Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1840-06-25
Communications.
70 WHITFIELD Brooks, ESQ

ser, contains charges exceedingly nJu''
Gus 10 the characters of those to whom you
allude and, until they are named, apply.
ing indiscrininately to all lin this District
wire are opposed 10 that gentleman IN ihe
coming contest for Governor. You IN
form Col H. as matter afact, and not
of inference, that his "opponents in this
District" are engaged in "systenalic ell
for:" to excite 'public prejudice and OPP
position" TO him by "false aud ungenerous
insiuuaisHs," 'fahricaled and circulated
for party effect" As gentlemen are not
in habi i Of ,fabricating and circulating
falsehoods ''for party effect" or any other
purpose, aud as some Of those who cannot
support Col. Fl. happen 10 be gentlemen,
and many of them his personal friends, !
call upon you, in justice 10 them, TO name
the individuals to whom you allude. YoG
have. of your own accord. publicly made
the charges, and we now demand the spe-
cifcaiions and The proof. As you were
The advocate Of Judge Johnson, when you
last ''de6ned your POSITION" and conse-
quently one of Col. HIS "opponents in
This District" shalt not dispute your
right 10 speak for those of his "opponen's,"
who support That eninently virtuous cit
izen and faithful public servant" whom ii
appears you have now abandoned, though
bat short time since, YOU would have
been "erceedingly gratifed' to see him
transferred 10 The suhernaiorial chair
Kno wing your great tact in 'lrfning posi-
lions | leave the judges friends in yonr
hands, hoping that You may succeed in
in showing that all Of Them have been as
iunnceni of fabricauing fasphnods ''for par
~ effect" as | know the friends Of Col.
Richardson are.
Seeing that Won have entirely mis-con-
ceved The objections, which Col. Richard
sons friends have made TO Col. Fl and
consequently your explanations canuotrc-
move the "public prejudice" which is a.
gainst him, will briefly stale the only
grounds upon which, they have ever op-
posed him either through the public press,
or otherwise. They have said that Col.
r. was The candidate Of The Democratic
Sub. Treasury party-a party formed in
1887, when Mr.. Van Bureu took ground
Tor the South, from The scattered elements
of the Democratic Slate Ri ehts Party of
1927. and composed of Union men and
Nulliiers without reference 10 those old
party distinctious-lhe support of The Sub.
Treasury and opposition 10 a National
Bank, the Tariff and Internal Improve
mems heing the basis Of its organization.
Trey claim him as the candidate of the
Sub-Treasury party because he was nom
mated as such by every leading Sub 1rea
sury paper in the Stote. 1t is the pro-
vince Of newspaper Editors to propose the
measures and nominate The candidates that
are TO he sustained by their party:-how
else can it be done? The press has,'here-
fore, been always considered an in
dex 10 the opinions Of lis party, and GER
ruin criterion of its sentimenls-it being
well known that the Editors Of leading
public journals are in habit Of continual
iy consulting with, and being consulted by
the leaders of the party. Have you yOur.
self not acknowledged This. and did you
not consider Col. R, the Sub. Treasury
candidate when you nominated Judge
johnson. Bank and Preston man, against
him? IF not, what did you mean by say
ing that, from the manner of his nomina-
ton, you were warranted in the conclu.
sion that Col. r. was to be the candidate
Of that portion Of The State Rights party,
of which The Editor" (of the Mercury
"is the reported and recognised organ? -
Col. Preston and his followers have rat
ted off from The Old Stale Rights party,
and are herding with the Bank men, Tar
ih' men. the Federalisls and Aboliiioni>rs
Of The Norh-,hey may still he considered
by you as a portion Of the State Rights
party: but they call themselves Wigs
BE that as il may there is certainly but
one other party in The Srate-'he Sub
Treasury, aud of that the Mercury ever
has heen and still is 'rhe repated und re
cognised organ"
Snon after this formal nomination Of
Col. R. by tho Recognised organs" ofour
party, Judge Johnson and Col. Hammond
were brought out by nobody knows who,
in the Charleston Courier. (the only Anti
Sub Treasury papsr in The Stnte) and by
two anonymous writer's in the Advertiser.
One of these pieces has heen attributed
10 you. Judge Johnson when nominated
by you. was known to be a Preston and
Bank man, and Col. Hammond was not
known 10 he politically opposed, and was
supposed to he personally y attached to Col.
Preston. This, as was natural. excited
our suspicious. and those suspicious were
but confirmed, when. a short time after,
some Of Col. HIS supporters attempted TO
make him TIE means Of reviving the ques-
tion Of Notification. Who is to he hene-
fitted by the unhnyi-e of that forgotten
feud. except Col. Preston, and those Of his
followers, who, by their opposition to the
State, are now in hopeless miroriry. and
can only get into majority by making
nulliicatiou the test of political orthodoxy?
Under these circumstances the friends Of
Col, R. believing wih you, that he was
the candidate Of the Sub-Treasurv party.