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Tarborough, Edgecombe County, J t Saturday, June 22, 1814,
Vol. XX. JYo. 25.
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"TWO DOLLARS A DAY AND
ROAST BEEF."
In the year eighteen hundred and fort',
The song of promised relief,
Which was sung to the poor by the haugh
ty,
Was "two dollars a day and roast beef."
Then the banners were flying and stream
ing,
To reason the people were deaf:
They went through the universe screiming
"Two dollars a day and roast beef."
Medals, sashes, and badges now flourished.
With portraits betokening grief;
The wearers hop'd they should be noui
ish'd With 'two dollars a day and roast beef."
The woodchuck, the skunk, and the coon
too,
And the Fox, that inveterate thief,
Lent their skins to the Whigs with hi?
tun, too,
"Two dollars a da and roist beef."
Thy swigg'd and they guzzl'd hard cider,
In masses beyond all belief,
'Mid the fumes tneir mouths opened wider,
"Two dollars a day and roast beef."
The star then above the horizon
Was soon overshadowed with grief
For the people have never set eyes on
" Two dollars a day and roast beef. "
The pledges were broken, truth was ban
ished, Where now wa9 the promised relief?
The dieam of two dollars" had v.inish'd,
An 1 ha th" hope of roat beef. "
I he med.ds ne stone: and the banners,
Where now was the promised relief?
The masons have ceed their hozannas,
For "two dollars a day and roast beef."
We will now ask the Workies one ques
tion, And we promise them it shall be brief
Have you ever yet hurt your digestion
My eating of "cash or roast beef?"
BALTIMORE CONVENTION.
The following is a statement of the vote
on the first ballot for President, at the re
cent Demociatic National Convention;
FIRST BALLOT.
O r C3 C
5 5 ?
m I cL r
S3 P g 2
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Maine 8 0 0 1 0 0
N. Hampshire 6 0 0 0 0 0
Vermont 5 1 0 0 0 0
R. Island 4 0 0 0 0 0
Massachusetts 8 1 0 0 3 0
Connecticut 6 0 0 0 0 0
New York 36 0 0 0 0 0
New Jersey 3 2 2 0 0 0
Pennsylvania 26 0 0 0 0 0
Delaware 0 3 0 0 0 0
Maryland 2 4 0 1 0 0
Virginia 0 17 0 0 0 0
N. Carolina 2 4 5 0 0 0
Georgia 0 9 0 0 0 0
Mississippi 0 6 0 0 0 0
Louisiana 0 0 0 0 1 5
Tennessee 0 13 0 0 0 0
Kentucky 0 0 12 0 0 0
Ohio 23 0 0 0 0 0
Indiana 3 9 0 0 0 0
Illinois 5 2 2 0 0 0
Michigan 1 4 0 0 0 0
Missouri 7 0 0 0 0 0
jrliansaj 0 0 3 0 0 0
J46 83 24 2 4 6
Com. Stewart received 1 vote from Ma
ryland, receiving no other during six suc
cessive ballotings.
We published the result of seven ballots,
on Tuesday the Slh ballot on Wednesday
resulted as follows:
For Martin Van Huren Maine, 8; R.
Island, 4; New York. 36; New Jersey, 1;
Pennsylvania. 22: Maryland. 1: North
Caroling 2; Ohio, 21; Indiana, 1; Illinois,
; Missouri, 7 104.
or Lewis Cass Maine, 1; Vermont,
6 Massachusetts, 5j Connecticut, 6; New
Jersey, 5; Pennsylvania, 1; Delaware, 3;
Maryland, b; Virginia, 17; North Caroli
na, 8; (jeortjia, 9; Mississippi, 6; Ken
tucky, 12; Ohio, 2; Michigan, 6; Indi
ana, 11; Illinois, 8; Arkansas, 3 114.
For James K. PolkNew Hampshire.
6; Massachusetts, 7; Pennsylvania, 2;
Indiana, I; Alabama, 9; Louisiana, 6;
Tennessee, IS 44.
For James Buchanan New Jersey, 1;
Pennsylvania, I 2.
For John C. Calhoun North Carolina
1; Georgia, 1 2.
