The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-08-02
The Presidential Question-The Slaveh0lding
and Notwithstanding Vote OF the south.

ana Non-sIavehOifung Vote OF the South.
II has now become q very general conviction
that the old whg and democratic parties have
been broken up, and are practically extinct
that their old landmarks are obliterated-that
chaos of parties has succeeded, and that out of
these confused elements revolutionary process
is going on, reconstruction Of parties and party
issues, which is bringing into bold relief the fun
damental principles upon which the republic
was founded, the philosophy of the Union, and all
those great issues and questions affecting North
ern interests and Southern rights, in novel but
practical shape. This great movement of the
popular mind, which we regard as the working
of mighty revolution, we are disposed to follow
and encourage, because we believe it good and
seasonable, and that its final result will be
general reform in the morals and tactics of poll
ticians and parties and in the men and measures
of our government.
We have already shown that this revolutionary
destruction and reconstruction of the old parties
of TIE country lies deeper and covers broader
and more comprehensive field than the Kansas
question-that Fremont is the representative of
other principles than the isolated one which, in
reference to Kansas divides the politicians of the
North and the South; but still the ridiculous cry
is kept up among the Buchanan and Fillmore Or
gans and orators. that Fremont is sectional
candidate-that his party is sectional party
that it ignores fifteen States Of the Union, and
that Ibis election will and ought to be the end of
the Union" because it will be but the signal for
the secession or subugation of the South
We have already answered these idle and alb
surd charges against Fremont and the rapidly
increasing and extending party devoted to his
election, and have shown that all such charges
and all such fears and threats are utterly falla-
cious and deceptive, come from what quarter
they may. Fremont is not sectional candidate;
he is prominently and prominently the consti-
tutional and Union candidate of the campaign.
His name, first started by few sagacious indi-
viduals was next taken up by the independent
press-other presses, democratic, republican
Know Nothing and independent, here and there,
came to his experimenting of the people
here and there next adopted him, until with the
meeting of the republican and anti-Fill-
more general Conventions in Philadelphia and
New York the name of Fremont from the popu-
lar outside pressure in bis behalf bore down all
opposition. II was the man, the his
tory. the exploits; the courageous, patri-
otto and decisive character of the man
which thus brought the anti-democratic elements
of the country around him; and it was the sec
tional, niger driving and flibustering nomina-
ton and platform adopted at Cincinnati that con-
eentrated these opposition elements upon FIRE.
mont
We gave. the other day some general statistics
of the population Of the South, and some general
remarks upon them, to show that - declaration
of Mr.. Senator Toombs that 1rsmont's election
"will and ought to be the end Of the Union, :" had
no foundation to rest upon, even in Georgia or
South Carolina For the more particular infor-
nation, upon this point, Of our Southern seces-
sion brethren, we have compiled, from the census
Of 1850 and the Official returns Of 1852, the fol-
lowing table -