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. 1: 7s fWttNr morally or physically, by word or deed, have given any aid and rem fort talh e enemy, Mrtplvta, I hat we rejoice at In restoration .JiJpt. ..fiodii!!ii dMiur it?r K?p.!hNe "JT. ll',JL.-rltUrii,i!itf;jQ,jrivate ifef His experience Mexico, and earnestly desire ' for ht-r . all tTie has, ; thrrefurr, been practical to an extent to qual blessings and prosperity which we enjoy under ify liitn in administer ihe affairs of the Govern . Itepubliean Institutions, and we congratulate the nienl, should' the 'People, rail him, lo thanruetf JAnierican peoplejipon the resulta fUHt war, respectably and in a National spirit.,.. J. J vhTcbThate i manifeail)rJoffiifird the"poT?ry and- Of the eminent gentleman (the Hon William conduct of the Dcmoersiie parly, and insured to R Kino) who was selectr by the Convention the United Slates indrmnity for the past and fr tief7rr VfiVrc-ntrnne who knows him security for the future." ! can aay iifgfiTieriiially in hi dispraise still Resolved. That iri iiew of the condition of less can we, who have known him from ihe be ' pnpulnr instihitions in the old world, a high and j ginning of his public career. We wonder, in- Mr red duly ia devolved with increased reeponsi-: deed, thinking of him aa we do, that the Conven- liiliiy u; on the Democratic party of Una country aa me pariy nl tne people, to uptioiu ami main tain the rights of every . Slate, and thereby the (JhUo 4f ilit teml'W'H44ii wd 4vanc amoi( ui constitutional liberty, by continuing to rTfa slrmofHwwifirwsnd -rormsivederhdalio; the benefit of ihe few at the expense ofthe many, and by a vigilant and constant adherence to those ' principles and compromises ol the constitution, which are broad enough and strong Chough to -r embrace and uphold the Union aa it. is, and the Union aa it ahull he in the fulj expansion of the -rawrgies and capacities of lliie great and prog res ' fiv people. ' . H 'rt 11 t " , , from lite National Intelligencer. June 7th. .1 Opening cf the Campaign. The Democratic Party jaa placed in the field . a . tat"' , is candidate for the Presidency, in the person ol j FaaKKMN riKRCK. ol INrw Hampshire. Thia nomination was effected in the Conven tion of the Party, at Baltimore, ort Saturday last, about one oVI ck. afier aeveral dajs ol intflec tual triala. in which Mr. Cass. Mr. Bitch ak an, Mr. Makct. and Mr. Dote las stood highest, but neither of them having at any lime come nearer than within sixty votea of the two-thirds nece sary to secure a nomination ; when, on a uddcn, wearied out with fruitless contention", and in ac tual danger, it was thought, of dissolving without making any nomination at all, the partisans of nil the .regular candidates threw up their hand, and Mi the second voting ihetenfier Mr. Pirrck recei ved two hundred and eijh:y-two votes (being all but ail,) aud was lilerully proclaimed tlje candi date. This result confirms what we have more than once suggested, that all the delates in Congress, ard eeciallv in ibe House of Kepresentaiivea, in relation to the rlaiins of particular individunU to the honor oil he Democratic ncmination for the I'residency, wasan idle cniisiimplioii of time which, upon every consideration ol public duty, ought to have been Oifferently employed. The great poinls of content in these debates were. chiefly, the neceasity of keeping up with what is railed "the progress;" the claims of the West, and of those who rejoice in the title of Young America," to a large if not predominant share in the honors and emoluments of the Government, and the ronsequent contempt with which intelli gent age, accompanied by high public and pirly services, and knowledge acquired by exerienee, were to he derided, contemned, and made subser vient to the foregoing consideration. Ami what has been the upshot of all this ? The parly ol progress" has triumphed in setting aside all the veterans whom the old Democratic party had employed in offices secondary only to the first, and from among whom the body of tlts.t partv has certainly expected the candidate for the high rat office of the Government to be selected ; and the making choice of one an estimable and ac. ceptahle person, bating his politieal creed whose name hail not been pressed in the debate referred to; who is not a " Young Ameiicau ;" who is iiot a Progressive " that is to say, not a fast man ;" who ia not a Western man, but as far from it as the territory of Uncle iSain extends tottwanlly frum the west ; and, though not to be reckoned among the "Old Fogies," is not so entirely youthful as to be free from the suspicion of respect for the wisdom, the old principles, and the religious habits of his forefathers. It is now manifest that the two-thirds rule," which the party have adopted, ia one which ef fectually excludes from nomination for the Pres idency 'all prominent or distinguished members f the" parly all at least whose eminence is such