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Tarborough, Edgecombe County, j t Saturday, September 28, 1844.
XT. Jllfc SO.
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i is i nf.O' a t t'-at t'ii . st p s-i iul I be ta
ken t t'cnre a nvve thor ugh I t-Uicint
.i-jt inizali'U. f the ilt-nocr i'i pan, tiinu
now esis's for th'-se n-asons:
1st. fhat each as'(vatim slia'l k-rp h
other veil informed of the condition of par
t c
2A. That RtiihMi Ic ad cor ect informa-t-
:i oviv hn disseminated far and wide.
. I. 1'h tth re'ti'ns. whe'her of Sate
r ledi'r l clecio is, m.y b- rircutated in a
form authentic and official, ami which can
he relied upon by our friends for any pur
pose, especially to counteract the fa he im
pressions which miv be'erated bv the pub
lication in the whig journals of the results
uf nlpctiorrs.
I' is already cettnined that that party
h ive a we'll reran ij.d system of falsehood,
. 1 .d ii ih- p.t,lie:tion of erroneous re-
i "f -lection. hn by the publication of
ira-'s and diMMiment- The v big anil
0"if of the neutral papers in every section
f ' Union attend to the first branch of
h- fraud, and The congressional whig cen
d banking conrimittee at Washington are
ii.linu to the latter, by publishing and
d:.emin:iting one set of opinion by Mr
': lay for the South, and another -set for the
manufacturing and abolition dis'ricts of the
North and West ; also documents for the
North making Mr. Polk a free-trade man,
and documents for the South making him
a tariff man. These frauds have been de
tected in this city; therefore we warn our
friends to guatd against them. Discredit
everything coming ftom a whig source,
until substantiated hv information derived
from those whose effort will be not to de
ceive, but to enlighten with the truth
W e do not hesitate to say that the election
returns which have ben. and are being
puhlhhed in the Globe can be relied on by
our friends for any purpose. They are as
accurate as unofficial returns can possibly
be, some of which, from necessity, being
copied from whig papers. The official ie
turns will be published in the (ilobe as
soon as they are received. When the or
ganization proposer! by this notice is com
plete, thn fcil ty for "tijng the correct
returns will be such as is de-ired We ap-
P-a. to the b mncracv in those section of
country wn re no a'soci itions exist to
forthwith nnrnm anil ronnrt in nppnrH. i
a ice with the ahvr. VVc make this ap
fd not frorr. any doub of the strength of
'urcatise, or that ve hnve not the ntim
irs to carry it on to victory. We must
not despise the enemy however coriupt or
weak thty n.ay be; but knowing them to
bM Aeak a:d coriupt should make
' " " '
us nn,ij Vig'uai;t and active to guard j
.T'TMiii.t th linl'iir nnl in.I.n.- n-ip-i.w In
-.'ul.th.-v u ill from nece.iitv r.-ort tll of ifwould be impossible in this form of
ov.rih.-r x-. -knes-. We can S,r,our;"'M"S 'u All that we shalLaim to
ri - ,ut ;t ii, . , h,ve t.o d ,,hi 'dk i Pr- ill be to lay befoie the peo
' . I)ai-,s vsid b. (dec-d. o u-t. I P,e a J w unambiliuus ttmaiks; addressed
. . .' x,. ...... i . . 1 1 ! 1 1) their muioiism and common sense
win' xv. uui "Ui i 1 1 ' i r ' 1 1 v
'i "I'M, w th ano'hei xiew; that channels
he - -tat I. shed through wh ch
develop o t'ie American people
we can
one of
lt:e .nost corrupt and villanous schemes ev
rroncociet b any party which has been
HI on loot by whigvfry to sobjtiga'e re
P'd)ii(..tn liberty, and bring our institutions
'!wn to the footstool of the tranu' of the
'h .rld We do not fear the scheme.
liepoMie will not only defeat itsohjeet.
ii will '.verwhelm the men and thepTtv
' ' i ; an i tii- .I'teuipt ut u.
1 t i .limn so .teep ihai the Irieud
'Jyi ;i m I nliious lilic'y t lirotijrhout
't .void f, f the 'remotest neneraMoos.
! t-xecrale tiiere very names. When
organization is compiete, the exposure
vul ije made, and their plan rendered
abortive Therefore organize-organize
forthwith-North, South,- East, and West.
