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Tarborough, Edgecombe County, J c Wednesday) Sidy 23 I 845.
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To the Freemen of the Eighth
Congressional IJistricz.
"Nol Pros Cases.
Certainly no one individual ever whs the
object of such vile and infamous slanders
as myself. Charges emnracmg a vio
Uo whnlf decalogue, are made a;
Ut HV " . . w - j ,
me, and made with an air of seriocsness
and a parade of sincerity, well calculated
to deceive and mislead. Because, ii the
capacity of Solicitor, I discharged a cer
tain B. C. D. Eason from an indictment for
fighting, upon his paying the costs, the
charge of violation of my official oath is
referred against me. If I was guilty of a
violation of my official oath, because of the
discharge of Eason, every Solicit r who
has ever gone before me, has been guilty
T n l?lr i nl q 1 1 n n For I venture to as-
1- Uot iKaM ; nn Solicitor in this State
OCil maw v I
but who has the. power and constantly ex
ercises it, of discharging defendants bn the
Stale docket upon the payment of cofcts, or
of entering a Nol Pros without costs'. 1 he
records of Beaufort Superior Court shew
that one of) the Solicitors who preceded
me
discharged a man, who had been in
nan wno nau uc f
dieted for forgery, the punishment or,
, - r ,
which is not mere y impri.up - j
. : - ... . .
whipping and tne pmory, upu vy
of costp. Yet the charge 01 a v ju
h is official oath, was
against the Honorable gentleman 7
- I , .
that time acted as
Solicitor ana no ouc ,
. . H 1
ever lor a moment suppuseu y .j-
thins wrong, much less committed perju-
ry in what he done. Moreover thfe bdh
tliP Nnrth State VVniff. WHO 13 mosi
Dusyincircuiauuucuai,.
! I-..' V.a nroo itiniCtPfl
some two years ago lor a libel upoii Jn" ' ness.sthe cases had been standing some
S. Telfair, who was at that time Ec itorof , before lhey came tQ a
the Republican, & I who was acting isSoJi-j trial) SO that the costs were very consider
citori discharged both him and Tellair .up-1 Mj EaS(,n swears that lhc costs which
on their paying the costs. Nothi ig was pay amounted t0
theni said by this same Editor or by $Ql os. If I had insisted that Eason
any other person about corruption. et it ; ghould have to jail what woujd my
he believed tfiat such conduct amounted , Whv their tune
to a violation of my official lth;.he : would have been changed. They would
should then have exposed the corruption,; then have said? Clark isa cruel, hard-heart-and
meanness of such proceeding or , is, Solickorhe does not think SSOl 08
he willing by his silence then to justify nQU , nunishment for a fight, but he
the inference, that heis ready to wmKzi
moinnpq ami fcii i wvaivh w ivr w w
the gainer by it.
Again, tne corrupuon m -
Eason is alleged to exist because
H-asoni
V CU3 UClttOHi fc ..wr ? ww- .
f . i : : tV,Ut T ;.
nominateu me, anu n '" r .
charged him, in pursuance of a
"oargain"
i -
that he was to vote for me in the Conven
tion. Eason was a democrat and was in
ri;tf1 frr a fia-ht with a man oi the name
I
ofBeeman, whb -was a whig. INdw hee-
' , i - ",Li..-
man was discharged upon precisely ? the,
...uu tKnncrh Kftpmin !
ftanie term 3 with
i-iUCU 11 vavw-fc. -7 -
was no delegate" and was most bitterly op-
, posed to me in politics, being a wh
g of the
strongest sort.
As to any bargain and intrigue between
myself and Eason, I refer you to t le testi
mony of Eason himself, taken on oath.
When the charge of "bargain and ir trigue"
was made against Clay and Adams, we
were called upon to disbelieve the charge,
merely because they si mply denied its
truth. Yet here is Eason denying a like
charge on oath. Although Mr. Eason is
a poor man and does not stand as
high
as
Clay and Adams, yet. the neighbors of Mr.
