Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1856-08-21

time, united ourselves to some other, and it
does not become us to lecture each other
because we cannot think alike. Gov. Pratt
seems to suppose that the only question for
the Wings to determine, is (which Of the
two national organizations can, by their
vote, be made most certainly successful"
and he then jumps to the conclusion him
self that the Democratic organization is the
one. He declares that the election of the
Republican candidate will be the destruction
of the South and the Union, and then adj
vices the Southern men to desert Mr.. Fill
more, who has always stood nobly by the
South, and sacrificed bis popularity at the
North by his noble stand in favor of South
ern rights and he would have us discard
an old and tried friend to take up one who
has always stood in rather an equivocal po-
sition. He argues that Mr.. Fillmore is not
the strongest man, because in his opinion he
cannot carry one Northern State, but he
does not say that Buchanan can do better,
and if there is any reliance to be placed in
the signs of the times, he might have furth-
er said that Buchanan cannot certainly carry
single Southern State.
These, however, are the mere opinions of
individuals, and should not have the weight
of feather in making up our Judgment
A much safer guide is for every man to give
his support to that party which approaches
nearest to his standard Of excellence, with
out being governed by any other influences.
In the words of Crockett, first see you are
right then 90 ahead" Gov. Pratt admits
that all the free soil and abolition Ameri-
cans have left Mr.. Fillmore and the Ameri-
can party, and still he asks Southern men
to unite upon party supported by the
Softs, as they are called in New York, with
Martain Van Buren, (the candidate of the
Abolitionists in 1919 at their head. Mr..
Fillmore has been tried, and proved himself
a national and conservative man, not only
by his acts when President, but in his
speeches since his return from Europe
His manly independence, in qualifying his
acceptance Of the American platform, stands
out in bold relief, when contrasted with the
subservicncy of the acceptance Of his COM
petitor.
We must all admit that all Mr. Fillmore
antecedents are good except his uniting him.
self to the American party, and for this sin
gle error we are asked to discard him and
take up one whose antecedents are all on
posed to us, and who forfeits all claim to
our confidence by accepting the most OBJ
noxious platform that was ever proposed,
and confessing his entire dependence on the
party that nominated him. Mr.. Buchanan
may be called the father of the Cuba project,
for as long ago as 1926, in his speech on
the Panama question, he alluded to it; again.
in his Ostend manifesto, he urges it, and
lastly in this late platform. After full
examination of the claims Of these two par
ties and their candidates, cannot for a mo-
'r'essons 70 fnfiuence others, but simply to
justify myself in the eyes of my old associ-
ates and all that could OR would ask is,
that each member of the old Wing party
shall dispassionately weigh these candidates
in his own scales, and support the one who
comes nearest to his ideas of perfection.
CHARLES B. CALVERT.