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PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY ThB CONSTITUTION AND THE XJJilON OK TIIR STATES TUEY "MrST BE PRESERVED." .,. .. . VOLUME X. -NUMBER 469. ' . " . T E R ill s a 3 . PER A. I i 5J m , PA YABL E I AT AD VAJVCE. : IlilIAill W. nOLDElV, EDITOR AJVD PROPRIETOR. RALEIGH, IV. C, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1843. 2 TERMS. the NORTH CAROLINA STANDARD IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY, AT THREE DOLLARS PER ANNUM, IN AD VANCE. who remit bv Mail (postage ptid) Five TknCP D 1 3 l"0- v i i;ti t . rorpint for Si Dollars. p jarg, Will ua cu r ' r two years subscription to the Standard one copjr two years, or two copies uU6J.. ro,rtir copies, $10 00 " 20 00 85 00 .... : . J i the fame rate for six months. nv person procuring and forwarding five subscribers, ith tbe cash ($15), will be entitled to the Standard Hfreeof charge. - .ebXisements, not exceeding.rre lines, will be inserted one time for One Dollar, and twenty-five cents for each subsequent insertion ; those of greater lu'th. in proportion. Court Orders and Judicial Ad Jisenimts will be charged twenty-five per cent i Uer than the above rates. A deduction of S3 1-3 "! .... i . .1 i j 1... lU. cent, will be made to those who advertise by the fL,z-if tvo nnmSor nf insertions be not marked per V'W- on them, they will be continued until ordered out. Leters io the Editor must comeree of postage, or they may not be attended lo. Saturday, October 21, 1843. For the North Carolina Standard jo the Freemen of ttortli Carolina. (No. S.) Fellow Citizens : We stated in our last, that Mr. Clay had asserted in the Senate of the United States in 1842, that the average expenditures of the 4vears of Mr. Van Buren's Administration was 3.3 millionsof dollars. This we contradicted and rrferred you to Secretary E wing's Report In page 25 of that document you m.iy find, that so far from Mr. Clay's being sustained, that the yearly aver age is something like S millions less. How of ten have you heard it asserted, and that by men who ought to know better, that the public debt in the last Administration from the issue of Treasury cotes alone was upwards of20 millions of dollars, when Vie fact and truth is that the very law which authorized Congress to issue the notes, at thesame time contained an express provision that there should be at no time, a greater indebtedness crea- toilbv such emissions, than 10 millions of dollars. What ought to be thought of the leading men ofci of forlh Carolina to General Washington, the party who would deliberately make such un- j anJ lne rtpy 0f ihat great man. Both letters supported charges ? Either that they have asser-: breathfv the spirit of a pure and unadulterated pat t:.l that to us true which they Knew to be false, or j r;ol;Sfrij audit is refreshing, especially in these that they have asserted a thing as true not know- ;(egCnerate times, to strike upon a vein of thought ing whether it was trueor false. The first assertion an, S(.nijment so rich, so noble, and so captivat wc do not make, it would be wrong so to charge ; 1 but in the latter we. are sustained by the facts, and j alt'iong1) wc do notchargfl them with uttering a! AR515ESfe Usehood, we will fcfJr, them to higher authority ' Of the Governor and Council of North Carolina, in fthics. to a Paleynl Wyj md, who do. j to his excellency General Washington. We have said. Fellow Citizens, that the Whig ' To his Excellency George Washington, Esq. party promised economy, and gave us extrav-i- gave. In making a comparison of the two Ad j of the former Administration. Secretary Ewing, a WThig Secretary, ( mark that), in a call made on him by Congress, gives the appropriations and expenditures for each year, from 1339 down to 1810, inclusive. For 1839 the actual expenditures were something less than 25 1-2 millions; in 1839, they were a little more than 22 1-3 millions. Now with this compare the Annual Report made by the Whig Secretary in 1812, and you will find that for 1840 they were a little more than 21 1-3 millions, and that for 1842, (js near as could be ascertained at the time the Rrport was made), 25.2-3 millions, making a dif ference in favor of the former Republican Admin istration in two years, r.f more than $30 millions of dollars. Now we, again seriously ask what ought to be thought of the leaders of a party, of Gcilleme.i, who in the face of all this, still con thine to cry out extravagance? Were the Repub lican party disposed to retort upon " all the decen cy," the coarse and vulgar abuse which has been henped upon them, they might in their turn apply an epithet " which hard usage has coined," and say, "take it, for it is thy due" but we will not, we cannot, like them "stoop to conquer." Extravagance did we say? Yes, Fellow-Citizens, profuse