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UNION. THE CONSTITUTION. AND THE LAWS TIIR GUARDIANS' OF OUR L1DKRTY.
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'sBOROUtill. N. C.
ju:nvi- iiuAitrr,
li ta. a vwo ootiaaa
.e;r ir rio is aert.tt.
$ Jo bi ?' -tk- f their wish
lev, wu. he po -ei. as dtrng
e li:-! ..!. .) no
ir 4 .-witiiiae J wad H arrcartT
I t I'm aptw t. ..tu ' rhei.
f K-at if iv t ctibrrs, shall te.
enth iati. ;
Ta
call
trwt Bot '"rt lu jteet lints
! lHr time f Jc mw dollar, and
4 crot f r m il f M tinitance.
(Win reeeuet b? 'he printer, and
ipit-anaier in t atite.
- !onJti item, iolbeiapr
CtP.Vril.StTOitS.
ftl tattled! i.fer.at It jaW.
P?ram cinali. L Can the t! I
r.ca neat, i iki ite ee mi i . m
v tmt Miiii.it PKiHF
I as nfic lr tae t.'lerk of
SfW I Jitf Covrts r p!aa t
. t will fee sua mu. on that day.
fortes muk,
' t it wir w aiMkitt tn nncini,
Jr i,i'U ir,.l'i ' iti! ,f .
!, Ct t itiriciliia trj 4rt
i 1 1 a ?tlciti n f m kut li fi
i'r-l litre sirw fffat 4t;fjr-
p I. f i f iir imn-t H kintat)."
it ! Brijf itj," 41J " U arautrrta
ur-, an a-a mW at lie
rfn? .ti-.tiin ! i iTirit. Not Hdjf
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m our uci.'Ktrf, Tiie rim-
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l il-l'anliiu' Ti V:iin?.
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lit 1 1. a' ! ul ling A'.i.J rt'tin.ji via. .
i r i:ir!' 'Int. Tbav. bniM ! la
ji'irar- p'an .1111 ai. ti f'r
III Itfi'i? of arnrh. M-ie of te
ni rn'iini in thu b tiborh.rf4
,(-.!.h, ttl pov tin l4Tl . .,jr
1 wi i ni iti'H " f p-.a ;
j ii-it; rtr hjr may He 0 ild bt t
' a irk of a mill, rbta- aurhi'i.
i nut t. ntr phand pt ! ariHiw,
if kept grcascl. ititii eU
Ma i arciain iiiatinK I.aii.
Y ri.i aliu rrir oia mi.Briri oa
diti 11 2 term. 11 hroorht 1 .fit h.
A. & I. litAIN 1
mber 10. I 99-1
TMWrMS SIX!
if b LBS. best Northera l lLOJ
fM ilc at tli atre f
WALKER A.NDEUsOI&j
. uroinjti, May ft, I i
UILLsnOROL'GH
Winter S?Ji..n u( this tut
ill on tha 15th instant lb
tn continn'-s 4 twrctator
reni'iiina nfir.y ten yrwriof
i, it in nteii:;4 tor tii Ten.
1 to put any renewed auurml
riittliilure.
mf Tmtun from $10 i t ;
'V
nj anJ Paintin?, 10,
M. M. GREEN, Supen
"!iiy 5.
We!
CRr.lt f forewarn all ncrsanill
" a on my land in any maxm
rti 11 t!y in takmj Stonr from I
Any p.mo!t wintinr .t ineiorl
r p.ir f , ,no.t api.lr In t ha ml
" t' Ua i Mjrdu- k', atl.aka.
SLI,Y TIlO.Mt'
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Library; of Choice - fci'Sll
NOTICE.
Wl prtaerhipof ft. A. IV 31 OO IT
is tbie dir dissolved k aautuij -, nt.
in.lrbird.to th abota fim pla
oa tde titicribr aa aooa a ceatenical
ail setllQ ihetr mp'ive arconntt.
