Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-11-01
sPIRITOF THE MORNING PRESS


The Union, in anticipating the course likely
to be adopted by some Ct the journals which
have been most conspicuous in advocating the
cause of Fremont and sectionslism during the
campaign now SO rapidly drawing to q close,
has a very telling and amusing hit at Bennett
OF the New York Herald, in the shape of an
article which the Union is inclined to be-
lieve will appear in the Herald on the morn
log after the Presidential election. 1t opens
thus:
From the New York Herald, Nov s, 1856
4 The long agony Is over. James Buchanan,
of Pennsylvania, Is the President elect of this
great, glorious, and progressive republic
The Union and the Constitution have proved
too powerful for the negro vorshippers and
Kansas shriekers The whole dirty, lying,
brswlipg, csnting pack, with the Rocky
mountain explorer at the head, and our re
spected coteMporary of the white hat and drab
surtout at the tail, have by the voice Of the
people yesterday been consigned to an eternal
and Infamous oblivion. Let the rsscslly bulls
Of Wsll street rejoice, for nothing short of
monetary earthquake On both sides of the At
lantic can prevent a prodigious advance in
every species Of real and personal property
under the era of good feeling, North and
South, East and West, which has Just been
inaugurated by the election Of the patriot,
sage, and statesman Of Wbeatland. Seiah
The result has not surprised US in the least
Those who have watched the course Of the
herald must TecOlleet that, as early as Feb
rusry last, we not only fore:old the nomira-
tion Of Mr. Buchansn by the Cincinnati Con-
ventioD, but that the events vi ich have now
be- ne part aui parcel OF the political histo-
~ Of the country were clearly and distinctly
foreshsdOued As the head and front, the
body, brseches. ard soul, of the great indie
pendent press Of the United States, we have
conducted the campaign on our own hook, and
vltn"us he slightest reference to the praise or
the abuse Of all the rasealy politicians, cliques
factions. self-cOnstituted committees, and eide
door arrangements in the land and with the
countenance If Archbishop Hughes the bles
sing Of bis Holiness the Pope, and the military
advice and assistance of our belligerent friend,
General James Watson Webb, (of $50, 900
memory We shsll so conduct all future city,
State, and national campaigns SeIah,
As We elected President Pierce, so we
have elected President Buchanan. The bran
bread philosopher of the Tribune, the slittle
villain Of the Times, the worthy old gentle
man OF the Courier, and the poetical old fogy
of the Post, to say nothing Of the respectable
old ladies and the respectable old asses who
have been bled so freely for bleeding Kansas,
have been completely bewildered, befogged.
ard befoOIed by the free, unshackled, aud in
dependent course Of the Herald in bringing
about the great moral, social, religious, polifi
cal, and financial revolution which has result
ed in the elevation TO the chief magistracy os
nearly thirty millions of freemen Of one Of the
pursst patriots and sblest statesmen which
this or any other country has given birth to.
sslah,"
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