and wasteful extravagance, and that too, after they had rode into power by denouncing - Who is triere in North-Carolina, that does not recollect that extravagance was the burthen of their sonr? Who has forgotten that Gov. More head while canvassing the State, harped upon that and almost nothing elsel That he spoke of the princely style in which the palace was furnished, of the massive chandeliers, of the gold spoons, of the French bedsteads, of the English carriage, of the servants in livery; stating that extravagance reigned within and without, from the drawing room down to the cellar; for, if we mistake not, his Excellency even dabbled among the dishes. soap and to els. Who of you that heard him, does not recollect that he told the people that the "log cabin President" when he entered the palace, would stand back with looks of amazement? Now what was the truth? It was not ten days after President Harrison was installed into office, before a Committee was appointed by the Whigs, whose duty it was made to visit the Palace, and to report to Congress whether it required any addi tional furniture. This whig Committee reported that, so far from abounding in all these fine things, that it actually required 88,000 to make the Palace comfortable for even a'log cabin President.' If this was not a fact of such notoriety ,we should be afaid to utter it ; but it is so, and they will not deny it. -t- ... A tt nri srivV Yis nrnlnsp mImv.1 .cixiravawaii-o j , t gance. The President dies within about one m'n; rations we are necessarily restricted to the round you horn all quarters, we, the governor v,ar 1311 and 1842. With these we will com- !nrl council of tl,.-State North Carolina beg l,ave , , , i to offer ours, with equal sincerity and fervency, 1 R?0 on: 1Ri.fl l ipl'.i-n List vpnrs ' . . . . j ' mi i iiiiu jiui iw.... j 'with an month after he was inducted into office, leaving his children all grownup and provided for, and an estate which we have been candidly informed was worth over 8100,000, He was entitled by law, to only one month's salary, for he in truth per formed but one month's service ; yet they gave his rich widow the enormous sum of $25,000 ! Now, Fellow-Citizens, we ask you, do you be lieve that if it had been your widow, or the widow of the humble individual who addresses you, that out Families would have got so much as the scrap ings of your nail?, over andabove theirproportion; ate remuneration? No, they would have replied to the plaintive cries and entreaties of your widow and children, as they tauntingly did to Mr. Van Buren when he was recalled from the Court of St. James, " Root little pig or die." And why would they have been thus treated. Are not our families as respectable as the widow and family of Gen, Harrison t They are rriore humble, we grant you, and this very humility of their condi tion would have prevented their being the recipi ents of Whig bounty. Now was this right in principle; where, we ask, did they derive the pow er to make the appropriation to give away the money of the people? It is no justification to say that other Administrations have done so ; usage however long never justifies error. Yours, we ex pect, is not a government of precedent but of writ ten law. It was said that the amount divided was small, and therefore, that the Republican Party should not have complained. We admit that the amount to each man was small. It is the principle we assail. Let it once be established, and where will it end? It will become the entering wedge of the British civil pension system, which has ground down into dust the poor of that country. And un less we meet it at the threshhold, we may be made to feel its effects in these United States. A WESTERN FARMER. INTERESTING CORRESPONDENCE. Wc find, in an old number of the " American Museum," printed by Mathew Carey in 1789, jthe following Address of the Governor and Coun- President of the United Slates. Sir : Amidst the congratulations, which sur- v wnicn can oe presen this State be not a member of the Union, under the new form of government, we look forward, with pleasing hope of its shortly becoming such ; and, in the mean time, consider ourselves bound in a common interest and affection, with the other States, waiting only for the happy - event of such alterations to be proposed, as will remove the ap prehensions of many of the good citizens of this State, for those liberties, for which they have fouo-ht and suffered, in common with others. This happy event, we doubt not, will be accele rated by your excellency s appointment to the first office in the Union ; since we are well assur ed, that the same greatness of mind, which in all scenes has so eminently characte.rised your excel- lency, will induce you to advise every measure, 1 calculated to compose party aivisions, ana 10 nnate any animosity, that may be