The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-09-09

EVANSVILLE IND. TUESDAY MORNING, SEPT 9, 1856
GBe 9ailg gonrnaL
LETTER FROM COZ. HUMPHERY MARsHALL

LETTER FROM COL. HUMPHREY MARSHAL
The following letter from Col Marshal
written in reply to an invitation to attend IL
Cincinnati Union celebration, will be read wit
interest:
WASHINGTON, Aug. Is, 1856.
My Dear SIr:-I wish could comply wit
your urgent request that should be presen
at the Union meeting of the citizens of Obi
land Kentucky, at Cincinnati and Covingtor
on the 9th inst. But my duty as a Repre-
sentative of the people forbids my absence fror
a single vote to be taken at this extra session
Iof Congress, and | shall not be absent iron
one, if my life is preserved, should the session
last until next March.
If were with you, I should say to my coun
trymen that the safety of the Republic depend
upon the election of Millard Fillmore to thu
Presidency, and that in my humble opinion
if they are not wise enough to determine til,
matter in that way, they will not be wis,
;lenough to save the Union.
! do not write thus because of mere personal
admiration for Mr.. Fillmore, nor because sup.
pose he alone has wisdom enough to admins
ter the government through period of diff
Guilty, but because he is the representative oi
concord and harmony between the great sec
tons of our country, while the competitors
aspire to rule, each backed substantially by a
sectional party only, and each hoping to sue
ceed by solidifying sectional interests SO as to
win by it.
Mr.. Fremont has no party in any slavehold-
ing State. He may have a ticket ia one or
more, but every one knows that the most san
gune of his supporters claim but few thou
sand votes for him in the whole range of those
~, Lho bo Iac 4 IL
exponent of an immense body of voters in the
free States, and his friends in those States
claim his election as a matter which time will
render certain, and which they are determined
to accomplish. The slave States have 12O
votes; the free States 176 votes-149 are ne
cessary to a choice by the people. If Mr..
Fremont loses New York he will be defeated;
no matter how the vote of the slave States may
be split between Buchanan and Fillmore. If
he loses Ohio and New Jersey-or if he loses
Pennsylvania and California or Indiana, Illi-
nois and Connecticut, the same result viii tol-
low. Tt is useless to say to you that Mr.. Bu-
chanan cannot if left to struggle alone, hope
to win the desirable result upon any combina-
ton of those States, even if the whole slave
holding States vote for him. His best friends
here will hardly claim this enemies laugh
at the supposition in utter scorn. He could
not if report be true, carry his own State,
without the contest were triangular, and un-
less it be the case in Illinois, he could not hope
to win in any of the remainder of the combi-
nation.
If Mr.. Buchanan continues candidate he
may impair, or utterly defeat Mr.: Fillmore,
but if he were withdrawn or abandoned Mr..
Fillmores election would be triumphant and
most easy of accomplishment. He will carry
LII IL
stances, but were Mr.. B. abandoned by the slave
States, he would carry it beyond any doubt, and
in nv opinion, would attract the votes of all
conservative masses throughout the free States.
Mr.. Buchanan cannot accomplish this re-
suit. The reasons for this lie in the fact that
he has been ever vacillating politicians
now committed to ultra schemes of policy
which may and will jeopardise the peace of
the country, and has taken the shoes OF Cen
eraI Pierce upon the unfortunate state of things
now existing in Kansas, and touching the sla-
very agitation that now distracts the country.
There are many other reasons-but suffice 1t,
the fact is as l state it, and all candid men
must acknowledge it. If the slave States
then prefer to enter apon the sectional contest
Mr. Buchanan as leader, they will support
him and leave Mr.. Fillmore's friends through
out the free States to Withdraw altogether from
the vote or to te.ke care of themselves in the
sectional Contest which is to come off; for
say It. boldly, that, if nothing will do but a
Sectional contest, the men of each section will
adhere to their section, and no human force
can prevent It. If such contest is to occur,
it will be between the Southern people, foi-
lowing the advice of the Southern Democrats,
choose it, and will not avail themselves OF the
chance that is offered to them of electng a.
\ paI oh wi former
administration of the government was preser-
vative of all their rights, yet who was the ia
vorite of all the conservative masses OF the
free States, and who could again command
their suffrages if they saw any corresponding
effort on the part of the slave States. ME-
Buchanan does not command their confidence
and cannot attract their support. Inc south
then has the choice fully and fairly presented
to it of sectional contest by making the race
between Buchanan and Fremont, OF OF a ma
tional struggle in which rien in eTery section
will act by making the contest between Fill
more and Fremont and as the South makes
her bed so she must lie. | speak plainly be-
cause feel deeply.
| In the event of Mr.. Buchanan's election
forcsee a condition Of things which will par
| laiyse the energies Of this GoVsrnment--pro-
| tract the sectional disputes--invOlye the coun-
| try in civil, and probably in foreign war, and
lend in the overthrow Of the Union, or IN
struggle, renewed, between the sections, on =
lower platform of Radicaiisan than either OF
the parties-Republican Or Democrat-no"
occupy. That is to contemplate oniy pro-
| tracted decline of the hepubiic instead OF Its
speedy dissolution, whioh believe would be
the consequence of the sectional contest now;
Men MAJ smile at such d conclusion, and
ldoubtles: many good men will, but never
was more thoroughly convinced Of the truth
Eof nv conclusions than l am now while writ