Fhiml io tbmlun Timet. May 2J, T|w Rftseut Poiilhn q( Turkish Affairs. Tho lastintelligence which has reached M 9 from Constantinople is less satisfactory than that: which had preceded it, or than tfint which w,o had renson to anticipate.— Ttuf question of the Holy Place has, in deed, been adjustod without any great dif hCully ; for, ns wo have constantly assert ed, the pretensions of the Emperor of Rus sia not of an exclusive character, and the French government itself admits that the claims of the Latin Church to certain privileges at tlicso shrines have not been interfered wjtli, Louis Napoleon, therefore, lays claim on very easy condi tions to n display of firmness, when in truth, none of his claims were directly as sailed. But no sooner was the firman signed which ,'vas to terminate this part of Prince Monschikoff’s mission, than other demands wero put forward by that ambas- sador of a more questionable character.— For some days previously tho Russian en voy had withdrawn from tho society of his colleagues under pretenco of indisposition, and despatches had been forwarded to him from Odessa which wero supposed to con tain fresh instructions. Immediately nfier wards, the Port was apprized that tho Rus sian government required of it the conclu sion of a separato treaty or convention, by which the matter of tho Holy Places, and die relations of the Emperor of Russia with the members of tho Greek Church throughout the Ottoman dominions, should bo plftced under the sanction of a precise diplomatic engagement. This demand was mado on tho sth of May, and it was nc coinpained by a species of threat, that if it were not complied with in tho course of a very few days the mission of Prince Men schikoff would bo nt an end. Another steamer has subsequenily arrived at Tries te with intelligence from Constantinople .lowiriotho Oth inst., when il scctns that vivo Prince had given the Porto a week to deliberate on his proposal. It is possible that this demand is not in itself of n very novel or aggressive char acter, for tho Russian government has re peatedly protdstcd that its sole object is to maintain rights which have long been re cognised as belonging to tho Greek Church, and n treaty signed between Russiannd the* Porto in 1774 contains an express promjse of protection to tho Christian religion and the churches of the East, especially to that .Greek Church in tho quarter of Galata, which the Russian government was there by authorized to erect. But neither that treaty, nor any other with which wo are acquainted,contains any recognition of the religious supremacy now contended for by j3uss.ia over the Greek population of the Ottoman empire, and tho Porto appears at all times to have felt that to deal with for eign power in reference to its Greek sub- jects was to concede rights which no for . «ign Slalo could exercise with impunity over so large and important a part of its own population. As to tho precise extent of the pretensions now put forward by the Russian envoy wc must wait for more complete information; but it is probable they amount to no moro than the rights already enjoyed by tho other Chrisii in communiops, and long recognised by the Turks themselves. Tho clinngo consists jn the admission of Russia to boa con tracting party on aogruve a subject of in ternal policy. Tho Porte, however, is in po condition to offer any serious resistance, and accordingly news was received last nigh{ at the Russian legation in Paris that Prince MenscliikofFg ultimatum had been accepted. In the midst of the doubts excited by (lie spectacle of a great empire so ill-pre pared to defend itself against violence or against intrigue, one principle is at least definite, precise, arttj secure. The great powers may treat these questions in safety us long as they are determined to treat them mi common and to regulato them by the general interest; but, when any one of them attempts to steal a march upon the rest of Europo, the consequences urc un pleasant, and may become dangerous.