The southerner., 1856-09-06

that I shall not now undertake to de-
scribe it. Asa party, 1t has become a
"tert;un puid"-a non-descrlpt-and
dwindled into comparative inslgnitlcance
/ shall make but fewremarks about it; my
time is short, and I shall not tarry to say
long grace over scanty repast. The
party has proved woeful failure. At one
time it boasted that it was the great con-
servative party Of the country; that 1t
was for the maintenance of the Union
as ssthc paramount political good and
that 1t had elected from the northern
States some ninety national and conser-
yative men to this House. Where are
nine-tenths of these northern national
Know Nothings now? Echo answers
where? Where were they when the con-
test for Speaker was decided. l can
tell you, sir3 just where they arc now
drilling in the Black Republican camp
marching under the flag with sixteen
stars, and keeping step to the grating
music of disunion. Of those once
claimed as natio1ul men, more than
nine out of ten now stlnd on the Union
sliding platform, among the most impla-
cable enc mics of the South.
The organization of the Know Moth
ing party at the North has been used to
strengthen Black Republicanasn: only
small fragment otit remaining, that,
at this time, lays any claim to na'ionall-
ty. Let US see what leading Know
Nothing paper, the Albany Register,
says Oh this subject:
44If Fremont is elected, the country will
owe the American party a debt of graft
tude; for it is not doing injustice to other
noble advocates of free soil, to say that the
american organizations in the East and est.
is the backbone ef the Republican party"
The idea of clocting Mr.. Fillmore to
the Presidency is prcpostcrous. la its
palmy days, Know Nothingi-m had its
chief strength in the North; there it has
been absorbed by Black RcpuLIican!sIn:
aud i'll mauy of the States " here it WAS
once etpnipotcnt, it docs rdF now SEEM
to be able to muster a sufficient NUN.
bcr of supporters even to form an cleo
torai ticket in what is termed the na-
tional wing of the party. Your Q"o"-
dam Know Nothing has there laid down
his dark lantcra, and taken up Sharpc's
rife. La the Intensity of his love for
the negro, he has forgotten his hatred
for the Catholic and the Foreigner MIR.
Fillmore canuot be elected by votes
from the South, for there "Sam' never
did arrive at mans estate; at best he
was there but little scrawly, rickcty,
scrofulous bantling, that had not
strength to stand upon his legs. Away,
then, with the attempt to gull southern
people in:o the belief that there is
chance to elect Mr. FILLMORE.
If cr thuSiastic gentlemen, in the cx-
uberancc of their ina asinations, have pic
turcd Mr. Fillmore stalking into tho
White House on the 4th Of March next,
[ tell them that romantic pageant viii
never pass in review before them.
They have mistaken shadow for sub
stance; theyhavc been dreaminsly gazing
at mirage on the political horizon;
they have either scanned the signs of
the times through illusory optics, or
read them TIE back way, like wtch's
prayer.
There is one truly national party in
this country, and but onc-thlt is the
Democratic party 1t has ever been
national and IS so yet It is enaphatical
ly the purity that contends fer "mcas-
ures, not for mcn''-it is the party of
the Constitution-the party of the coun-
try. Othcr parties May desert their
princi pies to conform to the views of
their candidates, but thc Democratic
will never change its principles for
any man. The Black Republican party,
thirsting for the spoils> may adhere to
the fortunes of Fremont; the Know
Nothing, in its admiration of the man,
may follow in the forlorn hope, led on
by Mil!ard Fillmore. The one may
shout for Caesar, the other declare for
Pompey; but the Democratic party,
now as ever, will strike for the best in
terests of the com nonwealth of Rome
Assembled at Cincinnati in conven-
ton, composed of delegates from every
district represented here, it has con-
structed platform eminently national.
1t has reared aleft thc banner Of the
Constitution and the Union. To that
consecrated standard, hosts of patriots
are Aocking in serrled ranks from every
quarter of this vast Republication the |
warm sunlit prairies Of Texas, and from
the blcak bill tops O. Maine