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! ' : I i ' -? Weekly. " : : ' : j -VOl.f XllB. I , ; ; , zJ,-.-. ,, ;.-J. ' L - ft . THE REGISTER. . TUESDAY SEPTE31BKR 15, IS lO. THE WHIG CONVENTION. t a late meeting of the Tippecanoe Club, appro-T ptiate Resolutions were introduced by C. C. Battle, Vjq. .and .'passed in relation. to the assemblage of tlie Vhi&s in this City, ea the 5th of October next Geo. BapgH, Esq- was unanimously appointed on be half of the Whigs of Wake, to welcome, by an Ad dress, our friends from otlier Counties, on that (we hope to be able to say twice glorious) day immedi ately before the organization of the Convention. it the' meeting "of the Club on Saturday hist, the Committees from nearly all the Districts of the County were represented, and prompt and effectual measures were taken to provide a "clumsy plevty," for the lh. Tlie Marshal and other Officers for the occasion will be published in our next paper. Wff.art pleased to fiad that spirited measures are ta- tiuT in the several Counties of the State, to send Del egates to tlie Convention. We have already heard of ; appointments' itfing made for tins purpose in Franklin, Granville. Orange, Chatham, Randolph, Rowan, Cra- ' veil, Johnson, Cabarrus, Martin, Beaufort and Bruns ; wick. ': The Whigs of Wake, both town and Country, act in" in perfect Jiarmony and concert, unite in welcome in' most cordially their brethren throughout the State to tliis ereat Assembly. The Old North State lias ris en up, and the Parasites of Power may cower at her voice. ' . - OLD ioHNSTON WIDE AWAKE. There was a great gathering, we. learn, of tlie friend of "Harrison and Reform," ori Saturday last, ttthe "Log Cabin" in the lower part of Johnston. Six or seven jiundred persons sat down to as sumptu ; ous a barbacuc as ever was prepared. Amongst them were many from the adjoining counties of -Wayne f and Sampson. Major Heusted, of Smithficld pre iideJ, and th4 Meeting was addressed by H. W. MiU , ler, Esq. of this City, CoLMc Lead and Mr. Adams , of Johnston. I Much enthusiasm exists amongst the Whigsof that County, and we are gratified to learn that they are determined to be fully represented in the Great Convention on the fifth of next month. Let r them come by hundreds We hope that some friend may furnish us with an account of the Meeting at Mr. Stevens' for publication. CASWELL COUNTY. The Whigs of Caswelkhave determmed to give a i Loir Cabin add Hard Cider Festival at Yancy ville, on Tliursday the istof October, to which they invite their friends, that they may interchange their congratula tions on the recent triumph of free and liberal political principles, not only in this State, but throughout the Union. "0KCE MORE INTO TH'e BREACH." We call the attention of every voter of North Caro lina to the Speech of Gew. Harrison delivered at Carthage, Ohio, on the 20th ultimo, which appears in this paper. We regard it as one of the most masterly productions of the day, not only giving a. lucid and euccinct view of the true principles of our Government, but showing jelearly that its Author has studied pro foundly the vritings of the Fathers of the Republic and the Constitution of his Country. It contains the true State Rights doctrines, stripped of the miserable soph istry and impracticable paraphernalia which are so of ten thrown around them by some of the self-styled Re publicans of (he day. Nor is this all. It closes forev er the mouth's of the infamous slanderers of the Old Soldier, who? have been moving heaven and earth to identify hirhtwith the fanatics of the North. Once more, he proclaims that even the discussion of the sub. ject of Slavery in the free States is unconstitutional. People of North Carolina, Republicans of the Old School read this Speech, and say whether there be not in it something of the wisdom and firmness of an old Roman H What will the zipers of the Adminis tration do next 1 BEAUTIFUL ECONOMY ! Mr. Van Buren has been in office a little more than three years, jjnd has expended $32,300,000 of the Peo ple's money,; besides the annual income ! Should he he again elected, and continue to' exercise such econo my, he will have brought the nation in debt at the end of his eight years, " seventy-one millions ! ! Heavens, what economy ! Ihomas . Henderson has been appointed Post master at Cojncord, N. C. in place of George Kluttz, deceased. . 1 he Council of the Royal Society of London have recommendtid -to the Government to urge upon the Governmcntfof tlie United States tile establishment of Magnetic Observations similar to those now in opera- hon in other parts of the world. WHICr MEETING AT OXFORD. Pursuant'to previous notice, there w.as a meeting of thu Whigs df Granville, held at Oxford, on the 8th instant. I Jn motion, John C. Tatlor, Esq. was called to ae,hair, and Jos. T.LiTTixjopff appointed Secre- iy. a he object of the meeting was briefly explained by v- o. Uillum, Esq. who, at the conclusion of his re- narks, submitted the following Resolutions, which were unanimously adopted. HF.HKAS a recapitulation of the heresies and usur pations of he present Administration, in the existing uaie ot Public Affairs, would be a wanton waste of t'mc, and ah insult to the sufferings