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From the National Intelligencer. PERSONAL MEMORIALS OF 0ANIEL . WEBSTER. . Such is the title of a printed pamphlet of ome sixty-odd pazes which hi just been printed for iu author by Messrs. Gideon if - Co, of this city. The preparation of it has evidently been a labor of love, on the part of some purely literary friend, fince it is chiefly composed of thoe facts in Mr. Web- 'iter's history calculated to illustrate his per sonal character, the worth of which none but his more intimate acquaintance have had op portunities to understand, and we verily be lieve that the word politic does not appear on a single page. ne interest which ine Public hve long taken in Mr. Webster a an orator and a statesman mill undoubtedly cause this pamphlet to be extensively circulated. As a taste of its quality, we subjoin a few ex tracts from it. The first lime that Mr. Webster's eyes fell upon the Constitution cf the United States, of which he ia now universally acknowled ged to be the Chief Expounder and Defender, n wm printed upon a cotton pocket handker chief according to a fashion of the time.which tie chanced to stumble upon in a country store, and for which he paid, out of bis own . pocket, all the money he had twenty-five cents; and the evening of the day on which .he thus obtained a copy; was wholly devoted lots close and attentive perusal, while seated before a blaung Jut , ana py me iiae m uh T father and mother What dreamer on that -night, hfthe wildestflightsof his imagination, could have foreseen the future can er of the New Hampshire boy? When Mr. Webster was about seven years old his father kept a house of entertainment, where ihe teamsters, who travelled on the road, were in the habit of obtaining a dinner and feeding their horses; and it is said that ihe .incipient orator and statesman frequently en tertained his father's guests by reading aloud out of the Psalms of David, to the infinite delight of his rustic listeners. Indeed, it was customary for the teamsters to remark, as ihey pulled up their horses before the Web ster bouse, "Come, let's go in and hear a psalm from Dan. Webster." Even at that time his voice was deep, rich, and musical. A few days after Mr. Webster had cntsred Exeter academy, he returned to his board ing house one evening in a very desponding mood, and told his friends there tint the city boys in the academy were constantly laugh ing at him because be was at the foot of his c'ass, and had come from the backwoods. Hi friends endeavored to cheer h:m, by ex plaining the regulations of the school, and telling him that the boys would soon get tired of their foolishness. Mr. Nicholas Eme rey, who was then an assistant tutor in ihe academy, was also made acquainted with young Webster's troubles, and, as he had the management of the second or lower class, he treated his desponding pupil with marked kindness, and particularly urged him to think of nothing but his books, and that all would yet come out bright. This advice was heed ed, and at the end of the first quarter Mr. Emerey mustered his class in a line, and formally took the arm of young Webster, and marcbed him trom ine loot 10 we extreme hea! of the class, exclaiming, in the mean while, that this was his proper position. Such an event had for many days been anticipa ted, but when actually accomplished the re mainder of the class were surprised and chagrined. This triumph greatly encouraged the boy . Daniel, and he renewed his efforts with his books. He did not doubt but that there were many boys in the class as smart as himself, if not smarten and be looked with aome anxietv to the suramin up of the i second quarter. The day arrived, the class was mustered, and Mr. Emerey stood before it, when the breathless silence was broken by these words: "Daniel Webster, gather up your books and take clown your cap." The boy obeyed, and, thinking that he was about to be expe'led from school, was sorely troubled about ihe cause of the calami ty. The teacher saw this, but soon dispel led the illusion, for he continued: "Now, sir, you will please report yourself to the teacher of ihe first class; and you, young gentlemen, will take an affectionate leave of your classmate, for you wxll never see Aim again." That teacher still living is a man of distinction, and has ever been a warm friend of his fortunate pupil J In h'ra fifteenth year he was privileged to spend some months with one of the more prominent clergymen of the day, the Rev. Samuel Woods, who lived at Boscawen, and p-pared boys for college at one dollar a week, for tuition and board. During his stay with Dr. Woods he was apparently very neg lectful of bis academic duties, but never failed to perform all his intellectual tasks with great credit. On one occasion the reverend tutor thought proper to give his scholar Daniel a scolding for spending too much of hit lime j upon the hills and along the streams, hunting and fishing, but still complimented him for his smartness. The task assigned to him for his next recitation was one hundred lines of Virgil; and, as he knew that bis icaster had j an engagement on the following morning, an idea occurred to him; and he spent the entire night poring over his books. 'The re citation hour finally, arrived, and. the scholar acquitted himself of bis hundred lines and received the tutor's approbation. "But I bare a few more lines that I can recite," said the boy Daniel. Well, let us have them,' re plied the doctor; and forthwith the boy reeled off another hundred lines. "Very remarka ble,' said the doctor, "you are indeed a smart boy." 