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... i . .. ' - . ! CDITO AND rEOfftlSToa Soaacaimea-, lar.eae.Ur er eeaei -ka)f r'eraeeveile'iaf whaeaitae tatewlllke rjrJ quire la MM" WMIIW"" ''bates'o'f advertising. ! ; F every ere( sal eaeeedlai lMisMtfcli lypa rieertiee.eaedollereek ebetq.aeet ieaertiee,lweBt-ieeete. To ad " ef Ulerkafae' Sheriff will treed S per eeat.biaeriaad aacaoctioae 33) or MX. will aa aalefrea. lb regalar pri eeWoradvertltersey the year. gy Letter! tbe Editor mcT pert-pa. The pre Miit tetMoa ef,thi (afcoel will Iom the lad rfaj of (bit month, tad eoaaracaee ! Mtk of May. ... Tka eakool b dsr Ihe direetioa el ny diopter wke w ill leaca Ike sidereal araaaae ef M Engliaa edaeatioa, aad will pere for iM mIiun. ,nt af thews eatrerted la ker. Pro. from lh low eoentry wk- with te plaae Ihcir deuthtrr M gnoi athool. hi a healthy aeithBOi-aood, will da well Board ua aa bad m Ihe teailwt of lb Rev. Jamee B Alfori. Nathaniel Warren, Baq, aad the Sub aenaeret f) par mnath. Parent ae dm tin any li.loreaalioa reipaatwt. the arhnol til do o, by ad dree; Ha. J. B. Allord, a Kelvin Groe,or tha beaaariW, at Balai,. - . AKDRRSOM PAGE Oaky Moeat.N. C. April t, I lei. II ftvraint'e JTrth Carolina Executor, COM I" AIMING the statute and comauM Law ol tU, State, together with tha dceiHHi ol the 8u preeae Court, aad all Ibo acaetaary toroaa and p re activate. Mended a a eeevenieat Maaael. aad aafe (aide ta Esoevtor. AdiBiinittrator, (ieardiaa, Jerat aad CoiamiiMonert appointed by the UourU, Clerk, SbwraTi, and all other publia a Ulcer, la abort, it i iaeaded.for tbo beaett of all peraoae. publia or nriaata. who are. or naaaiblv mar be intcreated ia the proper aaaaagemeal of tha ertale Ol dreeaard pereen wkbalia leaat truubla aad ecpeaaa poatible, aaeordiog to the lav aew ia foreo For betide the l-gal aaaitet above aaeunotwd generally, it embrace the kindred auhjeat el Will of Land aad Pereonal ProfWrl), l,aie. DiMrihutiee ahare of Ealslee, Kule ol DtiMcnt, Partition of Rttatc Heal and I'er sonal, aiannfr thoae eatitlrd. Dower and other pro caine for Widow. Ice. lie. Among the Perm it eonuini, are ill the neeea aary Lxa) proeeaa. Will. B rii4 O.thi, Deed, Mill of Sale, Leave, Form! of Account, Petition. Affidavit, Advertiaemaata, Comroiuion, Notice, Writ, Keturaa, Report, fca. k. ia all near a h.f.dre-l in aambef. . Aad u believed, by good fudge, ta be the largeat, a well a the Boat pne tiaal and approved eolleelioa ol Form now extant. Tbi book ha jaat been pobliahed. It eonlain Sit actov page, (aama aisa aa thoae of the "North Carolia JeMieei") well booad in law hading and, ia eonwaueaee of tha eoareity of money,- a well a to plane it within tha reach of every peraon, h ia ow offered for vale at Jha low price ol $1 JO by re tail. Merchaat and olhrra oho boy a quantity to nail again, aaa bava a reasonable reduction ia the price. a Avply at the Printing Office in Aiheborough, Randolph county, N. C, or at the N. Carolina Uook Store ia Raleigh. BENJHMIX 3WAIM, Author aad Proprietor. December!. 1141. Stat of Nortli Carolina Franklin County. Court of Equity Fall Term. 1841. Billtr Sal and Diviiimn AVrrew. Wniotm P.. Smhh, Jamc 8nith, laiah Smith. Wil liam Aight and wife Pataey, Matthew Johnaon and hi wife Nancy, nnd Joha Pleaaaut aadbi wile Nelly, Coinplainaut, aoAiitiT Beniania Waddy, admVof Goodman Smith, dee'd, Kebteea Smith, Tlioma. L. U. Smith. Willie Smith, John Smith. Elisabeth Smith and Good man Smith Defendant. , It appearing to the Court that Willie Smith and John Smith, two of the delenriant in the bove aauie, re aoa reihlentat it i iherelnre ordered by the Coovt that publiratwa be made lor three month w the Raleigh Star, that the aid defendant. Wtllin Smith and John Smith, b and apear at our next Superior Court of Equity la be held for the eoonly nl Franklin at tha Goundou m Louiahurg, on tha Sod Monday after the 4th Monday in March next, and tr-ea nd there plead, aner or demur to aid lldl ol Complaint, ntherwia the aame will be heard, iudgment pre enufeaao will be had againtt them, and decree made accordingly. Witne, Saml Johnann, Clerk and Matter ol our aaid Court ol Equity for the county aforeaaid, at of fice tha Sad Monday alter the iib Monday ia Sep tember, 1141. Tett SAM-L JOHNSON, CM. E. Price Ad. I0 00. 