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terms of the watchman two dollars in advance.and two dollars and fifty cents tihe end of the year no subs-riptiou received for a less time than one year niesa paid for in advance no subscription discontinued but at the option of the editors until all arrearages ar paid terms ok advertising n.i dollar per si-ui-rc for the first insertion and twenty ts for eachi continuance co irl '.■•': ies .:.••! conrt orders will be charged j per j . r than the above rates a de taction of 33 1-3 per cent will be made to those j io ad ri - i • the \. ar . , . _!! advertisements wil be continued until forbid and _ 1 lor accordingly unless ordered fora certain num ... of times __ ,. i .-' letters ad lres_a.d to the editors must come post pant to ensure attention menial cultivation — from the period when j homer sung to the hour when the lay ofthe : ast minstrel died away among the hibernian i bills personal enjoyment has been co-extensive j wiih mental illumination and moral purity n e recur with delight to the age when individual knowledge and virtue secured domestic peace !„ be dwellers in palestine we love to lin prpr about greece when her sages enlightened lhe nations and her orators stimulated them to i - of ancient chivalry uut our hearts are saddened as we witness the last lingering sun beam of judah's joy extinguished in the night j 7 tier mental and moral decline — nor are our i feelings less pained as we travel downward and i behold the city of lhe caesars a corrupted tro phy in the hands ofthe barbarians ofthe north and wander over the land of lycurgus and so lon and discern scarce a relic of her former i greatness and triumph tbese direct and necessary consequences of a neglect to cultivate the miud are with us ea j sily prevented for in our land the pursuits of i knowledge are not incompatible with the ordi i try avocations of life the laborer may re | rn at night from the toils of lhe day and find ; in a transition fn>m physical to mental effort the j rest and refreshment which he needs many plead a want of time for reading as an excuse j ivoiding all intellectual exertion were j thev to urge disinclination we should commend their candor though we denounced their indo j icnre the veriest fraction ol the diligence and love of knowledge which wrote the names uf franklin and sherman on the scroll of im : mortality would enable these patterns of iridus i to keep pace with the general literature of the day and even to make considerable advan ces in the more abstruse sciences many ot j the first writers and most prolbund scholars in j europe and the united states have been or are j sedulously occupied with the toils of business the mathematician simpson was a median i ic halleck is a merchant and penned his im | mortal poem behind a counter at intervals ot trade bryant is harnessed by the duties of a political journal and yet finds hours to sweep ibe lyre that has sung earth's noblest thana lopsis beecher sustains the multiform cares i unl responsibilities of a theological semi nary nul yet retaining his position as one ofthe most i radiant stars in the constellation of modern di j vines dav presides with distinguished ability ; uitl success over the interests of yale and in dulges his mathematical propensities in the range of invaluable discovery nnd improvement every feature of our social system and na lional policy is friendly to the cultivation oflet we acknowledge no family distinctions ivealiowno hereditary honors we hangout lhe laurel wreath and bid him that is worthy lake it our habits are simple and republican dings strong and vigorous and our sym i - warm end consistent if we have less cian refinement we have more of ro - igth and integrity our patrons aie i mitry our reward its glory the hour is j im when american literature is no longer ■scorn ofthe anglo-saxon and the jest of lhe grave german but the envied the pro | scribed rival of both another age will exhib it it to the world in features as purely national j as the strong hills the mighty waters and the | varied scenery of our loved our native land i that it will be chaste the purity of our social i character assures us that it will be original and permanent tin history of our country j pledges — parlor animal degrading habit of swearing — it is not easy to perceive what honor or credit is con j nected with swearing ! does any man receive i promotion because he is a notable blusterer j or does any man advance to dignity because be is expert in profane swearing 1 sol low j must he the character which such impertinence j will not degrade inexcusable therefore must in the practice which has neither reason nor passion to support it the drunkard has his cups the leccher his mistress satyrist his re | vengc the ambitious man his preferments the ! miser his gold but the common swearer has nothing ; he is a fool at large sells his soul for naught and drudges the service of the devil gratis swearing is void of all plea it is not tbe native offspring ofthe soul nor interwoven ith the texture of the body nor in any way allied to our frame for as a great man til lotson expressed it though some men pour wt oaths as though they were natural yet no j ban was ever born of a swearing constitution but il is a custom a low and paltry custom eked up by low and paltry spirits who have do sense of honor no reg nil tor decency but fined to substitute some rhapsody of non * use to supply the vacancy of good sense hence the silliness of the practice can only be equalled bv the silliness of those who have ! it a lamont artful trie — dr t'«mj-mj mentions that a hanoi the name of henry srebre smith a most : cotnplished villian while in the prison at kington began to spit blood and had a violent c"i'gli and fever and gradually wasted away w that those who visited him supposed that his li wa rapidly approaching tiiis continued bt a fortnight and his weakness was so great to he had to be lilted up to lake medicine or nutriment a turn-key unfortunately however e,t the door of the prison open fbr a few mo unts in order to warm a brick for his cold cx tetoities : on his return smith had disappeared oa being again put into prison he feigned ca aeiia hoemoptysis and epilepsy but without *-. he confessed that he had pretended tur*ii.e blood by pounding bricks into powder j'jl,i'i it into a small rag and chewing it in 8 mouth he contrived to vary his pulse by jjtriking his elbows and said he had taken the sh off his body in ten days by sucking a cop i lucent in his mouth all the night and swal ingthe saliva mi dim times gn /' speed on the long islam rail road ' * lew locomotive named the " fiske ran ; vr'1 o ie road on the 18th inst from brooklyn ' '■"' i;.ort i distance of 96 miles in 3 hours ■"'''* 15 minutes deducting two stops of 5 min ' w each leaves running time three hours and tlvc minutes ! the carolina watchman bruner & james > /__ > " keep a check cr ox all toc p editors sf proprietors v is safe \ r r { series rulers do this and liberty 1 mmm*l gen'l harrison - f number 24 of volume i i . i salisbury n c october 12 1844 tm wafose-lm george m dallas we respectfully call public attention to the following article from the nat intelligencer showing what are the opinions of gbokge m dallas the locofoco candidate lor ice pres ident of the united states : their pernicious ef ! feet upon the country if carried out as they j undoubtedly will be so far as mr dallas is concerned disorganizing doctrines in the month of march 1830 the dem