Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-08-25
FRIENDS OF UNION THROUGH.


= ont the land organize with speed, for
time Is ripe for action Be progressiyes In what
is really wrong until 1t is righted but be s,eadfst
conservatives in all constitutional rights For
the gradual progress OF the Wing and Democratic
parties, for series Of years brought their plat
forms almost fac simile in their conventions Of
hry-two; therefore all Of either party who remain
true, are now one and indivisible for the Union,
the people, and the Con.titution, as promulgated
by James Buchanan. Type Of our revolutIonary
fathers, extending the elective franchise to men
OF all classes and countries that enter our terrific
~, TO drive back the forest the rattiesnases ana
wolves, making the wilderness blossom like the
rose, teeming with abundance securing peace
domestic tranquility. and happiness to all within
are broader than the land we inhabit. They ex-
tend from the breadth Of the compass to the height
OF the universe, enlightenng, cvilizing aud uIil-
ling all nations on the globe, and the mission Of
our country, people and laws Is to melt down into
one comprehensive mass all sectarfapism or $50
tionalism, into practical democracy or reality,
where no man can be deprived OF the elective
franchise, or any Of his natural hts for consci
ence SAKE, as II was bequeathed to us by our indie
pendent fathers, as the most inestm BILE blessing
on earth-von by genius, blood and TIRE assure, from
tue aristocracy Of Europe, whose motto was and
Is none but the rich shall hold Office nor exercise
the right Of suffrage.
And our midnight retrogressive order of pro-
scnptive saints remind me Of menwalking back
wards stumb ing, ana wishing from their very
souls, that none but themselves could vote or hold
othce. But, thank God, su h heart ess, and soul
less, principles, and creatures that can stick to
them, Will never sway the destines OF this coun-
nv In their mad career for power and Influence,
over the true and honest Americans. who wish to
carry out aud transmit unimpared those sacred
inmunities that belong not only to ourselves but
to allsucceeding generations
The SO called Republicans or sham Free Sellers
who FIRST came up al Buffalo in forty eight took
the name elaborated by lsnd refOrmers or true Free
Sellers, and applied IL the mere idea of prevent.
Ing the southern peop:e from taking their proper
~ al rNN 70 a.,
new territory, and call that free soil
The Hon. Andrew johnson, Of Tennessee and
bis able coadjutOrs never had such miserable
contracted Idea They wan'ed the true free soil,
the homestead, or paradise regainsd, which did
not nor would not engender sectional strife, but
tended 70 peace and perpetual union Of this vast
and mighty republic
But those sham Republicans an psuedo Ameri.
cans have stopped the wheels Of PROGRESS Tor n
pr1ef period, until the one-idea superficial piddy
mass come to themselves, and have a lucid inter.
val OF reason and common sense, which they
should have been born with or rot been born at
all III their European principles were carried out
In twenty one years there would be eigh, or ten
millions OF serfs In our midst, fair game for our
large u. manalactufeIs Degraded In their position,
they could not be expected to hold up wages with
an over stocked labor market For the SAKE OF
employment they would be compeIIed 10 under
woik the enfranchiscd Americans, and thereby
ailVe them from the factories and workshops
Becdu' e manufar turer Is compelled to employ
The lowest rate OF wages to compete with other, IN
MS line al home and abroad Therefore tits plain
70 ne seen that the non voters would he EN- ploved
al lower wages than the enfranchised could IA I'd
10 Work fyr. Consequently The bo,sted American
freeman would be left TO beg, steal or starys frr
not recognising in their Iarsatlatic fellow brother
freeman, fellow traveller TO the same b.uIns
with himself
NOW Fellow ci izsns Of the great leading modern
repuollc which Is looked to as the hope and light
o. tne world, this is not the true spirit Of our
revolutionary fathers as contained In treir decla
r@tton Of this happy union, then Patrick Henry
spoke wrong, Thoml Jeffers on wrote wrong and
eeorge Washington fought wrong And Samuel
adams, John Hancock, Benjamin franklin. and
The sisners OF the Declaration Of Independence
acted wong, and tie old hero, Andrew Jackson.
with his Iron nerve tolerated and perre:u,ted, the
wrong Butfellow citizeas, there i no one N I Ia
sober senses believes it, Neither will TIE nsnnie
believe that James Buchanan, Cass, Douglas
Pfat, Pierce, Bigler, Weller, Brown, Davidson.
zones, Rusk, Mason, Bayard, and Bros dhead'
ana most OF other Se ,ators with compre bensive
minds, are wrong. Neither will the people disbe
ileve the intelligent celebrations OF +. Florence
). w Forney, J c. Zones, Mr.. Cadwalsder. ]. l..
Dawson, Of Pa, F. McMullin, T.. ). Bococi' and
Charles Faulkner, ana all others, who never
TIRE In the true spirit Of our fathers
IL" THOMAS CHAMPION