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i .1 , ! . . " I t ' - : - ,! --!: . i L : "I ' - i-1 r i- 1 .-. i I - . i ,' r It . r i i BY JOHN CAMERON OXFORD, N. C., FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 11, 1844: YOLv III. NO. XLVII. M t. TlIEKi'OUll Or PRESSED FACTORY ' ': GIRLS. 'I ; ' A friend of Protection 10 A merican Industry hit furnished us with the following fact, which exhibit in a striking light the blessings gf the Whig Tariff km! the ! policy of protecting American labor: ' ' A young Isdy nameJ E len M'fntyrt , who is engaged in the Cornwall Factor?, near Canter burry in this State, told Our informant that she had laid up. durinr the Inast summer, aboui $100 from her earnings in the Factory, sjie receives 5 per week; and pays 81 25 for board. In the same establishment she says there are four young ladies, sisters, who by their earnings support themselves and their widowed mother in comfort and independence Their father died several years ago and left them in a most destitute condition, which con tinued until the Tariff gave a new impulse to i . ; i it r manufacturing, when they were enabled eeveral years past; and that it is csy inten- ion never to receive a single cant (hat may bo won on a bet, though i will contribute to pay bets mine by me for other, persons on elections. I am opposed to belling, espe cially such sums as those who rnake the bets are unable to lose: but I am still more op poed to seeing the success of . the Demo cratic party put in jeopardy by the Whigs proposing, nets wmcn, u noi un,- wia wr duce those who hale a minority", to go ever to them. I am indebted to the Dem ocratic party for all or verv nearly all the monev I am worth: and 1 hope and be- lieve that 1 will spend as much for it, in proportion to my means, as any other man Though I will hot win money to insure its success, 1 will lose, or spend thousands and tins or thousands, to prevent its aeieat If1 If any W hiz shall think, from what havi said, thai 1 think he will win the mo ncy, he win be egregiousiy misiaKen. i i confidently expect to win. for the person ! i EXTRACT FROM MR. BENTON'S SPEECH, ; ; AT BOOVILLC, MISSOURI. 1 1 obtain steady employment, to place thsmselve i hare put up, which will exceed ten thou mi iiirir remaining parent ih comioriaoie cir- sanci UOliars. - . cumstanees, and to restore, by thei fruits of I" As I desire to keep nothing back in re thcir! I.onrit indimtrr. nrniDeritv ' in ibiiir latlon to the bets I have maile. I will here broken household and Ihapptntss to Passing a brief tulogium upon Mr. 3 Dal las, Mr. Benton proceeded to Mhe subjeet en whica ait were anxious to near him speak. namely, the annexation of Texas." Much of the: first part of tho speech it was taken tip in esiaoiisumg ma jiwuions ;wn(en ne nao maintained upon' the negotiation of the first treaty by which 1 etxas was lost 1 to us, through the instrumentality of Mr Calhoun and other southern metnbers j of MrJ Mon roe's cabinet. He read the bill, introdued fay him at the last session of Congress, civ ing authority Jo the President to open nego tiations with Mexieo and Texas,! for the ad justment of boundaries and the aequisitieii of l exas; and proceed to explain and defend it. Lt those who want Texas with the UnionMie said, go for the bill: let those who want Texas without tha Union, adhere to the ejead treaty f V - j' E -': C - I -Mr. ! Benton proceed: Disunion iras a primary object of the j treaty ; and inlrigue for the Presulcncy was its secondary cbject; land speculation i anil stock iobbine were of depreciation and no n held by jobbers) most of whom have purchased at two cents, aod fire cents, and seven cents in the dol' lar, and would ha vo see their scrip, where it bore six per cent, worih upwards of one hundred eents to the dollar the day the trea ty was ratified; and i where it bore eent. interest, as three millions of lea per HI did' tacky, are claimed to- be Taliel; and that claim would 0 tothe sama court which de cided the Aredondo and the Claims, for the treaty annulled, none.