The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1848-05-08

without the suspicion OF making dlSnOnest
profession; but the invitation to vote for him
would be regarded by the Northern Democrats
las q direct INSULTS an assertion OF Southern
authority, in the imposition Of political tests,
which they would Indignantly repel. Party
attachment will carry men TO great lengths, but
there are limits to what the most jealous par
tisans in free country will endure. The Dem
ocrats of the North would say to those who re-
quired this ignominious acknowledgement Of
subserviency-
''Go tell your slaves how choleric you are,
And make your bondmen tremble''-
but they would remind them that beyond the
precincts of their own plantations their prerog-
alive of authority was at an end.
If, on the other hand, Northern man were
to take this oath ofallegiance TO slavery in or
der to qualify himself TO become the candidate
of the South, he would be regarded as one who
had made public sale of himself. He would
come before the people with an advertisement
of venality written in staring characters on his
forehead. Such candidate, deprived as he
would be of all public respect, and shrinking
from the public contempt, would meet with
an infinitely worse reception from the people
than ifhe were citizen Of the South.
This is very plain language indeed. 1t is
too ineligible to admit of misconstruction,
and we have no doubt it will find res
ponse in the heart of nearly every Northern
man.
The editor of the Augusta Age, the leading
Locofoco paper in Maine, in the course of
some indignant remarks on the resolutions of
the Alabama convention, says:
Such arrogant assumptions will wholly fail
TO remove from the minds of Northern men
the strong aversion now entertained towards
the Institution of slavery, and cannot fail to
react upon those who indulge them with fatal
effect.
The Democracy of the North will 60 into that
upou no terms of inequality. Nor
will they consent 10 have their representatives
or other members of the party prescribed and
excluded from posts of honor or influence, in
of having given free utterance to
the sentiments and principles Of the North up
on this subject.
The New York Globe, another strong Loco
foco paper is fierce III its OPPOSITION to the
resolutions. 1t declares:
The South will have to abandon this rickety
platform. The idea that the sovereign power
as regards slavery in territory, resides exclu-
sively in the slaveholding position of the Union
and that the Northern section of the confeder-
acy, the people of the territory, or the people
of the whole Union, through Congress have no
voice in the matter, will never stand for a mo-
ment.
The South, so far as Alabama, South Caroli-
ma, and Virginia are concerned, assert that they
will not abandon the platform" they have
proposed, and that if the North refuses to adopt
it, they will not cooperate with the people of
that section. On this subject therefore the Lo-
cofocos Of the North and South are at logger
heads. Cne of the factions must back out
from its position, or there must be discord.-
We shall see which Ut the two exhibits most
facility in the very fashionable business Of
On the "vexed question" of slavery it is ex-
tremely probable the Locofoco national con-
vention will exhibit much discord. The ui-
ira Locofocos of the North aud South cannot
easily unite on any candidate. The sentiments
of the leading Presidential aspirants are well
known, and not one of them comes up to the
full measure of pro-slavery faith required by
Alabama resolutions. Messrs. Cass, Dallas,
and Buchanan have all committed themselves
to doctrines that are repudiated as utterly un-
sound and unconstitutional by the authors of
the resolutions. If the delegates from the
States that have adopted the resolutions abide
by their instructions; they must protest against
the nomination of either of the prominent as
pirants. On the other hand, 10 nominate
candidate who will endorse the doctrines con-
tanned in the resolutions will be the sure way
of driving from the party thousands of men
who are not willing slavishly to comply with
the Southern dictation. Under such circum-
stance ), the Locofoco convention will proba-
bly, experience great difficulty in its efforts to
hunt up an available man.
Some Of the Locofoco editors are Cycling
over the prospect of dissensions among the
Wings, If they wish to amuse themselves
with party distractions they can do so to their
hearts content by looking into the condition
Of their own party. There never was a party
in which there more adverse currents Of opin-
ion than in the Locofoco party at the present
time, and the prospect is that the confusion,
instead of giving way to peace and quietness,
will become worse COMPOUNDED.
A FRIENDS ADvIcE.-A prudent and well
disposed mem Der of the ''Socieiy of Friends
M, long since gave the following friendly
advice -"John," said he, 81 hear thou ART
going To be married"