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RALEIGH, AUGUST 1 2 , 1 843,
H. W. II tf ST ED, Editor.
Vol. I. No. 11.
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LETTER FROM
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Just as our . pi per is going to
MR. GRAHAM.
Press, we have
received the following Letter from Hon. William
invite public attention
him, but to shew how
A. Graham, to tvhieh we
not (only in justice to
recklessly the ihost unfounded charges are pre
ferred against leading Whigs : J (
j i Register,
IIillsboro, VtZy 22, 1313.
Dear Sir:
an article in the N
not before seen!
stance ; 1st, wi
ber of Congress,
A to thfl other eharo-p. that T came home to I t vjh iUOil.Yii,A y I initio! lvbvJr
attend a Court and received comoensation during I . .; '!. rOlAJr OCOiSAI.
m,4c0n,n tw KndnLc if iJithnnt thp loldical pa r 1 1 . s a re iniiit li he 1 1 er u ml e r
least foundation in truth,' At the extra Session h'00'1 l 'he pr;ci.:al operfUui.M.f th.,r ,,r,u
rnaA in t 1. ..-f;5.i,-.;.,J,.w,onf nA ciiiles lliati by Ihe profession- nd cries oi an
a.a u k, :i uA iJ k ; election enug contest. Locoloeois
uiu nut icatu injuic uuii tut laiici, uaiL ui
A friend has called my1, attention to
C-! Standard, which I had
in which I am charged in sub
it h receiving mileage as a Mem-
, beyond the amount allowed by
law ; 2nJly, with receiving compensation as a
Member, whila I came home to -attend a Court,
rhc most m iter al part of the article is as follows :
Win. A; Griiham, Hillsboro', ain't
I Court week here in September. The only occa-
i sion when I ever left, hv reason of I professional
i - ' j - r
business, was at the Executive Session called at
the inauguration of Gen. Harrison then I re
mained until after all the important! nominations
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hid been acted on, and left a few days before the
adjournment.
tare.
Willvoudo
Register 1
sin is re
markable lor! its assumption f popular ilsig-j
nations, ami: for its appeals to the na.sious
The Salem Register copies the following pas
sage from a speech delivered by Mr. Webster, in
; Boston, in 1834 contained in the 3J vol. of hit
litely pyblishjd Speech, ;s. It is a severe animad
version upon his Tylerism, and noa-commlttal-
ree'd. '
R. M. Saunders, Raleigh,
Af .-:i a'..i.i,.a tin !
u nines, uuuuicu uu
81,132 00
1,085 40
Distance from Raleigh to Ilil
Spay
sboro1
45
32
Dws charred by both from 31st May to 13th
September 1811, inclusive : and yet Mr. Graham
came home to attend a Superiors! Court."
To shew that my mileage was excessive, it is
assumed in this) article, th it that of Gen: Saun
ders was correctly charged ; thai he wrote to the
Post Master General for the distance from W ash
ington to Raleigh, and received for answer, that
it was 283 miles, &c. I have beeritold to-day,
that Gen. Saunilers at, a recent public meeting in
Chatham, reiterated both the above allegations
in regard to myself. He has, jtherefore, if this
information be correct, made himself tho endorser,
if he be not the original author of them. It cer
tainly would have been more manly, if such imV
putatibos werei intended to be made, to have spo
ken of them where 1 bad an oppbrtunity of hear
ing. I was present at the discussion in Raleigh,
where such charges were freely preferred against
others by Gon. Saundersj but jbo allusion even
But my pay topped with my deFar- community,: who
M i I m imes tha: things.
me Injustice to publish this in the; ;oism, lotlnj li(:ri.uiuatii,g
Very respectfully yours,
WILjL: A. GRAHAM.
Westox RJ GAfcES, EsqJ
ami ir:imlices hv d. lusive ! cnitiiels. Bv
means ot a single word Democracy it has
been enabled tit bohl, Sje!ll jtouiid, a large
number of the uurelh-ctibir portion of the!
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who are inllnei'ied mure hv
De-mperaey and loeofo-
observer, wbo
knows afiv thing d the uieaninir of the for
ihT word, as anuWwl to ;i political party in
thi
ism :
" Under presentircumstances I shoald wish to
avoid any concealment, and to state my political
opinion in their full length and breadth.
