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THE RAIIlliD REGISTER.
PRESIDENTIAL.
. The seleclidn of candidate for the Presi
dency and Vice Presideacy, by the two great
poli'tcal parties of the country, - form the
principal tfceme of discussion and the fijenei
1 cause of excitement, throughout the Union.
Piident-rnkiti employ the time of Conr
gress o the exclusion ot pressing public busi
neis.s artd bbtrndei itself into almost every
ramificaiibn of society, in season and out of
season..,, What there may be objecuonable
in 1h'ur however, is more than made vt by
the commendable anxiety of our citizens to
inform itbernselves fully in regard to the
qualifications an I character of hose info
whose hand it ' is proposed to commit the
highest of earthly trusts A free people
should be always on ihe qui vive hen they
are going into the election of officers, whose
action as such may. to a mater a! extent,
o-'iv. lhane to the future destinies of their
o r-
countrv. .;.
FiuM' ttE, Webster and Scott are the
nrominent candidates on the Whiz side.
i One of them willi judging from the signs of
I the times, receive the nomination of the
! Whig National Convention although it i-
: by no me m impossible, i in case the friends
of each should be unable to come to an
' agreement in regard, to any on? of thein.tha
the Convention may fall back upon Ken
tucky's whole-souled, pa riotic. a d glri
ous statesnanJi'Hi J. Crittenden as a
Xompromise candidate. We have been,
from the first, in favor of Mr. Fillmore, as
is well koown to the public, and have adyo
eated his nomination, as a "consummation
' devoutly to be wished." and wnich, we
honestly believe, can be accomplished if
his friends use pmper exertions. It may be
set down as a ' fixed fact" tha' all the South
ern States represent in the Whig National
Convention, will go lor him Bot all 'he
slave States mut send Delegates to the Con
vent ion, if ihey wou d secure the nomination
of this tried and true supporter and enforcer
01 their co stitu ior. .i nsrnts oi a man
has nobly breasted a. tlorm of abolitionism
and fanaticism such as nooiher sta esu.an has
ever encountered in order to preserve the
organic law of the land from violation, and
the glorious Union ofi our fathers from dis
ruption. In this view of the case, it is with
peculiar emotions of satisfaction that we noT
tice ihe call for a Whig a e Convetiion in
Mirsissippi, io be held in Jackson, on the 3rd
o?May n- xt, and we hope sewn io witness
imilar proceedings on the part of the Whigs
of Georgia. Alabama, S. Caro ina and Arkan-
'VI' mm ii ,in i .... . ml' ji Uey
should not co operate with theirs brother
Whigs, in o her bta'es but many, very
mmy, why they should. By keepi. g out of
the Convention, they weaken the power oi
the S uth ip the selection of a candidate for
the Presidency, just to the extent of ihe
votes to which ibeir States are entitled.
Their absence contributes to the strength if
their enemies, besides enfeebling their triends
What can they gain by holding aloof?
Nothing. Wnat is it possible tiiey may lose,
by so "doing? P rhaps everything. The
absence of delegations from one or more
Southern States, in the Wh g r Democratic
National Conventions, may result in the no
minal ion of men in a high degre exception
able to the'people of the South This is
possib e. What a miserably suicidal policy,
is it, then, for us to fold our arms, decline
dow-any thing to enforce our tights, and
thu virtually, surrender without striking a
blow in our own defence ? Should this po.'i
ev prevail. aL mifqrfune come upon us,
Tfiose who have caused, in fact, invited ag
gression, will have no right to complain no
plea of justification to pu forward The
sentinels oi the fortress will have sounded an
alarm to a garrison, utterly regaidless of rights
boldly asserted when danger was in 'be tai
distance, or who did not deem those righs
of sufficient value to fight for, and who, soon
er than fight, were prepared to lay down their
arms at di-cretion. That such will , be the
tendency, if not the result, oi a policy !ik
the one incidentally referred to, cannot be
controverted. '
We, therefore, earnesiy and sincerely,
invoke the Union Whigs of the States named,
to go to. wo(k at once, and take such mea
sures as wifl cause them to be fully repre
sented in the National Convention They
can gain nothing by refusinz but may lose
a great deal, by dec i. iiig to follow a course
alike dictated by prudence, wisdom and pat
riotism. JV. 0. Bulletin.
THE FRENCH SPOLIATION BILL.
In the Senate, the bill to provide for the
ascertainment and satisfaction of claims of
American cit zens, for spoliations commit
ted by the French prior to the 31st of Ju y,
1S01, ha been passed by a vote ot 2 to 1
26 to 13 as fo low :
' Yeas Messrs. Badger, Berrien, Borland,
Bradbury. Claike, Cooper, Davis, Dawson,
Downs, Fish, Geyer, Hale Ham in, James,
Mangum, Miller. Pea-ce, Sebantian, Seward,
Shields, Smith. Spruance, Sumuer, Under
wood, Upham and Wade 26.
Nays Messrs. Adams, Atchison,- Brod
head, Cass", Dodge, of Wisco sin, Dodg.-, ol
low a,' 'Douglass, Felch, Gwin, Hunter, King,
Norris, and Walker 13:
Messrs. Sou'.e and Pratt and Weller. who
were absent, would have voted for the bill
had ihey been present ; but they hud paired
off with Messrs. Rusk, Jones of Iowa, and
Brooke, who were against the bill T but did
not vote.
The bill now goes to the Houe of Rep
resentatives, where it is said it will certain
ly pass, if it is qnlv taken up in time
The justice of these claims in the hands
of the original holders, is no denied by any
one but opposition to ihe bill is made be
cause, in many instances, it is alleged the
Claims have passed I'om the original suffer
ers to others, who purchased tbem at a great
depreciation. Whose fault is it that the
claims -lid pass from the hands ot the origi
nal sufferers ? Congress' fault They neg
lected to pass the bills to pay them and thus
a owed the ruin and the distress which ihe
spoliation of the French had brought upon
citizens of ihe United States, to have their
full sway one effect of which was to oblige
many of the sufferers to sell their claims for
any price they could get the sacrifice be
ing necessary to raise means for their own
support.. Others so d because the de'ay of
Congress in passing the bi 1, made them
doubtful of its disposition to be just, and they
therefore parted with their claims to those
who were wilting to r,uji thai tik.