and understand. "Sf ot a whole People; therefore, without further preamble : ' i.. S ; ResolveaX That th Party of the United States are contending, are the true Prmciples of the Constitution, of vital interests ti the liberties of the People, and involve the existence of . ur present form of Government. Kegolvetl That the contempt which the President 01 the United States and his corrupt associates have mamfested jfor public sentiment, in the recent passage 01 a bill, thje avowed object of which is, to reduce the k ng P01011 of toe American people to a level wh Russian serfs, in defiance of their known wishes, often expressed and deliberately persisted in, indicates a settled determination to persevere in iniquity, until the People in the majesty of. their strength, shall pro claim the nnal sentence or their condemnation. Resolved, That Martin Van Buren, in his quibbling and prevaricating course, for the purpose of screening himself trom an odious responsibility- in relation to the. unconstitutional proposition of bis Cabinet Offi cer, to fasten upon the Country a Standing Army of 200,000 men fit instruments of Federal Despotism is unworthy of the station which he holds, and is well ' calculated to degrade in the eyes of Foreigners," a Government with such a head., i Resolved, That the recent verdict which has been rendered by the People in their sovereign capacity, against the ruinous policy of the present Administra tion, is cheering-to the heart of every Patriot, and af fords evidence, not to be mistaken, that "the handwri ting is already on the wall," which ensures its speedy dissolution. Resolved, That we cordially, approve of a proposi tion for a Convention of the Whigs of North Caro lina, to be held in Raleigh, on the 5th day of October next, believing that it will be not less beneficial to the cause of Patriotism and Truth, than the event of which that day is the anniversary, was honorable to iW Country. Resolved, That the Chairman of this Meeting may appoint five persons in each Captain's District in the County, as Delegates to said Convention, and that the persons so appointed have power to extend the list of Delegates in their respective Districts, as far as they may think proper. Resolved, That the said Delegates be requested to meet iri Oxford, on Saturday, the 26th inst. to adopt such measures as may be deemed necessary, preparato ry to their attendance at the Convention in Raleigh, on the fifth October. Resolved, That the proceedings of this Meeting be: signed by the Chairman and Secretary, and be. sent to j the Editors of the Whig Papers in Raleigh, for pub-i lication. The Elector for this District being present, address ed the Meeting with great power and effect, alter which the meeting adjourned. JOHN C. TAYLOR, j Chairman. I Jos. T. Littlejojt, Secretary. j We have been favored with a very interesting ac aecount of this meeting, with a sketch of the excel lent Addresses delivered on the occasion, which", on account of its length; is deferred for our next Register. New York, September 7. ' . ? The new sub-Treasury act, i n its operations herej continues to be the merest farce. The Receiver Geni eral yet has his office in the Bank of America. The law is, in substance, avoided, except that part which gives the office-holders the custody of the public mon ey. The revenue is not collected in specie according to law. The deposites are not made according to the spirit of the law. The Bank of America, when a pejt bank, did all it does now, and, in' substance, no more, except the merest form of mockery. j The office-holders speculate with the Government drafts just as brokers in Wall street do in exchange. The Registration in this city began to-day. The law is limited to the city, and so is the one day voting. All other parts of the State vote three days. Our city vote can be polled with ease in one day, by 4 o'clock, under the new law. Among the speakers, on Saturday evening, at the L.og tabin m tnis city, were uol. u rauon, oi Mis souri, and Mr. SUnly, of North Carolina. The United Slates District Attorney for this State, Mr. Butler, is addressing the People in various parts of the Slate. There is no modesty now-a-days among the gentlemen of the Government, and they pay ntt the least respect to what Mr. Grundy said about their being unfit advisers of the People because they aj-e thinking of their bread. Mr. Butler made a speech ast week at Kinderhook. The story of Lett's having blown up the Wellarjd Canal Aqueluct i3 contradicted, and not credited. The canal was passable at the last dates we have from there. Gen. Scott arid Col. Worth are now in this city, just arrived from the North. j I The account which a St. Louis paper first published of the melancholy catastrophe of Mr. Simpson, of the Hudson Bay Company, is now confirmed and beyond a doubt. i Alarge number of persons leave this city to-morrow for the great Bunker Hill Convention, at which, it. is supposed, forty or fifty thousand will be present. Mas sachusetts has now such a beautiftil chain of railroads, that she can concentre her population in a few hours. The Clerk of the House of Representatives (Mr. Garland) is in this city, alnd according to the Times and Evening' Star,, is on his