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1 PUBLISHED WEEKLY,- BY THE C03SSTITTJTI02f AND THE UNION OF THE STATES-TflET MtlST BE PRESERVED." VOLUME DC .NUMBER 429. TE U SI S-S 3 PEK ,1 i IV PAYABLE IJT ADVAJVCE. EDITOR JLYD PROPRIETOR. RALEIGH, N. C, WEDiESDA 'AIJGIJST 1 6, 1843. TERMS. THE NORTH CAROLINA STANDARD, IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY, AT THREE DOLLARS PER ANNUM, IX ADVANCE. Those persons who remit by Mail (postage paid) Five Dollars, will be entitled to a receipt for Six Dollars, or two years' subscription to the Standard one copy two years, or two copies one year. tor four copies, '.. tm : : : : " twenty" : : : i $10 00 20 00 S5 00 The tame rate for six months. j0.uy person procuring and forwarding Eve subscribers, with the cash ($15), will be entitled to the Standard erne yearrfe of charge. Advertisements, not exceedingourfen lines, will be inserted one time for One Dollar, and twenty-five cents for each subsequent insertion ; those of greater length, in proportion. Court Orders and Judicial Ad vertisements will be charged twenty-five per cent higher than the above rates. A deduction of 33 1-8 3 ... . , . i , i i ii . rcent. will be mage 10 mose wno auveruse Dy me vcar. (Vj if the number of insertions be not marked on tnem, uicjr - - le ters to the Editor must come free of postage, or they may not be attended to. .i .1. ...Ml Vxa trri i nitrl until rrAiTtA mil POLITICAL. From the National Intelligencer. A T-cifer from ITIr. Calhoun. Fort Hill, July 2S, 1843. Messrs. Calcs & Seaton : I have just received from a friend the National Intelligencer of the l-'ih and 15th instant, containing your remarks cn a volume recently published by the Harpers, of X. York, entitled "Speeches of Mr. Calhoun, d -livond in the Centre? of the U. States, from 1511 to the present time?' Yon." remarks are headed: "Political History Suppressed Speech es of Mr. Calhoun." "Suppressed" is a strong IV. tfi 1 I lit, 11 1 1 J ' ck tl 1 1 1 1. j v i ii 1 ij uv-iiu v i v define it to be, ri;t down, destroyed, roncealtd; ana your re- l 1 1 . . ' . i .1 J i . .1 '. . i : HVllKS leave no uuitui uu iiueuue-u iu use n in the strongest and st and mo-t ofiensive sense that is shut they have been intentionally omitted in the be judged, and by them to stand or fall, cumpiliiion. in order to give a partial and false! Guided by these motives, I compiled the vo v:ev of my opinions: and, for that purpose, a lume in the first instance exclusively from that pe fal?e title wns given to'the volume. To the truth 1 riod; but afterwards yielded to the persuasion of of this you pledge indirectly your word, by head-! friends, against my judgment, to include the speech ing vo ir u-marks "Political History' The 'already refeircd to, delivered in 1811. They charge is a grave one, and madejn an imposing ; urged it upon the ground that, as it was my first rannucr: and, if true, the imposition" woujd de-; ; effort in Ccngr ss, and on a subject of lasting in scrve the public reprobation. The question, then, ; terest, it was desirable it should be inserted, al ii. I it true? Let facts answer. though a departure from the principle on which The title is, indeed, false false every way. the volume wns compiled. It covers much not included in the volume, and Bt even within this period a selection became omits much that is reports, letters, and other 'necessary to effect the object in view. To pub writings. You have noticed the former, and call- all my prodnctions on political subjects dur ed public attention to it; but not the latter, though ji"? the period, would make the volume still too equally obvious, and very material in dctermin-! bulky and expensive to be acceptable to the gene ing whether the falsity of'the title is a mere error : ral mass of readers. Here, again, the leading or a fraudulent attempt at imposition. The one . reason which governed me in selecting the period, might, with some plausibility, be construed to be : governed also in making the selection for thecom an attempt at imposition; but it is impossible for j pi kition. It is accordingly full on the subject of any ing-Aiuity so to construe the other. It is im-! banks, sub-treasury, currency, rarifl, distribution, possible to assign to it a fraudulent object But if State rights, -and the prineiplVs-ond policyAvjiicii the one is an frof, wtiy ndTlhe other 1 ' 'Injact shbuTJ coiitrof in tlie administration cf the Go the very grossness of boih can leave no doubt that j vernment. Those which discussed subjects of a t.icv are merely errors, it is not possible to open tii' volume without dtectinT them. The title co-' vrs all the speeches of Mr. Calhoun from 1811, j v. fnn he cr.tr-red Congress, till the present time: : Av!i;.e' the v he vo um contains hut on. sneech nnor to : - . ' ' Again: it omits to mention anything but nce?, when, of the four first nf his nr.idutions c w iu l tho rnmoi Ttion is rnmndsrr nn v nne is i a speecn. l o maice its grosssn'-ss more pupae!, n!! tlKse are headed "Sperc-hes." Has fraud ever be-en known to do its work in so clumsy a