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rmior- rl),n II nMliviril II . ' r " GIVE ME THE LIBERTY TO KNOW, TO UTTER, AND TO ARGUE FREELY, ACCORDING TO CONSCIENCE, ABOVE ALL OTHER LIBERTIES.' Miltox. NEW SERIES. R. I. W YNNE, Publisher. VOL. V. NO: 17 RALEIGH, FRIDAY,. MAY 7, 1852. .X ) C. C. RABOTEAU, Editor. JJL -Li -L V LL LL '. T 7 " TERMS. ' The Timea is issued every Thursday, and mailed to subscribers at Two Dollars per aiiuuni, iu advance; Two Dollars and Fifty Cents if not paid in six months; and Three Dollars if payment te delayed to the end of the subscription year. O To Clubs, we will send Six Copies for Ten Dollars, and Twelve copies for pighteen Dollars when the money accompanies the order. a ADVERTISEMENTS, ' Not exceeding fifteen lines, will be published one time for One Dollar, and Twentv-nve I ents for each ubseqaent insertion. Court orders and Judicial Ad vertisements will be charered 25 per cint higher. A reasonable deduct!', n will b mude to those who ad . verlise by the year. - J.etters to the Editor must be post paid. Money f"(vr Office may be sent by mail-fit our risk, in pay ment for subscriptions, advertisements, jobs, ifce. fTT Orncs on FATEi-rEvnxE st., one door below "POST OFHCE- From the New York Sunday Times. WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL TO i -JUS ARMY. "Cm tyrants but by tyrints conquered he, And freedom find no rhmipion and no child Surli s Colurnhiit saw Hrise, when she Sprang forth a Pullas, arm"d and undefined ? Or must such inipds be tviurish'd in the wild, Depp in the unprtined forest 'midst the roar Of cataracts, wherr nursing Nature smiled On infnrt Washington?- Ibis earth no irmre Such seed within her breast, or Europe no such shore ?n Byron. The revolution .was over. The eight years' conflict had ceased, and the warriors -were now to separate forever, turning their weapons into plough shares, and their camps into work-shops. The spectacle, though a sublime and glorious one, was yet attended with sorrowful feelings ; for, alas ! in the remains of that gallant army of patriot soldiers, now about to disband without pay, without support, stalked pov erty, want and disease the country had not the means to be grateful. The details of the condition of many of the officers and soldiers at thai period, according to history and oral tradition, were melancholy in the extreme. Posses sing no means or patrimonial inheritance to fall back upon thrown out of even the perilous support of the soldier at the com mencement of winter, and hardly fit for any other duly than that of the camp their situation can be as well imagined as described. A single instance, as a sample of the situation of many of the officers, as relat ed of the conduct of Baron Steuben, may not be amiss. When the main body of the army was disbanded at Nevvburgh,and the veteran soldiers were bidding a part ing farewell to each other, Lieut. Colonel Cochran,an aged soldier ofjthe New Hamp shire line, remarked, with tears in his eyes s he shook hands with the Baron "For myself, I could stand it; but my wife and daughters are in the garret of that wretched tavern, and I have no means of removing them." "Come, come," said the Baron, 'don't give way thus. I will pay in respects to Mrs Cochran and her daughters.' When the good old soldier left them, their countenaues were warm with grati tude ; for he left them all he had. In one of the Rliode Island regiments were several companies of black troops, who had served throughout the whole war, and their bravery and discipline weie un surpassed. The Baron observed one of these poor wounded1 negroes on the wharf, at Newbnrgh, apparently in great distress. "What's the matter, brother soldier?" "Why, Master Baton, I want a dollar to get home with, now the Congress has no further use for me." The Baron was absent for a few mo ments, and then return d with a silver dol lar, winch he had borrowed. "There, it is all 1 could get. Take it." The negro received it with joy. hailed a sloop which was passing down the river to New York, and, as he reached the deck took off his hat and said "God bless Master Baron ?" These are only single illustrations of the condition of the army at the close of the Jwar, indeed, Washington had this in view at the close of his farewell address to the army st Rooky Hill, in November, 1783: "And being now to conclude these, his last public orders, to take his ultimate leave in a short time of the military character, and to bid a final adieu to the armies he has so long had the" honor to command, he can only again offer, in their behalf,his recommendation to their country, and his jrayer to the God of armies. May ample justice be done them here, and may the choicest of Heaven's favors, both here and