Washington sentinel., 1856-07-26

contest.
SE- We give place to the entire article OF
the Daily IN. o. Bee, as specimen of cool
ness upon the part of the few Fillmore Jour
nails in the South. We had just taken our
pen to answer it, and to expose the utter fallacy
Of asserting any strength for Mr.. Fillmore in
the South, sufficient to make him even re-
spectacle rival Of Mr.. BUCHANAN in that quar-
ter, while in the North it is quite apparent he
cannot hold candle" to Fremont, when the
Couie,'s IN. o. answer was handed us. We
therefore adopt it as our own reply to the Bee"
We also give from the same paper an article
upon the same point, from the Boston Courier,
an old line Wing paper, which will repay a
perusal:
The Duty or tho South.
| Some of our readers may, peradventure, find
| it singular that we should devote SO much space
and so many articles to the demonstration of
Mr.. Buchanan's extreme weakness in the
North. We have been influenced in our course
by an earnest and abiding sense of duty. 1t
is binding obligation on every southern man
to cooperate by every possible means in effect
ing the defeat of Fremont, the sectional candi-
date for the Presidency. The first question
which arises is, how is this important object to
be accomplished We answer, by the united
action of the South. But the South cannot be
united while one-half of her citizens sustain
Fillmore and the other half Buchanan. Now
it is sefevdent that the true policy Of the
South is to cast her suffrages for the candi-
date who stands the fairest chance of obtain.
ing sufficient number of electoral votes in
the Free States to constitute majority, when
added to the entire, or nearly entire vote of the
South. If the southern vote could be unan
mously secured to Buchanan, and if that gem
teman were certain of commanding the cleo
toral votes of few Of the larger northern
States, our solemn convictions of duty would
compel US, maugre our repugnance to Demo
cratic doctrine, our thorough detestation Of
squatter sovereignty, our objections to the ag-
gressive spirit of the Cincinnati platform, and
our settled dislike of most of the tenets and
many Of the acts of the Democratic candidate
to sustain Mr.. Buchanan. We should do SO as
an alternative painful to Whig, but impera
tive upon southern man. Let us look little
closely into this matter.
As regards the North, the most hopeless
and incurable political blindness can alone
fail to perceive that Mr.. Buchauan's nomina
ton has been unsuccessful in restoring har
mony to the Democratic party, and has
widened the breach between the Freesoil and
National wings of the Democracy The evi
dences of this distracted and belhgerent con-
dtion of the party can be overlooked only
by those who obstinately shut their eyes to
the truth. The desertion of seven n-eighths of
the immense German vote of New York,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Indiana,
Iowa and Missouri, would alone suffice to
overshadow his prospects in some of these
States, and reduce his friends to lean mi.
nority in others. These Germans have always
been emocrats-their votes have enabled
the party to triumph, and their detection de-
stroys its power and its influence. But this
is not the gloomiest omen. We see through.
out the non-slaveholding States, Democrats
American Democrats = who have never
swerved from their political party, carried
away by the Black Republican movement,
and going over TO Fremont Wherever any
portion of the Democracy has exhibited the
least tincture Of Freesoi, and especially in
such States as New York, all New England,
and the larger Northwestern States, there
Fremont strengthens himself by accessions
from the ranks of the Democracy. neutral
paper-the New York MrTor-says il is ont
of the question for Mr.. Buchanan to carry a
single New England State; that they will 20
for either Fremont or Fillmore. The ac.
count we publish in another column OF the
disaffection OF the Democracy in Warren
county, is an unerring index Of Mr.. Buchan-
ans growing feebleness, even in Pennsyl.
yania-the State which of all others might be
considered safe for him. On the other hand,
Mr.. Fillmore is gaining strength all over the
North There is not non-slaveholding State
which will not be contested by him, and if
we except Wisconsin and Illinois, there is not
one which he does not stand a fair chance OF
carrying. His friends are ardent, numerous
and active. His noble conservative speeches
have attracted to his support hosts Of nation.
al men. The quick instinct Of the nation has
been aroused. The people Of the North, who
are in the midst of the stormy sectional ex-
citement Of the day, feel that they have a
candidate in whom all parties and all sections
can con6de, whose stern sense Of justice will
Withstand alike fattery and menace, and
whose patriotism will look to the preservation
Of the Union, and the reconstruction of that
fraternity and concord which are its surest
hgaments. Fillmore, therefore, is the last
hope Of the conservative and Union-ovinp
citizens OF the North.
From the Developments which have already
transpired il is absolutely positive that Mr.
Buchanan is the weakest Of the three candi-
dates in the field; that in the North he is i'm
potent to the last degree, and without the
assurance Of carrying a single State, not even
Pennsylvania, and that the contest in the
North is really between Colonel Fremont and
Mr.. Fillmore. Prove this, say thousands Of
Democrats in the South, and we shall vote for
Fillmore to defeat Fremont. Proofs in abund-
anco we have furnished already, and those who
think proper, in n dispassonate and impartial
spirit, to investigate the subject, have merely
to examine the public press from day to day,
and they will speedily convince themselves
that there is no exaggeration in our statements.
At all events no one will deny that If il be true
that the contest in the North is between Fill.
more and Fremont, erery Southern uote cast
for buchanan is virtually rote IN fapor oil
Fremont. It, therefore, becomes of the highest
importance to point out clearly and unmista-
kably what public sentiment is at the North, |
and to warn Southern men to avoid being mis-.
led by the blatant outcries Of rampant parti- |
sans or salaried officials.
In the words Of a cotemporary, we want the