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. - THE DAXGF.Il MOT OVER. , 'To the good People oj the Good Old Dominion N.i. II There is one symptom, fellow citizen?, of the cf the Union, which is a great t, that - al- if th.p nu liners ami seo ctrpnvtn ini,i!.iiinn. It consist in me iac erjorce the lawno seize ami no tnat has arose more r 5 I ... it t ii.ii.il till the duties are secured to be paul. iheir power is resisted., and a State officer comes un der the nullifying law to take the goods from the custom-house officer. He and his followers re sist as they are bound to do, and if too strong for the nullifying sheriff", the latter calls upon ihejiosse comilatus to help him. lie is in his turn, too strong for the custom house officer. and he calls upon he military authority to sup- triuniphantly superior to all obstacles that have beet! laboriously, piled up in his path. Abuse, opposition, unblushing insult, have been but spurs ito prick. the sides of his intent" to do well and deserve well of his country. If he had been an ordiuary man, the nation never wou-hl have known and acknowledged his merits, lie would have cowered' and sunk underneath ihe abuse and "difficulties thathave been concen- pionisti .ffor thev secmt me all to j.uli port him and thus the parties come to blows, tratetl upon him. He, if any one, has realized Kfether in the same cause)' leads direct-land the blood is spilled, and the torch of civii the poet's remark, Iv to the dismemberment f tins confederacy Tet tny are protuse in iiieir ueciui amuus i ai- war is lighted, and the coofiagratiou speeds to the adjoining States, aod the whole country is wrapped in the flames of fraternal strife. Such i the natural progress of this peaceful remedy, nitl lijlcition l.tuf observe that the South Carolina ordinance declares that so soon as the United States shall use any force whatsoever, the Slate sUrsli no longer be "considered a member of the Union. Thus, then it is obvious, that nullifica tion, if persisted in, leads directly to disunion for either South Carolina mut free -of tax es, by nullifying the laws of the. Union, which cannot be "or, she must be forced to pay them: and the she declares herself outot the. Union. Such was. the case, fellow-citizen, when the Congress of the United States, from a sacred and noble regard to the Union, which tivoy prize kas the palladium of our liberties and hap piness," passed the recent bill fr modifying the Tardi' In consequence of tinsbdl, it is be liev how .nice humble, but virtuous and respectable. At Lie ago of 14 lie commenced t'.e study ot law itrd i;i November, 1803, was licensed an at toruev of the SajiKuue Court of this State. He commenced practice in his n a five village and was admitted as Counsellor of the Supreme in tachraeut to the Union. They will all tell you they are not fur'its dissolution, and challenge' the production of any evidence to disprove their devotion to it. They know lull well, that it is still dear to zs, the great body of the ..common people, and thata.iy proposition f.;r i?s dissolution abruptly made, before our minds have been sufficiently imbued "with the notions of separation -and Nullification, and the irre concilable' interest of th North and the South, "Would be received with abhorrence, ami would, recoil upon their authors anil abetors. Gen. 'Washington, as youliave seen, tells u, "lhav much pains will be taken, and r.iaay artifices employed, though often coczrily aid 'assidu ously directed, to weaken the streti'.!i of our ..attachment to the Union. We are not then to expect any open avowals, of a plan to produce ft dissolution of it. We must look to the acts of those men in order to determine what they are after; or, if we believe them sincere, we must Still look closely into the censefpiences of their principles and their acts to see whether the fire not hurrying us headlong to the brink of disunion, from whence we cap. never get back. It is like anawful cataract whose current cannot be resisted where we have gone too fir. Arrest Uial amongst them, and speaking. I suppose, the; J.