The North Carolinian

We omit the great body of Mr Calhoun's letter, it being altogether his reasoning against the mode of organizing the Baltimore Convention; and giving it as his opinion that such an organization invades one of the important compromises of the Constitution, and robs the smaller States of their due and constitutional weight in the Presidential canvass.

In relation to the above letter, the editor of the Charleston Mercury says:

"The coming Baltimore Convention, then, as the readers of the Mercury must long since have known, may be to us nothing—its decrees nothing—its nominations nothing—will be nothing, unless in supporting the candidate of the party, we can feel that we are effectively advancing the principles which we hold above all party.

Who then will receive our support for the Presidency? Surely not a whig; for in principles we are as utterly opposed as the poles. We are not Tariff men—nor Internal Improvement men. We abhor a United States Bank—we can make no peace with those monstrous whig projects, for assuming the debts of the States, and squandering the revenues from the public lands—we are opposed to the mutilation of the Constitution by destroying the Presidential Veto, the safeguard of the South. On all these points we are at open issue with the whigs, whose policy in its tendency, we regard as equally hostile to the Federal Constitution, to popular liberty, and to the prosperity and safety of the South. —Until we change our principles on all these great subjects, we can never affiliate with the whigs, or support their men.

No, we cannot support a whig. We will be true to true democracy—we will support him and those who oppose the firmest resistance to that usurping and plundering system of measures we have named above. Which of the democrats will do this? We have before us now, the creed of the party declared in solemn Council at Baltimore in 1840. It is a good creed—its principles are just—its policy is upright—its professions are satisfactory. Now is the time for proofs—for the practical evidences that these were not mere words—let us have them. Let them come like the sun, to roll back, and forever, all the doubts, fears, and misgivings of the thousands on thousands who are every moment in danger of thinking they have been deceived, betrayed and abandoned. The whigs are exulting and hourly taunting us with such thoughts, and it is only in the just resentments of a generous and warm hearted people, that they have the slightest hopes. Let not these impulses be played on too long—there is danger in it."

on the floor of Congress, and witness the passage, Mr Clay: witness the Giddings's and the Adams

* "Of course these declarations are aimed at Mr Clay. witness Clay's Ky. friends in Congress."

by the Harrison and the Clay Congress, of the last
the Tariff. which Mr Calhoun so denounces.