New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-08-05
Z THE Canvass.

We are in the midst OF a national canvass III Which
there circumstances of Unusual excitement.
ment IS going On ID the mighty elements of tie rot
cal world, which works from the inmost depths and
heayes the huge mass Of the entire the
country The excitement is something more than the
periodical eferVescence Of a popular election The
impression is deep on the public mind that an mp0r
tant crisis is at hand and the solemn CONSCIOUSNESS Of
this fact becomes every day more ensrossng, When
ever meet together in the roadside,
in the shop, counting house, boats
id all places of public resort and in the private dwell
ing, one chief subject supplies matter for conVersa
ton The people are gathering in all quarters 10 de-
bate the position OF the country and their duties ass
citizens whilst the ablest Of the nation are found
trayelsing the land declaring their opinions, harangu
ing the people and pouring forth strains Vi eloquent
argument and denunclatlan that knde an enthusiasm
as great as their own. 43s
It is no marvel that this should be So. Theexcite-
ment, great, strong and allperVading as has an
adequate cause. The people are daily awakening to
the nature and extent of the involved
in the approaching national canvass The true mod
crate, conservative men of the nation see that they
have two great dangers to avoid two powerful asfute
unscrupulous and hard working enemies to overcome
They have to rebuke on the one hand party and an
administration that has been regardless of the pub
lie interest, that has dissolved the bonds Of harmony
which, on its incoming held all sections Of
in auiescent agreement to the settlement of vexa
tions question, and plunged rs into the ascerbty Of
wild sectional war They have also to condemn
party which has found existence through this NAL
administration of the affairs Of the country party
that lives only in sectional strife and proposes to itself
no one object that belongs to the whole country.
To approve the party that has brought the country
to this crisis would be to sanction the injury it has
done and to ensure its continuance To support the
faction that has arisen out of an unhealthy and hurt
full excitement would be still worse. To the evils Of
bad government would then be joined the dangers OF
broken Constitution and liberty jeopafdized II is
then high time that the people were and that
they are so we have daily evidence The contest IS
gaining the zeal beftting the occasion, and the friends
Of constitutional unity and repose have every reason
i to be satisfied with the prospects before them
4 Looking at the aspect presented by the canvass
1 few months since and that in which it now forces
itself upon public attention. the most blind believer in
party power or the most thorough dependant upon
the virtues of sectional agitation cannot fail to see
that these partisan and fanatieal defences are fast
falling before the earnest manfe Of the peo
ples will.
4 Mr. Fillmore from being considered the candidate
merely of a fragnentary party, whose chances were
to be calculated solely with reference to the amount
of damage he might do to other candidates, without
the possibility of eifeeting anything for himself mas
grown to be the leader Of the field and every day
adds to the strength of the that the real
brunt Of the fight is to be between himand the hosts
Of abolition seetonalisnl. AT the South the flibus-
terng planks of the Cincinnati platform, put IN to
please the soule and Qutman segment Of the party,
have greatly injured it with the masses Mr.. Buchan-
an personally unpopular there, is still further dam
aged by his ready affirmation of tne squatter soYe
regnty plank of the platform. whilst the action Of
the Democratic majority Of the Senate has shown
that those features OF that platform to which the par
ty in the South has clung with the strongest fidelity,
are not for moment held binding when q local pur-
pose or political advantage is to be achieved ~
, their abandonment. ssJ
AT tile South the cause Of the Democratic party Is
clouded by apathy and astiIst Maryland and LOU S1
I isiana, Kentucky and Tennessee are given. 70 MF
. Fillmore almost by comnen consent his chances IN
North Carolina and Georgia are daily frightening
! Missouri will fall to him by the hopeless division OIL
the Benton and Atchison Democracy, and even IN the
$ Gibraltar of Virginia, the earnest and unanimous
movement Of the Old Line Whigs is making Mr. Buch
: , anans success problematical s ill.,.
!, AZ the North the Democrats are in even worse
/ case Their great element of strength the foreign
+ vote is irretrevaby divided almess every Gay
e leaders who have heretofore been the prominent ad-
y yoeates and upholders Of political democracy The
eeso heresy has Indeed attacked the very Vtals Of
the nartv and broken confused and dsmayed it is nc
e longer in condition to maintain the fight with even
V semblance of nulpoke and energy
u The indications are indeed uneTTing that II Hi.
y Fillmore was not in the field Mr.. Fremont woud
" sweep the entire North In the position Of the former
y however, it is that the country finds its safety As
the other parties weakenand distract each other by
= the violence of partizanshp and tho nraism OF sec
tional agitation the moderation OF his positloS ano
the constitutional eanipose OF his claims are
their effect in attracting to his support those VINO de
4 sire to preserve the country from these extremes, ant
y who see in the fair record OF his former service tht
4 guarantee that he is the man TO perform me gratetn
and patriotic task. The movement ateaay SO power
. fully originated in his faFor, Is destined TO gan
strength as the canvass progress and We nave
= y right to the hope that tile result IN Noyenher mex
will declare that the people nave not been anmlnau
u of the dangers to which the country is exposed no
neglectul Of safe and honorable means q aHolah
~ them. EisItlrluae 1a4tsitSaH
A'e A The Rev Chas. Barring, q Younger brother OF 81
a. Francis Baring has been appointed Bishop OF Glou
cester and Bristol, England
d =,,o, ~, ATor4b Carolina tits saij is aimos