The weekly Placer herald., 1852-11-27

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nation has labored and brought forth a
President. The agony of molths is over,
and the conntry once more breathes freely.
The honest patriot, whose soul has yearn
ed for the safety of the Union and the
honor of the Republic. now feels that, be
the consequences what they may, he has
discharged his duty faithfully, and is salts
fed. 6 The mere partizan denagogue,
whese highest aim was the elevation of
himself, or confederate to place, and dis
tinction, by the agency of party, retlres
tonight with anxious consciousness that
the die is cast and his political fortunes
made OF blasted All men, of whatever
political bias, whatever may have been
their personal hopes and fears, rested last
nj ght from the struggle Of the day with a
sincere trust in the pernianency Of the
present form of government, and an honest
prayer that the clief magistrate elect,
whoever he may be, will be imhued with
spirit of wisdom and moderation, and
THAT he may prove equal to the great task
reposed to him. 1'i- aio 'fo edp-te4
Although the baneful power of party
has in q measure corrupted the springs Of
our republican simplicity, there is yet
enough Of the old spirit ofseventy y-six left
to make every true American heart bow
submissively and cheerfuly to the will of
the majority. The rant, and fustian, and
.demagoguism Of partizanss would have
persuaded the world that either Of the
candidates. one or the other of whom is
now President elect, was the most deadly
enemy to republican freedom, while either
WAS by his fustian friends represented as
combining in himself all the ieIements of
human greatness. AS a general fact, both
the audationand deportation so ilnspar-
fiigly heaped upon the candidates, were
so Inappropriate as. to be simply, ridicu-
lous. While all intelligent men knew and
. adhlittetl that neither Scott nor Pierce was
qualified by nature or fitted by circumstan-
ces, for the post to which they aspired,
it was equaliya matter of national noto,
fiety that neither one was the polirical
'vandal represented by his enemies.
According to, the standard Of modern
times, we doubt,not we shall have tolera-
bly, fair sort of President for the next
four years; we have not the slightest ap-
prehensIon of the occurrence of any of
the terrible. events predicted by the poll
ticians. The Union will neither be dis
solved nor endang red, alIIeit the northern
disunionists and southern secessionists will
wake ,th.;r r,sual. 'bluetorf+ aboutrsfuriver-
sal freedom" and 'saggressions upon the
South" We. doubt not we shall have a
repetition of the alarms, and threats, and
deprecations, and fury, and hombast, and
what not, that have marked the last two
administrations; we shall again have
whole sessions of Congress wasted in idle
discussions on the compro,nises, and the
preservation of the Union, and the rights
Of this section of the country and that
but it will of course all end as it has hith
erto ended; the Government will j G
along quite comfortaby IN dispte of all
the noise that will be made about its
chance Of stopping. While the p6litici-
ans will be disclosing the powers Of G. ov-
ernment to do this or that, the people,
who are Interested in the doing of the
thing discussed, will go quietly and do it.
And so it will be during the next four
years, at the end of which time we fancy
the Union will not be dissolved, civil war
win not have laid waist the lande, the
nation will be neither bankrupt nor check :
ed in her onward career. We incline to
theiopinion thai QUIZ merchant ships will
be as great in number and, speed, will
carry as much merchandise, our tlauuf;,c-
turers will turn out as much work, our
planters and farmers will reap as bounti-
fully the fruits of their labor, and get,as
good prices therefor; our territory viii
be as broad, (perhaps {, little broader,)
our country as great, as powerful, as free,
as happy, as it is now, after all the fear
ful prognostics, of the past. The great
agony is, over, the country is safe, and