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! PUEI.ISHKD WEEKLY BY - " - WALTER DUNK, i Editor aad Proprietor. TEEMS : Two Dollars per annum, invariably in advance. $1,25 for six months , Ad erti3kmxt9 wilt be inserted at the rate cf $1,00 per squire ot twelve lines Brevier) or le$s, tor the first ; insertion, and 25 ceuts for, acli succeeding insertion. A lvertisements should be marked with the num ber of insertions desired otherwise, they, will be eon--tiaaeJ until ordered ou and charged accordingly. L-V.-orabie contracts will be rn.ule with yearly adver tstiers. - - '- . ' - ' - Ooart Orders and Judicial advertisements will be hirged M 1-4 par cent, higher than the foregoing rate's Our Principles. -,' - First. "We shall maintain the doctrine that no for eigner ought to bti allowed to exercise the elective franclilae, till he shall have resided within the United States a sufficient leugth of .time to enable him to be eoniaacquainted with the principles, and imbued with the spirit of our institutions, and until he shall have beconu thoroughly identified witi the greatest inter ests of our country. . ; . Secoiid. AVe shall advocate a passage of a stringent law by Congress to prevent the immigration hither of foreigners, wb.o are edlief paupers or criminals, and to send back to the countries f Ami which they come, all such foreigners of these classes as may, in violation of such law, hereafter reach our ports ; and to require the President of the United .States, to demand from any government, which may send hither such classes of its subjects, immediate and ample satisfaction for such outrage, and a proper indemnity against' the rep etition thereof. , ..":' - Third. We shall oppose the election , or appoint ment, nf anv fhrei rrn-hom citizen to'unv office of trust honor or einolumentunder the Federal'or btate gov ernments,, or. unemployment or enlistment of " such persons in the army or n&v&tn Hime of war ; main taining, as we do, the opinion that the native-born cit izens of the United States have the -right to govern the land of their birth ; and that all immigrants from abroad should be content, with the enjoyment of life. liberty, and property ,'under our institutions.without 3 joking to participate in the enaction, administration, or execution of our laws, : Fourth. We shall advocate and urge the adoption of such an amended form of an oath to support the Constitution of the United States, and to be adminis tered to all persons elected or appointed to any office of trust, houor or emolumeut, under the Federal or State sroverunijuts, as will cuoeluaily extaude. Irom s ich oTaees a1 1 persons, who shall not directly and e.r- olicitlii roeoifiiise the obligations ana uiua.i;g ioice oi the Constitution of the United States, as' paramount t all obligations of adhesion or allegiance to any for eign prince, power, potentate, or authority, whatever, u;vr,r any .xi' rail cirjumstaiiees. F'th. We sn.sli oiio.se, now and hereafter, any " m'on ( C lurch .m l State," uo at -Iter what class o. r 'ii-ionicits shall "sk to brhur about sueh.miion. Sixth. We s'aalU vigorously maintain the'-vested rights of ail .persons, of native or ftnxipri birth, and s.iail at 'all titaes o.-.se theslightest interference with sncli vestedri"hts. . Sjre.it':. We sh iir oppose and protest. 'against 'nil a.r.dgmem of rdtuu-i utterly,. knMiugM. as a earu ji d maxim, that r&fe-utu fadh is a flcstiou between t ie's in lividual au.l God, and ovvi-vyhkh no poll -leal -- veniHient,oi- "ther, human p vfer, can rightful y exoivise any supervision or : control, at any time, :u av ulaee. or in as.y form. 'Eig'it t. We stud opp seall "hi-rhor law"d vtrlner, bv which the Constitution is to be set at u.-ughk, vio lated, or dLsi-egard.-!, whether by politicians, by relir to. lists, or by the adherents' or iouowers o. .ciucr, or -" Si nth. We shall m liutaiii and defend the Canst tu- tion is it standi the Union as it exists, and tik- rights of the Statss, without diminution as guaranteed there- bv: o,i aijT;it all times, airi t. tlic extent n: our a Vility aad isdueaue, aX. whS may iwisail tliein, r ei- ther of thent. , , Tit'i.2 All Ixstlv. we shall use- our utmost exer tions to bai'J up ai ' American patty" whose r.iaxim shaii be : A-srer.fCAXS s-iai.i. rule thkiu Cousthy!-:. " ; (Froiii the Pa!timo;-e Crer c T.Y FIXLEY -JOHXSOX. . ' O. never oun I a I 'Ving he-.irt "IJy w-:rd u-ikin lly spoken ; v . O. you. mar f tr;!)-r send ajcirs" The ii.'iks by sorrov iir.tke ; ; ' 'A A -.vHi-ii t-hoir- frasri:is.'iit4 a arcaml ; lh crusiibiinr raios h--." ; . . toud-i'i kind a, id gfiitle sk: id Can retinue each lie. (lood, gentle.. kind and loving lu-arts Are fragile, brittle 'things : One w ;rd f h;!Vs!mess oiMi starts .-. S i i muie fr tin tiieir stivt :-s ; And O. how oft d they v;oiile . With such a - rful powiv ; A to destroy the Hopes o.1" t" .urs Witkia a single hour. Then n ver 'cast an rjv of"s :frn O. i those poor sons "of sin ; . ' "Yrese igo !ra!i.'va!id Uiojry .11 ; e -!! tich'd their light within; For though ti it') r hearts are cnist i. o'er W.th woe and sin aiidprid' ; Vet. f.'ssi we win them by kind Aohls . U.ibi their tlivMir's ;. . '. ';' A -.-ornr: Ho yriw to II .bvaro C -tXror.-IT ir Yard is ax-.un ia luck' ;!). 