The Hutinaa mi'l H ranUi4 tj tbe aub
criber.
who l sow ftrVEIV0
A GENE HAL ASSOKTMENT OV
Kiiilril In l?ic iraoii,
Hkb arilj b afHreJ a. m':a' jiee
f.r Cti, or n rt cr dit t p w tt c
t imer Hf i iIetni'rJ m-l! .! wwu!J
ttarrt orr p-rftf lily reijwrM t -ii j
ttrclife,t v4!l a a nw.w tuW.
A GOOD ' ASSOItTMF.NT OF
cuAKlantlv i it' .
STEPHEN 'MOORE.
Novnubrr I if-S
Jeurllerytiltrr Unrc, Vc.
-.-Him.
f C rtrc.vtrfa oJ nu i' ti p' ! fcimJ
in t'ltH !'. nrnii'ii i.uii iti j'K'itmtot
ttiniv, .i4 tbr itm l.uf ti tnt
vatvlii that tutjir be .'i.trd, a lbr da
H aril n-' ihoiit aairantii.j il t b Cm4.
In alJ.ii.li to H JVUILS, JLHCLLLKY,
llrltann'Kt X Viand mi rr,
rfrfiiuifry, ratify Arli
Vc. IC7 Watchra i-(aire J orcfullr. and
arr it if r?ry if.aiic'.
Thcjr wouU rcfpictfully tolifit
ti of i ir (jvumi ra actaua ait
of S nt MfjilinS. (! V& aanie.
fvttiai a. si
Dr. .orUUOtl hi removed hit
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A ( ii'i lu'i'tnutn mil
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CIUUI.I.S W. JOHNSTON. .7mV.
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Will
A. GRAHAM.
cto?cr i'J 1
LAST
TICK.
JtllF. ibi i'Hi, i--k
bai!ie in this v
all 'hoM in leiiia. tot:
.otta their account t
is ill flow lg their
rrnpectiuVy s'llirit
ciincin, to rail and
it Ist. l Settciiibrr
nral. Longer mlu'g
bo civeii.
t cinml and nil 04.1
CAEJt Kl UK LAND.
Julr 16. f TS
ice.
ft! IF. anWriher
Norembrr tfr
tn tha last wrland
in q jil.fird at Te last
at e I
I" iirange i:ant Court,
lament of Thotaas l iich.
Jrtruie.l, btrthy
es nntirn to all prtnon
is lo come forward arid
indebted tn laid e.
'tti iheaame; a
CJini lh cstaU
i'i! prisons hain rUiais
ill prtpnt tliant properly
authenticated wi
!, or tas notic
th tune presriibnl by
'ill ba plrad 111 bar of rc
corcry.
E.IPSOM FITCH, Ei'r.
Iinuarr?. I tHi.-lwp
"2.1 Mtilar He aril.
4N a4 If.
1 tim aubsriititr vn tlieaneht
tho 3d lsiant, a negio in in by tha
nam of
He say he wis iio d by a man by the name
of Jrlireys; a mm by the name of .Strickland
formerly ,iil Imn; Strickland sold him to
Allen Dunn of Kalpiah. and llnnn to the sub
scriber. Said boy Osborne u about five frtt
fire and a iialf iiichrs bi-ili, bet wren thirty-five
and forty ar ef jt, of a yellow complex
ion; ha of thin itifl and tolerably lame
forehead; kid on a white hat. and black inns
coat, bis othr clothing not rTgllntnl. Oa.
borne no oouoi will try to paa as a fr! tnao,
a it is likely ha ha brm-urrd some free m-
pers, and no d m'it ha U mukiiijj hi way for a
tree state.
A reward of twenty fiso dollars will ba riven
(''lT.0T;tVm m
said narn, or lor Ins h,g -o..i...ed in an; j.-l .
so tiiat 1 j;ei nuu atam
JOHN A. FAUCETT.
Oalober 5.
... i . i ..i -v i i
FRENCH AFFAIRS.
