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" r . r ; rriT" ofj the Hon John Quinct-Adams (now in ibe press) on th e Bulff Texa. the re ply oi uat gentleman to tne Letter oij toe Hon. B C. Howard, chairman of the Com mittee on Foreign Affairs, which appeared injotir paper or the 21st ultimo. Motion al Inlelliz enter: ,' . I P' i THE REPLY.! ' j . Irkthei National Intelligencer of the 2 1st of July, 1833, there was published a letter tr the editors from Colonel Benjamin! C. Howard chairrhan of the late Committee on Foreign! A6aira, to which are annexed the letter from' himself to Wm. S Folton, Lsq , inquiring whether he had received the letter from the fate President Andrew Jack son, ol Uecember 10. 1830. .which had been read by rnej n the House Represen tatives, and M jFrjLvoN'a antwer acknowl edging that he had received that letter some tune in the month of January, 1831 Theae last two letters Ur -Howard jut into my hands, with p request that I would comma nicate Ihem to fhe House, which I should have done had, 1 been permitted to address the House again on that subject after re ceiving themi. ; jj They oro now repubhsried, together withj the letter from Colonel Ho w brd to the editors of the National Intelli gencer, as Totjming a natural supplement to mat unnmshed debate. - To ihe Edit he Intelligencer. jYonr paper of this morning (July 19thV announces thityou have finished Mr jAdamfV speech, which occupied so many morning hours, as you sayl that Mr Adams, without concluding h is remarks, resumed his seat. The subject, of course, lies over until the next session, Mr Adams being entitled to the-floor.' ?N. ':! i ' -:.;V j ;; My purpose at present is not to complain that no member of ibe Committee on For eign Aflairs bad, an opportunity of replying to the numerous and heavy charges which ' k t i' - - .(- . .. . . j wr Aoaras orpugni against tnat committee, nor to state vjhat would have been the sub stance of mt defence tof mvsclf and the rest of the cpromittee, ; if a few moments could have been found, under the rules I nf the House, for i list purpose, Mr Adams's complaints of haying xsufTered tinder the operation of Wliat he tails the Mgag law,!" when at that very time he was attacking the committee, d(y after day, without a chance being afforded to them of uttering a sylla ble in their ojvn vindication, 1 would reply in the labgu8e of; the Emperor of Mexico, who was stretched by the Spanish comman der upon'a bed ofj burning coals, with one oi ins companions, wnose Criesanrt comj plaints :wee ijud, and whom thejinjmrdr rebuked by siytng, Do yon think that I 1 lie here lipon a bed of roses V Passingjbyjthe many errors contained in ibis speecii, as far) as it; relates to the opin ions rcondiict of the Committee on For eign A.ffiirs, 1 only mean to request you to publish the two enclosed letters. J placed them in. the possession of Mr Adams on the- day when hi? 'speech ceased, with a re quest that lie would read them when be re sumed tbe floor.j jl believe he would have done so, but on Monday, the IqfI day of the session, the Speaker of the House decided that it was not in oraer lor the discussion Jo continue. On the 1 Ipreccdihg Saturday, Wr Adams read a f coniideh tai tetter oi Uen. Jarksnn . a a . to the Hon Wd. S, Fulton, then Secret" rt of Arkansas, and dwelt much upon his bW lief that, although written, it was never sent; He is reported to have said : S It is nb! demonstrative proof of that du plicity wbicb pervaded every pait of the course; of the lite Administration in recard to 51fxico,i that; there does exist such an autph pj the late, president, arfd lbat,so far w it appears, it was never sent ? If it Was sent,! the persons are living who can prove it,' etc. ;-i. v ".'. i -i 1 Having obtained from Mr Adams the let ter which ! he read, j 1 enclosed it to Gov; Fulton, (now 8i member of the Senate of the.United States,) aod received the answer which 1 send to you! ! VV ben 1 inquired up on me iioor ,oi me House how the letter came into the possession of Mr Adams. ; 1 understood i him ;tb reply . that, if the House, by a vpte.would call for Ibe infor mation, he would cheerfully give it. But m . iu.i . . a". a irom uiai inuinem until me ena oi ine ses lion ' there was no opportunity of moving lor a vote ol me Mouse, nor do I know that 1 woulil have renewed the inquiry in that way, u mere aaa ueen a propitious mo ment. v Whed you siv, therefore, that Mr H. did not put the Question I be that it i-r - " .V! u I ' r n iimj no uuuersiooa uiai i consinerea a ret- the House' hv Mi Adams, as putting it out of my power to press tnej question lurtner, and hot from disinclination to learn bow the trictly conhdential" etters of General Jackson, or any otner mi n came to be read in the House, and tl ri orinted. espectfully yours, ; BENJ. C HOWARD. House of Representative!, July 7. 