Washington telegraph., 1856-07-30
The Presidency.

will be able to take our leave of the State
canvass and enter upon the national cam
paign fully and unreservedly. Carefully
surveying the field of labor before US, We
feel sure, that with proper efforts, and
arduous application, rich and glorious
harvest will reward US fully, no matter
how difficult may be the toll we may be
called upon to undergo. Never since the
formation of this government did politi-
cal party go into contest of such momen-
tous Importance as the present with nobler
or prouder incentives to action than those
which should urge every American to
take his stand at the post of duty, and
keep watch and ward, through the contest
which the political parties of this Union
are about to engage In. We have lead
er whose name is ga tower of strength"
whose enlarged and comprehensive patri--
otism knows no bounds save the extrem-
est limits of the land of which he is the
boast and pride; whose unwavering fdeli-
ty to the Union and constitution has ex-
torted from his worst enemies the largest
need of praise; whose life has been an
honor to his country: we have platform
whose provisions should challenge our
warm and unfagging support; and are ar
rayed in a contest in which our inalienable
rights, and dearest privileges our weight
rest and most important interests, are to
| be defended against insolent ursurpations
and criminal and wilful neglect Right
well do we know that the gallant men who
are enlisted in this great cause will know
''no variableness or shadow of turning"
but pressing boldly forward achieve the
victory which most assuredly awaits us.
Let there be no fainting on the field of
! battle, nor yet mere enlistment TO march
to the seat of war and then ''march back
again" but animated by a high and holy
resolve to do our duty, let US work without
ccasing and leave the result to Providence.
1t is true that the weak and timid will
find much in their onward path to dis
courage them, and, pcrchance, the enemy,
failing to work upon their fears, will offer
them tempting alluremonts of gain and
place; but knowing they will be deSpised
as towards, or scorncd as mercenaries, we
have very little doubt, that if the American
party is not altogether purged of such
weak spirits already, they will if any such
ar left, avoid their inevitable fate by re-
naming where they are and assuming "a
virtue if they have it not These weak
brethren are met with prophecies and
forebodings, reasonable suggestions and
lying calculations from the NEW YORK
HERALD, more venal, corrupt and un-
scrupulous than it is in the power of an
ordinary mind to conceive of, and upon
the false bases which it presents, Southern
men are asked to form their opinions and
shape their policy. Some little K 10
sheet published somewhere, .emi-occa-
sionally, flies off at a tangent and its de-
fection is paraded as evidence of the de-
clination of Fillmore's strength; an Old
Line Whig who, two years ago, would
have been denounced in the most un-
measured language as all that was base
and Infamous goes over to the support OF
Mr.. Buchanan, as most undoubtedly he
has right to do if he wishes to insult the
memory of the leader whom he loved and
honored in life-and he straightway be-
comes marvellous proper man and all
who once held communion in that faith
are whiningly appealed to, to apostatlze
and swell the broken ranks and reform the
shattered front of the '.ferce Democracy.
A tine-serving demagogue who has veered
from Whiggery to Democracy-from De-
mocracy to Americanism from American
ism to Buchanan-spoils-ism, gets sick l n
INTENTIONALLY and says that IN the
event of the American party South going
over to Fremont he will prosecute the
canvass, and upon the strength OF TINS
implied imputation as false and unfounded
as it is infamous and contemplate, Amerl-
cans are asked to desert their cOlOrs Tor
the camp of an enemy who "palter with
them in double sense" by first imputing
to them dishonor and treachery to their
native land, their Southern home,-and
then, piteousIy begging them, to seal the
measure of their infamy, by leaving their
companions in arms to an unequal hight
Where we ask in the name of every manly
impulse, every honorable emotion, Is the
American who can desert his party and
the cause of his country, in obedience to
such prompting? Out of the ranks with
him Let him go! But word to those
who are true. The struggle has COM
menced. The principles of the American
party are the reflex and embodiment OF the
duty which you owe to the land OF your
birth. You have every reason to hope
for a glorious triumph and why should
you falter? There is no earthly reason
Let us buckle on our armOr and 60 inlO
the conflict resolved to dare all and do all
for our country and our rights