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of old ones, and the incorporation of internal
improvement companies with banking privi
leges. A new impulse a perfect steam-engine
propulsion, has recently been given by
the introduction of what is called the free
banking system. Be it known that we are
friendly to a free banking system based on
specie and real capital, and confined strictly
to trading and commercial purposes. But the
free banking system now in fashion is the
monatrum horrendum of this present Revolu
tion, and is destined to play more havoc with
the morals, fortunes, and liberties of the peo
ple, than the famed guillotine with the heads
of men. s
v Judging of its spirit and final develope
ment from what has already been done, we
may fairly infer that issues of this new inven
tion will in a short time equal in uoiniual va
lue the entire - property, both personal and
real, of the whole Union. Mortgages on
real estate, negroes, and stocks, thereby em
bracing every kind of property, will be made
the basis of banking operations; and every
one fearing that his neighbor may derive
more advantages from it than himself, will
eagerly pledge his fortune, and press iuto the
scheme, so that the people and the banks will
be involved and entangled with each other in
paper credits in some form or other, to the
entire amount of property in the country.
Now, when we consider that, a circulating
medium sufficient for all business purposes is
only required to bear a certain ratio, one-Jifth
or one-tic entieth, as some make it, to the an
nual productions a currency such as ours is
destined to be, -equalling in nominal value
not only the annual productions, but the
entire property of the community, both person
al and real, must sink down of its own weight,
its enormous over proportions must crumble
it in, and crush it iuto a mass of ruins. The
whole circulation must become spurious and
worthless a world of promises without the
intention or capacity of fulfilment a bottom
less gulf of falsehoods, in which all things,
public and private, are doomed to sink and
disappear. But do the original inventors of
the falsehood, the cunning foiger of the lies,
suffer the smatf of thir detection and protest?
Ub, no! Uh, no! that were some compensa
tion, but far otherwise is the result. Lies,
and the burthen of evil, they bring are passed
on, shifted from back to back, and from rauk
to rank and so land ultimately on the hard
labouring mass who with spade and mattock,
with sore heart and empty wallet, daily come
in contact with reality and can pass the
cheat no further.
Theu will the tyrant come, and, like anoth
er Neptune, will ride over the troubled bil
lows, wave his omnipotent trident, bid the
waters cease their commotions, roll back into
the eaves, and be hushed, and forever after
will reign in undisputed sway with a rod of
iron. Such will be the end of the Revolution,
dimly shadowed forth because the reality has
yet to come. But if the events do not fulfil
our words, then say we are false prophets, and
have not rightly warned the people; yet we are
deeply impressed with a consciousness that
the truth only bas been delineated, and unless
the people take heed in time, such must be
their inevitable doom. If they will not heed
our voice of warning, we pray them to learn
wisdom from their own experience. Look
back on the history of the oligarchy for the
last fifty years, such as we have portrayed it,
aud such as we know it to have been, and
what do we find? Repeated acts of violence
on the constitution; a continued prostitution
of the laws for selfish and fraudulent purpos
esand a total perversion of Government to
the oppression and ruin of the people, aud the
aggrandisement of themselves. Our fathers
declared, even before the constitution was
formed, that the principles and the favorite
measures of the oligarchy "were incompatible
with the public safety, totally destructive of
that equality which ought to prevail in a re
public." The bitter experience of half a cen
tury has impressed upon us the truth of their
anticipations, yet we linger! still hesitate to
go forward and meet the lowering front of the
enemy. Are you prepared then, sons of
America! tamely to yield up the hereditary
franchises of more than two centuries, and the
birthright of your fathers, won by their blood
and treasure. Are you prepared as degeue
late sous to receive the chains which are for
ging for you? To bow in willing submission
to the yoke inimical interests are about to
bind upon your necks. If your hearts have
not been tamed by long years of usurpation,
and your spirits enervated by the degeneracy
of the times; if you still love liberty, and the
blessings of independence, aud are willing
to lift a hand in their defence, then come and
rally around the standard ot the Constitution.