— franco, Austria, and Russia have succes sively tried this mischievous game within the last few months, and they now see the result. The menaces of M. do Lnvaletto, and the concessions extorted by Count Le jningen, have furnished Russin with a motive and pretext for a separate conven tion with herself on a subject of peculiar interest to the Christian subjects of the Turkish empire. Wc huve repeatedly ex pressed' our oppiniun that tho time will come, and is parlmps not far distant, when fho strength of that Christian population will overpower the authority of a barburlc Plate, which lias steadily declined since its nearer contact with civilization. Wo do not fear tho consequences of such an event, if it arises either from exclusively internal cmjsos, or from the united action of tho great powers ; but it is of ossential interest to the peace of tho world, and the isecufity of many countries, that tho sig nal for such a chango should not bo given by any single State, and that this formid able weapon should not be wielded by any sjnglo hand. By acceding to the collective jpolO of July, 1839, and to the treaties of M4O and 1841, Russia appeared to have denounced tho selfish policy w’j)ich led to tho treaty ol Unkiar’ Skelessi ; and in all her recent communications to the other courts, she Iras uninformly insisted on fjer own faithful adherence to those condition. r -Wo have given the Emperor of Russiu credit for good faith and voracity in mak ing those-'declarations.’. We linvo held it in tho higltn?tfdegreo improbable that he 'should he prepared to place tho nations of Europo in serious danger of hostilities, in order to pursue any visionary schcimo of settling tho future condition of the East without their,assent, and contrary to their interests.- The moral contradiction which fcadalse and;short-sightcd a line of policy 'yvould imply scorned to us to outweigh ull the facts,’ exaggerated by fear, otfewliich ptittid of our contemporaries have built up conclusions different frofn our own. Tho British government showed no disposition I) ■ - ... -L- ■- ■ > •. : ■ I to give car to reports that might have war ranted suspicion, or to adopt measures that Would have implied distrust; and the Emperor of Russia gave his own person al honor in n pointed and peculiar man ner, us the pledge of that confidence to which he aspired, and which was not with held from him. . That is u consideration of fur higher importojicc to a sovereign who claims so high ft rank among, tho rulers of'mankind than, the paltry results ofPrinco Menschikoff’s mission. No,one could express more forcibly than tho Rus sian cabinet it? consciousness of tho dang er of separate interference, by the pains it took to disclaim such intentions; and since those assurances were publicly accept ed and made known to the world by the British Foreign Ministor in his place in Parliament, wo have a right to expect and to require that nothing shall have been in sisted on at Copstantinoplo whiclf docs pot strictly fall within tho limits of Prince Menschikoir’s mission. The statements current in the Bast, tho alarm spread throughout the European provinces of Tur key, and the rumors of massacres and risings at Constantinople and clsowhore, have probably been disseminated by tho artifices of one party us much as by the lears of another. No event of serious con sequence has occurcd, and it is but the vague anticipation of a danger which keeps tho world in suspense. To nvort that danger the effectual remedy is the firm union of tho great powers; and if that union wero unhappily destroyed by the selfish pretensions of any one of thum, it would impair our hopes ofdculing on soun der and moro equitable principles with the emergencies which, in the present wretched condition of Turkey, may easilv arise. Kiom tl»o Siicmmonio Union April 29 SACRAMENTO SALMON FISHERIES The fishing interest in the Sacramento at this point is increasing and expanding with astonishing rapidity from year to year and from month to month. Tho water of tho river must bo alive with salmon, or such numbers caught daily would sensibly reduco their numbers. But experienced fishermen inform us, while the rui lasts, to countless is tho number that no mutter how many are employed in the business, or how many ape taken daily, no diminu tion can bo perceived. Even tho “lulcs’’ between this and the coast range are re ported to bo filled with salmon. : Tho run this year is said to bo greater than over before known at this season, the heaviest runs heretofore having been ex perienced in Juno and July. The extraor dinary run of tho present limo is expected to continue fur something like three weeks. The fish seem to run in immenso schools, with some weeks intervening between tho nppoarancs of each school, during which the numbers taken are'light as compared with tho quantity taken during a timo like tho present. No account is keptof the numberengng ed in fishing, or of tho amount caught, and all statements relative thereto a re made from estimates obtained from those who have experience in the business, and prob ably approximate correctness. Theso estimates give tho number of men employed now in taking fish in the Sacramento nt about six hundred; the number of fish taken daily, on an average, at two thousand—their averngo weight! seventeen pounds, making thirty.four thousand pounds por day. Two cents per pound, which is probably more than the present