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Communications.
pour upon the Ely si an fields of
Carolina the withering pest of a
Botany Bay rabble, and drown in
rapine and blood the rich hesperi
an fruits of honesty ami virtue.
Let us learn wi-dom from the fa
ble of the poor snake, who found
the slurp quills of his guest, the
porcupine, painfully lacerating
his tender skin. The sword and
sensualities of Mahomet will never
harmonize with the meek and self
denying religion of the followers
of Jesus. Let the pilgrim and
exile from every land, lie down
with us beneath the broad spread
ing branches of our tree of liber
ty, and enjoy the exhilarating re
freshment of its umbrageous salu
brity, but permit no ruthless hand
to rend and lop its branches.
When the Vandal and Goth come
to Home let them do as Home
does; bnt let them not bring their
laws and religion for Roman citi
zens to respect and honor. I am
not so great a friend to "law reli
gion," as ff desire the establish
ment of star chambers or other
ecclesiastical courts and tythes, or
church taxes among us; but to
have no religious lest to proscribe
murderers and shcqMealers,
known to he such,) from the same
elevated dignity with the respect
ers of justice, veracity, and all
those liner feelings of moral iccti
tude, is revolting to my soul.
Without some religious test, how
could we make a man adhere to
the truth in court, or impartially
administer the laws.3 To have no
religion in government, absolutely
none, either to protect virtue r
suppress vice, but give licentious
ness unlimited scope, I verilv be
lieve would exceed even 'Tolera-
FOR THE T.AKllOKO l'KKSS.
JWr. Ho w.i rd: I u d i s p o s i t i o n s
prevented my earlier attention to
i tie strictures of 'Tolerator,' which
appeared in your paper of the 18th;
and after tendering him the warm
est effusion of a grateful heart for
the charitable construction he has
ascribed to Ci vis's intentions, I beg
leave to review and comment on
his opinions also.
In many of 'ToleratorY talent
ed remarks i perfectly concur, but
in soiAe he has mistaken my mean
ing, and ascribed to me a denun
ciation of my fellow citizens of
different religious faith, and a pau
city of liberality which Uncle To
by's benevolence reproves, and
posterity will condemn. I dis
claim the appalling enormity of
proscribing any sect on account of
an intolerant asperity excited in
mv own bosom by a deviation
from my opinions, or any memen
to of their illiberaiity and by-gone
i 'Ungues and cruellies. I also
deprecate any design of holding
forth allurements to arouse the
Numbering ambition of the clergy,
either to enlarge their phylacto
ries or seek the highest seats in
the synagogues. My intention
was to show the wretched policy
of altering our fundamental law so
as to admit the intriguing and
profligate, while the honest, virtu
ous and good were barred for
this purpose I selected the Jesuit
as a detestable sensualist, and the
Catholic as too over credulous to
be honored and trusted, while the
clergyman and Jew were deemed
unworthy. If I failed in making t,,rV ''hci rdity. 'Tolerator' say s,
this manifest to ordinary capaci- ('"e column, '10th line from the
ties, would it not h ive been more l"Hm0 ''that the en or lies in
charitable in 'Tolerator to have br,;mt',M'-r government religious
imputed it to the frailty, rather I M 'HesiaMical power;" and in
than tiio turpitude of "p or human I 2,1 -'l,'H he speaks of the
nature?" Whatever influence the ! umon d Church and State as an
persecutions of the Puritans and j ""Ao'J Jinnee' We may run
tlugonoK, w ho fled from Europe.'"10 ,xtrc,,,s '' almost every
to America as an asylum, might "hjert, ami such seems to be
h)e hid on the trainers of the ' ToleratorV fate in this instance;
Constitution, 1 pretend not to ' an1 well-stored mind has
know, nor d'ul I even hint that it i c,,1,c(1 nothing couvictive. that
bad any; but I do b.diee thev j "ma" a religious as well as so
thought Popery incompatible with ' i being'' from his juvenile pur
Ihe institutions they had formed, j su",ls u'n''e riug ver Pale's
and I give it as my opinion that it M"'"al Philosophy and Abercrom
is so; not because their biuotrv M"e " Intellectual powers and
has marked their track with blood, Moral feelings, 1 would rerom
and bleached it with the bones of! lmMHl tn "i"5 attentive perusal the
remarks of .Miiman on the Jew ih
constitution, or that theocracy of
the Jews established by infinite
wisdom and goodness at .Mount
Sinai. Why call that unholy
which God has sanctified? Mon
tesquieu divides crimes into four
classes, the first of which offend
against religion. In fact, I know
not how we could have any guar
antee to worship Cod as we
thought riuht, if the law permitted
every sceptic and libertine to an
noy us in our devotions by his
blasphemies and indecencies. The
error does not lie in having "any,''
or too much religion in govern
ment, but in having too UttU in
having too much profession and
nothing real; and the sensitive ami
modest Jews did not omit to visit
the Tabernacle because of the es
tablishment of a national rel'mion,
but because of llofni and Phine
ha' prostitution of it to the basest
carnal gratifications. All govern
ments must have some religion in
sire accountability to him for any j 'hem, and our's had selected the
deed done in the body men too j I1 'otcstant as preferable to the
that prescribed ride of devotion
from man to Hod laid down in the
Old and JVeio Testaments. Pro
testants think so too, but Catho
lics believe a tradition! a lex non
scripta also requisite.
