Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-07-31

S ed the Wing party from others, are no long
er issues with living parties is not, to ou
mind at least, evidence that they were nc
wise and polite. Our Country has attaine
$ high degree of prosperity notwithstandin
e much of the policy of the Wings has bee
superseded by the ruling of the dominan
party but this prosperity & unparalleled de
velopment have been the result rather O
e its extensive and varied resources, and tn,
e general intelli gence, virtue, freedom, ant
). energy of its people, than of any PECULIAR
ties in the administration of its government
not directly compromising these. Th,
n Wing party unfortunately forsook its earl,
e faith and Conservatism. 1t erred sadly
"And grievously hath i, answered it."
1t will not be rcsurrected again liz its ole
body-but its spirit still lires. and to one
who partakes of that spirit or appreciate:
> it, the action of the Cincinnati Convention
in needlessly parading those old issues which
by common consent, have been waived, per.
maps for all time, and have given way tc
others imperatively demanded by the ex.
igecies of the present moment, can have
no other effect than to inspire him with
deep disgust at the "Clap-trap" of which il
is part, and bitter, loathing contempt of
the hollow, transparent hypocrisy which now
appeals SO lovingly to him to endorse and
swallow It all, by voting for JAMES BUcH-
ANAN. .-.
Again the position Of the Cincinnati Con-
vention on the Slavery question is the re-
verse of that formerly maintained by the
Whig Party. In ls4O-44-4s, it was under
stood by the masses to be opposed to any
legislation which would, however indirectly
hazard the introduction of slavery into Ter
ritory already free. Gen. TAYLOR, owner of
several hundred slaves as he was, most truly
represented the original position Of the
Whig party on that question, in resisting
any legislation which would tend, directly
or indirectly to the repeal of the Mexican
Laws prohibiting Slavery in the Territories
we had acquired as the result of the pre-
vious war. HENRY CLAY more than once,
endorsed the same views, during the memoir
able session of 1850, WEBSTER and all the
leading Wings of the North as THos. Fl.
BENTON among the Democrats-did the same
and all spoke of the CALHOUN idea, that the
| Constitution of the United States suppressed
ed Mexican Local law and carried slavery
with it, as an idea utterly unreasonable
monstrous and dangerous.
Most faithfully was the same position sus-
tanned by the few wings ofthe north who we're
in the Congress that repealed the Missouri
Compromise. The Representatives of the
Democratic party of the Union assisted by
many Wings of the South repealed that
compact, which DoUeLAs of Ills. is under
stood to have spoken of few years since
substantially es follows: ''That it had been
can1nized in the hearts of the people, and
was invested with all the sacredness and in
violabi lity of the Constitution ITSELF" The
Cincinnsti Convention endorsed that repeal
as IAN act of patriotic self-sacrifce on the
part OF the Congress that accomplished it,
The same convention, in its platform, by in
direct if not by direct implications endorse
the CALHOUN dogma that the Shareholder
may as rightfully emgrate with his slaves
into any of the Territories of the United |
maiLs Territory, as the non-slav ehoder |
may emigrate with cattle or horses-a dog
ma equally at war with common law, and
with the decision of our own courts includ-
ing those of the South, a dogma which
the Whig party of the Union few years
since, condemned without stint, as mis-
chievous fallacy, and which the Democratic
party of the North, with equal unanimity,
until lHtely, have refused to assent to- Its
extreme Pro-Slavery character may be urged
as second reason why consistent Wings,
or any class of Wings who have common
self-respect, must decline the invitations of
the party to get on this ultra Bucaniering
Platform.
Lastly, the foreign policy of the Conren-
ton is in the most direct antazoniSm with
hat moderate, open, conservative policy to
which the Wing party have always inclined.
Viewed in the light of recent events in Mic
aragua and Congressional discussion there
on, and OF the famous Cor rather infam ,us)
Ostend Circular, it amounts to little less
than system Of piratical fllibustiering
equally at war with the country and laws of
Nations, with wise policy and National
honor.
Where stands JAMES BUCHANAN on these
questions Were there nothing late on
record but this fatal Ostend manifesto, it
furnishes sucn clear and conclusive evidence
of his completely in the designs of Slavery
Propagandists on Cuba, that without direct
endorsement of this feature of the Cincin-
natl Conventions policy, this " ere enough
to fix his position beyond peradventure.-
But as though this last of series oc acts
proving his devotion to Slavery, were not
enough; lest there might yet be doubts in
the minds of some Of the M 'lfying Clique,
who since the election Of Polk, have had
the Democratic Party by the throat, and
who have been pitilessly pressing it into all
the dirty services of slavery extension, and
e'ding the lash remorselessly over the
shoulders of the insubordinate, Mr. B. makes
the most unrevsered ypd humiiating surrend.
er of mind, soul, body, and strength;-ofl
his entire manhood, to the Convention, ana
says: 1.-TWO weeks since should have made
you longer speech, but now that | have
been placed on platform of which most
heartily approve, and being the Represe nta-
tive of the great Democratic Party. and
not simply JAMES BUCHANAN. must square
my conduct according to that platform and
insert no new plank, nor take one from it,"
If honest democrats who innocentlv sup
posed they had in JAMES BUCHANAN man
of soma stamina at least, as well as of oood
private character, have confessed themselves
sadly disappointed, in this base remuneration
this individuality, this cowardly surrender
in advance to the Nullitiers and Propa-
gandsts, and declare, as many thousands
have done, and many more will yet avow-l
that they cannot support him-what un-
fathomable weakness and inconsistency does
it betray on the part of Wings to vote for
him, when he asks for support only as the
"man of straw" whom the Cincnnut Plat