The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1856-07-16
Fremont,s D etter of Acceptancc.

EfeEnOEtAS LetteT OA ACCcpaNuCcs
We publish below, the letter Of acceptance of
the woody heads candidate for President, which
we hope every person will read. The letter Of
the Committee, to which it is a reply is dated
June 18th, and his is nearly month later. A
letter that he should have written in an hour,
cost him weeks of labor and then such a letter
to come from a candidate for the Presidencyl-
There are at least 300 school boys in this county
under II years Of age who could write an abler
letter, had they month to do it in. If they
didn't their teachers or parents would be apt to
give them 'scutching." 1t is actually beneath
criticism, and most of the Fremont papers, so far,
have published it without word of comment,
and many have as yet not found room for it.
1t will lose him thousands of votes. Had he
been writing his own funeral sermon, it could
not have been in more subdued language. 1t
is an awful docum n, and he 'id2ntly feels the
humiliation of his position as the candidate of
only half tie Utjon
How such man can breathe the name of
Washington and Jefferson, citizens of Virginia,
and both holders of slaves and both denounced
all sectional parties is one of the wonders of the
age.
New YORK, July s, 1856.
GENTLEMEN: You callme to high response
bility by placing me in the van of great move
ment of the People of the United States, who,
without regard to past differences, are uniting
in common effort to bring back the action
of the Federal Government to the princi-
pies of Washington and Jefferson. Compre-
hending the magnitude Of the trust which they
have declared themselves willing to place in my
hands, and deeply sensible of the honor which
their unreserved confidence, in this threatening
position of the public affairs, implies, feel that
Icannot better respond than by sincere dec
laration that, in the event Of my election to the
Presidency / should enter upon the execution
ofits duties with a single hearted determination
to promote the good of the whole country, and
to direct solely to this end all the power of the
government, irrespective of party issues and re-
gardless of sectional strifes. The declaration
of principles embodied in the resolves of your
Convention expresses the sentiments in which
lave been educated and which have been ripened
into convict ons y personal observation and ex-
p,rience. With this declaration and avowal l
think it necessary to revert to only two Of the
resoluE ons and to these only because events
have surrounded them with grave and critical
circumstances, and given to them especial i'm
portance.
concur in the views of the Convention de-
precating the Foreign policy to whichit adverts.
The assumption that we have the right to tax,
from another nation its domains because we
want them, is an abandonment of the honest
character which our country has acquired. To
provoke hostilites by Unjust assumptions wo'd
be to sacrifice the peace and character of the
country, when all its interests might be more
certainly secured and its objects attained by just
and healing counsels, involving no loss Of rcpu-
tation. International embarrassments are main
/ ly the results ofa secret diplomacy, which aims
to keep from the knowledge Of the people thc
operations Of the Government. This system is
inconsistent with the character of our institu
tons, and is itself yielding gradually to more
enlightened public opinion, and to the power o
a free press, which, BY its broad dissemination
Of political intelligence, secures in advance to thu
side ofjustice the judgment ofthe civilized world
: An honest, firm and open policy in our foreign
relations would command the united suppor
Of the nation, whose deliberate opinions it woe
necessarily reflect.
Nothing is clearer in the history ofour insti
tutions than the design of the nation in assert
ing its own independence and freedom, to avoiC
giving countenance to the extension of slavery
The influence of the small but compact AM
, powerful class Of men interested in slavery WHIT
command one section of the country, and welC
, a vast political control as a consequence in tn
other, is now directed to turn back this impuls
kof the revolution and reverse its principles
The extension of slavery across the continent il
the object Of the power which now rules tn
government; and from this spirit has sprun
, those kindred wrongs in Kansas, SO truly por
, trayed in one of your resolutions, which prov
that the elements of the most arbitrary govern
, ments have not been vanquished by the jus
theory Of our own.
) 1t would be out Of place here to pledge my
self to any particular policy that has been sug
gested to terminate the sectional controversy
I engendered by political animosties, operAtin
t on powerful class banded together bya com
i mon interest. A practical remedy is the admis
sion Of Kansas into the Union as a Free STATE
f The South should, in my judgment, earnest
desire such consummation; it would vindcai
its good faith. 1t would correct the mistake {
D the repeal; and the North having practically III
i benefit Of the agreement between the two sec
5 tionS would be satisfied and good feeling be re
: stored. The measure is perfectly consister
3 with the honor Of the South and vital to its il
t terests; that fatal act which gave birth to tn
a merely sectional strife, originating in the schem
Y to take from free labor the country secured to
q by solemn covenant, cannot be too soon disarn
ed of its perncious force The only genial II
c gion Of the middle latitude left to the emgran
e Of northern States, for homes, cannot be tran
: ferred from free laborers, who have long consit
cred it as set apart for them in our inheritanc
t without provoking deseerate struggle. Wha
ever may be the persistence of the particula
| class which seem ready to hazard everything (
y the success of the unjust scheme it has pa
: tally effected, firmly believe that the gre
heart Of the nation which throbs with the pa
riotism of the Freemen Of both sections wi
0 have power to overcome it. They will look