Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-10-02
loIitifaI matter.
LETTER OF GOV. REEDER,
On the Approaching Election of Presi-
dent, and the Candidates.
NEw YoRK CIrY, Sept. %, 1856.

new YORK CITY, Sept. %, 1856.
To tie Editors of The Epening Post:
GENTLEMEN The letter of your cores
pondent, H., and your editorial comments
upon it of the 10th inst, seem in common
courtesy to demand reply. Your CORES
pondent does not err in saying that de-
sire the success of the Republican party
and the election of their candidate, and
that am ready to contribute any honora-
bic effort to bripg it about. This is not
the result of any preference as to men, but
in spite of IT. With Colonel Fremont
am unacquainted. / have never seen him,
nor had any communication with him di-
rect or indirect, verbal or written. On the
other hand, my feelings of friendship and
admiration Of Mr.. Buchanan, as man,
are of no ordinary character, and are
strengthened by years of friendly intimacy
and reciprocal acts of kindness, uninter-
rupted to this time by single misunder-
standing or unpleasant feeling; and
woald at any time defend him promptly
and Indignantly against personal, attacks
upon his reputation. | believe him to be
man af distinguished ability. of high in
tegrity and valuable experience.-He is
surrounded, too, inP Pennsylvania, by many
political friends, whom, personally, | love
and esteem, and to whom l am united by
ties long cherished political and social in
tlmacy, and the loss of whose friendship
should regard as great calamity. For
more than quarter of a century l have
steadily labored with the Democratic par
ty, and never doubted that should do so
during my life For years l have exerted
myself to bring about Mr.. Buchanan's
nomination In 1S4S and 1852 | was
one of those who carried for him the dele
gates of our district, and was his jealous
and ardent supporter. On each occasion
was in the National Convention as one of
his delegates.
These ties are exceedingly strong and
hard to cover especially with one who is
naturally of conservative cast, and slow to
change old habits of thought and action;
and l have resisted for months the convic-
tions that were urging me to my present
declaration. l have diligently sought rea-
sons and arguments 10 save myself the pain
of breaking up old associations and alienat
ing myself from my old friends, but all in
vain. My love of country and hatred ofop
preston would not allow my feelings and
inchnations either to delude my Judgment
or still my conscience, and am compelled
to forfeit my self respect by committing
what I believe to be palpably wrong,
or else to enroll myself in opposition to the
Democratic party.
lean see no reasonable hope ofjustice
and sympathy for the people of Kansas, in
the success of the Democracy. In its rank
and with the power to control its action,
are found the Border Ruffians of Missouri
and their aecomplices of the South, who
have trampled upon the Constitution and
all the essential principles of our Govern
ment, robbed Kansas of its civil liberty and
right of suffrage, laid waste its territory
with fire and sword, and ,repudiated even
civilization itself.
In its platform 1 find the ennnciation of
principles which would put the rope about
the necks of men, for exercising the Con-
stitutioial right of petitioning Congress for
State Government, as redress for griev-
ances far worse than those which led to
the war of the Revolution, and declara-
ton stigmatising as 'armed resistance to
law" the moderate and justifable self de-
fence of men shamefully and UNANIMOUSLY
oppressed by ruffian violence and outrage,
beyond all human endurance.
l find the whole party of the nation as
sembled in National Convention, with but
one individual dissent, expressing its. Sun
qualified admiration" of an Administration
which has lent itself as the tool and accom-
plice of the wrong inflicted upon Kansas,
and by its venality and imbeeility brought
the country to an intestine war.
l find all its representatives in Congress,
with three individual exceptions, laboring
in earnest zeal, by speech and vote, to COW
er up the iniquties of this administration
and the Border Ruffians of Missouri, and to
suppress fair investigation of outrages
which shock both humanity and republi-
canism, and defy the Constitution and the
laws.
1 find these same representatives, after
the truth was elected in spite their efforts,
still refusing to relieve the people from a
code of laws imposed upon them by for
eign army, and still refusing to admit them
into the Union, only for reasons which, in
the cases of nine existing States, had been
declared untenable and of no account.
I find them disregarding free Consti-
tuition adopted in legal, constitutional
and time-sanctioned manner, (and which |
no man can doubt to have reflected the will |
of the people, and supporting law to
produce substitute, which it is easy to
show would have perpetuated in the State
Government the usurPation which had by
force already seized upon the Government
of the Territory. sa-
L find them refusing to make appropria-
tions for the army unless that army is to
be used to enforce code of laws violative,
on their face, of the Constitution; enacted
by a Legislature in violation of the law of
the United States, and imposed by foreign
force upon conquered and subjugated Amer
ican citizens.
l find them, in word, steadily aiding
by all their Congressional action to make a
Slave State In Northern ATTITUDES, and that, i
too, against the will of its inhabitants.
I find that one member who more than
any other stood out against the enslave-
ment of his white fellow citizens, is refused
q denomination by the Democratic party
of his District.
l find in the canvass now going on that
the whole tone of the party press is in the
same direction. When tile first startling