The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1856-09-06

Ine pIaCVieal T,.u.s..a ,l
$ approached, is only between filtii aort. INV INV
Buchanan. One Or thu other must Certainly E
President Fremont never. I
Now, what right has any body SCUM 10 n sas {
Fillmore has no Snance in the Nofln! Aa
not, within the two past years. IWlce 1 Ial- j.
ried this State for his friends Is ne less
popular now than those friends! AS ny nv w
been the ~favorite OF this State' wa nv
not even selected to be put on "a tIcfet 10 c"1,y
this State? When Gen. Taylor was run, .ap
was to run Abbot Lawrence mlt1
him, BIZ was not Fillmore taken IN ms slcao'
on purpose to save this State arc hls tiena'
inactive? Did theSouth ever see such a eau,
yass1as we are now ply beginning 10 MAKE t.
VIDE ever such publ, meetings heara " W,
fore 5 we are hayA ( Did the laoor anu
i .stry of the worA IS ever po} ouS 40
/ eey are now pouring ont : Willard Hllnofes
I Nas there ever a party so well, SO Thoroughly
organized as the American party IS III the
State of NcwYork, so much OF q unit or
marching SO well in harmony toward mos
certain victory? Here, IN the Empire State IS
tie battle-ground, and we know it, and, II we
60 for Fillmore, we believe, so goes the prize
in the end.
Men, however, ought not to gamble. as IL
were, in politics, especially when parties DE-
come geographical but, without regard 10
results, do right. Is it right to elect Fillmore
over Buchanan? Or, rather, Isl v wrong
not tins to elect him w
What Fillmore's policy is, is to be, we
knom from the records Of 1850 and op-bnt
what Bucbanan's are to be, we knqW MT De
cause his party, for the first time, lavel inter-
polatcd a foreign plank in their plat 'rm,' hlef,
under the Inspiration of the Sow en-
broil this country with all tlof Bu-
chanan is pledged to that pc Lam no
more James Buchanan, he tells out the Ctn-
eiamati Platform! Thus, war abroad, and
continued discord at home, are the promised
fruits of such an election lit not wrong,
then, thus to vote sNSysE;is.ltzhot q crime
and without any regard to Fillmore's chances,
ought not every nWn to do right, knowing that
God, in the end, will maintain the right?
1t is q crime, too, to maxi election sec
%tional, geographical. as the Fremont and Blu
chanan men are making it. Willard Fillmore
alone removes the canvass fro" this danger OF
sectionality. Fremont's strength Is all North /;
Buchanan's practical strength is all South.
Fillmore alone embodies the conservatism OF
Fthe whole Union. Fillmore alone has the hands
and hearts Of the conservative nj in all parts
of the Union. 1t is q folly, I :, to try to
triumph over the North witty chanan, or
over the South with Fremont.
Now, the EGpress is not q jour1 that pre-
diets or prophcsies, as some 9TH jourp"s
often do. Do right, mithout regard } results,
has ever been our maxim and olr policy.
Hence, we have no predictions to make, but
have a right to say the canvass, on the part
Fillmore party in the North, has scarce
,egun. The history of Fremont, Fillmore's
Icombatant here, is not yet known to our
. armers. They have heard of him only as a
geographer, but they have not heard Of him
yet as a statesman, a soldier, or as to his prin-
ciples. The first go-of is already about gone
off. The Northern people are not long dupes,
and when duped, they soon emancipate them.
selves from the dupery. The more time given
us, the more we increase our strength. In the
New England States we have not, as yet
fairly approached the peopie--ccrtailly not
beyond the State of Connecticut-but, as w
come before the public, we rapidly dispel tht
Fremont delusion. The whole Fremont SHIN
is daily coming out, and daily cmancipatine
men from it. Wien the people are reached Oh
the stump, the friends Of the Fremont pres
will soon vanish before a free discussion.
The most alarming element of this canvass
! especially to the South, is the aban3@- >ent o
= the Democracy by the Germans, ana som'
! extent by the Irish. The americans do no
c court foreign votes, but accept them gratefully
: if given to American principles. The Democ
racy Of the North, however, exists on. nay
s brcathes on its foreign vote. Take awf,@i
t foreign vote, and it is nowhere in the North Of
all election day, especially in the Villages
8 towns and cities. Now the German vote, to
Il great extent, is gone over to Fremont, ali,
this abandonment Of this portion Of til
0 Northern Democracy shows how little relianc
II the South can really place on the Northcr
c Democratic party. In the very first ~scctiona
L onset, tile Foreign Democracy of the Demo
cratic party cnlists in d sectional wariar
Il against the South. The. Rcd Germans am
the " Black" Republicans arc in c,ose aliianc
against the South, and all are equally the en(
mies Of Fillmore. What is Tic duty Of til
IS Southern men, then, in such a crisis as this
70 keep up its alliance with such a Norther
it Democracy? Certainly not, but, on the cor
n trary, is it not its duty to ally itself with til
/ constitutional conservatism of the North, tina
d great American party which Willard Fillmor
heads, and which he illustrated in his admin:
~trat!on Of the government, when President.
II Fillmore is no Northern mar with Souther
principles, nor Southern man with Nortler
principles, but a sound, national, conservative
{, man, of the school Of Washington and Mad
st son. Equity to the Union is his great charat
~teristic, to the North as well as to the SoutE
We do not offer him to the South as
Southern man, but as a Northern man, trio
and true to all parts of the Union, and $
satisfying and pacifying all parts Of tha
Union. He was President not Of fifteen slay
States, but of thirty-one United States, and |
united all in 1850, and made all happy an
content. Elect him once, and peace once MOI
4 is returned to the country, and in less than 81
months the Kansas war will be husLel in tbs
j. equity, which will satisfy all but extreme
North and South, and peace will once MOI
be restored to the distracted States. But kec
u up this scctionalism Of candidates or of ne
rs pledged, as Buchanan is, to reopen old wound
IN and to make new ones, and there will be pea,
II, no more, nothing but that prolonged bitter W;
y of words, which ever ends in the clash of arm
lNewlork Express.
=. DECLINES TO SERyE.-The Hon. Mr.. Cook
one of the Democratic electors of Virgin
" says he is no longer acting with the Democrac
E He is an old-line Wing, and, being opposed
:, some OF the lpaturns of thn A rneriro,, nrr,n;x