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lilzl1 " 4::r Q H ioe jYo. 7&. Tarhoroiigh, (Edgecombe County, jY. C ) Saturday, March 21, 1840 roi. ATi JVb. 12. The Tarborotfgh Press, BY fiP.nKOE IIOWAHD, Is published weekly at Tivo Dollars and Fiffi fenf? prr year, if paid in advance or, 7Vee Dollars at the evnirationof the subscription year. I' or an) period h than a year, Twenty-Jive Vents nor month. Subscribers are at liberty to 'Ihonr.tinue at any ti.ne, on giving notice thereof and payinu-arrears those resiJiiig at a distance ii-ust jtjvr.rialdy pay in advance, or give a respon sible reference i n this vicinity. Vdvertismioiits not exceeding a square will be HisiTm ii a i. ymc me mm insertion, ami z. cent- f'T every continuance.. Longer advertise ments i;i like proportion. Court Orders and in dicial advertisements '25 percent, higher. Ad- veriisements must be marked the number of in sertions required, or they will be continued until otherwise ordered and charged accordingly. Letters addressed to the Hditor must be post paid or tuey may not be attended to. Doctor Win. EVAISS' soothing syrup Fur children Teething, PREPARED BY HIMSELF. To Mothers and JVurses. TH C passage of the Teeth through the gums produces troublesome and dan gerous symptoms. It is known by moth ers that there is great irritation i:i the ! mouth and gums during this process. The i gums swell, the secretion of saliva is in j creased, the child is seized with frequent j and sudden fits of crying, watchings, start ! ing in the sleep, and spasms of pecnliai r parts, the child shrieks with extreme vio ! lence, and thrusts its fingers into its month If these precursory s mptoms are not spee dily alleviated, spasmodic convulsions uni ! versallv supervene, and soon cause the dissolution of the infant. If mothers who have their little babes afflicted with these distressing symptoms, would apply Dr William Kvans's Celebrated Soothing Syrup, which has preserved hundreds of infants when thought past recovery, from being suddenly attacked with that fatal malady, convulsions. This infallible remedy has preserved hundreds of Children, when thought past recovery, from convulsions. As soon as the Syrup is rubbed on the gums, the child will recover. This -preparation is so in nocent, so efficacious, and so pleasant, that no child will refuse to let its gums be rubbed with it. When infants are at the age of four months, though there is no ap pearance of teeth, one bottle of the Syrup should be used on the gums, to open the pores. Parents should never be without the Syrup in the nursery uhere there are young children; for if a child wakes in the night with pain in the gums, the Syrup irnuiediaiely gives ease by open ing the pores and healing the gums; theie by preventing Convulsions, Fevers, S:c. To the Atient of Dr. Fvans' Southing Syrup: Dear Sir The great bent lit , afforded lo my stdTVring infant by onr Soothing Svmp, in a case of prntr.w ted and painful dentition, must convince every feeling par- i.t how essentia! an early ap plication of such an invaluable int:diciitr is to relieve infant misery and torture. My infant, while teething, experienced such acute sufferings, that it w as attacked ill. convulsions, and my wife and family sup posed that death would soon release the babe from anguish till we procured a bot tle of your Syrup; which as soon as ap plied to the gums a wonderful change was produced, and after a few applications the child displayed obvious relief, and h coir tinning in its use. I am glad to inform J you, the child has completely recoxered. and no recurrence of that awful complaint has since occurred; the teeth are emana ting daily and the child enjoys perfect health. I give ym my cheerful permission to make this acknowledgment public, and will gl idly give any information on this circumstance. When children begin to be in pain with th?ir teeth, shooting in their gums, put a little ol the orup in a tea spoon, and with the finger let the child's gums be rubbed for two or three minutes, three , times a day. It must not be put to ihe breast immediately, for the milk would take the syrup off too soon. When the teeth are just coming through their gums mothers should immediately apply the Sy. rup; it will prevent the children having a fever, and undergoing that painful opera lion of lancing the gums, which always makes the tooth much harder to come through, and sometimes causes death. Beware of Counterfeits. KJ-Caution Be particular in purcha sing to obtain it at 100 Chatham st., New York, or from the REGULAR AGENTS. J. M. Redmond, , , j Geo. Howard, Tarboro'. M. Russel, Elizabeth City. January, 1540. BY AUTHORITY". LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES PASSED AT THE FIltST SESSION OF THE TWENTY"-SIXTH CONGRESS. Public No. 4 AN AT to continue the o!nce of Com missioner of Pension, and to transfer the pensinn business heretofore trans acted in the Navy Department, lo that office. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Stales of America in Congress assembled, l'hat the office of Commissioner of Pensions sh:dl hi anil the samp is hereby continued. until the fourth day of March, eighteen tnunureu anti lony-three. Sec. 2. ,dnd be it further enacted. That a Commissioner of Pensions shall In appointed by the President of the United States, by and with the consent of the Sen de; and thai he shall execute under the direction of the Secretary of War and th Secretary of the Navy, such duties in relation to the various pension laws as may be prescribed by Ihe President. Sec. 3. v1nd he it further enacted, That the siid Commissioner sh dl receive an annual sdary of two thousand five hun dred dollars, and shall have the privilege of sending and receiving letters and pack ets by mail free of postage. Sec. 4. Jlnd be it further enacted, That the pension business heretofore transacted in the Navy Department, shall be transferred to the office of Ihe Commis sioner of Pensions, and that the clerk now employed in that business be also trans fcrred lo that office. R. M. T. HUNTER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. RH. M. JOHNSON, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate. Approved, March 4th, 1840. M. VAN 13 II REN. From the Raleigh Standard. THE ANSWER. The annexed answer of Judge Saun ders to the inquiries of Mr. Holmes, Editor of the Noith Carolinian, cannot fail lo he highly satisfactory lo the people of Aorlh I arolma. 1 he 1 ederahsts bad al ready begun to raise an outcry about ihe rt fusil of Judge Sat7.deus to reply to the questions propounded: but it wilfbe seen that he took the very first opportunity to peiform his duty in this respt-ct; &. he has done it in an able and lucid manner, and in a style that would strike the Ftdersd Whig ticry with shame, if they hal a remnant o! that virtue It ft. Raleigh. March 7 .', IS 10. Sir: My absence from the State du ring ihe last two months, has prevented an earlier reply to the question proposed bv yon in the "Carolinian" of the Sth of Febru ary ami which 1 had not seen, before my attention was called to il by a friend, on my return home. It required no "apology" on your part, so tar as I am concerned, lor making the in qniry. as 1 admit, to ihe fullest extent, the t ight of every voter to know my opinions on all matters ot public interest, particular v 1 1 1 "-" 1 a ouuji. i t ui such virai impor tance, anu anout which my views and feel ings have been lecenlly so greatly misrep resented. J o your question rfrc you or are you nor, opposed to tie Abolition oj Slavery in (ne untieu niaics, in any and evrij stiupe, jorm or jasiwn, except as the owners of the Slaves themselves desire" 1 answer most decidedly YES. I am no Abolitionist nor am I for ihe Emancina- tion of our Slaves, even at the "desire of nn Arc" i tnlnvc it Ur L.. 7 wu.v ii win nit; noae una ae- cordingto the conditions prescribed bv law "that they shall leave the Slate within ninety days and never will re lum" on the pain of forfeiting their free dom & of being sold in "absolute" slavery. I have no morbid sensibility or false no tions of humanity to encounter on this sub ject, but am frank to say, our Statute which forbids the Slaves in the State from being set free, and which renders it "un lawful for any free negro to migrate into this State,, has my entire approbation.' For it is a fact well established by History, that the bloody revolution, which swept off the whiles in the island of St. Domingo, was mainly brought about, through the fa natical zeal of foreign interference and the demoniac spirit of the free persons of color within that ill-fated island. And daily experience teaches us, so long as slavery exists, self preservation and sound policy alike, lorDiu au attempts at partial emanci pation, if tho-e who may be set free are permitted to remain amongst us. Having thus frankly resp jnded to your innutry, 1 should deem it unnecessary to add more, but for the false attitude in which it his been sought to place me, in regird lo ihe question ot slavery, by tho-e with whom I diHeron political matters. I am charged y'th being an .Abolitionist, denounced as a Traitor to the South, and as unworthy of the countenance or support of the people o- the Mate. When 1 consented to be ; candidate, I was prepared to have my mo lives questioned, my conduct misrepresent ed, and my aets perverted; but it had nev er entered inio my conception, that any