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I CocaTs,lbat-th- e was not ef- Rnniti ton or beinninr. to dread tbe conseauences L3AVe assure the editor of the Observer WarVho.ttses,:-tha- t cry Proscription to proscribe Mr. :ray iu y Te. and produce t he different The Cuckoo Whig" of and qecf-ssaril- leads to diawtrocf at show, boldness.. Be still," say these hon any expression of his, of "unmingled tendency, ; fected. A reference to the Journal will that of Southern contempt 0r - : the limited power employed by. the Petersburg " whigV to cla- . is so common for the modern the South is full of other feeling suit?. entire- ;it they seized on every vacancy, and Rayner's Reso- est Southrons--- " discussion at towards the Standard, produces no System . of Company upon the Road has been found . Resolved, That the "Amencan and they make so" much Dangerous - mor about proscription vacan- evil, and denunciation is bad policy." resentment. Such barefaced and childish is ,a - ly inadequate to the conveyance of freight as lutions were a mean attempt to create other fibbing as ia the father, system in tffice-holdcr- s, which Mr. Clay one who is dispos- -- noise about that discus's Abolition I Who has undertaken that we see in the Observer can scarcely desert-- - of the Constitution of the United fastjis it might acsumukte. Every exertion cies of a higher grade, to satiate the indomitable to direct violation ed to take them on trust may be egregious de- Memorial, presented rious consideration more: -- how- ; and his spiteful :State that it owes its origin oa corrupt com- - has been made by the'parties 'interested, ambition of a few of their leaders. office ? Except the.Guilford childish satisfaction, ceived and constantly misled. Fortunately, the to ness anoras bination of dissimilar interests, brought about by ever, to give and we understand such Thus we see that the " Whigs" constitute the by a "Whig" to the North Carolina Senate, is amusement only save a shade of qe--j are now making as will enable the good People of North Carolina have never given a discussion gret that t4fish ends that this syscm of fraud ana arrangements VSpoih party" in our good State. They are the be so regarded, no one has proposed anyone should make himself so ridicu- -- during" the to place their whiggery, often, nor long farmer," one time, well Company, present year, up the reins to Federal office-seeke- rs has exposed lously savage, and ception upon the has, at i ; they are the ; they are the of the Slave question. The Standard exhibit such manifestations of own Engines upon .the. Road. has nigh caused a dissolution of urGjojernineht j at a time, in. many years; yet whenever it Democratic Republican party, the political identity between Northern "Whigs" malignity, we hope it won't let its little re-elect- ed Proscribers; and the persisted in7 which we. have serious Geo. W. Mordecai, Esq. was they have proscribed almost every Dem- u.. and if of happened, so far from being intolerant, have in reality done and Abolitionists. We have exhibited many facts burst with rage. , com- President, and the following gentlemen elected apprehensions, (after the expiration p ibe ocrat that was in their power ; and the instances is a or league between for the ensuing yea r, unanimously, viz; injury to their cause, by ' giving to their enemies to prove that there coalition ; promise,) must either produce that resub, or that Directors exceedingly rare, in which they have allowed A GREAT MEETING. a Cameron, William Boylan, John H. are those stations which are afterwards abused to these two factions, "and the " Whig" party writhe which (if possible) is more to be dreaded Duncan po- A meeting of Federal Whigs was held in W. a single office, great or small, to be filled by . a the truths we have developed ; and lest the Si. government without limitation of its powers. Bryan, Joseph Hawkins, William Robards. the very party, nay, the very men who under bury on the 25th ult. The meeting ; - litical opponent. In this case, as in most others, was called for Resolved, taxes in the sh.ipe of duties, . Register. bestowed them. people should all see this Coalition plot, and unite That profes3 one thing and practice another ; tne purpose or nominating Delegates to a Conven- imposed on goods brought from other govern- they boldly The Federal Whigs even hold up to tbe execra- to defeat it, the " Whig", presses at the South, in but tion, which was to nominate a candidate in - ments, should not be collected from the people, they profess to be liberal with their opponents, mild and placid tone, entreat their readers " to take opposi- tion of the people, as partizans, individuals who tion to Mr. it was a