ocntticcorrespoiidingcommittee of smith j field bradford county pennsylvania ad j dressed a letter to the hon george m ■dallas requesting his opinion as to the best mode of destroying the charier which had been granted by the state legisla ture to the bank of the united states | after some months cogitation mr dal , las in july 183g addressed to them a ; communication of some length which may be found in niles weekly register of september 17 1836 in the course ofthe letter he says of ' the constitutional power of the national government to create a bank i did not . ' then in 1831 and do not now entertain * a doubt of the ability of congress tocre ' ate such a bank as would be a safe ma ! ' chine of linance and a serviceable agent in preserving a sound currency i then ! ' was as i still am quite convinced he then after some adulation of gene \ ral jackson proceeds to discuss the seve i ral modes of revoking the bank charter j to do it by act of the legislature he j seemed lo think would be a step too much in advance of the intelligence ofthe age j but he recommended that it should be done ! bi the convention then about to assemble ; for the purpose of revising the constitu j tion ofthe state the powers of the con i vention he declared were unlimited 1 — j but it is best to let him speak for himself ! here are his doctrines in his own words ! a convention is the provided machinery of j ' peaceful revolution it is the civilized substi tule for intestine war the american mode for i ' coming at the majority ; the undeniable and 1 iiidefeasib'e right to alter reform or abolish ; ' the government in such manner as they may 4 think proper when ours shall assemble it j ' will possess within the territory ot pennsyl : ' vania every attribute of absolute sovereignty ' except such as may have been yielded and are embodied in the constitution of the united • states what may it not do ? it may reor '-, ' ganize our entire system of social existence ' terminal ing and proscribing what is deemed ; 1 injurious and establishing what is preferred i • it might restore the institution of slavery a 4 inong us ; it might make our penal code as j 4 bloody as that of draco ; it might withdraw 1 the charters of cities ; it might supersede a ' 4 standing judiciary by a scheme of occasional 4 arbitration and umpirage it might prohibit 4 particular professions and trades ; it might * permanently suspend the privileges of the writ ' of habeas corpus and take from us as our late ' general assembly made an entering wedge - to do the trial by jury these are fearlul 4 matters of which intelligent and virtuous free 4 men can never be guilty ; and i mention them 4 merely as illustrations of the inherent and al 4 most boundless power ofa convention the only effective limits to its authority are the j broad and unchangeable rules of justice and of , ' truth ; and these i have already shown do not ' hedge round the charter it is obvious that so far as the stockhol ders of the bank were concerned it was quite immaterial whether their property was destroyed by the act of a legislature or the act of a convention the wrong and the injury if any would have been the same the true question was and is whether a bare majority of any conven j tion no matter what name they assume arc entitled to dispose of the lives and property of the minority without any oth er limits than " the rules of justice and of truth as the majority may please to un derstand these rules mr dallas him self was of opinion that the convention should pay back the bonus which had been received from the bank the convention might however upon mr dallas's prin ciple have chosen to retain the bonus as a punishment for the bribery imputed to the bank they might have chosen to revoke other charters,and destroy other contracts besides that of the bank ; and upon one pretext or another have caused the whole property ofthe state to change hands — have taken it away from those whom they believed unworthy and dis tributed it to those whom they believed worthy this doctrine of thc unlimited powerof the majority in convention promulgated by so prominent a man as mr dallas attracted the attention of the vigilant friends of state rights in the south and drew forth an able and conclusive reply published in the baltimore patriot under the signature of madison and attributed to the pen of the late mr upshur we copy from niles's register of october 29 1830 the concluding portion of that reply : " such are the absurdities and such the ap j palling consequences of this monstrous doc ' trine of lhe unlimited power ofa majority ! i ' am conscious that the subject has been very ia - adequately discussed it is far too vast to be ' comprehended within the limits of a newspa per esuav my object has not been to argue ■the question as it ought to be argued for i ' have neither time nor opportunity even if i • had the requisite ability f r such a task i ' have desired only to touch upon some of the ' most prominent topics it suggests as materials of serious reflection by others without de ■trading in any degree from the weight which ' attaches to the name of mr dallas i may ' be permitted to say that it is not from his au ' thority only that the subject derives its impor ' tance i see with regret a melancholy fore ' boding that the principle he avows is held by ' almost his entire political party it is daily ' spreading daily acquiring strength and bold ness in this view it is interesting not only to the bank ofthe united states or to the peo ' pie of pennsylvania ; it concerns alike thc people of all thetstates and the lovers of free • regular and orderly government throughout the ' world its obvious tendency is to unsettle cve ' ry society by rendering thq rights of property ' precarious and insecure in its consequences ' it is at war with all government it is the ' principle not of reform but of revolution ; nol ' of law but of violence ; the mere right of the ' strongest it is high time that its true char ' acter were known and understood by the peo ' pie they ought to know that the insecurity ' of the rights of property precedes but a short ' interval the insecurity of the rights of liberty ' and of life — the anarchy which follows the ' overthrow of regular government and the deg ' potism which renders anarchy unavoidable it is evident that this new doctrine is pregnant with momentous consequences not less to state rights than to chartered rights upon the same principle that a state convention might dispose as it pleas ] ed of the rights property and liberties of the citizens ofa state a general conven < tion of the whole people might dispose as i it pleased of state rights and of the pe j culiar property of the southern people it is true that such an attempt would prob ably end in disunion and civil war but would the attempt itself be legal is it not a doctrine which should be resisted in the outset lest it should lead to disunion and civil war that the doctrine promulgated by mr dallas is that ofthe locofoco party gen i erally cannot be questioned the organ \ of the party at the seat of government j september 17 1836 in noticing his letter ! said : " we hope the democracy of penn * ' sylvania will embody their whole strength ' upon the elevated ground taken in the ' letter of mr dallas and we trust he will i ' himself be called to a position in the pub ' lie councils state and national where his weight of character his high talents * and attainments may be brought to bear to give the most effectual support to the . ' principles he