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it, WELD ON PATRIOT EXTRA. EXPOSURE OP AN ATTEMPT TO Si-DECEIVE THE PEOPLE OP NORTHAMPTON COUNTY AND OP NORTH CAROLINA GENER ALLY. . . . .; - v ;--- A circumstance has just been fully brought to light in this community, which y imposes upon us one of the most unpleas ' nut duties we ever had to perform, one in legard to which we are left no alterna tive, 'and from which we cannot shrink. A deliberate attempt to practice a deception upon any portion of the community in which we live to attach to the party of which we are an humble member, by fraud, the odium of being allied to Abolitionism to defame as honest a set of people as ev er lived the Quakers of Northampton is something, which we cannot suffer to pass unnoticed. For us to do so, would be to render ourself unworthy the position we occupy unworthy the respect of the intelligent people by whom we are sur rounded. We confess our inability to portray the tr-inrtinn as it deserves, and we shall content ourself with submitting it to the indrrment of that public whom it was de signed to deceive, with the simple remark that we Jiave known Mr. Peterson for se v eral veari past, and we know that he is and has been ever since we first knew him, one of the strongest Democrats we ever lenew It may be that Mr. Peterson is not a lone responsible for this singular transac tion. And for his sake, and that of his family, we hope that this foul attempt and fraud may be fully investigated, and eve ry one concerned have thrown upon him his due portion of public odium. The letter disclosing this transaction (which will be found annexed,) was for warded to this place by Hon. Edward Stanly, under date of July 19, IS52. He says : -"I enclose you a letter signed E. N. Peterson, "Weldon,'V which is to me so singular, I send to you requesting you to "inake some inquiries concerning it. The suggestion is a most unworthy one, and I think Mr. Peteison will have cause to be ashamed of his proposal if he is a Whig which I doubt from his letter." Mr. Stanly's letter can be seen by any one wishing to do so. And if desired we shall publish it in the next issue of our paper. " The following is a copy of Mr. Peter son's letter to Hon. Truman Smith : Weldox, N. C, July 14, 1S52. Hon. Truman Smith, U. S. Senate: Dear Sir Feeling a welfare for the success of our party, and having observed recently a number of publications receiv ed at "this place franked by you , I have thought proper to address you this, to in form ou there is a settlement not far from here in the county of Northampton, known as the Society of "Friends" or Quakers, who have rather an aversion to Gen. Scott on account of his military fame, or rather as a lighting man. They believe in the nrlrtncrp. of runninir and "live to fight .mother dav" thev also object, to our plat form relative to slavery, the Fugitive Slave Law, &c. I think their objection to the former may be overcome, if they can be satisfied as to the latter obi eclions, and 1 would suggest the propriety of supplying with some kind of a publication that would have a tendency to satisfy them in this re snect. and if vou will send me half a doz en copies of some paper or speech favoring their views in the matter, 1 will see that thev set them. Send them under your frank without being directed. Our County and State Elections come ofTsoon, and these Quakers generally de cide the election, as the vote is such a close one. Very respectfully Your obedient servant, (Signed) E. N. PETERSON. FREE SUFFRAGE. The writer in the Tarboro' Southerner, who signs "A Conservative," puts it to the Editor of that print pretty hot and hea vy. We regret we have only room for the following extract: "I have endeavored from the beginning to keep separate and distinct the "right of suffrage" and the "basis of representa tion," for the two, questions are entirely dissimilar, and it is also necessary for a correct understanding of the whole sub ject; yet you will mix them up, for what purpose your readers can see, and - then rhartre inc with having done it, because my cause is so weak as to require it. "The basis of representation" is fixed with the view of affording protection to "sectional or local interests," by giving the largest representation' in the Senate,to those sec lions which pay the greatest amount of "public taxes;" and in the House of Com mons, the largest representation to thos sections having the most slaves, the "free persons" being equal. These are the "ba sis" for the two Houses, as fixed by the Convention of '35, and with the view a b'ove stated . You will scarcely deny these positions, if you do, "good Lord" deliver "Edgecombe Democracy" from such an adviser. Now for "the rightofsuffrage:" Suppose for the sake of illustration, there are one hundred