the rights of the States, and liber
tics of the people, the interests, honor and
national: power, afford a pretext for makingn
i . r -wm ... i i -r r
me cvwiiy oi inis orltlsn capital n question
ot peace or war. then will British influence.
be felt in all its energy : then will it enter.
not as heretofore, slyly and incidentally, mto(
our political struggles, but with system,-openly,
and as a matter of pretended right ; tben
The Senator fromHill it pervade our public couue. ...
a,,.. v. . ,SpKaoi nf. Krillsh faction amouu. us, a
. - r n i i mr lit i w m w m v Jmrm -
Massachusetts, no longer -"-"" f Ss3 of EngIand upon
. - A J alns-k tan
nioricnn legislation. J1UU, sir, ww
- - . -c . . . . it : i
doubt ho that acKliowieages any aiicg.av,c
to truth dares to doubt, that the influence ot
England has been felt deeply and danger
ously felt in producing that state ot things.
. V
which brings these measures now uerore us .
What British steamer, for the last three years,
'.Shas struck your fchore, whose shock did not
lana: neu uiu me
to tho commercial
NORTH-CAROLINIAN.
Saturday Morning, April lO, 1841,
in all its fibres YVheu did your banks sus
pend when contract or inflate the currency;
when did they cither ot these, without find
ing in England a reason for their conduct:
Never. And think you that a nation so
vigilant of her interests as the British so
imbitious of dominion so deadly hostile to
jpjMr S. IT. Bell, is our authorized agnt at
LonCieek, New Hanover County.
Hon. Jus. J. McKay is a candidate tor re-elce-
'ion in the 15th Congressional District.
DEATH OP THE PRESIDENT or THE
UNITED STATUS.
William Henry Harrison, President of the United
States died at the Executive Mansion in the c:ty ot
Washington, on Sunday night, 4t i April, alter a
short but severe attack c-f Pneumonia, or bilious
oleurisy-
This is the first tunc, suit e the adoption ot tnea
Fcdtral Constitution, that a Presidt nthas died, dur
ing the term for which he was elected.
According to the Constitution of the United
this people, to liberty here and the world over SjStates, the duties of the offic ? devolve on John Ty-
so' prone to interpose in the affairs of alljjier, of Virginia, the Vic-: President. What changes,
others with motives so strong, and meaussif a!1y will be made in the policy of the aduiinist'a-
- ma T 1 I
-Mr Allen's Speech.
On trie first page.
North Carolinians will you read it ?
among. the States, will you read' it? Admin rs of I
Daniel Webster, and devotees of Henry Clay, will
1 a- k 7- " 1 1 . m -
you read it '. x ou win mere Dthoid the distribu
tion scheme pictured in its naked deforihity. The
t . I n . tliA.a fliayiit.aHfl n I. 1 - 1 ' -.
sui'juti la ciiik uigvusicu iii language wnicil Inf
plainest mind can comprehend, and without a te
dious number of words. We put the question to
any poor man, whig or democrat, to answer honest
ly, " did you ever receive the worth of a cent from'
the last d stribution of the surplus revenue. If you
never di J, that is not all; you never will. Should
hundreds of mi.Iionj be distributed araonj the'
I
States, the poor man, who most needs h'jlp, would
never receive the worth of a cent from it. And why ?i
Because, ihe Legislature having-thc control of it, it'
is for the most pait, lent out fur the aggrandisement
of those who are rich and ab'e to mortgage property
as security, and to banks and companies ; and will
such a disposal of it help poor men ? But read the
speech, and when you've read it, praise it you can,!
the great English solicitor iu America, Dame
Webster, and uphold, if you can, the party, who
lowns him for a leader. Were he under a salary
from the British Government, to defend their in
terest in our council charnher, he could not havr
n'l he citizens ot fet. John, Colleton, S. C. held a
meeting on the 31st ult. and passed divers resolu-1
Advocates Itions in favor of tho Sub-Treasurv. and rondemn-
ing a INational Bank, distribution' of the public
lands, a high tariff, &c, as unconstitutional.
An Honorable Villain.
Chailes F- Mitchell, a whig immber of Congress,'
from the Niagara District, New York, has-been'
playing the part of a orcr, very extensively, in N
Y. &. Philadelphia. Knowing, however, that soon
er or later, ne wotna meet the reward of hi villainy
lie addressed a letter to ihe editor of the New York
, . mjuiiw, Muung mai wncn a man is
0 would not have been better to show that the
Constitution, in speaking of trade and com
merce between the States, did not mean to
inrlndn slaves? While so much pains were
exhibited to resist information on one side,
there should not be pains to misrepresent on
the other. To maintain the right of Con
gress was one thing, to hold the expediency
of exercising it was another.
