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PUBLISHED WEEKLYBY EDITOR AMD PROPRIETOR. THE CONSTITCTIOICAKD TUB UMIOJt OPTHE STlTE-TJiET ixt7ST BE PKESEBVED." - RALEIGH, 'V; C, WED IV ESDAVj 1 ECEISXBEIX 20, 1813. TERMS. VOLUME NUMBER 4T7. TERMS-$3ER ANNim,! PAYABLE fjf'-AbVJtJYCJ. anear and dear view of all that tremendous scene;' THE NORTH CAROLINA STANDARUrtHance) 4he perfect confidence of the; patriot is published weekly, at . cbierthe hero President in Tj" that dreadful THREE DOLLAJIS FiK AiNWtiai, ijx wy. Those persons wh$ 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 $10 00 20 00 35 00 two years, or two copies one year. Tax four copies, : : ten " 1 '' : j twenty" : J : Tk me rate for six months. v-' tr. Any person procuring and forwarding five subscribers, with the cash (15), will be entitled to the Standard one year free of charge. . , Advertisements, not exceedingit-fei lines, will k inserted one time for One Dollar, and twenty-five cents for each subsequent insertion ; those of greater leiWh, in proportion. Court Orders and juaiciat Ma vertisement will be charged twenty-five per cent hi-her than the above rates. A deduction of 33 X-3 pe'r cent, will be made to those who advertise by the year. (jt-If the number of insertions be -not marked n them, rhev will be continued untif ordered .out. Letters to the Editor must come free of postage or they may not be attended to. Speech of Col. Benton. At a late meeting of the democracy of Missou ri, held at Manchester, the following speech was delivered by Cot Benton. Let its truth be treasur ed up for it speaks; to the patriotic heart like the tones of a trumpet: The committee having retired, Col. Benton vas immediately called for from all partsof the bouse, and responded to the call in a striking and extemporaneous address, which was received with ereat and increasing applause, and continued un til the committee returned with their report. He said he had not come to the mreting for the pur nf makiner a speech, or having anything to ,u ,Mth its nroceedins: but 8e had come fortheM purpose of seeing his friends and fellow-citizens, and to talk tciti them, and not at them. Beina: called upon in a manner so flattering, and with so much unanimity, in a meeting so uuraerous and respectable, he could not resist the appeal, though he could not flatter himst-lf with the hope of grati fying the expectation that seemed to exist. He would speak, but not on the subject which brought the meeting together; for whh that he had nothing to do, and should have nothing to say. Nor would he speak on matters and things in general ; for that would be irrelevant and tedious. But he would speak of things pertinent to every assem blage of the American Democracy things which were past, but which had their application to the events of the prosent d;iy, and which were full of instruction and encouraremrnt to all the friends of free and popular government. A quarter of a century (said Mr. B ) has nearly elapsed since the people of Missouri had placed him ia a situation to see, and to act a part in, the movements and in the workings of our govern ment; and it happened to have been a period whrn. the machinery of the Constitution had bcn subjected to the most violent shocks, and the cap pacity of the people for self-government I) id bneu exposed to severe trials. The election of Presi dent in the House of Representatives, in the ses sion of 1824-'5, was the first of these shocks and trials. The will of the people was trampled un d'T foot in that election ; tho spirit of the Con stitution was stat defiance; the elect of the peo ple was repudiated; and it was firmly believed that the people would not possess the intelligence to redress the wrong. The majority candidate for the Presidency was put down ! a minority candidate was nut in his place ! a combination of politicians overruled the will of the people! and the election of 1823 was to decide whether those things should stand. The election of 1828 was a trial of the capacity of the people for self government a trial of their capacity to preserve their rights a trial of the great question of their actual position in free government, and whether they were able to rule, or were only born to be ruled. The issue of the election decided that question. It taught politicians the important lesson that the people could rule, and would rule ! But another question, still more momentous, remained to be tried the question of good or bad rule: and whether it was to rum. or to beneht tf-V-tf .1.1 MB commotion, uiten, at a late nour ot the night, when the battle of the day was over,;(only to be renewed with more fury the next morning,) he had visited the presidential mansion, and found its former thronged halls silent and desert, the ven erable President alone in bis