Mr. Editor, I would be brief,
but the more 1 pursue the subject
the wider the field opens before
me, and I must defer for future
numbers the exposure to my fel
low citizens the pernicious and
blighting influence of Popery on
the liberties of the people in every
clime and age of the world. And
if I do not spread a splendid epu
lalion of intellectual refreshments
for your readers to banquet upon,
yet I hope to adduce such testimo
ny as will show to Tolerator' and
most of them, that our liberties
are now in danger from Popery.
C1VIS.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1S3J.
ft" We have inserted the reply
of Civis to Tolerator, but mut
decline publishing his "future num
bers" on Popery they would
probably either prolong the pres
ent controversy, or involve him in
a contest with other opponents, re
quiring a "wider field" than we
could spare conveniently.
The Election. On Thursday
last, the election was held in this
county we learn unofficially, but
wo believe correcth, that for
Congress Dr. Hall received 1319
votes, and .Mr. Pettigrcw 7f;
majority lor Dr. Hall, PJ-M. Ge
neral Assembly Ben. Sharpe,
Senate; Lemuel Deberry and Jo
seph John Pippen, Commons.
In Pitt, we understand, Dr.
Hall's majority is 04 two dis
tricts to be heard from.
million of her. tics, but because
our civil institutions recognise no
supremacy on earth, either tempo
ral or spiritual; but every consist
ent Papist does admit the supre
macy of the Pope over all the
temporalities of the Globe! and
that he is conscientiously bound
to aid ami assist in promoting and
establishing that supremacy by
lire and sw ord w hen necessity de
mands them. He must obey the
requirements of the Pope sooner
than those of the Uinir, or civil en
actments of hi; country.
'Tolerator' says, 2 1 si line, col
umn 1st, "that any religious test
is, and ought to be regarded as far
behind the intelligence of the
age." To give this sentence its
plainest meaning, it would make
'Tolerator' advocate a govern
ment of men who had no regard
for moral feeling to God or man
men too irreligious to acknow
ledge "the being of a God," and
too proud and independent to de
Tribute to Chief Justice .Mar
shall. A meeting of the Judges
and Gentlemen of the Bar, was
held at the Supreme Court room
on the loth inst. Chief Justice
Hnffm in the chair, and Th'os. P.
Deveieux, Esq. secretary; at
which Gov. Iredell offered reso
lutions, expressive of the reverence
entertained for his memory, and
the grief fell for the loss the coun
try has sustained. It was also
resolved to aid in the design of
raising' a Monument at Washing
ton city, to the memory of tin
deceased, by the Bar in the United
Stales; and Judge Gaston, Tlios.
