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. sr^^^_._tw-0~doi.i.ans per annum in advance i f<*s*mebt inserted at 1 persqnare tor the first ■a for each subsequent insertion court or ■j : 25 per cent higher ■l of 33j i,i*r cent wi be ma(*e t0 t^08e i i i for tl watchman h the ocean grave i not down in the earth to rest ; ■from iheir place forme the valley nor over my breast ■■wave nor the torf be prest — in the h me low in the fathomless deep ii he waters be my tomb l , he wind-god shrieks while ti water's .' ___! rv me far neath ih el ihe mermaids watch o'er j in dwell with them in n genilit cave irmy passions no more bhall rave in this way-worn weary breast h sink neath the sea when the moon's pale ray h le1 me smk to my ■i rolisa h from the 11 me missionary f nii'iit of american prosperity j-:dl inflncacc h what tire the elements of a prosperou>h ,__ bappy community ! they are ul lthy climate a productive soil a ho-h geneous population free insiitution.s.m il laws the mean of general educa-h and a pure religion now poinl me.m can to any country on i}i j_lobe,m re these exist in so great perfect j_n.h iso happy combination as in this landl our heritage ' i know of no such coun-l v myself and alter all the means of ob-h rvation j have enjoyed i have a deepen apression than ever that no country isl die found on the face of the earth ll , w indeed that all good things are notl enjoyed in any one country : ihey are noil oyed in our own but they exist here eve in greater abundance and per-l frction than any where else in the world survey our natural resources if thel orid now lay vacant and 4i all before usl be re to choose what of the globe oil f^ual extent would you prefer to the l*-l nitedsta.es our territory is of greatl extent capable of sustainining a populal n several times as large as that of a iii rope and yet without being crowdedl together ts they often are there in densel overgrown festering masses there isl imple room in our country for the indus-l try enterprise and thrift of our spreadingl population in the old world multitudes unemployed there is no field spn-ail to call forth iheir energies ; cithern arreis a want of territory or a want oil encouragement for industry and effort i idleness poverty and mendacity arel insequences and with these discon-h nts crimes and frequent revolts lien we know but little of these evils indus try finds ready employment and ample re i ; and intelligent enterprise a hound-l 1 s — ti id inr activity and effort i look abroad over the vast leriito-b 1 • embraced in our country we find eve-b i ij rariety of climate sod and production j md for pleasantness fertility and abtmd-l 1 . ■•■. not surpassed by any country onl 1 earth our border is washed by thebroadb j ' urtic and indented by innumerable ml harbors studded with hundreds i f rising cities and towns while our in-l is intersected by vast navigable ri-l * and lakes which for extent are like i * ••*• and thus our whole country em-b ming resources immense and as vet i but partially employed and spreading o-l rer a surface of about two millions ofl i miles furnishes as de toquevillel j»as well said the most magnificent dwvll-l . place for nam that is to be found onl i our position in reference to other na-l one of great and very distinguish "»_ advantage removed at a distance lr"!ii the involved jealous expensive and easily disturbed policy of ihe european states we are left unchecked and unre strained to pursue our own system of go vernment to mature and perfect our own tut ions and work out our destiny — the three united continents of the old world do not contain a single spot where my grand scheme of human improvement fee that which is going forward in this country could be attempted with any prospect of success because there is no spot sale from foreign interference every government in europe and in asia watch s with a jealous eye the movements of tvery other government and while the smaller states are continually thwarted controlled in their policy by the in ference and intriguesof the larger there snot one of them that can put forth a ovement towards freedom or a change the existing state of things for a better ot thousands of bayonets at once bristle jthind the discontented territory and put n the rising spirit ol reform hind the mighty veil of waters on one ■and with no neighboring power in an quarter to disturb or make us afraid can hear without alarm of the jeal osies and strifes and of the revolutions convulsions that shake the nations of 1,6 old world and go on enlarging our fities extending our commerce multiply 1?our manufactures and filling our land n|*h the blessings of knowledge religion ■***<*, and general happiness slou may find in many parts of the a world a more quiet and settled state public affairs than is enjoyed in your a country bat with this advantage if . •* one you must take despotism in all angbtiness oppression and crimes jjjeha rch establishments with all prac degrees of intolerance and other g°*s from home down to the church of ci"m|nd and he scotch kirk all suffi i disc mderj*l and oppressive towards enters and with these no slight in t'ftv t a l wt r~i t __ ttt a r~_r^_rn_^~~_ri r a p___t uhi uaiiulllna w a 1 lhm a_n . bruner & james ) . ' ( " keep a citeck upon all your editors y proprietcrs \ k safe ( new series rulers do tins and liberty _ gen r_rri (» number 40 of yolume ii salisbury n c friday january 30 1846 conveniences you must live where there is no system of common schools as in your own country — this applies especially to england — and no colleges accessible to all the people but only to certain privi leged classes ; and no broad open field of enterprise where talents of every grade and every calling may find free scope and full employment no my friends the pri vileges here adverted to are no where so generally and so perfectly enjoyed as in our land this is ihe home of liberty — here is enjoyed freedom of thought and action here the mind has room and mo tive for expansion and activity here the field of honorable industry and enterprise is open to all ; the means of knowledge and religion are widely diffused among the people and rarely indeed especially in ihis part of our country is an individ ual to be found who cannot rend and write and thus have access to ihe multiplied sources of information around him we are here trammelled with no here ditary prescriptive time-hallowed abuses we have no arrogant nobility ; no entail ments ; no hereditary law-makers no es tablished church ; no privileged class of clergy or laity in line none of the feu dalism of by-gone barbarous a^es the world has not outlived the genius of our institutions as it has in europe the tra ditions and iisnges of ihe dark ages hold mighty sway in the old world there so ciety in regard to its structure and ma chinery is extremely complicated :" of various dates like a house patched and altered at sundry times but never thor oughly remodeled or rebuilt so as to be adapted to the genius and progress of im provement in our