Daily American organ., 1856-09-06
From the New York Express
To our Southern Readers. of
the South-Whigs Of the South.


From the New York Express.
To our Southern Readers. Americans of
the South-Whigs Of the South.
1t is the Abolition cry North, that "Fillmore
has no chance"-and the Buchanan cry South
and, believing these two cries, many honest, pa
triotic men are duped. Now, If the fact were as
stated, that is no reason why men should do
wrong, or fail to do right but the fact cannot be
so, unless made so by men being made the dupes
of false cries.
This canvass presents many unusual points of
consideration, all worthy of the more thought
irom the very novelty of mems positions FIRE.
mont, a Southernb born man, is brought up as an
anti-Southern candidate; Buchanan, Northern
born man, is brought up as the antiNorthern
candidate, that Is, candidate to carry out the
Pierce policy in Kansas, and in the annexation OF
Cuba, &c., &c. The issue these two men present
is fatal one to the peace and prosperity of the
Union, because it is sectional, and because it is
certain to keep up sectional feuds and fights. II
buchanan is elected, there is nothing settled
because, in every Northern State, there will be
large majorites against him, when the Fillmore
and Fremont vote is combined. These majorites
will not be vanquished when Buchanan attempts
to carry out the Cincinnati policy that elects him,
but on the contrary, will be increased by It. mag
nifed and prolonged. The North is not to be
subdued, any more than the South Buchanan
must either betray the Southern policy that elects
him, or keep up just such feeling and agitation in
the North as Pierce's policy has created. Under
this agitation, Southern institutions cannot prosper
or thrive, for they want peace, and their policy is
peace, and they thrive best in peace-whereas,
agitation is the Natural Abolition element.
1t is very easy for us Fillmore men in the North
to throw every Northern vote, we think, in every
Northern State, against Buchanan. We have but
to coalesce with Abolition, and divide the electoral
tcket-and the thing is DONE Pennsylvania even,
BuchaDan's favorite State, can be carried against
Buchanan by 10000 majority But we fight this
battle upon principle, and, considering Fremont
unfit in person and treacherous to the Union in
political position, we cannot, and will not form
coalitions that may give him even apparent
strength, merely to insure a nominal victory Bu-
chanan is weak in all the Northern States, as the
successor of the Pierce policy, which even the
South disowned in throwing Pierce over, and in
taking up buchanan and it is very easy to defeat
him. In our own State of New York, he is not
even practical candidate as yet--only a candi-
date in theory. The battle here is really between
Fillmore and Fremont and we show that we think
80, daily, by directing all our fire upon Fremont,
and ignoring even the existence of Buchanan
Hence If Buchanan is to recover Northern votes,
it is only by the division of opposition, and what
ever electoral ticket he wins will disclose him to
be in the minority
cram down upon the North Buchanan? To elect
Buchanan by the Southern, with any such North
ern votes as accident gives him, and thus to re-
furnish material to the Northern fanatics for fur
ther agitation What gains the South by this pro-
longed agitationS What to her institutions, what
to her public men or public interest, to cay moth
ing of the peril of the UnonP 1t is not pretend
ed in the South that Buchanan is a truer man to
the Union than Fillmore, and yet it is known and
fnlt that nf uu,1l tbo
whole country, and restore harmony as in 1850,
by settling all disputes upon just and patriotic
basis, against which no sound complaint can come
from either section. 1t is not the triumph of
either section that just and patriotic American
can desire; but with justice to all, an amnesty,
pacifcation.
But, "Fillmore has no chance" we are told,
and, therefore, between Fremont and Buchanan,
we take buchanan In reply to this first there is
no danger of Fremonts election. The thing is
mathemat;caly impossible. He starts with fifteen
Southern States dead against him, and, in the six
teen Northern States, he must carry about all of
them-certainly Pennsylvania it is not
pretended, even, that he has a chance of carrying
against the friends of Fillmore there. Dispel,
then, this illusion, that the contest is between
Fremont and Buchanan, for the practical contest,
and Buchanan. One or the other must certainly
be President Fremont never.
Now, what right has anybody South to say, Fill
more has no chance in the North Have we not,
within the two past years, twice carried this State
for his frendsp Is he less popular now than those
friendsg Has he not ever been the favorite of the
State? Was he not even selected to be put on
ticket to carry this State When Gen. Taylor was
run, the programme was to run Abbot Lawrence
with him, but was not Fillmore taken in his stead
on purpose to save this Statep Are his friends in
activer Did the South ever see such a canvass az
we are now beginning to make Were ever such
public meetings heard Of before, as are having ?
Did the labor and industry of the workshop ever
pour out, as they are now pouring out for Millard
Fillmorep Was there ever party so well, so tho
roughly organized, as the American party is in the
State Of New York, so much Of unit, or march
ing so well in harmony toward almost certsin vic
tory? Here, in the Empire State is the battle
ground, and we know it, and il we go 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 become geo
graphical, but without regard to results, do right.
Is Il right to elect Fillmore over Buchanan Or,
rather, Is IL not wrong, not thus to elect himp
What F0more's policy is, or is to be, we knop
from the records of 1850 and on but what Blu
chanans ia to be- we know not because his party