The Placer herald., 1856-08-30

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head Of western newspapers, and has ALWAYS
been jealous supporter Of the Wing party
is doing yeoman service in the cause Of De
mocracy We have before us leading ar
tce in which its position is sustained in a
clear and mastery manner. For the benefit
Of those benighted dark -antcrners who, in
their folly and infatuation. have persuaded
themselves that the dctunct carcass of Know
Nothingism is being galvanized into renewed
life, we give extracts from the same. The
article opens with
THE RESPONSE.
"Sufficient time has now elapsed to cna-
bic us to determine, with entire accuracy.
how far our declaration in favor of Buchan-
an for the Presidency has been responded to
by the Wings of Missouri, and Illinois. and
Iowa, and wherever we may claim an intlU
ence from the extensive circulation of our
journal. With the knowledge thus derived.
we are authorized to say, that the result of
this conference with our old friends is far
more satisfactory than we had lust reason
to expect. We did not address ourselves to
Democrats; they Of course would be graft
fled to learn that, in a pressing emergency
and not for any particular love we bore to
them on account Of the past, we had thought
proper to announce ourselves in favor of Mr.
buchanan. But we were Socitous, we con
tess, about the manner in which old Wings
-men with whom we hal stood shoulder to
shoulder for more than quarter of cen
tury-would receive that declaration. All
we shall now say on this head is, that we are
t,p+to II /
from all quarters be any indication Of the
feeling of our time honored friends, then we
are sure that we have done right, and have
no hesitation about persisting i'll our course"
In answer to those who find fault with the
course of the Republican, it makes the fol
lowing
"We make to points in defense of our
course the first is, the utter impossibity Of
the election of Mr. Fremont in the present
state Of parties, or any arrangement Of par
ties between this and November; and the
next is, that, as between Mr.. Buchanan, the
Democratic, and Mr.. Fillmore, the Black
Republican and Abolition candidate, no pa
triot-no man who wishes to see the Union
cemented together, instead of being broken
to fragnents-ought to hesitate in deciding
in favor Of Mr.. Buchanan. Put the Black
Republicans in power by the election of Ere
mont-give Seward and Wilmot, Preston
King and Giddings, Wentworth and Chase,
Sumner and Beecher, Loyejoy and Parker,
and the three thousand political preachers
who have made the men Of the free States
mad by their infamous appeals for dissolu
ton of the Union, and their desccration OF
the pulpit-put these men in charge of the
government, as they would be when they had
Fremont in leading strings and then what
would be the situation Of the fifteen slave
States, having interests peculiar to them
selves, and this party is sworn to crush and
DESTROY"
The following we cannot too earnestly
commend TO the attention Of the
oLD-L1NE WIGS.
"But it is asked, how can we, as Wings
as Clay Wings, having him ever present in
our memory as one Of the purest statesmen
that ever lved-how can we support Mr.
Buchanan, who failed, when he had an OPP
portunitv of doing so. to do full justice to
that distinguished man! In the course Of a
long and eventful political life, all men com
NIT errors, and grievous ones-that Of Mr..
Buchanan toward Mr., Clay was not so re
garded by the latter, although desperate pol
ticans now seek to make it appear so-and
we may even grant that in this case Mr. Bu-
chanan failed to come up to that measure of
justice which the occasion required. But the
question now assumes a different form: Mr..
Buchanan is the party Of the Union; against
a party that boldly avows its intentions to
destroy the Union, unless certain objects can
be accomplished This being the issue, is
there a Wing in the land so lost to principles
inculcated by Henry Clay, as to refuse to
vote for the representative OF Union princi
pies against the disunonists Z"
DONELsoN.
Those who bring the charge of inconsist-
ency against the Wings for voting for Bu-
chanan, Democrat, are thus disposed Of by
this cincher:
"Who and what is this gentleman? 1t is
sufficient for us, as wings, to know that he
was the most malignant enemy the Wings
had during the Presidential term of Mr..
Fillmore That he revied him-denounced
his official acts-caIled III question the pu-
ritv of his motives-and never had good
or tolerant word to say of that Administra-
ton Why, then, shall we be taken to task
for giving patriotic support to Mr.. Buchan
an, a Democrat when here in the person of
this Mr.. Done'son, another Democrat, we are
asked to endorse a man whose whole life has
been one Of warfare upon the Wing candi-
dates, and who has, wihaI, not single quail
iication for the office 2"
THE FUSIONISTS.
The cream of the article is in the concud
ing paragraph. The dsgraceful fusion Of
the Know Nothings and Black Republicans,
for the sake of spoils, should disgust every
bonorohl 10 mind fter statinr that me dO