The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-09-30


ed like sheep, in the field of war. Gov. Wise ad-
mts that disunion win involve the Fearful issues
Of civil war, blood and DEATH" and yet he
studies all day, and sits up late of nights, plot
ting this crime Of disunion and this general
slaughter of his niggers who are to fight their
masters battles
All this, however, is exraneous matter; for
Bolts was the object, and Bolts is the prominent
figure ofthe Governors speech, the Governors
threats, denunciations and wrath. He tells Bolts
that he has ''raised the black flag in our midst
that he is guilty Of treason" 'false to his trust
his honor and his home,o and warns him that
Richmond has Mayor, Commonwealth at
torney, grand jury; and that he had better look
to the slavery code Of the State, and note the
fines and punshments it provides for speaking or
writing anything impairing the value of slaves"
-niggers, always mggers. We had supposed
that Kansas vas alone blest with niger code
established in violation Of the constitution; but
if there be anything in these threats of Gov Wise
against Mr.. Bolts, Virginia, whose early republi-
can fathers were the founders Of the constitution,
may boast the same distinction as Kansas des-
potic code Of niger driving notification, wholly
at war with the supreme law of the land, and
therefore disloyal, false to the Union, null and
void.
What says the constitution, the supreme law
of all the States and Territories? We quote
from it -. The citizens of each State shall be
entitled to all the privileges and immunties of
citizens in the several States" A dead letter
throughout the South. Again, Congress shall
make no law respecting an establishment Of re-
Ggion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
or abridging the freedom Of speech, or of the
press or the right Of the people peaceably to
assemble, and to petition the government for a
redress of grievances These interdicts are APP
piled to Congress; but in the case Of Houston
vs. Moore, Is Wheaton /, 12) the Supreme
Court has decided that " in cases Of concurrent
authority, where the laws of the States and the
Union are in direct and manifest collision on the
same subject, those Of the Union, being the
supreme law of the land, are of paramount au-
thority."
The whole of these democratic proceedings in
Virginia, then, against Mr.. Bolts, including the
speech Of Gov. Wise, and the State slavery code
TO which he refers, nothing more nor less than
notification of the constitution and Of the rights
it confers upon the people in all parts Of the
Union Of free speech, a free press, and that
other right of the people, "peaceably to assem-
bic" for the discussion of public affairs. What
safety, then, is there with a party which thus
shamelessly nullifies the constitution in fifteen
States of the Union, by a system Of despotc ter
rorism more iDtolerable than that of Russia
What safety with Mr.. Buchanan, who is but the
tool of these Southern nullifers?-o with Mr..
Fillmore, who unbushingly counsels the treason
of secession should Fremont be elected? There
is no safety, no security, no reliance upon either
the one or the other They both stand upon the
nullfer's platform of a red republican revolu-
ton against the people, should the people decide
against them,
Our safety and security are with Fremont.
Gov. Wise says " he is nothing and less than no
thing" but as the champion Of the constitution
and the Union against all such hothcaded niger
driving nulliiiers and secessionists as Gov. WISE
and such tools Of the nulliGers as Buchanan and
Fillmore, we say that Fremont is everything
Let us elect him, and restore the South to the
constitution and the Union, and bring back all
those democratic Southern nullifiers aud dsunion-
lists and their Northern tools and mercenaries to
their senses. Our readers may expect soon to
hear again from Mr.. Bolts. He knows his rights,
and he holds his ground. Let them touch him,
if they dare.