The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1841-06-03
tET. pTeston's letter.
CoLUNBIA, May IL, ls4l.

your note enclosing 10 me certain resolu-
lions passed 30 meeting Of portion tho
citizens Of AJbeyiie.
The tcmger and language of those con.
ce'n!ag myself sayolr SO mach more Of
personal bitterness, taau Of political discus.
siga HAT should hold myself discharged
from any obligation to notice them, but
hat feel il due 10 lac public nc, to permit
some assertions contained in them 10 pass
without contradiction.
In the 9Th resolution, being the first in
which my name Is mentioned, | am de.
uouuced for acting with a party whose
principal objects known to me, tho not pub.
Icly agowed, we're a National Bank Pro.
tecliye TART, aud The distribution OF the
proceed Of the pubic lands.
g.. Il is u9t tae fact that lbc Wing party
! had any object hnowD to me and not pub,
liciy avowcd. /; could not be the fact, for
the Wing party consisting Of a vast major
ttY II the jUge4 States must, ot necessity
a,. upon publicly ayoacd principles, and
consisting too Of great majority Of the
Southern States, /; could no, be implicated
IN a conspiracy against Southern interests.
Il is not the feet that tie distribution OF
the proceeds Of the public lands, has ever
been considered Wing party measure.
/. is no, the fac, ,het IL any just mean.
ing Of tie phrase It comes in as the high
/ Tariff party-euAer secretly understood or
publicly arowed--.or It is notorious TO the
whole country thai as far as pledges
could be made By a political parIy-iho
Wings we're pledged to The Compromise
Act Of 1888. Their candidates for Presi.
dent and Vice President were deeply, re.
peaicdiy ard publicly pledged to it. and
lie most leading men 0! all tho party bound
10 its maintenance by every possible obi.
e4Jau-whlo on the other hand, the can.
d,ia'es Of The other party, for President
ard Vice President and, their most leading
and abs parizaa {Nr. Wright, Of New
IoTk) we're al all times the advocates aud
supporters Of the most extrayagani system
Of Protection. The vote of tho anti.TaritT
States or Georgia and North Carollna--aud
the present altitude Of Virginia, yindlcate
the Wais party agaius. this charge.
It is not the fact, that was elected Sen.
egor as an opponent On constitutional
grounds of a Natloual Bank or q distribu-
ton Of tao proceeds Of the public lands
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thought Of in the State at the period of my
election. If my sentiments in regard to q
Bank Of The q. S. wers an element in that
eIeClion--lt was known that was Of the
Republican State Rights School of Madison
-. = 'g.,t,f,-A ,t.I l,I IaDrpnHo1
them or the whole body Of the Republican
party who followed their lead IN the tinan.
eial emergencies Of 1916. My strong
aversion 10 a Bank Of the United States,
existed then and exists now-neither de.
creased or diminished, by the recent tai,.
u9e of a State Cooperation Of Pennsylvania,
an aversion which could yield only to par.
amount necessity, such as overruled the
objections Of wise and patriotic men in
Isl6-whose character and fame must be
aspetscd, before a danuuciauon can reach
NE for following their example.
So far from this question entering into
the consideration Of my constituents at
either Of my elections, the notorious cir.
cumstanoes then existing, prove /! 10 have
been impossible
was elected shortly after Mr.. Calhoun,
who has been the principal agent 10 estab-
Gshins the Bank Of the United States, and
who IN the session subsequent to my cleo.
ton, declared th,s fact in the Senate of the
United States, accompanied by q strong
panesYr;c upon the Bank. He did not
forfeit the confidence Of the State thereby.
The immediate representative of your
own district, Mr.. M'Dufie, always tho
jealous parizau of the Bank--had at tho
moment Of uy election signaIZed his ad.
yccacy OF It upon every ground OF consil!u'
tionality and expediency-had euloglzed
its conduct ard ITS conductors--and Propos.
ed It's re charter IN an elaborate and pow
erful document He neither forfeited the
confidence Of AbbeviIle District or OF the
Stale TO the highest Office, in which be was
subsequently elevated. Although | did
moi and do not concur in all the views and
conclusions of that celebrated report, do
not believe that was elected to the Senate
on account Of my dissent from thsm.
And cannot refrain from remaTking that
in the proceedings OF the meetips d. AooS'
vile, there IS 4 striking forbearance OF ex'
preston Of any opinion as 10 the Constltu'
,ionalitv Of a United States Bank-ihe OBJ
iectons 10 It beng selected from the fright
fol exhibitions made in the Pennsylvania
Bank, and other topics of policy, entitled
unquestonabIy to the very highest cousid'
Grafton The meeting seeks to bind mo
while it cautiously keeps itself unfettered
aud holds NE to an opinion which itself
does not entertain.
During the period tina, had the honor
to serve the State in her Legislature, do
not remember that the Bank question was
aglated Engaged as We were IN the pros
ecution of a great enterprise, in which en-.
ergy and CONCERT were necessary to success
when it was known that many couspc'
uous men deeply devoted to the main
lenaace of the principles upon which the
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