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PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY THE CONSTITUTION AND THE UNION OPTHE STATES THEY "MUST BE PRESERVED." tfllililAM W. nOLDEIV, EDITOR AKD PROPRIETOR. VOLUME IX. NUMBER 452. TERHS-S3 PEK A.NIV5JM-, PA YABLE IJV AD VAJfCE. RALEIGH, IV. C, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1843. TERMS. t-hF NORTH CAROLINA STANDARD, A LtE IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY, AT THREE DOLLARS PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE. -l . persons who remit by Mail (postage paid) Fire ThnS will be entitled to a receipt for Six Dollars, two years' subscription to the Standard one copy or r two coDies one year. fox four copies, : ten " '. 'm . : ! $10 00 20 00 35 00 same rate for six months. Anvpersonprocuringandforwardingfive subscribers, rfth the cash ($15), will be entitled to the Standard year free of charge. avertisemexts, not exceedingourfem lines, will be inserted one lime for One Dollar, and twenty-five ents for each subsequent insertion ; those of greater fBn(Tth in proportion. Court Orders and Judicial Ad visements will be charged twenty-five per cent higher than the above rates. A deduction of 33 1-3 cent will be made to those who advertise by the vear G3"If the number of insertions be not markcd Tthcm, they will be continued until ordered out Inters to the Editor must come free of postage, or they may not be attended lo. POLITICAL.- ' From th Richmond Enquiiei. MARTIN VAN EUREN The nature of a Government may be plainly dis cerned through the measures which the people nursue to redress their grievances. The rulers of an arbitrary Government may practise abuses and harrassthe nation, till desperation maddens the i j:..ninnt nnd hlnndw revolution subverts renerai uisLumtwv, -j -- - But 'the people of a Republic are the throne. nf the' Government, and control its op m orations in r - j , celul way. it is meir nimi. i cnr tv to examine tne aesigns ana pro- u . i- i . a V.AM I reeding ot political parties; iu auppun mnii ...non?i-ht to oDPOse them when wrong; and to ; ter3re-ion ar0Utntnt, and conviction to tho jthe people of their natural inclination and consti ..ii? ii.rcMn.1ino-. before the disorders of the I tutional right to support his re-election. The hdv politic becomegeneraland incurable. Free j and candid enquiry, is the appropriate chimney of hP nolitieal fabric. It carries off the noxious rases, and off nsive smoke ; and promotes a tem- j Derate combustion and wholesome warmth. In a free, prosperous, and enlightened country, every anneal to the human understanding is alternately weighed in the balances of wisdom ; and rulers are "estimated at their proper worth. A hasty swell and whirlwind of the passions may precipi tate to the bottom the most solid and serviceable thine and raise to the surface the lightest stuff, j B'the hurricane subsides, the froth settles, the bubbles burst- and the valuable pill irs of the. Go- : vernment will be duly remembered and replaced by the returning sense and justice of the nation. ; ..... nation the benefits of another illustration. i In 1340, Sflfish combinations, artful misrepre-, The people of the Union have otten illustrated ("iey were anvays uismisseu as uesirucuve iL-uaiiw this mighty truth. And, unless general indica-;Of the political fabric and, as no possible exten .:' . ,iJL;.- ihmr nrrspntlv nresent to the sion of the Presidential tenure can benefit the A tK0,n,m.U .,f nr,.i.,P tbp PMvinrs ofam-ithe bition. and the sordid, persevering animosities ol .j iu vvu wo ("'J- O I '.Vn. OUl OUT Iiunuai iuu n-muuno, ftllo.v-citizens have calmly reviewed the designs, pxnosed the fabrications, and rued the prmcipl fabrications, and rued the principles of those crafty politic! ms, who reviled and undermin el the truly Republican Administration of Presi dent Van Buren. They have noted and deplored a reprehensible disregard of every promise which the Federalists made, and a wanton aggravation of every calamity which they promised to remove. Instead of remedies, the Federalists have produced disease; and by resorting to empirical emetics, have forced a sudden disgorgement of the very m- dicines they ministered as a sovereign cure, but which the spasms of the patient indicated to be poi son and death. This monstrous quackery and de ception have very naturally produced indignation and disgust; and excited a magnanimous disposi tion to render atonement to reverse the decisions of 1340, and to repair the wrongs offered to that in jured and calumniated statesman whom a sweep in? tornado of disreputable passions hurled from his merited elevation. By merit, genius, and abilities Mr. Van Euren rose to the summit of political distinction. The changing scenes and contests of the age always found him a consistent and honest man. The spirit of detraction has, indeed, assailed him and every ungenerous accusation and illiberal disparagement which disappointed rivalry could devise, have been wantonly accumulated upon him. But through out his stirring and eventful life, no charge ever fastened on his character the slightest stain. His