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Alitor had Proyiie.oi -i - i!)lUir.- pel minimi,-' invariably in . -- -y.'-'o ior sis. lU'-nth. . vn r.:iciiXTS-riil bs inserted at the rate of 1.00 ... -f twelve liu.-x ; irw;;.erl or less, for the Zb cents tVr Hacccedi.it; inw fcs tvr Hucccedi.it; ins-i . t .V.L'- sincofcs v'tO'dr; be marked with the desired ; -otherwise : they ill 1 i An American Policy for ai American People. "11 I teres -out. ?d ifi irtj f .Titrac r v. .le it;. ycruly. ,.d -r- j VOL II. KINSTON, N. C, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1856.. .art Orders a i 3-aaicial advertisements will "be Lifted 3-L 1-3 per cent, higher than the foregoing rates. -rC- - .-..-tt-- ' I .u ' - - - - - - . -! - - - ... t ........ . .... .... ! - ;v.';V?';.;, : NO. 15. Go. Principles. . First. We snail maiatara the doctrine that no for eigner ought tbe allowed to exercise the elective franchise, till he shall have resided within the United States a sufficient length of time to enabta him to bo come acquainted with the principles, and imbued with the spirit of our institutions, and until he shall have become thoroughly identified with the greatest inter ests of our .country. Second. We shall advocate a passage of a stringent law by Congress to prevent the immigration hither of foreigners, who are either paupers or criminals, and to send back to the countries from which they come, all such foreigners of these classes as may, in violation of such law, hereafter reach our ports ; and to require the President of the United States to demand from any government, which may send Mr such . classes of its subjects immediate and ample satisfaction for such outrage, and a proper indemnity against the rep etition thereof. - " . Third. We shall oppose the election or appoint ment of any foreign-born citizen to any office of trust honor or emolument, under the Federal or State gov ernments, or the employment or enlistment of such persons in the army or navy in time of tear; main taining, as we do, the opinion that the native-born cit izens of the United Statesrhave the right to govern the land of their birth ; and that all immigrants from abroad should be content with the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property, under our institutions, without seeking to participate in the enaction, administration or execution of our laws, Fourth. We shall advocate and urge the adoption of such an amended form of an oath to support the ; Constitution of the United States, and to be adminis- i I! L W cHl ILI JUI L. V.iVJ-- v. i t w' - - of trust, honor or" emolument, under the Federal or taife governments, as will effectually, exclude from sueh oifices all persons, who shall not directly and ex plicitly recognise the obligations and binding force of tho Constitution of the United States, as paramount to all obligations of adhesion or allegiance to any for eign prince, power, potentate, or authority, whatever, under any and all circumstances.1 Fifth. "We shall oppose, now and hereafter, any " union of Church and State," no matter w hat class of religionists shall seek to bring about such union. Sixth. We shall vigorously maintain SBie vested rk'hts. of all persons, of native or foreign birth, and shall at all times oppose theslightest interference with such vestedrights. , . ..J Seventh. We shall oppose and protest against all abridgment ofrdigimts liberty, holding it as a cardi nal mas mi,: that religious Jaithisa question between each individual and his God, and overwhich no polit ico! government, or other human power, can rightfully exorcise any supervision or control, at any time, in a i'.v place, or in any form. - - , - - 'Eighth. We slRJl oppose all "higher law" doctrines, by which the Constitution i3 to be set at nought, vio f ired, or disregarded, whether by pol-iticians, by relig in, lists, or by the adherents or followers of either, or ' by any other class .of persona.' Ninth. We shall maintain and dgend the-' Const it u t ion-as it stands, tho; Union as it exists, and tho' rights the States, without diminution as guaranteed there in' : opposing at all times, and to the extent of our auiiiiy ana lnnaeuce, uiiwuu amy usauit mau, ux vi- tiver of them.- ' ' Tent'u . And lastly, we shall use our utmost exer tions to build up an" American party" whose maxim shall be : . AMEBICAJiS STIAIjL RtTLK THEIR CoUXTRTI LETTER FROM . J03N A. GILMEK, Esq., OF XORTII CAROLINA. " We publish belovr a letter from John A. Gilmer, Esq., in response to the invitation of the Committee, inviting him to the Mass 2 1 ee'ting at Pittsylvania Court House. ; .-'-Danville (Via.) Reg. Greensboro', N. C, Sept. 17, 1856. Gcxtlejien :-rI have received your let f ! s of, the 19th August, and 8th Septem-li.-rr, inviting me to be present on the 1st O.-tober next, aLt Pittsylvania Court House, ; and to address a Mass Meeting of ihe friends of Fillmore and Donelson. Indispensable ehragement8 have prevented a more early reply toiihis invitation ; and these engage ments, with the attention ditetnVv private anairs, negiectea auring me past cummer, will, greatly to my regret, render it impos sible for rae tc be with you at the time and place designated i . t i .i i n 1 can, however, lrIy say ' that my heart is with you in the cause, in which' you ac engaged ; and I may also be permitted to a?sure you "that whenever I can be satisfied, that any effort5? , of mine would be instru mental in advancing this great cause. I am ready to go any where, to do any thing lionarable, and to rrake . any sacrifice. I am enlisted for the whole war, and prepar ed to take any post ; and even the private interest would not keep me away from your meeting, were I not satisfied that