Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-09-15

Mr.. Buchanan we may. - Union and american
We can do this with Mr.. Fillmore, but
with Mr.. Buchanan we cannot. Buchanan
cannot carry a solitary Northern State
The article from which the above is an
extract, is almost an admission that he can
not, If this be true he cannot be elected
although he should receive the entire South.
ern electoral vote. He would then lack
t1centy-nine rOtes of an election. Where is
the sense of centering the vote Of one sec.
| ton upon a candidate when that vote will
not elect him? Mr.. Fillmore is certain OF
htirtyJfre rOtes, (the vote of New York, }
and stands the best chance of getting the
seren of New Jersey, the thirteen of Mas
sachusetts, and the four Of California, in
all making ftty-nine Northern votes If
Tennessee, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware,
Florida and Louisiana, all of which from
the indications, he will certainly carry, and
Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Mis-
souri, and Arkansas will rally to his support
he can be elected by the Colleges, and sec
tionalism Of all kinds will be defeated.
But in the present attitude of the case
the South cannot defeat Fremont with
Buchanan-for his only strength is in the
South, and with all her strength concen-
trated upon him, she could do nothing. If
however the conservative portion of the
South will strike hands with the conserva-
tive portion Of the North, Fremont will be
defeated, and Fillmore will triumph.
The article in the Union and american
is an appeal to Southern Fillmore men to
drop their leader, and go to Buchanan.
You know not what you counsel. The
moment that fatal step is taken all will be
lost. The noble people of the North, who
have appreciated this crisis, and for time
laid down the implements of their toll, and
forsook their shops and stores to throw
themselves against the mad tide of fanati-
ciSm, find their only encouragement in the
position of the Fillmore men of the South.
Say they to US, stand your ground-if you
are conServative-if you are national-if
you love the Union-if you will assist us
to suppress the agitation of the slavery
question, we will make one great struggle
for the magnificent object which is at stake
we will forget that we are Northern men,
and will support with you one who has
been tried and is pledged to give us peace
we will labor to elect Mr.. Fillmore but
we cannot do it unaided. The great North
is maddened into fury, and we cannot hope
to quiet and bring it all to reason, but we
can do so partly. We can give National
man forty or fifty or sirty votes. If you
will come to his support, as your interest
and your sacred duty demands of you, he
can be elected. We make this appeal in
all sincerity. Do not as you value the
Union fail us in this hour If you forSake
the standard of Fillmore and go to Buch-
anan, we have no alternative but to yield
our position and give full vent to the pent
up tide against which we now stand as a
breakwater. When zoe do this Fremont tcil
be elected Against that calamity we pray
as devoutly as yourselves, but can avail
nothing without your assistance.
This is the relation which the Fillmore
men of the South bear to their brethren of
the North, and in full view Of its deep and
solemn responsibility, they have resolved to
maintain it at every hazard. For Fillmore
now to decline, or for his Southern sup
porterS to desert him. would secure beyond
the possibility Of doubt the election of
Fremont. The Northern vote will be divi-
ded between Fremont aud Fillmore
Everybody knows that the uuholy incanta-
tons Of Democracy have raised devil in
the North which has turned upon the ne
cromancer, and it is now gasping its last
agony in the grasp of the fell spirit Blu
chanan is too dead in the North to hear
the trump OF resurrection. lie ,riR not gel
an electoral cote in single Northern State.
Fremont will either get them all, or Fill
more will divide them with him. If the
former be the case, he is elected. If by the
cooperation of Southern men the latter
can be effected, would they not be false to
the South if they failed to do so? Then
let us hear no more appeals to Fillmore's
Southern friends to leave him. He is the
ark Of their refuge, and Of the nations
But will not the honest Democrats OF
the South cease to look at this matter
through the jaundiced eye of partyl Do
they not see that il is impossible TO elect
Buchanan-that he is entirely powerless In
the most powerful section Of the country,
and by clinging to him they only defeat
Fillmore and throw the contest into the
House. We say TO them that FRlnore has
already beaten Fremont, and do not by stick.
ing without reason or hope TO Buchanan,
render that victory a barren one. III
Southern Democrats win for once forget
their party and go for the country, a dire
evil viii be preyented-the carrying OF the
contest 10 the House. II this should be
the result, the SIN will be upon their head.