'But I have another." said ihe schol ar, "and five hundred of tbem, if you please." The doctor was of course astonished, but, as be bethought him ot his engagement, he beg ged to be excused, and added, "You may have the whole day, Dan, for pigeon shoot ing." Mr. Webster went through college in a manner that was highly creditable to him self and gratifying to his friends. He grad uated in 1801, and though it was universally believed that he ought to have received, and would receive, the Valedictory, that honor was not conferred upon him, but upon one whose name has since passed into forgetful new. The ill-judging faculty of the college, however, bestowed upon bim a diploma, but, instead of pleasing; this common-place com pliment only disgusted him, and at the con clusion ioTae commencement exercise the disappointed. youth asked a number of bis classmates to accompany him to the green behiud the eoljere, where, in their presence. he deliberately tori up his honorary docu- J mem, and tnrew it to me win an, exclaiming : "Mr industry may make me a peat man, but this miserable parchment cannot;" and immediatelj mounting his horse, departed for home The place where Mr. Webster spent the most of his time as a schoolmaster was Frye burg, in ihe State of Maine. He had been invited thither by a friend of his father, who was acquainted with the circumstances of the family.: His school was quite large, and his salary three, hundred and fifty dollars, to which he added a" considerable sum by de voting his evenings to copying deeds in the office of the county recorder, at twenty-five cents per deed. He also found time during this period to go through with bis first read ing of Blackstone's Commentaries, and other substantial works, which have been so good a founds' ion to his after fame. The writer once questioned Mr. Webster as to his personal appearance when officia ting as a pedagogue, and his reply was : "Long, sl. nder, pale, and all eyes ; indeed, I went by the name of all eye the country round." During the last summer, when returning from a visit to the Whi'e mountains, ac companied iy his son Fletcher, he went out of his way to spend a day in the town of Fryebur. He revisited, after the lapse of half a century, the office of the recorder of deeds, and there found and exhibited to his son two large bound volumes of his own handwriting, the sight of which was ofcourse suggestive of manifold emotions. The son testifies that the penmanship is neat and ele gant ; and the father, that the ache is not yet out of those fingers which so much wri ting caused them. It is said by those who knew Mr. Web ster at Fryeburg that his only recreation while a school teacher was derived from trout fishing, and that bis Wednesday and Saturday afternoons were almost invariably spent wandering alone, with rod in hand and a copy of Shakespeare in bis pocket, a Ions the wild and picturesque brooks of that section of country. SPEECH BY SENATOR FOOTE. From the Montgomery (Ala.) Journal, JYV vember 22. At the request of many Union men. of both parties, Senator Foote, the gallant champion of the Compromise in Mississippi, who arrived in town on Thursday, on his way lo Washington, consented to address the Union men of this State at the Repre sentatives' Hall, which was tendered for the purpose. The large assemblage was organ ized by calling the old veteran Union Demo crat, Colonel Rose, of Coosa, to the chair. Governor Foote spoke at some length and made a full review and expose of ihe causes and reasons which induced the issues of the late canvass. He shoved i hat the spirit of the convention which issued the southern address was for the preservation of the Un ion ; and further, that the Nashville Con vention was called for no disunion purposes, but to unite the South on a platform that would resist the Congressional usurpation of interference in the institutions of Territories; or, in other words, the Wilmot proviso; but that, unlortuuately, it was perverted from its original desigo, and fell into the bands of a talented and unscrupulous faction, who en deavored to use it for revolutionary purposes to dissolve the Republic, acd establish other forms for the gratification of personal ambition. He also show, d that the object of Mr. Rheti and other, as avowed by them, was disunion per se. For, this purpose they opposed the passage of the Compromise, and desired the non-execution of the Fugitive Slave bill. In this connexion he showed thai ihe Fugitive Slave bill was carried out in good faith as lar as any statute law in the land, and that the secessionists lamented its execution by the Executive, and denounced his call on Congress for military aid as an in fringement of State rights. Mr. Foote, in this connexion, gave ihe Executive full credit for its patriotic desire to execute the laws, and declared that no Administration, since the foundation of the Government, had exhibited such fidelity in the discharge of its constitutional duties, with a patriotic eye to the well-being of the whole country. The Compromise was a repudiation of the Wil mot proviso, and a defeat of the Buffalo plat form, and a gain for the South. Slavery exists and is acknowledged in U ah and New Mexico, and the line of 36 SO1 would have put the proviso on all that territory. The Texas $10,009,000 Boundary bill was also a gain to the South, by enabling Texas to pay her debts, which obstruct emigration, and forwarded the progress of several slave Stales for admission for the Union. It was the desire of the people of Texas, and their right and wish was final in the matter. The law in respect to the slave trade in the Dis trict of Columbia was but a reaffirmation of the old law of Maryland, which has always been in existence in the District. The Com promise, as a whole, was a gain and advan tage to the South, and the object of the lea ders of those who opposed it was deliberate treason. They were hostile to republican ism, and desired a revolution, which would bring about new forms, and place themsel ves in power, at the sacrifice of the dearest interests of the people. In this connexion, his invective was terrible. He warned the Union men not to have any connexion or political association with these men, that they had as mviy forms as Proteus, that their object was revolution, and for it they would now be good professed Democrats, and would