FREMOIT, BUCHAMI AND FILLMORE ; THE PARTIES CALLED TO ORDER. A FRIEND OF FREEDOM AND PEACE. NEW YORK: LIVERMOEE & RUDD, PUBLISHERS, 310 BROADWAY. 1856. E43S T5& oi' FREMONT, BUCHMAN AND FILLMORE. ¥ . It is not many years since the American Union ■ ' ood like a solid, majestic rock in the midst of :»rms and thundering temiests, which agitated the '.St powerful empires and mighty nations. ]^ot ly years since, the name of American citizen was f velcomed, cherished and venerated through the whole world, and it was more eagerly sought for than a title of nobility, or any privileged qualifica- tion. Without a standing army, and having almost an insignificant number of armed vessels, the repre- sentatives of our EepubHc were admitted and heard with marked deference at the councils of the greatest potentates of Europe. Our admirable institutions were upheld to the world as the best model of rational freedom and popular government, and our people as the best specimen of indefatigable activity, of honest industry, of daring spirit of enterprise and progress. Our tendencies for liberty, and our com- 6 J^EMOISTT, BUCHANAN, AND FILMOEE ; OU, mercial genius were liked everywhere ; and even our youthful freaks were met with smiles of indulgence. Whilst the names of Washington, Franklin and Jef- ferson had become like household words among all civilized people,* many big hearts in the four quai-^ ters of the earth were thrilled with joy at the doctrines proclaimed in our j)arliamentary halls by Monroe and his confederates, and at the words, full of encourage- ment and wisdom, which were occasionally falling from the lips of Clay, Calhoun and Webster. But how sadly discouraging and even humiliating is not now become, by an almost sudden downfall, the poli- tical situation of our young Republic, both at home and abroad ! And how rapidly has not the vicious working of our policy impaired recently even the moral state of our society, and degraded us in the esti- mation of our former friends and neighbors ! * Nothing can furnish a better proof of the general sympathy of foreign nations towards the Americans, than that eager avidity with which all sorts of publications on the United States of America, and especially the history of the War of Independence, are sought for and read by strangers. The portraits of our great men, together with the facsimile of the Declaration of our Independence, can be seen almost in every town in Europe and other parts of the world. When I was travelling some years ago in the northern part of Italy, I was most agreeably surprised to find myself in a Washington-street (Strada di Washington), in a small and romantic village at the foot of the Alps, and under the Austrian dominion ! THE PARTIES CALLED TO OEDEK. 7 I need not hint at some atrocious acts lately per- petrated under the very eyes of the supreme magis- trate of the Union, on the very threshold of the temple of Tliemis, and in the midst of what ancient Rome would call the Fathers of the country^ which the glaive of justice was not able to reach, and being thus left unpunished were honored with frantic applause and lustral crowns on the part of a degene- rate caste of our people. "Would to God that the veil of oblivion could be thrown upon these dis- graceful events, and that we might hide from the eyes of the civilized world certain deeds and scenes, which would scarcely be tolerated among wild Iro- quois and Patagonians ! Let us pass in silence also the many and frequent occurrences which have clearly proved that corruption and peculation have pervaded all the branches of our administration, our legislative bodies, and all the public offices in the country, and are rapidly spreading in all the walks of our society, so that the former purity of our institu- tions is now a subject of blush for us. Our most essential franchises have become the prey of rapacious political gamblers* — our ballot-box has * Our memory is still fresh about the system of fraud and cor ruption, which originated in Washington during the Taylor — Fill more administration. The discoveries which led the unfortunate 8 FEEMONT, BUCHANAN AND FILLMOEE ; OE, been transformed into a game tool for our modern Cagliostros and leger-de-mains — and our polls are the favorite battle-field of notorious gladiators and row- dies.* Gardiner to his tragical end, revealed to the public a plot of frauds and robberies, with which some of the nearest friends of the Presi- dent were connected. Two years ago President Pierce vetoed a bill, which Congress had passed, for the grant of a few thousand acres of land to a virtuous and philanthropic lady who had purposed to found an Insane Asyhmi for the United States on a new plan. But now the same functionary puts his signature, without a wink, to the grant of over 12,000,000 of acres of public land, given to five or six privileged companies, while on the other hand he vetoes the small and necessary appropriation to clear out our rivers and improve our ports! The way in which the public is robbed and plundered by a swarm of sharks, in con- nection with our unscrupulous politicians, is not a mystery to any one