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7A ttndtntyof Monocracy it toward tht titration of tht iiidutrloMS c!attt,th intrta of ihtir comfort, theaMttrtion of thtir dl-itlty ,th etlablislnnnt of thHrpoutr BY ROBERT WILLIAMSOX, Jr. LIXCOIjffTOff, ST. Cv 21, 1841. VOLUMi: V, NO. 8. u . ... -... . NEW TERMS OF THE LIXCOLN REPUBLICAN TERMS OF PUBLICATION'. Thk Ltcolx Rrpc ulicav is published every Wednesday at $2 50, if paid in advance, or 8 if payment be delayed three months. So subscription received for a less term than twelve months. ' No p.jppr will be discontinued but at the optiuo of the E Jitor, until all arrearages are paid. A fiilure to order a discontinuance, will be con sidered a ncVv engagement. TERMS OF ADVERTISIN'O. Ahveiitisem kxts will be inserted conspicuous ly for $1 00 per square for the CrSl insertion, u 25 cents for each continuance. Court and Judicial advertisements will he charged 23 per cent, more than the above prices. A deduction of 33 per cent, from the regular prices will be made toyearly advertisers. The number of insertions must be noted on the manuscript, or they will be charged until a discon tinuance is ordered. TO CORRF.SPONDFNTS. To insure prompt attention to Letters addressed to the Editor, the postage should in all cases be paid. COMMON" SCHOOLS. AN ACT for lire establishment and better rpgulaiion of Com mo ft Schools. lie it enacted by the General rfssemhly of the S.'ute of North . Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the .same, That the nett annual income of the Literary Fund, (exclusive of monies arising from the sale of Swamp Lands,) shall au , nuuUy be distributed among the several counties of this State, in the ratio of iheir Federal population, to be ascertained by the Census next preceding such distribu tion. II. Be it further enacted. That the Courts of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of the Counties which voted for "Schools," under the p-ovisions of the Act of one thousand fight hundred and thirty-eight, entitled "An Act to divide the Counties into School Districts, and for other pur poses," at the first term which shall be held after the first day of January, in each and every year, or at the succeeding term of said Court, a majority of the Justices of the Peace of said County being present, the said Court shall appoint not less than five, nor more than ten, superintendents of Common Schools, who shall hold their ap pointments for one year, and until others ure chosen. III. He it further enacted, That said "superintendents shall assemble within fif teen days after their appointment, at the office of the Clerk of the County Court, and appoint one of their number chairman. IV. Be it further enacted, That the Clerk of the County Court shall be ex vfficio Clerk of the Board of superinten dents, and shall record, in a book to be keot for that purpose, the proceedings of the Board, and such other papers touching mc suiijriH 'i vyi'iiiiiioii ociiuuik. as me Board may direct; and shall safely keep i all papers which may be committed to his custody by said Board. V. lie it further enacted. Thai the share of the Literary Fund, to which each County may be entitled, under the provis-! ions of the Act, hnH be due and payable on or before the first day of September, in each and every year, and shall be paid to the chairman of the Board of superinien tlents, or his lawful Attorney, upon the Avarrant of the Comptroller: Provided, however, that before such distribution shall be had, the payments which may have -been made to the Counties, under i he Act of one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight aforesaid, shall be added to the nett annual income aforesaid, in the Treasury; and the amount which may have been paid to any 'County, shall be deducted from the share of said County, and the excess only .paid over. VI. lie it further enacted, That the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of each and every County, a majority of the Justices being present, are hereby author ised and empowered to levy a tax in the same manner that other County taxes are now levied for other County "purposes, which shall !itot exceed -one half of the estimated amount to be received by said vcounty for tlra't year from the Literary 'Fund-; and the Sheriff is hereby required 4e collect and pay over the same to the chairman of the Board of superintendents, rH or before the first day of October eusu img; and his bond, given to secure the payment of count- taxes, shall contain a condition for the faithful collection and payment of the School taxes to the person authorised to receive the same ; and for a - breach of said condition by the Sheriff, ihe chairman of the Board of superinten dents, shall have the fame remedies against "ht'o and his securities, as are given to the County Trustee for enforcing the payment of ordinary county taxes. " . . VII.' lie it further enacted, ."That the Hoard f superintendents 'sht.ll have power, iind they are iier by required, within three months afier their