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Jni JYorth ' Carolina Gazette LAWRENCE & LEMAY. ; ;::;?;:',r terms. aM,..rTio, tlirea dollars per annum one not be allowed to remain la arrears longer " . 0 er,nrt penons resident without thia tBww-j - . . ., ''!!!Jrr iIL nf lhe tear's tutitcriutkm in advance, 01 eaeeeam- uiuten unci. J,MJ Ua timet for one dollar, and twen rt.nre een i"r . ,. , i " 1 - - - 1 1 lo the-Editors mutt fcepoat-pnttlr- REMARK.9, OF THE GLOBE, The Editors of th'e Richmond En airer, and of the Petersburg Intelli encer." p.peating t0 the- fearless, nest, disinterested patriotism, which letited the fVoclfmation, foraa inter Utjtion of those point in which it , suffered .misconstruction, , evince i,e just estimation in which they hold hi character of the President. Ora nilence and tMStery. with regard .9 1st .tarfain il V- l" , . i,le frona the American people, iie, Uo from youth to age., has borne his ife. in hia hand, reatiy 10 oner u p i ny moment in defence of his couutry. boar carries ms , Jrirdfrthoset ta-hos erwcaJtisDu eer been, M anectionaieiy .aevoi- J. With him.; dignity 01 inun n tnr- !I doss not allow the cere - LnieioiiicehetWW k Which tr'iTTtwrjf1'" where' throwttrotiTid "th.e' Fh ;'iiarcyMWaT i r n v With a wis . .1... llol Lun ftnJ rou dealing is the honor tr nniire.M and fhe charm of 1 . TT T at. nnnji.tiiunnea !,f dotflff hia dotT and the-higheat. dia r . " . i - i inrlion is onif Taiueu. a u "mho k. nahlic confidence and a proper ap- Weclation t his toou ves. iroioin;. herefdre, has tytn ium more -pain hiiFtha; mitconifructkrttqciwhrt kininns expressed ln hia Proclamation heen aubiected: and nothing,- we Wtinrii;wh ?kn to find, when properly understood Ss.t ihev meet the approbation of- the i,-;Mo.nirt itenuDiicans. ioe incuun it the Union and State Rights, upon Swhoie principles he has uniformly act- m. inroornoui nia ouuhu ... .-With these prefatory remarks, we nrweed io theVepiy which we are au thorised (o give to the inquirtea of the4 Mitora oi tne iticnmouu cuijumci iuu Petersburg Intelligencef. V ' The impression tnat tne rresiaent id git en evidence of a " dereliction rom hit principle," in " mate pazsa- et which relate to the greed question if the orisrin and character of our fed ttd compact," would be fully sustain ed if those pagsagea-warrantedjhe jn- fi it tnose pa8agea-.warraMi,eii o! !mretatioo given by Mr Cock in.the iaolution BubmTUed Wfc hate of Virginia That resolution as turned that it was let forth in the tale Proclamation of the President of the m.u.A c;. ihni ih Federal Const i fHMCU i-O , lion result i from the people in the ag ptgale, and not from the Slates," -c aad from, this assumption, the resolu turn goes on to infer, that "this theory Sf bur Government would tend in prac Sict, (o the most dtiaslfous consequen giving a ! minority of the States, wing a majority of the Population, he' control over the other, States ' &c fhis is the. interpretation of the ex MttidnlTif the rVesidBtPcliflilT jiao.and the implication'ofoowquettli m, which ha gien the. alarm to ma py. ofnh'eT-twcece frienda of . State Hi'htH who have considered the doc-, tnne thus promulgated, as the doctrine Ijf the old JFcdetal party.. If the iner relation were true, we would not" he itate to admit the justice of the. cen ""t. It is precisely the-dctrine ad meed by Mr. Webster in the debate o Foot'a resolutions, but abandoned by ' in the late discussion of the prin j'plei of the Proclamation in the Se lite. Uuf we assert authoritatively, M the inferences made by Mr. Cocke p lOtaHy epughahTto nheopinion V lhe :President f ind -the jiewa- he peant to Inculcate ty -thff ssagtr in h Proclamation from which they are fawns andjheje deductions were re ed in this print, under the airec- " ofthe-PreideBtr thnnataMe annrized they , bad assumed the pe of a resolution in the Senate of 1 irclnia. The difficulty in the minds if the Editors of the Richmond Enquir- r and Petersburg Intelligencer, arises r"m the same passage in the Procla nation. ":, , We have; therefore, we hope, nl In . . - , L . . .1 t u a tka l,nl. i tu recur iw iocim ,,v "v" 1 vhirh were Intended by the retident. to eivA perfect 'satisfaction f, wation,, u the. pnncipiea ne enier- I The first passage' to i which we are elerred in the articles we quote from 'Richmond Enauirer and" Petera-. 