Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-07-23

sentatlves- 3Ir. Fremontss Chances.
1t suits the purposes of the Union and
American to keep hammering upon the
idea that, should the election of President
be thrown into the House of Representa-
tiyes, Fremont will be elected In our ar
ticle on this subject last Thursday, we
showed conclusively that there is not the
remotest chance of Mr.. Fremonts election.
The Union and american copies our state
ment of the complexion of the House, but,
true to the only hope of its party, the pro-
pagation of the belief that the South
ought to unite on Buchanan to prevent
Fremont's election, it says
Mr.. Fremont has, then, Is votes secure. 1t
requires 16 to elect. There is a vacancy in IL
linois, in district which gave Black Repub.
licsn majority at the last election. This va
cancy will doubtless be filed by the election
of Black Republican, which will give the
vote of Illinois to Fremont, increasing his vote
to ID. Delaware, which the Patriot counts
for Fillmore, will vote for Fremont against
Buchanan, increasing Freniont's vote to fifteen.
He needs but one more vote, and he has Iowa,
Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland to trade
for. Can any one doubt that the Know Moth
ings of the last three States would prefer Fres
mont to Buchanan
The vacancy in Illinois, referred to, is
the 9Th district To make its point the
Union and american says the vacancy twill
doubtless be filled by a Black Republican"
Hor Hof tbo fri-n Oh ry
Washington Union, of the 18th inst, in
which there is communicated democratic
calculation upon this subject In regard
to this vacancy the Washington Union,
correspondent says
1.-THE Illinois 9Th district, although in Novem-
Der, 1854, it chose Lyman Trumbull, has since
then given democratic naajOritieS, in county
elections, amounting IN the aggregate to, zee
think, some FOUR THOUSAND. This, together
with the fact that the special election will be
had upon the day of the Presidential election,
renders us quite certain that q democrat will
DO returned"
The Union and american must have pre-
cious little faith in this four thousand ma
jority of the boosted democracy of Hi
noiS, when he says the district will doubt
less elect Black Republican. Either it
is insncere, or it has no hope whatever of
Illinois for Buchanan.
The Union and american does the Anne
rican representatives from Delaware, Mis-
souri,, Kentucky and Maryland, the grosSest
injustice when it intimates that they would,
under any circumstances, vote for Mr.. Ere
mont. They would, we are fully per-
suaded, stand by Mr.. Fillmore till the ses-
sion of Congress expired on the 4th of
March. But, it is only by such desperate
and unjust expedients that the Union and
american can give the least semblance of
credibility to its position. The writer in
the Washington Union above alluded to is
more Just and candid He meets the point
honestly and fairly. He says:
''No one aoM dare hope that he Fremont
can buy up Mr. Cullen Of Dela1oare or that
he can get the 'Amercam' mqjOrities of any
Southern State to support him !"
And the writer adds:
III is certain, then, as doom, that he Ere
mont cannot be elooted (by the House, but
must die TO hope"
Nevertheless, in the face Of these posi-
tons, put forth in the organ of the demo-
cratic party at Washington, the Union and
american, is so reckless as to intimate that
Mr.. Cullen and the Americans of Mis-
souri,, Kentucky and Maryland, good and
true Southern men-men who sucked in
with their mothers milk, love for the South
and her institutions, will support Fremont!
The writer for the Washington Union had
no idea of the desperate straits to which
his democratic contemporaries in Tennessee
are put to sustain their sinking cause.
Proceedings of the Whig Meeting In
MurfreesbOrO, on Saturday, July 9th.
1856.
| Pursuant to previous call, the Wings o.
! Rutherford met at II o'clock, A. NJ, in Tenn
perance Hall. There was full delegation pre-
sent. On motion, Hon. Sam'l Anderson wa
! called to the Chair, ard David D. Nancy
! Esq, appointed Seer etary. ISL
! DR.. John W. Richardson then moved that .
committee be- appointed TO report plan o
action to the convention, which motion pre-
vailed, and the chair appointed the following
! gentlemen, viz: COL James NJ. King, DR.. JohI
W. Richardson, VIM. d. Hicks, Esq, jaime,
| Bivns, Esq, and Col. Jesse Brashear.
The convention then adjourned until half
past o'clock.
At the appointed hour, the Convention reassem.
bed, and made the following report, which wa
unanimously adopted:
Mr.. CHAIRMAN: Your committee beg leave 4
submit the following report for the consideration
of the meeting and their fellovrcitiIens generally
! Twenty years ago, this summer. the Wings o
| Tennessee organized themselves into party un
der the banner of the good aud patriotic state
man, Hugh l.. White, in opposition to Martin Val
Buren,, the Democratic candidate for the Presiden
cy. In that contest we were defeated. The North
aided by the South, gave us Northern ma,
I vih Southern principles" for President The his
tory of this man We need not relate. His char
actsF and conduct after bis attainment the Pre-
sidency was soon seen and read by all men; and II
ls40, the Wings uniting their force
in the various States under the banner o
Gen. Harrison, swept the country like
hurricane, and placed "Old Tip" in she executV,
seat which had been dishonored and disgraced b.
the Magician of Undertook" In 1874 we enter
ed the contest again, under the lead Of Henry Clay
D., who stood THEN, so tar as Wing sentiment AnC
Wing feeling were concerned, at the very head o.
our column. In this contest we were defeated
by distinguished politician of our own State, who
although beaten at home, yet succeeded in othe
States, and was chosen President by a large ma
jOrty. In this contest the seed Of distraction
dsaffection was sown in our party, and il has con
tinued to grow and 10 spread. Nevertheless, W