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ADDRESS
Of the Jackson and Barbour
To the Citizens of N. Carolina.
A Convention of Delegates,
deputed by a number of coun
ties to nominate Electors and
concert other measures irt rela
tion to the approaching election
of President and Vice President
of the United States, has met
at Raleigh, and discharged the
duty to which it was called. In
submitting to you the result, we
ask leave to add a few explana
tory remarks. We have agreed
to nominate for President, the
present occupant of that of
fice, the venerable ANDREW
JACKSON, and for Vice Pre
sident PH I LIP P. BARBOU R ,
of Virginia; and a ticket of Elec
tors who will support these no
minations will shortly be pre
sented to you.
In regard to Andrew Jack
son, it is unnecessary to say any
thing. He has already been our
President for more than three
years, and whatever difference
of opinion there may be as to
sonic of the measures of his ad
ministration, none of us can for
get the eminent services he lias
rendered to his country, and all
of us confide in the integrity of
his character, the purity of his
motives, and his patriotic devo
tion to the common weal. At
the crisis which is now impend
ing, it is peculiarly important
that he should be at the head
of the government, and although
not entirely identified with the
feelings and sentiments of the
great body of the Southern peo
ple, he coincides with them
more nearly than any other in
dividual we could now select.
We take great pleasure, there
fore, in recommending him to
what we are confident he will
receive, your unanimous sup
port. We should be highly gratified
if we could persuade ourselves
that the same unanimity would
exist among the supporters of
General Jackson, in the elec
tion of a Vice President. This
we know to be impossible. Up
on this subject differences ii're
concileable in their nature, be
cause they are differences upon
some of the fundamental princi
ples of our government, have
manifested themselves in a
manner not to be mistaken.
We had reason to expect this
diversity in those States which
hold political doctrines directly
adverse to ours. But we did
not expect, and we feel peculiar
mortification at perceiving at
tempts making in our own com
munity, where we had an iden
Tavborough, Edgecombe County, JV. V.) Tuesday, July to, 1832.
tity of interest, and hoped to
miu an identity or feeling, to
sow dissentions among us upon
a question vitally affecting a
great principle of civil liberty.
of constitutional law, and of
true devotion to the Union. It
is known to you that five gen '
tlemen, professing to represent
the wishes of North Carolina'
have lately, at a Convention ofi
Mr. Van Buren's friends at Bal
timore, undertaken to pledge
the vole of this State for Mar
tin Van Bur en f of New York,
as Vice President for Martin
Van Buren, one of the authors
of the Tariff law of 1828. We
say a Convention of Mr. Van
Huron's friends, because no one
at all acquainted with the move
ments of party, or at all posses
sed of political sagacity, can
doubt that the Convention was
constituted for the purpose of
promoting Mr. Van Buren' j
prospects, however a few of thej
members might have dissented
from its real objects. Bv what
process five persons, represent
ing as many districts in this
State; could multiply themselves
into fifteen, and thereby, even if
they, truly represented the dis
tricts from which they came,
undertake to answer for those
with which they had no connec
tion, we shall not stop to in
quire, tfut, without intendin"
in the slightest degree to im
pugn the patriotism of their mo
tives, it is due to the respect en
tertained for them to advert to
some of the reasons we have
heard suggested in support of
the nomination they assumed to
make in the name of North Ca
rolina. It has been said that the
members from this State in the
Baltimore Convention preferred
some candidate whose senti
ments Were opposed to theTa
riflf System, and that -finding
Mr. Van Buren had a majority,
they reluctantly yielded their
preference to the advocates of
the Tariff; and that a perseve
rance in the support of Mr. Bar
bour would have hazarded the
election of General Jackson.
Now it is evident that a majori
ty of these five delegates pre
ferred Mr. Van Buren before
all others, because, in the first
instance, when comparing opi
nions, nine votes were given for
Mr. Van Buren, and but six for
Mr. Barbour. But the Tariff
States must be gratified in the
selection of their candidate at
the expense of our feelings and
our interests! We ask empha
tically ichy? We deny that the
nomination of Mr. Barbour, a
firm and disinterested friend of
Gen. Jackson, could have cau
sed the slightest injury to the
election of the latter. General
Jackson stands upon his own
merits. The qualities which
recommend him are well known
to you, are peculiar to himself,
and not transferable to any can
didate for another office. We
firmjy believe, if the senso of
the supporters of General Jack
son throughout the Union had
been fairly represented, and if
that Convention had met, not
for the purpose of indulging
their personal predilections, but
of rallying upon principle, Mr.
