Washington sentinel., 1856-07-19

Piles of the respective candidates for an upright,
prudent, honorable and national administra-
tion of the government" This is indeed,
beautiful specimen. The country parry has
no candidate, they arctic exercise "a consci-
entious freedom Of choice among the candi-
dates presented by Others" and they are to do
1t after this wise. They are to call party
convention, Of pure old line Wings, and put in
operation the machinery of party conventions,
every man of the convention being nothing
more than zone Of the people," pretending to
no lead" "no longer politician" and by
binding resolution they are to determine the
mode by which the country party shall exer-
else conscientious freedom of choice among
the candidates presented by others. They are
to have county meetings, appoint committees,
announce principles, denounce other parties,
elect delegates to represent them, assemble at
considerable expense, devote time, money,
adopt formal platforms-all to in
struct the new country party Of old line Wings
how to be guided solely by a consideration
of what shall appear to them to be the best
interests of the country, and of the solid guar
antees offered in the history and character, as
well as professed principles Of the respective
candidates, for an upright, prudent, honorable
and national administration Of the govern
ment." The convention must tell them wheth-
er to vote for the Buchanan party, the Fillmore
party, the Fremont party, the Stockton party,
or the no candidate country party. Mr. Rives
adds: "This is noble position, and nobly
win it be sustained, he doubted not, by the
Wings of Virginia and the
Union"
1t is noble position to denounce being
governed by the fat of q few, and then to
make ourself prominent among q few to pro-
nounce that fat in the most binding obligatory
form.
1t is a noble position to denounce party con-
vention machinery and then to become mem
Der Of convention, before the words die out
of the mouth, to put the machinery in motion.
To claim to exercise freedom of choice; and
then to call convention to tell you you how
you shall slavishly exercise that choice. To
claim credit for having no candidate, and
then to meet together to bolster up somebody's
candidate, or to proclaim one Of your own. To
denounce the Gauls, and then be ready to
throw yourself into the arms of the Gauls.
Such positions will not be sustained by the
independent Wings of Virginia and the Union,
o;tbor pohlo tan hIo
The independent Wings of Virginia, and of
the Union, know that we are to have severe
and bitter contest in the North. They know
that that contest is ominous Of evil. On the
part of the Republican and Know-nothing
parties of the North it is entirely a sectional
contest. They know that there are fifteen
States of the Union where it will be impossible
to make a Fremont electoral ticket, particularly
since his Black Republican Abolition letter of
acceptance of his nomination. They cannot
but know that if a Know-nothing electoral
ticket shall be successfully run in any Southern
State, it must weaken the moral power of the
South. The Southern State that elects a
Know nothing electoral ticket in the present
condition of the House Of Representatives,
might just as well vote for the Black Republi-
can candidate. They know, that if the South
remains firm to the cause of the Constitution
and the Union, both will be preserved. And
knowing these things, they will occupy the
noble position of sustaining the only ma
tional party now in existence, and lend their
aid to sustain Mr.. BUCHANAN, without waiting
for the fat Of v. W. Southall or William C.
Rives to proclaim to them their duty.
Mr.. BUCHANAN stands upon the Democratic
platform erected at Cincinnati, which every
southern man must see is clear and explicit
infinitely more so than. that erected by any
other party. They see that Mr.. BUCHANAN
announces that that platform meets his cordial
appreciation. They know that during his whole
political life he has been engaged in advoca-
ting southern rights in the Senate and out of
it, sustaining them on the stump, in conver-
sation, and in the newspapers before the peo-
pie Of Pennsylvania. They will not distrust
him. They, and every lover of his country,
ought in the fearful crisis in the affairs Of the
Republic, which is threatening and seriously
endangering the Union, rally with the Demo
cratic party to PROSTATE sectionalism. They
will strengthen the arms of those northern
men who are breasting public opinion at the
North for the support of the Constitution and
the Union, and will do nothing to arrest them
while dealing blows upon the enemies Of the
South. Mr.. Rives and his confreres may
figure in Wing convention, and endeavor to
bring to bear upon the South the " fat of the
few," but oil the machinery they can use will
be the old rickety, worn out cogs and wheels
which will only serve to clog and impede their
own motion and consign them to deeper OBJ
livion than they have hitherto obtained.
We have given thus much of our editorial
space to review Of Mr.. Rives's speech, because
we see, with all his attempts to disguise it, a
settled determination to induce the old line
Wings to throw away their votes and render
worse than nugatory their influence for good,