Daily American organ., 1856-08-13

duly instructed by the sponsors at their baptism,
aud whose public and formal declaration now
is nothing but the ceremony of confirmation to the
world of their earlier conversion. There is nothing
in that list which need shake the confidence of any
friend OF the American party. There is nothing
which makes the scale of Mr.. Fillmore vacate for
single instant in its inclination in the State of MARY
land. There is nothing that in the slightest de-
gree increases the difficulty of repeating, with
larger maorites and greater eciat, the triumph Of
the past year.
But, sir, l rise now to test the argument thus
supported by great names and widespread au-
thority. gH aAEs ..t.a
We are not to vote for Fillmore, because a ma
tority at the North are opposed to his patriotic
and wise administration runs the reason: be-
cause the majority Of the North are not favorable
to compromise and conciliation---so runs the rea-
son because the majority of the North regard tile
time as come when they must get scourge for the
South-because the majority of the North are Of
that opinion therefore, ia this contest which they
supercilousy assume is to be between the Northern
candidate and the Southern candidate all men
must desert the candidate who is alone the candi-
date of the Constitution and the Union. Hh
The argument is hollow and insidous. If the
mciority Of the North be sueh then the time for
voting as past; it is no longer question whether
We will vote for Fillmore or Buchanan as President
OF the United States, because the South is in pitt
able minority in the Electoral College, and every
vote cast there leaves her where she is and with
out the power of selfprotection. If the hour of
madness be come If reason be dead in her chosen
seat II the conservative North has ceased to be
CONSERVATIVES and is inspired by the hatred this ar
gument ascribes to her people; then we have no
election on the fourth of November for President
OF the United States. Mr.. Buchanan will be inc
hgible as foreigner to rule the South We have
passed by the time of the election of that man
whose name is to close the fst of that illustrous
line The people in 1852 OWNED well that they
were choosing the Honorious of the Republic, and
fitted the man to the station .a8 '
The argument proves too much, if it is true. If
it is not true, it is trash.
But the argument is put in a different shape, aud
it is pointed directly at Mr. Fillmore His merits
are made his incapaciues. His truth to the Union
is made the reason why Southern gentlemen, for
whom he ran the greatest risk against the opinion
OF his own region of country, are to turn against
him, desert him, for man who has encountered
nothing for them, or for the Union. The majority
OF the North are opposed to Mr.. Fillmore, because
Of his mise and patriotic administration they
will then vote for Buchanan because his admins
tratlon will not be so wise and patriotic They are
opposed to Fillmore, because they are opposed to
conclatlon and compromise they will vote for Mr..
Buchanan, because he and his party have said no
more compromise and no more Cancellation. They
will not vote for Fillmore, because they want
scourge for the South Unwittingly the argument
pictures the result Of that policy-whiclfou Dem
ocratic friends have inaugurated and followed out
to its bitter end. The majority Of the Northern
allies OF the Democrats, arc supposed very likely
to vote for Buchanan because he oiH be a Scoatroe
TO the South. If that be not the argument, then
the argument is unmeaning maT
Well, if that be the foundation of the argument,
VIII not gentlemen who appreciate the force of
reasoning, cease to use il? Will they not give some
better reason why M. Fillmore can get no strength
at the North? Win they not say, g come let us
reason together" and say that Mr. Buchanan bet
ter respects the great fundamental principle of the
constitution, and not base their argument on the
revolutionary assumption that the majority of the
men OF the free States are run mad against the
men OF the South9 It's very tempting know to
Southern Democrats. IF the majority Of the North
are madly bent on furnishing the South they will
pass Mr. Fillmore by, and infict on it Mr.. Buchan-
an as the more cruel scourge. The argument is
good, sr-the fact on which it rests is not true
Far different is my estimate of my Northern
brethren. | am not aware of any act of the North,
as they appear upon our statute books, or as exc
cuted from the Executive chamber however wild
may have been the votes occasionally of majority
upon this floor, or however dangerous the argi-
mentspressed into their support, which in the slight
est degree has sullied the honor or injured the in
terest of the South They have differed upon in
dustrial questions and decided them by party tao
tics; they have been set, one party against the
other in party manGuvre, party triumph, and
domination; but 1 say that, during the eighty |
years Of the Republic, there is no portion of this
great land which has reason to cast into the teeth
OF either the North or the South that any great
right of either section has been trampled down;
any great right of the Constitution deliberately
violated; any fact showing that madness rules the
itu Oh thapa al . L H.
But there is a solemn fact which my Demo.
cratic friends admit. There is hostility at tie
NORTH. They adroitly point il at the South. They
Vdi,ty strive to place the South betwee,s Themselves
and the shaft that has already smitte,s them to
the earth. There is wrath boilingup at the North,
but it is wrath which boils against them. There
is hostility at the North-but it il hostility
which they have aroused, which has stricken
them down and will keep them dosca
l wish TO feel the pulse Of the North tonight.
wish to see whether 1t be reason or madness
throbbng there-whether it be the rational wrath
of men who, believing they have been outraged in
their dearest rights, whether it be the madness
of men who have flashed into fury catselessly. |
Sir, there are series of great facts which strike
us wheresoever we turn eyes. In 1853 the pre-
sent incumbent of the Presidential chair was eleva
ted on the shields ftwenty-sevenS States and borne
to the White House amid the acclamations of an ex
ultant people, rejoicing In the advent of an era Of
peace. Three suns have run their course and now
" He is at supper-not where he eats, but where |
he is eaten. Acertain convocaton Of polite worms
are cen at him." t.
Since he miscalled the morning star,
Nor man nor fend hath fallen so far"
When he ascended the chair of State, a great
majority of seventy in this House obsequeously |
awaited his will The sun had not thrice run his |
course ere that majority han shrveled to seventy
four men. Their place knows them no more = |
This side Of the chamber is a charnel house Of
dead Democrats. The few survivors tread mourn