Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-08-09

sultn
"We can neither advance the prospects Of Blu
chanan nor fremont knowingly-we think both
unsound.n
Our answer was in private what it is an
public: "The South is in earnest. 1t will
sustain the National American Candidates; it
is opposed to 'squatter sovereignty; it is in
favor Of American doctrines, American nation
atty, and the Federal Union"
These Were and are our opinions and this
was our answer.
Our correspondent had seen the efforts OF
the Southern press to create the belief that Mr.
Fillmore has 'no chance" ITO induce the Amer
leans South to unite upon Buchanan, and he,
with every other man of any intelligence, saw
that this policy, if yielded to, could only result
in purely sectional contest.
There is not a man in the whole North and
West, who does not kno0 that Mr.. Buchanan
can carry no Northern or Western State--not
one. They all see and know, that were Mr..
Fillmore out Of the way, the contest would be
purely sectional, and must result in sectional
victory Of the North over the South. The
friends Of the Union, of conservatism, of ma
tionality, of Americanism, at the North, are
willing to stand up and fight for these princi-,
pies and these objects, but they will not fight
to secure the success of "squatter sovereign
ty," I" filibusterism, {" foreignism," and "Fbr-
neyism"
If any Southern man wishes to see the pow
er Of the flibustering Democracy In the North
west, let him look at Ioaoa, State that cast
her vote for Pierce in 1862, moo, in this month
of August, 1866, and in view of the Cincin-
natl platform and its nominees casting her
vote by .foe thousand majority for the Repub-
leans Buchanan cannot, we repeat, carry
one single free State, and sohy? Because the
South, in demanding Of the native Americans
surrender of their votes to Buchanan, mani
fest fixed purpose to create a sectional con-
test, and when they thus seek this contest in
the face of certain defeat, soiA the North de-
cline itP
The friends of Fillmore in the North are ma
tional men--they are willing to fight in con-
test for national principles, but they will not
enter the lists for a sectional candidate, and
they justly regard James Buchanan as equally
sectional candidate with John G. Fremont.
Besides, the pseudo Democratic party, both in
their resolve of last December, through their
Congressional Caucus, and in their resolves at
Cincinnati violently and bitterly denounced
the doctrines of the American party.
We say, in all frankness, candor and SINGER
ity to the Southern Democracy, that, couldithey
persuade the Southern Americans to cast their
votes for Buchanan, the effect upon the North
of such policy at the South, would inevitably
be, to drive every friend Of conservatism from
tho polls, and leave the issue to be decided be-
tween Northern and Southern sectionalism.
It would be in vain that we should deplore
such q contest, and lament its result, which
result could be nothing less than the election
of Fremont, and such scenes of bitter strife and
warfare rs this country has not yet Witnessed
Can any man of common information doubt, |
that, if this Presidential contest could be mar
rowed down, by the folly and perverseness of
the South, to Buchanan and Fremont, the re- |
suit would be the election of Fremont? Look
at Iopay Read what Howell Cobb said of the
probable election of two Republican members
of Congress from Democratic Illinois to supply
present vacancies
Look at the thirty old Free-soil Democratic
presses of Now York, that have gone over to
Fremont Look at the masses of foreigners
throughout the North and West that have
gone over to himl Look at the election of
Blair, Free-soil Buffalo platform Democrat,
elected by the processing Democrats of st.
Louis, Missouri, in place of the gallant, gifted,
conservative and national representative, Luz
Their M Kennettl There has been general
stampede of Free-soil Democrats and foreign
Democrats, from the ranks Of the Democratic
party, into the party of Greeley, Seward, and
Bishop Hughesl The Democratic party of the
North is dead--dead-DEADl ...
This pseudo Democratic party exists ONLY
ut the South, and if it chooses to seek a Sec
tional contest with the cohorts of Abolitionism,
Foreignism, and Romanism at the North,
against the protestations and remonstrances
of the American party in all sections of the
country, it will thenceforward cease to have
any existence. 1t will be crushed.
The American party of the North, the Fill
more and Donelson men of that section, stand
n0W as the only barrier to the success Of Re
pu6licandsn, and this barrier the Southern
Democracy seek to destroy! This National
American party is purged of its abolition ele-
ments. 1t is a conservative Union-loying party.
1t can, if sustained by the Americans South,
defeat the Vaccinations Of the disunionists,
but, if in its folly or its madness, the South
shall create a purely sectional issue with the
Republicans, by uniting upon Buchanan, de.