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THING
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For children 'ice thing,
PREPARED 3Y HIMSELF.
To .Mothers and JVurscs.
TinHE p assage til ihti Teeth through the
gums produces troublesome and dan
gerous symptoms. Il is known by moth
ers that there is great irritation in tin
mouth and gums tint ing this process. The
gutns swell, the secretion of saliva is in
creased, the child is seized with frequent
and sudden fits of crying, watchings, start
ing in the sleep, ami spasms of peculiai
parts, the child shrieks with extreme vio
lence, and thrusts its fingers into its mouth
If these precursory symptoms are not spee
dily alleviated, spasmodic convulsions uui
versally 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 Evans'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 where
there are young children; for if a child
wakes in the night with pain in the gums,
the Syrup immediaiely gives ease by open
ing the pores and healing the gums; there
by preventing Convulsions, Fevers. &c.
To the Agent of Dr. Evans' Soothine.
Syrup: Dear Sir The great benefit
afforded to my suffering infant by your!
Soothing Syrup, in a case of protracted
and painful dentition, must convince every
feeling parent how essential an early ap
plication of stub an invaluable medicine
is to relieve infant misery and torture. Mv
infant, while teething, experienced such
acute sufferings? that it was attacked with
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 by con
tinuing in its use. I am glad to inform
you, the child has completely recovered,
and no recurrence of that awful complaint
has since occurred; the teeth are emana
ting daily and the child enjoys perfect
health. I give you my cheerful permission
to make this acknowledgment public, and
! will gladly give any inform j0 on this
circumstance.
When children begin to be in r;n vv;(j,
their teeth, shooting in their gums,,lu(
little of the Syrup in a lea spoon,
with the finger let the child's gums
rubbed for two or three minutes, thret
times a day. Il must not be put to the
breast immediaiely, 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
fup; it will prevent the children having u
fever, and undergoing that painful opera
tion of lancing the gums, which always
makes the tooth much harder to come
through, and sometimes causes death.
IScivarc ofl'CousiU-rft'its.
JCaulion I5e particular in purcha
sing m obtain it at 100 Chatham St.,
New York, or from the
j REGULAR AGENTS.
J. M. Hkumond, ) , ,
j Geo. How Aim, J Tarboro.
: M. Uussll, Elizabeth City.
January, 18-10.
IIY AUTHOIMTI'.
LWVS OF THE UNITED STA PES
i.v.-v-ci , r tiiu FIKST SESSION UP THE
TWENTY SIXTH (JON Git ESS.
Public No. 0.
ANT AH P lo revive an act authorizing cer
tain soldiers in th'i Into war to surrender
the bounty lands drawn by (hem and to
hieale others in lion thereof, and for
o! her purposes.
lic it enacted by the Senate and limine
of Representatives of the United Stales
of America in. Congress assembled,
Th.it tho act of the twenty second of May
one thousand eight Imndied and 1 went v
six, entitled -An set authorizing certnn
soldiers in the late war to surrender the;
bounty lands drawn by then, and to
locate others in lieu thereof," be, and
the same is hereby, revived and continu
ed in force fr the term of live ears; am
i : r .i. . i . .
uij u u inhhis m me aoove leeileil act
slid! be, and are hereby, extended to those
bavins; like claims in the States of Illinois
and Missouri.
II. M. T. HUNTER,
Speaker of the House of t'enrsenlatiecs
fill. M. JOHNSON,
Vice President of the United States,
and President of the Senate.
Ai'PKOVED, May 27th. IS 10.
M. VAN IJUKKN.
Pi; is lic No. 10.
