The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-09-25
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A National, old-Iine Wing ConyentiOn
wss heldst Baltimore, last week. Twenty.
elk States were represented by delegates
The meeting was large and the greatest
enthusiasm prevailed. Gov. Hunt, of New
York was the President. The object of
the Convention was to re.organiEe the
Whig party, and make It once more the
proud National organization which il was
under the leadership of the, immortal Clay
and Webster. Millard- Fillmore and An
drew Jackson Donelson were endorsed as
the candidates Of the Convention, and SER
les Of resolutions introduced and adopted.
We have not room for the whole series, but
will give the following as showing the spir-
it by which the party is actua,ed;
Rssolred, That the Wings Of the United
States assembled, hereby declare their
reverence for the Constitution, and their
unaltersble attachment to the national
| Union, and their fixed determination to do
all in their power to preserve them for
/ themselves and posterity. They have no
uew principles to announce, no new plat.
! form to establish, but are content to rest
where their torefsthers have rested, upon
/ the constitution Of the United States, wish
ing no safer guard-no higher law.
Resolved, That the government of these
United States WAS formed by the conjunc-
ton or political unity of widespread geo.
graphical sections, materially differing no
only in climate and products, but in social
and domestic Institutions: and that any cause
which shall permanently array these sec
tions in political hostility, aud organized par
ties founded only on geographical dstnc
tions, must inevitably prove fatal to the con
tinuance of our national Union.
Resolved, That the wings Of the United
States declare the fundament articl OF thei
political faith to be absolute necessity 70
avoiding geographical parties The DANCE
40 clearly dscerned by the Father of on
, country, founded on geographical distinction
has now become fearuIly apparent in tn
agitation now CONFUSING the nation, whc
must be arrested at once if we would, pre-
serve our Constitutional Union from dis
memberment and the name of America fror
being blotted from the family of civlize
nations. ....
Though differing widely from the meas
ures Of policy advocated by the late or pres
ent Whig party, we can but acknowledg
that the foregoing resolutions are patroti
and noble, aud the sentiments therein eS
pressed, will find ready response in the be
> som of every true lover OF his country
D The Wing party, whatever may have bee
its errors, has always been true TO the Con
{ sT1rUTIoN and the UNION. Its great leader
were devoted to the preservation of thes'
as the palladium of our liberties. With i
e defeat in 1859, and the decease of its gre,
e leaders, it died and was buried. But thel
: are those still living, who years ago wei
: proud to fight under its standard. The
i loved its great National principles and tn
i almost idolized Henry Clay. And nov
o when they behold party rearing its hes
e in the land following banner with but 81
teen stars-a party which if triumphant W
u destroy the Government and break the Unit
u assunder,no wonder that they desire to REQ
u ganize their party and re-assert their tim
j. honored doctrines.
We look upon the movement with plea
l. ure. For the lasttwo years, the Democr
ID cy have been compelled to fight with S
o cret and dshonorabIs foe. And now v
e rejoice in the prospect of coming again
s. conflict with a party whose principl
y are known and whose leaders are men
d honor.