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I i ! 'i-.'.i ' : ' ' - SSSSSSSi -.i . - - -- - 1 Wiol IS THE ABOLmONISTrfiARRISON rk 1 ,. i; Hr f U OR VAN BUREN. r-i i ' V a, -.; 1 v That the great mass of the Van Buren par ' ty ri honest and sincere hi iheir political entiihents, and that they boneaUy think they ate; pursuing the course best calculated to pro inole the public; good, is what we hate always believed but that, in relying upon the rep ' mentation of their Presses, and in listening to the monstrous fabrications of the venal and interested retainers of the Administration, they are roost egregiOusly deceived, we jast as firmly believe. It may belaid down as An axiom, thai the moment the leaders of a party resort to forger) or falsehood to sas toln themselves, it is an unerring evidence thft they, atileast, are conscious of the bad ness bnd desperation of their cause, and of the Mpossifffihy. of sustaining it by fair and honorable mean. Upon no other principle fan we account for: the innumerable calum nies and misrepresentations with which the Van Buren Presses teem with respect to the Conduct of Gen. Harrison as a military man, and his principles and s eniiraents as a civil ian, Many of -these charges, besides, eon tradici themselves, because they are incon sistent and incompatible with each other. For instance, he. has been accused, in one and the same breath, of being! a friend to sla- ' my tand an abolitionist ; or never having trieV the excitement against Gen Harrison for that rote was tremendous, and he was defeated by Mr- Galley, the anti-slavery can didate - result universally lamented at the time by the friends of Stale rights : Ritphte, of the Richmond Enquirer, was much affec ted with Gen. H.'s defeat as a candidiate for inn' and said that he felt a political mrtthir far his devotion to the cause of Southern rights to the true principles of the Constitution ! 'Yet' he now, for parly purposes, (time-serving -sycophant' as 'he is!) joins in with the officeholders in their hue-and-cry of Abolitionist" against 1iira ! If all this is (not sufficient to convince the honest enquirer after truth of the profligacy of the Van Buren leaders in claiming for him Southern feelings and principles, and accu sing Geii. Harrison (a Virginian by birth and education) of opposite sentiments, the an nexed extract from the address of the Indiana Van Buren Convention, in 1836, should for ever settle the point! This address, written by James Whitcomb, of the' General Land Office, accuses Gen. Harrison with being friendly to slavery, in the following plain and emphatic language . M But we have another and grave objection to Gen, Harrison. In 1S23, when invested with the almost unlimited-powers, 'executive, legislative and judicial,' which had teen couferred on him under President Ad ams' administration, he, as Governor of Indiana Terri- beerr in the heat of a battle, and of uhmilitary t0T- -m conjunction with the two Territorial Judges i : . ' ''!- II . 1 A. eondiict in unnecessarily exposing his person at the Thames ; with having received thou sands of dollars from the Public Treasury as an trfjieer of the army, as Governor of the Indiana Territory, as -commanding General of the N. W. army, as Representative and Senator in Congress, and as Minister Pleni potentiary to Colombia, all of which dis .Unguished offices he received from the hands of Washington, Jefferson, Madisoa. Monroe, and dams and, in the same .breath, he is pronounced an " Old Granny 1" Now, we don't much blame those who are paid (of be lieyjugiuch ridiculous arid inconsistent non sense, with doing so;; but what motive or in terest eau the honest citizen have who has the means or industry to procure a living without a pensioh-4'in believe, or to aid in disseminating, such ! falsifications of history and of fact ? Instead of being mislead by the shibboleth of party iuto acts of injustice to; the noble and disinterested deienuers ot ins coun made a law compelling all negroes, mulattoes, and even white persons not being citizens of the United states, coming into the Territory under a contract of service, to perform the same ; thus, virtually, legalizing slavery for lft. "And .uUeaiM.nUv.iB as hi sortie irave his executive sanction and approval to bills of the territorial legislature, authorising the owners or pos sessors of negroes or mulattoes under fifteen years of age to bring them into the territory, and Hold them in slavery, if males, until thirty-five years of age, and, if females, until thirty-two years 01 age, wunoui meir consent, and if the nezroiwhen brought into the ter- - -.i- m I 1 m ritory - should be above nneen years oi age, ne migni be doomed to slavery for I 'fe, if an agreement to that effect could be extorted from him in presence of, the Clerk of the Court. I " This law bsing; in direct contravention of the ordi nance of Congress, of 1787, prohibiting slavery or in- voluntary eervitude in the territorv north-west of the Ohio, was clearly unauthorized. The Supreme Court of the State subsequently decided it to be of no