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your course, III Teiu'iuu W thS "n' VIZ"
Mexico, at least as regards your opinion
of its Justice, &c. You have likewise. (if
am any judse,) thrown yourselves and
press, in q great measure, into Tie arms OF
The opponents Of the present adminis,ra-
iion, If abuse of our patriotic President,
and his Cabinet, will make you acrepta'
ble to Them. Your former articles, exrol-
ling him. are at one fell swoop, contradict
ed, and you appear nov to be about 10
embrace new idol, perhaps. in the shape
of all aSpirant, who is luxious to break
down, or steal, the good name, and char
acter. of some one ol ilie lavorlte snns oil
the people of This Congressional districI,
who either has been, or is now, in the way
of some young office seekers. Your course
since the announcement Of the Mexican
troubles. has vdried, and Inconsistency has
weekly, marked your sieps,-so plain has
been .he Inconsistency. that doubts have
! arisen, in my mind, whether the Washing
ton acire. .,corksrs, have not heeD PLAYING
The Thimblcs with you, to answer their
own ends.
Upon the 2Olh Of May, in flaming ed
itorial, you advocated strongly, the course
pursued by The citizens of the U. States,
| in relation to the Mexican war. extract
the following fiom that article, which
brea,hed, in my opinion, pure American
language:
"Thcy pause not to calculate the conse-
qnenccs, nor do they linger to investigate the
causes of the wnr-it IS sufficient tor ttieta 70
believe, that they had been wronged, aud for
| them 10 know, that the blood ot-thclr fellow
citizens has been shed by the hands OF lawl ess
barbarians."
In the same article. in speaking Of what
the feelings and sentiments Of the Amerl.
can people ought 10 be, at al! 'im's, when
our country is in danger. you say, that as
! the blow has heen struck,
"This is not the time TO discuss the ptopre!y
/ of his (,he Presidents :"nluct, nor to pass
thar Sc, ere judgment upon his actions, which
they should receive when the contest shall have
been ended, aud when peace shall have been
| declared"
Agan:-
| "rhis is not the moment To ask what ri sht
our Executive had 10 commit this or that act oi
outrage and higfrhanded injustice 10 the Pc"-
pie, orwhat right he had to plunge the conntiy
into war with nation which we least wished
to annoy, and towards which we were disposed
| to exercise the most forbearing lenl,y AND com
passion We must now strike, and we must
strike efleclually-by all that is sacred, we
must "slrike home" BY adopting such II
course the war will sooner be brought to
close, and our differences be much sooner set
tied, and our wounds suouer healed. This
temporzing or hesi!a.ing policy is fatal poll
cy, al any lime, aud during war i. is utterly
ruinous."
The above extracts, Messts. Editors,
were no doubt written, when you were
full of love Of country. and not under the
banetuL influence OF The lcire-w0rkers al
Washington.
In your paper of tne 10Th of June. you
still, in your remarks, relative TO raising
Volunteers, breathe the true American
"The cool indifserer ce which has sheen man
iftsted by some Of The leading public Journals
this State, 10 the slaughter of our brethren
on the Rio Grande. and 10 the war which Is
now raging on our frontiers, is highly calcu-
lated to Hislead the people, and to chill their
patridt,srn-it is stain upon our es:utcheon-
it is disgrace upon South Carolina. There
is something rotten in Denmark" 1t should
be corrected by the people in their primary
assemblies. Since the commencement Of this
war, we have seen much in some OF our abcst
newspapers, to excite the Indignation of every
true patriot Editors that can sneer at the ef.
forts Of the country in time Of war, TO rally in
its own defence, areunworthy to represent the
views OF free people"
10 the same paper, you very justly yin.
dicale the course adopted by The Edgefeld
Meeting, in moi taking notice Of the reso-
lutions, offered relating to The Hon. John
C..Calhoun. which resolutions had been
acknowledged, by all, bis friends and foes,
10 be uncaled for. and i'll timed, as the
meeting was not rallied for The purpose OF
expressing opinions upon MEN," but up
On IN EasuREs," and the publication oI
the resolutions, after they bad been expung-
ed from the proceedings, 5y consent Of all
concerned, were no doubt intended, for the
purpose of injuriug an innocent individual,
who was not present at the time the reso-
lulions were offered or discussed. Fol-
fear Of not doing you justice, | quote your
own words upon this subject:
It was considered inopportune and unne
cessary at meeting called for The purpose o.
sustaining the Government in the vigorous
prosecution ofthe war with Mexico, TO be ex
pressing our admiration for ono Of our Sena
tors, and in such terms as mightimply censure
upon others. We have heard no one, in oil
out Of the meeting strenuously object to Mr.
Calhoun's refusal to vote for the bill declaring
war with Mexico, but we have heard in con
yersaiion regret expressed thatcMr C. had MOI
taken some public occasion to avow his deter
mins!ion Of sustaining the country in the war