And now it is seriously nargued against
these claims that they have Uuis, in many
instances, passed to the hands ot those who
never despaired of Congress wndic .ting the
honor of the government by pay ing them !
ine-oenaie nas aooe iti part, bv patting (he
bill.
to place itself in as honorable a position
i uyuwtuic position.
i ne nouse, we trust, will be careful
The approval of Jthl President is not doubt
ful ior no oue would dare . to doubt that
Millard Fillmore will do what i right. . Let
the House pass the bill, without delay,' and
then will this Congress signalize I's. session
oy an act ot long delayed justice. -
Baltimore FainoU
THREE MILLIONAIRES
A New Oileans papei of standing has tome
curious commentaries on the lives of several
rich men, recently deceased in that city.
Of Jolm McDonough it thus speaks ;
V "He had 1ut two passions notoriety and
accumulation These he pursued through a
long and niggardly and si.iful. life, and these
he exhibited in his will. He clutched at his
bonds, and titles, and money bags, in his dy
ing moment, and by a will both silly and in
tricate, and fruit'ul of fraud and controversy,
a mirror of his character he sought to con
trol and administer them after death. He
cut hi neglected relations off with a shilling,
and bequeathed the enormous aggregate of
seventv vears ot avarice ana cunning io
communities that will never plant a flower
on his graved or moisten it with a tear."
Here is a sketch of another :
Joseph Fowler was a cold, selfish, cyni
cal. vulgar man, without a ecintilla of sou',
who lived for himself alone, thinking neither
of his suffering kindred in this world, nor of
God and eterni'Y. He was the slave of ihe
almighty dollar all his life, and died, at lasi
without having the courage to mate a will,
or the grace to make, by public charities,
some reparation for the selfishness of his life.
His relation's, who vainly, in his life time,
implored the crumb that fell from the rich
man's tab'e,' will now, it is hoped, receive
and enjoy the magnificent estate which he
accumulated bv exertion, and coined out of
tears and destitution."
The third is referred to as follows :
"Cornelius Paulding was a better man
than either of these. He was frigid, penu
rious and exacting; but he Komtnnes gave.
gave freely. For many years he had been
a member of the Baptist Church; and. at
various periods, after he removed to New
Or'eans he provded a place of worship for
his brethren, and tendered his house ai a
residence for the minister. Several Clergy
men came to reside with him. but. notwith
standing their habits of ef-deni d.Jie starv
ed them all out. Ner did the church thrive
any be'ter under his auspices. The church
government of the Baptists is a pure democ
racy. AM the power resides in the members,
and even the old prejudices that exclude wo
men from participation ir government, is
not recosnirpil. AH are ovinia, and the
minister in that church, out of the pulpi';has
no more pow- r than one of hi flock. This
form of government was not adap'ed to the
disposition of Mr. Paulding. He was arbi
trary and dictatorial, and th- result was, that
the Baptists in this city, though few in num
ber, and poor, preferred to worship in obscure
places, rather than to occupy the splendid
church which he sometimes proposed to erect
for them. Mr. Paulding had lived long
enough to learn a useful leggon from tlie
death of John McDonough He read the
commentaries of the press upon hU unnatur
al, selfish and litigious will. He has wisely
bequeathed the bulk of his estate to his im
poverished relations ; has made generous do
nations to the, Orphan Aylumand nublic
school and we rejoice to learn appropriated
$J J.uuu tor the baptui of this city."
UNWHOLESOME CONTAGfOV.
The followinsf nrart from an :irticl in tha
N. Y. Tribune sets forth in prot'y strong color
the infl'ience of Congressional extra ig:'ice and
nrodignlity on ih mrt who leaves hi home with
the idea that eight dollars a day is fine wagea.--Thouch
highly colored, there is a great deal of
trutn in ne paragraph:
'.The Congressman Ins bawled himself hoarse
nn the stump in behalf of 'retrenchment and re
form.' but lie reaches Wasliingon and sees mil
lions going this way, and other miliums tha'.at
the dash of the pen; unci his tight dollars per day
winch looked si inviting in the prospect, ilwin
dies, iu full view f these dazzling realities, into
a pittance which he wou d be ashamed to keep
his dog on. So he begins by own-haroin his
mileage by some mainifii:en' cin'umbondiou:
next votes hhnsetVa eart load of books, which he
often sell at a ruinous have, (but he pockets the
proceeds nd Undo Satn the loss;) and now heis
ready for jobbing in contracts, in claims, and db
blcs in all manner of miscellaneous corruption,
whereby the expenditures are swelled, and ihe
treasury depleted. So up go the appropriations
to an enormous figure, but nobody is to blame.
Party hacks try to make partv capital out ol it,
and pot a plies unseemly epithets to kettle, new
demagogues conirive to supplant some of the old
ones, and fall to rfalizin: iEiop's fab:e of the fox
and the flies; so nothing of this 'withering upoV
and that tremendous castigation, bu: infinite con
fusion wrangling, and empty noise; at all eveiris
no retrenchment, but rather increased extrava
gance, waste and peculation.''
A BEAUDLESS BAR.
Under the Prince President the costumes of the
French people are partial y regulated. The Paris
correspondent of the M.ssouri Ri puhtiCiin Writes:
You will have seen thai the lawyers have nil
been ordered to cut ofT their beards and mousta
ches. This was a ternb eeue of grief to inanx
of Hie genleinen of ihe bar, paricularly some of
the younger ones. .Jt nas only a few days hefore
the decree come out, that a lady In nd wa- Iauirh
ing and telling me how happy her son, a young
law student of twenty-three, tvas that his "beard
was beginning to grow, after had almost des
paired of having this ornament to his face, and
now ihe poor fell w is in despair because he has
been obiged to cut away tho young crop he was
cherit-hingso tenderly. I heard ofanother young
lawyer who jidoied his litile curling moustaches,
nd who could not make uo his mind to part with
it lorever. Accordingly, the morning after the
new aw had been communicated to the-bar, the
young man appeared in court, his lip still adorned
with p"ts.
The judge frowned, looked at him ernly, and
then said, '-Sir, you are not aware of he new hw
respecting berus? ' "Yes, sir." Why then have
you no: shaved your upper hp?' "1 have shaved
it, sir." You mve a'liveJ it, sir, wnat is thai
thpn, I see on our ftce?' I he vouna man raid
Mi hand, and deliberately takiog'off die mustache.
said,' l did not know, your honor, that false mus
taches were forbidden and 1 had a pair made to
resemble as mucti as possible those I had lost.
1 hope I in y be allowed to retain them." The
air ol sincerity with which this was said left no
doubt on the mmds of those who heard him,
that the poor youth had any idea that he had
made a mistake. The judge laujtied, the jury
laughed, and it ww some moments before ihe
business of the court could be proceeded with;
but the younuer lawyer was made to understand
that hair of every description was from this time
forward, on the facta ol ihe members .f the lega
professioaii abomination in ihe eyes of the law.
