The Greensborough patriot [October 12, 1855]

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CAWZOSET.
- imlfi mueli sweeter 'Uui* l»y day,
MOM'S .-moll virtue upon it. SIMKESPUR. i
'.'.- net in the sparkliii" Maze,
Win M noon rests mi the stream ;
II, r ii ■■<!< r Bow'rets dare not raise )
; !»n-<»lny to IIS IM'.-IIIJ .
L:1I nm> the moon through lalt'c'd bowers, j
,\nil stars arc shining bright,
II, i-Diuinunvs with the shadowy hours,
\ml woos the .-" ot ui^lit-uVainy
perfume ol the rose,
| • - Jcerx r sigh.,
I!, u,ii- i.- of the rill, that [lows
In liquid radenrc by ;
• ■ ,,- ol s line villacc chime
I in . • . , !,, - borne, -
i ,_. .... IIK-M' arc the joys ol evening time,
U i ;, . •arct-lv «■•!! the morn !
\ • in the rii-li ami courtly hall
The lirart's pure faith is }»iv( n,
/;•■• nhen- i' en-wood shadows fall
|1 ,•• at*1 •• twilight heaven.
I ],,,inj and jiajrcaf'tsh'j",
r | m.-.-ions move,
l>ut Militmle alone ran know
" !••, I-IIM! thoughts oflovc.
<\ lien worldly cares arehush'd in sleep,
I. iv,- wakes at such an hour,
I ,,ini,' I, 'j', - their angel vigils keep,
\>..] ju\ resumes ii.- power '.
'. i,._l,i i-i .,11 ii- clu.-ky -•■if>,
V wart i!„- .!.!,•.- be lliro'.m ;
auty's glance can then create
v li-tide idl IVr off" ■
GREENSBOROUGH, N. C., OCTOBER 12, 1855. NO. 852.
tions of it are so far gone that no reasonable know that their expressions of fraternal re-liope
can be entertained respecting them ;'gard for their brethren "f the South, and
and while I agree with you that their spirit' their grateful feelings for the warmth of their
and course of action are highly censurable, i reception in that Southern emporium, were
dissent wholly from your inferences, as to most cordial and profound—and that, not
what must be the inevitable result of their only while thev were in the South ; for I saw
fanatical course; and I protest against the in my exchange papers—for I was then cdi-occupancy,
on the part of the above named tor of the Southern Presbyterian—a large
I7.iarcb.es, of the position in which your state- number of letters published by the members
ments would place them. You spread out of that Assembly, in the Northern and WeS-before
your hearers those loathsome masse.--, tern papers, after their return home, string-ami
represent them as abounding equally in ly expressive of the same noble sentiments.
nil the churches. But the Baptist arid Moth- Even to this day, also, there is a familiar and
odist churches, years ago. cut loose JVOTJ pleasing correspondence kept up between
thei:- port'Un of those contaminating hordes, many of those members and their friends by
and, of course, have, ever since stood forth whom they were entertained in that city.
before the world, purged, commendable and Since that, the Assembly has met in 1 hil-
"lorious; while the Presbyterian and Episco- adelphia, in Buffalo, and Nashville, in all of
tie.
tn,
which places there have been the same har-mony
of action, and the same cordiality of
social intercourse. T was myself, a member
of the Assembly which met in Philadelphia
in 1853. There were many delegates from
spirits instinctively rc.oil!! This, sir is the the South; and I deny that any discrimina-pul
churches are still ir. the odious contact,—
stiil fraternising, or striving to do so, with
those on whim politicians—not always very
fastidious in their moral
vnnom, and from whose
tastes—spit onlIyv
t":ic!i their purer
position in winch you have placed us .
Now. in relation to those divided church-es,
I say, blessings on thorn in their deed !
They chose their own course—had. a perfect
right to do so—acted no doubt from consci-entious
motives—pursued the Only course
which as they supposed, could be taken. \\ e
took a different course : and, as I shall shov.,
reached tliv same, it not a more desirable re-sult.
As regard- also the Episcopal Church, 1
have, in the above mentioned respect, noth-ing
to say. Its proper defenders will guard
it1: honor but as a minister ofthe Presbyteri-an
ciiurcu located :.'■•: on the ground upon
which you spoke, and in the midst of the
community before which your statements
x.c made, 1 consider it incumbent on mo-tion
was made against Southern men in that
Asscuibi, erstiaded aho thet no mem-bers
of the Assembly from any other part of
the country were more cordially received,
more respectfully treated, or more kindly
entertained by the citizens, than were t'v-se
Iroin the South. The same, I have been told,
was '!ie -"se at Buffalo.