acquiesce in the Compromise to gain strength and power to accomplish their object. He further stated that the Union men of all par ties in Mississippi and Georgia bad abandon ed old party affinities, and bad united in the patriotic object of common defence against the common enemy. These had not aban doned their designs, but were seeking to make the Democratic party their cat's-paw in schemes of disunion and treason. He specially, and with ranch force and elo quence, warned the Democratic Union men against their wiles and their attempts to gain influence under the name of Democracy. The speech was powerful as a review of the issues, and at times intensely forcible and eloquent in defence of our beloved Un ion. fjc Mr. Walker was present at the Kos suth Dinner in Southampton, England, and mentioned by Lord Dudley Stuart as likely to be President of the United States. It is some thing queer for one of your plain Democrats to receive a nomination for the Presidency by a British nobleman. Mr. W. has, how ever, earned the honor of the nomination by bis labored advocacy of British interests. Hurah for Democracy ? Greens. Pat. A Maaaiaoa took place in this city last week where ibe bridegroom was only tixtyfit years old and the bride seventeen. Br this anion the bride becomes tbe mother of children between the ages of twenty-five and thirty three years. yexeburyport Herald. DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES FOR . ". THE PRESIDENCY. : Mr. Walker Is evidently Kossuth's favor ite candidate for the Presidency, having been again nominated by that distinguished exile in his speech at Manchester. At firtt tight it appears somewhat strange that a gen tleman should proceed to a foreign country to make capital for the Presidency of ihe UmteJ States, and yet it is undeniably true that all the capital Mr. Walker possesses has been made upon foreign soil. His free trade notions first gained for him popularity in Britain, and are stilt the recommendations on which he mainly relies for the accomp ish. merit of the objects which have taken him to that country. With Kossuth and the En glish free traders to sustain him, Mr. Walker will not improbably present a tolerably for midable front when the time arrives for weighing the pretensions of the various can didates. He will discover, however, that his rivals have not been inactive in his ab sence. A host of them are in the field. Mr. Dallas and Mr. Buchanrn, pet sons of the Keystone State, have made enormous bids for the southern vote one by the pro posed amendment to the Constitution; the other by the proposed extension of the line of 38 30 lo the Pacific Governor Marcy has been coquetting with the two factions of the party in New York, and is said, in com bination with his riend Buchanan, to have made a rather formidable onslaught upon the little giant ot Illinois. Report says, moreover, that General William O. Butler, of Kentucky, tbraugb his friends, has been making arrangements to combine the Seces sionists and the abolitionists in bis support It was whispered some time ago that Colo nel Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, was work ing in the same track with Colocel Benton and Mr. Blair, for the purpose of bringing forward General Butler. Though we are inclined to believe that this is scandal as far as Colonel Davis is concerned, there is cer tainly some reason to believe that ihe eyes of the Barnburners have been turned in thai direction, and that they give Colonel Butler a decided preference in comparison with Gov. Marcy. We shall not be surprised however, if General Cass, who has been ly. ing snug and quiei, prove to have larger strength than any of them at the convention. From ihe virulence with which Mr. Buch anan's friends are assailingthe general through the PennsyJvanian, we are inclined to think that one at least oi his competitors believes him to be the most formidable opponent. In no other way can we account for the extreme malevolence which many Democratic press es in Pennsylvania have for some weeks past exhibited towards General Cass, lo be sure, the general's friends have paid for this by taking liberal vengeance on Mr. Buchanan, and are perhaps, quite as much afraid of ihat gentleman as he is of General Cats. ' It would be indeed strange, if, while these gentlemen have been "cultivating the good grace of the sovereigns nr,all quarters at home, Mr. Walker, although apparently engaged in a financial expedition to London, should suc ceed in making arrangements which would monopolize to his individual advantage the political influences ihat are supposed to lay in Kossuth's visit. Strange as such an event may seem, it is neither unprecedented nor improbable Republic. THE NEXT CAMPAIGN. Our Whig friends in other counties are beginning to buckle on their armor prepara tory to another contest with the. democracy. We think it is time tbe Whigs of Cabarrus were giving some blasts from their bugle.- The next contest will be one of vast impor tance, tbe result of which, we believe, will be pregnant with much good or evil to this ereat country. If the friends of the present Union administration succeed, as they can do if they do their duty, the questions now ex citing the country will be settled, we, hope forever if the opponents of the administra tion, composed of Secessionists, Freesoil-rs. Anti-renters, Cuban Liberators, ft id omne genus, we may lok out for breakers ahead. Such being the importance of the contest, we think the Whigs, of Cabarrus should be up and doing. Let not our time honored County be found in the rear the vac of the army is her position. What say our friends to a big Fillmore meeting sometime shortly at any rate by January Court? We must have a in e ting anJ let us do the thing up brown. Besides we must have Delegates to the State Con vention. which will meet some time in the spring, to select a candidate to trip up little Davy Reid's heels an operation not very difficult to perform. If our friends will con sult