Mr Cuthbert replied, and said that the coun
try now knew what were the sentiments of
the gentleman from Massachusetts, and it
would be impossible for him to give any oth-
er cast to them than an encouragement to
detected in crime, thousands are up and ready topiegislat ion on the subject of shivery. Tho
swear that he never was honest, and that he hadlftime and the circumstances under which tho
always been a pretty considerable rascal : He savs.
that up to this time, he never wronged any human
oeing. tie ocs on to give a short sketch of his
former life and doings, and winds up with 'the fol
low in
so adequate, to id in the change of our coun
cils: think you that she stood indifferent to
the recent contest, when, through the agency
of her stocks, the machinery of tLe paper sys
tem, through the curtailment of our cjrrency,
the reduction of our nriees. the consentient
. m i i j
distress and discontent of the people, she!
could effect that contest, and secure the tri
umph of her measures? No. Impossible.
-Lngland takes care of Ensland's interests,
The Senator from Massachu-
fdorv of America: who have defended all
these, whether endangered from abroad orfcwuereve.r ihe' may be 5 n.or win she evier
within: whether bv treasonous machmatkms.lTvaat mends wnere tnose interests require
or open war; they who, in the hour of iheirRtnem-
r-nnnlrv's iitmnsst iifnd -whon t-.rrillrd hvH -LLlt Stop !
foreign arms and domestic treason, were, oiffetts indignant as when, but a moment be
all her sons, the first to come forward the firstSi10 he imputed to others the crime ot being
to proffer their counsel, their substance, theirlenemles to, .A",er.,?a planus I am tired
hl,1 In l.-r ,i0fontho rt ..hnorf..! t Jlof heari tog this BrJtish lutlucucc talked ot.
a:,. . ' .1 ...i : .1 .i:.- i iflndeed ! And wherefore tire'd? Has
again swear, as they ever have sworn, upon
the altar of that country, unsparing hostiIitylne uot those words during our recent wa
to tyranny in all its ' forms to every leauuelH"1 England? when that England, forget
tyranny in an its lorim- to every
into which ambition and avarice may enter,
for usurpation and pillage ; arc these the!
men, this the jnirty, who are thus denounced ;
denounced as enemies to America, because,
in this trying crisis of the Government, "when
all the humors that commonly conspire to bring
liberty to its deathbed are manifesting them
selves around us ; because, I say, they dare,
in such a crisis as this, to oppose what they
solemnly believe infracts the constitution,
blots out the States, hazards the public-
peace, and tends infallibly to shed over
the land the baleful influence ot a for
eign power ; because they dare oppose a
system of measures which theatens to fire the!
passions of men to fury and madness, by
placing all property in the h.inds of Govern-
me nt, as a prize, to be sought by fraud and
ful of our common origin, regardless of all
the dictates of humanity and justice, of relig
ion and of honor regardless of the rights of j
civilization itself employed the hereditary
vengeance of the Tndian tribes against our
1.1 1.1. -
people ; cmpioycu me naicnei oi indiscrimi
nate massacre, not only in the held ot battle,
but iu the slaughter, upon their farms, of the
uuofiending citizens of the frontier men
inil ivnnipn rilrl miri vniinTn.irintr not
. . . . -l i - u :i t i xt l i - il
even me poor nine ennureu.' xiearu lie hoi
then those words, when, in the solitude of the
wilderness, remote from all succor, the west
ern settler, returning with the comins: nisht
to his lonely cabin, might find that cabin
wrapped in fire ; might see by thi3 blaze the
furious features of the brawnv savage as he
raised himself up from his deed of death, hold-
tion in consequence of thu accession of Mr Tyler
to the Presidency, time must unfold. It has noi
been long since that Mr Tyler, was the bold ano
fcailess opponent of the principal measures, which
would have characterised General Harrison 3 aa-
ministration : whether his views on these sul jects
,.nrriro nnv chansze. we know not. It he
liu uiiuiiunw j cr '
should fall into the vortex of Federalism, and follow
the councds of Webster, Clay and others, he will
have to cut loose from his former friends and polit
ical associates, and run counter to his oft repeated
opposi;ion to a National Bank, a protective lariU.
and works -flr.ternal Improvement by the General
- . - .a " 1 1 1
Government. But as we said be!ore, tune win snow,.
and we shall not be lett to. conject' re. At the ap
proaching extra session of Congress, the prescn
admuiistrai ion must show its hand, and unfold its.
designs, we shall not, therefore, enter upon any
speculations as to the' fi-tare.
fhe clJ General is gone, and we say, with all
our heart, let oblivion cover his faulls and foibles,
and memory be burt'iencd only with his virtues.
