Jasper Banner, Volume 3, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1856 — Let the Amerrican people Prefer Safety to Destruction. [ARTICLE]

Let the Amerrican people Prefer Safety to Destruction.

From the Washington Union.

At a time when the wise men of the lathi are thoroughly roused to a sense of the public danger—when it is apparent that the ambitious black republican conspiritors, who /nrmed the plot to produce it, are jeu/'ubling t^ie * r w * c ked zeal to pursue a which will, if successful, overthro * our institutions— every aubordina/® motive should be made to yield to til ® necessity of the great evasion. Al. g° od patriots, however humbel ti/cw station, and by whatever nolitica! name or creed they may ha - been /aided, whether Whig or Detnoh*’ si.'Mild unite as In-others in one soliu phalanx to support the Constitution flav . e l ' ie L r iiio.i. We do not ove* * ei »* la,ate 4he importance of the passing history . A time such as this is at hu»d. The men who will come after us wiJ look back, and rather .wonder that it I was not earlier felt and understood, [ and proclaimed. The conspiracy i of which we again warn the people will then stand out in its full proportions. History will have written it. It will be as a picture of the past, at -at once perceived in all its hideous Übrms. Its veil will be off and its .mystery gone. Our countrymen iliave been slow to believe it. Nearly seventy years of uninterrupted prosperity and secure repose—upon the foundation of that government -established by our ancestors—had made an impression upon the public mind that it was impossible a trairor would dare to enter for the purpose of destruction —to change peace into domestic war, the happirneae/oT the millions into misery, their prosperity into adversity, and their fidelity to our institutions into hatred ,Qf their existence. But that time Jtas come. It cannot be concealed -4t cannot he denied. With it .comes the question, Are the people prepared for it? Are they making ready for the great struggle which it brings? Will they prove .themselves the descendants of the ,men of seventy-six? Let this question be passed through the land.— Let it b? proclaimed throughout its ■length and breadth —from every mountain top and every valley. Let the voice of warning be made to reach every hamlet and log cabin of the remotest borders. Let the nation be summoned in its strength to make a mighty effort for the rescue, and the treason of the black republican traitors wilhperish beneath that power, and their doom will be written never to be changed.

We make this solemn appeal to a' people who have more at stake than an y nation of the earth has ever had. '• ' \y e have every consideration to inspire us * n struggle—all that there of the past or the present,' and all that there can be of the fu- ’ ture. We have before us the history of our fathers —their heroic deeds and their wisdom —to guide us; the fair fabric which they have erected: the policy which we have hitherto pursued in imitation of their example— Ute equal justice, the equal rights 'of all the people and all the States.— The question which is to bedecided j is no Jfss than the destruction of all i these or their safety. In the presidential contest now pending there I have been placed before the American people the representatives of . two great principles ! The one is that of safety; the other destruction. The only prominent representative of the first is James Buchanan; the accident adventurer who represents the other is John C. Fremont. There j is a third candidate, but it is obvious J that the contest for the presidency rests between these two men; The , first is distinguished for his wisdom. I his long service, and his tried patriotism. lie has served in the war as a private soldier in 1812. In peace he has been highly distinguished in the halls of Congress—ranking with the great men of that day. most of whom are gone. He passed through the councils of the nation, not only gaining the treasures of an enlarged knowledge of our political affairs, ) and the influence accorded to a ripe ! and wise statesman, but without a ! single cloud upon his public reputation. In the executive department of the government, he filled, with I great ability, the office of Secretary of State for the entire term of the brilliant administration of James K. Polk. To this distinguished service has been added to his experience in the first diplomatic station abroad. From this he has retired to private life full of and is now_Jthe chosen candidate of the Democratic party to represent the great principles of the constitution—the priciI pie of equal rights to all the States—the principles of justice! That other candidate for the presidency, John C. Fremont.is a young man { whose antecedents have been formed in mere adventures without danger, and more resembling, but not equaling, those of the hunter, than the toils and mental labors of statesmen. We pass by the shades of speculation that have marked his pathway.— These curious incidents wc leave to the pens of others. That they would be sufficient to repel us is enough to induce our present silence in relation to them. If there was one single quality which he possessed, of mental endowment or of public experience, fitted for the statesman who should be made the first magistrate ?f the first people of the earth, we wo.’ld state it. There is none. Bevond the range of adventure and specnlation, we know of no high mental developments of character to which he van lay claim. The intrigue with the black republican party for the nomination, whether it had or had not anything personally objectionable, could not be expected as evidence of intellectual power, but simply of reckk’s and inordinate ambition. To that as^? p -iation we find him passing, at a single from the first of his antecedents, and he is now the embodiment of that party. They have not been unknown for the want of evil distinction, and a corrupt conspiracy against the government. If they could have succeeded, or -could yet succeed, that distinction could not, it is true, be increased in infamy, but it would unquestionably suffer the greater curse and condemnation of posterity.— This is saying a good deal, considering they have now an undisputable title to a full measure of such immortality. Nor is it doubtful'whelher they will continue to maintain it through all future time. This, therefore, is not the only generation to which they will be fully known. That party has a long list of such distinctions. They have plotted to overthrow the government in- more ways than one. They organized an Emigrant Aid Society, whose business it was to recruit and send out to Kansas armed men to make war. *>■- I They the shedding of the blood of their American brethren

