Washington telegraph., 1856-09-24

the monarchies of Europe. Large portions
of our Union are already overhowing with
a foreign population 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 sane peo-
pie we were twenty years ago. Where,
and in what, i this to end? Millari Fill
more alone, OF the candidates for the Pres
idency, has refused to court this gigantic
aud growing element of power. While he
ias no hostility to foreigners, he frankly
warns his coun.rymen that it is safer for
American born citizens to rule the desti-
nies of America. Having witnessed their
deplorable condition in their own father
lands, he would share with them all the
privileges and blessings of ours, save the
privilege of seizing the ,eins of govern
ment, and overturning the car of State. in
which we are all passengers. We beseech
You to see the danger we have briefly CLAN
ced at, and to shu them before it is too
late forever.
We urge you to unite with us in sup
port of the patriot statesman who has al
ways fearlessly out-spoken his sentiments
who has ever made the Constitution his
guiding star-who has risen f.om an ap-
prentice boy to the Presidency-who,w when
President, frowned upon disorganizers and
radicals, North and South, and with the aid
of conservative Wings and Democrats.
bravely restored peace to distracted coun-
try-who has just said: IF there be those
either North or South, who desire an ad
ministration for the North as against the
South, or for the South as against the North
they are not the men who should give their
suffrages to me-
From the moment Mr.. Fillmore was first
placed in nomination, every effort has been
resorted to to induce the country to believe
first, that he would not accept the nomi-
nation; 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 a 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,
filthy, that he was an -4b0{jtiORisf, and
coIld and ought not to be supported by the
South.
La regard to the charges against Mr..
Fillmore which related to his views and
opinions Of public policy, his friends have
deemed it best to permit them to be refu-
ted, as they have peen most amply and tri-
umphantly, by the record of his model ad-
niaistration by his bold, frank, and man
" speeches, which the people have every
where read with admiration and delight,
and by his own pure, unsullied reputation
and spotless character. OF these the peo-
pie themselves had the means of forming.
an accurate Judgment, and to that judg-
ment both he and his frienCs have been at
all times, and are now, ready to bow with
respectful submission-they ask no appeal
to any other tribunal.
But the arts and talsehoodS which have
been reSorted to by the two sectional par
ties oi the country to weaken Mr. Fillmore
by inducing the belief that he was without
strength elsewhere than in the place where
the alsehood W told the people have not
been 50 well able to understand They have
heard these assertions generally with sur
prise and increduiity, though the frequen-
cy 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 concur
renee OF Republicans and Democrats in the
Misrepresentation, and the readiness with
which the one sustained the ether fabri-
cation, have made some impression upon
! the public 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 a 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 country by railroad, by tele-
graph, and by missionaries and emissaries,
with a zeal and apparent confidence wor
thier of better cause, and the ssertion is
now added that Mr. Fillmore will be now
withdrawn.
In addressing you now, we wish def
nitely to contradict these untrue reports
and correct as far as we can the false i'm
preston to which they have given rise,
and thus to strip our enemies of their most
favorite and nearly only remaining means
of warfare.
None of these charges and insinuations
are true. We speak to all sections of oul
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 decided in November. The do so both
from choice and from duty. They choose
it, because their men stand on the only
truly national platform, as broad as the en-
tire Union, and exactly co-extensive with
the Constitution, recognizing the rights Of
the States on the one hand and OF the
Federal Government on the other, and
holding each sovereign, within its proper
sphere; and their duty requires that these
geographical, these sectional parties, both
Republican and Democratic, so called
shall be driven from the field Whoever