The North-Carolina standard., 1839-06-26
COMMUNICATIONS.
FOR THE NORTH CAROLINA STANDARD.
TO THE WHIG PARTY OF THE NORTH
CAROLINA ASSEMBLY.
En. A.


Having arrived at the conclusion and as think,
shown be just one that your reason for not de-
carng in reply to the letter of our Senator'S whether
your RAYNER resolutions were instructions or not,
was not the one assumsd by you in your resolution,
but in truth very different one: it may not be a
miss to inquire what yolr RAyNER resolutions were,
in fact, in your own estimation. The answer is
furnished us, think, BY the leading Whig organ at
Washington City-the, "Nationaf Intelligencer": ::
They were resolutions designed to operate as in
structlons." That is to say they were intended to
drive the Democratic Senators from their seats
without committing the ever consistent Wing par
ty to the much denounced doctrine of instructions.
Calculating that sagacious party, the Wings, ev-
does that the people too stupid to through
the most shallow devices, and too little gifted with
memory to retain the slightest recollection, two
months hence, of what happens to-day, you rea-
soned thus: "WewiH pass these resolutions, the
"peope will be fools enough to believe they in
structions and that we have become the advocates
of this Democratic hobby-the right of instruction
IL the Senators do not resign (for obey them all
/" we know they cannot, for we have taken care to
"make the dose too strong for any one but Whig
" to swalow,) their own stupid Democratic friends
&c will turn against them and force them to resign
ority in the Legislature and fll the vacant places
|" with two of ourselves. Of course the Democrats,
"if they should regain the majority, will open their
battery of instructions upon us, but that will
perplex US in the least. Has it not been the Gus
tom of our party from the beginning to bamboozle
81 the foolish Democrats in this way? We willthen
"explain to them the difference between our reso-
''lutons and instruction resolutions, and although
we may not be able fully to satisfy them, they
"cannot help themselves and will be compelled to
"submit." Excellent device! Honorable and man
Iy legislation! Happy contrivance, by which in
structions may be given without voting to instruct
Commendable ingenuity by which an honest man
may save his soul from the guilt of perjury and vet
serve to the utermost his party But it is useless
to multiply epihets upon admirable contrivance,
or to spend time in pointing out advantages so con-
spicuous. Mr.. RAYNER has been made responsible
for and engrossed all the credits of this ininiable
scheme, but the, paternity, as you we'll know, be-
longs to others, andsyou know also who those 9TH
ers are But if you have not learnt that lesson al
ready you will all live TO see that honesty is the
best policy and that he who shapes his course up
on the supposition that the mass of mankind are
fools, will learn by sad experience that he is him.
self greatly deficient in common sense. Our SEN
ators had dseernment enough to see that your game
was fraudulent one and that like the foolish bird.
so common in our land, you imagine yourself hid
when your own eyes were blinded. That it was
not the Constitution You wished to defend, or the
frame of government you hoped topreserve, or the
liberty of the country you labor;ng to protect
against the imaginary dangers which are paraded in
pompous detail in your RAYNER resolutions. They
saw that you wished to cheat them and their con-
stltuents cut of the Office they occupied, that you
might reward two of your own partisans for their
indecent zeal. Theysaw that you designed to vile
them out of their allegiance the people not to in
struct them. your modification and disappoint-
ment they at once called upon you to avow it il
you designed to instruct them. At the same time
avowing on their part "That instructions must be
obeyed or resignation take place." Having started
in game of deception at the instigation of your
leaders, this manly and unexpected play disconcert.
ed you. You were cheating others and when their
frank and honest demand compelled you to shew
your hand or give up the stake, like other fraudu.
lent gamesters, you met their demand by abuse oi
their motives. The Senators seats and not lheil
votes was the object of your party. They fearless
! ly told you how they might be obtained. You
| shrunk back in muttering rage. Why2 Was i