opposition, however desperate,or any Press, however reckless, could so far insult the onderst indings of our people, as to charge upon me the sin ot aboi monism. And though I feel that indignation, which eve ry man proud of his own integrity will feci when lalselv accused, I am admonished. thai the most effectual way to silence cal umny and detraction, is to give the truth in the most simple detail of facts. This I propose now to do. In 1324, being a Representative in Con- gress, the County of Guilford, comprising' in part my Congressional District, I re evived from Richard Mendenhall "Piesi dent of the Manumission Society of North Carolin:i"a Memorial, which, after sta ting its contents, as is required by the Rule of the House, and disclaiming as I did, at the time, any concurrence in its views except as far as it might have a bearing on the subject of the suppression of the African Slave trade I presented it to the House, and had it referred to the select Committee on that subject. The fact of my having received such a Memorial, had entirely escaped my recollection, until 1 saw a copy and the disposition of it at the time. And though the disclaimer, which I most solemnly aver I made at the time may be now questioned, yet the entries which appear on the Journal sufficiently sustain what I say. Those entries I now give. For while it has suited the purpose of the Federal Press to give the fact of the presentment of the Memorial, it has ta ken care to suppress the further entry as to its reference. Huue Journal, Dec. S, 1S24. Re solved, That so much of the President's Message as relates to the suppression of I tie fijricaii Slave trade, be referred to a select Committee. Dec. 13. Mr. Saunders presented a Me morial of "The Manumission Society for promoting the gradual abolition of slavery" which memorial was referred to the Committee upon the subject of the sup pression of the Africa n Slave trade. Feb. 24. Ordered, That the Committee on the suppression of the African Slave trade, be discharged from the Memorial of the Manumi-sion Society of North Carolina, an I that it be laid on the table. The Memorial prays 1st. For the aboli tion of Slavery in ihe District of Colum bia. 2. For the interdiction of the Slave trade between the States. 3d. It denounces 'The tr,:ffieto Africa for Slaves as Piracy." Such are the simple facts in regard to the matter, about which such a noise has been made and for which I am denounced as a Traitor and Abolitionist. It is to be borne in mind, that in 1824 there had been no excitement on this question. Abolitionism had not then raised its hydra head, nor had the right of petition been then abused. No ques tion had been raided as to the right of having those petitions presented. The politician anil the abolitionist had not then met at the ballot box. Passing by the disclaimer made at the time of present ing the memorial the special reference to a Select Committee raised under the President's Message, upon a subject on which -Congress had the right and was then acting, is no admission of their right to act on other matters, with which the com mittee did not and had not any legitimate authority to act. This is no technical, but a substantial distinction. Had my object been to further the wish of the petitioners in h aving Slavery abolished in the Distiicf of Columbia, then to the Committee on the District, the petition should have been re ferred. Had it been my purpose to aid their views in prohibiting the traffic in slaves bet ween the States, it should have been referred to the Judiciary or to a se lect Committee. So, after the discharge of the committee from-the memorial, had I then moved its further reference, it mio ht have afforded some better pretext to charge me with being friendly to its ob- jects. Jiut tne journal snows nomingot this sort, and the acquiescence on my part that the memorial be laid on the table, confirms the statement I now make. For whilst 1 am candid to admit, 1 had not then heard of the objection to the reception of memorials for the abolition of slavery, and though I held as I still do, the right of petition as sacred, 1 am not prepared to ad mit that even at tnat lime, I should have committed myself by doing arty act which would concede to Congress the right to act on this question. But it is sufficient for me to a iv, that what I did is no Concession! or jurisdiction. Toe first petition on t his suojectever presented to Congress was that in March 1710. This came from 'the people called Qn dcers," and was referred to a select Committee without any objec tion as to i's reception, and its reference was voted for by James Maduon and other distinguished southern members. The Report then made says not a word against receiving memori ds of the kind. So in the case of a similar memorial in the year 1805 The reference was voted for by Southern gentlemen, some of thern then la- king the ground that they voted on the grounds tha' the petition had reference to 'he African Slave trade, as well as to the abolition of slavery generally. The fact is that this question of reception was not) raised and seriously discussed until made i friend of human liberty. 