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fll TLWBDBODIECD9 Wholc.Vo. 971. Tarborough, FAlgecombe County JV, V. Saturttay, October 12, 1844. The Tarborough Press, Bv George Howard. "Jr. Is published weekly at Ttvo Dollars per yr, if paid in advan-or. Two Dollars and F.fty Cents at the expiration of the subscription yenr. Subscribers are at liberty to discontinue at any time on giving notice thereof and paying arrears. Advertisements not exceeding a square will be inserted at On Dollar the first insertion, and 25 cents for erery continuance. Longer advertise ments at that rate per square. Court Orders and Judicial Advertisements 25 percent, higher. Ad vertisements must be marUed the number of inser tions required, or they will be continued until otherwise directed, and charged accordingly. Letters addressed to the I'Mitor must be post paid, or they m ty not be attended to. Wilmington Journal. Our Country. Liberty ; and God. David Fulton, Editor. Alfred L Price, IVin'er. . 7ermv $2 50 if p:icl in advance: 63 00 at the end of three months; S3 50 hi the expiration of the year No paper dis continued until all arrearages are paid, except at the option of the publishers - AVING been induced, at the solicita tion of some of the members of the Democratic pyty, to take charge of thr Republican Press in this phice. we will hereafter, on every Friday morning, issue a Democratic paper, under the above title, at the office of the late Wilmington Mes senger in the town of Wilmington." As we have given a brief outline of the principles the "Journal" will advocate in our first number, we think it unnecessary aain to reiterate the political doctrines it will be our constant and earnest endeavor to inculcate. On the present occasion, therefore, we will merely state, that the "Journal" will be the uncompromising opponent of each and every "link" in the whole of the "great chain" of Whig mea sures a United States Dank a Piotoctive Tariff the Bankrupt Act Internal Im provements by the General Government, &c &c. While on the other hand, it will, so far as our humble abilities will enable us, be the firm friend and supporter of the Constitution as it was left us by our fath ers; and of a strict construction of that Const tn ion, thereby ensuring the rights of the everl States which compos Confed eracy. Dut ive sl out with the idea of not coins into details. It would be needless tax upon the reader's time. Suf fice it to .say, that the '-Journal" will In a Democratic papek. and will .dways ad vocate Democratic men and Democratic measures. Although the " Journal" W pe a po litiral paper, yet, in ordr that it m;y do he agreeable to ih' u,er rral reaU r. in col umns will el way he open lo such i ems f intelligence a will be iuten-ting to tin Far mer, the Mf reliant, the Mechanic, Apiculture, Trade, the stale of the Mar ket, &c, together with a slight glance 'at polite literature occasionally , will rec ive our attention We hope we will not br considered f"o "personal in our remarks" . wh-n wc fT r a lew suggestions to our Irirnds touching th necessity there exi-t for keeping on fo'tt a Democratic pres in the town ol Wil mington. In the first plac, ilmington is a place of the grea'est commercial importance of any in the State: it is situated in a Demo cratic district: there is a great deal of in tercourse carried on by the citizens of toe lower portion of the tate with this plaep; and consequently a Press hT would he Calculated to do as much good, in diffusing information, as peihaps.it any other point, m the State. Again, there arp.wc believe, ihrce Federal to every one Democratic pa per ir the State, anil this we feel confident, is the reason why North Carolina placed a l"2; in her Gubernatorial Chair at our r cent election: for we feel assured that it Qrly requires a fair comparison to he insli tu'ccl between the policy of the Federal ard Democratic parties to .ensure lor the latter the most triumphant success. Well now, it is impossible for a Press to be kept UP unless our friends will patronize it by subscribing themselves and inducing others ,0 ''go and do likewise. " For, gentle rea der, we suppose you are aware, and if you 'e not, we will tell you. that Printer's and Editors are so far like other mortals that it Squires something mere than air to feeil kind wishes lo clothe them. I here- 0re, we hope that every Democrat into hose hands this Prospectus may fall, wili 0 ' &Jl he can to insure the success ot the 'Journal" and the cause of Democracy. DAVID FULTON. itminton, N.C., Sept. 2 1,1 844. 