1 Sm. Dee. 17.1141. . CIPaOTLAB. NORTH CAROLINA BIBLE SOCIETY Addreaaed to the Auxiliary and Local Bible So- cieliee, within the bute of XNorm Carolina. rThe following Cireolar" waa prepnred and embodied in a report by a committee of the Board ol Manager ef the State loaiitution, ' eonitUf of Ran Dr. McPbeetere, Ke. B, T. Blake, and Rev. Drory Lacy. The North Carokua Bible Society waa or'teinally organized aa a State Inatiiution, designed to operate by mrana of Auxiliary Societies, throughout the entire limits of the State, under a ceneral and systematic ar rangement; thereby aecuring the means of more extensive usefulness aud greater effi ciency. Hitherto, for causes which we need not now enumerate, the Society has failed in accomplishing the object contemplated by its friends in its foimatioo. Its operations have been confined within ery narrow bounds; so that while it has retained the name of a Slate Society, it has had only a nominal ex istence. The present Managers of the Society have, for soma time past, had the subject under careful consideration. They have viewed the singular position which they themselves occupy the important interests they are required to serve and the certain failure that must ensue, to render the Stale Society available for any useful purpose un der the present disjointed ction of the va rioua auxiliary and independent Bible Socie ties in the State: and after consultation with the Managera of the American Bible Society at New York, they regard itaa due to them selves and the general interest of the cause in which wt are mutually engaged, that nch measures be adopted at the earliest period, as may be most likely to secure permanent organization of the Bible Socie ties within tho Suite, under better regula tions and more efficient management, im " ) - With this view, they respectfully submit (o your consideration the following proposi tions, which contain the outlines of the plan upon which the managers of the State Soci ety ask yourfrieudly co operation; , 5 ( , I. It is proposed, as the moat important pbject to be gained, that the Auxiliary Soci eties, holding their connexion immediately with the American Bible 8ociety. become miliary to the State Society, and for the fuluie carry on their correspondence ; with the American Bible Society- through the 8tate Society; through whose Agent they will be supplied with Bibles and Testa- mtirtxtaa V 1 rMiY "-'O n Wokth CxnoLiffa, Powerful in moral, in intellectuali andia physical reMurce the land or our iret, anil the Vol. xxxin i " ' ' "' ' " " " ; ' ' 3 RALEIGH N. C. WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1842. mentaas they may be required; and auch'.line at the rate, of three milea an hour, for', course ia reipectfully recommended for a-! doption to the local Societies of the State. 2. TMtl.e gtate Society, jointly with the American Bible Society, employ a Gen- Veral Agent for the State, to be under the di rection ana control oi tne otate society, whose duty it ahall be to exercise a general supervision of the Societies already formed; to revive old Societies and lorrn new ones, in connection with the State Society; and to appoint one or more agents under him to distribute Bibles, and render such other ser vices as the General Agent may require; and to assign them a suitable compensation, not exceeding thirty dollars per month each. 3. To establish at Raleigh a depository of Bibles, under the care ol a Local Agent, to wham orders for Biblea shall be sent. The Agent to execute these orders promptly, ei ther from the depository in Raleigh or from New York, as may be most expeditious snd least expensive to the Auxiliary Society ao ordering. 4. The funds collected by the Auxiliary Societies to be forwarded to the Treasurer of the State Society at Raleigh to be placed to the credit or the society so remitting; and the amount ao credited to be returned in Bi bles, or forwarded to the American Bible So ciety, as the Auxiliary Society may direct. 5. Lach Auxiliary Society to forward to the Secretary of the State Society an annu al report of its operations, with a list of its officers and managers, and such other infor mation as may be of general i merest; and to send delegates to the annual meetings of the State Society. 0. 