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i. 7A' f 1 a ; : v . riff 1? From the "ReDoblic." TIIE DEMOCRATIC NOMjXATIONfc, The nominees of the Democratic Cdnvehtmd f. th Preudencv and YicejOrasidencTAf iTn; SffM m hofor the eoentrv : mnd will soon be the business ol tlwWhi CoavCBr tion at Baltimore to nominaf4he candidate to boat them. Mr. Franklin Pierce t born at Hillsboro', New Hampshire, and graduated at Bowdoin College, in Maine, studied law and commenced its practice in his native county. After an ap prenticeship in the State Legislature, he was elected a member of the House of lteoresenta tivjtsjjfthe JTtuted States .where Jm 2ook his seat in December, 1833. During his first Con gress he served As a member of the Judiciary Committee, and" discharged . his representative ditties without saying or. doing much that is specially remembered. In his second Congress atonal term he distinguished himself byh hos tility to harbor and river improvements, in June, 1836, he Toted against the bill "making additional appropriations for the Delaware break water, and for certain harbors, and removing obstructions in and at the months of eertam rivers, and for other purposes, for the year 1836. A few days subsequently, General Jackson sign A th hill. At the same session Mr. Pieroe voted again the bill " making appropriations for the improvement of certain harbors therein. mentioned," which was also aRerwarasapproT e J by General Jackson. At the same session he voted against "the bill to continue the Cumber laud road in the States of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.'' This was on the 29th of June, and on the 2d of July General Jackson signed that very Cumberland 'Road bilL There is no "noise or confusion" to prevent as from arriving at Mr. Pierce's opinions on this question of improve ments. He is az&inst all improvements of roads, rivers, and harbors by the Federal Gov ernment ; and committed against them on the journals of the House, positively and repeatedly. If, in the event of his election, he shexild ever be called upon to sign an improvement bill of any name or nature, our western friends may look out for a veto. How will it read in Iowa, Illi nois, along the Mississippi, and the great lakes, "Franklin Pierce and down with internal im provements ?" But this is merely en passant. Ou the 21st of February, 1837, Mr. Hubbard presented in the Senate the credentials of Mr. Pierce, elected a Senator from the State of New Hampshire to serve for six years from the 4th of March then following. During the session of 1837-38, he recorded himself against a harbor bill that was voted for by Mr. Buchanan and bv Wright ; for Mr. Pieroe went with the ex tremes. At the same session he voted against a bill for the benefit of the Alabama, Florida and Georgia Railroad Company ; which was a measure of such a character that even Mr. Cal houn and Mr. Grundy voted for it, and Mr. Pierce found himself in a minority of six in op position. - But it was enough that the bill con templated " internal improvement." At the same session, moreover, Mr. Pierce gave a vote which we desire to submit to the particular at tention of those of our western friends whe are soliciting aid from the General Government for building their railroads. They should know that the Democratic nominee set his face as a flint against all these projects. A bill was be fore the Senate for the "benefit of the Mount Carmel and New Albany Railroad Company in the State of Indiana" providing for a grant of alternate sections alone the road, the company contracting to carry tie mail for twenty years trUhout charge to the Government ; which would pay the Government at the rate of one dollar and gift cents for each acre granted. Mr. Clay and Mr. Webster voted for this bilL Mr. Pierce, in ntire consistency with his whole course on this and cognate subjects, voted against it ! We would like to know if our friends Messrs. Henn and Clarke, of Iowa, propose to sro into the next canvass before their people as the advocates of a candidate who is not only pledged against the improvement of harbors and rivers, but against granting any Federal aid by the appropriation of alternate sections to railroads, even on the condition of their carrying the United States mails twenty years for nothing I We do not propose, just at present, to follow Mr. Pieece through his Senatorial career. It " is enough for our purpose to show that, as far as their especial interests are concerned, our west era friends would have found them much better cared for by Mr. Douglass or General Cass than by Mr. Pixeci. It seems to us that they have been a little overreached in the idea that Mr. Pierce's legislative career was a mere "blank sheet of paper. It is written over with some very awkward committals. His most elaborate speech, in the Senate was against the bill for the relief of Mrs. Haeeisow, the widow of the lamen ted General; but his most important voles, prac tically, were those which are recorded against the appeals of the Great West, for the improve ment of her harbors and rivers, and for the grants of land in the construction of her rail roads. In 1842 Mr.Picrce resigned his seat in the Senate. When the Mexican war broke out, he volunteered his services as a soldier and recei ved from Mr. Polk the commission of Brigadier General in the army of the United States. Of his achievements in this capacity we believe that history has, preserved no record. It is con ceded, we understand, that his military career is not to be relied on as a passport to theavor of the people. His civic services, including "his opposition to all western improvements, are the great sources of confidence of his friends. ' Two or three points occur to us in estimating Mr. Pierce's strength, that it may be well enough to mention. He comes from a small JBtate that has always been Democratic. He therefore no important local advantages. If he had come from a large or doubtful State from New York or Pennsylvania his local strength might have been an important element in the canvass. One other point may be suggested. Ho represents Mr. Marshall's idea mT-progress, which was exhibited as the great card of Young America, to the same extent that it would be represented by a mummy just unrolled by Mr. Ghddon. The whole theory of Young America must be abandoned in their support of Mr. Pierce. New Hampshire is the very antipodes of California. On the slavery question Mr. Pierce