The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-10-01
NUMBER 56.

ination in the same spirit will be deserving of
the Jealous support of all Wings who, in the
Iabsence of any other acknowledged Whig can
Idldate, have remained unpledged, and W no are
iyet anxious to discharge their duty to their
lcountry under circumstances conlessedly of
peculiar difficulty and trial.
Whether considered as the nominee of our
Whig brethren or as civilian and statesman
of approved ability and integrity, Mr.. Fillmors
is worthy of all respect and confidence. It is
not too much to say that the admipistration of
public affairs would be, as it heretofore proved
to be, safe in his hands. If political proscrip-
i ton and religious intolerance ale, as is charg-
ed, part of the ritual of the order which has
placed Mr.. Fillmore at its head, the Whig par
ty, IN adopting him as its nominee can assume
no completely with such an uncharitable and
anti-republican creed. As Wings we do not
discriminate Extensively between the natural
lzed and the native citizen, and give no coun-
tenance to sectarian jealousies and theological
controversies; but without seeking to ascer-
tain the real nature and extent of the differ
ences between the Whig and american" par
ties, 1t may be sufficient for our present pur-
pose merely to premise that their existence is
mutually recognized by each; by the "Amer-
ican'' party, on the one hand, protesting to
have arisen on the "ruins of the Wing as well
as Democratic organizations" and in solemnly
renouncing the faults of the former no less
than of the latter; and by the Wings, on the
other hand, in their endorsement of Mr. Fill
more without adopting or referring to the
peculiar doctrines of the party which has al
ready selected him as its candidate"
As Whig. "pure and simple" and in de-
fault of any previous nomination of candi-
date of the Whig party, that of Mr.. Fillmore
must, we think, commend itself to the appro-
val of all uncommitted Wings who conceive
that duty to the country will not permit them
to remain idle or Indifferent spectators in q
contest involving consequences of the deep
est importance to the public interest if not,
as many conceive, the existence of the Gov
ernment itself.
Before dismiSsing this subject, however, We
beg to express the hope, in connection with it,
that no one will understand US, in anything
we have thus written, as intending, either di-
rectly or by implication, to reflect aught of
censure upon those of our political friends
who, in the absence of Whig candidate, and
before any National Convention had been ace
tually held or was regarded by many as even
probable, have already committed themselves
to the support of another candidate than Mr..
Fillmore. 1t is not for US to judge whether
the recommendations of the Whig Conven-
ton would have wrought any change in the
final determination of such Wings, patriotic
as we know them to be, had they withheld
the formation of their decision and the ex-
preston of their deliberate opinions until the
present moment. But it is not too much to
say that to many Of them it seemed the part
of wisdom and patriotism to throw their voices
and votes for Mr.. Fillmore's Democratic COM
petitor, not so much from any distrust of Mr.
Fillmore himself or of his high capacity for
the exalted station to which he aspires, as be-
cause his prospects Of success were deemed
too slender to render him an available candi-
date at time when, according to their judg-
ment, the prevalence of party opposed alike
to Mr.. Fillmore and Mr.. Buchanan is most of
all to be deprecated. The conclusion at which.
they arrived is vindicated no less by the puri-
ty of their motives than by the peculiar cir
,umstances of the time in which they are
called to act.