The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-09-25
4 IrrrrR PROM eovERNoR RErrrn
ON THE
Approaching Election of President and the
Candidates


To lhe Editors al tie Evening Post
GsSTlkars The leiter OF your cores
pendent H., and your editorial Comments
upen il ot the 10th .inst, seem incommou
courtesy 10 demand q reply, Your CORES
pondeni does not efI N saping thai desire
he success OF The Rcpushcan party and
lie election oi thesf eaadidate, and that !
am ready 10 contribute adv hapoFablc effort
n brinr II about THIS Is not Tic result CT
any preference a. 10 men, but IN spite OF f.
Wah Colonel Fremont ! am unacquaiuted.
have never seen h,Hh aer had any COM
wunicatfan Wlth han, dtect or ludtreCt,
verbal - written. Oa the other hand, nay
feelings al tttcBdship and admlgaaQu iVr
Nj Buchanan, SIS 4 inaA, ate d no oTiiaa-
p, character, AMI are Strengthened BIZ wears
"a friendly intimacy and req pToeal kiDduess,
uninterrupted to ths time by single mis-
understanding II unpleasant feeling: ana
would NJ any time defend hun prompus an'
Indignantly aaailst PERSONAL attacks upan
b., reputation. | believe hlm to be : .fan
81 distinguished ability. Of high integrity
sud valuable experience. He as surrounded,
loo, Ia Pennss wanna, hv many poa,salt
ieteads. ahaa personally sose and esteeu,
aud 10 i HON | an uRiied os lies nl long
cherished political and social intimacy, aal ,
o., las 81 hose Il nlsh,p should regard +
q. n pteat calamity For More ,hAa "a quar-.
ID 81 century I.isve steadily laharea y lth /
ale Democratic party, ANA never doua ed !
,hai sl,eelS. do 90 during my iiie. Fer
Gears hayr e&eEied myself 10 anng about
Mr. gucAanan's nomination IL ls+s aud
iS52 vas one OF those who carried Tor
h.sa the delegates OF our district. and vas
!. - 4 rs4spt Af,a 4.
occasion was in the National Convention
as one of his delegates.
These ties are exceedingly strong aud
hard to sever. especially with one who i
naturally Of a conservative cast, anu sioS
TO change old habits OF thought ana acton,
| aud ! have resisted Tor months The convie-
tons that were urging me 10 my present
declaration, have dligenty sougat Fea-
sons and arguments 70 save myself the pam
81 breaking ap cid associations and altena-
uag myse from my Old friends, bat all IN
| vain nv love Of country and hatred OF OPP
| preston would not allow nay feelings and
| inclaations, e5lher 10 delude my Judgment
nr still my conscience, and am compelled
IL forfeit my sef,resFect by committing
ahai believe TO be palpabiy wrong, or else
enroll myself IA opposition - the D@moera-
tic party.
/ see no reasonable hope Of justice ant
sympathy FOR the people Of Kansas IN the
success OF the Democracy. In lis ranks,
| and with the power 10 control Us action, are
| found the Border Rutfians Of Missouri and
thei- acconplices OF the South, who have
| lrampied upon the Constitution and all the
essential principles Of cur Government, rob
! bed Kansas 81 It's civil liberty aud right Of
suffrage, laid wssie its territory with FIRE
I'D sw ord and repudisied even civilization
itself,
In is p!atfurm ma &he enuh citation Of
/ principles, which would put the rope a5ou!
| The neeks Of men tor exercising tie constl-
| inlioEal right Of petiioning Congress Tor
State Government, Or d redress 81 grlesan-
ees gar worse than Those which led TO the
! War the Revolution, and q declaration
stirmauzing as "armed resistance 10 Law
| The moderate aud justdable seli-detense 81
men shamefully and iaIanously oppressed
by rafiian violence and outrage, beyond all
human endursnce.
fad the whole party O the natier as
/ srmhied In National Convention with but
cue .adi, idaAi dissent, expressing It's ''un
qualified admiration OF an Administration
which has lent itssil as the taoi and accom-
plice Of all the wrongs inflicted upon Kan
sas, aud hy is yenafg and lmoscllity
brought the oountry to ~ htesdae war.
