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! Yours &c.
INAPPROPRIATE.
/ Schellsburg, Aug, 81, 1886.
| BUCHANAN ALREADY DEFEATED.
However incredulous even many Of our
own political friends may have been, and
some of them still be, to the fact, that the
present Presidential contest is between
Milard Fillmore and John G. Fremont, and
that the issue will be entirely between
these candidates when the day Of election
arrives, we are nevertheless we'll satisfied,
and have been for some time past, that such
will be the case. How can it be otherwise
Look at the facts as they are.
Grant that Mr.. Buchanan might get the
entire electoral vote of the South, that
would only give him 10 votes, and lie
would still need 20 votes to insure bis elee-
ton. Where is be to get thcses Admit
fer arguments sake, and we admit it only
for the sake Of presenting the strongest
possible case in his favor, that he may get
California, Indiana, aud New Jersey, not
one Of which he can get, and these are the
only free States that there can be any hope
even of him getting, he wonld sill have to
succeed in Maine or Pennsylvania, or be
defeated. Now What are his chances in Ell
,her of these Statesa In Maine the State
election takes place in September, aud the
result, we are now satisfied, will show that
there is no earthly hope of securing the
electoral vote of that State fer him. In
Pennsylvania, the State election comes off
in October, and the result viii be such as
to show that he and his friends are in an
overwhelming minority in this State, and
fully satisfy the entire South that he cannot
obtain the electoral vote of single free
State.
Satisfied Of this fact by the result Of the
State elections in Maine and Pennsylvania,
he will be abandoned North and South, and
the direct issue will be between Fillmore
and Fremont, and of the result, iu that
event. VIC have no doubt. Milard Fill
more will then be or next President as
certainly as the day Of election shall ar
rive.
In view of this condition of things, and
the aspect of political affairs, it is already |
admitted by all who are not blinded by the /
prejudice of party, and who can see things
as they really are, that Mr. Buchanan 5
chances are gone, aud that his case is per-
fectly hopeless. None but those who fol-
low blindly the teachings Of partyism, re-
gardless of consequences, pretend even now
that there is any hope for him at all. The
conservative Union loving men of the North
will vote for Mr.. Fillmore, while large
number of the Free Soil Democracy have
gone over to Fremont and Black Repnbli-
canism, and those who yet hold on to the
fortunes of old Buck will forsake him as
soon as bis inevitable defeat develops itself
a little palmer. 1t is already concededth
he will not get Northern State, unless it
te those we have named. The September
election in Maine, and tho October election
in Pennsylvania will show that he can get
neither OF those States. These results,
along with his open ayowal of Fillibuster-
ism against Cuba, and Of squatter soye-
reinnty, reduces his chances in the South
to Just nothing at all. This is seen by re-
cent Developments. Virginia, which wac
Que of the most strong Bachan-
an States in the Union, has recently given
evidences that she Will 60 for Fillmore and
Donelson. The false cry AZ first raised by
the Democracy, that there was no chance
for the American ticket has ceased to be
uttered, or, if uttered, is regarded as a
lunbug even by thinking members Of the
Democratic party. II
Thus, we may perceive that the Fillmore
md DonelsoE ticket is the only ticket for
the lovers Of the Uuion to rally upon. 1t i
5 the only beacon ligh. Of hope to which