AN ACT to extend for a longer period tho
several acts now in force for the relief
of insolvent debtors of the United
States.
lie il enacted by the Senate, and House
of Representatives of the United Slates
oj simerica in Congress asse?nblcd,
That the act entitle! "An act for the relief
of certain insolvent debtors of the United
States," passed on the second dav of March
one thousand eight hundred and thirty-
one, and an act in addition thereto, passed
on the fourteenth day of Ju1y,one thousand
eight hundred and thirty-two, and an act
to revise and amend the said acts, passed
on the seventh day of June, one thousand
eight hundred and thirty-lour, be, and the
same are hereby, revived, extended and
continued in force for three years from and
after the passage of th:s act, and until the
cases then pending .shall be determined
for the purpose of finally disposing of such
cases, but for no other purpose.
Sec. 2. JInd be it further enacted,
That the provisions of the said several acts
shall apply to cases of insolvency, which
shall have occurred on or before the pas
sage of this act, or shall occur during the
said three years.
Sec. 3. .hid be. it further enacted,
That the Secretary of the Treasury shall
be authorized to cause satisfaction to he en
tered of record upon all judgments against
any debtor or debtors who may have here-
lolore heen released urnh-r the provisions
ot any ot the acls which are xteuded,
. : . i i i ...
e.uuuiHieo ami icviS'.Ht ny t';is act, or
who may hcrcafw r be released by
me said ac s: I'rov ded, I ne district
judge in the district in which such judg
ments arc on record, shall certify that 'it hoc
not been made toappcarlo the satisfaction of
the said district judge by evidence submit
ted lo him by the District Attorney of the
United States, thatthc debtor is ii.n,vl
of or entitled to any property which was
not disclosed and set forth to the com mis
sinners of insolvency at. the time of the ex
amination ol such debtor, ncder his, her
or their petition, to be released from his'
her, or their indebtedness to the United
St .tcs. Every application for such certifi
cate shall be made to a judge at Chambers,
ami ten days' previous noJiee shall he iv
en to tho district attorney f,,r the district
wherein the said applieauon is made, toge
ther with copies of all th- papers on which
uch application shall he made. And so
tt'ich of the said recited acts, or either
f ,lhem, as is inconsistent herewith, or is
W,y altered or supplied, be and the
sarne hereby js repealed.
Apihoved, May 27th, 1S40.
Public No. 1 1
AN ACT authorizing Sip.pJe;,,, aud Mat-t-JP'isett,
within the township of Ro
HiesVr, in the State of MassachnsctLs,
u o known hereafter as ports under
those ieS.
Be it cycled by the Senate and House
of hepresLiai;vcs of the United Stales
J .Jmcriekin Congress assembled,
I hat bippiciA and Maltapoisett, harbors
within the loVshi,, of Rochester, in U1C
State ol MassacVsetts,bc hereafter, respec
tively known asWts under IIWKA 0
within the collecin district of New 13ed-
ford; and that the respective inhabitants.TInt this act shall l,c considered onlv ns a
tTrtlTT l ,c-cri1M ! relinquishment of the nghts of the United
to the respective places instead of Uoches
. 1 ' ; ;is oeiouging
icr.
ArrnovED, May 27ih, 1S10.
Resolution, Public No. 3.
A RESOLUTION concerning the statue
of Washington, by Greenoujrh.
Resolved by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United Stnio
of ,lmcrica in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of the Navy be autho
rized and instructed to take measures for
the importation and erection of the statue
of Washington by Grt'eiwugh.
Aituoved, May i7th, 1810.
Private-No. 17.
AN ACT to confirm the title to :i
certain
Mobile,
tract, of land in the county of
in the Mate ol Alabama.
Be it enacted bit the Senate and ,.
of Representatives of the United Stair
if Jlnizrica in Congress nsscnrt!rd.
