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Whole No. 922. Tavhorough, (Edgecombe County, JV. C.) Saturday, Xovember 4, 1843. VOL XiX. No. 44. t s H 1 t The Tarborough Press, BV GEORGE HOWARD, Is published weekly at Two Dollars and Fifty Cents per year, if paid in advance or, Three DjIIwh at the expiration of the subscription year. For any period less than a year, Twenty-Jive Cents ptr months Subscribers are at liberty to discontinue at any time, on giving notice thereof and payintr arrears those residing at a di-tance must invariably pay in advance, or give a respon sible reference in this vicinity. Advertisements not exceeding square will be inserted at One Dollar the first Insertion, and 25 cents for every continuance. Longer advertise ments at that rate per square. Court Orders and Judicial advertisements -25 per cent, higher. Ad vertisement must be inirked tne number of in serlions required, or they will be continued until otherwise ordered and charged accordingly. Letters addressed to the Kditor must he. post paid, nr they may not be attended to. MR. HAYWOOD'S SPEECH. From the Mecklenbursr JeiTeraoniniL. Mecklenburg Sept. 4. ' THE BARBECUE. Last Tuesday was a proud day for th Democracy of old Mecklenburg. Al though the barbecue was harried in its p-oaration, we helieve it gave general satisfaction: for it was evident the large assembly came there not so much to eat a dinner, as to give a hearty welcome to one of North Carolina's most gifted and patri o'ic sons to see, greet, and hear the elo quent, "long tried and faithful friend" ol their rights. Ami in this all were more than gratified. The Speech of Mr. Hay wood (an imperfect sketch of which we publish to-day) is worthy of its gifted au thor. It s ruck deep into the hearts of his hearers of all parties. And how could it do otherwise? A calm dispassionate recital of facts well known to all, no empty decla mation or unkind abuse of political oppo nents, it appealed directly to the reason, patriotism and good sense of the people, and held up before their minds truth in all its beauty. We are glad Mr. Haywood ha made this visit among us. Our people have seen him and heard his eloquence; and they ftel a just pride in greeting him as ''North Carolina's Senator" in the councils of the nation. PUBLIC BARBECUE. The Hon. William H Haywood, one of the Senators in Coigns from North Carolina, having in making a visit to the western p ut of the State, stopped to re main a few da.in Chatloile, his Demo cratic friends invited him, as a mark of 111 -ir rejspt-ct for the man, as well as the politician, to partake of a public entertain ment. He accepted the invitation; but as be vvas compelled to leave in two or three days from the time the invitation was giv en and accepted, it was impossible to pre pire more than a plain substantial barbe cue; and Mr. Haywood having left it to his friends to designate the day for the entertainment, they named Tues day last. Accordingly, on that day, at 3 o clock, the tables (which were spread in the p'easant grove of the Presbyterian church yard,) were surrounded by at least fifteen hundred persons, all eager to see and w Icome their distinguished guest, and to pa; take of the good things provided by the co n m i fee. Col. William .1. Alex ander presided wi'h his usual grace and dignity, assisted by Dr. Stephen Fox, and Captain John Walker, as Vice Presidents. As soon as dinner had been despatched, the clo'hs were removed, and the President announced the following toasts, which (all but the first, which was "drunk standing and in silence) were responded to by the whole company; 1. The memory of Washington. 2. The rights and the union of the Slates. 3. The Constitution of the United StakS. 4. The signers of the Mecklenburg De claration of Independence. 5. The Piesident. of the United States. Before announcing the six'h ami last Tegular toast, the president delivered a few prefatory remarks, saying he felt sure every patriotic heart in the vast assembly fore him would respond cordially to the sentiment he was about to read. That ht knew personally (and his friend, Colonel Jloke, of Lincojn, who was present a9 an "Wiled guest, could corroborate his state Jt'ent) that our distinguished guest had evei been a warm and decided friend 'of Western rishts and had been the main agent in ob fining a reform of our StalM constitution. b' vh;ch we obtained equality ofrepresen ,a'ion in the State Legislature; and that he had ever been characterized in his public bourse by an enlarged pnd patriotic public asiroliowT.he pr6SilJenl then read the loas, understanding of .he people, and especially o ows. - j their love of the great republican doctrine n t gM u Hrn VV',iam of RevoluMon-thatinaS.atethe ma laywood; North Urohna's Senator.