Eason, those who have known him for
years, say that'he is a man of veratity, and
Will tell
certifica
the truth. You have be
low
the
te of Mr. Edmundson, thfe Sheriff
of ,Greene county of Mr. E. GJ
Speight
and! J..G. Edwards, one the Senator and the
other the Commoner from GreeneJ
Three
more honorable and worthy men do not
Tive in any communityvand they
give Ea-
son a most excellent character. Well Eason
swears that I never asked hiny to
vote for
me, nor intimated a desire that hefhouid dd
so; ho swears that he. never promised to vote
for me or gave me to understand, he should
do sohe swears thathe did not know
that I would accept of a nomination He
further swears that when it was concluded
to drop his and Beeman's indictments, up
on the payment of costs, that it was agreed
to in open Court, in the presence of the
Judge and all the people and lawyers, and
that this arrangement about being dischar
ged upon payment of costs, was made be
tween myself and Ea son's lawyers, and
not between myself and Eason. And he
further swears that no agreement was
made to drop the indictments, until two of
the qases had been tried, and that when
any agreement to that effect was finally
made, it was made in open Court. But it
is alleged that Eason was heard publicly
to say to me, that if I put him in jail, he
could not be at Washington to f ote for me.
If it be true, that he did make any such
declaration, (and I confess, I heard nonej
such,) the mere fact that such talk vvas1
made "publicly?' is the strongest evi
dence in the world, that there could have
been no corrupt Agreement between us.
For both Eason and myself must have
been the biggest fools in the world, to have
been engaged in making a corrupt bar
gain, and then publicly to have proclaim
ed oar own meanness and corruption.
To serve their own purposes, my oppo
nents in one breath represent me as most
artful and cunning, and in another breath
would have you believe that I am the big
gest fool that ever lived. When they
speak of the manner in which I obtained
the nomination, they say it was obtained
by artifice and cunning: yet when they
seek to prove that Eason and myself were
! engaged in a corrupt bargain and intrigue
they represent us both, as being guilty ot
- i ejrrCffioU3 follv and simplicity of
, . openly and publicly.
t- L r
Ag the bHj be concerned
to know
w discharged Eason and toan, for
discharged both upon payment
C Mr,mort ho I n fT t WhlCT. 1 Will
being
Ill LUSL3. Utlliau - - - 1 J
- flv state m y reasons. I pursued that
. ' t .u.m .h-n and still
1 .1 J LI I IZ UCLaUJU niuut,'..
think, that the payment of the costs of the
several indictments was punishment
enough. For the purpose of running each
I other to as much costs as they could, they
each summoncd somc 30 or
40 wit-
in jai!and that l00 in the
spring of the year when he ought to be at
of home working for his tamily
, Tt . ..rMpntfid that Eason went to the
w " . ,
a strnni? UiarR man. Anu
o -
! vet lie swears ina.
. I .
iL.t It s
..nth thpi
V l 11 4 VW
unanimous,
! . l r...- tho
J
nrnpr 111111 iir.ici? tj. t.wi .
vfc,v
vote of Greene for Arrington.
Mv political opponents are very prodi
gal in speaking of my private character,
in ; m. oinKt wpars rrvioUS to
orisome i y -
Annl 1R42 I was addictea to intoxicauon.
