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Br R. W. LOME. •
Ant—" Old Dan Tucker. •''
Rouse yet,! freemen, from your.,alumbers:
Seize yonr arms and count your pumpers ;
the time for deeds of'bravery„; •
Freedoni grapples now with Slavery.
&herni-- 1 -Down with Douglas, Pierce, and Shannon,
Down with Slavery and Buchanan!
Freedom's traitors—sing thiir dirges,
Long and loud as ocean's simges. •
In the hills of Congress pleading, Y . •
Oa the fields of" Kansas bleedirig,
Brothers true as steel implore us— '• '
Join the fight and join the chorus!"
C r itoras+Down with Douglas, Pierce ttc..l •
Mark (IT. flag of Slavery's minion's—i . • .
‘lBludgeons versus Free Opinions!"i • .
" [ Rule or 'ruin !" "Compacts-trokeur
Choke!Free words, before_. they're Spoken! "
Ohorui+Down with Douglas, Piered,'&e.
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Are we poi - Fds now to falter? . •
Rave wC ',nought for freedom's altar?: • -
*ill our 'filirces, by. division, 1
Reap defeat and bold derision? i•
sever! "never! all are ready! • -
Every eblimin marchinv , b steady : • . '
True as were our sires before us,•
Marching'skady to the opotus 1 -
cltorzia-r-Down with Dofiglas, Pierce, &c.
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For the Rep s uillea2z.;
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NOiTHERN "SOUTH ANI.OIICASS.'r
The Scranton Herald annourices its deter
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iiiinatiOa to support the,Filimore.and
R)11 tick to the best of . _its ability till' the
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. 111avc no right or inclination 16 #all 'it. to
:4ecountfor (loin , * so, But the reasons it as.
ps i if.rt,i.''for z.uch a- cO,arse I i)yoptise brit lit - . tsi
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Referring to the Philadelphia American
ConvAtion that nominated Fillinore and Don
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a'dion,• and formed the platfk l rm can which
they .Were 'placed, . the 'editOr :states that
so filras we could see, this dOmination was
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fairl,)lattd honorably ' , moot', was_ worthy of
elitirtiortfalence,and , distinctly represented
tire jlririciples Ivhilli we -hold deir." The
truth IS: that lersiire that' Conv6ltion • met the
A nierieon party• had . already'-' 4 split,' on the
„lavei.vri - piesfion; and the pro-Slavery, plank,
or 1 , ,‘,'-e1f...11 ;sect:LAl, tiiiithisil bon inewcporated
into thil " national '''piatforrn,lrad been repu
diated 11)v every State courier ti the Nortli,
tsxC.ept.lthat of New York. • Tile branch of the
party lthot ,. thus repUdiated••the hr • -Slavery
platfOrin, represented almost; a> he States
ilia the Americans had•ever`k.,arricel, and in
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cludedla very large Majority of the partyl.—
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Rut still when the Convention met to' noini.
nate Fillmore,. the South, Managed, by the
usual means by vihich douglif4es are control
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1.&,,1, te , <Tet a new section substithted in place
of the !repudiated • twelfth 'Seetiori,' rrieoultig
preeisely .the same thing 1.. Iris new section.
has 4150 been repudiated by the party in most
- eil thelFrec States. When, therefore,. the ed
itor ili4;lares that this is.the illatform of his
I ann ounce s4 . belonging to
' 41e himself 't
the Southern, or pro-SlaVery,!:iAinerican - par
ty, ai party that by their : vote'sin : Congress
shOW- Ihemselvei as deVotedbo the interests •
of the lave Power as theShantDemocracy,
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hOm, in •fact, they -,uri4e on every test
• votet Where Slavery is concerned, even, going i l
so• far ''as to vote for a South b,trcili,tia nullify,
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ing b'emocrat for Speaker, In preference to .
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Bank& a Free
..." Soil - Arnericani' Iris party also
vote uniformly in the House, against every ef
feet* proposition ofreliefforithe people Kan
sas fOrin the shameful iyrand'.that has been
impbsednpon them by :the Border. Ruffians
anditbe Sham. Demeratic. party.. And 'yet
..thisleditor was once a Whig, , ,'and - agreed with
theireatleaders of his party;',Clay and Web
.,. ger; 4nd with the•alinost alMost unanimous
vol4e!of.the Party at the North that Slavery
ought never to be .extended into free territo
ry. ; At a time like this, when the Missouri
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uffians—whose • ‘'hrirrahs are divid
ed, al, u: equally between BdChaninand.Fill
inore,, although it is said that is rap.