P. S. This is to give notico to the de
mocracy, that the whig centra! committee
m this city are publishing documents pur
porting so siow the votes of Mr Polk
which in fact, if they .lo not in all cases
actually falsify his votes, suppress some of
the facts connected therewith, and thus
give a false aspect to them. It will be the
duty of the democratic party in every sec
tion of the country to discredit th-se doc
uments, denounce them as vile whig slan
ders, as they are, ask a suspension of pub
lic opinion, and write immediately to
v ashmgton to the executive committee of
lha democratic association to send the real
ln'ts m each case, lo ba derived from the
Congressio i d archives, as authenticated
bythecl.rk i-i charge of t!cm.
I he associations throughout the Union
will be pleased to pay the postage on all
communication nt to the executive corn
out ee. n the democratic association at
a-hirig'on. whose communications will,
n ail c is s, he postage paid.
Tiie de ne.cratic papers throughout the
United Slates ;vill s-ibser ve the cairse of
the oemocr.cy by giving the fullest public
ity to the ab.ive, until it shall be seen in
i he remote-t parts of the Union. They
are earnestly requested to do n:
By ordtr of the execiiiive committee.
JAMKS TOWLKS, Ch'n.
C. P. Senstnck,' Sec'y.
For the ta itrjiiitu' PRtsS
TO MARY.
Pan 1 bp well while thou ait ill,
Or mirthful when I see thee not;
Or bid my anxious thoughts be still
While thou art unforgot.
Life of my life were I to smile
When sorrow marked thee thoughtfully;
I should be snd at heart the while
Or all unworthy thee.
When clouds float o'er the pure bright
sun,
And veil it with a morning hue
The smiling earth we gaze upon
Is veiled in sadness too.
Thou are tiie son, and I the earth,
And should a cloud pass over thee,
It needs must rest upon my mirth,
And leave its trace on me.
Then chide me not if that my brow,
Reflects thine all of mournfulness;
For smiles could light it only now
Were 1 to love thee less.
By Particular Inquest.
THE GIRLS AND ANNEXATION
By Parson Howe.
Our village maids all vow and swear,
It gives (hem great vexation,
To hear a 4nice young man" declare
He's not for annexation)
They're all for union to a man,
And go the whole for Texas;
And say to all who aint, "git out)"
You never shall annex u! GOOD.
From the Democratic Signal.
AN ADDRESS
To the Freemen and Voters of lVorth
Carolina,
continued Jnm last No )
in thus giving to this subject the promi
nent position which belongs to it, we mean
not to exclude from view altogether those
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important uui suuoruinai.e questions vi poi-
icv unon witicn
the rirsuleniiai canui-
(latest are divided. The first of these is the
TyMffor, as the Central Committee of
the Clay parly in North Carolina have
frankly eutitud it, THEIK Takiff the
l at ill" Act f IS42
I his subject i one that has been fre
noenily disc-s-ed, and a full examination
I
Midi as ev ry body can cumpieueuuj aim
sopi.isir) itself cannot peivtrt.
We need not labor to prove that all
Taxes imposed by government are collect
ed out ol the People directly or indirectly.
If they arecollectP.il as our Mate and Coun
i taxes are, the tax is a direct one, to
wit: the citizen takes the money out of his
own pocket and pa)S it directly to the
government If, however, they are col
le. ted a nor National Government raises
its leveoues, altho the people s ill p .y the
revenues of government, they do it INDI
KECTLY That is to say, the government
eolltcls ihis Taiifl'iax from the importer
of the articles consumed by the people, to
wit: their hats, shoes, clothes, sugar, iron,
&c. 1 he importer then adds the amount
of impost, or tax, so paid by him upon his
price lor the articles and when the citi
zen pnrchises the cloth, or iron, or sugar,
or other thing to consume, he lefunds to
the importer the tariff taxes in the addi
tional price he pays, and thereby these im
posts or tariff taxes become an indirect
tax upon the people. Never a dollar goes
into the Treasury which the people do not
in sjine form create under God's blessing
by their labor, and afterwards contribute
to the government immediately or remote
'' directly or indirectly. These are
plajn, common truths about which there
can be no dispute, and upon which there
i no difference of opinion. Our divisions
arise in their application. Now, then, to
apply them to the Tariff the favorite tax
iU system of Mr. Clay and his party
' The 'Tariff Act of 1S42." The returns
of the Treasury Department show that the
amount of revenue (takes) collected the
pres mt ear is. or will be. about forty mil
lions of dollars! The expenses of the Gen
er d Government are quite large enough,
if not too great, whn they reach twenty
millions. Why, then, should the people
be thus taxed twice as much as there is
any necessity for? I he. State of N. Caroli
na the people of both parties agree that
the government expenses should not be as
great as twenty-millions Mr. Clay him
self has said the same thing, and his party
nave likewis- over and over agin, decla
red the same opinion. In this we cencur
xvith them heartily and sincerely. We
wool I therefore repeat thejnquiry, where
in lies the necessity or the policy of tax
ing the people forty millions for a govern
ment ihai ought to be administered for less
than half that amormt? Undeniably this is
done by the tariff act of 1842; and yet
Mr. Clay is 'utterly opposed to its repeal!'
