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so largely to the Government? Whence, but
from the same source, djd three States acquire
the power to loan thirteen times as much as all
the Southern States put together? .And with
the power to lend, was it no advantage to them,
to have been enabled to lend, upon the best
. security in the world? - " V i i
"So much for our own voluntary impov-
erishment, A word or two upon those con
tributidn3 which tve havemade to the for
tunes of our Northern brethren, and which
may be denominated compulsory.
fThe actu&r disbursements of the General
Government have been about one thousand
- " millions of dollars, exclusive of the surplus
revenue. The ETeater part of this immense
sum was disbursed among the several State's,.
A rateable distribution of this fund be rteen
the .North " Western,, and.. Southern', and
South" Western States, as tK,ey now stand,
would have been nearly "3; follows:
According to whole population, as7 to 5
do do ."White do 7 to 3
, do do representation - 5 to 3
do .do' area- do 4 to 5
. "How have they actually been? Up to
1830, there had been expended in the sever
al States and Territories two hundred and
eighteen millions of public money, in fortifi
cations, light houses, public debt, pensions,
and internal improvements; of which sum,
one hundred and ninety-five millions were
disbursed in. Northern and North Western
States; and twenty-three millions in the
Southern and South Western. The national
debt constitutes by far the largest item in
this account, and it was but equitable that
this should be paid to the lenders in the pro
portions of their loans. But in the matter of
internal improvements, the Southern divi
sion should have received a ninth' more than
the Northern. The disbursements under
this head were North of the Potomac, in
round numbers, four millions seven hundred
thousand; South of the Potomac, two hun
dred and sixty-seven thousand; or nearly IS
to 1. Pensions 17 to 2, Light Houses (con
sider our coast) 2 to 1; fortifications, equal;
but never unequalled afterwards, and never
to be equal again. The expenditures oh the
Cumberland -road Ulone, were about nine
times the amount expended for internal im
provements in all the Southern and South
Westesn States together; "and without that,
the proportion North and South was 8 to 1.
"But this gives us a very inadequate idea
of the extent of the disbursements in the
several States. It touches not the first cost,
and the annual expenses of the national es
tablishments, most of which are at the North;
nor the pay of the officers, principal and
subordinate, in the several departments of
the Government, most of whom are citizens
of the North; nor the ten thousand other
,item3 of expense, which -to to make up the
grand total of $1,000,000. Whoever will
take the trouble to follow these expenditures
. through all their details for a year or two,
willome to the conclusion, that of the whole
sums disbursed among the States, little short
of eight tenths have gone North of the Po
tomac. About seven hundred thousand dol
lars of the one thousand millions disbursed,
were raised from the customs that is to say,
from duties on foreign importations, two
thirds of which were received in exchange
for Southern productions. The Southern
States then have virtually put into the trea
sury, four hundred and six-millions of the
seven hundred, and drawn out one irJIiured
nnd forty. The Northern States have put
in two hundred and thirty three millions,
and drawn out five hundred and sixty fractions-ejected.
The effect of these disburse
"ments is like a shower of gold upon a people.
They are far belter. They clear rivers, im
prove harbors, and open roads and canals
which give permanent facilities to commerce.
They plant national establishments, gather
villages around them, and found other pub
lic works, through which there is a constant
stream of treasure flowing from the Govern
ment to the people in their vicinity."
While the above was in press, the appropriations
of the last Congress for Internal Improvements ap
peared. They are as follows:
North and North Western States, 151,189,315
South and South Western States, 284,000
New York alone, 358,443
POLITICAL.
EXTRACT FROM A PAMPHLET ENTITLED
THE SECOND WAR OF REVOLUTION;
Or the great principles invoiced in the
present controversy behveen parties "y 2
Virginian printed at the office of the
Democratic Review.
Where are our men of talents, of wealth, of
experience in affairs men of influence, am
bitious of power and distinction? Look at
your railroad companies, canal companies,
turnpike companies, and banking institutions;
there you will find them, presidents, cashiers,
treasurers, or directors; men who have been
eminent in the councils of the nation, mem
bers of Congress, of the Executive cabinet,
and senators, are retiring from those exalted
stations, and seeking with avidity the offices
in the gift of corporate institutions. And
wherefore? "Wheresoever the carcase is,
ihere will the eagles be gathered together."
