Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1856-09-06
From the New York Express,l
To our Southern Readers
Americans OF the soutln-yyhigs Of the
South.


South.
1t is the Abolition cry South-that
Fillmore has no chance, ,'-;nd the Bu-
chanan cry, Southland, believing these
two cries, many honest patriotic men are
duped, Now, if the fact were as stated,
that is no reason why men should do
wrong, or fail to do right,-but the fact
cannot be so, unless made so,-by mems
being made the dupes of false cries.
This canvass presents many unuusal
points OF consideration, all worthy of the
more thought from the very novelty of
mems positions. Fremont, Southern
born man. is brought up as an anti-South-
ern candidate; Buchanan, Northern
born man, is brought up as the anti-North-
ern candidate, that is, candidate to
carry out the Pierce policy in Kansas,
and in the annexation Of Cuba, Sc, &c.
The issue these two men present is IA
tai one to the peace and prosperity of the
Union. because it is sectional, and be-
cause it is certain 10 keep up sectional
feuds and fights. IF buchanan is elected,
there is nothing settled, because, in every
Northern State, there will be large ma
lorities against him, when the Fillmore
and Fremont vote is combined. These
maiorities will not be vanquished when
Buchanan attempts TO carry out the Gin
cinnati policy that elects him, but, on the
contrary, will be increased by it, magni-
fed and prolonged. The North is not to
be subdued any more thar the South
Buchanan must either betray the South
ern policy that elects him, or keep up
just such feeling and agitation in the
North as Pierce's policy has created.---
Under this agitation, Southern institutions
cannot prosper or thrive, for they want
peace. and their policy is peace, and they
thrive bestin peace, whereas agitation is
the natmfal abolition event.
1t is very easy for US Fillmore men in
the North to throw every Northern vote,
we think, in every Northern State, against
Buchanan. We have but to coalesce
with Abolition, and divide the Electoral
ticket, and the thing is done. Pennsylva-
MIA. even, Buchanan's own State, can be
carried against Buchanan by sc, 900 ma
iority. But we fight this battle upon
principle, and considering Fremont unfit
in person. and treacherous to the Union
in political position, we cannot, and will
not form coalitions, that may give him
even apparent strength, merely to ensure
ia nominal victory. Buchanan is weak
iii All the Northern States, as the success
sor of the Pierce policy, which even the
South disowned in throwing Pierce over,
and in taking up Buchanan, and iti very
easy to defeat him. In our own State of
New York, he is not even practical
candidate as yet, only a candidate in
theory. The battle here is really between
Fillmore and Fremont, and we show that
we think 50, daily, directing all our fire
upon Fremont, and ignoring even The ex-
istence of Buchanan. Hence, if B0cha
nan, is to receive Northern votes, it is
only by the division of the opposition, and
whatever Electoral tickets he wins. viii
disclose him to be in the majority.
What, then, is the policy of the South /?
To cram down upon the North, Bucha-
nan? To eleek Buchanan by the South
err, with any such Northern votes as ac-
cident gives him, and thus to refurnish
material 10 the Northern fanatics for fur
tller agitation? What gain the South by
this prolonged agitation? What TO her