Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1856-11-18

AN ELECTION BEFORE THE HeUsE-A PICTURE
,. va.-FORs SoUFHERAERs TO LOOK AT
Our readers wia remember tpst one Of the
great arguments Of our oppouents ia Tennessee
was the chanoe Of Mr. Fillmore before the House.
They could calculate upon no other result from
securing the vote Of Tennessee. The Banner Of
August 23d contained sn article headed "MF. Fill
mores Prospects" copied from the Baltimore
American, said to have been written by "promi.
nent gentleman who never expressed opinions
that he had not the best ressens for believing to-
be reliable" the.purport of which was that the
election would certainly go before the House, and
by combination of black republican and know
nothing votes, would result IN the choice Of Mr.
Fillmore. 0ae Of the paragraphs in said article
was as follows :
"The Republicans will make an earnest struggle
| for their man, but when they see, as they must
that it is destined to be fruitess tey soH join the
| Americans and make Mr.. Fillmore President They
viii neither vote for Mr.. Buchanan, nor suffer the
election to go to the Senate. My Information on
this subject is derived from the most intelligent and
AUTHESTTc sources" --pi
The whole course of the recent canvass shows
] that there was most thorough understanding be-
tween the leaders Of the Fremont and Fillmore
forces. They argued in the North that before the
House it would result in the election of Fremont.
In the South it was contended that it would result
in the election of Fillmore. But their arguments
failed them in carrying the States of Tennessee
and Kentucky. Their fusions, 50 generally APP
plauded, in Pennsylvania and Indiana, were beaten
down by the invincible democracy, and we have O
President elected by the people, instead of gam
bling politicians at Washington.
To better illustrate, however, the sympathy o.
feeling between the black republicans at the North
and leading know nothings of the South, we copy
the following from the New York Mirror, Ere
mont organ Of that city, written since the cleo
tion when certain dispatches indicated that neither
of the candidates had secured majority of thu
electoral college. Let the reader conceive if b.
can what would have been the result had the de
mocracy failed of an election before the people
and let him answer what is to be thought of
Southern party from whose leaders q Presiden
could be selected that would give satisfaction t
Northern abolitionism: r.
"ONE MORE CHAKoE.-It is possible that if Mr.
Buchanan should fail in an election before the PEG
pie, which would be the case If Tennessee ha
gone for Fillmore and California Tor him or Ere
| mont, that the friends of Free Kansas and of tn
non-extension of slavery would have one more
chance of defeating the representative of the Gin
cinnat platform. Mr.. Fremont has only l25 votes
and is therefore out of the question. But is it no
f possible for the Fillmore and Fremont electors +
unite on some one man-ssy John Minor Bolts
= moderate man, not unacceptable to the South an
who is thoroughly opposed to the repeal of tn
: Nebraska bill and who would take just an
D moderate position between the extreme me
North and South. Such a compromise is G
course, contingent upon the vote of Californit
8 which the friends of Fillmore new claim with cor
r siderable FEASIBILITY Should an arrangement