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THE WIVHtTE-C AM O LINIAM.
menced. . By what decided and bold mea
sures it was overcome, is well known to all,
and need not be told on this occasion. It is
sufficient to say, that after a long and despe
rate struggle, the controversy terminated in
the compromise act, which abandoned the
protective principle, and has, I trust, closed
forever, what has proved in this Government
a most prolific source of power, patronage,
and corruption.
The next step in the progress, was the over
throw of the Bank of the United States the
centre and soul of the paper system a step
that may justly be regarded as not inferior to
any other in the whole series. That was fol
lowed bv the deposite act of '36, which trans
ferred to the treasuries of the otates the vast
, surplus, which continued to flow in upon us.
notwithstanding the great reduction under the
compromise act. This decisive measure dis
burthened our surcharged Treasury, and has
forced on this Government the necessity of
retrenchment and economy, and thereby has
greatly strengthened and accelerated the re
action. So necessary is the reduction of the
income to retorm, that 1 am disposed to re
gard it as a political maxim in free States, that
an impoverished 1 reasurv, once in a genera
tion at least, is almost indispensable to the
. preservation of their institutions and liberty.
The next stage in the progress was the sus-1
1 pension of the connection between the Gov
ernment aud the banks, in ' consequence of
the suspension of specie payments. This oc
casion afforded an opportunity to strike the
first blow against that illegitimate and unholy
alliance. It was given decidedly, boldly, and
vigorously, but still with only partial success.
. The interest in favor of maintaining the con
nection was too powerful to be overcome at
once; but though not broken, the tie is great
- ly weakened, and nothing now is wanting to
sever forever this fatal knot, but to follow up
what has already been done, by persevering
and energetic blows.
This is the point to which the reaction has
already reached, and the question now to be
considered is, to what point ought it to be
urged, and what are the intermediate obsta
cles to be overcome? I am, for myself, pre
pared to answer. I have no concealment;
my aim is fixed. It is no less than .to turn
back the government to where it commenced
its operations in 17S9; to obliterate all the in-
; termediate measures originating iu the pecu
liar principles and policy of the school to
which I am opposed, and w hich experience
has proved to be so dangerous and unconge
nial to our system; to take a fresh start, a new
departure, on the State Rights Republican
track, as was intended by the framers of the
Constitution. That is the point at which I
have aimed for more than twelve years, and
towards which I have persisted during the
Whole period, to urge my way, iu defiance of
opposing difficulties, dangers, and discourage
ments, and from which nothing shall drive me,
. (while in public life,) till the object at which
I aim is accomplished. By far the most for
midable difficulties are. already surmounted.
Those that remain are comparatively insigni
ficant. - Among these, the most important aud dif
ficult by far is, to separate the Government
: from the banks, but which, after the blows the
connection has received, will require not
much more than unyielding firmness and per
severance. This done, the great work of
freeing the Government entirely from the pa
per system on which Hamilton laid the foun-
- dation of the whole system, will have been
achieved.
The next is, to carry out, in the revision of
the tariff which must take place at the next or
succeeding session, the provisions of the
compromise act, that there shall be no duty
laid but what may be necessary to the econo
mical and constitutional wants of the Govern
ment. Should this be accomplished, there
' will be an end to the protective system, with
all the evil that followed and must ever follow
" in its train. Nor can 1 believe, after what
we have experienced, and what has been said
during this session, that there will be any in
superable difficulty in effecting an object so
iutimately connected with the peace and tran
quility of the Union.
Having freed the Government from the
paper and protective systems, the next step
in importance is, to put a final stop to internal
improvements, the construction and improve
ment of harbors, and the extravagant waste on
what we are pleased to call the pension sys
tem, but which has departed from every prin
ciple justly belonging to such a system. No
Government was ever before burthened with
an expenditure so absurd'and monstrous. It
confounds all distinctions between the deserving-
and undeserving, and yearly draws mil
lions from the Treasury without any just claim
on the public bounty, and ought to be both ar
rested and reformed.