way to Onondaga coun ty, to " stump it," with Mr. Vanderpocl, of Kin derhook. He has been on a tour in Connecticut. Flour continues to go out to England, and such is the demand for export that there is a slight advance. The Roscoe, packet-ship, takes out 4,300 barrels) to Liverpool. More is going. j The Administration men in this quarter are putting v t 7 II ! . fn . ' - up tiiatory poles in an uirecuons. i wo go up; in Williamsburg. It is curious that " the favorite son of New York," in his own Stale, should thus call upon the popularity of a distant Tennessean to aid him. New York, September 9. It has been ascertained that the United States Treas ury is indebted to the Bank of America nearly three million of dollars on Treasury notes which had been negotiated there " to raise the wind." The 'bank's loan to merchants amounts to about $1,300,000. Now, it does not look well in honorable powers in W7ash ington to be talking of " loans," " merchants in spec ulation and debt," &c. &c. &c. while such arefthe facts. The audacity of their impudence is rather! no vel, to say the least. There are not bigger beggars on earth at the banks than " the Government" just now. If it were not for " bank notes" and " credit" obtained of banks, the President would go hungry to bed, ijf he had no other income than his salary. Three millions -n aeol to a Dante : . divorce oi uaun auu "Unholy alliance!" Ay, the office of the Receiver General of the chief commercial city in this very bank .' The deposites there, too ! This the sub Treasury f Ay, let the " Whig orators" pour into them these facts, and arraism them on the tribunal of " the stump," till they cease delusion and humbug, or pay to principle a formal and showy homage at the least. '' S IlU generally believed by the Whigs of New York that, if the Van Buren party had had a serious belief of their -ability to elect a Governor, they would have j;Put n the field the Hon. Silas Wright, for with him they would have thrown out a signal of confidence to this and other States. Mr. Wright, it is also thought, would not stand the expected defeat. One day later from Europe the Boston papers claim to have, but there is no news. The date is to August 5. We are in hourly expectation of later news by the parket-ships. The Farmers and Mechanics' Bank of Michigan has paid, it is stated, its entire debt to ihe United States by a deposite in the Bank of America to the account of the Receiver General of this city. The cry of " British gold," originating in Albany, probably under the handiwork of the Abijah Mann and the Postmaster and ex-State Comptroller Flag, has reached the Globe, you see, It has all along been mysteriously whispered that the Administration had some great trump to play before the election. This is supposed to be it. , The stock market continues unsettled. There is nothing going on of interest in the city. A CLEAN SWEEP. VERMONT LEADS THE VAN We have heard of many brilliant victories and over whelming defeats in different sections of the Union within the last two or three years, but we look, in vain for either precedent or parallel to the signal triumph of the Whigs, and ihe utter discomfiture of the Loco Focos in the iate election in the Green Mountain State. The Van Buren men in Vermont have been rowed a great deal farther up Salt River than they ever dreamed it to be navigable. The Whig candi dates for State officers are elected by from TEN TO TWELVE THOUSAND MAJORITY! In the Senate ihe Wrhigs have twextv-kight members, and the Locofocos two!! In the House there are ose I1CXORKD AND SEVEXTT-FIVE WhigS, tp FlFTTfFlTE Lodi) Focos ! ! ! And we have earned every Con gressional District in the State .'.' That our read ers may appreciate the magnitude of this triumph, we will barely state that last year our majority for Governor was but 2,300 our majority in the Senato six in the House eight, and of the five members of Congress, we had but three. We bes old Gfnfsee to take notice that Windsor Cocntt sends 24 Whig Representatives to the Legislature, and not a solitary Loco-Foco, and (J has given a Whig majority of thirty-five huiidred. " Enoegh said." Albany Ad vertiser. Time and space would both fail any journalist of the Whig party who should attempt to gather together all the eulogies which the leading editors of the Ad ministration ranks have heretofore uttered concerning Gen. Harrison, whom they now denounce in such terms of coarse opprobrium. Any one who now 1-eads the Richmond Enquirer would scarcely imagine thnt, of the very General now denounced and maligned by the editor, he spoke of old, and often, in language like the following, in depicting the writer's, own beau idee! of a hero : " If any one asks us where such a man is to be met with, we answer to the best of our abilities, in the man who has washed, away the disasters at Detroit, who hadeoitry thing to collect for a new campaign, and who got every thing together; who waded tnrough morasses and snows, and surmounted the most' fright ful' climate in the Union ; the man who was neither to be daunted by disaster nor difficulties under any shape, by the skill of the civilized or the barbarity of a savage foe ; ihe man who won the hearts of the Peo ple by his spirit, the