Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1856-07-10
From the Boston Courier, Wing.
The Presidential Course.

he L fremont nen, ue|lueu do tney are
between republicans who are principally
old freesoilers, and american republicans
whose leaders have been attached to the
late potent 'khcwnothing' party in Massa
chusetts, are exceedingly sanguine with
regard 10 their chances of electing Pres
ident, and are very hilarious, in conse
Quence of their Monday evening meeting
in Boston. All is not gold that glitters,
and the gentlemen of the freesoil party
who propose to swallow up the wings IN
their sectional appeals should be told that
they have NJ more chance OF electlng hlm
70 the office of President OF the United
States than the party which assembled four
wears ago in convention had a probability
of electine General Scott. That conven-
ton threw overheard the abest and wisest
champion of the whig party. at the obedi
ence of men like those who controlled the
late Philadelphia convention, and who were
as clamorous and as insane In setting
down the vote of the country for General
Scott, as the partisans of Col. Fremont
how are in counting and calculating lis
chances of an election. They obtained
the votes of four States-Massachuse
Vermont, Kentucky and Tennessee and
no cool headed friend of Col. Fremont sup
poses that he can possibly obtain the votes
of the two last mentioned States, and it Is
also hardly possible that he has friends
enough In either that his party has
friends enough in either one of them, to
form an electoral ticket. Thus Mr.. Buch
anan enters the field with the whole south
ern political force combined in his favor;
he is as certain of the electoral vote of Pa,
if any dependence can be placed upon the
previous and we'll known action of Penn
sylvania with regard to her politicians and
her interests as the sun Is to rise on the
day Of the Presidential election, and he
then wants but two electoral votes to make
him President. California has never shown
any peculiar favor towards Col Fremont
he was refused reelection to the United
States Senate about year after she came
into the Union as a State,-hiS claim for
her four votes has required 10 recent
strength, and California has shown less dis
position to sympathize with anti-slavery
than any other northern State in the I'm
ion. He has then to look to Iowa, Indi
ana and Illinois in the West--to New Jer
soy, Connecticut, Newhampshirc and
Maine In the North--all of which are de-
batable States, even with the ant-slavery
Juror, now dying out, which Is expected to
be brought into action among their voters,
and his chances of success with them are
no better, if they are as good, as those of
the democratic candidate There are no
other northern States which might be put
into the same category, and there is be-
sides the great State of New York, with
her thirty-five electoral votes, which, in
the present state of the canvass, the ere
publicans'' cannot claim with any surety
of success. The friends Of Mr.. Fillmore
will without doubt run an cleo oral ticket
for him, and as they carried a plurality in
the last State election, though they may
be weakened by discussions now, they con-
stitute force which is not to be disposed
and they have large body Of men in their
ranks who can never be brought TO the
support of the republican ticket. If Z.
Weed uttered the words which have been
attributed to him, to tie effect that it re-
manned with the Americans to declare as
to whether Col Fremont should be elect
ed President, his annunciation could have
regard only to the prospec, in his own
State, for the Col. Is a candidate doomed
to defeat, whether New York goes for him
against him; and with the hard and soft
democracy united upon his principal rival
he appears not to have any good chance of
success in the Empire State, and setting
aside the under-current Of Americanism
This much is written with all respect to the
republicans, many of whom we reckon a
mong our friends, and also as words Of eau
ton to wings, upon whom a great pressure
is made for the purpose of bringing them
into the movement They should look
upon the map ofthe contest as it is and not
as their sanguine advisers desire them to
see it. They should keep clear from max
ing careless and foolish bet, until they
can tell better than now, in the heat and
fury which accompanies the present state
Of the contest, what is to be the actual is
sue of the election next November; and
the wings particularly should make no
rash disposition of their votes. until they
have view of the whole field, and can
look upon the State as well as the national
candidates of each party, and have time to
make up their own tickets. which will COM
prehend their own friends.