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July 12, 1S31.
Cheap Wholesale
0101111110; Warehouse
THE Subscriber has removed his Es
tablishment from No. 18 Maiden
lane to the spacious Store No. 133 Pearl
street, over Messrs. Hyde, Cleveland &
Co. where he will keep constantly cn
hand a much more extensive assortment
than formerly. The style, make, and
materials of the CLOAKS will be greatly
improved, and will he sold at about the
same low prices as those of the last sea
son. He has also on hand
A large assortment of low priced
Clothing,
Made in good style, expressly for the
bouthern und Western trade, that will
be sold at about the usual prices of the
most inferior quality. Also, an assort
ment ot S I OCKS, with many other desi
rable articles, t hose who will take the
trouble to examine this Stock of Goods,
will probably satisfy themselves that they
cannot select the same amount from any
stock in the city, that will be a safer or
more desirable purchase. For sale by
F. J. CONANT,
No. 138, Pearl-st. New-York
TERMS. S ix months for approved
Notes payable at Banks in good standing
in any part of the country eight months
for City Acceptances or, 5 per ctnt. dis
count for Cash. In all cases where the
time is extended interest will be charged
at the rate of G per cent, per annum.
Any goods purchased at this Establish
lhuat tl not suit the market for
c y were intended, will be ex
changed for others. 36.12
New-York, April 15, 1831.
Tarborough, (Edgecombe County, N. C.) Tuesday, September S0, 183 i.
JVb Tariff of Prices.
EARTHENWARE,
Looking-Glasscs, $c.
THOMAS J. BARROW & CO.
Importers, 88 Water st. New-York,
MKR FOR SALE, the largest
and most complete assortment nf
Earthenware. Glass, China, nluin
and gilt Looking'Glasses,Sec. which
tne iew-ork market will afford.
comprising every style and variety of
me newest patterns. 1 hey return
their most cordial thanks to their
friend in the Southern States, for
their support in the persecution now
carrying on against them, fur their re
fusal to join a combination in fixing
one tariff of prices for Crockery,
throughout the trade. It is mainlv
attributable to the influence of our
Southern friends that we have been
enabled to survive thus far, in this
most trying situation; exposed to the
combined influence and capital of the
whole trade, endeavoring to effect our
ruin and expulsion from business.
We pledge ourselves lo our friends to
give them every satisfaction in our
power as regards the quality of our
goods, the excellence of our packers
and the .'ownessol our prices lor cash
or city acceptances; and in return, so
licit from them a continuance of their
patronage, and particularly request
those who have influence with their
friends to exert it in our behalf, as we
trust the cause is one they are all in
terested in, ai:d much benefit will ac
crue to us from their friendly acts in
this way. It has been said, the com
bination was broken up. As it re
gards prices, this is true, and all, we
think, friends or foes will allow that
wc have effected this change; but we
do assure our friends, that at no peri
od since we commenced our system
of unshackled prices were we in great
er want ot assistance than at the pre
sent moment. This combination of
men are leaving no means untiied for
effecting our ruin, that they may re
vive the old system: our credit and
character are assailed in every shape.
our importations waylaid and stormed i
in every instance where threats arc essential differences, but under
sufficient lo intimidate the manufac- different names. The term
Hirers Irom supplying: us; in fine, 1 i i- i i i
no vexation or trouble which the ma-j1 ,Cni,,Sl whicll hud become
lice of men could devise has been nc.joniuU3 to the People, has been
glectcd in this struggle to subdue us. j substituted by that of Nation
We once more call upon every friend j al Republican a nomenclature
of a free trade to come up to our sup-Jihat happily expresses the prin-
no cause to repent of Iheir liberality.
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T. J. BARROW CO.
S3 Water-street, above Old-Slip.
Alienist 4,1 S3 1. ' 52-3
Just Published
At this Office, (with additional notes)
a second edition of the
Patriotic Discourse,
DELIVERED HI THE
Rev. JOSHUA LAWRENCE,
At the Old Church in Tarboro' N. C.
on Sunday, llh July, 1830.