man ner? It is idle to waste words on a thing so phin. The whole title is a gross blunder, of which I have much greater reason , to complain than any one else. It looks much more like an cttompt to inj'ire mo, than to impose on the pub he. J. however, can suspect nothing of the kind. How it happened I know not; nor is it material, so far as it relates to the object of this communica tion : but I deem it due to myself ta state all that I know about it. It so happens I have never yet seen the volume. I sa-.v the title and the advertisement not long since for the first time. I was, as may be ima-cine-d. indignant at the blunder. I wrote imme diately to a friend, who took an interest in the publication and corresponded with the publisheis, and pointed out the blunders in the title and the objections to the advertisement, and suggested the corrections that should be made, which I request el him to have done forthwith. It was loo late. I received his answer a few days since. He in formed me that he had perceived the blunders be fore he got my letter, and had prepared a correc tion, but, owing to some delay in the transmission, it was not received in time. It may be proper to add, that the title I suggested (as well as I can re collect) was, " A selection from the speeches, re ports, and other writings of Mr. Calhoun, subse f!'ient to his election as Vice President of the U. States, including his leading speech on the late war, delivered in 1811." It was drawn up, to make it full and accurate to coverlEe viiobi,and no more. So much for the title. ' r-C I come now to the selection or compilation ;' nnd here I take all the responsibility. Ittvas done bv ? ni lif cealment, I am chargeable. . In.order that your readers may judge, I shall state the reasons, which governed me in making the selection. It is propor to premise tfiatl'h'aveeen urged from various quarters, inthe "last six or severi years, to have my speeches collectefdgnd publish ed, and have, during the" sa-me period, jreceived numerous applications for cOpiespoT- my speeches in pamphlet form ; with which ! could not. com ply, because I had not' SDaYe conies. "Since mv name has been presented "to the : people in-goriD ex ion with the Presidency, applicatiprrs for-copies have increased, and I nave been jnpre frequently! urged to collect and publish- my speeches; reports and other writings on political subjects'- T finally consented to the nublicai'on.j because TeTreVvedit to be due to the people, irivthe' positkrrtI;i5cc1ip3',j 10 anord them the 'means of ascertaining, the opin ions and sentiments'I' entertain on all political subjects, particularly on thosewhich' have aglth ted the country of late,"and'on wh'ich' the presi dential election will probably in a. great measure turn. That I believed could best be done J5y pub lishing what I had said -and '; writtch on? those questions, in a'form which would make'the.work accessible to the people?': It would give my opin ions and sentiments in the fullest, anef most au thentic form, and in a manner much tndre'cons6 nant to my feelings than by . popular ipeechea wade for the occasion, or a oertonal canvas To effect the object, it was not only necessary that a selection should be made, but that it should be made from the, later, and not the earlier of rnv speeches, and other discussions on political sub jects. To publish all I have said or written in the long period of thirty-two years, in which I have 'been without intermission in. public life, would make the work too bulky and expensive to be accessible to the great body "of the community ; and to publish those of an early date, instead of those of a late, would not give the information in tended. I accordingly fixed on the termination of Mr. Monroe's administration, when I became Vice President, as the period from which to make the selection. That may be fairly regarded as the point of time in our political history which marks the end of an old, and the commencement of a new order of things, in the midst of which we still are. From that to the present lime is a peri od of eighteen years, being more than half of that in which I have been in the service of the Union. During the whole I took a prominent and re sponsible part email important questions. Such was my leading motive for selecting the period I did, from which to make the compilation. There were others of a subordinate character which had their irifiuerice. It was the portion of my public life in regard to which information (as I believed) was most desired. I infer so, among other reasons, from the fact that the applications I have received for copies of my speeches were al most exclusively confined to it. There was an other still stronger. It is the period in which my speeches and other publications contain my ma ture and settled opinions on the principles and policy of the Government, adopted after long ex perience and much reflection, which have modi fied (or changed, if you prefer) in many partial- i lars, my earner and less-matured impressions. ! About the commencement of the period, my mind 'settled down in the views of the principles and j policy of the Government I now entertain, and to i which I have ever since adhered, Tegardless of - . - " ' ;pt'i&uiuu tuiiMtuncts inus giving mo sironjrst I rr rrf nACC i Kl- rf m i . 