Washington telegraph., 1856-09-03
The Presidential Election.

The Presidential Election.
1t would be well enough for those
' kind advisers who are detailed to
do the wire-working of the opposition,
to read the following extract from an
article in the NeI Orleans Bee, on the
Presidential election. If they are not
altogether deaf to the appeals of reason
and fully determined to shut their eyes
to facts, it may suggest to them
the utter fallacy of the grounds upon
which they urge an abandonment of
Mr. FILLMORE upon his friends at the
South The American party will un-
questionably perceive the force of the ar
guments here adduced, and doubtless will
be nerved to renewed and more deter
mined support of the men of their choice
To your posts, Americans! Every con-
sideration, all circumstances, and your
duty to your country, to your party, to
yourselves and to posterity, demand of
you an answering devotion to the great
cause in which you are engaged. Again
and again do we urge you not to let the
plausible but specious and designing ap-
pcals of noisy and interested demagogues
influence you to desert your colors.-
Let us stand by them in fair weather
and in foul-do our duty-trust in the
right, and leave the result to the pow
er that disposes of all things for the
best =
"Remove Mr.. Fillmore from the field
in the North, and where is Buchanan p
What States will he carry? The party
press may vaunt and crow as much as it
pleases, but we, who, while in favor of Mr.
Fillmore, from temperament as well as
from the quiet character OF the canvass in
the South, do not suffer our Judgment to
be controlled by our wishes, have no hesi-
tation in saying that there is not nom
slaveholding State in the Union, with the
possible exception of California, that Bu-
chanan could carry The New England
States, to commence with, are dead against
him. Every one of them have given anti
Democratic popular majorities within the
past year. Take the Middle States: In
New York he Is confessedly out of the
question. In New Jersey he would stand
no chance against Fremont alone Penn
sylvania would give twenty thousand ma
jority for Fremont if Fillmore were out of
the race: As for the Northwest-Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan and Wis
consin-the recent election in Iowa, where
there was no American ticket in the field,
proves conclusiveiy that in these States
Mr. Buchanan would be beaten out of
sight
lit is far from our purpose to say that
tie Northern friends of Fillmore will
abandon higA and permit Fremont to crush
Buchanan at his ease, IS it is equally for
eigH from our hope and belief to declare
that .iir. fillmore cannot obtain a respect
able share OF the Southern electoral votes.
But we are arguing upon L presumption
not altogether unlikely. 1t is our bound
en- duty rs Southern men to examine the
aspect OF the canvass calnly and dispas-
slonately. This investigation leads ire
slstibly to the inference that, let the South
go as 1T may, Fremont can only be defeat
ty-nine Northern electoral votes that to
accomplish sais, Fillmore must be yigor-
ously pressed at the North that to be
vigorously pressed at the North, his adyo-
Gates must derive some encouragement
from the South that otherwise they may
t;,lter in their support, and fall away from
him; that If they do, Fremont sweeps the
North and carries the election. This is
hard logic, and hIr- Buchanan's friends
may find it unpleasant to admit, but diff
calt to gainsay- They profess to desire
the withdrawal of Fillmore Heaven help
them I'D such an event For though Bu-
chanan would then carry the South with
out opposition, he would infallibly be ami
hilated at the North.
''Bestow little reflection on these con-
sideratlons, friends oe the Union and ma
tional men of the South, and act accord
ingly-"