Thai has been planted on a rock eternal as
th3 rock of ages truth, justice, aud the rights
of man principles understood, felt, and prac
tised by your fathers, aud bequeathed to you
as the greatest blessings that could be confer
red by a race of patriots, heroes, aud states
men. Amidst the difficulties that beset us, and in
view of the dangers that threaten, in those
eternal principles alone can we find safety;
on them alone we may repose with an assu
rance that they will bear us through every pe
ril. You have but little uuderstood them,
never practiced them. From the foundation
of the Government, you have been in the
hands of an oligarchy, lead, duped, deceived
by them. For forty years have they led you
through the wilderness, and at length brought
you to the point whence you started taxation
without representation. As you love your
salvation, then, come out from among them.
Have charity to believe th?y do not mali
ciously design your subjugation; pity and for
give, but eschew their ways, abandon" their
doctrines, their principles, their institutions,
which are sinking you into ruin, and plant
yourselves, ere it be too late, on the rock of
the Constitution, w hat are the doctrines ot
th'3 Constitution on that great question now
before you which for forty years has been
the source of endless perplexities, and has at
length come up for decision -which peculiar
ly coastkutes the crisis of the times, and on
which the great battle for independence and
daoitaian bas to be fought? As truth always
is, they rire few, simple, intelligible. They
require that legislation shall not be perverted
from the' cormion defence and general wel
' fare, to promote the interests of a few sec
tions, classes, or individuals; that no more
revenues shall be collected than are necessa
ry for the economical administration of a Go
vernment limited to a few general and speci
fied objects; that they shall be collected in ac
tual values, gold ancLsilver, and not in spuri
ous promises; shall be safely kept by sworn
and chosen officers of the Government, under
for the faithful discharge of
their duties; Bhall not be long retained or accu
mulated, so as to be a temptation to me om-
cer to use, and to the representative to misap
ply them; but promptly employed tor the pur
poses they were collected, ana tnenoe resum
ed into the ordinary channels of trade. These
are the principles of the Constitution, which
must bring home conviction to every nnuu;
these are the doctrines the present Adminis
tration have embraced as their own, on which
they have staked their salvation, and now call
upon the people to come up to meir suppon
and defence. And most assuredly will they
come. Can any one hesitate? Is there one
so besotted by the delusions of party, so en
tangled in its meshes, that he is afraid to ven
ture on these simple' truths? Then let him
go; he is unworthy the name of a freeman.
Afraid to trust the principles of the Constitu
tion! As well might the Christian be afraid
of his Bible. When the spirit of reforma
tion comes upon the church, after long years
of corruption and herejsy, where does she look
lor guides to lend her through the mazes ot a
tangled labyriuth to the practices and homi
lies f fallible, designing men, or to the ora
cles of inspiration? Aud in this day ot poll
tical corruption and heresy, the spirit of re
formatiou has seized on the -people, and to the
oracles of the Constitution must they look for
their guides.
Resolved no longer to be duped and decei
ved, they are rousing themselves as one man,
and coining forth tcthe battle; already do we
feel the deep ground-swellings that precede
the rolling of the mighty billows; even now
do we hear their voice, mighty and terrible,
like the voice of many waters. Ouward they
come, an innumerable host, eagerly pressing
into the last Water loo-fieU'; aye a more than
Waterloo-field nobler principles, deeper in
terests, are staked upon its issue; such a held
as was fought on the plains of heaven, when
angel and archangel, principalities and pow
ers, were assembled to prove the strength of
Omnipotence over the prince of darkness.
And shall the sovereign decrees of the same
almighty lawgiver, holy and just, prevail on
earth, is now the theme to be determined.
Shall man, the workmanship of his hands,
endowed with faculties divine, and made heir
of immortality, live according to the laws of
his nature, enjoy the birthrights of his ere tion,
tread the green earth, breathe the limpid air
untrammelled, live by the sweat of his own
Drow, enjoy me iruits ot nis own ton, and as
free of limb, so be free of heart; free to choose
I i nt . it -
nis moae oi nappiness, ana to toitow tne im
pulses of that divine, ever-active priuciple
pervading all things, existing m all natures,
., e wo; ronrosontorl as Whig: and she is Ad-
VU W V " m-w w
and the foster mother.
FROM THE GLOBE.
NATIONAL BANK.
