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jniXAGE OF MEMBERS OF COXeXESS. Gpn. Saunjers taks rntich. merit to him-ieIf,'Jor.!havi(ig- written to the Postmaster General io ascertain what ntlmber of mile3 he was entitled to be paid for', as a Member of Congress. It is to be regretted, that ihe General, after having taken so much pains to be accurate, mould not have settled by the information thus obtained. He says that he was informed that Raleigh is but 288 miles from Washington. Well, General ! why then did you charge for 298 miles 1, Why tack or! 10 to the distance you say you should be paid for? " ; "ij, : ill . . I. At the Extra Session, you ree'd 1,086 40 TheSessiouconsisted of 106days at 88 each, M - S '848 The mileage therefore received was 238 4 576 (the double of 288)' at 40 cts. per nine, .is 230 40 Excess per Session, j j j' 8 00 Other members may have been mistaken in distance, but you could not be. Is it not so, Mr. Standard, according to jour "Con gressional Directory," anil "jTable of Post Offices,'' in which you say it is certain that theGeticral isjentitled tobut23d miles travel? Since the abve was in type, we learn that Gen Saunders alieges that the JBook out of which he convicted others of overdrawing,' does not state the true distance, so far as he is concerned ! A nice matter truly It is all gospel when the Bull can gore other people's cattle ; but -ahem ! " cir cumstances alier cases" when your own cow is hit. .This is the last specimen of creeping out. through a key-Hole by the General. When toss ed on the horns of the dilemma, he has found out that the Table of Post Offices had a typographical error of ton mites, as to his distance from Wash ington City. Some rascally Whig, we suppose, just to perplex and bother him has put it down at 233, when it sliojld be 293 miles. " Sauce for tb.3 goose is" not "sauce for the gander" we sup pose. We only suggest, that ha ought to nave known that, before he. spooned it lout so liberally to others. lhe truth is, we presume that me " Table of PostJOmces" is hot a legislative en actment of the "u3ual travelling route" to Wash ington City, but only shows the mail distance, whiih is nftpn a Wrv diflvrfnt thincr. as everv bodv who "has travelled" knowsJj Quere 1 do Demo crats charge by the Table" or do they charge by the travelling route ? ? ! From tie Boston Atli(3. j IMPROMPTU. ! On the re-nomination of Martin Van Buren for the - Presidency by Cot. Thomas Hart Benton. When pumpkins shall grow on the top of a steeple, And showers of pancakes shall fall tike the rain; When Bronson and .Bancroft can humbug the people Van .Buren may! come back to power again. j When grinds'ones; shall turn themselves round on the spindle- j : j - And John Bull $hall swallow a third partof-Maine; "When Grahamites fatten, and beef-eaters dwindle, i Van Buren may come back to power again. When mint-drops $hall flow up the broad Mississippi- And Amos no longer shall scribble tor gam ; When Ritchie refuses to scold like .Zantippe, Van Buren may! come back to power again. When camels shah creep through ihs eye of a needle And dunces confess themselves minus in brain ; When rogues cannot cheat us nor parasites wheedle; Van Buien may come into power 'again. Mr. Editor ted are true as The few verses above quo- if from a Sybil's leaf. WhV should Van Buren come into;powcr again ? Freemen of America, ask vburselveg this question. Wej profess to bo an intelligent, prudent, calculating people. jAs such, an swer tl question, for what possible purpose, what probable j benefit, iwhat jjgain by acci dental jexperimpnt, tnayjjbe looked for by a return of Van Gfjren to power ?j Look Amer icans, before you leap, j Think before you look. Have we not tried him 'once, and was there ever sucl a condemnation ? A jury of Stales would jjiave been unanimous in their verdict against him. Americans think : was it the man vouidiscarded in 1840. No it was his Administration, f You dismissed him from your service because you saw in every measure he pro to your liberty. posed, priticip In evcrv act, cs dangerous he had a total disregard of your wishes, a tyrannical inva sion of your rights, and an obstinate deter . initiation to control your: will. jWhat brought .him into power I Mr. Calhoun 'said the union of rogues and royalists enlisted for the Pub lic Plunder. Vhy was he not retained in Dower ? BecatiH h l J uiwugill WJv VUU Nil V to the brink of ruin, byj bringing the power of his Administration in hostile array to the currency of the countryl-by fsely and trai torouly traducijig the character of the Slates by destroy in" their credit, ijnpairjng their . commerce, deranging their exchange's, and finally attempting to force upon them a sys tem of finance which would inevitably have reduced the States to servile tlependenls of the General