aa lo bring thir claim and qualifications natural ly into general disrusion. and ,lo enlist the sup port of extensive divisions ol zealous adherent. These partisan feelings being carried into the Convention, and engendering rival animosities, must always necessarily, result in the choice of some person before uuthought of, or so little known as not to have challenged any rial enmi 'tiea. This being the case, ihe choice at which the Convention ultimately arrived was not only ,Mgood as could hate been expected, liui, in ihe hap-haiard to which the Convention was redu ced, abetter one than might have been made. In the case of Mr. Poi.k, (nominated by the Con vention of 1844 under nearly similar eircumstan cea.) although he had been a prominent member of the popular branch of Congress, and was em - - inently respectable in private life, he was-so litile . , known lo the great body of een his own parly. " that after hie nomination the ahnost universal in ' qwiry out of his own Stale was, " who is Jamei Jf, Potk f" aIn his ease, although not conspicu ous enough to have been dreamed .f by Ihe par ty genrially for the office f President, a delegate to the, Convention from a Northern State, fore seeing that Mrs Van Bukek must be supplanted bv somebody, was known to have visited Ten. . " I 1 - I. ... ..!... nessee, anil carneu in in pocei (l mr miicn lion from the old Hero ol the Hermitage the name; un( these same gentlemen out-hcrod Herod him of Mr. Polk. He was therefore in the con tern- ,elf j their devotion to il. We heard not a Million of a few at least, from the first. In the , wt,e fm.e CMt who was most - violent in his nrant rime, however. IDC geilllelliuil . .i. .j on w hom the mantle has finally lallen had bel li nowhere named, that w e know' of. by State Convention or Countv Meeting, in his own State or out of it ; the attention of the party ha ing been fixed alone ! ,U(.nl j, ttiia sudden, change of opinion upon the i: on the C asses, the BrciiASAN,' tlte Doi'CLAsi:,! pri,,r action of the parly, mid of individual-! Marcys, Hoi!STo,S8. BtTLEKs. stereotyped names j hiu w,.,i volumes docs it not speak in favor ol " of ihe Democracy ; and months ami months tlioe who were the early advocates of the mea !l having, we repeal, heen spent in Congress ,and gUres . - out of it, in discussing their merits and pressing j y 0f this shifting, is it unfair lo suppose their claims. I and asserl, that these gentlemen were either disi We rart very wrll imagine what will be the j honest in their opposition at first, or that they (enersl surprise of the unsophisticated Democra- have changed their ground in order to make po- ey on learning mat an meir niyn-raiseu nope ftd sanguine cxpeCtatroiH tiaveocen cmsnea eartii y me iwo-i"'"'" u"" n " is jir Sen ted to-them of .whose political claims lully Totir-fillhs f them' had Bt, vcr before' heard a wrbianer. ' - .u A .i.m.-inP,d.owinir to hi ser- ice it several public station, but yet le than "sit any othet of the gentlemen wl.it were honored - by Votea in the DemoSratic Coiivenlion. Iii the year 1833. he look-hie seat in -Congress as: a .Representative from the State of New Hamp shire; and, after serving tif ihat Capacity be came a.SenWir frerajhesume Suteiscrvinjlhere ..mui.m-...... r--r. . ,:..... also for several year after which he retired lo , War heemd ii Btf In commission at the c tone of the war, aim : Un did not seek relief from tie dilemma oy in- king one ao able, experienced, and uncfception able, for the principal office, instead of for the rcH,. . VVwlwMit i M aigJWHS W-AUalMH'lie lite respectidde gentleman who became the choice of h CtRetthifw( ilMral.iiScev.whU have thought it more accordant with the fitness of things, as well a more politic, to have rever sed the positions ol the two nominee. " King' name would have been a tower of strength to the party of which he is an ornament, or any o ther. But the Convention decided otherwise, and it ia not for us lo murmur. from (he Intelligencer, June 10. The Free-Soil Demooraoy. The New York Evening Poal, the leading or gan of the Free-Soil party in New York, and an unwavering opponent of the Compromise meas ure, ha given in it adhesion to the nomination of .Mr. Pierce for the Presidency, luays, in substance, that he is a new n.an, of capacity and character, who ia uncommitted by any let ter and, for the benefit of that wing of the De mocracy which it represents, it endeavors to ex plain away the Compromise resolutions of the Convention. We do oot pretend to say that its reasoning ts founded on fact, but we nevertheless quote what it says on the subject, that our read ers mav see by what means it is expected to biing the entire Democratic vote to the support of the nominees of that party : " With regard to the resolution said lo have heen adopted by the Convention, just before it clow, called in some quarter the platform,' we reassert, ill stronger terms, what we said yester-,l.,x- e'liriher