Washington telegraph., 1856-10-29
THE ISSUE.


fore the American people will be called
upon to record their irrevocable verdict
in matter wherein political life and death
are pending. And although aee may not
hope to effect much, yet We feel it to be
our solemn duty to lift our feeble voices
in behalf of the cause to which we are
devoted, of the Union which we have
sworn to cherish and defend, of the glori-
Gus statesman, into whose keeping and
care we trust to see committed the reins
of this government for the ensuing four
years.
Paramount to all considerations which
should influence the American people to
rally to the support of Mr. FILLMORE, is
the humiliating attitude into which the
country is forced, by being compelled to
submit to the ignominy of being recog-
nized as the birth place and abiding place
of creatures OF both Northern and South
ern parentage, who, forgetful of their her
itage and willing to sell their birth right
for mess OF potage, are planning and
scheming to effect that which, in its in
ception, is the work of that ''mounting
devil ambition and in Its accomplish
ment, would prove the signal for a jubi-
lee among all the ''Gends from heaven
that fell''
..Time was, that when the brains were
out, man would de-" but it does seem
that new order of things prevails just
now, and that men can, in this age, lose
the sentient principle, and yet, to all ap-
pearances, walk erect and retain all their
powers for harm, animated, We verify be-
lleye, by sentiment, to the working cut
of the plans suggested by which, they are
urged ON by the devil himself, who seems
to have obtained entire possession of, and
control over their faculties. Imputing
unto all men, who are unwilling to recog-
nlze them as the apostles OF the true pO-
litlc;li faith, a craven spirit OF submission
to wrong and outrage, they appear to be
unaware that it is they, who are in bond
age to a despotism, more calling than any
bonds which the fanatic, GREELEY. and
the traitor, Fremont, whom they affect
to fear so much, can ever forge, to manacle
the free people of this Union with They
or ciax-o- 70, *bo l. L. e.
city, to the miserable, pitiable greed for
the perishablc-- laurels which deck the
brow of the aspirant for that fame, which
can be seen only in the lurid glare which
lights up the plains and flares up from
the hill-tops Of the land, over which the
demon of civil war waves his red banner
and flaps his sooty wings.
We have never sought to deny the ex-
istencc of a lamentable condition of the
public mind at the North; VIC have never
failed to rebuke the foul spirit which is
rampant there we have never failed to
prove our fealty to the South and our loy-
atty to all that concerns her honor: and
while upholding and advocating her claims
we have never failed, with all our feeble
strength, to urge upon the consideration
OF the Southern people. policy which,
lnaugurated and vigorously carried into
execution, would secure to the South all
the imnunities which reasonable people
could contend for. We have not. while
we admitted the existence of the disease,
sought to force upon the afflicted RENE
dy which was infinitely worse than the
malady. Infinite is our contempt for
those quacks, who would anticipate the
sure result of regular course of treat
ment, the efficiency of which had been
tested, by the administration of bolas
which they-are always ready to guarantee
will ''kIll or cure and we have no more
respect for those political charlatans, who
in another sphere of action, are the proto-
types of these humbugs.
We propose to examine into the preten-
sIOns OF these political charlatans, whom
their own public declarations have pre-
sented to the public as the originators OF
the distracting issues which now lend 50
weighty an import to the struggle which
the two great parties Of this Union are
now making for supremacy; these issues
may be presented under the head Of
Union or Disunion-Free Kansas or Slave
Kansas. We can prove by the citation
of indisputable evidence-yea, by the
very language of the BUCHANAN party
ieaders-that in the South the chief men
thereof have advocated openly a vile and
treaeherous scheme of disunion, while at
the North Mr. BUCHANAN has been held
up to view as the candidate of the Union
party; and this being proved, any claim.
which Mr. B. or his party may set up to
nationality is unfounded, for the essence
OF nationality is sentiment which, in Its
nature Is IpdiviSihla and rarn,a,.o., .L-.,