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I f i t s t I 1 1 i I - 1 -a 1 : ; ' x-.r nVEHTT SATURDAT In advance, per vear.-2 00 Not paid in advance. 2 50 r XNoi paid until six months have expir ed. 300 Not paid till the year . nas expired, 350 No subscription received or a Less time than a vear,' unless the price be paid in; aoviinee. II .r-T ' ' -.. - fc' i-, r . .... , I .i ; . ' ; CHARACTER; IS AS IMPORTANT TO STATES AS IT IS TO INDIVIDUALS; AND , THE GLORY .OF THE STATE IS THE COMMON PROPERTY OF ITS CITIZENS. I 1 J 10 Ill riski Ad vehtibinq : . Ohtfsquareofturenty-ona lines or less, for one inser tion, GO cents; .every sub sequent insertion, 30 cents Except it remain in" for sev eral months, when it will', be charged $3 for two months, $4 for three, &.cy ,10 for twelve mouths. 25 Y OTM. XX. FAYETTEVILLE, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1848. i TEAS! i (H).OOO Acres Valuable TIMBER LAND FOR SALE. MfTIfE Subscriber has purchased all the Lands .JL belonging to the estate of Abram Dubois, 4icMlyin principally in Hobeson county, and wn byth sides ol Lumber rirer, the dillercnt sur veys containing jovet ONE HUNDRED THOU SAND ACRES ; a large part finely timbered, and convenient to Lumber river, where a large quantity of Timber is now rafted to the George town market. These lands are very valuable both t'yr Timbei and Turpentine, for which pur pose a large p-irt is well suited, being in a region where the Turpentine yields more abundantly than any other section of the State. The lands will be sold at a low price, and in quantities to suit purch asers Inform itio.i respecting the title can be febtain ed by applying to the Hon. Robert Strange, J. C. Dobbin, Esq., A. A l Smith. Esq., Attorneys at Law. I understand there arc rainy trespassers on these l.mds, to all oi whom notice is hereby given that the Lxv will be enforced ;ig.anst all such of fender. s. Application for any -,irt of the l.mds can be made to myself, or to John Winslow, Esq., who will be duly authorized to make s..le of the same. THOMAS J. CURTIS. March 1, IS15. tf. FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE. Tlic Camden Insurance Com pany ol" N. J. NEAR PHILADELPHIA G3ap,30 $100,000. II" L. BUCKLV. Stc"y. U W. OGDEN, Trcs't. The mivternigii'-it. Agrtit f thin Company, has roceivfd fti'suraii';.'s that this Company is cunductud by some ol'the most wi-alt.liy and inHuuutiul Jerseynicn. aud is hrc.xnl to wjiie in the Union of the saiiw capital. lie will take lire and marine risks ou as favorable terms ad any other Coiu p.my. JXO. M. HOSE, A;;ont. Kayettevill.;. March 4: 1S4S. 472-tf VOXi. 9- j; 90- Liberal deduction jfor large advertisement SmO SOS ijby the year or six months JIGEJVCY OF THE J'EW YORK CANTON TEA COMPANY. The oldest Establishment in America! THE CANTON TEA COMPANV hag been popularly known for many yeara Thi is the larfcwt and oldest Tea ttabhbment . in America, The public have had full proof 4 lntcK"y nd responsibility. They posjsa facilities, in relation to the Tea Trade, in a T?.ry "bun,aant egre. and doubtless, superior to any ther Tea Concern ia America- Their scrupulous regard to all principles that tend to elerate the character of a large house, is well understood, and has alreoday secured ! 1 1 5onnection- probably, larger than all other Tea Lstaolithments united, and they consequently an; deter mined to seU Tear purer, more fragrant, and perfect for the priees in the aKgregate, than any bouse in the world China excepted. They mo.it zealously invite the attention of the in habitants ot this town aud vicinity to their Agency' where completo aswrtntentH are always ou hand ; they feel no hesitation m stating that wherever a single tral is made, a very decided preference is given to the celebrated Teas of the CANTON TEA CO. HU Header . mke the experiment ! Subject in all cases to be returned of not approved of. These superior teas are put up in one pound, half pound, and quarter pound package, and purfeetly secured from light and air. SAMI- J. HINSDALE. Apent. December 4, 1S47. ' 4.vj-tf WILD CHERRY AND SAUSA PARI LLA 1'IL.S. DR. LK BOY, a Licentiate of the Royal College of Phys icians in London, huviugusvd iu his private practice, for a number of