Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1856-07-03
The Issue and the Men

The New York Courier s. Enquirer in ar abb
article in which it discusses the probabilities o
the campaign aftersupposing that the 100 vote.
Of Slave States may be counted against FremQnt
and granting the bare possibility that pcnnsyl
wanna may vote for Buchanan, says that one vo t.
more will still be needed to elect the latter 1
then adds the following, which We commend t.
the attention of all.
And in the name of all that is sacred, where !.
that to come from? Where is the State SO dograd
ed-where the people so ignorant. 50 reckless
and so hostile to Repubcansm-to Freedom
and to Liberty itself-as to furnish to slavery ex
tension, this one electoral vote, necessary tc
carry Slavery into Territory now free?.
The people viii answer this question to ON
entire satisfaction, at the polls rext November
but until then, the free Press Of the North has {
duty to perform from which it may not shrink
1t must keep continually before the people the
one-great issue ofthis Presidential contest, and
nor suffer itself to 10 drawn off into side issues
That issue is made up in the respective platforms
put forth from Cincinnati and Philadelphia
and the candidates who represent these plat
forms, are comparatively Of but trifing consider
atien. Could we have had our way, Franklin
Pierce,th truest exponent of the Cincinnati Plat
form, would have been the candidate Of the South
and VIM. H. Seward, the ablest and longest
tried opponent of Slavery Extension, would
have been our standard bearer. But it is quite
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lowed the nauseous dose prepared for him 10y
Douglas and Slavery, and lie is good enough
Pierce" for u.s. while in John G.. Fremont, we
have younger soldier, and one who has receiv
ed fewer sears in the war against Slavery ex
tension, but who viii prove himself as true Il
the great cause III which we arc doing battle, a.
would VIM. II. Seward himself
NObody-not even the political opponents o
FREMoNT-douDt his requirements or his capa
city Ills hostility to slavery extension, is de
monstrated III his preserving the State OF Cal
itornia from the curse ef Slavery his energy. his
perseverance, his selfsacrfcing spirit and his
lndomitabie courage, are abUndantly illustrated
IN his achievements as an explorer Of the Grea
West; and his services to his country are ron
dcrad lmperishabe by that browning act of hi.
life which gave to freedom and to Our country
an Empire Oh the Pacific coast. lie is young
IN the prime of life and the very yigor of 4 ma
tured manhood. His reputation rs a soldier arc
a man, in public and in private life, is without
spot or blemish; fresh from the people trained
to endure, to act, prompt to decide and never
failing TO render decision and action rs nearly
simultaneous possible, he is peculiarly ftteC
for the Presidency III times like these. And We
we look not 10 his personal qualities and genera
popularity for success. We look TO our cause
only and to the great principles at issue fer it:
triumph. Our cause is the cause Of the peopl,
the cause of froedom--of Liberty itself ans
our watchword should be-God and our country
and war, now and forever, against the extension
of human Slavery into territory heretofore deyo
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