enemies can never falsify "this confident and delib erate assertion. They never yet assailed his im pregnable reputation, with any missiles, but asser tion without facts, invective without proof, and mercenary prejudice without one particle of pa triotism to justify or excuse it Towards his op. ponents, Mr. Van Buren wras ever mild and mer ciful, to a truly christian latitude never yet surpas sed by a public magistrate who had reached the pinnacle of distinction and power. He removed no brother officer for party ends. But, with a no ble and forgiving grace, fed and clothed his ene mies, while a black and noxious harvest of ingrati tude ripened around him, from the charitable seeds he daily scattered with a liberal hand. It amazes a considerate mind, it afflicts the generous heart, to reflect on the artifices which envious po-j uucians nave empioyea, lor me wanton destruc tion of this elevated and benignant man. The conduct and principles of the Republican party, have raised our model Republic above all ancient fame, and fairly made her a colossal won der in the history of man. While young and fee ble, poor and destitute, we resisted a mighty King, and defied the mistress of the seas. Under a gra cious Providence, we have risen from infant Colo nies into strength, union, and independence ; and reached the dignity of sovereign and Jeading States. This rapid revolution in a mighty conti nent of States, 'was mainly produced by the hap- p f action of our political system a system which oriirinated in the wisdom of our ancestors, is ' founded on enlightened principles of justice, is de-; thorn to support him for the Presidency a fourth fined by conspicuous land marks and organic!''- But, having been supported thrice, and elect laws, arid has been vigilantly guarded by Repub- ed twice, he waived this latest partial mark of the lican centinels who were truly anxious and deter- j national approbation and regard, mined to preserve it High among the living cen- The most illustrious Fathers of the Republic tinels whose enlightened vigilance has been tried by temptation, strengthened by difficulties, and nuickened by continual stratagems to surprise it, Martin Van hsuren stanas prouaiy conspicuous. Educatedin the strict and sacred commandments of the Republican Church, this eminent states man has wisely devoted his useful life to the cause of the people and the liberties of man. Adulation is the outward, but affected, homage which ambi tion pays to merit. And, for forty consecutive years or more, no public character has reached the Presidency, who did not profess allegiance to the principles of Thomas Jefferson. But, unlike the canting impostors who extol the principles they labor to undermine, Mr. Van Buren has praised and practised those principles throughout his life. As President of the United States, he served the Republic in her highest trust. Amidst the perilous trouble of the world, the violence of par ty strife, the gravity of the circumstances which gathered around him, and the reckless artifices employed to defame him, he never compromitted the dignity of his country, nor over-stepped the sacred boundaries of his elevated and arduous trust. But, with admirable wisdom and inflexible justice, he maintained the blessings of honorable peace, and the cardinal land-marks of liberty and the Constitution. Under his auspices, the whole sys tem of that fatal policy, which originated in the Federal manufactory of consolidation, and which the Clayites would revive and invigorate in every part, tumbled to the ground, and, in its happy fall, freed the nation of a funded debt, extra Protective Tariff laws, a dependance cn corporations of every sort, and a mischievous delusion of the States, by a distribution among them of the revenue from public lands. These ere the solid consolations which hallow ed his retirement, and surround his home. And he prefers them to all that corrupt and corrupting popularity which rises at the national expense, and which, like a forced and exuberant weed up- on a stimulating compost, suddenly withers at the rankest height. In the hope to sustain and justify the conduct of , -rj j. rc"1", to make their defeat of Mr. " u u..,.i.uU..v, they have manifested every disposition to deprive V r n Knron tic normflnont i c it nn c HicrortntfihlA steady opponents, and fickle supporters of General jacicson, now equally invoKe nis assistance ana authority, whenever they desire to consummate a favorite scheme. Hence they rely on the Gene ral to prove the justice and policy of limiting the x ivciutiuiai denize ij u cjuj ic. iciui, cuha a t uiiJk ious to create the impression, that he regards the limitation as essential to the preservation of public liberty. The Federalists have never obtained from the people any renewal of political power their rgn as aiways iimueu ion smgie term ; not because they preferred the limitation. On the contrary, they always labored to renew the lease, but were never able to effect it, even in a single case. After sad experience, and summary notice, .1 I- ?.J - . . leading k ederalists, tliey boldly advocate a single term, ana enaeavor to