The true Democrat., 1856-10-21

more thoroughly disgust the whig party, thar aid u,, MT. Fillmore his northern supporters They talk Of Mir. Fillmore as aman for com promise; but he IS the last man that the party north would trust or listen to with patience. .. They hate him most cordially. Some of them looked back to his previous record. as Marsh did, and hoped he would recur again to hi, position of other days; but the mass would have none of him, and he has disannointed Marsh & Co.,.
 There is powerful party north tha. sterplv opposed Fillmore's Congressional record. and that, rejoiced when he disappointed his old friends by supporting the com promise measures that they supported and passed with the aid of the south; but that party is not Mir. Filmore,s They support Mir. Buchanan. Mir. Fillmore has placed them in mortal antagonism to him With his miserable Know Nothing oraaniza. ton and creed. They would not touch him fl Buchanan were not candidate. They wonld not support Fremont in any event. Some hliSht, to avert greater calamity, vote for Fill more, but they would be few and far between. II Fillmore stood as he did in 1850, the case would be very different. He was then applaud ed by the democratic party all over the north. ac approved their measures and policy. Un- fortunately for him, his own party north de- nounced him, whilst democrats applauded- The former considered him traitor to freedom and to his friends and supporters that made him; whilst the latter defended him as a ma. tnot, that had sacrificed his former preiudices and opinions for the good of his country. This is the plain unvarnished trutb and any one can see from 1t the utter folly of the twaddle about hIs strength north-strength with whom?- Not with his own party of the past in the north. Not with his new party; Marsh ex plalns why. Not with the democracy; he has forfeited their good opinion by his Know No- thinglsm
 This explains what everybody might have 1oreSeen, and what Is now going on before our eyes. The Fillmore men have no party in the free States They are not numerous enough to attempt to elect State officers anywhere: not numerous enough to attempt to carry a Con. gresslonal district, nor to attempt to get sin gle State legislator. In all our State and Con- gresslonal elections Fillmore candidates are not heard of, except in three or four instances. wbere they have met and made nominations in sheer desperation. The Fillmore men of the south are egregiously deceived. Fillmore de- lighted the southern whgs with his admins tratlon. He satisfied democrats; for on the compromise measures he did just what q de-
 
 Fillmore stands very respectfully in the south. as far as the slavery question is concerned.- They forgive his old abolition Congressional record, and public life devoted to ant-savery. because he changed it all when he became Pre- sldent, and acted like a national man. The southern wings wished to nominate him again and they all supported him at Baltimore in '52 all of them. Mir. Fillmore got the whole south, in mass-one hundred and twenty votes: but he could get but thirteen votes out of the one hundred and seventy-six in the north- The opposition north to him was bitter hosti- lty, aad uncompromising. In this respect his party north have not changed; they are more hostile now than in 1852. His nomination then would have split his party in twain, as it has done now; only worse now somewhat than at that period.
 There Is not man north of the respectable character of Fillmore, whose chances are so utterly hopeless to get State in the north.- He occupies the most unfortunate position of any political man in that section of the Union.
 As to the speculation about the strength of the republican and American parties in Penn sylvania and other States, it is all moonshine. The votes in November will show the folly of all such boaStng. We shall not make dogma tic assertions about States; but the democratic party never had better prospects of carrying large portion of the northern vote than 1t has now. Heretofore they have beaten ;heir oppo- nents united; and they will do it more efectu- ally now that they are divided
 But notice, if Buchanan is beaten in Penn sylvania, 1t is to be by the Know Nothing vote so Marsh thinks; and herce he exhorts them to help. Will they take the responsibility?