New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-09-08
sTogthe People Of the United States!

Felolr. Citizens: There ARE circumstances which
call for the appeal we make to your most earnest at
Lentlon The times appear to US startling and criti-
cal There are aspects in the pending contest for the
Presidency, which are very unusual and important.
We cannot therefore, forbear freely to communicate
some OF onr apprehensons, before we separate here
and TO call upon you at once to look full in the face
any dangers which may seem to irnpend over the !
greatest popular government on earth s@#Eass nh
Two of the political parties in the country havel
pitched Presidential battle upon sectional issues
and Of so fearful character to stir the deepest
conflict it cannot be disguised that thoseparties have
such sort cooperated to press upon the country
exciting issue after another, until by dint of con-
tInued transportation, they have nearly succeeded in
of the Union against the other They appear, mutu-
ally to have employed all the energies of party power
to engender sectional dstrus prejudice, and crina
on, and now for the first time in the history Of the
government, we find a truly formidable party, fully
organized and using every effort in their power to
combine the non-slavehodng against the siayehold-
ing States of the Union, in struggle for the Execu
tive power Of the Confederacy. In that organization
and NATIONAL but who are believed to be led, by ex-
citenent or misconception, into movements which,
in their cooler moments, they cannot but reco FROM
as they would from pestilence and famine. lGF
Its management has been essentially controlled by
leaders who, under all circumstances, have steadily
kept up an active, unceasing and mplacabe warfare
upon the institutions Of the save-holdins States.
Should such party unfortunately succeed, in the
present distracted state Of the public mind in elect
ing a sectional President, supported alone by the
voters of the nonsave-holding States we have too
much reason to apprehend that there might instantly
spring into existence a movement of resistance, the
consequence of which no human wisdom can foresee
and no lover of his country or friend of popular
government anywhere coald fall in all coming time
sadly to deplore. 7r2 }5S%| #&
We do not believe they can succeed, butwe may be
really treading upon the brink of volcano that is
liable, at any moment, to burst forth and oyerwhelm
the nation.' g&
But the Republican party is not alone responsible
for those appalling issues, is success the only
danger to the stability of the Government in its pre-
sent form. The Democratic party has eagerly and
rashy seized upon these momentous issues, and
welded them as the thunder-bots Of party warfare.
They have stryen to madden the South, and to CON
centrate Southern votes upon their candidates. as the
Abotioniss have strven to madden the North and to
concentrate Northern votes upon their candidates 3:
When their extreme measures are resisted they
taunt national men, in the South as submissionists
Or worse than submssionsts, as the Abolitionists
taunt national men in the North as dough faces"
or worse than dough-faces. =,
They have apparently struggled to bring about the
formation of geographical parties such as the Father
of his Country so emphatically warned us against,
based upon questions Immediately tending to sptthe
Union asunder; and they have seemingly done this
for the petty purpose of securing temporary party
triumph. The Union, in form at least, we think,
sent but its triumph would probably keep the urna-
of sectional passion red hot and ultimately and
it may be at distant day, its rash errors would en-
gender storm Of sectional conflict beneath which the
government would tumble into ruins. We think they,
too, will fail. 81
But we believe the time has come when the common
safety requires that the raging sectional heats of
those parties should be cooled. The time has come
when national, conservative men, respecting the Con
stitution, true to their whole country, and "indg-
nantly frowniug upon the first dawning of disunion
should stand shoulder to shoulder and unite in placing
at the head OF tue government Chief Magistrate in
whose capacity, honesty and patriotism all could
confide. The National American party have now pre-
sented such man-one who has been tried and found
faithful to every trust-who, being suddenly called
upon to take the helm of government, at time when
the heavens were lurid with the angry tempest of
lS49-50,s so successfully rode out that Storm so faith
fully and CALAMITY secured the safety Of the noble
ship of State as to win from an admiIng people the
most heartfelt plaudits, "Well done thou good and
faithful servant" '&l@ag} Il El s&
We point you to another fearful cancer on the body
poltic-the humiliating struggle now going on be
tween the Democratic and Republican parties for the
foreign cote and to the tremulous apprehensons eX-
pressed for the fate of the or the other of those
parties, as the uncertain movements of the Germans
or Irish osciate between them. We warn you that
the fate of this great government may be equally
dependent upon the unstable movements of those
mighty Masses fresh from the monarchies of Europe.
Large portions of our Union already OVERLOOKING
with foreign population-a population such as has
shown itself utterly incapable of sustaining popular
governments in the Old World So immense is now
the influx that we can scarcely be regarded as the
same, or the descendants of the same people we were
twenty years ago. Where, and in what is this to end?
hlllard Fillmore alone, of the candidates for the
Presidency has refused to court this gigantic and
growing element of power While he has hostility
to foreigners he frankly warns his countrymen that it
is safer for American born citizens to rule the dest
nes of America. Having witnessed their deplolable
condition in their own tatherlands, he would share
with them all the privileges and blessings of ours,
save the privilege of sezing the rens of government
passengers. We beseech you to see the danger we
have briefly glanced Mt, and to shun them before it is
too late forever
We urge you to unite with us in supnort Of the
patriot statesman who has always fearlessly out
| spoken his sentiments-who has ever made the Con.
stituton his guiding starwho has risen from an ap-
prentice boy to the Presdency-who, when President
| frowned upon disorganzers and radicals North and
South, and with the aid of conservative Wings and
Democrats, blavely restored peace to q distracted
countrywide has just said g If there be those
either North or South, who desire al administration
for the North as against the South or for the South
as against the North they not the men who should
| give their sufflages to me-" v.z- - .t sl
From the moment Mr.. Fillmore was first placed in
nomination. every effort has been resorted to to induce
the country to believe first that he would not accent
the nomination secondly, that he had strength al
the North, and could not carry a single Northern
State, his own thirdly that he had strength
at the South, and could not carry single Southern
State fourthly, that he was SO Southern IN his feel
ings and views, that the North ought not to support
him, and would not; and filthy, that he was an Ab
oitionst, and could and ought not to be supported
by the South.
i In regard to the charges against Mr.. Fillmor,
which related to his views and opinions of pub
lie policy, his friends have deemed it best to PERM
them to be refuted, as they have been most ampl
and triumphantly, by the record Of his model admin
istration by his bold, frank, and manly speeches
which the people have everywhere read with adm
ration and delight, and by his own pure, unsullie
reputation and spotess character Ofthese peopl
themselves had the means of forming an accurat
Judgment, and to that judgment both he and hi
friends have been at all times and are now ready
bow with respectful submisson--they ask no appea
: to any other tribunal. 80
But the arts and falsehoods which have been ri
sorted to by the two sectional parties Of the count
to weaken Mr. Fillmore, by inducing the belief tina
he was without strength elsewhere than in the plac
where the falsehood was told, the people have nc
: been so well able to understand. They have hear
these assertions generally with surprise and incredr
ty though the frequency of their repetition, the col
fdent tone in which they asserted, the variety
forms in which they have been made to appear, an
above ALL the perfect concurrence of Republicans an