hereafter, attend those who under divine auspices, have secured innu merable blessings for other. With these wishes, and his benediction, the commander in-chief is about to retire from service. The curtain of separation will soon be drawn, and the military scene to him will be closed forever !' ... The closing of this "military scene" I am about to relate. . New York had been occupied by Wash ington on the 25th of November. A few days after he notified the President of Con gress which body was then in session at Annapolis, in Maryland that as the war was now closed he should consider it his duty to proceed thence, and surrender to that body the commission which he had received from them more than seven years .before. . The morning of the 4th of December, 1783, was a sadand heavy one to the rem ntbt of ihe American army in the city of New York. The noon of that day was to witness i the farewell of Washington he was to' bid adieu to his military comrades forever. ' The officers who had been with him in solemn council, the privates who had fought and bled in the "heady fight" under his orders, were to hear his com mands no longer. The manly form and dignified countenance of the "great cap tain" was henceforth to live only in their memories. As the hour of noon approached, the whole garrison, at the request of Wash ington himself, was. put in motion, and marched down Broad street to Francis's tavern, his head quarters. He wished to take leave of private soldiers alike with the officers, and bid them all adieu. His fa vorite light infantry were drawn up hi tine facing inwards, through Pearl street to the foot of Whitehall, where a barge was in readiness to convey him to Powles' Hook. Within the dining room of the tavern were gathered the general and field officers to take their farewell. Assembled there, were Knox, Green, Steuben, Gates, Clinton and others, who had served with him faithfully and truly in the " tented field ;" but, alas! where were others who had entered the war with him seven years before ? Their bones crumbled in "the soil from Canada to Geo gia ! Montgomery had yielded up his life at Quebec', Wooster fell at Danbury, Woodhull was barbarously murdered whilst a prisoner at the battle on Long Island,and Mercer fell mortally wounded at Princeton: the brave and chivalric Laurens, after dis playing the most heroic couiage in the trenches at Yorktown, died in a trifling skirmish in South Carolina ; the brave but eccentric Lee was no longer living, and Putnam, like a helpless child, was stretch ed upon the bed of sickness. Indeed, the battle field and time had thinned the ranks which had entered with him intothe conflict.- . Washington entered the room the hour of separation had come. As he raised his eye and glanced on the faces of those assembled, a tear coursed down his cheek, and his voice was tremulous as he saluted them. Nor was he alone. Men, "albeit unused (o the melting mood," stood around him, whose uplifted hands, to cover their brows, told that the tear, which they in vain attempted to conceal, bespoke the an guish they could not hide. After a moment s conversation, Wash ington called for a glass of wine. It was brought bun. Turning to his officers he thus addressed them "With a heart full of love and gratitude I now take my final leave of you. I most devoutly wish that your lattei days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable." He then raised the glass to his lips, drank and added : "I cannot come to each of j'on to take my leave, but shall be obliged to you if each of you will take me by the hand." General Knox who stood nearest, burst into tears, and advanced, incapable ot. ut terance. Washington grasped him by the hand and embraced him. The officers came up successively and took an affection ate leave. No words were spoken, but all was the ''silent eloquence of tears."- What were mere words at such a scene ? Nothing. It was the feeling of the heart thrilling- though unspokeu. When the last of the officers had em braced him, Washington left the room, fol lowed by his comrades, and passed through the lines of the light' infantry. His step was slow and measured, his head uncov ered, and the tears flowing thick and fast, as lie looked from side to side at the veter ans to whom he now bade adieu forever. -Shortly "an event occurred more touching than all the rest. A gigantic soldier, who had stood by his side at Trenton, stepped forth from the ranks and extended his hand. "Farewell, my beloved General, fare well !" - .Washington grasped his hand, in con vulsive emotion in both of his. All dis cipline was now at an end. The officers could not restrain the men as they rushed forward to take Washington by the hand, and the sobs and tears of the soldiers