- jorily ought to govern-there was created. tr-.ur.r 7e,COmehimaS ,,r lonSc!i earlier than had been anticipated, a and faithfu friend. ; , ; spirit 0f forbearance on the part of the ma- Havmg been alluded to by Colonel Al- jority, and of concession on the part of the exander in h.s remarks, Colonel Hoke rose minority, which promised success to the and delivered a few eloquent remarks, effort for compromising this vexed ques rordial y welcoming Mr. Haywood among lion in the Legislature of 1834 TimeNm-l JS and testifying to his long and ardent stud v had only strengthened his convic'ion devotion to equal riRht the pure spi.it that such a result was necess.rv to the ol Democracy. As soon as Col. H. to-k his peace and prosperity of the whole St-.t-: seat, Mr. Ha y wood rose and addres-ed the and that such a result was due to th. .sembly in nearly the lollowi -g language, j west, where a majority of the people re,. His rem . rks have been hastily prep ,red, .led, and who demanded their right to be Iron, the notes of the speaker, and therefore . eqilv represented in the Legislature i -i r K.i ........ ... 1 : f . if -i . i . ..-v ,e a ,.cv,;i. .mpenect. iwr. n. s.ui, , in substance, that, ... .i.u io antiress mis assembly, his i ami -holding last without wavering," to hrst impulse was to speak of the people j .he political faith that a public man who round him as a concourse of strangers: feared to differ from the people, lest h but the feelings naturally inspired by the ought lose heir favor, was a practical repu eiscumstaneesaccompaning this call upon d'ntion of the doctrine that they arc-'eapa mm to speak, had repressed it, ior kind-1 ness to him by all he had met with, the compliment of this flaiteiing notice, and the relation in which he stood to them all as one of North Carolina's reptesenttives in the Senate of the United Slates, con strained him to feel, not so much like a stranger, as a son of the venerab'e grey headed men his eyes rested upon, and as a broiher of those who were his equals or bc ow him in years. To each and to all he expressed his grateful thanks for such a re eejrtion, which should stimulate his zeal hereafter in their service at the high pos' he had been assigned to occupy, os it now gratified his pride person illy to receive th notice by such a crowd of North Carolini ans. The sentiment which had been prorlai med by the president, and lesponded to by his fellow-citizens, had such a dirct refer encetohis humble agency in the Legisla ture in pa-sing the convention bill of 134, that he must not permit it to pass without saying Mjmething of it. thougn selt was a topic always diflicult & sometimes embar rassing to a speaker, and commonly tedious to his hearers. It is just 12 years (contin ued Mr. Haywood) since the people of Wake, who had resisted a change of our State constitution for 30 years, and whose representatives had uniformly persuaded them that the demands of a majority for e qual representation were both unreasonable on the part of the west, and dangerous for the State at large, honored him by Bending ;him to the Legislature to oppose it. He was but a tyro in politics, and not many years past the age of manhood, when lu accepted the trust, and went to the Assem bly, chosen by the people of Wake, fr the very purpose of resisting the west- He entered upon the subject with the zeal of a ! young politician, and the prejudices of his association, and ot his principles which he had endeavored both before and since that time to adhere iO to do riht, if he knew it; to respect justice, though at the expense of encountering prejudices Seated in his own study, to prepare himself for the work he had been selected to perform; and with all predilections of an advocate for the other side, he yet became convinced that the western people (wh formed a majority of the Slate) were not fairly represented under the old constitution; that, in a Re publican Government, this majority of the ! people had the right to elect a major ity of the lawmakers ol the State; and that ieis tance to their demands for this right was anti republican and unjust. It cost him no violent struggle, under such circumstances, to do h s duty to himself, and to those he'gress. The period when his active duties represented without surrendering the great interestsot iNorili Carolina. His conscience pointed, with unerring certainty, to the way of his duty; and he pursued it because it was his duty not because it was the cause of the west. His judgment allowed of no doubts that such a reform in our State representation as might . restore harmony every where, by doing justice to the de mands of a majority of the State, was the trueinierest of the whole State;and he did not long hesitate. To reconcile this duty with hisobltgation to the constituents whom he represented, lie voted against the convention in 1831 : but as