American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1856-09-13

UohiS Suuucuiy Cdlieu upon TO take the
helm OF government, at time when
the Heavens were luridwith the angry
tempest of 1S49-'50, so successfully
rode out that storm, so faithfully and
gallantly secured the safety of the no.
BILE ship of State, as to win from an ad.
miring people the most heartfelt plau-
dts, well done thou good and faithful
servant" 7i 'sHs Ha.
We point you to another fearful can
Ger on the body politic--the humiliat-
ing struggle now going on between the
Democratic and Republican parties for
the foreign cote, and to the tremulous
apprehensions expressed for the fate
OF the one or the other of those parties
as the uncertain movements ofthe Ger
mans or Irish osciliatc between them.
We warn you that the fate of this great
government may soon be equally de-
pendent upon the unstable movements
OF those mighty masses, fresh from the
monarchies ofEuropo. Large portions
of our Union are already oycrflowing ng
with aforeign populaton--a population
such as has shown itself utterly incapa-
bic OF sustaining popular governments
in the Old World. So immense is now
the influx that we can scarcely be re-
garded as the same, or the descendants
of the same people we were twenty
years ago. Where, and in what, is this
to end? MILLARD FILLMORE alone, of
the candidates for the Presidency, has
refused to court this gigantic and grow
ing element of power. While he has
no hostility to foreigners, he frankly
warns his countrymen that it is safer
for American born citizens to rule the
destlnies ofAmerica. Having witness
sed their deplorablc condition in their
own fatherlands, he would share with
them all the privileges and blessings OF
ours, save the single privilege of seiz-
ing the rcins of government, and over
turning the car of State, in which we
| are all passengers. We beseech you
to see the dangers We have briefly CLAN
ced at, and to shun them, before it is
too late forever. v ..
We urge you to unite with us in sup
port the patriot statesman who has
always fearlessly outspokcn his scnti
ments-Yho has ever made the consti-
tuition his guiding star -who has riser
from an apprentice boy to the Presi.
dency-who, when President, frowncd
upon disorganizers and radicals, North
and South, and with the aid Of conser.
vative Wings and Democrats, bravely
restored peace to distracted country:
who has just said eff there be those eli
ther North or South, who desire an ad.
ministration for the North as against
the South, or for the South as against
the North, they are not the men who
should give their suffrages to me-"
From the moment Mr.. Fillmore was
first placed in nomination, every effort
has been rcsorted to to induce the coun.
try to believe, first, that he would not
accept the nomination; secondly, that
he had no strength at the North, and
could not carry single Northern State
even his own; thirdly, that he had no
strength at the South, and could not
carry a single Southern State; fourth
ly, that he was so Southern in his
feelings and views, that the North
ought not to support him, and would
not; and filthy, that he was. an aboh.
ttonist, and could not and ought not to
be supported by the South.
In regard to the charges against Mr..
Fillmore which related to his views and
opinions Of public policy, his friends
have deemed it best to permit them to
be refuted, as they have been most
amply and triumphantly, by the. record
of,his model administration; by his own
bold, frank, and manly speeches, which
the people have every whore read with
admiration and delight, and by his own
pure unsullied reputation and spotless
character. Of these the people them
selves had the means of forming an ac-
curate judgment, and to that judgment
both he and his friends have been al
all times, and are now, ready to bow
with respectful submission-they ask
no appeal to any other tribunal.
But tho arts and falsehoods which
have been rcsorted to by the two sec
tional parties of the country to weaken
Mr.. Fillmare, by inducing the belief
that he vas without strength elsewhere
than in the place where the falsehood
was told, the people have not been SO
well able to understand. They heard
these assertions generally with surprise
and incredulity, though the frequency
Of their repetition, the confident tone
in which they were asserted, the varie-
ty of forms in which they have been
made to appear, and, above all, the
perfect concurrence Of Republicans &
Democrats in these misrepresentation
and tho readiness with which the one