The Southern Press gires fair warning fo "all
concerned." that un ess its claims for a share of
the spoib," are regarded, there will be trouble.
We quote the timely caution:
"And in order not io be misunderstood, we de.
rlire that if the public printing is given to the
Republic and Union, as by the proposed arrange
ment, or to the Union alone by any arrangement,
b n iiinwr-r oi riy inTor, ana x'iuaive ot the
k e ?!" eArD, B,,y deavor i0
prevent the re-unton of the Democratic party."
MRMANGUM'S SPBEC'tV 1
Senate Apart, 15 1852 -
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL EXPLA
NATIONS.
Mr. Mangum. Mr. President, I have no
speech to make in the ordinary acceptation
ol that term. I desire to make a lew re
marks, touching, as briefly as I may, upon a
few points which in fact, are mainly io re
ference to my own personal position, wnich,
I am aware, is of little conseq ience to any
body but myself a topic on which 'most
men are supposed to speak fluently, and but
few wisely. I sha!l be as Drier as I can.
It is known to the Senate that, during the
past winter, my heaUh has been, I may tay,
bad, but at bess variable: and I have not
.par icipated at all in the business of the Sen
ate, excepi occasionally and very slightly
still less have I participated in any arrange
ments or intrigues touching presidential ques
tions, or anything of that kind. Yet I tind.
bumble an individual as I am, that I am
made the subject of newspaper speculations,
r presented variously and confitctingly at
diiler"ni points. However small m y be ihe
iiper which I hold, I am unwilling that every
wind should play upon it and extinguish it.
I desire o be understood correctly
It has been my habit, throughout life, on
ail occasions of this character, never to be
doubted; and I desire, ii I shall succeed io
explaining myself peifectly, that I may here
not be doub ed on these subjects. In regard
to the next presidency. I shall very probab y
stand prepared to support the nominee of the
Whig Convention. I profess to be a party
man, and shall act upon that princip'e ; I
shall ield. as I was compelled to do four
years ago, against my own judgment, if ne
cessarv. against all mv own inclinations, to
suppoit, as I did then, mot strenuously, the
nominee of the Whig Convention.
But while I shall piobably do this, I have
my preference. I had the same four years
ago; and that preference implies no derelic
tion of principle upon my part, nor any de
parture from or modification whatever of the
principles that 1 have steadily maintainen
for now nearly thirty years, in both branches
ot the national legislature, i Know, ii i go
in a particular direction, that we have con
servatives, b lh North and South, of what is
esteemed thejret-uliar institution of the South
who imaginenal a man is unfaithf ul to them
is untrue to them, if he does not happen to
tread in the path indicated by th m. I am
old enough, if not wise enough, to act upon
the suggestions of my own understanding
and, wise or unwise, I shall probably do so
without fear, favor, or aif'Clion, reward or
hope of reward unintimidated by the men
ace or jiu w 1 1 mi u'uutfu -trj ttrtr uiarittisii
ments of flattery.
Upon this interes'ing question. I, unhap
pily, am informed anil believe that I differ,
as regards my first choice, from a portion of
be constituency whom I hive the ho tor to
represent. It has not been an uncommon
thing for me, in the course of my public ser
vice, to differ profound y. upon several occa
sions, t torn my constitituenti. They have
been foi bea ing and kind, and that is the
ground of many griefs and regrets when my
sense of public duty impelled me to such
difference. Perhaps the bo'dest actions of
my public life have been those in regard to
which thee differences have arisen, and
have in the long run, given me whatever
little strength I may have had at home. I
shall continue o pursue the course tha my
judgment shall indicate as the be hi for their
interest, safety, happiness, and prosperity,
during the short time that the relations now
s ubsistin be weea
.m x e u jLna.-ra.ir .cq.x-u.
ems snail cominue.
My purpose is to retire from public life.
I am a candidate (or noibing; tiordo I ex
pect to be ever again a candidate for any
thing. During nearly thir y years of ser
vice in both branches of the national legis
iatnre, I have never sought employment
under any executive, under any power.
I should always feel a sort of humiliatio i in
giving up t ie kind confidence of a who'e
State to hold any office, however exalted and
i lufcttious, by the feeble tenure of the will
of one man I have never sought it for my
se f or ior mine I shall vever do so. I
will also say that I have never felt a sense of
humiliation in appealing to my constituents,
the people of my own State, and, if succes
ful, that success has invariably produced up
on me the impietxion of a use of my uu
worthiness or inability to render this s rvice
compatible with the degree of confidence
which has been reposed in me
I shou d not feel now any o-t of humili
ation to appeal to them for any place of
honor, trust, or profit, if they had it in their
bestowal, th ugh I am no candidate, and,
in all probabili y, never shall be again, e.
ven for the favor of a people who are near
er and dearer to my own heart than anv
others; and I irust the whole American fam
ily are near io me.
I understand, fiom evidences hich I
cannot question, that a majority of the peo
ple of North Carolina pefer the present Pres.
ideut for ihe succession, as their first choice
I s and where I stood four years ago. I pre
fer another as my first choice. This diver
sity of opinion between my constituents and
myself can lead, 1 trust, to no tesults that
may be detrimental to the public interests.
I know perfectly well that the avowal of
this preference on my part will grate harsh
ly on the ears of -he friends-of the present
Executive, both here and elsewhere Bu
according to the custom ol my who'e life, I
feel it to be my duty to speak truly my hon
est and si cere convictions. I will speak e
ven unpleasant things to my cons ituenls, if
I believe the public interests require it.
Sir, I will further say ihat I believe that
that the people of Nnth Carolina are so
averse to all the agitations that have
existed here upon a particular subject, and
to all the agitations of a local and sectional
character of every kind whatsoever, that
they would very reluctantly bes'ow their
support upon any one who ei her directlv or
indirectly encourages such agitation. " In
that respect we do not differ at all ; for I
hold that no enlightened pa'.r ot can ever de
sire to see this count-y pass again through
such terrible, such alarming scenes as we all
witnessed during 1349 and 1850. I pray
God that such may never happen again iu
this country.