- The Florida treaty of 1819 annulled the great' grants to the' Duke of Atagorf, the Count Punon Rostro, and Don Dieg6 Varga and theyi are not recorniscaoy nne courts; nut it otniitoU to a would have been worth upwards of two hun-frame the claim of Ardendo and Clark. r.4 dred cents in the dollar on the day of..thel these have been ceafirtnsd by the Surrenf ratification of fhptreaty V And all; this: telCotfrt of the United 1 States, "and it is rot r 'i .... u... i i .-... u . . 'i r : - - . , cheerless heanh. We learn that the their Messrs. Townsend, the state that all of them are for my partner, auxiliary objects; and the lour object; togeth Franeis P. Blair, who is in the country to- er brought jit forward ail the time ind in the dav : but I make free to name him, belies- manner in which it. came forward, iusl farty inr that he desires no concealment about days before" the Baltimore 1 conrention, and proprietors of ike Cornwall Factory, employ the matter. From what he has said to me, at the exact moment to mixiwith the Pro some forty or fifty ypung Udies in their I believe his principle ebiect in betting is sideniial. election, andj to make dissension, to stop tho brareinff of the Whigs, which he discord, and miscniei net ween the UNorlh Thcv receive thinks will scare the timid who are on tne ana aouin. : jnr. -u. saiu ne meant trus tor t , .i their pay in cash, trade where they like, and nce, and inauce tnem go to the benefitnot even of Texas, but of speculators; and thai . while tho United States refuse, and rightfully refuse, to assume the debts of their iown States ;?Thesei scrip holders were among the most furious treaty rrien at Washinwion ' and cannot hear the idea of hating their scrip icalcd ts the conl uneniai ouis oiune American evomtioo (issued under the same circumstances) were scaled, z as to give them back heir. outlay and i interest ; bur they want them . funded; as the soldiers' certificates were in the year 1791,, not for the benefit of soldiers- but for the benefit of jobbers and members of Con- gress, wno, oy aw, turnert two anajsix pence into thirtyishillinjisin5 their own nock ts, and that to the amount tf millions of ? M li;'' it . "mi i s " i ' ' 1 . I uouars. 1 no lazoo lann speculation, and the j soldiers . certihcate speculation, . . were grains of mustard to the mountain compared s 1 ' ' t establishment, an 01 whom are stances of case and, prosperity. their work is not loo severe for the enjoyment li. side. to fall on the Whig tho prime movers and negotiators of the treaty, and not ler those who supported the J J 1 : ! A a ihm mAAa narotrranK in Ka farmer niri cr I treatf witKout narticinatinrr in lK vintva Vif of proper and. healthy recreation and jth. m- extract fr0m the Globe's confesMon, does its makers.H, He had n rariou spaechesex- b"r - " " "! not exaeuy narmonize wnn me oiner iwo; pyaums uisuui:i stucnic, nu iiiominguo course. The moral snd sociaj condition Jof it is probable that Mr. Rives, when perr fof fHe Presidency ; he had not shown the these young ladies is infinitely preferable Ilo nine it, was asking himself whatIr. Blair part which land specnlation and I stock jeV that of those who labor for a livelihood in do- would say to the confession without seme bing acted in concocting the treaty, and ml r. rr and ihr ri nttlr!na1 flnn rm. SU3n SSVinff CUUSe, BHU maua U ill conse- winR ixaimuMuvH. ub; niG noi BO- ' lit u. 7. . uinl. .nil. .! ' I lllerl lllia ntrt bill ll otnomnnniia ar andiwa seen br ererv obi nf iWnhmotan tne nenenis 01 mat system unuer wnicn inev tHe TARIFF RAIL ROAD -I IRON. The city was a buzzard roost 1 the Presiden- are enaoicu 10 live in comiuri anu uappiness from the proceeds of their own Industry, t ! voracious birds, , in the shape of !a tt!... Vpli eMe.. eor fcal 1 Aiv i iS er 1 tta'l mansion ntid TlennrtmAAt