The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1840-06-04
CHARLOTTE, N. c., JUNE A. 1910.

support oil Dhllds, tfdWloTU, EpWuues, AM
I Calhoun, and the Republican party Of TIN
dag aud at later day il was 90 the GROUND
that the consiiiutlonallty OF bank has beef
} advocated by Mr. McDuffie, and every lead
ing porician OF South Carolina. lexpress
ed these views IN letter, published durin.
; my late canvass. do not, however, ihul
the establishment Of a National Bank with
IN The powers Of Congress, as no such no
cessliy las been demonstrated aud | do no
anticipate any such. Bot am not disposed
10 denoaDcc these as either KNIVES or fool,
tina! think differently, when | remember
thai the first charter was signed IN 1871
four years after the adoption Of the Constl
luton, by General Washington, President
Of the Convention which formed that inslru
meDt, with al the debates fresh in his menu.
ry-and the second BY the great and ylrtu.
Gus Madison, who was as grea, architect.
Nor have ! any such approximations Us some
express Of the dangers q! such 81 institution,
when remember tia, OF The fifty three
years OF national existence, we have had a
rational bank for forty years; and That our
+ liberties have not only survived it, hot that
no injurious influence was either eXeI,ed or
altempied-and that those forty years were
i precisely the period of our greatest pros
] perIty aud happiness, aud Of advances in
! civilization and poae r, unprecedented IN the
history o. the world and that the thirteen
years ~hen we have had no such institution,
were years Of universal sta2ua,iOn Of 81 The
employ meuls Of lle aud Of that suffering
and distress which results from q different
or a vltia,cd currency.
do not duubl that a bank, no, sufficient
y guarded, may become dangerous engine
IN the hands OF a corrupt Government, aud
tia; i may be used lnJuriously 10 the south.
But, properly guarded, ! have just as little
doubt tia, the chef benefits Of sarh an in
s,lul,on vii be 10 the south, for the simple
reason that The sou,h Is the paying not The
receiving section aui IS therefore mainly
interested in having um!orm currency.
Bu, whatever may be .he dangers. real
or supposed or National Bank, they sink
INTO utter insgu.dcsnce 10 comparison ailh
those Of a Government bank and that is
the alternative contemplated by Mr.. Eau
Buren,, do 10, lhiuk any longer doubtful;
and think have heretofore proven II.
Butii is said that Gen. Harrison is an abo.
liions,, and that i, was for tina, reason that
he has been nominated over Mr.. Cay--g no
was SO obnoxious 10 The aboliIonsls, that
none Of them would vote for him. You
cannot have forgotten that the very men,
and the very presses, who nov tell YOU this,
Up 60 the very iaomen, ot the Harrisburg
nomination, said that Mr. Clay was an ado.
litonsi. Now YOU are told thai he not on
ly is rot, but IL especially Objectionable 10
tie abolisiuuisis Both cunnot be true. -
What is /, TINT has so suddenly transformed
Mr.. Clay from an abolitouis. into an enc.
my Of abolition viii tell you. lie is no
longer a candidate for The Presidency. He
IS IN no bcdy's uay-aud has therefore
respite from calumny. lie IS now mar.
yellous proner man. But letthat ll'ustrous
characterization for every great quality
that cleyalcs our nature, be once more
broush, before the country, and the same
war Of caumuy and fl.schood will again be-
waged against him.
Harrison an ah5I,liouist--a Nireiuian,
and that Virginia. a lldrris9n-an aholl.
ZIONIST Dos any one really believe 1T
No one man living north or south, has
done and suffered as much IN the cause Of
defending this institution Of the South as
General Harrison and no statesman of this
country has given as many votes against
that institution as Martin Van Buren,; and
he never changed OF wavered IN this course
until, without such change, he could not
have hoped 10 be elected President.
Now II is bad enough to challenge orr
especial confidence for an old underwriting
enemy who never ceased 10 oppose Us until
The necessities Of his political position made
i, expedient-- but 1t is too bad al the same
time 10 ask Us to dcnounce M old long tried
friend, who has sacrificed himself Z, our in
lcrcs,s. What friendship do ~c deserve, If
we thus act Allow me 10 submit the
proofs 10 support Of the broad proposition
which have asserted.
Mr.. Van Buren, VOTED IN the New J afk
Convention to confer the highest privilege
Of freeman upon negroes. twas carried
mainly by his Influence; and II IS to him
that we are indebted for the fact, thai the
powerful representation o! forty members
from the State Of New York are sent here
in part by negroes.
lnlsla, Mr.. Van Buren, voted to instruct
Rufus King, then senator IN Congress
from y. York, to vote against the admission
Of Missouri into the uuiou, unless slavery
was abolished II is TO nc a melancholy
illustration Of the decadence oil public ieei'
inc, aud Of want Of proper tone aud spirit
in the south, tina, one OF the prime movers
perhaps the very prime mover OF that
dangerous measure, should no, only hrurged
uoon the confidence of the south, but is so
pressed, as the only anoin'cd saviour OF
southern institutions. Mr.. Jefferson said
that the nows Of that movement came upon
him like the cry Of fire in the night. No
one crisis in our public affairs has 50 cxcit'
ed the fears Of every patriot land, most
strange and unaccountnble, he who lighted