years, tlie WILD CHERRY AND SARSA PAR ILLA. at length matlo an extract of them, which with other veg etables, hu has combined in one - 1" the best Pills ever made known to the European Community, and which met the attention of tin; American xr,l,,. They are the most efficacious puruative and tonic yet discovered. " Til E WILD C1IEHRY is auexi-ellent touic. posji-ss'm astringent and aromatic properties, wliieh make it Valuable in Dyspepsia, Jaundice, Weakness of th Stomach and chest. THE S A RS A P A it I L L V is dem-iU-ent. diuretic and sootiiinst, aud is Kiven In Rheu matism. Scrofula. Diseases of the Skm. and to eradicate tho bad effects of Mercury. In the operations ol all other pur-alive medicines debilitation and purification go hand in hand : they remove the goovl. as well as the had ; thus w...i....i.e' Lhe .svstem. which they were only required to IVOTTr'R. is llerly given that application A,v will be made to the next Ueneral Assembly of North Carolina, for the passage of a law amen datory of the laws now in existeuee iu relation to the na vigation of liockflth Creek. Oct. 21, 1S48. tmL. Observer copy. Vi-. A fine assortment of singlo and double barrel GUNS tor salt at very low prices. W.ii. MATTHEWS. Oct. 21, 1843. 501-3t No. 13 north side Hay st. MOUNTAIN BUTTER If) Mrkinsprimo -MOUNTAIN BUTTER, for ale - - by Oct. 21. 1848. COOK &. TAYLOR. o04-lt ark the Difference Wc pre sail in lhe following col umns, for the consideration of ev ery southern man. a few extracts from the addresses of the two 31as- sacliusctts &tate Vonrcntions. Let fads prove n: ho are friends of the iSoutli ana icho not : EXTRACTS FROM AN ADDRESS Of the Democratic State Central Committee of Massachusetts, adopted by the De mocratic Stale Convention of 1818. Fellow citi'.ens of Massachusetts and of the Union: The democrats of Massachu setts, though rarely in a majority in the State, have but once since the days of Jef fprsim :iml John Aihuns. found tlu'inst-l vps ebvtiise. and making the cure gene-auy almost as oao.aou. : ; . . frequently much worse than tno uisease. ur. w I W a popular minority 111 tlie U IUOI1. i br'J.'rnu fvb a."i tw- i;rPu; This consideration makes them jealous attribute, an I the principal cause of their unrivalled popu- ,ff J(, preservation of the Union, and of the larity. -.t-,,.! f...,r I uiinroinirv P flip ilunwiriviev til tll I Tn Kill j. qt1( virtues oi liie arsaiiiriiia mm v... ..j ji iuv.j vi v- w v: - . ciunmuuuy 10 i f wv fo tlni m rrj.nt t:irt rn iinm-i- through all our history, viz: that the demo cratic party have alone preserved tins Union, aud that the supremacy of the de mocracy has been and can be sustained only BY THE FIRM UNION OF SOUTHERN AND NORTH ERN DEMOCRATS. In the present crisis of false issues and false men, it is a most fitting time to recall the vigilance of every democrat, north or south, east or west, to the great chart of tlie republican fathers: VDI1ERENCE TO REGULAR NOMINATIONS. AB HORRENCE OK ALL SKI.T(IA1. 1)1 JSIUIN S, ND I'L TP" OR. VI BROAD ENOUOH FOR THE WHOLE UNION. The prominent feature of the present presidential election is the struggle to make it turn upon a geographical and sectional distinction, founded on the fact that fifteen states in this Union have local laws which authorize the relation of master and slave, while the same number ('many of which were oiirinally slavehouling states, but abandoned it when it became unprofitable.) are happily without that domestic relation. The natural result is mat one section ap proves and the other condemns that form .. ..."11 "i. are t'o well known to medical men auu tue require turllier ciri.aii. .jj- I H IT fc- . - " For sale by S. J. Hinsdale a ent. April 8-ly. MONEY ! -...I i.r,.,l now due u. and all accounts standin? ..., ov , tb must be l.aid. or we will force eollecliou. J. it T. VADDILL. July 20. 