Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1856-09-24

peacefully, because their servants strive? That
lines will be marked by compass and chain?
Sir, that will be portentions commission that
shall settle that partition, for cannon will be
planted at the corners, and grinnng skeletons
be finger posts to point the waIj 1t will be
no line gently marked on the bosom of the Re
public-some meandering vein whence gene
rationg of herehildren have drawn their nonr-
ishment- sharp and jagged chasrn, rem
ding the hearts of great Commemorative. lac
Grated and slneared with fiaternal blood. On
the night when the stars Of her constellation
shall fall from heaven, the, blackpess of dark
ness forever willsettle on the liberties Of man
kind in, this Western Worldn
The other objection to Mr.. Fremont adj
dresses itself particularly to Americans. Tits
alleged that he is a Roman Catholic The
force OF this objection depends upon its truth
or falsity. 1t is asimple question of fact. The
charge originated in the New York Express,
and rested upon the declarations of Alderman
Fulmer, who says that when at Browns Hotel
in Washington, in the winter of 1853, he, saw
Col. Fremont worsllippingin Catholic church
that he conversed Nithfhe Colonel on the sub
ject of religion; and that he defended the ex.
ID
reference to the columns of the same Express,
it is shownthat Col. Fremont was, during the
whole time. that Alderman Fulmef locates him
at Washington on board of ocean steamers
An examination OF the register and cash books
of Browns Hotel, show that Col. Fremont
was not, during the years of 1852 and 1853,
at that hotel Here is conclusive. independent
evidence that Alderman Fnnler is mitaken.
This testimony is confirmed by Col. Fremonts
denial of the whole story The Archives efthe
Episcopal church, at Washington, show that
Col5 Fremont's children had Protestant baps
tismA Mr.. Livingston, who was Col Ere.
monts companion across the Rocky Mountains,
says that he carried with him pocket Protes-
tant Bible. He presented his wife with a
Protestant Prayer Book before their marriage.
His preceptor says that he received a Pro
testant education. Col Fremont says to every
body that enquiries of him, that he is, and has
ever been, a Protestant. Aud yet, not only
in the absence Of all testimony, hut after every
allegation has been diSproved, those who fabr-
Gated continue to reiterate the falsehood and
am sorry to add, that too uany intelligent
honest Electors, who would require better evil
dence to convict dog caught with the wool
in his mouth, of killing sheep, believe that Col
Fremont is Papist.
1t was said, you will remember, by many Of
onr friends at Philadelphia, that Mr.. Fillmore's
name would be used in the South merely to
divide the friends of freedom lit the North |
did not believe it then, nor do | know that
such was their design, but that Mr.. Fillnore's
,name is aIoa0 only used for that purpose is trans
parently certain Nor should this surprise us,
for it is just what the past has often revealed
Mr.. Van Buren,, who for thirty years was
devoted 10 the South, hesitated atont the adj
mission of Texas, and was thrown overheard.
Gen, Pierce, literally used up in promoting
the repeal Of the Missouri Compromise, and in
sustaining border rufIanisin, was remorselesslv
sarci6ced at Cincinnati by the South for 8 an
older, if not better" Donghface whom they
hope to elect Differ as they may and do in
relation to all other questions on this, every
extreme of shade and sentiment and opinion
unite. They regard the bank-the tarff-the
public demain, &c, &c, subordinate questions.
and differ upon them; but in voting upon the
annexation of Texas-the adnissionof Calfor-
MIA free-the fugitive slave law-the repeal Of
the Missouri Compromise, &c, &c, they al
ways unite: or if Southern member gives a.
wrong vote, like Cullen of Tennessee, and
Hunt Of Louisiana, they are shot down. Why,
then, should they not, as they have, make Their
Americanism suhservient to their slavery Z If,
therefore, Mr.. Buchanan should be elected,
see no end to the encfoachment and uSurpatiens
of the slave power-and hence shah neither
vote for him, nor throw my vote away In a
contest which is to determine whether Slavery
Or Freedom is to be the governing principle Of
this Republic, | choose to cast my vote where
it will tell for freedom These considerations
lead me to the support of the Republicannom-
inees for President and Vice President, not be-
cause am less an American than when our
National Convention assembled, but because
those by whom Mr. Fillmore was nominated
from Southern states, have abandoned him for
a candidate openly and ayowedly arrayed
against the American party, thus sacrificing
for slavery both their candidate and their
Americalllsm; and because, furthermore, by
voting for Mr.. FILLMORE, while the contest is
between Buchanan and Fremont, | should In
directly aid the former, whose principles, as an
anti American aud slavery extensionist are
obnoxious to all my convictions of duty.
Respectfully yours
aF G b'# EPHRAIM MARSH.