The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-08-06


| 1t should be distinctly understood that the only
party, and the only men, in South Carolina who
are determined upon repeal OF the Protective
lariH and The Immediate annexation of Texas or
Nu'hca.ion ana Disunion, are those who support
James r. Polk for President. The Wings OF
that state are as thoroughly patriotic as arden,ly
attached TO the Union, and as frank and as zeal
Gus IN their support OF those measures which the
Wing party throughout the country support as
those of any New England State No one who
Is familiar with the tone of the Wing press at
/ the South can need additional assurance of this
| but as these organs of the sentiments of South
Carolina Wings may not be accessible to all our
readers, we ask their attention to some extracts
from long and able review, in the Charleston
Courier, of the letter of the Hon. !. Il, Holmes,
M g., to which we have already alluded.
"Htherto," says the Charleston Courier, we
| have been cordial IN our support OF Mr.. Holmes
we have been warm in our praise Of his active
and business-like course in Congress- and of his
dignified rebukes Of the dsturbers Of the peace of
Congress; and we have ever gladly welcomed
him back among us, after his periods of Congress
| slonal service, with the emphatical 60 well DONE"
always due to the faithful public servant. We
| reloiced, too, when we heard that he had come
home, this time, brimtul of love and devotion to
our glorious Union. Here, ho,oever, zoe part avih
him, and sag, Ephraim is joined TO his idols, LEI
ham alone Instead of realizing his supposed at
tachment to the Union, he rather confirms by
| his course, another rnmor, that he was the man.
the single man of the South Carolina delegation.
who was induced, with maiden shyness and GOV
| reluctance, to sign Mr.. Rhett's prepared but sup
pressed manifesto or address, which the frown of
Mr.. Calhoun strangled in its birth. we tell Mr..
Holmes, once for all, that an relation 10 mullifca-
taon by one State, N resistance by NAM States.
WE DRAW THE SWORD AND THROW AWAY THE
scABBARD. Nay, further, we tell him that we
take ground at once in favor of a moderate and per-
"aaneM system Of Protection "a domestic manufac-
tures and every other industrial pursuit. within
the revenue limit, adjusted to the economical
wants OF an honestly administered government,
as at once constitutional and expedent--that we
believe this to be the true, constitutional and
economical policy of both South and North, and
of our entire nation William C. Riyes, the great
statesman Of Virginia, the Madison Of the pres
ent era, has completed our conviction of the erpe-
diency Of the Sarif policy--of its constitutions
atty, whether as question Of argument, or as
settled by the authority of the sages who framed
the Constitution, and the uniform practice, of our
Government from its origin to the present day.
we have never entertained doubt. Let Mr..
Holmes follow the standard of Mr.. Rhett and his
dlsunonlsts, if he Will-we rally to the proud.
the patriotic, the constitutional banner of sClav
and the Union"
This is noble and stirring language, and embo-
dies sentiments which do honor to the gallant
Wings of the Palmetto State. 1t places them
upon high and commanding ground, and furnishes
the best and most conclusive evidence possible
of the thorough unitY and individuality of the
great Wing party throughout the country. Their
principles are identical every where; they never
seek to conceal them in any section, but prove
themselves the same in every State and every
section of the Republic. The Courier proceeds.
"But is Mr.. Holmes really aware of the posi-
ton in which he and his feleader Mr.. Rhett
have placed themselves. They are for threaten
ing notification or Southern Convention unless
Mr.. Polk be elected President--they hold these
alternatives as a rod IN terrorem over the people
Of the United States, should they dare TO disre-
gard the sovereign wishes of South Carolina and
elect tariff President and tariff Congress, instead
of national nobody and incidental protectionist
DO they not fear that such a threat will over
whelm them with ridicule-do they really think
that the chiualrous mode of MANUFACTURING pro-
sdents or modifying tariffs If they do it speaks
volumes of their passion, their blind, infurate
passion-and nothing literally nothing-for Their
patriotism, wisdom or stalesmanshp'
After proving that the direct aim Of tbese
South Carolina locofocos is to bring about Tho
appalling issue OF Disunion and Ciuu VAR
the Courier thus adverts to The conviction that
has recently grown up and become strong. that
the South will abandon her free trade theories
and manufacture for herself:
"We cannot close these structures on Mr.
Holmes, without advertng to his singular and
discourteous mode of making known his opposition
to Senator Huger's wise and patriotic mode of
the tariff. The Senator told Us TIKI
we had better fight the tariffites with their own
weapons sand manufacture for ourselves Tho
Representative says" But the idea of restoring
South Carolina to the prosperity she once enjoyed,
by converting her labor to manufacturing nfrno
SEES appears to me to be preposterouso Senator
Huger's plan then is preposterous-the Saluda
and Vancluse factories, too, are preposterous
Mr.. ), Benjamin., very sensible constituent Of
Mr. Khett, in the midst of nullifers, disunonis,s,
and promoters of OWL war, was sufficiently sound
in patriotism and his senses, to give E
Texas or Disunion The tocsin of our ma.
tional death-may its knell be forever hushed bv
the reverberating sound of Southern manufac.
lures, the most efficient notification Of the act of
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