f StalA uipr table of the average annual price, of j rail buzzard roosts ! defiled and polluted by the TKi U tint ona nnr.imrn of hundreili 6t root irnn tr V.nvlanA nd our own Atlantic I foul and similar cases, in which1 "the blessings of thi seaports, has been obtained for us "from the land speculators and stock jobbers, who saw TarilTaie illustrated with equal force.1 Shail eminent importing iron houses of A. & G iheirjproy-'ih ho ticaty and spared noefityt ... A . i -L. i. .y Ra Ulon & Co.. Phi adeiDhia: and Uavisio secure u. i neir own worts was a sysiem wmcn inus enao es lemaieinuusiry io "T"TV j u j . - v . ' .Ml UrUUiiS U lU. . 11 V i JLi " Oil jilt woman io squire Jt bg -ns wilh lhft infancf 0f the business opponents to abuse the Senators who were hands independence . ...... ;t to the nresenttime. We ffive against it--to villify them, and lie upon them and competence, be crushed in its infancy, the Enelish costi charges to N. York, duty in speech and in writing and to estaalish a tne grauueauon oi poiuiciins anu ueiiia- and INew i orU cost oi l xvau inrougneui. cuiiiuiuicsr, sun 9uiuig k j n asmngion, iu goguesT Iribune. i We have a similar statement with regard lo promote and. protect tlieiri interest, i he obtain its fair reward and woman to ! by the labor of her own G 6 -V l Prices in England. Every once and a while the senior edi tori Years, is i oi tne uiooe,. iir. rrancis omr, gus into tho country, on which occasion the", g junior editor. Mr. John C. Rives, indulges1 i83t hi editorial vent with Inerfeet freedom. 1835 mi . :. :ui .. .r.ar...MA v.. t lu L I 183G Aiivra Miiittjr umcicutc I 1837 two men the one cool, cautious and wary!; and Flat Bars, show the same results: the other nan. frank. ! (somotimeO - r . . r above board. - ! ' Ori Thursday the junior editor had his swing in. sn eJttorial, three columns long to which he appended his name in full. This editorial is a curiosity an oasis in adeserjl lata ika miklirt inl th tnif i uppret whv Blair & Rives have bet so freely their 'tsiis or tuousajtps, on Mr. I rolk's elec tien. We thank the junior editor for hi candor in making' the important confession! though. we doubt not; he -will 'get anything but thanks from hit senior partner! ' j I Mr. Rives honestly eonfesses that hel who does not bet for himself, will spend or lose, "tens of thousands, to prevent the dsfaat of his party! ; If ho will spend so much without betting, how mtich will his . " . i r'L ricner panneri spenu ior me samo odjcci who docs bet? ; ' : 'Mr. Rives also honestly confesi es his bej litf that his partner's "principal object in belting is to stop the- bragging of WhigsJ which he thinks will scaice the timid who are on the fence, and induce them to fall o the Whig side." ' i; J " iv. Analize this confession : Mr; Rives an Mr. Blair are both rich; Mr. Rives wh does not btt for himself, will spend, .'Men of thousands" to prevent the defeat of his party. Anu iir. uiair, yviio uocs uui us thousands upon thousands, does so, not to iwin for who with, his intelligence would: expect to win in betting on Pclk's election! but to keep up the drooping spirits of his party, and prevent the feneerr.en from beingj scared and jumping down on thejWhis aide!! An honest, though perhaps not very, politic, confession! But we gie it to onr readers in "Mr. Rive's own word's. Let every one read it, Whig or Locefoco, and, ,draw his' own conclusions: I thfak it proper for 1838 1839 1840 1B41 1842 1843 1844 8 7 9 11 10 11 ll 8 ' 7 4 4 !': 17 6 or 33 17 6 or 33 10 0 or 36 1 6 or 33 1G 0 or 37 10 0 or 45 10 0 or 35 10 0 or 50 ! 10 0 or 52 15 0 or 5G S5 0 or 39 00 0 or 33 17 6 or 23 10 0 or 21 Freight, c & ch's. Duty. 00 00 00 70 44 60 20 40 80 '40 CO CO 40 60 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 $30 30 30 SO 27 , free 1 (i ii it ii ii Cost pr ton f in .U.jb. I 7100 "!' 74 00 f 74 00 I 76 176 MM 7244 53 60 M" ' 63 I 58 : : 60 to the ' Texas land land scrip speculation which the rejection , of the treaty balked.