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sio iii the votes of the last Asemh'y of t!ii Sue in the progress of fcimilar opinions -ici rnrsrrne witers of almost every oilier Slate in tV' Union- '.' ' ' Wheiiier tho writ desire change constitute ur.ijnrttjf or uH nisjf be retUily aMierlained in tte cmner provided for by our Constitution, that is to ray, !iy kn a-i of the Gviier.il Assembly submit! i'iS! tVse ihwifUu the pvople st liie 1'olTs. And I bold it (o ho the duty of their Representative, as Vivi.t Agents, t provide for the onrerly and lawful 'sp.vaioi of the public mind whenever there is a iv will grounded oqlief tint a scltled discontent prfvils.sg iin-t the Constitutions as it is. The People may be trusted 1 am sure to decide for (hein k4vbs i:i Nurflt Carolina, and at ill events they hive, reserved tlr.it right in the existing Constitu tion; and if such a law should be p issed by the Insist;;!-? during u.y term of oniee, it shall be faiihfnlly and fairly executL- In my view ot the subject, it will be my duty to recommend to the approaching General Assembly such legislation consisien'ly with tn. cotnpromi ms of our present Constitution, as will enable the people to decide these qwsiinns f ir themselves. A id I owe it to candor to declare this to you up on the present occasion ; because the approaching election will take place sover.il months before mv first official Communieatiun to the General Assem - b'v. - Bui to this Convention, to this Band of Whig Brothers, who have braved the. "battle and the breeze" in m.my a hard timght field, 1 would say, let not questions of this kind divide you. Sutter not the organic law of the land, above all things, to becomes party test. Learn from the eourse pur ssed by your Representatives in ihe last Legisla tare that such questions foftn no test of party ad hesion. For, in the various propositions in both Houses ill regard to "FrM Suffrage" you found Whig' and Democrats Voting together on one side, ami Whig" and Democrats voting together on the other. Take counsel Irom our political adversa ries, who, although they differ widely amongthem .'Ives on m inv Questions, and especially upon In- t":i il Improvement and upon "Free Suffrage," yet v maintain to the bitter end their cohesive attraction a D -mocrata. Let us maintain our adhesion as (utilizers of the great conservative Whig Party up on ilk tioiul grounds. WHIG PRINCIPLES. The Wilis party has its organization in the de fence of the Constitution aeainst the aggressions of the Executive; in defence of the Legislative department of the government against Meeulive influence, Kxecutive dictation and the one man nower. It is based upon regard for the Constitu tion and obedience to law. We inculcate the doc trine of honestv. and fair dealins towards all na tions, iuiolability of the faith of treaties, of peace and friendship with all; economy in public expen ditures; opposition to wars not demanded for the safety, defence or honor of the nation; to standing armies in timeol peace, national ueuis anu neavy taxation. We are not sectional but conservative. We promise no test that cannot be submitted to by citizens ot every serai h wim wuum u vunui tion, otitis, is of binding force. We believe in oiwress within the Constitution; ia wise legisla- '. tion it aid of commerce, agricultare, manufactur ing industry, science and the arts, we macaw that sort of progress that shall evade or over-ride any one of the obligations of the solemn political compact made by our fore-fathers. As North Car olina Whigs we go for the maintenance of "Sou thern Rights," and property as guarantied oy law; end against the machinations of abolition fanatics, demagogues and agitators. We claim the pro. lection and preservation of our rights tinder the Constitution as U is. We invoke no aid from As semblies Bor Conventions ol doubtful purposes and designs ; and of undefined powers; Conventions arbitrarily and irregularly appointed and irrespon sible to the people. We are for no bragging and bluster. When the remedies provided by our compact of union shall have been tried in vain, and the rights of the Smith shall be withheld or violated by the unjust aud arbitrary force of despotic numbers, we will then inquire into the new mode and measure of re dress with the spirit and the energy necessary to tindicate and maintain them. Until tis Uitr .hall arrive we are for that reat legacy bequeathed to us by our Fathers, the UNION OF THE 8TATES. It is union thai gives us wealth, prosperity, strength, security. It is on that strong arch the Temple of Liberty rests; we know of no other tonndarioe on which the Dome of that Goddess can stand. . We say with the eloquent and patri otic American Poet, on, Oh Ship of State, Bail on, Oh, Union! strong and great ! Humanity, with all its fears, With all the hope of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate. ; We know what master laid thy keel What workman wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat, Were shaped the anchors of thy hope." God forbid that we shall ever encounter the fear-' ful evil of overturning that for which our fore-fathers lived, and for which the good and the great are all prepared to toil and to die. DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES. What are the principles of this Party f What have they professed f By what seductive charm did they win the confidence of the People, and how did they redeem their pledges 1 They set ont with the one term Principle for the office of President of the United States. That members nfCongrestfishould net be appointed to office. For retrenchment and reform in the ex penditures of he Government; and for a fa dis tribution of public patronage, and against pro scription. , V. llow were those pledges redeemed 1 Gen, Jack- arm declared upon his going into office that it was' advisable to limit the service of Chief Magistrate to single term of 4 or 6 years j and arguedthat ae adoption of the rule would tend to secure the in dependence of each Department of the Government and promote, the healthful and equitable adminis tration f the trusts which It created." Long before the expirntion of his first term, op sin the importunity of letters written by his friends of the Pennsylvania legislature, be was again nominated br that bod? for re-election. Hi pre vious firm conviction nf the great impropriety of ucb course saddenly vanished. A second term sVeame at once a very proper thing. He accept ed the nomination and that was the last au) heard f carrying out the-one'tena principle. . , . - An in: Titer atcued before .the people .that anenibers of Congress should not be appointed to .ffice during the term lor winch tliey ware eleotetl mor within two years tbereaftertthat the .should "be independent and should . be placed beyond the aacb of Executive influence. .What was the prac . lice 1 Whv,noooner hadtlieireandidatereaehed ah White utmsethan be commenced appointing .joembeif Congress to ofEot. Fwcmeuibefs of ,4 lie Cabinet were takeBitrom ignores and only one from the people at large. And the record of" lhat day eihiuihUbe very consistent fact of 2S ; members of CongrossapjioiutedW offices of vari fusos grades. . . - . . ' Again: The DemeorstU fprty insisted as a girominent issue on the neceasrly.of -"Retfenohmem and Rufurm." The tuld us thut txvcuttve ,pat Wonsge bad incresserf, was increasing acd should diminished. They called for teforns. in swery liepsrluient of lhe-Covenmcnt. They lold m tlf Kb "dear profit" nvould orily entrust them with jikee and power that there could hardly be an end to their viorous labors in the cause of regenera tion and amrndifin!, .and iulwneut .iJi"Ao- Wn. they got possessi n of the Government. Lited of reduction uf ultifers, their iiuuiber was great.y aomemed. Tne public expenJilurej were nortiiously increased. Frauds and detalca tions ensued. 1'fte treasury was plundered of millions.-. The Post Office became bankrajitand oth er ileparinients of the (iovernineut were" tlmnvu in.o the utmost disorder and confusion. As a coinmeniary upin the faithful execution of this promised "retrenchment," lake the Custom Hou-a? in the City of New York, ihat great workshop for the manufacture of political capital. When moil ern Democracy look possession of the Government there were employed in that establishment we are told, 17") men. At the close of that dynasty there were 610 The expenses of collecting the Revenue at the commencement of Democratic reign were $'.'00, 000 ; at the close, under their patent syti-ui of reduction and reirenchnieiit, they were 000,000. All this loo while the amount kf labor anl the a mount ol revenut collected remained about the same. Again : The Democracy when soliciting the reins of the Government commended themselves to the favorable regard of the people by their loud de nuncialion of the prescriptive policy. They held up their hands with holly horror t the change made by Mr. Clay when Secretary of Slate o" some few Primers of the laws. The people wen told by this new sect that in every situation parly and party feelings should be avoided. That the monsier called Party Spirits should be exleruiina ted. That patriotism, talents and integrity should be the passport to office. That the President ought not to be 'he heaJofa party, but the head of a nation. With the avow.l of thee lilieral and generous seniimenis as to the administration of patronage; and with declaration of absolute ab horrence of the prescriptive policy, they succeeded triumphantly in the election. How did that turn out? "why they cummenced an immediate trans fer to theirown partisan press of the printing of the laws, dismissing all others j appointing Edi tors and those connected with the Democratic Press to office ; and making a general sweep of the officers and agents of the Government from the highest dignitary in the diplomatic corps j to the tide waiter ol the Custom House: so that while the predecessors of modern Democracy from Wash ington to J.' Q. Adams inclusive had.ina period oflji years made only about 130 removals, this proscription-haling, even-liaided party in the first yearof its career had made more than 1500 remo vals! Men dismissed who were in the language of one of their party, of the purest virtue; upon whose character no stain was ever fixed before ; justly regarded by all who knew tliem as eminent ly possessing honesly, capacity and fidelity in their trust'-. This flagrant abandonment of their pledges