chamber; and never beheld a more impressive or instructive spectacle. While friends and foes believed all was lost, and that his administration was completely overthrown, o, himself had no such" fear. He trusted in God and his country ! He relied upon Providence and the people 1 . He confided in the Power aboye which protects, and in the intelligence which sus tains V He never faltered for an instant never accepted counsej-from. the timid or treacherous never dreamed of capitulating to the Bank or its confederates. His confidence was complete, per fect, unwavering, that the American people could arad would, sustain him 1 and sustain him they did-.?' The expunging resolution, and the election of successor ioraTry otfuliis policy,- wasth response of the people to the; confidence he had reposed Tn them. v . Thus, the second great trial w.as over ; and the people were a secorid; time Jound equal- to their high vocation, and capabh? of sustaining,the form of go vernmemr which their ancestors hard founded. The termination of the second term .of General Jackson's administration was still more glorious than the first, and a still higher proof of the ca pacity of the people to govern themselves. It ter minated in peace and prosperity ; with the respect of all nations, with a universally improved con dition, or the country; the public debt entirely paid; half our imports free from taxes: the cur- rency of the Constitution restored; and indemni-J-election ot 1844 approaches. 1 ne actors m the ties in erold brought home to the merchants from France, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Naples, for spoliations committed on their commerce forty years before, and in the time of hisraTly prede cessor. The hero President retired from his sta tion, as great in peace as in war, and justifying, by the. events of his administration, the choice of the.people." Mr. B. did not speak of President Jackson to eulogize hirn ; the present occasion did not require a eulogy upon that great man. His object was to do justice to the people, who had shown them selves capable of self-government- who had justi fied the wisdom of their fathers in founding an elective government, and trusting the elections to the jWbole body of the people. This was his object.; and it was a high and Wly onev rising above all personal considerations, and above all temporary events. Great was the merit of Jack son great the services which he rendered in the high station of President; but, if the people had not placed him there, and sustained him there, he could not have rrndeied these services: he could not even have saved them (as he did save them by the removal of thefdeposites) from the Joss of the hundred milligns of dollars which the Bank of the United States has plundered from the Stock holders and others, and which would have been plundered from, the treasury of the United States, if his courage and wisdom had not taken the de posits from the custody of the corrupt and rotten idol of Federal worship. . The second trial was over, and the wisdom of your lathers, in navinjr esiaousneu an elective guv- eminent, was ajjain vindicated. But another trial was at hand. The combined politicians and the bank still remained iu arms, and flattered them selves that blind adherence to a military chieftain had been the secret of Jackson's support by the people. They believed that the people 'merely followed the blaze of Military glory, and shouted for a successful general, without any views of national policy, or any capacity to pursue a ra tional and consistent system of measures. They believed this, and that they would lail at the. elec tion "of support of Jackson's successor. The elec tion of 1S3G decided this third trial, and again, to the honor of the wisdom which had founded, and by forgeries not by silly voting, but by false, forged, bribed, fictitious votes -l and this was no impeachment 'of the understaVidingof ihe Democracy. On, the contrary, it was rather a credit to their unsuspicious integrity, thatjthey did not suspect such crimes on the sacred privilege of voting until after theywere prepetrated. The number of votes given for the Democratic candidate, (no less than 1,168,000,) proved that the Democracy was as true to itself at the elec tion of 1840, as it had been in all the previous elections in which its capacity for self-government had been tried. Jt "satisfied the close and candid observer that the theory of our Government was not a mistake- that our fathers were ndt fools for having adopted it. But the'proof did not stop there. It has1 been pouring in ever since, and continues to . pour in with each succeeding election in almost every State in the Union. ""Victory up on victory follows the footsteps of Democracy. The 'fictitious majorities of 1840 vanish before the