tor l' months, - - - - 16 00
3- All advertisements must he handed in by
JO o'clock Friday morning, and should have the
number of insertions intended tanked upon
them, otherwise they will be inserted till forbid
anil charged accordingly.
J3T jSStflEiTES
FOIl SALE AT THE
C A II () IAS I V X () V K I C E,
it 7 5 cent per i?airc.
For any qu.intity over "xju.res, GO cts per quire.
JOHN i). V1L
Coiinnlision and Eonvard'mn
MERCHANT-
Fayt'
Fel)
1 -"0.
G E N E II A L
IT 0 ;,I 31 I S S I 0 N
AND
FonvarJii!"; Merchant,
WILMINGTON, X. C
Prompt personal attention given to consignment.-',
and cash advances made on shipments to
me or mv friend. in New Yoik.
Feb'y 1, I " I ly
TOAOC).
The subscriber has a good stock of Tobacco on
hand, and will receive regularly, from Messrs J.
Junes & Co' factory, qualities assorted, from
common to very fine, which will be sold at the
ltiwdt m.iiiul ictiiriiig prices.
J. UTLEY.
Fayetteville, April .", l'il. tf
Line of 4 horse Post Coaches from Fay
etteville to Warsaw Daily.
iter havin'' secured the. mail cc'fw
the above Line, will cninmtv.ee this day'
running a Line of I' our Horse Post Coaches, dai
lv. Leaving F.iyetteville at past P. M., and
arriving at U',.rs.iv at past 7 A. M., in time
for the Cars North and South Returning, leave
Warsaw on the arrival of the Cars, say about 1
or 2 P. M . and arrive at Favetteville in ten
bonis. Every care will be taken to render the
1 i ;u; pleasant , Con venie at , and safe, far Travel
lers. A Line of Stages will be est.ibli-.bed as soon as
possible, by the Plank Road, lrom Favetteville
via Cartilage and A.-heborough , to Lexington,
Salem, and Salisbury.
.MeKINNON &. McNEILL.
Fayetteville, N. C, Aug. 7, 1"1. oin
Kntirely new and Jar;e Stock of
DRY GOODS
.ii 'LUIDIWIRE.
The undersigned are now prepared to offer to
Merchants of the interior and others one of the
largest stocks of DRV GOODS AND HARD
WARE, ever before oiieied in this market.
Their Goods have been Ixnht this fall by
t!ie p.tck-ige at the regular trade Pales and of
fJiM!i:i)issni.:s" ! louses iii New York, and they are
prepared toePer thetn ur.u-u.dly low a:ul upon
favorable terms, and feel confident that an ex
amination .f their stock will induce purchasers
to make their selections of us.
The undersigned will spare no efforts to trive
entire s it isf.ictioii to those who lavor theia with
their custom.
OUR STOCK OF
Boots Shoes, Hats, Cajs and
Straw Goods
is large and worthy tlie attention of the trade.
Our stock consists in part of
0i) to ."!; pieces of Woolen Clouds.
o to I o:xi " Prints.
5001) pr. Routs anil Slices;
with all the variety necessary to make our as
sortment complete.
Merchants visiting this market will -please
give us -i call and examine our Goods bofore
making their purchases.
We also hae on hand a lull assortment of the
best Anchor Rraiui
that have been proved to be good by use of oyer
'20 years of the same make ofclot hs.
Particular attention paid to orders.
HALL SACKETT.
Fayetteville, October -4, 1I. lv
30 iduls. now crop 31 GLASSES
For sale bv
June 2S. PETER P. JOHNSON.
PAID for YOUNC; NECROES. Apnlv to
J. & T. WAD DILL.
Sept. 27, 151. 6o7-tf
MORE HATS
I am now opening my Fall ar.d Winter stock
of HATS & CAPS, consisting in part of super
beaver, super moleskin and silk, from jjjT to
$1 50. All qualities of plain Fur, Mexican,
California, and Rough-and-Ready, of all colors.
Fur and Wool from 00 cts to $3. Silk and cot
ton velvet Turbans for children Also, fine
men's and boys' cloth, glazed, silk and fur caps.
1 respectfully invite those in want of anything
in my line to give me a call, as I am determined
to sell at wholesale or retail on the most favor
able terms.