- Under ! the bill justice will i be I done. Tho scrip will be scaled, and void grants tl land anmillad; I ! 1 ; i To show the extent of these land grants, and to expose the I fraudulent abatements in the treaty correspondence,: that only sixty- seven millions' of "acres had been granted, Mr. BJprodice4 and 'exhibited ;to all pre sent a large pamphlet with a man attached to it, containing the claims ol a smele indi- jyiauai, anu an oif wnien were asserted to be yalid under the treaty. They were eranta derived frdm the second of the governments! which had granted Iind i Tm. iAiti the' States of Coahulia and Texas when uni ed as one Slatej which was thair condition tiuHi iou, tiicii uib ivieican revolution "wm"."r ;oda niiil...,l6 ICVUIICU. ( The grants were Bade to a Mr. John Charles Beales, an! Englishman, married to a Mex icari women, or to. Mexicans, and perchased by him i nd all obtained for little ' or no consideration some in reward for intro 'oucing manufactures some, on condition of seining iamines some on the condition oi introducing cattle and some unconditipn treaty assumed ten millions of debt anq con firmed all the land claims under the laws iof Texas. The treaty correspondence claimed two jh nod red millions iof acre of Isad n Texisjlpf;' which two'tfiirds!tvere represent ed as Vacant and claimed as a fund aut of which the debt assumed was to be paid. Vajn and impotent attempt at deceptisn! a 20 40 Open and: fraudulent attempt to ' assume bubble debt for the benefit of stock lobbers 47 160 without any . adequate consideration - either 4160 to Texas br the United jS k5 i? its proper extent in its r t -I U C1UI I. ilUlili IIIC O0illC iU.MiO niBI "rve asK every man." says tne euuor, x- , -, n, r . . 4 -H..1r n m-',;;.;1.!;. to examine carefully -this table, and note l -,i i , . i7 . iie ftrk' to S25 S25 ales! Texas in all whole lensth and of the ally. They are now all transferred to a citizen of the United States, a Mr. John VYoodWkrd, ot ew York, 'and amount to .far more than tlx; whole quantity which the! treaty correspondence admits to have been granted by alt the Governments which ever neia texas. 'i-. r it . .? , mi. ij. iiich cpuoitraieu tnese grams and pointed out their positiin on th'e mipj ibe quantities in all q.ses not aseertainahle be VilltA ihfiV etl.nirled Trnm rin.r. from mountainsho nountains,r and from parallels to' parallels of latitude- and ibrigii tude. 1 he first was a grant of forty-five lons ot acresl hems a fraction less tha j. how the cost in England went up as soon ;as .i , ;i 0 4 'u:L 2rl LlL. 1 . i i , . , t i i miles, equal to 84 millions of acres, i and it' P, rly sl.ppeJ boy;ng ?n u,, ifl ,W . fceJ ,1,! (0 1 i0unt !l me to ! state here hat I have not made a bet fer ;myself for account of our business derangements, and then go for taking off the duties if he can. J uniy let our .own maicers nave a lair cnance let them feel assured that they are not to be given over to destruction as soon as they shall have expended all they are .worth to get their works in operation for good rails cannot be made to advantage without'an out lay of at least 100,000 and we shall soon have! American rails nominally as cheap as Great Britain would furnish u in reality much cheapen 1 Meantime the duty aids ef ficiently to keep down the foreign cost and to pay ou our national debt. " i ! ' rT'l- - -.iM.-.