The Empire County argus., 1856-10-25
TO the People of the United States

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To the People of the United States.
FELLOW CITIZENS There are circumstances which
call for the appeal we make to your most earnest at
tention The times appear to us startling and crit
ical. There are aspects in the pending contest for
the Presidency which are very unusal and important
We can not, therefore, forbear freely to communicate
some of our apprehensions before separate here,
and to call upon you at to look full in the face
any danger which may seem to impend over the
greatest popular government on earth
Two Of the political parties in the country have
pitched Presidential battle upon sectional issues,
and of so fearful character as to stir the deepest
passions of the American people Though in seem
ing conflict it can not be disguised, that those par
ties have in such sort co-opcrated to press upon
the country exciting issue after another until by
dint of continual evaporation, they have nearly sue
ceeded in arrayng in hostile columns one half of the
States of the Union against the other They appear
mutually to have employed all the energies of party
power to engcnder sectional distrust prejudice and
elimination, and now for the first time in the history
of the government, we find truly formidable party
fully organized, and using every effort in their power
to combine the nonSaveholdng against the slave
holding States of the Union in struggle for the
executive power of the Confederacy In that organ
ization are included men who are supposed to be con-
servatve and national, but who are believed to be
led, by excitement or misconceptions into movements
which, in their cooler moments, they not but re-
coil from they would from pestilence and famine.
Its management has been essentially controlled by
leaders who Under all circumstances have steadily
kept up an active unceasng, and implacabc warfare
upon the institutions of the slavehoding States
Should such party unfortunately succeed in the
present distracted state of the public mind in elect
ing sectional President, supported alone by the vot-
crS Of the nonslavehoding States, have too much
reason to apprehend that there might instantly spring
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quences of which no human wisdom can foresee, and
no lover Of his country friend Of popular govern
ment any where could fail, in all coming time sadly
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We do not believe they can succeed, but we may
be really reading upon the brink of volcano that
Is liable at any moment, to burst forth and over
whelm the nation
But the Republican party Is not alone responsible
for those appalling issues, is its the only
danger to the stability of the Government in its pres
ent FORM The Democratic party has eagerly and
rashy seized upon these mOmentous issues, and WELD
ed them as the thunderbots of party warfare. They
have striven to madden the South, and to concen-
trate Southern votes upon their candidates, as the
Abolitionsts have striven to madden the North and
to concentrate Northern votes upon their candidates
When their extreme measures resisted they
taunt national men, in the South, as submssionsts"
or worse than submssionsts, as the Abolitionists
taunt national men in the Orth as doughfaces or
They have apparently struggled to bring about the
formation of geographical parties, such the Father
of his Country so emphatically warned us against,
based upon questions Immediately tending to split the
Union asunder; and they have seemingly done this
for the petty purpose of securing temporary party
triumph. The Union, in form at least, we think,
would survive the success OF such party for the
presents but its triumph would probably keep the
furnaces OF sectioa passion red hot and ultimately
and it may be at distant day. its rash errors wod
engender storm Of sectional conflict beneath which
the government would sink into ruins We think
they too, will fail.
But we believe the time has come when the COM
mon safety requires that the raging sectional heats of
those parties should be cooled. The time has come
when national, conservative men, Repeating the Con
stitutlon, true to their whole country and " indig-
nanty frowning upon the first dawning of disunon,"
should stand shoulder to shoulder and unite in placing
at the head of the government Chief Magistrate
IN whose capacity honesty and patriotism all conde
The National American party have now presented
such man-one who has been tried and found faith
lul IN every trust-who, having been suddenly called
upon to take the helm of the government at time
when the heavens were vrid with the angry tempest
OF iS49-5O, so successfully rode out that storm so
faithfully and gallanty secured the safety of the no
pie snip OF State, as to win from an amirng people
the most heartfelt plaudts, Well done thou good
and faithful servant"
we point you to another fearful cancer on the
body polltc-the humiliating struggle now going on
between the Democratic and Republican parties for
the foreign uoe and to the tremulous apprehensions
expressed for the fate of the one or the other of
those parties, as the uncertain movements of the
German Or Irish oscilate between them We warn
you that the fate of this great government may soon
be equally dependent upon the unstable movements
OF those mighty masses fresh from the monarchies of
Europe. Large portions of our Union are already
overilowing with foreign population--a population
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mense is the influx that we can scarely be re-
garded as the same, or the descendants of the same
people. we were twenty years ago. Where, and in
what, is this to end? Milard Fillmore alone, of the
candidates for the Presidency, has refused to court
this gigantic and growing element of power. While
he has no hostility to foreigners he frankly warns his
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