May ha rest in pace ! t
Tho funeral of the President took place on Wed
nesday, on which day all business ceased, and every
Jcampany and society i:i the city, followed his re
mains to the torn"'1.
The Vice President arrived in Washington, on
Tuesday last.
" I write this calmly, earlv in the
'ft ..1 I "-."'"
auci ct oiccpiess nignt.
are no one can imagine.
a path environed with imminent peril. IS
shall be a wanderer all the days of my life, infl
an unknown land, leaving behind me friends!
and kindred that are nearer and dearer to me
hau my own heart's blood, who must all share
performed his dirty task more faithfully than he did I Im the disgrace which attaches to me. I leave1
Shame upon the man and the party that would! behind me my wife and children ! May God
league with such a traitor !
rt'.
violence, and ohtnind. amidst trm turmoil ofltinS in olie hand the bleeding scalp, and, with
a general strife, only by the most daring andj!a vi,d ,aud" hrid glee brandishing with the
profligate? Are these the citizens denounced,! Jlh?r lh '"S tomahawk over the cloven
iXr nZnnBln E,.K mB,M n.t.;P tollhram of the wife; whilst the infant, yet alive,
.- .i ' . :.. llcluiiir for nrotection to the mangled corpse of
American xes; mis is tne impuiaiiou , , "? , - ' l
direct, it is true, but still the imputation- ilts 'thcr a,ld tur"ed niercy-implor.ng eye
, . . c . i c. i;.,oliupon her murderer: heard not that fcenatoil
Upon the information of M j. Eli P. Flarrell, we
sometime since complained of the manner in which
the Post Office at Meltonsville, was conducted ;
anJ white we expriss our determination, as guard
ans of the public welfare, to lash, without fear, the
conduct of public officers, we pledge ourselves to d
no man an injury, willingly ; we therefore publish
the following from the Obi -Tver of last week :
"We, the undersigned, certify that we have
taken papers and received our letters at Mel
tonsville Post Office, N. C, and that it is
kept in Meltonsville, at Mr Wilson Cham
bers where we have always applied and re
ceived what was due us in the office, unless
in cases where we have instructed the Post
Master to send our papers or letters to somen
place for our convenience in getting them.
Wo furthermore certify, that the ofhee is
conducted to our entire satisfaction. -
jlddison C. JXIoorc, William Tice,
Oliver T. Collins,
RobH. C. Huulley,
D. Grady,
IJthrow his protecting arm around them, is all
that I can say. Am I not punished sufficient
ly severe for all that I have done Why death
to me were absolute relief but I cannot em
brace it. I have canvassed the whole ground
resolutions were adopted rendered this im
possible. They had been passed in 1819,
just after the issue of the Missouri question;
taken in connection with the tunc and tho
circumstances, the doctrines in the resolu
tions were calculated to revolt the whole
What my feelingsjoumerI1 States, nay, to revolt the entire
1 have before nielS o
Mr Webster called upon the Senator to re
member that he had not admitted that the doc
trines referred to were contained in those
resolutions.
Mr Rives said to present a petition, if re
spectful in its language, was a duty which
Senators were hound to perform ; but when,
not satisfied with this, they came forward and
volunteered their own views on so hazardous
and delicate a subject, and claimed for this
Government new powers, the calculation
must be extraordinary on the passiveness of
over carefully. There were three alternativesMtle.South if gentlemen suppose they were to
ft. H. Tillman,
ft. S. Huntley,
Robert Lttohard,
W. W. Alsobrooh;
made by that Senator; made with feelings
transported beyond all bounds, as if, whilst
struggling thus to mortgage to liritish Bann
ers tho soil of his native country, his alleg
ance had been inflamed anew by a glance at
that signal which, at the dawn of battle, first
irtft on the terrible dav of Trafalgar " En-
uljiid ejects ever' man to do his duty.''