acquainted with the lobbies of Congress, and the State legisla- tures. It is not long since the Grand Jury of the city of New York found a true bill of indictment against a notorious Judge, and made a pre- sentment against several aldermen, councilmen, and city officers, charged with bribery, perjury, and other offences. But what was the result ? The judge was acquitted, though with a rather unenviable recommendation from the jury ; and the prosecution against the latter was abandoned by the District Attorney, who candidly confessed, that in the present condition of affairs, he did not see the probabihty of attaining the ends of justice. * The discoveries recently made by the Vigilance Committee at San THE PAETIES CALLED TO ORDER. if But even these evils fall almost into insignificance if we compare them with the present threatening situation of the country, provoked by the imprudent, unwise and anti-national policy adopted by the Pierce administration, in respect to the Kansas and Nebraska question. Like Pandora's box of old, this untoward question threatens to pour upon us the greatest misfortunes that may befall a nation. Effer- vescence of party passions, spirit of disunion, and civil war are beating at our doors ; and, to our great humiliation, the same shackles and chains', which for- merly served to drive negroes into bondage and ser- vitude, are now used in Kansas to hinder white free- men from the exercise of their franchises and national rights.* The territory has been invaded by hordes of ruffians, the polls were mobbed, the legislature over- thrown and dispersed by the janizaries of the central government, and records of monstrous outrages, of violations of property and of civil and political rights are daily soiling the pages of our national history. The government of Pierce has wholly abandoned Francisco clearly reveal how the elections are conducted in every cor- ner of our Union. How many Yankee Sullivans and Pooles do not Btill sway high offices, and dictate the law in our sham conventions. * See the laws passed by the Missauii-Kansas spurious legisla- ture. 1* 10 FREMONT, BUCHANAIT AJSTD FILLMORE; OR, the great national issues, and placed itself under tlie ^ control of the slaveholdiug interests, which seem only to care for the superfetation of sUxvery as a political weapon to lead the whole country into contentions, and the JSTorth and the South in opposite directions. I am no abolitionist, nor do I think one hundredth part of those who will support the election of Fre- mont to the Presidency are abolitionists — much less can Fremont himself be suspected by any honest man of abolitionism. I am no partisan of extreme measures, nor friendly to any doctrine having for its object to cure an existing evil by creating another, the consequences of which would certainly carry a tardy repentance on our part. But no man of sense can overlook the fact that slavery, tolerated as it is, and guaranteed by our Constitution to certain States, is not an institution of our Republic : it is a kind of hereditary leprosy entailed upon those States by an- other government, and so flir no blame or responsi- bility can rest upon us. We remember with pride the early measures of our fathers, by wliich, in a league with the most en- lightened governments of Europe, they suppressed as immoral and inhuman the slave-trade. But how can we, with any consistency, reconcile those philanthro- pic enactments with a policy M'hich tempts cupidity THE PAJRTIE8 CALLED TO ORDER. 11 and avarice by tlie allurements of insatiable new markets of Southern slaves ? with a policy which seems disposed to extend slave labor upon an almost incommensurate area of our hemisphere, to the great detriment of the honest and laborious industry of the whole free race ? Is not the government, by such a course, defeating its own purposes, and rendering nugatory the measures of former legislations ? "Would not our city authorities be liable to impeachment, if, having the yellow fever or the oriental plague at the Quarantine, they were to take the most stringent precautionary measures only against vessels arriving from infected ports, and at the same time allow a free communication of the Quarantine inmates and of in- fected individuals with the rest of the population inland of our State ? But the balance of power, and a sort of eqwl- librium, which the advocates of the Nebraska bill claim as necessary between the free and the slave- holding States, require, they say, that the South should participate in the same ratio with the other parts of the Union in the new acquisitions of territory, and have a proj)ortionate inci'ease of repre- sentation in the councils of the nation. I doubt whether such a specious plea can seriously and in honafide be sustained, because a mere cursory look at 12 FEEMONT, BUCHANAN AND FILLMOEE ; OR, the map of the United States and at our statistical tables will show the complete inadmissibility of such a claim. The fifteen States where slavery is tolerated cover an area, the Columbia District included, of 851,598 square miles, with a population of white freemen of 5,222,418, out of which