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ami oft i-mont n inif then which 4 dtoi e noa i ivinr a Frsotl WlH: ilion f aV ai ban." f 4 Sol liebawr aeob, r u f ap,f lie' ne dak MaiW 10 tf ursc twaU tbar'. ,ieal THOMAS J. LEMAY, paOPBIETOR. TTHTWS. " i ST Seaseairnoir, tbr stellar F" bbbub fell b4vm. '-y Person rtltlf without tbe State will be re- aairad ta pa; lb waou wm a urn jan aa atripta U adtaac. RATES OF ADVERTISING. - ' Far rrrn Sawar (aat rsln( If Jiacs Ibis si irocl frM Inarruon, on dollar mHiwww (memos,. Itn4-Bt f Tb TiittaMU of Clerkasna Sheriffs will a abargaa pe MM. Bifitrri aao aawaiH.w. par MM. will b from lb ret"1'" P" (jy All letters lo lb E liters Kvrr be pot-pt CHEP CASIUSTOltE. TV. uburlber ha been abaenl froa Raleigh ane I ..V.i. .1.. of N,. York. Pkilaoelnbi LariBitiaer, aifdully eiaiinl tb markets, tend OMWiaf inj F"' nnv (.nOIiS AN u G HOC Ell 1 KS. All baaabrao parahaaeil awto-ely iii,eatA. b ..k nt.il iha Northern aaarkete Jjlis prtfloua Mark. band. h kaaas W eaan; l kia easterners, a-, - lira near stock I-"""'"""".' 7 u a gwa a aatatogoe an ma (nana, " - ml l b red. It ihareroce limits hia frinrt 1 j 1 tj.Mii .omir.a and indcefor them liaui. Short adertiinenis are wiimi icWeitaad tbfy ahall aol be diaappoimed ia geillne rood banrama. They mM it among hilllKHimrM Jratrla P.inta at from 6. S, 1U, mj. u 10 a Wvt Maalina Bail Oarni, er- tfle and aheap rowa and bleachad Muatiaa, la !0 oett pram Summer G 4t, f g-nilenuMi, e atyle and all fquaUira anil nricesi Sugar and Coffee; and almost CAJI or any of iheaejruHla iK ba aM ehap;fr alb 'or on VaHn'rTaWkilrto poaalUal MtWttiirlfi'a'f , wan "--" - , r TV W IVVAEtlt. lUlelgb. April M. IUO. 17 it ItALEIGH APRIL 29, 1840. . THE FEOPt.E'8 TICKET. ' ron president,"" i " i ' - WILLIAM HENRY: HARRISON, The intiiuibk Hero if Tippecanoe--lh ineor ruptMt Stolamanthe inflexible Republican the pair M Farmer of Ohio. FOR TICK PRESIDENT, . JOHN TYLER, Slat Rifhli ' liepMica tf the senoa '98 one uf Virginia' i nohlttt ton, and emphatically one if AmtrittCe rnont tagactou, tirtuotu and TOW ronVH, ERTY and the CONSTlTUT10Nnor Bung ; f lo tits breiB, inscribed' with the inpirinj motto I-ONE PRESlDEXTIAtTERM THE IN rBGRITY OF THE PUBLIC SERVANTS ijpvi -THE SAFETY OF THE PUBLIC MO uk NJEYTHE DIVISION OF THE PUBLIC tow N AND THE GENERAL GOOD OF ...totijrHE PEOPLE. POR GOVERNOR OP NORTH CAROLINA, JOHN Ikt. MOREHEAD, Or OCILFOHD COUNTY, T!it able tlalamalhe found republican the pure patriot the honest man. Prom the. New York Cipreaa. IAJ0R DOWNING IN THE CJDhX- ET, ON THE NORTH BEND. V Vttif befVreiue veairers the- Mfrjarr nd letter from the Cabin, which will be lead with great interest , The tiei(or we iinulil say notion) he shadows loriti that te doctrine of the Cabin is "no political pvor,li$m" in the distribution ol the cou nts of the "great barret politic of the na- Son," imay not perhaps suit Wro expects- pons.- nut it is sound Vv hiz doctrine. 'he great mass of the people are neither Tice-holders or office seekers, all they -k is, that the Consti'ution and the Laws f their own making shall be the euide and ule of ihoe who they select to adminis- rthe laws. I he little inculent nt the eclioneernz 'Sub Trt-ttsurer" is happy. r. gret the Mjir vlid'nt make him hoi fr loud enough for the workmen to over- Irar him. It is or iore"dufv. how- vei.' t mike 4tiita-heard bv the warknua.- THE CAMS ON THE NORTH aJl E N QAs w-.k.-tttwi.pJng.'