Ambitious men seek those stations, because
they well know that in them is concentrated
the true, substantial power and patronage of
the country; that in them is lodged the' power
behind the throne, greater than the throne it
self; that they are the steam engines that put
all the wheels of Governmenf in motion, and
draw, along after them the entire train of le
gislation. Nine hundred banks the num
ber is scarcciy less with as many thousand
officers, three or four hundred thousand stock
"holders, near seven hundred thousand debtors,
wielding, a capital of four Jiuno.-ed millions, a
discount loan of five hundred miu'-'ons; pos
sessing the sovereign prerogativebf e'vating
or debasing at pleasure the currency of the
jequntry; controlling a State funded debt oi
one hundred and seventy millions, and the
stocks, funds, and debts of an innumerable
host of joint-stock companies, which, together
with the hanks, constitute an organized, con
solidated, well-disciplined Macedonian pha
lanx, thoroughly imbued with aristocratic ideas
of jho nobility of money and the degradation
of labor; holding that wealth is a virtue, and
poverty a crime, monopolizing all the lands.
capital, trade, and commerce of the country;
marching boldly forward under the direction
of influential, wealthy, talented, and ambitious
men; openly aspiring to legislative and gov
ernmental control; crowding pur national As
sembly aud State Legislatures with hired, and
unprincipled orators; corrupting the people in
their primary assemblies at the po.'.is and the
ballot-box, and recklessly pressing forward to
the ultimate overthrow of eopi representation,
and the establishment what they designate
a mild aristocracy .jibe open and avowed
enemy of Democratic principles. And well
have they Succeeded In the accompl ishme nt
ofthei- purposes. The constitutional form
of legislation is an idle mockery; the people
inay go through the solemn ceremony ot elec
ting men to represent them in Congress and
the Legislatures, but 6o soon as men arrive on
the theatre of action, they universally imbibe
the opinions, and' fall into the current of
feeling most fashionable around them. , They
soon learn to think that the interests of the
banks and of the people are the same: "touch
the banks, you touch the people;" they are not
long in discovering that the directors and fin
ancies of moneyed corporations are wiser
than they are, or their constituents, and that
whatever schemes they may desire or recom
mend must be implicitely adopted. Not to
speak of the direct influence brought to bear
on their hopes aud fears their expectations
of some future good or evil resulting from the
tremendous moneyed power of the banks
their personal feelings of pride and vanity pre
appealed to; and really , honest, unsuspecting
men, yielding to the attentions and blandish
ment? of those who know so well how to use
them, nd anxiously seeking to gain the
smiles and approbation of those whom they
have the weakness to suppose would reflect
honor on their acquaintance, soon find them
selves the followers and liege subjects of asso
ciated wealth. Should these appliances fail,
which seldom happens, the more potent wea
pons of ridicule and denunciation are resort
ed to; the keen sarcasm, and cutting wit of
the pensioned orators, and hireling presses,
seldom fail to drive all but the stem uncom
promising friends of liberty into silence, or
neutrality; so that when any question of vital
importance comes up, in which the interests
of associated wealth and the interests of the
people are at issue, the latter have never failed
to be found in a hopeless minority.
Events had been steadily and surely ad
vancing to thiscjjU for more than forty
years. Forgetting that eternal vigilance is
the price of liberty; imagining that their fore
fathers had accomplished every thing in or
daining a Constitution of specified powers, &
vainly dreaming that all power was vested in
themselves; the people at length woke up to a
sense of their true condition, and found that
I their creatures had become omnipotent that
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tne renia PI government nad glided lrom their
own hands, and fallen into the possession of
an exclusive privileged order; who, without
regard to the limitations of the Constitution,
or a pretence to the common defence aodgen
eral welfare, were creating monopolies, im
munities and privileges for (hemsesve, en
gines of opposition, burthensome taxes, and
enormous national debts for the people.
