Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-10-15

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/ MOCRACY-
If Democracy IN 1915 was Democracy, De-
moeEacy Of 1856 IS sham Democracy Mr.. FIJI
moro is denounced by Southern Democracy be
cause he was opposed to the disturbing of the
Missouri COmprOmise-the decd done, he is for
letting 1t reu,afa. But in Justification to FIJI
more, let US sec what was the Democratic senti-
ment on the subject BY reference to the pro-
oeedings Of the Virginia Legislature, in the win
tiers Of 1915 and 1919, resolution was adopted
which read thus:
"ResoIred, Thst II, in disregard Of Tie spirit
Gzd prsneiptcs Of the act Of Congress, on the
admission Of the State Of Missouri into the
! Union, GENERALLY KNOWN A. TIE MISSOURI
COMPROMISE, and of every consideration of jus
tice, constitutional right and fTaterHai feeling,
the fearful issue shall be forced upon The coun-
/ Try, which VIII result from the adoption and en-
| forcement of the Wiinot Provisc, as an act of
| the General Government the people of Virginia
/ can have no difficulty in deciding between the
only alternatives that viii then remain, of abect
submission to aggression and outrage on the one
hand, determined resistance on the other, at
all hazards and to the last extremity"
Here then was Democracy in Virginia in 1913
and 70, versus Virginia Democracy of 1885,
The Legislature was largely Democratic and the
above resolution passed BY vote of 1T to Is.
LetUs look little further into Democracy of
1913. a State convention was held by the De-
mocracy of Virginia on the 29th day of Fcbru-
airy, 1s4s, (ail Democrats OF course when the
following being the st!l'resolution, was passed
unaniuously-it reads thus:
That this Convention heartily responds to
the noble resolutions of the Alabama State
Democratic Convention, and will, under no po-
llitca necessity whatever, support for the Pres
tidency any person who shall not be the firm and
avOwed opponent of any plan doctrine which
in any way interferes with the rigat of citizens
of any one State, to possess and enjoy all their
IQUircd by the Union as fully, completely, and
securely, citizens Of any other State shall
10y theirs,-ezeept 81 far as, that being fIMeii-
ling to distUrj the Missouri Compromise re are
content isith adherence to its principles
These noble resolutions of the Alabama State
Convention are the identical resolutions which
Mr.. Yancey of that State forwarded to Buchan-
~u on the Pad of May, 1913, and which NJ Blu
clanan, in his letter of May 18th, 1898, delib-
le-ately refused to endorse. Well may -i!ab1,n-
isns refuse to support Buchanan after their no.
BILE resolutions were rejected by him These
lnoble resolutions OF Alabama speak the senti-
mcnts of Fillmore, and is but sustaining the
principles Of the american platform mr. Fill
moro should not he sensured by the South for
retaining faith in the Missouri Compromise, be-
cause he believed the agitation would be hurtful
TO the peace and quiet of the Union: and fur
ther because that measure was carried IN 1920
by the vote of 20 out of % Senator's.
In 1913 the following proposition was made
in the Senate of the United States
That the line of thirty-six degrees, thirty
minutes of north latitude, known rs the 3Iissou-
ri Compromise, as defined by the 9th section OF
an act entitled, &c. &c, approved March 9th,
1920, be- and the same is hereby, declared to ex-
tend 60 the Pacific ocean, and said sth section,
together withthe Compromise effected, is hereby
revived and declared to be IN fall force and
binding for the organization of the Territories
of the United States in the same sense and with
the same understanding with that which was
tor!si:ially adopted
This proposition was sustained by every
Southern Senator present viz:
And this proposition was voted for by erery
Scu.hera Senator. present. to wit: AtchiSon,
Badger, Bell, Berrien, Benton, Borlnnd, Butler,
Calhoun, Davis of Mississippi DOvaS, Fitzser-
add Foote, Houston, Hunter, johnson Of Mary
land, johnson Of Georgia, Johnson of Louisiana,
King, Lewis Mangum, Mason, Metcalf, Pearce,
Sebastian, Fnrney, and Underwood.
The following Northern Democratic Senator's
8laO NOlcl iOE lb-Wlls bright, I3tlcEOiI LICK
inson, Douglas, flanagan, Sherman, and Stur-
geon.
Cannot Senators Hunter and Mason forgive
Mr.. Fillmore, after them and the Democratic
party sustaining the above resolutions The
little Giant of Democracy" certainly can for
give Mr.. Fillmore for his opinions relative to the
Missouri Compromise, unless he has forgotten
the following proposition, ono of his own bant-
iings. When Texas was annexed, Mr.. Douglass
himself made the following proposition as to
the territory embraced within her limits, to wit
".\nd in such States as shall be formed out Of
said territory north of said Missouri Compro-
mise line, slavery or involuntary servitudc, ex-
icePt for crime, shall be prohibited"
This proposition of the Little Giant was
agreed to by vote of 100 ayes to 90 noes, eve
ry !Souther" Democrat voting for the PROPOSE
ton.
If Democracy of former days was the true
Democracy, Qor principles never chanse,) then
the Democracy of 1856 is sham Democracy, who
go for the same principles, the FIVE loaves and
the two fishes Mr. Fillmore's principles and
the American platform, sustains what was De-
mocrary in 1913. But with jim Grow po!iti-
clans he cannot keep pace. Mr.. Fillmore should
not be denounced by these progressive Demo-
crats. The Compromise is dead-the Amcri-
lean party nor Mr.. Fillmore seek to redeem it.
VERNON.
tFrom the Londer Examiner, September pol
WHAT PARIS COHSuNES.-Accor,iing to II
HuSson, the Partisan consumes $40 pounds of
bread in the year, a pound a Clay for every soul.