T!u tendency of Uemocraty I lotcard lit titration of the induetrtomt clae,t!ie iucr3j.se of lUtir comfort, lheairllon of Iheir dignity, t lie rtlmtilUhnunt of their poKr.n
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COMPLETE LIST OF ACTS
Passed at the 1st Session of the 2lh
Cong-rets.
An act making appropriations forthe pre
sent sess'um of Congress.
Aoaut authorizing a loan not exceeding
ihe sum of twelve millions of dol
lars. An act for the relief of Mrs. Harrison,
widow -of the late President of the United
Slates.
An act making appropriation for the
'pay, subsistence, &c of a home squad
ron. An act making further provision for the
inaimeii-uice of pauper lunatics in lue Dis
trict of Columbia.
An act to revive and continue in force
for ten years an act entitled "An act to in
corporate the Mechanics lie he f Society of
Alexandria.
An ant to repeal the act entitled "An act
to provide foT the collection, safekeeping,
transfer, and disbursement of the public
revenue," and to provide for the punish
ment of embezzlers of public money, aud
fur other purposes.
An act to. provide for the payment of Na
vy pensions.
An act to establish a uniform system
of bankruptcy throughout t:io Uur.eJ
States.
An act farther to extend the time for lo
ca'.ing Virginia military l.ind warrants, and
returning surveys thereon to the General
Land Office.
An act to authorize the recovery of tines
nd forfeitures incurred under the charier,
laws, and ordinances of Georgetown, belore
justices of the peace.
An act to revive and extend the charters
of certain banks in the District of Colum
bia. An act in addition to an act entitled" An
actio carry into etTeet a convention between
the United Slates and the Mexican Repub
lic" An act to amend the act entitled "An act
to provide for taking the sixth census or
enumeration of the inhabitants of the United
States,'' approved March third, one tliou
sanu eight hundred and thirty-nine, and the
acts amending the same.
An act making an appropriation for the
funeral expenses of William Henry llani
"sou, deceased, late President of the United
Slates.
An act to appropriate the proceeds of the
sales of ihe pablic lands, aud to grant pre
emption rights-.
-An act making appropriations for various
'fortifications, for ordnance, aud for pre
venting aud suppressing Iudiau hostili
ties. An act to provide for placing Greenough's
statue of Washington in the Rouudo of
the Capitol, aud for expenses therein men
tioned. An act authorizing the transmission of
letters and packets to and from Mrs. II ar--risonfreeof
postage.
An act to make appropriations for the
Post OiRce Department.
An act making an appropriation for the
purchase of naval ordnance and ordnance
stores, and for oilier purposes..
An act making appropriations for outfits
and salaries of diplomatic agents, aud for
. oilier purposes.
An act to provide for repairing the Po
tomac bridge.
An act relating to duties and draw
backs. An act to repeal a part of the sixth sec
tion of the act entitled "An act to provide
for the support of the Military Academy
of the United States for the year 1833, and
fur other purposes," passed July
1933.
JOINT RESOLUTIONS.
A resolution relatiivr to the 'light boats
now stationed at Sandy Hook and Bartleii's
Kief. "
A resolution for the distribution of seven
hundred co;ioj
touts.
of t!u Digest of Pj-
A resolution to provide i'.r the distribu
tion of the printed retcrnsoi" the sixtii cen
sus. A resolution in relation to the purchase
of dodiesiis water-rotted hemp for the use
of the Untied Stales navy.
Joint resolution, making it the duty of
the Attorney General to examine into the
title of lands or sites for the purpose of
erecting thereon armories and other public
works and building, aud for uther pur
poses. -
NOBILITY OF BLOOD.
