Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1856-09-20
sectionali.m vs.. Nationalism.

The Democracy that there are two sectional
candidates for the Presidency in the present cam
paign. Every body knows that Fremont is out and
out Of the North, Northern. The friends Of Bucha
nan an the South, have from the beginning Of the
canvass insisted that Buchanan out and out OF
the South, Southern. They have repudated the idea
of his being any other thing than the candidate OF
the South. According to their showing, he knows
no North, no East, no West These regions Of our
land extending over considerable surface geogra.
phically considered beyond the ken Of his poti
calregard If we are believe them his most ardent
affections, which, for long years at least, have had
no natural channel in which to rum have entirely
been concentrated upon the South and her institu-
ton of slavery; that having "lawful heir" upon
which to lavish that fondness which is portion OF
his nature he has adopted the South as substitute
upon which he is to b.stow his doating. We are
led infer that II he loses the South like that En-
gish monarch 1--WE forget his name) who lost his son
at sea, he would ''never smile again" Unless, in
deed in 6gurative sense. that favorite Monon-
gahela which he is said nowadays to dispense with
open doors and liberal hand.
The only question is, will the South be adopted
The old sage Of Wheatland comes pleading through
his friends with lugubrious countenance aud men,
her people, her land, but above all her niggers that
If there is one object to his heart than ano
ther is the extension of the South and the increase
Of slavery.
1t is true that in former days he may have de-
nounced all these things and especially slavery and
its extension, and that too when his sun of life haf
long passed its meridian, and all the judgment he
ever had was in its maturity. Now, however, say
his begZar friends the nomination for the Presidency
has removed all the scales from his eyes he sees that
the bantling of anti-slavery, which had been the
child OF his adoption, with that ingratitude which
has become proverb, has slipped from under his
protection, and gone to be petted by Fremont The
South is the only hope of his declining years, they
whine; If it will not come under his wing his grey
heirs will go down in to political grave He
has been repudiated at the North and the East and
the West, and he will be equally repudiated by the
South, unless the experience the South has had of
Northern Democrats goes for nothing in their choice
unless they willing again and again to be dupes
and victims of the same system Of deception and
fraud-of falsehood and Misrepresentation In the
South, since they have been party every candidate
they had has been lauded to the skies for hi.
Southern sentiments and Southern feelings In the
North, the same candidate, by the same party has
always been upheld and euogised because of his
Northern sentiments and Northern feelings until all
honorable, rejecting men have become disguised
with the base repetition.
Where are honest men, who love the Union and
respect the Constitution to look in this day Of Sec
tionasnS They cannot look to Fremont without q
sckening sense Of disruption which may follow h 8
election. They cannot look to Buchanan, because
he Is the great "Repudiated Of the people" and be
cause il the statements and pleading Of his friends
Of the South be true, he is purely sectional an
would, even If there were shadow Of prospect for
bis election, be no representative Of the nation
There is one man, true, tried and faithful who has
stood at the helm in times Of storm and danger and
who has already received the plaudits Of the whole
people Of the land for the services he rendered and
the honorable duties he ably discharged; man who
is national and not sectiOnal-one who can look
throughout the broad limits Of the Union. and saw
that he knows and that he loves il all; that II ne i
called aimfnisar 'ta e-Or emit he viii admin
lister It Tor the whole, and not for part who dare
TO say in the North what is true in the South and
who would rather be right than be President He
oegs no vote by subservency to sectional prejudice
he seeks 70 secure no support by appeals 10 North or
South But standing forth as the candidate NJ tho
whole people, by the truth and honor and couroo.
be has ever shown, no less than by his out smoke
declarations, that he will well and truly discb.,o,
the duties Of bis office, be faithful 10 the Consttuo
and preserve the Union. We need not name him
His name the lips and in the heart Of every -,
triot and lover Of his country and written on m,
history Of that country in characters Of gold.