, 1856-05-02

The whig members of the legislature of
Maine recently held a meeting, and passed
resolutions declaring that it is not advisa-
BILE for the wings of Maine at the present
time to take any action in regard to the
nomination Of candidates for President and
Vice President, but to maintain their or
ganization, and take such actioRas future
circumstances may dictate. A letter from
Washington states that fifteen or twenty
distinguished wings from all sections of the
Union assembled there, upon invitation of
whig senator, and, after discussion, de-
termined that it was best for them to-
make no movement towards whig national
convention.
From all the evidence at present before
US, it appears to be pretty well established,
that third candidate, in conjunction with
the negro-worshipers, and in opposition to
the democratic nominee, will not carry the
vote of single State As the canvass
wakes warm, we apprehend that the negro
loving portion of the know-nothing party
will drop their candidate, and seek INNER
sion in the polluted pool of black republi-
canism, whilst the southern wing, abandon
ing the intolerant and proscriptive order,
in connection with large majority of the
old-line whig party every where throughout
the Union, will join with the young and
mighty west, in making common war upon
the enemies of the democratic party, and
thus save the constitution from violence,
and the Union from dismemberment through
the crazed fanaticism of "higher-law,"
" free-love " niggerism.
Whoever the nominee of the democratic
party may be-whether it be President
Pierce, Dickinson, Buchanan, Hunter,
Douglass, Bright, or whoever the Cincin-
natl convention may select, the democratic
party-will be unit, and national men, of
all parties and factions, will rally around
our party's standard, and carry the nomi-
nee triumphantly through the canvass.
The supposition that the division here
tOfore existing amongst the democracy Of
New York, will give that State to Fillmore,
is simply ridiculous. A leading aud inhu-
entail paper Of New York city says some
of the old-line, straight-out, hard-shell
wings refuse to support Mr. Fillmore be-
cause be has become know nothing 9th
ers because Of his strong southern accent,
and others because he has been nominated
as the know-nothing candidate. On the
other hand, some Of our most inveterate
kuow-nothings reject Mr., Fillmore because
he is not q member Of the order, at all
events, not member in the regular way,
but member on the sly. Others oppose
him because he is pro-slavery southern
candidate others because he is the silver
gray whig nominee in disguise others be-
cause be can't do thing IN New YORK,
and because his nomination has bursted up
the American party"
For the consolation Of the black repub-
lican and know-nothing parties in this Ter
ritory, we invite their attention to the fol-
lowing, which we copy from a late number
Of that violent opposition organ to the
present administration = the NeO York
Herald :: ai a :a.n..I U
"THE PRESIDENTIAL VorE OF 1856, FROM
PRESENT APPEARANcEs.-The following is
an estimate Of the presidential electoral
vote Of 1855, based on the late elections,
on the present organization Of parties, and
on all the existing indications Of the drift
Of the popular vote, state by state, majori-
ty or plurality, in November
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