1 he Managers of the State Society to prepare an annual report of its operations throughout the tate during t.ie year pre ceding, to be published for the information of the Auxiliary Societies, The propriety of some plan,, such as is here prescribed, will be obvious to every one who desires that our Suite should fulfil her obligations to be efficient in the gieat work of placing the Bible in the hands of the destitute. The Managers of the.Norlh Carolina Bible Society are aware of the in creased responsibilities of such a plan, should it be generally adopted. They are willing to assume these responsibilities, if the mends of the cause will aid them in their efforts to bring the resources of the State, into general and systematic operation. They can conceive of no other plan that would render the State Society available be sides that which is here presenied, of cutting off all direct intercourse with the American Bible Society except through the State So ciety. 1 hey therefore respectfully and con fidendy ask your attention to tho sugges tions they have made, believing, as they do, that on a proper examination of the subject, you will see the importance of a general co operation of the local Societies with the State Society, in order that our State may assume her appropriate position in this great and good woik. Directions for Correspondtncx. 1. Letters desiring information concerning the business of the General Agent and the affairs of Auxiliaries, reports of Distributing Agents and of Auxiliaries, fcc. to be address ed to the Rev. Charlei M: F. Deemi, A gent of the American and North Carolina Bible Societies, Raleigh. 2. Persons desiring information concern ing the plan of operation of the State Bible Society and its auxiliaries, will address ffetton It. Gale. Esq. Secretary of . the North Carolina Bible Society, Raleigh. 3. The remittance of funds to be made to William 1RU, Esq. Treasurer, Raleigh. The particular application of funds should be specified with precision. 4. Orders for books, to be addressed to Jttte Brown, Esq. Local Agent N. C. B. S., Ralcich. The specimens and prices of the Bibles and Testaments which can be furnished, may be found in the Annual Report of the American Bible Society : AN INCIDENT. While travelling between Erie and Dun kirk early in the spring,' a little circumstance happened worth mentioning. It may tend to make some unquiet spirit feel contented with the lot which Providence has ordered him. It was a cloudy, cold afternoon, while we were making but slow headway that we overtook weary looking man. (followed by a little boy of some ten years old) drawing a small waggon, which contained some few articles of clothing and provision, and a lit tle girl of some finir or five years ot age. It was a novel sight, and one calculated to make s discontented atae coach passenger believe that there are many worse situations in the world than his own. The lady passengers were moved to pity for the little creature, thus rudely commenc ing life, and by their solicitations, the driver stopped to question the traveller. On inqui ry, we were told that they had travelled, as we saw them, from Monroe in Michigan a distance of some three hundred miles and were proceeding to Montreal. No word of complaint was heard from either of the fam ily, but there was a quiet look of melancho ly, seated upon the countenance of the poor children, which would have moved therym- paihy of a Shylock., At the suggestion of one of the ladies, the two children , were ta ken into the stage for the purpose, of carry ing them onto die next town, where they would be overtaken by their father. , The change afforded infinite pleasure to the child ren, and while thus journeying it would hare been difficult to have (bund two happier lit tle beings, :' V. ' . ,,' , - It was nearly dark when tne children were separated from their parent; and after travel- "afW CX rtTTX'''lil,l,'iX' ,J"SL'"Kr TTrV' ' t ' . JC fa. an. ' W . afW- .I,jak TSbv' 'a, i-Ji;- 'i ar -a-.' . 