ALSO,
The North-Carolina Whig's
For the Kehufcec Association.
Price, 10 cents single or, 51 per doz.
Tarborongh, April 18.
z?gz-ZT2ca&.
by request.
Communicated for the Richmond En
quirer. To the Jackson Party of 1823.
In every country enjoying li
berty of speech and of the press,
parties have always existed and
will continue to exist so lonn; as
that liberty exists. In our own j
they arose at the formation of
our Government; and even be
fore the ratification of the Fed
eral Constitution, they assumed
the names of Federalists, or
those in favor of its adoption,
and Republicans, or those who
opposed it from a fear too
well grounded that by it the lib-
erties of the States and the peo
ple would be jeopardized that
under its provisions the Gene
ral Government, feeling power
and forgetting right, would by
implication and usurpation, fi
nally assume to itself the right
to do whatever it willed. The
term Federalist, however, in the
sense in which it is now gene
rally understood, is applied to
the party of '93, who had in the
first ten years of the Govern
ment verified many of the pre
dictions of the original Repub
licans. The parties were then
divided on the powers of the
General Government under the
Constitution the one claiming
almost unlimited power, the
other denying all, except such'
as had been specifically granted
or absolutely necessary to carry
into effect some granted power.
In the great contest in ItfOO,
they appealed to the only legiti
mate arbiter the People who
decided, as they will always de
cide when they have time for
reflection, in favor of those who
advocated the cause of liberty.
The parties thus differing, con
tinued under the old names un
til the close of the late war. In
the prosperity of the country
immediately succeeding the
treaty of peace the rancor of
party was allayed; and the dis
tinctive marks that had been so
long maintained, were gradually
disappearing, when on the ac
cession of Mr. Monroe to the
Presidency, they were finally
abandoned.
On the ruins of these old par
ties, probably on the whole the
most honest, virtuous, high
minded, and patriotic that ever
existed in any country, new
ones h ive arisen, with the same
'
:cmlcs ot those who have ru unt-
ed it to wit, the power to do
- r .
any tiling by national means.
The National Republicans,
of which Mr. Clay is the ac
knowledged leader, iro, in their
interpretation of the powers of
Hie federal Constitution, tat
beyond that of the old Federal
party of '98. In proof of this
assertion, I need but refer to
the first message emanating
from the last administration, of
which Mr. Clay was a loading
member. In that celebrated
document, Congress are called
on, not only to disregard almost
every limitation of the powers
legitimately conferred on them
by the Constitution, but what
was still more extraordinary, to
disregard also what until then
bad been held sacred by all par
lies, however else they may
have differed the will of their
constituents the will of those
whose servants they professed
to be. For this odious and out
rageous heresy against the fun
damental principles of Republi
canism, was this party, more
than for any other single cause,
hurled from power. U is still
the same party against which
we are now contending, hold
ing the same principles -for
they have never disavowed
them entertaining the same
determined purpose of control
ling without limitation the wealth
and resources of the country.
The great measures on which
they have staked their political
fortunes all tending to a con
solidated Government are the
re-chartering of the United
States Bank, a protecting, if not
a prohibitory tariff, and the
most extensive system of Inter
nal Improvement by the Gene
ral Government. These two
last go hand in hand without
the One the other cannot long
exist; nor could either singly
ever have been fastened like an
incubus on the country for
neither interest was strong en
ough to carry its favorite mea
sure without the aid of the oth
er. The West consenting to
be taxed for the benefit of the
Eastern and Northern manufac
turers, provided those of the
North and East were willing to
expend the millions thus raised
in Internal Improvements, a ve
ry large portion of which neces
sarily falling to the West. With
a party thus constituted and
thus acting, the payment of the
national debt (as it will relieve
us from the necessity of raising
ten millions annually) must be
regarded as a great evil, rather
than as an inestimable good
for it will be a barrier to their
schemes of sectional aggran
dizement at the expense of the
rest of the nation. Yet for such
politicians, entertaining princi
ples like these, subversive of
every thing like justice and
equality, are you appealed to by
every argument, however soph
istical, that can be addressed to
your reason or passions, to give
your support.
