Washington telegraph., 1856-08-06
WASHINGTON:
WEDNESDAY, ,.--.-.AUGUST, 6, 1856
The Canvass.

the canvass Tor the Presidency, it behooyes
US, in our capacity OF journalists, to ad-
wise our friends of the necessity of turn
ing deaf ear to the calumnious roor-
backs which are set afoat by unscrupulous
partizan presses, and heralded from the
stump by unprincipled demagogues- Ii
shall be our pleasant duty to point our
readers to the proud and honorable re-
cord with which MILLARD FILLMORE has
Illustrated his career; and we are sure
that all true Americans can find in the
contemplation of the history of our noble
chief, incentives, which shall not fail to
inspire them to renewed and unceasing
Efforts to secure his election to the Presi-
dency of this Union. But being made
aware OF the o-keep-their-courage-
up game which our adversaries are bent
upon playing, justice TO our cause and our
candidates, demands of us 10 caution the
unwary against the dangerous and seduc.-
i've wiles of the one, and to enter protest
against the base and unmanlr appliances
Of the other
We are particularly led TO speak thus, in
view Of the course which Col " B. Bur
Tow, one of the Democratic Electors for
the State at large, has seen it to pursue.
And, but that he is well calculated, by
natural gifts and cultivated arts, to exer-
else IN influence In behalf Of the cause
which he advocates, which it is the duty
of those whom he assails with such shame
full Inalignity of purpose, to counteract,
the American party Of Arkansas might
well afford to treat with that profound
contempt which it SO richly merits, the
venOmOus concentration of his purchased
powers, with which he addresses himself
to the subserviency of the aims OF the
men, to whom he owes his present posi-
ton.
1t is expected of politician who acts
from principle, to devote his best energies
to the furtherance OF. the cause OF which
he appears as the champion, There are
they who, availing themselves Of the
facts in Z case, can, to even a bad
cause, give a show of rlausibility;
and TO the successful advocate Of such a
cause. the world is not slow to award the
need of praise. Ingenuity is to be ad-
mired, and art frequently renders natural
deiormity beautiful But the bungleF
who, in pleading, over estimating his pow
ers, and finding the points of his argu-
ment with nothing to sustain them, as the
framework of his display, covers his slip
sh0d work with meretriei0us ornament, or
seeks to hide its imperfections By the stucco-
work of lies and SANDER, is apt to find
the tawdry edifce which he took such
pains to erect, tumbling about his ears,
and himself crushed beneath the ruins
And we fancy it viii be thus with the
gallant Colonel" This magnanlmous
gentleman, having made the complete cIr-
cult of the political arena, to the intense
admiration of an appreciatiye audience,
now pauses in the middle of the ring, to
display some feats of posturing, which,
if he had had any regard whatever for de-
cency, he wofld have dispensed with al
together Heralded by the great organ
of Conway Johnsonism as the '.head and
'front.' Of all the powers of eloquence, of
which our State can boast, he commences
mis- tour by extending a very polite and
elegantly worded invitation to any oppo-
sing orator, to divide time with him. So
far, however, from consenting to arrange
matters as they are commonly arranged
between gentlemen, he has, on more than
one occasion, occupied the stand to the peri
cd of time when fatigue supervened upon
his Herculean exertions, and pausing a
moment to recuperate his exhausted ener-
gies, he has Indignantly protested against
reply to his rantings, which, if they
have been of a piece with the letter
to which we are about to refer, must
have surpassed, in turpitude and out
rageOus perverSion of the truth, any
effort of the renowned Munchausen,
whose well-known character for yeraclty
needs no bolstering up at our hands,
Joe Miller was great fellow at a joke,
but We doubt whether he eve: said any
thing 50 ezcruciatingly funny as did the
individual at present under our consider
alton, when, feeling the necessity of offer
Ing an apology to his employers for what
might be construed into remissness, he
assured them that his sickness "was alto
gether uaintentionol" 1t is but seldom
We see the contradistinguishing capacities