1 two or three hours, we reached the village; where it was proposed to leave the children pon the public journals, ami are fresh h not dreaming that the father would be a-j my own recollection. , I allude c tliu ci ong before midnight. But lo! he was at the i ses of Overton Carr, Doorkeeper of the tavern as soon as the stage, having dragged! Iluuse, andiSlephen Haight, Sergeant at his hand cart as fast as the stage" travelled! Such an exibmon of hardihood and perse verance, excited no little compassion of the passengers, and he, also, was taken up, and j his traveling carriage lashed on to the back of the stage! It would be impossible lo de scribe the gratitude which the honest fellow expressed, in his broken English at this mark of kindness, or the pleasure which the psesengers felt at having so cheaply contrr buted lo the temporary comfort of an inter esting family, which had passed through so many storms and hardships. After reaching KutUloe, tne lamitrpasseu on their way to Montreal the father draw ing his little daughter at oelore quite aa happy, apparendy, as those provided with greater comforts. Long ere this, he has no doubt reached his new home, where he must have succeeded in accumulating all the necessary comforts of life, because it would be impossible to keep always ai the bottom of the hill, a man or so much paternal at faction aud perseverance. Rochetter Democrat. MR. GRAHAM'S LETTER. To the Freemen of the Tvetljlh Congrc- iional District of Worth Carolina. FelLowGitizens: I am informed some persons are endeavoring to excite public prejudice, and moA-e political copi- tut out of the appropriations which Cn- grrss made In tlrfrsy the lunerul expenses f President Harrison, and to pay the bat ance of one year's salary to his aged and afflicted widnw. To prevent misapprehension and misre presentation 1 will btiefly submit the facts and reasons which inJucrd me to vote lor those appropriations. The history of Con gressional legislation abounds with similar instances, approved and voted for by all parliet. from the foundation of the Govern ment down to the present session. I will mention a few prominent precedents, ta ken from the journal of Congress and now for the law and the testimony. Grn. Washiugton was President of the United States from the 4th day of March, 1789, until the 4th day or March, 1797 eight years. lie died in December, 1799 neatly three years after his Presidential term expired, and wlun he was a private I citizens and yet, on the 3d day of May, j 1 800, Congress passed a law appropriating three ihoutand two hundred dollar $ to de fray the expenses incurred in doing honor to the memory of Gen. Washington. (See the 3d volume nf the laws of the tr otted state, page 397,) Congress likewise authorized, by joint resolutions, that a marble monument should be erected by the United states, in te Capitol, to the memory of Gen. Wash ington, and a copy ol those resolutions were directed to be transmitted te Mrs. Washington; entreating her to assent to the interment of the remains of Gen. Washington under that monument. (See the same volume, page 401.) George Clint on. the Vice President of the United States, who served during the last of Mr. Jefferson's and the first of Mr. Madison's administrations, died at Wash ington in the year 1812, and he was buri ed at the public expense. Elbridga Gerry, another Vice President of the United States, died at Washington in the year 1814, while riding in a carriage from his lodgings to the Capitol; and be too was buried at the public expense, and monument was also erected over his grave by i special appropriation of Con gress. In the year 1812, the city cf Caraccot, in South America, was nearly destroyed and annihilated by an earthquake; and, on the motion of Nathaniel Macon, who was remarkable for strict economy and strict construction, a resolution pasaed Congress, by a unanimous vole, which caused an appropriation of .fiflfl thousand dollars of the public money to relieve the distresses nd suffering of hundreds and thousands of human beings is that distant and devo ted city, who were houseless and homeless and starving for daily bread. Well, il Congress had power to give and appropri ate fifty thousand dollars of the public money to relieve suffering hu,mnity a mong distant stranger! in a foreign coun try, I preiome it was rizht and proper, at least, to provide one year's allowance for an aged and distressed widow in our own country, who was the wife of a good and true old soldier. From the first establishment ef the Seal of Government in this city down to the present time, whenever t member of