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, aville, there is no r-pid : tar the mile there are but any real difficulty namely, jHyco falls. The Horseford , e in the other, and Hyco has irters. The only fall on the .agnitude, is Tally's falls, where quarters, is 15.23 feet making in cicome, to render the ;nvers accessible to t,ards of one hundred milesi on the Roanoke out fifty miles oh the Staunton. If nothing eke could oe uone out to rescue xnese poiuous 01 me nvers irom uie .siaie w comparative uselssness in which; they at. present are, would it be -nothing? It appears to me that these improvements, . (if indeed any. , aie required to be, made,) can be done by the company in a short time - arid with but little expense. I am sensible that the Board of Directors, at their last meeting, directed, tbattbe work should be commenced at Rock Landing; but I think the policy of beginning at the bead of Pugh's falls, and bestowiner the first labor on the Horseford, Butcher's Creek falls, Hyco falls, and Tally's falls, is so obvious, that you ought to do, ' what I am sure the Board would do, had they now. to decide v the " question again. Our policy is certainly, to apply our labor so as to open as m uch of the riyer as we can,, in the shortest time, and with the ? least expense: in what other way can.it be .gnet, d Ui Usp . Let us consider for i moment, that these four obstacles are removed," and steam-boats can navigate the rivers as above supposed; there would . pk an immediate, easy, and expeditious communication between Dan- ville and the Gaston rlil-way, by running stages a short distance down - the river, from Danville to the boat; and from the head of Pugh's falls ? (about 7 miles) to Gaston. And there would be nothing to prevent another boat's running! from Brookneal to the same place. . I do not think it improbable, injsuch a state of things, that a toll of one dollar for each passenger, would give the company more revenue, than all .the other tolls put together. J As to the falls betwjeen the head of Pugh falls and Rock Landing, and those high up on tlhe Dan and Staunton, they would be attended : to, after these four places should be put in order. I think it not im ! probable that the 12 miles below Pugh's falls, will require more labor and expense than all the others: if so, the river being improved above, . would give us ample revenue to work on, and remove these obstruc- t tions. - .. .. X-J :i y. i ; : ": ' I '' But suppose we find some place on thetiver which steam -boats can ?i p.ot ascend? If hteam cannot overcome it, machinery may; and to view it in its worst'aspect; should we be obliged to change boats, arid have passengers and baggage carried around such a place, - still we shall have. accomplished much. j . . " , .- 1 All these remarks afplv to passage boats; they are ' found to be capable of ascending vorse rapids than tow boats. The latter,1 how ever, would soon follow the introduction Of the former; -and I have little doubt they can be turned to good account V h. May I not hope, injconclusion, that this subject will engage 'the attention, draw out the energy, and stimulate the enterprise! of the enlightened and patriotic sons of those lovely and fertile valeys? Ardently hoping it may, 1 ' ' 1 remain, dear sir, . - v ' Your obedient servant. ; j E. B. HICKS. ,. i'- i 'Z-': -h -I.--'--OF THE ' ' ' , ' t Hojij BEDFORD BROWN, 1 Delivered before a latge assemblage of the Democratip Citizens of CJ1 SI WELL and some of the adjoining Coun ties, at a Public Dinner gp vert coJnplimeniaty'o-Mmt' at 4:Jilton Hotel, on Saturday the J7th l- 0f '-aejHlrtrlQ'iGr -J : ' ". . -'' - f'f ,1 . f m j : 11 ;. ...... . t 1 ne louowmg wps ine sixtn regular loa&i aranK on me occasion: ' .. . Our DistinguishdGst, the Hon Bedford Brown -His zealous support of his.opjwsitidn agitation of the slave' question in Congresshis tqfjpip.dfearless' denunciation of the panic makers of i and t'36, prdiai nV Km ihe honest and faithful representative of our feelings and interests, ":aaiS must endear him to tha hearts of his countrymen.