1 nrtn rrin .- i r.t I U C t . . I 1 .i ; truth and vital importance. Bv them I desire to " 1 j"-"--"-" " "j vn-i. uuhuluuii uom ui hum nunc isujan-u iiuu.ia wviv iui iuc i:iusi ujh omitted. But, after the compilation was first made within thes restrictions, the work was thought to be still too bulky, and many were struck from it Ill 1 wnicti it would nave Det n desirable to retain. Such are the facts in reference to the complia 'tion. I hey show conclusively that the c: arge ol suppression agaiiiM n is as entirely uniuimueu us that of fraudulent imposition against the title. The very charge, is absurd. How could the speeches be destroyed or concealed ? They are to be found not only in the files of the Intelligencer, but in those of many other journals and publications of the day, where tfeey are just as safe and as open to inspection as if placed among the public re cords. To attempt to keep them fom the public eye. would only cause them to be more greedily sought after. The very speeches you have pub lished, as if they were new and unknown to the public, are the very ones which have been re published divers times, and have again and again been repeatedly referred to in Congress, in politi cal harangues, and by newspapers ; and -that for the very purpose for which you now republish them. They are the very last which any one who was base enough to resort to a fraud would think of concealing. But why speak of them as being suppressed, when they are referred to in the biographical sketch to which you, allude, and which, it would seem from its index, was intended to be included in the work ? Again : why speak of them as suppressed, when all the speeches' which I made during the war, to rouse and ani mate the country to the defence of its rightsjand honor, and to sustain the burden and privations of the war with fortitude, and which are now unani mously applauded, are in the saure predicament, except one? Are they, 'too, suppressed, or de signedly concealed ? Why, indeed, should I attempt to conceal them, or any of my early speeches not contained in the volume even those which contain opinions dif- Lferent frora.4hoee Lnw-eatertam What is there about hem..that'-I,jshcaild repudiate them? Dp lhey:iiot .breathe lofty, sentiments, iind devoted at tachment to the country, "and -evince 'foresight ariiel firmness? 'Were they not applauded by the JxepUDiican party at trie time' And are tnev not-naw eulogized by you and othef political - op ponents? Why, then, should I bo asharrfrd of them, ox cast them' away, because they -contain o'pinrons'in'several particulars which now, after morelhan a quarter of a century I do notar proye?-T' Should I be ashamed to acknowledge that I have lived to improve, and hare had the sense to sec cc the. firmness to correct early errors ? i ? rSO.J l. amiar irorn repuuiauug inesse my more ybuthfu l'effo its. " Their very errors lean to the side-of the' country:, "'They belong.to the time's, and grew'.out 'i ardent feclings of patriotism. Thedangervich then threatened the country yas from abroad. The overthrow of Napoleon was 'fol towed by a combination of the great so y:. hip'reigrrs of Europe, c -HecF the Hgly . Alliance. Its objecf vvas hostile to popular Governments, ancLjt threatened to turn its power against this con tinent, in ordr to suppress the free States" "which had'sprung out of the old Span isn. .possessions. There was then no knowing itwhatraoment we mightbe involved in a contests rrno re i. "terrific thanv thatuhfeh. had jusP tetrrrinateii ''It was in -.this state ot things 'ihat- Congress? was called on tO?;settle the peace estaUislinJent, on the termination of the late war with' England. My attention was intently turned to .whaI believed to be the point bf-danger ;"and I was anxious td put the country in a condition to meet whatever miht come. The opinions I expressed in reference to manufactures, internal improvements, and a per manent system of revenue, kept constantly in view my leading object preparation for defence; as much so as what I then said in reference to the army, the military academy, and the navy, as the speeches themselves show. The danger from without fortunately passed away, and that from within began to disclose itself. I was not slow to see the strong tendency the Government was taking towards consolidation, and that many of the means which I had regard ed as necessary to defend against external danger, contributed not a little to increase the danger with in. That led to a re-investigation, and that to the modification or change of opinion which took place. . So far from casting away, or desiring to conceal or keep out of view my early speeches, I have long intended to collect and publish them. I see you promise to publish freely from them. You cannot do me a greater favor, and I hope you will not halt till you have republished all. I