Con- jrress dies here during the session, ht is, at the public expense, boned ra the Congret- aional cemetery, or barring ground, and monument is rrectrd over his. grave to mark the spot where the remains of the deceased rrpnse, and to indicate to near relatives and pilgrim stranger the tombs of those who died in the aervice of their country, far distant from friend and home. The .death and funeral of each member of Congress in this city coats the laomcrnrneni auoui nime nunureu uotiars. Living is dear in 'Washington, but dying is much dearer. iNot only f rtsnienti and members, but the officers of Congress, have been buried at tha public expense, when they tlied in the public aervice. I will ttata two intiancer which appear u Arms of the Senate, 'IV y were political friends of President. Van Buren. anddied during hit administration, when he had a a. -a. a I a -a majority in both branches ot Cnngres. The salary of earn of these officers was fif teen hundred dollar per annum,, to be estimated from the first Monday in De cember of every year. Ovrrton Carr died in March. 1838. before the fourth month nf bis duties had been performed, and yet congress otrectetl, not only that healiooltl I be buried at the public expense, but that v his wuluw should be paid the balance of his salary unto the end of the session. just as though he had lived lo perform his years work Tor the public. Ihe case ot Mr. Carr is a strong one, but the case of Mr- Haight is much stronger, to illustrate and sustain the appropriation now the subject of investigation, Stephen Haight, a citizen of Vermont, was the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate; his annual salary was fifteen hundred dollar; his time of ser vice began on the first Monday in Decem ber, 1840, he died on the 13th day of Jan uary, 1841 .about one month and thirteen days after hi public labors commenced, and ten months and a half before his year's work had been finUhed, and before his full salarv had become tlue. Now, what did the Van Buren Senate of the United States say ami do io relation to their de ceased Sergeant at Anns? I will give thrr own words from their own Jour nal: "Senatk or rut Unitco Statcs, ? January 13, 1841. "Jlanlved, That the Secretary of the Senate be directed lo par, a a part of tAe contingent expense of the Senate, ihe sum of five hundred dollars to the order of the widow of Stephen Knight, deceased, lale Sergeant at Jt rm of the Senate, to defray the expenses oi placing hi bo dy in a proper manner, and in a secure eonffln, carefully protected, in ihe public vault in the Congressional burying ground at Washington,' and the expense of the transportation of the bo dy to hia friends in Vermont, and its burial there; and that the Secretary be, and he is hereby, further directed to pay to the mid widow ike tal Ary if the dectatta fur the tttidue if the term fur iukich he wot elected." ' Amount paid underthe above resolution to Anah Haih, widow of S. Haight: For funeral expenses $500 1 Balance ofsalary 1,375 Total lr875 Now, fellow-citizens, you perceive the two esses just stated both occurred under the administration of President Van Buren, and are exactly the same in principles as that of the late President Harrison. They all died be tore their term ot service ex pired, and befuie their respective salaries became due, and yet they were buried at the public expense, and the widow of each of those officers was paid that balance of the salary which her husband would have received if Providence had spared his life to the end of his official year. It appears to me that the long services and high pub lic station nf President Harrison should, at least, entitle him and hia widow to the same rule of justice that has been awaided by his enemies to a doorkeeper uudrr the administration of President Van Buren. 