is undoubtedly committed to south ern views ; and in his support Mr. Rantoul and his associate Fresoilert of Lynn and the neigh borhood will have an ample opportunity of man ifesting the extent to which they are willing (in Mr. Rantoul' s language) to "eat southern dirt." Mr. Ran tool was not unceremoniously ejected from a seat in the convention, to which he was iaconteetably entitled, by the brute force of a relentless majority. Major Polk did what he threatened some weeks since in the house of Representatives ;and Mr. Rantoul, we venture to say, will redeem his promise not to be driv en from the Democratic party. He will hold on at all events and so wUl Governor Cleveland, and Preston King, and Mr. Floyd, and all the worthy men who bullied and blustered to such an extent on the floor of the House on the strength of the tabling of the Compromise reso lutions in the Democratic caucus. We are gratified to see the Christian resigna tion manifested by the disappointed candidates. Mr. Cass thinks the nomination " good." Genr eral Houston pronounces it " excellent". Young America promises the largest majority in Illinois. Mr. Buchanan, no doubt, will do his best in Pennsylvania. Governor Marey will vouch for New York. This is all as it should be ; but we must be excused if we make due al lowances for that " human nature," of which there is said to be a good deal " in man." With regard to the Vice President, it may well be assumed that many of Mr. Kura'a friends may think with mason, from his long experience and his distinguished services, that he shook) hare occupied the first place on the ticket It it no great honor to the distinguished Senator from Alabama that he should hold a secondary posi tion. It can hardly be assumed, in Ids case, that he humble himself with any idea of dt mate exaltation. He yields, mo doubt, to the seeming political exigencies . of the day, and is grateful that any one of the rase oenounoed k v Young America has been permitted to particinata in the honors of the contest. It is to the con test, no doubt, that the honors will be confined- for if the Vains do, not nominate a tickeon,the 16th; 6f Jufie which will sweep tne neia, wiu INTO NORTH CAROLINA THK r IMP A KIN. UL U. Happening to be at Jackson," the county"! of JXortnampwn, a. vn vj were fortunate enough to witness the opening of the Presidential campaign in the Old North State. As Monday was Court day, and the quarterly system of our neighbor draws larger crqwdstosether.than , our monthly jDaurts in Virginia, there was unite a larce number of persons congregated ; in the pretty Tillage o Jackson. Soon after our arrival we were in formed that quite aa unexpected pleasure was in store for the congregated sovereigns that our old friend Romulus Remus sometimes call ed the old Roman, and occasionally the old Roan"-had arrived fresh from the butchering at Baltimore, and would soon give us an account of the doings at that great slaughter pen of Democratic distingues. ' We were glad of this, for we really did desire to learn something about the life and history of the gentleman whom the Democratic party Lave selected for their standard-bearer in the coming campaign. We say this without any affectation and with no wish to disparage the candidate of the Democracy. He is the chosen candidate of a large and pow erful party, and while we shall freely canvass his claims, upon the first office in the world, we shall do so, we hope, in a becoming manner. But the fact is, that little or nothing is known about Gen. Pierce which would justify his elec tion to an office, which, always highly responsi ble, is becoming more and more so every year, and we have now little doubt that it is to this very obscurity that Gen. Pierce owes his nomi nation, or else why should men of talents, of long experience and of national reputation, be thrust aside to make way for him 7 Or, why were not those merits, about which so much will be now said, discovered until the Convention had agonised through forty-nine ballots? These are questions which the people of both sides do and will ask. They were asked at Northampton on Monday, but were not answer ed, for, with a single exception, Gen. Saunders told us nothing that was not known about Gen. Pierce before. He told ns he was a Democrat, and we knew that he told us that he had been in both Houses of Congress, and we knew that he told us that he had been a Brigadier Gen eral in the Mexican war, and that fact we had put in print before we had left for Northamp ton. But he did not show us that Gen. Pieroe had distinguished himself in either the forum or the battle field. But, as we remarked, Gen. Saunders did tell us one thing that he was the son of a Revolutionary worthy who, at the bat tle of Bunker Hill, had made an onslaught on a British soldier with " a coulter." This reminds us of the famous incident at the Clachan of Ab erfoil, where the worthy Bailie Nicol Jarvis be set the Highlander with a red hot coulter, and nearly burnt his plaid off his carcass, and re duced his body to the nude condition of his legs. Genl Saunders prefaced his account of Gen'l Pierce if account it could be called by a dis sertation upon some of the oldest and most hack neyed party issues end concluded his speech by a discussion of certain local issues about which the general reader is indifferent. Gen. S. was replied to by David Barnes Esq., the Whig Elector for that District. Mr. B. is a comparatively very young man, but evidently carries an old head on young shoulders, and on this occasion proved himself a full match for his practised and distinguished opponent. Mr. B's style of speaking, while sufficiently impres sive, is calm, cool, and respectful, and he has evidently labored to acquire a good store of ac curate information on the subjects be discussed. There was one thing in this discussion with which we were much struck, to wit : the highly courteous bearing of the speakers towards each other. There was no coarse epithet or invec tive employed, or ribald jest told. The retort and sharp enough too was occasionally used, but it was always " the retort courteous. Nor was the bearing of the crowd less creditable they treated the speakers with the respect due to gentlemen, and while they manifested their satisfaction at the good things which fell from one or the other of them, there was none of that obstreperous applause on the one hand, or vul gar hissing on the other, which sometimes mars such