nverago price by tho quan tity, would give a daily income to those employed of 8680—not very high pay. Either the number of men engaged in I tho business, we imagine, must be over' estimated, or the number of fish caught der estimated. I It requires two men to man n boat, which would give three hundred boats for six hundred men. Two thousand fish a day would give each man a fraction over threo as his sharo. We presume few arc fish ing who do not catch a good many more than that number. Wc sawn boatload, tho product of the previous night, consist ing ofsixtyvsix salmon, weighed yesterday morning. They averaged a fraction over seventeen pounds, and gave thirty-three as the number caught by each man, in stead of threo as estimated above. Say the six hundred fishermen man on an average two hundred boats anight; the average number caught by each boat put at twenty, and tho sum total would be lour thousand fish, instead of two thousand as estimated. Our impression is that tho latter comes nearer tho mark than tho former, as a good many of the fishormen send their fish directly to San Francisco ; others tukc them to different points for sailing. Largo numbers are salted down daily ; several firms and individuals being extens ively engaged in this branch of the trade. The fish nro put down in hogsheads which average, when filled, about eight hundred pounds. Front one to three tlious and pounds are put down daily by those engaged in salting. An acquaintance has filled sixty-fivo hogsheads this season. The most of those engaged in salting live on tho Washington side of the riverJ and suit their fish there. I Including those engaged, in sailing, catohing, and 'soiling, probably the fish businessfurnishesemployment lorn thous and men. Tho salmon fish is found in no other waters in such vast multitudes As are met in the rivers emptying into the Pacific.— On the Atlantic side loading tho fish feature is tho run of shad in the spring; on Iho Pa cific side, salmon ascend our rivers at nil seasons, in numbers beyond all compula tion. In California and Oregon our rivers nro alive with them; tho great number taken by fishortqoo aro but a drop from the bucket. Ahovo this, on the coast side, tribes of Indians use; no other food. I In the. course of a few years; salmon fishing will extend itself to all the promin- 1 ent '‘! vcrs in ,fl ° StQl °- Catching and cur- 1 ing salmon will (hen have become a sys temized business; the fish consumption will then have extended itself generally over the State, and moro than likely be corpe, in the mean time, an important ar ticle 6fexport. ' THE REPUBLICAN. CLEARFIELD Pa., Juiio 17, 1853. DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS. Canal Commissioner, THOMAS H. FORSYTH, Of Philadelphia County , Auditor General, EPHRAIM BAN KS, Of Mifflin County. Surveyor General, J. PORTER BRAWLEY, Of Crawford County. STANDING COMMITTEE MEETING.— The Democratic Standing Committee of Clear field County for the year 1853, will moot at the Court House, nt 4 o’clock I*. M. on the 4th day of July next. By order ofthc Standing Committee. The following personscompose that com mittee: Mnj, V. B. Holt, John ShonfT, F. G. Miller, J. M. Cummings, G. B. Goodlan der, J. Stites, Francis Coudriet, G.S. To 7.er, Richard Hughs, Thomas Owens, John L. Bundy, 11. J. Hite, I. VV. Gra ham, Philip Havener, C. Baker, VV. S. Rey, Martin Nichols,'jr. Samuel C. Thomp son, J. A. T. Hunter, VV. F. Johnston. Elias Horn, G. VV. Shoaff, J. B. M’Ennl ly, J. H. Fleming. (KrMuch of our paper this week is ta ken up with tho last and awful scencin the lifo of that monster Arthur Spring. May this bo the lust of his appearance before the public. fSiT An old man of somo 70 winters, named Tekpe, was committed to our jail tho other day, on the awful charge of hav ing murdered his own son, some months ago, in Brudy township. He is a German, and cannot talk or understand a word of English, although he has been in this country for several years. Wc have mado much inquiry concerning this alTair, and have heard quite different statements; but upon tho whole, wo tliilik there ore but slight, very slight grounds for suspecting that this venerable looking old man could bo guilty of such a crime. The missing son is the same whose absence was notic ed in our paper last week. It was in Feb ruary when he was last seen, and was traced to this place, but no further. ' lie j was of intemperate, worthless habits, and J had only been in the country for a littlej over a year. We hope that beforo many I days bis whereabouts may be made known, and thus the certain destruction of this hitherto peaceful and apparently happy family averted, and the excitement and suspicion of that neighborhood put to rest. It appears that the absence of tho son had not been remarked until after tho find ing of n portion of n man’s clothing in the woods in the vicinity. But wo linve been credibly informed that tho clothes wore not identified as young Torpe’s, nor do they correspond with any that he left be hind. Many other circumstances have been mentioned in connection with the atluir, but for obvious reasons wc shall not no tice them. Wo understand that an effort is making to have the old man restored to his family for tho present, on n writ of, habeas corpus. Our National Annavarsary.