The Greensborough patriot [May 5, 1840]

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THE GREEWSBOROIJGII PATRIOT.
VOLUME II. GREENSBOROUGtt, N. C, TUESDAY, MAY 3, I--40 NUMBER 12.
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AGRICULTURAL ANALYSIS.
T* determine the value of any soil, or
to bo able locorfcet any fault in the ori-ginal
constitution, or any dt ficmticy aris-ing
from the improper cultivation, it i»
necessary that the nature and proportion
of thu substances composing it should be
understood. In agriculture tins exami-nation
is termed anal) sis: and in Ha sim-plest,
yet still effectual method, may be
practised by every farmer. The iinplr*
tnciils used area pair of Mate*, accurate
to the tenlli part of a giam; a crucible,
soma muriatic acid, and a few small ves-sels
of china or glass.
The earth to be tested by a farmer,
should be taken from a few inches or low
the surface, and an average specimen ol
flio field, or the soil to be examined.—
The quantity to be examined, say two or
four hundred grains, is to bo slight I)
pulverized or veil mixed together.- Put
off tins inn !ii-.dred grams, in a cruci-ble,
tnd beat it to ihree hundred degree!
of Fahrenheit, or bake in an oven healed
for bread for fifteen minutes; cool and
weigh, Tina will show I he absorbent
power of the soil, and as this is depend-ing
ranitilv on the animal and vegetable
matter, if this loss is considerable. It
is a decisive proof in this respect of fer-tility.
The absorbent power varies from
oao to twelve per cent-
After weighing, heat it again in tin
crucible to a red heat, until the mas.-
shows no bright or sparkling particles
stirring it with a glass or iron rod; cool
and weigh, and the loss will be the ani-mal
and vegetable matter in the soil.
Tako two hundred grains of the dried
oarth mix it thoroughly with a gill of
water by stirring it for several minutes.
Lot it stand for three minutes, and turn
off the muddy water into another glass.
Dry the sediment in the first glass at a
high heat, weigh, and it gives the silica
contained in- the soil. Lul the water
turned off settle clear, turn off, dry it at
a high heat and weigh; this gut's iftfi
alnmine or clay.
1'ut into a suitable glass or flask, one.
fourth or a gill uf nitiriaatic acid and
water in equal proportions, and balance
lac scales carefully. Put into this mix-tnro
one hundred grains of the earth, let
it stand till all the effervescence, has
ceased which will some timi s be an hour
or morn, carefully note the weight n quir-ed
ta again balance ihe seal, s, and that
may be sol down as the wcighl of carbo-nic
gaa expelled, aay six grains. Tin II
ns forty-five, is u fifty-five, so is this
weight to that of the base or lime. In
this case tbo lime would be seven and
one.third per cent.
To ascertain if the earth contains iron,
itir muriatic acid and water with u strip
of oak bark, and if iron is present the
liquid bark will turn dark. To ascer-tain
tbo quantity, put in priit>si«tr of
pot-ash, till it no longer forms a blue
precipitate, let it settle, heal the deposit
to redness, carcfullv weigh the remain-der,
which is oxide of iron.
To determine the presence ofgypsum,
take one hundred grains of earth, mix
orio-tlnrd the quantity of powdered char-coal,
keep it at a red heat in a crucible
for half an hour. Then boil the earth
in a pint of water for thirty minutes, ill.
tor the liquor, nnd expose it for some
days in an open vessel. A while ilepo-sit
will be sulphate of lime, and the
weight will determine the proportion.
These processes are all simple, and
can be performed bv anv one. By them
wo obtain 1st, the absorbent powers; 2d,
the amount of animal vegetable mailer:
lid, (be silica or sand: 4th, the alnmine,
or clay; 5th, ihe carbonate of lime; litli,
the oxides of iron: 7th, the gvpsum ot
plaster Paris. The salts exercise a great
influence on vegetation; bul as thev piin-cipally
depend on the ainmiil and vege-table
matter in the loll, and as the de-tormining
their qualities and kinds are
loo difficult for the analvsis of 'he farm-er,
the processes are omitted. The n.
liovc ingredients are all thai exert a
of aluiiune; Irom four to It n of lime, and
varying proportions of vegetabb mailers,
ammsl and mineral salts, A:c. The ana
Iviti of soils, forms one of ihe most d
cidrd steps in Ihe improvement of agri-culture,
as il clearly points out what is
wanting to remedy any defect, and give
ease of working, and abundance in pro-duct.