P. Devereux, Fredk. Nash, Jno.
L. Bailey, David F. Caldwell, P.
H. Winston, and Louis D. Henry,
Esquires, be appointed a com
mittee lor 'he collection of funds
for the pupose Ealtigh Stand.
wicked to do justice to each other,
or adhere to the truth when self
interest entices ihem to a depar
ture from it. Alas! 'Tolerator,'
yon say yon "feel mortified for
your native State, that a majority
of its delegates should have retain
ed this article," (line 23d, column
1st,) "and that it is an antiquated
relic of suM?rannuated error!!!'
but would no crimson suffuse your
cheek at the introduction of east
ern Kajahs and their customs of
polygamy? the Mahometan and
Popish; but this i refilled age" has
changed it, and for what? If the
Convention thought the words
'Protestant' and 'Christian7 sysio
nouious, why strike out one and
insert the other? This alteration
amounts to proof positive that they
thought them very different things',
and their object evidently was to
palm upon us Popery as the
Christian religion, and bar all
Protestants. Had this not been
their intention, and thev really
meant to include Protestants, they
his seraglios? the Athenian poly-1 might have so altered the sentence
t heist with his thirty thousand
god-, and I know not how many
other incongruities? How long
would the honest and imbecile
Quaker see his rights secure il
placed in juxta-position with the
rapacious and murderous Bedou
? Such a state of things would
in:
as to read "deny the being of God
or the truth ol the Protestant or
any other Christian religion;" hut
they were aware that 'Protestant'
was as opposite lo 'Popish' as light
is to darkness, and that both are
.ot the Christian religion. 1 be
lieve the Christian religion to be,
Commodore Elliott. .This gal
lant officer and able navigator,
has been complimented by Mr.
Livingston, our Minister to
France, with a superb (told Box,
as a memento of the kind atten
tion, suavity of deportment, which
himself and family experienced
from the Commodore on their
passage home from France in the
Frigate Constitution while under
his command. il.
Dinner to JWr. Livingstom. A
splendid Dinner was given to this
gentleman at New York, on the
10th inst. The Mayor presided,
and the company was numerous.
The proceedings occupy nearly
six columns. Amidst a trophy of
festooned nags, all bearing the
stars and stripes, was display
ed a silken banner, (placed imme
diately over Mr. L's bead) on
w hich w as inscribed in large and
legible characters of gold, these
words: '"The demand of Ex
planation. If the principle be
submitted to, neither dignity nor
independence is left to the na
tion." The 4th toast was as
follows:
Edivard. Livingston As a
Patriot and Statesman, he belongs
to America as a Jurist end
Philosopher, to the world. His
exposition of the 2Gib of April
embodies the sentirr.ents of bis
countrymen, and stands a text
book for American Diplomatists.
On the annunciation of this
sentiment, Mr. Livingston rose,
and addressed the Company as
follows;
I had arranged some phrases
which ! thought might suit the
occasion. But they are driven
from my mind by the impulse which
the scene around me most natural
ly produces. 1 find them tame,
flat, powerless, to express the feel
ings by which I am excited, agi
tated, almost overpowered.
Gentlemen I did not expect
this: i returned without having
attained final success in my mis
sion. Returned with the satisfac
tory but humble consciousness of
having done my duty; and I anti
cipated no other pleasure on my
return, than the greetings of per
sonal friends, and that exquisite
sensation which one w ho loves his
country feels when after a long
absence bis foot first presses his
native shore. Such of you, gen
tlemen as have been abroad, will
understand this. But all of you
must join me in lamenting, that
the poverty of our language has
no other word than the vague one
of country to express the relation
between it and its citizens. We
have no derivative from the patri
of the Komans, and have not
adopted the Eader land of our
Saou ancestors. Nothing can
be more appropriate to express
the feeling, nothing more resem
bles filial duty and affection, than
the obligation we owe to our na
tive laud, or the attachment which
J binds us by voluntary lies lo the
country of our adoption. But
j if we have not the word in our
language, we have the sentiment
j in our hearts. Properly cultiva
Ited, if will teach us not only to
suppoit our country on occasions
like the present, when it can ap
peal lo all nations for the uniform
moderation and justice of its
course, but with the pious sous of
the patriarch to veil even the oc
casional excesses of our common
parent from the eyes of the world;
not like the degenerate, unnatural
brother, to exaggerate and expose
them to derision lo conceal, not
to discover the nakedness of the
hind; lo glory in its honor, to
lament its misfortunes, to espouse
its cause as our own, and identify
ourselves with il in its prosperous
or adverse fortune. This is patri
otism, this is true love of country;
and, as it is common to all w ho
hear me, I may be permitted to
say that it guided me in my con
duct, cheered me during the difii
culties of my mission, and that
I looked lo the consciousness of
its having animated me for my
best reward.