-ilVrsonian school. Ills' exertions nrcredio"- th "Misfortune is a fire that melts weak hearts, Jiai makes the firmer firr.. The $ice President was born at Kinderhook, in tire count f of Columbia, on the 5th of De cember 1782. "Consequently he is now in morie3 as the great advocates of liberty and tne Itrdm ltert.-f strWl'tb (he Park, ariihhe rights of the States. Let Ihe view here presented, be but once fully impressed upon the public mind, and at once all hope will be destroyed of preserving- the rights of the States, or defending the minority from the oppressions of the the majority. "We are here distinctly told that, fict in any case cat, the union be abandoned. . However oppressive to one section of the country maybe the tyrannical acts of the other section, acting through their representatives in Congress, they have no redress. They have signed the bond, and have bound themselves and all future gen erations to serve and obey their task masters. Flope, which comes to all, comes not to them. They are enslaved by their own consent. And the lift v first year of his Age. His origin was at! when the framers of our constitution thought tli.it they were providing for the preservation of the rights and liberties of their posterity, they were only preparing an instrument by winch some portion of them should be reduced to im mediate subjecton to another.7' Let the people of the United Slates Mice their ed the nuiiftcalion act will be repealed. But jf.iculties were tasked to the utmost, his powers ,T has -the olVering made by the, General G;-;.d" mind sharpened,- invigorated, and enlarged. vern.nent upon the altar of public peace, how a.uj hiipself prepared for higher and severer con has this compromise, which does so much lomorJUic, to the good feelings of the people of this Union, j ,t Van Karen took an early and active port been received by the nuliifiers of South Caroh-;m political aiTiirs. The great conflict which na? Hear what is said in a lead in paper of tbat !agitat:?I the country in 1300, found him de party, supported no .oubt by the most "mlluen-'fen.jif, ;md inculcating the doctrines of ihe February,. 1307. In 1808, he was appointed i choice between Washington & the United States Surrogate ef the county, in 1809, he removed to the" cit v (d ffud-on, and in February, 1815 was appointed Attorney "General of the State in the place of Abraham Van Vechten. Mr. Wirt B iier;, vv.'iie a member of the Columbia liar, stiH.d in its foremost rank. Frequently coming in contact, with old and able adversaries, his mnfV rvindnwrc: rnT l-f! lenni.-s- .. - .' 'liVj beholders. For alono-timp . th m.-..: ' l' , " -.a , ,ul"uoU5ots(- cely a cart or carriage was to be heard in t part of tlfe city. - Business- seemed to r whilst the work of destruction was goino-0p Owing to the brightness of the morning u not the sublime and imposing appearance' th-r would have otherwise made, althouo-honr 'i! J men inform us that they saw the fire from tJ lower bay, . The volumes of smoke were'thi-- nnd the heat was intense. -It was so great a." he oppressive in the neighbouring streets V half past 1 1 o'clock, the roof had fallen in- i r . .i ' . i " . i . . , ; u irom me immense sireugin ox tne Umbers in this structure, and the oceans of wafer u V.'i by this time were pouring into the fir? every direction, it was long bt- fore the?0rr r.' ,." way, & admitted the destructive eleineiitsj,,." storr beneath. It did find its wav thither Vr..,. "3 ,1 1 l t r r uuu soon issuetJ in iivinj; columns irom iont troni wjn.'