Washington telegraph., 1856-06-04
The june Convention and the Rivals
for the Nomination.

The June Convention and the Rivals
for the Nomination.
The Memphis Morning Bulletin one
of the best and most thoroughly informing
newspapers published in the Mississippi val
ley, under date of the 21st ult.. speaking
of the near approach of the time for hold
ing the Democratic Convention, and refer
ring to Mr.. Buchanan, as the choice OF that
portion of outsiders who desire the elec-
ton to the Office of President, whether
chosen by one party or the other, "of a
sober minded, substantial, conservative safe
man. remarks: ITO neither of his Mr..
's) competitors, does this character attach
in the same degree as to Mr. B, and pro-
ceeds to daguerreotype President Pierce in
the following terms. The reader cannot
fail to recognize the fidelity of some Of the
features of the portrait, but We cannot dis
cover the train of reasoning by which the
intelligent editor of the Bulletin arrives
at the conclusion that President is spatri-
otic and NATIONAL" who overslaughs men
confessedly and eminently national and pa
triotic. to place in power the representatives
of ultraism, as existing in the North and
the East, the West and the South; still we
are satisfied be gives expression to his real
sentiments in saying that:
"Gen1 Pierce, though national and pa
triotic, has not proven himself the possessor of
those solid qualities of mind and purpose
which fit men pre-emiEently for great posi-
tions and important emergencies. He was
borne into the Presidential chair, by one of
those surgiDg waves of national sentiment,
which. had he perceived the full granduer
of it, and had the frmness of character to
avail himself Of it, would have lifted him
from the chief Of the Administration to the
head Of the American People. lie chose,
however-or rather it was in is nature, to
his mind
And give up for party what was meant for
mankind
He sat out with grievous error In the COM
position OF his Cabinet-making Of it mo-
saic of representatives from the extreme Sec
tions of his party, rather than carving it out
of that granite formation of solid patriotism
which constitutes the mass Of all parties in
our country. His appointments were ting
cd with the same error, and as q result an
Administration which might have gone down
in history as marking an epoch Of national
union parallel with that Of ''the good Mon
roe" lacks the prestige to command for It's
chief denomination, though understood
to earnestly desire it,
In The article from which we take the
foregoing extract Judge Douglas is forcibly
lirnned; Judge d. has always been the en-
bodiment of our political antipathics, and
from our convictions, founded upon close
study Of his career, We dePrecate 10 one
event so much as bis elevation to the chief
magistracy Of the Union.
Pursuing the subject, referred to above
the editor Of the Bulletin speaks in terms
of high commentator Of Mr. buchanan
We are at a loss to know bow The editor OF
the Bulletin, can, in view of Dir. Buchan-
ans political record. his glaring inconsisteu-
cies and the incompatibility of his views Of
public policy, with the opinions publicly
expressed by the Bulletin, as rejecting the
sentiments Of It's editor, endorse Mr. Bu-
chanan. We DO not know how far We are
right, but we are inclined to think that Mr..
B. will receive but cold comfort at the June
Convention of Democracy; and in the event
of his nomination we have an abiding faith
that the conservative and rational elements
which mast and sriU unite to place the next
President in the Executive chair Of the nation
will center around and elevate to that high
dignity, the candidate of the American par
y. the tried and spotless statesman, whose
political record is free from reproach,
whose patriotism is unimpeachable and
whose ability to guide the ship of State
through any and every danger, with safety,
is net to be doubted.