Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-10-30
An Appeal to be Needed.

The Hon. Truman Smith has just made
an appeal TO the people in behalf of Froe-
dom and Fremont. 1t is addressed to the
people of Connecticut but comes home
with equal force to every voter in the Free
States. Mr.. Smith says he knows Col.
Fremont intimately, and pronounces him
well qualified and worthy of all confidence.
His cause is that of a lofty, generous, pat
riotic and truly national conservatism
There is no possible avenue open for the
restoration of the peace of the country bat
by electing Colonel Fremont to the Presi-
dency. Mr.. S. cogently adds:
1t is now certain that the adherents and
promoters of the mischieyous-nay, wicked
policy of the present administration,
will have majority in the two Houses of
the next Congress and should Mr.. Buchan-
an be elected, it may be written down as
certain that within two years from the 4th
of March next, Kansas will be delivered up
to the Moloch of Slavery. She will be
brought into the Union as Slave State.
Shall this be submitted to without q
struggle? Shall we not rebuke the noun
strous per6dy Of repeating the Missouri
COMPROMISED? Shall we not chastise the
numberless outrages committed in Kansas
Shall the elective franchise in that UNHAPPY
territory be violated with impunitya Shall
Border-Rufians invade with the powie-
knife and revolver, and elect a spurious
Legislature, only to enact code of laws
more infamous, if possible, than the Border
Rufians themselves? Shall the Missouri
river, one of the great highways of the na-
tion, be blocked up against the lovers of
Freedom, and be open only to the votaries
of Slavery? Shall the army of the United
States be used only to suppressed the Free
State settlers to disarm and disperse their
forces, and to arrest and hold them in Gus
tody as felons, for no other crime than ex-
ercising the sacred right of self defence p
What Border Rufian has been arrested?
What perpetrator ofrobbery, arson, or even
murder! Not one! / repeat, there is
not hope for Kansas but in electing Fre-
mont. In James Buchanan, we shall have
ouly an elongation of Franklin Pierce, and
what an Administration? God save the
Republic! Besides, not only is Kansas
to be sacrificed, but our Government is to be
into an engine for the propagan-
dism of Slavery over this continent.
Depend upon it, the subjugation of Kan
sas is not to be the last of the outrages.
Even now, preparations has been made for
the introduction of slavery into Nicaragua,
and ere long the whole of Central Ameri-
"a is to be annexed. In short, we are at
no remote day, to be brought under the
ron hoof of the Slave power, unless we
make stand now, and say by the election
If Col. Fremont, "Hilherto shalt thou
,ome and no further" l am no Aboli-
ionist-never was-and never expect 10
pc. l am simply nonextensionist. l
axe precisely the ground assumed by
Thomas Jefferson and Henry Clay. lam,
md ever have been opposed to the unne-
,ssary introduction of this exciting topic
nto the two Houses of Congress. All my
Instincts are national; l am willing to let
lsvery alone, if it will be content with its
present limits, but when it: Southern vo-
aries join Northern demagogues to break
Up compromises-to violate their faith
,lighted three times overland embark in
he business of giving to slavery an indef-
nite extension, / am on hand for resistance.
pay no more attention to the threats of
lisunion which come up from the South,
han l do to the idle wind. believe
here is hemp enough in every Southern
State, and patrsotic hands enough to apply
t, to do ample justice to these traitors in
anguage and poltrooons in heart and in
,apd,of