Independent Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1843-12-23

ted by the Free Trader, for the purpose {
showing 4" The feeling Of tho Calhoun me-
in South Carolina;" aud what are tn
facts stated by the Beef Tha, " one o
two papers in Mr.. Calhoun's own state
emphatically declare, that between Mr.
Clay and Mr.. Van Buren,, they prefer NJ !
CIy." Now, we admit the fact-witl
this slight explanation, that the " one o
two papers" mentioned are Wing papers
Is it at al extraordinary that Wing paper
should prefer Mr.. Clay 10 Mr.. Van Buren,
although they were published in Mr.
Calhoun's own State2'' 1t is true that one
of these papers did profier its support e
Mr.. Calhoun, if he should be nominated
but that only showed Mr.. Calboun's greaI
popularity at Home, that even Wing pa
per preferred HIM to Mr.. Clay. This pa
per is the Southern Chronicle, which has
always been a WING paper, and which only
comes out for Mr.. Calhoun because it
could not for moment have been sustain
ed in opposition to him. The idea of the
Chronicle being quoted as an organ of Mr..
Calhoun! the editor of which is no Caro-
lnian, but from the region where blue
lights were burnt, who was hypocriiically
Il nullifier in '32, who afterwards renoun.
ced, in his paper, the creed of the State
rights party, and came out for high pro-
tectire tariff. Now what sincerity can be
attributed to those who parade a miscra-
BILE creature like this, who fights (what
little fighting he can do) for pay-who,
like any other renegade nulifier, could be
bought for five dollars, as showing "the
feeling Of the Calhoun men in South Car.
Dina" We defy the Free Trader, and
its coadjutor in the work of detrac,ion, the
New Orleans Bee, to point out any demo-
cratic paper in the State of South Carroll
ma, which avows any such sentiments 'as
hose attributed. Neither the Calhoun
men," nor any democratic paper there,
will go for Mr.. Clay. They admire his
talents, and respect his chivalrous personal
character, bl, from his principles they to-
tally dissent.
AS to the remark attributed to the Wash.
ington Spectator, it has been previously
misre presented. We have been for some
time n reader of that paper, and we have
seen no such Intention avowcd in it. as
that it would go for Mr.. Clay in preference
10 Mr.. Van Buren,. The sentence ouated
means only that there are some free trade
men, who deemng thai there is no differ.
ence on that subject between Mr.. Clay
and Mr.. Van Barren, have q personal pref.
erence for the former.
As to those whig papers which misrep.
resent Mr.. Calhoun in this same way,
we expect nothing else from them. They
not only fnlsily the position of his friends,
but they misrcprcseut his principles, no
matter how explicitly avowod. We have
before remarked that this might in some
measure be attributable to ignorance; or, |
at the best, to quote the remark of the |
Woodviile Republican-"fools cannot, and
tnaves will not, understand" but it is
exceedingly ungracious IN any
IF our Van Buren, frlends-we say anu.
because we are happy to say, that for the
NJ st part, it is confined to few indiscreet
md lhonght'ess edi:ors-to inHict deep
wrong on Mr.. Calhoun's friends, and when
IN attempt is made to set them right, to
whine out, oh! we do not wish TO quar-.
Eel with brother democrat"
In the last dublin University Maya
.Ine," there is an article EMIT ed "Crown
Federalism" written for ,he purpose Of
howing the inpracticabilty of a Govern.