Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1856-08-21
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Letter from Hon. Philip Dorsheimer.

we taNe great pleaS1rs IN Publishing tho fol-
lowing letter from the Hon Philip Dorsheimer of
Buffalo, n. Y. so pertinent IS it to the question
at issue, and soon to be pronounced upon at tho
/ ballot box. Mr.. Dorsheimer, as will be seen, is
an adopted citizen a German, and one of many
/ Of his distinguished countrymen, who have de-
cIared for Fremont and Dayton. With him de
nncracy is something more than name--it IS
great Priaeipts; and tbatsprinoiple being found
/ in the republican, and not in the so-called demo
cratic platform, explains his reputation of Mr.
Buchanan. Read it citizens. adopted and native,
/ 1t will do you good. lis noble and manly let
ter 1t has been furnishe1lus by J. Y. Donald
son, Esq, fthis place, towhom it is addressed
| BUFFALO, J uly Is, 1856
DEAR SIR: have to acknowledge tho receipt
of your letter asking me 90 visit the counties Of
Tioga and Lyc)mng, L have delayed answer
ug this invitation, because hoped to be able 70
accept it; but l ana sorry to say that my present
engagements such that | cannot fix upon any
time tor visiting Pennsylvania Sometime int tho
autumn | may be able land ii so will inform you.
1t is the special duty otforeIgr born citizens to
vote the republican ticket. Most foreigners come
here, as ] did, with no other wealth than the
str ength OF their hands. They have to depend
upon their labor for all their hopes future co,n
fort, usefulness and dignity. OF all the blessings
| which American liberty promises them, the moss
valuable is the assurance it gives TO freemen to
work land security for their earnings. They can
part with all other privileges-the elective fran
Slavery degrades the working man. 1t reduces
him to the level ofthe slave. No Know Nothing
prescription can be as effective that which ex-
cludes free labor from slave soil From all that
/ soil, comprising more that one half the territory
of the States foreigners are to day banshed by
laws more positive than any Legislative enactment
and ii Is now the purpose of a large and power
full party to Danish them from the prairios of the
west. Those regions belong to all of us, to tbs
seuthaner and northorner, the foreigner and ma
il fhpt ga ms htEra Setp
and enjoy his rights, that tho republican party
entere the fight this campaign.
You say, sir, that most of the Germans in your
neighborhood have Hitherto been democrats
This is the reason why they should be republic
ans now. For more than thirty years ! have
been democrat, never voting any other ticket
and that is what makes me republican. The
republican policy is the democratic policy, poll
icy which was carried out by the administrations
of Jefferson, Monroe, Jackson aud Polk which
received the approval OF democratic statesmen
like Van Buren,, Silas Wright and Cass and the
constitutionaity OF which was never, until with.
in few years, called into question by any dom
0crat, not even by such doubtful and unsteady
democrats as John G.. Calhoun and James Blu
chanan. This new policy OF the extension of slav-
cry is not democratic at all. 1t was not thought
SO by Its author until after he had left the demo-
cratic party, and entered the cabinet Of wing
President. Its chief supporters from the south
are renegade wings. Every foreigner ought to
be q republican, but if he is democrat as well
as foreigner, cannot see how he can refuse to
become one.
Besides, sir, we adopted citizens ought to do
al in our power to put down this sectional agita-
E ton, and to preserve the Union OF these States
upon which our prosperity and the prosperity of
all citizens depend. For this, what SO is left
open to us On the one side We party
which has reopeded sectional agitation revived
the slavery dispute; and which proposes to
aggrandize one portion Of thecountry at tho ex-
pense Of all others. This party is now represen-
ted by an administration, the most influential
member of which, whose chief supporters in Con-
gress, are southern secessionists, open and avow-
ed dsunionists These men do not seek to pre-
serve the Union, while in ii they uso the power
of the government so that southern territory
shall be larger when they % out of il. On tho
other hand, we see a party, fortunately neither
large nor powerful, which besides being fully
committed TO these sectional schemes ofdisunion,
seek to destroy the harmony Of our society, by
drawing distinctions between men Of different
races and creeds. ! have no choice left EXCEPT
to so with the only truly national party, the great
! republican party, by which the whole country,
both north and south, and all citizens, catholic
and protestant, native and foreign, will be pro-
tected in every right, privilege and liberty and
IN whose hands the federal Union will DO safe
against all enemies at home abroad.
| We are singularly fortunate in our candidate.
| know Col Fremont to be an honest man, with
aDlIIly more Jndu Sil lClcllI lot any utly winch
may b9 required OF him. His whole career, all
his associations show him to be truly national
man. He is the son of foreigner, he is a south
! emer by birth and education. bis life has been
/ spent in the service ofthe whole country, he has
done more for her than any living American, and
be is conscientiously in favor of that time honor
ed policy which protects slavery where it exists
under state laws, and prohibits its extension in
to territory now free.
Hoping to see you in the course of month or
two, | remain most truly your servant
PHILIP DORSHEI MER.
! To J. L. Donaldson, Esq.
AN INCIDENT OF THE WAR or 1919. 1T will
be recollected that it was part Of the plan for
the campaign of Sl3. that expedition should
proceed down the ST. Lawrence under the COM
mand Of General Lewis, with the intention of at
lacking and capturing Montreal For this pur-