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or Ile Nom Bill ropealiortha L;quo#,
LaW,pflast bao Owed tha 'Sonata
aroondaci b a atripiot liceope 011, and now
waits emu:moo in the Roam It will
potbably bi oil:to:trod in *owl. •
Correction.
Tn noticing the laeotioi Beidgewebn
township,.two weeks ago, we put down La
than2 Gardner elected Supervisor. It , should
have been inage of Eliotion; and Capt. ince
SiprNhau.. We'made -the note_tron2 Rion
oti; heti* the emir. •
.. 4 ikar. - A leek has completely disappointed
the_blaokilipublicans in its derel pments of
the : totnierof -the North. Withinhat ;tithe
they hive,seen the nomination or Ur. Filinore
made by the Know Nothing% an l, through
. ..-they•prOdicted that it would fall''atill ; hom i
still'ithey are now convinced that they Ira.Cre
,wofully mistaken. The main body—at' least
nine tenths of !bat once constitued the.' hig
- ' 1
press, raise the name of Filraore with alacri;
ty 'and 1. It is now that the'Republicans
can_ eeis where they stauci,—,a weaW; feble,
contemptable faction, utterly incapable of
exercising the least power in the governMent
beyond what they have already. acquired.
They-have been laboring with all ti eir
-to build :up Eno . * Nothingism, the' pa i st !two
years,And now Know Nothingisrn: has I.got
•
the ascendency ever thentrotniaated its can
didate- and' leaves them a helpless factidn.
tinr 'or five mcnts ago we 'predicted the
nomitition of Filniore era we were laughed
A 'by the *postmen tare. We :said .bere
touldibe three candidates fin the Presidency
Ind we were met with ridicule. Republlean.
ihen was going to eat up the Know Noth-
..;nrblit it seems noir to be the other *ay.
it tequireano great political sagacity to
rei now where the' contest will be in thel next
•
Presidential camas, . The ma in. body Of the
tchiig press and party 'Support Mr . I Fill
more. A f4tiencalling - themselvesthemselveslirepub
~ :.cina with &small faction of lianiocrats,; will
gappoit a third man. What formerly con-
Aituted the old Whig party will thus be di
and the Democratic notninee, Inn er
any ordinary circurestances, cannot fail, of an
e;ection. In zio probable event 'can this be
at all doubtful. Still lir. Fillnaore may be
elected. Should the Democratic con4ntion
nominate some obscure man, or re-nominate
President Pierce, we should regard . Fillmore's
elittilee se more than eveu. The Democrat
ic nominee can have no advantage oer him
n stalthern popularity', while at the - ninth a
bad nomination by the Democratsr would
give liituore, quite likely, both +5 Y:nrk and.
Pennsylvania: At all events, the Icontett
will beibetween ,the Deniocrate and Fillmore,
llnchanan woLld beat' him a perfect !Wa-r
-too. With .almost any one else ore should
1301-01 t this contest'as doubtful.
Ii lof 11.0,KssaIS OTOS. Feb. 26 tY '56 .
Dear. :---Your paper of - the 21st inst.,,
i% just received. It is not my purr* at this
-.coe to correct the mitatements:Of fact
which it . (as well as i umbeon
. praviou n rs) c s
tains relative to my Congressional action ;
tutto.notice •• the - inference/ . based thereon
impeaching my' motives and' politi4al integ
rity. have no cow plaint to matzo - in any
t tase. of *disapproval of any act Of mine,
'L
priblic or private, If it rests fupen a, correct
knowledge or _statement of tie sets -them
selves. But Ido protest against the jujus
-
tine of,• perversion of facts; i under the garb
-PrfriendAirt, in order to .jassociate names
miele -odious in the public, mind , and then
„ . , ~ ,
uponthem attempt to excite . tbe prejudices of
men. Fot'the present, however, i I content
myself with at:awing the ‘, frienOe who 'book
me from the quiet avocations Of bumble lif
mad- platted te in an . exaled • station" thilt
my "'voice ind active exertions" are still to
be devoted o the earnest 'defence and sup..
. , port of theltrinciPles of any; ")'euth and
manhood." But if they expect me in this
Catiress to endorse by any set of mine, the
repeal of the Missouri. ComproMise, which
opened to the introduction of Slaivery a terri
,. :ory lawr than the origival i thirteen colonies
. :Ind-entailed DIM the co ntry al bitter sec
di,t:Mal controversy, and upon Kansas a civil
wai; or to rote foi - any one representing
:bit question itsa distinctive; measure, they
made a great mistake in electing a matt who
had, but a few months Wore/ With all the en:
• 4::rgy of an earnest purpose and sincere comic
:ion,-re slated that repeal 10 a breath of good
faith between the two see:ions of the 'Union,
as '4,:rverterning the settled pClicY of the gov
' ernment,and as violating the Spirit , and go
nites of ihe institutions of tbi. I,epablic. At
APitl Court, -should it be ixissible for me to
Jame here at.that, time, I Wil examine the
!sucnaarsent: stone" lbt iot a propose "to
rear 1:f the :aide of poli cal pathway"
c
and decipher 'its iyiscriptioi t such of my
-tteinstiments is may desire to - ituess the rez
' - .audiatiort. 'Hoping that n the ,meantime
they will bsa: in mind
,lurti - " one side of
story is always good until the other is
`loike you I trust the !day, it not tar distant I
tittiSr . the people will break the shackles of
ileeludOe---WperetheyFvill' for themselves 1
_ in whai manner desigiling:m4n are i m po s ing
19013.lbelpi is tie mear i ktine 1 atetoaterit
- *leek. litiffenuy the nee t. I -
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"itheir Sir : ' I esteefie itiet - '. *WI .
lot yearsof.the24 , lll,:rit.,'44o tgi ihijrablie
.*itisiatiastauTit.: 1 , ; ---_ i
NOM,* 4sinrs beiwr I osa . Ottastit-this
,
;yep hay, never had *?ore constant and de
votitd friend, pc litioillx and personally, than
I hemline. This - ,bole community knoirs
thin,- 4merybody wholhas`read the Deatacn2t
since i have twee coneoted lift!' fh knows
th tl.
is; Why then do s;ou insihnita tkutt'.l as
au " tie garb.of frt i endship,7 u t i c ter Whi c h
to. keh "i,perveraion bf Arai 17 - .