'JoJin G. Tre .dwell, who die.l in S uem. on Fridiy last, has bi q leatheil. rh ler; , e -rtaiii con litiiins. his property, amounting , to over SIOO.OCIO. (iftw tl d'ceas? of his moth.T. now near lv.eihtv vsar.i of-a,) o ihS Co'lefff. By his will liSs aed ni ither is well provides1 for during her life". : J le rives his " library to the College, and a1 that institntio i conditions, and" in c . lege declines : - iT,e said t beqir -:. strictionsi he Si .ate to'tv ' General HoifpitaTiivVeadt 1825 at-Harvard. llevas a single man. ,e Col, a the re ichoetts , class of. ' ' " ' - rw -'-..i;;-'':??'"fe ;; ': Waking rp Sixxers. We have heard of an old. minister in Kentucky, who uurcbased 'J- ahistle, 1tmd when his hearers went to leep as usual,;! he ; emitted from it a very shrill sound. -.All. were awoke, and stool up to hear hia : laaniwth; pfWell,-yo- are a set of,sini?rt specimeiiB of hamanity, aint ye ? as he slowly gazed at hiswomOTlndpJewJietiJ; pre ich the gospel yOri go toslep j1wh?n -I play "the foo! yon are awake; and lookifike a rush -ot hornets with a pole in tteir nest.; " : -v. ;"'Vtft.:ai-. ii;?": .Sfassa says yoa mast sartin pay-de -bill today," iiii a n iro to a New Orleans hop-keeper. "Why' lie isn't afraid" I am' goinir to run away, is he ?"i Nof jsiicly dat, bet iook aheah ?" said . the' darky slow-: Jy and mysteriously, he's goin to run : away hlmselfi no darefore wants to make a raise rv; - . : . - A WiTrY Toast At a late firemen's gnpper at IJurlington. Edward "'Bradley - gave : the follfiwiftg toast: "Ladies of '56; like the firemeh's; bucketlce hooped, andike firemen, iNighting' iu" the exhibition of their hose.' rv Exciting News froirlsas. X , CmcAoo, Ag, ;19. It has been ascertained in Kansas that tHe pro-glaveryistaare concentraung meii arms and ammunition at different points for the par pose of a general attack on the Pree-Soilers immedi ately after the adjournment of Congress. Twelve blocks of buildings ' have" been erected at different points which are well supphed with arms cf all kinds, and erarrisoned byTMissourianp," A meeting at Kan sas City had resolved to sand 2000 men into -tl Ter ritory. A Lexington meetii g. hai resolved ;o send its qaot also. - The border jtiiwm of .Mispoari are intensely excited, and a general tnusleifoMissouriana is demanded. w;-.'v-fv-.--vitlSt. The attack on Franklin " by the. FiSoilers4wa3 for the purpose of getting poss"ssion of the arms col lected there. One block, of houses -were captured with 0 stanJ of wmsi and one cannnoq. i - . . Z ' - ' e. . . . " ' - .5 . f . A ' - - - -- - - - - ' -- '- - W- " , . VOE II. SPEECH OF IIOX, JERE. CLPEXS. DeliTercdt jBlue Spring, -Nfaf Decatnr, ALAi,' ON THE 26m OP JULY, 1856. ' Mr Clemens said : We have met togeth er' under extraordinary circumstances.' For the first time in the historv of the coun try, the questibn U directly submitted to the people, "whetlier iimeric pctant to rnl'eiAmericav'Krttritethi:.th4 administratioil of public affairs,;; filially be omiriiited.' to those who have never, read the, Constitutiorftt4ip are ignorant of-th& law?, nd urjmiliarTT guage in f1iicl they are recorded. Here tofore, ami3 all the changes of parties and politico, the patriot has been ;ejiahlt;d to re flect with pride that there was at the bot tom of exery one -a:basisof onctVnie- ricanism, and however we v miglrt- diffeflf?F?? people ror the yio-" however bitter might be the discussions those differences engendered, still it was admitted; on all hands that American pa triotism swayed the heart, and sought to shape the public-policy to the advancement of .Ame jean interests. The Irish brogue a id the German accent were. indeed famil iar to us, but they were heard in' plaintive jiotes, not in thunder tones. It was the gentle pleading of the oppressed and the destitute,-. who had fled to our shores for refuge from the chain gangs of tianny, or the deadlier tortures of hunger, - not the hoarse bawling of the Pretoriarl auctioneer oiTerinwl-hc Republic for sale at. the Presi dcntirshamblc3. In scattered places in the great cities for instance foreign arro gance had , begun to manifest itself, arid t'tqse who ought to have been grateful for a "Loiter beneath the temple" of liberty, were sometimes heard insisting on the right to minister at the alter j but these in .Tanccs were .rare, and the people of the oiuitry looked with distrust upon the early efforts to crush this building treason, be c:iuse tiiev regarded the danger insignifi cant, and believed it would soon diejow.t of ife-clf. No one imajir.cd at that day that tlie. right of foreigners io make laws by which we are to be governed could ever be -eriously mooted.. Sometimes, in fourth of July orations; or college anniversaries, the fact that a foreigner held a particular ofJBce vcas referred to as an evidence of the ex trene liberality of our people but no where in, the wildest dreams of the school-boy or the enthusiast was there painted the com ing of a day when that liberality should be shorn of its merit, jand the recipient of it should insolently exclaim, "I owe you no thanks. If was not a boon I asked, but a right I demanded. I have as much right to r.iake law here as 'yqrr'lTavej'and I In tend to exercise that right." . ' ;.-' 1; Still less cdnld it have been imagined tStat a time was coming, -when the fact of being born on a foreign soil wctuld be re garded as a merit, an i the physical charac teristics of the Irishman, or the Dntclinian be accepted as a certificate, of a qualifica tion alove all native pretensions. You have listened as I have, I know, with sick ening digust, to the insofent argument so often repeated in' broken English, that Americans deserve no credit forgiving in a'free conntr3, because we we'e born here and could -not help it, whereas our foreign population urged ; and impelled solely j ari inherent love of liberty, have come of their own free will to worship at the shrine which -is ours only by the accident of birth. I might question the quality of that love of liberty which seeks security; from personal oppression, but leaves a 'father's grave or a mother's ashes to be desecrated by a tyhrat's step, and watered by a helpless: sister's, tears. I might question the fitness of those to maintain free principles in America who dared not strike for them at home who loved freedom vireR from the land where their infancy w ;ek- ea, ; wnere uic ; yones moulder; wliere a '- ; now d an '-tioiV' Wflllv .