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From a lale numbcr of the Abbvile Banner. WHAT SHlOUL SOUTH CAROLI NA DO IN THE APPROACHING PRESIDETIAL 1:LECTION? In our preceediog articles we have clear ed the way for the practical question what is South Carolina to do ? We have shown, we think, the State cannot give an unqualified vote to either Gen. Cass or Gen. Taylor. This, as we take it, is out of the question. It would be in the teeth of all her fhrmer principles. and all her settled convictions of stain aciun. Shall the State, then throw away her vote ? We answer no: and for several reasons. 1st. There is. we conceive, under all the circumstances a choice between the cani dates. Neither of them, it is true, fulfils our expectations ; but to select bettei' now, is we fear, impracticable. If one, then. is preferablo to the other, duty and policy lead us to take the least exceptionable. This is certain : one must come into power -which shall it be? The or.e, who will be most liable to carry out our purposes, or the other who is less liable ? Common prudence answers this question. But again : if by casting away our volo we should bring into offire the most oljectiona. ble contdidate--what censure would we not justly incur? We woul.d be guilty of the suicidal.act of bringing upon the country an unsafe administration. from the evil ef fects of which. we may not he able to es cape fur years. Who will be willing to risk so great a danger? Who with soaw ful a responsibility resting upon hait, can consent to rematm neutral ? But it will be urged, by selecting one of the caw+li dates, we will be choosing one of two evils. Not so. The necessity of the case. is the reason of the matter. By er.duritig he less evil, we certainly do not choose it : so by avoiding the greater evil, it can scarce ly be said, we choose the lesa. This is the philosophy of the thing. We take the less evil, through a fear of receiving the great er: which is-both prudent and reasonable. When, hou ever.- we expressly declare, As we should do, that i:t'giving our vote to .one candidate, we give it free from any pledge to support his adrministration furth er than it. conforms with thr doctrines of our political faith, all dilliculty on the score of consistency. will, we imna-ine, be fully removed. We say to the party our vo,o is given conditionally, on the ground, that we tnay have no party trantnels in case the man whom we assist in elevating to power,-fails to administer the government in the full. Republican faith.. Hlere is no inconsistency -no compromise of princi ple.-Aaid.bytakin;; this po-tion we have this great:advantage : we can hones+ly as - sist in electicg the man, we regard under all the'circumstances tl-e most proper per son, and in view of his defalcation in pow er we are entir.elg,freo,!o abandon his ad ministration and to redlata true to our prin. ciples. But another and more urgent reason for not throwing away the vote of the State is, that-the-present crisis in our political af fairs deminA'shbe.ost, ac;ve, ef'urts of the next administration. in which the riuhts of the South is the prize to be won. l'he question of -the. extension of Slavery is beginning to awaken the public energia-s. and before the new President shall have fairly: talket his seat, th-e whole country mnay~be in , state of high political excite ment. The South, then, who is to ini or lose.by the contest, shoulul prepare herself well- for the crisis- She shouldl mark dis tinctly the ground on which she is to stand, and offer no comprOmli8s.s make not con-. cessions until she has full indemnity for the p)ast and security for the future. We sany, she should mark out the ground on which she is to stand. We mean, she should keep free from par ty trammels; she should define her position clearly and emphatical ly on the great vital questions of the,day : and should stand by her principles, and if necessary fight for themt utnder party cen sure, and against numeric-al majorities., It wvill not do at this time to reina;in inactive, while the forces of the North and. South are marshaling thtemselves for the onuset. We must be up and doing, or our fetters will be forged. The hand tif the ma;jority despot is already raised ; the bughe has sounded "to arms ;" bitt we have only to stand firm. and the dlanger mat;y he aver ted. We are the p)arty assailedl. It istour cause-the cause of the South-thtat is to be vitndicated. But though on the de-fen sive, our preparations shtoubil he not less ac tive and serious. Let its fortify ourseilves within our clear and unquestiontabtl- rights. Let us above all be utted ini otur ratnks, and if we can bring to our aid, important allies, let us tnt neglect so weighty a mtat ter. If our Northern frientds-anil we cer tainly have friends aminn