. Ohio, April 8,-1840. H the QiwxingviHe folk at home and elsewhere. i-KLLow-crriZENs Ihe Oliio has riz, nd so has the hull Weste n resarve one hard rain and t'other by hard cider. In I my oorn day I never have seen anr ling like it. As lor business, the folks i all Uiia arter sar thrre is no- use in rjing to du any kind of business as the resent IBce-hulders git pretty much att f m.M.r t mat trade puts in circulation. Ihangeit rigtirblTlof Kar4Tnonej7anir t it in their pockets for their wage So rre is no use to tin any thing unless the ;iges of office-holders is cut down lo hard !mey prices- jut as flour and grain and Hon is. : - The office-holders and other government ks out here are making- eiat calcula ns on Essern Election! thev ssv that RCbrtneeicMlwill go aihtdlow"foAt6- teatury amt w- CrerfiSy and that New rfc tvilf ' follow and so forth. Well, I oi know how that ia but other f.dka ht this way don't seem to ear if all East I'd New York' Cite and rital !y. and I don't wander at their feelins ,'eetle ind:(ferer.t - for folks living n tl 5' m sail water, and never having b(en thia everlasting western country can i no idea on'i j it aint here as it is in countries, . where folks whe live io cabtii don'l know much exrent die: n. and hein. a-d I on fin., anil cani: bsmbooaled btoi hereevrrv man stands pit Op on his hind legs when rouble V uie couniry, and sa.harres th " North Carolina Powerful in moral, ia intellectual, and in physical VOL. XXXI cause on't most awful. 1 wish some of the folks in our bir cit ie, who re considered considerable poli ticians m Ihtir way, and go round amng the people" there, and ret tip praeessSona, and banners and uher nig.f wurk, and humbug Via with notions about Ihtjmpor lata of carrying this icard, or that ward, and that, "as Rrs sich and sich ward so rites all c real ion." t wiah, 1 saj, thej would come oat this way, ami see the in- side of the great national pudding, they would feel "pretty small I tejr ye. Vhy, till folks git yn the western aide of the AU egany Mountings, they haint got more than amiut a leetle arter br akfst t me into the Union Every nian knows the Coneiiw- lionhtrt jist about as well as he knows how to plant corn: and though, lor a time. the men hi the helm at Washington may Kit the good old ship on the wrong tck, and succeed by aid of or to keep the .maUMieisWt aoarabWemei as come it must, worn the wrong lack is taken-r-then lookout for a regular raccoon hunt. . .- ; " There ia nn place like The Cabin here. to know what is going on EaT, West, North, and South) for pretty murh all cre ation, coming and going, atop in, lo se the Uineral to oiy nothing ol special Com mitters senUfrom all uarters, and about two buhls of letters every day) and the way the bineral eits alonjr wuh matter,. convinces me more and more that he is one of them kind of folks we read about wlm. artrr doing good service are? puthed asid by ihe crowd for a sprll, whw git their eye on a new light, or jack-o'-lantern, which leads them Tntti the muh,"and tlien they git back agin If (hey can, and place the old and neglected Vet'rsn at the brad.' " It doea me cihmI to see hw kindly the OWWcro treats every b4Mly ; whi cornea to er him, ami no maitrr what thrv want to talk about he'a rradr f-r 'emi for. in hi life time, he has had considerable eiperi enr in pretty much every thing. But when folk come Uuound Aim, or write to him, to know what course he -will take ou. hey ever have been and always will be his guides no matter what station he is 'n whether in his Cabin at the North' Bend, or in the Cabinet at the W ite House at Washinmn whether on horse bark at i he head of an army, or on foot at a ploughiail -with a sword in his band, or a hoe in his hand-rit ; makes no odds he knows nn other polilitrl tuidee. , ? 'I he Giueral says lhat jist as the people have made the Co'ntliuiion and the Ijiws, jist so it is with his barrel of cider. . 'I here is no use of prvmiiing one mac a glas of sweet cider and a nut her ; man a glass not quite so sweet another ; man a g ssa of hard cider and another a leetle harder thry must all take it as it comes from the same barret, and no lvoritiing, and if it donl suit 'em he can't help at it is hia buaUes.t keop.thebarveJ wtillatMr eprreti and full, and bung opand the spiggot a bout as nih the centre as possible, so that the t ider will run clearest and no man get dregs nr skums. . .. The e was a chap come a'ong through these parts tother day from Washington, on his way weal with an appointment by Government as "receiver ol Public Land