Whole JVb, 4 10. The "North-Carol ina Free Press," BV GEORGE HOWARD, Is published weekly, at two Dollars and Fifty Cents per year, if paid in ad vanceor, Three Dollars, at the expira tion of the yean For any period less than a year, Twenty-five Cents per month. Subscribers are at liberty to dis continue at any time, on giving notice thereof and paying arrears those resi ding at a distance must invariably pay in advance, or give a responsible reference in this vicinity. Advertisements, not exceeding 16 lines will be inserted at 50 cents the first in sertion, and 25 cents each continuance. Longer ones at that rate for every 16 lines. Advertisements must be marked the number of insertions required, or they will be continued until otherwise ordered. 'XT-Letters addressed to the Editor must be post paid, or they may not be attended to. ADDRESS Of the Jackson and Barbour To the Citizens of N. Carolina. A Convention of Delegates, deputed by a number of coun ties to nominate Electors and concert other measures irt rela tion to the approaching election of President and Vice President of the United States, has met at Raleigh, and discharged the duty to which it was called. In submitting to you the result, we ask leave to add a few explana tory remarks. We have agreed to nominate for President, the present occupant of that of fice, the venerable ANDREW JACKSON, and for Vice Pre sident PH I LIP P. BARBOU R , of Virginia; and a ticket of Elec tors who will support these no minations will shortly be pre sented to you. In regard to Andrew Jack son, it is unnecessary to say any thing. He has already been our President for more than three years, and whatever difference of opinion there may be as to sonic of the measures of his ad ministration, none of us can for get the eminent services he lias rendered to his country, and all of us confide in the integrity of his character, the purity of his motives, and his patriotic devo tion to the common weal. At the crisis which is now impend ing, it is peculiarly important that he should be at the head of the government, and although not entirely identified with the feelings and sentiments of the great body of the Southern peo ple, he coincides with them more nearly than any other in dividual we could now select. We take great pleasure, there fore, in recommending him to what we are confident he will receive, your unanimous sup port. We should be highly gratified if we could persuade ourselves that the same unanimity would exist among the supporters of General Jackson, in the elec tion of a Vice President. This we know to be impossible. Up on this subject differences ii're concileable in their nature, be cause they are differences upon some of the fundamental princi ples of our government, have manifested themselves in a manner not to be mistaken. We had reason to expect this diversity in those States which hold political doctrines directly adverse to ours. But we did not expect, and we feel peculiar mortification at perceiving at tempts making in our own com munity, where we had an iden Tavborough, Edgecombe County, JV. V.) Tuesday, July to, 1832. tity of interest, and hoped to miu an identity or feeling, to sow dissentions among us upon a question vitally affecting a great principle of civil liberty. of constitutional law, and of true devotion to the Union. It is known to you that five gen ' tlemen, professing to represent the wishes of North Carolina' have lately, at a Convention ofi Mr. Van Buren's friends at Bal timore, undertaken to pledge the vole of this State for Mar tin Van Bur en f of New York, as Vice President for Martin Van Buren, one of the authors of the Tariff law of 1828. We say a Convention of Mr. Van Huron's friends, because no one at all acquainted with the move ments of party, or at all posses sed of political sagacity, can doubt that the Convention was constituted for the purpose of promoting Mr. Van Buren' j prospects, however a few of thej members might have dissented from its real objects. Bv what process five persons, represent ing as many districts in this State; could multiply themselves into fifteen, and thereby, even if they, truly represented the dis tricts from which they came, undertake to answer for those with which they had no connec tion, we shall not stop to in quire, tfut, without intendin" in the slightest degree to im pugn the patriotism of their mo tives, it is due to the respect en tertained for them to advert to some of the reasons we have heard suggested in support of the nomination they assumed to make in the name of North Ca rolina. It has been said that the members from this State in the Baltimore Convention preferred some candidate whose senti ments Were opposed to theTa riflf System, and that -finding Mr. Van Buren had a majority, they reluctantly yielded their preference to the advocates of the Tariff; and that a perseve rance in the support of Mr. Bar bour would have hazarded the election of General Jackson. Now it is evident that a majori ty of these