Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-10-14
RICHMOND WING.
FRIDAY MORNING. OCT. "a.
SOUTH CARoLINA PoLITICs,


SOUTH CAROLINA POLITICS.
All the world knows that IL there is State il
the Union. whose condition OF Society merits til,
name OF Ars,oera,;e-where Property. and the in
teeeiusl superiority which Property confers are ir
| the possession Of the few-whsre a large body o.
great landholders enjoy svery thing that Nobility
can confer, except Tnles-it is the State Of South
I Carolina.
lie politics have ever been such as this order o.
Society," and this state OF property naturally brins
about: the wealihy-the eultiva;cd-thoso rho con
slider themselves (that is to say,) the "well-born'
direct public affairs. Though legal equality pre-
vails, and to some cxten, a political orc, yet there
is and can be no social, no practical level. The
Poor vote; but the Rich govern.
Formerly, in the days of q certain GenN Charles
Co,cswor,h Pinkney, a party was stirred up there,
stigmatized of the drugs of Society, as Radicals,
Jaeobins and Democrats. These, under the com
mand Of one Gen. Gcddes (the instrument the sub
tier dsorganizer se have named above loog form
cd very troublesome element in the politics OF the
/ State, simply because the body of the party
was ignorant and dsorderly, while the leaders
cabling them only for their own ends -werc SELL
hshy corsup, and msehievousy ambitious 10 tn,
extreme.
! TEs, then, was long the Democrats party o.
Carona. and viewed by the in,eilisen, and order
ly in general, as body of b'aekguards and
fools, led by abandoned knave, intent on no real
purpose Of serving the country or even bcnehtins
his followers, but making roui upon every SUI.
jet that would ,iekls their cars, only that he nigh,
make them tie blind indictments of his own pow =
or. Small, We may be sure, was the honor which
this party treally very disrcputabe one) drew to
the name OF Democrats. Their reputation in the
State sank lower and lower, until, with the des,h
of their leader, tby his vices and debauehery) they
became, Us party, extinct.
With these, Mr.. Cahoun--himsef sprung from
revolutionary father who had formed, by his
bities and zeal, wide personal influence, and
Transmitted it to his son-never had any sympa
thies. lie belonged to different and an adverse
line OF politics. Sill; less was he disposed to co
alesce with them, when, under the maine OF S.atS
Rights mon and Radicals, new party arose, hsv
ing this old one for its basis in the Lower Country
and led by Judge William Smith and John Tayo
the former his own dire Individual enemy, Away.
intent on his overthrow, and TO whom Calhoun;
taking either side in any public question was al
ways sufficient to make him join the opposite
one.
This Radical, State Rights, or Democratic part,
flor it took all these nnmes) became better know
abroad, in MI Munroe's day, as the Crawford par
~; and, as such, they were the b;teres. possibl
local opponents Of Mr.. Calhoun all whose atitudi
marian doctrines in regard the powers of the &c
neral Government, they held in n very special ab
horrenee. Against him they waged war for a mum
Der of years, winding up, in lsa4.5, by The famou
Resolutions OF Judge Smith, lev elled lireeiy at hi
doctrines and destined in 1928, to afford the FIR.
basis for the proceedings and the creed Of the Nul
lfers.
As soon however, as these proceedings were Sc
on foot, and Mr. Calhoun lnow driven from tn
Jackson Party, by the Mrs Eaton nfflir) took pas
IN them, the old Democracy and Judge Smith (sh,
knew no White nor Back, except as MIR Cslhour
sailed it the opposte) arrayed themselves, with al
possible ranconr, against all those very STAT
Rights which they had hitherto made their tex
against Calhoun.
OIe would think that the animosiiies which tina
fierce strife in Carolina kindied, and the persona
warfare between Mr. Calhoun aud ,iIe Jaeksoniars
from about 1880 to 1887, could not have very
closely eemenIed the affections Of Mr. c. ard the
Democratic Party. That, however, TO this univer.
sal Turn-coat, seems 10 have now become the moIl
cherished Of political designations BY IT, he and
all OF his swear, as "the only name given among
men whereby they can be politically saved"
The sincerity, then, Of these mere Fancy Names
Of politics is admirably exhibited. by what is now
going on in Aris.ocraiie Carolina-where. more
surely and quietly to govern, the Arstoeraey mounts
the opposite name, and does wha, il lists, at the
easy rate Of calling itself the Democracy.
/ Just now, in Charleston. by the by, there would
seem to be some unbro,herly strife between these
rivals in Democratic ardour. We collect, from the
Mercury, that there are no less than IL dif' zen
party tickets. for their ensuing Stale F.l,,ion
There is the "DEMocRATIc Ticket: then come tn
epithets-!he INDEPENDENT DEMocRArGc -th
GENUINE DEBocRATIc-the ORTHoDcI DEMO
Ic-ihe ANTI piorATToN DEMocRArIe -th,
ANTI PRoscRIPrroE DEN oRATic-ihe No CLIQUE
DEMooRAriO-,he EsUAL TAXATION DRM CRATIC
the "othodoX, on the. great principles OF Dimoera
ey Ticket, with various others, equally eupho'
Nous.