The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-02-03
From the Ner Hampshire Patriot.
Speech Of Hon. y. 8. Wells

At Exeter, NoU 20H. at the brilliant celebra-
ton Of our recent National Iictory in be-
half Of the Constitution and The Union.
FELLOW CITIZENS You have come to-
gether upon this occasion to manifest your
feelings and sentiments upon the election
of Mr.. Buchanan to the presidency. The
roaring cannon, the joy and qualification
exhibited in all your faces, the brilliant
scene which we have this evening witness
ed, and the wild hurrahs which have but
Just subsidized, demonstrate the deep sin
cerity of joy with which the confrmatory
evidence of the election of that eminent
statesman has filled each trobbing heart be-
fore me. All this is right. We have re-
ioiccd before, and felt deeply grateful, that
success had crowned the efforts of the dem
ocratic party but never have we had oc-
casion for such deep-felt gratitude as this
election warrants. Our countrymen re-
ioiced when the soldiers of King George
piled their surrendered arms at Yorktown.
They again re;oiced when the great exper-
iment of II free representative government
fairly started, based upon written cOnsti-
tuition. They have since often eXulted over
political successes, and national triumphs
upon the field of strife, but never until
now have any portion of our citizens had
occasion to rejoice over PROSTATE party
which denied the binding obligations of the
constitution, and cursed the covenant of
fathers.
Little did the men who came out from
the smoke OF the revolution anticipate that
before the last funeral march should be
beat, and the final volley fired over the
grave of the last OF that noble band, po-
litical party of sufficient number to excite
apprehension would arise to disregard the
last appeal of Washington, and attempt to
array one section of this glorious Union
against the other; a party under the lead
of men who would dare to Genounce the
American constitution. and to free them
solves frcnt its binding influence, ferocious-
ly turn upon citizens of another section and
fiendishly proclaim that "they looked for
ward TO the day when there shall be servile
insurrection in the South when the black
men, armed with British bayonets and led
on by British officers, shall assert his free
dom and wage q war of determination
against his master; when the torch of the
ties of the South, and blot out the last vest
ige of slavery - and that ''they would hail
such an event as the dawn of political
millennium - and who further madly ''re-
ioiced that they beheld the day of the for
nation Of sectional parties distinctly north
ern and southern :" the consequence of
which, if successful, would most manifestly
in the end produce a dissolution of the
American Union.
Four weeks ago, party under the lead
of men holding such Internal sentiments as
| have repeated, stood up all over the north
ern States, and confidently proclaimed the
certainty of their success, and the absolute
prostration of the democratic party. But,
thanks to the glorious democracy of the
keystone State all honor to the true men
of Illinois thrice glorious freemen of 1ndi-
ana and lasting gratitude to the sons of
New Jersey! who have proved true to the
constitution, faithful to the principles which
underlie the American Union, and, spurn-
ing all false and unsound appeals. have
maintained the true national position, by
standing firmly and rcsolutely with our
brethren of the South in preserving the uni
ty of the States.
Let us loudly rejoice over this glorous
and mighty result, and send forth our warm
and affectionate greetings south and west to
those who have thus rescued the Union from
destruction, and sent forward to future
generations the enjoyment of those political
and social blessings which cost SO much of
the best blood of the heroes of the reYolu-