the gene-rius minded people of the No,rth--iffer us their frienudly aid, let us by all mteans accept of it ; but we shiouldI receive it in good faith. Let us tell them whtat we are contending for-what we are resolved to have, if there is a setnse of juoi ice anidi liberty in lie hind. If they canuot join us oni the grituds wo propose, we must r.especifully decline their aid, and rely on tor own lesources, on der the protecting inifluences of a wise Providence. That we may show them, however, we are not insensibleo of our true situation, nor indilferent to their friendly aid, let us tender them the thad of frietnd ship, but tith dignity and reserve, that they may see our determmaation in vindi cate our rights, atnd it, accept iio comapro mise that will not re instate us in the full enjoyment of our constitutional liberties. WVe maintain, then, that South Caroli. na is hound to cast her vote-anid to give a qualified vote. But to whotta? To Gen. Taylor, or Gen. Cass? We hopte the an swer 'vill appear obavios, frott what we have already urgetd. TIhis touch, htowev er, may not appear surplusage on so ima poriant a miatter. In takmtg the Candi dhtes, we take their parttes anid all their party Legislation. Th'e isnne cannot te avoided. If we take Ge . Tay lior into our rank., we must take with him Millard Filintore, atnd all his A bolisian associates. We must expect to st-e Whig prinicipios carried out into practical Legislation. What these principles andl measures are. we have already seen. What their con sequences will be, if reduced to practice, we have been sold and n arned against, by the great apostles of constitutional liberty avert their practical effects, the energies of these great men have been poverfolly exerted, and no state has labored more ar-; dently in the same great cause, than the state of South Carolina. How ca the i State now abandon her former course of conduct, and lend her efforts to engulph the ship of state in the sea of Whig prin ciples ? Can she roll back the lasi thirty years of her political history-blot out the recollection of her great struggles against the usurpation of Federalismn--and join hands with the Federal majorcrats, (if we may be allowed to coin a word.) w ho have labored so strenuously to forge ler letteis? Let not her annals be blotted by so foul t stamn ! With all our objections to Gen. Cass. therefore. (and we think it due to the hon or of the state that these objections should be ttade fully known,) we believe South Carolina, to be consistent and true to her interests, is bound to support him, if no oth er candidate less objectionable be brought into the field. In the first place, he is the organ of the party, to which u e have for years belonged. This party on the fundamental doctrines relative to our government, and on the leading measures of every adninistration since the days of Jefferson, has been heart and hand with us. On one subject alone we disagree. This, it is true, is a very im portant matter-paramount, at this time, perhaps to all others. But this must be considered. Even on ttis question of Slavery, the Democratic party at the North (we mean the purer branch of it) has al ways voted with us. It met us on the Mis souri corptomise. It assisted us in set tling the question as to the right of Con gress to interfere with slavery in the Dis trict of Colunbia. At the last session of Congress it helped to vote down the Win throp and Wilmot Provisoes. True, the party refused in Convention at Baltimore to take the p,oper ground on the question as it now stands before the country ; but it must be recollected, the party was not there fully represented, and the matter was not fairly discussed before them. The proha bility is, when the South comes out boldly and lakes a proper position on the subject; dfitnes her views, and sets thei forth pro perly to the public mind-the party will yet he right, and when the question comes to be acted on in Congress, it may vote in our favor. So long at least as there is a strong probability of this, it would be ex ceedingly unwise and indiscreet to cast off from us a body of men, with whom we have been long politically associated, and who have united their euergies with our own, ofien by liberal compromises, to carry into effect the great leading doctrines of the Republican school. It is but fair, we should try the.,, until they fairly desert us. This need not, however, nitder our circumsnection. We may hope for the best, bu: -' for the worst. Let us r. fancy al aroutn seuti: our .n' - w er :uer ourelves to ou ura ..