The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1856-11-12
Letter from New York.

Nov. 5, 1856.
FRIEND Conn: BY the time this
reaches you the Presidential canvass,
for tbs year 1856, will DO omoug the
events of the past. An impressive calm,
for to-day, seems to control the political
elements But, it is the calm, that pre-
cedes the tempest--tho silent and quiet
maueuvering and preparation for the
great battle Of tomorrow. Speculations
as to the result, have given place ia the
public mind, to the more immediate ext.
geucies and responsibilities Of the hour.
| believe that every republican here in.
tends to do bis duty. But l must con.
TESS, that, from antecedcnts in our histo-
ry, aud the facility with which men, 9th
erwise rational and intelligent, come to
adopt the Shareholders code of moral,
and theology, | have the strongest mis-.
giviugs as to the present or future pros.
poets of true democratic republican prin-
ciples in this country. And yet, I must
hope, even. against hope; that our wide
spread system of FREQ schools, our col
leges and other seminarios of learning.
our ever tceming free press, and our ar.
my of conscientious, plain spoken aud
earnest ministers of religion will con.
tinue to sustain q heaven expended illu.
limitation over this broad land, that can.
mot be extinguished in day The cleo.
lion Of Col. Fremont, as distinguished
as he is, and with a sublime patriotism
marking tho events of his life, has ap.
pepred to me to require almost mira
Gle for its accomplishment. But, wha,
has seemed as a miracle, has guided the
events Of this campaign, Men hitherto
unknown to fame have stood in tho place
of Webster, Of Clay, OF Jackson, aud
Wright, and in their earnest appeals for
liberty and the constitution. have COM
handed the car, the heart, and the con.
6dcnce Of millions 1t may be that tho
spirit Of patriotism is not sufficiently dis.
ciplined for victory in this contest, and
wise Providence may suffer the wrong to
triumph, yet for soason-that to NOR
rows sun may sci in q cloud and that
the victims Of slavedriying oppression,
our brothers in Kansas, and the poor
white men Of the south. as we'll as the
slaves may yet suffer on for time. But
the incidents, tolls and sacrifices Of this
campaign will not DO lost. More Of
sound political Intelligence has been dis.
semiuated through the country, by our
public orators than during any previous
political campaign for the last twenty.
five years. And l have ,he conviction.
that if James Buchanan may be elected
President, a mere platform though he
may be, the spirit and love of liberty arc
not to be quietly buried during his al.
ministration ! Though the election of
Colonel Fremont seems tho only specific
relief for tho wrongs of Kansas; yet if
he is not elected, the free north will not
iu haste lend u hand to forge the chains
Of slavery, for this future sister state
Let the conviction be settled in tho pub.
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higher law, that shapes the des,inies
Of states aud nations, and that under this
law with the moral weapon, it allows, it
is the duty of the patriot to fight on, to
fight ever for God ard Liberty
Nor in the event supposed, will our
candidate for the Presidency be lost to
the country. We believe that it would
be greatly for TIE public benefit that no
should be placed at the head of this ma.
ton. But. his own enduring fame does
not require that no should BIO President
as mere Lieutenant Of Topographic
cal Engineers, ho has accomplished la.
bors whose results will fill as large a
space with as enduring a fame, in the
history Of this country, as the acts of the
most distinguished of his contemporaries.
Mark this, that whatever the event may
De, John G. Fremont is not slain in this
battle nor politically dead for the future.
Truly yours, J.Ms.