suojeci not only meir oppo- range of the popular choice, and deprives -the nauon oi ripueu wisuuiii, txperii iirt-, aim auni- . , . j . J I 1 ' - rj . tose principles ana measures snoum conunue io .direct them lor the period oi eight years 1 nis single difference explains the character of the con tending partie s, and the constant reluctance of the i Federalists to trust the people with the exercise of power. But the limitali n of Presidential service to a single term, has lately received unexpected appro bation and encouragement. Within a few years p.ist. Vermont adopted resolutions for amending the Federal Constitution, and invited her Sister States to procure an amendment inhibiting the election of any President a second time. The States refused to concur in the wishes and resolu tions of Vermont. In 1840, a joint committee of the South Carolina Legislature fully discussed the Vermont resolutions, and, in an able and con vincing report, pronounced them unwise, danger ous, mid suicidal. The Committee unanimously treated the one-term principle as a Whig measure, hostile to Democratic doctrines, and intended to deprive the people of their wonted salutary free dom of choice. The Republican Statesmen of South Carolina, approved and recomnended this report, and denounced the artful contrivance of the Federalists, to prevent the restoration of Mr. Van Buren to power and place. This was proper .md consistent for, in 1840, South Carolina, with laudable spirit and unanimity, voted for Mr. Van Buren, and ably vindicated his public course. Since then, Mr. Van Buren has never appeared on the public stage, and has done nothing to for feit the favorable estimate which the citizens of South Carolina placed upon him. Yet some of the leaders and supporters of Mr. Calhoun seem anxious to reverse this memorable order of things to adopt the notions of Vermont and, by an unwise political estoppel, to preclude all possible restoratien of Mr. Van Buren to the Presidential office. They who, in other days, denounced General Jackson, now extol him as the aider and abetter of their political designs. They should always remember, and disclose the fact, that the General prefers Mr. Van Buren over every other candidate for the coming Presidency, and will never countenance any contrivance to jostle his favorite out of the full and equal advantages of a General Convention of the Republican party. But, if it were not so, the practice of General Jackson may be safely opposed to the doctrine imputed to him. With honor, patriotism, and abilities, that illustrious citizen served in the Presidential office a second term. In three suc cessive elections for the Presidency, he received a plurality of the popular votes but, in the first contest, he was wronged by Massachusetts man agement and Kentucky intrigue, which defied and defeated the public, will. With equal injus tice, the Federalists defeated the election of Mr. Jefferson, who served two terms, was freely sup ported in three successive elections for the Presi dency, and afterwards received many petitions and entreaties from his fellow-citizens, to allow :approvea, ana served a second term. Washing ton, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and Jackson what a mighty combination of examnle. wisdom. and worth! all filled and adorned the Presiden- ,cy for eight successive years and their useful, patriotic services, throughout each second term. furnish the evidence and security, that the same elective range may be safely permitted in the se lection of a Magistrate for the highest trust, and that it is absurd and suicidal to deprive the nation of ripened virtue, experience, and abilities, in a mighty political station, which requires a combi nation of the rarest qualifications. It is a dotard fear, or puerile conceit, that any Executive patron age may prolong a reign which the people dis approve. In 1800 and 1828, bad Presidents just ly forfeited the national favor, and were promptly deprived of power. In 1840, a wise and honest President could not maintain his place against the combined artifices of fraud, falsehood, and venali ty. All this shows, that no amendment of the Constitution is necessary to enable the people to displace their President, at the expiration of a single term. Still, a constant assertion travels the rounds, that Mr. Van Buren has served in the Presiden tial office for the proper period of time; and that the people are reluctant to support him for another term I Many politicians who oppose him now, never supported him in his former need. And, instead of distrusting their ability to elect him a gain, they had better ackowledge that they never supported him on any occasion. The continual parade of their apprehensions that he cannot be e lected, notwithstanding the controlling ascendan cy of the Republican party, looks like 'a father to the thought,' and is plainly calculated, if it be not designed, to injure his pretensions. It creates the impression among the thoughtless and weak, that Mr. Van Buren is wanting in requisite qual ifications that, under his auspices, the Republican forces will become unriotous and refractory