Daily American organ., 1856-11-07
The Present state of the Contest How
this Result was Effected.

The Present state of the Contest. How
this Result was Effected.
Mr.. Buchanan will be elected, II the tele-
graphic reports are reliable, by trihing ma
jority in the Electoral Colleges. The Baltimore
Sun Of this morning figures up the result of
the contest in twenty-eight States (omitting
Florida, Texas and California; thus: Buchan-
IAN 152, Fillmore 8, and Fremont 49, In this
calculation Louisiana is placed to the account
Of Buchanan, and Illinois is assigned to FIRE.
mont The three omitted States give eleven
votes, to wit: Florida 8, Texas A, and Califor-
mia A, of which seven will probably be cast for
Buchanan, and four for Fillmore Give Bu-
159 yotesjust ten more than majority -
Had either Kentucky or Tennessee gone
against him, he would have been defeated
But ii is enough for his purposes that he
has received, or will receive, majority of the
electoral votes. The question of his election
win be as effectually settled by l49 electoral
votes as it would be by 296. We are inclined
to concede his election, though it is within the
range of possibility that both Louisiana and
Tennessee may yet be found against him
This is possible, but not probable. Conceding
the election of Buchanan, by any majority,
large OF small, the question arises, how his
election was effected, in view Of the undenia-
BILE fact that there is majority Of twenty or
thirty thousand votes against him in Pennsyl-
vania, majority of thousands against him in
New Jersey, majority Of thousands against
him in Indiana, and not one Southern State
whose people preferred him to Millard Fill
more2 To superficial observer this is an
enigma, difficult to comprehend; yet it is per-
fectly easy of solution.
The National Americans in Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, and Indiana, as in other States.
stood aloof from any and all fusion with the
Republicans. In each Of these States the
Americans had independent tickets, to which
enough of them adhered to leave the Buchan-
an tickets plurality. Could there have been
q cordial union between all the opponents Of
Buchanan in these three States, his electoral
ticket would have been defeated IF it be an.
swered that Buchanan's ticket in Pennsylva-
mia beat all the other tickets there, the reply
is that thousands upon thousands of men
who are opposed to Buchanan, foreseeing that
the divisions which existed among his oppo-
nents would leave his ticket plurality refused
to go to the polls. And not only 50, such was
the hostility engendered between the National
Americans and the Republicans, that hundreds
of both these classes voted for the Buchanan
ticket to vent their spite upon the other
branch Of the opposition.
A cordial union between the Americans and
Republicans was indeed impossible, as their
aims and purposes differed widely in import
ant particulars, and harmonized oaly on one
point, toy wit: Opposition to this present hum
bug sham Democratic-F Forneyized- dynasty.
But again. Had the State :" Union ticket
been supported in Pennsylvania, on the 14th
of October, by all those who were opposed to
this administration and its dynasty, Buchanan
would have been beaten twenty thousand
votes in Pennsylvania, at that election, and
the effect of such defeat would have been, that
nearly every Southern State, if not egery one
of them, would have gone for Fillmore, for the
purpose Of defeating Fremontl This was
well known TO the Forneyites, and hence their
efforts, by every species of fraud, chicanery,
and rascality which could be invented, to Cur.
ry the Pennsylvania State election in October.
Hundreds Of thousands of dollars were col
lected in the several Northern cities, which, ad-
ded to the forced contributions levied upon the
office-holders and government employees here
and elsewhere, constituted corruption fund,
out of which bribes were paid, votes purchas
ed, and votes imported into Pennsylv ania, and
these means, together with the "ballot.box
stuffing" practised in the city Of Philadephia,
gave the election TO the Buchanan candidates
for State officers there, and turned the tide at
the South in ftoor Of ~ old Sguatter SoUe
reign" In New York also, where down to the
l4th Of October, the Democratic party had re-
solved to support Fillmore, in order to defeat
Fremont, change was made in their policy by
the success of the Buchanan Safe ticket in
Pennsylvania, and they resolved to support
the Buchanan electoral ticket and give New
York to Fremont
The success of Buchanan, therefore, in the
Presidential contest, has resulted from the pre-
yious success Of the sham Democratic State
ticket IN pennsylvania, on the 14th day Of 0e-
tober, and he IS now President elect, by rea-
son Of the shameless and un6l,tsIing frauds
proctased by the Fo,nsyites in carrying the
PennsyIuania State election at that date! /!
IL will not be denied by any candid man,
that, If the Buchanan State ticket had been
defeated in Pennsylvania on the l4th ult, the
shole South, with New York, New Jersey,
and Indiana, would have gone for MilIard Fill