- : y: .; m-'., - :"' ':V .7, After the loud knd repeated bursts of applause with which this sen , timent was received, had subsided, Mr. ' BRO VVN rose and said: . :. ;: IN tendering to you, Fellow Citizens, my most cordial and sincere ; thanks fon the approbatory senti ment, with ' which, I have just been honored, I feel my entire inadequacy to give utterance . to the sense of , obligation wh ich it recalls, and to the warm and grateful emotions, . which it inspires.,. This honour, I am sure, in some degree the result of partial kindness, is, in my own estimation greatly . enhanced, from the civcumsiancei that it springs from those who have known me long est and best, aird between whom and myself, from a very early period i of my v6uth, the most friendly personal and political relations have subsisted - j .v j , - V; ... . V, ; '.' : .:'r:-y- ' 11 had needed any other incentive to animate me,;in endeavouring to discharge JfaithfuHy, the public trust confided to me, Jother, than that which is lo be found, in the most sacred duty of the Representative to . defend at alt times, and under all circumstances, the rights entrusted to him ,it would have been furnished, by recurring to the: honorable and against those who stood pp for the country and the constituted authori-, ties of the land:. The country has happily passed through it; all with-! out injury, and ita present high and palmy; tate" , of "prosperity, f ou:ht to afford-an. instructive admonition to those wo would not ad- mit that we could eniov.either happiness or prospentv, unless under i the auspices Of a great moneyed monopoly, This question i at this day mingling itself with another that is now before theAmerican people, and which is shortly, to be determined! It is the animating principle, and in a great idegr the political cooabmaljon, wjiich is, at this day, a( distinsruisl which at different times, marks of public confidence, shave been conferred on me by the citizens of my. native state 1 I will, however, no longer detain vou, by allusions to circumstances, jets more immediately connected with questions of public interest In common with those,' whom I see assembled around me; T feel "-the deep interest and importance of the present crisis. The govern- merit ot thej United States encompassed, as it often has been, by diffi f culties of jthe most, seripus and alarming magnitude, in the course of r the last six 'br seven years, has passed through trials, some of which were cf a cnaracter well calculated to test, severely, the competency of the people to govern themselves, and the capacity of our Republi can system of government, to maintain itself, amidst the angry and con 5 flicting eleiinents, which have occasionally' threatened its. destruction, f Hitherto it "has been preserved, by that patriotic feeling and. steady good 'Osense that has, .dnaU occasionsj-pervaded liie coun-t sold themselves to that corrupt institution ? Are effree I the verv soul . of i acting m perfec con-1 fort trtcrcihni tlio rKir-f nf whir.K is th rAhrri.v ' rf thp. rpnuhlican party and the prostration of the public'will, and thus to effect that pur-1 pose by stratagem, which it failed to do a few 3ears since . by - force; the. Bank and -its partizans, and the threats oi ruin and distress, made against the people of, the United States if they did not compel their government to sumt to its audacious demands? The Chief- Magis trate was day after day insulted by threats from Panic Committees, d- puted by the. pow.er and influence of the Bank from the large commer cial Cities ThejRepublican Members of Congress were often insul ted by hisses arid .violent gesticulations from the Galierie:s, crowded by the creatures of th Rank, from the seats of its authority- Anony mous letteris were rhodAitv, addressed to manv of them to -alarm theni la- to submission. ; 'Such, I know, personally, were the scenes which the 4 friends of the Adiisration had to encounter m ; that great! contest which saved the them from the grasp of a vulgar ana insolent f moneyed aristocracy, that sought to 'rule br rum it. : ,v'-v: -r"V' i f- . . -- Are we now to be told, that these principles are no longer in dispute, and thaT the contrpyersy is ajt an end? -Are we how to be told,-&nd that in less than two years from the time, when the battle raged hot test atfd fiercest, that this is no longer a question4 between '' the parties that divide our courjtr Mark the glaring inconsistency between'' the acts of the oppositioii arid their declarations ! When a republican is to be run down en Jackson or Van Buren is to be assailed, this same party , that in the brief space of less than two "years after these scenes were7 acted and who now say that the Bank question is no lon ger before the people, are ready, in the next breath to travel back some, fifteen or twenty years, to recall some act of the President or Vice President, and with ariiemory that clings