Butte record., 1856-08-23
MIsso, r, Republican Cheering Account.


n ence and extensive circulation, stands 6
the head of western newspapers, and has a
ways been jealous supporter OF the VIII
e party, is doing yeoman service IN The caus
? of Democracy. We have before US leadin
i article in which its position IS sustained IN
clear and mastery manner. Fer the bene
fit of those benighted dark-lanterners who
, in their folly and infatuation, have persua
J ded themselves that the defunct carcass 0
Know Nothingism is being galvanized int
renewed life we give extracts from the same
The article opens, with.
THE REsPoNsE.
g Sufficient time has now elapsed to ena
Bile US to determine, with entire accuracy
how far our declaration in favor OF Buchan
an for the Presidency has been responded tt
by the Wings of Missouri, and Illinois anc
Iowa. ana wherever we may claim an Indu-
ence from this extensive circulation Of our
journal With the knowledge thus derived
we are authorized to say. that the result oi
this conference with our old friends is far
more satisfactory than we had just reason
to expect. We did not address ourselves to
Democrats they of course would be graft
fed to learn that, in pressing emergency,
and not for any particular love we bore to
| them on account of the past, we had thought
proper to announce ourselves III favor OF Mr.
Buchanan But we were solicitous, we con-
| fess, about the manner in which old Wings
men With whom we had stood shoulder to
shoulder for mere than quarter CT o cen
tury-would receive that declaration, All
we shall now say on this head Is, that we
are satisfied; if the response which comes
! to us from all quarters be any indication OF
| the feeling of our time hcnored friends, then
| we are sure that we have done right, and
have no hesitation about persisting in our
course.
In answer to. those who find fault with the
course of the Republican, it makes the fol-
lowing
DEFENSE.
owe make to points in defense of our
course: the first is, the utter impessib;lity
of the election of Mr.. Fremont in the pres
ent state of parties, or any arrangement of
parties between this AMI November; and the
next is, that, as between Mr.. Buchanan, the
Democratic, and Mr.. Fillmore, the Black
Republican and Abolition candidate, no pa
triot-no man who wishes to see the Union
cemented together, instead of being broken
to fragments-ought to hesitate in deciding
in favor of Mr. Buchanan. Put the Black
republicans in power by the election of Fre
mont-give Seward and Wilmot, Preston
King, and Gddings, Wentworth and Chase,
Sumner and Beecher, Lovejoy and Parker,
and the three thousand political preachers
who have made the men of the free States
mad by thcir Infamous arneals for a disso
luton of the Union, and their desecration
of the pulpit--pat these men in charge of
the government, as they would be when they
had Fremont in leading strings--and then
what would be the situation Of the fifteen
slave States, having interests peculiar to
themselves, and this party is sworn to crush
and Destroy
The following we cannot too earnestly
commend to the attention Of the
oLD-LINE WIGS.
'sBut it is asked, how can we, as Wigs
as Clay Wings, having him ever present in
our memory aa one of the pureSt statesmen
that ever iived-how can we support Nj.
Buchanan, who failed, when he had an op-
portunity of doing SO. to do full justice to
that distinguished man: In the course Of
long and eventual political life, all men COM
nit errors, and grevious ones--that Of MIR.
Buchanan toward Mr.. Clay was not so re-
garded by the latter, rlthOugh desperate
politicians now seek to make it appear So
and we may even grant thai in this case Mr..
Buchanan failed to come up to tA'st measure
ofjustice which the occasion required. But
the question now assumes ditterett form
Mr.. Buchanan is the party Of tie Union,
against a party that boldly avows its inten-
ton to destroy the Union, unless certain
objects can be accomplished. This being the
issue, is there Whig in the land so lost to
principles inculcated by Henry Clay, as to
refuse to vote for the representative of the
Union principles against the disunionists'"
DoNELsoN.
Those who bring the charge of inconsis-
tency against the Wings for voting for Bu-
chauan, Democrat, are thus disposed of by
this clincher:
:" Who and what is this ge ntleman 1t is
sufficient for us, as Wings, to know that he
was the most malignant enemy the Wings
had during the Presidential term of Mr.
Fillmore. That lie reviled him--deno7anced
his official acts--called in question the puri-
ty of his motiTes--aud never had good or
tolerant word to say of that Administration.
Why, then, shall we be taken to task for
giving patriotic support to Mr. Buchanan,
Democrat. VIE: here in the PERSON of this
Mr. ponelson, another Democrat, we are
asked to endorse u man whose whole life has
been one of warfare upon the Whig cand-
qualification for the office'"
THE FUSIoNIsfs.
The cream of the article is in the conclud-
ing paragraph The disgraceful fusion of
the Know Nothings and Black Republicans,
for the sake Of spoils, should disgust every
honorable mind. After stating that ''ioe do
not see a possible chance Of their (Fillmore
and Doheison's) eiection," it concludes
with the totlewing patriotic sentiment-
g We will say further, that, while there
are thousands of our friends who mi ght de-
sire this event, they would yet deeply de-
plore the success of the Black Republican
ticket; and it rests with them to say
whether they will contribute to this result
or not. In Illinois, and Iowa, and Indiana,
the old-line Wings have it m their power to
prevent any such calamity. tR the former
State, as is well known, the Black Republi-
can party and large portion of the Ameri-
car party have fused--they have met to-
gethsr, have agreed upon a State ticket
have ratified the nomination of the Philadel-
phia Black Republican Convention, and have
cast of Mr.. Fillmore. The Wings, and those
Americans who yet remain true to their
party relations, have it in their power te
break down this monstrous conspiracy for
the attainment of Office and political power
"a conspiracy to be carried ont even at the
sacrifice of the peace of the country. We
arrogate nothing to ourselves-we dictate
no mans course; but we have communed
long enough with the readers of this paper
to justify us in saying, that the old-line
Wings, and all those who stand uncommitted
to any party, can Justify themselves, every
| where, in taking their stand for Buchanan
and the IIpior arainst Fren1out and Dis
union. That is the ground for patriots to
take, for no other ground will bring us out
of the difficulties which menace our institu-
tio,as nd rhc tlit,. f ths. Z Hi, ,.