• idIV, liaining strength Yam Orig thetn--whea
these'. Wretches aided ' . by . .iVoluntelers • from
. . South! Carolina, Alaberna . , and-other Southern
StateS . ; are continually,ifivadingKansas,tnur-,
derink innocent citizens and "committing eve
ry other crime in the calendar, a man. who has
till ,:Irately professed Free . .iSoil ..Trinciples,
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gives:in his adhesion ,to cidd idates,- one -of
whOrd glories :iii the idea thathe is the own,
er of a bundred'hudad bein*s, while the oth- •
er dares not utter mre ivordiin•condemnation
of he outrages of the !Border Ruffians, but is
'quite 'ready 'to proclaim idia, public speech
that if Fremont 'is 'tlecte4 l 'the South will
disSCive. the Union himself justifying the act
._--add he condemns the Repuhlicans as agi
-*Abis and fanatics who support sectional eau
:. didates on -a sectional - plait - Min', simply . be
caniie. our platform embodies the, principle of
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- 'the Wiltpot proviso, whichl; has been endors
ed; by the .Democratic, • and: as well as the
Whig party in almost every free State in the
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In the catim paper theeditor states that
trmmontiv 4 snoininated the old enemies
or:the Whigs," -and that " do not choose
by , Isupporting: Fri4iont, t &How the lead of
the Sewards and the Grcelcys, the Garrisons
and the Gerrit 4ntiths in their warfatv upon
porttoiC.ofour Country." ( It would puitzle
most men to tut , tend - low Seward and
Gieeley can • awed " old enemies of
theWitigs; 1. - he me l ou' Is the pro-Slavery
for,•tvhom be acernti to have conceived
so estkletraffectinth: Sr is it any more
. sYsr v 141) ean4 by I king :of ;following
tiis'lsad'OfOiiirlion and Ginit*taith. der,
11 ; 8 thitb 4 s . We nominee Presidency
ofthp Abolition party, 100 eondeMn'the Re
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publican platform,; as too conservative; and
Garrison, like Wendell Bbillipe, is'out in fa
vor of Buchanan, because he thinks the reck
less career of the Sham-Democracy, if eontin.
ued, will destroy the Union,' a result which
he desires, but to which the Republican plat
form is distinctly opposed. -' ay
-The editor pitweed%to.qUote from the Bu.
chinan papers 'rOnarks . said- tol•bave been
made - by individuals . Who support the Repub
lican - nominees, some of which . are unobjec
tionable, and. some of • . which *.ere probably
never ;mad e, or ifso the party is no more respon-.
•sible for 'Them, nor half asl much, as is his
party fOr the resolution adopted by an Amer-.
icanState Convention in Georgia, that if Kan
sas should apply foradmissiOa into the 'Un
ion with 1 pro-Slavery constitution, and be
refused,
.such refuSal would justify- Georgia.
in se'eding froni - t"tho Union-.— H i thus plainly in
dicating, what the :.votes of the'party in Con: .
gresi also show, that the SOuth Americans ,
(Mr. i.athrop's party)are in league with the
Sham Democracy,l in their wicked and des
perate endeavors by. violen ce and bloodshed
to force, the most accursed institution' of hu
man vassalage that the world ever saw, into
territory once cOnseerated to freedom • forev•
er by solemn compact, and now,. by the. re-,
.pOal of the Missouri Cothpromise, under the
speCial l •gnarclianship of what claims to be the
freest . and best. government on earth. Let .
the editor clear hislown-party of the stain of
disunion which it 4as acquired by Fillmore's.
. Albany Speech as,;well as -by • the Alabania.
and. Georgia:, State Ourventions, before he
.charges upon the Republican party sentiments
which thqir plat forrn;-in so many. words; dis-
avow
Again the editor .says he ''prefers to, bear
evils that are sizjeriFble and nay be directed,
1 under God,' to a gopd end, rather than to tear
I dOwn'tbe . fabric of our country to secure the,
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success of an abStract principle of right." — 7
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I suppose lie refers ?to the question of Free, •
doM or Slavery in Icansas4 "An abstract
',principle of right Take this 'exceedingly
conservative" tditor•from his,safe retreat
lir. Northern kierdisilvania,tbul set him down
in the Terriiory of Ktinsas, !and ler him there
utter the doctrines -be hss published fur years,
aud for no Other offence (lei Would 'soon find
himsdf tarred and feathered: or imprisoned,
or shot, or hung,: as - other guiltless flee .
-State men have been,— and Probably Would
then begin to underStand,tbat there is sofrie
thing practical abou . t this qbestion.
Buethe editor objects to Frentok that he
has had little experience as t i t Legislator 7 He
has,had about as much as IWashington had,.
..when be waS elected ; find he, made a very.
goon President. I cgree z. with: Senator
&tamer, that it is no objection to a candidate
that to is not a hackneyid politician; and I be
lieve it was once prOfesscdi as a part o l f The
policy of the party ,to which Mr. Lathrop be
to take up new men, fresh from the
ranks of the people, as the people- haVe done
in nominating Fremont. -
When the editor states that Fremont M
the Senate voted uniformly i with the Demo
cratic party, against his present•politieal as
sociates, be states what is untrue, for the re
cord showi that he voted very independent
ly, his votiViteing sometimes recorded nth
those of_Sew4id.llale, and Sumner, and some
times. , . •
against them; and even if the allega
tion were true, will he tell us where then
was found his own candidate for the= Vice
Presidency ? was a bitter Sonthern Dem
ocrat, and, as editor of thel Washington Un
ion, pouring hot shot - into the leillutore Ad=
mipiStration, which he clutiged with Galphin
ism 'and all sorts of corruption.
I am sorry to,see that the editor of the
Herald, by hanging to. theskirts of that po
spostate, 10nry M. 'Fuller, has been
thus, dritiffed down'into th i e mire of Noithern
doughfaceisin. It l iras bad enough for Fuller
to offer ljrnsclf upt to the hideous Ebony Idol
of the SS pith, without asking his surviving
friends to mount his funeral pyre, and. sacri
fice theinseives to the mattes of the'departed.
FREE AMEItICA.
BUSQUEIMIISIA COUNTY POLITICS.
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E. B. Cnasr. Eq.: Dear Sir .z._When Mr.
