Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1860-02-16

take our separate position In the family of na-
tons. These are my opinions. They have
always been my opinions. l have, been disun-
iOnist from, the time I could think"
al speak as a man-as private gentleman
AS a stakeholder and | tell you that our
hope is alone in the South and the only mode
of making that hope available, is for The South,
by some act, 10 effect dissolution Of tie Ameri-
can Union. Aud | say this that if John c.
Fremont is elected President of the United
States, our people onght to have sense enough
to know that the issue is upon them, and can
not be avoided"
II speak oD my individual responsibility ::
If Fremont be elected President Of the United
States, I am for the people IN their majesty ris-
ing ADORE The hlto and Leaders t1kiug The polcer
into keir oton hads going By concert or not By
concert, and Lyiag The strong arm Of southern
frecmcn upon the Treasury and archires Of the
g0rsrnment [Applause.l"
These emphatic avowalS of disunion were
appIauded by the people who had, by unaui
nous vote, sustained his action and commits
missioned him to speak for them in this Capt.
tol Well might the Charleston Mercury de-
clare, as it has, that
Upon The policy of dissolring the Union,
of SEPARATING The South from Ter northern enc
mics, and establishing southern confederacy,
parties, presses, politicians and people, tcere
unit There is not a single public man acithin
Ter limits, mt one Of Ter present representatives
or srnat0rs IN Congress, arhO IS mt pieGgcd 10
TIE lips In faror Of disuHion. Indeed, we well
remember that one of the most prominent lead,
ers of the co operation party, when taunted
with submission rebuked the thought by saying
TINT in opposing secession, he only t0ot STRIP
backward 10 strife more deadly blOso against
the UniOR.'"
Sir, the erratic, aspiring, clustering Wise,
who would introduce slavery into the heart
of the North" who "would allow slavery TO
pour itself out without restraint, and find no
limit hut the Southern Ocean," in the autumn
of 1856 told the people of Virginia that
"The South could not. without degradation,
submit to the election Of Black Republican
President To tell me | should submit to the
election of Black Republican, under crcum-
stances Ike these, is to tell me that Virginia
and the fourteen slave states are already sub
jugated and degraded [checrs that the south
ern people are without spirit, and without pur-
pose to defend the rights they know aud dare
not maintain. Cheers. If you submit to
the election of Fremont, yOu will prove what
Seward and Burlingame said to be true-that
the South caaGOt be kicked out Of the Union
He avowed his readiness put the military
force of Virginia upon a war footing and
he gave the valorOHS assurance TO bis diSunou
associates that :" the chivalry" Of Virginia
:" would hew its bright way through all oppos
ing legionS." RumOr said, and | believe truly,
that this democratic aspirant TO the Presidency
held correspondence with southern Governors,
to concert measures preparatory to dSuniOn
that lie and his disunon compeerS organized a
plot to seize the arsenal at Herper'S Ferry
to take possession Of the Navy Yard at Nor
folk, and naugurate rebellion, revolution and
dSuniOn, in the event Of Fremont'S success
The Washington correspondent of the New
Orleans Delta, journal high in the confidence
of the Pierce administration, wrote
"It is already arranged in the event Of
Fremout'S election, or a failure to elect by the
people, to call the legislatures of Virginia,
South Carolina and Georgia, to concert mea-
Sures to withdraw from the Union before Ere
mont can get possession of the army and navy
and the purse-strings of government. G0Uer-
nor U-ise IS aciirelyat a00rk aircady IN the mat
Ter THE South can rtiy on the President IN
the emergency contemplated The question now
is, whether the people of the South will sustain
their leaders"
Mr. Cory, of Ohio, reports Mr.. Banks, of
Virginia, as having sad to him, few days
after the election in 1856, that:
"The South would have dissolved the Tn,
ion if Fremont had been elected President OF
the United States that Governor Wise and
the Virginia leaders were ready to take the
Eeld-march on Washington dcpoSe the fed
eral officers, take the treasury, archives, build
ingS, grounds, &c.-declare the confederation
de fact0 overthrown. lie said the thing would
have been easy there were thirty thousand
men ready twenty thousand cavalry sets of
accOutrementS that the public mind was suf-
ficientlv excited to overcome all domestic re-
sistance, and that they could whip the North
in the fight"
This is the Mr. Banks who once edited
paper in Virginia, who avowed that he hated
free schools. and everything that was free-a
gentleman who was supported by the democ-
racy for Clerk Of the other House, and who
was connected with the public printing for the
last Congress.
Evidence of the disloyal, revolutionary, and
reasonable course of Henry A. Wise is also
furnished 10y Charles J. Faulkner, late repre-
sentative of the Harper's Ferry district, chair
man of the congressional democratic commit
tee in 1856, and now Minister to France. At
a democratic meeting recently held in Virginia
over which Mr.. Faulkner presided, he said
"Wheu that noble and gallant son of Vir-
ginia, Henry A. Wise declared, as was said he
did in October, 1885, that, if Fremont should
be elected, he would seize the national arsenal
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