Mr. liutler of New York, chairman of
the committee to prepare an address to the
people of the United States reported the
following resolutions, which were unani
mously adopted; and, on motion, lejve
was granted to the committee to prepare
the address at their leisure.
RESOLUTIONS.
Resolved, That tbe Amercan democra
cy place their trust not in factitious sym
bols, not in displays and appeals insulting
to the judgments and subversive of the in
tellect of the people, but in a clear reliance1
upon the intelligence, the patriotism, and
the discriminating justice of the Ameiican
masses.
Resolved, That we regard this as a dis
tinc'ive feature of our political creed,
which we are proud to maintain before the
world as the great moral clement in a form
of government, springing from and upheld
by the popular will; and we contrast it
with the crceil and practice of federalism,
under whatever name or form, which
seeks to palsy the will of the constituent,
and which conceives rro imposture too
monstrous for ihe popular credulity.
Resolved, therefore, That, entertaining
these views, the democratic party of this
Union, through tluir delegates assembled
in a general convention of the States com
ing together in a spirit of concord, of de
votion to the doctrines and faith of a fiee
representative government, and appealing
to their fellow-citizens for ihe rectitude of
their intentions, tenew and re-assert before
the Ameiican neonle, the declaration of
principles avowed by them when, on a
former occasion, in general convention,
thev uresented their candidates for the
popular suffrages:
I. That the federal government is one
of limited powers, derived solely from the
constitution, and the grants ol power shown
therein, ought to be strictly constructed
by all the departments and agents of the
government, and that it is inexpedient and
dangerous to exercise doubtful constitu
tional powers.
2. That the constitution does not confer
upon the general government the power to
commence and carry on a general system
of internal improvements.
3. That the constitution does not confer
authority upon the federal government, di
; redly or indirectly, to assume the debis of
t the several Mates, contracted lor local in
iternal improvements, or other Stale pur
i it i . : i. ? .
poses; nor wouiu sucn assuu.puuu ue jusi
and expedient
4. That justice and sound policy forbid
the federal government to foster one branch
of industry to the detriment of another, or
to cherish the interests ol one portion to
the injury of another portion of our com
mon country; that every citizen and every
section of the country has a right lo de
mand and insist upon an equality of rights
nrotnction ol neison and niooertv lrom
i j .
domestic violence of foreign aggression.
5. That it is the duty of every branch of
the government to inforce and practise Ihe
most rigid economy in coii'iu'jtir.g our
public afliirs, and that no n.oie revenue
ought to be raised than is svqreJ to defray
the necessary exp?ns s ot u.e government.
6. That Conire- has no power to char
ter a national bank: that we believe such an
institution one of deadly hostility to the best
interests of the country, dangerous to our
republican institutions and the liberties of
the people, and calculated to place the busi
ness of the country within the control ot a
concentrated money power, and above the
laws and the will of the people.
7. That Congress has no power, under
the constitution, to interleie with or con
trol the domestic institutions of the several
States; and that such Slates are the sole
and proper judges of everythingappertain
ing lo their own affiirs, not prohibited by
ihe constitution: that all efforts of the abo
litionists, or others, made to induce Con
gress to interfere with questions of slavery,
or to take incipient steps in relation there
to, are calculated lo lead to the mosi alarm
ing and dangerous consequences; and thai
all such efforts have an inevitable tendency
to diminish the happiness of the people,
and endanger the stability and permanency
of the Union, and ought not to be counten
anced by any friend to our political institu
tions. 8. That the separation of the moneys of
the government from banking institutions,
is indispensable for the safety of the funds
of the government and the rights of the
people.
9. That the liberal principles embodied
by Jefferson in the declaration of indepen
dence, and sanctioned in the constitution.
which makes ours the land of lihertv. and
the asylum of the oppressed of every na
tion, have ever been cardinal principles in
the democratic faith; and every attempt to
abridge the present privilege of becoming
citizens and the owners of soil among us,
ought to be resisted with the same spirit
which swept the alien and sedition laws
from our statute book.
Resolved, That the proceeds of the pub
lic lands ought to be sacredly applied to
the national objects specified in the consti
tution; and that we are opposed to the law
lately adopted, and to any law for the dis
tribulioti of such proceeds among ths
States, as alike inexpedient in policy and
repugnant to the constitution.
