Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-10-09

From the Cleveland Herald of Saturday, Oct 4th.
Two of JacksOn,s Secretaries
| - for Fremont.
The survivors of the political body
guard of Gen. jackson are, almost TO ,
man, in favor of the "Pathfnder." Al
the head of this array of war-worn veter
ans stands Francis P Blair, the confden
tial adviser of Jackson, and the editor O
the organ of his administration.
At Republican meeting in Philadel
phia on Monday last, a letter addressed tc
the meeting by Samuel D. Ingham, who
was Secretary of Treasury under Jackson
was read by the son of Mr.. Ingham, il
which letter that gentleman takes firm
ground with the Republicans.
Mr.. Ingham says that he long since
ceased to take an active part in politics,
and that the infrmities of age prevent his
attendance upon the meeting in compG-
ance with the invitation, but says:
In the n1omentous issues now presented,
l should be unfaithful TO the dNtates OF
nv judgment, and the conscientious con-
victions of solemn duly, if l withheld any
aid that might be thought useful in the
trial of the great cause now before the
American people.
On one side of the great issue before us
the right to hold slaves in all the terrific
ries of the United States is claimed by
virtue of the Constitution of the United
States. This claim suggests construc-
tive power, not in the class of those neees-
sary and proper for the execution Of the
granted power; nor have its advocates per-
sisted in an attempt to derive from it an
expressed or implied term or meaning of
the Constitution. They saw clearly that
this would be impossible, and have now
rested their claim on "higher law" en-
deavoring to prove that slavery is the
natural and normal condition of the labor
ing man, whether white or black" and
''that the great evil of Northern free socie-
ty, is that it is burdened with servile set
of mechanics and laborers, unfit for self
government; master and slave is a rela-
tion in society, as necessary as that of pa
rent and child, and the Northern States
will vet have to produce it; their theory of
self-government is delusion." Such are
the doctrines and principles now at work
undermining the very foundation of a po-
litical system devised by some of the best
and wisest men the world has ever seen;
to promote and secure the happiness of all
within its dominion.
Mr.. Ingham then goes on to show that
the election of 1852 was carried on under
a compact from both political parties, that
there should be no future agitation of the
slavery question; that Pierce was elected
under the influence of this "imposing COM
pact" and tat the President elect, 'swhen
about to make his appeal to God as wit
ness to the sincerity of his oath of fidelity
to his trust, pledged himself to the whole
American people that his power would be
exerted to prevent all further agitation of
this distracting and dangerous question"
The words of Ingham should burn into
the soul of Pierce, as he reads what that
old Jackson veteran says of that VOW and
its violation, viz:
Can any one conceive of pledge more
solemn, or that could have been made
more irrevocably binding, than this, volun-
tarily agreed upon by all parties, and uni
versally approved as a great measure of
public good and great national blessing.
The promise of Charles l to maintain
the right of petition, the violation of which
cost him his head, could not compare in
imposing solenmity with that which Pres
ident Pierce made on the 4th of March,
1853.
Can the history be credited that will re-
cord the fact that, in less than nine months
from that time, he had engaged in con-
spiracy to accomplish, in its most obnox-
ious form, what he had thus promised to
resist? That he not only used his official
power to effect the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise, and carry slavery into Kan
sas by lawless violence, but that he enter
ed into a conspiracy for that purpose, is
of incontrovertible proof.
Mr.. Ingham then gives succinct and
scathing history of the repeal of the Mis-
souri, Compromise; Atchison's movements
in Kansas in denouncing Reeder, and of
Pierce's removal of that Governor in obe-
dience to Atchison's demands; the remo-
val of one Territorial Judge and the ap-
pointment of Lecompte, "whose name will
fill niche in American history similar to
the one occupied by the notorious Jefreys
in English history; the passage of laws
"which, like those of Draco, might be said
to be written in blood"; Pierce's denuncia-
ton of the Topeka Constitution as trea-
sonable, although adopted by the same
usage under which the people of nine ter
ritories have organized State governments;
the arrest and Imprisonment for months of
some of the inhabitants of Kansas, refusing
them bail under false charge of treason
the authority given Shannon to employ
United States forces to make ''the arbitra-
ry arrests, after the manner of those who
once filed the Bastile of Paris; the en-
ployment of "foreign brigands under the