excited by a mere dif ference in opinion. Your excellency will con sider (however others may forget) how extremely "-1 .! I.I.I difficult it is to units all the people of a great coun try in one common sentiment, upon almost any political subject, much more upon a new form of government, materially different from one they have been accustomed to ; and will therefrjre rather be disposed to rejoite, that so much has been effec ted, than regret, that more could not all at once accomplished. We sincerely believe, America is the only country in the world, where such a deli berate change of government could take place, under any circumstances whatever. We hope, your excellency will pardon the lib erty wc take, "in writing so particularly on this subject: but this State, however it may differ in any political opinions from the other States, cor dially joins with them, in sentiments of the utmost gratitude and veneration, for those distinguished talents, rind thatJUustrious virtue, which we feel a pride in saying we believe, under God, have bet n the principal means of preserving the liber ty, and procuring the independenceof your country. We cannot he lp considering you, sir, in some measure, as the father of it ; and hope to exper ience the good effect of that confidence youso justly have acquired, in an abatement of the party spirit, which so much endangers a Union, on which the safety and happiness of America can alone be founded. May that Uuion, at a short distance of time-, be as perfect, and more safe than ' ever I and irt the mean while, may the State of North Caiolina be considered as it truly deserves to be, attached, with equal warmth with any State in the Union, to the interest, prosperity, and glory of America, differing only, in some parti culars, in opinion, as to the means of promoting them I SAMUEL JOHNSTON. By order and on behalf of the council, ' JAMES IREDELL, President. By order, William J. Dawson, Clerk Couneil. May 10, 1789. - ANSWER. Gentlemen: It was scarcely possible for any ad.'lrrcs tn fin-TP 0"ivpn m A trrMtpr nlpficn po tlian that wnicn i navejusi receiveairom you : because . . i Mi 1 r ' , !i consider it not only demonstrative of your ap probation of my conduct in accepting the first of! fcce in the Union, put also indicative of the good dispositions of the citizeus of your State, towards their sister States, and the probability of theirspeedi Iy acceding to the new general government. ; In justification of the opinion, which you are pleased to express, of my readiness, i"to advise every measure, calculated to compose party divi sions, and to abate any animosity that may be ex cited by mere difference of opinion. " I take th liberty of referring you to the sentiments commu-J nicated by me to the two house of Congress. Un this occasion, I am likewise happy in being able to add the strongest assurances, that I entertain a well grounded expectation, that nothing will be wanting, on the part of the different branches of the general government, to render the Union," as perfect, and more safe, than ever it has been." A difference of opinion, on political point3, is not to be imputed to freemen, as a fault; since it is to be presumed that they are all "actuated by an equally laudable and sacred regard for the liberties of their couritry. If the mind is so formed in different persons, as to consider the same object to be somewhat different in its nVure and consequences, as it happens to be place-d in different points of view ; and if the oldest, the ablest, and the most virtuous statesmen have often differed in judgment, as to the best forms of gov ernment we ought, indeed, rather to rojoice, that so much has been effected, than to regret, that more could not, all at once, be accomplished. Gratified by the favourable sentiments, which are evinced in your address to me, and impressed with an idea, that the citizens of your State are sincerely attached to the interest, the prosperity, and the glory of America, I most earnestly im plore the divine benediction and guidance, in the councils, which are shortly to be taken by their delegates, on a subject of the most momentous consequence, I mean the political relation, which is to subsist hereafter between the Stlte of North Carolina, and the States now in union under the new generaT government. G. WASHINGTON. New York, June 19 1789. COL JOHNSON: ' This distinguished hero and patriot was at Bos ton on the 12th inst. He was received in fine style, and welcomed to the City by Edward Cruft, Jr. Esq. in the following impressive and eloquent speech: Sir.rAs chairman of the committee of ar rangements, it is my honor and my pleasure lo ten der you, on behalf of your friends, their hospitali ty and welcome. We read in ancient history that triumphal arches honored the approach of the conqueror as he travelled from place to