1S-18. k mm - has resumed the Tri XhT. &7i.VlrOn bookbinding husi- neat the new store next door to'. Mr Beasley. Jeweler, where he will receive and execute binding in any style desired- llav EDWIN GLOVER, WATCH MAKER AMD JEWELER. Street, between the Market & ew Hotel, Has just returned from rsew York with a new stock ot vv A l - CUES. CLOCKS c JMVti.m. which he is disposed to fell very cheap. Among his assoitmeut may be found Watches ol all kinds, from 8 to J W; a irood as sortment of comiuoii .and line brass locks; -oiu wuaiu- ...... -4.... . .i! ;f o Fob Chains: watcn Keys oi an i oi seivnuucj auuiiciiLc ic '"6"' 4xi" kind.: Wreast l ins. from 2 rtdllins to 11 ; Oold Finder t,e JaVl that if tllC tVO chlSSCS of States rally upon this sectional feud, and come designs of a northern confederacy begun by the federal leaders'fortv years ago, (as President Monroe in his letter to Mr Jef ferson informs us, j when they attempted to shut up the mouth of the Mississippi and give it to Spain, so as to prevent inigratiou to the west, and thus " give such a shape to the Union as would secure the dominion over it to its eastern section. fSee letter of James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, May, 1820 j As a branch of this conspiracy, Mr Mon roe informs us, that "Mr Jay, on his re turn from Europe, avowed his object to make New York a New England state," a process which Mr Van Huren, who tried it once through the federal candidate, DeWitt Clinton, in 1812, is again attempt ing, through himself, in '48. A northern party, which must be a fed eral whig party, if it ever comes to a head, is all that the free soil men can hope for Hence every step taken in that direction by democrats, leads to a coalition with the whig party. The free soil men of New York who want to get up a northern party, and the w higs of the north who mean to rule that party if ever it oilers to them the power they seek, both concur in desirinjr the elec tion of Cen. Taylor as a slaveholder, by southern votes, for that would be a resist less argument to the northern democracy to hold their southern allies faithless and false. So that, if by the intrigues now going on to carry slavery and free soil together, by exhibiting Gen. Taylor with adoubleface, north and south, on the territorial issue, the managing whigs could dupe both and elect him, this result would follow, viz: Either the whigs would triumph now, by having in Gen. Taylor a President they could mould to the Massachusetts model, or if he should fail them as Mr Tyler did, still the bad faith of the democratic south in deserting Geo Cass, would so exaspe rate the north as to leave but one common sentiment in the free states against the south, and out of this sentiment the whigs could then form a free soil party strong enough to dispense with their southern whig allies, and control the south, or drive her out of the Union. History will show that the combustible material of abolitionism at the north has from the days of that Hartford convention till now been wielded by the federal party to regain the political power which they lost in 1804 by the triumph of democratic Virginia over federal Massachusetts. Abolitionism, at iirst denounced and des pised when weak, lias ueeu nuiscU, petieu arid vehemently courted by the whig party ot the north, when it began to draw Irom their ranks ; while the whigs of the south have at least winked at it, if not lavored the amalgamation, under the assurance ot their northern friends that it was the only way for them to get into power. Southern whigs, in their eagerness lor political power abroad, and their impa tience ot a long minority at home, nave per mitted this process to go on unrebukeii, ana are thus the most ellective allies or norm- ern abolitionism. At this moment they are strengthening the hands which they pretend to believe would light the torch of the incendiary and sharpen the knife of the assassin. They do this by permitting the northern whigs, in order to retain the free soil whigs, to affirm, uncontradicted by themselves or their can didate, that Gen. Taylor is in favor of the Wilmot proviso, and would use all his in fluence as president, to put down the 'slave into stern collision on this exciting topic, ot 'r. , . ...1.1 I -w.Wto- fTol.l. RllTCr UU CBlltUIOll "u .111" :. n-r.li! tllM'TL' IU UUU 31CIH V,UI1131UU nii, - . Si. ..-i-i. irnlil. ivory nnu jet D -- I . . . . . .1 1 -ii!. .'.1;; ,,, n Silver- nutter Knives; Wumc bww; w iicll lHVOlVCS Olie UlOUSailU millions Plated cake utS: i.iatvd tors; thc working capital of the south, there I . n -1 - .In III 'I I III! II 1 1 1 1 I " IS illlll J il.' 7 1 ' - Tea l'ot. Su-ar Bowls, and ( ream l ots; genuine . . 