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LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES,
PASSED AT THE THIRD SESSION OF THE
TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Public No. 33.
AN ACT making appropriations for the
naval service for tho year one thousand
eight hundred and thirty-nine.
Be it enacted, by the Senate and House
t.f Representatives of the United Slates of
Jrnerica in iungrtas ussciuiai i nai
the following sums he appropriated for the
jural service for the year one thousand
eight hundred and thirty-nine, in addition
to the unexpended balances of former ap
propriations, viz:
For pay of commissioned, warrant, and
petty officers, and of seamen, two millions
three hundred and fifiy-two thousand six
hundred and twenty-five dollars and sixty
four cents;
For pay of superintendents, naval
constructors, and all the civil establish
ments at the several yards, forty-four thou
sand dollars;
For provisions, six hundred thousand
dollars;
For repairs of vessels in ordinary, and
the repairs and wear and tear of vessels in
commission, one million of dollars;
For medicines and surgical instruments,
hospital stores, and other expenses on ac
count of the siek? seventy-five thousand
dollars;
For improvement and necessary repairs
of the navy yard a Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, thirty thousand dollars;
For improvement and necessary repairs
of the navy yard at ChariestdWn, Massa
chusetts, twenty-six thousand dollar;
For improvement and necessary repairs
of the navy yard at Brooklyn, New York
seven thousand five hundred dollars;
For improvement and necessary repairs
of the navy yard at Philadelphia, Penn
sylvania, eight thousand dollars;
for improvement and necessary repairs
of the navy yard at Washington, twenty -six
thousand dollars;
For improvement and nccrv-rjary repairs
of the navy yard at Gosport, Virginia, six
'V'four thousand dollars;
For improvement and necessary repairs
the navy yard near Pcnsacola, twenty -tve
thousand dollars;
or ordnance and ordnance stores, sixty-five
thousand dollars;
or defraying the expenses that may ac
crue :for the following purposes, viz: for
be freight and transportation of materials
stores of every description; for whar
3ge and dockage; storage and rent; travel
lngcxpenses of officer and transportation
0 seamen; house-rent for pursers when at
. e". to yards and stations where no
louse is provided ; for funeral expenses; for
J.mmis5ions, clerk-hire, office-rent, sta
rry, and fuel to navy agents; for pre
ens and incidental expenses of recruil
ns'; lu.r apprehending deserters; for com
pensation to judge advocates; for per diem
ti ?VVa?ce lo persons attending courts-mar-W
and courts of inquiry ; fur printing and
a lonary 0f everv description, and for
,ngthe lithographic press; and for
oks, maps, charts, mathematical and
atical instruments, chronometers, mod
Mtd drawings; for the purchase and re
fou englnes ant machinery, and
Vjr , e rpair of steam engines in navy
s for the purchase and maintenance
cn ana horses, and for carts, timber
cri r S' an( Workmen's tools of every des
kj -,on; for postage of letters on public
aJ.,Cfe'or P',otaSe antl towing ships of
Proi! tax?s and assessments on public
inj-vi fr assistance rendered to vessels
yard! ress' or ',,c,Jt;r,lai iaDor at navy
pr; V Dot applicable to any other appro
Cand,9ni 5r coal and other fuel, and for
'M sh il ?9r the use of nayy yar(Js
zine r8 Nations; for repairs of maga-
30rpowdhouses? and for no other
orongh,
purpose whatever, four hundred and fiftv
thousand dollars;
For contingent expenses for objects not
dX'r" ated' lhree thousad
For pay of lhf ofBcers non-commissioned
officers, musicians, and privates, and
Mibs.slence ot the officers of the mirine
corps one hundred and seventy-four thou
sand three hundred dollsrs;
t For the provisions for the non-commis-Moned
officers, musicians, and privates
serving on shore, servants, and washerwo
men, lorty-hve thousand and fifty dollars;
or clothing, forty-three thousand six
hundred and sixty dollars; "
For fuel, sixteen thousand two hundred
and seventy dollars;
For keeping the present barracks in re
pair until new ones can ba erected, and for
the rent of temporary barracks at New
l'ork, ten thousand dollars;
For the transportation of officers, non
commissioned officers, musicians and pri
vates, and expenses of recruiting, six thou
sand dollars;
For medicines, hospital stores, surgical
instruments, and p iy of matron, four thou
sand one hundred and thirty-nine dollars;
For contingent expenses of said corps,
freight, ferriage, toll, wharfage, and car
tage, per diem allowance for attending
courts of inquiry, compensation to judge
advocates, house rent where there are no
public quarters assigned, incidental labor
in the quartermaster's department, expen
ses of burying deceased persons belonging
to the marine corps, printing, stationary,
forage, postage on public letters, expc.iscs
in pursuing deserters, candles and oil for
the different stations, straw for the men,!