7 the age of by Mr. Calhoun in- March 1S3(; and! eighteen I became a member of an sJbo even then it did not prevail; the question ' lilion Society, established in Richmondt of reception being superseded by the mo non lo neon tne taoie. ro as io me me morial presented in 1S27. "House fcJoir nal pge 17S. Mr. Saunders presented x pe tition of the Board of Managers of the Al ami mission Society of North Carolina; praying that the internal traffic in Slaves may be prohibited by law, and that pro vision may be made for the removal of those who may be emancipated, to places without the United States." Or dered, That the said petition be referred to the Committee of Ways and Means." The remarks as to the reference of the f.rs? petition, apply with equal or still greater force to this. Ji reference lo this peti tion show that it did not claim for Con gress the power to abolish Slavery; and whilst 1 deny that Congress has power to prohibit the "internal traffic in slaves," how far they might aid in the removal "of such as might be emancipated," is an other matter, which certainly .was granted during Mr. Monroe's administration. Such are the facts anil circumstances at tending this transaction; for which I am so industriously denounced by the Feder al Press, and the friends and supporters of Henry Clay and William H. Harrison. That those who are in political concert with the Abolitionists of the North should feel anxious to throw from themselves, that odium which they feel justly attaches to their own conduct, upon the shoulders of others, is not a matter of surprise. And whatever effect their charge may have up on me, I rejoice for the country that these partinsas, in their hasty zeal, have com mitted their own party against the sup port of any one whose feelings and opin ions on the question of slavery arc either in doubt or equivocation. I mean io hold them to this admission, and if any one even doubts my integrity on this question, I trusl he will not think of voting for me. This being a matter of deep public con cern, in which the people of North Car olina have so much at stake, I shall now proceed to examine, and see how my political opponents stand on the ubject. Ii I convict them ol doing ana suppoitmg what they have sought to fix upon me,eJ lo De so worded by the YVhis as to then I submit that they stand condemned out of their own mouths. I shall deal in facts and home truths, of all others the most difficult to answer. House Journal, 21st Congress, page 379: "Mr. Augustine H. Sheppcrd presented a petition of the Manumission Society ol North Carolina, praying Congress to lake me-'suresforthe entire Abolition of Slavery within the District of Columbia; and also, for suppressing the . traffic in slaves between the said District and the South ern Stales which peihion was referred j to the Commince Jor tne JJistrict oj Columbia." l i r- aneppcru was my successor in Congress, elected as the friend of Gen. Jackson turned Whig, and with the fact of his having presented this me morial, was sustained by Mr. Morehead, and voted for by the entire Whig party in the District. Henry Clay has, on all occa sions,sustained the rightof the Abolitionists to have their petitions received, and at this very session himself presented the petition of a single Quaker, and he not a constituent. So much for their petitions, and the right of having them presented. In my case they were presented and referred to Committees on subjects upon which Con gress had the right to act. I am a Tory and Abolitionist. Mr. Clay and Mr. Shepperd present and have them referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. Those gentlemen are Whigs and patriots. Let us now se how stand Mr. Van Burenand Gen. Harrison on this question. Mr. Van Buren, in a letter in answer to one addressed to him by certain gentlemen, a part of whom were then opposed to his election, uses the following conclusive lan guage : "March 6M, 1836. ' I recognise, in the fullest extent, the propriety of this desire on your part, to know his opinions, and although there is nothing in your letter making the avowal necessary, I prefer that not only you, but all the people of the United States, shall now understand that if the desire of that portion of them which