Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-07-07
i" Republican, Tactics.


The New York Herald's w ashington CORES
pondent, in his letter bearing date July Sd,
and published in the Herald of Friday, is
following the orders of his Jesuit master in
seeking to diminish the confidence of the
South in Willard Fillmore by such articles as
the following:
"a caucus is now being held at private parlor
in Wizards Hotel by quite large number Of mig
ger worshippers, in which Thurlow Weed and
Seward are the principal leaders. The object of
this meeting is, understand, to effect some ar
rangement between the Fillmore and Fremont in
terests"
There is not Fillmore man, nor a professed
american" in the United States, who would
listen for q single moment to any proposition,
coming from any quarter, to effect "an ar
rangement" with the miserable faction which
has nominated an instrument Of Bishop Hughes
for the Presidency. Moreover, of all the men
in the nation, Thurlow Weed and William H.
Seward hate Mr.. Fillmore the most, and their
hate is well grounded, resting as it does upon
his firm, unwavering opposition to their vii
famous schemes.
The country will not soon forget, nor will
Weed, Seward, or Raymond, in what language
and with what force, Mr.. Fillmore demonstra-
ted, at Albany, and at other points on his re-
cent journey from New York to Buffalo, that
the triumph of sectional ticket, like that pre-
scented by the Republicans would scatter this
Union into fragments In one single week,
responding to the addresses which welcomed
his return to his native land, Willard Fillmore
did more to demolsh the Republican faction at
the North, than every press in the United
States has done in twelvemonth. He pre-
scented in plain and familiar language, and yet
so forcibly, and eloquently, the questions which
arise upon that sectional nomination, and the
results which must follow its triumph, that
every man at the North, who has the slightest
conservatism or Americanism in his compost
ton, has already halted in his course and now
stands ready to unite with the American party
to preserve the Union.
The Republican leaders, who are astute
men. like those above referred to, all see and
know. that the whole conservative vote Of the
Northern States will be given to Mr.. Fillmore,
and that with the aid of a few Southern States,
his election is certain. Hence theseforts of their
tools to prevent the South from coming to his
support. Were any arrangement" like that
manufactured by the Heralds correspondent
to be made, or eoen listened to by Mr.. Fill
more's friends, for one moment, 1t would, as it
ought drive every Southern man and every
Northern conservative, into opposition to him
r. hat I'LL,
by Willard Fillmore, or his friends, would an
initiate his present dattering prospects; and
hence. &c any such "cancus" was held by them
for the object which the Herald's correspond
emit represents, their purpose was, to Kill him
0ith their kindnessi
But debased and reckless as those men are,
spurned as they have always been by Willard
Fillmore denied influence and position by him,
as they were, when the patronage of the gov
eminent was at his disposal, no man can be-
lieve for a moment that, in the face Of these
facts, and Of the terrible assaults which he has
Just made upon their policy, they would now
be craven enough to bend the knee to him I
Heaven knows their condition is one of des-
perstion, one which might move to pity the
stoutest hearts. were II not that to have com
passion on such men, would be moral treason
to the country There can be no arrange
mentn with such leaders, but an unconditional
surrender The mass Of the people at the
North are awakening to a sense Of the dan
gers which threaten the Union from the adop-
ton of the policy of such leaders, and large
plurality, IL not majority Of them, will,
when the crisis comes, be found on the side Of
n,