Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-08-05
Hon. James A. Pearce, of Maryland.

racy, under the lead OF F0rney and Buchanan
in the present campaign, is the letter Of this
honorable Senator, who comes to the rescue of
the "squatter sovereignty" candidate, not
moment too soon to revive his dropping hopes!
Our readers may be surprised when we inform
them, fbat, before this famous letter appeared
in print, in the National Intelligencer, it had
been, as we are told, translated into the French
language, and forwarded with all possible de-
spatch, to operate on the honest Creoles Of Lou
isiana! Ever since the food, drowning men"
have caught at "straws,' when being waited
by the current into the great ocean of oblivion,
and human nature still clings, as hitherto, with
undiminished tenacity to this ephemeral exist
ence, and more especially when that existence
is rendered desirable, by the prospect of enjoy
| ing the "loaves and fishes I"
But is it not melancholy spectacle, to be-
hold the once "indomitable Democracy
great party, which under the lead of Jeffer-
son and Jackson, rode triumphant over Fed
| eralism fifty years ago, and over Whigism
twenty -five years Afterwards it not sad,
gloomy, sorrowful spectacle to behold that
unterrifed Democracy" cringing, bowling,
kneeling to, and supplicating an oh-line
Wing leader with "lSaoe me Cassius or I
sink !" And is it not true? Are not the
Forneyized presses of the whole land begging
and pleading with the old-line Wings their
ancient enemies, to help them in their neces-
sitisss
Do they not confess that, soithout the aid of
those Wings, whose doctrines in times past
they have denounced as dangerous and damn
able, they cannot survive the present conflict
with the elements of Americansm? If the
pseudo Democracy had a spark of that pride
which should influence men of principle, they
would sooner call upon the rocks and mount
aims to cover them, than claim the sympathy of
men whom they have denounced as enemies of
| free institutions What but desperation itself
could prompt the harmonious Democracy" to
implore the Wings to have pity on themp
The pseudo Democratic party has lost its
power, lost its strength, lost its principles =
Do you ask for proof of this? 1t confesses
its weakness and want of power in its mourn
full appeals to the Wings to save it from ami
hilationl 1t has abandoned its principles, in
the vote of the United States Senate, upon the
bills vetoed by Frank Pierce of New Hamp-
shire! With clear and decided majority in
the United States Senate the pseudo Democ-
racy of that body allowed the 7th section of
their Baltimore platform, which was re-enacted
at Cincinnati, to be ignored, evaded and tram
pied upon, in the passage of the Internal I'm
provement bills which Franklin Pierce had
vetoed! .r
But why speak of the aoeakness of the pre-
sent Democratic party? Why refer to their
abandonment of their long-cherished princi-
pies 1t cannot be denied by any honest man
that the sole purpose of that party in seeking
to perpetuate this dynasty is to .tatten upon
the spoils!
But to return to the letter of Senator Pearce
That gentleman has assumed, without ventu-
ring to give us the data on which his assump-
ton rests, that there is "not the least proba-
bility of Mr. Fillmore's election by the House
Of Representatives" if thrown into that body
He leaves the inference to be drawn, that it
would be dangerousto throw it into the House
lest Fremont would be elected.
Senator Pearce does not venture to say that
such is his opinion, but he evidently means to
create such belief We must be pardoned in
saying that such an idea is simply preposte-
rous- There is no sane man who believes that
any such result could possibly follow, were the
election to be thrown into the House. We
have no idea that the election will go into the
House, bat if it goes there, we say unhesita-
tingly that Mr. Fremont cannot under any cir
cumstaaces be elected by the House. Mr..
Pearce either knows this, or he is wanting in
that knowledge which he ought in his position
to possess
There are thirty-on States, and no man can
be elected President by the House without the
vote of siztsen States. Each State has one
vote, and majority is necessary to choice
There are thirteen States only whose vote
could be cast for Fremont, to wit, Maine, New
Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode
Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and
Wisconsin. There are ten States whose votes
would probably be cast for Buchanan, to wit,
Viginis, North Carolina, South Carolina, Geor-
gis, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana Arkan-
sas, Florida, and California
There are four States whose vote would
probably be cast for Fillmore, but nerer for
Fremont, to-wit: Delaware, Maryland, Ken
lucky and Missouri. There are three States
which arc divided, to-wit: Tennessee, Texas,
and Iowa. There is one State illinois whose
vote will depend on two elections to supply va
cancies.
Now should it SO happen, which is impro6a-
bic that Illinois should cast her vote for Ere.