Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-09-05
POLITICAL ITEMS.

POLITICAL ITEMS.
The Fillmore men of Wisconsin have called
convention to nominate an electoral ticket.
Gen. Cass is to address the Democrats at
Day ton, Ohio, on the 18th instant. = 81
Within week or 80 three or four papers in
ONO have run up the Fillmore hag. among
them the Capitol City Flag, at Colunbus.
The Richmond Dispatch says the head mem.
Der OF the chain gang in Richmond is the only
Fremont man it has seen in Virginia.
The Bay State" is tho name of a very
handsome Buchanan paper, of moderate d.
mensioss, just started in Worcester, Mas. =
Col: John W. Forney and Captain A. Day,
OF fhliadelphia, reached Pittsburg on Sunday
on their way to the mass meeting at Clarion,
on Tuesday, the ID instant.
The Defiance (Ohio) Democrat saws, that
the Black Republicans in that country are cir
culatlng story that, t" If Buchanan Is elect.
ed, Ohio will be made slave State.'
| Fendall Marbury. ESQ who, until recently
has been thoroughly identified With the I WY,
| party, is doing good service in the Democratic
cause IN old Prince Georges.
An American mass meeting was held at
Staunton VA on Thursday and Friday. Hon.
A H. ID Stuart presided, and speeches were
| delivered by Hon. John M. Bolts, John s. Pen.
| dleton, and others.
The Dover tDelaware) Sentinel has raised
| the flag of Fillmore and Donelson. II has
heretofore not sided with either party The
Milford (Del.) Beacon, also neutral heretofore,
| is out for Buchanan.
Down In Maine they turn members out of
church because they vote the Demo cratic tick
| ct. The Belfast FREQ Press published the Aft
davlts OF several church members confirming
snho O nra
the straight Wing ticket, with the Union Sen.
ators."
Ex-senator Dix, of Newly ork, ATTEMPTED on
Wednesday evening last to address Bucban-
an gathering at East Hampton, Long Island
but, after proceeding only few minutes, was
so severely attacked with vertigo, induced by
exposure to the sun during the day, that he
was forced to retire from the meeting
The Hon. John Van Buren, is at the west
doing good service for the cause lie spoke
at an immense meeting of the Democracy at
Chicago, Ill, on Friday last. Illinois is one
OF the safest States in the Union for Buchanan
and breckenridge. The Democro ~ are alive
and laboring with zeal worth of the great OBJ.
ject in which they are engaged.
T. L. Clifford, Secretary of the Pennsylvania
American State Council, denies that a resolu-
ton endorsing Mr. Fillmore was pending at
the adjournment of the Lancaster Council
lie says that no such resolution was submit
ted, as the nomination of Mr.. Fillmore was
endorsed and ratified at Harrisburg, in May
last. and consequently that there was no ne
cessity for consideration Of the subject
The Placer (Cal Press says that one of the
delegates to the Republican Convention, held
ut that place, was negro barber, Some one
proposed his name for delegate to the State
Convention, whereupOn he was elected The
Republicans, however, on learning his color,
recOnsidered the vote and sent the poor negro
hack to his constituents" How ungrateful
White men "behave themselves" better than
this in the Eastern States.
c. b. Baldwin, Esq, member of the Mis-.
| sisssippi Legislature, who still avows himself
g both in principle and action n Wing and an
American" feels called upon to avow his in
tention to support Buchanan and Breckenridge
as the only means Of defeating Fremont, whom
he describes ga wild unprincipled adventurer,
known only for his expedition over the Rocky
Mountains, and reckless speculations in Cali
fornia lands"
The Democracy of Rhode Island held mass
meeting at Providence on Wednesday-some
seven or eight thousand persons present Great
enthusiasm was manifested. Hon. Philip
| Allen presided The meeting was addressed
by Hon. A. Smalley, of Vermont, Hon. w.
| Is Sayles, Hon Nathan Porter, and others
| Letters were read from Hon. Lewis Cas-, Ru-
fus Choate, John Van Buren,, and others, re-
| GREETING their inability to be present.
The following, from the Sacramento State
Journal, needs no comment: "The nomina-
ton of John c. Fremont by the Republicans,
| occasions more amusement than serious reflec-
| ton in CalfOl mia. The nomination is esteem
ed very shabby affair; men turn up their
noses at it, and say, 'Pshaw' He will not
receive one Of the forty thousand settler votes
in the State, and indeed, we greatly question
whether he will be able to carry a single pre-
| cinct. The people of California know him, and
such prophet is without honor in bis own
country"
| We copy the following good thing from the
| Maysville (Ca') Express of late date:
"A NEW uEADIvG.-The New York Tri-
| bune's principal argument in favor of Fremont
| is the fact that he Is worth twenty millions Of
dollars. He suggests that the Republicans
display their ticket as follows, as it would IN.
| doubtedly render it the most popular ticket
before the people. For if /" money makes the
| mare 60, can it not also make the Woolly
| Horse go?'
For President,
$4,000, 900, Of MaripOsa
For Vice President,
| WV L. DAYTON, Of Neae Jersey.
What the New York Tribune, in 1851,
| thought Of Col Fremont, is seen in the follow
| ing extract, as copied into the Boston Journal