DAVID GEE,
North-east corner Market Square, Green st.
jr- The highest prices paid for hat Wool and
all kinds of Fur Skins.
Oct IS, lbOl tf
Li A MS.
Ti mil i zsj , ;
tract on
J fO. It ntf rg9tof the Swnthern people, tobecftie
I 1 rwT i n n f vt . . .. ' C . -
. ..... y. i.v in. yji iiuiiuu ii uianuiaeiures, io give
him their aid and patronage.
He is prepared to show, by absolute trial . to
any one who will call upon him. the vast super
iority of his over all other polishes or blacking
now sold in North Carolina. Call and have your
boots and shoes once completely blacked and
polNhed. ai.d he satisfied;
This article is ottered at a price not higher
than is usually charged lor other and inferior
qualities, and a trial is all that is asked to secure
the "patronage of the public generally.
The undersigned expects to visit every por
tion of the State to introduce his polish, anii asks
now in advance that Merchants and others vjsit
ing Fayetteville will give him a call. .",y
Thin Polish can be used by ladies without soilingthe dress
A. J. WOODWARD.
June 21,1851. (J lJ-Gm
The copartnership heretofore existing under
the name of J A Rowland &. Co., is this day dis
solved by mutual consent.
JOHN A. ROWLAND.
GILBERT W. McK AY,
JOHN C. MOORE.
The undersigned Will continue
the business of the late firm, at their former
Stand in Lumberton, under the style of Rowland
& McKay, where goods of every description can
be bought on the most reasonable terms
JOHN A. ROWLAND.
GILBERT W. McKAY.
Lumberton, July 1, 1831. 013-tf
PliTER P. JOUNSOxV
Has just received, and offers for sale, CHEAP,
7") bags superior Rio Coffee,
'25 barrel coffee Sugar,
30 " MackereL No,, 1, 2 and 3,
Loaf and granulated Sugar.
Also, a large assortment of Iron and Nails,
Shovels, Spades, Trace Chains, Shovels &. Tongs,
Blacksmiths' Bellows, Anils, Vices, Hammers,
Planes, Augers and Chissels, Files, Collins'
Axes, Sec.
August 1G, 1S31
WATCHES A N D J E W EL Ft Y3
AT WIIOLESALK & K !:'! AIL.
J, M7BEASLEY
Would respectfully in
form the public generally
that he has recently re
turned from New York
with decidedly a very larire
lot of WATCHES AND
JEWELRY.
Ma try of the Watches
were bought by the pack
T V'
age for Cash, and can therefore be sold very low.
He has watches of all kinds; chains, keys and
seals ot all the latest styles; finger rings, ear
lings; madalians of al 1 sizes, both English and
American make; ladies chatelains; collar and
sleeve buttons; shirt stud;; gold spectacles, light
and heavy; any quantity of gold pens and pencil;
gold and silver thimbles; bracelets; silver fruit
and butter knives; silver spoons of all the vari
ous kinds and sizes ; large lot of pocket cutlery ;
scissors of all sizes; button-hole .scissors; survey
ors' compasses and chains; mathematical instru
ments; any kind and quality or' pistols that may
be wanting; large lot of fine and common single
and double-barrel Guns ; game bags, shot belts
and powder flasks;
MILITARY GOODS,
including nil between the small button and bass
drum ; violins and extra bows; flutes; clarionets;
li igelets. accorileons of all kinds, music boxes,
perfumery soap, tooth and hair brushes, dressing
and pocket combs, plated and Britannia ware,
and various other things too tedious to enume
rate. Call and give me a trial.
!Cf- Watches and Jewelry neatly repaired.
Cash paid for old gold and silver.
J. M. REASLEY,
North-east corner Market Square.
Fayetteville, Aug. ., 1831 ly
JSTEW FIRM .IjYJJ
New jLivery Stables.
The undersigned having formed a copartner
ship to carry on the LIVERY STABLE BUSI
NESS, respectfully inform the citizens of Fay
etteville and the Public generally, that they
can be accommodated on reasonable terms with
Horses, Buggies and other Vehicles, at such
times as they may wish to hire, by applying to
the subscribers, as they are well prepared to
carry on the Business, having refitted and re
newed the Establishment, with the addition of
some tine Horses and new Vehicles, and are sat
isfied that they can give satisfaction to all who
may wish to hire.
