Carolina Watchman

              the magnetic telegraph b y kxs e l schlv.meriiorn ohrr.rr.>r dove spread not thy wins tiiou beauteous messenger of air ! to waiting eyes ar;j h<-arts to bring the tidings thou wert wont to bear urg not the flying courser's speed jive dot bis neck the loosened rein nor bid bis panting sides to bleed as twill be thunders o'er the plain touch but the magic wire ; and lo ! thy thoughts is borne on flaming track and swifter fat than winds can blow . the rapid answer lack the s-ifje who woo'd the lightning's b'.aze till stooping from the summer cloud j around with harmless niys by fame is trumpeted aloud and sure she lias a lotty meed for him win thought with seraph reach to an£!iage gives the lightning - speed and ■•<■.■..;- • to speech nerved by its power <-• r spreading land a might g ;• es ; tcir-li bui one m-rve with skilful hand the thrill unbroken flie3 the dweller 11 tin atlantic sh a v ■ •-.:•!■'•, and swift as light wh re far pa ific waters on with mntjic flight thou<r!it = : ng in the mind oul borne on its wiry ; hearts - indered far as pole from pole as bashes o'er ;!■•■ summer skies t ■■■ . lining's blaze from east to west o'er irih the burning fluid flies winged by w mortal's proud behest i flaming cherubs nr the ynte ■ man by lasting grew too wise l he t n rgain to tempt ihf fate that drove him first from paradi e ' jbilo.-i j c calhoun's si in senate §^» ii is as necessary pontry for our country 1-1 \>- strong as to be in ihe ri^ht ; ami tiulv !;■.• i rigb bui ire ir-v right in theirs who wo en the country or i u u thai . its energies i.w representing i i try as in ihe ivron ' a cas sy with another w«rld it i im triliutire to < ■ 11 sfrength u be right i •' i rnore am m irs • - i;!).-r make represeotation oi ij in i or enuvavor t place u in that c iditi — as i freeman i lover of ruth an i a : dissimulation and \\ rong ■ sentiments ace g to tt the men at the bead f our government ■ territory lhat eridenllj l*eiongs to ai tiun we m:-t fu-t:uii them <•: be i • .••' ; ii incur ihe imminent risk i : war by refusing in their negotiationi with . power t consent to terms which bare been repeatedly proposed by their wise ter pn - -. ' and if when negotiation i perti naciouslv i - of all ■ on ■:-.•■ r d rcision ot a quest i involving to arbitration — si uj'i best tn ■!•• of sel _■ . culiies we must sustain ii.<-.';i or be silent — such principles of action may do we tor skives a fre men ill scorn them 14 our country right or wrong is,whenpro . i . ixlm in lim of irar a » idier should fighl for hu country's flag wi ■ ippin to iu\'estigate the cause el liiit most certainly when ire are with the world h is the dutyoferen ■ all iii his p wer towards keeping j in right and to denounce and of her rulers to place her in thr wroog louisville journal telegraph says it baa been proposed that a public meeting be held in the park some day next week by citizens of all parties calling upon congress to raise a war loan o 25 millions to organize the niiiiiia und increase the army and navy serins two dollars per annum in advance jrertaementa inserted at 1 per square for the first k cents for each subsequent insertion court or hcharged 25 per cent higher f . it - ii z ' f^k-the following beautiful verses were received by llm washington by the magnetic telegraph and be h he lightning speed w w'"ch they were trans ed adds nothing to t.^r beauty it was a happy flftah to select the wr.'jeii'ul invention of which they k are in praise as •'•'« medium of transmitting them 1 baltimore patriot rulers do this nrro liberty gcn'l harrison new series number 2 of volume iii the carolina watchman look to the legislature it is a matter of paramount importance that the whigs should have a majority in the next legislature audit would seem to he superfluous in the good whig state of north carolina that it was at all ne ces try to make an appeal to that party which is by so large a majority in the ascendant in the state vet the lesson taught us by the supineness and lethargy of the whigs in 1842 by which we fo i loco focqji i:i possession of a consid e majority in the legislature of that \ admonishes us that it wuj not do :<» upon our strength of numbers with bringing that power to beqr in the of trial no true whig can forg : chagrin and mortification frit by when we found the rnt-ray in posses of the capitol of our in loved . imonweallh or can he and shameful acts of the party ll n in power.be overlooked or ('.-■_ i :.— we have but to notice our horrible man and misshapen congressional 1 ■• s to can the blush i f shame and to rise toourcheeks—ol we who possessed the powor tn ■ if had permitted suchastateof ti;ii xist—and indignation at ihn unjw>.t and tyranical course pursue . •'.•• loco foco party while revealing in ;':.■• 1 of an accidental m ijority in state legislature the \\':.;.;< have most seriously and disastrously the doings of that gerrymandering s.'