barrack furniture, bed-sacks, spades, axe,
shovels, picks, and carpenter's tools, sev-j
enteen thousand nine hundred and seventy-!
seven dollars; j
For military stores, pay of armorers
keeping arms in repair, drums, fifes, flags,
accoutrements, and ordnance stores, two
thousand dollars;
For completing the hospital at New
York, twenty thousand dollars;
For conveying Schuylkill water to the
naval asylum at Philadelphia, and for all
necessary repairs, nine thousand seven hun
dred and sixty dollars;
For current expenses of the hospital and
its dependencies near Norfolk, one thou
sand five hundred dollars;
For completing the hospital buildings
at Pcnsacola, and building a wharf for
landing the sick, four thousand dollars;
Sec. 2. slnd be it further enacted,
Thatjt shall be the duty of the Secretary
of the Navy, under the direction of the
President, to make preparations for, and
to commence, the construction of three
steam vessels of war, on such models as
shall be most approved, according to the
best advices they can obtain, or to complete
the construction of one such vessel of war,
upon a nlodel so approved, as in the opin
ion of ihe President shall be best for the until our constitution isdestroyed. If this
public interest, and most conformably to ( is the meaning the spirited Conqueror had
the demands of the public service; and : allusion to, I say, God save us and our
that to enable the Department to carry ! constitution from such conquerors,
into effect this requirement, a part of the Now, sir, when we look at these Feddr
sum already appropriated for the gradual j al conquerors, what principles do they sup
improvement of the navy, equ d to the sum 'port? They do not support our constitu
of three hundred and thirty thousand dol- jtion, if they did, you would not see them
larsj shall be, and is hereby, directed to be with Henry Clay and his Fifty Million
subject lo the disposition oi the Department j Bank at their head. This man is their lca
ibr this object in ease that amount can be jder,and a consistent one theyseem tothink.
diverted from that appropriation without Look at his consistency a few years back,
a violation of existing contracts, an I if that lie saying a United States Bank was un-
cannot be done consistently with the rights
of contractors and the public interests, then
so much of the said sum of three hundred i
and thirty thousand dollars as can oj so
di erted lo this object, from the appropri
ation referred to, shall be subject to ihe
disposition of the Secretary of the Navy
for this purpose and the residue of the
said sum of three hundred and thirty thou
sand dollars shall be, and the same is here
by, appropriated, and shall be paid, out
of any money in the Treasury not other
wise appropriated: and the said sum of
three hundred and thirty thousand dollars,
to be expended in the manner in this section
prcsciibed, shall be in addition to any ma
terials now on hand, applicable to the con
struction of the said steam vessels of war.
JAMES K. POLIv,
Speaker of the House of Jiepresentatives.
RH. M. JOHNSON,
Hce President of the United States, and
President of the Senate.
Approved, March 3d, 1839.
M. VAN BUREN.
FOR Tnfi TABOIIO PRESS.
ilr. Howard: 1 saw in the Washington
Whig a few days since, a hard trial and
sweeping push made, in defence of Mr.
Stanly's s-peech, delivered on Tuesday in
the town of Tarboro', at Edgecombe Court,
to the voters of this county; with a view
to give it another dress, completely oppo
c;tf frnm that which it was delivered in.
But we need not expect better things of I
(Edgecombe County, X. C.) Saturday, July 6, 1839
the Federalists, who say one thing &; do an
other. Nothing speaks louder than action,
and by their fruits we know them. What
hen would this third Congressional dis
trict think of a man who comes among us
witli a name, and under it dishonors him
sell, then to hide his deformity assumes to
himself, a new name? Would he not be a
violator of law and good morals? say? I sav
he would. Then, sir, look at the Federal
ists, they have changed names time af
cr time, and for what? To deceive.
