Newspapers / The Durham Recorder (Durham, … / May 17, 1820, edition 1 / Page 2
Part of The Durham Recorder (Durham, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
together with the aids and abettors. The ] second section declares, that all partus concerned in a duel, shall upon convic tion, be imprisoned three months, and shall he fined not exceeding gtOOO, and shall be forever disqualified /torn hold' xng any a ftfi ointment o f honor or profit m the state* The eighth section ordains, that any judge or justice, knowing that a duel is to be fought and shall not prevent it, shall be indicted, and if guilty, shall be dismissed from office. The ninth section declares, that if any person shall, by written or printed handbills, firoclatm any citizen to be a coward, or use other offentive language Jor not accenting a challenge , he shall be fined not exceeding 2500. The tenth section declares, that any printer who will not give up the author of a communication of the above nature to the court, when called upon, shall be punished for a contempt of said court at its discretion. This is a strong law, considering how far south it is to operate. Whether it will have a tendency to check this un necessary and immoral practice we know not. The question of constitu tionality seems to be lost in the imper ative urgency of such a law, and a spirit of chivalry and false honor, seems :o be taking such deep root amongst all clas ses, that every ** puny whipster" thinks it necessary to fight a duel if you but stare at him a few seconds. A'. Adv. (Translated for the Philadelphia Gazette) Answer of the General Commander in Chief of the troopa in the island of Leon, addressed to the bishop of Cadiz, in reply to his pas toral letter. This piece, which we have ta ken from the Tribune de la Giro rule, will serve to ahew the sentiments and principles which animate tHte constitutional army. My Lord-?-Tlie first duty of men is to be just} to respect truth' and not darken it whh sophisms, is the most august function of pastors whom the God of truth has appointed on earth in order to propagate it. The pastoral letter which your excellency has deign ed to address to the faithful of your dio cese, does not breathe this language. Whatever may hare been your mo tives, our duty is to point out to your excellency the want of sound princi ples in the discourses of a pastor of souls, so respectable on account of his zeal and virtues. We shall not be tedious: truth is concise, its light shines of itself, and requires no orna ment to render it amiable. We shall here treat of one question only t Ought nations to be governed by absolute and arbitrary monarchs, without any other laws than those of caprice, or the pas sion of the moment? or ought they to be governed by kings who rule accord ing to laws justly established by the people, and presented by a respectable body who may restrain the excesses so common to power? i ne cnoice is not dounttul; perhaps tTie elevated station which your excel lency holds, in society will make your understanding incline to the system of servitude; but those principles do not belong to the reasonable part of Europe. Rea&on and experience reprobate abso lute inonarchs ; the wicked wish for them because they oppress mankind ; the ignorant bccause they have no idea of public iaw. This truth is so evident that it appears useless to us to demon strate it. The spirit of liberty, the ab horrence of injustice and oppression, are so natural to man, so deeply engra ved in our hearts, that servility can only he the language of stupidity, or the most abominable hypocrisy. Spain un derstood these principle#, and gave itself a government which foreign nations ap plauded. II any thing can be called lawful, it was without doubt, the politi cal constitution of the Spanish monarchy. All classcs of the state swore to support it; the army swore to it, and the people htiled it with acclamations. If this ode so respectable, was torn up by in gratitude and perfidy, this is no reason that it should be buried in oblivion, or thai the loyal Spaniards who ehcrished it should he accused To say a thing is bad because it is forbidden by an abso lute prince, is to deceive; to say that those who desire the happiness of their couutry are criminals, because they go against what is called the prerogatives ol the monarch, is to deceive; to say that the military who rise to restore to the nation their salutary government are perjured, is to trample down all ideas of whatever is sacrrd in an oath, or in the object of it. ? Every citizen ought to swear to devote himself to the glory and happiness of his country. There can be no tie to oblige him to perpetuate public evils towards a prince who is not the father of his subjects ? The king cannot be separated from the nation: ? When their interests are mutually op posed, the oath received by the former i? nirt binding on the latter. The Ho man soldiers took an oath