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lf -Mcrrth "CHARACTER Is AS IMPORTANT TO STATES AS IT IS XXtl am to individuals; and the glory of the state is the common property of ITS CITIZENS. WM. II. BAYA'E, Proprietor. FAYETTEVILLE, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1841. Volume 3. Number 145 T J3 K 31 S OF THE NORTH CAROLINIAN. Per annum, 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 : I xty cents per square, for the first, and thiry cents for each subsequent insertion. A liberal deduction will be made to advertisers by thu y'ar. Court advertisements and Sheriff's sales, will be charged 25 per c nt. higher than the usual rates. All advertisements sent for publication should have the number of insertions intended, marked upon them, otherwise they will be inserted until forbid, and charged accordingly. No paperdisenntinued until arrearages are paid, except at the oj tion of the Editor. No subscription received for less than twelve months. jCTFLetters on business connected with this estab 1 i aliment, must be addressed TIolmf.s fit Batnf., Editor of the North-Carolinian, and in all cases post-paid. irrT" Subscribers wishinzto make remittanc s Wy mail, will remember that they can do so free of postage, as Postmasters ar authorized by law to frank letters enclosing remittances, if written by themselves, or the co-items known to them. Prices of Job Work : HAND BILL.S, printed on medium, royal, or super royal sheet, for 30 copies, $2 50 For SO co;i-s, 3 no Aid for ftfrv additional 100 copies, 1 0 MOUSE BILLS, on a sheet from U to 18 inches square , 3 copies, 3 00 Over 16 in lies, and not exceeding 30, 5 00 CARDS, large si.'.e, single pack, 3 0 And for every additional pack, 1 25 Swatter size in proportion. BLANKS, when printed to order, f r 1 quire, 2 00 And for erery additional qui re, under 5, 1 00 Exceeding 5 quires, 75 CIRCULARS, INVITATION TICKETS, and all kinds of BO( K & JOB PRINTING, executed Cheap for CASH. THE FOLLOWING BLANKS! Kept constantly on hand AND FOR SALE AT THE CAHvs.irjiAK orncu: CHECKS, on Bank of the State, and Cape Fear Bank. PROS ECU HON BONDS, Supr. Ct. MARRIAGE LICENSES VEND I EXt'O., constables levy COMMISSION'S tolakrdepositionsin equi ty, and Supr. court APPEARANCE BONDS WRITS, Superior and Co. Ct. , CA. SA. Sut.r. Ct. INDICTMENTS for Affray, and Assault and Battery. Co. anil Sup. Ct. CERTIFIC ATES, Clk. Co. Ct. JURY TICKETS ORDERS to overseers o f Roads BASTARDY BONDS TAX RECEIPTS WITNESS TICKETS EJECTMENTS PATROL NOTICES LETTERS of ADMINISTRATION Bonds Deeds, common, Sheriff' Deeds Constables Ca. Sa. Bonds, Do Delivery do Appeal Bonds, Equity Subpoenas, Superior Court Fi. Count v Court Sci. vive jurlo;meiit. County Court Subpenas, Superior Court Wai runts, Bonds for Col'i-d. Ay prentices. ? Fa. Fa, to re- BUCKWHEAT FLOUR ;ae,y Ut-U.iMCiNMLL. For : Nov. 10. 1841. GRAYSON BUTTER. A PRIME ARTICLE, For sale by GEO. Nov. 10, 1841. McNEILL. 1 FISH ! BBLS. TUIM'D HERRINGS. 10 Bb!s. Roe For sale by Nov. (, 1 do. ll) Hall Barrels Shad. 10 Bi'.rie: Mullet. GEO. MrNE 341. ILL. Jam-s R. Clark, Duncan Cameron, vs. Donald Cameron, State of North Carolina, RICHMOND COUNTY. Superior Court of Law Fall Term, 1841. -y x - .... . t KJ:'l ill ''a I n l a i imiic u. ui n on '"the interest of Donald Cam-" cro i in the following property, viz: 358 Acres i f Land, known as t lie Home tract, :djoining the lands of G. A. Nicholson and othor-; GO acres known as the Fair Ground tract, niljoin- ! in" the lands of Catherine Mc- v , . - t-. Kacand olners; acies, mo;e or less, known as the Pankey tract. on Little Mountain creek. adjoinins the lands of Daniel McRae "and others. Also on the following Nero Slaves, to wit: Leah, Es-her, Fanny, Air nes, rJarrv.Edy, and Jane, llth September, 1841." IT appearing to the Cnuit that the oetendant is not an inhabitant of ihis State, it is order ed; that publication be made for six weeks in the North Carolinian, published in the Town of Fayetteville, that unless the defendant shall appear at the term of this Court to be holden tor the county of Richmond, at the Court House in Rockingham, on the third Monday in