Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1844-05-22
For The Advertiser.
Editor of The Hamburg Journal:

For the Advertiser.
Editor The Hamburg Journal:
SIR,-In our last piece we reviewed your
exposition of Mr.. Clay's principles, which we
regret did not appear with our review of it.
There were some things in the number of the
Journal containing il, and much in your last,
which deserve notice. When we begun this
correspondence, we supposed that itwould end
with the interrogatories and your answer. 1t
required, however, nearly months reflection,
and second article, to produce your answer.
Even then you did not answer fully and can
didIy. Your answer to our first interrogatory
would have been candid and ineligible had
you replied, simply, that Mr. Clay was IN Ia.
vor ofa Tariff, discriminating" in favor OF
what be is pleased to ca'l, american Indus
try" To our question, SHOULD candidate
be held responsible for the conduct of his par
ty," YOU made no answer at all. We will vary
IFS FORM and now ask: IF it is fair 10 infer that
the principles which uniformly governs party
will govern Its candidate ifclectcd7 We trust
that you will now answer this fully.
We supposed. in the beginning of this cor
respondence, that you either believed Mr.
Cluy's principles 10 be dferen, from whatyou
have avowed them to be, or that you took him
only in preference to MIR. Van ,Buren-as
choice of evils But in this we fear we have
been mistaken. From the warm and earnest
manner in which you supported Mr.. Calhoun,
we supposed that his principles were yours
but from the last number of the Journal, we
should infer that you differed from him on all
questions of national politics, toto cello. AS a
proof of this, we will merely mention, that but
short time ago, you published, without COM
ment, a long article, from some Georgia Wing
paper, denouncing the doctrine ofFree Trade.
Then you announced the fact, that Mr.. Van
Buren, had deserted the South, on the Texas
question, with evident satisfaction. Better, IN
your opinion, that the South should perish than
that Mr.. Clay should be injured. But in that
you were mistaken. The "Loco foco's," as
YOU phrase them, have the honesty todenounce
and renounce MIR. Van Buren, as soon as ne
showed himself capable Of yielding 10 the aboli'
ton fanaticism of New England and Great
Britain. Judging them by the Wings, you sup
posed they would give up Texas, rather than
Van Buren,. Ifthey sustained Van Buren, they
could not denounce Clay, therefore you rejoc-
ed that our last hope ofgaining Texas was lost,
if thereby Mr.. Clay could be saved.
Again.-Your paper is full ofdenunciations
of the Loco Focofsr-who are they? Do you
allude to Calhoun, McDuffie, Huger, Bnit,
and others Of our delegation in Congiess7
You approve cordially of Clay's " mastery
letter." and regret that you cannot publish it.
Not one word do you say of Mr.. Calhoun's
truly statesmanlike and unanswerablc letter
not one word ofregret that you have no room
for it. But, you can find room for long ex-
tract from Lord Aberdeen's letters, with the
comments of the Chronicle and Sentinel, "to
show the desperate game played by the politi'
cal, stock, and land gamblers, and those in the
confidence Of the administration, &C., to impose
upon tho people," Charging those in the con-
fdence ofthe administration with the attempt
to "poison the public mind" of using "desper-
ate means" to effect this object, and Of "pub-
fishing gross Misrepresentation" as to the in
,entions of England. For whom is all this
meant, if not for Mr.. Calhoun7 Who else has
made the charge upon the British government
Again-in the Journal Of May Is, you can find
room for long extract from MI. Clay's letter;
but every reply to it is carefully excluded. A
cause must be desperate indeed, which has to
be supported by such meanness.
In the last number of the Journal, you say
that yon have confidence in the ability, pa.
,riotism, and foresight of Mr.. Calhoun" and
that YOU believe @whathe does will be for the
good of his country" Ia the next sentence
YOU continue; .sas to any fear from the power
of England in the matter; that is all humbug."
Mr.. Calhoun thinks difIerently-he is at Wash
ington-has all the facts before hiln-and doubt.
less many tha, have no. been published-and
he says, most emphatically, that England does
intend interfering. You pronounce this "hun'-
bug."-This3is certainly complimentary Ian
guuge 10 use of your first ehoiee for the Pres'-
dencp,-a manin whose liability, patriotism, and
foresight" you have confidence" and who
will, You believe, do nothing but "for the good
of his country" Upon what do you predict
this opinionl The whole of Mr.. Calhoun's
letter is directed to the defence of slavery, and
10 the establishment Of this one point-thas 1t IS
the deliberate purpose Of England to obtain foot
ing in Tezas,t for the purpose Of assailing the
South. Yettwithout even the semblanee of ar
adducing a single fact, you
denounca it as miserable "hunbug." All
things being eq1ul, we are not disposed TO dis
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