Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1856-05-13
REPUBLICAN, PRESIDENTIAL CONVENTION,
Circular of the National Committee appoi.for, at
Piosturgh 22d february, 1856.

mas preceded this paper 1t is not only to re-
commend to the people the immediate selection
OF delegates from the several States equal in
number to three times the representation in
Congress 10 which each state is entitled, to meet
on the 18th June, at Philadelphia to present
such individuals as they may think best suited
to uphold the cause to which they are devoted
as candidates for the Presidency and Vice Pre-
sidency; but also to invite the members of all
parties who feel it to be the dominant issue
which should control the election, to meet at
the same time and place, TO confer with the
Convention to the best course to crown their
common wishes With success. One of the par
ties which Will be represented at Philadelphia
has taken the name of Republican, because It
was given to that founded by Mr. jefferson, to
embrace all who love the Republic. There is
no Democrat who docs not love the Republic
There Is no Wing who does not love the Re-
public. There is American who does not
love the Republic. And we fondly hope there
is no naturalized citizen who does not love the
Republic
But it is not SO important that the great move
ment which desire to see successfully inau-
gurated shall be designated by any particular
name, as that it shall be strong, united and ef-
fective. Why may not all those classes who
are hostile to the introduction of Slavery into
free territory, unite at this crisis Of impending
danger, to vote for common ticket, which will
be dominated to assert the grand principle of
repressing the extension of slay eholding mo-
nopoy, and to vindicate the rights of the people
IN all sections of the Union who labor with their
own hands? ticket which will not agitate
with view to detract from the rights of the
States to dispose of the subject within their
limits, according to their sovereign will vet its
influence 10 destroy the freedom of white la
borers, Is fit subject of investigation, with a
view to repress the aggressive power in every
constitutional way.
The rights of the laborinp class involved in
this question have been betrayed by the repre-
sentatlves from the North and South in the in
/ terest of the shareholders, who have voted to
surrender the lands TO slave labor which wero
/ set apart to make freeholders, and enrich the
workingmen of both sections who own no slaves,
who should emigrate to them, cultivate and i'm
prove them with their own toll Here are two
great principles blended in the cause.-The one
impelling the vindication of the rights of labor
the other the chas,isement of those misguided
representatives who have violated the faith
, pledged between the two sections of the Union
to each other in their compact, and their own
faith as representatives In misrepresenting the
Will of their constituents in the repeating acts
and disobcying their instructions in reference
to them
Can there be any difficulty in uniting the
sign of delivering the masses from the oppres-
sions of the shareholders in the new Territories
and the tair, free, healthy regions of the Far
/ West from the blot of Slavery and the steriity
that attends its footsteps wherever it treads?-
There $4,000 slaveowners in the United
States they hold nearly four millions of slaves
there six milliCus of free white population
. In the Southern States who own no slaves, and
! there are twenty millions of free white popula-
ton in the North (allowing for the increase
since the last census.) Are the interests of those
twenty-six millions o. people in the vast re-
gions of the West to be blasted, TO administer
to the pride, to the ambition, to the false views
of interest III which the $4,000 slaveowners
would indulge themselves? In their arrogance
they stigmatze as Black Republicans those
who would make constellation of free, bright
republics, constituted of the white race alone
untarnished by slave of any color; their his
tory and their laws unblemshed by that word
Are they called black because they would re-
deem their white brethren of the South, by re-
serving to them ] refuge from the thraldonl
imposed on them by the negro slavery there
and which makes the master the oppressor oi
all beneath him. of whatever complexion? Are
they called black because they would resist the
slayeowner with his sword in his attempts to
expel from their homes the sons of the Free
States. who have already cast their lots in the
new lands TO which their fathers taught them
to look forward as their inheritence, under a
compromise Of thirty years standing.
This derogntory epithet is inappropriately ap-
piled to those who labor to build up Free
States composed of white men, to transfer the
odium of the black ittstittdiora from those VIII,
cling to it part of their republican system
1t is not proposed to touch the subject of Sla
very in the States where it exists, but to shut
the door upon it, and exclude it from Terrific
ries to which its approach has been forbidden.
The attempt will be made to persuade those
who would identify themselves with this cause
that there Is no necessity to make a sacrlhce o
minor differences to make Kansas Free State
that the proclamation of the President has
put down all danger of invasion-that Gen
A.chison and his banditti and armed allies from
the South have given up all idea Of foreible in
terferencc-that they mean to acquiesce IN tbs
pcaceable settlement of the question In favor o
that section which has shown that it can furnish
the greatest number Of emigrants, and this pa
cific attitude is to be held until after the Presl
Dental election If the Nullifers of the Soutl
shall then triumph in the election of a Presiden
nominated by them at Cincinnati, the usurpa
tion established by Atchison will be found IL
full activitv-its laws Introducing Slavery intt
the Territory and protecting it from reversal a
the ballot box, by the disfrapchisement Of the
settlers by test oaths, viii be enforced, and {
Constitution, framed by defeating the suffrage.
of the Free State settlers by disabilities viii