Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1856-10-09
A LETTER FROM GOV. REEDER
On The approaching ElssiiOn of Presiden! and
the Candidates.
Nav YORK City Sent, 18th. 1886,

UENTLEHEN:-In me lettSr OF your. cor
| respondent H., and your editorial COM
ments upon i; of the 10Th inst, seems in
common courtesy 20 demand reply
Your cores spondent does not err in say
| ing that desire the success of the r..
publican party and the election OF their
candidates. aud that ain ready to con
tribute eny honorable Effort to bring 1t
/ about. This is not the result Of any
preference as to men, but in spite of it.
, With Col. Fremont am unacquainted,
/ | have never seen him, nor had any com
nunication with him. direct or Indirect.
verbal OF written. On the other hand,
my feelings OF friendship and admiration
for Mr.. Buchanan, Us man. are OF no
ordinary character and are strengthened
by years of friendly intimacy AMI rscip
rocal acts of Kindness, uninterrupted to
this time By single misunderstanding or
unpleasant feeling; and would a. am
time defend him promptly and indignant
ly against personal attacks upon his rep
utation. believe him TO be a man oi
distinguished ability. of high integri: )
and vaiua BILE experience. He is surroun
ded too. in Pennsylvania BY many polIt-
ical friends. whom personally love and
esteem, and TO whom am united hy ties
timacy, and the loss Of whose lncndS6ip
| should regard great calsnty. Fcr
more than q quarter OF a century have
steadily labored with the Democratic
! party, and never doubled tha should Gu
so during my life Fur years | have ex
eried myself TO bring about Mr.. Buchan-
ans nomination. Ia 1913 and 1882
was one Of those who carried tos him lhv
delegates of our district. and was his
Jealous and ardent supporter. On each
occasion | was in the National Convrn-
tion as one of bis delegates.
These ties are exceedingly strong and
! hard TO sever. especially with one who is
naturally Of conservative cast. anc
/ slow to change old ia bits Of thought and
action; aud | have resisted for mon ihs
tho convictions that were urging me &c
my present declaration. have sought
reasons and arguments 10 save rnysr
the pain Of breaking mp old associa lions
and alternating myself from my Old friends
! but all iii vain My love Of country
and ha ;red Of oppression would not al
! low my feelings ana inclinatioGs either
! 20 delrGs ny juds ment of still my con
/ science aud ara compelled 10 io,fcil
| my self respect by Committing wha, be
lirye 10 be paipahly wrong. or else en-
roll myself in opposition 10 Tie Demo
cratic party.
see no reasonable hope of justice au5
sympathy for the people Of Kansas in tht
success of the Democracy. la its ranks
and with the power I" control its action
arc found tie Border Ruflians Of Nilsson
ri and their accomplices of the South
who have ,ramped upon The C1nslitu
ton nnd all the essential principles o.
our Government. robbed Kansas ci its
! civil liberty and rights of suffrage, laid
waste its lerri,cfy with fire aud sw ord
and rerudiated even civilization i,se!f.
In it's Ileiform find lie enuucia,ic,
Of principles which would pui the rop,
/ about the neckS Of men FOR exercising
| the constitutional light OF peliloning
/ Congress for State Government. or
redress Of grievarces far worse than those
! which led 10 the war of the Revolution
and declaration stigmatising as "rcsis
lance 10 law" the moderate sud iustilia
bic self defence of men shameful'y an,
,nfamously oppressed by rutlian violence
and Outrage. beyond all human endur
ance.
find the whole party of the no lion
asse mbied in National Convention. will
but Que individual dissent, expressing III
unqualified admiration" of an Admins
tra,ion which has lent itself as the too
and accomplice Of all The wrongs inhic
ted upon kanses, and by its venaIity an'
imbeciIi'y brough. the country to an in
testne war
| find all its representatives, in Con
gress, with three individual exceptions
la boring in earnest zeal, BY speech an
vote, to cover up The iniqui,ies of thi
Administration and tue Border Reliisn
OF Missouri. and to suppress fair inves
tigation Of outrages which shock boil
humanity and republicanism, and de
the Constitution and the laws.
find these same representatives, afe
the truth was elected in spite Of thei
efforts, still refusing TO relieve the peo
: pie from code of laws impose uneI
them by a foreign army. and still rofusin,
TO admit them into the Union. onlv TO
reasons which, ih the cases of nine ex
isting States, had been declared unteDa
bic and of no account.
find them disIegardirg a Free Con
stitution adopted in a legal, constitution
al and time sanctioned manner, Tan
which no man car doubt 20 have rtnec
ted the will Of the people and suppor,
ing law to produce substitute, whic
= il is easy to show would have perpetnn
ted in the State Government the usurpi
e tion which had by force already Sc ze
b upon the Government of the Territory.
| 6nd them refusing 10 make aprForri
aiions for the army. unless that army
, to be used TO enforce a code Of laws VIC
lative on their face OF the Constitution
y enacted by Legislature in violation O
the laws Of the United States. nud i'm
posed by foreign force upon conque,o
! and subjugated American citizens.
find them. in a word. steadily abid
ing by all their Congressional action L
make Slave State in Northern latitudes
and that. too, against the will OF i:s in
ha bi:ants.
find that one Member. who more tba