We have recentiy noticed, as one of the
significant signs of the times, a concerted
bosom
to vwrt - it
upon local and not political grounds. Gray-
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son, Russell, Smyuie, iszeweu, -toward,
Washington and a few others; are put
down as Conservative, when the information
received from those counties shows, that they
and their delegates are administration, and
will "O with the Administration on an promi-
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JSrW nent questions, and will vote for a Democrat
UllOIl 111 Ittvui Ji vi iiauwuu j i . ,T 43 C Tlr.r m flnltnTi na
have started from the halt-way-house, as we - . , Mirftl,, and Braxton
formerly predicted, ana a tneiun r - . , . - , ajj mies: The fact
fifty horse power ocomotive, into tne gun ot r ' v 5e connected
Hamiltoman federalism -""rr." with Conservatism in the slightest degree, is
Pmp
v .,M ' a -r.,ia;nn rtf down accordingly, and added to their list to
as in me panic oi io, . - Administration
icoiv .u: haa nnwrniM. line, i
is movement nas rawceuwi. -- .
ther as a part of the scheme, or as mere pre- ViTf Zu
1 nntoctoH rirntta I 11 IIOIIUI cxuii - uiajui
of one bank institution-closing the doors of Z
othersfailure of one mercantile firm cotton imucu up. , - ".6&-j
Is this fair? Is
The majority of those who are
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circular combinations to sustain others de- we me ' I a,
. . -r nnnv, thu i inev wm ui no uvm .i
nunciations oi one lutasuie au; - . A. . e A. i. -
. .. r u: . I nnrt it. r urmer, tne uiosi oi uiusc uomreu
r. 1 il . O MM An.!
. l. r u i ., I tie Tennessee, wuere mere aieunu iw
ter croaK,croaK,croaK, ui r,m:,i:sfrnt; ' VftfRS. and where those vclept
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Conservatives could never have been elected,
When the disease is excess, the cry is for
more rum; so Messrs,
to their grand party
dav aud lo. recur
stimulus, a National
Bank.
We ask our readers to advert a moment
if thev had declared against the Administra-
j . . . . i .
tion. lhey were elected Dy Administration
counties, as Administration men, aua as
such hnnl.l hp. renorted. These facts must
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have been known to the hig editors we
.L . j i . I cannot see why they snouia doikuow uiem.
io u.? io.iow.ng " - ,vhv t, . th' tnI1 actRd? CouId there
Ihe yeomanry and mecnanics, me irienaa j j - . . , .
of a really nd currency of a constitutional be any other reason for it but a wish to make
oiuuuaru oi vaiuc, r". l: 'j.u i' Ut ,m K.V
nfo trnt .TpfTorann an construction ot the s ""u ""'c,7 "f
rnncilnnlnn will e. whither the combined I Prty tor a snort iirne: axe away num.
opposition are seeking to lead them
1. Only eighteen days ago, Mr. Dennis
aud strongest in his own
noxious qualities, to sweep away infection,
aud upprea all ovii! - or oboll be live in servi
tude to his fellow man till the earth, and
bear its fruits an offering to a fellow worm;
walk prone and cowering like a brute, em
ployed as a tool, an implement or passive
thing, without acknowledgement of right or
interest in the end; his soul made abject, to
be abused as selfishness may prompt, made
weak in all good, and strong alone iu evil?
Shall this, the only spot on earth where man
eniovs the high behests of Heaven, aud
marches onward to fulfil the laws of his crea
tion, cease to glory in its privileges; the star I
of hope to all nations be blotted from the fir
mament; aud the peace and good will on earth
ordained, of God, be put far back unto gene
rations yet unborn? These are the mighty
iuterests thrown into the scales of perilous
war the precious jewels cast on the uncertain
tide of this revolution. Conscious of the aw
ful wagers staked upon the issue, the aich-ene-my
of truth aud human kind, the grand hier
arch of apostacy, plies every enginery that
malice or the dread of falling fortunes can iu
vent, to dupe and draw into his train states
and principalities, and men of every grade,
regardless of the means, as is his wont, so
that the end may be obtained. Amid the
many thousands who have fallen a prey to his
seductive arts, and the shrewd appliances of
private ends and selfish interests, there is one
at least who proves a faithful Abdiel.
