Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-08-26
yat,opa, WING Convention.

The time for the meeting Of the National Wing
Convention is drawing near. and the probabilities
now are that ii will be largely attended. The
Northern Wings have at length fairly put their
shoulders 10 the wheel, and now appeal To the
Wings of the South to CO operate with them
in the election of Willard Fillmore Let our
friends OF the North do their duty, aud they will
find no reason In complain of ukewarmness on
this side of Mason and Dixon's line. The dele.
gates chosen or about TO be chosen, IN the various
States North South, East, and West oi Us 10
meet in National Convention in Baltimore Oh the
18th of September next, says Tie Pdffiof oI 'n"'
city, will receive hearty reception aud hosplth.
BILE welcome. In the meantime The higs oi tue
State asp not i,Ue FaH Of confidence IN the JUS.
,ioe af tbeir cause. thoroughly impressed with
the necessity of Mr.. Fillmore's election, ehcered
bv constant aceessons 10 their ranks, aud re
lieved rather than damaged. by the few defec
tons which have been ostentalionsy raradcd
abroad they only ask that equal zeai shall be ds.
plsyed bv their friends elsewhere The charnc
ter Of the delegates already chosen to The Nation
al Wing Convention is the best evidence If the
nationality of ,hosehy whom they are sent.
They are neither fanatics nor dcmagoguc,. but
the firm and consistent opponents "f both. lh"y
believe in the prosperity which springs from Fed
cral Union, and are sensitive Ia thu evils which
must result from elevating 10 the Chief Magi9.
tracy sectional candidate, whether that candi
date is the exponent of public opinion al the ex.
treme North or the extreme South They know
full well, that "a house divided against Itself
cannot stand" and therefore 1t IL that, animated
hy a uober feeling than that which springs from
lecal ties. they are ready 10 ahiurc all minor dit
ferences in view of the greater questions at Is
sue-whether We shall have II conservative gov
ernment'w which will restore harmony between the
States. OF whether we shall suffer one section of
the country 10 dominate over the other, and
and thus aggravate the fierce quarrel which now
threatens the Republic with dsintegraton.-
What true laver ofhis country can hesitate which
side he will take under such circumstances
ANOTHER RESPONSE TO SENATOR'S PEARcEA Nb
PRArr.-The Frankfort, Kentucky Com
wealth. in classifying Fremont's most efficient
auxilliures, says:
IL Fremont shall be- elected President nf the
United States in November next, Senators pcarce.
Pratt Jones, and few other prominent "Od
Lane Wings" who have recently announced that
they shall vote for Buchanan account of the
slavery question, will have the satisfaction ol
knowing that they have contributed more to that
Free roll triumph than any equal number of Nor
thern advocates of the Free soil candidate. All
that is needed To unite great majority of the pea.
pie of every Northern State upon Fremont, is the
conviction that the South is united upon Mr.
buchanan on account of the slavery question
and Messrs. Pearoe, Pratt and Jones are helping
the Fremont orators and journals TO Arguments
te produce the conviction. Let tho North once
believe that the South regards the race
tonal, and that her citizens Of all parties are un-
iting upon candidate supposed 10 be favorable
to Southern interests and hostile to Northern in.
terests and feelings, and from the moment this
belief becomes settled in the Northern mind, Ere
monts election is certain AS death itself Mes
srs. Pearoe, Pratt, Jones x Co, have done their
best TO inix that belief in their mind, and we have
not the least hesitation in ayowing il ny our firm
conviction that in the last three weeks. they
have aided Fromonts cause more than any five
hundred Freesol editors or orators of the North.