to the Consul, but had he attempted to enslave the country, the legions which would have dinobtyed him could not have been per jured. To reason otherwise is to con found things and not understand the spirit of institution*. The Spanish mil itary swore to observe and drfend the Spanish constitution; thty were perju retl when they tacitly consented to Iho *?vertlirow of the sanctuary ol their laws. To cali aloud for the rebuilding of it, to devote one's labor and blood to it* and invite tbe rest of the nation to follow so nol>le an example, is faithfully to dis charge the duties which are imposed upon one by the interests, happiness and glory of the country. Who called them perjured? the spirit of oppression or the language of hypocrisy. From all this, my lord, it follows, that the soldiers of ! the army so justly called the national, are not the enemies of order, nor of the laws and state ; they are not men per secuted for their crimes, nor the factors of former rebellion, nor men thirsting for distinction and honors. T.i* language of seduction they make use of, is that of reason and knowledge; the religion they invoke is that of your excellency, that which they carry in their hearts, that which they received from their fathers; lastly, that which they do not wish under any pretence to innovate. The proclamations which have reachcd your excellency are only the candid expression of their senti ments. It is very easy to employ soph isms when reasons are wanting, and very common in those who write to commit faults in criticism and logic at the same time. We shall make no answer to the texts of scripture quoted by your excel lency; they are entirely foreign to the object on which we are treating. There are lyings of several and distinct classes, according to the constitution of states. The king of England has not as much power as the king of Prussia, and both reign equally. Whatever violence may be done to the sense of the holy books, there it not a single passage to be found authorising the unlimited power of kings. Despotism is an ontrage on tho human species, and the God of Justice cannot allow the violation of those laws which strike at the preservation of a good so worthy of his hands. We shall conclude with a slight reflection which appears applicable to circumstanccs; the language of peace, of moderation, of meekness, is that which Jesus Christ taught the pastors of souls. Political events are foreign to their holy profes sion, as the gospel itself shews it in so many places. Its divine author never speaks of the government of the Cae sar*. The violation of this maxim has caused great harm to the state, and more fata! evils to the church. The greater part of the storms it has suffered, the schisms and reforms which have divided it, and the philosophical writings which have given it such mortal blows in the last century, have no other origin than the spirit of persecution and intolerance, which its ministers have manifested on so many occasions. This is an indis putable truth, confirmed by all histories, and which we would not point out to your excellency, if you had confined yourself to the spiritual administration of your Rocks, and the exercise of those pacific virtues which have procured you such high respect in the eyes of afflicted and suffering humanity. As chief of the army, ANTON JO qUIROGA. St. Fernando, Jan. 14, 1820. @?ST(ai33S33? HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Tuesday, May 2 The engrossed bill to prevent the commanders, and other officers in the naval servicc of the United States, from accepting ofeny present or emolument of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state, and for other purposes; was read a third time, passed, and sent to the senate for concurrence. The house having resolved itself into a committee of the whole, Mr. Taylor in the chair, on the hill for laying duties on sales at auction, the bill was read through. Various amendments were succes sively offered to the details of the hill, some of which were accepted, and ma ny rejected. The bill having been gone through and the blanks filled up, the committee rose and reported the bill and amend ments to the house, and the amend ments were concurred in. After several ineffectual motions were made to reduce the amount of du*y, the question was taken on ordering the bill to be engrossed and read a third time, and decided in the negative ? yeas 72, nays 77. So the bill was rejected. A motion was then made by Mr. But ler of N. H. that the house do reconsi der this vote; but before deciding this question? - At about 5 o'clock, the house ad journed. [Mr. Darlington has not obtained leave of absence, as, from erroneous in formation, was stated in our last.] \Vedn#?day, May 3. The speaker laid before the house, a letter from the secretary of war, trans mitting a copy of tne proceedings of the court martial, on the trial of eol. Wil liam King of the 4th regiment of infan try, and a copy of the orders and docu ments connectcd therewith, communi cated in obcdience to the resolution of the 18th ultimo: which was referred to the committee on military affairs. On motion ol Mr. Williams of N. C. the house to?