Oroville daily Butte record., 1856-07-17
Philndeiphin Correspondence.
PHILADELPHIA, June l8,


of the parties who are to be competitors for
the political prize. the Presidency of the l.
:. Every indication thus fur goes to the
conclusion that the National Democracy is to
be triumphant, and the anarchy of iSnis'
which seek to envelop the true character OF
our federal institutions in some sectional or
feigned issue, are TO meet with such L rebuke
as their own discordant actions and one-idea
issues deserve.
Fillmore is the accepted of the X. Ms.
Banks is the nominee Of the Northern Re
publicans, and Ex-Governor johnson Of
Penn, for Vice President. Their Conven-
ton which was held last week in New York
City. was composed Of such explosive ma
terial that it could not be kept together long
enough to make a nomination-tor large
portion Of the delegates doited and resolved
to wait little longer and meet the National
Republican Convention now in session III this
city. So there was no unanimty or concert
of action in the N. Y. Convention.
The one in session here will be about as
harmonious. Mclean and Fremont are the
most conspicuous candidates for President
The friends Of the former declare that with
him the Union can be carried easily, for he
is the great embodiment of free principles
i. e., Abolitionism A short time since, this
gentleman, who is a Justice of the u 5 Su-
lo1 Al Enf, Va Sln NO
Law to be constitutional but the Aboh-
tionists get over this, by saying he is pure
man, and is more available than any ona
they can pick from their ranks. But this
does not satisfy all OF them, by any means,
for they are not satisfied with his decision
in the Supreme Court, and say that if he is
elected he will resign his position, and ap-
point some one to fill his vacancy with sini
lar views to his own, and hence they cannot
swallow him. The friends Of the latter up
hold him and press his claims because he has
done so much TO extend Western freedom
and discovery, and because California, the
great test of the Compromises of 1850, will
take the lead in sustaining the advocate. So
called, of free principles on the Pacific, and
many who favor his claims and cannot find
that he was an apostle of freedom in the
West as asserted by others, and that his
merit is borrowed from the fame of a rela-
tive by marriage, say that he is very veal
thy in. California lands, andbhat this con-
sideration will tend to advance his, as well
as the interests Of the great Republican
party. But Commodore Stockton was ruled
out because he was 80 rich in Jersey rail-
road stock, which, by the way, IS much
more available than Col. Fremonts land in
California. So that there are to be three
candidates in the field, besides the candidate
of the only great National party. Do not
the prospects then seem to favor the choice
of him who stands upon the Democratic plat
form of general principles, recognised by
the people and tried and tested by success.
tul practice
One-ideaism must yield to governmental
policy fanatacism must resign to liberality
of sentiment, and tho broad principles of
democracy must triumph over all sectionali-
ties and the war Of sms, and concentrate all
the jarrimg elements, in politics, as they
ever have done, into pure patriotism.
Since writing the above, Judge Mclean
has withdrawn his name from the Conven-
ton, and assigned his reasons therefor in o
letter. which you will find in the proceedings
send you. This movement gives Fremont
almost certainty, and " should he be nomi-
nated," said San Francisco politician to-
day, before the Girard House, " he will car
ry California like a whirlwind, although he
has never expressed himself in favor Of the
Pacific Rail Road, or any other great mea-
sure of National Importance, still the people
of CALIFORNIA will trust him to the fullest
extent"
The platform adopted by the Convention
is got up in the form and verbiage of the
Declaration Of Independence in order to en- :
trap those who can appreciate sound and
fury more than sound common sense aud
sound policy.
This Convention is purely Free-Soil and
Abolition, with Horace Greely to order and
direct the whole affair;-he has thrown off
his slovenliness, and moves among the dele
gotes. the master-spirit Of the whole Conven-