Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-07-24
TUESDAY MORNING, JULY p, 1856.
Interesting Correspondence.

the BUCHANAN and B%RECKINRIDGE Rati6ca.
ton meeting at Indianapolis, on the 18th
inst, have been handed US for publication
They are worthy of a careful perusal and
calm consideration. There is one great per-
yading sentiment running through every one
of these letters, which refers to the polit-
ical condition -four country. The most pain
full apprehensions Of the evil consequences
ofsectionaIism and disunion weigh upon the
mind Of every enlightened patriot. Every
hon esthes rted friend Of his country looks
upon each and every attempt to weaken the
bonds OF our national Union as the most
dreadful act Of political insanity, as the most
objectionable sin Of political depravity. That
party which presents a candidate for the
Presidency, nominated by the action Of a
portion Of the people of only sixteen States,
out Of thirty.oue States Of the confederacy,
should be held to a strict accountability for
such sectional and disorganizing proceeding,
aud their views and ultimate intentions,
should he investigated aud duly considered.
This is no idle, vain and trifing subject
Upon the decision of the American people,
upon the next Presidential election, depends
the existence of the union of the States Of this
mighty Republic. II Fremont should be
selected, as the President Of the sixteen
Northern States, selected as he has been by
their delegates alone, he will be viewed as a
sectional disunionist. The men who urge
his election, as his conscience keepers aud
dictators, are known 10 be reckless and open
disunionists and they only sock his election
that they may use him as an instrument to
carry out their long cherished purposes of
erecting a separate Northern government, with
themselves aud their coadjutors at its head.
Such are tho views of GREELEY, GIDDINGs,
HALE, SUnNE, WADE, CHASE, PARKER,
BEEcHER and men of their faith.
The venerable sage aud philosopher, Gen.
CAss, as from tue mouth of a Patriarch. warns
his fellow conntrymen Of the threatening
danger, and calls upon them 10 protect and
olNO lnC llpn llh tut.k OuotltlllOns a
is no interested, time-serving politician
The sun of his political ambition has set
He looks to no private interest or to any
public favors. lie has filled the measue o,
his country's glory, by his many able efforts
aud his long continued labors for the welfare
and honor Of her people. His words are
those Of experience and OF wisdom, and they
come from a heart which has ever. thobbed
only for the glory Of the American name
Let his counsel strike deep into the souls and
the feelings Of his fellow -citizers, and lie,
his advice be followed in the full discharge
of their duty in the e~yentfnl crisis which Is
now before us:
WASHINGTON, July, 18th, 1856.
GoaDoN TANNER, Esq, Secretary, DC,
DsAK Sir II have seen Senators Csss
Douglas and Brown, and Representative Cobb
Of Georgia, and agreeably TO your request
have invited them in behalf Of the State Cen
trail Committee. - TO attend the Mass Meeting o
our friends at indianapolis, on the 18th inst
Mr.. Cobb has assured me that he would bs
present, but the other gentlemen feel that theJ
cannot, consistently with THEN pressing dutie:
here. he absent for the length of time such
a visit would necessarily require, and they
beg to be excused. For myself. nothing
, would afford me more pleasure than to unit
, on the occasion with the Democracy of oui
, State, in r~atifying the nominations of that ex
perienced and profound statesman, Jane
Buchanan. for President. and the equally
worthy and gifted young son of >kentucky
John @. Breckenridge, for ice President, bu
! my official engagements here are Of such achar
> acter as to forbid my leaving at this time.
; 4 avail myself, however, OF the opportunity
to say to you. and to the mass gathering Of on
friends, aud TO my constituents generally, tina
so soon as my duties here will permit, ] shal
hasten home with the intention Of visiting a
many counties as time will allow, and holding
converse with the people, face 10 face. on Oh
absorbing questions of the day. II there eve
: was n time when the constituent and his repre-
g sentative should be brought close together B
| commune with each other freely. il is the pres
: ent. The systematic effort that is being mad
to array one section Of our common countr
, against another, upon a purely LOCAL question
and to infiame the worst passions Of men, b.
misrepresentation and falsehood, is well cal
Q culated to alarm those who love the Union an,
y desire its perpetuity. Against the dangers G
It sEcTIoSALIsM We were early warned by th
Father Of his Country yet the tendency Of tn
v public mind for the past few years-led on b
! men, sometimes designing, and always fanat
cal-has been toward that result. until now W
; see for the first time in the history Of our cour
J, try, a formidable SECTIONAL party, preeentin
Q SECTIONAL candidates for the highest offices j
the Nations gift, and basing their claims I
e election upon purely SECTIONAL grounds. IL
i appalling To contemplate the consequence
4 which must result from the success of such
4 party for it can end in nothing less than I'll
!. ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of that glorious Union-ti
. work Of our Revolutionary patriots-the b,
quest of our Revolutionary sires-to which W
are in debted for our security at home and OF
consideration and dignity abroad. The Unio
d had its origin in the wants and necessities
the whole people and of the several States. an
every year Of its existence has afforded fires
proofs of its utility and its blessings. Und,
u its benign influences, agriculture, commerce
every industrial pursuit-have honrished, i
% an unparalleled degree and we have grow
lie in the short period Of three quarters Of a Ger
tury. from an inconsiderable Power. TO he OF
of the mightiest nations of the world. On
might well pause to cansider whether il woul
be wise TO throw all these advantages away f
the very ~illusory, uusubstantial gains whic
sectionalism will furnish. For myself, ri hay
not, in the language of the immortal Webste
"coolly weighed the chances of preserving iii
erty, when the bonds that unite us togeth,
shall be broken asunder. l have not accu.
toned myself to hang over the precipice of Di
union. to see whether with my short sight, ca
fathom the depth Of the abyss below, nor coul
! regard him as a safe counsellor in the affa;i
OF this Government whose thoughts should /
mainly bent on considering, not how the Unto
u should be hest preserved, but how tolerabI
might he the condition of the people when
/ shall he broken up and destroyed. While tl
. Union lasts, We have high, exciting, gratifyin
. prospects spread out before us, for us and OF
children. Beyond that, | seek not to penetra
IS the veil. God grant that an nv day at lea
l. hat curtain may not rise.
"God grant that on my VISION never NAV |
opened what lies behind. When my eve
hall be turned to behold for the last time, n
Sun in Heaven, may ] not see him shining O
the broken and dishonored fragments Of a one
glorious Union-on States discovered, disco
dant, belligerent-on a land rent with civ
l. ieuds. or drenched, it may be. in fraterni