>k up arid proceeded to con sider the resolve submitted by him on the 2oth uit. for the appointment of a standing committee, to be denominated "the committee on agriculture," and the resolution was agree*! to. Mr. Mercer moved that the home do now proceed to consider the bill to pro vide for clothing the militia when called into the scrvice of the United States; which motion was negatived. ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS. The house then proceeded to the con sideration of the senate's resolution, pro posing to fix a day for the adjournment of congress. The bill wis amended by inserting the 15th instant, as the day of adjourn ment, and returned to the senate for concurrence. The bill from the senate " further to regulate the medical department of the army," was read a third lime and passed. DUTIES ON AUCTIONS. The house then took up the motion, depending on yesterday's adjournment, to reconsider the vote rejecting the bill for laying duties on all sales at auction. Whereupon, Mr. Butler, of N". H. withdrew his motion, and submitted the following re solution: Reaolved , That the secretary of the treasury be directed to communicate to this house, at the next session of con gress an estimate of the deficit in the revenue, which may ultimately arise from the adoption of the proposed tariff, and also what amount of revenue may be derived from a duty on sales at auc tion and on spirituous liquors distilled from grain and other domestic materials. And the question being taken, that the house do now proceed to consider the said resolution, it was decided in the negative. Mr. Storrs then renewed the motion to reconsider the vote rejecting the bill laying duties on certain bales at auction: And after a few remarks from Mr. Metcalf and Mr. Wood in favour of re consideration, and from Mr. Warfield in favor of a postponement till to-mor row (which was negatived) the question was taken, by yeas and nays, on Mr. Storr's motion, and decided in the affir mative, yeas 84, nays 62. The bill then received sundry amend ments. On motion of Mr. Baldwin, the duty of 10 per cent, on sales of certain enu merated articles (dry goods, Sic.) was striken out, so as to leave that item blank. Various rates of duty were proposed by way of substitute to the lo per cent. ? viz. Mr. Storrs proposed four percent. Mr. Sergeant proposed seven and a half. Mr. Dennison proposed three. Mr. Case proposed six. Mr. Tracy propoicd two. Mr. Taylor proposed eight. The question was first taken on the highest rate proposed, (tight per cent.) and negatived; the question on the two next highest rates proposed, as above, were also decided in the negative; but, On the question to fill the blank with five per cenium, it was dccidcd in the affirmative. The question was at length taken on ordering the bill to be engrossed for a third reading, and decided in the affir mative ? yeas 93, nays 58. And the house adjourned. Thursday* May 4. On motion of Mr. Woodbridge, it was resolved, that the secretary of the treasury be directed to prepare and re port 10 this houtc, at the next session of congress, such modifications of the ex isting system regulating the commerce, navigation, and revenue of the United States, as he may consider necessary and peculiarly applicable to the north ern and noith western frontier. The engrossed bill laying duties on certain sales at auction, was read the third time. This bill propose* to lay a duty on all sales of foreign goods at auction, (ex cept sales under judicial process, &c.) of one per cent, on the amount of sales of groceries, and that class of articles, and of five per cent, on the amount of sales of woolkns, cottons, and certain other manufactured articles. The bill passed, 89 to CI. On motion, the house resolved itself into a committee of the whole, Mr. Smith of N. C. in the chair, on the bill to authorise the president of the United State* to borrow two millions of dollars, and for other purposes. A debate arose on the provisions of this bill, which occupied the remainder of the day's sitting. It wa* thought by some that two mil lions would not be sufficient,, four or five were mentioned, and some objected to the suiplusof the sinking fund be* ing touched. Friday* May 5. On motion ol Mr. Ford, of N. Y. af ter considerable debate, the vote on passing the bill imposing a duty on sales at auction was reconsidered, and the bill postponed to the next session of congress. The mover and former sup porters of the bill urged this course, on the ground that as the tariff* bill, and the bill providing for payment of duties in cash, had been rejected, and the propo sed duty of ten per cent, on auctions re duced to five, the passage of this