They resolved to strike once more for in
dependence. With an unerring instinet oud
sagacity peculiar to an incensed and outraged
people; they struck at the centre of this unholy
combination tbe si:n of the system around
TTiiich ail the lesser luminaries revolved, and
from which they drew their light and heat, and
the principles of vitality; they struck their first
blow at the Bank of the United States, the
main pillar of strength to the allied forces;
their high tower of defence into which they re
treated in the hour of distress for council and
succor, and whence went forth the signal for
the rally or the onset; they first resolved on the
destiuction of that 'Mother of Jacobins,' who
could cail to her aid a thousand affiliated and
kindred institutions, living on the pabulum
she furnished; owing their existence to her
will and forbearance; thinking, feeling, and
acting as she thought, felt, and acted; smiling
when she smiled, frowning when she frown
ed; they resolved to crush this vast corpora
tion. In a word, they resolved to level and
raze to the earth that which wa3 the sign and
symbol of an unseen, overwhelming power
which had perverted their Constitution, cor
rupted their agents, and destroyed their liber
ties the bastile of Republican American us
urpation, oppression and tyranny. When
the decree went forth, pronounced by the
Hero of the Iron Nerve, that the Bank of the
United States, after the expiration of its pre
sent charter, should not be renewed; when
that decree was sanctioned and sustained by
a virtuous and patriotic people, resolved to
restore their wounded and down-tiouden Con
stitution, then commenced the Seeond War oj
the Revolution. The second war of revolu
tion, only bloodless as yet, because the larges
ses, open bribery, violence, and excesses,
practised in New York, New Jersey, and
Pennsylvania, could not provoke an honest,
self-possessed, and resolute people into simi
lar practices, riots, and excesses aud be
cause a sufficient number of hired myrmidons
could not- be procured to fire on their country
men, and protect, and cover up and conceal
the fraud, corruption and profligacy which had
been practised at HarrisbUrg.
Seven long years have we been involved in
this war of revolution, and have not yet ap
proached the beginning of the end.
Seven years have nearly elapsed; during
that long period many have fallen in the con
flict many passed from the scene of action;
many leaders and whole masses of men have
changed their position, altered their relations
to each other the old landmarks have been
obliterated darkness has come over the path
of the people the dear objects of their pur
suit seem to -have eluded them at every step,
and they are, apparently, no nearer their at
tainment than when they first began. Con
fused and dispirited, they have been meeting
in their primary assemblies, and in conven
tions, to consult and advise together- to de
termine, if they can, how far they have ad
vancec! in this warfare for independence; .
when they may hope to reach the end; who
are their faithful friends, trust-worthy guiders,
good men and true, in whom they might safe
ly confide ther destinies? They have been
cryinc to the warons on the wall tcatchman,
what of the night!-?nd to the pilot and the
helmsman, look out upon the stars, take til j
aspect of the heavens, and tell us whither w
are drifting, where aie the shoals aud th
PVeakers, and lrom wnat quarter is me siorq
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approaching. At tnis critical anu trying mi
ment, it is our purpose to penorm me pari oj
faithful sentinels. Placed as a watchman ti
on the walls, we shall blow, the trumpet ard
warm the people. We shall tell them, as, t
becometh us, in all plainness and sinceriy,
the errors of their past course the danges
which now beset thern, and the means of es
cape; so that, if they heed not the warning
and perish by the sword, their blood will no
be required at the watchman's hand.
When the revenues of the people were taker
from the Bank of the United States, where
they were used for battering down the con
stitution and the laws, were placed in other de
positories, and the whole subject thus brought
within reach of legislation, then was the time
for the Representatives of the people, in Con
gress assembled, to have matured some plan
for the future collection, sate keeping, and dis
introduced for legislation. It was promised
by a distinguished senator from Virginia; he
pledged himself to its performance, and the
hopes . of the country for a time hung on his
movements. But he never redeemed his pro
mise. And whether he was deterred "by a
modest diffidence of his own powers, or a
dread of the overwhelming majority then ar
rayed against him, or whether he himself was
drawn in, and engulphed.by the mighty mael
strom of bank influence whjch swept every
thing alongn its dashing and whirling eddies,
is no longer a doubtful question. . .
COMMUNICATIONS.
FOR THE NORTH CAROLINIAN.
