The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-03-14

Suoci i''toiiil eiecioh WAS Hotulh5. Dc
cause Major Rollins run a drunken yaga-
bold within few hundred votes-botl
black as charcoal on the negro question
shall we suppose that on the question
of free labor and decency against negro
service and degradation, We can come
within thousands on the popular vote'
Mr. Bates opinions are all well enough
and I have no doubt he is with us i'll H.
timent and sympathy, But opinions are
as cheap as added eggs. Whe ever had
n choicer assortment of anti-Slavery doc
trineS, labelled, and swung on his arm in
a market basket, than Willard Fillmore,
and who ever closed out his stock in q
shorter time and at lower figure than
/ he? 1t is administrative ability, frnuc. S
and pluck that we want-the perception
! to see and the courage to execute. We
have had India rubber and gutta percha
enough within the last ten years; let us
get back to whit leather and phosphate
of lime. And why, in any evcut, should
We get out search warrants and bills Of
discovery, and hunt with candles and
camphcne lamps, for a candidate. Why
must we hear that Smith ''says he is oil
right" and Jones assures us she'll do to
tie to-" when we have men VIII )Se belief
is corioberatcd by action and accomplish
mcnt. If tic abandonment of John
Sherman is not sufficient humiliation
for one year, we will pull aside our coat
tails for another kick in June.
Ii, as the Mussuman prays with his
face towards Mecca, we must vote for
president with our eye fixed en- the cqua-
tor, why not go into Tennessee? There
is not wiser head or a truer heart than
that Of John Bell, with noble history
running through q quarter Of century
of our politics; tried 10y all tests, and
faithful rs often as tried; the man to
whom, of all others, Gen Jackson, by lis
own acknowledgment, owed lis loss Of
power, i'll his adopted state. There is an
objection to him, end the one that I urge
against Mr.. Bates. He has the brain TO
plan, but not the Land to execute
Sagacious in counsel, but infrm of pur-
I pose. Dubtating to-day whether he
-ght not to have done something yestcr-
day; and deferring to tomorrow the ac-
ton Of a present necessity. He might
carry Tennessee, but Kentucky is as hope
less for him as Missouri is to Mr. Bates.
/ But I ask again, why troll orr bait 10
to catch southern votes! Shall we never
/ profit by the .ssons of the past! Shall
we commit the old folly Of Mr.. Clay, and
in hankeri g for an impossible Alabama,
lose probable New York. Or shallwe
give our enemies duplicate Of the incar-
mated nastiucss Of the Fillmore Admins
! traitor, and have an executive of cur own
! choice made the body servant and boot
! black Of the Toombscs and GIN gmans
Ivcrsons? We had better, rather, dose
our universal ipecac, and have a national
vomit
Let Missouri alone. Whisky and mi
as,na arc doing the work Of renovation.
The generation of bowie-knives and but
ternut colored jeans is passing away, and
in few years, with the infusion of i'm
migration, their country population will
compare tavorably in civilization with the
CARDS and Caffres but that is q work
of time. "a thousand years scarce serve
TO form state" Let us be generous
md allow Missouri fifteen hundred.
1t is anticipated, l presume, that the
nomination of Mr.. Bates may draw to
his support the timid and tendcr-footed
Of our commercial einporiums, as also tie
Brookses and the Hunts, and the other
Hessians and Helyetians-camp follow
ers AM cormorants. There can be no
NOR, fatal delusion. Nominate whom
you will, AS the Republican candidate, and
the moment he is so recognized, the war
begins. These men are dangerous only
az frieuds-to be dreaded-not as enc
mics, but rs the traitors to good faith,
which they can dissemble but to des-
troy.
Are we sure, in these far-reachings for
strength that We Go not need and cannot
oct. that we can hold our own friends 2
There is now tolerant and tractable
spirit; but also point to which conccs'
sion will not go. They may consent te
forego much of personal preference to cen
cede a candidate, who can carry Penn
syIyania, New Jersey and Indiana; ant