1 Spoons l!a,H Strop,; Scissors: Steel Ijaff and Jte CUsps: Steel Beads: Violin Strings. &c, aud every article usually kept in a Jewelry More V. S. Particular attention paia "Watches. Clocks and Jewelry. Sept. a, ms. to the repairing of 4'J7-3m. must be an end to the Union, to be followed bv senarate confederations and civil wars . . 1 .1 . i .n. YY hen northern uemocrais tain, oi sstate riohts and the compromises of the consti Union, they mean this doctrine of non-in-t.f,.n.nrt maintained bv Samuel Adams, JOSEPH S. DUNN oilers his ser- Thos. Jefferson, and the "republican fathers. l$y the firmness ot the democracy ot the Kirtii in keeniuir the faith of their fathers with the south in this respect, the first shock of political abolitionism .w.uch was aimed at the states, was turned aside. The aggressors upon the south, who have so long kept up this agitation, now admit, in their Buftalo platform, that congress has no power over slavery in the states, and, if thev are sincere in this, that question has been put at rest, and so far the Union 1 a 1 . 1 1 1 1 1 . . . r 1 . . . nit 1 r. Yi o rv vico.s as unacrtiiKer ami uun.-.i-i, iw m. others, disposed to contract for building or jobb intr. Terms liberal . Krcncli Burr Millstones. EGENT0N, MORRIS & CO., AT TUE OLD STAND, ". Fulls .t'fnitc, near Pratt st. Bridge, BALTIMORE, roVTINUE to make to order FRENCH BUHU MILL STONES of all dimensions, whieh they -will -warrant to be . ...a. A....i;tr iu.inr mBile from Burr BtnckR fif thir 01 mo ucki"""''.";"?...; k. .h. f. v..,, .t." 1 i ....... .i own importation, wusrawi .. ' .. M. I lias ui cu uiwei ij. " 1 . .m. v.kr., .iiir.nl 1 v Tr iile. nf all ki. I They keep ESOPUS MILLSTONES, and EUENCll liut now comes another phase of the slave agitation. Disclaiming as to me states, it fastens upon the territories. It assumes that we of the north are wiser to frame domestic institutions for territories thousands of miles off, than the people under their own political organization will be to make local laws for themselves. The democrats of the north say that this is anti-republican, because it denies the ri-ht of the majority to govern and to frame o-overnment, within their duties to the Union, as they may please. Designing and disappointed men, taking advantage of the strong and impulsive aversion to slavery in the north, now hope c n uf this mere abstraction so as to let in WeW Boarding HoUSC the federal power, by severing the democ- 0 r tu north and south, and thus, as in J. H. TOOMER haTinK taken the large building on raCJ t e DWlll nu .',,. Court House square. formerly occup.eu oj ivirs wmier. is 1 1 atlU lOlu, uuiut . JSth nSTrt and conWubfe lod! He Or tailing tills purpose, - r .. ' !l.".br mi. Mrnn!io. 1 r. r.rr.anin!ii nartv to carry out tne 3011C1H a snar ui r d - .... .. J 1UI 111 a t Ocjtober 7, WS. ries in trance. COLOGNE & ...Til . 1 , t rtf.LrC Ord-ers from any part of tho country promptly attended rl fir?- I am authorised to act Agent for thde of the prders from tho country promptly. ORKELL o 1 1 1 o 1 o 600-'2m Sept. 11. 18-18. . Carthage, Aug. 3, 1848 r .-ri r.fhe Jail of Moore county N. C . on 21st day of July, 1848. a ne gro girl who calis her name &usan. Mie eays she belongs to urcsu . V, TMrYin knn.hl hr frfim BUUntl KUSSell, of Person county, N. C. Thia L there fore, to notify the owner of said negro to come forward, prove property . VJ charges, and take her away. A. C. C I'KRT, Jailor Aug. 5, 1848. Tr adr see - terms. nower. Thus the tendency in the whig party of the north indirectly aided by that at the south, is directly to the revival of the olt defeated scheme of a northern confedera tion. It was first conceived in the project to shut up tlie Mississippi, and keep the west a wilderness. It was more fully developed after the severance of Massachusetts and Virginia, who placed themselves under Adams and Jeft'erson, at the head of the two columns of federal and democratic states. Here lies the philosophy of abolitionism as a political wedge to dissolve the Union, wielded as it alwavs has been by tlie feder al party. The shrewd men of the federal party j perceived in 