about proscription was pursued with unmitiga ted rigor throughout the whole course of the Administration of Jackson, Van Buren and Polk. Indeed so omnipotent had this rule uf devotion to party and bestowal of office on partizans be come, that even when our Country was engaged wilh a foreign foe, when party distinctions should be buried, when Whigs no less than Democrats struck for the honor of our Flag and mingled their blood in one common stream in upholding the hon or of the ReDublic. this cardinal rule of proscrip tion was still paramount. In the appointment of the officers for our Army in the Mexican War, some two or three General officers and a few sub alterns were taken from the Whigs, while all the remainder, amounting to about 800, wereiaken from the Democracy. , In this reckless violation of profession and falsi fication of promises you search in vain lor Dem ocratic principles. And although in the defini tions of modern Democracy, 1 will not employ the insulting language used by theirown distinguished leader, that "tliey are held together by no princi ple, but the cohesive power of puplie plunder," "yet to what else than unscrupulous and inordinate thirst for the spoils," can be ascribed their bitter and viruent opposition to Gen. Taylor's Adminis tration! No sooner had he been installed into office than it was formally announced by the official Organ of Democracy, that no matter what aspect '.lie future might wear, the policy of the President was to be opposed to the "bitter end." With cause or without cause, his Administra tion was to be broken down. Accordingly no mat ter what have been his measures they have been arraigned, condemned and slagmatized as the off spring of folly or corruption. Libels so gross, that they shocked the common sense of the country : caricatures so extravagant, that tliey betrayed their malisnitv and falsehood on their face: vitu peration coarse beyond all parallel in partizan controversy : base insinuations, bold falsehood, un sparing abuse, have been poured out without stint or forbearance upon the devoted head or the gal lant Hero, whose only offence has been that of covering the Flag of his country with imperishable glory on the fields of carnage and of victory, and of winnins in a pacific elective contest, the high est honors of a grateful people. The Whig party of North Carolina by a majori ty of 8000 votes contributed to bring him into pow er, and we will be the last to desert the standard of the brave old soldier. Unschooled in party tac tics, he takes his position under the lesson in the Constitution. Undismayed by fa ctionist sand dem agogues he adheres to a line of policy, which he deems essential to the peace and safety of the na tion. He has been tried tn tle neJd, tried in the Cabinet : tried by difficult and embarrassing ques tions at borne, and delicate relations wittl lureign lowers : tried by the artillery of the most uncru-1 pulous party press: tried by legislators, both north and south, iu a fearful struggle en questions of the most niomentus concern. In all these conflcta, butb foreiun and domestic, Geo. Taylor has borne himself as a man and a patriot. Staod.ne now unmoved, as be did amidst the storm and thunder on the eventful field of Burns Vista, when the flower and strength ol his army were unjustly withdrawn Atom hint, and he was left with a eaadful of troops to be borne down aud destroyed by the irresistible force of uneqaal slum bers self-poised by bis wu indomitable courage, and energy and decision, tie falters neither to the right-hand nor to tlie left, hut aow as then, strikes for his ruantry, bis whole country. The Whig party may well congratulate them selves and the station, in having M the head of affairs, such a maa at ech a tremendous crisis as the present. A crisis which has paralyzed all legislation by our Congress : disturbed the public mind : stirred up implacable feud and dis cord and hatred among brethren of the same great national family ; threatens to deliver over to an archy and civil war, a people heretofore united by the .strongest lies of historic recollections of the past and bright hopes for the future : a people united in itbe same fraternal bond of kindred and affection and interest. A crsis in our history resulting.from the acquisition of vast regions of territory purchased most dearly oy a lavish eflu sion of the blood and treasure of the country, which was.forftold by the Whigs as with prophe tic n'mon : against ithe -consummation of which their best energies have been unceasingly directed a portentous disaster for which, the Whig .party is in no surt-respousible. A crisis o. threatening nil alarming itbat it becomes the smpejative duty of .those ia power .in onr national assem bly to calm the agitation and fears of our -people. .The sectional -strugglejo which our , cog nicy is no engaged, and which has been brought upon us by the malversation f Mr. Polk's administra tion, involves not oar own alone, but ithe -destiny of civil liberty throughout the earth. Xbe cert rest must be made to terminate, f ublicteotrment demands of Consresa to settle it. Tba mttliiof safer and reform can. In mvsdlemn opinion, stunt e wuna jn yiemoauratf counsels tlieconeiliating policy.and