8rg Intelligencer, is aa follows: , "The peonle of the United Statea ;'ird the Constitution, acting through I -T,".iegiiaore""iirnaiiijj" in paCfi t0 roef 0j jiCUM in pro. 'lUlkna . . .1 - .! ' IDa i r i. ! .iL-tin . "uj aciifig in separate uui !: heo the - ratified .those, orovi- 'Hi; bat the terms aaed io ita con- hi olliciai uocumoiua ur ",'."' put among the several . ' I . . . Br a T a lanleann nnll. 1 . A Chiet Magistrate, no uuee vM0r people, and again msk a mousni wnicn no wuuiu "ciioo, too it to be a Ooyernment in wh'wh the people of the grates cot- lectif It are represented." TUi U nut theory, it i simply histo ry but the praseology, like that of the Constitution itself, which it copies ver batim in the leading meinber of the sen tence," has been subjected to various internretHim. But the Pfeident.-in sty inj; that the people pf Vie United Xln'tem litis he owltne.,4n2.iftlle.Con rvivv fvi a t v wiminuiiv') e win j Slitution. itself, did notletve it pet to the construction which the latitudinari- an party .have put, upon ita terms lie falln wett a p tba p-o!-! declaration by pai ucuiaT.injr, inni-mo cuasiiioiion originated in a compact that the com pact was the offspring of thepepl iff the several atates, acttng through their respective state legislatures; and fur titer, that the Constitution or Govern ment, founded on this compact, receiy ed us "aahciiori fromjtie peopte of the several states, actinz through indepen dent separate state conventionaoat-i ify Us pionions. ,V ith such precise, definite ami positive ascription of the uunsmution, in its origin, to a com states, as the mg the bVa- tory sanction of the instrument, at ile- rived from the tapiraieact of the same indeprnilitot coinmunilies, depem! on its ratification in separate conventions, it would seem that the idea of its being the work of the whole people in "the aggregate? '-rtriimtea vi one oorarwais aosoio'eiy preciuueu. inueeti, aa we said before, in commenting on Dr. Cocke's resoluUon, the simple language of the (Constitution-, tn porTaimiog its originTn it first words, "ff e the Peo and eslahlish tliis Constitution, for the United Slates of Jimet ica " does, of it self, imply, what it so precisely speci fied in the added explanation of the Proclamation.- V excludes, by its terms, the idea of a- people embodied in .a consulid ated governmenV by dei scribing them as composing different VSraW and by speaking of the vmamtimtidKp'iw. jditmtjlift. "the Derate m the aggregate," but Mi States, at forming separate communi the Constitution (which we have quoted a bove in connection with its first words,) preserves the same idea.' The .Consti tution is declared to be established, not for an aggregate people, hstrfor-the United States of Amcricu-P The interpretation, forced by the re Solution, to which we have referred, on the Prnclamation. in spite of its ex planations, is precisely that which the friends of a consolidated government have attempted to force on the ponsti- tution itself. If this were admitted. the conclusion drawn from it, that it would gie "to a mlxority of slates, having amnjorVy of the population, a control over the other states," would in evitabiy foilow. But here aainr the evitably lollow. uui Here againr tne, pc fBTfifiateT "such'HnTeFeri from recognition the pnwer which of nagZTtgnttmoTAe" would undoubted y possess an altering their government according to the will of the, majority, the ProcIsmHion refers to the provi sion of the Consiitntioti on this sub jectandrije,(expms(y.the idea of any power Jit a convention caiieu in a ny other mode thanonder its provi aion. It says; s - Yet this obvious and corstitufional mode of obtainiiiFth'eifnse nrttie other State's oti the construction of the Federal compact, and amending it, if necessa yyJiaJiefec trh Htr.tlMraitiei structive measure. I ne state might have proposed thr'call for, a General Convention to the. other Slates; and Congreii, if jmuiBcieni numVr of them o'hcurrittniilt';have? called :it. But the First Magistrate of South Carolina, when he expressed a hope that, on a review of Congress and the Junctions ries of the General Government of the merits of the controversy,' such a Coo yenlion will be accorded to them, must have known that neither Congress nor any functionary of the General Govern ment has authority to call such a Con ventionr unless tt be demanded vy two' thirds of the Stales,, 7 - White w rriiciamirion