Independent Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1843-08-26

We make the following extract from the
able address oil the committee, of the State
convention of Georgia. 1t contains SEN
timents, which we think, should actuate
the whole State Rights party throughout
the South, and the friends of genuine De.
mocracy everywhere. We regret that its
length precludcs the insertion of it entire.
TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
OF TIE STATE OF GEORGIA.
Fellow CITIZENS. Your delegates in
convention assembled in June last, after
nominating Mark A. Cooper, for Govern.
or, and James Ii. Stark, of Butts, for Con.
gress, and expressing their determination
to abide by the nomination to the prcsi-
dency of the great democratic party of
heir country, selected as their frs choice
for that exalted statson, John G. Cal
houn, and charged the undersigned with
the duty of addressing you in their behalf,
on the great questions pending before the
people.
In selecting the above named inlividu-
ais to bear alott the banner of democracy
in the respective spheres TO which they
may be called TO act, your delegates have
been influenced by no personal or sectional
feelings, have chosen them as the expo
nents Of your polilica! faith.
In these principles they arc sound; pro-
Tossing and illustrating those doctrines
,,,I;., b bn,o ,h,l tb.
party from the early days of our national
existence. In free states there must ever
exist difference of opinion, and in the ma
nito!d operations Of government, frecmen
viii, in the exercise of their unIoubtcd
rights, approve or disapproye the acts of
their official agents. A slaviSh acquieS-
ccnce w~ul4 be unworthy the descslRglssaHt!:
2esafGfl'y vindlca,e the free !om Of thought
and action against the combined force OF
the British empire. This feeling of indie
pcndcncc, alike honorable and proper, will
rftcn nro1u.e diversity Of sentiments a.
mongst these who agree upon the cardinal
pouls of political faith.
THIS diversity OF sentiment has existed
among brethren OF the sane political creed,
TO a greater o. less extent at every period
of our n1t.ona history, and ii was sngu-
larIy illustrated in reference 10 some OF tue
measures Of the ad rniui-traton OF General
jackson. Tie cause OF difference being
removed, those who were separated tr a
time, have again become united by the
bonds of common faith, and are now con =
tending together for the maintenance OF
those fundamental principles upon which
they never differed.
Much effort has been eXerted by the
federal press in this state, and much more
will lie expended in an attempt to fix upon
YOUR delegates, and yourselves, the charge
of Inconsistency in becoming the advocate
of Mr.. Calhoun. But whence proceeds
this charge! From a party, whose mem
bcrs we're not long since the opponents OF
national bank the Incorporating an
tagonis's of a. protective policy, and the
stern advocates Of the rights of the states.
Now, these very men shout hosannas to
lIenry Clay--'the head and 'front.' OF the
protective policy--,he advocate OF United
States Blnk-the leader of the federal
party, whose whole political course is
Characterised by construction Of the
constitution, alien from, and opposed to
the constitutional tenets Of the republican
school. -,
A brief recurrence 10 recent events Wi
serve to prove with what trnth your dele
gates, by the selection of Mr.. Calhoun
have made themselves obnoxious TO the
charge Of inconsistency.
A few years since two parties dividet
our state. Alike opposed to an United
States Bank, they were equally hostile tc
protective tariff, and differed only as II
the .'m9de and measures OF redress" On
of these parties deemed that steady ad
heIauce to moderate and confessedIy con
stitutlonal measures, would effect the re
, peal of the tauif, the other found a remed.
7 in nulli6cation-a measure which, in thel
t iudgmen,, was both constitutional and re
, publican. At the head of this latter part.
, stood John c. Calhoun; and opposed t
l b Ith parties, was Henry Clay, the irIen
| and advocate Of national bank, aud IN
E friend aud supporter of the whole protec
= tive policy. Now, fellow citizens, both
. these questions were again forced uPo
b. the country, and where are the majority
= those, who, in their zeal for Souther
II rights, were content TO peril the Union
h tn ir resistance to that tyranny "hic
e sprung from protective tariff! You fin
= them arraved beneath the banner OF HeI
lc nv Clay, then, as nOr, the champion OF III
1 protective policy! The mass of the UnIt
~ party, with those of their former .opPo
ents, who refused to sacrifice their che
ou ished principles, have, under a comm'
It. faith, united in the support of Mr.. Cdlhon