Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-09-12
How the thing looks in the north.
NEw YoRK, sept. 2, ls56.

Union, and am candid with you when say
that every step of travel has had the effect to
dissipate my doubts and misgivings 10 regard
to the result Of the approaching Presidential
election. You well know that the frame of
mind with which l left my friends in n. was
far from hopeful or sanguine. Ny observations
have dispelled the clouds which obscured my
vision, and am now confident that if the eau
vass throughout the section which | have visi-
ted progresses till November in the spirit
which has been manifested by the friends of
Fillmore and Donelson since have been here,
the American ticket viii surely succeed.
| soiourned several days in Kentucky during
the early part of last month, and took esI eclal
pains to ascertain the true state Of the case 10
reference to the local elections in that State,
aud satisfied myself that nowhere was there a
party contest. There wss q multiplicity OF can
didates of every hue of Southern politics for
almost every Office voted fOr-an5, as is al
ways the case in such elections, men voted their
individual preferences. You know that the
election was for Judicial officers, and the PEG
pie judged rightly that party politics should
not be introduced into such contests. Bear in
mind as we pass the insincerity and inconsis-
tency of democracy relative to this matter
Il was mainly through the efforts OF that paT
ty that the judiciary were made elective by
the people, aud they offered prompt denial to
the objection that the election for these ofh
GERS would degenerate into political squsbbllng
-coDtending that there was no likelihood OF
such a thing. Now we hear them at the sec
ond election held under that system contend
ing that it was purely party contest, and that
they were victorious. Are not modern de-
mucracy and political villany identica2
Throughout that noble State the watchfres OF
Americansm are burning brightly. The idea
of defeat To the American cause there is ridi
culous Everything one sees or hears or feels
gives evidence of the triumph of Fillmore and
Dunelson | did not meet a member Of the
party who had a doubt upon the subject.
In Southern Indiana the Fillmore cause was
daily gaining friends. FremoOtism was de
cliuing-it had fourished, and was still strong,
but had every assurance from those whose
study it was to observe the variations of the
political barOmeter-that sunshine and fair
weather were upon the American prospects
that conservative reaction had set in which
was advancing steadily. Buchsnanism scarcely
made show there. 10 fact there is no doubt
but that the Buchanan party is the third 10
the field throughout the entire North and
Northwest I kEOU that it is ,oher6Cer / hare
been, aud my information is that the same con,
dition of things is to be observed in other
places. am not, as you know, politician,
and my temperament and inclinations will ever
forbid me from being one-bnt speak where
of | do know when state that true men of
tie South, are being fatally mised when they
allow themselves to incline towards Buchanan
as the strongest man against black republican
ism. If that fell spirit had nothing TO con
tend against 10 the Nortern States but Buch-
anan and his party, no human agency could
prevent Fremont from receiving l76 electoral
notes.-the entire Northern strength in the
college. The Northern democracy before the
anti-slavery whirlwind which has been excited
is nothing but a straw or leaf-there Is not
enough of it to make sport for the tempest.
The men who support the Northern sectional
movement hold democracy responsible for
what they term the Kansas iniquity, and their
great aim is to defeat and rebuke the party
which played the principal part in the drama,
whose fifth act threatens so terrible a deHOu-
naeat. am inclined to think that many good
men have fallen in with this movement, not so
much with the expectation or desire that any
practical result should follow its success-such
for an instance ss an attempt to repel the Kun
sas act aud r.instaie the Missouri line-but to
prevent the a-cendancy of that party which
brought upon the country the present agita
zion.
They were willing and are now willing that
The agitation of the slavery question should
cease, but say that they feel no security that
it will while Democracy is in the ascendancy.
II is such men as these iohO are daily recruiting
the Fillmore rGqLs. Reelection, after the gust
of passion has subsidized, has taught them that
they are in the wrong party for men who hold
national aud conservative views, and they are
rallying by thousands to the standard OF that
man whose whole public life shows that HE
never held any other-and under whose adj
minstration they can rest secure from agita-
ton aud disturbance. The universal cry
throughout the North is, down with Democ-
racy, and it is down-deeply down. Many
hare thought that the best mode TO pat it
down was to join the Black Republican tide
and sweep it from power-but a conservative
sentiment has asserted its strength, and the
moderate men of the North are focking to
Fillmore as the proper man. This movement
is evident to any one who will come here, and
keep his eyes open.
On my travel to this city observed along
the whole route the same state of facts which
met my observation when first landing upon
freesoil. That Fremont is strong there can be
no doubt, but if possible there is less doubt,
that Buchanan is weak-irremediably weak.
He is weakening To-day by day, from the
operation of that law of mems natures which
incline them 10 the strong side. So palpable
is Buchanan's utter prostrstion that sll whose
political position are controlled by policy, are
deserving him. II one could doubt this before
reaching New York, be certainly could DO so
no longer after spending few day here. The
Buchanan men are not handful in the State
of New York. Ii there is contest here at
AL It is between Fillmore and Fremont, and
indeed 1. is being very generally conceded