Oroville daily Butte record., 1856-08-20
Missouri ixepub.,can-,heeIi"s Aceou.".

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ence and extensive circulation, stands at
the head of western newspapers, and has al.
ways been a jealous supporter Of the Wing
party, is doing yeoman service in the cause
of Democracy. We have before us leading
article in which its position is sustained in n
clear and mastery manuer. Fer the benc.
fit of those benghted dark k-lanterncrs who,
in their folly and infatuation, have pcrsua-
ded themselves that the defunct carcass Of
Know Nothingism is being galvanized into
renewed life,w give extracts from the same.
The article opens, with.
THE RESPONSE.
Sufficient time has now elapsed TO ena-
BILE 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. ami wherever we may claim an intn-
ence from this 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 just reason
to expect We did not address ourselves to
Democrats they of course would DE graft
fed TO learn that, in 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 solcitous, We con-
fess, about the manner in which eld Wings
linen with whom we had stood shoulder to
shoulder for more than quarter of a Gen.
tury-would receive that declaratien. All
we shall now say on this head is, that we
are satisfied if the response which comes
to us from all quarters be any indication of
the feeling of our time bonored friends, then
we are sure that we have done right, and
have no hesitation about persistng in our
course.
In answer to those who End 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 impossi 5ility
of the election of Mr.. Fremont in the pres.
ent state of parties, or any arrangement of
parties between this ana November; and the
next is. that, as between Mr.. Buchanan. the
Democratic, and Mr.. Fillmore, the Black
Republican and Abolition candidate, no pa
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cemented together, instead of being broken
to fragments-oug to hesitate in deciding
in favor of Mr. Buchanan. Put the Black
republicans in power by the election of Fre-
mont-give Seward and Wilmot, Preston
King, and Gddings, Wentworth and Chase,
Sumner and Beecher, Lovejoy and Parker,
and the three thousand political preachers
who have made the men of the free States
mad by their Infamous appeals for dsso-
| luton Of the Union, and their dissertation
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
themselves, and this party is sworn to crush
and destroy"
The following we cannot too earnestly
commend to the attention of the
oLD-LINE wHIGs.
''But it is asked, how can we, as Wigs
as Clay Wings, having him ever present in
our memory IA one OF the purest statesmen
that ever lived-how can we support Mr..
Buchanan, who failed, when he had an op-
portunity of doing so. to do full justice to
that distinguished MANI In the course of
long and eventual political life, all men COM
NIT errors, and grevious ones--that Of Mr..
Buchanan toward Mr.. Clay was not so re.
garded by the latter, rlthough desperate
politicians now seek to make it appear So
and we may even grant that in this case Mr..
Buchanan failed to come up to that measure
OF justice which the occasion required. But
the question now assumes different form:
Mr.. Buchanan is the party Of the Union,
against party that boldly avows it's inten-
ton to destroy the Union, unless certain
objects can be accomplished This being the
issue, is there Whig in the hand so lost to
principles inculcated by Henry Clay, as to
refuse to vote for the representative of the
Union principles against the dissnionists"
pONELsoN.
Those who bring the charge of inconss-
teney against the Wings for voting for Blu.
chauan, a Democrat, are thus disposed of by
this cincher:
"Who and what is this ge ntleman' 1t is
sufficient for us, as Wings, to know that he
was the most malignant enemy the Wings
had daring the Presidential term of Mr..
Fillmore That he reviled him-denOunced
his Official aets--called in question the puri-
ty Of his motlyes--nnd never had good or
tolerant word to say of that Administration,
Why, then, shah we be taken 10 task for
giving patriotic support to Mr.. Buchanan,
a Democrat, when here in the person of this
MIR. Done Lson, another Democrat, we are