A single step more brings the Government
to the destined point; I mean a thorough re
formation in the administrative department of
the Government. I doubt not but that every
branch needs reform. There are, doubtless,
numerous defalcations in addition to those
brought to light. The fault has been more in
that system, (a brief narrative of which I have
given,) than those who have been charged
with the administration of the Government
For years money was as dirt. The Treasury
was oppressed with it, and the only solicitude
was how to get clear of what was considered
a useless burden. Hence the vast increase
- of expenditures; hence the losses and inatten-
- tive administration of our fiscal cone ems;
hence the heavy defalcations. Nor are these
remarks confined to the Executive depart
ment of the Government; they apply to all, to
the two Houses of Congress as well as to
other branches. But there is no longer a sur
plus. The Treasury is exhausted, and the
; work of retrenchment, economy, and accoun-
a i ri " c j t f .
uuiuuj, is ivikcu on ua, xeiorm in me ns
eal action of Government can no longer be
delayed, and I rejoice that such is the fact
.fciconomy and accountability, are virtues be
' longing to free and popular Governments, and
- without which they cannot long endure. The
assertion is pre-eminently true when applied
to this Government; and hence the prominent
place they occupy in the creed of the State
Rights and Republican school.
Having taken these steps, every measure
of prominence, originating in the principles
pr policy of the national Federal school, will
become obliterated, and the Government will j
have been brought back, after the lapse of fif
ty years, to the - point of original departure,
when it may be put on its new track. To
guard against a false steerage thereafter, one
important measure, in addition to raose enu
merated, will be indispensable, to place the
new States, as far as the public domain is
concerned, in a condition as independent of
the Government as the old. It is as much
due to them, as it is indispensable to accom
plish the great object iu view, ine puonc
domain, within these States, is too great a stake
to be left under the control of the Govern
ment. It is difficult to estimate the vast ad
dition it makes to its power and patronage,
and the controlling and corrupting influence
which it may exercise over the Presidential
election, and through that, the strong impulse
it may receive in a wrong direction. Till it
is removed, there can be no assurance of a
successful and safe steerage, even if every
other sinister influence Should be removed.
It would be presumptuous in me Mr. Presi
dent, to advise those who are charged with
the administration of the Government, what
course to adopt; but, if they would hear the
voice of one who desires nothing for himself,
and whose only wish is to see the country
prosperous, free, and happy, I would say to
ttiem, you are placed in the most remarkable
t .i
umcture that has ever occurreu since me es
tablishment ot the h ederal laovernmont. ay
seizing it, you may bring the vessel of State
to a position, where she may take a new tack,
and thereby escape all the shoals and break
ers, among which a false steerage has run
her, and bring her triumphantly into her des
tined port, with honor to yourselves, and safe
ty to those on board. Take then your ground
boldly; avow your object; disclose your meas
ures; and let the people see clearly that you
intend what Jefferson designed to do, but,
from adverse circumstances, could not accom
plish to reverse the measures originating in
principles and policy uncongenial to our poli
tical system to divest the Government of all
undue patronage and influence to restrict it
to the few great objects intended by the Con
stitution in a word, to give a complete as
cendancy to the good old V lrginia school,
dared to think for themselves. Ji.ither you
over its antagonist, which time and experi
ence has proved to be foreign to our system of
Government and you may count with confi
dence on their support, widiout looking to
any other means of success. Should they
take such a course at this propitious moment,
our free and happy institutions may be perpe
tuated for generations; but, if a different, short
will be their duration.
On this question of patronage, let me add,
in conclusion, that according to my concep
tion, the great leading error in Hamilton and
his school, originated in a mistake as to the
apology between ours and the British system
of Government. If we were to judge by their
outward form, there is, indeed, a striking an
alogy between them in many particulars; but
if we look within, at their spirit and. genius,
never were two free Governments so perfectly
dissimilar. They are, in fact, the very op
posites. Of all free governments that ever
existed no, I will enlarge the proposition
of all governments that ever existed, free or
despotic, the British Oovommont r-rtn boor
the largest amount of patronage the greatest
exaction and pressure on the people, without
changing, its character or running into revo
lution. The greater, in fact, its patronage,
the stronger it is, till the pressure begins to
crush the mass of population with its super
incumbent weight. But directly the oppo
site is the case with ours. Of all govern
ments that ever existed, it can stand under
the least patronage, in proportion to the popu
lation and wealth of the country, without
changing its character or hazarding a revolu
tion. I have not made these assertions light
ly. They are the result of much reflection,
and can be sustained by conclusive reasons
drawn from the nature of the two Govern
ments; but this is not the proper occasion to
discuss the subject.