Phat the claim of William E. Ivennedv
filed before William Crawford commis
sioner, for the confirmation of the title to ;
I j piece of land claimed under Benjamin I)u
ot oca, lor eight hundred arpens, by virtue
of a Spanish permit, dated the second of
February, one thousand eight hundred and
Ibree, lying in the county of Mobile, and
Sae of Alabama, and which claim is num
bered one hundred and three, in the re
port numbered six, of said William Craw
lord, commissioner, and which claim
was placed by said commissioner in the
list of cl urns which "ought not to be con
finncd," he recognised as a valid claim, and
that the same be confirmed, and stand in the
same situation precisely as if the said claim
had not been reported upon unfavorably,
but, on the contrary, had been reported as a
claim which ought to be confirmed, & as if
said claim had been placed by said commis
sioner on the list of those which ought to be
confirmed, whereby the said claim would
have stood confirmed by the act of Con
gress of the third day of March, one thou
sand eight hundred and nineteen,-entitled
"An act for adjusting the claims to land,
and establishing land offices in the district
east of the island of New Orleans;" and
the said title is hereby confirmed accord
ingly for said land, for which a patent shall
isnie according to such survey thereof, as
shall be approved by the Surveyor General
of the United States for the Stale of Al
abama: Provided, however, That this act
shall be so construed as to operate as a re
linquishment of the title of the United
Slates only.
A rrito ved, May 27th, IS 10.
Private No. IS.
An ACT for the relief of John fl. Sliep
pard, administrator of A bicl Wood.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States
of jJmericn in Congress assembled,
That the attorney of the United Stales for
the district of Maine, be and he hereby is
authorised to enter satisfaction of judg
ment rendered in the first circuit court of
the United States, in and for the district
of Maine, to the use of the United States
in the name oi Abraham r. Howe and
Hen ja min Howard, against John II. Shcp
pu(l, administrator of Abiel Wood, on a
judgment recovered by the said Howe &
Howard against Abicl Wood in January,
eighteen hundred and twenty one, in the
Bosjon Court of common pleas, in the
State of Massachusetts, and assigned to the
United States by the said Howe, with the
assent aud authority of the said Howard,
on the twenty-second of September, eigh
teen hundred and thirty.
Ai'pkoved, May 27th, 1S40.
Pkivate No. 19.
AN ACT for the relief of Joseph Coch
ran. Be il enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States
of America in Congress assembled,
That Joseph Cochran Jjc and he is hereby,
entitled to a preference in becoming the
purchaser, according to the provisions of
tho third section of the act entitled an --Act
for the final adjustment of private land
claims in Missouri," approved ninth July,
one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two,
of a certain tract of land, lying in the Pal
mvr.i district. Missouri, ffor which proof
of his right has heretofore been made by
him to the land officers of said district,
and his claim rejected by them on account
offthe conveyance to him by Albert Tison
il.n yjivinlJi pl:inian"t bearing date subse
quent to the ninth July, one thousand eight
hundred and thirty-two,) in the same man
ner, and under the same restrictions, as to
quantity and location, as he would have
been entitled to, had said conveyance been
made preceding the date of said act: Pro
vided. That the entry hereby authorized
shall be made within one year from the
date of this act: 2nd provided further,
of
it'd persons.
Aitkovku, May 27lh, IS 10.
Pkivate No. 20.
ACT for the iclief of A.
AN
G. S
Wight.
Be it enacted, by I he. Senate, and House
of ' Representatives of the United Stales
oj America in Congress assembled.
That the payment of two bundled and lif-
iv -six dollars and sixty-three cents, to
S-Mher willi the interest thereon, part of a
judgment which was obtained December
fourth, one thousand eight and thirty sev
en, for the sum of five humlred and ninety
nine dollars and twenty seven cents prin
ipal, and eighty-seven dollars and iwen
ty-five cents interest, against A. (i. S.
Wight, as surety of Samuel Smoker, laic
postmaster at Oalena, Illinois, bo released
uul shall not be collected, unon navmenl
ottheb danco of said iudirment. inter, si.
anil costs of suit. ' j
Approved, May 27lh, IS 10.
LETTER FROM MR. VAN I3UKEN.
We find the annexed documents appen
ded to an Address recently issued by the
Democratic Central Committee of Ivy.
