Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1844-06-05
To the Editor of the Charleston Courier:

10 the EdttoT OF inc IHdTteStOH C0uTleT
The following letter made its appear
ance in the Boston Courier, and we hope
will merit a place in The Charleston Cou-
rier.
II is deserved tribute paid by one who
processes himself to differ with Mr. Cal
houn on The declrine Of Free Trade, to
the po1cers cf his intellect, and the moral
qualities of his heart. The writer ex-
presses hope that, at crisis so polen-
lous as The present, the Carolinian will be
merged in the American; and That the
just expectations of Mr.. Calhoun's friends
will be realised in finding him. as Secre.
lary of State, national in his policy, acting
for the whole Union, and not for section
The Boslonian will no, be disappointed.
Can any subject be more nalionalthan that
fthe remuneration of domain to The
United States which was unadvisedly sep
arated from US. Can any question be
more national, more in accordance with
the principles of the revolution, than the
right of self-governmen1 Can any re
proof be more national than the spirit With
which Mr.. Calhoun resisted Lord Aber-
deems attempts to iulerfere with The do
mestic policy and institution Of the Sove-
reign States of this Union? Was any SUBJ
ject more national in l776 and lS42, than
Free Trade and Sailors Rights" Can
we be national and yet willing TO abandon
10 1874, what our forelatbers foug hi for in
the revolution.
Texas and Annexation are then Ma.
tiouaI, aud MIR. Calhoun, in advocating The
measure, has given another evidence OF his
devotion 10 the Union which is only to be
preserved by the admission Of Ieras as
one ofhe family. The writer in the Boston
Courier is skefching the portrait of Mr.
Calhoun, proves himself an able artist,
who has studied well his subject. He
has presented with mastery hand a
living statue of one of The master spirits Of
the age, great statesman made for, and
alone fiji for the crisis !; and if The false del
icacy of South Carolina restraints her from
pressing his high claims On the country, ii
should not deter private individuals from
speaking their preferences. We could not
say more than the Boslonian has written
to salty the public that there is no man at
the crisis more worthy of the Office of
President than John G. Calhoun.
81 am no admirer of the political prin-
ciples of Mr.. Calhoun. At least, ] de-
nounce his doctrine Of free trade, and his
peculiar theories of Government. can
not, however, but acknowledge the extent
and lofty elevation of his mind--his spot
less character, that even suspicion never
dared 10 approach-and the honorable SER
vices he has rendered bis country and man-
kind.
"Almost alone. of public men, he has
sustained throughout long career, life
unblemished purity-seldom, ifever, in
the historical annals Of any country, have
such rare intellectual endowments as his,
been united 10 such shining public and pri..
vate virtues. He has done as much for
the domestic charities of life, by the chas-
tity and high-minded purity of his private
transactions, as for the welfare of his coun.
try, by the brilliant talents and assidious
services of his public career--in fine, by
an union of attributes, both Of a public and
private nature, rare in their separate ex-
ceIlence, aud almost miraculous in their
combination, he has embellished society
and lent new honors TO his distinguished
station.