The Washington union., 1857-05-06
MR.. DAVID wILMoT AND HIS LETTER.

The black repuDNcanB OF FennByIyanIa nave nOinl-
mated as our readers aware Mr.. David Wimot
of provso notoriety as their candidate for COVER
nor. Mr. Wilmot has written letter accepting the
nomination. which letter has already been extensive
ly published in many of the free States. 1t occu-
pies over one column of the New York Evening Post,
and, with tho exception of two brief paragraphs, it
is wholly occupied with the slavery question and its
direct and collateral issues There are in the State
of Pennsylvania some two millions Of whites, and .
few thousand blacks and yet Mr.. David Wimot,
who seeks to become tho chief magistrate Of this
great Commonwealth has not word to say in behalf
of the interests prosperity and happiness ofthe
whelming majority Of the people ofhs own color not
word about agriculture, commerce, manufactures,
those prodigious mineral deposites which have made
Pennsylvania one of the marves of the world /; not
whisper as to his views on banking, public educa
ton, and internal improvements; not hint to his
convictions of duty in regard to those great ques
tions in which his fellow citizens have such large
interest in their early and safe solution The letter
might with propriety have come from some insane
negro worshipper on the of starting for Kansas
under the auspices of the New England Emigrant
Aid Society, or it might have been issued twelve
month ago by Jim Lane, with the certainty of pro-
ducing lively impression among the shrickers; bnt
coming as it does from individual who PROCESSES
to be a Pennsylvania, and who is now seeking the
sufrages of his felow-citizens for the highest Office
in their gift, it is mockery and an insult.
1t is with such stuff and Misrepresentation as the
following-we quote from tho letter-that Mr.. Will
mot and his blackrepublican friends are about to
make an issue with the democracy Of Pennsylvania:
We speak of quiet being restored Kansas because
armed bands of lalcss do not to-day nfest her high
ways and punder her peopebecause her towns are
sacked and the cabins of her settlers IN flames This
minute that the people of Kansas make vigorous effort
to their rights Of which they have been faudu
lently and violently deprived The purpose OF her
savement is nexorably pushed forward system of in
genously devised fraud kindred to that employed in the
usupation under which she groan is being carried
out for the consummaon of this great wrong To this
end also the power of the federal government is basey
prosuted We given Oords of fairness but persist
in support Of the wrong Every appointcc of the
President in Kansas is active worker in the scheme
Of hor ensiavcmcnt.' y Is,
Mr. Wilmot has net the Indifferent merit of origi-
nality In the nse of denpnciatory statempnis The
quntuple alliance Of New York have for weeks and
months used precisely such language the above,
and yet within few days of its most noted mem
bers has had the candor to make the following con-
fegsiopl
II seems that the emgTant companies that were got
up for the purpose Of escg Ksas out Of tho hands Of
the border iaps turning out to be speculative
enterprises for operations in real estate When the first
excitement about Kansas began number OF shrewd
bought up great tracts of land laid out villages and towns