The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-12-14
Thursday 1orning Dec. Ia, IsSA
Tnc PresIdency.


their decisions rest. A wise man does not
build house without first estimating tbe
cost. A wise general does not invite the
enemy to battle without first calculating
the probabilities of success. A wise peo-
pie do not, ,0iR not, hazard their dearest
interests, without knowing into whose
hands they confde the trust In times of
popular excitement, public feeling often,
too often, has full sway, despite of all rea-
son. 1t has its converging currents, all
tending alike towards the object or subject
Of the latest and greatest notoriety.
Popular fervor once aroused continues
to increase until its idol is raised to the
highest pitch of glorifcation-lke great
fire on an anexposed eminencetowards which,
as a centre, the surrounding air flows in
and helps to fan and swell the flame, and
the increasing flame to lend strength and
velocity to the conyOrging currents. And
as the expiring flame and fire is attended
with corresponding subsidence of the
surrounding currents, so the currents of
popular fervor are apt to slacken. their
wantcd flow and settle into noseless calm
so soon as the exciting cause is divested Of
its novelty. Premature, impulsivc action
is not characteristic of wisdom, and a
mong an enlightened people it is inexcus-
able.
The office Of the Chief Magistrate Of
these United States is the highest and
should Be the most honorable and enviable
of allpoltical offices; and the selection of
acandidate to fill that responsible station
should not be matter of little moment
nor indeed one of hasty, indeliberate nc-
lion.
The Constitution of the United States is
based upon compromises, one of the OBJ
jects of which was to prevent and suppress
violent party feelings. That Instruments is
founded on the great Republican principle
that the people are intelligent, yirtuous and
honest and the only safe depository Of
powcf, carrying out fully the doctrine that
our Government was made for the many
and not for the few. 1t is therefore of the
greatest and most vital Importance that tie
people should be vigilant over their rights,
and attend to their own business of-mak-
ing President, not trusting too much to
party leaders to work the wires and in eau
cuses arrange The matter for them. This is
government that belongs TO the people
not to party, and was created to ensure
the greatest happiness to the greatest num-
Der, and not for the exclusive benefit of Of
fee seekers and Office holders; but unfortu
nr.ely for the country parties have become so
embitsered in their hostility TO each other,
that prejudice, selfsbness & passion instead
OF patriotism and reason, govern 10 such an
alarming extent as to endanger the pros
perity OF our glorious and Invaluable I'm
ion. In our humble opinion the interests
of the country demand, and public feeling
and opinion strongly recommend these
lection ofan ami spoiis candidate for Pres
ident of the United States in 1856; man
who will act independent of the political
parties Of the country; who will not permit
himself to be nominated by any partisan
Convention, and who, if elected, will be
the President of the whole people and not
Of party.
In our opinion, SAMUEL HousroN, Of
Texas, possesses qualifications which in an
eminent degree ft him for the highest
civa Office in the gift of the American
people. We see in this remarkable man a
powerful mind, with ajudgment singular
ly clear and correct, accompanied by great
dignity and energy Of character, and at the
same time possessing the unpretending
plainness of the simplest citizen, and with
the exhibition -of patriotism as pure and
unselfsh as thato Fathers of the Re
public. He is emphatically man ofthe
people-a man who will honestly, faithful
lyand wisely represent the interests and
dearest sentimcntsof the great AMERICAN
PARTY--a party that knows no North, no
South, no East, no West-but united in
one common sentiment which embraces
the Union, the whole Union and nothing
but the. Union, A party that will, by u
niteda daction and with one fell swoop, sweep
from the face of our beloved country all
fanatics, demagogues and traitors. When
we nominate the Hon. SAMUEL HoUsToN, il
is not the cunning empty fattery Of a party
put forth to bribe the favor ofademagogut
nor is it the choice Of necessity conceiy-
ed by the mother of invention nor urged
by all the forcible arguments of self-pre.
.seryation to unite and rally the brokon frag.
ments ofa disbanded party 1t is the out
pouring Of q patriotic feeling called forth by
"a well earned reputation; patriotic and
lasting display cfalI those high and noble
qualities which ehsraelerises thestatesman
in the National Council, All this is well
calculated to point him out as a man wor-