place ; our triumphal arch, and which we erect and ded icate to you, is the arch of gratitude gratitude for services in war, gratitude for services in peace. We, of the people, untramellcd, of our own hear ty free will and consent, would do honor to him, upon whose person are the marks that he has done something for them. Wo, the di scendants of those who fought on yonder plains. Lexington I and Hunker s Hill, would gnvt one whose whose life has been a defence and advocacy of the prin ciples there contended for. and we who would do homage to the noblest work of God an hon est man wish to take by the hand Richard M. Johnson. Miles separate us from your resi dence, sir, and one might say j'ou were a stranger here ; but no, you are no stranger; miles and dis tance are annihilated, because your known servi ces to our common country for nr-arly forty years have made us as familiar with you as if you lived amongst us. We all know that in the last war, whereTthe blows fell fastest and thickest, there was your post. We all Know that the savage chieftain fell by your hands, and our hearts leap with grati tude whe n we hear the name of the Hero of the Thames. We all remember when the attempt was made to strengthen the arm of religion by political e n actments, and the eloquence and force of Col. R. M. Johnson, which proclaimed, thus far shalt thou come and no farther ; and that throughout the country, the separation of church and state must be, and shojild be, eternal. We have not forgotten your labors, year after year, to wipe off that stain from the fair escutch eon of our institutions, that most odious of all forms of slavery, imprisonment for debt. We recog nise you as the first American who came forward in our national legislature against this barbarous prsctice, We see in you one whose labor for the soldier's widow and orphan has been such as to call down on your head the best wishes and blessings of thou sands. . - - We hail you as the friend of ihe oppressed of this and other climes. Your course in the halls of legislation has always been uniformly such that the oppressed and the friends of the oprcsscd look to you as their advocate and friend. For all these things, we would do you honor, and homage. We honor you as a friend, tried and proved; as the supporter of the corner-stone of our free in stitutions equal rights to "all. The' pious Ma hometan, in his daily prayers, is said to turn from the remotest land towards the temple of Mecca ; so do we turn for strength and support to one who has always proved himself our advocate and fnend. For the services ycu have rendered your coun try and fellow men, in the field and in the halls of legislation, we thank you. for them ; we de light to do you honor, and we welcome you 10 tne city of Boston. The Liar. It is impossible for a person who is in the habit of uttering untruths, to escape de- tection. Your character lor truth or laisenooa will be known. And what can be more humilia ting and degrading than to have, the name of a Iiarl It is so considered in all nations and with all people. It is is considered one of the meanest and most cowardly vices of which one can be guilty. The liar is always a coward. He tells lies because he is afraid to tell the truth. Newspapers Dr. Johnson, when in the full ness of years and knowledge, said, I never take up a newspaper without finding something I should have deemed it a loss not to have seen ; never without deriving from it instruction and a musement." Legacies. " The fact is, I was ruined by hav ing money left me," said the cobbler. " I only wish," observed Sam, "that some rich, enemy would try to work my destruction in that ere way. Would't I let him ! From the Chilicothe Advertiser. THE GHOST OF THE LATE NATION AL BANK. If you have a spare 'hour for reflection,' (and who is there that has not?) we will defy you to spend it better, or more, morally, than- in perusing attentively a legal document which will be found below, entitled "The Ghost of the late .National Bank." Indeed, if anj'thing would be calculated to raise up evil spirits from their dark and hid den abodes, such scenes as are there developed are calculated to do it. .The particulars of the infer nal schemes are there given, by which Nicholas Biddle, the very idol of Federalism, during his connexion with the United States Bank, aided by one John Andrews, plundered that institution, at one haul, of four hundred thousand dollars ;.and now they refuse to give any account of this infa mous pirce of swindling, on the plea that it would subject them lo a criminal prosecution. Bear it in mind, too, that this villanous system of robbery was carried on, and that the United States Bank was rotten .to the core whilst it whs yet a national trtit!tianJd 4efetr3iofrted by the State of Pennsylvania. These swindlers expected to escape detection, from