The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-04-17

sSy- L. R. Johnson, subscriber ofong
standing, in Cambridge city, Indiana, askSer-
mission to correct what he deems an errt in
an article of Mr.. Julian, lately printed iphe
Era, in which he stated that resolutionn-
troduced by himself, denouncing the Fillmte
nomination, was carried against the determine
purpose of the managers. BE says:
CAMBRIDGE CRY, INDIANA,
April s, 1856.
Having been myself a member of the com
mittee on resolutions, claim to know some
thing of the feeling actuating the only persons
to whom the term "managers can, by any
possibility, apply. And / feel bound to say
that there was, in the committee at least, nc
determined opposition to Mr.. Julian's resolu
ton. A resolution, almost verbally the same
was offered in committee by myself, and with.
drawn, because, in my opinion, and that of every
good Anti.Slavery man with whom have con
versed upon the subject, the same ground was
substantially covered by another resolution
which we reported, and which was heartily
adopted in Convention before Mr.. Julians was
offered. That resolution declared that we
will oppose the election of any man to the Pres
idency, unless he is openly and aropedly op-
", SIIH0S
upon platform asserting that as the para
mount issue" Whether am right or not in
saying that the resolution is quite as broad as
Mr.. Julian's, knoi1 that it was the intention
of the committee to make it SO; and that we
succeeded was, / believe, the opinion of nine
tenths OF the Convention. Yet many members,
myself among them, who would have been sat
ished had Mr.. Julian's resolution never been
introduced, were anxious that it should not be
voted down after it had been offered. And it
was this feeling, / am sure, which secured its
passage.
l am confident that do not err when say
that the opposition did not arise from any dis
position TO give even a tacit endorsement to the
nomination of FILLMORE, but from the same hos
tility to Mr.. Julian personally, which, by dis
ingenious artihce on the part of few individ-
nails, had before excluded him from a place on
the committee.
Whatever evil may result from the co-opera-
ton OF Anti-Slavery men and Know Nothings
elsewhere, am sure their union in this county
has been productive of nothing but good Our
Conventions have never blinked the question
OF Slavery, and have never endorsed Know
Nothingism; and they have never been asked,
by any respectable portion of that party, (of
winch, by the way, am not a member to do
either. There may be individuals in the Re-
publican ranks seeking their own advancement
rather than the good of the cause; but, with
the great body of the party, opposition to the
further extension of Slavery is the paramount
question, IN favor of which they are willing to
postpone all others. The old Anti Slavery men
OF twenty years standing are satisfied with our
position.
We have no doubt that our friend believed
that the resolution of the committee was broad
enough to cover the ground embraced in Mr..
Juian's, hut, in such case, there can be no
harm in being direct and positive. No true
and sanguine AntSlavery man could for mo-
ment hesitate as to the propriety of resolu-
ton repudiating the nominations of Fillmore
and Donelson.-Ed. Era.