together and determine upon the time for holding a meeting, we will take pleasure in giving due and timely notice thereof. Concord Mercury. The Vicksburg Whig learns that tbe State Convention at Jackson adjourned on the 17th instant. We have before us the resolutions introduced by the Committee of Thirteen, and also a minority report signed by three of the Committee. They are too long for insertion, and as we learn that the resolutions of the Committee of Thirteen were subjected to changes in the Convention, we await the receipt of the full report of the proceedings, when we will publish so much thereof as will show what action was bad on the important matters under consideration. We may remark, that the resolutions report ed by the Committee of Thirteen, are strong, emphatic and decided, and form nratfbrm on which tbe whole South may be united to opposition to lurtber Northern aggressions. The Last Triumph or Pride. "Prote us," of the New York Daily Advertiser, in a letter from New York, says : "The wife of a man of means and the daughter of a wealthy citizen of this City people too fond of show recently died. She had been called beautiful before a family of children had gathered around her, and she had not renounced her claim to that title. She died and a large concourse was invited to i be funeral. The coffin was made of rose- 'wood, inlaid with silver lined with plaited satin. The whole top was removed, and tbe deceased lay in state in her narrow home. She was dressed in a white merino robe; made like a morning gown, faced with white satin profusely quilted and ornamented The sleeves were open, similarly lined aud wrought a stomacher of the richest em. broidery covered ihe bream, whence all life had forever fled. Tbe head was covered by a choice lace, and a wreath of fresh flowers arranged around. The hands were crossed upon the breast with the fingers covered with expensive jewelry, which seemed to sparkle as if in glad pride that the bright eye was dim forever. Thus bedizened, she was car ried to her last retting place, there to await i herGod!" RESOLUTIONS OF THE MISSISSIPPI CONVENTION. We obtain from the correspondence of the New Orleans "True Delia" a copy of tbe Resolutions reported to ' the Convention . of Mississippi on the evening of the 13th inst., by Mr. Ventress, from the Select Commit tee of Thirteen, which was charged with pre paring business for the Convention. No voe bid been taken upon the resolutions op to the hour of adjournment on Friday Evening, and the writer for the "True Del ta" expresses the opinion that they would be debated several days, as many members of the Convention desired io give their o pinions at length upon tbe subjects embraced in them. ResOLUTIOHS REfOBTEO BT THE COMMITTEE. Resolved, 1st, That, in the opinion of this Con vention. tle People of .Mississippi, in a spirit of conciliation and compromise, have maturely con sidered the action of Congress, embracing a aeries ol measures for the admission of California as a Sta e into the Union, the organization of Territori al Governments for Utah and New Mexico, the establishment f ihe boundary between the latter and tbe Slate of Tex, the suppression of the lave trade in tbe District of Columbia, and tho extradition of fugitive slaves, and, connected with them, the rejection of the proposition to exclude slavery from the Territories of the United Sia es and io abolish it in the District of Columbia ; and whilst t icy do not entirely approve, will abide by it as a permanent adjustment of this auctions I controversy. Resolrxd, 2d. That we perceive nothing in the above recited legislation of the Congress of the United States which should be permitted to dis turb tue friendly and peaceful existing relations between the Government of tie United Stares and the Government and People of tbe State of Mis sissippi. . Therefore resolved, 3d. That, in the opinion of this Convention, the People of the State of Mis sissippi will abide by the Union as it is, and by the Constitution of the United Slates, without a mendtnenis. Resolved further, Alh, That, in the opinion of this Convention, ihe asserted right of secession from tbe Union, on the part of the State or Stales' is utterly unsanctioned by ihe Federal Constitu tion, which was framed to establish and not to destroy the Urnon of the State, and that no seces sion can in fact take place without a subversion of the Union established, and which will not vir tually amount, in us effect and conseqaences, to a civil revolution. Resolved further, 5th, That whilst, in the opin ion of this Convention, such are the sentiments and opinions of the P iple of ihe State of Mis sissippi, still violations of the rights of the people of the State may occur, which would amount to intolerable oppression, and would justify a resort to measures of resistance ; amongst which, in the opinion of the Convention, the People of tbe State have designated the following : 1st. The interference by Congressional legisla tion with the institution of slavery iu the Sutes. 2d The Interference with the trade in slaves in ihe Slates. 3d. Any action of Congress on the subject of slavery in the District ot Uolumbia, or in places subject to thejunsdiction ot Congress, incomp iti ble with the safety and domestic tranquility, the rights ana honor ol the slaveholding states. 4tb. The refusal by Congress to admit a new State into the Union on the ground of her tolera ting slavery within her limns. 5th. The passage of any law by Congress pro. bibiiing slavery in any ot ihe Territories. 