Washington sentinel., 1856-07-26
party, to give him their earnest and unanimous

party, " Sivc nim thcir EARNEST anu UNANIMOUS
support.
From the New Orleans Courier.
I'm a Qu@ndsry.
Crises in politics, while they confound timid
or hesitating minds have at least the good
effect of fixing more firmly and conclusively
the convictions of those who do themselves the
justice to study subject before they form
their opinions upon it. The present crisis
in affairs has had the happy effect of calling
the serious attention Of many of the best in.
tellects, formerly enlisted in the opposition
to the Democratic party, to the real and Sc
rious issues now before the country, and of
compelling them as the last resources of pa
triotism and duty to enlist under the same
flag against which they have formerly waged
bitter warfare. We have hailed the different
accesslons to our ranks, which have been an
nounced during the past few months, with sin
cere pleasure; and now we have opened be-
fore us the early accession of one of the most
formidable of the opponents of Democracy
heretofore to be found throughout the entire
South.
The Bee is in a quandary. 1t is perplexed by
the aspect of affairs in the North, and has al
ready made its way so far backward from its
late march into the realms Of dark lanterns
aad Know-nothngism, as to style itsefa Wing,
and to forget in its distress, its adhesion to the
Philadelphia platform Of 1855, which declared
that the American party had risen upon the
ruins, and in spite of the opposition of the
Wing and Democratic parties, and could not
be held in any manner responsible for the OBJ
noxious acts or violated pledges of either"
Yes, the Bee has, as it used to soy two or
three years back crayfshed"-by which peo-
pie not particularly acquainted with scientific
ichthyological terms will please to understand
crawfshed," and now talks no longer as an
intense" American journal anxious to for
ward the peculiar views of the "order," but
in its tribulation, and consequent speculation,
to the aspects of the political horizon, ulters
this suggestive piece of its dubious mind in its
issue of yesterday.
eff the Southern vote could be unanimously
secured to Buchanan, and if that gentleman
were certain of commanding the electoral votes
of few of the larger Northern States, our
solemn convictions Of duty would compel US,
maugre our repugnance to Democratic doc
trine, our thorough detestation of squatter
sovereignty our objections to the aggressive
spirit of the Cincinnati platform, and our set
tied dislike of most of the tenets and many Of
the acts of the Democratic candidates. to sustain
Mr.. Buchanan. We should do 80 as an act
painful to Wing, but imperative upon a
Souther man,
The Bee does not profess to have any mis-
givings as to what its course, as Know
nothing, should be; for its Know nothingism
is, for the nonce, ignored entirely. 1t is in deep
quandary only as to what alternative" Whig
should now adopt; and declares thatif convinced
that Mr.. Buchanan, in addition to his Southern
support were certain Of commanding the cleo
torial votes Of few of the Northern States, its
convictions Of duty las Whig, and not as a
Knoacnothing,) would compel it to give him its
support, as an "imperatioe duty Of Southern
man."
We recognize the claims which the Bee has
upon us as near neighbor. We take it for
granted that in the article of yesterday itintends
to renounce its K. N. hereses, and resume its
once proud position in journalism as a Whg
We congratulate it upon this resolution, as we
we would congratulate a cherished friend on
his recovery from dangerous illness or from
lunacy. We intend, by the aid of the "Nor-
thern press" to convince it, if, as we sincerely
trust, its mental health is fully restored, that
Mr.. Buchanan does stand the chance which it
announces as the condition of its support of
that gentleman under its imperative sense Of
duty" We will reason together; and if truth
have yet any power in this benigbted land, we
shall Uote together in November demain
done, uoisin.