The Placer herald., 1856-10-25


Buchanan. 1t commends itself to every
national man and old line whig in the coun-
try.
ASHLAND, NEAR LEXINGTON,
July l4th, 1856.
DEAR SIR: have received your letter of
the 18th inst. | am gratfed to learn that
you are still an Old Line Whig who has not
given in to the modern heresies WHICH have
come so near sweeping our noble old party
from the face of the earth. We are too few
in numbers to present separate candidates
to the people, for their suifrages for the high
est office in their Gift, but we are not too few
to adhere faithfully to the principle of our
fathers, and believing them to be true and
that truth must eventually prevail, to hope
for better times, when the country may have
recovered from the madness which appears
to have seized upon it.
Like myself and thousands of our fellow
citizens, you are casting about to endeavor
to ascertain what may be the course your
duty to your country ought to impel you to
pursue in the contest which is approaching
between the candidates of parties to none
Of which you yourself belong. You do me
the honor to ask me my advice and my
opinion. give my opinion chserfully and
freely.
regard the stability of the Union as in
greater peril than it has ever been since the
foundation of the government. In 1920 the
wisest and best men thought it in danger
from the slavery question. The so-calfed
Missouri Compromise was passed for the pur-
pose and with the hope of putting that ques
ton finally to rest. In 1850 it was plainly
seen that the hope was futile and the purpose
without avail. The whole country was dis
tracted and torn to pieces, and the boldest
and wisest Statesmen trembled for the Union.
BY the best men Of all parties, the Compro-
mise of 1850 was effected, and men once
again breathed freely in the feeling that the
country was safe. How vain, how futile their
hopes Scarcely some of the noblest actors
in the scenes of 1850 cold in their graves
when again the question of slavery--in other
words the Union or Dissolution--is present
ed to us, and in form more tangible and
direct than it ever before was The Anti
Slavery party of the North, determined to
accomplish its purposes, has presented a
purely sectional candidate. North against
South, in the person of COL Fremont for the
Presidency 1t is my opinion that there is
now no other issue than this-N orth against
South-Union or Dissolution Of the Union.
Upon this issue what are we TO do, as lovers
of our country, who knows no North, no
South, no East nor West3
The Wing party, to which alone of pres
ent parties | can belong, has not thought 1t
prudent and advisable to present candidates
to the country. We have offered for our sut-
frage opposing Mr.. Fremon. two candidates,
Mr.. Fillmore and Mr. BUCHANAN, both of
whom believe to be, upon the slavery ques
ton, as true to the Uuon as | am myself
Each Of them is the representative Of prln
cpIes to which | am myself opposed So
far as regards my own convictions and my
own principles neither Mr.. FillmGra nor Mr..
Buchanan is ny choice; but must choose
between thon1 or suffer, 50 far as am cQp.
cerned, the Black Rcpublican party to de-
stroy the glorious Union under which was
born and live 1t is but choice Of evils,
but both far less evils than would be the
election Of Fremont. In making the choice
| shall be governed not by personal attach
ment or personel repuonance to the one or
the other. shall vote for that one who
believe will be most likely to defeat Fremont,
and save the Union. 1t is my earnest 5eliet
that Hr. BUCHANAN has u better chance
Of success than Mr.. Fillmore, and 1t IS my
CONNECTION that i is the duty Of epery man,
and ey~y OLD lime Whia who pretends to
iove his country, TO VOTE FOR HIM,
as the surest means Of sa0'ng He UniQa.
1t has been repeatedly urged to me that Mr..
Buchanan was my political enemy and the
villifer of my father. Were everything that
has been said true | should reply, Iloped nay
tather Jetter Mon / looed any mortal man,
but lqge my country more. But DO not
believe the charge against Mr.. Buchanan to
be true. know that for more than twenty
five years, politically, he was the opponent
of my father. do not for an instant be-
lieve that he had any completely with Gen.
Jackson and Others in the charge of bargain
and corruption made against my father in
1925. If believed this must at the same
time believe my own father to have been
false, for publicly and privately he eXonora-
ted Mr.. Buchanan from the charge; witness
his private letter, nerer Mtended Jor pu6Nca-
tion, to his old friend Judge Brook, page lGa
Of Colton's private correspondence of Henry
| Clay, in which he said 'he could not desire
stronger statement from Mr.. Buchanan'
and his public speech at Washington, on hls
retirement from the Office Of Secretary Of
State, in which be uses the following language
"That citizen General Jackson,) has done
me great injustice 1t was inflicted, as !
must ever believe for the double purpose of
gratifying private resentment and promoting
personal ambition. When, during the late
canvass, he came forward in public prints
under his proper name with his charges
against me, and summoned before the pub
lie tribunal his friend and only witness Mr..
Buchanan) to establish it, the anxious atten-
ton of the whole American people was dl-
rected to the testimony which that with css