The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-10-11

GOVERNOR Hunt ON FuIxoRE.-The fame
which Mr. Banks has acquired from his late mas
terly effort for Fremont in Wall street, has ex-
cited desire among the great guns Of the two
other parties to distinguish themselves on the
same rostrum. Thus Governor Floyd, of Virginia,
in behalf of the spols and dsunion democracy,
demanded and secured hearing from the Mer-
chants Exchange but his speech contained moth
ing of interest except the confession of bargain
with the spoils leaders of the Know Nothings.
Thus, too, Governor Hunt, in behalf of Mr.. Fill
more, had the honor conceded him of speech
in Wall street yesterday, which we publish this
morning full length, for what it is worth.
1t is regular old fogy speech, full of the usual
old fossil whig protestations and veneration
more edifyng the distinct issues Of the present
day than one of Martin Van Buren's old mes
sages on the sub-treasury, or Governor Shannon's
windy and incoherent manifesto on his late public
services in Kansas But, as Mr.. Hunts pro-
gramme for the election Of Mr.. Fillmore, his
peech may be very interesting to that set Of his
New York partizans who are now debating the
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60 over to Buchanan in order to secure the cleo
ton Of Brooks as Governor by the fusion Of the
democratic Irish Catholic vote.
Gov. Hunt, we fear, comes too late to do much
good. We all know that Mr.. Fillmore is run.
ming in the South upon the platform of the Fugi-
tive Slave law and of acquiescence to the ruff
fan solution of the Nebraska bill. His Southern
platform is acquiescence to ruffian sovereignty
and to Kansas as a slave State, if they can make
it so. The more conservative Of the slavehold-
ing citizens of the South are, from necessity con-
tent with this, while, on the other hand, they
have become alarmed at the horrors Of a foreign
invasion and Of servle war, in view Of the
terrible democratic Cuba doctrine of the Ostend
manifesto; and they have also become alarmed
at that other and more disastrous policy to the
South, of armed rebellion and disunion in the
event of Fremont's election. Thus, thousands of
Southern conservative men-slaveholders and
non-slaveholders- heart warmly sympathizing
with Fremont and his cause, in order to make
their hostility to the spoils and rufian demOcra-
cy as effective as possible, will vote for Fill
more as a choice of evils; and from these Access
sions he may carry two or three Southern States.
But while the Kansas platform of Mr.. Fillmore
in the South is proslavery in the North it is hos
tility to the repeal Of the Missouri compromise,
or, in other words, the platform of the restora-
ton of the Missouri line. Ever since his first APP
pearance on the stage as politician, Mr.. Fillmore
has thus been nything or nothing as the occasion
might serve. Without any fixed principles
whatever, he has been an anti-mason, a
bankite, high tarfite, free soiler, an aboli-
ZIONIST, a Know Nothing, pro-slavery man, and
a secession nulliier. His position now is that of
free soiler and Catholic hating Know No
thing in New York, disunionist at Albany, a
pro-slavery wing in Virginia, a Catholc-lovng.
Know Nothing in Louisiana, and Union man
everywhere, provided that Fremont is not elect
ed A political hack of this Sort running upon
such vagabond and rowing commission as this
may be used as last resort in one section and as
a stool pigeon in another, but with all the
speeches that such Union-loving and sectional
party hating Fillmore men as Gov. Hunt could
make in twelvemonth, the matter would not be
mended Mr. Fillmore would still occupy the
position Of a wandering pedlar, selling his wares
to all customers for what they will fetch in the
market.