Every farmer should understand
the nature and composition of his soils,
and may do so with lillle lime, and al a
mere trifle of expense.—O'enesee Farm-er.
The Die Moth.—I sec by your paper,
the Bee Moth i* very troublesome in
your section of country. When I com-menced
hnuse-keeping, I purchased s
lew stands of Bees, and the moth destroy-ed
them all the first year. L'pon exam-ination,
I found that the moth deposited
ihe eggs in a web between the bench and
ihe box; and as' soon aa they hatched,
they crawled up to the comb, and formed
a web round Ihem so ihe bee* could noi
destroy llleui. I made il a rule logo to
the stand two or three times a week, and
brush off the eggs and web deposited ;
bnt finding this troublesome, I concluded
to raise the boxes by putting small M d-ges
under each corner; this I foilnd of
great service ; but I degcovered, unless
the wedges were made very smooth, the
eggs were frequently deposited under the
wedges. I theneoncludi d lodrivc a ten-penny
nail into each corner, and let th>
box rest on them, so the be) a could |>d-»
under all aiound. Since I adopted thla
plan, which has been twelve years. 1 have
not, as I rccollWl, been troubled with i
single lie Mrtfh.—CuUiralnr.
—^——^^s
from the Kintuckian.
LOVE. BV A LADY.
Love is a singular and mysterious fee-ling
; affecting, deep and absorbing pow-er—
exercising will) tyrannical exactness
a strange, unaccountabbkinflucnee over
■ hi' external objects amriTircuiiisiaucea ol
cvery-day life. Il is woman's whole ex-istence—
her life.her soul, her very heari,
is bound in Us glory giving hopes—ami
without it, life is a blank, a void which
the " world can never fill," and on this
very account, woman yields, perhaps, too
much, to >ta influence, all and almost ir
regulable, though it be- There is natu-ral
pride in every human heart, and
all ill-- usual adversities and difficult!)a
of life. It upholds our spirits, elevates
our thoughts, and raises us above the pet-ly
vicissitudes of this sublunary world.
Bui love owns no such conventional con-trol
or check ; it must be free, for it is
naturally wild; it must be intense, fnrit
is undo-abu-dlvc xclusivc—it destroys all
other feeling*—annihilates all-other sym-pathies—
and forms in itself the beauty,
the glory, ihe heaven on earth, of wo-man's
existence.
Man is not loved firirc. in a lifetime;
and I warn you, ye slighter* ol womioii
affection I I wsrn you of the hours of
life's decline, when health wanes and
happiness departs; when the blessed
time is gone, forever, in which you mav
Command love—when the fearful hourol
death approaches, and there is no Ihuil
hand to smooth vour fevered brow—no
soft voice to whisper words of peace and
bop,—no < ve to weep over your late—I
sav, in »uch an hour you will sue for love
ns fot an alms-gift—and sue in vain!
But love in ts purity, is fontcrhuig
which no gen'lrman could regard with
contempt, or appropriate ti an unworthi
or vain pnrposi. Il is beneath a man
as the lord of creation and the proud im*
age of his creator. A man mav be una-ble
to return affection ; his feelings may
he engaged ; perhaps, he may be devoid
of such emotions. In such 4 case il be.
comes his bound-n duly to conduct hint-s'
If towards the woman who loves him.
(men alwavs have an intuitive knowledge
on this point) with such candor, or cold-ness
and reserve, as will at once annihi-late
all hope of return of affection on his
part, and consequently desttov by such a
course, all delusions and dav-dreatns of
love, rather than bv trifling with her fee.
lings, her dearest life-dependerit hopes
render her an object of disgust to him-self,
pits to the world, and of ultimate
self-enntrmpt—an undone anil ruined, a
hopeless and still devoted being!
The power which a man exercises over
the woman who loves him, is dangerous
indeed. She feels that he is her all to
love; and hence it is that she uses «n
little the nOWnr of control over her feel-ings.