And therefore call on thetn to give us a trial.
J. W. TOWERS.
ROBERT REGESTER.
Sept. 20, 1831 y
38 Carriages and Buggies
Now finished on hand IS of which are Buggies.
All at low prices; according to finish.
A. A. McK ETHAN.
Sept 20, 1831.
W ANTED,
A first rate BOOT-MAKER. Also, a good
SHOEMAKER, to whom good wages and steady
employment will be given.
NATHAN SIKES.
Fayetteville, Oct. 4, 1S31. 638-tf
TALLOW! TALLOW U
Cash paid for Tallow at
Oct 11, 1S51 A. M. CAMPBELL'S.
AREY, SHE31WELL & CO?
Have 1 piece of extra fine 7-i black FRENCH
CLOTH, to which they wWd call the atteution
of the public.
Oct 18, 1S31 CGO-tf
GOODS
And New Store.
The subscriber has just received and offers
for sale a well selected stock of GUOCCRlES
Also a fine assortment of DRY GOODS, which
he will sell on very favorable terms.
$5" Country Produce taken in exchange for
goods.
Having purchased his goods low for cash, he
flatters himself thjt he can suit any who favor
him with a call, both in quality and price.
DANIEL CLARK,
Nearly opposite T. S. Lutterloh's store.
Sept 27, 1831. 3m
H. (i. HALlT-
FAYETTEVILLE FOUNDRY.
Castings of every description made to
order.
A lot of Babbet Metal for sale.
WINSLOW STREET.
Sept G, 1851. tf
J. 15. KKAM
OFFERS FOR SALE
A GEXEUAL ASSOHTMEXT OP
DRY GOODS,
G R O C ERI ES,
Hardware and Cutlery, flats
and Caps, Boots and Shoes,
Iron"ffeteeI, Nails, &c, on the most rea
sonable terms for Cash, or in exchange for pro
duce, at his store next door to Market Square,
x i k..:i.i:
3000 Lbs. BACOX, sides, now in
store.
October 4, 1S51 ly
TEA ! TEA ! TEA ! !
Hyson Tea, Imperial Tea, Young Hyson Tea,
Oolong Tea, quality good, better, and choice, a
large supply and good assortment all selected
by a judge, and recommended as fresh and fine
flavored. " For salfeTSy
Oct 11 s. J. HINSDALE.
CALL AND LOOK.
The undersigned have just opened a new store
nearly opposite the Cape Fear Bank, where they
have a large assortment of
Eeadymade Clo tiling
NEW AND IN GOOD ORDER,
And can fit and suit all that will favor them
with a call
If a customer cant be suited with rendy-mnde
Clothing, they nre prepared to cut and make
the best of tits and of the latest fashions.
They pledge themselves to give satisfaction to
all who mav patronize them.
K. BETZEL& BROTHER.
Oct 18, 1831. 3m
FAYETTEVILLE
Ten Pin Alley,
JACKSON J O II N S O N
Continues the management of the Alley.
Oct, 18, 1S31. 6i;0-tf
BLACS TEA.
Extra line Oolong Souchong, one chest that is
choice and superior. There is none better. For
for sale by S. J. HINSDALE.
October 1 1, 131
FAYETTEYILLE WATER, WORKS.
THE Subscriber offers for sale his interest,
being one fourth of the stock in the above com
pany. W. WHITEHEAD.
Oct. 11. 1831. G5'J-2m
REMOVAL.
The Subscribers have removed to the new
Brick Store, two doors west of the Cape Fear
Batik, where they are receiving their fall stock of
Dry Goods, Groceries,
lI.lRBlV-iRE, CUTLERY, S- CROC KER 1'.
ALSO,
Boots & Shoes, Bagging: & Rope,
FISH OF DIFFERENT KINDS.
In fact, every thing usually called for in the
mercantile line, to which they invite an exami
nation. LEETE &. JOHNSON.
Nov. 1, 1S31 GG2-tf
ICT-CoHins'. Simmons' and Davis' Axes.
For sale by LEETE fc JOHNSON,
2 doors west of Cape Fear Bank.