soon as a lit opportunity ottered, he laid his commission at the feet of the people of Wake, retired from the Legislature, and disclosed to his own constituents, before he hud make it public to any others, thai he ought not and would not again represent them 10 oppose a convention. In do - ing this, he had now the gratification to re member that he beiieveu ne was men ma king a final surrender of his ambition to a ense of duty and his own conscience. The stroggle had been going on for 30 years; ocal parlies had arisen upon it, and. every year seemed to draw them further from a ompromiseof this family Slate dispute. Many doubled if it were ever to be settled; few believed it would happen in his life time. In 1S32 and 1833, however, the friends of reform the representatives of he west placed him upon committees to write addresses to the people of the Stale; and, by persevering honest appeals to the encouraged by the belief that thu ban jpy consummation might be brought about, ble of self-government." he offered himself as a candidate to represent the Democracv of Wake county in 1 834. t ho' he knew th-re were but 100 out of 1,600 voters in the county who did not oppose the convention Appealing to the common sense and patri otism of the people, they elected him though they did not agree with him up n that great point, and confided to him thv re sponsible but Ifonoiable trust of compro mising a controversy that had disturbed our State councils for thiny years and more I point to it; (exclaimed Mr. Hay wood,) because it is first alluded toby you as a living instance of the practical truth of Democratic principles. Let it be re membered with advantage, where there is any cowardly hesitation by a public ser vant to disclose his sentiments without re serve where a dread of popular dis trust shall tempt a selfish representative to seek the favor of his constituents by delu ding them, rather than ask their confidence by frankly opposing error, or what he be lieves to be an error of the public mind. His kind friends (Messrs Alexander and Hoke) had ascribed to his agency the suc cess of the convention quesiion in 1S34; and he believed he might accept the compliment without blame He had borne all the res ponsibility of such a position where it was unpopular at the time; & it would be affec lation on his part to put away the honor of it since it had hetn generally ap proved and universally acquiesced in. But, my countrymen, (said Mr. H.) though it was peculiarly the cause of the west, this was my motive for upholding it i advocated, sustained, and aided to give triumph to the question, because it was right because it w&sjusl because it was Democratic! That the west should thus express to him their recollection of his ser v ices, he sincerely thanked them. The allusion to his political relations with the State demanded some notice from him. Were he to consult his own feelings, he would have avoided the present occasion to speak on that topic. But to decline it, would give room for false inferences His visit to the west had already, of itself, been made the ground of unjust suspicion. It was a mistake to believe he was in the ser vice of any one party-leader, who was as piring to high station. It was a mistake to believe he would come here as the ageni of a particular presidential candidate. He was no man's partisan pedlar. Circum stances which he had no agency in produ cingevents which he could not control bad induced the representatives of Norih Carolina to elect him a Senator in Con- in that station were to be commenced, was near at hand; and having never seen the Stale he was appointed to serve in the Na tional Legislature he believed it was his du ty to see it, as he had long desired to do; and for this purpose he came hiiher, and for this purpose he should go further, hop ing, at ihe same time, to lay in, these west ern hills, a fresh stock of strength to in vigorate his constitution, which had been greatly shattered for several years. If life was spared to serve out the term of his of fice he expected to renew the visit; for it was full of instruction, profit and pleasure to him. Unexpectedly, the Democratic people of Mecklenburg had asked him to meet them hereto-day; and, though he did not have much opportunity for preparation, the occasion demanded an expression of some of his views and opinions upon political ' questions; which he could not slight if he WOUIU. Nothing was more oommon than to de nounce and abuse political opponents to an assembly of political associates thereb exciting acrimony, and perpetuating party piejudices. He would abstain from all per sonal attacks, as it was his habit to do, and address the attention of the people to pub lic measures, leaving the men to the leu der mercies of the people themselves.' A the fairest method of discussing sucl points, he would endeavor to present th ucls of his political opponents, and thei test their patriotism and policy by then own principles and their own professions. 