Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1856-09-03

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meeting in the town of Watervile yesterday.
Hon Rufus Choatc was invited to be present,
but being unable to attend, he sent = letter,
in which he defined his own position on the
Presidential question and ayowed his inten-
ton to vote for Mr. Buchanan. We give it
below.
Boston, Saturday. Aug 9, 1856
ormseenaenF > rfi'uEIzIn5 rz.arnzl laaa evening,
after short absence from the city, found
YOUR letter cf the 30tll ult, inviting me to
take part in the proceedings of the Wings of
Maine, assembled in mass meeting.
| appreciate most highly the honor and
kindness of this invitation. and should have
had true pleasure In accepting 1T. The w hlgs
of Maine composed at all times SO important
division of the great national party; which
under that name, with or without official pow
er, as a responsible administration or as only
an Organized opinion, has done so much for
our country-our whole country-and your
responsibilities at this moment are so vast and
peculiar. that acknowledge an anxiety to see
not wait to hear-with what noble bearing
vou meet the demands of the time. If the
tried legions. to whom it is committed to guard
the frontier of the Union, falter now, "ho,
any where, can be entrusted
My engagements, however, and the neces-
sity and expediency of abstalning from all
speech requiring much effort, will prevent my
being with you. And yet, invited to share
IN your counsels, and grateful for such dis
tinction, [ cannot wholly decline my own
opinion on one of the duties of the Wings in
| what you well describe as the present crisis
! in the political affairs of the country" l
! cannot now, and need not. pause to elaborate
| or defend them What [ think, and what L
| have decided to do, permit me in the briefest
and plainest expression to tell you.
The first duty, then, of Wings, not merely
as patriots and as citizens, ,-'oVing, with a
| large and equal love whole native land
| but as Wings, and because we are Wings, IS
to unite with some organization of our coun-
trymen. to defeat and dissolve the new geo
graphical party, calling itself Republican. =
J This is our first duty 1t would more exactly
express my opinion to say, that at TINS mo-
ment, it is our only duty Certainly, at least,
it comprehends suspends all others and
in my Judgment, the question Tor each ana
every one of US is not whether this Candidate
or that candidate would be our frst choice -
not whether there Is some good talk IN the
| worst platform, and some bad talk IN the oeS'
platform; not whether this mans ambition,
or that mans servility. or beldness, or fanati-
cism, or violence, is responsible for putting
| the wild waters in this uproar BUT just this,
by what vote can [ do most to prevent the
madness of the times from working ITS mad,
dest act,-the very ecstacy OF ITS Madness
the permanent formation and the actual pres
ent triumph of party which knows one hal
of America only to hate and dread 1t; tron
whose unconsecrated and revolutionary ban
ner fifteen stars are erased or have fallen )
in whose national anthem the old and endear
cd airs of the Eutaw Springs, and the hins
Mountain, and Yorktown, and those, later o
New Orleans, and Buena Vista, ana onapui
tepec. breathe no more To this duty, to this
question, AL others seem to me to stand iol
the present postponed and secondary
And why2 Because, according 10 GU
creed, it is only the united America "hio'
can peacefully, gradually, safely improve
4 lift up and bless with all social aud person.
and civil blessings. all the races and al Wv
conditions which compose our vast anu var
GUS famly-it is such an America, oniy
whose arm can guard our flag, deyeiope ou
resources, extend our trade, and fill the mea
sure of our glory; and because. according
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