the conservative prin ciples of the Wnig patty. Let us then, asji band uf brothers, uphold that Dirty. Burying all minor or local jealousies, let us stand shoulder to shoulder to maiutain that party. In union is our strength. Let us then, u.y friends, emblazon upon 'our shields the principles of Whigs. Inscrilie upon the sacred folds of our ensign, the talismanic motto of our Order. Let us all rally at the same watch word, and marching wilh undivided front under the same banner victory will be cektais asr OOMfLEIE ! NASHVILLE CONVENTION'. This ridiculous assemblage having J:per a' '. j our readers will no doubt be anxious to i: re-; suit; andve place before tlii-nt its rest fut'otts' future reference.' Of course they ui'.I i..it i-o 1 weight uiih anybody. An Address was also ad opted, which we have not yet seen. We ha ve some faith in Congress we have none in irresioi;siblc Conventions and fanatical cabals. They may do wry well lor the Red Republicans of the land but we hope they are few. The following resolutions were adopted unani mously. They look like nonsense to us : 1. Resolved, That the territories of the United St it; belong to the people jftiie several Sta'es.as their common property; that the citizens ot ihe several tilaies had equal right to migrate, wi.ll Iheir properly, totnoae teriitories, and b piotect ed in the ehjoi ni 'iil of their progeny, o long as tue terrilone-re iuin uoiler tne charge ol tne gov-ern-oeiit. 3. it'-solveo, that Congress has no power to ex clude from terri'ory of the United . Stat. s, proper ty lawfully belonging to the Stales of the Union, and any act which may be passed by Congress to effect this result, is a plain violation ol the consti tution of the United Stales. 3. Resolved, That it is the duty of Ci ngress to provide civil governments lor the territories, a the spirit of American institutions forbids the mainten ance of military governments in time of peace, Knd all laws heretofore existing in territories formerly belonging to foreign powers, which interfere with the full enjoyment of religions freedom, the free dom of the press, trial by jury, and all other rights of person or properly, as secured or recognied in the courts of the United States, are necessarily void; and so soon as such territories become A mericnn territory, it is the duty of the federal gov ernment to make early provision for the enactment of those laws which may be expedient and neces sary to secure to the inhabitants and emigrants to such territories the full benefit ot the constitution in assertion of their rights. 4. Resolved, that to protect property existing in the several States of the Union, the people of the Slates have invested the federal government with the powers of war and negotiations, and of sustaining armies and navies, and prohibited to the Stale authorities the exercise of the same powers; they made no distinction in the protection of the property to be defended, nor was it allowed to the federal government to determine what nhould be held as property ; whatever the Slates hold as prop erty, the government is bound to recognise and de fend as such. Therefore, it is the sense of this convention th&t all the acts of the federal govern ment which tend to denationalize property of any description recognised in the constitution, in favor of the proprietors of other property, are acts direct ly opposed to the South. 6. Resolve;!, That it is the duty of the Federal government to recognise, and fiimly to maintain the equal rights of the citizens of the several States in the territories of the United States, and to repu diate the power to make a discrimination between the proprietors of different species of property in the federal legislation. The fulfilment of this du ty by the federal government would greatly tend to restore peace. The laws of the States relative to the protection to be afforded, are perfectly plain, an citizen unon Americsn termor, are nlain .ndPheif objections would have been fairly and respect palpable violations of the fundamental law under i .. : .r . : . . " . rr - which the government exists. 8. Resolved, That the slaveholding States can not, and will nut, submit to the enactment, by Con gress, of any law imposing onerous conditions or restraints on individuals to remove with their prop erly into the territories of the United States, or tn any law making discrimination of the country and class between different sections of the Uuion be cause it is the deliberate opinion ol this Convent ion, that the tolerance of Congress has given to the nation the impression that federal authority might be employed incidentally to subvert or weaken the institutions existing in a State which is confessed ly bey oud their jurisdiction and control a main cause of the discord which menaces the existence of the Union, and which hat well nigh destroyed the efficient action of the government itself. 