The State guard. [volume] (Wetumpka, Ala.) 1847-18??, 1847-06-29
MIR. Escssi0n,s Letter.

/ ST. Louis. vi y II 1871
| Dear SRI take the frs moment of
leisure after my arrival in this place TO
answer your kind communication OF
he 18Th OF January, and 10 let you how
much was panied atseeing the proceed
Iiags of the most respectable meeting Of
which you we're chairman. Ii was pres
cisely to forestall and prevent such
manifestations in my favor that | sp Ike
to the point OF The next presidency in
my spercb al Boonville, IN the summer
OF 1874, and all the sentiments which !
then expressed remained in full force
now, strengthened and confirmed by all
that has since happened.
then brough! forward the glazing
fact that, in above 60 years existence OF
tbs federal government, the democracy
OF the north had given bu, one President
to the Union, and that but for one term;
and this (of la'e) from southern oppo-
sition to northern men. And then
took it on myself to say that this course
OF things would have TO be changed,
Otherwise there would be an end of the
dem oeratic party founded on political
principles, and expressed my gratifca
ton that Mr. Polk's early and volunta-
~ self denial lad cleared The way for a
northern democratic candidate IN ls4S.
| These were my sentiments in lS43
they are my sentiments now. and are
moi TO be abandoned at the coming elec-
ton. when see new scheme developed
from the south for the permanent ex-
clusion of all northern men from south
ern support for the presidency. The
6rebrand resolutions introduced into the
senate, towards the close of the late SEES
sion, and their practical application to
Oregon, (by which we lost the Oregon
bill, and leave.the people OF that terrific
~ a year longer without law or govern
ment,) reveal this scheme. and present
new test on the slavery question,
which no northern man can stan5, and
hich if adopted BY the south, must pu,
an end to all future support OF northern
men from the southern democracy.
Heretofore We, The slaveholding states
have stood Together upon two points
defence and c"mpromise-the defence
Of property and Institutions and the com
promises II the laws OF the constitution
and on these two points the great ma
jority Of the north, of both political par
ties, hive been able to stand with u.s..
But now new position is TO be taken
one on which no northern man can
stand. Propagandsm is now the doc
trine Of the political sect which assumes
10 be the standard bearer Of all the slave
holding states and 10 pIaEt slavery by
law, in oil the territories of the United
States, even the most remote hyperbo-
rean-even in Oregon itself, and against
the will of its Northumberland the
design and tie attempt!
The words OF the resolutions, the
speeches in their favor. and their prac,
teal application TO The Oregon bill all
prove this, and show TINT the new doc
irlne is Intended TO b. made a new pu-
litic al test, to be applied TO alt plesiden~
iiai candidates in time 10 come, and, Ike
all new tests. Intended 20 supersede all
former ones, and In constitute the sole
criterion for the trial Of candidates =
Now everybody must see that il this
new test shall be adopted by the slave.
holding states, there is an end to oil pos
Ii'ical support of northern men in these
states-.ihat the present organization oil
parties must be broken up, and new
parry formed, bounded by geographical
lines aud resting on the sole principle ol
slavery propagandism. T am not pre-
pared for such state ofTparties, nor foI
the effect which il would have upon the
harmony and stability Of our fedora
Union. / see great danger in this new
move, and'frel the necessity of meeting
il al once.
In fact We must meet Il at once or moi
at all; for il is pressed Upon US now and
4 will conquer if We don't conquer il. The
presidential election OF I848 is the cri-
sis; and If the new test can be made I,
govern that election, shall consider ;ht
danger cohsummated. and that there
must soon be an end not of The demo-
cratic party, but of all parties founded
on principle, and eventually an end o
the Union ITSELF Eos'ead, then. OF in
dulsing personal or local feeling in ia
vor Of particular candidates, LEI Us. (tht
democratic pariy.) look 10 whatthe goot
of,he Union and OF the party requires
and wait TO receive a candidate from
that section OF the Uniun. which hal
given but one democrat president in nea
sixty years, and that one but for sin
gle term, and which is now threatened
50 far as southern votes are concerned
with permanent exclusion from the pres
ideniial office.
/ This, my dear sir. is my plain ant
settled answer 10 your Kind communities
Lion, and wish yoq to make Il know
to the members Of meeting Of whlcl
Iyow were chsirman. smocg whom SCI
the names o. n,aRy old s;e1dss and re,
Icognizs the voice Of ikst powerful coun
~, which has stood hy me in'every t,isl