Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-03-21
The Next Presidency.


republican will be elected the next President OF the
United States We must select between nationa
conservative democrat and a regular thorough bred
abolitionst of the Giddings and Greeley school,
The black republicans will meet in Philadelphia in
June next, and will then present TO the electors OF
the nation candidate who is the mbodiment of their
principles and aims and either be or the nominee of
fahe National Democratic Convention will be the next
President of the United States The recent noml-
nation of Nr. Fillmore by the knOw-nolhings can
not alter or change this result one iota. The only
possible effect it have upon it will be to prevent
an election by the people. and throw it into the
House of Representatives But there the same ssr e
presents itself, and either the democratic black
republican party must triumph The duty OF the
southern portion of the so called American party,
under such circumstances, is so plain that 1t requires
no argument to point il out There Is surely not
an intelligent member of the party whose Judgment
does not tell him that it is his duty to lay down his
arms and heartily cooperate with the Democratic
party in preserving the constitution and the Union.
No sane man. who will calmly review the ground,
can possibly entertain any hope of the election OF
Mr.. Fillmore Whatever strength Mr. Fillmore may
possess is in States where there overwhelming
maorties against the know nothing party. He was
nominated by the southern members of the cOnven-
tion aided by portions of delegations from the north
States, the major part having already bolted from
the convention, and repudated its action. He goes
into the contest with not the ghost of chance to
carry single non.slaveholding State, and with the
very slimest sort of hopes for one or two slave
States In all the non-slaveholding States know
nothingism, as expounded by the Philadelphia con-
venticn, is fated 10 be crushed between the upper
milestone of democracy and the neither milestone of
anti-slavery When allied with abolition it was for
mdabe, but shorn of that its chief strength, there
is not a single free State in the Union where It even
forms respectable balance Of power party. When
it was strongest and claimed superior nationality,
aided by all lis secret machnery,i could carry but
two southern States, and those by aortes greatly
less than those of its predecessor, the whig party.
I he division of the anti tdemocratic forces in the
free States renders it easy for the South, if she is
but true to herself, to the election of sound
national man to the presidency, and, by decisive
triumph the agitators of the North forever put
10 rest the demon of anti-slavery. The democratic
party be of sufficient number of free
States with the United South to elect the President
The only hope of the abotoniss of the North is to
throw the election into the House, where their chan
Ces of success are the hest The following article
from the Cincinnati Gazette, organ of both know
nothingism and abolitonism, fully confirms in
this view
" We do not believe the ticket will meet with pop
ular favor in the free States at least for the pre-
sent. The nominations have been made too soon.-
The presidential canvass cannot open with activity
and spirit until the democratic party have held their
and named their men. The democratic
will be held in June, and the republican
convention will be held about the same time.
the field then expect to witness sharp and ac
tive canvass. The American party in the South will
have to meet single-handed the fierce democracy,'
and in the North the republicans and Americans rcH
haze to meet the enemy. lfthey unite upon one
set Of electors IN each of the States nearly, if not
quite, every northern State can be carried against
the democratic party IT, on the other hand, the
Americans and republicans run each electoral
ticket of their own the result may he, and probably
will be, an unparalleled democratic triumph"
" The great aim we have in the presidential elec-
ton is first to beat the democratic party and, second,
TO select President aChoSe principles OpT"Sed TO
he spread of slarery into free lands, and VINO will
give TO the country liberal, yet conservative admin
isration of the government. The first point embra-
ces the second. We must defeat the democratic par
ty. Upon this the opposition, North and South, re-
publicans and Americans, agree; and, as we agree
upon the essential it would be strange if cannot
agree upon things which are collateral"
CAS- the nominations of Fillmore end Donelson
were made by the delegates from the southern States,
we would suggest they give to them the best support
they and carry as many States for them as pos
sble, the more the better. In the meantime the op-
position in the northern States must he permitted to
fight the administration forces in their way, and
under such leaders they may please 10 select, and
upon such platform as they may think proper to
make. BY pursuing such line of policy as this,
we could at least prevent the election Of the demo
cratic candidates by the peop lie, and thus hroW the
election into the House. The present House would
have to choose, and, there is a clear majority of
the States Represented in this Congress opposed to
the democratic party an opposition candidate acoud
be elected PRESIDENT"
We have an abiding confidence that this adroitly-
arranged scheme will be rebuked by the people of
the South, that treacherous politicians will be taught
that the longer to be cajoIed into the
support of party whose highest aim is The spols Of
office.