New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-09-09
FREMONT ~ JEFFERSON COUNTY
Of the N. Y Tribune.

WATERTows, Sept. G. 1856
Having spent few days in this county and taken
some pains to ascertain the political feelings of
The people Of the Black River Vallcy-a SEQ.
ton Of country which, for good morals and in
tcligencc, Is surpassed 10y other in this coun
try-it IL gratifying TO state that Rcpublicanism is
Overwhelmingly strong, and daily increasing in
strength. Notwithstanding the popularity Of FREE
mont and DAYTON the Republicans of the county are
working hard and Systematically 10 swell their ma
ioriy. II is estimated by safe judges that out Of the
5000 votes in the county Buchanan Will get about
l,NO Fillmore 500 and Fremont the rcmalndcr-3 100
At thc present time the Buchanan aud Fillmore
parties are constantly losing and FrcmOn; j. gaining
There school districts III the county which have
been cGyasscd and found Ia he about unanimous for
Fremont and Dayton. In WateTtown two large Fro
mont Clubs have been formed aud weekly meetings are
held meeting was held here Inst evening, at which
was present The Fillmore and Buchanan parties
despairDg Of increasing their strength cxcrting
thtmseivcs 10 prevent loss. ana both Of them called
meetings the evening to keep rs many a. posi-
Die from going within the reach Of Republican facts
aud arguments The Fremont meeting was largely
attended and very ably and effectively addressed
by {. Il. Hoard esq, and Mr. lIawley of WATERFOWL
Mr. Hoard, In the course of his remarks. read from
Benions Thirty Year In Congress, ana from Southern
newspapers various extracts showing that for twenty
ycors past II has been Southern policy, under the lead
ershp OF John {. Calhoun, to concentrate the influence
of the entire slave section of the Union FOR the prOmo
ton of Southern interests. with the view Of becoming
the ruling power in this Republic. The question upon
which this unity of purpose has been secured Is that OF
Slavery He also ad from late Southern papers extracts
showing that the South declares for Slavery in the
abstract, and contends that Human Slavery Is lcgil-
mate normal condition, and mgy be fixed upon whites
well a. blacks He Disseminated between Abolition
ism and RepubcaDlsn, and commended that the Repub
hcan movement of the present day Is not basel npon
sympathy for He negro, but upon the broad ground OF
protection to free white labor, which Slavery now
deglade- by association and would dcmean by actual
condition. lie took the ground that II was South
ON policy to keep the laborcrs-both free and
bond--in ignorance 10 great extent possible.
This they accomplish by making il penal oiense to
teach the slave, and by Withholding the advan-
tagcs of education from che laboring class of the
whites. He fortified this position by quoting from the
statistics of the of 1850 which showed that the
North had five times as many common schools, and
eighteen times many scholars attending them,
the South, and the white population of the North
is hut twice that Of the South He also
showed the conflicting position of John Van
Buren, and associates in 1878 and at
the present time. While the virtues of Free Soil
the it is clear that John an Buren, has changed.
He retired in 1877 from the Democratic State Con-
vention at Syracuse, together with Preston King,
Dudley ID. Field, and others, when the cornerstone
solution declaring UncomprOmistag hostility to the cx
tension of Slavery, rejected. He now passes over
the subject lightly, by saying that he has had
thing to say heretofore about the negro but he thinks
it is time to talk about the interests of white
Upon the subject of Il dissolution of the Union, the
speaker read extracts from Bcntons history the pro-
Ceedings of Southern Conventions, and Southern off
cial documents, showing declarations that the Union
was of value To them and declaring for It's dssou
ton. The North he further proved, had always
manifested love for the Union, by yielding to the
reasonable demands OF the South for the sake of pre-
serving the Union and the Constitution. He Illustrated
this point by comparing the South to the false mother,
who ill the presence of Solomon, when the ownership
of the child decided by ordering it to be severed,
consented TO it destruction; while the true mother
yielded her claim rather than suffer that the clid
should be sacrificed
In conclusion the speaker remarked that it has been
claimed by the North during its struggle with the ag-
e1essve spirit of Slavery that there point be-
yond which The North would not be driven and he be-
eved that mat point had now been reached and the
North ought to stand firm His speech frequently
interrupted with applause, and gave good satisfaction.
Arrangements being made for canvassing the
county thoroughly and supplying documents wherever
they will be useful
Mr.. OLemy the Postmaster at Sterlingvile, in this
county has recently been turned out of the postoce,
and Know Nothing put into his place by the Demo
crntic Administration. Thin transaction has chnsrd
great dissatisfaction among the Catholic Irish of JEFF
fcrson County, who affirm that they will not continue
TO support party which has for time past secret
ly and now openly affiliated with their sworn enemies,
the Know Nothings. c.