Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-07-22
The Old Line wings.

fFrom the Ne Orleans Bulletin, 81 inst
The sound of the gathering OF the old clans Is
coming up with cheering noise from every nook
and dell. hill and plane. in the land. From the
ihronged cities aud the quiet and peaceful villa
ges. note Of preparation conveys the grateful
Intelligence. that In every ,ac4llty however re-
mote. there are to he found living representatives
of the old party. who ready when duty calls.
II buckle on iheif armor and fight the good fight
Of tho Consiitu;on and the Union. We need no
better evidence of the indistrucibleness Of II Pp-
litical patty whose foundation is the eternal rnek
Of principle than j. furnished in the present
condition of the Wing party. \ few weeks ago,
- lacking a the elements OF power aud lniih
enoe was il, there was none so poor to do 1t rev
enee. So utterly dsiointed and dismembered did
it seem 50 hopelessly broken into fragments. dis.
jecta membr0) not merely defunct, dead, but rs
remains scattered to the fodr winds, past all pow
er of human agency 10 reunlte the elements aud
give them heat, life and motion, that the few
friends who were not ashamed of their old ,on-
neoton went mournin about the streets as for
friend who was sleeping The sleep which knows
no waking" while lis hereditary enemies
pronouncing euloges aud paying tributes
Of respect to the memory Of the honorcd.
This was about the strongest manifestation
TINT could have been given of its demise.
Democratic apothesis to the Wing party upon
the assumption TINT il not rrecoverahly PIX
iinct. and dead beyond al chances ofrestoraton
would be both pathological absurdity. The
Democracy never would have been indu-
ced 10 yield such tribute of justice 10
a living organization, was bestowed by
the president of the Cincinnati Convention upon
tho old whig party. 1t was only b1causeit
was believed TO be dead and buried, beyond the
hope Of resurrection, that areguieScGt IN pare
pronounced upon il by Democrat lips. But
all this mourning and show of respect aud reyer
enee have been premature. The Wing par
ty was not actually dead, but in what is profes
eionally called. state of "syncope," by which
we are to understand an interruption of the mo-
lion OF the heart and brain, (of feeling aud think
H. and temporary loss Of sensation, voliton
and ether faculties. Bu rest and quiet haye
restored ts fuctions;and the patient, although
suffering severely from the loss of blood and Tie
elects of bad treatment will soon be ON his legs
again, none the worse for temporary prostration.
Pierre S0uie and Buchanan.
The necessity Of an American Party in the
United States, was never well dem ,nstrated us
in the personal influence and power that this
adtot Frenchmen ha- had upon the Democratic
Party, and the pubic men connected with it.
The O-'cnd N"Hfe enee was Soue Confer
ence. Th" Ffplg Imam drew int it Mr.. Bucha-
nan and Mr. Mason both American born citizen,
and made tt+,u 10Th the supple instruments of u
foreign Policy, which even the Pierce admins
lraDpn was hbIlB'd Ia feFuulhle ana disgrace. MI.
buchanan l. hence committed to all tho doings
of the Soue O-tend Conference, and res pom si6lo
Tor all its principles und results
The same Mr. Soule, brought home in Disgrace
from Madrid, because of ducls and other per son.l
troubles there with the Spanish Governments went
up the Mississippi the other day, to Cincinnati,
and wrote, and forced in upon the Democ ratie
Platform, the foreign policy and resolutions en-
bodied in that platform.
The foreign part of the Cincinnati, Pla form
mems war. fUibnster war,-aggress upon
and invasion of our neighbors. 1t is in the spirit
with which Mr. Soua conducted his negotiations
IN Madrid. II carried out and obeyed by Mr..
Buchanan az President it is certain TO involve
US IN contest with every European power that
has interests in the Gull of Mexico, viz, Eng
land, France and Spain.
And Mr. Buchanan thus links himself to, aud
binds himself upon that Soule platform;
~ hare been piacs (says heJ upon platform
Of mhich I most heartily approve, and thai Gun
speak for me. Being the representative Of the
great Democratic party, and not james Buchar.
an must square my conduct according to the
platform Of that party, and insert no new plank
nor take one from it,"
james Buchanan thus ceases to exist, ana The
Soue Cincinnati Fillibuster Platform is the man
we are invited TO make President of these United
States. Frcnchman thus again becomes the
master ct the Democratic Party, and of the can
didate for the Presidency of the United States
Tint we need an American Party and an ,ner-
lean candidate is obvious from such facts rs these
II from no other. Americans if left to thomse Ives
would never havo made the foreign part OF the
Cincinnati Platiorm,-for this ENGRAVING u TO
reign policy upon the domestic policy of a party
is something altogether new, even in the annals
OF the Democracy.--N. J. Express,