6th. The repeal of the fugitive slave law, and tbe neglect or refusal by the General Government to enforce ibe ennstiiutiorWl provisions for Ihe reclamation ot Fuxi'ive slaves. ReJcdJ"urilur,7ih, That in the opinion of this Convention, the people in Ihe recent elections tuve been governed by an abiding confidence that the said adjustment measures of Congress would be enlorced in good fath in every section of the land. Resolved further, Slk, Thar, as the People of the fetate of Mississippi, in the opinion ot this Convention, desire all further agitation of the Sla very question to ceae, and have acted upon and decided all the foregoing questions, thereby ma king it the duty ol this Convention to pass no acts within the purview and spirit of the law un der which it was called, this Convention deems it unnecessary to refer to ihe People, for their consideration, approval, or disapproval at the bal lot box, its action in the premises. Retolo-d further, 9lk. The Convention having declared in the foregoing resolutions the position which the People of Mississippi have taken, and which, in the opinion of this Convention, they will continue to occupy on the great subjects t-m-brared in the resolutions, deem h a dnty alike in cumbent on us, and equally important to the rights of the People, lo declare that, in our delib erate judgement and in their deliberate judgement, as we believe, the cll of this Convention by the Legislature, at its late extraordinary session, by the act of the 30th of November, la50, as un authorized and unnecessary; and that said act, iu peremptorily ordering a Convention of ihe People of the Stale to be held, without submitting lo them, to be settled by tbe popular vo!e of the Male, the question whether there should be a con vention or no convention, was an unwarranted assumption of power by the Legislature, at war with the spirit of republican imti:utions, and an encroachment on the sovereign power of the Peo ple. ANOTHER SEARCH FOR SIR JOHN FRANKLIN. We learn from ihe late English papers,, that a fresh effort is about to be made in a region hitherto untried to dicover traces of tbe long-missing expedition of Sir John Franklin. From the remains found at Cape Riley, it is generally inferred that the ex ploring vessels passed through Wellington Strait, beyond which and to the north of the Parry Islands it is thought by many geogra pbers and navigators that they would meet with a more open or "Polar" sea. It is al so believed that Franklin himself had resol ved to endeavor to reach tbe longitude of Behring's Strait by sailing westward in such Polar sea. On these data Lieutenant Pirn, a zealous and able officer, who had served on board her Majesty's surveying ship Her afij, Captain XeHett, in Behring's Strait, has formed the following plan of research : ."He conceives that when Franklin reached the longitude of Behring's Strait, he would be foiled in all his eff -rts to get southward through the one only passage, trom meeting with a great east and west Darner ol ice and Zand, sod that consequent ly he may have struggled on along its northern shore further to the west, until he became inextri cably entangled in a region which, though entire ly devoid of haman beings, is supposed ro abound in animals on which the navigators could sub sist. Lieut. Pim has in consequence suggested the following bold plan of research : MHe proposes to leave London on the 18th of November Tor St. f etersburgb, whence, it the pro ject should meet with the approbation of ihe im perial authorities, he wishes to travel directly a cross Siberia lo tbe mouth of the river Kolyma. Thence, accompanied by two or three persons only, he will proceed to tbe islands of Mew Sibe ria and others visited by Wrsngei and Anjoo, or in whatever other direction he may be led by the information obtained from the Samoyedes, who roam furthest towards the north in those parallels of longitudehere occupying himself in a thorough survey during two or more years." This' arduous project has met with the ap- frobation of many geographers, and is warm y advocated.by Lady Franklin; whilst in order to facilitate its success, the President of the Royal Geographical Society, Sir Rod erick Murchison, has written urgent letters to the chief authorities at St. Petersburgh. Tbe British Government has also offered as sistance to the intrepid voyager. 1UXBI6H RB6ISTBR. Ours are the plana of fair delightful peace, Jnwarp'd by party rage to live like brothers RALEIGH. N . C. Wednesday, Dec. 3, 185L CONGRESS. Congress met on yesterday at the Capitol, in Washington. We learn, through the Telegraph, that Hon. Lths Born, of Kentucky, was elected Speaker on the first ballot, and that J. W. For Hsr, Editor ot the Penmyloanlan, was elected Clerk. The President's Message will bo sent in to day, (Tuesday ) If not too long, we shall publish it entire io our next. "IS THAT YOU, TRUEPENNY!" The Secession Organ is In a quandary. In re ply to an inquiry recently made by it, "what are the Whigs of North Caro'ina for ?" we said: "They re for an economical administration of the Government -for a faithful performance of duty by public officers ;br the industry of their own Country when coming in competition with that of foreign nations for preserving our peace by refraining from all interference with the affairs of foreign governments for protecting our own liberties from foreign interference for the faith ful execution of the Compromise measures for the Constitution and Union as they now are for the laws and sustaining those who sustain the laws for Fillmore and Graham for the Presiden cy and Vice Presidency and against Abolition ism and Seceisionism against Disunion against foreign conquests againtl those who are for Dis union." The "Organ" says it is vnlh the Whigs in all these propositions, except it can't go Fillmore and Grahan! This announcement in part, will, no doubt, surprise some of the faithful. The Whigs of North Carolina are right then in their support of tlie Compromise measures right in the stand which ihey took Jgninst the Cuban expeditions right in their opposition to the vio'ation ot the principle of neutrality upon which our Govern ment has so long acted right in their opposition to foreign conquest.which was the lever that mov ed the whole policy of the Locofoco Party during the Presidency of Mr. Polk right in the patriotic stand which they took, in the last Legislature and the late Congressional