respect of his officers by his zeal, the love of his army by a participation of their hard ships ; the man who was finally triumphant over his enemy. Such a man is William Hssttr Harrit SON.". '' Now who will credit the present aspersions of a writer whose former applauses were so warm, and withal so true as these T Phil. Gazette. THE WHEELING CONVENTION. The Wheeling Times on Saturday last gives an uSnposing account of the great Whig Convention at that place, on the 3d instant, of people from the adja cent counties of the States of Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, and Ohio, at which it is estimated that more than thirty thousand persons were present ! Joseph Lawrence of Washington County, most worthily was called to preside over this vast concourse of fpopmen. " After this organization" (says the Times) Mr. Lawrence addressed tho 'audience for a short time. Mr. R. S. Coxe, of Washington City, was then called for, and appeared upon the stand. He dwelt in a manner worthy his extensive reputation upon the abuses that the Government has heaped upon thel People. Mr. Southgate, of Kentucky, followed in a speech that was received with universal, long conti nued and enthusiastic applause. Mr. Johnson, of Cincinnati, followed in his pleasing an;! instructive style, after whom, Mr. C. B. Penrose, of Pennsylva nia, was called for, and, appearing upon the stand, gave us one of the best speeches we have heard this year." ) "Notwithstanding the tremendous crowd thnt was present, there were accommodations ample for all. The whole people of Wheeling, almost, are Whig, and every house was well supplied with provisions!, ind the latch string out, besides the public tables, four of which were five hundred feet in length. ; " Finding it impossible that the crowd could hear, although the ground selected was the best possible for the purpose, two other stands were erected, at one of which, Messrs. Pitts, of Maryland, and Stokely, of Ohio, and at the other Mr. Bingham, of Cadiz, and Mr. Hamilton, of Pittsburg, entertained large assem blies. About six o'clock the people left the stands &nd assembled at the Court-House steps in the even- inir, when the throng of people were entertained bv Messrs. Southgate, Bingham, Kemper, Johnson, and others, until a late hour. On Friday, the people in crowds were addressed by Messrs. Murphy, from Ohio, Southgate, Williams, Camden, of Harrison, and bmsth, ot tne same place i On Saturday, says the Times, " the city is still ex cited the People are still here in throngs, the majes- tv of the true Democracy of the country is ielt, and thprv art Kiill abundant evidences that the feelinsrs of the Peoole. the interests of the People, every thing, U in favor of Old Tippecanoe. If we had been in doubt before, this great Convention, great, glorious de cisive as it is, would have convinced us that the in scrn table ways of Providence alone could prevent the election of Harrison by a majority hrtlierto unbeard of or imagined." Lr " My Eye Betty Martin." Many our most popular vulgarisms have their ori gin in some whimsical perversion of language or of fact. St. Martin is one of the woithie? f th Rnmnnish calender, and a form of VI 1 V vw v " " - - nraver to him commences with the words, "Oh, mihi beate Marline which, by some desnerate fellow, who was more prone to niinninir than nravinp. has furnished the fuiiniug j rj' nhraso "My eye Betty Martin." LOOX OUT WHIGS, EVERY WHERE! There is something really alarming in the tone of tlie subjoined article, which we copy from the Newark Daily Advertiser va highly respectable print) of Monday last. This is not the only intimation we have had that some grand scheme is in agitation among the office holders to enable them by force or fraud to hold ou to the power they have made so ill use of. To the Editor of the Newarh Daily Advortiser. A letter has accidentally come into my possession which discloses a deep Liid scheme to defeat the elec tion of General Harrison; and, if carried out, will convulse this Government to its very centre, and per haps result in anarchy and blood. The Post Office is the engine Amos Kendall the instrument to ilect st. The first step is already ta ken, by ordering every channel ,f communicating in f. rmalion to the People to be closed, except through his hands and those engaged in the conspiracy. A startling report, such as the death oT Gen. Harrison, may he circulated throughout Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, just on the eve of the election, and eve ry whig paper contradicting it be suppressed. This scheme accounts for their confidence in the success of Mr. Van Buren, notwithstanding their over- wh-.fii.uiftvd. teui in .laj.8t erry State in which there has been ar. eVicii. n. This accounts for the cxtraor d nary declaration of a leading Administration m m re cently in tlie city of New York, that Van Buren had a card yet to play which none of his friends suspected." You may depend upon it they are playing a despe rate game ; they make no calculations for a retreat ; they have inscribed upon their banners ;rule or ruin." Let every H big prc?s throughout the Union sound the alarm. Warn the whole country against this dar ing e0npiiacy. They