has advanced as there is now a possibility — nothing more we trust than a possibility — thai mr dallas may be called to a position where he will be able to give the most effectual support to the principles he has advanced we think that it behooves the people of the south and indeed the people of every ; section ofthe country who desire to main ; tain the rights of properly which arc the basis of all peaceable government to re flect seriously on the tendency of those ! principles they were not mere specula \ live opinions of mr dallas ; he intended and recommended them for immediate ; practical adoption and more recent oc currences have shown that such opinions are gaining ground in what is styled by some the democratic party can it be a question whether the people of the south as well as of the country generally would not find their institutions and property of every kind more secure under a whig interpretation of the con stitution — an interpretation derived from the precepts and practice of the founders of lhe government — than under the prev alence of doctrines which would place un limited power in the hands of a bare ma jority no matter how constituted and which would make the executive the only or at least the most authoritative expo nent of the will of that majority ? duplicity — the polkite address ofthe new york convention has the following ! words : " we hold that in the adjustment of du ties on foreign imports such adiscrimina tion should be made in respect to articles coming in competition with like articles produced at home as to protect and ad vance domestic labor this is the whig doctrine both at the north and at the south for there is no va riance of opinion with the friends of mr clay yet for thc purpose of effecting their object a very different language is held by the polkite faction at the south — and every man here is denounced by them as an enemy to the interests ofhis country who sustains the sentiments recorded in the extract above but while it is good " democratic doctrine at the north it is " federalism at the south what may a i party be expected to do with power that resorts to such cheatery and duplicity to obtain it ? — independent mexico and the texas invasion — the new york sun speaking of this subject says the agents of the mexican republic are doing a slashing business in this city in the purchase of supplies whole regiments have been armed and equipped and the best of it is they pay ior what they get mormonism — sidney rigdon who returned to xauvoo a few weeks since from pittsburg to be the successor of smith has been regular ly unchurched by the twelve apostles the administration of the affairs of the church for the present is to remain in the hands of thc twelve apostles the whigs of new york the wrhig mass meeting held in canal street new york on thursday evening | was from all accounts one of the largest ever held in that city by any party the hon moses h grinnell presided at the ( principal stand and there were three or j four other subordinate meetings among j the speakers were james prescott hall esq of the city of new york the hon | wm k bond of ohio the hon garrett , davis member of congress from ken ' tueky the hon dudley selden of new york and george l bryan of south car ! olina the spirit ofthe meeting was en j thusiastic and the speakers expressed the fullest confidence of success in the great ; contest now pending john c hamilton esq of syracuse moved that the report of thc delegates to the syracuse convention be read for the ■adoption ofthe meeting n bowditch blunt esq seconded the i motion for its acceptance and read in re ply the following address and resolutions i which were unanimously and enthusias ! tically adopted : ! to the whigs of the state and ; of the union : brother freemen in the catholic spi j i rit of true lovers of country we approach ' ! v°u in the name of public liberty and con ' ! stitutional freedom we address you in behalf of our national character our i national welfare and our national honor i i we make our appeal in the great cause of liberty and union ' of equality and justice of representative l privilege against executive prerogative : of honorable peace rather than inglorious war of dependence upon our own indus try and independence of foreign control j i and oi ihe perpetuation of our free repub j ; lican government we invoke your aid new and startling issues are before i j you their decision will affect not the '- present generation only but posterity the great contest so soon to be ended : : for weal or wo involves our destinies as ; : a nation a powerful and unscrupulous | ; party under the false garb of democracy \ are aiming their deadly attacks at your constitution and the citadel of liberty it self reels to its foundation composed of discordant materials and ! of heterogeneous principles connected by ; . a single sentiment the hope of plunder and acknowledging but one common rule of action that **• to the victors belong the spoils the free trader and the professing protectionist the friend ofthe annexation of texas and its deadly opponent the ad vocate ofthe right of petition and its base betrayer the high-toned federalist ofthe worst days of federalism and the most authentic supporter of modern dorrism the ' would be tories of the revolution and the pretended friends of popular rights latitudinarians and strict constructionists limitarians and proclamationists bond payers and repudiators alike rally be neath the banner of james k polk and recognise in him the genuine exponent of their peculiar principles the believer in their several and respective creeds the great high priest of modern locofocoism the high and ennobling impulses which prompted our ancestors in the olden time in their resistance to british oppression which governed the trainers of our con . stilution in the formation of that sacred instrument and which actuated the glori ous fathers of the republican school in the great contest between federal and state power has sunk on the part of the self styled modern democrat into a strife for party ascendency regardless alike of prin ciple and of country against ihis motley band the whig ar my ofthe union have rallied to thc polit ical conflict the camp-fires of 1776 and 1840 are | again rekindled and from every hill and in every valley they shed forth their light upon the whig patriots of 1811 hastening : to lhe rescue of their country and her in stitutions who among you will be found wanting on lhat great day ofhis country's jubilee whigs of new york will you or will you not rather — looking to that noble ban ner which was here lirst unfolded to the breeze on whose ample folds you have inscribed the immortal name of henry clay — still send forth your battle-cry '• excelsior and still press forward until it floats in triumph from the topmost heights of freedom ? and you whigs of the union ! from the mighty hills of new england the plea sant shores of the delaware and chesa peake the sunny climes ofthe south and fertile valleys and boundless prairies of the west we bid you to the field come in your might and majesty ! come in the spirit becoming americans ! come in the dignity of freemen we have bided our time it is at hand resolved that the powers of the gen eral government are derived exclusively lrom the constitution ; that it possesses no other powers than such as are therein conferred and subject to the limitations therein named ; that by the constitution " the power of declaring war and the ad mission of new states into the