Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-06-19
The Presidency.


The contest for the Presidency is fairly
opened. It is not probable that any new as
pirants for Presidential honors will be entered
for the approaching election. Fillmore, Blu
chanan, and Fremont are the names before the
American people, upon one or the other ofwhich
the sufrages of the masses will be cast We
do not consider it worth while to include Ger
rit Smith, because his nomination has not been
responded to by even the ultra Abolitionists Of
the North, and no has been supplanted sue
cessfully by Fremont.
The American party may contemplate with
conscious pride the position of their candidate
and the contrast in which he stands to his com
petitors, upon a comparison Of their lives and
public services. As we have faith in the fit
ness of the people to rule themselves, we be-
lieve that no combination of circumstances can
induce them to discard Mr.. Fillmore in order
to accept either buchanan or Fremont.
Mr. Fillmore is by everybody valued as a
first-rate man. He is acknowledged, by friends
and enemies, to combine the qualifications re-
quired for the Office to which he has been NOM
mated, Pure in his private life; spotless in
his integrity; conservative in his public course
national in his patriotism; consistent in bis
political career experienced in administration;
familiar with public men, and the details of all
the departments of the decentralization,
cool, considerate, detached utterly from both
factions whose hostility to each other, opera
ting in the different sections of the Union, jeop.
ardizes the peace and safety Of the whole peo-
pie, and has now banked up the Union itself
on the hazard Of the die, Willard Fillmore
stands to-day before the American people in
the very attitude to challenge the appreciation
and to win the free suffrage of every consider
ate lover Of his country in America
We make due allowance for the passion of
the multitude, aroused rs it will necessarily be
by demagogues and factionists, who SOW the
wind regardless that the people arc to reap the
whirlwind ensuing from their foolish or wicked
designs. We make due allowance for the ma
chinations Of polictical tricksters, who reck-
lessly assert their own want Of honesty and
principle by exposing professions of political
faith which are inconsistent. With all these
statements we have entire faith that Mr. Fill
more viii succeed with ease in the coming
election, and, we repeat, that faith is founded
upon our confidence in the intelligence and
virtue Of the American people
In vain will the Democratic politicians preach
Buchanan to the masses He is the last of the
Federolists To accept him would be arever-
sal by the modern Democracy Of all that was
said by their predec- ssors in favor of jefferson
and Madison, whose doctrines he utterly repu.
dated and constantly opposed When Federal
lists of distinction had surrendered all hope of
control, and had yielded up the political assets
In their hands, James Buchanan came forward
As the administrator de bonis non of Federal
ism
He Is the last Of the Federalists Of whom his
tory gives an account He protested to be a
Federalist so late as 1929, upon which occasion
ne denounced Shultz, the Democratic candidate
for Governor of Pennsylvania, and attempted
TO rally the remnant Of the old Federal party.
a. Fsdsralists, in opposition to his election.
In he ft, by his antecedents, to be the ac.
cepted chieftain Of the Democratic party &c
1857 When did he ever recant single sv,.
liable Of his Federal doctrinese When did he
trace line for publication upon which an in
ference may b. based that he is not no.c a
Fsdsralisf ~ much As he was in 1927
Can he be acceptable to the Slave-holding
Statesf No man was more active than he in
1919, In tanning into fury the sectional strife
about slavery The chapter is short and we
invoke attention to it, In 1918 the people Of
missouri Territory petitioned for leave to make
state constitution and to be admitted into