~>i;>n wherc by instead of having at least . repfcj sentatives in cougress selected : party who truly represent the wishes ( f a majority of their constituency we . ourselves reduced to a mere c guard and three members ami ; • dis - so arranged.as to make it almost ini • :/.«• that we could with i tive exertions 1 successful in elec more than five representatives from staunch and thorough whig state of n upon the next general as "'! devolve he high and r electing a united states > •• of our gifted and patriotic mai s whose term of serviee exp ltii of march next it depends upon ihe de cision made at our august el whether he or some other true and un flinching whig shall represent us in that august body or whether the .•-;;!; d ia and disgrace - to us of tm itiu a-repr sent 1 by ti stead of one loco foco senat r h we should vert sad a i whigs should go to work with a li i will determined to be satisfied • nothing short of decidi-d majorities in branches of the nexi legislature \\ •■ have o!i!v to reiblrt thai it .- . ll in and by a proper exercise of !:.• cial strengl!i we possess accomplished let every county out their strongest and mosi \ didates—let preference of men lowed up in the desire for triumph ol ciplt let all go to work wil and i if rgy and a most u u in every county howevi success may e ( ni to prom and effiaient men !,<< in :':,:• h counties and districts be thi vassed and by a vigorous and manly de fence of our principles the < k ! ,%. stare will lie redeemed irom lh taint or suspicion ol l co f let there l;e no comprising with i nents—no log-rolling—no sw candidate l-t us strike tor our & and our country's cause in . next our banner will wave victorious inscribed on its glorious lo!d:—.1 h"/i/«r governor a whig senate!!—and a whu i h u8e of ( 1 ml s : '' let our watch-word be remembertht (• mander session of l--i:j — rait igh ll under these circumstances the commit ' ti-e while a majority of them are in even way favorable to vh;tf they believe the only constitutional mode of collect in de positing and disbursing what ihey believe to lie the only currency known to the con ' stjtution.!ire most anxious that this change ; shall be effected in a manner to produce as lillle pressure as possible on the com ' mercial community to prepare for this result and to avoid any consequences from the too sudden introduction of the sub treasury we have after full deliberation with entire utimnrnity determined that the specie clauses shall in no event be report ed to go into effect sooner.than the first of january next so far as this course on ihe part of the committee is calculated to all;tv appre hension i am h;«pj>y in being able to fur ■ ni.-h the honorable gentleman the infor mal ion he asks twentyninth congress first session wednesday april 1810 mr webster rose and said mr fte-ident i daily receive so many letters ranking iikjuiries touching the j)robab|e p*iilm<s dt one of i he measures now he fore the senate that j desire i l ask very re>[h-,i : l!y a question or two of the com qrfrr w ho have char of it 1 refer sir 1th subject ofthe independent treasury . hil 1 s n etirii.-.s called the subtreasury bill i mii no panic maker 1 desire to prevent pinirs io aiiay apprehensions the eoun lf in ti.i.,1 is prosperous and i desire ** l.-.i is 1 am able lo prevent agitation > lliu dist in liiiiicc in it tinancial affairs 1 '■ xfill then-lore address myself to ttirtftmvi '! nfan ol the coinmittre on finance and 1 bfi him mosi r specifully hoping that he will not find an answer to lie inconsistent ifiih his public duty to say how soon it 1 ra:ty b » xpected ihat tin committee will report upon that important measure — whether ihe committee h;is so | ir advanc e|l in the consideration of the bill that he uj now able to s;i whether they will re ' p|>n the bill with or without amendment • ium il with amendments if he can now indicate what those amendments are ! ihis information must necessarily be ex c^edmgly useiiil to ,!,,. public and 1 will also ask if he will in so obliging as to - hate at what pel iod the subject will come 1 p lor consideration this last question is not unimportant in itself but to me it is especially important because i shall rfiortly have occasion to be absent for a ft-w da s j mr lewis said j am happy mr president to have ii in my power to re ply to the questions of the distinguished , senator from massachusetts so larasthe ommittee on finance have had the sub ject under consideration i cannot how jpver say at what time the subtreasury ■ ii will be reported hack to the senate he committee have determined to give *■ ece.dence in the action of the senate to bill reported by the honorable senator sum new york mr dix for establish ing a warehousing system this bill has bren urged on the committee hycommer >' i il uitti as a remedial measure in jr s 1^ndency shorn ly calculated to relieve 9\v pressure which mi-lit otherwise re w i from a precipitate or sudden intro iclion of the specie clauses of the sub bfasury in addition to the warehousing ibill the committee propose to precede ac mjon on he subtreasury by bills to estab wsh branch mints at charleston and new ■ ork measure which have also been rged from respe ct