' Wr? tie been favored. the New
York fiir, wi.h the f.!!iiiiti ropy f
tlie Ikj'stcli fmtu the Dule d l!f.f lie
u Mn. I'deetit, l"li-r$e dta AtTaire f
JriHT,rfj:is) 10 t!ie etknaiknt re
quifrJ ly l!ie Clianiber f D-putic pri
or lo l!ie iViiiliiietit of the treatf . t
rai. Ian 7. IS:i. "
, Sirr T'icre? no kinder tx'ft on nur
psru i!jr flistvle la the entire iuni:a
i ljvhmriit of ilie treaty roucL.led nt t!i
I'll of July. IH31. between IVanee atd
ll.r Edited !Uie. TIe pnerl t4 kv
riUiive to the iodemnitit, reciprnelly
alipulated in that treaty, titer lui in; sue
eeasivttr pacei the twn riu:ubert, Ui
rrreire i ttw nyl ssnrtion.
1 tay on our part. fur ert'rv thin? o
deprndf 011 the otrru:urut of the L'ni
ted Sfciln: it In-longa to Uiein to rctunve
the oidv 4ihurle that atill uhi,. Uy
titlue of a rj.mne in rted in ti e -irt. 1st.
hy the C'UaniVrof Depuft. ti t Freot-h
(.tftemmuit luurt if. r mi f the pay.
mcHta agrn'd upon. tt:i i.m t the tint
led State alili hati ex;.!4i"id he true
ineanmu and rial purj'tKt id UiMr pas
agea imerted bv tlm jftiitictX ( llie
l iiion in hit mtssae llf tH-oin nf
the ln et.n o( Coiitr. an.l at wlui-ti
all Frai.c at the first avfrct u justly
oirmJi d. . ' "
Tha tlavernment I atinj; discovered
nothinf in that elui at variance till
it oii iciitiaienis, r tl.r ni:r it h A
inti ndid to pursue, the pmjert tif Ijtr
thu amended nn t'ie ltth t.f April, by
thf Chamber cf l pi.t. was rartitd on
l5e "1 h li the Cliatnher r.f Peer. 1
here wiilt annex i i epu whirh amnu
pamedii. Thai Joeumenl taifthow ynu.
111 a few Wiii'd, in what iht we n-D-i
der th resetift ptmition of the to
countries. I a!o snnef the re pirt of ih
romnihire, rts 'uu-d to the Cfiimber ul
Peers on 'e 3J f June. You will,
thereby, ee lnw far that llr, eni
curred th o; iuiou of Uie Chanuher id
Iepiitr 1.
M. .ivinjtnu haa I. ft Pin, without
aiti l for the eote ! tU 1 h....' r of
Pee leavma; M. Uuriou a Cl.are
d'f Jatres. The letter by whtrh he ae
cr -dited h"m tti the Frenth Giiverhiiieut
f of the "..th pril. YU Wl'.l rind ui
: joined a enj'j- of it.
3 note d i'ed 27th. M. Livingston
assigns at the ui-ji of his departure,
the ilinilo,irn d by the Frrttrh Go.
veinn.ent in t 1 itmii t.i a prrtiivis nuletd
the ISt.i, in ve?u' h that tuer, aftee.
ahlv v or.'." Irmn hi g'irertimeitt. de
in.ir,i!i- l ev '' u"iii!i uf an eipresin
nu h- u"f of hy M. Si'rr.irier. in note
hei.!i!rt -il lu M I' ttsyt'i l the tlilii'
he Irft. Th.it espUii-itt(ii. .ir. should it
njjain he demaniinl, villi show our
h vt-ry a iHirij tn lurm!), adinitun;
it vh'Mihf lie alJ .-r aatn, when e
shiil onrsi-lfes have milled those m
have a nitht t expi-t.
AiUifsid are eoi.ii-s of the two twlis
ol the I Mil ami .,7'!i-
On the ;Hh. .M. .triiii;tti lud J
drese d lo me a liurd Hole of freitt length,
in whieh, whilst he tmhiais inaLmi.' .il
lusion t liii Min n !mi tit tnH'idurt I l.y
t'; .'lumber of Deputies., he full) euti rs
into its principle and pibaM cone
qnenrc, as you may ascttiJiu by read
mi that p itier.
