Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-07-22
From the Louisville Journal.
The Fremont Movement in Keutr

We published yesterday the Fremont electoral
ticket in this State. We did not think the Free
soil men in Kentucky would have the hardhood to
put forth an electoral ticket, but the leaders o
that party, Cassius M. Clay, John G. Fee, and their
associates, are bold men who have long seemed to
delight in defying the resentment of the people of
Kentucky. The Free-so movement has been in
augurated here, and by whom9 Let our readers
everywhere In the Southern States mark the fact
that it has been begun here az in Missouri erclu.
siucly OF mainly By Democrats ..g
1t is notorious fact that the only Abolition pa
per in Kentucky, the Newport News, as rabid an
Abolition sheet as exists anywhere in the whole
country, has always been Democratic paper 1t
zealously advocated the election of Clarke, tho
Democratic candidate for Governor, last year, and
has always bitterly opposed the American party
because it foresaw that the American party would
prevent ii possible the consummation of the OBJ
jects Of the Abolitonists.
IL is a notorious fact, that Cassus M Clay and
John g. Fee, and the whole mass of their follow
ers in this State voted for Clarke the Democratic
candidate for Governor last year. i.
1t is notorious fact, that all of the electors
upon this Fremont electoral ticket, so far az their
| antecedents are known here, have heretofore been
Democrats and voted for the Democratic candi.
dates in the last State election. George D. Blake
ly, of Logan, one of the Fremont electors for the
State at large, was the Democratic eector for the
third district in IS4s. Both of the Fremont elec-
tors for the State at large did all they could for
Clarke .#efis a aaelltl 'a4sa
The vote of the German population Of Kentucky
is estimated at 10000. This vote has hitherto
been given to the Democratic party, but nearly
the whole Of it will now go to the support of this
Fremont ticket. In 1854 the Free German Repub-
licans of this State held convention in Louisville,
and adopted an ultra anti-slavery platform. They
have since continued to act with the Democratic
party only beceuse they had no opportunity to vote
for Freesoil candidates, but now they will in q
body leave the Democracy and sustain the Free
soil ticket. IL is evident to every well-informed
man, that the whole strength Of this Fremont
party in Kentucky, viii be derived exclusively
from the Democratic ranks and that this Free soil
movement will place Mr.. Buchanan In minority
of not much less than $4,000 votes in this State.
Thus every day makes more apparent the truth
of the declaration that the great mass of the for
eign population in this country is strongly anti
slavery. We have repeatedly warned the South
Of this fact. We have called upon Southern men
to protect their interests by aiding the estab
lishment Of the policy recommended by the Amer
lean party, thus preventing the increase of this
source of Abolition strength.
The present position OF political parties has
proved the justice and propfiety Of the principles
Of the American party in regard TO an extension
of the naturalization laws, and has demonstrated
tue nopeleSsness OF tne Dem0cratlc party IN the
present contest One Of the chief elements o.
the Democratic party, particularly in the Free-soi
States, has been the foreign vote, and now nearly
the Whole Of this foreign vote has abandoned the
Democracy and is found in the ranks of the Free
soil party supporting Fremont. f
We earnestly ask the people Of the Southern
States to look at these facts and for themselves
that there is not one single ray Of hope that Mr..
Buchanan can obtain single electoral vote in the
North; and In all seriousness we ask such OF the
old-line Wings and old-line Democrats as have in
tended to support Mr.. Buchanan, to cease their
suicidal efforts to divide and distract the South,
and at once to determine to give the united sup
port Of the South to Millard Fillmore, who alone
| can defeat the election Of Fremont x
We want Southern men, and particularly the
conservative Democrats Of the South, TO consider
wen their position, and to deliberate candidly and
seriously upon the circumstances by which they
are surrounded. The Democratic party Il every
where affected by tho Fremont movement precise
ly as il is affected by it in Kentucky, II is shorn
Of its strength and rendered utterly powerless
particularly in the North, where the foreign vote
is the greatest. s1o ftE. 800 .3 S.
The defeat Of Mr.. Buchanan is a fixed fact. His