Daily American organ., 1856-08-18
WHOLE NO. 553

sibilty OF Mr.. Fremont's election we shopld look
upon his political future with dstrust as we do
upon bis brief political past with disapprovaI
IN hr. Fremont there is most remarkable ne-
CATION OF all qualifications for the high trust which
he seeks. We have yet to learn that a young man
becomes htted for the Presidency simply because
he has displayed capacity Of physical endurance
aud by the aid of experienced guides, and of com
paniens as hardy as himself, has traced new path
through moantainous country; honorable an
that may be TO his enterprise and courage We
believe the people Of the United States deem the
Presidency too high an Office to be thus disposed
Of And yet, In all soberness and candor. we know
not what other special qualification for the Presi
dency Mr. Fremont has exhibited His friends
make no boast-as well they may not-of his twen
ty days, more or less Of Senatorial lfe but refer
to it reluctantly and apologetically In truth, the
question OF comparative merit as between Mr. Fre-
mont and any acknowledged statesman or politi-
cal leader, cannot be properly raised As between
hm and other heroes OF adventure, ii might be
raised
There remains another and final reason, why as
Wings, we cannot support Mr.. Fremont This Is
found In the anin'as of the party that has put him
IN nomination. That party is eminently sectional
III SPIRIT. As Natioue Whigs we have always
held that Northerners and Southerners are casses
OF Americans unknown to the Constitution, which
brings us all, on equal terms under one category,
THE PgoPLE OF THE UNITED STATES and the voice
OF the majority of the people is authoritative and
binding, from whatever point of the compass it
may come. Every man who claims citizenship
| under that Constitution must obey the will of the
majority, constitutionaly declared We deprecate
entirely the revolutionary idea that because the
popular will Is distastefu, even oppressive to
geographical minority, therefore the minority may
cast OIL their allegiance, and be justified in rebel
lion. Their remedy is to wait until wiser spirit
resumes sway, and can be eonstitutonally express
si and carried out.
But what we object to in the Republican move
ment is, that its temper is sectional 1t does not
partake OF that fraternal national feeling which, If
the UnioL Is TO be preserved, must underlie all po-
litical sentiment and action But Republicanism,
SO called, if it keeps within the letter of the Con-
stitution, violates its spirit for it repels the South
from cooperation with the North. 1t excludes
the South from its synpathes, and agitation and
sectional animosities would more certainly be per.
petuated under Republican administration than
even under Democratic Presidency Civil war,
or violent agitation for four years longer would be
the inevitable result of Mr. Fremont's election We
cannot be persuaded to contribute to such result.
Fortunately there is a third candidate before the
country, who though not the nominee of Whig
convention, is not open. to the fatal objection ex.
isting with respect TO others; and we are to
good extent relieved from our embarrassmeut.--
That candidate Is MILLARD FILLMORE.
Now is the Winter Of our discomfort
Made glorious Summer by the son of York,
for his election will restore peace aud tranquility
and put perpetual end to the disquietudes that
already threaten the foundations of that sacred
temple which our fathers reared with selidenying
patriotism. A man is known not by his profess
siOnc, but by his deeds And we have deeds by
which to judge of Millsrd Fillmore. When he
entered the Chief Magistracy, the presence of a
strong man and a patriot at the helm of affairs
was Immediately felt through every part Of the
Union, and from him whose heart was as benevo-
lent as his life was pure--whose warnings after
peace and fraternity were as ardent as his devo-
tion to duty was unhnching, g,--came forth power
OF will, an executive energy and frmness, that
spoke words OF high encouragement to the lovers
Of order and of the Union that held lawlessness
| in check, and by the calm and dignifed manifesto
| ton OF their presence made disunion quail and
revolution flee from the fair territories of these
| United States.
| This fellow Wings, is the strong feature in Mr..
Fimore's candidature which must arrest the atten-
tion and receive the approval of conservative and
national men. Domestic tranquility is what the
country now specially and almost solely needs and
it is that which will not result from the election of
either of the other candidates. Mr.. Filniore's
election viii secure the restoration of peace at
home and the perpetuation of peace abroad. We
are told, however that he is no longer straight
Wing Be ID so. What thenp Is Mr.. Buchanan
a Whig, or Mr. Fremont ?-The gulf between US
as Wings and Mr.. Buchanan or Mr.. Fremont is
immeasurably wider than ii is between US and Mr.
Fillmore. He is Whig and something more.
We are Wings and nothing else; and it is TO be
distinctly understood that it is not tue something
more" that recommends Mr.. Fillmore to as, who
| still maintain and do intend to mai 'tan our Whg
| principles, Wing character aud Wing organiza-
| ton; but the certainty that of the candidates to
whom our choice at present is necessarily con-
fined, he Is far in advance in those attributes Of
public character which we deem essential in q
! Presidential candidate at this crisis We no more
| endorse by this selection from the candidates, the
platform of the party we believe it to be duty
to support, than we do the platform of the Dem
ocratic or Republican party.
Il seems to us, fellow Wings, that not only our
selves as Wings, but all true conservative and pa
trotic citizens, ought to pass by all merely politi
cal issues and support that candidate for the Pre-
sidency whose presence in the White House has
once been, and would again be, not only the signal
for a truce between domestic contestants, but
guarantee that law, and justice and order, shall be
observed and enforced in every State and Terrific
ry of the Union; not alone an assurance of peace
full intentions toward other nations, but the bond
OF such unitedness at home that no foreign pow
er can ever hope to profit by our dissensons. If
we thus unite, Mr.. Fillmore's election is secure
| We have had experience enough in electioneering
campaigns to know that the cry that he caenot DO
elected is weak invention of the enemy. Let Us
try il we cannot secure his return to the Presden
| tia chair. Who supposes that Colonel Fremont,
who cannot secure the electoral vote of single
Southern State, can secure the necessary majority
| of free State electoral ticketsf
SAnd yet our Republican opponents have no in
| tention of abandoning the contest and why should
wes There is at least as open door for Mr.. Fill
! more as for Mr.. Fremont. Let us as Wings hearth
" help in the absence Of candidate Of our own,
| 10 secure Mr.. Fillmores triumphant election
Though dsorganized and scattered, we can yet