Yes. sir. I ieTC&t it feelings transported ;
for never but one before have I known that
Senator excited to arl c'a! heat beyond the
uniform temper of his mind. An-" "'hen was
that? JNeed 1 tell you, Senators, m- ",lh; ,.flI1irv? or hP flfl-n, ur ai.:,;M
whom were present,) that it was on the nr- , ,,ttr.rv insnnsihl tr. th art-!.,a fi,;'
morable night when, pending the PfniVciMn from conflagration andmaasa'
for three millions to defend the country in thelV0"0" ., omur Zt'tho thn,. Ho,,o
answer their cries n;r a:d..by refusing even
:? marchms to
upo
of British influence then? And if not, where
was he? Where, in that day of his country's
danger, when, with her borders in flames, her
Capitol in ahes, her energies strung to their
utmost tension, she stretched forth her hands,
and, with a patent's voice, demanded the aid,
the counsel, and courage of all her sons ;
where, iu that day, was the man who now,
when JLngland s interests are involved, de
nounces democrats as public enemies, for re
fusing obedience to a urituh edict? Where!
then was he? Did he respond to that call ot
event of a war with France, he stood forward,
and in his place, upon the floor, declared he
44 would vote it not, even it the enemy were?
battering down the walls of the Capitol' a,
declaration in reference to which a member
of the other House, from his own State and
of his own patty, (Hon. J. Q. Adams,) pro
claimed it in that body, " that tho mau who
would utter such a sentiment as that, had but
je more step to take, and that was iuto
- 2 ranks of the enemy.'
As io the new tax proposed to be laid, for
distribution, upon the wines and silks now
annually exchanged by France with us foij
cotton, to the amount ot twenty millions ot
dollars, it must, I have said, full chiefly on the.
people of the south and west. And w hy cnieiiy
uoon them ? Because a tax upon those arti
cles, they being luxuries, must, if sufficiently
high to produce the expected revenue, result
iulheir exclusion from this country, and, by
conserpience, the exclusion cf our cotton from
bread aud clothing to the ifpop
II lair and Clay.
And who is Francis P. Bljir, that Henry Clay
should call him infamous 7 Once the most intimate
friend and associate of Mr Clay, up to the year
1825, when Clay entirely forsook the Democratic
party ; a citizen cf Kentucky, who, from the time
he cimc of ac, held hih offices of trust at her cap-
to!, until he removed to Washington in 1 S3'J ; th
same man, who in IS30, was chosen by Mr Clay's
own fiends, then in a majority in theLeisJature
of Kentucky, to the kigh and confidential trust thH
PiesiJency of the B An k of the Commonwealth of
Kentucky ; a man who has never changed his po
litical opinions, nor procured office by a bribe ; a
man whose private and pab'ic conduct for JO J'cars
it., i- i i- . .i ti til!
jl v asmtiion, nas oecn open 10 me wnoie worm
all the while watched by inveterate public enemies ;1
a mm of whose domestic hospitalities, Senators off
both parties yea ! one of General Harrison's own
cabinet, has been in the habit of partaking ; a man
whose honor wliosij virtue whose fi-'elity and
integrity, in all his pubnc ie'aiions, and tho roationsj
of son, husband, father, friend and neighbor, has
iever been sullied with t'.ic least suspicion - of re-
i -
proach ; a man whom Henry Clay trusitd and ad
nired, until ho apostatize !, an. 1 Blair wou'd not follow
ifter him. Th s was tha heinous sin ; this rendered
him infamous with Henry Clay.
Who is Henry Clay, that he should call Blair
Infamous? An apostate from Democracy; a polit-
cal changel'115 the man who in 131 1 pronounced
a United States Bank unconstitutional, and danger
ous to our free institutions ; the man who with pro
fessions of respect for the popular will on his lips,
when instructed bv the Legislature of his State in
J. J. Rushing.
JUr. Hale -Dear Sir : I will state to the
public, that a Mr Eli P. Ilairel, a resident of
Meltonsville, claims the honor of being the
author of the charge. How far he is sustain
ed, I leave the public to judge.
II. A. CRAWFORD.
MeitonsvilltJy C. March 24, 1841.
It now behooves Maj. Horrcll to sustain his
charge, wh:ch, perhaps he can do", as wc have heard
of him as a gentleman, and an honorable man. We
know nothing of ihe gentlemen whoso names an
appended above, but we would respectfully ask
Mr Crawford, as an honorable man, how it is, that
the Observer readies its subscribers and not lh
Carolinian? Can he, if he is what he should be,
withhold thj Carolinian f.om its subscribers ? W
hope ho wi'l answer tho quest on in candor and
truth.
their relief marching to put ot il?e fires.