validi ty, on the ground that it authorized slavery. And it is obvious that if the territorial government had pow er to enslave a man until 35 years of age, they could by an extent of the same principle, rivet on him the try, ilhe chief glory of the honest and illde- I claims of bondage for life. What claims firr political pendent citizen should be, to love trutn anu justice more than party. Considering! the charges against Gen; Harrison, as a military inani completely VeTuted by the testimony of Shelby Johnson, Speed, Smith, O'FalUn, Todd, &c, we shall not consume space by a further allusion to them, at this time, in our columns. everl by support has that man on the people of Indiana, WHO HI It WED HIR T.SCtTTCHKOr WITH THE fUUit BLOT OF SLAVERY, and desecrated ' that soi with a d'esraded population which the fathers of the republic had decreed should remain forever the ex clusive and hallowed abode of freemen " What, therefore, are we to think of the con sistency and political honesty of men who at . The charge of abolitionism, how- tempt to crucify and destroy the character of the advocates of Martin Van Buren, a venerable patriot on the contradictory alle- is one of the roost reckless and audacious to puions that heis.atone and the same- time,te which the present canvass has given nse ; I friend and the enemy of the institution of sla and seems to be made on the stratagem often very ? By what rule of evidence would the -.1 I ... f WAn r-, " to divert public attention from themselves -the real felon.. . I ;s The conduaUof Harrison and Van Buren On the Missouri question, affotds a most stri- testimony of a witness be taken in Court, who should contradict himself every ten minutes 8 wearing in the same breath that a man was black and that he was white? And vet there are. hundreds of men so blinded by par THE SECRET, PROSCRIPTION m When men of rank sacrifice dignity to ambition, with tow instruments fur low ends, the whole composiiion becomes low and base. Burke The recent trial at Baltimore of two officers 0f the Aram on the charge of poimcat oc inouencv, preferred against tttem secrcuy by a Dolnical Clab, has faxed public attention deeply and extensively, as a new move of Hie system ou which the Government has been administered tor Uie tasi eleven years, subjection of the Executive to the dictation of party; juntos ua toiig jiwf , -- the case just mentioned is the first instance in which that discreditable influence has been brought to bear, osteii3ively at least, on the Army. Hitherto, the honor of the defenders of their country had, to a certain extent, es caped the assaul3 which were sustained iy nvHrv other class of the community at the hands of the seir-constuuteu ueposuane oi Executive power. But the time has now come it seems, for making the officers of the Army feel that political vassalage to the Pre sident is the tenure by which they hold their commissions. Five individuals in Baltimore, designating themselves as a party committee, address a" confidential" letter to the Presi dent of the United States, in which they de mand "the word used is "request' the mmediaie removal" or Major lenarum anu Captain Dasenbury from office, on party grounds. The President instead of decli ning the confidence thus improperly thrust upon him ; instead of repelling the dictation of the commille a " arraf mvorircnce with his constitutional duties ; or rather in stead of treating it wilh the silent contempt which it deserved, so far obeyed their man date as, though he did not immediately re move' the officers according to order, yet had them arraigned before a military tribunal. The finding of the Court, whila it acquits in the most ample terms the officers,; is an im pressive rebuke to the whoje proceeding. In the case of Maj. Lend rum, the Court say, there is not "the slightest foundation (or IV o r:(fll v ' F ' t . . j . I ... (ti.i. Ancifil es would nave ueeii itsiuihcu i .ni set- with such rebuk!e and scorn as insulted freemen should feel and express. We will best explain to Southern S.Iave hnideW'f0fto this Doctor Jhtncdn is, by publishing the following letter which he ad dressed to his constituents in Hamilton County, Ohio, before his election to uie oin t!oiio-re8. l ie eenumeness anu auineuu- o king illustration of the relative orthodoxy f ty zeal as to have opposed Gen. Harrison their1 views a to the rights of the South ; and Is a fine practical commentary on the reckless effrontery of the Vanocrats in charging Har rison with the hereby of abolition. Jefferson, in a letter to Gen. Lifayette, dated Nov'r. 4, because they believed in the truth of both of these charges put forth against him by the interested hirelings of the present adminis tration ! All we ask of our honest opponents is to read and judge (or themselves, without 1822 thus speaks of the objects and aims of I being biased by those who are vaid to falsify the originators of that incendiary question : and misrepresent cif.lVabash Courier. On the eclipse of Federalism wilh us, al- . though not its extinction, its leaders got up PROGRESS TOWARDS