The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1856-10-02

barometer, are guided by its suggestions.
They calculate the chances and the cost
ofa Presidential election The platform
upon which they placed Mr. Fillmore Of
Tended Northern Sentiment. The action
in Congress and the events in Kansas
have awakened throughout the North and
West an indignation SO deep and perva-
ding as to deprive Mr.. Fillmore of the
votes of every Free State. To qualify
himself for acceptance in slave States, Mr..
Fillmore had to take grounds which nee
essarily repelled the free States; and hav-
| ing thus lost the North, the South, for
that reason. abandons him. In this the
South acts understandingly, and is true
to herself. Mr.. Fillmore became value
less to slavery the moment it was certain
that he could not subsidize the North
And although abandoned by those who
nominated him, neither Mr.. Fillmore nor
his friends can justly charge the South
with bad faith, for the terms of the COM
pact were distinctly understood They
aimed, with Americanism as a cover, to
extend slavery. He was to bring North
ern strength. Unable, from the stringen-
cy of the terms imposed, and the enormi
ty of the outrages perpetrated in Kansas,
to do that, the consideration failed, and
the South declares for Buchanan, instead
of Fillmore, as the most available candi-
date. If, therefore, the South, as it has
done whenever ''Northean man with
Southern principles ceases to be useful,
lets Mr.. Fillmore t'slide," he must console
himself, as did Cardinal Wolsey, with
the reflection that, if he chad served free
dom with half the zeal he has given to
clavery, he would not now be left naked
to bis enemies" Nor is this poetic truth
only, for while serving freedom, no man
was more honored than Millard Fillmore;
rising, as he did, from station to station,
higher and higher, in the State and ma
tional governments, and enjoying, until
tempted by ambition to abandon his prin-
ciples and party, universal regard and
confidence.
Shall we, Of the North, then be requir-
ed to adhere to nomination which has
been deliberately abandoned by the
South? Shall we cling to Mr.. Fillmore
after those most earnest for his nomina
ton are supporting Mr.. Buchanan?
This is the practical question. Let
US, therefore, look it practically in the
! face:
Even in the present state of the can
vass, all but one or two of the South
ern States are not only sure to vote fol
Mr.. Buchanan, but are made sure by
the votes of Southern Americans, who
were pledged to Mr.. Fillmore. AS the
canvass progresses, and the Northern SEN
timent deveiopes and concentrates in fa-
vor Of Col. Fremont, the remaining one
or two Southern States will declare un.
mistakeably for Mr.. Buchanan, on whom
the whole South will be united.
On the other hand, the Free States
with the exception Of New Jersey and
Pennsylvania, have, or in the progress
of the canvass will, declare for Fremont
The nominee of the American party
abandoned by the South, though espous
ing its principles, and repudiated by th'
North because of his subserviency to th'
South is driven into New Jersey ant
Pennsylvania, two States upon which hi
friends hang 'forlorn hope" Blu
does Mr.. Fillmore, or any sane man, sup
pose or pretend that he can carry eithe
of these States? Assurdly not.
1t is certain, however, and it is conce
ded, that union of the Americans AN,
Republicans in both States, would tax
them from Buchanan and carry then
where they belong, into brotherhood an
fraternity with freedom.
May not, then, rely upon the patriot
ism of my American friends, appeal t
, them with confidence in favor of unio
here in my own Stale, and in our siste
State of Pennsylvania, for the sake of tha
, glorious Union which we all love an
r cherish as an inheritance more preciou
than any other gift, though encumbereo
!, as portions of It necessarily was, wit
e slavery?-Does any one tell me IN reply
S that our American principles forbid thi
union? Of such let me inquire what ha
a been done, or sought to be done, b
s Southern Americans in Congress,
carry out our principles? Have the
t PASSED or attempted to pass any Law
: upon the American question? Or ha,
q their voices and their votes been give
!. constantly in favor of slavery extension
# In refusing to unite with other friends
j. free Kansas (the only issue involved
$ the contest, Americans in New Jerse
d and Pennsylvania, are with their ey'
i open TO the general result, aiding Mr.. b
chanan, whose national and State pla
d forms contain open denunciation OF Il
n American party, to carry these State
lie Yes nothing is more certain than tn
n New Jersey and Pennsylvania can ele
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