Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-09-10

sentatives, and of the great man who had closed
it in blaze of glory He endeavored by cor
rupt intrigue to bring about q coalition, which
would make one President, the other Secretary,
with view to the succession, and establishing
this double interest for himself as the represent
ative of Pennsylvania. to open the way to his
own advancement. In this also he failed-lo-
sing the confidence of both the illustrious men
to whom his scheme would have attached
dishonor.
Fillmore and the Union-.Judge Bates on the
Presidential Question.
Judge Bates, of St. Louis, was recently invit.
ed to deliver an address on the leading political
topics of the day. He complied, and we have
received copy of his speech. We subjoin its
concluding passage: -,
Let us briefly glance at the three Presidential
candidates. As to Mr.. Buchanan, the nominee OF
the Democratic party, he is certainly man OF
medium fair good talents, and no more In ear
ly youth being gentleman of easy circumstances
and free from the arduous requirements of profess
sional labor, he welded the Commonwealth, and
with enduring constancy, has never taken another
bride. [Laughter.1 he has served long in high
and honorable stations, has enjoyed ample OPP
portunities and acquired considerable fund OF
experience. And that is all that can be said OF
him. When did he ever take the lead in any
thing tending to the welfare of his country p
He is naturally secondary character, man OF
doubts and provisos. There is nothing to be
said againt his private character, and have no
intention of reviing him, but is he the man to
be selected and set up for the greatest place In
the world2
Now let us compare bis opponents l know
little of Fremont. to whom was once intr0duc.
cd. I have no desire to pluck single leaf from
his chaplet; he has earned q reputation as bold
adventurer, an enterprizing discoverer and Q
scientific scholar, but political character his
life is blank sheet of paper, and he might well
have done what Buchanan has done, that sink
himself completely out of sight under the plat
form of his party. ICheers.l
Now turn to Fillmore Loud and repeated
cheering] can perhaps scarce speak OF FIJI
more with due impartiality. know him. de
is my friend. He called me to Office after q re-
trement of twenty years in private life. can
not but feel kindly towards him, after such an
unexpected remembrance. will endesyor to
suppress partiality and personal feeling, and to
present his claims as they are open to popular
view. He is eminently man of the people
He did not enjoy in his youth the opportunity
of acquiring even the rudiments of classical
education. Being bound apprentic to mechanic,
his fine talents attracted the notice of an old
lawyer, who drew him from his mechanical oc-
cupation and gave him opportunities OF entering
"a professional career. And from that day TO the
present there is one fact to be noticed in him,
that from every public employment he has gone
out with higher reputation that he went IN
with. [Applause.]
He is man of mild manners, amiable DISPOSE
&sor ord hanavo1anf cho ro cfor and few nl00
have made more enduring personal friends
AS to his Administration, it will ever remain
one of the brightest spots in the history OF
the country. Loud cheers If he were as
AN unchanged Whig,[ g,[applause,] none could
be found to raise question Of our preference.
I am sorry on some accounts, that he has joined
the American party, though it contains many
other excellent men of unimpeachable character
for private and public wisdom and virtue. But
| if were young man, about to choose wife,
and had found lady, amiable, sensible, and in
every way preferable, should not be disposed
to reject her from consideration, merely on ac-
count of slight freckle on her complexion
Laughter and cheers.] Compare Fillmore with
his opponent.
find many Wings disposed to go for Buchan-
an. Now, it is certain, that judged by the STAN
dard of Whg principles, all Fillmore antecedents
are right, and equally beyond doubt, that by the
same standard, all Buchanan's antecedents are
wrong. He was wise to sink himself behind his
platform; to perform that most perfect act on
record, of political selt-abnegation. Here the
speaker read Buchanan's speech in acceptance
of the nomination BE says the platform is
s'broad and national enough for the whole DEM
ocratic party" not for Wings. [ A laugh Mr.
Preston, of Louisville, with the Wing shell yet
| Ill 1, loo ho1 olr du oh mr.
among the Democrats as to be one OF the COM
mlttee mites that waited on Buchanan on that occa-
son. ON which the nominee said he did not think
himself at liberty to answer any interrogatories
lest he should present some issue outside of the
platform. Such was the utter burial Of the man
in the platform.
But the only true way to Judge Of men is BY
their acts, as of pudding by the eating Yet
Wings are asked to vote for man who has lost
his identity. have been mortified to see letters
from Wings advising us to support him because
his is the national cause and yet his strength is
claimed to lie in the very region of country
where the word national is unheard. Another
argument calls upon US to 60 for him in order to
prevent q dissolution of the Union. Who is go
ing to dissolve the Unionl Certainly not Fre-
mont, if he is elected. Who ever heard Of
man placed in power who desired to dismember
and destroy tho very realm over which that
power was to be exercised2 Who thenf Those
that would be displeased at his election9 VIII
any one dare to slander the whole South with
the imputation of treasonY Any man, who, out
of pique and disappointment at the constitution
al and regular election Of an adverse party can.
didate, should contemplate with serious inten-
tions, the dissolution of the glorious fabric OF
our Union, would certainly be Q traitor. And
/ L~at ,f tho oufh of
one-half of the country, of this grievous charge2
The (so-called) ssNullifers," of South Carolina
never intended it. When California was about
to be admitted as free State, conventions were
held in Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, and else
where, 1 believe, threatening to dissolve the
Union in case of her admission with the exclu-
sion of slavery in her Constitution. Well, Cali
fornia was so admitted, and nothing more was
heard of it. And now they try to scare you
from honest and well-merited preference for one
. of yourselves, by threatening that If Fremont is
elected, they will dissolve the Union. Such un-
worthy arti6ces should never deter vote from
the support Of Fillmore.
| CURIOUS STATISTICS OF RAas-It is fact that
nearly two-thirds of the rags annually imported
to the United States from all foreign countries,
come from Italy. The reason of this is, that the
Turks, Greeks and Syrians use vast quantities
of cheap cotton cloth and the whole coast is
swept by Greek and Italian coasting smacks,
who trade for the rags which country pedlara
collect, and taken thence to Genoa and Trieste
They are thence, with their own country's sup
ply, shipped to America, because there being no
free press and free books printed in Italy, there
is no home demand to work the rags up into
paper. No country where the mass Of the DO
pulation read and write can afford to export
rags. Hence rags and custom-house returns
yield clue to the actual state of society. Nc