Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-10-02

l HANAS
of the oppressors; but no one OF them ad-
vocating the cause of Kansas, or favoring
her admission under the Free State Con
stitution adopted by her people.
In the public demonstrations and pro
cessions of the party, l find banners and de-
vices containing brutal insults, in response
to the appeals of that people for protection
against unparalleled wrongs, calculated, as
no doubt they must be intended, to prepare
the masses for continued refusal of JUS
tice and protection, and relentless persis-
tence in outrage and oppression.
find all the Democratic South, and a
portion of the Democracy of the North,
boldly repudiating the Kansas Nebraska
bill, by insisting that Slavery has right
10 go into the Territories, in spite of Con-
gress or the people; and that the inhabi-
tants of the Territory have no right 10 pass
territorial laws to forbid it or exclude it
Democratic representatives from Pennsy-
vania even, in the Senate and the House,
hold and proclaim these opinions, while
ether representatives from Pennsylvania,
with Democratic leaders from other States,
declare themselves publicly to be non-com-
initial upon this heresy; the inevitable ten
dency of which, it is easy to show, will be
to prevent almost entirely the formation
ofany more Free States.
Having originated movement myself,
to aid cur people by sending them men
and money, and having prosecuted it with
the strictest avoidance of party character,
and studied neutrality as TO the political
canvas, and having earnestly asked the CO
operation of men of all parties, | have fail
ed to enlist in it, to my knowledge, sin
gle Democrat. In the Conventions of
Cleveland and Buffalo, called without dis
tinction of party, in filrtherance of this en-
terprise, there was no Democrat present but
myself. This can hot have been from anv
want of generosity or of means, but only
in Difference to the prevailing tone and SEN
timent of the party, which is enlisted upon
the other side of the question. And not
only have they abstained from aiding the
movement, but in their presses and by their
private influence they have endeavored to
cripple and retard it by sneering at it, warn
ing the community against it as REASONABLE
and declaring that the money would be
misapplied, thus endeavoring to prevent
contributions even from friends of the
measure.
l might go on with this catalogue and
enumerate other indications, if necessary,
showing that the prevailing time of the par
ty is hostile to Kansas; but l consider it
only necessary to add, that what l have
said relates but to the North. The South,
where the great mass of the party is to be
found, makes no pretensions, as whole, to
the advocacy ofanythtng but pure border
ruffianism.
What, then, have the Free State men of
Kansas to expect from Democratic Ad-
ministration, even ifpresided over by Mr..
Buchanan? If he could be left to act up
on his own impulse, and free from all pied
ges and obligations, expressed or implied,
the case would be very different. But u1l-
fortunately, it is not SO. His election
would rightfully be considered decision
agains us, whatever may be his own pri-
vate feelings. His office at Washington, in
Kansas, and elsewhere would necessarily,
to a large extent, be filed with our enemies.
His information would come thr ough a dis
torted medium; and lastly, he could not
aid us without having first made up his
mind to be abandoned and warred
upon by his own party. The South
would charge him with violating his pied
ges, and turn upon him with the bitterest
hostility, and at least a portion of the Nor
thern Democracy would follow their exam
pie. He would thus be left without par
ty to support his administration unless he
should cast himself into the arms of the
We cannot it seems to Inc,
either ask him to do this on q question
where the party lines are so plainly drawn
before the election. Like all other men
in the same situation, he must obey the
party sentiment on which he is elected
That there, Democrats in Pennsylvania who
are full of Indignation against the conduct
of the South in regard to Kansas, am
well aware, and that they would use their
influence to redress her wrongs, am well
but they are too few, in proper
tion to the whole party, and, of course,
cannot do so hereafter. l honor their
good intentions, but l cannot believe in
their power.
I-repeat that have been forced to these
conclusions after no slight struggle with
my feelings and inclinations. Should Mr..
Buchanan be elected, and his administra-
ton be different from what my judgment
compels me to believe, shall give him
my cordial appreciation, and my feeble
though willing support. As l believe now,
must regard the Democratic party as fully
to Southern sectionalism, to-
ward which for some time past, it has been
rapidly tending, and l quit it, well assur-
ed that my duty to my country demands
at my hands this sacrifice of personal feel
ing. Very truly yours,
A. H. REEDER.
Abuse of Gen. jackson.
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