-irforpi ' hut. hv nough to fling out the bannw idrice beneath their liiative skies, aud-.wia with their own hand the rigliHogoVfr before they offi cious. vol u tecr ed -to '' govern ,v us." If I chose to' enlarge upon so fruitful a theme, I think I might alter .the triumphant tone with which this foreign .dogma is announced and cover the most . impassable cheek with blushes. - I might assert also, without doing- violence to tiast history: o cotemporary Itestimony, ;tliaC mihy of them had left their country,' :'for ' their country's good," and that the free choice ot ..winch, they boast so much was a choice between" safe ty a nd com fort on this side, .the Atlantic,' and a poor house of a whipping post on the other. But I have no wish ta recall . un pleasant rmirtinpiippa. -nr . indiilo-ft "in ? expressions more harsh" than the occasion demands. Besides there is much;to be forgiven to an arrogance which, could 'never, have retjehed its present; bloated jpproiHriijQnsi native aid. . There is a greater criminal to bearraighed before the barpf public opin ion a viler and more detestable spirit to be rebuked---a"mor6 ' dngrsenemy to rpttblicaiiu iitUutiQipiakitQ JSe" I'.cf ushed,44 That criminal la the great anti-Know Noth ino? rit)eYibcratic.;;Mac SWhisr; iSasr-Nichf bar! &itlr lfdnof.I6Ve:f6r4heiW Die l'Crever On its lips, Md scheinea to'pin der the people toTeyer.;m,its aninar papter? inir for every thins: from tiie higJieSt office down to casting a cannon ball in thevmost i Hcant :- foundrvcclaiming v about State -rights while raising rfuptidn fond to conlrot by; bribery, boasting of mani; " when it is steep ed to the lips in- hvi, and habituaxly breaking faith vrith al1 A. the worst f its mi ninns. f Kamdl s1 - z unaeFr tae weignt of-many and r of the foreif sins, ; the ignorance 1 bigQtryot .Catli9li(? AnAmericatt'FoHcy.for.a n American People. KINSTON, N. G:,-THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, offered a chance for support, and it matter ea nouung to inem wnat migtit oe tne uiu tAofn t.i-kCffllt' 1iA T.rtni itAim Tw- that their present- hold upon the ; public treasury might be secured for another Pr.e- sidential term. . - , '-, " The American in this canvass who fails to hold them, to a just accountability, will be un true toi his ? high mission, and every hour expended in defence . of American principles' ;will bo so much time' abstracted from the .greater duty, of exposing the eor ruptionf that degrades, the selfishness that biasfcSjr and the blustering imbecility that "covers with rcdicule the Republic,. The task of defending belongs to our enemies, not to us. . They are -in power, not'we, They have administered this government in such a manner as to bring shame and re proach upon it, and it is' their. business to- mteq, irisst and;. unde trtpfdin"ryVtreunfe'tii: ce?,'-. agnation's .deslihies. tv;ere confided to their keepingl -No foreign war depleted the public treasury.'-; - N6:; heavj"'debVas' -pressing upon us. No unfavorable season blasted the crop of the husbandmen. No hostile fleet crippled ocrcommerce. . No domestic contentions dotted the land with intestine fires. Within and without there was peace, prosperity, abundance, and con tentment. The ashes of a past sectional controversy had ceased to glow, and scarce ly a speaker remained tp indicate the pres ence of a fitful ? life I in the smouldering heap. From its million' tongues a nation scut up rejoicing anthems, and patriotic hands were locked in a firmer clasp at the renewed assurance of 'the durability of free institutions, and the capacity of; a" free peo ple to settle all disturbing questions among themselves, upon principles of justice, mod eration, and brotherly forbearance. "Amid the general joy. men forget the asperities of politics, and almost refused to remember tiiat there had been such a thing as party diyisions. With an accord approaching unanimity, Franklin Pierce was selected fronr an extrme Northern State, and borne triumphantly to the Presidential chair. ItwasaceW day, that fourth of. March, 1853. The snow and the 1 sleet came down from the dim clouds above, and the indi whistled mournfully among the columns of the capitol ; but sunshine was withing, and no gloomy presage came to warn toe assembled multitude mat it would be as reiusonabie o expect that the frozen earth and the frozen air, would woo the rose-buvLto put forth its leaves, as to lookfor a firm, consistent, up right, and unselfish administration of the laws from the vacilliating thing whose Hps that day touched the Evangelists, and vhoso hand grasKi the b"L.ton of oSbe Washington had hallowed. Confidence was in the bosoms of all, aial all listened with delight to the honeyed promises of the inaugural, and the seem ing fraukness with which it was delivered. Next came the announcement of his cabinet. It was of all hues, and every shade of political complexion; bat to those who expreriseu doubts about the harmonious ac tion of snch iucongruous materials, the President gave assurance that every one of them bud .read his inaugural before its delivery that all endorsed it, and were . prepared to carry it faithfully into execution.