I know very well that there are certain
gentlemen who make light of it; who sup
pose, or affected to suppose, that no evil
was likely to result from that agitation ; who,
considered tha the Union was safe ; or who
to conceal their unpatriotic and traitorous
de vices, affected to consider it. safe. Yes
sir, if they had been at sea, and in a s'orm,
perhaps they might have made lightof it when
they regained. terra fsma; but they were
not less affrighted, perhaps, during the time
when the elements were bea ing and strug
gling, and warring above, beneath, and a
round th-m. The wisest men in this coun
try did think there was great and imminent
peril. -I thought so then I Jhtnk so yet
I hopSve have escaped it. But with all
the finalties there 'is not yet a finalty to the
disposition, to agitate. I" disapprove the
whole of it, I think that in this burning lo
cus of faction at the city of Washington,
quite as much is done to produce this agita
tion as is produced either by the abolition
ists of the North or the disunionists of anoth
er portion of thejtfnion. I have no sympa-
my wi neuneroi iiiem. i.ujtc uoci u.,
heard to: speak In any factious spirit upon
this delicate auction within my recollection
It is fto&purpo8e to 4o it nowi
Instead of-preferrrng; the present President
of the U Statei.as my first choice. 1 prefer
WiofMr Scott tand it he shall be the nom-
. i f . i. f i .
inee, l nave little lear ot tne resun. i Know
how difficult it is for a man powerless, with
out patronage, and without official influence
to get a nomination agaiost the power of an
administration htch can wheel into the
ranks a hundred thousand office holders, and
dependants pefhaps to the number of had a
million. I know i hat if they unscrupulous
ly use this power, it will be next to impossi
ble to obtairfaaomioation against them
The present P.fstdent is entitled to the dec
laration from me that I believe he would
scorn the use of such means. But what
some of his fn -ads misrhi do I shoul I not
undertake to vouch for. Their activity-
premature and somewhat absurd ail thought
seems to fur ush a full guarantee that they
will not be in the future sluggards, and dis
loyal to their praC'ices in ihe past.
I have said that North Carolina will not
be inclined o support any man who is in fa
vor of reopening agitation upon these deli
cate subjects ; and on that point I here ex
press the conviction, and I miht almost say
my knowledge, that General Scott can show
as-clean a bill of . political health on these
questions as either the president, Mr. Web-
-ter. or Mr. Clay, I say wnat i tniiiK I Knew
during the pendency of these questions.
After the successful? adjustment of them,
wood and oaLriotir. and pacific men met the
'All hails!" of the entire country; but be
fore those me?sures passed, when men stood
upon a plank, treinblt g over a precip'ce
that was the time to try the sincerity, tne
candor and the truthful ess of men's pro
fesvions and men's conduct- During that
period General Scott u. quailingly went a
head to produce an adjustment of ihose an
gry difficulties, and a pacifica ion upon which
notiorable me. North, South, East, and
West could stand in reference to the ques
tions that were then agitating the country so
menacingly and appallingly, 1 do not pre
tend to say that he approved of everything
that was done in the various acts of compro
....... m.X a. in il-VU tlir de-tails.
Far from it. 1 would venture to say, as
mere matter of opinion, that there was not a
member in either branch of the Lg sla'ure
hat approved of eveiything in every one of
those bills. I certainly did not. Bii' I act
ed upon this pr nciple : I went for an ad
juslment upon wnich an honorable nun
could stand at both ends of the Union. I
did no' d-sire to obtain an advantage, or
triumph over my opponents in that sectional
controversy. I thw:k there n no enlight
e..ed patriot who would not scon to acquire
a victory or a triumph over his mends and
his brethren. In that respect, I believe
from my intercourse with General Scott
that he more nearly coincided with my tier
sonal feelings than any other man with whom
I conversed. Sir, na ional in all his feeling
in all his proclivities, in all his inclinations
in a I Lis professions, h desired neither tri
umph of the North over the South, nor of
fh. Q-m; nmpr .lW ATftl M -
aesirec an aojustmekl ot any sort upon
which men might sland wi ll honor at both
extremes of the Union, and preserve that
heritage without which libert v, I think, would
be ex inguished, and p rhaps forever. Im
agine this Union separated exactly ir. twain;
once set that examp e,. and it would crum
ble down iiro the smallest and most con
temptible, and factious, and warring frag
ments, and we would become a by word and
a scorn to alt the eolighlened por ions of
mankind who feel any interest in human
liberty and iu the progress of civilization.
I believe, therefore, that in doing what I do, in
indicating the p-et'er 'nee which 1 hive, 1 in
no d-gree depart from the principles I have al
ways advoca'ed not at all. Bu; yet I find gen
tlemen whoti ambition may be lim ted to a (own
shio, or a co'intry, or a congresM"nal district, or
at most, perhaps, to a State, impugning me in the
public prints as a tail to the kite ol the honorable
sena'or fr.un Nw York, "Vlr Reward, for whom
I have all due M(wc), except for his opinions
upon th delict te subjects to which I have reler-
hred. There we are s wide as be Dolus asunder.
In regard to that, we agree to disagree. Yes, sir:
ihese gentlemn of bu: yesterday aie arraiging
my consistency my stead fasmess to tne South
to southern principles and southern institutions
Where can the boldest of them find that in a pub
lic life of nearly thirty years I hare quailed in the
presonce of an enemy to the peculiar interests of
my region of country 1 where he intimidation of
power has nude me sm cuinb, or the blandish
ments and the arts of flitiery have seduced me
from ihe course whii-h I Jud marked out for my
self? No record of the son can be produced. I
may be! a little ultra on this subject; yet I hope
that does not extend so far as io make me section
al. and l forget that 1 have a great duly that I
owe to every portion of this blessed Union I
hope mt, sir. But some gentlemen are so ex
tremely wi-e that they can oi associate with gen
iieinen who en er uin different views on this sub
ject. We muM introduce into our platform and
our creed a new principle We are to lake ihe
Compromise as u new ar ice in our political
cred. 1 have not looked at it very much of laie;
but I well remember, when it was pa.-sed, if you
went ."outh, you found but a mere majority of
whigs and democrats combined in favor of it; and
if you went North, you find the uiijoruy the oth
er way more democrats in favor, fit tiiaa whigs
1 admit. Well, tha would be a platform! I
su, p se vour friends in outh l arolina, and even
of Alab.i ma and Mississippi, would be- very un
willing io see i construe ed ; and some as sound
democrats as there are in this land, and as sound
whigs too, would, be unwilling io meet on that
plarform. The compromise measures have pas
sed mio laws There is no longer anv territory
pen tor the agitation of provisoes; and 1 hope
J
no more territory may be acquired, eiiher by the
spirit of mpucity or otherwise, to revivify these
questions. Tncy are now settled. There is noth
ing upon which agi atton can act. If noy jri
umph was ontained, it was but upon a single
point m aucordant e, 1 believe, with the princi
ples of l parties in this country that each State
may determine for itself whafshall De the char
acter of its domestic institutions, i think there
was no loss of honor oti either side. Yet it has
gone to the Sou h, that there was an entuedestruc.
