Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1856-10-23

ibe Presitel! OF the National American Con-
ycatiOl ont for Fremont.
From tie Newark n. 10 Advertiser.

From tie Newark n. j. Advertiser.
J L DGE MARSu'S OSITION.
We stated some days ogo, tia, Hon
Ephraim Marsh of this State. who pre-
sided at the National American Conven-
ti0n which nominated Fillmore and Don.
esoii. had decided 10 support Fremont
and Dayton. We have Just received
from him the following letter to his col
leagues, (who, with him, represented the
Americans OF this State in the Conven-
t!cn.) IN which he ably reviews the piin
cip.es at Stake in the contest and gives
his reasons Tor supporting the Republican
candidates. He only reiterates he con-
victions OF every honest practical man
who has reflected on The suhiect-that
the only issue in this contes, is between
the extensiouisis Of slave power, headed
by Buchanan, and the friends OF freedom
IN tho Territories. WHO have nominated
fremont; and TO sunpori Mr.. Fillmore
would be only casting his vote for the
!ormer-ori al b7st, throwing ii away
The letter will be read with interest,
and produce powerful effect upon those
who have hitherto sympalhizcd in the
cause IN which Judge hlaIsh Was at frs,
enlisted:
ScnooLEY'e MovErArE. y. J. Sept. TO-
MrssTs. john IL. Lyon. Joseph w. Allen
l.. OK. E. IL. Grsndiu j. Il. Coruell.
John t. Weeks
Gentlemen:- Having been constrained
by the course of public events, occurring
since The meeting of The American Ma
ticnai Convention, by which the Hon.
Ii!lard Fillmore YVES nominated for Pres
ident OF the United States, over which
Convention | had the honor 10 preside,
TO renounce that nomination. you. as my
colleagues in that Convention. are enti-
lied TO my reasons for so doing, and |
Will proceed briefly but frankly 10 state
them.
1t was known TO my friends a, Fhila-
/ delphia. ihst the pro slavery platform
there adopted. and which drove so many
Nor hern delegates from the Convention.
was rerugnsnt TO my sentiments and sym
pathies. But. coniidiDg in the principles
oi Mr.. Fillmore, who. IN the Legislature
of New York. and in Congress, had ev-
er acted with the friends of freedom,
acquiesced In an cxceptiona bic platform.
In view to the perfidious repeal of the
Missouri Compromise, and the aggres-
sious and outrages perpetra.ed by Mis-
s"urlans upon Kansas, with more than
the approval OF the general government,
looked TOR some expression OF the SEN
tlments which pervnded the whole North
sentiments that Mr.. Fillmore had ever
Prottssed-in his letter Of acceptance.--
But IN this expectation was disappoinl
ed. There WIS a studied and significant
avoidance, In that letter, OF the question
upon which he knew, IS we all know,
the Preside n;idl election is 10 be deci.
dec. either in favor Of or against slavery
extension. Nor was less disappointed
in finding the friends of Nc. Fillmore in
Congress, voting steadily. throughout
proIracted session. with the supporters of
aggression aud Outrage in Kansas, and
persisting in such votes. after. by the re
port of the Kansas Congressional Com
mittee, it had been irrelrsgably proven
that the election in Kansas had beer car
Iied BY aimed bodies of men from Mis-
souri,; that on iniamous code of Terrific.
rial laws had been enacted in Kansas by !
Mssourians; that free presses in Kansas
had beer d. d'stIoyed by Missourians; that
settlers in Kansas had been robbed and I
murdered by Missourians; that organized |
aud armed bodies of men from Missouri,
and other slave States. had sworn, in Sc
cret societies. that Kansas shall become
a slave State; aud finally. that all these
outrages were perpetrated with the hid
ana appreciation Of United States Judge
ana MARSHALL. and in the presence of
United States troops. But these great
wrongs lnough nrousing tho just indig-
nation oil ireemeu, have elected no word
OF reproof from Mr.. Fillmore. On The
in his speech a, Albany. he as.
founded the country in declaring ,ha at the ,
election OF Col. Fremont. by the spon.
oneous suifrsges OF majority of the {