able commercial sour s as in their tendency calculated to | a . m tate the introduction () | specie pav bents into the treasury so far as any r all ol these measures are calculated to : hay apprehension in the pu b|j c mind ley will receive the cordial support of ! bie committee ■ it is certain sir that from the very rea on we have not now a subtreasury j n peraiion large amounts ol public money ave accumulated in depositc in he hanks ■ heir amount—not less than eleven ur welve millions—has become the basis of m much larger paper circulation while the reception of paper money in the dues of he government has in addition to oiher bouses,considerably expanded the aggre wate circulation of this country so much o as to create an adverse state of foreign icjxclmnges and at a time too when the i onstary condition of england is far from ! ,| fing iseulcd and easy the resolution having been read mr webster rose and said i have ; a lew and hut a few remarks to make on | the president's message in answer to the resolution of i he house of representatives j calling lor an account of the disburse ments during the period in which i had i the honor lo be secretary of stale out of ihe fund for the contingent expenses of foreign intercourse in ihe first place sir 1 am happy to say ihat i entirely approve the course'of pro ceetling which the president has adopted j in my judgment he could not have acted otherwise than he has done without the j v*°m f uvv and his own duty sir as i know that not a dollar «,, t t from that tend without the sa of the president and as i am conscious ,...,, fi i ery disbursement wits made for a proper i and necessary public purpose it might be thought that 1 should desire the publica tion of ihe papers in order that every bo dy might see what they are or what'they show but this is a matter of so little con cernment to me tnd i presmne it is of as li.'ue to the late president that i certain ly would not wish to see an important principle and an important law violated and broken for any personal convenience i m that respect 1 am not at all apprehen sive that the country will suspect either ; president tyler or me acting under his authority of any thing improper in the disbursement of a few hundred or a few thousand dollars i a case in which the j law reposes confidence in the president and gives him a discretion as to making the expenditure public sir a president of ihe united states.or the bend of a department acting by his authority must think but poorly of his own reputation and standing wild the country if he is afraid of being suspected of having violated his duty and his oath in a matter of so little moment i will add that a person who entertains such a suspicion without reason of any public i man may himself be well suspected of having held a no very complimentary dia logue with himself sir we all know that the head of a de partment cannot touch a dollar of this fund except with the president's sanction the whole power and the whole respon sibility is with the president the pre sident's message states this so fully and clearly that 1 need not dwell upon it i will say in the tirsf place that no expen diture improper in itself or improper in its amount was made to my knowledge judgment or belief and i will say in the next place that the late president of the united states in all things respecting the expenditure of the public moneys was remarkably cautious exact and particu lar and i here say sir that all declarations averments statements or insinuations made any where or by any body ■ impute perversion misapplication or waste of the public funds committed or made by me while secretary of state are utterly groundless and untrue and i will conclude with one remark the bearing of which i shall leave to the senate and to i he countrv whoever charges me with having eith er misapplied or wasted the public funds ! while in the department of s:ate has either seen the pa pets or has in some other way obtained knowledge on the subject or he has not if he has seen no ! secret service fund tin following resolution,offered by mr jarnagan some days ago was taken up resoloed that the president of the u nited stales be requested to cause to be furnished to the senate an account of all payments made on president's certificates from ihe fimd appropriated by law for the contingent expenses offoreigninfercour.se since the4th march 1^5 to this time with copies of all entries receipts letters vouchers memorandums or other evi dence of such payments to whom paid and forwh.it including the sum of thirty thousand dollars r contingent expense's ot all ihe missions abroad now proposed to be provided for by the bill before the senate entitled an act to supply defi ciencies in ihe appropriations for certain objects made for ihe services ofthe fiscal year ending 3d june 18 if but no doc ument or matter is requested by this res olution to be furnished which in the opin ion of the president would improperly in volve the citizens or subjects of any for eign power papers and has no knowledge then his imputations