Daily American organ., 1856-08-13

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aud numberless They were willing to take that
plurality rule which inevitably would result in his
election, rather than the gentleman from Pennsyl-
| yana. st 4stE8sA4
Such was their conduct TO us--so conciliatory,
so amiable, 50 loving, 80 winning-yet in the face
Of this rough woong, they urge us, because Of oar
eonasaioa loith the South to abandon Mr. Fillmore,
the choice of our hearts for Mr. Buchanan, because
Mr.. Buchanan is the safe and strong man for the
South, the representative Of Southern interests.
SO intensely did they hate us 80 much more
did they hate us than the gentleman IRON Massa-
chusetts, 1.-THE Speaker)-yet so paramount do they
regard the allegiance to the sectional candidate,
that they ask to sacrifice our personal preferen-
ces our political convictions our outraged dignity
for their triumph
Be it 80. Is that the intensity of their sectional
devotions ask them to apply the argument
| North of Mason and Dixon's line and tell me
who if he is not utterly abandoned ard degraded,
can under these circumstances vote for that can
didate who holds the position their candidate holds
at the South and towards the South make
here no argument of my own. take honorable
gentlemen upon their principles. / commend to
their lips the chalice they mixed and poisoned
for mine, and dare them to the taste. know
that my friends in rashness and hot party strife
have done many things TO endanger the consti-
tuition. do not believe they wish to elect Fre-
mont but, sir, if they lad been bent directly upon
accomplishing that purpose, no man could find out
any manner which would moro directly and more
inevitably accomplish that result than that which
has been pursued. / wish to free it from all col
lateral issues and put this great argument be-
fore the country so that there shall be end to
this effort to get rid of Mr.. Fillmore by this APP
peal to Southern prejudices.
wish to deal with that and nothing else to-
night. say, sir, if Mr. Fillmore be not supported
by the South the whole North, and every State of
vote for Mr. Fremont, by the very came reason that
Democrats urge to induce Southern gentlemen to
abandon Mr.. Fillmore for Mr.. Buchanan. There
needs but these words to accomplish it " Fill
more is deserted by the South he saved" That
one line would be quietus undoubtedly of this
contest. Democrats must accept that result OF
their own reasoning. They claim every Southemer
in the name of sectional interests. The Republi-
cans will claim every Northern man in the name
of Northern interests. If we must obey they must
obey. Is the North, will Democrats admit, less ia
natica less excitabe less hostile than themselves?
| If not the sectional feeling must press them at
least equally. Will they be likely to listen more
readily to reasons for Mr.. Buchanan than South
srn men to reasons for Mr.. Fremont? Or, will not
both be more accessible to arguments for Mr.. Fill
more than either. Do they suppose the Northern
laborer to be less interested than the Southern
planter in the question of free and slave labor or s
he more cool and unprejudiced when his livelihood
and personal dignity involved, than the South
| ern planter whose property only is effected?
The argument, therefore, must be abandoned, or
| il must be admitted as unquestionably true that
the logical result is to drive the whole North not
| into the arms of Mr.. Buchanan, but into the arms
| Of Mr.. Fremont. ..,... ....
| The Democratic party at the North has melted
away into the Fremont party They form its
| strength. They have done so, because they were
specially grieved by the use made of their Repre-
sentatiyes in the Kansas conflict. They had
| always been what in other people the Southern
Democrats called Free-soil. That shone out in the
remarks Of the honorable gentleman from Ohio
Mr.. LETTER whose series of resolutions for fifteen
| years spoke one language-beginning in the Demo
cratic Conventions and ending in the Republican
| Conventions-with unity of sentiment and Ian
guage defying the detection Of the point where tho
Democrat shaded off into the Republican. 1t is for
this reason that this blow has been fatal to the
| Democratic party of the North-that the hatred of
| the North is so deadly against it and yet is con-
fined to it, and yet SO sagacousy under control,
so much of method in their madness that they will
not allow chance to Mr.. Buchanan of election by
pluralities, but will defeat that by any combination
This view should determine the South to dsen-
tangle its cause from the fragments of the broken,
| powerless and obnoxious Democrats. The Dem
| ocratic party are no longer fit mediators be-
| tween North and South. How can they exact per-
fomance of the Texas compromise How protest
| against repeal of the fugitive slave law? How
demand that he Wilmot Provso be not extended
to all the Territories? How claim the admission
| of more slave States? Their mouth is scaled on
these topics before the revenge of the Repub-
| licans BY the law of retaliation these things
| would be natural and just punishments to that
party which has swept away the compromises and
denied the principles on which all these rights
rested. The Republican closes his mouth with the
i Iv fha il hpxya IN iuht Tn
appeal to us. mus
| 1t is only in the name of the Southern people,
| Of the men who do not join in the outrage, that
| these dire consequences can be surely avoided.
The reputation of the Democratic party is the
first condition and best security of peace and safety.
1t silcnces the plea of revenge and retaliation.
The people of the South owe It to themselves and
to their future completely to discard the DEM
ocrats as the people of the North have withdrawn
from them their confidence.
But there are Democratic gentlemen who antici-
pate the success of the argument in driving every
| body to support Mr.. Fremont and who speculate
| on the consequences. .
There mon who go about the country de-
claiming about the inevitable consequences of the
| election OF Fremont; and the question is asked
| whether that simple fact is not sufficient, not
merely to justify, but TO require dissolution Of
| the Union. The question has been asked me to-
| day. That is question which / do not regard as
even subject OF discussion. 1t never will be done
while men have their reason. 1t never will be
done until some party, bent upon acquiring party
power, shall again and again and again exasperate
beyond the reach Of reason the Northern and
Southern minds, as my Southern friends have new
exasperated the Northern mind 1t would be an
act of suicide, and sane men do not commit suicide
The act itself is insanity. It viii be done if ever
IN tempest of fury and madness which cannot stop
| TO reason. Dissolution means death, the suicide
| of Liberty, without hope of resurrection-death
without the glories of immortality with no sister
| to mourn her fall none to wrap her decently i'm