1833. Sir ; The enclosed letter was read by Mr Adams in the course of his morning, and 1 understood him speech this to uy that it was not senjt. As the inference which may be dxawrt froni this will probably be, that General Jackson did not seriously entertain, lor in tend to act upon, the principles avo we4 in this letter, may I ask you to say whether or not'voti received the original, (if whicli the enc osed is a copy ? Respectfully yours. BENJ. C. HOWARD. Honi Wm. S. Fcltok. Senate Chamber, July 7, 1833 fiir :'i 1 this moment received yours of this datej, and for answer have the honor to stale ib!t the original letter, a cby.j oijiWiich yonlhave submitted to my inspection, 'was received by me 'some time in the month of January 1831. The original letter is how witr my papers at home, in Arkansas ; oil my return it is my intention to IcKik; and for it, and either send it to the State Depart ment or bring it with me oo tnt return here next fall. From my recollection of !, the contents of the letter, I feel satisfied the f ncl osed is a true copy. I: ! ; 11 that i jal, j Tiiiswas a matter strictly eonfiden and ail my proceedings under it were cretl i ' - rimim se- Urider my instructions, I diligehtlyjin?de the enquiries required, apd cociimunicatec the result to the President. i i am, respectfully,; f i your obedient servant, : W!rJ. S. FULTON, II V: HOWARD. : j f j ei notoriety with which this conspiracy e dismemberment of the Mexican Re public; was pursued, from its incipient stge to itsj final consummation, hot only itnlthe Terntory of Arkansas, but in all the South western States, and nowhere with morejn decfit;publicity'!hn m the Stliis of iflsn nessee, and at Nashville, by the most devo ted partisans of General Jackson; the slug gishndirlerence with which thecqmjpfaints of the Mexican Government upon tliis sub ject were treated by his Adminiitrationhe voracious appetite for Te'x.is, betrayed by the negotiation simultaneously pressed ti;)on the extreme, need of Mexico fori the acqui sition of that province br .purchase nd the mystery of withholding from j Congress aW knowledge ! of this negotiation, Wlii I jit was jkrjown to all the world besides;, lad jinisep strong and well-founded snpi?ibns of trje Sincerity of the political otercojiirjse hetwfen the Administration and! tiiewGov eriiment of Mexico. Those suspicions had evenbeen made public as early as in 1rie yearj829,hy ihe report (if the KjeXiparr : Secretary, of State to the LegisUtiirey jprie cisely contemporaneous with tne insttic tionsfromiMr Van Buren o Mrtpdiiis?jt fo tuke Nyantageof the distressed apd ihva- djed tohdi!ion of Mexico to orTej' five jmil I tons of dollars fVrlVx as j At a htei jne- riodjwhen a grave and sorcmnS complaint of the unfriendly and equivocal iortdurjt pf ht North American Ad nmlist ration' townrds Mexico bad bef n addressed I directly from the M exican to onr own Secretary of State; when a! new nUrstion of disputed bounrfnr jd been suddenly started in vagueand in-? jifjnfle hngflsge, by a note of MriAhthbri Butler to Ihe Mexican Government : ' when jsoibmn. dilomalic mission of jhW hig&es! rdef sent from Mexico to Washinotfin th compfain of these ambiguous oUmas out. and (hese hostile practices, had'! been iiriet wih pmooth words and anttnafrmf clis- clositre! to Congress, and thereby mlltbe Mexican Envoy, of the authority ' jgnfett lb Gene.raf Gaines to invade tjie Mf xjcan! ter ritory, t the very moment of her sharpest contest! with the Texian insurrection, it pvas iinptsible fr an attentive ! observer nbi.to percr1ive;the duplicity which for ;t lie first tune since-the existence j of the United States, Had crawled into thetr counsels, fnd coiletl herself in the seat ! of their ; liishcst power. -This perversion of moral pripci-- pie; this debasement of national morals! at the summit of the organised authority of the Ur. ion, b ad i forced itself upon my notice by its internal evidence before the original letter j from the late President to the Siire' tary of the Territory of Arkansas had been exhibited to my inspection, or the copy of it lurpisnea me, witn permission to make such nse of it as 1 should tliink broDer.l ! MrfFulton says that this was a matter