my pres ence is not needed on an occasion which , will command the services of many of our most distinguished and able co-laborers. Though not accustomed easily 'to take alarm, I fully concur in the now genera opinion of our fairminded and sagacious statesmen, hat we are in the ! most serious crisis of our history ; and I feel as you feel, and asT every ' honest soan begins to feel, that a'll the glorious hopes brought in to the world by the American Revolution are now in most imminent peril. ' Madness seems to rule the hour ; and every where, on the' surface at least, we behold intense selfishness, unreasoning fanaticism, and re-" niorseless ambition. t o : ? ; Like all such excitements, tending to. the issolutionignd ruin of the settled order of things, the threatening aspect of the" times ; has conjured up from their : hiding: places the vulture blood, that feeds on the carcass es of the dead ; and these, regarding our beloved country aa already in its dying ag onies, are beginning to parcel - out - its re mains, and to whet their greedy bills for an infernal feast. The fall of our country ' would, indeed, furnish a glorious ; harvest t to all the birds of prey from the four quar ters of earth ; and where there is the least' hope of such a sad consummation, we. may expect a grand rally to that end of the all ' energies of tyranny In every nation. Ail the leading powers of the earth, with per- 1 haps one exception, are ."interested ia the destruction of the " Unioiifpf,'" these States,;; aud the hope3 with which it is : righted ; and he must be but little read ih the les sons of history, and extremely ignorant of the character of unjnst power, as concen trated in the hands of ; despotic, monarchs, who caa doubt for ft m.om.ent .the "active. sympathy, backed withaH the resources of their empires,5 of the rulers of Austria and France in behalf of those who are conspi ring on her soil against the liberty of Ame- The masses here vere " teaching to jail other nations the value of Union among themselves ; arid, in fact, they had by their example already proved, that a tinited peo ple could not be enslaved by any power.- - Ambition can only attain its ends in usurp ing unjust authority, by dividing the mass es, who are all alike sufferers, into a multi tude of hostile and irreconcilable factions. hating and fighting each other, instead of making common cause against the common enemy. This most important lesson, free and United America was brightly illustra ting belorethe.eyes ot the deluded millions of the Old "World, and whose union would instantly secure their own triumph and the tail or-theM oppressors ; and hence we may expect the enemies of popular rights to be every where, and forever, jealous of our growing strength and happiness Our rise seemed continually to pressage their destruction : and with what un speakable delight must, they contemplate the apparent success in our midst of those arts and weapons.by wliich alone tyranny can liepe to conquer freedom. All that is wanting here in experience and talent in the' internal - art ot sowing distrust among the people, they will joylully, but ot course, secretly, furnish : and 'they can aid the la borers -in. this cause by lessons and exam ples as old as the days of Nimrod, the first mighty hunter ol'Hien M6ney too. will not be wauting ; and if one monarch can af ford to sacrifice two hundred millions of dollars-and a hundral thousand men to ob tain one victory, in order to give strength to his Ih rone, how many thousands of mil lions would all the thrones of the world contribute to break down tnat cause which was. daily undermining the ndwer of each ? T. . - 1 . . . xi is saia tnat one press received some hundred thousand dollars to advocate, for a few months, one of the revolutionary and sectional factions into, which the coun try is divided; and tl.ii fact, and the views briefly presented above, will give ussome faint idea of the forces secretly directed to work out the destruction of American freedom. This is an alarming view, not in the least exaggerated or over drawn; but, gentlemen, it is set off by considerations, which furnish good reason for consolation and hope. - Leaving out of view, for the present, every argument based on the higher and nobler virtues of patriotism, and a love of justice and freedom, for their own sakes-, so eminently illustrated in the character of the Am.er.ican people, it i3 cause of great consolation, at tfiis crisis, to remember, that they are equally distinguished by an intel ligent sense of their own interests, and keenly sensitive to--all' the fluctuations of business affairs. Under the benisrn influ ence of a free and equal Government, the masses of .our people have displayed an en ergy and enterprise, unknown elsewhere ; and the road. to wealth and honor being open to all, all or a great majority are liv ing in comfort, and surrounded by an abun dauce never found among the masses in other countries, animated by hopes of great er wealth arid distinction, and happily ab sorbed in all the gainful arts of peace. -Such a people, whose enterprise has probed every corner of the-earth, and has i J J a , f ueen-rewarueu wuu oversowing streams oi plenty, surely cannot be : easily tempted to cast away . their earnings, to tear up their irnprovement3l to burn down their own barns and houses, and to clothe themselves in the rags and wretchedness of poverty and oppression. - Behold their investments, the millions on millions' of capital expended on enter prises, whose success depends on the exist ence of the Union ana the Uonstitntion in their integrity ! Will, the , people - easily leai-n to despise, that flag;; Which has been their peace and safety at home' and