Sand to save the victims? I ask theSti quc.s-ljl8l4 '15, to vote for General Jackson, conteinptu
itioiis, aud I appeal to the Journals of Coii-?oasly refused, and against the wishes of his people,'
r rt; s-
l1 ranee; because that exclusion ot our cot
ton must, by restricting thus the foreign mar
ket, reduce, in a corresponding proportion,
first the price, and then thequaiitity raisctl in
the south ; because such reduction in th
quantity of cotton must reduce, to that ex
teut, the quantity of labor nov engaged in its
culture, and increase the product of grains'
and meat in the South, by the transfer ot la
bor from cotton to thern ; because that trans
fer of labor, and increase of era ins and meats
.i...i ; tu . - :i,S
iiuuuvsu in me tuuuu renion, must uuuiui&iin - c . . j: ,
, that proportion the demands there for theft 7"; .iT .v?. ..XI
era ins aud meats of the northwestern states
Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, and oth
ers ; because such decreased demand musf
diminish proportionately the price of these
northwestern products, grains and meats ; and
because, finally, that diminution of price must1
fall a dead tax upon the people . who raise!
those products.
-yes, to this whole nation to an
swer.
Recent occurrence.--, Mr President, have
thrown a dark pall over the face of the land.
Causes innumerable, each in its way threaten
ing the public freedom, have collected about
us. To those pre-inclined to despondency,
the future presents, therefore, a dreary and a
dismal prospect. But to the hirzh-henrtcd.
untiring democracy, there is nothing in that
future to excite terror or despair: for, united
in purpose and iu action, and roused by the
great object of a nation's deliverance, such a
party cannot be withstood in a cause so just
aud glorious. Courage, then, my friends ;
let us draw fresh courage from the very pres
ence and magnitude of the danger ; and,
with confidence unabated in the general body
of the people, let us rally iu oae ijreat effort
joining strife. Then will the league
of ambition and avarice, now formed against
be speedily broken ; then will the constitu
tion be restored tolile; law to its dominion;
truth to iJs authority ; and justice to its rights.
No : let none despair. The source of all
power and of all hope the heart of the na
tion is still sound to the core; still are the
forms of the Government left,- and still, over
watch in the sky. Long may it yet elude the
(search of the tyrant. And if, iu after days,
when grown to maturity,' the high priests and
money chancers shall conspire to bring it to
the cross, there, even there, in pity and iu
mercy to poor human nature, win it, araia tne
last agony, invoke: " Father, forgive them ;
Mthiey know not what they do.'
England, however, and England aloe,M 77 . , , ,
would be-benefited by this process; and l Begging. A little girl who had been in
benefited doubly and trebly would she be j the habit of begging for cold victuals, called as
benefited in exact proportion to the injury! (she had been accustomed, at a certain house
sustained by us: for as she with iu a village, aid on being give the usual por-
for cotton, if the ports of the latter be thus t,OD eMtcred her Protest aSnst it, and sa:
closed against us, then must she enjoy 4n .there was not enough. ' Why," said the la-
exclusive traffic in the article, aud thereby fl x ra,a no1 as much as we have been in
power absolute over its price. J Jtbe. habit of givmg you?" The girl very in-
Should this Governmeut blend its legislaIMcentrePhed " oh' )'es hut we are taking
tion with that of the Slates, aud thus, as thekuoarders nw'" "
voted for J. Q,. Adams, and received his reward--
the wages of his sin, the post of Secretary of Stale,
under Mr Adams ; the man who when Secretary of
State, challenged a Senator, (John Randolph,) for
woids used in debate in the Senate, words, which,
according to parliamentary rules (as lately laid down
by Mr Clay, in his apology to Mr King and the
Senate, for transgressing them himself) were strict
ly in order ; but which he (Mr Clay) took umbrage
af, because they arraigned the profligacy of his
own conduct heforc public ; the man whose
blood-lhirstu reventre and WPC.kleea ambition burnin
in old age ; trampling without jreTaorse upon private
feelings and public morality, and this august dignify
of an American Senate, played the part of n indo
lent black iruard, b-fore tha vouth of the counii v a1"
an insulted peop'e, by calling a distinguished Sena-,
jtor a liar and a coward ; vthe man who in 1838-'39,
n the Hall of the House of Representatives, insult
ed public decency, and ihe majority of the people,
when Mr Polk was about retiring from the Speak
er's chair, by uttering the blasphemous denuncia
tion : " Go ! God damn vou so !" the man who in
: i:r I 1 .
pnva. c uic, naa utcn noiorious as a gamoier a
rake a duellist, and a profane swearer.
