The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-02-15

plainest dictate of common sense, that what /
ever effects the whole should be regulated by
the mutual consent of all and not by the dis
erection of each. That the appointment of
Delegates TO the proposed convention is a
case of this description, | trust have exclu-
sively shown. ] have, also trust, shown
more; that the supposed right is perfectly
deceptive, for which it claims for each State
the right to appoint Delegates as it pleases,
| it in reality gives the larger States the right
to dictate how the others shall appoint. If,
for example, the Empire State, as it is call
ed, adopts the mode of appointing Gas she
has) which will concentrate her whole
strength, what discretion would she leave
to others, if they go into Convention, but to
appoint as she has appointed, or be ruled by
her. 1t is then, neither more nor less than a
claim to dictate, under the garb of right,
and such its exercise has proved in the pre-
sent case. 1t has left no option, but TO con-
form to he course, or be overruled, or re-
fuse to 60 into the Convention.
l regret this, becacse sincerely desire to
preserve the harmony of the party. | had
strong hope that the rally after the defeat of
1910 would be exclusively on principle
This hope was greatly = strengthened by the
truly republican and noble stand, taken at
the extra session. During that period of
rigid adherence to principle, perfect harmo-
ny pervaded the ranks of the party. | be-
held it with Joy. | believed the moment
I highly favorable for the thorough reformation
of the Government and the restoration of the
Constitution To the Republican party,
looked for the accomplishment of this great
work; and accordingly felt the deepest
solicitude, that the stand taken, and the har-
mony which existed, should be preserved.-
In order it should made up my mind to
waive the objection, which had long enter
tanned to any Intermediate body, unknown
TO the constitution, between the people and
the election of the President, in the hope
that the proposed convention would be so
constituted that | might consistently with
my principles give it my support. In this
have beeni disappointed, and being so, | am
compelled to decide as have done. The
same motives which impelled me to separate
, from the administrator of Gen. Jackson, in
: the plentitude its power, and come to the
rescue of Mr.. Van Buren's at its greatest de-
!, preston, compls me now to withhold my
Ii name from the proposed Convention.
: Having now assigned my reasons for re-
= fusing TO permit my name to go before the
= Baltimore Convention, it rests with you who
= have placed it before the people and assent
: ed to abide by Convention fairly consti-
= tuted, to determine what course you will pur-
} sue
Be your decision what it may | shall be
Q content. But Iregard it as due to the occa-
! sion, TO you and myself to declare that I'M
!. der no circumstances whatever shall sup
q port any candidate, who is opposed to free
e1 trade, and in favor ofthe protective policy,
d or whose prominent and influential friend and
e supporters are. hold the policy to be an
20 other name for a system of monopoly and
o plumber, and be thoroughly anti-republican
and federal in its character. | also hole
o that so long as the duties are SO laid as t
n be in fact bounties 10 one portion of the com
N munity, while they operate as oppressive
lt taxes on the other, there can be no hope
that the government can restored, or tia
# its expenditures will be reduced to proper
IS standard
], Were |, with the evidence before me, to
,e say otherwise ofmy course, it would be-
le practically TO declare that ! regard the pro-
4 tectve policy to be an open question, SO tai
o. as the party is concerned; which would
it consider, on my part, virtual abandonment
ID ofthe cause of free trade. That can never
it be. have done and suffered too much fol
It. it, when its friends were few and feeble, to
of abandon it now-now, when the auspices
IF every where, on this and the other side of the
It Atlantic, proclaim the approaching downfall o
d protection and the permanent triumph of free
% Trade /, who upheld it against monopoly
H. and plumber in the worst of times, and BRAY
to ed the menances of Administration and OPP
IS position, when backed by but single State
,e will not-cannot abandon the glorious cause
or now, when its banner waves in pround tri
ii umph over the metropolis of the commercial
n world. No, shall maintain unmovably the
d ground have so long occupied, until have
e Witnessed its great and final victory,if it shall
ne please the Dsposer of Events to spare my lif'
al so long. Il will be, indeed victory-thC
es harbinger of new and brighter and highe
!? civilization.
OF Much less. still, can give my support Il
MS any candidate, who shall give his aid o
k countenance to the ogitaton of abolition il
re Congress or elsewhere; or whose prominen
n and influential friends and supporters shall.
e. poubt the sincerity of any man, who declare
by he is no ablitionist, whilst at the same time
10 he aids or eountenances the agitation of TIL
G. question, be his pretext what it may. If W,
n have right to our slaves, we have tn
if right to hold them ia peace and quiet.
b. tle Constitution guarantees the one it guana
Nc tees the other; and if it forbids the one from
it being attacked, ii equally forbids the other
Ike Indeed the one stands to the other, as mean