have certificate makers and affidavit makers in readiness, and with such a bold, talented, and reckless person as Amos Kendall at their head, e may well tremble for the liberties of our country. I am no alarmist. I have ever relied with confi dence upon the intelligence, integrity and patriotism of the pe. le of rhis country. But when we see the highest functionaries of our Government conniving with public plunderers when we see the Represen tatives of a sovereign State, holding in their hands credentials clothed with all the solemn sanctions of law, kicked out of Congress for the express purpose of consummating a conspiracy between Mr. Van Bu ren and John C. Calhoun ; and finally, when we see every prominent leading measure of Mr. Van Buren pointing to one sfngle object, the concentration of all power on his hands, there is just cause of alarm. I would suggest the propriety of recommending the Whigs throughout the country to be prepared, if ne cessary, to establish expi esses in every State in the Union. Let every mail be watched until the election, and as soon as they are satisfied that the game has commenced, let riders be mounted, and sent in every direction. MR. VAN BUREN AND THE WAR OF 1812 THE FLORIDA WAR" AND MR. VAN BU REN. . Such has been the mismanagement of the National Administration of late, that those who oppose it most earnestly, Jail in presenting in the strongest light, its misdeeds, because they exhibit them " en masse ;" whereas, almost any one of them supplies an argu ment for a total change in ouriulers. From the man', take the shocking mismanagement of the Florida War, and let some one go over the history of that; disgraceful as well as mournful affair ; and there is not an hore6t margin the nation that would not start from the detail, aA& pronounce judgment against the man wh-;se imbecility to direi t public rnov-cments, or whose imprudent waste, and misdirection- of the pub lic funds, have left that fair portion of cur country a prey to a " few hundred Indians," and exposed the flower cf our army to slaughter in detail, and the lines of the most lovely of one sex, and the most va lued of the other, to the mercies of the tomahawk and scalping knife. We scarcely receive a mail from the South, that does not contain accounts of " Fur ther Indian Depredations," " Dreadful Slaughter of Whites in Florida," " More Indian Murders," "In dian Key Destroyed," fcc. &c. These, our readers know, are the ordinary heading of our southern par agraphs; v-rile it cannot be forgotten that millions and millions of dollars have been expended on the " Florida War," General after General changed, to give efficiency to the efforts of our " army" employed in the glades and along the borders of the Gulf. Now, this is a failure on tne part of the Administra tion of the General Government to protect the lives and property of citizens ; and the failure is so evident ly thc.e3ultof either imbecility, or a diversion of the means supplied by Congress to save the te rntory, tiiat we a thou h vvi'h ronl'.ibnii-f wliat i ilni tn r;ilfrs who. h thev may not be charged with sending a ftu to have them destroved where many must he victorious, are at lea t chargeable with wasting" the army and its material, iy penning ajfto wiicre it nas long heen evi dent that nly the in nv can efil ct the o'-iect, and return unscathed; with tampeiing in an important affair, in volving ihe lives oi "lhoaands.ofour cit-zen.--, and their iard earned property, and heaping disgrace upon our nation, whoexmbifs uerselt m tiie attitude ot atiempt- ng to arrest from ihe Indians their lands, while she in capable of protecting the lives and property or reveng- ing ttic aeam oi ner own citizens. What, we ask, ought to he the dealings of a people with servants thds incapable or thus wicked 1 Let Mr- v an Buren and his .'ricnds answer that important question. When, some weeks since, we exposed to the puhnc tlie fact, that Mr., Van Buren in 1812, joined the party that vvas'opposcd to Mr. Madison, and, in the midst of a disastrous war on our frontier, sought to change the Executive, and place De Witt Clinton in the Pre.-idencv, we were told by some of the most earnest of Mr. Van Buren s advocates, that though it was a fact that he (Mr, Van Buren) was active in attempts to defeat Air. iViat'.ison, yet he stood justified in the fact, that he and many others believed that the war, the seat of which was on "our frontiers, was not carried on with sufficient vigor, that an important change in the Administration was ncccssaiv to secure our north western frontiers from the British and the Indians, and to .save our national honor these not considen-d safe in the hands of. Mr. Madison. This was the account given, and the justification offered, for Mr. Van Buren's hostility to Mr. Madison, and his co-operation with the party that sustained De Witt Clinton. If a change of the Administration was required un der such circumstance!, to defend the honor and the rights of the nation, how much more is it now requir ed, when the Administration, after spending , millions of dollars, and wasting almost innumerable lives, is compelled practically to acknowledge its inability to defeat a "handful of Indians," (Gen. Jackson