The Nevada Democrat., 1856-08-20
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lCOMMuNICATED.
In the journal Of last week, we find three
column extract from Coltons life Of Clay, ga
few plain words to Wings" and notice of the
reform movement in San Francisco, with the
opinions of the editor thereon. The first read
ing of the Cotton extract induced us to believe
that the Journal in its admiration Of the Ken
lucky statesman, published as new leaf in his
aurels the compliment of Mr. Buchanan, and
we had credited this paper with having for once,
honored the memory of the dead, and the dis
elimination of the living.
The few plain words to Wings, however, dis
PEELED this alusion, and we found that the fa-
miliar of the Journal had broke the slumbers Of
the departed statesman in the vain hope that
the spirit thus invoked, would curse the hope of
the living "a few plain words to Wings" the
plain words were few indeed, in this article;
never before, was meaning 50 mystifed in met
aphor. the calf led to the altar of heather wor-
ship. so garlanded with flowers, the whole
animal creation we're marshalled in troops, and
did duty in fulsome eulogy. Not since the gath
ering in the Ark, has therebeen such an assem-
blaee of beasts, nor since the fall of Babel such
confusion of ideas; and all this mountain of
rhetoric brought forth the mouse-that thirty
years since, Mr.. Buchanan and Mr.. Clay had
differed Terrific announcement 1t mattered
not that since then, the nation has changed,
both in her limits and her policy; that from
strip upon the Atlantic seatoard scarce recog-
niZtd by the nations of Europe, we have become
first class power, with Continent as our her
itage: that the parties, the issues, the dangers, of
half century since, no longer exist A state
ment. which, if all admitted means nothing, is
made the foundation for a tanning euogy up
on Mr.. Clay, and contemplate libel upon Mr..
Buchanan. But these paltry subterluges, these
desperate efforts to array against Mr.. Buchan-
an, those Wings who so faithfully supported Mr..
Clay while living, and cherish his memory, tho
dead. must fail 1t was not the man alone the
great Wing party followed and idolized, but the
embodiment of that conservative spirit, which
labored but for the good of theeountry, the toll
of whose life, and the glory orwhose history is,
that he ever sought to blend together the ra-
ces of our land, and unite all sections of our
country in one common brotherhood, one great
nation. But amid the evils which he foresaw,
and labored to avert, he could not anticipate the
organization of political body whose sole aim
and issue were to raise an inseDerable barrier
between the foreign and native born citizens.
who traced pedigrees, that they might create
aliens. and proscrlbCd men, not for themselves.
but for their lineage. Had th1 spirit of the
mighty dead arisen at the incarnation by these
jugglers, who would hide their weakness and
rottenncss in the shadow of departed worth and
purity-cOuld he have seen one great party.
with but one war cry, "Down with foreigners"
another in its infancy, kindlng ball of fire
between those States whose union was his toll
and his glory, could he see those lessons of mod
Grafton which he ever ncucated both by pre-
cept and example disregarded, war in our Ter
rtories and discord in our States, with but
one party to care for the Union, to think
of the common country, before such n PIC
ture the spirit which death could not conquer
must yield. The genius of America could but
weep before q shrine thus desecratd, nation
thus Knocked Disquet him not, Nc. Journal
disturb not his slumbers-his memory is to You
one living reproach-his shade could rise but to
curse you.
But in the notice of the reform meeting at
the Bay, we see the reason for this trade against
Mr. Buchanan; this appeal to the od-llne Wings
/ from whose ranks the appellant is dqserter,
and over whose oDscquies as party, he has re-
| joiced II is the snarling of the wolf at the
| WHO NOulu WTest lIOIIl HIN MS Ill
prey that bad opinion Of the Ldc, Of rgue who feels
| the halter drdw He admits that there has been
rascality in all branches of the government, trust
abused, and the people plundered, but winds up
his homiy with the comfortable rejection that
if the powers that be are overthrow the devil
may come next. We think that the people will
have to elect their next rulers from the other
and hotter world if they would change for the
worse. But perhaps Mr.. Journal iswIlling that
the people should try again to elect officers hon
est and competent, Could General Estells con-
tract be bought for half million, pensions set
tied upon those leeches which the American
party has fastened to the State, hereditary Off
ces bestowed upon those renegade democrats
who foreswore themselves for the sake of Office
perhaps then the people may be permitted to re-
peat the experiment in the name of reform
which so signally failed when entrusted to the