The North-Carolina standard., 1843-10-11
For the Standard.
To the Freemen of North Carolina,

To the Freemen of North Carolina.
(No. 81
FELLowCrTIzENs We have said in former
communication, that in calling the Wing party
Federallsts. and In attempting TO prove them SO,
that we intended neither reflection upon their in
telligence, still less an imputaion upon their pat
rlotism, for we know, that talented, as virtuous
and as patriotic citizens this Government can
boast Of were and still are Federalists
For one, we have always understood from boy
hood to manhood, and from manhood to riper wears.
that the present leader of the Whig party, the
Magnus Apollo, and very personifcation of Whig-
gerry, he who wrote the addresses of the Whig
Convention of your State the late Secretary of the
Navy neper denied but on the contrary boasted Of
his Federalism. We honor him for his candor,
admire his talents, and have never questioned his
integrity. But on the contrary, when we see men
11ho understand the consequences to which their
principles must necessarily lead them, contendng
for the success of those principles under another
banner, and at the same time denying their Fed
erasm: we are led (not to question their patriot
ism) but to suspect their political honesty, and
forced to believe that they have in view something
which they dare not Avow. And we do believe, if
their principles carried out that it will change
the character of the Government from confeder-
ated into consolidated one. in which State SOW
ereignty will be but an idle name, a mere abstrac-
tion fgment of the brain, and that your Govern
ment will be made to take another tact, and
brought back TO the time Of the elder Adams.
When we say of the Whig party that they have
deceived the people that they have promised one
thing and tried to perform anotber that they pro-
msed much, and did little that they promised
economy and gave US extravagance that they pro
missed to "proscribe proseripton,'' and yet turned
out more for mere opinions sake than any admins
tralion that ever preceded them, we honestly
think so, and will give you some of the evidence.
In the first place, they denied that President
Harrison was the advocate Of national Bank,
and did all they could to make this impression gen
eral. In proof Of what say, we call your at,en-
tion to a speech made by George E. Badger to the
citizens of Granville county, in March, 1s4O That
speech was circulated by lie thousand, and we
give you the genucman's own words:
st is said that General Harrison favors Bank
of the United States. The charge is false. His
opinions on the contrary against q Bank. He
has declared it Institution, which, as President
he 1couLd not recommend, but has declared also,
Is that if the experiment should be tdirfy tried,
whether the financial operations of the Govern
llSIt Ue Oh WITHOUT Inc ala OIL NatIOn-
al Bank, and it should be clear Iy Gscertained
that the public interest would materially suffer
without one" and if there were unequirocaI
manifestations Of public opinion in its favor, he
would sanction bill for chartering a Bank, with
proper notifications and restrictions"
That we may not be accused of the least unfair
ness, we have given you the whole extract, and
ask you what other impression was made upon
your minds than that the leader Of the Whig par
ty was opposed in principle TO National Bank
and that if he finally gave into it, it must be from an
overruling necessity that it must be after an ex-
pertinent should be fairly tried, whether the fnan-
cial operations Of the Government could be ear
ried on without such institution, and not even
then unt there were unegoiiuocaL mani festationS
of public opinion in its favor, and it was farther
ascertained that the public interests would nsateri-
ally suffer.
Do you not see here, that upon the most favora-
ole construction, there were three things first to
take place before he could be brought approve it?
First, that some other plan was to be tried and
fail. Secondly, that the public interest in conse-
quence thereof, should materially suffer. And 3rd-
ly that there should be unequiuocdI manifestations
of public opinion in its favor. We ask then, did
they redeem this pledge? If not they have deceiv-
Gu yOuJ duu VIC AdSC L1duS SOOu OuI
If to promise one thing and to perform another
is not deception, then we know not what consti-
tutes it; but by their acts ye shall judge them.
No sooner was President Harrison elected and
installed into Office, than an extra session of Con-
gress was called at an immense expense to the ma
tion and among their first acts was the repeal Of
the Sub-Treasury, and bill to re-charter Ma
tional Bank. Did they then do what they had led
the country to expect that General Harrison would
have done, wait for experiment to fail, for some
unequivocal manifestations of public opinion in its
favor, before they recommended such institution?
No. But, on the contrary, and as if in defiance of
public opinion, (for the President in his opening
Message, had declared that both the Sub-Treasury
and the Bank had been condemned by the voice of
the PeopIe) did they attempt to force such an in
stitution upon the good people of these United
States.
A Bank they must have, and Bank was char
tered, and vetoed by Wing President; who pos
sessed a conscience, and had moral nerve enough
to construe the Constitution as he understood it !"
and no honest man would construe it any other
way. And for this independent act and we place