Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-08-19

spirit and tendency Of its elcctioneering appeals
as q whole, In prose and verse, the leading ar
ticles Of its papers, and the speeches of its ora
tors. arc TO excite contempt and hate or fear
Of our entire geographical section, and hate or
dread OF contempt is the natural impression 1t
al leaves on the Northen mind and heart; yet
that nobody anywhere ought to be angry or
ought to be frightened; that the majority must
govern, and that the North is 4 minority; thatit
Is ten to one nothing viii happen; that, If worst
comes to worst, the South knows it is wholly 70
blame and needs the Union more than we do,
and will be quiet accordingly.
But do they vino hold this language forget
that tho question is not what ought to endauge.
the Union, but what will do itG Is it man us
he ought TO be, or man as he is, that we must
live with or live alone? In appreciating the in
fluenceS which may disturb political system,
and especially one ike ours, do You make no al
lowauce for passions, for pride, for intirmlty,
for the burning sense of even imaginary wrong?
Do YOU assume that all men, or ali masses Of
men in all sections, uniformly obey reason; and
uniformly wisely see and calmly seek their true
interests Where on earth is such fools Par
adise as that to be found? Conceding to the
people of the fifteen States the ordinary and av
erage human nature, its good and its evil, Its
weakness aud its strength, T. for one, dare not
say that the triumph of such party ought not
to be expected naturally and probably 10 dlsu-
mite the States With my undonbling coavic-
tons, l know that it would be folly aud immor-
atty in men To wishit Certainly there are in
all sections and in all States those who love the
Union, under the nctua Constitution, as Wash
ington did; as Jay, Hamilton, and Madison did;
as Jackson, as Clay, as Webster loved 1T Such
even is the hereditary and the habitual senti-
ment of the general American heart. But he
has read life and books to little purpose who has
not learned that blossom friendships may be ''to
4 tLnE IOt,.a so
keen, deep and precious as that.
"And to be wroth with one we love
WIN work ike maduess oa the brain"
He has read the book of orr history to still
less purpose, who has not learned that the friend
ships of these States, sisters but rivals, soVer-
eigns each, with public life and . body ofinte-
rests, and sources of honor and shame of its
own and within itself, distributed into two great
opposing groups, are of all human ties most OK
posed 10 such rupture and such transformation.
/ have not time in these hasty lines, and,
there is no need, to speculate on the details OF
the modest in which the triumph OF this party
would do its work Of evil. Its mere struggle to
obtain the government, as that struggle is con-
Quoted, is mischievous to an extent incalculab,c.
That thousands of thc good men who have joined
il deplore this, is certain but that does not mend
the matter. appeal to the conscience and honor
of my country that il it were the aim Of great
party, By every species of access to the popular
mind-by eloQuence, by argument, by taunt, by
sarcasm, by rccrimination, by appeals to PRIDE,
shame and natural right-to prepare the nation
for struggle with Spain or England, or Austria,
it could not do its business more thoroughly
Many persons, many speakers many, very ma
ny, set n higher and wiser example, but the
work in doing.
If it accomp!shes its object and gives the
government to the North, turn my eyes from
the consequences. To the fifteen States of the
South that government will appear an alien gov
ernment. 1t will appear worse. 1t will appear
hostile government: 1t will represent to their
eye vast region Of States organized upon anti
slavery, flushed by triumph, cheered onward by
the voices of the pulpit, tribune and press; its
misSipn to inaugurate freedom and put down
the O!igarchy; its constitution the gittcring and
sounding generalites of natural right which
make up the Declaration of Independence. And
then and thus is the beginning of the end
If necessity could be made out for such
party we might submit to it as to other unavoid-
able evil, and other certain danger. But where
do they find that. Where do they pretend to
find it! Is it to keep slavery out ofthe territories?
There is not one but Kansas in which slavery
is possible. No man fears, no man hopes for
slavery in Utah, New Mexico, Washington or
Minnesota. 4 national party to give them to
freedom is about as needful and about as feast
Bile as national party to keep Maine for freedom.
And Kansas: Let that abused and prOfnned soil
have calm within its borders; deliver ii over to
the natural law of peaceful and spontaneous i'm
Emigration; take off the ruttan hands; strike down
the rifle and the bowie knife: guard its Strenu-
Gus infancy and youth till it comes of age to
choose for itselC-aud it will choose freedom for
itsef, and it will haze forever what it chooses.
When this policy, so easy, simple and just, is
tried and fails it will be time enough to resort
to revolution. tits i'll part because the duty of
protection to the local settler was not perform
It 81 rlIyI
the action Of its great Representative Convention
resolved 10 put out OF Office its own adminiStra-
ton. That lesson will not and must not nc lost
to any body. The country demands that Con-
gTeSs before it adiourns, give that territory
peace. If it do, time will inevitably give it free
dom.
have hastily and imperfectIy expressed my
opinion through the unsatisfactory forms Of Il
letter; as to the immediate duty OF Wings. We
are to do what we can to defeat and tlisband the
geographical party. But by what specific nc
ton VIC can most e1ectualy contribute to such
result is a question Of more difficulty. 1t
seems now 10 be settled that we present no can
didate of our own. IF we vote ut all, then, we
vote for the nominees of the American or the
nominees Of the Democratic party. As between
them shall not venture to counsel the Wings
of Maine, but deem it due to frankncss and
honor to say, that while entertain a high APP
probation of the character and ability Of Mr..
Fillmore, l do not sympathize in any de
gree with the objects and creed of the particular
party that nominated him. and do not approve
of their organization and their tactics
Practically, too the contest, inmy judgement,
is between Dir. buchanan and Colonel Fremont.
In these circumstances vote for Mr.. buchanan.
He has large experience in public affairs his
commanding capacity is universally actnowl-
edged; his life is without STAIN | am con-
strained to add that he seems at this moment, by
~ than any other, to represent that sentiment of
nationality tolerant, warm and comprehensive
without which, without increase of which,
America is no longer America; and to possess
the power and trust the dispositions to restore
and keep that place, within our borders, and
without for yvhirI, orr hportS NIL vporD which