Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-09-06

The Louisville Journal Of the 81 inst. SAYS:
The Cincinnati platform party is evidently in its
death. struggle. Week after week, day after day.
and hour after hour, it has seen its fOndest hopes
decay" until it is already reduced to state of ut-
most utter hopelessness aud heplessness. few
weeks ago, TIE managers of the party machinery of
this sham Democracy held caucus at w ashington
and rested their hopes OF success OIL Pennsylvania
although they then acknowledged that it would take
at least ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS of their
electoneering fund TO it to the squatter sover
reignty candidate They have since discovered that
all the money in the treasury will not be sufficient
to help them in this hour of their great distress.
They have no principles worth fighting for. The
people have repudiated their platform and rejected
their candidate, and they hoped to be able to BUY
enough votes to elect the old Lancaster Federaist,
at least to throw the election into the House OF
Representatives, where his well known aptness at
BARGAIN AND INTRIGUE might be once more brought
into play. They have no longer any confidence in
their platform and they find their candidate most
odous to the masses throughout the country. They
dare notsopeny secondsthe efforts Of the FTeesol-
to get up a purely sectional contest; for they
now see too plainly that in such contest Fremont
would be most certainly elected. They impudent
| ly propose to BUY the votes OF the independent
people of this country with the peoples own moe
ney the public treasure. Even this won't save
them from disastrous defeat. A highly respectas~'
bic gentleman oithis city, just returned from Wash
! ington informs that he told by some OF the
! leading Democrats in Washington that THEY HAD
ABANDONED ALL HOPE OF SUCCESS IN NEW YORK AND
EVEN IN PENNSYLVANIA, AND Rad NO EXPECTATION
OF BEING ABLE TO CARRY A SINGLE NORTHERN STATE
kunlesS John g. Breckenridge, their candidate for
Vice Presidency, could Sdre Indiana or
Illinois By making stump speeches throughout
| these States -
l%~Accordngly we find Maj Breckenridge accepting
in tba in In.
and Illinois. What a melancholy spectacle
party reduced to the pitch of degradation and des
pair 1t is unparalleled in the annals of poll"
teal history A candidate for the Vice Presiden-
CIV, the second highest Office in the gift of great
nation compelled to take the the stump as the last
resort in the death struggle OF his party This
last resort will be unavaillIng This simple fact OF
itself will be sufficient to make honest people every
where ferget the persuasive eoquence and ingen-
oGs arguments of the Sag NIGHT candidate for the
Vice Presidency in their deep disgust for the degra
dation to which a candidate for the Vice Prcsiden.
| cy has thus been subjected by his party.
The Buchanan and Breckenridge party are in a
hopeless minority in Indiana and Illinois They will
be beaten so badly in the State elections there that
in spite Of every effort they will be 10 the race
/ at all in November. Thus accordingly TO the
reluctant confessions Of their o,0n managers at
! Washington the Cincinnati platform party
haze not eren the ''ghOst Of a chance" of sue:
| cess
In the meantime Mr.. Fillmore is everywhere
daily gaining ground. He is advancing in popular
favor with unprecedented rapidty both at the
North and in the South. Already the electoral vote
of New York is certain for him. He is the only
candidate who possibly defeat Fremont, and if
the South will give him a united support he will be
trumphantly elected. Is it not then the plain duty Of
conservative men everywhere to abandon the sup
| IF nd mid vh0 AMI Yin
under any circumstances, and to give their support
at once and without hesitation to the only national
candidates, Fillmore and DOnelsOn, who can and
WILL be elected, it only those who say that they
prefer Mr. Fillmore will also declare their intention
! TO vote for him?