strictly confidential, and that all his proceed ings unaer u were secret, j r Strictly confidential ! yes! ?o confidential that it was reserved from the knowledge of the Governor of the Territory, upon allega tions not conformable to Hhe fact. ' The Govetnot was riot then in Kentucky, bnt at nis posi in Arkansas; and altnoogn the let ter was not official, but confidential, it was to hint lhat, in the course of a straight-forward and honest policy, the instructions should have beeo addressed, I and ! not tb the Secretary. I . Alj Mr Fultojn's proceedings tpntjerl tie instrqctions were secret ! yes! so secret that he discovered bbtbing.f of which the rest dent could or would ayail htmselL to coun teract or defeat the conspiracy against the diligently made the inquiries requireand communicated the result to ihe Presidebti Wbali result was it mnrht La ifw;n ia knotfj but the event has shown that: the conspirators had nothing to fear from it. PerHaps ihere may have been some secretij sympathy between the inquiries of Air f ul-j; VT f r t jpuuiicaiion aoout tnat time itt the Arkansas Gazette, of which the follow-1 ing is one paraeranh : U BnUeMhe charge 'affilrcs of tbb 1 n? Th forth L .- " present predominant party ajre iecif dedlj opposed to Ibe ceding any pprtioii of its territory. No hope need, thf reform, be entertained of our acquiring Tesason til some tber partf more friendly to ! the United Slates than the present shall; pre dominate in Mexico, and perhaps not un--til the people of iTexas shall tiiroiff jfithh yoke of allegiance to that 1 Goternment, which tbey will do, no , doubt, sc soon as they shall hate a reasonableprtter for do- ltOg 80, From the answer of the Department of call of the House i of i Upre4 State ito the senlatives pi a copy of th the 5t h of January, 1 1 83$,! M s letter from the late President to 51r Fulton, that no such letter 'was found on the files of the Depart ment--f rob the fact that the letter itself, though purporting tolbej a copyj was an original, in the jiand j wilting of the I Piesideot, and; signed; with his name jfrpra the notorious fact tht the Texian conspiracy bad been aided and sup ported, from the Territory of Arkansas, as openly; io Teanessee, without I inierrup- tion br rebnke either from the Territorial ori Federal Governmentand especially from the extraordinary! countenance given by' the President eighteen months afterwards tb (General Houston at Washington, while he was assaulting jand maiming, in the i ark- ness of night,' in a atteet of that city, 4 member of the House of Representatives of the United States 1 could not believe tbat this letter to Mr Fulton had everibeeo sent ; and having jome experience ofj the frailty of the writer memory upon sukjects relatinjg to Texas, 1 was not without expec tation that he would, upon suitable inquiry not recollect that he had ever written such a letter an easy consequence from j which would .have been another; charge against me in the Globe and Richmond I Enquirer of fraud and forgery, as fair an A as true as thit Lon the conference between General Jackson and me,' at the conclusion of the Florida treaty, or as that of the niemnrable substitution of the semicolon for the com ma ! j -r ; :v r :;; The acknowledgment of Mr Fulton that he did! receive ibe letter shortly after it was written, and that he complied with its in sttuctinns, by secret measures, the result of which lie communicated to the! President; temives all possible question of tl,e authen ticity of the letter as the letter itself re moves all possible question of the late Pre sident's full knowledge1 of the conspiracy, with General Samuel Houston at! its head, for the dismemberment of the Mexican R public; as early l as December, 1830. It re moves ail doubt, also of the light in which he professed tp consider it as an atrocious conspiracy against the pace and ! integrity of a neigbbonug Republic, which he a the Chief Magistrate of this Union, was bound in duty to detect, to expose, and suppress, by all the lawful and iofpcial means in his power.). Withi this knowledge, and with these sentiments, how! is the history of his subsequent intercourse: with Mexico, with Texas, nd with General Samuel Houston, to be reconciled I The perpetual teasing if the Government of Mexico for cessions of territory, increaatng in amount in pro portion as the proposals were repelled with disgust,' the constant employment of agents, civil and military, for all official n:; rcoiirse with Mexico and Texas, citizens of State? most intensely