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ments in the matter; and if anything is 10 be
done, we must act promptly and frankly.
Very respectfully, yours,
CHARLES GIBBONS Chairman, dc.

La the evening of the same day, (Sept. IL, J
the American State Committee met in Phils-
delphia, but 1t is understood that Mr.. Sanderson
withheld from his colleagues the foregoing cor
respondence. His Committee, at that meeting,
passed a resolution that they were an fdror of
any honorable arrangement nth the friends of
Fremont and Dayton, TO defeat Mr.. Buchanan
which Mr.. Sanderson was requested to commu-
nicate to the Republican Committee, which was
to meet on the 18th of the same month. He
suppressed the resolution, and the Committee,
although 10 session within two hundred yards
of the "side door" of his Office, received no iu-
formation from him on the subject.
1t was still deemed ex pedient that the Repub-
lican Committee should take no action in the
formation OF an electoral ticket, without fair
and open conference with the American Com
mittee. The subject was accordingly postponed
to the eth of October, and the following letter
was addressed to Mr. Sanderson:
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 80, 1856.
DEAR SIR: l am instructed by the Republi-
can State Executive Committee to invite con-
ference with the American State Committee at
Hsrrisburgh, on the 7th prox, for the purpose
of forming an electoral ticket, to be supported
by the citizens of Penus yvania, who are oppos-
ed to the extension of Slavery, and to the cleo
ton of Mr.. Buchanan to the Presidency.
At the meeting of the Committee. which /
have the honor to represent, held on the 18th
instant, of which you had notice, some conmu.
nication on the subject from the American Com
mitteee was fully expected; but none was re-
ceived, and have not had the pleasure of hear
ing from you since.
-. We have been led to suppose that your Com
mittee has authority to Withdraw, in whole or in
part, the electoral ticket nominated by the Amer
lean Convention, for the purpose OF securing an
alliance OF the two psrties against common
enemy. And believing that such an alliance
may be formed without compromising the hon.
or of either party, the Republican Committee
has postponed the nomination of candidates for
electors to the latest period which is consistent
with the authority delegated to it by the State
Convention.
/ therefore beg leave to urge upon you the
necessity of calling your Committee together
for the purpose, and at the time and place above
designated.
If YOU determine to do so, / will cheerfully
forward your notice to each member of your
Committee, by one or mole special messengers,
whom you may consider worthy oe your conf
dence
Very truly, yours,
CHARLES GIBBONS,
Chairman Rep. State Er. Committee.
JohR p Sanderson, Esq,
Chairman Am. State Ec. Committee.
Invitations to q conference were also addressed
10 the individual members of the American
from several of whom written an
,wers were received, urging a postponement of
action until after the October election, pledg-
ng themselves in favor of Union ticket, and
for the first time, the resolu-
ion passed by their Committee on the 18th of
September, which had been suppressed by their
Chairman. One member of the Committee re-
f-rrng TO some of his colleagues in connection
With the proposition for Union ticket, says
They may not join US, for powerful reasons
but, be this as it may, we can carry the State
without them An appeal to the great body of
Of American party, IN the last resort, is the true
policy. | give you again the most unqualified
that | will lead this movement, flor
a Union ticket,) and it will succeed" AS the
writer of the letter indicates his suspicion of the
Of some members Of the Ameri-
can Committee. it is obviously improper to men.
ton his name without his authority.
On the 9Th of October, the following reply
was received from MIR. Sanderson, through the
post Office:
PHILADELPHIA, Oct 3, 1856.
DEAR SIR Being absent from the city when
your letter was laid on my desk, it did not reach
me until my return home, which will explain
the cause of the delay in acknowledging its re-
cept.
The Fillmore and Donelsoa State Committee
will have meeting in this city on the evening
of the 9Th instant, when | will present your
communication for the consideration and action
of said Committee. Knowing the views of the
members Of the Committee as do. on the sub
IN Which off ra1atoc + HoI
that meeting ut the time and place stated by
you would end in accomplishing nothing, and
be entirely useless. Hence do not feel myself
warranted iii complying with your request; and,
respectfully decline to convene them
at Harrisburg on the 9TH instant.
am, very truly, yours, j. P. SANDERsoN.
Charles Gibbons. Esq,
Chairman Republican State Committee.
The Republican Com mittee met at Harris
burgh on the Eth inst, and adjourned to meet at
Philadelphia on the 10th, for the purpose of
forming the electoral ticket in conjunction with
the American Committee. The minutes of pro-
ceedings of the last-named body, at it's meeting
on the 10th, have been published. and it appears
that Mr.. Sanderson suppressed the foregoing
addressed to him on the 29;h
of September. which in his answer he prom sed
to lay before his Committee.
The Republican Committee. at its meeting,
held on the same day, sent deputation to the
American Committee, with The following in
struc.ions:
ResolreH. That the Committee appointed to
confer with the Fillmore aud Donelson State
Committee be instructed to invite them to meet
and unite with the Republican State Executive
Committee, for the purpose of forming al elec'o-
raj ticket, opposed to the election of J James Blu.
chanan, upon the basis proposed by the Union
State Central Committee, as published in the
call for Union State Convention, to meet in
Hairsburgh on the 2lst instant" 49,
Aud, IL this invitation be not accepted then,
/" Resoirsd That the said COMMITTEES be iu-
sirurtei to invite the Fillmore and Dones on
State Committee To meet with us for the pur-
pose of forming an electoral ticket on some
other basis, which will be likely to receive the
support of the people Of this State opposed to
the Cincinnati Platform and the election OF
James Buchanan.
The American Convention refused to accep,
either invitation, and rejected the following
resolution, offered by Mr.. Francis Jordan, OF
Bedford
Resotred, That il the friends of Fremont
and Dayton accept and supper; the American
electoral ticket at the ensuing election, we are
willing that the sal ticket may cast the cleo
toral vote of the State for Fremont and Day.
ton, in case it will defeat Mr.. Buchanan, aud
will not elect Fillmore and DJnelsou if given
to them"
They also struck from their electoral tickle
two gentlemen who had been placed on it b.
i the A merican State Convention. who had de
| clared that they preferred Mr.. Fremont to Mr.
Buchanan for the Presidency, substituted Others
who prefer the latter to the FORMER candidate
and finally adjourned.
| A minority of the Committee, (seven 10 nun
Der. dissatisfied with the conduct of their col
issgpes, then united with the Republican an,
North American Committees, and formed