Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-29

IHE JHtOn ana american deserves
the thanks of the Democratic party
for its diligence in hunting up the
record of one Wisener, the Radical
nominee for Governor, who is, fortu.
nately for its purpose, not 20 entirely
obscure as not to have made his mark
among the great men who rose as
statesmen in the day of Andy's mill.
tary rule. We would especially cal
the attention of gentlemen Of color tC
the following, from our Nashville Co
temporary:
On the 9th Of September, 1864, a Union
State Convention" was held in this city,
to appoint electors on the Lincoln and
Johnson ticket. A Committee on Bust
ness was appointed by the Convention,
whose duty it was to prepare and report 8
platform for the Convention. Horace
Maynard was chairman of this committee
and it embraced William II. Wisener, OF
Bedford, and J.. B. Bingham, of Shelby,
among its members. Mr.. Bingham is the
editor Of the Memphis SMa, and in its
issue Of the 24th inst. that paper says Of
Mr.. Wisener:
ssHe was opposed to the abolition o:
slavery by Lincoln's proclamation, and
as late as the fall of 1854. he believed that
wrong would be set aside. The Balti.
more convention, which nominated Lin.
coin and Johnson, in that year, adopted 3
platform which acknowledged the aboli-
ton Of slavery as a. accomplished fact
In due time the Un'oA men of Tennessee
met at Nashville to put a Presidential
ticket in the field, WIsener was there OF
course. He was on the committee on
resolutions. It was proposed to re-adopi
the Baltimore platform on b subject,
Wisener and Bridges-the latter q former
member of Congress from East Tepnessee
both opposed it. Amer a long discussion,
the matter was referred to Andrew John.
son, the Military Governor, who labored
with them for hours in his private Office
in the capitol. The convention mean.
while adopted the platform reported from
the committee, and Wisener and Bridges
were supposed to have been satisfs6,
But when the proceedings appeared In
the papers, next morning, there appeared
q "protest,' signed by Wisener and
Bridges, against that portion OF the plat
form which had been adopted, which &C
kno gledged the abolition Of slavery as an
acknowledged facti The publication OF
and without notice to his fellow-asso-
cistes on She committee, wss regarded as
in some degree an act Of bad faith on the
part Of Wisener, who was its autbor.S
To What particular feature Of the Balti-
more platform Mr. Wisensr so seriously
and strenuoasly objected Is not stated,
bat II must have been that resolution
which bore upon the subject OF slavery,
in which AZ Is declared II
I've spproveiand indorse, as demanded
by the emergency, and essential to she
preservation of the nation, and as within
the Constitution, ths measures ard acts
which he president Lineoln1 has adopted
to defend the nation against his open and
secret foes; that We approve especially
the Proclamation of Emancipation. and
the employment as Union soldiers Of men
heretofore held in slavery"
That this was the feature that called
forth Mr.. Wisener's strenuous objection
TO the ~readOption OF the Baltimore plat.
form, IS apparent from his subsequent
action in the convention of 1854. The
ninth resolution of the platform reported
by the Committee on Business Ia as fol-
lows:
"ReSolVed, That our fathers as g bull
wark and safeguard Of q free republican