apparition of true men. The thirty thou sand Federal majorityirv New York, the twenty thousand jn Pennsylvania, the twenty thousand of Ohio, the odd thousands in Maine, New Jersey, and many .other States, are- all gone ; and even the imported cargoes which beat Duncan in Cin cinnati are non sunt inventi ! and he is now; elcc ted by one thousand, where in 18 10 he was beaten by three hundred ! These are evidences of thecharacterof.the elec tion in 1840, and prove that the Democracy was beaten, not by numbers, but by frauds, in that hu miliating contest. It is proof that the people are still capable of self-government still capable of acting upon a' view of national policy, and follow ing a system of rational and consistent measu res. But there is a seal yet to be set upon the proof a crown vet to be placed upon the work. The orgir&and mummeries ot 1840 are again in the field ; and the people owe them a rebuke and a caution, for the insults and outrages then ofTered to elective government and to popular intelligence. A reversal of the proceeding should be the watch- rword and the rallying cry of thcDemocracy. The policy of President Jackson was put down in the person of his approved successor ; let it be restored in the person of the same man. The victory will be yours, not his; as his defeat was ours, not his. Those who impeached the capacity ot the peo- fle for self-government, and charged them with e ecting an incompetent President in the pprson of Gen. Jackson, carried the election of 1340, and have now had the possession of the Government for three years ; and what is the fruit of their reign ? Does it compare . with Jackson's 1 Is their rule a blessing or a curse to the country ? Let taxes, laws, tariffs, paper money, and a debt of thirty millions answer! Let their measures answer ! the diminution of. other works and objccts--!bave hot been swgllexL higher by "numerous new pro jects and wasteful additions:" , . " '" W- - Tfie-Iijmoeratic party has ever been in favor of a Tariff; for venue, but opposed to one for protection, except so far as incidental to a legiti mate tax for revenue. Such incidental protection though moderate, has the advantage usually, of being equal, steady and uniform, and is a necessa ry and useful consequence of the fair exercise of a constitutional pow.er.: ' This they have never re sisted. But a tanfF, like the recent one, was a vowedly passed for direct protection in many of its provisions and that chiefly-' and partially to" one interest alone and as high iaseveral respects as the extravagant-act of 1828 and indeed, so, prohibitory irrmany particulars as to lessen rath er than augment the revenue. It does what is still worse. It violates the solemn compromise, made between conflicting interests in 1833, and resumes a species of legislation, which had been abandoned amost by acclamation on account of the capricidusness of its influence on industry its ruinoasfluetuations, and the danger inequali ty and injustice Hvere causing tothe peacefahd du rability ofthe Union itself. Without entering now into other illustrations of its fatal operations on the public welfaret ask you to look but a moment to its effects on what is connected most immediately with yourselves the Navigating interests and the Fisheries. Where are now the rich freights of former days ? Where your ship yards, crowded with vessels on the Stocks? Where are the hundreds of mechanics around them,N whose axes and saws once made them resound with the hum of industry, and eh abled us to compete successfully in the carry-trade. with a whole world Gone ; a high tariff on most imports has lessened their amount and con sequently the employment for vessels heretofore built free trade and low duties being the seed which yields the golden harvest to navigation. A still higher tariff on most of the articles which enter in ship building on iron, hemp, duck and edtdage quite equal to five dollars for every ton has also helped to disable you from competing so well as otherwise with the less highly taxed ships of other nations. Both of these, with the increased duties on most which our mechanics consume on their clothes, tools and groceries have silenced those axes and saws and made your ship yards deserts. It amounts in its influence to a large bounty on all foreign vessels competing with you, instead of equality or given. some advantage to your own. At the same time it furnishes a premium virtually to repair vessels abroad and thus strips various operatives here of employment in repairs as well as in building. The Fisherman, whose deck is the nursery for our gallant Navy as well as en terprising Commercial Maine is also subjected But, said Mr. B., my lime is out the thread of .to an additional tax of several hundred dollars on rav discourse is cut. 1 see tne committee