Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-09-11
AMERICAN ELECTORAL TICKET.
THURSDAY, SEPT. Ii, 1865.
That Indiana Forgery.

We exposed last Tuesday the false char
scter of the article which was repubished
in the Union and american of the 3lst nit,
without credit to show its origin, charging
that there was coalition in Indiana be-
tween theAmericans and Black Republicans
on the same Presidential electoral ticket,
and giving, to sustain the charge, extracts
purporting to be taken from the New Alba
ny Tribure,a Fillmore, and the Huntingdon
Gazette, a Fremont paper. We showed
that the New Albany Tribune had never
said what was attributed to it /; and that
there is no such paper as the Huntingdon
Gazette. The Union and american, of
yesterday, makes a partial correction only,
still does injustice to the Americans of In
diana, and fails to give the origin of the
article. We judge from this that our
neighbors do not really know with whom it
originated that they found it among the
drift on the turbid stream of Buchanan
ism, and sent it forth as a choice mOrceau
for the liege-men Of the party. We wish
to-day to make further exposition of the
villainous forgery, that honest men may
see it in its proper character. On the 22d
of July, the New Albany Tribune said in
relation to the support of the State ticket
put forth by the Peoples Convention last
May, by the opponents Of Buchanan and
the Pierce administration
'sIf any OF our democratic friends have been
feeding themselves up with hope of a divis
ion among the American and Republican par
ties upon the State ticket, they would do well
to give up that hope as utterly futile. How
ever the two parties mdy differ as to their
choice Of Presidential candidates, on our State
and county ticket they will present an unbro~
ken front TO the enemy. Ga that point they
are a unit"
This paragraph declares that the Amer
leans and Republicans differ" in their
"choice of Presidential candidates" The
fact is, the one support Fillmore; the 9th
er, Fremont. But the originator of the
article repubIished by the Union and Inner
tcan, copied the first sentence Of the para
graph and added to it, above and below,
something of his own base manufacture,
and put it forth as follows Read and COM
pare
"CoALITIoN BETWEEN FILLMORE AND FIRE.
MoNT-The Fillmore State Convention of Ia.
diana have Just united with the Fremont or
Black Republican party, by nominating the
same electoral ticket for the State. II any Of
our democratic friends hare been feediHg theD.-
selues up Nth the hope Of a di0isloa among the
American and Republican parties, upon the
Strte ticket, they D0uLd do Ieeu 10 giUe up that
hope as utterly futile.
"The friends OF Mr. Fillmore should now go /
to work to secure majority of the popular /
vote of the State of Indiana tuT him; If they |
succeed, of which We have no dOTbt, The Elec- I
toral vote will be cast for him. Let there be |
no clasbing between the friends of Fillmore /
and Fremont, because their cause is enc cause.
Let the energies OF the friends of each be di- /
rected against Buchanan, and will have no
more slave soil to curse our government
What do you think of that honest, fair /
minded reader? We have never seen in |
all our connection with the press, an at
tempt so vile and Infamous, to impose a |
fraud upon the people. The author of it |
is, evidently, an adept in crime and on the
highway TO the penitentiary. And for
what purpose was this forgery originated
Certainly not to affect the elections in free
States but for circulation in the South, to
advance the cause of the sectional candid.
ate Of the secessionists and nullferS, Blu |
chanan. Here, men Of the South, you
have an idea of the opinion that democrats
have of your good sense and sagacity. You,
they believe, can be humbugged and led
away by cheat and imposture manufac-
tured for the purpose. Will you not treat
them with the scorn and indignation they |
merit