Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-04-10

Kanzas, on the important issues of the dav.
1t v as published in the Boston Atlas and
Fitchburg Rereille of yesterday, to both of
which papers it was furnished by the Governor
himself, with his consent that it should be
made public. As the atlas well says
"a friendly word from any quarter must
have been grateful to Governor Robinson,
while struggling with powerful and unscru.
pulous President, and the no less unscrupu-
lous ruthans of the Missouri borders to have
received that word from one by birth aud edu-
cation prejudiced to look with lenient eve
upon the usurpations of slavery, must have
been doubly grateful"
"Col. Fremont shows his whole heart, and
gives his whole hand. He declares the terri
torial government of Kanzas to be a usurpa.
ton of the President; he shows that he I'M
derstands and abhors the diabolica legislation
which Missouri has attempted to foist upon
kanzas; and more than all, he makes it APP
parent in every line that he fully understands
the Importance of the struggle which is going
on. He knows it to be contest between civ
ilization and barbarism, between order and
anarchy, between freedom and despotisn, be-
tween prosperity and pauperism, between hu-
manity and cruelty, and he does not hesitate
for moment upon which side to cast the
weight of his name and influence. His letter
breathes the best spirit of the nineteenth GEN.
tury-a spirit not only of the enterprise which
POUNDS great States but OF the humanity which
makes them the abode of the industrious, ill
telligent, unenslaved populations He writes
In the spirit of the true American pioneer,
who penetrates forests, and crosses deserts,
and seeks unknown lands, that he may carry
there not only the prosperity of our beloved
country, but those free institutions to which
we are indebted for all our happiness. The
man who rescued California from the grasp of
slavery, and then lent his aid among the fore
most, to secure to her laborers the products of
their hardy toll, could hardly have written
differently on this subject
Public evidence of the position of Colonel
Fremont on the great questions which now
agitate the country, is furnished in the part he
took toward making California free State,
when her Constitution was framed. 1t is stat
ed on reliable authority, that he repeatedly
declared, at the time, that lift should become
slave State, he should leaveit. In the con-
test in the Legislature of that State, in 1851,
for U. S. Senator, which resulted in his cleo
ton after over l40 protracted ballotings, the
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slavery question was an important issue, and
Col. Fremont was chosen as the independent
candidate, on the Free State issue, over I.
Butler King, Wing, and Heydenfelt, Demo-
crat. Among his most ardent supporters for
Senator, was DR.. Charles Robinson, now
Governor of Kanzas. Col. Fremont's letter
below confirms this idea of his position =
New YORK, March II, 1856, }
l76 Second Avenue
Ny Dear Sir Your letter of February
reached me in Washington some time since.
read it with much satisfaction. 1t was a
great pleasure to find you retained so lively a
recollection OF our intercourse in California,
But my own experience is, that permanent
and valuable friendships are most often formed
in contests and struggles. If man has good
points then they become salient, and we
know each other suddenly.
had both been thinking and speaking Of
you latterly. The Banks balloting in the
House, and your movements in Kanzas, had
naturally carried my mind back to our hun
bred and forty odd ballots in California, and
your letter came seasonably and ftly to COM
plete the connection. We were defeated then
but that contest was only an incident in a
great struggle, and the victory was deferred,
not lost. You have carried to another field
the same principle, with courage and ability
to maintain it; and | make you my sincere
congratulations on your success-incomplete
SO far, but destined in the end tn tri.s.-ti. s.'
soluteiy. | had been waiting to see what
shapa the Kanaas question would take in
Congress, that might be enabled to give you
some views in relation to the probable result.
Nothing has yet been accomplished. But |
III II I IL
efficient measures to lay before the American
people the exact truths concerning your affairs.
Neither you nor can have any doubt what
verdict the people will pronounce upon truth
full exposition. 1t is to be feared, from the
proclamation of the President, that he intends
to recognize the usurpation in Kanzas as the
legitimate government, and that its sediton
law, the test oath, and the means to be tax en- to
expel its people as aliens, will, directly or indi-
rectly, be supported by the army fthe United
States.
our position will undoubtedly be difficult /;
but you know | have great confidence in YOUR
tirmess and prudence. When the critical
moment arrives, you must act for yourself-no
man can give you counsel. A true man will
always find his best counsel in that inspira-
ton which good cause never fails tn give
him at the instant of trial. All history teach
es that great results are ruled by wise Prov
idence, and we are but units in the great plan.
Your actions will be determined by events. as
they present themselves and az this distance
l can only say that l sympathize cordially
with you, and that, as you stood by me firm.
ly and generously, when we were defeated by
the nulliiers in California, have every dis
position to stand by you in the same way in
your battle with them in Kanzas.
You see that whatI have been saving is
more reply to the suggestions which your
condition makes to me, than any answer TO
your letter--@hich more particularly regards
myself. The notices which you had seen Of me,
IN connection with the Presidency, came from
the partial disposition of friends, who think of
me more hatteringly than do of myself, and
do not Therefore call for any action from u.s.
Repeating that l am really and sincerely graf
flied in the renewal of our friendship, or rath.
er in the expressions of it, which hope will
not hereafter have SO long an interval,
am yours, very truly,
o J. c. FREMONT.
Gov. CHARLES ROBINSON, Lawrence, Kan
zas.
james Buchanan.
The Washington correspondent of the Bos.