The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-06-20
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THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 20, 1914.
THE Observation-Disclosures

the resolutions of various Polk meetings in South
Carolina, we accidentally omitted the preamble to
the Barnwell meeting, without which the trea-
sonable purpose of the resolution proposing the
convention at Nashville is not SO apparent. The
preamble contains the following passage, which
clearly hints that disunion is to take place if
nexation is not effected:
1--WE believe that the very existence itself OF
this blood bought and blood cemented Union will
be determined by it,"
The Edgefeld, Sumter, and Beaufort resolu-
tons were more explicit, and present the issue
in so many words.
We have further information from South Caro-
lima of meeting in Union District at which re-
solutions of similar purport were adopted. In
order that our re aders may be advised of the pro-
gress which the disunion spirit makes, we sub
join extracts from the proceedings.
At meeting in Union District, on the Sd inst,
preamble was adopted, in which We find the fol-
lowing sentiment openly avowed:
LET it be said, once for all. that there are
rights which we love better than we love the
Union, and which we will not yield even to save
it, and when called upon by the force of circum-
stances which we believe are fast approaching
to make our election, our minds are made up as
to the course to be pursued. We desire no po-
ltcal coDnexion with declared enemies to our
peace. We neither daily nor doubt. We hold
to our rights-give up the Union, and leave the
consequences to Coo"
The same meeting passed the following among
other resolutions
"Be it, therefore, reiolred, That the immediate
annexation OF Texas to the American Union is
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tional policy ami national safety; and believing
that if The Federal authorities should fail to ratify
the treaty now pending before the Senate of the
Uni'ed States, Texas must rely on some other
power for support-the question then becomes
one of the greatest Importance to the South and
consideration, not even disunion itself, is sum
cient to defeat the annexation"
Well has South Carolina supported the deca-
ration of Colonel Benton, that the annexation pro-
ject originated in desire TO dissolve this Union
We shall continue to present such manifesto
tons Of the popular feeling in South Carolina as
may reach us; but when the manufacturers and
masters of that sentiment, Calhoun and McDuf-
fe, are known to be nmcal to the Union, and
have spent their best days in efforts to dissolve it,
no evidence was necessary to convince US of the
state of feeling among the Polk party in South
Carolina. 1t yet remains to be developed how
far the project of disunion is participated in by
the friends of Mr.. Polk in other quarters. We
are very sure that the feeling of attachment to
the Union is extremely weak in the minds of all
those who were mainly instrumental in his nomi-
nation, and who will support him cordially. They
may have the discretion to say nothing of their
alternative until their defeat comes; but nothing
can be more apparent than that disunion is the
settled purpose of the friends of James K. Polk
as soon as it is ascertained that he cannot be
made President.
We must not be understood as charging the
Northern Locofocos with purpose TO dissolve
the Union when we speak of Mr.. Folks friends,
because we have no idea that they belong to that
category. They are merely the covering me-
nials--the "white slaves of the Polk party-and
have not political principle or feeling in CON-
mon with their masters. They are the misera-
BILE, pusanmous, brow beaten MAJORITY,
whom proud, naughty, domineering minority
boasts its ability to control. Every honest, indie
pendent freeman in the country must despise the
cowardy (not Chrstian) meekness of spirit
which has been displayed by the Northern Loco
focos.
We shall not believe, until the most unques-
tionable evidence is furnished us, that the great
body OF Mr.. Van Buren's friends the masses of
honest Locofocos who preferred him for his prin-
ciples, can be induced to support the candidate
whom the poor-spirited majority of The Baltimore
Convention meekly accepted from naughty die
tatorial minority.
1t may be difficult to account for the political pol
troonery of the majority of the Baltimore Conven-
ton. 1t may be impossible to imagine the means