The Empire County argus., 1856-11-01
To the People of the United States.


the Presidency, which very unusal and important
We can not therefore, forbear freely to communicate
some of our apprehensons, before we 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 not be disguised, that those par
ties have in such sort cooperated as to press upon
the country exciting issue after another until by
dint of continual evaporation they have nearly
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 engender 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 non-saveholdng against the slave
holding States of the Union, in struggle for the
executive power Of the Confederacy. In that organ
izaton are included men who are supposed to be con-
servative and national but who are believed to be
led by excitement misconception, into movements
which, in their cooler moments, they not but re-
coil from as 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 mplacable warfare
upon the institutions Of the slaveholdng States
Should such party unfortunately succeed, in the
present distracted state of the public mnd in elect
ing sectional President supported alone by the vot
of the non-savehoding States, we have too much
to apprehend that there might instantly spring
into existence movement of resistance, the conse
quences of which no human wisdom can foresee, and
lover of his country friend of popular govern
ment any where could fail, in all coming time, sadly
to deplore.
We do not believe they can succeed, but we may
be really treading 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, nor is its success 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
Abolitonists have striven to madden the North and
to concentrate Northern votes upon their candidates
When their extreme measures are resisted they
taunt national men, in the South Submssionsts,
or worse than submissonists, as the Abolitonists
taunt national men in the North doughfaces," or
worse than doughlaces
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
present; 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, rcSpeatng the Con
stitution, true to their whole country, and ndig-
nanty frowning upon the first dawning of disunion,
should stand shoulder to shoulder, and unite in placing
at the head of the government Chief Magistrate
in whose capacity, honesty and patriotism all confde
The National American party have now presented
such man-one who has been tried and found faith
full in every trust-who, having been suddenly called
upon to take the helm of the government at time
when the heavens lvrid with the angry tempest
of l94950, so successfully rode out that Storm so
faithfully and gaantly secured the safety of the
BILE ship of State, to win from an admiring people
the most heartfelt paudits, "Well done thou good
and faithful servant!"
We point you to another fearful cancer on the
body politc-the humiiating struggle now going on
between the Democratic and Republican parties for
the foreign cote, and to the tremuous apprehensons
expressed for the fate of the one or the other of
those parties, as the uncertain movements of the
UerIndn or lflSI OSclatc between tlem. we warn
you that the fate of this great government may
be equally dependent upon the unstable movements
of those mighty masses fresh from the monarchies of
Europe. Large portions of our Union are already
overhowng with foreign population-a population
such as has shown itself utterly incapable of sustain
ing popular governments in the Old World. So i'm
mense is the influx now that we can scarcely be re-
garded the same, or the descendants of the same
people we were twenty years ago. Where, and in
what is this to end? Millard 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
countrymen that it is safer for American-born cit
zens to rule the destinies of America. Having wit
messed their deplorabe condition in their own father
lands, he would share with them all the privileges
and blessings of ours, save the single privilege of
seizng the reigns of government and overurnng the
car of State, in which we are passengers We be-
seech you to see the dangers we have briefly glanced
at, and to shun them, before it is too late forever
We urge you to unite with in support of the
patriot statesman who has always earlessly outspo
ken his sentments-who has ever made the Consttu-
tion his guidingstar-who has risen from an appren
tice boy to the Presidency-who, when President
frowned upon disorganzers and radicals, North and
South, and, with the aid of conservative Wings and
Democrats, bravely restored peace to a distracted
countrywide has just said "If there be those
North or South who desire an administration for the
North as against the South, or for the South as
aguinst the North, they are not the men who should
give their suffrages to me-
From the moment Mr.. Fillmore was first placed in
nomination, every effort has been resorted to to in
duce the country to believe, first that he would not