campaign, against Seces sionism rjghi in calling earnestly on the People to rally to the rescue of the Union against the machinations of Rhett, Davis, Quitman, Yancy, and their c-laborers and adherents in this State, amongst whom the " Standard" was prominent, "standing like a tower," right too, in the princi ple they have heretofore avowed, of a Tariff for revenue with incidental protection to the industry of our own people against foreign competition right, were they in all these things ! Admitted loo by the leading organ of the Party in this State lo have been right in the advocacy of these prin ciples I We again say, this is an admission which we did not expect. Better late than never in tbe confession of error and in doiug justice to one's opponents ! "Trun crushed to earth will rise again" and all this from the organ of that party, which has heretofore denounced Whigs as un worthy of the confidence of the People, done its best endeavors to ostracise them from the honors and emoluments of the Government, and held them upas federal in their doctrines and enemies to tbe progress ot human liberty ! "O! that mine enemy would write a "book," exclaimed one who knew well the springs ot hu man action, Wbat now becomes of the reasoning of the' Organ," with which, week after week, it urged the doctrine of secession, but a short time since ! Who can forget so soon the stirring and enthusiastic encomiums upon Lopez, and his band of Cuban plunderers, with w'lich.bnt a few moons ago, it regaled iu anxious readers ? Have the eloquent denunciations of the "so-called Com promise" which set, like so many jewels, the col umns of the Organ,n evaporated, thus early, into airy nothingness ! Have all the electric appeals which were made to the on terrified "to stand to their colors" against the Union Party, here and elsewhere, gone so prematurely into oblivious forgetfulnesa? Has that halo of glory which en circled the brow ot the "gallant Quitman" been eclipsed forever! Cruel, cruel Fate! that should visit so much bright .promise with such a blighting disappointment ! But whilst the Whigs of North Carolina are right in all these things, still the "Organ" permits the ghost of a National Bank" to stalk before its disturbed vision, and frighten it from its accus tomed propriety and equanimity ! It forgets how many of its own 44 pillars of Democracy" assisted in giving life, limbs and member to that 'de funct monster, and would readily shake any bush which it can reach- out its hand and grasp, to alarm those who have gone forth a-purpose to be convinced, that the "raw head and bloody bones' of the old creature are about ! Bnt let it dismiss such childish (ears. It surely has been reading some ghost story, which has made Its hair stand at end, "like quills upon the fretful porcupine". perhaps been closeted with the "Ex-Charge," who baa recounted a few of those terriSc dreams which disturbed bis resiless slumbers ! Again, we say, let its loreboaings be dismissed to the winds which brought them. The Whigs have no idea of at tempting to breathe a single breath of vitality into the carcass of the dead 'Monster.' "There is no Promethean beat which can its light relumine" unless the "Organ" and its compeers shouid com mence their periodical warfare upon the State Insti tutions, which have furnished as a good enrrency, ana in us iar, met the demands of trade and com merce ! The Whigs are willing to let "well enough" alone, and well enough it would be, if a few of those who are tampant, in their empty professions of love for the "dear people," would profit by the example 1 "Tariff taxes," too, constitute another topie, which the "Organ" would willingly set to music, and sing with much more melhfluousneas, than it chau.ited Log Cabin odes, io the olden time, ii it could only get the WKigt to compose the party uui ucre aiso, iu laeaitaa has obtained the maax ,Tbe Whigs of North Car- tery over its reason. .' i. ..in nnncMSiarV is olioa are as averse f-j- . . riffues as the "Organ" eould possibly desire them.tobejbuttbeyare not rtpudiators, and it will delight them much to find, that their pockets, as well aa those of their political opponents, are not eJe long taxed to pay the expenses of that "indemnity for the past and eecuriiy for the fu t.re" which has marked the policy of Locofoco ism. Iftaemsh'effortwhk-h are now being made by the "unterrified of Tammany," to plunge us into tbe vortex of European commotions and bloodshed, should succeed, the "Organ" will Nsing, in vain, its lullabies to " Tariff taxes P Wars bring debts, and debts have, heretofore, brought Uses Perhaps, the fruitful imagination of the "Organ" might invent aome new and easier way to pay them. If so, barring repudiation, we are for him tot the Presidency, in preference to Wal ker, Kossuth, or the rest of mankind in gen eral." But ah! tbe ruling passibn, strong in death, is still uppermost in the mind of tbe "Organ" yet hauntinir iu slumbers 1 It is still craving to throw the Constitution of the State into the whirlpool ef partizan politics, still anxious to convert the fun damental Law by which oar property, liberties and lives are protected into a political stalking horse, upon which demagognism may again ride into power 1 Willing indeed is it, to caparison some new bobby, however inimical it might bo to our domestic peace, astride of which, it would fain gallop another "Excellency de Jure" to the goal ot the Gubernatorial race 1 But tbe People of North Carolina bare learned a lesson frem the present Suite Dynasty which they will not aeon forget. They will not again permit themselves to be frightened from an open and independent avowal of their principles on the important sub ject ol national politics, by the outcry of those, who would rob them of every birthright of free dom, to enable a few ambitious aspirants to clutch the spoils of office ! What have Free Suffrage, the White basis, and iBternal Improvements by. the State, to do with those great aud momentous