" A trifle light as sir—a look"—
or a word, mav be mad'- to strike the
11 electric chain, wherewith we are darklv
bound," and betray, at once, all woman's
heart. To the one from whom it should
be bidden with feat and trembling; for
narked influence on the fertility of soils, i in her intercourse with him she loves,
and on their proper proportion its good- j woman should be vcrv. very careful
ness depends. If soils contain loo much ihe eoneealtneiU of her feelings. She
silica or gravel,they arc porous; and if]mav give them the reins in what s'le
too much clay, retentive. The last is thinks a vrrv slight degree, and little by
usually the worst fault nnd may bejlittle, reserve is overcome—feminine
known bv the water standing on it after Imodcstv is subdued and in losing her
rains, remaining unsettled for a long] proper dignity of demeanor bv allowing,
lino, owing to clay held in solution.— al first, "light demonstrations of passion
Wheat, winter kill* on such »oil», on I in innocent liberties, woman loses (he
calcareous gravelly ones rarely. Good I reaped dun to her as a woman—and a-soils
usually contain from sixty five to lias! for human nature! incurs the in-sratTsTy-
rrni cf CTIICTV from ten lo si xlceJlrj difference nnd disgust of him who should
be as a friend and adviser, even if circum-stance*
will mil admit ol his being a hus-band
and proticloi. So much for Ihe
present—let the future provide for itself
A true frieml.—The '• Audilnce" re.
latcs that a gentleman who, in 1630,
lound I si If a loser by the revolution,
determined lo go beyond seas to improve
hi* fortune ; bul previously to Icsving
Pert* be deposited with a friend 30,000
franca, a* a nest egg, in case of the new
speculation which he meditated not suc-ceeding.
More than nine years passed
away, and not a single line had been in-terchanged
between tbe two friends;
when the one who had expatriated him-self,
having failed in his ultra-marine
purauils, returned lo Havre a few davs
ago, determined lo take up his 30,000
francs, and end bis days in Prance. He
hastened to the capital, but found dial
ln» friend had left his former residence,
had ruined himself, cs it was said, by
gambling, and had not a sou left Full
of rage and despair, he found out his re-
•id- nee in the Rue Kloinlinanlean, where
he lived in the garret on the fifth story.
He rushed into tbe room, and there saw
his unfortunate friend, almost withoul
clothes, a haggard figure, sitting on a
chest, his onlv piece of furniture. Upon
this he launched out into the most vio-lent
reproaches, upbraided Inui with a
breach of trust, and threatened even to
to sinke him. Hi» friend uttered not il
word, but slowly rising, unlocked the
ch'tt, ami opening the lul showd the
other his 30,000 francs in gold. As. his
onlv recompense, he begged him to give
him a little money lo buy some food.—
Tlif sequel may be imagined.—Part*
SPEECH
Delivered at the Great Whig meeting ill the
County of Granville. on Tuesday, the 3d
day ot March, l"-tO, bv GaoBOl K. I'.\i>n
EH, Baq. and published at the request ol'lns
Fellow Citizens.
.Mr. Chairman:—I avail myself of the
invitation which has just been given me;
lo express my opinions lo this meeting of
my lellov citizens, on the condition and
prospects of our country. We, hsve cer-tainly
much to demand a careful scroll-ny,
and not a little to excite anxiety and
alarm. Eleven vears ago, rIn■ present
Administration* assumed the manage
meet of public affairs. The general
condition ul Ihe country was then sound
—Ihe currency and exchanges, trade and
business, were in a satisfactory stale, and
in all the pursuits of life, industry and
prudence commanded the reward lo
which Ihey are entitled. Whatever a-batcnic.
nl* in some particulars ought to
qualify this statement, its general troth
and correctness cannot be justly ques.
uoned—and with regard to the currency.
is subject lo no abatement. We wen
then, upon ihe whole, a happy and flour-ishing
people. What has been the ef-fect
uf these eleven years upon our al-
I'air*? Whit is our situation nov' Sure-ly
no one is so ignorant aa not lo know,
iliat our situation is materially changed
lor ihe worse—that this iff. ct has been
injurious and even disastrous. We vveic
told that our currency (the lust III Ihe
world) was not good enough,and that we
must haves belter. To accomplish tins,
a course of csperhnaula was commenced
upon tile Banking, and Credit avateui—
upon the property and industry of the
country. Kach experiment was ushen d
io wnh the promise of golden results ;
and though each in tune was followed by
a signal failure, the assurance was still
aa strong in favour of the next ; and we
were told, thai a little faith and patience,
would enable us to reap from that, the
harvest of which the former hail been
found so barren. The great good—the
highest blessing which our rulers prnmis-
<d us—was a hard money currency—an
entire specie circulation—and from tune
to time, during these years of experiment,
the month, almost the day was fixed,
when the paper rags shoolil disappear,
and a golden shower should fiil our pur-ses-
Bul still, as the appointed time ap-proached,
it was found convenient or
necessary to postpone the accomplish-ment,
'till another and more distant day.
