age, ami win from heaven a par
don for its frailties and its follies.
Like a proud tower of other davs,
time-worn, bat unyielding, that
lifts its brow to heaven, itself the
image of eternity, standing amidst
desolation, ho stands, in all the
grandeur of intellectual solitude,
upon a soulless waste, over whose
dreary and cheerless bosom the
eye of the mind searches else
where in vain for shelter and a
resting place. If there should
prevail every where else a dearth
of feeling and of thought, to him
would I repair, as did the way
farers of Israel to the moral foun
tain, so sublimely typified in the
rock of the desert. To him would
I repair, to renovate, refresh, and
sustain my spirit, as to an exhaust
less source of truth, of virtue and
of wisdom. But though we have
such men of might among us, they
continue here in the backwoods
of North-Carolina, drifting quiet
ly along the stream of life, their
noble energies lost to their coun
try, and expended, chielly, on
mere private professional pursuits.
Such is the deplorable absence of
high feeling and patriotic pride
among our people such their
proiound ignorance, not only ol
wnat concerns their honor and
their rights, but their interests
merely, that instead of arming and
sending forth their strong men to
the battle, they seem content to
entrust the conduct of their politi
cal ranks to the merest pigmies of
the community. It is a fact, just
ly mortifying to the pride of eve
ry enlightened lover of his coun
try, that though among the dele
gation to the National Legisla
ture, there be several worthy gen
tlemen, yet many districts of our
people have selected, as the guar
dians of their political interests,
and the champions of their noliti-
al honor, men who are known to
scd from honest, laborious, and
self-devoted North-Carolina, is
expended in other States. It is
transferred to those States, wIkj
do themselves the justice, to send
to the national legislature, not to
pers, and fools, and vagabonds,
but men men whose characters
and talents command for the inte
rest of their people, a decided
preponderance there. North-Carolina,
the sixth state in the Union
in numbers and intrinsic resources,
is yet the very last in political
dignity. She exercises less in
llucnce and control over the mea
sures of the national government,
than the little state of Delaware,
with a single representative. In
the appropriate and emphatic lan
guage of one of the few men in our
national delegation, of whom we
may be justly nroud. North-Caro
lina is the Ireland of the Union.
"In the sweat of our faces do we
earn our bread," and pay to our
masters what thev demand of us:
and the only benefit which wc de
rive irom it, with some honorable
exceptions be it spoken, is the nri-
vilege of sending a few cattle to
Washington, to be stalled and fat
tened there during the winter, on
a part of the proceeds of our own
labor. If ever we disturb the si
lence of the hall of Odin, and min
gle in the din of its gladiators,
our "voice, is like that of one from
the wilderness, whom no one hear
cth." The expression of our wish
es is met with bitter scorn, or calm
contempt, and cold neglect, from
the national legislature, and the
national government. Why! lie
cause the organs, throuirh which.
in a great measure, we choose to
communicate with them, are not
entitled to respect themselves, and
cannot, therefore, command it for
us. but it, 111 "these pipinir times
of peace," they are utterly inade
quate to the great trust confided
.1
her national council, as Daniel
Barringer, Willis Alston, and
Lemuel Sawyer? Will they pro
tect us! am they protect us! 'Tis
notorious, they neither have the
sagacity nor the energy to do it.
They have not the soul to stand
up in the presence of the mighty
men with whom they are absurdly
classed, and in their faces calmly,
but boldly, assert our rights, and
advocate our interests. Pardon
me, sir, I do not regai'd this as a
place to bandy vulgar epithets. I
have too much respect for the
gentlemen with whom I am asso
ciated, and before whom I now
stand I have too much respect
for myself, wantonly to . indulge
here, in expressions of personal
hostility. I cherish none towards
either of those unfortunate men;
but 1 feel indignant and disgusted
at the degradation of my country,
and it is under a sense of public
duty that I speak, when I say that
one of them, is not onlv without
talents and without character, but
not only a slave to mean and lowi lathe House of Representative
propensities nf hiss mvn hut n Mr. Saunders's Rpsnlntmn
the name of the person wl0
thorised the publication U ?fi"
no doubt it originated hi
sest motives, to injure an
lemale there being no f0lUuat
tor such a publication. J j,
that your sense of justice
the same time, see the propriety
promptly contradicting the at
statement. R READU
We learn from the last Ralejfri
Star, that Mr. Stanly's health hi
improved beyond expectation. I!
has been able, for several day
to converse freely and agreealk
with his friends, and it isnow
ped he will be well enough to
turn home in two or three week.
Congress. The Woolen bill
has gone to rest, in the Senate
being made to give way to the Co
lonial Trade bill, the discussion
of which, it is supposed, will c0n.
sume so much time, as to render
the passage of the Woolen
impracticable, 'at least during this
L J .
pimp and a caterer to the selfish
and the sordid passions of a ma-
lignant villain, and a vile slander-
"I. r
Mr. Saunders's Resolution, rnln'
tive to selection of newspapers br
the Secretary of State, tonrnim,!.
gate the Laws of the Union, is
er. Yes, he is governed by a fel- r still, for an hour each day, the
fr irlw, ic, l.;,.;.,.ir . 1 I Cllltinrtt sC az. :
tl.,1 r.wlr 1 7 1 111 I Ml
xnu appropriation Dills, tor the
current year, are also progressing
in both houses of Congress to
morrow is the time fixed by law
for the termination of this session.
liavc no honor of their own, and to them, it is dreadful, it is horri-
no ability to defend it, if they had Lie to reilect, what our people man
it. Well mav it ho said nf tlmm
''The ass knoweth his owner, and
the ox its master's crib; but Israel
doth not know, my people do not
consider." The people do not
indeed know, or consider what
they do. I hey do not consider,
that the national government, ha
ving from the time of its organi
zation, been invested with a strong
control over most of the import
ant objects of legislation, is now
fast attracting, and drawing with
in the verge of its power, every
essential interest of the people;
nd, consequently, that the thir
teen men, deputed by them to the
national legislature, are probably
every day called upon to decide
questions bearing more decisive
ly and vitally upon their rights
and welfare, than do the whole
body of measures, which we here
at home have to act upon, in a six
weeks' course of legislation. It
is not less appalling than disgus
ting, to reilect on the inairnitude
suiter from their imtintfnrv it.