-n'om the" true issues. We should tell them, in lan guage not to be misunderstood, that South Carclina cannot go heart and hand in this election without a mtore ample pledge, touch~ ing the exclusion of slavery from the 'J'r rTZores ; but for the sake of harmotny, as well as from a feeling of duty, she is wil ling to give her vote quietly and condition all,y for the Detmocratic Notmitnee. There is an additional reason for sup purti g Genteral Cass, in preference to General Taylor which may have some weiahtt with those who look at the issue simply otn the groutnd of expediency. It is this. It must be admitted, that of thte two great parties at the North, there are moore lhberal tmen, who have always voted niinf the South on the Slavery question, and wvho in atll probability will cootinue to do so, mat te found in tate Democratic, thtan in the Whrg ranks. This fact, wve judge. can scarcely be controverted. We take it for granted, also thtat the South whten issue is made on this qu-stion, will be tunited without distitnctiont of party If' now the unitcd South, can secure the aid of tis liberal liactiont itn the D)emrocratic party at the No,rth, she will artm hterself' with a strong auxiliary, that will enable her, per. haps, to succeed in all her reasonable de matnds In this way her rights on thtis much vexed question of shatvery may be fnally settled. But if the D)emocraice party at thte South unite with the Whigs at the No,rth to elevate Gen. Taylor to the Presidency, can wve secure the aid of these liberal Demnocrats of' the North ? We ourselves dissolve thte ties thtat bind us together-can we any longer, then, expect thema to unite with us ? WVe not only quit them, btut wea join their political enemies. Is it reasonabtle to suppose, they will still adhere to us ? To expect sucn a result is altnge ther unnatural. Blyjoining ourselves therefore. wIth the Whigs to elect General Taylor, we cut ourselves oilf from thtose generous mninded men at the North who have always stood by us in our adversities, and who tmost probably, will aid us in the approaching contest, if we do not unreflec inly discard them. By doing tbia, we itt. sulate the South ;-wo dissolve all the bonds, that keep united these tw t sections of the country on this great r,ubject ; and by this severance, we throw the South in to a minority, to be ruled and governed by the legions of the North. WVe putt these views to the sober and soletnt consideration of thtose honest but deluded men ia our State, who under the popular sobriquet " Taylor Democrats," are seeking to n ithdraw themselves front their ptolitical alma mater. We heg them to pause befatre the'y take a step so fatal to the interests of the State atnd of the South! Alter all we have said, we shall still 'ie ridiculed for deserting our party, because we have dared to differ from it otn some poits and to make animadversions on our ont candidate. WVe shtall be styled by some of the brainless politicians in the contry, htair-splitting mnetaphysicians-. addle-brained Theorists, and all thttt; and it will doubtless, be said by holding to n the Presidential election, we %1 b giv iog an example of the theoreticallyise, but practicaly foolish. Let us not:hiw aver, be deceived by cant phrases. ''1iiese are the mere catch words of the; partul gar-the wisdom of the foolish, w hih is the folly of the wise.- It is the ciining language of the practical demngogues. who are laboring with their might to' level the political morals of the couniry.-=a class of men, who are teaching that;;reu ces-ful villainy, is virtue,"-and'-tht, to obtain ends a desertion of principles isful ly jusiifiable:.--men, N ho think of nothing but political bargains, and party log rlltng -lielp me, and I'll help you:-theun worthy followers of the great pri eof. political tricksters-Prince Machiavelli who taught, as these men are now jeach ing, " that the end sanctifies- the ieins" -that -strength and understandih are all that is necessary in a system oi' oli tics "-and that "justice does not enter into the elements of political economy." May the country be delivered from this tribe of political insects! T It may be a virtue to adhere to party ; but we deem as far more exalredanod praise worthy, a faithful adherence to-hon esty and tocorrect principles. This.is-the course that duty points out. and in: pursu ance of th.t. are found the endsof. all honorable desires. Let not ridicule hen, or slander, drive us out of it. .A . jiter than man was mocked and ridicul yet he continued to teach and practice tue. And was not this the true philosop j? Contrary to the common notion. we. assert, and toe wish our assertion to stand'"in re, cord, that South Carolina by a rigtd ad. herence to the settled doctrines of her. iit ical creed. regardless of party bias or cen sure, will draw upon herself more real honor -aye-willexert a more powerlul influe*e in this union, intellectually. morally.a it ically. than if she could always be unted upon with certainty to support, wtho