The North-Carolinian. [volume] (Fayetteville [N.C.]) 1839-1861, 1855-01-06
! VOLUME xv-No. s97.
Levels Stratageliss

favOrabIy on his passion, unless he would fur
hlsh o room for her. AS he was without far
Ing in the world, ana had not & place to
lodge in himself, her requirement. was not easy
to fulfil. However, he set his wits to work,
and hit upon plan for getting supply Of
furniture. He went to a respectable hotel,
and demanded room on the first aoor because,
he said, he had received an injury in the foot
which prevented him from going up higher.
Hi appearance did not seem particularly prom-
ising to the concierge, and she called OH him to
pay in advance, or at least to leave something
as a pledge.
'It often happens" said she. 'tliat people
without in the world take chamber,
and go off early the next morning without pay=
ing: so leave your boots, which appear to be
good and teu am sure you cannot go awayw
He consented to leave his boots. In the
dead of the night, he, by means of cords secfe-
ted beneath his blouse, let down into the street
the mattress, bed, bedding, chairs, table, clock,
and everything else the room contained; and
they were all carried off by an accomplice.
The man then let himself down into the street.
But it struck him that it would be ihconven-
lent to walk without his boots; he resolved to
get them Knocking loudly at the door, he
cried:
"Open-open! some man is letting down fur
nture from Window"
ing the door.
Con the first floor!"
"Oh, that is the fellow who came in last
night suspected hm!' cried the woman,
and she rushed up stairs.
The man then quietly took his boots which
were in the Lodge and walked off The next
morning lie wrote a flaming epistle to Mile
Celine offering her the furniture and his heart.
But the police got clue to his whereabouts,
and arrested him. The tribunal condemned
him to years imprisonment
The True American Party.
Some of the political organs of the old whig
party are talking of organizing true American
parky-We are aware of the fact that the
wings party, never believed their own
the democratic organization to be american, or
they would not have abandoned the one or
abused the other. But a large majority of the
American people have long and truly felt, that
the democratic party was the true American
party of the country 1t has only been bv de-
ception, trick and humbhg, that they have ever
even temporarily changed this opinion. If to
preserve the Constitution in all its parts, to
keep the centripctal aud centrifugal forces Of
the Federal Government in just equilibrium;
if to regard scrupulously the rights of the States,
and to secure the greatest liberty to the citizen,
consistent with the requirements of the Con-
stitution, and to regard with a jealous eye the
channels to the public Treasury, by which in
dviduals and corporate bodies seek entrance
to it; if to have preserved the national honor
without stain against foes and traitors at home;
if to have done these things, and others that
might be enumerated OF equal significance,
titles party to be called 1mevicum then does
the democratic party truly merit the honor.
1t has been the peculiar province Of the
Democratic party to maintain the honor of these
United States, wheE fearfuliy and Indignantly
assailed TO do this, it has ON more than
occasion. been forced to resort to the stern
ultmatum of war And in these various strug-
rla to IpH 1,n Hoc of
it has met with internal resistance from the
very men and the very party that talk
ing of organizing american party. An
American party, indeed! What for2 70 side
with the enemy when his Armies and Navies
are laundering at our doors? An American
party to rob one half of this Union to enrich
the other? An American party, to desecratc
and defle that instrument, upon the preserva-
ton of which, in all its parts. depends all that
is worthy to be called 1meyicon? 1t is that,
what an American party should be? We have
had already touch of that American party
under the old and otherwise respected cognomen
Of Wing. We want no more of it, however
specous the prctext, however plausible the shape
in which it comes to us.
IF the Democratic party cannot pilot the.
Government safely through the breakers and
quicksands that lie in its pathway, despair Of
has certainly, in the past, been the "cloud by
day and pillow Of fire by night" to- our fathers.
who have, by devotion to- it's chart and un-
wearied and unremitted zeal in support of its
great doctrines, decided it's destiny and con-
its glory. Such party was not
born in day, and cannot be killed in day. A
party that beasts as its father Jefferson.lMadi-
son, Monroe and jackson, mo,her like the
Constitution, and such history the Demo-
cratic Party, will not 'pale its Intellectual fres
before the rush lights that every six eight
years fash up through the sockets of the old
Whig skeleton.
1t is one of the besetting sins of Whiggery
that it has no '1ocaf habitaton "-and, some-
times, not even name-always changing;
never settled on any platform for eight years
at time. The Democratic party, however it,
may have been affected by domestic question:
and in this respect it is far less affected than
the Whig) it has its national platform-its orr
ganic system, in which are embodied principles
and po1ity to be applied to the government of
the country, ali of which, so long bitterly or
posed by the Wings have lived to gain their
silent if not public appreciation.
While, then, our principles live, as fresh as in
the days of Jackson, and with far less opposi-
they look to the Constitution for a
basis. and to the hearts Of the people for sn,,-
port a party will be found to incorporate them
a md perpetuate them. Such party is Amer
can party enough for U.s. 1dil,edgcrize Federal
Union.
The world holds its breath while it razes on
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