only 34:7,525 are slaveholders and constitute what they call, with their characteristic bombast, the Southern interests. Now these 347,525 owners of human property are repre- sented by 90 members of the House of Eepresenta- tives and 30 Senators, thus giving a representative for each 68,725 w^hite inhabitants. If we compare numbers with the sixteen free States, we find that these do not occupy more than 612,597 square miles, with a population of nearly fourteen millions of in- habitants, who are represented by 144 members of the lower House and 32 Senators — that is to say, a representative for each 91,935 white men, thus giving to the slave representation an advantage of thirty votes in the lower House over freedom, in the pro- portion of the respective populations, and yet the former are wielding their influence for further in- crease and extension ! I do not admit any Utopia in respect to the eleva- tion of the black race among us to the level of the white men; but at the same time no sensible man THE PARTIES CALLED TO ORDER. 13 can sympathize with those, who are trjini. to degrade our race to the servile condition of the negro slave I said enougli to show the internal situation of our country under an administration imposed upon the nation by a bold and reckless di">just.fiable ambition. And in ease of any diiHculty • Those, wto .„.. ,„h , ki.„ „f ,,„„ ,j^ ,^^^ fore,g„ p„we„, ao ce«.inl, underrate .he i„.e„se .m.„, ^e-ou"! . .„i „„ e„e.ies can „o™, .. , „„„„,, „„ J^ ' '« .he «.« meffie,enc, of „„ .,„,,„, „,^ .„, :„,,^^^, °;' Our CO.S, ..d „.,bes. harbor, .re .hoU, ™p™,ee.ed, and „T «■ :::rr" °' "''°'™"»'- ^^^ «» '^i^. "- ,•; ,e. .:: would be co„,ple.e,, rnl„ed. and we would be overburdened wUh an lelt without employment and without food. 24 FKEMONT, BUCHANAN AND FILLMORE ; OK, and of warlike demonstrations on tlie part of European maritime powers, I would respectfully ask our South- ern democrats, who would sufler the most ? Where would Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and the Caro- linas find markets for their tobacco, cotton, rice, and naval stores ? However, all those whose interests have been cre- ated or enhanced by the present regime, all those for whom official patronage, corruption, exaction, and peculation have been an inexhaustible source of wealth, will and must give their votes for Buchanan. The 350,000 slave-owners, slave-drivers, and slave- dealers, for whom this bogus democracy is opening new markets ; for whose interest draconian laws are made in the so-called Legislature of Kansas, which would put to blush the most sanguinary despot, will certainly make the mightiest efforts to drive the southern vot- ers in favor of Buchanan ; and where the usual means of persuasion may fail, they will resort, as their press is daily insinuating, to more efficient and forci- ble ways. But the 350,000 slave-holders have not the exclu- sive privilege to dispose of the whole vote of the Southern States. There are also 528,000 voters whose interests and views, if not openly opposed, are in no way identified with slavery. There also we have THE PAETIES CALLED TO OEDEE. 25 friends, having big hearts, and minds clear of all pre judices. Tliej love this American fatherland as well as they do their home, and they do not see why their own welfare and the prosperity of the whole country should be compromised by the unreasonable prefer- ences and silly stubbornness of the slave-holding minority. There are in Yirginia, South Carolina, Alabama, and even in Mississippi, independent peo- ple, who keep aloof from all party squabbles, and are not willing to support the ultra-niggerism and filibus- tering tendencies of the Cincinnati platform. These men begin to see that the conservative Southern party can safely join their Northern brethren in the Fre- mont movement, and thus obtain a wholesome reform - of present abuses and evils, in spite of the Southern landed aristocracy. There is another class, whose importance consists only in its number, which, out of distorted views of sectional interest, will go for Buchanan, I mean a large portion, certainly the less respectable and less enlightened part of naturalized citizens, either Irish or Germans. Many of them have left their native country under rather unfavorable circumstances, or were compelled to leave it by their respective gov- ernments, for which they profess the most cordial hatred. They have no love for our country, whose 2 26 FREMONT, BUCHANAN AND FILLMORE *, OR, allegiance they have adopted as a mere matter of expediency. Their constant aim is to make their adopted country subservient to their particular designs. A war with England, or with any other power of Europe, would be music to their ears. They care very little for the internal concerns of a country in which they are strangers, and are cheer- fully ready to sacrifice anything for the chances of a war against their original foes. Therefore, whenever they are called to participate in our national issues, we are certain to find them on the side of mischief. They will always espouse that cause that forebodes trouble. But fortunately these individuals form only a class and unimportant section of the large mass of our citizens of foreign birth, whose interests, views, and sentiments are completely identified with the general welfare and prosperity of the Union. En- lightened emigrants and all respectable naturalized citizens know ' very well, that the efi'orts of . the republican party lead to raise, improve and benefit them from the competition of slave-labor ; to place them in a society in which labor is honored and not despised, and to shield them against the avaricious attempts of a despicable landed aristoc- racy, whose manifest aim is to reduce the free white laborer to the same degraded condition as their negro THE PABTIES CALLED TO OEDEB. 