that the doubtful and wavering will desert the Republi can cause, ground their arms, or fight on the other side and that the Federal party will take cour age from the spectacle, and assail their opponents with vigor, confidence, and exultation. The answer to all this restless, anxious, fabri cated apprehension, is obvious. If any candidate for the Presidency be stronger than Mr. Van Bu ren, let it appear so in a General Convention of the Republican party, and he will become the nom inee, and be truly supported by a cordial and pa triotic vote. But if Mr. Van Buren receive the nomination of a General Convention, may not his timid supporters and reluctant friends dismiss their fears? Will it not convince every candid man that he is our strongest candidate, and will succeed, if any individual of the party can? And if this reasoning be honest and conclusive, does it become genuine Republicans to disparage the pretensions of a gallant soldier who carried their standard and fought their battles in a thousand fields? Whether the Convention assemble six or twelve months hence, is a matter of indifference. Mr. Van Buren and the honest supporters of the Re publican part)' will abide the general voice. Yit a million and a half of steady Republican voters will never be insulted out of their equal rights, by fiery and ambitious spirits, who sudden ly join the army, aspire to direct it, and to monop- lize the epaulettes which adorn it. i he freshest recruits may assert all equal privileges and author ity; but to dictate the terms and conditions of a general battle, is out of the question. Every at tempt to do it, is unjust, arrogant,and preposterous ; and ought to be firmly resisted, at every haznrd. With hasty exultation the question is often pro pounded, why should the Republicans support for the Presidency a statesman who was lately defea ted, in despite of every exertion to elect him? I retort the question, and inquire, if the wrongs and falsehoods which defeated a great public benefac tor, should be suffered to lay his fortunes forever in the dust? No, we owe it to the bounty of Prov idence thAt the sun cannot be permanently obscur ed by the dismal and unwholesome, fogs which the earth throws up. The orb of Jefferson emerged from the Federal clouds which folly and injus tice thickened around him. Jackson rebuked that political bargnin which retarded his career, and de prived him, for a season, of his fair deserts. And, despite of management and corruption, his popu larity rushed on, over every obstacle, with the chafed impetuosity of a swelling and resistless flood. The same motives and imiuceme-nts, which im pelled the Republicans to persevere in their sup port of Jefferson and Jackson, should govern their ! pres" nt course. For, throughout his political ca reer, Mr. Van Buren has acted like an honest, dutiful, and enlightened statesman; always pre ferring the prosperity of his country to the vulgar incentives of ambition. Had he paltered to cor ruption, and succumbed to the dazzling tempta tions which beset him; had he coaxed and pam pered that incorporated avarice which combined j against him: had he meanly followed thepoliti-j cians who barter conscience for authority, hones ty for convenience, and the public interest for sor did and dishonorable aims, he might have retain ed his ascendancy, and strengthened his position. But he firmly supported the cause of the people; fell, fairly covered with honorable scars; and scorrred to imitate that hobbling multitude of un commisserated apostates, who are always provi dentially crippled by a restless anxiety to climb above the world, to sacrifice their benefactors, and betray their trust. President Van Buren trod every path of his arduous duties with a laudable and gallant step. Great, matchless Jefferson was never more steady to the cause than he. And when the sacred Constitution required his support, no fear nor danger, no venality nor intimidation, impeded his patriotic purpose, or shook his reso lute and manly heart. This noble supporter of his country cannot be neglected, until incorruptible integrity is treated as disreputable, and artful renegades monopolize the power of the nation, and the honors of the Go vernment. Then, and not till then, can the peo ple of this Union forget his services, or become insensible to his public claims. No; we must raise a noble incentive a conspicuous example for future times. In a strong, honest and exult ing voice, we must proclaim to the nations of the earth, that Republics are grateful and just; that honor is policy; that patriotism, however clouded and depressed, for a season, must ultimately as cend, like the glorious sun above the morning mists; and that fraud, falsehood and venality must restore their stolen and injured spoils to the honest patriot they wronged the most. AUDAX We should like to hear a whig blood hound sto ry, but if we can't get lhat, give us a gold spoon story. Franklin Reg. If we cannot get a blood hound or a spoon sto ry, give us a 'Tip & Ty' song. Bangor Dent. If we cannot be gratified as above, we shall be satisfied with a grand parade of the "standing army