The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-07-11
COL. FREMoNTS LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE.-THE
ISSUE OF UNION OR DISUNION MADE UP.

ISSUE OF UNION OR DISUNI0N MADE UP.
Colonel Fremont is up for the presidential race and
out the novel experiment of riding horses
the same time. He has celebrity equestrian,
and he will have still he succeeds in his present
feat His acceptance of the North American nomination
appeared some days ago. That required but little time
arrange but the response to the abolition Unonsliders
who met at Philadelphia required care and crcum-
specton II will be found in another column and
ingenious specimen Of demagogsm was never concoced
by those master spirits of sectional agitation Messrs Sew
ard Greeley, and Blair OF Colonel Fremont Is
made to endorse the principles of the abolition convention
which nominated him.
In regard to foreign policy Colonel Fremont
sumes that there is party in this country which main
tans the doctrine that IL is right take whatever new
territory may want by to force and he very
cmphacaly repudiaes such doctrine as inconsistent with
national honor If there is any point in this portion OF
the letter. 1t intended insnuae that Mr. Buchanan
put forth this doctrine in the osend document Such Is
the application OF the letter made by the New York Eve
ming Post The II is that Colonel Fremont has
grossly perverted and misrepsened the doctrine Of that
document 1t contains such sentiment but the doc
trne which II does which who val
the preservation Of government as the highest
duty Of every citizen either deny conrovert That
doctrine is that when government is satisfied that
setprescrvadOn makes necessary acquire Cuba
to avoid destruction nation, we have the
right and 1t will be duty to existence by
buying the island IL can and II hi, cannot be done
then by resorting 10 force.
II would be expected that candidate for the pres
dency whose principles lead unavodaby to the destruc
lion Of the Union would approve a doctrine which rests
upon the deepest devotion to its perpeuiiy was there
fore meet and proper for the candidate Of party which
ignores half Of the concderacy pledge himself that
II the Union could not be saved from dissolution except
by taking and annezing territory identified by location
and institutions with the ignored section he would sooner
let the Union go than TO the first law Of nature
the law Of seEpreservAon Fortunately the democrats
have candidate who stands upon the doctrine that 'he
federal Union must be preserved and who heart that
embraces in Its throbs the South we'll as the North
The other subject on which Colonel Fremont avows
his cordial concurrence with the abolition convention
Is in regard to the slavery question That conyen-
ton lays down the doctrine that neither Congress nor
the territorial legislatures individuals nor associa-
tons Of individuals give legal existence 10 slave
ry within Territories long the constitution
lasts II follows from this doctrine that slavery cannot
exist constutonay anywhere within the United States
except where IL existed when the constitution ormed
We have the constitution now that we had when Flor
ida Louisiana and Texas acaured and hence upon
COL Fremonts principle slavery has valid existence In
these States formed from those Territories The same doc
trine leads to the conclusion that slavery cannot have
legal existence in Kansas whether the people there will
not and hence the only suggestion he has to make for
the settlement Of the Kansas question Is the admission Of
the Territory as free State Col Fremont therefore
stands upon the ground that there cannot and shall not be
any additional States admitted into the Union which tole
slavery He stands pledged by his letter to carry out
this principle in the event Of his election as President !;
and hence II matters nothing with him IL every man,
woman, and child in Kansas should desire that the
State should come in as a slave Stae-the coustitu-
ton, as Colonel Fremont CONSTITUTES it. must exclude
them His doctrine goes further II Kansas were adj
mitted tomorrow free State the people could not after
wards change their constitution and laws 80 as to give e
gal existence slavery Still further upon the same doc
trine Col Fremont would pronounce every slave in For
da Texas Louisiana, Arkansas and Missouri, now to be
illegally held to service The language Of the platform