Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-09-03
UNION PARTY IN CHARLESTON.

We extract the following from recent Al
dress signed J. r. POinsett. Chairman address
ed to the Union Party Of Charleston. 8. c.:
$50 long as the contest wased by the Union
Party for political powes, was TO be regarded a.
Struggle to maintain the rights and privileges OF
the people, to support the majesty Of the laws:
and to preserve the Constitution and Union OF
the States, the Central Committee th"Hght no ga
cri6ce too great to secure the triumph OF thef
vrincipies, and to save the State from anarchy
and civil war-but those objects having been ob'
taiued, they deemed it their most sacred duty 10
recommend the adoption OF such course as
might be most likely to restore order and mar
n,ony to this community, by removing all pre-
text for renewing the disgraceful scenes which
were exhibited during the preceding e'ections'
and which were calculated to degrade our insti.
tutons. and materially to affect the character anu
credit of our city
With view Of preventing recurrence Of sim.
liar disorders, the Central Committee rscommen.
ded that all opposition at this moment be with
drawn, and the people be left to the slow and GER
tain operation of time and reflection, relying with
the utmost confidence upon the future CO opera.
ton of the religious and virtuous citizens OF
Charleston, and upon the good sense OF all par
ties CT our community, to restore the purity OF the
elective franchise, and to select men To represent
them. who will exert their talents aud influence
10 promote the interests Of this city and State,
and 10 maintain the authority of the Government
and the supremacy Of the laws OF the country
These reasons alone induced the Central Com
mittee 10 recommend forbearance at this time
They are aware, that the Union Party are und'.
mioished in strength. and never will faulier in
their opposition 10 Nullifica;ion-that they are
unbroken in spirit as in numbers, and will CON
,inue united until power is ~rested from men
who have so s,snally abused II, and who, by ex-
aegerated misrepresentation. have led major
itv Of the people Of S.ACaroliaa to oppose the
Government Of their choice. and to c0nhde power
TO men who have impoverished the State Nv unne'
cessary expenditures, injured It's credit, and
brought upon it the deep disgrace OF having at
tempted to destroy the Union; AMI who. by
most unhallowrd and unauthorized exercise OF
power, viuated all the guarantees of civil liberty
eiyen TO the people, by the Constitution Of this
State and Of the United States, thereby driving
peaceable and industrious citizens to seek IN
other States security and tranquility. as well as
the epioy ment Of the rights Of freernen and the
privileges Of citizens of the United States, denied
10 them in South Carolina; and who have inflict.
! ed all these evils upon their country, and all
these wrongs upoa their fellow citizens. to obtain
a compromise, which not only perpe'uates the
principles they commended against, but likes upon
{! the country Tor ten years longer, most oil the
evils Of which they complained.
! But all these evils are light, compared With
the dangers which now threaten the State from
the imprudent conduct of their party. BY ner,
,inac,ousiy at,ribu,irg to our fellow.ci,izens OF
the North deslsns they never have entertained.
and which have been again and again dlsavo"e ed,
they continue to agitate the most delicate ques.
ton in our domestic policy, and to arouse feel
ines and awaken hopes, which may lead to the
most fatal consequences. As we'll might the p'
Gus New. Englanders infer that the people oil
South Carolina seek to deprive them OF the con.
solutions of religion. because one man among o.
promuleates his infdei doctrines with the zeal Of
a fanatic, as we that the people Of New England
are DESTROYS Of deprivins US Of our property al
any hazard, because another fanatic propagates
with equal zeal his Infamous doctrines from Mas
sachusetts.
We believe that our only safety from The fatal
tendency of the measures about to be adopted
by Great Britain, in relation to her colonies.
lies in maintaining peace and tranquility at
home, and We earnestly exhort our political op'
ponents to pursue some less dangerous path to
power than that which they seem to have chosen,
! with so little regard to the welfare OF the coun
try. Causes nov in operation lead Us TO hope
that IL the party in power will abstain from aei
tatins the public mind, our city may be shortly
ed to its former prosperous condition.
We have brought this subject to the view Of
our fellow citizens in order TO warn them OF the
danger TO the peace and. tranquility OF the
country from such rash conduct. TO those Of
the North we would urge, that they restrain
the revolutionists and fanatics, if any such exist
among them, lest they give color to the asser-
tions and aid the Vaccinations Of the disorgani
zers Of the South. To those of the South we
would earnestly recommend that they watch
diligently and control vigorously all ignorant or
wanton attempts to asitate question 40 del =.
icate in ITS nature. as by its very agitation
to threaten with allthe dangers we are taught
to apprehend from the hostility Of external enc.
mics.