Barron.
I have pointed out what seemed to tne as
•eivors in your e r, ourt6 as a Reprer.entiiiive, but
I have done it in no.l unkind Oirit.. I •have
attributed to yoc n bad 'motives, bat have
.
thoeght_that foe erred iljudgment. -. I dup..
pose you are but Saab and blood, and there.
Fore liable to err as 'iv all are. And I sup-
posse that-it is elso duty u s public jour
nalist., to note the notion of the 'peoples ser.
yenta and, inform thns thereof. If the press
haa nactlsis !idea% izu'Oss what Pecuti•
ty trre pep' plo hare . Sgainst the misszonductiof
their rdete.l
I baraeltffered w ith you in opinion as to
the canine you should have 'pursued in the
organization of the present' Congress, but 1
IMII
suppose we may di@eria opinion on a polit
ical question .withont a personal quarrel:—
Other men differ ot9l;olities and _yet
lain the closest reional relations of Mend-
ship. lam tot 'a*are that . I . cherish arty
feelings towards You, personally, differing ,
from those I hai , e e4r cherished, and if you
'cor your friends, as some of them have,choose
to assail me with Coarse brutality, they will
have he field td themselves.' I shall not.
.retort. , I may pit` their folly and, Weakness,
but shall not regft, the loss' of a friendship
which they thus show was founded only on
considerations ofolitical 'advantage which
they supposed their ,might reap by professing
to be my friends. ' • • '
I may appeal th this whole peeps to bear
;no witness, that in what I have written, not
on° word or line Can be found showing the
least personal bitterness, or containing one
ungentlemanly epithet. Nor will I be swerved ,
from this position... Nothing Shall provoke
to into a personal difficulty, or
_quarrel in
any manner, fur 1. mean when you Shall re t
corer your better 1 4 ensei, and - throw off the
Strange political hallucination which- now
seems to have taken the most complete' cone
trol\f your itulgment,--,* and when, too, you
shall see, as ycu twill within' the next eight
teen months , to 'what a depthof political a
basement the 4+l and ever constant foes of
the Democracy and of yourself have brought
you, by using your inigence now to weaken
that party and prostrate its principlw.„---Issy
when you shall see this as your real friends
now see it, I mean you shall look back-upon
this difference of opinion and be forced to
acknowledge, least to yourself, that yoUr
best friends were those who pointed= out yotir
etrors.
LlV,lten you wire sheltered by the panoply
of tllemocraey of this county, their opl6-
nents;thtlighsthey often directed their moat.
,
powerful effc atilt° accomplish your ponoCal
prostration, cflald- never reach a hair of your
Ittad— Those men, and the press that used
to team with vituperation and bitterness tow
ards you; are now the sole defenders of your
course in this Congress Do you susliose
they -love you any better than they did two
or thpee years ago, when.they .were abusing
and regretting their inability to defeat you I
No, sir, they tiveyou . no better than they
did then, for they hare not changed in In y -
thing sari
.thl .' if name. Then they %rem
W ---
higs„now, in the dens and Cares of the
earth" they are Know ; Nothipiek and, as a
fraud to catch' Votes in publiC, they are Re
publicans; This name of Repablican is an
A ' r I pi \ Th ey '
old cloak for t ese gent.e en. ey ;used
to call thentsJlvesFederalito, till they shade
that name so - Odioua under John Adams, by
their. Alien anis. Sedition Laws—pure Know
Nothing measpres—that they could no i Ion•
ger deCeire the people and obtain power.—
Then you .ail i recollect they chritged 'their
names to - Repblican. rihr few years it was
t
found by the -people to be the " same cid
coon," and 'they changed, to Whigs. -; This
, they kept ti 1111852, when they found them
selves again Tecognized, and back they. go
to Republican. But all the while it is "the
same old Ctien." Thereare not twenty of
the old Whigs of, this county, who are ;not
now in thiS Republican party. ft - has the
same press, the same leaders, and the same
voters that 1..- of Whig party had, and they
are Operatjut for the same purpose that
they operat t d t ~old Whig organization.—
It is true that they also, by the fraud of
changing nunies, and by the aid of the K. N.
Lodges, Itae drawn in some Democrats, but
so far as I Can observe, those Democrats are
leaving them now, very last. They, have
got their. eyes open And begin to see the i
cheat that has been 4) upon --
raCticed them.
A.,
Now, friend Grow,-ycin cannot pretend that
you have not acted, 4nring the wit Ai of this
Congress, with this 1/411 iLlan party. You
voted-all their nomitre ' the organization
of the lltntte,even to ' side vote for 'Cellein,
ai3 old.. southern, • - Whig, Know Nothing,
Slave hold r , and yet you complain because
the Dent rats, alto elected you, in direct
opposition to the principles of this W'big,
Know Nothiug; Republican, Federalist party,
remind von that you are-not dela; as - : they'
expected you , Would. I tell yon ; Mr, Grow,
m
if the
_"Den had supposed you would
act.with_their opponents 'after , election,—if
they bad supposed' that you woud 'stand by
and side rotesfor a pro-sl avery Whig
Know Nothing, agairust. even 4 pro-slavery
Detnocra4 you well'knoW, or ought to know,
that you'iould not now occupy a seat in
Cengress.l You _never would have received
the.nomination of the DereocritirC party, and
without that you could ' not bate. been elect
ed, for themen in the opposition, now R 4 loud
iti your pr aise and defeuseoben would hare*
gloried in your prostration. , And , they love
Pa a° -*tar, now. They . irfril Praise . and
pet and lawn, jesst, as they hive with Oa*
otheee t uriams fate should lie your, warning
but they ; lio it ialy :beams tboy hops to
1 wit a Algootiott it AU? Pagnoetstio . 'Patti,
by which 44.147:4 0 40P,P00i lad t Cargr
!pot their eid sail aliSassabilimi-4id 'ri'
gl7 Ism audio* till their raises is air
atnplished,then,you - n4ll lod.'yOatsett where
"rely Misr' mai *tie Ail '• Salle* bete AO
snare s tens found:hmatitlf,, deserted I,y his old
friends and dis Carded by Wm new ones. These
men dare the belt in the world Who would
give yon political prominence further thin
their own purposes may force them to. As
soon es they have, through . your influence
with the Democrats,sequired strength enough
to airy elections, and mako a permanent
dominant party, by which they ca be eleva
ted,to power and place, the* they wilt drop
ran as kuseless jaeninberaude, and perhaps
. .
