The true Democrat., 1856-10-21
WAite S@pbu' Springs, : Eirq,hiu, August l6. 1856 (


 DEAR SIR-Your lote addressed to me at Charlotte, North Carolina under date of the 12th ult., and forwarded to me here. has inst been received. Fine delay in it's reception has perhaps rendered an answer unnecessary. But respectful regard for yourself and the gentle man who joined iu the request, urge me to re- ply to your enquiries in very brief note.
 You are correctly informed as to my position in reference to the next Presidential election.- l expect to vote for JAMES BUCHANAN and JOHN c. BRECKENRIDGE. App.ecia- ting highly, as do, the ability and patriotism of Mir. Fillmore, l am, nevertheless, under existing circumstances, compelled by sense of duty and the clear convictions of my own deliberate judgment, to vote for the nominees of the democratic party. l am opposed to the so-caled American or Know Nothing party.- In my opinion, 1t; organization Is anti-republi- can and contrary to the true theory of our %. vernment and the fundamental principles of the Constitution. l have not atfl ated with or vo- ted the ticket of this party. It is not the whlg party, either open or disguised; but boasts of having risen upon the ruins and cor ruption of boh the old parties Mr. Fillmore is the candidate of the American party alone. and has accepted its platlorm- platform which do not approve, and which Is the work of the northern wing of the party, or rather the small remnant of 1t which has not joined the abolition party, while Mir. Fillmore him self is the candidate of the southern wing and repudiated by the north. The great question of domestic staUery, in all it's bearings, IS para mount to all others iii this presidential cleo ton. It ought not, and cannot be ignored or made subordinate to others of less signi6cation by any true southern man. Upon this question the democratic party occupies, in an eminent degree, the highest conserUatice constitutional and national ground. It is truly national It Is the only party now in existence which can meet together, discuss and adopt principles and resolves on this subject, of the same or even of similar character in eUery and in aU sec tions of cur country. There is no organized whlg party, and no whig candidate in the field. MT. Fillmore is careful to repeat that he IS not the whig but the American" can,li- dQte, and speaks of the whigs as his former associates" He is a :" member of tue order''- In choosing between him, therefore, and othei candidates, there is no compromise of whig principles. true whig may act as his con- science dictates, unbiased by other oblga tions
 But there is another consideration of the greatest moment in reference to the pending Presidential election. The contest is practi caly between the democratic and abolition parties. There is not the slightest probability that Mir. Fillmore can be elected President by the electoral colleges. If he should succeed in getting one or two States, which is even doubtful, in any quarter of the Union, the only effect of it might possibly be not to elect hin in any contingency but to give the election to the present House of Representatives iron xyb iph pJ ,,,;I eXclalm, may God deliver us! Under the crit ical circumstances which surround us, I sin cerely believe that the Union and constitution and the rishtfu equality of the States unde the federal compact, are in imminent peril and leaving others to judge for themselves, fo myself I feel it to be my duty to vote, in com pany with thousands of firm and true old-line whgs throughout the nation, for the candi dates of that party which will have the abilt, in political power, as we'll as the patriotic dis position, to preserve and perpetuate the Un ion, the constitution and the equality of tn, States. Under existing circumstances tn, party of which Mir. Fillmore is the candidate cannot in any probable contingency be in DO sition to exercise such an influence And tn nominees of the democratic party are the onl, candidates now before the people who ma have 1t Tn their power to prolong if not to per petuatc the blessings which are guarantied t us by the free institutions under which w have heretofore so happily and so prosperousl lived.
 My purpose is, therefore, to give my supper to those distinguished statemen, Mcssrs. Buch anan and Brecknridge, who are cminentl. qualified for the highest positions in the gov ernment and who are the candidates mos likely to defeat Fremont, the sectional anc abolition candidate, and to be able under Di vine Providence, to alay the fanatical strif and the bitter and bloody distractions whic now uuhappily divide our country, and threat en the very existence of the constitution an, the Union. Surely surely it is time tor H south, tue entire sO,ah and al conservative me eueryvhere, to De fate,nal and united in tue fat of tue dangers aohich beset usi
 am, dear sir, truly and respectfully,
 Your obedient servant, D. M. BARRINGER.
 To WM. A. HoUoK Esq.