country tin case is entirely different the frame of our go vernment is simple it did not grow up from tradition ; it is not the product of feudalism or of the dark ages it was formed by intelligent far-reaching patri otic men chosen for the purpose by the people and acting for ihe people in the whole process of their deliberations and decisions responsibilities the eyes of the world are upon us we are as a city set upon a hill other na tions behold and wonder and imitate — the influence of our great example of pop ular institutions and free government is felt to the i'nd of the earth ; and if suc cessful in time as it has been in time past it will rapidly wake up a spirit of reform among all nations and hasten on the reijjjti of universal freedom and justice and right never did the desire lor the growing pros perity of my country beat so strong in my bosom as when 1 was travelling in foreign lands there 1 saw and felt by contrast ihe value of free institutions and the bles sings of a pure unfettered christianity — 1 saw too how our movements were all watched and scanned ; our virtues com mended and our faults blazoned abroad it is true my friends the eyes of the world are upon us our school system in con necticut is referred to and commented upon with applause in the british par liament our prison discipline is discuss ed and held up for imitation in the french chamber of deputies our free form of government and our popular institutions are known and talked of in greece in constantinople and slill further east — and our faults our mobs out bad faith our repudiation and slavery are marked and published at naples in a little miser able government paper that sheds only darkness upon the people let us se lo it then that our great example fail not and that all the influence emanating from it be good serving lo cheer and to guide ihe nations to a freer and happy stale — let us love our country our u/iole coun try and not exclusively any one party in it let us pray for our country it is of god to defend and prosper us he it is that selteth up and plucketb ; and no pol icy or might can prevail in neglect or con tempt of him let us admit no new ele ments of discord and disunion into our country and put out the old ones fast as we can let us especially send the bless ings of the gospel the means of know ledge and religion throughout the length and breadth of our land as the great means of our safety and prosperity i have said and i repeat the remark here as what i firmly believe that the salvation of our country is the hope of ihe world if we fail in our great experiment office institutions the sun dial of time will go back for centuries and despotism and superstition will hold a grand jubilee over all ihe world but if the salvation of our country is the hope ofthe world it is equally true that the christianity of the bible is the hope of our country all oth er means of security and prosperity with out this that a bible christianity is the only palladium of a free government it was for the want of this grand conserva tive principle that all the republics that have gone before us decayed and died — let all then who truly love their country who prize this their goodly heritage and would transmit it to those who are to live here when they are gone see to it that they be not wanting in faithful persever ing endeavors to send the christianity of the bible into all the wide spread desti tute portions of our land america is god's last dispensation towards our world this act passed the scene closes the cur tain of time drops and the glories of eter nity are revealed similar to ibis is the language of rev mr mitchell : — our great work i hail almost said our jne work — that to which god calls us a ove every other — is to cultivate our own ine./ard this we have to do in view of the ex isting millions of our actual population and of an innumerable posterity — a great md pressing work the greatest to be done on earth were we to stop at this view of the matter hut we have more than our own to pro vide for europe is casting her myriads upon us they are coming in countless numbers with characters as unformed habits as unsuited to us as though they came from another planet and ibis is to have no end emigration — tremendous as the fact is for us — will continue and will increase till this land as populous as those affords no room for more this is as certain as that the waves ofthe atlan tic will continue to roll in upon our shore or as that a channel opened from one wa ter lo another will not cease to how till the two are at a level there is no slop ing this : we must meet it as we can ; we must forestall and neutralize its natural consequences or must suffer them and this foreign influx so dangerous in itself is followed with the schemes and agents of that religion and with the in struments of those despotisms which would rejoice in nothing so much as in our subversion how great therefore is the demand for all our wisdom all our zeal all our means in sustaining the civil and moral interests of our country for its own sake ! but our obligations do not reach their limits here they look beyond the water what wc do at home we do for europe and in europe 1 had heard of our influ ence on the old world ; i had no idea of the reality and greatness of that influence till it was forced upon me there it is tre mendous ; it pervades and agitates all minds from the throne down to the popu lace or rather from the populace up to the throne ; and if ever we are embroiled in actual hostilities with those governments it will not be commercial interests that will be the occasion of it the true cause however disguised will be the character of our institutions as a republican and pro testant people and their dreaded effect on the european popular mind in the general growing decisive strife of despotism and liberty there all parties have their eye on us every social eve ry moral interest is felt and confessed to be involved in the destiny of north ame rica to sustain political and religious freedom here or the contrary is to pro mote or defeat it there we are experi menting lor ihe world and are furnishing the data which are to settle the convic tions and influence the action and deter mine the condition of many nations per haps for cent uiies to come the percep tion of i his — the certainty of it — is to my own mind overwhelming never never to any people lias god committed such in terests never on any people has he impos ed such responsibilities dr hawessaid he was coming home to say to our coun try that * the salvation of america is the hope of the world that is my convic tion and my heart is swelling with the thought ii amd la bo 11 the standard's editorial account of the late democratic convention has afforded us much amusement mixed up with a feeling of commiseration we sympa thize with any man who is compelled c do so big njob with such scanty material it is like describing a public dinner with all its roasts and stews and wines — it sentiments and songs and speeches the said dinner