as a dangerotts This, yon know, htis
been their bistoryotthtt it is strange-Abet, so
often ma you haxe exposed all these things to
the people of this county, in therAnt.st,—with
u many *taupe* of the kind Wore you pa
yoil bare bad in tbii county during your N.
liticai career, ;-»I BAY it is pass ing- strange -to
your real friends that you should now enter
upon the sane road, trusting yourself to the
same, piratical Well dO . II remember
a *nark 'puce heard yOl2, make
. on the
stump, in referencei•to a bun, who, inteilec-
Litany, was much superior to whit you or I
can ever hope/to be, wha . *as thou in. union
with the Whigs of this county endeavoring
to prostrate the Democratic party. - You.re
,
member that :in those days you! used to-be
very severe on - those Demficiata who were so
unprincipled as to leave their party and go
Over to the Whigfr—now called Republicans.
The remark Was this, " lle..willtind that it is
Much easier Ito kick himself out of; the Dem
ocratic-party, than to kick the Democratic
party over l 7 The point and force of the
remark made •a deep impression upon my
mind, though I was then very young, and I
fear that unless you •alter your course soon,
you will realize, the truth of the semi-
ment experimentaly. The man to whom yoi
applied the remark realized it. For though
possessed of eminent ability, great;industry
in politics; , and most undoubted earage, he
was onbralde to hazard the su'eeeia :of th e
party fur a year or two, , as you !nay do, and
then found hinrelf without Politioal standing
anywhere.: Your friend* would gladly save
you from-Such handliation, tali how blia)l
they do it , svb.en you. persist in : giving aid.
and comfort to their ell'entieN I
But, friend Grow, of one • thing in, your
letter I have a right to complafn.... You 'say
that I haie mss-stated : factS relative to your
Congressional Action, that -is,' that I have
statesliali.elloods„—that you have , not done
what I have alleged. 1; should have bt'ren
obliged, And I think that courtesy demanded
`frOrci•you, inasmuCh as you Wroteyour letter
foi the PUblic, - that you should have pointed
out My false stateMents. The - wholesale
eltarges,,of mis4serments are very - e asily made,
and someti m es serve A good purpose In pro
teetion„ But in this*. case ao 'material' inia 7
!statements can have been .made, ,I for I hae
taken four yotes from . the Congressional,
Globe, the official organ of Pongress:
.t have .
,stdieti that you 'first . v 9 ted .for . l.siieorts for
Shenker; : A free-soil, Anti. Kuovi . 'Nothing .
Democrat; that you afterwards changed and
went - vi Banks a Know Nothing Itepubliean.
I have stated also that you - voted on the side
volmJftir Cullum of Tennessee, Who was a
Whig all nis life, and elected to GOngress ris
such, who two 'years , ago ran for Coitgre-As on
the Know Nothing ticket and was defeated.
That he is a pro-slavery Know Nothing. ar d
was supported as such by the Southern Know
NOthings for Glerk, and that he 'is . a -slave
holder, holding ; not one sentiment in common
with-,oorthern 'free toilers on the Slavery
question. Yon voted against tailing the re , -,
dation `by which he, was elected, thus aiding
to bring the resolution before the. House. and
then, a „few moments after, in the rote direct,
you dOdged,—did not vote at stll. And
these Statements are t trae,'else the - jrecords - of
Congress are false. flow, was it Mr. Grow,
that in your hatred for old Whig : -princi pick
and for - Know :Nothing principhO, sad for
pro slavery principles, ..you could, help Mr:
Cullum, who embodied the whole of these
- doctrines, to, get'. his Resolution i=before the
Ilouse; but could not' font time to vote,
against him I 'live, at least, was one in
stance where you might have voted with the,
'DernoCrats and voted 4g4inst Whigisru, pro-i
slaveryistn, and Know Nothingisat, and yet
like l'aul.at the death of Stephen, you stood
by consenting to them all 1
It seems that you here-were acting against
the DerciocmtsWhen by acting wi th, them
votsta -- ight have aided iii defeating men who
profeirs the very principles you abhor. These
are the statementsl 'have- made r:4 - your Con
gressional action, and jf they are false, then
the official records of Congress -are false for
•
I no* have thein befirre me..
