Whole Yo. rif,
Tavbovough, (Edgecombe County, X. C.) Friday, August 15, 1834.
Vol. XJSo. 48.
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Mr. Howard: Our county elections
arc now over, consequently my remarks
can have no effect upon them, therefore
by your kind indulgence 1 will now oiler
them to the public without fear or a flec
tion; though like an ignorant preacher I
once heard, what I cannot do by good
sound logic I will make up by apologies.
1 know I am quite an inadequate delinea
tor of circumstances and events, but the
simple truth is easily told and I do intend
to speak it right out, although a strange
commodity to be found in a public news
paper. We certainly live at a strange
era, and I very much (ear we are fast
dwindling into ruin and insignificance; it
has come' to this, that we must all pro
fess one and the same political senti
ments and those too must be on the
side of power. What kind of a govern
ment is this! I answer one of tyranny
and usurpation, nothing better or worse
than a monarchical government, (test as
sured it is essential that all governments
should have a check, and where there is
no dissenting voice among the people,
there is no control over their public func
tionaries; they seize right hold of the
reins of government and direct public
matters to suit their own ambitious and
personal views, and no one dare say yea
or nay. I have often been much amus
ed, and at the same time a little Vexed,
ut seeing the fondness and convenience
with which men can attach themselves to
the strong party. I recollect distinctly,
when Gen. Jackson was first a candi
date for the Presidency there were some
one or two score of men of my acquain
tance, who railed out against him as be
ing unfit for a town constable, and called
him everything but a clever fellow, and
at the first ami second election actually
voted against him but he finally succeed
ed. Those same men set right about to
get on the popular side, they kept inch
ing up by degrees until they got suffi
ciently near, and they brought a spring
frng's leap and went clear over into the
Jackson ranks, to the complete prostitu
tion of every political principle they had
previously avowed. Ever since they
liave been the most open-mouthed, noisy
Jackson men in the whole country, from
teeth outwards but their real principle
it heart remains in statu quo. Tell
'horn about it now, and they will say the
old hero deceived them completely; he
no doubt did, for be got elected when they
thought he stood no possible chance.
And dispute the purity of their Jackson
n, anil they will bustle up to you with
the fury of a porcupine. The old
;'-iitleman has become to be t lie most
'-wnpleie pack horse I ever saw, he has
: hear the burthens of both friends and
k'Cs; in fact it's a difficult matter to de
' i'naie the one from the other, there are
many who for the mere sake of being
"'i the strong ndo, will profess Jackson
ni, when in reality there is no telling
''dmt they arc. I have voted for him
'nee times, and am still a moderate Jack
s)n man; though I do believe he has us
;cd powers, as well in the cabinet as
!;i the field of battle. Uc has been char--'1
with this by the most profound ju
:!s!pof the country; but I believe the one
to he excusable whilst the other is not so.
et 1 would again vote for Gen. Jackson
in preference to a number of others, al
though unlike many others, 1 can see and
will condemn a fault in my friend as soon
as though he was my enemy. I never be
come so fondly attached to any man as
to believe he eau do no wrong. I would
sooner be found with a piece of cold bread
in iny hands, and hold on with the grin
of death to any little honest party which
is contending for principle and justice,
than to sacrifice my honest and real prin
ciples in order to be on the side of power.
This is an extensive game at the present
And even in our county, if any man
starts as a candidate for any thing, the
first enquiry about him is, whether he is
n Jackson, Hall, and anti-internal im
provement man; and whether or not, un
derstanding things as he does, sings out,
O yes, 1 am all that and more too if ne
cessary, knowing it to be the surest pass
port to success. But 1 would like to ask
a few simple questions who took more
pleasure in voting against Gen. Jackson,
at the ballot box and in the House of
Representatives in the first election, than
did Dr. Hall? Did he not rejoice at the
election of Jno. Q. Adams in the House!