April Itt4, i was auu
During that time I am tree to confess, that
like all other drunken men, 1
did many
Even then
things which were immoral.
however,! did not do'one half as bad 33
mv opponents would now have you be -
lieve. But since the time of my reforma
tio in April 1S42, my conduct has at
least squared with the morality .of the
times. So few are the cases in which the
drunkard ever reforms, I had claimed for
myself, some little credit for my own re-
Z-'fJ-'::'-'' ' "-rnt:l '...tV.oTiilatP(1 mind Will
format on. The well reguiaieu m.v.H
ffive me that credit -The man whose heart
C7
the Tifflit place? vvlll cover over with
the mantle of charity the irregularities of
my former 'days, and with kindness urge
me to forget the past and look only to a
betlerand happier, lu4tur: It is only the
baseband infambuV Svho by constant re
prblches will seeli. to drive : me ; back,
again, to wallow in the mud and mire of
intemperance. -
Some of my opponents represent me, to
be exceedingly cruel and barbarous to my
negroes. Jin answer to this charge I refer
- m. ortifip.ntef three
is in
entremeny who - ftave icn ; wui
as
overseers. The first gentleman, E. Vail;
is a member of the Baptist church and has
lived with me four years. The other two
are highly respectable and worthy gentle-
men. You see what they say upon that
subject. In addition to all this, I would
ask who have had a better opportunity of
knowing me publicly and privately than;
the people of Beaufort county. Yet the
vote of Beaufort county was cast forme in!
Convention, and every delegate from the
part of the county where I was born and
lived voted for me, arid, finally out of 20
delegates which Beaufort had in the Con4
vention, 15 voted for me. My observaj
tion tells me that whenever an attack is
made upon a man's character, it is always
by some individual who having no charac?
ter of his own, cannot duly appreciate the
value of a good character.
HENRY S. CLARK. I
CERTIFICATES.
Slate of No. Carolina,
Greene coun t!
Personally appeared betoie me, Edwin G
noihr nnoof the actinc Justices ot the
Peace of faid countv
jnty, t. l 1J. r-aon wno
beinn duly sworn upon the Holy Evanve-
lists if Almighty God, deposeth and saith
that Henry S. Clark never asked him, the.
-aid Eason, to vote for him nor expressed
any desire that he should do so that he
ihe said Eason never promised nor gave
him the said Clark to undtitand that he
houId o:e for him nor did he know
that Clark would accept of the nomination
The said Eason further ''.eposeth and sUiih
that when it was agreed to discharge the
indictments against him and Beeman, they
the said Eison, Beeman and Clark were in
the Court House, in the box, before the
Judge and in the presence ot the Judge and
the people and that the conversation about
the condition and terms of the discharge
was, had between said Clark and Eton's
lawyer and not between Eason and Clark.
And the said Ea.on doth further swear
that his and Beeman's discharge were npt
owing to any corrupt ''bargain and in
trigue" but really as he understood and
believes, because the sata v.iar regarueu
the cosis as sufficient punishment, , the
amount of costs to which he, the said
Eason was subiect to pay, being $30 i 08.
And moreovei that no agreement was made
to drop the indictments until two of the'ea
ses had been tiied. And the paid Eason fdr
therdeposeih that he together with the other
lour delegates cast the unanimous vote of lh
county, on the first ballot for the Hon. A. 11.
Arrington. Benjamin C. D. Eason.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this
10th day of July 1815. i :
E. G. Speight, i. P.
Greene Co., lOih July, 1S45.I
The undersigned certifies that he has
unn intimntplv arouainted with Mr. Ea-
.on, whose affidavit appears above, for pl
teen years and that he knows him to be
a hard working and industrious man and
one of undoubted veracity. I
E. G. Speight
Greene Co., roth July, 1845;
Tn iinHrsitrned certifies that he has
hppn intimatelv arouainted with B. C. D
L.nn uKmsp affidavit aonears aDove, ior
'. r
i'ilDUll) w -w r f i
eighteen or twenty years and that jhe
knows him to he a naru worK.mg n
dusirious man and one of undoubted vera
city. H. Edmunason
Test Rvfus Edmundson. j
Greene county, 10th July, 1S45.
The undersigned certifies that he (las
been intimately acquainted with B. C. P.
ttaspn, whose affidavit appears above jior
; tne iast eight years and that he knows him
jto be a har working and industrious man
aiwl one of undoubted veracity
James G. Edwards.