iiiauiries into the circumstances iifv us that, iii aavine that theu did not ex - nresa'the tnst of the Convention, we used the ' . . . II ! ...:i least expressive phrase the ease wouio jimmy. They were not adopted by the Convention. Three-fourths of the members more than three fourth, it-is said by some had lelt the room: not more than a dozen oj the rent knew what trat doing. Mr. Davis, the President of the Convention, had heen obliged, by exhanstioo. to leave the chair. Mr." Irvine waa ir. his place. and was exerting himself vainly to establish i plhing like :rder. The main buainewa of j ihe Convention had been completed; members and bystanders weie talking it over with each unip other 'and every thine was attended to but what! was going on beside the chair In the midst of this bustle and contusion, in the mnist oi iouu conversations, shouts, and noise of the hasty en trances and hasty departures, homething tea read which nobody heard, concerning which very few were aware that it was reading. Mr. Irving nut the question on all the resolutions in ' .... .i... c r a lump. I tie aves, in uui ii-nguim, a ; vention, just in the bu sile of breaking up,.were . l I I.-' .l-t.. .1 mote numerous man i.ie noes, a no im uriru(jti".-"-- - b--- ;- numerous than th the resolution adopted. From one of the mem- away the lamis to me new laics, at a rapuny hers then in the Convention, who was decidedly increasing rate; and it is worse than folly in the opposed to a part ol ihe resolutions, and would old) States to stand by and see them all given a h!i!e voted against diem if he had been given an way, without demanding our share, our just and oi.portuniivwe have it that he did not e ten equal share, for purposes of education and inter- II . I . ! ..-I : ................ 1 1 u m..lA li..t ,1m Wliii.a .A hear the resolutions nut to cote and was not a- ware of ibis pretence ihat they had been adopted till he heard il afterward. A platform made in this manner does not even deserve the name of a Jarre, which we yesterday gave it. A farce is played before an audieuce which is aware of what is going on." The " Evening Post " 1 g'" ' readers to understand thai Mr. Pierce is not the ultra Southern man which in Borne quarters he is rep resented lo be. Shifting. It is astonishing with what facility Democracy, or rather Loco-focoism, adapts itself to circum stances. Two years have not elapsed since a series of measures commonly known as the com promise were being discussed in the Congress of the United Stales the whole country from Maine to Texas and from ihe Atlantic lo ihe Pa cific was agitated every newspaper in the coun try took one side or the other; throughout the South the Whig papers, almost unanimously sustained it; while the Democratic papers with equal unanimity opposed it. The compromise was denounced m ilu place as a magniucciu biiinbinr as a base surrender of the South, its advocates were called suhmissionisls ; and much was said w ith regard lo resistance and separation in the event of the admission of California. We heard more than one prominent Democrat say they -did not care a d n how soon the Union wai dissohed, &c.,&c. Two j ears have passed. It a nnn timm is m nrmttl unnienKflv mo more nonular than they imafiined it ever would be, V m f opposition to the whole series when pending, as sert that he would vote' for no man for President, who whs not sounder' on the compromise than Mr. Webster or Mr. Fillmore. What a com- jjucal capital I fl. L-iiy fJia iorm .nurr. KEG ROCS FOR SALE. I -SHALL sell at the courthouse door in the town of Greensboro', on Saturday the 8nl of July next, a Kesjro woman and (wo children, Pelog ,-a. .1.,... .a J.... . aM. r 1 il'l Tnia. mwiekuowa on da bt sate. j JAMES McIYER, Guardian. Greensboro', June , 1852. C82.3 , Worms , Worms I THE Cpmp.Syrup, Spigelia, one ef the eafest and most effoctive worm medkiues of tho day. ? ibj 15th, 1852. f. WElK. DISCUSSION AT FAYETTEViXLE. From thfrayetlevVU Observer; " The Candidates for. Governor. The Canvass of 1842,' when Morehead and Henry met for the only time in this plaee was forcibly brought to mind on Monday last, when Kerr and Keid addressed a lame and attentive au dience from the same spot. TheTesnlt now was the", mius) 'M''teiiii'"'g1dfhins triumph of the Whitf cause prefiguriptf now, we trust, as then, a still moire important triumph at the polls in Au gust. We heard several Whigs declare their o pinion, that the disparity between the candidates was even ereater now than in 1842. that the triumph of Kerr, was greater, if poss.ble, than tliat ol Morehead and certainly no stronger evi dence of success could be eivv n t for the debate of 1842 is ss eelehtaled throughout North Uaro. Vina as any " event that ever occurred!" If Kerr has less of the terrible sledge-hammer power of liliVrehe orator, and not less of that power which reals in an honest face, the true index of the heart that beams thronjjh it a face ihat