A member of the Assembly which recently
met in Nashville has related to me the fol-lowing
incident, which occurred in that body,
in direct conflict with Your statements: An
over ..ealous delegate from one of the Con-gregational
Associations down East, being
admitted to the floor as a corresponding
member, so far forgot his whereabout* a1- t-undertake
to lecture the Southern members
upon their "sins and duties '•i.-ta::tlva
due also to y-"i--'d?—to state the facts as dozen or more Northern members sprang to
they.are, respecting said churches; rladthjs t'-.elrfeet, each eager to cast the first stone
afford yoi ?'i opportunity ol placing yo
right v!ta thiscouimuuity, and also before
tlic Church at large in the South.
As long a/'o •• - '>>:<7t »1 io Presbyterian
Church coinuicncjJ its rcfonn, and raadeitf
division—not bv a sectional line, but in lela-at
him. And among them, they gave him
very much such a " letting down" as the obi
Can did t" the young intruder whom he
found robbing his orchard. ••Most hand-
•-■oinelv and ably." says my informant,
"were the Southern members defended by
tion to di'drines and church-order—sopara- their Northern brctnren, without tin1 ncces-
I'IOIII the S|>aninbuf;; (S. C.) Kxpress.
i he Politicians ami die Cliurcbes.
\ ■ !•■:,)> your dust on quick and dead""—
Slink'fjic-irc.
!.. M. Keitt, Orungilarg, .'•'. (.'.
Fir:—The maiutcuatiec of the cause of
tr"th and righteousness frequently imposes
on men unpleasant duties. Thi application
of this fa** •*; the case before me, I will now
< —
'n common with thousands of delighted
is, I had the pleasure of listening to the
sses delivered at the complimentary
Ii "':"ii I'lly" in this vi.'iage t>. L'oi.
"i: the worthy representative of this (Jou-rnal
J >!-■'(! i-t. [When, that day, I took]
i lieai ing, iH-tliing «o~.lil *!*!ve
ither from my in ii.d than the duty
'.vhicli now devolved upom mi—that of call-nr
attention and that of the public, to
.'} tain statements made hi your i rywh. JJ...J
■ '■ yourself to politics proper ; or, •
- i If, had you been conu-n't with the '
ol interring decently the remains |
posed defunct Know Nothing or-1
. you never should have braid from !
h matters of that *«rt I have n-th-:
In the language, ho.vcver, ol
Suakespcaie"—and 1 tfUote ]
; couijdiiiieiit to yourself and I
iiored comjM ,-i s, for 1 noticed that
id \on ilicw largely from his ii,li
- language, i say. ye "licap-
" —i ""iii-k and dead." In otlu r
-. yin't statements respecting the I'res-nd
the Kpiscopal Churches, as re-nir
alleged connection with Aboli-
-h uholly «i:! •ut intention
' ' '■> them injustice, or injurv,
■■ • >\> strong -iii I compact or-
.; Ii: lution, if not an
i rstaiul me to deny eith-
>in icty of refei i in.: pub-i,
.. any of its aspects,
'arings, even in political
■ -• It v m your right. The Church
her s .: :. .Idly ht fore the world,
■ • n iv challenge investigation of
ira ndi'ion and her works.
il \ -i had not informed
• fully of the facts in relation to
- : which you spoke. And what
■ II ol :-. that//our statements uneor-
■ ■ ■ ' ■ ehurrhe* in a false light
I, aid thus do them yi :■■! in-i
injury.
: your argument in favor of
II organization, you proiiouuced the
ss of the population north of the
mits, »iili the rarest excejitions,
tfihlti and hopelessly abolitii .f'd '"
•:: ii- i-opv'."--.-itioii, their teach-lieir
books and their nursery lullabies,
eply iml ucd with those execrable
iieiits—that iii conseijueticc of this
I things, division had taken place,
• i o,. in the Methodist ami llaptist Chur-the
Presbyterian and the Episco-
- were in a state of deep agita-indeed
on the very eve of division.
tuat division was inevitable!
• "» while 1 freely admit that the lanati-
M in that region is large, that por-ting
at one time a large portion oi that loose,
I'oi'tit'" fanaticalvlefcnt t-: which yo"l;av-referred.
