Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1856-09-18

ieily in opposition to him. 0 Temporal !
o moresl The very fact of the nomina-
ton of Col. Fremont for the Presidency, by
any respectable party in the land, is suffi-
cient in itself to make any true lover OF his
country tremble for Its fate.
Fellow citizens. such Is the party, and
such the candidate, that you are asked to
support, in spite Of all the warnings you
have received from those great statesmen
whom you have beer accustomed to regard
as the safest and wisest. Think you that
Webster, Cass, and Clay and the host of
noble patriots who acted with them in 1850
for the salvation of the Union, were not in
serious, sober earnest when they told you
that the country was in danger from the
agitation ofthis question of slavery? Think
you that Mr.. Fillmore was uttering delibe-
rate falsehood when he told you only the
the other day, in his noble and patriotic
speech at Albany. that in his opinion dis
solution of the Union, and dissolution not
into two parts. but into fragments, would
follow the success of a party so purely sec
tional as that which styles itself the ''Re-
publcan?" You cannot believe it. Nor
can | believe, fellowcitizens, that you will
be willing to put in peril by your suffrages
that glorious fabric cemented by so many
ties of fraternity and kindred blood, to
which You owe all your prosperity in the
past, and all your hopes for the future.
Fellow citizens, the contest lies between
tbs Republican party with Fremont & Day
ton as its candidates, and the Democratic
party with Buchanan and Breckenridge as
its candidates. The true issue between
them Is Union or dissolution of the Union
Upon this issue l cannot hesitate for one
instant in making my choice Regarding
all other questions of mere policy as at
question of the salvation or destruction of
this Union, | should not esteem myself
worthy to enjoy the benefits of freedom
were not able to lay all my prejudices. all
my anthipatbies upon the altar, a willing
sacralice to my country's salvation.
am no Democrat; | never have been
There is much of their policy, many of the
practices of the party, much that is con-
tained In the Cincinnati platform, which
does not meet the approval of my judg
ment Gentlemen Democrats, save for me
and my postcrity this Union, this last hope
of freedom, and have Your will for the
time. When the ship is safe-when in Sc
curity we float, with the glorious flag of our
common country above US, not T. single star
diminished in lis lustre; then, not once
again we will talk about the questions of
policy which have separated us. Now the
only cry that | can listen to is, all hands
save the ship.
Almost every mail, fellow citizens, has
borne TO me ut Ashland anonymous COM
munlcations, newspaper paragraphs cen
surlng, abusing, eliminating me. and re-
monstrating with me upon the course
which | have felt it my duty to take How.
say they, is it possible for You to support
Mr. Buchanan, the reyiler and traducer of
Your father, the very author Of the charge
Of bargain and corrup:iono Even were the
charge against Mr. Buchanan true,
should have high sanction, high example
for the position which have assumed
Did not sec tlat same father in 1859,
surrounded by eli the great leaders of the
Democratic party. shoulder TO shoulder,
side by side, manfully struggling. patriots
n they were, upon the Very same question
nov before Us, the salvation Of the Uniono
Shall | utterly forget and disregard what
nc then said of them on more than one oc-
casion? Shall | forget what he said in his
great speech upon the compromise resolu-
tions-oHe OF the greatest as it was one Of
the last Of his life? Indulge me whilst
read to YOU what he said there about them,
and also what he said at Frankfort when he
went home to his own people:
.'Sir, 1 have been in repeated consuta-
ton with my FREUD General Cass |, for SO
will call him, during the progress Of this
measure, and also with other Democratic
friends; and lie General Cass1 has shown
himself to be the friend of the peace Of his
country. Repeatedly have been in con-
eultation with them upon this bill and the
amendments which have been proposed.
| regret only that our consultations could
not have been more numerous and Of long
er duration. On the subject of slavery, the
treatment of California, the Territories the
fugitive slave bill, and the suppression of
TIE slave trade in this District, there is no
difference of opinion between myself and
my Democratic friends, whom | have had
occasion to consult, but perfect union Not
a solitary instance of party plilics, upon
which We might have heretofore differed,
has been avericd to, in any of our consul
tations. We spoke of that measure which
absorbed al our thoughts, which engross-
cd all our hopes, which animated all our
anxieties--the subject of pacifying, if pos
sible. the distracted parts of this country
IA subject upon which, between US, there
was perfect coincidence ofopinion. #
In our meetings upon the
subject. in our consultations, Democrats
and Wings convened and consulted togeth-
er. They threw aside, rs not eermane,
and unworthy of their consideration, all the
agi;a.ing party poll les of the day; and
venture to say, that III those meetings with
my Democratic friends and myself, there
was no diversity or contrarety Of opinion
upon the only subject that brought us to-
gether. If am not utterly mistaken. there
Is no such union and coincidence Of opini-
on between the opponents of this bill, who,
upon the very subject of slavery to which it
relates, are rs wide apart as the North and