.ows. tint tne. firemen nan now n dently obtained tlie mastery; nnd contrary tot:, general expectaticsi, the boiy of the structure u; doubtless be saved, although there-mujt "In, i. Tins is the very firs' time .we have! been a great destruction- -of property, m.p, n an American editor or politician bolu;entiy of the dam age sustained by the buildirrr Telegraph ever know enough to denounce the loadincf idea of Washing- which cannot be less than $20,000. ton's Far well Address as anti-iyrmbiican, dan- "VVe have never witnessed better conduct on t gerous to liberty or incousisent v'ith the "rights) part of the firemen or greater cooh.c-ss and ' of the States." But because, it is ouoted byitrepidity in the performance of their arduous i Gen. Jr.ckson in 'Ins last Inaugural Address and outy. Indeed, trovn the. made the text of his strong defence 'and ' eulogy catastrophe the height; of our Union, the orsrnn of the nuililiers ventures to assail it with the'utmost vehemence and bitter ness. This is all for the best. It is riii-t that couiusion incident .to ' hts to be scaled, the cor- ces to be traversed, the. windows to be env-r-. and the filling fragments nmong the people1; low, it seems remitrkably Providential that the honest and patriotic . portion of the Amcri-jber of lives were li t lost. can people should distinctly see ihe sentiments j Tfje City Hotel, as we have already rnM.f-v and ultimate designs cf these dangerous parti- copies nn entire square, nnd was calculated f, sans. It will not shake, we trust, the "cordial, the accommodation of about one hundred ?ti habitual, end irnmov-nbie attachment," which j sixty guests. Besides the public department.thpr 'our progress, IpraVjyou, for it is in your po-er,jrCner;,i sentiment. It is considered in unison .election were constant and efficient, and hi sup- Washington inculcated and the people havejare several appropriated to the use of private firr. or we shall be ' precipitated into the abyss oil with Goveraor Hamilton, who also claims fori port of Jefferson's administration throughout imbibed, to the federal union. But it will call jilies and parties, with a separate entrance, ah ruin, and our happiness and liberty enulfednuliificattion the honor of victory over the Fed-jconJiaJ & untiriiin; n 18 1 1 he was a member of forth and -preserve the "jealous anxiety," and r from Broadway. In addition to the small pn; in the whirling eddie of revolution ami civii war. eral Government, both in his speech and report. jhe Assembly, ami in the following year prtinio- will justly provoke the, "indignant frowns," sojlors and lodging rooms, it contains one of ;i It would not be dllicuH to lay bef.rre you some This is the lano.ie of the Telescope, the p i-ited to the Senate. While a meulber of the L- wisely and poperly recommended. The Ameri- most spacious and elegant npartments in the I' sJron circumstances demonstrative ot the bos- per I have alluded to. per i iiave auuueu uu ic say T .r i( . s ... tiiity to toe prsesnt Union on tne part ot theiSta.e m the mere panopiv ot courage and liig.i!,jreviousJy, by the zeal and ability with which principles, ha foiled I he swaggering giant of-w supported the principles of the. Democratic the Lu-ion. I iurty tnorrsann Curo'.in.ans havvnarfv by his attacks upon the dangerous and vim the wild icest into mpcccoM'la(i:rcriUblican measures of the federalists and K corrup 'd a fflpmher unlil he was aopuiritod a land steadily done, in the lace of 17,000 what Senator in the Congress f the U. S. About this time h" was chosen id Otsego, in part, in the .Constitution of the State. Here lie was found dwavs-o i t ie side of the, .people, maintaining their rights with abdity, moderation and firmness. le. I 827 lie was re-elected to the U S. Senate, wiiicii station ho continued to occupy till be was chosen Governor of the State in 1823. In consequence of his appointment as Secretary f Stati of the United ri.ates, be resigned this sta'i.m in March following. He held the office of Secretary until June, 1831. In the fall of the same year, he went as Minister to Great Britain." "On the 2G.h of Jaou try, 1 S32, it be- became t's "paivj 'ul da-i of the conscientious Sen ators of the U, S. to reject lis appointment, as Minuter, for reasons bst known to them-;elv-s, but well enough known to tho conn try: and Sn'Novt'U.ber ot the same year, the People gave, h'm a caroiisission ' to preside over, and This litt.CiwisUtt.rp he distinguished himsolt In '.:id d uip not omy aw ke sense