Since that |' rh.-i! flrduty. as re-gard-
that matter, has been easv, and gene-rally
pleasant. Here and there a few ob-streporo!*
s spirits fora time remained. Mott
jf these have sin'-- gone off—sonic in one di-sityofa
Southern man saying a word—such
*ncn as Dr. Boardman of Philadelphia, l>r.
Dumoiit ol New iOrk, and Dr. i.icc <d Si.
Louis, taking the lead in the defence."
Instead, then, id" its being true that we of
t ::• S ;utl| :"•' in
eil, and urn ^.. •.
anger of being ovcrpowcr-
L 'y th'if-'; avalanches of
rection,somein another tMuking themselves abolition, of which you spoke in so earnest
holier than we. Others a iittle fractions, admonition, the fact is, wo have put them
have, under conservative influences, been where th; I'eserv.-d to be—o*> the outside,
restrained. Thus has the process of reform while we remain secun within . have swept
gone on,until now—aye, and for years past them from our whole anna; and there they
we have as a church, been whol'y live from
agitation on that subject nut only, in the •
meetings of our General Assembly, but, so
''••'.- as 1 know, in all the subordinate iudic.i-tori.
' The fires within have died, out for
want of combustible Mafrial: and all at-tempts
to introduce hrebamls, from without
have to signally failed, that agitators have
abandoned the hopeless ta-k.
'ibcie were two points to which vnu gave
Tre-'t prominence in your speech .- 1st. The
iiumiucnt danger, na*> thi :'r: ruin to
Southern minorities whenever Northern ma-jorities
obtained the sway. 2n !, The ut- '
ter impossibility of Southern men holding
anv sort of fraternil intercourse with men
ii the oth"r -'<'•' of tl"e Well, I di
i'
-,in
not KIIOW what you politicians may ;i.. 1 j. ,--
sible or impossible; but your statements
!.'ai\ ;.-1 in. '-" look initi'i n iv ii.t • th'- in li-ter—
as 1 wisheil to be pnpired to meet ilie
danger should there be any—and cut uffal-
<", -;il intercourse, sho"' I it i e loiiud at once
liypocriticai aim n..- ,emoral But on turn-the
histoiic pages, 1 liml 1-t. Thut si
will I", compelled, to stay;—not a fragment of
that disturbing e.c.i.ent left i'^ :.; r.cy " Tn-stead
of cease less and intolerable dissensions.
a- you .-late'—we have perfect peace '. In-stead
of impending and incviwble division,
i. i .-e-.:ii thing is even in the distance contem-plated.
Indeed, we haee. nothing about which
either to contend or divide. Such are brief-ly
the facts in relation to agitation, frater-nizition
and the prospects of division. But
thci e are other ('•'* •.
The principal religions newspaper of our
denomination i- published in Philadelphia—
a huge and ably conducted paper called tin
" '"ic-byii *:--'." That paper is now in the
:!".:!; year of its age. It circulates through-out
the Chile 1 States. It is one ol the most
conservative and reliable pipers in the world.
1 have never yet seen i:i it an "infected ar-ticle,
nor one iii any other .• sy*o.Tensiv: to
the South." We have also a book publish-in
i fxtnblixltiiicnt, called the Board uf Pub-lication.
The numbers of that Board ore elected
fr :, a year bv the whole General As-millions
who have not bowed the knee to the
modern Baal, {fordo I agree with you, that
in regard to any of these matters, is there a-ny
thing portentious ofa worse state ofthings
in future. So far as the Old School Gene-ral
Assembly is concerned, the South may
nave the fullest confidence in its future char-acter
and action. For not only are its spir-it
and its principles thoroughly cons'-rvative;
tit'.t is all-poicerf ul as regards ability to
keep out or suppress fanatism or error of
whatever kind, or under whatever na
And so determined have its members be
that agitation on vexed and fruitless subjects
should be excluded, that they have in seve-ral
instances brok-h off all correspondence
with prominent foreign bodies with which
they formerly held intercourse, on account
of their attempts to cast fire-brands among
our churches, or distract our ecclesiastical
councils. The New School Presbyterian
Church, a large and respectable oody of
Christians, is also, from year to year, becom-ing
stronger and more united. Their ap-proach
is steadily toward the position which
we occupy. Its mixture ofuncongenial for-eign
elbtrents is worSing of:". Their tendency
is to greater compactness and order. In
their last General Assembly their action was
decidedly conservative; and, so far as I know,
satisfactory to their membership in the Soath.
