Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-05-20
From the Selma Sentinel
Letter from Colonel Jere Clemens.

HUNTSVILLE April 26, 1856.
Dear Sir: Your letter of the 25h inst reach
ed me to day. am in the midst of hurried pre-
paraons for long journey, and have IN, time
to answer it as wish | am going to Missouri
and Illinois; and from thence TO n. Y. and Wash
ngon, from one of the last named places | will
white you at length.
In the meantime sincerely hope you will not
commit yourself against the American party.
thought the nominations at Philadelphia prema-
inre. and have not been surprise at the express
sions OF dissatisfaction il has called forth; still |
d. not see how remedy can be applied that will
not be worse than the evil. try TO look at it
PFdcftcWfy The three prominent candidates OF
the Anti Americans are Buchanan, Douglas and
Fierce. Bacllanaa is more deeply attached to the
pro! getty" Prnci ple than Fillmore Douglas is full
~ committed to the river, harhor and road appro.
priatlonS and Pierce is Committed to everything
and will prove true to nothing Neither of the three
comes up to my standard of what a Democrat
ought to be. Neither can be trusted by the South
an hour after they have secured our votes All
Of them will be certain To favor measures from
which the North will reap the benefits while we
pay the taxes, aud all of them will be certain to
stab US while protesting the most profound regard
Lar our rights. la the very nature of things party
which relies upon foreign voters for success
must enunciate principles and advocate measures
hostile To the institution Of slavery. The foreign
back driver, drayman, ditcher or ho, carrier has
no desire to compete for bis wages with the ne.
gro Even the Irish chambermad looks with
Jealousy upon the employment Of negro girls in
our hotels. There Is wide-an almost univer-
sal, repugnancy to domestic relation which
they cannot fail to reduces materially their
own chances of employment: and it is here. at
The base oi society, where a wise politician ought
to look for the seeds of principles which sooner
or later control the destinies of "A nation. Great
events work their way up, not down. All revou.
tons begin among the masses. Wilberforce
himself only gave voice to a sentiment which ex
listed before his birth The Parliament OF England
would have abolished slavery if he had never v
ed. The harangues 81 iemagoguo are harmless
II there Is no pre- jadice for bin TO direct-no sen
! timent in the hearts of the lHborng classes which
responds TO his appeals. With none but an Am
ericdh people TO appeal to, who do not ook upon
the slave as II rival whose labor nterferes with
!. the susienance OF their own families all the po
| hticai preachers and orators in the land could
never get up slave agitation to dangerous
! height. ltIs southern man, born upon the soil
OF the South. linked TO it by thousand ties at
tached Ia slavery by a domestic relation and be-
heving in my soul that il Is the best for beth ra
ces, that cherish most ardently the American
cause. Whatever best promotes that will be Ger
tam to receive my support cannot hope to have
everything exactly a, | wish, and Us IL practical
man mean to take the br>t | can get AT Phil
adelphla, as at all other Conventions things were
done OF which do not approve, bat predict the
CINCINNATI Convention will do much worse in
regard Ia II platforms and that the nominees will
be hIadred fold more uhjeciionable Oliver
cromwell wa wont t. say. ',nt- will be lice"
and vile set of ;ratieker, for foreign vote, must
oi necessity, give rs truiiiektr like themselves
for candidate.
Very truly and respectfully your friend
JERE. CLEMENS.
To JonN HARDY ESQ.