Money," and of course eowie along elec tioneering. Whenever he got among day laborers, he'd lake out a hard dollar and and old : rasged paper dollar There," says he, fel lo w -cit 'wns look at this,. and then Took at that "Here, says he, is the kind of money the "bank ruf5ii" want ou take fr your Ubor nl here ia the ind of money we honest hard working Sub-Treaeury folks want you to have." VelI, he s. wurk'd. his. way., alung. purty well, though a good many "folks he taik'd to. toldJum it waspuitjf difEcult jiow-a-days lo gil hold of bank monejjufhard. hioney. but he told cm to hang on, and vote for the Sob-Treasury . folks- and no .iLJl?... ! !Li.l.! ..lbe most on 'ris would git an , office, and that would give 'em hard money at any rate. Yeolrrday. this same critter railed on the Gineral jist as Ihe horn was blow'd fur dinner, ami the workmen all come in from i1ie"dij!i;insrndlhe Glnefanf course in vited i all strangers to take a seat with him si'd his people it the table; ami arter theJ rS ' l l a a a t -- - t . . 'r IS uinerai , nati ..a.s.utxif.meB!ni. anu.wBiaii. got tii work at thediahes, this land recev. erV.or Sub-Tressorer," got talking with he Gin-ral ab'iut the advantages of Hie Sub-Tresury"systeni) arid as he sot nest to the . Gineral snd 1 on tother side, he thodght it warn'l neresary to talk loud, andsossys he in a low tne." almont a whisper, "why Gineral, ihisSub-Trraury system will be the making of anf man like you who employs laborers. f How ao," s the Gineral. Why,? sa vsheV ayoo know it will knock down Ihe pricr olla hor, as Mr. Walker -and Mr. Bu. hanan T.tn Ihss lhan half price what i now na.i l,'nl the difference then, you know". ge; f irlit iutn the pockets of the employ. 'jf'C The Gineral Imiked at him and then lie looked at me. and asja lie, ''Do you hear thaflaj'-rr" "Nt eiar lly," says f, "G.nernl. .Now ssys I,strner, speak p a leetle louder, for 1 am nurd vfhear. Jina in me left ear) but. savs J, take rlre not In hidle'r too loud, or the teortmen wVl oter-lienr jom." -Y"u never see a feller so csf d iwa) he looked ' like a streaked bass three days out of water. ht$ atiemo wr tAal qutmoa, when he tat "'"! ". B f rfrisnes- tita.s- Mate ol Missouri, prohibiting tne '.annus- tney ai'u.ic jtr - w waf thia. ilerjon J RALEIGH N. O We are looking oat here now to know how the Connecticut election has gone; and though we don't care much about it yet as there are a good many folki Iron them parts here and about in the great nctttr tetei ve the feel a kinder pride about If. -and "every little helps- in the first gooff.'', as the good old woman ssid when she emptied her wash-tub in the big Erie canal, the djy the great Climon first floated in a canal boat thro' tha -will. costly and dettrvrtive Stale speculation." Yurswt'h great respect. J. DOWNING, Major, &c. &C Te the People of y Irfflnla. There was publiahcd in the Knonirer of the 10th inst. an Address of the Cn- tral. Coinniittee, appointed bv the rrlf- railed Republii an Convention of the 20th February, to the ciuxens of Virginia, ' signed bv Thomi Ritrliie. Sarralarv. u, iwim. wv veiTOii.vv;fleeY''year Oldf 5ut If never enfeiea into our ins auuress is avoweoiy designed to in- fluence the approarhing ejections I mem- hers of the O neral Assembly) and is so limed as to evince the hope of its authors, that its-mtsreprese'.tations, ha vine the atart of contradiction and refutation. may S. . .1 a nave some enect on i nose elections, wun- outall'iwing their opponents-any opporlu. nity . counteracting: that eftcct lit Tair discussion. W hat must be the pravaiinn giving countenance to the, mad and par ol the moral sense of the men capable of ncide sect of abol.tionUtt," yet, in caji. such arts what the demerits ol Ihe cauae. dour, we must sVf,' that we do not regard which inch arts are denned by its sup- portera suited to promote -and what opin - loit those ho aitrii.pt to jractice such' arts must, hi tneir hearts, entertain of the intelligeuce and.iLriue of l lie p.t'pIeUie lairs