The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1858-06-22
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HON. BEDFORD BROWN

The Richmond Examiner has an article on
North Carolina politics, from which we extract the
following complimentary notice Of the lion Bed
ford Brown Of Caswell county:
North Carolina elects her Legislature well as her
Governor on the first Thursday in August; and we OBJ
serve with pleasure that she Is Likely to nave some q"
her oldest experienced statesmen IN hcr Ste
councils mex: winter OF that class, may mention
Col Bedford Brown, well and fayorably known to the
reader as an the National stage OF politics Tor
some time. Col Brown, we understood the othcr
day has consented occupy the position OF candidate
for the State Senate for Caswe county. lie VIII ne
elected we understand, without opposition The reo-
Die of CaswcI will surely act wisely IN calling hiIn
again to represent in the councils Of the Old North
State. We hattery to Col b. when we say
that the members of the North Carolina Legislature
especially the younger members viii be fortunate IN
having FOX an associate in council enc who has had so
many wears experience in legislation; who was
from early manhood to middle life in the public service
associated with the first Of his State, and with
Che greatest national celebrities Of our times and who
in his subsequent retirement has been an attentive and
rhiosophc observer of public events There are but
few men in any State from whom the young politician
can derive much information and instruction in re-
.arI TO the political history of the last forty years and
especially in relation to the men who have figured at
Washingtou and the with which they have been
identified. Col Brown the stirring events
at Washington from 1929 lS4O--of which he ight
say quorum prs 1ti-minutey and graphically as ne
is sure to do with fidelity.
Mr. March, in his popular book entitled Webster
and his Contemporaries" published in 1850, placed
Col Brown amcng the able debatcrS in the T. :. Senate
in the discussion upon the celebrated Force Bill in the
days of Notification. lie speaks particularly of the
speeches of Webster, Forsyth wilkins Dallas, Frclng
huysen, Holmes, Clayton Grundy and Rives, in the
affirmative, and Of those of Calhoun, Blob, Brown Man
gum. Tyler, Poindcxter and Miller in the negative
Mr. March paid Col. Brown the compliment of extract
ing the following passage from his spccch
cal repudiac," said Col. Brown, ''the doctrine of
Notification. rcpudiate, also, the heightened doc
trne of the Federal party. II is to that high-toncd
doctrine that attribute Notification. 1t is by
improper pressure of the Federal government the
rights of the States and by its exercise ofdoubtul pow
ers, that South Carolina has felt called to take the
defiant position she has assumed; which, ustiable
is ut least susceptible of great paliiatiOn.
''PrOud rs am" said Mr. Brown, in conclusion, 'of
the achievements which have been performed under the
sar-spanglcd banner proud ] am of the stars and
stripes which have huttcrcd in every breeze and in
every cline; anxious for the glory Of the
try, yet God forbid that those and stripes which
have heretofore been the ralying points of heroi,m
should float the mangled cOrpscs of our cOUn
trymen. God forbid that country should undergo
this sad and disastrous revolutions for whenever that
shall take place, not only the liberties of this country
but the best and brightest hopes of the civilized world
will be DESTROYED forever"