speeches et cetra are always of course the best ever before eaten ot delivered every thing is super-excel lent and the poor chronicler has to strain himself nearly to death in order to lift thf imagination of his readers up to a propel appreciation of the thing in the standard's sketchesof the speech es and the speakers this peculiar labor is manifest where all was in the tallest re gion of sublimity a nice discrimination was required to keep the varieties of ex cellence separate to suit each orator — •• seldom has mr henry been more forci ble or eloquent than he was on this occa sion mr saunders made " a speech al together worthy of his distinguished repu for learning experience and ability ot burton craige esquire " we must say without desiring to flatter him that we listened to his remarks with pleasure — mr tenable entertained the convention for some time in his peculiarly happy and interesting manner mr strange's " al lusion to the battle of new orleans was a line specimen of graceful and impress ive eloquence mr ellis " touched with his accustomed animation and ability up upon various public questions mr bragg » nve were more than pleased on this oc casion to listen again to that honest and manly voice he could not select among the topics of mr mcrae " without doing injustice to the youthful orator mr lan der-took hold of the strong points and bandied them skilfully and forcibly mr dick was " a pleasant and interesting speaker mr smith of orange •* spoke well as he always does col wheeler ' elicited roars of laughter and applause at the expense of the whig leaders — or his own .'] and mr hoke " made a brief but amusing speech in short there was not an orator opened his mouth without saying a first rate speech the standard says to tiis ' unterrified friends that in green w caldwell " we have a leader suited to the crisis who disputes it i every party leader in our recollection whethertaken up from choice or from necessity was exactly suited to the crisis the standard further says — as was most happily observed in convention he possesses in a pre-eminent degree two traits of andrew jackson now these are qualifications ! it is always necessa ry that some traits of this description be discovered in every democratic candi date none but a reputed sucker of the old hickory stump can come under dem ocratic cultivation and the beauty of it is your shrewd leaders may convince the 1 untei rified'lhat even a polk-sfalk is a jren uine hickory sapling ! the standard has rather missed his object by not discover ing mr caldwell to be in possession of all the traits of andrew jackson again — " lie comes from old mecklen burg the birth-place of jackson and polk which of the polks and of american liberty — the hornet's nest of tbe revolution ; and to use the striking lan guage of burton craige esquire we trust ' be will sting whiggery to death here is a degree of enlightening about the birth place of jackson ! but it is ' both lawful and expedii ■' to put in as much jackson as possable on such occasions if mr fisher had been the nominee jackson would no doubt have been born in rowan just by way of accommodation we apprehend that the " trust of the standard and of burion craige esquire i in the stijiging powers of mr caldwell is i not well founded as poison democrats i as we have have heretofore undertaken tbe i job of " stinging whiggery to death in n i carolina — but they didn't do it i in his description of the convention oui i contemporary waxes mighty after put i ting in a little more of the jackson hi i says : •• so entire a devotion to the causi i ofthe country so determined a spirit tc i rescue the institutions and the governmen i of that country from the hands of prolli i gate and ambitious whig leaders ye i wcdl what government and wha i whig leaders — uh-huh — moreover saitl i he " the hand writing is on the wall an i those letters of doom will burn on unli i those men are hurled like their great leat i er into silence and oblivion all thiselo i quence would indicate quite a sampsoni i an display of prowess but luckily fo i poor whiggery the favorite weapon o i the stalwart old israelite is not wiejde i now in the same style us in days of old i it make more noise we admit ; but it don i begin to produce the knock-down argu i meats which it did at ratmathlehi i greensboro patriot h | jcj a correspondent of the " new yor i herald thus writes from washington : | here we see the proper estimate to he place i upon party devotion to party principles her | we see men rampant for a contest which ma i lead to the rupture of the union because fur i sooth the war-cry god help us will tickh i the ears of the groundlings but what are th i stimulants to a war they are numerous an i powerful a war will give — i an apology fi>r state repudiation i employment to a host of adventurers i offices to a host of unrewarded expectants i the means of innumerable speculations am i peculations i an advance of from fifty to five hundred pe i cent in the price of provisions h the slaughter of many duplicate heirs to pat i rimonial estates h the advantages of an illimitable field of plun i der h the extraction of every dollar from the trea i sury h and a debt based upon paper issues to tin i extent of one hundred millions for the very firs i schedule of appropriations i hollow hollow i stood beneath a hollow tree — the blast it hollow blew — i thought upon the hollow world and all its hollow crew ; i thought of all their hollow schemes the hollow hopes we follow h imagination's hollow dreams all hollow hollow hollow i a crown it is a hollow thing h and hollow heads oft wear it ; the hollow tide of a king h what hollow hearts oft bear it ! no hollow wiles or honied smiles i . of ladies fair i follow ; for beauty sweet still hides deceit tis hollow hollow hollow ! h the hollow tory but betrays the hollow dupes who heed him ; the hollow critic vends his-praise to hollow fools who feed him ; the hollow friend who takes your hand is but a summer's swallow ; whate'er i see is like this tree h all hollow hollow hollow ! a colossal statue is being cast by the royal at munich the figure it is said is in height from tbe ua'.iiiii re s in nf january 19 jb four days later from europe.m resignation of the ministry — tremendous i excitement in england — farther pi o-l rogation of parliament — great 7jo//7/-^h cal revolution in great britain — 1_7;/-^h isterial crisis — alliance in l//*rr/vi///^h cotton — state if the corn marker a the liberty sailed from liverpool onl the 13th ult and brings papers tothat date i the news which we have thus receiv i ed is ofthe highest importance — of more^h consequence than any we have received^h in the last ten years // is no more o/h less than the resignation of sir robert p i h and the organization of a mw cabinet lord john russell the announcement of the important i i fact — important to the united states in a i i commercial point of view as well per h i chance in a political aspect threw the i i whole english public into a state of the i i