-f MURRELL'S WHEREABOUTS. Many of our readers will recollect the atrocttiea and denredations ot . Murreufs gang of murderers and robbers that a few years since set law and justice at defiance in the western part of our country. . Most ot them were finally captured and .published. and are now expiating their crimes in vari bus peoitentiaries. Murrell, the Captain, and one ot the most daring ana aaroit tree booters that this or anv other country ever produced, managed, however, to escape, and his whereabouts has eyersince been as much of a mystery asliis daring and success were a marvel, i The Clarksville, (Miss.) btand afd has at last singled him out. and states r rt , n " 1: that he how resides a few miles above Rob- ben's Ferry, on the Trinity river, Texas acres, , they have to count the wild country under the dominion of Canian- che Indians, and the left bank of the Ric Grande from head to mouth, under Mexican dominion, all of which is and a great part of which has been settled and granted above two hundred years. - A Hi K- i ? It is nonsense to talk of Texas posscssstng vacant landJ: If theie is ; anything vaeant, it is because It is hot worth having. Texas itself has been settled atSan Antonio, Nac ogdoches, and other places above one hun dred years, and has been under the dornin- 1 . : e .- 1 "' " IT ' r J. ' Jl.' . " t L 9 ion 01 tnree ciiuereni uovernrocni?, cacu di which has been granting away its lands, arid that 'not by 40 acre and 80 aero tracts, but by leagues and paralleles on gratitude and longitude, and by hundreds of thousan'dnd The K ECingfi ton . - millions of acres at a lime. Government made grant there; from 1720 to 1820; then the States of Coahulia and Texas, united as one State, made grants from .1620 to 1835, when the Texian j revolution broke out; and sincb that Texas; has been granting by wholesale and retail, having general land office at the seat of government,' and a local one in every county, all j employedin granting Und, and that to the; Anglo Saxon race whose avidity for land is insatiable.-- Alter ait tnis, wnat vacant iano can'tnere oe in Texas?1 Not an acre j Tv orth having; so that the assumption of her debt by the trea ty was ! gratuitous and Wit hdut considera tion. 'And what a? debt! created upon scrip and certificates at every imaginable degree the States of Kentucky and Ohio united,' ex-1 tending from the! north latitude ;32 degrees 57; degrees and 20 minutes, and from lonw gitude 108 degrees west from Greenwich to the-bierra Oascrjfa mountains, and covering the tipper water8of:the,.Colorado,e;t)t ' Red otM .v.J tU . -M '' ic iau3U3. vnomer covereu degrees oG latitude frorri 385 to '' S2 UCgrees bounded west en lonrniide 100 degrees west from Greenwich, and extend ine iu me votorauo, on wntcn 11 oouna fifteen leagues, !A third extfndfd from ih Nueces to the Rio Grande, and covered tool degrees of latitude, from 27 to 29. claim consisted; pf a set of erants, niee iii number, each for eleven leagues, making ninety nine leagues in the whole, lying en the Nueces, and: sjl made to Mexicans, frogs whom Beales pirchased These ninety nine leagues werej absolute and 'uncondition al grants, in fee simple; the others were em pressario grants, for upon f the . condition of settling a numoer of families on each. The families hadj not been settled,: being pre vented by the Indian wars and the Texian revolution; and the; pamphlet sets .out the decision of the Sqpreme Court of the Uni ted States in the case of the Aredondo claim, and the Ciark olaim, in Florida, to show that in such cases, the performance of the condition becpmirlg impossible by the act of God, of fhe public tne my or the grantor) the condition bectimes.dischargetl, the grant is absolute,' or the party may have time after the cessation ofj iho obstacle to fulfil ' the terms. Under these decisions and the terms l ine iai treaty tnese grants, ; amount rious thatmcmbers of Congress bacame r;:h upon thf flifrcs 01 these rants. The srinls. Mr. B." said, collectetL into the hands of Beales, stood upon the same' footing with ' inat to Aredondo; , 1 hey were not snaulled by tho late Texian treaty. None were an nulled by it. Mil the grants were confirm ed which were good under the laws of Texas: so tar as tho right or property is concerned, are the laws ot Spain and Mexico, and Coa. huila and Texas, under which tho jright of property iaccruedi' 1 4 ' 4 ; - j Mr. B. said the President's message com municating the treaty to the