Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1848-10-27
For the Journal.
DEMOCRATIC MEETING.

den County assembled in The Court House in
Elizabethtown.
The meeting was organized by the appoint.
ment of John D. Beatty as Chairman. and Co
lin Monroe and Thomas Mcdowell as Secre-
lalie+.
The Chairman, in very few appropriate
remarks. explained the object for which the
meeting was called.
On motion of George w. Bannerman, the
Chairman appointed the following gentlemen
a Committee TO prepare resolutions, viz
Isaac Wright, William W. Harvey, William
Davis, Nathan Bryan, Duran Lewis, K. X.
Council, and George W. Bannerman.
The Committee having retired, Mr.. David
Reid, of Wilmington, being present, was re-
quested to address the meeting. Mr.. Reid a.
rose, and for nearly an hour engaged the at
tention of his audience with an able speech in
vindication of our distinguished candidates and
the principles which they advocate.
The Committee having returned, reported
through Mr.. Wright the following preamble
and resolutions -
WHEREAS, In discharge of the duties as
signed US. we have examined the proceedings
of the Baltimore Convention, and are of the
opinion the resolutions adopted by that en-
lightened and patriotic body embrace the COM
promises of the Constitution, and all the ee-
ments of Democracy, on which it is based :;
hence we recommend their adoption as our
political text book, as rule of action by which
we are TO shape our course and regulate our
conduct during the Presidential contest. A
contest which involves much TO interest both
| the citizen and patriot. On which depends
Revenue or Protective Tariff and the rights
and privileges guaranteed by the Constitution
in relation to our domestic institutions. Ia
riff for revenue alone secures to the people all
the comforts and elegancies of life-whiIst
protective imposes arbitrary cloggs on trade,
for the benefit of the few al the expense of
the many. To defeat this few-this aristo-
cratic and monopoliZing class--with all their
fell purposes and designs to arrest them in
| their mad career, as regards our territorial
rights, the energy of the masses must he excl
ted, and their strength put forth, by general
rally at the ballot box. 1t is there the battle
will be fought; it is there victory or defeat
awaits us. 1t follows then that the election of
Lewis Cass Dis President, and VIM o. Butler
as Vice President, is of vital importance to the
nation. We confde implicitly in the wisdom
| and patriotism of those who selected them,
and however humble our pretensions, and lin
tied our knowledge, we should feel as if we
had not discharged the duties assigned us, if
we did not invoke our fellow citizens TO use
all honorable means to secure their election :;
and in behalf of the party to procaim-It is
expected that every man will do his duty -
Lewis Cass is a home-bred statesman, of libe-
raj and commanding views having witnessed
the progress OF Western improvements in eve
ry stage, is familiar with their great and as
tonishing results. None are more able or
willing to succor and sustain them. He COM
prehends all the advantages of soil and climate
of this great confederacY of States, and Terri
tory so recently acquired Soaring above all
sectional views, his purpose will be to turn
them to account. He INDUCES in no Visiona-
ry speculations-no ideal greatness-a matter
of-fact man, as ready to advance the interest
of one section as another. Yielding to no sick
Iy sentmentaity, he is unwilling to undermine
or restrict our domestic Institutions, on which
rests the safety of the South and prosperity Of
the Moth. lie is fully aware that on slave
labor depends much the larger portion of our
exports, from which arises in like ratio our
imports and revenue. He sees the ruin that
would follow Withdrawing two millions of la
borers from growing Cotton, Rice, Tobacco,
Sugar, and Naval Stores, for which, under the
salutary restrictions imposed by the Constitu-
tion the world cannot afford substitute. We
invite our brethren OF the free States to exam
inc well the subject and honestly count the
! cost. The arms severed from the body would
not nure 1t mos than depriving the CONNER
cial States of Southern productions. The
noIicy of Great Britain and France must rem
der their West Indies mere waste. Space
overcome by steam, and the powers of rivalry
on their part utterly PROSTATE, we will supply
Europe with Cotton and Sugar. With rail
ways and canals, connecting the Atlantic and
Pacific, our cotton fabrics of the coarser kind,
in the markets of British India, will more than
compete with hers. Their emancipation leaves
us free from competition, and greatly enhan-
ces the value of slave labor. 1t gives US the
monopoly and control OF Southern productions
on their own markets. From us Great Britain
must obtain her Cotton of finer staple TO sup
ply her mills, now producing one-haif her
exports. How else are her Tobacco monopo-
lies, her richest source of revenue, 10 be
sustained Apart from slave labor, what
would become of our Northern factories, their
ships, seamen, towns, and cities Our COM
+ mercial marine, the nursery for seamen, on
WnlCn our naval pfOWeSS 0ependS, ana the
largest coastwise trade in the world, concen-
trating the wealth Of the South in the larger
cities of the North. All must tumble into
ruin, and for whose benefit? We confess we
are unable to discover. If we have under
stood the speeches of Lewis Cass, those great
operations of the South, the basis of more
manufacturing and commercial wealth than
has heretofore existed in the world, and the
only barrier against direct taxation, are bv him
fully appreciated. His able and mastery eff
forts in relation to the QuntupIe Treaty,
proves to US his sagacity as statesman, and
that he then said if those elements of power
were preserved and ably directed, our COM
mercial and naval proves would soon be IT.
resistihle. and that New York, in place of
London, would become the great mart OF ma
tons The Bee, yielding to instructive impul-
ses, collects and deposits the sweets of every
flower. The statesman should realize and
render available the productions Of every Sec
ton. How pitful, and much TO be depreca-
ted, those sectional jeaIousies, This uncaled
for intermedling in the affairs of others-jeo-
J pardizing the leading interest OF this happy
| country, and endangering the Union of this
great confederacy. The measures of the ad-
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