1804, that they could regain their lost power in the Union, only oy Pul1" injr down the southern democratic stales, and by preventing the admission ol new states into the Union. Ifnur wae this lioit tit done ! The means were obvious sectional divisions. To appeal to northern prejudices and feel ing! against slavery, and thus divide tlie northern from the southern democracy, and so conquer both in detail. Mr John Quincy Adams, in his letter to Mr Otis, Dec. 26, 1828, says that the plan of a northern confederacy in and preceding the war of 1812, was so far matured that a military leader was selected to head the movement. Uewitt Clinton affirmed in the senate of New York (Feb., 1809) that "the plan of a northern confederacy originated with a number of ambitious men, who, despairing of being able to control a majority of the whole Union, wished to form a separate confederation in which thev could obtain voted for Jeft'erson, as the white Virgini ans of the north." In 1312 the same purpose broke out in the coalition between the Eostou federalists and Martin Van Buren, to elect Dewitt Clinton, by the aid of New York democrats, over Mr Madison, and thus break down the democratic states of the south- Mr Van Buren is now just where he was then, col luding with the eastern federalists to draw the democratic v ote of New York fromGen. Cass, and give it to the candidate of the Boston aristocracy. He failed then and was forgiven. lie will fail now, but never to be forgotten. "Harrison Gray Otis, the ambassador of the Hartford convention to James Madi son, is out in a letter for General Taylor. Otis and Van Buren united on Clinton in 1812- They are again together aiding the federal candidate in 1848 I Democrats, do you mark that! The fourth strujtjde for rule or ruin was the Hartford convention, and but for the delay caused by the stun! y opposition of the fearless democratic minority of New Eng land, and the thunders of the democratic Demosthenes, Samuel Dexter, that conspi racy would have been consummated, in stead of passing, in consequence of the peace, where John Quincy Adams said it went, into the receptable of things lost upon earth' In 1824 the federalists, by claiming to be national republicans, and nominating a supposed democrat in the person of Mr Adams, did divide the southern and north ern democracy, and gained the political power. Iu 1828 the democracy south and north reunited, and so long as they continued united, the power of federalism was bro ken for 22 years, and with it fell a corrupt system of one hundred millions of internal improvements, a national bank, a ta rift' of bounty to capital and taxation to labor, and in short the whole incipient measures of consolidation and a British constitution, which Hamilton, the elder Adams and the federal statesmen had so earnestly longed for as the consummation of a strong srov- eminent. Political Abolitionism, in fact, originat ed in the Hartford Convention in 1814. 1 There were then nine free and nine slave holding states. Every state but Vermont was iu the hands of the federalists. Every slaveholding state, except Delaware, was democratic. If the slave representation ('which was in fact in derogation of the representative right of person, and unfair to the south) could be abolished, the fed eral north would rule in Congress and the electoral colleges. Hence the first movement in the Hart ford convention was against what they then termed fcthe preponderance of the slave power.'' The Hartford Convention de manded of the south, as its terms of con tinuance of the Union First, that slaves should not be counted iu representation; Second, that a two-thirds vote should be required to admit any new state, to lay an embargo or to declare war; Third, that no naturalized citizen should ever hold any civil office whatever! Had the federal party prevailed, this would have been worse than the British constitution under which we should have lived, in order to compress the country within a space small enough for the north ern party of Adams and Hamilton to have ruled it. The northern federal states adopted and proposed these amendments to the other free states. They were indignantly re jected by Pennsylvania and New York, through