union is vested exclusively in congress ; that the treaty-making power does not embrace ■the power of declaring war or admitting new states and that the recent attempt by the acting president of the united states by treaty to effect these objects ; was a gross perversion of his duty as ex ecutive and a deliberate violation ofthe ', constitution of the united states resolved that we are opposed to the annexation of texas to the united states that we neither recognise its necessitv nor propriety and more especially do we con sider its *** immediate9 annexation involv ing as it does a national debt a violation of our national faith and a national war as one of the greatest calamities that could befall our countrv resolved that our thanks are due and are hereby tendered to the majority ofthe senate ofthe united states for their de feat of the iniquitous measure called thc texas treaty resolved that in the language of our eminent candidate henry clay we think it far more important to compose and har monize the present confederacy as it no exists than to introduce a new element ef discord and distraction into it and that alien members ought not to be intro duced " against the common consent and wiih the certainty oi deep dissatisfaction restdved that speaking in the name and behalf of the whigs of the city of j new york we re-affirm our principles and declare ourselves to be — first — in favor of a distribution of the proceeds ofthe sales ofthe public lands ; second — in favor of a sound currency controlled and regulated by the '• will uf the nalion ;" third — in favor of a tariff upon imports framed to provide a proper revenue with a just discrimination so as tc afford pro tection to american industry american agriculture and american manufactures without injuriously affecting the other great interests of lhe country ; fourth — in favor of a rest rict ion of pre sidential service to a single term : and as the embodiment of these principles we are — lastly — in favor of henry clay and tiieodorefi.elin<jui;vsen for president and vice president ofthe united states and we do further declare ourselves to ; be opposed — first — to the immediate annexation of texas ; second — toasubtreasuryand subtrca surers ; third — to the interference of govern ment office-holders in the freedom of elec tions ; fourth — to the recent alarming en croachments of executive power upon constitutional law and popular rights ; and j as the embodiment of these principles we j are — lastly — opposed to james k pulk and j george m dallas for president and \ ice president of the united states resolved that wt the whigs of new york aware of the immense responsibili ty resting on our state the tremendous consequences i'or good or evil of the re sult of this struggle and the desperate unprecedented efforts of our opponents will devote our best energies from this day forth to the contest in which we are . engaged determined that no effort shall i be spared to disseminate truth and dissi pate error until victory shall perch on our banners and tranquility security and prosperity sh_tli be assured to our whole union preparation for winter — with farmers it is important to have all necessarv preparations for the hard weather that is approaching it is as essential to save crops as to make them and too often it i the case that gathering is de laved too long corn after maturity ;••.'■= daily till housed sweet potatoes should be put away before frost and irish potatoes are liabir to injury after , the cold sets in above al thing have prep arations to shelter stock of every kind milch cows cannot lie kept in good condition without protection from the pelting storm and they will not give half the milk an open shelter with a southern exposure is constructed and answers an admirable purpose sheep should have shelters where i thev can escape the cold rains and be down ou i dry places hogs are the better to have protection from \ the rain care however should be taken that their sheds be kept free from wet s'raw corn husks or any thing that will induce diseases of the skin it is important that their apartments have all the dust and litter scraped out every few days the secret of having stock in good condition , through winter is to have them lat at tbe start '_ and then commence feeding early and be sure that thev have regular attention and are not . suffered to fall off ' one good animal well at tended is worth more than two interior ones neglected a fat strong farm horse will do ' more work than two feeble poor animals keep no more animals than can always be in condition is the secret of snecess and it is to , be regretted few adhere to this rule — tennes see agriculturist ■the ohio conference ofthe methodist epis copal church closed its session at marietta on the 12th uit bishop waugh presided assisted by bishops soulc and janes the conference refused to concur in the resolution ofthe gene ral conference recommending the change of the sixth restrictive rule onlv one person voting ' in its favor and 13*2 against it bishop w augta in his closing address declared his belief that the church would not be divided afar ix the desert the following ode was pronounced hy col eridge to be one of the best he ever read the author of it is mr pbingle who formerly trav elled in africa afar in the dec.rt i love to ride with the siient bush-boy alone by my side : when the sorrows of l:'e the sou o'crcast and sick ot the present i ciing to the past when the eye ia suffused with regretful tears w hen thoughts of my youth its hopes and its fears and the shadows oi things that had ng since fled fiit o'er my brain iike ghosts of the dead — bright vision of glory — that an__bed too soon : day-dreams — ha deputed e"er manhood's noon ; attachments — by fate 5 by falsehood reft ; companions of early days — lost or loft ; and my native ian whose ma!j.7*a name thrills to tho heart l;ke electr.c rlanie .■of mv childhood the haunts of my prime ,;. ' i -- > x 1 scenea of thai lapturowa time ngs v ore yotmg an j the world was new like i w fresh bowers c eden unfolding to view • ah — ... now .,___. i m jtz bne e3ite iwmbered hv none ; my high aims aundgne i my good acts undone a weary o atl that ls ander thc sun with a sadness of heart « hi h i strange mav scan i fly to the desert afar from . afar in the desert il.-.e to rde with the silent bosh when the wild turmod of this wearao . • ..-.;•, with the scenes of oppressi n,c strife the proud man's frown and the !•_.-<* man's fears ' the scorner's laugh and :'.. .- rs and ni-l.ce ana tneanuese — id falsehood and l ■. y dispose mo to d dark molar '. ily ; when my b - its are high and my soul is s_ck w.ih the bondsman's i — oh ' dren there is freedom an 1 joy and pride a far in the desert alone to ride ' there is rapture to vault on the champing steed and to bonnd away with tbe eagle's speed ; with the death fraught tin lock in my hand the only law ofa desert lar.j 1 afar in tlie desert i love to ride with the silent bosh-boy alone ! •■_,- my ride ; away away in the wildern - rast where lhe white man's foot hath never passed and the j livered coranna or bechuan hath scarcely crossed with ins roving clan a region u emptiness bowlii and drear which man bath abandoned from famine and fear which the si ker and lizard inhabit alone — with the twilight bat from tho yawny ■i ne whore grass r.or herb nor shrub take root ; save pois _ tbe foot ; and lhe bitter melon for luud and drink is the pilgrim's fare by ihe salt lake !