A MILITARY the Missouri question, under ihe false front DESPOTISM. or iiaaKninv the measure of sUverv. but. n the oOth hf November 1836, the entire with' the real view of producing a geograph- Anny of the United States, officers and men, ical division of parties, which might insure them the next President. Al this momen tous crisis, how different were the positions of the Kinderhook intriguer, and that of the frank old soldier of North Bend ! Van Bu ren not only wrote a pamphlet, (which he called bis "Considerations," &c.) to procure the election of RufusKing, the Missouri re striciionist and high-toned Federalist, tio the US. Senate from New York ; but he went even; farther than that. In January, 1820, a " preamble and resolutions, inhibiting the intro duction of slavery into-the Union, wns intro duced into the Legislature' of New York, for which Mr. Van JBuren rated ! To prevent caviling, we copy the preamble and resolu tion entire. 'Vyhereas, the inhibiting the further extension of slavery in these United States, is a subject of deep con cern to the people of this State ; and whereas, we con aider ilavery as an evil much to be deplored, and. that very Constitutional barrier should be interposed to pre vent its arther extension; and that the Constitution of the United States clearly gives to Congress the right to require of newSlates not comprehended with in the original boundaries of the United States the pro hibiting of Slavery as a condition of their admission into the , Union. u Therefore Resolved, (if the honorable Senate con cur therein,) That our Senators be instructed and our , Representatives in Congress be requested to oppose tim tMiituscuni. uiu uicue vmo I lie unwrl OJ AKT TKB- numhercd 7,958. (See Doc. No. 1, 24th Congress, 2d Session, page 137.) This was the last year of Gen. Jackson's reign. Mr. Van Buren came into Office, 4th of March 1837. On ihe 30th November, of that year, the Adjutant General again report ed the grand aggregate of the Army to be, 7,958 men. (See Doc. No. 1, 25ih Cong. 2d Sess. p. 217.) In Van Buren's Message of Dec. 5, same -year, he recommended " an inciease of our regular forces." (See same Doc. p. 17.) The Secretary of War also ur ged the same increase. (See same Doc. p. 163, ,also Mr. Poinseti's Special Report, Marcii si, 1838, 8th vol. Ex. Doc.) In ac cordance with these recommendations, Gen. McKay, Chairman of the Military Commit tee, reported, and st:ongly advocated, a bill to increase lhe Army, which passed on the 3tn ot July 1838. On the 29ihofNov. 1838, the Army had sweueu to iz,tK5V officers and men, an in crease oi 4,581 m that year. (See Doc. No. 2, 3rd Session, 15th Congress.) Nov. 1839, the Adjutant General again re ports the total or the Army at 12, 539. (See uoc. no. v, ist ises. vih Uong., p. 63.) . In his Message of Dec. last, Mr. Van Bu ren, not; satisfied with an Army nearly twice as large as that which we had before he came " the accusations made against" him ; on the contrary, the board is of opinion that 'he has, free from all party feeling or "political considerations, discharged hisdu " lies in the Quartermaster's and Commissa- ry's Departments conscientiously, and with a single eye to the public good. In thi opinion the board is cordially united." In the other case, the words of the Court are : 44 The board has heard the testimony which I 44 the parties interested have to offer, and, af 44 ter a careful revision of the proceedings, is 44 unanimously of opinion that Captain Du- senberry, as a disbursing officer of the 44 Quartermaster's Department, has been gov 44 erned by no other considerations than 44 those of the public interest', "and that he 44 has honestly and faithfully discharged his 44 duties." In each of these cases the acquittal is as plenary as language can make it ; and in one qf them' the Court say, in substance, that there was not even a prima facie case for the inquiry ! And yet the country was made to incur the expense of an investigation of more than a fortnight's continuance, and two hon orable men and meritorious officers were held up before the country as faithless to their du ty ! Gen. Jackson, in whose footsteps the present President promised to tread, had, on a memorable occasion, addressed to the Sen ate of the United States an elaborate remon strance against a report made by a committee of that body, which he ascribed to 44 party eelings:" He deprecated the influence of such feelings in criminating a public officer, as giving the patriot 44 ample cause to tremble lor me nonor oi ins country and wie perpetu ity of her republican institutions." Is there not yet greater cause for alarm, when an of ficer is to be publicly arraigned, by direction of the President, on secret denunciations whispered into his ear by a party club ! Ev :. i i . .i . ery cuizen who nas seen tne proceedings ur the case in which the committee of the "De mocratic Party" of the City of Baltt- more were prosecutors, and Major Lend rum and Captain Dusenbury were defendants. feels that the prosqriptive spirit has reached point of effrontery at which the People must check it, if they indeed; wish to preserve tne 44 honor ol the country, and 44 the per petutty ol tier republican institutions. j Nat. Intel. .,.n.w)aoWPniI lucre ui grew neat i.wuu..u.sr"vrT DUNCA2T8 SPEECH. fbUowin articls from th Bixc 0bus, of We lesrn, both by letter and otherwise, JJt city s I H. ' " that harles 4pf,S?0 HaisoH W tmir gratifying t, M?! ties wim a 8r5ccu ""ue. , V .Msible. people ire every where floeking lo the start- 2E5 frnS; i kSK if of Hurrison and inserting We whUperer in theeir of weahh and power, party.