ttu recog nizes the Constitution as tne creature of the people-of the States Severally, and as only suscrplible of change thro' the agency tte9-lhirde f4he-SfatesSs in proposing amenuinenis 10 ue cnecm ated only by the ratification of three fourths o'f the States, it is difficult to conceive how any one could infer from its doctrines that it concedes to ' a mi nority of States having the m"jority of population." aDtoiuie, away, oyer iub Constitution ana govern nieui. t ; The only other difficulty to which we are referred as requiring explana tion, by our Inenus-ol tn..uienaunji Enquirer and Petersburg Intelligencer, will be found in the close of the follow- . ' ... r .. ,r. . . : inz passage, wnicn speaks 01 - -te uiu- ly of our political character.? ter. (aa hat been ahowo , for another pu r pose) commenced, wubitifrj-'-islence. iTUnder the Royal Vtt ment we had no scpirate character our opposition to ita oppressions began a UnUeiL.Colonits,:.yf9. were, the TLi'dtA Slates uoder the coo federation, and the name wat perpetuated, and the Union rendered more perfect br the Klerl Constitution. In noneof these c wuuMuur ourselves in any ner ugni nan at lonniiig one natuinTtof the C ireatiea an-I alUancea were ro.de in he name of all; Troops were raised lor tne joint netenieiw : It would be aurndent here again to bterve, that it is history which speaks in this passage, and not the President. The fact are indabitibly at he. states theflh-' And it is -only by-onfwundwg Uuuiity, wWch is derived from a con fsderacyamon tht,5ta.tes, fnjskinz thetotO eiiixientv oa-l ti'n.") with the iilea of a consolidation ill all power in the Federal Govern nent, that an objecti m is created. The unity of our political character," herejupokeh f, it'is rx'presslv said, is not intended to denote " an uruiivitled sovereignly " or authority in the Gen era! G iveriiment. "Oii the'eontrarv the text shows that it only refers to that 4iWial.4leleg4te4athrity--whili.the constitution has carved out or the pow- th belonging to the several State com munities and united in one common government for the purpose of estab M. p Jkj-4fe m StfWM: nU00?, al relations with the other nations of the world. And aa it wss especially the scope of the Constitution, to give unity to ojr political character in its exterior aspect,, and to confer Upon the Government alf the attributes of na tioiialUu in regir.d to foreign powers, it rMngeHht-jeatMtsy-hould be cited by the use of terms pointing out this design, or. by references to various periods of our history, to prove that in ';ifejpMtt existed among the independent com munitiei. corp,aoAi(g;;t,h? i cntfetlefac. , Tfltt Ireities weremvle ii the names of all, and troops raised for joint defence," is certainly proof that unity of political chiracte existed in a greater or a less degree, from, the planting of the colo die down to the establiihmentof the present government. This fact, how ever, whicn is given to snow tnat tne American people have always been reign powers," the character "of being " one nation," by no means changes the HaMirt - - T - the - tttniilefariy-Tf tHrif V which the btennea considerate power of the eeveral States, has assumed its character of nationality. We were a nation under the articles of confedera tion, however feeble the means of the national authority then to bring the en ergies of the several States to act in unison ami we are surely not less a nation, now jhat a government nas b'en established to form a more perfect union, endowed with all the faculties which can constitute us a nation in our relations with foreign powers. Even .before, the articles of confederation were formed, io the first paragraph of the Declaration of Indf pendente,- we were proclaimed to be "one people? and the object of the act announced io ano ino ooieci, oi tne acv aonounce u bneptopter (be Unif.