issues which will be involved in the next Presi dential Election ? They will have no more con nection with them, than ikey had with the questions which were made in the recent Congressional Elections. In truth, the great battle for the Union will have to be foight over again in 1853 It cannot be disguised that the friends of the Com promise measures rvill be assailed with redoubled bitterness by those who are smarting under their late defeat Secession will again raise its hideous crest. The snake is scotched, not Killed. Whigs who are true to the Compromise and the Union will not permit themselves to be led off from their duly to the Country by collateral is sues or questions which have no relation to Na tional politics. They will agree to differ upon those questions which relate to their domestic or local policy. They will ostracise no man for bis belief on matters ot Stale reform. In fighting tbe great battle, upon which may depend the perpet uity of our Republican institutions, they will not stop to inquire, whether he gallant companions who stand by their side, and have rallied under their banner, all think alike on Free Suffrage or tbe White Basis or Internal Improvements. They will demand to know whether they are Whig tboe Whigs and if answered in tbe affirmative, they should and will know no motto afterwards, bat that, under which they have so long fought, THC UXIOK OF THE WHIGS FOB THE SAKS OT THE UlUOlt!" THE HARMONIOUS DEMOCRACY. It is quite reasonable to conclude that the leaders of tbe Locofoco Party have been deprived of tbe en joyment of the spoils sufficiently long to ensure har mony and concert, in tbe approaching Presidential e lection. This appeared reason enough, in the esuma- tioj of Forney, to unite all tbe tactions, into which tbe party has been split, during tbe stirring events of tbe last three years. Iu fact, this is tbe only principle upon which tbey can act together, and according to Mr. Calhoun it is tbe only attraction "which has ever kept them together. With the overwhelming major rty which tbey have in Congress, there is no question ot public policy which can rally them. On tbe subject of Internal, Improvements by the General Govern ment, the Southern and North Western Democracy are antipodes there being too much ' noise aud con fusion" to enable tbem to understand each other.' On tbe question of an increase ot tbe Tariff, for pro tection, tbe Pennsylvauia Democracy have still lively remembrance of their battle cry in 1844 of Polk, Dallas and tbe Tariff of '42." On tbe Com promise measures there is ae complete a confusion of tongues amougst them as prevailed at the temple of Babel I Tbey were not blessed with any spirit of harmony when those measures were under discus- cuskn in Con grew, and tbe recent events have only coutributed to estrange tbem the mere. Foote and Davis have fougbt und 't different flags in Missis sippi; McDonald and Cobb in Georgia; aud up to this hour the battle waxes warmer and warmer between those valliant Knights of Democracy in Louisiana, Downs and 8oole. Towards the north star the sign are equally aa portentous to Democratic harmony. Whilst Van Buren, Blair and Benton are nursing Free- soil ism, and preparing to rebuild the Buffaloe plat form, with all tbe new and varied improvements of tbe age, Douglas, Buchanan and Cass would fain persuade tbe secessionists of and those residing nearer the Equator, thatfAy are, in truth and no mistake, Northern men with Southern principles." What will be tberesult of the admixture of all such fiery elements in the crucible of a general Convention, it will require just such a political alchymist as Mr. Cal houn to conjecture. Were be alive be would predict "a crisis," preguaWt wkkthe aU of "the petla,'' '"cohesive attraction" which has been always found adequate to the cementing together of all the discor dant materials of which modern Democracy is com posed. When these are at stake, tbey are good at CoaltiuMi, at tbe recent elections m Massachusetts and Ohio attest. .By this panacea, tbey may be able to heal tbe wounds and bruises which, of late, tbey have so unceremooidusly inflicted on each other but we ask pardon of tbe ' Organ" for indulging in such reflections. Tbey may induce some of the faithful to neglect their "domestic concerns." Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof 1 AGRICULTURAL MEETING IN GUILFORD. The ''Greensboro' Patriot" contains a call, nume rously signed by the most substantial and respectable farmers id Guilford, for an agricultural meeting, pre paratory to tbe formation ot an Agricultural Society , to be held in that place on the 10th of January, prox. Ralph Goaaux, Esq , will address the meeting. Vt e are pleased to see this important movement, oa tbe part of the "bone and sinew" of Guilford, and hope to see the example generally followed through out tbe State. It will not belong before we will be even with our sisters in improved facilities of transpor tation, and tbe other elements of Commercial great- ness. Let us not be behind tbem in the skilful culture of the earth and tbe perfection of her products. GRAND MASONIC LODGE. This body convened in this City on Monday night. We learn that quite a number of delegates are in at tendance. DEATH OF THE POET vnv... Late English papers contain ikATY. nouncement : Tli- . i . Poe, James Montgomery, i dead u esttaeJ pleted his eightieth year oSl , had 5 day he planted an oak tree in tl.l l?g '"e,h C the Sheffield Infirmary r'an i(' C f r cu .c u tic reside i!V and Monnt, Sheffield." at Th. Thed eath of this m-ant tons many and varied recolleclions James Moktsomest, then a srripi,', l79l year, of age, became an operative itf 19 establishment, and an intnate q( J Pnntis, Grandfather of the Editor of tab p." Joseph Gales; who then conduced th. field Agister,-' a newspaper 0 f nnp,,!,,' culationatthatday. Pending the po' tationsof the close of the lat Century"' land one of the results ol wliid, w. ihe original founder of this paper, a "Z bigoted censorship of the Press. t iK "f U O " isu irrwjH r.. avoid the oppressions of a t to and, indeed, op to the period of hi. V "mcai gorer deatl, timate and cordial fripnrli,; ...i. . . . Mohtgomert and himself. It to ,h w ble and rifted Pot th .t m . . at "Hi. we ana gitted Poet, that the virtuous Gtmt.n. thon rl7Q4 . , Botany Ban. soeakinir with rr . 