Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1856-11-15
The Model President Logging for
Fremont.

Fremont.
The smoke and dust of the battlefield
have sufficiently cleared away to enable us
to determine, with tolerable accuracy, the
part each actor has borne in the fight.
All now admit what the Democratic par
ty insisted on from the frst--that the only
contest was between Fremont and Dayton,
representing the Abolitionists On the one
hand and Buchanan and Breckenridge, rep
resenting the Constitutional party, on the
other. The only question was, whether the
frenzy Of Abolitionism should be permitted,
under the rule of a sectional President, to
trsmple down the constitutional rights of
the South. Fremont, with the whole power
Of the Abolition party at the North, repre-
sentcd the affirmative, aid Buchanan, with
the Democratic strength of the whole ma
ton, represented the negative of that ques-
ton.
1t was momentous struggle, on the re-
suit of which, the union of these States and
the last hope of liberty on the earth DEEPEN
ded. The powers of Europe, jealous of our
great experiment, yet unable by any out
ward force to impede our progress, or put
limits to our success, looked on with intense
interest, and hoped to see that accomplished
by intestine dissenson and sectional strife,
which the powers of a world without could
not effect Our free institutions were liv-
ing and burning reproach to tie tyrannies
of Europe practical illustration Of the
capacity Of the masses for self-government-
a terror to all those who pretended to rule
f'by the grace of God" United il the
bonds Of Brotherhood, We we're not only in
yinciblc, but our commerce covered the seas,
our manufactures were fast rivalling theirs,
and our immense unsettled Territory, with
its just and equal laws, was constantly
tempting their people to come afaong us,
and depopulating their kingdoms. Our sue
cess, too, had propagatsd a spirit Of Liberty
among theta, and they saw, that unless
some signal disaster should fall upon our
Republic, the heads of Kings and Emperors
must fall off These considerations natu-
rally brought the powers of the Old World
into alliance with the enemies of the Consti-
tuition. The Kings of the earth determined
that 1.-THE Democratic party must be deteH
ed" The Aboltionsts and ali the other
jsms on this side of the water, echoed the
sentiment. Know Nothingism first organic
ed, concentrated and intensified the League
against Democracy. In the strong language
of Mrs. Stove MI the clements Of anti
slavery were doubled into one great fist to
be rammed into the face of the South" She
might with equal propriety have said ''to
be rammed into the face of Democracy.
The contest in the North was a fearful
one. In most of the non-slaveholding States
the sectional principle had triumphed yet,
the friends of constitutional rights fought
on, and fought nobly, even there, and the
enemies of our peace saw clearly, that if
she South were united against their conspi-
racy, victory must perch upon the standard
of the Constitution 1t was, therefore, a
matter Of the last Importance to the sue
cess of the plot, tina. The seed of discomfort
and division should be sown broadcast
through tie Southern States, and that
third man should be nominated fer the Pres
ideuey, or whom The votes Of some Of the
Southern States might be east Know No
thingism was, therefore, sent among us from
the North, TO gather and increase the ele-
ments of dscord 1t Succeeded, at first, to
great degree, but could not long survive
Southern latitude. Its first act here, was
that eff murder in killing the Wing party
its next, was suicide But the remains of
its vitality assembled ct Philadelphia, or lii
conjunction with all abolition majority, Sc
lected Mr. Fillmore and Andrew j. Donel
son as their candidates fer President and
Vice President. L making this nonina-
tation, the Southern wing of the convention
was tickled with the prospect of aid from
the old Wing party. The Northern wing
chuckled at the facility with which their
Southern brethren had been gulled into the
trap, and in the prospect Of using the So
called "model Presidents" as a eats paw TO
divide the South, while they knew well that
the Northern opposition, however discord-
ant as to other matters, would vote almost
as one man for the Black Republican nom
ree.
All who had eyes SAT- the trick. 1t was
proclaimed from the house-tors by the dem
ocratic party. But all in vain. The people
were dcluded with the ridiculous pretcnsion
that Mr. Fillmore was all-powerful at the
North, and ought to be supported by the
South as the only national candidate who
could be elected. State elections, North and
Sontb ,vorn ni,dn thrnuoh tha s1lmrnor and