Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1856-05-08
In the Proner Tone,

A committee OF gentlemen at Newark, N. J.
addressed a note to Hon. Schuyler Colfax, ask
ing him to be present and address Republi-
can Convention in that city. Mr.. Colfax had
determined mol to leave his post for political
purposes during the session, and was cOmpell-
ed to decline the Invitation. But he wrote a
letter stating his reasons, aud giving brief
sketch of his political views. We copy its con-
cusion, and commend its sentiments to the con-
sidsration OF the people Of all portions Of the
| Union
What is to be the result next fall Of this great
struggle remains to be written. You are your
selves writing, by our acts, part Of the history
Of this eventrul year. A uAion of ireemen, fol
the sake Of the Union, cannot fail to achieve
success to gladden. the hearts Of the brave
men on our frontiers, who have defended, a
gainst such overwhelming odds, the Crlmea o
American Freedom 10 restore the Govern.
ment to the policy of Washington and JefFer.
son, the first of whom declared to Robert Nor.
ris in 1876. thai there was not man living
who wished more sincerely than he did to see
plan adopted for the abolition of Slavery and
the latter of wLom sought, as is we'll known,
to procure the passage, in 1884, an ordinance,
drafted and reported by himself, prohibiting
Slavery in all the Territories Of The United
States then owned or afterward to be acquired
South as well as North. Every Convention
which, like yours, indicates that, il Freemen dC
differ on other questions, they are willing 10
recognize that this great alternative, not of ou
making, but forced upon us by others in 1851
and '55, is the paramount, t,overshadoWing issues
of the day, and brooks Of no delay and which
declares that in the presence of this emergency
we will cast behind US, as did our ancestors
all other differences and their causes and unite
together in defence Of what we recognize as
the rigAt-every such declaration Of the peo
pie in their primary capacity aids in promoting
that union, and securing that success which
will inevitably follow our harmon ious action
That tits not impossible, the events of The yea
have told you already. The second month o
the year opened with victory for Freedom il
this Hall, remarkable for the length Of the con
lest which preceded il, for the magnitude of it'
Importance, as recognized and declared by al
parties throughout the land, and still mole fol
the fact that it was the first time in our Con
grCssional history in which phalanx OF North.
ern men upon this issue had remained i'm NOV.
ably firm, faithful, unbroken, and come out o
, nine weeks struggle with their ranks as full
and far more united than when they entered
upon it. The second month before the clio
sing of the year will open, as trust and be
t lcive, with another victory OF still more nation
9 al Importance, which will place the Govern
, ment in the hands ofmen pledged to restore itt
the policy of Its purer and earlier era. when
was not felony, sin Kansas to-day, to speak
as Washington and Madison and Randolph
did Of Slavery ; when the extension and diHu
sion OF Liberty was regarded as one of the
great objects of Government and when an
earnest and energetic attempt TO prohibitthe ex
tension Of Slavery did not bar up jefferson,
pathway to the Presidency. Very truly yours
SCHUYLER CoLFAx,