The Nevada journal., 1856-10-17
The IssuE-As the dav Of election

approaches more near, the more glorious
is the prospect. One sectional candidate,
Buchanan may be said to be no longer
in the field. The last hope for him in
the bosoms of Southern fre-eaters, Sc
cessionists and lunatics died out when
the news from Maine, that the pillar of
Democracy, was announced. The con-
test is now narrowed down to the nation
al statesman, Millard Fillmore, and the
sectional candidate, Fremont.
A little foolish pride may exist for a
time, among the men who have been
supporting Buchanan, but their professed
devotion to the Union ought to make
them forget it, !and go in heart and soul
for the only candidate who has an earth
ly chance of beating Fremont. 1t is
now evident that Fillmore is that man.
OF course, Democrats who have crowed
so Justify that our candidate could not
carry a single electoral vote in the
Union will struggle hard to find some
mode of avoiding the course which as
boasted Union men they ought to pur-
sue, but the alternative is forced upon
them either to vote for Fillmore or run
the hazard of seeing Fremont elected
There ought to be no hesitancy on the
part of national men in such a crisis
For their own good, in order to repair to
some extent the evils which the present
administration has produced, and among
the number may be counted the agita-
ton Of the country and consequest rise
of the Republican party, the Democrats
should seek to restore the country to
that quiet in which they found it. They
cannot better repair the mischief Gre
ated by them, than by recalling to the
Presidency the man who has allayed
one storm and has the proper elements
in him to control another
The news from the Atlantic States
promises well for the American ticket
On the reception of the news from Maine
seventeen Buchanan papers hoisted the
Fillmore colors, and are now doing bat
tie for the statesman of New York =
Hundreds of orators have been inspired
with new courage at the reaction going
bravely on for Fillmore and Donelson,
AMI are now awaking the people to a
sense of their duties in the struggle at
hand.
1t seems grand political revival is
going on all over the land. The conserv-
ative men North and South have ex-
horted all to forget their passions and
listen to the voice of the country. The
locofocos stung by defeat are about being
brought to their senses. Their sins and
follies come up in Judgment before them
in the hour of dissolution, and now
checked in their mad career, they are
disposed, we trust, to listen to the voice
of reason and truth. If there is any
patriotism in them as they pretend, they
will vote with the conservative men who
are gaining strength daily.
The nomination of AIillard Fillmore
by the old line Whig Convention at
Baltimore adds thousands of votes to his
already popular appreciation. In some
states it will be sufficient to turn the
scale in his favor without further effort.
Such will be the effect in Virginia.
1t is plain that Douglas and his dis
tracing policy is to be repudiated by the
American people in November. This is
as it should be. The party that proves
false to its pledges, and by SO doing en-
broils sections in civil war, ought to be
condemned to infamy. 1t is unworthy
of trust or confidence. SO the people
has thus far decided so will they decide
when judgment is pronounced by the
whole nation in the trial at hand.
The Democratic party being now lit
orally defunct, the Republican party
has nothing to feed it, or rouse it to ac-
ton. There is now no extreme to beget
its opposite, and the flame of sectional
excitement in the North must subside,
national feelings once again obtain sway,
reason assert its supremacy, and per con-
sequence large accretions be gained to
the American ticket This is a consum-
nation devoutly to be wished, and quite
likely to follow.
"THE PRosPEcT IN The
Democrat attempts to correct the statis-
tics and calculations of the Sacramento
American in reference to the probable
vote of Nevada county at the coming