POLITICAL..
Front the North Carolina Standard.
TO THE WHIG PARTY OF THE N.
CAROLINA ASSEMBLY.
Your Assembly commenced its session on
the 17th day of November, 1838, and ad
journed sine die on the 8th of January, 1839!
But it was early in the morning of this latter
day that your dissolution took place. You
could not be easy in your seats when the very
sunbeams were reproaching you. They re
minded you, no doubt, that it was the anni
versary of the battle of New Orleans of that
great victory which had consecrated the name
of Jackson in the hearts of the American peo
ple and furnished additional security to
Americen freedom! The association was in
supportable to men who had been engaged in
traducing the one and conspiring against the
other, and you naturally fled from the scene of
your iniquitous doings, vainly hoping thereby
to escape self-reproached and the condemna
tion of your countrymen. What a remarka
ble coincidence! That the same day which
witnessed the flight of the enemies of Ameri
can freedom from New Orleans should also
witness your departure from Raleigh! That
the same sun which had first gilded the lau
rels of Jackson's renown should smile upon
the dissolution of that graceless Assembly
which had been striving to tear them from his
brow! Verily, in the future celebrations of a
day so renowned in American story, it will
not be forgotten that it closed a party attack
upon the integrity of the people, made for the
gratification of political revenge against a
Hero for withstanding that party's assaults
upon the Constitution with a success equal to
that with which he had opposed the advance
of a foreign foe; that it terminated the exis
tence of your malignant power a power ob
tained by fraud and concealment, and exer
cised with tyranny and unmanly indirectness.
Oh, illustrious day! twice worthy to be a Re
publican jubilee! Honored in 1815 by the
victory of Andrew Jackson over the military
force of Britain, and in 1839 by the termina
tion of the misrule of the British-Bank-"Whig"-Federal
party of North Carolina!
The first week of your session was the
season of the races, and nothing was done in
the halls of legislation except (as I expect to
show hereafter) to proscribe honest men who
neglected your business to attend to the races,
or you stayed in the city of Raleigh and did
nothing, or u any imug nao uwicn cg ro
tation. .Now as to the two former, your mas
ters, the people, would not give a Chinquapin
to choose between them, ana wouia mat n naa
been exclusively both or either of them in
which you were engaged rather than iu that
which vou were either ashamed or afraid to
transact nnenlv. Your journals speak of
nothing done during the week of the race,
and indeed they show little or no action on
affairs of State until late in December, when
it seems your party schemes had become suf
ficiently fledged to Dear, witnout immediate
death, the chilling influence ot the popular
breath! Then, for the hrst time, you ma
something openly. Not that you had been
oreviouslv idle, for who does not know now,
(and even you dare not aeny it,j mat you neiu
aerrrl mucuses, in the nisht too, time after
time to devise in some artful form such reso
lutions concerning national politics, as might
unite the discordant materials ot your party.