five delegates pre ferred Mr. Van Buren before all others, because, in the first instance, when comparing opi nions, nine votes were given for Mr. Van Buren, and but six for Mr. Barbour. But the Tariff States must be gratified in the selection of their candidate at the expense of our feelings and our interests! We ask empha tically ichy? We deny that the nomination of Mr. Barbour, a firm and disinterested friend of Gen. Jackson, could have cau sed the slightest injury to the election of the latter. General Jackson stands upon his own merits. The qualities which recommend him are well known to you, are peculiar to himself, and not transferable to any can didate for another office. We firmjy believe, if the senso of the supporters of General Jack son throughout the Union had been fairly represented, and if that Convention had met, not for the purpose of indulging their personal predilections, but of rallying upon principle, Mr. Barbour, or some other citizen opposed to Mr. Clay's "Ameri can System," would have been solccted. In any event, Gene ral Jackson is placed too far a - bove the reach of competition to be affected by anv different of opinion as to the Vice Presi dency. If he could be affected l all, injury is more likely to occur from the nomination of Mr. Van Buren, whose princi ples are so obnoxious to the! South, than from that of any ttl. nM A'.. I 1 . J uiuci niuiviuuai not possessing those principles. It is said that the election of Vice President may be "thrown upon the Senate. Such a result may happen if Mr. Van Buren's friends persist in his nomination against the known wishes of so large a proportion of General Jackson's supporters. But up on tnem, not upon us, will be the sin, if there be sin. If this catastrophe is to be depreca ted, it may easily be averted by their withdrawing Mr. Van Hu ron's name, and voting for Mr. Barbour. But it is one argu ment in our favor, that if, in the chances arising from the con test for the Vice Presidency the election should devolve on the Senate, the candidate We propose will certainly receive a majority of their Votes, while Mr. Van Buren will as certainly be defeated before that body, placed in competition With al most any other person who has been named for the office. It is partly insinuated in a public address we have seen, and has been more generally and confidently stated in private circles, that Mr. Van Buren's sentiments and feelings are in unison with those of the South. We would ask. when and where this trait -in his character has bccndeveloped in his acts? We do not refer to, iior do we rely upon private declarations or as surances. We ask for his pub lic acts. As far as we have been able to ascertain his poli tical course, he was opposed to the South in l lie election of Mr. Madison as the successor of Mr. Jefferson he was opposed to the South in the memorable Missouri question, in which was involved the right of Congress to interfere with our slave pop ulation he was opposed to the South on the great Tariff ques j lion which came before the Se nate in 1328, voting for the most obnoxious amendments, and fi ually for the bill itself, a bill which, by one of its own advo cates, was styled the "bill of abominations" he was oppo sed to a large majority of the South in the first election of General Jackson. It is true he has generally voted against ap propriations for internal im provements but he has voted for the power of Congress to establish toll-gates dn a public road within the limits of a Stale, and we may therefore fairly in fer that his opposition to internal improvements has not been; founded upon any constitutional; basis, but upon the considera lion that the State he represen ted had completed its most im portant improvements by its own means, and needed not the aid of the General Government. It has been said, too, (we do the author of the address to which we have adverted the jus tice to mention that it is not to be found there,) but it has been said that General Jackson pre. fers Mr. Van Buren for Viccj .President, and that we should be guided by his wishes in se- lecting that officer. We should feel deeply humiliated if any citizen of North Carolina had publicly offered to us such a mo tive to govern bur decision. Are we Republicans, and are we to surrender our indeben- fdence of thought and action, to sacrifice our principles in a most important election, to gratify the private wishes of any man! Are we to be told that in selecting our agents in the General Go vernment, we are to yield im plicit obedience to the Execu tive will? Highly as we vene rate General Jackson Jf he could, occupying the station he does, attempt to influence our suffrages, we should, as honest and independent freemen- aye if there be a drop of the revolu tionary blood of our fathers still coursing in bur veins, We should indignantly repel such interfe rence. But, fellow citizens, though we know not General Jackson's private preferences, we know that he is incapable of urging them