Holly Springs gazette., 1844-05-04
From the Anderson Gazette.
LETTER FROM Col VIM G. PREsToN TO
THE ANDERSON CLAY CLUE.
COLUMBIA, March 2. 1914.

GENTLEMEN The very kind letter
with which you have obliged me, came
here while [ was absent at WinnSboro
which has prevented me returning you my
acknow Judgements cartier Please accept
them now in the most earnest and cordial
manner, and be assured gentlemen that
receive with the deepest sensibility your
kindness towards me personally, and the ex-
pressions of warm and animated devotion to
the cause for which, under most inauspi-
cious circumstances we have so long stTug-
gled. Our conviction of the business of that
cause is proved by what all of US, more or
| less, have done or suffered; and how right
we were IN these convictions is about to be
established by the highest authority-the
verdict ofthe people. That verdict is a
boutto be rendered and even in this sta sc
of the trial, no one doubts what it will be-
| La the language OF the professions with
/ which have again grown familiar, the on
! ~ danger of getting il is, that Mr.. Martha
! Van Buren, will take non,suit
! We always beliered-I think may say,
gentlemen, that we always foresaw. that tie
connection of our State with Martin Van
Buren and his party was accidental, unnatu-
raj and temporary. The first occasion of
1.-THE Sub Treasury soon received the
general condemnation. and now those who
knew I once know it no longer. Its short
and sicltly existence was soon terminated =
1t has passed TO oblivion without a mourn
er or an epitaph. In It's place. ft success
ors TO such an ancestor, came the Baltimore
resoiutons-so Southern. so Republican, so
antl-N hg-and this was the flag under
which we were called to rally.
How those who raised II hava RI IIiad IN
it, let the leading followers of Mr. Van Bu-
rem In South Carolina proclaim What
they were in substance and effect is shown
by the late vote upon them in Congress. All
of them but one, have received the vote of ev-
cry Wing, Democrat, Tariff man, Aboi-
zionist, anti Tariff man. Nullifier, Northern
man, Southern man. and Western man. ex-
cept three in Congress, and in regard to the
last of those empty and abstract generalites
even it obtained all the votes oflhe House of
Representatives, but thirty-threc This is a
comment for the thousandth time upon the
naked folly of solemnly voting upon sound
ing phrases which either have a sense SO OBJ
vlously right that all men concur on mean
ing so vague and general that any man NAV
palter with it in double sense In the
present instance the Democrats, as it turns
N%t' PttG q ctiObOiCtI oiitCll. 6NGIf OOut
could pronounce Whig as easily as Demo
crat. The resolutions OF the Democratic
Convention at Baltimore have thus vanished
INTO 'fhln ali" or are gone with the Sub
Treasury, to that Limbo where
@AI1the unaccompIished works ofnature's hand.
AbortiVe, monstrous or unkindly mixed"
are found together.
What Eeagre measure or what pretend~
ed principle is now to be found to serve as a
chain to bind our State 10 the car of Mr. |
Van Buren, or TO mix her in strange crowds I
which makes up his procession Those /
who are willing to forgive ten years of po- |
litical sin, to consideration of the Sub Treas I
ury-have found that the country will not I
accept such an atonement. Those who |
thought the Baltimore resolutions were food /
and drink find them the apples of the dead /
sea. Those who thought that a Union |
with democratic party might advance Mr..
Calhoun to the Presideney-fnd that hope
delusive.
Mr.. Van Buren, has strength enough to
beat his frlends-but not as we believe %
beat his adversaries. Upon what pretence,
can our State vote for him, and what is to
prevent her from giving that vote to Mr..
Clay. The Tariff 1t is said-the tariff.
w no lDal IS likely now OF hereafter 10 be |
elected President ofthe United States, stands
nearer to US on this subject than he; certain
ly not Mr. Van Buren,. or Gen. Cass. or
Col. Johnson. He has placed himselfon
the compromise which his opinion and his
PRIDE of fopinion binds him to, and TO which
with the advantage of position-he would
De strong enough to bind the tariff partv.
For my part whenever that compromise
is rendered in good fath-I think the State
is bound on the point of honor as we'll as of
and sound policy TO accept It
and know no other President besides MIR
Clay. who could bring the Legislation ofthe
country to that result.
Upon the question Of abolition no man is
IN condition TO exercise so powerful and
sautary an influence-his birth-his resi-.
dence, his interest-his avowed principles
give him the utmost confidence Oft The South.
His hold upon the political feelings of the
non slave holding States-his hold upon the
Interests of portions of those with whom he
has coincidence of opinion--his known
firmness and vIgor, and the confidence with
all, friend or foe, have in him from his of.
ten experienced ability to quell the raging
elements of political strife, even when in
subordinate station. All these things quail
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