New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-09-13
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Tie Buchanan men Of the South, though writhing
nnder i consciousness Of approaching defeat and E
protesting rnbounded devotion their ail the
tivne, still by then acts, which louder and
palmer than aUofds eyince no ~ anlte
With Tile HnioF lmore men 70 ensure the defeat ot
the Freesoiler, Fremont They are Wiling
iii fact exceedingly anxious, that their opponents
should unite with them and throw the vote Of the /
South for Buchanan hen such q alion would not
secure his election against e undivided opposition
of tile North--hpt WE hear 40 whisper see No token,
cannot learn, Of the smallest that
prepared to aid Us i'll enconip assing the defeat Of
Fremont BY voting for ore, who alone can divide
the Northern electoral vote with the Freesoera This
il strange 'ris passing strang = but it Isl never
theless, true. It more; for it IS the most mean-
choy exhibition Of party blindness, aye insanity we
have ever yet witnessed
Shall We sacrifice our common country TO party
Shall we peril the existence Of matchless Union
of confederated States in obedience to the beests OF
partisan conventions Shall we endanger the South
its institutions and its futre because
convention has said to one portion OF our people,
AN Tou must vote for our candid and another
nominating convention has - You must vote
Tor our candidateto tle otitef pote!oh "a ouf
people?
No-a thousand times no say We; and 50 ought to
say every conservative, intelligent man in the land.
a common foe assails our common country union and
section and daily becomes more audacous and threat
ening while are frttering away our time in worse
than useless controversies. We can, by union among
ourselves, beat back the common enemy to his dark
and noisome cave, and roll Union stone over the
have the opportunity, the and the power Shall
we improve the opportunities presented US, or shall
we risk all by divisions among ourselves
This is the true questionable only question that
demands our exclusive attention. With Mr., Fillmore
we are sure Of beating Fremont and the Freesoilers
With Mr.. Buchanan no such certainty exists. And
yet right in the face Of all these probabilities the
Buchanan journals of the South give forth no sign
that they would withdraw cease supporting their
candidate, such course was indispensable to the
overthrow Of Fremont.
Our readers will bear us out in saying that since
NE entered actively upon the present have
eschewed partisanshp and that our appeals to them
have been made as Union and Southern men. We
have stated on several occasions, that if Buchanan
was as strong in the North as Fillmore and Fill
more as weak as is Buchanan we should consider it
our bounden duty to support Mr.. Buchanan. No
response to this proposition has yet been seen in any
! Buchanan journal.
But we have stronger evidence of the recklessness
of the Buchanan organs, to which we desire the
especial attention Of readers Not long since the
\ Richmond Wing, speaking on behalf Of the American
party Of Virginia, proposed, the more certainly to
defeat Fremont, that the Fillmore and Buchanan
parties Of Virginia positively agree that in the event
of E4oios
votes than Fillmore, the vote Of Virginia should be
given to Buchanan, but that if Fillmore should OBJ
tain more than Buchanan, yirgnia's vote should be
A given to Fillmore The proposition was directly
made, and the Richmond Examiner, II. behalf Of tn
parginia Democracy, directly declined it.
This declination, by the Richmond Examiner, is
more than ordinarily suggestive 1t. should set the
Southern people to thinking, deeply and profoundly
What does the rejection of SO fair and just PROPOSE
4 ton amount TOT Why, first, that the Virginia sup
porters Of Buchanan rather than give up their fading
hope Of the spoils are willing that Fremont should
be elected and, secondly that they have no earthly
faith the ability of Buchanan to obtain more cleo
toral votes in the non-saveholdng States than Mr.
i Fillmore, notwithstanding their loud and long vocf
i erations to the contrary.
4 In regard to this matter the editor of the Rich
n nond Wing, says:
Il We take great encouragement the rejection
position by the Virginia Democracy We feel perfectly
that they themselves feel and know that Fillmore
infinitely stronger at the North than Mr. buchanan This il
c M III ss an s Of vi pas sE
to Fillmore the admitted ground that he will OBJ
tain Northern electoral than Buchanan The
cratic of lag here tile South completely
posed Let the friends of Fillmore take fresh courage let then
enter the work Of the with renewed
II ergy and glorious triumph will reward their eSeons.
I Thank GoD the people do not concur with the poll
ticians. If they did, oil would be lost In conclu
sion, we would like to know whether the Buchanan
men of other Southern States are prepared to reec