bent upon the acquisition; of Texas, such as Anthony Butler, Potvhattan Ellis, arid General Gaines ; the uninterrup ted intimacy with General Houston, from the egg jto the apple of the Texian revolt ; the promise io Hutchins G. Burton, of the Government of Texas ; Ithe wanton, unpro voked, land unconstitutional discretionaiy power given to General Gaines i to invade the Mexican territory ; the apparent con cert between that officer, in the : execution of his authority,, and tbe.Texian Command ing General Houston ; the cold indifference to every complaint on the part of Mextoo against all the violations pf our obligations of amity and neutrality I towards her the disengeotous evasion of a direct answer' by the wooden nutmeg distinction (that a di rection not to go beyond Nacogdoches;! he contemptuous treatment o all t the com plaints of the 'Mexican Minister,) Gorostiza, and the preposterous importance attempted to be given to his ptinting a pamphlet 'in ihe Spanish language, exposing the; 'bad faith of this Government in their treatment of hjs mission, and'circulating a few copies of it before his He part nre from this country: id all these things there is a mutual coihci dehce and coherence wbicli makes them perpetual commentanes upon each at he!. But the crowning incident' of all is Uhe thundering war message of the late Presi dfntiofi the United States tblCongressJof, the 7th: of February, 1837, with the ossen- Iuif reports upon it, at thelVery heel; of the session, by the committees of both Houses of Congress ; and, ast bf all, the echo of the martial trumpet in Ithe mes sage of the present President at the com mencement of the late session In j this last message waa the strange arid on war- raniea assertion, mat from tne proceedings of Conffr. inn lh mnmmpni)ii!nn his predecessor in the message of 17111 February, it appearefl that lb opinibri both branches of the! Legislature eoinefded "withi that of the itxecntive -that faiy Hons m4 ij(a6 bivsed. 77ou uj rearess Known to ine. aw oj rw- Goternrricnt for the purchase o( Tezasl ! . vi'ikouiuiiica. ur i ixai war against Mexico by the United States would; haye beeriu5iia6V An appropriation., or a jm mutter of Peace , 1.1- r mm is, to be sure. Imarvellous evidence of the opinion that a resort to tear would be jus tifiable ! ' But was there no other evidence of this coincideiue betweeu the E xecuiive and ihe House of Representatives,! with re- m gard to the question of peace and war oe tween tne. united states and Mexico r uu! yes, the rep'ort of the salme Committee on Foreign Affairs j recommended a "last sol emn appeal to the justice of Mexico,' by a diplomatic mission of thehighest rank,and the appropriation Tor sqcb a. mission was accordingly made. ' jf And on that same night tht nomination of the Minister ; was sent to the Senaie.and confirmed by the advice and consent of that body, j - j.- - ; And wbq was this Minister of Peace, to be sent with the last drooping twig of olive, to be replanted and revivified in the genial soil of Mexico ?:j It was no other than Powhatan Ellis, of Mississippi, famishing for Texas; and just returned in anger and resentment from an abortive and) abruptly terminated mission to the same Government, in the inferior l capacity of Charge d1 A f fatres. His , veryi name must, have tasted . l ft . .am. ' ' a . . like worm-vvood to; the Mexican palate; and his name alone seemed to have been used for the single purpose of giving a rel ish to these last, resources of pacific and conciliatory councils. His appointment seemed at least tp barmontze with the re commendation of the Committee on For eign Affairs, forj it was to a mission of the highest rank in oitr diplomatic dictionary. But though! appointed, he was not peiintt ted to proceed upon his embassy, lie was kept at home, audi in his stead was de spatched a courier of the Department of State, with a budget of grievances good and bad, new and jold, stuffed with wrongs, as full as Falslafffii buck basket with1 foul linen, to be turned over under the nose of the Mexican Secretary of State, with anal lowanpe of one week to examine, search out, and answer concerning them all. It i; impossible to speak of the conduct of our Government towards . Mexico with the gravity which the great principles and vital national interests involved in it would require. Tnere are large and serious cau ses of complaint, and just claims of in demnity by citizens of the United States against; that; Government, abandoned and sacrificed byLour4nwn,upon the most