" Believe in Ilia purity of Blood" was
the extraordinary expression of lion. Hen
ry Ciay daring a late speee:i in the United
States Senate. "Purity of blool!" As
if lie were talking of race-horses instead of
tin nan bein.j. ll.i believes in Lie parity
ofblod ;'so do all the monarchists aad
aristocrats of the old world, whose ancestry
is their only claim to public respect; so do
the upstarts of this Republic they whose
only boast is the noble deeJ-i of their forefa
thers; they who have no virtues of their
own to command respect or win admira
tion, they always believe in tiie purity of
blood ! li is the sure in irk of a narrow and
uncultivated mm 1, to boast either of one's
birthplace or p ireutage. Tais is the r i
sult of circumstances over winch the indi
vidual had no control, and for which he
deserves id particular credit or m trie of
respect ; certainly not if iu be worthless or
wicked.
Look at ihese scions of noble blood in
our laud; wiio and what are they? 'In a
very great majority of instances, tuey are
perfect cypher in society. Tney rely
upon their family name, their genealogy,
Uieir purity of blood for public respect,
instead of their own personal merits aud
individual qualifications; consequently make
no elfort themselves to acquire distinction,
other than that bequeathed ihem a a legacy
from their forefathers. There may be ex
ceptions to this general remark, bat we do
noi at present remember one.
On the oilier ha:;d look at the great
lights in lite intellectual lir.n ine ut; who
compose the brilliant galaxy whose beams
dazzle lite eye of every beholder ? Iu
nearly every ius'auce they are such as have
emerged from the chilling depths of poverty
and obscurity, to emii.eitee, fortune and
fame, by their own exertion-. They are
(hose wiio, for the most pari, have breastei
the bilio-.vs of fate, unaided and alone; iu
other word lliey are self-made men. Who
knows any thing of the parents of Andrew
Jackson, John C. Calhoun, George Mc
Dallie, Tnomas II. Benton, Sdas Wright,
William Aden, O. A. Bro-tfuson, the late
William Lsggeit, and a numberless host of
others, whose names were not borr, iodic?
Even the author of this ridiculous expres
sion, Henry Clay himself, is reported in a
whig paper to be the 'Son 6f a dancing
master-; if so it is greatly to his credit;
but he should be the last person in the
world to talk about purity of blood.
Martin Van Daren was the son of a
village inn-keeper; Daniel Webster was the
so;i of a New Hampshire fanner and so
was Levi Woodbury, and so was
five hundred others eminent for all that
ennobles human kind. We mention not
these tacts by way ot casting reproaca
upon these distinguished men; b it o i the
contrary to attract the admiration of the
public to that which alone renders any
man truly illustrious; his own personal
merit and not his birth-place-, or the purity
of his blood. GUI iJjiiiiniop.'
HOW MUCH MO :ts
We take leave to ask, how much mnfa
money is to be lavished upon the family
of the late President, by the whig "re
trenchment and " economy advocates in
Congress I A bill has been introduced ap
propriating upwaros or i urec j. iiousana
Djllars, to pay his faueral expeoses, iu
addition to ihe infamous appropriation of
!?Jo,00J to Mrs. Harrison. Will this
reckless waste of lire public money be al
lowed to go on unchecked 1 ib.
THE JACQIUN GLUUS.
The standard and classic works which
are now issuing from the French and Bu
lish press-lhe historical works of a Thiers,
and a Carlyle, and others will put it in
the power of the rising generation ol Amer
ica lo study the history of the Jacobin
Clubs which ruled all legislation and nil
Government in France during the early
part of ihe Revolution, and which have just
been imitated and established in our coun
try. Tim French Jacobin Club the pa
rent club which sat at Paris was an inven
tion to enable Uobesi'ierre to govern the
Legislative Assembly and the Convention,
in these clubs the dictator, assembled his
party every night, made them agree to eve
ry measure which lie proposed, and bound
them to support it the next day in the
House. In ibis way all legislation . was
done in the club, and, as nothing was done
there but that which Kobespierre ordered,
it resulted that he became the sole legisla-
j tor of France. The machinery of the Ja
cobin Club effected this; and in like manner
the machinery of caucus dictation has ena
bled .Mr. II. Clav to become the sole le-
gislator of America during the memorable
session of the Hundred Days. Saving the
two bills wrecked upon the rock of the two
vetoes, his will was law! So far as the
two ouses rf Congress were concerned,
he was the Scde legtsdator; and the two
Houses met eaily every morning, as he had
ordered, to register the decrees which he J
had dictated the night before. In the I
House of Representatives the tyranny and
despotism of the gag silenced debate and ,
vanquished opposition, and the decrees
were registered nearly as fast as read. In j
lite Senate, where a determination to resist
the gag "even unto death" prevented its
application, the result was still the" same,
though more slow. The dictator's decrees
were & I registered in the end; but the free
dom of speech being still maintained, the
decrees, though passed, were discussed and
exposed, and subjected to abhorrence and
disdain. The same as to nominations. The
dictator put olfall to the last, and passed
all! All except one, the head paper, were
passed. And all ibis by caucus dictation,
in imitation of Jacobinical clubistn.