And how stands it with us now? Al or
ihe ten years of patience and suffering
—constant fluctuations in the prices of
labor and of product— are we any near-er
lo ihe golden age of prosperity! Bv no
means. The price of our staples is now
depreciated beyond all experience,aince
the war of 1812, Cotton, for example,
even in the favoured region of Alabama,
is selling at S cents; our debts are unpaid,
and money daily becoming scarcer.—
The Hank notes, indeed.arcdisappcariug,
but alas! no approach la yet made to the
hard money substitute. Meantime, a
bankruptcy seems to have overtaken the
Tr< Jsury of tile nation. A short time
ago, our revenue was so large, overflow-ing
even beyond the extravagant expen-ditures
of the Administration, that it was
necessary lo devise some way to di-posc
of the surplus, in order io avoid tl
convenience and danger of a large accu-mulation.
It was concluded lo ask the
Siate* to take charge of Ibia supefluous
fund, and an Aci was passed for its dis-tribution,
bul scarce had tbe execution
of the law commenced, when it wa* found
necessary lo suspend it- The public cof-fers
were empty, and at every session of
Congress since the election of Mr. Vail
Huron, loans have been reqpiSfd lo de-fray
the expenses of Ihe Government.—
On every application it has been urged,
thai Ihe want wa* merely temporary—
ih ii instead of a regular loan, an issue of
Treatory notes for the momcnl was all
thai could bo required, and that the im-mediate
pressure over tbe ordinary reve-nue
would answei all Ihe demands upon
il. Bul these opinions, like the promi-ses
of • specie circulation, have been
doomed to disappointment—al c»ch scs-sion,
new reason* have been found lor
new issue* oi Treasury notes, and they
■sent now io have become ihe regular
mode of supplying the public necessi
tni. They are preferred by Ihe Admin-istration,
because they sre loans in dix-guite
-bui however diaguiaud, they are
loans in fact, and show thai our affairs
have been grossly mismanaged, when in
a time of peace with all foreign nations,
anil free from a national debt, the reve-uei
of tins great people are inadequate
to maintain its gov< rumenl. Thi* being
ihe in deniable condition of the country,
what i* proposed-by our ruleri for tin
rein f of tin people' l.ileially nothing.
Instead of learning wisdom from the past,
and turn ndering llieir Unprincipled ex-periments
upon all the institutions of tbe
of the countrv, thev at ill cry out against
ihe B.ink> and the Merchants—against
credit and industry,and renew their pro-mises
of hard money as the cure for all
our evils. There is one difference bow.
over observable — formerly, we were
promised immediate enjoyment of the
good, without a previous purgatory of
preparation—now, all is left liidefijuteaj
to time; the President informs ua that
we must prepare to make great sacrifices
—to bear our sufferings in patience, and
it some distant day, and by some unex-plaiaed
process of acquisition, the hard
money will come and all will be well.—
But though nothing is proposed for Ihe
rein fol ihe people, a plan is now urged
forward for the relief of the Government
and the enriching of ihe office boldeis.
This plan is the Sub-treasury—the bill
to establish it was passed in the Senate
bv less than the half of thai body wben
full, and it was hurried thruugh, though
delay was urged upon the Administra-tion
parly until the vacant scats could be
filled, and though the slate of things in
ihe 11, HI si was such as to prevent all
IIO|M- thjful could be acied on there for
many weeks, lo the House, tbe Admi-nistration
parly are now Striving 10make
tlie cvutcslcd seat* from New Jersey de-ueiid
not on ihe number of lawful votes,
but on the majority of all tbe voles law
lul and unlawful—good and bad, t in or.
