Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1860-08-08
BELL AND EVERETT IN LANCASTER COUNTY.

BELL AND EVERETT IN LANCASTER COUNTY.
meeting Of the Constitutional Union Party" Of
Lancaster county held at Lancaster Court House Mon
day July 10TH being day, organized by call
ing Col Isaac Curre the Chair and appointing Z. T.
Dunaway Score airy. Messrs S. Gresham, b. H. Robin
son, R. Dunaway, and 7. N. Wyatt appointed BY the
Chair to draft resolutions reported through Mr. Gresham
their Chairman the following, which were unanimously
adopted: LIN
is Resolved That in the present aspect Of our nation
tona affairs Il becomes the duty ofeyery patriot TO sur
vey well the position of parties to ascertain by all the
means in his power which of all the parties into which
the country is divided, and the candidates repre-
senng those parties and seeking his support for the
highest Office in the gt Of the nation, will be most likely
TO preserve nvioate all the institutions OF the country
and render exact aud evenhanded justice 10 every Sec
ton Of the conederacy and in the approaching Presiden
tial election TO cast his vote for that candidate, who
from his anccedents his present position and the de-
cared intentions of himself and the party which he re-
presents can be most safely relied upon TO preserve
those institutions and render that even-handed justice
to every section.
3D. Resolved That in taking this survey Of parties we
see the Republican party which, while it claims TO be
national Is composed almost exclusively OF the people Of
the Northern States the basis OF whose organization is
avowed hostility to the institutions of the South and
hear them proclaim that between the institutions of the
Northern States and those OF the Southern States there
Is an rrepressibe conflict: that party thus organized
Is sectional and NATIONAL that instead of preserving
invioate all the institutions of the country and render
ing justice to every Section its is Ultimately, TO
destroy part Of those institutions and inhict the
grossest injustice upon section Of the conederacy
and that IL this party succeed in the approaching Presi
dental election its success will be death-bow to the
Consd ion Of the country aud the Union of the States
3d. Resolved That in taking this survey, the
Democratic party which has heretofore claimed to be
national disrupted and rent asunder and out of its fag
ments two sectional parties formed claiming, If not
10 DESTROY to cripple and restrict the peculiar institution
of theSouth and the other to support uphold and ex-
tend that institution that have seen this party meet
in convention nominate candidates for the Presidency
and Vice Presidency that We have seen the representa-
tyes of this party in that convention quarrel abuse and
vy each other and the sections from which each other
came; and finally have them divide and organ
ize distinct and separate conventions each protesting 10
be governed by principle and represent the entire par
ty and denouncing the oth1r dishonest and tubu
lent faction and spurious organization, and each nomina
ting candidates for those high Offices tina, we had be-.
lieyed the seeding convention honest In the principles
which they proessed but since the adjournment of those
conventions have the leaders OF that seeding
party proposing have but electoral ticket and TO
cast the vote of all the free people of Virginia and the
other States for the nominee of either OF those conventions
that may carry majority of those votesthu Disregard
ing the principles by which they proessed to be govern
ed in both the original and seeding conventions, and
showing that they actuated in their separa on not
byprncipe but by chico of men alone and that they
are willing in order succeed in the election and
the spos of Office TO disregard that separation and TO
vote for whom they have denounced as an enemy
aud traitor; and thus to aid him 10 Gripping and
srctiug the institution uphold and extend which they
protested to be actuaed in seeding from the original
convention Of the party forming another and nominating
a separate ticket.
4th Resolved That by this unfair and politically dis
honest proposition to gull and deceive the people after
the farce OF separation enacted at Charleston and Balt
more we have lost all confidence in the Democratic party
and support the candidates Of either section Of
that party.
oh RESOLVED, That the Constitutional Union Party
is least apparently anationa party that has nomina
ted for the offices OF President and icePresident able,
conservative aud national men, who profess to be will
ing administer the government if elected TO pre-
all the institutions OF the country, aud 10 render
full justice to every section that the antecedents Of
John Bell aud Edward Everett the nominees of that
party, prove them to be men whom can rely to do
all in their power 10 administer the government on con-
stutiona principles and with just regard to the inter-
es Of every section of the coniederacy and call
upon all men OF every party, who are disposed to make
last strong and vigorous effort to preserve the Con-
stution and Union Of these states as formed by the
fathers Of the Republic, and handed down to to rally
to their support and by electng tbem the Consti
tuition and the Union and rebuke sectonaism and pot
cal dishonesty, whether found in the other or
both Of the other great parties or in either or both Sec
tons Of the disrupted democratic party, which is now
trying 10 cheat the people by running as one party,
though composed Of two separate and distinct organi
zations with two separate aud antagonstc candidates
Pending the consideration Of the resolutions, Mr..
Gresham addressed the meeting in able and telling
speech advocating the claims OF Messrs. Bell and Eve
the Of the national and conservative OF
all parties and calling upon them to rally around the
nominees of the Constitutional Union party and thereby
rebuke seconalism and the Constitution and the
Union. He regarded this the last effort and If this
should fail there hopes OF the Union. He said
that Mess Bell and Everett represented the only nation
AL existence, When he concluded Col. IL. III.
Robinson on behalf Of the meeting, returned him the
thanks Of the PARTY.
On notion the proceedings Of the meeting or
dered to be the Richmond Wing for publication,
after which the meeting adjourned.
ISAAC CURRELL, Chm.