Tne session which has just closed the
one which from its acts mav be called the
TAX DEliT and PLUNDER SES
SION has the honor of originating . the
Jacobin club system in the United Stales,
for, notwithstanding we have always iiad,
and forever shall have political meetings,
called caucuses, yet all these meetings
have heretofore been for political and le
gislative objects, for agreeing upon candid
ates, or upon the time, or the mode of do
ing a tiling; and not for the purpose of
binding the whole party to support, or op
pose a law in the House, according to the
master spirit in the caucus. This is what'
is new in America. This is what was
done in France. This is tyranny, despo
tism, disgrace, tuin to all legislation, and
must eud, if not shopped, in the destruction
of Representative Government.
Tlie letters of Mr. Khett and Mr. In
gersoll, ro laying open this wickedness
to the people. Lei other members do the
like; and let the people decide whether a
Jacobin club shall rule their Government.
For this Lincoln Republican.
At a largo and respectable meeting 6f
the citizens of the counties of Lincoln aud
Caldwell held on Saturday lh IStUof
September 1311 at Springville, pursuant
to public notice, E. li. Shuford was called
t the Chair, William Harmon, Esq. was
appointed Vice President, and ;
was appointed Secretary.
The object of the meeting was explain
ed by the Chairman iu a brief manner.
and oh motion of Dr. J. H. Lytle a com
mittee was appointed lo draft resolutions
expressive of the objects and views of the
assembly, and the following were appoin
ted, viz : A. Connor, J. Yount, Henry
Fisher, Jesse Gaul, Isaac Ihadburn, Adam
Flowers, Jacob Dolick, J. Willong, J.
Robinson and G. W, Wilkie, who repor
ted the following resolutions.
Resolved, That the good people of his
legion of ihe State labor under great in
conveniences from the distance to the
Court Houses of their respective counties,
Liucohiion and Lenoir.
Jlcsoloed, Til at from the large size of
tli s present county ;f Lincoln, the
great distance to the Court House is
not the only inconvenience ; bi:t the conse
quent large number of cases in Court occa"
siotis great inconvenience to suitors, Ju
rors, Witnesses and others, until the de
lays of justice have amounted almost lo a
dental of right.
Resolved, That many of the present in
habitants of Caldwell while attached lo
Durke have recently assisted in building a
new Court House at Morgauton, and now
arc called upon to build a new Court
House, while at a distance of more than
30 miles from Lenoir their present seat of
justice, and also the present inhabitants of
Lincoln will be called upon soon to build
a new Court House at Lincolnton, while
many of them reside at a distance of 30
miles; these facts are considered by this
meeting as matters of serious -injustice,
calling loudly for redress.
Resolved, That the abuve inconvenien
ces, grievances, aud difficulties are only to
be remedied by the erection of a new
county out of parts of the counties of Lin
coln and Caldwell to be called Catawba
county, the county seat to be located
within a mile of Springville or Wilfoug's
Springs, to be called by such name as the
pleasure of the Legislature may indicate,
to commence at Alexander Moore's on the
Catawba View, and run from thence in a
straight line to Andrew Wilson's, thence
to the juncture cf Jacob's aaJ Holty's
fork, then along the South West River by
the little mountain to David Link's, thence
to the mouih of Drowning Creek, then (o
w here , the Horse ford road crosses the
Lovelady Ford near Mordecai Williams',
thence along suid road lo Gailher's Store,
then to the. corner where Wilkes county
joins Iredell county, then along the. Iredell
and Caldwell line lo the River, then down
the river to the "first station, coin prying-an
area of from 25 to 30 miles square and
a population. of 1000 votes.