7. Resolved, that Ihe performance of this doty is required by the fundamental law of the Union; and the equality of the several States composing tus Union cannot be disturbed without flistartmii? the frame of the American insti' itions. T his j r; . , -1 ciple is violated in the case of the citizens of tne slaveholding States, if power to enter the terriio j ries witn their property ia not lawfully nequirrd. i In these States the warfare suamst the ruc-i j? . war upon the constitution. TI.O defenders i ri right are defending the constitution; ami those who deny or impujn its existence, pre unfaithful to the constitution; and if disunion follows, the deatroyeraof these rights art the disunioni.Is. 4. Resolved, That the performance of its duties upon this principle, we declare, would enable Congress to remove the embarrassments in which the country is now involved. The vacant territories of the United States, no longer regarded as places for sectional rapacity and ambition, would be grad ually re-occupied by inhabitants drawing to them, by their interests tad feeiiogs, institutions based on the principles of the constitution; to them would be n'ru)ly applied governments formed on American ideas, sad approved of by ihe constitu ents of that partic4ilarsectinn. 9. sUwelved. That a reeeznitioaof this crincl- pU would deprive the questions between Texas and the Hutted Stata of their sectional chancier, and would leave them for adjustment, without disturb ance from sectional prejudice and paskion, upon tr.r considerations ot magnanimity and justice. 10. Resolved, That a recognition of this prin ciple would iqfuae the principle of conciliation in the discntsion and adjustment of this question, and would guarantee an early and satisfactory ter mination. . 11. Resolved, Tthat in the event of a dominant majority refsaing to recognise the constitutional rights we assert, or should continue to deny the obligations af a federal government la maintain them, then it is the recommemlatiaa of this con. vention that the territories should he treated as property, and divided between the aeetieHs of the Union, so that the rights of beth seoions be ade quately secured in their respective shares; thwt we are awart this eourse is open ta rrtat ohieetions. but we are ready to acquiesce in the adoption of the line ot at) m north latitude, extending) to 4he Pacific otean, an extreme concession , apon con siderations of what is dus to the stability of one of onr institutions. J3. Resolved, That it is the opinion of theeon- vention, thatcotitrcversv ahoald be ended, either by the recognition of the .constitutional rights af ine oouinarn people, fir By an qnitsble partition of the territories ; ht,tie spectacle of i confeder acy ot States, iavolvedja ouatraia.Qver tba events af a war ia which the American ssrmsvrre crown ed with glory, m humihatiat; that the iacornora tioa of aha Wilts Proviso, wthavrTor. ,af a set- rlement a pwjpositipp iicb ithe jutb.nigard at disparaging and dishonors bler-is degrading to tht country ; Die termination of this controversy by the disruption of the confederacy, would la- a cli tnnxtothe shame which attaches tn the difficulty, and which it is the puramout duty of Congress in a'nid. l3.TrS5lT,Tliat "fSr" coinvitinnwill not cut:( til I'rtt Collar.'. will adpiirn without insk in? ail .'.Kfi.i:l o! 1;,it reulrmersy ; and ill Hie tn oi'ii-iioo i; u'lh'li tli? convTitioii finds the qu"': .n : t'l'ijie-s, it .l-ies ti it feel at liber I,. dv 'if- n LEIGH TIMES. ';lr, ani) tlje Union ! ir. II A LK1 G II, N. C. 'friiton illornincj, 2mt 21, lSSif. O" The RLEiG:i i'i?i:;s wilhe tiiinisii'' ! ''hi-. ing the Cutriucorial 'atnp-tign. say till loth "f August, for fill rents. Will our friends make up clubs for us at that price J GOVERNOR 11 AMiV'S APPOINTMENTS. Gov. Manly proposes to meet and address the People at the following times aud places: At Went worth, on Genua mown, Salem, Rorkford, Saturday) Monday, Wednesday, Friday, y Monday, Wednesday, Friday, f Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, : Saturday, Tuesday, June July J. ff. rson, Waiiitiga C. Wilkesboro", H,, lnoi r, Morguiton, Marion, Asheville, Waynesville', Scoll's Creek, Franklin, Murphy, WHIG STATE CONVENTION ITS AUTHORITY. By reference to the proceedings of this body, in our present paper, it will be seen that every sect ion of the State was well represented by enlighten ed and respectable Whigs, in number sufficient for all the purposes of party organization; and when it is recollected that its deliberations and de cisions were characterised by the utmost harmony and unanimity, its action calls fur and should com mand the cheerful support of the Whigs of the State.," We are aware, and we would not wish to hide from our readers, that in one particular Congres sional District, the 1st., among a portion -of the people of Rutherford, And perhaps a few in o'.her counties, there was a foregone conclusion not to support Gov. Manly, if he should be the nominee of the Whig party. It ia to be regretted that that particular section was not fully represented in the convention. Had their Delegates come down, . .. ,. luny coimuereu, sua a oeuer opportunity would hive been presented of understanding, and if pos sible, removing the cause of their complaints. We are compelled however, to view the case In the attitude they have presented it from the dis tance of their mountain home ; and when we con sider, in the first place, that one or two counties would hardly assume to rule the State ; especial ly when not represented in the. State Convention, one or two counties w.iuld not presume to dictate to and overawe the whole Whig party ; wo have not lost our confidence that, when the nominee of that party appear b' fore the people of Rutherford, and the other mountain regions, opposed by a Pemoeroi, the ne.rninen r.f the Democratic parly, hey '.vil' n t 'i"ii!itj long in givuij a support, doe (-;ri i"-.;t m ii'nci.'ing devotion, to Whig principles K'.