I desire not to stand before the country as a
man of no opinions, or of such a mixture of oppo
site opinions ihat th3 result h is no character zt
all. On tha contrary. 1 am desirous of standing
as oie who is bound to his own consistency by the
trankestivowal of his Bentiments, on ah iu.jKr
tant andiinteresting occasions. I am not partly
lor the constitution' and oartiv
i I wholly for it, for it altogether, fur it as it is, ai d
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THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. j
At the last Session of Corigrepg, on the motion
of Mr. D-jyton, United States Senator from New!
Jersey, a Report was made! from the Treasury
Department o" "the quantifies, surveys, acquisi
tions, sales, and reservations! of the Public Lands,'
from which we make the following extracts:
Estimated quantity of land yet to be sold in each
State and Territory, including the u needed terrii
tory east and west of the Rocky Mountains, south
of latitude 49 'degrees I
h ' Acres.
I,fm084,993
7,526,770
. ' j J - I TOT llIM PiYPriMCP H'hoil rool-.r. f . II
I lie democrat ic oartv; iiisti luted 1V I hoiiuisl ;,, ;,, no ,i k,., i,
. W I 0 4 1 ' J ------wvv.j WW WIJ W
ercised hy Washington, and the great men who
v
jjoeoiocoismJ
advocated tin
ie prerog ill ve:
Deduct reservations
Leavin
1,076,538,214
Value at $1 25 per acre $1,345,672,767 50;.
Of the above quantity the Indian title
367,947,165
Unextinguished
Surveyed
Unsurveyed
Qf the public!
716,117,828
272,.)40,356
Jellerson duriuu: the administration of John
Adams, had: for its cardinal principle, the re
duction of executive power,
on the coutj-ary, has always
preservation ami extension of t
of the1 executive.! During the administration
of General Jackson, thej veto, for the first
t.ine in the, history of thp government, was
employed not as a weapon to defend the con
stitution, hut ns an instrument to enloree the
personal views of the Executive. The views
of the Piesid nt were 'then paramount to the
action of the legislative branch: of the govern-
meiit, and the latter was, taught to regard it!-
ell as a subsidiary instruiuent to carry out
ihe intentions of the President. In a word,,
the one man power yrew supreme, and the
will of the President became as omnipotent"
as the word of the Russian Czar. In imita
tion of Gen. Jackson, the Governors of the
State?, of the same political party, set up
their individual wills as-the standard! of law
ami legislation, ami reduced the legislature
811.418,637
lands there have already beeu sold, U) Inere registries for the recording of their
Mown to September 30, 1842, 107,796,526 acres edicts.
them. Are
was made to me, in connexion vith
thev true in respect to me 1 I deny the correct
ness of that standard, by which it is proposed that
I shall be judged. I deny that General Saunders
according to the document to which he makes
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reference, received pay;for onlyJ28S miles as his
distance from the Ciy of Washington, though hp
insists that that is the true distance for which he
was'entitled to compensation, j! !
His whole compensation for the Ses-i
sion referred to, was, as we have
seen, j ... - $1,036 40
The Session consisted of 103 days
f ' 848
at 8,
lieaving for mileage,
576 miles,
double of
cents per mile, is
283,
at 40
233 40
230 40
bringing $170,940,942 62
Money paid for extinguishing In
dian itle, Jorida
&. Louisiana pur
chase, including
interest $63,524,990( 33
Paid for surveying
and selling, in
cluding pay of
salaries and fees 9,968,610 14
? 78,491,601 46
Balance, being the nett funds de-
III this practical and alarming in
crease of executive power, locofocoism is at
utter variance with thejiricreasing vigilance
manifested by Mr. Jefferson of the powej-s
lodged in ttm President oy the const nulio i.
Thomas Jefferson would have regarded the
modern use of the veto power by the locp.
foco executives as the very essenee of des
potistn. j I
It would be difficult to hn(
stance in which the locofoeo democracy a
arees with i lies democracy of Jefferson and
Madison. I In truth, no party of which w
liaveaiy knowledge, eyereviiiced such a ra-
anv single in-
rived from the public fuuds $92,449,341 16 (l;(.a diffV-rence between its professions ai.d
in addition to ands; sow, there jwye been gran- M.af.,iCt. ilSsame locofoeo pa: t v. At th
Excess above th? distance he claims, $3
So that he jhas received pay for 298 miles as
his true distance, notwithstanding the letter ot
the Post Master General.' If Ij have committed
any error on this subject, which I utterly deny,
it was with no such lights before me as that let
The law allows compensation at a
giveji rate, ' for every 20 miles'lof estimated dis
tance, by the most usual road"1 from the place of
residence to the Seat of Government. VVhen
called on by the Secretary of the Senate for my
distance, I told him I was unable to give it jwith
entire accuracy, that the j road travelled was by
Raleigh, and my distance beyond that was 40
milesi I staled to him the distances from place
to place as far as Richmond, Va. and asked his
aid in estimating it from there. By the result
thus pbtained, my account was settled, and I have
no reason to doubt that it was done withebrfect-
ted to the new States, for purposes of internal im
provement, education, &c. grants for military ser
vices, reservations made, and sold for the benefit
of Indians, &c, 33,756,559: acres.