Nev rF.i.LEu rentisvi vania V.,rr M. 1 ? i leaders of the nullifiei s aad secessionists. Their great organ, Mr. Calhoun, is repesenled to )iave said upon the floor of Congress, that the seeds of its own corruption anddissolutrou were tin k!y sown in this constitution, as in everv thing human: ?ind that it is matter (f surprise tha uch discordant and conflicting interests Jvivebeen held together for forty years by t.e federal bond. It !as Ujen very truly said, that shall we. civil them? What epithet is of a sham-. in speech in winch the sentiment - attributed; wide, lasting aod deep enough, for betrayers of fo him was uttered, there was obviously more dis- the liberties of their own , country the instiga sa'sfaction with the Union itself, than wit'i the tors -of merciless slaughter the contrivers of ffhode of administering its conccros. Tii sab-'irretrievable servitude against their own steug stance of the cuiplaint is the, i'rreconcihifoU j gl i n g S ra te ?" The seventeen thousand referred f into soinethmgsby his advocacy of a vigorous prosecution of the tion into om"e-jVyar. In 181G he was re-elected to the Senate. thing like decency: Yankee rapacity into a sort ,,f which body he remain of image of honesty ; but all this has been loftily ng'20. In F.-bru.irv, 1821 contact of interest between the .ort:ieni and -Southern States, and thegoppress!ou wiiich must he experienced in sach a condition of things from triumphant, and interested., and unrelen ting majorities. In these, aphiiona I do believe . him sincere. He does think the two opposite quarters of ti.e Unioo cannot live happily i:. gctiJM". and therefore I am persuaded that he tioes wish them separated; he does desire a Southe: n confederacy. Gid forbid : it! fur, if i the prospect ol the arms of the U. S. being ,ir- can people never can tolerate a party, whose States, chiefly used for public dinners, brri!s anf principles and measures .lead to the open uenunci- concerts. ISO situation in the city tins oucr-M ation of the most solemn and venerated lessons ? renter con vienience for strangers who mayco- of the immortal Washington. Nashville Banner jsire to reside near the principal scenes ofbusi'.ic fashion, and pleasure P. S. Half past I o'clock The H re i subdued, vith the destruction only of the upp (From the iew I oriv Commercial cf I hursday.) 1 ' ,i, , :rt ? : ; pinr 4'PTim pttv nmTt 'and attic stories and t.ie incident rut nation, i bil A i i III: CI 1 Hl 1 tl. nrcr.ertv keou- We J1Ve iust heard that a fr. half-past o clock. we nave -iust re-t' . . i ,i n fUnn f:,ll nA u.,,,., 133 l! lire U. jViJOUlj 11 . j t Mil.jll JldCi IIJU tl Hill. i i.,--.- ii.u, uuu U. .M ,, . ... i it'll iioiu w uuessui"- an i wiiu mm Ui--V"- d-. ilm o-vm-ni I m to renresent t.ie count v . . . . . 1 , ... , . lieu irom tne piounu. ' j though ternhc spectacle. At about 1U ociock the coavi'iition to amend . i c i in is liiui ii i ug, uic aiarm 01 ore was ivu.i, uuu persisted in w ith so much diligence as to render THE CU-UDEKLANEi FIKE. we once sever, I trust the Oid D nninion will standalone, ard not unite herself with the folates ye? farther Soutl, which can neither add in times of difuculty to her strength nor to her It the to are those, who have manfully stood f ?r the Union and the laws, in opposition to wild and desperrte misrule. "Tins i the return which is m ule for conces ston and compromise! Fuis is the ground tin which South Caroiinans place an act, that ha procBeded from affection for Carolina as a sister State: from horror-at the tho't of civil broil and b!oodheii: from an instinctive shuddering at it certain that their was a serious fire. 