majority of "free white men," tax payers, or have been, yet own ing no land, in every county in the State, ff sufTVnjre is eiven them and they u- nliA fnr a common purpose, say to repeal all laws imposing taxes, save those on land , nr.i-1 far the. further purpose of levying an annual tax of $5,000,000, on the lands of the State. Well it would not oe aimcuu tnfaul men in all the Senatorial districts, owning 300 acres of land, who would be willing to submit lo their share of the tax es, for the sake of a seat' in the Senate; al nlontv .with their 100 acres, willing to 'j take seats in the Commons, on the same terms. Candidates are brought out; and he whole Legislature every member of both - branches, are elected by this party. When the Legislature meets and is organized, a member rises in tLs ' Senaie and addresses the Chair, "Mr. Speaker!"; "The Sen: ator from Edgecombe!" (says the speaker, by way of recognizing Jii3 right to the floor.) The Senator says, "1 ask leave to present a Bill," leave being granted, the bill is handed to the doorkeeper and by him to the Clerk, who reads to the Sen-, ate - . ' . "A bill to 'equalize and provide an ade quate revenue for the State. i Whereas, by the' existing laws, the larger portion of the revenue of the Slate, is levied on "free men" and other subjects of taxation, independent of land," which laws 'conflict with the fundamental prin ciples of liberty, therefore, -. Sect. 1st. - Be it enacted by the Gen eral Assembly of the State of North Car olina and it is hereby enacted by the au thority of the same, . That hereafter (and heretofore too, just as long as the Lunatic Asylum Act," and the Act of 1848 taxing 'interest,' profit or dividend safeJy secured and actually due or received operated re, trospectively,) the sum of . dollars be levied and collected on every hundred dollars' value of land within the limits of this State, owned and possessed by individuals or companies, when in tracts or parcels of fifty acres or more. Sect. 2nd. Be it further enacted, That &c. (relates to collection, &c.) Sect. 3rd. Be it further enacted, That all laws and clauses of laws imposing any tax whatsoever, whether on persons, prop erty, rights or credits, contrary to tne true spirit and meaning and plain intent of this act, are hereby repealed." , . The bill of course passed and is the law of the State; and a similar result might be brought about, if the majority was only twenty, in a few more than half the coun ties of the State. Now, sir, can you see any reason why a western "landless" man should oppose this plan? None; and none why an eastern one should either. But again, they desiie to alter the Con stitution so as to abolish "land qualifica tions" in Senators and Commoners, they have the whole power and can accomplish it at pleasure. Now back to the "basis" mipstinn! take notice "free suffrage is supposed to have been granted, and don't r . j-- - r l ; you mix them up again, lor i nave u in clination to be "killed" because your wa ter is "muddy," I being down stream. The west desires to "base" representation, in both Houses on "free persons." Who obiects? No one but eastern tax payers, nnrf tbpv nrp. T,nwerless to prevent. VV hy is it so? Because political power is lodged in the West, and increased taxation will operate to the inuiry mainly oi eastern tax 1 mi, i v,u;.,.t Qr.-r.wl lUtL - J ' . . . - -I n mniinm I n 1 K aUOUl a II1U.II O UCIUS nutiu of taxation who has noimnr iu io.. bout the creat hardship imposed on my neighbor, who has no land, because my land is taxed high! takes away my "lux uries" but "starves" him! Do you real ly think that there is a man in this county fool enough to believe it? You do not, I Irnnw vou have better sense, not do I be liovA that vou are the 'ffather" of the o- pinion. If other "lawyers" wish to have such offensive nonsense published, let them have it done, otherwise than "editorial lv " You know I have no time to read "Books on '.Political Economy," J never had one never believed in them, and n you really have any, that attempt to estab lish such absurdities, such preposterous nonsense, not only the "books" but their authors loo, ought to be burnt. "British taxation" has no application here, and ev ery body who understands anything about it, knows it. Theie "the poor" have no political power; here you propose to give them all, and then contend that what has occurred under the operation of one sys tem, must necessarily follow the other! "Can impudence farther go !" MARK THE ABOLITIONIST. We give the following extract from the Report of Gen. Pierce's speech at New Boston copied from the New Hampshire Patriot, by which it is credited to the U nion Democrat. He declares that slavery is "against the moral sense of the whole world;" and proves himself an "exterpa tionist" in