Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-10-13


The Onion, commenting upon the Hnteili-
.gencsr's expression Of preference for Mr..
Fillmore over the other Presidential candi-
dates on the ground that he has been tried
and proved worthy Of confidence, quotes from
the latter journal of date some six weeks
ago, when its editors announced their IN
Willingness to support Mr.. Fillmore in the fol-
lowing significant language:
"We cannot forget that Mr.. Fillmore was
aWhig when he before conducted the govern
ment with such signal ability; that he was
surrounded by w hig advisers, and was guided
in his administration by Wing principles.
No. uben ne has become the candidate, as
h. himself announces, of another party, and
has disclaimed the name and associations he
INIT so recently maintained, displacing them
NV a so called American order, we cannot so
CLEARLY see that, with our unchanged opinions
in favor of Wing principles and Wing men,
we are warranted in expecting at his hands
the same course under the maxims he now es-
pouses as under those which formerly regu-
lated Is administration, and crowned it with
such .illiant success"
As to the argument of Mr.. Fillmore having
been tr:el in the Presidential capacity, the
UrsteH says:
ard its genuineness az Wing body was not
questioned, and that convention was held after
Mr, Fillmore had been tried,' and that
convention either failed to appreciate "the
value Of experience and of proved capacity
or it believed that Mr.. Fillmore {. had been
tried and found wanting" So it seems that
the decision of doubtful Wings has more
weight with the Intelligencer than their own
judgment, or that Of convention whose devo-
tiOD In w hipism Is unSusDected -
The Union notices another fact in connec-
ton with the late Baltimore Convention,
which seems to have been strangely over
looked both by its members and by the In
tsiiigsncsr, that
"They nominated Vice Presidential can
diiate who never was a Wing, who is not now
Wing, and who never can be a Wing in any
contingency, if his own declarations are worth
anything More than that: they nominated
a man who has again and again, in the most
public and formal manner, declared that Mr..
Fillmore had been tried and had been found
wanting, and was not worthy of the confidence
of the American people
The InteLli gencsr again demonstrates against
THE extreme error, not to say wickedness,
of a practice which has lately sprung up
among Overheated partisans in some parts of
the cOrDtry, namely, that of threatening or
predicting the downfall of the Union of the
States in the event IF the election of a certain
one of the three candidates for the Presiden
cyan idea the more mOnstrous when it is
recOlleeted that this obnoxious candidate may
be elected with the support in most Of the
large free States Of but twO-fifths of the votes
in each, leaving the remaining three ffths and
their great and prosperous Commonwealth to
the penalties of expulsion from tie Union,
and the Government itself scattered into frsg
ments, because OF the sin of the two ffths in
exercising their constitutional and never be-
fore-contested right"
In abiding to the charge Of submission -
made against it by the L" Union," the In
tslligsHeeT quotes from the Memphis Enquirer
a reply made To q similar charge by the Mem
phis APPEAL
The Intell,gsnesr publishes translation Of
protest of the Government Of New Granada
against the recognition by our Government of
General Walkers Presidency in Nicaragua