Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-09-05


.,p-pisrs of the administration of Franklin
p,or. the arm of the nations defence is paralJ zed,
the a,g Of the country is threatened to be hauled
do,o nd the national standard of the country low
cred in the ewes of the world, all under the plea that
+lo ,orp and faithful Executive of the country can
mi he trusted in the exercise of his constitutional
powers He cannot be trusted to maintain the laws
and the constitution which he has sworn 10 protect
he must be shackIed by an unconstitutional, aboI-
zionist provso subvesve of law and VloatiVe OF his
oath and his conscience.
WbiIp this is the case-while the fanatics of the
North pursue the President with the most bitter per-
sonal haired, and in striking at him, strike al
the constitution of the country, and the very eNls-
tence of the Union, it is painful to ind that SO
MANY presses and partizans at the Nouth IN
lrlgo in the biterest invectives against that Of
Ger and the party by which he is sustained 1t
IS nainfll to look back but few years, nay, even
months and mark the shouts Of rejoicing raised by
the opposition at the South over those victories at
rbe North by which the party which now sustains
the President and the Constitution was mainly pros
trated, and the Abolition majority brought into Con-
press. under the cloak of Know Nothingism. Ere,
n,ontism and FilImoresm are only the offspring of
This movements this combined hatred of the President
pearance, and Southern men may be, and we know
some Of mem are honestly deceived by the apparent
difference but the motives of the originators and hid
1nn wireworkers are the same. The platforms OF
both denounce the as.Nebraska act, by which
alone the South restored her equality in the ter
ritories and in the same connection denounCe the
President, in the very spirit that prompts the tacouS
majority in the House. who refuse supplies for the
Governments unaccompanied by violation of the
Constitution.
We turn to Congress, and find the state OF things
racbanred The House still adheres to lis reVolu
onary proviso the Senate is still firm in its posi-
+, on-ong may it continue so. 1t is better to haV
no Union at all than Union without constitution
We notice that on Thursday Mr. Crittenden intro
duced bill TO alter and amend the Act of Congress
entitled u An act TO organize The Territories of Ne
braska and Kansas approved May 30th, 1854. MI
Crttendens bill abolshes the territorial Legislator
and does away with all popular elections IN the tel
ritores vesiing all their powers in the Governor an
Judges to be appointed for said territories, who sha
make all regulations for the governm ent thereof sal
regulations or laws be transmitted by the Secre
tarv of the Territory the President of the Unite
States in order that they may be laid before Cor
gress for approval OF disapproval It's effect bring
back the whole question Of slavery in the terrtorle
20 Congress- from the halls of which it has been n
I'm of all patriotic statesmen to exclude it. The Al
econ of MIR C'S bill provides, that all prosecution
or indictments tor other offences OF a mer
,o}i, cal character, depending in any of tt
at. OF K: ~zos, shall and be dismissed, al
nutvr, p,r~,n who may, at the passage of tn
j. rcd or h. custody rnder sue
wi h d., ha'e'd Mr. Critte
,u,,. e. an ""grt OF il" ne pissed
b. re = ~',Il search va
IL w Nothing . Anne
.um c Cast az ms he le'
The House Every Den
Is i, at lis post, where every : u re
BE-
teIie TO the dark picture plesene
= found in the fact, that the true N
ralyng in their strength, and adv:
DIS against the degr ded debauct
l. bandoned hordes If Lane falls il
the Ia DIS of some, al least, of those going agai
him. he will hang as Hannah, or at least high enou
I strangle the feon breath out OF his polluted c
cass But we fear that he will make his ESQ.,
rom the point of danger as did his great protoy
+ remont or rather Pryor, for it turns out that