was so careless as to neglect to preserve copies of my speeches or other publications prior to my election as Vice President. Since then, I have been more careful. Your republication will give me copies in a much more convenient form than that of manuscripts, and save me much time and trouble in collecting, and some little expense for copying. I shall preserve carefully the two contained in the Intelligencer sent by my friend,-and I shall take care to get such others as you may publish. Let me, in conclusion, say. I wish you to under stand that I make no complaint. So far from it I feel rather obliged to you than otherwise. Be your motives what they may, you have afforded me an opportunity of giving an explanation made necessary by the awkward manner in which the volume has been introduced to the' public, and in which I have been compelled to state much that ought to have appeared in a preface, to the volume. With respect, I am, &c. - J. C. CALHOUN. QUESTIONS WHICH WORKING .MEN SHOULD REQUIRE THE WHIGS TO ANSWER. In what manner do you propose to benefit us by the establishment of a United States Bank? Is not icealth produced by labor 1 If wealth is produced by labor, do you pro pose to give laborers more wealth than they can j ""i i i -r . proa ice Dy uieir own uiooi t If you do, what do you expect will produce this wealth, which you propose to give to laborers, over and above what they themselves earn or produce? Will it be produced by the bankrupt .pecula tors who go round the country, and talk, with tears in their e-j-cs about the " wages cf labor?" Will it be produced by the bankers, the brok ers, the speculators in corner lots, the idlers, dandies, and'purse proud nabobs, without whose aid the whig party would .not hold together a week ? r" " If it will not be produced by these persons, who tcilt produce the wcaTt!,you propose to give us7 oVer and above oil r'own earn hi gs?" ' . If you do not confer uporf us wealth which we do not produce, by our own labor, are not all your P cleusionsot special favor and regard lor labor- crs a detestable and contemptible humbug, adopt ed only to impose upon our imagined want ol m telligt nee? Is not a National Bank a scheme by which a FEW men can live WITHOUT LABOR up, on tho earnings of the MANY ? Is not a National Bank owned and controlled by a FEW? O Does not that few have powpr to make paper money plenty or scarce at will ? Cannot they make prices high by the issue of an unusual quantity of their pnp. r money, or make prics low by withdrawing from circulation that which is already issued ? Cannot those who own and control a National Bank, with their particular friends, in all the cities and villages of the Union, EUY, when they have made prices LOW, and SELL when by a larger issue of paper, thej' have made prices HIGH? - Are the farmers, and mechanics, and the labor ers, ever in the secret, so that they, too, can know precisely when to buy and when to sell? If not, then does not a National Bank give to a FEW the POWER to accumulate without labor, a portion of the wealth earned by those who do labor ? And is not this the essential and odious princ pie of ihe monarchies and Aristocracies of Europe? Would the feio nobles and lords give a r ti iarin ing of thpir hereditary titles n'nd distinctions,"if they did not confer the powr to appropriate to themselves, without labor, a portion of the earn ings of the mass ? .,.; These are the Questions to which every laborer should have a full and satisfactory answer before 7 , i . . . .i . - i ,ii ,i of ha ehoiilrl ir,ntnnt tn " rrn thp tirlpt mat IS l() 11 ilLJVUm v-vnv im ...vj " -. - nlacethis vromisinsr gentry in power.' Remember that right and privileges on:e voted area not be reclaimed except at the-, cost of blc PnwM npvpr vnl nnf a ri 1 rel infiu ishfs its rrrasnl'!. i and the" nowertcf c6ntrol 4heVrek.urces,3fialabQf;the'eessive liidalgwicf in-trrar.rd5ser appetites of the nation, if once placed in hands of a fei mustsoflfrr lead to decayVand notronly repress the when its- ramifications are extended through aTH virtues, but impede the highest -growth of the m clases of society, could only be eradicated by-a tellcctual " powwrj. tie is thereiore habitually a violent convulsion which would shake our "re-; water drinker,IthougFfrno member of a temper public from its centre to itsircumference. ance society, -and any thing, apparently, but little Chicago j)nmoerak regardful of the quality of his food, providing it is . - ' tv.holesome. "Atravellex once visitetl him at his WnZr, .f -TrVr'A oTfTT- iaTmrfor n feve- days. Soon after his arrival-he t it. fnalKSvVWS Invited in to dinner, whickVfonsisted of bacon 'Phis rrenfrprnnn .nvstlio I. Y Kveninr 1 OStY . . . -- ... again maid's his appearance befd re the public . m t - j 4 a letter published in one ot the l-'hrtadelplpfl pers. It very strangely relates to grouners-spon which suits .may be maintained, jo "corapjeL the States to pay their debts. If he could tell-fOfne mode by which bankrupt corporations irrighfcibe made to pay the widows and orphans whose pto perty they