Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-10-07

ucBCy, anu CduHOG ldl W MAKE u luOSL US-
cided impression wherever it is read.
Would the Buchanan Democracy have
Fremont Defeatedf
The Buchanan democracy would, we ad-
NIT, be gratifed with the defeat of Fremont,
provided it resulted in the election of the
Cincinnati Platform" But, would they
prefer the election of Mr.. Fillmore to that
of Mr. Fremont? Have they given any
indication Of patriotism exalted enough to
prefer country to party-to drop Mr.. Bu-
chanan and vote for Fillmore rather than
see the black republican candidate elected?
If they have, it has escaped our obServa-
ton. The Union and american has told
US
can men of all parties at the South, should rise
superior to former party pre- JUDGES and partizAn
oppositions aud present united front, and there's
by defeat this sectional, abolition, northern black
republican movement We CANNOT THIS WITH
Ma FILLMORE, but with Mr.. Buchanan we may"
In this paragraph it virtually confesses
that union may be made on Mr.. Buch-
anan-that is, that Americans and wings
are patriotic enough to rise superior to par
ty and support Mr.. Buchanan-but that
union cannot be made on Mr.. Fillmore be-
cause (there can be no other reason) the
Buchanan democracy cannot rise superior
to party and vote for him. We have
better opinion of the masses of the demo-
cratic party We believe they would rise
superior to party in this crisis and elect Mr..
Fillmore, were they not deceived by their
leading men. In Tennessee these leaders
have been sowing broadcast the idea that
Mr.. Fillmore is a worse abolitiOniSt than
Fremont, thus attempting to open an i'm
paSsable chasm between the rank and file
of the party and the only mode of making
the defeat of Fremont a sure thing. In
Virginia the leading organ Of the Buchan-
an democracy has, on the part of the cleo
tors for that State, rejected a proposition
of the Richmond Wing, to agree to vote
for Mr.. Fillmore if that resort should be
necessary to defeat Fremont. In Florida a
similar proposition was made to the Buch-
anan electors by Hon. Z. G. Cobell and
rejected by them-the electors declaring
Mr. Fillmore to be as bad as Fremont. In
both instances the American electors were
willing to vote for Mr. Buchanan if neces-
sary to defeat Fremont In Georgia, the
Atlanta InteIigenocr-a leading Buchanan
paper-declares-
"For our part, we do not scruple 10 say it,
that we would sooner see Fremont, traitor as
be is to the home Of his birth, the President of
the United States than Mr.. Fillmore, who
never ceased to hate and persecute the South,
until the South had bought him off with the
Vice Presidency"
And Mr.. Saffold, one Of the Buchanan
electors in that State, as we learn from
letter in the Augusta ga ChrOnidle writ
ten by Mr.. Lewis Zachry, a respectable
citizen, has declared he would vote for Ere
mont in preference to Fillmore. We clip
the following paragraph from Mr. Zachry's
letter.
Mr.. Saffold said: "Ndrrop the election d0un
TO Fillmore and Fremont" be would vote for
Fremont, and he gave as his reason why he
would do so, that the South toOHId then shOi0
an un6rOken front, and that the AboLitioRists,
seeing us united, and that oe scouLd dissotUe
the Union, to0ud giee the South her rights.
To this declaration as above stated, that he
would vote for Fremont before Fillmore, if
narrowed down TO that alternative, replied
ves and you'll do 10 any hOio, II elected as a
Buchanan ELector, and you acc there is no
chance for Buchanan Which he did not con-
tradct
This statement is Substantiated by the
following affidavit
GEoRGIA,l Personally appeared be-
NEWTON COUNTY ( fore me, Lawrence Baker,
a Justice OF the Peace in aud for said county,
J. l.. Atwood, J. H. Livingston, J. b. GOodson
and ]. s. Goodson who being duly sworn, de.
pose aud say that they were present and heard
the conversation which was had at the Cow
ington Depot, between Mes,rs SuffJld, Foster
aud Zachry, and that the substance, il not the
exact words expressed by MIR. Saflold in re-
gard 10 the election rs between Fillmore and
Fremont, is, rs set forth in the above letter If
Lewis Zaclry, true as they understand and
believe. J. l.. Atwood,
J. II. LIVINGSTON,
J. B. Coon OK,
j. S. GuoDsoN.
Sworn to aad subscribed before me, this
29th OF September, 1856.
LAWRENCE BAKER, J. p.
In view of these things we would ask,
do not the leaders Of Buchanan democra-
cy prefer the election of Fremont TO his
defeat by Mr.. Fillmore? Such we believe
to be the fact. They would either rule or
ruin. They point to the dangers which
will inevitably follow the election of Ere
mont, but they selhshly say, If We can't
prevent them by the election Of our can
didate they shall not be prevented Some
of them even go so far as to threaten dis
uuion in the event Of the success Of FIRE.
mont, an event 10 the consummation Of
which they are contributing their aid. We
call upon the conservative masses to arise
in their native strength and snite these
selfish pIotters TO the earth-strike for the
inheritance Of your fathers and preserve IL
for your posterity.