frivo lous pretences of 'offended dignity, andre peated ruptures j of negotiation without rhyme or reason. ! j From the day of the battle of San Jaci;Dto9 every movement of the Administration jjof this Union appears to have been made for the express purpose of breaking off negotiation and precipita ting a war, or of fVightcnirigj Mexico by menaces into ihe ctssionof not only Tex as, buti ihe whole course of the Rio del Norte, and five dejfres of latitude across 'the continent of the South Ses. The in struction of 21st Jilly 1836, from the Sec retary of State to Mr. Ellis, almost imme diately after the battle, was evidently pre meditated to procure aropture,and was but too faithfully carried into execution. His (Ellis's) letter of 20th October, 1 1836, tb iMr Monasteric, was the, premonily ymp ton ; and no trne-fiearted citizen of this Union can read it, arid the answer to it on the next day by Mr Monasterrb, without blushingVor his country. This was the initiatory step, followed op, by Mr Hi till he demanded his passports and came home. And instantly after his return came! j the war message of 7th of February, 1837. Io the mean time the Mexican Charge d'- Anaires at wasmngion iuasuiiov mu, oi course, and necessarily, been recalled by bis Government, in consequence of this hos tile departure of Mr Ellis. The Mexican Envov Extraordinary (Gorostiza) bad been driven away by the cold and insulting re- tusai oi saiisiacuon,; or even oi, piauaiuic of reasons for the invasion of the Mexican of territory by Gen Gaines. A courier of of ihe Derartnient of State was afterwards ; sent to draw the circle -of Papilius round Piesident Bustamente ; and no sooner had anomer iunvoy cxtraoruinary Plenipoteotiary from Mexico set his foot of war had indeed reverberated f from the complacent report of their Committee on Foreigns iA.flaibat thai report bas never takeu op for consideration in tile House, oor was ibe resolution with which it clos ed adopted by (the House. (i An apprpprifition was, indeed, at 5 o' clock in the mprnirig of one of the last days of the seision,! at the motion of the chair-" man ofhe Cotomittee on Foreirn Affairs, foisted into the general civil and diplomatic 'appropriation bill for an outfit: and sala ry for an Envoy Extraordinary and Minis ter Plenipotentiary to Mexico, Whenever, in the opinion!! of ' the Executive, circum stances will permit a renewal of diplomat i intercbarie honorably with that Power, 180b4j;;L' 'J . . !., '. : And that thensame chairman of the Com mmee on Foreign Affairs was, all the late Session of Congiess, reduced to j the ne cessity of citing this approbation, thus ob truded by himself upon the sleeping vigil of the House in the last agonies of an ex piring Congress as warranting the asser tion of the present President, thai the two Houses of Congress had concurred in opinion with his predecessor, that! ori the 7th of February, 1837, La declaJatipn of in Washington, ihari he was'insnlled cJ ts New Orleana, bji a paragraph in the anhc al messase of the President ot the Unltpd States to Ctigresjs, spurring that- body! to war, ana leiung tbem that negouation wps sxiiausted; and that fArymust provide self redressing measufef for the rights of l!cir fellow-citizens, which he, the Executive Admioiairation.waa no longer able to main tain. -. j lvfS-; Tri;;o: ,-;.. .: ;;: But the duplicity, hich I have cliaf gW' opon ihe Iate;itaf present Administrations of par Goverrimeatf in the conduct of bur national intercourse with Mexico arid Tex as,bas not only been signalized by its bear ingjopon those foreign States, but it lias been practiced with equal assiduity uhon the people of this Uuion themselves. 1 It was practised :by the legerdemain ftiickcry which smuggled jtbrough both-HboscJ of Congress, against the; repeatedly declared sentiments of a I$rgemajority of the IJousj of Representauyes,in the form of a contin gtnt appropriation for a Minister, the ire cognition of the Repobl 6( Texas It jias been practised byj the long-protracted sup pression ofj all debate in both Hoqses.roost especially in ! ihe House of Representa tives, concerning! our relations with Mex ico,! and, above al,L withegard to the an nexation of Texas; to this Union. Tho cyaleniatic smothering of all petitions a j catnst iUlm .ie, vxtuded io ine rc.o- iutiona of seven State Legislatures, could have no other intention than .to disarm tlie resistence against it which w as manifesting itself throughout ktl Uie aiavcles States of the Union. It was distinctly seen that if n