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z i - - - - . , , PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY WATSON MACHEjY, M-3 per anaam half payable in adVance NORTH-CAROLINA Act to prevent free persons of colour from migrating into this State, for the good government of such persons resi dent in the State, and for other jmrpo scs. 1 Be it enacted by the General As sembly of the State of Worth-Carolina, and it is hereby enacted, by the "authority of the same, That it shall not be lawful hereafter for any free negraor mulatto to migrate into this State : and if he or she shall do so contrary to the provisions of this act, and being thereof informed, shall not, within twenty days there after, remove-out of the State,, he or she, being thereof convicted in manner hereinafter directed, shall be liable to a. penalt of five hundred dollars : and upon failure to pay the same, within the time prescri bed in thejudgment awarded against such person" or persons he or she shall be liable to be held in servi tude and at labour for a term of time not exceeding ten years, in such manner, and upon such terms as may be prescribed by the cour awarding such sentence; and the proceeds arising therefrom, shall be paid over to the county trustee for county purposes:- Provided also, that in case any free negro or mulatto " shall pay the penalty of five hundred dol-; larsccording to the provisions of this act, it shall be the-duty of such free negro or mulatto to remove him or herself out of thisState within twen todays thereafter, and for eveiy such failure, sha'l be subject to he. like penalty, as is prescribed for -a fail ure to remove in the first instance. 1- 2. And be it further enacted, That if any free negro or mulatto shall come into this State as aforesaid, he or she may. be arrested upon a warrant from any justice of the peace, and carried before any justice of the cou lty in wTiicfi he or she may be arrested ; who is hereby ' authorised a;id required to examine into the case, and if upon such examination It shall appear to him, that the said free ne pro or mulatto has come into this State contrary to the provisions of this act, he shall bind him or her over to the next County Court of said county which shall happen there after, taking such security for his or her appearance as may be reasona ble ; and upon neglecting or refusing io give such security, the said jus- tice snail commit sucn iree negro or mulatto to the jail of the county, there to be confined until the next County. Court, unless, in the mean time, he or she shall give security as aforesaid: and at the said court, it shall be the duty of trie said justices thereof to inquire into the case, and if it shall appear to them that the said free negro or mulatto has. mi gratedinto this State, contrary to the provisions of this act, they shall en ter judgment against him or her for the aforesaid penalty, and may award execution thereon : and if in case he or she shall have no proper ty, or n0t sufficient to satisfy the said debt, the said court shall ad judge, that the said free negro or mulatto shall he hired out for a term of time, not exceeding that prescri bed in the first section of this act, in such manner and upon such terms as may seem expedient to the ?said court. 3. Beit further enacted, That if after the expiration of the term of service for which such free negro or Mulatto shall have been held m ser vitude, he or she shall remain in his State for thirty days, such free &egro or mulatto shall be li ible to toe same penalties and punishment as ra prescribed in the first and second actions of this act. 4. Be it further enacted "That anv person, vho shall , bring into this V State by water or land, any free ne- or mulatto, he or she shall for- eit and pay for every such person, - urOUgnt into the Stale, the sura five hnnrlrort AM 1 . uMivvt vtviir9 w fcsv co vered by actionof debt in the name of expiration of his or W term of ser- solutely incredible that New York should to sacrifice its sound policy, in the eleya- vice, he or she shall tt compelled to j piaceQiierseu unaer me airecuoa u. .c , - .... rV fu " t. Ir . . . -n. r . intimnfratA nnlltir'ans who esnause the heve. on the whole, that the. vote ot serve alter tnesaid expiration, sucn ai i- - ---- r 7 T d...i-u:. saii-.:w f lams. ' With respect to Virginia and the chairman of the County Court for the time being, and his succes sors in office, where such offence, shall be committed, for the use of the county : Provided, thaUhi s act shall not extend to masters of vessels, bringing'' into this State any free ne grq or mulatto employed on board, andbelongihg "to said vessel, and who shall therewith, depart, nor. to any. person travelling in -or through this State having any, free negro or mulatto , as a servant, and who shall with such person, depart out of the State. 5. Be it further enacted, That if any tree negro or mulatto in any l . v cause of General Jackson; that she should Pennsylvania will be finally given (o Mr. ength of time as bf or she shall . all her own orincinles of Na- I Adams. With respect to Virginia and Have absented him orlierselt. j tiona poUcy . and promote the advance- North Carolina, all agree that great dU 9. Be it further eiacted, That in i ment to nower 0r a Darlv which, is jseek- i versity of opinion prevails there.. Vir- I all cases arising uticpr this actj the t ing to subvert the great pillars of the free negro or mulatto! who is charged with an offence, uporj application to the court for that purpose,4 shall have a right to have the facts of his or hen case, tried by a jury, upon an issue or issues made up under.the direc tion of the court for that jurpose. 