Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1856-11-27
NATIONAL POLITICS.

In some counties the Fillmore and Repub-
lican papers are still keeping up a war Of
words, berating each other with idle epithets,
and this with as much zeal as though the fight
for victory lay bet,ceea them, instead of being
with third party hostile to both. The
straightout Fillmoreites are also engaged in
defining their positions, proving Fremont q
Catholic, or apostrophizing on the bright
prospects of their future
None of these parties we fear, or perhaps
more properly their political leaders, seem as
yet to have realized the full extent of their
late defeat and perhaps will not until anoth-
er election takes place, when their eyes will
probably open to the suicidal policy that has
been pursued. Thousands who have hereto
fore been active and influential politicians are
now either lukewarm or have abiured the
business altogether, while others having bro
ken through the ice by voting for Mr.. Bu-
chanan will support him if he at all answers
their expectations in his course. All this, it
is idle to conceal, has given the democratic
party strength it never before possessed-a
unity SO sadly lacked by the opposition-and
which will enable it to control this State for
years to come, though grosser mismanage-
ment than has been wont should characterize
some of its doings. 1t is true, there may be
seme disafection on account Of appointments
to Office, but this will be but u drop in the
bucket for most of them will rather " grin
and bear it" and live upon renewed promises
with party in ascendaney and in power than
ally themselves with divided house"
The only hope we can see for the opposition
to hang thread upon is in the course Mr..
Buchanan may pursue. Should he take to
his counsels the threateners Of disunion, the
advocates of fllibusterism, or slavery propa-
gandists, or engage in wild schemes Of annex
alton, he would rouse to activity class whose
support he received in this and other States
as a conservative man rather than as the nom
inee Of the Cincinnati Convention, who might
give the party much trouble. But Of this
there is thus far no evidence. Though Mr..
Buchanan declared on his nomination that he
was no longer James Buchanan but the plat
form, the immense vote cast i'll favor Of Ere
mont and Free Soil in the Northern and Mid
die States may have influence enough to in
duce Mr.. B. to become (or at least make the
trial. the President Of the People instead Of
the party. Conscious that he owes his eleya-
ton to the SLAVE voTE-for take its represen-
tation in the electoral college away, and Mr..
Buchanan is in woful minority-he must
feel and know that an extension Of that sys-
tenn which enables the few to govern the ma
ny, minority to oyerwhelm majority, is
not in consonance with the principles of our
forefathers, but at war with our professions
and opposed to human rights. His Cabinet
will probably foreshadow the future: should
| such fanatics as Wise Rhett, or others Of that
school be taken in, the Republicans will at
| once spring into renewed life and by 1860
WELD all the free states by overwhelming ma
! iorities; but should moderation characterize
his selections and appointments, we do not
/ look for much excitement in politics for some
years to come. Such is our view of the po
litical field at present, and we think events
will shew we are not far wrong.