Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-07-09
A GENERAL AND SIMULTANEOUS
MOVEMENT AMONG THE RE-
pEAUERS

MOVEMENT AMONG THE RE-
PEALERS.
great movement is on foot. 1t is move
ment that not only strikes at the foundations
of party organizations, but at the foundation
of what is far more sacred-the Constitution
of the United States. 1t is not sudden, I'M
studied, and accidental movement. 1t is made
with deliberation, and pursued with system.
As when thunders roll, hilltop answers to hill
| top, and one mountain peak answers to another,
so is the watch-word of the party engaged in
this movement echoed from one place to
| another.
The Nebraska bill repealed unconstitutional
| legislation, and the object of this movement is
to repeal the Nebraska bill. They make their
appeal not TO this man or that, this party or
| that party, but to every man and every party
in the free States This movement is an anti
| slavery, abolition movement. But the name of
abolitionist is so odious and unpopular that
they cunningly endeavor to disconnect it from
their scheme. They will not call it wing
movement, because the wings are not willing
to assume the whole responsibility of it; and,
besides, even unsound democrats would be
driven from the support of a plan that claims
the paternity of their hereditary enemies. 1t
cannot be called a democractic movement, be-
cause the organized democracy have set their
face against it.
The Union Emigration Society, composed
in part of members of Congress, in their grand
proclamation to the promiscuous multitudes of
of the free States, declare that "neither party
names nor past differences shall separate u.s."
This declaration is caught up by the mana
gers of the great gathering of the people of
Michigan that is to be held at jackson. They
say: In view thereof Of the recent action of
Congress upon this subject, and the evident de-
signs of the slave power to attempt still further
aggressions upon freedom, ace iRrite all oar
JeIlow-citizens, tcithoH reference TO .tormer po-
laicdL associations, aoho think that time has
arrived. fora union at the north 10 protect Hber-
~ from being oreTthropn and dotcntrodden, 10
assemble ia mass contention, on Thursday, the
6h Of July, at one O'Clock, at Jackson, there TO
take such measures as shall be thought best 10
concentrate The popular sentiment Of this STATE
against the eacrodchments Of the Stare poorer"
| Joseph Swan, j. II. Coulter, and j. w.
Andrews, the committee, in Columbus, Ohio,
authorized to receive the signatures to call
| for State convention, have issued card in
which they say
alt is hoped that delegates will be appointed
in each county from all political parties; for
whatever live issues there may be between
the two great parties which divide the State,
there is one question made by southern slave
holders at this momentous crisis, as common to
all as the free air OF heaven--it is, whether this
republic and its free institutions shall be ruled
! by, and its great mission Of freedom be sunk
into, an oligarchy Of Shareholders, and the ex-
| tension Of slavery and slave power"
The New York executive committee, in call
ing the Saratoga convention, respond in like
manner to the voice Of the Union Emigration
Society. The convention, they declare, is to be
of the people, "'citaom distinction Of party"
This is the language of every call that we
have seen for repeal gatherings. There seems
to have been a magnetic, telegraphic, or under.
ground-railroad communication between these
people. No sooner is a fire kindled on one
mountain than others recognize and respond
to il the country round.
! For the reasons we have already briefly as.
signed, they will not trust to any one party for
the success of their nefarious schemes, but they
endeayor to break down all political orpaniza.
tons, 70 annihiate all party associations. aft.
! lations, and traditions--to eradicate all old
ascerbities and enmites and merge all into one
homogeneous body, whose adhesive principle
shall be hatred to the south, and hostility to
slavery, and whose battle.cry shall be--repeal.
! That man must be either wlfully blind or
profoundly ignorant who does not see the hand
of old northern whig federalism in this move
ment If it keeps its old name it will raise up
all its old enemies. II therefore proposes while
it eschews that name to gather to its support,
fanatical abolitionists, recreant or deuded de-
mocrats,, and all the odds, ends, and isms Of
the country.
The Washington correspondent Of the New
York Courier and Enquirer, who writes over
the signature of /" Inspector" devotes one Of
his letters, Of the Sd Of July, TO the recent anti
Nebraska address Of the congressional oppo-
nents Of that measure, ard in that letter throws
much light on the views, plans, and purposes
oftbe movement now on foot in the non-slave.
holding States. Speaking Of the next House
Of Representatives, be says: Italics our own.)
"Wc want an assemblage Of men and not of
partzans. 70, myself declare that ,could
as cheertitliy rate for WheeLer, Maurice Peck.
ham, Aacs, Fenton, and true men Of That stamp,
as for any whig competitor that may be named