The Empire County argus., 1856-10-25

Car of State, in which we are passengers. We be-
seech you to see the dangers have briefly glanced
at, and to shun them, before it is too late forever
We urge you to unite with us in support of the
patriot statesman who has always earlessly outspo-
ken his sentiments-who has ever made the Consttu-
tion his guiding g-star-who has risen from an appren-
tice boy to the Presidency-who, when President
frowned upon disorganizers and radicals, North and
South and with the aid of conservative Wings and
Democrats, bravely restored peace to distracted
Countrywide has just said eff there be those
Orth South, who desire administration for the
North as against the South, Or for the South as
aguinst the North, they are not the men who should
give their suffrages to me-"
From the moment Mr. Fillmore was first placed in
nomination. every effort has been resorted to to in
duce the country to believe first, that he would not
accept the nomination. secondly, that he had no
strength at the North, and could not carry single
Northern State, even his own thirdly, that he had
strength at the South, and could not carry single
Southern State; fourthly that he was SO Southery
in his feelings and views, thatthe North ought not to
support him, and would not and, filthy, that he was
an Aboltionst and could not and ought not to be
supported by the South.
In regard to the charges against Mr.. Fillmore
which related to his views and opinions of public pol
icy, bis friends have deemed it best to permit them to
be refuted, they have been most amply and trium-
phantly by the record of his model administration !;
by his own bold frank and manly speeches. which the
people have everywhere read with admiration and
delight and by his own pure, unsuied reputation and
spotless character. OF these the people themselves
had the means of forming an accurate Judgment and
to that Judgment both he and his friends have been
at all times, and are now, ready to bow with respect
full submission-they ask no appeal to any other tr-
bunal.
But the arts and falsehoods which have been resort
to by the two sectional parties of the country to
ken Mr.. Fillmore, by inducing the belief that he
without strength elsewhere than in the falsehood
told the people have not been so we'll able to I'M
derstand They have heard these assertions generally
with surprise and increduty though the frequency of
their repetition, the confident tone in which they were
asserted, the variety of forms in which they have
been made to appear, and, above ALL the perfect con-
currence of Republicans and Democrats in these mis-
and the readiness with which the
sustained the others fabrication, have made i'm
preston upon the public mind or at least upon the
minds of such consult their fears rather than rely
upon the goodness of their cause.
Upon the eve of our adjournment, these and smi-
lar assertions are again renewed with view no doubt
of sowing the seeds of alienation and disrust between
our friends in different sections of the Union, and
these wicked and false statements are sent to the
country by railroad by telegraph, and by missionaries
and emssaries, with zeal and apparent confidence
worthcr of better cause, and the assertion is now
added that Mr.. Fillmore will be withdrawn.
In addressing you now, we wish definitely to con-
tradct these untrue reports and correct far as we
can the false impression to which they have given rise
and thus to strip our enemies of their most favorte
and nearly only remaining means of warfare.
None of these charges and insinuations are true
We speak to all sections of our common country in
saying The friends of our candidates. both North
and South, standing firmly by their colors and by
their men, and will do until the contest decided
in November. They do so both from choice and
from duty. They choose it because their men stand
on the truly national platform, broad the entire
Union, and exactly co-extensive with the Constitu-
tion recognizing the rights of the States on the one
hand, and the Federal Government on the other, and
holding each sovereign State within its proper sphere
and their duty requires that these geographical these
sectional parties, both Democrat and Republican, so
called, shall be driven from the field. Whoever aids
either aids one section of our common country against
another.
We say to our friends in all sections, that from
henceforth till the election in November they should
work in good hearts and sprts that stories of luke
and abandonment of our candidates must
be based upon something in the future different from
the past, to be true that North and South the
friends of our candidates are true as weltempered
Steel and are working with heart, zeal and con-
dence as the canvass progresses The hearts of true
national men, North and South, beat in unison with
each other, and their hands being vigorously ap
piled to common labor, and for common result
and there is not the least reason in any section, for
dstrust of friends in any other Let not the enemy
reap any fruits from the insidious policy pursued by
them We say to you that it appears to us from this
point of observation that if all who in their hearts
prefer Milard Fillmore for President shall vote for
him, he will be triumphantly elected.
We do not pretend to direct, govern, or control the
movement in favor the American cause This is a
matter solely in the hands of the people at large 1t
is theirs they originated it. We believe our cand-
dates, however, infinitely stronger amongst the
people than among politicians, who happen at this
time to be in power struggling to acquire it. Let
their friends be of good cheer. Let them do their
duty, and they will be astonshed at their great
strength at the polls. Let each man 90 to work and
conGde in his friends elsewhere, and the victory is
sure! No cunningH-devised stories should induce
them for one moment to think of taking sides between
the candidates of those dangerous sectional organza
lions which are now struggling to concentrate the
orth against the South, or the South against the
North They should, and will, both be overthrown
The country requires repose and demands safety The
friends of Fillmore and Donelson the friends of
he UNION. They have the power to elect them, and
hus strengthen the bonds of that friendship and con-
idence between the North and the South, which in
'ther days added such power and glory to the Re
public.
Let us now pledge ourselves each to the other that
EVERY MAN WILL DO HIS DUTY to our candidate and
1ur cause, and you may rely upon it, the country will
De saved from the dangers that encompass it, and
stored to the quiet and confidence which blessed it at
he close of Eilmore's administration.
VIM. w. Walk, w. r. Smith,
Humphrey Marshall, w. L. Underwood,
S. G.. Haven, A. X. Marshall
+. K Zollicoffcr Thomas Rivers