appointment, to lay rff their Counties into School Districts, and -number the same, of such form and t-ize as they may think most conducive id i ihe convenience of the inhabitants of -said County, wjth power to alter the boundaries of said Districts, causing said boundaries and such alterations to be recorded by their Clerk, in Ihe book in which the record of their proceedings is kept. VIM. lie it further enacted. That the free white men of the several School Dis tricts, who are entitled to vote for mem bers of the House of Commons, on the first Monday after the expiration of one month after the said School Districts shall have been laid off, as herein before direc ted, shall vote by ballot for three men, to be entitled "The School Committee," who shall hold their appointment for one year, and until others are ' '"'sen ; and that said election shall be held at such convenient place m the School Districts, severally, as the said superintendents may designate ; and the three persons having the highest number of votes at such election, shall be declared elected as the "School Commit tee" of their respective Districts ; and the superintendents shall heve power to fill any vacancy which may occur in said Committee, by death, removal or other cause. The chairman of the Board of su perintendents shall give public notice in writing, at three or more public. places in each District, of the election directed to be held as provided in this section, at least ten days before the day of such election ; and the Board of superintendents shall ap point two freeholders of the Disirict to conduct such election of the "School Com mittee.""' The said freeholders shall give to the aid Board, within three days afier such election, a certificate under their hands, of the number of votes received, by each person and the said Board shall de clare the three persons receiving the high est number of votes the "School Commit tee," as herein provided : Provided, nev ertheless, that whenever the Districts fail to make an election, the Board of superin tendents shaH appoint the School Commit tee, who shall continue in office till others are chosen at the tiext annual election. IX. Be it further enacted. Thai each Committee of the several School Districts shall be, and is hereby constituted a body corporate, by the name and style of "School Committee of District number of the County of as the case may be ; and in that name shall be rapabie of pur chasing and holding real and personal es tate for School purposes ; of selling and transfering the same and prosecuting and defending all suits for and agatnst said Cor poration. X. Be it further enacted. That when ever suit is brought against any "School District," the process shall be by sum mons; a copy of which shall be left with some one of the Committee of said Dis trict. XI. Be it further enacted. That it shall be the duty of the School Committee to designate and purchase, or lease, a suitable site for a School House, as m-ar'the cen tral part of each District as "may be con venient; to hire, purchase, or build a School House of such form and dimensions as they may deem suitable ; and to use, for the procuring ol a situ and School House, such funds as the superintendents may place in their hands for these pur poses. XII. Be it further enacted. That the School Committee shall, in one month after their appointment, report in writing to the chairman of the Board of superintendents the number and names of the white chil dren in their districts of five and under ttventy-ono years of age. XIII. Be it further enacted. That it shall be the duty of School Committees to contract with a suitable teacher for their respective Districts, for such time as the monies to which said District in ay be en titled will permit; and to pay him, by giving an order on the chairman of the Board of superintendents. XIV. Be it further enacted, That any branch of English education may be taught in said Schools ; and all while children under the ag of twenty-one years, shall be permitted to attend the School of ttieir District as Scholars, and -receive instruc tion therein-. XV. Be it further enacted, That said School Committees shall have power to visit the Schools from time to time, and generally to perform all such duties as they may deem necessary to the successful operation, of said Schools. XVI. Be it further enacted. That with in one month after the School Committees shall have reported to the chairman of the Board of 'superintendents, the number of children in their respective Districts, the chairman snail call a meeting ot said Board, who shall determine . how many teachers are necessary for each District of their County ; and the monies received from the Literary Fund, and from the coun ty taxes, shall be distributed among the School Districts of their County, in the ratio of the number of teachers required. XVII- lie it further enacted. That the Board of superintendents shall have power, and they are hereby authorised, 'to make j such oilier; regulations re'ntnig to . the Schoois ol