The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1851-07-09
Communications.
FOR THE CHARLOTTE JOURNAL.

FOR THE CHARLOTTE JOURNAL
Mr. Editor Please allow me corner Of
your paper to address few words Of sober
reason to my democratic breIhfen Of the IhlFS
Congressional district.
For years we have fought nanfuly, and
with varying success for those great CARDINAL
principles whose success we have deemed es.
senlia TO the prosperity ofsur country and Inc
perpeiuIty of our institutions. Principles
not men has been our motto. True 10 cur
selves and to our country, our political organ
izalion has excited The admiration aud envy .
Of our opponents, and has been generally re .
gatded as The secfe, Of our success.
VIVA, is our Presen, position as great ia. /.
lionai party TIE measures for which We
have long commended, are almost universally
triumphant. That grea, incu bus upon the
body polite, the United States Bank, has re.
ceiyed lis "eternal quetus." The principle
Of protection in the lsyyIng Of tariff duties ba'
been general y abandoned and particularly 10
the South, finds few advocates in The ranks q
e,her party. The other issues ~hich a few
years ago divided the grea, political parussol
The country, have cessad to furnish matter '
dispute N the mos, Insignificant. parry CONTEST
But IN the place Of these worn cut iheme
has atisea 60 issue OF the most siupendois
ms gniiude, UNION OR DlSUNloN. Boib
North and South there have long existed tle'
neuis nimical to cur Institutions and hostile
to our Union. These discofdsnt elements,
array ed under the banners Of Abolition aud
Secession, are bauliug (ot tho same Object
: and by different routes approaching The same
ultimate end, D.su1lan. TO stem this torrent
Of political heresy Tie great, the good, the pa
lriolc, both " hle aud Democrat, have united
heart and hand, and are bathing side by side.
CLAY aod Cass, Buchanan and We bser, COBB
ard Foo,e, stand shoulder 10 shoulder for the
: defence Of cur glorious Uuon. Already 10
: The great States OF Georgia, MissIsstPPi
5 and Alabama, the cid parry designations have
I been dropped and those OF Union aud Seces
II SION substituted, and shall we Ihfougba blind
II adherence TO an empty name, Jeopardlzs our
IS most vital political interests SaslI we thro
q preJgdced opposition TO The l MON CAN
4 DIDATE strengthen The hands Of those
.. ~ho would msdy tear from The eofenel o
j. Liberty one Of rs brightest gems, and desPol
o. our Uuion by rudeiy sunderlos the sacte'
OF bands which bind together the brotherhood Q
~ States. Be not deceived, Secession 10 South
IS Carolina, aud Secession 10 the bird Congress
ID ,puai J,5rie, the saurv, au'f scccssion u
c. DtsYuion. Mr.. Caldwell declared 10 you
) midst months ago, 81 am for resistance now
BY la our last Legislature he occupied The from
rank IN the Secession forces. HIS great speec!
was made TO induce hat body 10 commit on
in State 10 the doctrine Of Secession, an assume,
ripht unknown to the frsmers Of the Consilu
d. lion ard artagonsiic 10 Tho integrity Of Gu
ha Unlon. Mr.. Caldwell says no is IN layo
as OF Secession as a reserved right, TO be exercl
nc sed against ln,oiefabIe wrong" Elect hin
no and shat is to preveoi him from saying a, ID
an opening Of the next Congress, as he has here
of tofore, that the wrongs OF the South are nos
i'm n,olerable, and thus commit you 70 lnmedl
as ate secession. Union democrats are yot
on prepared for ibis II not, come out With me
Of disregard obsolete party distinctions and d
,e. battle for the Union. Suffer no man under III
#. lime honored and haosed name Of DemOefa
ID. 10 seduce you INTO the support Ct The odiou
.aI the REASONABLE doctrines Of SecessIon-oi DI.
he union. Lei US secure the constitution al
no the Uoion agains, the attacks OF It's secfe, o
". well as avo~ed enemies by casting our sOffr a
nv ges for The Union, ami; SecessIon-tue Sou
IN. thstn ghts caDdIdaie-GEN. ALFRED DocE
FRY. A UNION DEMOCRAT.