Pierce took upoq hinisell the administration
of the government, in March, 1E43, he assur
ed the country that sectional agitation was at
an end, and that' the -different Compromises
that from, time tp time had been entered into
between the different sections of the country,
should he preseved invi o late. A large ma
jority of all patties were disposed to acqui
esce in the posiiion thus taken by the Presi
dent; the country wanted peace and quiet ' ,
and the Exectitive of the national govern::
meat assured them-that, they shouldhave
But the sequel: showed that the power that
placed Mr. Pierce in the' chair of State, wad
still potent Sn , his administration, and that
Sla - very agitation was to , be put at rest only'
when it would' be: detrimental to the eaten.
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sion of Slavery to continue it, and was to be
frowned upon and , suppressed only when de
manded 'by the Slaveltolders and thOse in
their interests. The repeal of the Missouri
Comprdmise Was brought forward as an ad. .
'ministration Measures, the first session of Con
gress -after the': President had assured the
'country that no further agitation was to be
permitted. No petitions from the people,'
either North , or. Soil*, , demanded or, asked
for the repeal; it was Compromise,wider
which the, people- bad reposed for thirty
years : And it had beenlrked upon aaf a
P 4l 4s l * 149th sections foolisecrendi r t' ,
yhetv;
the measure „watt_ introduced into COligrelii
• k.
• For li i Repuyscan.
"YREEDOKI amp WION'T agiaoKalr aLia'WEG'2V aMID Z6NOAC
the people of the Free States justly felt that
it was alreat and grevious wrong, a violation
of thi plighted faith of the nation, and an
act that should justly arouse the indignation
of every, friend of free institutions. At that
time there was no important election pend
ing. The people looked at it, not as parti
sans but as men and freemen. In Feburary
and March, 1854, you were in Harrisburg,
and probably were . not as conversant with
the populq feeling in the county as one who
resided here at the time and , to show whit
that ' feeling was, J refer to the call for the
meeting held at the Court House, on Mon
4ay, the Bth of March, 1854, which was as
follOWS: I .
. "The P eople's Me ting.
TO PROTEST AGAINST- SLAVERY IN NEBRASKA."
• " The citizens of Susquelni nit Countv, who
"are opposed to the violation 1. the Missouri
Compromise and the . exteuSio 1 of Slave Ter
ritory,are invited to meet at t e Court. House,
in Montrose, on Wednesday: he Bth day of
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March next, at one o'clock in . the afternoon,
to utter their stern Prot st against the
threatened breae.hvf faith,hy t e repeal of the
Missouri Compromise, and t eir determined
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hostility to any, eneroachme t of the Slave
Power on the rights of .Free Labor in the
Territories secured by that compact.
The Hon. David Wilmot has consented to
be present and
.address the Meeting. Judge
Avery, of Oviego, and Hon. lenry M. Fill
ler, of WilkeSbarre, have ben invited and
are also expected tO address he meeting.
- February 10 ; 1854:
Geori ! e. Fuller .r. . L. F.
Wm."i.
hatch ~ - W. IL I
J.. T. L i,K angdon :i Homed
- B. Say re. Isaac I
C. ,N.• Stoddard .. A. Chn
G. Z. Ditnock',.. D. R.
M. a Wilson .. . Joh - I
V. J. Mulford . Amos
D. D.. Warner W. . - W. A.
A. ,W. Dimock .W. J.
Joel Coggswell . F. J. I
SainuelJessup -- •,- B. C.
Charles F. Read , . J. Ethi
E. S. Park , R. Da
Samitel F. Carmalt Georgt
- William Jessup''- J. Ly 9
C: D: Lathrop .. It B. 1
Geo.
,R. HawleY Dank
Simeon B. Chase G: B. 1
Chas. L. Brown -- C. Steil
Henry F. Torre!' .. A. W
T.jM. A. Newcomb ' Geo .1
M. C. Tyler _.. Geor
-Harvey Tyler - Sarnu
• Alfred Sayre 5 Merri
J - . F: Dunmore - A. Fri
R. F. Jameson-
Abel
, Phin .
F. H. Fordharn
Chauncey Wright . Dani.e
• Alfred Baldvan --:- D. C.
Wm. L. Post .--:- . Wm. 1
A. S. Brewster.. • C. F. I
1. J. Stebbins - 'S. D.
C. W. Mott ' ' Samt ,
J. W. Granger . Astt.l
William D. Cope-- Geor e Backus -
A..N„Bullard s' , .. F. B. Chandler
P. Hinds.. - . B. S. Bentley - -
N. L:.Austin , -H. I 'Frazier --
John Harrington - •A. throp
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I:aac Post , -
,;- • Fran lin Fraser
D. 'D. BroWn ~,' Jamey Mead •
1 Caleb Carmalt - - Alvin, Day. -,•
D. C. Dayton. .A. N l Teichanri - •
John' Morrisey , : D. . Glidden --.. •
- WilliamXitzgerald; Simeon Ferris - .
Michael Nolan, . 'Willitun Itobbe:
Timothy Griffin - :-,l3avio Robbe
Jas. Nolan David Sherer - ...
John Murray '; -S. G.i Haight
D. S. Hoag '• ' Edwln Bliss --
H. A. Hibbard • . M.; W:iißliss•
N. Thatcher ' - Jas. H. Bliss
James Jones ,
• Edward Cramsie
Corneliui Myers J. Hosford
Henry Searle - •J. Garnsey
Samuel Horton , D, D. Gurney .-
B. ,!hidden -' " Jobn H. Pierce
Of the aboVe list, more than one half had
previously been recognize, as Democrats,
sand never dreamed at the line that append-,
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sing their names to a call for a meeting tode
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nounce the attempt to'reßeal the Missouri .