greatest excitement h i its effect was tremendous h i in addition to this and as a necessary i i consequence parliament had been further i i prorogued as the following exhibits : — h i " at the court at osborne house isle of i i wight the 10th day of december lsir>,h i present the queen's most excellent ma-h i jesty in council — it is this day ordered by i i her majesty in council that the parlia-h i ment which stands prorogued to tuesday i i the 16th day of december inst i i the corn law question has been thel i cause of this i i the effect that this news will have up 1 i on the relations between england audi 1 1 america cannot but be of the utmost con-l i j sequence i i american cotton had improved i i from the london herald december 12 h i sir robert peel's government is al an en ill i all the members ofthe cabinet yesterday ten i dered their resignation which her majesty wu-b i pleased to accept h i ' it will be easily believed that v.e regr t tln-h i determination of her majesty's advisers ; nh i ; we should much more regret their unaniinou-h i determination to sacrifice the industry of del i country by stripping it of all protection b i the important fact now announced pr h i how completely wrong the times was when ih ■stated that the government had decided j i propdsing to parliament as a cabinet ir isureh i j the repeal of the corn laws i i from ihe london chronicle dee 11 b i an official announcement in another pari <>■i our paper confirms one part of the stalomenh i which we made yesterday namely that l'arlil i ment instead of being summoned for ihe ili-l i patch of business would be again prorogued h tin other and more import nt part of our anfl i nonncement is we believe equally correct — i i tin cabinet we lire assured resigned yeslerb i day it is confidently said lhat s fiir from ih<l i cabinet having at any time come to a tleei^iml i to recommend the repeal of the corn law ,-■i larix majority t his colleagues have through i out been opposed to sir robert peel's recoiii-b i inendatioii i h from t'ir london times dec 11 i i yesterday parliament was furthei prorogue i to the nidi instant the naming of so earl i a day would itself imply that the cabinet is noi | now in a slate lo meet parliament the rti | mors however which have been confidently | circulated in ihe best informed quarters since | monday and circumstances which have come | to our knowledge since the return ol the mill | isters last night from osborne house leave | scarcely any reasonable doubl thai ihe reviving i repugnance of the duke lo the decision ol his | colleagues has rendered it necessary fi>r them | to lender their resignation to her majesty an i unforeseen difficulty of course there musl have i been somewhere | after so long and close a succession of coun | cils hat difficulty could only arise from a strug | gle between tin declared intentions of the | chief and ihe prejudice or pride of some of his | colleagues were die ministry certain of meet | ing parliament as the servants of the crown i it would have fixed ihe day and our prediction i would have been to ihe letter fulfilled that | is no longer possible some minor changes i as we intimated at the lirsi there would un i douhtedly have been but it is to the graver dif i ficulty that this new and unforeseen delay must i be ascribed it is said to have been only by i the most unqualified expressions of opinion that i the leaders of the cabinet gained ihe unwilling i compliance of the only considerable dissentient i there can be no doubt lhat — what was all i along to be apprehended — the representative i ceneral of the lords has since felt with re i turning anxiety the weight of ihe numerous i proxies not less rashly undertaken than rashly i confided to his cue the head of an aristoc i racy demands it may easily be imagined a lit i tie more lime to act as not to resolve it is i not however always possible to adjust the in i terests of a cabinet much less those of a na i tion to the convenience the dignity or the hu imorofiiti individual an obstinacy which is i assumed with a less serious intention may be i maintained a day too long lo ihe ruin of loth i colleagues and cause meantime whatever i may happen whoever may be in the next month i very few hours can pass without proving to the i nation the substantial truth of our first momen i tons announcement — viz lhat the leaders ot the i cabinet were resolved upon proposing a total i repeal of the corn laws they were resolved i to the ulmost of their power they were re i solved to do this or nothing to repeal the i corn-laws or be no ministers if ihe duke sees i peril in that measure or feels reluctance to un i derlake it be will have to realize the dangers . i and disagreeables on the olher side of the scale ) — the dissolution ofthe conservative ministry and the interposition of a rival and income respects a more suitable agency he will be assured that his own punctilious s far from impeding ihe measure may perhaps only ren der it the first of a series slill less to his tasle and convenience whatever amount f dislnist he may feel in his present if not by this time his late colleagues he will lie only ton sure ot ihe statesmen and l!i policy he will help 10 in augurate in th'-ir si ad f he has not the heart to solicit ihe lou in behalf of his friends he will nevertheless not escape ihe slill more ar du ius task ot conducting his little aristocratti cal troop against the close and serried phalanx of unanimous people headed by inveterate toes m.»st gratifying is the assurance which we are able !<• oi'h-i (.. our friends that notwith standing ih'ise difficulties which rendered a dis . solution of the cabinet unavoidable there is m t the slightest danger ot any schism in the greal conservative party or am desertion from it the whole of the cabinet retires without a shade ol personal hostility among its mem bers or any difference of sentiment upon the proper policy except upon ihe one question of a repeal or rather modification ofthe corn law s i i ibis question too ihe difference is much less than has hi en supposed it is we believe line thai sir robert peel has even insisted up on a considerable relaxation of ihe laws in que lion to be accompanied however by a com pcnsation to ihe agricultural interest — land owners farmers and farm laborers — not only adequate but ample what compensation this is we are not able to gu-*-s ii vents however have proved that it was not considered sufficient by the whole hpa'oim-t and we must at present agr wiiii hhe dissentients nevertheless it is certain that hvr robert peel will snp'tort 1,0 measure of re h'cul upon any other terms than those of what e considers an adequate compensation to the ; so that unless ihe new ministers ojn»c such an adequate com|)ensation they h\i fi.d themselves opposed by the conserva hive majority of more than one hundred uudi hnini-le'd bv a sin_h in it ae.d icinfoiced no hl<u:ht by iniiiv houesl whigs even if they hl..i\c recourse lo a dissolution ihey are ntoifl llikelv to lose than to gain ; but