The North-Carolina standard., 1843-10-04
For the North Carolina Standard.
To the Freemen of North Carolina.
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For the North Carolina Standard.
To the Freemen of North Carolina.
(No S.
FELLow-CITIZENs In our last we were running
parallel between the two political parties of the
present day, attempting establish the proposition
that che Whig party had only changed their name,
hut still was pursuing Federal measures. We will
continue the discussion by asking, who is it that
denies that Congress possesses the power to pass
any Eek post facto" law, or law mpairng the obli-
CATION of contracts I? Is it not the Republican par
to? Who claim il We will not assert that The
Whig party do, but will only point you to their
acts. Look, we beseech you, TO the infamous
Bankrupt law, Of the extra session, and tell if
you do not in its provisions violation Of vest
ed rights? This law, they once claimed as a
Wing measure, and they welcome to all the
laurels which it has conferred. 1t was one Of the
boasled measures Of relief; it passed the
sion by vote of Ill to 105; only three Democrats
in the House voting for it. At the ensuing session
so odIous had it become, that bill repeating il
passed The House, by vote Of 126 to 9t but was
de(rated in the Senate by Willie p. Mangum and
by Henry Clay. M.. Mangum must have known
that in hi own State il perfectly odious, and
still voted against its repeal and as for Mr. CLAW
he had received eapress instructions from the
Kentucky Legislature give his vote for its repeal
but refused to do SO. Does not this smack of Fed
eralfsn I? and canRet you trace ii to that school
which has declared that "a representative should
not be Palsed by the will of his constiluents"2
Who is it that denies the power to be in Con-
gress to assume the debts of the States, aIrt adv
some $50 millions of d,,iIIrs? Is il not the Repub-
lican party !? Who we ask you, broached that doc
trine? Was it not the leading Wing presses of the
North7 Who submitted proposition substantial
ly to that effect? Was it not William Cost John
SOM Whig member, and afterwards Wing can
didate for Governurq
Who are now for pliSlring that BY indirec-
tion, by appropriation Of the proceeds of the
public lands among the States, at a time too Of
Bankrupt Treasury? We again ask, is il not the
Wings, both North and South?
Who, we triumpha tiy ask you, have restricted
the freedom Of debate, by int oducing the famous
gag-la@, Of alien and sediou memory into one
branch Of the national lpgislalure2 Was il not
this Whig party? W ho opposed il? We
we will not Insult yeu by the question:; for the
world knows, that of the cardinal principles Of
the Democratic Republican party, III the language
of the immortal Jefferson, Is, THAT OF opin
ION may be safely tolerated. so long reasun is left
free TO combat l.'' In every instance for the last
20 years, and we challenge an exception, where
power has been claimed for Congress, which i,
doubtful, you find the Republican party as a
body for confining the government TO the powers
granted on the one side, and you find modern wings
IN favor of the power being assumed on the other
side.
And what is still more strange, with all this
proof whieh is so wildly intense as to force con-
vction into the benighted InteIlects, do you
And ouT opponents denying their Federalism
When the term Federalist and apply it to
the whis party, we intend il neither reflection
upon their Intelligence, OF all imputation upon their
patriotism. No-far from il; We bslieVe That the
great body of both parties honest, and that each
are pursuing that course of policy, which they
think will best cemporl with the interests of this
great nation but do complain that their lead
| ers have Rot, generally honesty enough (for even
here there is exeeption) TO fight under their
colors, but have taken the popular name Of Wing
as cloak to their Federalism.
| They have been taught, that Federal principles
aRd Federal measures, have been by the great body
Of the yeomanry of the country, weighed in the
balance and found wanting, thai they have bees a.
| gain and again repudiated and condemned; and
hence is, that they have so often changed their
names, and as often as they have been discounted
under one banner, have they taken another, until
finally, and as the last resort, they have settled
down upon the Tevered name of Whig.
| Reyered name did we say2 Allow US to recall
that expression. The time was when il aOas rerer-
ed indeed-wheR its bare mention euxind ed by
involuntary association in the Patriots bosom, no.
thing but reverenee,-when it came down to US
hallowed by revolutionary incidents and deeds of
noble daring which awoke, and called into active