'Shortly j afterwards we were informed that the City Ilo-j ael a vas; structure, as a!! the worm iouoa, oc cupying the whole block west of Broadway, be tween Cedar and Thames street?, was in fl lines. We renaired immediately to the scer.o of th Address to Ihs People of the United SUde;.. Th e undersigned being a committee appoint--' by ihs citizens of Cumber'ar.d, to draft an addrr-; to the People of the Uniled States, detailing tk nartieulars of their late dreadful calmnitv, rm j condition to which they ore reduced, ar.de .amity, and were so lortunate ns to secure a view.snicitin?r contributions in their behalf, are to I ca -1th from an upper story nearly opposite. rayed against a member of the Confederacy. Fur. she was indeed preparing for resistance. sue nid licr vmunteers aud militia in requisition to th? ammirit of many tho.rands, and was pro- resources. It the two wars we have waged, curim implements ot war to turn them amns'l ki.en 'order amoiv his solirce and honorable re- tt'ho' our Siate 'as assailed by a foreign foe,)ie,' reZirenrathei- than submit to the laws urad 1 buker.. ' what aid had we from b.-uth Carolina? what aid could -die afford usiu time of need? None! nose! ii.itevt'r. JV't it i? neither necessary, nor f(be expected, .111 at we should find direct proofs of a fixed de tei mination to dissolve the Union. The ten le.!cv, the inevitable tendency of the acts of Carolina and her abettors, is k dismemberment. Tj 'ie. for instance, her Isuiiifii it will work. repealed by constitutional means. l)d not thwl 'i'u above sketch shows that Mr. Van R-s, lead to disunion? D es i not betray th-ir objectren has risen by gradual and regular advance: t i v W T i ! .0 ...... - ine news that this sp.enm.t eai.xe ries on the subiect, to make the foliowi known and. universally popular, as one ol the best.,m,nt ibled, from their own view, end from lhir oroii town of Cumberland is situated nt UUU .3 I.l lilt- ..Uililtl y , ,! V.U 1, i f, I iWLl-XI L ' ' ;-(! trreat interest, ami the s.reers in tne ne-gnoo -jjnnction 0f Wills creek with the river P.lnv. hood were crowded with tfiuititudmous tiumsands . The national road vll.Uhr through th before tne engines could be brought up for ac- )r!S ;vcn it the advantage of a great arncmit r tion; and when they did successively arrive, al- fr;lvr.j inr0f, .nc ,v?.Pn nVnm,di.d r.- u, ,f . t ... I, .. . ! -. - luouguoeiy exertion u:ui.u uuman p.r.MJu v.in iCorhmodjt.ion. Theprinei-nl Uo'-el wasa'fpk made yet from the grentheight of the bulging,. ,diJ hi(V.n anfl crst thc prcpri,.tnr upwanlst There were tu e secomi aiion. bee liow t have been db-menbermcnt? How, indeed, isirin ti,tt common ranks -of life 'to th it, that even before matters had come to a crisis,(satiim of political preferment in the Republic, while the leaders were "riding pot tijroeghout t i equnliy certain that he has risen by his ta ihe State, collecting the cit:z.ens at barbacues, tmts and untiring industry No extraneous and striving to excel in toasts and scntimenisj means, wealth, family connexion r influential iMst adapted to produce a deep hatred to thejjViends nohappy concurrence of circumstances Union, and excite the citizens to civil waiy'whv ;iiave been the steVmg sto.ies for him to honor is it that the crimsoned fag devised by Govern-j;iml usefulness. At the very outset in life, al! By a law of Congress certain duties on imports' or Hamilton as ibe national banner of . South An- laid up n imported goods. I shall not trou- qJ -.'ji with ?nquinag whether uu law was 01 as :--t enacted in the spirit of the Constiiuion. X do :n.t think.it was. Admit that it was not con stitutional in the opinion ol Siouih Carolina. Yet, in the opinions of "V irgtna,ot Maryland, of i'en::- i1 rivani.i and the Eastern and Western States.it ras ee.'ist tu'ioua1, though. sune of thee State, thoog1 t it very oppressive upon them, as weii thev might. Carolina, however, insisting on the right to judge fur herself, though a large majori ty of the other States differ from Ker, declared the law -o be null and void, and. passed v,irious law to prevent its being carried into execution. The dTect of these laws, if permitted tonpefate, xvoobi be to permit good to go into Carolina! vrr ioiit paying any duty, unless tne taruf law Carolina, with one; star, and one sinreE, em blematical of her separation from the Union, was unfurled and waved over the sumptuous bin qui'i? Such, at least, is the