Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-04-09

WEDNESDAY, APRIL Q, 1856.
MIR. FiIImoro,s strength i'm tho North.

the South believe that the only way to de-
feat the Black Republicans is to support
the Democratic ticket which shall be NOM
mated by the Cincinnati Convention. The
Fredericksburg (Va.) Recorder expresses
itself, upon this point, as follows:
ave do not wish to be understood as de-
tracing from the merits of Willard Fillmore
He proved himself true 10 the Constitution and
Is entitled to the confidence Of the South The
articles of the Wing and Yirginian, however,
argued that therefore Fillmore should be unan-
imously supported here. Now our position is
this, admit ttat your object could be attained,
tie South cannot elect a President, yOlrr party
has no strength an the North, and tie cote Mould
be ttrO1n GUdy. On the other hand, ours is
the great Democratic, conservative, and the
only national party in the country. Our Ian
guage to the South is, we will give Won as
candidate for the Presidency either Franklin
Pierce or man just as true and faithful; unite
with us, and We can and will ensure your safe
ty and the security Of your constitutional
rights. Will not our neighbor of the Rhig,
as candidly as we Concede Fillmore's merits,
grant that the times imperatively demand OF
the South this line of actiong
The Recorder challenges the respectful
attention and consideration of the Ameri-
can party, by its honest and truthful avowal
that Mr. Fillmore has 'prOUed himself true
10 tie CONSTITUTION, and IS entitled TO the
confidence Of tie South" and as an humble
member of that party, we have candidly
and seriously reflected upon its position"
1t most true that "the South cannot elect
a Presidents" but we have as yet seen no
evidence to prove that the American party
"has no strength in the North" We have
seen nothing TO prove that it has less
strength in that quarter than the Demo
cratic party. In nearly all Of the last
State elections in the North, the Demo-
cratic party has been beaten, and its rep
resentation in Congress from the North
numbers now only seventeen" The cleo
tons which have just come off in New
Hampshire and Rhode Island indicate I'M
mistakenly the impossibility of recovering,
in time to carry the Presidential election
the ground which the party has lost since
the election of the present Chief Magistrate.
On the other hand, the elections last fall
in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and New
York, indicate strength on the part of
the Americans who support Mr.. Fillmore,
that must prove most serious obstacle to
the success of either the Black Republicans
or the Democracy. In a majority of the
other non-slavehOlding States Mr.. Fill
more yhas a solid support amongst the con-
sentative, Union-loving masses, that makes
the chances of his success equal to those
of any other candidate who may be placed
in the field. We believe the contest will
be between him and the Democratic can
didate, all over the Union, unless the Black
Republicans succeed in getting up more
excitement upon Kansas affairs than we
think they can, in which case, the contest,
in the North, will be between their candid
ate and Mr. Fillmore.
The Recorder does not stick to the record
when it says the Democratic is the ''oniy
national party in the country" Support of
the principles of the KanSaS-Nebraska act
is now the standard of Democratic nation
ality-the leading feature of which is the
recognition of the right Of the people Of a
territory, in the formation of State Gov
ernment, to determine whether slavery shall
or shall not be prohibited. Tried by this
Standard-the selfimposed standard of the
party-the Northern Democracy are not
national but sectional; and only the South
ern Democrats are national. Mr.. CAss, Mr.
STUART, Mr.. DOUGLAS, Mr. ToUCEY PreSi-
dent PIERCE, and all, or nearly all, of the
great leaders Of the Northern Democracy,
entertain the converse of the above propo-
sition, and maintain that the principle OF
squatter sovereignty" in its most odOus
sense, is engrafted upon the act. Even Mr.
HICKMAN, one of the little remnant of "Sev'
enteen" national Democrats left in the lower
House Of Congress, whose persistent sup
port of Richardson for Speaker, was SC
Landed by Southern presses, declares that
the principle Of squatter sovereignty under
lies the Kansas-Nebraska act.
1--WE will give you, as candidate for the
Pridency, either Franklin Pierce or man
just as true and faithful" Is there any good
reason why any Southern man should sup
port President Pierce in preference to Mr.
Fillmore? We would ask, as Mr.. TRADE
WELL, one of his South Carolina friends
asked at the Columbia Kansas meeting:
"URat has Mr. Pierre erer done for III
South, eroept lrhat he has done upon paper.
! What as the ground Of reliance upon him
ercept lrhat iOaS once set up for Martin Kal
Buren,, lchO aoas supported because he t5rot
orth0lor messages, and spoke Theoretically u
gioriag terms Of the rights Of The sorsyeig,
! Statesl" Has he not conferred Offices upor
freesoi enemies of the South, and endeav
ored to "cruSh out" the spirit of the natioua
Democracy of New York? On the othel
hand, in the language Of the Recorder, hai
not Mr.. Fillmore proved himself true t.
the Constitution, and entitled to the conf
dence of the South" and partly by remov
ing freesoilers from Office, by signing tn,
fugitive slave bill, and bringing all the pow
cr of the Government to bear to execute it
Under all the circumstance. giving the De