commands the con fidence 3ihI respect of all who look upon it. Whilst, if Reiif has more information and shrewd ness than Henry, he is greatly deficient in quali ties for which the latter was eminently distin guishedfluency and plausibility. lie is , ex ceedingly dull and uninteresting speaker, and m as very rarely able, in the course of the three hours during which he spoke, to bring forth applause from even his devoted partisan. A remarkable instance of this occurred when he announced from the stand the intelligence which he himself first brought here, of ihe nomination of Pierre as the candidate of his party for President. The announcement fell upon the public ear withuiit a responding cheer, though Mi. Ketd went on to eulogize. his civil and military services. Even gut powder produced no explosion. ! Dis servi ces in the Mexican war were glorified by the speaker, hut no answering shout showed that the audience knew or cared any thing about them. Mr. Reid had not then seen the ashington. Un ion which arrived the next mornine. in which Pierce was represented as another "Young Hick ory," as more like Old Hickory than any other living man. If he had only had that hint, that knowledge of his candidate (of whom in truth both he and his auditory were almost equally ig norant.) he might possibly have stirred up a lit tle enthusiasm under ihe ribs of those who still re ere the name and lame of Jackson. The Senior Editor ol the Ohservrr took notes ol the discussion, intending to write them out ful- ; ly for t'-i day's paper But a sudden indispo- silion puts it out of hi power 1.. V .I.... nnlliln Our reader may be assured that nothing but ph steal oabi!nv should prevent their hat ins the benefit of a lull account of a scene of which he and (hey have so much reason to be proud. By arrangement, it was Gov. lieid's turn lo speak first, and he occupied his two hous, in an nouncing himself as a candidate ; announcing the nomination of Pierce for President, and eulogi sing him ; in discussing the puhlie land question; the la rill question ; kicking the old L. 8. Bank j that dead lion, which eery hero politician for ! fifteen years pist ha single-handed encountered and Main ; in defending himsell for having Wv j led lor the Wiloiot Proviso in the Oregon bill when in Congreac; in glorifying the Equal Suf frage hill, and opposing a Slate Convention. He avowed himself opposed to giving the lauds to tho new Slates, w ished ihe proceeds to remain in ibe treasury, especially w lulsi the country i in debt. In this the Whig altogether concur with him. It it exactly what we contend lor. But il is whal the sad experience of the few last i ..m aluhura ui rinnnl troi i ?iimrrfc f ruhlitf llal onpM'vmidi,. IIC O.I1U III, luo . 5' the new Slates were as ready to vote away the lands as the Democrats. And when Mr. Kerr came to reply, he fully exposed theshallowness of this argument, by showing how the members Iruiu thi$ Slate voted. Il was natural, he said, thai the members from the new States should vole for measures so well calculated to benefit iheir own ncclion. But is that an excuse for the Democratic mfinbers from this State? He read from a list of the yea and nays on thai iniqui tous Homestead hill, the name of every Whig member from this Slate (except Mr. Caldwell, who was then returning to Washington from the death-bed of his mother.) all against the bill But where was Ashe, the Representative ol this District! Where was Daniel! Wnere was Venahie ! Nowhere ! "They neither voted for or against il. They lacked ihe moral indepen dence to vote at all. , The (iov. said that since the U. S. Bank went down, exchanges were lower than ever before. Every business man here knows that this is not ihe fact. For several yeara before the U. S. Bank waa refused a re-charter, it is well know n lhat exchange was regularjy only one quarter ol one per cent., whilst its notes passed at par from one end of the country lo the other. Aou, w ho can get exciiange in norm warouoa a, .ess ,a.. i , fc' , i: . .1 one per ceni., ilour limes aa inurn as uieu.y or h hank note that will pass at pur in any oilier Slate ! (iov. Reid at'.empted lo excuse his vote for the Wilmol Proviso, by drawing a distinction be tween, the one he toted for in the Oregon bill and the one offered . y Wilmot. But. if they were different, and the one he voted for was harmless, why did he vote against it when it was introdu ced as an amendment to ihe Oregon bill ! He admitted that he opposed it aa an amendment to the bill, ami lhat he voted lor the Dill alter tne niajority adopted the amendment. Either bis first vote or In lasi wa wrong. Gov. Held was utterly opposed to the calling of a Convention. He belieed lhat many other amendment, besides Equal Suffrage, might be made to the Constitution. He would be willing lo elect Judges by the people, and had no objec tion to altolish the land qualification for a siyit in the Legislature, But these were all little, minor amendments; and he was in favor of the I.cgwlativa mode, a the cheapest, and most con venient, and most expeditious. He denied the ' Mr. Kerr anoke for two hour in reply, lie 1 ct'.- ,.- ..f.. 4 . ..f i.i. commence oy row mnuisnmnrmvinrm - position as a candidate, byn procurement of! his own, 'by the free nomination W that great .... w , . part with which h- bad ever tieen-nappy-anu -. . . .... . . nronil to avow himself identtneu, ; lie was giau . . . . :.r fhi. nnnnrtnnilv In meet and become aCOUsinl-' vi .. i r -- 1 right of a majority ,f.h. people . require - j '-- p . W1 Un. mendmenl. of ihe 9mJSwJ the bill to local, a that us was no federal doctrine. ! V.i it u n ...t :.. ! n. ml h opposed to anv change of the basia ol reresenta- sen suinmeu ' . u ,i, ,... upioieu mi " " - ' , , ,-,, instances in which all the Prea- ...... .. - .1... iv..ai j.i tii.irinuiiiin m 111,1 f.ifiiii - llffll, or UI lite VAmim w. -.- --- I UIIU. ed with his fellow ritizehs of this . part of the State, He wis, like most of the people of this regmnd "A nation famed Im song, andeauty's'charms; Zealou, yet modest ; innocent, though free; , ration! of toil ; serene amidst alarms ; Inflexible in faith; invicibla in arras." If he should have the honor In bo- elected. Jie would he ihe (ove-nor of Ihe Slate, and not of; a party. lie had had too many proofs of patri-1 otism among his opponents-to make him unchar itable. We fiffervit is true, on many, points; but. let any stirring issue be presented, one in volving the Integrity ol this glorious Union; and then all, democrat and whigs, stand shoulder to shoulder. In all his party contests he had found it so. ' " He should stale his opinions frankly. He 'wnttht'vay--nnmiiifthrtlifm-ihit''1iay'',iinT' ready to aar in the West i or in the West ihat should fail, to secure success, he would at l least be able to retire to private lile possessed of his ' own self respect. First, as to State Policy. He had always deemed our Slate constitution our of the best ever possessed by any community, and our peo ple living under it the happiest on earth. Every body waa contented with il, until his competitor started the Free Suffrage question. He ha ex cited the people to demand a change. They have demanded it ; and I am for it. Either ihe majority or the minority, must rule. Which shall it he T let his comtelitor answer that. The well-considered will of Ihe majority should be carried out. That was the doctrine of Jeffer son ; and it i settled by whig and democratic authority in North Carolina. An Address to the people in 1833, in favor of amending the consti tution, by Wm. II. Haywood. R. M. Peron, Thus. Dews, and R. M. Saunders, asserts it in the plainest language. From that address Mr. Kerr read several eitracts, such as the follow ing : These are evils which a majority" nf the People havt a right to remove. To deny this light is to arue agaiiibt the very foundation principle of all popular uoventnient. It is retained in the Iron! rank of our own Declaration ol Riylits, and in that of every oth er State in the Union, that in the concerns ol this j had thus adopted in defiance of the laws; and life, oil potrer and tottrnnily rrruJf in Ike People. i how Mr Mason, of ihe Senate's Finanre Com They can alter their government w hen they please, H,niee, had been obliged to introduce a bill to le wheneve indeed the happiness and prosperity ol , ize ,(,, Vslein, thus at last doing what the the larger number imperiously demand a change. wiii,ra told ihein in 1840 ouhl to be Jone bv (.U..I lLm. th Mil mr. nn.l .in trt: 1 1 m I Jicrcin UKjr miimnn. v -'" " mn. j ".'s ... ...... it lias been tet to their authority but that which the A i. MIGHTY has imposed lhat they shall exercir it in justice ami equity. This may be denounced, but it is the doctrine of free American Institutions, his the doctrine ol the Revolution It is tub itr.rirBi.i cam nocTaiKE or this ointh ! ' ' Kut these objections pai-n a sentence of condem nation on the Declaration of iiioepemlence. and the principles of the American Itevolulicn, and when we deny this riuhtof a majority of the People to re model their government, it leads to the much more monstrous conclusion, that a minority that one man may perpetuate the most intolerable system j ih1I we have one. He denied that tin Slate of tyranny overthe rights of the majority may u- Bank had been sounder, and rxchangea lower, aurp all the pow -eraof the government and seethe vi.e he j S rj,,,lk ri89K , fxiHt majority with no right., but to P Summing up the various measures of Whig of tame amf quiet subjects. The People cannot fail to x u ,, i ,, .,. , reprobate a prauteoppoitimtM lead, to .ucK a con-1 Policy. Mr. Kerr alluded lo Mr. Clay, and pro ctuiion. Sovereignty, a powei which binds all other j nout.ced upon hniMhe mo splendid eulogy we yet is restricted by no other, ami bound by no forms, ever listened to. There was many a wet eye in ' .... i , . :t : . I