REPUBLICAN DISTRICT CONVEN
TION. Agreeably to appointment, DelegatesTronr
every county in. this Congressional District
assembled in the Court House in the town of
Rockingham, on Thursday the 13th of June,
1839. The Convention was called to order
Dursemeni i &a ' Fmuem, . WaRer p L Esq. of Richmond coun-
well-digestea plan, wnicn snou.u regard me , . Tnn,: Thnmas L. U
welfare of the community, and not the inter
ests of a few classes of men which should
separate the Government from all extraneous
ty, upon whose motion Thomas L. Hybart,
Esq., a Delegate from Cumberland, was elect
ed President Messrs. John Morrison, of
Moore, and William B. Cole, of Richmond,
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iniiuence, ana piace non iuuroau pi mcipies were elected Vice Presidents-aad Hampton
of equality and justice embodied m the con- fi Hammond of An and EtIward Mac
stitution, and which would esteem the moral f Mnntmimw. wm elecd W
and political integrity, and the liberties of the ;es
IJtJOpH?, Ul 1 tlli 11 itti uiui c ti i ui. tuau tut? lam
attempt to regulate exchanges and currency by
governmental machinery. Few, however, at
that time seemed to comprehend the true
question before the country. Many honest,
sincere friend of the people, circumscribed in
,their vision, really imagined it was only a
crusade against the Bank of the United States;
and that when the overthrow of that institution
was accomplished, the controversy would be
at an end, not dreaming it was a death strug
gle for power and supremacy, an effort on the
part of the people to' regain their lost indepen
dence, to restore to its natural and constitiP
tional owners that power which an unjust, par
tial, and unwise legislation had thrown into
the hands of corporations, monopolies and
speculators, into the hands of a rnonied aris
tocracy, a republican oligarchy to which the
Bank of the United States was the nucleus of
attraction, the thinking-bead and controlling
w ill. The true friends of reform, while ignor
ant of the characterand extent of the evil to
be remedied, were laboring under a fatal delu
sion which prevented them from adopting
those wise measures demanded by the crisis
of the times. Taught only in the school of
bank financiers, they were led to believe that
the interests of commerce aud trade would be
greatly promoted by permitting the public re
venue to be used by banks, as a fuud to ope
rate on in the same manner as though it were
their own capital. Such had been the prac
tice of the United States Bauk, and all the
local banks, aud such were the doctrines so
zealously inculcated by their friends, that use
and custom, and the uncontradicted dogmas
of bank emissaries, had at length impressed
the minds of honest men with the idea, that
I there was a sort of propriety, if not necessity,
in a connection ot Bank and State in some
form not knowing that credit, which tbey
were so anxious to promote and protect, when
based on souud capital and the actual pro
ducts of the country, pOTcr-se m.n oittaticitjf
and expansibility capable of meeting any in
creased operations of business, and adequate
to every sudden emergency in commercial
vicissitudes, they yielded to the clamor of
bauk friends, and thereby sacrificed the only
measure of reform by which the people were
to be benefitted.
The local banks, on the other hand, and
their numerous friends, never co-operated in
the destruction of the United States Bank,
with an honest intention of promoting the
great constitutional reform on which the peo
ple had entered. They looked only to the po
litical advantages accruing to themselves, and
to the spoils of victory. They had been re
stricted in their operations, clicked and
thwarted in all their plans, and kept in a state
of vassalage by the overshadowing influence of
that national institution. They clearly fore
saw that if the Bank of the United States were
once removed, they would, by an easy and
natural combination, control the entire legis
lation of the country; and realise vast sums of
money by an unlimited trade on the com
merce, public lands, and credit of the Union.
Possessing all power in their respective States,
they could not brook opposition, and easily
grasped at the proffered means of casting off
restraint, and expaudmg their own fortunes.
Hence their hostility and zealous co-operation
against the Bank of the United States. Their
motives cannot be mistaken. Never inten
ding to surrender any of their domiuion and
power over the fortunes and liberties of the
people, they only desired to clip the aspiring
wing of one who soared above the rest. It
was a sort of Runnymedc agreement among
the rag barons, that no one of the fraternity
should be monarch over the other a quarrel
of the robbers against their brigand chief for
assuming more authority than is justly due to
him a quarrel which would soon be healed
when the band itself is endangered, or new
spoils are to be obtained. When therefore
we consider the friends of the United States
Bank, who well nigh constituted a majority
of the whole Congress, the friends of the
State banks who entered into the crusade
merely for their own private gains, and the
friends of reform who were laboring under a
delusion, it will not be surprising that so few
comprehended the true crisis of affairs; and
that no sound measures were proposed or
adopted. What more could be expected of a
body composed of such materials, than panic
speeches, agitation, and a vile scramble
among the rival interests for a portion of the
spoils.
The wise plan of ultimately producing the
reformation desired by the people of finally
separating the Government from the banks,
by causing them to withdraw their small notes,
reduce their circulation, and fill dp the chan
nels of trade with gold and silver, so that the
divorce might take place without anv iuiurv
to themselves, or any shock to the business of
the country, was talked of, highly praised,
held up to public view as the most salutary
and important reform ever proposed, but it
was never digested into any definite form, or
Walter F.- Leak,
. Leak, Esq. it was
taries.
On motion of Walter F Leak, Esq. a
committee of three were appointed to report
the names of the Delegates in attendance.