10.. Be it further enlted, That all free mulattoes descended from negro ancestors to the fourth genera tion inclusive, though oqp ancestor ginia before voted against Gen. Jackson. National pi operitv It may be &aid that Vyhat reason or evidence exists, that sne General Jackson will obtain the votes of will now support him ? f. The probabili ' some of the electoral Districts of Vthat ty that she will vote or "Mr. Adams- is State. . To this supposition it is a suffi ! infinitely greater than, it. is that New ciiit answer, lhat if he, wre to receive Xork will vote lor Ueneral Jackson. half the votes of the. State, it would hot varv the issue of the election ; but we do HieTrlend of; fttri Adams have abun dant cause for animation and confidence not believe, from all the information we They have only to pursue a firmand de have received, that he will obtain a soli- ' cided course, leaving to their adversaries tarv vote in a single District Should a the weapons of abuse and scurrility, ana law to choose Electors by a general ticket pass, (and that will probably be deter mined at the next Legislature,) every particle of doubt will vanish. 2d,Kentuckj, Whatever doubts might have been enter tained of the vote of this State, if at the last election the contest had been con fin- resting on the virtue, intelligence, and up rightness of the People, to secure a signal triumph. From the Petersburg Republican - When in the fall of the last year, New Jersey, by her congressional election, ap ed to Mr. Adams and General Jackson, peared to have turned a political somer none can prevail as to the ensuing elec tion. Kentucky knows that the charac ter of her favorite son has been wantonly assailed, and grossly abused, by the par tisans of General Jackson ; thai they hav originated, and continue with untiring zeal, to propagate the foulest calumnies against him ; and that they are seeking by the basest means to deprive him of his well-earned fame. To suppose this chivalrous set, we confess thit we began to entertain ; some misgivings; that power and patron ' age were too much for honesty and in tegrity to contend with. We did not, ' however, like our friend Noah, give up ail as lost, unless N. York could be brought to the aid of the people's can didate. We contended, that without ' New-York, we would have enough and to spare; from an assurance, that the TUvtP resrAc . From the National Journal. THINGS AS THEY ARE. In the article under this head, in our last, it was shown, that according to in disputable facts, there was! every reason to believe that Mr. Adams. should receive, at the ensuing Presidential election, the votes of sixteen States. Resuming this subject, and presenting it under another aspect, we now state, on information de rived from various sources, carefully col lected anl weighed, that, in every human probability he will obtain the Ibllowin, electoral votes, viz : i twenty years - Accordingly, all our in- formation from Kentucky assures us that ilhe mirrentnf nuhtic uniniun in behalf of "Mr. Clay, and of the Te-elefinni ui-m Adams, is deep, strong and resisless 5 and that though a few noisy partisans of General Jackson are making some demon , st rations, the result of the contest in all was entitled to four electors. With the eiception of the New Eng land states, Mr. Adams's popularity is every whereon the wane. In New-York, his best friends appear to have given up all as irretrievably lost. The election' of Mr. Van-Buren, and the complete re-organization of the democratic party in that state,. furnish ample evidence of rapid decline of Mr. A'a popularity in New-York ; and as a further evidence of this fact, we have the declaration of the Rochester Telegraph, one of the stron gesraommistrauon papersin rt. York. that in that state, Mr. A's " prospects are gloomy indeed." An administration,' member of congress, from New-York,; writes: " The bucktail members from the three electonal Districts under which j our state are decidedly in opposition. It Kentucky is divided, is absolutely certain, j is quite evident now, that without a very 3d and 4ih, Indiana and Illinois. We j strong and almost unanimous vote Irom advert to these Slates, partly to refer the ) New-York for Mr. Adams at the next ra'ii!ur tt niir lacf frtr r (u CfinG wh!ti on. ! .. 1 . : U : .. f.. U : : ma v.au. w 'ui - qp- tricciiun, ins ucicai ins la in, i nere wni oe no iiuru cauuiuciie. Jackson will not lie dropped, and the opposition are determined to Concentrate their for ces for the overthrow of the adminisira. Maine, 9 New-Hampshire, 8 Massachusetts, 15 Rhode-Island, Connecticut, Vermont, New-York, : s New-Jersey, Delaware, 4 8 7 36 8 3 Maryland, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Louisiana, Illinois, Missouri. 