oi the watchman „, per year tw d illaes payable in t not paid in advance two dollars be charged nserted at sl for the first and o cts i trtion court orders charged - rates a liberal tleduc idveri -■ bj ibe yeai , ..:;■ ti - musi i postpaid . ,, 1 ii;r from mr rayner n-ih he found a copy of a letter ad , il m k rayner to col mi me over lhe public meeting held in . ime weeks ago it is with sincere f learn lhat it will be impossible for . bear aloft the banner t f his par approaching canvass for there is not that his eminent talents would have se i the nomination had he permitted his ,. nsed — highland messenger mtt ry co texxessee i novembt r 15 1 17 $ cba tt moore esq n tit sib : — i have seen in lhe raleigh • the 30th of october lhe proceed ' • big meeting lately held in buncombe h ton presided in which my name is , mentioned in connexion with the lidat j be run by the whigs ,, i !•! the state at the next election i of my name coming a it does part of the slate where 1 have it and where j have so few acquain npiimcnl of which i may 1 truly proud you will therefore w me in the first place to offer to through you to those who coin ng my most grateful and unaffected nt for the honor you have done r ., and lo express my regrets that 1 have done desei ve it _ . it may by some be considered pre j-.atur lb should anticipate the action of the n ret i feel it to be due to the whigs well a to myself lo respond igi stion of my name altho o calculate beforehand on the nomination being tendered to me by ition yet 1 am aware that 1 have is in the state who will cordially se emenl and 1 consider it due to veil a to my friends in buncombe taken the lead in the matter that my feelings should not be concealed for ve no vain desire to receive a nom ihe convention it such a thing were rely for the purpose of declining it ler to prevent any misunderstanding ction of public feeling among the be slate 1 deem it proper to speak ul without reserve for these rea mysel compelled to say to you that mt allowing my name to be pre • onvention whenever it assent request lhat in the various inter opinion on this subject among our uds in lhe state attention may no . be directed to me but be concentrated ti person vou lhal in pursuing this course i : lenced by any undue estimate of the mr and importance of the office of governor i hief magistrate of one of the sover of tin i nioii is an honor which ambition of any one ; nnd to elected as the candidate of the whig party ixorth carolina for that station is the high i testimonial any one of her sons could re re lhal be has done bis duty to his country among tbe various considerations that have ght me lo my present conclusion it will be . mention the following of a personal in the firsl place my principal ii interest is in the south west until -! v but lately located becomes more ished ami secured i shall be neces rtjcompelled to be absent from the state me during every year so much so era due attention to my business in with a discharge ol the duties of the office of the slate were this the tion however 1 might be induced to called on by the whigs of the slate • sacrifice but in the second place ind conscientiously believe that in a anvassofthe slate — which establish - ems to have prescribed as a duty jeopardize my life 1 have for years t to violent attacks ol illness caused lerangement of my nervous system - attacks are invariably consequent ; il excitement and fatigue by sub y self to the constant labor and cxpo trcetic canvass lor months 1 doing great injustice to myself and ■ ly in hazarding nn health and as i tlwv * n.y life also and 1 should be doing lo the whig parly of the state iking a duty which i could not satis i'l iho know me will hardly charge me __ tsg ot zeal in behalf of the great live principles of the whig patty — - experience convinces me mote uf their truth and importance who o the nominee of the whig conven to assemble will if my life and id receive my most cordial aud port lender to my friends in bumcombe 1 thanks for the kind and com maty terms in which they have spoken of cept for yourself ihe high regards of rcs poctful and obedient servent k rayner fayetteville observer states that we civil engineer having render 7 favorable report of the route 1 or the metropolitan railroad • r ni his observations in a recent has been engaged to make without delay tliu uak0l1m watchman bruner & james ; editors <$. proprietors i " ce " * r *" v " ur ( new series uu this and 1.ibetity !< s\rt " < jcul harrison ( number 31 of volume iv salisbury n c thursday december 2 1847 tiie old farmer once more ah ali and naboth's vineyard the attention of president polk and his advisers is respectfully requested to the fob lowing occurrences in the ancient history oi the israelites : and it came to pass after these things that nabolh the jezreelite had a vineyard,°which was in jezreej hard by the palace of ahab king of samaria " and ahab spake unto naboth sayin-r give me thy vineyard that i may have it foragarden ol herbs because it is near unto my house i and j will give thee for it a better vineyard lhan it ; or if it seemsgood lo thee i will give thee the worth of it in money and nabolh said to ahab the lord for bid it me that i should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee '• and ahab came into his house heavy and displeased became of the word which naboth lhe jezreelite had spoken to him for he had aid i uili not give th<>e the inheritance of my fathers and he laid him down upon his bed and tinned away his face and would eat no bread it is the misfortune of those possessed of des potic power generally to have some evil coun sellor ready to gratify their whim however foolish wicked or unreasonable they may be accordingly measures were soon adopted to put ahab in possession ofnaboth's vineyard letters were written " in ahab's name and seal-'d with his seal and sent unto the elders and lo the nobles that were in his city dwell ing with naboth 7 ' and in the letleis it was written saying " proclaim a fast and set na both on high among the people •• and set two men sons of belial before him to bear witness against him saying thou didst blaspheme god and the king and then carry him out and stone him hat he may die and the men of his city jven the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city did as jezebel had sent utile ihem they cat tied him forth out of the cin and . ned him with stones that he died the conduct of ahab is exhibited in the above extracts of history d s that ol unmingled depravity yet in how many points does it not : coincide wiih that of the executive of the the united states towards mexico ahab cast his greedy eyes upon naboth's vineyard just as our ' president cast his upon the territories of mexi ' co he said it was " near unto his house just as the president and his advocates say that ' lhe mexican territories are convenient to the , united states he offered the " worth of it in , money just as the president offers fifteen or twenty millions of dollars for california and i new mexico naboth refused to sell the in 1 heritance of his fathers just as mexico declines ' to sell her country and people to president ' polk two sons of belial were then set to accuse him just as many reckless unprincipled and designing men are now set to bring false accusations against mexico and excite the peo ple of the united state " to stone her with t stones that she may die , i the question now is will the people of the ' i uited states permit themselves to be excited by these false charges until they " stone mexi ' co wilh stones that she may die ?" 