Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1847-07-30

By Nash j., in State y. O'Neal from Edge
combe, declaring that there is no error. Also
in Brady u. Parker, in Equity from Edge
combe declaring the plaintiff entitled to partI-
ton Also, in Sylvester .. Cook, in Equity
from Onslow, dismissing the bill with costs.
Also, in State Q. Lee, from Craven, declaring
that there is no error.
Tor the Journal.
Mr.. FULToN-I am not at ali disposed to
approve of the course adopted by those Edi-
tors who, from restlessness, or for the want of
something else about which to write para
graph, are endeavorlng TO bring our country
into the excitement Of the approaching Presi-
dental election. Our people have just cooled
off from the high political fever of 1874, and
it is premature to immerge them in the boiling
chaldron Of 1913. They should be allowed
little breathing respite. These remarks are
made with sincerity, yet am going to commit
the same offence which have condemned in
others. My apology for this piece of incon-
sstency will be found in my great anxiety to
put your Democratic readers on their guard
respecting the peculiar policy of the plan a.
bout being adopted by the Federal party in
running Gen. Taylor for the Presidency AS
a veteran Democrat, | cannot reconcile it to
my feelings to support any candidate for the
Presidency whose political principles are not
distinctly avowed, and accord with those which
it has always been my pride to advocate and
sustain. Gen. Taylor, in his two published
letters, declines to make, at the present time,
any declaration of his principles, but abjures
any thing like party association. | cannot
censure him for this refusal TO make a formal
declaration of his principles at the present
conjuncture of our Mexican affairs. A differ
ent course would be inappropriate and ill-ad-
vised. 1t would infallibly create political
division among the Volunteers under his COM
mand, and be strongly calculatedto induce in
subordinaton in their ranks.
AS Gen. Taylor has expressly disayowed
any personal agency in procuring his nomina-
ton, what object have these Federal organs in
view in thus thrustng him forward as an in
voluntary candidate? In thus placing him in
the unenviable position of being candidate
without any ascertained principles? A posi-
ton as foreign to his character as it must be
disagreeable to his feeIings' This question
is pregnant with importance, and beseech all
good and true Democrats, who value their
principles in preference over men, to consider
we'll before they are caught in the snare which
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no candidate, whose Democratic orthodoxy is
in the least questionable; and let not the de-
vice of bringing forward candidate whose
military position in the service of his country
forbids the making declaration of his princi-
pies, avail the Federal party. 1t is an ack-
nowledged fact that they cannot succeed in
acquiring control over the government of
our country, under full diru1gement" of
character, and hence their great anxiety, their
hot-haste, to conceal their "clOven feet" un-
der the garb of a distinguished military chief
tain 1t has now been more than the third of
a century since Mr. Jefferson declared that the
Federal party, 60 nom1ne, could never recover
their political influence in our country, and
our experience during the last twenty years
fully demonstrates that the leaders of the Fed
eral party are satisfied of the truth of Mr..
Jeffersons declarations. What other consld-
eratons could have induced them so frequent
~ to have changed their names What other
inducement could they have. at the present
time, after having, by party appropriation,
desecrated the sacred name of Wing, to cast il
off with scorn and contempt, and assume as
It's substitute the name of Gen Taylor? Why
their eagerness to establish nO-party party
But it is fortunate for the Democracy of the
country that this chameleon like party are not
gifted with the Masonic symbol. Scattered
as it is over our wide spread country, it /:
practically impossible for its various organs to
shew that secrecy and conceit which is indis-
pensable for the success OF any conspiracy
and it is only necessary for the Democracy to
al keep a sharp look out" to recognize under
its each and every alias, their old enemy, Fed
eralism. ! am induced thus TO raise my feeble
voice OF warning from having observed IN the
Louisville Journal statement made by the
Editors. that, notwithstanding the contents OF
Gen. Taylor's published letters, they, the
Editors" had seen private letter from the
same old gentleman, in which he states that
he is out and out Wing, clearly leaving the
impression that his administration will be con-
Quoted on strict Wing principles. Now, Mr.
Editor, am far from being satisfied that Gen
Taylor could be guilty of the unfairness, Of
the mean disingenuousness, OF writing these
J Janus-like letters. That, notwithstanding he
informs the American people that it is impro'
per for him TO make declaration of his polit.
ical tenets, yet heis engaged in writing private
letters, assuring his correspondents that ne is