31IL.J. STONES,
Anchor Bolting Cloth; Mill Irons, French
lWr, Esopuscnul Cologne Mill Stones,
al Slanitfaclurers prices.
THE subscribers having made verv favorable
arrangements for obtaining from one of the most
extensive importing and manufacturing houses
in this country, French Burr, Cologne and
Esopus Mill Stones, and the real AnchoBolting
Cloth, are now enabled to ofier anv of these ar
ticles to Millers, of the best quality and at lower
prices than they nave been heretofore furnished
at in this place.
A supply of best Anchor Bolting Cloth con
stantly kept on hand.
The quality of evrrv article is warranted.
JNO. H. & J. MARTI E.
Oct. 11, 1S31. G3i)--2m
A pair of 4 ft. 2 inch Cologne Mill Stones on
hand ; and daily expected, pair of 3 feet 6 inch
Esopus Mill Stones, and would invite an ex
amination of them, as they will be found super
ior ior corn.
kwl ' T-riraii. .
meat oL JtA vwuth' and aemnta Clothes. 7
Call timditp Uarm purchasing eUewber, for ihea
U no charge Xarlpoking.
GEORGE BRANDT.
- Sooth sid Hay street, one door below A. W. Steele.
SEGARS iOO.OOOSegars of aU kind and brand now
ready lor inspection, from 5 to 50 dollar per thousand
at wholesale and retail on the most accommodating terms
GEORGE BlUXUt.
Fayetteville, Oct. 18, 1851 3m
HYSON TEA.
A chest of very superior quality, fresh and fine
flavor, just received and for ale bv
Oat 11. i S. J. HINSDALE.
Second fall and Winter Stock of
STAPLE AND FANCY
PRY GOODS,
Hats, Caps, Shoes, Boots Um
brellas, Bonnets, &c, for 1851.
STARR & WILLIAMS beg leave to announce
to their customers, and all those visiting this
place to buj Goods either at wholesale or retail,
that they. are now receiving their second supply
of Fall and Winter Goods, which will be sold at
the lowest prices for cash, or on the usual time
for good paper.
We respectfully invite the attention of Coun
try Merchants to our new stock of Goods, as we
feel assures that we can offer inducements un
surpassed fey any wholesale house in this town.
S. & VV.
November S, 1851. GG3-tf
C7"Tanners', Linseed and Sperm Oil,
For sale by LEETE & JOHNSON,
2 doors west of Cape Fear liank.
HON. B. F. IIALLETT'S SPEECH.
We give, substantially, the remarks of Hon.
B. F. Hallett, made before the democratic con
vention for the first congressional district of
Massachusetts, (Boston,) Oct. 10, 1S51, upon the
announcement of his selection as delegate to the
National Convention, Hon. Isaac Emery in the
chair. - - ; - -
Mr Hallett said I earnestly thank you, Mr
Chairman, and gentlemen of the Convention, for
this renewed evidence of the long continued con
fidence of the Boston democracy in intrusting to
me, for the approval of the peop'e, the expres
sion of their wishes in the nomination of the
next President of these United States; and I do
so the more because tiie trust, on your behalf,
confided to me, is one of honor and not of profit
one which I shall use, as I trust I may say I
always have used any influence you may have
given me, to serve the cause and its friends more
than myself. Allow me also to say that 1 think
the convention has done wisely, in acting, on its
part, promptly and at once upon this question
of selecting a delegate to the national convention;
not with reference to the person you have honor
ed w ith that selection, but on account of its ten
dency to produce harmony among ourselves, and
to consolidate the general sentiment of the de
mocratic party throughout the Union, upon a
national convention.
That, in my judgment, is the great point and
the only point upon which the democracy have
any thing to fear. To nominate a democratic
candidate for President in a national convention
of the States of this Union, in May or June next,
is to elect him. This mode of nomination, in
geneml convention, is, therefore, the first and
most essential element of success, and hence the
great duty of the democracy' of each State, and
especially the north, is to adopt that course best
fitted to promote mutual confidence between all
the States, by removing all just apprehensions
that sectional or agitating influences from any
quarter, will be brought into a national conven
tion. To inspire this confidence the democracy
must show, by their State conventions, in refer
ence to all national concerns, and by their choice
of national delegates, that they mean, in good
faith in the faith our fathers pledged to the
south in the Constitution to go into such a con
vention upon the old, established, well-tried,
democratic national platform understanding
fairly, and meaning to cany out that plain con
struction adopted by our Massachusetts State
democratic convention in August last, that "the
Baltimore platform covers and was intended to
embrace the whole subject of slave agitation in
Congress."