of 20,000 men," provided they are supplied with two dollars a day and roast beef. Augusta Me. ) Age. From the St. Louis (Mo.) Reporter. COL. JOHNSON REPEAL MEETING. On Thursday evening last the Theatre was thronged at an tarly hour, from gallery to pit, by an overwhelming audience, anxious to witness the proceedings and to listen to the remarks of the patriot Johnson. Hundreds were compelled to leave, being unable to gain admission, as every nook and corner was crowded almost to suffoca tion. The front tier of boxes was filled with la dies who had assembled lo do honor to the brave, and to show their sympathy in behalf of oppres sed Ireland. The committee of reception and officers of the Association were seated on the stage which was decorated with star , spangled banners, the Irish flag in the centre. An elevated platform was placed in front, cn which James Clemens, Esq., President of the St. Louis Repeal Associa tion, was seated; a qhair on his right being provi ded for the Hero of the Thames. About 8 o'clock the veteran patriot entered the House accompanied by the committee of invita tion, the band playing "Hail to the Chief," and the walls ringing with the cheers of tho dense, multitude assembled on the occasion. The Hon. J. B. Bowlen, Chairman of the commitee of invi tation, them presented Col. Johnson to the associ ation and the audience, as "the Hero of the Thames and author of the Sunday Mail report a man who for nearly forty years had devoted the energies of his soul to the cause of human rights and the service of his country." Louis V. Bogy, Esq. responded in behalf of the Association in a very neat and appropriate speech, explaining the nature and objects of the Repeal movement, and paying a beautiful compliment to the war-worn veteran who had been one of the first men. West of the Alleganies, to lend his aid and influence to give impetus to the cause. He spoke of the potency of public opinion at the pre sent daj, and answered the objections frequently urged against the formation of Repeal Associa tions in this country. The opinion of the world, he said, had undergone a revolution as to the mer its of public men. Brilliant tal nts may com mand admiration, but the highest honors are now paid only to those whoso lives are devoted to the cause of humanity and popular rights. The truth of the remark was strikingly illustrated by the speaker in the comparison he instituted be tween the course of Washington and Napoleon the two most remarkable men of modern times. The latter had shot across the political firmament like a brilliant meteor, dazzling the eyes of a ga zing world ; and then its brilliancy had gone out forever. The former who had labored, with no selfish purpose, for his country's honor and inde pendence, had pursued a less dazzling career for the moment, but left to mankind the example of disinterested patriotism and viitue which excited the reverence and admiration of the whole civil ized world. Men talk of Napoleon as of one gift ed, with the most brilliant genius, but their words are not those of reverence and esteem. When the name of Washington is uttered, th heaits of the people overflow with emotions of love and gratitude. So the man whose whole life has been spent in devotion to his country, even if he should be less distinguished for striking intellectual abili ties than some of his compeers, is sure at the pre sent day to command, not admiration only, but the warm-hearted and deep-seated love of his coun trymen. The veteran warrior and philanthropic statesman who had been just introduced to the audience; was welcomed by the Association, be cause he had ever advocated the great cause of human liberty, not circumscribing his exeitions nor limiting his sympathies to his own stiff-ring countrymen, but feeling for the oppressed of all climes, and ever ready to give utterance to his no ble hearted and generous emotions. Col. Johnson then rose and spoke in his plain, unassuming, but touching manner of the cause to promote which tho Repeal Association of Saint Louis had been formed. At limes, he gave vent to his feelings in words of thrilling eloquence. The language of the patriot hero, in behalf of suffering and oppressed Ireland, the appearance of his venerable person scarred all over with wounds received in defence of liberty, and the fire which lighted up his countenance us he grew warm in the discussion of his animating theme, made an impression on the hearers which time cannot easily efface. Shattered as was his arm, he said, enfeebled as was his frame by age, fa tigue and exposure, worn down by years of se vere toil, and exhausted by the labors of the day, he felt that he would rather display his zeal in behalf of Ireland by charging upon her foes at the head of gallant columns, than by pleading her cause in words where none but her friends could listen to his voice. But not such the action de manded at their hands. Ireland asked not for the aidofarms; she called for the mere utterance of American sentiment for an expression of opin ion which would exert a moral influence that no civilized nation could resist, or would dare to dis regard. She