Barbour, or some other citizen
opposed to Mr. Clay's "Ameri
can System," would have been
solccted. In any event, Gene
ral Jackson is placed too far a -
bove the reach of competition
to be affected by anv different
of opinion as to the Vice Presi
dency. If he could be affected
l all, injury is more likely to
occur from the nomination of
Mr. Van Buren, whose princi
ples are so obnoxious to the!
South, than from that of any
ttl. nM A'.. I 1 . J
uiuci niuiviuuai not possessing
those principles.
It is said that the election of
Vice President may be "thrown
upon the Senate. Such a result
may happen if Mr. Van Buren's
friends persist in his nomination
against the known wishes of so
large a proportion of General
Jackson's supporters. But up
on tnem, not upon us, will be
the sin, if there be sin. If this
catastrophe is to be depreca
ted, it may easily be averted by
their withdrawing Mr. Van Hu
ron's name, and voting for Mr.
Barbour. But it is one argu
ment in our favor, that if, in the
chances arising from the con
test for the Vice Presidency
the election should devolve on
the Senate, the candidate We
propose will certainly receive a
majority of their Votes, while
Mr. Van Buren will as certainly
be defeated before that body,
placed in competition With al
most any other person who has
been named for the office.
It is partly insinuated in a
public address we have seen,
and has been more generally
and confidently stated in private
circles, that Mr. Van Buren's
sentiments and feelings are in
unison with those of the South.
We would ask. when and where
this trait -in his character has
bccndeveloped in his acts? We
do not refer to, iior do we rely
upon private declarations or as
surances. We ask for his pub
lic acts. As far as we have
been able to ascertain his poli
tical course, he was opposed to
the South in l lie election of Mr.
Madison as the successor of
Mr. Jefferson he was opposed
to the South in the memorable
Missouri question, in which was
involved the right of Congress
to interfere with our slave pop
ulation he was opposed to the
South on the great Tariff ques j
lion which came before the Se
nate in 1328, voting for the most
obnoxious amendments, and fi
ually for the bill itself, a bill
which, by one of its own advo
cates, was styled the "bill of
abominations" he was oppo
sed to a large majority of the
South in the first election of
General Jackson. It is true he
has generally voted against ap
propriations for internal im
provements but he has voted
for the power of Congress to
establish toll-gates dn a public
road within the limits of a Stale,
and we may therefore fairly in
fer that his opposition to internal
improvements has not been;
founded upon any constitutional;
basis, but upon the considera
lion that the State he represen
ted had completed its most im
portant improvements by its own
means, and needed not the aid
of the General Government.
It has been said, too, (we do
the author of the address to
which we have adverted the jus
tice to mention that it is not to
be found there,) but it has been
said that General Jackson pre.
fers Mr. Van Buren for Viccj
.President, and that we should
be guided by his wishes in se-
lecting that officer. We should
feel deeply humiliated if any
citizen of North Carolina had
publicly offered to us such a mo
tive to govern bur decision.
Are we Republicans, and are
we to surrender our indeben-
fdence of thought and action, to
sacrifice our principles in a most
important election, to gratify the
private wishes of any man! Are
we to be told that in selecting
our agents in the General Go
vernment, we are to yield im
plicit obedience to the Execu
tive will? Highly as we vene
rate General Jackson Jf he
could, occupying the station he
does, attempt to influence our
suffrages, we should, as honest
and independent freemen- aye
if there be a drop of the revolu
tionary blood of our fathers still
coursing in bur veins, We should
indignantly repel such interfe
rence. But, fellow citizens,
though we know not General
Jackson's private preferences,
we know that he is incapable of
urging them upon the people!
as a rule for their government
in any election. Independent
of our confidence in his repub
lican principles, we know that
when he came into office, he
gave the most emphatic pledge
that no Executive officer should
exercise the influence of his sta
tion to control in any manner
the freedom of elections by the
people.