their domestic governors, Simon Snyder and Daniel D. Tompkins. Thus the northern democracy again saved the Union. But from that day this federal party, through all changes of name to its modern appellation of whig has sought to break down the democracy of the south by agitation of the slave question. Massachusetts, which took the lead of the Hartford convention, has never ceased to drive the abolition wedjre of disunion to rive these happy states. Her legislative journals are full of reports and resolutions, aggravating and injurious to the south. Stale Central Cornmittee,Sept. 30, 1848. Mr Hallett, from the sub-committee, reported the foregoing address, and it was unanimously adopted and ordered to be published in the democratic newspapers and in pamphlet, with the names of the committee. Attest, THOMAS GILL, ) B. D. BAXTER, J See's. the power,' and applied to Gen. Hamilton to aid them. TFor proof, see Boston Pa triot, March 3, 1809-3 As early as 1804, the Boston Centmei taunted the Massachusetts democrats who EXTRACTS FROM THE : ADDRESS Adopted by the JVhig State Convention of Massachusetts, Sept. 13, 1848. Fellow Citizens : "The period is approaching when you will be called upon to perform the important duty, and exercise the high prerogative of freemen, in casting your suffrages for a chief Magistrate of this great Republic We approach you, fellow citizens, as tchigs, a party whose views and sentiments are well known. Tlie doctrines we have advocated, and the opinions we have pro mulgated, cannot have been forgotten ; the mutual efforts we have made, and the trials we have endured for the last twelve years, in that cause, must have united the whigs in all parts of the country by the strongest ties. But, fellow citizens, we address you not only as whigs, but as Massachusetts whigs. We stand where our glorious old Common wealth has always stood, on the platform of free labor a free press, and free soil. The whigs of the North, and especially the whigs of Massachusetts, may rightfully claim the appellation of the free sod party. Our whig delegation in Congress for more than a quarter ofa century, have been uni form in resisting the extension of slavery. In 1836, when Arkansas was admitted in to the Union, the voice of Massachusetts was heard against the slave feature of her constitution. The late and lamented Adams moved to amend the bill, antTour present worthy Chief Magistrate, Gov. Briggs, used this emphatic language on the floor of the House, on that occasion : fc 1 never can consent, with the views I now enter tain to give a vote or do any other act which shall sanction the principle or extend the existence of slavery. In the deep convic tion of my heart, I believe it to be politi cally and morally wrong' During the same Congress, on the bill for rilling the mails, for which Mr Van Buren gave the casting vote, our distinguished Senator from Worcester made two able and manly speeches, in which he denounced the bill as ''establishing an espionage, a scrutiny into the content s of the mail, which would violate its sanctity, and frustrate the whole design ot it.'' He regarded it as a viola tion of the freedom of the press, and as a measure which would enable the ruling party of the country to exclude from the mail any political information which was thought adverse to its interest. From that period to the present, the Whigs in Con gress from this Commonwealth have uni formly opposed the extension of slavery, and tlie encroachments of its power. They have advocated the right of Petition, den ounced the gag rule, aud condemned in tlie strongest terms the annexation of Texas. They have voted against the slave feature in the constitutions of Florida and Texas ; against the introduction of slavery into Iowa, aud Oregon, New Mexico and Cali fornia ; against paying for runaway slaves, and in lavor ot the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, in every form in which it has been presented. All this has been done by our Whig delegation in Con gress, not Irom any desire to produce a schism among the Wings, or to buildup a new party ; but from an honest convic tion that slavery was an evil, and ought to be circumscribed. In this manly course in Congress the ouly field . in which the doctrine of free soil can be made a practi cal question, the Whig party in Massa chusetts have nobljr sustained their Repre sentatives. iMaj .