Resolved, That the following persons
be . appointed a committee lo carry the
aoove resolutions into operation, viz :
Csrwcll Allen, E. Connor, John Yount,
E.L. Shuford, George Wilfong, Dr. J. II.
Lyie, George Smoyer, Frederick Hoke,
Esq. John Smith, Seii., Peter Rowe,
Ilenrj ' Fisher, William Harmon, Wil
liam Ibernathy. Daniel F- Perkins, Jacob
Ilonsicker, Jacob Little, Sen., Martin
Icenhoer, Martin Huffman, James Moore,
Peter Keller, Jacob Dolick, Jesse Gant,
George Harmon, Henry Harmon, Thomas
Cloningrr, James Uowaft, William Hale,
Jacob Moore, Isaac Dradburn, Adam
Flowers, Abuer Paine, Elisha Dockery,
Hah I Snerrill, E. Taylor, Geo. Eckart,
M.Lunsford, Peter Whittenburg, T. &, R.
Moser, Henry Allen, Joshua White, S.
Bowman, David Cow man, Daniel Dow man,
Daiiel Fry, Geo. Harmon, Martin Huff
man, Philip Eekart and Jesse Barger ; and
also that they procure a memorial to the
Legislature to be- drafied and printed, and
to select suitable persons in each 'captain's
district to procure signers to the same
and lo forward said petitions to the Legis
lature, and also to call another meeting of
ihe citizens of this neighborhood just be
fore the assembling of the next Legisla
ture, to take such other steps as maybe
necessary.
Resolved, That A. II. SHUFORD be
nominated as a proper person to represent
Lincoln county in the next Legislature, to
i-Jrry the above wishes into effect.
Resolved, That the person nominated
be requested to pledge himself if elected
to sustain the Views of this meeting,
Whereupon, Mr. Shuford declared his
Democratic principles and his determina
tion if elected to make every honorable
effort to carry out the wishes of this 'meet
ing. Resolved, That 'the proceedings "of this
meeiipg be published in the JincoIn Re
publican, signed by the Chairman, Vice
President and Secretary.
E. L. SHUFORD, Chairman.
W'M. HARMON, Vice President.
Secretary.
Fou the Lincoln Republican.
Mr. Editor: I perceive, you have giv
en a part of your columns to the discussion
of abstruse points in theology. To this,! do
not object, if ihe writers maintain that char
ily which they profess, and which should
be more prominently exemplified in their
lives, that! throegh the inediumof the press.
But alas, for the degeneracy of the times!
How many make a fair show of Christianity
outwardly, who know nothing of its saving
power. What avails otir strife concerning
Porms, if the saucliying grace of God be
not enjoyed! It is but a sounding brass
or a tinkling cymbal." You have some a
mong yoiij who profess to be rejrolarly de
scended from the Apot-lles of our Lord aud
Saviour Jesus Christ, without, as 1 under
stand it, the loss of a sinMe link. But
there is one difficulty in my mind about this
matter, if no more. Do they mean thai
there have been holy men in a direct line
from the Apostles, without a single defec
tive link-? For instance take the Church at
i . . , i - ,
nouie, anu oring u on uown in consecu
tive order to the point at w hich they would
connect the English ordination, and thecce
on downward to the present day; do they
believe that that, or any line thc-y may
choose to select, has been composed of ho"
ly men alone? They ftll confer a favor
by giving a categorical answer to this ques
tion. Again: do they belteve that tho Ro.
man line, or any other they may choose to
select, has had a triple ordination from the
commencement? To this interogatory, I
would also ask a direct answer.