•:. a region of drought where no river glides nor ripling brook with its grassy si ' — where sedgy pool nor bubbling bant x.r tree nor cloud nor misty m appears to rel"_c the aching eye ; but the barren eanh aad the 1 anting sky and the hack horizon round and round spread — void of living light or sound and here while the night-winda aroand me sigh and the sturs born bright in the midnight y as i sit afar by the desert stone like elijah by hbreb'e cave alone a still small voice comes through the wild like a fath r consoling bis :':- ufa child which banishes bitterness wia.ii at.d fear saying — '' man is i:-r.'.sr bct god is aa fall and winter fashions lsf3x*a i s__s i_i4_*a i«£"_*_3"mw tailoring estabuhme n tl alsobrook am miller tailors tat ■■; _.- city oj r.iu having located ourselves in the town rf salis bnry permanently we intend carrying on our bo sino-s iti ii stj le !-• : to i o surpassed in the rune or out of il ourcstal imi tis ihe mansion hotel formerly occupied as th poet-of fice we have employed the beat a n then work men n to i this a fashionable 17 men therefore may rely .. their clothes : up in the most fashionable and durable maimer we have been engaged regularly in cutting for the las fir vears an i part ■•.* die linn cilia ted establishments in the s . states we shall not hesitate :•> guarant ■very thing *.•• fit we cut and make london paris and new ork received month y . uld we ik encour iged n.x x ii v be be un ior the disagreeable necessity to send awaj t procure first-rate made clothing we return thanks tor the i:berai patronage hereto fore bestowed on u and hope by fashionable work ind strict attention to bushl ■: a eantinuance of iho same a p alsobrook reference ii *** miller t-i.-mas m oliver raleigh n c sept 14 1844 — ly26 nnd splendid assortment of fonfectioaerii-s and groceries i such a fin • en _■r cheese soj biacuil ntid wa ter crackers aim .... ii walnuts ; anes lemons fine spanish cigars candies of all - and of the best quality ; very fine china i t i h cor dial assorted such as ms seed ruv do cinnamon do , gold do perfect love do peppermint d . and several other kind , a . 1 u .-, .< h as sardin - - tan and herring superfine olive thi aud tiptop tkoe butekmg 1 i lave a tbe finest of wines and liquors such as frem i brandy holland gin jamaica ram ; ma '■• . < ian - champa gne muscat mal aga and domestic wines 4 -•:..• splendid porter scotch all and albany ale new rk cidi r lime juice lemon syrup c ; i bave al so a _•■. superior musl i - • ••! peppermint and cinnamon scotch and maea boy snuft and a lar aaaortment rf fancy suff l^-io oks and liru - ta lalto catt dles ; and at •• ;. 1 lot of r»._r\:<si.-c--ji-t , w.r__a kl^t^j nn 1 a great varii ty if other aits leain my line : b is io tion and wh oh i w w ax they can be s d for cash or on credit to p inctual dealers a . t.i • al • :'. •• m.'m eswi lhe salubmrf confectionary aud bas ■:. opposite i st w murphy store or at the salisbia . ,'. o erf an l ( •«.'*• i .'_ ..--/.->/. f r roueche salisbury jane **. l~li *■"• '■:*<' notice «^^ land and mills tiie sol scribe nw offeraforaale his phuatation ■?• jngoni i wateraof 1 irth creek one aril o thiid creadmreh and 15 m es - ury containing upwards rf four hundred acres upon which thcrr i ■'■splendid set of mills consisting of grist mills ' sawmill and wool card " i machine aoinoperatioot witha > i ent at anyatt c'-w year the - ' ■' ■* sunwed m and don ' ' " " " " ' oil0 . thi county the plantation can n_.t sd to suit purchasers pen i ing to purchase such property w : peon and examine the same as i am i fam a davie county a ■- • charles griffith rowan cn nty july fi . 1 - _ \ j2.0 - sulphate quini1te ._..., oe nr.d just received a super * :■■:--■■, '"" * «,«-, faraatelow.at j h e«n - d store - pt 28 1944 22 tf . superior omhwum tichi's for sah
Object Description
Title | Carolina Watchman |
Masthead | The Carolina Watchman |
Date | 1844-10-12 |
Month | 10 |
Day | 12 |
Year | 1844 |
Volume | 1 |
Issue | 24 |
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Creator | Bruner and James, Editors and Proprietors |
Date Digital | 2008-10-30 |
Publisher | Bruner and James |
Place | United States, North Carolina, Rowan County, Salisbury |
Type | Text |
Source | Microfilm |
Digital Format | JP2 |
Project Subject | State Archives of North Carolina Historic Newspaper Archive |
Description | The October 12, 1844 issue of the Carolina Watchman a weekly and semi weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina |
Rights | Public |
Language | eng |
OCLC number | 601558986 |
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Title | Carolina Watchman |
Masthead | The Carolina Watchman |
Date | 1844-10-12 |
Month | 10 |
Day | 12 |
Year | 1844 |
Volume | 1 |
Issue | 24 |
Sequence | 1 |
Page | 1 |
Technical Metadata | Image was scanned by OCLC at the Preservation Service Center in Bethlehem, PA. Archivial image is an 8-bit greyscale tiff that was scanned from microfilm at 400 dpi. The original file size was 4866100 Bytes |
FileName | sacw03_024_18441012-img00001.jp2 |
Creator | Bruner and James "Editors and Proprietors" |
Date Digital | 2008-10-30 |
Publisher | Bruner and James |
Place | United States, North Carolina, Rowan County, Salisbury |
Type | Text |
Source | Microfilm |
Digital Format | JP2 |
Project Subject | State Archives of North Carolina Historic Newspaper Archive |
Description | The October 12, 1844 issue of the Carolina Watchman a weekly and semi weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina |
Rights | Public |
Language | eng |
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terms of the watchman two dollars in advance.and two dollars and fifty cents tihe end of the year no subs-riptiou received for a less time than one year niesa paid for in advance no subscription discontinued but at the option of the editors until all arrearages ar paid terms ok advertising n.i dollar per si-ui-rc for the first insertion and twenty ts for eachi continuance co irl '.■•': ies .:.••! conrt orders will be charged j per j . r than the above rates a de taction of 33 1-3 per cent will be made to those j io ad ri - i • the \. ar . , . _!! advertisements wil be continued until forbid and _ 1 lor accordingly unless ordered fora certain num ... of times __ ,. i .-' letters ad lres_a.d to the editors must come post pant to ensure attention menial cultivation — from the period when j homer sung to the hour when the lay ofthe : ast minstrel died away among the hibernian i bills personal enjoyment has been co-extensive j wiih mental illumination and moral purity n e recur with delight to the age when individual knowledge and virtue secured domestic peace !