Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1856-03-15
Washington Correspondence.
From the Bee.l
WASHINGTON, Feb.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 90, 1856.
The American t Tor President and Vice.
President is rscei with infinitely more fa~
vor than | bad poked for from that portion of
both the VIM nd American press, North and
South, which Has been heard from. The Ma
tional I~nteAigencer, in the first place, while it
declares e purpose to follow where the Wing
party orStnBse who may act for and represent
it, shall lead, will not suppress the expression
Of its opinion Of the merits of Mr.. Fillmore, and
the confiasace with which, on trial, he inspired
the countr b his qualifications for a wise, safe
and conservative President" The Journal of
Commerce also bears testimony to these quail
i~fications and the excellence and purity of Mr..
FilImore's character. The New York Com
merciaj Adler hSer. (Whig) the Mirror do, the
Boston Mercanti journal, do, and indeed the
whole Wing AM American Press, chime in
perfect concord, with the exception of the Ais
bany Register, heretofore the organ of the ma
tionaI Wings and Americans Of that State, late
ly a George Law paper, and now in the market
ready to be bid off by any one, Democrat,
Black Republican, American or the ID. 1t
has been said that Hammond, the editor and
proprietor, meditated treason for sometime, as
lie has been going longer in one direction than
he had ever done before, and had been faithful
to- those he acted with much longer than his an.
tecedants led one to expect he would.
The more the nomination is considered, the
more confidence in its final success is inspired.
1t is certain that the AboZitioniSLS will have a
candidate in the field as well as the Sag Nichts.
The two latter, then, will present the two ex-
tremes-will they attract or will they repel?-
They will attract none but ultra men, repelling
all others. Where, then, will the moderate,
Union loving, conservative men go? To that
moderate, Union. loving, conservative man Fill
more, who is the type, the proper representa-
tive and embodiment in full of that class of
men by far the largest class in this county,
This | am sure, will be the case at the North,
and | cannot but hope it will be atthe South
He's the man" says the Richmond Whig," the
times again demand at the helm of state-One
around whom the conservative, lawoabiding
Constitution. and union loving everywhere can
rally without distrust apprehension; a sound,
safe, just man; a sagacious, firm, prudent, and
experienced statesman; one in whom all shades4
of opinion can cheerfully conide, whom none
need fear, and in whose hands the interests
and honor Of the aOhoIe country, without dig !
"tinction of section, will be sure tob6 upheld, /
defended and preserved"
Inc nomination OF MT. FlfilnoFe nas sLFucN
the Sag Nichts here with alarm, and they area
taking counsel as to whom they shall put into
the field against him. Pierce, they apprehend,
will lack both speed and bottom to contend
with him; Buchanan. they know, will have a
rocky, boggy, sandy, "hard road to %trayef"
through Pennsylvania, where the friends of Dali
las lie in wait for him. With abundance of mis-
slles, and a oiH to use them should he ever
within their range. Marcy is spawned
badly; sprung in the legs, and broken wlnded
SO that he is ont of the ring. Pierce has the
track and since the cards he played in his an
nual message, and his special message upon
Kansas affairs, is probably the strongest man
the Sag Nichts can run. But let them bring
out their best horse, Fillmore will beat him.
The Americans have a grand ratification
meeting here to>niGht.