Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-08-25

ne womb be compelt=
| ed 10 swear that he would require no Tet5gto
testas q qualification to any 01fee Of Public
T54,st sfI,3SF-ffe UItiCed StGteS.s> ask, under
such circumstances. which oath would he keep,
and which oath would he yiolates Are the old
line Wings prepared to endorse Mr. tlilmore,
thus pres MED for their suilfages oy nImSeh
I L know no difference between an Individual
Joining the Order and giving his vote to sustain
its candidate, except that the latter course Is
moro effective in carrying out the tenets Of TINS
party.
The friends of Mr.. Fillmore have assailed Mr..
Buchanan for his OStend communication without
admitting or denying the soundness OF the doc
trine therein continued would remark that
the correspondence of Mr. Everett as Secretary
of State under Mr.. Fillmore, after the death OF
Mr.. Webster relative to Cuba, is more offensive
and oughtto be more obnoxious to the criticism
of conservative men than the 0sTESp Letter;
and it should be remembered that the diplo-
matte manifesto of 2ir. Everett was issued under
the immediate supervision of Mr.. Fillmore and
Mr. Everett is probably the best educated
statesman now living, he is IN erudite scholar
and sound patriot. When in Congress, he
took higher ground in favor of the South onthe
subject of slavery, than any Northern statesman.
had ever done before, or has ever done since
One thing is certain, any opinion npon lnterna-.
tionaI Law promulgated by him is entitled to re-
spect Mr. Buchanan has been in public lie
upwards of forty years, he has filled the highest
offices which his own State could confer upon
him He has occupied the highest seat in the
Cabinet during a most eventiul epoch; and he
has twice represented his country at the courts
of the two first nations in Europe. His private
character stands without blot or blemish and be-
yond rebuke or reproach; aud it is high euio-
GUM upon his public life, that the 0stend Let
ter is the only act designated by his opponents
as the ground of attack.
There are many Old Line Wings who are at
tached to their. cognomen, and dislike changing
it-this is an over scrupulons nicely. They
must change their name-they must recognizes
the title of an American, Know-Nothng, Re
publican, or Democrat If they refuse to Sc
lect either of these names, theymust retire from
all participation in public affairs. Gov. Seward
is reported to have said during the present scs-
sion of Congress, in caucus, that he cared moth
ing for names, but that he looked to the princl-
pies alone. The remark showed he had clear
head and a sound judgment and was worthy OF
q better cause.
Time will not permit me to discuss at large.
the questioned the Territories. hold that the
Territory ceded to US by Mexico was purchased
by common treasure. The fifteen Slave States
contributed their portion of the fund as well as
the then fifteen Free States Territory should
stand on the same footing as admitted States,
and the right of the people TO hold Slaves or not,
as they please in the Territory ought to be conf
mensurate with the rights of the people as they
exist in the thirty-one States. There can be no
just ground ofany discrimination between the two
cases New Territory is surely not more sacred
than the old thirteen States, or the present thir-
ty-one States. The will of majority prevails
in the cases last enumerated, and the same or
thodox principle should prevail in the newly ac-
quired Territory.
What is the doctrine of the Wilmot proviso2
1t is the sixteen free States declaring to the If
teen slave States-you part owners OF this
Territory; you have shed your blood and eT'
pended your treasure in acquiring it, but You
shall have no share in its enjoyment or profits
Strip it of its trappiugs and it amounts to this
there are thirty-oEe stockholders in corpora
ton, and sixteen say to fifteen, 1t Is true you are
part owners and have contributed to the purchase
| of our common property but you shall have no
share in the enjoyment of its privileges or the
receipts of its profits. Such doctrine is sub
vcrSive of every principle of justice aud equality,
md cannot be sustained.
| am not the advocate Of opinions that are
new to the Wing party of Pennsylvania. at a
| Wing meeting held in September, 1850, at the
resolution congratutating the Nation upon the
restoration of peace ind quietude to the country
BY the passage of the Compromise Acts of that
year. It was unanimously adopted, and then
laid down the same principles which l am now
endeavoring to inculcate.
! In November, 1850, the great Union Meeting
was held at the same place, and over which John
Sergeant presided. Among others, again en-
| forced the same principles. At later period,
during the session of the Legislature of this State
! in 1851, pure Wing meeting was called to re-
quest the repeal of the Act of the Legislature of
| i847, which closed the public jnis of this Com
conwea!th against the custody ofFustive Slaves.
| A. RUocl Cprn01 n q
in the country, in intelligence and patriotism,
presided. Iagain promulgated tho same doc
trine and they were again endorsed by the Wing
party assembled on that occasions.
These are some of the reasons why invoke
every Old Line Wing in Pennsylvania to sup
port Mr.. Buchanan. The triumph of the Demo-
cratic party in Pennsylvania, in October next,
would place his election beyond doubt. 1t would
remove the last glmnering hope of the opposi-
ton, restore peace and qmietude to the country,
and for one generation at least, put Mt rest the
present agitation on the question Of slavery
The Old-line Wings ofPcnnsylvania possess the
power to accomplish this great result; the res:
possibility rests upon them, and have no doubt
but that the draft which is made upon their pa
triotism will be promptly accepted, and that the
great Keystone State will once more come to the
rescue, and do as she has done heretofore put
down all sectional feeling, and at the ballot-box
give vote which will strike terror to the enc
mics of Constitution and our glorious Union,
which has so loug been the pride and admira-
ton Of every friend of civil and religious liberty
throughout the world.