Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1856-08-23

LETTER NO. II. =

Csrrespsndsncs Of the Times.
I3stsa rs LETTER NO. n fssl
WAsHnoros, b. O., Aug. 8, 1856. Il
DEAR TxEs: The reports Of business IN Con,
gress you viii gather more particularly from
papers sent, than from what can find time to
present in hasty letter.
You win perceive that our friends are strong,
and intend to bring the traitors and conspirators
to the bar Of justice before they give over the
struggle. Our organization is becoming comrlete
throughout the country-South, West and North.
States are marshalling their hosts for FRxxoNr
and DAYToN-for Freedom, and Daylight" when
the smoke Of battle is over and gone. Those who
will not affiliate and 60 for our extensive and
thoroughly conservative platform, with its oonsti-
tutional Liberty and ample guarantees to person
and property, are dividiny as matter of neces-
sity. Each state in such strait will give up the
struggle in form peculiar to the times in which
we live, to wit: One will go for Buck, another
for Breck, another for Fillmore,--the same, for
instance, as Virginia for Wise; South Carolina
for Brooks; Alabama for Pierce; North Caro-
lima for Clingman; Arkansas for Rusk; and
Mississippi for Gen. Quitman! Thus bundle Of
States, each protesting not to be Sectional, wil
try and have its own favorite for the President of
the United States, while FREMoNr will come forth
the true embodiment of Western sentiment and
policy, and confront these separate State Presi-
dents, and respectfully bid them 6 wait little
longer" while he enters upon the proper admin
istration of our government, with the frmness
and energy of JACKSON, and the purity and patri-
otism of WASHINGTON. rHa
Doubtless the ssparty of platforms and profess
sons" who have entered the Sanctum Sanctoriuns
of Negro Idolatry, and bowed the knee to the
African Calf, complain most doloriously about
the lack of"appropriations.' Their prayers by
night and their songs and lamentations by day,
Ill show how intensly their bosoms and pockets
are affected. The amendments of the Republican
members in the House convince them there is vet
back bone and skull-bone enough left to stand up
to Duty and face Responsibility. The Leeches
of Government will have to "dry up'' if they per-
sist in their injustice and usurpations against
freedom of speech and the press. The hollow eye
and lank look of some of these gentry exhibit
their fears and apprehensions most awfully. But
such men as compose the administration party
are ready for any thing that "pays.' All the
platforms in the universe are accounted as thing
in comparison with the 'gains'of their profession
Take the whole party as at present constituted,
and it forms one immense gambling establish
ment, with all the usual paraphenalia of such
institutions. Hence there is no possible assurance
or certainty what they will or will not do in con-
tingency, to continue in power, and have the ben
eft of sucking the public teats. And hence you
see why they are at their Wits ends about these
Army and other appropriation bills. REFoRx is
needed anyhow, and the only way to reach the
evil at the fountain head, is in the way indicated
The power and influence Of the President is
gone! All the intellectual and social magnetism
OF station, of character, and everything going
toward establishing respectabiity--have disap-
peared from the tenant of the White House. But
what else could be expected? A man who had
to resign his Senatorship and 60 home, Cat the
earnest entreaties of his wife, who is pious and
intelligent lady,) from no other~cause than con-
slant and habtual inebriation, is hardly ft to
occupy the highest official station in America, and
to control the freedom and destiny of the citizens
of great Republic. Behold his territorial and
other appointments who are the men2 what
their social and intellectual proclivities? Are
they men of such stamp as to continue and pro-
| tect the dignity of the American Name, and the
character of the Republic among the nations of
the earth9 Far otherwise. They are but his
| satellites, and reflect what light they have.
Already greater light illumes the heavens.
From the mountnin tops come the rays of a
brighter day. While South and North are COW
cred with darkness, and wrangling for supremacy
in the councils Of the Nation, our Western Boy
comes laundering along DER the cloud capped
mountains, Selling the mad spirits and bidding
them be still! With force of manly character
scarcely exhibited since the beginning of this
Government, Fremont enters into this Campaign
to rescue the Ark of our Constitutional Covenant
from the bandsrof lawless zealots and section
alists. Born in the South, with all it's generous
chivalry, he went forth when but q boy, and has
been educated and trained in the service Of his
country. Understanding the wants of the West
above all other portions of the land, he feels as
Western man ought to feel, and aims to hold out
words Of cheer to his fellows, and bids them
s'forward, men, forward, Pin the march of EN-.
pire and freedom. 'H ref
No trucking here. All open and true Dem
ocracy. Washington was not purer patriot, JEFF
ferson trusr advocate for personal rights of the
sovereign citizen, nor jackson frmer nor more
persistent in the proper execution of law-thsn
JOHN C. FREMONT. IA re.4tef ss-,s. ss3u
Let US not fear the result of the present cam
paign. The evangels of better time are heard
everywhere. Every sound Of the gong, the bell.
the whistle of the steam horse, make the nerves
Of the negro worshippipg Democracy tremble
with very fear. They feel in the condition of
those who " fee when no man pursueth.Y They
bear the mark of Cain upon their brows verify,
their brothers blood orieth from the ground, and
vengeance shall surely overtake them in due
time. 70 Yours truly, -aai
#e . ----L- e. t.saass JuklUs.
WAsHsoTos, Aug. 8, '56.
Mr.. Stewards speech, yesterday, closing the
debate on the Kansas amendment to the Army
Bill is universally admitted to be his most bril-
liant public effort. 1t viii be published in a day
or two. H-sA ssl3 ~ sonRfy-agg eat ri
The Fillmore Americans are greatly disheart-
ened by the Southern Elections. Even Reverdy
| johnson now admits that, Fillmore has no pro.