Ypu may saythat Cullum: voted eget . *
the 'sebraska Bill. So he did, but as his]
speeeh shows. fur no such reason as You VOW
against it. lie voted against it, ana, so de
-,
claMd, because he' thought the',-, principle of
sqUatter-soiereignty less secure for. the
.slave
luterest than yougressional protection. And
that Lei f:flown to be sound. for • the South
is evident enough, for all, or nearly all, of the
Southern : Know; - Not Iti suAsiined and voted
flit;` him. it doei,seern to me thatlf you had
lunch of Democracy left, you Might very Well
hate shown itf by voting against this man fur
Clerk-Of the House, instead Of in:effect. co-
thig for him. And, it is fOr such men, pro
losing sach priticiples,-, 7 4n old broken down
Whig, Ennajlinthilig, proS;avery, twelfth,
sectienut y 913 3re going: to ask an :en 7
deirserneut from yourDernocraiie constituents
next oourt,l 0, my friend; Grow, do
not attempt the - perilous task ofjustifying
this
. pariof Font,. congressioas I action'."—
,not,Zl„' beg of You, attempt4o male :dent- I
eirersits believe Cullum , a mati . .that any dem
otMt, or free
~soiler, of the least claim to prin's
ctpte, should cot % , oto . ngainsti The best , way
you eau get along with: this,is toown up:that
'betted of do 4 iatyoirrhould have stood 'tip
:with: manliness and . cour4e and voted
L ageitist . ItWeverf-tiona - - You will not even
pretend that! be eau be trust*d . by the free
Whilben, being .-an
etoert 01*,14q, down lylll4l Noth
iloo ll ioPisicetini-4 6 .140 you then •
.It-104iibspoiiallilso-not .. a free
. 14410, - bit, *4* whom ;Pm *am eup possd to
are . - a k a otbeft.poiitioal pointy. Bow is
fit cb+tt roktimsti:loonitted sit !it ihtitiedi ..of
a pro-slavery Democrat beinfelecipl to pp
aition in the general government, yet hare'
not a word pf' remonstrance, but on the con-
trary, can aid a rmalavet7 Know! Nothing
to gain ono of the most important! pu:Ations
in Congress
You say your constituents had no right to,
expect you •to endorse the repeat :ix the Mis
r riConipromise.‘ Well,.nobodyi has u•dted
you to du iL. When .you found that the old
enemies of the Demoeruey Were 4etermini:hi
to force free soil Detnocrata into 'voting fur
Know-Nothinp, in order to vote free soil,
elected as you were, you should, in my judg
mutt have said to them, "gentlemen, this:l
shill `neier do. lam a true oiler, 1 ‘1:141
elected as suck, but my constituents think.
quite as much of freedota.fur tt
tjta white tuu
as the negro, quite as tnu eh of the grest twin-
ciplei of civil and religinos freedom for
tweatyfour millions Of American citizens, as
for three milliou slaves. If you desire to
turn the repeal of the Itlist t oini Complomise
to mere'party advantage, it shows bow tittle
you cure for freedom.. I "cauuot trubt you
and shill not go with jt. You can - not
loran the to swallow youi odious dogma's by
- plastering them over' with free soil. It is a
inere.cheat with whiCh 4 will have nothing
to -then yen shoPhl have selectod some
respectable a n ti-K . o w-I4Noth leg, anti-Nebr.:is-.
Ica Denkrerat, and . voted fur him from first to
last," solitary and altine;" if need.
thehends'et thot.e whf) flersisted in mixing
- the free soil r.entiinent with other and ohnox
ious questions, fur m4e personal and party
advantage, would h4ve rested the respUnsi
bility of titilure to otaniztt , the notice by the
etectiokof it free soil man aml not on you
And itoui eunstituoits would have sustained
. -
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you triumphantly in the nosition.,Yun.:4RAl
1
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w
remembertLat nu rung was ever righted
by committing onejereater. Su you will nut
4-Tvr
be apt to'domunh to !me the county by juin-
ing with party that cannot point to a sin
gly principle in din policy oldie:government
that they have no( in its -day opposed. A
.pooi guarantee in.ieed i this party give ! , you
that it will ever aquotn oliA ittlVtliittg of hen-
•
cfit to the country' ! of to freedom..
You Imo lep t npinse:heing 11,:socittted with
"nameA in:tile ll oltrioits in the public Initol."
'the tuitne,othat4 4413N:tied sou with were
Giddings, Greeleyiguid Jewtti Je,sup and
bia frien& in this ',Jowl will undold).tedly be .
flattered withke>pitn . idiment—win be Ott-
ified to know
an •' ndiout" u
Again Sot. present. I content
myself with as: nd• who t o „k me
from the quiet hulithle life :dot
placed me in poAtion, that my
voice and aeti \ _!ie '
atill ti.t be de
voted to"the eartiest. defence And support, of
. ,
the'prineiple: of ? 14 youth _and - manhood."
If you mean thi"si in its kerat troth—that is, 1
that your active exertions henceforth as in
the pat are to t,r; g iven to .the Democratic I
, ~. I • ,--,• .- , - -, ,
party, you win ttuttlethe :smarts i)r. your oi4
friends glad—t4yWould try )hard . to, shit
their eves to the igeord of the past iiiiths.
But you denot tuean it so. Your old)
cue
niies- who have leery, sterldt;nly beeinne your
friends too, if they s:hOuld believe 'that-x(76
meal this, that 'you had determined *.o , tllO- •
portthemeirsuies and• men of the deinorrat
ie party , rightiOg party wrongs in the party,
not out ofiP 7 -1; say lf this b your , honest
meaning, and they.: he made to believe it,
your new tlietkis , would atm-e you worse
than ever it': two weeks. lint- you do tint
Mean any suchirthing', You intend to sup
port- the candidate of this Know•Nothin:r.
Republican, Ft ion party, whoever lie may
be, against thAi l ipeerless statesman and 411-
. Awerving Demi:knit, so justly the pride of
your own StatO and the glorj of the . whole
nation among the great powers olthe..ealth---
I mean 11010 s PudllkNA! , 4 Yes, friend Gnaw
1 1 / 4 a. aainst even lam, it is known; and:you (10
cr
not deny. it,yon intend to stomp thi4 Di.s,
trict for.S'orne rtilserable, mischievous, section
al agitator, , a tnere disturber of public tran
r.
.(pitlitv,wito,e inisled rtiirld fattens and - feeds
on sectional stfife,' discords, and hates'. A 1
tnan like this pie opposition will have in the I
field, and youi will support him against the
Democracy, it deed you could not do other
wise now, si•ifil yeUr recent . curnmittals, if
. eon would. tint you intend to support him,
`and have donh for the last year.. You know
this to be so and you kno.r . , that. I know - it.
-What is the Use then in your intimating that
you shall' stwp in the future - where yiiu have
vil.wava:stook to wit, with the . Democratic'
party? I cats see but one ohject you can
have, and that is this . , to still maintain some
standing in Ole Denaneratie party, so, that
When the final break shall come next fall you
can take a 14rge proportion of the De"motats
with . you to the tamp, of.- the enemy. You
will fail in this: . There are not twenty Demo : .
