Daily American organ., 1856-08-19

trophe Of free government would be Witnessed.
Most undoubtedly such would be ths finale OF
geographical contest and however compla-
Gently others may look at it we confess we
have not the stoicism to look calmly upon
picture which represents the american OH,on
and all its glories, destroyed by human foliy'
madness or wickedness.
Casting our eyes back, but for the short
space of four years, and contrasting the
political condition of the country then, with its
condition noso--refecting upon the peaceful
| relations between the different parts of the
Union which resulted from the Compromise
measures of 1850, and the prudent admins
tration of the government which terminated
on the Sd of March, 1853-considering with
what an approach to unanimity the people OF
the country had brought this present admins
tration into power, upon the platform Of that
Compromise contemplating the change
which less than four years Of fslly, misrule and
recklsssness on the part of this administration
have produced, soho can deny that oar fears
for tho future mag be realized, If the peo-
pie do not apply remedy for the existing dis
sions which pervade the countrya
Is a continuance of this sectional agitation,
a remedy for the evils which this very agita-
ton has produced2 Can a drunken man drink
himself into sobrietyp Is sectionalism one OF
those political diseases which can work out
its own cure2 If infamed by sectionalism at
the North, win Southern sectionalism become
transformed into nationality of feeling? Can
the North be made national by sectional irri-
tation from the South2 Will Northern tri-
umph induce Southern men to surrender, will
lingly and peaceably, their peculiar institu-
tionsp Would Southern triumph transform
Northern fanatics into conservative politiciansS
Such a conclusion would be more than an alb
surdity--it would be madness.
The true, and the only remedy for the po-
ltical evils which the sectional naadnsen,
North and South, have brought upon the coun-
try, is for the people to discard such men and
such parties from their confidence--to adopt
national and rational views of public policy
to maintain their own opinions Of their rights
and interests with frmess, yet with modera-
ton, and forbearance from crimination-to
tolerate the opinions of those who differ from
them on any questions, either of sectional
or national character, relying upon the good
sense of majority of the people, to carry out,
in good faith, all the compromises OF the con-
stitution.
By the adoption of such a line of policy,
Southern men may secure the cooperation ofthe
conservatives of the North, in the maintenance
Of their Constitutional rights, and Northern
men acquire the confidence of their brethren of
the South, and all be enabled thus to live
under and support the same Constitution and
the same Union, in harmony, peace and friend
ship, though differing in their judgment as to
the wisdom and the abstract right of African
slavery, but leaving that question to the con-
troll of local laws and local Jurisdictions. Such
was the policy Of those sages who framed the
Federal Constitution, and we have as yet no
reason to believe the "sons" are wiser or more
patriotic than their sires."
Adopting this line of policy, and repudiating
those sectionalists who, departing from it, have
involved the country in war of sections, it
follows that, to restore this policy in the ad-
ministration of our national affairs, the people
must sustain the men who stand upon this
platform as candidates for the two highest
| offices under the government 1t is obvious
] and undeniable that the american candidates,
| Fillmore aad Donslson, stand 6etsocen the
I t,oo ertrsn,es, and represent the conservative
| elements of the country-those elements upon
| which the safety and perpetuity of our insti-
tutions now solely depend
Sectionalism must be denounced, defeated,
and destroyed, or the results which we have
indicated must come. They are unavoidable
and inevitable. An immense majority of the
people of this country are, in their hearts, op-
| posed to any and all sectional men and mea-
sures, and the only question with them, is can
zoe elect Fillmore and Donslsons Our an
swer is, unhesitatingly, soe can. The response
of every patriot in the land should be, in the
language.of the gallant Miller, in the war OF
1912, when asked by his general if he could
take fort, from which the enemy were pour.
| ing deadly fire upon the American troops,
"I'H try, sirI That noble hero did "try, y
and he did take the fort, and routed the ene-
my Let every patriot American adopt the
same answer, and the same result will follow.
1t is our firm belief that if every voter in the
Union who prefers Millard Fillmore to james
Buchanan and John G. Fremont, should vote
for him. he would receive more votes than Bu-
chanan and Fremont united Nothing can
prevent his triumphant election, but the false
and ridiculous notion, which the friends Of
Northern and Southern sectionalism have con-
spired to impress upon the public mind, that
| "FSllnlore has no chance The wish is father