though he preferred Win, H. Crawford
to either Jackson or Adams. But Jack
son came last with him, ami now he is a
first rate Jackson man. And I attribute
his anti-internal improvement principles
as being partially the cause of defeating
the grand project of the Tarborough and
Hamilton rail road, which was undouht
jedly a scheme of vast importance to the
j farmers and merchants of Edgecombe,
and in fact all others who are at all con
tiguous to the contemplated route. Had
he have sanctioned it, the greater part ol
the stock would doubtless have been ta
ken in Edgecombe; but knowing he was
opposed to every thing of the kind, the
tocsin of alarm was raised and went like
chatfbefore a strong breeze which prin
Iciple has been instrumental in keeping
the State of North Carolina in the rear of
every other State in the Union. And her
'citizens are fully aware of her low stand
ing with the citizens of other States, ami
whenever they go from this to any other
Stale, and are interrogated as to where
they are from, they sing out in a loud
tone, old Virginia, sir actually ashamed
to own the land of their nativity. I my
self am opposed to internal fmprovemont
when carried on by the General or State
governments for it is impossible for any
plan to be devised to bear on ail equally
but where individuals think proper to
undertake it, 1 say throw no obstacles in
their way. These remarks are not the
result of any hostile or unfriendly feel
ings towards Gen. Jackson or Dr. Hall,
but merely to show what a set of politic
al weather-cocks infest the country at
the present day. I do really fear there is
but little political honesty in the country.
The present crisis warns every patriot of
the country to throw ofF his garb of in
difference and mount the watch-tower
of liberty, without regard to men or par
ty. CONSISTENCY.
FOR THE FREE TRESS.
AN ENIGMA.
I am a curious and desperate charac
ter. I am a part of the depravity and
downfall of man. My space is unlimit
ed, and I am an enemy to all fools: there
fore for the benefit of succeeding gene
rations, I will endeavour if possible to
epitomise my churactcristical habitation,
and existence. 1 was in heaven among
the angels before the world was created.
When the Deity spoke this world into
existence, I came from heaven and was
with Adam in the garden of Eden. J
was with Cain and assisted in the culti
vation of his farm, and accompanied
Abe! among his flocks. I saw Noah and
was with him 1G56 years after the world
was created; when he entered his ark, in
consequence of the universal Deluge 1
fled to Uranus, ihe remotest planet in the
solar system. I then went to Mars and
found its inhabitants extremely hospita
ble. 1 was in Babylon when idolatry
was introduced by worshiping the image
of Bolus as a God, by order of his so"n.
I did not believe in such base religion:
neither have I any thing to do with Bap
tism, nor Methodism, but am strongly
inclined to Universalism. I have beeu
in North Carolina ever since her inde
pendence was declared. 1 have taken
up my residence in Tarboro' and am
pleased with the Ladies, and they of right
should be pleased with me I have no
doubt but they will be: but the men 1
have nothing to do with. 1 have strug
gled hard since 1 came to Tarboro' for
one of my friends in an office of high
trust and have finally got him elected, in
defiance of the combined forces. 1 shall
now deem it my duty never to desert
him. 1 am surprised to see vain mortals
contend against me, as 1 am so old and
cunning. After I tell them of my ex
tensive knowledge they will cease to op
pose me. 1 have been intimate with At
las one of the most irninent astronomers,
celebrated in the fabulous poems of the
Greeks, on account of his great skill in
astronomy: he is reported to have sus
tained heaven upon his shoulders, and
gave name to Atlas, a mountain in Mauri
tania. I was with the Israelites when
they passed the Red Sea into the deserts
of Arabia. I was at Sinai when the law
was handed unto Moses. I was very in
timate with Aaron when he was consecra
ted High Priest. I was with the Israel
ites when their number being taken at
Jordan, was above 000,000 among whom
there was not one of those who had come
out of Egypt except Joshua and Caleb.
Joshua was my pupil when he was ap
pointed successor to Moses. I was with
him when he miraculously exsiccated the
river of Jordan and brought over the Is
raelites: when he overturned the walls of
the city Jericho: when he destroyed the
Amorites: when he commanded the sun
to stand still for the space of twenty-four
hours, I checked him, told him he was
wrong and knew nothing of the solar
system. I stood by him till he had con
quered thirty kings and all the nations of
Palestine; I went with him to settle the
Israelites in the country promised to their
ancestors, in the year of the world 25G0,
and before the birth of Christ 1444. I have
been well acquainted with Darius, who
caused his fifiy sons-in-law to be murder
ed by his daughters who were of like
number, that he might be master of Egypt.