Of the public lands, Virginia, New
chusetts and Connecticut, ceded
Georgia ceded f
North and South Carolina ceded
Purchased of France and pain
Tola
York, Massa-169,609,819
57,798,522 Ulication.
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polls, when Votes are io oe gained, no paiiv
is more strenuous in its denunciatit)iis of ex
travagance and expense in the finances iol
government, and yet, when in power, none i
more notorious both for its prodigal waste id
ihe public funds and for theirscorrupt misap-
26,432,000
This report also contain the deeds of cession
of w hich e-
J.du'i C. Calhoun ravethe best idea of the
987,752,332 loenfueo oartv when he described It " as ll lo
r 7 , j
together oidy. by the cohesivej power of pub
lie dIiuk Cr." It woultl nuzzle any one to
1,242,792,673
from the several Slates, every one
pressly provides that the cession is
common use and benefit of the several States
from the deed
indicate ! any- other fix
course of action ihan th
eil principle for its
s verv attractive one,
made for the ,,r tu account for the union w
of Virginia as an ex
it bin its rank:
ness.; The Post Office book
Standard's article, represents
referred to, Jin the
Hillsboro' as near
er to I Washington than Raleight It could, there
fore, furnish o true guide in rny case. For! the
writer of that article, does me no more than jus
tice, in admitting that 1 am entitled to the addi
tional; mileage from that place to this, as a part of
Indeed, it is Jnanifest that the
e is not, but that the most usual
the usual road.
nearest Post irou
road travelled over, andjof coufse paid for, is the
standard fgr estimating! mileage. I am aware
that there his been complaint for years, that in
this portion of the compensation of Members of
Congress, there were abuses! which required cor
rection; and I uniformly contributed my aid,
where any real effort his been made to reform
them.! But ) -ny that 1 have at all pirticipated
m any such auuse. -;
We quote
ample :
That all the lands within the territory so ceded.
c. shall be considered as a common fund forthe
use and benefit of such of the United States as have
become or shall become members of the (confed
eration or federal alliance of the United States,
Virginia inclusive, according to their usual re
spective proportions in the general charge and I to see so IIianv respectable citizens still ae-
expenditure, and shall be faithtully and bona hde tine with it, after ihe uielanch' ' experienC
we have had for the last fouirteen years, ot
its extravagance and j corruption and the
blighting effe cts of its jh structive policy Up
on the commerce and trad of tin count ry.
It is natural enough that office-seekers and
spoils hunters should still find ,a consolation
of so manv of the basest deiuagegues and
most orotlirate1)oliliciaiis. Pbe passion for
nublic plunder, lor the 44 spoils'' of office,
five to the movements !of the locofoeo pari
an eneryy, z'al and union dactioii that en
ables it to! triumph oveij ihe less disciplined
forces of the friends ofjlaw apd onler, whose
chief object of cxertioii is the securing 'ot
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good p-overumeut. it is surprising, uowever,
disposed of W that purpose, and for no other use
or purpose whatsoever." ! j
Also from the cession o( Massachusetts :
" Whereas several of the States in the Union
have a present no interest in the great and ex
tensive tract of uncultivated country lying in the
westerly part of the United States, and it may be for a evilsof loco;fcois n in the Imuu
reasonable that the ssrate& above menttonea snouiui up hptovv'd noon them tor services
be interestet
ted," &cJ
O The
in
d in the aforesaid country, Bs it enac- the war waged upon the credit and 'trade of
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the nation, hut that soin ri well nisposeo
. . . . . . . it i if. i . i
citizens sliouiit lie Ur mien io S'-u-imnioia-
tioo on the Moloch altiars of Jloenf.M-oisin ,tv
the hvpoc'iicnl cry f Democracy J De-
is a in;iit r of astooihmeul to all
Vermont Patriot, the leadmg-Loco-
Foro paper of that St-ate, says : f
der this Administration, at present, it tney nave y jr - . - - - - i
any derent provision for a livelihood, short of the enlightened men. Motional forum.