principle. But the extract will speak for itself: From the Union Democrat. DEMOCRATIC MEETING IN BOS TON. At the earnest request of a large num ber of the people of New Boston, General Pierce delivered a political address in that town, on b rid ay ot last weeK. ioiwmi standinsr the sleighing had been entirely destroyed by the thaw of the preceding days, the attendance was very large, so that it was necessary to occupy me largest meeting-house in the village, which was well filled. The meeting was called to order by B. Fletcher, esq., and was very ably addressed for some three-quarters of an hour by 15. . Aycr, esq.? or mis cny. He spoke of the origin, progress, and pur poses of the abolition faction, and earnest ly vindicated the national and State policy of the Democratic party. He was follow ed by General Pierce, who spoke with great power and eloquence, for two hours and a half. -. , . It gave him great satisfaction, he said, to address so larsre an audience in his native county. He saw around him many of the friends of his father, and the familiar faces of those who weie his own more in timate friends in the earlier portion of his life. He spoke of the changes which time had produced even .he short period which had elapsed since the adoption of the A- merican Constitution. He alluded lo the unexampled progress and prosperity of our country, in all the elements of national greatness, and attributed ail to me admira ble svstem of government adopted by the fathers of the Republic. . He spoke of the difficulties attending the formation of the Constitution.- With no model for a guide, and with some discordant elements to harmonize, the labor and anxiety of the convention was intense and painlul. csia very had been introduced into a portion of iho N nips: in inpir coioimu lunumuu, o.- 1.1VJ ..VAkV, ' rninst the moral sense of the whole world Tt3 immediate extirpation was J manifestly impracticable; and the final adjustment of . . . t: 1 1 MiUni the question was nor accompusucu inuwui many days and weeks ot painiui appre hensions that the blood of a seven years' war might have been shed to no purpose, na fnr as a Constitutional Union of the sev eral States was concerned. The hopes of the convention centred upon the illustrious Franklin. lie arose in his place and said, Mt friends, we shall perhaps lose all. We have exhausted the wisdom or earm. Let us seek the aid of Heaven in Prayer. A better feeling pervaded the convention, and our present admirable form of govern ment was the result. GEN. SCOTT WHIG PYRAMID op 1S52. ; ;.. ; The Berk3 and Shuylkill "Journal gives the following as likely to compose the no ble galaxy of Whig States next Tsovem- ber i: . WHIG PYRAMID OF 1852. : ; OHIO, .'" IOWA, MAINE, ,L INDIANA, MICHIGAN, FLORIDA, VERM O N T, : DELAWARE, M A R Y L A N D, L O U I S I A N A, T E N N E S S E E, N E W - Y O R K, K E N T U C K Y, W I SCO N S I N, N E W - J E R S E Y, C A L I F O It N I A, P E N N S Y L V A N I A, C O N N E C T I C U T, R H O D E - I SLA N D, IV n TJ. T H - C A R O L I N A, ::M A S S A C II USE 1 1 fc The same paper says: , - Lest our Locofoco friends should be in a nnnn da rv tn know who this Gen. Scott is, whose name is now ringing through the country as the Whig candidate for the Pre- sidencv, we Efive, lor ineir especial miuimcv J ?. - P t ..i j i.:n: ,T:tn lion, a list otthe Datues arm urmiam. iu ries of which he was the hero, commenc ing with the late war with Great Britain, and ending with the triumphant entry of the Amevican army into the city of Monte zumas, as follows: . : - O O '. : '- ; - y ' . NIAGARA, CHIPPEWA, FORT ERIE, VERA CRUZ, CHURUBUSCO, CHAPULTEPEC, CERRO GORDO, FORT MA TILDA, F O R T G E O R G E, L U N D Y 'SLA N E, M O L 1 N O DEL R E Y, GUEENSTO W N HEIGH T S, C I T Y O F JN1 E X I C O ! ! ! ! Here are seven brilliant bathes in each waxrin all of which Winfield Scott was the master spirit. Such is General Scott the hero ol two wars, who will, if he lives, be the next President of the United States." - ; ; Confirmation of Hox. J. P. Ke;.xe dy, as Secretary of the Navy. We learn from VVashinston that the United States Senate, on Friday last, confirmed the appointment lately made by the Presi dent, of Hon. John P. Kennedy, of this city, as Secretary of the Navy, to succeed Mr. Graham, resigned. Thus Mr. Ken nedy,' who is well known throughout the country as an accomplished and able man, has, after several years of retirement, been again called Xo public life. He early serv ed as a member of the Maryland Legisla ture from this city, and by his talents and course in that body, so established himself in the confidence of his party as to ue sud senuently sent to Congress from this city, where he played no insignificant part. Cass come Aivn gone. After all the flourish made by the Free Press in regard