The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-07-03
THE UNION OF THE PEOPLE FOR THE SAKE
OF FREEDOM.

The nomination Of Fremont and Dayton il
emphatically ratified by the Republican press
of the country and many papers not hitherto
identified with the Republican movement
The Post, Tribune, Times, Courier and Enqui
rer, and Herald, Of New York; the atlas, TEL
egraph, and Journal, of Boston, sustain it zeal
ously; the Philadelphia North american re-
publishes daily copious extracts from its ex
changes in support it. From our letters we
learn that it is cordially confirmed by our sub
scrbers in all quarters; visiters from the West
tell us that the People everywhere welcome il
with rejoicing, and entertain no doubt of carry
ing the election in November. So overwhelm
ing is the feeling against the Administration
and its legatees, that the People are uniting
rapidly in support of the Republican nomina
tons.
We have not room for the glowing accounts
ofiunumerable ratification meetings all over the
country-in New York, Brooklyn, Jersey City,
Trenton, New Haven, Boston, Concord, Port
land, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, and other cities
and towns, the bare record of which would fill
our columns to the exclusion of everything else.
few extracts from our business correspond
ence will serve to SHOW the spirit and determi-
nation of our readers.
A gentleman in Pennington, Illinois, June
23d, ordering ten copies of the Era, writes
"In this township we intend to poll four
votes for the Republican ticket for every one
there is for the Democratic ticket. The whole
vote of our town is about three hundred; per.
haps little more than that. am personally
acquainted with quite a plumber of our Oldest
and most respectable citizens, who have former
ly been stanch Democrats, but are going to
cast their votes for the Republican candidates.
l have formerly affiliated with that party N.Y.
self. / am native of the State of Pennsylva-
MIA, and should like to support Mr.. Buchanan
for the Presidency, could l do so without com.
promising my principles. Time was when
should have supported him with all my heart,
but that time has passed by, unless he should
stand upon a better platform than the one
adopted at Cincinnati"
A friend in Maryville, California, May ls,
writes:
We have just made stand in California
against the tyranny which has ruled this State
since its admission into the Union, and made it
% ouOoCiNlcut W The DtneSJb Oh the slave rover
as any slave State in the Union. Our Repub-
lican State Convention was large and enthu.
siastic gathering of men from ali parts of the
State, and we then inaugurated movement
which viii not stop until California is emphati-
cally free State, with men favorable to Free.
dom in her own State Legislature and State
offices, and with only such men to represent
her in the Councils of the National Government.
Know Nothingism is dead institution in
this State. 1t gave its expiring kick last week
at Sacramento, the State capital. By endors-
ing the Nebraska Kansas bill, it has added the
straw which only was needed to break the cam
els back. Northern men, by hundreds and
thousands, will now leave the Order. The De-
mocracy have also endorsed this infamous
repeal, and now the freemen of the North will
rally to our standard, as the only centre of hope
for Freedom.
thralled, and rank with the other free States,
in consistent and determined opposition to
the spread of Slavery. God speed the dayl"
A subscriber in Butler, Butler county, Penn.
sylvsnia, June IL, writes;
GAS yet, / believe, you have had no notice
of the true state of things in this conservative
region. Pennsylvania has always been allow tn
arouse to sense of her duty and dignity. espe.
cialy on the Slavery question. Her citizens
dreaded the name of an 'Abolitionist more than
that OF doughtace. And am fully persuaded
that nothing short Of the attempt Cd the part
of the South to crush out the existence of Free.
dom everywhere, under the American fag-an
attempt which has now been made-could have
induced us to lay aside our political differences
ana 70 unite for the one ayowed purpose of
bFlnging back the Federal Government, from
It's ihegal pursuits, to its legitimate duty-,he
protection of Freedom. In this county. com.
posing the greater part of Mr.. Purviance's dis
trict, the Americans we're far in the ascendency,