The North-Carolina standard., 1848-08-30

jfhouChf NECESSARY, but our answer Is eraWh ~ %
to prevent any misapprchenslon Oh our HoN'e'
declining your request. =, !. .h;a
We would, with great respect Suggest that .n.s'
the second communication from your Club to OUTS
should be the last. We can perceive no gooo ~
arise to either party from the repetition OF such COM
mnncations We think we can conduct our canvass
without any aid from you, and we certainty nave ~
disposition to interfere with your appropriate unc
| tons. ',..
Very respectfully, remain :,
- GEO. w. HAYWOOD 4 :
-. Pres't Rough and Ready Club;
To d. X. McRAE, ESQ.
On Saturday night last this CORRESPONDENCE was
laid before the Cass and Butler Club, by MT. NC
Rae, and ably commented upon by that gentleman
He was followed by MIR. Busbee, who spoke In
strains of indignant eoquence upon the extraorolna
ry position here assumed by the Wing party In this
City; and after he had concluded it was unanimously
ordered by the Club that the above Correspondence
be laid before the public. ....
The people of North Carolina will perceive, from
this Correspondence, what the Wing game is to be
in the present campaign. Gen. Taylor IS to be taken
on trust-tAe people are asked to for him, acitout
noaci,g his opinions question Of the most "'t0'
Importance to the country, and on which he will be
bound to act in case he is elected And more than
this-these gentlemen not only answer for themselves
against their country, by charging that the late war
was commenced by the President but they de-
cline to unite in asking Gen. Taylor what he thinks
of a war which first brought him into notice, and in
which he has won nearly all his laurels. And has
it come to this! Are we called upon, at this day,
in Representative Government like ours, seriously
to discuss the question whether candidate for pub
lie station ought be required to give his opinions
to the people? And what the reasons offered to
the public by these gentlemen, in justification Of the
course they have deemed it their duty to pursue
They follows:
First. They-that is, the Rough and Ready Club
of Raleigh shave the utmost confidence, derived
from the character of Gen. Taylor, and from the
whole history of his life, that if elected, he will dis
charge his duties with fidelity and ability &c.
Now what is that character''i Is he not notorious
Iy mere soldier, and is not his :" whole history"
that of man of camps and battles !! Has he ever
performed the first civil action! Never! They shave
the utmost confidence, derived from the character"
and history" of soldier, that he is qualified
to fill the highest civil Office in the world! - ,~.
Second. "Neither Washington, nor Adams, nor
Jefferson, Madison, nor Monroe was ever cate
chized by clubs or conventions "-and " Gen: Tay-
or in this respect, stands upon their platform. But
were the people ignorant of the views and principles
of those great men. Did not every citizen have good
to know what they would adopt lead
ing questions9 Was Washington, or Jefferson. or
Madison ever held up in one section as for certain
measure, and in another section against it! And
were they not all statesmen? And did not General
Taylor himself, knowing that his " whole history
had been that of the soldier and that the people of
the country could not have been informed to his
opinions and his principles, distinctly intimate, in
his Signal letter. that he would give his opinions at
" the end of the war"i And has he not expressly
declared in his Allison letter, that he has "no
cealments," and that he I" holds opinions which -
he would readily proclaim to" his IS assembled
countrymen" p
Third If they had known our " motives ''-or
could they have seen any "reason to presume" that
the Democrats, if satisfied these points, would
support Gen. Taylor for the Presidency, then they
might have united with in addressing him; or our
" request" would at least have had " some plausible
They suppose that our request
was not made in good faith, but designed to get
an answer from Gen. Taylor, that might '' dis
tort" and "convert'' to his prejudice! First,
they do not kno,U motives, and shave reason
to presume what they are; secondly, they suspect
US of bad faith and thirdly, they feel perfectly
sure that if Gen. Taylor were to answer, H under
such circumstances" our "Purpose that is, our
design to make party capital, by "distorting " and
g converting" his answer to his prejudice, ,, 'would
not be accomplished"! Strong men " struggling in |
morass party leaders throwing doubts and diff
fculties in the peoples path, and stumbling them
selves into the qucksands of inconsistency and con-
of principle in 1874 declaring
hat the only platform which their candidate for
President will recognize or occupy, is based on 81
ence and shrouded with impenetrable darkness!
But We find that time and space are failing u.s. and
hat we shall not be able, this week, to devote as
much attention to this matter as it appears to require
We cannot, however, pass over without remark the
asst paragraph in the reply of our opponents. They
suggest that this, the second communication FROM
'ur Club to them, d" should be the last" What
hat first communication? "Out OF respect" to
hem have heretofore forbome to speak of It; but
low, as they have alluded to it, it shall be known.
short time before the August elections, the Demo-
rats of this City addressed them respectful letter,
equestng to share with them the expenses Of Bar
'acue, and to have free discussions that the peo-
lie could hear both sides and this request they also
leclined! They not only o. refused on that osca-
ZION, to have public discussion, in which speakers
IN both sides could be heard, but they now decline
o unite in writing to their candidate for his opinions
IN questions of the greatest moment-opnions which
hey bound to confess are positively unknown to
The people of the State. 80 IT,.
We call upon the honest people ofNortl Caroli-
Ia to take note of these facts, and to act upon them
We ask them if they willing to take any man on
rust, whether the maxims of designing politicians
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