The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-10-06

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factions. which bad 30 long diegraeea character
ptry there something peculiarly refr-shi u
In the position TO which TIE honest old veteran
| advancing seemingly with firm et'p. to occupy. i'm
Dorfslze, and adorn believed that with his over
wbemipg military and personal popularity his sig Ia
pute for honesty he nevornoe charity and kndues
of feeling he shout with the Il Club Of Hercules,
to destroy at one blow 10th the giant Of faction
what was far better that insane re2tile
which Ike the devil In the guise Of road sough
trpacherous ahelfer in the Wilmot prpyiuo ~ Thai
tnch victory cousumms,ed by his own triumphant
election fp General Taylors power. ca not for
mon' Mt doubt He had only to stand his grou nd
he did at Buena Vista He had only to nouuce &c
and forever ths. be WAS the candidate Of no party
and in accepting the nomiD alton of the WING Co
vention at Philadelphia to have accompanied the ac-
ceptspce with an explicit declaration that lie had
in no degree departed from the mistaken resolution
with which he had fortified his first position and that
he intended to abide by those great compromises by
which alone the Union CT these States can be pre-
served He would have swept the entire south and
South west from the Chesapeake to the Rio Grande
and compelled the whig party at the North and West
to come In to bis support suffer under BILE
perry caDdidste. an gnominious defeat As it is, |
think General Taylor has thrown away the best trump
cards which candidate for the Presidency held;
perhaps because he knows better how open stand
up fight s to be conducted than the stratagems
OF party politics.
can readily conceive that the friends of General
Taylor the South honestly believe that he would
the event of his election occupy widely different
pei him to and that many sound democrats in
South Carolina should consider their support of Gen
Taylor to involve breach Of their old and approx
faith; bsnce such opinions worthy of the kindest
and most considerable liberation. and no where are
they to Ne tolerated more emphatcaly than with us,
(for still regard myself as South Carolinian, aud
ever willy where have been united a 'bsnd of
brothers." Let me. therefore, old friend urge
upon that portion of the you the
most CHART Interpretation of the motives of those
from whom you differ, as nothing could be more a.
lamious than any disruption of that frater
hoo nhoro afavfea fhav ac
which has led to the strength of the moral position
which che has always occupied in the confederacy.
You will scarcely expect to say word in refe-
renee to the relation which Mr. Van Buren, occupies in
this triangular cont. st." who Is likely to exhibit the
singular spectacle Of candidate without single vote,
in which he can harm nobody but himself What a fate
for who has been President of the nited States
Having said thus much Of the candidates, permit
to say word In reference to the crisis in
dust in the balance.
The upsbot of ali the discussions which have take
that the South is not to have the Missouri
promise. which was a concession. and an enormous
concession. she generously made both to union aud
willing to have brand put upon our forehesds
and to admit at once that We are degraded morally
degraded people, essentially colonial all the charac
teristics OF our ignominious submission
For this crisis1et South Carolina be united and in
position By amoral destiny, which she oaunot resist,
the intelligence and bravery of her people will throw
her at the head Of the column in advance What her
gle roua did at Contreras Churuhusco, Chapulte
and the Carlta. mere prelude and fOreehad-
owing Of what they will do in defence Of their rights
under the constitution Of the United States, on any
battle field upon which God pours either the light Of
day. or shrouis in the darkness Of night
You and myself, my dear sir. belonged to party in
our State accused upjusty accused Of disaection to
the Union. Fifteen years have elapsed since
the gsner. government. certainly had nv full share
Of responsibility in those events to which you refer
terms Of so much kindness and compliment assure
you that If concurred in the compromise by which
those difficulties composed, and for which the
country 20 large debt of gratitude to Mr. Clay
tits equally gifted and blessed may arise, Who may
have the to stay the coming storm and give
the country once more the "rainbow Of peace and
hope But It s in vain to conceal the fact that the
Union is disqueted by evils as portentous in their
magnitude as they seem to be incurabe in their acr
that have real existence except in over excited
anxeties: Iwish that could participate in the
adspss Of Others but when such man as Daniel
attachmen mt to the Union essentially of peace,
intimaed the last day of the last session of
and distinctly intimaed that the free States would not
give ground at the hazard Of IN his opinou) the
last and greatest calamity which BETA our county
not high time for us to we will give ground
We who are not the aggressive but the aggrieved
party-who are entitled to all the common benefits,
rights and prveges Of this Union-we who could only
sure nder them with bsseness and cowardice which
would set us mark in the future history of the
world for it's eternal contumely and scorn aud this
tsry their instincts as any that God has ever crea
ted with all the aptitudes for war; who find safe
seat the back Of the widest horse OF the prarie
whore hands the deadly rifle commits error
or mistake.
IL is time, however, that drew this long communi-
cat to close. cannot do so without turning with
hlial affection to the state Of my birth To South
Notwithstanding she does untouched by reproach,
and uptarpisbed by dshonor-the remembrance of
my connections. both private and public, with her
often comes unbidden to my memory to remind me
that it is in such recollectons amidst all the
of the forgotten value of existence /" know not my
dear sir what fate may be in for her. whether
If the critis does come to which have scarcely
than STUDDED, she is destined to stand Alone or with
her "Sopthern copfederates'' to breast the coming
storm. But there ia one thing that do know, that
she has not however separated from her by seas
the most dista mt by mountains the most inac
who would not hasten to her with eager and ire
pressible loyalty
among the most favored Of her children, to cay
what would be his duties in such crisis hims ELF in
think, II know my own heart, I should draw near
to the bosom Of my ''psrent landn that might feel
the pulsations Of her noble heart more, and the
synpathies Of her glorious people When, therefore,
she calls upon her sons to saddle upn II there is
one among them who has his foot in the stirrup
than myself he must rise before the setting
the morning star and sharpen his sabre by the mid
night lamp. Letus remember my dear sir that the
j. HAMILTON.
Speech of Hon. II. Il. Rhett.
DELIVERED HIBERNrAN HALL, BEFORE THE
DEmocRATIo PARTY OF CHARLESTON, SEPTEMBER
%, 1648.
Gentlemen, the Presidential election is matter of
small significance to the people Of the United States
1t is not question whether one man rather thar an
otbtr-an old soldier, or old statesman, should
dwell for the next four years in the Presidential
palace. II IL not question limited to the executive
Office even with all its functions and responsibilities.
1t is far. far wider in it's scope. The Legislature of
the Union as well as the executive OF the Union is
constituted in it's results. At the time and by
the same fundamentally. that you determine who
shall be President, you determine also who shall be
members of Congress and the party zation and
party principles which elevate the bear the others
also into power II the election for members Of Con-
entirely apart from the election for the Presi
dent in it's and principles 1t might be matter
| Of little con equeDce who Is made President. The
President makes no laws He only approve dis
approve, after laws ere passed by Congress But as
matters the presidential cleo ton Is great struggle
of parties for the Executive for the legislature In
the General Goyernmep mt and in the States and for
| you for the peope-Gt may DO otherwise for poti
clans, who may gain offices and houors by les results