The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-07-19

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rUCTnY DAVIS. Of Clayton County.
rEs INFLUENCE OF NEwsrAPERs
ANorth Carolins paper having expressed
that the National I~nteAisencer does
not sake decided ground at the present hour,
TIA, Journal replies in an article from which
We take the snbjoined extract, The N. G.
paper supports buchanan, and OF course
thinks that the proper course for the Intel
lioescsr to pursue would be TO support the
same nominee.
aperhaps il may be found that a "~sense
AZ dutvn az well as affecting Of prejudice
NAV prevent us from going all the length OF
az Democratic platform upon which our
North Carolina friend finds it so easy 10
staud. And, moreover, IL the presen; is a
ssfearful houf," BY whom, we would ask, has
Il been brought upon ust This we feel is
not the time for repronch OF elimination
Infinitely sooner would we heal a wound
than open one. But il, in place Of the unity
ana concord which prevailed in the country
threc years ago, the heart Of the patriot 10
psined by acts Of violence, his ear stun
ned by words OF fierce and angry strife, and
the Union i,self straining its ~fastenings.
can the Democratic parry be acquitted of its
full share Of responsibility in the originatlon
Of this altered state Of sentiment through
eut the country Can our North Carolina
friend say that bis withers are unwrungs
With our well-known views respecting the
impolicy Of the recent Congressional legis.
lsuon which has been the occasion Of all
the strife that now divides the Northern and
Southern portions Of the Union, it could
hardly be expected OF US to stake ground
with any very great aiacrssy by the side Of
these whom We hold to be greatly if not
mainly instrumental in bringing about the
present unhappy state Of affairs. The sub
iect, however, is not a pleasant one, and
We recur to it only to show to our arraign.
inR contemporary thai we have something
quite a. potent as party afinities " nj least
70 arive US pause before we stake the
xround,' which he points out to Us. We
thank him, however, for his friendly advice;
and will make him the only return at pres
ent in our power-pe scaA tank Of a."
We think it pretty plain from this that
the Inteuiess,cer does not intend supporting
Mr.. Buchanan. Although it SONS time
since expressed the hope that that gentle
man would be better than the Cincinnati
platform, his emphatic declaration of hi.
absolute political merger into that platform
must have ~dissipated any expectation tha'
he would fail to obey 10 the letter all tbs
requirements of that fiibustering manifesto
The Inteai9encsr could not refuse credit t.
the word Of so respectable" gentleman
% Mr.. Buchanan, and il certainly could mol
% utterly repudiate all the cardinal princi'
pies by which it has hitherto been guided
~ TO support n Of the authors of ih'
Ostend movement. It's frequent. able ana
earnest celebrations in favor OF peace ant
international morality, would lose all thei
weight, and indeed would partake somewha
Of the absurd, if in direct contradiction 0
all such teachings. it became the advocat'
Of the candidate Of tina, very party whicl
seems possessed by q chronic disposition
to disregard treaty siipulations, and irea
With contempt those great rules Of moralit.
which are properly regarded by all right
minded men as the foundations of intern
ti0nal intercourse.
We have no right to presume that the
lmzeRigeRrer has not honestly adopted the
cautious neutrality which it maintains. But
however much we might wish the influence
Of its name and the prestige of its pas
character, to be thrown in the scale ofthai
party which we think is 50 much nearel
that Madisonian exemplar it 81 loves I,
quote and applaud, than either Of the othel
parties, We do not really think that even ii
opea advocacy of Fillmore TO which j
seems inclined, would materially affect The
probabilities Of Fremont's election. Sucf
Z course would doubtless damage Buchanan
1t the South, but the people OF the Free
States are arrived at that point of excite.
ment and determination, that the course o
this or that newspaper, no matter what me,
be its character or ability, would have littls
or no influence in dissuading them from III,
course on which they are resolved. Tht
increasing number Of those papers which
are forsaking Fillmore and Buchanan, ant
rallying to the support Of freedom and Ere,
mont, Is a fact that derives It's chief impor
lance from the cumulative proof it affords
Of the kresi revolution in the minds Ct tht
people " which these changes are caused
Il is NOT that the editors of such journals
having INCOME individually convinced o.
the ~falsit,ss xlah a ND RETAIL platform, arr
80 str;vt 4th OF, and Western -,
sysigned begs leave 10 direct ihe ih'
same conclussrsds AND ths p%aeiieth general 70 hr
bv thei, own reae Ss. 81 sap.s al, ana
selves of the absurdity as wnneh Low Prices asa
ness Of calling such an instrument as Inc
Cincinnati platform an exponent Of Jefer-
sonian Democracy, the editors have either
to follow suit or be left with blank subzcrip-
ton books.
II is this fact which gives the Most i'm
por,ant significance to those changes in
journalrhip we are almost daily called on to
record, and which also has a tendency to
lessen the interest or anxiety that might be
felt in regard TO the course pursued by any
particular paper. 1t is doing the Inisuioen-
Ger no injustice to say that 1t is greatly un-
der the influence Of that social system
which prevails at the South. Long habit,
II not original bias has fixed it's feelings in
that direction, and as that fact is pretty
generally known, if it should conclude to
support Mr.. Fillmore, its decision would
affect Buchanan more than Fremont, and
II potential at all out Of the Southern States,
could only have the effect Of throwing the
election into the House OF Representatives..
In the present situation of the country, we
think that event very far from desirable
Under the existing arrangement, there has
been but one election by the House, and
the consequences of that were not such as
10 make US desire another. Our main hope
b, that whatever timidities, or intriaues,
corruptions may characterize politi cal
operations at Washington City-they may
III be rendered innoxious and inete ctual by
he progress and contamination Of that po-
revolution, which at present promises
fairly to ~inaugurate an entirely new or