The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-04-22
Gen. Bradford's Letter.

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The Alabama Reporter, of the 14th JAN
uary, 1852, contains an editorial which
seems to be designated to create the belief
that am not sincere in my cooperation with
the Democratic party. Speas--ng of me and
other Southern Rights men, who are now
acting with the Democrats the Reporter, char
acterizes us as "disuniOnists," and intimates
that we are trying to impose secession doc
trines upon the jackson democracy In
other words, the Reporter shows some anx-
iety to prevent the readers of that paper from
knowing the true reasons which control me
and other wings to act hereafter with the
democratic party.
| find part of those true reasons forcibly |
stated by johnson J. Hooper, Esq, of the
Chambers Tribune, in late number of his
paper, to-wit: '"The wing party at the South
as party, is as dead as macke1el By
the Presidential election it will be difficult to
find individual specimens of that species of
politicians"
| The reason of this extinction is obvious
The general rule of WING affinity at the
North is abolitionward The exceptions are
barely sufficient to establish the rule. We
do not know why this is so, but the fact is
as apparent as the face of the heavens
Southern men, therefore, cannot longer act
: with the Wing party. We in the South
g never had any immediate interest in the es-
tablishment of the protective system, but act
ing in good faith to our Northern allies, the
+ Southern whig party tieditselfto an unpop-
+ ular issue, and fell with it. The return
which we have received for this, is general
y alliance of Northern whiggery with aboli-
e tionism, or much the same thing, freesoil-
u ism.
d The Northern Democracy, as a general
d rule, are sound on the slavery question. 1t
n must be confessed that the democratic rule
n of constitutional construction favors the
20 South, and although this is bitter confession
J. to our whig pride, truth, candor and manli-
G. ness, all compel its utterance.
re Now fully and honestly believe, with
n Mr.. Hooper, that "the general rule of WING
m affinity North is obolitionrard," and tha
"the Democratic rule of constitutional con
e. struction favors the South"
SO As a Southern wing. "acting in gooC
TO faith to cur Northern allies" sustained tn
ID men and measures Of the whig party from
III 1886 until [ was convinced that most of tn
"a wing leaders were federalists at heart, ant
III that there was Gas Mr.. Hooper says) "a gen
p eral alliance of Northern whiggery with ali
ell olitionism, or, much the same thing, frcesoil
ism" The conviction became fixed in m
M mind by the events which occurred befor
n or during the session of Congress which com
,ly menced on the first Monday in December
1849. Nothing has occurred since to shak
my conviction, but much to confirm it.
Events now going on in Alabama, Georgi
and Mississippi clearly prove that sagaciou
ia whig leaders in those States know and feC
TN that the principles of whiggery, as expounC
me ed and enforced upon the Southern wing pa
tea ty, by the Northern federal wing leaders, d
ny tend to consolidation, and are so odious TIL
OF they have killed the wing party in the'
m three States Gas dead as a mackerel y
OPP Where is the wing party of Alabama to-da,
What has become Of it? We find most
IN its remains lately collected in Montgomer
I'll rcpudiating its old wing name, trying to +
'nd gain vitality, by taking the new name
al Union party presided over by A. Q. Nick
:. Esq, (who is ever boasting of his democrac,
his ms refusing to 60 into the proposed Nation
'ith Convention of either the wing party or Il
dls' democratic party-and nominating nine ele
tors, a majority of whom are democrats
dge profession.
pro- On the other hand, we find the democrat
party neither ashamed of its conduct nor
S principles, coming forth in its ancient nam
TINS in the same light of heaven, holding up t
ana time -honored republican doctrines of jeff
ers' son and Madison, as embodied in the V
=, TO ginia and Kentucky resolutions, and t
TINS Report of Madison of 1898 and '99, a
T II summoning the friends of those doctrines
'ead both from the whig ranks and democra
ranks to the maintenance of those doctrir
the against the hordes of federalism, console
Llsh- ton and freesoilism, under whatever nal
Tnew or old they may assume.
IN The people Of Alabama, at the late el
rela- ton, decided that although the South '
hcr, greatly wronged by the miscalled comp
he. misses of the last Congress, yet it was bet
9, to to acquiesce in it, as the final end Of all
1ber tation of the slavery question, than to ms
so further resistance, and thereby endanger
lntl- Union. The Southern Rights men, bel
Ily a State Rights men, and believing in the ri,
rgy, to decide for themselves, are willing to acq
nita- esce in the decision of their own State.
D, he And having thus acquiesced, the Sou
sfor- ern Rights men, Oaoe 1t as duty to
his South and the Constitution to array Tx
'alth selUes on the side of those acho are the
nifty friends Of the South and ats rights, and
) the true principles Of the Constitution.
pro. Lola Monies and Moral Men.
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