i ind aII It's Repyes entatiR sin Congress,
gttb three individual exceptions leboFtng
in earnest zeal, rs speech and vote, t9coYer
% the in qgities of BIS Administration and
tie Border Raifiara Of Missouri, and "a sup
press lair Investigation of 9Juages which
shock both humanity ana rePubheantsms
and deFY the Constitution and the Jaws.
find these same rePre sa11atsses, aaleF
The lrpfh wes elected IA spite 9i lheu ei-
f5rfs, s,iI refusing To relieve The people
from a code Of laws imposed LPGu them By
foreign army. and .,i'i refusing 70 admit
them mic lhe Union. Only for reasons which,
Ia the cases OF nine existing States, had
teen declared sElenBD sa and of nc account.
find them disregsriihg frse coastliu-
ton adopted Ia a lega constitutional and
aforementioned manner, and which no
nsn csa doubs to nave reflected the will Of
the peoples and supporting q lass 10 pro-
dacs 4 substitute. Ia the State Government,
The usarpation v hich had by f8rce already
seized upon lie Government 81 the Ter
dlory.
tln4 them refusing te mske sPpfopEa
hone E9r the army. unless iha' army is o
ts used to enforce c85- o laws vlo'SuEe
on tAefg face, oflae Constitution, enacted
b. Legislature in violation II the laws 81
| the United St2tg~. and imposed BY sOregn
forle e 5oH eonqa rpt and subiugatsi Amer
can citizens.
iul them, ID nosd, steadily siding by
ell their C08.ressionsi seton 70 a.ake
Z Slave State In NUl!lern lat.ta3as anu
that, too, against tie vii u ~ aAabf,-
aai-.
I fad taa. one memAeE. who pore than
! eng ether stood oil: agaHsi the rusiagemeHt
al Is white leio~ citizens. > E~.4ssd a re-
nomination By lae Democratic paiy Of his
| district.
1 fad in the canvass now goang On that
tae whole tone or fheir party press is .nHhe
came erection. When the fret st1rliiug
1 .nteiiigF nce 81 the outrages IN Kansas
reached the Sistes. iheir editors AZ n,nTced
toe t9ui arong ID terms oi fitting indigua-
lon. II was but spagmodic effort. noH-
t.er, aud ia difference 10 the South and the
| rregs ing sentiment 81 the party, they
haze dropped Of, one after the otherszata
| now, SO lar as | have been able to e5css-
tain, there is net Democratic paper Ea.cH
cares be,a'y 10 Justify and defcHd lhr Free
State parry, aud deuonace their invader. --
IN place Of p1eeuraCeme4' and sympathy
FOR their outraged fellow c.uzeas from fss
North there s littIs else than Jsers and rid.
lGule FOR theiy oppressed and suffering con-
daloR--misrepre ssntgi0aa o. their motives
| and conduct, cid n pretended iacfe4uiity o.
the statements and appeals which they send
their brethren q the States.
: fad their speakers exhibiting tue same
g2lnt-soms q. them gnwing the question
eutlrely; others Of tagm treating it with
peryerslyn, mssra representations end false ls
sues, and others tak!ug aPeuly The side 0.
the gppIessors; bu, no 0ns NJ them a3Foca,
. ting the esu.e u Kansas, n aFgrng Ter
admissTSn urd Ter the Free Ss@ca Constitution
adopted by her people.
IN the poll damCn-trat.9us and process
sicas Of the party, End banners end ADJ.
ces containing brutal insults, ID sponse 10
tie bppeals O. that people igT protection
against unparalleled wrgags, c2ic4ta. ], %
~ doubt they mast be- intended, tg prepare
il.e masses for Il roarHuel refasa! q { IL tee
and protecligHs aat sciea'!e peT@s tshce
1 10 outrage ano appFes on.
find al 1ae Democrats South and
/ portion o. the Demg-faey ot the horth,
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