The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-09-26
OLD LINE WING NATIONAL CON.
VENTTON.

by the election Of Hon. Edward j. Bates, oil
Missouri, President, and appointing twenty.
one Vice Presidents. Among the delegates
we notice the names of WIN. C. Rives, Of
Virginia, John Bell, of Tennessee, Washing.
ton Hunt and Granger, of New York, Graham
and the Moreheads, of North Carolina, and
many others of the most talented, dis
tinguisbed and best men Of the nation. As
was to be expected from the character of the
delegates and the high purpose for which
they had assembled, the entire proceedings oil
the Convention were harmonious, and free
from the unpleasant scenes and excitements
usually attending the si,iings of bodies rep
resenting the different sections of the Union.
Called together by the dangers which sec.
tionalism has brought upon the government,
the delegates, representing the great conserva-
tive element of the country, and fully impress
ed with the responsibility resting upon them,
seem TO have been uctuated by one single pur.
pose-a desire to avert the threatened pers,
Danish discord, and restore peace and quiet
to the public mind. And right nobly have
they met the responsibility and discharged
their duty. After full, fair, candid and hon.
est investigation of the position of the par,
ties and candidates now before the county,
of the condition of public affairs, and the
evils which environ us, this Old Line Wig
Convention declared unanimously for NIL.
LARD FILLMORE and unanimously recon-
mend him TO the eOuntry-not because he is
Wing, nor because he had been brought for.
ward by another party, but because they look
to him MS well tried and faithful friend Of
the Constitution and the Union, eminent
alike for his wisdom and iirmness, for his de-
votion to the Constitution in its true spirit,
and inilexibility in executing the laws, and
beyond all these attributes, in possessing the
one transcendent merit Of being reprcsen.
tativc of neither of the two sectional parties
now struggling for political supremacy.
We look upon the determination of the
Old Line Wings of the Union to support Mr.
Fillmore, as indicated by the action of their
representatives nj Baltimore, as largely en-.
HANGING his chances of success, if il does not
virtually settle the election. As the well in.
formed and candid men of the democratic
purity nre beginning to despair of Mr.. Buch.
anan's election by the people, we are con.
strained to believe that the South-the hon.
est voters of the South who look upon dis.
union with horror-under the dictates of in
terest and selfpreservation, will yet rally on
Mr.. Fillmore and secure his election beyond
the possibility of doubt.
The following resolutions were unan
mously adopted by the Convention:
RESOLVED, That the Wings of the United
States now here assembled, hereby declare
their reverence for the Constitution of the
United States; their unalterable attachment
to the National Union, and fixed determine
ton to do all in their power to preserve them
for themselves and their posterity. They have
no new principles to announce; no new plat
form to establish; but are content to broadly
rest-where their forefathers rested-upon
the Constitution Of the United States, wishing
no safer guide, no higher law.
Resolved That we regard with the deepest
interest and anxiety the present disordered
condition Of our national affiirs-a portion of
the country ravaged by civil war, large sec.
tons of our population embittered BY mutual
recriminalons; and we distinctly trace these
to the culpube neglect of duty BY
the present national administration.
Resolred, That the Government of the
United States was formed by the conjunction
in political unity of widespread geographical
sections, materially differing, not only in eli. |
mate and products, but in social and domestic
institutions; and that any cause which shall |
permanently array these sections in political |
hostility and organized parties founded only
on geographical distinctions, must inevitably |
prove fatal to a continuance of the National |
Union.
RESOLVED, That the Wings of the United
STATES declare MS n fundamental article of
political faith, nm absolute necessity for avoid. |
ing geographical parties. The danger so
clearly discerned by the Father othis Couniry
has now become fcarfully apparent in the |
agitation now CONFUSING the nation, and must
be arrested at once if we would preserve our
Constitution and our Union from dismcmber.
ment, and the name of America from being
blo!ted out from the family of civilized ma.
tons.
Resolred, That all who revere the Consti.
tuition and the Union must look with alarm
at the parties in the field in the present Presi.
dental campaign-One claiming only to rep.
resent sixteen Northern Stutps and Tho o,bar