The Charlotte Journal

NEW SERIES OF THE JOURNAL.
PROSPECTUS.

In assuming the Editorial chair of the Journal, we make a few remarks, illustrative of the course we intend to pursue; and as it is professedly a political paper, we shall allude first to its
POLITICS.

We intend to advocate the principles of the great Whig party, those principles by which our country must either stand, or by all others fall.

It is said that those tenets of political doctrine, which the two acknowledged parties of the United States have so long advocated and defended, for whose supremacy they have so warmly contended, are obsolete, such is not the fact.

"They are not dead but sleepeth,"
And will arise from their slumbers, and like fresh outbreathed of a Peloponesian war, wage a fiercer contest than ever, until Truth shall plant its triumphant banner on the battlements of our Constitution, or Error shall exultingly, and with demoniac joy, rear its black flag over the ruins of that fair fabric of our ancestors' wisdom, which its temerity and selfishness has demolished.

Every Nation on the face of the globe, which has a respectable government, be it monarchical or republican, is governed in its financial relations, by principles known in our own country as "free Trade," or their opposite, "discriminating Tariff" free trade, meaning trade entirely unfettered or a low rate of tax on the imports, and a discriminating Tariff either a medium, or higher rate of taxes on imports, with discriminations in favor of some articles. There is no other plan yet devised to raise revenue, to support a government of whatever name, than by direct taxation on the people, or, by revenue derived by duties on imports; because, no government is supported by the gratuitous contributions of the people, nor is any upheld by the munificence of its princes. It is an absurdity then, palpable illogical assumption to say that parties have lost their complexion; but country will still require means to keep up the machinery of its government, and these means must be raised by free trade, its ultimate consequent being direct taxation, or by such a tariff as the Whigs advocate, and have seen established bringing prosperity and destroyed bringing bankruptcy.

It is but too true however that the two parties have veiled in the smoke of the war now waging between us and the ill starred Mexicans and
"Men forget their party, in the dread
Of this, their country desolation."

But when the smoke of the war shall have passed away, men will see each other face to face as before, Whig and Democrat contending strenuously for the same issues; such being the case, there being as much diversity between them now as heretofore, we will, as the Whig party has ever, oppose our principles to those of the soi disant democrats.

It is that vexed question-the Mexican War. that at present absorbs the solicitude of every lover of his Country, there be
"Things now,
That bear a weighty and serious brow,
Sad, high and working, full of state and woe."

This brings us to refer to the
WAR.

We shall not comment upon the War in this place, whether it be right or wrong, just or unjust.

"We have done with
Right or wrong and now must only ponder
Upon effects not causes."

"Sufficient for 'our' day is the evil thereof."

We approve of speedy termination of this war, bringing peace to the firesides of two nations, and tranquility to their national affairs, drying up the tear of widows and orphans, and putting an end to the flow of our country men's blood, the flow of our country's treasure.

We are in favor of such a conclusion of the war, as will secure to us from the Mexicans, the stereotyped desire of our people: "Indemnity for the past and security for the future," but only such indemnity, as it will be honorable in this nation to accept, and not humiliating to them to give; only such security as it will be magnanimous in us to demand, and not base in them to yield; and believing that both nations would be more prosperous, as separate and distinct republics, we are utterly opposed to the absorption of the whole or any considerable portion of Mexico.

THE WILMOT PROVISO.

This disgraceful emanation of a corrupt mind, and its author, both meriting the execration of every patriot, shall receive from us no notice, but the censure it deserves, no compliment, but the contempt it merits: We hold it would be unconstitutional to adopt it in any shape or form; professing philanthropy it aims a direct blow at the pillars which support the union, and an indirect thrust at the permanency and stability of Southern institutions. Let it become the law of our land, and it would be the entering edge that would rend our union, and array the brothers of our noble confederacy.

In deadly hate, each one against the other.

MISCELLANEOUS.

As tastes are very diverse, "many men of many minds," we shall endeavour to present in the literary portion of the Journal a pleasing and icy variety: to the grave something serious; the laughter loving something humorous, and the hypochondriac something exciting; and it shall be our endeavor, so to blend the elements, that all, if neither profited nor amused, may still give us credit for an attempt to please them.

J. L. BADGER.
March 2, 1848.

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