Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-08-13
gilmore in the Way of the Republicans.

Fillmore in the Way Of the Republicans
The Republicans at the North and the Demo
Gratis at the South are both playing the same
game in the present canvass-both trying topper
suade the country that the contest is between
Buchanan and Fremont Senator Pearce de-
clares that, in his opinion this Is the position Of
parties, and therefore he goes for Buchanan; j.
Watson Webb, champion of Fremont, echoes
the sentiment, and thanks Mr.. Pearce for the
admission. At the South we are urged to take
Buchanan as "a Northern man with Southern
principles" and at the North Fremont is advo-
Gated as "a Southern man with Northern prin-
ciples" Thus we have two sectional parties,
neither of which can secure the confidence OF
national men who wish to see the Union main
tanned while the rights of all sections are respect
ed. "Senators Pratt and Pearce," says the Bal
ti,nore American, evidently desire to induce
the South to take Mr. Buchanan as Southern
sectional candidate, in opposition to Mr.. Fremont
as a Northern sectional candidate, and thus ar
ray the South against the North. 1t should be
remembered that there is a sufiicency OF north
ern electoral votes to elect Fremont, and If the
conservative masses of the South were to follow
such advice, and thus dispirit the conservatives
of the North. whose opposition to the Pierce adj
ministration, and Mr. Buchanan as its endorser,
overrides every other feeling, Fremont's election
might be regarded as fixed fact. The Black
Republicans consider Mr.. Fillmore as the only
obstacle to certain success, and Messrs. Pearce
and Pratt apparently desire to remove that OBJ
stacle."
The case is we'll put by the American. Only
let the country understand that the contest is
confined to Buchanan and Fremont, and the lat
ter will be elected without difficulty. But every
days tidings serve to confirm the report that in
most of the Northern States Buchanan's chances
are rapidly waning The ultra anti-slavery men
there, are, of course, for Fremont, and the con-
servatives of all parties are raying to Fillmores
standard, hoping to be supported by the same
class at the South This is the testimony of
Gen. Leslie Combs, of Kentucky, who writes
from New York, that "from very reliable infor-
nation the contest will be between Fremont and
free negroes on one side, and Fillmore on the
other" ''The Hards, he continues, twill help
the latter-the Softs the former. They all say
Buchanan has no chance in New York" A
gentleman of this county informed us last week
that he had received letter of similar purport
from citizen of New York. The writer, in the
month of May last, was q Jealous advocate of
Mr. Buchanan's nomination; but confesses now
that there is no course left to conservative men
but to support Fillmore. Another letter of the
same tenor has been received by gentleman of
this place from his New York correspondent
Now, if the South turns her back upon Fillmore,
thousands at the North who support him as a
national man will naturally go for the Northern
candidate in preference to the Southern. The
Black Republicans comprehend this fully, and
hence their vehement protestations that Buch-
anan and Fremont are the only candidates really
in the field, seeking to make it amerely section
al contest between Buchanan and Fremont, in
which they know that their success is certain.
Fillmore however, is in their way, and their
leading organ-the New York Tribune--recent-
ly confessed that but for him Fremont would
sweep the North.
We say this much on the supposition, that Mr..
Buchanan is as Southern in his sympathies as
his friends in this region assert But, while he
is not an abolitionist, believe that his sympa-
thies are strongly with his own section of the
Union. If elected, he will be subjected to pow
erful temptation to make amends to the North
in every way possible for his triumph as a South
ern candidate. His old friend Martin Van Bu-
rem, the original 'sNorthen man with Southern
principles, doubtless understands his views and
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