Now, Mr Chairman, we at the north have not
been aware; and are not yet aware, of the great
importance of this single question, " Shall there
be a national convention of the democratic part y
of this Union?" for when it arrives to the
point of distrust that there -is no national party
in this Union having1 sufficient organization in
each State, or in nearly all the States, to bring
that party to deliberate and to consent, by its
delegates in general convention, to a presidential
nomination, we shall then have reached the cri
sis of practical disunion.
This has been. the question which has most oc
cupied the arrxious consideration of the friends
of the permanency of the democratic party
throughout the Union; and to this point, from
the position I have happened to occupy as chair
man of the democratic national committee, which
was appointed from all the States by the last
Baltimore convention, to promote the demo
cratic cause," have 1 directed my attention, so
far as I have, for some time p; st, taken any ac
tive personal concern in politics.
Hence, I trust, you will pardon me if, in view
of the recent relations of the democracy of Mas
sachusetts to the democracy of the Union, I have
regarded State affairs, about which there is no
conflicting opinions or sentiments in the demo
cratic party of this commonwealth, as of vastly
less importance than the great question the
living Union question of the organization of
the democratic party in all the States in respect
to national concerns, upon a platform, sound
witnout a sectional seam, and broad enough to
cover the whole Union. That was the vital
issue with the democracy of Massachusetts, in
their relations to the Union, at the Worcester
convention; and the effect of the manly, une
quivocal action of that convention, has been
wide spread, and most beneficial throughout the
land, iu its tendency to bring together all the
ceeded from Maasacht
chuetta come a rail iroritmg delegate 4rmUli
sections of the Union to a fraternal conference
upon matters touching their general concern,
and that the Massachusetts democracy propose
to meet their brethren of the south, in conven
tion, rledged to the 'Baltimore platform and the
compromises of 1S30 " and he urges -'this aus
picious fact as an assurance that their brethren
in the ether northern States will follow their
gallant example, which proclaims the ability and
determination of the democratic party to save
the Union, at the very hour when the impotency
of all other organizations to achieve the result, is
manifest." On this basis, with entire confidence
in the justice of the north, the south will, with
great, if not entire unanimity, go into a general
convention. j-
Such is the auspicious infljetice of your State
convention at Worcester, and hence the selec
tion of every delegate in this state or any of the
free states, will according to his known opin
ions upon these issues, more or less tend to re
establish that mutual confidence which will
bring the democracy together in general conven
tion, in that firm bond of brotherhood that has
never met together in union without triumphing
throughout the Union. I think, I may say. with
entire Confidence, that you have made, your se
lection for this district in this generous spirit of
the national union of the whole democracy of
the Union, and in conformity with the resolu
tions of the Worcester convention, which re
commended the choice of delegates in all the
districts upon the principles of the Baltimore
platform, and "who will harmonize with the
democracy of the nation on these principles."
And, sir, what right hare we of the north, in
justice or good faith, to call upon the states,
south, wesHftr southwest, to go into a conven
tion with us upon a sectional issue, involving
their constitutional state rights, or endangering
their domestic relations? They do but require
that pledge of non-intervention, and non-agitation,
which we should alike demand, were our
constitutional guaranties and long-settled right3
of property, as we regarded them, called in
question. I rejoice, therefore, with you, that
the Massachusetts democracy had the honor f
taking the lead in inviting our brethren of all
sections of the Union to meet us, at a specific
time and place, in convention, free from all sec
tionalism, and with an assurance that their set
tled rights under the constitution and Lb?com
premise shall not be invaded or disturbed by us.
