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Tarborough, (Edgecombe County, JV. CJ Tuesday, January 22, 1833.
Fbi. IT JVo. 22,
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HON. J. SPEIGHT.
Letter from the Hon. J. Speight lo the Editor
of the JNewbern Sentinel.
Washington, Dec. 22d, 1832.
Sir: The Proclamation of the Presi
dent of the United Slates has ere this
reached you, and has doubtless under
gone that rigid scrutiny which its impor
tance is calculated to elicit. I have heard
as yet very little of public sentiment as to
its merits. 1 see when it reached Ra
leigh, a distinguished gentleman moved
to have it printed, which produced a little
kicking from a certain quarter. 1 also
see that some of the politicians of the
Old Dominion are seemingly sensitive
on it. Pray, have you seen the Report
uf their Committee on Federal Relations!
a rather curious move now-a-days. It
is strange indeed to witness what an ad
mirable tact the Virginia politicians have
of steering between Scylla and Charyb
dis as for instance, their 3d Resolution
re-affirms the Virginia doctrines of '98
and '99, and the 7th, I think it is, de
plores the doctrine of nullification and
the mad career of South Carolina; and
to cap the climax, .the 8th condemns the
doctrines of the Proclamation. Now can
any thing be more absurd? The Virginia
doctrine of '93 and '99, is nullification in
embryo there the doctrine was first main
tained. All the difference between the
Virginia doctrine and that of South Caro
lina, is, that the former is nullification in
theory, the latter in practice. Vet Virgi
nia condemns S. Carolina nullification!
For myself, I have attentively read this
inestimable State Paper, and I look upon
it in the same light as I do upon the man
who is the author of it. Next to the
Farewell Address of the immortal father
of his country, for pure and undefilcd pa
triotism it stands unrivalled in the annals
of history. Its production has caused
me to reflect much on the nature of our
institutions. The imminent danger lo
which they are exposed by the damnable
heresies which are now prevalent, is pro
duced by the ambitious demagogues who
have been disappointed in their expecta
tions of political preferment; and i hesi
tate not to sav, (regardless of any thing
which mav attach to the assertion) that
the doctrines which Andrew Jackson has
set forth in the Proclamation, are the on
lv ones which can sustain the Union.
Yes, Sir, I have nothing to fear from a
vowing the "federal doctrines," as they
are called here?, contained in that paper.
I am willing that those opposed to them
shall call them what they please. 1 am
a plain man and have nothing to fear
from mv opinions being known. The
moment the Proclamation made its ap
pearance, letters were wrote from here to
contain sections of the Union, priming
the public mind beforehand against the
President for doing what no oiher man
in the United States-has the moral cour
age to do. I rejoice that Gen. Jackson
has bearded the lion in his den. What,
1 ask. was he as President to do? Stand
siill and see the laws trampled under
foot, and the Constitution violated in the
nost flagrant manner? No, Sir, Gen.
Jacksou has done what his duty required
him to do. He has shown that in this as
in oil other emergencies, he is equal to
the crisis; and politicians rony quibble a-
I bout abstract riotions of the Constitution,
out the people will stand by Andrew
Jackson in saving the Union. I hope the
people 1 represent will rally around the
old veteran. He has once saved the
country from the rapacity of a British
soldiery, and he will now defend it from
disunion.
At the last session of Congress we re
duced the Tariff at least 5,000,000; and
if a further and satisfactory reduction
should not be made now, it will assured
ly he effected during the next Congress.
What more can any reasonable man de
sire. Is this governmentthe only free
one on earth, to be destroyed because the
evil cannot be removed in a moment?
God forbid.
But if the Union is to be dissolved if
indeed it has become necessary to sepa
rate, let us have a Convention and part
in peace. Heaven avert from us the hor
rors of civil war. But the time has not
come when such a course is even to be
thought of. Let the South still cling to
Jackson. lie will reneal the Tariff and
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save the country. All will come right af
ter a little while. South Caro in:i mav
bluster and rave, but the Union will be
preserved. , Respectfully,
J. SPEIGHT.
drawal of all the supernumerary forces
lately sent to this station.