Extract fr om I lie Jlildress.
The following note from Capt. Win.
Chambers and C. Van Ruskirk, Esq. con
firms the statement we have made shows
that, General Harrison will not come out
on Abolition, to oblige friends or foes:
Louisville, Ay., Jlpril 12, 1840.
Gentlemen: Early on the 10th oT
April inst.., we called at the residence of
(Jen. Win. II. Harrison, at North Uend,
Ohio. When we entered the house we
were informed the General was indisposed;
but in something less than an hour lie
made his appearance. After the usual
salutations were exchanged, one of the
undersigned (Wm. Chambers) handed
Gen. Harrison a letter addressed lo him
by the Democratic Central Committee of
Kentucky, on the subject of Abolition
ne received it, perused it turned back
and re examined parts of it: expressed
astonishment that his opinions, so repeat
edly expressed, were not known to those
gentlemen, and said nothing could induce
mm to answer such interrogatorics,cominj
cuner irom lriends or toes.
In a subsequent conversation, he refer
icd to opinions heretofore expressed bv
him, but made no further response to the
letter ot the Centra! Committee.
Very respectfully, yours, &c.
WM. CHAMBERS.
C. VAN HUSKIRIC
To the Democratic Central Committee
of Ay.
A duplicate of ihe letter sent to Gen.
Harrison, was, as is stated in the bodv
of it, also transmitted to the President,
who, instead ol taking shelter behind a
committee, or --standing mute,'5' replied
as follows:
Washington, rfpril 2sf, IS 10.
Gentlemen: I have received vour letter
of the 2nd inst., and cheerfully comply
with your request, i on have inadvertent
ly fallen into an error in supposing that
the questions propounded to me by the
Hon. Shcrrod Williams, in 1S36, embra
ced the subject of Abolition. My views
and opinions in regard to it were, however,
1. "l t r 1 w -r
communicated lo toe people oi Uic united
States, in reply to a lette r received in the
same year, from Junius Amis, Esq., and
other citizens of N. Carolina, and also
through other channels. Perceiving that
I cannot do justice to jour inquiries
in the form which you have given to them,
by a general reference to the answers I
have heretofore given, I will repeat the
substance of them.
First: That the relation of Master and
Slave, is a m.itter which belongs exclusive
ly lo each State within its own boundary
that Congress, has no authority to inter
fere, in any rosnect whatever, with the
emancipation of the slaves, or in the treat
ment of them in any of the States; and
that any atlcmpt to do so by the General
Government, would not only be unauthor
ized, but violate the spirit of the com
promise, which lies at the basis of the Fe
deral Compact; and which is binding in
honor and good faith on all who live
under the protection of the Federal Consti
tution and participate in its benefits. This
doctrine is in strict conformity to the prin
cinle embodied in a Resolution nassed bv
i - i j
the House of Representatives of the Uni
ted Stales, in 1790, upon the report of a
Committee, consisting almost entirely of
northern men.
Secondly: That conceding: to Congress
the abstract power of interfering with, or
abolishing slavery in the District of Co
lumbia, under the broad grant of exclu
sive legislation in all cases whatsoever over
that District, there are, nevertheless, ob
jections to the exercise of this power "a-
mains, and not to pre ud cc the ri-lit-
! g-iinst the wishesof thesl ive-hoIdingStatcs,
;s imperative in their nature and obliga
tion, in regulating the conduct of pul lic
men, as the most palpable want of consti
tutional powei would be."?
Thirdly: That I desired the people of
be United States then lo understand, that,
it elected, I would go into the Presidential
chair the inllt xible and uncompromising
opponent of any attempt on (lie part of Con
fess to ab dish slavery in Ihe District of
v-oHjnmia against the wishes of the slave
holding Siates; and. also with a determina
tion equally infl -xible to resist the slight
est inteilerence with the subject in the
States where it exUts.
