Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-02-24


only M. dc of making that hope available
is for the South by some ac, TO effect dis
solution of The American Union. And
say this: thai il John c. Fremont Is elect
ell President of The United States, our poo
pie Ought to have sense enough 10 know
that the issue is upon them, and canrot b,
avoided"
IL speak on my individual responsibility
IL Fremont be elected president Of The
United States, the law and leaders, t,kin;
the power into their own lands, going h'
voncert or not by concert, and laying tn,
strung arm of southern frermrn upon III,
Treasury aud archieycs of the Govern
ment. (ApliauSe.")
These emphatic ayowals of disnnion were
applauded by tie people WHO had, by
unanimous vote, sustained his action, and
commissioned him to speak for ihem in this
Capitol. Well might the Charleston Her
.cury declare as it has, that
Upon the policy of diSsolying the Union
of separating the South from her northern
cnrmies, and establishing southern Con
fedemcy, parties, presses, politicians and
people, were unit. There is not single
public man in her limits, tot one OF her
present Representatives or Senators in Con-
gresS, who is not pledged to the lips in IA
yor of dsunion. Indeed, we well remem-
Der that one of the most prominent leaders
of the co-operati ~ party, when tainted
with submission, rebukcd the thought by
saying that in opposing secession, he only
look a step backwards to strike blow more
deadly against the Union"
THE uNwIsE WISE.
2 Sir, the erratic, aspiring, clustering Wise,
who ''woull introduce slavery into the heart
of the NORTH who "woud alow slavery
10 pour itself out without restraint and find
no limit hut the Southern ocean, in the au-
tumn of 1856, told the people of Virginia
that
"The South could not, without degrade
ton. submit TO the election of Black Re-
publican President. To tell me we should
submit TO the election Of Black Repub-
lican, under circumstances ike these, is TO
tell me that Virginia and the fourteen slave
States are already subjueatcd and degraded
tcheers that the southern people are
without spirit, and without purpose TO de-
fend the rights they know and dare not
maintain. Cheers. If you would sub
NIT 10 the election of Fremont, you will
prove what sSeward and Burlingame said,
TO be true--that the South cannot be kick
ed out Of the Union"
lie avowed his readiness 10 put the mill
'tary force of Virginia upon war footing
and he gave the valorous assurance to his
disunion associates that "the chivalry" of
Virginia "would hew its bright way through
all opposing legons." Rumor said, and |
believe truly, that this Democratic aspirant
to the Presidency held correspondence with
Southern Governors, TO concert measures
preparatory TO disunion; that he and his
disunion compeers organized plot to seize
The arsenal at lIarpers Ferry; 10 take pos
session of the navy-yard at Norfolk, and
inaugurate rebellion, revolution, and dis
union, in the event of Fremont's success. |
The Washington correspondent Of the New
Orleans Delta, a journal high in the conf
dence Of the Pierce administration, wrote:
1T is already arranged, in the event of
Fremoni's election, or a failure to elect by
the people, to call the Legislatures of Vr- /
GINA, South Carolina, and Georgia to con-
cert measures to withdraw form the Union |
before Fremont can get possession of the
Army and Navy and the purse strings of
Government. Governor Wise is actively |
at work already in this matter. The South |
can rely on the President in the emergen-
cy contemplated. The question now is,
whether the people of the South will sus-
tain their leaders,"
MIR. Cory of Ohio reports Mr.. Banks
OF Virginia as having said to him, few
days after the election ia 1896, that
"1t.e South would have dissolved the
Union if Fremont had been elected Presi-
dent of the United States that Governor
Wise and the Virginia leaders were ready
to take the feld-march on 60 WASH
ington, depose the Federal officers, take the
Iyasury, archives, buildings, grounds, &c.
declare the Confederation de tttctO over
thrown. He said the thing would have
/ been easy; there were thirty thousand men
ready; twenty thousand cavalry; sets of
accoutrcmen that the public mind was
sufficiently excited TO overcome all domes-
tic resistance, and that they could whip the
North in the fight"
Evidence of the disloyal revolutionary
and reasonable course Of Henry A. Wise
Is nl-o furnished by Charles j. Faulkner,
late Representative of the IIarper's Ferry
district, chairman of the Congressional
democratic Committee in 1856 and now
Minister 10 France At democratic
meeting recently held in Virginia, over
which Mr. Faulkner presided, he said:
"When that noble and gallant son of Vir-
einia. Henry A. Wise, declared as was said
he did in October, 1856, that, il Fremont
should be elected, he would seize The ma /
flonal arsenal at IIarper's Ferry, how few |
would at that time have justified so bold and
decided measure? II is the fortune of some
great and gifted sainds 20 see far in advance
81 tirtsr contemporaries. Should William 4
H. Seward be elected in 1860. where is I
the man now in our midst gla would not
call for the Impeachment, of Governor of \
Virginia who would silently suffer that ar
Emory to pass under the control OF such an