That the opinions of Gen.
Jackson are not on all points in
exact accordance with the Vir
ginia doctrines, is well known;
but that they approximate them
much more nearly than those of
Mr. Clay, is capable of the
p la i n est demo n s t rati o n .
On the Bank question he is
beyond all cavil with us, as his
messages on more than one oc
casion prove.
The whole course of ad
ministration hus furnished suffi
cient proof that the payment of
the national debt in the shortest
possible time, is one of his fa
vorite measures, and one to
which all others, save such as
arc indispensable to the public
defence and national honor must
yield. This determination he
has expressed in all his messa
ges, iu his celebrated veto on
the Maysvillc road bill, he lays
down the principle by which
he will be guided, so long as he
remains at the helm of affairs
that all improvements not deci
dedly of a general nature, are
unconstitutional, and urges in
the strongest terms the inexpe
diency and corrupting tenden
cies of subscriptions on the part
of the Government to joint stock
companies, as an additional ob
jection to that of their unconsti
tutionality. Such a system
would lead inevitably to one of
log-rolling and corruption, by
which any administration that
was base enough to use such
means to retain power, might
buy up the disaffected. It is
one, too, that would tend to a
ruinous expenditure of the na
tional fund?, without any con
comitant advantage, and which,
had it net been checked bv our
1 present firm and patriotic Chief
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Vol. VIII No 5.
Magistrate, would have caused
the postponement of the pay
ment of the public debt to an in
definite period a contamina
tion most ardently wished for
by the manufacturing interests,
who are willing to avail them
selves of any and every reason
tor the continuance ot the pre
sent most oppressive rnte of du
ties, which they are well nware
tlte good sense of the people
will force Congress to modify
so soon as the demand on the
public resources of ten millions
annually, on account of the pub
lic creditors is removed. J he
known opinions of the Presi
dent on the Bank question, and
his determination to prevent anv
further increase of the tariff and
to check the wasteful expendi
ture of the public funds, in the
wild and multifarious schemes
of Internal Improvement, by
which needy contractors and
jobbers amass fortunes at the
expense ot honest industry, com
bined with his dismissal from
office of those who had so long
enjoyed them as to think and
act as if they were theirs by fee
simple right have laid the foun
dation of the present infuriated
warfare that is waged against
him. Many trivial and absurd
charges, that carry falsehood on
their faces, have been raised to
keep from tho view of the great
body of the people the real cau
ses for which they bear him
such deadly hatred they will
be found in his determination to
administer with honesty and fi
delity the Government that has
been confided to him, and in his
devotion of the public funds to
the payment of the public debt
for which the national faith has
been pledged. In four years
more that great object will be
attained. On what a proud el
evation will our beloved coun
try stand, when free totally
free of debt! With what won
der and amazement will it be
viewed by the nations of Eu
rope? It will speak in a voice
that cannot be misunderstood
by the most illiterate, degraded,
and tax-ridden peasant of the
old world. Such an event, un
exampled in the history of na
tions, will be the best and hap
piest commentary on our sys
tem of Government, and one
that will give it more character
abroad and our example more
moral force than any single act
that has ever transpired. For
what and for whom are we to
deprive ourselves of this long
looked for consummation of
this glorious triumph of the
principles for which our fathers
fought of this irresistible proof
that man is capable of self-government
the great problem
that wc arc now solving for the
world! For Henry Clay and
his miserable huckstering poli
cy, miscalled the American Sys
tem, by which the hard earn
ings of one great interest, and
that the most oppressed, aro
put into the pockets of another
already the most prosperous!
A system that has, even at this
early period, brought this proud
Union to the brink of dissolu
tion. There can be but few
who love their country and will
divest themselves of self-interest
and the influence of party
spirit, that can long waver be
tween these two alternatives.
COMMON SENSE-.