Star of the Kanawha Valley. [volume] (Buffalo, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1856, 1856-06-11
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Southern men all know that in 70.
ting for Fillmore they do not assert
the doctrine of State equality. They
are trying to dodge Il lat issue. But
their attempt will b vain. They
who "are not for" the South "are
against her." The Democratic party
Certainly the most numerous in the
Union) tentlers the issue of State
equality, and sustains the affirmative
Of that issue. The Black Republicans
accept the issue, and maintain the
negative. The South must succeed
if her sons be true to her. To vote
for Fillmore, unless he commits him.
self to the doctrine of State equality,
is, in the present crisis, to be as faith
less to the South. as to sustain a Black
Republican, There are no degrees of
difference of criminality in aiding the
enemies of ones country, directly or
indirectly. The Southern man, who
omits to maintain the equal rights and
dignity Of the South, when an issue
is made on that question, is as dere-
lict in duty as he who votes with her
enemies. Dodging, shutting, and
equivocating, will avail naught in the
approaching canvass There are but
two sides tothe simple issue of State
equality. tits one of momentous i'm
portance to the South. If Mr.. Fill
more did really deserve any mans
respect, faith, or confidence, he would
respond plainly to tn 3 issue himself.
His attitude is grossly insulting to
the South. He tells her in effect,
s'you must vote for me; l won't de-
prive you ofyour neg roes, but l can't
say your institutions are SO moral and
respectable as those Of the North
They should not be permitted to ex-
tend North OF 36 BOP =.
What excuse can be offered for his
silence, and that of his friends, on
the distinct issue that is tendereda-
You who vote for him, either admit.
by doing SO, the inferiority of right
on the part of the South, or that you
are afraid to proclaim and insist on
her equality. No more '.artful dodg-
ing" Let the people Of the South
know what Mr.. Fillmore and his
friends mean! Do you mean that the
Black Republicans ate right, and that
our social system is not entitled to
equal protection with that of the
Norths Or are You, and your candi-
date, afraid to assert our equality, al
though you believe it to exist2 Masks
off! One or the other horn of thedi
lemma You must take. Some of you,
we know, do hold tn at we are emit
tie to equal rights, but that it is dan
gerous to assert them, and hence de-
nounce the repeal Of the Missouri
Compromise. We shall continue to
insist that you define your positions.
Until you do, we will undertake to
define them for You. We believe that
the Southern friends of Fillmore gen.
orally concur in the doctrine of State
equality, bnt fear to assert it. Mr..
Fillmore himself, we have no doubt,
from his oft expressed and unrecanted
opinions, and from the recent givings
out of his friend Mr.. Kennedy, agrees
in opinion with the Black Republi-
cans. If we do injustice to either
yourselves oryour candidate, you can
easily right yourselves, by defining
your exact position on the question
Of State equality.-Rich. Eng. 4 i
READ1Ne.-Sir John Herschel has
declared that, if he we're to pray for
a taste which stald him in need I'M
der a variety of circumstances, and a
shield against ills, however things
might 60 amiss, the world frowns mp
on him, it would be taste for reading.
Give o man, he affirms, that taste, and
the means OF gratifying it, and you
cannot failto make him good and hap
.py; for you bring himin contract with
the best society in all ages; with the
bravest, and the purest men who have
adorned humanity, making him q
denizen Of en- nations, d contemporary
of all times, and giving him 9 practi-
cal proof that the world has been crea-
TED forhiH -fof his s ssc and his