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course left them afiording any prospect of defeat
ing the Democratic candidate 1t may also be
well 10 consider, whether II the friends of Mr.
Fillmore In the South should indicate a purpose to
unite with the Democratic party and array all the
slave States in favor of Mr.. Buchanan, Il would
not supply new and powerful argument to the
Republican party, in making their appeals 10 the
people of the North to unite in support Of the free
State candidateS
But upon that ground can II be confidently as-
sumed, from anything that now appears, that Nv
Buchanan Is q more available candidate than Mr..
Fillmorey The American ticket is supported by
a deep and ea nest sentiment In every State of
the Union the strength Of which will only be fully
developed at the ballot-box. A large body of old
Wings have stgnified' their preference for this
ticket, and their determination to sustain it,
These elements of Mr.. Fillmore,s strength are
eminently conservative and national, in all that
conserves the preservation of the Union AT a
time when this great security for all our rights
this great prop of American liberty, power, and
glory is menaced with destruction, thousands of
patriotic citizens, everywhere, and TO whatever
party they now belong, brief as is the interval al
lowed for deliberation will pause before they take
their final stand in the present contest, and like
the bewildered traveller, cautiously seek the right
direction. Even while l write, tdings of fresh
outbreaks in Kansas salute my ear, and armed
bands Of men, from different sections, are known
to be on the march, to mingle in the intestine
strife. This has been the unhappy condition of
Kansas for the last six or eight morths Ii can
not last another half year without involving the
people of the neighboring States, in direct and
hostile conflict; and upon whom-upon what
party, then, can the country most safely depend,
to quench the fame of civil war, when thus
lighted ups
Two great parties, the Republican and the Dem
ocratic, committed to opposite and extreme lines
of policy in relation to the affairs Of Kansas equal
ly obstinate and uncompromising neither of them
disposed to concede anything, come of it what
may--contend before the people for the posses
sion and control of the executive power Of the
government. Each claims to be the safest deposit
tory of this power at the present crisis 1t seems
to me that no rational hope be INDUCED, that
either of these parties would be able 10 compose
the present strife and restore the country to har-
mony. Where, then, l repeat, are we to look.
with any assurance of safety? answer to par
ty which stands uncommitted, unpledged to any
desperate extremes on either side.
In conclusion, after giving this grave subject all
the consideration which its importance demands,
my advice to my old Wing friends of Tennessee is,
to stand fast by Fillmore and Donelson, and to
spare no effort to insure their election.
| am, gentlemen, respectfully, your fellow. citi-
zen, JOHN BELL.
Messrs Rolfe s. Saunders, John M. Fleming, r. r.
Bearden, A. NJ. Piper, Geo. Stackhouse, r. Ii.
Armstrong, w. b. Reese, Jr., Committee.