Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-04-29
RICHMOND, VA,
THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 10
NJ. HaiieirS .iatece,ients.

ton Daily Advocate during series of years, from
1926; Benjamin +. Hallett, ESQ.,, Editor" The
Republic quotes numerous extracts from this
pamphlet, which show most conclusively that the
present Chairman of the National Democratic
committee was in former years an unmitgated
Abolitionist. The prominent and important posi-
ton which Mr.. Hallett holds in the Democratic
party, renders his past opinions matter of no or
binary interest and this must constitute our apo-
ogy in again troubling readers on the subject.
We wish the people of Virginia to understand
what manner of man this is who officiates as high
| priest in the great temple of Democracy; who
sits at the head ofthe Democratic council board
+ in Washington, aud at whose slightest touch the
political wires vibrate throughout the length and
breadth of the land. He has been held up as a
Northern Democrat with Southern principles and
affinities, upon whom the South may
safely rely for the maintenance of her consttu-
tional rights and domestic interests against the
assaults of Northern fanateism. We will do the
Democratic Chairman the justice to say that in
his late letter TO the Hon. George W. Thompson
he promises fairly, but we place our trust in
the professions of an individual who in 1886 ri
vailed Garrison himself in rancorous denunciation
of slavery and shareholders; who in 1648 advoca-
ted the election of General Cass upon the ground
that his doctrine in regard to the power of the ter
ritories over the subject of slavery was a better
free soil doctrine than the Wilmot Proyso itself;
and who as late 1849 decared~himself sin favor
offreedom and free soil wherever man lives
throughout Gods heritage" If Mr. Hallettbe sin
cere in his present professions of attachment to the
rights of the South, his conversion from the abo-
tionand free soil faith is the most sudden and re-
n,arkabe one on record; and we may well be ex-
cused for doubling its permanency. But can we
give Mr. Hallett credit for sincerity and fair deal
ing in this matter! In his late letter to Mr.
Thompson he says:
mo man in New England has written and spoken
distinctly and uniformly defence Of the rights of
the South, &C., than 1have II hare had but opinion
THIS subject.
By way of commentary on these declarations,
we beg leave to cite the following paragraphs from
his newspaper the advocate We copy from
the Republic
October Il, 1894. George Thompson the English A6o-
laion,st-"An adjourned meeting of the NeW England
Ants- Slavery Society held on Thursday, D. Not
wthstanding the unpleasant weather the falling in
the time the auditory quite respectable in
numbers and manifested lively interest the proceed
ings The meeting addressed in feeling and forcble
manner by George Thompson, Esq distinguished A6o
itonat from England whose presence gave lively
poet to the occasion"
the editor ofthe N Courier Enquirer has nantes
ted anxiety tolearnin what Mr. Thompson made
his debut in Boston, he is in informed that thus moth
ing but Christian kindness and gentemany has
marked the bearing OF citizens towards him. and that
Bostonans consider it an insult that editor abroad
should express himself in implying that they
We're capable OF receiving gentleman stranger in any
other way.
1885, January l. "Symptoms the Presidency
We intmated some time ago that the Atlas had nomna
ted Mr. Webst for the Presidency preim.
mary the design for which that paper originally
established to the support fMr Calhoun, at fitting time
"Outof Presidents all 5tvo hare been southern
men, and Shareholders, and the free States hold major
ask hy they Should ere,s themselves 10 elect another Slave
holder President if any decent can be found make
President of who does not
6 Have slave
To till his ground, to fan him while he sleeps
And trenlble when he wakes
THE people of the free States will ask good and sub
stant1a reasons for supporting multiplying STAKEHOLDER
Carolina has thrown the gauntlet in his outrageous
y lncendlary He has laid down the southern
doctrine that slavery is indispensable element in
free State He scouts with the declaration that the
free labor of the North shall be degraded the
slave labor of the South: This is the question now!'
January IA. +" AbolHion-s0mehop-at any rate--im
nedtatyIn the paper of January Is. 1895, Mr.. Halett
thus concludes his narrative of that took
place in New Jersey before magistrate who was investi
eating claim for runaway slaves Formerly such
FENCES were noticed with less interest. They
looked upon isolated facts No'c they part
features an tie picture Of american starery And ecery
scorhy Of the name Of american spontaneously saysthat
an institution 1chch naturally produces such fruits ought
to be abandoned and ABoLIsHED--somehow-Ar RATE
IMMEDIATELY. No probematcal erils. feared but
teh can apologize tie continuance Of sapery day."
We might multiply these extracts, but the fore
going will do for the present We fancy that even
our neighbor of the Enquirer will be tempted to
excaim, s'eteu jam salts ~ These revelations. to
use his own emphatic excl nation on another oc-
casion, are certainly ''damning enough. They
prove in the first place that Mr.. Haett was once
a violent abotionist of the Garrison school, and
secondly that he has attempted to practice de-
ception on the South by averrng rs he does in his
letter to Mr. Thompson that he has uniformly
written and spoken in defence of her rights, and
that he never had but ''one opinion on this sub
ject." We wish the Virginia members of the
National Democratic committee joy of their dis
tinguished Coryphaeus, but trust for decency's
sake that they will cease to inpute feesoil afini
ties to the Wings Of the South, as long as they
continue to sit with him in the same synagogue.
North Carolina IVbig State Convention
This body assembled in Raleigh on Monday,
and was permanently organized by the selection
of Mr.. F. P. Satterwate, of Pitt county as Pres-
dent. Thirty-seven counties were represented
by one hundred and forty delegates. After ap-
pointing committees to prepare business for the
action of the Convention, an adjournment took
place till Tuesday morning.
On Tuesday morning the Convention re-
assembled. Hon. JOHN KERR. of Caswell coun-
ty was nominated the Wing candidate for
Goyernor-and the nomination was agreed to
with acclanation. 1t is understood that the Hon.