Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-08-04
Correspondence Of the Patriot. -
WASHINGTON. July %, 1856.

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that while, in Tennessee, democrats are still urg-
ing the abandonment of Mr.. Fillmore, alleg-.
ing that he is "not avaiabe;" in the great
State of New York prominent democrats who
have recently scanned the popular movements.
are now warning their rank and file of the ne
cessity of dropping Mr.. Buchanan, and going
over to- Mr.. Fillmore, because he IS the only
"draild6Lc" man to sace NeSo York from FREE
mont! Tie great accessons 10 Fremonts
strength in the North are now seen 20 be from
BuchanaR's columns. They are marching over
by platoons and regiments, officers and men,
with their foreign and free soil flags NY
ing. If Buchanan were left alone to light the
battle with Fremont in the North, it IS seri-
ously to be apprehended that Fremont would
sweep the North like q hurricane. He has
got the foreign cohorts, and tile Catholics. who
have heretofore given the democratic party
balance of power in so many of the States
and were the national Americans and nation
al Wings of the North, who have no sort of
confidence in Buchanan, to ground arms, so
many of them would go against Buchanan on
account of his shameful treatment of Mr.. Clay,
his dishonorable suggestions both to Gen. Jack
son and Mr.. Clay, his Ostend letter, his VIII
mot Provso and Squatter Sovereignty doc
trines, his old Federalism, and his general
vasciation and insincerity 10 politics, that he
would be utterly overthrown in all the
Northern States. Why! recently, even in his
own State of Pennsylvania, it being under
stood that the Fremont men were trying to
prevail upon the Fillmore men to unite with
them on the same electoral ticket, to be CIV
en- to Fremont or Fillmore as the name of
either predominated at TIE head of the ticket,
despair was pictured in every democratic face,
until they learned that the Fillmore men treat
ed the very suggestion with indignation aud
scorn. Buchanan will probably carry Penn
sylvania; ard if so, he will O1os at to the pGtrt
otism Of Mr.. FIEIm0re's friends IN standing to
their guns. If they were to disband, such and
so numerous are the grudges against the old
trickster, in his own State, that he would
probably be utterly routed at his own home.
But suppose the gallant men in Tennessee
and in other Southern States who support Mil
lard Fillmore, were to abandon him under
thiscuckoo cry that he is mot available" what
would become OF our friends in the North 2
They would disband, too, of course. And
then what would become of Buchanan? The
fight w0uld at once become strictly sectional
Bad as he is, the South would prefer him TO
the Black Republican candidate; but the
whole North would be carried away as with an
avalanche; Fremont would get the l76
| Northern electoral votes-Buchanan the 100
Southern electoral votes Foreignisn, free
soilisn, abolition, would be rampaDt-na-
tioGal men in the North would be slenced, or
carried along aoith the irresistible torrent!
Could the UNION survive this fearful denOeu
ment? COP who upheld WASHINGTON,
and enlightened the minds of the TRAINERS OF
THE CONSTITUTION, We pray that this trial may
pass now from our beloved country! Why
IL har Mr. Eitlulnra IL nj
available Has he not done every thing that
any man could do, to secure the CONFIDENCE
of countrymen Has he not been tried,
and proved both faithful and able Has he
not once brought his country from the very
brink Of ruin, to peace, security, and AMIGA
tle relations 0 it would be a burning re-
proach to the American people, for history
ever to record that such a man Is "unavalla-
ble," while intriguing political old Bucks, or
mercenary nondescrIpt WOOtLy Horses, are bet
ter suited TO the temper of the times A peo-
pie SO infatuated, at such a crisis as this, would
indeed be ripe for national dissolution and the
wreck of all that is worth preserving IN the
Republic But infatuation like this will new
er come over them.
The truth is, it is Mr. Buchanan who is sun
available" Where is there a solitary State
in the North, of which his friends are sures
| repeat it-and let the question at once open
tho eyes of the sincere friends of the South
uhere is there solitary State an the North o.
sohich his friends are sure? Ii the South should
lean on hina, verify she would lean on broken
staff, and all would be lost The contest Is
now in truth, mainly between Fillmore and
Fremont in the North. What are the facts
In Maine, New Hampshire, Indiana, llIino OILS,
Michigan aud Wisconsin, six recent democratic
States, with forty-eight electoral votes, such
have been the foreign accessions from Buch-
anan to Fremont that all is regarded now as
lost to the Democracy In New York, Massa-
chusetts and N. Jersey, casting fifty FIVE votes.
Mr.. Fillmore is unquestionably IN the lead
Buchanan probably nowhere" Ia 'Massa-
chusetts, as shown by last falls elections, there
were but 80, 900 democratic votes out of 49,
600. In New York, nearly one half of the de-
feaied democratic forces of last fall have since
gone over to Fremont, and large portion of
the remainder are determining now whether
they will join the victorious standards of the
Fillmore Americans. Com. Stockton'S declen-
sion in favor Ct Fillmore, leaves no longer any
reasonable question as to New Jersey. In
California, the last falls vote was, American
5O,94S, Democratic 40, 957-and On this vote,
FILLMORE is now gaining. In Vermont, there
were last fall but y 1858 democratic votes out
of more than $4,000; and they are believed to
be running down. 1t is fearfully to be appre-
hended that Fremont will, with equal certain
", carry Rhode Island, Connecticut, Ohio, and
Iowa, as his party have heretofore done with
such decided maior;ies. Where, then, is Mr..
BuchaDan's strength in the North2 What
single State is he SIRE of? The sum and sub
stance of the whole business is this-he will
probably get 81 votes in the whole North, Mr..
Fillmore probablyi59, and Fremont probably 80.
But the South ought not by any meaus to drop
BnGhanan-oUght not to drop either him or
Fillmore-because to drop either, would make
A strictly sectional tight, which would elect
Fremont, aud, it is iearfny apprehended, lead
to an ultimate dissolution Of the Union! Were
Buchanan's friends in the South TO withdraw
him, his friends in the North would of
course disband, and masses of them would at
once go over to Fremont against Fillmore, and
probably elect him. Then, as sincerely as |
oppose Buchanan rs a southern Iuan earnestly
trust his friends will keep his maine flying, that
we may be saved the dangers and disasters of
a Presidential contest in which the Northern
States will be arrsyed strictly against the
Southern States of the Union.
Conveying the election to the House, is far
better for the South and the Union than a
strictly sectional fight, and the election of FIRE.
mont before the people by an exclusive North
ern vote. Some of BucLanan's friends argue
that if il goes TO the House, he may then sue
coed; aud if not, that Breckenridge will be-
come the President do not think Buchan-
an or Fremont could possibly succeed. Look
at the delegations, and you will see thar plain
IL. Should the House fail to elect, the man
chosen Vice President by the Senate will, una
Ter the Constitution b+come President
Should Breckenridge be one of the tUO highest
in the lists, he will be chosen by the Senate.
Should Dayton and Donelson be the two