with the most constant tena city to the acts of, their opponents,to make it the ground of assault ! When that most stupendous and wicked' scheme) to subjugate the American people to the rule of a heartless moneyed aristocracy, is al luded to, the memories of its partisans are short indeed; but when the object is to assail a Repriblican' and -destroy him in the public estima tion; why, then, a. quarter f a. century is no bar to the bririging'up of the accusation ! . ' ' . A ! ' If the question of reviving a National Bank is at an end, as oiu- po political adversaries would have us believe, why is it that the partizans of the Bank, in every part of the United States are; constantly endea vouring to depreciate the great object which President Jacksbn wishes to effect Preforming the currency , and towards the accomplishment of which, so much haV already been done, by measures tending to expel small notes from circulation and to the introduction !of-specie in their stead? If the question is at an end, why is it that Gen. Harrison, the " Military Chieftan'', of the Bank party , is brought into the field, for the Presidency, supported by the whole force of that party, and him self the avowed advocate of such "an institution? If the issue is not to be made up,' Tor what purpose is it, that Mr. Van Buren has been calhd on by an ppponent of the present Administration to answer whether in certain contingencies, he would sign and approve a Bill for a National Bank, ifhe. is rria'de President? It is true5, that the Bank, af ter brie of the rriost'fierce contest's for power, ever witnessed, in this or any other country has' been driven from the halls of Congress, dis comfitted afrid defeated. Brit though defeated there, it has not met a similar fate else where;' u Its mighty capital and energies areistill con- ccntratea. for Jarthf axtioiiv It still desecrates, the. name of the Ameri can Republic by assuming to itself the name and style of 'Th Bank of thd United States," .and is endeavouring to penetrate the States by its Agencies, and thus, to re-establish its former power and influence, throughput .the . Union, under another form. I have said, gentlemen, that this Bauk power and Bank feeling, con stitutes the very soul of the coalition party, that now assails the demo- cracy oi tne i country, ana is, at tnisaay, powenuuy conienaing wun it for victoy. In the- address delivered by Nicholas BiddlejPresident of the Bank, some time in the course of last fall; at Princeton College, he exhorts'arid animates his. partizans in this strain, Never desert the country; never despond over its.misfortunes. Confront its betray ers,' as madmen are made to quail beneath the stern gaze of fearless reason. : They, will denounce you. . Disregard their outcries, it is only the scream of Uie vultures whom they scare from their prey. . They will seek to destroy you. " Rejoice that your country's enemies are yours. ... You. can., never fall more worthily than I in defending -her from her. own degenerate Children. J If overbOrna by this tumult and the seli-sustained .and sell-possessed. your own quie triumph . sweeps It cannot be, that can longer endure the vulgar dominion ot ignorance arid, profligacy." The cause ot the country, spoken of by the President of the Bank, in this address, is,.in his estimationno doubt, the cause of 'the Bank, arid there is as little' doubt but "the vulgar dominion I of ignorance,-; &hd profligacy" which he speaks of, is intended by hin to characterise the administration of the people's choice, the great body of whom, are as much elevated in correct sentiment,above. the minions of, the Bank, as virtue is superior to vice, or manly independence is superior .to de grading servility This exhortation, coming as it does, from ., an indi vidual possessing unbounded influence over many of the leading op position presses throughout the United , States, and with numerous partizans devoted to him, has been most faithfully obeyed. For "the part that Mr. . Van Buren has taken against the Bank: -for the manly firmness and powerful ability, with which hiraselt and many ol his warmest friends supported the President, in. that contest for civil liberty, he bast committed an unpardonable offence. Nothing!, Noth ing! but his poUtical destruction can appease its offended pride. ' Who are mey attthiftday, that are most nercely engaged in detaming and villilymgiiinxfiu JVre; tney not to be lound, mostly, among upprinci- a the exclusive defenders of Southern hcci and interests. Some.of" those who are most active in propagating this chargeare "noisy po litical partizans, together with the Editors of HuUifying newspapers! r who would not suffer the loss of Very many slaves 1 even if their worst fears which they affect lo have.