have squandered, the information would doubtless afford jnuch satisfaction to mahj, suffer? I .Yhitdjowing are tempts to maintain, an an unsuccesstui attempt nas lately - . i bring therarto the notice of the jforeign ! XHift bwlders: . , " 1st, That by the!! Constitution of the UJ States, there is created a tribunal wholly indep:endehtTof th.e-States to decide all questions betweea Penn sylvania and any other-foreign State. ... r..w 2d- That beforelhat tribunal, judgment. can be- outamea lor every aonar oi principal anu ijiiefcai of these Pennsylvania bonds, and thatall th pro perty of the State can be seized and eold to satisfy the positions which lie: af--sgrace f-" wors wiin uieir uanu, yn , 1.1, 1 nt.lmnfrm.itmn." mn C 1 ri T 1 1 r- nrT nnil nVPIl I that judgment, just 'as if : it leloge4 to' the hum blest citizen and " " w " '"v""- - 3d. That all the other twehty-fitfD States are bound to carry into, execution by arms, if neces sary the judgment of that tribunal against Penn sylvania. ' The following paragraph closes the letter, and comes with peculiar modesty from the late Presi dent of the United States Bank: "I need not say that in all this I have not a particle of personal interest not owning a dollar of this defy, to pay which I am to be taxed. But I am not the less anxious on that account for its payment. It grieves me to see that the great cause of free institutions tarnishedHDy the miscon duct of Pennsylvania. It pains me to find our ancient commonwealth thus dishonored nor. with ; the blessing of God, shall I, while I have life, ! cease mv Door efforts to rescue her from the shame ! and degradation to which her present career is hastening her. N.- BIDDLE."- REPUBLICAN SIMPLICITY. We have taken much pleasure m the of the subjoined sketch of the home, and manner I r.Zln ThnnS Tnh 8tate8.J.n .Jobnf C" j Calhoun. Though we have a political prefer-, ence for another to fill the highest office m the . t: ztzrx c irn:: tje.; r i j u vi- y"'v" admire the republican simplicity and unacted j manners which characterize the man. We dis ike n , i . ,...1WM, U1JU ca-j would have our r -v I'- --w uvivvj inj. f 1 " great men uisiinguisnea not : j . i i i by st.1T dignity and cold indifference to the habits Frjcnds ? nnd. when the People could not be dis of feeling and occupations cf WMMsnadrfmtrti the Governor's Promise of but by that ease grneros.ty and natural dignity, .ivi them a hearing, they were told, -that no which maiked the tathcr of our country-winch j ietition could or would g6 down with the Gov al ways attends true mngnanim.ty. I here is far rrnor but such an one a t, the Qm & too little of thi, kind of greatness among us. He haJ wrote for th fn whi0ti ' they mnde hcn alone is worthy to represent or govern a people, i Mtr ,hit t W hnJ ,,,. ,ua a w nu iius ;i iieaii ie it-ei ier ana sympainize witn the nirtss in their every day walks! Haughtinr ss, formality-, and exclusiventss mark the little soul. t-... " , ,i: ,,: . l . i uul "o , iieiHiriauve. Mime Saco) Dcnorrat. John C. Calhoun. The New York Morning j Post, in a biographical sketch of Mr. Calhoun, j givs some traits of the personal characte r of the distinguisiied Carolinian, winch we eto not ncol-; ; . ilia to have belore seen noticed. It is said that he . never visited the north since he was a law i student at Litchfield, in Connecticut; nor has be j ever been in the west. . From Washington, im-1 mediately at the close of every Congress, he bur- j ries to his home, under the mountains of South ! Carolina, anu mere uevoies nimseii lo nis urm and his -family, r, I- n is umiieu iortune is the reasons he lives. assigned lor the seclusion 111 t a unc ii which ' lu early life, his property lay in the middle and ing to the Governor, Council, and Assembly, for more fertile region of South Carolina, where it ; redressing very Giicvous, Cruel, Iniquitous and was impossible for him to raise his family on ac- j oppressive practices of our Officers, which we count of its sickliness ; and the habits of the coin-; generally conceive we have laboured under for munity rendered large expenditures in living, to 1 many Years contra ry to Law." one of liis.personal distinction, almost unavoidable. ! And ifi pursuance of a Verbal Message from Intent on managing his own affairs, and reaiingUhe Governor, delivered tousby his Secrehiry, on his children under his own eye in habits cf frugal-' the third of this instant, we agree to renew our it y and virtue, he sold his lands in Abbeville Dis- said Petition. tiict, and removed up to the healthy farming lands j For this purpose the Regulators chose from a- ol i'lnduton. tleru ho built his home: and n a- ny one wishes to know the secret of his wonder-; for the Purposes of "laying their Complaints bc ful administration in the T-ar department whilst fore the Governor &c, which Committee they in Secrctary of Wnr. let him go with Mr. Calhoun structed as follows, viz. -Being conscious ofour round his farm. None, however, but an enthusi-j loyalty to King George, the third, on the pres ast in relation to cattle-, bees, poultry, corn, &c.v! cut