- Men are easily satisfied when they wish to be so, and the President's assurances were received with the generous confidence which ought to exist between a great party-ami a man. fit to, bei jts chief. But from that hour eqni vocal acts began" t& excite distrust, and when they ceased to be equivocal, thy were plainly, undeniably, and inexcusably bad. " ; ' But I .have no intention to comment upon the acts of this Administration any fuithcrthan they are con nected with the Cincinnati platform and nominees. It is true; the Alabama anti-Know Nothings en dorsed Mr,. Pierce. It 13 true, they instructed their delegates to vote for his reuominationr and that they are therefore responsible for all that is past; but they have also endorsed the Cincinnati platform, aud that is a bufdeu heavy enough for any party to bear. I proposs to analyza . that platform. To show that where it is sound, it has been shamafully violate 7 that in other respects it b a double-headed r" . looking North and-South at the same time. .ow ing an honest face to neither section -lYs un ces a foreign policy dangerous, unwise. ( imprac ticable, and that the convention 're? to a un worthy trick to " secure the f votes r '' pia-jmd Missouri. ; The first resolution o-crr I.wish to comment is-th- ?f' : ese words :-".? . '"-. "T' ot v branch of the gov- ,e and practice the most'rigidjseouo- jour public aliair3, &C,. -pie here announced is nnquestionably a sound one; let us see how it has been observed. I will take the Ahree last i Democratic; Admioistrat ons by way of illustration j;;Ir. .Vaii Buren, from to 1840, with the Florida , war on his hands, ran up the expense; Of the Government . tolthirty-seven mil-'; lions of doiar5.pThi8 w-as regarded as.such inexcusa ble extravagance: that iu 1840.;' he: was badly beaten for the- Presideiieyi by 'Gen. Hairi-ison. Mr. Polk, from 1844 to, 1618, with an army of more than a hundred t housand meu in, different mparts of Mexico, compelled , to transport at ns. munitions, provisioii3, and baggage hundreds of miles, in an eneiny 's country niaile , an average expenditure of less than forty-ave millions of djllars.- In 1852 the Democracy assem bler1 in Baltimore, and adopted this economical reso lution ;. and what has been the result? In a time of profound peace, with no extrajSMinary demands of a legitimate character npo'nihe'ptublic treasury, these expenditures have beenTkwelled to the enormous sum of seventy-five million of dollars, Morp than double Mr. Vau Burcns' aod nearly doubte Mr. Polk's. You will thus perceive that there is a wide difference between auti-American profession and anti-American practice. And how has this money been squandered? A' lanre . slice has gone into the pockets of foreign capitalists. :It is notorious; that the j Collins line of steamers is owned for the most part abroad, and yet under, tthe specious pretext jof protecting 3 American en tor Drise these steamers "receive a bonus" of some- thinir like three hundred and, fifty thousand' dollars. ,Uur Uovernment loaneu tne comjKiny its -ereoii vo build the ships; and now pays them for transporting the mails in vessels which oosrbt to belong to.us. .: So it was with George Law on the line ; between' New j York and Chagres, and wiv Howland and Aspin- wall between Panama and San Francisco. Large sums have also been appropriated 1 to' local works of improvement. As a speci men of tne character these works I may meution that a considerable air' ..t wa3 appropriated ?for,the - purpose of cleaf j out Cape Fear Rivera i;!1 stream,5 which no hm: even in North Carolina ew imaged to be of national im p6rtan(hs.HThffsaldriea;'of the Cabinet OScers have 4 beb raised, and also those of; the Foreign Ministers. In the yarious Departments at V. ashing ton, employ i ig -over a thousand person? 3 pay of all the em 'plovees has been- increased, c.t'.l now the lowest Clerk rec i vc5 T?a!ary of S1200,;while he is only reqaired to work from nine oclock in the morning to three o'clock in the eA"eninsf. or six hours in the twenty-four. J A large increase has been made to cpr standing army. and. the uerroanent expense "of. both the army and jiaw are double what they ought to be.. All this too, hak hewn done bv a party professing to believe that' economy in the administration of theGoyernment is ul in ta rnritv. ' i - l absolutely eential to its purity- Nor is it alone in this particular that the promises of the platform have been nullified and disregarded. I he second section reads thus : . : " ".That the constitution - does not confer upon the genet&l government the power to comxience and carry on a general system of internal improvements." .This also, I admit is sound Democratic doctrin; but the party who announce it to ' have (departed from it. so widely and j so often that I findt .difficult-to' un derstana' how they dared to insertach at plank in their platform.' For the last ten years every Con gress, in one cr the other brauch, and sometimes in both, have passed bill.-- of internal " improvement.- There has not been a Democrat from Ohio, Michigan Indiana, IUinois, Iowa, - Wisconsin, Missouri or Ar kansas, who has not habitually voted ,-for them.-j-1gre have been very few. from Tennessee, Kentucky, Liiui8ana, Texas; or New York, who have not done tBfe!?sama, thing,, i Indeed; with the exception of Vir euHa.J'forth Carolina. South Carolina, Georgia, and L Ahibaraa, thS democracy in no State has consistently anafeurm-y, aanered to tuispianK 01 ineirinanonai ratfqtm..jI:Te. Conventioj well as 1 do. 1 nere were men in mat ooay voting jor ana sustaining this., resolution who" had never given an anti-internal improvement vote, in "their lives. Take for instance the record W. A. Richardson. There never was in the old Federal, or the Whig ranks a more determined advocateof internal improvements. ;.Take the record of ftrjy Democrat from -the North-West, Mid the same astounding tact is manifest. Jjjven at The present session, after the adoption of the Gincin- hati platform," Democratic . SOnate has passed three bills of internal I improvement . over the vefo of the President by a two thirds vote. How then, you will ask, did they come to. insert a resolution so varient from then? practice ? I answer it was put there to delude and ' deceive. They go upon the same princi ple with, the people that Simon Suggs did with hisj mammy, bimon haa oeen detected Dy hL- parental progenitor in the wickedness of indulging in a "short game of card" Whereupon the old man indicated to Simon, his i desire that he "should follow him to a shade tree for' the, purpose of receiving the chastise ment due to his offence. On the way that worthy indulged in a; soliloquy after this fashion:, ' Dam it all, r never could see what daddies are good for no how, except to beat boys, and driven rm, and make 'em work. Now Mammies, there's som. use in Mammies. I kin poke myr figerj-ight in the old wo man's eye, and if I swear it aint lhere, shell swear so' too." So these wire-working President-makers ima gine they can pTke their finers right in the eyes of the people, and asi long as they swear they are Democrats the people wil swear so too. The fourth! "resolution is also a delusion and a cheat. ' ' f"' ' ";"; - ' "-;; ." "That justice and sound policy forbid the Federal Government to foster, one branch of industry to the detriment of any, other, or to cherish the interests of one portion to the injury of another portion of our common country." . - : - . -..