Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-08-19

ItttHt0TeS chances IN west Ienne5See ana
the Union.
MEMPHIS, Ang. 10, 1856.
We have lighted the fires of Americanism
10 every city, village and hamlet in West Ten.
nessee The results of the elections 10 North
Carolina, Kentucky, and Missouri have grown
ont of local Questions, aud cannot affect Mr.
| Fillmore. No one anticipated any very differ
ent result in North Carolina or Missouri under
the peculiar circumstances under which the
people of these States were called on To vote
ln Kentucky, when il was announced that a
majority of democratic officers had been elect.
ed, must confess my establishment But the
details are now known, and | find that ques-
tious of national politics were utterly ignored.
find that in some districts there were no
American candidates; in others no Democratic
candidates; and in one district both candidates
were Old Line Wigs, and yet, with Eastman
like audacity, the democratic press proclGns
the result in Kentucky a democratic triumph.
TO show how very little importance is TO be
attached 10 Judicial elections as q test Of popu-
lar political feeling, it may be well to state
that even Mississippi elects Wing and Anne
riean Judges in the strongest democratic dis
tricts; so in Kentucky, democrats are elected
where Fillmore is Omuipotent. Here IN Mem
phis the press and the people agreed to dis
miss all questions OF politics. and we elected a
democratic Mayor, while the American ma
jority in the city is not less than from three 10
i've hundred
When Gen. Harrison was nominated nearly
all the State elections of 1910 were adverse to
his chances of success, but Tennessee stood by
him firmly. Tennessee first convinced the
South, by her action and enthusiasm, that the
Old patriot had hold upon the affections and
prejudices of the masses, late 10 the contest
Mississippi caught the feeling, aRTeleetoral
ticket was organized, and Mississippi gave
5000 majority for wing candidate for the
Presidency. Fillmore has a stronger hold up
on the affections and confidence of the South
than Harrison, or than any man now living.
If we will do our duty in Tennessee, the same
result will follow in 1856
1t you will work in Middle and East Tennes-
see as we do here, Georgia, Alabama, Missis-
sppi and North Carolina will soon discover
that we are in earnest-they will again come
to the rescue, and as duty to the South, the
Constitution and the Union demands, vote for
Fillmore who is confessedly the best and safest
man before the people. We have started Has
kell who will electrify the masses. There is no
resisting his reasoning or his eloquence We
have clubs organized in nearly every county,
aud the strongest determination to make Ten
nessee cast her electoral votes for Fillmore and
DOnelson everywhere msnitests ITSELF
Democrats tell Us that slavery is the only
question, and that our whole duty consists in
thi that we should defeat Fremont. SosaSs-
Senator Pearce of Maryland, who after lauding
Fillmore most extrayagantly, and admitting
his superior claims to confidence, yet an
nounces his present intention to support Mr..
Buchanan. / cannot comprehend all this. If
sla ha ba II ha
sole duty of patriots to defeat the hell born de-
signs of black republicanism, a0hdt 1as the ne
ce-Sity for tie nomination Of buchanan, after
Fillmore S0aS presented as candidate? Ii Mr.
Fillmore be the purest, best and safest man, as
alleged by Senator Pearce, has he not that de-
gree of confidence in the American people
which would induce him TO believe that Fill
more would be elected Is it not an insult to
to the intelligence and patriotism of the peo-
pie TO say that Fillmore is the "man for the
times" and yet, that tie conservative people
OF the South, will not support hint 1t is false,
| cannot, will not believe it.
Patriotism never dictated Buchanan's nomna~
ton. If Black Repubcanism triumphs and the
Union is dissolved, the Cincinnati Convention in all
future ages will be held responsible for it. If Fin
is beaten, this Convention of Office holders,
who had with one voice in 1852 euogised him for
deserving of our confidence, this very set of men,
(when the 6rst and best man in the country al.
ready endorsed by large party,) to secure the
spOs have set up another candidate, and now, with
impotence unparalleled, they ask the friends of
Fillmore to desert him and 60 over TO this dstribu>
tor Of public plumber, James Buchanan
But Fillmore should remember his friends who,
like Pearce and Pratt, even announce the inn
possibility of his election. 1t is time enough for us
TO 60 10 Buchanan the day of the election, if we
then believe him 10 be better man than Fremont.
The man who deserts friend because he is weak,
and goes to another because of bis supposed
strength, is coward and villain; and geutle
submit to no insult more degrading than
argument like Pearce's, when addressed to him
personally
/ believe Fillmore will be elected. l am no
tradesman in politics, and have never sold out my
principles for Office, is often done by corrupt
politicians who aspire to be statesmen, and would
iain guide public opinion by first cOrrupting it. l
know that with vast majority of Southern men,
politics is patriotism, | believe that the South will
do right, and kaoV it is right to sustain Milard
Fillmore.
Can't the Patriot furnish with the names OF
the officers Of all the American CubsS This is all
| intended to ask when | set down to write, you
may, therefore, begin its perusal at this end of the
letter, and save time and trouble by it,
VULCANUS.