Governments, and subjected their citizens to thn r.riipl siirvnill j lit rolleclors and rent receivers. The Sub. tare of UU Administration : and though h professed to believer in the doctrine that when a majority, of the people had expressed their wishes, all their agents mutt obey. Still you -find the Sub-Treasury condemned year after year, and recommended as often tax c( Treasury was the only distinguishing fca- as rejected. Americans ! our understandings; and ruin which ,uch a course it was an insult to the distress and brought upon usi engages nt u ritii that Stale the expectation that I will lulfi i and krAfc it. My obligi- calls aloud for indignation and resentment. Will you cajl Van Buren to power again, and have your States vilified and insulted? Their improvements denounced, their credit destroyed 1 again, and Will you hiring him to power iave his office-holders rob the public of millions, fatten on your hard earn ings, and byj the steam of your very distress, stride over to Europe and fatten and play sycophant irji the Courts p Royally? Will you, dare you try. the Sub-Treasury again ? It has well nigh ruined us once, and but once again, and we are gone forever, tiring Van Buren into power again, and the Sub Treasury w II be forced down you, and wit hard money reasury it will come It will tend and ruin of inr to thinld Americans, well these t . i you, and witn and direct taxes, ing. The distress f things is revolt- upon. I will not believe it. drop men and ponder ponder titngs. lours, r. to this or noth such a state o CORHESPONDENCE. Raleigh, June 1843. Sir : By a Committee appointed for that pur pose, you were invited to attend the Whig Con vention held in this place in the month of April 1842. Your answer, assigning reasons which pre vented your acceptance of that invitation, declar ed that vou had long: entertained an ardent desire to visit North Carolina, and, though obliged to postpone thatj visit, you hoped God would, spare you to make it at some future time. At the close of the la3t Seission of the General Assembly, a meeting of the Whig members of that body was held, by which the undersigned were appointed a Committee to remind you of your contemplated visit, to express on the part of the Whigs of N. Ca rolina, their janxious wish to see you amongst them, and most respectfully, yet earnestly, to claim on their behalf the performance of your promise at such time as will be most agreeable to yourself. j! That paying us a visit will be attended with fa tigue and inconvenience to you, we are fully aware, but the Whigs of the State have strong claims upon ybur consideration. They have long admired you at a distance, Jas the boldest, mos: consistent and! ablest a?serter of those principle?, on which depend the honori jand welfare of our country ; and pey now desire to see with" their own eyes, and 'to hear with their own ears, upon the soil of their own State, one, whom it is no disparagement of the excellence of others, to re gard as the first living Patriot of America. In the midst of the distraction, disgust.and dis may, producedl by the then: recent defection of the President from the great party to whom he owed his elevation, the Whigs of this State, in their Convention of 1842, were the first to assume a decided position, and to announce a settled pur pose. They qeclared you their choice for the first office pf their country without qualification or condition; and to this declaration they, as one man, now, steadfastly adhere 'They, desire, your elevation . to tjiat office not only as a just ac knowledgement of your past services, but also and chiefly, because from you in that high station, they hope (what they hope from no other) the restoration of jour country to that glorious and happy state, frpm which by misgovernment and corruption, by treachery and selfishness, by kna very acting upon ambitious imbecility, by a wanton disregard ofe very obligation,personal and social, we have been unhappily displaced and degraded. For sucha people so true and devoted in their at tachment and so pure in their purposes -for such a. cause, so deeply interesting, so awfully sacred to enlightened patriotism, we 'know you are ever ready to make any sacrifice. ' . We do, therefore, according to our instructions, and on behalf of the Whigs of North Carolina, ask on your part a fulfilment of your engagement; and we look fojward, with eager hope, to the day when our constituents may add to the cherished recollections of their lives this 'also, thatithey have seen, and heard Henry Clay. Your friends and fellow-citizens, B. F. MOORE, ! D. M. BARRINGER, MICHAEL FRANCIS, ANDREW JOYNER, THOMAS ALLISON, II: B. ELLIOTT, A. S. MO YE, JOHN A. YOUNG, S. P. ALLEN, r C. G. LAMB, A. C. EIIRINGHAUS, TOD R. CALDWELL, ALFRED DOCKERY. Hon. Henky Clay. tions of gratitude to North