Even as regards that body there is less pro-bability
of division than there was years ago.
J>0 on*, it seems to me, can doubt the con-servative
rrir't of the Episcopal Church. It
is cue of the last bodies in which we should
expect to find fanaticism of the rabid stripe
of which you spoke.. " Order" and "unity"
have ever been their boast. And so far as 1
'•-ii learn, no division on the subject of slave-ry
has been anticipated, or is likely ever to
occur. But those several bodies, taken col-lectively,
constitute a well-ordered conserva-tive
phalanx of prodigious strength. And
thev arc actuated by a spirit which will nei-ther
flag in duty nor suffer itself to bo over-borne.
Th-'=, si'-, have I, as in duly bound, laid
the facts respecting these several points brief-ly
before you ; and hoping that it may meet
your approval, I shall, through the plCSS,
present, them to the Southern public.
It iedue to all parties concerned that this
1 should be done. Facts and investigations
: are what good men always desire, 't af-fords
me unfeigned pleasure to be ab.e in
these disjointed times to present so gratify-ing
a picture. And! doubt not that your-self
and ail other true patriots will rejoice
with us, whose battles have been fought and
von, and whose peace now is like the placid
lake.. *ou politicians know best what can
be done in the political world; but until I
shall be convinced of the contrary, I shall
ftrpjlgs the ^leasing hope that you may yet
be able to adopt and carry out the pijnciple
mi which we have 'acted—iit.-'/eaJ^i- d.it-ding,
hold on tog our Constitution, and send
out from under it those who plot d» over-throw.'
"cry lespectfully, ke„
WASHINGTON BAIRD.
Spartanburg, Sept, 13,1855.
tton of causes can again be brought to hear course with perhaps this difference—ther
upon us which forced us into the position might not have been as moderate in their
then taken. Far he it from me however, to demands, cr exhibited as much forbearance,
urge that the posttiqC then assembled, was ?.s did the western ben. The signers of
not correct, or to utter one word cf rcpre- that address c:d right and have no cause
hension of the course of our representatives, to regret it, or to be as!: -. cd, cither of the
On the contrary, I have always believed, address or the positioit they then assumed,
that if our eastern brethren Would do -.is the and impartial men of every section will
justice, to_ look calmly and impartially at justify their course, whenever they Under-thc
situation of Western representatives at stand the causes which drove them to it,
the time of the adoption of that address, and the then existing state of affairs,
they themselves would justify the coarse pur- And no matter what onr enemies may
sued, and applaud the spirit which pri in] ted say of that address, i for one 'nave no doubt
it. Let us look at the state ofaffairs at that but that the position then taken, by western
time. The west had beer, for many long Den* did good. It opened the eyes of the
years in that spirit of liberality, which has • whole State, to the ungenerous wreWs
always characterised h*r representatives, which were inflicted, and threatened to be
voting for the appropriations for Internal inflicted upon us. Patriotic men of all sec-
Improvement, asked for by the East, while lions saw and felt, that re had been de-her
own wealth, talent and industry was nied a fair share of those blessings to which
year after year, moving oil" to enrich ether as citizens of the same State—as children
states,simply because Ihby rere denied ats of one common mother, fre were entitled,
outlet to the markets of the world; denied Mere patric'ti;and liberal counsels prevail-the
very same facilities, which had been so cd and what is the result''
cheerfully voted to the east. The west has had extended to hor those
Bat when driven alniosl lo desfeir l>cr
hopes even fora time, revived by the grant
of the N. C. Bail Road charter. Her en-vcry
appropriations for which she was then
struggling, and to obtain which alone
prompted the desire for a change of the ba-ergetic
and patriotic sons fell to work to |sis of representation. Practically speaking
secure the stock, (a most gig&ctic under
taking) and by almost superhuman efforts
succeeded ; many of them risking every
dollar they were worth in tV" world to se-cure
it. flew lifj and activity, pervaded
tne whole west, her people rejoiced in the
hope that a brighter day was dawning upon
th:m, and congratulated themselves, upon
the prospect of living and rivics in the
,. ..,., ....,],-,. .... Jjfrerenc|B where the power
risiuc3il these hoi,ting it make no unfair or
unequal use of it.