Among the faithless, faithful only he;
Among the innumerable, false, unmovec,
Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified!
Nor number, nor example with him wrought
To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind,
Though single. From amidst them forth he passed,
And with retorted scorn I is back he turned
On those proud t-wers to swift destruction doomed!
And who is this faithful Abdiel? The
standard of a mighty State he bears, scorning
to hold allegiance with apostacy; foremost in
the rauk he moves, bearing aloft a fit emblem
of the State he is proud to serve; a goddess
erect and calm, though treading chains and
tyranny beneath her feet; a banner, which
never waved o'er craven hearts or faltering
lines; a surer harbinger of victory than the
Prior's sacred relique, on ' uplifted spear, in
Flodden field.
Renowned old commonwealth! Ancient
est, purest, noblest, of the Iraiu of vestal sis
ters, who feed the flame on freedom's altar!
When first the tyrant came, with holy zeal, she
fought against him, and flung upon the breeze
her thrillimg war-cry, firt'ie me liberty or give
me death! which now is echoed back with
cheerful voice by her thousand sons. First,
to read aright the charter of human liberties,
and pluck it from the grasp of ruthless ene
mies; again, she comes to save it from perver
tion and the taint of treache ous friends. Ev
er prodigal of her wealth and of her sons, in
liberty's defence; pre-eminent she stands in
deeds snd sacrifice; and yet, above them all,
she values most, virtue, honor, and the sacred
cause of truth. Scorning selfishness and low
ambition, one end alone she seeks the com
mon good. Who fails to study that, although
her son, she will repudiate. Even now a
lesson she is teaching, fraught with more of
good to human kind than all the lessons of
the schools a' lesson which the world must
learn ere Government can rest on sure and
jnst fouudatious-that law and truth, and
principle alone, no feeble man, must be a na
tion's guide; that no distinction, eminence or
Smith, that bird of ill omen, comes out in the
National Intelligencer in favor of a National
Bank, though expressing some misgivings
that the project could not at present succeed
2. The letters of the New York Express
corresnondent every few days teem with ti
rades against the exchanges and the curren
cv. and with exhortations in favor of a Na
tioual Bank.
3. The Evening Star of the 12th instant,
puts out the following feeler
"As a private enterprise, unconnected with
extensive combination, the plan of making
advances and suspending the immediate sale
of cotton, may fairly be justified, and had the
original circular been framed with a little more
caution, all criticisms upon the subject would
probably have beeu avoided. We .are, how
ever, glad that it has beeu published, as it has
given rise to the examination of a subject of
infinite importance to the Southern country;
we mean the absolute necessity ot a great
moneyed institution, adequate to the bringing
ot the Southern crop to market, at a proper time,
aud under favorable circumstances."
The South! ay, Virginia, South Carolina,
&c. apprized by the new hig and Conser-
-rati-rr; ooalitiou of the absolute necessity of a
great mouied institution!
But the editor arrows bolder, aud under me
name of a correspondent, on the 15th, says:
I know but oue way, and I defy any man
to show another or a better way
" We mut have a National Bank. Stifle
the matter as we will indulge our party no
tions as we will, to this course we must come,
if we have any regard for the good of the whole
country."
4. Jbven the bitter opponent ot the Mar in
his own citv, but still the opponent of the
- I Administration, hesitates not the same week
(as tee have done) all they improperly and false
Iv claim, and thev will be reduced so low
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that "few will do them reverence." And th
should be done in truth and justice. Then
it will be discovered to their mortification,
that Democracy in Virginia is triumphaut!
ohenandoah aenitnel.
Such were the positions of Mr. Clay one
year ago. i ow, according to tpe leaning
federal organ in V lrgima, he '-is no longer me
advocate of these measures." We repeat,
what fresh device what new hobby will the
Junto's candidate bestride? . ;
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FROM THE NEW ERA.
MB. WEBSTER.
Charles Hammond, the able federal editor
of the Cincinnatti Gazette, discourses thus
about the doings of hi3 own party in this
quarter:
"I cannot forbear taking the liberty to say
that an unworthv and contemDtible spirit of
servility pervades the American people.