. . .
crats in this leounty- , that will go with you
that would not go at any rate'. The Wino
emts have fiitind out' the character of:this op-,
position, and, they are not to be got into their
.
ranks on any eintsideration. - -
Finally, (fiend Grow, have you ever set 1
down sehedy and. Censiared where this fn.
siva of Whigiery, and Know-Nothingism i
will lead yOu l , Let us:look 'at the subject a
moment ea mly. . You callilin expect, sup-'
posing
~
thi 'Kansas difficulty: -to kept,
I
_open, foi :he next ten Years; that 6J-oi:tiled
States Senitte can be so revolutionized - as
that it wouid restore the Missouri Comae
, 1 t , • ..
tilibe line. IWe 211-Inow that it will take at
least ithat iiine, -with. continued success, to
change tit* li'edy to a free soil majority.i-- . -
By that time we shall not have a single fOo' t
of territory on this continent that will not be
admitted as Suites. Within : the next.
, tWo
years Kadtas wilt be admitted,, and thus the
whole dia.-...111ty • will . settle itself. 1 sav the
- , !
tacit two years, because it - will probably- nut
be done 60 the next C?ttgrOss shall tweet
Whinli wilt have a dint:fuer:4oe majority.. This
Conran tl.f KnoW-Nothing:Republieats Will
not admitiliansiti-u a free State, for. : that
weal(' '4lt+ny. all grounds for agitation and
dinitrhanne, ithing . that they .de net want
. 4004yed.i . They Want it for a hobby to ex-
Ai the *plitsritb il'-'...onier, that. they may
litikept it(Willine. .Itiit . the ',nest .:Congtwee .
- will admit K ansas ; , and then whoa - will he
P*. Plbhcatt ?arty t it ‘Ol "W 43 like
. •
norning dew. The country setvin .dOWn
into int Wontncl'Tepose,,the Democratin party
dill be everywhere victorious, andj where
then will be . those Denv!?cratii who, like you,.
have been deluded - onm their party into this
party of a day t I will tell you where they
will •be. They- will be stink so low, -PolitiCal
ly, that, no resumed:on will ever teach them I
Till after the Presidential election tibia organ
ization may be kept up ; but, in - the
b nature
p
of thing canaot;be-lottger. .-Kansas diffi
culties form the only • bond of onion in the
'shape : of principle that the - Reprblinan party
has. Of court then it falls when thOse
diffi
ttnitiet Anil lie setiled, auct they are settling
iitem .„
elves very- fast..- ,
• • 4.
- Until lR received your letter of the 25th, I:
had intended topsay no more rtheut your
" Congressional action." That has
,forced me
to write this. If you are coming here April
Court to justify-your votwtylin wil(undonbt
etily have...an audit:nee:- &Ow ofi!'yeur old
friends. will be there as listeners, and crowds
of your old enemies of " odionS' names"
there to' shout and cheer, because
they will have additional aid in their Crusade
agitinst.those whom you. were once-proud to
to call-.your-friends, and who Mood. around
y o u.like a wall of: tire when those . who will
f;;llt.)itt and cheer were attempting to prostrate
your personal us well as politic4.charaeter.
And as your friends they. will r.oottinecomplish
what they could notllS your enemies. If any
sacriiie I could make would .save,yon from
tit Should most - cheerfully be *den
TsUly'your friend, .E. I:3.4CuAse.
Editor of Montrose; Democrat,--9 •
Wilryou an old suppor
ter of your paper and of the'Deiiionrotie par
--
iv room. to express o few thoughts to t he De l
moeraq of this equnty„ In doing' so I shall
find it neeesrry to be somewhat inquisa•
ive,
First, what was.the condition of the Demo
cratie, party in the fall of 18'541 This ques
tion can, be answered without a, multiplicity
'of worth. The party, fonud themselves in
this .cotitity hurled from their proud and long
-ustained position of ascendency, down to a
miserable minority.
Why was this sol why was the Democrat
ic, party in this county driven frnin 1000 ma
jority down to 800 minority 1 Many reasons
have been given fur this great change. Some
say. Wilmot sold out the party to secure his
election to the U. S. Senate. Odters . Say it
was because the DetnoCratic party as an'or
winized body strengthened the pro-slavery.
'party of time country in the great contest be
-
tweett slavery atul freedom.
I am one who,betievi...s in Alto two lastrrea
sons given t;t• this great, -this' .unheard of re
versal Of eublie action. What other causes
co: rbteed to produce the result. . Ido not
knew but tho-e two catisro. of themselves were
in my: mind stifficient,to do it.' i After the de , '
feat of the party the activefriends of the' par
ty here set thetn-elves at. the wOrk 'of aseer=
mining the cause
. of their. : defeat, they did'
not believe die party was in faVor of the Ne
braska and KILISAS Bill.. They - did not be
lieve the party held to pro-slaverydoctrines
and they.teNoived to test this Matter the first
\
opportunity. In august, 1855, one of theH
large;it conven• ions ever held
assentbled at Montrose. There war life and
activity in every individual Of Abet large and
int e lligent:assemblage of the Demo - cEacy.--
Every . Delegate and every Dentoefat .was' free
in expressing his, sentiments. No
_ten' men
could be fetind who did not htirn with indig-i
nation at The thought. of being charged with
adherence to those repugnant pro-slavery doe,-
trines. The Convention organized and Fro-:
creded to business. The first thing brought
before the convention was the appoiutment"
i,fa cotinnitfee to draft Re , olutions, express-,
ive of the pollt*cal doctrines' held by the De 7 '
mocracy of Sosq'a county. It vas alleged
that our political enemies . had deceived the
people by false charges upon- u 3 as a„party,
accusing us of being a pro-Mayer) , party,-.
that we endorsed the Nebraska
we justified 'Pierce and his; 'Cabinet in their
participation in - this. iniquity. The Coturni ,
tee was appointed.and retired , . in due time,
Alley reported a set of Resolutions empliatic-;
ally denying that the party approved of those
doctrinei imputed to them 'hy . •:.their ettemie. , l•
in short the Viesolutions were strong free son,
• .
they were presented to the . ' Convention, an
s
passed by universal:consent as the:Platform
of the party in this county.
