Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-03-18
CAROLINA STANDARD: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 49, 1857
Letter from Judge Bragg. ).

Letter from Judge Bragg.
The New York papers have published replies of
various gentlemen, invited by the Tammany Socic.
ty of that City. to their celebration of the 9th of
January. The following is the reply of Hon. John
Bragg, of Alabama, native of this State, to which
we invite the attention of our readers -,
MOBILE, January l, 1857.
Genttemen-I have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of your kind invitation your celebration of
the anniversary Of the battle of New Orleans, on the
Sth inst, when you purpose " with the memories Of
triumph of Buchanan"
Circumstances will prevent me from being with
you in person, but you have all my sympathies in
the patriotic demonstration you propose, because
feel that the victory of our greatest Military Chief
scarcely important in its results than that
great civil triumph achieved by the united democ.
racy of the country under the lead of the tried pa
triOt and sagacious statesman whom they have ele-
waited to the Presidential chair.
Jackson, with western rifles, drove from our shores
foreign foe that sought to conquer and degrade
Buchanan and the Democracy (no where more ac-
tive and efficient than in the gallant West have
pushed not less desperate domestic enemy, led on
by vulgar and vicious demagogues bent upon plum
der at the expense even of PROSTATE Constitution
and discovered Union. Jackson's battle taught
lesson to the nations not yet never to be forgotten
Is it too much to hope that that of Buchanan may
bring protection the Constitution perpetuity to
the Cnion peace and prosperity to the people?
There is, gentlemen, but one cause of fear that
the country will not reap the full fruits of great
victory, and that arises from apprehension that
our Northern frieLds, not approaching as keenly
Of the South do some of the incidents of the
great principle decided by the late contest may, in
a moment of indifference, relax their discipline and
once more give heart and courage to now crushed
and discomfitted foe Let me warn you, then, if
you desire, as know you do, to give quiet to the
country and settle this sectional controversy forever,
to keep your weapons bright and your armor on
And why should you not do this? Is the price of
peace which demand more than you should give,
or we should ask? In point of power, can the
South gain any practical advantage or the North
lose any thing by the permanent establishment Of
the principle of non Intervention with reference to
domestic slavery? Do not all men know the North
people are emphatically an emigrating and colo.
nizng people, whereas the Southern people, from
their peculiar pursuits and the patr iarchal features
Of their social condition naturally confined in
greater degree to their ancestral localities? Does it
not appear from the official records Of the country,
that for every Southern born man who has emgra
ted to a non-slavchoding State, four natives of the
non-saveholding North have emgratcd to Southern
States and that too in the face of the ercest de-
nunciations of those States as not being proper
home for a moral and religious people? As to the
mere question of political power then, which Sec
ton is likely to be most benefited by non-nterven-
ton?
But why waste time in these enquiries that an
swer themselves The question of power is already
irrevocably decided against the South; and the flu
ture only affect the degree of its preponderance.
All that this weaker section demands, is, that
it shall enov fully and completely its constitutional
rights and that degrading badge of inferiority
| shall be branded upon its brow. With tie consti-
tuition safe, aEd its honor intact, the Democra-
cy of the South in the future, in the past is pre-
pared to uphold the Union, and aid in the working
out of that wonderful destiny which seems to have
been intended by Providence for this great country.
| Before bring this communication to close, you
will pardon me for expressing the hope, that in Gel
| ebrating our great triumph you will not forget the
| Choatcs and Geyers, and Prestons, and Benjamins,
| and Hopkinses, and scores of other able and elo-
| quent men, who, when the old party issues upon
which in former days they wont to try a lance
with the Democracy had passed away. gave heed to
the inspirations of pure patriotism and rushed to
the rescue of beleagured country. They deserve
and should receive the thanks Of all good men for
the magnanmity and moral courage that prompted
them to give their efficient aid to the good cause
| Hoping then welcomed them in the day of
| battle, they may be remembered in the hour oil
victory,
remain, gentlemen, very truly, your obedent
| servant,
JOHN BRAGG.
| To Col. Daniel E. Delavan, Grand Sachem, John
| Kelly, Isaac V. Fowler, and others, sachems, &C.,
Tammany Hall, New York.