Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-08-13

not exist Nor can he expect any important AID "
those States from other parties; The, Wnlg party
there for themost part lost itseif IN Ameslcansm,
and as part Of the American party has gone overto
the republicans. Except Choate and Winthrop:
and. probably Everett of Massachusetts, he could
not name a Wing Of New England, Of national re-
putation who was not now q republican. Even the
most active and ablc supporters of Mr.. Fillmores
administrations have enlisted in the republican
ranks Dayton, of New Jersey, is the republican
candidate for Vice President; Co[amer, of Yer
mont is the chosen advocate of republicanlsm IN
the United States Senate, and Corwin, of Ohio, his
Secretary of the Treasury, is stamping Indiana Tor
Fremont; and the same may be said OF many 9TH
ers of like stamp. In the free States nearly every
wing Of national reputation may now be found
among the republicans. The legislatures OF those
States are either republican or democratlc-not
Fillmore Americans; in the House OF Representa-
tives there are scarcely enough members from the
free States who favor Mr. Filmore's election to MI
the cabinet appointments. even if they were OF the
right material and if there is one member from
those States in the Senate Of the United States who
favors his election Mr.. G. could not name him. vi
the anti.democratic press of those States the same
NAV be said Out of 81 anti-democratic journals
from the free States which exchange with the New
York Herald, 49, learn from that paper, are for
Fremont and for Fillmore and for Buchanan. Shut
their eyes the friends Mr. Fillmore may the factis
nevertheless true thatthe whole North and West are
either republican or democratic; and no reasonable
single electoral vote in the free States unless it be
in California of which he did not pretend to speak,
These States will vote for Buchanan or Fremont
Mr. c. greatly feared a majority of them would 60
for the latter. In the South Mr.. Fillmore may 90
better His friends last year carried Delaware Ma
rylapd and Kentucky if these be accorded to him
now they will not elect him. Can he get any more!
Few if any, think he can; but suppose ne gets
Tennessee, North Carolina and Louisiana-and his
most sanguine friends claim no more the South
still he is greatly in the minority Then, he cannot
be elected by the popular vote; and every vote
thrown for him, with tina: view, is a vote thrown
away But votes for him may have different and
very mschievous effect If he carries the States re-
ferred to- even consider able portion of them, no
election probably will be effected by the people, and
the election will be referred to the House of Repre-
sentatives Will that benefit him? Certainly not.
His strength in that House is the Fuller squad;
which, after two months struggle, could not get
a Speaker. But in presidential election, when the
vote is cast by States would have even less eec
tive strength for they in the majority in three
States only, Delaware, Maryland, and Kentucky
which would give him three votes only. Then it its
equally certain that he cannot be elected by the
House. If it goes to the House, Fremont will DC
elected or there will be no election The repubil-
strong enough to elect Banks Speaker; and
is there any reasonable ground to doubt their ability
to elect Fremont President? They have, it is feared,
already fourteen States and it requires but sixteen
to elect. Starting with this immense odds in his IA
vor, and with the patronage of the government at
his disposal in the event of success, his friends will
have no difficulty in procuring the additional votes
required. He considered, then, all votes given for
Fillmore for the purpose of defeating the election by
the people, and of throwing it into the House, as
votes given to promote Fremonts clection and that
those who under existing circumstances and with
such object cast their votes, unfriendy to the
South and responsible for all the consequences whcih
may follow.
If the friends of Mr.. Fillmore could reasonably
calculate his election, if the contest was be-
tween him and Buchanan. he would have nothing
to say. He should vote in silence according to his
convictions of propriety feeling assured that, whe.
Their the one or the other succeeded, the substantial
interests of the countryabove ALL the safety of the
Underworld be preserved. But the contest is not
between them and his being in the field, at least in
the southern States, be productive of mischief
only. While the free-so interests all combined
and combining, the South presents divided front;
defeat and humiliation are the certain consequences
of these tactics, if persevered in. The real contest
is between Mr. Buchanan and Mr.. Fremont; one
the other of these must succeed; and, IS between
them, he held it to be the duty of every Union-lov
ing man-of every man who cherished the honor of
the South, and desired her to be preserved in the
enjoyment of her constitutional rights and author
ity-to give the former cheerful and unreserved
support"
Ettracts from the letter Of HON. THOMAS G.
PRATT, old line Wig, and United States Sena.
tor from Maryland, addressed to the Wigs of
Maryland.
I" The first duty of every man who loves his coun-
try and her institutions is to provide for their safety
The life of the nation is in danger 1t must be saw
ed then and not till then will it be permissible to
us to discuss our differences of opinion upon minor
subjects.
cause for the first time in history, party has
been formed composed exclusively of citizens of one
section OF the country bound together by the single
bond of alliance for offensive warfare against the
other section That the success of such party
would imperil the Union has been recently demon.
srated by an address of Mr.. Fillmore and WILL it is
submitted, be apparent to all who will bestow a mo-
ments consideration upon the existing posture of
political affairs.
The value of the slave property of the South is
not less than two thousand millions of dollars
sum equal to the value of all the other property in
the United States, as shown by the last census
This property is not only recognised, but so far
guaranteed by the constitution as to impose upon
the federal government the duty of restoring to his
owner the slave who may escape into another State
or Territory of the United States. For years past
this constitutional obligation has been not only repu
dated by some Of the non.saveholding States but
political parties have been organized in all with the
avowed object of liberatng The slave and thus not
only deprvng the South of this vast amount of pro.
perty, but subjecting it to all the horrors which
would necessarily result from such consummation
In addition to all this whilst the aboltonists on the
one hand openly avow their opposition to the con-
sttution and their desire to destroy government
which imposes obligations repudiated by them, on
the other hand, many Southern men, goaded by the
incessant attacks of their Northern ellow.ctizens
upon their feelings, their property and their consti
tutona rights express the belief that the interests
Of the South would be more effectuay protected by
separation of the slave from the non-slavehoding
states and therefore rather promote than nterpose
to prevent a result so calamitous