ftefer, ence to her principles. any and every)yarty measure. I'here is about a straight for ward independent course of conduci'a be witching power that strikes even tie vul ,ar eye, and which adepts in intrigye and political infamy themselves will at des-, pise nor unheed. Let us do, then;what we believe to be right, and let otherstiock if they will. A mind conscious nT7ecti, tude has no sickly sensitiveness h6tit un worthy inuendoes against its ttotiv%s. It is not touched by every suggestion of' tidie, cule, and the tricks of party cannot imake it swerve froin its faith. Let us Qpcupy this position. Let us preserve our faith etire: Let our honor be without stain. - Sit a labe decus. JurF - Mr. Clay and the Presidency. per. ceive, by a telegraphic despatc from New York roceived by our neig re of the C urier, that Mr. Clay has. .riten -- -.. .+nroving of the movpttents - te Pi ntial iplyitig ftlie rh not .Wilo -poncst-towds. IT could be no liar; of Mr. Clay's ambition to get-the vote of a fragment of the party he has so losig con trolled in that part of the United States, where his whole party. hiy its strictly anti southern character, must aways have been very little to iiis taste. It is probable that this letter of Mr. Clay wsill do something to stifle the voice of discontent ini the Whig ranks, It comes too, foitunately for them, in company with a letter fr-om the regular WVhig no.' minee, in. which lie not only plead, strong ly for his own thorough identity wiih the party, but removes 'he. last pretext for dissatisfaction ini the Northern wing liy an unqua'lified endorsement nf Mitlard Fill. mt)re. Arfter all this, we cannot see what possstble excuse the WVhigs can have fur turning their weapons npon each other. The only portion of the wvhole concern that has any righi to complain, or to con sider itself cast excomnmunicated, and for gotten amidst the general j.ininag of hands, and restoration of brotherly relations, is that select body. which unider the name of Taylor Democrats, or some such rigma role, abides in the Blesh in and about the city of Charlestoti. These dlo indeed seein to have no share in the general recon ciliationi; and if the first and triumphal period of their life be described accom ding to the Chinese form of speech, as "chop, chop " their last could hardly be designa ed as u,ny other thtan chaplallen, itis a plain case of abandonment, and if they were disposed to pursue the maiter, af' fods good grounds -for atn application of~ divorce. Will they not take it into con sideration.- Charleston Mercury. Northern Pairness.-Nearly every news paper published North of Mason and Dix. on's line, contaimis in each issue some ab usive paragraph against the South. Every street fight, every murder, every brawl that occurs from Baltimore to New Orleans! is carefully recorded-and with many ex aggerations and additions, conspicuously pplished. Whilst the aiyriadu. of at rocities that daily happen in their own midst are passed over, as matters of. no' consequence. In the city of New York alone, we are confident that miore heinous1 crimes are committed in a single year, that occur in all the Southern States put together, in ten. Yet accoiding to their! own report, the people at the North are all Sainta.-Laurenrcille Herald Robert Gri5in, of Savamnah, has been elected Grand Sire of the General Granid Lodge of Odd Fellow,. Mr. Kellogg, of Michigan. was elected Deputy Grandl Sire. and J. L. R.idgley, of Baltimore, Grand Secretary. These elections took place at Baltimore. wvhere this body annually assembles, antd the information was cmmtunicated to the Savannah paper, by telegraph.-Charleston Courier. The Evening Newes of yesterday ar.noun-' es that Mr. J. N. Cardozo, the former ditor of that journal, is to continue ine as ociation wIth Mr. Pringle, in its editorial EDGEFIELD C. 11. WEDRESDAY, SEPT. 27, 1848. Cool Weather.-The weather for several days past was quite cool, On Friday morning about sun rise, the thermometer stood at 54 degrees. on Saturday, at the same time, at 51 We are authorized to say, that on next Sale day, the first Monday in October, our immedi ate Representative, the Hon. A. Burt, will be at Edgefield Court House, and accoidirnir to request, will address his fellow citizens on the political questions that agitate the country. Gil. Burt is not in favor of Gen. Taylor for the Presidency, but adheres to his political faith. It is known, that our Senator, JruJge Butler will speak to the people on the occasion re ferred to. The citizens of the District will employ their t mne beneficially, if they w ill come out, and hear instruction from those whom they have elected to give it. Old Edgefeld Erect.