1 1 Every party consists of the politicians, i who lead it, and the people who sustain them The former, when in office, are desirous to ke-'p in; and if they are out, 'hey strive to get in. It is very different with the people. Their interest is not pro moted by these perpetual f-uds Their in lerest (no nutter what party they belong o) is. that I heir Government shall be well idministered, 4no matier who is the Cap tain." Looking to the last thiee years, and addressing himself especially to that; portion of ihe people (not the politicians in ihe assembly before bin, he would plainly and earnesiTy ask, them what had they gained by the triumph the log-cab- in triumph of IS10? Mr. H heiedrewa vivid picture of the high excitement of that! period; and afier remarking that he meant no o ire nee by this faithful history of facts, that were well remembered by all who were present, and even by their wives and children, he proceeded: Well, my countryman the Whig people of the west! when you followed this political party, it led to a perfect triumph, and a complete verthrow of Van Buren and the Democra tic majoriu in Congress. A Whig President and Vice Piesident. or "Tippecanoe &. Tyler too!" a Whig majority in trie Senate! a Whig ma jority mine House ol Kepn sentatives: a A'nig majority in the State Legislature! These were all tha' the Whig politicians asked the Whig people to give them Give us these, said they, and '-we will do you good!" They were given all ihey as ked, and now, thiej years aft r it, Mr li. appeale I to the W hig people of the western counties of North Carolina to an To enable them to decide upon il,as far a- any such were present, he would exhibit to i hem a picture of what ihe Whig politicians had done, ami then undone, and how the left mat'eis in the nation and Stale! It would then be in the power of the W hig people of the west to say how they liked the change. First. He said it would be recollec ted that the tariff of 1828 had so far excited popular resistance, that, in 1832, ail the perils of dis union, violence, and civil war were about us, and men every where were excited viih fearful aprehensions! After speaking with great animation of the state of the country at that period, M. H. pro ceeded. But Congress, in 1833, compro mised THIS TARIFF. General Harrison, Mr Clay, Mr. Ty ler all ihe Whig politicians of No? th Car olina avowed, unon all occasions, their de termination, in 1S40, to adhere with un flinching firmness to the takifk compro mise. The politicians, theneonle. and the can didates of the loo- cabin nartv were all of them ope-dv committed in favor ol this Indeed, the Whig politicians themselves, compromise, by which the taxes of the j in Congress, adopted and passed a pte emp pcople were not to exceed 20 per cent ''on law al their extra session. Though But now look at the statute book, and in;theyalso passed a distribution law, Mr. 142 will be found a law to violate and j H- Put 'e question home to every nullify the compromise, to revoke the hon-! voter who had gone for the land money. orable compact of 1S33. limiting the tariff I,al he Kot anT of '? No- no- The Pl tax to 20 pr ct., by substituting a new one: ticians had first passed the law to give to increase it to more than an average of 40 per cent. Thus doubling the taxes and likewise reviving all the strife and bitter ness of i lie country upon this agitating to pic. Did the people of western Noith Ca rolina gain by this? Second: Ihe whig politicians ol 1840 Latest from Jamaica Great Fire at. proclaimed that the public Debt was grow- j Kingston. The Wilmington (D 'l.) Re ing too fast, and that they would pay it off. Duncan has late dates from Jamaica, by economy and retienchment of expen - sfcS. ne U leried Ihe W llg people IO tne fact, that the public debt was quadrupled, jstoi, destroying James's foundry, Max and a-ked if ihey h;id gained any thing by . wei an( ije Caste's steam mills, and des this? Their Taxes doubled and their debt ; troying 1.340 houses independent of out- quadrupled, he imagined might well be re gardeil as gaining a toss if they had gained anything. Third: Upon the subject of public ex penditures, he remarked that there was no essential diminution, although the Florida war had closed, somewhat ol its own ac cord, and thus slopped that outlet of ex pense, and arthongh the "various articles to be purchased for Government use had diminished one-half in their cost, and with out wearing down their patience with lists of expenses that were exceedingly tedious in such a discussion, if he had time and the opportunity to - prepare them, he repeated the inquiry to the whig peopleofthe