Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-09-12
The National InteIIigencer.

The National lnleln9enCeT ol thursday Coh'f'H'
an article headed " Few words to our Readers" IN
! which it proceeds at some length to "dellne It's po
sition in the present canvass that being one OF
perlect neutrality under existing circumstances IL
saws that it has been and still is devoted TO the big
party and it's principles, but that party has no cam
didaes in the field. In speaking of its present p0-
sition and past course, it says:
But surprising the Wing party had been wholly
blotted out from the sphere Of American politics, to-
wards what party could we have been attracted by
an elective affinity which would have made it easy
for us to merge our political identity in that of anoth
er BODY! Was ii the Democratic? To that party
we have been antagOnlstc on principles OF funda-
mental character, which, if they do not all survive
in their pristine vigor are yet sufficient IN our estI-
nation 10 make their admission a matter of liberation
under protest rather than Of swift and eager accep
lance Was it the american? We could never APP
prove the agencies, and, SO far can learn them,
the objects of that Order" which, besides, not
the more commended to our regard by the part it
played in breaking down the Wing party. Was 1t
then the Republican? Surely, with our known
! tAgonism 10 all sectional agitation, we cannot be
presumed to regard with less disaVor the bitter fruits
of those unhappy dssensIons, the seeds OF which we
! sought 10 destroy when first they Were sown anew
! by The Democratic party two years ago. In fine,
whichever way We turn we find In each and all of
these organizations that repulses than attracts
! And as the peculiar princi plies of of these
!
extort from ready assent and a full adhesion, so
| the constituents which enter into their composition
and the candidates by which they represented
have none OF Them presented such superiority Of
clam upon our regard as TO make the choice among
them matter Of easy solution.
With the Democratic party we can be presumed to
have but little sympathy; and, while concediDg to
Mr. Buchanan the private virtues which adorn his
character as man and the high administrative abil-
ty of which he has given proof in almost every de-
partment Of the public service yet at some
loss to know whether ii is he that has changed, or
IRE that expected to do now, that to some it
seems so easy thing for to rush with ardor to the
support of gentleman whose political opinions have
for so many years been the antipodes Of our own.
/ And in like manner we may say of the ''Ameri-
can party-composed as it is partly of those who
were formerly Wings and partly of those who have
been Democrats that neither in the hOmogeneity OF
It's elements any than in the wisdom and expe-
diency Of lis proposed Objects far as they conf ct
with Wing principles, has it been able to COncilate
our confidence For Mr.. Fillmore personally, we
have all possible respect, and have too often spoken
in sincere praise and admiration of the manner in
which ne has already filled the Presidential chair,
well as Of his high competency for that exalted
station, to be now suspected of any disposition tc
, detract aught from his welI-earned fame But We
cannot forget that Mr. Fillmore was a Wis when
he before conducted the Government with such sig
nal ability that he surrounded by Wing adj
visers and guided in his Administration By
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didae, he himself announces OF " another party
and has disclamed the and associations he but
so recently maintained, displacng them by those Of
a so called American Order cannot SO clearly
Y see that with unchanged opinions in favor o
Wing principles and Wing men, warranted
in expecting at his hands the same course unde the
maxims he now >tspouses as under those which for
: merIv regulated his administration and crowned i
e with such brilliant success"
d 1t adds its disapprovaI OF the Republican candi
t dates and movements.
b. OF course we disagree with the lnteigencer OF
It many points, especially dissenting from its charg
upon the Democratic party of having the seed
s Of dissension two years ago; but It's position in tn
past, as leading political organ, gives impor
lance TO its present declarations, and its flu
i ture course 10 be somewhat speculated upon. 1t
e under this view of the that We publish the a
o bove extracts.