The true Democrat., 1856-08-19
NO.. 45.

tonal or geographical. Our political history shows this Is not so-and it may admit of some question, MT. Fremonts residence beino rather a"ouiatoryO whether his Is in this sense sec tional party now. No one yet knows exactly where the Vice President is to hail from. Bnt that winch makes a party sectional and geo. eraphcai, Is the principle which underlays if tue lliiuehce that controls 1.-the aggregate lhen !.i"' compose 1t, the flags that are flying over l'' ana looking at them now, when was 'here party more intensely and indignantly secuohai' more extensively geographical than .ha' WHICH III tIe isSt coinage of counterfeits, dares to call itself republican. have not fine nor IS the worH congenlal to my taste, to point to the proof of this, so far as individuals are concerned. There is not a leading abolition agitator in Pennsylvania who is not enrolled in the republican ranks. You know it in your neighborhood. l see it in mine. The cam palgn Is conducted on purely abolition princi- pies, and those principles are avowed to be, hostility to southern interests and insult to soutsern feelings. Nay, further so confessed is th's sectonallsm, that this republican party uoo' ho' pretend to ask single electoral vote, or venture to circulate an electoral ticket south of Pennsylvania It meant to be an absolute triumph of the north over the south. Nothing less will satisfy those who control it.
 Now when 1t is said or foretold that to this the south cannot submit, and that in this refi,. sa the Union breaks asunder, I appeal tto candid and conservative men in the north. is there not reason in it? If the converse of the proposition could be stated, would the north submit? Certainly not, and that which is call led dlsorganlzing rebellion and treason now, would be honorable resistance then. Itis pain in O to o1l- ,l-
 cannot shut our eyes to them. An executive administration elected on the principles of the republican party, and influenced by it's spirit. could not organize itself-and when the hour of distraction and disunion comes. it will re- qulre wiser and calmer intelligence than fla. natlclSm can furnish to compose the storm-a hand stronger than that of an adventurer to hold the hem
 ne danger IS before and around us As cltzen of the north, 1 have sought to conceal It from myself, but 1t will not down at my bid dlnS. do not draw this inference from the language ot extreme men; but when hear a Senator from Kentucky--a whig Senator-a moderate and conservative man. within this month, in his place in the Senate say-"I have never paid much attention to the talk about a dissolution of the Union; but I have often thought on the subject, and my conviction is that the election of Fremont, or any man of Mat party, is the kneN of the Umon"--(speech of Thomson, National Intellgencer, July l71 When such words these are uttered, not by the heated south but by the temperate and oy- al west, we have a right to say there is danger and very great danger too. The south on this subject of the Presidency, is not violent or loud, but its silence is very ominous and most impressive
 Mir. Buchanan stands before hn',t.or-and this Is the ground over which emen should come to his Support--,,s ,euta- tive of the principle which a'onc c.u avert thelr evils, that of repression and eXtirpation of all agitation on this subject of slavery, let it come from what quarter it may. He has said Tn simple and earnest language that this will be hls aim. It must, for the good of the na- ton, come to an end. It can only be put an end to, by the strong moral power which na- honal man can exercise, and at time when the relations of the Union are not disturbed but harmonised and reconciled by the express sion of the popular will rebuking decisively fanatlclsm of any sort; and this rebuke the northern and middle States are bound to give. Without this cooperation, MT. Buchanan may strive and strive successfully to stay this noisy current of political agitation. With it, his suc- cess Is easy and the peace of the nation is se-
 
 gether from personal regard that has brought me and thousands like me to his support.
 For Pennsylvania man-for one whose earliest lesson was reverence for the great prin- cipe which William Penn enunciated, and whose habits of thought and education make him adverse to secret or intolerant political or ganlzatlon, there was no other path open- That into which some nconsderate people are now seduced, of what is known as the Ame- rlcan' organization, can have no attraction for me or any conservative man. Believing. as 1 do, that Mr. Fillmore took more than one ini- tatory oath in a Know N Nothing lodge, by which he bound himself to prescribe politically his fellow citizens who professed one form of chris tan faith, and those who happened to have been born abroad, and to conform his opinions and regulate his political action by the decision of secret, oath-bound, political club, I cannot vote for him. My antpathy to this secret and unconstitutional organization is no new feeling; spoke 1t out long ago; shall never change It. As one of the leaders of this party of in- tolerance, as one who gave to it the authority of his name and past position I hold MT. Fillmore responsible for deep wound to the cause of political morality. If there is one thing about which the people of this country are and ought to be sensitive, it is their right to worship God as they please They claim to worship God under such forms of ecclesiastical discipline as they choose to enforce upon them selves-with such ceremonial, simple or elabo rate, as they please, on such days and in such places as they choose for themselves, and this great privilege of religious duty the constitu- tion guards and protects. It is equally the privilege of all. There is not Protestant who is not as much interested in guarding this con- stitutionalr light as the Catholic christians whom Mir. Fillmore, and his secret confederates have sworn to prescribe. It was, 1 repeat, the worst wound ever inflicted on political morality in this country when these secret oath bound as sociations of religious intolerance were created. It was sad spectacle when statesman like MT. Fillmore joined them.
 Regretlng once more that am unable to be with you, and to say what I have thus written,
 lam very respectfully, your friend,
 WILLIAM B. REED.
 To Messrs. Brewer, Reilly. Nill McClintock. Sceiseny, democratic executive committee. Chambersburg.
 REPLY OF HON. A. E. BROWN OF EAsToN, TO THE CENTRAL COMMITTEES OF PENNSYLVANIA.