west, what have you gained here? And the ge ueral statement he had made furnished abundant means lor answering it correctly. Fourth: Proceeding with his picture, and still taking his views out of the pub lished Statute Books of Congress from '40 io '43, he next placed upon the canvass the famous Bankrupt Law a law by one part of which all debtors might be relieve' from the payment of their debts without paying, them off By another part of which a Bankrupt Debtor was to be hereaf i-r' prevented from preferring one set ol lonest crediiorsover another set; but when e was unable to pay all of them, his prop rty was to be applied pro rata a"mongt dl. The former was sometimes called the rhealing clause of the Bankrupt law, and they themselves haye now repealed it In other words, they kept it in force until had done a large part of the mischief and injury it was pregnant with, and at the mo ment when it might produce what little good there was in it, it wa repealed be gotten and destroxed by the same Con gress! And what did the whig people of the west gain by this? Fifth: The Distribution of, the Public Land money occupied a most conspicuous posiiion in the politics of Western Caroli na in I83S, 1S39, and 1S40. and before it. The pe pie of the west might be said to have abandoned the Democratic party, and fallen into the ranks of the whig politi cians, that North Caiolina might not be robbed' of the public lands and land sales! To this one topic, more than any other, may be ascribed the changes which occurred in the western counties. The whig people and the Democratic people the politicians and the voters all, all know ihai it was hardly a figure of speech to say. the Whig politicians declare that the pub lic lands were to build school houses, rear teachers, buy books, and teach the chil dren that the girls would get marriage portions, and the young men snug settle ments to start upon in life, and all the peo ple have money enough and to spare. En listing, by party promises, the highest hopes and strongest excitement upon this topic, and proclaiming from the doors of log cabins (he meant those that are carried ..bout on wheels) throughout the west, i he people j.re robbed of the land money, and Tip and Ty will give it to them." The Whigs aro for dividing o North Car olina her share, and the politicians of that party drew to their support, the people of the west beginning in 1835, and finally triumphing in lh40. B it, that there might be no deception on a matter of so much importance, let the Whig people of I be west look to ihe Rar ner resolutions of 1S38, which were adop ted by the Whig politicians of the Legisla ture; and behold, it wa formally announ ced (amongst other things) as a part of their politics, that 1. Pre-emption laws are "unjust," and ought to be opposed in Congress 2. That the proceeds of the public lands ought to be distributed amonest all the States, according to their Fedcut pop ulation " These resolutions were the text of ora tors every where, & especially in the west. The people endorsed them, as they had a right to do; and Messrs. Brown and Strange were driven from the Senate. The Whig politicians thus got two high offices vacated; but the Whig peopleofthe west may answer for themselves as to what they had gained by the operation. The politicians got the offices, but the people ne- ver Sl the money! ! 11 ' me ies. anu men numueu u oeiore the money got here! Doing, and undoing! What had it profiled the people? What, he asked, had the west gained by this! Remainder in our next.) 1 brought by the schooner Crescent, at that riv. A wrP.it fire has taken nlam in Kincr- houses attached to tne dwellings. Besides which, 100 houses were pulled down, to arrest the progress of ihe flames making, in all, say 1,400 Ihe Royal Gazette says, over 7,000 individuals are left desti tute and dependent on public sympathy for shelter. Several persons were injured. Philadelphia paper. From late English papers. Within the last fortnight (says a late London paper) the boatd of guardians of Marylehone parish have publicly offered a reward ol "t o guineas each for the appre hension of no feer than seventeen fathers of families, who have deserted their wives and children. More than one hundred in dividuals have thus become chargeable to Marvlebone parish. From an official report it appears that the Roman Catholics have in India. China, and the rest of Asia sixty-nine bishops, twenty coadjutors. 1S56 priests, and 2,211,000 members. . On the 3d instan', at Torres near Jaen, in Sp on. there was an avalanche which kil led 200 persons, and destroyed 42 houses and other boihiinsis 1 he Heraldo of Madrid, of the 21st v.f sayS "Yesterday a woman died at St An dre, at the age of thirty-three, after having given birth to five boys, who all died short ly after wards,"