Daily American organ., 1856-08-13

majority Oi Ihe Otates.N
We demonstrated, in our weekly ifsue of
last Saturday, copied from our daily issue of
Thursday last that, under no circumstances,
could sixteen votes be obtained in the House
Of Representatives for John @. Fremont-on
the contrary, that sixteen States were certain
against him, and, therefore, his election by the
House would be a moral impossi6itity.
We here repeat what we then said, that not
one of the following sixteen States would in
any event cast her vote in the House of Repre-
sentatives for Fremont, to-wit: Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Florida, Cal
ifornia, Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Mis-
souri,, Tennessee, and Texas. No man who has
the slightest regard for truth can claim either
one of the above sixteen States for Fremont, in
the House, and it is mathematically certain
that without some one Of these States Fremont
could not be elected, epen soere he to get epery
other State, which we affirm he cannot.
But grant him the other .ffteyn States in
therefore he cannot get, and two or three more
of which, we have reason to think Fremont
could not obtain-6m grant him all that any
man ever claimed for him, and still his elec-
ton by the House is an impossibility So
then, the attempt to alarm the South by hold
ing out the idea, that Fremont's election might
result from throwing the election into the
House Of Representatives, is ridiculous and
preposterous-na it is more-it is not only
fallacious but deceptious-it is palpable at
tempt to dsceiUe the country.
The election of Fremont being thus shown
to be impossible in the House, if thrown into
that body, it becomes Southern and Northern
conservatives, who mutually desire his defeat
to inquire calmly and deliberately, hon his de-
feat can be efscted? 1t is certain that his
defeat would be effected by throwing the cleo
ton into the House-that is obvious from the
above calculation but then it is desirable (say
Southern gentlemen) to avoid throwing the
election into the House, and get to defeat him.
This is true-it is desirable to avoid throwing
the election into the House.
Present us, then, your plan for defeating
Fremont by the electoral vote! What is 1t !?
Why, say the leaders of the sham Democracy
to the Southern Americans, Cast your votes
for Buchanan!" We have several hundred OBJ
jections to the adoption of this miserable piece
of inpolicy, and the first as, that the very mo-
ment such an attempt is made, a sectional con-
test is created by the South herself, and the
whole North and West, almost as one man,
will retaliate, and, having the numerical power,
the election of the sectional antagonist of Bu-
chanan is ensured, aye, ensured by the 0olun-
tdry action Of the South! AS an American,
as friend Of the Union, as conservative, as
one who will defend the constitutional rights
of the South "to the bitter end" and at all
hazards, we warn the American party of the
South, that the election of Fremont would be
the certain and inevitable result Of such a
policy
We warn them as one whose personal inter-
ests, whose sympathies, whose sentiments,
whose every impulse is Southern, get national
Southern yet conservative, that if the South
shall now adopt the policy indicated by the
stoorn foes of the American party-by those
who denounced our party, in their caucus re-
solves of last December-who repeated their
denunciation at Cincinnati, and who have
avowedly waged war of determination upon
our party-if the South shall aow adopt that
miserable policy, she will openly accept that
sectional contest which the Republicans tender,
which the friends of the Union everywhere
deprecate-which the Father of his Country
warned us to avoid-and which it may be well
feared will terminate in a disruption of the
Union.
The struggle Of the sham Democracy is one
desperation! Routed in every portion of the
North and Northwest---driven from their for
mer strong-holds in the granite hills of New
Hampshire, and in the vast prairies of the
West, t,-baffled in their efforts to gather up
their fragments in the Empire State,-dishon-
from there with ignominy-they blindly at
tempt to unite the South in perpetuating their
ill-used power, and, seizing hold upon the pill
lars of the Union, they would sooner PROSTATE
| in ruins this noblest fabric of human wisdom,
than behold Americans ruling Americal"
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the South should adoptH We answer, Stand
up firmly to your principles Sustain the
conservatives of the North in their noble and
magnanimous efforts to protect your rights -
Give them your aid and countenance in their
patriotic attempts to put down the fell spirit Of
sectionalism Cheer them on in the glorious
cause of Americanism Do justice to that
noble standard.beare of the American party,
who bearded the lion of fanaticism in his den !!
DO this, and certain triumph awaits our cause,
| and sure defeat will visit those whose mad am