But this very important and patriotic work, i
seems, required more cunning and experi
ence, and ludgmeut and knowledge ot pol
tics and mankind, than your Whig majority in
both houses of the legislature could furnisb,
and you were fain to receive the volunteer as
sistance of others. Some ot wnom you would
not be willing to use for nobler purposes, and
others who, to say no worse, might have bet-n
more consistently employed. After much ef
fort to frame your resolutions so that you
might hereafter quote them in favor of the
doctrine of instruction, or against it, as might
suit your future purposes, and at the same
time accommodate themselves for the present
to the notices of the whole Whig phalanx in
cluding those in favor of, and those opposed
to, instructions, they were at length brought
to light. It is sometimes very difficult to fiud
an appropriate name either for a child or a
thing. The latter is generally supplied with
a name having some reference to its qualities,
but as there was so much difference among
yourselves as to the true nature of yocr reso
lutions, you were cut off from any supply of a
name from that source. You were driven,
therefore, to seek it elsewhere. Patronize
ments are not uncommon, that is to say,
names deserved from the parent to the off
spring, but no other instance is recollected
save iu the case of your resolutions, where
the name has been derived from the mid
wife. They are generally called "Rayner's
resolutions," yet no one believes that gen
tleman had much more to do with their pater
nity than the respectable personage above al
luded to, generally has with that of the new
born infant. Yet so were they called, and
so let them be named. Which is destined to
reflect lustre on the other, the named or the
name-sake, time must determine.
You cannot deny that before these "Ray
ner resolutions" were offered in the House
every member claiming to be of your party
was required to pledge himself in a caucus to
support them as they were written without al
teration of .word, syllable, or letter. No man
amongst you who has any respect for his own
character, will, in any responsible form deny
that mis process or pi irate picjmiafnm pre
ceded your public action. I know and admit
that a few of your party declined at first to
give the pledge, but enough to make their
passage certain were drilled into it beofre you
dared to hare them offered. Of those who
did not expressly pledge themselves at once,
some (if not all) were talked at by designated
leaders or managers and their concurrence
inferred if not expressly promised. Some al
so manifested, for a while, a disposition to
keep aloof, it is supposed by many persons,
not without cause, for it were rendered more
pliable by allusions to vacant places in the
Senate which the magic of these resolutions
would create and which
men to Jill.
Now waving for the present the intrinsic
character of your resolutions and lifting our
selves above the designs of party, I desire to
know if this mode of passing them is not
dangerous to public morals and ultimately
subversive of American liberty? I put it to
your now consciences. I appeal to the hon
est intelligence of all parties. Where is the
difference between legislating with closed
doors and a majority of our legislators meet
ing in secret conclare to prepare and model
their work and pledging themselves before
hand to ratify it without change as soon as the
doors are opened? The difference is in fa
vor of the former, for there the minority is
heard in the council that prepares the law and
the majority has the eyes of that minority up
on it although it shall have excluded the peo
ple. In the latter no body but the majority
is heard, and both the minority and the peo
ple are excluded altogether. Shall party
blindness prevent us from seeing that such a
mode of legislation removes the widest pre
cautions in a representative Republic, against
combinations adverse to public liberty? That
it puts the power of Government in thehauds
of a few selfish leaders? That it encourages
dishonest partizans to propose and carry thro'
their plans of mere personal aggrandizement
by substituting the responsibility of numbers
for that of the individual proposer? Such
evils begin with parties in the assertion of
something believed to be sound and valuable
in itself, and for the sake thereof they are tol
erated, but the ultimate results will certainly
be mischievous, and they are always deserv
ing of popular condemnation. If political
parties act thus to secure their success, sel
fish, local, or even money parties will soon
do the same thing, and after a while the in
terests of the Republic and the rights of the
people will be bartered away in midnight
darkness and the first signal of treason against
public rights will be its introduction into the
Legislature and the concurrent votes of the
conspirators to consummate it. Beware of
such conduct in the out-set. Its tendency is
to corruption, dishonesty, and treason. The
only true and sale practice in a Republican
Government is to propose openly, to discuss
openly, and afterwards to decide openly.
This new fashioned Whig method which you
practice is to decide first in private, to discuss
as little as possible any where, . and to deliber
ate upon the measure not until after it is pas
sed. Thus the first principles of representa
tive Government are wantonly sacrificed in a
selfish scramble for "spoils."
I concede that where an individual is to be
selected from among many to fill any vacant
political station mere is nothing reprehensible
in men of the same politics meeting together
to select the man whom they will unitedly
support. But the dinerence netween this and
passing laws or resolutions oy a legislative
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DOGy IS lOO ODYlUua iv caisajnz uuuw vj uuj
one of the slightest discernment. Few of
your ranks are too stupid to perceive it and,
therefore, few can plead ignorance.
