Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1856-10-16
Important Accessions to the Cause
of Freedom.
ADDRESS OF FIVE HUNDRED AND
EIGHTY NINE AMERICAS in
OTSEGO.

The following address, signed by five hun
dred and eighty-nine citizens Of Otsego county
who have heretofore supported Mr.. Fillmore
for the Presidency, is published in the Coopers-
town Republican an4 Democrat, of O9t. 4. Yhe
conclusions at whichsthe Signers hafG arrived, |
seem irresistible, and should be carefully
weighed by those members Of the American
party who sincerely desire the overthrow of
the present administration and the defeat OF
the slave power
ssThe undersigned, who have been known to
be identified with the American party, com
monty known as Know N othings, have become
satisfied that strong effort is being made to
divert the obligations resting on Americans,
from their legitimate ends. 1t is easy to I'M
derstand from what source this effort orlgi-
Mates Despairing of their ability to carry any
portion of the North for Buchanan upon the
plain and obvious issue involved in the APP
/ proaching election, to wit:-the extension, Oh
i restriction Of slavery, the pro-slavery leaders
have sought to accomplish by intrigue, what
they could not compose by fair and honorable
means.
"The present Presidential contest is be-
tween Buchanan and Fremont This is so
obviously the case that we cannot see how any
man can doubt it for moment The leaders
Of the sham democracy know that it is so; ano
Il if they pretend to the contrary, 1t is lot INF
ss(purpose OF deluding Amerlc3n Whios-. ms thu
support Of Fillmore, while they themselves, K
6 man, will adhere to Buchanan.
"The recent elections i'll the Southern state
show conclusively that the South has resolves
to unite upon Buchanan, and that Fillmor
: will not have, in the Electoral College, sin
: gle Southern vote. In those Southern state
:, which have held their elections, where his pros
! poets were more promising than anywhere els
in the Union, he has been thoroughly beaten
! and if being the chosen Wing and Know-Notf
: ing candidate for the South he cannot carry
:, state, what possible ground is there to hop
y that he can carry Northern one
= "There is none; but, one on the contrary,
is certain that he will not receive single ele'
y torial vote in the Union.
Every vote, therefore, cast for Mllar
Fillmore, is an indirect support OF James b
chanan. And when we look back upon I'll
policy of this administration, and consider IL
evils it has wrought and the yillainouS ends
seeks yet to perpetrate; and when we conslde
too, that Buchanan has planted himself upe
n that policy, and is supported by the unite
Mt South on account of his pledges to bide-hy al
~ carry it out, we cannot but shrink with horr'
ne from the thought Of doing any act which sha
be tend to contribute to his election He is Il
pz exponent of policy that has deluged the ia
it. fields of Kansas with blood He is the chos'
eli leader of party that has violated every sacr'
N obligation Tbesassurance that slavery con
ID not go into Kansas, made to alIay our indi
re nation at the repeal of the Missouri CompT
ry mise has been falsifed. The specious prom
of es held out to settlers, that they should esta
r /: lsh their own government and make their oN
ng laws, have all been most shamefully violate
m and our fellow citizens in Kansas are subject
,ty to laws forced upon them by foreign invasic
which are more regardless of their rights, a
ID more oppressive than any known despotsm
the globe.
We cannot lose sight of these things, a
we cannot forget that the free-state men
os Kansas look to the success of the Republic
my party as their only hope for redress of th
ou grievances, and for their admission into
Union as a free state; nor can we forget tt