The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1856-10-16
A LETTER
FROM
Gov. Reeder,
On the Approaching Election OF Presi-
dent, and the Candidates.
New York CRY, Sept. 18, '56


To the Editors of the Evening Post: .rF
GENTLEMEN The letter of your cor
respondent H., and your editorial com
ments upon it of the 10Th inst, seem, IN
common courtesy to demand reply
Your correspondent does not err in say
lug that | desire the success Of the Re-
publican party and the election of their
candidate; and that | am ready to con-
tribute any honorable effort to bring ii
about. This is not the result of any
preference as to men, but in spite of it.
With Colonel Fremont I am unacquaint-
ed. have never seen him. nor had any
communication with him, direct or indi-
rect. verbal or written. Gu the other
hand, my feelings of friendship and ad-
mration for Buchanan, as man, are Of
no ordinary character, and are strength
ened by years of friendly intimacy and
reciprocal acts of kindness, uninterrupted
to this time by single misunderstanding
or unpleasant feeling; and I would al
any time defend him promptly and iudig-
nantly against personal attacks upon his
reputation. I believe him to be man
of distinguished ability. and high integri-
ty and valuable experience. He is sur
rounded, too, in Pennsylvania. by many
political friends whom personally love
and esteem, and to whom I am united
by ties ard long cherished political and
social intimacy, and the loss of whose
friendship I should regard as a great ca
lamity. For more than a quarter of q
century have steadily labored with the
Democratic party, and never doubted
that should do SO during my life. Fol
years I have exerted myself to bring
about Mr.. Buchanan's nomination. In
1848 and 1852, I was one of those who
carried for linn the delegates Of our dis
trict, and was his jealous and ardent sup
porter. On, each occasion / was in the
National Convention as one of his dele
gates. ,z-
These ties are exceedingly strong and
hard to sever, especially with one who is
naturally of a conservative cast, and slow
to change old habits of thought and &C.
ton and I have resisted for six months
the convictions that were urging me to
my present declaration. have diligent
ly sought reasons and arguments to save
myself the pain OF breaking up cid asso
Citations and alternating myself from my
old friends, but all vain. Ny love of my
country and hatred of oppression would
not allow my feelings and inclination;
either to delude my judgment or still my
conscience. and l am compelled to forfei
my self-respect by committing what be
lieve to be palpably wrong, or else enro
myself in opposition to the Democratic
party. hass sga v
l see no reasonable hope of justice ane
sympathy FOR the people of Kansas in thu
success of the Democracy. In its ranks
and with the power to control its action
are found the Border Rufians of Nilsson
ri and their accomplices of the South
who have trampled upon the Constitu
ton and all the essential principles of oul
Government, robbed Kansas of its civi
liberty and right of suffrage, laid waste
its territory with fire and sword, aud re
pudiated even civilization itself.
In its platfo1m find the enunciatiol
of principles which would put the rop'
about the necks of men exercising th'
constitutional right of petitioning Con
gress for State Government, or a re
dress of grievances far worse than those
which led to the war of the Revolution
and declaration stigmatizing as "arm
ed resistance to law" the moderate anc
iustifable self defence of men shamefully
and UNANIMOUSLY oppressed by rufin vic
lence and outrage beyond all human en-
durance - ------
/ find the whole party of the nation as
sembled in National Convention, with bu
one Individual dissent, expressing its un
qualified admiration "of an Administra
tion which has lent itself as the tool an
accomplice of all the wrongs inflicted up
on Kansas, and BY its venality and imbe
cility brought the country to an intestin
war.
/ find all its representatives in Con
gress, with three individual exceptions
laboring in earnest zeal, by speech an
vote, to cover up the iniquities of th
Administration and the Border Rufiar
of Missouri, and to suppress fair inve'
tigation of outrages which shock both hi
manity and republicanism, and defy th
Constitution and laws. aa
find these same Representatives, a
. ter the truth was elected in spite of the
= efforts, still refusing to relieve the PEI
] pie from code of laws imposed upc
them by foreign army, and still ref
: sing to admit them into the Union, on
e pfor reasons which, in the cases of nil
S existing States, had been declared u
tenable and of no account.
L so r.
1 find them disregarding Free Co
stitution adopted in legal, constitution