Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-08-01
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be ordered and member returned during the presen
session. Although questions vitality affecting the
welfare of our country will doubtless be before the
House, that district can have voice in their con-
sideration and adjustment. This is much to be re-
gretted, for if ever there time when measures
OF just and honorable domestic peace were demand
ed, that time is now.
The widest fanaticism, fed by debauched press
and famed by horde of reckless and unprincipled
adyenturers stepped in and reekng with the dregs of
political nfamy has raised the standard of revolt
against the constitution and the laws and threatened
the overthrow of republican institutions and
dissolution of the bands of common political broth
erhood.
For the first time in the history of this confederacy
have large political party organized upon purely
sectional grounds, whose watchword is war upon
one half the States of this Union over whose club
rooms.'' and in whose public professions to be
seen banners with but sixteen stars Such signs are
portentious of evil, and ought not to close our
eyes to the danger.
This sectional party have their candidates in the
field for the presidency and vice presidency COL Free
mont for President whose entire experience in the
national councils is covered by service of thirty
days in the Senate of the United States the other,
Dayton, of New Jersey, who has been longer in po-
litca life, but who acquired his principal notoriety
by abandoning Clay and Webster, and allying him.
self with Seward and Giddngs in the struggle over
the Compromise of 1850. Who were the active
friends of this sectional ticket in the convention that
nominated it, and what are their sentiments upon the
subject of the Constitution and the Union take
few extracts from sentiments uttered by some of the
most prominent of this party who labored most assid
uousIy for these nominations
g look forward to the day when there shall be
SerUlte anSurrection in the South when the black
man, armed with British bayonets and led on by
British officers, shall assert his freedom and wage
of determination against his master when the
torch Of the incendiGry shall light up the oaVnS and
cltes Of the South, and blot out the last vestige of
slavery; and although | may not mock at their ca.
lamity laugh when their fear cometh, yet will
hail it as the dawn of political millennium"
Joshua R. Giddings.
There is higher law than the Constitution
which regulates authority over the domain
1t (slavery) can be and must be abolished, and you
and must do 1T. Correct your own error
that slavery has any constitutional guarantees which
may not be released, and ought not to be relinqush-
ed. You will soon bring the parties of the
country into an EFFECTIVE AGGRESSION UPON SLAVE
RY" William H. Seward.
The Wing party is not only dead, but stinks"
Benjamin F Wade.
81 am willing in certain State of circumstances,
To LET THE UNION SLIDE" Nat. P. Banks.
In the of the alternative being presented of
the continuance of slavery dissolution of the
Union, am for diSsOLHion and care not how qt1ck
it comes" [Rufus P. Spalding.
On the action of this Convention depends the
fate Of the country; if the Republicans fail at the
baltot-bor, WE WILL BE FORCED DRIVE BACK THE
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flames Watson Webb.
&c The times demand, and must have an ANTI
SLAVERY CONSTITUTION, AN ANTI.sLAvERY BIBLE, AND
AN ANT1-sLAvERY GoD.' [Anson Bur!inyame.
g have no doubt that the free and slave States
ought 10 separate
["J. S. p" of The N. Y. Tribune.
" 1t is the duty of the North, in case they fail in
electing President and Congress that will restore
freedom to Kansas, to revoutionse the Government"
Resolution of Black Republican " meeting in
Wisconsin.
81 pray daily that this accursed Union may be
dissolved, even if blood have to be split"
Black " Republican " clergyman at Poughkeepsie.
1--WE earnestly request Congress, at it's present
session, to take such initiatory measures for the
speedy, peaceful and equitable dissolution of the ex
isng Union as the exigencies of the case may re-
quire." BLACK Republican petition to Congress.
" The Union is not worth supporting in connection
with the Southn Horace Greeley
" The Constitution is reproach and league with
Iophet" William Lloyd Garrison.
Some of these sentiments were uttered in the very
convention that nominated Fremont and DAYTON, and
were received with rapturous applause. Are you
prepared to ally yourselves under the direction of
such men
1t behooves all who cherish the Union for what it
has been to us in the past, and who would look 10
the constitution Liz guide in the future 10
heed well the steps they take in the comming strug-
gle to weigh w~il The consequences that will in
evitahly fellow the triumph OF this sectional party
governed and controlled as it must be- by men holding
sentiments few specimens of which I have given
above.
But the limits of this letter will not permit me 10
pursue this subject further
hope shortly to have the privilege OF discussing
these subjects at length before the people of the
district.
Grateful for the kindness you have shown me in
the past and with a sincere desire for your prosperity
in the future, remain, your obedient servant,
T. C. ALLEN