Farmers' Gazette, And Cheraw Advertiser

THE GAZETTE.
CHERAW
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 17.

The letters of Col. Preston and Gen. Thompson we insert, by request, as connected with the proceedings of a public meeting which formerly appeared in our columns:

No contest for the Presidency has been more animated than the present, perhaps none so much so, since the one in which the elder Adams and Thomas Jefferson were the candidates. The opposition party are stimulated to extraordinary exertions by confident hope of success, while the Administration party without despairing, are evidently alarmed. The changes in favor of General Harrison, within a few months, have been numerous, and in instances not a few, by persons of high respectability and no small influence. Among the circumstances which indicate alarm by the party in power, is the resignation by Mr. Kendall of his place in the President's cabinet, to take charge of a temporary paper, published avowedly for the exclusive purpose of influencing the election. In accordance with the purpose of shewing our readers, as far as our space will enable us, the ground taken by the two parties, we this week copy Mr. Kendall's "Address to the people of the United States," and shall follow it next week with Gen. Thompson's Circular to his constituents. The week after, we shall insert part of the address of the Baltimore Convention of the Administration party. We copy Mr. Kendall's address only on account of his relation to his party; as a recent member of the cabinet, and as now, about to become an editor of its leading organ; which circumstances seem to give a kind of official sanction to his statements: and to his exhibition of the ground on which the party appeal to the country for support. The address does not contain a fair exposition; nor in fact any true exposition at all; of the distinctive principles or policy of the great parties into which the country is divided. It wants dignity for the production of an ex-member of the cabinet, and makes a false issue: — It labors chiefly to shew that the opponents of the present administration —one half, perhaps the bigger half, of the people of this country—are influenced in their politics by a "contempt for the people," that is, for themselves; that they are enemies to the freedom and fairness of elections, ready to usurp the reins of Government; and maintain the usurpation by military despotism: No man of ordinary intelligence believes; or can believe this to be true of any great party in the country: The facts to which Mr. Kendall refers, when fairly stated, lead to very different inferences from those drawn by him. But it is not our purpose to analyze or review the address. We point to the fact that; contrary to what was to be expected on such an occasion, it contains nothing even resembling an outline of the politics of the country. In regard to the general principles of Government and in devotion to our popular institutions, all parties in this country agree, and, have ever agreed since the commencement of the revolution. He who says differently, slanders the country, and manifests either a want of intelligence, or a disregard of truth. The currency and sub-treasury are now the great subjects which divide the people into administration and anti-administration parties; but they are not even alluded to in Mr. Kendall's address. Why, it is not our purpose now to inquire. We do not espouse the cause of either party, but shall always aim to take care that neither is misrepresented in any article which we copy.