discussions. Thin fact we think can be easily accounted for. We saw less drinking going on at Northampton Court House, than we ever saw in a large crowd on a Court Green in our life. The people were sober, and therefore orderly and gentlemanly in their conduct. Iiiersburg Intelligencer. From tie New York Express, June 8. DEMOCRATIC PROGRAMME. A committee of Mr. Pierce's friends met in Washington, on Monday, at the National Hotel, to prepare the way for the coining campaign. Biographies arc to be written, addresses prepar ed, speeches made, pamphlets printed, and all the paraphernalia of war arranged. The con. vention just adjourned elected a National Com mittee, and these, in turn, have elected a sub committee, and it is arranged, we are told, that there shall be a Congressional and District Com mittee. Congress must, therefore, put its mill to work, and grind out speeches as corn is ground from the hopper. The Presidential buzs will, therefore, soon be heard with more vehemence than ever, and those who expect Congress to do any thing beyond paying members their mileage and per diem, and acting upon just so much fiublic business as will keep the Government rom starvation, will find themselves wofully disappointed. W e came on from Washington with a troop of delegates, mostly belonging to New York and New England. The Barnburners laid down the following law: That Pierce should not write any letters except one of acceptance, and that to be brief and crisp, if not short and sweet. He is, according to his volunteer committees, to say nothing and to do nothing which can possiblv jeopardise his elec tion. The Barnburners claim the privilege of saying ne is moderate in regard to the negro question, and with them upon every other sub ject! So they mean to argue the question. The Hunkers, knowing that he is with them, will bs be content to let things remain as they are; and if the Scott letter (Robert G. Scott's, of Virgin ia) has not been answered fully for publication, they know the reason, and have an authorized assurance that all the Hunkers command will be complied with. It is a great relief to the Barnburners in this State, however, that Mr. Pierce did not write, or that, if he did write, no letter of his has appeared before the public. Our readers will see strange scenes enacted by Mr. Pierce and his friends pending the com ing campaign. He will be supported as an ul tra free trade -man at the South, and as a friend of the tariff in New England and Pennsylvania. He will be for internal improvements or against them, for the Homestead bill or against it; and this Mosaic platform, which has but one sound piece of work in it, will admit all these construc tions or complexions. If the Whigs do their du ty,. Mr. Pierce will be smoked out of all such dark and unapproachable holessas Mr. Polk hid himself in 1844. We desire on both sides to see chart and compass, to have plain sailing and fair play; and, if beaten in such a struggle we shall not feel grieved by our misfortune ' A GOOD THING BY CAVE JOHNSON. Cave Johxsow, Ex-Poet Master General, and Delegate to the late Democratic National Con vention, on being twitted about it, said, that if the Old Statesmen were Old Fogies, the Young Americans were Young Roguies ; and there a peared to be considerable truth as well as poe try in the reply. Pretty good for Cavx. , A. Mobeex Female RxroEMXE. J axe, put the baby to sleep with laudanum, and then bring me my parasol and revolver. I am going to at tend a meeting for the amelioration of the con dition of the human race. Mb Filuiou CAtnroT cnir Nsw Yoaxl" is the cry of his enemies. We answer, that Me. Fillmoee aus caeeixd New Yokk, and can do tp again,: if any true Whig within the length add breadth of the land can carry it Why can he not carry this Stater What Whe done? What has he left undone? - Who- are his assail ants? What is he assailed for? Answer these questions, ye who will, and every answer you can give will redound to his popularity and his fame. Mr. Fillmore was a popular man in New York when his labors and his fame were confin ed to the State. Since then he has acquired a national reputation, and is well known and high ly esteemed from the St Lawrence to the Pacif ic. As the President of the United States,' he has shown the highest order of talents, the great est firmness, and the most indomitable courage in the discharge of his duties. He has been the President of the whole country, executing the laws with wisdom and justice, and yet with mo deration and promptness. His first important act was to arrest the State of Texas in the ill conceived designs of some of the Texans upon the feeble government of New Mexico, before New Mexico was made a Territory by the enact ment of the Copromise Measures. His second act was the execution of the law in the case of Sims, the fugitive from service at Boston, and the law was executed amidst the threats of the whole Abolition force of Massachusetts; and everywhere between Texas and Massachusetts, where the law has been violated, whether in the heart of New York or at the capital of Pennsyl vania, there has been a prompt and fearless dis charge of duty. We say, then, that Mr. Fillmore has done nothing to forfeit his popularity in New York or elsewhere. On the contrary, he has done every thing to merit an honorable fame among the wise and judicious men of the country. In the heart of this State, to-day, among the Whig yeo manry and among the intelligent people of every occupation, he has their respect, confidence, and esteem; and among multitudes he has their grati tude for the able and faithful manner in which he has administered the government in a time of great public excitement and danger. The very bitterness of the personal assaults upon his char acter has made him popular with men and they ore many who love fair play and just dealing between man and man. If Mr. Fillmore is not popular in New York, then it is not popular to do one's duty to his coun try and mankind, to obey the oath of office, to sup port the Constitution, to enforce the laws; and who will so libel his own State as to say that all this is not popular in the great commercial State of the country? We appeal to the ballot-box to show that Mr. Fillmore is popular in his own State, and we appeal yet again to every man's conscience to answer the question whether he has not earned additional popularity everywhere by the man ner in which ne has discharged his public du ties