27 slaves, and perhaps worse. Only on men like these, can civilization and freedom confidently rely, and their support is already secured for our cause. Another party, whose original aims and views would have heen cheerfully adopted by the immense majority of our people, if bigotry and the most intole- rant spirit of exclusiveness had not reduced it to the small proportions of a sect, proposed, through a con- vention of its leaders held in Philadelphia, Millard Fillmore, as their candidate for the next presidency.* Fillmore is, we know, a perfect model of the American gentleman, both in moi'als and in manners. He has always borne among us an unblemished repu- tation for honesty and frankness. But how could the majority of the nation accept the candidate of a sect, whose resolutions are made in the darkness of its councils, and which, like the ardent chamber of Westphalia, and the congregations of the SaintfaitJh- ists are mysteriously wrapped up in a shroud of secret ceremonies ? Our people at large, and the nature of * The nomination by the Know-I'?^?f'"'"^y= ^P**^'^' Express from Dog'.Paradise; A aZ^I n«nih in^^f^^f '^7'''^'^?^*'';'"" "^-""i" P'""'« Adventures; Mayor Wood ^e Mai'ne T«L"'t? 1""='; ^^'""' "^ ^'' H^^ \ Description Thereof-and Exit ; Keeping Color. V .,„ a' ^''**V"7''' °"^« """•« ; Shakespeare Darkeyized ; Macbeth m High Colors ; Young Aiuenca in Long Dresses ; Great Excitement in Babydom. Notitts of tf)t ^ItSS. um.- ■^*' ■^'""* Jo^^°^l (^- P- iVillis, Esg., Editor), savs : Things so copied, so talked of, so pulled out of every pocket to be lent to you, so quote* and 8o re ished and laughed over, as Doesticks' writings never were launched into pnnt." This book will take,' and is bound to sell."— Boston Post. I' One can read the book again and again, and not tire."— De/rot< Dailv Advertiser. Any mirth-inclined reader will get the book's worth of fun out of four chapters in tl e work. It IS beautifully illustrated."— iV. Y. U. S. Journal II We can promise our readers a hearty laugh over this book."— iVew Bedford Mercury. Re ist^ ^^ " advised to see to his buttons before procunng the volume."— Sa/mi "No original comic writer has appeared in this country bsfore Mr. Ttompson, alias Doe- sticks ; he will, we think, achieve a position as a literary humorist, of which he and hia country will have occasion to be proud."— JV. Y. Critic. " We cordially recommend this volume, not only as si successful debut in a new field of literature, but as a quaint teacher of morality, a promoter of good works, and an improver *t public taste."— iVeuMM-A (iV. J.) Advertistr. LIVEEMOEE & EUDD, Publishers, 310 Broadway, New York. Just Published. DOESTICKS' NEW BOOK PLU-RI-BUS-TAH. A SONG THAT'S BY NO AUTHOR. BY Q. K. PHILANDER DOESTICKS, P.B. An elegant 12mo. Price $1. TJiis volume is enjoying a greater popularity than the Author's first book " Dobstioks' What He Says," which sold the first five days of publication, It contains an unlimited quantity of hits at every body, of which every one must good- naturedly take his share, to pay for the privilege of laughing at his neighbors, and Embellished with one hundred and fifty-four Humorous Illustrations, designed by John McLenan, whose reputation as an Artist is world-wide. CONTENTS. Explanation — The Author's Apolojry — Introduction — The Pipe, and Who Smoked it — Who Came and Where He Came From — Fight Number One — Who Whipped, Who Died, and How Many Run Away — Fight Number Two — How Many Rounds, and Who Couldn't Come to Time — A Free-Love Marriaije — The Gathering of the Clans — What They Went to Work at, and How Much They Got a Month— How tlie Hero Did a Great Many Things, and Who Helped Him — -A Single-Handed Game of Brag — What a Woman Did — What the Hero Worshipped — Fight Number Three, with Variations — Matrimonial Endearments — Fight Number Four — A C'lmpromise, and What Came of it — How a Woman got her Spunk Up, and Left the Country— The Consequences — Mother and Child both Doing Well — He Continues His Studies — His Progress — He still Continues His Studies — His Further Progress — Who Died, and What They did with Him — Funereal and Solemn — A Marriage, and What Came of it — Family Jars, and a Departure — Spirit Rappings and Spirit Drinking Mixed — What He Didn't — What His Mother Did, and Where She Went to— Cuffee Triumphant — An Unexpected Smash — Demolition of The Hero. 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