The true Democrat., 1856-08-19
From the Pcnnsylvanan. July 2S Two Important Letters Another OiStingujShed Accession

By the kind permission of the democratic committee of Franklin county, We are enabled to lay before our readers an advanced copy of another ma>trrly letter from the Hon. Wn.- LIAM B. REED, of this city, in reply to an in vit',nn eN' nded to him by that committee to att, T t'e democratic mass meeting on the 7th of A L.;>'.
 The letter If MT. REED to the Alleghanv democracy has been widely published and warnIy endorsed; indeed, we remember no do- cument of similar character which has been so universally approved by the democratic party and all liberal men. In that paper, he discus Sed with admirable temper and convincing force the Know Nothing issue but in the letter which we now publish, he devotes himself to consideration of the consequences of dis solution of the Union upon those counties in Pennsylvania which border upon Virginia and Maryland, presenting view so startling and at the same time so sensible and just, that we do not antcipate extravagantly when we say that It will produce profound impression upon the popular mind. The great characteristic of po- ltlcs at present IS, that the idea of dissolving the Union should not only have become as fa- miliar as household words,' but (and we almost blush to write it,) that it would be by no mears an impossibility if John c. Fremont succeeded to the Presidency on the 4th of March, 1857. Heretofore the apprehension of such calamity has been warded off by patrio- tic efforts in the national egslature-heretofor CLAY, and WEBSTER and CAss, and other pa- triots have interposed to avert and to postpone this irreparable calamity; but we should re- member that when these great men acted, es- peclally during the compromise measures of lS5O and in all antecedent struggles they were sustained by solid national majority in the north Now, however, new set of influences have arisen, and we have party in the free States which arrogates to itself, and boldly threatens to assume the control of the federal government without obtaining a single electo- | ral vote from the south, and indeed, without receiving the vote of any citizen in that part of the country fer their electoral ticket Mr. REED, with the characteristic originality of his uncommon intellect, brings home to Pennsyl- vania, the State to which he has devoted so many years of his life, and in regard to which he may we'll claim to have been consistent in his devotion, prospect of the peculiar difficult ties which will certainly beset her in the event of dissolution, which has not been opened up by any of our public writer's Can it be possi- ble that party contemplating such evils as these, party which repudiates all our regard for the holy traditions of the past and all our hopes growing out of common reverence for a common union, shall succeed at the election in November?
 We publish also, in this connection, letter to the chairman of the state central committee from the Hon. A. E. Brown, of Easton, North. ampton county, in which it will be seen that that distinguished gentleman avows himself in favor of JAMES BUCHANAN. Mr. BROWN is one of the most distinguished lawyers in North Eastern Pennsylvania has always been whig and for many years past has been the acknowl- edged leader of the opposition party in his re- zion. Universally beloved and respected he has been able, because of his high personal qualities and eminent intellectual superiority, to wield powerful influence in the tenth le- zion.
 When, however, he sees our institutions me- naced by abolitionists and disunionists com bined, when he sees that the whg party has been betrayed and broken up by secret orga- nlzatlon, banded together upon the basis of an- ti-christian and anti-republican oaths, and en- couraged in the most reckless excesses by an unholy and an inhuman prescriptions; he as- sumes the patriotic part, and declares himself for the only liberal and conservative consttu- tonal party in existence.
 We are not without hope of being able to add to the list of accessions to the democratic party, another eminent name in a neighborinR county to Northampton, and every day serves to confirm us in the opinion that the Fremont fraud will tind it hopeless task to entrap ill its tolls the men whose genius has shed lustre up- on the party of CLAY and WEBSTER and who have won unfading laurels in contending with the democracy in those famous battle fields, where both the great parties stood arrayed against each other upon important measures of government, but when both obeyed the instinct which should inspire every true American the instinct of devotion to the constitution of the United States
 Chanabersbuyg, July Il, 1856.
 Hon. w. B. REED:
 The undersigned on behalf of the demo- cracy of Franklin county, extend to you their