Then if '. am right as to the causes which
prompt.-..I ;!.,- position assumed by the west
in 1850, ju'.il I. h'-v f ani—am I n it right
aiso in saving, that loose causes no longer
exist, and that there is therefore no i.ecc ity
for any further difference between the
good old state, and being no longer compell- east and west about h': I believe such will
ed to see their sons as they attained majori- be the opinion of the west, and that she wil
tv expatriating themselves find driven k »""': with the east.to wait until tho develop
nient ol her resources and the increase o;
her wealth shall give her the power, and in
the mean time consent to bury tho matter
forever, and hencibrth they can "dwell to-gether
in umtj.
Then let the American Party in adopting
a platform, for the next campaign, come out
and let their nominee
dire necessity to seek their fortunes in the
far wet.
This was the state of affairs when the
Legislature of 1850 commenced. Kc soon-er
had this body assembled than there be-gan
a systematic effort OH the part of cer-tain
prominent eastern Democrats (ied the
Democrats had a majority oi both houses) .'"
not only to repeal the charter already grant- for Governor, whether he he an Eastern
ed hot also to amend, the .constitution of the '"" Western man, get upon it and endorse
j. viii,,..,' reference to any previously ex-pressed
opinion. And froi'! whatever see-the
last:
State as to preclude all hope in the future
that the west could by any possibility get
any Bchcun of Improvement chartered or tion he may come, and no matter.how fully
completed.
Mr. Br:dgc3from Franrlin introduced his
committed, on either side of this question^
"ie may her* been in our former contests.
resolutions to. repeal the N. C. Bail Bo*d let the oppmiie section see in his fidelity to
charter—requesting the stockholders to stir- 'he interests of his own section, a sure guar-render
it on or before a certain day. j anty, of his fidelity to the interests of the
Judge Saunders the aeknowlcdged'lcaccr "hole State when he has the whole State for
of the Democratic party, early in theses- a constituency. Let the nominee go into
sum, had referred to the Committee on con- tne raoc unencumbered with any sectional
Stitutional amendments the question of'he question or sectional prejudice, and should
expediency of amending our"constitution so he be an cfstern man, as he probably will
as " to restrict the General Assembly in all l,c> let m of ll,v west baud together with oui
appropriation-, of the public money when the eastern brethren, and sink into oblivion the
sum shall exceed $100,000 or when the faith P*8' > te" l"1" t0 entertain what notions In.
ot the State shall be pledged, unless b'- the pleases oa the basis question, we arc satisfied
vote of Two Thirds of each branch of with it as it is, and will go heart and hand
''he Legislature or by the vote of the majori- l,,t0 an entl itMastic effort to secure his elco-far
as the Preshytfiian Church is concern- seinbly. The majority of tho members arc
ed. we at the S -mil have *'r„,u the liest '■ ■.< always Northern men. Our Publishing
Lithe milrjrity J.,.i. It aj near* fro'n the House is also in Philadelphia—within that
minutes of the General Assembly lb it ol o.ui vast legion whence you have supposed noth-present
Synod—thirty in allow/// ttitlvi -•.•• intf "cleau" could ever issue. The publica-
'',. the si tee Ut ..'•. and
by the line
< >:' the one hundred and f.. ty :igl:t ";••■--
byteries. o:i!\ '■'//-, iji.i belong totl.O South !
Moderators uf the As-embly have the ap
pointing o<*inost . ■' the coiuiidttet ern-i
queinly they have greai power over
busi"fss transactions.
tion i ot t!,..; T'ca'-' ;•••-",■'•/ j'o«- to about five
hundred different works. Large and r:pea-ted
editions of manv of them have been for
vcral years scattered all over our country.