to the country, of which almost everybody says, and of which everybody knows, he has been a most faithful Chief Magistrate. Now, then, we ask our Whig friends to hear and heed the following from the New Orleans Bulleuh, a journ al which is national and not Southern, in its po litics; IN. Y. Express.) "It will require the undivided and enthusias tic support oi every portion of the Whig party. East, West, North, and South, to elect a Presi dent, next November. We have no surplus strength to spare not a single vote. We must all unite upon one candidate, tciik an honest teal and unflagging determination to elect him. There must be no confusion, much less disunion, in our ranks. We say to our Northern brethren, Mr. Fillmore is our first choice; we can unite our forces upon him toe con carry our respective Slates for htm. We are met with an unhesita ting assertion that he cannot carry New York, the electoral vote of which is essential to victory. We then say, we will support in good faith, and to the farthest extent of our power, Daniel Web ster, another Northern man. But we are told by the Free Soil Whig press that the same odium attaches to him which they say has ruined Mr. Fillmore's popularity, and that Scott is the only man who stands the smallest possible chance of election. We say unto them gentlemen, you have already rejected our proffered support to two North ern statesmen oj 'great talents and unblemished char acter, whose only crime seems to be, that they hart stood by the Constitution and executed the laws. We cannot, and will not accept your candidate, willtout Jte specifically pledges himself to carry out the very measeres which have rendered Millard Fillmore and Daniel Webster odious in your sight. "The differences, as set down, appear to be ir reconcilable. They are so, unless the Northern enemies of Fillmore and Webster recede from their hostile positions, for we of the South are so situated that we cannot, if we would, draw back an inch. Our safety demands one course at our hands. It has been adopted, and will not be swerved from under any circumstances." South Caxolixa. The Charleston Mercury has denned its position the position of South Carolina on the Presidential question. It is opposed to any endorsement of the Compromise; it is opposed to the election of any man who will obey the Constitution and abide by its com promises. It advocates the election of the worst man who can be found. It says: "The most rabid and reckless fanatic, the most unscrupulous and corrupt financier, whose veins are burning with the lust of power, for himself and his section, is emphatically the man for the South. Paradoxical as it may seem, the worst man is the best for us. We know that our peace loving friends will start at this avow al. They are not yet sick of that policy of Com promise which is insidiously ana rapidly ruin ing our beloved land. So long as this policy is dominant, the South will continue to nug her chains. There must be some stern and terrible remedy applied to stir her people from their trance, n ith such a man in the White House, surrounded by a Cabinet of chosen Compeers, and backed by a powerful party, exultant, and madly pressing onwards, the regeneration of the South would be near at hand. "Let corruption and outrage choke up forev er the channels of Compromise; let Consolida tion boldly tread down the rights of the States, and fanaticism riot over the Constitution, -until the last throb of blind love for the Union is pressed out of the hearts of our people and we should then see the South wake up, and stirring her now dormant limbs, prepare to repel the wrong, and assert the right Better, far better for us, that fanaticism should at once outstrip the bounds of toleration, and leap to its climax, than by stealthy inroads, despoil us of our all." We have never before seen such an avowal in any American Journal. We trust that we shall never see such again. To argue with the advocates of such infamous principles is impos sibleto denounce them is useless. They ad vocate commission of most outrageous wrong, not that good may come of it, but that evils still more appalling and destructive, to the South, to the whole country, to the cause of freedom every where, may be brought upon us. In ad vocating such doctrines, the Mercury and those who agree with it speak their own condemna tion. In avowing such purposes, however, they may possibly do good by disgusting the Democ racy of the South who have heretofore acted with them. For loose as may be their notions of political morality, the Southern Democracy win vt ahrink from the infamv of political as sociation with men who defy alike the laws of God and man. FayettenUe Uoserver. fgr- The editor of the Tarboro' Southerner, in the course of a long account of the discussion at Greenville between Mr. Kerr and Gov. Reid, sayst On State politics they are poth opposed to a ehanoe in the basis of representataUon, or to a change in the present manner of distributing the Scaom juna, - We copy this because we understand certain nersons are quite busy circulating reports that Mr. Kerr is m favor both of a change in the basis .. . i . J" i ?, i . fl a . ana in ue present maui oi aiswiDuungine ocnooi fund : to both of which he is opposed, as the Southerner states. As the Southerner is a parti-, san of Got. Reid, we trust its statement of Mr. Kerrs position on the questions referred to. which will put a stop to the misrepresentations that are anoat JV. & Whig. TUB! RALEIGH REGISTER. " Outs art (he plans of fair, delightful peace Unwarpedby party rage, to tote lite brothers." RALEIGH,. C. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 16, 1852. REPUBLICAN WHIG TICKET. FOR GOVERNOR, ZLZCT10V OS THTTSSSAT, AVOTTST 5th. FOR THE SENATE, JOHN W. HARRISS. FOR THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. SION II. ROGERS. Maj. WILLIE D. JONES. Maj. WILLIAM F. COLLINS. MR. KERR'S APPOINTMENTS. The Whig Candidate for Governor will ad dress his fellow-citizens at the following times and places, namely : Albemarle, Stanly, Friday, - - " 18th Trov. Montffomerv. " 19th " 22d Ashboro', Randolph, Tuesday, Pittsboro', Thursday, June 24th. Graham, Saturday, " 26th. Greensboro', Tuesday, " 29th. Salem, Thursday, July 1st Huntsville, (Yadkin,) Saturday, July 3rd. Wilkesboro', Tuesday, - - " 6th. SUPREME COURT. This Tribunal convened in this City, on Mon day. All the Judges were in attendance: The following gentlemen have been admitted to practice in the several County Courts of the State, vis: T. .J. Noroom, Washington, N. C. William A. Moore, Edenton, N. C. Bartholomew Fuller, Fayetteville, N. C. C. B. Sanders, Johnston county, N. C. John S. Long, Washington, N. C. Benj. A. Kittrell, Oxford, N. C. W. L. Tread well, Lamar, Miss. A. H. Gaither, Morganton, N. C. J. F. Graves, Mt Airy, Surry county, N. C. Wm. H. Wiggins, Halifax county, N". C. Richard T. Brownrigg, Columbus, Miss. Neill McKay, Cumberland Co., N. C. Sitgreaves Atmore, Newbern, N. C. GEN. PIERCE AND THE FREESOILERS. We noticed the fact in our lost that the " New York Evening Poet," the leading organ of the Free-Soil Party in New York, and an un wavering opponent of the Compromise meas ures, had given in its cordial adhesion to the nomination of Gen. Pixeck for the Presidency. It says, "we have in him a man who has done nothing to purchase the Presidency, had retired for the present from political life, and is un committed on the questions which for the last three or four years, haoe divided ihe democratic party I" and, for the benefit of that wing of the party which it represents, it thus further endeavors to explain away the Compromise resolutions of the Convention : " With regard to the resolutions said to hare been adopted by the Convention, just before its close, called in some quarters ' the platform,' we reassert in stronger terms, what we said yesterday. Further inquiries into the circum stances satisfy us that in saying that they did not express the sense of the Convention, we used the least expressive phrase the case would jus tify. They were not adopted by the Convention. Three-fourths of the members more than three fourths, it is said by some had left the room ; not more than a dosen of the rest knew what was doing. Mr. Davis, the President of the Conven tion, had been obliged, by exhaustion, to leave the chair. Mr. Ikvino was in his place, and was exerting himself vainly to establish some thing like order. The main business of the Convention had been completed : members and bystanders were talking it over with each other, and every thing was attended to but what was going on beside the chair. In the midst of this bustle and confusion, in the midst of loud con versations, shouts, and noise of the hasty en trances and hasty departures, something was read which no body heard, and concerning which very few were aware that it was reading. Mr. Ixvino put the question on all the resolutions, in a lump. The ayes in that fragment of a Con vention, just in the bustle of breaking up, were more numerous than the noes, and he declared the resolutions adopted. From one of the mem bers then in the. Convention, who was decided ly opposed to a part of the resolutions, and would have voted against them if he had been given an opportunity, we have it that he did not hear the resolutions put to vote, and was not aware of this pretence that they had been adopted till he heard of it afterward. A platform made in this manner does not even deserve the name of a farce, which we yesterday gave it A farce is played before an audience which is aware of what is going on." The "Evening Post" next gives its readers to understand that Mr. Pisacx is not the ultra Southern man which in some quarters he is rep resented to be. It proceeds to speak thus of some of his acts in Congress : " Mr. Pisacx voted, when in Congress, to res pect the right of petition as exercised by the Aboli tionists. In 1837, when, after having served his State in the House of Representatives, he had taken his seat as a member of the United States Senate, he voted to receive, in the usual man ner, a petition asking for the abolition of slave ry in the District of Columbia, and sustained his vote by his voice. He took the same ground with Mr. Adams as to the propriety of the abo lition of slavery in the District, but declared that ' he would give no vote which might be construed into a denial of the right of petition.' That was a time when the influence of slavery was in the ascendant when it was the fashion to toss back such petitions with contempt in the face 8 of those who presented them, and it re quired some courage in a politician of the Dem ocratic school to confront and defy the imperi ous demand of the South, that all memorials and applications of this nature should be rigidly ex cluded from the notice of Congress. The right to ask for the extinction of slavery in the Dis trict of Columbia is now admitted, but Fbank lih Pi kick, whatever be his opinions respecting the Compromise, was one of the earliest to as sert it" The Post also introduces a comparison "be tween General Pierce and Gen. Scott, in rela tion to the Compromise, which it will be well for our readers to weigh well : " Mr. Fierce did not, like General Scott, if we may believe the boasts which Scott is so fond of publicly making, procure ine passage of Uie Com promise by Congress." Taking these things in connection with the significant circumstance (to which, beyond all doubt he owes his nomination,) that Gen. Pixacx did not answer the letter of Mr. Soon, of Rich mond, asking whether, if elected, he would veto any act of Congress having in view the repeal of the Fugitive. Slave Law, we are more than ever amazed at the holy horror which the looo fooo Press assume, at the bare idea of the Whig Convention nominating a man for the Presidency who shall not, previously thereto, have " written a letter,' declaring himself for the Compromise I Such duplicity is characteristic and that is saying enough ! "HELP ME-CA5ICS-rORJ SINK 1 The following 'ibnxmarmi;t''f in tfce last "Standard t ii As GENERAL "'1SA17NBERS ; learns from a friend, that the most eloquent -portion of Mr. Kerr's address in this City was devoted to him, and as this attack has been followed up by the Whig newspapers, he hopes to have an early op portunity of vindicating himself before the peo ple of Wake ; and as Mr. Kerr has expressed a desire to meet Gen. 8. and discuss the question of "a Convention,'' Gen.' S. has written to Gov. Reid to give him the liberty of replying to the gentleman at Pittsborough on the 24th, or at Graham on the 28th, or at both places, if it shaU be the pleasure of Mr. Kerr to continue the dis cussion. Raleigh, June 10, 1852. In addition to the above, we learn, from an authentic source, that handbills are posted in the East announcing that Gen. Saundkks will ad drees the people of Greenville on the 19th., and Washington