lion nf all the elements of honor, and that men can
not stand upon the settlement Thev are aked
to st md out of the Union; but they would not
stand there long. So, in disNortb, it is said ihe
constitution must be. disregarded. And who al
leges it? Men who desecrate ihe Holy Bible
and the religion of our Savior himse f. But this
will not in the long run weigh with the common
senso oi the country ; for 1 have an abiding be
lief that whenever thw country shall be deply
stirred to its foundations, it will show common
sense enough, and conservatism enough, to main,
tain our instituiions. In a word, I think a ser
ration of the States almost a political impousibdi
ty. I thought otherwise, or rather feared other
wise, during that terrible session of 1849-'50. I
hid strong apprehensions, aa one would nave had
even for a parent or a child thai hung by a thread
over a bottomless gulf. The bravest of men were ,
made to tremble, and almost to quake; were
sleepless at night; ridiculous as ills represented
to he by some gentlemen who recklessly went
1 1 l L . i.: -
lorwara, llgriung ineir m-.te tapers, ana iiiiitiu;;
their way through ihe world, irying to get.a lit
tle irfsn popularity which would not live longer -thau
their tapers would burn. Recklessly as they
pushed forward to results, leaifuland destructive
to every thii.gof political philosophy, every lover
of'hu nan liberty and human freedom must have
felt that on th decision ot the questions then
pending depended the hopes of mankind ; and that
if these reckless counsels should prevail, this Un
ion the hope of wHukind would have ben bu ;
ried for a iine, if not forever. I hope never lobe
endowed wi h th-rt son of recklessness ; and 1
hope that the majority ot the American people
will neverbe endowed with it. 1 hope that, wiln
a fraternal, kindly, and affectionaie sense, we
will watch our institutions, watch ,hir progress.
and endeavor to perpetuate their safely.
In he preference I have indicated for the next
presid -ncy, 1 feel that our interests will be as se
cure in those hands as in any hand that could bo
selected in the Union I feel that in the purity
the nationality, the known honor, the honest and
stead last principles of Ihat gentleman, ihey would
bi as sate a-, they would be anywhere. In the
providence of God, it is not the highest ability and
most practised statesmanship that are required to
give us a good government. It would be most
unfortunate lor the world, and especially tor this
American world, if it Were so. Right intentions,
a sound and a firm hear;, and a siedv purpose.
with the elements of good, strong, common s -nse,
are all that are required for carrying out all that
is necessart to make i!ie people happy, prosper.,
ous, and even glorious
The practised Machiavefians, intima ely ac
quainted with all ihe sinuosities, tortuosities, and
adroitnesses of the cunning politician, yield to
strong and high Sense, a firm heart, and right in
tendons and directness of purpose, as quickly as
our cousins the wily Mexicans yielded to a
greater than Cortez, in his triumphant, glorious,
nnd almost miraculous march from Vera Cruz to
the old cily of the .Aztecs - t , .
T.iere is another circumstance whic'i leads me
to my preferenc in faVorof the gentleman whom
I pretereJ four yjars ago. I tamk it was a great
national msloriune that he wis not selected at
that time. If he had been President, we should
have never h-id the scenes which oo-urred here
during the winter and si-ring of 149-'5!; we
should not hive had ihe liuff.lo convention,
iih all its disasters. But this other reason of
inii.e is, the ground of availability. It lias been
my steady unwavering conviction, for in to than
a year and h half, that Winfield Scott is the
only Whig in this Union who can reach the Pr s
idency by the voice of the people. 1 admit th 1 1
h- has been soniewnat crippled an I damaged at
the South and I say it with all dan raped by
'he development of a premature, and, as 1 have
thought, somewhat absurd ambition of the pre
sent "powers ' hat be." They have endeavored
to ally iii n with Iree -oil and aboliion iriluence--,
and the unerring instincts of fear have brought
the everivatchful democracy into harufwiouor
operaiion with Ihe .' powers hat I e" on ilns
point. Sir, them is no abolitionist who believes
there is
any truth in Ihat allegation, or cun
ningly suggested insinuation; nor do they believe
it 'hemeSves.
No free soiler ever expeeU to be ab'e to
uje him as an instrument. Of all the men uon
the earth, I should sel.-ct him auong the first who
Would n -ver be madu an un.vor hy inslrunif nt iu
the hands ol any faction, whether South or N rth.
Timi is my opinion. I undertake to express tho
belief thai he is the only Whi in the Union who
has any chan -e to be elevted to the l're-id-mey,
and 1 would say lo my honorable and repei ted
friend from Michigan. (Mr. Cas,) that I should
never repine to see Any honor conlerred upon him
by tho American people. Though this h praise
eommg from a quarter that may rather damage
than benefit him, I must say that 1 neve- shall
lorget the u iwavering. steady, anxlou-i solicitud
that thai Senator exhibited in he Committee of
Thirteen, from the day of its first mating until
the report was finally m ade. I say again not
as a W'hii!, but as an American citizen that I
should never repine at any honors ib vimm-v
nufnt mure prnper.to confer upon him, yet 1
should feel some sympathy for him o see him in
roll 'on with my fi H-iid, Genera! Scott ; f ir . I
rat tr apprehend that ihe scenes of Cherubusco
, and c;napultep'c would be re enacted; Ihough of
course. 1 do not mean to compare the Senator
from Michigan to the Mexicans. I venture lo'
express the opinion that there is no intelligent
person ithin the hearing of my voice, who has
turn d his attention to llifse subjects, who believes
that eittier of the other Whig candidates present
ed can get even half the el-cloral voses necessary
to makfl an elrction. Tiiero is not an iutel igent
por-on, I th nk. who Ins turned his attention to
the subject, who does not entertain this opinion
in common with tne.
I h .ve a strong feeling of auld tang tyne for my
old friend, the editor of the Union; for I have
been distressed at his sorrow that the Whiga did
not seem lo pay h sufficient degree of respect to
certain other gentlemen who are named for a high
offiee. I svmpa hize with hissoljciuide and anx
ety ; for I have none but the kindest personal fee
lings for him, and he greatest respect for his sa
gacity a quality which I think he possesses in a
very high degree. It U the old dodr ne of Ne
York Democr.icy. first avowed. I believe, by Gov.