-al Hi!- iV H'e r .1 -, .-J un- for a Drmrtc.rnl. wbfi a gallant faith- ; c r.t .'tiiiH Vr Ooyemor is in the field! pr :t I li,vi ir To support Governor s t :.'i in tlx Whig Administration of Gfvrr'nhent which the Whigs ol IV stirn Vorili Carolina :d"d in bringing Into power To anopirt Gov. Manly into uphold and defenr the Consti'uticm and nnirn of the States. "Tatuh Mwt.y and the Umok " is the watch word of the North Carolina M'higs and it is to malign and traduce the Wert to suppose that they will desert our Banner under such eireuwstsnce. But there are other and strong considers lions connected wi'h this subject, in the light in which we view it, which concern every county ant all the Whigs of the State. No party can long pre serve its organiz-ilion, or even ii exigence, vrlten Us mi Iters njecl its fairly expressed views, or re- fuse to suport 'K no nina lions for the bond of its union suwt be (he good faith of tbose assorinted. Those wjio took pari in lite Convention proceedings or, by their absence impliedly consented to its act ion, are bound loan honorable recognition of its measures their participation, or the implication of approval, Is deemed a willingness to merge per sonal feelings in the general good j and no man or men can retain the confidence of a party, who set at -defiance its fairly expressed opinions. But consider the risk of so doing.' The 8tate of North Carolina is the most reliable Whig State in the Union the "Southern &fr" iW sever sets. Her proud sad gallant Whig soldiers have overborne their glorious banner triumphantlo'er every hard- stricken fold ; and like our Noble Old Leader, Gekekai, Taylor, tbey unererur(fer.'M Are we cold and dead to onr high reputation hitherto? On the contrary, are we not resolved to sustain it, at every hnzard.that when North Carolina speaks, her race ma; be always respected, and carry, as it bus i.itherto done, the very fteat weight (a which if is entitled T The truth it, the time for debate and choice of a nominee ia past' That .choice is fixed by the free Totes of the Whig Delegatrsof the State in Con vention assembled. All of us roald not have oar choice else would there be a hundred "Rlchmonds In the field;" but all of as can, and it is onr duty to do Jltis surrender our prttscences fur lUr uo- '" -j-rT---.. t.i,... ..: -r- V-', cest of the Whig party, and' ttipport fniny and honorably the man upon whom the Whig party have united. This alone is necessary for his elect ion and n good Whig, by factious opposition, will for one moment think of acting otherwise. ' We make great allowances for all who 'differ from us; we pay due deference to their peculiar feelings, sectional though ther be but what we contend for is and we think we are reasonable ami right, that these are not to outweigh that fair and steady support which each ana sill of ut ought lo give to Whig principles. Our candidate is"lionei.t, capable and faithful to the Constitu tion ;" he is a triiW(iig known and approved from the formation onbaVhig rparty, and zeal ots for Whig principles.ki are nut these qual ifications of more iiiifrlsnreTWn'his name, or his location, or any sectional objew&awhich may he brought tig-iinst liin 7 We-Tfirtfe so; and mil e-vry true Whig, who will dispassionately view the subject. will think with us; and for the siitcess ol great ami enduring principles, and the pnrty to which he belongs, cast his vole cheerfully for the Norni"" of the Whig St tte Convention, DAVID a. UE1D THE PROVISOIST. Onr n sA'iM know, hv lh time that Dflii S. P- !? I -i h ( n n .minuted' by the late Democratic (A , . i . i n n-tli- :i r mdidate for Governor. True, f.Va;':l.i. i -in r iii liie Standard of the l2th, two .1 ivs 'i"fo'i' ih ('onvetilion took him np.de r.lariug "I concive it due alike to myself and to my lrien,,3 to respectfully di-cline the nomination, and to r quest the Convention not to consider my name as one of those from .. ong which the selec tion is to be made;" but that was all gammon and sheer hyKcricy. Besides, the letter was dated the 25lh of May, and had been suppressed for a fort night; anil this publication on the very eve of the nomination, was only intended as an exhibition of mock-modesty, as disgusting as hypocritical for no doubt one of the members of the Convention which met the day after its publication, had secret missives in his pocket which did away wilh all the meek bashfulness of the published letter and the event has demonstrated the paltry trick contempla ted from the beginning. What miserable vanity must Mr. Reid have, if he thinks any morit can attach to the appearance of having reluctantly consented to become a candidate for an office which he so greatly desired two years ago ! Of course, Mr. Reid is the Democratic candi date. As we neither love nor fear him, we shall take the liberty of examining