-''' : . This resolution wa3 intended to announce tha old democratic doctrine of bppositioh to protective tariff; and yet the convention that adopted it - nominated as their candidate a man who had been a tariff advocate all his life-the policy of whose States has always been a protective policy who himself voted for the Tariff of 1828,and whose vot? and influence carried the tariff of 1842 the blackifariff as we Democrats called it in 1844, when we were trying to beat Henry Clay with James K. Polk. An antirfarift platform, and a tariff candidate 1 Somebody must be deceived and who do you think it will be ? ' Think ; you that Pennsylvania interests will bo neglected by a Sort of Pennsylvania ?v Thai Northern interests will be negi lected by- a Northern man? T That he" will revise" the, acts, aud change the convictions of ar life-time to pleasue you, when you are in a" minority ? The pec pie of this valley have had some experience which will assist them-to "answer these questions intelligent ly. - When your' great work which -is to connect you with the Mississippi and the Atlantic was languish ing for the want of meaus to carry it on, yc1 plied ' to Congress for a reduction in the ? railroad iron, and where did yon etei- mined opposition: . rorr. Fc Aant- ed the duties increased 1 der that you might b3 con to their miners. Thiuk ; Mr. Buchanaa does ' yond your reach, tha more Jikely to-ohF . m or- 4y enormous profits . ter the election, when 2t your votes, and is be- he, or his friends, will be r i interests thaq they now ipes a degree of stupidity 'X are? Such a bc' would' be verv '- if - to impn'c to' any cousidera--ountrymen. - - I Ait attention now to't the following xtbe Stfiresolution: 1 - ";;; t the Democratic party will resist alf attempts i yrr?oewing the agitation of the of slavery question under whatever shape or color the attempt may le made.", ; .;; -- ': ; ; ;S -' -. v, , ..'. Like those jupon which I have camme,hted, tlii3 res-i olution is borrowed. word for wordrom the platform ol 1852, and I confess I reaq it - with a feeling akif to indignation at the; unblushing effrontry it manhV'3 In two years after that resolution was made af part ,f the Democratic creed, M r,-, Douglas introduced is bill to provide "territoriaCgovernments for Kfii s is and Nebraskat Mr. Dixon, a Whig from Kentucky, offered an amendment to repeal the Missouri Q":nprt-j niisc j The Washington Union, the President organ j denounced the amendment as a Wbig trick, called the Missouri Compromise a "solemri;icoveriiiut" re minded the Democracy of their pledge nev to touch, it,-and iusisted upon the passage of the bilf -3 itearae from -the Committee. Li a. lew days, he .ever, Mr. Douglas accepted the amendment of; Mr". Dixon; the Union reversed its position, and made" bat a test of Democracy which it had just declared vas a Whig trick. Thus the whole subject of s1 ery ' was re opened, ior agitation re-opened with tl jonsentr and by 'the assistance of an Administral ..t pledged " to resist all agitation of "whatever -sha; e or color." Now this satne party re-afflm the resolution they have so palpably, undeniably and amelessly violat ed, and scall upon the people to tru; theni once more and risk onco more a woful deceptica. There" is an old rule an I a good one that "when a an deceives me once thai is his fault when he deceives me twice that ii mine," because it is foolish to.ust him a second time. The Convention of '52 pledged themaelves not to touch tno question t slavery, j n p i tney vioiaieu tue pieage. In '56 thy renew it. If we trust them again and are again deceived the fault will be ours, not theirs.-; ; The resolutions of l?'s2 were judged sufficient for the Democracy of that , car. to stand upon, and were supposed to contain an authoritative exposition of the democratic creed.-f Tl a Cincinnati convention added a string of -resoldfic a3 the most; extraordinary ever put forth by .any 4 arty, on the eye'bf a Presidential election. So. esl. aord inary - that Gov.iWise is said to have indicate ' an intention to support it only because he.believed 51 .-. Buchanan would so iuterprete it as to neutralize i' Jschievous tendency. So extraordi nary that t c w York delegate, declared he swallow edit as ho tl'.J ipecac for the purpose of throwing it .npV-poa the great and vital question of slavery i Territories it is , as mystic as the oracal of :DeJ- l . .i . w e Tare told that; . tne American iemocracy rec -- 'ze and adopt the principles contained in the - r law& -establishing the territories of.Kansas and - ebraska -H8 embodying the only sonffd and safe solution of the slaverr question- upon wrJch the great' national idea of the people; or tni wnoie country can repose in it3 determined conservatism' of . the tt ... : .it'....-: .-. r-i . , . - . , r - Union." It "would vhaye been impossible t !er existing -cir- cumstances ito have: adopted langua v more indefinite and the C(clusion :i8 inevitable that was purposely worded sofas to be interpreted one t yt the iNonh, and auother at the i South. Tlf w" uot cast so serious a reflection upon the intelligence the convention as to impute to them- ignorance r' .he Tact that the prin ciple of the Kansas bill mean-' nethiag in Illinois, and quite another thing inAl a. ; At the North it" means that the, . people of . 