The southern press., 1850-10-08
lie SOUTHERN PRESS.
WASHINGTON CITY.
TUESDAY. OCTOBER 8, 1850.
Can It be possible 7

lUESDAIs OCIOnEn Q, 1901
Can it be possible :
ATTITUDE OF THE rwo rARrlgs-SoRrn AND
The New York Ersaing Post, of the 9Th
inst, gives Us ti,e following statement in its
leading editorial Ii Martin Van Buren was
nominated at the recent Democratic State Com
yention, where reunion took place between
the Hunkers and Rarnburners, and where John
Van Buren took leading part, the fact has not
hitherto reached us. Can it be possible that
this thing was done and the fact suppressed by
the papers of both factions in that State, and
by the Washington Union here Can It DO
possible that the Union rnti6ed union Of these
two factions of the Democratic party of the
Empire State-the President-Making State--on
the basis Of nomination Of Martin Van Buren,
as the Democratic candidate for the next Prcsi.
dency! Can it he possible that this nomina-
ton was made by vote of 90 to AZ? Yet the
statement is positively mads by the Ewning
Post Can it be possible that any Democrat Of
the South will acknowledge connection with
Northern Democracy after this Can it be pos
sible that the Post relies on the general re-adop-
ton Of the resolutions Of lS4o. by one Of which
Van Buren was nominated, as the ground for
asserting that he was nominated by the late
Convention for the merit Presidency? Or can it
be possible that the Posi-, an organ Of the re-
organized Democracy, is capable of resorting to
such fraud to reconcile its Free-so and Abo-
lition allies to the coalition?
THE DEMOCRATIC STATE CoxvExT1os AND
THE NATIONAL ERA-We have marked the
acrimonious tone adopted by the National Era,
in commenting upon the resolutions Of our late
Democratic Convention at Syracuse, with some
surprise. It is true that some Of those resolu-
tions were ridiculous, and some perhaps little
unreasonable but then, others were very well,
and considering the distracted condition of our
party, ought to hnve been source Of gratifca-
ton, rather than of complaint, to the friends Of
freedom. We think it as much of a triumph as
ought to have been expected from us, to have
nominated Martin Van Buren rs our candidate
for the Presidency, and by significant and en-
phatic silence, to hav6 rebuked the course of
Senator Dickinson. And yet both these impor-
tant results were accomplished. A committee,
composed Of maj, rity Of pro-slavery men, re-
Dickinson's course ); and similar resolution,
when afterwards offered in Convention, was
unanimously rejected, on a vote for the previous
question.
Within fifteen minutes after this mcritorious
act, the Convention adopted the following
among other resolutions reported by the same
committee
Resolred, THAT THIS CONVENTION DO PRESENT
THE NAME OF MARTIN VAN BUREN TO THE PEo-
PIE AS THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR THE
OFFICE OF PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,
AND THAT WE WILL SPARE NO HONORABLE MEANS
TO SECURE HIS ELECTION
This resolution was adopted without debate
by a vote of SO ty ~, and, but for its having
been put to the Convention in connection with
another resolution cOngratuatng the country
doubtless have passed unanimously.
But let us now look Mt the Wing Conyer-
tons Of Massachusetts and New York, which
met respectively at Worcester and Syracuse, the
following resolutions were adopted, in Mass:-
cllusetts unanimously, in New York by vote
of nearly two to onc
Swaca.se--185O. Worcesfer-l65O
Resoired, that the admis- Resoiped, That Massa-
sion of California into chusetts avows her una-
the Union us State, and terable determination to
with free Constitution, maintain all the princi-
meets with our heurty Piles and purposes she
appreciation and as ter has, in times past affirm
ritorial governments are ed and reafrmed in rela
established for New lation to the extension
Mexico and Utah, with Of slavery; and the mea-
out any prohibitory sure of success which
clause, on the assump- has attended her exer-
ton that slavery is ex- tions is new incentive
cloded by other causes, it to continue and perse-
is the solemn duty Of we're in all constitutional
Coruro~s ovtond hA offnrta. till the great md
Jeffersonian ordinance gaod work shall be ac-
over those territories .complished and perfect-
the first indication that ed:
slavery or involuntary Resolved, That it is the
seryt.ide is likely to be duty Of all true friends
introduced into them. of freedom, in and out
of Congress, to watch
the progress of the pre-
sent free Territories Of
New Mexico and Utah,
and to favor the adop-
ton CT all practicable
measures TO secure their
early admission States
into the Union, with con-
stitutons like that Of
their elder and free sister
n. California.
Can it be possible that the Wings of tho
South acknowledge party connection with the
Wings Of Massachusetts and New York Can
it be possible that while both parties conspirc
at the North, to perpetra'e plumber and outrage
on the South, that Wings or Democrats at tho
South will refuse to unite with each other, for
their own rights, for their own honor, for their
own firesides!
If such be the results Of party, and Of union,
let them perish forever: and let the people of
the South arise, and crush the foul combina-
ton Of fraud, of Hypocrisy, of sp,ils-of sate-
less aggression, and of pusillanimous submis-
sion.
RYg- We see that several Of our cotempora-
ries (who cannot certainly have looked beyond
the covers) are aading new novel, "The Monk
Knight of ST. John.' 1t is work no decent
man would read beyond the first chapter, and