Washington sentinel., 1856-05-15
POLITICAL CLIPPINGS.


Officers took place at Harpers Ferry. Two
tickets were run for Mayor, Recorder, and
Councmen. The Democratic ticket, we are
informed, succeeded by an average majority Of
more than two to one.
- 1t was the boast of Gen. jackson that
during his term of office no American citizen
had been wronged with impunity in any quar-
ter of the globe. 1t will be said of General
Pierce's administration, that while he was Pre-
sdent, Americans were nsulted, outraged,
plundered and killed more openly and more
scandalously than had ever been the case be-
fore.
- The old line Wings Of Iowa have held a
Convention, and adopted resolutions in which
they denounce Black Republican Aboltionism
IN the most emphatic manner, and regarding
themselves as temporarily under the weather.
they counsel the wings to 'bide their time and
have nothing to do with the Black Republican
movement
---- A TREMENDOUS Niger WoRsHrpPERs'
TIcKET-The Chicago Democrat Of the Seward
Holy Alliance, 6ings boldly ont upon the north
west wind the following tremendous ticket for
the Presidency
For President
Colonel John c. Fremont of California.
For Vice President,
Nathaniel p. Banks, of Massachusetts.
This looks very much like the christalzation
of all the late feasting among the Northern
Know-Nothing and Niger Worshipping COM
promisers at Washington.-N. y. Herald.
- The Washington Union contradicts the
statement that President Pierce intended to
withdraw his name from the list Of candidates
for nomination at Cincinnati. The report,
the Union says, "is part of system Of
fraudulent devices which are concocted, day by
day, for the purpose Of operating prejudicially
upon the prospects of General Pierce for
nomination" Poor General Piercel it seems
hard for him to get fair show from his own
party. He had better call convention of Of
fce-holders, submit his claims to them, and
run in defiance of bis enemies and the Cincin-
matt Convention.-LynchbHrg Vuginian.
We publish to-day Mr.. Buchanan's re-
marks to the Pennsylvania Committee that
waited on him to inform him of the preference
felt for him by the Democracy of that State,
for the Presidency. II will be seen that Mr..
Buchanan fully and cordially endorses and
adopts the resolutions and platform Of the
Pennsylvania Democratic Convention and
that these resolutions fully and explicitly cover
the whole ground involved in the issues Of the
he viii now, we trust, be exempted from those
suspicious, real or pretended, whether express
ed openly or covertly, which we have been
panied to see, because SO unjust and SO impoli-
tic. Let the canvass for the nomination be
fair and generous one. The cause Of Southern
Rights can be but injured when we go back to
1919 TO convict man of unsoundness, who
was nevertheless voted for by the Virginia dele
cation in the National Democratic Conventions
Of 1874, 1913, 1852, and who, in the last, re-
ceived the undivided vote Of Virginia for
Mirty.tour conScclttice ballots. We have be-
fore US a number of prominent statesmen, any
OF whom would grace the Presidency, and may
well aspire to it.-Alerandrid Va.) Sentinel.
- The Cincinnati Enquirer gives the fol-
lowing information as TO the preparations made
in that city for the sessions Of the great Demo
cratic Presidential nominating Convention:
awe are informed, upon reliable authority,
that the Hall Of Smith a. Nixon has been en-
gagged for the use Of the Democratic National
Convention, by Alfred p. Edgarton, Of Ohio,
and Isaac Cook, OF Illinois, the two National
Executive men from those States, who were
appointed as n subcommittee Ito make ar
rangements) by the National Committee, which
met in Washington on the 9Th of Janury last
This hall is large, commodious, and will ac.
commodate with good seats more than two
thousand persons. Its location and situation
in every respect render it probably the most
eligible place that could be selected for the
purpose. Our numerous and splendid hotels
are making preparations to accommodate
large number of guests during the session of
the Convention, and the feeling Of the people,
without distinction Of party, is to give our
~ l..
portant an errand, welcome reception.
This is the first time that National Presi
Dental Convention has been held west Of the
Alleghanies, and our citizens ought to, and
will, make such arrangements that no one will
regret that our "Queen City" has been honored
as the selected place. Cincinnati, from its
central position, being placed on The border Of
the North and South, with good lines of rail-
road connexion to all parts Of our widely ex
tended Confederacy, and its ample accommo-
dations in other respects such as halls and
hotels, is very proper place for all national
gatherings, and we trust in future they will all
be held here. Our population, too, is strongly
national having no sympathy either with the
Black Republicans" the North, or the " fire.
eating ultras OF the South but is loyal in its
allegiance to the Constitution and the Union.
49, The Lynchburg Yirginian Knotc-
nothi,,g,) says OF the new Philadelphia plat
form, that dit contains some things that are
sound, some that are silly, and some that We
will never assent to-"
II is a singular coincidence that the Know
nothing platform, and the Black Republican
platform agree in denouncing the Administra-
ton for its Z" weak policy on the Kansas ques-
ton How will Southern Know-nothings like to
be placed on the same platform with the Black
Republicans? Such is the fact.