The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1856-09-13

with foreign populatton-a population such
AS has shown itself utterly incapable of suS-
tanning popular governments in the Old
World. So immense is now the influx that
we can scarcely be regarded as the same, or
the descendants Of the same people we were
twenty years ago. Where. and in what. is
this to end Willard Fillmore alone, Of the
candidates for the Presidency, has refused to
court this gigantic and growing element OF
power. While he has no hostility to foreign
crs, he frankly warns his countrymcn that it
is safer for American born citizens to rule the
dcstinles of America. Having witnessed their
dcplorablc condition in their own latherlands
he would share with them all the privileges
and blessings of ours, save the single prrl-
lcge of seizing the rcins of government, and
orcrtulnng the car of State, in which We are
passengers. We beeccch You to see the dam
gers we have briefly glanced at, and to shun
,hc,n, before it is too late torcvcr
We urge YOU to unite with us in support Of
the patriot statesman who has always fear
lcssly out-spokcn his sentiments has
ever made the Constitution his guiding star
who has risen from an apprentice boy to the
Presidency who, when President. frowned
upon disorganizers and radicals, North and
South, and with the aid of conservative
Wings and Democrats braycly restored peace
| to distracted Countrywide has just said
| "ifthcre be those North or South, who desire
an administration for the North as de0inA The
co"th, or for the South as against, the Norh
Aey me not tie men nho shOuld gicc their
sUNrGars 10 me-
From the moment Mr.. Fillmore was first
placed in nomination, every effort has been
rcSOrt,d to induce the country to believe, first
that he would not accept the nomination.;
secondly, that he had no strength at the North
and could not carry single Northern State,
even his own; thirdly, that he had no strength
at the South, and could not carry single
Southern State: fourthly, that he was so
Southern in his feelings and views, that the
North ought not to support him, and would
not; and lifthly, that he was an 4Abold'onst,
and could not and ought not to bc supported
by the South.
In regard to the charges against Mr.. Fill
more winch related to his views and opinions
Of public policy, his friends have deemed it
best to permit them to be reflltcd, and they
have been most amply and triumphantly by
the record Of his model administration: by his
own bold, frank and manly speeches, which
the people haze everywhere read with admi-
ration and d,li@ht, and by his own pure, I'M
sulicd reputation and spotlcss character.
OF these the people themselves had the means
Of forming an accurate Judgment and to that
judgment both he and his friends have been
at all times, and arc now, ready to bow with
respectful submisSion-thcy ask no appeal to
any other tribunal.
But the arts and falls, hoods which have
been resortcd to by the two sectional parties
Of
ducing the belief that he was without strength
elsewhere than in the place where the false
hood was told, the people have not been so
these assertions generally with surprise and
incrcdnlity, though the frequency of their
repetition, the confident tone in which they
were asserted, the variety of forms in which
they have been made to appear, and. above
all, the perfect concurrence of Republicans
and Democrats in these Misrepresentation,
and the readiness with which the one sus-
tanned the others fabrication, have made
some impression upon the public mind, or at
least upon the minds Of Such as consult their
fears rather than rely upon the goodness of
their cause.
Upon the eve Of our adjournment, these
and similar assertions are again renewed.
with view no doubt of sowing the seeds of
alienation and distrust between our friends
in different sections of the Union, and these
wicked and false statements are sent to the
eountry by railroad, by telegraph, and by
missionaries and cmmissaries, with zeal and
apparent confidence worlhicr ola better cause
and the assertion is now added that Mr.. Fill
more will be now withdrawn.
In addressing you now, we wish definitely
to contradict these untrue reports, and cor
rect as far as we can the false impression to
which they have given rise and thus to strip
our enemies of their most favorie aud nearly
only remaining means Of warfare.
None Of these charges and destinations
arc true. We speak to all sections of our
common country in saying so. The friends
of our candidates, both North and South, are
standing firmly by their colors and by their
men, and will do SO until the contest is de-
cdcd in November.-Thcy do SO both from
choice and from duty. They choose it be-
cause their men stand on the only truly ma
lional platform, as broad as the entire Union,
and exactly co-cxensve with the Constitu-
ton, recognizing the rights of the States on
the one hand and the Federal Government on
the other, and holding each sovereign within
It's proper sphere: and their duty requires
that these geographical these sectional par
tics, both Republican and Democratic, so
called, shall be driven from the field. Who
ever aids either, aids one section ola common
country against another.
We can say to our friends in all sections
that from henccforh Till the election in No
vcmbcr, they should work in good heart and
spirits; that stories of lukcwarmncss and
abandonment of our candidates must be based
upon something in the future different from
the past, to be true: that North and South the
friends of our candidates are true as well tenn
percd steel and are working with more heart,
zeal and confidence as the canvass progresses.
The hearts of true national men, North and
South, beat in unison with each other and
their hands are being vigorously applied to n
common labor, and for common result: and
there is not the least reason. in any section,
for distrust of friends in any other. Let not
the enemy reap any fruits from the insidious
policy pursued by them. We say to you that
it appears to us from. this point Of observation
that if all who in their hearts prefer Willard
Fillmore for President shall vote for him, he
will be tr'umphanuy elected.
We do not pretend to direct govern, or
, controle the movement in favor OF the Amer
lean cause. That is a matter solely in the
hands of the people at large. 1t is theirs
they originated it. We believe our candi-
dates. however, are Intimately stronger