Who then is infamous Blair or Clay ? Whilst he,
.is a Senator, claims the right to arraign other men'
characters, before the public, we, the people, claim
the right to arraign his character. We tell Mrj
Clay, then, to pluck the beam out of his own eye
to have respect to bis age the dignity of his sta
tion the laws and youth of his country the people,
and to set about governing himself, before he aspires
to govern the country. Yet, the federalists will
say : " oh ! how shocking it is to hear Mr Clay, a
mau of talents -a great man a distinguished man
an old man too, called a blackguard ; as f "jr Blair,
he is nothing but a poor democrat, say what you
Dleaseof him i" Uut upon sucft canting npocrisv ;
Let us hold up a high moral standard to our public
mru Let not talents public station and public
honors, dazzle with their deceptive glare, and make
ou, vouth theidolators of wickedness in high places:
Tear cflf the mssk from hypocritical editors, and
orators, who, claiming " all the decency and moral
ity hold up Vicious men, to iu fuuui:u; ana aa
.niratinn ol the people I ! Strip from sin its robe:
and furr'd gowns, and pierce it with the strong
lanee of justice ! ! ! Virtue in the private life of a
statesman, will produce ltsilf in his;i?fcitc life.
On thid rest-4the stability of free institutions
Etiquette.
A Washington correspondent of the Albany Ai-
gus sa3's, that at the first ollicial interview with the'
President ol the several foreign m ssions resident at
Washington, Mr Webster was so profoundly ignor
ant of his duty, that he " actually led in some of the
adies to witness the presentation ! ! !"
The Albany Evening Journal says :
But this is uot the worst. A greater out-!
rage remains to be told. We tremble with in
dignation so that we can scarcely hold our ed
itorial scissors whtl.it we snip out of the Argus
the following lines: I
Mr Curtis, followed (in a frock coaO with
the lady of the Secretary of State on one arm,!
and on the other, attended bv a retinue'
presented to me.
1 o remain and meet my fate in the eyes of
rail who know me, to commit suicide, or to
flee the country. I have decided upon the
latter and for the single reason that I may
possibly yet live to rescue my name from
every stigma which rests or shall rest upon it.
k .' C Mitchell.
N. B. I shall be pursued no doubt, but it
will be useless.! shall not be brought back;
for if I were to be overtaken I have provided
mysett witu two contingent f rtenas, either ol
which will spare me the mortification ot be
ng brought back like a felon. Death were
under auy circumstances preferable to taf."
This is the same whig who tried to barter with
Duff Green for the public printing, in ordrr to chcai
Clair out of it.
frCJDr Lytle has withdrawn from the canvass in
the Lincolnton district. Thjt is right.
Late Fishing. It is said the fishing senson wil
not commence on the Potomac th's spring, before the
10th of April, o-i account of the recent great freshet,
the usual time is about the 25th Match. .
ICy CoI. Elarney, in exploring the everglades o
rSFiorida, killed two animals, said to be licictoforfl
taouious among u?, a son or eea cow, aooui u ieei
long, with two flippers ; neat weight, 2,500 pounds
It cannot leave the water, but feeds on the grass on
llhc margin.
Daniel Webster.
of other ladies!"
Sacred memory of Beau JVash shade of
Beau Brummel defend us! Ned Curtis,'
igince appointed Collector of the Port of New
York,, present " in a frock coalV We honor
the sagacity of the Argus compositor for his
expression of the deep indignation of the ac
complished author of the letter, by the ita'.icis-
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tne audacious, contumacious, contumelious
Curtis himself dressed in a frock coat (a
blue one with a velvet collar, and a little worn
on the right cuff with letter writing, it is said)
and in this frock coat looking at the Minister
Plenipotentiary and Lnvoy Extraordinary ofi
lueen Victoria, aud upon the Barons, the
Counts, the Chevaliers who represent then
several European Majesties and the Brazilian
Emperor, aye, and upon all the Charges, the
Secretaries of Legation, the Counsellors of
4Legation and the numerous attaches thereof!
liurdeued, unthinking man ! And this, too,
i l- "r.i i i i i
in tu3 ;ace oi uay wnn a iaay on eacn arm :
Jt is MCt io be wondered at, that this should
have excited UiC indignation of Mr Van Bu-
ren, being himself tha very Brummel of states-
men, most learned in a.1! the mysteries of
dress and undress, most deeply skilled in all
the distinctions between- frock coats, and
body coats, and dress coats, and court - dress
coats proper, with "single breasts and a
being indeed and in truth
Occupj'ing the position that Mr Webster does,
his opinions axp entitled to great w ight, and should
receive the strictest scrutiny. We have ever bc-
icved him to be inimical to the So'ith. We hav
always ihouht his opinions on the subjec of slavery
to be as dangerous to Southern interests, as those
f any man living, anJ we are sorry to say that oui
opir.ions arc confirmed and strengthened, by hi-
own well considered and daliberate expressions!.
