, 1856-05-02
The Presidential Election.

throughout Tue leuBIu auu OlOauIh vi IhS
United States, the most confident and de-
termined spirit is being manifested to give
the combined fusion army Waterloo de-
feat at the approaching Presidential cleo
tion. Never since the days Of Gen. Jack
son, have the friends Of the Union, and Of
the principles Of the democratic party, ap-
peared more confident of an easy and signal
victory, or has the future looked more in
viting or propitious than at present. North
and South, the national democracy are
united-the press and the national plat
forms of principle adopted by the respect
i've States, breathe but one spirit-enun-
eiate the common doctrine" The Union
must and shall be preserved" Minor differ
ences in the party are fast being lost sight
Of. Even in New York. where, as the fu.
sionists fondy persuaded themselves an i'm
mense and impossible gulf forever separa-
ted, in two sections, the democracy of that
State, the breach is being filed, and per-
nanent union, it is believed, will be honor
ably and amicably effected.
The result Of recent elections, almost
everywhere in the States, furnish renewed
assurances that the abolitionists and pro-
scriptionists are fast losing ground, and
that by November next, State by State of
the old democratic phalanx will have
wheeled into line, uprooting and plowing
under the rank and poisonous growth Of
disunionism and intolerance In New
Hampshire, where, one year ago, the fu-
sionists carried the State by over 10000
majority, the returns Of the late canvass
show that no election by the people for
Governor has taken place, and that the
opposition majority Of the popular vote has
been reduced to q mere cipher. And SO it
will be to the end. Common sense, and
the evidence which each mail brings from
the States affords, forces us to the convic-
ton that defeat and disaster are destined
to follow the opposition up to final over
throw in the presidential contest.
We care Motif there should be fifty can
didates for the Presidency, we believe the
people will elect the nominee Of the Cincin-
natl convention, and that there is no prob
ability that the political character Of the
President will be contingent upon the com
plexion Of the present national House of
Representatives. With the Keystone Of
the federal arch in the hands of the democ-
Eacy to rally around, and the South q unit
for the preservation Of the constitution and
the Union, the great west will arbiirate
the question, and SEAL as we hope, with
an everlasting silence, the bOisterous fanat-
icism, and preachers Of insurrection, disso-
luton and treason, that have been so long
and vehementIy engaged in endeaVoriug to-
SOW the seeds Of civil war between the north
and south. The Kansas difficulty, adjusted,
as it now seems likely it will be, without
bloodshed or violence, and that Territory
admitted into the confederacy with State
constitution adopted by the people without
foreign or border interference, and the last
plank upon which the ark Of black repub-
llcanism has rested will have been washed
from under it, leaving thigh and dry upon
the beach, from which no returning tide will
ever launch it, and thus will the principles
contained in the Kansas-Nebraska bill be
practically Vindicated.
The black republican organization, the
only party of respectable Dimensions op-
posed to the democracy, will probably put
forth as a candidate, at their national con
VentiOn, Seward, Chase, Fremont, Hale,
WilmOt, and even the claims Of Giddings
or Fred Douglass may not be entirely over
looked BY the more violent Of the fanatic,
kinkey-headed assemblage.
The nomination Of Fillmore by the
know-nothing convention at Philadelphia,
has completely obliterated every vestige of
nationality to which that party could ever
lay claim, and has, de JdetO, broken up the
organization. No compromise could be
effected on the slavery questionable friends
Of George Law and Sam Houston think
they have been unfairly dealt with-Fill-
more and Donelson are the candidates of
the southern wing, and the boilers, or Sc
eeders at the north propose to hold another
convention at New York on the 18th of
June, fOrthe nomination Of new candidates.
The old conservative, straight-out whig
party will hold no national convention.