Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1856-07-19
THE PRESIDENTIAL MOVEMENT.


lFtom TUE NcN ioFh ncftlus lItu.
Our triangular contest for The Presidency is
becoming quite interesting. The three canJi-
dates brought out f-r the race have ai length
got fairly started and We already begin TO see
lone very curious symptoms of their speed and
bottom.
The FIRST nag trotied out was Mr.. Fillmore /;
bot after rubbing him down and sponging his
nose, il was thought for a time he would have
to be trolted back again, he was SO sliiT 10 his
joints and 50 weak in his knees A prodiRous
effurt on his arrival here made him iile live
ly; but the effect was temporary, for il hardly
lasted him TO Buffalo. In other words, the
tcarecrow monsters made Of straw and old rags,
which were 1aunted before the eyes Of the
good people Of this State BY Mr.. Fillmore $
Know Nothing fuglemen as the real old Pope.
and the genuine Archbishop Hughes, and the
bloody Jesuts Of Rome, we've dead failure !:
aud general impression followed that il was
all day with the amiable Know Nothing eandi-
date, and that be would soon disappear, like
star Of the sixth magnitude, behind the poIiii-
cal horizon.
or late, however, a resurrection Of the cold
line wings" 10 the South, has given new inn
pulse to the Fillmore cause. The "old line
wings" Of Maryland, in formal State Con
vention, have declared him their ''old line"
eanddaie--not on the riekeiy-raekeiy PhiIadel-
Phia platform, but upon the good ideas Of the
old Whig party. This proceeding in Maryland
has been heartily seconded By the ''old line
wings" Of Virginia, and will doubtless be fol-
lowed up ia similar movements throughou, the
Southern States and this restoration Of Mr..
Fillmore TO the respectable position Of the ''old
line whig" candidate will be very apt TO give
him four or Eve, il not full half dozen Of the
Southern States. This consumsiion will car
ry the election into Congress should Fremont
fail Of an election by the people, BY his vote in
the Northern States. 10 this resurrection and
reaction Of the "old line whigs," therefore,
Mr. Fillmore ceases TO be an insignificant fie-
ure in the perspective, and becomes promi-
neni object in the foreground of the picture
The Stiffness is taken out OF his joints by the old
whig liniment, and he begins to Jog along on
the South side Of The course at fair and prom
ing pace, and in a free perspira,ion.
Col. Fremont, the last nag brought ont, has
started off with far greater speed and ,nomen.
tnm than either Of his competitors; and like
one Of his fasorite California horses that have
made their one hundred and twenty miles at
single stretch, there appears to be no end to
his endurance. Head and tail up, and with
his legs well thrown out, he runs like the
wind. Already this new candidate from the
Rocky Mountains has more newspapers at his
back than Mr.. Buchanan, and a party in his
support truly formidable in men, means, talent
and enthusiasm. Wings and democrats. Cath
olics and Puritans, natives and Germans,
Know Nothines and Irishulsn. young and old,
are rallying, right aud left East and West,
under the banner of Fremont He and his ar
my Of supporters are fairly in-isr the sweep
stakes, and they may win; bot il they do not
win, they will at least make most terrible
shaking among the old dry bones Of the rotten
democracy, and will probably carry up Fremont
to Congress the highest Of the three candidates
from the people.
Mr. Buchanan. on the other hand. is already
slackening in his gate very perceptibly. His
papers are deserving him here and there, and
his most active drnmEsrs seem 10 6e laboring
in vain to get up ltile enthusiasm. The
stuff of which popular enthusiasm is made,
however, isn't in him, and cannot be brought
out Of him. Through his whole life he has
been cold and timid man, following 10 the
wake Of olher men while Fremont, has been
veri'able and notable pioneer, leading the way
in the path of the empire, and opening up hiih-
erio unknown regions 10 science and Anglo
Saxon civilization. We don't hear anything
of late Of Mr. Buchanan. Had the Presidential
election taken place the day or the week after
the Cincinnati Convention he wauld have hard
ly had show OF resistance; hui be has been
losing ground ever since. Even Captain Ryn-
ders, with his well-drilled Empire Club and
his faithful lille six-pounder, can hardly make
noise enough for The democratic candidate to be
heard beyond the iron ratings of the Park.
Thus, then, they stand Fremont ahead all
over the North, Fillmore brsiling up in the
South, Buchanan losing ground Al this raie,
where will the democracy be in Novemberi