return-: me loreign materials in nis vessel anu on n by an increase tion ! standing armies' composed of citizen mili tia gold spoons from gilt! forty millions of debt out of five! proscription. for the spoils, proscribed by more removals I extravagance, caused by in creased appropriations! economy promoted by giving away the land fund and creating new of fices and assuming State debts! public faith se cured by blasting it and restoring to eight per cent, loans 1 the. credit system guarded by retros pective bankrupt laws and insolvent sponges for all debtors! a sub-treasury improved, .by repeal ing most of the guards and securities for. keeping safely the public money ! . - . - Come out, then, act as some evidence orinde pendence and patriotism unite with us one and all, in putting the' ship of State in the general government, once more on the Republican tack and thus binding closer together all the great in terests and bonds of our holy Union. This is a glorious and good cause for all to em bark in. It is well calculated to inspire us with a good spirit to unfurl our banners to the breeze with one heart one hand and one voice, and ad vance our standards to the outward walls. . That t spirit s Tevery thing wanting" to 'insure victory. Id .my view it does not require the abandonment of any democratic doctrines, but to stand up man fully in their defence in the coming struggle as well as in all others. As to those doctrines we compromise nothing as to them the democrats of Portsmouth have long, been regarded as watchful sentinels they are on the outposts of liberty, and the guards 7tevertf surrender. But 33 to every thing not a matter of principle a good spirit teaches us yes, prudence nof less than the noble "and high bearing that belongs to the liberal cause of democracy throughout the world teaches us to be tolerant and conciliatory So as to win as many as possible to that cause, and render our triumph over opposition of every kind more certain. You well remember that republicans have al ways denounced Procrustes as a bloody tyrant : for trying by cutting and stretching to make all exactly the same length when no two things in nature arc- in every respect alike. " . While divisions as to principle then are incuraV ble by violence and must be left to time and "expe rience, and argument as the best remedies, no rea son is seen why mere jealousies among ourselves, or predilections for particular men, or personal pique should not yield at once for the good of the whole bo healed by a good spirit and the Re- j public always thus saveJ when thus endangered. bo if some, who look calmly over the political field, predict that wehall need all our strength, be it so, and still rest assured that we possess enough of that strength and can retain and wield enough of it for success, if we husband it and use it a gainst the common enemy rather than waste it in turning our artillery too much against each other.; JVJany brilliant victories the past year, and even HOUSE OF .REPRESENTATIVES. Honorable Jons W JoESj oC Virginia, Speaker, . . . MAINE. ' v; '. - 2 Robert P. Duo!apA 5 (No choice yet.) 3 Freeman H. Morse, 6 Hannibal Hacfrliny 7. (No choice yet.? NEW H A M PS H IR Ef Generaf Ticket. tEdmund Burke, ' ' Moses Norris, Jr. fJohn R Reding, .pt- John 'Pr Hale! . MASSACHUSETTS. f R. C. WinArop, ; 6 (No choice yet. 7 (No choice yet. o jj. Attains, 9 HenryWilliams, 10 Joseph Grinnclli Daniel P. 3 (No choice vet. 4 f William ParnienJer 5 Charles Hudson RHODE ISLAND. 1 Ilmry Y. Cranston, 2 Elisha II. Potter; CONNECTICUT. 1 Thos. H. Sevmoor. 3! fleor7 11. rtatMn f t-l c ' f - w . fj 2 John Stewart, ! Solomon Foot. 2 Jacob Col lamer, - NEW t Selah B.'Stronz, 2 Henry C.TViurpliy, 3 J. PhiWpaPhjnix, 4 William -B. Maclay, 5 Moses G. Leonard; 6 Hamilton Fih, 7 J. H. Anderson, 8 fRichard D. Davis, , 9 frames G. Clinton, 10 Jeremiah Russell, 11 Zadock Pratt, 12 David L. Seymour, 13 t- D. Barnard, 14 Charles ogers, 15 Lemuel Stetson, ifi Cheselden Eili, 17 Charles S. Baoton, NEW 1 L. Q. C. Elmer, 2 George Svkes, VERMOTCTv o George P. Marsh 4 PaaWdlbznatB, Jr, YORK.' ,,v 18 Presf.-n King, ' 19 O. Ifungerford, . 20 Samuel Beardsleyv 21 Jere. E. Carey, 22 Smiih M. Purdy, 23 O. Robinson, 24 Horace Wheatony 25 George Rathbun, 25 Amasa Dana, 27 By ra m Green, 23 T. J. Patterson, 20 Chas. H. CarrotL ITT M .so win. a. Mullen, 31 Asher Tyler,. 3-2 Wm. A. 