The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-09-25
EUROPEAN DEMOCRATS AND THE PREsI-
DENTAL ELECTION.
STOCKHOLM. Ann. IL ISL

STOCKHOLM, AEg. IL, 1886.
Is it known in America how anxiously the
coming Presidential election is watched in Eu-
rope? Everywhere people ask you about the g.
chances.
Within few DAYS, a Professor in the UpsuIs
University-almost the leader OF the legal pro-
tession i'll Sweden, and known to many Of our
lawyers at home-said to me, Europe looks
on your election the most i'm porta,,t erent for
Freedom iR this last quarter of a century. If
Mr.. Fremont is defeated, it seems here as if
Slavery would triumph forever in your Repub-
he; then our Liberals must give up all hope
| from the West | confess sir IS m.
Republican party is defeated, many among us
will despair of the continuance of yoar Union
as free Government"
| This gentleman is remarkably well Informed
| on American affairs, but so | find many even
| IN the remote parts Of these countries. The
papers are full of articles on our internal poll
tics and our dangers. An editor OF C.otteDburO
said to me lately: "You know how anxiouslv
we watch your affairs. Every outbreak and
trouble with you-such as these outrages in
your Parliament--is used by the aristocrats
and Princes against us. They argue that the
system OF universal suffrage has proved a fail
ure-and if your free North is beaten this cleo
ton, we shall be obliged to own that to a de-
gree 1t has-your Confederation then will most.
ly represent Slavery"
gave him, IN reply, the usual views of our
Northern people--tAat strictly, even if tba
Union was broken up by the question of Slave
ry, It would prove nothing against the principle
| o. seli-government; that these ontrages and
brutalites were mostly the fruits of a system of
Despohsm, against which We of the free States
were struggling.
He said, further that it is only within few
months shat people in Europe had really begun
to understand the immense Importance of the
question OF Kansas. Now, they SAM the import
OF IL. Within two years, he said, he had had
an opportunity at one time of sending out q
thousand Swedish emigrants. Mr.. Marcus
Spring had advised him to send them to Kansas,
lie could easily have done SO, but hs had not
then clearly understood the object. They went
mostly TO Michigan and had suffered much from
the climate and other causes. Re had so often
regretted it.
Every man of Their, sir, would have stood
by your free partv, with body and vote. A
S|ede cannot even understand how 1t Is posi-
| bic to hoL. slave You may not know that
we we're the first country in Europe TO sDohsh
/ Slavery
Such sentiments as these are universal among
! intelligent people here. The fact rs, that the
knowledge of American affairs has increased
! immensely within the last five years. Even the
peasants understand the fearful question we
have TO settle, and know something of the strug-
gle which is going on.
believe as so many have said to me, that
this election is regarded by intelligent men IN
Europe, as the most important event since the
formation of our Government for the freedom
of the world. People see that it is the old Eu-
ropean contest transferred to the New World
Liberty and Despotism, stripped of DISCUSSES,
meeting in death-struggle; and contest on
IL II 4 eff Ip oil fhar
revolutionary strifes "If America fails, every
thing must fail one hears so often. II seems
almost as if the oppressed and oppressors of
Europe were breathing little from their des-
perate war, to watch the even grander struggle
on the battlefield of America, where the fate
of Liberty, for ages to come, was at dangerous
issue.
/ am speaking Of the sentiments Of foreign
ers. Such as those above are especially shared
by the Democrats Of Germany. How disgrace
ful that the Democratic emigrants in America
should be so false to the old cause
OF course, it is not spoken here of the many
intelligent AntiSlavery Germans in our State.
But do say, it is shame and stain on the
noble fame of Germany, that so many Of her
sons in this approaching election IN America
will support the cause Of bloody and unprin-
cipled tyranny.
1t must be, with many, sheer Ignorance. The
old war cry of " Democrat" has beguiled them.
Your Republican Committees should strain
every nerve to set this matter right. The Ger
mans of Pennsylvania may turn the election.
Why not at once select intelligent, high minded
Germans in New York-men above any SUE
pcion of wirc-pulling or office hunting and
send them with documents in black and white,
to stump Pennsylvania? Light is what is want
ed-ti9ht In this elan of enthusiasm through
the free States, you are in danger OF forgetting
that these Republican ideas may not at all have
penetrated the heavy German farmers and labor
ers, and only find the mistake when Buchanan
is elected.
The oppressed of distant lands watch breath
lessly your votes, which shall this autumn de-
eide between Liberty and Despotism.
CT. B.
Fremont At THE SoUTH.-A STAKEHOLDER writes
a long letter to the Nep York DQily Times, from
Atalanta, Georgia, emphatically endorsing the
nomination of Fremont and Dayton, and ex-
pressing an earnest desire for their election. He
says that he is a permanent resident Of Geor-
sia owns half dozen slaves was born in a
slave State; does not believe the people Of the
North wish to deprive him of his property;
regards Slavery as anything else than a bless-
ing; thinks the whole white race would be hap
pier and better without it and thus speaks Of
the existence Of Fremont party at the South,
-'"And as to the forming of Fremont party ia
every slave State, do not hesitate 10 say it could
be done with ease, If mobs were out Of me wav.
and it could be done, if necessary, in suite of
mobs. A few brave hearts could do the work
anywhere. But, misrepresen.ed as Fremont has
been, will not say that ne could get the elect.
oral vote of any slave State. Yet it ia beyond
all doubt tina. he could get thousands of the