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Con2promiseitiould make them anything else.
As I hate been credibly-informed, -not. half a
dozen persons , in the County to whom' the
call was offered, refused to sign it, although
it was Well understood at the time that the
.Nebraska bill was at.Wasbington considered.
a Democratid measure, an. the general goy.
ernment , was coaxing and tt reaming, as far
as in its, power, all the , me j of the party, into
'its support. Your name floes net appear to
the 'Calk for the reason, I resume, that you
were then rit-Flarrisbur:- Had you been
e l es
here, no doubt the irnpill of your nature
would have impelled youorward among the
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most zealous and veti've p rticipators in 'the
meeting.
Hon. D. Wilmot was
having Conkented to addr
Not- a J'.whisper was heard
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he was violating his dutie
he consented to meet wit
to 'utter with • them " 1
against the threatened
their determined hostilit
ment of the Slave Powe
Free Labor in the Terri ;
t i
The tueylbg wis presided over by Hon.
George Fuller, and addressed by the Hon.
D. Wilmot, R.. B. Little Esq. and others;
and Mr. Little, as I anal credibly informed
(not being present myself,) _made one of his
old-kshioned speeches, in which the en
croachments of the Slave Power, the duty of
all-.free citizens to comb; in favor of free
dom iu the ; Territories, d the treasonable
movements of the present corrupt and wick
ed administration, were enfireed with great'
truthfulness and power. At the tiate,l of that
Convention, a resolution approving of re
peal of the Missouri; promise could not
have obtained theasseut atone out of ten of
the Demodrets addsty. s . •
Tbe action *Mat' ' : diced the ON
. pia t i t tie aniSits SS flii is rilwiiiiiidi'pre
cisert upon the 6oue bir'*Ciiii4 by the
iluag
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MONTROSE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 7,1856: - 1 PR+i.T.ER PUBL*I-lES---VOL- NO . BO
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Grossman
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Loomis.
COrnell .
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t amed in the call as
!is - the meeting.l - -
min any, one : tht
as Judge When
his fellow citizens
eir stern protest "
reach of faith, • and
[ to any encroach
on the rights of
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ries.
Republicans. The course of Mr. Grow was
approved ;' 4 `and with what pride and satisfac;
tion did the people of this Congressional -dis
trict contrast The course of their Representa
tive with that of the • doughfaced member
from the Twelfth district; IL B. Wright.—
Had• any one at that time told any of the
leadiniDemocmts who signed that call and
participated an the proceedings of the meet
ing, that in less than two years, they would
be followingthe trail of H. B. Wright and
the - Pl*' rce idministration,' and denouncing
Mr. Grow for pursuing the very • course that
theywere then so highly approving, and urg
ing him forwardin,—tjley would in the lan-
gouge of Holy Writ, .mare exclaimed, ‘.‘./s,
thy servant a dog, that.he shotild do this great
wickedness 1" Who at that time would have
thought that such Democrats as Gco - ige Fut-
icr, William K—Hatch, A. N:-Ballard, M.
Tyler, A: Lathrop, and probably others, who
signed the call, would -in so short a space of
time, turn their backs upon those'with whom
they were then acting to check,the encroach
ments of the . Slave Power, give the lie di.
rest for all their professions for freedom in the
Territories, and be found in active concert
with Pierce, Douglas, Stringfellow & Co.,
forcing Slavery -into free territory, in viola
tion of law and justice ? It is said, "poverty
makes strange bedfellows," and truly poli-
ties cause men to turn strange and. uyfac-
countable sumMeraetlz.
While the Kansas-Nebraska bill was in
Committee _of the Whole, with what intense
interest did - the people of • the whole North
look to their Representatives in Congress,
and with what a. whirlwind .of popular indig
natiotr did the people, at the next election,
rebuke .Yorthern traitors.
When you .returned from, the Legislature,-
you placed your paper upon the true . Free
Soil platform, and denounced the eneroach
ments of the Slave Power, in as . strong lan- •
guage and with as much apparent honesty as
any paper in. the district ; and whenever your
fidelity to freedom was caned in question,
you repelled the charge withkindignation, ap
pealed successfully. to the columns of your
paper as the evidence of your course, and an
earnest of what it would be in future. The
-whole course of Mr. Grow in the:memorable
session of 1854, was fully endorsed and high
.ly approved by ydu. Mr. Grow then stated,
in his speech on the.bill, that its passage
would destroyjha Democratic party at:the
North. -
In the Gubernatorial campaign of 1854,
you claimed that the repeal of the MiSsouri
Compromise was not a Democrat 4 measure;.
that.it had hien voted for by Whigs as well
as Democrats ; that the issue-should be made
on Congress and President, an& not on Gov
ernor: that: 'was your position during. the
whole of 1854; you claimed that Free Soil
men could consistently vote for Governor
Bigler, sa l the office was not a political one,
and it woUld be folly to make the issue where
it did net in reality exist. That argument
bad great, weight with many Democrats, es
pecially 02 this part of thu
_county. They
loathed the present administration and its
policy, bye they'looked upon Gov. Bigler as
a man who had been true to the interests of
the State, and as his high office was not' po
litical,. in a national sense; they gave him
their votes. You taught the Democrats in
1854 and 1855, to make this isuue clearly
and fearlessly, wherever it really existed, and
to strike down every, =timber of Congress
who was engaged in the conspiracy to rob
freedom of -her ; long and clearly admitted
rights in Kansas. You taught the Democrats
to "support the county- and State nomina
tion; but bolt the National ;" and when, in
1855, the State ticket was nominated on a
dough - face platform, you bolted yourself, and
refused to hoist it at the head of yourpaper.