Thronp, nnd of our firm Attachment to the with a pair of well-trained legs.under him, should ; present establishment, and form ef Government, to attempt the e-nterprise. With his long stick in ; which we sincerely believe all our Grievances are hand, and strides as long, he moves ahead, talking ; quite opposite and contrary ; We order the above all the time, now on a beautiful theory of agricul-: mentioned Committee to implore thejGovernor's hire, then on a practical result down in the corn-! Pardon and Forgiveness, in the most submissive flc Id, up cn a cotton hill, round the potatoe patch, 'Manner, for any errors we may have committed, through the rye lot here is a bubling spring : that are or may be constituted to derogate, in any there a prospect turn the bull into the pasture, ; way, from the'llonor of his Majesty's Crown and hallo to the poultry-woman, see to the grafts on ; Dignity, or as tending to obstruct the Peace and the apple trees, hive those bees. If a hapless ne- good oider of Government." ophite in these agricultural operations is left any They also order their Committee to present his sense, after five or six hours of hard driving he j will decline further courtesy, and take the short est cut home. Or mount horses' with him. he al ways insist on taking the hardest going, and see' his marvellous endurance of pummelling, under a! the Petition of the suffering People, and a Histo hard jog-trot, without apparently feeling its dislo- j ry of their Conduct thro' the whole of their strug cations whilst prying round and round, he gives ! g'le- that he might JudgeJbr himself, whether or directions, hastens operations and scours over the not they were suclwis they had been represented whole farm, talking and acting as if he had never thought of, or practiced any thing else but the busi ness of a farmer. It has been by such attention and industry, that he has established the reputation of being the most practical and successful farmer Jin the upper country, and at the same time has - i . ,r ,, , . , , . ., ., supnortea wen. and cuueaica nis Kimiiy. ijite Pericles, he h as never increased nor diminished ; his fortune. The gold mine of which so much nas Dcen said in tne papers ne Decame possesseu ; of by an act of parental kindness. H is son bought 1 l - f -v In.t.ln n - iltonn i iin fv rp mo!.'inv llir.n ' i ,i (ru-.u 4- Lble, the father took them off his hands. f ' - rohta-1 His style of living is as plawi as ossiblelK Al- -, ...... ,n I n andits usual accompaniments of. vegetables, white com bread: and beautiful butter.. 1 ou see, ne observed, "I am.no epicure; indeed, I am a bar bariaril according to'lhe theory of civilizrtion by VomeFfiFncli phiIosophers,"that it consists in what twe eat.".-But to morroV, for your sake, we will ejo better." .Accordingly the next-day brought a sumptuous feasu.i-vv No di$gra "to labor: -Those who deem it a Id re- easures one, ahd first took to sl'udyYrom being confined in his room, by the fall ol a cleaver; that Marshall iNey was the son of a coopeTrthat Roger Sherman Allan Cunningham and Gifford, were shoemak ers; that sir Win. Herschell was a fifer boy; Franklin, a printer's rjevil ; Ferguson, a shep herd ; Ben Johnson, a bricklayer ; Gen. Green, a blacksmith; Gen. Morgan, a wagoner;. Burns, a doughboy; Bloomfield,-a! farmer ; and Frazcr, a tone cutter. y, may inougn no acetic, m; nas noi laiietr ie- pijjcisi v-r t-c -j iuu.i u,nrin iu-.aji, .u,. -.xi itiyy io'dshed that for the mosLeifficie jpftrking afl. i.i nient of thcaiuwdue-bddymtfttDlecreu : ana "uiscrcei Kanping was wnni 10 asseri-incy j' v. : .1. . t i- i .,cVl member that Aikenside. the author ol " PJ incTi m.-inA-in lh luiuunuiwiw .iriw.i . - - - - - - - A. FAX FOR FANNING, AND A TOUCH-STONE TO TRYON, CONTAINING An Impartial Account of the Rise and Progress of the much talked of Regulation in North Carolina. rt . v ; -Na vr. ; -:' . A man governed by Passion is a plague iq h i -self, a trouble to'his Friends, and in injury to his Dependents ; and "this" seems to have been the Case of Gov. Tryon. . When 'the Regulators were almost at his Door, he sends his Secretary with a Message to them. This put his Friend Fanning to the trouble, when no apparent Dan ger was near, to persuade him to deny his Mes- which he did ; and this injured the People For thev put confidence in of Orange much. the Governor tho' a Man, and Dependence on 'his Word, and hoped they should be delivered ; ! hut by the denial, all their Calamities stared them m the Face, with new force. The Governor having deny'd his Message, the Excellency clean of a Falsehood: This they cou,d not accomplisn E0 easiI ; as had bro ,ft the Charge upon him; for HudVeus had heard the xMessage ; and therefore .Governor or his Secretary had said that whlf they were' unwil- i? say a?ain ; w. t?r one of them, hnd said that, which they, together with all 'their Friend strenuousy d rrpeatedly deny'd. he u i r i K .. , l cimjic iuuuu ii lut-n luiuresu to Keep nis xiixcei Jcncy to his Word; therefore t hey ns sted inuc e on it, this produced " Preaching, Writing, .Ha r nrn.Mf,;nfT: (i,a c;.u nf .t,u nn,.n, a u;. cn them ; but had now found it was owing to some mistake or Defect in their, the Peonies proceed , ings. They were also told, that if they persisted. Col. Fanning would represent their Case to the Col panning would represent their Case to Governor as hih Treason, anrl not Hint Thus went on their Affairs until t)e 21st Day of May, the Day appointed by the People for Meeting. Jo form an Address and Petition to the Governor : on which, when tho Inhabitants of Orange me t, a party of the Goveinors Friends rarne with ifpsJmi tn crivp rii'5iiirK.ino tn nn-tr.ro. vent the pxplc from doing any thing; and, Alas for the Tribe of Levi. a Clergyman, in black, cnvie also. They ren'dei'd the Business of the People, as they say, "exceeding unpleasant:" not- withstanding which, they had resolution enough . . . . 1 . I' ll 1 . " . iu tome iiuo uie: lonowing 'igreement, viz. "At a general Meeting, &c, It was agreed unanimously I to continue our Petition agreed on at our last Mect- mnnir i irmsp n-s Kir j h Excellency with Copies cf all their proceedings from the beginning, for c:his better information ;" which order the said Committee executed accord ingly: and in June waited on the Governor with by ,tpol. Jr anning; and . whether their Conduct was, as has been suggested by the Officers, "high I reason. ' ' They also order'd thec Committee to ans'wer a Letter tfyey had reiieiveid fronvAnson Cdunty;" which contained a request, that the Peoale of Orange would inform them of the manner oflheir proceeding ;" as they, of Anson Conntf, wereTihi like situation, as thev aonrelierided -with ithe i JNcjghbors ol U'range- I his -Crrcmnstance is mentioned, foi.Jhjc sake of the tReaspn.the.Rec.U'! utois rive for their takin? notice df the said Let ter : which "wast - " We ordSr a Cdbu of this (viz their Petition) to s sent iQheptppnvie2iatelyt id never would have been so solicitous to prevent Errors in the Conduct of the Inhabitants of An son. The truth is ,' they were sensible they had, thro' -ihe Novelty of their undertaking, hsthev say lhern,st'lves, .dor'e.ihings that were not jiisfifi:f- ble: therefore theyf :irapIofe the Governors PAr .don andfFor,givcne;ss, itilhe mostsubrhissivfs JIan-( ner :" And thesy af-e anxious for '"iheTrPepple of Anson County lest they also, from the same Cans?, fall into the sarhe'Errors ; 'like good Citizens, and Friends to just Government. They do all they can to preserve Peace, whije they -en Jeavour to do themselves Justice. The aforementioned Com mittee of the People -presented according to the Instruction, the Petition, &c, to his Excellency Gov. Tryon, and received a long Letter in Answer to their Address from him ; which I shall give verbatim, that all may see a Scetch of the Political Picture "tif the "Magnanimous General Tryon." , Gentlemen, "I Rkcteived by the Hand3 of Messrs. Hun ter &, Howel a Petition, and other Papers, sub scribed by several of the Inhabitants of the South side of Haw. River, in the County of Orange, under the bcTrrqjyed Title of Regulators, assuming to themselves Power and Authorities (unknown to the Constitution) of calling publick Officers to arsettlemept,' together with a Narrative bf their Conduct, and detail cf the Grievances and Com plaints against the Clerk of the County Register, and other publick Officers, whos Exactions and Oppressions its pretended have been the Cause of the late insurrections which have disturbed tW Peace of that Part of the County."- "These Papers I have," agreable to your De sire, communicated to the Members of his Majes ty's Council, who having taken the same inte their deliberate Consideration, Unanimously con cur with Me in Opinion, that the Grievances com p: li.i'd of, do by no means Warrant the extraor dinary steps you have taken, in assembling your ? elves together in Arms, to the Obstruction of the Course of Justice, (he should hare said, Injustice and to the injury of private Property ; Measures, as they manifestly tend to the subversion of the Constitution of this Government, would inevita bly if carried but a little further, have been de nominated, and must have been treated as high! Treason, and consequently have involved tho Ab bettors, most ol whom I am satisfied were actuat ed by honest Motives, tho' incautiously drawn iri to concur in Acts that might have terminated irt the Ruin and Destruction of other Families, while by illegal Means they are intent upon exempting, themselves from Evils, within the Remedy of Laws of their Country." ' 'These Calamities, I trust, are how removed! by the Timely Proclamation I sent up to you by my Secretary, and your, own prudent dete'rmina' tion to' Petition me in Council for a Redress of the Grievances complain'd of" The discreet and steady Behaviour of Col. Fanning, and the Offi cers and Men under his Command, met not only with the entire Approbation of mvself. and his !"t Majesty's Council, but will ever be aeknowlcdg- 1.U mm gi Jiuuuc uy c 1 1-1 y w tu-wisiier lO UllJ Province. I take this opportunity to acquaint all thrsa whose