told how deeply engraven upon their affections was the love of their commander. At length Washington reached the barge at Whitehall, and entered it. At the first stroke of the oars he rose, and turning to the companions of his glory, by waving his hat, bade them a silent adieu. Their answer was only in tears ; and officers and men, witn glistening eyes, waicneu ine receding boat till the form of their noble commander was lost in the distance. Contrast the farewell of Washington to his army at Whitehall, in 17S3, and the adieu of Napoleon to his army at Fontain bleu, in 1814 ! The one had accomplish ed ever' wish of his heart. His noble ex ertions had achieved the independence of his country, and he longed to retire to the bosom of his home. - His ambition was satisfied. He fought for no crown or scep tre, but for equality and the mutual happi ness of his fellow beings. No taint of ty ranny, no breath of slander, no whisper of duplicity, marred the fair proportions of his public or private life : but "He was a man, take him for all in all. We ne'er shall look upon his like again." The other great soldier was the disciple of selfish ambition. He raised the iron weapon of war to crush, only that he might rule. What to him were the cries of the widows and orphans ? He passed to a throne by making the dead bodies of their protectors his stepping stones. Ambition, self, were the gods of his idolatry, and to them he sacrificed hecatombs of his fellow men for the aggrandizement of personal glory. Enthusiasm points with fearful wonder to the name of Napoleon, whilst justice, benevolence, freedom, and all the concommitants which constitute the true happiness of man. shed almost a divine halo round the name and character of Washington WHIG STATE CONVENTION. We are indebted to the Register's re port for one or two. of the speeches at the late-Convention, which we present to our readers. MY. Hacghton, of Chatham, when the name of John Kerr had been present ed, addressed the Convention, paying an eloquent tribute to his political and person al character. He was proud, he said, to see the unanimity with which his nomina tion had been hailed. Never had there been just such an occasion before in North Carolina, never a Convention for the se lection of the candidate of our party, in which the nominee, however worthy of confidence and support, received so unan imous a rote, and enlisred such enthusias tic feeling, as in the present. At no time had there been a standard bearer presented who is so acceptable to his personal and political friends, or who has been more worth' of the trust committed to his hands. If there is any man entitled to the cordial support of the Whigs of North Carolina, that man is John Kerr. He has, through good and evil report, steadfastly adhered to the political principles of our party, and gallantly fought to sustain them, and, al though living in a country where there was everything to dampen the energies of Whigs, he has never wavered in the most untiring zeal and devotion to the cause. He is eminently fitted to be the standard bearer in the coming campaign. Possess ed of a pure heart, unspotted character, commanding talents and thrilling eloquence it is only necessary,- and 1 say here, as his personal friend, it is all he asks that we give him our generous confidence, and l.hji. support to which he is entided at our hiiudd, and a sure and brilliant victory a waits us. Prolonged applause. Dr. Hill, of .Brunswick, spoke in sup port of the resolutions, and passed an elo quent eulogium upon President Fillmore. No man had ever been placed in a more trying position. Selected from a Northern State distrusted in part, by the South, and having arrayed against him the force of Southern prejudice, wantonly assailed by the Abolitionists, he was placed in a po sition which would have tried any man, yet amid all the trials by which he was be set, he had pursued such an honest and in dependent course, as fitly entitles him to the name of model President. io the South, he is particularly dear ; and as a citizen of the Old North State, I am proud to speak of him ; and no true patriot, no man be he Whig or Democrat , having in his breast an honest heart, can speak of him other than as the pure Chief Magis trate of the whole country. The speak er then alluded to the bitterness with which he is assailed in the North, and read an extract from an Abolition print, assailing his character and Administration. These assaults he eloquently and indignantly re pelled, and spoke of the convulsions which agitated the country during the pendency of die compromise measures, and the no ble stand taken by him regardless of sec tional prejudices. To that stand, he said, the country is mainly .