Hundreds of the Democrats of, the County ;
with myself, are now following your teachings
of 1854 and 1855. We see that you were cor
rect in your oft-repeated assertions that the
Know-Nothings, as a national party, were, or
would become pro-slavery. We followed
your advice In not making the issue on Gov
ernor and other officers where their official
action could not reach the question. We be
lieved with you that the Democratic party
was' not the protsliverY party; and, acting un
der your advice, we bolt the national party,
believing it entirely under- the control of the
Slave power, and design casting 'our votes
for President where they will tell on the, side
of Freedom. Yours truly,
. - A DEMOCRAT.
NOTE.—Since writing the above, I have
heard that you have sold out your interest
in the Democrat, left the editoriil chair, and
consekuently are no longer the mouth-piece
of the-yarty. I shall therefore in future use
your name, no further than it is cOnneeted
with the proceedings and action, of the party,
as that of any other person. .
r k A Discs-row REaroxst—The New York
Times having inquired
. what the Richmond
Whig would have to say concerning Mr. Fill
more's,disunion speech at Albany—the Whig
replies :
"As the Times is desirous. to hear from .
us on this subject, we will gratify its harmless
curiosity. We have, therefore, to say.. that
we should consider the Union, under the do
minibn of a Black Republican President, a
grievance too weighty to be borne—or rath
er that we. cannot conceive of a .Union after
such a result out the election of Fremont bas
been accomplished. In oqr judgment
triuuiph of Fps - Boil in the Presidene i y and
tho ,sundeft of 'the bonds. - Which mute us
IWould ,be simultaneous, end we shoulct be sor
7 . to think Otherwise, Ur., IrAlmore, hen
nghtl said—' the South will tot submit: ,
Is the Times satisfied •
ineligqeoqs.
ADDEESS, -
=ADOPTED BY THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICANS AS
SEMBLED AT SYRACUSE JULY 24. 1856.
Fe]low Democrats The time has come for
Democrats to declare their independence of
those packed conventions which have lately
assumed to dicfate the measures and the
candidates of the Democracy. 'That party
of glorious memory, which once spoke and
acted for Freedem r has fallen into the bands
of office, holders,, and political adventurers,
serving as the tools of a slavelfolding oli
garchy. For more than ten years the meas.:
ures of the General Government have been
directed mainly to the increase pf Slave
States. One measure has followed upon an-•
other,. each bolder than the last, until we have
violence ruling in the Federal Capitol, and
civil, war raging in the Territories.
For the 'consummation of each measure,
the venal h&ve been purchased,. the timid
frightened by threats of disunion, the peace
loving soothed. by promises of future quiet
ness, and the reluctant and resisting silenced
or overborne by the clamor and force of par- I
ty. Each success has hal to a new . aggres
sion, until at last the weak man -now at the
head of the Government, stimulated by .a
Senator from Illinois, in a rivalry for a Pre.s
dential nomination, and believing the best
means of reaching it was to seeure the entire
Southern vote, and the best means of obtain
ine that, a new sacrifice to Slavery, attempt
ed to force through Congress the repeal of
a Compromise eflected by our fathers more
than a third of a-century past. These rival
demagogues succeeded' in effecting; the re
peal, though they lost their reward.
By this act of-crime; unparalleled den in
our day of politiCal crimes, one of the fairest
regions of the country,and,indeed,ofthe w o rld,
has been cosverted into a field of battle,
'where citizens of a common country are fight
ing, with each other for the introduction or
exclusion of huthan servitude.... Such Anoth
er spectacle the world' does not
. present.—
And the end of it is dependent upon the
event of the Presidential e l ec ti on .
To excuse themselves, the authors] of the
measure put forth the plea, . that the; people
of the. Territories had the right to 'govern
themselves. If this were true ' it would- not
have justified the Kansas-Nebraska act, for
that was a mere abandonment of Congres
slcinal interposition in favor of Presidential
interposition, leaving the law-making power
, to the people, but reserving the executive and
judicial to the President or his nominees.—
It was an abdication by Congress of its legis
lative functions in favor of the executive.
But the plea was as untrue in fact as it
was unworthy in motive. They who put it
;forth hive already abandoned it. The SUB- ,
ate has passed a' bitlproposing to annul some
of the most obnoxious ads of these law-mak
ers, and the authors of the mischief, slezink
ing from the consequences- of their own acts,
and tergetting that other's will 'remember
their forgiversation, attempt to- escape some
of the condemnation by undoing a part of the
evil.
If the people of the Territories has e the
right to govern themselves, they will make
their governors and judges as well a's. their
legislators. - If they have net the right, -Con
gress has it ; and if Congress has it, it must
be exercised according to the jndgment and
conscience of the -country. The true ques
tion, therefore, is, What legislation on the
subject of Slavery in the Territories do the
judgment'and conscience of the- country re
quire 1 ]
' The iilsent question is, indeed narrower
than that, for it relatei merely to the Terri
tories of' Kansas and Nebraska. These, the
legislation of Congress, perfected in 1820 by_
the votes of the North and South—chiefly
South—solemnly and forever set apart as.