3ritory Jwbile it is a tep- 1856. NO. 9. ritory) who cannpt even iass a law or the recovery of stolen property without the.approval of a Gover nor appointed by the President may yet "prevent Southern men from emigrating there with their slave and secure the country to Abolitionist. At. the South it means that the people of a territory when they come to adopt a constitution "and form of stable government, then, aud not until then, may regulate the subject of slavery for, themselves. The diversity of opinion was no secret, and the convention found itself in this dilemma. If they ; adopted Squatter sovereignty, plainly and without ambiguity, they lost the South. If they repudiated it they lost the North The men who pulled the wires of that immaculate body were, however, equal . to the occasion. They simply, adopted; the principle of the bill, without de fining What -the principle was," and left it to the dif fent sections bf the party to interpret the language according to their localities.. In the North it is held to be. a "bill of freedom.",. . Mr. Pierce placed his support of it on that ground. Gen. Shields and W. A. Richardson did the same thing, and Judge Doug las declared ; that he voted for the repeal of-tbe- Mis souri Compromise not as a measure of justice to the South, jbvt becavtse it tollerated slavery South of 36:30. . I beg to refer here to the testimony fof two Demo-; crats of unquestionable orthodoxy. ' r " On the I5th Oct., 1855, atBarnweu CourtHouse, Hr..Keitt,of S, C said: , . - ,- '.How stands the party even npon the Nebraska bill? In the Free States it is maintained upon the ground of Squatter severe'gaty,y and alien suffrage and Northern facilities" for colonization. Who here will endorse the monstrous doctrme , of Squatter sovereignty, born of political cowardice and selfish ambition ? - Where then is the Unity " of the Demo cratic party ? It diners in the, defence : of even its fundamental measure.". " ''r .. ; ; ' On the ?th November, 1855, at Sumpterville, Mr. Boyce said: . ' .' .. , .-; k' . ,. . '. .- : .."But when I have said this much I must be allowed to say what the truth of history demands that the repeal of the Missouri restriction in its general scope, was not so much ah act intended to the South as a great political move by which the South was to be conciliated the North lose nothing,- and all through the agency of the, Democratic party who were to be the real beneficiaries of the movement. ' : ;. Under this view cf the case, 1 do not see that we are under an insuperable weight of gratitude to the Dem ocratic party; certainly the burden is not as heavy as Atlas had to bear . on his shoulder. - Bat if the Demo cratic party had stood up to the Nebraska bill cf its passage, T'could hardly have felt at liberty to ' raised the vail which conceiled the secret work' -the machinery; but after they ; had comp!cf work they fled from it in" dismay, and rcputV own offspring. ; f r; How then can I '.o put confidence in a party which i r in itself, but falsifies its oyn actr These were the opinions " lioyce,.l)emocrara of the ' October and . Noveir' the Alabama Anti-!' jt late as anuary,"1856, nbled in Con- platform of , chat iconven while endorsing , ,-ty of the inconsistency ,i in direct conflict with its' -ma platform insists upon "the .he people of the slaveholdihgr vention at Mont: principles, tion can tell the. Kansas ' of :insertin,r" provision? unqualifir States t: States, i The 14t'. ,"Pr const; tioh x the6t 'err on ofjiheir ; property - in the ies, ami in the wilderness, &c, ;e Kns "act says:' : ! ;: othihg herein "contained shall Jba or put id; fr"- any law or regtila? have eSisteu" prior to the Act of 1820, eitheypROTECTiNG, establishing, or abolishing.slavery' " therefore doc?s the law refuse the unquali- prohi' tier1 b tion demail J ay Alabama, but it goes .iothat and gua . s with scrupulous vigilance -st. the revival of the old French layrotecting jry: The greater portion of this territory was purchased from 'Trance. Slavery existed there by law at thedatCf the purchnse. It was excluded by the Missouri Compromise North of 36:30, and when j Mr. Douglas introduced his bill for the repeal of the Missouri Cofc promise lie was careful not to let the South derive" any benefit from the le.;al construction that the repf ! of that act revi ved the old French law protecting .very. , He meant it to be a'-bill for freedom," 1 he, made it so effectually. With sin gular jnfatation the Alabama Anti-Know-Nothings endorse" 3 bill and at the same time declare they ;are entitle o "the protection of their property in the terri f a and in the wilderness." T' Alabama platform wa3 written by W. L. Y ;y, rwhose name is at the head of their Electoral tf t. It was endorsed and supported by LI P. alker,- who is second on tht ticket. , In point of sMlity these "men stand at the head of the party in Jabaraa. I should hot exaggerate -if I said they .oserved to rank among the first men of their party in the entire South. I am not at Jiberty therefore to regard a document having such a paternity as giving expression to hasty and ill considered opinions. - I am bound to believe that they knew what they were writ ing and meant to be understood according to the terms Qf the language employed. I call upon them to answer upon, what pretext" they can ask the people' to sustain;-a party which has refused the protecton they demanded aiid expressly, repudiated a principle they said could rfoven be compromised. ' 'k. So much for ,thej ahsas bill. 1 was opposed to it from ; the beginiug. I am opposed to it now Be cause it has a double meaning. Either the North or the South must bo deceived, and as we are the weaker party, t. think it most likely that we shall.be the suf ferers. 