" ' 7 ' ' ." ' -. ' ' . - ' . .. ; - . : .. ' , ' . . - - ' p 3,2- j , jS""""" . j.'.v r .''. ... ; - "The tendency of Democracy i toward the elevation of the Induttrloue clatee,the increase of their comfort, themesertlon of their dignity, the eetablithment of thHr power." BY ROBE ItT WILLI AMS 0 .Y, Jr. LIXCOMTOX, . C., AUGUST 11, ,1841, VOLUME V, NO. 11. NEW TERMS OF TJIE LINCOLN REPUBLICAN TRRMS OF PUBLICATION. - Ths Ltxcolx Republican is published every Wednesday at $2 50, if paid in advance, or 3 if payment be delayed three months. -. . Xo subscription received for a less term than twelvemonths.. r No paper will be discontinued but at the optiuo 'of the CJitor, until all arrearages are paid. A failure to order a discontinuance, will be con sideied a new engagement. TERMS OF ADVERTISING. Adtehtisem kxts will be inserted conspicuous ly f-r Si 00 per square for the first inscition, and 25 cents for each continuance. . Court anJ Judicial advertisements will be charged 25 per cent, more than the above prices. A deduction of 33j per cent, from the regular prices will be made to yearly -advertisers. The number of insertions must he noted on the manuscript, or they will be charged until a discon tinuance is ordered. . TO CORRESPONDENTS. To insure prompt attention to Letters addressed to the Editor, the postage should in all cases be paid. . From the Globe. "ALL THE LITTLE ONES AT ONE FELL SWOOP." . The small fry of 'clerks, whose avocations liave confined them to their desks who have never voted at an election whose poor salaries have barely furnished them nnd their families a support whose politi cal opinions, if known at all, could not possibly have the slightest influence on public affairs, as they are certainly not known beyond the limits of a District which is itself disfranchised those clerks had supposed that the poor employments they held would depend on the question, 'is he honest, is he capable, is he faithful?" They had the written assurance of the President for this; and as it was found that the removals among this class of offi cers hitherto, had been confined to those holding confidential relations with the Heads of Departments, and some wanting qualifications, it was generally supposed that there would be no sweep of those mi iior officers, simply on the ground of their political sentiments. But a day or two since, the butcher Ewing was seen, directly after the induc tion of Mr. Huntington into the place of Mr. Whitcomb, as Commissioner of the Land Office, to enter the new Commis sioner's room, and take with him the Chief Clerk, J. M. Moore. The long session which these worthies had then together, was considered ominous. Moore was known to be a vindictive Federalist, and sin enemy of both General Jackson and Mr. Van Buren. Yet, as he was competent for thedaties of the station lie held, he was retained by all the successive Democratic Commissioners; and when the office he held was abolished on the reorganization of thi Land Office, and the employment raised in grade and pa). General Jackson reappoin ted him, and many others of his own caste in politics. Yet, as this roan's Fed eraJ feeling was well known, his long clo seting with the butcher Ewing was looked upon as ominous to the Democratic subal. items. Accordingly, when his secret ses sion was over, Mr. Ewing took a short sal ly to Baltimore, and on Friday last hang man's day- no less than thirteen Demo cratic clerks were set down (or execution the next day. To the credit of President Tyler, we must state, that as soon as he heard of this general -extermination of Democrats from the Land Office, where so many Federa lists had been tolerated during the twelve years' rule of his predecessors, he instantly interposed, and directed that they should be "reinstated. He would not suffer such a hecatomb proscription "without an inquiry as to personal or official delinquency in the 'individuals sacrificed and this made under the order of a Secretary who had brought a 'resolution into the Senate denying express ly the constitutional power of the Presi tlent himself, much -less his Secretary, to remove public officer?, at pleasure, without even consulting, much less obtaining, the . concurrence of the Senate, which Ewing had once declared to be essential. .This interposition, on the part of the President, was due -like to his own per sonal, as well as his official character. lie stood pledged that officers should not lie removed without cause. Yet here was stn upstart and heartless subordinate in his Cabinet, whf held his own plact by pre cisely the same tenure as the officers whom he undertook to remove, who strikes off their heads without asking the Presi dent's pleasure ! ! It was at his will they held office, (if at the will of any body, which .Mr. Ewing once so boldly deniedj nd yet Mr. Ewing usurps the function W the Presidential office, and executes a power which he said belonged only to the President nnd Senate i v The rebuke which this coarse-minded -and vulvar man received -from ihe President would have induced anv one of elevation of sentiment and sensibility of feeling, to have resigned instantly. But the man who could hold a place in the Senate, ob tained by the compulsion of one or two sordidly interested men, who woulJ not join their party in their decided perfereace for another, and who forced. Ewing upon them as the only alternative, having resol ved to vote for a political opponent, if the majority refused Ewing the man who held his place in the Senate to pass laws creating scrip, in which it was his purpose to speculate the man who held his place in the St uate as a devmed partisan of the Bank of the United States, and received money from it to prosecute the specula tions for which he had legislated the man who, as Secretary of the Treasury, would hang on to the Hockhocking speculating company in which the official speculators in the Bank of the United States are un derstood to b concerned, as partners, would not ht'sitaic to hold to an office in the Cabinet of the President, who had so sig nally rebuked ; his want of principle, his presumption, nnd cruelty and lie would do it, as we have no doubt Ewing .does, for the purpose of betraying his chief, on the first favorable occasion. From the Raleigh Standard. THE REPEAL. Some of the Federal leaders affect to be horrified at the promised repeal of the Charier, should a National Bank be estab lished. The doctrine of the sanctity of charters is derived from onr British ances tors, and the impulses are strong in its favor by many of our lawyeis and odier admir eis of British jurisprudence. . How far this doctrine of "special grace" is consonant with our republican principles and agreea ble to our institutions, is a inatier that it will be time enough to discuss when the occasion calls it up. Whether the liber ties of 17 millions of people and t!eir pos terity, are to depend on monarchial customs or common law technicalities, is a question that may be decided at a future da'. Our present business is not with the sanctity of charters, but with a charter obtained bu false pretences; and whatever may be the veneration ol some for these high bequests, none will dare to contend that there is sanc tity in circumvention, frtud, deceit and treachery. Charters granted by the King were null and void, if there h?.d been mis information or deceit practised in obtaining them. How much more, then, shall a free people be entitled to the exercise of the sovereign authority, in the repeal of a char ter obtained by gross misrepresentation and high-handed fraud. What a spectacle, does our country pre sent? Twenty-six sovereign States, and 17 millions of people are expected to bow the neck to the conditions of a piece of parchment, concocted in the rankest vil lainy and consummated in forgery ! The charter of our liberties, more precious than all the diadems of Europe, is to be desecrated and its prin ciples rendered abortive, through the vile contrivances of interested speculators and ambitious and unprincipled politicians. Surely the Shylocks have forgotten of what stuff American freemen are compos ed, if they expect ihem to submit to the dictum of this unhallowed combination; and wicked aspirants have failed to remember that in this country they are accountable to the people. The present is an auspicious time to teach British and American politicians and stockjubber3, that the true issue must be presented to the people, to ensure an abid ing support to the successful party. That they will not permit a Bank to retain its charier, when the idea ws held up that there was no intention of establishing such institution- Nor will the loaders of the federal party have just cause of complaint. Imbued as they are in moral wrong and po litical turpitude, they will have justice done them. The matter will be submitted to the sovereign people. If they have been deluded and betrayed, as we assert, they will vote for those who insist on the repeal. If they have concluded to be cheated with a shew of liberty, and are tendy to yield to the domination of aristocrats and moneyed lordlings, they will vote for the Bankttes and we shall have an early solution of the problem of man s capacity for government. The Federal notions about the right of the "rich anJ well-born" to govern the rest of mankind, will be acceded to; and the aris tocrats will have nothing to do but to com mand, and the people no other alternative but to obey. There is no room to doubt the integrity of the Democratic Republican party in thus