-All the Candidates from this District for the Legislature, have declared fr Cuss and Butler. They flly accord with the people of the District, who will suffer no neutrality upon the Presider.. tial question. We call attention to the article signed " Jef ferson." The views expressed by the writer are mod erate, manly and sensible. and deserve consid eration. - It is proper to state, that the piece first ap peared in the Abbeville Banner, and was written in last July. The author can claim, not to be entirely indebted to others for the position he early assumed. Letter of the Hon. F. IW. Pickens.-On ac count of the pressure upon our columns during last week, we conld not publish the letter of our former Representative to Congress the Hon. F. W. Pickens, in reply to an invita tion to a meeting-at Athens Ga. It will be found in our paper to day. Col. Pickens has been known for some time past to be a sup porter of GMn -Cass for-the Presidency. He is now as ho *a when in Cong rs. a th rya Southern Democrat. -tnorrwmnm-pickedEleaut Twenty'tTI erhdsir picked in one day, 5.560 pounds. Thirty seven hands picked 5,476 pounds. Sixty hands the two numbers above, added together picked 11 036 pounds. One hand picked 312 pounds, another 303, ar.othecr 307. The lowest number ofrpounds picked by any on amont ed to 201 p..unde. Wee will not es,,. ..eat this if you cana, but we call at pretty good picking for an old country. On a plantation situated on Sahada River, and belonging to a gentlemnan of this District, the following as the result. One hand picked in one day, froma nun rise till sunset, 358 pounds * Another 300 " 4' 287 " Foray-three hands averaged 180 pounds. The Columbia Telegraph has maore than once complained of the transfer of his. "thtun der" to others. Now wec harve a nimilar coma plaint to make, and pledge ourselves to iunite our best efforts *itha those of war brother. in bring abnut that happy state of things, wvhen every man in South Carolina, shall have in fee simple lain own " thaunder." The Editor of I the Advertiser noathaving said a good thing ihr long tame (if lhe ever did ini his life) ansI plainly perceiving that snnmethaing must he d, n--. or his subscrihers wo,uld leave him, concludri that lie wouldJ make a visit to Grianiteville in the hope that amid the stirring incidents of that wonaderful plaice, hae might get something which would ward off the impending calamity.4 But when, oh, when, are our misfortutnes to nd ! The account of our visit has been givei . and the Telegraph for reasons bent known to itself, has credited it to the Editor of the Abbe :ile Banner. This has given rise to some mortifying reflections. It may be that our existence is unknown at Columbia. Thlis is the most charitable vie.w whaich wye can take oaf the mutter ; but yet there is nothing consoling i it We wish the Banner well, hut we must have onr own thunder, as we seldonm make it, and cannot spare it. Thae Beggs Mfedal.-The ciiizens of Rich land District have caused to be made a medal of the most beautiful descripation, to I present to Thomas Beggs late cohur bearer of I Pametto Regimient. as a testimonial of their appecationi of his services in Mexico. Ithig Mass Meeting at Atlanta Ga.-Weo learn from the Augusta Chronicle, that at the meeting of the Whiga. at Atlanta, on the 14th, 1 about 8 or J0 thousand of the party were 5 present. Thie Hon. A. J - Miller acted as President. The audience was addressied by I overnor Crawford. Hoin. Win. C. Dawson, h obert Toombn atnd 'Jno. M4 Betrienm. Mr. t< Stephens was also present, aid was received ti with great enthusiasm. He made a short address, thankiang the company for his recep-. Mr. Stephens who was wounded in the I 4 Candiates fur Congress from Charleston )istridt.-Messrs. Holmes. Rlhett and Clay on, are annonneed as caiididateis '.idrepresent harleston District n ongress. rempest in a Tea pot-The Taylor Democrats n Chtarlepton.are making a great noise about isa & Taylor Their demonstrattons in avor of the latter. are all in vain South ,aro.ina is still trit to her ancient principle; nd will never surrender to the Whigs. C. G. Memminger.-This gentleman in a ecent letter declares Ais preferetrce for ('ass mnd Butler for the Presidency and Vice Presidency. Another Hero Gone.-Died, on Thursaday tight, the 21st of September 1848 at the house if his uncle. John Doby, Esq . JASPER N. DEVORE. He was a young man of good habits and good morals, and promised to be an ornament a sniPty. He was a member of Company D., of the Palmetto Regiment, in the war with Mexico. ind passed thouath every battle in which that egimient;was engaged. Hi4 'officers and brother soldiers, all bear estitnony to his high character both as a soldier md a gentleman. II. never absented hims."lr 'rom duty. when labors were to be perforned >r battles were to he won for his country; and ts life was a sacrifice to his country's bonor. The Evening News -The Proprietorship of his paper has been changed. It is now coO lucted by B. Garden Pringle, J. N. Cardoz" naving retired. Taylor and the Wilmot Proviso.