Upon this plaiforni a set Of candidates
were presented to the people for election, and'
what was the result I 'They were beaten hy ..
suialt majorities; it is true, say from 11; to
200. But the friends regarded' this a great
triumph.. It proved - .conclusively that:the
free - soil platform
. was highly ':'satisfactory! to
the people. One yegr before we were beaten,
au avarage majority against its of 900. j If
the democratic party, reaffirm their adher
ance to the doctrines they have enllorseti in
those resolutions ,and act up to the senti Meat
as well as profess it, iu one Short year,hey' i
will gain the trtumphant aseendetrey again . l
in this eountY. But if they 'falter or attempt
to ignore the - question, their doom. is sealed.
The idea of ceasing . agitation, Cr in Other
words ceasing, to a - dvocate . the - cause of - free+
dem against the storm and siirges.of the Slav,i.
power at this titne is suicide it is like laving
dOwn your arms while you lire engaged 4.
close and deadly combat with an enemy fa/In' ;
ed with all the weapons of : warfareTitit
contest between Slavery 'and freedom,.; out
of the reaiili of pacific' operations. .(1 '.4oact
mean that war i* inevitable.) But: t'reiloU As
and-slavery havegrapPled, and one Malt fait
and the Other triumph: - 3iat
for - the neat President, he_tianniit ititip this
• • :f.
contest. It 10a war of principle , - agamstra
great and dangerous evil.- a -guesiton
'that takes hoi4 .of-the ; very te,pul of the citriat-
;_he will not easSe to. condemn it though.!
all the futictiousties is the' world forhaliiiii.
• ,
Its a question that i st i rs„ the heart :et.tiery
.;
mother t ia the free state" (that fit Ai? he Call
ed
,u;Other) ...She, pray,
ens agaituit the slavery 'end -digriOatioa of
her own' sex, thOugh.yOu shut her.lo:.ttliin--:
est agailig' sueh
Commuications.
Co. Feb. 48; 1856.
geon. The 'Pre:titlent - via say the,' ebbing
. •
anti flowing : of the tide just a. ea sy as b ecalm
pr e vent the Well:lugs of the. Anti-slavery sen
timenta nf the people °film . free Statim. One
thing and one only' can - stop, the-strife..--tlet
the south catati,their efforts to extend the in-,
jell of Slavery hoycind its - present.limits,- then,
the Strife will cease, then. the Country will
have repose - , and not till them
tt!iderstand front
.reading . the Montrose
Demperat that t. intend:i to Ceas e advocatin g
the catiSeof the-frie sett sentiment.. -That it_
goes in for 'Butihanan as - a conservative inan
and is confident 1 0. his eleCtion &c. Novi
friend Qhase have you evei thought of the try- ,
ing situation anch . a positida of 'Demo
cratiC party will place, all Democrats Who are
- free Sailers . in; yOu ',e4tect., thtfipte of
any honest free7Soil man ior a conservative
~candidatet there is no - such thing,
As finding a Conservative pelititiOn-' tit this .
•
time in. the -..ctinfittrV,-;--he that not for is
against us. ' , -EVery. statesman in the Union is
either fortheNorth or the Stitatit in this
con
test-now - going on The cry Nerth; no
South, no EaSt, no West;{' is . Cotatettiptahle .
hypeeracy, and Made - to deceive,: . come from
whom It Ml 4 If the deinettratie party are
going to take conservative grounds in Allis'
count v. andShaek tlieinselves-off the-platform
theYidattedtlhcinselve.s en In - .1847 and r"af-:
firmed it',in ilB3B and -141ged . their truth
-
thatltheir sentiments weie.'honestly put forth
in their gesOlutions, 1-say . y this is what the y .
are going t4clo they vrip try a. dangerous
experiment; One that they; will ritpent of in
sack. cloth and ashes.,
I have written 'ahnve in,,no factions
-spirit, have made no pr dit.tions hitt what
thelpast hi4o ry • fully jitetifies. - 1 desire' this
NyithOtit. t‘bridging, it,
I I
ext:ept, of course, correcti on of grain:Weal of
other eriorot, which I'llope you will do. . .
IlesPectfully, . . • B. G.
To the iPoblie.
H A report having been ; circulated in, this
cummuntt.3. 4 . as coming from..me, highly pre
judicial to the eh sracter - ejf JOlin F. Dunmore;
coil doing Ihim great injustice,. to the etreet
that he was ften takingHf wood from a pile
drawni to him by Jug 1 ,I §lterer, and. which
• had net been measured rind paid for, for the
parpos cif deftatuling 'Sherer, I feel
bound; ini jasice to • Mr. Dunmore, to de
Clare that there is no foundation fur such a
report ; and furthermore that I have never
intentionally or. knowittly asserted that- . it
Was true; but• believe the charge to have
*holly originated from it he mistake or ma!
ice or &tier -persons. CLESIONS.
Moutrcise, March 541400. • '
. - . • vap •
•
. 1 1 F ftr.the Deinocrat.
f .
iiAßFoup, "wen $l, loop.
Messrs
For the I purpi•Ae of cjrrecting the mi-state-.
•
Went:4 oir a communi ,
cat; o
in in toe Republ icon
wtek, relative to our township election,
I send yOu the following facts.
For Jildge of electiOns, Truman Tingley,
re ,, trai Dentocratie nominee was elected over
Stephen S weet ,K. N.
; For A , 4sessor, John,.l-Leslie, regular demo
trat; and adopted cit4eni was elected over
11)..P. Tiffany, K. N. .
. .
constable i E - ... 7 . Green an independant an
ti K. T Whfg,
.n-Oinin!aieil and .run - br the.
Dethoerati, was elected over J:D.ltichardson
ilotninsied.by the K. N.
