The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-08-17
The Present state OF tho Canvass.

1t IN order OF ume.
The Present State or tho Canvass.
Thirty days ago the democracy of the country was
awaiting, not without apprehension the August elections
and the meeting of the Buffalo Convention. Both these
events before the country and they have changed
that apprehension into undoubing and almost unani-
nous assurance that the triumphant election of Cass and
Butler certain any future political result be.
The only two doubtful States in the northwest, since
Ohio epudated Taylor plainly, have been Indiana and
Iowa Both of these have been carried by the demo-
Gratis so strongly to make them sure beyond all ques
tion for Cass and Butler in November The only south
ern seaboard State which the wings a month ago re.
garded as sure for them, North Carolina This
State, since Taylor nominated has been claim
ed more confidently by the wings than any other State
the Union, only Kentucky. In North Carolina
have so utterly annhlated the wing majority of six or
seven thousand that the official returns must be waited
for to decide whether Manley or Reid be the governor
and whether there be tie on joint ballot in the egsla-
ture-which if not tied, will be democratc This
result, doubtless, secures to us Georgia, Florida and
Louisiana; and without one of these Cass and
Butler will surely be elected In Illinois, where the
wings hoped as much from the Van Buren, movement as
anywhere out of New York, the democratic triumph
overwhelming. So it is in Missouri, and doubtless in
Arkansas where, learn, by recent change in the
law, election took place the 7h instant, instead of
October, heretofore, and the newspapers (our-
selves among the resD have announced Thus have the
elections OF this month"; in all sections of the country,
settled the result of those which on the 7h
of November AT the close of article looking over
the whole ground in all the States which have voted,
the editor Of the Tribune thus groans and gives up:
we submit that the Iaorisation of the ,rhig party has
NOT far paid expenses of the future not inclined
toprophtsy Sufficient unto the day. &c"
Remember that this is the who in protesting
against Tayors nomination, yet said that the wing gam
blers at Philadelphia chad dealt themselves good
handn His note is changed
But to the democracy party, more good has hap
pened than is to be in the August elections. The
Buffalo Convention has, by very close vote between
the aboltonist Hale and Van Buren, taken up Van Blu
rem for its candidate and put him forward with the old
federal aboltonist Charles Adams, the representa-
tive OF the avowed Abolition Platform laid down in the
following resolutions, of which demands the aboi
ton by Congress of slavery in the District Of Columbia
and the Others the exclusion by Congress of slavery
from that territory which lies adjacent the west, to
the State of Arkansas and thch is of admitted to
be ineluded in the Missouri Compromise Of 1870:
Resorea That duty of the federal government
continuance slavery tchereper that government
constitutional authority to iegiate on that snbJec and IS
Resoiped That true, and in the gment of this
yenon the only safe of preventing the extension of
IN all such territory by act Of Congress.
Rsoped, That accept the issue which the slave power
has forced us, aud to their demand for more slave
States and slave territories, calm but final is
slave States, and no more slave territory.
This practical abolition, and its effect is obvious 1t
places Mr. Van Buren, in the hands of the abolitonists
and Of those abolitionsing wings who form large
portion of the whig party in Massachusetts, and Ohio,
ard who numerous also in the wing ranks in New
York The northern democracy, on the other hand
even the ercest Of the rank and file of the barnburners
IN New York-will shrink from such company. They
are not ready--free- sellers though they may be-to
rally under the lead of Joshua r. Giddings They
are not willing yet TO strike hands with the statesman
slip of the "colored aboltonist Douglass and the "fu
glve-slave" Bibb-whose cloquence demanded so
loudly and listened to so enthusiastically by the
ton! The rank and file of the baTnburners Of New
York, zealously they may have "haed from Uica,'
will yet pause before they go the polls to vol for the
candidate OF body whose vote was 1919 for John P.
Hale, and 1856 for Martin Van Buren--the SO votes
OF the Utica delegates to Baltimore (who in
ference between them The Buffalo nomination, and
the Buffalo platform, may very probably cost Mr.. Van
Buren, one-haf, or even twothrds, of the democratic
vote which he might otherwise have received in New
York AT all events, they must utterly destroy the i'm
preston which he might possibly otherwise have made
on The vote for Cass and Butler in other States. But
with the whg esol boers-the conscience" wings,
Tor instance, in Massachusetts, and the Reserve wings
IN ohlo and probably, too, not few of the Seward and
Greeley wings in New York-the case is just the re-
verse, For these malcontent patriots, Mr. Van Buren,
has come out from the Buffalo meeting all chc cashed
IRON his ancient sin of subservency to the South To
ueiT view he is now in capital company, and in
capital position. They will quit Taylor in and
aeave to him. thus assuring Ohio to Cass, and making
Hiar from impossible that, in the melee of parties Cass
may get the plurality of the popular vote both in New
iork and in Massachusetts, Either of these results is
@thls moment less improbable than the present result
N North Carolina thought to be few weeks ago
De THIS as may regard the doings at Buffalo as
having ehectualy closed up the ranks of the northern
democracy against Van Burensm out of New York,
ana as having thus given to Gen Cass certificate of
me Pssidency Thus, good has come out of evil and
shame