Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-07-07
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Welded 10 the American iDoNeheu'. ~ oo'"iy
an clearly defines the duty Of Wings in the pres
ept aspect Of national affairs. that We transfer it
to our columns. with the sincere hope that every
Wing will ponder we'll and long its suggestions,
before determining on a course OF action at war
With his whole former life, and. as we conceive.
with the highest and purest dictates Of patriot.
ism:
~ have been and am for Mr.. Fillmore But ! am
frs, Of all for defeating Colonel Fremont This should
be the grea, and object ofal true Wings and
honest If this can best be accomplished by yo-
ting for Mr. Buchanan would we as Wings, be in
consistent In so doing7 The old differences between
the Wings and Democrats are done away. The Dem
ocratc party have become purified of many of their
worst men, who go for Col. Fremont Mr.. Bu-
ehanan is an honest conservative and moderate man
Why cannot consistently vote for him. II
seems to me to be the only sure why of defeating
Col Fremont. However much we may desire 1t, Mr..
Fillmore cannot be elected Please give some in
formation through you columns for who desires
to do just right, and who has always been a
wmG"
We give the above as the bricfest of many commu-
nications which have reached us similar in tenor,
and as embodying the sentiments orally expressed TO
us by many Wings. We experience some dclicacy.
however and some difficulty in giving the writer the
information he soliets. The time not yet TO
rave aftl'tu lot formltK oFihohs "H
WING and other friends seem already to have ASST
med. The political horizon is not yet sufficiently clear
for any individual confidently to predict which
ddatc "cannot be elected" Events may transpireare
transporting which may very materially change the
prospects OF either Of the candidates The vote in the
House OF Representatives yesterday, elsewhere com
mented upon, illustrates this. No intelligent poti-
clan win need to be told that a different vote on
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would have materially affected the prospects of the
Republican candidate. The otherwise OF
Mr.. Douglass bin in the Senate to be tomorrow dec-
ded viii be another element introduced into the cam
paign And yet other may arise before Novem-
Der materially to change the aspect of the campaign
and its results.
We think therefore, that gentlemen who already
have concluded that this that candidate "canuot
be elected have arrived prcmaturely at a decision
which, Il persisted in, may do much to bring about
the very result which they deprecate II would, we
conceive be rather difficult for the above correspon
dent to give good and sufficient reasons why Mr. Fill
more cannot be eected-There is nothing In the man
that should initiate against his election. Every hon
comedies the purity ofhis personal character
his genuine practical patriotism, his experience as n
statesman, administrator aud an executive and his
remarkable success while filling the Presidential chair
All must coneede that he spoke the truth when
recent occasion, he briefly reminded his hearers that
when he took the helm of public affairs he found the
country agitated with the slavery question: and dis
turbed in other respects and that he left Office with
that agitation queed; and the country happy, pros
porous, and at peace with all nations. Why, then,
cannot he be elected again to that Office # every cit
zen who processes to believe in Mr. Fillmores quail
catrons for the Presidency gives him his vote he will
be triumphantly elected.
Nor is there anything in Mr.. Fillmore's politca
relations that should prevent his election. He is the
candidate Of party that has confessedly great nu-
mercal strength and perfect organization, par
ty too, that is national conservative and patriotic in
sentiment. This we conceive, must be granted even
by those who like ourselves, totally dissent from its
former now abandoned) exclusveness in the matters
ola citizens nativity and religion. At the head of
this party, yet in its youthful vgor, Mr.. Fillmore
stands their acknowledged and trusted represen-
sative The strength of the attachment between the
American party and Mr. Fillmore has been made a
bundanty apparent by the utter failure of the deter
mined efforts, made by the dsaiected, to withdraw
Of the party from him and place another repre-
sentative If American principles in competition with
him. They lost, gone swallowed up in section
nj party which had not only strenuously opposed
their principles, but treated their for fusion
with cold contempt. But Mr.. Fillmore remains,
stronger to day than he was, in the affections of
his party adherents. While Mr.. Fillmore has such
party support, there does not To be shadow of
for despairing of his election, much less for
deliberately concluding that his election is an inn
possibility.
1t would not be difficult to turn the tables upon
our Wing friend, and adduce some good reasons not
only why Mr.. Fillmore ought to be elected but why
he be. Add to the fact that the party which has
nominated him has than once given evidence OF
its power the encouraging truth that he will receive
also the support of large body ofconservative OF
both parties-men who revolt alike from the senti-
ments Of that Ostend concave and from ticket nom
mated purposey to represent only one-haf Of the u
MON. Add, further that there a large number o.
Wings scattered through the country, the large ma
jority of whom will throw their influence to his sup
port. They probably all would but for the UNJUST
fable conclusion that he "cannoi be elected" Add
further, that Congress may. at any time knock from
under the Republican candidate the only plank whic
his party has allowed him. Add, again. the eviden
ces of popularity which during the brief time that ha
elapsed since Mr.. Fillmore returned home the heart
response made TO his noble and patriotic sentiment
and we think our Wing friend must that he ha
much too hastily jumped to discouraging conclr
sion.
But yet further proof that Mr.. Flimore's prospee
Of election are good, and rapidly and manifest
improving, is given in the violent abuse and misreI
resentation to which his opponents compelled
resort We could not desire fuller proof that the II
publicans are alarmed at the hold Willard Fillmore
getting upon tine hearts Of his eountrymen, than II
following from the Tribune this morning
gThat Mr. Rillmore's soLema declaration of hoss,i.