Ten William II Britt. j
We the undersigned do hereby certify,
that we have been Overseers for Henryj S
Clark, and do certify that, his negroes are
well fed, better than any other lot of negrpes
we know of well clothed & kindly treated.
VVe have known Mr. Clark to hire put
some of his negroes to other people, and
upon the negro's expressing, a desire not
to leave home, he has rescinded and broke
she bargain in order to gratify ihe negro
,nd since Mr. Clark has moved to Wash
ngton, some of us have threatened to whip
certain of his negroes, when they have run
away from' his farm and gone to him in
own and in every case, they have return
ed untouched with a letter from Mr. Clark,
recommending forgiveness and kind treat-;
ment. '
John ji Satterthwaitti
lijah&Sattirlkui&
From the Union.
NORTH CAROLINA. I ;
June 26, S45
Poultry wau rj ne .n.o m0ve, nri) ( olma (now the only whig State
.n the quiet State of North Carolina. Our j af t po!mac wi e.hew her alii
cangres,onal elec..jor takes place his Au-j e M3Hsathusets; : Vermont, and
i'jst, ann tne canuMates are ameauv ! (
. .. .' - .1 :.. 1 ! irr flictrmla n -IIP!
" . i.
att Lon2'
a..'tK r PmiMT9t!l hli fltfO Mill Ct
the nine members At the next clectjion
we will hold our own, if we do not gin.
In the first diftric', (Buncombe) ihelate ;
llmnrnari, who U quite as 1 lutiiiniai of the United States by the -Con-3
votes with J. Q Ad.ms, g'-eH of Texus, They teached us by the
member, J. L. (
notorious for his
Inhn i Uifidiiura. and others as tor ms
bloodless affjir with William L Yancey,
in wnifh his honor was easily sdisfiel,
has no democialic opposition; and it may
e sud thiit none would avail at this time,
i i! . .1 7 . ,.tt i. k i ' v-y- f t r n
,000 votes
it ......... ,i;.,;,f.,niin
among his own pany. and many say
anu mariv sjy ini.
tor his votes on aboiiiun, thoy would pre
fer a democrat.
In thr second 'district, ( Mecklenburg. ) the
cnnlest is waeisri with tr-eat stirit, and hjth
nrtiVs feel confident of success. This dis-
r . .. . . r
tf ict is slightly whig. D. M. Bairinger,
laie member, was elected by 348 votts o ver
hi riomnrritic onuojienl two years aeo
j'he (ie!nociatic prv'tv nave nomjr.ait(
Charles Fisher, of Rowan, who has been
twice in. Congress an-able, indefatigable,
and astute man-tgieatly the superior of hi.
opponent in every point of view. This,
too, i the native district of the President,
and hid friend are confident of success.
Tne Can iidates met on the 1 7ih instant at
Lincolnton, and had a 'passage at arns,,,
ivhmh it was conceded on all hands
that the federal candidate, Barringer, camt
off second bet. Should Mr. Fisher; be
f.ip.MOil and 1 have no doubt of it ill i
wall be a train.
In th i hi rd district, t Uockintiham. Cas-
well, and others.) David S. Ueid, the la'e
talenied memOer.is opposeu oyn.o in.
Ian, who is a whig "of gt eat size and little May l7,)vse have before us the appalli
wit." His votes in the last Legislature spectacle of no less than eleven villages ar
particularly in denying a seat to a memoer
who had been unjustly expelled by the vi-
lest parly means, and re-elected by a trium-
phant majority shows that he isunwuiingi
for the people toule; and they will "e
ior mm 10 rcuju at nw.n, oi.v v.
