The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1848-06-09
From The North American.
THE TWO-THIRDS RULE:
THE SOUTHERN SYSTEM.

The two-thirds rule-the famous and iniqul l.
tous two-thirds rule, to which the action OF the
two Locofoco National Conventions of 1874
and lS4S, have given historic importance
is yet mystery 10 the multitude Of honest
American citizens. OF all parties, who ask, ma
turally enough, what IL means, and what Is It's
object without any better answer being ever
vouchsafed to them by those rho knop, than
that il is all very democratic, and therefore, all
very right aud proper. That is the answer;
and so il remains as great mystery as ever,-l
in fact, mystery of iniquity, from which those
" no invented il and those who use il for their
own exclusive benefit, the ultra Locolocos OF
the South-the sectional Locofocos-the polit- |
ical blacklegs who have Dragged" the free |
States out of their rights and gambed the dough
faces out OF their freedom-wouldb be very I'M
willing to remove the veil. Ii is time, how
ever, that the veil should be removed, and the
cheat discovered. The North rebels, in good
season, indeed, in an era OF revolution, when
il has ceased to BE- in fashion for the many toI
remain i'm subsection TO the few, or for men
that are men, feeling the pride and dignity of
their nature, 10 be- willing 10 submit TO any
treatment from their follows irreconcisble with
| the sublime law of republican justice-"liber-i
ty, equality, and brotherhood" The North isl
determined TO understand this famous two
thirds rule of Southern Locofocoism; and the
moment the North understands it, it will re-
pudiate It.
The two-thirds rule is part of the Southern
system-(be il observed; In speaking on this
subject, We always mean the LOcofoco South
ern system, for, happily, Southern Wings have
never sanctioned or assented 10 the Infamous
Macchiayellism, but have always sought 10 op-
pose it, and SO prevent the dangers 1t is bring
ing upon the Union)-that system of section
A hxx fraa Gfafa
are actually rulrd-oppressively and injurious
/, ly ruled-by the slave States,--by which ten
: millions of free citizens, In one section of the
republic, are made the vassals Of five millions
of citizens in another section, and the interest
: of three millions OF slaves-Or of their owners
lis rendered paramount 10 the interests of the
entire white democracy of the Union. There
is such Southern system, and il Is now, and
E. long has been, in successful operation. 1t is a
lsystem which was devised in the South, and
; for the benefit of the South,--a system which
aims 10 make the South King--to put and keep
, the government of the republic into the hands
? of the South, By and through dynasty cfquad-
: rennial monarchs flor the Southern system
E makes the Presidents royal potenlate) devot-
: ed 10 the South--pledgrd TO the South, bound
i and sworn TO administer the government ac-
cording 10 the will and for the exclusive pur-
5 poses of the South,-in defiance of law and
J, Constitution and all the obligations of patriot
e ism and liberty. The o-thirjs rule is part
+ of this systematic crowning invention and
}, active implement by which the system is sue
d cessfully administered. 1t is the direct mean.
d the magical labor saving ma chine, by which
the South. pigmy in comparison, is enabled
to overthrow the Sampson of the North, il
spite Of his superior strength,-because il op
,r crates by destroying that strength,--by para
:, Lying the actual political power; which tn,
free States have, from their superior popula
y ton, over the slave States. 1t is impossible
Il with such rule in existence, that the Nort
le should ever use that superior power O
numbers against the South, or to the pre-
. judice Of Southern projects or wishes.
ST The whole electoral vote of the Unite
esl States is 290; of which the fifteen free State
\. have l69, and the fifteen slave States l2l vote
The free States have, therefore, majority i
the electoral college, and can, if they choose
vote down the slave States. But they hav
not majority of two-thirds (l94 votes.) De
Ii ;, stroy, therefore, the republican principle, th
~ democratic principle, of the majority, whic
% laws, and constitutions and common sense a
H. unite to establish the governing principle {
on the republIc,-exacta rule Of two thirds, an
Ne farewell to the right and power of the majorit
l. farewell 10 the right and power OF the Ire
States. The North can no longer nominate II
av Presidential candidate in conventions; the al
les of Sothern votes becomes necessary; and tn
he South has ii in its power TO put those votes U
Il. 10 sale, and 10 refuse them 10 every candida
w who does not bid for them upon its own tern
terms BY which the South rules and aggraI
dised al the expense of the Union. Ii was I'M
On, that Martin Van Buren, was inundated by Il
rs, Baltimore Convention Of 1914. He went in
tina, Convention with majority OF 70 vot
GAG out Of 1867 but, after having be, n lor
tha h,,pa 10 oft ba tha
~ ern man with Southern principles" he dared
as' refuse the South the enormous bride Of Tex
five new slave States, ten new slave Sen
tors TO be carved out of foreign territory, =
the and for this, the honestes, bravest, most patti
:, otto act of his life, the South resolved upl
u" his destruction. The two-thirds rule deslro
I. ed him, and gave, at the same time to tn
South, Texas, and sworn and most ult
!an Southern President, under whose auspices 4
tel- South ventured upon the new project of Il
re appropriation of one third OF the territory
pri- Mexico-and perha ps all the unorganized ts
: as ritory of the republic--which she expects
secure through Mr.. Candidate Cass, the Ia
South pledges Locofoco Presidential candida
u inflicted upon The republic, against the wis
UNI es of the North, by virtue of the two-thirdsru
sur and the Southern system. -
quiz We have only to consider the operation
es- this two thirds rule, In connexon with the v
anc, 10 power, as expounded ana practlsed 0y 4
pre- South, to the Congressional power of the Pc
had pie, in view also of the strength of the Senat
his rial and the slave representation, to percei
that the South has invented a system viii,
enables it to rule the Union--unless, indee
0in- the Wing party, by mighty efforts of patti
Al otism, should succeed in breaking down {
whole base and humiliating system.
! the The two sections of the free and the sla
States have each 30 Senators, which would
ef- duce the representative electors TO l39 for