t!?ir County, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, as they may deem nuccsary to the usefulness of said Scbuors. - " XVIII. Be it further enacted. That the School Committees shall annually, on or before the first day of October of each and every year, make a report to the Board of superintendents, shewing the number of children in their respective Districts who have received instruction at their Schools the preceding year ; the length of time the same was kept up; and such other facts in relation to their Schools as they may deem expedient. XIX. Be it further enacted. That the chairman shall annually, within fifteen days after the first day of November, re- DOrt ill lerilino lAil- '- :.1.. .r.l Direc tors of the Literary Fund, or i ... officer or Board as may be appointed by the General Assembly to manage said fund, the amount of money he may have received the preceding year, and from whom, and to whom he has paid it, setting forth the name of each individual, and the amount paid to him; the rumber of children who may have been taught in the Schools of his County the preceding year ; for what time the Schools may have been kept up in the several Districts; with such other facts and suggestions as he may deem use ful and he shall make two copies of so much of said report as relates to the monies received and disbursed by him; one of which he shall file with the Clerk of the Board of superintendents, and the other he shall put up for public inspection in some conspicuous place in the Court house of his County. XX. Be it farther enacted. That the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions which shall appoint tbe Board of superintendents shall have power to require the person who may be appointed chairman of said Board, before tie enters on the duties of his office, to give bond and security for the faithful application of the funds which may come to his hands, in sucti penalty as said Court may prescribe ;. which bond shall be payable to the State of North Carolina, and shall be approved and re ceived by a majority of the superinten dents ; and shall be filed by them with the Clerk of the County Court: Provi ded however, that when the chairman is required to give bond as aforesaid, he shall be allowed to retain five per cent, of the monies which shall pass through his hands, as a conpensation of his services. XXI. lie it further enacted, That it shall he the dutv of the Sheriffs of the Counties in which a majority of the votes, under the provision of the Act of one thou sand eight hundred and thirty-eight afore said, were for "no School," when they advertise the next election for members of Congress, to give notice at the same time, by public advertisement in -eitery election precinct, that an election will be held to as cenain the voice of the people upon the subject of Common Schools; and all per sons "who may be entitled to vote for a member of the House of Commons, shall be entitled to vote in said election ; and every voter in favor or the 'provision? of this Act, will deposite his vote with the word "School" upon his ticket; and those opposed to it, "will vote "No School" on their tickets. And it shall be the duty of the poll-keepers to count the votes given at such precinct for "School" or "No School," and to return the -same to the Sheriff, who shall count together all the votes, and certify the number for "School" and "No School" separately, to the Go vernor, within twenty days after said elec tton, and to the County Court of his Coun ty next ensuing said election ; and any Sheriff failing to comply wi h the requisi tions 1f this Act, shall suffer all. the pains and penalties imposed by law for failing to discharge his duty in any election for members af Assembly. XXII. lis it further enacted. That the County Courts of the Counties in which a majority of the votes were for "No School," under the Act of one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight aforesaid. shall not appoint superintendents, or take any other action on the subject of "Com mon Schools," until a majority of the people of such County shall have voted for the system agreeably to the provisions of the preceding -section. XXIII. Be it further enacted, That in each of the said Counties, where a majori ty of the votes shall be for "Schools," such County shall be entitled to the same rights and privileges, and the County Court shall perform the same duties, and be invested with the same powers as in the Counties where a majority of the votes were cast for "Schools," under the provisions of the Act ' of one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight" aforesaid;- and any County Court in said Counties, subsequent to said election, a majority of the Justices of said County being present, shall have power, ar- they ate 'hereby required, to appoint superintendents of Common Schools agree ably to the provisions of the second section of this Act. ; - : -- XXIV. Be it further enacted. That the President and Directors of the Literary Fund, as soon as it shall he