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From the Haleigh Standard.
DINNER
To the Hon. John C. Calhoun, of South
Carolina, at Shocco Springs, Warren
county, N. C. September 2, 1842.
Our distinguished guest, accompanied
by the Hon. It. M. Saunders and the Hon
y. R. J. Daniel, arrived at Shocco ahout 10
o'clock, under the escort of a committee
appointed to receive him, and met from the
large and respectable party there assembled
a most cordial and enthusiastic reception.
The shortness of the notice it having been
received only thirty-six hours previous to
ti.e day of the Dinner rendered it utterly
impossible that even the citizens of our
o vn County could be generally informed
ot the time appointed for the festival: yet
such was the anxiety of the people to see
and do honor to this illustrious statesman,
that by 12 o'clock from seven hundred to
a thousand persons had assembled, all of
whom expressed the most profound regret
that their friends and neighbors could not
be present to partake with them of the
great intellectual feast. Never did pub
lic servants receive a more heartfelt tribute
of respect and admiration from any portion
of our people. Even those of our oppo
nents who were present, left the feast with
more than wonted kindness in their hearts
and words of praise upon their lips. The
unaffected simplicity of manners the puri
ty of heart and rectitude of purpose, so
manifest to all who know Mr. Calhoun,
however slightly, won for him a place in
the affections of all present. The ladies,
God bless them! looked fairer and lovelier
than ever, while their blushing cheeks and
excited manner told how anxious they
were to honor him whose spotless private
character affords so bright an example to
the statesman and tne citizen.
At 2 o'clock the company sat down to a
sumptuous feast, prepared by the worthy
Proprietress of Shocco Springs; at which
the Hon. John Branch presided, assisted
by ihefullowing named gentlemen as Vice
Presidents: Weldon N. Edwards, Daniel
Turner, Geo. D. Basket ville, Edmund D.
McNair, Guston Perry, Wood T. John
son, Jas. S. Battle, Sam'l L. Arlington,
Thos. I. Hicks, VV. VV. Young, Wm. H.
Gray, John J. Bell, A. A. Austin.
After the cloth was removed, theloiJow
ing regular toasts were announced hy the
President and Vice-Presidents, and drank
by the company with great enthusiasm:
HLGULAR TOASIS.
1. The Constitution of the United Stiles:
Formed by the wise and good men who a
chieved our revolution: let it not be de
stroyed in a moment of passion, to accom
plish the designs of Party. Music Hail
Columbia
2. . The memory of Washington.
Washington's March.
3. The principlesol 'OSand '99: Found
ed upon a true interpretation of the Con
ulution, sustained by the most illustrious
o iesincn of our revolutionary era: their
inuin.ennnce in their original purity is es
sential to the preservation of our free in
stitutions. Marseilles Hymn.
4 The memory of Jefferson. Jef
ld son's March.
5. Joiin C. Calhoun: In early man
hood the ardent champion of his country's
na;hts: in his maturer years the stern foe
of monopolies and domestic tyranny, how
iir disguised; at all times and under ali
circumstances the patriot and statesman:
North Carolina admires his character, ami
will remember his services. Hail to tht
Chief.
6. Agriculture, the great interest of tht
Union; It asks not the protection of Gov
ernment, but depends on the smiles o
Heaven and the industry of the people
Spee J the Plough.
7. Commeice: All it asks is "Frei
Uadc und sailors' rights": Let its friends
beware lest the advocates of protection clip
its wings and destroy its usefulness. Mu
sic j
8. A Protective Tariff: The worst foe to j
Agriculture and Commerce agrarianism
in its most odious form, wnich robs the !
many to distribute the spoils to a favorite
few. Music
9. E Plunbus tfnum: E ernity to the;
motto, and victory to the flag that bears it. j
Mar-spangled Banner.
10. Andkew Jackson, ex President of
the United States: who, having filled the
measure of his country's glory, is now con
tent to spend the remainder of his days in
the calm and tranquil enjoyment of the
blessings of th it Government which he has
so much adorned, by a long and illustrious
life of public services. Jackson's March.