But, sir, this is a time when they are put
to their wits end to find names enough to
hide their deformities. . We begin to see a
search made for the good old way, I mean
the first principles on which this Govern
ment was founded. From that source we
see the Republican ranks filling every day,
and their motto, "Principlesand not men.""
The people are not to be gulled always by
Federal leaders; no, sir, they are up and I
believe by the next election will show Mr.
Stanly whether the servant is greater than
his master.
This Government is a Government of
the people the people are the sovereign.
But Federalism says, the people are not ca
pablc of self-government. What a farce!
What bjtter testimony do we need, than
just toveiw their course? We almost eve
ry day have calumny, abuse; and numbers
of reproachful . names, the people and their
Administration are ridiculed with. Sir,
this bespeaks the badness of their cause.
Since the people are awake and coming to
the rescue of their injured constitution,
the Federalists rage, and threat: calumny
and abuse follows, and the last resort after
supplication will not do, behold "spirited
conquerors" in-the field. Shall we not
meet them, or shall the people bow down
to these conquerors? No, fellow citizens,
you are too patriotic to be intimidated by
these conquerors. Then take your arms,
come to the contest we have nothing lo
fear,the badness of the enemy'scause makes
them weak. Then gird on the whole ar
mor of Republicanism, and flock around
your flag of liberty, "the ballot box;" and
then you will slay these conquerors, these
Juliuses. Do not be idle, the crisis of the
times calls on you to come to the rescue.
But some may say, I thought we had
men before us as candidates for the next
Congress, and they, we always believed,
were servants of the people, and the people
the sovereign. Your belief is right.
But, sirs, this is not the case before us at
this time, as it appears from one of these
candidates, to wit, Mr. Stanly; he says to
the citizens of Edgecombe, "1 come not
here as a supplicant, but in the spirit of a
Conqueror." Now, fellow citizens,
which will you support? There are but
two before you. One is a servant, a tried
servant; the otherua conqueror." Then you
must have a servant or a conqueror. As for
one I protest against conquerors in a free
government like ours, or in any other na
tion. But, sirs, we cannot be conquered
constitutional what nextr Uive us a
National flank of 50,000,000 -this is
constitutional. Fy This I suppose they
call consistency. Now the question is,
shall the Banks govern the people, or shall
llid people govern Banks? Fellow voters,
this is for you to determine. If you say
ihe people shall govern, then spirited
conquerors are slaiiij and your constitution
saved.
Thomas H. Hall is before us, who is a
servant, a tried servant, and faithful. He
stands by the constitution and people's
rights, and opposes every breach of their
constitution and rights; and the Federalists
go for a great Clay Bank of 50,000,000,
and want it to be the agent of these Uni
ted States, which the constitution knows
nothing about. And this is not all, they
are in favor of monopolies of almost every
description, which the framers of - said in
strument never intended. Shall we sup
port these ruinous monopolies always and
sport with our constitution, and stretch it
as if it was nothing but a piece of India
rubber to suit all their speculating schemes
for the purpose of making the rich richer,
and the poor poorer? No, sir, I protest
against them all. But I am in favor of
collecting the Government money and
keeping it in the hands of its officers ac
cording to law, and the same to be used in
no other "way. I am opposed to collecting
any more revenue than the wants of Gov
ernment require; any amount more I con
ceive to be a violation of that sacred instru
ment. Yes sir, when we see a rich Gov
ernment, a poor peoplej then give me a
Door Government, a rich people. Know-
ing Dr. Thomas ti, tlaii to oe a lauhlul
fi n a supporter oi me constitution, and
a tirm Republican in principle, I feel gUd
to know that we agiin can come to the
oallot bo ami support our constitution by
giving him our voles. A FARMER.
FOR THE TARBORO' PRE-SS.
Thoughts on the approaching Conces
sional Election.
No. 3.