• . Superci: , or, Sherlie,:t? Carpenter t an indepon
,
darit anti K. N. Whig, nominated by the
Denibcrats had 68 v4e,i, and Tyler Brewster,
the itepublicani candidate bad 26 votes.
J. Harding, xK. Whig, ran as
received 89 votes on
account ofhli . localitY . • - •
. -
Auditor, Simeon Tucker, regular : Democrat
was elected over • \Vilmarth, K. N.
:Zera Very - and S. Fillet, both, Demo--
crats,_Were eleCied $...di00l Directors over P..
and Gr r Everett,' . Whig .- The
Directors were run en the question of a . high
or luvk tat for building school houses. -
ToWn L. Tiffany was elected
o'er 'Monto - Abel, n iralell)endant anti K.N.
Whig, run by the‘Dotnoerats:.
Tteasurer, .Dexter Sibly, K. N., was, dee
.l •
ted z#er P. Carpenter; an independant anti
K. Whig, rue by the Donut' rats. -
This,cousideringi how Harford• has gone in
the. iksz, we call si I)ernucrati&iictory. ,The
Repeibleean sayithfat the oppasitiOn-inade no
etfori. on the day of election,. Now h
• •
is known here thatithey met 14 t their Lodge in,
buci. A. M. I . :itran i y's building ten days be:
;
fore election and fOrmod their ticket. Thee
tnet !there dogs a 4 all. and proceeded tuba-
idueS.s by electing iOI':XTER, • OBLY'S - DOG;
,ESQ„ door-keep 4.: luis worthy officer wal.•
di4c r .r•mied at 1614 . . poS( •early, and remain-
Oteir ' faithfully , supposed with
•
itheir new adds, te.dogS, ~the K. N., Would
leurry ther ticket tatunpisantly. But we
gave them g Od s ha tie and yuuliave the re-
W. •
.. lisnistes Maiciansa.—We have received
I.
fro l li W. P ATTO ', llobokett,lsl. J., the March
number of this well conducted periodical,.
which, after al c,areful perusai, we pronoun Ce.
1 •
Beeond to none on our list. It will bet,seen
by Mr. pATrO.OB wivektisemint, in our paper,
that he being an extensive 7 lfook dealer; will
furnish persons of various tastes, with books
to suit, on as reasonable terms as could be
- ,
e4pecied.
The. Pii4sidesit's,fteception.
A distitigt4hed la.ly writing from Wash
.
tOgfon fur teed New York Tribune; gives a
(;11.eription Otione..Of h u reeeetions of .
l + 're intent Piert.e fruin which we tuake the
fultow ing. ext rant .
j . 'Pe- Nest ef hats, through: the an
te chamber a!l:litiing dining room, into the
Tinting-room ttself—ier the tamtatnt a retreat
for shawls-aunt overphoos. Plawing
the hail wit ett.eifil the reeelAien-rtiont. where
Nmall man izing 'us, we Were presented Ai)
President fierce. This was ray lint look At
fa gentlemen. whosie name tilts so large a space :
pia the politieal vacillations (4 .the dap—
Now 1 inn Woall4ol sad or coarse liaow eery
little abgat itadi ml 7 add, that,.is
getting to be eo km A, parant‘ that titre
00 1 tiiriritail,,yto may take my op
!deism for ,whtit • it_ le worth. In General
'Fist 44l ""1N0 400 ..b1Y 440 4Idtita. TUr lt
a gentleman, and unless I misread - appeanni
ces, lettgerhearte4; generous man. Now 1
um well aware this will create
.quite an up:
roar in our little houseluild'; and father Who
would not let poor James,complete his insi
gne portrait gallery of the Presidents ,by
brinciug that of General Pierce into'the home
and threw out diverse and sundry hint* the
made, ux think forlthe moment he would„ for
get his staid habits and punch Some - thin or
somebody, will, Chuve no doubt, disown me.
Well, V alAde by, my assertion, and whirr
'history comes to clear away the - rubbish of
daily papers and windy speeches, this hump
back tyrant who _murdered those babes
she woods, KBn4as and
,Nebrwsks, will he
found a fair-proportioned gentleman. I. say
so, and retying upon my woman's instinct;
egardless of cuntradiction,thatth:enerni Piero
is a kind imarted, generous . impuisivairatihor
man.. N'otliing could ort i a ' sal -the easa;sted
dignity
_with' which he .
.roceival Ontylomit,
crowd. • I ' .
Another gentleman idezed ns—not a sista
one this time4and presented us to Mll4
Pierce. She, too, hada auliittfUr us, but it
was so mixed with weariness and sorrow that
I turned away painedv, Power had come 1111-
most unsought to those inmateeof the %ai
d, ntisi ursasionl i i but 'affliction Cam. -
And to them' thew; haila are . dos:44.A*
dreary,, and by 'their *Moan the while., Wal4.
a shadow. whichsays, VanitY., irtnities....: .
ail is vanity.
tihrietelter: its Wribluirtaiti.
• A Washington letter writer ...tells Abs.:lel
lowincr, in 'speitkin,crof the presencti'of Rbilos
ophitai reeley tit the Federal
A trio of lriSh xervantswerebusily,taliting
politiesin the eorner of. the .readitivroots,
(Irish servant, axe,. great : p«Jitieiao
. het
,when one of thew suddenly exehtlnied'it„-
." lie j:ibers;;hoys, and there% '..Ottld i. 411910 0.
lev l" •
•" Where r esciairnod his'aom~isniocs with
muuh inter e st, in . their cooks as they tiould,
naturally exhibit-on being. told tbsi:SCPittel
rink or Bit•Lhtli:4llls4lls befoTethetuili.
Standin' hp the .tahle-„talkitel7mi4
'the-tall letnan."
•
The llibertiiarts gazed cnonsly,..erej
tent l} at Horamifor an -instant,.
}youngest of them,. apparently a late ta3mta4
tiott, with wonder in his voice, ob ed,t ..-!