bill would have no effect but a transfer of the duty now paid on auctions to some of the states to the United States. The bill was postpofi?:d, E8 to 62. The house aguin weni into a commit* tee on the loan bill. The motion to strike out two millions, after some de bate, was carried ; and, on motion of Mr. Smith, of Md. the blank was filled with three millions, and the bill passed. The committee then proceeded to the consideration of the resolution which was referred to it, calling on the secre tary of the treasury to prepare mid lay before Congress, at its next session, a system of internal revenue. Mr. Clay hoped the committee would reject this resolution. The executive, he said, had the power of the veto, and he thought it would be goim* too far, to give to it also the power of origina ting measures. The resolution was rejected by the committee without a division. "Late ? oreignlnttWigence. LATE FROM~SPAlNT. The brig Edward Foster, Couthouy, arrived at Boston on the 2d instant, in 35 days from Malaga. In her came passenger, D. S. Hackley, esq. bearer oi" despatches from Mr. Forsyth, our minister at Madrid, to the secretary of stale. By this vessel we learn, that the min istry of Spain had been entirely changed, as well as all the officers, civil and mili tary, with a few exceptions, throughout , the kingdom ; and all the ambassadors in foreign countries, except Gen. Vives to the United States, and constitution alists appointed in their stead. On the 9th and 10th, a massacre of a large number of the inhabitants of Cadiz look place. On the 8th, Gen. Freyre arrived in Cadiz, and the people called for the constitution. He promised it should be proclaimed the following day. Ac cordingly the people assembled in a large square for the purpose, when they were fired upon by the troops of the garrison, (who had l.een joined by a number of deserters from thi Isla) and shocking to relate, between 700 and 800 were killed on the spot, and between 1 100 and 1200 wounded It was sup posed Gen. Freyre gave the order to fire, but he had denied it. It was con sidered he had acted the part of a dou ble traitor. He had been deprived of his commission. In consequence of this unhappy affair, the people throughout Spain were highly exasperated against the government ; and favored most de cidedly the cause of the constitutional party. The constitution was finally proclaim ed in Cadiz on the evening of the 21st of March, amidst the acclamations of the people. Cadiz was about the last place in the kingdom in which the con stitution was proclaimed. A plot to bring about a counter revo lution, was discovered in Madrid the I lihof March, and several persons were arrested and imprisoned. The duke del Infantado, who was suspected to have been concerned in it, had resigned the office he held. The members of the cortcs in 1812 were collecting in Spain, and expresses had been sent to those at a distance, re quiring their attendance at a general assembly to be holden in Madrid, as soon as possible. All was quiet when the Edward Fos ter sailed, and the people appeared to be extremely happy- under the new or der of things. I The following Americans, who hare been imprisoned in Spain for nearly | three years past, were liberated on the ' 24th March, viz: Conkling, Thompson, Weston, Cochran, Faucke, and Smith; and the following were liberated from the prison in Malaga on the I 5th March: Cusbing, Lapham, Wynans, Milner, Pryne and Piyer. The king of Spain has named the duke de Frias, ambassador to London, vice the duke dc San Carlos ; the duke del Parque, to Paris, vice the duke de Fernam Nunez; don Luis de Onis, to Naples, vice don Pedro Labrador; count dc Terenor, to Prussia, v ice don Pasc ual Vallcjo; don Manuel Gonzalez, Sal mon, to Russia; don Joseph Maria dc Pando, consul general to Lisbon. A new ministry was formed at Mad rid ? the duke de San Fernando had been superseded. I)e Yrujo and the other exiled noblemen had been recal led. The king had issued a decree to re lease all prisoners for political ofTences. The most friendly sentiments for the United States are expressed by the con stitutionalists, and it is thought no diffi culty in the ncgociation would be caus ed by this party. In the contest between the royal and revolutionary forces at Malaga, Feb. 19, 60 or 70 were killed and wounded. A letter says, " the jails and dungeons arc already lightened of their burden*, (pris oners of church and state,) and thousands arc restored to the bosoms of their fam ilies." It it reported that Ferdinand is un popular in Spain ? and a change of the dynasty is cxpcctcd? -or the establish ment of a republic. A provincial junta is formed, by whose direction the king acts. It is composed of the cardinal dc liuurbon, president; General Hallcsteros, vice president; the bishop of Valladolid, don i Manuel Abadoy Quccipo, doti Manuel Lardilabel, don Mateo V *idenioroa, tu, Vincente Sancho, don Fi an cisco Cttspc don Bernardo Tarrius, and Ignacio Pc. zuela. Before whom the kiug h?? sworn to the constitution. The mercantile Diario of Cadiz, March 21, announces that an election of twenty-five electors of member* of the cortes was to be hulden In the parishes of that city on the 23d. The same pa per contains a statement oi the killed and wounded in that city in the affair of the 10th of March, aa follows ? killed, men, 371; women, 36; children 29; tu. tal 436 ? Wounded, still in the hospita' 70, besides many who are at their own houses. From Sf:ain.?0\xr latest advices arc only to the 1 5th of March, (although the* schr. Midas, arrived at Baltimore from Smyrna, touched at Gibraltar as late &?