Washington telegraph., 1856-10-08
THE PRESIDENCY.


indicate the triumphant election OF MIL
LARD FILLMoRE to the Presidency OF
this Union: and it is a source of infinite
qualification with US, that we are ena-
bled to believe that this result will be
effected, not by the concentration OF the
votes of particular section upon him,
ferring either to the extension or abOli-
ton of Slavery; but that the people of
this Union-the people who love the
Union as it was bequeathed to us-the
people who revere the Constitution as
the palladium of all that we, as Amerl-
cans, should hold dear-the people who
are willing that the immunities which
that Constitution guarantees to all, shall
extend to all and be preserved intact
will rally from North, South, East and
West, to his support and elevate him to
that proud and lofty station which his
unbending integrity, his unsullied honor,
his unimpeachable patriotism, so emf
nently entitle him to occupy.
We have faith in the mission which
is delegated to the American people to
perform, which not all the ingenious
sOphisms of the enemies of our national
peace has ever been able for one mo-
ment to shake. We have faith In
the perpetuity of this Union, which not
all the clamOr of the traitors, North and
South, who prate of its dissolution, has
ever for ore moment dimined We have
a faith In the ultimate triumph of the
right and the restoration of lasting
peace-in the triumph of the principles
of the American Party and the restora-
ton of that condition of natl nal senti-
ment which illustrated the war of indie
pendence and the earlier administrations,
which not all the falsehoOd of the mis-
guided wretches who would overthrow
all forms and inaugurate anarchy and
discord, nor the vain-glorious boastings
of those who prate of Southern Coa-
yfedcracy, has robbed us of, for single InO-
ment. "The AMERICAN UNION, the
last refuge of the oppressed ed-the home
of civil liberty-the field which COP has
given for the cultivation of the spirit of
true religious liberty must be preserv-
edr'
What are the dangers which threaten
us2 How are they to be averted p
These questions are of fearful IMPORT
Lost indeed to every manly thought, false
to every honorable impulse, do we con-
slider that man whose memory running
back to the hour when MARION fought
the North with the bodies of our slain
countrymen, cannot find in the contem-
plation of the heroic deeds of that MEM
orable time q reason why the American
Union should be preserved. False to llu-
manity, false to his country, false to the
duty he owes to his God, is the man,
who with fratricidal hand, would, to
crafty an insane prejudice, or thrust
himself before the world as an advocate
of a hypocritical love for his fellow-nan,
tear down the escutcheon of our glory
as a nation, and trail in the dust, with
treacherous hands, that flag which never
yet was struck to foreign foe? We believe
that the only real danger exists at the
North. The Southern Disunionists we
regard as faction so insignificant, 50
utterly contemplate, that we can only
pity the arrogant blindness with which
they thrust their foul and offensive libels
upon the intelligence and desires of the
Southern people before their gaze. For
very shame's sake, they should cover
back into the ftetid dungeons of conceit
and treachery, where their foolish fam
cies are begotten of pride and reckless
ness And If we feel thus towards those
by whom We are surrounded, how i'm
measurably greater must be our contempt
for those baser Iscariots, who at the
North, would inaugurate the horrors
which would inevitably follow the sun
derings of the bonds which now unite
us, which have united us, and which we
feel, by the Providence of COP, will
ever unite us in the bonds of fraternal
love as one people, knowing no North,
no South, no East, no West, nothing but
our country
Let us look at this Northern danger.
\ party-the fungus growth of diseas-
ed and disordered condition of the public
mind-the work of the Devil-the effect
of the conjuration of human fends, who
have evoked from the elements of discord
troop of kindred spirits, with whom
the good are at war and over whom the
good will triumph-has arisen in the
land 1t dares to defy the living Cop;
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