Oroville daily Butte record., 1856-09-19
Massachusetts Wings for Buchanan.

Ballie Peyton, and other Know Nothing
Orators, that Messrs. Winthrop and Choate
OF Massachusetts,, were supporting Mr.
Fillmore, and that through the influence OF
! such national minded wings, Massachusetts,
would cast her electoral vote for the Know
! Nothing nominee. A day or two since, We
| published an extract from letter from the
! Know Nothing nominee for Governor Of that
| State in which he announced his determine
ton 10 support Mr. Fremont. This alone
should convince Know Nothing orators in
! California that Mr.. Fillmore has not the
least show in the world Of carrying the old
bay State" Mr. Peyton told an Oroville
audience, no longer ago than Saturday eve
ming last, that Messrs. Winthrop and Cboate
were supporting Fillmore In order that
our citizens may know exactly how much
Importance to attach to these assertions, we
make the following extract from letter
written by Mr.. Winthrop, in answer to an
invitation to attend a kansas Aid Meeting
Mt Fanuel Hall. His letter is worthy an
old line whig Statesman, whose affections
are centered upon the constitution of his
country, and who is willing to sacrifice par
ty attainments when free institutions are in
peril. Such men, whatever may be their
peculiar views upon other questions, II their
hearts beat warm for the constitution of the
country, will be received into the great Un-
i'm party of the confederacy, with shouts Of
Joy How different the course of these ma
siOnal men of Massachusetts, from the pol
icy Of the migratory X. N Office kers in
California, who simply desire to secure their
own election to the United States Senate,
and scruple not to make use Of the names
OF men who have no affinity with them, and
who would never endanger the Union to
crafty an ordinate desire for cffice. But
to the extract. Mr.. Winthrop says:
There is really but one absorbing qucs.
tion now before the people. In the emn
magnitude OF its presence all others are
hushed. This question is at last presented
in tangible form, shall the Union be pre-
served or shall the first step be taken TO-
wards the entire disruption Of the States OF
the Union by severance of the North from
the South? Looking at the political aspect
of the times, with this question staring US in
the iace, we make our cho ce of candidates
The nominees OF The Cincinnati Convention
make the preservation OF the Union the
matter Of paramount interest Other prln-
cIp,es are advocated but il any principles
are to be compromised, or if any subservi
ency is to be made-all others may be com
promised, MI OF them may be subservient
6ut He Union, ii must BE- pr'"rusd."
''On the Other hand, the pre>ei vation OF
the Union is IL MINOR and secondary princi
pie with those who have met in convention
under the title If Republican With them.
the preservation of the Union is to be toie,-
nted as II matter of contingency. MIR. Banks
committed the Rsst overt act of treason in
declaring in the halls of Congress that he
was in favor of "letting the Union slide"
unless "A tavorite crotchet of his own and his
associates could be endorsed
This is the brotd and grand division OF
! the question ttat now divides the country.
and in view of IT we hesitate not to declare
our inhnate preference for James Buchanan
| to any other man who sustains the least
chance of election, aud to endorse him as a
man well calculated to face the factions in
our own land, and the wiles and combina-
lions, and manifold diplomacy Of the trick
ster politicians OF. the old world"
These X N. S;nmpcrs have also made use
of the name of Mr. Choatc, of Massachu
sets, rs II man who was using his vast and
national it, fuence to elect MIR. Fillmore. In
order to show our readers how Mr. Choate
stand, in the present contest, we beg leave
to re publish the following item bought by
the Sonora 1t shows how Mr.. Ghoate
stands in the present issue:
CHoATE FOR BUCHANAN.-The Hon Ru-
tBs thon te, in "A recent letter to the straight
~ Wing committee of Maine, avows his in.
I.ntiun of W sing for Buchanan, and advises
the straight e.. Wings Of Maine to do like
wise.
We mi ght here take leave of these poor
forlorn, unfortunate md mistaken Know
Nothing stumpers but Ne remember anoth-
er fact mentioned by Bailic Peyton, L q en-
Saturday night last. lie tol,' is despond
ing brethren here in Oroville thai Arkansas
and Kentucky had gone for Film ore, aud
that he had made large gains in Ms souri,
We will not re- e-ruSlsh the news from Il. ose
States, but ask our readers to peruse it ia
Yesterdays issue, and then say, if they
dare, that the Atlantic world is not demv.
cratic.