March next, and replevy the said property and p!ead, judgment final, by de fault, will bo entered against him. "Witness James P. Leak, Clerk of said Court, at Office in Rockingham, the 27tb dav of Octob-cr A.D. 1841. JAMES P. LEAK, C. S. C 141-61 (Price adv., $4.) FRUIT, SNUFF, TOBACCO, "TTjT' EPT constantly on hand at the Store of the Subscriber, Soft and hard shell Almonds, .Brazil and Madeira JVuts, Filberts, liaisons, Prunes, Citron, Crackers, Mace, JSutmegs, Cloves, Cinnamon, Macaboy and Scotch Snuff', Smoking and Chewing Tobacco; Mustard. ALSO, a ood assortment of STUART'S CEL EBRATED STEAM REFINED CANDY. W. PRIOR. -October 16, 1841 13S-tf BILLIARD TABLE . , .for Sale. Apply at this Orhce. Sept. 25, 1841. 135-tr. winter general rf? GOODS AND CHEAP. II t, 'r'.er t,!M received iiis f.!l and - oaivut GOODS, embracing a assortment of STAPLE DRY GOODS, lurand Hoof Hats, Seletle and Seal-skin Caps, Blankets, Shoes, Hardware and Cutlery, Crockery and Glass ware, cut and icroughl .Vajs, Swedes and English Iron, assorted, TraceChains, Hollow ware, c$ c. c. &c. Together with a j;ood assortment of GROCERIES. All cf which will b- sold low for CASF1, or ex chanff.d for COUNTRY" PRODUCE. Phase give me a call belore yu boy. CANNON C A IS ON, Hay street nearly opposite the Hotel. Sept. 10, 1841. 1 3.1-fiin. Owen- houstox, Saddle, Trunk, and Harness Maker, riiiJvtLt 11ns method of ndVmin his friends JO. hss moved back to his door below James Baker's Hardware and Street, one S-tnt-f M'liri-r ti rx I. .. . l! .1 . ...... i m, uiuj iuuiiu ui cii i ii 1 1 prep;i re u to do any work in his line on the most reasonable terms. K EPA I RING promptly attended to and thank fully received. He keeps constat. tly on hand an assortment of MINTS' AA'D LADIES' SADDLES. ALSO Harness of all kinds, Bridles, Whips, Collars, Trunks, ami every article in his line of business. He ould take this opportunity of returning his hanks to those who have patronized him; and hopes by punctuality to business, and moderate charges to continue to merit their patronage. Sept. 4, 1811. 132-tf. Obs' rver will copy tiil forbid. WOULD respect fully in fuim hs ficn 's and the Public pcneially, that he still continues to carrv on the TIN & SHEET IRON WARE MANUFAC TORY, at his old Stand, -.. . ' on Gillespie street, a few doors South of the Market House. All orders thankfully received and promptly at terub 1 to. October 2, lf-41. 136-6m. THE SUBSCRIBER, Offers for -ale, at the Store lately occupied by Messrs Benbow, & Co., on Hay Street, a vanetv of ENGLISH, FRENCH, AND GERMAN COLOGNE and FLORIDA WATEIl. PEAR'S GREASE and OIL. ANTIQUE OIL, POMA TUM. CIRCASSIAN and COLD CREAM, OX MARROW, PRF.STON SALTS, EXTRACTS, SHAVING SOAPS AND CREAMS; II AIR, CLOTH. TOOTH, arc! FLESH" BRUSH MS; POWDER PUFFS and BOXES; RAZORS; PEN and POCKET KNIVES; SCISSORS; SHELL SIDE, DRESSING and l OCKET C O MRS, Steel Pens; Pocket Books; Bnekarntnoii Beards; Dice Boxes, Batdedoors and Birds, Gentlemen's Dre-sinj C.-iSt s; Hooks and E es; Fishing Lines and Hook?; Percussion C.;ps, (tibbed and plain;) Matches; SnetTand Tolmteo Boxes; Plated Corks, for decanters; MaibVs; S!;Js and Pencils; Wafers; Note Paper; Son Ghsse--; Teething Ring; R. llem i ins" & Son's dri b l eyed Needles; Silver Thimbles; Silver Ever-poi: ted Pencils: Back snaps; Glass Inks:ands and Ink; Quiils, &.c. &c. ALSO A ffood assortment o." YIOLI.XS, FLUTES, AND FIFES, Violin Hows, Strings, Bridges, and Screws; Clarionelt Reeds; Tuning Forks, and JXJusic inures. All of which will bo sold cheap for CASH. W. PRIOR. October 10, IS 1 1 . I3S tf- NEW GOODS. HE Subscribers are now receiving bv the la'e arrivals -..in tbe North, their FALL AND W INTER SUPPLY OF M ERCH ANDIZE, con-istiii-'T of a Iarire and general assortment of HARDWARE AND CUTLERY, Hats and Shoes. Bonnets, and Um brellas, Foolscap and J ,eUer Pa per, Drugs and Medicines, Paints and Dye Stuffs, Sad . dies, Bridles, &c. &.C CROCKERY AND GLASS WARE, Blacksmith1 s Tools, Hollow Ware, c. $c. Also, a large assortment of Ofal! kinds ; all of which wili be sold at the lowest prices for Cash, Back-c xintry Produce, or on credit for approved notes. The Sleek is very heavy, and worthy the atiention of Country Merchants and the public in general. P J. C. & G. B. ATKINS. Foo- of Haymount. Fayette ville, Sept. 25, 1841. 