Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1847-10-08
THE WILMoT PRovISo-THE SLAVERY
QUESTION.

As we some time ago predicted, this great
bugbear has already lost much Of its savage
ness; and that, too, thank Heaven, through
the instrumentalty of the Democratic party.
We have never believed that the North, when
the question came to the pinch, would carry
their foolish, fanatic notions, on the subject of
slavery, to such extremes as to endanger the
safety of the Federal Union. 1t is with feel
ings of peculiar pride, as Southern Demo-
crat. that we find that the Democrats of the
North are regulating the famous Wilmot pro-
viso. We some weeks ago published the let
ter of Mr.. Buchanan to his fellow citizens of
Pennsylvania, in which he utterly repudiates
the doctrines of Wilmot; and in which he
goes in for the Missouri Compromise. That
letter was written by Northern Democrat
who reveres the Constitution and will support
1t at all hazards. Before US we have
speech delivered by Geo M. Dallas, the Vice
President, at Pittsburg, Pa, on the 18th ult :,
IN which that distinguished gentleman tells
the audience (non-slav eholders too, be it re-
membered) that he goes for each newly acqui-
red territory acting as it pleases in regard to
the slavery question. That he is opposed to
the Wilmot Proviso, and to every attempt up
on the part of the on-slaveholding States to
interfere with the rights of the South Again,
the late Democratic Convention which assem-
bled in Massachusetts, the hot-bed of anti -sla-
very, laid upon the table resolution which ap-
proved of and advocated the Wilmot doctrine.
We look upon all these demonstrations upon
the part of our Northern brethren as bright
omens OF the future We feel confident that
to the Democratic party of the North, as well
as South, must the country look for the de-
struction of that fell spirit which abolitionism
has evoked We believe that the Democratic
party North, as body, are true to the consti-
tuition on this momentous question, and to
them do we look with the fullest confidence
Indeed, we have it from the lips of one of the
most distinguished members of the Wing par.
ty, that the Democratic party, as well at the
North as at the South, is opposed to the Will
mot proviso. At the great Wing State Con-
vention, recently held in Massachusetts,, when
Briggs was nominated for Governor, and Web.
ster for President, the latter, the God like
Daniel" made a speech, in which he urged
upon the Wing party of the North the doc,
trines laid down in the Wilmot proviso, and
declared it as his belief that the Democratic
party, both North and South, was opposed &c
that abolition movement Surely this great
Wing gun ought TO know. Thus it will be
seen by the people of the South, where they
have to look for their real friends Still is il
not singular that Shareholders, Southern men
will continue to fraternate with the abolition
lists of the North; for the Wings and the Abo
litionlsts OF New England are one and the
same. Wings of North Carolina, we ask you
to ponder upon this grave question! We ash
you, can you, as Southern men, longer league
yourselves with the fan tics of the New Eng
land States, who are daily waging crusade
upon your institutions'