Squatter sovereign., 1856-08-05
Nothing New.


tion represent week to our exchanges.
and have found scarcely an item Of inter
est in the whole batch. Every paper.
North, East, South and West is full to
the brim OF nothing bsst State. National
and local politics. Every State in the
Union is on the eve of one or more elec-
tons, and the attention Of the entire coun-
try seems TO have been almost wholly turn
ed from Kansas theme that but short
time since was generally conceded to
have been the leading topic of the day.
Now, however, the Abolition press have
apparently left their friends in the Terri
tory TO work out their own salvation, and
are completely engrossed in their servile
efforts to advance the fortunes OF Coz
Fremont. In the South, too, the Presi-
dental campaign has drawn off the labors
of journalism, from the immediate inter-
est of Kansas. A general pairing off
seems to have been tacitly entered into
between the Northern and Southern press
and they have rolled up their sleeves and
pitched into the work with zeal that
promises one of the botes, political con-
tests that has ever been fought in the Un-
ion. " = a #*
If the aspects Of affairs as they now
stand is any key to the result in Novem-
ber next. Buchanan or FREMONT will be
our next President. Fillmore cannot car
ry single Northern State. He Will re-
ceIve only the vote of such Know Moth
ings as regard slavery as minor ques-
ton to Americanisn, and portion of the
Old Line Wing vote. These both COM
bined cannot carry any one State in the
North. In the South, his prospects are
better, yet We doubt if he can get single
electoral vote even there.
Pennsylvania and New York will be
closely contested between Buchanan and
Fremont, but the union of the Democracy
in the latter will in all probability insure
it to Buchanan, while, in the former, if it
be true that the Fremont and Fillmore
Know Nothings have united. and that the
German vote will DE cast for Fremont,
the struggle will be a close and warmly
contested one.
There is general desertion OF Fill
more men in the North, to either Buchan
an or Fremont. The Know Nothing
Free soilers and Abolitionists, seeing the
impossibiiity of electing the Philadelphia
nominee, are going over to Fremont in
order to defeat the Democratic candidate,
while the Old Line Wings are gathering
to Buchanan that they may wea EN- the
stIongth OF Fremont, and that they may
aid in the success of national man, and
thereby preserve our nationality.
Scores of Southern Wings are focking
to the SUI por. Of the Democracy, yet it is
lamentabe to notice that there is por-
ton of what once was the Wing party
now sailing under the guise of Know
Nothingism--who.a adl.ere to Fillmore.
1t is evident that the nominee Of the
Philadelphia Convention cannot receive
even respectable number Of electoral
votes, and that every vote cast for him must
be virtually assisting the Freesoil candi-
date. AS this fact becomes more and
more clearly defined, as it most certainly
will before the November election, the
Democracy will receive renewed acces-
sions, and will sweep the country with
such force that not taint of abolitionism
will longer remain to spread its pestlfer-
Gus influences over a land where injustice
in every shape soon meets its reward. Alb
olitionis.n will prove powerful in many
States, get we confidently believe it will
not carry single State, unless it be Yer
mont. Massachusetts is so divided be-
tween Geritt Smith, Banks. and Fremont
that even in that hot-bed of Abolltionism
we verify believe the Democracy will tri-
umph. $50 mote it be-"
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