are purely wanton and slan derous if he has seen the papers or has any knowledge then he would be sure to state what he knows if he knows any thing to sustain him in his charge si lence under such circumstances is con elusive that he knows nothing because he is under no obligation of secrecy and ; in absence of all other proof he would of course tell all he knew if he knew any thing which could in the slightest degree bear him out the charge therefore was either made in utter ignorance of any i'acts to support it or else w ith the know ledge that the lacts which do exist would if made known entirely disprove it as to the source of i his miserable vitupera tion i have nothing lo say i am afraid 1 shall he thought to have paid too much attention to it already sir i leave the author of these slanders where he is—1 leave him in the worst company i know of in the world—1 leave him with himself mr jarnagan said a somewhat si milar resolution adopted by the house of representatives having been responded to by the president refusing on public grounds to give the information asked for he was disposed to withdraw the resolu tion the presiding officer observed that the senator from tennessee could withdraw the resolution only by the unan ; imous consent ofthe senate mr jarnagan i presume no sen ator will object mr westcott i object mr jarnagan very well ; the sen ate can decide upon it ihen mr wes rcgtt 1 object to the with drawal ot this resolution because i desire the vote of the senate upon if by ayes and noes its a precedent 1 regard the princi ple involved in it as highly important 1 am opposed to its adoption and hope the , senate will reject it by a decisive vole what is the case ? congress in mak ing the annual appropriations for the con ! tingent expenses of our foreign intercourse : allows a fund of five thousand dollars j commonly designated as " the secret ser : vice fund to be yearly expended by the executive officers and by the general act of may 1810 the only voucher for lie disbursement of this fund where the l sident in his judgment is of opinion that the particulars of the expenditure | should not be made public is as is provi 1 ded by the act he certificate of the pre sident of such disbursement without sta : ling for what specific purpose it is mad or to whom made cious and is in fact imperiously demand ed hy the interests of this government — such course should be pursued forthwith the government would be remiss and negligent if they did not adopt such policy great britain and other governments are active in his way why should not we use the same weapons mr v said be was highly gratified with the message ofthe president in an swer to ihe resolutions of ihe house of representatives except in one particular it seemed to him that the president thought by the manner in which he referred to the fnct that none of ihe secret-service fund had been expended since his inauguration that it was creditable to ihe administra tion mr w did not regard this fact in ihat light by any means his humble commendation would be more cheerfully given for the judicious and beneticiai ex pendiiure ofthe whole of if as he mr w ) doubted not could be done it would show vigilance mr w said he did not believe the american people would find fault with such expenditure why sir said mr w do not we all know that every foreign government employs means of procuring information—find it necessa ry to do so shall we deny ourselves such important advantage in ourtransac 1 lions and intercourse with ihem ? they trust their officers to employ secret agents why should we refuse to trust ours '. are : they less palriotic or trustworthy ? can ! it be that republican officers elected by ■ the people lor their abilities and patriot ism tested as they always are by years of service for their country are not as wor thy of confidence as ihe officers of a mon archy now said mr w what is the reso lution under consideration ? the senate it is proposed shali ask the president to inform it as to how ihe secret service fund [ for a certain period has been spent the ; senator who offered this resolution i am ! satisfied has no idea that any impropriety ! has occurred as to its disbursement i am j convinced he believes as i do not hesitate to declare that i do ; nay as i deem it my duty to say that the imputations made a gainst the late president and the distin . guished senator from massachusetts in | reference to the use of this fund improper i ly whilst ihe latter wnssecrelarv of state i are slanders ofthe silliest and most pitiful character sir said mr w 1 will not as ; senator by any vote of mine permit any | such fugacious scandal against any high executive officer of my country of any political party and especially against a ; citizen who stands as high before the world mr mangum said he most heartily concurred in the sentiments expressed by the senator from florida he hoped the vote would he taken anh when taken that the resolution would he rejected by the unanimous vote ol the senate he thought the president in his message,had