Daily American organ., 1856-04-10
AMERICAN NOMINATIONS.
FOR PRESIDENT,
MILLARD FILLMORE,
OF NEW YORK.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
ANDREW JACKSON D0NELS0N
OF TENNESSEE.
THE PEOPLES CANDIDATES,
NOMINATED BY ACCLAMATION.
Democratic Losses.

The spring elections have been very disas-
trous to the administration party. 1t has lost
New Hampshire, the Presidents own State
It has lost Rhode Island, which gave Pierce
her electoral vote, and which is represented in
the United States Senate by two Democrats.
And, finally, it has lost Connecticut, which also
gave her electoral vote TO Pierce, and sent Mr..
Toucey to the United States Senate. The re-
suit of the extraordinary efforts of the admin
istration in the last five weeks in three New
England States, formerly Democratic, is there
| fore the loss of all of them and of two United
States Senators to boot A very sorry ac-
count to render to the Cincinnati Convention.
A lamentable failure every way-whether at
tributable to bad generatship or to the over
whelming force Of the enemy.
| The town elections in New York, also show
corresponding defeats for the administration.
In that great State, once the stronghold of the
Democratic party, the administration has man
aged, By fusion soith the Republicans, to elect
supervisor or constable here and there
but when standing alone upon its own demer-
its, it has almost uniformly been defeated.
We are fully warranted, therefore, in the as
sertion that from present indications, the
Democrats cannot carry a single Northern
State, with the exception of Illinois. In 1862
they carried every Northern State, with the
exception of Vermont and Massachusetts,.
The New York News, the organ of the Hard
Democracy, exposes plot, concocted by the
Cabinet, to secure the denomination of General
Pierce. It is this The Soft melnbers of the
New York Legislature are to prepare an Ad-
dress, recommending the admission of both the
Hard and Soft delegations from that State into
the Cincinnati Convention. One delegation
will thus neutralizc the other, and consequent
ly New York will be deprived of any voice in
the Presidential nomination. New York being
thus set aside, with her thirty four votes, it is
believed by the friends of Gen. Pierce, that by
| the majority rule his nomination may be Sc
cured
Tho News is of course indignant at the pro-
posed outrage on New York, and it's indigna.
ton will be shared by the National Democrats
throughout the Union but to no effect The
decree has gone forth from the Capitol that the
National Democracy must be prescribed, and
they will be prescribed by the lieges of the ad.
ministration; and in no section more ruthless
| ly than in the South The Southern Demo
Gratis in Congress are almost to man sup
porters of the administration. They are untir-
ing in their efforts to sustain it, here and else
where, and are well known to be the most
clamorous advocates for the denomination oi
Gen. Pierce If the Hards of New York wait
for Southern assistance to enable them to be
represented in Cincinnati, they will wait till
| doomsday.
1t may be taken for granted, then, that the
New York Hards will have no voice in the
next Democratic nomination for the Presiden-
cy. This being the case, the vote of the largest
State in the Union, at the next election, cannot
be regarded as doubtful. 1t will be given to
Fillmore and Donelson, by a majority of from
2o,0 900 to $4,000.
So also with Pennsylvania. No Democrat
with particle of intelligence expects anything
but defeat at the State election in October
Neutral journals of the highest authority pre-
dict the election of the Union ticket by at least
| $4,000 majority. Can Pennsylvania be carried
| by the Democrats in November, if they are
beaten %, 900 in October? 1t is q moral inn
possibility.
Under the most favorable circumstances, it
is not easy to perceive how the Democrats can
carry more than nine States at the Presiden-
tial election, or less than seventyfive electoral
votes, including the vote Of Virginia, which, in
the opinion Of many well-informed politicians,
will be cast for Fillmore and Donelson.