on the 22nd inst From another source, we further learn, that Messrs. Moorx and Bioos are here, waiting on him, for consultation and united action, as Com missioners on the revision of our laws. Truly the Ex-Minister to " poor unhappy Spain" has his hands full. He must be multi tudinous, multifarious and ubiquitous. Just re lieved from his Herculean labors at Baltimore, he finds no less than three simultaneous ap pointments on hand ; and where will he go? what can he do ? He cannot be at Washington on the 22nd and in Chatham (a distance of con siderably upwards of 150 miles,) on the 24th. He' has considerable skill at managing wires, it is true, but then there are no wires between these places not even steam. Besides, if he performs either of these appointments, he cannot well be in Raleigh to attend to his public du ties, where Mr, Biggs has been waiting some week or more. What a pity that the Governor, dejure, has .not some one else to send to Green ville and Washington, or to help him out in Chatham, and that the State has not some body else to revise the laws ; so that the Brigadier General might give his undivided attention to Mr. Kerr ! It is, however, our deliberate opin ion that this Don Quixote de la Mancha, who goes about to redress the wrongs of locofoooism, never intended to meet Mr. Kerr at Pittsbor ough, or any where else, and that his Card is all bluster and gammon. Else, what mean his ap pointments in the East? It was more convenient and more safe to fire off Parthian pop-guns and saucy catechisms just as he was leaving for Bal timore. The Spanish Don has tried the mettle of our gallant standard-bearer before to-day; they have had more than one Philippi. It is said that while Gen. Saunders represen ted this Government so ably at the Court of "un happy Spain,'" like his illustrious predecessor, Washington Irving, he found leisure to cultivate the graces of literature, and that in searching the archives of the Escurial, he found papers, which he is now translating into English, illustrative of the exploits of a crack-brained Chevalier, named Don Jose Cuevas de ForiUla a Frigoli. This brave knight thought that Don Quixote had fallen far short of the true aim of Chivalry in tilting with sheep and windmills and such mun dane antagonists. So he, with a daring ambi tion, let drive at a thunder cloud which over shadowed bis Dulcinea and bravely sought to tap the lightning with the point of his lance. The story goes that he did not save his inamo rata and that he caught the electric fluid him self and was never heard of afterwards. Let the General learn a lesson from his Spanish leg end. It has this excellent moral: that it may be a little dangerous for this Spanish knight to attempt to screen his Dulcinea hight "little Davy," from the fluid; lest perad venture, he may catch it himself 1 But did Gen. Saunders dream that John Keek was the man to be hauled up and cate chised by a volunteer, without toning the ta bles on his self eonstitued querist Did he hope to escape a rasping? Did he suppose that the memory of his own inconsistencies was dead and buried ? We tell this catechist, who has such an itching to mingle in other men's broils, that he has no sympathy, either with young or old, Whigs or Democrats, on account of the cas tigation he received from Mr. Km. Every body says he deserved it for his arrogant inter ference. None, certainly, of his friends, that we are aware, thank him for it .They know his bad luck in everything he undertakes, always saving and excepting his success for himself, when there is to be a personal appropriation of spoils. Theythinkthat "his Excellency" can pad dle his own little canoe, with his own light, fea thery oar, safely enough, perhaps ; but they greatly dread the effect cf dashing the grand Spanish Armada into his quiet waters, for fear it might upset the Governor's cock-boat and send him head foremost to Davy Jones' locker. And has General Saunders, himself; no memory for the time when, being a Candidate in fact he run a-foul another John, and caught a Tartar t Does he love to be licked so well, that he must now constitute himself a ovari-Candidate for Governor, for the sake of finding a second Wa terloo ? In sober earnest, we advise Gen. Saunders to attend to his own business. We tell him, that, whether he has always been consistent or not, is " nothing to nobody," just now nobody knows, nobody cares ; - that if he chooses to consider himself the champion of Gov. Reid and seta himself up tp fight his battles thereby intimat ing that the Governor really needs his aid and is incapable of sustaining himself, however " His Excellency" may choose to look upon tins interference, the Whigs, with John Kerr as their champion, will regard it as a rash and impudent intermeddling and treat it accordingly. And finally, if Gen. Saunders pants for the contest and cant be held back, and really wishes to make himself very conspicuous, let him go to Chat ham and meet Mr. Kxan, by all means, on that same ground where he once met another rebel lious David and cp over him 1 Let the af fair be settled at once, and, in the language of our Judges, on certain unhappy occasions, " May the Lord hare mercy on him I" We hope that our friends in the East will be prepared to give him a warm reception. A State Convention, representing the Whigs of Georgia, assembled at Milledgeville on the 8th inst, and appointed Delegates to the Whig National Convention. The Delegates were instructed to support Mr. Filleoee for Presi dent, and to require the endorsement of the Compromise measures by the Convention before, proceeding to vote upon a nomination. 