„ be dwellers in palestine we love to lin prpr about greece when her sages enlightened lhe nations and her orators stimulated them to i - of ancient chivalry uut our hearts are saddened as we witness the last lingering sun beam of judah's joy extinguished in the night j 7 tier mental and moral decline — nor are our i feelings less pained as we travel downward and i behold the city of lhe caesars a corrupted tro phy in the hands ofthe barbarians ofthe north and wander over the land of lycurgus and so lon and discern scarce a relic of her former i greatness and triumph tbese direct and necessary consequences of a neglect to cultivate the miud are with us ea j sily prevented for in our land the pursuits of i knowledge are not incompatible with the ordi i try avocations of life the laborer may re | rn at night from the toils of lhe day and find ; in a transition fn>m physical to mental effort the j rest and refreshment which he needs many plead a want of time for reading as an excuse j ivoiding all intellectual exertion were j thev to urge disinclination we should commend their candor though we denounced their indo j icnre the veriest fraction ol the diligence and love of knowledge which wrote the names uf franklin and sherman on the scroll of im : mortality would enable these patterns of iridus i to keep pace with the general literature of the day and even to make considerable advan ces in the more abstruse sciences many ot j the first writers and most prolbund scholars in j europe and the united states have been or are j sedulously occupied with the toils of business the mathematician simpson was a median i ic halleck is a merchant and penned his im | mortal poem behind a counter at intervals ot trade bryant is harnessed by the duties of a political journal and yet finds hours to sweep ibe lyre that has sung earth's noblest thana lopsis beecher sustains the multiform cares i unl responsibilities of a theological semi nary nul yet retaining his position as one ofthe most i radiant stars in the constellation of modern di j vines dav presides with distinguished ability ; uitl success over the interests of yale and in dulges his mathematical propensities in the range of invaluable discovery nnd improvement every feature of our social system and na lional policy is friendly to the cultivation oflet we acknowledge no family distinctions ivealiowno hereditary honors we hangout lhe laurel wreath and bid him that is worthy lake it our habits are simple and republican dings strong and vigorous and our sym i - warm end consistent if we have less cian refinement we have more of ro - igth and integrity our patrons aie i mitry our reward its glory the hour is j im when american literature is no longer ■scorn ofthe anglo-saxon and the jest of lhe grave german but the envied the pro | scribed rival of both another age will exhib it it to the world in features as purely national j as the strong hills the mighty waters and the | varied scenery of our loved our native land i that it will be chaste the purity of our social i character assures us that it will be original and permanent tin history of our country j pledges — parlor animal degrading habit of swearing — it is not easy to perceive what honor or credit is con j nected with swearing ! does any man receive i promotion because he is a notable blusterer j or does any man advance to dignity because be is expert in profane swearing 1 sol low j must he the character which such impertinence j will not degrade inexcusable therefore must in the practice which has neither reason nor passion to support it the drunkard has his cups the leccher his mistress satyrist his re | vengc the ambitious man his preferments the ! miser his gold but the common swearer has nothing ; he is a fool at large sells his soul for naught and drudges the service of the devil gratis swearing is void of all plea it is not tbe native offspring ofthe soul nor interwoven ith the texture of the body nor in any way allied to our frame for as a great man til lotson expressed it though some men pour wt oaths as though they were natural yet no j ban was ever born of a swearing constitution but il is a custom a low and paltry custom eked up by low and paltry spirits who have do sense of honor no reg nil tor decency but fined to substitute some rhapsody of non * use to supply the vacancy of good sense hence the silliness of the practice can only be equalled bv the silliness of those who have ! it a lamont artful trie — dr t'«mj-mj mentions that a hanoi the name of henry srebre smith a most : cotnplished villian while in the prison at kington began to spit blood and had a violent c"i'gli and fever and gradually wasted away w that those who visited him supposed that his li wa rapidly approaching tiiis continued bt a fortnight and his weakness was so great to he had to be lilted up to lake medicine or nutriment a turn-key unfortunately however e,t the door of the prison open fbr a few mo unts in order to warm a brick for his cold cx tetoities : on his return smith had disappeared oa being again put into prison he feigned ca aeiia hoemoptysis and epilepsy but without *-. he confessed that he had pretended tur*ii.e blood by pounding bricks into powder j'jl,i'i it into a small rag and chewing it in 8 mouth he contrived to vary his pulse by jjtriking his elbows and said he had taken the sh off his body in ten days by sucking a cop i lucent in his mouth all the night and swal ingthe saliva mi dim times gn /' speed on the long islam rail road ' * lew locomotive named the " fiske ran ; vr'1 o ie road on the 18th inst from brooklyn ' '■"' i;.ort i distance of 96 miles in 3 hours ■"'''* 15 minutes deducting two stops of 5 min ' w each leaves running time three hours and tlvc minutes ! the carolina watchman bruner & james > /__ > " keep a check cr ox all toc p editors sf proprietors v is safe \ r r { series rulers do this and liberty 1 mmm*l gen'l harrison - f number 24 of volume i i . i salisbury n c october 12 1844 tm wafose-lm george m dallas we respectfully call public attention to the following article from the nat intelligencer showing what are the opinions of gbokge m dallas the locofoco candidate lor ice pres ident of the united states : their pernicious ef ! feet upon the country if carried out as they j undoubtedly will be so far as mr dallas is concerned disorganizing doctrines in the month of march 1830 the dem ocntticcorrespoiidingcommittee of smith j field bradford county pennsylvania ad j dressed a letter to the hon george m ■dallas requesting his opinion as to the best mode of destroying the charier which had been granted by the state legisla ture to the bank of the united states | after some months cogitation mr dal , las in july 183g addressed to them a ; communication of some length which may be found in niles weekly register of september 17 1836 in the course ofthe letter he says of ' the constitutional power of the national government to create a bank i did not . ' then in 1831 and do not now entertain * a doubt of the ability of congress tocre ' ate such a bank as would be a safe ma ! ' chine of linance and a serviceable agent in preserving a sound currency i then ! ' was as i still am quite convinced he then after some adulation of gene \ ral jackson proceeds to discuss the seve i ral modes of revoking the bank charter j to do it by act of the legislature he j seemed lo think would be a step too much in advance of the intelligence ofthe age j but he recommended that it should be done ! bi the convention then about to assemble ; for the purpose of revising the constitu j tion ofthe state the powers of the con i vention he declared were unlimited 1 — j but it is best to let him speak for himself ! here are his doctrines in his own words ! a convention is the provided machinery of j ' peaceful revolution it is the civilized substi tule for intestine war the american mode for i ' coming at the majority ; the undeniable and 1 iiidefeasib'e right to alter reform or abolish ; ' the government in such manner as they may 4 think proper when ours shall assemble it j ' will possess within the territory ot pennsyl : ' vania every attribute of absolute sovereignty ' except such as may have been yielded and are embodied in the constitution of the united • states what may it not do ? it may reor '-, ' ganize our entire system of social existence ' terminal ing and proscribing what is deemed ; 1 injurious and establishing