measure. If we may trust our own eyes and ears; if we can rely on facts as clear as the sun at noon-day, we know the people have been deluded. Gen. Harrison declar ed he was not a bank man Mr. Uadsfcr said that any one who charged Gen. H. with being in favorof a United States Bank, asserted a falsehood. Mr. Clay denied in the Senate of the U. States, that his party had any wish to establish a Bank, Mr. Ty ler deinounced it as unconstitutional while the host of stump oraiots who traversed the country and the "whig"' pret-ses, were either silent on the subject, or else po1ie against it. We are thus not only justified in waking an appeal to the people, but we are required to do so by every principle of public justice and private virtue. But let ns hear Mr. Clay's own words on the power of Congress to charier a Bank Mr. Clay, the created leader of Pederal- ism and the advocate of all its odious mea sures. ,. The following are the words he us ed in 1811 : "What is the nature of this Government? It is emphatically Federal, vested with an aggregate, of specified powers for general purpos-es, conceded by existing sovereign ties, who have themselves retained what is so conceded. It is said there are cases in which it must act on implied powers.- This is not controverted, but the implica tion must be necessary, and obviously flow from the enumerated power with which it is allied. The power to charier compan ies is not specified in the grant, and I con tend is of a nature not transferable by mre Implication. It Is one of the most t-Adhed attributes ofsovereigpty. In the exercise of this gigantic power we have seen an East India Company created, which has carried dismay, -desolation, and death, throughout one of the largest portions of the habitable world a company which is in itself a sovereignty which has subverted empires and set up new dynasties and has not only made war,. hut war against its legitimate sovereign ! Under the influence of this power, we have seen a South Sea Company and a Mississippi Company, that distracted and convulsed all Europe, and menaced a total overthrow of all credit and confidence, and universal bankruptcy. Is it to be imagined that a power so vast would have been left by the wisdom of the Constitution to doubtful inference ?" He here says that the power to charter companies is not specified in the Constitu tion, and contends that it is not transfera ble by implication. What was truth in 1811 is truth now. What was 'constitu tional at one period is constitutional at an other, llank fees may alter a man's no tions about matters and things, but they cannot change fact into falsehood or false ho.d into fact. But it will be observed that the apos tate republicans now in the Federal ranks have other pleas for violating the Constitu tion. They now talk of precedent and the "lights of the republican fathers." . Let us hear what Mr. Clay said on this subject. The following are the Dictator's own words : When gentlemen attempt to carry this measure upon the ground of acquiescence or precedent, do they forget that we are not in Westminister Hall? In courts of justice, the utility of uniform decisions ex acts of the judge a conformity to the ad judication of his predecesors. In the inter pretation and administration of the law, this practice is. wise and proper, and, with out it, every tiling depending upon the ca price of the judge, we should have no se curity for our dearest rights. It is far oth erwise, when applied to the source of le gislation. Here no rule exists but the Con stitution, and to legislate upon the ground, merely (hat our predecessors thought them selves to be authorized, under similar cir cumstances to legislate, is to satisfy error and perpetuate usurpation. "This doctrine of precedents, applied to the Le gislature, appears to me to be fraught with the most mischievous consequences. The great advantage of oor system of govern ment over ?.ll others, is, that we have a written Constitution defining its limits, and prescribing its authorities ; and that, however for a time faction may convulse the nation, and party prejudice sway its functionaries, the season of reflection will recur, when calmly retracing their deeds all aberrations from fundamental principle will be corrected. But once substitute practice for principle the exposition of the Constitution for the text of the Consti tution, and in vain hall we look for the in strument itself! It will be as diffused and intangible as the pretended Constitution oi England and must be sought for in the statute book, in the fugitive journals of Congress, and in reports of the Secretary of the Treasury ! 