- indebted for the peaceful termination of one of the most fearful storms which has ever threatened it, and that, too, without the loss of sectional honor or t he shedding of one drop of blood, Of Millard Fillmore it was unnecessary to say anything more ; his name and worth are engraven upon the heart of every A m erica u citizen. While Fillmore and Graham were his choice he would heartily support the nom inee of the National Convention, provid ed he was unequivocally in favor of sus taining the Compromise. He ljad suffi cient confidence in that body, lo believe they would select no men as candidates who were not souud upon all questions af fecting the interests of the country. He had no faith in mere written pledges. How was it in the campaign of 1S48, when Gen. Cass gave publication to his two-sided letters, which received from his friends, in different sections so many constructions, that even the democrats had now no more faith in him than in that arch-dodger, Mar tin Van Buren. Upon the doctrine of intervention, he adhered to the policy of Washington ; and while he was as strong a Republican as any man, and as desirous for the spread of Republican freedom throughout the world, yet he did not honestly believe the citizens of many Europe.-a countries were fitted, socially and intellectually, for such a sys tem of government as ours. France may be taken as an example ; where with the overthrow of a monarchy, a Republic was formed, and ere the formal change was scarcely recognized, the people submitted quisily to a system more tyrannical than ever, under the usurper Napoleon. In conclusion, he said we had a platform presented by the resolutions, upon which all can stand, and a standard bearer who could rally our united support, and with our duty accomplished, success would cer tainly perch upon our banner. Ap plause. Mr. Nash, of Orange, was highly grat-fl fied at the harmonious action of the Con vention. It had been predicted, by the Democrats that the Convention could not harmonize upon . the different questions presented for its action. , In that they had been wofully disappointed. What is there in the platform presented by the resolutions wi'h refeience to National concerns, upon J which all Whigs all statesmen, and par ticularly all those of the South, cannot stand ? We have presented Millard Fill more as our first choice for the Presidency. He has been a President riot of a section, but of the whole country. At a lime when this glorious Union, whose foundation was laid broad and deep by, and every stone of which was cemented by the best blood of, our forefathers, was in imminent danger, he has stood its firm and fast friend. Has there been a man, North or South, who has evinced greater devotion to that Union orwho has proved himself sounder upon the Compromise question? Never have difficulties so great stared a President in the face, as those which he has had to encoun ter. Yet, in the trying crisis, he has per formed his duty with an eye single to the glory of his country ; and, contrasted with the dodging of "Old Fogies" or "Young America," stands out in bold relief for honesty and independence. As to our second choice, Wm. A, Gra ham, he has always been true; and if elected Vice President, will still be true. Should, unfortunately, the fatality which has dogged the heels of. Whig Presidents, still attend them, there is no man I would sooner trust with the reins of Government. Applause. No second edition of Tyler treachery would be inflicted upon us. He again expressed his gratification at the unanimity which governed the Conven tion, and that Loco Foco predictions had been falsified. The Convention question has been happily adjusted our friends of both the East and West will be satisfied ; and if we enter into the contest with the same spirit which is manifested here, ouj former proud position will be regainer. North Carolina is a Whig Statf, and, with the fire-brands -which' were thrown into our ranks removed, we shall, if we do our duty when we go home, as well as we have done here, resume our rank as the Banner Whig State of the Union. Applause. Mr. Wvxxe, of Hyde, after repeated calls made upon him, commenced by remarking that it was well enough to pronounce eulo giums upon our nominee, and the heads of our National Administration',-', yet' -we must not forget, in mere eulogies, that our duty is one of action. We must not forget that Democrats are -Democrats- their mode of warfare, or the energy with which they en ter into the fight. We must not forget that to secure a triumph, they leave no stone unturned; nor that wjth them there is no swerving from the line of duty marked out by their leaders. It will not do for us to oe content with saying, we are coming up to beat Gov. Reid so