Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-07-07


terislly changed in the North, within the last
few weeks, and this change has resulted from
various causes. When Mr.. Fillmore was first
nominated, concerted movement was made
by the politicians and presses Of the two rival
parties (the pseudo Democratic and pseudo Re
publicsn) to create the impression that he
would decline the nomination. "The wish
was father to the thought" These rival par
ties desired a sectional fight, and were unwil-
ling that conservative nominee should inter
vene to prevent such contest. Throughout
the country, the same h0UI was set up by these
rival parties each declaring the issue to be
between the Republicans and the pseudo Dem
ocrats. They kneU this to be false and decep-
tive, but it was the only mode by which they
could secure a. free tight to themselves.
Mr. Fillmore accepted the nomination, -he
returned to his counry,--he ayowed his pur-
pose to leave himself in the hands Of his
friends, he denounced sectionalism wherever
he responded to congratulatory addresses, he
exposed to the country the consequences of a
sectional contest, he avowed himself as ever,
national n,--he declared that
"If there be those either North or South who
desire an administration for the North as against
the South, or for the South as against the North,
| they are not the men who should give their suf-
| frages to me. For my own part ! know only my
country, my whole country, and nothing but nay
country"
And, within two weeks time, the whole North
has raised shout, "H1rrah for Fillmore,
the Constitution, and the Union ]" which has
dumbfounded the pseudo Democracy alarm
ed the cohorts of Seward, Greeley, and Bish-
op Hughes, and cheered and gratifed the South
and West
At the present moment Mr.. Fillmore would
command more votes, North and East of Penn
sylvania than James Buchanan, and his pros
poets brighten with each returning day. five
are asked for the basis Of our calculations, we
answer, that first, there is an awaking of the
| people at the North, to sense of the dangers
arising from sectionalism, whichnow surround
our institutions, second, the alien, -" squat
ter sovereignty, filibustering revolutions
-disorganizing, world-defying manifesto,
put forth at Cincinnati, as the Democratic
platform of principles" has alarmed the indus
trial and business portions, nay, all portions of
the North, third, the fusion between the Re-
publican leaders, the German infidels and the
Irish Catholics,lwill draw off from the pseudo
Democratic party one-ha!f its usual strength
| and lastly, union of all conservatives will be
formed upon Mr.. Fillmore.
Fremont is Democratic Free-soiler and
Catholic. Already, scores of presses, in New
York and elsewhere in the North, which, in
times past, and down to 1866, have been Dem
ocratic, have since his nomination hoisted his
flag. The masses Of the Free-soil Democrats
of New York will not ratify the fusion which
was made at Cincinnati with the Hards" but
will go for Fremont. A large portion of the
g Hards" will go for Fillmore, and this vote,
added to the regular national American vote,
| will give him plurality in that State. The
very same results may also be expected in
nearly. all the New England States, we claim,
not that majority, but that plurality in
this triangular fight will be given to Fillmore
by most of the Northern States; for, with all
their prejudces against Southern institutions,
the men Of business, Of standing, influence,
and character in the North, will go with no
party that does not "keep step to the music
| of tie Union"
The fusion of the alien Catholics, with the
| Abolition and Free-soil Democrats at the
North, and in the West, upon Fremont, will so
| far diminish the strength of the pseudo De-
mocracy, that Mr.. Buchanan can no longer be
regarded, eDea as the second man in the pres
| ent race Fillmore is the natural antagonist
| Of the elements, combined upon Fremont, I'M
| der the lead of Seward, Greeley, and Bishop
| Hughes. The foreign element is antagonistic
| to the American party, on priaciple. Seward
and Greeley, and their followers, are equally
and as directly hostile to those conservative
doctrines of Mr.. Fillmore which are exsmpli-
fed as well in his Presidential record, as in his
recent speeches, He signed the Fugitive Slave
bill, and he enforced after he had approved it.
That alone would have made them hostile to
| Fillmore, even if he had not otherwise offended
| them whilst President of the United States.
In this state of direct antagonism between
| the American party and its candidates on one
hand, and the Fusion party and its candidates
| on the other, it is obvious that the main con-
test at the North will exist between Fillmore
| and Fremont, because Buchanan's strength
will be cut down by thousands and tens Of
thousands, through the transfer of the alien
vote to the Fusion candidate. 1t is an admit
ted and an undeniable truth, that the pseudo
Democratic party has only triumphed during
the last few years. by reason Of that foreign
element, which will now be transferred to John
G. Fremont leaving the National American
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