1 conceive, then. Sir, that we are not empowered by the Consti tution, nor bound by any practice under it, to renew the charter of this Bank." Do the people require any thing plainer than this, to conceive them that Clay is a traitor to the Constitution ? Wrhal a re markable difference there is between Hen ry Clay, the champion of the rights of the people, and Henry Clay the Hank Attor ney. - PROSCRIPTION. We learn by the Tar-borough Press of the 24th inst. that Mr. James M. Redmond has been removed from the office of Post master at that place and a "whig" appoin ted in his room. Mr. Redmond was a faithful officer and is an intelligent and honest man, and in the whole range of the "ruthless" proscription of the party in power, we have found but few cases of ma lignant tyranny more odious than this. The Press say.: "we hazard but little in asserting, that of the 1500 voters in this county, not 15 can be found of all parties, that would have advised this removal. Yet, in defiance of these expressed and known wishes of the people it has been consummated. We" dare not "attempt to describe the effect on the minds of our citizens, of this gross outrage on their feelings and interests. A remonstrance has been eent to President Tyler, sigued by nearly all the citizens of this place, with out distinction of party, respectfully re questing, that if this removal is still deemad expedient, some regard will be had, if not to the voice of the whole community, at least to the opinions of those who are at tached to. the Whig party. ib. From the Mecklenburg Jeffenonian. C7 The Relief Session. -This Extra Session of Congress was called by the Whigs as they said, to relieve the coun try, restore prosperity and revive business. Well, (he two Houses have been in ses sion two months, and what have they done in the way of relief, &c. ? We will tell you, reader: In the shape of a (jift to tlo, widow of the late President Harrison, they have relieved the country of $25,000! By a hiI to pay themselves their mi leage, and per diem allowance, and to pay for printing, &c.t they have relieved the countrv of ' - - ' ' , ' $381,000 ! . ! And L'the session continues many days longer, they will have to increase the relief under it is head to upwards of. i $400,000 ! "They have relieved the indebted country by pasting a Bill to create a National Debt of.: , ;. . . ' ' $12,000,000 ! And will fjrther relieve the People, to pay the interest on this debt, of the sum of J $2,520,000 ! i . . Thete are all the relief bills they liave actually passed ; but they have sundry others under consideration, and in embryo, estimated in all, by the Secretary of the Treasury, to amount to upwards of $31,000,000 ! In addition to this, it is proposed to in crease the TariflT, by laying an ad valorem duty of 20 per cent, on all articles now free, or on which 'the duty is under this standard. This will relieve the laboring man by compelling him to pay as much for five pounds of coffee or sugar lor his fami ly as he now pays for six or, take from him by a tax, one pound out of every six he buys ! - Add to these the Distribution of the pro ceeds of the public lands at a time when the Treasury is declared to be empty, and the proposition to violate the Constitution and the rights of the People by chartering a mammoth Bank, to be owned by domestic Shylocks and Foreign money-changers, and you have the results and designs of this relief and reform Extra Session of Congress. These bonsted MVhig Reformers," these champions of "Relief," were loud in denouncing the extravagance and prodi gality of Mr. Van Buren; and for these denunciations, the people turned him out and put them in power; and now behold their relief and reform : Like the degenerate son of Solomon, they turn round and tell the people My father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put more to your yoke: my father chastized you with whips, but I will scourge you with scorpi ons." - No doubt Jeroboam had been as loud in his denunciations of his father's oppressions upon his people before his father's death, as the Whigs were of Mr. Van Buren's extravagance before they got into office, and they still seem to be following up the example of this wicked son of Solomon ; but we hope the consequences of their short reign will not prove as disastrous to the welfare of oor country as his did to the peace and happiness of the children of Israel. , Repeal! This is now becoming the watchword of the Democracy in all parts of the country; and should the Bank Bill of Clay, or even the Secretary of the Treasury's plan of a Bank, become a law. either will go into operation and the Stock be taken in the face of the warning, that the Democracy will never cease their exer tions until the charter be Repealed ! until the foul blot upon our statute book is wiped out. The Democratic party in Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode leland, Vermont, New York, Virginia, and probably other States, have, in public meetings, raised the banner of Repeal, and the Democratic press everywhere re-echo the sound. Notice has been given on the floors of Congress by Mr. Allen in the Senate, and Mr. Ingersoll in the House, that the very day a Bank Bill bacomes a law, they will in troduce a bill to repeal it. The" Whigs" seem to be greatly horri fied at this doctrine of repeal they call its advocates "agrarians "levellers," and exclaim why, you can't repeal a charier, a sacred contract. In their estima tion, every thing is agrarianism that goes agamst pririlege and monopoly- that goes to protect the laboring man from oppres sion by the Shylocks and idlers of the land. But can a charter or contract gran ted by Con gress in violation of the Con stitution and the rights of the People, be considered sacred ? . " - r - Congress might take it into their heads, that the "general welfare" demands a res toration of this country to the British crown, or that it is necessary io have a sprig of the blood royal of turbulent France to reign over us instead of a Republican President, and a contract made to effect their purpose, but would the People submit ? No ; they would say these are contracts which Con gress had no right to make, and they must, therefore, be repealed. So with the Bank charter it is unconstitutional, and, if pas sed into a law, its repeal will be demanded by every Democrat in the laud. ib. SUPPLEMENTAL CARD. In my Card" of the 231 instant, I sta ted, that after Mr. Clay had "resied so long under the most . injurious imputations, without demanding reparation" as "an honorable man," I could not listen to his call, should he make one, after my publica tion, and that I would take no other notice of him, "than to correct any misrepresen tations he may attempt to make." In ma king this declaration, I proceeded accor ding to the strict rules of the "code of hon or" in such matters; and I spoke of myself "as an honorable man" conforming to that "rode." It was not my wish that Mr. Clay or the public fhould understand by those remarks, that I had not the right to waive the rule. For fear that such con struction may be given to my declaration, I say, that whatever others might determine in a similar case, I hold myself open to Mr Clay's call. WM. L. BRENT. Wasixixotom City, July 23, 1841. From the Globe. "DEBT OR NO DEBT." The friends of the Treasury Department tlo noi yet appear to be satisfied with all the efforts cf the Secretary and his satel lites to work up a debt to b? charged to the past Administration. The National Intelligencer, in a third semi-official effort this morning, is attempt ing to make up for its former failures in swelling the debt to only between two and three millions. Now it attempts, by a new process; to augment it to seventeen or eighteen millions. And how, gentle reader, do you suppose this has been effected? Why, to. be sure, by reviving a part of Mr. Ewing's exploded debt of thirty-one mil lions, which was abolished so fully by Mr. Woodbury's exposition. The lnteliigencer now gravely inserts the fourth instalment to the States of nine millions, as a part of the debt due, when it is our own money, and always has been, and has been expen ded for our own purposes, as directed by Congress. And, to make his seventeen millions, adds eight millions more, collected from the United States Bank for the stock we owned in it; as if the stock was not ours, and the money received for it ours; and as if we now owed any body a cent for ei ther that or the fourth instalment. You must try again, gentlemen. MR. E WINGJ5 LAST REMOVAL. We understand that the new Secretary of the Treasury has descended in his pro scriptions, not only to the tide waiters and clerks, but even to the doorkeeper and sweeper in his own building. The patient, attentive, faithful old gen lleman, with a wife and three children and without house or substance who has done his duty there in these humble capa cities, without the slightest complaint, ex cept his Democracy, is the last victim to the ruthless demon of proscription; and he and his family are driven forth penniless on the charities of an unfeeling world, merely because he has dared to be a free man in this boasted land of freedom, and to profess those Democratic principles which a Jefferson and a Madison liave been immortalized for advocatin?. ib. From the Old Dominion. MASS MEETING IN NEW YORK. The indomitable Democracy of the queen of American cities, turned out in their matchless strength, on the 1 5lh inst. in (he Park, to express their indignant re monstrance against the contemplated vio lation of the Constitution in the establish ment of a monarchy bank. That unfalter ing champion of