—Whilst nclivo arrangements aro making every where to celebrate tho approaching Anna versary in an appropriate manner, nothing of the kind, so far as we are informed, has taken place here. Times are certainly not “as they used to was,” and wo esteem it no credit to our citizens. A few moro years of such retrogression, and th ofourth of July will bo undistinguished from any other day, This must never bo. Lot your “drums beat,” your “bells toll,” and your “bonfires burn “as long ns there is an unsullied star in tho flag of our country. | An Explanation Wanted. —A pros j pectus will bo found in our columns—and which has been inserted regularly for sev eral weeks—for threo Now York Journals, to wit: —tho Musical World and Times— which wo have been receiving for the last year—tho llojrie Journal and tho Knick erbocker, and by way of presenting our bill, wc sent copies of our paper markod in the usual way. As compensation for this la bor on our part, wc were promised a copy of each of these journals for- ono year— but ns wo Jtavo not seen either of the two latter, we respectfully ask/or an explana tion. ... < Laying of a Corner Stone.—The ceremony of tho laying of a Corner Stone of the German Reformed Church, on tho road*ffeading from Lulhersburg to Punxsu tawney, will take place on Saturday tho 2d of July ne*tj commencing nt 10 o’clock, A.. The public are respectfully invited to atte^ AWFUL BIOT IN MONTREAL. An Italian''called Father Gavazzi, is now on a mission to this country preach ling against tho Homan Catholic Church land Religion. After delivering several highly inflamatory and (to the Catholics,) offensive lectures York, ho visited Montreal. On last Thursday night, tho 9th instant, ho lectured in Zion Church i i in that city, and from tho demonstrations of tho mob in the early part of tho evening, tho authorities called out the military.— When tho lecture closed, and the people | wore leaving the church, an attack was ! made upon the lecturer, who was pretty roughly handled, in tho. midst of which sovcral guns and pistol shots were fired, and several persons injured, and two or threo killed. But aficr the church was closed, and after tho people got into tho streets, and when, as tho Herald says, thcro was little appearance of disturbance 'any whero, tho military deliberately fired two volleys at tho people, killing about a dozen, and wounding some forty others, of the innocent and unoffending citizens.— Much excitement prevailed, and further disturbances were expected, as a large meeting was held on Friday night, at which resolutions inviting Fulher Gavazzi to continue his lectures wore adopted. 03~We aro decidedly in favor of send ing temperance men, and none but tern- ! peranco meii, both in precopt and practice, to the Legislature. Wo would do it now, and always hereafter. But at tho same time, as tempernce men solely, wc would send no man there, and hence, wc now tako occasion to express our dissent in the most unequivocal terms, to tho proposi tion of our county Temperance Society,to hold a Convention and nominate a can didate for the Legislature. Such a course will produce no good fruits to any inter est, and is much more likely to injure than to benofit the cause of temperance. We are ready to say much more on this subject when ever it is necessary, and only disire now that our Democratic friends throughout the county may give the subject their candid consideration. OUR BOOK TABLE! We are indebted to the Hon. J. Morton, U. S. Senator, for n bound copy of the 7th census, which is a very valuable work, presenting a full view of tho growth and greatness of our country in a very condens ed form. Graham's Magazine, for July, is at hand, rich in every thing that can odd worth to a work of the Magazine charac ter. This is the first number of the 43d volume, and contains 112 pages, filled with many articles of rare merit indeed. Tho illustrations are numerous and beau tiful. The School-Mate, for ihepresent month, commences n new scries. We havo here tofore recommended this work to public favor. It is, in our opinion, a really valu able production, and where read by school