-wilh Tespect tot Mr. Van. Buren'a ' election, should ever be realized If such men can succeed in getting up inveterate hatred, between the North and the South, as is the con- -stant tendency of their labours, and prod uce a dissolution of the Union, -in tlie convulsions that would follow, they, perhaps, might be benefitted but probably: uot much worsted. From the rash; acts and indiscre tions ot such men, more danger is to be dreaded, to the bet interests ru p..ik it r .it . v. ,w Ui nit the Si ; oi'uiu, uiaii irum an? oinor auaner. w inen nr to h tnifn nn political leaders of the people, the Uniori would be sneedilv di?- - - - . f j : t " j oived. and universal anarchv and confusion rirevail . v . : -ir tlie indefatigable industry ;with?frich manv of the oonc. . ucuu ui mr. u iur?n, couunue to piy ine puoiic ear, tnat ne is an uiKjimuniii, ana mai juie aooiiiionisis.to tne riortn are nistnends; and desirous, so far as is in- my . power, not only to "do him justice, but feeling sUU more anxious that truth should prevail, on aubiect of such vital interest to tde Union, I will Iia3ily advert to a few facts, which will not only show the: utter want of truth in the charge, but; will likewise show, with which of the. political parties ; the Abolitionists have, mostly taken sides. Among; the most sfrpn aiM ijecicltd dis Splays of public feettrig to the Nqrth; against theFaaatics, j that which "" uvwmiu. mo luwuui uma, in iv. i orKi uurinff me lasx tali: wueie mey assemmea, ior ine purpose OHormmgja- Mate. Convention, I but which object was defeated by their dispersion and precipitate flisht,'- broughf about by the determined measures, taken bv tfie : Atot7??ike's cause seems Hopeless, continue Arid again he tells them, "From calmly, this servile : route, as its j aveneins: nour wuiat last come. elevation, watch before , you. . The our free nation remedy fCreconcile all differences, .and to heal aU.ldissensHons'':''4Hi In havmg done this, let us rejoice' that the people of the United States have most 'signally vindicated theircapacity for self-government,. and most sternly reouKed mat political party, wnicn unuer every name . and modification ,? from that of Federalists down to iriodern Whigs, Jo a so often attempted to underrate that intelligence Under no adminis tration which has gone before it, have. so many questions arisen, in-; , yoiving the) liberty and safety of - the country, as, have been presented ibr decifjiori, since President Jackson,, hai filled tlie. Executive Chair. ?' From his very first entrance on his public duties an opposition, dis : tinguished for the talents as. well as ambition of its leaders, anayed . it v self against his administration, and have, constantly since, opposed it with a zeal and a violence, , without an equal, in the annals of party . warfare.- Honest in his motives and firm to his purpose, and sustained . by the approving voice of .his countrymen, be has triumphed over all ? difficultLes; at home and abroad;; and the spectacle most gladdeningto the heart of every true American, is at this time presented, of univer . . tal prosperity throughoutail our land, and of -honor and respectability abroad,. L j : Fresh, iri our recollections, in the .history of this eventful Adminis- tratiori, is tne sreat struggle, by the Bank ot the United btates, secon . -ded and powerfully aHed, as it was, by the combination of : all parties supporting it, to break down the Administration and to subdue the pub- lie will into an?acquiescence to its dangerous pretensions Never has t contest been conducted With such bitterness, arrogance, and vindic- . -five persecution, as that was on the part of the Sajak and its partizans, ihey. not, in inafiyihstances, .to be found among partizan Orators who ltdc Itip andndedeate aboiatiops :;c , , , V . 