The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-08-14

sons of the South own no slaves, and are both
injured and degraded by Slavery.
Everybody personally acquainted with the
South, knows the fact to be Just what these con-
siderations would satisfy us it must be. There
are thousands of persons, not blacks, but whites,
| in every Southern State, grooming under the
tyranny which Expresses them, longing for re-
lief and yet without the means to strike the
blow. The triumph of the Republican party,
which would be the Waterloo of the Slave Oil
garchy, would be hailed with delight by vast
| numbers, from Mason and Dixon's line to the
| Gulf of Mexico, who would leap forth into life,
and light, and liberty, ike captives released
| from their chains.
| 1t may be true that no Fremont ticket will
be run in most of the Southern States. There
are very few election precincts at the South,
where men who should presume to vote for
Fremont would not incur great hazard of
having their throats cut. There is no such
thing as law or liberty at the South, where the
| interests or passions of shareholders are con-
| cerned. What the shareholders of Missouri
have done in Kansas, the shareholders of Vir-
ginia and of every other slave State, are ready
to do this day, if occasion calls or passion
prompts. The despotism of the shareholders
CT the South is the most relentless, bloody, and
| internal tyranny, which an inscrutable Provi-
dence ever permitted, for the affection and pun
ishmeut of mankind.
1t is true that no Fremont ticket will be, or
can be, run at the South, with the exception OF
three or four States, and that a Buchanan
ticket will be run at the North but this only
proves that the North is civilized, governed by
law, and tolerant even Of fragrant political tur-
pitude; while the shareholders restrain outward
dissent by the strong hand. No Committees of
Vigilance have been raised in the free States.
to Danish, under pain of death, the men who
attended the Cincinnati Convention-den of
thieves, as Colonel Benton, an eyewitness,
and supporter of its candidates, describes it
to have been, and abhorrent to the free States
as were its principles and objects. The South
ern party is permitted, without let or hindrance,
to run Buchanan ticket in every free State (;
but such ticket will not receive in them any
more votes than a Fremont ticket would receive
at the South, if suffrage was free there, and If
men could freely speak and write and print
their genuine sentiments. AT least as great q
proportion of the people south of Mason and
Dixon's line desire the election of Fremont, as
can be found north of it in favor of Buchanan.
IT South Carolina is against Fremont, Massa-
chusetts is against Buchanan, and with equal
warmth and unanimity. If Mississippi is en-
thusiastic for Slavery extension, Vermont is en-
III.
can organization in many of the Southern
States, 1t Is simply because the shareholders
will not permit it. Ruling everything with the
pistol, the bludgeon, and the bowie-knife, they
now undertake to take advantage of their own
wrongs, and to plead this sham, pretended,
and fictitious unanimity of the South, against
Col. Fremont, as the browning reason against
his election. 1t is, in truth, one of the most
persuasive arguments in his favor, because it
is one of the most convincing proofs of the
tyranny of an institution, the further spread Of
which it is the principal object of his election
to defeat.
In Kentucky, where Cassius NJ. Clay has con-
quered free discussion, Fremont electoral
ticket has been formed, and will receive, it is
admitted, not less than ten thousand votes.
The city of St. Louis, the second city in the
South, has just elected to Congress Republi-
can candidate, standing upon a Republican
platform. In Maryland, the Republicans, who
are numerous and influential, will form an
electoral ticket, and poll heavy vote for it.
The numerous letters received by the Republi-
can Association at Washington, from the far
South, show how widespread and deep is the
desire which exists there for the success of the
Republican cause. 1t is only the apprehension
of exposing the writer's to rufiian violence, which
restraints the publication of these letters, with
names and dates. Even the organs of the slave
holders in the extreme South admit that Re-
publicanism has large and increasing number
of adherents in their midst.
The Mobile (Ala.) AdUertiser says:
"Well might the delegate in the late Black
| Republican Convention at Philadelphia argue.
that so rapid would be the spread of Repubi-
| can doctrines, that in four years they could,
| with impunity, hold their Conventions in Rich
| mond, Virginia, or Lexington, Kentucky.
Was there not good ground for the assurance,
Z in view Of the delegates in that body from
Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Tennessee,
| Kentucky, and District of Columbia? If he
had known how many Black Republicans
there were in this State and community, he
might have moved to adj ourn the Convention,
to meet in 1860 at Montgomery. There are
| men here in Alabama, and in this county, who
are not ashamed to own preference to Ere.
mont over Mr.. Buchanan
Concediug, however, to the shareholders all
| they claim as TO the condition of popular senti-
ment at the South, and their pretensions are
| still altogether inadmissible. In effect, they
assume to control the Union, because they con-
troll the South. If they can make good this
new doctrine of Mr.. Fillmore, that no man shall
be elected to the Presidency who cannot COM
mand Southern electoral votes, they become
at once the acknowledged masters of the Re-
public. To the Jeffersonian qualifications for
office" Is he honest? Is he capabIeP L, he
faithful 10 the Constitution? will be added
a new one" Is he acceptable to the South P"
The case is simply this: A difference Of
opinion, as to the administration of the Terrific
ries in a particular vitality affecting their des
tnies-a difference of opinion, broad, funda
mental, not, to be sure, incapable of compro
mise, but in respect to which the South repu
dates all compromise, exists between the free
States on the one hand, and On the other hand
perhaps not a majority of the free people Of the
South, but the slavehodng interest. which
practically controls and speaks for the South
Such case admits of but one solution-tht
submission of the minority to the majority
The difference of opinion exists, not becaus,
the free States have adopted any new-liph
doctrines. They are abiding by the old doc
trines of all the fathers Of the country, NORTH
and South. The difference exists, because tn,
South has adopted the new and modern vaga
ries of the South Carolina school. In exertins
their power to prohibit Slavery in the Territories
the free States are only attempting an old ap
plication of an old principle; they are attempt
ing nothing which can be said to be a surpris,
upon the Southern States, or in fraud of tn,
principles and understandings, express or i'm
piled, upon which the Union was originali,
formed. They are attempting nothing which
assails a single right of the Southern States
They NEEDLE with no institution of the South
peculiar or otherwise. They abide by all th,
guarantees and compromises of the Constitu
ton. Conscious of the high Justice of thei
cause, they will move forward, undeterred b,
menace, coming from whatever quarter it may
Mr.. Fillrnores argument against the election
of Colonel Fremont to the Presidency does no
possess even the merit of originality. 1t is th,