ascertained what Counties vote against the provisions of this Act, shall vest so much of said Fund as said Counties would have been entitled to receive, under the ratio provided for in the first section of this Act, 1:1 the Stock of any;ofthe Banks of this State, or of the Un'ted States, or to loan the same to indi viduals, upoo such terms as may, in their opitton, be best calculated to improve the vahe thereof. .XV. Be it further enacted. That the Pretident and Directors of the Literary Fund shall prepare proper forms, to enable the chairman of the Board of superinten dents and the. School Committee men to make the returns required of them by this Act; and shall cause the same to be prin ted bd distributed to the Counties which havt voted, or may hereafter vote, for ScloioN; and shall defray the expense in cident io mis . priming anJ uistrurnmm uf said forms, out of the Literary Fund. XXVI. Be it further enacted. That if any superintendent or Committee man, ap pointed agreeably to the provisions i.f this Act, such superintendent or Committee man hiving accepted the appointment, or any C.'erk of the County Court, shall re fuse or neglect to perform the duties requir ed of nun by law, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of fifty dollars, to be recovered by action of debt, in the name of the State, in any Court of record in this State ; and such penalty, when recovered, shall be paid ov er to the chairman of the Board of superin tendents of the County in which said de fault may occur, to be appointed as the oth er mlmies which shall come to his hands from the Literary Fund and the County ; and it shall be the duty of the County At torney for the State to prosecute suit in all such .nses, for and on hehalf of his County XXVII. Be itfurthey enacted. That if the chairman of the . Board of superinten dents shall fail or neglect to pay, on de mand, any draft ' which he may by law be bounJ to pay, he shall be liable to suit be fore any tribunal having cognizance there of, ir. the name of the person in wlvose favor said draft may be drawn ; and the Plaintiff shallbe entitled to recover, over and beside the amount of said draft, twelve per cent, damages for its unlawful detention. XX VIII. Be it further enacted. That this Act shall not be so construed as to prevent any County which has levied and collected a tax, agreeably to the provisions of the eighth section of the Act of one thou sand eight hundred and thirty-eight ofore said, upon -complying with the other requi sites ot said Act, koin drawing Irom tne Literary Fund, at any lime before the first dav of September next, the amount to which said County may be entitled under the provisions ot said Act; such pavment. however, to be deemed in the nature of an advancement to said County it being the true intent and meaning of this Act to make all the Counties, favorable to one system of Common Schools, as nearly equal as possible, by the distribition to be made from the Literary Fund by this Act, under the ratio provided for in the first section. XXIX. Be it further enacted. That the teachers any Common Schools shall be exempt Irom performing military dty, working on the road, or serving on the ju ry, whilst cncraed in teaching in said Schools. XXX. Be it further enacted. That this Ac; shall be in force from and after its rat location. Ratified this, the 11th day of January, A. J). 18 11. J From the Raleigh Standard. THE UNITED STATES BANK. That the friend of the United States Bank would establish such an institution. maugre the will of the people, no one who knows the principles which govern them. could for a moment doubt. Such " great financiers' as Nicholas Biddle, and oth ers of his stamp, do not believe the "servile route" capable of judging i:i such matters; which are, therefore, to be left to the con trolment of "gentlemen who know each other by instinct," the "rich and well-born" and the like. It is not at all wonderful, that men who cherish such notions, should bring the trickery of the stock and exchange market into the political arena." That they should divert the public attention from the true is sue, and by false pretences, chicanery and corruption, abuse the channels of public intelligence, and resort to falsehood, when truth would bring confusion to their ranks. Nor is it wonderful that men who have been guilty of political crimes of the black est die, should covenant with the whig" presses to hold them up to public view as "high minded anJ honorable men," who would not sloop to any species of base ness; to surround them with a degree of sanctity, based on the purity of private re nutation. ' But it remains to be seen, if men of this character can sustain their stan ding with the people, while they show that they neither "fear God nor regard man," in their political manoeuvres ; while they desecrate religion, morality and so cial order, to accomplish partizan purpos es; and who, claiming to ba honest chris tians and honorable gentlemen, outvie the veriest blackguards in palpable, wilful and atrocious political lying. -. .