boys and girls, would not fail to ho a val uable auxiliary in the way of educating youth. It is published in New York, by George Pratt, at one dollar per year for a single copy ; but a considerable reduction made to clubs, particularly the schools. The Pennsylvania School Journal, for June, is also at hand, filled with highly useful papers connected with our educa tional system. This work should be bet ter encouraged than wo beliovo it is, as the editor and publisher, both deservo great credit for tho stylo in which their work always makes its appearance. It is pub lished at Lancaster Pa., at 81 per annum. TEMPERANCE MEETING, The Washingtonians met in tho Court House on Tuesday evening June 7lh 1853, President, G. P. Gulich, in the chair.— Meeting opened by prayer by the Rov. Mr Hamilton. Tho minutes of tho pre ceding meeting were read an adopted af ter which, Rev. Mr. Hamilton was called on and addressed tho meeting, and was followed by a fow remarks by Rev. Mr. Haughinborry. On motion of Wm.Robortson some res olutions were handed to the Secretary and read, and after being amended, passed os follows: Resolved, That a County Convention of tho friends of Temperance, be called to meot in the Court House on Monday, July 4th, at 3 o’clock P. M. to deviso'measures to secure u Temperance Candidate Tor tho Legislature. Resolved, That tho Crystal Fountain bo reccomended to tho frionds of Temper ance as dn able advocate of the cause. Resolved, TJnit tho services of E. W. Jackson, (State Agent) bo secured for the Convention: Resolved , That these proceedings be published in the Clearfield Republican and in tho Crystal Fountain. Resolved, That this meeting adjourn to meet in said Convention. GEO. W. RHEEM.jr. Scc’y. What a singular fancy we have in paying the very best and the most to those who destroy us—genernls; next, those who cheat us—noisy politicians and quacks; third, those who amuseus—singers, musi cians and clowns; and last, and least of all, those who really instruct and benefit us—the printer. Reader, is’nt every word of this paragraph too true ? From iho New Fork Time*. CUBA AND THE AFRICANS. Cuba is tho closing seal of the great problem of African emancipation jn North America. Its solution is tho especial mis sion of tho nineteenth century. It pannot bo accomplished until Cuba is pec.- While the* island remains under the do minion ofßpnin, the slave trade will con tinue, and while it is continued, tho cheap, sturdy, ignorant slavo from tho coast of Africa will underbid and check ofT white labor, deaden immigration, and increase the cumbrous weight of n population only to be ruled by brute force. Not the least of its evils is the diserdit of the colored race, who, by the affinities of kind, will be ranked with them, and dragged down to share in tho social abasement awarded to the Africans ns a people. This incessant infusion of barbarous elements is wrong to both races. To illustrate our moaning, wo will suppose that, instead of importing near half a million of uncivilized African slaves, and working ono-hnlf ortwo-thirds of them to death, under a systematic idea that it is bettor economy to “use up negro life and replace it by importation,” than to prolong it by gentler usage, and accept more enduring and more moderate gains, it had suited the policy of Spain to foster white immigration and stop tho slave trade altogether. This was tho policy of the United States, and wo see that ns the Cau casian has prospered in the slnveholding und in the non-slavoholding States, the character and condition of the black has gone on ameliorating in a corresponding degree. The increasing ascendency of tho ratio of white population makes eman cipation and tho final steps of removing and colonizing tho explelivo race, yearly more distinctly feasible. Tho dominant raco gains so rapidly on the dependent olio that it loses all fear of it. The African race here is perfectly under control, not only becauso it is far inferior in number, ’ but bccauso it is partially so advanced in | practical education as to submit to tho j laws, and appreciate the luxuries of oiviliz jution. If Spain had yielded to the solici tations of tho most patriotic and enlighten ed Cubans, and suppressed the slave trade ! thirty years ago, ns thoy petitioned and as she might easily have done, at this time the white inhabitants of the island would have been to the colored ns two to (one. This is without allowing for the j impetus which the advance of wages and the necessity of leaving all tho mechanic-1 al employments to free white laborers would have imparted to white immigration. The Increased value of his slaves would compol the selfishness of the planter to | take part with humanity. He must depend I upon the slaves already on tho island, or | upon those bo might draw from the main : land, for his work ; and where they wore deficient, look to European labor. The restriction of the slave supply would have opened the door to the pauper laborers of Europe, who would hasten to fill the work shops with better mechanical skill, to cul tivate wasto patches in little farifis and market gardens—now so few aod miser- I able on that islund—and to muke up a re j spectable class of carmen and coachmen, from all of which the island blacfcs have excluded the whites. In the southorn States of the Union, European emigrants are gradually occupying their places, to their own and the country’s advantage.