called them a few hundrd) who are destroying our harvest fields, and burning our towns, and slaughtering our citizens. Surely if no other charge against Mr. Van Buren and his administration could be adduced, this of the Florida War would be ample to warrant his dismisral from office ; and his own conduct in 1812 would be a prtcedent to be pleaded for the action of the public against Y&m.Philad. U. S. Gazette. NOTHING MORE TRUE. Governor Porter of Pennsylvania (who had hither to stood high iu the ranks of Van Burenism) in his late message to the Legislature, on the subject of Public Credit, spoke as follows : " A system of credit, acted on with caution and sound judgment, is not only wise and judicious, but indispensable to an enlightened business community. The honesty, industry, and capacity of a poor man is his only capital, and unless it gives him credit where he is known, there is little practical difference between the condition of the honest and the dishonest, the ca pable and the ignorant man. The station of men in society on the opposite prinoiple would be fixed by their birth.and merit would be regarded as a bootless qualifi cation. This is not the doctrine of Nature, or of our Declaration of Independence and American, system of Government." : , f These sentiments are not only beautiful,! but just and sound. Who does not feel the truth of every word here uttered? Credit is emphatically the poor man's capital. And, the friends of the Sub-Treasury, in assailing credit, have assailed one of the strongest bulwarks of American liberty FROM TUF. CINCINNATI' (.OUIll) B KPC B M CAN. GEN. HARRISON'S SPEECH AT CARTHAGE. We insert so much of Gen. Harrison's Speech at Carthage, on the 20th ult. as relates to tlie subject of Abolition : j Having recently received a letter from a ! personal frieod, who is a member of an Abolition Society, pro-, posing to mc two questions, whieh he ceqncsteJ tmo answer; but haviiig from necessity, arising from the absolute impossibility of my answering the Numerous letters I receive, requiring my opinion upon political subjects, declined to a s ver any from individuals, I willingly embrace the opportunity of answering them which this occasion has given me, without) violating the rule I had found myself under the necessity of adopting. The questions are the following, viz : , 1st Do you believe the people of the United States possess an unrestrained right to dist uss any subject, j that to them may seem worthy of consideration 1 2nd Do you believe the people of t!ie United States have the right to petition their Legislature for the re dress of whatever they may deem a grievance, and for the adoption of such measures as the petitioners may think conducive to the welfare of the nation j I do not hesitate to answer both of these questions in the affirmative. The Constitution of the United States, and that of our own State,' have secured to the people the enjoyment of the lights referred tb in both questions, entirely unrestrained but by their iwn sense of propriety, and the legal rules which protect the rights of others. The freedom of speech and of the press, are the distinguishing characteristics of free Gov ernment. Without them we might call ou Country a Republic, but it would be so only in name, like that of Rome, under the Emperors, it might be si mask to cover the most horrible despotism. The right of the people to write and to speak openly and freely upon all matters of public policy "is the palladium of all Civil and Religious Liberty." The authors of our 'onstitu tion must have known that it would be subject to abuses, to be used for improper and indeed sometimes for criminal purposes: yet they daclared it without re striction. More than half a century has passed away 6ince it came into operation, and although upon one memorable occasion it was resorted to for the purpose of giving effect to councils tending to paralyze the ef forts of the Nation, in the midst of a dangerous war. and to encourage the enemy to persevere in supporting their unjust pretensions, still these declarations of rights in relation to writing, speaking and publishing, have leen suffered to remain in all their pristine forcn. I should be the last person who could, under any cir cumstances, consent to restrict them by legal enact ments. I must, however, take tills occasion to re'peat, what I have before declared, that the discussion of the right of one portion of the States which composelour Union to hold slaves, by an assemblage of citizeris of other' States, which hokl none, is in ray opinion not sanc tioned by the spirit of the Constitution. If it is tole rated by the broad and unrestricted declaration in the Constitution, to which I have referred, it is forbidden by the general tenor of that instrument, a;id the fun damental principle of the Government which it has established. Our Government is certainly one of a very complicated character, difficult in som of its as pects to be well understood. To Foreign 'Govern ments it presents, and was intended to present, a pow er clothed with the most important attributes of Sove reignty ; and so far as our relations with them may be concerned, they are to see nothing beyond-that which is described in our