But apart from the" unworthy manner in
which these resolutions were brought into ex
istence, thev are in their matter and manner
highly deserving of censure and you who act
ed on them affirmatively are responsible to
the people.' True it is the leaders of your
party merit a deeper condemnation man the
rest, but none of you are wholly free of guilt.
Many of you I know disliked the resolutions
and were desirous to avoid a vote upon them.
But you were subjected to a party drill and
timidly acted under its constraint and that too
when your drill sergeants were loudly profes
sing to belong to the no-party party. Now
that the screws are removed and there has
been time for reflection you cannot fail to see
"the dansrerous character of that system of
legislation overcame your honest scruples:
you can hardly withhold the expression of
disgust at the contemptible manoeuvring of
those by whom you were misled. If 1 have
time to complete the work I will lay bare to
the people this outrage upon their rights aud
thereby warn thern against your efforts to get
the mastery over them. If rights are invaded,
and the people are assailed, the representative
who was too cowardly to resist must expect to
share in the sentence which an honest publick
will pass upon the reckless leaders.
NORTH CAROLINA.
it might suit genile-
The Senate. The seats of 18 of the pre
sent U. S. Senators will be vacated in 1S41,
viz: Brown of North Carolina, Calhoun of
South Carolina, Clayton of Delaware, Crit
tenden of Kentucky, Davis of Massachusetts.
Hubbard of New Hampshire, King of Ala
bama, Lumpkin ofGeorgia, Knight of Khode
Island, Roane of Virginia, Nicholas of Lou
isiana, Robinson of Illinois, Ruggles of
Maine, Walker of Mississippi, Wall of New
Jersey, White of Tennessee. Georgia Chron
icle f Sentinel.
who were the colonizers in the late election.
Take, for example, the 2d, a regular Federal
ward; see the reduced vote and the reduced
majority. Had any Democrats left the ward,
most assuredly the W big majority would have
been increased not fallen off as it has. See
also the 7th ward, where that sterling Demo
crat, Willis, last spring, was elected by over
two hundred majority, thi3 year reduced more
than half, while just the same number of De
mocrats cast their votes for him a year since.
But of this ward it is too notorious what
course the Feds pursued, to render any com
ment necessary. When Joseph lloxie, the
Federal county clerk, and former Alderman
of the ward, openly boasted of colonizing his
own house with down town voters, we pre
sume no one will deny, in this instance, at
east, of his speaking the truth. It is another
notorious fact, that the Whigs lost the 4m ward
by straining too hard to get the 6th and 7th
wards.
Another circumstance worth considering is,
that in our strong holds, the 9th; 10th, 11th,
and 13th wards, from whence we should na
turally have drawn our voters, had we attempt
ed colonizing, our majority has increased
from 25 to 40 per cent.; while again in the
15th ward, where it was allowed the Whigs
might get a thousand majority, they tell short
of 700. Facts are stubborn things, and all
the logic Federalism may command, cannot
alter them. The Whigs, now the election is
over, talk of Clarke being a poor candidate.
IN one know better 'than themselves, that
Aaron Clark, despicable as he is, could poll a
slronsrer rote than anv man then could have
nominated. They but deceive themselves;
the "second sober thought" has come upon the
people of thn city, and the "ball," that Whig
gery thought had obtained sufficient force to
crush the people, melted before it like the
snow at noon. Fifteen hundred Democrat-,
who had not voted in two years, came forward
and resumed their station, . onvinced that to
contend longer against the wishes of the peo
ple were folly.
From the New Era.
Remarkable Coincidence. The unanimity
with which the Democrats of, the 7th ward
cast their ballotts for a favorite candidate, is
worthy of all praise and imitation. Samuel
J. Willis, esq. received last spring 1834 votes
for alderman. He was again a candidate for
the same office this spring, when he received
precisely the same number of votes.
Another Change. Col. Downing, Dele
gate from the Territory of Florida, elected as
a whig, has lately avowed himself in favor of
the present Administration, as the following
extract from a recent circular of his wil
show: Albany Argus.