their strength and protection abroad 1 That flag in which the citizen can wrap himself and lie down with safety in the. Arabian desert beneath wlncn he cafl push his thriving trade, with every advantage, on every sea and every fiver of the Globe -that flag, which has opened to him and to the Amer ican citizen alone the secluded ports of Ja pan, which makes our merchants princes, and ours mechanics and agriculturists sove reigns, the equals of kings,' favored,' feared, and protected in their pursuits of gain and pleasure' in every mart arid city rind terri tory of the glofee, savage or civilized ? Are they prepared I mean the honest masses, on whom falls heaviest the weight of revolutions are they prepared for the conversion of their factories into barracks for plundering : soldiers, for having their ships, blockaded in every port on their own coasts by hostile fleets fro,m adjoining States, -to see their oroaa neias oi goiaen ' grain foraged by the troops of rival factions to witness their cities and towns in flames to have thdir - money turned into worthless rags in their pockets theif stocks of eve ry kind destroyed their lands depreciated Ap. val ue, their property of every species 1 i- able to be seized on at any moment, for pub lic, uses, and their being at the ; mercy of reckless bands' of armed outlaws parading every neigitDornooa on pretence oi serxmg this interests oh the State ? , In 'short, are the people prepared to have the whole Uni ted States converted into, such deplorable scenes as those we now behold in Kansas 1 Depend on i, many as are the ambitious politicians and the tecklesand restless outlaws of : society who may eagerly pant for such occasions of strife and dis solution the great body 61 our people, North and South, are too mtfch interested in the honest art3 of peace, n. the maintenance of right, to desird or per ! it, when rigidly -informal, such a stateV -things. They wish an honest settlement of our difficulties 4 indeed they are very generally beginning to feel the dangers which threaten their interests. , -: ; And this brings me to the coasideration of the real difficulty, which besets our way, , and of the remedy. Experience is an excellent and safe guide whenever we are able to fall hack upon tt ; ana fortunately for us, in this, instance, w hare a case exactly in point. Dangers precisely similar threatened ua some four years ago. We all remember the portentous clouds which hung upon the dawn of the Taylor administra tion, and the hopeless appearance of tbisgs. which then shed a gloom over ail the country. ' We remem ber also that these clouds passed away as suddenly a they had gathered, and to this dark and gloomy morn ing succeeded" one of the brightest and most glorious days in our history. As soon as there was seated in power an administration" sternly resolved to do right at all hazards to iteehutTto ' thro itself on the honesty and patriotism of the country, everywhere, North and South, East and West, the masses rallied enthusiastically, to its support, the leaders were com pelled to follow, the factious chief of fedition were re buked into sullen "acquieience." Thus it appeared that the people were all right, and that all the difficul ties' were the work of ambitious and eeltseeking plot ters against the people's interests. They' had in all their agitations professed to. be acting"in the name of the people, but when the test was applied, it was ob vious that they had-only beeO operating in their own behalf, and against the will and the wisdom of those whom they misrepresented. - They, the people, then displayed a healthy spirit of conservatism, moderation and prudence ; and it needs but little information of human nature to satisfy us that it is impossible for a -nation numbering millions of souls and eevering a large portion of the earth's surface, to change sudden ly from a wise and thrifty people, well posted io their own interests, to a nation of mad-meu, drank with iu sane passions, and raving with desire to tear out its own vitals. It cannot be so, without a direct miracle, and we can at once discover the origin- of all our troubles- As soon as the administration which had inaugura ted such a bright day in our history had ceased, and a new one succeeded, faction, with its Satanic cunning and perseverence, again began to ply its wicked arts; and this time, unhappily, it found ears ready to listen to its delusive strains. It gained a foothold near the highest seat of power ; aud he, who was so often un seated from his horse in the battles of Mexico, was soon taken captive by honeyed accents of the forked tongue. . Our President, with perhaps no evil intentions, in deed it is possible that his impulses were of a kindly nature, was deliberately trapped bv the "Van BurcnVi a name of evil omen !-and while floundering in the wiles of Ihe great Magician of Kinderhook, he involv ed himself, his administration, and his country, in miserable trouble and coufusiop. . Every effort he made to extricate himself from the treacherous hook that had been so cunningly baited for hir in New York, only complicated his difnenjties, while he lashed the troubled waters into more furious excite ment; and now, a short term of four years, beginning under more favorable auspices than that of any Pres ident la our history, not excepting Washington, is not excepting about tor terminate in the darkest night thatias yet visited this continent since the discovery of Columbus made it the hope of the oppressed. . Thus, gentlemen, we see the canse of our difficulty, and we know the remedy that proved perfectly effica cious five or six years ago, aud all we have to do i3 to apply it. If VV ashington couid be raised Ironi tae