the supposition that there would have been a sufficient quantity of United States'Bank notes lost and destroyed to conceal their crimes. It turned out, however, that more notes were brought to the bank for payment, than what had been entered on the books of the bank as having been issued; and this led to an investi gation and discovery of the villianous transaction, and clearly traced out one of the many robberies that had been commited by the offi.'ers of the U. States Bank on the innocent stockholders. Many of these stockholders are widows and orphans, in this country find in Europe, who are now reduc ed frmn a state of competence and comparative affluence, to bfggary, penury, and the utmost dis tress, by placing their whole means in this cor rupt institution. -Yet these arrant knaves, thrsi vipers on our social system, thes ? rorruptors of morality, who -have left a moral pestilence, fam ine, and misery behind them, are permitted to run at large, and even, to figure in fashionabl society. It was but a few weeks since, that we noticed in the Scioto.Gazette of this place, a long letter said to be written by .this same Whig financier, Nicholas Biddle, (better known cs ' Old Nick,") on the subject of repudiation, forsooth; and. if we mistake-not, it was spoken of in high terms by that Fe-deral sheet. If the Gazette has any idea of atoning for such an outrage on the decencies of civilized society, wc would recommend it to copy the present document into its columns. You will find, however, that the Gazette will do its' best to keep its readers in the dark, m regard to these bank villanies. How could such costly marble bank palaces be erected, and furnished e qual to those of prince?, unless these bankers used their privilege of robbing the community ? This is only one instance among thousands. Yet, this one smgie rouoery is jor a sum greater uinn jour i ii . . i j- hundred working men could realize their la bor in a whole lifetime! When the Federal leaders talk to you about Henry Clay and a na tional baiik," remind them of these these things. ,-" -' ....!...-. .. .. ....... hrmret nr,,l nnt , MfH.r,!. ,1 ih n.rrrn. cy in the world" while it was a national instim- tion, Jet them know that this system of plunder was going on at that .very time till at last these j which had stood on the 29th February. 1836, at leeches sucked the monster thirlv five millions ofonc million four hundred and fiffv-six thousand dollars leaving nothing but the old dry bones of " . . its carcass behind. If Whig politicians can put a good face upon such villanies, then we will ac cord ihern the credit of being an overmatch for " Old Nick." THE GHOST OF THE NATIONAL BANK. The following iV an extract from a bill of dis covery filed in chancery against Nicholas Biddle, the ex-president of the late National Bank, in or der to discover to what purpose was applied 400.000 ! alleged lo have been takm by him and having been burnt the cashier, John Andrews. To this bill a de- And jour orators further state, that the books of murrer was put in, which we also append. The;tIu' bank contain an account of parent post-notes, principal argument seems to be. that the transac- j where any issue of post notes which had been ac tion took place, "along time ago. It wul be ! observed that the operations took place while yet it was a national bank, before it became a State institution: ;And your orators further state, that between the. 16th day of February and the 1st day of March, in the year 1836, or thereabout, tin; said John Andrew's, being such first assistant cashier as afore said, drew vaiious checks or orders en the said first teller, and received the money Irom the said first teller for the same, xtnd deiivereu some part ; or the whole of the same over lo the said Nicho las Biddle; the said checks being drawn, and the said money paid over 10 and received by the said Nicholas Biddle, by concert between the said Nicholas Biddle and the said John Andrews. And your orators further state, that the whole a-; mount of money so drawn lor anu received Dy me said John Andrews, and paid over by him, in whole or in part, to the said Nicholas Biddle, a mounted to the sum of four hundied thousand pilars, ofcthei eabout : and that the said sums of tionev. so obtained, were never applied to or ied in any legitimate business of the said bank, but on the contrary, were wasted by them, the said Nicholas Biddle and John Andrews, or ap- nlied to some uses by them, for which they can - npt claim credit against the said bank or her as- signs, and were never accounted for by them to the said bank. And your orators further charge, that the said Nicholas Biddle and John Andrews, having thus obtained the sum of four hundred thousand dol lars and upwards, did, in order to give a different aspect to the transaction, resort to sundry contriv