The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-07-14

Gus 10 the OnlQp, unu Possioiy CuueuuC-
tive treason" to indulge these thoughts, but
they will com up; l can't help it; I wish |
could. Yours,
"a man never ss q Clay Wing at heart, who talks
Buchanan sineerely.-Ep. GAL
COL. fRIx0NTs LETTER OF AccIP-
rANCK.
NEW YORK, July 8, 1856.
GIsTLEMEs:-You call me 70 a high
responsibility by placing me at the head Of
a great movement Of the people of the
| United States, who, without regard to par.
ty differences, are uniting in a common eff
fort to bring back the action of the Fedora
Government to the principles Of Washing
ton and Jefferson. Comprehending the
magnitude of the trust which they have de-
ciared themselves willing 10 place in my
hands, and deeply sensible of the honor
which their universal confidence in this
threatening position of public affairs implies
| feel that I cannot better respond to them
| than BY a sincere declaration, that in the
| event OF my election to the Presidency, ]
should enter upon the execution OF its do.
ties with a si~ngle-hearted determination to
promote the good of the whole country end
10 direct solely TO that end all the power oil
Government, irrespective of party issues
and regardless of sectional pride. The de-.
| claration OF principles embodied in the re-
solves of your Convention, express senti-
ments in which I have been educated and
which have been ripened into conviction by
personal observations and experience
With this declaration and avowal, I think
it necessary to revert to only two Of the
subjects embraced in the resolutions, and
to those only because events have sur
rounded them with grave and critical cir
cumstances, and given to them special i'm
portance.
/ concur in the views Of the Convention
deprecating the foreign policy to which it
adyerts. The assumption that we have
the right to take from another nation its
domains because We want them, lie an
abandonment of the honest character which
our country has acquired. To provoke hos
tilities by unjust assumptions, would be to
sacrifice the peace and character Of the
country, when all its interests might be
more certainly secured and its objects OBJ
tanned by just aud healing counsels, in
volying no loss of reputation. lnternation-
al endorsements are mainly the results of
a secret diplomacy, which aims to keep
from the knowledge Of the people the opera
lions Of the Government. This system is
inconsistent with the character of our in
sti,utions, and is itsel If yielding gradually TO
a more enlightened public opinion, and in
the power of a free press, which, by its
broad dissemination of political intelligence,
secures in advance to the side OF justice the
judgment of the world. An honest, firm
and open policy in our foreign relations,
aould command the united support of the
nation, whose deliberate opinions 1t would
necessarily reflect.
Nothing is clearer in the history Of our
institutions than the design Of tine nation
asserting its own independence and free
dom, to avoid giving c~ountenance to the ex-
tension of slavery. The influence Of the
small but compact and powerful class of
one section Of the country and WELD a vast
political control as a consequence in the
other, is now directed TO turn back this i'm.
pulse Of the revolution and reverse its prin-
ciples. The extension Of slavery across
the continent 10 the object of the power
which now rules the Government; and from
this spirit has sprung those kindred wrongs
in Kansas SO truly portrayed in one of your
resolutions, which prove that the elements
of the most arbitrary governments have not
been vsnquished by the just theory of our
own.
1t would be out of place,,here to pledge
| myself TO any particular policy that has
been suggested to terminate the sectional
controversy engendered by political ammo
sites, operating on a powerful class banded
together by q common interest. A p~ractic-
al remedy is the admission of Kansas into
the Union as a Free State. The South
should in my Judgment, earnestly desire
such contamination. 1t would vindicate
its good faith. II would correct the mistake
of the repeal; and the North, having prae.
tically the benefit of the agreement between
the two sections, would be satisfied and
good feeling be restored. The measure is
perfectly consistent with the honor of the
South and vital to it's interests. That fatal
act which gave birth to this purely section.
al strife, originating in the scheme to take
from free labor the country secured to it by
q solemn covenant, cannot be toe soon dis
armed of lis pernicious force. The only
genial region of the middle attitudes left to
the emigrants OF the Northern States for
homes cannot be conquered from the free
iaborers who have long considered it as q
set apart for them in our inheritance, with.
out provoking a desperate struggle. What
ever may be the persistence of the particu'
lar class which seems ready TO hazard every.
thing for the success Of the unjust scheme
IN has partially effected, l firmly believe
that the great heart Of the nation, which
throbs with the patriotism of the FreemeI
of both sections will have power to over
come Il. They will look to the rights sc.
cured to them by the Constitution OF the
Union as the best safeguard from the op'
preston OF the class which, by a monopoly
Of the soil and of slave labor to till it, nigh,
in time reduce them to the extremity of la.
boring upon the same terms with the SLAYER.
The great body of non-siavehoiding Free
men, including tnose Of the South, upon
whose welfare slavery is an oppression, will
discover that the power Of the General Gov.
eminent ever the Public Lands may be
beneficialiy exerted to advance their inter.
ests and secure their Independence; know
ing this, their suffages will not be wanting
to maintain that authority in the Unior
which is absolutely essential to the main
tanning Of their own liberties, and which hal
more than once Indicated the purpose o
dispesing Of the Public Lands in such a we,
az would make every settler upon them
freeholder.
II the people intrust TO me the admin
i~stration Of the Government, the lava o
Congress In relation to the Territorie
shalt be faithfully executed. All its author
ity shall be exerted in aid Of the Nationa
will to re-estabiish the peace Of the %countr,
on the just principles which heretofore re
ceiyed the sanction Of the Federal Govern
meat, of the States, and Of the People o
both sections. Such d policy would leay'
no sliment TO that sectional party which
seeks its sggrandizement BY apprcpfistini
the new Territories to capital In the form