Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-08-19
Progress. Of the People. cause.

Hon. John W Howe, formerly member OF
Congress from the Meadville district, Penn, has
written letter to John Jolfe of Cincinnati, in
which he says: Entertain no fears for Pennsyl-
vania Fremont is sure to carry the State,
though hard battle is to be fought here"
mon ster Fremont gathering isrto be held at
Sandu sky, Ohio, on the 10th of September, the
anniversary of Perry's victory This is to be the
great gathering of the campaign in the Buckeye
state
1t is in contemplation to start Fremont paper
in Tennessee, and to run Republican electoral
ticket. In Eastern Tennessee there has been for
twenty years past strong aliti-slavery feeling,
and the number of slaves has been small and de-
creasing.
Caleb N. Taylor, one of the Fillmore electors
for the state of Pennsylvania, has taken the
stump for Fremont. g. w. Youngman another
elector on that ticket, has also declared for FIRE.
mont. Others the ticket are also, it is said,
similarly inclined
The Providence Journal says an extensive
bookseller in that city states that he has sold 93l
copies of the Life of Fremont, and 76 of the Life
OF Buchanan, since the campaign opened.
DR.. c. M. johnson, an old friend CT Buchanan
in his own county, has refused to serve on the
Democratic County Committee, and taken to ad-
dressing Fremont mass meetings
Monster Fremont meetings are being held in
Indiana, and a correspondent of the New York
Tribune says "set down our State for $4,000 ma
jority for the gallant pathfinder" On the 25th
ult., collection of over Is, 900 persons was adj
dressed by Henry S. Lane of An1ersonville On
the 9th inst, still greater number assembled at
Knightsville, and were addressed by Cassius NJ.
Clay and others. On the 9Th, Mr.. Burlingame
addressed 5000 people at Danville. He addressed
about 1000 people the next day at Greensburg,
and his speeches are said to have had wonder
full effect for the right.
Over twenty of the leading Democrats of Ing
ham county, Michigan, have united in an address
setting forth their reasons for Withholding their
support from Buchanan and voting for Fremont.
John E. Holmes, the first Lieutenant Cover
nor Of Wisconsin, and Alonzo Wing, member of
the Legislature--two of the most influential
Democrats Of Jefferson county, Wisconsin-are
among the regulators of the pro- slavery platform
and the supporters Of Fremont.
The Providence Transcript, one of the Fremont
and Johnston papers-and very good one--has a
wide awake correspondent at Waterville Me-,
who, after describing the great Fremont demon
stration on the college grounds, and saying that
every window in the college was adorned with a
Fremont and Dayton banner, adds in parenthe-
sis I" (By the way, Brother Greene, you may as
well take down Johnston, if you hav'nt done it
already-it's no use.)'
OF the thirty papers that two months ago went
for Fillmore in Pennsylvania. only five or six now
advocate his claims with any zeal The resthave
found his disuniOnism and pro slavery too hard to
swallow. OF this class we see the Junata Se,,ti-
mel has taken down the names of Fillmore and
Donelson, and hoisted Fremont and Dayton in.
stead. The Fremont papers in Pennsylvania now
number ninety.