Marcy now a very piommen candidate for the
Presidency, that the spoils belong to the victori
ous party. And M me say mat, if a satisfacto
ry guarantee could be given to the fricnas of the
editor of the Union that wo would nominate A.
sr B,or any oilier than YVinfivId Scott as a candi
date for the Presidency they might be willing to
advance, in the Hungarian scrip style, len per
cen . of these fifty millions, or five millions ; and
they would make by ihe operation forty five mil
lions with an absolute certainty. Our friends of
the Democracy are keen a: a harp bargain. But
if our choice should Ull upon the hero of Ch i
pultepec and Cerro Gordo, and of .dl other fields
where his proud wangieed has champed the vic
torious bii, thry would not gel off quite so easy
If this could be a business tiatisaction, divested
of everything supposed to be dishonorable, sus
tained by public opinion if we could give satis
factory guarantees of w ho should be ihe nominee
of the Whig Conven ion -we would have the
money pid over, afier reasonable notice, in a short
time afier ihe nook were opened. By going into
the po itical marts where ollices are bought and
sold, and arranged out" and "in," the thing
would be very easy.
This is a ve y dull and a very dry business to
be civing in a confessrwi here which is exactly at
war with the feelings of my own constituents ;
but so it must be. I have seen also, on the part of
my friend, the editor of ihe Union, grat solici
tude to exclude Gen ral Scott from any intima
tion, in the lernble session of 185U, direcily or in
directly, of desiring any Jaw to be pass d which
should be more efficient in restorih4fugitivesfr.nl
labor io their former service. I find by looking
al the journals, that as early us ihe 3rd of Janua
ry, 185 , the bill was introduced and referred to
the Co uiuiitee on ihe Judiciary ; and as early as
the 17th of January it was repor;ed bark from
thai committee. It underwent several day's dis
cussion, upon a motion which I mysell had the
honor to make, thai with the lesolution introduced
by the Senator from Tennessee, (Mr. Bell.) and
the resolutions and bills introduced by an honora
ble Senator Irom Mississippi. fMr. Footed no
longer here, and the resolution of the Senior from
Kentucky. (Mr. Clay,) it should be referred io that
much reviled Committee of Thirteen. We after
wards (what seemed to me to be anomaly in par
liamentary business) retained in tfiis body the tu
g tive slave bill, subject tq occasional discussions
whije the same subject w-s before the Committee
of Thirteen. The Committee reported a bill on
that subject, which we supposed, would be quite
as efficient, and less offensive lo; northern senti
ment ifcan the bill wh eh fii.ally became a law.
By an amendment which was introduced if I
should speak of committee affairs I think by the
senator from Michigan, and which was adonted
and reported by the committee it would have
placed this law in a much more acceptable and
less offensive condition lo the norlh than the law
which finally pas ed. Bui there was a wreck ot
the omnibus, and we had to gather the membra
difctaa9 we could, and fix hera together, la'!
uomg so, we lost 'eight of lipoid fugitive siave
bilf, reported by ib.9 (Jdmmittee of Thirteen; and
tnok- that already pfepared io our. hands by ihe
Cunmittee on the Juuiciary, aitd that was passed.
General Scott when he addressed the Union mee
ting at Cat)e Garden when In wr ite his letter
to Mr Clay when ho spoke in the Capitol and
the lobbies of this chamber, manifesting the ut
mof degree of anxiety and solicitude that some i
plan of adjusiment should bo agreed upon by
which the Union would be relieved from the men
aoing condition in winch il was placed must
have had in contemplation that, with the other
great objects. Thai he went for all the details of
that measure, or, for all the measures usually call
ed the Compromise, I do no' oadert-ikeiosay.
I have never heard him declare it. There were
many things in those several bills which I w uld
have had out nf them if I could. But the Uni
on, like divers oilier papers, with a very patriotic
spirit, looking very much to the pacification of
the country, desires to reopen this question upon
the fugitive slave bill, and to indicate that Gen.
Scoit must say what were his purposes, or til at
he cannot be supported by honorable men from
the South Well, sir, we shall see, I havo no
apprehensions upon that subject. I consider him
as national and patriotic as any man whatsoever
who is named- for the presidency by eittier of the
parties of the country He would scorn to ac
quire a triumph lor oue section of the country o
ver another, and nobody Would do it but a little
two penny politician. No enlightened patriot or
statesman, with enlarged views, would ever desire
it. It would be the nidus the nest of annum
bered ills in future the nest from which, instead
ot birds with bni'iaut plumage, to delight the eye,
nd warb'ings to regale ihe ear, wmltl issue ser
pents to sting the American people to madness,
(i is unbrotherly, and it is as uoiso as it is un
brotherly, to desire such seel ion. il advantage's,
miscalled triumphs. No American patriot can or
will ever desire it.
If I were placed upon the confines of the most
distant frontier if the Eist.orill were placed
upon the b inks of the Rio Grande; or if, again. I
were p!red in the furthest west, upon the wil l
sea b.inks laved by the Wives of the peaceltil sea;
or if I were upo i liie cod neighs of the Rocky
Monn ains, I should deure to be able to say, with
a foil h -nr . with h swelling exultant unde, its is
j my country; I am an American, Citizen.
bir, every portion of the Union, to the enltgh.
enetl public man. if not equally dear, is dear to
this extent: that he would acquire no undue ad
vantage over that in favor ol his own. A man
wno would do tilt', I would not trust with my
purse in the private walks of life rthat is, if it
had anything in it.
But it is said by a cer'ain class of politieims
that General 6e-U -hou d giva out a loiter and
his views of" what were, and what are, his sen'.i
mnisand opinions. I should like o htveseen
what wonld h ive been said of a m m wito would
have required hat General Washington should
nde over to his neighbors in Alexandria, and have
''is vi -vvs duly made out, under proper seals of
orhVe, tint he was an h mest and a good citiz-n.
and might be trusted with the managemen ol
tli-i g iwernm jut. What would hive been said
rfmioii a thing trad tnjru proposed Witils regard to
the ehler Ad.or.s, Mr. Jell'-rsun, or Mr. Madison?
It is indicaiive of a s.id declension in the times
when you require ol sueh a m.i-i ihe same sort ol
certification thai you would for a tnousaud dollar
clerk in one of yonr bareaus, I had supposed
ihat the Wing parly, with a fresh recollection of
the Kane Idler if ihe iviichword of "Polk. Dal
las, and the t.r ff ol ''42' would not have desir.
ed any mor of .-udi things. I d not.
I mean not, on this occasion, to indulge in
anything like euloium upon mv first choice, I
think tMiloHes of the living are always in bad taste.
