The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1857-03-19

u o0UJcCI ululSeA W IuG ueTClleSS6 VEN
geance of a mob. With these facts be-
lore the world, staring almost every man
IN the face, we are tauntingly told that
the Republican party is a sectional" !"
organization My own State (Maine J
which gave Fremont about thirty thou
sand majority, had delegates in the Gin
clnnatl Convention; and suppose the Re-
publlcans on their return had mobbed
them out of the State, and driven their
families out after them ; and then suppose
the supporters of Mr.. Buchanan, when
they carried their votes to the polls, had
been told that they could not deposit
them, and their only personal safety de-
pended on their flight from the State ;
and then suppose we had added insult to
injury by telling you that the Democratic
party was sectional" This is no fancy
sketch; for these ve,y things, only vice
versa, have been acted out, not in Maine,
but in Virginia.
But in what kind of condition is the
Democratic party to talk to us about
!" secionalism 2" The people of the
South were exhorted upon this floor and
all over the country, in the most earnest
and impressive manner, to come up to
the support of Buchanan as one num-
This was, notional.''a If similar ap-
peal was made by the Republican party
to the people of the North, that was
" sectional" Again, who elected Bu-
chanan President? Let one of your own
organs, the New Orleans Delta, of Nov.
%, 1856, answer. That paper says:
:: Mr.. Buchanan must remember that
he is President of a section !; that he has
been elected by the South; that the
North could afford him only four States
and that be must be true to his position,
or an arrant failure from the very begin
ning.'
Your own witness, more honest than
many who testify in relation to this mat
ter, says that Buchanan is President of a
&C section,' and that he was "elected by
the South" Because the North gave a
large majority of her electoral vote to Col
Fremont, that made the party supporting
him sc sectional :" and because the South
gave Mr.. Buchanan large majority o
her votes, that made his party ' national
What beautiful consistency there is be
tween the preaching and practice o
modern Democracy Let the countr,
Judge. e.~ S.
5. Another charge made by the Presi
dent against the Republican party is, tha
it is opposed to the "equality Of til
States E
In speaking ofthe Presidential election
he says:
"The people have asserted the consti
tutional equality of each and all of th
States of the United States as States. y
This idea of i" State equality" abou
which we have recently heard so much
like squatter sovereignty, is modern in
vention, and if its paternity can be tracel
back its inventor deserves a patent mad,
perpetual. The Democratic party, lik,
old Rip Van Winkle, after sleep of sew
enty years, seems to have walked up, AMI
made the wonderful discovery that ther
is an inequality in the States, and tha
the Southern States are the suffering par
ties. Il is not /" bleeding Kansas" bu
the old story of the " bleeding South
In order to settle this matter, it will b
necessary to revert to facts, post up tn
books, and see how the account stand
between the North and the South.
In the first place, under the Constitu
| ton, the South have representation
based upon property, in allowing three
ffths of all slaves to be counted Thi
right, which the North does not have
gives the South tUenty-sir members upol
this floor. a
In the Senate six millions of free white
in fifteen Slave States have thirty Sena
tors thirteen millions in the sixteen Ere,
States have only thirty-two. In th'
House of Representatives six million
South have ninety members, and thirteel
millions North have 144. The same ra
ito in the North as in the South woul'
give the North 1916 members, loss t.
the Free States of JSJty-one.
Take another view of this question 0
+" State inequality" as applied to th
election of President. Take FIVE South
ern States that gave Buchanan 2S.electo
raj votes, and FIVE Northern States tha
gave Fremont % electoral votes
SOUTH.
| States. Total vote. Electoral vote
Arkansas, @ ?2,724
Delaware, 14,484 3
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