WING MEETING
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December, 1912. at the Commercial Hotel
in the town of Commerce, STEPHEN Nor
RIs. Esq. was called to the Chair, and Mr..
CHARLES May was appointed Secretary.


The object of the meeting having been
appropriately explained by DR. L. H. Rice,
the chair. on motion, appointed committee
Of five persons to draft a report and resolu-
tions expressive of the sentiments Of the
meeting, which cornmittee after few mo-
ments consultation presented thrsugh Mr.
THOMAS May the following


1t is no. only one of the inestlmable priv
ileges belonging % the free citizens of this
Republic to NEE; in their primary assemblies
for the purpose Of freely discussing the pre-
tensions of public men and the merits of pub


ic measures, but, er necessitate rel, sol
emn duty which they owe 10 themselves and
their country. For the last twelve or four
teen years the administration of our national
government has been entrusted to hands
wholly unworthy and incompetent to dis
charge its high trus:s-the country during
that time has undergone the severest trials
in the operations of its evil concerns to which
any other has ever been subjected by tke Ill
advised policy of lis rulers-the people are
at the present day experiencing the deplora-
bic effects Of the political empyricism by
which they have been governed-the Union
has at length been brought to an awful crisis
"a crisis that demands the most energetic
ac;ien on the part of all lovers of good order
and wise and equitable administration of its
internal legislation; most assuredlv, if
there has ever yet been a critical period
calling for the salutary in.erposi.ion Of an
expression of public opinion, this is certain
ly time.


The fourishing condition of these United
States, about the period when General Jack
son conceived The bold idea Of reg ulating Its
finances. was astonishing and unprecedented,
and the healthy tone of their national policy
challenged the admiration of all men. Nei-
ther the annals Of this nor any other coun-
try could produce parallel series of years
of such uninterrupted prosperity, until ne, in
one of those paroxysms of combativeness in
cidental to his belligerent idiosynocraey, be-
gan to wage an unprovoked war upon cur
rency unequalled by any in the universe.
I Not satisfied with the overthrow and entire
demoIis of his great South Carolina
adversary, the talented but misguided Cal
houn. in his partiality for pugnacity, he
turns with phrenzied mien and uplifed club
in search OF some object worthy of the poten-
cy of his ven geful stroke. This he finds in
| the farcied horrors of the late Z. S. Bank;
and viewing it through the distempered op-
tics of an infuriated anImosity towards It's
principal officer, bethinks himselfin the pre-
ty -fanged monster-such as the tabled Her
cules of old was wont TO encounter in some
of his bloody adventures.-Bu most unfor-
tunately for himself rs we'll as the patty
that, with pertinacity worthy of nobler
cause, so faithfully followed him in all Of his
extravagant marauding, he did not retire
from the conflict without signal, but deplora-
bic mementoes of rashness. These are now
apparent in the crippled and disabled condl-
ton of his own private resources, (which he
only shares in common with his country
mrn) and the overwhelming defeat OF the
selfstyled Democracy In the ever memora-
bic campaign of lS40-No position, high
or low-no department of business, from the
wholesale importer of foreign merchandise
down to the circumscribed tI ader OF a Mis-
sissippi broad horn-no vocation by which
the honest, labouring man learns by the
sweat of his brow a scanty livelihood for
himself and family. is exempt from the
blighting, the blasting consequences ofmeas-
ures so destructive and pernIcious as those
embraced in the financial project Of Geni.
Jackson and his servile successor IN Office,
who ingloriously pledged himself % follow
in the footsteps of his worshiped chieftain !"
m Ill alil-e sr1f7ar and lamentations