11. The principle of Distribution, which
gives to the States that which the wains of
A l- ..". . . . ....
me government requite to he supplied hy .
taxation: A policy at war with every dic
tate of prudence and economy. Music
12. The Republican Banner: Inscribed,
in the language of our distinguished guest,
with "Free trade low duties no debt
separation from Banks economy re
trenchment and strict adherence to the
Constitution." Campbells are coming
13. The American Fair: Whose smiles
are alike cheering to the soldier and the
statesman. Haste to the Wedding
In announcing the fifth regular toast, the
President took occasson to refer briefly,
hut forcibly, to the service of our distin
guished guest, and to express the sincere
conviction that those who were then assem
bled to honor a faithful public servant,
would be as ready to condemn him when
wrong as they were to applaud him when
right.
When the cheering had subsided, Mr.
Calhoun rose and addressed the company
for about an hour in his own peculiar, sen
tentious and lucid manner. He entered
into a brief history of the paities, which,
originating in the Convention which fram
ed the Constitution, had retained their dis
tinctive characteristics down to the present
day. He reviewed the policy of the fol
lowers of Alexander Hamilton, whom he
complimented as one of the brightest lu
minaries of our revolutionary era, and pro
ved that they had ever looked to high tax
es, union of Bank and State, and a nearer j
assimilation of our form of Government to
that of Great Britain, as the most desirable:
while the Republican Party, with few oc
casional exceptions, had advocated the op
posite policy of "Free trade low duties
no debt separation from Banks econo
my retrenchment and strict adherence
to the Constitution." As we hope to be
able to furnish the public with this whole
speech in a short time, we will not attempt
a further sketch of it, well aware that none
but its author can do it justice. Mr. Cal
houn concluded his remarks with the fol
lowing sentiment:
Nathaniel Macon the wise, the virtu
ous, and the patriotic: May his name be
forever remembered by the friends of con
stitutional liberty.
A. A. Austin, Esq., ol Halifax, one of
the Vice-Presidents, was now called on
for a toast, and gave ihe
Hon. R. M. Saunders Always the able
and fearless rhampion of Democratic prin
ciples: The zeal and ability with which he
has sustained her interests, are appreciated
by N. Carolina; and he will leceive his re
ward. Loud and long continued cheering suc
ceeded this toast; and when it had subsid
ed, (en. Saunders addressed the meeting
for half an hour in his most impressive and
effective manner; concluding his remarks
with the following sentiment:
The Veto Power: Its firm exercise by
the President in restraint of bad laws and
by the People in condemnation of faithless
representatives. The first is heard in the
capilol the second sounds the death-knell
ol whiggery at the ballot boxes.
R. A. Ezcll, Esq., was next called on,
and toasted the
Hon.J.R. J. Daniel The able and
fearless advocate of the enduring principles
of '95 and '99: North Carolina delights to
honor him.
Mr. Daniel responded briefly to the a
bove; and
George D. Baskerville, Esq , gave the
Hon. Charles Shepard: The Democracy
ofN. Carolina will be proud to call him a
gain into their service.
This toast was received by the company
with great applause, when Mr. Shepard
rose and enchained the attention of the au
dience for half an hour, with one of the fi
nest bursts of eloquence we ever . listened
to, and concluded with the following toast:
The County of Warren The ancient
bulwark of Carolina republicanism: it ad
heres to its own principles in doing honor
to their great defender.
Thos. Harris, Esq , of Halifax, gave
The distinguished President of the Day
the Hon. John Branch the able advo
cate of the rights of the people: North Cai
jlina claims him as her own honored son,
md delights to cherish him.
The President briefly returned his thanks
'o the company for the manner in which
this toast was received, and offered the fol
lowing sentiment:
May we be ever ready when our coun
try calls, to act out the principles we have
this day so enthusiastically professed.
VVeldon N.Edwards, Esq , being call
ed on, gave
Our sister State, South-Carolina: Well
is she entitled to the gratitude of the whole
Union for her rich contribution of genius
and talent to the councils of the nation.
Sent by Hon. Dixon H. Lewis, of Ala.,
King's Mountain and Eutaw: The
bloody fields of the fame of the two Caroli
nes, and the monuments of their enduring
devotion to human liberty.