Carolina are too strong o have allowed me to forget my engagement, or to have abated my desire tojvisil it Thare, on the contrary constantly cherisjied the wish io $ee it, and regretted that it lias not been hitherto in my power to enjoy that gratification. j Your State, gentlemen, his other and higher titles to my friendly and respectful consideration than that, mentioned by yoi , of its having been the first to denounce the un malleled treachery, Which has marked the careei of the acting Presi dent of the United States, although -that merited Renunciation was the performance of a high, morll and patriotic duty. No tatls has displayed inoi loyalty and attachment to the Union, been more prompt- to defend and maintain it, or exhibited jess selfish, restless or inordinate ambition. Trie first to declare the Independence of the Colonies, jtforth Carolinajwill be among tlie last to aban don the support of the Union, wfthout which we have no security for any of 'he blessings which we enjoy, in our political institutions. Her calm and dignified course has been mistaken for insen sibility to public affairs. But she nobly vindica ted herself from this, unjust ..reproach in 1810, and Gentlemen : as a Committee Ashland, 10th July, 1843. I have duly received your letter, of the Whig portion of the Le gislature ef North Carolina, reminding we ef iny I have no doubt stands readykodb it again, wne n- sure in visiting mixinr with ih ever a suitable emergency arises. I I shall take inexpressible pie; such a State, and 'in cordially population, without reserve. And, if God spare my life and health, I will certainly perform my promise in the course of the next Spring. I can pot, now fix the precise time, but of that I will give you beforehand timely notide. j 1 In the meantime, I pray j your acceptance of uny grateful acknowledgements for the renewal of the invitation with which -I was honored, arid assurances of the high repect and esteem with which I am, faithfully, j Your friend and ob't. serv't. I i y H. CLAY. Messrs. Moore, Barringxr, &x. We annex. to the Correspondence which as sures the Whigs of the good Old North, that the noble Hekry Clay will visit otir borders next Spring, the following beautiful Eulogy, taken from the Hartford Courant : I productive 4nd abourdinc frUh gold, artfi their whole country a paradise to allure nd enchant tlios(. once so blind to its value. It must be added to the. ruined and impoverished Edgecomb. The ac cursed Rail Road had cutoff their natural Allies, and turned their trade and thoughts from the once prosperous but now for saken Taboro'. Every thing from Nash was going on the Rail Road : prices were better than Tarboro could afford, and Salt and other necessaries were coming to them by the Rail Road cheaper than Tar boro' was willing they should have them at. Edgecomb had to make out with Bank rags, instead of Nash gold corn was taken and converted into whiskey, for the people to gulp ; instead of that de licious old mellow Nash nectar, and even the very coons were making tracks Irom the impoverished County; inviting the fish and fowls, frogs and terrapins, to visit some other place of abode and mart, for trade. A nd who has done this, say they ? that odious Stanly. He it is, that has written on our backs, " veni vidi vici" in liquid lava, more painful to us than a lo cation in the .uncomfortable regions of Tartarus. Something must be done to reach this cruel Stanly. Coon-dogs must be trainejd in Edgecomb, and every coon in the whole District must be killed. i "But how ask the simple ones can it be done? we have tried betting, and that won't do ; the coons won't sell their skins to us, and the lloco's won't be sold by us, or bought from us; things must remain as they are." But mind how the wheel horses 'pull when Howard cracks his whip at them.. They find a Nash tackey hitched in harness; with them, and the driver says " pull with honest Baldy, he is exactly the colt you Vvant; don't be mak ing moiiths, and say he pranced around us when vje were stalled and told us ' we were top terrapin like, and had v not the but hitch him in, and mud would fly ; but you Jl see pull with j Ifhiimanity presents a noble and sublime specia- I nerve, cle, it is when a pure and lofty patriot, regardless of i how thd j-.ir l .j . i . i J ' , i sen auu urvmcu iu me aooo 01 ins coutjirv. even in ; l i. 1 . . w r tvt i the nndst oJ calumny and reproach, pursue; the ja.h ! !Um' l,e ,S a.-Iine CO,t rom--Wasn, and We of duty, and patiently awaits tiiepprovat whiciuinie ! iniportel him for the Very purpose of must at length bring. The retifeineru of such a. mail 1 sli:i minrr vnnrnld snrp anrl rrnllant ahnnl. c J r'.1 fur r vn tire r I hail f I lm ca.Jn.it i!ra r.