Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-07-02
LETTERS FROM NORTH CAROi INA.-No, ]
1I5 the Editor of the Boston Courier

DEAR SIR: Having be much gra'itled BY
the letters of your .rasrliing correspondent $,
and with the ease and bodntss with which they
are written; II has occurred 20 me that your
readers could no ssh " be d:sp.eased with a
series of careles, ep sites from he South. Care.
less say, Tor my vocation will not allo" me
uffic lent leisure to make choice selection oi
words, or 10 round my periods with much NICE
". N"ither is il allowable, as you well know
TO be veryNareci>e IN te,s way, Or very meiho-
iii, al. !'he more ear less The more gcnteel-
is remark often and properly applied to dress
and is perhaps equal, true with regard 10 the
vie OF e,ters. max. these remarks, (whic..
b you will conceal from your readers) for
Two 'easons; 6,s, because am IL" indole NJ
20 take pains; AID secondly, entire nous, Dec au,"
ii ] sHould take pans, NJ body would be The
gamer by 1t
1t Is not my intention TO co'kinr myself III
my commune ,uons, 10 -uy 'tcu!Sr subject
for a grea lrng III tame: and you may rx-
pee ne TO wander FROM topic 10 anothe'
rs i s al hsp7 10 sur my convenience. A
Yankee nv self, ahd wiring 20 Yankees, sh i!
exerc Sc, and they will excuse, The utmos, free
dom Of thought aud X rrssion; and, if il
should O cur, hal blunder int an inaccuracy,
grammatical or otherwise; or 10 lax 70 my
self he TIA eller's hoery Of stretching The
,ro,h loo far, YOU will p ease TO draw your pen
aIoag over it," ard blot i out FOREVER"
el degree of elevation or pride ip writ
ing to you now from North Carolina, winch
could not have been iclt bad done the Same
thing, according TO promise, couple OF years
ago. This Stale is mnie i'm porlanl IN. mber
Of The c"nfederacy than. she has ever been be-
fore. No State Of the "New England lion"
can be compared TO her, and VIZ now look up
on. ourselveSas occupying ground considera
bly, above your level 1t was a discovery To
make, which required The ee ius Of Jacksoa
rha We had man Wit tin our limits, oomprtrni
II he management, If a national department.
mean not, by lhis, 10 undervalue our great
men; or saw That this S ate contains CHI
In Of suffi iena capacity TO- cabinei minis
ter; s,jii less would be understood 10 mean,
iha 10, ernor Branch is the mos, competent
Tor his resent s'ati III that could nave bee So
o,ed from NpFIh C4Tolns The idea whcn
ouid convey is, tina for fifty odd years NJ
Pr.siden. has .cenfi 10 manufacture Of any
of ouI grea' I" k, Secretary argai General
j., kson is wiser than his predecessors
Nolw'hs,ardi,g the fuss that was made
abou, the corlupI bargain between Messrs
Adams and Clay, il ems pretty clr"r al
there must have been = srry borough under
standing &C wcen Grnera' JsCkson's left hand
anG his right, in iela ION to his lave appoint.
mrnts. The appoi0 III III al Branch 10 be Sc
cretary of the Navy could never have been
made win reference to Lhi qnaIt alton II MS
for such an off e. He IS aud has always Dee
backwooisman; wen scquaInt d, to be sure,
with gro,cing corn ad Cotton and managing
slaves; but ] assure YOU il i, my serious be lei
that lie is not able 10 Distinguish d ship frnrn
,loop; unless he h learrsG from his d,ctiona.
~ that The one has three time as man, m. SITS
as The other. The difference neiween brig
and schooner i, is no. likely he will ever know
The hing is, in my opinion, altoge,hrr beyond
and above him. If his appointment, ext tied
surprise In Boston, no less surprise was cxcit.
ed ~ it here. j. is moi, perhaps, Too much TO
say, that this Stare con AIMS hoi half dozen
sensible men mo- his k'nsnepl who consldr
him at all fitted for ii, ar who were no, on
ished az his elevation H. NJ Brencb served
a constitutional term three ye.,. AS Go en-