full, free, and unshackled diocpsaion of tho question in the llouae of Representatives should be permittedits issue would show . an . overwbleminj; majority against the measure at the time. " 'll- H f - - In no atrongerj light was this double dealing ever disclosed lhan in the treatment of the petitions, memorials, and legislative resolutions relating to the annexations, re ferred by the Hotise to the Committee of Foreign Affairs, and never looked into by them. The chairman of the committee ac-; tually charged the House with inocfrfrfnice : in reference to iie committeo 'the petition from Lubec. Hej ma intainrd that the sul sequent referenc of all the State resoln tiona and all the Petitions had been cootm ry tb the declared opinions of a large ma- j jority of the House, arid lie lamented that i the motion to Iaylon ihe table, pr the "mhri tion for the previous question upon tlie ru-! port of the comuiittee did not prevail,. represeftted the aiswer of the Secretary b( State to the proposals of Mr.' .Merau-nn Hunt as a prompt p?shive and irrevocably refusal ; yet, what were the objections al leged by the Secretary against the accept-! tance of the ofierjf ( A w ar w ith M ex i co and a doubt) nil Hinted of ihe cons tit utioi-! al power of Co6grssv Buju two Presi-; dental of the United Stales had, for the last eighteen months, ibejen goading Congiess into a war with Mexico, and the chairman ' of the committee himself jdeclared that lie j thought, with the precedents of Louisiania arid Florida, there iWs no room for the con stitutional doubt ; !!he, too,, fi ad been amoni: the most eager and inveterate stimulants tn j a Mexican war ; and if it was true, as two Presidents had asured Congress, and as the chairman himself had responded in choral unison to the assertion, that decla- : ration of war by the United Slates against Mexico would lr(S been justifiable in February, 1837, what objection could that leave to the accetaocej of the propo sal from Texas in September of the saifie year? Nothing but the constitutional doubt, and of that the chairman ol thecommitteo had dir posed by declaring with great equan imity, that in Ins opinion, ing iri it. . . r ': iheretoas not It- In his publication ibf the 2I$t .Joty' Colonel Howard, replying to jmy indignant remonstran ces against the thrice-repeaiedgaaijd com plaining that be and bis colleagues of ihe Crrj mitifcepn Foreign Afaira had not enjoyed tf oppurtuniiy of rfotirig oo the floor of the House the toaoy errpra"0f joy pecb asaimilatcs, with extreme felicity of illuatratioo, his unharV py condition to i hat uf jhe Mexican Ernpen t Guatiraizin, 8treuhed. with one of bis favoriie courtiers on the racW! burning coals, by j the ruthlss Spaniard, torexwrt ihe disclosure of his s treasure, and respoodirig; to ihej, shrieking sopr plications of bis fellof sufferer by the qaticn. and am Ion a bed rf roset f'and truly f ? believe that he ia noifi But if my lamehtatim. uoder the torture of khe strangulated freedom (: speeeb, in ibe cumm6p assembly where be and 1 with others, our peers, .repreaent the whob North American Peu jle, call for relief and deliv erance oponbim, his inwer tbat he ia suffering equal lb tortare himself differs somewhat in iu application from thai t the Mexican soverei?!'. It was not by his tyrlpny and cruelty that hi favorite aod himself iwere stretched at ooce,on the beds of burning M ; ihy Were both vic tima of one and the same ruffiao coouerur. i If he could have ttoed his Iriend and depeodint from the fUme. ther would Late ueen no caose for this exclaaiw which waa, indeed, boi an erophatic declaration that be could notf To my lie e lord, therefoie. the GoaWnvain of tEe late Committee on Foreign Affairs, ! reply, that, smarting as he now djoea upon tbe bormpg coals, of a casual aod momeoury laterdict opoo h:s riffbt and prtvelegs of lapeech 10 the Represen- tative Halfof Ue Unjon, I trust be will cever more, as principal oi as acowsary, stuff the gz irtbet mouth-of his fellow-members of th Hooae. or bis own ; Wat. he wilt more rolutions to a rapgle the right of the People to pstitioo, aiHi peireeoom o. l. iiy, mrA that J noiwithauodin bis ,hy to female aujilTeaas and JStiora. he will tio the man atrd queen ancieOt pf dajs.wl,o. by her o h sV.-1 i ; i 1 r .- -: JV ii ; .. -. 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Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N.C.)
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Sept. 8, 1838, edition 1
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