me canum, an ti- tionrtt, til air parties; will rteiermine. Tlie address contains some atllr decta. nation on atale topics of party Confro- Vtn of slavery from every Territory then versy, conceived In aspitit of the bitterest h-ld or afterwards to be acquired by the malign ly, and clothed in the vilest lan- UtttiKState" (supponior the assertion goage of party. laiiz, and esperi lly, the true which it is not) nwtwitfftaniling the rnartt abuse id Mr, Rie. whom, the notorious fac', thit.Genral Ihrrtson.as a Secretary no doubt hieawith the greatest llprrtntitive in Congress from Ohio, intensity, because he ,wak once hi friend), Vidrd asainst the reitriclion upon the aoo it csoiuiiB aui n p rfraif-aiiesa- tias C-roe i as extraordinary., uut. tne -n Iral t omoiittee anHiinted by the late big Convention for the nomination of electors or I'reMdenl and Vice President, only ak coming from the friends of Mr. Van Bu for the present, the atteniioo of iheir fel- ren, who was a realou advocate of tha low ciMzena to the following estracta from hia extraordinary paper. '. j We omit the eitract. as the substance of it is stated in ihe follow ing concluiive refutation of its falsehood, by the commit-; ''M . :. ' - . Nw, as In Ihe allegation, that Gen. Harrison made "an explicit coafession, in joe nee 01 an congress in r-piy io me United Slate to the purchase ami depur charge of Federalism preferred sgainst ta'ion of all the slave In Ihe nation. him by the late John Bandolph," wr rliaU The authors of the address Can hardly lenge the honest Secretary wli has signed be ignorant lhat I hi project I not pecu- mi aiiuress. io, puuiiaii me speeches ol Imr lo Genersl Harrison, snd did not tan Mr. Randolph and Gen. Harneon on the gfnate wiih himt A similar rtj-er was oeeaHMi reiVrred ln in the Kni)uirrl ahrT Vugge'sieir ly Mr.eneTson. in a letter to then every candid mind wi I perceive and Mr. Sn irks, which w:ll be found in the ackonwledg-', that the speech of Ihe lt- frr contains a denial, and not an explicit confession, nf Federalism. ' In rfgard to the- next alleged proof of of 1820 30, as ill be sen iw Ihe Debate General Harrison's Fedealism namely, 0f ihe Convention, p. ,149, , ir-'S. , We I,ubl.i .and . eothiisiastir;., admiratbnigive our alverariea, every advantage in avowed as late es 1834, of the opinions of taking their representation of General Har Dnirl Webster, the nllra Federal'iMf, and ruoii's opinions, in' this particular, to be sweeping denouncer of Independent sov. fair and true.'ihough wsi apprehend there ereignty in the Statea,' we have only lo t misrepresentaHon) .and then we ; bst, say, ihat not knowing to what language of wh ,t they mast know. , that th .se opin OfiL' Hlrria. cuncerning Mr..Webtrr..4oiis nt onlv do niU prove that-Genersl allusion is here made, (unless, indeed, Ihe Harmon belongs to "thf mad and parn authors of the address allude loGen. Har- cide sect of Abolitionists." but they prove riaon s ronrurrence In the opinion of Mr, the direr t contrary, ' They prove that Webster nn the subject of Nullification, General Harrison proposed the purchase and Gen. Jackson' Proclamation against and deportation of the staves, by the ap t, we demand a full publication of , thn plirntioo of ijie. surplus revenues of the language imputed lo Gen. Harrison, and Untied State to that purpose, fan 'opin- fair proof that he usl- it not proof by a. letter, alleged, without rnntrailirluin ' In be a forgery, such as this address seems to mske ihe foundation of another charge against General Harrison It ia certain; ihatMr.WebsieF that he maintains many opinions in which we do not concur, snd from whirb Gen eral Harrison has publiily dissented) yet ( we say it fearlessly) theee i: much, very much, 'in Mr. Webster's character aiiiT conduct, which all candid men. of all Dar- ties, which even the mot malignant of Hia rnrmii mirs,must admiiei- aniLahaUheiof lhe C.dniatiniWiety Wwogno i gratiiqiie ol every real U-publiran is due in mm, tor tne strenuous exertion