Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1862-08-02
Wilmot a Candidate before the
Pannla.


his endorsement by Forney's Republic an
State Convention, on the 18th inst, was
evidently intended to aid him to secure the
nomination by the caucus members to be
elected by Forney's party. Indeed, Will
mot may be considered as much the candi.
date of that party, before the people, as are
Cochran and Ross.
In view Of this fact, the voters of Penn
sylvania should understand the political
character of Mr.. Sen ator Wilmot, who is
thus put forward for their suffrages. In
order to proper understanding Of his
political principles, it is not necessary for
them to go further back than to his recent
record in the Senate. By consulting the
published proceedings of that body, they
, will find the namc of Wilmot recorded in
favor of every extreme measures there voted
on. Summers name is not more frequently
thus recorded.
Wilmot is in favor Of enlisting the slaves
of the South, and allnegroes, free or slave,
to drill, to march, to sleep, to eat, to fight
side by side with the white citizens of
Pennsylvania, and his theory, fully carried
out, would put the negro on level, at
least, with the white man, everywhere and
under all circumstances politically and So
cially.
What Greeley advocates, Wilmot en-.
dorses--what Greeley is, Wilmot is. He
belongs to the class Of Greeley, Sumner,
Wade, Chandler e. Co.; men who rejoice
over McClellan's reverse before Richmond,
because he will not adopt their political
sentiments, and who would rather the
Union should forever be lost than that it
should be saved by victories won by any
true friend of the Constitution. They
would rule or ruin and would not yield a
iot of their fanatical creed to save the
country. Wilmot is one Of the foremost of
this crazy class Of statesmen and false
philanthropists.
Not long since, Wilmot wrote letter to
netting in New York in which he fully
endorsed Summers plan for reducing the
seeding States, or the States at present
occupied by the secessionists to the condi-
tion Of territories, plan that would as
effectually break up the Union as secession
itself-a plan in fact, which practically
provides for secession.
This idea of Summers never met with
any favor in Pennsylvania, except in the
! erazed brain Of here and ther a long. haired
lunatic of the reformatory school, and in
the hearts of Wilmot's New England friends
in the Bradford district, who never were
Pennsylvanians, and never can be; yet
Forney's Republican Convention, on the
l7th endorsed Wilmot as "the true ard
faithful representative of the loyal citizens
of this State" and thus, virtually, nomi-
mated him, in advance, as the candidate of
Forney's party for the United States Sen
ate. In endorsing him, that Convention
endorsed both Secession and Abolition,
including negro soldiers and negro equality
generally.
1t is proper for the people Of Pennsylva.
mia to know, first, the record and political
status of Wilmot, and, second, that they
have, at the next election, 10 vote either
for or against him. He will be the can
didate, before the Legislature, of the party
which, through its convention, endorsed
him, at Harrisburg, on the 18th inst, and
the point for each voter to settle, before
voting, will be, which of the legislative
candidates in his district will vote for Will
mot and which will not. We suspect that
all the successful candidates of Forney's
party will vote for the friend of Sumner,
Wade and Chandler, according to the pre-.
sent evident understanding between Forney
and bis Lieutenants, McMichael, Mcclure,
and others. Some think that Forney is
working for the Senatorship for himself,
but we do not. He prefers the Senate
Secretaryship-a pays better. Wilmots
the man.
The choice is simply between State.
extinWishing Secessionists and some con.
servative Union man, like Cowan. We are
willing to trust the people of Pennsylvania
for the result provided, they fairly un-
derstand the arrangement of Forney
and his new friends and fuglemen, in the
promises. Wilmot supported Fofney for
the Secretaryship Of the Senate and Forney
goes for Milmot's re election to that body.
Forney made his Convention endorse Viii.
mot, thus placing him before the people as
his candidate, to the exclusion of other as.
pirants, and Forney wall SO manage the
men and the party over which he has SO