- Harrtsonapenrwe eageriysoaght pZbti? o mnny,re fert and read w.Ur avhl tty. nre-emirient in corruption and blackguard- these papers sought' afer t here do the Urn Wei who U this Mr. Duncan, whom Whigs of North Carolina go to get political Charles Shepherd endorses lor ? Do the information ? ; Do they encourage one of the people of the South know? Many do; but papers, of their own State at their very .... -i . ii t.. . i .er...anK A,i.ra in tvlnrli thA nnstaffn would be but not oeiieve mat an u,ui mcsc apttvi.- u-j---.. .. .. . i -- - a trine, anu wjio&e eoic; lawrcai n N8q life and soul it is to advocate Southern as well as National interests X , No, the humil iating fact is, that hundreds and thousands of dollars are now being sent out of this State for the Log Cabin papers of the day to the North, while papers at home every way e- qnal, are suffered to linger out a miserable existence. People appear to think that what- city of the letter cannot bel doubled, as it ever comes from the North, must be superior to our own manufactures in tne newspaper line. It is a sad commentary upon the pa triotism of North Carolinians, that vhile here are published political papers every way e- qual to those of any other State, they should be suffered to dwindle out a miserable exis tence while thousands of dollars go to sup port in splendor the papers of the North As a single instance of this, we clip the annexed notice from Ihe 44 Log Cabin Advo cate,1? of the 13th inst., a paper published in Baltimore, Md :- " Since our last regular publication, more than six hundred subscribers have been added to the Advocate list most of whom are from North Carolina, Georgia and Alabama." Six hundred subscribers in one week to one paper, and these mostly from the South! Now we assert with perfect confidence, that not all the Whig papers united in the above named Slates received an aggregate of six hundred subscribers during this same week, from the 6th to the 13th of June. It would be a curious fact, and we would like well to present effects upon the institutions of our country, I see Uie matter authenticated ; but we nsK have only to refer you to a view of the sfave States in "nothing in our judgment, when we say that ou? Union, and a comparison , between the relative here in North Carolina, where there are condition of the improvements of them and the free tghtttn ff- pubiis1C(j lheae eigh. ing, to the admiration and astonishment of all who see them. Public improvements and private prosperity are swift and head and head in the race, while, on the other hand, poverty, lean and hungry sterility, and squalid wretchedness, seem to cover the lace ot ihe lamrin many parts where slave institutions have a residence." Cross the line that separates the . free from the slave State,- or stand upon it and look across the for mer ; you will see comparatively all life, all happiness, was read in debate in the House of Repre sentatives, on the 17th January, 18JJ, ty the Hon. Edwahd Stanly, in Duncan presence, who did not dare to deny wohd of it, but admitted that he wrote it. " There is no man living, perhaps, who is MORE TiEAUI.Y HOSTILE TO SLAVERY THAN I AM. My feelings, my education, the circumstances that have surrounded me through I fe, together with my principles of what I believe to constitute the nat ural and political rights of man, all conspire to make me ABHOR IT as one of the GREATEST EVILS THAT EXISTS ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH." " Yes, greater in its moral effects and corrupting tendencies, than ALL OTHER HUMAN EVILS PUT TOGETHER. It is not only a moral and po itical evil within itself, or intrinsically so, OF THE DARKEST AND MOST DAMNING CHARAC 1TER, bat in all its bearings and effects, calculated to produce the most fatal effects on both the moral and the political institutions of our country." " It is an evil that has, does now, and will in all time to come, while it exists, involve in it, as well in its present possession as in its future operations, CRIME, FRAUDrHEFT, ROBBE K Y, M URDE R, and DEATH. For the truth of what I say, as to its ai-roar not comprised as aforesaid.: making: the on- into Office, proposed the organization nf n uioiuon 01 slavery uiereia an inaupensabic condition oianuing Army'-nt Militia of 200 000 men of admission! " - ' a.i m 'u: o . ' , ' ! . jiuu luuicuvcr, ma cjecreiary asKeu lor au- UP ine vm a7 January, 1820, the thorny to raise 1000 men, to serve durin? ben ate took, up the Kesolution, and passed the war in FlorVda, to