The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1852-06-17
WHOLE NO. 1895.
The Non1lnntio,I,s.

The lntelligencer truly and wisely 70.
m'rk9 in regard to the hoiain dAon ofPlerco:
"This result confirms what we have more
than once suggested, ,that all the debates IN
Congress, and especially III the House of
Representatives, in relation to the claims Of
particular individuals to the honor Of tho
Democratlc nomination for tie PresidencyI
was an idle consumption oftime, which, up,
on every consideration Of public duty, ought
to have been differently employed"
1t says the debate was principally with tho
view Of urging the claims of the West and
oi"Young America" and gives what 1t re-
CARDS IS the "upshot All tnis," as followa!
"The making choice of one-ati estimabla
ana acceptable person, batting his political
Icreed-whose name had not been pressed Id
the debates referred TO; who is not sYoun7
American who is not fProgressve'-
DE to say, not "a fast man? who is not Wes-
tern man, but as far from II az tile territory
OF Uncle Sam extends eqstpardiy from the
west; and, though not to be reckoned among
the odd Fogics, is not so entirely youthful
as to be free from the suspicion of respect for
the wisdom, the old principles, ard the re-
liglous habits Of his forcfathers. n.l H.
"lt is now manifest that the 'two-thirds
rule which the party have adopted, is one
which ctfectually excludes from nomination
for the Presidency all prominent or distin-
guished members Of the partS--all et Lease
whose eminence is such as to bring their
claims and qualifications naturally into gen.
era discussion, and to enlist the support of
extensive divisions Of zeslods adherents.
These Partizan feelings being carried into
the Convention, and engendering rival ami
mosities, must always necessarily result In
the choice OF some person before unthoupht
Of, or 50 little known as not to have chal-
enged any rival enmities. This being the
case, the choice at which the Convention
ultimately arrived was not only as good as
could have been expected, but, in the hap
hazard to which the Conventloh Vas reduc-
ed, better one than might have been made.
1--WE eany'ry well imagine what will bs
the general surprise oil the unsophsticated
Democracy on learning that all their high.
raised hopes und sangline expectations have
been crushed TO eurth by the two-thirds rule,
and candidate presented to them of whose
political claims fully four-f.ths of them had
never before heard whisper"
! OF the eminent gentleman (ths Hon.
William R. King who was selected by the
convention for the Vice Presidency, it says:
"No one who knows him can say aught
personally in his disp-aise; still less can we.
who have known him from the beginning of
his public career. We wonder, indeed.
thinking of.him as we do, that the conven-
ticn did not seek relief from its dilemma BY
selecting one 30 able, experienced, and un-
exceptonable, for the principal Office; In.
stead offor the second. Without at all de-
signing to disparage the respectable gentle-
man who became the choice Of the cofiven-
ton for the first office, we should have tho
it more accordant with the fitness of things,
as we'll as more polite, to have reversed tho
positions of the two nominees. Kings
name would have been a tower Of strength
to the party of which he is IN ornament, or
any other. But the convention decided 9TH
erwise, and it is not for US to murmur."