I repeat, gentlemen, that I did
not expect the reception I have
met with. But I should be guilty
of an absurd affectation, if I at
tempted to conceal the heart-felt
pleasure it has given me. I thank
you for myself, I thank you more
for my country, for I have not the
vanity to believe that any merit
of mine could excite the enthusias
tic demonstrations that have been
made, and my feelings of per
sonal gratification were lost in
the higher enjoyment of national
pride, when amid the shouts that
gieeted my arrival, the first words
I could distinguish were those
which reprobated any unworthy
concession. iever, within my
recollection, in the course of a
long political life, has the senti
ment on any question been so
strongly, so unanimously express
ed; expressed as it should be,
calmly, but with energy, without
bluster, without violence, in the
language of high minded men,
who appreciate their own charac
ter, and the dignity of their coun
try. In a settled determination
to suffer no degrading interference
with our legislative "councils, all
party feelings seem forgotten, and
the assurance I ga;e to the French
Government on my departure,
that every attempt of this nature
would be repelled by the undi
vided energies of the nation, seems
nobly confirmed. (Loud cheers,)
This intimation would have
been unnecessary, if the charac
ter of our country had been know i
and appreciated. But 1 am sor
ry to say, that two opposite par
lies in France seemed to vie with
each other in inventing calumnies
to degrade our national charac
ter; and liie tribunes of the Cham
ber of Deputies from dayloda
resounded with ihe vilest terms of
reproach applied to our mer
chants, who were represented as
fraudulent adventurers, to our
Government, as endeavoring, by
the mos infamous arts, to support
their unfounded claims. Not the
least mortifying circumstance, as
was sarcastic ally but truly obser
ved by one of the ministers, was,
that those who made these charges
were supported by the votes and
encouraged by the applause of
the Republican party, and among
them by many of the. friends of
Lafayette. (Cries of Shame!)
The great Montesquieu has
said that honor is the principle of
monarchical governments. One
description of the men of whom 1
speak seem to have considered
that this was the grant of an ex
clusive right, and like other mon
opolists they claimed the right not
only to fix their own price on ihe
article, which in ibis case they
valued at 2o,000,000 trances, but
truclion of pesti;n,M
h abundance cos:
privations ot
v r-
Il r
M,;e i' - ,
laii;!,,.. i
prostrated dignity u '''
never be iej.n,8-t,i v'
'The wounds i.f i
., . 1 ''"'if.?
ine poeij never c!,k,.
should bp eirati i
, ''lt:. lilt
an opprobrious Mir.,,...
dy politic for eer.' t 1
care, then, that , s,.( j. ,
infamy be affixed i,,,','
of our country. u
terity blush for i!
cheers.)
I give you, gentle,..
Xationul lt,nuTy
untarnished from oi;r ?r
it must be trauMni;u-rl . lr,
terity without a spot.
Lai est from Europe J,,
geuee by the .:;iiei,llla (,';,
ver pool, whence . s;i ; '"
1GH June, coi.firii.
he final pasve f
ty hill by the Fiend, Ci(,,
Peer, by n,e veiv in r..
of 125 to 22! ' "' J '
The Liverpool C,,tr , y
on the 15lh June w.i m,.,
the demand fair.
1 exas. e may daily t.
receive accounts ol the
Important from Ttm
received the No w (VL.. i.
to adulterate it and stamp national j tj,e l3l, insu yet 1;av
dignity on the labels affixed to ! r jmnorlanl ;." ;' '!,';-
. i i i -'
ineir spurious mercnaumse.
(Cheers.)
.i i . .i
v.eni.emen, i musi noiue mis- j esling character from
understood. 1 speak of an p" ! ince.
position composed of the most
heterogeneous materials ultra
royalists, ultra liberals, republi
cans, and other malcontents, w ho
ll'IVu llliltdl mi r tlm .....- ; . .
..... ujc ...ust uu- ; ,heir uoveriunent. h ),
tiring efforts to break the faith of ; ,y;t lip coIl)lli?ls ,
the nation, solemnly pledged, and , dea Aupuslin b;
embrod iwo countries bavins ; , ,
o emor, one u uo n;ui ninin;
Texas. The colo
province have at leu
themselves into an or -.
j position to assert the in.
every motive of interest and hon
or to unite, and not one to divide
them, I do not speak of the Ad-
mtuisti
i displeasure of the Mtxiciii
ernment. Viesca wished
side in Texa: and nmns.! i
ation, nor of the King. Lrnnlp,,. is!lf thp ,r,-.