ol bis great. abilities to arrest the advent of E lective Monarchy, in ihe form of alt abo lute supremacy "of the Federal Executive i - r . I - - .. over all the other departments of the: Go vernment, which Ihe aelf-calleir Repnbli- can party fmnal uf them, we hope, unwit. are laboring to , establish,. If Mr, Webster has everbeen"a sweeping; rjtej nouncer of . Tiidependent , sovereigntjr in the Siates," we do not know, when, or where, or on whal occasion he altered sny such sweeping denunciation, nor' l we believe he eyer uttered them snd.ssG-n. Hairison is now asaailed through ' Mr. Webster, we challenge proof of this par. ticular imputation ,;upon Mr.' ..Web ster. ,.t j.,- , , ,- l II is said, and truly said, that ihe Whigs aak the people "to believe, that William Henry Harrison belong not to ihe mad aod pararide sect of abolitionists. Th inthor of. the Address, . then, knew that the Whigs denied tHat charge agiinst him Let ibis be borne in miod. We shall bo resources the land of our sires, and the WEDNSDAY, APRIL 29. IS40. , stop to inquire, what were the aperutative opinions of tienrllarriaon, on 'the subject of domestic slavery or the abolition of it, at the early age "ofeig'iteen yeara,or to de- lemi niw Kg4iost any other erroneous o pinions id hisboyhmid a test, by which the wisest statenn.au wight, in his mature sue, stand condemn, d even in his Own jurdmrnt. We know, that it ia absolute ly iinpiMMible, that any opinions entertain ed byhin at that day. Could implicate him id Mhe mad and parricide sect of an ntitionista" ol our time because no such sct had then an existence, or could have been anticipated. We know, too. that, not youths of eigh een years, bat beard ed men, wise m-n, great men ' ( for in stance. JeHVrson, Wythe, and the elder Judge Tucker were advocates fr the ab olition of slavery, and some of them pub linhed schemes of abolition.before or about the time that Gen. Harrison was eighteen heada, that they belonged to that -iad aid i-arriride sect of abdiiionists, which w- all now hold in so much detestation. We kn'iw further, tlutat a very recent neriod. Thomas Uitchie.aiMd Mr. Jrft"-r. M,n Rjrt loltdi, and Mr. James McDowell, . . . . a. a . were advocates of abolitiont anil though their doctrines were wild and mischievous en.i!r't. and nartirularlr mischievous in them as .belonging to that particular sect. v " 4 't ' We submit il to the gnd sense of our coiintry-mn, that the imputation of Ab 4diiiHn aKiHt-Geaeral-Ilarriaon-on the alleeeiTcrouiid baf7',iuf before the admission oof Missonriintu .,UitHAtn.. -lie vtronoaed a resolution fH- the exrlu- in that ti wards rejected as a candidate for Congf es for lhat very vote and this impiitation resirdion on the.8ta.te of '. Misouri, is a urain of . impud-not Jo, which ..the an nals of faction or uf jesuis'ry futnish no parallel. " , ", " - The address infers that General Ilarri. !soblong io ih mtd and parricide sect of Abolitioni.t," from his proponal tn apnlr all the anr pi us revenues of the 4n volume of hi correspondenre, p. .88. A similar proj ect was alsu saggesled bv Mr. Monroe in the Vireiu'u Convention inn. which, whether it be wise or not,, ia not itow the -otttoit. W 4 he-'wiair" and parricide sect of Abolitionist", insist, on the immediate abolition of slavery, .with out any compnsatioti to the owners of stsves, and. against, their, will, and in keeping them in the country, at the ris qte, or rather with the ertalnty, of a ser vile war, which mut end ' ia the ester mination of one r Jha otherrj-aceJLien. eral Harrison no more belongs to the seel of Abolitionists, In the sense in which this address urs the phrase, - thsn a , member the Colonization Society, which is the) es- .... - . ... nerial obiect of the animnaitf and detes tation of the sect of. Abolitionists. But, after all. the opinion attributed to Gener al Harrison is a merely speculative one) for-it i thVinnst cei-tain of all things that sre to be anticipstetl for the future, that President Van Bureii