Oroville daily Butte record., 1856-10-09
Reasons svhs Old Line Wh,gs should Sup
psrt Nr. Buchanan.


p~rt Mr. Buchanan.
Many old line wings have come nobly for
ward TO the support Of the Democratic nom
inees, because they see in the Republican
party, the elements of discord and dsun-
ion They have felt it their duty to rescue
from danger those sacred principles Of
equality and right which were implanted by
our fathers in our political institutions, and
to contribute tc the preservation Of our po
litcal integrity as q nation, aud as a CON
federation Of independent States
The old Democratic and whg parties were
divided upon qustions of State and National
| policy questions involving the general wei
| fare of our whole confederation, without re
| gard to local interests. The maintenance Of
either side of these great national questions
did not subject either party, or the indivi1-
ual friends of the measures advocated by
either party, to n distrust of their patriot
ism,or political honesty. Each party con-
ceded that the other was aiming to promote
the true and Legitimate objects of civil gov
! ernment-the happiness of the people and
the honor and prosper ~ of the nation.
But the two parties, while they agreed as
10 the great end to be attained, differed as
to the method OF reaching that end The
Democratic party marked out system of
policy widely differing in its fundamental
basis, as we'll as in its details, from that de
fined by the whig party but both methods
intended to embrace, the same ultimate ob
joct The question Of the adoption of one
or the other Of these two systems was put
in issue before the people-than which there
can be no higher tribunal-fOr it is in the
breasts of the people that the sovereignty o:
STATE abides the people decided in favor
of that system proposed and advocated by
the democratic party. THIS decision was
final, for from it there can be no appeal; the
prerogativc of deciding these leading ques
tons Of national policy being an immunity
| peculiarly belonging to the sovereign power.
Whether the measures advocated by the
whig party could have better attained the
end sought by both parties, will, perhaps,
never be known; for the whig policy was
overruled, and the issues which divided the
then parties can never be again revived
The democratic measures were then adopted.
and have ever since given character to oul
institutions, and have raised us to a pre-. en-
lnent position in the scale of nations The
! principles of the democratic party have be-
come so interviewer with oar system Of self
| goyernmcnt-haveS 50 lnterming led with the
very fountains of our governmental policy
IA to give color and character t. its minut
est details rejecting honor upon us ms n
nation, and upon, each citizen rs an indiyid-
ual member of the great Republican family
! Here is the end sought to be attained oy the
old Ehig party, but not attained in the man
ner proposed by them. Our country has
lsceni led from poverty to wealth, Erom
weakness to strength, fl ON an empty treas
ury chest to an oyerhowng one, from Il deep
Indebtedness to a clear balance sheet, from
lhirteen pent up States to an almost Intern
/ luhble uOIDlnlUn, from HauuIuI OF people
20 an ALMOST innumerable population, from
a military dependency to II military dicta-
torship among nations, from IA people with
out II name to the title OF the mightest ma
ton Of the earth. The honest portion Of
the old whg party mast lie willing to admit
that those party measures which have led to
such flattering results, contain the great
conservative elements OF n safe and salutary
government, and now, when party has
arisen III one section of the Union, from
whose success must date the decline if not
the iii, ,memberment Of our country, why can
not these two cid par les, in the pursuance
OF their legitimate aim, and the end sought
10 be attained by both, unite to crush the
monster in its Infancy?
SENATOR FOR IUBA AND SUFFER-. We
learn with untegned pleasure. that the