Washington telegraph., 1856-09-24

q one pireiy s.cIIO .ai, Ii viii ue les EN-
bittered thaa it how has become? We are
ut pbint where We my save ourselves
p ss it, aud we shall dri.t into strea IN
whose only outlet is sea of anarchy
Have the people-the american people
the virtue to save their country by saving
the Union of these States That is the
question that now presses for their answer.
md | trust in God to guide your meeting
t. such Il result as to make that answer
prhpitIeus OF brighter future than that [
now picture to my mind 5 eye.
| am no croaker. Look b. ok on my pub
lie lie and thiua no recorj can be iou.ld
where [ ever traced dJubt OF the perpe-
tuity of the Government But | tell my
;ou ,try zen plainly, d. now doubt it,
and look to the future with Il solicitude
md anxiety my bosom b,,s heretofore been
stranger to. The people have all in their
,wn hands; ii IN .dness rules the hour, tie
slaves States will reject Mr. Fillmore, and
will preci itate the catastrophe We shall
herea ter SO mucil deplore. If wisdom
prevails the people will rally to his stan
dsrd and will, by his election re-ests blish
confidence between the sections, and place
the country again on the high road to {.
uldlment of her proper destiny. There is
nothing | have or hope for on this elrth |
would not yield t. save my country, and ii
ever there was time or will be time,
for p,triotic mind to publish its convic-
tions, that time HIS arrived new.
These sectional controversies must cease
or this Union cannot long endure. Area
dy the plains OF Kansas are wet with the
blood If our countrymen shed in its fra
tricidal war, and think you it will sink in
the ground Already are bands of armed
men rushing to the conflict, to maintain
or overthrow system of social and do
mestic pality hereafter to obtain in the
State OF Kansas when organized. Think
You this state of things is to continue, and
vet the Union is to survive? Texas has
already voted men and money to sustain
one side of the cause. Other States may
soon initiate her example, and when Mas
slchusctts and South Carolina have done
So. and others follow, how long do you sup.
pose it will be before the bands OF the I'm
lon will melt In the hot furnace of excited
CONTESTS tHdl VIII SupClN lNtHC hCiC HI tuc
Halls of the National Legislature? If Mr..
Pierce administration cannot manage the
people of Kansas now, when the opposing
forces do not numb two thousand, what
are we to hope from Mr. Buchanan or
Mr. Ere mont administration, when States
shall have become partizans, and the flags
Of heavy forccs shall hive gone down in
the contest? Oh, my mind contemplates
that future with absolute horror... and yet
my Judgment bids me look it in the face
as danger which is iminent and approach
ing We have one hope. This Govern
ment is based upon the idea of the virtue
and intelligence ofthe people, and the peo-
PIE are now tie arbiters of their own fate.
If the idea OF our fore:athers WAS correct,
the people will intervene to save their in
stitutions; i: it was erroneous. or We Eave
become too deg ne-ate to practice upon it.,
the catastrophe will show, instead ofa h p
py AMI free people, the .-b!oodiest picture
in the book OF III ae.' If Mr. Fillmore
prevails, we shall have prospect of sun
ny skies and fair weather for our iu lure
voyage if he dycs not, my humble opin-
ion is. the storm we now dread will prove
gentle brec C to the hurricane that will
overwhelm us.
Yours, very sincerely,
HU MPiIREY MARSHALL.
Hon. +. BARTLETT.