New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-09-22


State. i.shed in August Of last year MANIFESTO
d,susdipg Wings from uniting with Democrats 10
tho Renublcan movement. Gov. Hunt did mol
differ from the rest of US with regard to the unusti
6sble features of the Nebraska bill and the agsrs
s;o, therein committed on the rights OF Free Laoor
and the Free States He says:
you must not infer that my, sentiments concerning
slavery have undergone any change. Ny opposition
20 the Introduction of Slavery into Free Territory
unslterable As Representative, resisted IL 10 ,h.
best Of my ability; as citizen l VIII sustain al u''
ard reasonable action calculated TO CONNIE me insu
top within its present limits On thl. subject the po
sitiop Of the Northern Wings has been uniform and
consistent: and why shall leave the high ground
we have occupied 7" &c, &c
THE violation of the NJ ssouri Compact WA great
wrong and an unmitigated calamity ~ u had ofsH
the Deliberate act of the rho'e Southern PsoPIe SeHya
t,or rovld hare become nnarolda6'e But IL was Tue
measure Of party and not of section ~ was lne
work of politicians and demagogues from ootn
aided by aithless Administrator. IL Wa n,;va
through Congress by party discipline and executive
influence against the general sentiment OF the ~oio
country II WAS not called for by the People oil !ne
South On the contrary thousands OF conservative
men in the SlavehoidnS states c"naenne' "a. 81
ure as dangerous, unjust and aggressive instetd OF
proclaiming sectional war against the south, let "a
inst appeal to that portion OF the Souhern reope VINO
are stiff faithful 10 mehonored covenants INVOKING
lorwsrd end aid in undoing the wrong OF which we
complain and in restoring that mutual confidence ana
goodwill which mpart TO the National Compact us
true strength and its only value.
Thousands of honest, confding Wings listened
O this appeal, and either united with Gov. Hunt
voting against the Republicans or withheld their
votes to await further Developments And thus
WAS the American State ticket elected last
Fall.
Gov Hunt has just been fraternizing in Conven'
ton at Baltimore with those thousands OF conser-
ystiye men-SOuthen and Northern aike-who ne
told us last Fall, condemned the Nebraska act and
were willing to do US justice with regard to 1.-THE
very people to whom he exhorted us to appeal Tor
tbe restoration of the Missouri Restriction instead
of organizing party to resist Slavery aggression.
We need not organize any Republican party to win
back what Freedom had lost by the Nebraska bill,
urged Gov. Hunt only one year ago; but just
appeal to our good friends the conservatives OF the
South, and they would do for us all that was need
full to satisfy the ex.GOvemOrs unalterable
hostility to the introduction of Slavery into Terrl-
tory previously Free.
Well: Gov. Hunt was one of the master-spirits
of this "Whig National Convention, and its irst
presiding officer. On taking the chair, he made
fowery, spread.esgle speech, full Of union and mar
mony, and deprecating all manner of " sectional
geographical" parties and platforms, and once
venturing decstely tOalude to 'the unfortunate re-
s'peal of the Missouri Compromise, " but never once
limiting at a restoration to Freedom of the ground
lost by that unfortunate" act. And We have
scrutinzed the resolves and other doings Of the
Convention in fruitess quest of any indication that
the triumph of Fillmore X. n. Whiggery would
restore Kansas to Freedom, drive Slavery back to
the southwark of 36' 3O, and put up the bars
behind her.
What is the explanation Of this' Did Gov. Hunt
believe himself when he exhOrted US last Fall to
appeal to the conservatives of the South to help US
undo the wrong cOnsummated in the passage Of the
Nebraska bill! If he did, why did he not propose
this mode of restoring harmony and concord 20 his
National Wing COnventiOn7" Why not submit q
resolve pedging the National Wings to restore 10
Freedom what Douglass bill took away "ha'
explanation can be given of Gov. Hunts utter
silence On this point consistent with honesty ana
God faith in his exhOrtatOns last Fall