-Our readers must not forget that General Taylor when ltiestiored about his views .on the Wilmot Proviso. not long since, positively refused to mswer. and said that he would not reply to iestions on other subjects. But he has replied rully on a number of subjects in his numer >us letters. The paramount question has never been answere I at all by him. Still. for is reputed soundness on slavery, the Taylor men at the South throwt up their caps for hint. and will not abandon bitn, associated though he is with Flllmore. Missouri.-The Democratic majority for enator in Missotri, is 15,000. The Hoase will consist of 27 Whigs to 70 Democrats. The Senate is-also Democratic. Henry Clay.-Mr. Clay has written a letter to a friend iit New-York, decluing to rtn for the Presidency. Commander Alexander Slidell McKenzie re rently fell fr:an his horse, while riding thtrou&h PiIresidet'and Vice President, ther followitig amintng other resoluttons were passed. Resolved, That Millard Fillmore is well kmown and highly honored by the WVhigs u New Jersey, as tihe unwavering and elicient advocate of true Whig principles, mud particularly the Tarti of '42. and as the defender Elf the rights of this State, and its broad seal, against the outrages ol Loco Focoism in 1839 and '40-that we bal tis nomtination with universai satis racton, antd will give him our zealous aud aanimiats supp)lort. Resolved. TIhat these principles which Geu. Zachary Taylor has avowed, com prehettd fully all the pritnciplem which thte Wiigs have ever contended for, in respect o t':e E xecutive. R?esolred. Tht these pritncipiles are as Clws: that the Pr"sident abould never riig the poiwer, influence, patronagte or aroscriptions air the E xecutive to hear and >verawe the action of Congress: that he hould ttevcr exercise thae veto power exceptL to, prevent u uconstitutionualI and lasty legislation ; that he should never let up his tnotinns of the cons5titutiaon tgaintst the adjudic.ations of the Supremo Jurt, or the settled practice ofi the govern nett; and Itat therefore he should ap rove atnd sign all well considered latIs ahicha Congress may present to him. for he establishtt:ent of a pruteclive tariff, 'or useful interttah improvements, nd for al othter mleasures of domestic policy for hch the WVhigs contend. Resolved, That althotigh the qatestion as to the extensiota of slavers, being a new liestiomn, has never constituted a part of he whig creed, yet the whigs of New ersey, as well as the whtigs of all the ree States, though opposed to all inter erence with slavery where it now exists, re nnianinmously opposed to its extetnsion, nd always have exerted and always will xert all the itnfluetnce they have in Coo. ress, tn prevent-such extension. Resolved. T'hat by the avowed prinei es of G.en. Taylor he is bound not to eo any bill because it prohibits slavery n a tnew State or Territor) ; but that Gen. ass htas pled;;ed htimsehlf to veto anty pro iito or the kind, and that therefore as oe or the other tmnus, he elected President, very frietnd of lfredom is bound to sup trt Gen. Tlaylor. Resolved, That but foar the cotnquest of rixican territory tby the present adtmitis ration, tbere wotuld have been nao exten ion of slavery; and tanat if Gen. Cass hould he elected, pledged as he is to givem ibridled license to t he spirit of uggression ipun M~exico and~ Cu'o, the country wthl cursed wit h tnore conquaests and more have territory. I Among the spakers presen:, was Col. laskell. We make the followtng extract fromn is speecht. It ta by no means comnphmenIary >General Taylor's Democratic friends itt , outh Carolina. Col. Haskell. of Tenn., was then intro- n ucedi, and spoke with tmarked efl'ect for t bot twvo hottre. Whatever Southern Locofocos have.done, e tell youi, Northern Whigs and Detr oerats, ott have narking. to say against SouthePn e. IVMdgs. (.pplausc.) T Aid -a3vocat-, rieury Clay in '44 and a Tariff for tore han revenue, if necess.ary. to protect Nort'&ern lahor agaist Ioreign competi ion. Southern locofocos. hon ever, never tympathized with the Northern interests, and have ever endeavored to create see ional feeling. (Applause.) With that party the Whigs of the South never sym. pathized. Wnen we have been told that the hard earned labor+ of the South went for the bent"fit of Northern manufacturere we stood tip uniformly in the South. and contended that the manutacturers of or' own country shi uld he protected against foreign pauper labor. tGreat applause Whatever has heen lone by a disaffec . band of South Carolina lbcofucos to ptr up another man for Vice President in the place of l"illmore, they have never had d.ir sympathy (Jf Southern Whigs. And how could Gen. 