statement made by the venerable .finite Smith, formerly tKeir Sen aior in Congress, who was dismissed from their confideoee, because he would not give into their views. No ma t can question his veracity. Here, then, fellow citizens, we have the sad evidence of the disigns ami the obvious tendency of the acts of our erring countrymen of South Caroiit;a;and here, toe, I fear, we have too cer tain evidence, "that the dagger is not over." In another paper, this -object will be. cnmed. A VOICE FOR UNION. She Fro'ii the Troy Budget. Ibeenforced in snite ol the nullifying! VICE LTlESl DENT OF THE U. STATES it oar political history illustrates with certaintv, it ithat the People in oi :-tibe law. The Northern and Eastern Slatts hoi fin '-i the tarirt". and will nt agree to repeal it. AVhat do" the good Old Dominion say and d r. Sjo' : the law a bid uue she thinks it op-prei-iv..'; and many of her people believe it an uncti :.? itutional law. Sl;e says, a might be expected from herj for, slie is indeed the laud niv habits; the land jf good order and ;.. e to toe laws and constituted authori ties Mie says "bad astiiis law is, it is our duty to obey it, until we can get it repealed by consti tute.', ai Means. We must not nullify it; we must "'. ' it; we must piy the duty,"' Accor ding v," ! ihe people d Virginia are obliged to pav du'ies upon the foreign giods they buy; xvhds; tn? Carolinians would pay no duties on the goods which they buy. In other words.Virgtnia would pay her lull amount of taxes as hereto fore, and Carolina would pay not one cent id taxes. Moreover, as merchants might land their goods in Carolina without faying taxes, wlmsr t :ev would be compelled to pay taxes on that, art, malice, wealth, high-standing and over-; grown influence could compass, was put in re quisition to" destroy his hopes. He has ''o'er mastered them all. Advocating those piinci pies which alone are thc 'life-blood ofoursystem -contendir.r- manful! v for the lights ami iufer ests of the people, the peopie in turn have, stood fast byhiov aid given him the pledges of higher promotion if deserved by a future course of well doifi2;. The personal appearance of ihe Vico Presi dent is fine and prepossessing. In statute, which is about thc middle height, apparently delicate, but capible of sustaining great exertion, he unites dignity with .ease aod t;race. He has a quick, piercing eye. and a forehead of bold and admirable formation. His features generally xpress animation, mildness, decision, a ready ana irom me circumstance mat tne lire common- tu.ontvr1V(l thousand dolhrs ced in tne attic, it xvas a long t.me bore they ;othor"ar?e commodious Hotels, well kept a: could be broug.nt to play upon tae ujstructivc: nrov;fej nou the satrn sonore ,'lt7IT?,cnt- J Cumberland being the chief town of Allo-hr ihe accident is said to nave L-een oeessiQiieu rv countv, and us stit of justce te prieri::;: oy some defect in one of the chimneys. The r;rr(,f.n1 busing of ihn mM.f,,,,!,,.,, 1 - . - ... - - y V10 Ii'- I'HHi. llere also the coal from the mines i nu- all L smoke was first observed from the street, issuing j acted. (!. :: apparently from some crevices between the bricks '.fcro't and deposiled for transportation The ", of the Southern gable, but no alarm was t.heii;cluint.s tradesmen, and mechanics were al given, and even some considerable time after- prosperous circumstances, ond were loch- viipii flip. ttti!.-(i u-nc sr-on iocunn rr.-iri-.- ' . . .1 . i . 1 " " ' - J """iiii'ar us cuuveuii'iuiy iniq;m no, in the vicr ' the upper window casements, in large volumes. j0flhe Hotels, which 'formed the centre ofbusfn -' it was not supposed that any serious consequences j qqie calamitous fire which forms the ore. would ensure. The alarm, however, was nowjand the subject of this address, broke out at ii i given, and in a few moments afterwards the;coci: K on Sunday the Mth of April inftaiv flames burst fortb with great fury having thus,it oririnated in a joiner's shop and is said t bf fore the arrival of the engines, attained a pow- have been occasioned l y a lighted ciir whit er wdiich it was difficult to arrest. n (--m-p!p h, ti.r,.