Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-08-26
From tn. N. Y. Express, Angus. 90.
To OUR SOUTHERN READERS.
Americans Of the South-Whigs or the


= It Is the Abolitioucry North-that Fillmore
hosnO ckance"-aDd the Buchsnancry, South
and, believing these two cries, many honest
patriotic men are duped. Now, if the fact
were as stated, that is no reason why men
should do wrong, or fail to do right-but the
fact cannot be so, unless made so-by mems
being made the dupes of false cries.
This canvass presents many unusual points OF
consideration, all worthy of the more thought
from the very novelty of meas Positions
Fremont, Southern born man, is brought up
as an Gnti-Southern candidate; Buchanan,
Northern born man, is brought up as the anti
Northern candidate-that is, candidate to
carry out the Pierce policy in Kansas, and in
the annexation of Cuba, &c. The issue these
two men present. is fatal one to the peace
and prosperity Of the Union, because 1t is sec
tiOnal, and because it is certain to keep mp
sectional feuds and fights. Ii Buchanan is
elected, there is nothing settled-because, 10
every Northern State, there will be large ma
jOrities against him, when the Fillmore and
Fremont vote is combined. These majorities
will not be vanqushed when Buchanan at
tempts to carry out the Cincinnati policy that
elects him-but on the contrary, will be in
creased by it, magnified and prolonged. The
North is not to be subdued any more than the
South Buchanan must either betray the
Southern policy that elects him, or keep up
Just such feeling and agitation in the North as
Pierces policy has created. Under this agl' a.
ton, Southern institutions cannot prosper or
thrive, for they want peace, and their policy
is peace, and they thrive best in peace-where-
as agitation is the natural abolition element.
1t is very easy for US Fillmore men in the North
to throw every Northern vote, We think, in every
Northern State, against Buchanan. We HAVE But
TO CoALEsCE WITH ABOLITION, AND DIVIDE THE ELEc
ToRAL TICKET-and the thing is DONE PenDsy Iva.
MA even, Buchsnan's own State, can be carried
against Buchanan by $4,000 majority. But we
fight this battle upon principe-and considering
Fremont unfit in person, and treacherOus to the
UDon in political postiOn-we cannot, and will not,
form coalitions, that may give him even apparent
strength-merely to ensure a nominal victory
Buchanan is weak in all the Northern States-as
the successor of the Pierce policy which even the
Sonth disowned in throwing Pierce over, and in
taking up Buchanan-and it is very easy to defeat
him. In our own State of New York, he is not
even a practical candidate, as yet-Only a candidate
10 theory The battle here is really between Fill
more and Fremont-and we show that we think So
daily, by directing all our fire upon Fremont, and
ignoring even the existence of Buchanan. Hence,
if Buchanan is to receive Northern votes it is only
by the division of the opposition, and whatever
Electoral tickets he wins, will disclose him to be in
the minority.
What, them is the policy Of the South To cram
down upon the North, Buchanan To elect Buchs
anan by the Southern, with any such Northern
votes accident gives him-and thus to re furnish
material to the Northern fanatics for further agta-
tions What gain the South by this prolonged
agitation? What to her instituti2ns-What to her
public men or public interests-to say nothing OF
the peril to the Union? 1t is not pretended in the
South that Buchanan is a truer man to the Union
than FimOre-and yet it is known and felt-that
the election Of Fillmore will paci:y the whole COUP
try-and restore harmony as in lS5O-by settling
all disputes upon just and patriotic basis against
which no sound complaint come from either
section. 1t is not the triumph of either section
that just and patriotic American desire-but
with Justice to alan amnesty pachcation.
But Fillmore has no chance I'VE are toll, -
and therefore, between Fremont and Buchanan, -
we take Buchanan. In reply to this, frst.-THsRE
IS NO DANGER OF FRENoST's ELECTION. The thing
is fundamentally impossible. He starts with f.
teen Southern States against him, and in the six
teen Northern States, he must carry about all of
them, certainly Pennsy lvania, which, it is no.
pretended even, that he has a chance of carr wing
against the friends OF Fillmore there. Dispel then
this illusion, that the contest is between Fremont
aud Buchanan,-for the practical contest where
that is approached is only between Fillmore and
Buchanan. One or the other must certainly be
President: Fremont never.
Now,-what right has anybody South to say,
Fillmore has no chance in the North? Have
not, within the two past years twice carried this
State for his friends? Is he less popular now than
those friends? Has he not ever been the favorite
of this State? Was he not even selected ID be put
on a ticket to carry this State! When Gen Tay
lor was run, the programme was to run Abbot Law
renee with him,-but was not Fillmore taken in
his stead, on purpose to save this State! Are his
friends inactive? Did the South such
canvass We are now only beginning to make!
We're ever such public meetings heard OF before, as
We are having9 Did the labor and industry of the
workshops pour out, as they now pouring
suit for Willard Fillmore? Was there ever a party
so we'll, so thoroughly, organized, as the American
party is in the State of New York so much Of u
unit, or marching so well in hnrmoIy toward al
most certain victory? HERE, IN THE EMPIRE STATE,
10 THE BATTLE GROUSD,-and we know it,-and, if
go for Fillmore, we believe, so goes the prize in
the end.
Men, however, ought not to gamble, as it were,
in politics, Especially when parties become geo.
graphical; but without regard to results DO RIGHT.
Is it right to elect Fillmore over Buchanan? Or,
rather, is it not wrong NOT thus to elect him?
What FillmOres policy is, or is to be, KNOW
from the records Of 1850 and on,-but what Buch
snan's is to be,-we know not, because his party,
for the fret time, have nterrolated foreign plank
in their platform, which under the Inspiration OF
the Soules, may embroil this country with ali the
world Buchanan is pledged to that policy. IAN
NO MoRK JAMES BUCHANAN, he tells US, But
CINCINNATI PLArFoRK Thus, war abroad aud con.
tinued discord at home the promised fruits Of
such an eection Is it not wrong, then, thus to
vote! Nay, is it not crime,-and without any
regard to Fillmore's chances, ought not every man
to 90 right, knowing that God, in the end will
maintain the rightly
Il is a crime TOTO make this election section
al geographical, AS the Fremont and Buchanan
men are making it, Willard Fillmore alone removes
the canvass from this danger OF sectionsIity. Ere
monts strength is all North Buchanaps practical
strength is all South. Fillmore alone embodies the
conservatism of the whole Union. Fillmore alone
has the hands aud hearts of the conservative men
in all parts OF the Union. 1t is folly then to try to
to triumph over the North with Buchanan, or over
the South, with Fremont.
Now, the Express is not Journal that prophe-
sizes prtdicts,-as some other Journals often do.
Do RIGaT WITHOUT REGARD TO RESULTS, has
ever been our maxim, and policy. Hence
We have no predictions to make-but We have
q right TO say,--thc canvass, on the part OF
the Fillmore Party in the North, has scarce
" begun. The history of Fremont, Filmore's real
combatants here, is not yet known to our farmers
They have heard Of him only as a geOgrspher,-
bat they have not heard OF him yet AS a States
man, q sOIdier,--or to his principles. The first
go'of' is already about GoNE OFF, The Northern
people are not long dupes, aud when duped they
soon emancipste themselves from the dupery. The
more time given us, the more We increase our
strength. In the New England States we have not
as yet, fairly approached the people, certainly not
beyond the State of Connecticut,-butA com
before the public,-we rapidly dispel the Fremohr
delusion. The whole Fremont sham is daily coming
ouL-and daily emancipating men from il. When
the people are reached on the stump,-the friends
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