They embrace a vast variety ofsubjects, and
arc adapted to persons ot all ciasoCs, charac-
_
ail the tersand eon.';;.ions—tracts, children's books,
': HOI e ha\ e been six- i and "nursery lullabies" forming no iuconsid-ty-
Seven meetings of our General Assembly, eiable portion of their issues! And »*t,
and each has had its own Moderator. But ■ sir. ii' you can point out a stnsrle paragraph
ef these sixty-seven Moderators, only eigh- \ in any one oi* ihem which directly or indi-teeu
have been from the South': .All tl.io i rectly inculcates abolition sentiments, you
1 ioks very alarming in view of your recent j can ch what it is believed the whole South
picture! Put yet it is also u«e, :'-,i. That has thus far been unu'dc :-'!•. Isdccc it
instead of being over run and driven out ol was precisely on these grounds that the "fci-the
Church—they of the N irth having more uiui l'nre;," who now constitute the " Free
than doilble our streiigiii— • /< "v, with th> Synod " of the West, I*ft us. Our Asscm-aidofgvod
men audtrui onthi other side of bly was firm as Gibi altar against (lick- se-the
line, lamed out tin fanatics ' (jrhctions and assaults: and tlug could pour
As regards frater.ial intercourse, I nee.; ni r.: rftheir lav* streams through aug of
only meiitiuu the fa'jt, tiiat our General As-sembly
is the common b ■:. ', of uui m among
all the churches. It covers the broad area
of the United States and the territories. The doing their own publishing,
delegation is in proportion to the ni'mber With little if any qualification, I Believe
and the strength of the Presbyteries Th( re that the same may be said of the millions of
may, then, in any Assembly be twice as many 1. ks published by the American Suuday
members from the North as Irom the South. School L'nioti, the American Tract Society,
The meetings of the Assembly are hel 1 with- and the t'pisc ■;• d Church—?y, and of their
out respect to latitude, in 1S5- it met in newspapers aad children's papers also, which
have an immense circulation. And yet ail
these are published north of the line, la-deed,
nearly all oar books, of every kind",
come from the North. Large, then, as is
the mass of rabid, fanatical publications,
vastly greater is the strength, and incompa-mori"
the members of that Assembly, and I rably more numerous are the works of those
On presses J Other the Assemllg or thi Syn-ods.
They left: and for the "reforma-tion"
of the rest of mankind, they are now
Charleston : and never, probably, was there
a more harmonious and perfectly delighted
company of men found on the earth, Dr.
John C. Lord, of Buffalo-one of our strong-est
defenders against rabid fanaticism—HI
the chair, as Moderator. 1 mingled much
From the Flag.
TI«O Convention «-utsfiow.
Mr. Editor:—As the smoke of the late
political battle, has about cleared away, and
there being now no heated political canvass
in progress. I hope a lew reflections upon
the Convention Question will not be deem-ed
amiss. And in the outset, let me assure
your readers, that I am not abo»t to enter
upon a discus-ion of the merits of this ques-tion,
or attempt to -fr afresh the dying
(and I trust soon to he forever dead) embers
of sectional hostility, but to make a few
plain and practical suggestions to those who
have heretofore advocated the call of an un-restricted
convention with especial refer-ence
to a change in the present basis ol re-presentation
in the State.
This question and the celeb.'aicd Western
Address, have been used heretofore by our
political opponents to produce division in
the ranks ,,f the old Whig party, and to
create alarm, and beget distrust on the part
of our eastern brethren towards western men
and especially towards those who were
signers of that address; while in the west
a degree of apathy thd in difference hes been
felt as the r?sult of our contests when
Eastern men happened to be our standard
bearers. The ettempt *il! doubtless be
again made to use this question for a like
purpose in the future and the present seems
tcneamo.-t f.v,.:..blo time for us to dis-cuss
it, in order that we may arrive a: ;-.
mutually satisfactory conclusion, and pre-vent
any misrepresentation hereafter, ot our
own or any other sactitn ef the state.
Now *hat 1 propose to the people
of tLie section of the state, and of the. west
generally, is this—to dropfor the future, an*
agitation upon this fibjeet, and to acquiesce
cheerfully in allowing the basis of represen-tu/
di-H Vi remain -u it it
Now for the reasons which bring ire to
the conclusion, that this course is proper
and prudent.
In the firat place, J believe that the wes-tern
people care no- but little, if at^all", a-bout
the matter. The principles wBi?*i gave
rise to that " Western Address " and the
a loption of the resolutions accompanying
it, rib longer exist—all has been accom-plished
which the west proposed to accom-plish
by a change of the basis. The danger
which then threatened us has been averted
and it is nor. likclv that the same combina-i
ty of two successive Legislatures and that
the Committee report a bill for the earliest
constitutional mede of carrying these a-lnchdnieiits
into effect with the approbation
of the per'--."
tion. Should ho on the other hand be a
western man—let him not hesitate to adopt
and advocate such a platform, and if our eas-tern
brethren will exhibit the same abandou-men',
of a'l tte'e'i; 1 prejud'ee, all will go
Mr. Mizell of Martin introduced a similar - Ht II.