i i ; . i ! i . -i : t. . ., must resute somen ueie. i'i inu country u m too eta iria a vwjority of the People Now, raid Mr. Kerr, this si me . M. S.un ders vauntingty proclaimed in his convention a few weeka ago, that he wanted to meet me on this very subject of the right of a majority. It him first meet my competitor, and get rid ol linn; and then let hini meet himself! It hi in an swer himself. Let him get rid of himself, be fore he meets me. In 1834. another address had been issued, by W. II. Haywood, Gov. Graham, (who was good enough authority for him.) ?. M. Saun ders, sgain. Judge Strange and others; Iroin which Mr. Kerr read similar sentiments. He therefore considered these principle as settled settled by Whig and Democratic authority. Mr. Kerr argued that it necessarily takes 5 or G years lo get one amendment through the Leg islature ; and lhat there were plenty more such issues kept behind, lobe presented jear after year, and to keep the State in a turmoil. The Contention would more easily, speedily and cheaply, settle the in all. And 1 shall vote lor a Convention, said he. The people demand Free Suffrage, and I am for giving it. He showed how the vote of 3 5ths was obuined in the last Legislature. Il was not a decision of those who were in favor of il, for it could not have passed lb" Senate without the volts ol several members who weje frightened into it hy the bill lo call a Convention introduced in the Commons hy Mr. McLean ol Surry, (a Democrat ) for which bill Gen. Saunders himself voted. This showed how improper it was to trust such important matters to hasty, and inconsiderate fjind w e may add. tricky legislation. . What, "said Mr. Kerr, do you fear from a Con vention ! a change in the basis of representation! I am opposed to any such change. I am not for a government w hich protects persons only, or property only ; but for one which pro' teds both 'person and property. Great ap plause. There was no part) in North Caroli na in lavor of changing the basis., For himself, he lived in the largest shtvtholding county 'but one, and the largest tai-ving but two or ihree, and he had no fear of a Convention. But wjio put yon in peril, if there he peril, on this subject !' Turning to Gov. Reid, he eaid. with inimitable humor. As Nathan said unto David. Thou art the man ! " David!- This hit produced roars of laughter, in which the uov ernor himself joined. If you are scared, he scared you. He ay hi free suffrage is no just cause foi the agitation of all ihese tning. But it is the cause, and he is responsible for it. Turning to National politics, Mr. Kerr de clared that he had never more reason lo he proud lhat he is a Whig. 7Yie. ihe great arbiter, had proved that we are right. Take the platform of our opponents, and tejl us whai Democrat had ever administered the government in aicordnce with its principles. On Internal Improvement. Protection, Economy, tho U. S. Bank, whn h of the Presidents had ev,r conformed to the plat form ! The first tariff bill ever- passed had PriklMrtssill (ir lift I ihitti't. anil it wai viirnffl lY mm . ' t tT ' I M....1. I...I ,uariiil from the' or met nles ol the HliTffinrWtiflhrC competitor f-' I... -. ' ..l:d..iJ j . . . ' , , j - . .. In ibis platform was expressed oppostionto the payment of - stale and un ounoed claims. - I .11. .I.. I In ihai ( ialllhlll rtuim. -jowni mun :-- :;- ii .i:.i mn..mvm f i ha eiiniliipt ul .Vi r. 1 raw- , -- - - . rr....t ,t,.i in.iii.- lint -when -Mr. Forsvth i forU itt waa Gen. Jackson's Secretary of State, ho not only had that lamefatpbim rlaimf but went before h(t'iribuuals , and argued vlr favor' of it psynient.. And . Cyss, . when i Secretary jifAV a r, allowed hi own claim, after every bwlr else had rejected it. Such a party should be i little careful how I hey talk of stale claims." lie alluded to the Common School Fund as created by a Whig legislature, and thanked the Governor for his praise, of that system. It was created out of tlie surplu a revenue deposited under the Distribution act with the Slates. And why did we not get the whole of that surplu ihe 4th iostalment of iif - Because, said he, Van Buren'a otficers ran away with the money Swartwoul with hi million, and the Boyds and Ilarriasea with their hundreds of thousands. - His competitor said the Democrats twere for keeping the lands to pay the public debt. Whv dou I Uiey 4I0 ill . We lidd lheoi 20 jears jigo that il they did not stand no to us on Ihe laud B" 11 "e l"ds are now given to rail road companies,, ibe stockholders in which are Wall oireet IJroker, and they it is who contrive to gel ibe appropriations of lands from Congress. North Carolina gave a part of the land, and helped to pay for others which were purchased. She gets none, But Illiuois, Douglas's S'late, recives 5 or 0 millions at a lime. And then what good will this Homestead bill do you T Will any of you goto one of the new States lo claim 100 acre of land ! No, The men