Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1856-11-02

with tbs unexpected success OF the democracy in
Indiana, indicate pretty clearly the election of
James Buchanan as our next President, by hand
some majority of the Electoral Cole ges against
popular maj ority throughout the country Of seye-
raj hundred thousand. Already has this popular
majority been sufficiently wasted and FILTERED
away by the opposition factions, clques and mana
gers, to justify this conclusion. Let US look for
moment at the present condition, aspects and pros.
poets of the fight.
Pennsylvania has been thrown away. An anti.
democratic majority there of 10000, year ago,
has suddenly vanished through the tricks, treach
cries and stupid qusrrels and splits among the an
ti.democrstic forces; and from the same causes.
Indiana, which was swept by the opposition from
stem to stern in 1854, is now recovered in a single
desperate charge of the alarmed democracy Upon
the heels of this Pennsylvania disaster, we find the
Fremont and Fillmore managing committees at
Philadelphia wrangGng and splitting up in the dis
cussion of joint stcck electoral ticket for Noyem.
berthe Filimoreites, with an infatustion amount.
ing to lunscy, still clinging to the deusion that
they can afford to sacrifice Pennsylva MA and vet
carry the election to the House. In New JERSEY.
the Fremont party are still without an electoral
ticket; in New York, W. H. Seward, Thurlow
Weed and their associate managers of the FIRE.
mont campaign, have, in the meantime, left the
cause of Fremont at home to take care of itself.
while they have been off, here and there, and eve.
rVwhere, holding little caucusse5 resulting in moth
ing but mischief In fact we half supsect that the
secret treschery OF Seward, Weed and Company.
have scarcely done less than to prevent the con.
centrston of the opposition forces of the whole
country upon Fremont than the open, unscrupu-
lous and malignant hostility of the Fillmore know
nothing faction.
Fremont has proved himself as possessing ali
the elements of a personal popularity that could
be desired for vigorous and triumphant campaign;
A,,kk Al. 60
ly depended upon the Independent press; and the
success of his party have been left almost entirely
to the spontaneous action of the people Consid.
eing that his party has thus been lett without or.
gsnz alton, without dlscipline or system and that
1t has had To contend against Buchanan and Fill
more, against ruffianly exclusion from the South
ern States against iorgeres and false issues with
out, and stupid and treacherouJ agents within, il
has achieved wonders; but there are such things
as impossbilities, even with an oVerWhelminp
force of numbers TO begin wi.h if these materials
are wastefuIy frlttered away. There was msior-
ity in this State against General Taylor, in 1913
OF 5000 putting the two democratic factions To.
gether; and yes, by the democratic Buffalo move-
ment, which carried # 10000 votes to Van Bu
reu, G9ieral T.yl,r carried the State against Gen.
raj Cas- by uIaitJ Of over one hundred tbou.
sand vote, wricl de Gated Case, elec:ei TAYLOR.
and aven. e / Vad Buren,.
1870
occupies prec ,eiy the position of Van Bnren in
l84S As tho one was superseded at Baltimore |
by Gen. Css so was the other superseded at Phil.
adelphis by the nomination of Fremont. From |
the very outset, however, the Van Buren, Buffalo |
movement was one of pure revenge while we are |
willing to corcede that Mr.. Fillmore has thus far /
held on with the delusive idea that BY fighting
Buchanan in the South; and by aiding Buchanan
against Fremont in the North, the election might
he cd a Ia 81,
however, as there is no other way of preventing
the election OF Buchanan by the people than by
the concentration of the whole opposition strength
of the North upon single ticket, the position of
Mr. Fillmore and his pGrty, as separate interest
in the fight, becomes exactly analogous to that of
Van Bnren IN 1848.
We are aware that the Fillmore party of this
State have been hstterng themselves with the idea
that the vote of New York is good for their can
didate in November. This was the plea of John
Van Buren, in behalf of his venerable father. but
it was a sham. We doubt not that whichever
party may be first in New York, Mr.. Fillmore
will be third, and st considerable distance in the
rear of the second; but if we concede to him the |
vote of New York, what will it amount to with |
Pennsylvania and Indiana for Buchanan? Moth
ng--lt will amount to nothing. The truth is,
hat these two skrmshes in Pennsylvanis ard
Indiana are like the battles of Ligny and Ousrtra
1looJ pICCONluB InO 6iC9b OoJ NJ anu II |
he opposition forces remain divided on the day
If the great battle, like those of Napoleon, Mr.
Fillmore will have achieved the glory of Groucby
n Van Buren,, and nothing more.
A few days before the Presidential election, we
we're assured by an active democrat that if his :
arty should be defeated in that State, and in
)hio and Indiana on the 18th, they would drop
'achanan, and adopt the ticket of Fillmore and
and bsptize Fillmore in the fountain
f democ-ocy in the very act of his election
Iere is the hint 1he project of copartnership
lterest in November between Fremont and Fill
lore will not avail 1t confuses, complexities, EN-. :
arrasses, and repes the single hearted opposition
otter. The only chance for the defeat of Bu- !
1anan is upon unmixed opposition Presideu- C
al ticket. Otherwise, between two Richmonds, 7
I'd BY horde of huckstering, trescherons and
nscrupulous political hacks and gamblers, the
ill of great majority of the American people
ust be defeated, in the election of Mr. Buchanan r
ID Congress to back bin, by decided muor- o
of the popular vote of the country at large p
elieved of the hard work of the campaign, we
vAit the result with considerable resignation.