Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-10-31

ton of the Know Nothing Council of 1855 and the
substitution of the ami Southern features into that OF
1886 Strange that it should be used by the friends
of Mr. Fillmore, since, if it constitutes charge so
damnng in IFS nature, he of all nen-he alone or all
the candida ties who can receive any Southern votes
is obnoxious to that charge.
why Is the South Divided:
Is the South divided, or is it not 1t DIVIDED
whence has the division arisen and by what instru-
mentality has such division been brought about p
Surely such questions neither irrelevant nor I'M
proper in view of the momentous import and critical
position of the issues 10 be decided by the people of
the United States within the brief space Of one week
| from to day AT other times they might perhaps,
be passed over as ons-now they are ques.
lions of real PRACTICAL immediate importance, 10 be
thought over and reasoned upon by the people them
selves and left no longer to be tossed to and fro by
| politicians.
Let us go back to 1854-to May 24th, 1854-when
the great fight on the Kansas and Nebraska Bill was
finally brought to a close in Congress by the House
giving majority Of 3 for the Bill, after faction had
fought for days and weeks, and Greedy had howed
against it in New York and Giddings had howled
against it in Washington City, and every parliament
airy re had been adopted to keep in Committee of
the Whole, and thus prevent the House coming TO a
direct vote on it, and Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, had
finally got it out of Committee. by moving to strike
out the enactng clause, being equivalent 10 report
adverse to the bill, which was thus brought before
the House directly upon the question of agreeing or
dsagreeing with that report. When a direct vote
was taken on the passage of the bill, Is Southern
members voted 50 for the bill, and only against it,
showing how very little division existed at the South
: upon that bill The Southern Senators even
more united upon the support OF the bill, and, IN
Decd none voted against 1t to whom aspirations for
the Presidency, by means of extreme Northern sup
port could have been very readily brous hit home
: The Southern people of all parties looked to Con-
gress with excited interest and unanmitY of Sentl-
men seldom if ever equalled. The press of all par
ties dweIt with pleasure upon the efforts of its sup
f porters and with reprobation upon the factious
r movements of It's opponents cheering The one and
f condemning the other. While the contest on the
r bill was progressing in Congress, Gen. Dockery the
Wing candidate for Governor, made speech in the
: Court House here the 1st day of May 1854, and
he endorsed the bill it then and as he under
:, stood it, No new feature was subsequently intro
d duced into it. Hon John Kerr, Wing member of
. Congress from this State voted for it, and his
siuents, of all parties, gave him the compliment Of
If Know Nothing or American representative from the
n district formerly represented by Mr.. Kerr, invi
If ted In reply to the invitation, he sent letter re-
l. GREETING his inability to be present, but warmly ap
/, proving of the compliment paid TO Mr.. Kerr endor
sing the of that gentleman in voting for the
d Kansas and Nebraska bills Hon. George E. Badger
!, delivered, in the Senate of the United States, very
able argument in favor of the BILL and was therefor
L. ~
ri of the State The first National Council of thu
d Know. Nothing order held in Philadelphia, ant
h passed platform which claimed by It's friend:
to be nsntly national, because of lis twelfth
section, which, they argued, enforced the principle
i of the Kansas Nebraska legislation
How them has the existing division on this question
,e been brought about, and by whom Certainly i
e. has not been done by the Democrats They stanc
C. now where they have stood from the first They ar
$. not chargeabIe with changing or promoting change
m How then this change brought about at tn
h South AT the North, Kanzas and Nebraska ha
h been denounced by all those opposed to the outh
ID Just as the Fugitive Slave Law had BEEN hut it re
y manned for the Philadelphia platform, contemporary
" eous with the nomination of Mr.. Fillmore, to intro
4. duce division upon this subject at the South. 1t
manned for that platform TO exclude the 18th section
OF the previous one, ana SUBSTITUTE remuneration
m the Kanzas. Nebraska Legislation test of party
N faith, and element of party division into Southern
ed politics Thus the stands, and from these fact
the people can form their opinions in regard Il
al the apparent division of Southern sentiment, how
on arose and upon whom it is chargeabe.
Dz-The Fillmore & Donelson display last "Wednesday
~ nighlEpossessed all the elements of very efectiv
- turnout lacking only in the slight matter of
49, which, somehow other, have to be regarde
ho as something these times There certainly
~ considerable of energy apparent in the get
~ ting up of the transparences and Devices and thi
49, part very we'll done. But the voters. We'll
~ that couldn't be helped, but the voters nc
there. That was the only dIffculty-a slight mat
ter, to be sure, but of some importance on Tuesda
'e' next. We thought that there was some evidence
u haste in crediting to Jackson expression whic
the orators of the party usually attribute to Wash
r. ingon, &C., &c, but let all that pass. We like tt
aS reighbors enjoy themselves while they ca
% it being, the auctoneers say, about their "as
Us chance -" going" gong,' and will soon b
'n' gonen'
d. We did not hear the speaking, but learn that Co
rS' McRae and O P Meares Esq, spoke up at the Raj
ia road Bridge By the way, don't think it fair fc
IN the transpaencies of his party to be calling