Daily American organ., 1856-09-08
AMERICAN ORGAN.
From the Frankfort Commonwealth.
Letter from Hon. Humphrey Marshall.
WAsHISoroN, Aug. rs, 1855.

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urgent request, that should be present AZ the
Union meeting of the citizens of Ohio and Ken
lucky, at Cincinnati and Covington, on the 27th
hst' But, my duty as representative of the
| people, forbids my absence from single vote h
DC taken at this extra session of Congress, and /
snah not pe absent from one, II my life Is preserv-
| cd, should the session last until next March
| II were with you, should say to nv country.
men, that the safety of the republic depends upon
the election OF Millard Fillmore to the Presidency
\ and that, in my humble opinion, if they are moi
wise enough TO determine the matter In that way.
they will not be wise enough to save the Union
| 4 do not write thus because of mere personal
admiration for MIR. Fillmore, nor because suppose
| he alone has wisdom enough to administer the
government through period Of difficulty, but be-
cause ne s the representative Of concord and har.
mony between the great sections of our country
whie his competitors aspire to rule, each backed
substantially by sectional party, only, and each
hoping to succeed by soldfying sectional interests
| so as to win by it, U,er : nol --~I 4
Mr.. Fremont has no party in any slavehodng
otate. lie may have ticket In one or more, but
every one knows that the most sanguine of his
supporters claim but few thousand votes for him
| In the whole range of those States On the con-
trary, ne has become the exponent of an immense
body OF voters in the free States and his friends
In those States claim his election as matter which
time will render certain, and which they are deter
mined to accomplish. The slave States have 100
votes; the free States l76 votes-l49 are neces
sary to choice by the people. If Mr.. Fremont
loses New York he viii be defeated no matter how
the vote of the slave States may be split between
Buchanan and Fillmore. If he loses Ohio and
New Jersey-or if he loses Pennsylvania and Cal.
ifornia, or Indiana, Illinois, and Connecticut, the
same result will follow. IL Is useless to saw to you
that Mr. Buchanan cannot, if left to struggle
| alone, hope to win the desirable result upon any
of Gfatao ~.
slavehoding States vote for him. His beat friends
| here will hardly claim this enemies laugh at the
supposition In utter scorn He could not, if re-
port be true, carry his own State without the con-
test were triangular, and unless it be the case in
| Illinois, he could not hope to win in any of the
remainder of the combination. a
If Mr.. Buchanan continues candidate he NAV
| impair or utterly defeat Mr.. Fillmore, but if he
were Withdrawn or abandoned, Mr.. Fillmoras eec-
ton would be triumphant and most easy Of accom-
plishment. He will carry New York, in all proba.
bility, under any circumstances; but were Mr. b.
abandoned by the slave States he would carry il
beyond any doubt and, in my opinion, would at
tract the votes of all conservative masses through
out the free States. Mr. Buchanan cannot accom-
plsh this result The reasons for this lie in the
tact that he has been ever vacllating politician
is now committed to ultra schemes Of policy which
may and will jeopardize the peace of the country,
and has taken the shoes Of Gen. Pierce upon the
unfortunate state Of things now existing in Kan
sas, and touching the slavery agitation that now
distracts the country. There are many other rea
sons but suffice it the fact is as state it, and all
candid men must acknowledge it. If the slave
States, then, prefer to enter upon the sectional |
contest with Mr.. Buchanan as a leader they will |
support him, and leave Mr.. Fillmores friends
throughout the free States to withdraw altogether
from the vote, or to take of themselves in the
sectional contest which is to come off for say il
at will do hrto -
test the men of each section will adhere to their
section, and no human force can prevent it.
Ii such contest is to occur, it will be because
the Southern people, following the advice Of the
Southern Democrats, choose it, and will not avail
themselves of the chance that is offered to them
of electing a man of sound national character
whose former administration of the government
was preservatve of all their rights, yet who was
the favorite Of all the conservative masses of the
free States, and who could again command their
suffrages, if they any corresponding effort on
the part Of the slave States. Mr.. Buchanan does
not command their confidence, and cannot attract
| their support. The South, then, has the choice
fully and fairly presented to it, of sectional con-
test by making the race between Buchanan and
Fremont, or of national struggle in which men
in every section will act, by making the contest
between Fillmore and Fremont; and as the South
makes her bed so she must lie. l speak plainly
because feel deeply. '
In the event of Mr.. Buchanans election, fore
see condition of things which viii paralyze the
energies OF this government-protract the section
al disputes--involve the country in civil and pro-
badly in foreign war, and end in the overthrow of
| the Union, or in struggle, renewed between the
sections, on a lower platform of Radicalism than
either Of the parties-Republcan or Democrat
now occupy. That is to contemplate only pro-
tracted decline Of the Republic instead of its spec
dy dissolution, which believe would be the con-
Aft he
smile at such conclusion, and doubtless many
good men will, but never was more earnest than
am now, and never was more thoroughly con-
vinced of the truth of my conclusions than am
now while writing this.
Ifthe Democratic and Republican parties have
brought affairs to that pass here that the struggle
In the legislative department of the government
between them, parayzes tie government and stops
the appropriations necessary for the common de-
fence what hope shall we entertain that when that
contest is transferred to the people, and they COM
bsned under leaders who ply every effort to deepen
the struggle into one purely sectional, IL will be
less embittered than it now has becomes We are
at point where we may save ourselves: pass it,
and we shall drift into a stream whose only outlet
is sea Of anarchy Have the people, the Ameri-
can people, the virtue to save their country by
saving the Union of these States? That is the
question that now presses for their answer, and
trust in God to guide your meeting to such result
as TO make that answer propitious of brighter
future than that now picture to my minds eye.
am no croaker Look back on my public life,
and think no record can be found where ever
traced doubt Of the perpetuity Of the govern
ment. But tell my countrymen plainly do now
doubt it and look 70 the future with a solictude
and anxiety my bosom has heretofore been a
stranger to. The people have all in their own
hands. Hmadness rules the hour, the slave States
viii reject Mr.. Fillmore and viii precipitate the
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If wisdom prevails, the people will rally to his
standard and will by his election re-establish con-