Their propensity for man-worship seems
equal to that of the Israelites, for their idols,
the work of their Own hands. We have just
had an example of which Mr. Webster is the
subject. Let us see.
The merchants of Boston, New York and
Philadelphia, have advanced sixty thousand
dollars, to pay Mr. Websters debts!
Mr. Webster has sold his elegant resi
dence in Boston for thirty thousand dollars!
Mr. Webster and his family are about to
visit Europe!
Mr. Webster bade his friends farewell,
and left Boston'fbr New York, May ll!
Mr. "Webster left New York for Philadel
phia on Monday, May 13!
Mr. Webster leaves New York, Saturday,
May 17!
During Mr. Webster's absence, the mag
nificent vase presented to him by the citizens
of Boston, will be exhibited at the store o
the manufacturers!
Last, not least the Boston tailors made
Mr. Webster "a present of a suit of clothes!"
; There is only one mistake in this. The
American people en masse have had nothing
to do with all this servility. The democra
cy certainly have not. Man-worship is nei
ther part of their creed nor their practice.
They leave that to the federal monarchists
and aristocrats.
lbs.; in 1830 it was 298,459,102 lbs. The
amount .exported in 1838, was upwards of
639,000,000 lbs.; leaving for home consump
tion 98,000,000 lbs.; the-whole crop, in round .
numbers, being estimated at seven hundred
and thirty seven millions of pounds, which, at
fourteen cents per pound, would be worth5
more than one hundred millions of dollars. -This
is a greater amount than ever was pro-'
duced from all the gold and silver mines in the-
whole world in one year.
FROM THE ALBANY ARC US.
THE FEDERAL PRESIDENTIAL
CANDIDATE AND HIS POSITION
Mr. Clay is the candidate of the federal par
ty. hatever may be the casual movements
in this or that nuarter in behalt ot General
Scott, or Gen. Harrison, or any other candi
date, to this complexion it will come at last.
He is the candidate of the Junto m this Mate
aud under the compact by which W m. H
Seward was nominated for Governor, and J.
P. Tallmadge reserved exclusively for the U.
S. Senate, he will be urged as such and as
such, through the intrigues of his unscrupu
lous aud industrious partisans, will carry the
federal delegations to the national conven-
rn from New Yoik, New England, Penn
sylvania, Maryland, &c. &c.
As such, then; the public are entitled to
know his opinions and understanding his po
sition. Ihe Itic-hmona nig, tne accredited
organ of the federal or "whig" party in Viigi-
nef...,.. it (no the S tb iuai.) as follows:
"While these paid tools of the Executive
are ceaselessly iuveighing against the Sena
tor from Kentucky for his former advocacy of
a 1 arm, Internal Improvements, and a Bank,
they strangely omit to inform their readers
that he is no longer the advocate of these
measures."
Heretofore in the Presidential race, Mr
Clay has run as the avowed friend and advo
cate of a Tariff, Internal Improvements by the
general government, and a National Bank.
these were the grounds on which votes were
claimed for him by his partisans; and the
grounds ou which be claimed to stand before
the American people. Ou the other hand.
Gen. Jackson and Mr. Van Buren were de-
nouueed by him and his partisans as the op
ponents of a Protective Tariff, Internal Im
provements, aud a National Bank. No po
sition could have been more distinctly assum
ed lhan that in which Mr. Clay chose to pre
seul himself in relation to these questions,
down to the-opening of the present campaign.
lhey were the hobbies on which, full mouut-
ed and at hard aud high riding, he sought to
win popularity and catch votes. Vaulting
PENNSYLVINIA ELECTION.
By the report of the Senate committee, to
whom was referred the resolution of inquiry as
to the number of votes given at the lale elec
tion for Governor of Pennsylvania, and for
and against the amendments to the constitu
tion of this State, it appears that the whole
number of votes on these two questions, were
as follows: For Governor, David R. Porter,
133,555; Joseph Kitner, 126,029. Majority
for Porter, 7,521. Constitution: for the
Amendments, 119,228. Against the Amend
ments, 116,076. Majority for the Amend
ments, 3,152.
