Daily American organ., 1856-09-04
The Presidential Contest |.

we have assumed t0uchmg tne pendlng PreSi-
Dental contest.
We have said that Buchanan has no strength
in the North, but that the contest there lies
between Fillmore and Fremont We have
said that, as a general rule, the foreigners and
Catholics Of the North would sustain Fremont
We have said chat the Conservatives of all
sections of the country would support Fill
more. We have said that in contest be-
tween Buchanan and Fremont, IL such con-
test were produced by the concentration of the
South upon Buchanan, or il such concentra-
ton were apprehended by the North, Fremont
would beat Buchanan. Have not the events
of the last month vindicated the truth Of these
opinions2 In every portion of the North and
West, presses and politicians are abandoning
Buchanan as rats leave a sinking ship In
both those sections the German presses and
Catholic Irish presses are out for Fremont!
The New York journal Of Commerce. a
Buchanan press, admits that even in Pennsyl-
vania Fremont has more presses than Buch-
ananl rm. ... .
Men in the North and West who have tenn
porarily acted with the Republicans, under the
excitement produced by the repeal of the Mis-
souri Compromise, but who yet cling to the
Union, and who have only designed to punish
the Democracy for an alleged violation of good
faith, are fast ranging themselves under the
flag of Conservatism, and will be found fight
ing against both sham Democracy and sham
Republcanism on the day of trial. The farm
ers, mechanics, merchants, and working-men
Of the country, are not madmen-theywill not
blindly rush the country on to ruin-but they
aoiU put an end to that dynasty aohich has IN
augurated all the political epib sohich moeo
abRict the country-such as their purpose !!
Do Forney, Buchanan & Co. deem it strange
that the country people who have been swim
died by the late smashed-up concern of For
ney, Pierce & Co., viii not consign their pro-
duce to this neo firm2 Why, they perfectly
understand that it is to be composed of the
same parties who have failed to pay ten cents
on the dollar!
The man who desires to know what would
fight between Buchanan and Fremont, should
look at the result of the late contest in Iowa,
where such a fight has just terminated. Pierce
received the electoral vote of Iowa, in 1852
by handsome majority, and yet the Republi-
cans have carried that little State, in the recent
contest, by more than five thousand majority,
Is that the sort of victory to be called Dem
ocratic triumph Is that the way "Old
Buck" expects to beat the Woolly HorseF"
If this sample of Democratic triumph does
not please the sham Democracy to look upon,
suppose they turn their eyes to the State of
Vermont, where Old Buck and the Woolly
Horse have just again met in single combat?
Scott in 1852 beat Pierce some 5000 votes in
that State, and the report now is, that the
Woolly Horse is ahead of Old Buck" 900
votesl Verify, this manifests great strength
on the part of this sham Democracy! The
wicked Know Nothings" permitted sham
Democracy and sham Republcanism to have
free fight in Iowa and Vermont. Which
aOhippeds
Here, then, tsoo trials have been made, and
the results are before the country But another
trial comes off on Monday next, in the Demo
cratic State of Maine, where Pierce, in 1852,
beat Scott about 5000 votes. In Maine the
sham Democrats and sham Republicans will
have single-handed contest, as they had in
Iowa and Vermont. Old Buck and the Woolly
Horse will have fair field and q free fight
What will be the result Of this third fight be-
tween these two parties2 We have no espe-
cial means of judging. We have no cores
pondents in Maine. The National Americans
have no party there, and we are mere spectators
of this fight. But suppose Buchanan gets
whipped in Maine by the Rocky Mountain
youth, where Pierce beat both Scott and Hale
one thousand votesp What them Will not
three Whippings in a single month suffice to
show that Buchanan has no strength at the
North Will it not open the eyes of the South
to the truth of our predictionsp We entertain
no doubt whatever that Buchanan would be
just as badly, il not sOorse whipped, in single
handed contest with Fremont, in any other
and every other Northern State, as he has
been in Iowa and Vermont.
Precisely the same reasons exist in the other
free States as in Iowa and Vermont, why the
people wiU not perpetuate the Forney and
Pierce dynasty. These reasons are known,
and need not be discussed-the people there
,oiU not vote for Buchanan, nor for any other
man who stands upon the platform built at
Cincinnati, nor who is made responsible for
the follies Of this administration. If the South
do not choose to believe what we say, with the
evidences we furnish of the truth of our pre-
dictions, the fault will not be ours.
But will the conservatives of the whole coun-
try support Fillmore as we have predictedp