thet in 1st gain hmoie than fifty seats to replace themselves in ilirir glorious majority of one and it is perfect llv impossible that ihey c;in gain the hall of tif i'v a gain of one hundred votes will be no lo raise ihem to tin position from which isir robert peel's government retires so much li'or conservative prospects from the london sun december 11 * the ministry of sir robert peel lias resign ed the country at huge may be startled by la circumstance so unexpected but such is the | fact yesterday morning the majority of the hj cabinet comprising ihe duke of wellington duke of ilnc-leuch sir robert peel sir h janes graham the earl of berdeen lord bsiandiv mr goulburn the earl of lincoln band mr sidney herbert — in all nine out of b twelve or thirteen composing the entire cabinet i proceeded by special train lo southampton and i were conveyed b the royal slearoer fairy lo i the isle of wight at a coint held at osborne ____ ■mouse they tendered iheir resignation to her i majesty which was graciously accepted ! here i is a sudden and abrupt termination of the con h servalive cabinet and lhat too hi the very mo i ment they were supposed aed even demi-offi h cially announced to have become the convert i ed organs of free-trade policy in all ii - ramified h bearings it were idle lo speculate on the cause ot mis h tin looked for disruption of a cabinet whose i whole career has been lhat of fighting under h false or assumed colors but one circumstance i is rather significant ii might hue been ob h served thai the duke of wellington did not at i tend the cabinet council held on monday al i nt the return of sir robert peel from < sborrie i house on ih it day the duke had mile up i his mind for belter for wore u i i lefl the cab i inei to hike its i it sat on an hour and i during lhat eventful hour ii id deci led on resign i ing ihe giiveriiment thai decision was of i rourse conveyed to the duke of wellington i wlio prompl to his dun accompanied the dole i lid train to osli one house to lesign what he i had often asserted he did not possess his minis i lerial office front the london sun december 11 hb the new ministry — immediately upon the i refusal of the duke of wellington on friday h last to carry out w hat he had agreed to do — namely to propos a repeal of ihe corn laws in btii house of lord ii became apparent lhat b resignation of office by sir robert peel must blullow lord john russell was recommended b n s,'nl fer and a messenger was despatched hon saturday lasl to command his attendance at ho-boiie house hi arrival i he re was expect h<'d to have in i him sir r diert however re binned last night without having seen loid h john hi this morning lord john russell and sir ro hli-'ii peel had an interview of an hour's dura liion after which lord john russell left town hi ( low i --. lb had an audience of her m ijeg i1 . and lias returned lo town this evening hav hi:ig had lull powers given him lo u a gov hj > inio'iit lb has senl i'.r lord i alio r.-lon hand is taking ii i ijelieved i!l th ■necessary i-'*'!1 to form an administration from tht london sua december 11 lord john russell having undertaken the hta-k of liomii.g a new administration is pro hcei-diug v iih all despatch in making his ar h^brangemenls h lord palmerston has been scut fir and will l''i'-ijy arrive in london to him the foreign h_iic will be confided i lord normanby in all probability lakes the i lord grey the colonial office mr paring resumes the chancellorship of hhe exchequer i lord morpeth may possibly go lo ireland loe-ii his popularity would reader him an ad luirab lord lieutenant i lord cottenbam resumes the chancellorship ! :' england i lord cam tie chancellor of ireland i sir thomas wilde and mr jet-vis will be h\iioni and solicitor generals i j.ud minto takes tie admiralty i sir john hobhouse mi charles puller mr 1 1 aw •■-. sir t jeorge grey and mr tufuell will hiiin parts ofthe government i sir c napier and admiral dundas are to h<iu the admiralty board i such an ihe on dils ot the ih\y i it is understood thai before lord j"lm ru lell's departure he addressed communications l several of his late colleagues only > of i hoin we believe mr baring happened to be hi london i from the london globe december 11 i whatever articles are now interposed in thn
Object Description
Title | Carolina Watchman |
Masthead | The Carolina Watchman |
Date | 1846-01-30 |
Month | 01 |
Day | 30 |
Year | 1846 |
Volume | 2 |
Issue | 40 |
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 |
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 January 30, 1846 issue of the Carolina Watchman a weekly and semi weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina |
Rights | Public |
Language | eng |
OCLC number | 601553080 |
Description
Title | Carolina Watchman |
Masthead | The Carolina Watchman |
Date | 1846-01-30 |
Month | 01 |
Day | 30 |
Year | 1846 |
Volume | 2 |
Issue | 40 |
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 5003297 Bytes |
FileName | sacw04_040_18460130-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 January 30, 1846 issue of the Carolina Watchman a weekly and semi weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina |
Rights | Public |
Language | eng |
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. sr^^^_._tw-0~doi.i.ans per annum in advance i f<*s*mebt inserted at 1 persqnare tor the first ■a for each subsequent insertion court or ■j : 25 per cent higher ■l of 33j i,i*r cent wi be ma(*e t0 t^08e i i i for tl watchman h the ocean grave i not down in the earth to rest ; ■from iheir place forme the valley nor over my breast ■■wave nor the torf be prest — in the h me low in the fathomless deep ii he waters be my tomb l , he wind-god shrieks while ti water's .' ___! rv me far neath ih el ihe mermaids watch o'er j in dwell with them in n genilit cave irmy passions no more bhall rave in this way-worn weary breast h sink neath the sea when the moon's pale ray h le1 me smk to my ■i rolisa h from the 11 me missionary f nii'iit of american prosperity j-:dl inflncacc h what tire the elements of a prosperou>h ,__ bappy community ! they are ul lthy climate a productive soil a ho-h geneous population free insiitution.s.m il laws the mean of general educa-h and a pure religion now poinl me.m can to any country on i}i j_lobe,m re these exist in so great perfect j_n.h iso happy combination as in this landl our heritage ' i know of no such coun-l v myself and alter all the means of ob-h rvation j have enjoyed i have a deepen apression than ever that no country isl die found on the face of the earth ll , w indeed that all good things are notl enjoyed in any one country : ihey are noil oyed in our own but they exist here eve in greater abundance and per-l frction than any where else in the world survey our natural resources if thel orid now lay vacant and 4i all before usl be re to choose what of the globe oil f^ual extent would you prefer to the l*-l nitedsta.es our territory is of greatl extent capable of sustainining a populal n several times as large