Co4. Reid by a large majority. -
The fourth district is "the dark dis
incr, uuiumu, fnicwii, ww .w. wV
democrat is running here, where a msjon-
ty of more than 4,000 votes is against us
Tao coons are running v orin, oi Kan
doipti county, tne regular nominee, mu
mau who if elected, expects toastonisnuon-
t-res by 'his great sirengin oi imeiieci, .
firmness of purpose," Allied; 'Uackery. It
is seriously to he learea; mat in mis iEa(Ji
Iv content neither will be elected; but, by
hats with each other, like
th Kilbonnv rata, thev wit! both be used
up.
fhe fifth district, (Wake and others) was
last represented by Judge maunders, who,
to the regret of ail, has declined. James
C. Dobbin, of Cumberland, frjoes in without
opposition. Mr. Dobbin i is not mut-h
known to fame; but is represented as being
an amiable .s well as an able man, enjoy-
ing the confidence of his friends, and the
respect of his opponents.
In the sixtn qmirici, uamea i. m-ia,
the late member, and the
able chairman
of the Committed ot Ways
and eans.
is opposed by Mr. Meares. a young feder
al lawver: and who will be so badly bea
ten that in six months he will be forgotten
a Pi'pr having been a candidate. rl his dis
W7w- w ry
trict i more than 2,000 democratic.
In the seventh district, (Orange, Warren,
Halifax, and others,) the late member,
John R J. Daniel, is a Candidate the he-
ro of a hundred puinicai oatue, oi j, greai
.nHiistrv. talents. andworih. He has no
onDosHion as yet; and if he has, he will
overcome it easilv, as the district is more
than 800 democratic. t
In the eighlh district, (Edgecombe, Beau
fort, Craven, and oihtrO Henry S. rk
is the Democratic nominee;! This is Mr
ArringtonVold dinct, and the residence
of the conqueror, Edward Stanly,"' wno
war so badly conquered by AVie on the
race ground "at Washington; and by Arring
ion at home. M r Clark has feeble oppo
sition in a Mr Donnell, nd le will be
elected, in spite of the ill-natured personal
attacks of Stanly, thro' his partisan prts
at Washington. -Mr. Clark is a man of
distinguished ability,' and will show it in
Congress. 14 .
The "ninih district iieruoru, nerue,
Martin, and oher?i) i Rayner's' old ''Wtsi
trkt. Aa tfiggs ;Oi ivjanm, is ine-acmo.
cratlc candidate; and DayidjOutlaw; Uhe
whig. 'There 's a whig majority of Ca bout
500 i n t his d i t ri ct j w hieh the ' a bi I ity , in
dustry and talents of Colonel Biggs, ' we
hope," will overcome. Colonef Outla w'wai
once of the repdblican party then a violent
nulliner, and is now 'with the jold federal
party. "All things by turns, nd nothing
long. " If elected over Colonel Biggs? his
dispoiitiotrii such, joined1 with 1 oOd
; . . y
share of bid-fashioned honey, he may not
be-the p'iant tool that the whig expect.
In conclurjon, we areertain of five,-anxi
perh p? six. of I he n i ne mein hers of Ccih
cres (from the State;! and we trust that
other", land take her original position in tho
r - fi i hi ra rt rn -x la ti
MAUUiS.
. I" "
Texas. VVe laid before our readers, on
Thurstl.iy niHt, the decision on the feso-
Princeton from Galveston. ee. we siy
.'that tliey were hailed by President 'olki
the members of the - government, and ihe
friend. of annexation in ihis c i 1 3 , with a
burst of 'enthusiasm wliich we have never
t'n umsscu: i shiiic ,iu) tui- oijmiv
i , - m r ..ic-
g,y iHU 11 imparl to tnis cny on inu- hiiiu..
.1 u I y . ib. " ' : '" t ""-iv, -; tJ
i - . . - - . . ..
The st earner : Acadia, a rri ved ' at Bosfong
brings London dates to the lSlh, and LtVj
erpool to the 19th of lat month- . 1
i he account oi the Cotton marKet to mo
18thjs, that the demand was steady and
animnted, but ho material change m price.
Frightful Atrocities xh 1 Syria .