13G-y. NE W FIRM. rrrtIR Subscribers have connected themselves in U th Mercantile Business, under the firm of J. V. & G. B. ATKINS. They intend keep in " a lar"-e and ceneral assortment of Merchandize, atwholesale and retail. They will be found at the old Stand of G. B. Atkins, where they wish to see their friends and cUstomers.jonN q atkins G. B. ATKINS. 1S4L 136-tf. Favelteville, Sept. 25, Ioco Foco FRICTION MATCHES. Atl GROSS, HOLMES' Improved Fric- fPMr lion Matches, just received, and for sain bv the Gross or Dozen, a superior article, and warranted. Apply to JAMES MARTINE. A constant s ipply of the above kept on hand, and will be sold low. to sell again. Fayetteville, September 5, 1S40 ftO-tf ENTERTAINMENT. II? a frjlm MM mi c. c. ' w LOOK AT THIS. HOUSE has been thoroughly repaired. I will ke p En'ertaintnent at verv reduced nri- ces, an;l be o'ad to welcome the return of my friends and customers. Call and see E. SMITH. Fayetteville, October 13, 1841. 133-tf My House is on the corner of Gillespie and Mum ford Streets, convenient to the Market, and near the State Bank. E. S. State of Nortli Carolina, ANSON COUNTY. Li Equity Fall Term, 1841. James Ilatcliff, Petition for sule of Land vs. of Richard Graves, sen - Wm. Rickelsand others ) ior, deceased. IT appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that Ebzabet h Graves, Miles Graves, Jno T. Graves, William Graves, Naomi Graves, Lewis M. Graves, Ri. hard Graves, Rebecca Adams, E,i Rickels, Richard Graves, William Graves, James Chapman and wife Marv, Ntill McNeill and wife Martha, and Thomas Graves, heirs at law of Richard Graves, are not inhabitants of this State: Ordered, that pub lication be made in the North Carolinian for six suc cessive weeks, for said absent defendants to be and appear before the Honorable the Jude of our next Court of Equity, to be held for the County of Anson, at the Court House in Wadesborolih, on the 2d Monday in March next, then and there to show cause, if any they have, why the prayer of the peti tioner should not be "ranted, otherwise judgment pro confesso will b? entered up against them, and a decree made for the sa e of said lands. Witness, Wm. E. Trov, Clerk and Master of said Court, at offic e in Wadeshoroujrh, the 2d Monday in September, A.D. 1841, and in the 6Gth yearof American Independence. 140-Gt WM. E. TROY, C. M. E. new estabTjiTmknt sin i th. OULD inro-m the citi zens of Fiiyettev lie. and the public generally, that he has located himself in Fay etteville, in the store adjoining- Mr. James Baker's, where he intends to carry on the WATCH andJEWELRY BUSINESS, in all its vaiions branches; and from his lon experience, does not hesitate to sav, th:ithe can ffive eidire satisfaction to those w ho mav favor h;m with their custori. He is prepared to MANUFACTURE any article in the way of Jewelry, bavins: a complete set of Tools for the purpose. Parti i. ul ir attention will be paid to the REPAIR ING OF WATCHES, and any p:irl of the same that may bf deficient will be made new, and war ranted to perform well tor one year. JNovemlier 12, 1841 142tt. MOFFAT'S LIFE PILLS & PIKE.VIX BITTERS. for sate at ihe Post Office at Lumberlon by JOHN xV. DOlR, Agent, cS-t-., cy-. V H luesn Medicmes are ind -bted ior their name to JBL tiieir manifest an t sensible action in puriuin;; th.j spiins and chaoncls ot lit".1, and enduing them with renewed tone and vitor. In m ny hundred cert ill -d cases which have been made public, and in dmost every species of disease t. wh c!i the human frame i liable, the happy elTects o! MOFFAT'S IFE PILLS AND PHtENIX BI I TERS have been gratefully and publicly acknowledged by tlie persons ten n.f d, titrl who were previous ly un:ieiuainted wdh tlie beautitti .ly pln.oopliicai princi.