Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-05-01

Appointed at Pittsbure ,22d Of Feyraa: y, 1856.
We solicit your at;eniionto the cIll which
has preceded this paper. 1t is not only to
recommend to the people the immediate
selection of delegates tr"m the several
States, equal in number 20 three times the
representation in Congress to which each
State is entitled, to meet on the 18th OF
June, at Philadelphia, to present such indi-
viduals as they may deem hes; suited to up
hold the cause to which they are devoted as
candidates for the Presidency and Vice Pre-
sidency; but also to invite tie members OF
all parties who feel il to be the dominant
issue which should control. the election, to
meet at the same tine and place, 10 confer
with The ConYentieR "a SO The ue5t course to
crown their common wishes with success
One Of the parties which will be represented
at phiiadelphia has taken tie name of Re-
publican, because il was given to that found
tled By Mr.. jefferson, to embrace all who
love The Republic There is no Democrat
who does 20. love the Rcpatlr. There is
40 WING who does not love the RePub. bic
There is no American who does not love
the Republic. And we iondly hope there is
no naturalized citizen who does not love the
Republic.
But it is not so important that the great
movement which We desire 10 see success
fully ineugurateG shall be designated by any
particular nam, as that it shall be strong.
united and effective. Why may not all
those classes who are hostile to the intro
duction of Slavery into free territory: unite
at this crisis Of impending danger, to vote
for common ticket, which wi II be nom:na
ted 10 assert the grand principle of repres-
sing the extension of slaveholding monopo-
ly, and to vindicate the rights of the people
in all sections of the Union who labor with
their own handsl- ticket which win not
sgitate with view to detract from the rights
of the States to dispose of the subject with
in their limits, according TO their sovereign
will; yet its influence to destroy the freedom
of white laborers is fit subject of invesiga-
ton, with view 10 repress the aggressive
power in every constitutional way.
The rights of the laboring class involved
in this question have been betrayed by the
representatives from the Nor.h and South in
the interest of the shareholders, who have
voted TO surrender the lands to slave labo
which were Sc. apart to make freeho!der:
and enrich the workingmen of both sections
who own no slaves, who should emigrate t.
them, cultivate and improve th m with thei
own toll. Here are two great principle
blended in this cause.-the one impelling th
vindication of the rights of labor, the othe
the chastisement ofihose misguided repre<en
Iatives who shave violated the faith pledges
between the tive sections of the Union t,
each other in their compac t,& their own faitI
as representatives in disappearing he vii
of their constituents in the repeating acts. &
di:obsy ng theif instructions in reference t.
them.
Csn there lie any difficulty in uniting til,
men of all parties, who concur in the grea
design Of delivering the masses from the op
pressons of the Shareholders in the new
Territories, and the fair free. healthy regions
of the Far West from the blot Of Slavery ant
the s,erility that attends its footsteps wher
ever it treads! There are $4,000 slave
owners in the United States; they hold neari,
four millions of slaves. there are six million
of free white population in the Southern
States who own no slaves, and there ar
iwentv millions of free " hite population ::
Tie North (allowing Tor the increase sine
the last census.) Are the interests Of thes
twen!y-six millions in the vast regions U
the West TO be blasted, to administer to tn
pride, to the ambition, to the false view G
interest in which the 347, eco sl0veowner
would indulge themselves! In their AFRO
gance they stigmatize as black Republican
those who would make constellation O
free, bright republics, Constituted of tn
white race alonei untarnished bv Il slave O
any color; their history and their laws un
bIemished by that word. Are they Gale,
black because they would redeem theil
white brethren of the South, by reserving t,
them refuge from the thraldom imposed Oh
them by the negro slavery there, and whicl
makes the master the oppress r of all be
meath him, of whatever complexion! Ar
they called black because they would resis
the slayeowner with his sword in his a,
tempts to expel from their homes the sons @
the Free States who have already cast thei
lots in the new lands to which their father
taught them to look forward as their inher
tance, under compromise of more than thi
ty years standing!
This dcrogatory epithet is inappropriate
applied to those who labor to build up Fro
States composed of white men, to transf,
the odium of the Lqck Institution from thos
who cling to it as part OF their republica
system. 1t is not proposed to touch The sui
ject of Slavery in the States where it exist
bG; to shut the door upon it, and to exclut
it from Territories 10 which its approach b;
been forbidden.
The attempt will be made TO persuac
those who would identify themselves Wi
this cause, that there is no necessity
make a sacrifice of minor differences
make Kansas Free State-that the pr
clamation of the President has pu: down a
danger of invasions-that Gen. Atchisc
and his bandtti and armed allies from Il
South have given up all idea of fcrcible il
terferencr-that thev mean to acquiesce
the peaceable settlement of the question
favor Of that section which has showed tn
it can furnish the greatest number of EN-
grants, and this pacific attitude is to be he
until after the Presidential election.
nthe Nullifiers of the South shall thu
triumph IN the election of President non
mated by them at Cincinnati, the usurpati'
established by Atchison will be found in #
activiiy-;ts laws introducing Slavery in
tfe Territory and protecting it from revers
at the baliot-box by the d;slranchisement
the settlers by tesioathS: will be enforce
and contribution, framed by defeating II
suffrages of the Free State settlers by dis
bilities, will be adopted, ard the whole pr
ceeGiAg will be sustained by the militia
force of the United States, upon the prime
plea and under the authority of the Pre-.
dents proclamation.
Here! we might close our circula-;
may we not trespass upon the patience
those we address by exposing the work in
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