is favorable to m i elevation to the Chief Magistracy should be gratified, I must go into the Presidential Chair athe inflexible and uncompromisiog opponent of any attempt on the part of Congress to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, against the wishes of the shvcholding States ; and, also, with the determination equally decided to resist the slightest interference with the subject in the States where it exists." To this pledge, thus candidiy given, ha still adheres. Gen. Harrison, in 1822, when a candi- date for Congress, in his address to tha public, uses ihe following language: I am accused of being friendly to sla very, from my earhc.n youth to the present moment I have been the ardent : Virginia ; the object of which was to ameliorate the condition of Slaves, and procure I heir freedom by every legal means. The obligations which I then came under 1 have faithfully performed." Let us see the legal means by which (Jen. Harrison proposes to discharge these obligations. In lfJ25he held the following language: "Should I beaslced if there be no way by which the General Government can aid the cause of Emancipation? I answer that it has long been an object near my heart to see the wholrj of Ms surplus Xalional Revenue appropriated to that object. With the sanction of the States holding slaves, there appears to he no constitutional objection to ils being ap plied, embracing not only the colonization of those that may he otherwise freed, but the purchase of ihe freedom of others. By a zealous prosecution cf apian formed upon this basis, we might look forward to a day not far distant when the North American Sun would not look down upon a Slave." By this proposition so dear tlo Gen. Harrison's heart, he claims for Congress the power of appropriating "Me whole of t he surplus National Revenue" to eman cipation. Gen. Harrison is a Tariff man, give him the power he asks for Congress and he will tax the South to raise a reve nue, and then apply it to emancipate their slaves. As to the "sanction of the States": their consent can confer no power on Con gress,not alreadygranted by theConstitution. Concede this power & a majorityof Congress will soon be found to free our slaves with out such sanction. If Gen.lHarrison wishes to remove all doubt as to his opinions, let him answer your inquiry. If his friends i in the South be as anxious to protect their country as they are zealous for the success of their party, let them call ucn him td answer. A word to his friends and supporters. No candid man can deny the fact that he owes his nomination to the influence of the Abolition party. In Congress, at its present session, on the proposition to exclude Ab olition memorials a proposition intend drive from its support the Democratic members from the North only one sup porter of Harrison from a non-slaveholding State voted for it; whereas twenty-seven Democrats were found in its support; and to them are we indebted for its passage, as the vote stood 114 for, and 1 IS against. Such are the facts and circumstances in volved in this matter, from which are to be deduced the following conclusions: 1. That the memorials presented by me, were from the Society of Quakers, in principle and religion opposed to slavery embra cing matters on which Congiess was then aciing. 2. The special reference lo Com mittees, not having cognizance of the Ab olition of Slavery, was no admission, on my part, of the power of Congress to act on that question, and a negative of any fair inference of my concurrence in the wishes of the memoralists. 3. The presentment of a memorial from the Fame Society by my successor, and its reference to the Com mittee on the District of Columbia, and his support by Mr. Morehead and the WThig party, with a knowledge of the fact, is a full answer to their present outcry against me. 4. That Martin Van Buren is pled ged to veto any bill that may be passed by Congress; whereas Gen. Harrison - has not given, and refuses to give, any such pledge. Lastly, The votes of the Whig members in Congress from the non slavehclding States, establishes the alarming fact, f what they would do, had they the majoiity With such facts as these before them, I have no fears but that the people of ouf State will do justice to themselves and to the country, and in doing that they will do (justice to me. And though the serpents of lacticn may hijs aroun the altar, the pat riotic devotion of our people will preserve inviolate the Constitution and Union of our beloved country; whilst the cause of Lib-, erty and Democracy shall rise triumphant, so long as we enjoy the hfgh privilege of representative Gorernment With sincere respect, Your obedient servant, ' R. M. SAUNDERS.