The Democratic sentinel and Harrison County farmer. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1851-1852, 1851-09-03

Ero,n the 81. CIoirsy;He Gazette.

We understand that at meeting held in
this place. by the wings who support the
present Administration, and are in favor of
the Union, and opposed to the Morristown
Platform: Messrs. d. Peck, R. E. Carothers,
c. G. Carroll, Isaac Askew, and M. ]. w.
Glover, were appointed committee to draw
up Circular to the wings of Belmont coun-
ty; which Circular will be found below
We shall expect to see spirited meeting
on the 18th, for the gentlemen who lead oil
in this movement, are men who are not apt
to move until they know what they are doing,
To the Wings Of Belmont county.
The undersigned, your fellow citize ms, ,and
members of the whig party in the county,
have heretofore entertained and do now en-
tertain the fullest confidence in the integrity,
capacity and policy of the administration of
President Fillmore, and at the present time
feel it to be paramount duty to sustain the
same. We view the question of maintain
ing and preserving the Union as well now
as alta times heretofore, altogether above
any mere party, or sectional interest, and
we look upon any attempt, openly or covert
w,
together the several States as highly culpa
Bile, if not absolutely reasonable. We be-
lieve that all laws, either of the Federal or
State government, should be implicitly obey
ed, and honestly and manfully executed.
We have appeared before you at this time
because the meeting of the Delegates al
Morristown for the purpose Of nominating the
county ticket for this fall election, on the l3tt
inst, passed certain resolutions, of which We
disapprove, and which we believe grea
majority of the wings Of the county cannot
and will not receive as their rule of action.
We do not know whether these resolutions
were passed with due consideration of that
meeting, or were suffered to pass without
investigation, as matter of course.
4 We cannot, and we have good reason to
believe thai the great body of the wings
cannot recognize them as platform, either
, as national or sectional We disapprove Of
the first three resolutions, as having for their
object the stirring up of the slavery question,
and of bringing our national administration
into disrepute. We do not approve of 9th
ers of these resolutions: untrue in fact, OF
calculated to raise up issues between the
parties, improper, and unnecessary to be
made.
/ We are unwilling to adopt aplatform which
will necessarily separate us from the grea
mass of the whig party, for without union n'
party can affect any great object Nor car
we see the necessity Of adopting differen
one from that of New Yor k, Pennsylvania
and our own State Convention.
Under such circumstances, we are of opin
ion, that the whig party of this county shoulc
promptly put itself into the proper position
with the wings of the State and of the Union
We therefore call upon you, one and all, II
; meet with us on the 18th day of Septembe
next, at 12 o clock, M. at the Court House
to consider what resolutions ought to be pas
sed by us as the wings of the county, and O
the great national party, as our rule of ac
; ton.
In this meeting we do not propose to ente
into the subject Of the nominations alread.
, made, but simply to set the whig party righ
before the country.
Let all come, SO that here may be ful
expression on the subject Of our policy, as
party, in order that there may be union anc
activity in our organization
Auo1ist Goth. 1851.