Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-08-21
-. From the Wellsborough (Pa-) Agitator
Letter from Hon. Phillip Dor.
Sheimer.

Shelmer.
We take great pleasure in publishing tn
following iester from Hon. Philip Dorshe
inner, of Buffalo, New York, so pertinen
is it to the question at issue,and soon t.
be pronounced upon at the ballot-box.-
Mr.. Dorsheimer, as well be seen, is al
adopted citizen, German, and one o
many of his distinguished countrymen wh'
have declared for Fremont and Dayton
With him Democracy is something NOR
than name-it is great principle ant
that principle being found in the Republi
can, and not in the so-called Democrats
Platform, explains his reputation of Mr.
Buchanan. Read it, citizens, adopted ant
native it will do you good. 1t is a no
ble and manly letter. 1t has been furnish
ed US by J. F. Donaldson, Esq, Of thi.
place, TO whom it is addressed
BUFFALO, July Is, 1856.
DEAR SIR II have to acknowledge
the receipt of your letter asking me to Wis
it the counties of Tioga and Lycoming.-
l have delayed answering this invitation
because / hoped to be able to accept it
but l am sorry to say that my present en-
gagements are such that l cannot fix upon
any time for visiting Pennsylvania. Some
time in the Autumn may be able to, and
if so, l will inform you.
1t is the special duty of foreign-born
citizens to vote the Republican ticket
Most foreigners come here, as l did, with
no other wealth than the strength of their
hands. They have to depend upon their
labor for all their hopes of future comfort,
usefulness and dignity. Of all the bless
ings which American liberty promises them,
the most valuable is the assurance it gives
of freedom to work, and security for their
They can part with ouher priv
elective franchise eligibility
to office rather than this one.
Slavery degrades the working man. 1t
reduces him to the level of the slave. No
Know Nothing prescription can be SO effec-
tive as that which excludes free labor from
slave soil. From all that soil, comprising
more than one-half the territory of the
States, foreigners are to-day banished by
laws more positive than any Legislative en-
and it is now the purpose of a
large and powerful party to Danish them
from the prairies of the West. Those re-
gions belong to all of us, to the Southern
or and Northernor, the foreigner and ma
tive /; and it is that each man may have
his share, and enjoy his rights, that the
Republican party enters the fight this cam
paign.
You say, Sir, that most of the Germans
in your neighborllood have hitherto been
Democrats. This is the very reason why
hey should be Republicans now. For
more than thirty years l have been a
Democrat, never voting any other ticket,
md that is what makes me Republican.
The Republican policy is the Democratic
policy, a policy which was carried out by
The administrations of Jefferson, Monroe,
Jackson and Polk which received the ap-
proval of Democratic Statesmen like Van
Buren, Silas Wright and Cass and the
,onstitutionality of which was never, until
within few years, called into question by
any Democrat, not even by such doubtful
md unsteady Democrats as John c. Cal
noun and james Buchanan. This new
policy of the extention of Slavery is not
Democratic at all. 1t was not thought SO
~ its author until after he had left the
Democratic party and entered the Cabinet
If Wing President. Its chief supporters
rom the south are renegade Wings. Even
oreigner ought to be Republican, but if
he is Democrat as well as foreigner, |
,annot see how he can refuse to become
,ne.
Besides, Sir, we adopted citizens ought
o do all in our power to put down this
sectional agitation, and to preserve the
Union of these States, upon which our
prosperity and the prosperity of all citizens
depends. For this, what course is left open
o this -? On the one side we see party
which has re-opened sectional agitation, re-
lived the slavery dispute, and which pro-
,oses to aggrandize one portion Of the
country at the expense of all Others. This
,arty is now represented by an administra-
ion, the most influential members of which,
md whose chief supporters in Congress,
ire Southern secessionists, open and avow-
ID disunionists. These men do not seek
o preserve the Union while in it they
Use the power of the Government, so that
Southern territory shall be larger when
hey 90 out of it. On the other hand, we
zee party, fortunately neither large nor
powerful, which, besides being fully COM
nitted to these sectional schemes of disun-
on, seeks to destroy the harmony of our
ociety by drawing distinctions between
nen Of different races and creeds.
l have no choice left except to 60 with
he only truly National party, the great
Republican party, by which the whole
country, both North and South, and all
.itizens, Catholic and Protestants, native
md foreign, vii. be protected in every
light, privilege and liberty and in whose
lands the Federal Government will be
afe against all enemies at home and
lbroad.
We are sing,llarly fortunate in our can
lidate. / know Col. Fremont to be an
lonest man, with ability more than suffi-
,ient for any duty which may be required
If him. His whole career, all his associa-
ions, show him to be truly national
nan. He is the son of a foreigner, he is a
Southernor by birth and education, his life
las been spent in the service of the whole
country, he has done more for her than
my living American, and he is conscien-
iously in favor of that time-honored policy
which protects Slavery where it exists un-
Ter State laws, and prohibits its extention
nto Territories now free.
Hoping to see you in the course of a