1 1 1 is a bad rule that won't work both ways. This is no new principle. Precedents are numerous iu the hiatory of tha Repub lic. During the last war, Oliver Hazard Per ry, a captain in the navy, won a most splendid victory for his country, and cap tured the entire BrirWli fleet on Lake Erie. Very soon after that naval victory he join ed the army under Gen. Harrison, and ac ted as one of his aids at the glorious but tle or (he Thame. Perry died in 1819, and Congress granted to his widow an an nuity during her natural life and also to each of bis four children until they sever ally came of age; making about one thou sand dollars a year to the family. Mrs. Perry is still living, and I hope may long continue to enjoy the bounty which a gratefut country conferred for the noble services rendered by her gallant husband. Perry and Harrison were fellow-soldiers and brother-heroes. One conquered ep m the water, and the other upon the land. Now, I think, if it wa right to grant re lief to Mra7 Perry for life' it could not have been wrong to give Mrs. Harrison one year's allowance, , Iu the year 1828, Jacob -Drown, tha commanding general -of the army of ths United States, whose salary was about six thousand dollars per annum, died aooa af ter his yearly service bgan, and long be- fort the end of the year when his whobj salary would have been due. , Congress appropriated to tha widow of Gen. Brown the balance of the salary, which would have been due her husband at the end of that year. The acts for the relief of Mrs, Brown and Mr. Harrison tre precisely the same in principle, My distinguished and lamented predecessor, tho Hon. Samuel P. Carson, Gov, McDuffie, Gov. Hamil ton, and many of the most prominent pol iticians, of that day voted for the appro priation, to relieve. Mrs. Brown. The seme jott principle and patriotic policy has been practiced, pot only among the high officers ol the republic, but among the faithful soldiers. ' When a soldier dies in the public service, or it killed battling for hia country, he too is buried at the pub homo of our affectioW , i j ' i " 1 I j No 2$ lic expense. u But a grateful country does, not atop there. The Government annu ally makes en appropriation to pay pensions to our old ttfficets and faithful soldiers as long as they live; snd, after they are dead and gone, then many of their widows re ceive pe.iaions in consideration of the pubtic services rendered to the country by their gallant husband. : Now, with aach lights and nch exam plea before the nation, let me ak what manner of man was PreMlef Ilatrison, that we may underttandingly deleimine what public respect should be paid to his memory and extended to hi family. Har rison had served hi country in almost eve ry capacity, from an ensign' to a major general, and from a delegate to a president. Itts long and useful life hail been chiefly devoted to his country, and not tu the acquisition of wealth. He owned a good tract nf land, and very little other proper ty. He once had a large family, though death had reduced the number of his children, and greatly increased and mul tiplied his cares and troubles by throw ing ou his hands and protection the wid owed wives anil infant orphans 'of his own children. 1 here were three widows and nine or ten grandchildren, all de pendent onl hi in for support and educa tions One of those widows was the daughter nf the gallant Gen. Pike, who was kilted in battle on the northern fron tier during the last war with the British. Harrison had adopted into hi family a poor youth, Neville, the grandson of Gen. Daniel Morgan, the heru ol the bat tle of Ihe Cowpens. When William Henry Harrison, a private citizen, anil farmer of Ohio, with very limited means, was laboring to support and educate this very interesting little, flock of lathrrlrss children, he was called and elected by an overwhelming majority of the people of the United States, to preside ovrrthis great republic. He was welcomed and instal led into his hi"h office. The confident hopes and sanguine anticipations of the future were directed towards the patriot President fresh from the people. But the uncertainty nf life, like an April day, at one hour shows forth all the beauty of the sun, and by and by a cloud takes all awsy, teaching u mortals" what shadows we are, and what fhadows we pursue." Oil the 4th day of Ayril, 1841, President Har rison died. Ilia sun then set to rise no more forever- The death of such a man, at such a time, in uch an eminent station, was a national calamity. The question still recur, what was to be done with the dead body of Gen. Harrision; what fur his disconsolate widow; and what for the descendant! of Harrison, Pike, and Mor gan? Congress not being in session when Pre sident Harrison died, hit Cabinet issued