Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-02-27
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WARREN. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 81.
The Republican Convention at Pitt.burg.

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Anniversary of Washington Birth Day.
and therefore a fit time for the meetins
Of National Party which advocates the
same great principles of freedom and
equal rights advocated by Washington
himself. The convention was largelT
attended, although an informal one, end
the greatest enthusiasm prevailed. The
veteran Editor Of the Jackson admins.
t~ration, the bosom friend and confiden.
tial adviser of Gen. jackson, Francis P
BLAIR, of Maryland, was Chairman o.
the meeting. The Pittsburg Gazette
says this circumstance gives to his pre-
sent position a deep significance. at
shows that the old party lires are thor
oaghly broken, and that the Democrats
and Wings of twenty years ago, are now
coming together as patriots and freemen
to preserve the institutions of the coun-
try SO greatly endangered by the exhor-
bitant demands and d~isorganizing pro-
eeedings of the s~laveocrary, and by the
alarming entraligation of the Federal
Government. Mr.. Blair was commits
stoned TO the Convention by the Repub-
lican Association of Baltimore. Ii is a
cheering evidence of the steady march
of Republican sentiment, that the Presi-
dent of the first National Republican
Convention should be from a slave
State"
Mr.. Blair read a paper before the Con-
v%ention, showing the position of a large
body of Southern men upon the Kansas
question. He said there was a large
number Of thinking men in the slave
states, who deplore the repeal Of the
Missouri Compromise, and anxiously de
sire its restoration. That the fatal con-
sequences likely to follow its repeal were
not at first obvious to the mass of South
ern people, because by the arts of poll
ticians, in secret caucus, the repeal was
made to appear as the voluntary tender
of the North to the South. That the peo-
pie at the South never desired its repeal.
Speaking Of the course of President
Pierce, he says:
"By the very terms of his Inaugural
address, closed by a solemn oath, he
may be said to have sworn his allegiance
G. to the compromises of the Slave ques-
ton, declaring they should not be dis
turbed if he could prevent it during ms
term of service. He renewed the VOW
in the message to the first Congress he
met; and before its close became the &C.
tive instrument in abolishing every COM
promise made on the subject since the
foundation of the Government. 1t was
done with the suddenness of the eIplo-
sion of a mine of powder. The system
planned by Jefferson and his compstriots
10 prevent the extension of slavery, and
its dangerous tendency 10 disruption of
The Union-the safeguard superadded
under Monroe's administration, Lowndes,
Pinckney, Calhoun. Crawford-all the
great men of the South aiding; and Clay
especially Distinguishing himself, after
two years of struggle, in lis effectuation
the late disposition of the controversy
about the Mexican acquisitions accom-
plished by the same great man, support
ed by Webster. COss and by Benton also
on the main point-the exclusion of sla-
very by the prohibition of the Mexican
laws, in a word all the real statesmen of
the country, compromises on the subject
made ly, and pronounced by them as
binding in honor as the compromises of
the Constitution, were blown up by the
accession of President Pierce and Mr..
Douglas to The scheme of Mr.. Atchison
and a few Eullifyers who prepared the
mine.
Now the simple remedy for this ruin
is 10 rebuild the work overthrow, and
nothing is easier, if resolved upon by the
North, and persisted in without regard
10 party names o. party cries-or indi-
ridual designs or predictions.
There was immeasurably a stronger
veto against the e~xpunging Resolution
the ball which Benton solitary and alone,
put in motion. Put public opinion tri-
umphed then over The strongest wills and
the ablest men of the country. Itcannot
be withstood by the puppets now or the
scene. In the meantime, the strong re-
presentation of the North in the House,
car hold everything in allegiance until
the Nations voice shall pronounce its ir-
resistable decision.
That the South will acquiesce in it,
whatever the violent men, who seek a
dissolution of the Union to make Charles
ton the New York of the South, hone can
doubt. How can it assume the attitude
of notification, and war upon the COM
promises and compacts of its own seek
ing-matured by its own great States
men, under which they have enjoyed
peace and safety for two-thirds of a CEN
tury, and the subversion Of which makes
the tenure, not only of the Domestic In
rtitution, but of all they hold dearest in
public or private life, depend upon the
chances of civil war. Whenever this is
comes, the North will find an auxil-
larry in that same Union party in the
South, that sustained Jackson, and my
constituents will have the proud pre-em-
inence of having first given in their ad-
besion 10 this, the really patriotic party
of their section.
The repeal o. fine repeating clause Of the
Nebraska Kansas act, would be the finale
of all the existing connections and of the
eager ambition which originated them.
If this single line is inscribed on our flag
we shall conquer under it. 1t will be
the Union Flag.
Speeches were made by men from diff
ferent States, all breathing the same spir-
II Hon r Giddinrs r p Snald-