Nullification. We find the following para
graphs in a review of the President's Proclama
tion, recently published in the Telegraph, by a
Member ol the Convention of South Carolina,
supposed to be written by Mn McPuffie:
"I feel called upon, by the respect I
entertain for the opinions of the other
States of the Confederacv, to remove all
misapprehension as to the attitude of
South Carolina in a few prominent as
pects of tier controversy with the Federal
Government. And in the first place, I
utterly deny and disclaim, on the part of
the State of South Carolina, any design
to resist the laws of the United States by
force. The Ordinance of nullification
upon its very face, and the' explanatory
documents which accompanied it, expli
citly declares that the Slate intends to
act exclusively through the political and
civil organs of her sovereign power, as a
State. She does not intend, and never
has intended, lo carry the interposition of
her sovereign power to the extent that a
neighboring Stale, with the countenance
and approbation of the President, as it is
generally understood, has carried the like
interposition, by the almost unanimous
concurrence of all the departments of her
Government.
"The State of Georgia has solemnly
nullified the laws and treaties of the Uni
ted States, disobeyed the decision of the
Supreme Court affirming these laws and
treaties, and threatened bv her constitu
ted authorities to resist the enforcement
of that decision by actual force. South
Carolina, on the contrary, explicitly dis
claims any purpose of resisting the offi
cers of the Federal Government, in en
forcing the judgments of ihe Federal tri
bunals. If the Government can obtain
judgments in the Federal Courts, the
Marshal will be permitted to enforce them
peaceably. All that South Carolina
claims in this respect, in virtue of her
sovereignty, is the right to enforce the
judgments of her Courts in the like
peaceable manner; and it is absolutely
impossible that any conflict of force can
take place between the State of South
Carolina and the Federal Government,
unless tin process of the Courts of South
Carolina, shall be resisted by the military
force of that Government."
The Army and Navy.X?mm the pub
lic documents accompanying the Reports
of the Secretaries of War, the Navy, and
the Treasury, it appears that the Army of
the United States consists of 594 commis
sioned officers, and 6540 non-commissioned
officers and privates-tutal, 7134
men. This number is somewhat larger
than Usual, which is owing to ihe addi
tion of six companies of Rangers, com
prising 685 men, as directed by an Act
of Congress passed at the last session. !
The Navy consists of 12 ships of the
line, mounting 74 guns; 14 frigates of
the first class, 44 guns; 3 frigates of the
second class, 36 guns; 2 sloops of 24
guns; 13 sloops of 18 guns; and 7 schoo
ners of 12 guns lotal, 51 vessels, moun
ting 1978 guns.
In addition to the above, the frames
and promiscuous live .oak timber for 4
siiips of the line, 7 frigates, 4 sloops of
war, and 3 steam vessels, are on hand.
The estimated expenses of the Navv
during the year 1833, are 83,176,766 87.
li this calculation, provision is made for
holding in commission 1 ship of the line,
3 frigates of the first class, 11 sloops, and
7 schooners, with an aggregate of 5025
officers and men.
The ships in ordinary are in various
states of preservation, but most of them
would require extensive repairs, before
being ready for sea.
OTAlr. Ball Hughes has just comple
ted a statue of Bishop Hobart, for Trini
ty church, New York, which is commen
ded in New York papers as admirable for
its beauty of design and execution, and
its likeness to the original! The New
York American closes its notice with the
remark, that it "establishes the claim of
Mr. Hughes to the highest rank in his
art." Such praise from such a source,
inspires us with some hope lhat Mr.
Hughes is not the impostor that he has
been represented in this State to be, and
that he may yet return to redeem his cha
racter upon our Statue of Washing-ivn.--Fay.
Obs.
the committee, also, made a report, which
condemns every one who has had any
connexion with ihe Bank, since its com
mencement to its failure; and states, if
any exception to this denunciation is to
be made, it is in the case of Robt. V.
Fort, late President of the Bank. Tho
Report concludes by recommending to
the Legislature the passage of an act to
repeal ihe act incorporating the Bank
of Macon.