5 From the Raleigh Standard. AN ADDRESS to the Freemen and Vot 'ERS OF .North" Carolina Fdhno citizens: We address you on the re-annexation of Texas to the United States a subject, of momentous interest, one which belongs to the. whole country, and not to a party, such as our political ad versities have attempted to make it. It involves the peace, the happiness, and the prosperity of these United States; more it lies as broad and deep as the foundations ol the Union; arid graps the destinies of millions yet unborn! The subject h .s been too much discussed to offer you anv thing new; we. can only attempt to talk'to y ou of facts and arguments already furnished, in a way so plain and natural as to make them comprehensible to the understandings of all men. With this pledge on our part, we conjure you, by that love which you must bear to your country's best welfare, to lend us an attentive ear. We care not who, or what party; brought, tip this subject to the consideration of the Senate and the people of the United States nor what were the motives that prompted it; grod and bad motives mingie in all greit political actions; we only look to the subject itself, on its own merits, as it is to work weal or wot 10 our country. The question we present to you is not whether Mr. Tyler's treaty ought, or ought not. to hive been ratified. The Senate of the United States, the proper constitutional tribunal, has put that matter to rest. Many Senators who are the war mest friends of re-annexation (among them Senators Denton and Rives,) voted against the treat), not because they were opposed to its object, but because they objected to the time,' manner, and form of the treaty. We now present to your serious considera tion the main question, the true question: Shall Te xas be re-annexed to the United States? That it is not a party question, nor a new question, but one which has been heretofore and is now considered of vast national concernment, is established by the single fact that everv Administration of the Federal Government- Adams', Jack son's, Van Duren's and Tyler's have, during the last twenty years. been endeav oring to re-annex Texas to the United States. Texas is a vast region of country, containing from three to four hundred thousand squire miles; six or seven times larger than the State of North Carolina; admitted by all sides to have the finest land and the most delightful climate in the world, growing all the richest agricultural products, and suited especially to the hab its, tabor and constitutions of the southern i:d s nitii-wes'ern people. Her territory is a tiTt oi ine hiimsmijui vane me llarkv Mountains, the Great Desert, and the Del Nor'e. constituting the western and sjuthern boundary of both. This hound irv, so well marked and defined by nature, huts out Mexico, and will prove a st'cuntv and barrier against border wars lexa wns peopled from the United States: hardly settlement, tieighboi hood, town, or vilhigr- in the West and South, but has some near and dear relation there. Her religion, language, laws, and form of Gov ernment are like our own. All her politi cal. critnn and social sympathies are wi'h us ;rnd she longs to be made one bone ,Mud onr fiYsh -iih us, as a sister State in our glorious Union- ' j The Mritish Government is opposed to ihr re-annexation ol Texas to the United Slates, from a natural jealousy ol the spread of our democratic institutions; from the j wish to monopolize. her trade; lo maintain ! her as a rival to us, thereby to contiol the price of our agricultural products and ai ! a point whence her plans of abolition may jhe carried on with secrecy and effect, on our southern borders, which unite with Texas like the borders of two neighboring plantations, dividing the water courses, swamps, hills, valleys, and the very roots and grass of the fields. ' Mr. Clay, also, is opposed to the re-annexation of Texas, as his Kaleigh letter .shows; so are the northern Abolitionists and the great leaders of the Clay party. Mr. Polk and the Democratic paiy are in favor of it. It "may "surprize "you, howev er, to hear that a portion of the Clay lead ers were in favor of annexation, until Mr. Clay issued his letter of April last against it. Alter that, they renounced their inde pendence of opinion, and shouted to their idol, "Great is Diana of the Ephesi a.ns!" or. as in the days of King Herod, 4lT IS THE VOICE OF GOD AND NOT OF man!" Should this party succeed in electing Mr. Clay, President, Great Dritain will be encouraged to new efforts to plant her pol icy and interests into Texan soil: she will be encouragpd to estrange Texas from us, and to raise her up as a jealous rival to the. United States, until at last, fully com mined to Texas, in her pride, interests and'ehased it from France in 1803, as a part of policy, war must come with England, as Louisiana. For this we have the authori sure as the night succeeds the thy. Texas ty of Jefferson, Madison, Pincknpy, Mon annexed is a sure guaranty of peace with roe, Adams, Clay and Jackson, without, as England; Texas disannexed, as sure a har-j wc believe, one dissenting American bmger of war. Our danger is in procas'i- statesman. In 1S19 John Q. Adams. Sec- "JUU,I wnicn win gne England time tojretary of State under Mr. Monroe, nezo weave her schemes of policy, to obtain dominant political influence over Texas ' and Mexico. A war with Mexico, without England for her ally, is too absurd to deserve any con sideration. Youthful Texas, single hand, ed, conquered her more than eight years ago on ihe plains of San Jacinto, and she has reason to fear that another war may plant the banner of Texas on the towers of the city of Mexico. We have no enemy to dread in this matter, but Ureat Britain. She intrigues where she can. and wars where she dare. 