EFFECT OF A VOTE FOR BUCHANAN:
APPEAL TO THE REPUBLICANS OF ILLINOIS.
Letter to a Committee of Republicans at Joliet, October 2, 1856.
The local paper reports that this letter “was received with tremendous applause.”
Philadelphia, October 2, 1856.
DEAR SIR,—I am sorry that I cannot be with the Republicans of Illinois at Joliet on the 8th of October, according to the invitation with which they have honored me; but inexorable, long-continued disability and the admonitions of medical skill keep me back still from all public effort, and even from return to my home, which I have not visited for more than ten months.
It is hard to renounce the opportunity which you offer me; for I have constantly hoped to visit Illinois during the present contest, and in plain language put to her people the questions which they are to decide by their votes. These are all involved in the Freedom of Kansas, but they are manifold in form.
Are you against the extension of Slavery? If yea, then vote for Fremont.