the following order: $'VVahioto:, AraiL 3, 1841. "The Marshal of the District of Columbia will superintend the funeral eeremonie of Ihe late President of the United Slatee, and will proceed tojmak all the necesaary arrangement. What ever expense shall t nearty Incurred wilt be paid." The.Mar.hall (Gen. Hunter) is a deci- ded friend of President Van Buren, and a very honorable man. He made all tht necessary arrangements, and caused what ever expense was incurred in the funeral ceremonies of President Harrison. All that Congress did in this matter was to ap propriate three thousand and eighty-eight dollars and nine cents to pay the items in the account sanctioned and presented by Gen Hunter. That sum appears large, but it is near two hundred dollars less than Congress appropriated in May, 1800, to pay funeral honors to the memory of Gen. Washington. If your father died a great distance from home among) strangers, and was decently buried, yen would dislike to dispute the account if some of the items were high. When a great and good man die while presiding over seventeen mil lions of people, it is not expected the fu neral will be one of ordinary character; but such ceremonies should be manifested ss will be respectful te his station, and to the Government and people over which he presided. But, at all events, I do not think it becomes the political friends of President - Van " Buren toendeavor "to make political capital out ol the amount of this appropriation, when the whole expen diture was caased and made under the dircctiouWGen II enter, one of their own party. " Cangrrts, at the beginning of the Extra esaiua al 1841, resolved, by a ananimou vote, to sng black crape over the Spea ker 'each Housef and that each meaal 1 wear crape on his l. ft arm, far th t mark ot respect to the memory, i resident Harrison. ' All that waa done at the public exprneev Now, I apprehend it will puzzle locofoco logic to convince any body that it was right to vote and appropriate public money to buy crape for hundred and, ninety four members of Congress to wear- mourning for President Harrison, and yet it was not right te buy one winding sheet te enshroud the dead body ef that same President! Away with all political Pharieeees -they often have the people in their mouths, and bat seldom in their hearts. That man must have the disposition of a hyena who can dig into the grave and nncufitn the dead te make political capital for party purpose. If a bilious, bitter party man ha natarsl I passion to play low game, and act the dem ESafe agogue, let Mm talent some other place for ' hit theatre than the grave-yard, and tome other sabj- cf than ' diatreaaed Widow and helpless orphan. It uiut be a bad caiite that re quires a Christain to turn I utk. , . Harrison waa a soldier, tit t-ffirr, and a President According toilideclratiou of Col. R. M. .Johnson, he won uire bat tle than any other general durii g the !at war. Hit first commission from Washington, ami bit last lnm the penplu of Ihe United wSiatv. To do justice Iw the faroilr of the deceased, Cor-criathad only to follow the precedent prescribed in the casrstu which I have referred; that ia, the widow of Commodore Perry, the"1 widow of Urn. Brown, the widow nfUjrer tun Carr, and the widow of Stephen Haigh. To relieve the widow ofthe late President, (herself surrounded by indi gent widow and orphans,) Orgies ap propriated to Mr. Harrison the balance j f the ' President' talary. The ' whole.. a- mount of the salary is twenty-five thou sand dollar, but Congrrss only allowed the winow the balance of that sum which had not been paid prior to the passage of that act -- -: - - Mrs. Harrison was entitled lo that ap propriation, not only upon former prece dents and patriotic principles, but in con sideration of sacrifices made, and compen sation for Urge sums of money expended, and debt contracted by Gen. Harrison in making necssary arrangements piepur,to- y to entering on the public uutte of Pre sident of the United States. When a private man it compelled to leave home fur four years at one time, he must make great sacrifices, ami necessarily neglect much private buines, as . well as make lare outlays to meet outfits before. going from home. If a private individual ha lo en counter heavy losses and expenditure in anticipation