White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-06-09
From the New York Tribune
The Presidency in 1850.

A new President of the United States
is to be chosen next year. We say a new
one, because not more than half dozen
persons, including the Hon. James Blu
chanan, have any i,lea of re-electing that
eminent functionary. Franklin Pierce
is a possible candidate; so is Caleb
Cushing; so are five hundred or five
Thousand others James Buchanan is an
impossible one. We are to have new
President, and very probably new candi-
dates on all hands.
This paper is pretty we'll understood to
favor the policy Of such action and the
cultivation of such spirit on the part of
the Republicans as will secure, if possible,
a union of the Opposition in the contest
before us. We do not deem it necessary
again to contradict the rumors from time
to time set ahoat that we are laboring to
nominate and elect a, d, or @. The sin
gle end we keep in view is the triumph OF
our principles. and the consequent ad-
vaacement of our country'S prosperity
and honor. The elevation of a or b to
the Presidency may seem to us desirable,
but the triumph of our cause is of inf
nitely greater importance. Men are at
best but means to an end /; and that is
not their own induction into the Presiden-
tial chair.
In the last Presidential contest, the
votes of the American People were divi
ded as follows:
Buchanan, 1,S3S,232
Fremont. l,341 Sis
Fillmore. ST4, 707
Fremont and Fillmore to-
0otber over Buchanan, 377,9s9
OF course it is plain that substantial,
practical union of the electors who sup
ported Fremont and Fillmore respectively
insures triumph in 1860, even though
there should be some scaling off on either
side, as there probably would be. We
can afford to lose One Hundred Thousand
of the Opposition vote of 1856, and still
carry the next President by handsome
majority.
is there, then, any insuperable obstacle
to a substantial union Of the Opposition
in 1860?
In other words-What do the Repub.
licans insist on as essential that the other
branch of the Opposition cannot concede
to them ?
Doubtless, there are Republicans whose
opinions and feelings with regard to sla-
yery are such as are not acceptable to
conservative Wings. We, for instance,
regard the continuance of Human Slave
nv as at once a great crime and a great
blunder-as the main, melting cause of
our country's misfortnnes and perils. We
do most earnestly believe that Virginia,
for example, would have had double the
nopulstion and treble the wealth she now
has. had her soil never been pressed by
the foot of a slave. So of North Caro-
lima, Kentucky, Tennessee SO. emphatic
alIy of Maryland, Missouri, Texas. But
even we have no idea that the Federal
Government ever will or should under
take to iptermeddle with the existence of
Slavery in any State of this Union. We
ask that Government simply 10 let Sla-
verv in the States alone, protecting the
;nviolability of its Mails, and that per-
sonal liberty which the Federal Constitu-
t;on guarantees to every citizen, leaving
tbe overthrow of slavery to the natural
growth and diffusion of Intelligence
Humanity and Religion. That the Fed
arsI Government should cease to be the
active champion and propagandist OF sla-
-. - ,vhetber in its domestic or its foreign
policy, we do urge and insist. Beyond