Electoral Tickets. We present to
our readers the Jackson Electoral Tick-,
'et for this State and, in consequence
of their being no other press located in
this vicinity, we have concluded to pub
lish the Adams Electoral Ticket also,
that our readers may become acquainted
with the names of the individuals com
posing both Tickets.
NORTH-CAROLIXA
Jackson Electoral Ticket.
(Election on Thursday, 13th Nov. next.)
For President,
ANDREW JACKSON.
Vice-President,
JOHN C. CALHOUN.
ELECTORS.
1st dist. Robert Love, of Haywood county.
2d - Montford Stokes, of Wilkes.
3d - Peter Forney, of Lincoln.
4th - John Giles, of Rowan.
5th - Abraham Philips, of Rockingham.
6th - John M. Morehead, of Guilford. '
7th - Walter F. Leake, of Richmond.
8th - Willie P. Mangum, of Orange.
9th - Josiah Cruclup, of Wake.
JOth - John Hall, of Warren,
llth - Jdseph J. Williams, of Martin.
12th - Kedar Ballard, of Gates.
13th - Louis D. Wilson, of Edgecombe.
;14th - Richard D. Spaight, of Craven.
T5th - Edward B Dudley, New-Hanover.
Mams Electoral Ticket.
For President,
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.
Vice-President,
RICHARD RUSH.
ELECTORS.
,1st dist. Isaac T. Avery, of Burke county.
2d - Abner Franklin, of Iredell.
3d - .Robert H. Burton, of Lincoln.
4th - Edmund Deberry, of Montgomery.
5th - James T. Morehead, Rockingham.
6th - Alexander Gray, of Randolph.
7th - Benj. Robeson, of Cumberland.
8th - James S. Smith, of Orange.
9th - William Hinton, of Wake.
10th - Edward Hall, of Warren.
11th - Samuel Hyman, of Martin.
12th - Isaac N. Lamb, of Pasquotank.
13th - William Clark, of Pitt.
14th - William S. Biackledge, of Craven.
15th - Daniel L. Kenan, of Duplin.
JjPAny namber of Electoral Tick
ets, either for Gen. Jackson or Mr. Ad
ams, can be procured at this office at
twenty-five, cents per hundred, or two
dollars per thousand.
by request.
From the Opelousas Gazette.
MR. ADAMS.
We call the attention of our readers
to a few facts, connected with the life
and public services of John Quincy Ad
ams. We think when they are particu
larly perused and considered, not a doubt
will remain upon the mind of any unpre
judiced man, but that the President of
the United States is one of the most re
publican and accomplished statesmen of
the age. The statements are made in
every instance, upon the authority of
public records, and there is appended to
the manuscript now before us, the certi
ficate of a member of Congress (inferior
to none for his talents and character) that
the compilation from the documents is
correct.
"It is asserted that Mr. Adams is an
apostate federalist. This charge is
groundless: he was always a republican,
and never did apostate. The following
is an authentic summary of facts. l)u
ing the time Gen. Washington was Pre
sident, he appointed Mr. Adams in
1794, to a foreign embassy, and he did
not return to the United States until
1801, after the election of Mr. Jefferson,
and consequently did not partake of the
party excitements of the intervening pe
riod. Upon his return, he was elected
to the state senate of Massachusetts, i
wnicn, noiwitnstand no- thpro
J tested against the removal of therepub-
li i oil i hpco ants. Iip was
mean luuees, aim i
I J , V n 1 1 I rwl
opposed ny tne tfeoerai iiieiuuci.i, am.
acted with the republicans. By his con
ciliatory course, he added much to the
strength of the republican party in Mas
sachusetts. These acts took place in
1802. In 1803, Timothy Pickering,
the federal leader, was put in nomina
tion by the federalists of Massachusetts,
as senator of the United States, and Mr.
Adams was elected, and took hfs seat in
the fall of 1803, and his first speech was
in favor of the purchase of Louisiana,
and said to be the ablest that was deliv
ered; and believing wilh Mr. Jeffer
son, that ah amendment to the Constitu
tion would be necessary previous to its
admission into the Union, he proposed
and advocated that amendment. Dur
ing the same session of 1803, he gave an
uniform support to Mr. Jefferson's ad
ministration, and received the unqualifi
ed support of the republican presses.
He gave the same support at the suc
ceeding session of 1S04 at the next
session of 1805-6, he voted with the re
publican party, for the non-importation
act, and moved to give the President
power to punish foreign ministers, in
consequence of the insult offered to Mr.
Jefferson, by Cosa Yuego: at this session
he took the lead in all measures for the
protection of our seamen and commerce.