-Ies uon which thev are compounded, and upon whieh t: ey i ons quently act. Th-r LIFE Mb DICES LS reco nnund thems. Ives in dis a-es of every form and description. Their first operation is to loos? n trom t')( coals of t5ie s'o- mach and bowels the various impuriti' S and crudi ties constantly s;'ttlinr around them ; and to remove the hardened fajces "wh ch collect in tlie convolu tions of the-smallest intestines. (Jlhcr medicines only paitially cleanse these, and leave such collect ed masses behind as to produce habitual costive ness, wiM all its train of evils, or sudden diarrhoea, with its imminent dangers. 1 his tact is well known to all regular anatomists, who exanrrne tne nuinan bowels aftor death; and hence tbe prejud ice of tho-;e well informed men against quack medicine or med icines prepared and herald- d to the public by igno rant persons. Ihe stcoud etlect l ttie Ji'.ie .vitci ic.nes is to cleanse t he kidneys and the bladder, and by this means, the liver and the Iuns, the healthful action of which entire!- depends upon the regularity f the urinary organs. 1 lie blood, winch takes its red color from the agency of tbe liver and tbe ltins before it pass, s into "the heart, bein thu? purified by them, and nourished by food coming from a clean i stomach, courses freely through tbe veins, renews every part ol the system, and triumphantly mounts the banner ot health in the blooming cheek. MOFFAT'S LIFE MEDICINES have luen thoroughiy tested, and pronounced a sove-eisjn rem edy for the Dysprpsi i, Flatul- ncy: Palpitation of Heart, Loss of A ppetite, Heart-burn and Head ach, Restlessness, Ill-temper, Anxiety, Languor and Melancholy, Co.-tiveness, Diarrhoea, Cholera, Fever of ah kinds, Rheumatism. Gout, Dropsies ot all kinds, Gravel, Worms, Asthma and Consumption Scurvs, Ulcers, Inveterate Sore, Scorbutic Eruption imllBad Complexions, Eruptive Complaints, Sallow Cloudy, and other disagreeable Complexions, Salt Rheum, Lrysipelas, Con.mon Lolds and Inlluenza, and various other complaints which afflict the hu man frame; In Fever and Asne, particularly, the Life Medicines have most eminently successful ; so much so that in the Fever and Ague districts, Phy sicians almost universally presciibe them. "DATTTLr COiVF EC TIONEB, MAS just received a Fresh and Genera! Supply of the following articles, w hich he offers low for Cash, viz: Soft shell Almonds, new crop Bunch Raisins, Palm Nuts and Filberts, Butter Crackers, Starch, Barley and Cheese, S otch Herrings, Race Ginger and Citron, Cassia and Nutmegs, Currants and Seidletz Powders, Alum and Saltpetre, Spanish and Common Cigars, Maccoboy Snuff, Scotch do. in bottles. Hair Powder and Gum Camphor, Windsor and common Soap, Rose and Cologne Water, Oil of Lemon and Peppermint, Oil of Cinnamon and Essence of Peppermint, British Oil, Opedeldoc, &c. A large assortment of CORDIALS, Pet and Madeira WlNES,COGNTAC BRANDY, JAMAI CA RUM, HOLLAND GIN. A general assort ment of TOYS, &c. &c. N. B. Country Merchants and othrrs w ishi.ig to purchase Contectionaries, whether by wholesale or retail, will find it to their advantage to call. The wholesale price of Candies is 28 cents per lb. re tail price 35 cents per lb. Fayetteville, Nov. 13, 1840. 142-6t. PROSPECTUS I'or the Congressional Globe and Appendix. These works have now bee.ii published by us for ten cons- cutive sessions cf Congress, commencing with the session ot 1832-3. Thy bave had such wide circulation, and have been so universally ap proved and soughtafter by the public, that we deem it n cessary ouly in this prospectus to sav that they, will be continued at the next session of C nress, and to state, succinctly, the r contents, the form in wheh they will be "printed, and the prices for them. The Congressional Hlobe is made up of the daily proceedings of the to ! louses of Congress. The speeches of ihe members are abridged, or condensed, to bring them into a reasonable, or redeemable length. All the resolutions off red, or motions m:.de, are given at length, in the mover's own words ; and the yeas and nays on all the important questions. It is printed with small type brevier atid nonpareil on a double royal sheet, in quarto form, each number containing 16 royal quaito pa ges. It is printed as fast as the business done in Congress furnishes matter enough for a number usuaily one number, but sometimes two