what is preferred i • it might restore the institution of slavery a 4 inong us ; it might make our penal code as j 4 bloody as that of draco ; it might withdraw 1 the charters of cities ; it might supersede a ' 4 standing judiciary by a scheme of occasional 4 arbitration and umpirage it might prohibit 4 particular professions and trades ; it might * permanently suspend the privileges of the writ ' of habeas corpus and take from us as our late ' general assembly made an entering wedge - to do the trial by jury these are fearlul 4 matters of which intelligent and virtuous free 4 men can never be guilty ; and i mention them 4 merely as illustrations of the inherent and al 4 most boundless power ofa convention the only effective limits to its authority are the j broad and unchangeable rules of justice and of , ' truth ; and these i have already shown do not ' hedge round the charter it is obvious that so far as the stockhol ders of the bank were concerned it was quite immaterial whether their property was destroyed by the act of a legislature or the act of a convention the wrong and the injury if any would have been the same the true question was and is whether a bare majority of any conven j tion no matter what name they assume arc entitled to dispose of the lives and property of the minority without any oth er limits than " the rules of justice and of truth as the majority may please to un derstand these rules mr dallas him self was of opinion that the convention should pay back the bonus which had been received from the bank the convention might however upon mr dallas's prin ciple have chosen to retain the bonus as a punishment for the bribery imputed to the bank they might have chosen to revoke other charters,and destroy other contracts besides that of the bank ; and upon one pretext or another have caused the whole property ofthe state to change hands — have taken it away from those whom they believed unworthy and dis tributed it to those whom they believed worthy this doctrine of thc unlimited powerof the majority in convention promulgated by so prominent a man as mr dallas attracted the attention of the vigilant friends of state rights in the south and drew forth an able and conclusive reply published in the baltimore patriot under the signature of madison and attributed to the pen of the late mr upshur we copy from niles's register of october 29 1830 the concluding portion of that reply : " such are the absurdities and such the ap j palling consequences of this monstrous doc ' trine of lhe unlimited power ofa majority ! i ' am conscious that the subject has been very ia - adequately discussed it is far too vast to be ' comprehended within the limits of a newspa per esuav my object has not been to argue ■the question as it ought to be argued for i ' have neither time nor opportunity even if i • had the requisite ability f r such a task i ' have desired only to touch upon some of the ' most prominent topics it suggests as materials of serious reflection by others without de ■trading in any degree from the weight which ' attaches to the name of mr dallas i may ' be permitted to say that it is not from his au ' thority only that the subject derives its impor ' tance i see with regret a melancholy fore ' boding that the principle he avows is held by ' almost his entire political party it is daily ' spreading daily acquiring strength and bold ness in this view it is interesting not only to the bank ofthe united states or to the peo ' pie of pennsylvania ; it concerns alike thc people of all thetstates and the lovers of free • regular and orderly government throughout the ' world its obvious tendency is to unsettle cve ' ry society by rendering thq rights of property ' precarious and insecure in its consequences ' it is at war with all government it is the ' principle not of reform but of revolution ; nol ' of law but of violence ; the mere right of the ' strongest it is high time that its true char ' acter were known and understood by the peo ' pie they ought to know that the insecurity ' of the rights of property precedes but a short ' interval the insecurity of the rights of liberty ' and of life — the anarchy which follows the ' overthrow of regular government and the deg ' potism which renders anarchy unavoidable it is evident that this new doctrine is pregnant with momentous consequences not less to state rights than to chartered rights upon the same principle that a state convention might dispose as it pleas ] ed of the rights property and liberties of the citizens ofa state a general conven < tion of the whole people might dispose as i it pleased of state rights and of the pe j culiar property of the southern people it is true that such an attempt would prob ably end in disunion and civil war but would the attempt itself be legal is it not a doctrine which should be resisted in the outset lest it should lead to disunion and civil war that the doctrine promulgated by mr dallas is that ofthe locofoco party gen i erally cannot be questioned the organ \ of the party at the seat of government j september 17 1836 in noticing his letter ! said : " we hope the democracy of penn * ' sylvania will embody their whole strength ' upon the elevated ground taken in the ' letter of mr dallas and we trust he will i ' himself be called to a position in the pub ' lie councils state and national where his weight of character his high talents * and attainments may be brought to bear to give the most effectual support to the . ' principles he has advanced as there is now a possibility — nothing more we trust than a possibility — thai mr dallas may be called to a position where he will be able to give the most effectual support to the principles he has advanced we think that it behooves the people of the south and indeed the people of every ; section ofthe country who desire to main ; tain the rights of properly which arc the basis of all peaceable government to re flect seriously on the tendency of those ! principles they were not mere specula \ live opinions of mr dallas ; he intended and recommended them for immediate ; practical adoption and more recent oc currences have shown that such opinions are gaining ground in what is styled by some the democratic party can it be a question whether the people of the south as well as of the country generally would not find their institutions and property of every kind more secure under a whig interpretation of the con stitution — an interpretation derived from the precepts and practice of the founders of lhe government — than under the prev alence of doctrines which would place un limited power in the hands of a bare ma jority no matter how constituted and which would make the executive the only or at least the most authoritative expo nent of the will of that majority ? duplicity — the polkite address ofthe new york convention has the following ! words : " we hold that in the adjustment of du ties on foreign imports such adiscrimina tion should be made in respect to articles coming in competition with like articles produced at home as to protect and ad vance domestic labor this is the whig doctrine both at the north and at the south for there is no va riance of opinion with the friends of mr clay yet for thc purpose of effecting their object a very different language is held by the polkite faction at the south — and every man here is denounced by them as an enemy to the interests ofhis country who sustains the sentiments recorded in the extract above but while it is good " democratic doctrine