'Moseteif, 33 Albert, Smith, .34 Washington flunl, iERSEr. ,h' 3.'Jaac G. Farley, 5. YiWam Wright. ' PENNSYLVANIA." ing who were sent out to report resolutions for the without any remuneration consideration of the meeting. It is time for the drawback or bounty. It is in vain to expect any come here to assist in these proceedings, it will out a large and permanent reduction in the - j i some disasters, when we look at th 'of his I b?ar wilness to tIlis- KoSer Shermr ciously proposed to annex Connectic eir cause, all e saga- necticut to Rhode not be right that I shall impede or delay them Spcccli of TIr. Woodbury. meeting of the sterling de Hampshire, held at Portsmouth, vember, 1S43, Mr. Woodbury was called upon !ect any ; t,i.,j i .,. . , , . business of the meeting to begin ; and, as I did not permanent relief to all these vital interests, with- T- " , T AaiaDU-l f V?11' . . .t j -ii i i j - . .i ' " tne union would thus be more acceDtable to the i a laige anu permanent reuuci on in me lariu. ,.,iia.Ci . , A . .. r , xr 1 1 u u i . .ir smaller btate, knowing that in either form, the as- voii would hv sn.'Jl n reduction mt nnlv fivnr . .'. . . ' ,w n'- "a equally all the eat branches of industry ; but uT;kTr!n ? 'Wrtant' wou,-i S restore navigation to that free competition which i wh,ere.,t beIo"STd-to he majority. At a meetinn- of the sterling democracy of New has built it up in past generations from carrying i ln,.!nort' " Wlth suon conciliatory dispositions, on tho 10th No-,eS3 than nalt. ol all tti Ireights both to ani Irorn . . . . ",w 7 uac"ullw" this country as at first, to near lour-fifths as of late lu ?c J 4U ,UM fpyiany Jirsi io- me ue vpnrs nnn nnapr wn en enmnp i innnoivfi-pp , for a Speech, and responded to the call in the fol-, many the reciprocal treaties, if we have only low j vicw I l hrne lowing unanswerable and eloquent remarks: duties, it need never tear to succeed against the The Democratic party have a great system of loftiest and most enterprizing people. Our ton- measures, and those aione tney mean to eniorce, jue i uuw um mc stxiu m amuum ui any u.i attempts to govern by the mere patronage of of fice, and a scrupulous regard to economy and the intelligence and virtue which had preserved, J constitutional restrictions they do riot mean to and those they can proudly vindicate, against all opponents whatever, lhey are party whose masses, without intending to be discourteous or intolerant, use plain language and meaning what they say, call a spade a spade. Hence, when expressing their deep abhorrence of increasing power in the general government an ardent devotion to state rights a scorn of all themselves, that they had., exerted their power. On every hand the cry of "ruin" was raised. The elect of the people was cried down. Their President was painted as rash and ignorant as a firebrand abroad, and a tyrant at home as unable and unfit to govern ; and the calamities of war, pestilence, and famine, were deprecated as the least evils of his administration. Such were the vaticinations of General Jackson's administration and the people were -openly treated as fools for having elected such a man for their President. But the day of trial was at hand, and its result was auspicious. The first four years decided the question, and approved the wisdom of the choice which the people had made. Peace abroad, pros perity at home, the public debt paying off, taxes lightened, the universal respect of all nations, at tested the capacity of President Jackson to admin ister the Government, and vindicated the people liom the imputation of folly m the election pf their Chief Magistrate. Thus this first trialof the people for self-government resulted in their favor: But another and a harder trial was still to be encountered. Gen. Jackson was re-elected ; and ! a combination of politicians, aided by the Bank of the United States, and by nearly a thousand subordinate banks, and by a vast body of mer chants (for whom he had procured rich indemni ties) confederated to make good their prophecies ' to scourge the country, and to charge the dis tress which themselves created upon the President whom the people preferred, and thus accomplish in the second terra of his administration what had failed in the first The panic of 1833-'34, and the execrable sentence of condemnation which the bank demanded, which the Senate nronouneefl and which the people expunged, was the fruit of mat comeaeracy. Then, indeed, we had war, in which many stout hearts quailed, in which many timid friends fell off. and in fcrhich counsels were offered. The whole earth" seemed to be in comm. otion against ojw man. Revolution was proclaimed. The Senate chamber resound ed with denunciation ; the bank columns marched in succession upon the Capitol; distress meetings were universally held ; distress memorials poured in daily; the public press groaned ; all business was broken up; terror and calamity were spread in every quarter; and all. was charged upon the wickedness of the man whom the folly, of the people had elected President, He (Mr. B.) had our elective form of government, a successor was elected, not for the sake of military glory, but for the sake of principle. A successor was elected