Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-09-26
Fillmore RatI1icotlon Meeting.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 21.-A Fillmore ratification
meeting was held last night at National Hail. whlcn
was largely attended and very enthusiastic. Aloer,
man Thompson presided and addresses were delivered
bv Messrs Banks, of North Carolina David Paul
Brown, Messrs Hasbrouck, of New York, Cooper,
of Tenne Sanderson, OF Florida, Grmsy, oil MIS-
souri, The meeting adjourned with rounds OF cheers
for fillmore ard Donelson and for the State Union
ticket and with groans for Buchanan and Levin
In the National Hall, Philadelphia, few nights
ago, the supporters of Mr.. Fillmore-the national,
safe men, with whom the people of the South are
asked to aernise, AID for whom it is commended that
they should desert Buchanan and the Democrats
held meeting to endorse the Union, Black Republl'
can ticket for State officers, and they did endorse IT.
and they did denounce al who would not support
said ticket as traitors :" and SO forth
This National Hall is a sort of Know Nothing
Black Republican. joint stock Amalgamated Head
Quarters This being the character OF the place.
such its recent antecedens must confess to some
thing more than surprise when we found the name
of citizen of North Carolina lourlshing among the
sneakers in that Hall, at Fillmore ratification meet
| ing held on the Goth we suppose 1T was called
Wing - meeting: held in the Know Nothing Abo-
| ltion Hail. assisting at the Know Nothing Abolition
orgies What business had Mr.. Banks of Fayette-
Vile North Carolina, as an in a meeting which
as the TELEGRAPH informs u.s. ad ourned with rounds
of cheers for Fillmore and Donelson and for the
State Union Ticket!' Union with what! Black
Republcansm.-For what! 10 elect known anu
acknowledged Black Republicans to office Ihls is
the wav Filmore's is associated IN fennsylVa-
MA at the m ceilings addressed by Southern men, but
we suppose there some who find compensation
for all this in what followed, three groans for
Buchanan and Levin" Buchanan's sin is that OF
being Democrat Levin has been turned out OF the
! Immaculate Fillmore party for Directing TO the
" Union BOLTON ticket for Stale officers.
Certainly The Fillmore organization easily take
I in the whole country, when men from North Caro-
lima, Missouri, Tennessee and Florida can, in Phla-
dephia, quietly harangue crowds that adjourn with
cheers for an abolition ticket and groanS for those
who oppose it, and when, in the capital of old Viz
| GINA, Fillmore meetings harangued by Henry
Winter Davis, himself the representative of South.
ern city, yet voting with the aboltionsts of the North
in favour of the abolition proviso TO the Army bill.
Surely it is time for the South to pause and reflect
Surely it is time for Southern men to review their
position and mark we'll how they stand, before takinga
single step in advance, which may place them in
association with parties and party movements the
very opposes of all 10 which they should be attached
|
mere insane desire of buttng at the Democratic par
ty, buffalo would at red cloth, ought not to be
INDUCED in, when such indulgence amounts to sui
eide, nasmuch as, if perseyered in, it must result in
the ruin of the South, and her ruin will carry with
it every citizen who shares her fortunes.
We commend these scattering remarks, in all hon.
esty and sincerity, to MIR. Banks and all others
whose zeal partiZans overruns if not their discre
ton, at least their reflection 1t would be patering
with the truth to say that the times are without
danger. We say what we most honestly believe and
think we have good reason for believing when we
assert that in every doubtful State at the North there
is an understood, if not open fusion between the
Fillmore and Fremont leaders, and in many it
is impossible to tell which is which AS the time
advances these things will develope themselves more
fully, their precise form and PRESSURE in different
locations, being modified to suit circumstances as
these may be exhibited at the October elections 1t
therefore becomes still more obligatory upon Southern
men to watch their foosteps-to regulate their walk
Southern and for once, at least, forget that
inveterate pursuit of party trail which leads only
to the dismal den of Northern AbolItionism.
Much, very much may, and indeed must, depend
upon the action of the South herself in this emergen-
cy. Relieved from the Southern pressure, once as
sured of complete Southern submission, and fusion
and coalition would feel check and know no bounds
not even in appearance. 1t cannot be doubted that
the presence of Southern men at such meetings as
that at National Hall, adds aid and comfort TO the
enemies of the South and leads to the impression that
the portion Of the people of the South who favour
MIR. Fillmore, will sanction Free Soil coalitions and
lend their support and countenance to any Northern
movement, it only has the effect of defeating the
, Democrats. We must presume that the three cheers
for Fillmore and Donelson and the Union, or Aboi
which the Southern guests did not know that they
were invited, but nevertheless one which heJ
might have expected, and of which all who favou
- Mr. Fillmore at the North must be prepared to par
take. The thing, we feel bound say, is our homes
opinion, rapidly narrowing down 10 Mr.. Buchanan
=, against the eld-the Democrats against the North
. ern coalition. To carry any State at the North tn
Democrats must overthrow the united friends of Fill
y more and Fremont. Would that We could believ
=, no other ground of belief to stand upon.
We cut out the telegraphc extract with which W
have preceded these remarks, not on account of an
- marked PECULIARLY in its language statements -
II is simply brick from the Babel, which happened
to meet our eye this morning. Towards Mr. Bank
we entertain every feeling of friendship and respect
and therefore it is that dislike to him in suc
d a position But this amounts to nothing, as our al
is fusion to him is merely incidental, arising out of tn
subject and not intended 10 damage any of his politi
cal prospects, as indeed it could not, since he cou
have none to damage in the event of the success