'Has she not announced lately to our Government at Washington, with coal impudence, that she does not like one of our political ins'itutions; that it might to be reformed; and that she will ex ert her steady efforts to abolih it, where ever it is to be found? And is this less ar rogant, less insulting and less ominous, than if our Government were to give Great Dritain notice that we did not like Lords and Bishops, and that we should use our efforts to reform such institutions, in all places where they existed? or, if one were to give notice to his neighbor that he did not like the way he managed his fami ly. affair, and they ought to be reformed? Surely, it would be the same arrogant assumption of authority and superiority, in the one case as in the other. This an nouncement, like the shadow of coming events, ought to warn us to receive Texas whilst she is young, pure and free, and before she is seduced into the embrace of England. Hut, Clay leaders will tell you that Eng. land has disavowed, to our Government, all intention of interfering with the affairs of Texas. Put who can confide in her sin cerity or benevolence, when the pressure of her population, her manufactures cn' merchants demand further markets for her commerce? We point you to her bloody track over India, China, and other Asiatic countries to force her trade upon unoffend ing nations, and lo extend her empire. We point you to bleeding and oppressed Ireland. We point you to her cruel prac tice of impressment. We point to the starving, naked, drivelling women, boys and children, deformed in body and mind, and worked to death in her mines and fac tories. Wre point you to her effort to unite, by treaties, all the nations of Europe in a holy crusade against African slavery. We point you to the late servile insurrec tions in the Island of Cuba, which were Insiigated by her Consul at Havana, Da vid Turnbull, a distinguished abolitionist J We noint vou to the late efforts of her af-j filiated abolition societies in Texas, to her perfidy in the Washington treaty, whereby sne ooiauieu a largepanui uic icrriiury ui the Slate of Maine, when she held in her possession at the time, and concealed it from our Government, a map containing a line, traced by the hand of George the Third, which showed them the territory was ours. We point you to the wrongs which brought the Revolution of '76. whilst she was always disavowing the in tention to oppress us or to deprive us of our liberties. Wc point you to her disavowals before the warol IS 1 2 while stie was corn mining every aggression upon our neutral rights. We point you to the millions of slaves tint she holds in India, while she is hypocritically denouncing slavery in the United States. Is she not now encompas sing the globe with her armies and navies, and interfering with the concerns of every nation, savage or civilized? Whence does she derive this omnipotent prerogative to dictate to the world? No where but in her insatiable appetite for dominion and gain! President Monroe, .more than Iwenty years ago, iii one of his annual messages to Congress, denounced all claim on the part of European Governments to colonize this continent; and the people responded to it with acclaim. Nor will the American spi rit ever brook the idea of bending the knee at the footstool of Great Dritain, to sue for the privilege of treating with 'Texas. or any other member of the American family of nations. The democratic party are for peace with England and the world; they feek the ear liest practicable annexation of Texas to this Union to avert a war with England, before her interest and pride shall have be come too deeply interwoven with Texan affairs. The Clay leaders next say that Texas is not an independent nation; that it is a pro vince or department of Mexico; and that annexation involves us in a breach of faith to Mexico. If that be so, we admit it would be wrong, and as democrats we re pudiate all dishonor to our country. Dut here we take issue with our opponents, and will nrocced to show that I EXAS is A; i soveueign State. France acquired Texas by discovery and hrst occupancy, ana me uniiea states pur Stinted our treatr with Snain. and rlir,. quished to . her the territory of Texas I exas thus became a Spanish orovince Spanish territory, not Mexican territory. About 1822, Texas, with' Mexico and the other provinces of Spain in Central Ameri ca, revolted from Spain and declared them selves independent In 124, Texas with Coahuila, as . one State, established a Con stitution ami Government, a Judiciary, Le gislature, and Governor, as a free and in dependent State. The same year she wis received into the Mexican Confederacy Of Independent Sovereign ' States, framed af ter the nlan of our Federal Union. 