The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-09-09
NUMBER 81.

ferred to the people, and they combined undef
leaders who ply every effort to deepen the
struggle into one puraly sectional it will ba
E less embittered than it now has become We
are at point where we may save ourselves
pass it, and we shall drift into stream whose
only outlet is sea of anarchy. Have the peo.
ple--the American people--the virtue to says
their country by saving the Union of these
States That is the question that now press
les for their answer, and trust in God to
guide your meeting to such result as to maks
that answer propittious of brighter future
than L now picture to my minds eye.
am no croaker. Look back on my public
lie and think no record can be found where
ever traced doubt of the propetuity of the
government But | tell my countrymen plain
ly do not doubt it, and | look to to the futurg
with solcitude and anxiety my bosom has
heretofore been stranger to. The people
have all IN their own hands. If msdness
rules the hour, the slave States will reject
MIR. Fillmore, and will precipitate the catas-
trophe we shall hereafter so much depIore. If
wisdom prevails, the people will rally to his
standard, and will by this election. reestablish
lconfidence between the sections and placs
the country again on the high road to fulfill
ment OF her proper destiny. There is moth
ing have or hope for on this earth would
not yield to save my country, and if there ever
was time or will be time for patriotic
mind to publish its convictions, that time has
arrived now. -'
These sectional controversies must cease or
TINS Uulon cannot long endure. Already thB
plans OF Kansas are wet with the blood of our
countrymen shed in its fratricidal war, and
think you it will sink in the ground? Already
are bands of armed men rushing to conflict to
maintain Or overthrow system of social and
domestic polity hereafter to obtain in the Stats
of Kansas when organized! Think you this
state OF things is to continue and yet the
Union is to survive? ~ -
Texas has already voted men and money to
sustain one side of the cause. Other States
may soon Initiate her example, and when Mas.
sachusets and South Carolina have done so.
and others follow, how long do you suppose it
will be before the bonds of the Union will
melt IN the hot furnace of excited contests that
will supervene here in the halls of the Nation
al Legislature. If Mr.. Pierce's administration
cannot manage the people of Kansas now,
when the opposing forces do not number two
thousand, what are we to hope from Mr.. Bu-
chanan's or Mr.. Fremonts administration,
when States shall have become partizans, and
the t1ags of heavy forces shall have gone down
IN the contest? Oh, my mind contemplates
that future with absolute horror! and yet my
Judgment bids me look it in the face as dan ff
ger which is imminent and approaching We
have one hope. This Government was based
upon the idea of the virtue and intelligence Of
the people and thepeople are now the arbiters
of their own fate If the idea of our forefathsra
was correct, the people will intervene to save
their institutions;ifit was erroneous, or we have
become too degenerate to practice upon it, the q
will show, instead of happy and
free people, the "bloodiest picture in the book of
Time" If Mr.. Fillmore prevails, we shall .
have prospect of sunny skies and fair wealth
sr for our future voyage; if he does not, my
humble opinion is, the storm we now dread oc
will plo ca gentle breeze to the hurricane +
that will overwhelm us. .-..s-.-.. rs-lfss cs
Yours very sincerely,
HUMPHREY MARSHALL. "e"
Hon. E. B. BARTLETT t*eaiff l9i 9s9n,