Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-07-15

ness Of the Constitution Of the Union. With a
strong devotion TO State Rights, derived from
a lifelong devotion to the State Of his birth
and the arena of his earlier career, Mr.. BU-
cHANAS is arrayed in opposition to man who
for the most part has been wanderer without
home, or who, at least, is said to know no
home in any State. 1t is impossible that any
one SO reared and so situated can feel that
same jealous devotion to the rights of the
States, or the same appreciation of the charac.
ter of the Constitution, us one who has made
those rights his dearest object, and that Con-
stitution his profoundest study.
But more than this-should Mr.. BUCHANAN
be elevated to the Presidency his own enlarged
experience in craftsmanship, his perfect famil-
iarity with all the operations of government,
his wide acquaintance with the utility and
knowledge Of statesmen throughout the Union
will ensure wise, prudent, and constitutional
administration. Should Col. Fremont, on the
contrary, receive the high honor to which he
aspires, he must needs gather around him,
without any sufficient knowledge of their char
acter and views, cabinet of advisers, self.
seeking and corrupt, who, conscious of his ig-
norance, and glorying in his weakness, will
soon snatch the reins Of government from his
hands, or if they
Ever lei him hold the reins,
Will show him the way TO go.
Slow of comprehension, indeed, must the
people of the United States be, if they have
not yet learned the useful lesson that an igno-
rant President, even with high virtue and pa
is the man who fought and gained the battle
of Buena Vista, or the man who trudged the
SHOWS Of the Rocky mountains, more worthy
the confidence of hiscountry men2 Has he,
gave California to the Union, achieved less for
his country than he who amassed an immense
fortune by specializing in Spanishgrants there?
And yet, who can look back to the brief ad-
ting that the brave old man should have been
taken from the field to the Cabinet. and that his
laurel garland should have been unchanged for
the civic wreath? Andwhat more can be ex pect-
ed from John c. Fremont? With ignorance Just
as great, with patriotism not half so pure,
with achievements not one 1.-THE so glorious
with advisers even more corrupt, representing
a anatca section rather than great party. it
were vain to expect greater success, or purity,
or wisdom.
Such, then, is the issue made up between
JAMES BUCHANAN and John c. Fremont. Nor
can we see how any lover of his country, be he
from the North or from the South, can hesitate
between the two. We ask not the support and
cooperation of those who, with impious hand,
would aim a blow at the very existence of our
institutions. But we do appeal in all candor
and earnestness to patriots and Union loving
men, North and South, to unite with the De-
mocracy in the support of a nomination, on
the success of which depends the existence of
the Confederacy. Our views, so often express.
ed, are now fully realized, that, with few ex-
ceptionable cases, the only soundness to be
found at the North is within the body of the
Democratic party; and to the success of that
party in the present contest can We alone look
for a restoration Of peace, for the protection Of
our rights, and for the preservation of the
Union.