— With such a policy, Cuba would at this timo possess so great a preponderance of white population, and her colored people would as a whole be so much more famili ar with the comforts and duties of civiliz ation, that she could be quito tranquil, andj prepared to keep step with the United States in tho progress of emancipation.— But these savage importations from Africa are too profitable to Spanish cupidity, and too convenient to Spanish despotism, to bo discontinued while Spain owns the island, and until it escapes from her yoko there is no prospect of its cessation. The blacks crowd the whites out of all those branches of industry to the incalcul able discouragement of immigration, as must happen in every community where they have a. sufficient numerical prepon derance to fill the present demand. In such communities, productive progress is weakened beenuso industry is dishonored by the vicious ignorance of tho industrial masses, and tho cultivated white, overlook ing the dignity of tho work in the degra dation of the worker, associates labor with want and mental stupidity, and unless he is of a rare intellectual strength, disdains to bo useful. The Cubans have tho right | and the will to share in tho moral advance of the ago, but tho Spanish slave trade holds them back and bears down upon their country by a constant and overpow ering infusion of barbarous and unman ageable olements from Africa. Spain abuses tho mutual interests of civ ilized nations and forfeits every claim to the allegiance of her wronged colony by this obstinate system of deterioration. She has imported in thirty yours more Africans into Cuba than was brought into tho terri tory now comprised by the republics of the United States and Mexico during their entire history, going back to the first dates of settlement. Of these it is computed by her own officials that one-third are delib erately .worked to doatli; and we know the presence of such a class of laborers, and tho inevitable severity of their man agement, is a moral death to the entire working-class of which Spain thus consti lutes thorn the representatives. Until this importation, of .heterogeneous elements shall cease, and tho African race in Cuba shall be brought under the steady and reli able.,influence of civilized contact and the pressure of emigrant competition, tho great work of their restoration cannot have ■a clear field. When the limitsare fixed when wo can see the extent of the ueces sity—-when we can compute the exadt.cos't and convenience of the movement-r-then, and not before, the African exodus wili.be near at hand. V The proposal of ' England to sot loose tips snvogo force, and raise it to equal cit izenship with the whit§s, js not the just and politic course. White it is a decree of industrial ruin and cWfic, demoralization nguinst tho native inhabitants, it does not improve in tfco slightest the eventual pros poets of the black race. The la\V9 of tho island provide for their instruction in tho means of life, and insure them, an early emancipation. But it is requisite that the execution of those laws be taken from tho slavetrailing Spanish officials, and left to tho islanders, who have every interest in tho just administration of tho law, and in tho creation of an intelligent and produc live population. The Cubans haye repeat edly disclosed their wish to exclude these savage hordes from Africa, and encourage European emigration to their island, and tho inevitable results of that system will bo the schooling of the African to habits of self-support and self-government, and the ultimate colonization in the boundless and congenial domain of his ancestors. Frmn llio Washington Union. DISTRIBUTION OF PATRONAGE. Wo are surprised that any misappre hension should exist in any quarter as to the policy of the administration in respect to the distribution of public patronage.