done all lhat was incumbent upon him in the performance of his duty it afforded him pleasure always to approve of the course of the chiel magistrate ofhis conn iry he took it for granted that the pre sident would always act in reference to the small amount of money devoted to-e cret service in a manner consistent with honor and integrity he would not tor a moment admit a supposition of the reverse and no prurient or wanton curiosity shou he indulged in looking info this matter he hoped that the vote of the body wouh he unanimous for the rejection of the res olution.on the ground that the inquiry was in itself improper mr jarnagan hoped he might he induced in a single remark this resolu tion although he had had the honor oi sub mitting it was not so much a favorite with him that he should he dissatisfied with a refusal on the part of the senate to adopt it it had tor some time past been lying upon the table at his own in stance and for reason satisfactory to him self and he had no doubt perfectly obvi ous to the senate since he had seen the president's message in answer to a reso lution of ihe olher house he was perfect ly satisfied with ihe reasons therein as signed ; and he would say further that he heartily approved of the arguments and principles therein laid down and no one would vote more heartily in favor of those ! principles than he would do by voting a gaiavt his'own r,".-ohi'ion as leave to with draw it had been rt-fusi d mr breese said he did not know what object could he attained by taking a direct vote upon this resolution he ; would then-lore move that it he laid on : the table mr allen said he should without i hesitation vote against the passage of the resolution and he would do so on the ground that an inquiry of this kind could never be justified except upon the allega tion of the existence of abuses or impro per conduct on the part of public men and with a view to base an impeachment upon those allegations or charges be sides the senate oi the united states w as not the bodj whose duty it was to origin ate impeachments it was the body that was appointed by the constitution to iry charges when made hut not to make them mr w s;iid he believed all our presi dents have caused to be used more or less of the secret service fund t q.hj mr vv said he would not suffer himself to doubt or suspect that every our of them had not done so properly judiciously and espe cially with the most patriotic motives mr vv said lie should feel ashamed ol himself if he could be induced to imagine that any american president had been guilty of the slightest impropriety in the disbursement of this fund he trusted he never should have so degraded a rule by which to judge his countrymen especially one elevated to the presidency—the first station in the world he hoped the rule by which he judged even those most op posed to him in political opinion would al ways be more elevated everv body knows that president madison paid the notorious john henry fifty thousand dol lars just belore the last war with great britain for secret information respecting the attempts of the british government to corrupt poitionsof new england to brit ish interests mr madison itju true,paid rather an exorbitant price for the budget of trash he got from henry but he did right in buying it and the country approv ed of his conduct in that respect mr w said lor his part he was of opinion that if this secret service fund was increased to double the amount now allowed and if every cent of it was annually spent by the j president it would be money well laid out lor the country to counteract the intrigues of foreign courts to procure knowledge of those intrigues which might affect our interests and regulate the ac tion of our government the president should employ secret agents either citi zens or foreigners as circumstances should dictate to be most advisable ; and the only rule to regulate such employment should be his opinion that it might probably be beneficial to our country doubtless very often such agents will render but little service and sometimes none but t his is no answer to the argument in lavor of employing them whenever the president has reason to believe they may be beneficial our ambassadors abroad are the last persons who can acquire such information,unlessmrv havesecret agents mr president said mr w i said in the remarks 1 made last week on the oregon question that it'our government had years ago employed an agent to procure copies of the correspondence in 1790 a.nd 91 be tween the british and spanish ministers who negotiated the nootka sound con vention it would i did not doubt when published shed light on the british claim to oregon and indeed that i suspected it would of itself effectually crush that claim every one who knows any thing about it must know that the employment of secret agents in mexico in cuba and elsewhere at this very time would be highly judi ! as does the senator assailed and of whose j reputation and lame abroad opposed a.s i am to hi'n in political opinion on almost every subject or party