Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1856-09-06
From the New York Express
To our Southern READERS.
South.

ii Fillmore has no chance, and the b
chan"n cry, South, and, believing the.
Two cries, many honest patriotic men a,
II lnpe9. Now, if the fact were as state,
that IS no reason why men should
, wrong, or fail to DO riyh;,-but the ia,
cannot be SO unless made so,-bv meu
J being made the dupes Of false cries.
This canvass presents many unusua
points Of consideration, all worthy Of til
more thought from the very novelty G
mems positions. Fremont, a Southern
born man, is brought up as an anti
Southern candidate; Buchanan, North
Unborn man, is brought up as the anti
Northern caudi,late.-that is, cand
late to carry out the Pierce policy i,
X ,nsas, and in the annexation Of Cuba
DC, DC. The issue these two men pre-
sent is fatal one to the peace and pros
2erity Of the Union, because it is sec,
t'oEa!, and because it is certain to keep
up sectional, feuds and fights. If Bu>
chanan is elected, there is nothing set
tied d,-because, in every Northern State,
there will be large ma ajorI.ies against him
| when the Fillmore and Fremont vote is
combined. These maiori,ies will not be
yaaquished when buchanan attempts t.
carry out the Cincinnati policy that elects
llm,-but, on the contrary, will be in
creased by it, magn,tied and prolonged,
The North is not to be subdued any more
than tie South. Buchanan mus. either
betray the Southern p"';"y that elect,
bin, or keep up just such feeling and
agitation in the North as Pierce's policy
has created. Under this citation,
Southern institutions cannot prosper or
thrive, for they want peace, and their
policy is peace, and they thrive best in
peace-whereas agitation is the natural
abolition event.
It is very easy for US Fillmore men il
the North to throw every Northern vote
we think, in every Northern State,
against Buchanan. We hare but to coa-
tesce nth Abolition, and dtv'de the Elsc~
toral ticket, and the thing is done. Pen.'
>yiyania, even, Buchanan's own State,
can be CARED agains, Buchanan by 80,
600 majority. But we Gght this battle
upon principle, and considering Fremont
unfit in person. and treacherons to tn,
Union in political position, we cannot!
md will not form coalitions. that ma,
give him even apparent siren otb-m"re
ly to ensure nominal victory. Buch
anan is weak in all the Northern States
as the successor of the Pierce policy,
which even the South disowned in throw
ING Pierce over, and in taking up Buch-
anan-and it is very easy to defeat'hi'n.
In our own State OF New York he is no;
even a practical candidate as yet-only |
A candidate in theory. The battle here
is really between Fillmore and Fremot t,
and we show that we think so. daily, BY
Erecting all our fire upon Fremont, and
gnoring even the existence Of Buchan
an. Hence, if Buchanan is to receive
Northern votes, it is only by The division
If the oppos;,ior, and whatever E'ector
Al tickets he wins, will disclose him to
,e in the minority.
What, then, is the policy Of the South!
To cram down upon the North, Buchan-
IN? To elect Buchanan by the South
,rn, with any such Northern votes as
accident give him, and thus to refurnIsh
material to the Northern fanatics for fur
her agitation! What gains the South
~ this prolonged agitation What to
ner institutions, what to her public men
,r public interests, to say nothing OF the
peril to the Union9 1t is not pretended
n the South that Buchanan is a true'
nan to the Union than Fillmore, and yet
t is known and felt that the election OF
Fillmore will pacify the whole country,
md restore harmony as in 1850, by SET
ling all disputes upon a just and patr'
,tic basis, against which no sound com
,iaint can come from either section. II
$ not the triumph Of either section that
just and patriotic American can desire,
'ut with justice to all, an amnesty, pa
;i6cation. |,
But "Fillmore has no chance"
re told, and, therefore, between Ere
mont and Buchanan, we take Buchanan.
IN reply to this, frst,-ttere IS no danger
# Fren,onts election. The thing is
automatically impossible. He starts
With fifteen Southern States dead against
i'm, and in the sixteen Northern States
,e must carry about all Of them, certain
Y Pennsylvania. a.-which it is not pre-.
ended even that he has a chance carry
no against the friends Of Fillmore there.
)ispel, then, this allunsion, that the con
e.t is between Fremont and Buchanan
for the practical contest, where that is