— Tho President must have been totally blind if he had failed to see in the organization of tho convention which nominated hitja the policy which it was his duty to pursue. In regard to questions outside of tho car dinal principles of the democratic pArty, that convention was composed of tho dis cordant elements, and its prominent suc cess was achieved in' excluding issues which had been forced into some of its sec tional organizations, and of securing unity and harmony on a great national platform, In somo of the local organizations the har mony of tho parly had been destroyed by tho introduction of issues connected with slavery. These were absolutely repudia ted by the National Convention, and a faithful acquiescence in tho compromise measures as a final settlement of those is sues was adopted as a fundamental feature in the national democratic organization.— Acquiescence in this final settlement was made the lest of national democracy by the action of the convention, and its nom inee placed himself cheerfully and firmly on this' ground. His election, therefore, was tatamount to instructions, that ip the distribution of pntronage ho should regard jail as national democrats who freely and faithfully adopt tho platform. The prac tice of the President has been in strict con formity to this policy. No man has been appointed to offico by him who does not stand upon tho pledge of a Mthful adhe rence to the compromise measures as a fi nal adjustment of the slavery issues. It may be that the distribution of the offices amongst the different divisions of the party has not been in exact proportion to their relativo numbers—such n result was ne cessarily impracticable. But that tho great principle of recognising none as democrats but those who stand upon the platform has been adhered to, we confidently assert. — The President has had no hesitancy :u avowing this policy on all occasions, a;:>: in declaring, with emphatic dislinctne-..-, that he would unhesitatingly removo r. ~y man from office who should denv tli-. f. nality of the adjustment made by tho c. promise measures. The unity and !; mony of the party were secured by :i, udoption of this policy in the States an.l I tho Nutional Convention, and the Pi \ dent could have pursued no other cou, . j for its preservation. How unreasonable, then, the complaints wnich are occasion ally made when tljo Executive lias found it necessary, in executing tho policy so distinctly marked out by the party, to ap point men whoso positions previous to tho convention had been objectionable ! We are not surprised that whigs should seek to produco distractions by such assaults, but we era surprised that any democrats should give countenance to their olTorts to “divide and conquer.” , It would bo wise in those democrats who aro inclined to indulgo in a feeling of plaint because tho President is alleged to • have favored the wings rather than tho centre column of tho party, to pause and deliberate upon the injustice of such an in timation. General Pierce has never be longed to eithor wing, but centre of tho centre column. IlWympn/J thies and his inclinations would naturally | carry him to that column to find objects of I his favoritism, but his duty to tho party f required him to sacrifice this inclination, i and to recognise as democrats all who J have united upon the cardinal doctrines of tho platform. Surely, thon, it would bp ; i wise in our friends to exerciso forbearance, } and bo a little backward in indulging in a censorious spirit. They'should at least bo thoroughly satisfied that injustice has been dono before they give encouragement to the whigs by venting their complaints. It would be well, too, for democrats to con sider whether tho standard of their parly patriotism may not bo suspected to be too low, if tho matter of distributing the offices should be mado too ready a ground for censure. We glory in the democraticpar ty bpcause it is a party of principles; but if its members allow it to sink to a mere “spoils party,” it will cease to deserve any higher respect than the whig party enjoys. Tho President has given office to no origi-' nal enemy of tho Compromise as a rpward [for his services; but in appointing such ho has intended only to recognise them, whilst adhering to the plntform. as democrats.— Let borno always in miqd that so I soon ns such cease tQ adhere to national - I principles they cease to be'regarded as I democrats. If the strength ofour party is I to be preserved at nlj, it can only be done ' I by cultivating a spirit of conciliation, for- I bearance, apd liberality amongst its mem- rM bers toward each other. The Presiden I has every motiv.e to; encourage this spiritr B and he has a right'to export that his el- « forts shall be regarded at least with justice K if not with forbearance. t”'*
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