to the meeting to be addressed by General Cass in this city during the week, no speech is to be made by the Oenerai. tn left this city this morning for Washington Old birds like him are not to be caught with chaff. He has been sacrificed by his party to make room for a candidate never before heard of, and he is not disposed to identify himself with the fortunes of so flpsnprafe. a nolitical adventurer. So the Pierce mass meeting will have to be post poned, or held without any countenance from General Cass. He positively refused to address the meeting. This is most sig nificant. Detroit Tribune. Mr. Webster's position (says the N Y. ExDress1! is defined in his speeches. In Mr. Everett's revised edition there are several declarations like the following (Vol. II p. 126.) "I am a". Whiff.' I have always been a IVhig, and I always will be one ; and if there are any who would turn me out of the pale of that communion, 'let them see ... . - . o , ,x J who will get out Hist,' ccc. "i am reauy to submit to all decisions of Whig Conven lions or subjects on which they are author ized to make decisions," fcc. &c. Kossuth's Family in New York. Kossuth's sister. Madame Zsulawszky, her husband, and children, arrived in New York from Europe some five or six days since, and the Herald says, are comforta bly provided for, Kossuth haying made provision lor them ueiore sailing ior xu roDe. Besides having purchased and stock ed a farm of land for them in one of the Western States, he left with the mayor o the city a thousand dollars for the purpose of enabling them to travel out to u, auu commence life in this country independ ently, -- '- " V - ; . . . At a tea table, on Sunday evening, the debris of a pot of beans appeared among the edibles. When the hostess inquired of W., "will 3'ou have auy beans?" the hardened sinner replied, '.'Nota Bene !" Do vou hear, Democrats ? The New York Tribune learns that the members of Congress heretofore Democrats who now onnose Pierce and Kinff number twenty- five some of them, says the Tribune, were in Baltimore while our Convention was silting, urging the nomination of Scott in order to insure Pierce's defeat. They will make themselves known in due time. From the Raleigh Standard, Jlug. 23, 1848. "Congress adjourned on the 14th ult: After a lonw and bitter contest on tne ques tion of Slavery, the Oregon Bill, with tne WILMOT . PROVISO INCLUDED and Missouri Compromise stricken out, was a dopted and has become a law." This was the identical bill for which Da vid S. Reid, the present Democratic Govern or of North Carolina, voted wniisi ue was in Congress. And he voted for this bill af ter the North had voted dovn the following amendment offered by Mr. Burt, of South Carolina : 'Insert between the words " and shall " in thp 12th section f the one inhibiting sla very) the words " inasmuch as the whole of the saiu territory lies uumi u v-e.-w 30 min. north latitude, known as the Mis souri Compromise." (See Congressional Globe 1847, page 178.) In voting down the amendment offered by Mr. Burt, the North proclaimed that they did it that the bill might have the naked Proviso in it, in' order to establish forever the power of Congress to. prohibit slavery in the Territories! Governor Reid voted for the bill after this declaration was made, and af ter the amendment of Mr. Burt was voted down ! ! The bill passed the House, but was defeated in the Senate. The same bill was introduced again in Congress in 1848, and as the Standard states, passed both Houses, Benton and Houston, two South ern Democratic Senators, turning traitors and voting for it. Reid was not then iu Congressbeiiig a candidate for Governor. Thisvote defeated- him for that office. .But '!n ISHft hp was elected. And now hear how the Northern Abolitionists rejoiced over his election: From the " jlnii-Slavery Standard" Jlug. 22d, 18.10. ' It will be seen by the returns ot the finhprnntorial election in North Carolina, that David S. Reid, the man who stood by James JL Root, J. R. GidJings, Hanibal Hamlin. David Wilmot, and others, in voting for the exclusion of slavery in the Territory of Oregon, has been elected Governor of North Carolina. He is the only Anti-Whig candidate that has ever been elected, in the State, since the election was given to the people. : "The canvass was conducted On the Sla very question , the Whigs denying the ex pediency of the Wilinot Proviso, and the Democrats sustaining D. S. Reid, who has ever been a friend to the Proviso, and when in. Congress, vo 'ed for it in the Oregon bill. D. S. Reid leads Gov. Manly 3,500 votes : the average Whig vote beinr from three to eifht thousand majority. Three cheers for JS'ortk Carolina! "Onward is the course of Freedom : Mate fter State are coming into our ranks. Soon the "Freeman's .