-d SrateH' might "assume among the powers of the earth thesqtarale and equal station to which the laws of Nature and of A attire's God entitle them." The Proclamation then, in the pis siges objected to, has merely spoken the facts of liislQrulht . language of the iConslitutiQn and of the Declaration of Jn Upendence. there is no speculative opinion advanced no theory proposed. And we have endeavored to show, that noihiog in these generalities tended in ! the slightest decree to justify the in ferences drawn Irom them, and which It t been aubsirfuted as i the puniiptel t mt rrociamattnn,; oi we are au thorised 10 be more explicit, and to say positively, thtt no part of the Procla oittioo was meant to countenance the coosididatlng T principles hich'have .beascribRdJoJ.t,...Qtl.!hec.mtraMr,. its doctrines, if construed in the tense they were intended, and carried out, in culcate that the Constitution of the United States is fouoded in compact that this compact derives its obligation from the agreement entered, into by the oeonleof each of the States, in their nftlitiral canacitv. with the people of the other States that the Constitution, which is the offspring of this compact, has it sanction in thoraificatiftB;sLtlie people of the several states acting, in the capacity of separate communities that the majorjty or the people 01 tee United Slates, in the azjreeate. have -ovrerlaltethe-CM -m a r a 'a,t'a,Imaffttt nit saw at a tal BatV tt 1 I SB) lKa at fT Saai the - Ueneral uovernmeni, oui tnai change or amendment can only be pro posed in the mode pointed out io tfi C'tiwtilution, and can never become ootigttory unless ratified by the people of three fourtne of the states through their respective 1 jUgitlatur!'. or State Uoi.ventiona that inasmuch aa the sovereign power of the people7! each stite has imparted to the Constitution of the JUn;id,States,and the Uws made in pursuance thereof, paramount or!Lation over State Legislation or any Constitution or form of Stats Gov ernment-which may beJnstituted by the people of och etate; and inasmuch as the people of each state have bound themselves, by compact.. with, ih ..rest, to abfde by thia paramount authority, Until changed according to the provi the Constitution, so aleclarid to be paramount. Otf conslitutioo, law ftrdinance of "anr one ! ataMli" talld to defeat the CoosUtutioo and laws of th llotit Sff. f .k--.V tuflistiont whicn bind the atates j together that in the case wfa violation onttitution of the Unired States, and the nturpaiion of" powers kii grjineu y u on in part 01 the . . 1 L . .. J . functionaries of the General Govern meiir, the State GovernmehtsTtave the right to interpone to arrest the evif.'unh- on Ih principles which were set fonh ia-lhe': VirgTniaTllei..IuUbns . of Tf93 agtinst the Alien and Sedition Ltwa and finally, that in extreme cases of'op- prett ion, fe veryae of coostitntmn l the right resides with the people of the several states to organise resisiance a gainst such oppression, confiding in a good cause, the favor of - Heaven, and the spirit of freemen; to vindicate the right. We bg leave here to submit, in aid of our own, an exnosition, which touch es the points involved a the controver ted ptssages -nf the Proelamation and which received the sanction -of the President, at the threshold of the con truversy that led to the promulgation of that piper. During the progress of the d-tib.ite on Fooi'a resolution, the edit or of this print (who was then connected with a press in Kentucky, which sua tained the principles of the republican patty,) received from the Postmatr General the speech delivered by Mr Livingston, accompanied by a letter, saying, that the viewa contained in it were-eanctioned by- the : PreMdeot,-and might be considered as exhibiting tne light in which his administration con sidered the subject under debate. The :fprTiIx ac-iMiSli:rf will serve, in illustrating the principles on which the President then to-ik hit stand, to explain the more onifeiiYiiT view given of them in his rrocumi; tion. Extract from Mr: Livingiton'a speech. -:it-Jn. the, federal constitutioo this combination of the two characteristic of government is more appareoit. It was framed by delegates appointed by tbtaatj'sy4tayi rinna ni - ana nonni n (ki oarn oriiai riinwi tw w .ivaii,,yt,--.