1 ll they will we beg leave to commend to their attention the following sequel to the above extract trom the ancient history : " and the word of the lord came to elijah the tishbite saying — " arise go down to meet ahab king of isiael which is in samaria : behold he is in the vine yard of naboth whither he is gone down to possess it i " nd thou shalt speak unto him saying thus sailh the lord hast thou killed and also taken possession ' and thou shalt speak unto him saying thus saith the lord in the place where the dogs licked the blood of naboth shall dogs lick thy blood even thine • " and ahab said to elijnh hast thou found me uh mine enemy .' and he answered i have found thee because thou hast sold ihysell to work evil in the sight of the lord •' behold i will bring evil upon thee art'd will take away thy posterity for the pro vocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger and made israel to sin •• but there was none like unto ahab which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the lord let no man sneer at the above as an ancient fable or as inapplicable to the present case — it is recorded by the pen of eternal " truth and wisdom and applies precisely to our rela tions with mexico but though the ruling pow ers of the union neither fear god nor regard man though like ahab they had sold themselves to do evil slill we might suppose that prudence — the merest prudence which is competent to conduct the ordinary affairs of hu man life — would deter them from taking a course which promises so little good and is be set with such unavoidable evils if we " an nex mexico we must annex with it an un measurabie degree of suspicion disgust hatred and a spirit of never-dying revenge we must annex with it an inhuman civil war the begin ning ot which is visible enough ; but the end of which none but the all-seeing eye can dis cover mexico as a friend and neighbor can be useful to us ; but as a vassal or an inle grel part of the union she must infalibly prove a curse v ax old farmer waskmgk>n co md nov 15 1s47 jsst it is reponvl lhat new peace proposi , tions had been operx l,v m r - frist r rom the national intelligencer repudiation repudiated ! mississippi — though the election of mr thompkins to congress from this state is highly satisfactory and a matter of great congratulation the election anil that too by a very large majority — of judge sharkey as chief judge of the court of appeals is a matter of still great er rejoicing it is the triumph of principle is ite defeat and rout of the repudiating party in that stale — it is the return of a majority of the people of mississippi to the paths of justice and rectitude ; and the result re llecls high honor upon the glorious band who have achieved this victory judge sharkey has always been the open and fearless enemy of repudiation which he has denounced in the severest terms contending that the only honorable course for the state to pursue was to re cognise her debt and at once impose the needful taxes to meet the interest and finally redeem the principal he has also been deadly hostile to all the legislative efforts to destroy the debts due to the banks by compelling those in stitutions to sell out their claims at public auction or by throwing legal obstructions in the way of their recoverv the whole of the question was fully before the people — tlie election entirely hinging upon it ; and we offer our sincere congratulations to the good people of mis sissippi on the result it is well understood that the numerous decisions in lhe lower courts in favor of just debts will now all be confirmed in tho high court of appeals which the debtors fondly hoped they would evade had judge sharkey been defeated — a r . o bulletin on the same subject we find in the southron printed at jackson the seat of i government of the state of mississippi the following article fully sustaining the views taken by the bulletin of the ef fect of the election of judge sharkey " the efforts on the part of the destruc tives to dragoon the democratic party in to the support of a party judge have met with a most signal rebuke the people have arisen in their majesty and proclaim ed through the ballot box that the judi ciary shall be independent independent democrats uniting with that portion of the whig party which regarded principle as superior to interest have re-elected that pure upright and talentad man william l sharkey by a glorious and triumphant majority henceforth the country is safe because the judiciary is free and has been made so by the assistance and united action of the right-thinking independent voters of both parties let no man hence forth say that the election of the judiciary is not safe in the hands of the people of mississippi ! cod forbid that in congratulating the people the whole people upon this most important and glorious result we should take from our democratic brethren that meed of praise which they so justly de serve without their aid it is well known the whig party if united to a man could not have achieved this great thing let it be a warning to the clique who would have chained them to their car and gag ged them never again to meddle with the purity and indepedence of the judiciary ] of this noble state " we cannot find words to express our gratification at this glorious result every intelligent well-wisher of the state will feel a pride swelling his own bosom which cannot be increased by any thing we can say — jackson southron noo 5 working men should study politics — 1 re specllully counsel those whom i address the working men of america i counsel yon to labor for a clear understanding