By R. C. Pritchard,
John C. Calhoun: Unspotted in private,
unimpeachable in public life; in war our
heroic guide, in peace our safest counsel
lor; mighty in genius, yet simple in charac
ter; vast in thought, yet practical in admin
istration the People have marked him as
the man for the times.
By one of the company,
The proviso to the Bill distributing the
proceeds of the public lands: If wrong, it
should never have been adopted; if right,
it should never have been repealed. The
whig party may select either horn of the
dilemma.
M my other toasts were drank, but have
not been furnished for publication. Let
ters from many gentlemen who had been
invited to attend, were received, generally
declining inconsequence of their great anx
iety to return home after so protracted a
session of Congress.
The festivities of the day were closed
with a Bail, and all passed off with the ut
most harmony and good feeling.
i ne only regret expressed by any one
present during the day was that we could
not have had a longer notice, that thous
ands might have been present instead of
hundreds to enjoy the scene.
LETTERS RECEIVED
from Gentlemen Invited to attend the
Dinner to the Hon. J C. Calhoun.
Washington, 6th July, 1842.
Gentlemen: Your favor of the 24th ult.
communicating an invitation to me to at
tend a public dinner to be given to Mr.
Calhoun, after the close of the present ses
sion of Congress, has remained several
days without an answer. The heavy news
of the death of a near relative and the se
vere sickness of others, together with that
imperfect aitention to my public duties
which has been entirely compulsory, must
be my apology for the delay. The first of
these considerations, I am sure you will
see, Gentlemen, make it my imperious du
ty to return to the North, as soon as I can
possibly be discharged from my seat in the
Senate, and will thereforevconstitute a suf
ficient ground for declining your kind in
vitation, without suspicion of disrespect to
yourselves, or your guest.
Please accept my unfeigned thank? for
your attention to me personally, and for
the kind terms in which you have made
ill I vci. ii,aduiv) iv v,u-wuui ails if tin ijj y v.
known tome your wishes, and believe me,citizeilsorNurtl Carolina, in nav'in this
With great respect
Your fellow-citizen
SILAS WRIGHT, Jr.
Senate Chamber, 30th Aug., 1S42.
Gentlemen: 1 have been honored by the
receipt of your kind invitation to be pres
ent at a public dinner to be given to the
Hon. John C. Calhoun, after the adjourn
ment of Congress, by the citizens of War
ren and the adjoining counties of North
Carolina. It would afford me great pleas
ure to accept your invitation, and to unite
with you in doing honor to this able, patri
otic and distinguished statesman: and it
would be highly gratifying to me to em
brace the occasion offered to make the per
sonal acquaintance of my fellow-citizens
who will be there assembled; but impera
tive engagements prevent me from enjoy
ing this pleasure.
With sentiments of grateful respect, I re
main yours sincerely,
JAMES BUCHANAN.
Washington City, August 16M, 1842.
Gentlemen: I have to make you many
thanks for your kind invitation, and the
very friendly terms in which it was ex
pressed; and u it was in my power to ac
cept it, it would give me great pleasure to
do so; but Congress having been almost
constantly in session for a year past, and
bein to meet again in a few months, I am
under the necessity of employing all the in
terval in a return to Missouri, and for that
mirnose to set out from this place to the
West, the instant I am released from my
public duties. Your invitation is so much
the more valued by me, as it conies from
the Dart of my native stale in wmcn my
ancestors lived, and which was the home
and residence of the. Sage and Patriot, Na
thaniel Macon, who was still in the Senate
when I entered it, and in whose school I
learnt whatever is valuable in my political
life. Next to the honor of being named in
his will, and honored by a bequest which
f w .
serves as a memorial both of his and Mr.
Randolph's friendship. 1 prize most highly
among the events of my life, the kind in
vitation you have given me, coming as it
does from the committee of six coumies so
respectable in themselves and uniting so
many titles to my respect and gratitude
1 take great pleasure in congratulating
you, Gentlemen, on the present auspicious
prospects of the Democratic party, and al
so in the moderated feeling which begins to
prevail in the conduct of party warfare.
