Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-09-04
SPIRIT oF TIE MORNING PRESS.

Inc Htethgencer is in q quandary thi.
morning. "Were either dear charmer away
1t would doubtless feel considerably relieved q.
1t does not know whittier to tuIn in politics,
and defends itself as best it can from the up
braidings Of veteran subscriber for its failure
to take sides, decidedly, in the current national
contest; saying, in the course of its remarks !:
alt would be sufficient defence of the
ssneutrality" of which our correspondent COM
plains, to say that our party, for the first time
in Presidential canvass, has no candidate.
But, supposing the Wing party had been
wholly blotted out from the sphere of Ameri.
can politics towards what party could we have
been attracted by an elective affinity which
would have made it easy for US to merge our
political identity in that of another body
Was it the Democratic? To that party we
have been antagonistic on principles of a
fundamental character, which, if they do not
all survive in their pristine vgor, are yet sufi-
Client In our estimation to make their admission
matter of federation under protest rather
than OF swift and eager acceptance Was il
the american, We could never spproye the
agencies, and, so far as we can learn them,
the objects of that "Order,'' which, besides,
was not the moro commended to our regard / v
the part it played in breaking down the Whig
",
with our own antsgonism to all sectional
agitation, We cannot be presumed to regard
with less disfavor the bitter fruits of those IN
happy dissensions, the seeds of which we
sought to destroy when first they were sown
anew by the Democratic party two years ago
In fine, whichever way we turn, we find in
each and all Of these org CARNATIONS more that
repulses than attracts.
"And, as the peculiar principles of none of
these three great parties have seemed to be
such as should extort from US a TeGdy assent
and fun adhesion, so the constituents which
enter into their composition and the candid ates
by which they are represented have none of
them presented such a superiority of claim
upon our regard as to make the choice among
them matter of easy solution"
The Union urges that the country has moth.
ing to expect from the Republican party cons.i i
rators who are plotting to change the character
Of the Government. The same paper describes
the desperate means to which the Opposition in
Pennsylvania are resorting to carry that State
against Buchanan. Announcing the very re-
cent reno mil alton Of ]. CLANCY Jones for
Congress, the Union bestows many well mer-
tied compliments upon that gentleman. In
truth, he is one Of the most efficient and effec
tive men now in American legislative public
life. Endowed with an over share of those
two essentials for success in Congress, common
sense and practicability, Mr.. Jones is indie
fatigable withal in the discharge of his legiti-
mate duty. Never wasting his time upon
matters, in attention to which all time given
is absolutely wasted, as more or less members
do, and being one of the ablest orators Of the
House, he exerts powerful influence in shaping
American public affairs, all of all parties hav-
ing confidence in him personally. His re-elec.
tion is fOregone conclusion of couee, for he
represents the Berks district.