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was run, the programme was to run
Abbot Lawrence with him-4but was
not Fillmore taken in his stead, on
purpose to save this State Are his
friends inactive? Did the South ever
see such canvass as we are now only
beginning to make? F? We're ever such
public meetings heard OF before, as we
are having2 Did the laborandindu
try of the workshops ever pour out, as
they are now pouring out for ,Millard
Fillmore? Was there ever a party so
we'll, 50 thoroughly organized, as the
American party is in the State of New
4ork-so much of unit, or marching
sowell inharmony towards almost cer-
tain victory? Here, in the Empire
State, is the battle ground, and we know
it, and five go for Fillmore, we be-
lieve, SO goes the prize in the end. ~
Men, however, oughtnot to gamble,
as it were, in politics, especially when
parties become geographical; but, with
out regard to results, do right. Is it
rightTto elect Fillmore over Buchanan;
Or,orathcr, is it not wrong not thus to
elect him ?Si''a grt g.to0o1G bns tva
What Fillmorc's policy is, or is to be,
we kno,0 from the records of 1850, and
on; but what Buchanan's is to be, We
know not, because his party, for the
first time, have interpolatcd a foreign
plank in their platform, which, under
the inspiration of the Soulcs, may en-
broil this country with all the world. -
Buchanan is pledged to that policy
1 am, no more James Buchanan, he
tells us, but the Cincinnati Platform
Thus, war abroad, and continued dis
cord at home are the promised fruits of
such an election ! Is it not wrong,
then, thus to vote? Nay, is 1T not a
crime,--and without any regard to Fill
more's chances, ought not every man
to do right, knowing that God, in tho
end, will maintain the right? .,..
1t is a crime, too, to make this cleo
ton SECTIONAL geographical, as the
Fremont and Buchanan men are MAX
ing it. Millard Fillmore aloneremoves
the canvass from the danger of secI
tionality. Fremont's strength is all
North. Buchanan's practical strength
is all South. Fillmore alone embodies
the conservatism of the whole Union.
Fillmore alone has the hands and hearts
of the conservative men in all parts Of
the Union. 1t is folly, then, to try to
triumph over the North with Buchanan
or over the South with Fremont, ~
The most alarming clement of this
canvass, especially, to the South, is the
abandonment Of the Democracy by the
Germans, and to some extent by the
Irish. The Americans do not court
foreign votes, but accept them CRATE
fully, if givento American principles.
The Democracy of the North, however,
exists on, nay, brcathcs on its foreign
vote. Take away its foreign vote, and
it is no where in the North, on an elcc-
ton day, especially in the villages,
towns and cities. Now the German
vote, to q great extent, is gone over to
Fremont, ,--and this abandonment Of
this portion Of the Northern Democ-
racy shows how little reliance the South
can really place on the Northern dem
ocratic party. In the very first Sec
tional onset, the foreign Democracy of
the Democratic party cnlists in sec
tional warfare against the South. =
The RED Germans and the Black
Republicans arc in close alliance against
the South, land all are equally the
enemies OF Fillmore. What is the du-
ty Of the Southern men, then, in such
crisis as this ?-to keep up its alli-
anco with such u Northern Democracy?
Certainly not; but, on the contrary, is
it not its duty to ally itself with the
constitutional conservatism Of the
North that great American party
which Millard Fillmore heads, Il which
he illustrated in his administration of
the Government, when President.
Fillmore is no Northern man with
Southern principles, nor Southern man
with Northern principles, but a sound,
national, conservative man, Of the
school of Washington and Madison
Elect him once more, ard peace once
more is returned to the country, and
in less than six months the Kansas war
will be hushed, and peace will once
more be restored to the distracted
States. But keep up this sectionalism
of candidates or Of men, pledged, as
Buchanan is, to reopen old wounds,
and to mako new ones, and there will
bo peace no more, ,.--nothing but that
prolonged bitter war Of words, which
ever ends in the clash Of arms. i~