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take Of the repeal and the North. having
practically the benefit Of the agreement be-
tween the two sections, would be satisfied, and !
good feeling be restored. The measure is per-
feolly consistent with the honor Of the South,
and vital to its interest. That fatal act which !
gave birth to this purely section al strife Origina-
ting in the scheme to take from free labor the
country secured TO it bya solemn convent,
cannot be too soon dsarmed Of its perricious
force. The only genial region Of the middle
latitudes lsft to the emigrants Of the Northern
States for homes, cannot be conquered from
the free labOrers, who have long considered it
as set apart for them in our Inheritance. with
out provoking desperate struggle. Whatever
may be the persistence of the particular class
which seems ready to hazard everything for
the success Of the unjust scheme it has partial
ly effected, firmly believe that the great heart
of the nation, which throbs with the patriotism
Of the free men Of both sections, will have pow
er to overcome it. They viii look to the
rights secured to them by the Constitution Of
the Union, as their best safeguard from the op-
preston of the class which-by monopoly OF
the soil and of slave labor to till it-might in
time reduce them to the extremity of laboring
upon the same terms with the slaves. The
great body of fnOn-slavehOlding free men, inclu-
ding those of the South, upon whose welfare
Slavery is an oppression, will discover that the
power Of the General Government over the
public lands may be bene6cialY eSerted to ad
vance their interests and secure their indepen
dence. Knowing this, their suffrages will no
be wanting to maintain that authority in the
Union which is absolutely essential to the main
tainance of their own liberties, and which ha
more than once indicated the purpose Of dispo
sing of .he public lands in such way as wOulC
make every settler upon them freeholder.
II the people ntrustto to me the administrator
of the Government, the laws of Congress j
relation to the Territories will be faithfully ex
ecuted. All its authority will be exerted in al
OF the national will to re-establish the peace G
the country on the just principles which hav
: heretofore received the sanction of the Feders
u Government. of the States, and of the people {
; both sections. Such policy would leave n
Q ailment to that sectional party which seeks il
9 aggrandizement by appropriating the new Tel
! ritories to capital in the form of slavery, br
= would inevitably result in the triumph of fre
y labor-the natural capital which constitute
y real wealth of this great country, and create
n that intelligent power in the masses alone 10 B
6 relied on as the buwsrk of free institutions.
Trusting that Ihave heart capable of com
: pretending our whole country, with its varie
q interests and confident that patriotism exists !
n all parts of the Union, l accept the nominaLio
= Of your Convention, in the hope that may b
> able to serve usefully in lis cause which cor
II s:der the cause Of Constitutional Freedom.
b Very respectfully your Obedent servant.
]. G. FREMONT.
n To Messrs. II. S Lane, President of tt
l. Convention James NJ. Ashley, Anthony
4 BeeCker, Joseph G. Hornbower, E. B. Hoal
- Thaddeus Stevens Kinsley S. Bin CHAM. JoE
iS A. Wills G. +. Cleveland, Cyrus Adrict
: Committee, &c.