The omission to" notice the Speech of
Mr. Stanly at Edgecombe Court, would be
a source of exultation to the Whig friends
of their admired conqueror which I can
not allow them to enjoy, however unpleas
antly truth may . sound in their ears. I
therefore ask your indulgence to a brief
consideration of it. I feel authorised by
general opinion to say, that it was uusur
passed in folly and extravagance by any
thing in ihe annals of stump orato
ry, since the days of the father of dema
gogues, Absalom; if indeed we except a
certain oration enacted in Washington
"longtime ago" by one John Holland of
eccentric memory who was also an aspirant
for public favor. I had almost said, tint
it claimed no likeness to any tiling in the
heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or
in the waters under the earth. Insolence,
boasting, misrepresentation, undignified
scolding, abuse of the Government, vapor
ing and defiance of absent persons, formed
its principal characteristics.
While the Congressional election was
pending two years ago, it was understood
that Mr. S. was wonderfully exasperated
with the Edgecombe people, and tint very
pretty saying was attributed to him, thai
"the people of Edgecombe would vote for
a dog sooner than for a down country
man." The nomination of Mr. Kennedy,
has falsified this declaration. At Green
ville he was heard to say, that "he would
not thank the people of Edgecombe for
their votes." But it was at Tar borough
that his folly arrived at its climax, when in
the commencement of his speech he told
the people "that he came not as a suppli
cant for their votes, but as a Conqueror"
or, according to the Whig version "in
the spirit of a conqueror." Why this is
worse than vanity or stupidity. It is
moonlight madness it is insanity idiot
ism. A conqueror! Heaven preserve
the man's wits. Does he mean to say, that
he has conquered and like a second Sesos
tris, bound to his Whig and Federal chariot
wheels, the sovereign people of Pitt, Beau
fort, Hyde, Tyrrell and Washington?
Does he mean that he subdued and bound
to the Federal car, those who voted for
him at the last election? Has he the folly
to insult both friends and opponents? He
despairs of conquering Edgecombe, "hand
to hmd and hill to hilt," except a handful
of Whigs, whom he has enrolled as a for
lorn hope to precede him in his future
conquering campaigns. Some of these
Whigs, I am sorry to say, are worihy
wrong-headed men, who (I did hope)
would have disdained subjection or vusa
lage to Mr S. or any party. But there is
no disputing about tastes. If this band of
Whig subjects in their misguided zeal are
willing to offer their limbs to the fetters of
the renowned Marquis of Quaahipompo,
even let it be so; verily they deserve the
distinction of the "Quashipompo band."
Let them drink from the fountain of the
wisdom of their leader; let them imbibe
his hatred of Republican principles; let
them exult over the wreck of Southern
rights, of Southern institutions; let them
gloat over the horrors of a prostrate Gov-
ernmentj a dissevered Union; let them sing
paeans to the triumph of Federal, Bank,
and Abolition despotism; they will learn
too late, that they have blindly and igno
rantly lent their agency, to tne diabolical
and suicidal destruction of the most free,
happy and admirable political institutions,
ever presented to the wondering attention
of mankind. They will learn too late,
(should thedemoniac plansof the Abolition
ists succeed,) that by their own co-operation,
they have annihilated the value of
that property, on which is based Southern
prosperity and wealth, on which rest the
pursuits of Southern industry; that they
have made themselves, their children, and
children's children beggars; and that their
broad smiling lands, now so beautifully and
profitably cultivated, are destined to pre
sent a picture of ruin and desolation. But
this is not a proper subject of discussion.
We will not despair ot the South, if a few
Whigs do join themselves to its unnatural
enemies. We still believe that the destiny
of the Southern States will be bright and
glorious, though it can be accomplished on
ly by the patriotic union of Southern men,
devoted to the preservation of .the rights of
the States at all hazards and consequences,
and by the firm and undeviating assertion
of the perfect equality of rights, guaranteed
by the constitution.
It would be a task as endless as unprofi
table, to follow Mr. S. through all the
"matters and things in general," about
which he so eloquently discoursed. It
was entirely owing to its unworthiness of
attention, that his speech did not receive a
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lelutation on the spot, and this wouM have
required but little effort. The forbearance
of the people, had been severely tried, and
it was properly suggested, that their intelli
gence would sufficientlv mark the vrl ic of
what they had heard from him. Me c
bused Mr. Van Burcn, for not obeying
the Whig New York committee who went
to Washington in spring 1837, to instrj;;
him in his duty, and to urge him to rail a
meeting of Congress "to relieve the fuller
ing people." Now you must know, that
thoo whom the Whigs call the people, are
the bankers, stockjobbers, merchants,
brokers, speculators, &.c. &c. These wcro
the suffering people. But it gave Mr. S.
unfeigned pleasure, to state, that although
Mr. Van Buren refused to listen to the
Whig committee then, the Government
was brought to the verge of bankruptcy, (hy
the intrigues and hostility of b:.ns : n I
Whigs, he ought to have added,) :ind
he was obliged to assemble Corgr ss
in September following. . "He th' n j re
posed," says he, "his specie humbug."