'The Constitution of 'Texas, which was approv ed by the Mexican Confederacy, asserted "fnat J exas was free and independent of the other Mexican States, and of eve ry other power and dominion; and it also asserted the great republican principle that the sovereignty of the State reside" originally and essentially in the general mass of the people, who compose it. As early, then, as 1824, 'Texas, by her own Constitution and form of Government, and j by i he consent and approbation of Mexi co, eitabiislied .herself, side by side with Mexico, in the great Mexican Confedera tion of States, as sovereign and indepen- dent a State as Mexico herself. If then.! Texas is not a sovereign State, neither is Mexico. Our own citizens were induced to settle in 'Texas, under the promise and expectation of being governed by laws made through representatives chosen by themselves, and under the guarantees of the Constitution of Texas for the protec tion of their lives, liberty and property. Dut in 18 5 the tyrant Santa Anna over threw the Fedetal Constitution of the Mexi can Union by the sword, proclaimed the several State Constitutions as extinct, and expelled the Legislature of Texas from its hall at the point of the bayonet. But the usurper's military force and fraud did not extinguish the independence of 'Texas no more than the occupation of Louisiana by the British army, and the proclamation of Gen. Packenlum, extinguished the sove reignty of that State in 1815. 'Texas re sisted the tvrant: and jn the spring of 1836, against the odds of two to one, con quered his army on the plains of San Ja cinto, in one of the most glorious battles recorded in history." Santa Anna was made a prisoner of war; his life, justly for feited by the laws of war, for the cold blooded murder of five hundred Texan citi zens at Goliad, was spared. As the Dic tator and Supreme Head of Mexico, Santa Anna then made to Texas a solemn wiittet acknowledgment of her independence as a State. 'The battle of San Jacinto only con grmed, by arms, the independence of Tex as as a nation. This she has maintained for eight and a half years, against the world, possessing and conducting with wisdom, justice and firmness, at home and abroad, on land and sea, all the functions of a sovereign Slate. The United States, France, England, Spain, Holland, Belgi um, and, as the foregoing facts show, even Mexico and Santa Jinna, have recogni zed her independence. No nation on earth can establish hr title to independence on highpr and nobler grounds than Texas Like -the children of Israel, unaided save by the God of battles, she has fought her way through the wilderness, to indepen dence, rendered more glorious by the es tablishment of a republican Government, the ;irts of peace, Christian and literary in stitutions, and a quiet possession of more than eight years!, Texas, therefore, in facl and of right is a free, sovereign, and independent State Mexico never owned Texas for a moment; on the contrary, she confederated with her an un independent State, and when Santa Anna abolished that confederacy, Texas stood upon her former rights as a State, as fully as North Carolina would do were the abolitionists to abolish our Federal Constitution by the sword. Again, the third article of our treaty with France, in 1803, for the purchase of Loui siana, declares that "the inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United Stales, and admit ted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal Constitution, to the enjoyment of all rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United Slates." Thus our faith and honor are pledged to the people of Texas, lo reannex them to this Union. Texas is, then, a sovereign Stale. Her people and her Government, with surpri sing unanimity, have been asking for ad mission to our Union, again and again, for the last eight years. The common tie of flesh and blood, as one family of people, of language, laws, political views, habits and dealings, bind us together in one bond ol sympathy. Our honor and plighted faith to the people of 'Texas, by the treaty ol 1803, demand her admission to the Union. ; The defence, th& peace, the aecur'ity and welfare of the United States, and e peciaf ly of the South, urge it with iriesistablo power. If there is one man in the United States, whose patriotism and sound jorlg ment you may trust on this subject, it i Gen. Jackson. He declares, in lexers