Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1824-09-18

menting or favoring an opposition to
them
We do not know, that in the course of
the eieclioneerlng campaign, We have
been more surprised, than at two of the
resolutions adopted by the friends OF Mr..
Crawford. 10 Charles county, Maryland.
TIL resolutions are in the following words:
'Resoiped, That we iee deeply inte-
rested IN the approaching election for The
CHIEF magistrate OF our country, and will
honestly unite with our fellow citizens Of
other parts of the United States, in their
endeavOrs 10 assuage political an,mositaes
and sectional feelings.
RESOLVED. That we sincerely believe
The election OF VIM. II. Crawl ford will
have powerful tendency to promote
these most desirable Objects
Now our surprise is, that Gen. Philip
Stuart, Chairman, Col. Samuel Chapman,
Secretary, and Mr.. Frederick d. Stone,
orator OF the meeting at which those reso-
lutlons were adopted, and all OF them 1--WE
belleve) members of the federal party,
should, in their efforts to assuase polats-
tical anomosaties. have selected, as their
fayorite candidate. the only individual
whose claims 10 the Presidential chair
have been preferred OF the ground of old
party distinctions. From the meeting
which nominated MIR. crawford, the poll.
tcal friends OF the authors of these resolu-
lions were expressly excluded. In the
addresst which emanatedirom that meet
ing, Mr.. Crawford is presented in bold
relief, as the only one OF the candidates
that couI be relied on TO keep up the dis.
iinctions of party and give renewed v,gor
to political animosties.' And if it were
possible that the people of this country
could be induced TO elevate Mr.. Crawford
to the Presidential chair, it would no doubt
be 10 consequence of the too successful ef-
feet of designing demagogues to produce
an impression. that he alone was enti-
tied to be distinguished as the democratic
candidate And yet bis friends in
Charles county propose to elect him as the
most efficient instrument en- assuagsng
political dnimosities..'
The following is the invitation. on
which the caucus, composed exclusively
Of the friends of Mr.. Crawford, met:
THE DEMOCRATIC MEMBERS OF
CONGRESS are invited to meet in the Re.
presentatives' Chamber, at the Capitol, on the
evening of the l4th of February, at O'Clock,
to recommend Candidates to the People of the
United States for the Offices of President and
Vice President of the United States.
in. Chandler, Moves Barber, Elisha Litch,
field, M Dlckerson, Walter Lowrie, Edwd
LLOYD, Burwel Bassett, H. G. Burton, John
Forsyth. J B. Thomas, Benjamin Kuggles.
Washington, February 6, 1884,
tFrom the following extracts from this
address, it would seem that the "a MEM
bers OF Congress who nominated Mr. Craw-
ford; including, Git will be recollected,)
MIR Forsyth, Mr.. Cobb. Mr.. Ware, and
Mr.. Elliot, all. his intimate and con6den.
tia friends, had formed very different es-
innate of bis views from the Charles coun.
ty meeting:
1T is now twenty.four years since the great
political revolution, to which we have alluded.
was effected, and the power which was then
acquired BY the republicans in the government
ofthe union, is still retained Their enjoyment
ofthis ascendency, has not, however. been un-
disturbed; on the contrary, they have had an
unwearied struggle to maintain, with the same
adversary over whom their triumph was a
chieyed Its not to be doubted, that it was
by union s. concert Of action that the strength
of the republican party was consolidated, and
its success in the decisive controversy effected.
It'll as little to be doubted, that it is by adhe.
renee to the same principle and policy of ac-
ton, its unbroken, firm and continued ascen.
dtncv can be preserved
In relation to the correctness OF the sup
posed obliteraton of party distinctions your a.
bi6ty to decide can have but little aid from a.
nv observation of ours. That ID some parts of
the Union where the fedora party have al.
ways been weak and less violen:, the fact is,
in some degree, as stated; and 'tat since the
termination of the late war, tier exertlons
have no where been as efficien as formerly,
we admit But that danger is not to be aPpre.
hended from this source, in connection with
the pending divisions in the republican party,
we deny. That our adversaries have not lost
their disposition to avail themselves OF those d.
visions to regain their ascendancy,is confirm
ed by reference to the past, and ought not to
be doubted There is not an instance to be
found in the history ofthe politics of the ditfe-
rent states for the last twenty wears, in which
serious and continued divisions among republi-
cans have not led to a temporary success OF
their opponents. The same course will pro
duce a more extended effect on larger scale
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