Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-10-24
Our Prospects as they are

are therefore left 10 make up our caculauohs Oh TIC
probable result of the coming struggle from the oaa
afforded by those which have already taken place
The question has heretofore been this :-Can MI
Buchanan carry such number of electoral votes al
the North as combined with the entire South will De
sufficient to secure his election? That is no longer
an omen question. The elections carried on Tuesday
last, against every kind of odds, leave not snaao"
of doubt on that point, for 1t should De TenehOe'0
that the Democrats of Pennsylvania ana lhuldnd'
poled no mere plurality of the votes OF these States,
but a clear and absolute majority-more than hall
of all the votes cast as 10 place the matter Deyohu
the reach of accident We have not doubt but that
there were high-mnded old Wings who voted with
the Democrats on this OCCASION and there Will 10
vastly more TO do 30 in November State pride, per-
.onal attachment, conservatng feeling, will all oper
ota IN November. and secure for Buchanan ana
Rreckinr;dpe. maiorities in Pennsylvania and Ken
lucky FIR beyond those obtained by any local cah0i
dates of their party. Common sense EhuS' oo"
even the most casual observer that the oeleaU VI "
fusion at the recent election in Pennsylvania lenue
any attempt to carry it against Buchanan I'D No'1"'
her hopeless They feel this themselves ne" 'ei-
sew, with her seven electoral votes is virtually aO@i
doned by 4he opposition, and the immense democra"0
triumph in Newark the chief city of that State al
fords an indication not to be mistaken. A leaolhg
Demccrat in Connecticut in private letter to trIend
IN this Stale sets down that State as safe tor the
Democrats by at least five thousand and we kno"
the writer to be so we'll informed and so cautious IN
in the expression of such decided opinions, that we
place the most implicit reliance upon his statement
and mt down Connecticut certain. Let US look
at New Hampshire, State IN which, unuer Inc no0'
unfavorable circumstances for the Democrats the
whole united coalition of the Know Nothing order 10
its prime with the aboonists, and all other cdds and
ends, only obtained the meagre majority year ago
of something like twenty five hundred. The recent
miserable aemp of the abolitonists to treat the Pre-
sdent of the United States with dsrespect among ms
native hills, followed by the popular uprising TO re-
eeive him as no man ever was received IN New hanp
shire has aroused spirit latent in the granite NCa'eS'
which, with the conservative reaction now gong on
will sweep the turbulent and contemplate factions
from the track, and place the native home OF Weo
ster and Woodbury. and Pierce, and Atheron' IN her
natural position in the Democratic line.
Illinois, the home of the gallant Douglas is just as
certain as though her vote cast and California
will send her voice from the Pacific shore as swiftly
her vote, too for the nominees of the Cincinnati Con-
vention. And neither Michigan nor Wisconsin, are
either homeless or improbable. The chances are
largely in favour Of the first going Democratic, while
they are at least even in the last In regard to New
York and Rhode Island we make calculations, for
the want of anything from these States upon which
we can definitely rely. They may be put down de-
ba,eabIe among the three candidates. We suppose
NHo;p x-1l
no doubt 90 for Fremont. We would not have Yer
mont or Massachusetts, if we could get them for the
asking, and no honest party has any chance in a
State where such barefaced cheating done as In
Maine at the recent State election Philadelphia
city, embracing the whole county, poled last Tues
day sixty six thousand votes to population of ever
halfa million. Maine with population not exceed
ing six hundred thousand, poled one hundred and
twenty thousand, and yet bear talk of votes hav-
ing been "colonized" into Philadelphia. What must
have been done in Main?
We have thus set down without exaggeration OF
Uonceament the prospects which careful survey oil
She Northern political horizon presented TO us. We
do not pretend that we may not have made miscalcu
latons but we do not think that we have Wherein
we have erred, we think the result will show thai
the error has been against ourselves. The state oil
things at the South may be more briefly summed
up because the certain and inevitable course of the
great majority of the Southern States has long ceas
ed to be doubtful 1t is fact that no single South
ern State in which an election has been held has
gone against the friends of Buchanan and Breckn
ridge and that no State North or South has yet de-
clared for the friends of Mr. Fillmore that in fact
in State at the Nolth with the single exception
of Ohio, have the Fillmore even pretended to rur
and independent ticket and in Ohio the Fillmore
vote is hardly taken into account in the summing o.
supposed to exert any influence on the result
With the acknowledged majority of the South con
centraed upon Buchanan-with the conservative ee
ments of the North concentrating upon him and up
on him only-with no chance for the defeat of Ere
mont by Hny other may not fairly ask why 0
for what purpose Mr.. Fillmore is so pertinacious
pressed upon the attention of the Southern people,
He pushed at the people of North Carolina il
August, and they declared virtually for Buchanan
by over $4,000 majority, and still the Know Nothin
presses and leaders ask the people to abandon Buch
and go for Fillmore. Fillmore and Fremon
combined were offered to the people of Pennsylvania
and Indiana on Tuesday last, and they took Blu CHI
anan in preference to the fusion and vet the South
ern people told that Buchanan has no strength
the North and that the South should abandon him +
go for one OF the defeated fusonists Is not this to
barefaced
Let it not be said that these triumphs IN Indian
and Pennsylvania are the effects simply of the foreig
vote; for have not our Know Nothing orators an
presses been ringing the changes for months mas
upon the certain defeat of Buchanan because Of TIL
foreign vote having gone over to Fremont? Hav