Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-09-09
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We have demonstrated, beyond all question
or cavil that if the election of President were
thrown into the House of Representatives
John @. Fremont would have no chance for an
election that the Fillmore States would hold
the balance of power; that Mr.. Buchanan
would have no better chance than Fremont,
and that the probable and almost certain re-
suit of the contest in such an event would be
the election Of Fillmore. In making this ex-
hibit we have also pointed to the alternative,
il there should be no election by the House,
to wit that Mr. Breckenridge would become
the President by virtue of his election as Vice
President by the Senate This view of things
is unpalatabIe to the leading presses of the
Fremont party, foremost among which is the
Neao York Eoening Post, quondam or soft
shell sham Democratic paper, but now in the
service of Seward Greeley, and Bishop Hughes,
The Evening Post don't like it. In an article
of a column in length, on Friday evening last,
that press assails the american Organ, assu-
ming that ga policy has been agreed on among
the more knowing ones of Mr.. Fillmore's
friends, to use his (Fillmore's) nomination for
preventing Fremont from obtaining majority
of the electoral votes" The Post speaks of
"plan," which it says in substance is as fol-
lows: "That the BUCCANEERS and the Know
Nothings are to act together in such manner
as to prevent the choice of Fremont by the
electoral colleges, and having brought the cleo
ton by this means into the House Of Repre-
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as Vice President, leaving the Presidency va
can't Would not this be queer policy for
the friends of Buchanan to adopt? Would
they hold razor for him to cut his own throat ?
But hoao uniteP" Would Mr.. Breckenridge
be elected by any union of parties in the
Houses He would be elected by the Demo-
cratic Senate.
This is the "policy," is it? and this is the
+" plan" is itP And so the knowing ones of
Fillmore's friends" have concocted this "plan"
and adopted this policy ~ So says the Even
ing Post
Our kindly disposition prompts us to relieve
the fears of the Post, by stating, that we have
had no intimations Of any "plan or "policy Z"
on this subject, nor do we think any "plan :"
or "policy" necessary, to defeat Mr.. John
Charles Fremont. #.
It is only necessary to present to the country
the consequences of the election of such a man.
Our article, to which the Post refers, was
never seen, nor heard of by any one but our
self, till we gave it to our compassionate was
the result of our own individual reflections,
and we penned it, to present to our friends and
the country, the plain and palpable results
which would flow from failure to elect a
President and Vice President by the electoral
colleges. The apprehension has been, espe-
cially at the South, that if the election were
thrown into the House, Fremont would proba-
bly, be elected-and our object has been, in
several recent articles to show that no such
calamity would follow. If we thought that
either Buchanan or Fremont could be elected
by the House, we should deprecate, most Sc
riously deprecate the election being thrown
into the House--but we have no such appre-
tensions
The Post offers its coincidence to Mr.. Fill
more, under its view of the "plan" and "pol-
icy" which that sapient press had discovered.
II says:
"Mr. Fillmore, good, easy man, in the innocence
of his heart supposes he is nominated to be elect
ed. No such thing he is only nominated 10 d.
Vsde the North, TO dTdW off notes from Fremont,
to help make John Q. Breckenridge, President"
Mr.. Fillmore who was nominated in Feb
ruary, three months before the Republicans
met in Philadelphia, was nominated, says the
Post, to defeat the Rocky Mountain youth, DAo
had not then been eOen seriously thought Of
By Gny man Of common sense, and who will
not, even now, be supported by any save those
who are willing TO sacrifice the Union to graf
ify their prejudices on the question Of slavery
extensionl
The Post had better save its stock of condo
lence,-it mag need it for its friends.
The Post harps upon our admission that,
were Mr.. Fillmore to retire, the triumph Of the
Republican candidate would be certain. 1t