The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-10-30
Letter from Hon. RObt. ]. Walker.

Ex.Secretary Walker has recently writ.
ten letter on the impending crisis in our
political affairs, which has produced and is
still producing powerful impression upon
the public mind. 1t is written with all the
cleurness, earnestness and force for which
the writer is distinguished, and abounds in
passages Of heart stirring eloquence of the
purest and most elevated character. The
crowded state of our columns alone prevents
us from giving insertion TO the whole letter,
which occupies pamphlet of sixteen octa.
vo pages. The character of this remarkable
production may bs inferred from the follow.
ing thrilling and patriotic appeal which clio.
ses the letter: ....
"Let those OF the North who tell you
there is 10 danger shrink from the fearful
responsibility they have assumed ere the
evil day shall come upon Us. They tell US
there is no danger; that they have heard this
cry before of danger to the Union; but there
is no peril. None in 1920, none in 1888,
none in 1850, and the warnings Of Washing
ton we're deIusion. Why, then, did they
call Henry Clay the great pucifcator, ard
announce that thrice he had saved his coun-
try! How saved he the Union if it never
was in danger! But it was imperiled, and
it was saved by measures adopted by the
votes OF the North and the South. But now
the Union between the North and the South,
so far as the votes for the sectional candi-
dates of the SO. called republican party are
concerned, is already diSsolucd; for no man
anticipates. a solitary electoral vote for those
candidates in any State of the South; but
this controversy is to be settled exclusively
in favor of and by the exclusive vote of the
North; and the rights, wishes, and interests
OF the South are to be wholly disregurded.
beware, my countrymen, ere it is too late,
how you adopt these pcriIous counsels.-
Give 10 vote that puts the Union in the
slightest peril. Make no such fearful ex.
pertinent Friends Of the Union, Of ull par
ties, our enemies have combned; they have
fused, undcr their united efforts the pillars of
the Constitution and Of the Union are rock.
ing to their base, and we may have assem-
bled IN November next for the laot time un
der our countrys Als, aud as citizens of
common Union. The enemies Of the Union
have united, and why should we be separa-
ted! The flag of The North American par
ty, as they, call themselves, is trailing in the
dust, ard is .epIaced by the black repubii.
can standard. Your leaders have surrender
ed the American flag, and taken in exchange
The Airican bsnncr. They have capituIa-
ted at discretion; ;h,y have surrendered
your candidates and principles, aud demand
your votes for the candidates and platform
Of the black republican party. Friends of the
Union, come aud unite with us to save the
Union! Come, without any surrender of
principle on your part or ours, to the rescue
or our country. In my inmost soul believe
that James Buchanan is the only man on
whom, in sufficient force, the trieads of the
Union can unite to save the country.
"Come, democrats; come, wings; come,
friends of the Union of every party--come
to the rescue o that Union which jam Blu.
chanan loves so well, and to preserve which
the patriot statesman of Pennsylvania has
given long life Of devoted service. Come,
my brother, give me your hand; let US save
the country first, and then settle, at some
future election, the administrative measures
about which we now differ Come in the
name of our common country, now in the
agony OF an approaching convulson! Come
in the name Of the Constitution and of the
Union, now subjected to imminent perl!--I
Come in memory Of the commingled blood
OF the North and the South poured out on
the battle fields of the revolution! Come in
the name Of the liberties of the world, which
would be crushed by the fall Of the Ameri.
can Union! Come with the farewell warn
ings of Washington on your lips, and i'm
printed on your hearts--not in sectional ar
ray Of the North against the South, but in
the glorious panoply of our whole country,
from North to South, from East to West!--
Let the thirty one columns wheel into line,
and with the same inspiring battle cry, peal.
ing from rank to rank, re -echoeing from
State to State, The UNEoN--To THE RESCUE!
Let US together march to the polls, as our
fa'hers did in the hour Of peril, to the music
and flag of the Union"