In 1S0G-7, he acted also with the repub
licans in the measures adopted as to
Burr's conspiracy. He drafted the re
solutions to sustain the government in
the affair of the Chesapeake and Leopard,
and was appointed bv the republican par
ty in the Senate of the United States,
chairman of the committee to raise an
army, to equip the navy, and to fortify
our harbors and sea coast, and to provide
lor an expected war with England. He!
was a member of the committee durinsr;
the same session, which reported the;
embargo bill, and ably supported il. and.
every other measure to sustain the honor1
ot lus country, and was the confidential
friend of Mr. Jefferson. It was at this
session, that he made his celebrated re
port, recommending: the expulsion of
John Smith, of Ohio, on account nf thp
part he acted in Burr's conspiracy, audi
mi periou, mai lie nun ishori
his able vindication of the administra
tion of Mr. Jefferson, in answer to Tim.
othy Pickering's letter upon the embar
go. J5y all these acK Mr. Ad ams nrn-
ved that he always was a republican, and
the warm supporter of Mr. Jefferson's
administration. His conduct diA not.
about this time, please the then federal
legislature et Massachusetts, and they,
passed resolutions disapproving the mea
sures advocated by Mr. Adams. He!
found himself delicatelv situated, and
preierrcu resigning his seat, to continu-i
in of. inese resolutions drew from him
the following manly and independent
leuer, viz:
To the Legislature of Massachusetts.
Gentlemen: It has been mv rnrlpnvm ac
I have conceived it mv dutv. whilp Imlrlimr
a seat in the Senate of the Union, to support
the present administration in all measures,
to preserve from seizure nnd itw
the persons and property of our citizens, and
to vindicate the rights essential to the in
dependence of our country, ap-ainf th un
just pretensions of all foreign nations.
vcnam resolutions secretly passed bv
you, have expressed your disapprobation o'f
measures, to which under the influence of
these motives, I gave my consent: as far as
mC ujjuwuu i a majority ot the legislature
can operate, I cannot but consider these re
solutions, as enjoining upon the representa
tives of the state in Congress, a sort of op
position to the National Administration, to
wiuv.il kdiiuui, according to my principles
concur. To give vou an onrmi-m,,;,, i
cing in the Senate of the United States a
member who may devise and enforce the
mcuns oi relieving our fellow citizens from
their present sufferings, without sacrificing
the peace of the nation, the personal liber
ties of our seamen, and the neutral rights of
our commerce, I now restore to you the
trust committed to mv chari. ,i
a -v ---- a oLiKtiui- vi uie united States,
peace trom penalties imposed by his no
litical opponents. He voted and nm
4 "
who waited upon him--"that he consi
dered the situation justly merited by the
Hon. Levi Lincoln, then Lieut. Gover
nor, and that he could not consent to take
a situation to which Mr. Lincoln was
entitled. The distinguished republi
can, Lincoln, was then put in nomina
tion and elected..
Upon Mr. Madison's coming into
office, (4th March, 1S09,) Mr. Adams
was sent as our minister to Russia, when
he ably represented his government un
til 1817, when Mr. Monroe came into
office and recalled him to fill the second
office under our government. During
the time lie was in Europe, he was oc
casionally sent on all important missions,
where talents, firmness and integrity
were necessary and amongst the servi
ces rendered, were those at Ghent.
General Jackson, in a letter to Mr.
Monroe, expressed his high approbation
of the appointment of Mr. Adams as his
Secretary of State, for in his letter of
lth March, 1817, 'fre says, "You have
made the best selection t6 fill the depart
ment of state, that could be made." In
1797, Gen. Washington in speaking in
a letter of Mr. Adams, said, "John
Quincy Adams is the most able and val
uable character we have abroad, and in
my mind, will prove himself to be the
ablest of all the Diplomatic Corps."
These facts put at rest forever, the
charge of apostacy and change of politi
cal opinions, by Mr. Adams, and prove
that he always was, as henow is, a true
republican and friend to his Country."
, . . s v-3 a -.uaivi .i uie united .Mates,
large majority of federalists, he pursued on ,the pait of the commonwealth of Mas
mild, independent course, sirlinu- with k.. ,5tts,..Iam. &c.
ui: . . o taigned) JC1H"V OTTivrv atxw
reuuuucaiis wno were mnmho nf tk.i . au.iiua.
. - -v..,uuij ui mail uusiuu. etli Jimn leno
body. His hrst act was to endpivnr tn ,i , ,
prevail upon the federalist! Z cans to Mr" de"'iof ."P" Wi
the republicansa due proportion of nTem rh"M Mr;,Ada1ms after his resignation,
bers in the council. He sZwned a v n P . 15ed?lh f Governor SuI,i
km . i? . .5UPported a van, in the fa of irmq ti, ...: i
w leueve a renuoncan iiisiinor
the on Mr. Adarns, and solicited him to be
i.icu governor, but he with his usual
-J magnanimity replied to the committee
Mr. 2dams's Republicanism. In or
der to overthrow the scruples of a creat
many stedfast republicans, we see the
attempt revived to produce an imores-
sion that John Quincy Adams neverwas
a federalist. We would view it as an
insult to the understanding and memo
ry of most of our readers, to present them
with a minute refutation of this asser
tion; the following sketch, however,
may perhaps refresh their memories, and
enable them duly to appreciate Mr. Ad
ams's claim to the title of a Republi
can. In 1791, there appeared in the
Uoalon Centinel, a violent federal pa
per, several numbers under the signature
of "Publicola," from the pen of Mr.