complete beyond what may be n quired lor the actual they are generally reckless partizans. care how they talk about Abolition, as it will hurt ishr. failure as when- have generously sacrificed their party attachments, we hear from the Western Carolinian, beintr suppoit of the Government; and that They cry over the offices in our State, as if they !" is jealous devotion to and encountered the displeasure of their associates, the South Where their the is lost sight of, and duties are excluded from them, when the truth is, they ! posed of Chairman and some 10 or 12 others ever this standard were Southern rights 1 . How changed since 1836 a violation of the federal com- to vote for such ." kind friends" They denounce, after repeated notices given several days previous' imposed, they are nil nearly all of them! They are abusive and already-produce- d and a and attempt to proscribe the identical representa- If the facts we have do not pact: ,a tax on the farmer, who purchases, intolerant; particularly towards any man of talents and twice ringing the bell on that day. Several' protected article. tives whose votes and influence aided most effici- prove a Coalition between " Whigs" and Abolition- bounty to the producer of the in the Democratic ranks. Their Resolutions were adopted, among which va tt. neither possesses the and influence ently to procure the exaltation of their traducers. ists, in the political contest of the Nation ; if any Resolved, That Congrss and proscrib- following, which shows the Cloven Foot of nor to appropriate conduct is uniformly selfish, partizan be so blind to the evidence of events that are daily Fed right to charter a Bank, yet Who does not recollect the contest which the eralism : internal improvements, in the erection ing, whilst that of the Democratic Republican occurring, as not to see in them the proof of a moneys to Western people and the Westsrn members had Resolved, That this meeting is in the separate States. party has. heen liberal and forbearing to a fault. decidedly in fa- of roads and canals, for equal rights, and an amendment of the Consti- league ; we now bring forward the testimony of vor of a National Bank, whenever it lovers of the union of the Our time docs not permit us to detail all the evi- may be deem- 2e0r,.That,as tution of our State? Who does not know the witnesses whose opportunities for information have ed by Congress expedient to establish one. and of constitutional respect for the : appear in our legislative States, that dences' of this, as they good, and who .surely will not be suspected of yet, the " whigs" which should always cha- TOE STANDARD. man to whose efforts they are mainly indebted for been . And pretend to care nothing ut rights of each other,, proceedings and the known history of our State ; Aem-selv-es the success of that measure 1 His whole, course slandering the " JFAigt for the " Whigs" a National Bank, and their presses in racterize .our citizens, an expression of our b'uVwe throw together a few reminiscences,1 to ex- North due Buren, for that was elevated and honorable and patriotic. He shall be our.witnesses. Hear them! Carolina .are striving to cheat the people into gratitude is to Martin Van pose the, hollownes3 of " whig" professions, and this regard to the Constitution and southern institur Wednesday, June 12, 1839. rose above selfish considerations and former pre- The first witness is the,Editor of the Cincinnati belief. Oh, the, deceptions of Federal Whiggery. the falsehood of their charges upon others-- . lions, which he early evinced in the decided judices, and fearlessly staged himself on ques- Gazette. ..He, a leader V.jhe.'f Whigs," has dis- THE PEOPLE asrainst THE BANK. to the offices of life Gen- that stand wbicft'fie took against the disorganizing First, then, in respect tinctly admitted and declared, in an appeal to the C 6 MM I OF VI Gl LA NO E ? tion before this country and the State. The peo- TEES of Aboli;itionists;and that disdaining . E OH CONGR.ESS eral Government, how stands the matter schemes the ple of Wake entrusted to-hi- the right of acting " Whigs" to prevent their going to a meeting in , U;. is Whig. MARTIN COUNTY. sectional distinctions, arid the idea that "he is The S. District Judge a Federal - on it, even against their own "feelings, after a des- Ohio, called for the defence of the South against . not one of us," as subversive of the purposes of The U. S. Marshal, Do. District-No- lCharles Mizell, N. B. Mariner OF ORANGE COUNTY. perate struggle ; and no man of character will deny, the outrageous intrusions of Fanatacism " The our confederation that not the less, but the more The U.
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