9ST The most that can be said of the martial career of Pmo is, that he fought and fell from his horse in Mexico ! I WHERE NOW IS ?B3?"SLAUGHTER ' It eerminly cannot hayeheen forgotten that immediately after the tdjoiirnment of the Whig Cknvention inl848, the ''Standard'' and most of the loeofboo Organs, throughout the Country, were seised with a sudden and most ardent de votion to Mr. Clat and Gen. Scott, and no lan guage could be found sufficiently strong, where with to express their affected abhorence of the act of the Philadelphia Convention in nomina ting Gen. Tayloe . over the heads of those dis tinguished patriots both of whom had been so long prominently before the People as Candid, ates for the Presidency. Many crocodile tears were shed, and the whole Country rang with anathemas against the "Philadelphia Slaughter House" (as the Whig Convention had been call ed.) Long before that body assembled. Gen. Tayloe had been brought forward in almost every section of the Union, as 'a Candidate for the Presidency. His merits, services, and char acter, had been freely and fully canvassed, and were well known to the American People, and however cruel may have been the Convention, in the estimation of locofocos, in selecting Aim, rather than the Statesman of Kentucky, or the Hero of Lundy's Lane and Mexico, yet they did not in that act surprize either friends or foes. For years past, Cass, Bcchasax, Docqlas, But lxr, Maecf and others, have been prominently before the People, as locofoco Candidates for the Presidency. Thousands of dollars of public money have been spent in the discussion, in Congress, of their respective claims to that high office. The entire routine of business which that grave body of national legislators were elected to transact, has been almost entirely thrown aside, to give place to long winded speeches from the partisan adherents of these distinguished leaders of locofocoism ! But alas ! "How wretched Is that poor man who hangs on prince's favors." Thus exclaimed the unfortunate Wolsst and he gave to his friend C&ovwxu. some wholesome lessons from his depth of misery! Pwrtixan leaders, who have the bestowal of honors, are but "princes" in one sense'. There is betwixt their promises and fulfilment "more pangs and fears than wars or women have," as the issue of the Baltimore locofoco Convention so forcibly at tests ! It does not require a very lively imagin ation to picture the "Old Fogies" Cass, Hous ton, and Bcchaxan, adopting the language of Wolskt, and exclaiming, with most imploring earnestness and touching pathos, to the "Young Americas," we "Charge thee fling away ambition ! Had we but served our God with half the zeal We servedeur Paett, he would not in our age Have left us naked to our enemies !" How many ghosts of "Democratic" Wolsxys will hereafter stalk, unrevenged, through that locofoco Slaughter-house at Baltimore 1 Well may "Young America's" ghost exclaim "I have ventured, Like little wanton boys who swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory ; Bat far beyond my depth !" Let the curtain fall 1 Oh l the horrors of that "Slaughter House !" " lie (Gov. Reid) had voted for the amend ment of Mr. Burt but when that was voted down, he had voted for the bill upon its final passage. At a subsequent session, Messrs. Bell, Badger, Berrien, and others, had voted for the same thing. Yet, Mr. Kerr, rather than "die" be fore voting for Mr. Badger, were he a candidate for Governor, would " wade in blood to secure" bis election." The foregoing statement, substantially, was made by Gov. Reid, during the discussion in this City on the 4th inst betraying, on the part of " his Excellency," an ignorance of the legis lative history of the Country, or a wilful dispo sition to pervert facts. A simple narration of the circumstances that attended the passage of that Bill will bring the whole matter afresh to the recollections of our readers. It is well known that the Oregon Bill passed the House of Representatives with the Wilmot Proviso in it, and that David S. Reid voted for it,, originally, in that shape 1 When it reached the Senate, the following session, the Missouri Compromise was appended, extending the Compromise line of 36 3C to the Pacific. It was sent back to the House for concurrence in the amendment That body refused to con cur by nearly a strict Northern and Southern vote. When the bill was returned, Benton, (a locofoco leader,) moved that the Senate recede from its amendment This, after a long and excited debate, was carried by a vote of 29 to 26 bpt two Senators, representing Slaxehold ing States, (Benton and Houston) and they loco focos, voting von it ! The Bill then stood pas sed, as Mr. Reid helped to make it with the Wilmot Proviso in it, and it was sent to the Pres ident for his approval or veto. Such, then, " his Excellency" ought to know, is the history of this Oregon BilL Voted for, originally, with thx Wilmot Peoviso staeino hie in thx face, by himself voted for, through out, by HocrroK and Douglass, the special emis saries to the Convention in this City which first nominated him in 1848 and then approved by a Southern Democratic President, who thereby surrendered the hold which the South had up on the North to force it into a fair compromise in reference to all the territories 1 Well might Giddings, Hale and Hamlin rejoice ! Well might the " National Anti-Slavery Standard" the vilest abolition print in the Country, speak of Gov. Reid as " the man who stood by James M. Root, J. R. Giddings, Hannibal Hamlin, Da vid Wilmot, and others, in voting for the exclu sion of slavery in the Territory of Oregon," and commend him as one " who had ever been a friend to the Proviso, and who, when in Con gress, voted for it in the Oregon bill 1" It is amusing, what a way the Ex-Min- ister has of always getting himself out of diffi culties, for the simple reason that he has such a wonderful facility for getting himself in. His arrogant catechism of Mr, KiEJt was only one of the thousand instances which have always kept him in hot water. Had he practiced a lit tle discretion, he would have left the Candidates for Governor to fight their own battles, and avoided the position equally offensive to both parties of protection to Got. Reid and bully to Mr. Kerr! But some men can only see the particular object in view they look hot one inch either bdund or before them, dr en either side, and Gen. Saunders belongs to thatdase, most unfortunately for himself. His attempt, the other day, to flatter the Wake Forest students, at the expense of the University, (of which he is a Trustee,) is an instance ! ! Wm. R. King, thirty-ix years ago, voted in the House of Representatives for a bank of the United States uie identical monster over which Nicholas Biddle for a long time presided. DISCUSSION IN. FAYETTT.VTT t T bseTvar,-giTe a lengthy accou'n, , tU'diaeuasion ih Fayetteville, on thT?l tween the two Candidates for Governor h that the canvass for 1842 when Morehead ?! Henry met for the only time in that place forcibly brought to mind on the occasion that the result now was the some as the glorious triumph of the Whig cause-pr ing now, as then, a still more important Xnumi at the polls in August It then proceeds to mark : "We heard several Whigs declare their ion, that the disparity be&een the rS?Hn- was even greater now than in 1842 tW l trinmnh of Kerr u :r ., . 