radical democracy, whose exertions know no pause or intennisoion, Francis G. Tread well, offered the unan swerable protest against the contemplated change in the character of our Government the substituting a bank despotism for Re publican liberty. It was enthusiastically adopted. Alderman Purdie offered the fol lowing additional resolution, which was adopted by acclamation : Resolved, That should Congress pass an act for the creation of any National Bank, we, the PEOPLE here assembled, pledge ourselves, one to the other, to cease not in our exertions until its charter is REPEAL ED. Let, then, our rallying cry be r Repeal! Repeal ! ! - REPEAL ! ! ! i And we earncst.lv call upon the whole Democracy "of our be'ovcd country to come to the rescue, and preserve, sustain, and de- ' fend the constitution, from the assaults of' its violators. . ,. 'Reduce the expenses." That was the , word six months ago. . Let us see whether it will be the word two months hence. These whigs have talked about retrench ment and reform long enough. The lime has come for them to show their hand. Farmers! read this. "Every bale of cotton you make, weighing 500 lbs.', would be virtually, in the absence of all banks, a bill of Exchange for $45, and would com mand the premium you are compelled to pay upon paper. Are you aware how" much of this $45 is abstracted out of your, pockets by the various schemes, without' your being the belter by it? . ., - John C. Calhoun. CLAY AND RANDOLPH. We give below the words which pro duced the challenge between John Ran dolp and HeiiTy Clay, in 1825. They , were uttered in secret session, and we do not know how they got into the newspa pers. Verba volent was however a fa vorite expression with the Virginia Sena tor. We doubt whether, in the whole range of letters, not excepting even the withering sarcasms of Junius, there can be found such bitterness of invective and re- proachful scorn as in the following words -extracted from the speech of the orator of Roanoke, in the Senate of the United States. "This man (mankind, I crave your pardon) this worm (little animals, for give the insult) was spit out of the womb of meanness was raised to a higher life (han he was born to, for he was raised to the society of blackguards. So.ne for tune kind to him cruel to us has t09sed him to the Secretaryship of Slate. "Contempt lias the property of descend ing, but she -stops far short of him. She would die before she would reach him ; he dwells below her fall. I would hate him if I did not despise him. It is not what he is, but where he is, that puts my thoughts in action. That alphabet which writes the name Thcrsitea of blackguard, of squalidity, refuses her letters lor him. "That mind which thinks on what it cannot express, can scarcely think on him. An hyperbole for meanness would be an eclipse for Clay." Twcnty-scYenlli Congress. From the Globe, of July 28. CONGRESSIONAL ANALYSIS. ' SENATE. The National Bank charter was taken up as the special order, and read the third " time. Mr. Benton moved the indefinite post ponement, to await a Congress under the new census, which would bring with it the will of the country it should repre sent. a He objected to the new amendment, as introducing principles directly against the Constitution, as expounded by the Supreme Court in the case of the late Bank. The Court decided that Congress was alone empowered to declare when it was neces sary and proper to establish a Bank in the Union. This bill devolves the right in certain cases) on the State Legislature to siy, whether the establishment of a Bank is "necessary and proper." This asking the assent of the States, resipns the ground indicated by the Supreme Court, as that only from which the power to charter a National Bank can be implied the author Jy ol Congress to decide as to its necessity and propriety to carry inu ffecl ihe expressly granted powers of the Genera Government. Mr. Benton quoted the following from the decision f the S prerne Court, to , show the ground on which it placed the power tf Co-.ig. - to charter a Bank: "If a certain means io carry into effect any of the power expressly given by the Cunstiiution to the Government of the Un ion, be an appropriate measure not pro hibited by the Constitution, tl degree of its necessity is a question of legislative dis cretion, not of judicial cognizance. ' Messrs. Dixon and White oppowl in speeches ofconstderahle length, the grounds assumed by Mr. Benton. They iasf1 that the amendment recognised fulfj power of Congress to establish the Bat " any where, and only postponed it execu- lion. : Mr. Woodbury was in favor or the mo tion of the member of Missouri. 1. Be- cause as the bill now stood, no loan can ba J made in any Slate of the Union wji&e "- - " . " ' . . - ' ,i