The North-Carolina standard., 1842-04-13
MOVEMENTS OF THE DEMOCRACY
FrOm the OXlOTd Mercury.
DEMOCRATIC MEETING.

From the Oxford Mercury.
DEMOCRATIC MEETING.
Pursuant to previous notice, large number OF
the Democratic Republicans of Granville, met on
Mond1y the. .29th.. of March, in the Court House
in Oxford.
On motion of J. M. Stone, T. B. Barnett was
called to the Chair, and Benz c. Cook appointed
Secretary.
On motion of Jonathan NJ Stone the Chairman
appointed Thomas B. Lewis J. M. Stone, Thos.
v Duke SamL Moss, Wyatt Cannaday, Benz.
c. Cook and Elkanah Lyon to prepare reselu-
tions expressive of the object of the meeting.
B~ni. c. Cook from the committee introduced
the following report and resolutions:
In a republic where all power is derived from
the people, and where the government was intend
ed and established for their benefit it is not only
the right but the duty of each and every citizen.
TO express his opinion upon all matters of public
concern. .t--'
IF ever there was time when the Democracy
of the country were solemnly called upon to cXer-
else this unalienabe right, to perform this great
and important duty, at IS nOsC when those we have
delegated to speak for us, and who would have
bol1lv given utterance to our s0ntlmfnts. are de-
MED the right offree debate in the councils OF the
nation "When the representative is gagged, it
more than ever becomes the people to speak"
We, therefore, a portion of the freemen of Gran
Vile, charge that the Extra Session of Congress
was uncalled for by the wants fthe government; ;
that very great exDen1iture of the public money
was thus unnecessarily incurred; that IN our oDn-
ion. that extraordinary SESSION was convoked for
the purpose of defeating the public WILL by forcing
through Congress, In the intoxication and mad
mss of party feeling, certain favorlte measures
which our opponents as party, have feared to
bring before the people or advocate or present as
their intended policy in the previous elections
T. Go-oo oooFoef fbo1y hrai1ohf forward their
men, but not their measures it is plain that their
object was to leave the question of principle IN a
glorious uncertainty and thus to unite men in op-
position, whom it was vain to attempt to unite mp
on anv other point; no other policy would have
held out the remotest hope Of success for it is now
manifest that the strongest if not the onlv bond OF
union among the reforners, was opposition to the
party in power. 1t is no answer to refer To the
dlzzlino promises which were 50 beautifully
Swallowed in Federal newspapers AMI IN the hHr-
angues of their prominent orators; for these. Ike
their log cabin AMI hard cider debaucheries BEING
d'signnd to catch the popular VOTE were IN q1te
as many varieties as there were Statns in the
Union: besides these were not made hv the party
as whole but shaped bf political lead ars to s'1t
the particular views of each different Section OF
country without the slightest reference to the pro-
misas which were made or the principles that
were ever avowed by their friends in other parts
of the Union. 1t is true that all portions of the
party made vague and indefinite promises about
reform, and retrenchment. Bat the charge that
there was no agreed policy which received the
general concurrence, is proved bv the fact. that
the Harrisburg Convention, the only authentic or
gan of the party made no declaration of their
principles whatever If further proofs asked for,
it may be abun1antly found in the developments
of the extra session, in the conflicting principles
between the "Tvler Wings and HCl7v Wings"
the 'Bank Wings and "Anti-B1nk Wings" the
"Abstractionists'' and 'sIncorrigib1es' 1t NAV be
found in the fierce encounters among themselves
on the floor of Congress, in the polite epithets of
perfdy and treachery which this 'band of broth
ers'' mutually black-ball AMI defame each other.
This can hardly now be called a "union of the
wings for the sake of the Union. ,"
But that great prodigy, the whig party, is actu-
ally in power; they who-were to regulate exchan-
ges to reform abuses, to raise the wages of labor,
and do whatever else might be thought desirable
and proper ; they who were to make money pfen-
ty, and be the poor mans friend, hold the ensigns
of Offices What have they done? Have they
redeemed their promises2 have they made good
their word2 Let the bitter denunciations of de-
ceived and disappointed people answer they have
answered wherever the polls have been opened,
by one of the most decisive an | overwhelming re-
Dukes that was ever given to the rulers of a free
people.
Under the pretence of supplying the wants of
the treasury, the Reformers had called an extra
session of Congress- and to make the revenue still
more insufficient for the purposes of government,
they have surrendered to the States the annual
proceeds of the public domain, AMI at the same
time have passed an act to bOrroao t,oeype millions
of dollars and increased the taxes to supply the
deficiency in the treasury occasioned by the distri-
button and to meet the expenditures Of the govern
mont And we cannot forget that they promised,
If anV deficiency shoul1 occnr hv raoeor, of tEl;e
bill it would supply it by tax on luxaries, such
WInas and Gill1e id thnt