9 16 14 5 5 3 3 i 153 jcountyjbf this State, who is able to .of each generation may lave been a labor, shall be found spending his or ; white person, shall come within the her time in idleness and dissipation, provision of this act. or who has no regular or honest em-; 1 1. And bq it further enacted, That ployment or occupation, which he or it shall be the duty of the several she is accustomed to follow, it shall, county attornies in this State to give and may be lawful for any citizen to in charge this act to the grand jurors, apply :toa justice of the peace of and it is hereby made their duty to said county, and upon affidavit ob- present all cases in their county aris taiu a warrant to arrest such person ing under this act, within the knowl and bring him or her before some edge of either of them : and the said justice ! of said county ; and if, upon attornies are hereby required in all examination of the cause, it shall ap- cases arising under the provisions of pear to said iustice that the said free this act, to prosecute for and on be- I negro or mulatto comes within the half of the State : and it shall be chivalrous State an accessary in such a ; w est would very generally vote for Gen. provision of this act; the fcaid justice the duty of the several courts of this J cause, would be to suppose her capable Jackson, and that even in Kentucky he shall bind him or her with reasona- State, before whom any proceedings j f f ingratitude would be a libel on the was certain of at least one district, which ble security to Appear at the next may be had under th.s a so- o ( sensibility, what all the County Court of said county : and construe the same as to prohibit the , Umonr must knmo hovv great a blank in case he or she shall fail to give evils intended to 'be remedied, and j woujj De e in American history, how security, such free negro or mulatto they are hereby authorised and re- , much the glory of the American name shall be committed to the jail of the quired to make all necessary rules ' would be dimmed, if the measures both of county until the next County Court and I regulations, according to the domestic and foreign policy originating thereafter : and it shall be the duty of usual course of justice, which may " the genius, or sustained by the elo- the said court, if; updn examination be required for the purpose and ob- , Iuence "'" 77ullc,iCU ' - i r, ii .i c u: i ; trom our Legislative annals for the last of the case, he orshe shall come with--iect ot this act. . s. . ,. , n- ; . - - , in the meaning of, this act, to require such free negro or mulatto to enter into bond-ith sufficient -aorijr, la such sum as may be considered by the court reasonable, payable to the chairman of the County Court for the time being and his successors in office, conditioned j for his or her good behaviout and industrious, peaceable deportment for one year : and in case he or she shall fail to give such security, or shall not pay the cost and charges of the prosecu tion, it shall be lawful for the said court, Si they are hereby required to hire out such free negro or mulatto for a term of time to service and labor, which to them may seem reasonable and just, and calculated to reform him or her to habits of industry and morality, not exceeding three years for any one offence. 6. Be it further enacted, That all sums of money, which may arise uh der the-provisions of this act from the hire of free negroes or mulattoes, shall be paid to the county trustee for county uses. ' 7. And be it further enacted, That the justices of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, in each of the counties of this State, shall have power, in cases where it may appear expedient, to bind out the children of free negroes or mulattoes, ,wnere-tbe parent, with whom . such children may live, does or shall not habitual- I ly employ jlnV or her time in some honest and industrious occupation. ' 8. Be it further enacted, That all persons with whom any free negro or mulatto may be held to service un der this act, shall, and they are here by required to provide him or her with good and sufficient clothing and food, treat him or her with humanity, and teach him or her some mechan ical trade, or some useful and indus trious employment, ) during the terra for which such free negro or mulatto may be compelled j to serve : he or she shall not be remo ed frW the county by such master or any other person, and shall be produced to the County "Court at the expiration of the term ot service as atoresaia. ori whenever thereto required by tbem : and if any such master or mistress shall violate this act, he or she may be indicted for such ofience in s any cou rt of the county,' where- such of fence : may be I committed, and, ) on conviction thereof, may be fined or imprisoned at the discretioivof the court t ; and in case such free negro or mulatto shall run away before the On the supposition tliajt this1 statement is accurate, and without taking into view the probability of Mr. Adam's obtaining the votes of any of the States which it omits, be will have twenty -two votes be yond the number necessary to a choice. . : ... . . pear to us conclusive in support oi trie opinion, that their votes will be given to Mr. Adams; and partly to correct an error in our statement concerning the Indiana resolutions. They were adopted tvith only two dissenting voices in the Sen ate of the State, but were not acted on in the House. From the preceding statement it will be seen that Mr. Adams's election is cer tain, even if he were to lose, (improbable as is such an idea,) the votes of Missouri, Illinois, and sixteen votes in New York 5 assuming the other parts of thelstatement to be realized in ihe result. 