The North-Carolinian., 1851-11-22

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HON. B. F. HALLETT'S SPEECH.
We give. substantially, the remarks of Hon.
B. F. Hallett. made before the democratic con-
vention for the first congressional district of
Massachusetts, (Boston,) Oct 10, 1851, upon the
announcement of his selection delegate to the
National Convention, Hon. Isaac Emery in the
char.
Mr. Hallett saia-I earnestly thank you Mr.
Chairman, and gentlemen of the Convention. for
this renewed evidence Of the long continued con-
hdeEce OF the Boston democracy in intrusting to
me, for the approval of the people, the express
next President OF these United States; and do
the more because the trust, your behalf,
contded to me, is one of honor and not OF profit
-one which | shall use, [ trust NAV saw
always have used any influence you may have
given me, to serve the cause and its friends more
than myself. Allow me also to say that think
the convention has done wisely. in acting, OH its
part, promptly and at once upon this question
of selecting delegate to the national convention;
not with reference to the person you have honor
ed with that selection, but on account of its ten
dency to produce harmony among ourselves, and
to consolidate the general sentiment of the de-
national convention.
That, in my judgment, is the great point and
the only point upon which the democracy have
any thing to fear To nominate a democratic
candidate for President in d national convention
of the States ofthIs Union, in May or June next ,
is to elect him. This mode of omination, in
general convention, is, therefore, the first and
most essential element of success, and hence the
great duty of the democracy of each State, and
especially the north, is to adopt that course best
fitted to promote mutual confidence betwe all
the States, by removing all just apprehensions
that sectional agitating Influences from any
quarter, will be brought into national Conven-
ton. To inspire this confidence the democracy
must show. by their State conventions, in refer
ence to all national concerns, and by their choice
OF national delegates, that they mean, in good
fath-in the faith our fathers pledged to the
south in the Constitution-to go into such
vention upon the old, established, well-trIed,
democratic national platforn--understandi
fairly, and meaning to carry out that plain con-
structon adopted by Massachusetts State
democratic convention in August last, that 'the
Baltimore platform covers and was intended to
embrace the whole subject Of slave agitation in
Congress-
Now, Mr. Chairman. we at the north have not
been aware, and not yet aware, OF the great
importance of this single question, S Shall there
be nation al contention Of the democratic party
Of this Union ?''-for when it arrives to the
point of dstrust that there is no national party
in this Union having sufficient organization in
each State, in nearly all the States, to bring
that party to deliberate and to consent, by its
delegates IN general convention, to pres dent al
nom nation, we shall then have reached the cri
sis of practical disunon
This has been the question which has most oc-
cupled the anxious consideration of the friends
of the permanency of the democratic party
throughout the Union; and to this point, from
the position have hap pened to occupy chair
man of the democratic national committee ," hIch
was appointed from all the States by the last
Baltimore convention, ito promote the demo-
cratic cause have directed my attentions, so
far as have, for some time past, taken any ac-
tive personal concern in politics.