Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1860-03-08
MIR. NfcClernand, of Illinois.


unsusained by any evidence have been made to react
on those Southern gentlemen who supported him.. we
have therefore put Ousef to some trouble TO ascertain
the correctness OF these charges. Mr. McCernand hao
been Congress before and fortunately has lett re-
cord to which appeal be taken with the utmost safe
tv. This we have DONE and must be allowed to say
that SO far from holding Col. Ashmore culpaDie, we
contend that he merits appreciation In anotner column
will be found extract from the proceedings OF Con
gress in which remarks made anterior to the election OF
speaker by Mr.. Nc Cernand and Mr. Logan, both Dem
ocratic members from Illinois Let them be read as an
answer to the charge of freesoism. He there broad
ly and distinctly avowed his readiness to protect sla
very wherever it exists whether in State or Ter
ritOry. If Territorial Government pass laws re-
cognising the institution, then he is willing that
Congress shall inteIpose to protect it from robbery
and violence If Territorial Legislature pass laws
prohibiting slavery, then he and the entire Demo
cratic party of Illinois declare their readiness to abide
the result of an appeal to the judicial tribunal They
SO declare plainly and explicitly in their recent Now,
when we remember that argue aud theorze we please
the popular sentiment will regulate this whole question
this sentiment will be formed by the people who to emf
crate the new terrtory-and that the character OF
that people will be determined by the soil and eli
mate of the territory, any one say that this
solution OF the question is reesoism? No matter what
may be the platform laid down at Charleston, it cannot
prohibit an appeal to the judicial tribunal to that COM
plexion it will come-tbat tribunal will decide it. The
party might go into power upon the most extreme and
conrve yet the question would be still open for u-
dicial adjudication. No party platform tOrestall
that appeal Does the declaration, then, which is con-
tanned in the remarks of Mr.. McClernand, Indicate any
OF that deadly hostility to slavery which animates free
soers Does it breathe that spirit of rapacty, which
would exclude the South from all the Territories? In
1949, when he in the House. he voted against the
Wmot proviso. We submit to the candOr of readers,
whether the difference existing between Southern men
and the Northwestern Democrats is such to bring
tho nd d0tiO WhI
some Southern and journals heap upon Them We do
not ask whether it be polite, but generous does 1t IN
dictate the sympathy which the brave should win from the
brave that men, who, In way connected with slave
ry but who have fought against this antlslavery ntl-
ment who have encountered it its very cltades met
face face in every nonsavehoding State, and in pO
tical conflicts iercer than ragged before tried to
ste it's anatcal spirit before it could get abroad its
mission OF mischief is 1t generous that such men should
be abused at the South? Should not freesoilism and
abotionism be allowed the monopoly in abuse OF such
men, and such man as Mr.. Netherlands record shows
him to be.
He is charged also with being protective man. Has
any proof been given of the charge? Our readers will
be surprised after the positive charge preferred against
him, to know that he, while member of Congress,
l848 made the following declaration Whatever, sir
may be the policy of other nations that of the United
States consists preeminenty in tree trade Experience
not only bears testimony to this great TRUTH but God
himself has stamped it with Omn potent hand IN the
y,
dverses of soil and climate its superior adaptation to
the production of breadstuffs and cottOn-the great
staples for feeding and clothing mankind-which, In
hands, must eventually secure us the control of the COM
mCrce and exchanges OF the world" In the same re-
Marks he denounced the tariff of 1912, as oppressive
and unjust" He said, with emphasis, " once tawdry
wealth overcame honest toll but justice and the demo-
craCy OF numbers finally triumphed and the black Ia
riff OF 1872 replaced by the revenue tariff of 1876
Happy, glorious result the emancipation of labor from
the bonds of capital second Declaration of Indepen
dence! The grand and instructive event should ever
stand a light and guide for the future
He is again charged with being an internal improve
ment. No proof OF course, G ven. But during bis
brief career III Congress- be is not without record
He then sustained President Polk in his veto of mea
for giving aid to improving the rivers and harbOrs
in the Northwest He opposed the measures on the
ground that they nrnged upon the rights of the States
and because of the immense increase of patt which
they gave to the Federal Government. He moreover
opposed the distribution of the proceeds Of the sales Of
the public lands among the States. Distribution he
said is the entering wedge of high restrictive tariff
After such an exhibition of Mr.. McClernand's record
can any Southern man with proprlety or reason deem
Col. AslmOre deserving OF Censure? Does he not rath
merit expression of appreciation, for his independ
in boldly standing out from among the delegates
from South Carolina, and daring to do Justice to
honest defender and supporter of the Constitution?
Mr. McClernand be not deserving of the denunciaton
he has received his record will show, any
De why he nave Deen DIS
he leper-Or why he should be msrepreSented
We may do injustice but when innocent is
bounded it would be well that suspicion should be
the alert to discern the Let be vgilan lest
this be but part OF a scheme to drive OFT the North
Democrats to the bonds that hold the party
together and after its disruption commit the South
to purely sectional organization, through which
extreme man, perhaps from South Carolina perhaps
from Alabama, may be put in nomination, and run the
slender chance of an election in the House. even though
the venture increase the prospects OF the Black Repub
llCan candidate. Politicians out of party well
those in it fair objects of popular scrutiny. They
are men-Watch them South Carolinadn
DEATH OF HOWARD H. CALDwE1L-We regret to
the death of Howard II. Caldwell, of this
place. He for some time has been in very low con-
dtion, and his restoration to the funess of health de-
SPARED Of On Tuesday afternoon, his earthly career,
brief but full Of promise in literary achievements
brought to a sad termination. Mr.. Caldwell has long
been known one of the young and ardent devoees of
the poetic muse. Her inspiration be wooed not in vain
His verses have been published in neat little book
form; among them will be found that breathe the
pure and genuine emotions of the ncywnged vstant
of the imaginative world. He entered the South Caro-
lima College in l949 While there he gave many mani
festatiOns of the poetic tendency of his mind. Mr.
Caldwell leaves wife, child and large number of
relatives aud friends to lament his death The notice
another column announces that the obsequies will be
solemnized at 10 o'clock, this morning.
Columbia South Carotinian, 23rd inst.
A MAGNIFICENT FLAG-The splendid military COM
pany, the Wilmington Light Infantry of Wilmington, N
e., have, through Maj. Geo. W. Talbot, of tie Balt
more Military, contracted with E. A. Gibbs of this CT
ty, for magnificent company flag, present from the
ladies of Wilmington. On one side is to be an eagle
from the beak Of which appears Meckenburg, 10th
May 1875 !" below, " Wilmington Light Infantry, in
corporated 1853 God protect the right On the other
SIDE the Goat of Arms of North Carolina surmounted
by stars On the top Of the flagstaff is to be metai
eagle of gold, fre-gded, Col. Lilly is making sp :.
did flag belt of the finest material. The whole, when
finished will be the most splendid affair ever gotten up
in this city, the cost of which will be over one hundred