Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1839-06-28

on the nation, and nothing less than the in
extingushable energies Of freedom could
have saved you from the Reconstructed curse Of
slavery upon yourselves. 1t may serve as
consolation and encouragement TO you, I'M
der the contemptuous treatment OF your petit
tons, that sighted as they were, they avert
ed for a time that impending ruin. say for
time; for you will do we'll not implicitly
to trust that ostensible withdrawal by the
Republic Of Texas of her solicitation for the
annexation Of herself 10 this Union. The
fraud and duplicity with which that whole
project was conducted from the first mission
OF Mr.. ANTHONY BUTLER 10 Mexico. and
the confidential letters of the late President
to the Secretaries Of Arkansas and Florida,
down to the last session OF Congress, when
all your petitions against this meretricious
amalgamation were laid, unheard and un-
read, upon the table, are still at work, and
with exertions as active as ever. AT the
late session Of Congress, the whole South,
and the Administration part Of the North,
combined TO suppress all debate and all dis
cussion upon the subject Of Texas but if
the projected annexation had been honestly
and fairly abandoned, there could have been
no possible motive than for refusing TO hear,
| TO consider, and TO answer, the petitions
against il. The present purpose Of the Car
otina party apparently looks, however, 10 a
double process of Texan amalgamation and
desperation from the North. You will un.
derstand who mean by the Carolina party.
You are aware that within a few years a
political sect or faction has arisen in the
State of South Carolina under the guidance
Of enaon k.e n h;chl,, al. al
ambitious, and disappointed men. of that
class OF politicians, the natural production Of
all great Republics, and characterized near
ly two thousand years since by Roman his
torian in four words Salts eloquentiae,
sapientiae parum' Eloquent. not wise The
first disclosure of their aspirations was by
an ostentatious and persevering attempt to
supplant Virginia as the leading State of the
Union. When the line OF Virginia Presi-
dents was evidently drawing 10 a close, i'm
mediately after the second election Of Mr.
MONROE, the Legislature OF South CARROLL
ma, converted into caucus gravely and ur-
IDENTIFY held debate which OF two citizens OF
South Carolina, Mr. WILLIAM LowNDEs or
Mr.. john G. CALHOUN, was 10 be the sue
cessor 10 the Presidency, at the next election,
then four years distant in time After hea-
ted discussion, and an arduous canvass, the
friends Of Mr.. LowNDEs prevailed at this
caucus by majority of not more than one or
Two votes; but it was universally understood
that the pretensions of Mr.. CALHOUN, then
under forty years OF age, were second only
TO those OF Mr. LowNDEs, and that one or
the other Of them must, beyond all question.
be the next President OF the -United States
| The legislature of South Carolina therefore,
in 1921. nominated. four years in advance,
Mr.. WILLIAM LowNDEs for Presdeot OF
the United States in 1925 and when, with
plain common sense, he answered that the
Presidency was a station neither 10 be sollc-
tied nor refused, it was sounded and resound-
ed with trumpet tongue, as prodigious ex'
empli6cation of dsnterestedness and patri-
olic selidevotion.
MIR. CALHOUN and his friends, however,
were not satisfied with this nomination, and
just al the close of the same year, 1921, a
Congressional counter-nomina,ion oil him,
was projected at Washington, but, after de-
liberate consideration. postponed as prema-
ture Mr.. LowNDEs shortly afterwards
died, and the Legislature Of South Carolina,
always alert in the purpose OF furnishing a
President for the United States, delayed not
formally to nominate MIR. CALHOUN. This
nomination was, indeed not more unsuccess.
full than that OF Mr.. LowNDEs, but il gave
way only for third native Of South Carroll
ma. for whom pledged ticket of electors
was chosen by the legislature Of that state in
November, 1924 who accordingly voted for
Gen. JACKSON as President, and Mr.. CAL.
HouN as Vice President Of the United States
The election OF Mr. CALHOUN as Vice
President then succeeded, and, by coalition
of the Carolina party, under his auspices,
with another Southern. or the old Virginia
party, till then bis most bitter opponents,
marching under the lead Of Mr.. WIN. FL
CRAWFORD. at the election of December
1928, they seemed to have attained the sum.
nit OF their ambition, by placing natives Of
South Carolina in both the Offices of Presi
dent and Vice President, with the distincl
understanding that the succession to the
highest station was to be. after four, or, al
most, after eight years, in the same line.
But now came the fable of the milkmaid' s
pail. Not one year of Gen, JAcKsoN's ad
ministration had passed away before Mr.
CALHOUN found himself involved in a per
sonal controversy with the heroic chieftan
for having, some twelve years before, beer
much inclined 10 punish him by Auxiliary
tribunal for his exploits in the Seminole war
The General had just made the discovery
by the timely advice of some OF MIR. CAL
NOUNS old adversaries. but recent associates
in the achievement of raising the two South
Carolinians to the two highest dignities o
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