'Because it revived a'dangerous sectional agi tation for no practical purpose, no ostensible goofl. Because it was an act m bad faith after both parties had pledged themselves not to re-open the Subject of slaverv.- All the evils 1 foresaw have came to pass. and the soiLof Kansas is even now being fattened by blood shed by the hands of brothers. - The next - proposition' to which I shall direct your attention is the following: -, ' , j ' . : "That . the question connected with the .foreign policy of the country is iEferiortono domestic ques tion whatever. " The time has come, for the people of the United States to declare themselves in favor of free seasj and progressive free, trade throughout the Vorld. And, by solemn manifestations, to place their moral influence bv the side of their saceessfol ex ample." : , - -. 4 . -, Our' Sag-Nicht friends have a' Jbabit of 'covering np their moaning by such ambiguous, words. that it is not always easy for a plain man ..to tell exactly what they are at. "Free Seas"jis a very .taking expression but there is " something behind more than meets the eye. -It wa3 intended to cover a war with Denmark on account of the Sound dues. Dues which that Kingdom ha3. collected from all vessels navigating the Baltic foifa period-dating backbeyohd" the dis covery of America. Our comnierce there is trifling, an.d tiie money collected from joar ship o wnei a insig nificant Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Jack son recognized the right'of Denmark to make a collec tion and secured it,to her,; by solemn treaties. ; But Jtr. Piercev more jealous of the nation's sights that they," suddenly discovered . that it. was - inconsistent with national honor to pay this paltry tax, when En gland France,Russm, all Europe had paid it before oar nation had anjrexistence and pay it yet without arauriBur-; and when. moreover, six mofrtbs' war would cost us more than would be collected from us iu a century - ; I may do Mr. .Pierce injustice, bnt I think I can account 'for the .sudden importance these i sound does have' assumed. 1 He bad seen proper to iadslge in a coed deal of- bluSterinsr"iri 'the occasion of a . Spanish jressel firing iatd flie Blac: Warrior An uqsophisti- f cated person would nave- supposeo mat ne intended tland ah army on the Island in sir weeks'at fotiiesT. Cat- unfortunately, the fleets of Franqe od England ;ijere !riding in thqse seas, and it. was, pretty . wil na- THE LAW OF NEWSPAPERS. . c,lv Subscribe! who! do not give, express notice to the contrary are considered wishing To continue their subscription . . s ; ' j ' . - ; t r- - 2. Ifthe subscribers order the discontinuance of their paperB, the publishers may cohtinue to send them il I all cash charges are pa id. jf ' , - " t 3.. If subscribers neglect or rol'use"t6 take their ja " pers from the office to which they arc directed, they aid held responsible untill they have settled their bill, ane ordered theif paper discontinued. - - - .. 4. If subscribers remove" toKother places without In forming the publisher, and the paper U sent to the former direction, they are beld responsible. ::' 6. The courts have decided that refusing to take, a paper or periodical from the office or removing and leaving it uncalled for, is! "prima facie" evidence of intentional fraud. , ! f ,.-. . . , derstood . that a blow at Cuba, - .wbukl be met by a ' blow from three powers; combmea. Mr. Pierce's courage was not equel to such a trial- He hesitated vacillated, - until his minister resigned in disgust, and the Secretary of Legation then patched' np a - compromise.- Mr. Pierce had backed square out. -It was mortifying, and he felt itfso, like the fellow who was whipped at a muster and swore "he'd be d d if he'd stay whipped, bathe would go . straight home and whip Sally." Mr, Pierce determined not to stay backed out. He would I not ; fight England and France, but he resolved to -pitch into" little Denmark..- So long as the thing was'-in his bands alone, however, I had no great apprehensions of a rupture. I thought he would find some way ofgetting out of it and sure enough be did. When the time specified in the treaty had expired, instead of. carrying oat hks warlike threats, he issued a circular to the American Merchantmen to pay the duties, but to pay them un der protest. So-a jirptesi was substituted for a war, and there the ridiculous farce Ought tb haeDded, but the Democratic Convention have taken ?t up. 1 nor. the will to do battled with the Devil himself if "it should ? strike their fancy to try and pet possession of the kingdom. ? How far it becomes peaceful citi zens who delight not in bloodshed, whose trade; com- lucivc auu ainjuiiuic uiuat suuer so grievously in me event of a foreign war, to link themselves with a party so reckless, and pretext, is a question you must sttle'-foryourselve8.i"For one I choose toifollow quiet, paths. All hfetory teaches us that rational liberty can only by enjoyed far away from the din of arms, and it is not the "least of my objections to the Anti-American party that they seem to take a savage delight in every prospe'et of a difficulty with other nations.