receive ihe"pay of dra the same unanimously, the following Senators goons, and a bounty in land iff 4he close of being present , , tlie wnr ! (See same'Doe. vf. 45.) All these 44 Messrs. Adams, Austin, Bamum, Bartow, Bowne, documents are in our possession, subject to Chdds, Dudley, Dayton, Ditmiss, Evans, Frothington, Hammond, Hart, Livingston, Loundsberry, McMartin, Moods, Mallory, More, Noyes, Taine, Ross, Rosen croteJSkinnerwain, QTYAN BURENO) Wilson, Yooqg 30." . " . Here, then,, we find Van Buren going his full lengths with the Federal leaders, for a the inspection of any one who may desire to see mem.j Tlie above are portentous signs ! Fayeltevile Observer. Honest Amos. A Post Master in a neieh boring county, has sent us the original of the measure that came near producing a dissolu- following epistle, with the remark, that 4401d tioniof the Union ; and now, when the whole Amos waked up the wrong passenger this country is sound upon the great question of time one that will not ride in his coach." Soathern riarhts. and 'storms that threatened theU destruction have passed away, he and liis (supporters claim to be, par excellence, the exclusive friends of the South and its in stitutions!" As well nihrht a Hessian who fought against the immortal Washington, turn Washington, Mav 28. 1840 Mir Dear 8ik j I take the libertv to inrlooA vm, an Address and Prospectus for the Extra Globe, hoping that it may be compatible with your inclination and sense of duty to use them for the purpose of procuring ana returning suosenbers. it in that hope I shall be disappointed, I solicit of round, after the war was ended, and charee TOU 108 Personal favor t&hand it over to some friend him1 with bein a traitor lo renublicanism. fdf Vn Buren and his friends to chatge Har - risoia with being unfriendly to the Southas efact of history will incontestibly prove. " Gen- Harrison was a member of Congress frm the Cincinnati District the year Missou ri Wtl ndmitted into the Union ; and was one f ,j oy few menber from the non-slave .ld?f for wimission. Theabo v4it4anubi being then nry ttrong in that dU- of the administration who may be inclined to use it for taat purpose. . With great Respect, your friend, AMOS KENDALL.- rrun great respect, your jriend'- This is written to a gentleman wliom he never sa w in his life, and; whose hams even he did not appear to know, (for the letter is simply ad dressed to the!44 Postmaster.) and who has ui most Hnorouglt ' contempt for himf - hi principles and his puper.-Fayettevillc Qbs teen papers did not average a half dozen new subscribers in the verv same week in which' this ephemeral concern, the 44 Log Cabin Advocate" alone, received six hundred ! The Log Cabin Advocate has been in exis tence but fourteen weeks, and now circulates more than as many thousand copies ; while here in North Carolina, good Whig papers have been regularly published for more than all prosperity, both public and private ; but turn your fourteen years , (many of them) and have eyes upon the latter and survey it : every thing ma terial (except, a few ot the wealthy proprietors,) bears the impress of poverty and dilapidation ; all looks as if pestilence and Jamme had been making their sad scarce fourteen hundred subscribers ! We opine that not a single paper in the State has more than fourteen or fifteen hundred sub scribers -many, not half this number. We call uoon the people of N. Carolina to the power to hold slaves, I need do no more than to ponder upon these factsand to ask' them selves refer you to MY RECORDED VOTES AGAINST Ll..i.. :..:Lui- ....- . .uu:.. - . . , . . I nncilICI LJ ICJ V uie U9UUJU C 111 1IIU9 S11I?11IK M I JsrSI IIIKIWIIH IHIMI- ' - innovation. " In relation to the admission of new States with you THE ADMISSION OF POWER. That opposition, which required some firmness to persevere in, would doubtless have proved successful but for the extraordinary influence and ex traordinary efforts of one man, (Henry Clay,) who was supposed by some to have resorted to extraordi nary means to accomplish his purpose." Such are the sentiments of a man who is looked upon as a leader of the democratic ranks, whose speeches are to be found in every nook of the South, franked hither by the interests of the South -and of Southern papers. As with papers, wholly political, the same 'slate of things exists with miscella neous papers. Thousands of dollars are an nually lavishly squandered from the South upon such humbug prints as the Saturday Courier, Saturday Evening Post. Brother Jonathan, and kindred papers. Gen. Jackson and Gen. Harrison. We time-servers, who seem to think far less of have recently heard it hinted, on respectable the welfare and honor of their constituents, private authority, that Gen. Jackson, though tlin ol a stiu I e ot approbation from a conde- opposed, ot course, to the election of Gen sceiulin superior in station and power. I Harrison to the Presidency, is fir from en People ol Craven County, read this let- dorsing the abuse and rudeness displayed by ter, which we pledge our honor is genuine and truly