"As a Floridian, I an satisfied with this
Administration. And resolved as 1 am to
judge of every man's motives by bis acts alone,
and not by those charged against him by his
opponents, 1 shall believe those motives pure.
as long as their purity is eviuced bf good
deeds. As to corruption with which the Gov
ernment is charged, I know of no period of
time, or portion ot the world, in which in
tree iovernments, similar charges have not
been made by the opposition. But I am los
ing confidence in these charges. I have
heard them so long and so often, and have as
yet so little proof, that, like the shepherds in
the table, l am incredulous to the cry.
C. Downing.
waters, for the purpose of surveying our rive
and harbour. She is surveying a number of I
Southern Harbors, with a view of selection I
the most eligible site for a Naval Station, aiJ l"
will be among us for three or four months.-!
The steam boat attached to the exneditinn : 't
left at Beaufort, but will be here in a few days.
It has not yet been determined by the Lieut.
Comd't. whether he will commence operations
below and work up, or whether he will beein V
here and go down. r
, Common Schools in Pennsylvania. The
keystone state is coming op to the- work in
earnest. Of 1033 districts into which the 1
State was divided, under the act of June 1836
(exclusive of the city and county of PhfladeW -phia,)
840 have within the past year assessed
a school tax, and received their portion of the
public money. The number of schools in
these 840 districts is 5,269, male teachen 1
4,758, female teachers 1,974, male scholars,
127,b7, female scholars, 106,042. Total
scholars, 233,719.
From the Albany Areus.
COLONIZING ELECTION FRAUDS.
A more unblushed avowal, and open recom
mendation, of the whig practice of Coloniz
ing, has not been made during the present
campaign, than in the following extract from
the editorial remarks "of the N. Y. Evening
Star (M. M. Noah) on the recent charter
election in that city. An affectation of horror
at election frauds, and a clamor for a "registry
law," come with a peculiar grace from such
quarters!
"There is a noble army of Whigs fj-aZ-ways
ready to march whenever required, but
their leaders are not of the 'Old Guard'
they are spirited and confident, but did not
understand their ground; their counsels were
managed with great secrecy, hut not with
much address; they aimed to carry eleven
tcards ichen in Jact they should have concen
trated their efforts and expended their ammuni
tion in an attempt to have carried nine tcards
and then they would have carried the cfy!!
We speak from experience in these matters.
Our duty was only to blow the trumpet aud
obey orders; it was not for an old general, a
mere volunteer in the ranks, to obtrude our
advice, or we should have said, "Don't quar
rel about nominations take your strongest
men, your most popular men; you have a good
candidate for mayor you can carry the first,
second, third, fourth, fifth aud fifteenth wards
without doubt. Concentrate all your efforts
THROW IN YOUR MEN -your active
elect ion eerers your power, facilities,
and resources in the 6th, 7th, Sth, and lilh
wanls CtJ"100 voles in each of these wards
will turn the scales in your favor.'' "
This was said on Saturday; forgetting or
disregarding what he had said the day before.
What a comment are his reflections of Fri
day, upon his avowals or recommendations of
Saturday!
"It was a raelacholy alternative to be com
pelled to fight the enemy with his own wea
pons to colonize when he colonized to
naturalize when he naturalized to meet him
at every turn, and oppose him with-his own
corrupt practices. It makes the foundations
of our social system rotten and insecure; it
raises up bodies of men, natives and foreign
ers, who will sell themselves to either party in
the open market."
From- the Wilmington Weekly Chronicle.
The ceremony of laying the Cornor Stone
of the new church of St. James, was perform,
ed on- Wednesday last. The Rev. R. B
Drane, Rector of the Parish, officiated in tbe
absence of the Bishop of the Diocese. A
10 o'clock the Congregation and a large con.
course of others, assembled at the Lecture -
Room, (the present place of worship) thence 1
moved in procession to the site of the new f
Edifice, at S. E. corner of Market end Third f
Streets. The service set forth for such occa
sious, was there gone through with, and the' I
stone adjusted to its proper place. Ia the K
cavity of the stone, was placed the scroll, co-4.
pied below, together with the articles named
upon it. The rector then pronounced a Yen
appropriate.and impressive address. ' fi
The day was bright and lovely, beaming
asupiciously upon the scene, ii spiriug a
cheering hope of a happy tern i nation to tht -
undertaking so happily beguu. -
From the NeW York New Era.
