The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-09-22
From tie National IutaillssEeer.
The Halaace Wheels OF the Government,

We believe il is only those who sutier
themselves TO be warmly enlisted In partisan
warfare that have their fears aroused as to
the safety of the Union. Persons not With
in the heated arena are able to look Win
composure upon the contest to be deter
mined within less than two mouths. The
ueople of enc United States have been too
long accustomed To the war-cries OF party
zeaIots to allow themselves TO be unneces.
ssrily disturbed in regard to the future. Il
i true the contest for the Presidency has
meyer before assumed an aspect SO sectional
as nj present, but there have been dangers
heretofore, and the ship OF State has safely
ridden the pillows and Stunned the break
ers, Notwithstanding the apparent intri-
eacy of our political system 70 those who
have not studied its philosophy, i Is salts
factory 10 the friends OF good government
Ia know that there are balanee-wheels eapa-
bic of correcting and regulating all the err
ratio tendencies Of the great machine. The
very fact that there are diverslties Of inter-
es,s in country so large gives assurance
that there can never be combinations in the
three branches 0! the Government Of sutti-
Gent sire myth and durability to work runto
the system. In the most violent party
times we have ever known there was an
element Of safety in one or the other House
of Congress. So It is now, and - Will IL
ever be. To use geological illustration,
we NAV be SLOWED 10 say that there is a
great subsuatum oil strength and power at
the base Of our institutions, which insures
an ultimate adhesion and cohesion Of tho
centre and Of the extremes. The deep
nj Of tho uFDFL
of our fathers, now become a part Of our
education and combined with all the sub
stanlial interests OF society viii always sub
due and eventually overcome all the sugges-
tons of passion and the madness Of the
hour. Political phrensy, ike every other
mania, must have its eliminating point, its
process OF subsistence, and its period OF alb
soluie rest. There is in this yet young and
thrifty country Eecuperatiye quality that
needs but moments pause to set all its
active elements into vigorous and impressi.
Bile motion.
The Boston Herald, neutral print, gives
a practical turn to thoughts ike these in
the subjoined paragraph:
at amuses Us to hear our partisan eotem-
porsries respectively talk Of Gle danger to
the Union which the election OF Buchanan,
Fremont or Fillmore would cause, A spark
Of common sense will show that there is no
cause for alarm in the accession of either Of
them. II Mr. Buchanan were the success
ful candidate, and were disposed 10 be as
ultra as possible, what would he dol Would
he not have q Freesoil House which would
check and modify his every movemeHt!-
And suppose Fremont were elected; would
not all measures be modified By Democra-
tic Senate! And If Fillmore should attain
the chair, what could he do with the Free.
soilsr. and Democrats OF both House and
Senate, very large majority watching and
nulliiying his plansi Under these circum-
stances il is sheer nonsense &c talk Of dan. +
ger TO the Uuiontrom the accession Gt eIts- .
er of the Presidential candidates Be- The /
Presidency"