The Ripley advertiser. [volume] (Ripley, Miss.) 1843-1897, 1860-02-22
The National Union Convention


We take the following gratiiyin.
paragraph from the Washington cor
respondence of the New York EN
press.
The National Union Convention
will probably be held about the lst o
June al Philadelphia whence it vii
promulgate a new Declaration Of In.
dependence on all disunionists, whe,h-
er overt, or covert, and Indignantly
frown on all attempts to array one
section of the Union against the oiher
1t will also present, beyond doubt
as candidates for the Presidency and
Vice Presidency the names of men not
unworthy to be the successors ol
Madison, Monroe, Adams, Harrison,
and Fillmore. Less than this will not
be tolerated by the people in their
present temper. In no other way can
they rally to the support oftheir nom
nations the vast army ofnational con
servative men in every State, who
will be innunced by any miserable
catchwords or empty pretexts of avail
ability, independent of stateFlnanlIke
qualifications, and large experience OF
affairs. The waters are out, and the
highways are overilowcJ. The only
pilot who can weather sio storm is
he who regards with single eye his
mhole country and nothing but his
country; and who, to the wisdom o!
Hamilton and Webster, unites the IN
corruptibleness Of Cato and Washing
ton.
We read not far back in the polti-
cal history of our country, of party
which started out upon similar mis-
sion-a party based upon the ruIns Oh
the old democratic and whig parties
"a party, in the language of its plat
form, that regarded the mainianance
of the Union as the paramount Poliii,
cal good -"lhc primary object of pat
riotic desire, that entertained a eu
preIne loa,hing and disgust Tor the
wild hunt after Office, and an iinplaca,
BILE enmity against the demoralizins
system of rewards for political sub,
servency. The party ran its course,
I"a brief, brave and inglOrious one"
and the Union is still rocking along
as usual. But did the American par
ty save it? The merest tyro in poll
tics will remember tha. it was aboli-
tioniZed North, and routed at every
point Of the compass South
1t seems from the above extract,
and from the call for an opposition
convention in this State, they are mar
shaling their forces for another small
experiment. Another organization is
on foot whose paramount object will
be the salvation of the Union. Its
principles will be cRinchhy cOaScrpa.
Hue-it will irown upon all at
temp,s to array one section o! the
Union against tho other, (what party
does no,0 1t will oppose the tendcn'
cics Of the present dominant partS
(nyc, there's the rub) aud will unite
heart aud hand to crush out tanati
cism and disunion in all parts OF the
confederacy. "a universal crushing
maclinc) ."
Whatever honesty VIC may attri.
butte to their motives, whatever res
pect we may have for the purity o
purpose that actuates the movlns
spirits ofthe project, still we must say
if the Union is in danger, we have bu
little faith ir their ability to save it,
We had hoped that the warfare which
has heretofore been waged asains
the South ana her institutions, would
unite our people upon centre plat
form in resisting the enctoachmch'
of the North. but il seems there is sti
to be division in the ranks, and tn
success of our cause endangered b.
dissension. The Union Natona
Convention which is soon to asscmbl
at Philadelphia bodes no good, and
may be productive of much evil.
go '.'''' " [Sunny South.