will nor leave one dollar nf surplus revenue to be applied lo this or any : olhef purpose, r-Thfre .;: baye Heen already eipe'ndel. under his Admin iatrstion, millions of dollars over and a txive the currcot revenue derived from all surres.,i.J! s ! L Tlie Whigs cnnt'nuea this ' sddre; reiuire the People to he'ieve that Gen. Harrison is not an Abdnionist, "in des pite to the notoriety of the pregnant truth, that he ha ben nominated for the 'Pres idency by. the faction) r Aholiimoisls. and this. it'. in oppMtii to the vole of ev. err member i4 ihe wominating body who helonffed In a ' slaveholding Stale." In this pasage, there is 'exarily enough of . .1 . .. truin to prove tne conaciousnes anu ma lignity ot the misrepresentation. It is art of the Vinion. and. wa alter- n the cmiurt ol Mr. Ilivesr , It inuai home of. our affections. X0. 18. true, that the membeea of the nnminatinr body (the llarrikburg Convention) frm4 the kiavvlioiding slates, ilnl, in the first insiance, vote againat the nomination uf Gen, Harrison lor the Presidency, but tne authors of this address cnnot be so igtior ant as not to know that they ho Voted only because they preferred; and, therelore vo- led for, the nomination of Mr. Clay- of Mr. Clav. aziinst whom this same charge of favoring AlMiliiiniiiaiM, hid been made and resounded . through the land by the same men who now make it against Gn, Harrison, with about as much foandatton in truth, ot rather aeainst enuallv 'clear evidence of i'a falahtHol. And the as senion that Gen. Harrison was nominated by the faction or AboliiionUts in oppow lion to the vote of the Southern members of the Harrisbug Convention has tot e ven the color of truth to austain if.' There uonveniton. aoo we untieriave v.osay, mat ao far as the Southern members were in formed, there was not a single Abolition ist there,'.,' On the contrary, it was bvliev. ed there at the time, and the event ..has since proved, (hat the faction of Aboli- iionuls ' in the Northern and Eastern Ststea were equally averse to Mr. Clay and pen. Harrison, though ! the former having been recently, from his situation, more prominently hostile , to their mis chievous schemes, might, therefore, for ih- prrsenf, he more nrotninentlv I he ob ject uf their hosfiliip. The Abolitionists have, in Tact, nominated randidatea of thvir own for the - Presidency and Vice rresiiienrY ar la it puaaiblethat the- author of this addresa found Ih'ir allegation, that. Gen,' uarriMiii na n-Juaeti io -answer- titrre .T - m - r a. .a peatedtinnoiriea of the - sou I hern s-peonl on this vitally ititerestmir urtHin tif ab' nlHiomsm, nn the letter aiJresrd lo him th'ihbaa been recenfy i.ubli-hed and Mie answer tif a committee of his frientl st Cincinnati which has be.-n public! t tte- ciareu W Di lorgwy, and this charge att ... . m . - :. votitradicled?- Or wliat j it he amusing hi those who happen toha.e any perotia' knowledge of the two men, to "see the attempt of th authors of, thi address to run a rontrat between the ilia imalaiionof Cm. Harrison and the frank nes, of Jllr Van Buren the first,, a man who i morally iurapablc of ctinnaling any opinion or -etiment, however his interest may require him lo dissemble it) the oili er, as incapable of tevi-aling any opinion r Sentiment; which it i not hi' interent to profess if indeed, ha entertains ' any other. !!;:.,;. -fi..,-. -h - i , Pf Bui (he authors of the address, as If consciou' liiat they had no grwdvliPnce to support the charges if 'i Federalism and Aholiiionisiii against General Harrison. I have most jtudacjtiiis'y.v.oj'l.rathvr .m-Mt P a . a v a. impu"enity, , atti mpted to make the Whins, and especially ihe Southern men anong them, witnesses to sustain thejar roastinn, Thevsav You will sre thall William II. Harrison i both a Federal, ist ami an AboliiioiiiHi that hi supporters, who have taken him up as a mere'- instru ment t work out tltvir own advantage, well know these truth) that they dare not avow., and are equally afraid to deny