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= '@' ESlRAToaA, Sept. 13, 1885,
Mr.. EDITOR: have been over the New England
States and through this State, have seen many people
and conrersed freely. am satisfied there isa deep
grounaswell in all society North, and the wave on
the surface does not indicate the real current beneath
This great Fremont movement is nothing but an up
heaving Of the lower straa with the biterest preu
dices not only towards the South, but with malignant
feelings towards the conservative interests and proper
" men of the North If we are forced to separate
organization in order. to save ourselves, this same
movement would turn upon the property institutions
of the North, and many sagacous men know and feel
this New England breaches that all men are born
equal, and yet there country on earth further III
practice from this abstract theory The whole land
is covered and internced with corporations, and
close corporations a. that They have rail road and
turnpike corporations, banking corporations, nanu'
featuring corporations, church corporations, school
corporations, and toHn corporations; and there is
now, in fact, nolhngaone in New England except
through corporations In some shape or form. And in
thar point of view, alftheir governments work for the
benefit Of associated wealth, or against individual
labor. And the real5fruth is, that in Boston and
throughout Massachusetts pamperd wealth stands side
by side with squalid pover,y-the one bloated from
revelling in the spos Of the oher-while the latter
stands in shvering rags eating crumbs from the rch
mans table. You may rest assured the North Is IN
far more danger than are II, by possibility, they
should elect Fremont, they cannot administer the
Government No man South would dare lake office.
He could no. appoint custom house officer in Rich
mond, Charleston, Savannah, or New Orlenns-nor
could he have District Attorney or Post Master
No man would be base enough to take The Office, and
if he did public indignation would be so strong that
he would bs arred and feathered And if he were to
fill such offices from>,hs North, the indignation would
still be greater. His election would of course throw
open all The custom houses SJulh, and all other Offices
would fall too; and if he sent the Army and Navy
TO collect duties and enforce the distribution oil the
mails, &C., the very officers would refuse 10 be the
instruments Of such a vulgar and miserable tyrant
The election, then, would be the end Of tile Constu
tion and the commencement of revolution. And no
people know this better Than the property holders OF
the Norlh-and they do not intend that Black Re-
publicanism shall be installed into practical power
either at Washington or permanently here.
Many men who hays property will talk in favor of
Fremont to please the sectional pride and prejudice
and to appease the mob feeling; but when the time
comes they will deposit, privately, ballot for Buch.
anan. They know we'll that the installation OF The
Black Republican party into power would be followed
by forcing the Government to ruin and revolution.
There is therefore, think, not the slightest danger ns
| to Mr. Buchanan's election The only question is,
can he reform the Government! If he comes in by a
large majority, it will give him great power And if
he brings around him men of nerve and character,
who have the independence 10 tell the truth TO him,
and the lirmness 10 snfurce the truh-mnch can be
done, no, only to save the Government, bu. to pre-
serve The constitution The FIRST Thing 10 he done is
! 10 reduce The revenue by reducing the ad valorem
duties The disbursements are too heavy for peace,
and Rsz On ~ %5 92s!sf hs
Administration has enlarged craftsmanship enough 10
control the revenue. il will control the Government
and if not the revenue will contro! it, for the revenue
and its disbursement, are in part, the Government.
This is the source Of the corruption. Seventy millions
of revenue annually is the exponent of one thousand
millions of capital at an interest of seven per cent
The Government is in fact corporation with one
thousand millions Of stock and the question is whether
the board of directors shall be controlled by those
who live on The disbursements Of the corporation, or
by those who pay in the capital stuck. If by The
former then it necessarily runs The corporation to cor
ruption and disorganizaton and if the latter, then 1t
works 10 its legitimate construction There are more
men whu live on the disbursements Of the Federal
Treasury, than by any other single interest in the
coniederacy. They are active and organized MEN,
too This it s that feeds anaticism even, for am
bilious politicians but that feeling to enable them
10 get control of The Government aud lis tshurse-
mrnls At 10 millions annually, ii makes $50 millions
in four year presidential term. Take down that
revenue one half, and then appropriate ppe half Of
that to enlareng navy SO as TO suit the vast i'm
provemenis in steam power introduced into the British
and French Nsves, and You at once reurm The Govern
ment by reducing the source of internal corrnplion
and put the vessel of Stale upon The sea of M.
tional interests alone.
At present the South has nothing 10 do but wait
events. We are, for the first time in thirty years,
united Let lis keep so The North is thoroughly
excited and thoroughly divided. Let US keep calm,
without word Of threat or utraism at present.
After The elections and the smoke of battle il
cleared of, let Us then survey closely The whole
ground and if our trenches sormed and our strong
holds really in DANGER then let unmask batter
ies and let none be senced again heretofore until
every man shall perish at his gun. In my opinion,
he victory is ours and there be rmness and wisdom
in the administration, the monster Fannticism will be
stranged for years II the South keeps only united
as we now are, We can break any administration 10
atoms in six months that shall be against the
tuition and in any event, N last resort We can
save ourselves in every emergency. We have the
power to do it, and our union and harmony make it
fixed fact. The great point gained by us s, that We
have no Wing or Democratic party in the South now,
hut are all one and united for country, its rights
and safety, in the Union, oul Of need be, let the
consequences be rha they may we arerue 10 our.
selves, is lis that will save us and the constitution
with the Union too Al least let us say nothing-and
do nothing at present 10 give even prete1t for divi
sion in the South. Keep together and keep COOL The
conservative interests Of The North with us, for
revolution to them is DEATH The union OF the South,
combined with that interest," places The Federal Union
n, our feet and all we demand is The constitution and
the uhole constitution This is the first time we have
been thus situated since have observed public events
Heretofore powerful popular leader from one OF the
slaveholdng States under vast schemes which public
experience hasbhown to be not only unjust but un.
constitutional, built up The great Wing party which
divided the South and thereby enabled the Govern
msnt to bind us on TO the chr of Northern power
Bu, now, thank God, that has passed of, and we all,
f,r ,l,e frat time. see alike and feel alike and five