The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1856-05-09


Glowing accounts Of the great meeting
held on Tuesday evening Of last week at the
Tabernacle, are given in the New York
papers. The meeting was held under o call
signed by over twenty FIVE hundred persons
embracing the names Of large number Of
the most influential merchants and eminent
professional men in the city. OF this meet
inc the Providence Journal one of the most
conservative papers in the county says
Tho character Of the men who took part
in the Republican meeting in New York
gives to the proceedings dignity that has
not often, Of late attached TO political gath
erings in that city. The papers which
chronicle the speeches Of Capt. Rynders and
his crew, and hold such men up as the hope
of the nation and the safety Of the Union,
can call Moses II. Grinnell and Charles Ii.
Marshall and Charles A. Stetson and Benja-
min +. Butler, " Black Republicans" and
Niger worshippes," but the opprobri-
Gus epithets stains only the mouth that ut
tiers il. Nobody Is harmed by it. They,
and Others who figured in that meeting, are
among the first men in the land for intelli-
gence and ,ruerespectability and real worth,
men Of large wealth, Of commercial enter
prise, and Of conservative views Among
them are some Of the most conspicuous in
the movement which was made in the North
in favor Of the compounds measures, in the
support Of which many man sacrificed his
cherished convictions, with the hope, by
meeting all the demands Of the South, 10
check the aggressive disposition Of slavery.
Among them are some Of the rdrmest person.
al and political friends Of Duiei Webster,
msn isho hare nsrer failed 10 defead The South,
not only IN all ats Constitutional rights, bat an
srery demand irhich 10 could fairly make upon
The courtesy and good feeling 81 the country.
IL IS IN ram 10 call these men abohtioRists,
Everybody kaO'rs that they are NOT. Erer-
body knolrs that a greater part ofthem hold
10 The opinions that bat a little rhiIe ago
challenged the flH assent and admiration Of
cren Southern statesmen. They hare mol
changed their opinions 10 snit Rslr erigeney
they only apply them 10 the eIigeney that has
arisen: they only stand By the eompdcts thai
rers mutually entered INTO, and tehieh had
acquired almost The saaetity Of Fundamental
Lair
The Evening Post says:
I" Ii was the most earnest and enthusiasts
tic assemblagc which the question Of the ex-
tension Of slavery has brought together in
this city. There was an audience, 1t is cs-
timated, OF three thousand people, but as
there were many coming and departing al
most cotstantly-departing on account OF
the difficulty Of obtaining good position
from which to hear the speakers-more than
four thousand persons must have visited the
Tabernacle last evening, and listened to
more or less Of the addresses made. The
speakers were well received. the points they
made told powerfully upon the audience,
and the more emphatic and animated pass
ages were loudly chccred. An experienced
observer of sush meetings remarked. The
hearts of the people arc in this matter; and
the feeling which you see exhibited here
will spread all over the country, and we
shall sweep the free States.'"
Hon. B. +. Butler, (Gen. Jackson's At
torney Generally presided, and among the
Vice Presidents were Moses ii. Grinnell,
VIM. c.. Bryant, Charles IL. Marshall, H..
j. Raymond, VIM. Curtis Noyes, John W.
Edmands, Charles "A. Stetson, ID. ID. Field,
Robert Emmett, and VIM. Kent. We take
the following from Mr.. Buffers speech
"Thc rescue OF Kansas from slavery, and
the establishment within her borders of n
free State-necessary and gratifying as are,
and will be, these results-ae only parts,
and comparatively small parts, Of the work
To which we are now called. The princi-
MI nf t..It - a.
Liberty, proclaimed in the Declaration Of
Independence, and exemplifed by the acts
and writings Of the fathers and founders OF
the republic, are boldly denied by political
leaders, OF all parties, in the South. This
denial has been echoed from the topmost
seat of executive power, in solemn message.
to the representatives Of the people and the
States. Ii IL industriously repeated by
placcmcn aud place-hun,ers IN every quar-.
ter of the country. Ii is supincly acquicsc-
cd in by those who are content 70 follow the
traditions and forms of the party with which
they have been accustomed to act, withou,
caring for the life-giving principles from
which IL derives its being, and by which
alone it can be saved from death and putre-
faction.
The real question for the next election is
therefore no less one than this: Shall the
federal government bc divorced from its
present alliance with and subseryicncy to,
the slave power; or shall such alliance and
and subseryiency, with cyer-incrcasing deg
radiation, be continued for another term OF
four years? [Chces.l
This question must be met and answered.
Ii must be met and answered in the right
way. The federal government must be
brought hack to its first principles. The
false theories and pernicious schemes OF
slavery-propagandism must b. rebuked.-
The Northern men, who, in the Legislative
and executive departments, have lent them
selves to these theories and schemes-apos-
tatising from the faith of their fathers,
trampling on the interests Of their cOnstitu-
cnts, and staining the glory Of their country
must be tumbled from their seats, and by
these and other like demonstrations of the
public will. 10 must once more be manifest
cd to our own people and to the world, tina,
the American Union, while il leaves to each
State exclusive jurisdiction and control over
all its domestic Institutions, Is yet, in IL
national character, distinctly and actually a
free republic, founded on tho broadest recog-
milton of human rights, and pledged, 50 far
rs its limited powers extend, To the protcc-
tion and diffusion of these rights. Ii mus.
be seen and known of all mon, that where
ever the flag of our country is unfurled, free
dom is the general and shcrishcd rule, slay-
cry the partial and much lamented exccp-
ton. (Chcers.)
have an abiding confidence that. what
ever may be the issue Of the coming election,
these principles will ultimately triumph.
To doubt this would 10 to distrust not only
the virtue and intelligence of our people,
but the vitality and omnipotcncc of the
Truth. But it is not to be disguised, that
the final triumph We anticipate will be has
tened or retarded by the results. of the next
Presidential Election. This invests il with
new and momcntuous interest, and lays
upon every voter a heavy responsibility.
The call under which we have assembled
looks to the Republican Convention. TO be
held at Philadelphia in June next, for the
candidates 10 be supported by the friends of