who live in grog-shop, and sleep in the street, in the large cities, will be hired by the Wall street broker to settle the laud, and the brokers will realize the profits. Mr. Kerr then spoke of the notorious depart ure Ironi ihe principle of the Independent Trea sury, in the constant .use of the banks to keep and transmit the public funds. And exposed the legislative trickery by which the tariff of 1840 was evaded, and how it was altered by, Mr. Walker's Treasury Circulars. How these cir culars were declared fraudulent by the U. S. Courts, even by the Supreme Court, and a vast amount of money, fraudulently collected under those circulars, onh-red lo be refunded. How it was found that the tariff would not produce rev enue enough w ithout ih svsteni which Walker O o J law. In regard to a U. S. Bank. Mr. Kerr said the Whigs were no biciionims. They acquiesce in the decision of ihe people the true republican doelrinc. The W big don't want a parly Bank. The war with England in 1812 had made ihe Bank necessary and popular. And though we can get along well enough during penee without a Bank, the lime may come when another war w ith a great commercial power w ill unite all par ties in lavor of one ; and then, and not till then. nut assciiiDinge wuiisi ine guieu orator inrew ins whole soul into such sentences as these Hknry Clay ! who has done more lhan any man since the lime of Washington, to advance ihe dignity and glorv of his Country ! I would rather be the dying Clay. iian the living Cass I would rather now, lay my head upon his pil low, and hate my brow bedewed with the death sweat that moisten his, than have them shaded by the laurels ol any living Statesman! God be pmised ! that he yet lives to witness the suc cess and the triumph of the great measures which his wisdom and patriotism origiuatev, and which hi splendid eloquence has so long mid so nobly defended !" After eulogising Mi. Clay much more at leng'.h. he spoke of Taylor, Fillinore, and Gra ham our own Gralmui a true man a true man, whom he was willing lo put forward in the world's gaze. He was for Fillmoie and Graham, a sentiment to w hich ev ry Whig in ilmt assembly, (and we will not say hut some Democrats aiso.) responded from the bottom of his heart. Mr. Hied billowed in a half hour's speech, in the course of which he said " he must admit that Fillmore had done belter lhan he expected. He did not know whethei Capt. Scott had writ- j tec to v,eii. fierce as 10 nis opinions, uui. saiu be. Pierce will be right. Th papers did state, before the Bdtimore Convention, that Pierce was written lo, aud no reply was receiv ed. And moreover, the Free Soil papers at the North said, that no one ol those who answered Scott's letter could ever receive the nomination ; and no one -of them did. Whaietrr l iter Polk may have written to Kane, ia a matter of no consequence." was a sentiment we were surprised to hear from Gov. Keid. He denied that Bank notes had ever been re ceived in government payments, under the inde pendent Treasury, unless by Fillmore's admin istraiion. This "w as a bold denial in the pres ence of those who knew that nothing else has been used in paying pension in ibis place, un der anV administration. j lie said that not a foot of lar.il, could be eiven away by Congress except widi the President' signature, and probably Mr. Fillmore was now engaged in sighing one of those bills of which his competitor complained so inucn. Mr. Kerf replied, that it was neither the doc trine ol the Whig or ilie Constitution, thai the President should veto a bill which Congress chose to pass, simply llecause he did not think it a bill which ought-to be passed. That would be a one-man kinglv pow er. The veto was con ferred to prevent encroachments on the Execu tive, and to arrest hasty and unconstitutional leg islation. It would be very improper, therefore, for Mr. Fillinore to exercise the veto on such a bill. Mr. Kerr continued during his allotted half hour, to reply to various assertions and points made by the Governor. And Gov. Keid closed, according to arrange ment, with another half hour speech ; in which there wa nothing mattrial except a reiteration of the point elated above, with regard to Mr- Fill more signing the land bills i.no which, howev er little force there was in it, seemed to be high ly relished bv himself and his Iriend. 1 bv himself and Ins Iriend. uch praise cannol be awarded to the for the good temper and ,eouiiey of 02 towards each other. The influence Too much speakers fi iliwl KAArintr ifrWwmrit natniJlifJjegt'dJ-- the audience and every thing passed off in llielhOsL pasiiiT manner. "'". " "-r-'' In the evening, the two candidates received iheir friends, Mr. Kerr in the spacious parlours of the Hotel, and Gov. Reid in the Hotel 11 all. In the former, some hundreds, probably, princi- - v ' . ' : ' " : . - naliy: Whigs, called to pay 'their respeet to ftfrv Kerr, and to congratulate him "and each other on the signal triuaiph achieved in the day's diseus sion. Ail impromptu Whig meeting waa nrvan- ueir,1y ealTuig Henry Elliott, Esq. to the Chair, and the following resolutions were. HuoiffioOsTy UOIHt'U j Resolved, That the Whiffs of Cumberland, next to their admiration for and devotion to their glorious cause, are proud of the eafhtnt standard bearer, wh--.