and even in the South his parly leaders
have cone with their Chief.
It is not only a burden to the people to
pay such an excess of taxes, but it produ
ces consequences still more deplorable.
You know, as all men of observation musi
know alas! too well that Congress, like
individuals, when they are in possession
o a lull treasury are apt to use it extrava
gantly. This is peculiarly the case with
governments wherein the Representatives
spend what the people pay. To denounce
extravagance in your government, and at
the same lime fo oppose a reduction of the
taxes below forty millions, is absurd.
How can you rely upon any man's profes
sions of economy in public expenses when
he goes for adhering to a tariff tax that
yields forty millions a year?
Then, again, a large revenue like fort'
millions a year (which it is estimated by
our opponents themselves will increase to
more) will not only lead to extravagance,
but extravagance in the government begets
corruption in its administration, no matter
what party tules, as naturally "as the
sparks fly upwards
The Liberties of the People and the U
nion of the Slates are never so secure, (to
say nothing at all about the cost) as when
their Constitution is permanent and undis
turbed the Nation out of debt the ex
penditures of Government moderate the
Taxes of the people low and the real
producers of our wealth left to manage anil
to use the fruits of their own industry un
der the protection of equal laws.
What would you say to a law of this
State for doubling the taes, when one
half the amount is all that has been found
necessary for its administration? And' if
these double taxes (under the Tariff of
1842. are paid chiefly by the armers of
the country, (as we believe they are.) they
have a right to complain against the ex
cess; and North Carolina being a commu
nity 'of farmers, might be expected to re
duce such burdens, regardless of party lea
ders. If it must needs be, that our farm
ers are taxed, in order to protect favored
classes of capitalists, is it not quite enough
to tax them ALL that the Government
NEEDS? Wherefore should they be op
pressed with double taxes? But suppose
th'n I at lit did not operate unequally
against the farmers, for we mean not to
discuss that question now; let it be conce
ded that these Double Tariff Taxes were
imposed upon all sections and all classes
alike, with most unerring impartiality, and
that alt the People paid them in just pro
portions, therfTsstnot beyond dispute tht
interest of all the people in all sections and
of all classes to tepeal one kalf of their
own Taxes, the economical administration
of the Government requiring no more for
its liberal support? Nay let it be supposed
that thtse DOUBLE buithens were now
resting upon the shoulders of our country
men in other States, and not upon ours,
would the people of North Carolina be so
unjust and so ungenerous as to refuse any
relief to those who pay them, when by
taking offbul one half of them, there would
still be enough for the Government and to
-pare? What does it matt r to this ques
tion, whether the North or the Souih, the
East or the West pays an unequal portion
of the Taxes? When the amount of reve
nue so far exceeds the wants of the Gov
ernment, Justice, Patriotism and self-in
terest unitedly cry out against it, and the in their conclusion than to run after such .
People, every where, owe it to themselres. heresies. Though pained at the party s!a
to insist upon a diminution of such burdens,; vishness and political tergiversation of
and to elect no one President who is "ut-j their leaders, we do not believe that : .
serly opposed to it " But Mr. Clay's par-'re"n'e of our proverbially 'honest Su:
ty leaders have adopted this Tariffof IS42,!
as rHMK OvN, even in North Caroli-!
na. Mr. Clay has pledged himself in vri-J
ting, that he is "U TTERLY OPPOSED
rt nv dl'dpii , w..u i '
TO
i to ijaii -TJui-ii aic i us own
words not ours. Col Polk has given no
such unwise pledge against the repeal of
Double Taxps, not necessary to an econom
ical administration.