contesi j as an \ merican feel proud—*i say j „ j llot con . sent that such gossip shall he the founda tion of a call upon the president or any \ action whatever of this chamber i will not dignify such unworthy accu sations by any noiiee of hern whatever ; but this is not the chief reason for mv do sire that this resolution may he voted down by the senate to stand as a prece ' dent lie said he especially desired that president polk and all future presidents j may be assured that as to the disburse ment of this fund the executive acts up on his own responsibility and is not to he called io an account : otherwise the act ol congress would he a dirty trap sir it is 1 a pretty business if we cannot repose suf ficient confidence in our chief magistrate one who is elevated to the highest sta tion in the gift of the people of these s.'afes by their free suflrages to entrust him with the expenditure of the paltry sum of iffy thousand dollars a year for his coun try in this mode mr w said he felt humbled that he was impelled by what he conceived to he his duty to make these observations he regarded the fair fame of our distinguished public men as the pro perty of the country ; we had received a rich heritage from those who preceded us and any man who unjustly and causeless ly assails the reputation of such american is no true friend to the people or their in ; stitutions mr w said that he held it to be impor tant that the execulive branch of the go j vernment should be satisfied that full con fidence is and will be reposed in il as to the fidelity with which this fund may be disbursed—as ft the discretion which will be exercised ; and that it will be prated il by congress and by the people from scan dalous imputations so easily made in re gard foil : and it may not be deterred from its judicious and patriotic use by m ap prehensions of popular suspicion improper ly excited or popular clamor gotten up for other than patriotic objects the distinction which the resolution makes between the disclosure of foreign ers names and the names of citizens em ployed as agents mr v said he njlardi-d untenable all should be protected from exposure orelse we mavnot procure the in formal ion they disclose or obtain the ser vices they render but he was opposed to the resolution on the general grounds he had stated it was scarcely neces>arv he said for him to remark that he could safely vouch that no knowledge was had by the distinguished and worthy function ary at the head of the stale department or by the faithful officer next to him of any disclosure of documents in their care to justify he call proposed he hoped the resolution would be rejected at once and even if there were therefore,allega tions concerning any public officer upon which it was intended to base an impeach ment he would still upon the.se grounds vote against the resolution the motion to lay the resolution upon the table was negatived ; and 1 he jt;i stion being upon its adoption ihe yeas and nays were ordered and being taken resulted as follows : ea—mr turney nays—messrs allen archer ashley atchison atherton bagby harrow ben f'»n,uerrien calliou.n cass thos clayton john m clayton colquitt corwin da vis dickenson dix evans fairfield greene hay wood houston huntington jarnagin jenness johnson of louisi ana lewis mcdufke mangurr miller morehead niles pearce penn**yhacket phesps sevier simmons speight upham webster westcott woodnridge—ii so the resolution was rejected public dtbt of texas the house of representatives of texas have appointed a committee to inquire into the expedien cy of ceding to the government of the v states the public funds of texas for a just equivalent for the purpose of providing means to liquidate ihe public debt of the state ; and to take into consideration the propriety of classifying and defining the public debt and of appointing a board to ascertain and allot the same a bill has also been introduced into the senate for the liqdida«on and adjust ment of public debt the bill proposes the appointment bj the governor and senate of three fjmmisioners to act upon the claims at austin commencing on the first of ev'0 alternate month with the powers of a court of law and equity and whose decision is to have the effect of a judgment the right of appeal is also to be allowed from their desci>ion the " habmoxious."—the new or leans courier locofoco thus speaks of the charleston mercury tlso locofoco : - the charleston mercury is at length undisguisedly wbiggish openly expresses a wish that the democratic party in new york may be defeated—and on ihe ore gon question goes farther in support of the british pretensions than any blue-light paper in the union the mercury fre quently recurs with great self-complacen cy to a long article which it sent forth sometime ago on the same oregon ques tion that article in the mercury was a mere plagiarism from ihe.edinburg re view considerably weakened by the trans-1 ier bruner & james > r.j . n ■ i " keep a check upon all your editors 4 proprietors v is safe .. salisbury n c friday may 8 1846 v^sp s£v