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prsed that Mr. Calhoun should pursue different course

prsed that Mr. Calhoun should pursue different course
His policy looks TO his own views to his own aspira-
tons, to the qualification of the ruling passion of his life
The country looks to It's great interests the purity OF
Its institutions, the elevation Of its chief magistrate with
the least intriguing by the votes of the electors themselves
The sound and unsophiscatei democracy OF the country
protest against an election by Congress, where the
largest States shorn of their comparative weight
where Delaware has the power TO elect President
as New York or Pennsylvania-where the legislative
becomes blended with the executive functions and where
dangerous coalitions and corrupt intrigue called into
control the OF the States and the final election of
President Mr. Calhoun protests against the only system
which the election by the electoral colleges
and from cabal an intrigue, and an election
by Congress- His object is to create prejudice
against national convention, and throw the cleo
ton into the House According to his scheme he may
be of the three highest go into Congress- when
the executive chair to become the object of barter and
intrigue Does he calculate on the contamination of this
chance by becoming the champion OF the South
There as little logic in his argument there sound
in his plan His first step assume the fact that
the republican party is dissolved and shattered to pieces
and therefore. there must be communion among them
lest the north should dictate to the SOUTH and thus fost
abolition President upon This is not the practical
course of wise statesman Such would say,
"The may be before the next yearthe terrific
rial question may be settled Why then, moot the ques
ton at this time of what the National Convention may
do in 1915 Sufficient TO the day is the evil thereof
Besides if that question be not settled before the meeting
of the National Convention, why refuse to send delegates
to with republican brethren from the other
sections of the Union? We co. therefore, to commune
with them-tO state claims (such would be the Ian
guage of practical statesman)-to demonstrate against
any meditated chments upon the fundamental prn
cpe OF the confederacy, fair participation OF its bene-
fits and burdens-and to what each demands and
whether it be obtained by just compromise OF
respective claims" The man who will not try this fair
experiment with the other members of the democracy
who refuses to go into National Convention, in
quence OF some panic imagination which he may indulge
and some ultra hypothetical which he may conceive
breaks up the union Of the party in the first instance, in
order to indulge favorite scheme OF his own and
all the risk OF election by Congress. We have
SO decided an objection to this proposition and hope SO
much from the concilatory and compromising spirit Of
the republican party that we enter at protest
against Mr.. Cahoun's favore idea. We will keep our
party together long can-meet them in conven-
ton, and try the effect Of remonstrance with hem-do all
we fairly to defeat the election of federal candi-
date the dangerous resort to election by the House
of Representatives. We willing to try this, and not
to part with republican brethren until find them
opposed to all compromise, and bent violating the
principle OF equality, which is the very soul OF our con-
federated institutions.
Another suggestion and we have done for the present
1t too early 60 into the Presidential succession
candidates, or to appoint delegates to the National
Convention, some of the western papers are now pro-
posing to do Nothing could be mischevous than
TO appoint delegates at too early day, bound hand and
foot and pledged TO go perempory for any partcu
lar basis of action, which the delegates from the other
sections of the Union cannot be reasonably expected
support