A Tariff for Revenue. The Tax neces
sary to raisa revenues sufficiently large to
support the Government, is opposed by no
party; certainly it is not by us, nor by the
Democratic Party; but we are protesting
only against the Double Taxes; we are on
ly resisi ing double burthens; we are op
posing a svstem by which Furly Millions
of Dollars in Taxes are levied for Revenae,
when the Government does not need more
Revenue than Twenty Millions. This
single view of.ihe subject would seem to
supersede the necessity for presenting it in
any other.
The Clav Party sav they are for a
PROTECTIVE TARIFF. A system to
impose burthens upon one class for the
benefit of another, lor in no other way
can it be protective And since the elec
tions in August it has been proclaimed
that a majority of the IVcple of this State
are in favor el" that system. When, if ev
er before, was the voice of North Carolina'
raised by the PEOPLE against DE
,:RE SING their faxes? Neither is it so
now. I
No later fhan the last Assembly it was
"tesoved, 'That while North Caiolina
will never object to any amount of taxes
"equally apportioned and imposed for the
"purpose of raising revenue to support the
"government economically administered,
"yet this Mate v. ill never consent to the
'imposition of Taxes, the design and ope
"ration of which are to promote the inter
est of particular occupations at the gen
"eral expense." This was no party Res
olution. All parties voted for it. In the
Senate there were only five votes against
it and in the Commons only eighteen! So
in Congress all the members of both parties
from North Carolina who voted against the
protective tariff of 1S42, when it was pas
sed, with a solitary exception So from
the tariff of 1816, to that which passed in
1842, the vote of North Carolina has been
always given in Congress against this sys
tem of taxing the whole people for the ben
efit or protection of panicular occupa
tions,' hut in favor of revenue duties
From Nathaniel Macon to the time of
Willie P. Mangum and his colleague in
1842, (Mr. Graham, the Governor elect)
all our Senators have voted against the
protective system. So the Journals of our
Assembly show that Congress never pass
ed a protective tarilf that the North Caroli
na Legislature did not remonstrate and
protest against it. And in perfect concur
rence with all these proceedings have been
the tone and language of the leading politi
cians and of public meelings of the people
every where, & at all times in N. Carolina,
including amongst the politicians those who
now belong to the Clay patty, indeed
until a very recent period our opponents in
this State denounced the high tariff sys
tem as (one) impoverishing the-Southern
farmer for the benefit of the Northern
manufacturer.' Leading men of all parti'es
in the State reprobated it as a Max the de
sign and oper dion of which vveie to pro
mote the interest of particular occupations
at the general expense as a burden put
upon labor to benefit capital upon the
poor to benefit the rich upon the wak to
bem fit the mighty as a tax upon the plan
ters, farmers and working men to en
hance the profits of manufacturers, corpora
tiousand capitalists. It were not a difficult
task to tell the names of our eminent men
who have heretofore used such language,
but it would swell this paper to an unusual
size, and no doubt the people must recol
lect them. Now we would like to know,
in view of these Concurrent authorities,
what extraordinary illumination can have
opened the eyes cf our distinguished poli
ticians, not only to their errors but to the
new and singular truth, that it is both wie granted that the people are hostile to the
and constiiuiional to do now, under theire annexation of Texus, and Texas wilt
diction of the Hon. Henry Clay, what it ! never be ours, except al the expense of a
has been unwise and unconstitutional to al-j WaU. If he is net, that great national
low heretofor e under any other chief? j measure w ill pro'r.ubly succeed quietly 'janu
And by what sort of miracle in the political J honorably, w..h . the approbation of. .the
world it has been brought about that our i people of both Republics. Had- Mr."
TAXES have become BLESSINGS; j Clay's Letter never been written, and had
that it is now good for the people to be
taxed; it is still better for them to be taxed
double as much as their Government needs;
and best of all to raise a double tax out of
Ihe mass of the people, when the Govern
ment has no need of half of it, in order t hat
the interest of particular occupations may
be promoted at the general expense? For
ourselves we are not able to see all this, nor
to beiieve that the people of North Caroli
na will see it. We have been accustomed
to think the people of North Carolina more
.11 .1 A.'
their opinions-more pracal
siaoie tn
will consent, in blind idolatry to at;
man, to make a sacrifice of their princi-
pies, as thev have been held and declared
by them ever since the Constitution ws
i - . t ... .
auomen. o. rsn. n rs nor noss Die: ami
we invoke you, fellow-citizens to nscue
our State from this imputation, and
shake off the- burthen of an unnecessary
and unequal tariff: by voting againJt Mr.