glorious motto 4 E Plurihus Unum.' e are, however, not "one," in the sense tiat it would be understood, if applied to other Nations which have lcc:i formed from onco disjointed and separate parts. Our Union is not that which, like marriage, merges the wIlgIc rights of the parties in a common stock. Wc arc not : jr ' "joined like meeting rivers Which roll into the sea one common flood,' And are no more distinguished." Our Union is more properly like an ordinary copart nership composed of a number of individuais,who each j furnish a portion of capital, to be subjected to the con- J trol of the majority of the partners, but who each also retain another portion under their own exclusive man agement. With the latter, neither the partners, col lectively or individually, have any more right to inter fere, than if there existed no sort of connection between them. This. is, aL-o, the theory of our General and State Governments. Over the powers reamed by the States respectively, neither the General Government nor the other States, nor the citizens of the other State:;, can exercise the least control. If this opinion is cor rect, it follows, that discussion in public assemblies in relation to the institutions of other States, with a view to alter or affect them, was not in the contemplation either of those who framed the Constitution, or those by whom it was adopted. Let us apply the theory I endeavor to maintain to this assembly. We are here, some three thousand persoti3, in the double character of citizens of Ohio and citizens of the United States. In the first, we can undertake the consideration and discussion of any subject belonging to our State poli cy, embody our sentiments in the shape of resolutions or petitions, and in the event of a supposed grievance, present them to the appropriate State authorities for redress. As citizens of the United States, we are com petent to consider and discuss any subject of National Policy, and by a similar process, submit the result of our deliberations, if we should choose to do so, to that department of the Federal Government which possess es the power to give us relief. But in which of these characters, either as citizens of Ohio, or as citizens of the United States, could we, consistently with the theo ry and spirit of the. Constitution, discuss a subject be longing exclusively to any other. State 1 There are many principles, to be found in the Con stitutions of some of the States (other than tlie tolera tion of Slavery) which are very much unlike those of Ohio. The property qualification of voters for in stance. This is a restriction upon the right of suffrage to which personally I am opposed. I would accord this important privilege to every citizen. Having as certained that he was a citizen, I would not proceed to enquire the amount of money he had in his pocket, or what other species of property he might possess. With these sentiments, I might offer for your adoption a reso lution declaring that the restricted suffrage in some of the States was an aristocratical feature in their systems of Government, and should be abolished. .Such a pro position could not fail to create much surprise, and bring to the mind of every man in the assembly, that neither in his capacity as a citizen of Ohio nor of the United States, could he interfere with the people of Massachusetts, Virginia and Louisiana, in the manage ment of their domestic concerns. Should I be asked, if I thought that any harm could arise from such a dis cussion, I answer decidedly in the affirmative. Harm in more ways than one. It would ten J more perhaps, han any thing else, to destroy the idea of the perfect individuality and d'tinctnes of the State Govern ments, which has ever been considered as one of th most important features in our system, and prepare the minds of the people for the prostration of the barriers which have been erected, with so much art and care, between the General and State Governments, and those of the States respectively, and finally, lead to that dreaded consolidation which, in the opinions of our wisest and best Statesmen, would be the immediate precursor of the downfall of Liberty. It could not fail, also, to impair, if not entirely destroy, those feelings of confidence and affection between the citizens of the re spective Slates, which is the only effectual bond of our Un'on. From the discussion of any question in an abstract form, no possible injury could arise. I conclude with the repetition of my opinion, that the right of the people to write on, speak on, and dis cuss any subject which they may deem worthy of con sideration, and that of petitioning for t"he redress of any thing " which they may consider a grievance," are se cured to them both by the Federal and State Constitu tions, and that these rights can neither, be impaired nor rricted. The abase of these rights, is no argu ment for abolishing them. In the forciblelanjuag of the lata distinguished Chief Justice of the United States, " it is an evil inseparable from the good to which it is allied, a shoot which cannot be stripped from tho t alk without vitally wounding the plant from which is torn." In Guilford county, on the 3d inst. by the Rev. Eli W. Caruther?, Mr. James Paisley