Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1840-06-25

To WHITFIELD Brooks, ESQ

ser, contains charges exceedingly ipjuri
GUS TO the characters Of those TO whom you
allude and, until they are named. apply.
ing indiscrininalely to all lin this District
wa,s are opposed TO that gentleman in The
coming contest for Governor. You IN
form Col H. al matter dfact, and not
of inference, that his ''opponents in lhls
District" are engaged in a systematic Ell
ror:" to excite "public prejudice and OPP
position" to him by "false aud ungenerons
insiuuat.ms," "fahricared and circulated
for party effect" As gentlemen are not
in habit Of .fabricating and circulating
falsehuods ''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, l
call upon you, in justice 10 them, to name
the individuals to whom you allude. ioG
have. Of your own accord. publicly made
the charges, aud we now demaad the spe-
cifcaiions and The proof. As you were
the advocate Of Judge Johnson, when you
lust "de6ned your position" and conse-
quently one of Col. HIS "opponents in
this District" shalt not dispute your
righ, to speak for those of his "opponen's,"
who support "lhal eminenily virtuons cit
izen and faithful public sevaur," )" whom it
appears you have now abandoned, though
but shor time since, YOU would have
been "erceedingly gratifed' to see him
transferred 10 The Suhernaiorial chair
Kno wing your great lac, in defining posi-
lions" leave the judges friends in your
hands, hoping that You may succeed in
in showing that all Of Them have been as
iunncent Of fabricaring faIsehoods ''ior par
~ effect" as | know the friends Of Col.
Richardson are.
Seeing that voa have entirely mis-con-
ccivcd The objections, which Col. Richard
sons friends have made 10 Col. Fl and
consequently your explanations cannot re.
move the "public prejudice" which is a.
eainst him, will briefly stale the only
grounds upon which, they have ever OPP
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 Buren, took ground
Tor the South, from The scattered elements
Of the Democratic State Rights Party Of
1927, and composed Of Union men and
Nulifers withour reference 10 those old
party distinctions-lhe support of The Sub.
Treasury aud opposition 10 a National
Bank, The Tariff and Internal Improve
menls hcins the basis Of its organization.
They claim him as the candidate Of the
Sub-Treasury party because he was NOM
mated as such by every leading Sub 1rea
surg paper in the State. 1t is the pro-
vince Of newspaper Editors 10 propose the
measures and nominate the candidates that
are to he sustained by their party:-how
else can it be done? The press s,there-
fore, been always considered an in
dex to the opinions Of lis party, and GER
luin criterion of its sentimenls-it being
well known lha, the Editors of leading
public journals are in habit of continual
ly 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
if men. the Federalsls aud Aboliioni>rs
Of the Nor,h-they may still he considered
by you as portion Of the State Rights
party; but they cali themselves Wigs
BE that as il may there is certainly bur
one other party in The Srale-,he Sub
Treasury, aud of that the Mercury ever
has heen and still is .rhe repu'ed und re
cognised organhn'
Soon after this formal nomination Of
Col. r. by tho "recosnised organs" ofnur
party, Judge Johnson and Col. Hammond
were brought out by nobody knows who,
in the Charleston Courier, fthe only Anti
!Sub-Trensury paper in The Stn'e) and by
two anonymous writer's in the Advertiser.
One of these pieces has been attributed
10 you. Judge Johnson when nominated
by you, was known to be a Preston and
Bank man. and Col. Hammond was not
known to he politically opposed, and was
supposed TO be personally attached to Col.
Preston. This, as was natural. excited
our suspicious. and those suspicious were
but confirmed, when. short time after,
some Of Col. HIS supporters attempted TO
make him tie means Of reviving the ques-
tion Of Nulifcation. Who is to he hene-
fitted by the nnhulyi"e of tha. forgotten
feud. except Col. Preston, and those Of his
followers, who, by their opposition to the
State, are now in hopeless mir oriry. and
can only get into majority by making
notification the test of political orthodoxy?
Under these circumstances the friends Of
Col, R. believing ,ciM you, that he was
the candidate ofthe Sub-Trcasnry party,