The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-12-03

al the couHues Ill Aiapana nave Deen received
and published They give Buchanan a major.
: ity Of 1889, Vrginta-Relurns from all
: the counties, except seven have beenreceived,
f giving Buchanan 8O,886 votes; and Fillmore
SO, 345-Buchanan majority %, SAL. Neu
!, Jersey Official vote: Buchanan, d, 419: Ere
: mont, 26, 307: Fillmore. 24O91. Iep York
: Official vote: Fremont, 975, 1856; Buchanan,
; l94,758; Fillmore, l24,27 Georyia.-Re-
!, turns from all the counties have been received,
; giving Buchanan 56,4l7 votes, and Fillmore,
42, 352-Buchanan' majority l4,o65. TerGs--
The Galveston News estimates Buchanan ma
jority at 15 1000; but we think that it is larger
Deloaoare-Oficial returns: Buchanan, 8UO3:
Fillmore, CTS; Fremont, 3O6-Buchanan's
majority, 1899. Connecticm- Official returns:
Fremont, ~, us; Buchanan 81, 99C: Fillmore
Embellishments majority 5110. Te;naom-
Official vote: Fremont, 80, 965; Buchanan.
1857; Fillmore, $40; scattering, 75-FrG
mont majority %, 1865.
The New Y ork Journal of Commerce, in its
review olthe contest and result, says:
We shall then find that Fremont is farther
behind in the popular than in the electoral vote.
For it must be remembered thatin fifteen States
of the Union he has no votes at ALL or so few that
they are not worth naming Therefore the
whole Buchanan vote of those fifteen States is
so much majority against Fremont We are
inclined to think that the votes of the three can
ddates in the nation at large, Counting South
Carolina as $4,000 for Buchanan and none for
either OF the other candidates) will be in the
nelyhborhood Of what follows, viz:
Buchanan, l7590OO
Fremont 1850 900
Fillmore, - 900
Total votes, 3,75o.o0o
Being gain upon the presidential vote of 1852
of 100. 600
In making up an approximation to the ma
jorties in the different States, as between Buch-
anan and Fremont, the journal of Commerce
gives Buchanan ma jorjty Of 478, 800 over Ere
mont in the nation at large, and adds that, the
Joint vote of Buchanan and Fillmore-that is |.
to say, the conservative vote of the countrv-is Il
2, 500, 900, against l $50, 600 for Fremont, or
in the proportion of two to one. This is an en-
fact, and shows that the nation is not :
yet wholly given up to sectionaism and suicide
The Charleston Mercury, in its capacity as
eadlng organ Of the southern rights party, has
'rrived at the conclusion that we have no use c
whatever for a president, and that too after the c
lection OF Mr.. Buchanan, whom it supported t
or that office 1t says that ''the presidencyi is 1
n unnatural sxcrescence upon our system,' d
nd contends that it "has never failed to stir $
p every element Of discord, to bring into Ii
cree contest all the armies of the spoilers, and G
, make itself representative of all the plum s.
erlng and contentious principles that had open te
covert existence IN the confederacy." We e.
re by no means prepared 10 endorse the new II
lew taken fthe presidency by our Charleston p'
'temporary, but readily admit that president I'll
lerce has proven ''an unnatural excrcscencc' l
BON the country. We will give Mr. Buchan- lit
TAR trial, before we condemn him. But nc
the Mercury speak for itself. Itsays: be
'Nlth reference to a permanent structure of til
vernment, tie presidency is an unnatural cx- ad
cscSnce upon our system OF a contederacy of lc
ates From de close Of the administration -
Washington to the present time, it has been
e centre and the source of bitter controversy III
1ony tile entire people OF the country 1t has We
en- source Of hateful union amonyI tic States, cit
10, without this bond might possibly have let
ed in peace. Thay have many great points 49,,
union, many grand sources OF sympathy
1t tie presidency has never failed to stir I'd uD
cry element Of discord, to bring into fierce mt
ltest all the armies of the spoilers, and to mi
Ike Itself representative OF all the plumber NJ,
and contentious principles that had open or wa
cert existence IN the contederacy.
'Beilevlny. therefore, that this mighty elc- no
nj OF dlscord, Of corruption, and ofcentraIiza- in
n, might be perfectly dispensed with, as far mi
the just and efficient operations of the GOV o.
ment are concerned, we would propose, that,
southern confederation, the presidency S'i'(
uld be dispensed with. 1t is not necessary Dos
any legitimate action of confederate gov for
ment. Its absurd to suppose that it is ne use
saiy tor the contract of its relations with for .o
n powers. All these matters are easily al
9ed. and The change would not produce even "o'
aSslng shock III the progress of events. We y
INT gam great good without mourning che .a
st reasonable chance of small evil ''',
rs the Mercury appears determined to have III
southern confederation" we propose to q0S
nd its motion to dispense with president, "''
declaring that there shall be no Office hold es
whatever. By this means the new govern 'o'
1t would be rid of all the evils of which the '''e'
cury complains. '"'
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'AcIFIc RAILRoAD.-Hon James Buchan- nre,
president elect, has writtena letter in favor and
he construction of a railroad TO the Paci- in +
He concludes as follows: Il then desire eve
tate, briefly, that, concurring with the de- pur
ratio national convention, | am decidedly con,
rably to the construction Of the Pacific rail The
; and | derive the authority to do this in Il
| the constitutional power so repel inva- Cha
s. In my judgment congress possesses the MED
: power to make opriations for the con foun
ction OF this road, strictly for the purpose the
ational Defence that it has to erect fortifca- prob
at the mouth of the harbor of San Fran aoai