Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1856-07-19
COL. FREMoNTs LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE.

On our outside will be found Col FRENoNTs
letter, accepting the nomination Of the Repub-
lican party for President. We commend it to
the perusal of our readers 1t is just such
document as we should expect to emanate from
him-modest unassumng temperate, yet dig
niied and emphatic in its tone. With nothing
to conceal, this letter meets the questions of
the day, in a broad and comprehensive spirit,
as extensive as our land.
There is a refreshing contrast between Col.
FREMoNT's letter of acceptance, and the posi-
tions assumed by the opposing candidates. The
Republican leader SuccumbS to no narrow aud
sectional views but pledges himself to admin
lister the government without partisan or sec
tional bias, and with regard for the welfare
of the whole country. The only truly Ma
tionaf' party (as is now the somewhat fashion
able term that presents a candidate for the
suffragcs of the people, is the Republican,
That party would advance our National inter
ests in the widest and most bencfccnt degree
| To extend the area of Frecdon--to secure the
to advance the prosperity and peace of the
country-is surely National in the highest
sense-and such is the aim of the Republican
party. Is Slavery National Are the efforts
now making to extend and perpetuate that in
stitution such as should commend themselves
to the support of freemen Are the outrages
perpetrated on account of Slavery calculated
to promote our progress as a Nation, and to
cement the bond of our Union If not, then
no party should claim to be National whose
success would be a victory for slavery, and
would embolden that fell power to renewed
outrages on the rights of freemen.
The election of JOHN C. Fremont and the
ascendancy of the principles he has asserted
would bring our government back to the doc
trnes and practices of its founders From the
maxims and precepts of the founders of the
Nation and trainers of its Constitution the
Republican creed is gathered If the men
whose blood achieved our Independence, and
whose wisdom and counsels united the Repub-
lic were National in their feelings and views,
then the Republican party is the true National
party of the country.
Our readers will not find a word in Col FIRE.
MoNr's letter that should not meet with hearty
concurrence in every part of the Union. Fifty
years ago, there would have been no dissent
from it. But since that day, Slavery has
grown arrogant and intolerant, and where it
| is powerful allows no one to question all the
| demands its most fanatical and sectional adhe-
rents may set up The men of the South who
deprecated the institution which they saw was
a cancer in their midst, are gone, and in their
place, has arisen those who are filled with
schemes of personal aggrandizement, to be
achieved by virtue Of the power now welded
by Slavery
1t remains for the Freemen of the country
to arrest the tide which is fast sweeping us on
to barbarism and dissolution The prcponder-
anee of Slavery in the Republic, will bring
series of calamites which must sooner or later
rend the Union into fragments. The power of
slavery may for time reduce the whites to
condition Of vassalage, but the teachings of
history learn us that sooner or later the Oh
pressed will strike for freedom. In that day
should it come no vestige of human bondage
will remain upon this continent. But toavod
this degraded condition, and its consequent
disasters, is now easy. 1t is to stop the spread
! Of slavery 10 put check to its arrogant rs