resolution to that ol Judge Saundcis. A
former Legislature had granted and appro-priated
the moneys arising torn
Cherokee lands to the construction of a turn-pike
from Salisbury, west to the Georgia
line. Tj hhee ccoouunnttiieess aalloonngg the line did not P'oveiEent unretardc
want a turnpike, but desired a survey to as-certain
the practicability of extending the
N. C. Bail Boa I west from' Saiis.ii.r_. to -, e
Tenncsse line. The State had already giv-en
the fund to the west, and her representa-tives
now asked to be allowed to divert the
fun I, fro-' a turnpike road'.vhicTi the- did
not want, to a scheme which they did want—
to wit: to the survey above mentioned.—
This was also refused, upon what ground, it
is hard to tell unless it was ''CCaCs*. it was a
western measure.
Here then was a section of the State, with
the numerical strength, openly proclaiming
a cniel and unalterable determination, to
hole the we;' shut out from the world forev-er.
And here it is but just to say, that the
west never feared Eastern Whigs, such as
B^iid, Clierrycf Bertie, KamesorNoi thamo-ton,
aul i thers of like character, and had
the whole east been represented by such
men, tho west would never have been forced
into a position of antagonism to the cast.
Lutti.e Sadnders', Brogdens, Biggs's, Miz-
/,•!-, Bridipj's and men o: that ilk ; men
-. ho seemed bold, ruthless and uncompro-mising
in their war against whatever might
benefit by any possibility the west—we did
:~;M- and »i»h good cause too.
What then was the course for western
men to pursue': To submit, or to make a:,
enen demand for that power which We'east
was thus threatening (and Vith the political
strength to make good the threat) to
use to their view and as they beiiced to
!.c injury of Sate': They chose the
latter alternative and hence tlte Western
Ad/ens.
■ They would have been false to themselves
al i to'their constituents. *■.- have pursued
any other course. Submission to such mea-sures
as were proposed to be imposed upon
The rbov»suggestions have been prompted
by an earnest desire lo promote the harmony
and success of the American party, and are
made with the hope that cur State may ho
enabled to go forward in the career of im-y
the agitation of a-ny
purely scct'Onal issues.
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F.
•ni«- Telegraph ami (he War.
One of the most suggestive facts ia con-nection
with the Eastern war is the use to
wliicii the telegraph, eminently an invention
of peace, has been put. in the great Euro-pean
struggle, which ended with the exile of
Napobon, days and even weeks elapsed be-fore
some oftb' most important events we're
i.t.ovn iii Paris and London. Th? news of
Waterloo took a longer time to reach the
British capital than the news of the fall i/T
Scbastopol. Tii" new; of Moscow, Aboukir
and the Pyramids was a week, a fortnight
and a month old respectively, on arriving
at Paris. But the intelligence of the cap-ture
of the Malakoff was at the Tiiilcries
and St. James, though,distant fromlSebdllb-pol
the length of an entire continent, while
the sky I'M .-•;" red with the conflagration
of the tow:- while the ujagazieus were still
exploding, while the retreating Uussiaus were
still th longing ovi r the bridge. Almost, in-deed,
befori lite bombs bad ceased to hum
through (he»lieavei>s, or the hissing of the
rounoWhot bad given way to the roar uf barn*
ing_houses, the people it. London and Paris
»T-re shouting our the victory, and the
church-bells of England were elsno. ing from
land'.- end to land's; vnd. ft is an event like
this which makes men realize what the mag-netic
telegraph i:- -I'liUa I. !.■ lye.
Frightful Taxation.—The amount' f tax-i-
for »h nuriwacs in the city of Brooklyn is
?\..'t-'t'2, l-T, or one hundred and sixty-two
cents on every one bundled dollars. In one
ward of the city, comprising a pail of what
late WHS W ill.ai.isburg. where there is ■ h
them, would have been exhibiting a degree c;i| „,,„.,,„„..,.t, \\,ei*.x is >5f,28'. This is
of servility, and a want of manliness unbe-coming
freemen. They sought the power,
not to oppress the east, hut save the west
from oppression. Eastern men thus situat-thc
largest tax we have ever known impos-ed
in in- ' nited States.—Prov. Journal
ed would Lave pursued a precisely similar j S>t. ^u:s eouttniM* healthy.
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