The Tvventy-l'onith Congress, whose
constitutional term expired at the moment
when mine, as President, commenced,
bad avowed its belief that it was --extremely
important and desirable that the subject
of slavery should he finally arrest
ed for the nuriDse of restoring tran
quillity lo the public mind," and made
it the basts ol extensive and deliberate ac
tion in both Houses. In the House of
Representatives,! Committee (a majority of
whom were fiom non slaveholding Slates)
reported pursuant to instructions, two re so
lutions; the fir.st was "that ('ongress pos
sess no constitutional power to interfere in
any way with the institution of slavery in
any of the States of the confederacy;' tho
.second, "that Congress ought not to inter
fere in any way with slavery in the District
ofColumbia;"&athird, which was, in sub
stance, that all papers and motions bearing
upon the subject of slavery, should be laid
upon the table without any further action
thereon. They were accompanied by an
elaborate and very able report, selling forth
at large the reasons in favorof the opinions
reported, and the course recommended by
the Committee. The whole subject was
finally discussed, considered and decided
upon. The first resolution passed by a
vote of 1S2 to 9 the second, of 132 lo 45
and the third, of 117 to CS. In tho
Senate, the matter was considered upon a
memorial Irom the Quarterly Meeting of
the Religious Society of Friends, praying
lor the Abolition of domestic slavery and
ine siave trade in the District of Columb .
The subject was by that memorial present
ed in terms which ollered no violence to
the feelings of any class of citizens, & were
best calculated to secure to the questions
involved, a fair hearing and impar
tial decision. After several days' dis
cussion, the prayer of the memorialists was
rejected, by a vote of thirty four to
six.
An expression of similar opinions on
the part of the Fcdeial Executive, with .
an avowal of a determination to carry them
out in his official acts, taken in connection
with the known condition of the Con
gressional representation of the several
States in regard to the slave question would,
it was thought, during the continuance of
his constitutional term, prevent all agi
tation of the subject before Congress.
The consequent certainty that nothing
could for years at least be accomplished
in that way, would, it was hoped, present
sufficient inducements to all who were gov
erned by conscientious motives, lo desist
from presenting their memorials, and leave
all others without even a plausible pre
tence for continuing to agitate the sub
ject in that form. No one could, it
was supposed, believe, that our Southern
brethren could be driven into a ncaccnhla
emancipation by the mere force of agitation
by appeals to the lears oi the master and
passions of the slave these might indeed,
if persisted in, draw after them a servile,
and probably a civil war, with a final dis
solution of the-Union. Attempts lo ex
pose our country to such fearful hazards for
no other assignable motive than to harraaa
the slaveholding States,or to subserve poli
tical purposes, would not, it was confident
ly believed, be endured, much less coun
tenanced, by the American nconle. Par
taking largely in the general apprehension
in regard lo the fatal t fiecls of this baleful
agitation; having seen enough to satisfy
me that no circumstance so directly and in
evitably tended to impair the stability aid
interrupt thchnrmonious action of our com
plicated political system, as the existence
of a doubt in the public mind concerning
the action of the Federal Government upon
this disturbing subject sincerelv anxious
to promote the commendable design of
Conzress to restore tranouilitv to a lariro
i - - - j - -
i i ..:.: . c . t it
anu uuiioruijj I'.iuiuue portion oi me u
nion; and deeming the subject to be of suffi
cient importance to justify a departure from
the ordinary usage of the Executive, I em
braced the first public occasion to refer lo
the opinions 1 had expressed before my
election and to declare, formally, that no
bill conflicting with those viev s could ever
receive my constitutional sanction. Those
opinions, and that ilctermination,have been
irreatlv strengthened by subsequent experi
ence and reflection.
No one can doubt that the tendency of
it,; ci.fi'if.s of agitation is. as vour House
unci o J
ofRcpresentativc3 have very justly ob
served, to --disturb the amicable rela
tions subsisting between the slaveholding