Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-10-20

Icinnati nominees We trust these views may
operate as . soporifc, and enable the pc6mbses
Wises, Masons, and all that class Of nervous
politicians, to go to bed and sleep quietly with
out posting sentinels, to give notice of appre-
hended invasion
: Indeed we have never supposed that there
was the least probability of Fremont's election,
nor do we believe that the sham Democratic
leaders ever thought he had any chance Of sue
cess They have only hell him as "a raw
head and bloody bones" to frighten the South
iuto the support of Buchanan, whom not.o
single Southern patriot of ordinary sense would
desire to see elected, except as the only means
of defeating Fremont And now that the cleo
tons in Pennsylvania and Indiana prove that
these leaders have been alarming the South
without the slightest cause; that their pre-
tended fears of Fremonts success were as
sumed to concentrate Southern suffrage upon
the "squatter sovereign" candidates; aso,o that
Fremont's prospects are scattered to the winds,
and the foaming and ranting of the Southern
Hotspurs are no longer appropriate, what game
will these corrupt wire-workers play to carry
out their purposess Can they any longer
draw off the public mind from an examination
d. the true points in issue? t
Down to this time, the only argument
throughout the South has been, that thew
must unite upon Buchanan to defeat Fremont
that unless he was defeated, the rights Of
the South would be destroyed-and this ar
,.,,,,,ax,t bac oa,,eaJ ,,non tho,,oandS
of men in the South to fall into the snare set
for them, and to take sides with Buchanan,
lest their peculiar institutions should be ami
hilated The falsity of these pretexts is now
apparent is not, and never has been,
the remotest probability of Fremonts election,
though mere glance at he surface of the
political world in the North, has led thousands
to think there was q chance of his success.
Orators and editors at the South have made
this point the stand from which they have
alarmed the sensitiveness of their people, until
rebellion and revolution have been preached
as the only escape from the domination of the
Republicans, and therefore, as they declared,
the only means of selfpreseryation 5
Beautiful statesmen, these men The local
elections in only three States have shown that,
as we have always assured them, there was
not the least danger of Fremont's election.
Southern agitators are endorsed. What can
they say now in excuse of that phrenzy they
have exhibited and have communicated to the
peoplep Will they now permit Southern men
calmly to canvass and examine the true points
l. H.
and the filibustering "squatter sovereigns ?"
The ghost Of the pathfinder" having now no
terrors, viii they take look at the political
features of Old "Squatter Sovereign ?" VIII
they examine into the reasons, why and where
fore the Van Burens, sire and son"--the
Bentons, Cochranes, Fowlers, and the residue
Of the Buffalo-platform Free-soilers Of 1913,
insisted at Cincinnati that Buchanan should
be nominated, and now deyotedly support him
by letters, speeches, and money! II
just at this particular point of time, jour
nal published in this city, which is a disgi ace
to the age and whose conductor is a burlesque
upon the human race, may be referred to in
order to obtain an insight into the motives,
purposes, and plans Of the Buchananites at the
North. That press, the faithless phantom of
aStar," Gas one Of its Southern Democratic con-
temporaries has named it. proclaimed through
its editorial correspondence from Cincinnati, that
the South were fighting manfully, but would be
obliged to yield to the Free-soil influences of
the North, /" and take Buchanan as the candi-
date He mournfuly deprecated the then ex-
,.S.,~
ed against this sacrifice of the South-he had
published to the world that Buchanan had
never originated any important measure
never even effected any important negotiation,
and, in substance, that he was an old granny,
without brains or merit l 4 & M
That press, upon sohose tripod salts the
scavengsr ofa play actors pimp, was then the
especial representative of Frank Pierce. 1t
then uttered through its columns the senti-
ments of him who offered himself " body and
soul" to the South, in exchange for its votes,
1t then spake in behalf Of the South, and
against the " Free-soil influences of the North.
1t then "wrote down" James Buchanan can
ass I"
Such were then the opinions of press
which we suppose would become the chronicler
of the sentiments uttered at the White House,
If that man who was, not six months ago,
therein represented as an, old granny, and
even "written down an ass, should, lin def
erence to the Free soil influences OF the North"
become President Of the United States That
editorial correspondence from Cincinnati con-
tains pretty much the entire amount of truth
ever published by :" the faithless phantom"
From that correspondence the South may learn