The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-06-21

TREAsoEABLE PURPOSE AyoWED AND AP-
PLAUDED IN THE PHILADELPHIA CoNYEN-
TI0N.
Gen James Watson Webb was a delegate to the black
republican convention Philadelphia aHd favored that
body with his sage counSes He delivered speech which
reported for the New York Times and from which
make the following extract and ask for it careful pc
rusal;
"Why, / ask, are we hereH We are here because the
country in danger. We here because solemn
pact by which the Of slavery limited forever TO
latitude 80 deg 80 mn has been violently dsruptured torn
asunde and the people of the North told you shall have
this matter forced upon you. Now what the people
doing Our people, loving order and loving law, and will
ling abide by the ballot box together from all parts
of the Union and ask to give them nomination which,
hen put fairly before the people, viii unite public ont
men and through the baotbox, will restrain and repe
this slavery extension and this aggression of the slave
ocraey What else they doing They tell that they
are willing abide by the balotbox, and willing to make
that the last appeal. II ace fail there chat then We 0W
drive back stoord IA hand aad help God! believing
that to be right 10Th them Loud cheers, and cries Of
Good Now then, gentlemen, your action depends the
result You may with Gods blessing, present TO this
try name ralying around 1t all the elements OF the oppo
ton and we will become strong that through
box we shall the country Bat name Do presented
on spheh zoe mag rally, and The consequence cv
yes nothing uiore aohing less, but eVa oarI ask, them
ehat % our first datyF'
which we desire to concentrate the thoughtful reflection Of
all who not phrensied with fanaticsm. Perhaps
SO base sentiment would be entitled to little consdera
ton coming from bad counsellor, but it will be OBJ
served that the threat sealed with impous oath
Even that would scarcely redeem it from the contempt
which it merits but for the much significant and inn
portant fact that the avowal of the followed
by "load cheers and cries Of good" 1t not simply
therefore the sentiment of General Webb, but it
approved and endorsed by the convention What is
the sentiment That if the black republicans fail at
the ballobox to elect their nominee they will drive
back the "slaveocracy" sword in hand, or, as it is
afterwards expressed, that if be nominated on
which the black republicans cannot succeed, then he
consequence is eiph wares notaing oF aohing Tess, out
cirH oar" Col Webb urging the convention to post
pone immediate ballot hoping that the tide which was
then running strongly in favor of Fremont could be
rested and the nomination Of Judge Mclean be effected
He succeeded in the postponemen but not in defeating
Col Fremont follows that in the opinion of Gen. Webb
the black republicans elect COL Fremont and then
"cvil war-yeS nothing more nohingless but civil war
is to come And this declaration received with
shouts of applause by the convention The convention
adopted the threat, and made it their own.
We are thus notified in the most un4stakabls language
that if the people elect the democratic candidate for Pes
dent the black republican party stands pledged with
OATH to resist the popular judgment sword in hand If so
infamous threat this does not arrest the attention OF
the SOBER substantial peaceoVing awabiding of the
North and induce them to unite their energies for the
throw of party which enters into the with such
sentiments cannot tell what could make an impression
on theif mndg Who can now wonder that the laws
resisted in Kansas and that the resistance encouraged
in the free States when convention composed almost
cusivey of delegates from those States cheers and APP
pauds solemn threat to disregard the ballobox and to
exclude slavery from Kansas by resort to civil war;