The following gentlemen were appointed said
committee, viz: Walter F. Leak, A. Watson
and William P. Johnson who reported the
following Delegates as being in attendance:
Anson. Hampton B. Hammond,
N. D. Boggan,
Joel Tyson,
S. W. Cole,
Dr. C. Watkins,
John M. Ingram,
William P. Johnson,
E. P. Harrell,
Dr. E. Sinclair,
James L. Terry,
John Q. McPherson,
S. C. Lindsay, and
Lawrence Moore. "
Cumberlatid. Thomas L. Hybart,
Daniel Baker,
R. D. Gill is, and
Arthur Melvin.
Montgomery. Edward McColIum,
JMoore. John Morrison,
Malcom M. Blue, and
John M. D. Ray.
Robeson. R. W. Fuller,
A. Watson, and
Lewis Thompson.
Richmond. John McAlister, Sen'r.
F. T. Leak,
Euclid Everett,
William B. Cole,
Pleasant M. Powell,
Alexander Shaw,
A. W. Moody,
John C. Covington,
John D. Hoi ten,
Dr. P. Stance!,
B. C. Covington,
Champ Terry, s
I. It. Nicholson,
William Smith, Jr. and
Walter F. Leak.
On motion of Mr. Leak,
Resolved, That a commitee consisting of one De
legate from each county be appointed to report reso
lutions expressive of the sense of this Convention,
on the objects for which it assembled. Alessrs. F.
T. Leak, W. P. Johnson, Daniel Baker, Edward
McColIum, Alexander Watson and M. Blue were
appointed.
On motion, the President of the Conven
tion was added to the Committee.
The Convention then adjourned until 2
o'clock. .
2 O'clock, P. M.
The Convention met according to adjourn
ment. The Committee appointed to prepare reso
lutions expressive of the sense of the Conven
tion, reported the following, which were unan
imously adopted:
Resolved, That this Convention cordially approve
of the principles upon which the Republican Admin
istration of Martin Van Buren has been conducted.
We also approve of his skill and management of the
Maine boundary question, as also of his conduct of
our foreign relations generally that we heartily re
spond to the various expressions of the popular will
in favor of his re-election to the Presidency.
Resolved, That we approve of the course pursued
by our Senators in Congress touching the resolutions
usually denounced the Raynor Resolutions that
while we here publicly profess oar devotion to the
doctrine of "Instruction," we hold that honesty and
candor require of the constituent body to use direct
and explicit language, when it designs to instruct
that we believe the majority of our last General As
semblv purposely evaded the use of tanguage which
would" commit them to the doctrine of instructions.
Resolved, That we approve of the Independent
Treasury System as proposed by President Van Bu
ren that we believe the true interests of the people,
and the people's government, will be promoted by its
adoption that we are yet to learn that the people
cannot procure as honest agents as the banks.
Resolved, That we heartily concur in the nomina
tion -of William A. Morris of Anson County, as
a candidate to represent us in the House of Repre
sentatives of the Congress of the United States that
we approve his nomination, because he is opposed to
a National Bank; because he is opposed to abolition;
because he acts with that party which oppose, as a
party, the mischievous and dangerous schemes of the
Abolitionists; because he is opposed to a tariff of
protection and its legitimate offspring, internal im
provement; because he is opposed to Clay, Harrison
and Webster for the Presidency; because he is in fa
vor of the doctrines avowed i ad acted on by the
State Rights, Republican party; and that we will
use every honorable means to secure his election.
Resolved, That we unequivocally condemn a tariff
for the protection ot the manufacturers ot the .North
at the expense of the farmer of the Sonth; that we also
deny that the people ever delegated to Congress the
power to create a United States Bank, or any other
corporation to exist in the States or either of them;
that the creation of such a body is a plain and palpa
ble violation of the Constitution; that it is also dan
gerous to the liberties of the people, and inexpedient
is a mere measure of policy; that we deny that Con
gress has the right to levy or collect a direct or indi
rect tax, to be applied to works of internal improve
ment in the States.
Resolved, That the foregoing are measures which
now, as heretofore, must distinguis h political par
ties in this country; that as measures they had their
origin with men who avowed themselves as Federal
ists; and though now sustained by those who call
themselves whigs, their character as measures favor
ing the constructive powers of Congress is un
changed; that we are opposed to the mad schemes of
those political tanatics ot the iNorth, known as Aboli
tionists, religiously believing that had it not been for
the noble and magnanimous stand which the Repub
lican party in Congress took in arresting the evil, it
would have resuitea in a dissolution or me union.
Resolved, That we are opposed to the election of
Henry Clay, William H. Harrison and Daniel Web
ster, or either of them, to the Presidency: that they
all and each hold doctrines essentially federal. ..
