Washington telegraph., 1856-10-15

ests, the most incidentally valuable that
can be given into the keeping of men.
Look at the facts as they present them
selves. Let US weigh well in the scale
of reason the consequences likely to ac-
crue from the success of this Buchanan
party. 1t is self-evident fact, that, as
the legitimate result of the unwise and
suicidal policy of such leaders of the De-
mocracy as we have quoted from, this
party has become just as much sectional
lied in the position which it occupies in
the South, as is the Fremont party in the
North. The inAammatory and denun-
ciatory appeals which it continually makes
to the Southern people, its reckless and
foolish Legislation and utter disregard OF
pledges and promises, have more than all
other things combined, tended to exas-
perate the public mind North, and bring
about thu unhappy condition of affairs
which at present exists And we may
with perfect safety lay down the broad
proposition that the election of Mr.. Bu-
chanan would not, and could not tend in
any manner to allay this sectional strife
1t is, in the very nature of things, I'M
possible that it should do SO. ''The Leap
ord cannot change his spots" The party
witch in a factions minority dares to
dream of treason and concOct schemes OF
would not fail if vested
with the weighty powers of this govern
ment to 90 on in their insolent overriding
of all sense of right until the mutiny
which at the North now seems to be
dangerous would become all powerful and
produce the result so ''darkly limited at
above. Honorable ambition is praise
worthy attribute of the human character
but when it is linked with pride and
lust of power and greed of place, it be-
comes the bane of the State and the one
imminent danger, to avert which, all re-
fecting men should bend every energy of
their natures If we are left free to infer
the character of man 5 true sentiments
from the language in which he clothes
his ideas, it must become evident to the
most superficial observer, that the writer
and speaker whom we quote above-and
we must take them as the representatives
of very numerous body of men-are fully
possessed with spirit which if not put
down, bodies destruction to this Uni n
Their language is in fact nothing more or
less than the adumbration-faint it is
true-of wild and visionary system of
military government. The history of re-
publics presents no one fact for eonsidera-
ton, more forcibly than that despOtism
is the natural sequence OF a departure from
republican simplicity. Here We have
counselors advocating disunion- And this
is the gist of the matter. Elect Mr. Blu
chanan and We have party which under
the inaammatory influence Of the Ritchles' =,
Brooks, Soules, Rhetts, and politicians
of their class, would inevitably SO admin
ister the government as to produce a dis
ruption of the bonds which unite us In
Union. Elect Mr. Fillmore aud we will
have an administration which will calm
all sectional excitement except among a
few malcontents, the breath of whose nos
trils is vapor that smells of blood and
war.
Time and space, both fail us to pursue
this topic as We could wish to do We
have only glanced cursorily at the points
in issue There are other points OF the
policy of this Buchanan party which
are not less to be guarded against We
might go ON too and speak of the inevi-
table consequences of disunion,-of a
people speaking one language, having one
faith, one history, one destiny, alienated
from each Other,-of border feuds and
wild forays,-Of an enemy forever lurk-
ing on our outposts to catch the unwary
and wreak revenge, perhaps on the inno-
cent,-of an internal foe more to be dread
ed than fire or sword or famine,-(no one
can be at loss to comprehend our mean
ing)- of their deeds of rdpine and vio-
lence; of the blood-thirsty, invincible hate
which they would nurse against the day,
when urged on by ambitious leaders, there
is no hamlet in the land that would not
be wreathed with flames, no plain that
would not be slippery with blood, no hill
side that would not echo to the despairing
shrek of woman in the arms of the de-
stroyer, and of man, as his spirit was hur-
ried into eternity by the hand of the as
sassin. The triumph of Mr. Buchanan's s
fre-eating cohorts would point to this re-
suit Mr. Fillmore's election would avert
it. How, we will consider next week.
HA, HA The Louisville Democrat
is down on the Germans, and speaks of