at the north it is " federalism at the south what may a i party be expected to do with power that resorts to such cheatery and duplicity to obtain it ? — independent mexico and the texas invasion — the new york sun speaking of this subject says the agents of the mexican republic are doing a slashing business in this city in the purchase of supplies whole regiments have been armed and equipped and the best of it is they pay ior what they get mormonism — sidney rigdon who returned to xauvoo a few weeks since from pittsburg to be the successor of smith has been regular ly unchurched by the twelve apostles the administration of the affairs of the church for the present is to remain in the hands of thc twelve apostles the whigs of new york the wrhig mass meeting held in canal street new york on thursday evening | was from all accounts one of the largest ever held in that city by any party the hon moses h grinnell presided at the ( principal stand and there were three or j four other subordinate meetings among j the speakers were james prescott hall esq of the city of new york the hon | wm k bond of ohio the hon garrett , davis member of congress from ken ' tueky the hon dudley selden of new york and george l bryan of south car ! olina the spirit ofthe meeting was en j thusiastic and the speakers expressed the fullest confidence of success in the great ; contest now pending john c hamilton esq of syracuse moved that the report of thc delegates to the syracuse convention be read for the ■adoption ofthe meeting n bowditch blunt esq seconded the i motion for its acceptance and read in re ply the following address and resolutions i which were unanimously and enthusias ! tically adopted : ! to the whigs of the state and ; of the union : brother freemen in the catholic spi j i rit of true lovers of country we approach ' ! v°u in the name of public liberty and con ' ! stitutional freedom we address you in behalf of our national character our i national welfare and our national honor i i we make our appeal in the great cause of liberty and union ' of equality and justice of representative l privilege against executive prerogative : of honorable peace rather than inglorious war of dependence upon our own indus try and independence of foreign control j i and oi ihe perpetuation of our free repub j ; lican government we invoke your aid new and startling issues are before i j you their decision will affect not the '- present generation only but posterity the great contest so soon to be ended : : for weal or wo involves our destinies as ; : a nation a powerful and unscrupulous | ; party under the false garb of democracy \ are aiming their deadly attacks at your constitution and the citadel of liberty it self reels to its foundation composed of discordant materials and ! of heterogeneous principles connected by ; . a single sentiment the hope of plunder and acknowledging but one common rule of action that **• to the victors belong the spoils the free trader and the professing protectionist the friend ofthe annexation of texas and its deadly opponent the ad vocate ofthe right of petition and its base betrayer the high-toned federalist ofthe worst days of federalism and the most authentic supporter of modern dorrism the ' would be tories of the revolution and the pretended friends of popular rights latitudinarians and strict constructionists limitarians and proclamationists bond payers and repudiators alike rally be neath the banner of james k polk and recognise in him the genuine exponent of their peculiar principles the believer in their several and respective creeds the great high priest of modern locofocoism the high and ennobling impulses which prompted our ancestors in the olden time in their resistance to british oppression which governed the trainers of our con . stilution in the formation of that sacred instrument and which actuated the glori ous fathers of the republican school in the great contest between federal and state power has sunk on the part of the self styled modern democrat into a strife for party ascendency regardless alike of prin ciple and of country against ihis motley band the whig ar my ofthe union have rallied to thc polit ical conflict the camp-fires of 1776 and 1840 are | again rekindled and from every hill and in every valley they shed forth their light upon the whig patriots of 1811 hastening : to lhe rescue of their country and her in stitutions who among you will be found wanting on lhat great day ofhis country's jubilee whigs of new york will you or will you not rather — looking to that noble ban ner which was here lirst unfolded to the breeze on whose ample folds you have inscribed the immortal name of henry clay — still send forth your battle-cry '• excelsior and still press forward until it floats in triumph from the topmost heights of freedom ? and you whigs of the union ! from the mighty hills of new england the plea sant shores of the delaware and chesa peake the sunny climes ofthe south and fertile valleys and boundless prairies of the west we bid you to the field come in your might and majesty ! come in the spirit becoming americans ! come in the dignity of freemen we have bided our time it is at hand resolved that the powers of the gen eral government are derived exclusively lrom the constitution ; that it possesses no other powers than such as are therein conferred and subject to the limitations therein named ; that by the constitution " the power of declaring war and the ad mission of new states into the union is vested exclusively in congress ; that the treaty-making power does not embrace ■the power of declaring war or admitting new states and that the recent attempt by the acting president of the united states by treaty to effect these objects ; was a gross perversion of his duty as ex ecutive and a deliberate violation ofthe ', constitution of the united states resolved that we are opposed to the annexation of texas to the united states that we neither recognise its necessitv nor propriety and more especially do we con sider its *** immediate9 annexation involv ing as it does a national debt a violation of our national faith and a national war as one of the greatest calamities that could befall our countrv resolved that our thanks are due and are hereby tendered to the majority ofthe senate ofthe united states for their de feat of the iniquitous measure called thc texas treaty resolved that in the language of our eminent candidate henry clay we think it far more important to compose and har monize the present confederacy as it no exists than to introduce a new element ef discord and distraction into it and that alien members ought not to be intro duced " against the common consent and wiih the certainty oi deep dissatisfaction restdved that speaking in the name and behalf of the whigs of the city of j new york we re-affirm our principles and declare ourselves to be — first — in favor of a distribution of the proceeds ofthe sales ofthe public lands ; second — in favor of a sound currency controlled and regulated by the '• will uf the nalion ;" third — in favor of a tariff upon imports framed to provide a proper revenue with a just discrimination so as tc afford pro tection to american industry american agriculture and american manufactures without injuriously affecting the other great interests of lhe country ; fourth — in favor of a rest rict ion of pre sidential service to a single term : and as the embodiment of these principles we are — lastly — in favor of henry clay and tiieodorefi.elin |