WHO ARE THE COLONIZERS?
A glance at the returns from the several
wards in this city, will show pretty correctly
From the Louisville Public Advertiser.
BANK AND STATE.
Every thing tends to the speedy dissolution
of the connection of Bank and State. The
Mobile branch of the Bank of Alabama, lately
closed with six hundred thousand dollars of
public money in its vaults. The banks in
Detroit, which have again stopped payment,
must have been in possession of more or less
of the people's money; and those which were,
but a mouth or two since, specie-paying
banks in Mississippi and Georgia, were no
doubt anxious that their issues should have
been made a legal tender in payments to the
Government. At the called session of Con
gress the Federalists openly contended that
the Government ought to be compelled to re
ceive the notes of all specie-paying banks;
and Mr. Clay, such was his new-born friend
ship for the State banks, maintained that the
Government should receive their notes, even
when the banks admitted that they were not in
a condition to redeem them. The object of
tire b ederalists was to make paper the only
currency of Government, whether redeemable
or irredeemable.
Recent events have at least demonstrated
die W isilvtti ami "T policy A J
ministration, and placed it in enviable contrast
with the conduct of its assailants.
It is only the rotten portion of the banks of
issue that are clamorous for deposites and for
the receptiou of their paper for duties and pub
lic lands, touch concerns may as well break
for millions as for hundreds; but they prefer
fleecing the people indirectly, because their
otnec-rs think mat course less dangerous.-
T. hey recur to the past, when millions were
withheld from the Treasury by banks, and the
temporary bankruptcy thus brought on the
Government was absolutely referred to by the
officers of the banks as proof that the Admin
istration ought to be changed! It was said
the banks held the money for the benefit of
the people, while their officers, as citizens,
shouted and said: "The Government is in
solvent, and this corrupt Administration must
be put down." When refusing to redeem
their own paper, they denounced Treasury
notes, called them shinplsters, and caused
them, for a season, to pass at discount, even
for notes of suspended corporations! Recol
lecting all these things, it is not a matter of
astonishment that the officers of swindling
banks should have been anxious, after nomi
nally resuming, to get a chance to invest mil
lions of their rags in public lands, or to throw
their issues where they would have been paid
into the custom-house for duties. They have,
fortunately, been baffled by the Government,
and will finally be put down by the people.
DOMESTIC.
From the iknington Chronicle.
The Iron Steamer DeRosset, Capt. Wam-
bersee, arrived in our harbor on Wednesday
last, from Baltimore, via. Norfolk. She ex
perienced a very heavy blow off Lookout, and
worked remarkably well. This being the first
Iron built steam boat ever seeu here, she at
tracted crowds of visitors. She is owned by
Mr. G- B. Lamar, of Savannah, who very
courteously directed her to touch here on her
way to that port, for the purpose of giving a
pleasure excursion to the inhabitants of il
mingtou which was made on Friday as far
as Smithville. A great number joined the
party, who expressed high gratification with
the ample provision made for their enjoyment,
and with the urbauity aud politeness of the
captain.
The DeRosset was constructed in Balti
more, of imported iron. She is lo7 feet in
length, 24 feet 9 inches in width, with 7 feet
9 inches deep of hold, and measures 180 tons
draft of water, light 32 inches. The sheets
of iron of which her hull is composed, are
about 24 b 18 inches, and about 3-8 inch
thick. They overlay each other from 2 to
2 1-2 inches, and are thickly rivited together,
with strong, wrought iron ribs, running trans
versely, eighteen inches apart, from stem to
stern.
Vestry.
'The following facts have been kindly fur
nished by L. H. Marsteller, Esq. Collector of
this port Wilmington Advertiser.