1 But whatever doubts the hopes of the zealous, or the spirit of misrepresentation may suggest as to the- accuracy of the estimated votes in any one of the States above enumerated, we take on ourselves confidently to assert that those doubts are They are 28 24 15 11 9 11 Alabama, Mississippi, Maryland, 5 3 2 109 The only States in the above enumeration, ; more than counterbalanced by the uncer wnose opposition 10 vote ior nir.. Adims taintv of the votes not included in that will be controverted, ire, 1st, New-York: "enumeration. This State, it will .be recollected, voted i Pensvlvania. or itir. vuauis ai uie idsi election, giving ; Virginia, to him large: majorities both in the elec- North-Carolina, torial colleges, and in the House of Re-1 South-Carolina, presentatiyes. Why should it be believed Georgia, that she has changed ? It is alleged that Tennessee. ' wr. van uuren ana Air. Uhnton are in Without extending this article too tar opposition to him TVithoat pretending j by a particular examination of each of to know whether sucj be the fact or not, ; the above States, we shall notice the three we may ask, if if bt'possible that those first only. And it may be stated with two gentlemen can cthtrol the wishes of perfect truth, that tbe'vote of no one of a minion ana a nan oi people, and lead the States put down to Mr. Adams, tnem wnunersoever iniy mignt please to carry them ? Besides! both those gentle men, and we may aid, almost every other perminent politician in the State of. is open to near so much controversy, as is the vote of these three States, and espe cially Pennsylvania and Virginia. . Our information from all parts of Pennsvl- New York, were agaiist Mr. Adams at ; yania,from East to Vest,and from North the last election, and yk they did not de prive him of the vote ol that State. And lion." To add to this " gloomy prospect' a New Jersey administration paper (the Princeton Patriot j contains a letter from Washington, in which the writer remarks 1 have seen some data respecting the recent election with you, and the present state of public feeling also, which satisfy my mind, that Genera) Jackson will have New Jersey in 1828." Since we are of the subject of the next Presidential Election, we car.liot withold from our readers the following fact, in relation to General Jackson, which for j the first time met our eye a few days past, : and is copied from an authentic and in teresting biography of the General, re ; cently published in New-York, and which is thus introduced tn the Lnqurrer of that city: . j, " The pamphlet commence with . his (Gen. Jackson's) appointment as Mai. Gen. of the army, and his battles and treaties with the Indians- his march to the Floridas, and his chastisement of the British and Spaniards, and his arrival before Ne w.Orleans. " After the capture of our little fleet by the enemy, cm the 13-14 Dec. it wag placed beyond doubt that they intended to effect a landing. Jackson' then had but 2000 troops, regulars and militia and he immediately despatched messen gers for the Kentucky and Tennessee volunteers who travelled thro bog and quagmire, 1000 miles, 'night and day, to reach the field bf battle. ' . . , , " Gen. Jackson made his dispositions? turned the city into a camp, and 'on the 23d December, with but 700 regulars and 1300 undisciplined militia, be mar ched out towards night, and attacked and drove; in the enemy, of nearly 6000 ' strong On the 4th of Jan. the lines being thrown up, ,2250 Kentucky and. Tennessee rmhtia arrived, fatigued, with- to South, assures us that this great State ti! nnitornnna iVtm mntt0lfn!tfa tianrra wny r oecause me great nooy oi me j That a powerful reaction has taken People of New York .were for him, and j place, and is in rapid progress t And they controjled, instead of their being con- that the People there now see that they trolled by, the politicians. Mr. Adams' i must either give up their principles ; of reliance always has beer on the virtue '? national policy, or give up their predelec- and intelligence of the People. He has ; tiobs for Gen. Jackson ; that the two are not been disappointed in the past 5 He absolutely ! incompatible $. and that the will not, hereafter be disappointed. But ; present Administralion is in favor of U is now well known, that several of the those "principles, while'the party of the eminent politicians of that State, who were Gen. is against tbem." ' They say that former ly i favor of other candidates, whenever they can see in Congress a par Mr. Clay and Mr. Crawford,) are now tiSari of General Jackson, they seean o supporters of Mr Adams's re-election, f pen or a covert opponent to " the Ameri Sk that his strength with the People, of can system.' Some pretext is i found to New York is undiminished, while it is in-1 oppose every proposition in favor of that creased with the prominent men pit that rsvsteai. And the' bor.est yeomanry of State. If ! hopes are not substituted rforr Pennsvlvania are too intelligent, too faith- J tBtttimit maanf -h mold nroftiri nathinf reason, and assertions for facts, it is ab- fuj to tbeoselves and to their country, I or tije . subsistence of ! his men. What . ; I , - J 1 1 1 out food or clothing mf and here we ex tract a note from the pamphlet, which announces a FACT, 'unknown to the people generally ,V j ; ! ' About this period, another and. ap parently insuperable difficulty .presented itself. ' There was'i'iib i money. Trie Quartermaster informed the Generaf, that his funds were exhausted, and that V I I il l J I 4. r t 41 ''0 J I i I v V: 1 I 1 t i i Y s 1. ' - r
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