The Winchester weekly appeal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1856-1856, 1856-08-16

allied themselves with the Black Repub.
lcan movement, in the war upon the in
stitutions and rights Of the South. The
Democratic press ofthe slave States are
obliged to conceal this fact from their
readers-because they well understand
that the effect Of such information would
be to commend Ameficanism TO all par.
ties in the South.
We have before US q letter from Fred
erick Heckcr, a German elector of the
Fremont party in Illinois, in which he ex,
cuses himsel on account of sickness for
having failed to attend an anti. Nebraska
meeting at Bellevile, and proceeds to
say:
$50 soon as am able to move about
though my health may not be fully re-
stored--l shall speak to the people OF st.
Clair and adjoining Counties on the cues
ton of the day, and shall demonstrate
to the best of my abilities, that the honor
of the German name and Of the German
nation, and the hatred Of aristocratlc ar.
rogance and tyranny, make it the sacred
and imperative duty Of Germans.to enter
the lists against slavery and slaveocra'
cy.'
Gustavus Strive and Lorenzo Bretano,
the compatriots of Hecker, have likewise
declared for Fremont and Dayton.
Strive, who has for the last few years
devoted much ofhis time to writing Uni
versal History, several volumes of which
have already left the press, has address
ed letter to the German citizens, dated
Dobbs' Ferry, July 10, in which he urges
them to aid the cause OF Republic anism by
voting for Fremont and Dayton. He
says:
cit is a fact that Fremont and the Re-
publican party strive to make Kansas
free State, whilst Buchanan and his par.
ty are laboring 10 make it slave State.
The fate of Kansas will be shared by Ne.
braska, Washington and Oregan. Should
slavery gain Kansas, the other territories
will also be lost to freedom, and the pre-
ponderance of the Shareholders will then
be so great that the Southern aristocracy
will be able to domineer over the North
as they now do over the South. y
"Be not deceived, dear friends. In
the pending contest slavery is the para
mount issue. True, it is not to be decl'
ded whether freedom or slavery shall sole
ly exist in this country, but 1t is a queS'
ton concerning the restriction or extern.
sion Of slavery.
"Tor the extension Of slavery no real
opponent Of dcspotism can vote. The
worst form in which despotsm appears
is slavery. Louis Napoleon and the Aus
trian Emperor do not deprive their sub
jccts of personal liberty-they never sell
men, women and children at public auc'
ton"
We have more than once called atten
ton to the fact that the Northern States
owe the proponderance in the Union,
and their capacity to Cypress and tram
pie on the South, to the hordes Of for.
eigners who have taken up their abode
in that section. By nature and educa'
ton hostile to slavery, and unwilling
to come into competition with slave la
Dor, nine tenths of the immigrants settle
in the free States, adding to their repre-
sentation in Congress, or in the Terrific
ries, which they contribute towards max
ing free States. Thus it is that the bal
ance Of power between the sections has
been lost, and that the North, presuming
upon the brute force OF numbers, dares
to disregard the compromises and require.
ments of the Constitution, and degrade
the slaveholding States to positions of
infcriority and dependence. Till lately,
the democratic party, by caressing and
favoring orcigners, have managed to keep
most of them in their own ranks-but
an opportunity being now afforded to
give expression TO their unconquerable
aversion TO slavery, and grown bold in
proportion their strength, they do not
hesitate to array themselves under the
black banner Of sectonalism, and fall in.
to ranks with those whose object is to
overthrow the institution Of slavery, and
impose upon the people Of the South a
system Of government aud society to
whce they are utterly averse. What
then does it become the people OF the