1 H, MZfAl'J P0881. than " w" xa WJI MM 111 Y HO Kfv evidence of success could be riven fn ng,er bate of 1842 is as celebrated Uirouit Carolina as any event that ever occurred I i, Kerr has less of the terrible sledee-hl Jf ?L sorehead, he possesses the ieeoeT 3 ish of the orator, and not less of that pot which rests in an honest face, the true in.l the heart that beams through it a face , commands the confidence and resnert nf n , look upon it Whilst, if Reid his o i?0 mation and shrewdness than Henry, he i8 ly deficient in qualities for which the latter ' ing speaker, and was very rarely aje rt" course of the three hours during which h'fl i to bring; forth applause from even hi8 partisans. A remarkable instance 0f ty W(J curred when he announced from the t.5 intelligence which he himself first broSu of the nomination of Pierce as the candidal r his party for President The announcement fell upon tiietmbhc ear withouta responding chi though Mr. Reid went on to eulogize Ii8 cW;i andmihtary services Even gunpowder pro duced no explosion. His services m the JW can war were glorified by the speaker, lut Z. answering shout showed that the audienee W or cared any thing about them. Mr. Reid w not then seen the Washington Union which ar rived the next morning in which Pierce was presented as another ""Young Hickory," as more l? Hkwy than any other living man-! If be had only had that hint, that knowledge' of his candidate (of whom in truth both he and hi! auditory were almost equally ignorant,) he micht possibly have stirred up a fittie enthusiasm un aer ti ribs of those wno still revere the name and fame of Jackson." The "Observer" winds up its notice of the discussion by remarking upon the gratifying fact that the speakers exhibited the best temper and the utmost courtesy of bearing to each other. In the evening, the two candidates received their friends, Mr. Kerr in the parlours of the Fayetteville Hotel, and Gov. Reid in the Hotel HalL In the former, some hundreds, probably, principally Whigs, called to pay their respects to Mr. Kerr, and to congratulate him and each other on the signal triumph achieved in the day's discussion. An impromptu Whig meet ing was organized, by calling nenry Elliot, Esq. to the Chair, and the following resolutions were unanimously adopted : Resolved, That the Whigs of Cumberland, neit to their admiration for and devotion to their glorious cause, are proud of the gallant standard bearer, who to-day has borne himself so trium phantly, has so happily illustrated and enforced their principles, ana has won for himself a place in their heart of hearts. Resolved, That having performed his duty, we will not fail to perform ours, from this day for ward, till we can hail John Kerr as Governor of North Carolina. Mr. Kerr came forward and spoke feelingly and eloquently of the pleasure it had given him to enjoy the hospitality of the Whigs of Cum berland, and of the seal which animated them in the good cause. Messrs.. Kelly, of Moore, Evans, of Johnston, and Carr, of Sampson, and General Winslow, of Fayetteville, were successively called out, and delivered brief speeches. THE WHIGS OF SOUTH CAROLINA. A Convention of Delegates, representing the Whigs of the State of South Carolina, assem bled on Thursday evening last at Charleston, in pursuance of a call made two or three weeks a go by the Whigs of that Congressional District, and appointed a Delegation, consisting of the following gentlemen, to represent the State in the approaching Whig National Convention, vix: Hon. Waddy Tbkmipsok and Dr. S a mull H. DicxsoBEf for the State at large, with Messrs. William GsseGQ and Teistam Tcpptr, as alter nates, and for the Congressional districts Wh. Whalkt, GeoeoK W. Beows, H. H. Williams, William Patten, RK,Patnx, Thomas J. Kriw, and Geoxgi S. Betas, The Delegates were not instructed to support any particular candidate forthe Presidency, but are understood to favor the claims of Mr. Fill more as their first choice, and of Mr. Webster as their second choice, A preamble and resolutions were adopted, of which we have the substance, as follows-, , The preamble sets forth the many sacrificeo made by the Whigs of South Carolina in their devotion Ho the Union, and asserts their-eadi-ness to stand upon the Compromise, and to maintain it as essential to the harmony and the existence of the Whig party, aa well aa to the integrity of the Union. . The first resolution declares that the Whigs of South Carolina will give a cordial and hearty, support to any Whig candidate, (and none other) who explicitly avows his acceptance of the Com promise as a finality. The second resolution approves and endorse) the course of the present Administration, and eulogises Mr. Fillmoss. And the third resolution expresses great ad miration of the talents of Mr. Wkbstee, tc. The Democratic Nomination for the Pres idency, says the " National Intelligencer," albeit very different from what was expected, has ei cited neither any great surprise nor much sen sation. It has already ceased to be discussed in these parts, or yielded to the greater interest which is excited by the approaching Whig -Va" Uohal Convention for the selection of a candi date for the same office. Little else of a public nature will now be thought of, indeed, until after the results of that Convention shall haio been ascertained and recorded. " Taking into' account the spectators as well as the actors in the great drama," bsjb the same paper, " the Whig gathering at Baltimore next week, will probably exceed m numbers any Convention of Delegates ever before assembled in the United States for any political purport Already there are probably in this city, arrived from the South and the West, on their bt Baltimore, several hundreds of Delegates ; gen tlemen of high character, generally in &c prime and rigor of life, animated by patriotic impulses, and trusting to discharge their consul tative duties in a manner to redound to the wel fare of their country, and consequently to their own honor. May a Rational Conservative spirit preside over all their deliberations, and, assisted bf moderation, mutual forbearance, and concession, if necessary, aid them to conclusions at whioh the universal Whig party may in the end ha reason to rejoice." r 1 f J
The Raleigh Register (Raleigh, N.C.)
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