Resolved, That we are decidedly oppo
sed to taking from the Prendent the quali
fied veto power by which he is enabled,
under restrictions and responsibilities, am-1
ply sufficient to guaTdthe public interest, to j
suspend the passage of a bill, whose merits
cannot secure the approval of two thirds of
the Senate and House ol Representatives,
until the judgment of the people can be ob
tained thereon, and which has thrice saved
the American people from the corrupt and
tyrannical domination of the Bank of the
United States.
Resolved, That our title to the whole of
the Teiritory of Oregon is clear and un
questionable; that no portion of the same
ought to be ceded to England or any other
power; and that the re-occupation of Ore
gon and the re-annexalion of Texas, at the
earliest practicable period, are great Amer
ican measures, which this convention re
commends to the cordial support of the de
mocracy ol the Union.
Resolved, That this convention hereby
presents to the people of the United State
JAMES K. POLK, of Tennes?ee. as the
candidate of the democratic party for the
officeof President, and GEO. M. DAL
LAS, of Pennsylvania, as the candidate of
the democratic party for the office of Vice
riesident of jhe United States.
Resolved, That this convention hold in
the highest estimation and regard their il
lustrious fellow-citizen, Martin Van Buren
of New York: that we cherish the most
grateful and abiding sense of the ability,
integrity, and firmness with which he dis
charged the duties of the high officeof
President of the United States, and espe
cially of the inflexible fidelity with which
he maintained the true doctrines of the
constitution, and the measures of the demo
cratic party during his trying and nobly
arduous administration; that in the memo
rable struggle of 1840 he fell a martyr to
the great principles of which he was the
worthy representative, and we revere him
as such; and that we hereby tender to him,
in his honorable retirement, the assurance
of the deeply sealed confidence, affection,
and respect of the American democracy
Resolved, That an address to the people
of the United States, in support of the
principles of the democratic party, and of
the candidates presented, as their represen
tatives, by this convention, be prepared
by the committee on resolutions, and be
published by them.
Resolved, That the proceedings of this
convention be signed by its officers, and
published in the democratic, republican
newspapers of the United States
MR. VAN BUREN.
The following letter from Ex-President
Van Buren was read at the recent Demo
cratic Mass Meeting in the Park:
Lindewold, June 2d, 1F44.
Gentlemen I had the honor to receive
by the hands of Mr. Gansevoort Melville,
your communication requesting me, in be
half of a convention of delegates from the
several wards of the city and county of
New York, to preside at a Mass Meeting
of the Democracy to be held on the 4th
inst , to respond to the nominations of the
Baltimore Convention.
Upon retiiing from the Presidency, I
thought it would best comport with the re
spect which was due to that high station,
and to those by whose favor I had been
raised to it, to restrict my participation in
the political contests of the day to the faith
ful exercise of the right of suffrage, with
unreserved expressions of my opinions up
on public questions to those who deemed
the latter of sufficient importance to call
for them. The adoption of this rule was
at the time publicly announced to my po
litical friends, and has ever since been scru
pulously observed. Subsequent events
have only confirmed the propriety of its
continued and permanent observance. It
is therefore with unfeigned regret, that 1
find myself constrained by circumstances,
which I cannot and ought not to disregard,
to decline the request to preside at a meet
ing of a portion of my fellow citizens, than
whom no men possess stronger claims to
my respect, my confidence and my esteem.
But let no one for a moment suppose
that, in thus yielding to the proprieties of
my position, I am in the slightest degree
influenced bv lukewarmness. much less
hostility to the success of the nominations
to which it is the purpose of those you re
present to respond. Far, very far is tha
j from being the true state of my feeling. 1
have known Messrs Polk and Dd la long
and intimately. I have had frequent op
portunities for personal observation of their
conduct in the discharge of high and r
sponsible public duties. The latter has
by appointment, represented the country
abroad with credit and usefulness. The
are both gentlemen possessed of high char
acter, of unquestioned and unquestionable
patriotism and integrity, able tJ discharge
the duties of the stations for which they
have been respectively nominated with ad
vantage to the country and honor t them
selves. Concurring with them in the main
in the political principles by which ther
public lives have been hitherto distinguish
ed, I am sincerely desrous for their suc
cess. I am by no means unapprised ol the
occurrence remou-lv connected with these
nominations which hive caused pain and
mortification in the breasts of many sincer
friends throughout the Union, who hive
lonored me by their continued and disin
erested friendship.
