Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-08-07

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And ever after make amends .- .#
by going to confession.
The ten cent speech, and slandered Clay,
Both show your cruel passion
And In November next, you'll get ..
sound and glorious "thrashing."
Your low wages will never do, &c.
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Letter from Charles B. Calvert, Esq.-Who
should the old Clay Wings support
TO the Editors Of the Baltimore Patriot:
MEssRs. EDITORS The above question is daily
asked by the members of the old Wing party, and
without supposing that my opinion will influence
the decision of single individual desire small
space in your paper to assign the reasons which
induce me to support Mr.. Fillmore. The contest
IN Maryland can only be between Fillmore and Blu
chanan, and deny the propriety of going beyond
those candidates to hunt up for our choice
Let every man in the Union ask his own con-
science, and not the political tricksters who en-
deavor to control their selection by establishing
political platforms and other devices, who of the
candidates will make the best President for the
whole onlon, and act according to his own dcci-
sion OIL the question. Ask yourselves which of
these candidates, from his past life and services
deserves the support of the old-line Wings, or
rather the old Clay Wings. | make distinction
between those who left the lin, to look for mill
tary leaders and those who remained in to the
last 1t is said that comparisons are odous. and
we can only judge of persons or things by COM
parlson, and 1 therefore propose to compare the
antecedents of these two gentlemen.
Mr.. Fillmore after ably serving the Whig party.
in many distinguished positions was selected in
lS4S as one of their standard bearers, and we all
recoiiect the excitement which pcrvaded all classes
over the whole Union, when he became, by the
death of Gen: Taylor, the President. He at once
became the President of the Union, and not Of n
party and by that very act drove off from his fu-
ture support all those politicians who only desired
the success OF their party attain their own sell
nsh aspirations. He administered the Government
with such signal ability that the waves of sectional
jealousy and strife which had been running noun
tam hlgh, were Gained in moment, and he gain
ed tor himself, and richly deserved it, the title of
the M~del President" for it may be safely assert
ed that no administration since the days of Wash
lngton, ever gave more universal satisfaction to
the masses OF all parties If the true interests of
the wing party, and the country had been con-
suited, he would, in 1852, have received the unan-
imous nomination of the Wing Convention, but
ne was defeated by politicians who misrepresented
the wishes OF their constituents because he had
been the President of the Union, and not of their
party. UP to the time of his acceptance of the
American nomination, Mr.. Fillmore certainly was
the choice of the old-line Wings; and now pro-
pose 10 take peep at the history of the Demo
cratic nominee.
cording until we come to the celebrated "barpain
and corruption" story, which first brought Mr.. Blu
chanan prominently before the publc-and as
many attempts have been made to free Mr. BIZ
chanan from the odium attached to all concerned
In that transaction, propose TO examine the testi-
mony. He certainly was the foundation on which
the whole calumny rested, and although his friends
attempt to show that he did Mr.. Clay full Justice,
by promptly denying, when called upon, that he had
any authority from Mr.. Clay or his friends, to make
any propositions to Gen. Jackson or that he had init
mated any such authority, still Gen jackson asserted
that he had done so. 1t was in the power of Mr.
Buchanan to have at once silenced the SANDER by
stating conversation which he had previously had
with Mr.. Clay in the presence of Gov Letcher.
but not satisfied with Withholding the substance of
this conversation from the public himself he sue
ceeded in sealing the lips of both Mr.. Clay and
Gov. Letcher, by personal appeal to their mag
nanimity and he is, therefore, in no better position
than If he had endorsed the statement. From that
time up to his late nomination, if i have read his
history correctly, he has waged unreleuting war
upon Whig principles and leaders, and in his last
speech to the Keystone Club, he says:
Being the representative of the great Demo
cratic party must square my conduct according
to that platform, and insert no new plank or take
one from it. That platform is sufficiently broad
and national for the whole Democratic party" Al
ter, this his last declaration, ask the Wings in
the words of Webster, Where am to go?"
Since writing the foregoing, have seen the
letter of Governor Pratt, and examined it to as.
certain what course he advised the Wings TO pur-
sue in this emergency. In the first place he en-
deavors to read Mr. Fillmore out of the Whig par.
ty because he joined the Americans, but Mr..
Fillmore did no more than Governor Pratt. myself
and many thousand other Wings did, who, believ-
ing that the Whig party dsbanded, as il really
was at that time, united ourselves to some other,
and 1t does not become us TO lecture each other
because we cannot think alike. Governor Pratt
seems to suppose that the only question for the
w higs to determine to come to proper conclu- |
sion, is which Of the two national organizations
can, by their vote, be made most certainly success
rul, and he then jumps to the conclusion himself
that the Democratic organization is the one. Hc
declares that the election of the Republican can
didste will be destructive to the South and the
Union, and then advises the Southern men to de-
sert Mr.. Fillmore, who has always stood nobly by
the South, and sacrificed his popularity at the
North by his noble stand in favor Of Southern |
rights and he would have us discard an old and /
true friend to take up one who has always stood
in rather an equivocal position. He argues that |
Mr. Fillmore is not the strongest man, because, In |
his opinion, he cannot carry one Northern State. |
but he does not say that Buchanan can do any |
better, and If there is any reliance to be placed in
the signs of the times, he might have further said
that Buchanan cannot certainly carry a single |
Southern State