Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1856-10-28
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To the Friend, of Fillmore.

To the Friends Of Fillmore
This is the last issue of our country paper, which
will reach all of readers in Virginia before the
day Of election. We therefore wish to say few
words by way of appeal to the friends Of Fillmore
The contest has been long aud arduous one, and
the people have been put in possession OF all the
facts. Arguments and considerations bearing upon it,
and they are therefore enabled to pronounce such
judgment this day week as duty, patriotism and
intelligent appreciation Of the great issues oil the
canvass demand at their hands.
We have asked in vain of our Democratic contem
porarics to favor us with even sound and sub
stantial reason why the people Of Virginia and the
South should support Buchanan for the Presidency,
in preference to Fillmore In reply, they have only
pointed US to the fact that he is the nominee of the
Democratic party--tbat he stands upon the Cincn
natl platform, or rather, has been swallowed up by
it-and that he is the only candidate in the field
who can possibly defeat the election of Fremont
This is the sum and substance Of Democratic argu
ment in support of the claims Of Mr.. Buchanan
But we ask all honest intelligent and patriotic men,
who place country before party, aud who haze no a.
piraons for the spoils OF office, IN tell whether
the considerations we have named constitute JUS
and sufficient reason why they should sustain man,
whose antecedcnts are SO obnoxious, and whose pre-
sent position surrounded as he is by such unScru
pulous political Adventures and harpieS the For
news the Van Burens the SoulcS and the Sanders
is so prophetic of fragrant msrule, pruigacy AM
corruption Elect Buchanan. aud what will he be
but the verieSt OF wax in the hands of the
worst aud most desperate set of politicians that eve
degraded preyed upon, aud cursed any country =
How is he to get taking to his bosom and his
confidence those Northern Free-soiers aud Abo
tonists. vino are cnergetically pushing his for
tunes aud so Justify bswling out for ''Buchanan
Breckinridgc and free Kansas" And how, ON the
other hand will he get around bringing into his
counSels the fire-eating dSunonists of the South
and rewar,ing them with the most responsible and
lucrative positions within the gift of his adminiStra
ton: How he repel the advances or resist the
opportunities of such iactous agitators and deter
mined disturbers Of the public peace Think you
that tifc Van BurenS, the Forneys, the Cochrane-.
and the vast herd of Pree,soil adventurerS at tn,
North, who are now ranged under his banner, are
spending their time and money and deyotimg their
entire energies in behalf Of his election, and all for
nothing Are not fat Snecures and useless mission
alrea lv promised them, the reward of their Ia
bors and sacrifices? And what proflisate and in.
famous administration of the government would he
TALL people of this country, should such cattle b.
duly installed, they doubtless would be, as it
counselors, directors and controlersy Provision,
too would have to be made tor the adventurers, the
lunatcs and the traitors of the South Soule, Si-
dell Wise, Toonbs, and others of that aboninabl
and despicable stripe, would be taken up, and made
Cabinet officers, representatives of the count,
abroad. How long would peace be preserved
home or foreign entanglements aud collisions be
avoided should the destinieS of the he COM
United To such reckless and unhalowed hands Is
il not highly probable-yea, is it not absolutely ce-
tain-that domestic agitation, under such insane lea
dersp. would be iniianed and increased eniOl, and
that war, with halt dozen foreign govern
ments would stare in the face il less than lively
months after Buchanan's Inauguration Are the H.
dusrious painstaking honest yeomanry of the couu.
try, who pay the taxes and supply the sneys OF
war, prepared to encounter such imminent Gangnf
and all for the sake Of achieving a miserable part,
triumph and putting or keeping in power a host of
needy and hcartlcss political alyenturers the object
of whose poitcs-the and substance OF Who's
princpesis the qualification OF their appetitcs for
public plundery Can lovers Of their country toe 49,.
im1ted by such plltry considerations in the .xerci>,
of the highest right of American lrecmen and upon
an occasion Of the gravest and most vital impor
lance, which has occurred in our national histo
ry2 We hey the stad, rejecting, conservative. d..
triotc portion Of the people not to suffer theinsclye
TO be nsied 10y designing rcH'syseo,. ..I ,.Iiaat ,
fice-seekers IN this great crisis OF the nations fate
While the election Of Buchanan would remedy no
existing evils, but would most probably aggravat,
them all, yet the Of Fillmore would almost IL,
simultaneously restore internal tranquility and conf
dcncc and remove al danger Of foreign war. Upo.
him, therefore, we invoke the people of Virginia an,
the South. as they value domestic peace and nation
nj hvnor and prosperity, to their strcnri
and their votes, an1 thus triunphanty place the r.
vcrnmcnt IN the hands Of experienced states,na,
a. unHinching patriot, wise, conservative rnl..
and an honest man. II needs only constant aud Of,
crgeto exertiOn the part Of his friends from, nos
until the election to the victory victim.
which will bring 70 themselves consolation and Ia al,
whole county, North and SOUTH assurances of i;
creased national happiness, prosperity and honor
We implore each and all 90 devote the present We,
TO laborious, diligent perseyering labor and ,h.
when the sinks 10 rest on the fourth Of Mover,
her IL will shed H. parting rays upon people an
land united, happy, and free forever.
First Congressional District
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