I think they are very " often misapplied, and not
unfVvqently quite ridiculous. I shall 'attempt no
'xuch thing- Let him sia-id lorih upon his own
foot, ami look upon hrm as one of the adlest and
most prominent public servants of the country,
who has illustrated our annals, in a way that has
commanded the respect and approbation of his
countrym n, and secured for him 'he admiration
of the world, as much for his goodness a his un
questioned greatness. Vou. will not think there
is dangwr of his being swayed by freesoilism, or
abolitionism, or anything of dial sort,, proceeding
c,.. ii. jv! -u. -i- w.h, trc ia ist, or the West, or
any quarter less thin his country, his whole coun
try. Ii is an insult to suppose such a :hmg of a
mnn who was born in a southern State, brought
' up in the aiidst of southern institutions; wli . was
educated (Tir one ot 'he earned professions; who
has been all his life a la w-a udiucr man: who h.
been for the last twenty odd years the larget of
tne hostility ol every administration. They fear
ed him, and they h t ed him. He ha been placed
in tiie most difficult situations and in the closing
scene of the last war, when he wa3 about to bf
brought horn? to hiso vn country nlmost iu chains,
"he indignant refusal of his American heart io ac
cept propositions made to him in Mexico is worth
m ire than all ihe speculations to ine free soiiism.
and abolitionism, Karie-letterism, and all he rest
of such things. I do not include in this he Ni
cholson leiier, for 1 understood that perfectly. I
do not ihiuk there was any mistery about-it. 1
reviewed it four years ago, and I iben put the
proper interpretation en it. It was honorable to
ihe gentleman who wrote il; and his whole life,
especially that portion of it which has came under
my observation, has been devoted to wha he con
siders io be he true principles of government.
The renvirks which I hare made upon this oc
casion, hy the forbearance of the Senut ,for which 1
retnrn my sincere thanks are' made most disinter
estedly. 1 make them ft 'nestly to my constituents.
Though they may gratt! harshly upon their ears,
and may produce temporary anger, yet it has been
my fortune to have differed wiih them before; and,
alter their long continued kindness to me, 1 feel a
(jerfert confidence that ihey will not imagine that
I would abandon any of their ossentiai interests,
would see theui abandoned without a struggle. I
feel it due to them now to call llieir attention o
the fact that, upon a false principle, to some ex
tent, ihey are giving all ibeir sympathies and all
their affections in one direction, where ihey can
be no better sustained nor justified than if they
were given in the.lir 'Ctijn in wh ch I give mine. 1
stand re tdy to compare the record, and I will make
out as clean a bill of political health tor my first
choice as cin be made out for either of the other
gentlemen named by the whig party. When 1
superadd to this the fact that we have an Eclipse
that can outrun time itsell, and that will pass over
Young America and old fjgyism, as he would
split the currents of air Ihat mee him, I feel braced
and confirmed in ray judgement that the selection
I havemade is wise, judicious, patriotic, and, in
the event f success, will redound to the ialeresi,
the happiness, and she glory of the coun'ry.
I feel thai I havo trespassed tnosi unreasonably
upon the indulgence of the Sena e; but, before I
take mv seat, 1 wish to remark that the present
Secretary of State won much upon my affections.
I should a one time have fell willing to vote lor
h.m with a great deal of pleasure. 1 hink thai
his position, and what he did, entitled him to Die
respect, and, in some sense, to the gratitude of the
coumry, ihough 1 iiave yet to learn tht a man de
serves very :nuch for the simple performance of
ms uuiy, particularly when such great skes are
to be played for as ihe preservation of the Union.
In ihe course of my public life I have found tha.
I have more frequently been put in a false posi'.
tion by a ceruin ardor, warmth, and susceptibili
ty of temperament than, by the opposite, and,
perhaps, less auiwble weaknesses. I must say
that certain events supervening nave modified, if
they have not eniireiy coanged, the current of my
feyJings in that direction, not uncorroborated by
the suggestions of my judgment. I siand first as
in favor or one wi hour competition, difficulty, or
doubt. So I wish to be understood. Yet, as a
patty man, I shall be prepared lo yield ib the de
cision pi those, lo whom iss usuaby lutrusted the
selection of a candidate for tho whig pariy, unless
I shall think thai there ,js a m-tning unfair about
it. In that case, I shall feel apd recognise no bmd.
ing obligaiion upon myself." Thai, however, is.
of no moment to auy one, or to anything, or to
any result.
I baye been among our friends of the East and the
North, and J have studied them as carefully as 1 was
aWe to do during a two or three months' visit-3 They
have more elements of greatness in the highest state
"f excitation and activity than perhaps any portion of
the world of equal population. W hile "they erisfi'-,
cate many truths, much philosophy, they also turn up
a great deal that is worthless and aselesa
landcf intef. .
sorts of isms which among our more sWni """
pern i ps less murcunal, or it may be u conrri. J"
ulatiou of the South, are hardly known to exist
I have seen on the list of itms what I regard '
most respectable of any thir lias appeared in mJd
J "iu uiit w oriiHuyuvrurii u g Otmiofa
acter thai roust command the approbation uf '
r -;
rcueciiTe. man wno nas uvea ha I as long as I 1 '
It is an endeavor 'to cure a natitmal evil VVl '
shnll dic nror the means of doiag it mj ba resI"'
as a great public benefactor. Looking upon jiT
snse. It may be regarded as im wme spirit nt,i ,
as we have all seen with more or less regret fr 1
highest positions m the republic to tbe low T""
they can suggest either by Jegislation orotw"
or by moral sa ision, and fiud a remedy for t C.'
must be regarded as great pub ic bencfactorj ' P
eminently conservative, (as I believe the wl' T
trmes generally are, and promotive of life lnd 5
lie happiness ) I wish ihem God speed ; bui I
they would keep that question out of the ran
partisan politics ; for our recent disasters proJj
h-oni that cause are not quite agreeable to ffiTf?
ings I think that pura and so unselfish a mor
as that must 'be supposed to be, ought not to f""
nected with partisau politics Nothing can be f
iued so pure which, when it is brought into the"1'"
na of party po itics, does uot becoinc soiled b."
contract, and draggled by the mire and filth ' , "
these things stand upou ibeir own footit g j lT - - -we
shall have no more national calns-oplM
are godsends to the gentlemen who fix their e
on the presidency a sort of windiali from ku
tWey may carve quite capital enough to makerlj
ideut. And this has reminded me of au ImtT
book I have recently read, where iu South Africa"? '
successful hunter shall strew the ground ,tk J
dead carcases of his irame. and wVe r ,!,
the savage natives flock by hundreds ami te hi ,(u
t rtxiXa arts! ifurrra rin.l . i
dreds. and gorge, nnd gorge, and gorge, themnW
until they, and ail about them, are monuments ofi .
gusting lottenuess. They are essentially jacobin "
and are the best represent itives of communism
cobmism. of modern notions of liberty and eq'mt) .
and of equal rights bom with mankind. TVVZ'
to ray Miiud a perfect type of tho-e who auYt
the j icobin cat doctrines of liberty, equality, and cm '
munism .as samples of European republicanism. l l
Sir, I besr "anion for this wandering dijreniott, -did
not imagine ihat I was going to occupy thes,
it e ha f the time which 1 have occupied it ,-bnt .
hope that in future I shall not be misunderstood... ' ;
Th is is to nobody but myself and my constituents
Upon this qu-stion I shall be as free as they ar,.
