, 1854-09-16

mutual benefits are to enurc to the parties
so agreeing Was there any such agree
ment between the wings and abolitionists p?
How could there have been, when there
was no such party existing, at the time the
wings held their convention, as either abo-
litonists or free soilers There was no
such agreement made or thought of, and
no man will venture the declaration save
the editor of the Pioneer and Democrat"
The whig party voted the ticket which
was presented them 10y a whig convention,
with fidelity worthy of the highest COM
mendation. The free soil party Ga name
which l prefer to call them instead of abo-
lition), voted their ticket-and this fact
you must have known when you penned the
article in question. True, the free soil
party voted for Messrs. Hale and Hewitt.
Why? Because they were known to eD-
tertain views similar to theirs in regard to
slave restriction in the Territories but
did they bargain with the whig party or
with Hale and Hewitt for the privilege
or did the whig party agree with them
that they would support their ticket ? No
such thing. The free soil party knew their
rights and they asserted them as best suited
their sense Of duty. Patient democracy
indeed must that be which interferes with
the proudest gift which Americans boast
to vote as they think best Did the free
soil party vote for either Biles or myself?
They did not-and this fact you well knew.
WhyG Because they knew and you knew
that on this question of free soil we differed
with them. Hale and Hewitt, who we're
in nomination by the whig party, were
adopted by the free soilers, and why Not
becase they were wings, but because they
were known to be in favor Of restricting sla-
very in, or rather out of the Territories be-
cause they were opponents of the Nebraska
Kansas bill, and because, too, they deny the
justice Of human bondage except for crime
They would have been adopted as readily
if they had been democrats, so says the
free soil address, and SO | believe. As eyi-
dence Of the truth Of what they say in their
address, they did select and adopt one Of
the democratic nominations, for whom they
voted, and by the joint effort Of the free
soH and democratic parties, the nominee
was triumphantly elected. Would it be
fair or generous because Of this to charge
that there was bargain, confederation
between the democrats aud free soilers of
Thurston county | think not. Yet it
would be as fair to charge it in the one
case as the other.
There Is q circumstance worthy Of re-
mark-it is this There were no whig
candidates present at the free soil conven-
ton. Can as much be said with regard to
the democratic candidates There was
no whig in said convention who asked to
participate in its deliberations. Can as
much be said for democratic leadersY II
you, Mr.. Wiley, can be regarded as one Of
the leaders Of your party, then it is evident
ii cannot, for you did ask to be heard,
which courtesy was granted you-and be-
cause (as must be supposedly the conven-
ton did not adopt your views or sugges-
tions, you called it "nigger stealing con-
cern"-and yet notwithstanding two at
least Of your democratic candidates were
present with their smiles, and democratic
leader mingling his voice with theirs. 1t
would be unchartable 10 suppose your OBJ
ject was TO drive bargain for their votes
at a sacrifice ofprinciple. Mr.. Hewitt de-
clared in his public speeches that he had
never been consulted by the free soil party
or one individual of the party, as to his
willingness to accept their nomination
Mr.. Hale did not seek il. / declared eve
rywhere, publicly and privately, my pur-
pose to stand by the non-intervention prin-
ciples as settled by the compromise meas
ures Of 1850 that the Territories were
the property of the whole people-East,
West, North and South that Congress
ional restrictions which would virtually
shut out southern men from an equal par
ticipation in their settlement, would be i'm
polite and unjust I; that | was southern
man, and held the same views in this lati-
tude that held in Kentucky where was
raised, or in Missouri where last resided.
Mr.. Biles held the same views as myself on
this subject, and so declared them. And
vet with all these facts before you, the
charge is made without blush, that there
was an unholy alliance between the wings
and abolitionists in nominating their four
candidates for the legislature.
Again, in the same editorial is found this
sentence: "'The recent unfortunate 'cring-
ing Of the plant hinges of the knee Of the
whig party at the shrine Of abolitionism,
that SUCCESS might follow fawning,' has
been most disastrous to their hopes, and
but o sad commentary on the political in
tegrity of the former" In what consists
this cringing of the knee on the part Of the
whig partyH Was it in giving Hale and
Hewitt their votes Was not Hale and
Hewitt the candidates of the wings 7 and
was it to be expected that because the free
soil party chose to vote for them that the
wings would not 7. 1t would be as unrea-
sonablc as to suppose that parent who
has property to bestow on his child, would
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