Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1841-05-20
PUBLIC MEETING IN ABBEVILLE.

AT a meeting OF. the citizens of Abbeville
District, held in the Court House, on Mon
day. the 3d Of May, Benz. Y. Martin, Esq,
was called TO the Chair, andJ. F. Marshall
appointed Secretary.
DR.. H. Fl. Townes having stated the OBJ
ject Of the meeting, submitted the follow
ing Resolutions, which after a short dis
cussion, were adopted, with but few dis
senting voices:
Resolved, That we deprecate The APP
preaching Extra Session Of Congress as
the source of a series of measures pccul-
arly pernicious TO the Southern States aud
subversiye ofthe great conservative prin.
ciples of our federative system.
Resolved, That we consider the extraor-
dinary convocation of Congress great
public expense, and at period when the
necessary expenditures of the Government
are rapidly decreasing as bare faced a.
abandonment Of the principles Of economy
and reform on which the present admins
tration came into power.
Resolved, That we should regard the
establishment of a National Bank in the
face of the frigh,ful exhibition recently
made of the management of the Bank oil
the United States as indicating a reckless
disregard of the adnonitions of fexperience,
and as creating an engine of political pow
er aud corruption calculated to destroy the
purity :af 4he gercrurucns and fnut ttIe
liberties Of the country.
Resolved. That we look upon the pro,
jected measure of distributing the proceeds
ofthe public lands among the States, as
one of the most comprehensive schemes Of
bribery and corruption ever devised, and
attending at the same time 10 produce the
two fold calamity of degrading the sover-
eign States ofthe Union into servile pen
sioners dependent on the bounty OF the
FEDERAL Government, and of creating the
necessity for permanent increase oil the
duties OH imports, thus laying the founda-
ton of new tariff, burdensone to the
whole Union and unjust and oppressive to
the planting and exporting States.
Resolved, That VIM. C. Preston was
elected to represent this State in tho Con-
gress of the United States, as an opponent
upon constitutional grounds ola National
Bank, protective Tariff, and the scheme
Of distributing the proceeds of the PxbIic
Lands among the States, and that in be-
coming an electioneerins advocate of a
political party whose principal object
known to him (though moi openly avowed)
was and is the adoption Of all these meas
ures, he compounded the dignity of bis
office, disregarded and condemned the
know opinions and wishes almost unani-
mously entertained by the people he pro-
fessed to represent, and has totally forfeited
their confidence.
Resolved, That if under these circum-
stances he should vote for Bank of the
United States, he would sacrifice the prin-
ciples, upon the faith ofwhich he was cleo
.ed. and betray the high trust committed
to his hands by the State Of South Carolina.
Resolved, That after having rendered
this degrading service 10 the Admiuistra-
ton. if he should accep, Office under them,
it could be considered in no other light by
all impartial world, than as the rendering
on their part aud as the acceptance on his
ofareward for his apostacy and treachery.
Resolved, That these Resolutions be
published, to the end that should ho raise
in the Senate 10 support Bank of.he Uni
ted States, he may do it with stigma on
his front placed there by the people whom
in assuming TO represent he would in fact
betray.
BENZ. Y. MARTIN, Chairman.
J.F. MARSHALL, Secretary.