The North-Carolina standard., 1845-04-02
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Col. Barringcr. This seems to be the feeling
of Our friends thronghoutthe District they are
painting forAhe contest, confident that with fair
showing, and true leader, they can beat any
such outre federalist,a as d. NJ sBarringer-any
man who votes in Congress along side of John
Quincy Adams, Giddings, and all the aboli6onists
and rabid federaiists 10 Congress Bat we do not
design putting the Colonel on the roast just now
I After advising wilhe our friends in the sever,
al Counties Of the District, we take the lib
erty of suggesting the propriety9 of holding a
District Convention of Delegates, at A. D..
Kerrs Tavern, Is miles above Davidson Col
1ege, a on the An. Saturday III Mag A7te1t
fbeing the 24ih day) to select candidate TO be
supported by the Democracy This will be on
Saturday of the next Iredella County Court thus
giving full time and opportunity for every Coun-
tty to appoint Delegates. We hope this sugges--
tion will meet the e.approbaten of our friends and
that we shall see delegates from every County in
tho District Will not our, friends in Democratic
Union lead off in this matter at their next County
Court, the first Monday in AprI2 We hope
they will The firm and ever reliable Democra-
cy Of that County are worthy to lead I'D the cause
of free principles Meeklsnbarg- Je6srsOaiam-
The legislature of Massachusetts seems deter
mined not to be behind the English parliament in
nothing that is absurd, fanatfcal and contrary to
the honor and the Interests of the United States.
Some two or three yeaTsago-the parliament pass
ed law making It penal-offence for a British
subject to hold a slave or TO deal in any manner
whatever in slave property. A bill of similar.
character has been prepared and will soon be offer
ed for consideration in the Legislature of Massa-
chusels. 1t provides that any resident IN the e'com-
monweahh who Shall for the space of one month,
while so residing, knowingly possess, exercise or
claim any right of property, partial entire; in
any human being as slave whether for rIheEor
for term of years; IN any part of The acorh shall
forfeit and pay to the use Of the commonwealth,
for every slave 50 claimed possessed the sum of
Two hundred dollars, with costs OF prosecution and
ine further SUM OF TWO hundred dollars and costs
for every additional month during which said pos;
session or claim shall be continued
We take the words of the bill from the New
Yolk Journal Of Commerce. If they are given
correctly, they make a planter from Louisiana,
after spending one month in Boston, liable 10 the
penalty. Thus, If the planter be possessed of one
hundred slaves, he is compelled to pay to the
commonwealth Of Massachusetts the sum OF $780,
900, besides the COSTS OF. prosecution. Should Mr..
Hampton or some others of those rich South Caro-
lima planters Inadvertently place themselves with
in the grasp of this law, the penalty weuld rise in
some cases, to 5000 900 and $500, 600. This
would render trip to the north lille expensive
TO these whig pabobs. Should this bill be passed
into law, we hardly know what will become of
the southern people, cut off and excluded, as they
would be, from the literary emporium, from all
the learning and elegance Of that most refine d
has bern ap,ly styled the Athens
Of America! The shutting out of Americans
from the Club houses of London is scarcely
moro dcplorable calamity. But snch law, even
contemplated by Massachusetts at the present mo-
ment, is most extraordinary. She was so inccnsed
at S. Carolina and Louisiana for driving her negro
from our shores, that she Threatened
measures Of retaliaiion-and perhaps fhis is the
Of them. If so, she has only one I
more step to take-Gecare open waE and issue
letters Of marque against the southern States I
We cannot believe however, that the bill has
been correctly quoted by the Journal of Com
ncrce We suspect that th terms of the bill ap-
ply only to citizens of s;chusct,s-and even
hen, it would be stretch OF authority in The leg
stature which we brlieve, would not be sanction
d by the federal Constitution. If citizen of
Massachusetts should purchase n negro in New
orleans, we cannot see how he could be called to
recount for it by the authorities Of another State.
Il he committed an act contrary to the laws of
Louisiana he could not be punished for it under
he laws Of another State. Should he retire TO
the officers of that State could only
lrrest him and hold him subject to the demand
" our govcrn0f-but 10 arrest and punish man S
n Massachusetts, no matter Of what State he be a
izen, :or acts done in Louisiana, and not contra
y 10 our iaws-that is, going beyond whatever
las heretofore been imagined by those who have
contemplated encroachments upon the rights Of &
overegn States, and those who should attempt to =
nforce such a law would make open war upon
he Constitution 1t is not barely an infraetion-E
! is open violence upon the Constitution. We
annot believe for moment that such bill, so n
tupidly unconstitutional, and leading so directly n
D civil strife, could pass the legislature of any n
'tate in the Union. Nc,o ORLEANS Courier. Il
Death of lErs NJ p Wiltis Rarely does it fl
,l to the lot ofthe'chronicler of Deaths Doings
mong us to record an event more melancholy, IN
II its aspects, than this When we heard OF II, 1t
vas amidst the loud cheers of jewellers, amidst 8
music and mirth and then, within the hour, be- :
eath the same roof the gentle spirit of as much
eamy and worth as could die, parted from its q
arhly frame and songht the company of kind 81
ed souls above. What an eptome OF mans life F
was how full of solemn teaching, it read Alright r.
Mrs. Willis died, after but a few days illness
the Astor House, last Tuesday, at .halfpast ten
'clocl1. She was the daughter of Mr.. STAGE, the n
Governor of the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, o.
England, (who died some three years since ,
vhere, during one of his European tours, she q
,rmed the acquaintance other gifted husband, 81
1ho, after their marriage; returned with her 70
kmefica, where ia large portion Of the time in f
ur own city, they have ever since resided 1t y
vas our good fortune to number Mrs. Willis a. r
hong our acquaintance and we could bear
fri trihnfe her nycallencaS