and so it cannot be done but by a perfect organization, and the utmost harmony iu our ranks. It is not worth 'while to boast of a power we have not got. Let us acknowledge that the con test is a severe one, and iace our opponents like men. We all know that in the memo rable canvass of 1840, we rolled up a ma jority of 10,000 forourcarididates. Where is it now ? Gradually has it been reduced, until at the last election We had a majority of 2,700 against us. He then alluded to the causes the question of extended suff rage to the people, upon .which our oppo- nents had played demagogue, and charged upon us as a parly, hostility to the rights and privileges of the masses. But now the wind had been taken from their sails, one false weapon of assault had been removed, and our purposes brighten of regaining our political positio.n. Still, we have no pig mies to contend with; the war is with giants, and we must use giant's weapon?, and put forth our whole strength in the battle. His motto should be, work ! WORK ! ! and with the devotion of his energies to the cause, and that of all true Whigs, he hoped for a successful triumph in the coming cam paign. Applause. Of Millard Fillmore, he said, it was unne cessary for him to say anything. You, Mr. President, know what I think of him ; and it is unnecessary to add to the exalted praise he has received at the hands of the Conven tion. Of William A. Graham I would say, if I do not adore him, I adore no man ; and I would as readily vote for Mr. Fillmore, as for him, if not a little more so. In; con clusion, he Would say, that if there was one sincere desire of his heart, it was, that the old banner of the Whig party may float iu triumph in the "Old North State .'" EDUCATION. Every boy should have his head, his heart, and his hand educated. Let this truth never be foruotten. Bv the uroDer education of the head, he will be taught what is good and What is evil, what is wise and what is foolish, what is right and what is wrong. By the proper education of the heart, he will be taught to love what is good, wise and right, and to hate what is evil, foolish and wrong. And by the proper education of the hand, he will be enabled to supply his wants, to add to his comforts, and to as sist those around him. The highest objects of a good education are, to reverence and obey God, and to love and serve mankind. Everything that 1 elps us in attaining these objects is of great value, and everything that hinders us is comparatively worthless.- When wisdom reigns in the head, and love in the heart, the head is ever ready to do good; order and peace smile around, aud sin and sorrow are almost unknown. : - Blackwood. 9 COMPOSITION. 'I enjoin,' says Quinctilian, 'that such as are beginning the practice of composition, write slowly and with anxious deliberation. Their great object, at first, should be to write as well as possible ; practice will enable them to write speedily. By degrees, matter will offer itself more readily, words will be at hand, composition will flow, everything, as in the arrangement of a well-ordered fami ly, will present itself in its proper place. The sum of the whole is this: that by hasty composition we shall never acquire the art of composing well; by writing wcll wc shall come to write 'speedily.' IN SENATE, APRIL 22. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL EAPLANATION. Mr. Mangum. I desire again to throw myself on the indulgence of the Senate for the space of five minutes. When a man begins to speak of himself, he generally be comes garrulous, and occupies a good deal of time; but. I will be very short, Mr. Pres ident; I will limit myself to five minutes. The President. It requires ananimous consent. Several Senators. Go on. Mr. Mangum, A newspaper was pla ced m my hands by a friend yesterday a paper that I am not accustomed to read- in which I find a violent, unjustifiable, and a most atrociously injurious personal as sault made upon me. 1 do not notice these communications when they proceed from the usual organs of communication; but when there is in ternal evidence that they proceed from a higher official quarter, I may feel myself called on, as I now do, to stigmatize their falsehood, and brand their mendacity as-ii they deserve, and to fix the burning brand upon the mendacious and sycophantic ca lumniator. In this letter to the New York Express, I am charged with a coalition with the Senator from New York, formed at "supper parties and dinner parties;" the reward of which coalition is to bring high offices to the "high contracting parties," and their friends respectively. Sir every charge of coalition, preconcert, or agree ment with that Senator, on any public question) I pronounce to be unqualifiedly and absolutely false. We