Star of the Kanawha Valley. [volume] (Buffalo, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1856, 1856-04-23

lie EhhLlEcI NAV AIShL AD-
CLIFTON OF SLAVERYp!!!
Az, THE EARLIEST PRAC-
TICAL ABOLITION OF SLAVE
RY." Look at It'll For k'Jree soiE'
-"op posed to the extension of sla-
yery' in favor ofits "edrliest prac-
tell abolition"-htriguin for the
nomination of a Free-Spil conven-
ton; and in addition to all this, when
the final vote for Speaker came-the
last vote-the vote which "tried the
souls Of men'-the vote which was
TO determine whether BANGS, the po-
litical Abolltionist-the Black Re-
pnblican--the northern Know:No-
thing - the sliding the
absorption" BANKS, should be cleo
ted 81 eaker Of the American House
of Representatives. or that accom-
plishea gentleman and sound, nation
al. and Conservative man, Govern or
WILL AM AIKEN-he, under the tlimsv
and IN iserable pretext ofhaving lairh,I
off with a man WHO was present, be-
ing present himself, aodged, and did
not vote at ALL i -.
And now with his record fairly be-
fore yo u-elected upon the principles
on which was elerted--I submit it
to Your candor. if i wouIl not hayr
expose ID myself to the JUS scorn aAd
co"teApt Of every good man Of my
district, OF any party, if hal voted
Tor H$nry d. FtAler? | voted for
Villa m. A. Richardson. Of Illinois.
Il hner him. thad serye ed with him
in the last Congress. | knew him
to be The very soul pt honor. A<man
whose word was as goo4<as his
bond;T a man whose large heart
could take all the Union into its at
ftctiops; a man who was all scanned
with sears received III battles for the
rights of the South: a mhn who had
been passed around by the Abolition
lists. (within black lines, inrwhat the y
call til cir "roll Of nfamy, because Of
his gallant hearing in tn ose battles;
man who has stool unn oved while
NAL fanatitism poured its vials. Of
wrath upon his heal; q man who
breast ed the storm in Its widest ra-
wings after the passage Of the Kan,
sas- M braska bill; the man who bid
them d proud and bold defiance; tie
Statesman who was our champion antl
leader through all the great struggle
upon that bill: the, statesna an who had
.counselcd his triciiils in the North t.
"stand and brave the fire without
! hinching;" the mail who. full Of conr.
aye and patriotism, dares to do what
ever HI large heart approves and his
comprehensive mind suggests; and q
man, too, who is of the West. west.
ern--who is Of us and with us.
would not. | should not, | could not.
l. did n OF hesitate tt r mo nent which
to che o-e-th man or Henry NJ.
Fuller! WAS l NOT RIGHT I
fhat i seen Judge Douglas, of Iii
nois, after anxious elaboration, in
troduce that bill, anil stake his polit-
ical life upon the justice Of itsprinci-
pies. | had seen the Administration
commit its fortunes to it; 4 had seen
the gr4at DO ~ of II he national Whigs
in the Senate, in the House, in the
countr y, come up to his support;
had Sc en- the Democracy adopt it a.
an arti Gle in their creed OF ia th:
had SO zen the people of my diS strict,
as aim ost one man, indors G the prin-
ciplcs of that bill; and wax | to desert
the gallant ship, with her tried and
trusted crew, as she plowe ed her ma
jestic way, unmovel by the storm and
unsIaken BY the pillows, to 60 out in
a miserable YAwL, under the com
mand of sucha ''straggler" Of q cap
tain such u Latter Day Saint" Us
this II enry NJ. Fullerl #
But, it is said that Mr.. Fuller is a
Know Nothing, and therefore | should
have given h I'm my#vote, The. con:
test for the speakership developed
the fac i that there are now three par
ties in the country. Tile northern
Know Nothing and Abolition party.
fused under the name Of Black Re.
uuLlican, the (so-ealled1 National
Amer cans," and the Democratic
party. This Know. Nothing party
was BE- Urn amidst the Fictitious excite,
ment manufactured by Abolitionists
and disunionists out of the passage Of
the Kansas Nebraska bill. 1t sprung
at once, like Minerva frotnthe brain
of Jove Il" full armed, and entered the
polite al arena. In the morning o.
its existence. it was full Of promise
It declared that It would say to the
angry waves, s'peace-be stillm that
1t was the only broad, national, con
SENTATIVE party; that its great para
mount mission was to save the Union
which was imperiled by agitation
Relyingsupon these promises, conf.
ding iii these assurances, many good
men eyerywhere--rnany in my dis
trict---went into this organisation
| / went twice land but twice. into theil
lconncils sssaw SAM IL took two