St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-10-02

three or four 'ndscsd~at members of the
Republican party have expressed SEN
timents favoring the dissolution of the
Union. Your first authority, Wendell
Phillips, is properly an Extremist, and
not a supporter of Fremont. Next, j.
R. Giddings, although I believe is now
supporting Fremont, has for late years
been identified with the abolition party,
which is not by any means synony-
nous with the republican party-and we
further think that the extract attribu-
ted to him to be several gears Of age,
which divests it of much of it's charm
at present. N. P. Banks, if ] mistake
not, has denied the expression attribu-
ted to him; but let it SO, probably the
certain state of circumstances I"
would be the hearing of Mr.. Toombs
call the roll of his slaves under the shad-
ow of Bunker Hill Monument. Rufus
B. Spaulding, for aught l know, may or
may not be Republican be that as
it may, his dissolution leans toward
the non-continuance of slavery-not
it's extension. James Watson Webb,
an earnest worker for Fremont, also
with Burlingame upon the side of free
dom, both individual opinions. James
S. Pike and Horace Greeley, both in
dividual opinions, also for freedom
but, wouldn't it be rather hard to es-
tablish that they were for disunion !?
The Tribune of Sept. 9th says:
"They call us 'disunionists,' though
1--WE resist the policy and the power
"of the nullifiers, and insist on the
perpetuation Of the Union, through the
maintenance Of the principles of it's
" founders" We also think the arti-
Gle quoted from Mr.. Greeley refers on.
ly to the pecuniary value of the South
to the North, (the text,) would show
this, viz, the Union is not worth sup
porting in connection with the South"
Twas written we think some two OF
three years since in a series of articles
in the Tribune entitled "The North
and South," drawn out by the clamors
of the Southern press for a dissolution
of the Union, and written with the Oh
ject of showing the North that they
could lire if the South should secede.-
The article is worth copying--its title
"Abuse not Argument"
A clergyman of Poughkeepsie mos
support Buchanan, or may not be 9
politician, don't know him ;of Henry
c. Wright the same and Gerrit Smith
the Abolition leader, completes the list
all individual opinions of many ot
which yo~ sag, g. the authors did no,
realize the purport of their own Ian
guage when they uttered it." Car
this be said of the deliberate resolves
Of the opposite parties? No sir
They cannot be lodged in any shape
In nut shell the opinions Of three OF
four members of the Republican par
ty, favorable to the dissolution of the
Union are on the side of Freedom, fol
which we do not uphold them,) while
the carefully formed opinions of State
Conventions, Congressional Caucuses
and individual testimony, (from which
the few extracts given are but as !;
drop in bucket,) of the Democrat,
and American parties-all go for sla
very. Verify, if possible, the ",dut,
of Freemen grows palmer. To thi'
you may say, l never said party
| True, but do, as l believe it to b,
the duty of Freemen to join som
party which must either be for the ex
tension, or non-extension of slavery
l take it then, there is no middle ground
You cannot find enough Of it upo
(which to place the tip Of your littl
finger, and vote accordingly. Beside
there is folly in throwing away vote
!, in the present crisis. Millard Fillmor
viii not in my opinion, receive sir
Il gle Electoral vote I; but as we hav
: given one extract from his party rest
!, lutions at the South, hear what Mr.. G
5 w. Curtis, q New York politician, (fo
merly Democrat says Of him:
"Mr. Fillmore's administration wa
t distinguished by the Compromis
measures and the Fugitive S!sv
n Claw. After his term of Office ha
expired, he made long tour in II
/ South, for what purpose ! cam,
"say; then he went abroad and whi
"there he was nominated in Philade
el phia by the Southern section Of Il
t "Know Nothing Convention. Now
n "has come home and we find him
It " Albany expressing notification Sc
el !" timents that would have shock'