are understood to agree on the Presidential question. On that 1 have not been deflected, for I stand now where I stood four years ago; as my colleague Mr. Badger well knows, and will be ready to verify on all proper occa sions. - The author of the letter undertakes to assign motives to me the desire of high office, &c, &c, and yet is somewhat at fault to designate it. The only one nnm- ed is indivisible, notwithstanding two gen tlemen are named for it. the coalition are singularly inexplicit and inedfinite. The calumniator it at fault- not in his dirty trade, but as to the stipula tions contained in the coalition. Another is still more serious -it repre sents me in the light of venality, as having been selected in a private caucus the New York Senator being present, and a prominent person in it to preside in a Congressional caucus, to rule certain points of order to suit the views of tl eso-conspira-tors. This is equally false, as ; is well known to the Senator from Kentucky, Mr. Underwood, who nominated me in a caucus of the Whigs of the Senate as chairman, as he likewise did of the Con gressional caucus; which passed on both occasions without dissent, and was done upon his own motion, and without consul tation (as I presume) with any one. With a proper respect for the Senator from New York, and estimate of his tal ents; but he has as little influence on my f opinions and lny actions as any one in this body ; and 1 think lie would verity that as matter Of opinion, upon oath, if requir ed. Laughter. Sir, with regard to the charge of venality, I may say. that 1 have had the honor of occupying, for several years the high seat which you now so wor thily and ably fill; and the last act of this body, on my retirement, I look upon -.-as the proudest honor ever conferred upon me; which was the unanimous vote of the Senate with a majority in politics ad yerse to meand when an objccior could have arres'ea the proceeding to give me the a mount of salary fixed by law for a Vice President elected by the people. I sup pose the gentlemen who observed my course here for years, saw nothing like venality or conscious nartialitv: otherwise, such a result could not have been realized. These are the material allegations. believe they have been willingly, witting lv, and wickedly made, with a full knowl edcre or belief of their falsehood, on the part of him who made them ; and these al lesations and insinuations I here pro uounce to be -in the aggregate and in de tail, in the whole and in every part and I do it under every responsibility, moral and otherwise, that a gentleman Can assume utterly and absolutely false and unfounded, so far as they affect my honor or my integ rity. The insidious ?nd skulking ediiori- al, designed to screen the malignant mis creant, speaks of an occasional correspon dent1. -who has been here but a part of the tcinterl otherwise, he might have had other' impressions. The skulking hypo crite t The base, cut-throat calumniator ! Sir, 1 have in my own mind no sort of doubt about the authorship, I have re cently heard a speech in this chamber, not from a Senator, between which and por tions of the letter to the Express there is a remarkable identity of sentiment, identity of language, and singular identity or coin cidence in minute turns of phraseology. It is incredible that both did not proceed from the same forge which has hitherto turned out much base, uncurrentcoin, and I have thought proper to notice and brand if with the stigma of base, unprovoked , deliberate and deliberated falsehood so far as I am able to do so; and if the author can think of anything (as doubtless he can in his vocation)"that will more strongly and pointedly express contempt and contumely on my-part, he has, by these presents, a carte blanche from me to write it, and print it, too, in the Express, always with the re servation that he Is neither to make me say or insinuate, in my opinion, the auth or has any essential element of a true gen tleman. A hal f-wav mendicant of an edi tor, who fishes up his dirty and dependent bread from the filthy pools of efafider and I calumny, may, m some sort, in some cir cumstances, be an object of pity, for "his poverty and not his will consents." But when some freak of fortune shall throw an editor into a high official position, aud shall affect the loftiest airs of a bril liant court; and majestically roll in his splendid coach through the broad avenues of the capital of the Union his official po sition serving as a passport to refined and virtuous, and the highest and most polish ed circles of society, it :s always to be de plored to find him devoid of the principles, the sentiments, and the feelings of a gen tlemanand when this passport enables him to find his way