ances, to wit : The said checks of John Andrews, commonly called cashier's vouchers, for the said sums, amounting to four hundred thousand dol- Jars, or thereabout, were (as were also all the vouchers of the same kind) retained by the. said first teller in his drawer until the day should ar rive when he should be required to account for the moneys in his hands, or under his control, be longing to the said bank, which said accountings occurred periodically ; and he entered these vouch ers in a certain cash-book kept by him, called the first teller's statement, under the head or title of sundries;" and the said Nicholas Biddle and John Andrews, in order to repossess themselves of said vouchers, caused ten notes of the Bank ofthe United States, called parent post-notes, to be exe cuted by the officers to whom the execution of such notes belonged, on the . 1st day of March, 1836; but bearing the date of the 10th &? Feb ruary, 1836, each of said notes being for the sum of forty thousand dollars, and caused them to be lenteted in a certain book of the sard bank, called "The General Parent Post Register," but under the date of the 10th of February, 1836. And your orators further charge, that tie said Nicholas Biddle and John Andrews, having pos sessed themselves of these ten post notes, delivered them to the said first teller, and took from him the said vouchers for four hundred thousand dollars, leaving these post notes as a substitute for tbe same. . . And your orators further state, that on or about the 1st of March, 183G, (that being the next ac counting day of the first teller,) the' said Nicho las Biddle and John Andrews did take out of the drawer of the said first teller the said post notes, and caused the same to be burned in the presence of a certain committee of directors, called the committee on the state of the bank, to whom the office or duty belonged of burning the circulation of the said bank which, had been redeemed, and which it was not intended to reissue this duty having been deputed to them by a certain resolu tion of the board of directors of said bank,"pissed i on the 1st dayof March, 1830. 2Vud yourorators further 'state, that the said Nicholas Biddle- and John Andrews caused the said commitle to believe that the said notes, so burned, were notes which had been in circulation, and had been returned to the bank and redeem ed, and were not intended again to be put in cir culation, (as the charter vof the said bank was then about expiring,) and which it was therefore pro per should be destroyed; and that they also fur ther caused the .aid committee to belie ve that the notes so burned were bank notes that is, notes payable on demand ; so that the said committee re ported to the board of directors, on the 10th of March, 183G, that they had on the 1st day of March, 1835. counted, and destroyed by burning, the cancelled paper of the said bank and its bran ches withdrawn from circulation, to wit:notes fo the parent bank, four hundred thousand dollars; notts of the various officrs, two million one hun dred and seventy-eight thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars; drafts of ditto, seven hundred and three thousand nine hundred and three thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars; making an ag gregate of three million two hundred and eighty two thousand eight hundred dollars. And your orators further charge, that the said Nicholas Biddle and John Andrews caused the said resolution of the 1st of March, 1836, to be passed, authorizing said committee " to destroy, by burning, three million two hundred and eigh ty-two thousand eight hundred dollars in notes, laid aside to be cancelled : they well knowing that the notes answering the description in said re solution were short ,of three mil Hem two hundied and eighty-two thousand eight hundred dollars, by four hundred thousand dollars; but they caus e'd that sum to be inserted in their resolution, for the purpose of furnishing them with the means of pi eventing the exposure of the said operation by i which they had so obtained the said sum of four i i . .... i nunureel thousand dollars. . And your ... orators further state, that the said Nicholas Biddle and John Andrews, having so caused the said post notes to be burned, they or dered and ejirccttd the said teiJer. jn his statement i vji in uijii allium., u tiniil 1111113111 Willi JUUI u.aa .ii .l.'ii ki. of his casn account, to credit himself with four been burned, and to reduce his line of "sundries" by an equal amount : so that the line of sundries j five hundred and eleven dollars and forty-nine cents, was, on the 1st day of March, 1S36, one million forty-nine thousand nine hundred and five dollars and iorty-two ccn's; that being the result of the said subtraction. u ith a small variance caus-' cd by the fluctuatii rliaraclcr of the account. And