Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1856-06-10
PopulAr Sentiment.


We are entirely Of opinion with the v Y Herald
that large majority of the people of the United
States are at this moment opposed to what is called
the Democratic party. We have very strong evil
dence of the sentiments of the Democracy them
selves ON this point in the general and almost uni
versal satisfaction with which the population OF
Pierce is received They knew, as well as We did,
that if the party submitted their claims to the coun-
Try, with their present chief ~ leader, they were
destined to certain aud disastrous overthrow. They
therefore lodged the issue by changing the candi-
iates. They hope to allay the popular wrath by
throwing Pierce overheard, aud choosing another pi
lot They fancy they may escape responsibility for
herces imbecity and the general failure of his ad-
mini>traton by substituting another standard bear
or, whose incompetency and worthleSsness is not
proven by the infallible test Of experience.
But they furnish the country no other hope OF
amendment They profess the same loose and con-
Trajectory principles which have involved the coun-
try in its present difficulties and threaten us be-
sides, with measures which will lead TO universal
war The same doctrines and principles, which have
dCmoralized the country, urged as the remedies
lor its redemption They first reduce the Republic
To the verge of ruin and then tell We must take
them and their nostrumS, if We would escape utter
destruction.
We know not that there can be such concert of
action among the conservative men of the land, as
will save us from a continued reign Of the spoils
party. But whether it be practicable or not We
for one, and We believe may speak for every man
thoroughly mbuei with the genuine spirit of Wing
gerry and American conservatism, will neither touch
handle this unclean party They have reduced the
country to its deporable condition on their heads
be the consequences We will not stain ourselves
or weaken our moral position, by association with
them. Whether victorious or vanquished, our posi-
ton is independence of and opposition to party
which makes traffic of public Office, aud sacrifices
the best interests of the country the success of
faction.
The Herald says
The main question ia, what the prospects Of the
campaign. We anticipate Of the exciting, to
muluOus aud revolutionary in all the history OF
the republic Many OF hopeful democratic fellow
zen~ affect tn believe that there will hardly be fight
that Mr. Buchanan, with scarcely show OF resistance
will walk the course We have ONLY TO say looking
calmly the whole field that all such as entertain
the belief that there will be struggle the doors some
natic assylum had better De opened once We hare
de- doubt OF tie fact that rd1 majority Of the Apaeri-
people IN the present distracted condition " the
trg opposei 10 the democratic parfp d5.cied and
cordii-ci URder the uaiisn Influences Of this Pierce
adai'strrtoH: and bsi.erc thai there ,rd still ei1
me -iW'tFtcd" gtlfe 70 me rdfi1cd
rioH Of the eJdcL>ri-s Of tbs CORRUPTED Jarfy eten If
bev should nominate their representative an angel
from hedren. This is conviction and our belief
Grant that : honest aud statesman Mr. Blu
ctanan Is fair nomination and that he is immea>lraby
superior 10 Of such small calihre and pary eNpe-
dicnts Pierce and his Forney Kitchen Cabinet the i'm
prcssive evidences all around OF impending
evolution. Louis the Sixteenth amiable respeca
e and worthy aud sincerely bored for the good OF
> people, vet in the terrible raised by his imbe-
Gle and corrupt predecessors he swept away We
ucipate nothing ghtful in this enghteded day; vet
saw that Pierce has raised storm which Buch-
anan cannot peremptory command 10 be stl. IL /. drift
ting great popular revolution. We shall have revo
lution-we must have revolutions; for a sweeping revo-
luton lisa necessary times purity the political
mosphcre i summer thunder gust clear the
mlasma aud corruptng eHhalaOns of long scky siege
OF the dog days.
We say that there is majority Of the American people
throughout the Union opposed the democratic party
demoraized under the wicked and mbecle aiHiuistra-
ton Of Ma Pierce. Whether the various and nconstu.
ous elements active and passive which enter into the
composition OF this majority, be fused into a pract
cal shape OF political action at this time, remains be
seen"