Paities mut exist in every free country;
and at times party spirit must run high;
but it is always agreeable to see the calm
succeed to the storm, and urbanity put an
end to the bitterness of parly contests,
while the identity of parlies remain as dis
tinct as ever.
For yourselves, Gentlemen, (among
whose names I recognize so many,) and to
the counties whose ommiitees you are, I
am under the greatest obligations for this
mark of your friendship; and bsg you to
accept my most grateful acknowledgments
for it. Very respectfully,
Your obliged fellow-citizen,
THOMAS H. BENTON.
Washington, Aug. 15h, 1842.
Gentlemen: 1 thank you for your es
teemed favor of the 24th ultimo, inviting
me to partake of a public dinner to be given
to Mr. Calhoun, at Shocco, by the citizens
of Warren and the adjoining Counties, im
mediately afier the adjournment of Con
gress. I sincerely regret the condition of
my health will not allow me to b present
on the occasion. But for that, 1 should be
most happy to join you in doing honor to a
man who is so eminently deserving of hon
or from a people whose rights he has so
nobly defended. X have known him for
many years in public life, and though 1
have had occasion to difler from him in
some of his views of public policy; 1 have
always admired the purity of his purposes
and the elevation ol his views. But if the
splendor of his intellectual efforts in de
fence of the Constitution and of the Consti
tutional rights of the people eminently
command our admiration, his moral worth
and his private virtues not less strongly
endear him to our hearts. It is this blend
ed characterof a great statesman with a good
man that makes John C. Calhoun pre-eminently
worthy of public honors and of pri
vate esteem, and a proud example for uni
versal imitation. ,
With great respect
1 am, Gentlemen,
Your ob't. servant,
A. RENCHER.
Washington, Aug 29, 1842.
Gentlemen: 1 regiet that I cannot, with
out serious inconvenience, avail myself of
your invitation to attend the dinner you
propose to give in honor of Mr Calhoun,
after the adjournment of Congress. No
one can place a higher estimate, upon the
long and eminent public service, of the il-
ilutrious Senator from mv own Stitc. than
I: find it would hnrp afTimlpd me. thphitrh-
L.,, acrt tn n.nnOMffl ,;ii, iii,
tribute of respect to this pure and incorrup
, ...
tible patriot. For thirty odd years, he has
been a prominent actor in public life, and
in every station where his countrymen
have placed him, he has covered himself
with honor. As brilliant s has been his
public career, the purity of his private life
has reflected no less honor upon him. I
believe and hope, that the day is not dis
tant, when he will be elevated to the first
office in the gift of the nation, and when
his high administrative qualities will gain
to him, the same enviable reputation that
he won as Secretary of War. As an hum
ble individual, about to quit public life. I
look to this event as one which will brint
untold blessQgs to the country.
For the kind manner in which you have
spoken of my own humble services, in the
cause ot democracy, I desire to tender to
you the thanks of a brother democrat. I
hail all such as my brethren, in the com
mon cause of Liberty, Constitution, the U
. . i . on
nion. 1 congratulate you, my ienow-citizens,
that the good old Republican North
Slate ' has so recently given the death
blow to Federal whiggery, and that she
has wheeled into her propel position, in the
democratic ranks.
Present to your meeting the enclosed
sentiment, with my sincere regret that 1
could nut lender it in person.
Kespoctlully your
Ob't. serv't.
S. H. BUTLER.
North Carolina: The triumph of the
Democratic parly, in the late elections.
shows that this good old Stale, was and i
and always will be Republican in her po
litical iaith.
Washington City, Aug. 30M, 1842.
Gentlemen: 1 had the honor to receive
your favor, inviting me to partake with
you of a dinner to be given to the Hon
John C. Calhoun, early after the adjourn
ment of Congress, at Shocco Springs.
