New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-09-17

ingstOn, Wllllam maxwell, ana most vi otho' s"-
diers; such parsons a. John Witherspoon Of Prince
ton, William Woodruff Of Chester Jacob Green Of
Hanover, Alexander McWhorter of Newark, James
Caldwell Of ElizabethtOwn; such civilians a. Aaron
Kitchel of Morris, Elias Boudinot of Burlington
John Ogden and Samuel Pennington Of Newark
Robert Ogden and John Cleves Symmes of Sussex
and brilliant catalogue Of similar names in Ber-
gen, Somerset, Middlese1, Mercer and Burlington
Counties. These men were the peers of the
Adamses, Hancocks and Shermans Of New.England,
the Franklins, and Rutledges, and Lees of the
Middle and Southern States, stalking their property
and their lives the desperate contest and during
the whole war never wavering or shrinking There
is not a township in New-Jersey which has
moi families Boosting descent from the heroes
who, in 1776, followed Washington in bis
retreat through the State. a retreat known
as 1.-The Muddy Rounds" or who routed Clinton
and Knyphausen, at Springfield and Connec-
ticut Farms, or who left shop, field or home when
"the Old Sow" on the Short Hills pealed out the
alarm of invasion, or beaconfres sent their angry
tongues Of fame into the air from hill to hill, to rally
freemen against the advancing foe, or who crossed
with him on the banks of the Assunpink, and then
retreated to the mastery victory of Princeton.
Thousands Of Jerseymen to this day tell you of
their ancestors who rsked or lost their lives in the
bloody skirmishes at Elizabethtown, Pluckamin
and Springfield in the battles at Trenton, Prince
ton and Monmouth Courthouse 1t is proud
memory which these well-descended Jerseymen
cherish, and We know that if the present issue be-
tween Freedom and Slavery can be kept before their
eyes as distinctly the same issue before the
eyes of their fathers in l776 there will be The same
overwhelming majority for Freedom now that there
was then.
We do not blind ourselves to the difficulties
Of the case, nor do we wish to lull our Jersey
friends into false confidence BY ignoring the OBJ
staces with which they have to contend. II New.
Jersey were true to her own proud history, she
would neal out the names Of Fremont and Dayton
| In tones that would reach from sea to sea- But
what do we have in fact Men who discredit the
State they pretend to represent are flooding New
Jersey with pamphlets and speeches of the most mis-
cheyous tendencies. You may 60 into barber
.ho,. blacksmith shops, carpenter shops, founder.
10, foro.. stores, factories, lawyers, doctors and
h.nts,s, on, .ss and see the false but plausible
speecbes of Don, las Stephens, Hunter Mason,
Pugh and Toombs. y hch have been sent out
under the frank of thes.' men, to blind the
ewes of honest patriots who may not have the
means at hand to expose Inc ,ai'enooas
sought to be palmed upon them. IL woula
be verify great curiosity to know no" mAny
thousands an infamous eight-paged = 'ac' GU
titled "In6delity and AbolitiOnism; an Open ~0'.e'
"to the Friends of Religion, Morality and 'ne
" American Union" have been franked BY these
recreant Jerseymen to the different POst-Ofhces in
the State. This kind of trash, under the auspices
Of these and other ke-minded politicians, is scat
tered over New-Jersey, until, like the frogs in
Egypt, they come into the houses, bedchambers,
beds, ovens and kneading -troughs of the people.
There are large sections Of the State in which this
lie almost the only material franked to the voters;
aud, in order to get the least inkng concerning the
cOwardly rufianism Of Brooks and Keitt, the
bloody villainies Of the Kansas subugatiOn and the
all-grasping greed of the Slave Power intelligent
and liberal men are compelled to purchase and cir
culate documents which state the facts as they
1t is hopeful, however, that this private enlighteu
lnent s carried on at the present time with energy,
and that the fruits are already making large show.
But we wish to warn our Jersey friends not to
relax in their administration Of wholesome cOfrec-
tves of the political poison which the saveocrats
are endeavoring to force down the throats of I'M
suspecting voters. Only give free course to such
documents as the Life of Fremont, the Speeches
Of Seward, Sumner, Colfax Galloway and others,
the Report Of the Kansas Investigating Commit
tee and you may defy the verbal and printed ma |
lgnties of all your mis- Representatives, backed
up by all the Postmasers and pot-polticans in the
State. Only give the people light, and they will |
rot err in their verdict in November so far the
Slams of the Slave Power represented by James |
Buchanan are concerned.
But there is another disturbing force in New.
jersey which may lead to defeat. We refer to the
efforts of Dir. Fillmore's friends. With many of |
these gentlemen We are acquainted and We have no
doubt as to the honesty of their purposes. They |
have hitherto been indulging the belief that Mr.. |
Fillmore will command sufficiently large vote to |
give him chance Of election by the House of Rep
retentatives. But to Us it is mconceiyable how |
these gentlemen can be blind to two facts-the one
that the Buchanan pettifoggers through the State
ale shedding crocodile tears over what they sail
the bad treatment Of Fillmore by Wing friends, |
and the other that the Inland Of JOab"s TO be seen
in this Fillmore movement, since the BUCCANEERS |
largely attend their meetings and help in tho hur
rahing department. However, the eyes of multi |