dead, would he be called a patriot or honest maa, who would refuse to- listen to his voice : And yet we have one amoHg us, who for four years was tried as severely as Washington was tried who came from the furnace as unscathed a3 Washington came and whose ad ministration, by the confession of such eulogists of Washington, and such hateraoff'iUmore.as Governor Wise, is proclaimed to be "Washington-like, through out." His exercise of the highest power was declared to be wise, moderate, self-denying and beneficent, by all the leaders of all the factious uow combined against him ; aud "Washington-like" is. .the meed of praise universally accorded at the close of his terra of power, when men have few flatterers and no interested syco phants. . . -- , - The return of this Washington-like statesman to power every one feels would at once change the whole aspect of things into a more hopeful one. Everyone feels that it would make peace certain, insure preser vation of lae Constitution in its purity, and give sta bility to all the honest trades of- the country that it would, in snort, cause ousiness everywnere to revive and flourish, investments to be freely made, confaaence I uutwudl luau uuu uiau iahjuuuc. pi i vuiwiu l-w.i"t ' wam AnH Ann f in i wia rvo Mnmoiii man and man to continue, firm;aiKj nr0nertrand labor' to be productive. That it WOnld enable the Deonle still to srrow in hope, to buy and to build with the expectation of. enjoying in in peace and freedom a good return for their labor, enterprise and capital ; while all feel also that the election of any other may begin one- of those commo tions', which render everything insocure and worthless except daring ambition, political cunning and military tirdVess. . ' - ""' But those" are the stock in trade of only a few of our population, and why then will the people not elect the people's candidate? :7heysay3he cannot beelec ; ted.. Who says so? Gentlemen, I have recently canvassed my own beloved State, and notwithstanding the result'of the election, I atn proud of the sasrifiees I have made i and I can say, .and do say; sincerely, and . with an honest heart, that it is my deliberate opinion, after a full opportunity of judging, that an immense maiority of the people prefer for President Millard Fillmore, of New York. And you; gentle men, and any others, can easily find out a similar feel ing among the honest masses everywhere. Yoa have only to accost the firet plain, honest, intelligent citi- zen vou meet, whose only interest is the welfare of the eountryi and get from, him a eandiditl expression of his sentiments, and you find he prefers Fillmore, f fie could be elec ed. , And the answer is the same at tae North and the South ; and where so many answers thus, why cant he be elected? ' Precisely for this rea son, vis : that the self-seeking politicians of the conn try are opposed to bim, and have systematically en deavored to mislead the people on the subject of. his strength. Of course those who have brought our troubles on us did not wih to see their dear prospects all blasted by the reappearance in power of him who represents the cause of peace, tranquility, union and justice : and they have complimented him, and shown their own low opinion of popular intelligence by the arts resorted to, to defeat him. They dared not- to impeach his integrity, dr the justice of his administra tion ; and hence, from the very statV'they resolved everywhere, and perseveringly,' to pervade the pablic mind with tne idea mat a yvasumgion-iige statesman could not bp returned to-pbwer. V '--"' t The whole thing originated with" the leaders ; and, gentlemen," this is the falsehood we have to meet, North and South, We have only to induce the peo ple to take their first choice only to get them to vote for the man they prefer, and he will sweep the field. ". ..... ' . . ' . . f . And now.' erentlenien, permit me to say that one great reason of my opposition all other candidates, is, that whatever tne men inemseives migni oe, tney were brought out by those who were conspiring to defeat the hope of ; the country, by systematic efforts thus to sow mistrust among the Iteople, and make each irian believe that his neighbor was not with him in his honest preference tor ao honest man. . Fremont, as we all know, is the impersonation of baneful eectionalism.vthe candidate of disurfm. If we are so far gone that the South must array, itself in ... i 1 It V:V TT . L!JI ft SOlld seCUOaai wiuuitti u wmtu ; unancu luruiu s if the time has jcome for the spirit of- our Union to depart, and for the North and South to take a stand against each other, then, in the name of common sense, are we to-: import, in this awful crisis of our fiTst-rommaader. - guide and champion, in this first SrilouTe7 for dommionT anWcautiousTtimid, self-seeking, shaky pJitician fronflhe interior of renn,- syl vania f : A' man whose moral courage our great military hero mistrusted and who, to say the least oc cupied a most equivocal position as an intimate spec tator when the noble and generous Clay was political ly assassinated ? - - l the time hag tot come to fight sectional hate withgsectional hate, then I am opposed to Buchanan and J'rem'ont.' because their friends are opposed to him whom all acknowledge to be the safest ana best maa idr the whole Union at this great crisis of its fata ' I ain- for Mr. Fillmore because we all know him to be honest, capable and faithful by the best and surest teste,- whiclK,can be applied to mortals, while Mr. Buchanan already belies every argument urged as to i .i - , -i . . jt r t r ; x ni utsrncereBieaness ana seii-ueuiai, uy leiueuig w leave theeld. and thus insure the election of the man whom we all know to be the best hope of the country. Can' any pretend that m otoce, the highest office on earth with all its splenders and temptations abont him Mr. Buehanan will deny himself as Fillmore did, for the public good, when he refuses now ta surren der even a remote chance for the jfresiaeney, when that r render would, if made in favor of Fillmore, at once gkit peace ana stability to our diftractea country? Can any one--will any one, dare to doubt the course of him who so nobly breasted the storm ot looU- ol if similarly situated f Hi resolution tnen. was, as all admit, to sacrifice himself for the public good and as facts and acta in the lives of men, when under severe tiials and temptations are the only certain evi dences of their character we have a perfect right to say that if Mr. Fillmore's withdrawal would give us a President whose election would restore hope and peace to the country, that he would not for one moment hesitate. " This is a proud boast we can make of our champion and I know that vou. and !, and aU those who now support the great statesman of New York, would in stantly desert him, if we supposed him uh willing to make such an end. Gentlemen, it is a glorious reflectiou to remember that all history will accord this proud position to Fillmore and his friends. But when Mr. Buchanan not only refuses to deny himself for the public good but is willing to countenance the idea that " Wash ingtoa-like" administration cannot be again restored to power, then 1 have seen enough of his patriotism and disinterested zeal for the public good. The man stands confessed ua this one act it. is enough and more than enough; for we all know that one word from him would give us a "Washington-like" Presi dent and save the Union. As to Fremont, I need say no more, t am persuad ed that even amid tremendous efforts made to delude the people at the North, his position, as the imperso nation of the spirit of sectional hate, of fanaticism of prejudice, of false charges against a generous peo ple, of civil war, of fraternal strife, will the end be understood and appreciated. - Thus I am for Fillmore, because he has once before saved the country in iust such a crisis; because, he has been tried by the highest test applied to human character, and approved by the honesty of the whole coautry, of every political hue and complexion; and facaitse he is the real dunce of the people; and because, while knowing this, it uovld be to lend myself to a delusive and electioneering trick to defeat the popular tcuh, were 1 to pretend otherwise and urge tltat he is not available. And in this connection permit me to call your at tention to a paragraph from the Detroit Tribune, with the endorsement of the New York Times, the leading apd most respectable freesoil paper at the North. It looks plausible, and if it be true, then it appears that we came near having Fremont put up at the Demo cratic leader instead of its opponent in a word, the very factions, now so fiercely fighting each other, were both aiming to get the same man for standard bearer, and the Freesoilers stealing a march on the party led by the Van Burens, we happened by this circumstance-alone, not to be called on by the Cin cinnati Convention to shout for Fremont as the hope of the South, instead of shouting agamst him: "We find the facts of that incident, which wo have known for some time, stated in the following para graph, from the Detroit Tribune, giving a report of a speech made the on the 28th ult., by a"" gentleman from California: ' 'Im roBTANT Political Statement. Hon. George C Bates, of California, in the course of the his speech, made the following important political statement:; When he Mr. Bates) was expected to sail for Califor nia in August, 1855, he was persuaded by Mr. Palmer of the firm of Pa!rner. Cook & Co., bankers of .San Francisco, to remain urtil October, when he and Col. Fremont would accompany' him thither. , Mr. Bates postponed his departure as desired. But when the time for his departure arrived, Col. Fremont, although his trunks were packed, did not go, but ordered his baggage to the Metropolitan Hotel instead. This was in ojnsequence of the following facts : Governor Floyd, of Virginia had just arrived in New York city, the special purpose of having an interview with Colo nel Fremont, and the result of that interview was an offer made la Col. Fremont by Governor Floyd, in behalf of the JJemocratte I arty, he having advised with Us lead ing men, JSforth and South, of vie nomination Jor the Pre sidency. He said tnat party wanted a new man a m m of integrity and well-won distinction outside of politics. . Col. Fremont, after listening patiently, and even 6ubtmittinr to two separate interviews, and knowing the platform he was expected to stand upon, re plied: that while deeply sensible of the high distinc tion of the proposition made him, and flattered by the promise it extended, yet, with his opinion of the fepejt of tlie Missouri-Compromise, H would be impossible for him to entertain the proposition. lie considered tJial re peal an infamowbranchof plighted faith, and should never demt denouncing the act ana its authors, uoionei a re tnont planted himself impregnably on this position. Mr. Palmer being cognizant of these facts, communi cate them forthwith to Hon. N. P. Banks, arid Hon. Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts, and tbey came and s iw Col. Fremont, and, state the brief result of that interview, he consented to lead the hosts of freedom in this campaigny if the people should call him to that position. All this happened late in September, 1865, if we correctly recalled Mr. Bates' statement. He gives time, names and places, and vouches for the entire accuracy of the above statement.' "There is no doubt," we believe, of the substantial accuracy of this statement." iV. r. Times. Finally, gentlemen, I am for Mr. Fillmore, because he is the best man so confessed on all sides ; and because in all pubhand private matters, honesty is the best policy; and the only one worthy of the honest and honorable men. wnen they say to us virtue and patriotism are in a miserable minority, theref ore yon ought to choose among the evil factions of the times one of which must , triumph, they appeal to men in whom they suppose the love of freedom and the love of right hava ceased to be ruling passions. They ap peal to our meaner instincts, and tacitty confess that they mean, by love of country, the desire of being oa the side of the rulers, whether tbey be just or un just. If all men were such, there would soon cease to be a United States of a America, and there would never be another free country. If all men had been such, there never would have been a Thermopylte, or Maratlion-a Bunker-Hill or York-Town, a Leonidas, or Hampden or Washington. . If the country's -party really be the weakest of all the parties ef tbse evil times, then why should not this band stand the more manfully to its arms, and with all the memories of the past, and the hopes of the future, burning in its," breast, resolve, as patriots in. all ages have resolved to pledge "their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor," to the cause,, and, "-untainted" by flight or by chains, to fall, if fall they must, with their backs to the field, and their feet to the foe. They should never sujrrermer theor armes . or their organization on ahy pretext, bere or after battle, whatever its issue ; and knowing if the country falls, the hopes, the tights, th- interests of all honest men and of all their posterity will inevitably perish with It, let us rather fall, if fall We mujt fighting nobly and bravely in its defence. . . " : . Truly, .' JOHN H. GILMER. MessrB. I. H. Carrington, David II. Clark, Thos. P. Atkinson, E. F. Keen, Jno. Gilmer, W. T. Sutherlin, Allen Mitchell, L. ML. Shu maker, A. S. Buford, A. H. Moorman, Sam' I Berger, W. L. Pannel, Win. H. Payne, O. B. Thornton, Committee. Op Course Not. An old stick says: ! have seen women so delicate that they were afraid to ride, for fear of -the horse running ajvay afraid to sail for fear the boat might upset afraid to "walk for fear the dew might fall-but I never saw one afraid to be married r --- .-.. From the Columbo3 ($eb.) Enquirer. Oltio. and her Dcaocraey ' On the 14th mst. the ? State ; elections are to be held in Ohio for two supreme Judges, a School Com missioner, and a member of the Board of Public Works all to be chosen by general ticket f also for Keprsealatjvea to Congress and members of the Leg- isktnreU The Black Republicans- are full; organized for this election, and boast that they will carry the State by a large majority. Both the Democrats and the Americana have partial tickets but we believe that neither of these parties is fully organized in every District. Ohio is oner of the j States which we have heretofore conceded to the Fremonters, and their tri umph in this election will not surprise us i ; At . the last election, held in 1855, tha following-was the vote for (jrovernor : Uhase, Black Republican. 146,641 : Media, Dem., 131,091 ; Trimble,. American, 24,310. The Democrats must be a great deal stronger now, as we see py their newspapers reports that they had one hundred and sixty thousand persons at a meet ing in Dayton the other day ij Nevertheless, we ven ture the prediction that if any inroad into the Black Eepublican strength is exhibited" by the returns of this election, it will be found that the Americans, and not the Democrats, have made the popular gains and diminished "the Freesoil strength. The Americans have now only one Bepresenljative from Ohio in Con gress (John Scott Harrison, and he is a candidate for re-election; and in oce District the Fillmore and' Buchanan parties have formally uniteed on the same candidate (R. E. Bunkle.l The Ohio Statesman (Dem.) thus classifies the candidates in all the - Dis tricts (Democrats niarkedL Bh Reps.f, and Fill- more men J): ' Frist District George Q Taft.f James F. Torrence.J Second District Wm. Gurley,f J. Scott Harrison. Pendleton. Alphonso . Groesbeck, J ohn A. r indifcham, L. D. Camp- Third District C. L. Vail belLf Fouth District Dr. Dorsey, Beman.t I f TT "NHprtnla -f- Tr Fifth District A. P. Edgerton B. H. Mottt. Sixth District J. R. Cockerill, J. R. Emrie,f J. A InmbleT Seventh District Durbin Ward, Aaron Harlan.f Eighth District R. E Binkle Bemj. Stanton.f Ninth" District Judge Hill C. K: Watson,f Tenth District Joseph Miller R. C Hoffman,f U. J?. Moore.t Eleventh District Wiliam Medil V. C. Hor- Twelfth District & J. R. Stanberry.t S. Coi Sameel Galloway.t i . - V v;--, Thirteenth District H. C man-f -- r -. I Brumback, John Sher- Fourteenth District Philemon Bliss.t - Fifthteenth District Jos. Batnas, Wm. S. Sapp.f Sixteenth Dist 1. C. H.i Smith U. B. Thomp son, John HaynaaJ " " " beventeenth District William .Lawrence, O. S. Albright,f John DavenportJ I " ' Eighteenth Dist; SamT Lahm B. F. Leiter.f Nineteenth District Edward wade.f Twentieth District Matthew Birchard, J. R. Giddings.f : . . . - - ' ' ri. .. Twenty-first District T. S Woods J. A. Bing ham.! - " " As, in the- event of the defeat of -he Buchanan Democracy in this election, we shall no doubt, hear wamng over the prostration of such excellent ft tends of the South, we propose to show in advance just what "manner of men" these Ohio Democrats" are. We copy the following article from the Cincinnati Gazette (Fremont paper) of Ang. 21st, 1856 : Ja 1848, when the - Wilmonl Proviso was one of the great questions" of the dajj, the Democratic Con vention, assembled at Columbus, on the 8th of Janu ary, passed the following resolution : - ''Resolved, that the people of Ohio now, as they have always done, look upon the institution of slave ry as an evil, and unfavorable to the full development of the sptrit and practical benefits of free institutions, and that entertaining these sentiments they will feel it to be their duty to use all power consistent with with the national compact to prevent its increase, to mitigate and ffnally eradicate the evil." I he above resolution was reported by Jadge lhur- man, who is now making speeches for Buchanan. It has been passed, we believe, by every socceeding De mocratic State Convention unftil 1856. It was, pro fessedly, the doctrine upon ' which the whole Demo cratic party of the State stood at that time. To show how uhiversal was the prevalence of these gen- nine r reesou seniimenis, we qpuie me louowiug rva olution, passed in 1849, by the Democracy of Mont gomery, which was quite as far removed from, any thing like "K reesoilisuv as be Democracy ot any portion of the State.; They read 5 follows : "Kesolved, I hat while we recognize no power m Congress to interfere with slavery in the several States where it is established, we are yet uncompro misingly opposed to its extension, what ever the Fed eral Government has jurisdiction over that subject, and to the admission of any new slave btate into the f ederal Union. "Resolved That as slavery does not now exist, either in law or in fact, in ourf recent acquired Terri tories Of New Mexico and California, it becomes the imperative duty of Congress to shield them from its i- a v.. i. : !,..:.. :i.r mangn mnuence oy preveuwug iw miruuutuuu wiuuu then limits . "Resolved, Tliat 'it is with mortification not unmin- gled wuh mdignationtnat we have been compelled for year3 to witness the shaniefull conversion of the Capital of our glorious Uoatederacy into a great slave market that the evil is one of such magnitude as to demand from Congress prompt and vigorous measures for its speedy termination. Tne committee that reported these resolutions was composed of men whose Democracy has never been questioned. One ot them, wlho has enjoyed the un bounded confidence ot his panty, was a candibate lor the-State Senate last, tall, and, we believe, has held two or more offices under Democratic State adminis trations ever since the new Constitution was adopted. In 1850 the Enanirer of this city was not a slave propagandist, but held precisely the same opinions as the RepublicaQS ot to-day. In leoo it used such lan guage as this, in reference w the right,"7 claimed ' by slaveholders to take their "human chattels" into the Territories and hold them in fsetvitude there without authority of law :. . - - . '. j' - - t--' '--' ." - - - "What does the south wantr? Her rights in the Territories? She has them.. Her citizens are as ree to go-with their wives and children, their wagons and horses, as the citizens of (the North. Will that not satisfy the South? Has she some peculiar right to take into free Territories 4 Spies of property which the free labor of the North ( regards as a, pestilenco, and which it knows ta be its natural enemy T Most certainly not. - There is a right stronger than that claimed by the South the natural right of man. It 13 a omnipotent, - irresistible. it - acKnowiedges an eaaul right, but no superior It goes -hand in hand with its eonal, but not with the slaves It breathes and lives in the pure air of of freedom, and suffocates in the atmosphere of slavery. " It only asserts tha great prihciple of life that " of self-preservation- whth it says, tho -fertile plains and smiling valleys "of our new lands shall be free. IS the South is content with slavery where it now exists, we are AUwe ask is, that it shall remain where it is."-vv il.4 In 1852, Gov; Wood, who is now a supporteri of Buchanan, and we believe labored very zealously to secure bis nomination, said- in his Inaugural address c "While public opinion ' may he divided, perhaps ca the subject of agitating the repeal of the Fugtitive Slave !Law, there is, nevertheless, another matter in close connection with if, on which it is believed : the? sentiments of the people are entirely united.' Thk - XBZA OF StAVESTS MUST YEVEB BE EXTENDED IN THIS GbVSSMST'VsltE tfiS VOICE OF OHIC, IX AST CtUT- errxmos'Ai. fosm, oaj? mr rr. - Hess, TEdF" spri, wB jaryjLKS ora btasp. :'Thc8 rut,' tso0& WAVE, 6HA1T TBOTTPVXKCS.'ST S0TC1H5EB SHALX : IBOtJ odMSJ V'.":;" '-' . :' ' ' "; i . - We shall offer bat one more fact, to show low com- pletely the free-sou sentiment - hadtakpn hold trpon . the Democratic party. 1 This comes- form one of the most intensely pro-slavery counties in . the State," where the people have had but little sympathy with ' the anti-slavery movemett of the day. ' '' At a Democratic meeting held in the Court House ; in Highland county, on the 1st of April; 1854, -at which Gen McDowell,', who made a speech at the Buchanan meeting in Court street market-space on r Wednesday nigh last took a prominent; part, the fol lowing resolutions were passed : ? -'"" - T V." ' ':" ' " " "tie tt resolved, That any action of -the " Congress of the United States, teaching the organization of Nebraska and Kansas .Territories,; by .which it' is proposed to repeal the 8th section of the Missouri act . ) as aforsaid, or violate preexisfirig'Zaws " ane treaties '! I that subsist between the Indian tribes and the Gpv f 1 trnment of the United States, would be uniust' and ' derogatory to the name and character of thisreat Republic, and would deserve the open and emphatic -condemnation of the people thereof.; '' ; Resolved, That we yield to no ' section or portion of the Democacratic party, or aay other party, in our , devotion to liberty and the rights of the people ; but ' we have yet o learn. from what national . text-book, . constitution of creed, is taken the new and very ; ex traordinary" doctrine asserted in said Nebraska Jtifl,. to- the effect and purpose that the settlers, not excepting' , foreigners; inany organized territory pnder the Ge"ner- al Gevernmenf, have thi right and power,.before they ' organize a State Government,-to enact laws therefor, ' repealing a law of Congress, and thereby permit. ; Slavery to exist within the same." "1 ? ' " From the Daily News. ' ; '' les! 'TIS iFritten. . Dedicated ' to the American party." Yes ! 'tis written with lightning, and heard in tho- gale,' - .. . : r )- ', ' ' -.' ' . That Americans shall triumph and Ftilthore prevail f That oppression, all ghastly with sword and with fire. Must at the withering lrown of thy principals expire. Heaven thunders it forth, and the Union replies, That conservatism yet from her ashes will rise ; Faction hordes from her bosom she will proudly sprun. Peace and happiness, O America, shall be hailed in return. ' Hark ! the strains- which the followers in ecstacy sing, :'. -'.'".' Make the mountain-girt vales of Pennsylvania ring ; While the hills of the North take up the glad song, . And South the sounds of salvation prolong. Lo I the banners the grand ' plan of redemption pro claim j ' , .-"",. '.''.",' In FMmore believe, and rejoice in his name ; . And emboldened by soul-cheering smiles from above, like appostles, go forth on thy missions of love. Yours respectfully, . The Ttlmot. ,- Philadelphia Sept. 28. i . 1 More Democratic and Freesoil Fusion in Pennsylranial The Democracy of the 13th Congressional District of Pennsylvania have nominated William H. Dim raick as their candidate for Congress, to succeed Mr. Packer, who is a member of the present T Congress, and is one of the national Democrats of that body. The Philadelphia North American (a Fremont paper thus editorially notices thia'Domlnataon:'.'.''-. : "Wayne presented several candidates, and, after & long contest, Dimmick was selected from among them. The Honesdale Democrat says that he is, at heart, opposed to the whole administration policy, though afraid to oppose it openly and that his nomination is a sort of concession to the anti-slavery sentiment of the District." ' ' ;- -: - - - - ' They thus sacrifice professed principle for avail ability and for any coalition that will bring them strength; and at the same time their allies at the South bitterly denounce some of the Fillmore men of the North for pursuing just the same course in their lo cal elections 1 By just such men as Dimmick is rep resented to be, have the Freesoil ranks of the North beenyearly recruited. Like Sumner, Hamlin,' Pres ton King, Van Buren, ReedUv Lane, &c; he will b a sort of Democrat when elected, but will very soon be "openly" acting with the party with which he "at heart" sympathises. Columbus (Ga.Y Enauirer. - i A Buchanan's Squatter Sovereignty Upheld at r the South! V The Jefferson (Texas) Herald is a Democratic and Southern Rights paper, that refuses to support Mr. Buchanan because of his advocacy of the doctrine of squatter sovereignty. We learn from it that one of the Democratic Electors in Texas is out for squatter sovereignty I Front -the FLerald oi -the 16th nit. we copy this paragraph: Ga. Enquirer. " ' "' - "There appears to be considerable contrariety of opinion among the- democracy upon the question of squatter sovereignty. AX: J. Hamilton, one f the State Electors, takes ground tn favovof (lie doctrine; while Judge Oldham, of the State Gazette; opposes it. Those at the South who support Bachanan,and endorse the Kansas- bill, can only .do so consistently by taking Ihe position occupied by Mr. Hamilton ' Nearly every Southern man is opposed to the doc trine, but heretofore few have investigated it, simply from the fact that almost the whole South supported the Kansas bill, and the people naturally supposed that their Revresentatives would have denounced the measure if it had been wrong in principle," ; ; i ' Jefferson on Foreigners Every spesies of jgovernment has specific principles Ours, perhaps, are more peculiar than those of r any other in the universe. It is a - composition of the freest principles of the English constitution, with others derived from natural right and natural reason. To these nothing can be more opposed than the max ims of absolute monarchs.; Yet from tueh we are to ex pect the greatest number of immigrants: They will bring with them the principles of the government they leave, -imbibed in early yonth; or, if able to throw them off, it will be in exchange for an unbound ' "licenlioutfati. parsing I u is usual, from, one extreme to another. 'ft would be a miracle werethey to stoppreaseiy at tkt point of leaf pirate liberty. . These principles, wlta their language, they will transmit to their children. In proportion. with their numbers, they will share with us the leg islation. They will infuse into ir their-spirit, warp, and bias its directions, atid render it a heterogeneous, Incoherent, distracted ' mass, jl may appeal io experi ence during the present eohtestfor a verification qf 'these con jectures. But if they be not certain in event, are they n6 possible? are they not probable t Is ft not safer to wait with patience twenty-seven' years and three- months longer for the attainment of every degree of- population desired or expected f May not our gor ernme.t be more homogeneous, more peaceable, inore ' durable r'Jicrson' Notes on Virchtfd, p. t. , I