New-York daily tribune., 1856-02-28
FROM FLASHING TON.
THE NOMINATION OF FILLMORE.
and Gatural

WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 1856.
do not see how any intelligent politician could
ever have doubted that the Know-Nothing organlz-
alton, whatever may have been the views OF Its
founders, was inevitably destined to become for
tress of Pro.Slavery Hunkerism How could it
have been otherwise Does not the prescription
of race or faith naturally ally itself with what
ever is intended to perpeuate inequality and nu'-
tice Who could suppose that party could be
formed on the basis of Natiyism or nt-Romanism,
which would not naturally glide into alliance with
Slavery! Must not the spirit which proscribes
the ignorant and faulty Celt be naturally dis
posed to trampe on the still more Ignorant and
faulty African Two strkngly diverse races
both depressed below the average civilization and
intelligence of the community in which they are
placed, will very naturally hate and seek to injure
and degrade each other; but it were absurd to
imagine ii at those embarkng in crusade against
one of them could afford to be generous toward the
other In the nature of things, the spirit of caste
will operate wherever it has scope, and on whomso-
ever it finds subject to its dominion, and regards as
of an inferior race.
l have known generous, high-minded, phian-
thropic men, who, for some reason or other, were
induced to fraternize with the Kuow-Nothings;
but never knew miser too sOrdid, master too
harsh or exacting, bigot too row-minded, or a
Hunker too far gone in the direction of the dark
ages, to join and heartily fraternize with them
And this rule holds generally good-the more di-
mnutiye and cramped Know NOthing's soul, the
more certain is he to enter heartily into the pur-
poses and devote himself wholly to the uses of
" the Order"
There are those who think the X. n Convention
at Philadelphia made mistake yesterday in NOM
mating Mr. Fillmore for next President. am not
of that opinion. There was never rational hope
that such body would nominate a statesman
known to be favorable to the Restriction of Slavery
to its present limits. Nor could it have been ra-
tionally expected to nominate man doubtful or
equivocating with regard to tho great is
sue of our day. That would be to throw away
the last shadow of chance to poll q respectable vote
next November. For the People have determined
to vote fer or against Slavery Extension next Fall,
and they will insist on knowing which. AS in the
election of Speaker, party names will go but lit
tie way, and the greater issue will absorb the
smaller. Had the Convention nominated man
whom the North could accept, the South would
have boted him in body, just as it refused tosup-
port L. d Campbell or N. P. Banks for Speaker.
Now the candidates presented will serve in
stead of platforms at the South Mr.. FimOre's
Administration was entirely satisfactory to the Con-
servatives of Slavery in that section, and he will
pretty surely receive the Electoral votes OF Della
ware, Maryland, Kentucky and Tennessee. North
Carolina and Louisiana are doubtful; Florida not
impossible; even Georgia may be fairly contested
There was no man whom the party could have
nominated who would probably poll so strong a
vote throughout the Slave States as Mllard Fill
more. And he need write no letters nor make
pledges He has been tried, and by Slavery not
found wanting.
estimate that there are forty Members OF the
House who will support Mr.. Fillmore's election,
out of something like One Hundred who were
voted for as Americans" Of this forty, about
thirty we're with Haven, Humphrey Marshall and
Zollicofier in opposing the election OF Speaker
Banks to the bitter end. They would in no case
vote for Banks, though an av0wed American, be-
cause he was not PrO-Slavery; they were for any
Pro-Slavery Democrat in preference to Free
Soil American Such were and are the men who
have nominated and will support Mr.. Fillmore.
On the other hand, there are not ten Of the One
Hundred and Seven who voted for Banks who will
now sustain Fillmore, and not one Of these was
heartily for Banks from first to last.
The friends Of Free Kansas would have hard
battle this Autumn if their adversares were united;
but with the nomination Of Fillmore and DOnelssl
at Philadelphia, and of men equally obS,quious Il
Slavery at Cincinnati, we ought to be able to sri
umph on the direct vote of the Pee,ple. Should
the Fillmore diversion threw the electoral Vot'
of PENNSYLVANIA and New-.Jersey to the Democrats
ticket. We must take OF chance in the House
where We have SO recently e1 ried the Speaker
and where we should Start Wit the vote of thrtee
States certain and tie in tb rec or four Others.
think our chance there wos d be worth that OF bot
the opposing parties togef aer.
The nominations just made ought to unite tn
North on the Republican Platform, while dividin
the South between the two Pro-Slavery parties.
will not be sanguine that what shoud b
~W be, but ws'eh the indications and report pro
gress II. C.
THE PACIFIC RAILROAD.