Mechanics' Bank of Alexandria. Wo
desire to present and preserve, at full
length, the statement of the affairs of this
Bank, as reported by the Committee. It
is a real curiosity and may be useful aa
a "copy" in the new state of things which
many believe is about to ensue! In
stance, among the demands against the
Bank, there is an ilem of 110,460 for
noies in circulation but ""the Cashier
has burned ihe S20,000 staled by him,
only 90,460." On the credit side, the
real estate, put down in the schedule at
884,725, is valued at 49.400 the Ca
shier's debt, 841,800, is secured so that it
may produce 830,000; the amount of
"dormant notes protested," is 893,217; of
stock notes, "laying over unpaid," 817,
202; and of "dormant balances, over
draughts, and defalcation," 862,057; from
all which three last "nothing is expect
ed." Niks Register.
We wish this was the worst of tho
affair. Nat. Int.'
(r"We are gratified to learn, thro' the
National Gazette, that Judge Baldwin's
health is much restored, and that the ru
mors of his confinement are untrue.
Military Garrisons. The Charleston
(S. C.) Evening Post of the 31st ult. says:
A public meeting was called to be held
in Columbia, the 1st January, for the
purpose of remonstrating against the fol
ly of keeping within the State, more of
the United States troops than are usually
held as a peace establishment in Charles
ton, and request the immediate with-
Thc Rail Road. The Petersburg
Times says: It gives us great pleasure to
inform our readers that the Rail Road is
now finished and in complete! order, from
the Depot at North Spring to Belfield, a
distance of forty miles. A party of our
citizens, accompanied by several mem
bers of the Legislature, made the first trip
between the two places on Tuesday last;
and we understand that there was an uni
versal expression of admiration, elicited
as well by the beauty and substantial
construction of the work, as by the con
viction of the superior ease, facility and
safety which this mode of transportation
possesses over all others. The return
trip from Belfield to .North Spring was
performed in about two hours, deducting
the lime lost in the several stoppages.
To those who have not yet had an oppor
tunity of personally observing the facili
ties of this method of tTavelling.it may
not be amiss to say, that ihe party above
mentioned breakfasted in Petersburg, di
ned and spent part of the day at Belfield
and returned to town before dark, thus
traversing a distance of 85 miles without
the least fatigue.
It is expected, that the section of ihe
road between the town depot and that at
North Spring, will be completed by the
1st of February next.'
Macon Bank. -A joint committee of
the Georgia Legislature has made a Re
port relative to the affairs of the Macon
Bank, which failed some time ago. The
report is of great length and alleges nu
merous violations of the charter, fraudu
lent reports to the Legislature, and a
gross mismanagement of its affairs by
every administration. The minority of
Children in Factorics.The Philadel
phia Times says: It is impossible that an
intelligent community can learn, without
disgust and indignation, that our nume
rous and extensive factories are worked
almost wholly by children, who are enti
tled to an exemption from labor and care,
and whose proper place would be their
native hills, as free and joyous as the
winds which played around them. Thou
sands on thousands of these little slaves
are driven by sun rise with pale and sad
dened faces, and feeble and reluctant
limbs, to their toil from which, with a
slight interval at noon, night alone re
leases them. Day succeeds day, with
the same heavy task, and the same heavy
heart to perform it. Wearied, heart
sick, spiritless without a joy to enliven
the present, or a hope to brighten the fu
ture destitute, friendless, forsaken
sinking beneath the unequal burden of
toil, poverty and oppression they real
ize all the ills of age, without the firm
ness by which age is enabled to endure
them. The children of freemen, they are
made slaves at an age when the children
of slaves are free.
Intemperance. A man by the name of
Parkinson Claig, living at Woodstock,
Va. was, a few days ago, committed to
prison for murdering his brother! The
parties it seems were engaged in a Christ
mas frolic, when a dispute arose between
the deceased and his brother, which ter
minated by a blowTrom the latter, with a
horse yoke, in the murder of the decea-
Ised. Pet. Chron. '
OMr. Isaac Orr, in a communication
for the U. S. Telegraph, says: 1 have in
my sleeping room a watch alarum, of
which I will contract to make fifty thou
sand for ten cents a piece, by which tho
hand of a common watch, or even of one
of the smallest size, will, as sure as the
watch is wound up, wake me at anytime
of night 1 shall please; and if I please, it
will wake up the . whole house, or the
whole neighborhood. My own never
fails to. arouse me at 5 o'clock. All
wooden clock and mouse trap makers
are challenged logo beyond this if they
(are able.