But I am very sure that I can also rel
on their past fidelity and honor for arcid
concurrence in thesaviog principles of oui
political creed, that no personal or private
feelings .should ever induce us to withdraw
our support from nominations, the succe.-s
of which would be conducive to the per
manent interests of ihe country. Thos;,
therefore, who think as I do, thai its future
welfare is in a great degree dependent upon
the success of these gieat principles in the
administration of the Federal Government,
which we have hitherto espoused, and in
respect to which the two great parties ot
the country have for yers been divided,
can no. I am sure, f il to merge all minor
considerations, in sincere anil undisguised
efforts to promote the s iccess of the candi
dates of the Democratic party.
1 1 i ii i ..i
navinc now saui an inai me occasion
calls for, iu rciinrd to the general objects of
the meeting, I must be indulged in a few
parting words to ihe lion-hearted Democra
cy of the city and county of New York.
Never before has a public man oeen hon
ored by the support of truer, firmer, or
more disinterested friends than they have
been to me. In prosperity 1 have scarcely
known where to find them; in adversity
they have been with me always. Thro evil
& through good report, I have found the
masses of the New York Democracy the
some unobtrusive, but unshrinking friends
The happiest, by far the happiest day in
my whole political career was that on
which, on my return from Washington,
they met me on the Battery, in the midst of
r i i irL I i
a storm oi winu ana rani, wnicn wouiu
have kept fair weather friends at home, and
extended tome, a private citizen like them
selves, their hard hands and opened their
honest hearts in a welcome as cordial as
nsan ever received from man.
They need no assurances to satisfy them
that I shall he forever thankful for their
unsurp sscd devotion to my welfare they
know that I can never cease to cherish vvith
grateful recollections the honored relation
of Representative and Constituent which
has existed between us for so long a period,
in such various forms, and which is now
forever closed.
I have the honor, gentlemen, to be
very respectfully, your friend atid
obed't serv't.
M. VAN BUREN.
To Gansevoort Melville, Richaid B Con
nolly, Wm. A. Walker, and VVm. Mc
Munay, Esqrs , Comn i tje.
ACCEPTANCE OF MR. DALLAS
A Strange Scene. The Philadelphia
Spirit of the Times gives the following
-
amusing account ot me
P .
acceptance ol the
Democratic nomination for the Vice Pres
idency by the Hon. Geo. M. Dallas:
"It was arranged to be announced to
him by ihe Eastern Delegation on their
way home from the Convention. Accom
panied by Senator Walker, of Mississippi,
a personal friend of Mr. Dallas, the dele
gates, 60 in number, anived in this city
on Friday morning about 5 o'clock. Of
course almost every body was yet asleep.
The party soon reached Mr. D'h house,
and Mr WTaIker ascended the steps, rang
the bell. After a pause, Mrs. D. put her
head out of the window, and seeing Mr.
Walker, conjectured Ihat some misfortune
had happened to her daughter, resident in
Washington. Mr. Walker's remark, !
wish to see Mr. Dallas immediately, " con
firmed hpr suspicions, and she hastily
awakened her husband, communicating the
said conjectures. He ran down stairs hall
dressed and bare-footed opened the door
when to his utter amazement, in walked
sixty or more gentlemen, two by two, with
. i r l .1 : i i i
the treau oi suiuier, passing oim oy ana
entering his front parlor as though to make
him a captive. Not having the slightest
conception of their object, he stood thun
der-struck at the scene. Mr. Walker led
him into the back pirlor. My dear Walk
er, said ne in amazement, "what is the
mattei? ' Watt one moment, if you please,
Dillas wait one moment, if you please. "
The f ilding doors were then thrown open,
and the whole delegation stepping forward.
jive three deafening cheers lor Polk and
Dallas!" Mr. D. stood paralyzed. Mr.