- n,r,n.r c,,; tUviK rh is shop unhnnpilv stood at the noithwr:.v extremity of r the business portion of the ji: A few moments after we became spectators ;f the scene, an attempt to check the jro2"ress of the fire, two individuals, one of whom, we hc- and a strong northwest wind prevailing at v. t thro'TS'ii ni;;e 1 : ni. T . : . . i. . i . f .1 i il . - . ' r r llu V' V" ', ,ima' u,e hrtTer c" inj'A'1, rime, the flames, byrnine shinirles. and ot!. i.uiiccn, ii.u .iMniutu iu iue uppei Moxy, iiiaiu:-(Com bustibles, were carried directl uiateiy unuer tne root, auu le!ore they were a- j:tn 0f tj1P tou-n. The citizens labored ware or their danger, the llatnes invested ttiem on !save the buildin- r;,iVh was frre every siue, ana preciuaea their descent by. the ith y!lon bcre'tho fire commenc-d- but thw v stair-case. The building was so high that no Soon abandoned as hopeless. The panic ti ladder couid be raised to relieve them, nor evenJbccame geuoral and uncor.tmliab'e r-nd near enoui to throw a rope by winch they ; ondeavorin'r to cave his own c fa-els, 'carried f nii;iu uescenu. minis perilous situation oiiA-i.ir,. ,wn,!c tnA- h..,M,, run are never mistaken in toeir judgment o! 5 1 A IKS. annreher.sion acl a ranid and enlari-d snrvuv 1 V"1 lV? 4,,"ns, store goons, beds, bedding, clothing ami furritr mv fi-i.fii - . 1 1' 1 u: 4 ,' " l"e verge 01 tne. tooi and the raging element ma-; into the srpp- but tti.. bnu-.c rir. !-r.-!4 t ;,'". v any tiudt (i obiects brought under bis contemulation. h r . .-. . , . J"lLO U1C -rtt muttie houses on uowi uul v- a I,,, 1 ,J 1.111? ingntiui anvancrs towards tiiem, thev bad' We have read with utter amazement nn cdito- ?.- r t . t t v mm.v vuu itk.1i uiwi.i TiHKti.v.iif.jit mi uiiu" r - v v i fi pi r i ji 1 1 1 T f l vi Or T ry ijiy; . j - i . r . - . i measures ami men. examples oi omn are a- , nrt- , -n n lnti TTn:tPfl ct3fOR. n,r 4 , - j - y; r ; V ' V ; piaueu ineir enects m the streets, were ... bundanr. You can hardly mention a sctieuw J 1 ,i" " . " " ;,.r:V;" .11; J 1!, V ,u UiCU!' UI, Ui I'l''fr, 1!1 -"s. iiOug:trom them bv a bod 7 of flame and sec now in a fill blaze, the progress of des: for some time the melancholy prospect of being iwa3 rap;d beyond conception! and thcr W!iO which has at all engaged the attention of the gHt, eV bUtl'r S0!ne - 'jits a i smokc th,t filled tho entire ' t pzee from side,; eminent ,ince. its "formation, whose issue'bas J ' "iw the lad- side, burning up sideboards1 chairs, tabled not,ubstantiaUy,itntto the letter, connrmed corn.ee ami the tides of male and female attire, beds, audi what the popular voice pronounced of it at th.-lf' Nri tS , fJ t;; persons exposed were upon the roof, which was clothes, before the eyes of their owners, time of it agitation, Vou can scarce! v p dot 1?", ' 1 F ,f !"ibLnrn,n? al arou,ui --having emerged; Th next "effort of the citizens where the fi:r,; your fin-er at a man who has lore- exhibited I'1"" t?1 ,F. ' P'r newspaper, in this-through a dormant window. At this perilous', had not ya reached was to carry tbvir e. L J ?. th . nM!, st,., , w!mtlHhn r,: anTdtxck a3 the, ? Sv moment, when hope had almost fled, i young! to the'-hooses of their friends at a considn :! pu'j have been deceived. 1 pe.opi Interested indivduais m ? nrncori'otinn ti-1 f li ia-iIaho x-. old ! -.4., J' .,..- ., i . j , ) ' l. t ,!