1 he aggregate vote lor trovernor thus ap
pears to have been 259,579; while on the far
more important question of the Constitution
it is stated at 235,304. In other words, twen
ty tour tnousand people voted tor an execu
tive officer, whose term of service must expire
iu three years, who did not deem it worth
wniie to vote tor or agaiust the very torm or
constitution of the government' under which
they live, and to the duration of which there
is no limit! What a commentary upon poli
tical wisdom!
COMMUNICATION
to chime in on this point.
"Under the wholesome supervision of the
United States Bauk, this could not be the case.
That institution, by demanding regular and
prompt settlements of balances, kept the batiks
ot tne wncie country within their proper
spheres. 1 he currency thus rendeied regular,
individual exercise was left to the free exer
cise of its resources, aud general property
was t ie result. The necessity for this con
trolling ower has been felt iu different parts
ot the country in a great degree. In new
England less, because the Suffolk bank has
uniformly acted as the regulator. The Cin
cinnati banks have recently nttrmntd th
same system with the banks whnnpnilnna ambition aud desperate demagoguism, how
are, by the course of trade, brought within ever' aie as ready to ninS away the helPs b7
their sphere of action. As the public become wnu:h thev have so"ght to effect their object,
more awake to the necessity of a general re
gulator, the time for the establishment of a Na
tional Bank, conducted in the manner of the
United States Bank, will approach more near
ly. Until such period arrives, the mercantile
classes will be subjected to ruin in their busi
ness by the speculative interference of mono
polizing institutions,
5. This old Federal faith is re-echoed anew
from the interior of North Carolina by Messrs.
Clay and Rives' partizans, as may be seen by
the following notice in the North Carolina
Standard:
"A Great Meeting. A meeting of Fed
eral Whigs was held iu Salisbury on the 25th
ult. Ihe meeting was called for the purpose
or nominating .Delegates to. a convention,
tUlr.lt tn. . ' . -
. . uominate a candidate in oppo
sition to mr. f ischer. It was a complete tail-
when they seem no longer to serve their pur
pose, as they are unscrupulous in seizing upon
them under other circumstauces. It is thus,
if the Richmoud Whig is to be credited, that
Mr. Clay throws aside the hobbies which, for
fifteen years he has ridden with a free rein,
but wiih slender speed, to mount what? Aye,
what hobby will he next mount iu the race in
which he has been so often distanced?
How far the givings-out of the Richmond
Whig are by authority, we do not assert it is
at least high authority in the federal ranks,
and is a particular and favorite organ of Mr.
Clay. Ihe change on the part of Mr. Clay
is not less suddeu than extraordinary. W ith
io a short period, certainly within a very few
years, he has claimed to be the champion of a
Tariffand of Internal Improvements by the
general government; and little more than a
one.
"And yet the "Whiss"
care
tire, as we hear from the Western Carolinian, year s,jce viz: on the 21st May, 1838, he
being conmosed of th. rhairman nt.d som brought forward his project of a National
ten or twelve nthr nfw .atA r,ta Bank. Every reader of the newspapers of
------- wWi u a uivutvu uwvwa I
given several days previous, and twice rinr- the daV ec"ects its features, and the design
ing the bell on that day. Several resolutions OI roe ,UUVBmB,lu Ane "irreueemuuie
were adopted, amonv which wn ih fXIUwinir. course of the U. S. Bank of Pennsylvania,
which shows the cloven foot of Federalism: had throwu it out of favor eveu with many of
"Resoleed, That this meeting is decidedlv ,ts former political trieuds, and Mr. t. con-
in favor of a National Bank, whenever it may ceding it not to be as popular with some ot
be deemed by Congress expedient to establish hjs own Partls,ns stand longer as the can
didate oi niui uuuk, sougui io eiiauge nis po
sition in this respect, and at the same time to
catch the favor of the federalists of the city of
New York, by repeating his belief of the ne
cessity of a National Bank, but of a National
Bank of fifty millions iu that city. On that
occasion he said, not iu the language of the
report, or the newspapers, but iu hisowu writ
tea and prepared sjeecb, "I believe the es
tablishment of a bauk ofthe United Mates is
required by the common good of the whole
country; and although I might be willing, if
it were practicable, to adopt an existing bauk
as the basis of such au 'institution, under all
circumstances, I think it most expedieut that
Dretend to
nothing about a National Bank, aud their
presses in North Carolina are striving to
cheat the people into this belief. Oh! the de
ceptions of b ederal Whigo-Prv."
o. -tiovernor Cauuon, iu a recent elec
tioneering address, has boldly recommended
a .national Bank.
