The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1856-09-06
To Our Southern Readers.
americans Of tie South:
HiL;uv of thp So,ItI !.

AAttS S"'' u 49, w.
Wigs Of tie South:
1t is the Abolition cry North that " Fill
more has no cha,ce and the Buchanan cry
South and, believing these two cries, many
honest, patriotic men are duped. Now it the
should do wrong, or fail to do right but the
fact can not be SO unless made so by mems be-
ing made the dupes OF false cries.
This canvass presents many unusual points
of consideration, all worthy Of the more thought
from the very novelty OF mems positions. Ere
mont, q Soulhern-born man, is brought up as
an %antl-oouthern candidate; Buchanan, a
Northcrn-born man, is brought up as the anti
Northern candidate, that is, a candidate to
carry out the Pierce policy in Kansas, and i'll
the annexation OF Cuba, etc. The issue these
two men present isa fatal one TO the pcace and
prosperity of the Union, because it is sectional,
and because it is certain to keep up sectional
tends and fights. If Buchanan is elected, there
is nothing settled, because, in every Northern
State, there will be large majorities against
him, when the Fillmore and Fremont vote is
combined. These majorities will not be van
quished when Buchanan attempts to carry out
the Cincinnati policy that elects him, but, on
the contrary, will be increased by it, ~magniied
and prolonged. Tie North is noi to be Subducd
any more than the South. Buchanan must
either bctray the Southern policy That elects
him, or keep up just such feeling and agitation
in the North as Pierce's policy has created.
Under this agitation, Southern institutions
can not prosper Or thrive, for they want peace,
and their policy is peace, and they thrive best
in peace-whcreas agitation is the natural
abolition event.
1t is very easy for us Fillmore mel in the
North to throw every Northern vote, VIC think,
in every Northern State, against buchanan.
We haze but 10 ~coaieSce nth AJolltion, and III
eide the Electoral ticket. and the thing is done.
Pennsylvania, even, Buchanan's own State,
can be carried against Buchanan by 10000
majority. But We fight this battle upon prin-
cipie, and considering Fremont unfit in person
and trcacherous to the Union in political posi-.
ton, we can not, and will not form coalitions
that may give him even apparent strength
merely to censure q nominal victory. Lu
chanan is weak in all the Northern States, as
the successor of the Pierce policy, which ever
the South disowued in throwing Pierce over
and in taking up buchanan, aud it is very
easy to defeat him. In our own State Of New
York, he is not even Il practical candidate as
yet, only Il candidate in theory. The battle
here is really between Fillmore and Fremont
and we show that we think so, daily, by di
recting all our fire upon Fremont, and Ignoring
even the existence OF Buchanan. Hence, i
Buchanan is to receive Northern votes, it il
only by the division Of tho opposition, an(
whatever Electoral tickets he wins, will dis
close him to be in the minority.
Whot tlnp ic tba ,,nliov- of tLo Go,iL o n,
cram down upon the North. Buchanan? Il,
elect Buchanan by the Southern, with an,
such Northern votes US accident gives him
and thus to refu,nish material to the Northern
fanatics for further agitation? What gain tn
South by this prolonged agitation? What t,
her institutions, what to her public men O
public interests, to say nothing of the peril tt
the Union? 1t is not pretended in the Soutl
that buchanan is u truer man to the Union
than Fillmore, and yet it is known and fel
that the election of Fillmore will pacify TIN
whole country, and restore harmony as il
1850, by settling all disputes upon a lust ant
patriotic basis, against which no sound com
plant can CONT from either section. 1t is no
the triumph OF either section that a Just am
patriotic American can desire. but with iustic,
to all, an amnesty, q pacihcation.
But " Fillmore has no chance we are told
and, therefore, between Fremont and Buchanan
we take Buchanan. In reply to this, first
There is no danger Of Eemont's election. Th,
thing is automatically impossible. He start!
with fifteen Southern States dead against him
and in the sixteen Northern States he mus
carry about all Of them, certainly Pennsylva
MIA, which it is not pretended even that he ha;
a chance of carrying against the friends 0
Fillmore there. Dispel, then, this illusion
that the contest is between Fremont and Blu