he " has written s nre February last, that it will be a strong iron hoop around ttie Uiion, and bulwark against fweign in vasion and aggression; ' and that th op portunity of receiving Texas limust not be lost. or. she may be compelled tn look elsewhere for protection and safety " - Texas , is part of the valley of the Mis sissippi; it Iks in the very neighborhood of New Orleans; two of her largest rivers, the Arkansas and the Red river, empty in to the Mississippi above New Orleans; this may give her, as a foreign nation, a claim to the free navigation of the Missis sippi; this again must lead to border wars; and should a hostile nation obtain a foot hold in Texts, or should Texas as a rival nation become hostile to us, with armies on land and vessels of war in the Gulf if Mexico, on the Sabine, the Red river and the Arkansis, by one simultaneous decent upon New Orleans that city may be laid in ashes western commerce broken up and, the fires of insurrection lighted up on all of our Southern border! i Great Britain wants but Texas lo check and overawe our commerce, to threat r. ouf . peace, and carry on her schemes ot1 aboli tion and smuggling along a common boun dar of land and river for nearly two thou sand miles. Remember, she is jealous of the success of our democratic institutions, and that she views the United States as tho only competitor whose rapid growth frt commerce and manufactures, is like V shut her out from a monopoly of the mar ac U of, the world. At the North, she has Canada and the lakes for hi r armies and navies;' on the West, Oregon and her ancient allies, the Indians, whom she has always used against us, and who are now to the number of six or seven hundred thousand hoverinz . ion our western border; there are her !?! ands in the West Indies; give her a con-. , trolling power in Texas, and we are com- ' ptelety at her mercy. If Texas is not ! soon annexed to these United States, hn gland will be driven to obtain a dominant ! influence over Texas, by motives of ambi- tion, interest, jealousy, and her pledges to abolish sdavery on this continent, saslrong that like an overruling fate they must be come trresistuble. Texas ought to be annexed to the Unl- ' ted States, on account of her valuable mar kets for our manufactures, 8nd the increaso of our internal commerce and navigation. Her lands and climate are the best in the . wor ld., lor the cultivation of cotton, sugar and lobacco. The transportation of these heavy and bulky articles, in our own ves sels and steam-ships, along our Atlantic coast, up the Mississippi and its various . tributaries, (to supply our own wants,) and hat of foreign countries, would vastly ex tend the navigation of the United States; and in the articles of timber and naval r stores for building vessels, especially ad antage the people of North Carolina. Here our own manufactures would find -a ready market. In times of war, a vast in--Urnal commerce could be carried on with Texas, through our broad and numerous western rivers, free, independent, and safe v from the aggressions of any hostile ; wer. With Texas, our boundary would be roun ded off; the valley of the Mississip ' ;ado entire, as the habitation of one greit kin dred nation ; the i isks of border wars would be diminished; the internal commerce be tween the Stites, in time, made lo supply every want; what should prevent the Uni ted States from being the happiest and the greatest nation on earth? Let England, however, obtain this cotton-growing re gion, and we lose not only wealth, buttho best chance of making her dependant upon us for that article, and thereby of keeping her at peace with us. Her very existence is almost identified with her manufactures, and cotton is indispensable to maintain these. In India and other parts of the world she has attempted to compete with the United States in the cultivation of cot ton, and has most signally failed. Tex as she hopes to raise up as a rival to the U nited States, and thus to control the price of our cotton and other staples. It is in the cheap cultivation of cotton, by slave labor, that she considers the United States are to , become h?r formidable rival in manufac tures; and here too lies the secret of her abolition philanthropy ; or, if she can sue-, ceed in abolishing slavery in Texas, her next step would be to exclude our cotton, raised by idave labor, from her markets. . 'Texas ought to be annexed to the United States, to prevent great injury to our msij rfactures, commerce, navigation, our At lantic cities, and the revenues of the Gov ernment arising fiom duties. Texas extends nearly two thousand miles along the territory of the United States; part of the boundary runs along rivers, and pari consists for many hundred miles of a. mere geographical line through wild lands, inhabited on both sides by savages. Brit ish $oods could be smuggled along this