- But reckless and abandoned as are the political leaders of ihe miscalled whig par ty, they are not so insensible to the spirit of our institutions, as not to desire the op- pearance of moving in accordance with the will of the people. Tney would "assume a virtue, though they have it not." Hence the pretence now set up that the vote given for Harrison was the test vote in regard to a Bank; when the leaders know that no such issue was ever submitted to the peo ple. It would be passing strange if the people of the United States should consent to the establishment of an Institution, a counterpart to the one whose deformities, whoso monstrous iniquities are seen and acknowledged by all. Although the "wings' know that restrictive measures will t useless, yet under thai ' pretence the pubhc that no danger is to be apprehended. And how is lliie Bank to be sustained ? On the money aid cre dit of the people ! The United States Bank of Pennsylvania, rotten and worth less as it is, coidd have still held up us head if supported in this way, and its pa per stood to specie value so would the paper of the poorest individual in the Un ion when thus sustained. But are the peo ple willing to support an Institution that shall corrupt the press and the people widi the public money T And wh it is the word of the "whig leaders worth, let them say what they may about the bank they intgnd to establish ? 1'hev said that the old Bank was the best conducted institution and Biddle one of the greatest financiers in the world. And yet this Bank has swindled the widow and the fartherless, set at naught the obligations of its charter and plundered the community, and the "whigs" themselves now admit that it interfered in elections, purchased presses and bribed members of Congress ! These scenes are all to be acted over again, under the auspices of Federalism, and the public money is to sustain the iniquity. And what is promised in lieu of this en dangerinem of public liberty and corruption of private morals? A regulation of the currency and exchanges, by giving a ficti tious value to its paper; a measure which no United States Bank ever did or v ill ac complish, even under -this unjust bolster inj of its credit. We have shown, time after time, mat the exchanges were as much disordered, and that there was as great an inequality in the value of Bank paper, hen the United States Bank was in the full tide of successful experiment, as at any other period. What then is the ob ject of the friends of the Bank X To con trol the political as well as the monetary affairs of this country. To raise an "un perium in imperio" that shall tell us when and against whom to declare, war, and when to make peace- that shall designate who shallbe the officers of the government; that shall control the public press, and guide the public councils, by bribery, or by that coercion that shall "bring the people by sunertng to submission. And what is the incentive of all ibis That passion so prevalent in the human heart, in every age and in every country, the love of wealth and power. There ts a class among us who are tired of the republican simpliciiy of our institutions, and arc desirous o! some thing more splendid. They love the sys tems of their British masters, and would adopt thero, "monarchy and all." And so it is we have'passed through a contest between the money power and the generaH welfare; between the exclusive privileges of corporations and the rights of the peo ple. The aristocracy have triumphed but whether this triumph shall endure, is a question, thank God, which the people may yet decide. Tne time has just pas sed which was foretold by the elder Adams when the aristocracy, failing in all other means, would court the people with success ihey would "stoop to conquer" and "move heaven and earth" rather than fail in their purposes. The charges against the United States Bank are as well established as any tru'hs on record. There is a millio'i of money unaccounted for, in the exhibit latelv made public. What has become of it? Can any one doubt but it has been used to buy up political presses; to circulate political speeches ami pamphbts to fie special pleader on eh i ifoneeriug tours, and to be sot the pif'p, so th:illhy m:g!il become an easy prey to the artifices of ambition and corruption T It is contended that the new B mk will have power to regulate' a currency. But if the power be granted, we have no security that it will be exercised to the pub lic advantage; indeed, dear bought . expe rience with two United States Banks teach es us that we have nothing :o hope in the case. So far from being the regulator of credits, they have been the leaders in ex pansions, overtrading and speculation, and the pause of the consequent revulsions, pan ics and distress. A National Bank builds tip, that it i?iay show its power by pulling down. Mr. Fright, the talented Senator from New York, says? "In all great ir regularities the Bank was usually the first to move, to expand, to practice excesses itself and promote