-TV'.i(..J,W"'s vy V . vened iccordinj to Jlielaws of the res pective states. Itguaranties the exit ttatie. of h attii, nthich.r! .neatmhj ry to its own; the states are represent ed in one branch by senators chosen by (he legislatures; and in the other, by rep resentatives taken ffom jhe people, but chosen by a rule which may be made and varied by the states, not by congress; the qualification of electors being dif ferent in different states. They may make amendments to the constitution. In short, the government had its iocep tion with them; it depends on their political existence for its operation; and. I its duration cannot go beyond then a The atates existed before the constitu tion; they parted only with such powers as are specified in that instrument; they continue still to exist with all the powers they have not ceded, and the presea t gov r n me 0 1 wou Id ne n err it-, self,"tiy8 gone tnttr 'opera tionfhad'nirt the atates in their political capaiiiy, have consented That consent ' is a compact of each one with the whole, oot (as has been argued, in order 10 throw a kind of ridicule on this con vincing part of the argument of my friend from South Carolina.) with the government which was made by such compact." 3 ' " We Know. "(' it h never been imagined or asserted that the people of the United states collectively, as a whole people, gave their assent or were consulted in, that capacity; lhe people of each ttater0ere-eonulted t k now whether Ad would fWnv a part of the United States under the articles of the constitution, and to that they gave their assent, simply as citizens of that state." . ' ;:: ::r7':: " It is a compact by which the peo pie of each state have consented to tnke from their own legislatures some of the powers they had conferred anon them, and to transfer them with other enumerated pnwera. to the government of the United Statea, created by that compact; these powers.. so conferred are some of those exercised by thei sov ereizn power of the country in which they esidei Tdo oot mean here, th .uIUmatemeragnpowerresKlinrnnrj der all , governments, democratic or despotic, in the people a aoyereignty which must always in theory exist, how ever its exercise may by loreijrn and mean that power to regulate the a (furs o a nation, wnicn resiues in 11s govern ment, whatever the form of that gov ernment may be; this may be and gene rally is distributed into several bands." But if the, power contended for on the one side be dangerous, the doctrines bytvbffch it is opposed on the oilier teems no less so. 11 mis ne sincuy a popular government, at contended for by the senator frm Maka.f Mr. Web ster,) that - is to' atya'govjiirtnjent formed by the people of tneriJniied Statea, considewl in one' mass, with out any consideration of the relation in which their etand to each other as citi zeni of different atates, then the folluw . ing i.imp!rl!nt consequences follow. Not a denial of State rightr,aftat, 4 think, been incorrectly and ' unjustly, id and nut of the house, charged to the senator's argumentj . he - expressly, a I onderatand him, acknowledges - that they retain all that are not given to the general government. ' - But, air. U though hi argument acknowledged the existence of the reserved rights, yet it loo away tne meant, or -pre serwng Jhenii If H be a popular 'government in , the sense I have described, then what a majority of the whole people wills, must be executed, aod rightfully executed.,, If this be the true construc tion of our fundamental compact, then, In aoy fuiura cliangeVthtt our aituatioa may call for th people of .a. fewJargy Itates, making a majority of the whole Ji u mbejcjif y otera , jnji st gife.tlie la wJ 0 tao grater nmbftatwj- and may materially and injuriously alter, or to tally destroy the Union, which the ar gument supposes not la -be a compart between the states, but the work of the people, that is fo say, the whole people of the nation. It will ba no answer to this to say, that jilteMfJohs cannot be, made In the cnriiitution, but by the as sent of the sta'cs, because if there is no f wiwcMhero ia no ioj ury 1 0 the- U Us, any more than there would be by alter j ing the boundaries, orthe . represeota. tion of a county; or givingio or taking from it, advantages which Wre erij'iy id?autv mijority of 'the people in a stata may do this at their pleasure, wiih regard to a county; so might a majority of the people of - the United States tin, with regard to a stale, if the government lias the same popular character in the one instance as it hat in the other. At to the' impaiUae.ala jinposeiLbrlthe vwv ttitotion to the power of making altera tiont, by (he clause which, designates the mode tn which they are to be made, by tft'efiBwnrof . aeqmTtlulo'SeK:of states.it aTords no insurmountable lif ticulty. If the government wns made by the right to alter it. and a m ajority may al ' ter that clause with the time ease and the same right that they change any tktt in 