The United States schooner Experiment,
Lieut. Comdt. Glynn, has arrived in our
PRO lEO, PRO ECCLESIA, PRO MOMlNCaj, -SALUTE.
In the JVame of the b ather and of the Sot,
and of the Holy Ghost Amen.
This Corner Stone of St. James' Churci
is laid this third day of April, iu the year a
our Lord: one thousand eight hundied ami
thirty-nine (1839.)
The Right Rev. Levi Silliman Ives,D.D. i
L. L. D., being the Bishop of the Diocese (J
North Carolina.
The Rev. Robert Brent Drane, being &
Rector of St. Jame's Church and ofneiatitj
on the occasion.
Dr. A. J. DEROSSET, ) r ,
W. C. LORD, "arrf t
THUS. H. WRIGHT,
A. J. DEROSSET, Jr,
WM. B. GILES,
WM. A. WILLIAMS,
JAS. T. MILLER,
The plan of this building was designed
T. U. Walter, of Philadelphia, and execute
under the direction of John S. Norris, of 5
York, by John C. Wood, as principle Masot
and a Carpenter.
Other foundation can no man lay than thi ,
which is laid, even Jesus Christ May 4 i i
Gates of Hell never prevail against it-
Amen. J:',
The original Parish Church of St Jams .v
stoood about fifteen yards east of this spa
near the corner of the Grave Yard. It "
commenced in the year, 1751, but not cot
pleted until 1770. Iu consequence of i
location, (partly in the street) its decayed ce
ditiou, aud the incommodiousness of its i
terual arrangement, it was taken down i
1839, and a portion of its materials used
the erection of this building. The lot up1
which the present Church is erected, u"
purchased from Dr. A. J. DeRosset, sen '
for the sum of one thousand dollars, of wbK,? -sum,
the Ladies' Working Society, and t
-Juvenile Working Society, have agreed top
r i i i i ii
six nunarea aouars.
The Right Rev. John Stark Ravenscrff
the first Bishop of the Diocese of North Cat- -lina,
a native of Prince George Co., Virgin ' '
was born in the year 1772; was ordaic '
Deacon the 25th April, 1817, and Priest, t . -6th
May following, by thh Right Rev. RicT
ard C. Moore, (Bishop of the Diocese of Ti
ginia,) was unanimously elected Bishop :
North Carol iua, by the Convention of 4 :
Church, held in Salisbury in the year 1S2,'.
and was duly consecrated to that office bv ":
Rt. Rev. Bishop White, in the City of rJ3
delphia, on the 22d of April, 1823. BL4 . -Ravenscroft
departed this life in the City
Raleigh, on the 5th of March, 1830, audi
remains were deposited under the Chancel
Christ Church, in Raleigh. He bequeath
his Library to the Diocese, and the col
right of his works to the Episcopal Bible i
Prayer Book Society of this Diocese.
The Right Rev. Levi Silliman Ives, -unanimously
elected successor of
Ravenscroft by the Convention of the Ch -held
in Raleigh, iu May,- 1S31, and wasco
secrated to that office, by the Right V
Bishop White, in the City of Philadelphia,
the 22d September, 1S31, and delivered I
Primary Charge to the Convention of'
Church assembled 1S32.
MARTIN VAN BUREN,
President of the United States.
EDWARD B. DUDLEY,
Governor of Worth Carolina.
ALEXANDER ANDERSON, , f
JXIasgistrate of Police of the Town of " r V
mington. ; . 1
t o r tit t? J? v -? 6
r nPDncccii 1 commissions
VV. J. HARRIS. the Town f
E. P. HALL J ' mtngton. .
JOHN A. LILLINGTON, Toion Cbt
Population oj Wilmiugton, 3,500.
ARTICLES DEPOSITED WITH Tfi' ;
A Bible and Prayer Book. Journal of - J '7s
Convention of the Diocese of North Car
nafor 1838. Bishop Ives' Charge to
Clergy of the Diocese Journal of Ge
Convention for 1S3S. A Churchman's
manac. Sword's Almanac. The Bani"" ,
the Cross, Philadelphia. The Church
New York. The Episcopal Recorder, ft !
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