The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-04-21

The men in North Carolina who are now rails
ing the banner of American-whiggery, are the
same ones who shouted "amen' when the plat
fOsm was promulgated denouncing the Wing
party as corrupt and unworthy of trust.-Char-
totte Democrat.
Is not our friend and umquhile neighbor,
OF the Democrat, mistaken about the phase
ology of that platform? We never saw
any platforms ''denouncing the Wing party
as corrupt and unworthy of trust" unless
the language of certain democratic plat
forms which have been promulgated"
might have been construed into such>de-
nunciation. We challenge the Democrat
to produce any platform ever promulgated
by the American party, containing any
such charge, and of this we put ourselves
on the country. Now, issue having been
Joined, somebody has a chance of being
''cornered," and we know it will not be the
Argus.-FayettevilLe argus.
To the law and to the record we appeal.
IF the Argus is not the one that will get
:" cornered" this time, it will be because
there is no meaning in plain language.
We asserted that the old whig party was
denounced by the know-nothing platform.
Now let us define the word " denounced"
Webster saysit means LIST. Threatened by
open declaration. I'd, Accused; proclaim
ed"
The know-nothing National Convention
which assembled in Philadelphia in June,
1855, adopted a platform containing the
following declaration and proclamation:
1.-The American party having arisen
upon the ruins and in spite of the oppo-
sition of the whig and democratic parties,
connot be in any manner responsible for
the obnoxious acts or UioLdted pledges of
either.''
In the above sentence it is proclaimed
that the wing party was guilty of obnoxious
acts and of violating its pledges. A severe
announcement, endorsed by all who ap-
proved and stood upon that platform, our
friend of the Argus among the number.
But the platform continues:
And the systematic agitation of the
slavery question by those parties WING
and democratic having eterdted sectional
hostility into positive element of political
power and brought our institutions into
peril, it has therefore become the impera-
tive duty of the American party to inter
pose Jor the purpose Of giving peace to the
country, and Perpetuity to the Union.'
Here the wing party is accused of elena
ting sectional hostility and bringing our
institutions into peril. Remember that one
of the definitions of denounced is lac
cused.'' And to show that the old wing
party was corrupt and unworthy of trust"
the platform 1.-THE same that met the appro-
baton of the Argus) declared it the impera-
tive duty of the American party to inter
pose for the purpose of giving peace to the
country and perpetuity to the Union.
Now, does not the Argus see that the
wing party was not only denounced as
corrupt and unworthy of trust by the
know-nothing platform, but it was pro-
claimed "a reasonable inference from the
language used that it was necessary for
the american party" to interpose in order
to keep the wing party from destroying the
Union?
Who is - cornered" now, neighbor
We know it is not the Democrdt-we have
cited the record to clear us-and as sssome-
body has a chance of being cornered," it
would be well for the Argus to "'fess up
VIII you do it :!