- f rA.m unlit . S v j which llie weal;, the treaeherousl and the evil-minded ' aes may attempt to purchase a inercenarV support. While hs don j crowds, impelled ly curiosity, may throng tonze idIy Branch on ine nour nie man ot ine Age, m nis lar on wist his beiri cus, set "None of your scoffs, because t know a Sound from a River or none of your comparisons, of g a little Nash bull running full I that that unbroken colt " Edge combe' j to praising the Calhoun horse, and to find fault with the Nash Resolu ern home, with no other atiractious than his uiiiz'.itv nius, and ins lofty ou receives th homage If mil- tilt against a locomotive. We, the cau- uoiis oj it arts l i is single name lias a charm more poient than all the gilded honors with which Monaiehs and Presidents may reward their flatterers. Henry Clay I On what far distant mountain in what deep orest-m what boundless prame of bur broad land, is ! tion . but we (kl jt tQ f th g d that name unknown and unhonored ? What Main of : , t! , L j ' reproach, what suspicion of falsehood, what taintof; make them think the dogs were on the treachery adheres to that glorious' nUme ? Opposing hack track, and it Succeeded admirably, parties may for a time retard his upward progress, for son of ,he oldegt CQOns dont dream ..where is the .opponent who dare assail Ins honor ? - , .1 , , vvi,cih While magnanimity, and courage, and truth, are ad-' ol the hunting, and the dogs We intend mired among men while falsehood and selfishness, ' to bring out Oil the 3rd August. They wif, "1SedT,,Shet fWK ; !hink f'ep sed, but tbk afford to " bide his time, for the day is at hand when the rallying cry of an injured and betrayed people will be Justice to Henry Clay. A WAY TO PUT YOUNG COONS TO SLEEP. Mr. Editor: The County of Edge comb and their idolized Editor of the Tarncm' Press, have very cunningly de vised a puerile cheat in the 8th Congres sional District to gull the Whigs ; by pre tending great preference for her own citi zens, and particularly old bachelors, to fill both Congressional and State LegiIa tures. Tarboro' and its j vicinity once was their beloved, and bachelors their choice they fancied not a Representative with abrood of squalling young Demo- at his heels : crats orrinninff little coons mint runninij or have the domesticated vai '1 ' II . I . t ! 1 Home occasionally io uesioW ana receive conjugal caresses. Unce iS ash Lounty and its residents, were ifi their estimation, the tail end of degradation jijself, and had no place in their calendar of credit, ex cept for fc pretty girls andjbranxly ;' and a? bachelors, they did notcai'e a great deal about girls .L they were only a necessary evil to noose erring louts with, but no acquisition to City polish or Legislative competency. And as for brandy, they said, they could make as good as the peo ple of Nash ; any how, it would make 4 drunk come,' and that was sufficient for .them... -But1 when, they found that they had no man in their County or the fa mous City of Tarboro', that could con quer the Conqueror,' they jclubbed their wits to efTect their hearts desire ; by first praising Nash and its wealthy, polite and talented citizens to the skies their style ahd address were fascinatimr their soil I 1 1 I . is our tieep iaia scneme, ana it was in vented in Nash. They know well all such tracks you'll see how the coons will blare open their eyes when we are done skinning them. Keep as still as mice until the election, and don't let a dog open h is mouth ; if you do, the coons will all take the alarm and it will be a poor hunt." Tell your pack, Howard; exactly how to do; and whip every howl ing puppy into his kennel, and teach him better manners and more docility than to murmur at your command; and then when you have maae good " Force. Bill" advo cates out of real Nullifying' freemen, you may possibly tool this old NASH COON. To the Editor of the Clarion Sir I can stand it no longer. ! My nama has been repeatedly dragged into the politi cal arena, and mv Drivate feeliris assailed . r . . - n ' - excuse without reason or humanity. Such ignoble attempts to reach -your political aims, through altacks upon an innocent and unoffending, and I may add, lovely woman, deservei the scorn and reprobation of every manly heart, and receive the unutterable scorn and contempt of LAURA. ' In rttply to Laura, we say with due sub mission, that we never before supposed that she was a sure enovgh Laura We had in our simplicity of soul, supposed that like the Laura of Petrarch, she was only the coinage of the Poet's hrain. If she is really flesh and blood, we reverently take off our hit and pardon ; take. hack every syllable wo id about her, and here make the honorable, by publicly proclaiming wisest, virtuousest, discreetest,best, beg her ever soj amende her the and ekq also the'tnosl loveliest f created be- in2- Will lhat do, Laura C&AMeifc
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