The Coavention was then -addressed by
Thomas L. Hybart and
Esquires. ...
On motion of Walter F
unanimously -
Resolved, That a committee of one person from
each county in this Congressional District, be ap
pointed to prepare an address to the freemen of. this
District, touching the approaching Congressional
election. -
The following' gentlemen were respectively
nominated as said committee, viz: .
. Hardy L. Holmes, of Cumberland,
Walter F. Leak, of Richmond,
John W. Powell, of Robeson,
Clement C. Marshall, of Anson,
Farquhar Martin, of Montgomery,
John Morrison, of M oore. . .
On motion, Thomas L." Hybart, of Cum
berland, was added to the committee.
On motion, it was
Resolved, That the proceedings of this Conven
Vcntion be published in the North Carolinian, North
Carolina Standard, and all the Democratic Republi
can papers in this State
On motion, the Convention adjourned
THO. L. HYBART, President.
John Morrison, J y presid:ts,
William B. Cole, j
Edward McCollum, Secretaries.
H. B. Hammond, )
FOR THE JIMIH .irf ,
REPUBLICAN MEETING IN MONT
GOMERY.
Later encevilUj Montgomery County,
Alonday, June 10A, 1839. )
After a few days previous notice, a num
ber of the Democratic Republican citizens of
Montgomery county, met at the Court House,
in Lawrenceville.
When the meeting was on?a'nized on mo
tion of Thomas Tomlinson, Esq. by calling
Farquhar Martin,- to the chair, and appoint
ing Doctor Jesse B. Covington, and Col.
Neill Nicholson, Secretaries. The object of
the meeting was explained in an able, lucid
and appropriate manner, by the chair. .
On motion of R. McLennan, Esq. to ap
point a committe of seven, to draft a pream
ble and resolutions expressive of the views
of this meeting, the chair appointed, Ed
ward McCallum, Esq. Alexander McKay,
Esq. Angus Martin, Esq. Thos. Tomlinson,
Esq. Doctor Neill McCallum, Capt. James
R. Clark and Roderick McLennan, Esq. said
committee; who after retiring for some time,
reported the foil wing through E. M. McCal
lum, Esq. chairman of the committee, all of
which were read separately and passed unan
imously. Whereas, The institutions under which
we happily live, secure to us, not only the
high and exalted privilege of exercising our
free and untrammelled suffrage m the choice
of our rulers, but also that of assembling
ourselves, to express our opinions on those
measures which long have and now do,
govern and protect us, and which we wish
to transmit. unimpaired into the hands of pos
terity, .
Therefor Resolved, -That the Hon. Martin- Van
Buren,-President tjf -the United States, his able cab
inet; and the RcpublicailVlembers or Congress, are
entitled to our gratitude and future support, for the
ability and patriotism evinced by their devotion to
those principles,, which engrossed .the active and bu
siness portion of the lives of Washington, J.fferson,
JWadison, Jackson and others, in rescuing our State
institutions, commerce, and foreign and domestic
exchanges, from the thraldom in which our abuse of
the blessings ot the credit system has plunged us, at
a time when the dying grasp of that cruel, and pro
lific mother of monopoly and corruption (the late
Bank of the United States,) hung like a deadly in
cubus upon our commerce and exchanges, and even
upon our cotton and other produce.
Resolved, That we heartily concur with the friends
of that "measure of deliverance and liberty," the
Independent Treasury System, which if established
on a firm basis, as a permanent law of the nation,
will make our public funds independent of all banks,
or any other corporations or power on earth, except
Congress, who are the immediate representatives of
all the people of these United States, whose property
the public funds are, and not that of bank directors
or stockholders.
Resolved, That the establishment of a National
Bank
"Of disroiinl and Deposite,"
with a capital of fifty millions, allowed to have nu
merous branches, and made the depository of all our
national pecuniary resources, will place a financial
lever in a single hand, (irresponsible to any depart
ment of Government,) one touch of which, whether
prompted by motives of interest or ambition, can
trample on those sacred revered rights of the States,
(in which we much confide) by giving foreign and
domestic exchanges, the notes of our Statebanks,
property, produce and labor, a value to suit its pur
poses from the location of the principal Bank to the
very borders of the remotest State, besides, having
the custody of our Government funds, can (by sus
pending specie payments at the pleasure of the direc
tors) change their character after being deposited,
by collecting officers, before disbursed.