to carry out the policy of President Jackson to preserve what he had established, and to complete what he had left unfinished and, in this election thp. neonle nroved that thev did have views of f f V . national policy, and could preserve a consistent system of national measures. The election of 1840 was the fourth trial to which the capacity of the people for self-government waa put to trial p and here the issue of the contest has inspired some with misgivings, but without adequate reason. The fooleries of the Coon campaign were art insult to the people, an outrage upon tho form of government, and a re flection upon our fathers who had established it. Paddling canoes on the dry ground hoisting ci der barrels on poles singing bacchanalian songs celebrating midnight orgies raising cabins in the midst of cities hanging gourds and coon skins at the doois marching coons in procession with the people; all these mummeries and fool eries, more worthy of baboons and monkeys than of rational beings, were so many open declarations to the people that they were incapable of any ra tional exercise of the elective franchise that folly and nonsense must govern them, and that their ancestors were fools for giving them the privilege ofvotin"-. This was the plain import of these gegrading exhibitions; and that an election should have beerT carried by those who used such means, seemed to "ive some countenance to their low es timate of the popular understanding. But it was a seeming only. There was no foundation for the supposition. The election was carried by far different means by bribed "votes, paid, for with suspended, bank notes by false votes, given by the people who did not exist by imported votescarried from State to State by simulated votes, changing their dress and names twenty times, and voting as often and by changing tickets after the vote was in the ballot-box. By these and such like means, the elec tion was carried ; and judicial proof has since es tablished the degrading facts. The body of the Democracy stood firm, unmoved except by feel in s of contempt, by all these miserable exhibi tions. Far from falling off, they increased in their numbers.. The vote givpn in 1840 was an unprecedented increase on all former Democratic votes ; it wancar 400.000 votes more than Mr. Van Buren received when he was elected in 1836 and upward of 500,000 more than General Jack son had ever received. It was certainly the full vote of the Democratic party, and no doubt an actual majority of all the legal votes given. . The election then had not been carried by fooleries, but deal in loose generalities only. On the contrary, they mean to oppose all specific actsconflicting with their general views and those of late as well as of olden times, and however they may respect or esteem in private life the authors of those acts to oppose them in public, with all the energies j God has given us. Thus they have resisted, and they will continue to resist, an accumulation ot powers at the centre beyond the constitution, not only when attempted by Alien and Sedition laws; but by Distribution bills being an entering wedge to assume 200,000,000 State debts debts incurred by particular States alone debts which they alone are bound to dischare, and which, if repudiated or remain undischarged, however contrary to our views of their duty, should and will disgrace them alone. On similar grounds of principle the de mocratic party have opposed and will oppose an unnecessary and exploded National Bank, no less dangerous in its influences to public virtue than publiu liberty and this verified of late years not merely by sound theory but an example almost co-extensive in its disastrous warnings with the boundaries of the civilized world. So, when advocating state rights, they mean to shield the State from having their courts stripped of rightful jurisdiction over criminals and. con tracts by such measures as the McLeod bill and the Bankrupt law and they will resist in all proper ways such alarming dictation as orders the State to make districts for the choice of representatives or such unwarrantable interference as is calcu lated to overawe them in extending the rjght of suffrage or in attempting other peaceful reforms of their constitutions and laws. So, when watchful over the immense patronage of the general government in removals and ap pointments to office their jealousy is intended to be healthy and to prevent if possible any barter of principle for office ; but not jaundiced or fac tious so as to stop the wheels of government by having no agents to execute the laws. And sure ly the more the appointments are made, honestly, from such as are faithful to democratic principles, the more they are to be desired ; while if made dishonestly, the more insidious and pernicious are they