( tUon vith uro priety claim to be a free soil party? On the question of the ordinance of 1787, the sentiments of Gen. Taylor are believed to be in accordance with those of the Whigs of Massachusetts, while those of Gen Cass are known to be directly op posed to them. The Democratic candi date has told us in his letter to A O. P. Nicholson, Esq., that Congress has no constitutional power to exclude Slavery from our newly acquired Territories ; con sequently he would veto any Bill which contained the provision of the Ordinance of 1787. On the other hand, Gen. Taylor has told us in his Allison letter, that he should leave all questions of "domestic policy" . to the action of Congress, and should feel bound to carry out their will It. is true that he claims the right of exer cising the veto power in cases ot clear unconstitutionality ; but he says that the President ought not to interpose his objec tions, "where questions of constitutional power have have been settled by the var ious Departments of the Government, aud acquiesced in by the people.'' Now, if there ever was a question settl ed by the various Departments of the Gov ernment and acquiesced in by the people, it must be that of the Ordinance of 1787. It was affirmed by the first Congress, and expressly recognised in the organization of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wiscon sin,jIowa, and Oregon ; and has the sanc tion of Washington and his successors in office, and has been sustained by the high est judicial tribunals of the country. Here, then, is a case where Gen. Taylor would be bound to withhold his veto, in case Congress should pass a Bill excluding Slavery from the Territories. Nor is this all; he has pledged himself not to attempt to influence the action of Congress on this or any other question of domestic policy. We have presented to you somewhat in detail the characters and - qualifications of the two candidates for the Presidency. Thus far we have omitted to mention our candidate for the Vice Presidency; because the character, moral & political, of Millard Fillmore is known and appreciated by every free ma u in this Common wealth. You all remember his services in Congress. You are convinced of his. distinguished ability, you know his moral worth. You all feel perfectly conscious that it elected, and the case should require it, he would give his casting vote against the extension of slave territory ; aud if by any casualty the office of President should become va cant, the iuterests of the country would be perfectly safe iu his hands. - We are aware that there is a third can didate before the people, and that great efforts are being made to induce the Whigs of Massachusetts to forsake their f01""?? friends, and to unite in this effort to build up a third party. If this new organization shall succeed in windrawing from the whig party a number sufficiently large to give Gen. Cass the plurality in New York, or Ohio, aud there by secure his election by the people or by the House of Representatives, they will, we fear, find, when it is too late, that they have defeated the very object they, profess to have at heart. We venture to predict that if Gen. Cass is elected, slavery will5 be extended over New Mexico aud Cali fornia, and in all probability we shall, during his administration, have the Repub lic of the Rio Grande, or of the Sierra Madre, or the Island of Cuba, added to tlie Union. With such additions of South ern and slaveholding territory the friends of free soil would be found in a hopeless minority at least in one branch of theLcgis lature, and the glorious cause of freedom thrown back ten or perhaps twenty years. Nor is it at all improbable that the elec tion of Cass w ill make sure the defeat of the Wilmot Proviso- Incase of his elec tion it will be said, that the, whole ques tion has been submitted to the people, and they have declared that Southern citizens with their property shall not be excluded from these territories. That argument was found to be all-powerful in the case of Texas annexation, and it will