Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1848-09-22
EXPLICIT!.

cling the proposition made by Mr.. Ashe y M
Davis. in the Court House, during the ,e.. ~
discussion there, "that committee NJ q
Wings and three Democrats should be ann
ted 10 correspond with Mr.. Fillmore and q"
Butler, and ask them for distinct avov.,
their views on the subject Of slavery.
claims -
& Can Mr.. Ashe for moment suppose thai,
nv Wing would offer Mr.. FillInore so craa
insult as to question him on subjec. eoncpr";S
which he has within six or seven weeks o. -
himself in the most explicit manner! WIZ
would he well employed to tie sure in catecbi'
Mr.. Fillmore. when on the 3lst Of July. s. y M
letter to Gov. Gayle, he made known his x.1%
ments in unequivocsl language.
Now we don't know what Mr.. Ashe H.,
about the matter, but for his known chars..
as gentleman, 4re endorse that the propo,:
ton was made in good faith. Why not; 1,
Mr.. Fillmore now Stands-his vose.an II. ia
Anterior Resolutions, and his letter OF 1874 st
he is undoubtedly an aboIitionist. No dM ~.
Mr. Ashes only object in making the prOpos
ton TO Mr.. Davis, was TO give MIR. Fillmoe,
chance to deny and eat up what he has sa rs
and done. This proposition, we againreps,
WAS NOT RESPONDED TO BY Mr.. DAVIS, B.,
the Chronicle wants TO know if Mr.. Al. so
could " for a moment suppose that any PB;. e,
would offer Mr.. Fillmore so great an inot >" "a
to question him on subject concerninsvsa ps
he has within six or seven weeks dec},y
himself in the most explicit manner :" In vi, III
explicit manner, we ask Why, 10 be Sin or
in his letter to Gov. Gayle, OF Alabama, ~ -
has been particularly explicit, The Ckroni,l
responds. Let US see what this abolitSsf's M
says in his letter 10 Gov. Gayle, over wHs ~ =.
the Chronicle and other federal prints siD,, de
many pGans of Joy. We find the ernGs co
part of that letter quoted in the same nun. ~
Of the Chronicle from which the above ey,,. 81
is taken. The Chronicle puts the "expicr m
part of this Gayle letter in large italics, az M re
lows: 4,
:" That by the Constitution of the Unfs GU
States, the ahole potcer orer that Question nv, dis
rested in The several States phcrs the inst;t in
ton aras tolerated. IF they regarded it a., tic
blessing, they hada constitutional right 10 e. IN
Jog 1t, and if they regarded it as an evil, fLy a.
had the powcr, and kac1U best how to 0pplptI ~
remedy. l did not c0nceiue that Congress had y
any poarer orer it, or uraS IN any uray re,pn -
Sj6e for ats continuance IN the several NQts =,
arherc 1t eristed" ~
No.. .--.-~~ry-<-.D=OfsTO1rtts mas somewner IA
read of a certain Buffalo Convention, a4a ~
the platform laid down by that molly c,r u
OF abolitionists, wings, and renegade de-; =
Gratis. We will give one of the resolutions in
dopted by this Convention, 10 which John 9,
Hale, Joshua R. Giddings, Charles Francis =
Adams, with host of other true-bue a0i. &c
tionsts, gave their cordial and hearty atQur le
essence, and ask the Chronicle if it is not quit ~
as explicit and satisfactory as Mr. Fillmore
Gayle letter. 1t reads in the following wora Ct
" Resotred, That Slavery in the several Sas '"
of this Union which recognize its existence .
ponds upon State laws alone, which cannot ben '
pealed or modified by the federal government, an y
for wh laws that Government is not respone y :.
f bic. We, therefore, propose TO interference !,
Congress with slavery within the limits Of u :;
State"
s Is not the doctrine here laid down and sub .
scribed to by all the notorious abolitioniSsn q
the land, just as satisfactory as that contaFa !.
: in Mr.. FiImore's Gayle letter? And still a I
this resolution oil the abolilionists are with. I
TO go. :
e And now we will ask the Chronicle tbet
is word or sentence in all the Gayle letter to
n which the most notorious abolitonis,s in New
e England would not this day SUBSCRIBE WM :
1 the Chronicle adduce a single instance il
t which the aboitionists have ever conHtH
: that Congress ought 10 interfere with slavery 4,
: within the " several States? 4
n AS commentary on the Gayle letter We
: would ask the Chronicle 10 publish Mr.. FIJI !
n more's votes on the Atherton Resolutions, ait I,
: likewise his letter, written in 1888, 10 NJ
i Mills, chairman of an anti slavery commits
: in which he (Mr. Filmore) approves the moi
e obnoxious of the abolition doctrines.
Satisfactory indeed
Al.