your orators further state, that the said Bid die and Andrews well knew that, by so doing, (ac- enrrlino-tn thf r.nnr.vi nf hnnle-lrcpn'mcr in thf sriirl bank,) the parent bank-note account would be I debited immediately (as in fact it was) with four hundred thousand dollars narent-bank notes as tuallv redeemed, and b burnt or destroyed, should be debited; but, as the said account is small com pared with the parent bank note account, it did not furnish equal facilities for these transactions as did the said parent bank-note account, although the large denominations in which post-notes usually ! were maae anorueu greater iaciiuies 01 procuring the proper subject for the said burning before the committee than ordinary bank-notes, which, being 0f ,riuch smaller denominations, .would have re- qinred greater labor, and much tune, to be created to the extent of four hundred thousand dollars And your orators further declare, that it was commonly thought and anticipated at this time, that a very large amount of the notes of the old bank would remain in circulation, or were des troyed and would never be returned to the bank in consequence of which, the said 'accouut furn ished the best means of concealment, as it was thought that the same would never be. balanced. And your oratoss further declare, that by means of the premises, the said Nicholas Biddle and John Andrews, did most effectually conceal their said o! taining and appropriating of the said four hundred thousand, dollars, and the same remained so entirely concealed from the other officers of ; he said corporation, and from all others hut the s Nicholas Biddle and John Andrews, until the month of Juno, 1839; when the same was brought to light in the manner following to wit The said parent bank note account is made credi tor for all notes which were issued by the bank, and is debited with all notes returned to the bank and cancelled or destroyed ; and after the expira tion of the said charter Mhe old bank, the notes were returned so fast, that, in the month of June, 1839, there were less than four hundred thousand dollars thereof outstanding; so that the false entry. above stated, made the debit side of the account exceed the credit side or, in other words, made it appear that more notes had been destroyed than had ever been issued ; which, as it was impossible in the nature or things, led lo inquiries, which re' suited in the detection of the transaction above de scribed and set forth. And your orators further charge, that upon the discovery of the above stated errors and mis-en tries, the subject was referred to a committee of the directors of the bank, chartered by the afore said act'of Assembly ; which committee directed the parent post-note account to be credited with four hundreel thousand dollars, and the account entitled "losses" chargeable to the. contingent fund, to be debited with the same, thereby trans fercfng this loss to that account. And your orators further declare, that this, though insofar right that it relieved the parent bank-note account from said falsp entry; yet, as this account of losses, chargeable to the contin gent fund, was in fact the profit-amf-foss account of said bank, the charging said four hundred thous and dollars to that account may admit of various interpretations. If it was intended thereby to re present that the said four hundred thousand dol lars was expended in the contingent expenses of the bank, it was wholly unwarranted! And your orator? declare, that if it was so intended, th same was done by the direction of tne said Nicholas Biddle and. John Andrews, for the purpose of fur ther concealing the said misappropriations of thtj funds of the said bank ' DEMURRER. The demurrer of Nicholas Biddle. lo the till of complaint of the President, Directors, and Company of the Bank of the United States, and others. This defendant, by protestation; not confessing or acknowledging alt or any of the matters anil things in the said cbmpfairramV bill tote true, doth demur thereto;- and for causes of demurref showeth, that the complaints hare no interest in the subject of the bilf, or title to institute a suit concerning it; that the subject of the suit is not within the jurisdiction of a court of equity; that the situation of this defendant renders it improper for a court of equity to compel a diecovery, inas much as the bill charges the defendants with act which would subject them to a criminal prosecu tion ; that the alleged cause of suit occurred more than six years before the filling of the bill ; anct that the bill is, in other particulars, defective and informal; wherefore this defendant demands the judgment of this honorable court, whether he shalf be compelled to make any other or further answer to the said bill, or any of the matters and things therein contained, and prays that he may bo heneo dismissed, with his reasonable ro2ts in "this behalf sustained. 