had been trodden down by the iron heel of dc-spotism, and if the occasion required, which it did not, he fdt as if he could fight in de fence of Irish independence as he had fought for American honor. If men armed in her cause were needed, whih was not now the case, he would rejoice to lead them to the contest in de fence of human rights and human freedom. He longed to see her shackles stricken off, and hurl ed in proud defiance at her oppressors. Here checking himse lf as if he had spoken in too bel ligerent a tone for a peaceful movement and for an American citizen, the gallant veteran paused for a moment, and then burst forth in a strain of touch ing eloquence. "Who," he exclaimed, "shall ftop the current of my thoughts? Who shall bid these lips be silent and palsy this tongue when I am called upon to speak in a free land in behalf of freedom? The constitution of my country guaranties to me freedom of speech, and shall I not enjoy it when talking of Ireland and her op pressors? Shall my voice be hushed into silence and the sentiments of my heart repressed, because I am an American citizen, and the wrongs inflict ed upon the Emerald Isle arc the work ot a for eign power? No, I claim the right to speak a gainst oppression, no matter who is the oppressor, and the current of my thoughts shall not be check ed nor my tongue palsied for fear that the ears of the tyrant may not be pleased at my course." This burst of patriotic emotion called down thun ders of applause, from the whole audience. We cannot however, give any thing like an accurate synopsis of the old hero's remarks nor is it necessary for us to attempt it, as all the speech es delivered on the occasion may be reported at length. The remarks of the gallant veteran were alternately eloquent, playful, humorous-and touch ing; evincing a sincere regard for the prosperity of Ireland, and manifesting a burning hatred of oppression wherever and however practised. He alluded with great beauty to the debt of gratitude we owe to Irishmen for their services in defence of American liberty, and for their aid in extend ing the improvements which have been urging this nation forward with giant strides since the Revolution ; and his views with regard to the pro per policy to be pursued to continue the progress of the country without interruption, were respond ed to with enthusiasm by the audience. Messrs. Blennerhassett, Eager and Holt were then called for by the audience. The President informed the meeting that Mr. Blennerhassett was unable to respond to the call in consequence of severe indisposition ; and requested Mr. Holt, if in the House, to come forward and take the stand. After a few minutes delay, Mr. Holt appeared on the stage, and spoke with great force and brillian cy, both of the demand now made upon Ameri cans by Ireland, for their sympathies for her in her present oppressed and suffering condition, and of the noble example which the conduct of the old hero and patriot present had set to freemen, by ex pressing freely and fearlessly the generous emo tions of his soul for the cause of liberty whenever it was struggling for success. The speech of Mr. Holt was of just the right length for such an oc casion spirited and eloquent but brief. The audience then called for Messrs. Eager, Lawless, Hudson and Grace, the latter of whom responded to the call in a speech which lasted nearly an hour. He gave a clear and succinct ac count of the services of the Irish Liberator dur ing the last forty years, explained the nature, de sign and probable result of the Repeal movement, combatted the arguments which had been advanc-! ed to deter Americans from forming Associations to sympathize with Ireland, pointed to the effects which our action in favor of the Independence of Greece and the South American Republics had produced, and insisted with great force and beau ty that the principle involved in the movement now going on in favor of Irish Repeal was the same principle for which our Revolutionary fathers contended a stricly American principle. Mr. Grace spoke with great precision, clearness and beauty, evincing talents of a high order, both as a speaker and logician. Several gentlemen were then called for by the audience, among the names of whom we caught those of Eager, Lawless, Bow Jin and Thomas. Judge Bowlin took the stand and spoke about half an hour. He denied that the act of Union by which the legislativeflndependence of Ireland was destroyed, was valid or binding upon the Irish people. The Parliament of Ireland could not abolish the Constitution under w hich it was acting; yet its members had been induced by Brit ish gold to perform the farce of annihilating that very instrument in obedience to which they were required to act. The people had never surren dered to England the right to legislate for them, and the unconstitutional and fraudulent acts of their representatives in Parliament were conse quently void. The Judge also administered a se vere rebuke on those who contend that Ameri cans have no right to interfere in this matter by the formation of Repeal Associations, because it is a domestic question of Great