" Sure an' ha's a white inen!!* !
coorzi,be's a white maa,".:said, ibe
.srit..aker,in a patroninzittg - tone,se . oogh
;tnd t,te were the greatest of"ettatei,
Well, 14:.tilv su,vl, I've been - delayed in..
the ouhl fellow, entirely,'" continued
.the'oth' ! . -
er, "I Thought he Wasa nager."
.
A 'Sit ARP,I DODO E*--`' Sheepface," in the
farce. Vil!aze Lawyer,. hs found, "
match. The man,- Eyler; who tnurder.ed lie •
will, some tinny since, near Syptense,,.*: Yf,, ---- -----
i 7 , playing•a;sharn game, upen . „the ,counsail
who defended .. biin. • .It appears •
agreement hetween them - was..m
. ciae -
was• Saved, froth hanging, his .counsel, *ere
6+1314000: Of this'aniount 'lOOO 'was paid
in cash,. and the remainder "secured blr . a . ."
mortgag'e en his fans. .The counsel isnktrs.. •
.ptea 6f-insanity, and Fyler was , . Bent,:io' i tbe
Limit it: A , lntri. TIM mortgage is now ii.bcmi -
due, and the holders, on proposing ; to foie=-
•ciuse it, were Met wiih the defence that if 'the
maker of it way insarte,when the murder-wad
- committed; could. he have be - sane •at the
time of "thin 7 the mortgaget , lookaJaa
though . the law:tiers - were caught this time. •
The Virgiuia ,Demneratie Colveit.
tiou..
Baltimore. Idondav March 3 ; 18541.
The Dethocratic Convention held 'at Web--
mond, Va.. adjourned on Saturday last. after
adopting: a Piatforii.'. 'The Platform reaillittus
State Rights ; dereerites the granting et,ibe
publi , z, lands for intern - al impro'vemente;„.
Tose an increase of duty, on, imports; endor
ses the Baltimore Platform; ret - ommitair
Cintionati Convention to nominate the Cage ,
dilate mast likely to he elected:. denounce&
:he American party, and indorse; the reseal.
Administration.
The .Itoll. of_ ,flogor.. 1- •
List of a6nnee subseriptions received at
thiS Offte'e, for the Month. of February, 1856.
J. ROsenerants, sl,ooChase , . OAP
S. V. -Barnes, 1,50R. Wellsi- . 1,50
Mrs. N. Love, 1,5011. Otis, '•
T. P.l'liil3 do. M.-S. Tylse; • 440
A. Piekering, do. V. Green.
CS. i,oo*; Lindsey, . L. 1 100..
llnas SMithi 1-40 A.Stonti. 1401:1. - •
avid ThOixias, do. I. :N. Bullard,: •:ill,oof-
Amos heath, dpi. G. D. jeffers,
R. Very, 0,7 - SS. Brundage;
0. Tiowbridge, 0,75 G. 13a11; .
11. McCollum, 1,50 M., L. Ball, - do. -
Geo. Brown, do. L. C. Day; do.
- Norntaii Tingley; 0,40 wm. Reardon, 1,25
I. Reoklioiv, • 1,50.1.,J. Turner, , 1,50
S. U. bainon, 1 - 470 11. Perry,. 1,50
L. S. 4nieint, • .1,50 C.J. Lathrop , "do
T. Baldwin. I,OOT. Bovan,• ' 4i75
ISaite•Greggi, Williams, \ 1,50 .
S. Ttae-v, 1,121: BrOwn, - do.
Thos. Keating, • 1.25 M. Johnson,.
~..do„
M. 13r,:iwn, . 1,50 R. Warner; . do.
IJ. E. &reeler, • I,OOC. Cazinic do:
,D. R-Thaptier, `:0,375. , 13. Stark,.
J. -N. Reynolds, Tattle, 1,00
Dr. FL•Stnith, 1,50 L. . 0,50
W. G. I.liiiidrick,„ 1,000. Burr, • 1 ,10
E. Ballard, • -I,soG,Thabeock, 63
J..lonesoo, Sherman - ,L ;4,00
31: J. llarritiolon,:l4ollL C. Tyler,' 1,75
Usi Di..tirtfoti,'- 1,500:13. Tyler, '• 1,54
G. Pattke 1.50Ja5.• Stephens; do
W. P. Kenniird, do. D. Matliews . dik,
J. T. Griifin, do. D. Watson,
Martin do: Jones Titylor t . - tAto
F. Pea, do. W.' S. Wilinarth, 23
imstixtk, - 1,50 W. Elwell, • 1,30
J: •Cliiiiker,, 1;50E. W. 'Baird; do.
do. 'W. M. Titglisy,
\V. flaily, .do: A Carpenter,' : "`.'do,
P.. Airdoinna, do. W: B. AdtinoC- : r 65
S •
• .do. J. G. Pat4iti; 1,54
IT. K» app, . & Attila;
Ira Comstock, • I,OOV, E. Piolet, dcpc
C. Sr tnford, -do. Adam: t ir,Oeerton,ilai
E. 0. . 14011. C. Porter, •-• do
A. W. Ruwlev, - 50.1. F. Mean*, do -
J. Shull, • '11;50.1. Britd!dtor, do ,
J. 100Witi. GtiOtkevi 'do
J: Pe4 , lc, •-• do . E Adims, -
S. do..
L'ißaker, • - .dO. - - ,
10. • do; J. Younir; -
J. - Sutton, do. Q. L. Carpenter dik•'
"WHEN' I f rri a shoppin." mid sni fi
dv, " I alliqs mks for what I *1111,411;iinil
fitty Lave it Anti saimble, aid?! Aiello.
ARM to hay it, and it's itheaN
got`nt any islace. for los, I most' alters. tikii
without ehappering aboitt it 014ii t ittonciiii
persons does.
- jar -When Roger .Bhinuan ur,u ttsd
Against one Nigel% 10 -* 1 1 4ws*Jv 11 '
found, his match.
,Tiaggart *as Ann .I
over a_book for. authority qt.* r0i4144
ligunwnik: -- sTifeint.7Bo r iiPl 4l o
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