them in others; and. when the gale hail reached its height, it was usually the first also to sound ihe alarm, to countermand the course, to take in sail, and fly for the harbor; resting upon the strength of the credit of this Govern ment and the revenues of this Government to keep it afloat and bring it to land ; ami entirely regardless of the wrecks and rum and destruction of local banks and private merchants and traders left upon its trail, and which must strew its track toward self-security. So long as that institution continued to hold the revenues of the Uni ted States, il could practice these irregular ities in comparative safety; but when both were surrendered by compulsion, and, with the same name and same capital, tinder :t State charter, it undertook these bold flights, it too fell among those which had fotmerly been its victims, and now remains dead and motionless, the worst reck upon an over-burdened shore." Whatever the "whig" legislators in Con gress, and their partisans elsewhere may say, it is a fact, known every where, that a large majority of the people of ihe Union arc hostile to the establishment of a Na tional Bank. They believe, and the belief is grounded in sad experience, that il will bring evil rather than good upon the coun try and that its tendency is to derange rath er than regulate its monetary affairs ; that it is unstable and unworthy of trust; and that in apolitical sense it is a dangerous power to be connected with the General Government and ihese opinions are for med wiih the iniquitous practices of the late bank, both in political and financial matters, before them; and in view of iu crimes, tts vices and its insolvency. Hear what General Harrison said in one of his speeches to the people, when ho was electioneering for the Presidency. "I. am not a bank man. Once in my life I was, and then ihey C7 cheated me out of every dul'ur I placed in their hands." - Can any thing be more conclusive than the inference to be drawn from this rcmarkf Did the' people vote for Gen. Harrison as a Bank Man, when he declared beforu them ; am not a Bank Man ? But let us look to the hypocritical bank purchased Henry Clay, lie declared on the floor of the Senate of the United States, at the time his party were opening the hard" cider campaign, "that it was not the inten tion of the whigs ever to think of charter ing another National Bunk !" And yet he commands the President to call an ex tra session of Congress, that lie may com mand Congress to establish a National Bank ! Do ihe people think any blessing is to come upon the couutry under the man agement of such gross deception T Can the people of the United States sustain such a man as the Dictator of the Repub lic T If they can, we may well exclaim with the poet : "0, judgment, then art tied to brut'uh Lcasta, 'AnJ men have lost their reason !" But we can do no more than expose the danger and recount the peril. The "seat of the General Government is now a sink of political corruption and moral baseness. It is idle to look to Congress for- political salvation. Home is our bulwark. We must rely upon the States to shelter us ii the impending storm, and to shield us in this hour of danger. The good work muse commence, be prosecuted and perfected in our Legislatures or else we may soon de plore the wreck of all our hopes and find no more within our borders a good govern ment and a happy people. Severe but just reproof. The Federal ists in South Sciunte, Mass., were caught in their own trap the other day, by inviting the Rev. Mr. May to deliver a discoursu on the death of General Harrison. A cor respondent of the Boston Post says: "He told iheni that Gen. Harrison did not liv his appointed lime ; that no sooner had those who elected him got through with, their rejoicing, that they beset him by thousands, and teaed lii'n morning, noon, and night until they killed ihe good old, man ; tiiat all their professions of attach ment to principle and ti e good of the con stitution and country, were sheer hypoc risy. The spoils of office, it had been pro ved, he said, had been their only object, a declared by their opponents. Such Lrri bie scowU and elongation f countenance, were never witnessed here before. Jackson's Timely Warning. The Bel fjct(Ilep.) Journal says : Gen. Jackson in his farewell address to the people of the United State, n amed the laboring man against laying down h:s arm too soon. The money barons, 1fe iid, would make one more prodigiotu effort to enslare those who labor. No money, nor pains, nor means of any kind do they spare to do this. Jackson taw the desperate g3me, and gave the timely warning. Here it Came ! Mr. Ewinjr, aski ConjreM to create a National Ieht to enable him to enUrgs the espenuiiure ot tha Government, of 513,000,000 lie for U. S. Bani stock, an addition of He asks to buy lanit stock for the use cf the State, ' 6,C00,O0O 9,G00,00O Total, $31,000,000 Bo, the tirstsix months oi "Wfeip RefiMtn w r entail on the country a permanent debt of Thirty, one Million, of Dollars! Kendall 't Expositor ;