, At long ihe mendmenl was but a
simple projerl, the iiiitiative of vvhith
did not even belon2 to the govrriimi nt,
I ihot:eht proper to abstain from emeriug
into any controversy on the suhjert w ith
the minisur of a foreign Eovinni.cni
Now tlul project has bii.ouie a law hv
the coin urrn-ce of the twoCiianihi rs, and
the ennrltonof the King; il is mv ilnty lo
junttly it against objections which arc ut
u rly (rotindleaa.
I shall first recall a few facts ihe pro
ji rt ol law rclauve to the execution of the
treaty, signed on the 4th of July, 1831,
hud leen presen'ed three . Un.m to tlie
Chamber of Depoiii s, viz. the Uih of
April, lt33- the I Ith of June of the same
y tar, ami tut' 13 Ji January of the jrar
lojlowiiii;, wben it a rejected by a ma
jority of eight voirs on the 1st of April,
l:it
The news of its rejection was known at
v aMnnctim on the (' h of May, through
a packet who h saili d from Liverpool on
the 0th of A pnl.
The Ith f June, M. Sermricr inform
ed the Set retarv ul' State, that the King's
Government hid ilrtrrininrd to present
anew the .nn; prjirt of law at the next
tension of the Clumber The loss of
the bill having oerasiotied the resignation
Oi the Minister who had signed it, and
this eircuinstanec h iving c.oi-nl difli n-ui
change in the r:ihint t, the (i.ivernuu nl
could not, ilefin.t.vi lv. adopt that deter
.,. . ' . ....
mtuation until the Ui ol April. Hit:
brijj 1 Cuirassii't hearer of new inlruf
lions to M. Serruner, had, moraover,
met wit'i Ion ami stormy pas.
At the esprea reqeeat of M. M lne,
ihett Sverrtary oi State. M. Sen urier
eomtnuiii'Xted the next day ia writing,
the d. el .rations -whirli he had alrt-ady
tnade verbally. . His note is dated U.e Oils
of June. ' - ;
5 Tin reply of M. M'Lane is of the
'iTtfu It that reply M. H'lane ststet
in express terms, io the name of his Go
rerjitei.l, i!i4t tie riet-iJent r 1 the I nt
tei States will rely on the assurances M.
Frruri r ba ben instrvCed to gif e bim.
nd he ill wait btreafuT with conn
dcoe, f.r the speal tlut is to be made
U the rew I liaaiwr.
M. Serruner. in hi note ef the 5th of
June, luu) incidentally obrrrd that it
was the I'l'euu mi of the t reoch Gorn
ruent to prrseut azain the rejected law at
as early a period aa our Constitution
wot.' J ;n nnit. That intenti n was real;
oor desire waj siucere; but it naturally
followed fuMj the eery nattiro and terms
of the t'i:g3gcnien. that it reh rred to 110
pnrtieular and filed period, and that it;
was bit di pcnuVnt upon ihed Uerent ex- !
igencies of our internal situation, or up
ou the object which both Govcrrjmenis
wire ecjualiy anxHii to attain.
In the month of August U.e t bambers
were af.tiblea. iitl it.ereiv lor lorrj nu
lir Uie ad purpose ol comply tug wttn
the provision of tlie 42I arurle of the
I, barter. J project o law was ettherj
prvrenu d u disaiel. - i
M. Ivitigstoii. at rant, and the Pre
sidenl if the L'niUd States, at Wa-hing
ton, hating seemed to regret that the op
p.rtunity of this at-eidenul meeting had
not been embraced to place ajrain Mms
the I numb, is the project of law r laure
to the treaty of the 4ih f July, it was
easy tn make them understand that in
8un with that precipitancy, we would
not only Irave c'rp-uted from all establish " j'
ed uvagrs. but comt romitted, instead of.
securing, the passage of tlie law.