numbers, a week. We have in vaiiubly printed more numbers than there jvere weeks in a session. The approach ing session of Congress, it is expected, will con tinue 7 months; if so, subscribers may expect 30 and 40 numbeis, w hich, together, will make between 500 and 600 royal quarto pages. The Appendix is made up of the President's an nual message, the reports of the principal ofiicers of the Government that accompany if, and all the long speeches of members of Congress, written out or revised by themselves. - It is printed in the same form as the Congressional Globe, and usually makes about the same number t f pages. Hereto fore, on account of the set speeches being so numer ous and so long, we have not completed the Ar pen dix until one or two months after the close of the session ; but, in future, we intend to print the speeches as fast as they shall be prepared, and of course shall complete the work within a few days af ter the adjournment. Each of these works is complete in itself ; but it is necessary for every subscriber who desires a fjll knowledge of the proceedings of Congress, to have both; because, then, if there should be any ambi guity in the synopsis of the speech, or any denial of its correctness, as published in the Congression al Globe, the rrader may turn to the Appendix to see ihe speech at length, corrected by the member himself. Now, there is no source but the Congressional Globe and Appendix, from which a person can ob tain a fill history of the proceedings of Congresa. Gales and Seaton's Register of Debates, which con tained a history, has been discontinued for three or four year. It cost about five times as, much for.a session as the Congressional Globe and" Appendix, and did not contain an equal amount of nTitter, a great j ortion of the current proceedings be:ng omit ted. We are enabled to print the Congressional Globe and Appendix at the low rate now proposed, by having a large quantity of type, and keeping the Congressional matter that we set up for the daily" and semi -weekly Globes, stanoing for the Con gressional Globe and Appendix. If wc had to set up the matter purposely for these works, we not a ffoid to print them for double thpiice' charred. " Complete indexes to both the Congressional Globe and tbe Appendix are printed at ihe close of each st-s.-ion, and sent to all subscribers for them. We have on hand 3.OC0 or 4,000 sui pl.is eopies of the Congressional Globe and Appendix for Jhe extra session, whieh make thcether near 1,000 royal quarto pages. They give the fullest history of tonsress that has ever been pub. ished. We now ell them for pl each: thafis, $1 for the Congres sional Globe, and tl for th - Appendix. We pro pose to let subsciibers for the Congressional G ohe and Append x for the next, session, have them for 50 cents each. Thev will he necessary to under- tand fully the proceedings of the next session. The important matters discussed at the last, will be brought up at tbe next session, in consequence ot tbe universal dissai istac! ion evinced in the late elections w ith the vast and novel system of policy which the new powers have introduced, and which was forced through Congress without consulting public opinion, or even allowing the full discussion usual in regard to subjects of ordinary interest. Toe reports of the Congressional G'obe and Ap pendix are not in the least degree albefod by tbe parly bias ol the Editor. They are given precisely as written out by the Reporters and the members themselves. And the whole ate subject to tele vision and correction of the speakers, as they pas in review in our daily sheet, in case any misunder standing or misrepresentation of their remarks shou'd occur. We make a daily analysis of the doings in Oon- gress, and give our opinions in it treely, but this is publis led only in the Daily, Semi-weekly, and Weekly Globes. The daily Glohe is $10, tlie Semi-wee'y Globe S5, and the Weekly Globe S2 per annum, t udvance. Ihe Weekly Ijlohe is printed in the same form as the Congressional Globe and Appendix, and a complete index made to it at the end of each vear. TERMS: For the Con srcssional Globe and Appendix