Though humble in retirement ai home, as Im her
I shall exercise my sum-age I trust, as free at tut.
body; and when I leave this seat and gn inio retiri.
ment. I shall be ready to cry Ad ha 1 !'' to rm i(t
cessor, aud all promoters of rational liberty and W '
r gulate I order, and fervently bnp" thai be my (,
vastly more successful than I have been in serving ill
the public interests that while ho wiil be" m re it
tive he may be also vastly more able. I ferventlr :
pny tor this for the honor of my native Stat, fros
(he undying love and dep sense of gratitude wliia
I cherish for her, which can cease only with the ur
gleams of memory and tho last throbbing of at
heart. "f:
A PROCLAMITIOIV. t
By Hit Excellency David S.Rkis. Gotrr
rne State of North Carolina.
W attRKAS, three-fifihs of the whole numbsrg'
members ol each Mouse of the Genera1 Asiemty '
did al t:ielai session pas ihe f illowtng Act: '
AN ACT to amend ihe Conatitutiou ol Nwi
Carolina. '
knkas. The freehold qualification now n
quired for the electors for members of the Ssmm'
conflicts with the fundamental principles ol lilnj
Therefore, t.
tsc. 1. Btit enacted by the General Annti,
of the State of North Carolina, and it it hertby (twin
by the authority of the same, three ufuis ol tbe wLoi -nutnber
ol ineinlers of each Hjuse concurring, iln '
(he second clause of ti.ird section of the Erst Arlitl
of tha amended Constitution, ratified by the (m .
of iSorth Carolina on the serond Monday ofNotts
ber, A. D.f 1S35, he amended by striking out is
words "possessed of a freehold within ihe hmei
trxl of fitly acres of land for six months next t(
tnd at the day of election, " so that the sanl clis
of and ect on shall read follows: All freht
men of :hage of twen y.one years (except u .
hereinafter declaied) wno bave been iululiiustii
any one dilr,ci within ihe Stat twelve monlln is
mediately preceding tbe day uf nny titciitm tri
shall have paid public isxes, shall be entitles u
vole for a member of ibe S iaie.
Sac. -2. Be it further enacted, I'hat the Goftrwl
of the State be, Hnd he ht reby dirrctnl, to f
his Proclamation to the people of Norlli Canliai,
at least six months before i be next election fraiea
bers .ol the General Aaseml.ly, aaitmg forth ibspr
port of this Act and the ineudaieul to Ibe CoOMT .
lution hereiu proposed, which Froclamaiioii iUj
ne accompanied by a true and perfect CJpy of tbt
Act, iiutheniicaleil by the cernfirate of the 3eereh
rv of Stale; and both the Prociamaiion niitl ihe(ij
of this Act tbe Governor of the Maie shall mum n!
ba published in all th- newspapers ol this Bute, isij
posted in the Court Houses of the respective Co
ties in this State, at leat six months before tht
lection ol membeis to the next Geueril A-sewblj."
Kead three limes and agnd tody thr-e-Diili
ihe whole bumher of niemlers ol each House nP
speciively, and ratified in Geueral Asgeroulj, ll"
the 24th day of January 1851.
J. C. DOUBIN, S. H. C
W. N. ED WAKDS,
State or Nouth Caiioj.ika, 1 i
. Office of Secretary of Slate.
I Wiii.iam Hill, -ecielry of.t4te, in sod f
the Stats of North Carolina, do hereby csruft
that tbe foreoinjt is a true and peifeci copy oi u,
Act of the General Assembly of Ibis State drift
otTfrom the original on file ni this office. Given
der my hand, this "it day of December. IhSI. .
WM HILL, Sec'y of State.
And Whereas, the sod Aft provides for :
ding tbe Constitution of tbe State offtorth Csis V
na, so as lo confer on every qualified voter furik .
fiouse of Commons the right to vote alio fo'
Senile ;
Now, therefore, to the end that it nnybis
known that if (ha aforesaid amendment tmhe',
stitu ion shall be agreed to b th twotlnrc sf k ,
whole representation in each house of tbe 0111
General Asemb y, it will be then submiwl
to the people for ratification, I have issued tt
my I'roclamation in cooforunty with tbs provw
of 'he before recited Act.
In t alimony whereof, Datio 8. Hem, Go
of the State of North Carolina, hath berei1
his h md and caused iba Great Seal of said Sum
be affiled. . . V
Umeat theCitjof Raleigh- s
thirty first day of December, in lb Jtf
of our Lord, one thousand eight hs V
dred and fifty one, and in lbs 1 6th T-'
of our Independence'. i
BytheGevemor, DA VID. FIEID-
Thomas Skttlb Jr . Private Sec y. ;i
Per-.ins into whose hnus this Pr.clnoiatiw"wJ
I, will please sec bar a c?py af it ispiwtds
tbe Court House of ibeir respective Couu'i'
Jan. 9.1S52. wtlA S
Valuable Properly for Sale in HP
City ot Kaleigii.
aOFFEK for sale my House nnd Lot, eito'4 ,
in ihe Eastern Ward, near the resideuce of
4 u-xi all O. Wutsou, couiaiuiog one acre, more
iasa. This situation is capable of being mail
of th,e moat desirable residences in the City, " 4
although better improved thau most any reside"4'
in Raleigh', yet, If'uh a very little outlay otpott
conld be made one of the places read of." 1
about three fourths of an acre of ground adjoiut"(
which added to it would make it sufficiently fP, ,
cious for a ' gentleman of talents a'xd f LSA"
to perambulate iu ibe shade?' tit evening, inb '
the sweet scented ztrHT, listen tothesoDg
the nightbird. and hold commnniou with lB
ny Mm ibnt play upon the moon beams, or he o"?
view tHe ''starry decked beuveua'' and mcdiuf
upon the science of Astronomy.
Persons wishing to purchase will make appli'
tion to Richarii V Finch, Esq , wbo is my Sf1
and empowered to make sale. I deem auy lurti"
dtscripnon unnecessary, hs no one will parch
without first exauiiniug tiie premises. Ueorg1,
Gould resides on the 1 hit, and will take pie""1
in shuwipg the house, lot and improvements.
THOMAS M. OLIVER
April 25th, 1852. ' "J
TIACCAItOl
A NOTUER supply just r.ceived and for
W. 11. i R S.TUCK