It may be within the reco'lection of our reader
that during the lae session of Congress, Mr Cuth
bert, a Senator f om Georgia, charged upon Mr!
Webster that, lie, Mi WcbsTcr, entertained "the
opinion that Congress had the power over the sub-
fffject of slavery, in the District of Columbia, and thai
il had the power to prcvtnt the sale cf slaves bcticeni
the States. This charge was denied by the friend.
jfMr Webster, and Mr Cuthbert was urged to ad
dress a note to Mr Webster, and the belief confi
lently expressed, that he would give an unequivo
cal denial. Air Cuthbert has add rested Mr Wtbstei
on me sudj- c, oui witnoui arawing i.otn nun an
answer that should be considered satisfactory by
any Southern man.
In commenting on this subject, the Globe says :
To show how little faith is to be placed on
general declarations on this subject! In a
debate which look place in the Senate, inRi
1837, on the subject of Abolition, Mr Cuth
bert charged on Mr Webster the memorial
and its doctrines. What is most material in
the debate, consequent on this charge, is here!
annexed.
iFrom Gales and Seaton's Register of Debates, vol.
xvi, p. 715.
Mr Cuthbert proceeded to refer to certain
resolutions which had been adopted in Bos
ton, in 1839, in which that gentleman had
been concerned ; one of which declared that
standing collar-
-a professor
Of that high art a first rate dresser."
rM- . l!.Li .. ri
a ins is no ugni matter: Jt ne consequences
ot the trock ccat may be terrible, " absolute
ly," as Judge Scott would say. The French
Revolution, it is well known, was hurried on
and the monarchy overthrown in conse
quences of Roland, the Minister of the In
terior, coming to Court with strings in his1
snoes instead ot Duckies.
The young men of Georgia are taking an active'
part in the a flairs of the country. They hold crowd
ed meetings to nominate and appoint members to
fthe Democratic Convention, tr, be held at M illed Se
ville, on the nrst aionday m May next. Georgia'
may yet be redeemed, especially when she sees two!
abolitionists In the cabinet ; Daniel Webster, and
e ran cis (j ranker.
rCF-The Baltimore Clipper saya the trial of
IcLeod cannot come on piobahly for 12 months.
Congress had authority to act on the subject
of slavery in the District of Columbia, and
the other that Congress had power to regulate;
the transfer ol slaves from one State to another.
Mr Webster went on to speak of the resolu
tions to which Mr Cuthbert had referred. He
had no recollection of the circumstance allud
ed to, or of what the resolutions contained ;
but mere teas not tn his mind a particle of
doubt that Congress had an unaueslionabie
right to regulate the subject of slavery in the
iDistrict of Columbia, simply because they
rconsiiiuiea ine exclusive Jegtslalure of the',
!- J. T. I . 1 - ..... . "
Mjisznci. ii uppearea io mm little snort of
an absurdity to think that there were certaiu
subjects which must be tied up from all leis
lation. Jlna as to the other potnt, the riht
of regulating the transfer of slaves fromntt
State to another, tie aid not know that he en
tertained any doubt, because the Constitution
gave Congress the right to regulate trade and,
commerce between the Stales. Trade in. ichal?
tin ichatever teas the subject of commerce and
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oicnersmp. if slaves were the sub ects of
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tKcwtcf 3f(fr, wen iruue tn in em oeliceen the
states was subject to the regulation of Con-1
gress. But while he held this oninion. hJ
had expressed none on the one side or the'
other as to the matter of expediency. He'
uioug.M. uisii ougm to oe discussed by those
a. .
n Avure most coucernea in it.