-- ' : :- j; , 5. - f . iV-This resolution, shadows forth another principle, more oppressive to-the poor man, and more blighting to the prosperity of the country than all the foreign wars in which they propose to plunge us. They are not only, in favcrf or "free seas," but "tree trade throughout the v : id." Free Trade.' Do vou know what that means? ing the Governr shall be abol's! tiou directly f see how e - " thoU-"' ' means that instead of support "H duties on imports," all dues he money dragged by taxa Akets of the people. " Let us would work. -There are in twenty-five millions of inhab--ave ' been swelled, as I have .5eventy-five millions of dollars. , aerefore, upon free trade principles, ora you yearly three dollars for yourself, . :;rwife, three, dollars for each of your 1 nine dollars for every five of your ne- -rp tliese sums, and you wjll have some ntal care the Democracy propose to Jv We " iii Al feet taxation i I av3 Lad some experience of di :re i : fw of you who do not nor reel that the.taxesyou p:i TheCincinnatti vK)nven: v are a very serious burde! TheCincinnatti vxmventicn held a diSlrent opinio: ana in addition' to what you air: J4)ay, troGie tax you with your proportion pfsventy-f " -of dollars, to be squahderedTon works of i.. . provement ; which will do -you noood given r Jto steamship companies, owned abroad; or v J ia extravagant salaries paid to; public ofScr- .o are feasting on French dishes, and drinking .mpagna and Burgundy, while you are restictel t rn bread, butter milK, ana midling meat. Under our present system.; you pay j tares tcthe support' of the Government but w' . you choose- 1 The luxuries of the rich are taixt the, necessaries of the p5dr are exempts The. party nowiisking you to support James Buchanan, propose to abandon 'this system, and resort to a mode pf taxation which favors the rich" and oppresses the poor which wrings from , your hard earnings to feast the lazy drone? about , Washington. f ' Can sach oei be the frieuds of the people ? Are they entitled to theriamfi they have arrogantly assum ed ? Is it not -a desecration of the time-honored word Democracy to apply it to those who have so far de parted from al the landmarks erected by Jefferson- and Jackson t f . ! ' The resolutions whici follow are all in relation to the foreign policy of the government, and are all mis chievous and dangerous jin their tendency. .The last one of the series is equivalent to a general declara tion of war against the civilized world, "That the Democratic party will expect from the next administration every proper effort to be made to insure our ascendancy in the Gulf of Mexico, and maintain a permanent protection of-the great outlets through which arc "emptied into its waters the pro- ducts raised on the soil, and the commodities created , by the industry of the people of our Western Valleys, and the Union at large. ' -,, ... There are two outlets to the Gulf, of Mexico. One into the Carribean Sea .between Yucatan and Cuba, where we do not own a foot of soil never did, ' a id where we have no more right to"establish an as cendency than over the mouth of the river St. Law rence. - The other is into the Atlantic Ocean between Cuba and Florida, and which Cuba has jnst much right to control as we have. . Through one or the other., of theseatlets nearly, the whole commerce of Cuba must pas3, and the whole commerce of Eastern Mexico. -There are west of Tortiigas some twenty islauds in the Gulf of Mexico, not one of which be longs to us.- The waters of the Gulf wash 'other shores than ours. Other nations carry on a commerce there of immense extent and importance ; and yet the next Democratic Administration is Arequired to establish a permanent ascendency in the Gulf. ' How. is this ascendancy to be established ? It cannot. be done by treaties, aud must be done byships. Of war, The navy of Spain is larger than our own. One hun dred million of dollars would not1 put us on an equal footing with France; nor 'would a much farmer sum enable U3 to complee with Great-Britain. Are you prepared to submit to taxation' to the amount of three hundred millions of dollars for the;wi!d and im practicable parpose'of establishing our ascendancy in the Gulf of Mexico ! Three hundred millions of dol lars to be drawn from your pockets, and expended in . building ships at the North 1 Three hundred millions : of the products "of your industry transferred to New York, Boston and Philadelphia, rearing marble pal aces on barren rocks, while the wild grass is growing in rank luxuriance over; the , richest savannahs of the, And yet, letne tell yOu, this taxation is among the least of the evils this anti American policy would en tail, ome of you are in debt many of you own slavesalmost all of you depend for your income on agricultural production!?, v An attempt to establish an ascehJancy in the Gulf brings with it inevitably a War with France, England and Spain. How ore your debts to be paid when "your trade stopped? What would your negroes be worth when there is no market for the products of their labor T - -Cotton, corn, rice, wheat and tobaccojprould become almost entirely valueless ;; while many articles which are im ported from abroad, and which : fro&Jong ; use have . become absolute necessaries would ris3 to.' ao enor mous price." , 'ITie poor nian could , ho longer drink his coffee, and even the rich one would , be compefletl to dispense with many of the comforts. to which he is habituated. Add to these the.; other evils attendant upon a state of wartbo general demoralization the weakening of those Wholesome restraints Wiihont which society would be a curse the natural, tendency of a soldiery to lose: th$ir. affection ifot country, in af fection for their leafiersr-antl tthe coritemptr for.ra- " tionalliberty which long'jervice in the -camp so cer tainly engenders y and jout have a picture oq which neither the' patriot nof.the Christian, can : gaw with out a shudder. -V.vfv;-;' r:;'.i':. ;.;- - '" Gfiht thai we'wcfe successful in, the end (as I be lieve, we should b2,) it " would only be after ; we had waded through seas of blood, and when the . public mind was prepared to exchange, the Bpublig for a -Military Despot. , The vntewns who. followed Cae- truii wnat was a iarce may soon oe a woody tragedy. To do them justice they mean what they say upon the subject of fighting, -They lack neither the courasre . , u V- S i il
American Advocate (Kinston, N.C.)
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