-Rights" will be pro claimed from every hill-top from Maine to Texas. Onward, my countrymen, in the cause of Freedom !" This article from the Anti-Slavery Stand ard, was copied at the time into an me Whig papers iu the State, that the people miht see what rejoicing there was among the vile fanatics over tne election oi :iuu friend of the WUmot Proviso," as they term Gov. Keid; "tne man vrno siuuu. uij Root, GidJings, Hamlin, and WUmot, in vot ing for the exclusion of slavery from the Territory of Oregon." The question arises, shall the people of North Carolina srive these fanatics another chance to yell over there-ehction of Govern- Reidin dugust next ' Freemen of North Ca rolina r e lgti these things, ponder upon iheio bclore going to the "polls on the 5th of August.- Vorth State Whig. Polk's Generals. A love of excel lence is ingrafted in our nature, lo this must be "attributed the works of art wlucn have from time to time astonished the world. II can be traced, too, from the humblest citizen to the greatest genius in iho lnnrl For who has not some stand- aid of excellence, in one degree or anoth- cr at. which he aims ! Such being the case, it is natural to sup pose, that the three great Generals, Pillow, Pierce and dishing, whom President Polk selected to eclipse the deeds of Scott and 'I'nvlnr. shou Id have vied with each other, as to who would stieu oy uis uim.iui ,-hiVv,mpiii'? undvhi2f renown on his coun- J 7. .. . , i- -u trv. Pillow dus a ditch, and threw up thp i-mHiank-mentoii the wron side ; Cush insr, whilst promenading with some of the fair sex of the town, leu uuo a guuy aim broke his leg ; and Pierce fell off his horse and fainted. On account of the brillian cy of these achievements, it has long been a mooted question,who carried off the palm. But the Democracy of the country havis at last decided it, knotty as it was, by nom inating Pierce at their late Convention. Not being a judge of military matters, we cannot pronounce upon the justice of the decision. Sclma Reporter. Randolph County, -A letter from a friend in Randolph says, ''Should the Whigs in other counties do their duy as I confidently believe they will do here, John Kerr will be triumph antly elected Governor of the State. Randolph will give a large majority for Kerr." , ' , . , , The Wilmington Journal lately stated (hat the writer in the Tarborough South erner who praised Mr, Kerr m the expense of Gov. Reid, was within the Editor s own knowledge, "a bitter Whig." .TheSou thAmxr itself denied this, and said that the writer was more of a Democrat than a Whi. The Journal persisted. And now it savs it is "permitted by Mr, Reddm F. Pitman, the author," to say, umi ug ing to "support Pierce and King. A bitter Whig ! supporting Pierce and King . This shows the recklessness f the Jour nal. Observer. . ..' Boston, July 21. A memorial to the President has been signed by numerous and influential citizens. It represents that the fisheries employ twenty-one hundred vessels, thirty thousand seamen, and twelve million of capital. The enforcement of the new construction of the treaty will rum their business. It prays the President to send a naval force to protect the American fishermen. It is rumored that the sloop of war Albany, now at this port, has been ordered to the Nova Scotia fishing grounds. THAT LETTER. The truth is out at last. General Pierce did not answer Mr. R. G. Scott's letter in reference to the Fuffitive Slave law; and is therefore exempted from the pledge to veto any bill repealing or weauemng tne law, which was exacted from uenerai ivass and all other Candidates. There has been an unlimited amount of Quibbling on the part of the Richmond 1 . . 1 . .. . i - ro 1 junto in connexion w nn ims auair; auu, wittingly or unwittingly, our conxempoiaiy of the : Union has been a participator in th wholp. of it. First, we had a burst of grandiloquence on the sagacity that promp ted Mr. Scott's interrogatories, and the pa triotism of those who answered them; then we were assured that the same interrogato ries wrere sent to General Pierce, who hap pened to be from home when they arrived; then it was explained that General Pierce had positively written or would positively write in reply, and that the country should see it without delay; then we were told that the repJv was snugly stowed away in Mr. Scott's pocket, but that its publication was no longer necessary; and then we were reminded that the holders of the re- rrfv were the best iudffes of the course to be pursued in regard to it, and were not to be dragooned Dy V nig inquisiuveue's imu any different plan. But Whig inquisit iveness could not be so staved off. It re turned to the subiect from day to day, and l.n fin.nllv Biicr.pp.ded in oenetraiinff the rhinoceros hide of the Democratic con science-keepers, and in extorting the con fession