Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-10-31
The Closing OF the Canvass.---Elecho" T"eSu"S
next November 4th, 1856.

The Closing of the Canvass.---Elecho" T"eSu"y
next November Attn, 1856
On Tuesday next, November 4th, the election LOT
President and Vice President OF the Onl'eu 0'''eS
will be held throughout the country
The canvass draws to a close, the issues are deh'
nitelv fxed-so are the opinions OF most II not all
Of our readers. This is our last opportunity 10 ao
dress the great majority of our subscribers spreau
throughout Eastern North Carolina, and IN some Oh
the Western Counties, for before another issue %
our weekly paper the die will have been cast anu
the contest decided for good or for evil. we "oulo
not if we could, indulge in any mere parry slanS Vi
e1ectioneerng clap-trap The occasion tOrbIds It
Too rouch hangs on the result Too much OF Inc
fpture prosperity, not simply of party but OF the
country itself and although confident OF victory
wa cannot dismiss that feeling of anxiety which
ro,st continue to exist while shadow OF
dorbt banps over the fortunes of a contest, upon
which we most sincerely believe the fate OF the
country itself depends We would close the canvass
as we have conducted it throughout appearing
tn the reason, and patriotism, and common sense OF
Southern men--cang attention TO the iacts from Inc
record-tothe position of partes-to the prlhclPleS
involved-te the best method OF defending Inc inter-
psts and rights of the South from the nroads OF Sec
tional fanaicism and thus giving permanency 10 Inc
Union by placing it upon the firm basis OF the Con-
stituion.
The question now resolves itself simply into this
Buchanan or Fremont. Every vote at the South
cast for Mr. Fillmore is either vote lost or verse
than lost. Several Stale elections have been held
during the present year and not single Southern
State have the friends of Mr.. Buchanan failed to
carry maiorlty-not single one has gone for the
friends of Mr.. Fillmore, and at the North MIR Buch-
anan,s friends have succeeded in fully half of
the elections held Pennsylvania and Indiana balan-
cling all the fusion victories in that section
1t is the most transparent of tansParences for any
of The friends of Mr.. FIJI more to pretend that the
contest is now between him and MIR. Buchanan. In
not a single Northern State where election has
been held did the friends of Mr.. Fillmore feel them
selves strong enough even 10 ticket, with the
single exception of Ohio and there out of a vote of
three to four hundred thousand votes, they polled
some twenty-five thousand In Pennsylvania and
Indiana they ran a fusion ticket in connection with
the Black Republicans, and the Democrats beat them
both And yet Mr.. Flllmore's friends talk about him
as a man upon whom the South may rally.
The South can only rally with safety and honor
upon those candidates qrhOSe Northern friends make
North in every State, in every county, in every pre-
Oinct, the Democratic flag planted having inscribed
thereon, " Buchanan and Breckinridge-the Consti-
tuition and the Internationally for all the States.
No fusion there with Black Repuclcansm-no uni
on ticket with Fremonters-but the clean, straight
Oat national Democratic ticket, platform and princl-
pies.
How is it with Mr.. Fimore's friends at the North
-powerless North and South-unable to secure q
single State, they keep bargaining and buying, sell
ling and being sold, fusing and being fused, they
and their fusions being beaten by the National De-
mocracy. Ask yourself calmly and honestly
Southern patriot upon whom duty to your country
requires that the South should unite-Buchanan OF
Fillmore Fillmore who cannot be elected, or Buch
anan who has shown that he can. Fillmore whose
Northern friends the fused allies of Fremontism
or Buchanan whose friends stand up manfulIy agains
every ism and every fusion
Go to the Polls early on Tuesday next Say nc
that you have no time, or that something nterferes
You can give one day D life-timefor your country
and we trust that in the good providence of God n
such peril will ever again menace the country
your life time or ours. 1t will not, if the South doe
her duty and presents a united front.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty and tn
condition of success Let none forget this. 1t
none neglect their duty The election in August la
showed that North Carolina was overwhelming
Democratic. She is so now. Let not apathy or owe
security occasion failure 10 vote and thus render
misrepresentation of the popular feeling possible
poll full vote, and let that vote speak your sent
ments