likely to prove in their tendency and the more severely will they be censured. So, when professing economy, as a cardinal doc trine, we intend to discountenace the whole system of administration, which, during the last two years, in a period of profound peace, has plunged the nation into a new debt of nearly.twenty-five millions of dollars. And it is owing to the strenu ous efforts -and votes chiefly of democratic mem bers of Congress, that the burthen has not been made much heavier and that ihe expenses, now falling off by the natural cessation of some, and looking to it in everv noint of w WE and throughout the State as well as the Union wo shall evince a spirit most aus picious to success. Having thus hastily attempted to sketch what m my opinion is a good plan and a good spirit for securing a triumph to a good cause, I leave the result with you. Some of you may differ from me, as each has a right to in the exercise of that freedom and independence, which all are equally entitled to. And if anv present shall recommend a tion in the world, and aided byotir great natural advantages, and commercial habits, if left unde pressed by high tariffs, it can distance, and, by God's blessing, it will ere longdistance every oth er power. "Who ran nbiert then to snr.h snlutnrv r.bancres in the present duties? None who wish prosperi-jcour?e that appears to be wiser, my final exhorta ty to the whole rather than a part at the expense i l,on IS by all means to pursue it for I stand ready iiiuusj" iu iiii'-muM ia sei an ex.imDie oi sacri fices and forbearance to promote the great object, j so near and dear, I trust to every heart around i me the harmonj', welfare and victory of the democratic party. ot the rest. INone who wish lor more revenue to discharge the public engagements ; as revenue will thus be increased. None who wish to favor real labor and to dampen political manufacturing and the making more political capital by dema gouge cries of higher protection to home industry and American labor. None who wish to check speculation. None indeed really friendly to the manufacturers themselves. For if they looked to their true and permanent" interests towards which on an equal footing with agriculture and com merce none can be better disposed than myself if they looked to the great incidental protection they would receive by a revenue duty of twenty or twenty-five per cent, and to the stability likely to be enjoyed under such a protection, they would assent to the reduction cheerfully. And they would do it the quicker, from their recent experi ence, that'the currency will then more probably rcmafh at the specie standard the only standard under,which they can obtain much benefit from any. tariff, or are able to supply any foreign mark et ; rather than to be prostrated every few years by those ruinous fluctuations, incident to high du ties and bink expansions and contractions. , Nor coukLtthe public under any tariff escape from vacillations in the currency, by using an Exchequer paper, unless resting dollar for dollar on specie. And the chances as to that or a Unit ed States Bank, managed by politicians, always are the ruinous fate of Laws' Mississippi bubble ; or two or three hundred millions loss by our old continental issues. It is not necessary to refer to more specifica tions of the good measures which belong to our cause, or the bad ones of our opponents nor even to their most dangerous attempt, which has thus far fortunately failed, of changing the Constitu tion itself so as nearly to destroy the Veto power, though placed there at the birth by the Fathers of the Revolution (and through the great palladium of the People against hasty and unconstitutional legislatioji.) But as we desire not . only our own party to rally in support of the democratic ticket, but all the honest patriots, who have been heretofore non-committal or inconsiderately ensnared into the rariks of our opponents, let me say a word to such before closing. They may ask what are they to gaSl by voting for our candidates? I say: you thus help to save the constitution, so much violated and endangered you help to restore the principles which, for near half a century, pre dominated in the administration of the general government, and under which the country has been steadily carried forward to high greatness and glory you join the party of performance and; progress,, and repudiate the false hopes, groundless charges and broken promises, which three year3 ago beguiled so many into disastrous change. The delusion is ended of relief by increased taxa- 1 L,. J. Moms, 2 -fJ. II. Ingersoll, 3 John T. Smith, 4 fC. J. Injrersoll, 5 Jacob S. Yost. 6 Michael II Jsnks, 7 A. R. Mcllcaine, 8 t Jtremiah Bi oicn, 9 John liiiler, 10 R. Broadhead, Jr. 41 IB. A. Bidlack, 12 Ahnon H. Read, - DELAWARE, f Gear. B. Rodney. MARYLAND. LNot yet dhitricied.J VIRGINIA. 