Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-10-29

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though, unless the Republicans shall abandon
their support Of Fremont and cast their votes
for the Fillmore ticket, the Cincinnati nomi-
nees may obtain plurality of votes in the
Keystone State
In the other States of the North, Mr.. Blu
chanan will receive but slender support, and
probably not carry single one Of them In
the far West he may have an equal chance for
Indiana and possibly though not probably he
may carry Illinois. We see no prospect what
ever of his receiving more than fifty-one cleo
toral votes in the free States, and the chances
are equal that he will obtain none in the free
States, except in Pennsylvania, and Ire will be
beaten there by thousands, If all who are OPP
posed to his election should concentrate their
votes upon Mr.. Fillmore. But if we grant him
the votes Of Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Illi-
nois he will receive but fifty-one electoral
votes in the North and West. We do not be-
lieve he can obtain these.
In the South we set down Maryland, Ken
lucky, Tennessee, and Louisiana, as certain
for Fillmore, and Virginia, Georgia and Florida
| as probable If we allow Mr.. Buchanan all
| the electoral votes Of the South except the four
States first above-named, he will still fail Of an
election by sixteen votes, and If we add to the
Fillmore vote the three States last named, we
place Mr.. Fillmore ahead of Mr.. Buchanan
| Our present belief is, that If Mr. Fremont is
continued in. the field, the election will be
thrown into the House. where it is obvious
| that neither Mr.. Buchanan nor Mr.. Fremont
| can be elected, but where Mr.. Fillmore must
| be chosen, or Mr.. Breckenridge will become
| the President.
1t has been threatened by the sham Demo-
Gratis, that if Buchanan should obtain say $50
or 40 electoral votes, and if Fillmore should
receive smaller electoral vote than Fremont,
the electors in the Buchanan States would cast
| enough of their votes upon Daniel S. Dickin-
son, of New York, to exclude Fillmore from
the House of Representatives, and thus COM
pei the Republicans to cast the vote of their
States for Dickinson or Buchanan, or permit
Breckenridge to become President. This
scheme we first saw developed in the Rich
mond Virginia) Examiner, and we are glad
that it has been thus boldly announced. We
rejoice that the game Is openly proclaimed.
Can this game be carried out? We rather
think not even suppose Mr.. Buchanan should
be as far ahead of FillmercSas his friends pre-
dict rsazs
Did 1T ever occur to the sham Democrats
that this might be dangerous experiment.
1t is by no means certain that the Fillmore
States, in such contingency CHS name being
thus excluded from the House, might not bewil-
ling to defeat this present dynasty and its pro-
posed successors by cas- ing their votes in the
House for Mr.. Dickinson; and it is not by any
means certain that the Republicans would pot
conclude that Mr.. Dickinson would inaugurate
neU era, and therefore they would accept
him as an alternative! But this is not the
only means by which such political scheme
might be effectually defeated, and its project
ors be discounted and disgraced.
Suppose the result of the election on the 4th
of November Should exhibit this state of things,
to-wit: that Buchanan gets 140 votes, Fillmore
IT votes, and Fremont 70 votes The electo-
raj colleges meet month after the election to
deposite their ballots. Suppose the Repub,i-
cans, knowing that Fremont cannot, by any
possibility be elected in the House, and that
they are obliged to decide between Fillmore
and Buchanan in the House, or permit Brock
inridge to become President, should take it
into their heads to settle the question in the
electoral colleges, and should cast their ballots
for Fillmore as a choice of evils, and thus elect
him pithout going into the House How
would the sham Democratic schemers like to
have their game thus spoiled?
If Mr.. Buchanan falls short, Gas he certainly
will, of obtaining 149 electoral votes it follows
that the casting Of the electoral votes of Fill
more and of Fremont in the colleges, for any
one man, defeats old Squatter Sovereign, and
blows into thin air all the schemes, plans, and
devices Of Forneyisml
We have no reason to suppose, that the op.
ponents Of Mr.. Buchanan have, at the present
time, any such views as we now present, but
we haze reason to suppose, that when they see
scheme of political trickery openly avowed
by the Buchanan-men they viii take care to
defeat that scheme if they have the power to
do it.
We as firmly believe noso, as we have hith-
erto believed, that Mr.. Buchanan cannot be
elected. We have no doubts on this subject
If the friends Of Fillmore and Dcnelson and Of
the Constitution and the Tnlon -,ans: ,ss:-sa, Il
is our Judgment that rs present dynasty win
be snnihilated. II Is our belief that an i'm.
mense majority Of the Republicans, Excluding
the more rabid portion Of them,) when they
see, as they must see, that the only mode Of
defeating this dynasty is to rally upon Mr..