for the last Extra Session, $1. For the Congressional Globe for the next session, SI per copy. For the Appendix for the next session, Si per cei3'. Six copies ot either of tbe above woiks wib be sent for $5 ; twelve copies for $pl0, and so on in proportion for a greater number. Payments may be transmitted by man, postage paid, our risk. By a rule ot the Post Office Depart ment, postmasters are permitted to irank letters con taining money for subscriptions. I he notes ot any bank, current where a subscri ber resides, will be received by lis at prf. To insure all the numbers, the subscriptions should be in Washington by the 15th December nest, at farthest, though it is probable that wc shall print enough surplus copies to liU every subscrip tion that may be paid before the 1st day of January next. Idp'JVo attention trill be. paid to any order unless the money accompanies it. T he D- mocrat'c papers with which we exchange will please give this Prospectus a few insertions. BLAIR & RIVES. Washington City, Oct. 25, 1841. me to speak of the Indians and the Negroes; but I have never been able to stop in order to show what place these two races occupy, in the midst ol "the democratic people whom I was engaged in describing. I have meulioned in what spirit, and according to what laws, the Anglo-American Union was formed; but I could only glance at ihe dangers which me nace that confederation, whilst it was equally impossible for me to give a detailed account of its chances of duration, independently of its laws and manners. When speaking of the United republican States, I hazarded no con jectures upon the permanence of republican forms in the New World; and when making frequent allusions lo Ihe commercial activity which reigns in ihe Union, I was unable to inquire into the future condition of the Amer icans as a commercial people. These topics are collaterally connected wilh my subject, without forming a part of it; they are American, without being democratic; and to portray democracy has been my principal aim. It was therefore necessary to postpone these questions, which 1 now take op as the" termination of my work. The territory now occupied or claimed by the American Union, spreads from the shores of the Atlantic to those of the Pacific Ocean. On the East and West its limits ae those of the continent itself. On the Soyih it advan ces nearly to the Tropic, and it extends up wards to the icy regions of the North. The human beings who are scattered over this space do not form, as in Europe, so ma,uy branches of ihe same stock. Three race9 naturally distinct, and J might almost say hos tile to each other, are discoverable amongst them at the first glance. Almost insurmoun table barriers had been raised between them by education and byJaw, as well as by their origin and outward characteristics; but fortune has brought them togetheVton the same sou, where, although they are mixed, the do not amalgamatfmd" " "u iUmia j. destiny apart, yr A mb ngsOriesex nierv, the first wt periot in intelliT ment, is the pre-eminentf JNesro an' py SUIll.Wllulll i v i irew tea FOR SALE OR RENT. It iiILL Possession given immediately. A comfortable dweliin? on Hay Mount, in the vicinity rf the Arsenal, having four rooms, a kitch en and extensive Lot- t or terms app'y to GEO. S. HODGES. November 19th. 1841. I43-3t. From De Tocqueville's Democracy in Ameiica. The present, and probable future condition of the three Races which inhabit the Territory of the United states. The absolute supremacy of democracy is not all that we meet with in Ameiica; the in habitants of the New Woild maybe consider ed from more than one point of view. In tht course of this work my subject has often led not the same, they original the same authors. If we reasoned from what world,- we should almost say that the is to the other races of mankind, wha to ihe lower animals; he makes thetn servient to his use ; and when he canuot sub due, he destroys them. Oppression has at one stroke deprived the descendants of the Africans of almost all the privileges of human ity. Tlie Negro of the United States has lost all rememberance of his country; ihe