The North-Carolina standard., 1849-07-11


have been more numerous than true ones. No soon,
er had Hon. T. l.. Clingman's bomb shell exploded
among the wire pullers OF the Eastern and Centrai
portions of the State, than every scrIbber OF tne
was endowed, straightway with the gift OF d!Vina-
ton but alas! for the claims to true prophecy
and rery little time-has proven them OF the num-
Der of the majority. From this time, SAID they;
we may date the political demise OF the Immortal
I'll. CIingman." He had bearded the Lions in their
den he had raised his voice against the ''Roy CLICK,
as our friend Pinebur Moccasin would say-he had
dared to raise the curtain and show the people OF the
West what enacted behind 1t and the enormous
offence deserved less punishment than utter pol
itical annhilation. The heads OF the soothsayers
were bound with the [un holy lets, and the incense
of alarm was heaped upon the altar OF sell agglah
dzement; they took their stands within the Gdyt"m
of covetousness and beside the tripods OF dema-
gogueism and invoked the spirit of Apollo with tear
and trembling. There they wrestled with the goa
until madness made them inspired and, mlstakng
the spirit of wrath for that of the true divinity they
hurled forth their anathemas and condemned HIM TO
political destruction. They sent to us OF the West
their papers inscribed with their horrible Preolcons'
expecting us to fulfill them. They had been so ac-
customed to laying off the work and having us'to do
it. that they could believe we would dare dlsooey
any of their directions.
A few months have rolled by-Mr. Clingman IS
candidate for reelection, and not man can be found
in his District who dares oppose him and take issue
with him in his opposition to central influence and
rapine. We may be told that the election is not yet
over, and that he may yet have opposition. We are
willing risk claims to true dlvinatlon In ProPh-
ecyng that opposition will, if made prove unaVall-
ing. He has his eremies-Political enemies we mean
and they are of sagacity; and had they not
clearly foreseen that there probability OF sue
cessfully opposing him, they would have put forth
all their strength against him. They knew the con-
test would be unavailing-that he who attempted to
bolster up the central tyranny would be crushed De-
meath its falling ruins.
We would not be understood, in what we have said,
az audng Mr.. Clingman himself--it is not the man,
but the principle, embodied In the man, tor whlch
we take ground. 1t is known to many that the Ed |
tors of this paper differ some in their opinions con-
eerning Mr. Co., while he is preferred by both to any
man who would oppose him in his opposition to the
East and Centre, and by one OF them TO any man
whatever the other is free confess, and does With
out reserve confess that there other men In the
District, any of whom he would prefer TO MI.
Clinpman, an this is the writer OF this article
We can only hope that the East and Centre VIII
learn wisdom from the expression of the people Of
the West in again electing Mr. G. tUithOut opposition
and hereafter give to US, in the distribution OF ohces
and emoluments, that portion to which we are Justly
entitled. We ask for more. Mountain Banner.
We take the above from the I" Mountain Banner"
We are rejoced that neighbor comes out
boldly for the right sort of principles! The " Mes
senger" was the only w hg paper in the State that
did not come either editoally or by extracts In
some way against MIR. Clingman and his course for
taking that course, lost few respectable d'S1bec-
ted and fraclious Wing subscribers. They '6HG fe,"
and vented their disappointed hopes on US. Well,
we will try and get along without them. We have
got the number supplied by Wings equally promin-
ent and influential, and some sterling Democrats.
messenger in search of !" Chotern' passed through
this place some time since that induces TO believe
that Mr. G.. will yet have opposition, but unless we
are very greatly mistaken in public sentiment (and
we have been consulting it some tme,) 1t will be a
fruitless race. For we believe, from the best judg-
Inent form, that Mr.. Clngman can easily beat
any in the District, and that he IS now stronger
than he has been heretofore. The political de-
n1ise'' of any who may oppose him, we think,
may safely be dated from the lst Thursday In August
nt least for two years to come 4sher1tH Messenger
BOLD AND STRIKING THOUGHT. The Erie Obser- t
ver in commenting upon Mr.. Webster's assertion on
the floor of the Senate, that California not worth
dollar" employs the following striking language I
Is Had an European sovereign acquired such pos
session, historians and poets would have Wed In their
euloges. But the wise and ar-seeing man to whose
indomtable energy and love of country the Union is
indebted for this acquisition now sleeps In death IN
the State of his nativity but this monument to his
fame is left u.s. be enjoyed by the millions of his
grateful countrymen, and it will require neither poet
nor historian render his fame as lasting the hills
and valleys, that sending their golden streams
among US, and the falseheod and ingratude of the
Wing party the striking To James X. Polk and IA
the Democratic party does the counry-aye, and the
woTld-owe the possession of this s~mlne OF power,
BY people who will it, only for the welfare of
mankind. Had Louis Philippe possessed the gol-
den sands of California, think you France would now
be free? Think you the shout of liberty would now
be ringing from Paris to Vienna, and along the banks
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gary, Germany and Rome would be defying the Aus
trian and Cossack-that Bem and Kossuth would be O
leading their hosts to victory! No. the golden hills
of California in the hands of Louis, would have quench
ed the last spark of republcanism in Continental Eu
rope Had England, as she had endeavored to do, q
obtained possession of this Ell Dorado of wealth, can
any body suppose that it would have been used for
any other purpose than to strengthen the power Of
monarchy and rVet the chains of the people tighter
England, with this acquisition, that told
mot worth doliar,' would be invincible. Her arm
would be felt in every contest-her power would be
in every court, and Europe would be
at her feet But thanks to he policy of that party
which has made this republic what she is-the asy r
lum of the oppressed of every nationit ordain-
ed otherwise and the gold of the Sacramento instead
Of becoming curse, will be blessing to mankind. o
HON. A. w. VENABLE. Ever since the bold and t.
decided stand which MIR. Venable assumed in Con- II
gress in favor of Southern Rights, he has been at
tucked with erceness and bitterness by the whig
leaders of this district which, in our humble opinion
say the least of it, i'll becomes them Southern
men. Has it to this that the Representative e
of district largely composed of shareholders, dares
not denouncs the nOtorousy aggressive policy of the
n orth without meeting torrent of abuse and mis- c
representation at home! Or has Mr. Venable in the p
estimation of these temporsing politicians, gone
tar In his efforts to protect the interests of those who
sent him there There time in the history of o
our country, when from amidst oppression and wrong,
the cry up, Peace! Peace when there was no p
Peace"-when men were found welded to the b
established order of things look with indifference
upon the most alarming encroachments upon their 81
liberties attempt to ste with the cry of treason
those who dared openly to advocate resistance every
species OF tyranny over the rights of man. But d
we had hoped that the time would arrive again 81