Dat what else can they mean? that there
hare been .Ministers, either good or bad
from the Apostolic age to the present, who
have succeeded each other is not, as
should hot tie disputed. But have they all
been pious? Have a majority of them
been pious? And have the piousT part of
them beau arranged in any one line? And
yet again: have the pious and useful Min
isters always received ordination from the
hands of such as have received triple or
dination? I would also ask Episcopos
whether Ite believes any Minister iu the
Lutheran, Presbyterian, German Reformed
Baptist or Methodist Churches, can be a
minister of Jesns Christ! Does he look on
either, or all of those denominations as
christians, or as forming any part of the
Ch'Jrch f Christ? As he has come out
boldly to defend Episcopacy, I wish him
to give the commuuiiy an unvarnished
statement of his views on these points.
Some of us in this country are how old
aud have never been confirmed by the impo
sition of a Bishop's hands; yet we have re
ceived what we deemed to be the means ol
grace. Will he tell us plainly whether 'h
does think it very doubtful whether we car,
be saved," and belong to what he might
modestly call ihe "dissenting Seers?" Let
hitri not persist in saying that Episcopacy
is essential to a valid ministry, let him
plainly come out anJ tell us that all others
cannot be saved. 1 see one of their writers
signs himself Spyglass, by which heeudea
vors to brush away ihe clotids of the dark
ages. Be it so, I hope in answering this
communication they may keep clear. I
wish to know their opinions of the denom
inations in this country, and then I shall be
prepared to give my testimony. ,
If lliey look on Episcopacy as a riie're
matter of opinion, or as a matter of expedi
ency, I shall noi trouble my mind about it,
but if they make it essential to salvation, I
ought to know it, as I wish to be saved.
IOTA.
Long Creek, Lincoln County.
For the Lincoln Republican.
"THE DARK AGES."
Mr. Editor: In the Republican of the
15th Sept. appeared some observations by
one Mr. Spyglass on the'dark ages. Who
this Mr. Spyglass is we have bat little more
than "an atom of ah idea." It seemsfrom
his pretension to knowledge of the "com
mon law" that he is a smatterer in the sci
ence of jurisprudence. It is no doubt very
fortunate for the world, that this opportu
nity of displaying his vast amount of the
knowledge of 'ihe common law" was af
forded the 'gentleman, for if it had been re
served for some emergency at the bar, the
world must have been minus one great
lihU For we suppose that Mir. Spyglass
is one of that fraternity of petlifoggerj if
you will allow ma the expression whom,
some of our over curious and meddlesome
ones are wont lo put to the torture of an
swering some very unpleasant questions,
which are no doubt best known to them
selves. Mr. Spyglass woulJ make his readers
belie 'e by his long list of the "illustrious"
ones of the dark ages that he is a mail of
great research ; that he, as well as some of
the authors, to whom tie refers, "is a store
house of learning." He would make them
bplieve that he has discovered streams of
light flowing, like the rivers of Eden, ail
through ihe dark ages. I suppose Mr.
Spyglas himself may be regarded oiie of
the reflected rays of those lights; but in
what number of reflections he is found we
shall not say. He tells us of "illustrious
hundreds" whose light, not only shined iu
their own day, but even in our diy they
are looked up to, some of them at least,
"as masters of moral wisdom." In iliis
thing, Mr. SyIass brings very strikingly
to'our minds, the interrogatory of the lit
tle school boy after reading the heathen po
et's description of Jupiter's forging and
hurling his thunder bolts in wild confusion
"Pa" says the little fellow in amazement,
' which is the greatest, Jupiter or God Al
mighty f Mr. Spyglass, which are the
greatest, your "illustrious hundreds" of the
dark ages or those who have lived since ?
Mr. Spyglass says it has been publicly
avowed that "no streams of light .flowed
through thai long lapse of time no learn
ing lent its aid io dispel, even in the smal
lest degree, the ignorance of the age.