as that of a iii rope and yet without being crowdedl together ts they often are there in densel overgrown festering masses there isl imple room in our country for the indus-l try enterprise and thrift of our spreadingl population in the old world multitudes unemployed there is no field spn-ail to call forth iheir energies ; cithern arreis a want of territory or a want oil encouragement for industry and effort i idleness poverty and mendacity arel insequences and with these discon-h nts crimes and frequent revolts lien we know but little of these evils indus try finds ready employment and ample re i ; and intelligent enterprise a hound-l 1 s — ti id inr activity and effort i look abroad over the vast leriito-b 1 • embraced in our country we find eve-b i ij rariety of climate sod and production j md for pleasantness fertility and abtmd-l 1 . ■•■. not surpassed by any country onl 1 earth our border is washed by thebroadb j ' urtic and indented by innumerable ml harbors studded with hundreds i f rising cities and towns while our in-l is intersected by vast navigable ri-l * and lakes which for extent are like i * ••*• and thus our whole country em-b ming resources immense and as vet i but partially employed and spreading o-l rer a surface of about two millions ofl i miles furnishes as de toquevillel j»as well said the most magnificent dwvll-l . place for nam that is to be found onl i our position in reference to other na-l one of great and very distinguish "»_ advantage removed at a distance lr"!ii the involved jealous expensive and easily disturbed policy of ihe european states we are left unchecked and unre strained to pursue our own system of go vernment to mature and perfect our own tut ions and work out our destiny — the three united continents of the old world do not contain a single spot where my grand scheme of human improvement fee that which is going forward in this country could be attempted with any prospect of success because there is no spot sale from foreign interference every government in europe and in asia watch s with a jealous eye the movements of tvery other government and while the smaller states are continually thwarted controlled in their policy by the in ference and intriguesof the larger there snot one of them that can put forth a ovement towards freedom or a change the existing state of things for a better ot thousands of bayonets at once bristle jthind the discontented territory and put n the rising spirit ol reform hind the mighty veil of waters on one ■and with no neighboring power in an quarter to disturb or make us afraid can hear without alarm of the jeal osies and strifes and of the revolutions convulsions that shake the nations of 1,6 old world and go on enlarging our fities extending our commerce multiply 1?our manufactures and filling our land n|*h the blessings of knowledge religion ■***<*, and general happiness slou may find in many parts of the a world a more quiet and settled state public affairs than is enjoyed in your a country bat with this advantage if . •* one you must take despotism in all angbtiness oppression and crimes jjjeha rch establishments with all prac degrees of intolerance and other g°*s from home down to the church of ci"m|nd and he scotch kirk all suffi i disc mderj*l and oppressive towards enters and with these no slight in t'ftv t a l wt r~i t __ ttt a r~_r^_rn_^~~_ri r a p___t uhi uaiiulllna w a 1 lhm a_n . bruner & james ) . ' ( " keep a citeck upon all your editors y proprietcrs \ k safe ( new series rulers do tins and liberty _ gen r_rri (» number 40 of yolume ii salisbury n c friday january 30 1846 conveniences you must live where there is no system of common schools as in your own country — this applies especially to england — and no colleges accessible to all the people but only to certain privi leged classes ; and no broad open field of enterprise where talents of every grade and every calling may find free scope and full employment no my friends the pri vileges here adverted to are no where so generally and so perfectly enjoyed as in our land this is ihe home of liberty — here is enjoyed freedom of thought and action here the mind has room and mo tive for expansion and activity here the field of honorable industry and enterprise is open to all ; the means of knowledge and religion are widely diffused among the people and rarely indeed especially in ihis part of our country is an individ ual to be found who cannot rend and write and thus have access to ihe multiplied sources of information around him we are here trammelled with no here ditary prescriptive time-hallowed abuses we have no arrogant nobility ; no entail ments ; no hereditary law-makers no es tablished church ; no privileged class of clergy or laity in line none of the feu dalism of by-gone barbarous a^es the world has not outlived the genius of our institutions as it has in europe the tra ditions and iisnges of ihe dark ages hold mighty sway in the old world there so ciety in regard to its structure and ma chinery is extremely complicated :" of various dates like a house patched and altered at sundry times but never thor oughly remodeled or rebuilt so as to be adapted to the genius and progress of im provement in our country tin case is entirely different the frame of our go vernment is simple it did not grow up from tradition ; it is not the product of feudalism or of the dark ages it was formed by intelligent far-reaching patri otic men chosen for the purpose by the people and acting for ihe people in the whole process of their deliberations and decisions responsibilities the eyes of the world are upon us we are as a city set upon a hill other na tions behold and wonder and imitate — the influence of our great example of pop ular institutions and free government is felt to the i'nd of the earth ; and if suc cessful in time as it has been in time past it will rapidly wake up a spirit of reform among all nations and hasten on the reijjjti of universal freedom and justice and right never did the desire lor the growing pros perity of my country beat so strong in my bosom as when 1 was travelling in foreign lands there 1 saw and felt by contrast ihe value of free institutions and the bles sings of a pure unfettered christianity — 1 saw too how our movements were all watched and scanned ; our virtues com mended and our faults blazoned abroad it is true my friends the eyes of the world are upon us our school system in con necticut is referred to and commented upon with applause in the british par liament our prison discipline is discuss ed and held up for imitation in the french chamber of deputies our free form of government and our popular institutions are known and talked of in greece in constantinople and slill further east — and our faults our mobs out bad faith our repudiation and slavery are marked and published at naples in a little miser able government paper that sheds only darkness upon the people let us se lo it then that our great example fail not and that all the influence emanating from it be good