Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-06-13
rUE REAL ISSUE.

ne have hefetoiorS Icit II W uS Od4 NA'!' -
an humble member Of the Wing party, to OK
r7ess frankly to cur readers What were our sen
1iu,e.,s rs 20 the line of conduct which should
be pursued by those Wings who, like us, have
refused to aI,alSaJr,ste with the Know Nothing
psr.r. AID. who remain as ever attached to Wing
principles. the friends of the Union, the advo-
cates CT S.ate Rights, and Of impartial equality
to Al men end all sections, and it may well be
expected that we should, in a spirit Of candoF
and of fearless disregard Of consequences, indi-
cate or opinions upon the same subject, now
that the Cincinnati Convention has met and act
ed, by prornulga.ing to the world the principles
by which It's candidates are prepared to stand or
fail in the coming contest The contest is one
of national existence, not of mere construction
Of constitutional powers. It is contest of
Union with dis Union not of mere policy or
impolisy. We have ever insisted that this con-
test had to be fought upon the Constitution, that
tic question and the only question upon which
tic election must determine is, whether South
crn States and Southern people are the equals
I've claim no morc,) under the Constitution, OF
Northern States and Northern people. The time
las come when this question must be met, and
met fully and frankly. The public mind has too
long been troubled and harrassed with this top
ic. Too often has it been nand distractedby
its introduction, and too short will be our ma
tional existence il we fail now to meet the issue
directly, fearlcssly and boldly, determined to
settle it at once and forever. The time is for
tunatc, the occasion auspicious and the necessi-
~ imminent
The time has arrived when all true patriots
Inust plant themselves together upon the Jroad
;1l1ttora Of The Constitution, when NIL men of
nil sections, who are attached to our Union rs it
is, who desire TO give equal rights to all undert,
must unite cordially and consistently for this
one great and all-absorbing purpose. Party
differences, if they exist, must be forgotten,
personal preferences, if unqualified, must be
waived, and all patriots must take up arms in a
common cause, the cause of the Constitution,
the Union and equal rights to all, against the
masses G! scct;onalism so fearfully combined
against them The Democratic party have re-
Gently met in convention and declared theirprin-
ciplcs upon the great question in issue. They
have done 50 boldly and unanimously, and it is
n source of no small qualification to us that the
platform on this question: thus adopted is idcH-
ti;ul with the principles which we have, since
connected with this paper, ever unhcsitatingly
advocated and upheld. Non-interEerence by
Congress with slavery in State or Territory and
in the District of Columbia, has been our posi-
ton always, and we have ever advocated as both
Constitutional and expcdicnt this position as
the only one calculated to give peace and quiet
10 the popular mind, to lull and still the ocean
wave of sectional feeling, to crush fanaticism
and to restore our Union to that even and quiet,
yet steady, progression towards expansion, de-
yclopment and perpetuity, which the founders
of our Republic contemplated, when broth
er band they fought for our liberties, established
an equal Constitution, and by the solemn tesla
ment Of the Father of his country, handed it
down to theic posterity, to be by them upheld
and defended, maintained and rcvcrcd, aud by
them to be transmitted along times pathway to
the Ultimate accomplishment of its noble mis-
sion.
Devoted as we have ever been to these great
principles of Union, and of equal rights to all,
can we hesitate as to our position in future p
Arc We at liberty to pause and caviI about mere
questions of expeliency, which might be raised
on other portions of the platform? Shall We
pause, when we see the Unions existence is the
issue, to consider whether, if the Unions saved
from the destroying hand OF hnaticism and SEE
tionalisn, some minor creed or doctrine, which
we may have opposed, may not be engrafted
hereafter! VIII the man whose house is in
flames, whose wife and children are in danger of
being destroyed by the devOuring element, re.
fuse the aid of the fire company because hem may
have been on bad terms with the members Of
the company: Can the patriot Wing, who looks
at the whole country, who sees the black arm of
fanaticism appraised to destroy it forever, who
secs that his old political opponents even arc
ready to stand to the flag of their country, to
support its constitution, and maintain equally
the rights of all, hesitate because, heretofore,
on other and minor questions he has honestly
contended against them2 Mol no! Resitaney,
with one entertaining the sentiments that we do,
feeling that the Constitution and Union are
the stakes in this contest-,rouI be treason.
Can, then, the Wing party of the South hest
tate eyeng What further light can they expect?
But one party has yet to act, and the nominees
of that party we could not support under any
circumstances Wings Of the South dare not
look to that party 'The Constitution, State
Riglts," has too long been floating from their
banner, and sympathy with Black Republican
ism is foreign alike to the Wing party of the
South, the soil which has nurturcd them, and
the instincts which animate them No one has
n higher appreciation of Willard Fillmore and
his public services than we have. He has done
well, but he is not in this contest The contest
is between Black Republicanism and the plat
form of the Democracy. Mr. Fillmore will hard.
IL accept, and therefore we need not speak of
him further, He viii be the first, if true to his
Presidential policy to cast his vote, as We SHALL
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