that General Pierce never answer ed Mr. Scott, and that Mr. Scott is there fore unable to produce General Pierce's letter. Mr. Scott writes to the Richmond En miirer to sav that the. party are satisfied with General Pierce's letter to Colonel Lallv . of Baltimore read by Mr. Ritchie at the Washington Ratification Meeting nnd need nothinff else. That letter, how ever, does not touch the question whether, if elected, Mr. Pierce would interpose me veto in support of the Fugitive law, and consequently falls far short of the point which the letter would have compelled him to touch. The Jhinuirer assured us at the outset that no man not so pledged could receive the support of the Democracy; and the Union cried Amen. We now desire to know, firstly, how the Enquirer and the Union propose to get over that very awkvvard committal; secondly, how they design to explain their repeated prevarication in relation to it; and thii'dly, how the Compromise Democracy will be able to relish the now admitted fact that the organs have been playing bo-peep for six weeks past upon this very question, and that General Pierce js not, after all, in any manner bound by the pledge which was deemed indispensable in negotiating with all the other candidates. J.lcj)ublic. llb W TO PREPARE CUCUMBERS. A sri eat many of our readers are un doubtedly extravagantly fond of cucum bers, but, hke ourselves, afraid to toucn tne article for fear of cholera, or something worse. Now, we have recently lx;coine the possessor of a secret, by which cucum bers can be so prepared as to be eaten with perfect safety. A friend of our, who has lived a long" time in the Kast Indies, and in that portion so subject to the fearful rav ages of cholera, has given us the receipt used the.e. It is simply to cut up a cu cumber in slices (the usual mode) place them in a dishj and cover them with fine salt. Almost instantly the salt will extract the poisonous liquid from the cuotimbcr. The liquid extracted by the salt is then thrown away, and the cucumber washed with clean water. Then put on the pep- ner. oil. and vinegar, and one has a most delicious dish of cucumbers before him, and he can eat a dozen with perfect impu nity. The salt should remain on the cu cumbers about half an hour! Now, we have tried the receipt, and will guarantee it to be a good one. Try it, readers, . y y N. Y. Pik. "Sky; High, Skv IItc.it."' ;; ' Wherever the news of General Pierce's "home views" on the Fugitive Slave law and the institutions of the South has ex tended, it has produced a prodigious sensa- tion. in LiiaHOiiesvuie a puuno mwnug was forthwith held, and the changes rung upon the shameful fraud with immense ef fect. People are beginning to wonder, in 11 quarters, that they could Have been imposed upon so long uy sucu yiu iui t tires. The revelations from New Boston ex hibit the Locofocos in the very act of play ing a Yankee trick upon the South- They have done the thing before, but they have escaped detection until after its consum mation. Now, like a thief, caught in the manor, they have no loophole of escape. They knew their man, Pierce thev knew that Van Buren, and Hallett,and Rantoul andBrvant, and Dix, and the rest of the Freesoilers, were going for him with "a gush of enthusiasm." He was nominat ed because he could obtain that support and he was able to obtain it, because he was known to Van Buren & Co. to loathe the fugitive Slave Law, and to revolt at the institution of Slavery. How can the people of the South con fide in these men any longer? With Gov. Joe Johnson of New York in the executive rhnirof Virffinia who has shaken ourin- Ktitntions to their foundations and a New Hn mnshii-e Yankee in the Presidency ff.plino-5? revolt at the institution of slavery what is to become of s? Rich. mn. Comte de Thiard. General and Count de Thiard, formerly Minister Plen ipotentiary of France in Switzerland, and at one time a Deputy from Saone-et-Loire, has just died at Paris in the SOth year of his age. Count de Thiard was appoint ed as a brigadier general in 1S14, was a chevalier of St. Louis and a commander of the Legion of Honor and Grand Cross of the Order of Fidelity of Baden. 'i Col. Thos. D. Meares is nominated by a writer in the Wilmington Herald as the Whig candidate for Elector in that Dis trict. ..,.. '.