der to command aeleai majority locarry
out ibis Belli mi ■ This measure, after
having been repeatedly condemned by
Congiess and tin people, there is strong
reason to fear will be passed al the pre-sent
sesame; and as are lbs oeans used
to obtain its passage, and 80, i* the
charade of ihe measure ilself. It is
called the -'Independent Tretiurj," and
so in one sense it i*. It is independent
ol all connection with the business, of
all sympathy with the distresses, of all
efforts fur the relief ami assistance of the
people; but it is tulally defKndent on
Executive control—is intended lo place
lie purse ol iftc nation iii ihe hands of
the President; Tin,! to enable him bv the
■item ntion oi in- iiiousai.ii ofBMurs,con-cerned
in the collection and disliursmenl
of Ins bard money revenue, and I lie man-agement
of hi* grand Government Bank
founded thereupon, to make ut aedepend-nl
upon III in as tile treasury will be.
But what is the measure ? I' promi-ses,
when il shall b - in full operation, a
collection ol all theduea to the public in
hard money* If tin* shall not, in it* con-sequences
necessarily destroy all our
hanks, then we shad have one currency
for the people, consisting of paper mon-ey,
depreciated by the action of the
Government; and another currency, con-sisting
of gold and silver for the use of
the Government and its officers and a-genls,
in which al/ that owe the govern-ment,
i nisi pay, get il how the can—
and then farewell, a long farewell, lo Ihe
specie illusion—the hard money hum-bug,
with which the people of Ibis coun-try
have been so long amused. Bui if
this measure -hall oblige ali our banks
to wind up—an seems to be the opinion
of those who have the best no ana of for-ming
a correct judgment on the subject
—if it shall destroy the usual credit HVs-lem
of the cnunlrv whocan conceive the
• I have treated th" present and last Ad-in
mttratinn as one. because' Mr. Van Ibirei
profe see but to follow m the footsteps ofhii
■or.
eumsianccs, can a poor man, or a man of
modi rale means, pay bis debts? If a
mechanic or a laborer owes a few hund-red
dollars, which he is just able to pay
when his wages are at one dollar and a
half, or one dollar a day, how can he
make payment when Ihe debt remaining
ihe siine, tbe wage* are reduced to three
quarter* or a half a dollur? If a man ha*
purchased a peiceof land, a*an advanta-geous
si ti lenient for hi* increasing fami-ly
al 91000, and having paid half, it* val-ue
is reduced lo the specie standard, is
not the part paid an entire loss?—the
land being worth, in the whole, when
measured by the new standard, just ihe
moiety which remain* unpaid. It i* said
that the price of every tiling being re-duced
in ihe aanie proportion, the inju-rious
consequences will not follow to
tho-e who owe nothing. Suppose this
wire so, how many of us will it comfort?
How many of ua are in thai happy condi-tion
to owe no debts? And pray, is be-ing
in debt such a crime, llint no aympa-ihy
is due, no care to be taken in the le-gislation
of the country for Ihe man thai
owes money? Is il sufficient to say those
who owe no man any thing—those who
are beforehand in llic world—the credi-tor
parl of the nation will not suffer; and
a* to tho rest, if people will be in debt,
lei them suffer. This is most revolting
duel. in-. But is il true, that none but
the debtor class will suffer I It is not
true. Supposing that all prices should
be affected here in the same ratio, it will
not be the case with the prices of arti-cles
coming',froin abroad. These will
not be affected by our legislation, hut
will remain at the old rates while the
prices of domestic article* only will fall.