lan guage which his forefathers spoke is never heard arouud him ; he adjured their religion and forgot their customs when he ceased to belong to Africa, without acquiring any cleim to European privileges. But he remains half way between the two communities; uudiug not a spot iu the universe to call by the name of country, except the faint image of a home which the shelter of his master's roof affords. The Negro has no family ; woman is mere- y the temporary companion ot nis pleasures, and his children are upon an equality with himself from the moment of their birth. Am to call it a proof of God's mercy, or a visit ation ot his wrath, that man in certain states nppears to be insensible to his extreme wretchedness, and almost affects with a de praved taste the cause of his misfortunes ? The Negro, wVio is plunged iu this abyss of evils, scarcely feels his own calamitous situa tion. Violence made him a slave, and the habit of servitude gives him ihe thoughts and desires of a slave: he admires his tyrants more than he hates them, and finds his joy and his pride in the servile imitation of those who oppress him: his understanding is degraded to ihe level of his soul. The Negro enters upon slavery as soon as he is born ; nay, he may have been purchas ed iu the womb, and have begun his slavery befo.e he began his existence. Equally de void of wants and of enjoyment, and useless to himself, he learns, with his first notions of existence, that he is the property of another who has an interest in preset ving his life, and that the care of it does not deiolve upon him self; even ihe power of thought appears to him a useless gift of Providence, and he quiet ly enjoys the privileges tA his debasement. It he becomes free, independence is ofteu felt by him to be a heavierburden than slave ry ; for having learned, in the course of his life, to submit to everything except rcasou, he is too much unacquainted with her dictates to obey them. A thousand new desires beset him, and he is destitute of the knowledge and energy necessary to resist them masters which it is neeessray to contend with aud he has learned only to submit and obey. In short, he sinks to such a depth of wretch edness, that while servitude brutalizes, liberty destroys him. Oppression has been no less fatal to the Indian than to the Negro race, but its effects are different. Before the arrival of white men in the New World, the inhabitants cf North America lived quietly iu their woods, endur ing the vicissitudes and practising the virtues and vices common to avao.e nations. The them to a wandering life full of inexpressible sufferings. Savage nations are only controlled by opin ion and by custom. When the North Amer ican Indians had lost the sentiment of attach ment to their country; when their families were dispersed, their traditions obscured, and the chain of their recollections broken; when all their habits were changed, tnd their wants increased beyond measure, European tyranny rendered them more disorderly and less civili zed than they were before. The moral end physical condition of these tribes continually grew worse, and they became more barbarous as they became more wretched. Neverthe less the Europeans have not been able to met amorphose the character of the Iudins; and though they have had power to destroy them, they have never been able to make them sub mit to the rules of civilized society. The lot of the Negro is placed on the ex treme limit of servitude, while that of the In dian lies on the uttermost verge of liberty; and slavery does not produce more fatal effects up on the first, than independence upon the se cond. The Negro has lost all properly in hid own person, and he cannot dispose of his own existence without committing a sort of fraud: but the savage is his own master as soon as he is able to act; parental authority is scarely known to him; he has never bent his will to that of any of bis kind, nor learned the difference between voluntary obedience and a shameful subjection; and the very name of law is unknown to birn. To be free, with him, signifies to escape from all the shackles of society. As he