Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1860-10-04
When VIII He Resign i.

When VIII He Resign.
We would call the attention of Mr.. Dick, who has
been cutting such wide swarth candidate for cleo
tor on the Douglas ticket in North Carolina to the Sc
cond paragraph of the first section Article H. of the
Constitution of the United States which reads as fol-
lows -
"Each State shall appoint in such manner the Legs
AZURE thereof may direct number Of electors equal to the
whole number of Senators and which
State may be entitled in the Congress but Senator
Representative person holding office of trust profit
under the United States shall be appointed elector
Now, Mr.. Dick, while holding the Office of United
States District Attorney is candidate for the office of
eector and of course cannot be elected to that Office
until he resigns the one which he now holds under
President and administration which, in common with
Mr. Douglas he denounces as wholly Infamous. Now,
there no in law although there is every
in propriey for Mr. Dicks resignation for his position
as candidate for eector simply matter of FORM and
he stands just chance at all of election But why
don't he resign anyhow. Why hold Office under ad
ministraton he so abuses?
Walk up to the captains Office, Mr. Dick, or do you
want to hold Office under Lincoln?
ESy@ There is great deal of talk made about dsu-
Mon, and great many charges of this kind are hurled
against Mr.. Breckenridge and his supporters Let US
see what all this amounts to.
Are we disunionist because we say that without
the Observation-Disclosures mutual trust-without JUS
tce and equality-the Union would be mere rope OF
sand that could not and ought not to hold the States
together If we then is John Bell terrible disu-
nionist, for in speech delivered in 1850, he said -:
g. say give me separation give me dlsunion give
me anything in preference to union sustained only by
power by constitutional and legal ties without recipro
q RI L.
one of eternal discOrd of angry elimination and recrm
nation give me rather separation with all its conse
quences"
What did Mr.. Fillmore say in 1856, when he himsel
was candidate for the Presidency and Mr. Fremont
was the candidate of the Republicans? In a speech
made at Albany, he said
We see a political party presenting candidates fo
the Presidency and Vice-Presdency selected, for thu
first time from the free States alone, with the avowet
purpose of eecting these candidates by surages of
mart of the Union only to rule over the whole United
States Can it be possible that those who engaged
in such measure have serious reflected upon TIT
consequences which must inevitably f00aV in of
cess Can they have the madness the folly to be
leve that southern brethren would submit to b.
governed by such Chief Magistrate? = Sup
pose that the South having majority of the eectora
votes should declare, that they would have only slave
holders for President and VicePresident, and SHOULD
elect such by their exclusive suffrage to rule over
the North do you think yOu 9COutd SU0n1H 10 u NJ
NOT FOR A MOMENT. And do you believe tina
your southern brethren less sensitive this subec
than you are less jealous of their rights If you dc
let me tell you that you are mistaken ; and therefor
you must see that if this sectional party succeeds,
leads INEVITABLY TO THE DESTRUC TION
OF THIS BEAUTIFUL FABRIC, reared by on
forefathers &c. \ X tell you that aUe are treod
ang upon the brink Of vocano that is liable at an
moment to burst forth and OVERWHEL4M TIL
NATION"
At Rochester he was still more emphatic. Was, c
is Mr.. Fillmore disunionist? He then said
"Suppose the South was the most populous, the mos
wealthy and possessed the greatest number of electors
votes and that it should declare that for some fance
real injustice done at the North it would elect non
but President and VicePresdent of shareholders rol
the South to rule over the North. Do you think, fe
low-citzens, that you aUould submit to this injustice
No, truly you aVG::d not but universal cry of N
would rend the skies ! And can you suppose you
southern brethren less sensitive than yourselves or LEI
eaous of their rights Ii you do, let tell you thu
you much MISTAKEN and you must therefore percei
that the Of such party, with such an objec
MUST BE A DISSOLUTION OF THE UNION
Mr.. Douglas has used language equally strong, an
in fact has every statesman of any standing and al
pretentons to conservatism Common sense must teal
any person that mere Union OF compusion is no u
ion at all. Are we dsunionists because we state ia
because we agree with Fillmore, Bell, Douglas, Pere
Buchanan, Dickinson and nearly all the leading men
the country? But this has suddenly become treaso
dsunion, and we know not what else. That sort
talk is all the cant of electioneering.