Resolved, That the abundant facilities enjoyed at
this time by all classes of our citizens, in carrying
on trade with the whole world has convinced the
most sceptical that our exports, imports, and State
Banks are amply sufficient for business as well as
Government that nothing but a great "regulator"
can binder our local institutions from a favorable in
troduction abroad, when based on a real mctalic, and
not a fictitious capital; and that every State Legisla
ture possesses the wisdom and prudence, and their
citizens the means to establish such institutions suit
ed to their external, as well as internal wants, whe
ther great or email.
Resolved, That whilst we repose full confidence
in the wisdom, enterprise, and other resources of
Southern Agriculturists, to Becure to ourselves all
the blessings of a free and direct trade with all na
tions, invited thereto by the smoothness of the inter
vening waters which surround us, we view with
indignation that iniquitous protective tariff system,
which has so long driven us to bow to New York
brokers--and factors, as door keepers for most of our
exports, imports, and foreign exchanges, to the build
ing up of manufacturing and other monopolies
among our more politic brethren atthe North, at the
expense of Southern agriculture and commerce, un
der the plausable pretence of furnishing a revenue
to meet the wants of the Government; its authors
striving at the same time to make room for it in the
National Treasury, by diverting the proceeds of the
sales of the oublic lands from the legitimate purpose
of defraying the expenses of Government, to that of
distribution as well into ine laps or tnose wnose la
bor is protected as ours who pay the bounty, and
extravagant appropriations for local works of intern
l imnrnvprnnnt bv the Geneial Government combin
ed with the concentration of the rnonied powers of
the late United States Bank in the favored region, to
the end that those combined evils may not be entailed
on us and our children, we will use every right left
us as freemen, to avert the elevation of that thrice re-
isctfid political aspirant, Henry Clay, toa ruling sta
tion, as the zeal and skill manifested by him in. his
ffrts to keep the voke just as heavv as we would
bear it, ever since his disci pleship to John duincy
Adams, at a nominal price has been amply suffi
cient to excite to vigilant watchfulness any people
against whose interest they have betrayed; who have
not forgotten his refusin
against the cause
fusing to enlist (by 'keepinTw,
of Abolitionism,' until the
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was fought and the, victory won; his late reon'
over the slain cause to the contrarr. hot;tk.,.!,J!n,
- Resolved, That the late attempt of that portin"18- I
the Federal authors nf tlimw mh;,i,. "on Of F
well known as "The Raynor Resolutions if
wrote, read and were the principal actors in send
them before the world, under the Republican apnen"
tion of "plain instructions'! as the act of "a port-
to call them by that name when representing ns" I
the Legislature of North Carolina, is an indio-n!! L?
attempt to deceive and dictate to the freemen of th y
country which we will never 'recognize 'or toleraii8 f
while we believe intelligent men capable of self-'a!
vt rnment, and tkat shaping them in caucus, and
uuug iut uisTii it infir places iu me Legislature
ought to satisfy tSem, without attsmpting to Ieo-iti'
mate or ratify thew without the knowledge or con
sent of one hundredth part of our free population.
Resolved. That our abt6, consistent, and patriotic
Republican Senators in Congress, Hon. Bedford'
Brown and Robert Strange, have excited anew 0iir
esteem, by rescuing in so signal a manner, the sa.
cred doctrines of instruction in our State, from hands
.who refused to incur that responsibility, indispensa
ble in all humtn intercourse to ask, Or expect, com
pliance, and have entitled themselves to our future
confidence and support, by thejr liberality and dig.
interestedness minifested in the confidence reposed
in the Republicanism of our citizens by throwing
the ratification or rejection of their course into the
nana s ol all the treemen ot iNorth Carolina.
Resolvei, That we will at the ballot box and else
where, employ all laudable means to prevent ah.
beloved State incuring the infamy of passing said
"Raynor," r any other resolutions under any name t '
whatsoevei-;which have for their object the rivitin
a censure tf official perjury on that distinguished
Southern petriot, Andrew Jackson, before the Senate
of the United States and the world, after he has retir-; irfvf
ed to private life, at the age of seventy-five years- " 'J
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public service, and most of it in arduous struggles:
to elevate Southern interests. - .