Free Soil. , That dedication of the soil to
Liberty thesdee b eneracy of the present day
has annulled. And the legislation which is
now required is that which is necessary,
whatever it may be, to make Kansas. free.
This is demanded alike by every consid4e
ation, past; present and future. If Kansas,
which the past made free,is now to be changed
to slave, there must be an end of compro
niises and of conciliatory legislation ; the
faith which prompts one legislature of one
generation to respect the engagements of an
other must disappear;. and hpw long a gov
ernment can .be carried on without faith
andeonfidence, .without something more than
written constitutions, worked by mere iriL
jorities regardless of everything but their
own strength and will; they who have read
history can answer.. •
If the present struggle is .to,end as the Illi
nois Senator hall boasted, in the subjugation
of those who opposed his mischievous bill,
then, indeed, is the spirit of evil let loose,
intimidation and violence are in the ascend
ant, the real opinion of the country is a thing
to'be despised, conscience may be laiThed
at, and It is of no importance to the Pres
ident or Congress what the people of the
,North may think; if the . South can be se
cured, aitth the northern office - holders and
purchasable members of Cong,ress, any
measure may be safely carried and rnaintain
ed. How such a state of things commends
itself to the spirit or self-respect of northern -
electors, we ask -them to answer.
But what shall' we say of the futhre? Kan
sas lost to freedom, ,and as a home for the op
pressed of all nations; free labor driften
across her borders, and that noble domain of
the New World, broader and fairer, ,than
many a realm of the Old, made, not prosper
ous and rich like Wisconsin and lowa, but
half barbarous, like Western Missouri.
That, however, is not the worst leonse
quence. The same spirit which contrived
the Kansas conspiracy, already hints that the
prohibition of the slave trade is an unjust dis
crimination against the South. And why
not? -If Slavery be no evil, or if a Federal
legislator may not legislate on the-idea that
it is an evil, why should he make it piracy
to bring a slave into the country? Why not
let each man buy according to his
- own con
science,,,what he findi to be property,
,or,
'which is the same thing, what he flnda every
where to be . salable ? The same principle
which justifies the Kansas act must justify the
slave trade, and condemn, as an infringe-.
moat upon the equ4. rights of the South, the
exclusion or the fora ign irfdri(x Thst; et"
being.ta49, and It is till , mat if - the 'PreS9nt
inuteeedstuen - S4verY Yirt*l..4:estabtah - `
nd our Slistast' fn.r.l accnrdWg... tn
high re4Oralt'igi the-PWSP the
al doctriqe of some of our courts,
Congress authorises to be-imported may',:• be
sold, any taw - or any State - to the. contrary
notwithatanding... • • •
No, fellow Democrats, our only safety is
to stogy where . we - are-to make Kansas a
Free, State--to punish.• the authors of the
present,' l agitation, and in that way, for thatis
the only way in which it canto * done, put an .
end to the Slavery agitation. •
• I • -"
'How is this tes,be aceorriplished t Byre
jecting !the . Cincinnati C4nvention - and its
nomineesfor they are inseparable. That
Convention met:'while the country, or, at:
least, all but the Sounthern part Of it, stood
grieved, and shocked by the violent: and law--
lessnese in Washington and in Kansas., But not
a word lef disapprobation did the Convention.
utter. They resoKed Upon. certain truisms
which nobody has - ever disputed ; passed - a
resolution against a Bank of the United States
as if anybody had dreamed of such a thing
for years.—a subject just as pertinent to, our
present circumstances es the Virginia. or en
tucky resolutions ; and then gravely resolved
that. every new State must fora) its -own in
stitinien, by imputationdeny in_g both to
Congress and to. the Territorial Legislature_
the right to exclude Slavery. It must also
be born: in mind, that the author of the Kan
saa act, and the nominees .of the Cincinnati
Convention have, to this day,
: declined to; ay ,
that - the people of the Territories have the
right to exclude Slavery.
-
Who' does not know that no free State has
ever yet been admitted into the Union•into
which,l as a territory', Slavery was admitted?
Who does not know that Slavery•will, go
whefeVer.a Slaveholder goes; if he is permit
ted to hake it with him ; that SlaVery exists
in Kentucky, im a higher latitude. than some
counties of Ohio and Indiana, - and in Misou
ri,.seVeral hundred . miles farther .north than
the southern of . the free State - of
Illi
nois
; !that it is an institution ' . easily planted
in -the in f•ancy;of settlement and most 'difF. 7
cult to be eradicated-in their ,tnatnrity
- 1
• But why not let the people of the country
decide-the question for themselves . ? Say these
new professors of ' Squatter Sovereignty,' .or
at least said so : befor they: intredeeed . fire
and :sword into Kansas; to .they
the. svat
ters in violation of "the right: of . the people
to bear:arrnsr —to. breakup their meetings in
violation of their . " right peaceably. to assem
blelandpetition for a redress of grievancea"_
r -- disperse their, assemblies. gathered to
i()
ma ;.0 their own laws—to burn. their houses,
bui tlwith many toils and sacrifices in • the
_Midst of the prairies- . e-0 hunt
,their wives'
and ehildren into the wilderness, their only
refuge friom the fury of these guardians of
squatters' - rights.: . Why not, let them de-,
' vide the question for thernselVeal If tli:ly
'who deride were only deciding for themselves
.there might be some plausibility iretheques
tien;•l But they decide.. for themselves and
for all future inhabitants of the Territory.--
They who come into a Territory after Slave
,ry iei introduced; have not a freochoice l in'the
matter. At the very least, wait until there
I is a sufficient population to -Make a State be-
I •1 • c;
i_fore:y .-0 ult Slavery come in, •Was it ever
fleard that when a Ship's-company is making
up ler a voyage, the first passengers who put
their Meet on board make rules for . the nine
ty who follow—rules that shall be unaltera- •
ble Until the ship shall have been a hundred
day 'at-sea ? . And was it any better to en 4
act a law that a feW squatters who entered
Kansas before October,lBss, should :'make
,
laws which' could not b alterd.for two years
even though the population: should, -• in the
next year, increase an hundred fold 1 . . ' . , .'
