The Nevada journal., 1856-08-29

nay, thousands of men in the Democrat
&c party, who are blinded to the true is
sue in the approaching contest, and
who' If the real merits of the struggle
esuld be brought to their honest iudg.
ments, would open their ewes in aston
ishment at the enormity of the political
offence they are about to commit.
1t need not be doubted that the ad-
ministration of Franklin Pierce, is an
unpopular one with thousands of Demo-
Gratis all over the Union. Daily curses
are vented upon his head for embroiIin@
one section Of the confederacv with the
other, after having pledged himself in
his inaug nal to frown upon all agitation
from whatever quarter it might come
Political doctors have attempted to heal
the discomfort IN the Democratic ranks
caused by the policy pursued by the
President. Had Pierce or Douglass re-
ceived the nomination OF the Cincinna-
ii Convention, the discomfort would
have been famed into blaze to con-
sumo the strength Of the party, The
nomination of Buchanan was resolved
on BY the wire workers of the party
as a master stroke of policy His
nomination would partially cover up
from the gaze of the plebeans the real
issue in the contest. With platform
indorsing the entire policy of Pierce,
foreign, internal and all, and strengthen
ed with hsthe land stealing proclivities Of
Buchanan as evinccd at the Ostend CON
ference, the nomination was made ac-
ceptable to. the South, while the reiec
ton of the great agitator and his iackal,
Douglass, .gave. 50 much JOY to the NAL
contents in the North, who could not
and would not have sustained the Kan
Nebraska sswindle in the support of
its authors, that they acquiesced in the
nomination of Buchanan, heartily glad
20 get rid of Pierce''at any price.
But the real issue is the same as if
Pierce had received the Endorsement Of
the convention. The principles are the
same with different man to represent
them. The course of the President in
creating civil war in Kansas is fully con
Cured in, and recommended to be fol-
lowed by his successor. The northern
GROWERS in the party solace themselves
with the fact that Pierce is beaten, and
the south is in ecstacics that all the
points in the game have been made in
its favor.
The principle at stake il the struggle
at hand is, whether every demagogue
violating his pledges to his country,
shall open the food gates of factional
strife, deluge the land in blood, and be
sustained by the people of these United
States, or whether he and his abettors
shall be scourged to obscurity, loaded
with the contempt of an outraged peo-
pie The nomination of James Buchan
an does not change the true aspect of
things. If the Kansas Nebraska act
was a good and polite one, Pierce and
Douglas are entitled to all the honors
70 be derived from it, If there were to
be reaped any political rewards, the
sickle of Pierce was worthy of the field.
But he is robbed of the fruits of his
'reacherous labors and they have been
given to another, only to blind
the ignoble vulgus to the honest
state of the political arena in which they
are condemned to perform slayish abors
70 party.
1t was not uncommon to hear promi-
nent members of the Democratic party
condemn the administration. and declare
soiemnly and earnestly they would never
be guilty of lending their countenance
to its support. Yet many of these same
persons are plethoric with blatant zeal
for Buchanan, who stands before them
with identity undiscoverablc upon the
platform whose characteristic features
arc the absence of everything good
and the unqualified endorsement Of
Pierce throughout.
Why will not men be consistent, not
deceived by specious appearances and
true to their better instincts, and the
good Of the country
A WISE CAuTIoN.-In consequence
of the roads being infested with high
wavmcn, we learn that the teamstcr'
employed in hauling goods to this place
nave taken the precaution 70 send theiI
no1 to Sacramento by the Express