of such a protracted absence, what must hae been the enormous sacri fices and expenditures of a plain farmer, of limited circumstances, like Gen. Harri son, when he was breaking up his home, and going to live in the Presidential man sion, where custom and public duty re quired him to see and entertain, not only hundred of American citizen, but for--eign ministers from all the court! ol the civilized world . Upon this very same principle, when any citizen of the United Statet it appointed a foreign minister to any foreign country, he receive by ap propriation from Congress $18,000 for the first year that i 9,000 for his outfit, or preparatory arrangements, and 19,000 sal ary for each year he acta in that rapacity and then one quarter of that talary when he returnt home. In the year 1835, Vm, T. Barry, of Hen tu iky, wat appoinHuJy Gen. Jackson our minister to Spam. lr. Barry left the United States, and got at far at Liverpool in England, where he died, but never reached Spain. Well, Government then paid nine thousand dol lars for his outfit, his salary up to his death, and a quarter ot his salary to defray the expense of his family back to the United States, making the aggregate a mnunt of fourteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. The only difference in the two cases it this Gen. Harriton got to Washington, took hit oath uf office, or- . janized hit administration, and acted a President one month; but Mr. Barry ne ver got within five hundred miles of Spain, and never acted as foreign minister one minute. Now, fellow-citizens, compare the two esses j look upon that picture, and then upon this. Mr. Barry and hit wid ow received fourteen thousand two hun dred and fifty dollar, which it five thou sand two hundred and fifty dollar more than a foreign minitter't yearly salary. Gen. Harrison and hit widow both to- gether only received one year' talary, and no more. And yet, ttrange at it may ap pear, the very person who approved of . that large paymeot to Mr. Barry and hi family for starting, not going to Spain, are Ihe very tame individuals who now maka objections to relieve and indemnify tha widow, Harrison for the lottet and debtt sustained and created - by her husband in anticipation ol hit public service. No principle it better settled and established than that private property shall not be ta ken for public use without adequate com pensation. Surely no just msn will say it is right to tell Mrs. Harrison out of hoste and home because her husband wit elected President of the United Statet, and died before hit official term expired. I cannot conceive how any man, who hat the head of a patriot and (he heart of a Chriatain, can object to tit funeral ex penses of a veteran warrior and a noble commander or to an act to relieve and indemnify an aged widow, whose dwelling-house, during the laet war, wat mott freely and kindly thrown open to receive and comfort the tick and afflicted in our army. He who ran object to, and attempt to mike political capital out eftuch hu mane act, I fr would begrudge the price of the shroud that envelopes the dead body of bit father, and deny, hia mother that "one year'e sllowtnce" which the . just law cf North Carolina gives to the poorest widow in tne oiaiie- i na favor and mercy of Divine Providence can ne ver reat and abide with those who wrong., the'eoldier, widow, and the orphan. . Pa trioi'tm. piety,- and charity forbid it. : But if political pedlert, regardless of social duty, and fatally beat on mitcWef,' will trade and speculate on such political cap ital, let them bware of the wrath to come. . j On thi birth-day of our Independence I need make no appeal to the descendants of the Whigs in my district, who fought tnd conquered at King't Mountain and , the Cow Pent. ' .The history of those . Irene we learned from our fathers, nnw silently sleeping in death, almost within , eannon-shot of those battfe-groundi. . N ion or a Whig in North Carolina will ever stand by the grave of hi father and ay, , he objects to the funeral expense of a good aoldier, or to one year' allowance to hia turviving widow, No, never, nev er. I atk pardon of my constituents and countrymen for having gone into ii pro-
The North-Carolina Star (Raleigh, N.C.)
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