M.. il... .. I . i i 1 .' ""
v, ui,i..,.j, .Me mis puu- hirnon lis uav
lie Oi'(:i si f ii i In lif!ir ilt-it I .I....,,- I . .
, . or(.tT 0j liie ,.o;nni,.
IlillltliUil tlm i . . . 1 . I I'. I
uwuuicM niu aiiiinc uesare oi ins
Majesty faithfully to perform the
treaty he bad made, and to pre-
ceri'M tlio irufi .v. ; t . ! n ...L.:
:ul rnr.
General Coss. To liberate I"
and to establish the supreme a
ecutive authoiity of ihe swei'
Texas. J. B. Miller, the
will, ti.o w .. i - "c. ,.w
: ,7. . " cl.iefoflhe.leparl.ueDtf
uccii Miuiiutu uv all ills ' I . , i t
, i lias issued a circular
in i in . Ii.iv . . ..I. .1.. . I 1
iiiinoiv.1 a ) i iiit- saint" Tpa it
, , , . . , , , ,.. . I ltllow citizens to orpauiM.
IV Inch i uM I....-1 x:. G
"iJiuituiNitu iuc flimsier
requir;:!,'
raniie.
Joi foreign Affairs, therejection of i,nffi n, pli.,11u:., r
l uouldnol have take.. . lace, j eera om
iouccu, one oi ttiem candidly
avowed, in the last debate, that he
had not used all the efforts he in
tended to have done, and which,
from his known influence and
ability, would have insured com
plete success. From that lime to
ihe arrival of the President's mes
sage, I still did justice in the desire
of ihe Administration to fulfil the
treaty, although 1 could not but
be dissatisfied with the non per
formance of M. Serurier's promise
(according to our construction,
which 1 always considered as the
true one) and had reason, as I
thought, to complain that no as
surance would be given of making
it a Cabinet question. After that
period I take pleasure in bearing
witness to the diligence and activ
ity which were shown in prepar
ing the documents to demonstrate
the justice of our claims, the
talent and eloquence with which
the treaty was supported, and the
ungenerous imputations of our
country which were repelled by
the ministers.
This adhesion to the amend
ment of General Valaze astonish
ed and grieved me. 1 strove to
counteract its effects by the note,
gentlemen, which you have seen'
and which since its approval by
the President, I still hope may
remove this difficulty. Should
this fail should one word of ad
ditional explanation be required
the good intelligence between the
two countries is at once inter
rupted, perhaps destroyed. The
voice of ibis country, thank God,
is decided on that subject
(cheers.) The dignity of the
country must, at all hazards be
preserved. The great scourges
of nations are succeeded general
ly by the remedies which a benig
nant Providence has ordained for
them. Peace effaces the ravages
of war nature repairs the dis-
general
conform to the requisition.
By an arrival yesterr; ;ty f"
Aranzas, we were informed t,
400 men had been had ori :
from Vera Cruz to Texas.
rp II K Subscriber l.avi:-'".
entire his stork n O'1
expecting to leave this
few months req'ie! n i p "
indebted to him to call 3s s"'
convenient, and settle r
counts by ca-h or note.
. fii
Tarboro July 5S,
rr!
'tTHE Sublet iber havb:;r ;
sed from Messrs. II
! Ii. Bell their entire toe kol
STAPH-: AM) FANCY
DRY GOOD
He-pectfully informs l-i" lir
and the public generally. ,r-'
is permanently loca'l 'in,
now opening his (Jt-oib 11
same well known .sunt! !l'r
sped ion.
The stock now en h"r; '
t i rely fieb and cunsi.i? ' '
every article of
Dry Goods & Gv
Commonly kept in ei.il '!
of Ibis sort; and a 1 ',:
them at prime N:W .
without any expend ol !'
&c. I will sell for cash ere"
produce ihe present stock a-;-or
cheaper than any ''
in this place thorelere. l
my countrymen genera)
as there is no mitakt, '
accounts with me-
. B. ijmdy. ,.
The Conchy
Q3 will in the ,
give as much in ca-h (,rt!''r,;;
'or country produce nl ' , ,
wors.
TarboroJ:v29f Is3-''