into his public char acter fully and freely, and hold him up to the peo ple uf North Carolina, in the first place, as one who betrayed the rights of the South when he vot ed for the Oregon bill with the Wil mot Proviso in it; and therefore he it utterly unworthy of the sup port and confidence of the people of North Caro lina. V Mr. Benton (good Democratic authority,) says, in hit tpeech delivered at Lexington, (Mo.) on the 7th July, 1849, that he introduced the amendment into the Oregon bill that passed it with the Wil- mot proviso attached; and it was done to assert the unlimited potcer of Congress over slavery in the Territories. And that, as a naked, absolute, un conditional exercise of the unlimited power of Con gress over the whole subject, the Oregon bill with the anti-slavery clause, received the approving tig nature of President Polk, with the sanction of his whole Cabinet. DAVID S, REID VOTED FOR THE OREGON BILL, with the anti slavery clause attached, in the House of Representatives, on the 16tb January, 1847. Sea Con. Globe, 3d Sew. 29th Cong. p. 198. Mr. Calhoun (also a good and true Democrat, and first-rate authority,) in hit reply to the above speech, lays "In reference to the Oregon bill passed at the session preceding the la's), the North contended for the absolute right to exclude slavery from all the Territories; and announced Iheir de termination to do so against the effo-ts of the South to compromise the question by extending the Mis souri Compromise to the Pacific Ocean. The offer wat scornfully refused, and the bill passed without any compromise. It was intended, indeed, to be the practical assertion of the naked principle that Congress had the power claimed for it by the Wil mot proviso." DAVID 8. REID, the Loeofoco candidate for Governor, voted for the passage of this Oregon bill, which according to Mr. Benton and Mr. Calhoun, asserted and recognised and established or tne first time, the naked principle that slavery shall be for ever excluded . from the Territories ! And the De.iioenitir party put up such a man as a candi date fia- Govir.ior wilh that abomination upon his 1 head or the Wifimit Pnviio ! Now, Mr. Reid might claim lo be excusable for voting tor litis bill, had he voted for Hon the ground that it was a compromise but even this slender hope is taken awayWor Mr. Calhoun says and e quote the very aords of his published address "That was f first tilt containing the Wilmot proviso that ever passed, as has bf en stated pass ed loWy to assert the nhanlute right of doing as it , pleases. All others, including the ordinance of 177, were pained t compromises, Which waived the qiietkn of power, at hat been frequently anon. Mr. Reid stands, therefore, ia this attitude before the people of North Carolina, that hr voteb for the first bill which established the naked prin ciple of the Wilmot Proviso! ; Now, if the Wilmot proviso be unconstitutional, (and the Democrats of North Carolina profess to believe it so,) that bill which contains it must have one feature against which any person who believes it unconstitutional is bound to vote, or else be a forsworn Representative. - Who then betrayed the South on this subject." who (strayed North Caro lina? We answer that forty sevEif Southern Democrats jtoted for the Oregon bill with tie Wil, mot ProvUo lit It, while they all denied its constitutionality, and therefore betrayed the South. And that DAVID S. REID, JAMES McKAY AND JOHN REEVES JONES DANIEL be- thayed North Caroiira by roting for what they hold to be unconstitutional for the sake of their par ty, and ought to have no trust committed to their hands by North Carolina freemen ! What a pretty and eotwiatent figure does Jhpid S. Reid cut now, up, (hit subject ! In 18 15, for the CQnsenienctof a Democratic Adiamistajloi), He Jf4 it fr tf W01 flta In fUi" ifi.ii - hi WTff..,p ,.p i till 1 " 1850, the psrty to -which he belongs declares the the .lfsjourt t'onyirotntjf "DETRACTa1' from our eonslilutional rights; end yet nominates THE MAN whovoted fur a bill which recognised the nafad principle if the unlimited potcer of C'tngrtts orer Slaify ! " """''' - A Procisoist for Governor of North Carolina dixmed from llm start! THE OLD 'SPOILSMAN' IN THE HARNESS. General Romulus M. Saunders may now be re garded is once more In the political harness, and the enlisted thrall of bitter-endism. When be re turned from Spain, and took up the subject of State improvement, in a manner which we deemed high ly creditable to himself, there were those who be lieved him sincere when he declared that'he was done "traversing the State as a political pilgrim," and intended to devote the remainder of his days to the prosperity and improvement of North Caro lina. Certainly, the solemnity of his declaration! was very effecting. Then, the party squabbles of the day, in his eyes were utterly contemptible for he had been to Spain, and come home much more of a conservative than when he set out. He had learned, too, to take an enlarged view of matters ana tilings in tint liepubltc his vtsir-n wat to much magnified, that he could'nt take in a petty pa rty but looked necessarily at great objects the whole Ftnte at ence, and ul! her diversified inter esis. iie spoice at