Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-01-20

si,ion party of Ne Jersey, and all others who
are willing TO cooperate in support oi The
candidates, then and there to be nominated
for President and Vice President, has been
officially called to assemble at Chicago on the
| 18th of June, ls60-delegates from each Con-
gressional District, and four from the State al
large, are to constitute the Representatives.
ed, according to the terms of the notification,
is, Opposition
81. To the policy Of the present Admins
traiion;
2. To Federal corruption and usurpa'ion
3. TO the extension Of Slavery In the Terri
tories;
4. To the new and dangerous political doc
trine that the Constitution, of its own force,
carries Slavery into the Territories Of the
United States;
8. To the re-opening of the African Slave
Trade;
G. To any inequality among citizens;
Z. And who are in favor OF the admission
of Kansas under the constitution recently
adopted by its people:
8. OF restoring the Federal Administration
TO a system Of rigid economy, and 10 the prin-
ciples of Washington and Jefferson;
9. OF maintaining inviolate the rights Of
the States, and defending the soil Of every
State and Territory from iawless invasion;
10. And Of preserving the integrity of the
Union, and the supremacy of the Constitution
and laws passed in pursuance thereof, against
the conspiracy Of the leaders Of sectional
party TO resist the majority principle as esiab-
lished by this government, even at the expense
Of its existence"
The first ground of opposition, it seems TO
US, would have been all sufficient, and, had
we had the authority, We would have limited
the call TO this comprehensive proposition,
for it is broad enough to combine all the ele-
ments Of hostility to the ruling dynasty, which
is little more than an expression IN itself of
every conceivable sort Of NAL administration
and heresy against the Constitution and our
institutions as established by the fathers.
Bur, as The authors If the call have deemed
il wise to amplify somewhat, let US look into
these specifications, and see what they really
mean.
Every one will understand the lst and %
specifications. Open and unblushlng corrup-
lions and usurpations constitute the very ex-
istence of the Administration policy, and The
only way to save our Institutions from posi-.
tive and final destruction is 10 drive the dynas.
ty out of power with a universal shout of in
dignation. Il has earned the wages of poli,i-
ca! sin, and nothing remains bat to discharge
the obligation. Let it be consigned speedily
10 the political death that it merits.
The Sd and 4th propositions, it will be seen,
embrace good o.d Henry Clay Wing doctrines
on this subject. He was utterly opposed to
the extension Of slavery into free Territories,
and said, he would see his right arm drop
from his shoulder, before he would lift it in
support Of any such policy. And though the
black heresy that the Constitution plants sla- |
very by its own inherent power in the Terri, |
ories, had not yet reared its black head dis |
inctly above the horizon, yet Mr.. Clay FORE
saw it, and met it on hundred occasions, in !
his public speeches, directly and indirectly.
with wiihering denuncialions and irresis-
liable demonstrations of its unsoundness. |
But We are content TO rest the fallacy of this |
,
'on"eo" 'n' suheh's aSa'"s' "' ih-
spired with the principles Of the great Amer |
can master of political economy, at whose !
eet he sat for SO many years with such emf
,en, distinction IN himself ,,a b;s ,e,cber /
-. ~. ~ t, 80 ..a
Nc ie"'e' '". ne. az "e n'aa VI 'he sor
ernment, and his Attorney Black, not an inch |
Of ground TO stand upon. Well may the Chic !
ago Oppositiorists call for Union in support
,s ,h.sa ;nass,r,c,;bIs nr;rc;n,ss W. tnou
: q i. -.
u po oppos''o'. '-.' -. 'Ne ""o'e 'oun"''
VINO VIII reiuse u sustain 'hese ProPositiohs'
The 9Th specification is one that every 4
American citizen ought TO approve by his I
vote and mis- acts. II is a timely assertion of
he r;oht ofeverv foreign horn cit,zen IN he (
nro,ec,.d bv the whole mower of ,br Govern-
men, sbouid he chance IN re,urn IN The coma
r,, ,f his hi,,b or vben he ;s tr,veI;n, .Lro.J
nj. ;s entitled 10 as much nro,ec,;on as ma.
'f,,. horn c;,izen for he bas heen M ado , c;,i
,sn vi,bont reservation. M more sb,marnI
.ecIarc Ie,,ers we hone will eyer emen,,a
rom IN. S,a,e nenartmer, Ie, ,be Sacre,,ru
no who he NAV. There mus, he no more IN.
,o,.Ii,v in the riohts or ci,izens wber ,hs,
are in foreign countries. We must either as.
.ert the entire right of foreioner IN absoiys
himself from allegiance. which is a noli,icaI
inv. or surrender il at once. Justice 10 onr
,a,nraIized citizens demands action on ,h,s
'ub;ec, and This issue sbould be boldIy ,,J.
,eYt fail.
No man in the Opposi,ion to the corrun,