copied into our columns, and ask yourselves if you will support Candidates -. L A ... I'll l - . ' a portion of theAdininistratinn party towards that war-worn patriot, j The foul epithet of ?44 coward he is said to especially deprecate who dare to insult you byv reading to ou,Tas beingwhojly unwarranted by the conduct or puiiing into your nanus, speecnes trorn ot Gen. Harrison during the war. If this such a man as Duncan ! Hut this is not the only proof of Duncan's hostility to slaveholders. His intimate as sociate, the notorious Tappan, now in the U. S. Senate, from Ohio, a democrat dyed in the wool, thus declared himself after the Southampton tragedy : . " Mr. Tappan said, if a man was such a fool as to keep a fel'ow-being in bondage, the slave has an un doubted right to cut the throat of his d d master. rAnd if his son should go into Virginia to assist the whites in such a contest, he would disinherit him ! be true, the fact is highly creditable to the magnanimity of the venerable ex-President and should serve as a warning to the enemies of Gen JHarrison against the violence of par ty maiigntty. We are aware that the relations subsist ing between Gen. Jackson and Gen. Harri son during the war, and particularly while the latter was acting as Governor of Indiana were of the most courteous character, and weconfess it would have sounded strange, THE PORT MEIGS CELEBRATION The recent assemblage at Fort Mei r,. , greatly exceeded any spontaneous gathering J?? ever before toek place in our country. Noal of ? paper wmcn nave given an account of the meet estimate the number below twenty-five fW j - wvviiucs uie scene At 9 o'clock, the Convention was organized b ' pointing Thomas Ewing, of Ohio, President, and ? ernor .Woodbridge, of Michigan, and several a gentlemen, Vice Presidents; and Mr. Ford, of Oh and several others, Secretaries. One or two speech0" followed, when it was announced that General"1 son, under the escort of the military, was approach the tort.' v Many thousands accompanied him, and"? though.' cheered constancy from Uie moment he U his lodgings, it was not until he reached the arch wlp was raised over the entrance to the fort that tUe wf throng sent up their voices in union. Never did brave soldier visit the scenes of his glory with ereajl honor man did General Harrison upoa this occasi He was welcomed by more than twtnty-Jice (ouJrJ of his countrymen to the spot consecrated by his i lant achievements ; and this welcome was unhcmJL It was not the welcome of slaves, compelled fromt oi punisomeniyio uo ut'iuoge v me great ; but of fm. .' men, impelled oy no wui oui meir own, and bound v no ties out tnose oi inenosmp ana grstitude to thp nii soiuier. ina au uns tne veteran teit, and, by hit gusu-uiug eye, ciroscu. When the General took his nlace urjm ih ... j .i v,;i.' . fcii - .. wu' come was again expressed by a " three timet thrtt which seemed to start the old lort lrcm iu lound&ti, As he stood, uncovered, before thej multitude ass bled, all were struck with the elastic vigor which k. yet possgsstd, and particularly with his keen, piercing eve, wimu vvk icutuie ui uie ui vvuiu. After order was restored, the Grenend addressed i meeting for nearly an hour, motrt forcibly and elo. quently. His full, clear voice gave another deraoj. stratum of the falsehood of the charge of imlecility aai decrepitude, which the Locofocos have seen fit to hsa U(u we wviiujt suiuicrt. xiia gestures, 100, Wers graceful and full of energy and vigor ; but it wa th, matter rather than the manner of the speech, which was most gratifying to the thousands who heard iu It was a masterly effort full of sound argument, touch ing sentiment, force, and eloquence, h proved him to be a man of very superior powers of mind still ca. pab!etof filling any post m tne gift of the People, ft was a speech which would have added to the fame of a rreston, a W ebster, or a Clay. Indeed, often u we have heard those distinguished orators speak', w have never heard them deliver a more eloquent snee man tuai wmcn uenerai riarnson delivered at Fnrt Meigs. It disappointed friend and foe : for, while hi, friends knew the charges of imbecility against him u be false, they were willing, many of them, to coned that age had, no doubt, blunted his energies. Bottht speech proved to them that, even by this admission they bad done the old hero injustice, and that, so far from having become mentally or physically imbecile ne yei possessed a mina as iuu oi strengm and vigot as that of any statesman living. And his foes who heard him were disappointed, because his speech pri the lie direct to all their vile slanders, and would ena. ble more than twenty-five thousand witnesses to cast the lie back into the teeth of the vile slanderers who should continue to dare to utter it. In every point of view this speech was fortunate. It was highly credit able to its author -gratifying to his friends sickening to his enemies fortunate for the cause. It will do more to secure the election of General Harrison than any single event which has happened except, per haps, the