delights in this barbarous independence, and would rather perish than sacrifice the least part of it, civ ilization has little power over him. The Negro makes a thousand fruitless ef forts to insinuate himself amongst men who I repulse him; he conforms to the tastes of his oppressors, aaopts tneir opinions, ana nopes by imitating them to form a part of their com munity. Having been told from infancy that his race is naturally inferior to that of the Whites, he assents to tbe proposition, and is his own nature. In each of his cover a trace of slavery and, r, he would Willi ugly rid g that makes him what "contrary, has his imag- 4he pretended nobility of id dies in the midst of ar from desiring to , he loves his savage mark of his race,- ance to civilization, tred which he' enter- a dread of resembling hile he has nothing to or-i ' poserur pel lection in ihe arts but the re sources of ihe desert, to our tactics nothing but undisciplined courage; whilst our well di gested plans are met by the spontaneous in stincts of savage life, who can wonder if he fails in this unequal contest? ' The Negro, who earnestly desires to min gle his race wilh that of the European, cannot effect it; while the Indian, who might succeed to a certain extent, disdains to make the at tempt. The servility of the one dooms him to slavery, the pride of the other to death. I remember that while I was travelling ail -fc Pv J, Europeans, having dispersed the Indian tribes and driven them into the deserts, condemned through the forests which still cover the Stale of Alabama, I arrived one day at the log-house of a pioneer. I did not wish to penetrate into the dwelling of the American, but retired to rest myself for a while on . the margin of a spring, which was not far off", in the woods. While I was in this place, (which was in tho neighbornood of tbe Creek territory,) an In' dian woman appeared, followed by a uegress, and holding by the hand a little white girl of five or six years old, whom I took to be the daughter ot the pioneer. A sort of barbarous luxury set off the costume of the Indian; rings of metal were hanging from her nostrils and ears; her hair, which was adorned with glass beads, fell loosely upon her shoulders; and I saw that she was not married, for she still wore that necklace of shells which the bride always deposites on ihe nuptial couch. The negress was clad in squaliid European gar ments. Tbey all three came and seated themselves upon the banks of the fountain; and ihe young Indian, taking the child in her arms, lavished upon her such fond caresses as mothers give; while the negress endeavored by various lillle artifices to attract the attention of the young Creole. The child displayed in her slightest gestures a consciousness of superiority whieh formed a strange contrast with her infantine weakness; as if she received Ihe attention of rer companions with a sort of condescension. The negress was seated on the ground be fore her mistress watching her t-mulks-t de sires, and apparently divide between strong affection for the child and servile fear : whilst ihe savage displayed in the midst of her ten derness, an air of freedom and of nriile whi h was almost terocious. I had approached the i?roon. and- I coiiternolated them in Kil.r , there areJrbut.njy curiosity was probably displeasing to the 1 ml lan woman, ior Ahe suddenly rose, pushed ihe child roughly from her, and giving me an angry look plunged into the thicket. I had often chanced to see individuals met together lo the same place, who belonged to the three races of men wnich people North America. I had perceived from many differ ent results the preponderance of the Whites. But iuthe picture which I have just been de scribing there was something peculiarly touch ing ; a bond of affection here united the op pressors with the oppressed, and the effoit of Nature to bring them together rendered Mill more strikiug the immense distance placed be , tween them by prejudice and by law.
The North Carolinian (Wilson, N.C.)
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Dec. 4, 1841, edition 1
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