—the robbery of their property and the burning of their houses 1 They arc at this moment engaged in the same shameless and bloody outrages; and have at the head of their rebellious robbers a man who was denounced in the Senate as having been guilty of forgery, for the purpose of accomplishing their political schemes. They attempted to paralize the power of the government by refusing in the House to vote supplies for the army, so that it should be disbanded, and no national force would remain to Oppose their rapine and murder. They complain of the obnoxious ■ and unconstitutional laws of the territorial legislature of Kansas, and yet, when the Democratic Senate sent them’a bill declaring those laws j null and void, they refused even to consider it, because they preferred tJ retain at their own hands some pretext for the murder and rebellion I they meditated. Their object was ' to have the means of exciting the non-slaveholding against the slave holding States. They preferred the hope and fury of civil war to a peaceful and a fair remedy of the evils which they had exaggerated by falsehood. [ They pretended to wish anxiously to make a new State there, and of- ' sered a forged memorial ftom a few ,of their partisans, who claimed to be the whole people of the territory. The Democratic Senate .sent likewise to the House a fair and just bill, giving to all the people of the territory, of either party, the right to form one convention and make such a constitution as they would prefer. This was done in order to secure tranquility. They refused to consider it in the House. They passed an act in the House by which they sanctioned the fugil live slave law, and yet they make war upon the Democratic party for ■ carrying out that provision of the federal constitution. By the same act they proposed to give authority to all the obnoxious laws of the Territory for a fixed term, and yet they complain of them, and also refused to pass the bill of the Senate putting an end to them. Here they present j three glaring contradictions in one sentence. Three things are of record, and : cannot be denied. Their hopes of ■ success in the presidency were found■ed upon refusing to have anything (done which should be reasonable ■ and just, because they desired to be | able to swear that they had someI thing to complain of. They allowed one of their party — Governor Reader, who was convicted of being guilty of malpractices in his office, and therefore dismissed —to contest a scat in Congress as ft i delegate from Kansas, when they i knew he had never been a candidate for the office. The only pretense he bad for a seat was, that, after the election in the Terrriory of the dcle- ! gate, and after he himself, as Govenor, had given the elected member the certificate, a few partisaris of bis (not a third of the people) pretended to advertise and hold an election, and voted for him. ! The same black republican party iin the House voted to him a large ■sum of money, as compensation for the service he had performed in getting up this part of the excitement. This they did under the pretense he i j?to a scat in that body. : The same parly' in the. House„• knowing this pretence and fc!?*hood 'of his election, expended a large sum , of money in sending out a committee ! to Kansas, under the pretext of tak- i ing testimony in the case. The object of this was to keep up a section- ■ al excitement and embitter one portion of the American people against the other. It was a part of the plot to prepare the popular mind for that civil war which they contemplated, with a view to rally the North as one solid body, and without an exception against the South. By this means, they intended to form a powerful i element for the dissolution of the Union. Of that party John C. Fremont ia the embodiment. He ia their candidate for the presidency. He is the representative, therefore, of the principle of destruction! With thia preface fairly stated, j as we believe, we make a solemn appeal to the American people. We i ask them to pause —to think—to con-' | eider the facts—to weigh the claims of Mr. Fremont against those of Mr. Buchanan!—to contrast the evils

which will surely follow the election [ of the former with the gowl which) will attend that of the latter. On the one side are youth, inexperience, recklessness, waste, extravagance,' utter abseiM&of all political knowl- i edge necessary ter the highest station J and a headlong proclivity to war, so 1 prurient in bis nature that be allies; hitnself to the party who have already drawn the sword is Kansas against their brethren, and desire still more; to prepare themselves for the ihilia-' tion Of numerous foreign wars, by wilder, fiercer, and bloodier scenes of the plunder an<l murder of their 1 countrymen. 11 these be the qualities which fit a leader like him, and' a party like his, for the possession of l supreme power, it must be confessed his claims are great, and that he' stands pre-eminent above all men I who have preceded him in his high-) reaching ambition for that office. But ■ that other name—the name of James' Buchanan—is the representative of the great principle of safety!—the guarantee of the Union —the assurance of a calm, wise, and faithful administration of the government — the certainty that wc will be led in the footsteps of our fathers; that all our ways may be ways of pleasantness; and all our paths may be paths of peace and wisdom. ‘’Recorded honors shall gather round the monument” of his labors, “and thicken over.it. It is a solid fabric, and will support the laurels that adorn it.”