Britain. He recur red to the l'mffe-g-4he Greek Revolution and of the Soutl .rS struggle, when not only arms, ammuriliWrJiPr an$$ were sent from the United States to aid trTc5lelrTot connected to us by ties of blood or language, rut members of Congress did not think it improper for them to rise in their pla ces in the Councils of the nation and plead the cause of struggling humanity in foreign climes. Why then, the Judge inquired, is the objection now raised that Americans ought not to interfere in behalf of Ireland ? .Why has this idea been conceived for the first time when Irishmen call for our sympathies? He could attribute it to no thing but a slavish fear of, or truckling to, Eng land. They disliked to offend that giant power. Although their notions of propriety were not at all shocked when Spain and Turkey were tramping their province into the dust, yet these squeamish cavillers think a mere expression of opinion in favor of Irish independence, an improper inter ference on the part of Americans with the affairs of foreign nations because England, "that great robber of the Universe" may possibly be offend ed there by. The speech of the Judge was one of the best we ever heard him deliver. After Judge Bowlin had concluded his remarks, the Association adjourned, it being nearly half past eleven o'clock. When Col. Johnson with drew, the band struck up a patriotic tune and the audience rose and gave three cheers for the Hero of the Thames. from the Harii.iburg Dcuioeralic Union. INDIVIDUAL LIABILITY IN BANKING. We are gratified to find that the public senti ment of the country is advancing rapidly towards a correct understanding of the numerous defects in our banking system, and lhat many of them, although deeply rooted, will at no distant day yield to the pruning-knife of reform. Unques tionably, the greatest and most formidable in the long catalogue of evils, is the absence of all per sonal liability for the ultimate redemption of bank issues. . However, auch a pernicious principle, which allows a privileged few to flood the country with fictitious paper promises, and to derire from the operation immense pecuniary benefits, whilst it imposes no manner of legal obligation upon them for ' their ultimate payment how such a principle, so repugnant to every consideration ol right, ever came to be engrafted upon any system, is the real wonder of the age. Its shocking ef fects in leaving honest and industrious people, who are in no way connected with banks, in possession of millions of this inconvertible paper stuff, real izing nothing from it in the end but mortification whilst those who issued it walk leisurely away, when the edifice is about tumbling, pocketing only the gains have been too painfully realized to need elucidation. The modus operandi is, how ever, beginning to be well understood by the great mass of society, and the proper remedies are be ing applied in some States by Republican legis lators. The unflinching Democracy of Ohio, led on by the able and uncompromising editor of tne oiaiesman, urst sei a. uiimaui cwiniiu iu mc Legislature of that State at its recent session. By the following extract from one of our exchanges, it will be perceived that the Legislature of Con necticut has also, at length, discovered the true panacea for all the evils resulting from our bank ing system, by a recognition of the individual-liability principle, and it is to be confidently hoped that the "ball will be kept in motion" until every State in the Union shall have sanctioned a meas ure so just and salutary. To our shame bo it spoken, that no Democratic Legislature in Penn sylvania could yet be found willing to assume the responsibility of putting an end to the pernicious mockery by which unsuspecting note-holders arc bemgconstantly fleeced, and that here the essen tial safeguard of personal liability has (strano-e to teJJ) been uniforrnily rejected. We trust, howev er, to see the next L?rislatiir of th "Tx'Wct." State step manfully up to the side of their breth ren of Ohio and Connecticut which is the side of justice and of duty. From the Montpomcrv r Al iiirrt;I.r MR. CLAY'S ECONOMY BEFORE AND AFTER THE LAST PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. In the last presidential Cammiffn. wbrn it warn the fashion among the Whigs to charge the De mocrats with everything bad, and to promise eve ry thing good from themselves, one of the prin cipal charges ngainst the Democrats was the ex travagance of their administration. They knew' that they had reduced the expenses gradually, yet leguiuny, aner tney naa succeeded in paying the? national debt that the expenditures of 1840 were expected to be little higher than twenty millions ; yet the charge was urged most virulently, and no one was more active in urging it than Mr. Clay. Not content, however, with making an indefini'to charge of extravagance, he undertook to say how much the Government expenditures ought to be, in his Hanover speech made in Ano-irsi or Rr. tember of that year, and published in the Rich- mond Whig, the Y eoman. nnd Rrrpral nlhr Whig papers, at the time : extracts frnm t h! snnrt-U were published