slanders of the Locofoco press. Nothin? that the Whigs can do will advance the good causs so rapidly as do those slanders. After the General had concluded hi? speech, th vast throng were delighted with a number of speecbtt from gentlemen from Ohio, New York, Massachusetts Kentucky, Connecticut, Indiana, Michigan, and else where, t The speeches were interspersed with song, ia tbi choruses of many of which more than ten thousand participated. The effect of those popular songs u electric. While being sung, a perfect tumult of ev thusiasm seemed to pervade the entire mass of peoplr present. The speaking and singing was continued, with a brief intermission for supper, until 10 o'clock it night, when the Convention adjourned sine die. The residue of jthe night, until a late hour, was oc cupied, as mo t of the fore part of Uie evening had been, with the explosion of tire-worVs prepared for tlx occasion. The effect was very brillisnt, and added w additional reason to the thousands before existing why the thanks of the Union should be given to the indfr mitable Whigs of Perry sburgh for their zeal and in dustry in getting up the Convention, and for their generous-hearted hospitality to its members after it convened. At 5 o'clock next morning all the tents were struck, and, as the delegates marched hpmeward. Fort Meijs was again left solitary. Many an old soldier, bower. er,' before he left, dropped a tear over the graves of hi brave companions, whose bones still lie buned there, while all firmly resolved to labor industriously to do honor to the man whose name is most closely associ ated with its history. . 9 COFFEE. The Coffee plantations in Cuba are set off in various squares, coutauunz ten, twenty. or thirty thousand trees; they are not suffered tn Wlllll huuninl fiuu Prt f P.. . I. ' . ofsat'ncrinjc the berry. 'Hie squares are u- suallv ornamented and shaded bv orann. citron, almond trees,, and towering palm. The plantations contain, some one hundred thousand, and some even four hundred thous and trees. The coffee tree blossoms usually in February, and the early part of May vand then these jlevel squares present a surface exactly resembling drifted snow, varied and enlivened by the trees that grow upon their borders. The following mode of .preparing this salutary plant is thus described by 5 writer in the Missionary Herald, from whorp ws have condensed the above articles: "When the berries acquire a darkred col or, they are considered ripe for gathering and the negroes, properly equipped, are sent into the field. An industrious neurit wilt gather live bushels in a day, and a bushel iii the pulp, fresh from the tree, is expected to yield at least ten pounds of good coffee. It is then spread upon extensive dryers made of stone and mortar. This process lasts nearly a month. The husk is then separated from the seed, in a mill, which resembles the mills in (his country, where apples are ground in a circular trough, by a hu;e rolling stone!; excepting that the roller for the coffei is wood, though of considerable weight In a few cases,, a machine of a veryl different coni- structionis used, but it need not be desert- Den. - 'The pulp being removed, the exposed to the action of a fun. and sieve, after which the female slave careful ly pick out the defective twelve (o fifteen thousand cleaned in a day. In th ItUnlaM ii...... C t :!' or c vur ui uie conee is ally improved by age. That which or five years old is preferred." kernels. From pounds may be e opinion ot the maten is four That Tappan used this language, was am- fter w,,at t,,en transpired, had the ex-Pres- ply proved by some of the Ohio Delegation 'dent suffered himself to be made a party to in Coiigress, in 1832, and yet Duncan says l'143 abuse heaped upon the veteran Hero of of the election of this man to the Senate : Tippecanoe by the leading friends of the " He Tappan is as sound a democrat, and Adiiiinisiration in Tennessee. Nashville Whig. ' EDGECOMB COUNTY. The con duct of the Whigs of Edgecomb is worthy of all praise, and more, it is worthy of im itation. For several years, they polled-Only 76 out of about 1500 votes. Still they stood as pure apatriot,-ASQer honored Ihe names." Aewbtrn Spectator. It is a remark of the thoughtless, that they would like to pass suddenly from the fufl enjoyment of life to death; and we find also a clergyman using the same idea. It appears to us thcre'U a lack of true philosophy in the iheir ground. Last year they had increased thought. Whatever may be our state of to 112. This year they actually brought out preparation, we feel that the associations of a lull ticket for the Legislature and promise life, its business and its intercourse, tend to to give Morehead and Harrison S00 votes. soil our garments, to distract our mind, and They are noble fellows. Fau. Obsr. ... I 1 : r. i - i- . I - if iu icau u on uom tne great odjcci oi human consideration; the lengthened death sickness enables us to remedy the evil, and set our house in order, to look on what we are leav ing with that proper estimate of its uses, which enables