'raylotr have done otberwiae'" than accept that nomination? It wi'' made by a body of disaffected locos, who couldn't vote for Cas., and concluded to vote for the man who is to be elected,. Th y wanted to get out of the locofoco" :r. party in the best mar;ter they could, and should we exclude them? Gen. Taylor did not go them, they came to him. In supporting Gen. Taylor we do not abandon a solitary tenet of nor party We shall have under him not ar admidittr' trauon for a party. but for the whole cou try. Does any one want to establish any one of the principles we advocated is '44? He can do so precisely as well under Tay-. for as nnder Clay- The President cansos carry out any of these measures himself, and whatever Congress does for the people, ;p Taylor is pledged not to veto. He is not ... an ultra Whig. but -a -Clay Whig and . would have voted for him in '44 if he had Y.i been in a position to vote. d a For the Advertiser. Mr. Eorra:--IN your paper, asiafa se'i through other Journals orf the -Districtt9 a questions have been propouoded =to "th0el-' Candidates for the Legislature, touching ", their views as to the Presidential eandi. dates. --, As ueither-of the :tickets. are .etirt . acreptahle to Soanth Carolina, as.au indi..; vidual I have preferred that- the itats should remain uncommitted; to%the.:latest,,tx; poss.hle - mnment-w hen her:vote,cogh lc have been cast -with - the me st. receot,ao& 1 fullest informatimn: as to their respectij, ,iews. In this way the:State.might. poe0 more wisely and judiciously for herh,best"r interests; But as the people have thoaght,,;4 proper now to call on me for my opitoo. I acknowledge their right.to do so,by re plying. that it is the. true intefest.of South Carolina,. under . exis;ing .c.rcumsiances to cast her vote, at- the ensuine Presidett .,t al electisen .for Cass- and Butler South a. my preference. .+ 'ie caudidates naye also beenen quired of as to their views .n relltion.io 2iiQth.A .tPPf,.-..afi1lctos for to tfi People, 'ton to announce if the -past rLe 'bad'tiefroi to eight thousand dollars. -B. C;YANCEY.w --For- the .id ere.-.r: MR. E o,ton:-l should-have answered. the questi"u of -:Responsible Voters ": be... fore this, but for thts reason-I understood 'hat there was an arraugemnent amongst all the candidates to give. their answer in one article, and save the Eitors of tih papers, the trouble of publishing so many , separate articles. I am :always readyto give my 'opin ion on any political ,question2 in agitoation before the people. I therefore beg leave to say, thart -I. am in favor of CAss & Bc-rt.a for the Piresi. dency. 1 frankly confess that I hade been one of the " wait atnd wvatch party," but I cannot see for the life of me.-- howv atty Southero D.-tmcram can consistently-su port Gein. TIaylor with his present princi.. pIes. Trhe claims '.f Van Buren. I-pre.u u me, are entirely out of the quest ion, as hey should be. Respectfully, A. JONES. - For the Advertiser. , .MR. EuTOR:-ln reply to the call of Responsible Viters," which appeared a a recent tnumber of your pap)er.. I beg ,'ave to say, that with the present lightei roro rme, (should I he elected.) I shall supw port the election of Getn. Cass in "prefer., ,nce tm tiny other Candidate noo bel'drd us or the Presidency. -- DANIEL HOLLAND. From the (harleston Mercury. --- Letter from Mr. Memmingur.-Tbe fol owing letter fromn M,r. Memminger will te read with initerest. It is his reply to mn interrogatory addressed to him by the Executive Committee of the Democratic Party of Charleston. RocK HIL.L Sept. 11, 1848. Gentlemen: Y .ur favor of the 31st Au ust was not received until late on Satur-. ly, the 9th instaini, and I now avail - elf of the earliest opportunity of reply ngr tim it. it mty opinion it is the true interest of oth Carolina. under existina cireums areee, to cast her vote at the etnsuing resideniial election for Cass antd Bolter, nd ir elec ted a member of the Legisla ure ? shall vote accordinigly. Your l-rt er spea.ks of a ti:ket pledged to support bese gentlemen. I prestutme that by this xpresiont you do not desire more than tch a declaration as would he consistent ith that discretion which tmust be'e' reised by thme miembeis of a del'herative ody. Deliberation necessaily invoWves de xercise of judglemnent, and an absolidte ledge might ptlace one in alposition where' is cousnienice and his plrdge might come. i cotifbet. In South Carolina, especially Ithere the vote. of the State is reser'ved be east by the Lialature, mt seems to te to lbe essential that the Represensat iyes of the p)etple abould be allowed the ercise of a sound and responsible disy rotion. With much fespect, your obedient.ser ant. C. G. MEMMINGERD .