be found equallt potent in this case. There are a few dissatisfied whigs, who say tljey feel indignant at the attempt of the slave power to extend this institution into territory now free. So do we. And we are resolved as firmly as they can be, to resist that unholy attempt, and to do all in our power to confine slavery within its present limits. Under all the circum stances of the case, we are satisfied that the election of Gen. Taylor is the most effectual way of securing the object which we all have at heart ; and we advise and forewarn our whig friends, who haye for merly acted with us, that any other course must end in the election of Gen. Cass, and consequently in the further, extension of slavery. Such are our convictions, and such we believe will be the conclusion to which all free soil whigs will come on due reflection. A labored attempt has been and is still made to convince the' freemen of Massa chusetts that Gen. Taylor is known to be so devoted to Slavery and the slave power, that the whole South, without distinction of party, w ill give himtheir support. No re presentation can be more unfounded. The mends of Gen. Taylor have never relied upon South Carolina, and Texas and Mis souri, and those Southern States- which are thoroughly democratic They have maintained that Gen. Taylor's personal popularity might secure linn some of the nif Iim rri (ali"i. wl!l wpm ilimnrralir hv n small majority; beyond this they never, had any hopes of southern support. They have seen from the first, that the southern demo cratic press, with the Unionat their head,, have charged (Jen. Taylor with being iu favor of the Wilmot Proviso: ami tlm late speech of Mr Calhoun at Charleston, shows most conclusively that the leading spirit of the south has far more confidence in Gen. Cass than in Gen. Taylor, so far as slavery is concerned Another artifice which has been resotted to is, to represent that Gen. Cass has no strength, and will hardly be able to carry a state ; and that consequently the real contest lies between Gen. Taylor and Mr Van Buren. This is a mere stratagem, designed to lull the whigs into a state of apathy. Believe no such representations. B A LOON ADVENTURE. .Mori ill, the Yfcronaut, says the gives Dr New York Journal of Commerce, a very interesting account ot his recent perilous adventure. On first rising intK the air, he seemed to be quite stationary over the city, of which with its streets,, parks, ami public buildings, he had a mag nificent view. Rising higher, he found himself making considerable progress to the eastward, but afterward struck a- current which moved him toward tho southwest. At this time. Rockaway. L. I., (2.0 mile from New York on the south shore of Long Island.) was directly beneath him,, when he formed the project of crossing to Sandy Hook, 15 miles ofil Calculating the time necessary to reach the earth from his then great heighth, he discharged sufficient gas to descend about half a mile, when he discovered himself rapidly borne to the southeast -towards the open ocean. Hastily throwing, over board some ballast he ruse again, but the upper current had also changed. Feeling the danger of his situation, and knowing that his best chance oi safety was to drop immediately into the water and take -hi chance of being picked up, lie let off his gas, and making a rapid- descent, struck the water about five miles from tho Light Ship. Night was closing around him. He could see no movement fur his rescue, nor did he know that his position had been observed. Immersed in the water up to his armsand running great danger from the . flaws of wind which dragged his balloon and him self with considerable violence,hc remain ed for more than an hour and a bald Fi nally a boat which had been despatched from the Light Ship for his. rescue, came up, aflW chilled through with cold, and nearly perished from exhaustion, he was conveyed to the light ship soon after nine o'clock, anrf returned to the city on Thurs day eventngj 1 The boat -was sent by the Captain of the light ship and Mr Roberts, a pilot on board, in charge of Geo. W.Rich, the mate, and was manned by four seamen.
The North Carolinian (Wilson, N.C.)
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