The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1858-07-27
Chr WGstern gRmurrat.
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
HENRY W. MILLER, ESQ.

take position with the democratic party. Dir Mil
Ter was admitted by all to be the ablcst man in the
wing party of North Carolina, and we want our
readers to sec the reasons which have caused him
to act with the democrats and then say if he is not
entirely justified in his course. A correspondent
of the Standard gives the following synopsis of Mr.
Miller's speech in Johnston county the 18th
instant.
"On Saturday large crowd assembled at Clay
ton Johnston county, to hear speech from h. w.
Miller, Esq, of Raleigh. After few preliminary
remarks, Mr. Nj. proceeded to give the reasons
which induced him to take the position for MIR
Buchanan's administration, and with the Demo
cratic party The election of Fremont was defeat
ed by the strength of the Democratic party at the
North-every other party organization in that sec
ton was driven from the field by the Black Re-
publcans. All men at the South, who were true
to the Constitution and our own rights, were will
ing to unite to defeat Fremont; and when it
seen that the Democratic party, under the lead of
Dir Buchanan, had defeated him, and that the
Fillmore party at the North had proved poweress,
every Just man at the South declared his determin-
alton to give Mr. Buchanan a fair trial Has he
not been true to the Constitution? The senti-
ments contained in his inaugural in his message,
in his rcbuke to the fanatical clergy of New Eng
land, in his LecOmptOn message, meet the almost
unafimUus approval of the South. Nearly all his
friends in Congress stood firmly by rights i'll
the Kansas difficulties. 1t is well known that SO
soon as the last Presidential election over the
Black Republicans issued their manifesto from
Washington city, denouncing the Democratic par
ty-dcciaring war to the knife against it-pro-
claiming that it was linked with and under the
troll Of the slave power that their organization,
upon the principles of nveterate hostility to slave
ry, should never be abandoned; that they would
yet triumph, and put down the slave power Of the
South. Nor Was this all Many other facts ex-
listed Who had stood by US in time past? Look
at the vote on the Fugitive Slave law, only three
Wings from the North supporting it 1t would
never have been a law but for the Democrats of
the North and SO, tOo in the adoption of the Kan
sas-N cbraska bill, (regarded southern mcasure,)
nearly all the Democrats of the North voted for it,
but not u single vote did it get from the Wings
and Americans OF that section. On the motion
(made by Whig) to repeal the Fugitive Slave
law in 1854, out of forty-fve votes in its favor
hity-eight arere Wings! During the tendency
of the LccOmpton Constitution before Congress-
elections took place in several of the northern
States, in all of which there a coalition of the
Americans and Black Republicans to defeat the
administration and its party, and leading American
papers i'll that section proclaimed that, chad they
supposed that Mr. Buchanan would take the posi-
tiOa he had taken the subject of slavery, they
would have insisted the friends Of Fillmore 90
ing to Fremont and securing his election"
That they now bargaining and uniting with
the Black Republicans, there can be no earthly
doubt. Their leading papers boast of the coali-
tion. Will not such facts open the eyes of the
Southern people
Again. In 1852 there were but two candidates
for the Presidency, Scott and Pierce. The former
(Whig) got OPP 600, and the latter (DemOcrat)
100000 votes at the North in the free States.
In 1885, Fremont got $50 900, Buchanan ,224
600, and Fillmore only $4,000. The great mass
Of the Wings there ot' 1852 pent orer an 1856 to
Fremont! The Wing party at the North became
abolitionzcd The fact is clear. But see further. |
Buchanan carried every southern State but one,
and five northern States. He had a ticket in eve
ny State in the Union and of the free States there
was not one in which his friends did not fight |
bravcly against the Black Republican hosts. In
seven free States Fillmore had virtually ticket.
In eight of those States, polling upwards of half
million of votes, he did not get more than 10000
not as many as the little State of Delaware can
cast Which then, asked Mr. NJ, was the matto1,-
al party? Mr. Buchanan received nearly two mil +
lion of the popular vote-had ticket in every
State-carricd enough, by majority over all, to
elect him-got over twice many of the popular
vote as Fillmore, and sixteen times many of the
electoral college. Who, then, represented the |
mGtion0k party? The last election proved conclu-
siYey that the South can look to other party |
at the North, than the Democratic party, aided by
few patriotic Wings who have joined them, to
withstand the sweeping tide of Black Republican
ism. Will the South strike down its own friends |
in that section?
1t is impossible, said Mr. NJ, to suppress the agi
tation Of the slavery question 1t had been tried
by the best men of the country-by the Conven- |
tions of both the Wings and Democratic parties in
1S52-by resolutions in Congress-by solemn
pledges of leading men-but it would break out |
The reason is evident There are two antagonisms
in the country-a determination to clestroy slavery
on the one hand, and an equally resolute determine
alton to PrOtcct and extend it on the other. So |
long fanaticism makes the attack, so long will
the Law Of self preservation induce defense. And
does any man believe that fanaticsm will ever
its warfare? 1t is folly, madness to suppose
So Against the acquisition of any slave ter
ritory, and the admission of any slave States
into the Union, the Black Republican party has |
declared unceasing warfare. 4! their poticy is |
carried ont, az lcW end IN the ruin Of tie South
tie dissolution Of tie Lni"n. The alternative |
will be forced upon u.s. Seventy years hence there
will be upwards of thirty millions of slaves in the
South, and with that policy and fanatical spirit
pressing upon from the North, what will be the |
iueEitablc consequence? 1t will be impossible to |
preserve the Union, unless we sustain, support, en-
courage and stand firmly by that party at the North
which is battling for the Constitution and the
mo Of n1r RIGHTS uDdor