The Cecil Whig., 1856-10-18
Our Correspondence.
Correspondence of The Cecil whig.l
Letter from Philadelphia.
PHiLADELpH,A Oct. ii 1856.

PuIIADELPIitA OcC. IL looV'
SIR Some months have elapsed since my
last. during which period scenes, events ana
persons. have passed before my minds eye
with the rapidity of change, and all the d.
versfied colors, and fantastical combinations
of the Kaleidoscope Fre,nontism, which to
your readers in Cecil, the arena of your ex-
ertions, is interesting only, as matter OF
curious history, or ethical morality, has cal
minated in Pennsylvania, and New York, and
is now rapidly Fastening throughits descend
ing node, towards the occident. When this
malign meseor was first Matched from the
Malaria of Eastern Fanaticism, its appear
ance was hailed, with all the reverence which
the faithful Parsce pays to the sun. the God
of his devotion. Bat with the return of Mr..
Fillmore from Europe, its beams paled, its
powcr diminished and in November the ex-
tent of its influence, will be found to have
been discharged upon Mr.. Buchanan's friends
whose hopes. have been blightcd and withered
beneath its consuming power. A curious
change has come over the spirit of Parties
since July last. Then the Delnoc rats were
bilant with the hopes of conqueling ,hro' a
divided antagonism. The Woolley Horse
guards, consisting ofDutch, Germans, Swiss,
Italians, French. and some Irish, all. equally
innocent Of any knowledge of ftheconstitution
or its compromises, clamored vociferously for
Fremont fee-rum, free-soil, free-love and
communism until yheir insanity threatened
a revival Of the Jacobinial horrors of 9S.
The Bucks, rejoiced and willingly lent, their
foreign troops as nucleus to form the Tiers
Etat or third party, contiding in their power
to reclaim them in time of need. But when,
they essayed to whistle them back, they
found them in the condition Of organized
mutineers. The Fillmore men, quietly, Jap
parcntly apathctic, but intensely vglant and
ac,ive,) watched the game. Firmly, and
according to rule" they made their tickets
throughout the State for local officers, and
placed in nomination their candidates for the
Electoral College. Neither the Woolleys or
Bucks had dreamed Of measure of such
hardihood and auiacity on the part of force
which both had considered as absorbed and
extirpatcd. They were struck helpless by
this dodge of class whom, in their bitter,
and reciprocal antipathy, each had considered
an auxiliary to its own cause and reckoned
among its followers in November next. The
Freemonters gave way and they have now
adopted the entire Fillmore State Congression-
al ticket, Except the 4th District,) and nearly
all the local tickets. Last week they held
Convention at Harrisburg to form Union
ticket, as they call it. As there were no
Americans in attendance, they had no one to
unite with, so they adjourned to meet again
on the 10th inst. speak adyisedly, when
say there will be no "union" between any
two parties in Pennsylvania or New York; and
least Of all 'such union as they offer US y The
only union which the Americans will tolerate
or listen to is, the .:Union of the States"
under the Constitution and its compromises,
Their ranks are open, for the reception of old
Hunkers or new converts. from either party;
provided they recant their errors, and take
post in the rear. They do not invite, aud
they will not refuse, even such fossilized an
tiquities, mummy dried specimens ofa former
era, as John NJ. Read and William j. Duane
and such like; who instead of being galvani.
zed into a spasmodic n.omcntary vitality,
ought to be handed over to Professor Agassis
to be cased in some Cabinet Of political curios-
tics as specimens of the timbcrs, used in the
jackson and Van Buren, platforms. I am
yourS as ever,