Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1856-10-17
@ We copy the following account of
speedily prominent old line Wing,
from the Fairmons virginian:
A. r. RAYMOND.

a specially prominent old line Wing.
from the Fairmons Virginian: sE
A. r. RAYMOND. t
We had the pleasure of hearing q 4
speech for the FIRST time during the presi.
denti1l canvass from A. F. Raymond,
on. Monday. He addressed the people
in the courthouse =; the bone end sinew
Of the country were present in great
numbers. The courthouse was literally
OVERLOOKING. We we're glad, however,
70 fnd that the best feeling prevailed
among both parties, The crowd listened
with great attention throughout. and
however the American party may differ
fton Mr.. Raymond politically, they csn
no, fail to admire the candor, sincerity
and ability with which he expressed him
self.
Mr.. Raymond said he had for some
fellow citizens of the county of Marion
upon the subject of the presidential cleo
tion,-Ihat his object was to assign to
them his reason why he should vote for
Mr.. Buchanan In so doing. he desired
to be respectful to the feelings of all,
though he should in argument run coun-
ter TO tho opinions OF some present. He
said he had voted for General Scott in
1859 for President the Wing party
with which he had acted heretofore was
without organization, and was in fact for
tho present. dead He then gave his.
tory Of the Wing and Democratic parties
showing the difference between them to
be upon questions entirely national, and
that the principles whieh then sperated
them were in the main obsolete or settled
now. That there were at present three
political parties organized in the country.
the Democratic. Black Republican, and
Know Nothing or American parties -
that Fillmore and Donelson were the
nominees Of the Know Nothings and had
accepted the nomination of that party
that Fillmore had left the Wing party and
united with the Know-N Nothing party in
opposition to Whiggery and Democracy.
and had proclaimed the Wing party dead.
He therefore felt that Fillmore had no
claims upon him as Wing for support.
That the principles of the K. N. party. 80
far as they tend to establish religious
tests for Office and to extend the term OF
residence in the country for foreigners
to twenty-one years instead of FIVE, before
naturalization. and also by pledges or
oaths to exclude all foreigners, DC, from
Office, whether naturalized or not, were at
war with his notions Of right and justice,
and he could not therefore go into that
party. That the Black Republican party
with Fremont as its nominee, was section
al in its organization and principles
proposed to trample upon the Constitution
and its compromises, and was disgraceful
to the country, and if successful would
destroy the Union. That the D emocrat.
ie party extended and had an existence
all over the Union,-that it embodied in
its platform the great principle of non in
Isrvention by Congress in the territories
with the subject of slavery. This plat.
form left the matter with the people in
the territories. and was in fact platform
Of peace and union embodying the princi,
pies of the ConstitutiQna
He then alluded to the Kansas ques.
tion: He said the Kansas Nebraska acl
was just and right, and ought not to be
repealed and that the Missouri restric.
ton of So deg. 80 min., was unequal and
unjust.
Mr.. Raymond then referred to the K
n. platforms He said that the K. N
party. BY its platform of 1855. made al
Philadelphia, recognized the principles OIL
the Kansas act, in aud by the 18th Sec
lion, which was the important national
plank in their platform of that year that
the K. N. party at it's convention in 1856
repudiated the l2th section Of their plat
form-struck it out and became sectional
and abolitionized. That the Kansas and
Nebraska act only contained and carried
out the principles of the compromise acts
Of 1850. Mr.. Raymond then entered al
length into the discussion and explanation
Of the principles of the Kansas Nebrasks
act. showing its business and propriety.-
He said the Democratic platform and
party were national and sectional, not thai
the South had not committed any aggres
sious on the NorIh-that in fact she had
Lost by all the compromises, while the
North had gained-that the South, fol
the sake of peace. had always given and
yielded to the North. and could do it nc
longer. He then went into an argument
showing clearly that the old wings could
not vote for Fillmore. but ought to vote
for Buchanan and announced his inten.
iioa to go and do likewise. "
~ A letter was received here some
ten, days ago from q member Of the party