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To the People of the United States.
Fellow w-cITizENs:-There are circum-
stances which call for the appeal we make
TO your must earnest attention. The times
appear to us startling and critical. There
are aspects in the pending contest for the
Presidency, which are very unusual and
important. We cannot, therefore, forbear
freely to communicate some of our appre-
tensions, before we separate here, and to
call upon you at once to look full in the face
any dangers which may seem to impend
over the greatest popular government on
earth.
Two o? the political parties in the coun-
try have pitched Presidential battle upon
sectional issues, and Of so fearful charac.
ter as to stir the deepest passions of the A
merican people. Though in seeming conflict,
il cannot be disguised, that those parties
have in such sort co-operated as TO press
upon the country one exciting issue after
another, until, by dint of continued exaspe-
ration, they have nearly succeeded in ar
raging, In hostile columns, one-half of the
States of Union against the ether. They
appear mutually to have employed all the
energies of party power TO engender sec
tional distrust, prejudice, ana elimination,
and now, for the first time in the history of
the government, we find a truly formidable
party, fully organized, and using every eff
fort in their power to combine the non-slave-
holding against the slaveholding States of
the Union, in struggle for the Executive
power oil the Conlederacy. In that organi-
zation are included men who are supposed
to be conservative and national, but who are
believed to be led, by excitement or miscon-
ception, into movements which, in their
cooler moments, they cannot but recoil from,
as they would from pestilence and famine.
Its management has been essentially con-
troled by leaders who, under all circum-
stances, have steadily kept up an active, un-
ceasing, and implacable warfare upon the
institutions of the slaveholdng States.-
Shuld such party unfortunately succeed,
in the present distracted state of the public
mind, in electing sectional President, sup
ported alone by the voters of the non slave
holding States, we have too much reason to
apprehend that there might instantly spring
into existence movement Of resistance. the
consequences Of which no human wisdom
can foresee, and no lover of his country or
friend of popular government anywhere
could fail, in all coming time, sadly to de-
plore. fn'.- .....
We do not believe they can succeed, but
we may be.reaIly threading upon the brink
of a volcano, that is liable, at any moment,
to burst forth and overwhelm the nation"
But the Republican party Is not alone re-
sponsble fer those appalling issues, nor is
its success the only danger to the stability
of the Government in its present form. The
Democratic party has eagerly and rashly
seized upon these momentous issues, and
welded them as the thunder bolts of party
warfare. They have striven to madden the
South, and to concentrate Southern votes
upon their candidates, as the Abolitionists
have strven TO madden the North and to
concentrate Northern votes upon their can
didates. .s..
When their extreme measures are resist
ed they taunt national men, in the South, as
"submissionists" or worse than Submission
lists, as the Abolitionists taunt national men
in the North as ''dough-iaces" or worse
than dOugh-faces. t'
They have apparently struggled TO bring
about the formation of geographical parties,
such as the Father OF his Country so en-
phatically warned us against, based upon
questions Immediately tending 10 split the
Union asunder; and they have seemingly
done this for the petty purpose of securing
a temporary party triumph. The Union, in
form at least, we think, would survive the
success Of such party for the present; but
its triumph would probably keep the fur
naces of sectional passion red hot, and ulti-
mately, and it may be at no distant day, its
rash errors would engender storm Of Sec
tional conflict beneath which the govern
ment would sink into ruins. We think they
too, will fail. ., .-r .--o,..-
But we believe the time has come when
the common safety requires that the ragin!
sectional heats Of those parties should b,