What will be the consequence .' With
an income reduced one-half, every man'*
imported Sugar and Coffee, and Tea and
Molasica, and Blankets and Woollens,
tVc. will remain at their full price. . The
poor man—the man who depends on ilia
labor, or the proceed* of a small properly
to support a family, must reduce Ins wife
and children lo half allowance of MUM
things which are absolute necessaries,
and ol others which by long use hue
become necessaries. A bun I day to a
husband that, which lakes away the re-freshment
of a cup of Coffin from hi*
wife, and to a father, that winch denies
to his children the iiidulgencies to which
they have been accustomed I And gloomy
will be Ihe evening which shows a fain
vaat possessions ! It was proposed by a
distinguished Senator from Kentucky, to
divide the proceeds of these lands among
the several Stales; but tbe Administra-tion
insist on surrendering them te tho
Slate* in which ihey are situated—on
making a present of tho ahare of North
Carolina to llicsc States. To what pur-posc
? What ia to be gained by it?—
Nothing that can be conceived, except
the vote* of those Slates, who receive
the benefit, may be thereby gained for
Mr. Van Burcn. North Carolina baa
spoken with clearness and decision, a-gainit
this dishonest dispoaitioo of her
property—but ber voice has been un-heeded
; she lias declared her unwilling-ness
to give up her abare of the public
lands as ihe price of voles for Mr. Van
Burcn ; bul he insists on making tbo
bargain notwithstanding. Is Ihe State
prepared new for this aurrender of bci
rights, which she so decidedly protested
against fifteen months ago! Besides lh>:
injuitircol tbe contemplated misapplies
linn, Ihe pulve of our interest make* il
as a pecuniary matter, of vast importance.
Our share of llic lands will amount prob-ably
to nearly fifty times the yearly rev-enue
of Ibe Slate. Vested at six per
cent, it would produce a yearly income
sufficient lo defray all ihe ordinary char-ge*
of Ihe Slate Government, and leave
a large surplus applicable to Ihe purpose
ol education and internal improvement.
Divided amongst the several count,us ac-cording
to llieir federal numbers, its year-ly
income would defray all tho Public
and County taxes—suppoil the paupers,
and build school-houses in every district
of ihe Country. Who can think with
patience of tb.s vast treasure being
squandered by our rulers io the prosecu-tion
of their ambitious schemes—plun-dered
frctui the proper owner*, and paid
away a* tin purchase money for politi-cal
support to Mi. Van Burcn ? IsNorth
C'arolmia prepared for it! If she is not
ptepared, uorii for the.Sub-Trcasury, nnd
the giving away of the public lands, ajie
must oppose the re-election of Martin
Van Buren. BOTH these measures aro
pressed for adoption,'by men who will
not regard your rights in the testier, be-cause
they are opposed lo their oivn in-tcrcsts—
and it is morally certain, if Mr.
Van Burcn shall be re-elected, that both
these measures vvili be carried. It i* idle
—it is worse than idle—lo *ay wc will
vole for the men but oppose their men*.
ly assembled around a board deprived oft Urea—for ton can in no other way sun.
the usual comforts of their evening meal ! port or oppose the meaiurci, than by sup-
—when all arc sure that the saorific porting or opposing the Administration
not made to their country, but to power—
is not good to them, but to enhance the
splendor and luxurious enjoyment* of
their rulers.'.'
And who, sir, Isto be bcnefilltd by tins
Sub-Treasury scheme? There are two
classes unit will ga.u by it. The office-holder!
are the first. It is no part of (he
Sub-Treaaury bill to reduce the salaries
ol the officers—they are to remain at the
lull amount; and consequently, if prices
are reduced one hall, the process is ex-actly
equivalent to doubling the salary
of every officer—from the 8'd'i.OOO of llic
President to the $1,000 or 85U0 of the
Clerkl in the erli -es. All sAfeid uo .id. d
in value. Well, then, may all who re-ceive
cither salaries orfces from Govern
incut press for the adoption of the Sub-
Treasury. Auothtr class who will gam
by it, are those who are woll off in llic
world—owe little ot nothing- -have large
di-bla due ihem, or large sums of money
lo invest, and are besides, willing to
-peculate on the pu 1 I ic d i,t n ss ■ all, who
having the mean*, arc ready to lend on
usurious interest, to shave notes at enor-mous
discount—to attend execution and
liu»t sales, and buy iheir leas fortunate
neighbors out of house and home. These
will profit by Ibc specie ba«is, and they
know il we
that in aim
I his description are clamorous for the Sub-
Treasury, and assure you il will do won-ders
for the Country—meaning fnrfnem-lelttl.
