Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1856-09-06

to the Union? 1t is not pretended in the
South that Buchanan is truer man to
the Union than Fillmore, and yet it is
known and felt that the election of Fill
more will pacify the whole country, and
restore harmony as in 1850, by settling all
disputes upon Just and patriotic basis,
against which no sound complaint can
come from either section. 1t is not the
triumph of either section that a just and
patriotic American can desire, but with
justice to all, an amnesty, pacification.
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 FIRE.
MoNT's ELECTION. The thing is math-
ematicaIIy impossible. He starts with fif-
teen Southern States dead against him,
and in the sixteen Northern States he
must carry about all of them, certainly
Pennsylvania, which it is not pretended
even that he has a chance of carrying a
gainst the friends of Fillmore there
Dispel, then, this illusion, thatthe contest
is between Fremont and Buchanan, for
the practical contest, where that is ap-
preached, is only between Fillmore and
Buchanan. One or the other must cer-
tainly be President: Fremont never.
Now, what right has anybody South to
say Fillmore has no chance in the North
Have we not, within the two past years,
twice carried this State for his friends
Is he less popular now than those friends
Has he not ever been the fjavorite of this
State? Was he not even selected to be
put on ticket to carry this State? When
Gen. Taylor was run, the programme
was to run Abbot Lawrence with him, but
was not Fillmore taken in his stead, on
purpose to save this State Are his
friends inactive? Did the South ever see
such a canvass as we are now only be-
ginning to make? Were ever such pub
lie meetings heard of before, as we are
having? Did the labor and industry of
the workshops ever pour out as they are
now pouring out for Millard Fillmore :!
Was there ever party so well, so
thoroughly organized as the American
party is nthe State of New York, so much
ola unit, or marching so well in harmony
q
THE EMPIRE STATE, rs THE BATTLE
GROUND, and we know it. and, if we go
for Fillmore, we believe, so goes the prize
in the end.
Men, however, ought not to gamble, as
it were, in politics, especially when par
ties become geographical; but, without re-
gard to results, DO RIGHT. Is it right to
elect Fillmore over Buchanan? Or, ra-
ther, is it not wrong, not THUS to elect
him
What FilImore's policy is, or is to be,
we KNOW from the records of 1850 and
on; but what Buchanan's are to be, we
know not, because his party, for the first
time, have interpolated foreign plank in
their platform, which under the inspira-
ton of the Soules, may embroil this coun-
try with all the world. Buchanan is
pledged to that policy. AM NO MORE
JAMES BUCHANAN, he cells us, BUT THE
CINCINNATI PLATFORM! Thus, war a.
broad, and continued discord at home,
are the promised fruits of such an cleo
ton ! is it not wrong, then, thus to vote?
Nay, is it not crime and without any re-
gard to FiIlmore's chances. ought not
every man to do right, knowing that God,
in the end, viii maintain the right!
1t is a crime, too, to make this election
sectional, geographical, as the Fremont
and Buchanan men are making it. Mil
lard Fillmore alone removes the canvass
from this danger of sectionality. Fre-
mont's strength is all North; Buchanan's
practical strength is all South. Fillmore
alone embodies the conservatism of the
whole Union. Fillmore alone has the
hands and hearts of the conservative men
in all parts of the Union. 1t is folly,
then, TO try to triumph over the North with
Buchanan, or over the South with Ere
mont.
Now, the EXPRESS is not a journal that
predicts or prophesies, as some other
journals often do. Do RIGHT, WITHOUT
REGARD TO RESULTS, has ever been our
maxim and our policy. Hence, we have
no predictions to make, but we have a
right to say the canvass. on the part Of
the Fillmore party in the North, has
scarcely begun. The history of Fremont,
Fillmore's real combatant here, is not yet
known to our farmers. They have heard
of him only as geographer, but they
have not heard Of him yet as a statesman,
soldier, or as to his principles. The
first Go-oFF is already about gone off,
The Northern people are not long dupes,