The Empire County argus., 1856-10-18
an Abolitionist, and could not and ought not to be
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supported by the South.
In regard to the charges against Mr.. Fillmore
which related to his views and opinions of public pol
ICY his friends have deemed it best to permit them to
be refuted as they have been most amply and trium
phantly by the record of his model administration
by his own bofd frank and manly speeches. which the
| people have everywhere read with admiration and
delight, and by his pure unsulied reputation and
spotless character OF these the people themselves
had the means of forming accurate Judgment, and
to that judgment both he and his friends have been
at all times, and are now, ready to bow with respect
full submssion-they ask no appeal to any other tri
bunal.
But the arts and alsehoods which have been resort
ed to by the two sectional parties of the country to
weaken Mr. Fillmore, by inducing the belief that he
without strength elsewhere than in the fasehood
was told, the people have not been well able to un-
derstand They have heard these assertions generally
with surprise and incredulty though the frequency of
their repetition the confident tone in which they were
asserted, the variety of forms in which they have
been made to appear, and above all, the perfect
currence of Republicans and Democrats in these mis-
representations and the readiness with which the one
sustained the others fabrication have made some i'm
preston upon the public mind, or at least upon the
minds Of such consult their fears rather than rely
upon the goodness of their cause.
Upon the eve of our adjournment, these and SINH
lar assertions are again renewed with view no doubt
of sowing the seeds Of alienation and dsrust between
our friends in different sections of the Union, and
these wicked and false statements are sent to the
country by railroad, by teegraph and by missionaries
and emissaries, with zeal and apparent confidence
worhier of better cause, and the assertion is now
added that Mr.. Fillmore will be withdrawn.
In addressing you now, we wish definitely to con-
tradic these untrue reports and correct as far
the false impression to which they have given rsc
and thus to strip enemies of their most favorite
and nearly only remaining means of warfare.
None Of these charges and insinuatiohs are true.
We speak to all sections of our common country in
saying The friends of our candidates, both North
and South, are standing firmly by their colors and by
their men, and will do until the contest is decided
in November. They do so both from choice and
from duty. They choose it because their men stand
the truly national platform, broad the entire
Union, and exactly co-extensive with the Constitu-
tion recognizing the rights Of the States on the
hand and the Federal Government on the other, and
holding each sovereign State within its proper sphere
and their duty requires that these geographical these
sectional parties, both Democrat and Republican,
called, shall be driven from the field. Whoever aids
either, aids section of country against
another.
We say to our friends in all sections, that from
henceforth till the election in November, they should
work in good hearts and spirits that stories Of luke
warmness and abandonment of our candidates must
be based upon something in the future different from
the past, to be true; that North and South the
! friends of our candidates are true we-tempered
Steel and are working with heart zeal and con-
dence as the canvass progresses The hearts of true
national men, North and South, beat in unison with
each other, and their hands being vigorously ap
piled to a common labor, and for common result !;
and there is not the least reason in any section for
dstrust of friends in any other. Let not the enemy
reap any fruits from the insidous policy pursued by
them We say to you that it appears to us from this
point of observation that if all who in their hearts
prefer Mlard Fillmore for President shall vote for
him, he will be triumphantly elected.
We do not pretend to direct govern, or control the
movement in favor the American cause. This is q
matter solely in the hands of the people at large 1t
is theirs; they originated it. We believe candi-
dates, however, infinitely stronger amongst the
people than among politicians who happen at this
time to be in power or struggling to acquire IT. Let
their friends be Of good cheer. Let them do their
duty, and they will be astonished at their great
strength at the polls. Let each 90 to work and
confde in his friends elsewhere and the victory is
sure. No nningly-devised stories should induce
them for one moment to think of taking sides between
the candidates Of those dangerous sectional organiza
tions which are now struggling to concentrate the
North against the South, or the South against the
! North. They should, and WILL both be overthrown.
The country requires repose and demands safety The
friends Of Fillmore and Donelson are the friends of
the UNION. They have the power to elect them, and
thus strengthen the bonds of that friendship and
fdence between the North and the South, which in
other days added such power and glory to the Re
public.
Let us pledge ourselves each to the other that
EVERY MAN WILL DUTY to our candidate and
our cause, and you may rely upon it, the country will
be saved from the dangers that encompass it, and re-
stored to the quiet and confidence which blessed it at
the close of Fillmore's administration.
Wm w. Walk, w. r. Smith,
Humphrey Marshall, W. L. Underwood.
S. G. Haven, A. K, Marshall,
F. K Zolicofer, Thomas Rivers
Henry Winter Davis, F. S. Edwards,
| 0. f. Moore, w. H. Sneed,
Henry M. Fuller, Samuel f. Swope,
| j. B. Ricaud E. d. Cullen,
j. Scott Harrison, Charles Ready,
| w. A. Lake, Geo. Eustis, Jr,
| j. Morrison Harris, n G. Foster,
John S. Carlie, Jas. j. Lindley,
II. W. Hoffman, r. c. Puryear,
Thomas R. Whitney Jno. 2. Campbell,
| Jacob Broom, L. M. Cox.
Washington, August 1o, 1856.
| MECHANICS OF AMERICA, remember that Millard
Fillmore was once mechanic, who has achieved
fame that all the monarchs of earth cannot compass