- . .1 -I L I ' . .. w-uuj im oorne uiniMtii so jnuropnanuy.fla ao happily illustrated and enforced their principles, and lias w on fur himsell a place in their hea.t of hearts. -i- ; -. ( . Resolved That having performed AiVduty, wr win not fail to perform ours, from thia djy forward till we can hail John Kerr as Governor of North Carolina. ; e lr. Kerr came forward and apoke feelingly and eloquently of the pleasure it had given him to eojwy-ihe boepitubty W the W hig vrfCwinrsmr"""" land, and of the seal which animated 'them ia ; ths kih1 eaaiaewamaiw-iA4)n! 1 Messrs. Kelly of Moore, Evans of Johnston, and Cair ol Sampson, and General Wioslow of Fa)ettev:le. were successively railed out, eod delivered brief speeches.. For the Patriot Whig Meeting in Davie. ' In pursuance of a puhlie notice, the Whigi of Davie met in the Courl House in Mocksville to day for the purpose of nominating a Whig can didate 10 represent this county in the House of Commons, of ihe next Legislature, The meet ing was organized hy calling Maj. Samuel A. Ilobsou to the Chair, and appointing Col J. B. Jones, Secretary. The object of the meeting was explained by the Chairman in a few brief and appropriate remarks. . On motion of T. Cheshire, Esq., the Chairman appointed the following committee eonsisting of Dr. James F. Martin, Thomas M. Young. Tenison Cheshire, Samuel Bingham, John C. Foard. William C louse, Joseph W, Hodge, Charles Griffith and Mathew Pullord, Enquires, to recommend some suitable person as the Whig candidate, and re port resolutions for the consideration ol the meet ing. and they retired for consultation. On motion, the Chairman appointed Dr. D. S. Parker. K. B. Wagg anion, and P. F. Mero ney. a committee lo wait on Col. Lillington and request him to address the meeting. He ap peared and addressed the meeting for one hour, advocating Whig principles in his usual forcible and happy style. The committee rotorned and through their chairman, T. Cheshire, Esq., reported the fol lowing Resolutions: Resolved That we cordially approve of the nomination of John, Kerr as the Whig candidate lor Goernor, niid ihat we will use all honorable means to promote Lis election. Ilesolved. Thai we have the fullest confidence in Millard Fillinore, aa pure patriot, sound statesman, and liuly conservative in his princi ple, and aa one who will know no Soudi, 00 North, no E it, nor no West: hut only his country and whojc country; and me therefore most heaiiily approve of the aciiou of ihe Whig Convention of this State, in recommending him to the great Whig party of the Union, aa the first choice of the Whigs of North Carolina, for President ol ihe United Ktat Ilesolved, Thit we approve of the nom'nvtion of the Hon. William A. Graham, by the North Carolina Whig Convention, for Vice President of the United States. Resolved, That we concur in ihe nomination of Col. John A. Lillinoto. by the Whigs of Uowan. as the Whig candidate for Senator ID this Senatorial district in the next Legislature. Ilesolved, That we return our thank to Ste phen Douihit, Esq , for hi sealou efforts in the. Whig cause, and for his services as our repre sentative in ihe last Legislature. Resolved, That we recommend Burgess Gai llier as a suitable person lu represent this county in the House of Commons in the next Gtneral Assembly. The resolutions were read and unanimously adopted. On motion, the Chairman appointed a com millet to wail on Burgess Gaiiher. Esq., and inform him of hi nomination. Mr. Gaiiher uppeared in the meeting and accepted the nom iualion, in a brief and appropriate address. On motion. Resolved, thai the proceedings of thi meeting be signed by the Chairman and Secretary, and copies sent to the (Jreenslioro Patriot and Carolina Watchman.for publication. On motion of Dr. I). S. Parker, the meeting adjourned. SA M L EI. A. 11OBS0N, Clint. J. B. Jonks. Secretary. 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The applicant w ill oeexpecte'1 toproduce testimonials of proper qualilicationsjo teach the branches usually taught iu tho higher , schools of our country the Latin and Greek, the Mathematics, together with the primary English studies. ' , The Trustees hope to re-open the School by the fifsl of August, if a satisfactory engagemeiit can be made by that time. . ' Applicants will address thair letters, and for par- ticulars apply, to trustee 01 ureenaooro' inga School, Guillord couuty, w. y. .4 D. PAISLEY1. " . JUHiN M. UlLK. JAMES SLOAN, : J. M. MOREHEAD. JOHN A.' GILMER, J RALPH GOHRELL, JED. H. LINDSAY. Trustees, 682:0 H
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