The tollowinz details have r'me ' to
hind! throuch a private let'erf of thkhofch
erings that have recently taken plate in Sy
ria; - "
A civil war, and one.of extermination.
reig'is at this moment in the mountains, be
tween the Druses and the Christians, and
during the last' fifteen days the horrors we
hive spen perpetratea around us are areaa-
ful. I On every side the -sounds o! batllC
are -beard, and. nothUJg is seen but fire ' and
flimel houses, villager, and churchrs ana
oru enis being reciprocally a prey to th.
4t iKr- "moment 1 am writin
flumes. At the moment l
j a number'of Maionite churches and, cc
venl8 jn flames, and what is worsev yvh
tne christians are victorious, they enter tl
r3ru?e vitiates, putting to the edge of th
Lwordrnen, - women and children; th
IJ S toi owinf me examoie wn;i.
the v are victorious. All the silk wpcm
1 0f both parties, the sole support of Syrian
1 rjoDuiation. nave oeen uui neu. inc. cwi-
vnts of the Marohites and Catholics, h'a.rd
been burned, and Ihe bodies of their
0Viesis. afieriieath, have been V burned by
the Druses. lUvjtry horror is practised on
lh m s for example, to kill by fam-
jne nias,sacra, and a thousand other acts
0f barbarism' are moment ari Iyc6mmittecli'. '
TheM:hrirtiin8 at the commencement werO
victorious over their eneoUes; but cur
Paha who is out. with his regular troops,"
as soon as he perceives the Christians "vic-
torious, points nts aruuery agatnsi tnem.
with crape; and 'compel ihis unfar-
lunile rt to take to flight; ' I he Dru. j
immediately enter their villages saeLI.
them, burning jheir houses, good?, cj; V
.Q nQl uouhr but the , PashaVas secret orders
froni his Government la destroy and rota
Christians entirelyf or he could notf eb
openly aid ami assist their enemies. ' 1
I he fanaticism cf the Turks on . tho
coast I dtly becoming more and", mora
i;k and tvp. art mpnarer! bv a terrihlo
I Ul?J1,Itinn- fn K Wl ihpv rnne a few (Iai4
since to" massacre all the Christian, but
thanks to so m e ' Y uro pea n" ships of war, -and
to Rtsj'ohl Pacha, who left suddertly folf
the! vest of disturbance, a cal m, perhaps mo.
rnentary. has succeeded. Here, in Bey rputy
rising also took place a few days ago, to
ut; ,he Christians to death; but; thahks to
tho j energy of the Corisub, and to fOme of
the rich 'I urkish proprietors a calm -has
Succeeded ' of ' - I - ;n
i 4jAt this moment, with the help of our
glasses,, we see unfortunate fugiiive Chris
tiani-, women and cliitdien, to the number
of 600 or 700. on the eOast:-Tvo ship
of war, oneFrench and One Austrian, anl
five or six small :veselsy chartered" iy the
mercantile body, hay csailed, to . collect
ind save them,, from tjhe dreadful deWui
which awaits them from famine. " 1 'iro'not
know what sothany people vill do here to
live; or what we all shall do, from the reat
existing scarcity of twaterhen the popula
ion of our eitvi will be augmtnted by
15000 20,000 souls. V v - :
Thi.s you Way rely on, it. tj no cxig
aeration." I do not know how European
powers can 'tolerate such"" abomination'
or the fanaticifm of iho barbarians; and
main inactive, wli en -a-handful of tr? Qf
any Christian nation, would ni e,t6tcausa
their insolence to cease, and to, bWng :theM
to a prpper sense of reaoiu
: May 80.-Fire and altle continui? to
reign withf tletrttpii v Vrblence on all side
around us, and the. newsve have at'jhin
moment is.- that thBGnris'ian have be
obliged to fire on the regular troons. which
places us in a very alarming pcsitiop, 1.5 wa
tear a revolution of .the Turk agaicii-iil