10th June, 1843". From the Richmond Enquirer. Whig Movements. The Whigs of Rockbridge held a meeting at their last Couit preparatory la the formation of a Clay Cl"ub, and Messrs. Stuart and Goggin were invited to attend the meeting in November. A Clay Club has also ncen formeel in FairfaX'courfly--And thus (says the -Lynchburg Virginian) r-the oi l soldiers of IS40, and' their moie youthful recruits, are rallying under the Whig banner, for one more decisive struggle1, The Whigs of Petersburg formed a Clay Club' on Thursday night. The " Intelligencer" says, that "all ages and classes of the Whig population of Petersburg were in attendance ;" nnd that never "during the most exciting periods of the campaign of 1840, was a more enthusiastic spirit manifestetl.1' The meeting were addressed by Messers. Win. Robertson, sr., (Chairman,) F. N. Watkin3 of' Prince Edward, T. S. Gholson, and R. B. Boi ling. They put forth the following aS the de ments of thei political creed : " The establishment of a National Bank,, the continuation of a discriin-' inaling Tariff! a distribution nmoAg the. States of jibe-funds ascruittg-frorrl the sale3 of the Public t J j ,i l- r.L r- t . t m Lands, and the limiRUion ofthe Presidential office j toa8inSro terrn 01 Iotfr 7ear3- . ! They pTonotmce these ao " be essential lo Ihe ! iPPnesS prosperity anu good morals 01 tlie coun 1 try" Good morals! We marvel, that they dii 1 ..1 . - not also represent them as essential " to the reli gious institutions of our country, as the Whigs of Amherst have said. The Whigs will -carry out all these measures, it the peopFe will permit them excepting, probably, the last, which " Har- try 01 the West may be so easily prevailed upon by good reasons of btate to dispense with, at tl.C end of the first term just as they pledged them selves in 1340 against a National Bank, iust as the address of the Whigs in ; Richmond denied that General Harrison was m favor of an institution and just as Mr. Badger of North Carolina, de' dared m his speech to the citizens of Granville couuty, in March, 1840, that " the chd'ge was false that General Harrison's opinions were a gainst a Bank"--aod yet rro sooner did they seize the reins, end obtain the opportunity of stri' king for, a Bank at the Extra Session, called a mong ether considerations for lhai very purpose thhn Mr. Clay had a bill brought in for the cs tablishment of a National Bank. Pledges thus redeemed in 1841, would pave the way for ihc for feiture of this one term pledge in 1348. A Repealer's Soliloquy. One of Daniel O' Connell's repealers, a genuine Son of I'he green Isle, was passing St. Charles Street last Tuesday and when immediately opposite our office, he paused, folded his arms and after gaxing intently for a moment at the words, 'The Thropic' whic tjppear in large characters on the front wall of our office, he thus apostrophized: "The Thropic I the Thropic be d d I You abuse Daniel OV Connell, you tha fe, and may the divil fty away wid ye for it f But niver mind, be Jasis, niver mind I Daniel O' Connell will be President of these U. States the first thing you know, nnd thin maybe you will leam to keep a dacent tongue in your head. Print that in your paper, Mr 1 bro- pia, and bed -d to ye, you dirty spalpeen ! Having thus delivered himself; our worthy Hi- bernian evidently telt relieved, and went his way rejoicing in the belief that Daniel Of Connell would one day be ' President of the United States.' N. U Tropic. . From fhe Globe. ANOTHER RICHMOND IN THE FIELD. The Madisonian parades another heirapparent. This is from a Philadelphia letter-writer : "The son is a noble representative of the i'res- ident, and could his father have heard him last night calling down by his eloquence the thunder ing applause of the whole assembly nc wouia, like the father of Patrick Henry, have" hurst into a flood of tears, and deemed that night the happi- est one in his whole existence. W haterer other may think or say, I know him to be the very At las of his father's administration." This seems to thrust aside all the Cabinet, : and to preserve the mantle of - the Administration for the true Prince the Atlas of our States. . Brougham says : " If a child is neglected until sir years of age, no subsequent education can re cover it. If to this age he is in ignorance and dissipation, in baseness and brutality. in that va cancy of mind which such habits create, it is vain to try to reclaim it by teaching it reading and writing.- You may teach it what you choose af terwards, but if you have not prevented he for mation of bad luibits, you will teach it in vain. ;
The Weekly Standard (Raleigh, N.C.)
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Oct. 25, 1843, edition 1
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