The true Democrat., 1856-10-14


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 From the New York Post
 Disintegration of the Fillmore-P Party. MT. Haven, of Buffalo, the late law partner ot Mir. Fillmore, was expected to be the can dldate of the American order in his district for seat in Congress. We have 1t from un- questionable authority that, on a survey of the political field, he declines to enter it. and will not consent to be nominated
 The fact is an exceedingly significant one. The nan to whom, if Mr. Fillmore had any essential popularity in the place of his residence that popularity would attach itself in the lar gest measure withdraws from the contest for which he was about to buckle on his armor, and refuses to fight by the side of his friend. It is fair to infer that MT. Fillmore begins to despair of his own election.
 But this Is only one of the signs that point to the same conclusion Mir. George D. Gray, of Virginia, leading member of his party, a delegate to the famous Winchester convention, and President of the Fillmore and Donelson club of Culpepper county, has resigned that office, and published letter in the Richmond Enquirer, in which he declares that Fillmore cannot be elected, and that he gives his SUD- port to Buchanan. Mir. Ephram Marsh, of New Jersey, President of the very convention which nominated Mr. Fillmore for the Pres- dency, has published another letter. in which he declares that Fillmore has no chance of an election, and that he shall do all in his power to elect Fremont. Mir. Gray is in favor of the extension of slavery, and therefore he supports Buchanan. Mr. Marsh is hostile to the exten- slon Of slavery, and therefore he will vote for Fremont. Mir. Gray says. "There is not a shadow of chance for Mir Fillmores election by the people" Mr. Marsh shows that the southern friends of MT. Fillmore have aban- doned his cause and given the weight of their influence and their votes to Buchanan; he then proceeds to say:
 "In contest which is determine whether slavery or freedom is to be the governing prin- cple of this Republic, I choose to cast my vote where it will tell for freedom. These considerations lead me to the support of the republican nominees for President and Vice President, not because am less an American than when our national convention assem bled. but because those by whom Mir. Fillmore was nominated, from southern States, have aban- doned him for candidate openly and avowed- ly arrayed against the American party thus sacrlhclng for slavery both their candidate and their Americansm; and because furthermore, by voting for Mr. Fillmore, while the contest IS betUeen Bltctaaan dnl Fremont, 1 should ndi- rectlv ald the former, whose principles as an antl-American and slavery eXtenSionist, are obnoxious to all my convictions of duty''
 Thus, we have eminent friends of MT. Fill more both at the south and the north acknow- Iedgng that the sole quarrel between the parties at the present moment in which there is any VI alty, IS whether the territories shall be free: that to set up candidate as the representative o any other iSsue is trihng with the public interest, and that candidate 50 supported has no chance of success
 MT. Clayton of Delaware one of the slave States, but approaching more nearly to the character of a free State than any of that class Is one of the most distinguished leaders of the American party. Our readers have not forgot ten the letter from him which we published the other day. We confidently expected that when he should speak of the candidates for the Presidency, he would declare himself for Fillmore without reserve. Insteal of that he declares that he is ' the partisan to no man." He declines to give his support to Mr. Fillmore That he would not have supported Mr. Buch- anan, we might have inferred from the vehe- mence with which, on the floor of the senate, he denounced the Kansas laws enacted by Strngfellow and his associates. To withhold support from either of the pro-slavery candi- dates Is much as we could xpect a politician of slave State to do for the nomination of Col. Fremont.
 Meanwhile, we publish to-day letter from Senator Geyer, of Missouri, whig of ancient standing, from whom, if old associations could influence his present course, Mr. Fillmore might expect support. He takes ground in favor of R,,a .l,o now before the country in its true light, as struggle between slavery and liberty in the ter. rtorieS and he is for Buchanan and slavery. Senator Geyer is warm friend of the border rntfia2s; one who admires and praises the Stringfellow Code, and he votes for Mr. Buch- anan because he thinks that with such a safe man as Buchanan the cause Of slavery and the Stringlellow Code are safe.
 The sittngs of the Syracuse convention of the republican party, held yesterday and the day previous, were signalized by the adhesion of almost the entire body of what are called the" North Americans" to the cause represent ed by Fremont and Dayton. The north Amer jeans do not dissolve their organizations; they stand ready 10 oppose Us whenever the occasion, in their view, may call for opposition, but for this election their convention adopted the pom- nations of the republican convention. The members of their convention did not disguise the fact that they acted in obedience to the pop uar will. There was general call from the rank and file of what are called the North Amer ican party that matters should be so arranged as to release the members of their party from the obligation to vote for special candidates of the American party, and this call was wisely obeyed. It could not have been safely refused, if the leaders of the American party had at tempted to withstand it their organization would have been broken up.
 The feeling which prompted this step on the Iart of the North Americans Is the prevailing one throughout the State. The people are de- ermined to vote in such manner that their votes may be counted on the side of freedom Their leaders could not barter away their SUD- port, could not make them over to the south, if they were ever 50 desrous of doing it. The people have arison and are moving forward and the political chiefs hurried along by the crowd without the power of resistance. Mr. Fillmore has no party in this State which need awaken moments apprehension. Every day increases the certainty of the triumph of the free State party by an immense majority. It is beginning to be thought even by cool calculators of political changes, that the result of the cleo tion here will be of like character with that in Maine.
 A Noble Spectacle.
 The correspondent of the New York Times, in detailing an account of the procession and