The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-10-09
TRADE AND SLAVERY.

The meeting of merchants in New York, to
hear Mr.. Banks, having succeeded so admirably,
the ProSlavery men lately undertook to get up
Wall street meeting to hear Ex-Governor
Floyd of Virginia. The following call, issued
by the New York Eoening Post, must have
made the managers feel rather uncomfortable
PUBLIC MEETING IN WALL STREET
Shrek from Virginia.
The merchants of the city Of New York who
agree with Gov Wise, Senator Slidell, and Mil
lard Fillmore, that in case of Fremont's election
to the Presidency, "this Union cannot and
ought not to be preserved"
Who are in favor of the naturalization of
Slavery throughout this Republic;
Who approve of compelling the people of
Kansas to submit to the use of slave labor in
that Territory;
Who desire for their next President the man
who deliberately advised our Government to rob
friendly nation of valuable portion of its ter
ritory, avowedly for the purpose of perpetuating
Slavery within its borders;
The man who, in l844-5, recommended Gov
eminent funds to be used in the establishment
of political journal to support the Administra-
ton of which he was member;
The man who recommended President Jack
candidate for the Presidency in the House of
Representatives, by offering him the Office of
Secretary of State-an act which Gen. Jackson
stigmatized as deep corruption
The man who, in case of failure of the peo-
pie to make a choice at the next election, wonld
resort to like deep corruption" to insure his
elevation to the Presidential chair;
The man who purchased his nomination for
the Presidency by promising not only that he
would do all that Douglas and Pierce had prom
ised towards Matchmaking Slavery, but that
he would do what they had not promised to do,
in case of separation of the Union-make
Pennsylvania take her lot with the South;
The man whom Senator Brown, of Mssissip-
pi, says, is as worthy of Southern confidence
and Southern votes as MIR. Calhoun ever was;
And all that believe in the Virginia doctrine,
that free society is a cruel failure"
All who believe that it is better to own labor
than to hire it;
All who believe in the logic of the pistol and
the bludgeon;
All who desire to see property representation
enlarged in one section of the Union, while it
is altogether denied to the other;
All who desire to perpetuate a sectional agi-
tation, and distract our whole country with civil
war;
All who believe, with Mr.. Choate and John c.
Calhoun, that our Declaration of Independence
was String of glittering generalities," or
with John G. Breckenridge, that it is % an alb
straction," and if embodied in the Constitution
would make "this Union intolerable and hate.
full"
And, finally, all who are opposed to allowing
the political privileges of free American citi-
zen to "greasy mechanics and filthy operatives"
candle-makers included, are requested to sign
a call for that purpose, now suspended at the
Office of the Journal Of Commerce, for meet,
ing in front of the Merchants Exchange, on
Thursday. the I'd of October, at halfpast three
p. NJ, to hear Ex-Governor Floyd, of Virginia,
the original Fremont man, advocate their
views