M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-09-02

publican party are indignant at the
.nomination of Tom Corwin. Many
of them repudiate him, and threaten
to defeat him with a candidate who
will adhere to the Republican doctrine
of "no more slave States" We find
in tie Washington (Fayette Coy Reg
lister, a communication signed by "H.
G. Stewart, one of the Republican
Cen. Com" Of that county. Mr.. S.
declares that Corwin was nominated
through fraud. We give few para
graphs of Mr.. S.'s letter. He says:
1t IS passing strange that Republi-
cans, or men protesting to be such,
should stultify themselves so much as
to take up a man not on the Republi-
can platform, and one who repudiated
the principal plank in it, by saying, at
Washington, that "if there was a
plank in the Republican platform not
in the good old Wing platform, he
was not on it." Mr.. Corwin well
knew that "No Slave Territory-No
more Slave States" was not to be
found IN the Wing platform Of Phila'
Idelphia, while it was in the one of the
Republicans. He said the above al.
ter Mr.. Harlan, in his speech, had
declared that, "being elected, as he
was, by Republicans, with the motto
of "No more Slave States" he could
not, while a member Of Congress, vote
for the admission Of any more Slave
States; and if required to do so while
that plank remained, he (Harlan)
would take down his flag, and himself
with it,"
On the other hand, Mr., Corwin
said: "lf he were a member Of Con-
gress, and a new State presented it.
self for admission into the Union,
having no other objection but a slave
constitution, he (Corwln) would vote
for it-he was conStituti0naUy bound
to vote for it." Now, which of the
above men should Republicans sup.
port, to prevent an extension OF sla.
veryl
can see no difference between the
position of Mr., Corwin and the Doug
lass Democrats.
Again, he says:
The standard of the Republican
party has been manfuliy sustained by
Mr.. Harlan, and in changing our vote
from him to Mr.. Corwin, we virtual.
ly repudiate our platform and adopt
the dilapidated platform which rup.
tured the Wing party.
Shall we stick to our platform and
repudiate the nomination of Thomas
Corwin, which was effected by fraud
in Fayette county, and get mp can
didate possessing Republican princi-
plesl or shall we quietly submit to the
trickery, and let the Democrats and
Fillmore or Corwin men fight it out ?
Let us consult together and determine
on some course.
The Republican party was looked
to to redeem the country from the curse
of slavery extension. She reared a
standard proclaiming "No more Slave
States" and invited all parties to
unite their energies to stop the evil.
Shall we abandon our vantage ground
and give up our platform, and return
to the Old, rotten and corrupt one
which we were compelled to leaveG
We Of Fayette are determined, if
the other counties Of the district will
not unite with us in getting mp can.
didate who will step squarely, man.
fully and without ffinchiDg, or the Re-
publican platform, that we will suffer
defeat before we will support Thomas
Corwin.
"No more Slave States!" that is the
"rugged issue" doctrine, and unless
the Republican party stand up to it,
its disintegration and death are newt
able.
Van Vorhes is "rugged issue"
man-in fact, his negro principles are
rather ultra; so much so that the Alb
olition convention which nominated
Lewis for Governor, few years ago,
nominated, also, N. II. Van Worries
for Secretary of State. He is diamet-
rically opposed to Corwin, brother
for Congress, on a cardinal
principle. "Behold, how good and
how pleasant it is, for brethren to
dwell together in unity"
What the Statesman Thinks of
Van Worries.