t-oor-nouse. 1 s 0-orSfc Colmnn beinj; o .ce askc1 l!hc
. The Wh-s w.ll consr a berth ,n the Poor- fcnevX,,pI)dore Ht..OW wl.Urc-
House f;ir ri'ore honorable than an oih9 t-egjed ' .. .. , . , t N 1 . . .
froui John Tyler. . 1 j I ply, ' Hook and I(eXc)arejoIdaociAtefc
have followed hun m his adm nitration.
I disdain, altogether, the character of an ur
committed min. I am committed, fully commu
ted; committed to the fall extent of all that I arr,
and all i. nt I hope, to the constitution of the com .
ry. to its love and reverence, to its defence and.
maintenince, to its warm commendation to evety '
American heart, and to its vindcadon and jut
praise before all mankind. And I am commilttd ,
against every thing vvhrch, in my judgment, mry
weaken endanger, or destroy it. I aim comniittt d
against the encouragement of h eal parties and lo
cal feelinos ; I am committed against all fostering
of ami-national spirit; lam committed again, i
ha slightest infringement of the original compro
mise, on which the constitution was lounded; Itra
committed against any and every derangemeut t.f
the powiers of ihe several departments of the gov
ernment, oams any derogation from the consti tutional!
authority or Congress, and especially, a
gainsl all extension of executive power ; and I zax,
committed against any attempt to rule the free
people otthis country by the power and the pat
ronage of the government itself. I am commit
ted, fully and entirely committed, against making
the government the people's master.
These, gentlemen, are my opinions. I hav
purposely avowed them, with the utmost frank
ness. They are not the sentiments of the mo
ment, but the result of much reflection, and of
some experience in the affairs of the country. I
believe them to be such sentiments as are alone
compatible with the permament prosperity of tho
country, or the long continuance of its union.
And now gentlemen having thus solemnly a
.'owed hese sentiments, and these convictions, if
you should find me hereafter to be false to them,
or o f";l!er n iheir supfort, I now conjure you,
y all the duty you owe to your country, by all
your love for the general cause of liberty through
out the world 1 conjure you, that renouncu g ..
me as a miscreant you yourselves go on right on
s'raight forward, in maintaining with your ut- y"
most zeal, and with all your power, the true
principles of the best, the happiest, the most glo
rious constitution of a freegovernment, with which
it has pleased Providence, in any age to bless any
of the nations of the ear.'h."
j WHIGS OF 1776 AND 1813.
We copy the annexed interesting paragraph,
from the Black River Journal, published at Wa
er:own and Sacketts Harlor, New-York. .Tho
editor may be truly congratulated on numbering
imong his friends and readers such a Father
of the republic, still true to the political faith
ot n;s voutn :
The
Bardie!
I y cd o
m Cortland Countv, in this State, who Ferved
under Washington, is one oft he most remarkable
of the surviving Revolutionary Heroes. Erect in
.'orm,w!it.h an intellect mighty amid the ruins of
ige. a commanding, yet amiable -expression of
countenance, great conversational power, and
ardent patriotism and piety, he is a living apostle,
known jand read of all, in proof of the tendency
of industry, temperanpe, and a good conscience,
to promote longevit)r, as well as to qualify one to
enter wiithout fear on an untried state of being.
Mr. Burdick has an accurate knowledge of "
Americjin History, and with a most retentive me
mory can trace remarkable occurrences ince the
settlement of this country. In this respect wo
believe him second to no man of his age. In one
particular we think him sol.tary and alone, in tho
United States. He bos voted, we believe, at eve
ry Presidential Election since the formation of
the government which vote shows the true Dem
ocratic succession. The Candidates he voted for
for the Presidency were
George Washington, twice ; John Adams once,
Thomas Jefferson, twice ; James Madison, do ;
James Monroe do ; John Q, Adams, do ; W&
H r- isob, do.
He s$ys if he is living, he shall vote for Henry
Clay for the next Presidency. We saw him
about a month sirce when he was in tolerablo
health. Wefhouli be glad to know if there aro
o hers in the United States, who have invariably
vo ed at the Presidential Elections, aad fupported
Uis truci Dcinocxatic eucccftslca 1
True Democeattc Succession Perry
now about ninety years ot age, living
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