1 appreciate the distinction you havt
done me; and I would rejoice to be able to
embrace I h is opportunity lo revisit my na
tive Suite, "the good old North State,"
and to revive and strengthen that love
which the vat multiude of Carolinians,
who reside in the beautiful and fertile val
ley of the .Mississippi, have for their mo
ther country, to renew iho'e friendships
which were formed in youth, and repeat
those recollections whi; li are interwoven
with, and form a pari of my very being; to
rejoice with you, that republican North
Carolina has assumed he r wonted position,
so long and so firmly maintained during
the days of that purest and best of men,
Nathaniel Macon, whose whole life was
but an illustration of liT principles and
character; and last, not le st. to unite with
you in doing honor to the Southern Ajax.
His private life, without reproach; his intel
lect, brilliant and unsurpassed; his knowl
edge of public affairs enlarged and corected
by an expeiience, and devoted study of our
institutions, for near a third of a century;
his principles sound and democratic; his
nerve and courage unflinching, having no
guiding suit, but his coun'ry's good, he
stands prominent be fore his country, as its
pride and ornament and safe reliance.
But justice to my domestic affairs, con
strains me to return home, as soon as I am
released from my duties in Congress. For
nine long and weary months, the majority
have kept us here waging a vindictive and
fru'nles-4 war, with the President, and in
undoing their own acts passed at the mem
orable session of one hundred days in 1841.
So short is the time intervening between
the close of this and the commencement of
the regular session, and so great is the dis
tance 1 have to travel, that 1 must decline
your esteemed honor.
With sentiments of high regard for each
of you personally, 1 remain, gentlemen,
Your ob't. set v't.
J. THOMPSON.
P. S. Permit me to tender the follow
ing sentiment.
The Democracy of North Carolina: Like
her own fabled ship of the Palatines"
though enwrapped in flames, it is not con
sumed: though for awhile submerged, it a-
gain rises in all its beauty, and strength,
and full and complete in all its proportions'.
Washington City, August 24th, 1842.
Gentlemen: I regret that I am compell
ed to decline the invitation I have ieceived
from you to participate in a public dinner,
tendered to the Hon. John C. Calhoun, at
Shocco Springs, at the close of ihe present
session of Congress. My anxiety to re
turn to my home, after so long an absence,
to pay some attention lo my private affairs,
before the commencement of the next ses
sion of Congress, must be my apology for
declining your polite invitation to join in
doing honor to the distinguished statesman
of the South.
Permit me, through you gentlemen, to
offer the following sentiment in honor of
the glorious victory achieved by the De
mon acy of your Slate at the recent elec
tion. Norih Carolina: The first to nominate,
and the first to abandon "Harry of the
West. "
With sentiments of the highest regard, I
remain,
Your ob't serv't.
WM. M. GWIN.
Richmond, Sept. st, 1S42.
Dear Sirs: I most gratefully appreciate
the honor you have done me, by inviting
me to the dinner you are aboui to give to
Mr. Calhoun. His services and his prin
ciples justly entitle him to the distinction
and 1 should have been happy to have
the opportunity ol joining in the Festival.
But my engagements forbid it.
It would have given me very sincere
pleasure aho, to visit the Old North State
anil to take such worthy citizens and
such s aunch Republicans by the hand.
1 thank you every way lor the compli
ment your invitation conveys and still
more, for the kind terms in which it is ex
pressed. Whatever of zeal I rhdy hive
hitherto displayed in the defence of our
'common pr inciples" whatever of expe
rience I may have acquired in the course
of a long Editorial Life I feel, that al ho
preceding period was it more necessary to
exert them. Notwithstanding the biilliant
victory you have so recen'.ly won or the
triumphs we have obtained in other States,
the danger is not yet over." We have &
drilled and formidable enemy encounferj
lei-Derate in li.e:r purposes, reckless in
their means, having at their head one of the
iiios1. restless and ambitious spirits ol tne
w II . . ,1 ..II nim
age. v e require an oui means aim an u
men to conduct us to victory. e musi
march onward with the united force of a
Macedonian Phalanx, or iailerlike,Jbe
Kon-.an Legion, with all their shields unit
u over their heads We must keep our
forces firmly together by harmony and
oncesion. No discord should creep into
jur camp. No division mar our cooncib.
o selfish vevts, or private ambitiort
should weaken our efforts. We must go
for principles, and not' for men. We have