Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1856-08-30
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The Safes, and sure.t Plan to Defeat Fremont.

peool. of Virginia and the South, if they really
anxious to defeat the election Of Fremont that the
only way to accomplish their object is to abandon
Buchanan and concentrate their united vote upon
Fillmore. We have shown that it is impossible to
elect Buchanan under any probable combination Of
circumstances. His strength in the Northern States
is literally and practically nothing There is not
single State in that section, which his most
sanguine friends claim for him with the slightest de-
gree Of confidence The late disastrous and over
whelming rout Of the Democratic party in Iowa.
State that has been the Democratic side since
its admission into the Union and that too, by
jority ranging from ten to twenty thousand-demon-
stratss, in the conclusive and convincing
ne that the strength Of the Democracy in the North
has been redssed to the merest shadow-that the
ganzaton of the party has been completely broken
up and its forces hopeessy shattered and dispersed
There is installing the significance of this result
in n State hitherto uniformly and largely Demo
cratic II proves that the Democratic party through
out the entire North is dead beyond the hope OF
surrection.
Look again to New Hampshire. Here, too, is a
State that has been Democratic from time where
of "the memory of man runneth not back to the
contrary" II was never known to finch before
Even amid the almost universal disaster that beiel
the Democracy in 1910, New Hampshire stood
and firm in unwav ering devotion to the Democratic
party. What do witness now Or, rather,
what the result in that State the last two cleo
tionsr Did New Hampshire still roll up her thou
sands of majority for the Democratic ticket The
South-the whole world knows that she utterly and
signally failed to do any such thing. She gave not
even a majority of for the Democratic party
She gave majority at all. The Democracy OBJ
tanned only plurality Of the votes cast and the
majority against the Democratic party the election
before the last was some ten thousand; and
at the last some three four thousand. 1t will be
remembered too that this result followed notwith-
standing the extraordinary exertions made by the
Democracy to carry the State The whole power
and influence of the Administration was brought to
bear upon it; and speakers imported from every d.
recton, traversed the State and harangued the peo
pie from one end to the other. All these efforts
however, were unavailing New Hampshire was
lost to the Democracy; and lost, we believe ire
trievably. What hope, then, is there of Buchanan
being able to carry that State in November? Is it
for moment to be supposed that he is more popu-
lar, and more acceptable to the people of New Hamp
shire, than General Perceg No candid Southern
Democrat, we presume, will so contend. Upon what
fact or circumstance, then involving the slightest
FEASIBILITY, can any man, North or South base his
claim to the State of New Hampshire for Mr.. Blu
CLAIMANT There is not one. There is no earthly
ground Tor any such deusve hope. New HaiDp-
shire will certainly cast her electoral vote for Ere
mont as that the sun will rise tomorrow Mark the
prediction and see if it will be surely verified
by the result in November.
Look, further, at Illinos-another strong and uni
formly Democratic State-and a similar state OF
things will be observed to exist there At the last
election in that State despite the tremendous and in
defatigable exertiOns Of Douglas, and Richardson.
and Shields, and the entire rank and file of the par
ty, the Democracy beaten-that is, thew OH
tanned only plurality OF the votes poled decided
minority being against them What has occurred
since to increase the strength of the Democratic par
ty in that State, to excite the confidence of its fol-
lowers in their ability to carry it for Buchanan On
the contrary is it almost universally conceded
by intelligent and rejecting men that much has
transpired in the last few months to oeaken the De-
mocracy in Illinois, and in all the other Northern
States, Such, take it. is the decided impression
and conviction of men of all parties and all sections
How then can any reasonable expectation be indug.
cd OF Illinois going for Buchanan? Besides will
any one seriously maintain that Buchanan il strong
or IN Douglas own State than Douglas himself .
Douglas abored diligently and arduously to carry
ms State Tor the Democracy at the last election be-
cause he felt and knew that the result would be in
iAct, and would be universally regarded as either q
verdict oil approval or condemnation of his own
course by his own immediate constituents But his
hopes were disappointed, so far as a MAJORITY 70,
the Democratic party Of the popular vote of his State
was concerned. And will it be said that Buchanan
will run better in Illinois than the Little Giantyp-
The idea is preposterous. Unless the friends Of Fill
more prevent, Illinois will range herself by the side
Of her Democratic sister, Iowa, and give her eeco.
raj vote TO Fremont If the Fremont and Kansas e.
yer is raging more wildly and blindly in one North
ern State than another, that State is the great DE.
mocratc State Of Illinois and it promises from mr..
sent Indications to sweep down everything beforei
Illinois, therefore, is for Fremont by an over
whelming majority. And the same thing NAV b,
SAID, with entire truth, in relation to all the Sta,.,
at the North which have heretofore been largely and
decidedly Democratic.
We come lastly to Pennsylvania which il tbe nm
ly earthly hope in the North Of Buchanan and hi.
party aud even this hope will not avail them II
significant fact that not one, in either sect mi
buchanan's most ardent and sanguine friends claim
Pennsylvania for him with any degree Of con6dencc
They all feel and acknowledge that the result, tho,
Is extremely doubtful. And 70 tits. Neither mart,
can rely upon the vote Of Pennsylvania with an,
certainty. They all claim II, but none are sanguno
And thus stand Buchanans prospects in the great
North. But give him Pennsylvania, and the unite
vote Of the South, and he is still not elected. Ben
whatever may be the as to Pennsylvania. In,
united vote Of the South he will certainly not get
Nj. Fillmore will carry not less than five and pro
badly eight or ten Of the Southern States. Ana
thus NE eiectioH Of buchanan 10 an utter iD1oossi
nifty, ereH under the m0st Cqrora5le oircus,
sfances
The only sure means, then, Of defeating Fremont
Is ior tho South 70 cast is undivided vote for NJ
Fillmore lie will almost certainly carry the great
State Of New York. No man Of judgment and can
dor, anywhere, but will concode that as "axed
fact fhis being the case, the South has il com
pletely ia rs power 10 elect hn for the thrty..S
electoral votes u New York combined with the one
hundred and twenty electoral votes u the south
settles The question at Aud thus the South