The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1856-11-25
Correspondence of the N. Y. Evening Post.
Pennsylvania MisgiyiEgs of Merchants who
Voted for Buchanan--COrrup mt the
Poiis.-A Minority President.
PnILADrIPnIA. Nov. no. lis

PurLADFI PHIA. Nov. 10, 1885,.
Since the result of tho Presidential cleo.
ton has been fully ascertained, the merchants
of our city have become suddenly and serious
ly alarmed. Those who voted for Mr.. Bu-
chanan had an informal meeting last Friday,
and appointed a committee to wait on some
of tho prominent Fremont men to know Il
they would join in q memorial to Congress.
and TO tho President elect, to make Kansas
a free State. The Fremont men replied 49,
Gentlemen, have You not voted for Mr.. Bu-
chanan understandinglys He adopted the
Cincinnati platform, which endorsed Mr..
Pierco's administration, and his own Ostcnd
Manifesto to take Cuba by force, if it could
not be obtained otherwise We would glad
ly see Kansas free State, but is not tho
President elect, although so by large mi
nority of the popular vote, pledged to mako
Kansas a slave State, and to annex Cuba by
force, regardless Of tho awful consequences
of our being involved in a foreign war. You
have seen, and somo of you have read tho
speech of the Hon. John NJ Read, on tho
power of Congress over tho Territories. If
you wanted Kansas to be free State with
free white labor, why, under the circumstau-
cas, did You vote for Mr. Buehanan9"
Thus tho matter rests; there is great alarm
amongst tho honest mon who voted for Mr..
Buchanan as a conservatives they forgot his
previous pledges, solcmnity to carr, out the
principles laid down for him at Cincinnati
and tho South have voted for him upon tho
terms Of their contract proposed by them
selves and accepted by him.
There was one feature IN the late contest
wish TO notice, and request you to publish.
| know that the sum of twenty-five dollars
was freely offered by tho Buchanan men for
single vote; / know it was refused in sew
eral cases, but do not known in how many it
was accepted. Thore never was moro
desperate and reckless party than the Bu-
CHANGERS at the late election; and if they
have respite for four years, the next election
will end in their total defeat. Since the itl
inst. many good Democrats, have regretted
having voted for James buchanan, and now
say they soe from the Southern papers what
trouble we may expect from his adninistra-
ton" tli4 'as fitu ID ',-1li. 'ai
The friends of Fremont and DAYTON aro in
good heart and spirits, and are anxious to
enter into the campaign of 1860 with them
as thor standard bearers. You Will sec by
the entire returns from this State, that MI.
Buchanan will not have majority Of the
whole popular vote, 50 that he will bo mi
nority President in his own township, in his
own county, his own State, and in tho I'm
ion. If this. is not an indication Of the sen
timont of the whole people, wo do not know
what would bofad the Individual voters of
tho whole Union voted directly for President
ond Vice President at the ballot boxes, Fro
mont aud Dayton would now bo the Pres
don't aud Vice President of the Unitcd States
elect, beyond all doubt or cavl, aud Kansas
would DO FREQ State. - i1j-, --Fi ~ .-rr-gt
PATRICK HENRY