LETTER FROM SAMUEL FULLER.

SOUTH GREECE, August 8, 1856.

SIR:—A serious and lasting damage is
threatened to the cause of the Slave, by the ex
tensive defection from the Abolitionists in favor
of the Republican Party; allow me to endeavor
to expose the error of such as are thus led
away. To this end, it is necessary briefly to
glance at the leading points of faith of each
Party; and we will begin with our own. The
Abolition creed is a short one. " We believe
that man cannot hold property in man; and as
a necessary consequence of this belief, we de
mand the immediate and unconditional emanci
pation of every Bondman." What is the Re
publican creed? Hear its exponent, John C.
Freemont, "I heartily concur in all movements
which have for their object to repair the mis
chiefs arising from the Repeal of the Missouri
Compromise;" again, "I feel inflexible in the
belief that it (Slavery) ought not to be inter
fered with where it exists," &c. Now, a man
or a party going for Mason and Dixon's
Line, while he goes for freedom North, inevita
bly goes for Slavery South—as it is only be
tween the State of Freedom and that of Sla
very that the line is intended to divide, and not,
in any sense to divide territory. "Slavery
ought not to be interfered with where it exists."
Grant this, and you grant all that slaveholders
aske, until Pierce, Douglas, Atchison, Brooks,
& Co., came up the stage and played their
suicidal part. To the outrages perpetuated by
them and their myrmidons the Republican par
ty owes its birth, as a natural counter-movement;
and if by that counter-movement, the atrocious
and ultra class above alluded to be driven from
power, and the Republicans installed in their
stead, the good old-fashioned conservative reign
of Slavery will be as secure as ever in accord
ance with the pledge and general understanding
"not to interfere with it where it exists"—re
cognizing, as a fact, the monstrous doctrine, that
man can be legislated into a chattel. I will

here just ask: Should the Republican party be successful, and should the ultra Slavery aggressionists learn wisdom by defeat, and rest satisfied with present possessions, rather than risk all in grasping for more, where will the Republican party be? Extinct!—as certainly as that effect will cease; cause having ceased—and then the renegades from the Abolition camp will be homeless wanderers. John P. Hale was ostracized at Washington, because "he belonged to no healthy organization;" these poor folks will be worse of yet—as they will belong to no organization, healthy or unhealthy. Look a little further, through all this flourish, and what do the Republicans actually propose to do? To prohibit Slavery in Kansas and permit it in Missouri. Non-extension is the war cry. Not a word of comfort; not a ray of hope do they hold up for the millions in bondage—and what, I ask, sir, is the difference to these millions, whether the area of Slavery is enlarged by the addition of Kansas, or whether they are whipped and worked to death on the blood-stained acres, where hitherto they have performed their unpaid toil. Solve that problem, and in the result you have the exact measure of difference, (so far as the Slave is concerned) between the Republican and Pro-Slavery parties. Legislating Slavery into Kansas will not add one victim to the manacled hosts already in bondage; nor will it increase, by one iota, the heavy task already exacted, or add one extra lash to the scarred frames of those held by the Despots of the South. As the Slave will not be injured by the legislation of Slavery into Kansas; neither will he be benefitted by its exclusion from that Territory. Between Abolition and Republican ends and aims, is "a great gulf fixed," which never can be bridged over until Abolition and Non-extension become synonyms—till then, we cannot go to them.

I am, with respect, an Abolitionists,

And your friend,

SAMUEL FULLER.