to "private supper or dinnerparties," and we find him prowling about for the means of picking Up calum ny and slanders or facts, as the case may be, in the way of his vocation, to minister to the rapid appetites of the readers of his press or Express, and thus abusing the hospitalities in which he unworthily par ticipates, he is a fit subject (0 be kicked out of every decent circle : an .1 banishrd the society of honorable men. ' That is my o pinion. '..;;": I am alleged to have met he Senator at "dinner and supper parties," where all the mischief has been concocted, and the coa lition perfected. Sir, I have met the honoi ible Senator but once on a social occasion this session, where all parties met, Soul lern-Rights, Whigs, and Democrats, and here an ele gant and refined hospitality e: eluded eve ry debatable and party matter. Sir, I turn from this subject ;is I do from" its auihor, with loathing, con?mpt, and scorn. The identity of language, of sentiment, and other circumstances, plain y enough indicate the author. I have littl.: doubt he is one of the editors of the Expiess. And I here" pronounce under all the responsi bilities that can appertain to me, that he is a malicious slanderer, a mendacious ca lumniator, and devoid of all the essential principles, instincts, and feelings of a gen tlemana man of honor, that ed it of of the Express, 1 take to be now a member of the House of Representatives. The President. The Chair cannot per mit such language. It is altogether out of order. ' 1 Mr. Mntv-um. I am aware, si, that it is out of order; and I am done. HEAR HIM. An intlligent Irishman writing to one of our Western cotemporaries, thu s ably hits off the impositions to which the labor ing population of our country have been so long held in slavish subjection by some of the professed leaders of the Denn jratie parly. Let every laboring man read this a ticle, and carefully preserve it against the ti ueof the election. "There are several things I can't help thinking about. The Democrats suj port, the British Free Trade policy, by w rich England has ruined the industry of Ire land, and driven her sons and daughters into exile, since the union deprived Ire land of the power of protecting her c.vn domestic industry, by which England is trying to keep the monopoly of manul ic turing for the worid, of compelling th m to come to her shops to trade instead of trading at home with one another. It is this commercial supremacy of Engla d that the Democrats do all they can to up hold, while the Whig party is struggling o pull it down, and thus destroy the power of England to force my native land to be nothing but a potatoe garden, and her sons and daughters to fly Iron the hearth stones of their fathers, to obtain that employment they can no longer get at home. The Democratic party preaches that we ought to support English labor, for the sake of buying in the cheapest market, regardlessol supporting labor in this country, which we have been driven here to seek, because wa ges that English policy compelled us to submit to in the old country, will not keep soul and body together. In short, the De mocratic policy would keep us in subjection to that very British control that we came here to avoid, while the Whig party would give us fair wages for fair work. I cannot help thinking of these things, nor can I help thinking that it is the Whig party which has projected and carried through all the great works of infernal im provements, the keeping of which a going is a question of bread or no bread for so many of my countrymen on their arrival in this land. I shall keep thinking about it; and if, I don't act about it, too, mighty soon, then I did not come from ERIN." Remember what "Erin" says, 6ons of the Emerald Isle! A Wholesome Truth. The Sehna Southern Enterprise, a paper chiefly devot ed to the encouragement and advancement of the Southern improvement, pertinently remarks: "If men who go to sleep murmuring 'Southern Rights,' and in their morning yawns drawl out 'Southern Rights' and name their children 'Southern Rights,' would devote a little of their attention to the development of Southern Resources, they would soon have 'rights that would maintain themselves." The Ladies of Northampton county will hold a Fair at Garysburg, on the 20th of May, for the purpose of raising . funds td complete the Church at that place. WniG DIFFERENCES. The N. York Express, having alluded to the excitement produced at a late Whig meeting in that city by the conflict of opin ions among its members in reference to the choice of Fillmore, Scott, and Wehslcr, thus remarks, in conclusion, upon the di visions in the Whig ranks: j "As we look back upon the scene, vc marvel how so much fuss could have been created, and so much