us rightly to dispose of it, and to consider the relations and tendency of those whom we leave, so that we may prop erly direct their steps. To rest on the ''Mountains of Beaulah," and to look beyond the flood, was the priv ilege of those who had sojourned Ions ami caretutiy in the right, according to Bunyan, t; U Li i U KE. It is stated in the ami tne rash loot that splashed aside the I termantown (Pa.V Tele&rraDh that Mr. Phil. water of the divided stream, was not firm ip-Physick is now feedim? in his Hio-hfi-M r a - m -f iii - ii. ' wrtiy, ii minions oi sil K worms, and Massachusetts. The great Whig Con vention at Worcester, Mass. unanimously nominated John Davis, United States Senator, as their candidate for Governor.and Mr. Hull, trie inrmer Lieutenant ' Governor, for that office, The rramher present was computed at. id,uuo, ana the procession formed by wiein was one nour in passing a given point. A Here can be no doubt of the success of the Whig candidates by a large majority. Nat. Intelligencer. SILK when the current set stroiur. He who had contemplated long and profi tably the slow approach of death, said im ploringly: .t,,a h, iccu luuricen minions more. ........g mciuy iMuiiuus in an, ine; present caaun. At Dresent ras ih ' Airnni. 4teillly, most Gent I V. on tl viriim's onlv two hands ar fntrvrrvA ; ,W u:i.i:l i t r, . I " -- iii uc uuiiuill? head, Consumption, lay thy Iwnd." though a large proportion of the .worms are .m iB iiseii is iime eie than consump- winaing and some are three weeks old. uy wmcn we suae down Irom the tra- J tie multicaulis fever having abated, this the grave. Yeta deener &lnnp and a i is ihe timfi tn nmoonnia ikA'm.: w- i - . . -w mie ludiii 2iiiu uiiimaif . , I I . - ' tion, die to vuustmus oui who isr; oi i is not tne least reason to conclude that the no imperlection. mav wish t atart umvrl I itlr.tt.,M ... ..t lik tn "tr uZ :V;ri .-.rr.r; .-.pwecawa wun enure nf t:r:v:J',Vm':,, W,U1. u,?..a,a"m !ncceM m P n the United States. r. ...u me iiorsemen tnereoi. . Un 1 1 jet those, then, wh who possess the means and "r ur1! ,m. Ihe Jluh t appliances for carryinir out the brineinle wri '.HJlrrfW !rd to the ?jirnui rr nr tab eiaW wTreThMnlV- - m1 Pir11 I P'e trom the perseverance and success of the were cheaply purchased by a martyr's pangs. proprietor of the Highfield cocoonery. : FLOUR--I have aeld oat my heavy stock, and ahoold like a new upply--But to credit it for nve per cent profit, u oat of the question. I bad rauxr keep my Flour, Bacon, 4-, than book them, to b pot off, when I ask for pay in fact, I design a uasa business only am very thankful to all my prompi customers. . Vi - WILL.- Raleigh, Jane 30, 1840. 5:)-3t THE TREE OP LEGAL KNOWLEDGE, ie signed as an Assistant in the study of Law. A new supply of the above work, just received at tw North Carolina Book Store, Raleigh, by TURNER & HLUrifcs. June 30th, 1S40. . TATE OF .NORTH CAROLINA Wathi? ton County Aw Equity Spring Term, l arah Ann Keith v. William Keilh : Bill for Divorce. Ou motion, and it appearing to the Court that l Subpoenas to answer ibe Bill of Complaint istuw " Bertie county, against Wm. Keith, have been reiuro edby the Sheriff that he is uot lobe f.iuml in county; and also, tht the said William Keith Uwt an inhabitant of this State, pr not within tiiejurwu tion of this Court : the 'oort doib order that siber- lisement le made for thirteen successive weeks in " Rta;rk P..!.i ....1 v-.u i 'o- ;.,. rjaieiie." ..-.wi. m10.i nuu Al "I 111 wviviiijh v w vising Ihe said William Keith that, unless lie appear before the said Court, at the Court house in Plymouth on the second Monday of September next, and pjw answer or demur to the Compla nont's Bill of Com plaint, it will be takn pro eonfesso, and uch dtt made thereupon, as shall he' considered jurt. - Teat, THr TURNER, C. &Jt.J TT? ATT NOTICE & GENER Ai IA jLJt AGEX C W. H kj a t B. 8. Wmi". Al torniy at Law, will attend to the atljuslmeni and ttU lection of claims throughout the Western u,8,nf Tennessee; and also act asGen'l Land Agent in ",0 listing and clearing old disputed titles. Persons r siding at a' distance, especially North Carulinianj whose interest Is so extensive in thi coantry, do well to notice more strictly th situation of tw Land claims. Office st 8omerTille, Tcnn. Refer to Col 8ammi King, Irrdrlf County. u . Thomas P. Detereui. Esq. Raleigh, " W ill'iam tlUI, See. of State, M Turner & Hughes, 44 Brown, Snow, &. Co. W. M. Lewis, Milton, Eiheldred J. Peebles, Northampton, 44 John Hoske, FayeUetilie, " . . John McNeil, Cumberland County, " Febroary 18, 1840. 15--. "rVTOTICE-Lost or mislaid, a Note, made p?' 13 ble to Willie Simmons, by Bennett Goocb ao Lewis Daniel for Eleven Dollars and fifty five vx endorsed by Henry Simmon, dated the 17th No0; ber 1836, and due the 1 1st Nov. 1837. All per are hereby forwarned from trading for the same, or owees from paying the saaae to any person but m. self or agent Given" under my hand, the S8drJu 1840. HENDERSON H- ROCHELb- Jan 25, 1840. 63 5
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