-l vHUiK n.i if iviuiitcct i:i:'y sugts i even politicians brought themselves to believe, and, , indi7,,atIv frowrinir-iinon thehrst dnwnin- --3 . O I lefi'erson, womaniiih notions, m which a certain chus m allowed themselves to utter, proved himself to goods i.' id.ed in Virginia, they would soon cea-elbe jut wliat thc people said he would be and to bring their goods to our V irginta ports at all; and if this an of things could continue, the cenimerce won hi naturally go to Charierton, and !? biug from thence coast wise to Nrfolk, Richmo'.id and Alexandria. Is it not obvious o uid Burr, and so have Calhoun and Clay. If the truth of our remark needs stronger cofuesination, it may be found'in the public life of Martin Van Huren, with which our readers are well acquainted No man has ever beer: ..!.!.. .1 .:.! i -r.i ' i i . i;. '- uuu.u5un.giy .mupon one o. i e most solemn man by an extraordinary effort, threw a rope; distance from what ww supposed to be the u:i ,a.M.,.vuuun:uii. ; 'Sv ui i ui . . ro:n on e o; t he u oner winda ws to the roof. Pro nfdancrpr. In the m d-t of thr.no nhnrs vbr.tv.. ornation to behold these places off- the most distant, with all the , already on fire. bitonts now withdrew' in desnairt- could be reached and taken into an upptr w in-; distance from the raging element. From ri; '-0,r- J to left, one Uhbrokeu sheet of llame extend Ihcir ; .tnation bad been watched with great, full a quarter cfa mile, rairin" and roaring anxiety, and their coolness and intrepidity du-j a tornado, was the awful Spectacle preset iin '.lie ryiug uiuiucuis uiiue.r pern, ua1) nan- the eye nan au al U'.iu iiiiic IUH.IVU nu. - a:.-, it.il mi i r.,i. ... .r , : .. . T ; . i .. . ' i- - c -i ,i 4 ! r it ii 1 1. tint i ui ijja toniiirv. in a mosi uuecuonaic anu ; vmen'iaiiv it struck fist ind i w o-fitb men wrp'ihnir rnnc predictions of Me evils that womd loib.w lheiimnr(,- - 1Vr ,-tnn nvUn.A uiJ , y , Ia8tian'uJ'c ntkmui were. their cons. snceess of certain men the neonb have dire- IIT. . ' " 7 , i - "'uoieu to creep along the gutter, seize the rope, luge, even -arded these predictions and the result h; j lU rr&" a cwru,;,!' 1,aou"ai ana;and tasten it to tho dorman casement. They ning- houses ieUI e' P :U. C!,jn; , " 1 : ' :"'mmoveable attahment" to our national uxios, then successive! v let themseivs down until tlu-v TI,, b.!,-. conurmea i ic wimuiiii oi uic nois.j.iir tnuiK.!,, ti.: r, that tljis cannot be permitted? Is it net obvious, I the subject of more untiring opposition and Soul that so long as the law is unrepealed, it must be enfo r.ed q-all y upon all, or it will be utterly ru oo ;M? It sure! v is. What then is thf "The government, as it is in duty bound, sends theelTiccra cfthe custom house to next ste:!? of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country irom the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts." The words printed above in italics are quoted by the Telegraph, and it is then asked Are these the principles of the republican party? Are these to be the practical principles jot tne Administration ot Uen. Jackson? The two sections of the tuww ' ;v ed oythe liveliest acclamations oi the spectators,! completely separated Irom each: ether f ;c " the moment their safety was ensured. jthe west.the Cite and rnnditn r-f ilJir friemUli Meantime the work of destruction proceeded! yond the flames, involved in nu'stery aod ctc:: rapidly. The flames burst up through the roof- tu 1 apprehension. Mothers were aepsrutei! ing. with such violence as to throw the tiles oft their children, and wives from their hii in masses, which tumb eu down umh th Ti:ivt- ment below to the imminent danger of the fire -win I O I - c n n v disappointed the predictions of his enemies and J" "u I theaf &uia? of thn and others beneath. The fire poured forth m,M v realzitMl the hopes of hi, friends. Against fhl; 'l t' '? andfrom the dormant windows; from the gables: and no man has such a machinei vot means been put L'"; i, ' , - l', "uu,41l immense columns upwards irom the centre o! in operation for the perpe of diegracing and ."--ei.otrea.ircd m our hearts and nje.jthebuin. Broadway was lined with people but fortunatelv not a single life has fecn In two hours and a half, seventy live he'-" fronting on the principal street of the to'.vn chiding the three Hotels, nil the stores rarest-. -11 1, .".!... .11 I 1 -..(..rl'ih fit' V- il fc..V . v.ll(il " j, 'J . v -. .... i
Constitutionalist, and People’s Advocate (Raleigh, N.C.)
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May 7, 1833, edition 1
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