Walker enjoyed his discomfiture. Gov.
Fairfi. ld. of Maine, then stepped forward,
and in the name of the delegation, solved
he mystery in a brief and appropriate
speech.
Mr. D.dlas having by this lime collected
himself, made a very short speech. He
siid I feel honored on behalf of the Key
stone State in this nomination. If the pr;r
ly ask it, I must yield all private and per
sonal considerations to their wishes espe
cially as it was i;n oliciled and unsought.
Air. Walker and several of the delegates
then spoke, alter which they gave 26
cheers for Polk, Dallas, Muhlcnburg and
Tex is.
Cheer after cheer were then given for
the nomination, which effectually awaken
ed not only the family, but all the neigh
borhood, the street being by that time alive
with a crowd of anxious inquirers.
COLONEL POLK'S LETTER.
Columbia, Tenn. JJpril22, 1844.
Gentlemen: Your letter of the 30th
ul'. which you have done me the honor to
a Idress to me, reached my residence du
ring my absence from home, and was not
received until yesterday. Accompanying
your letter you transmit to me, as you
stUe "a copy of the proceedings of a very
large meeting of ihe citizens of Cincinnati,
assembled on the 29th instant, to express
tneir settled opposition to the annexation
of Texas to the United Slates." You
rt quest from me an explicit expression of
opinion upon this question of annexation.
Having at no time entertained opinions
upon public subjects which 1 was unwil-
hng to avow, it gives me pleasure to com
ply vyith your request. I have no hesita
tion in declaring ihat I am in favor of the
immediate re-annexation of Texas to the
territory and Government of the United
States. 1 entertain no doubts as to the
power or expediency of the ie-annexaiiou.
I he proof is clear and satisfactory to my
mind, that Texas once constituted a part of
the territory of the United States, the title
to which I regard to have been as indispu
table as that to any other portion of our
territory. At" the negotiation with a view
to acquire the Floridas, and the settlement
of other questions, and pending the negoti
ation, the Spanish Government itself was
-atisfied of the validity of our title, and was
ready lo recognise a line far west of the
Sabine as the true western boundary of
LmiK-iana, as defined by the treaty of 1803
with France, under which Louisiana was
ac quired. 'X his negotiation, which had
ben first opened at Madrid, was broken
off and transferred to Washington, where
it was resumed, and resulted in the treaty
of Florida, by which ihe Sabine was fixed
on as the western boundary of Louisiana.
From the ratification of the treaty of 1803
w iih France, until the treaty of 181 9 with
Spain, the territory now constituting the
republic of Texas belonged to the United
States. In 1819 the Florida treaty was
concluded at Washington, by Mr. John
Quincy Adams, (the Secretary of State,)
on the part of the United States, and Don
Louis de Onison the part of Spain; and by
that treaty this territory lying west of tha
Sabine and constituting Texas, was ceded
by the United States to Spain. The Rio
Del Norte or some more western boundary
than the Sabine could have ,been obtained
had it been insisted on by the American
secretary ol Mate, and that without increa-
sir.g the consideration paid for the Flori
II . "
das.
in my judgment, Ihe country West
of the Sabine, and now called Texas, was
most unwisely ceeaed away. It is a nart
of the Mississippi, directly connected, bv
in naviauie wains, wnn me iMlSSlSSinni
nver; and having once been a part of our
Union, it should never have been dismpm.
bered from it. The Government
ple ot I exas, it is understood, not only
give their consent but are anxiouslv rW-
rous, to be re-united to the United States.
It the application ot Texas for a re-union
and admission into our Confederacy shall
be rejected by the United States, there is
imminent danger that she will become a
dependency, if not a colony of Great Brit
am an event which no American patriot,
anxious for the safety and prosperity of
this country, could permit to occur with
out the moit strenuous resistance. Let
Texas be reannexed, . nd the auth( rity and
laws of the United States be established
and maintained within her limits, as also
in the Oregon Territory, and the fixed pol
icy of our Government be, not to permit
Great Britain or any other foreign power to
plant a colony or hold dominion over any
portion of the people or territory of either.
These are my opinions; and without
deeming it to be necessary to extend this
, letter; by assigning the many reasons