The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-09-18
From the Baltimore Clipper.
THE REPUBLICAN MEETING AT TEMPER
ANCE TEMPLE

In accordance with public notice, the Balti
more Republican Association met last night at
Temperance Temple, Gay street. When we
entered the room, at the hour for which the
meeting was called, there were but few persons
present. The number, however, gradually in
creased, and, before the meeting was called to
order, we saw a number of prominent Demo
Gratis enter the door. Shortly after, a motley
crowd blocked up the doorway, but were per
The meeting organized, on motion of Mr.
William Gunnison, by calling Mr.. F. s. Cork.
ran to the chair, in the absence of the Presi
dent, and the appointment of w. T.. Cole. ir..
as Secretary, in the absence of Mr.. Jacob Fus.
sell, the regular Secretary.
The minutes of the preceding meeting were
then read and adopted after which, Mr.. VIM.
Gunnison read the following address, which we
give as part of the history of the proceedings.
for the information of our readers:
AN ADDRESS TO THE REPUBLICANS OF MARY.
LAND.
The Republicans Of Maryland, in submitting
an Electoral Ticket to the people, submit with
it declaration of their principles.
They declare true-hearted, entire devotion
to the Constitution of the United States : and
now that the subject of Slavery, which was the
greatest objection to the union of the States
under our Government, has been made the
entering wedge to split it asunder, we declare
our adhesion especially to the Compromises
made In the Constitution, and which, in the ac
cushion OF new Territories, were made in con-
formity to it, to settle the difficulties growing
out of the question between the North and the
South, which cemented the Union, and gave
peace and prosperity to the country.
We declare our adherence of the repeal of
the Missouri Compromise of 1920 and that of
1850, as breach of faith and violation of the
compact between shareholders and non.slaye-
holders, and the cause of civil war, now for
the first time preached in our country; and
proclaim it as our solemn conviction, that there
never can again be unity between the two
classes of our citizens, or peace between the
two great sections of our country, until the
rights guaranteed by all the Compromises in
regard to Slavery are fully restored.
We declare the charge that the Republican
party ID in favor of the Abolition of Slavery, to
be utterly unfOunded. AS a party, throughout
the North as well as at the South, they hold
that this is subject only to be disposed of by
the Government of the slave States-(and we,
as citizens of a slave State, pronounce the opin-
ion, that the liberation Of the blacks would be
an unmixed and unmitigated evil, fatal to the
African race, which would be crushed under
the weight OF the superior race, and, for time,
laboring classes among the latter, and calcu.
lated to unsette the political as we'll as the
economical elements of our Government We
believe that Slavery never can and never should
be abolished without making Just compensa-
ton for the capital sunk, whether it was capital
invested IN the purchase or rearing of the
slaves.
We believe that even with the consent of
those interested, and just compensation made.
the State Legislatures could not safely make
sudden emancipation, nor without provision.
made through the agency of the General Gov
eminent, for the removal of the manumitted
race TO some region, as our continent between
the tropics, suited to the African race. and
where 1t Is found the white race can never
flourish. Nature has put her interdict upon
'he amaigamation OF the races natural repug- |
nance forbids it, and it is found that the bybrid
race, whether of whites and blacks, or between
whites and Indians, always become abortive |
after several generations.
In every aspect in which Slavery among us |
can be considered, it is pregnant with Difficult. |
ty. Its continuance in the States in which it |
has taken root has resulted in the monopoly of |
the soil, to great extent, in the hands of the |
and the entire control of all de- |
partments of the State Government; and vet a |
majority of people in the slave States are not |
slave owners This produces an anomaly in |
the principle of our free institutions which |
threatens in time to bring into subjugation to |
slave-owners the great body of the free white |
and yet to get rid of Slavery as an |
institution instantly, would prove ruinous to all
classes, and must therefore be looked upon
as impossible, and, if to be accomplished in |
time, can only be in a remote future, and there.
fore not to be thought of in connection with
impending dangers. To meet them, we must
recur to the wisdom and patriotism of our ia.
theirs, which 80 happily averted all the mischief
apprehended from this threatening element in
our institutions, until the recent legislation
oil Congress overturned their work They
provided that the unsettled Territories into