Ihem." " And lo point this remarks at the Southern Wh'g, ihey proceed to sk the people "what should you ssy, what ought Jim to feelr with respect to any -Ameri-rn with , respect, especially, ;to any Southern man, who sustains ami can com- ftrehrml (he relations of parent,' huhhaiid, sther brother or friend, Ac. and vet lo gratify hU lust of place, or tn glut hie po litical animosities, can lend himself -m the elevation of one, who, if tint from wickedness, from foMy eqosllj. Jatsl, J pWpared-lo let looe opon these sources of happiness and iinprovement io the an nihilation of evri v'lrsce of clvili.ed . Jife j $&!j)lJyL. fsgf, 'brutaHity snd igonrancr?'' Now it is possible, thai weak mind, msddmed with the otmtmi bigntry-of fartiousJteitimsyT entertain the be'liel lhat General Harrison is a Fed eralist and an Ab.diiiotif." Rut it - is not poosiblefor the meanest understand ing, or the most furious bigotry, to believe lhat the Southern; Whig "well know" the charges, Federlitni and Abolitionism against Gen. Harrison, to be.' Irulh,and that Ihey dare not avow and ere afraid lo deny them." And considering the vile, corrupt ai malignant motives whi. h the authors of ihis address have ascribed to us, one and all, perhaps from a conscious ness of the motives by which they them selves sre sctoated and, considering the fads notorious to all the world, which dis piove these imputsiions upon us we feel it s duty, which we owe to urelve and our country, to declare,' as we do declare, that, sn far, certainly, bs we and the body whji h appointed us are involved in the imputation and in respect, we (irmly be. Iiee, ti the whole Whig party the charje, tat w know Gen. Ilarnann to be both a Federalist and an Ab litionist. and that we dare not avow those troths againt him, and are afraid to deny them, is a wilful and impudent Xlehood. We say a wilful and impudent, falaehood) lt, b-rsuse the authors otihis'addre. fhem selves, in the first part f the pastsge quo ted, declare, tint we ssk ' ihe people tn believe that Gen. Harrison is net a Fed hugh McQueen, 'v. -thos. jlemay; ; 1U V ' SksawaassiaBBBUanaaaaMaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiaaaaiaaaa eralist or an Abtditionist, whit h plainly implies, that they know we have denied these charges against him) find, because' ihey must know, that every . W hig presa south of Mason and Dixon's line.has been, for months past,, ilenvirg and itfutfrg these chargea) and 3d because, in the ad dress f the Whig Convention for the nomination of presidential electors, both those Chargra are staled, denied -in the -most extdiiit manner, fully examined and refuted and that address, the authors of ihe imputaiitin we are repelling, if ilirv , ran rrad truth and argument, as CueM. ly as they ran write mjlianiiy, slang and nonene, must nave lead and unicr. tood, :.:-..-v.;.'.'.. ' ' f '' We knnwunt who are the - an'lmrs of the atldreas, nt-r have we liciired; nor da we rare to know. We cottnot bring our. selves tn believe, that the whole of the : Central Committee in whose behalf it has ' been put forth, could have assented to or spprrd such a paper. Our business' is. to defend ourselves againat a 'malignant" ' and false accusation, and to hurl bsck the insult spun the authors of it, whoever thrv sre. B. W. WyntU Robertson, ' Jno. 8. Gallaher,1' F. B. Deane, Jf - Betnaid Peyton, J. IL Pleasants, Loftin N. Elletf. Inn.- M. Patton S. Ussier, Henrf I Brooke, J..'M. Wirkhsm, U W.Chambcrlayoe, t. m turtle. ' John C llitbann. . S'gned by all the members of the Cora- ' mittee present. ' . , v From the Dahiokar American. ' ' ' New Patent Railway Tiatk, invented ". by James Hereon Emi. Civil Engineer.-- We hive had the pleasure of examining a model of this invention. . which prnnnacs t in be of greal value in the construction- of j Uiiilwavs. " - v. ' ; The great Milficulty of keepisg a raiL way in working to tier n lhe present sys tem of construction, and the heavy anna al'cliarge arising for repairs, has induced Mr. Ijciroit lo devote ins ttme and talents i.vjbiiiheriLWrf bom jers o clone study and fftc)fi2 obiM-rtaiiun. and. considerable-expense in .. prm uring inforinution on ihu Subject from .. England and elaewheie, Mr.