Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-07-15
"The Man of straw

'The Man of Straw.''
Under this head the Washington Union of
this morning discourses with great earnestness
on the high qualifications of former Presidents
Of the United States, and contrasts with them
the qualifications of John G. Fremont for the
distinguished position to which he aspires 1t
is somewhat extraordinary that the Union, in
the article referred to, bases most of its state
ments upon facts, and docs not draw as largely
as usual, upon its exhaustess fund of fancy
and error. 1t even says:
"Mr. Polk and Mr.. FILLMoRE, for many years
in Congress- had been considered among the first
statesmen, OF the country before their names were
offered to the people for their suffrages."
The most truthful statement the Union has
recently made, but one wholly unnecessary to
be made, so far, at least, as Willard Fillmore is
concerned D.
We may here, in passing, be allowed TO pre-
dict, that if the editors of the Union, are honest
(which some have doubted) in their opposition
to Mr.. Fremont they viii use their utmost ex-
ertions, before the middleof October, to induce
their friends, if they have any, to cast their
suffrages for Mr.. Fillmore, for the simple reason
that, in tho whole North and West the contest
viii be between Fillmore and Fremont The
Union may disguise it as long as it can from
its own party, but the truth Of this assertion
will be made manifest within the month Of Au-
gust. The .foreign votes, almost en- masse, in
the North and West, will be cast for Fremont
and this subtraction from the usual Democratic
strength will leave Mr.. Buchanan in hopeless
minority, in those sections of the country, and
narrow down the contest there to Fillmore and
Fremont.
Why, even at this present time, majority
Of the German presses have openly espoused
the cause of Fremont, and those which had
not originally taken this position, are rapidly
falling into the arrangement to which we have
hitherto adverted, and long before the election,
every German press in the country, not sub
sidised By Treasury pap, will float the name
of Fremont at its mast head! Meanwhile,
the secret, silent, but certain operations of
Jesuitism, will prepare the whole Catholic
Irish population to unite upon this man FIRE.
mont who obviously and undeniably received
his nomination, under contract between Sew
ard, Greeley, and Bishop Hughes, and who will
thus receive the united vote of the foreign and
Cathode elements, slightly augmented (in
the language Of the Union an the article re-
ferred to- by few renegade Wings and
Free-soil Democrats"
We appeal TO the candor of all honest men,
of all parties to admit, as they must do, that
the withdrawal from the so-called Democratic
party, Of the foreign vote, in the North and
West, will so diminish the strength of that
party in those sections, that Mr.. Buchanan
cannot compete with Mr.. Fillmore, upon whom
the whole American and conservative men will
unite And we here take pleasure in assuring
our readers, far and near, that thousands of
men in the whole North and West are SO thor
eughly convinced of the dangers which non
threaten the stability of the Union, they are
daily leaving the sectional organizations to
which they have been honestly but unwisely
attached, and rallying in favor of Willard Fill
more, the Constitution and the Union.
1t is well-known that an immense number
of Northern voters, whilst they arc opposed,
from early prejudices and from education, to
the extension Of slavery into ne1 territory, are
also warmly attached to the principles and
doctrines upon which the American Reforma-
ton is based. No sensible man will deny, that
1T is perfectly natural for Northern man to
be opposed to the extension OF slave institu-
tons into new Territories, nor will they deny
that 1t demands on the part of any Northern
man, the exercise Of self.sacrifcing devotion
to the Union, to consent to the further increase
of slave States
The nomination Of John O. Fremont applies
TEST to this class Of men, for, whilst Mr.
Fremont is avowedly an anti-slavery extension.
is, lin other words Seward and Greeley Re.
publican, who is pledged to carry out the doc
trines Of this sectional party,--he is also. by
birth, education, habits, principle, and profes
sion, a Catholic, --he recognises the suprem.
acy Of the Pope, and he is tho present pro. |
'ege Of Bishop Hughes, as Presidential can