Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-10-07
sPIRITOF THE MORNING PRESS

The Union, commenting upon the predic-
ton of the New York Express that " the
ticket that will succeed in Pennsylvania in
October is a Fillmore ticket, and the result
WiH be a Fillmore suecess," says:
Under 10 possible contingency can FIJI
more ticket be elected in Pennsylvania 10
assert otherwise is to betray an Ignorance OF
the politics of that State of which we be,ieVe
the Express cannot be justly charged. rlou
what section or faction, party or PaIuTp. aIe
the votes to come which are TO secure rem
sylyania for Mr. Fillmore? Whatever Strength
Mr.. Fillmore may possess-and we nave not
the SLIGHTEST desire to underestimate It's
derived from the Wings and the knoW Moth
ings The Know Nothing strength was made
MP of the old Native American organlzauon,
with fully three fourths of the Wings of Penn
sylvauis. which, with Democrats who had
been deluded into the secret order, formed
total large enough to defeat the Democracy in
1854 by an overwhelming majority We speak
in the past tense, for the Know Nothing party
Of 1856 j. but the shadow of the victorious or
ganization of 1854. Most of the Democrats
who belonged to it are now fighting under the
Buchanan flag; the same proportion Of Wings
are now converts to Black Republicanism :;
and so general has been the detection, tn at
there is not single candidate for Congress in
the field, in any part of the State, who is
willing to trust his chances for an election to
the unaided efforts Of Know Nothings. What
ever there is Of strength or vitality in the
Know Nothing party Of Pennsylvania, is
mainly derived from the old Native American
element, and that element is confined to some
four or FIVE counties, and was never of .
formidable character out of Philadelphia. +"
The Union concludes:
alt is to us a m after of small consequence
whether the enemies Of Democracy are to be
net in Pennsylvania singly or combined, for
Mr.. Buchanan majority on the popular vote
of the State will be numbered by tens of thou
sands; but ii is matter of consequence that
the voters in that State should he made aware
of the infamous fact that the Fillmore ticket
which has been presented to them for their
sufTeges is mainly composed Of the most de-
voted friends of John c. Fremont
The Cnior, speaking Of the fact that the
present Pres dental contest has been dis
tinguisbed beyond all others by the large pal
tieipstion Of Soathern speakers in the canvass
In the Northern States, says:
awe have abundant cause to know that
the labors Of southern speakers at the North
have diselchanted the eyes aud underst and
ings Of thousands who had listened too readily
to the falsehOOds of designing agitators"
The Intelltgeneer, in assigning its reasons
TOR declining to publish communications in
which the writer's undertake not only to dis
cuss the apprehended dangers which now en-
viron the stability of the Union, but also to
calculate its respective value to the Northern
and Southern portions of the Confederacy,
sys:
"We have little disposition to encourage a
controversy which having it's origin in tempo
rary bitterness and exacerbation of sectional
feeling, We would rather seek to compose than
to aggrayate by adding fresh fuel to its flames !;
and least Of all can We, as at present advised,
encourage 1t by the propagation Of arguments
which, whether intended to evince the disad-
vantages Of the Union either to the North or
to the South, seem to US equally fallacious,
because equally instructed The present
prosperity Of the country is sufficient answer
10 all who would seek TO disturb its repose ;
for what interests, we may ask, of either Sec
ton are suffering from any evils Of more than
ordinary and usual magnitude under ali
governments devised and managed by mon,
and therefore subject to human infrmiiy?'