Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1839-07-25
POLITICAL.
From the Ne,o NorG Ercning Post.

POAHTEGAA.
From the Ne,o York Eocning Post.
Mr.. Calhoun was invited by the Demo
cratic Committee of Arrangements tor The
4th oil Julyto deliver an orallon III this city.
He returned the following answer;
FoRT HILL, June, j,
Genllemen,--I have been hon0Ircd by
your note Of the Goth May, (received the
9Th inst. informing me that delegates oil
the Democratic Republican party, from
the several wards of your city had selec-
ted me 10 deliver the Grafton at the ap-
preaching anniversary of independence.
acknowledge gratitude The honor
of being selected by so numerous and res
pectable portion of my fellow cl'lzens III
u distant section of the Union on such an
occasion, and am duly sensible OF the Oh
legation which it imposes; but the great
distance and my numerous AMI ihaispcn-
sable engagements render 1t utterly impos-
sible for me 10 accept.
Among other grounds to which you
have alluded, You have referred to the
par, have recently taken in The Senate
as one of the causes Of that favorable opln-
ion towards me. which has led to the III
tended honor that | am reluctantly COM
pelled to decline. Permit me to say, in
iakius the position to which you reler,
there were difficulties of the most iormIdu-
bic characterin the way, but had they oesn
tenfold greater, they could not have de-
tered me from the course took, so impe-
rious was the sense Of duty under whlGb
acted. The currency was no new ques-
ton with me. For many years II had been
the subject of my reflection, and the source
of deep solicilude, aud had made up my
mind, when the time arrived, that would
force il OH the attention of the country and
government, as to the part would take II
then on The stage of action.
The arrangement 10 which our country
is subject is not accidental. II is inherent
in The system itself, aud. in spite of every
effort to corrccr il, will grow from bad to
worse, till some great and radical change
is effected. Iu the meantime, the commu-
nifty is destined TO pass through scenes OF
difficulty and danger greater Than any
heretofore experienced, unless the people
should be timely aroused to apply an eff
cient remedy to the growing disorders ]
hold i, almost impossible, that there should
be any state of things more corrupting to
morals, more dangerous to free institutions
or more paralysins to industry, than an un-
certain, vaciilating currency. under the
control of private cupidity, such as ours is;
and am amazed, that the wealthy capital
lists. whose properly exists in stocks and
securities, are not the first TO see it and take
the alarm They ought to see that The
gains from the irregular working OF such
a system must be bu, momentary aud tal.
iacious, aud must be followed by storm,
ifpermitted to progress, which will scatter
such acquisitions as leaves before lorna
do. Ia rakiug my stand against the sys-
TEN, no partial or local considerations gov
erned me. Istood up for whatl honestly
and sincerity believed 10 be the morality,
thefreedom and prosperity of the country,
actuated by enmily to no class or section,
butbelievine that was acting the part Of
a true friend to all those who were profit
jug by it for the moment, as well as of
those who for the time were its victims.
Whether in this was mistaken, am con-
tent to leave TO time and experience 10 de-
eide. Thus far have seen nothing 10
shake my opinion, but much 10 confirm it;
muchto animate me to perseverance in the
course l have taken, till an ellectual reme
dyis applied TO this among the most dan
eerous evils that can belal the country.
For the very kind manner in which you
have communicated the wishes OF those
YOU represent, you will please accept my
sincere acknowledgements. | cannon but
be highly grali6sd 10 learn, that many of
my old friends in your great metropolis
have not forgotten me, aud do assure you
that few things would afford me more
pleasure than would an opportunity to re-
new my acquaintance with them, as well
as 10 form it with those more recent friends
whose appreciation have been so for'u-
male as to gain, in the trying scenes thro'
which have more recently passed.
Though circumstances will not permit
me 10 accepahe honor protiered, and t"
be present at your celebration, it will MOI.
I trust, be considered an intrusion to oi-
fer the following sentiment;
"Equality. in its broadest sense, Of rights
and privileges between citizens and cltI-
zeus, pursuit and pursuit, and one portion
of the country and another, the deep aid
solid foundation Of our political fabric; pre-
serve that, and all is safe-destroy it, and
the whole would rush headlong to the
DUST"
To Richard J. Smith, Steven r. Harris,
and C. H. Dousherty, EsIrs.