serving lo cheer and to guide ihe nations to a freer and happy stale — let us love our country our u/iole coun try and not exclusively any one party in it let us pray for our country it is of god to defend and prosper us he it is that selteth up and plucketb ; and no pol icy or might can prevail in neglect or con tempt of him let us admit no new ele ments of discord and disunion into our country and put out the old ones fast as we can let us especially send the bless ings of the gospel the means of know ledge and religion throughout the length and breadth of our land as the great means of our safety and prosperity i have said and i repeat the remark here as what i firmly believe that the salvation of our country is the hope of ihe world if we fail in our great experiment office institutions the sun dial of time will go back for centuries and despotism and superstition will hold a grand jubilee over all ihe world but if the salvation of our country is the hope ofthe world it is equally true that the christianity of the bible is the hope of our country all oth er means of security and prosperity with out this that a bible christianity is the only palladium of a free government it was for the want of this grand conserva tive principle that all the republics that have gone before us decayed and died — let all then who truly love their country who prize this their goodly heritage and would transmit it to those who are to live here when they are gone see to it that they be not wanting in faithful persever ing endeavors to send the christianity of the bible into all the wide spread desti tute portions of our land america is god's last dispensation towards our world this act passed the scene closes the cur tain of time drops and the glories of eter nity are revealed similar to ibis is the language of rev mr mitchell : — our great work i hail almost said our jne work — that to which god calls us a ove every other — is to cultivate our own ine./ard this we have to do in view of the ex isting millions of our actual population and of an innumerable posterity — a great md pressing work the greatest to be done on earth were we to stop at this view of the matter hut we have more than our own to pro vide for europe is casting her myriads upon us they are coming in countless numbers with characters as unformed habits as unsuited to us as though they came from another planet and ibis is to have no end emigration — tremendous as the fact is for us — will continue and will increase till this land as populous as those affords no room for more this is as certain as that the waves ofthe atlan tic will continue to roll in upon our shore or as that a channel opened from one wa ter lo another will not cease to how till the two are at a level there is no slop ing this : we must meet it as we can ; we must forestall and neutralize its natural consequences or must suffer them and this foreign influx so dangerous in itself is followed with the schemes and agents of that religion and with the in struments of those despotisms which would rejoice in nothing so much as in our subversion how great therefore is the demand for all our wisdom all our zeal all our means in sustaining the civil and moral interests of our country for its own sake ! but our obligations do not reach their limits here they look beyond the water what wc do at home we do for europe and in europe 1 had heard of our influ ence on the old world ; i had no idea of the reality and greatness of that influence till it was forced upon me there it is tre mendous ; it pervades and agitates all minds from the throne down to the popu lace or rather from the populace up to the throne ; and if ever we are embroiled in actual hostilities with those governments it will not be commercial interests that will be the occasion of it the true cause however disguised will be the character of our institutions as a republican and pro testant people and their dreaded effect on the european popular mind in the general growing decisive strife of despotism and liberty there all parties have their eye on us every social eve ry moral interest is felt and confessed to be involved in the destiny of north ame rica to sustain political and religious freedom here or the contrary is to pro mote or defeat it there we are experi menting lor ihe world and are furnishing the data which are to settle the convic tions and influence the action and deter mine the condition of many nations per haps for cent uiies to come the percep tion of i his — the certainty of it — is to my own mind overwhelming never never to any people lias god committed such in terests never on any people has he impos ed such responsibilities dr hawessaid he was coming home to say to our coun try that * the salvation of america is the hope of the world that is my convic tion and my heart is swelling with the thought ii amd la bo 11 the standard's editorial account of the late democratic convention has afforded us much amusement mixed up with a feeling of commiseration we sympa thize with any man who is compelled c do so big njob with such scanty material it is like describing a public dinner with all its roasts and stews and wines — it sentiments and songs and speeches the said dinner speeches et cetra are always of course the best ever before eaten ot delivered every thing is super-excel lent and the poor chronicler has to strain himself nearly to death in order to lift thf imagination of his readers up to a propel appreciation of the thing in the standard's sketchesof the speech es and the speakers this peculiar labor is manifest where all was in the tallest re gion of sublimity a nice discrimination was required to keep the varieties of ex cellence separate to suit each orator — •• seldom has mr henry been more forci ble or eloquent than he was on this occa sion mr saunders made " a speech al together worthy of his distinguished repu for learning experience and ability ot burton craige esquire " we must say without desiring to flatter him that we listened to his remarks with pleasure — mr tenable entertained the convention for some time in his peculiarly happy and interesting manner mr strange's " al lusion to the battle of new orleans was a line specimen of graceful and impress ive eloquence mr ellis " touched with his accustomed animation and ability up upon various public questions mr bragg » nve were more than pleased on this oc casion to listen again to that honest and manly voice he could not select among the topics of mr mcrae " without doing injustice to the youthful orator mr lan der-took hold of the strong points and bandied them skilfully and forcibly mr dick was " a pleasant and interesting speaker mr smith of orange •* spoke well as he always does col wheeler ' elicited roars of laughter and applause at the expense of the whig leaders — or his own .'] and mr hoke " made a brief but amusing speech in short there was not an orator opened his mouth without saying a first rate speech the standard says to tiis ' unterrified friends that in green w caldwell " we