Resolved, That the old Whig flag, which so long pp
and. so gallantly waved over our heads in the dark '" tttf
days f the revolution, is still ' in our custody, and : f&
that the modern cloak lately named alter it, under
which the old Federalists, high-toned Tariff men,
Abolitionists, Conservatives, Neutralists; Clay'men,
Harrison men, WebsU men, and all other disap
pointed and disaffected politicians (not excepttnjj
even the "no party men,") seek to hide their real
principles; has two many stripes of too varied hues
to bear any affinity to the plain S.epublican fabric,
worn by our ancestors in '76. ' -
Resolved, That our knowledge of the devotion of
William A. Morris, Esq to the cardinal princi
ples of Republicanism, his hostility to that Federal
system of sectional legislation, which has caused us
much alarm, distrust and injury to our beloved coun- ! S.
try; and our confidence in his talents and patriotism, ;
to represent our district with usefulness to his con- J
stituents, and honor to himself; entitle him to our J
support at the approaching election for a seat in the V :f
next Congress of the United States. Hfc
Resolved, That we approve of the plan of holding I f'
a district Convention in the town of Rockingham on B-.-Jg
the 13 inst and that this meeting appoint fifteen del- f -'sg
egates to attend said Convention. V f
The chair appointed the following dele-
gates: Henry M. Tomlinson, Esq. Howell ;
Harris, Esq. Capt. D. Munroe, Alexander
Kirk, Esq. D. Chisholm, Esq. Malcom Mun- f -:.
roe, Sen. Esq. Kinnith McLennan, Esq. Eli - "
Harris, Esq. Isham Hix, Esq. Captain D. sf rl
McAulay, Doctor Neill McCallum, Culpeper :J
R. Watkins, Col. Neill Nicholson, Edward r
McCallum, Esq. Doctor Jesse B. Covington.
On motion of Capt. Nathan Carter, the
chairman was added to the delegation.
On motion of Yancy B. Howell, ;
Resolved, That a copy of the proceedings of this
meeting be signed by the Chairman and Secretaries, 1
and transmitted to the editors of the North Carolini-
an nnrl IVrtrth 'nmMnn Standard, with a ren nest that s t
they and all .other editors in this State, friendly to ikf
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dissemination of Republican truth, publish them.
On motion ot Win. JVli-Callum, Ksq ..
Resolved, That the thanks of this meeting are due
its officers.
F. MARTIN, Chairman.
N. Nicholson, ) . .
i -o r t Secretaries.
J. J. Lovikgtoit, )
FOR THE NORTH CAROLINIAN.
Rockingham, .V. C. June 17.
FOURTH OF" JUIiY.
A meeting was held in this place on the
12th inst. preparatory to the celebration of
the approaching Anniversary of American
Independence. It was organized by calling
Col. J. W. Covington, to the chair, and ap
pointing Mb. P. H. Jennings, Secretary.
1 he house proceeded to the election of an f
Orator; whereupon Mr. John W. Leak was
elected.
A motion was made and carried, that the
Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence,
prefaced by remarks relating to that event,
be read on the occasion; and that it precede :
the reading of the National Declaration of
Independence. Mr. D. P. McDonald, was
chosen to read the one; Mr. Peter H. Jen
nings, the other.. The chair appointed the
following gentlemen a committee of arrange
ments: Messrs. D. P. McDonald, P. H.
Jennings and John B. Holton; and Messrs. .
James P. Leak, William B. Cole, and D.
P. McDonald, committee of toasts.
A resolution was offered and adopted,
That all allusions to party politics, whether
in regular or volunteer toasts, be carefully
avoided; believing that such allusions could
be attended with no good results, but would ''
be destructive of that harmonv and good
feeling which ought always to prevail on so
interesting an occasion. .
On motion, it was ordered that the pro
ceedings of this meetins: be published in the
"North Carolinian" and "Observer."
On motion, the meeting adjourned.
J. W. COVINGTON, Chairman.
P. H. Jennings, Secretary.
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Our Squadron in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Norfolk Beacon states that there will
shortly be a very formidable squadron of our
vessels of war in the Gulf of Mexico, grea
ter in number and calibre of square rigged
vessels than, perhaps, has ever been under
the command of a single ofheer, or assembled
at a single foreign port in peace. In the
first place the frigate Constitution will shortly
be at Vera Cruz.; The squadron of Commo
dore Shubrick consists of the flag ship, the
Macedonian frigate, the Ontario, VandaJia,
Levant, Erie, Warren and Natchez sloops of
war. When the Costitutiou joins the squad
ron we will be able to frighten the Mexicans
as badly as the French did. There must be
some design in keeping such a heavy navy in
the Gulf of Mexico. Augusta Sentinel.
The New York American says: "The
loan negociated by Gen. McDuffie, of South
Carolina, who returned in the packet ship
Roscins, from Liverpool, has been placed in
the hands of the U. S. Bank. The amount
now available is 350,000. The Bank con
tinues to supply the market with exchange on
England at 9 1 2 prem.
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