The democracy of all New England, and the re
united democracy of New York, have all come
up to this point, and it is, from the results of the
confidence thus inspired, that we can now hail
the triumphant election of tle gallant Cobb in
Georgia, by more than fifteen thousand majority,
to be followed by a like triumph of the fearless
General Footeiu Mississippi. These great union
results, which have reduced the formidableques
tion of secession at the south to the limits of a
single state, South Carolina, have already in my
opinion, secured the meeting of a national demo
cratic convention in 1S32, which will insure the
election of their candidate, whoever he may be
a convention in which every State will be rep
resented, except perhaps South Carolina and
she, 1 trust, will come in and assent to its nomi
nation as nobly and as practically as she did' in
1S44.
I repeat, sir, that it is only by inspiring this
mutual confidence between the south and the
north, that the fearful question of the right of a
State to secede from the Union can be allayed,
and subside into a mere abstraction. Depend
upon it, our democratic brethren at the south
have had as much perplexity and danger of di
vision from this abstract issue, as we at the north
have had upon the more practical issue of obey
ing and enforcing the laws of the land, and ac
quiescing iu the adjustment wh ich has been made
in congress, of the sectional issues that threat
ened the Union. It is only by the aid of the
good faith of the north that the friends of union
at the south can be able to allay the sentiment
there of repulsion, disunion and secession, which
had it gone so far as to concentrate two or more
States in an united secession movement, must
not only have lost to the country a democratic
president, but lost the Union.
We have now every appearance, in the signs of
the times, that by the course of the democracy,
and of the real friends of the Union, at the north,
upon national concerns', theie will be no obstacle
in the way of a concentration of opinion, through
the action of democratic state conventions and
the national committee, (prudently acting in
harmony, and under the advi.-ement of members
drawn from all parts of the Union, at the next
session of congress,) in fixing the time and place
of hoi ding a national convention; ami therefore
the sooner the democratic party act iu the choice
of delegates upon the Baltimore platform, the
better shall we be able to arrive at that point of
union as a national party, w hich is about to re
store to the democracy its old supremacy cf the
people in the federal administration.
In this alone 1 think I see the elements of sure
success in the next election : w hile, on the other
hand, our opponents, the whigs, though many of
them began well, and some few still continue in
well doing, instead of concentrating the general
sentiment in their ranks, have receded more and
more from the only point of national union upon
which any party can elect a president of these
United States. I doubt, sir. if the whig party
can hold a national convention of all the States.
Upon what platform can they go into such a con
vention, without one section deceiving or over
reaching the other? And will the south and
west, now they are forewarned, cast their lots in
such a lottery of political chances? Can they
come together upon the whig agitation platform
of New York and Massachusetts, or can they
again contrive adouble platform, north and south
or agree to have no platform at all to stand upon?
No, sir. There are practical questions of vital
interest to one great section of the country, in
an especial manner, as well as to the whole Un
ion, which cannot be winked out of sight, and
which must be met without evasion by any con
vention that undertakes to nominate a candidate
for president, and by the candidate whom they
may nominate.
Here, then is the commanding position which
the democracy occupy, and this is the motto-to
be inscribed on our nat ional banner
"UiVlOJi THROUGHOUT THE UNION T7POX THE
Baltimore Platform!"
There we stand, and if we stand there t geth
er we are triumphant. On the other hand our
o
of i
only
all the
convention.
in the triumph
1S32; there is niii
have been designai
not be foremost in pi
other who mav be seleci
And now, Mr Chairman
to do here in our own dist
democracy are united in principi
indivisible. The must regain the?
tion in numbers here in Boston. 1
imbued with democratic principles, thT
democratic progress in the old world as
the new, are .coming to the polls. NomN
now plav the master over the vote of another
he deposits it in the box. For the first time ill
a Massachusetts election, we have a free ballot.
and we must secure it. The friends of this free
doom of elections, must see to it, in every ward,
and in every town meeting, that this f're
ballot, the right of enclosing in one envelope the
ticket each ' voter in his heart and conscience
prefers, and depositing that ballot so enclosed,
so that it can be seen, (not what the ticket is,
but) that he deposits but one envelope, which is
his ballot. This is what the law means, and it
is a plain practical law, just as easy to be exer
cised in out town meetings, as it was for the
whigs in the legislature, upon their own motion,
to use it last winter in the choice of an United
States senator, to secure the purity arid freedom
of the ballot. Again 1 say, see to it that no mji
is deterred or driven from the polls by any ob
stacles the opponents of the free' ballot will
throw in its way.
