The North Carolina Standard

COMMUNICATIONS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STANDARD.

Having by chance overheard the consultations of the "Grand Council," I submit the short hand notes I made at the time, and remain as ever,

X. Y. B.

Upon the affairs and condition of the Whig, alias Nullification, alias White Party.

Earl Pomp-President of the Council in the Chair.

Squire Empty.-Thus from his worship's lips his passion broke :

He first, and then he spoke-

In the name of the Devil and all his saints, can any one tell what grand matter brings us Six together?

HON. MAGNIFICENT.-"Like Moses' Son he stood, and shook his plumes"-

That I have done the State (or rather myself) some service, is to be collected from the high distinction cast upon me. I am one of the Lions of the day I humbly apprehend, though I speak with becoming diffidence-I say, I do humbly conceive, with great submission, that we are gathered together, to consult and to consider what is the present posture of our affairs, and what is to be done to save me, if not us all, from utter extinction. As to our political affairs, the Devil knows they are bad enough, and therefore I will call all of our cunning into requisition, to decide upon what is most politic.

Here the honorable gentleman, like his great archetype,

"Fluttering his pinions Vain, plumb down he drops."

YOUNG PRIMUS, (with a most complacent smile)

I claim to be heard and heeded-for I too have done no small service. Have I not in time been a federalist, a republican, a nullifier, and Jackson man, and now, forsooth, a true White man?

I would have been a Van Buren man, but the cunning knaves understood me, and I could make nothing of them. I say then, I should be first in council. for I am a patriotic man, always making things bend to circumstances. Before the people one thing, in their service another. In Orange I praise Jackson, in Raleigh I curse him. I am a Prince of a fellow-I have more than once cheated your good democrats, and hope to do it again. (Aside Tho' of that I am not very certain. I admit, with my honorable friend, that our affairs are desperate indeed, and therefore, we should lie most stoutly. You know, Mr. President, I stick at nothing. But really I am at loss to know what to do next. I had hoped to have rode that hobby the Surplus-the Public Lands, &c.-but I am cheated out of that by the vile Congress--thanks to Mr. Magnificent for suffering our hobby thus to be taken from us. I tell him the first thing to be decided on, is, that he is not to be elected Senator-that's how.

Mr. CAUTION-I too am not without claims to favor, if duplicity in professing one thing, and really thinking another constitutes a claim,- Have I not, like Gen. Dudley. denounced Van Buren and all his clan as abolitionists and enemies to the South-altho' I may have pronounced slavery a curse, and tho' I voted for Adams, Clay and Sargent, and would now willingly vote for Webster, Harrison, or the Dr-l-yet I had hoped to cheat these Jackson ninnies out of their votes. But if this hobby about slavery is taken from me, and that about the Surplus is settled, then indeed is." Othello's occupation gone"-.

Curse upon these Congressmen, they are a most stupid set; not to have forced the northern men to vote that it was' not unconstitutional to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, ·and also to have passed the bill about the surplus in some shape, that that old Jackanapes The President might put his veto on it--then huzza for friend Primus and myself.. I tell Mr. Magnificent that I am bound in honor to vote for him, if elected myself? yet to vote for him and Tyler too-ahe sius or I'sink."

one obeys instruction, the other refuses obedience. Oh what is to be done-" Help me Cassius, or I sink."

MR. PRESIDENT-As to me, If I am to have a voice in the matter-(Aside-- I was up too late last night.) falls asleep.

SQUIRE EMPTY. -I too claim to have done our Party some service, and they know it. (Caution, aside, If they do; Egad, it's more than I do.)

No man in our party, as you all know, wishes to serve for nothing; for whilst we cry out against "The spoils" party, I 'should like to know when any of us refused any thing a going:

YOUNG PRIMUS - What you Squire, what are you fit for ; it is enough or such as you to be noticed; a chairman of a Cross Road White Meeting is honor enough for you. But what have I got pray? Nothing but empty praise, and I tell you all, that's too thin diet for my stomach. I had expected to be Solicitor General, Judge, or something; but we have so many expectants that nothing comes to my share; I will try once more, and if I fail I'll desert

MR. CAUTION-Why friend Primus, I am surprised at you? It is true I have by hook and by crook got a little of the Treasury Pap; but who cares for your vile lucre; are we not candidates; and tho' patriotism means self, still we must at all times have it upon our lips; If I succeed, I support my friends, if I fail they support me; one good turn deserves another; denounce party and go for the country; which we all know means for our friends first, for ourselves always.

HON. MAGNIFICENT.-thus men go-you are all talking as if you were already in power-my advice is to, catch the fish before you fry them. Every one knows our anxiety for place. I have loudly denounced Gov. Marcy and his spoils principle-yet no one has sought place, more assiduously than myself-and I have had the good luck to get it both from friends and foes. But if I am now to be denounced and proscribed by my own confederates after having turned traitor to those who trusted 'and honored me-why then I know how to shift for myself. I have not thus long belonged to all parties and been true to none, without learning the first of lessons, take care of thyself-

"Witness that here I doth give up.

The execution of my wit, hand, heart,

To this Grand Council's service,"

And it's refused; therefore, I go: Exit.

YOUNG PRIMUS - I too see that nothing is to be gained here; carpe diem is my motto; which I translate, serve thyself first, thy friends when convenient. I go,

JACK PENNILESS -Stop, Mr. Primus, [takes him by the arm] if we are thus to separate, it had been better we had never met.. Have I not been sent as the secret, ex agent from that land of all that's noble, the land of Presidents? And not to know me is to argue thyself unknown. I am then the great lever in Virginia. I can curse Tom Ritchie; praise or abuse Henry Clay, or Benj. Watkins Leigh; supplant or desert Hugh Lawson White, at my will and pleasure, and no man dare say black's his eye. I tell you then our affairs are not so desperate as you all seem to think -that is, if you will take my advice. You must stop talking about slavery; but talk louder than ever about the surplus; abuse Congress for not making a Gift of the surplus instead of a loan to deposite among the States. If any thing is said about the Constitution, give that the go by; you all know how to cry for the Constitution to-day and against it to-morrow. Mr. Caution (aside- though he seems to be Caution without foresight) can give you a lesson on that head. You must talk too about the Indians

PRIMUS and CAUTION, (interrupting him) That won't do; for our Candidate for Governor has recommended marrying between the Whites and the Indians-

JACK PENNILESS -The devil he has! Why, then deny it; cry false. forgery ; why I have asserted one thing in the Richmond Whig this week, and denied it in the next. One thing, however. is certain; you must give up Hugh L. White, and vote for William H. Harrison ; he fought the British ; will promise any thing; and unless the Whigs unite upon him. Van Buren is President. We must now beat him before the People, or all is lost. This vile Congress, by admitting Michigan and Arkansas, has settled the question : if the election goes to the House. Besides, our people in Virginia will certainly vote for Van, unless they see a certainty of defeating him before the people. The chance is bad any how- but elect Harrison and we are all made men.

YOUNG PRIMUS and CAUTION-Then huzza for Harrison-down with old White-come let's have some champaign:

Exit all three.

SQUIRE EMPTY-Here I am solus, Not exactly, for my worthy friend The President is in his place; but he snores most soundly, and I leave him to his slumbers. Exit.

THE PRESIDENT -If there be nothing more to do, I'll put the question. Why the rogues are all gone ; vanished like empty nothing; leaving neither name nor sound behind. Such, I fear. is to be the fate of this White party : the labor of a mountain, and the never-failing delivery of a mouse Then I pronounce this Grand Council dissolved, sine die.