These two classes will find pros-perity
pouring in upon '.bom with incrca-
-ing streams—these will hasten forward
lo opulence—" their palaces rise like ex-halations—
their equipage! fly like me-teors"—
as il to .uock the general calam-ity
which surround! tin m. And while
this calamity will involve all other clas-ses
of the coinmiinity, let it hit remem-bered,
its Weight will he still heavier
which recommend* them. Everyman,
therefore, who casts* vole forVan Burcn,
voles for the Sub-Treasury—and also de-clans
his willingness to sec the public
lands given away—and should Ihe State
give her electoral vote for him—she will,
by thai very act, aupport the Sub-Treas-ury,
and al the same time make a volun-tary
surrender of her share of tho vast
public domain of the States.*
But, sir, we aro not prepared—(his
County and this Stale are not prepared
for this surrender. What then must wo
do! We must withdraw from Mr. Van
Burcn the support OT the Slate, and bc-siow
it elsewhere. Tbe question then a-rises,
shall wc give it lo Gen. Harrison f
'•Is he bone si, >» be capable, is he faith-ful
to the Constitution?" No man cliould
be our President who cannot abide tbii
lest. Let me, then,' bring Gen. Harri-son
lo it. and if he shall be found want-ing,
let him be rejected :
GENERAL HARBISON
In 1701, William Henry Harrison,
then in hi* 19th year, was appointed an
Ensign IU the Army by Washington. At.
that time, the whole North-western fron-tier
of the United States was overrun by
hostile Indians. Ever since tho close of
ihe Uovolulionarv war, tho torch and the
II. Hence, you will observe, I ,_1„,I,-„I, n„,i ,i,„ i • , , . ,
' .'; tomahawk and Ihe scalping-knifc had .
losl everv instance, persons o (i,„.,„ i„, ,i„ „_J r„,_n ' , ,
I been busily and latally employed on our
bodirs—many expeditions had been sent
out, but had been defeated by these tri lies,
equally remarkable for their bravery and
skill—and Ihe loss wc had sustained was
oitimatcd at more than fifteen hundred
men.
The generous heart of Harrison took
fire at llic suffering* inflicted on hiscnun-trymen,
and leaving a safe and comforta-b'c
home, and abandoning the study of a
profession by winch lie was preparing lo
win his way to fame and opulenco, Ii"
i baitened to the back woods 10 mingle in
upon the poor, and those who are inmo- ,,„,„,„ „„(,„,, lo cUa9l|JC ,A
derate circumstances and owe money- .,„.„ „,„ BBJ|Ho ivo j
others, .1 will deprive of their comfort* ; cliri,y to tho settlers. At the great bnt-but
these, IM»III overwhelm with hope.j,|a rougn, bj (;,.n- Wayne, In which tba
Indians were signally defeated, Harriso,
then a Lieutenant, acted as one of the
ills far short ..I the dreadful reality. (JonenUI aids and bv hilgallant COndt.C
s, then, is the remedy for our evil! I elicited the wa
miserable consi quences to our society
rm approbation of Ins com-mander.
Gen. Wayne, in ins despatch
giving an account of the battle, savt.
All debt* to be cnllccn d withoul ihe usu-al
facilities for obtaining funds—the
price of labor aid of produ
duced to ! specie standard, prohablv to
one.third or one.half of the present a-mount.
Pel low citizens, consider the
matter for a mom' nl, and endeavor to re-alist
I hi-result*. How, under such cir-
, t Sv~o anpendjst
1- ss ruin. Tl is picture is not overchar-ged.
There is every reason to suppose
it la -, lai short of the dreadful reality.
Tin
offered by our considerate and experi-j.
meriting rulers—eonaidertite for them-1
selves and their partisans-experiment. J",,.,, t~. r,.nV,,d'-iho most essentiaf'ser'
i ing with cruel coolness upon Ihe com- j ,ice>» commnniMlin(j his orders to cvorv
; fort and happiness ol (lie country. "'"I .direction, ami by Ins conduct anlbiove'.
to be rev Ji" ?,° ,ll"l Admioiatralion pro|~««^~ry,''exciting the troops to proas for tic
The .Hied states own a large nt.iounl I lori •■ „,„„„„ <.„„„„,.,,, in „
nf public lands—a domain liejyl in trust „|| l707j „.,,„„_ ,;„,,.n„ ,. ■
l.v the Govornment, after the satiifactton ,on,„.ra prolnb.lny ol active s.rvice ■„
of the p bin- debl lor the Slates of the
I 'nion—for North ' larolma as well ns tha
rest. \* Ii it H Mr. Von Burcn, with Ins
parly in * 'ongreav, tl in do with thi "
Ihn field, he threw up ins' commission,
and was shortly altcrwardi appointed
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