The whigs threaten to repeal this and other
popular laws of state reform which the demo
crats have struggled for for many year9. They
are now on the statute book, and I trust they
will be kept there. No democrat can sympathise
with a party w hich seeks a restoration to power
in this commonwealth for the sole purpose of
perpetuating that power by abolishing all whole
some reforms .and restoring all old abuses in
iegilation. And especially, no democrnt can
pause an instant between there-election of Gov
ernor Bout well and the election of M r Winthrop.
If that :s the "Puritan blood" the Webster whig
-woulttve -nsI vrantrit on inure in politics than
I would have it in religious bigotry and in
tolerance. Sir, Governor Boutwell has administered the
affairs of this commonwealth with a modesty and
an ability which have insured the respect of
every manly opponent to his election in the
other parties. He is a statesman, without bav
ins been trained to it as a profession, and he is a
sound constitutional lawyer without the techni
calities of the law books. As much as I regard
my own profession, I rejoice that an able man
has been taken directly from the people, fitted
in all proper qualifications for a chief magistrate,
who is not a lawyer. It is for the oenefit and
the just popularity of the legal profession, that
it should not monopolize all the high offices in
the state. I will not pause here to intimate my
dissent to individual acts not all'eetmg ureal na
tional principles. That man who expects to be
individually satisfied with every thing done in a
party, can hope to gain his end only by forming
a party of one. la Governor Boutwell 1 see the
first chief magistrate of Massachusetts for the
last fifteen years, who has not interlarded hi
annual message to the legislature with one word
in favor of the sectional divisions that threaten
the dismemberment of this Union, and who ha
proclaimed the supremacy of law as the highest
duty of the citizen. Under the sound advice of
our present chief magistrate, fr the first time
in many ears, the legislature of Massachusetts
has ceased to utter resolutions ol scorn, defiance,
rebuke and insult against all portions of the
Union that did not adopt their narrow sectional
platform. It only by discarding all thee
sectional view, and leaving to eacn new state, ss
was left to the old states, its own domestic re
lations, that the progressive democracy ot this
republic has gone on extending the Union of
these states until, within your and my recollec
tion, Mr Chairman, it has increaaed lrom sixteen
to thirty-one United States from the Atlantic to
the Pacific: and is just bringing the golden trea
sures of our youngest sister, the fruit of demo
cratic policy alone, to he poured into the veins
of the circulating medium of commercial life in
all the great marts of the Union, saving them
now from the paralysis of suspension and bank
ruptcy. It is this enlarged and liberal view of the pro
gress f our institutions whicti makes hat I
mean by a national democrat.
Sir, I do not forget that there areUnioi men in
the whig ranks who areas true to the Union as
we are, and who will stand by the constitution
and the laws: but they did not make their inaik
at the Springfield convent ion, and in their candi
date for governor, (whose merits in all but his
political opinions and acts I freely admit) they
have selected as their standard bearer, a man
either of wrong opinions or of no settled and
reliable convictions on the great questions that
involve the integrity and the expansion of the
Union. It is true that Mr Winthrop voted for
the Mexican war, but in the very crisis of the
Union, when he was temporarily the successor
of Daniel Webster, in the senate of the United
States, instead of following in the footsteps of
his illustrious predecessor, he turned his narrow,
sectional back, upon tbe broad shoulders of the
great expounder, and went for agitation !
We are all then, Mr Chairman, as democrat.
hether in towns or cities, between whom there
should be no unworthy jealousies, united to a
man in the support of our candidates nominated
by the state convention ; and let us (.how if. by a
vote for Boutwell and Cushman, that shall bring
the democracy of the Bay State up to i old line
of round numbers in its best days. Let us do
our duty manfully; firmly abiding by the national
principles of our stale convention, and act
ing in firm brotherhood with the democratic
party of the whole country ; and as surely as we
hsdl e a democratic national convention unit
insrin the nomination of a presidential candid''
in '52, so surely shall we see the democratic
party again administering the national affairs,
and again triumphant in upholding and extending
this mighty Union of republican states, in its .
progressive and peaceful mission of fre gov. -rnment,"from
conquering unto conqaer."