Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-07-15

Isthey should allow their opposition to slavery
extension TO influence their votes, and should
cast them for John O. Fremont, they would
not only perpetuate the sectional discord which
exists, and endanger the permanency of the
Union, but they would inaugurate the reign of
Foreignism and Popery, if Fremont were sue
cessful, or strengthen those clements, even If
he were not Taking this view Of the results
Of their decision, is it probable that the Amer-
icdaised voters of the North will unite upon
Fremont? We think not but, on the contra
ry, we believe that their patriotism will prompt
them to lay aside their sectional prejudices,-
to ward off present dangers, and rescue our in
stitutions from peril.
Acting upon these principles, and for these
purposes, we doubt not that when November
comes, the vote of Willard Fillmore will be
swellcd by this vast accession of American
strength, in the North and West, and that this
accession will be attributable to no party flu
sions no political wire-working, but to the
calm and sober reflections Of men, who lore
he Union, and who will never allow their Sec
tional prejudices to bring il into peril-men,
who detest the tyranny Of Popish priestcraft,
and will not become the willing instruments
of its triumph
Believing then, that the foreign and Catho-
lie strength in the North and West, upon which
this present dynasty came into power, will be
withdrawn from Buchanan and cast for FIRE.
mont--believing that fen voters, except for
eigners and papists will sustain Fremont, and
that Fillmore will get the whole American and
conservative vote in these sections-it is our
judgment that Mr.. Fillmore will receive de-
cided plurality Of the electoral votes north of
Mason and Dixon's line, and that the contest
north of that line now lies between Fillmore
and Fremont
South of Mason and Dixon's line Mr.. FIRE.
mont will receive no votes, and of course the
contest there lies between Fillmore and Blu
chanan, and it is for the South to decide as
well that contest as the final result, for, if the
| Southern States shall cast their sufIrages for
Fillmore, he will be elected by the Electoral
College; if the South casts her vote for Blu
chanan, it can only carry him into the House.
This, in our opinion, is a fair statement of the
case, and from this statement it is obvious that,
If the Washington Union and its friends really
dread the election Of Fremont, they should
render Fillmore's election more certain by
casting their suffrages in his behalf
But we now propose to convict the friends
Of the Washington Union at the South Of
deception, duplicity, and Jesuitism, and we
shall do it out Of the mouth of the Union
itself!
1t is well known, and will not be denied,
that the strongest possible appeals have been
made at the South, to the American party, to
support Buchanan, as the only means Of de-
tsating Frem0ntt The Buchanan orators
have made themselves hoarse, preaching this
sermon, that the South must unite upon BIZ
chanaa as the only possible mode Of preoeat-
ing the ele;tion Of a Republican Our friends
all knoU, and our enemies will not, dare not
deny, that this is the main argument at the
South in tauor of Mr.. Buchanan.
The Southern American party has been adj
jured, urged, begged, entreated, duplicated,
by all the considerations that can move patri-
OTIS, to come to the rescue of the UNION, by sup
porting James Buchanan! They have been
told by those deceitful orators and editors who
have sustained this miserable dynasty, and
who still cling to the hope Of further enjoying
the loaves and fishes" that unless the Amer
lean party at the South noao come up to the
support of the Cincinnati nominees, all IS lostl
Is not this the substance of their appeals to the
Americans of the South Have not the ora
tors and editors We refer to, over and over
again, held the above language? THEY HAVE.
Yet there was not one so0rd Of truth in all
they have thus said by way of suppication to
the Americans South-not one Wordi And
we mean to demonstrate the hypocrisy and
falsehood of those appeals, from the editorial
columns of the Washington Union, endorsing
on this point the Washington Sentinel "a
Buchanan press also,) and, for this purpose,
we quote the two last paragraphs from the
article headed The Man Of Strag," pub
lished in the Union on this 10Th day of July,
1866, to wit:
" Mr.. Fremont never would have been chosen
as the candidate of any respectable party, 6y the
people. few politicians who aspire to control
the government selected him for his negative quail
ltles, ana under the impression which he has art
fully created that he has command of boundIess
wealth. He is man of straw. They are already
sick Of their bargain. They can arouse no enthu-
siasm for the cause. They have made an eyre
gious blunder in selecting him. The more his his.
tory is sifted the more worthless his merits az a
candidate will appear.
He is, after ALL not the candidate of the pres
ent party Of opposition TO the administration, but
simply the candidate of the ABOLITION party. The
Abolition leaders controlled the convention which
nominated him The nlatfor,n or, uuhich he r-aa