Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-09-13
Gulling the South.

If there be one man in the South who has
had the slightest confidence in the statements
or predictions of the South-guller who con-
ducts the Washington Union, we have exhib-
tied enough of his Contradictions in the last
few issues Of our paper to satisfy him that
such confidence was misplaced
On Friday, the 9th instant, the Washington
Union said:
"The Democrats Of Maine are full of hope and
enthusiasm they appear to have most efficient
organization, and they thoroughly alive to the
importance of the pending struggle We do not
claim in advance an overwhelming Democratic tri-
umph, although our private advices would seem
to Justify such superstition but still, we do not
hazard too much in asserting, as our belief, that
the result of the election on Monday next will be
of such a character as to warrant the strongest
homes that the electoral vote of Maine win be cast
for Buchanan and Breckenridge"
Now, the editor of that press either believed
that the Democrats would carry Maine on the
9Th instant, or he was false to his party in
making the above statement. No man can
deny the truth of our position as above stated.
We are obliged to think he deliered the Dem
ocrats would carry Maine, or else he was q
bvpocrite when he penned the above extract
Well, the election transpired, and on Tues
day the 9th that press gave the contents of a
despatch it had received on Monday night, ia
yorable to the Republicans, and added as fol-
lows, viz:
"We attach very little credit to this intimation
mr. pre6;cton- in the face of the fact
that the Democratic strongholds had not been
heard from. Our friends should bear in mind that
nv some mysterious dispensation or arrangement
in the various State elections that have hitherto
been held, the telegraphic agents generally man
age to make the first returns unfavorable to the
Democrats"
He still chung, or appeared to cling to the
hope that Maine was all right, and particularly
las the Democratic strongholds had not been
heard from" He still belieeed, or pretended
to believe, that Maine was safe for Buchanan !
Well, Wednesday the 10th arrived, and that
press said: a....
According to the telegraphic dispatches which
reached this city yesterday from Portland, Hamln,
the Black Republican candidate for Governor, led
Wells and Patten some twelve thousand votes;
bat az the Dajorities looscLygiven, and IN round
mum6ers, these figures may be considerably reduced
BIZ the Official returns The strong Democratic dis
friets have mol been heard from and although it
Ia not Mt all probable, or even possible, that Ham,
Inns present reported majority can be wholly over
come NO matter how favorable the returns may
prove to the Democratic cause from the fifth and
sirth districts we suD believe that the result of
MONDAYS election viii show that Maine cannot be
placed among what are termed the CERTAIN States
for the Black Republican candidate for the Pres-
dency."
The strong Democratic districts were not
vet heard from and he still bsIiesed that Maine
was not Republican STATED
Time rolls on, and Friday the 18th arrives,
and noD see what the Washington Union says
of Maine: