Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-09-30
From the Baltimore Patriot
From The Baltimore Patriot.
The Wing National Convention
Its Success - buchanan VS. Fill

The w mig National convention
Its Success - buchanan VS. Fill
more.
All honor to the Wing Convention The patrio-
tic duty it SO nobly assumed is already showing its
frsI fruits East West, North and South its rati6
cation of the nomination Of Willard Fillmore is
heartily endorsed by all the members of the old
Wing party who remained unafhliated TO either OF
the prominent political organizations. Even those
who before doubted the possibility of electing Mr..
Fillmore, doubt no longer Our able and tine-hon-
ored contemporary, the National Inteligencer, hav-
ing fret satisfied itself of the character of the Con
vention, and the soundness of the principles it en-
unciated has abandoned that position of neutrality
which its best friends 80 much deplored and taken
ground cautiously, yet firmly, for Willard Fillmore.
The Johnston wing of the North Americans, assem-.
bled in Convention at Rochester yesterday morning,
resolved TO iraternze with the Fillmore Americans
Tor the overthrow of the Republicans, while, from
all portions of the Union the opinion is rapidly
spreading, thaS from the sectional procliVities Of
the Democratic and Republican nominees, no hope
can be derived Of a pacific settlement Of existing
difficulties So sensby is this felt, with respect to
Mr. Buchanan, that his friends have been COMPEL.
ed to virtually ignore the platform of principles
adopted by the Cincinnati Convention, and to
declare that her candidate is better than bis plat
form"
There are Others however, who Judge him very
differently They remember but too wildly that
Mr.. Buchanan himself publicly merged his personal
identity, by openly and unreservedly avOwng him
self no longer James Buchanan, but the Cincinnati
Platform, and that it not for him to add to or
substract a single plank from the political frame
work which his party had constructed. He endors'
ed and eulogized everything that bis party had
DONE in detail and in general. He boldly avowed
himself in favor OF the Kansas Nebraska bill, that
wretched Of-shoot Of political intrigue, the orgis
nal design of which to secure the nom nation
Of Stephen A. Douglas 10 the Presidency; and if he
spoke guardedly with reference TO our foreign
policy, he well knew that nothing he could then
cay would be equal in effect 10 what he had already
published his deliberate sentiments in that eItra'
ordinary document which is now known as the De
tend Manifesto To gentlemen from heSouth who
have visited him at Wheatland he has eVinced the
strongest possible Southern feeling. 10 his friends
at the North, as alleged by the New ork Post
he has written letter declaring himself equally ia
vorable to the peculiar sentiments entertained
by that section Of the Union; and that there are
many who believe him to be so, may be regarded
as concusively demonstrated by the fact that he
has succeeded in obtaining the support Of Martin
Van Buren, and his followers. Those who will take
the trouble to examine the record of Mr.. Buehan
ans public services cannot fail to come to the
cuson that be will never fall martyr to political
consistency.
But whatever may be his merits or dement's it is
now becoming quite certain that the support which
the Democratic party accord him, is growing daily
more and more luBewarm; so that at the North it
is now very doubtful whether he carry a single
State Even in Pennsylvania the union of the ele
ments of opposition ensures his defeat At the
South the Democracy either eye him askance, or
sustain him WaVeringly.-In the meantime the ne
cessity of electng compromise candidate, in the
person of Millsrd Fillmore, is becoming more and
more apparent
Those who have hitherto opposed him express
their confidence in bis integrity and importantly,
while those who have hitherto stood aoot through
fear Of not being able TO elect she man of their
choice, filed with new hopes since the decided
stand taken in his behalf by the Wing National
Convention, are now proclaimng their adhesion
and wheeling into the ranks of his supporters.
The return of Mr.. Fillmore from abroad, followed
as it was by that succession of patriotic speeches
which marked his progress from New York to Buff
fao stimulated the first great accession OF strength
to his cause. Second only to this in importance,
and equal if not superior in its effect upon the
country, is the course pursued by the Old-Line
Wings. Henceforth all appeals to their support
from their quOndAm colleagues in the Democratic
ranks will cease Neither the men who were once
the protested friends of Henry Clay nor those Who
during his long and honorable life, his bitter
est opponents need any longer invoke in his reyer
ed name, the Wings, whose great leader he was, to
prove recreant to the principles he so eloquently
avowed and so molly illustrated. The Wings have
now spoken and the Democrats and their new al
lies may from those efforts to draw
water in a sieve which experience has taught them
to be far more laborious than profitable.