This assertion, Mr. Spyglass; wants that,
without which, no assertion is worth no
tice. It wants truih ; that most precious
gem, that woulJ as little become Mr. Spy
VOLUME V NO. IS.
glass, it may be, as a jewel of gold wOuiM
become a swine's snout. Here is what
the preacher said, Mr. Spyglass, about the
Bishop's "streams of light."- What sort
of "streams" said he, were shining when
the Bible was locked up, when the pope
claimed to be the infallibl head of the
church? When sees of the highest digni
ty were openly sold transfered backwards
and forwards by popular tumult bestow
ed sometimes by . a profligate woman on
her paramour sometimes by a warlike
baron on a kinsman, still a stripling.
"We read of bishops 10 years 61,3"
"of bishops 5 years old 'of many popes-,
who were mere boys." Now, where Jid
these streams of light come from, said tha
preacher, that were shining at this tinae.
"If there was any light, il seems to us, it
must have been ihe glarings of ihe fires be
low ; certainly it came not from Heaven
above." Now Mr. Spyglass, please point
oat to us the assertion that you have char
ged the preacher with making. Whero
has he feaid that no "streams of light"
flowed through that "long tapse of time"
lhat thousand years "no learning lentil
aid to dispel, even in the smallest degree,
the ignorance of the age." Now we call
on Mr. Spyglass to produce the assertion.
And if he cannot do it ; has he 'magnanimi
ty enough lo confess that it was not so said?
Mr. Spyglass ought to know that men of
his profession are not regarded by the com
munity generally as great sticklers for ve
racity. Does he no know that the im
pression of many, is that the term law
yer & liar are nearly synonymous. About
the correctness of sucli an impression we
say nothing; bat we dd say that Mr. Spy
glass ought so to speak and write as to tc
move such an impression. We believe
that many of your profession are gentlemen
of undoubted veracity, 'magnanimous, ho
ble spirited and intelligent, they will nO
doubt condemn your course and rebuke
your temerity in this matter.
'i'ho rcmniks-of tho prohe en ihb dark
ages, as Mr. Spyglass knows very well,
were made with a direct reference to the
state of the church. The lime alluded to-,
js clearly designated by the crimes specifi
ed. No One, 1 srjppjsc, could misunder
stand them, except those of the same Obli
quity of mind with Mr. Spyglass.
Bul let iis spy a little into the learning
of this redoubtable Mr. Spyglass; for fee
must know thai Presbyterians are about as
hard to manage as any set of people ho 'ev
er met with.' They rely implicitly. 6n the
assertions of nd one not even the asser
tions of bishops and popes much less
would they think of confiding in the state
ments of Mr. Spyglass.
When we speak Of the dark ages of the
church we mean the period of time begi'u
ing about the VII century, and extending
lo ihe XIV. The church is supposed V
have been held in papal chains about 800
years. Bat all this period is not regarded
as the 'dark ages; for in the XIV century
learning was revived and continued to re
vive till the reformation. WicklifTe, of the
XIV century, is generally regarded as the
morning star of the reformation. Thci
darkest part of the dark ages is included
between the X and XIII centuries inclu
sive. NowvMr. Spyglass mentions Tasso,
Raphael, Michael Angelo, and some
others, as lights of the dark ages; but ihoso
men lived abo.it the close of XV and the
beginning of XVT century. To say that
their light shined upon the dark age3 i
like saying the sun shines upon us, before
it rises.
Leo' the great, Theodoret, Eutyches anil
Ncstorius (the lasi two wero heretics.) du
not belong to what ne called by theologi
ans the dark ages ; and I suspect ihe party;
in whose defence Mr. Spyglass has taken
up arms, will by no means thank him for
such a clasiflcation of Theodoret ' and Eti
tyches, as places them in lbs dark agss.
Theodoret, you ought to know Mr. Spy
glass, is an important witness, in the esti
mation of prelalists, lo prove their apostol
ie succession. Now I do' suppose they
will be unwilling to call witnesses from the
dark ages id defend their beloved EjnstO'
pucy.
Eonodius was classed, by our young ty
ro in polemics (for such he seems to be,)
in the V century. This, M r. Spyglass, is
about one hundred years before Ennodius
had an existence, according to the classifi
cation of a very distinguished anJ im