i • - -4-
Then,,,it is asked, what interest it:is • to us
whether the people of Kansas - have 'Slavery
or not? Is it of no interest, to the people
Of this generation;that - Virginia is it 'Slave
State? •If she .had been free, what Would
now have been her population, Ater wealth,
her resources ? Her t ivers with'v lf to supe,her
ships all over the globe, her lands cultivated
like a garden. : If it had fallen to the- lot of
any Statesman of a past generation to decide
whether that Commonwealth should :be free
or, slave, and he :had,for any motives,allowed
it to 'become slave; how 'would his memory
be
have ( len cursed by every :true_Virginian of
our: ay? Who thatlooks pow at Missouri
: does not see the bitter fruitS of that weakness.
or facility of temper. which led a few North
ern:.i
en
Te to unite with the South lti yielding
-- i -
it up, to Slavery? ' And hereafter, when we
who : are now in life ' are passing into the
grave, -will it not he -a stain upon our name's
,and a Shadow upon our consciences, if having
the Power to prevent it, we should permit
•
Kansas - to be slave—another marauding Mis
souri instead of a peaceable Towa—or.oven a
Virginia; instßad of a New-York or Pennsyl
vailia,l . . -
Mk-. Buthanan, the candidate of the Cinein-
nati Convention, stankpledged to make the
resolutions of that Convention his rule Of faith
and Practice. :If wepre.to take his own,dee
laration, he is to be rather an automaton than
a free agent. The convention which nomina
ted llim--4hat motley. .and noisy crowd which'
nob Ody would have allowed to decide a mat:
ter of business of the Smallest importance for,
him Self—has done the thinking• of,the Presi
dent{ for the next' four yeara,if Mrißuchanan,
should happen to be that President. SUch a'
candidate, under such circumstances, we cam'
not Support. , - i . .- -
• Shall we, then, throw-away - our Votes 'I
--
That; we cannot i do ; for :tiro -reasons i one;
1 that we shall thus indirectly' contribute to'
' Mr.ll3uchanan's election ; the other that there
is alchoice. Mr. Fremont, who has been
cnominated by .the.RepUblicans, is en accept;
able candidate. His. professions anteee,
dents are all democratic, and strongly in hiS'
fevOr. 'He is known to be a- -
man of. great
capacity, energy, probity andhonor. In his
hands, the Presidential otfiee• will .he v igor
otisly and. justly administered. We haVe,_
therefore, nominated him for :the Presidency,:
and this asftchite Air.' Dayton, for: the . Vice 1
• PreSidency ; and we , ask youi,Democrats . of
NeW-Yorki.to ratify thiS nomination:-
• - We maim uonttaelc uporithieSout
~. ye.
11, 1
.reMember that the Southern people. are s,
•hrethren, and weMean them so to :condi
. 1 ...
But, they shall not iaterfere,'Avith - our rig •,,:j
nor?: Introduce their- -institutions .into, . our •
States, nor, fasten the' upon the, Territories
before those:Territories are mature enough.!
to•beStat* and, - as.stich, to determinetheir
oieti institytions.. ' AVe know well how Many
nOble• men and Women lido are. in . all.tho
South, and we believe' that 'many .of them
:wit liii l i in reepeetto :the'extension. of.
A
. BTairery,'tinthe Southern' .politician-'sand'
. the 1' i Northern :; tanktOr.., who-- hava•done Abe.
•mitiehief, 04 whoOfwe wiihto , reetreiP. - .; -
We. mean no attack! arid We make none
I
upon State' rights:. W , do not,beljeva
the right of the_people of 9119. State to In ;:
fere,with Slavery in another,'* We .no
believe in the right of NetV' York to ,
slave in Georgia thin the' right-of Giorgia
make' a slave in New york. • Tit laws
New York•and of Georgia must equally:
termine the - personal relations of
13
their respective limits. But ,of
the Territories are under ihejniiscrtetioilr...
subject to the legislation Of the Union.; cl
fident that there can be no'peace in any-,T ,
ritory bordering on a Oa - ye-State:bid by
act of Congress declaring the personal r
tions of its inhabitants, [witheut eli
war is inevitable ; and believing, moreovi
that as is the Territory Aso will the State
we are firmly and unalterably opposed to
introduction - of Slavery into any. Terri
•
of the United States.. `
Such is the disorderea.state . 6l'atrairs,
der the control . Of the di l nqrid. Goyernitit
as to demand of every ettizeri the intitt,, - .*:
lant scrutiny and the graVe.Stideliberation
Each elector throughout, thectnited - Sta
has an important office to perforin at the
ing election ; and any neglect :to;, exei
that invaluaßle right, Or any indifference
to the manner . in which it shall be `ixerel
at a criSislike this, is guilty" not only of,
ordinary omission of ii,knoWn..dtity but
crros negligence , approaching criminality,,
17
How laasit..happet4 that; the :Shard - -.-
' I
islature of Kansas, eleepd. by -the co .- tub;
, influence of fraud and tome, has-dared--to
an act bearing even . the name :of law I. Ti
dared such .a body - so abuse .the._ eiviliza io.
