Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-09-17
The Washington Union.

The Washington Union.
| The Washington Union frequently starts an
| editorial with some excellent ideas-some rea-
sonable and creditable opinions-but we never
knew it to close one without having committed
some egregious blunder, or without having ut
tered enough of nonsense to outweigh and
counterbalance all the words of wisdom it had
spoken in the article. On yesterday its leader
thus commenced:
"At time when the wise men of the land are
thoroughly reused to sense of the public danger
when it is apparent that the ambitious Black-Re-
publican conspirators, who formed the plot to pro-
duce it. are redoubling their wicked zeal to pursue
policy which will, If successful overthrow our in.
stitutions--every subordinate motive should be
made to yield to the necessity Of the great occa-
sion. All good patriots, however humble their
station, and by whatever political name or creed
they have been guided, whether Wing or Demo
crat should unite as brothers in one solid phalanx
to support the Constitution and save the Union
We do not overestimate the Importance of the
passing history. time such as this is at hand.
The men who will come after US will look back,
and rather wonder that it not earlier felt and
understood, and proclaimed"
In reading the article down to the termina-
ton of this extract, we, every moment, watched
for the announcement that Mr.. Buchanan had
withdrawn from the contest, and that all
good patriots" were advised to sustain Fill
more and Donelson!
From such beginning as the above, VIC
had right to expect this annunciatioH, but
in perusing the article we found the same
" ding dong" ding dong," "DING DoNG"-
"the Republicans aOil1 destroy the Union, 1T
Buchanan cannot defeat the plot !" Well,
then, if the question be in point of fact settled
that the Union is gone, unless cold Squatter
Sovereign" shall be- elected President it may
be regarded as a. +" .tired .tact," that the Union
is gone sin future, for the election of
James Buchanan is thing which no sensible
man expects to occur, and for which, under ex-
listing circumstances, no patriot willany longer
strive in view of its utter iimpracticability.
Look, now, gentle reader, and see how sum-
marily the Washington Union disposes of Mil
lard Fillmore, IN order to create and to decide
a purely sectional contest.
1t says: ......
" In the Presidential contest now pending there
have been placed before the American people the
representatives of taoo great principtesi The one
is hat of sqfety--the other destruction. The only
prominent representative of the first is James Bu-
chanan the accidental adventurer who represents
the other is John O. Fremont. There is a third
candidate but it is obvious that the contest for the
Presidency rests between these two men,"
So the Washington Union pretends to think
that cit is obvious that the contest for the
Presidency rests between" Buchanan and FIRE.
mont 1t is "obvious that in such contest,
were it to be narrowed down to these two Sec
tional candidates. the accidental adventurer"
would beat Buchanan in his own State-Penn-
sylvania-.ffty thousand Uotes!
No, indeed the "two great principles" rep
resented by these sectional candidates are only
properly illustrated by "Scylla and Charyb-
dis there are rocks and quicksands on either
hand-there is destruction il either Of them
shall be pproached-there is safety" be-
tween the extremes" IN medic tutissiHaus
ibis Fillmore is the only man of safety
there is but one channel that leads to the har.
Dor of the Union
We are disguised with such miserable par
tisan recklessness as the Washington Union
manifests. We know, and the Washington
Union knoos, that the sensible, the leading
men of the Buchanan party, admit that his
election is hopeless, aye, impossible, and yet
we see such stuff as the following inserted in
that press
"With this preface fairly stated, as we believe,
we make a solemn appeal to the American people.
We ask themsto pause--to think-to consider the
facts--to weigh the claims of Mr.. Fremont against
those Of Mr.. Buchanan Ito contrast the evils
which will surely follow the election of the former
with the COED which will attend that of the latter
Is it the right aye, the right of man,
placed as q sentinel TO guard the rights Of the
people, and to enlighten and to warn them, :
is it (naorally speaking) the right of such q
man thus to impose upon the credulity of the
people, and to lead them into the belief that
the present contest for the Presidency lies be.
tween these tsoO sectional candidates, and "a
ignore the prospects TO say nothing Of the
claims) Of sound national many