,.V,1VJ j ill
great and dangerous emergencies.
And can we be so infatuated as to
indulge the hope, that we are to
be left forever to the calm and mi.
disturbed enjoyment of our rights
rights, to establish which, the
wealth ot our lathers was exhaust
ed, and their best blood poured
j i"i i . .
lorui like water: Jieheve me, no?
Liberty is a divinity, whose favor,
as it is not to be won. so nmihnr
can it be kept, by the olfcrimrs 0f
in ii o
uuiincss ana luxury. Wisdom
and virtue alone can propitiate
her smiles; and never does her vo
tary appear so lovely in her eyes,
as when his glove of mail is dyed
in gore. Sir, the time will come
nay the time is coming, when.
wiuiout the most Jieroical mild
ness, magnanimity, and forbear
ance, not this State only, but this
mighty Union, is to be shaken and
convulsed to its very centre; and
it is in these halls it is in the
halls of legislation, rather than
the federal government, who holds
a siliectire lllldnr tllf fpdnr.nl rrnr.
v-.v
eminent, and in the last three
years has pocketed ten thousand
dollars from the treasury of the
Uni on, without having rendered a
single act of service for it; but has
continued here at home, lounincr
about the courts of the country,
and slandering our most virtuous
and useful citizens, only because
they were hon -ster men than him
self, and because, here at home by
their country, who knew them
l.i.i ..
ooth, they had been more honora-
II i.
Virginia Legislature The II.
of Delegates have aain reiertnH
Mr. Billuvs. whom tl
Mathews had re-elected after the
hrst vote of exclusion, (for being
a Minister of the Gospel.)
Conference. The Vircrimn Con
ference of the Methodist Episco-
j - " " " r , v 11U1IUIU I
1 1 1 1 I
uiy noueeu and advanced. Une!PiU nurch, tor closed its
might have expected better things sittings in Petersburg, a few days
from his age: but the whiteness of since. From the Minntos wp.
his hair, bleached by the frosts of
iuty winters, lorms a singular and
a sad contrast to the darkness of
the thoughts that roll below. But
I forbear. It is a sullicient pun
ishment to him, to be what he is.
conclusion in our next.)
Xarljorougl),
SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1827.
uii mu niagniuiue nans oi legislation, rather than
ot the trust and the imbecility of; "the tented field," that questions
the trustors Ir,,. k,v .i. i i i
the trustees.
While wc sit here listening to
petitions for gates, pctitionsfor
divorces, and petitions to legiti
mate bastards, they arc carrying
on stupendous operations, and ex
pending millions of money, drawn
irom the pockets of the people:
:n-l l.A... ! . 1 S '
iiuw expending u: Aye, iiow
are to be decided, involving
tional liberty, or national slavery
national existence, or national
death. In such an event, when
that crisis shall arrive, when the
storm that is now silently collectin o-
,.i.n , ii ,
ii hi am, snail actually burst up
on us, what will be our attitmh.?
Aye, what will be the bearing of
pending ,tl why, the money rai-lNorth-CuroIina, with such tnen h!
A Mistake. We freely insert the
following communication, as request
edbut must at Uic same time ac
quit the person alluded to, whose name
can be ascertained on application at this
olhce, Irom any improper motives. The
fact was announced in this place bv the
apparently happy bridegroom, who was
subsequently here for several days, re
ceiving the congratulations of his formei
friends and associates.
Halifax County. Feb. 25. 1S27
Mr. Howard: I discover in the
lreo l'rcss of the 17th instant,
notice of a lnarriacc betwpnn Ron.
jamin Johnson, Tailor, and Miss
retina ueail -being the brother
and protector of Miss Mu T in
sider it my dutv to call on vou for
learn, that the Societv nn mho rod
year, whites 21,724 colored
7,847. Present year, white
22,801 colored 3,5G7. The in
crease of members this year lias
been 1,795 11 persons were re
gularly recommended and admit
ted on trial to the Ministry 8 or
dained Deacons, and 3 Elders.
Among other resolutions the Con
ference passed the following: That
every Preacher in this Conference
be requested to make a collection
on the 4th of July next, in aid of
the American Colonization Soci
ety. The time of the next Con-
lerence wTas iixm nti WnrhmsilnV.
the 27th February 1828, to be held
in Raleigh, N. C.
Important decision. The lT.
States Supreme Court have at
last decided the important ques
tion that has been lon pending
before it, namely, whether the
State insolvent laws were or were
not constitutional, and determin
ed, four to throe, that they were
so, as to all contracts entered into
betWOOn mf irons rfthn enmn &f,lte
wu J M. tllL r
subsequent to the passage of such
aws.
Libel Suit. The cause of Har
ris vs. Lewis, for a lihol in accu
sing" Mr. Harris of misconduct in
the dischnivro nf his Jntinc n Coll-
Jsul at St. Petersburg, which ha.9