understandings have been run away whir; and whose Passions have been led in Captivity by some evil designing Men, who, actuated by Cowaidice and a sense of that publick Justicd which is due to their Crimes, hare obscured them selves from publick View: That in Considera tion of a Determination to abide by my Dccissiorf in Council; it is my Direction, by the unanimous Advice of that Board, that j'ou do, from hencefor ward, di sist from any Amber Meetings, either by Verbal appointment or Adveitisemcnr. That ail Titles of Regulators or Associalors cer.se among you. That the. Sheriff and other Officers of the, Government are permitted, without. molestation; to execute the Duties of tin ir respective Offici t; And that all breaches of the Peace against his Majesty's Government, may be determined ah J examined in a due course of Law. "It is by your strict and punctual attherence Id these Directions, that any farther Clemency, off My Part, may be looked for." "This was the extent of what I auih6rize-d Mr. Edwards to declare on my behalf. And now; that I have signified to you, the sense his Majes ty's Council entertain of the nature of your Pro ceedings, and the Requisition I. point out, by their Advice, for your future Conduct: I am to assure you, willing as I am to listen to the Voice of Dis tress, the just Complaints of his Majesty's Sub-' jeefs, and the hardships they may groan under" that I shall give his Majesty's Attorney Genera F oiders to Pi of rente every .Officer, who has becrf guilty ofExtortton or illegal Practices in his Oft fice, upon any Application or Information. lodged with him by the Parties injured, or any other that' shall be authorised to prosecute on their Bohalf. As also set up' a Proclamation art my arrival af Hillsborough, forbidding, all such dishonorable and ille gal proceedings." "You may further depend upon it, I shall at alf Time's, endeavour to rediess every other Griev ' ance in my i'ower, that his Majesty's Subjecii may labour quaer. ' "As you want to be srti?fied what is the amount of the: Tax for the publick Service for 1767, f am to inform yonit is Seve n shillings a Taxable, besides the County and-Parish Taxes, the partial' lars of which I will give lo Mr. Hunter." "I have only tofadd, I shall be up at Hillsbo rough the beginning of next Month. In the" mean time 1 rest in full Confidence I shall ngnifr ' be made happy, by see ing industry prevailing over fiction, and Peace and Harmony triumphing ovef' Jealousies and Murmiirings, in u .Soil and Clinir ate the most fertitile - in the World, and among a People, who by a well directed industry, maf draw down Blessings and Prosperity to their Families, and greatly contribute to the Honour of. his Majesty's1 Government, and the Happiness of my Administiation." , -WILLIAM TYRQNv -.- At theCouncil Chamber, -Brunswick, 21 of June 17G3. Many things in this Letter a re worthy of noticeT which may perhaps be the Business of a future' Number, for the 'present the Office of Ciitick i 1 4 left to Phocions Fri'end-, who has great Opportu nity-' given mm of nisRing the ScclclK'd Picture 1 ot the excellent letter- w riter. (To be continued. - - . - - . - 2 - ' A Natioxai Ba'k!-V Itil mqnstFOiis,' sakf Lord J3roughanVwbf it h dfjfs T man "or.-body .o-men:' corporate jor "otherwise-'' should have-the powerof 'thaking.money-cheap ordear, at Avill : of :oml5ih1rig ihe office of regii lator of national currency with that of banker j that they should be.boiri the morrey makers anef ' the mone y dealers; that they should have the pri-' vih gc at any one p?riod of inundating the country . with an immense.amount of paper currency, there' by stimulating speculation as well as trade, rais" ing prices, wages and profits, and at another period drawirrg in their rags, screwing up all lc gitimate sources of credit, as well a3 capitalanef thereby lowering prices and wages, and diminish-" ia-g' profits, producing a stagnation of "trade, ruin- ing merchants and manufacturers by the hundred, and spreading misery and wretchedness amonr thousands.'! Tobacco itclllinois. Two or three years since, a sort of a mania prevailed, about some parts of Rock river, for .the culture of lobacco. ; Many who knew nothing of the business rushed into if, to the neglect of all other crops ; and the.result was that ignorance of it3 culture lost them the year's work. Those who had patience to try it by degrees, succeeded another season; and one ffrrn from Winnebago county ha3 just shipped to New York thirty-six tons ; being the produce of a very limited section, and cultivated in small patches of an'acre or two. For this they will re-' alize some four thousand dollars. This, added ley ihe wealth of a neighborhood, is something, these hard times j and this same lot of Tobacco would have been worth one quarter more, had the pro ducers, all of them, perfectly understood its culturaf nnd cure. Prairia Farmer.- V 1 i I I I' i i! i
The Weekly Standard (Raleigh, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Aug. 16, 1843, edition 1
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