WHIG MANAGEMENT.
we cannot reprobate sufficiently the con
duct of some of the W hig oaoers iu makino
out their tabular statements of our (Virginia'
Elections. Counties wh if h rf iirMrtotlu
FROM THE GLOBE.
On the fourth of October, 1S37, a meeting
was held in Birmingham, England, composed
of more than thirteen thousand persons, of va
rious occupations, and without distinction of
party. This meeting was called for the pur
pose of deliberating upon the causes of public
distress, which existed there even to a greater
degree than it did here among us, and sug
gesting some mode of relief which should be
permanent and general. They adopted a
memorial to the Ministry, and appointed a
deputation to present it. The memorialists
after stating, that "divided as they were upon
political subjects, upon the great subjects of
the general distress, and upon the chief ciuse
and remedy, they were not divided," proceed
to say:
"The preent is about the fifth period of
depression and distress which has occurred in
England during a period of twenty-two years
of profound peace, which ought to have been
years of uninterrupted prosperity and content
ment. At each period the people have been
struck By an unseen hand; their fortunes have
been sacrificed, and their industry blasted, by
unseen laws. Whenever the present mone
tary system is enforced, the misery and ruin
among the people create such a mass of dis
content as compels the Government to in
terfere with the Bank of England to relax the
pressure. Then the Bank of England, in its
own defence, is compelled by the state of ihe
law to renew the pressure; and thus the most
distressing fluctuations are perpetuated. Un
der the present state of of the law, industry
cannot be safe without ruin to the Bank of
England; and the bank of England cannot be
safe without ruin to industry."
Here 13 the testimony of the people of
England in relation to a National Bank, and
what makes that testimony the more to be
respected, is, that it is free from all party bias.
It is no party question with them.
DOMESTIC.
WHEAT AND FLOUR.
The amount of Wheat and Flour- cleared
from Buffalo Eastward, from the opening of
the navigation to the 14th of June, this year
and last, is thus stated in the Buffalo Adver
tiser: 1839. Flour. Wheat.
Ohio, 87,171 164,C96
Michigan, 32,543 53.694
Indiana, 2,(68 2S,9o9
lS38.-Chio
121,7S2
78,693
276,699
224,499
favor of
Bal. in
1839, 43, 87
None from Michigan or Indiana.
Administration are put down as Conservative a ,,ew bank, with power to establish branches,
or doubtful, and those which are, properly I be created and chattered under the authority
speaKing, conservative, are put down Whig. I Congress.
52,2 a
OF
INCREASE OF THE GROWTH
r-rn"pr- m
In the year 1991, the amount of cotton ex
ported from the United Mates, was 188,316
lbs.; in 1798 it was not quite 1,900.000 lbs.:
in 18L2 it was 27,501,075 lbs.; in 1819 it was
87,997,045 lbs.; in 1820 it was 127,860,152
FOR THE NORTH CAROLINIAN.
Having made a trip to England, and be
ing ready to return at the time- the Great
Western left on her first trip across the At
lantic; I engaged my passage in her, and
bade adieu to England and all its charms.
While promenading the deck one beautiful .
night during our voyage, I observed a gentle
man near me, who, seemed like myself, to be
admiring the scene, and immediately bowiflvr
to him, I remarked it was a delightful even
ing. It was indeed delightful. Above, the
stars glided on throijgh the unclouded hori-
zon, ana even smmng oro seemed to glow
with unusual brilliancy. Around us, the
zephyrs, gently played, and the lulling mur-
mur of the ocean, as our noble vessel cut
its rapid course through the dark and glassy
waves, harmonized with the subdued notes of .
a French horn, which struck our ears from a
distant part ofthe ship. In reply to my re- .
