Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1856-09-12
DIALOGUE BETWEEN A FILL
MORE WING AND BUCHANAN
vVHIG

BRECKINRIDGE!
Buchanan Whig.-Itis not only pos
sible, but certain, if they and l live till
the day of election.
F. W.-How is itthat you, who, from
your earliest political existence, have
been battling vigorously against the
Democracy, can vote the Democratic
ticket?
B. VI have always opposed the
Democratic party. / would not with
draw single blow 1 ever gave them /;
and if the old issues are ever revived, and
| am living, shall be found maintain
ing them. But permit me to ask you
one question, or, in Yankee phrase, to
answer your question by asking another.
Tell me how you reconcile yourself to
vote for ANDREW JACKSON DONELsON :?
You are taking to your confidence a man,
born, reared and educated in the Demo-
cratic faith; raised at the feet of the po-
litical Gamaliel; taught to despise and
contemn HENRY CLAY, and every Wing
in the nation. You find no difficulty
whatever; but, with perfect complacency,
with perfect dissatisfaction, you can
vote for Andrew Jackson Donelson, the
most virulent traducer of MILLARD FILL
MORE with whom he is at present associ-
ated
+. W-But, in the name of Heaven,
how can you vote for such an old sinner
against the Wing faith as Mr.. BUCHANAN?
B. WY dear friend, l do it as a
choice of evils. l do it, as said before,
not because | love him, but because |
believe the interest and honor of the
country now demand his election; and
you, who are swallowing Andrew Jack
son Donelson, cannot say one word to
any man. How did you take some men
you did last year? Why, sir, many of
them we're conceived in Democratic sin,
and brought forth in political iniq uity,
and yet you could swallow them and
now you say to me, In the name of
Heaven, how can you vote for Buchanan"
Let me tell you that can do SO without
any difficulty in the world. He is the
representative of the only national party
that has raised its standard for the present
contest. My old political friends, by
abandoning the Wing party, have forced
the necessity on me of choosing between
evils. As free man looking to the
interest of my whole country, make the
choice, and take all the responsibility
that attaches to it.
+. W-But, Mr.. Buchanan has an
tecedents that will not do.
b. VI expect he has; but show
me man if you please, who has been
twenty, or thirty, or forty years, in the
public councils of the country, or in pol
itics, all Of whose antecedents you fully
endorse. have already referred you tc
Donelson's antecedents, but how would
you like to have Mr.. Fillmore's exam.
ined ? He has not been quite as long
not SO many years-in politics, as Mr.
Buchanan but upon the slavery ques
ton and some others his sins have been
enough to damn him altogether, if ante
cedents alone are to be relied on. Ther
that is not a safe rule to swear by; yor
must take the men by what they profess
now, and the amount of confidence you
repose in them.
f. W.-But how can you swallow thu
declaration made by Mr.. Buchanan many
years ago, that if there was drop O
Democratic blood in his veins he woult
let it out?'
B. W-Mr. Buchanan has denied til,
charge as often as it has been made, anG
there is strong corroborative evidence
of the truth of his denial, but, suppose
no did utter that sentiment, is not that
: beautiful argument to make to me?
have been trying all my lifetime to lie
the last drop of Democratic blood out o
the body polite, and certainly canno
object to Mr.. Buchanan that he said III
would let out his Democratic blood if he
had any. You had better keep that ar
gument to yourself, lest some shrewc
Democrat turn it upon you and prove
that it should recommend Mr.. b. to you
support, as Wing.
r. W-But, you ought not to vott
for Mr., b. as you profess to have been ;
friend of Mr.. Clay during his lifetime
and to cherish his memory now that he i
dead. They say that Mr.. B., ifnot tn
author, was the propagator of the viii
calumny Of bargain and intrigue"
%. WY dear friend, l declare h
you most candidly, that i'll believed Mr.
d. guilty Of participation in that calumny
| would never, never support him; but, il
my humble judgment, the record Of hi
innocence is SO clear, that no honest op
ponent would pretend to controvert it