Lastly, it has been said, that
our object is to defeat the elec
tion of General Jackson by di
that ice divide the party. That!
difference which prevails amonglited from our fathers, to our
the party on great and funda-Ideep attachment to the Union
mental principles a division J bf these States, to resist this
which must affect their action! encroachment on our rights by
upon every question but that of every means in our power?
the election of General Jackson Should we not, more especially,
himself. In further answer to
this charge we appeal to the called to the ballot box mani
nomination We unanimously fest our utter abhorrence of this;
make of the very person whose system, and our determination
election we are accused of wish- to honor by our suffrages riorie
ing to defeat. We appeal to who support it! With whafj
the course which it is known to consistency can we condemn a!
you a large proportion of the
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present supporters ot Mr. iar-
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oour nave neretoiore taKen in one or tne nignesi omces in men
relation to General Jackson, i country one of the authors of
But we will not further pursue thisjneasure, when another can
this unpleasant discussion, nordidate for the same, office is
will we dwell upon many objec-' presented to our choice whoso
tions which have hfien nrfred nrincioles are our nrincinlns?
against Mr. Van Buren's poiiti-
o
cal character. We turn to thetical system, of which we have
more crateful Dart of our task,
that of offer i nor in hrief the rea- J
sous which have governed us in
tne nomination ot Mr. .barbour. iquiesced in, not only sets at
In purity of private life, in ta- nought all the safeguards pro
lents of a hififh order, in an onen. ! vided bv the Constitution, but
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candid and disinterested mind, j
in the absence ot all selfish
feelinu, of all inordinate ambi-i
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tion and of all the petty arts to'could devise. What is the
suuserve personal purposes, in
a long course of distinguished
puDiic service, we mignt nun ment nas tne unlimited power
sufficient arguments for the pre-; of taxation that the mnjoriiy
ference of Mr. Barbour, if we i may laytaxes on you not only
chose to rest that preferenceito defray the expenses of the
upon mere personal pretensions.
But we carne not here to in
dulge our private predilections,
and we desire to appeal in his
behalf to higher motives than
any these can furnish. We ask
you to support him because he
is a candidate or me true politi
cal faith,
Vol. VIII No 46.
We believe that a crisis is
approaching, nay, that it has al
ready arrived, when the citizens
of this State must take their
stand when they must let their
voice be heard in favor of a con
solidated General Government,
restrained by no fixed rules,
subject to no limits but their
own discretion; or, as we fer
vently hope they will do, when
they must speak in the deter
mined tone of freemen- when
they must proclaim that this
Union, which we cherish with:
the fondest affection, is but a
confederacy of sovereign States;
that beyond the limits which
have been prescribed in the
Constitution by the assent of all,
none can go; that neither a ma
jority nor a minority has a riht
to transcend those limits; and
that any act of our agents in the
General Government, however
clothed with the forms of law,
which is not warranted by the
great charter granted by the
States, is purely Void. We
have no hesitation in saying
that in our belief this Constitu
tion has already been violated
by Congress in their assump
tion of the power to regulate?
the industry and occupations of
individuals by taxing one por
tion of the Union for the benefit
of another by adopting a pro
tecting Tariff, or as it is more
speciously, but fairly called,
''the American System." Caa
we conceal from ourselves the
fact that the most powerful ex
ertions arc now making to fas
ten this on us as the permanent
policy of the country! Is it not
selves and bur posterity, to our
on every occasion when we are
measure as unconstitutional antS
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oppressive, anu yet elevate toi
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We firmly believe that the poli-
spoken, strikes a fatal blow at I
our liberties- that it snrinrrs 1
from a principle which, if ac-
will subject us to a despotism as
.galling and as pernicious to our
interests as anv the wit of man
great principle ci tins system!
It is that the General Govern-
government, (a power which all
admit,) but also for tlie purpose
ofconveylnga part of the profits
made by one portion of the
community into the pockets of
another portion of regulating
the employment of capital and
the pursuits of individuals, and
(continued on the last page.)