c.ji
of thii age as to expel*Ome of - its, merti ers
for no:cause whatever,l i and pasi a Ode: o en-,
actments which Wouldldisurace - a coup -* ot .
saVagesl. , .Why has the prOperty of the.
peaceable Citizens of that Territory,been . es
troyed, their liberty' irio , cied,' and ilie.ir 114: .
.
wantonly sacrificed? H Why., the .. _ -of
- marauders - from the adjoining :State
.p.e.. ad- •
inu . this Territory 1 * ,Why the. inter ' doll ,
t, •
' of and abuse to settlers on their w;v:tiii lie . .--
and the.tone of arrogant detian&4anf.F fa use -
, ot Atehi§on i •Stringfellow and thefr assoc otes
to the Free State men of Kanaak? ,' All
.this ..
has . been dope under the -pledge,. eipr .or
implied, of the National Administration that
every measure tending to the eStablisf.' ' ent
of Slavery there, and the exelusion 'of .
dom, should haVe theibearty, coeiteiath.
that
administration.. IlkfaupOtherVl.,
-tins administration . have.: .teen. 'broken,
..
th`atpledge. has eciz: hiiit to-the fetter.:'
Why has 'Judge Kune: held . that,,..Sl
-- . -
so far exists in the Free States as to
P artie s of pleasure and ,others toinvad
Free States rwith their retinue of Slav
there to.hold them ini.the yoke of sery
Surely, it must: be to, tutor 'the :Free '
into
_acquiescence, or snbserviency to-t'
stitutiou of Slavery-. 1 " Why has, the
trade sprung up to sad' alarming sire
and been carried on., by traders: residi
the city of New-York, during the past
Why, have Mr;.Buchanatt and his as ,
at the Ostend Conference unblitshingly
'ed the right-in our Gevernthent totake
by force, if it :could not be.gained b
chase? Why has the Cincinnati Conv,:
followed:up the Ostend: manifesto wit
more startling announcement of the d
this Government to exercise a prOtee
over the - 'whole coantry - . bordering o
Gulf of Mexico ? Why hare Douglas,
and BuChanan, in succession, beeomOtto
to the new doctrine that the General G
ment.has no power to control the: T
ries ?
Why have the arms cif 'the flatten
turned to oppress our oin citizens 1
the subject of Slavery - agitated by the
dent, contrary to the express .pledg
the 'treasure of the nation poured out
fusion upon the supporters of that instit
These are questions wbielt, electors w
fail to inquire into and answer at the
•
box. - i .• .
The abuscve and indecent . epithets m 1
of by the Chief supporters ot. Mr. Bu
`against the friends of Fremont ; their.
agement of Freedom and ericotiro,e
Slavery ; their abandonment of every
cratic principle, and their devotion th
odious of all ol' i marchies,"Mustshake t
fidence of the electoral in that pimp, an
the party itself as desperate in its f 1
as it is corrupt its Means for attaini
cess. ,
If the spirit of hostility to our-free
tions, manifested by; thesupporters
Buchanan, had - been as violent duril
days of Washington, Jefferson - and 31
as it noiv is, those patriots Ipuld 'ha
driven from their native St4e for the
of liberty, and, compelled to .seek
where sentiments unison with th,
were held sacred.
The attempts of the BuChanan p • s gene
,
rally to misrepresent the true "Coed tion of
affairs in • kansas; their desire ,to ma e light
ot the depredations 'committed by tie Na
tional Administration patty against ife, lib
erty and property ; the open - of:plan, is or.si
lent, acquiescence of the same party special
appeals to brute farce, exhibited at t e.Capi
tol, of the tuition during the preseit session
of Congress; .their 'efforts to induce ing,ress
to pass the bill concocted by Senators Combs
and pouglas; containing an, iogeniim but ef
feed ve guarantee of Slavery Kell though
peesevered in with that Otani:irons-a: uronee
and dictatorial air Strongly charhet; : ristie.of
gross wrong— must and shall be th ! roughly
cativassol and e.xposo. .The' peiTie will nut
WI to stamp such I duplicity ith tented
condemnation: B. _ -
The series of measures terminittin
repeal of the Missouri Compromise,
ed 4isastrous to the political tirospee
originators and pronipters of the sch
subversive of public tranquillity,
chanan is a fresh recruit to this servi
has surrendered his principles io the
oft others.' His an(ectdeqs` a re st
pinst him. He is not a re,
e of the true democracy of the n
With his tendency to foreign aggr•
domestic :strife 'and discord, he is `c
fitted, by nature and position, to
the policy of President Pierce in all
The one has introduced civil strif,
our people as the Most notice:title f
his adrninistration--t' he other, if ,
seems likely to adopt the same
domestic policy, and tilso, to etttl . ta:,
eign viers for the purpose of:nextilit+,
convention is prepare 4 e - t° Bt
these projet4 . witi-unt,elireol4:
ble condeMnation,, E . "
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