I lie ssme considerations were very j to Congress, vr ol any course he may ad
naturally opposed to the request m!e at , te them to pursue."
a subsequent period, by M. Livintston, J We cannot, air. admit tuch a princi
for a sjicual session in the fall. That pie: we cannot admit it, at least, without
toiuis.er mvst. rtnoouht, hate urgi d them Condition or limit, in at, absolute, geiie
n?i bis linvernment, since the latter
showed ilstlf emir, iy ei.nviured ol their
validity snd ju'.iir--
The new rn t.irv il" St ite, M. For
svt'i. sai.l. in t'ie iiijttih ol Oeiober, to
M. Seiroio r The Presiilmt readily
under Uiiuls why this burintss ba not
leeii ta.en ,.p at the opening of the ses
sion in August; be can even account for
the fid that the demand made by M.
Livingston of a apecial session in the
fall was dielitied." M. Forsyth added,
it i true that "the President could not
UMhrstaitd why the convocation of the
Chambers had been delayed until the last
djy!i uf December, i.istead of the begin
urn d that u.'ir.ii:." Hut that olmerva
turn tali- btlun tlie fact that, by a con
l Urrcnccof particular ciieunistatice, on
wltn h it would t t: useless to dwell, the
Uitctitigof the t 'iiitnlu r. lt.l in reality,
take pla' on the 1st of Deennher
Nothing. cone ji.i iitU . ,,,,, pre) are
Ihe Fieiicb govern't. i : : l.-r :he l.u.t'i .ige
of the uie'ssage ul' '.!. r. -1 ir i.t mm 1.1
Congress; we vnn awaie t'o,; il.a: iih
4ie would Coli'.'.,(i a ..i tiiienl nl .fc
transaetiona eoiiiinUt! v.i:i il e in .
ty ol the l;h ol "July . M I' .: ih ; ..I.
on the I'.nh ol .o.eir.iii r, fivtn n. -t !
of it to M. Serruner. II?:'. M. I'or-y.h
had, at the same lime, inli ri.Hi! t' nu
isia'er that the President would simply
aduae Cosgrcss to wait for the dtrnoou
of the Cl.aiuler.
What must not then have been our as
tontshment when the message reached
this side of the Atlantic! And w ould it be
expected that the French Government,
afu r having fulfilled the double duty of
satisfying its own dignity by recalling its
minister from Washington, and of re
deeming the iaiih of treaties by obtaining
from the Chambers the appropriation ne
eessaty to the completion of the conven
tion oi the -lih of July, after having ten
dered to the minister of the United States
hit pasfporU; could il be expected, I re
peat, that the French Government would
not wait, before it resumed any commu
nication on Ihe subject with the govern
ment of the Union, and before it renew
ed with it interrupted relations, mat the
latter would come forward and express
itself in terms calculated to dispel the
unfortunate interpretations to which the
message had given rise.
Such is, in fact and in substance, the
course which the amendment introduced
by the Chamber of Deputies has pointed
out to the Government; such is the course
which the government intended to have
pursued now if the law bad not made il
a duty.
Nevertheless, it is against this course,
so simple and to reasonable, that M.
Livingston seems to wish to protest be
forehand.
M. Livingston fully admits, in his note
of the 27th of April, the right ol foreign
government. 10 take proper exceptions
gttJOffeaWsAwag
to the acts and !an2uat of the govern
ment which be represents.
" Should t!i President," be oWrve?,
do an oiTieial ext-euiive act atT ettng a
foreign piwer. or use er ceptiomWe lm-
fuaje in addn sMii; it ihroujii bis Minis
l;r, or through theirs. r sh.o.1.1 w hf
bo paM'd itiji.iious to Ihe it;:fty of
another union, m all t!n.e and other
Similar ei , a i!m?u.l for e;4ma
tions would lie rfspt-rtfiiilv rtn-fiveil nd
answered in the luaro. r thai ji-ti.-r- aa,
a regard lo the dinny of ti e ci inp.m.
in county would require."
Uut he maintain that those pr;i ' ip'.rs,
UiO wisdom ol hich is evident. re not
applicable to an act by whirh the Prj.
dent, ade repreM-uta'.ive of the ra on
towards foreign powers, give 1 1 ( . 1..
press an account of the siiuatton 1 1 lor
eign relations.
