Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1860-01-13
THE CuCACO CONvENTION.
The Call Endorsed Jy a Southern Oppt
Sition Journal.-A Candid and 7ellin
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The Call Endorsed by a Southern Oppo-
Sition Journal.-A Candid and Telling
article.
From the Baltimore Patriot.
A National Republican Convention, en-
bracing
Republicans,
Members of the Peoples Party of Penn
sylvania,
Members Ofth Opposition party of New
Jersey,
And all others,
who are willing to cooperate in the support
of the candidates, then and there TO be
nominated for President and Vice President,
has been officially called to assemble at
Chicago on the l 9Th of June, $780, Two
Delegates from each Congressional District,
and four from the State at large, are to con-
stitute the representatives.
The basis on which this Convention is
called, according to the terms of the notifi-
cation, is Opposition:
l. To the policy OF the present Admins
tration;
2. To Federal corruption and usurpation !;
8. To the extension of Slavery in the Ter
ritories;
4. To the new and dangerous political
doctrine that the Constitution, of its own
force, carries slavery into the Territories of
the United States;
5. To there-opening of the African Slave
Trade;
6. To any inequality among citizens;
z. And who are in favor ofthe admission
of Kansas under the Constitution recently
adopted by its people;
8. Of frestoring the Federal Administra.
ton to system of rigid economy, and tc
the principles of Washington and Jefferson
o. Of maintaining inviolate the rights o.
the States, and defending the soil of every
State and Territory from lawless invasion;
10. And of preserving the integrity o
! the Union, and the supremacy of the Con
) stitution and laws passed in pursuance there
, of, against the conspiracy of the leaders o
a sectional party to resist the majority
principle as established by this Government
even at the expense of its existence.
5 The first ground of the oppositionists, i
seems to us, would have been all sufficicnt,anC
had we had the authority, we would hav,
t limited the call to this comprehensive pro
position, for it is broad enough to combin
all the elements of hostility to the rulini
J, dynasty, which is little more than an ex
preston in itself of every conceivable sol
S of mal-administration and heresy agaius
the Constitution and our institutions as es
n tablished by the fathers. But as the al
o thors of the call have deemed it wise to an
n plify somewhat, let US look at these specif
IS cations, and see what they really mean.
# Everybody will understand the first an
r second specifications. Open and unblusl
ing corruptions and usurpations constitut
,r the very existence of the Administratio
t, policy. and the only way to save our inst
}. tutions from positive and final destructic
a is to drive the dynasty out of power with
Il universal shoutofindignation. 1t has ear
10 cd the wages of political sin, and nothiu
|; remains but to discharge the obligations
ot Let it be consigned speedily to the polite
death that it merits.
The third and fourth propositions it W
it be seen, embrace good old Henry CIl
y Wing doctrines on this subject. He W
a utterly opposed to the extension of Slave
" into free Territories, and said he would s
~ his right arm drop from his shoulder, befo
he would lift it in favor of any such polio
so And though the black heresy that the Go
y, stitution plants Slavery by its own inhere
O. power in the Territories, had not yet rear
a its black head distinctly above tue horizc
It, yet MIR. Clay foresaw it, and met it on
e. hundred occasions, in his public speeeh'
o. directly and indirectly. with withering q
nnnciations and irresistible demonstrate
as Of its unsoundness. But VIC are content
n rest the fallacy of this outrageous doctri
We upon the Hon. Reverdy Johnson's recent I
Sc, guments against il. Inspired with I
rst principles Of the great American master
ne political economy, at whose feet he sat
lot SO many years, with such eminent distiI