--:., RALEIGH TIMES. i iliiKlMaMMji mi II A L E I G II, N. C FRIDAY, JULY ?0, 1852. ... REPUBLICAN WHIG TICKE T. FOR PRESIDENT, Major General Winfield Scott, OF NEW JERSEY. . FOR VICE PRESIDENT, lion. William A. Graham, OF NORTH CAROLINA. FOR GOVERNOR, JOHN KERR, of Caswell. FOR THE SENATE, JOHN W. HARRIS. FOR THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, SION H. ROGERS, WILI-TAM F. COLLINS, WILIE D. JONES. We will thank our lrienus every where to send us the Results of the Elec tions as early as they can be obtained. Don't wait for one another but let every subscriber to the Times consider himself a committee of one to favor the Editor with the state of the polls in the respective coun ties. It is their interest as well as our's to tret the earliest news. ' THE ELECTION. The State campaign closes now for us ; as we are no more able to reach our dis tant readers before the Election We must leave tlie Whig cause with the Whigs -of the State ; certain, if each man will per form his duty, it is nerfeclly safe. We y . have endeavored to discharge ours, so far as our means would allow ; and we rest under the conviction that our services have had a good influence we shall await the result with confidence that the character of the State will be redeemed by a Whig vic tory.: . The party warfare which has been made upon Mr. Kerr has been of a bitter and unscrupulous kind every means of mis representation and falsehood have been employed ; and charges have been made of the most dishonorable character, against a pure, virtuous and christian man. It le mains for the people of North Carolina to decide, whether falsehood and detraction are to prevail over truth and honor, in our future elections. ,' If so, we have no hesi tation in saying that our system of suffrage has become utterly corrupt, and valueless longer to preserve the public liberty. We shall be completely sold to the party which perpetrates the most fraud, falsehood and wickedness : and our high stations will be degraded below the ambition of honorable men, by the elevation of those who are mean and vile enough to profit by the oc cupancy of place and power, thus corrupt ly and dishonestly obtained. Such having been the course pursued ami the means employed by our opponents, the people may be prepared to expect, e ven in the short time, which remains before the election", misrepresentations, fabrica tions and falsehoods of every description. Having already exposed ai.d refuted many of them, in thi3 campaign, it is only how in our power to warn our readers against what may come. We have a high-minded and honorable candidate. He hasmain tained the Whig cause with great ability and eminent and unvarying consistency. Thus will he maintain it to the end and if elected, he will go into the Chair of State with pure hands, and an honest and faithful heart. - Stand by him, Whigs of the State ! and teach your unscrupulous opponents, that though they may outrage honor and virtue, their arts can nevermore prevail in the good Old North State. WHIG BARBECUE Sc MASS MEET ING. The Scott and Graham Club intend to give a Free Barbecue in this City, on Wednesday, the 4th August, (the day before the Election,) to which they invite all the people of the County. Several speeches from prominent Whigs may be expected and we intend to raise a Scott and Graham Pole, which will be the astonishment of the Campaign. We hope and trust there may be a large attendance of the people ; that the old camp fires may be lighted; and that our column may be gloriously pushed on as it is bound to beto certain victory in the Old North. Come up in strong force, friends and fellow-citizens. It is our last rally for John Kerr, and our noble Whig candidates in the County but only a be ginning of the Scott and Graham excite ment, which is yet to sweep over the State. We are assured that the arrangements are on an extensive scale; and it is our full de- ':'.'.:' y cti-Cv thn oxnectations of our friends. Our invitation is now out.and cheerfully universally extended to all: good fnm. .rood speeches, these arc the feasts to which vou are bul food for the body and ;,1 A wake. Whiirs! Shake off the dew- drops which glitter on your garments, and march once more to a glorious victory in your country's cause. GOV. REID AND TAR RIVER. The North State Whig, publishes a com munication, exposing iu the strongest terinsj the bad conduct of Gov. Reid towards the people of that section of the State, as re gards the appropriation made by the Legis lature for the improvement of Tar River The Whig says : "If after reading this ex- position, any man in nu or ljeauiort can walk i p to the ballot box, and vote lbrGov. Reid to be kept in office two years longer, he must be a hard party man harder than cast iron- and have an india rubber-like conscience. The improvement of the river is a matter of vast importance to this region. Unless the work be done, the money ex pended for the Plank Road will.be thrown awa) Pitt will have to seek some other outlett for her produce (Edgecombe can now take hcr's off by rail road.) The represen tatives of Pitt, and Beaufort struggled hard in the Legislature to get 'the appropriation, and is it not an outrage which no free peo ple ought quietly to submit to, that the law should be nullified by the Governor whoso sworn duty