('lay and his double tax. lite people have
these double taxes to pay their leaders
count upon being in power to spend the-iTU
and perhaps this is a key to the mystery
that has perplexed "us. It may be the rea
son why your leaders have learned to re
gard taxes as blessings the more the Ac
ter. We know it is said that the Ciay
party &re in favor of the Tariff act of 18-12
in oidertogive permanency to some system,
and the cry is that we change our 'Tariff
too often, but we feel aulhoiized to regard
this as a mere pretext to excuse what they
have not argument to defend 'Perma
nent lixes!" Are the maxims of free gov
ernments to be thus openly set at nought
and reversed? In the earlier days of our
Republic was ii not thought to be e3-st-ntial
to popular rights and the safety
' ,
ot the people, that the taxes should not
only be light but imposed for the shor-:. J
test period, so as to come in frequent rer
view before the constituentit who had them
to pay? Rut, besides that, the politicians',
who put up this plea for permanency in
;he people's taxes, are themselves, at the
moment of doing so, industriously occupi
ed with their schemes to break in upon tho
stability of the Constitution as it is! Why
not keep the Constitution as it is as well as
preserve the Tariflf as it is?' Is it wiser lo
have an unstable government with perma-
r.ent taxes, or a stable Constitution with
short lived taxes? "
We shall probably examine at another
time the Bankrupt Law, which Mr. Clay
sustained heretofore against lire known
wishes of his State, and which he has neve?
renounced, so far as we can understand him.
The Bank question, upon which he was -once
the champion of the people, but af
terwards deserted, and is now become the
leader of monopolies, will be noticed in an
other form. The Distribution of the pro
ceeds of the Public Lands, the principles
of which he opposed when Gen. Jack
son was supposed to be in favor of it,
and afterwards supported as a measure of
his own, has been more prolific of promi
ses than of cash to the people of N. Caro
lina; and we may feel it our duty to speak
of that hereafter. The Annexation of
Texas, which as Secretary of State he once
endeavored to accomplish, but now as a
candidate for President resists and opposes,
is a question that shall be presented & dis
cussed by itself. One or two general re
marks upon these questions must close this .
Address. ' .
It was Mr. Clay who made the Tariff a
party question; it was he who made the
Bank a party question; it was he who made
the great national question ot Texas Annex
ation a party question; and it is he who.n '
you now see perverting into a party issue
the question of altering the Constitution,
Me did all this in his ambitious efforts to
bring about his own elevation. He has
now been at the head of an organized par- .
ty opposition to the government of his
country ever since the pr ople ousted Mr.
J. Q. Adams and himself in 1828, except
ing a few weeks in 1841 ; and this is his
expiring struggle to make himself Presi
dent. And what are the alternativ. pre
sented? If he is elected, the Con.-:t'-?:ion
is to be altered. If not elected, the Con
stitution will remain as it is.' If he is elec
ted, and proves true to his pledges, your '
taxes will be kept permanently at a doc
ble rate. . If he is not, they will be redu
ced, as they ought to be, at least one half. .
If he is elected we may have a rA&Tr
Bank not a National Bank owned by the
people, as many of them think, but a cor
poration of capitalists who will rule the
government. If he is not elected there
will be no such dangerous institution crea
ted. If he it elected, it will betaken for
he adhered to Ids first opinions on I exa
we believe that Texas would this day rave
been ours in teace and honor. U is
FALSEcome from what quarter it may,
to ascribe to us or to the democratic party
of the South, hostility to the Union, no
matter mhat maybe result ef our Texas
negotiations. Wq resent it "as an insult
and an honorole opponent in politics wiU
not use (he weapon he knows to be, poU
srmprt Wo trn fnr the UNION AND
TXAS-TEXAS AND THE UNION
i ... f...u. TiVinV. 7Vrrt nr no lex
J but for the UNION, Ttmsrw T.
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