0 v : -r Howevelr.thf V may attempt to disguise and veil the", real ' ause pf ; their hostilityl;tt him by the glanderous cry of Abolitionist, Intriguer and manycttnfir-sucn epitnets, oi every aay use among nis reyners and persecutorsryet I believe, and .most honestly believe, that the real cause ofeffence, ia the eyes of many who th us denounce him, is to be found, if traced to its proper source, more in his opposition to the United States Bank, and in his steadfast support ot Andrew Jackson; than in any thing else. As regards the charge of being an intriguer, it is a sufficient answer to it, that his enemies, with all theirjboasted superiority of talentr have never yet been able to prove it in a solitary instance. - With respect to the other charge, that he is an abolitionist, or that he, in any way countenances the designs of that party; with opportunities, by no means inconsiderable, .to judge ?oI its truth or falsehood, I do not hesitate' to say, that it is utterly unfounded, and that m the whole history of party warfare, an. act ! of greater injustice, has never yet been levelled at any public man. The manner in which it has, on soriie occasions, been attempted to delude the people of the South into this belief, I believe to be one of the most gross attempts to practices political frand.that the party contests of the present day, or of any other time, has ven birth to. ; And the charge itself, is any thing else bat complimentary to those in the South, who support his pretensions to the "residency, constituting, as, they do, some of . the very largest slave aiders of the South, and supported as he. is; jby some' of the very largest slave holding Counties in Virginia and, North Carolina, and with as much,' to lose, as those .who set -themselves up u nca. i ne. won . Mr. ieardsiey, then a member bf the House of ' Representatives, from New York, and known as k warm personal ,ahd political friend of Mr. Van Buren,, was among iheiost active in taking steps toMefeat the intentions of the Fanatics, an dj at a public meeting of the citizens of Utica, was pjaced on a Committee; with ; a number ! I of others, to inform them that tbey would not permit their convention C ! to be held in that town. " The determined manner in which the com- ; mittee acjed, together with the'strong indications among the citizens generally, to take the most summary means to suppress the evil, struck the Fanatics witlr dismay, and produced their immediate flight and dispersion. Let it be remembered, that the entire aboUtion party . throughout the State'of New Yor' " d mustered its force on this oc- " caion, and from the events whiwitefwards followed, we perceive from the irresistable force of so jnd public opinion, in that Stated that: the Abolitionists, as a party there, are contemptible ' in the extreme, arid are entirely without influence. The same: gentleman, Mn---'.; Beardsley; was in a very few months aftef he assisted in expelling the Fanatics from Utica, appointed Attorney General of the Statesof ?jew? York, by a most decided vote of its Legislature,., four-fifths - of whoni were known to be the friends of Mr. Van Burej, and by this act giving the strongest pioof, that his conduct was decidedly approved by them. The Abolition press in Utica. was, about jthe same time, demolished " by an indignant people, and its types Scattered in the streets, , and so highly excited was tlie public feeling against it and those whos'e cause -It advocated, that a Grand Jury of the immediate vicinity, refused to find a BiU. against those concerned in doing, this summary, act of-jus- , tice. But in addition to these powerful manifestations of public sen- ' v timent in that quarter, the. Message of Governor Marcy; who is known as the warm friend of Mr. Van Buren, addressed to the Legislature o New York, at its last session, takes higher - and 'stronger ground, : in! behalf of the rights of the South and against the! Fanatics, than ; ls ever yet been takenj : by any Governor.of a Northern State. He not only stamps their conduct with decided reprobation, but asserts ; the 1.. powerof the State to pass penal laws to prevent it, and Jts duty to. do soi if the force of sound-public opinion shall prove insuflicient.: TKese sentiments were strongly concurred with, ! in resolutions passed' almost unanimously by both branches oT the Legislature of that State. . To those who were jittenti ve to the course of some of the leading Whig, Journals in that quarter, it is known that this decided stand taken by the friends of Miv Van Bmwxn ttat oeeastori Waalhfciabjeri;' jpf thpir special attacks,; wit a view to excite, public prejudicelagaint them. 7 Nor is this all: most, if not everyohev pf flieLeJislatures of the Demo- : cratic States of the North,' have passed resolutifps i strongly in ''our favor. The Legislature of the truly Republican State of Pennsylva- uia, is an exception to. this remark. By division