13 Henry FricJi, 14 A. Jiamsey, 15 Henry A'tv 16 James Black, 17 James Ire in,' 18 Andrew Stcvarf, 19 Henry D. Foster, 20 John Dik'y, 21 William -Wiliiaa, 22 Samuel Havs, 23 CM. Reed, 24 Joseph Btrffinglort 1 A. Atkinson, 2 G. C Dromgoole, 3 Waller Coles, 4 fE. W. Hubbard, 5 tThos. W. Gilmer, 6 tJ- W. Jone, 7 tHemy A. Wise, 8 W. tfevroir. 9 Samuel Chilton, 10 William Lucan, 11 William Taylor, 12 A. A. Chapman, 13 fG. W. Hopkins, . 14 1G. W. Summers 15. tLewH Steenrod. NORTH CAROLINA. 1 Tims. L. Clingman, 5 JR. M. Saunders, 2 JJ. It. Barringer, 6 fJame J. MeK.iy, 3 David S. lit id, 7 fJ. R. I. Danirl. 4 E. Deberry. 8 tA. H. Arrinytoi, 9 Kenneth Rayner. SOUTH CAROLINA. 1 James A Black, 4 fJuhn CamptxR, 2 Richard F. Simpson, 5 Armiaiead BorJfHf 3 Jos. A Woodward, 6 f Isaac E. Holnre, 7 tK. Barnwell Rhelt, GEORGIA. General Ticket.) fE J ward J. Black, , Vacancy. j .4. . Stephens, John 11. Lumpkin, Hush A. HaraUon, Howell Cobb, A. II Chappelt, William II. Stiles. KENTUCKY. TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Assembled Dec. 4, 1S43. Expires March 3, 1815. SENATE. " Hon. Willie P. Mangum, ofN. Carolina, President. 6 John White, 7 W P. T.omason, 8 t Garret Davis, 9 Richard French. 10 J. W. Tibbatts. Members. 2'erma expire. GEORGIA. John M. Berrien 1817 W.T.Colquitt 1849 ALABAMA. William R. King 1S17 Arthur P. Bagby 1S49 MISSISSIPPI. John Henderson 1345 Robert J. Walker 1817 LOUISIANA. Alex. Barrow 1847 Alexander Porter 1849 TENNESSEE. E. II Foster 1845 Spe?icer Jamagin 1847 KENTUCKY. Jos. T. Morehead 1847 J. J. Crittenden 1S49 OHIO. Benjamin Tappan 1845 William Allen 1849 INDIANA. Alberts, White Ed. A. Hannegan ILLINOIS. James Semple Sidney Breese MISSOURI. Thomas H. Benton 1845 D. R. Atchesoa 1819 ARKANSAS. William S. Fulton 1847 A. H. Sevier 1849 MICHIGAN. A. S. Porter 1845 Wm. Woodbridge 1347 Members. Terms expire. MAINE. George Evans 1847 John Fairfield 1849 NEW HAMPSHIRE. Levi Woodbury 1847 Chas. G. Atherton 1349 VERMONT. Samuel S. Phelps 1S45 Wm. Upham 1S19 MASSACHUSETTS Rufu Choale 1845 Isaac C. Bates 1847 RHODE ISLAND. William Sprague 1S45 Jas. F. Simmons 1S47 CONNECTICUT. J. W. Huntington 1845 John M. iNiles .1849 NEW YORK. AC P. Tallmadge 1845 Silas. Wright 1849 NEW JERSEY. Wm. L. Dayton 1843 Jacob IV. Miller 1347 PENNSYLVANIA. Daniel Sturgeon 1845 James Buchanan 1849 DELAWARE. RicWdll Bayard 1845 Thomas Clayton 1S47 MARYLAND. Wm. D. Merrick 1S45 Vacancy. (whig)1849 VIRGINIA. -William C. Rives 1845 Wm. SArcher 1847 NORTH CAROLINA Willie P Mangnm 1 847 . WH Hay wood, Jr. 1849 south Carolina. Whigs, in italics 27 Daniel E Huger 1847 Democrats, in Roman 23 George "McDuffie 1849 Doubtful, Rives 1 .There is one vacancy to be filled in Maryland, where a Whig is certain to be chosen? Messrs. Semple, of Illinois, and Atchesoa, of Missouri, hold temporarily by appointment from the Governors of those States, but will be elected by the Legisla tures of those States, or succeeded by Senators off like, politics. 1 fLinn Boyd, 2 t Willis Green, 3 Henry Grider, 4 George A. Caldwell, 5 James Stone, TENNESSEE. 1 Andrew Johnson, 6 tAaron V. Browrrf Wm.T. Senter, 7 D. W. Dickinson, Julius W. Blackwcll, 8 Joseph II Peyton, Alvan Cullom, 9 fCave Johnson, George W. Jones, 10 John B Ashe, n t Milton Brown. OHIO. 1845 1819 1847 1849 1 Alexander Duncan, 2 fJohn B. Weller, 3 Robert C. Schenck, 4 Joseph Vance, 5 Emery D. Potter, 6 Henry St. John, 7 Jos. J. McDowell, S John J. Vanmeter, 9 Elias Florence, 10 Heman A. Moore, 1 1 Jacob Brinckerhoft! 12 Alexander Harper, 13 Per ley B. Johnson, 14 Samuel F. Vinton, 15 Joseph Morris, 16 fJames Matthews, 17 Wm. C. MeCauIe, 13 fEzra Dfan, 19 Daniel R. Titdcn, 20 Josh. R. Giddings, 21 Henry R. Brinckerhoff. LOUISIANA. 1 John Slidell, -3' John B. DawlSoo," 2 Alcee Labranche, 4 P-E. Bossier. INDIANA. 1 Robert Dale Owen, 2 Thomas J. Henley, 3 Thomas Smith, 4 Caleb B. Smith, 5 William J.Brown, G JohW- Daviy 7 Joseph' A. Wright, & John Petit, 9 Samuel C. Sample, 10 fAndrew Kennedy. ILLINOIS. 1 Robert Smith, 4 John Wewtworth, 2 J. A. McClernand, 5 S. A. Douglass, 3 Orlando B. Ficklin, 6 Joseph P. Hoge, 7 John J. Hardin. ALABAMA. 1 James Deltet, 4 tWinter W. PayHe, 2 James E. Belser, 5 fGeo. S. Houston, 3 tDixon H. Lewis, 6 tReuben Chapman, 7 Felix G. McConnell. MISSISSlPPL-EGeneral Ticket. f Jacob Thompson, Robert W. Robert, W. J. Hammett, T, M. Tucker, MISSOURI. f General Tieket. John Jameson, J. B. Bowliu, G. W. Bower, J. P. Reffe, James M. Hughes. . ' MICHIGAN. 1 Robert McClelland, 2 Samuel B. Hunt, 3 Lucius Lyoo. ... . . TERRITORIES. FLORIDA . tDmd Levy. WISKONSAN .i tenry Dodge. IOW A... t Augustus C. Dodge. ' ' f Members of the last House. Whigs ia Italics. -v'.
The Weekly Standard (Raleigh, N.C.)
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