in the Yeoman, on th 17th Anv Of September, headed " Principles of the Whir rany, ana among them are to be found the fol lowing words: " The annual expenditmres may, in reasonable time, be reduced from iis vreseiLt n.r.tmir.i nf nhn;t forty millions, to nearotie third of that sum." TIT 11.1 1 . J - - wen trie election came on; and the blood hound, Hooe, gold-spoc?iy " two dollars a day and roast beef humbugs, together with this promise of cheap Government, this thirteen million pro mise for promise it certainly was succeeded, and "Whig principles'1 were triumphant through out the Union. Now, then, came the fulfil ment of the promise. To be sure the more in telligentof the parly knew well how much of tho contest had been based upon humbug; but all but the leaders believed that the promise of economy, at least, would be fulfilled. The extra session was called, and Mr. Clay comes forward with his re solutions, and among them we find the third, as follows: " 3d. The rate of duties on foreign imports ought to be augmented beyond the rate of 20 per cent., so as to produce a n etrevenuc of twenty-six millions of dollars twenty-two for the ordinary expenditures of Government, two for the payment of the existing debt, and two millions as a reserv ed fund for contingencies." Here you have, above, Mr. Clay's Whig pro mise, and, below, its fulfilment. In the first place, a promise made for the purpose of inducing votes for the benefit of his party ; in the second place, a gross palpable, unprincipled disregard of truth and honor, when he had in his hands the power to carry out his promise. But the third resolu tion, given above, has the merit" of being not only a violation of that promise, but has the additional one of being an open and shameless violation of the sacred compromise of 1833, made between Northern manufacturers and the South, to which Mr. Clay himself was a party. Decrease of Bank Capital and Loans. The writer of the money articles of the New Y. Herald has compiled the following table to show the dimunition of bank capital and bank loans which has taken place since 1839, in nine of tho Western and Southern States, and to exhibit tho extent of the revolution which has rolled over tho credit system. It will be seen that the wild spec ulating schemes excited by our irresponsible bank ing system, have been carried to a far greater ex tent in some of the other States than in Ohio, and the revulsion has been consequently greater and more severely f h than with us : Banking in the South and Wkst, 1839 1843 Capital. Loans. 1(1,507,521 16,029,540 5 435 055 G,04fi,6l5 3.018,701 2,883,364 1,112,433 2,320,667 30,379,403 48,333.728 Capital. Loan. 2,919,43?T 340,000 626,73 Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Missis. 2,150.000 240,000 1.500,000 I w,-w,w V,WVU,UUU Louisiana, 41,736,763 56,856.610 12.32.820 31 ,987.280 Alabama, 11,995,332 25,842,884 1,500,000 1.5S0.000 Florida, 4,582,236 6,236,293 Arkansas, a 4 OS ST 9 aK Total. 112,264,306 167,507,377 18.322,820 37.433,686 Reduction, 149.1S3.557 129,074,691 i Chillicotht AdoertUrr. 'THE GOLD SPOONS." , The Editor of the U. States Gazette (Whig) says, that the "Gold Spoons" about which such a noise was made in 1849, are nothing more than "silver gilt," and ' like almost everything el.e in the President's house, rather tawdry and ill as sorted." When a gentleman from Maine recent ly made some inquiry of President Tyler relative to the spoons which so "shocked the republican sensibilities" of the Whigs three years ago, the President replied that ''they existed only in ima gination." Let those who were deluded by Ogle's speech in the hard cider campaign, mark these honest admissions. The "regal magnificence" fit th White House, it is now admitted byt3" Whigs, "existed only in imagination." Lynchburg Republican. New Argument. The Cincinnati Enquir er says that White, a whig candidate for Con gress, in Louisiana, seeing the Richmond Whig's cut of Henry Clay as the "mill boy of the slashes' in dirty shirt and ragged pants, took it for gran ted that such was to be the new argument of the whigs in the coming contest, and forthwith pulled orTboots and stockings to mix with the "unwashed,' as the nice whigs term the working-men in that vicinity, as a "barefoot boy." BosU Dent. Special Pleadino. Among the papers of Aaron Burr, recently shipped to Connecticut and purchased by the Historical Society of that Stale, is an opinion in relation to the famous Livingston steamboat ca3e, lo which the following postscript complimentary to special pleaders, is attached: "P. S. I have endeavored to render these re marks intelligible by avoiding technical expres sions, and think I have succeeded, except where it became necessary to speak or special pleadings, which defies equally common sense and common, language. The jargon of this science (as it is' termed) is like the slang of highwaymen, inven ted for similar purposes intelligible only to those of the profession. A. B.'
The Weekly Standard (Raleigh, N.C.)
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June 28, 1843, edition 1
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