among jthe ' repul)li- . cans of that State, in the election of a Goveraor, the, opposition party, succeeded in electing a majority to the Legislature, which chartered4 the United States Bank, and a Committee of one branch of that Legis- : tiiiure, rcponeu resolutions, aa verse to tne rignts and interests ol the Southland calculated to aid in fariing the flamer of excitement then . m progress on that subject, I am not aware that these, resolutions were finally acted, on, and I refer to them,9 only jto show purty . was most active, at that time, in aiding the attempt to, get up another s panic on that question.; . The acts of that Legislajure .have been most ' signally condemned by the people, in their public meetings since, and -I do only justice to the State of Pennsylvania, in expressing the be lief, that the sentiments of the great body of her patriotic citizens,-are ' those of entire kind feeling to waids the South. '-''''.--v:""- In the Legislature, of Vermont, a State ,w hose Councils have" long been under the control of; the party, at presen :, calling themselves Whigs, a stronger. Abolition party "exists, than perhaps in any other in the Union, though in a minority, even there. Let these . facts,lthen,j: which cannot be. controverted, show, who ore for us and who areagaimt : us.. I. will now, briefly, notice sorne" of the procedings of Congress, . on the subject of Slavery, at its last session. . On the . motion of Mr. Buchanan of Pennsylvania, that the prayer of an abolition petition, be rejected, the vote of the Senate stood, thirty four in favor of the mo tion, and six. against it, of that, six, five are .opponents jof 'the admin-, istration. In the proceedings of the House ; of Representatives; 6n -the resolutions offered by Mr. Pirtckney of Soiiih - Carolina, on : the ' subject of slavery ,f and the strongest in favorof the, rights of the South that ever.-passed either .branch of Congressthe rotes stood; on the first resolution, declaring ' "that Congress Assesses not e -authority to interfere, in ariy way, with slaver3;ln any of the V States . of : this . confederacy,'' l&i- in favor of the resolution, and nine against it, those yoUng against it, all being in opposition to the adriiinis-,; tration. The vote on the second resolution, declaring ' 'that Congress , ought not to interfere in any. way " with slavery in "! the District; of, Columbia," stood, one hundred and thirty-two for the resolution, and- " forty-five against it; of the latter number, voting igainst if, thirty-seven ; are opponents of the' administration, and but eigtit its friends. On tie Bill to admit Arkansas into the Unionwith a pfovisiori. In her , Con . stituhnr gurewteeing to h&T..s&zpth& vote in jthe enatetood lhirtyTon'e in YQpJheT admission, andix r against it, those voting agains it, belonging, entirely . to the xank 6t the opposition. .' In the House of Representatives, the test yote vx. ! passing the" same Bill, was one hundred and forty-seven for its ppsage J and -fifty-two against it; the latter n umber , being com posed , of oppc- : nents of the administration, with a very vew exceptions. ,rArriongthe.. first acts of Arkansas, on being ushered into the Union, js her 'tn s umphant vindication of Mr. Van Buren and his friends, rom being enemies of the South, by electing a Governor, a Member f Cpngrefs, and a majority of her ;Lepslature, who.are fiiends of hit election to the' Presidency. ;.'- ;:: ''3'"l' .7" :' ." In the public acts to which I have referred both in tie- Legislatures of the Northern- States, and also, in the Congress of the. United States .;. it is as clearly demOnstratedvas any. proposition can be; that this" charge -y. is unfounded, and ori the other hand, it is as clearlyestablished, that ; jn- many instances, the abolition party have, on mot political qu.4x tipris, acted in alliance with the opposition. As Respects thQ sentr : ments of Mr- Van Buren, if his opinions already expressed, in a letter ' ' in answer to one from cei tain citizens of this Stafr i nt which he siiys : in reference to emancipation by Congress in.the.x)istnct of Columhi jj "that there are obieetions to the exercise of thU power, ; against th i i i, 'V: f i , r. ::'''' f ' . . it . wisues oi me siave noiamg : obligations in regulating the want of Constitutional power: states, as tmperaiivs in meir- muwe uwi conduct of public inertias the most ptJpnhXe ; would bex' and ajram.that if he is clecicdi .
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