4ttat..naf 1 tiittnrt ft let avttat therefore, that thia argument - ttaeetctor- 41 three Tuurthi of He atates at Jhejfer cy of nne fourth their number. Six states, having on aa average a million is nnnniiitn io a unnii i , oiirn ' ment, the will of the nnjonty must be oueyeu in making or altering coostilu riBtn,iii,,iB7U aftfawaf "ihtreTrtiii1C Ihiaj pe a popular governm'er.t, without any foifure of compact in it. there is pfdia ly m security for evert the existence of the sta'e governments under tt.j.lt it true, that the argument allows to them certain rights; but if those righ'a , were the result of the will of h people ex . pressed by their adoption (if a popul.tr government, is it not clear that when ever that wilt changes, and another kind of; government ia preferred by a m :,i'i'Ji the right s are gone? In short the doctrine puts the stales pre cisely In the situation of .counties; or any other polim-al division of a coitkuii dated g-iverament. 'f.i . " It U true, that while the present form;-of government exists, States are necessary for its organization; but if rrttwrthm tenrmiiesof eath othen and Unr. be simply popular 11 no compact en ters into its compoiiion the Ijiate a. gency may be easily dispensed with in the new changes that a majority may deem expedient. 0!ierve, Sir, that by popular gi verninent, the Senator does not mean one adopted, or imde by the people of each State, acting separately in their State capacity; if Itrf did, there' would be no diapqte; for it cannot be denied, that the ConlltTution was adapted by the people of each State in its separate convention. This would not contra veno the idea of a compact, which his argument totally-deniesT"" He'means, j ano so t onnerstana mm cieariy to ex 1 press, a tioverntnent trained by the people of all the States ectitjg iri Jheir aggregate capacity; and this docirine. for the reasons I ha ver "Ha ted," fthink dangerous in the highest degree.' 'Eveu if no attempt be made under it, it wilt, if acknowledged, lessen the dignity and utility of the State Governments; they will be considered as mere renin t or their power at the will of the Fieder al head; which will be looked to at the source of all honoran.l all p.-ufiU-State Rights will be diaregtrded, when held by so precarious a tenure, encroach tnents will be submitted to, that woufil not 5e otTiTrw hawr JedruSl11" -ally we are prepared for a consolidated government, which on experiment wi'.l be found jo,;.quire more energy .for Its support over tne extensive country -whicfntmiir dormant resolution ition oa your journals ""S 2cwt, Bnd fowl about lnV--ap.an.1 film' IIiohmW Lander say the;tictual lipg of about will 'be called up the President of the United States will be invested with dictatorial or protec torate powers for an enlarged term, for Iif and at last with reversion to his children. ' Sir, lhis-i the natural con sequence of the doctrine, should it be acquieted'iri aTcorrect. but not carried into effect in an immediate attempt a gainst the State sovereignties. Sup posei'lioweverV' the' TeveTse iliouTdTike place, and the citizens of a numbet of States suificient to constUote a large majority of lhe Inhabitants of the Union, should become converts to the Senator's doctrine, and determine Io exercise the tawfji! right which a majority of every consolidated government has, to change the Coostit ut lonv aha .'.nnnorttyj oil numoers.con tuiunng pernaps two mirut of the number f. States, are inerdul one, and entertaia the heretical opinion that there were certain portions of their State, aoyereignty tTever larrendered, and which they deem it a duty to de. . feod. Can no case be imagined that ; may, by a diversity of local, interests, produce such a state of things? and can the consequences be calmly considered by any lover of hie country?" From the Relao Chronicle. h Lander's second Voyage up the Niger, lis ftaye),;peea iavorea wita. a ery interesting extract from the letter of an officer of tbe party, , giving ah ac coaDtof .La-nde.c!econd Jnp up, tht) Kigerr thercontents of -tvhicH must be:S interesting, as we are confident they" must be new to the public. ..The letter irdated,4 i v.:!.;;;';,-v-v' Firnanih P, hi JIMtntg't SAifi Curlew, -o 1 .. May U. :v , Mr. Lander arrived here some days ago from the Nun, or Niger. I had been there in tho Curlew only a weeki, , . before, when . they had received no 