The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1856-08-23

rlnucs ola gltat administration which APP
Gals I" those IcrVadlug and national con-
Sdcraji"nS which wake responses IN the
hearts Of the people, must he left in an in
significant minority of a few national men Of
the North and South.
Mr.. Chairman, long lists of names have
been paradtd OF new converts TO Mr.. Huchan-
an. Letters have been spread before the
public, urging agumcntswith all the author
ity Of names entitled to the profound re-
Spcct of the House and the country. know
IN these lists. whether they relate to Mary
land OF elsewhere. of no man who at the fall
election earnestly supported the American
| cause. l sec among the names on that list
none who were regarded as the friends of the
American cause. | see in most of them
ncophytes OF Democracy, then hardened sim
ncrs against its benign rule, who We're bap-
tized last fall, whose tender faith has been
duly Instructed by the sponsors at their
baptism, and whose public declaration now
is nothing but the ceremony of confirmation
to the world of their earlier convcrson-
There is nothing in that list which need
shake the confidence Of any friend of the
American party. There is nothing which
makes the scale Of Mr.. Fillmore vacilatc for
a single instant in its inclination in the State
of Maryland. There is nothing that in the
slightest degree increases the difficulty of
repeating, with larger majoritics and greater
ectaf, the triumph Of the past year.
But, sir rise now to test the argument
thus supported by great names and wide
spread authority.
We are not to vote for Fillmore, because
majority at the North are opposed to his
patriotic and wise administrations runs
the reason: because the mnjoruy of the North
are not favorable to compromise and con-
ciliatlon--so runs the reason: because the
majority of the North regard the time as
come when they must get n scourge for the
Soutf-becauSe the majority of the North are
OF that opinion, therefore, in this contest
which they supercilously assume is to be
between the Northern candidate and the
Southern candidate, all men must desert the
candidate who is alone the candidate of the
Constitution and the Union.
The argument is hollow and lnSidious. If
tho majority Of the North be such, then the
'tme jar rotns rs past: it is no longer a q,lcs-
ton whether we will vote Fillmore or Buchan-
an as President of the United States, because
the South is in Il pitiable minority in the
Electoral College, and every vote cast there
leaves her where she is, and without the
power of sclf-protcction. If the hour of
madness be come: if reason be dead in her
chosen scat, if the conservative North has
ceased to be conservative, and is inspired by
the hatred this argument ascribcs to her
people; then we have no election on the 4th
OF November for President of the Uaitcd States
MIR. buchanan will be ineligible as Il foreign.
cr TO rule the South! We have passed by
the time of the election of that man whose
name is to close the iasti of that llnstrious
line. The people in 1852 OWNED well that
they were choosing the lIonorious of the
Republic, and fitted the man to the station
HE argument proves too much, if it is
true. If it is not tue, it is trash.
But the argument is put in different
shape, and it is pointed directly at Mr.. Fill
more. His merits are made his incapacilics.
Ills trust to the Union is made the reason
why Southern gentlemen, for whom he ran
the greatest risk against the opinion of his
own region of country, are 10 turn against
INN, desert him, for man who has cncoun-
tered nothing for them, or for the Union. -
The majority of the North are opposed to
Mr.. Fillmore, hec0nSc Of his rise und patriotic
'tm'nist' a ion: they will then vote for Blu
chanan, because his administration will not
he so wise and patriotic. They are opposed
TO Fillmore, because they are opposed to con-
citation and compromise: they will vote for
Mr.. Buchanan, because he and his party have
SAID no more compromise, and no more con-
citation They will not vote for Fillmore
because they want scoulgc for the South
unwltllngly the argument pictures the result
of that pollcy-which our Democratic friends
have inauguratcd and followed out to its bit
ter end. The majority Of tie Northern allies
OF the Democrats, arc supposed very likely
to vote for Buchanan, because hc rW be Il
sco'vae 10 the Sorth. If that he not the
argument, then the argument is unmcanine .
Wen, if that be the foundation of the
argument, will not gentlemen, who appre-
cate the force OF reasoning. cease to use it !
VIII they not give some better reason why
Mr.. Fillmore can get no Strength at the
North! viii they not say, come let us
reason together" and say that Mr. Buchanan
better respects the great fundamental prnc-
pie of the constitution, and not base their
argument on the revolutionary assumption
that the majority of the men of the free
States are run mad against the men of the
South 1t is very tempting ! know to
southern Democrats. Irthc majority of the
North are madly bent on furnishing the
South, they will pass Mr.. Fillmore by, anu
milict on it MIR. Buchanan as the more cruel
scollige. The argument Is good, slr-thc
Fact on which it rests is not true.
Far different is my estimate ofmy Northern
brethern. am not aware Of any act of the
North, as they appear upon our statute books,
or as executed from the Executive chamber.
however wild may have been the votes &C.
casionally Of majority upon this floor, Or
however dangerous the arguments pressed
into their support. which in the slightest
degree has sullicl the honor, or injured the
interest of the South. They have differed
upon industrial questions and decided them
by party tactics; they have been set, one
party against the other in party manGuyrc
party triumph, and Nominations; but, | Say
that, during the eighty years of the Republic,
there is no portion of this great land which
has reason to cast into the teeth Of either the
North or the South that any great right of
either section has been tramplcd down; any
great right of the Constitution deliberately
violated; any fact showing that madness rules
the majority either at the North, or at the
South.
But there is solemn fact which my DEM
ocratic friends admit. There is hosiiiitu at
The North. They adroitly point it at the
South. They ra'niy STRIFE 10 place The South
beiueen ihcmseires and The shoji that has al
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