The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-09-19
LETTER FROM HUMPHREY MAR
SHALL


be read by every voter NJ the 0ou'"'
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20, 1890.
NM Dear Sir-I wish ! could comply
with your urgent request that ! should be
present mt the Union meeting OF the citizens
of Ohio and Kentucky, at CINCINNATI and
Coyiugton, on the 9th inst But my duty
ma n Representative of the people forbds my
absence from n single vote to be taken at
this extra session of Congress, anu ] shall
moi be absent from one, II my life IS pre-
served, should the session last until next
March.
If were with you, ! should say to my
countryInen that the safety OF the Republic
depends upon the election of Willard Fill.
more to the Presidency, and that, in nv hum.
bic opinion, il they are not wise enough to
determine the matter in that way, they will
not be wise enough TO save the Union.
do not write thus because of mere per.
sonal admiration for MIR. Fillmore, nor be-
cause suppose he alone has wisdom enough
TO administer the government through a Pc
riod OF difficulty, but because he is the repre-
sentative of concord and harmony between
the great sections of our country, while his
competitors aspire to rule, each backed sub
stantiaily by a sectional party only, and each
hoping 10 succeed by solldifying sectional
interests so MS to win BY it.
Mr. Fremont has no party in any slave
holding State. He may have ticket in one
or more, but every one knows that the most
sauuuine of his supporters claim but few
thousand votes for hun N the whole range
Of those States. On the contrary, he has
become the exponent Of an mmese body of
voters in the free States, and his friends in
those States claim his election as II matter
which time will render certain. and which
they are determined to accomplish. The
slave States have 100 votes; the free States
I76 yotes-l49 are necessary to n choice
by the people Ii Mr.. Fremont loses New
York he will be defeated, no matter how the
vote of the slave States NAV be split between
Buchanan and Fillmore. IF he loses Ohio
and New Jersey--or If he loses Pennsylva.
mia and California. or Indiana. Illinois, and
Connecticut. the same result will follow
II il useless To saw to Won that Mr. Buchan-
nm cannot If left To struuole None. hone To
win IN. desirable result 1pon any combina.
tion of those States. even the whole slave.
holding States vote for him. His best
friends here will hardly claim this enc.
mics laugh at the supposition in utter scorn.
He could not. if reports be true. carry his
own State, without the contest were triangu.
lar, and unless il be the case in Illinois, he
could not hope TO win in any of the remain
der of the combination.
IfMr. Buchanan continues candidate, he
may impair or utterly defeat Mr.. Fillmore,
but II he were withdrawn or abandoned, Mr..
Fillmore's election would be triumphant and
most easy of accomplishment. He will carry
New York in all probability under any cir
cumstances, but were Mr.. Buchanan aban-
doned by the slave States, he would carry IL
beyond any doubt, and in my opinion, would
attract votes of all conservative masses
throughout the Free States. Mr. Buchanan
cannot accomplish this result. The reasons
for this lie in the fact that he has ever been
a vacciating poitician--is now committed
to ultra schemes of policy which may and
will jeopardize the peace of the country,
and has taken the shoes of General Pierce
upon the unfortunate state OF things now
existing in Kansas, and touching the slavery
agitation that now distracts the county
There are many other reasons-but suffice
il, the fact is ms ] state it, and nil candid men
must acknowledge 1t. II the slave States
then prefer to enter upon the sectional con.
test with Mr. Buchanan as leader, they will
support him and leave Mr. Fillmore's friends
throughout the free States to withdraw al
together from the vote or to take care OF
themselves in the sectional contest which is
to come of; for say II boldly, that II moth
ing will do out sectional contest the men
OF each section will adhere to their section,
md mn Human force cnn preypDt H.