mark, the stranger observed, that the . scene
though lovely, was one that forcibly remind
ed him of human life. "In a short time,"
continued he, "the brightness of these stars
may be obscured in gloomy darkness, and
these waves, now so gentle, may become
swollen into terrific billows. Alas! there are
too many of whose lives, that change would
be but too true a picture." 1 had perceived
from bis manner and air, that he was depres
sed in spirit, from the time we sailed; but
little suspected that I should learn his tale of
sorrow. the deep leelmg ot these remarks,
however, interested me, we walked the deck
for some time, conversing. His reserve gra
dually wore off, and his ailusions to the mis-
fortune became more frequent, until at length
at my request, he told me the followincr me
lancholy story. "At the age of 22, while liv
in the town of P ', in the west of Scot
land, it was my misfortune (so the sequel
will prove,) to become ardently attached to
a young lady, who resided in the same vil
lage. After some time, I made a declaration
of my passion to her, and offered her my
hand. She so far entertained my proposal,
that she promised to give me an answer in a
week; and frankly told me, that she would
be guided by the advice of an only parent
a mother. At the appointed time, I went to
receive her answer. As I approached the
dwelling of her whom I loved, my heart sunk
within me, whilst hope and fear alternately
reigned in my bosom. I feared not so much
the answer of . Mary, (for such was her
name,) as the proud and haughty spirit-4 .
htr mother. Whenl entered, and was ush
ered into the hall where Mary was seated,
1 was surpnsecX to see that sorrow had set
its mark on her sweet angelic countenance.
Alter a few remarks, I enquired if she was
prepared to give a reply to my offer. She
seemed inclined to equivocate, but as I again
repeated my question, she sighed heavily
and said: "Charles, were I to consult my
own feelings, you might guess my answer,
but my mother is opposed to my getting
married at present, and without her consent,
cannot promise. This she said in a strain
so sweet and winning, that it made me love
her still more, though she was inflicting a
keen and severe wound on my heart. Befotc
leaving, however, I obtained from her d pro
mise to meet me next night. I also learned
from her, that her mother was desirous that
she should accept of the hand of Mr. R ,
a young gentleman of considerable wealth,
who was paying his addreases to her, which
Mary absolutely refused to do. Next night
found us walking together beneath the moon
beams silvery light, an engaged and loving
couple, in defiance of her mother's command.
Believing that want of wealth was the old
lady's only objection to our union, I resolved
to obviate that, by leaving my native coun
try for a short period, and going to Ameri
ca. I communicated my intention to Mary,
and she at length gave her hesitating assent.
I accordingly prepared to leave as soon a
possible; and in three weeks after, I went to
bid her adieu, when she uttered on parting
these words, "Charles prove faithful to your
Mary!" my feelings were indi-scribable. Im
agine the feelings of a young man on leav
ing his native land, bidding adieu to the wo
man he loved, with assurances tha she lov
ed him, filled with melancholy anticipations,
fearing that fortune might prove treacher
ous to his designs even after landing, or that
the bottomless deep might engulph him be
neath its waves before he reached the Ame
rican shore. Imagine such a case, and you
imagine mine. I set sail from Liverpool, and
after a passage of sixty-nine days, I landed
at the city of New Orleans. I immediately
called on a wealthy old gentleman, who im
ported very largely, and to whom I had
letter of introduction. I was very fortunate,
and immediately obtained employment from
him, with a very handsome salary. Next
yeaf I became his principal clerk. At the
expiration of three years I proposed going
home, but this he opposed, giving as his
reason, the infirm state of his health, and his
advanced years; this not prevailing with me,
he proposed that I should become his part-
ner; I was not proof against this mode of
reasoning, and as a matter of course I re
mained. I immediately wrote to Mary, giv
ing her a statement of my success, with
which she seemed pleased. Our business
prospered on our hands, and in about a year
ind a half, I began to think that I had ac
quired a fortune sufficiently large, to ennble
me with propriety to request the old lady's
consent to my marriage" with-her daughter.
But about t ds time, the old gntlemah died,
leaving hi entire property, equally divided
between his only nephew and myself on
condition that I would become the partner of
his nephew, who was a fine young man about
21 years of age. To this proposition I im
mediately agreed, and we applied ourselves