blood aroused, but we account for it all in the fact that the Presidential steam is up for the race. The feeling is in, and like murder,5 will out. There must be Fillmore meetings, .I'cott meetings, and Webster meetings, lo let off some of this surplus steam, or those who hold it will explode, and blow the Whig Party sky high. We shall quarrel til! we nominate a President. We shall qunu"I, too. in Convention, as we did in 1836, 1S40, and 184S; but when a good una true man is upon the course, we shall fol low him to victory, whether thai man he Millard Fillmore, the honest citizen, the wise statesman, the true patriot, with a heart as expansive as hi3 country, and a firmness that nothing can shake from a good purpose, or either, of his illustrious friends. We like the administration ait is, and the good and great man at the head of it; but the fortunes of Daniel Webber with his long and varied services, national heart and powerful intellect, and even tho nodding plume of the young soldier cf Chippewa and the old Soldier of Mexico, we shall at the prope;- time, if need be, bo as ready to serve as the hottest of their friends. In the meantime we; say to all good Whigs, "trust in Providence a;:d Our .divisions but let the time keep your powder dry. delight our enemies now, of their rejoicings be short. A POLITICAL PRECEDENT! We commend to some of bur friends who are now sitting on the anxious bench es, the consideration of the following pro ceedings in the Democratic Convention cf California: A personal explanation by Gen. Green then followed. He admitted the "soft, im peachment," that he had voted for Gen. Taylor.; j Mr. Van Yoorhies, to meet the Genera! 'd case; and that of others similarly situated, offered the following resolutions; Resolved, That all offences committed by any person or persons whatever against the Democratic party of this State, prior !; the first day of Jaiiur ry, 1S50, be, and the same are hereby, fully, freely, and entire pardoned, forgiven, and forgotten, and tho misguided offenders are admitted again io free communion and unquestioned fratern ily with the party; prodded, always, they pledge their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honors to "go and sin no more." Resolved, that like leniency be shown, and like forgiveness be extended to those who sinned before their-nigraiion to thio State, but distinctly and "decidedly upca like conditions. I ALL RIGHT! We are for John Kerr for next Gyveiii or of North Carolina, and shall do all we can to promote his election. ! We are against htunbuggery in every shape and form which it may assume. With the demagogue, whether under guica of Free Suffrage, or whatever j elc, Wc have no feelings in common. i We are opposed to such tpuuecs a3 Gov. Reid prescribing for the people, believing as we do that they understand what they need best, and the best mode for obtaining what they need. j We are for an unlimited Convention to amend the Constituion of the State, to ba called upon the present basis of represent ation, by which Free Suffrage and all oth er necessary reforms may be properly ob tained, and have been all the while. A ny amendment of the Constitution which has a sectional object in view or in other words, the tendency of which would be to benefit one portion ol the State at the ex pense of another, we shall oppose so long its opposition thereto would be of any a vaii. - 1 - These are seme of the sentiments of 'the editor of the North Carolina Patri ot," very briefly expressed. I The Washington Telegraph says : Mr. ( lay is feeble, and subject to (frequent c anges, generally produced by the vary ir r weather. He passes most of his bonis in the day in sitting up, or promenading hi chamber. It is only occasionally that he is obliged to keep his bed in day time, W "en the weather continues favorable for am length of time his improvement is al- wa; s very manifest. An American. A .nan sent lug son for a log to put on the firs. The son brought a mere stick, and papa whipped him; o the young gentleman went out and never retar. ed ; at least not till twenty-five year aft -r-wardi-, when one evening tha choleric, I corpotul-puni3'ment-lovingr old gentleman was calling to one ol his grandsons to bring in a 'large Jog of wood i or the fire, and in stalked son number one, two,or three, as the case might be, who had so un ennsci uably absented himself, with a Brnbdigna gian oji ir his dexter hand The oU gentleman looked quietly up, examined llie kg, threw itcare leselyo;! the fire, and thfn composedly addreteeil his retu.ned runawty: 'This "er iig'ljjdo; but you ban heen a $tre& tsrutttioc- ranjf t:m-ji futchins it:' . I
Raleigh Times [1847-1852] (Raleigh, N.C.)
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