American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1856-09-13
THE SAFEST & sURHsT PLAN
TO DEFEAT FREMoNT.


mond Wing is 50 appropriate to the
times, and so ably reviews the field of
contest, that we give it the first promi-
ncncc in our columns, and earnestly
commend it to the candid consideration
of every man who may think it neces-
sary to "support Buchanan to defeat
Fremont" if, indeed there still be such
after the awful and devastating route
of the sham Democracy in the North,
as cvinccd in the elections in Iowa,
Maine, &c. Read the article of the
Wing.
1--WE hare essaycd, time and again,
TO convince the people of Virginia and
tho South, if theyarc really anxious to
defeat the election of Fremont, that
the only way to accomplish their object
is to abandon Buchanan and conccn-
tratc their united vote upon Fillmore.
We have shown that it is impossible to
elect Buchanan under any probable
combination Of circumstances. His
strength in the Northern States is lit
orally and practically nothing. There
is not single State ia that section,
which even his most sanguine friends
claim for him with the slightest degree
Of confidence. The late disastrous &
Overwhelming rout of the Democratic
party in Iowa. State that has been
on the Democratic side ever since its
admission into the Union, ranging from
ten to twenty Observation-Disclosures,
in the most conclusive and convincing
manner, that the strength Of the De-
mocraCy in the North has been reduced
to the mcrest shadow-that the organ
ization of the party has been complete
ly broken up, and its forces hopclcssly
scattered and dispersed. There is no
installing the significance of this result
in State hitherto so largely Demo
cratic. 1t proves that the Democratic
party throughout the entire North is
dead beyond the hope Of resurrection.
J.ool; again to New Hampshire
Here, too, is State that has been
Democratic from time whereof "the
memory Of man runneth not back to the
contrary" 1t was never known to
finch before. Even amid the almost
universal disaster that bcfel the De-
mocracy in 1910, New Hampshire
stood erect and firm in unwaverlng de-
votion to the Democratic party. What
do we witness now? Or, rather, what
was the result in that State at the last
two elections? Did New Hampshire
still roll up her thousands of majority
for the Democratic ticket? The South:
the whole world knows that she utterly
and signally failed to do any such
thing. She gave not even a majority
Of one for the Democratic party. She
gave no majority at all. The Dcmoc-
racy obtained only plurality Of the
votes cast; and tho majority against
the Democratic party at the election
before the last was some seven to ten
thousand; and at the last some three
to or four thousand. 1T will be recol-
lccted, too, that this result followed,
notwithstanding the extraordinary cx-
ertions mado by the Democracy to car
ny the State. The whole power and
influence of the Administration was
brought to bear upon it; and speakers,
imported from every direction, ira
versed the State and harangucd the
people, from one end to the other.
All these efforts, however, we're una
vaiIing. New Hampshire was lost to
the Democracy; and lost, VIC believe,
irrctrievably. What hope, then, is
there of Buchanan being able to carry
that State in November? Is it for a
moment to be supposed that he is more
popular, and moro acceptable to the
pcoplc Of New Hampshire, than Gen.
Pierce ? No candid Southern Demo.
- cfat, we prcsmo", will 50 contend.-4-