Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-07-08

viii make available the whole fund, and aid the
INDECENT young men of the State in acquiring,
when competent, thorough education, thus
fitting them for teachers for the State.
STATE OF PARTIES
We have been too much engaged of late, in
other ayocadons, to pay much attention to the
details Of party developments as they daily
pour in from oil parts of the Union, and have
been compelled rather to lay before our readers
the details themselves, than to present our own
conclusions Still, it is not improper to look
calmly at passing events, and, whatever may be
our own personal predictions, to render to 9th
crs that justice which a candid examination
into their principles and professions may de-
velop
At no period in the past history of the coun-
try has there been presented to the popular gaze
such an anomalous state of party platforms and
party candidates. Five regular Presidential
candidates are before US, not, as heretofore, or
ganizedand plantedupOn honest differences in the
construction of constitutional and Federal pow
ers, but, with two exceptions, we find themnow
planted upon sectional issues merely, looking,
not to the constitution and its guarantees as here
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ing to promote the harmony and progress Of the
Union, but planting themselves upon 4 set of
principles whose only tendency, if successful,
is to dissolve the Union, to promote strife and
bitterness, to disrupt and sunder forever those
fraternal cords which for so many years have
bound our Union together, in its onward march
towards perfection in arts, sciences and good
government For the first time is the issue
sectional one not sectional on one part, but sec
tional on the other and hence true conserva-
tiYeS, who would gladly avoid such an issue,
must now apparently aid it by casting their
votes for the party which, combating sectional
ism, is thereby assumed to be sectional.
We have declared our intention to support
James Buchanan and John Q. Breckenridge for
President and Vice President Many of our
readers appear to have but partially understood
our position. We have stated so plainly and
fully the reasons which controlled us, that it
appears idle TO repeat them, and we shall not,
further than to state emphatically that wc cor
daily approve of the Democratic platform on
the slavery question, the fssue az the contest,
that it directly afirms the nOn-iutervention doc
trine in its largest sense, and that believing as
VIC do that buchanan and Breckenridge will
maintain honestly this platform, We intend to
support them cordially and cheerfully. We
were well aware that this course would call
down upon us the maIedictons of some who
prefer party to principles, who would risk the
Constitution itsAf and the guaranteed rights Of
the South, rather than take course which cav
illers call inconsistent For orr part we feared
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for tho very principles on the slavery question
which are contained in the Democratic Platform,
we have affirmed our belief that upon this posi-
ton only can the Union be preserved, and acting
to this end we can support no other candidates.
In no other platform can we find this guaranty.
Its not claimed for any but the Know Nothing,
and We cannot find it there Indeed, their plat
form means anything or nothing, just as the in
terpreter pleases.
The other party need not be mentioned
They are opposed to peace, opposed to humani-
ty, sectional altogether, and their success would
ieopardizc, if not dissolve the Union. Fremont,
their aiding candidate, has no qualifications for
, the office except as an engineer. Kit Carson is
lis superior. In politics he has been mere
cypher, following in the Senate the nod of Col.
Benton. Even his Mariposa wealth is fictitious,
and, Why he has been selected, except for his
very nothingness, we are at loss to determine.
Mr.. Fillmore is unfortunate. He seems alice
ted with the same disease that afflicted John
Tyler when he supposed he would lie renomi-
mated. Mr. Fillmore has been kindly received
since his return, and it has deceived him. Per-
sonal respecthe mistakes forpolitical popularity.
He and his friends will find out their error when
he returns to the quiet of his own home, and
will regret with us that he is candidate for de-
feat. Buchanan and Fremont viii be the oppOs-
ing candidates, and it becomes patriots every
where, conservatives all over the Union, to band
together to defeat Fremont, harmless in himself
hut dangerous because of the party into whose
hands he has fallen, powerful for ruin, unimpor-
tant for good. Thercsl choice lies between the
Democrat and the Black Republican, and true
patriots will be inapt to lend themselves to trca-
son and disuuion We look confidently to the
election Of Buchanan and Breckenridge, plant
ed as they are upon that conservative position
which alone can give peace and quiet to the
country, and preserve for the future the insti-
tutions Ofthe past
Fer the InteIlgeneer.
Mrssss EDrToRs:
The reply of the Parkersburg fraternity, to
the veto message of the Mayor of Baltimore, as
Published in the Sun of June Soth, is of such
unreasonable length that you can hardly beask-
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