> the 29th.)? A friend writes us under date of the 15th, as follows: ? ?'The revolution in Spain is over, and the King has declared the Constitution and summoned the Cortes. ? Cadiz has been entered by the Constitutional Army of Quiroga, and all the other cities have espoused the cause ? all this without bloodshed. M Whether the people will reccive a Cortes from the King, or any longer ar knowledge him as their Sovereign, are questions yet to be determined ? I think myself, it is likely the Revolution has ju*t begun ? All that is done has beu. done by the military ? what interest they will allow the fieofi/e in the new order o: things remains to be seen. " Nothing more about our Treaty, nor can I pretend to say what effect the revo lution will produce in our political rcla tion with Spain." F.x'fact of a letter to the editor of the Charles ton City G*?ette, dated " Si. Thomas, April 18, 1720. The schooner Ann and Eliza, captain G. M'Carter, arrived here night before last from St. Vincents, and only 14 dajs from Angostura, but ?s capt. M*C. did not intend coming to this island when he left Angostura, he brings neither letters nor papers. But he brings very inter esting verbal accounts of a very great and bloody action w hich had been fought c between general l'aez, and the royalist army, 30 J miles from that place ? in which, he intorms me, the Spaniards / lost every man, amounting to 500i?, in } killed, wounded and prisoners. (treat ] rejoicings were the order of the day when he left Guayana, such as ringing of bells, cannonading, 6cc. There was an American schooner there, which ought to have sailed the day after this vessel for St. Thomas, by which we im patiently wait to receive the important official account? which, so soon as I re ceive, I will forward to you witnout de lay. ? This action must have been fought near Calabozo with the royalist amiy of General Morales, who, with the whole of his forces, must have heen anninila- . ted. The evacuation of Caraccas is a necessary consequence, and the entrance ol the patriot army. ? Strange as it may appear, we have not heard a word ol ihe expedition that sailed fiom Margaruta on the 8th of last month. True it is, thai no vessels have ai rived from any quar ter that could give us intelligence of its succcss." From the Boston Lhuly Advertiser. A great moral revolution among thr inhabitants ot ihc earth, appears to tx hastenmg on. We had occasoti lately to mention that wonderful event, the late revolution in Spain, achieved al most without bloodshed- a nation born in a day! We have now to mention ano ther most extraordinary transaction: two despotic sovereign* emancipating their slaves, and proclaiming publicly, by a herald, 44 all wen arc born free." Is not this the work ol HIM, who holdeth the hearts of all men in Inn hands; who by a wise Providence, orders all things a right, and who is hastening the time when tvara shall cease? Trunthtfed Jot the lio'tm Daily .1>h+rti*er. 44 Frankfort, (Oder,) Feb. 24. 14 The grand duke of Mecklenljerp, and the duke of Mecklenburg Strelitz, have proclaimed the suppression of per sonal servitude. The 6th of Jan. the same benefit was granted to the pea sants of the Inland ol Oescel. The cere mony of emancipation wa? preceded by divine service, all the constituted autho rities were joined to the deputies of the ' peasants. The marshal of the province delivered a discourse in which \vc re marked the following passage. " All men arc born free, the law alone can restrain the use of their lil>erty, arbitra ry power must disappear and in future it will be no merit not to have been a tyrant." 44 This is the wish of Alexander, [ the grand duke,] our well beloved aove reign, this is demanded by the spirit ol the age, that all powerful voice, which always makes itself heard. They day has arrived, when servitude is to be for ever abolished, and when the first rights of humanity arc to be rendered to the men whose labour and sweat pro cure for us the first necessaries of life. Paris, March 2 5. Since the catastrophe of the l)uc de Bcrri, thii ci? y has assumed quite *
The Durham Recorder (Durham, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
May 17, 1820, edition 1
2
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75