the. ureensboro Convention, at Oxford, at Lonisburg, at Raleigh, in tlio same vein, declaring he never would be t party man a- gain. So sincere was he, so much of a patriot, to devotedly attached to State Improvements, that he declared, that if any of his Democratic friends came out at candidates who were opposed to these Improvements, that he would lake llio stump a- gainst them that if opposition to improvement! was the Democratic doctrine the Democratic par ty ought to go to the d 1; and that he would vote for a W who favored them, in preference lo a Pemocrat who opposed them. With' all these pledges and professions of lofty patriotism, the true friends of Improvement were highly gratified. They were glad to find that Gen eral Saunders stood with them. He had left home, the recipient of an office which had been bestowed for party services, alone, not on account of merit or ability; covered all over with the mira of the dirty slough of party politics in which he had been floundering for twenty yeart, hit unscrupulous partizanthip had at length been rewarded with a full share of the spoils of the tuccciful vie tort to whom they belonged, according to hit "and their creed. He was minister to Spain " unhappy Spain !" for three years and a half; did nothing it it true, but let th cat out uf the wallet about Mr. Polk's secret negotiations; but he pocketed his anug salary; resigned to keep from being turned out, and preached up hit greatness and magnanlm-l tty for so doing; and came horse to brimful of pat riotism that he did'nt mean to play the "political pilgrim -any more but go all for the Slate and nothing for himself. To be sure, tome people did sty he taw the Pres idency or the North Carolina Railroad in the dim1 distance but that could'nt be for the mission to "unhappy Spain" had been sufficiently profitable to make him an independent and true patriot. j Alaa! that all these dreamt of patriotism should turn out a mere flaah in the pari and end in tmokitj Alas! that so much red-hot enthusiasm should to soon be cooled by a plunga into the muddy waters ,H of party strife I For no sooner doe the "old! H fepoilsman behold the mutteringof the clana for tbt' political battle than all hit virtuous and lofty resolu tions give way, about at suddenly as tliey wen formed and, having risen like a rocket, he fa-IIs : like a stick. He never intended to be a party man. yet has he meekly put on the " collar." The only excuse left him is similar to that of Benedict in the play, "When I said 1 would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married." Wharf Gen. Saundera resolved to become a patriot h did'nt think bit party might need his services. When he thought of living without "the tpoilt,"1 he did'nt think of the small pickings which might' be offered to him in Wake County and, small though they be, the late Minister to qnhappy, Spain" it willing to accept the little that may be made by a Commoner from Wake. He has, lost his lofty patriotism, and returns once more to that "beggarly elements" of a petty office ! ; - Hence we tee hini standing up in the Democrat, ic Convention, "the tongue of the trump to them a'," and abusing the whigs in hit old-fashioned style. We shall take the liberty of tpeskinc of htm as a prominent public man; of chronicling his' exploits upon that "new arena;" and of exhibiting to the whigs of Wake, whose votet he baa the ef frontery to ask, the naked character of the bitter' partizan and unarrapnlous politician. ' ' WORDS OP A PROPHET. - ' We were not aware, until we heard hit speech' ia the Democratic Convention en Friday last, that our young townsman and friend, Major Wm. J,( Clari, wat anything af a terror prphet if so, his reputation in that line of buttineet has not hlth-' erto been very widely blown.. He ventured, how- j ever, upon the prophecy that his party wat to . beat is this time tnd we place the prediction op. j n record, witn the other veracioua doings or thai Convention, in order that we mar brinr It An a- tw ttia miMlfl ni AnnnJ .ij l-l. -. V.1... wot m w . ..uud Altu iwft i it. lYUIt.lKI- we put any faith in it at all ; nor are we the leastj tcared about if. Wepeeted, frotnthe teal tncj ardor with which he commenced, that he migli' forget himself before he got throtigh-or lose sight of the fact that this it an old prediction which hat 1 1 failed every two yeart out of twelve or fourteen-j L and, until tome patent mode of duplicating Demo fr) cratic votet, or destroying Whig voles, ahull UJ invented and put into successful operation, mas (L censeeueotly failagain. It takes a Locofbcobahi'il, U years, we imagine, tn grew up into a 'Voter ". and tt the Whig population Increases the 'fkstest according to our calculation (we neter predict! Nirth Carolina will be a Whig State until lb Major's oldest son attaint his msjority. " W thai rest safe, therefore, for the prestnr. Hi.VM 'i NEW POST OFFICE. ! 4 A new Post Office hat ju'tt been established at Biirclayaville, in Cumberland Comity, "of w'bicjt C. C. Barbae, Esq. has been appointed Pqstrnasf ter. . At the ftew P. O. Ia upon the ttage rant! from Raleigh to Fajetteville.'we luppota there wl. baidaily miil. :.:. ,, i t i Iff t'
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