-. Ilerrou basW suci ceded in maturing a plan of construe lion which errlainly appei re to hae at tained the tlesirrit end. tf is evident from , ihe greet strength of ihe model ) thuglt " made of ebony wood where imn would ba used on a large scale that wire a bank : to wash in two, leaving chasm' of eyen ; ni-iai.t uringe ir toe cars t" pas oer. An I yet there is 'much ( less maty riaf ed, and less win kmatieliip required in 'us formation, lhan in 'the geneiali'y id. the prrsent railways. So that the , first 'cost of cortxtrsctiun will all also be materially reduced. . ' ." ., i " ' '. i : Mr. Ilerron remarks, thst the ilesidrr atom sought tn be attained in the construe tion of all railway is to furn a haul smooth, and uuilot mly even surfarp, for, the wheel tn roll on. But, while the suifare of the railway is hard the stroc tore should not be ig'd - like inSMinryt bq,t should ptHisess a certain degree of elasticity, yet not so as to bend in any ' sennild .drgree beoeath the -inNatent writ-lit, or slight foitfussion of the carri age much leis should ihe individual tails bend beneath, the wheeNRS.we jh tn do between the. points of support on many ofthe railways in ve, lo fact, moat rsilwsts consist of a seiie of short etas tic planesdivided by narrow rigid sum' mils rsused by Ihe points t-f support on der the rails. Tni meihml of ronalru tiuit . i raues the engine, and carriages to aim m ' , t'bM hlu'VMT of lurthiiig' motion to the dUrouifoii of the traveller, the rp -id derangement of ihe track, and drstruc'. :' lion of ihe locomotive maihiorry. Ex 'i' -perirnce has shown lhat ihe usual plans -of ronstrurtinn railwsja ,are defei tive, and th t. the i. best : e-Vkma nhi p. .cannot i4- thuafonn a railway that ; will lung eon ' linue uniform on ihe suifare, or regular., : liMlireciion. jThe custom has . b-en lo ' bed earhjftill, or alone block aepsratrly on the soil., but we find that the earth has , a difl'rreut di tree of deetiny at almost er?s1rfwi1kiaot Iv find ihe most spungy rarths mtrrmin- gie.r-. iih uteit.ttf'M.ijd?'' grt.ite."iie;?:,":;r mlaral conaeqoence is. that the sifts . or ", blocks settle very unequally,' causing the uneven surface we see, on which, in ; ad iJifiSHTnTheWiTwy comotives snnot haul one half the load ihey would do on a uoi'orm track. , Fsr- ther, the beddio; of the sills." for obvious ' ' reason, is carried on-in fin' weather while the gound is dry and Bun, and - ev v ery one know lhat many roads lhat are ( ' excellent in the sgmmer, will mire deep ! ' in the long soaking rains of the win - -tr. - ' : : ' ! ' ' .V; We cannot attempt to describe Mr. ' ' Herrnn's improvements at thi time, ss a ' drawing would be necessary to a proper understanding of the ; plan) but we insy , remark, that ha - constructs the rsiling track, in a great mtasure. independent of. " the road-bed on which it rests, bv uniting ' the whole f (be material of which it is composed, in one s;mp'e,' but sin nelyi ', Cilmbitied frame work, that effectually 7' prevents the sinking at the joints, and " all lateral, derangement whalever, either ,' on the atraght tines or curves Indeed the framing i murh , stronger at the joints than els where and we were partirulnr ; Ivs'rurkwi h the simple and efficient method by which the string pieces sre united, which is a new joint in ' rarpen. try, aed claimed a such in thel patent. Mr. Ilerron remark, thst thus, by a uni ted frsmiog. he nb'sin a more - exten sive and uniform bear ng nn the soil than th individual part wmild .have, and as it is of sufficient sir. njih lo form a bridge over a chasm of twenty feet, the differcot - ' 'if ;
The North-Carolina Star (Raleigh, N.C.)
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April 29, 1840, edition 1
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