Adams, in winch he contended for the
following principles:
"That genuine liberty consists
in surrendering all power for our
selves and posterity, into the
hands of government, allowing
them only to alter and amend the
Constitution.
"That a sovereign and unlhnit
cd power in the people to alter
the Constitution, is the despotism
of the million.
"That it is unwise for the Deo-
ple to retain any power in their
own hands, as they cannot exer
cise it either for their own advan
tage or injury.
"That the abhorrence in which
Americans hold European des
pots, is but a mechanical horror
against the name of a King.
"That our firm devotion to the
principle that all men are free and
equal, is but a physical antipathy
to titles, and the sight of an inno
cent ribbon
These are the principles avowed by
Mr. Adams 37 years ago, and which, in
an address to the constituents of Gen
Smyth of Va. in 1824, he declared that
he still maintained. In the session of
1S07-S, shortly after Mr. Adams' pre
tended conversion to Republicanism, the
embargo project was submitted by Pre
sident JeGerson to the consideration of
Congress; the debate in the Senate on
this important measure was checked by
Mr. Adams, who said: .
"I would not deliberate I
would act; doubtless the Presi
dent possesses such further infor
mation, as will justify the mea
sure' Is this language befitting a republican
Senator? The Autocrat of Russia could
not desire the members of his Senate to
be more subservient to his imperial wKh,
es. In his first message to Congress, after
he was elected President, Mr. Adams
recommended to the members net to be
"palsied by the will of their constitu.
ents," in the discharge of their public,
duties. Here we have a direct and un
equivocal view of Mr. Adams's ideas o(,
a republican government the repre
sentatives of tle people are to pay iia
attention to the will of their constitu.
ents, and are not to deliberate but act
immediately on the call of the Execu
tive. These are Mr. Adams's prin
ciples and practices let us apply to
them the Jeffersonian test: In a letter to
Dr. Jones, in 1S14, recently published,
Mr. JefTerson gives the following a
"genuine Republican maxims:"
"That the People, being the
only safe depository of power,
should exercise in person, every
function which their qualifications
enable them to exercise, consist
ently with the order and security
of society.
"That we now find them equal
to the election of those who shall
be invested with their Executive
and Legislative powers, and to act
themselves in the Judiciary, as
judges in questions of fact.
"lhat the range of their pow
ers ought to be enlarged," &c.
Contrast these genuine Republican
sentiments with those avowed by Mr.
Adams, and the reader will immediate
ly see what a slender claim Mr. Adams
has to the name of a Republican. It is
also due to truth to state, that the for
eign appointment held by Mr. Adams at
the time Mr. Jefferson was elected Pre
sident, was among those designated by
him as "abuses," and was immediately
abolished; and, that notwithstanding
Mr. Adanjs's disclosures of the "trea
sonable views" of the leading federal
ists, Mr. Jefferson never gave him au
appointment.
As the Administration papers have
made a great parade about Mr. Adams's
resignation of his seat in the Senate of
the U. States, and as this is the onlv in
stance wherein he resigned one office be
fore he had possession of another, it is
proper that the circumstances attending
this singular act of Mr. Adams, should
be fully known. Immediately after his
return from Europe, in 1801, Mr. Ad
ams was elected to the Senate of Massa
chusetts by the Boston federalists; he
was also a candidate for Congress, in op
position to Mr. Eustis. Foiled in his
attempt to obtain' a seat in the House
of Representatives, Mr. Adams became
a candidate for a seat in the Senate of
the U. States. In 1802, the federalists
in the Massachusetts legislature nomina
ted John Quincy Adams and Timothv
Pickering for that office; the republicaa
candidate was Thompson J. Skinner
on the fourth halloaing Mr. Adams was
elected; omitting the scattering votes,
the ballots stood thus:
1st 2d 3d 4th
J. Q. Adams, 10 7 56 86
T. Pickering, 67 , 79 33 6
T. J. Skinner, 71 71 71 70
On examination it will be seen, that Mr.
Adams was elected by the friends of the
"great federal leader, Timothy Picker
ing," and principally by them. Mr.
Adams took his seat in the Senate and
on all party questions voted invariably
with the federalists until the session of
1S05-6 at this period, Mr. Jefferson
had just been re-elected, and Massachu
setts, the bulwark of federalism, was gi
ving way and the republicans rapidly
increasing in that State. Then it was
that the politics of Mr. Adams began to
waver, and in the session of 1S06-7 we
find him voting with the republicans for
the non-importation act. On his return
to Massachusetts, the federalists had ral
lied and were sanguine of success at the
approaching election in that State Mr.
Adams could not resist the importuni
ties of his old friends, and in March,
1S07, he presided as Chairman of the
great Boston meeting which nominated
the federal candidates. The federalists,
however, were defeated, and a republi
can Governor and Legislature were elec
ted. This decided his course, and at