I was with Abimaleck, son of Gideon,
when he usurped the sovereignly of the
Hebrews by murdering his brothers, who
were seventy in number; he was slain by
a woman with a piece of mill stone as he
was setting fire to the town of Thebes. 1
was with a part of the Argonauts when
they built the ship Argo and sailed from
Thessalia to Troas under the command
of Jason: moreover I was with them
whilst they were at Troy; also when
Hercules delivered Hesione, the daughter
of Laornedon king of Troy, from a sea
monster to which she had been exposed.
1 was with the Amazons who were wo
men, natives of Scythea when from los
ing their husbands in war, took up arms
assuming at the same time a masculine
intrepidity possessed themselves of the
Lesser Asia and built Ephesus. 1 be
long to every department in the govern
ment of the United States, am part of the
administration of General Jackson and
shall continue to be the principal agent of
the government until it is subverted. 1
shall be in North America till time shall
be no more: and expect to be with Gabriel
when he shall put one foot upon the sea
and the other upon the land and declare
by Him iLat liveth forever, that time
shall be no more.
ay At the instance of the Mississippi
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cretarv nf War has ktnt n.A I
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the U. S. Civil Engineers, to examine
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nined, is said to be quite favorable for
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Fugitive Slaves. An important de
cision has been made in the Superior
Court of New York city, defining the
rights of slave owners, to recover fugitive
slaves, and the manner of exercise.
The rules established rest on the
constitution of the United States which
directs that slaves "escaping into another
Slate, shall not be thereby discharged
from slavery; but shall be delivered upon
claim of the owner;" and .he law of Con
gress, providing for the arrest of a slave
by the owner or agent, and directing that
he shall be taken before a magistrate, and
upon "proof to the satisfaction of the ma
gistrate" shall be delivered over to the
owner or agent.
The revised statutes of New York ad
ded another course of proceeding, allow
ing the slave to sue out a writ de homina
rrptcgiando, the effect of which was to
suspend the operation of the magistrate's
decision, and submit the master's title to
issue in a court of common law; thus
substituting a State process, for that di
rected by the act of Congress.
In a late case, the Superior Court of
the city New York has decided the State
act, allowing this writ, to be "unconsti
tutional and void," on the ground that the
State legislature could not prescribe an
other mode of ascertaining the title of the
master than that directed in the act of
Congress. ib.
Extraordinary Hail. The Hagers
town (Md.) Torch Light, of Thursday,
says, "Hail fell in some parts of this
county on Monday last, of an extraor
dinary size. We have been assured that,
in the neighborhood of Baker's Cross
Roads, some of the hail stones weighed
one pound, and many measured from
10i to 12 inches in circumference.
Cholera in Beaver, Pa. From the
Beaver Argus we learn that two or three
cases of cholera have lately occurred in
that vicinity. A Mrs. Bracy, of Phil
lipsburg, died the forepart of last week,
and a Mrs. Venalta, of Moon township,
on the 20th inst. The circumstances
attending the last case, are remarkable.
On the Thursday preceding, IVlrs. V.
observed a bundle floating in the river,
and insisted, against the entreaties of her
friends, on going in after it, which she
did, and with the assistance of a relative
of the name of Day, finally brought it a
shore. On opening it, it was found to
'contain a mattrass and bedding, a num
ber of towels, handkercheifs, &c. In
the centre was a small board, a foot and
a half square, on which were inscribed
the words "Cholera Beware" Not
withstanding this admonition, the wo
man was determined to hold to her prize;
and after plunging the articles in the
river a few times, spread them on the
shore. On Saturday night she was at
tacked, with every symptom of the Chol
era, and on the next day, before medical
assistance was obtained, she was a corpse.
Fatal Accident, On the 24th tilt., as
several persons were hunting for deer in
Cabarrus county, the gun of John F.
Barnhart was accidcntly discharged, and
its contents entering the body of his up.
cle, Jacob Barnhart, killed him instanta
neously. RaL Star.
OThs life of Col. Crockett, written
by himself, has be?n re-publishcd ?r.
London.