Senate was ss untrue in relation to the eranled and to the ,vacant land in .Texas as it was in every other particular, instead or tvo hundred millions . of acres, there- were only eighty' four mil- ' lions of acres in Texas proper: the rest was 4 the one half in Tamsulipas, Ceahaila, Chi- huahua, and New Mexico, and hadj been ' granted away centuries ago; and the other half in tho wjd country of the Camanehev ' anu tne sierra vrjscura' mounta nsl . and roust be fought for and bought from these Ind ians before it can he possessed, 'and will be then found ( to be covered by Bealcs's forty-five million; acre grant! Instead of thirty-seven' millions of acres granted, every inch of Texas jproper, and all the Indian country besides, .was granted awayj Instead of one hundred and thirty millions of acres, of vacant )and9there was no vacant land; for even the sterile mountains and barran prairies hsd-been granted to speculators to sell to the Unijed States and in Europe; and the assumption to pay the serin debts of Texas in consideration of the! vacant lands. was a naueaantt iruauientiusumption to pay ten millions for nothingi-and thatto stock-jobbers who had given two cents, and five cents, and seven cents in iho dollar for the claims, and whooa agents were at WasK- ingion iniestipg the Capitol, the President's house and tha Department of State,1 and do- ingaii that was in their power to sustain the treaty, and pull down the Senators who despised Ihemjand their scripi The treaty was a 'fraud in Hot annulling thegreak grantr, made for considerations not fulfilled j and for not scaling the depreciated scrip debt. It ; was a fraud in these particulars, but this fraud created voracious and clamorous in bv irwiiTf i 4i.u.,saiu me uairi- uc peopie oi.aissour were mistaken In supposing that;everv body were .like them-: selves, actuated by laudable motives In want- h v-au i i wu gecgrspnicaily connscted with the United States, and essen- 7 Pu.v.,4C,f. commercial,; and serial system, there Avere others who wanted it lor ditierent purposes the disunionist, for example, who wanted louse it for separating the slaveholding from the noa-slaveholding States; .Presidlsntial iintriguesj who' wanted: it to make and -j unmake Presidential! candid ates; and land-peculators and stock jobjaers. wio, wanted to enrich themselves. 4 . jThroughout his speech, Mr: B . presented it as the design ol" the Texas treaty not to gelTexas intp4the Union, bat to get the" Southern States out of it, anil; showed that the treaty, and all the correspondence relat ing to it, was studiously and artfully contriv ed for that purpose- I To pick a quarrel With ing to seventy or leighty-tnillions of acres, equal to three orj four such States, as Ken Brit?io, and also with the A fourth! States on the) suWieot of 1arro '2 it, open,-, tiBdtsguised object ; of the ttoi,i, from the beginning to the endinif: To arrav ine aiaranoiamgrgainst the non slavehold ing haifjbf tho Union was his dpW and cot i nUed eflarU To Dreen t !h a armiii:h inn ofj Texas as a Southern sectional, sUvehoId ing question, 1 wholly directed to the T exten sion, perpetuation, and Dredeminin.. r slavery, was his express and avowed object. And after all this open effort to make the Texss question a slave question, the admis sion of the Texian Slates into thej Union was to be subrnitted to a Hptiseof Represen i!7M"The a majority of forty-f six members from the non-ilareholding Statesl Whatcould all this t for xcept 1 hae the: Texian : Stales refused adrnission, and a pretext' furnished the Soothern Stated for secession? Ail ibis vas so wellunder stoed in South Carolina lhat the cry of tcrot . onlyfc before the treaty was 'reject-' e, ly te(oTii rVas made Let it never Lot forgotjen, said Mr. JJ., that a treaty cannot admit new States. The Constitution granta 1. h -i : 1 L 1 . v i i : t i "I j t i in n I.--1- i :t;r 1 i ! A.
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