have a leader suited to the crisis who disputes it i every party leader in our recollection whethertaken up from choice or from necessity was exactly suited to the crisis the standard further says — as was most happily observed in convention he possesses in a pre-eminent degree two traits of andrew jackson now these are qualifications ! it is always necessa ry that some traits of this description be discovered in every democratic candi date none but a reputed sucker of the old hickory stump can come under dem ocratic cultivation and the beauty of it is your shrewd leaders may convince the 1 untei rified'lhat even a polk-sfalk is a jren uine hickory sapling ! the standard has rather missed his object by not discover ing mr caldwell to be in possession of all the traits of andrew jackson again — " lie comes from old mecklen burg the birth-place of jackson and polk which of the polks and of american liberty — the hornet's nest of tbe revolution ; and to use the striking lan guage of burton craige esquire we trust ' be will sting whiggery to death here is a degree of enlightening about the birth place of jackson ! but it is ' both lawful and expedii ■' to put in as much jackson as possable on such occasions if mr fisher had been the nominee jackson would no doubt have been born in rowan just by way of accommodation we apprehend that the " trust of the standard and of burion craige esquire i in the stijiging powers of mr caldwell is i not well founded as poison democrats i as we have have heretofore undertaken tbe i job of " stinging whiggery to death in n i carolina — but they didn't do it i in his description of the convention oui i contemporary waxes mighty after put i ting in a little more of the jackson hi i says : •• so entire a devotion to the causi i ofthe country so determined a spirit tc i rescue the institutions and the governmen i of that country from the hands of prolli i gate and ambitious whig leaders ye i wcdl what government and wha i whig leaders — uh-huh — moreover saitl i he " the hand writing is on the wall an i those letters of doom will burn on unli i those men are hurled like their great leat i er into silence and oblivion all thiselo i quence would indicate quite a sampsoni i an display of prowess but luckily fo i poor whiggery the favorite weapon o i the stalwart old israelite is not wiejde i now in the same style us in days of old i it make more noise we admit ; but it don i begin to produce the knock-down argu i meats which it did at ratmathlehi i greensboro patriot h | jcj a correspondent of the " new yor i herald thus writes from washington : | here we see the proper estimate to he place i upon party devotion to party principles her | we see men rampant for a contest which ma i lead to the rupture of the union because fur i sooth the war-cry god help us will tickh i the ears of the groundlings but what are th i stimulants to a war they are numerous an i powerful a war will give — i an apology fi>r state repudiation i employment to a host of adventurers i offices to a host of unrewarded expectants i the means of innumerable speculations am i peculations i an advance of from fifty to five hundred pe i cent in the price of provisions h the slaughter of many duplicate heirs to pat i rimonial estates h the advantages of an illimitable field of plun i der h the extraction of every dollar from the trea i sury h and a debt based upon paper issues to tin i extent of one hundred millions for the very firs i schedule of appropriations i hollow hollow i stood beneath a hollow tree — the blast it hollow blew — i thought upon the hollow world and all its hollow crew ; i thought of all their hollow schemes the hollow hopes we follow h imagination's hollow dreams all hollow hollow hollow i a crown it is a hollow thing h and hollow heads oft wear it ; the hollow tide of a king h what hollow hearts oft bear it ! no hollow wiles or honied smiles i . of ladies fair i follow ; for beauty sweet still hides deceit tis hollow hollow hollow ! h the hollow tory but betrays the hollow dupes who heed him ; the hollow critic vends his-praise to hollow fools who feed him ; the hollow friend who takes your hand is but a summer's swallow ; whate'er i see is like this tree h all hollow hollow hollow ! a colossal statue is being cast by the royal at munich the figure it is said is in height from tbe ua'.iiiii re s in nf january 19 jb four days later from europe.m resignation of the ministry — tremendous i excitement in england — farther pi o-l rogation of parliament — great 7jo//7/-^h cal revolution in great britain — 1_7;/-^h isterial crisis — alliance in l//*rr/vi///^h cotton — state if the corn marker a the liberty sailed from liverpool onl the 13th ult and brings papers tothat date i the news which we have thus receiv i ed is ofthe highest importance — of more^h consequence than any we have received^h in the last ten years // is no more o/h less than the resignation of sir robert p i h and the organization of a mw cabinet lord john russell the announcement of the important i i fact — important to the united states in a i i commercial point of view as well per h i chance in a political aspect threw the i i whole english public into a state of the i i greatest excitement h i its effect was tremendous h i in addition to this and as a necessary i i consequence parliament had been further i i prorogued as the following exhibits : — h i " at the court at osborne house isle of i i wight the 10th day of december lsir>,h i present the queen's most excellent ma-h i jesty in council — it is this day ordered by i i her majesty in council that the parlia-h i ment which stands prorogued to tuesday i i the 16th day of december inst i i the corn law question has been thel i cause of this i i the effect that this news will have up 1 i on the relations between england audi 1 1 america cannot but be of the utmost con-l i j sequence i i american cotton had improved i i from the london herald december 12 h i sir robert peel's government is al an en ill i all the members ofthe cabinet yesterday ten i dered their resignation which her majesty wu-b i pleased to accept h i ' it will be easily believed that v.e regr t tln-h i determination of her majesty's advisers ; nh i ; we should much more regret their unaniinou-h i determination to sacrifice the industry of del i country by stripping it of all protection b i the important fact now announced pr h i how completely wrong the times was when ih ■stated that the government had decided j i propdsing to parliament as a cabinet ir isureh i j the repeal of the corn laws i i from ihe london chronicle dee 11 b i an official announcement in another pari <>■i our paper confirms one part of the stalomenh i which we made yesterday namely that l'arlil i ment instead of being summoned for ihe ili-l i patch of business would be again prorogued h tin other and more import nt part of our anfl i nonncement is we believe equally correct — i i tin cabinet we lire assured resigned yeslerb i day it is confidently said lhat s fiir from ih |