1 intelligence of the expeditioa for five ; . ' iiisnths. . -v :-' ... , . , , . r "- It ippeart the large Steamboat, -'i I tneQuora, after a , passage of vthree ; T . f: months, only reached the river Shadda, : !l :0ftit.wiUnB'-i"4nUe'fitv-iwheut she waar thrown, by tlie strength of the 5 I stream, (or by bad ateerage) upon a; t " ' V oanic, wnere she remained for three months, - with about three fathom . water closo to her. Thia: delayed the. expedition for the little steamer, the ; Alburka, was"- obliged to attend her ; consort: for fear of ; accidents.: Mr. Landerieft tbenr-aboat-thrce orfour- eeks ajo, in order to eet a supply of med ici ne, tea, &.C j- Curious nought , . thf !in(licJal3(nif .IrftMHatli plthrri tt&m was quite an inexperienced practition er,; and neglected to take up a proper . qanwt trt4)fea t!teeiiftijueiicet has- bcemrthat after-getting into the" Nun. (having lost about six men beforeV ;, twenty white meB died of - fever and dysentery, and amongst the somber the 1110 ouicers, eitejmnjj jir. ljairu, iir. Lander,' Lieut Allan, and the Cap ;tain of the little . steamer, There are toon - ptemytit - uiacKS - wnn- ineiu (tvroomen) twenty in one boat ana nr. . toflff'tftlhitittthWr-whttmrT-ainTajtiTih-- The success of a future expedition is noa certain, if properly conducted" for the only opposition Lander has met with was between the mouth of the ri-. ver and a place about half way to E- boe, and three days and a half from the lea. At this place the boats on I going ashore to wood, were fired upon by the natives, and , al though every -means were used for conciliation, the steamcra were obliged to fire their guns, : and eventually act fire to ;th I town.. This happened ofl their wa " up. sTlio . Chief of the place ha now ; joined nine others, and they have de- tcrm'med upoa . preventing the return ' of the expedition, which is of course,. all nonsense; riTheae- chief all live triouj-h "they 1iiv "lirge 'canoes, tlieyi! can do nothing against a steamer: they : have bfennrgeil on by the EnliJi pal moil captains and captains of sU-f : vers,' who have been doing every thing -to thwart the views of the expedition,;;. Lander met King Boy at Eboe (whom ' you may. recollect as the person who on 3 former occaslont: ransomed the two brothers and brought themjtovYn V to Brass,) and his Majesty gave hint V a passage down in his war canoe,, and ; has promised- to take him up again.- I mentioned, the extreme mortalitr ' that has occurred. L,!iodetlhinkait iVa$ r aused by t'v5 imprudence of Cant Hsrris; a ma3tcr. in tne navy whc llipria: a. :ma3tcr m the navr who made a coasting voyage or it lrom bi erra Leone, and took,. the boat he . commanded the large one) up one or wSlH v re Tn "rtl ie't&f- way ihai. times as heonaidereA thef aeasoa aot-;-far advanqed, enough to enter the Nun. Thexonsequence was, fever broke out, and s'(X persons, including Harris ." himself, died before entering the rivr, and great sickness fc'ontinuedf vp to . '. tho moment of Lander's quitting them, ' the oflierjIaV; Mr. Allen had been " attacked, but was quite well again, &' leftia charge 6f tho boats, while Mr. s Laird hadfmopo rive tlic i long biiat,"' partly for his healthr& psrtlyitor trade. - The ' country was i s onits healthr where tlie steamboats - - j - - - were lying,' and'they had plenty of pro- tinny persons amouoveu - w-auuuv aa--6d a-tfay ; 'mclading yams, rice, &c. -They ,, have not SucceeJed ? well in trade, having procured ' only a-1 bout five tons of Ivoryi this was owing .. .1 ' A. ,... ..' I' ...., '-i- to their '..not having good interpreters, ; -and to their not- being fir . enough up tho river.'- ' Had the, large steamer ; ' not grounded, they would have been up'' to Tto currentaga'.nst , them, their fuel only ; lasted two days, and it took them ten ' ' tit complete it .ngaia. Lander's conWV plaint is dysealary, waich is now near ly subdued 1 he came Jo wa here front themituth of the Nutt in an open boat (for change of climate,)and luckily had . . not a drop of rain tlie whole passage , for three day s One tornado must have ' killed him, aad haq. a severe one the day before be arrived and the day J; after. I am just starting oa cruise, I 1, . , 3
The North-Carolina Star (Raleigh, N.C.)
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Oct. 25, 1833, edition 1
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