Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1856-10-14

AN IMPORTANT RENu uxcIATIoN.-HoS
Ephriam Marsh, who presided over the
Philadelphia national conventiol whfch
nominated Millard Fillmore for presi-
deut. has concluded that duty calls him 10
support Fremont: Mr. Marsh is one of
the most influential men iIr New Jersey.
He says:
Ii was known TO my friends In Phila-
delphia that the pro-savery platform there
adopted, and which drove so many north
ern delegates from the convention, was
repugnant to my sentiments and sympa-
thies. But confiding in the principles of
Mr.. Fillmore, who, IN the legislature of
New. York, and In Congreas, had ever
acted with the friends of freedom, | ac-
quiesc ID IN an excep,ionabfe PLATFORM
In view of the perfidous repeal Of the
Missouri Compromise, and the aggres-
slons and outrages perpetrated by Mis-
sourians upon Kansas, with more than the
approval OF the general government, |
looked for some expression of the senti-
ments which pertaded the whole North
sentiments that Mr.. Fillmore had ever
professed, in his letter of acceptance
But in this expectation l was disa2point-
ed. There was a studied and significant
avoidance, in that letter, of the question:
upon which he knew, as we all knew, the
presidential election IS TO be decided, Ell
ther in favor of, or against slavery extern
sion. Nor was l less disappointed, III
finding the friends of Mr. Fillmore III
Congress voting steadily, throughout a
protracted session, with the supporters of
aggression and outrage in Kansas, aud
persis,ing in such votes, after, by the re-
port of the Kansas congressional commit
tee, 1t had been irrefragably proven that
the election in Kansas had been carried
by armed bodies of men from Missouri
that an infamous code of territorial laws
had been enacted in Kansas by Missouri
ans; that free press IN IEdnSds had been
destroyed by Missourians; that settlers
In Kansas had been robbed and murder
ed by Missourians that organized and
armed bodies Of men from Missouri and
other slave states had sworn, in secret
societies, that Kansas shall beccue d slave
State and finally, that all these ou,rages
were perpetrated with the aid and ap-
probation of United Stdtes Judge and
marshal, and in the presence of United
States troops. But these great wrongs,
though arousing the just indignation of
freeiten; have elected no word of reproof
from Mr.. Fillmore On the contrary, III
his speech at Albany, he astounded the
country in declaring that the election of
Col. Fremont, by the spontaneous suffer-
ages of majority of the citizens of the
Republic, would occasion a dissoluticn Of
the Union. End up to the last vote III
the called session of Congress, when the
friends of freedom endeavored, in the
army appropriation bill, to protect the cit
izens of Kansas by the adoption of a con-
servative proviso, Hon. Mr.. Haven, the
confidential partner of and partisan of
Mr.. Fillmore, voted with the pro-slavery
Indeed, since the commence
neht of the just closed session of con-
gress, slavery has not obtained any ad-
that it did not owe to the votes of
Mr.. Fillmore's friends: nor has freedom
encountered defeat that did not come
from the same quarter of the House of
Representatives. His friends holding
the balance of power, turned the scale,
when it would turn in favor of slavery.