The North-Carolinian. [volume] (Fayetteville [N.C.]) 1839-1861, 1852-02-14


Later from Europe. I
ARRIvAL OF THE STEAMER EUROPA.
Tie steamer Europa Arrived at Halifax
on the 9th inst. bringing Liverpool dates
to the Goth uit. ~
FRANCE.-By decree, the Orleans
family cannot possess property of shy de-
scriplion in France, and are boun,i to SELL
what they now possess within one gear.
Another decree cancels Louis Philippe's
donation to his children, and appropria,es
tito other purposes.
The Duchess ofOrleans's : dowrye 500.
600 ttetses is continued..
The ex-representatives, who have not
been banisheG. have been authorized to re-
turn to their homes.
The great bodies Of State are to wear
particular dresses. Those Of the Council
of State. Senate, and Legislative bodies
will be rich, and resemble what was worn
under the empire.
1t is said that the second, If not the
third, attempt on President Napoleon's
life has been made, and that an officer had
snapped his pistol at INN as his carriage
was coming out of the Carousal.
ENGLAND.-The London journals arc
suggesting various modes Of defence in
case Of an invasion. They urge the pro-
priety Of recalling ships and steamers on
service.
SPAIN.-There had been several ex-
ecutions Of military officers at Madrid.
Stringent measures had been enforced
to destroy the liberty of the Spanish press.
LiUerpool Ma1kef.--T cotton market
has been very buOyant. with an advance
Of about l-16 on middIins qualities.
American Flour had advanced shilling
per bbl., with light stock.
LETTER FROM MIR BUCHANAN.
We find the following letter from this
distinguished Pennsylvania in the Mis-
sissippion. 1t is entIt'ed, says the Eren-
ing .4rgus, to careful consideration, as
the views of one, who, at the present time,
is occupying large share of public attcn-
tion in all parts of the Union:
WHEATLAND, near Lancaster,
! Wednesday, Dec. "A, 1881.
My Dear Sir 81 am sorry did not re-
ceive your letter sooner. might have then
given it the old fashioned Democratc''
ans xer which YOU desire.-But am com
prlled to- leave home Immediately, and if [
should not write at the present time, it
will be too late for the 9Th Of January. l
must, therefore, be brief.
My public life is before the country !;
and it is my pride never to have evadcd an
important political question. The course
of Democracy is always straight ahead,
and public men who determine to pursue
it never involve themselves in labarvnths,
except when they turn to the ri ight Or left
from the plain forward path. Madison's
Report and Jetferson's Kentucky Resolu-
tions are the safest and surest guides to
conduct Democratic administration Of
the Federal Government. 1t is the true
mission of Democracy to resist centraIism
and the absorption of unconstitutional
powers by the President and Congress.
'rhe sovereignty Of the States, and a devo-
ton to their reserved rights. can alone
preserve and perprtuate our happy system
of Government. The exercise of doubtful
and constructive powers on the par OF
Congress, has produced all the dangerous
duu eACItIuS HucSlIUuS which nave III
peried the Union.
The Federal Government, never CON
fined within its strict constitutional limits,
must necessarily acquire more and more
influence through the increased. and in
creasiug expenditure of public money
and hence the greater necessity for public
economy and watchful vigt ance. Ou,
Constitution, when it proceeded from the
hands of its trainers, was a simple system
and the more free from complexity it re
mains, the more powerfully. satisfactorii,
and benehc'ally will it operate within it.
Legitimate sphere.
1t is centra!ization alone which has pre-
vented the French people from establishin;
; permanent Republican Government; AM
entalet' upon them SO many mi.t"rtunes
Had the provinces of France been convert
ea into separate territorial sovercignties
like our State Governments, Paris wouIt
then no longer have been France. and
revolution at the capital would not hav
destroyed the Federative Republic.
Had the prime pies have enumerate'
been observed by the Federal Government
and by the people of the several States, vi
should have avoided the alarming question
which have arisen out of the institution o
, Domestic Slavery. The people Of eac'
State would then, to employ bomeiv bu
expressive phrase. have attended to then
own business, aad not have interfered n
the domestic concerns of their sister States
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