The weekly Columbian. [volume] (Columbia, Tuolumne Co., Cal.) 1856-1???, 1856-07-19
The Nominations.

The list of Presidential nominations has at
last been completed, and to the citizens of the
United States of America are presented the ma
mes of Willard Fillmore, James Buchanan,
John G.. Fremont, N. p. Banks, r. F. Stockton,
and Garrit Smith, as candidates for the highest
position of honor within the gift of the Ameri-
can people Ian office in which is vested the
happiness, prosperity and honor of as great ma
ton, as the Sun in his course through time, has
ever gladdened with his enlghtening rays For
nearly four long years has our nation labored
under the blighting pangs of diseased Admin
istration. For four long years will our people
have looked in vain to the head of Government,
for that wise administration of Executive poll
cy that secures peace and safety abroad, as well
as that conservative wisdom required to allay
the fevered anxiety of conflicting interests in the
domestic circles of the several States of the
Union. and unite them as they properly belong
in one common brotherhood of strength and
prosperity. Who will say that our Government
in the hands of an honest capable and great
souled Executive, might not have secured us
all these blessings? We have ploughedusoRr
fields. we have sowed our grain, for the ha
but alas! instead of wheat we gather N
but thorns and thistles! We have elecN
President to represent us at the head
Nation; but when with confidence we hav
pccted protection from foreign aggression,
have. to the contrary, been the recipients o.
their repeated insults and abuse! We have had
domestic troubles-dangers that seriously threat
ened tae peace of the Union and in turning our
eyes to the Chief Executor. as suitable and
efficient arbitrator of our differences, we find
a political trickster instead of wise and con-
cilatery mediator! Instead of realizing in
him a firm and anflinching statesman. he has
proven himself a vascilating and cunning DEM
agogue9 He took the Presidential Chair at a
time when, through the wise legislation of great
and good men, our country had attained proc
perity at home, and a respect abroad, almost
unparalleled in the History of Nations he
wifi leave that chair with vile and impeous
threats of disu,lion ringing in his ears while in
foreign ports, the Stars and Stripes will afford
but little protection either to commerce or to
our citizens!
In our extrcmities then, who shall we look 10
for succor? VIII either one of the Presiden-
tial nominees answer! If so. which one Of the
six is worthy of our confidence! This is a Sc
rious question. one of vital Importance to A.
mercans and should not receive its answer in
the dctation of party policy. Wewant man !!
The Union in its severe struggles for peace cries
out for. ali E! demands man and not the plant
tool of either sect or party. Of the six candi-
dates named. one must be the choice of the
people. One must be selected in whose hands
will be placed the destiny of the Republic =
When the hour arrives for our readers to exer-
else the franchise Of American citizens; by every
tie that binds you to your country and your
homes. we charge you to kno,0 veil the charac-
ter of the man for whom you vote. If your
candidate be the leader of faction or sect,
drop him as you would most poisonous reptile;
if he be the leader of single principle. and not
the embodiment Of all principle forsake him; he has
"broken Wheel" and is unworthy of your
confidence. We regret that we have not the
space to give you, the character, in de-
tail Of the d ffcrent candidates before the peo-
pie: we will however embrace future occasion
and will for the present give only what the
LolusriNe Journal says of Willard Fillmore -
'Mr. Fillmore will be elected. and, when he
shall be in the Presidential chair general
feeling will prevade the nation that the coun-
try will be safe for at least four years longer
His calRlaess his irmness, his moral courage,
his stern sense of justice, his keen and strong
appreciation OF the right, and his enlarged pa
triotism embracing all sections OF the Union,
are so well understood, and have been so often
and so strikingly manifested. that the people of
the nation will have no fear or misgiving as to
the destiny Of the ship of State while he is at
the helm. We RENE nber to have spent an even
ing at Washington ut the close of his admins
tration, with three distinguished members Of
his Cabinet aud two or three prominent members
of Congress. Mr.. Fillmore was spoken of. and
one of the memb. rs of the Cabinet remarked
mat, II any fault at all could be found with
him. /: was that he was too good President
He said, that, If Mr.. Fillmore would only err a
little sometimes, that slight errors would make
the rest of his condnct seem more bright by the
contrast, but that his acts, being all right all
perfect. all in strict harmony with each ether
excited less admiration and attracted less at
tention from that very reason. Another mem
Der Of the Cabinet endorsed the remark, and
added pleasantly that if he could only find the
President slightly erring even for once, b,
thought he should experience something akin
to a feeling of relief