TLe utmost frr edom," says M. Liv
it.rslon. the utmost frtedmn fn-tn nil
ieitrai.it in the details in which
obliged to enter, of ink-rti&tiona! ei ; ur:.t
and of the wraeures in nl-iiu:' :o
is tssmtiul to the proper perlnrn. n.u of
this important part of bis fuif,. s. He
mt ekercie them without I .n,; c n
j tinuinv tiefore hint tne fear ot ..h i '.!
si " as it wit ivn -i "ii" 1 ' . fg
tlie auffptihihtvjtf -4h'powi hn-0
eoodnrt he UefuigeJ ti noto-i '
eoounri ne i
ver any lort ign p,.-. i-s un"
uea-II. Living-ton, pi-rn-s-. . . n
in communications i to- ti.-e,
their ronipLic.ts, whether n -. -r aif.
eu. would involve in conntrv n ..
nual eoritroveiiis. fur. th. t. 1 '
aiiimt'ed it woub! be a dm 10 . -0
it, by demanding a dtsatoe ..I u ry
phrase they might deem ollt f.site, -i d
an explanation of every word to whieh
; an improper intrrpn-tnion would he git
en. The principle, hi-refore, has been
adopted, thai no foreign power has a
right t ak for e&pUnations of any ihoij
that the President in the exercise of ' u
; functions thinks proper to communicate
ral or peremptory senc.
It does noi depend upon a nation, front
the mere fact of its having adopted such
or tuch a form of Government, to acquire
with regard 10 foreign powers, more"
rights than it would have had, or to ar
rogaie to itself other right than those it
would have enjoyrd under any othef
form of Government.
Natives are Iree to choose without any
constraint, the Government they please,
precisely for this reason and under thit
condition that such a choice comernt
them exclusively, r.d that whatever that
choice miy be, it cannot aflect ihe rights
or irjtirc the legitimate interests of other
nation.
Now. ti. a c acknowledged right of
every G " err n rm. when the legal rt
presentntivr, wln the official organ of
another G nrrritient expresses himself
puMu-iy in r 0 renee to n. In language
whieh is dft inri! t ff nne. t . ; . rurnJ aft,
explanation of it. Sueh a tight the Con
st iiainn of the I'mtei! States cn neither
a! .'iih. ini'ii l.. :,or f ; r;'t. It 1$ nn
ritcrnatioiKii r; n fit un droit ir.trrnnioiial.)
I; the ;. ,,; k of the rilte.! Slates
to ii: .!i the j.i.wr-rof ti e I'nion !et.vecn
:i Pn "iiient ami a Con'rcfs' l?e it so.
I: -i.r.s them to ..i li-e the President to
gne piWiely to t'oogre an aceot.nt of
tie state ol Foreign Relations' Their
ncht t unquestionable. Rut that the
President of the United States, the nfli-
ctal organ, the legal r resmnare of the
Union towards loreign nations, thcretr
acquires the right to press himself pub
licly upon foreign gou rna.ent in lan
guage ofTensive to those gocer?mei.ts,
that he ahould, in averting the I.Lerty,
the freedom tveessary for such coinmn
nieations, dispense hitnrelf with a! re
serve in his l:in'mgc. tnd with all re
sponsibility towards the powers whom
that language concerns! that is what we
cannot admit.
Irrespo.isihiliiy (I'lnviolabilitp' briber
il relates to persons, lo actsi, or to word?,
irresponsibility, when il is legally est-i.
Wished, is a purely tiutional institution,
a purely inU-mal rrgnlation, and cm never
be used as argument in the intercourse
which governments hold with each other.
If it were otherwise, and if we were
disposed, after the example of M. l..rtri
ston, to carry the argument to its extreme
consequences, it might be maintained
that the President of the United !a;es
has the right, provided it be in a nes-ag0
to Congress, to impute publicly to dorian
governments and foreign nations, th
most odious aeis, the most pemt . e
intention, to hold them tip publicly to
the animadversion of the world, w ithout
those governments or nations having the
right to manifest the slightest reset.N
meiit, nince, according to this v cry strange
doctrine, they would not even be allowed
to lake official notice of it.
To state such a dottriue is m refute ij.