Mr W. then asked whether, instead r.f v
hibiting so much indignation that he should
in nave had any thius to do in rarrvin
itavimwua cu uaa oeen reierred to.
sit in silence. If a solemn decision of th
Senate was entitled to command respect, he
would call me attention ot the Senator from
Massachusetts to the overwhelming majority
by which it had pronounced the determination
that the subject ot slavery in the District was
uot to be contested on that floor ; a majority,
if he recollected right, of 34 to 6. After such
au expression of the views of this body, could
auy genti-man persuade himself that it wa3
wise and patriotic to throw into the Senate
such a firebiand?
The gentleman from Massachusetts had
taken occasion not only to read sentiments.
from the memorials, which were obnoxious to
the South, but had volunteered the expression
of :hkftu JP' ion as to the constitutional
p o w e co F Con g?fl!feo v c r the subject of slavery
in the District of Columbia. Wherefore in
troduce this subject again? Why put for
ward the expression of au opinion fin regard
to the regulation of trade in slaves between
the Status, to warrant which the Senator could
find nothing in the statute book? He had
told the Senator lt laws had been passeJ
ou that subjcctRviih the sanction of the
South. Mr R. joined issue with the Sena
tor, and called on him to point to the law.
He was very confident there was none. As
to the laws to which he presumed the refer
ence had been made, they did not touch tho
matter. Laws to prevent the escape ot slaves,
or to secure their restoration, were only in
(fulfilment of the Constitution, w hich express
ly provided tor the delivering upol runaways;
and, so far from being an unfavorably inter
ference with the tenure of slave property, it
was, on the contrary, a recognition of tho
right in slaves, and a guarantee of that light.
Mr Webster could uot perceive the cauo
of that warmth which had been exhibited by
the Senator from Virginia, while he was so
strenuously exhorting other gentlemen to keep
cool. That Senator could not express moio
.strongly the want of power in the General
laovcrument to interfere with slavery iu the
States than Mr W. had often and alwavs
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done. 1 he fc-cnator had said, however, that
those only were interested in this subject who
were suffering m the immediate presence of
the evil. This Mr W. could not but consid
er as a great'miitake. Mr W. thoush living
n a Northern State, and a State non-slave-
holding, felt that evil, too, from the train of
'consequences which it inevitably drew after
it. He had as deep an interest iu the peace
and the preservation of the Union as the Se
nator from Virginia.
Mr Rives thanked the Senator from Mas
sachusetts for the edifying lesson of coolness
he had given him. He admitted the perfect
ljustucss and propriety of it in a general
sense. i;tit he begged leave to remind the
honorable Senator that the spectator of a bat
tle, occupying a distant and secure position,
might look on with areat sereniiv: vhiln
jthose who were in the midst of the conflict,
defending their lives and persons from the
spotlit ot mo bayonet, would reasonably exhibit
Fa very different temper and demeanor. The
gentleman himself, if it so pleased his fancy,
might disport himself in tossing squibs and
firebrands about this hall ; but those who arc
sitting upon a barrel of guupowder, liable to
be b own up by his dangerous missiles, could
hardly be expected to be quite so calm and
philosophic.
Ihe gentleman from MaSS!i.n u,i
1 . -"i-iiujvuv;a iiuu
taKen occasion nin t .i . l
uiui uenaa ex
pressed no opinion, in regard to slavery.
wnicn was not sanctioned by my own senti
ments. Now, sir. has thn .l-
heard from me any thing to countenance his
o.oau .um oangerous notions of interference
win ,ne suoject ot slavery in this District?
a u UUi cv or otherwise, of slaverv in it
self ; as to he existence or non-existence of
a power in this Government to interfere with
it in the States, these are mere abstract ques
tions, leading to no practical consequences.
I Ihe real and only practical question is as to
the interference of C
c - , . " T u me suoiect
of slavery in this District. Here is th r.,i
on which the whole lever nf Akiiti'
turns ; and if you give a foothold here, it is
virtually o 1 - . " ,!
;. .v -;uer oi tne whole ground,
xne surrender ot this "
he Abolitionists, if I have noTmiuooS
he vote of the honorable Senator aguins re
jecting the prayer;of the petitioners during ,ho
last session of fVkr.m..,t :.. .
l' i , , --o' is precisely what
he has already done, and is prepared still to
Thus, then, at the lime Mr lVDLci-
publishing and defending the doctrine, that
Congress has authority under the Contitution
to regulate the slave trade Mtmrn e..
-rand, accoidmg to Mr Wrh.to, .1.
Boston memorial manifests tho B..Vn......
regulate necessay mcludes the authority to
prohibit at that i very time. Mr WpKrfr aa
j vwhztw UIU