'or . vv uaaernrd of Mr. Gales, and the causes that hafl u remarked: "Whoever servM n, n ," H an ungrateful master. I rejoice i hat h, j, . the iron arm of arbitrary doupi- " J bitrary power, out A hundred incidents, illustrative virtne. of JXatEsSfoHTooiiERT.ar. ; ..""J f tt. aion but so interwoven with affaire of, al or rather family nature, aa to render lication of them here unbecoming and iffi He was, in the trnest and best accep.atjo' term, a good man. Nor only so. pe p the day have more successfully orK- bett0"0' posea employed the gifts of the ';5Jred M A peculiar delicacy and chastened of im' a sweet and melodious versification and'bT' all, an eW vated and moral tone of m' characterized all his productions, and entitle h to a prominent place ok the roll of EmHah k "This be the Poet's praise, dl' That he bath ever been of Libert? The steadfast friend ; of Justice ;nVf T . Firmest supporter ; of high thoU?iltg 10 And all true beauty of tbe intierarYi Creator." ' Do iKDtAirs Sweab 7-This is a carious qUe. tion.and the answer by Mr. Schoolcraft should put the white man to tbe brush. This gentle man, who has for many years studied the ch. acteristics of the race, says : "Many things the Iudians may be accused of bin of the practice of swearing !hey cannot f have made many inquiries into the stale of L, vocabulary, and do n-t as yet find anv word which is more bate, or reproachful .f.en'macW moash which indicates simply bad dnr. ),. of their nouns have, however, adjective inflecuW by which they are rendered derogative They have terms to indicate cheat, liar, thief, murderer . coward, fool, lazy man, drunkard, babbler Bat I have never heard of an imprecation er oath -The genius of the language does not seem to fa vor the lormation of terms to be used is oaths or for purposes of profanity. It is the result of th observation of others, as well as my own, to r ihat an Indian cannot ourse." C-We are highly gratified to be able to state, that the Rev. Dauar Lact, at tbeurgeut solicitation of a number of gentlemen, who listened to bis eloquent discourse, on Tb-.nksgiving dsy, has consented to fur nth a copy of it for publication. Ii will be issued from this office, in the course of a week or so, in pamphlet form. C7 Thomas A. Hatdkc, former Editor of ths "Mountain Banner." died in Rutherfordton, on Friday tbe 2lst ult He leaves a wife and seven children. The City of Norfolk, by a vote of the dtr Conncil, has appropriated (100,000 towards tbe Ridge way and Ctarkesville Railroad, and a like sum to the road from Weld on to the Raleigh and Gaston Rrad. NOMINATION OF MR. WEBSTER FOR THE PRESIDENCY. BosToir, November 25. The great Conven tion to nominate and present to the people of the United States tbe claims of the Hon Daniel Webster for the Presidency, assembled tais mor ning in Faneuil Hall. Most eloquent and forcible speeches were de livered by Mr. Ashmun.and Thomas Stevenson. The latter concluded by moving the appointment of a committee to prepare an xddress to tbe Peo ple of U. States, which was adopted, and tbe Hon. Edward Eve ett appointed chairman of the Com mittee. A no: her committee was raised to report a permanent committee of correspondence. The Convention then adjourned until 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Afternoon Session The Convention re-assembled at 3 o'clock, and the committee of correspon dence was reported, consisting of 22 members, of which Franklin Haven is chairman at large, and Albert Fearing, of rton, chairman of Suffolk county. The committee appointed for the pur pose then reported an eloquent and lbroible ad dress to the People of the United Stales, which sets forth in glowing language-ibe various qual ifications of Mr. Weteter lor Chief Magistrate of the Union. The address adopted makes two col umns of the Boston Courier. The Convention was Immensely attended, and the greatest enthusiasm was evinced iu behali ot the favorite son of Massachusetts. Weosrer cju are forming throughout the State; already a num ber nave been organized in this city. THE NATIONAL REVENUE. that it has ail- auowuiut)ii'i vv'mwjw j - . o f,nm Washington tiitneeneel that durkMrthe last fiscal year tha levenw from Customs amounted to 4''X7 From Public Lands, to e ToU, . $51,000,000 Kio-ht millinn .f ih Public Debt has been ex tinguished in the same period, by the purchase w New York of securities to that amount, at uu rates. ,, ,l. For the fiscal year ending June 3". " rrceiDis imm liUtiunu wan . r.. . " SJU.WO! 1,859,894 From Public Lands mu f t ....ininl andlSOdi A ue excess oi reveuuc iiuiu for the year ending tbe 30th of June last,ovei rvue preceding year, is therefore, nine anu lions of dollars. . The receipts from customs exceed ihe '"T. of the Secretary of tbe Treasury, presented ia n last report to the House of Represent tires, in sum of 44,00000- The land revenue exceea. the estimate only $33,000. , j, The total receipts into the Public Treasuryaa ring the year ending June 30, 1850, were t. 421,748,90. Jn that year the reduction of tbe lie debt was effected to the extent onlf or In tbe last annual message of the PKJf was represented that a portion of the Pub!'cJeL' amounting to $8,075386. must be Pjgje within two years, adding : Mt w most desua that these accruing demands should be mt out resorting to new loans." Happily that w been accomplished in a single year, from thesur plus income of the counUj commerce. If you would kno how a 1 wouW with his tail twisted, just ask a man q .or to t " bill be owes you, when he is talking with a man.
The Raleigh Register (Raleigh, N.C.)
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