it was to see it carried into ef fect, let it please or olTend whom it might? To the people of Washington this-; is a matter almost of life and death. Vou see what condition the river is in impassible, stop ped up. Appeal upon appeal j has been made to the Governor, but he has turned a deaf ear to their entreaties -" mocked at your calamity" and with the blandest kind of a smile asks you to go to the ballot box and vote to continue him in office two years longer. Ah, the ballot box ! There is K might of -power in that. There is your re medy, people of Titt and Beaufort, there is your remedy against this injustice THE BALLOT BOX." GOV. REID HIMSELF ! We have been -requested to publish the fol'-svving certificates, going to show that Gov. Reid himscf was the author of the Standard's communication signed "A Dem ocrat." We are not of those who believe that "all's fair in politics." On the contra ry, we think no honorable man should con sent to hold an office obtained by. dishono rable rieans. But comments arc not neces sary to elucidate 'this subject. These certi ficates speak for themselves: J Greensboro, N. C. July 23y 18.52. I certify that Gov. Reid got to Greensho rouwh on the evening of the 2Sth of June - tliat he and Mr. Kerr spoke on the 29th. Governor Reid remained in Greensboro un til some time in the day of the 30th. I ob served Mr. J. R. McLean was much of his time with Gov. Reid, and was witli hini on the night after the discussion. I also saw Mr. McLean at the Tavern where Governor Reid staid on the morning before he started. I further certify, that I heard Mr. B. G. Graham say, when speakiug about the first communication signed "A Democrat," da ted 30th June, that appeared in the "Stan dard," professing to give an account of the discussion in Greensboro', on the ,2Dth of June, that Mr. J. R. McLean brought a package in the form of a letter to him, ask ed him to back it to W, W. Hohlen, Ra leigh, and pay the postage, which he did, and mailed the letter, according to Mr.Mc Lean's directions. 1 ANDREW CUNNINGHAM. : Greensboro', N. C. July 23, 1S52. In a conversation with J. R. McLean, on the subject of a communication signed "A Democrat," dated June 30th, 1852, that ap peared in the "Standard," professing to give an account of the discussion between Mess. Reid and Kerr, at Greensboro', on the 29th of June 1S52, Mr. McLean said, tliart he was not the author of said Communication. PETER ADAMS, S. M. SHERWOOD. Greensboro', N. C. July 23J, 1S.52. AVe certify, that on Tuesday the 15th July 1S52, after "the Extra Standard," of the 14th July, was brought to Greensboro', we had a conversation with B. G. Graham, a bout his having signed the certificate con tained in said "Extra Standard," when said Graham, as we understood him, denied that he had signed it. Some time after this, on the same day, we saw said Graham again, and he, Graham, said James R. McLean, Esq, called him over to his room, read over to him the paper, asked him, Graham, if that was his understanding about the discussion' Graham said it was McLean then asked him, if he would sign it. He, Graham.said he would, and did sign it. Mr. Graham further said, he then got to thinking about it, and became dissatisfied; saw Mr. Wilson S' Hill, Jr., and requested him to see Mr. McLean, and yet his name off of it.l Mr. "I Till nromised him to have his name taken off, and he Graham thought it was lo go no further. -i- vuij ii, W. A. JO CE. f 2 At Manchester, N. II. on thej 20th Nov. 1850, there was a great Union meet ing, and among the speakers on the occa- sion was uen. f raiiKiin i icr.-, nun inocratic candidate for the Presidency, who spake thus: I l Who did not deplore slavery! But what sound thinking mind regarded that as the only EVIL which could rest upon the land? The men who would dissolve the Union did not HATE or DEPLORE slavery more than he did; but even with it, we had lived in peace, prosperity, andsecuriiy from the foundations of our institutions to the J pre sent time. If the constitution provide, for the return of fugitive slavas, it should be done. That was what he wanted to do ; that was what our fathers agreed to do; and that was what the friends of the union estab lished by them wanted to do. Hisses. These (said Gen. Pierce) are the arguments of the 'higher law,' I suppose. A Western paper in noticing the ravages of the cholera, says : "Every person that was able toleave Jackson, Missouri., did so, and hariot yet returned. Since last Sunday "therfe was not enough left to bury the dead. Some eight or ten corpses lay in different houses several days. The town of Jackson looks like a deserted farm; hnsiness of every kind is suspended, and j every dwelling house is locked up."
Raleigh Times [1847-1852] (Raleigh, N.C.)
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