to Miss Elizabeth J. Scott, daughter of the late Thomas Seott. DEATHS In this City, yesterday, after a short illness, aged 6$ ' years, ueverly Uaniel, Adjutar.t General of thi State, and late Marshal of the United States for the District of North Carolina, an office which hehonora bly filled for more than thirty years. And nothing could more forcibly evince tho high respect in which Gen. Daniel was held by this community, than tho; highly respectable and numerously attended Public Dinner which was lately given to him on being dis missed from office. He will be long respected by ftU who knew him, as an honest, courteous and good citizen. In this County, yesterday, Hannibal, a promising son of Thomas Cobbs, Esq. of this City, aged about six years. . At the residence of her mother in Pleasant Valley, Dallas county, Alabama," on the 25th ultimo, in the 19th year of her age,- Mrs. Ann Eliza Seawell, consort of William Seawell, Esq. of Perry county, Ala. MnnaanuHaaaBBBMnBanMa APTIST NOTICE. Several Baptist Church, es, now,' or recently, members of the Raleiih of Flat River Associations, but dissatisfied with what they are compelled to regard as the mal-adminUtration of : said bodies, h'ave lately held a preparatory meeting, and ordered; that notice be given weekly, for the space of four weeks, in the Raleigh Register, Standard and Bib lical Recorder, that a Convention of Baptist Churches will be held at the Chesnut Grove Church, neT Wynn's Roads, Wake County, to commence on Saturday, the 7(h day of November next, for the put. pose of forming d new Associativa ; to protect the Churches from lawless power, by a return to the old paths of safety and peace, radient with the well tried principles and usages of the Denomination, under which the Churches grew up, prospered, and were hap py. And they invite all their sister Churches which. prize their freedom, safety and peace, to unite with thein in this great work of Reform, by sending to the Convention their delegates, (the more tlie better 0 and they invite their brethren in the Ministry to be present ! th,cm n thuat interesiing occasion, to preach to i the multitudes that will probably attend. JOHN JOHNS, AND M ANY OTHERS. Sept. 14th, IS40. . 75 EN ERAL AGENCY AND COMMISSION B USINESS. Tho Subscriber has located him self in tlie Tow n of Halifax, for the purpose of trine acting Commission Business of a'l kinds Receiving and Forwarding Goods and Produce. He if well ac quainted with die uus'mesa a flairs of this and the ad joining Counties. Those consigning Goods to hie cure, for the purpose of sale, either private or by auc tion, or t!ioe havirg d b:s to collect may depend up on tha faithful performance of hi duty. Ilia Store' is situated on main Sm-ct, and his perdor.nl altenliau will le devoti d to the interest of those who may en trust him with , their Commission. Refurence majr he had to the following persons, viz: Henry Wilkes, ) .las. Frnzier & Co. vl'nwn of Halifax. F. S. Marshall. J) James Simmons, Esq."" !S. jl Gee, Esq. I Tb-'S. Nevill, Fq. -H: la'ifax County. I. N. Fauleon. Esq. I Jas. D. Perkin", Esq. J A. Jov er, B. A. Pope. We: don, N. C. Whi!aker.& Balchelor, Ei.fidd. N. C. D. MINQA. 75 St JOHN Halifax, N. C. July ?h. 1840. I QTATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,Gkak- lk7 villk CoL'jtTY, Conn of I leas and Quarter See sions, August Term, A. D. 1840. John S. Eaton & Co. Levied on I b1, 4 furnilur, vs. V Ac and II. Fowler and others, William W ilson. j summoned as Garnishees. Pr. E. A. Jones, vs. Same. N. N. Soulhall, -vs. Same. f Same. j It appearing to the satisfaction of (lie Court, that the Defendant in the foregoing cases, William' Wil son, has absconded, or so conceals himvlf that the ordinary procens of law onnot be served upon him : ll is therefore ordered by the Coirt, lliat publication be made irr the Raleigh Register, for six week. uc c'ssi vely , for the said Defendant to appear al the Court to be held for the County of Granville, ut the Court House in-Oxford, on the first Monday in November "next, then and there to plead, or leplevy ; otherwise, judgment final will be rendered against him, and the property levied on condemned, subject to PlaintUT'a claims. Witness, James M.Wiggins. Clc-ik of our said Court, at Office in Oxford, the fiist Monday of Aq gust, A. D. 1840. . 75 J AS. M. WIGGINS, Cl'k. SHERIFF'S SALE. Will be eold at the Court House door in Rockingham, Richmond County, on the 3d Monday of Octoler next, so much of the fol lowing Tract of unlisted Land, for the years 1638 and 1839, as will be sufficient to satufy the taxes due tbtf on and cost, viz : 640 Acres, belonging to Samuel Wise, lying ; on the Waters of M arks' s Creek, adjoining j the lands of John Wrv and others. Tax, $ 681 SAM'L TERRY, Shffi Rockingham, Richmond County, ) n . , 75 Sept. 12th, 1840 ' $ Adv. 3 25. AMERICAN ALMANACS.- Complete sets, se veral sets in ten Vols, commencing with VoUll, in 1830, of the Boston American Almanac, which if now scarce, and seldom to be procured, bound to mitcjbr. For sale by 7CRNER df Ut7QHSf&
The Weekly Raleigh Register (Raleigh, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Sept. 18, 1840, edition 1
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