upon the people! as a rule for their government in any election. Independent of our confidence in his repub lican principles, we know that when he came into office, he gave the most emphatic pledge that no Executive officer should exercise the influence of his sta tion to control in any manner the freedom of elections by the people. Lastly, it has been said, that our object is to defeat the elec tion of General Jackson by di that ice divide the party. That! difference which prevails amonglited from our fathers, to our the party on great and funda-Ideep attachment to the Union mental principles a division J bf these States, to resist this which must affect their action! encroachment on our rights by upon every question but that of every means in our power? the election of General Jackson Should we not, more especially, himself. In further answer to this charge we appeal to the called to the ballot box mani nomination We unanimously fest our utter abhorrence of this; make of the very person whose system, and our determination election we are accused of wish- to honor by our suffrages riorie ing to defeat. We appeal to who support it! With whafj the course which it is known to consistency can we condemn a! you a large proportion of the T Tt present supporters ot Mr. iar- I I. r oour nave neretoiore taKen in one or tne nignesi omces in men relation to General Jackson, i country one of the authors of But we will not further pursue thisjneasure, when another can this unpleasant discussion, nordidate for the same, office is will we dwell upon many objec-' presented to our choice whoso tions which have hfien nrfred nrincioles are our nrincinlns? against Mr. Van Buren's poiiti- o cal character. We turn to thetical system, of which we have more crateful Dart of our task, that of offer i nor in hrief the rea- J sous which have governed us in tne nomination ot Mr. .barbour. iquiesced in, not only sets at In purity of private life, in ta- nought all the safeguards pro lents of a hififh order, in an onen. ! vided bv the Constitution, but O - - - : candid and disinterested mind, j in the absence ot all selfish feelinu, of all inordinate ambi-i . ----- , rf tion and of all the petty arts to'could devise. What is the suuserve personal purposes, in a long course of distinguished puDiic service, we mignt nun ment nas tne unlimited power sufficient arguments for the pre-; of taxation that the mnjoriiy ference of Mr. Barbour, if we i may laytaxes on you not only chose to rest that preferenceito defray the expenses of the upon mere personal pretensions. But we carne not here to in dulge our private predilections, and we desire to appeal in his behalf to higher motives than any these can furnish. We ask you to support him because he is a candidate or me true politi cal faith, Vol. VIII No 46. We believe that a crisis is approaching, nay, that it has al ready arrived, when the citizens of this State must take their stand when they must let their voice be heard in favor of a con solidated General Government, restrained by no fixed rules, subject to no limits but their own discretion; or, as we fer vently hope they will do, when they must speak in the deter mined tone of freemen- when they must proclaim that this Union, which we cherish with: the fondest affection, is but a confederacy of sovereign States; that beyond the limits which have been prescribed in the Constitution by the assent of all, none can go; that neither a ma jority nor a minority has a riht to transcend those limits; and that any act of our agents in the General Government, however clothed with the forms of law, which is not warranted by the great charter granted by the States, is purely Void. We have no hesitation in saying that in our belief this Constitu tion has already been violated by Congress in their assump tion of the power to regulate? the industry and occupations of individuals by taxing one por tion of the Union for the benefit of another by adopting a pro tecting Tariff, or as it is more speciously, but fairly called, ''the American System." Caa we conceal from ourselves the fact that the most powerful ex ertions arc now making to fas ten this on us as the permanent policy of the country! Is it not selves and bur posterity, to our on every occasion when we are measure as unconstitutional antS I 1 I oppressive, anu yet elevate toi I i I T . t . i - i 1 . We firmly believe that the poli- spoken, strikes a fatal blow at I our liberties- that it snrinrrs 1 from a principle which, if ac- will subject us to a despotism as .galling and as pernicious to our interests as anv the wit of man great principle ci tins system! It is that the General Govern- government, (a power which all admit,) but also for tlie purpose ofconveylnga part of the profits made by one portion of the community into the pockets of another portion of regulating the employment of capital and the pursuits of individuals, and (continued on the last page.)

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