Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-10-15
Pcum.,lsauis Peiitics-s,ste Of ParIic..

Pennsylvania Peiitics-s,atc Of Parties.
We take pleasure in laying before our readers
the following letter from accomplished gen
tleman, citizen OF Philadelphia who j. well
known in this city None who know him would
doubt for a moment any statement which he
would make, and the facts which be gives in re.
gard to the oft repeated charges of corruption,
and of "fus,on' between the friends of Mr. Fill.
more aud the Black Republicans in PennsylvA.
mia. will show conclusiyely how groundless those
charges have been, particularly agains, tho Am.
erican party
PHILADELPHIA, eet. 10, 1856
Uessrs. hcDasad s Peter:
GENrIEMsN-N hen had the pleasure Of CONVEX
sing with yon In Lynchburg few weeks since, a. Ia
the prospects of the election of Mr. Fillmore 10 the
Presidency, WAS not surprised 10 bud much interest
manifested among his friends in Virginia with regard
to our State election next Tuesday, calculated to
afford means Of predicting the result Of her
electoral vote in November. 1t Is not row worth
while TO c1press conecturcs MS 10 result which viii
be known to you almost you receive this
letter but think it advisable 10 request you II per
init me, through your columns to correct crrone-
Gus impression the State ticket for Canal Com
missioner Auditor General, and Surveyor General.
presented for the votes Of the opponents of Mr. Buch
apan at the election next week 1t has been often
stated by the Democratic newspapers especially nj
the south that this ticket is The result Ola fD'aH
between the friends Of Mr.. Fillmore aud Mr Fremont
and that it IS an augury Of similar fusion NJ tie
Presidential election.
Now in fact this ticket nominated last Spring
5eforfihe meeting ofthe Republican Convention which
adopted Mcssrs, Fremont and Dayton rs their ctudi-
dates aud certainly never intended hy Mf Illl-
mores friends to compromise them in any
- the support Of any other candidate Their sup.
port Of is very advisable for If Mr. buchanan loses
his own State next week may reasonably pre-
sumo that the South, aware that their whole elcctos
al vote will not suffice for his election will vote Tor
Mr. Fillmore to defeat the election Of Mr. Fremont OF
that sufficient Southern vote will accrue - Nj
Fillmore to throw the election into the House.
Yesterday was assured by Of the Fillmore
electoral ticket "a highly respectable citizen Of South
wark) that he and he believed all his colleague. were
pledged 10 Mr. Fillmore. and would bot, aais. Hy
,rcsssiaR.a yote for Fremont
We had last night very large meeting at Pom
Square Iiroad and Market Streets sud torch light
procession the aspect ofhe collected lights extend.
ing over those Wide avenues added by tine moon
sight evening, highly imposing
! viii probably write yon again in a lew daysr aud
meantime state that the Republicans IA this city.
having proposed terms 81 fusion 10 the Americans.
which We're t,jrfed have withdrawn most oil thor
own eandidaes, doubt with the tuteution OF yot-
ing for the American nominees. aud Claiming rIcir
success their own victory thereby the small.
ness of their vote would be concealed, which a sep
arate ticket tbeit part would render apparent II
course, however, NJ Que can pretcut thelr adopting
this plan "
A correspondent of the National lnteIgonc,r,
writing from Philadelphia on the 10th inst, gives,
in effect, the same testimony as respects both
III c Presidential and State tickets In regard 10
the former he explicitly says.
" Your contemporary, the "Iniou.a | see, Asserts
that the Fillmore electoral ticket j. all sham, aul
that they arr more for Fremont than Fillmore. idis
rom my own knowledge, assert Is mol the hcl=
livery man on that ticket has pledged himself III
writing in favor of Fillmore, aud Two Of them thai
were il. not giving satisfactory an ,Vers We1e
dropped, and two others good men and true, wrre
substituted No instance has ever occurred IN Which
an elector has his in opposition the party
which elected him. and, in addition 10 the eternal
disgrace and infamy which would attend such trdi.
torous proceeding unless under special circamstln-
ces il should be previously sanctioned by their
siitueus man in the prcscnt state Of excitement
could only do SO 10y taking his life in his hand. IL
is SO Improbable that it may be said 10 be uagYssit
Various propositions for fusion have been mnde to
the fillmore party, hut all haze been promptly Ht
peremplorily rejected.
81 au may rccolicct TINT there u secession tfnn
the reg ular American party, the sccederS nominating
Fremont aud Johnston, OF this State. Tho Republic
cans having treated them and their nominee for Nltr
President rather badly these North Americans, As
they called recently came back 10 the Amcugaa
party aud il is 5aid VIII add twenty to twenty-five
thousand votes 10 the Fillmore ticket IN New OH.
Their State committee were three day ago called To
gether at Harrisburg aud the Republican State cont
mttee at the same Time and the conVocaton OF the
former was denounced as being fraudulent and with
out due authority the object being 10 bring them and
the Republicans together, in order 10 make a fusion.
s}ut the attempt n miserable failure So soon a
the object and the mode OF calling the meeting
aseertained, they adjourned without doing any thing,
though the principal wire workers of the New York
Republicans were on the spot 10 manage and arrange,
Even this lately scccdiug and small division Of the
American party could not be brought into The Rcpub
lican ranks. What hope, then, can they have OF
bringing over the great body of the real American
party who have already stood firm to their or gual
nominees, aud who know aud feel their strength -
But this whole charge VISA gotten up Tor
the purpose Of counteracting, if possible the eff
feet of the anticipated defeat of the Democratic
party on yesterday, and to save Mr.. Duchanan's
friends, from the painful necessity which has been
staring them in the face, of his ultimate Withdrawal
from the canvass after the reputation of him Ia his
own State. That Fremont voters did Yesterday
support what they are pleased to term the "t1non
ticket in Pennsylvania, DO nat Doubt but
the light in which even they regard that ticket
may be inferred from the following extracts from
letter which we find in Black Republican or.
gan of New York The spirit of animosity which
the writer exhibits towards the Know Nohngs,'
whilst it lacks the intense malignity that usually