The daily union., 1856-10-11
THE NATIONAL IRTELLIGRNCER ON THE VALUE
OF EXPERIENCE


THE NATIONAL IRTELLIGENCER ON THE VALUE
OF EXPERIENCE.
The editors Of the National telgenea have become so
of late that they have almost ceased TO express
their preference between the three candidates for the
presidency They did venture this morning 10 repeat their
preference for Mr. Fillmore but under feelings Of much
tenderness towards his competitors that they deemed it
necessary protest against being considered nydous
in their remarks They prefer Mr. Fillmore because he has
been tried and proved worthy OF confidence but mas
much as neither Mr. Buchanan Mr. Fremont has been
tried and as it might have the appearance of doubling
whether either of them would prove himself trial. to be
worthy Of confidence they reluctant to express their
preference That it may be clear that do neigh
bors injustice, give their own words:
Without undertaking draw any invdious comparison
among the candidates for the presidency placed before
the country by their respective supporters state
gument well historical fact when say that of
them she peculiar OF having been already
tried in the very station to which proposed again to ee-
vae him And the simple fact that such peculiarly
ers advantage his pretensons constitutes in itself
eloquent appeal in his favor From Mr. Fillmore the
has received earnest of what il may reasonably
pec should he be again raised the post which he has al
ready filed with such signal ability proprety and
and in the discharge of which he received not only the
pause OF friends but extored the praises of political
nents." ~.
Whatever of advantage the apsculiariy referred to
confers Mr. Fillmore and however eloquent an
appeal that peeuarity constitutes in his behalf it
will be admitted that the argument well as his
orcal fact" six weeks ago it is at present
But about six weeks ago the editors of the genc
nounced their unwillngness to support Mr.. Fillmore in
the following significant language:
awe forget that Mr.. Fillmore whig when be
before conducted the with such signal ability
that he surrounded by whg advisers, and guided
by whg principles Now when he has
become the candidate he himself announces of another
party, and has dcaimed the and associations he
but so'recenty maintained dsplacng them by socalled
American order cannot clearly that, with
changed opinions in favor of whig principles and whg
warranted in expecting at his hands the
under the maxims he espouses under those which
formerly regulated his administration and crowned it with
such brilliant success"
Six weeks ago these considerations ouweighed in the
estimation of the Lgence he value of experience and
of proved capacity" and induced its editors to
position of digned and conservative neutrality We take
it certain that neghbors yielded the influence Of
the late Baltimore Convention which represented itself
body Of unemasculaed whgs in determining support
Mr.. Fillmore, Notwithstanding their apprehensons to
the he may pursue under the pressure of those
known nothing "maxms he now espeuses." There were
very serious doubts expressed the unadulterated
character of that convention when il assembled and the
developments since made have fully confirmed the suspi
cion that 1t at least controlled by knownothng inu-
ences and designed promote the of those "max
inns which had the centrifugal effect of repelling the Intel
igsncer from the support of Mr.. Fillmore but that
venon emphacsed the argument well the hisori
cal fact" that Mr.. Fillmore had been tried and that
conclusive. But there convention held in 1882 and
its genuineness as whig body not questioned and
that convention held after Mr.. Fillmore had "been
tried and that convention either failed appreciate "he
value Of experience and Of PRAYED capacity believed
that Mr. Fillmore had been tried and found wanting So
it that the decision of doubtful wings has more
weight with the Iategccer than their own Judgment
that Of convention whose devotion to whigm is unsus-
pected.
But there is another fact In connexion with the late
Baltimore Convention which seems to have been strange.
y overlooked both by its members and by the Eegener
That body based their admiration and their support Of
Mr. Fillmore upon the ground that he had been tried
whg and proved faithful such and being satisfied that
this conclusive that he would prove faithful Ggain
whig they gave him their nomination But along with
him the ticket they nominated vice presidential
candidate who never a whig who is not now whig
and who never can be whig in amy contingency, his
own declarations are worth anything More than that
they nominated who has again and again, in the
public and formal manner, declared that Mr. Fillmore
had been tried and had been found wanting and
worthy Of the confidence Of the American people 1t
to that this fact ought to be conclusive the
Of genuineness in the wbigism of the Baltimore Conven
ton and if so, think the ground on which the
iHegsHer abaudone its neutrality entirely uncnabe