The Winchester weekly appeal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1856-1856, 1856-07-12


York, and C. H. Bramhall, of N. Y.
City, have expressed their determine
ton to withhold their assent from the
doctrines taught, and their support
from the platform laid down, by the
"Democracy.'-Nash. Gazette.
The American Party is the Union
Party.
When Franklin Pierce came into
power he found the country in the en-
Ijoyment Of the most perfect and pro-
found peace. The wise measures
which marked the administration OF
Mr.. Fillmore had quoted the slavery
agitation" and calmed down all the
angry waves of faction. secession
had been crushed out at the South,
and Abolition had been subdued at
the North. The practical Disunion-
lists, North and South, had not been
left a square inch Of ground to stand
upon, Every excuse for sectional ag-
itation had been taken away; the doc
trine of Congressional "Non-lnterfer-
ence with the question of slavery in
the Territories" had been fairly es-
tablished by the Compromise Meas
ures of 1910, and the Disunionists Of
every part Of the country had been
absolutely uhipped into "acquiesence.
All was peace-all was brotherly
friendship, and the "era Of good feel
ing" between the North and South
required but a patriotic Chief Magis-
trate, like Monroe, or Madison, or
FILLMORE, to be continued through an
other administrative term of four
years.
But with the advent of Franklin
Pierce, what did we see? We saw
at once, the appointment of avowed
freesoilers. abolitionists, secessionists
and disunionsts to office by an admins
tration which claimed to have come
into power on the Union sentiment of
the country! We saw the slavery ag-
itation' re-opened, and, under the
banelul effect Of the Kansas Legisla-
ton, we saw it assume most rabid
and threatening form. We saw ex-
IRENE men of both sections encourage
ed in their heIlish schemes Of sedition
and disunion by the uniform and re-
peated official sanction and rvcogni-
ton Of President Pierce and his con-
stitutsonal advisers. Conservative
men, like Dickinson and Bronson, in
the North, and Donelson and Clemens,
in the South, were ruthlessly stricken
down by the heavy hand Of COVER
mental power.
What were-what ARE-the results
Of all these insjdious Vaccinations
against the harmony of the two sec
tons and stability of the Union
The answer rises to the lips Of every
patriot. Embittered sectional strife
threats from Massachusetts and men
aces from South Carolna--black-
guard speeches and brutal assaults in
Congress--the shedding of fraternal
blood on common American soil-and
the imminent peril ofthe Union:- these
are some of the bitter poisonous fruits
of a seli-styled Democratic Admins
tratiOn!
Another and more hopeful fruit of
the evil doings of the Pierce Admins
tration, is the springing up of a great
National UNION American, composed
Of the tried and true conservatives of
all parties, who are determined, by the
blessing ofGod, to bring back the coun-
try to the glorious philadelphia con-
dition of harmony and prosperity in
which Mr.. Fillmore left it when he
retired from power. What patriot
what Old line Whig-what conserva-
tive Democrat does not bid the Ameri-
party God speed, in so noble work.
What man is there in the confederacy
who does not see that any party Mr..
Fillmore heads, is bound to be the union
party Of this country What patriot
ic citizen is there in the whole Repub-
lie who does not see that WILLARD
FILLMORE, is, of all the world, the very
man to restore the country to the po-
ston in which he left it, and to per-
petuate
THAT union ofhearts-that union Of hands
The Union, time may not severn
A union of lakes, union of lands
The AMERICAN UNION FoREvER!"
Mem. Eagle and Enquirer.