He meant, that at this extra session, Mr.
V. Buren proposed in his able mes.gc,
"the Independent Treasury, and lo break
off all connection of the Government with
the banks." It is this patriotic and wise
proposition that Mr. S. abuses and ihsul's
by the term "specie humbug." He con
demned the issue of Treasury notes. What .
made this issue necessary? Why tho
banks had closed their vaults upon thirty
millions of dollars, belonging to the people,
taken from their pockets by taxation for
the support of Government, and refused lo
pay it in order to bankrupt the government.
Treasury notes were therefore issued to
give these banks time, and to indulge them
still longer, to pay the balances ducT by
ihem. He then spoke of Jackson's Veto
of the United States Bank bill, which he
and his party can never forgive; the rene
wal of the charter by Pennsylvania but
he said nothing of the villanous bribery
and corrupfion by which it was obtained t
the bonds of the U. S. Bank held by Gov
ernment, the sale of them to Biddle, and
exalted that Nick Biddle had lo come to
the relief of the Government. This is not"
true. It was the interest of this Bank to:
purchase up these bonds in market, and it
did it; but could it have ruined the Govern
ment, it would have bought them at tfou.
ble their value. Butjlhe public know alt
this as well or better than Mr. Stanly, ami
all about the labor and fuss of the Whig?"
and Conservatives, with their armed ncu-
trality and Abolitionists to show, that the
Government used Biddle's bank as an agent
the whole is a falsehood. It is waste of
time to say any more about it.
But the land bill. He said, that by tin
opposition of the President lo this bi'l,
North Carolina has lost several millions of.
dollars. Most sapient statesman! This
cunning, deceitful proposition for the dis
tribution of the proceeds of the public lands,
is the offspring of the most prolific and in
triguing brain in the Senate of the U. S. '
and like all his iniquitous project is
dressed in the fairest seeming and plausi
bility. It is one of the rounds of the lad
der by which Mr. Clay attempts lo mount
lo the Presidency. It is one of the means
by which he hopes to revive his odious ta
riff, in 1S42, (a measure in which Mr. S.
no doubt stands ready to give him his vole
in Congress if elected,) and by means of
which Mr. Clay expects to effect thai ob
ject nearest to his heart5 the oppression and
prostration of the South. But thi is an
interminable subject, the discusion of
which would require days and weeks in
stead of minu'es. Mr. S. of course will
always be found the advocate of this meas
ure of his patron saint Mr. Clay.
He denounced the government as guilty
of waste and corruption in the public ex
penditures. He took care not to tell the
people that it was not the President but
Congress who were guilty of these profli
gate appropriations. He knows or ought
to know that the Executive, Mr. V. Bu
ren, only executes ihe orders, or laws for
appropriations passed by Congress. All
that proceeded from him on this subject,
may fairly be set down to ignorance or
deception. The fiscal affairs of Govern
ment form a subject of much complexity
even for well informed men, and 1 doubt
much whether Mr. S. is really any better
acquainted with this subject, than many
well informed and intelligent farmers, who
have read with attention and interest the
Reports of the Secretary of the Treasury,
and the various newspaper essays relative
to it. The subject is pregnant with pecu
liar and inherent difficulty, and can be
mastered only by patient and profound ex
amination. Hence on minds, little famil
iarized to problems so complex and al
ways anxious to escape from severe atten
tion, deception is easy. Hence vociferous
ignorance (especially when uncontradic
ted,) utters its bold and absurd assertions,
and imposes statements with the impudent
intention to deceive, unsupported by.ftha
semblance of truth or probability. I:.vvijlr.
just give you an instance of the cunning,
knavery and fraud practised by honorable
Whigs, to deceive honest well-meaning
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