Independent Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1844-02-24

him on the field of horror. Most of the
letter.writers at Washington are Ignorant
unprincipled, and destitute of Character
They would eagerly seek at any time q
difficulty with member of Congress fol
the purpose of coming into public notice.
For. q man who has been entrusted will
high and responsible dulles by trusting
constituency to embroil himselfin unseen.
ly trays with any one, is highly discredi.
table, but TO think of seriously noticing one
of those reptiles Of letter writer's IS certain
ly "6ghting down HILL"
at has been, indeed, from the begin
ming, a subject of profound regret 10 US
that Mr.. Calhoun permitted his friends to
use his name as candidate for caucus
nomination. 1t is proceeding which, if we
retain our senses, we shall never again
sanction towards any man we respect, and
on whose honesty and talents his country
has claims which he ought not 10 disre.
gard. In the case of Mr.. Calhoun, the
mere association Of his eminent name
with this colossal engine Of demagogucism
and faction, carried with it something in.
trinsically dissonant and repulsive. Apt
alone to that lower order of statesmen By
whom i, has been chiefly employe it was
foi eign to his putation--foreign to those
high and historic memories which cluster
about his name; foreign TO those lofty and
selfdependent endowments that mark the
first mind of his age and that mako their
own strongest appeal to The heart of men
when stript of all mere,ricious aid. He
himself assigns his reasons for waving his
own known objections to this mode of CO.
ing into canvass for the Presidency; and
while while many will think with US, that
he failed to discover his usual far.reach.
ing, sagacity in SO doing, every honorable
mind viii sympathise with the necessity
which constrained him 10 this, and com.
mend the motive, while they admire the
manner in which il has been taken"
AaL Tribune.
The above extract would give Mr..
Calhoun The appearance of having once
asscnted to go into the Baltimore conven.
ton however constituted, and afterwards
having withdrawn from II. TIL we new
or believed 10 be the case, we always un-
derstood the disti {, system 10 be sine
qua non with the friends Of that gentle
man as 10 his 6 ,ing before the convention
as a candidate To have refused at the
beginning of the canvass TO consent TO any
mode Of selecting a candidate, would have
brought distraction and defeat upon the
party then. The distrlc, mode of electing
delegates would have obviated most of the
objections 10 the Baltimore Convention,
and il was under such circumstances he
was willing to go into the Convention. -
Constituted as he believed it ought TO be,
he was willing to be bound by its nominal
ton. AS many objections as there are 10
formal parry nomination by a caucus or
convention, it is difficult 10 sec how a con-
cert OF action amongst the members OF the
party can be secured without il. Ii both
parties were always TO run the same num-
Der of candidates, il would not perhaps
make much difference, but while one par.
~ had three or four candidates in the field,
and The other concentrated upon one, the
contest could not lie doubtful II is true,
the election might Re thrown into the
House Of Representatives, and the choice
eventually fall upon the person who was
the strongest before the people, bu, the
party in the meantime would be broken up
by dissensions and sectional iealousies.-
There would soon be as much rivalship
between the friends of the different can
didates, as between the members of the diff.
ferent parties, and many becoming dis
contented woull 60 and join their politi.
cal adversaries.
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