Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1851-09-18
Locofoco Presidential Movements.


number of letters written by leading and
distinguished Locofocos in different States
10 members of the democratic National
in relation to the next Locofoco
National Convention. The committee is
of persons appointed under the
of the Baltimore Convention in
l848.
Several members of it held private meet
ings recently in the city of New York.
Prominent among them were Mr.. n. H.
Greer, of Iowa. and Mr.. c. H. Donaldson,
of Texas. These gentlemen, it appears, ad-
dressed letters to each of the members OF the
National Committee, consisting of one per-
son from each State in the Union--as well
as to few other persons, and received an
swers from nearly every one of them.-
These letters are published in the Herald
and occupy eight columns of that paper
They contain replies to the interrogatories
addressed to the writers in relation to the
time and place Of holding the next great
Locofoco Presidential convention, and incl
dentally the writers take occasion to give
their opinions on other interesting subjects.
Among the writers are Martin Van Buren,,
Sam. Houston, Levi Woodbury., William R.
King, and several others well known to the
country.
From these letters it is altogether proba-
BILE that the next Locofoco National Conven-
tlon will be held in the city of Baltimore on
the first Monday in June, 1852. These let
ters says the editor of the Herald, "disclose
the preliminary movements of deeply con-
certed plan for the nomination Of General
Houston, on the Free soil or Barnburner
PLATFORM" If he or any other distinguish
ed Democrat" be nominated on any such
platform, it will not require any very large
endowment of sagacty to forsee his thorough
overthrow. We do not think, however,
that the inference of the Herald is borne
out by the tenor of the letters.
Several of these letters are amusing
enough, and evidently were not intended
by their authors for publication. How they
came to make their appearance in the New
York Herald is beyond our comprehension.
Mr.. Hallett, of Mas sachusetts, chairman
of the Democratic National Committee
thinks the Democracy must, in order tc
stand any chance of success, sustain the
compromise measures of the last Congress
as the adjustment of slave agitation in tha
body. In this opinion, there are not many
who will not agree entirely with Mr.. Hal
lett. We have no doubt that the candidates
for the Presidency and Vice Presidenc,
nominated, by both Wings and Locofocos
will be thorough friends of the compromis
measures. None other would secure tn
vote of any State in the Union. Mr.. Hal
lett laments over the fallen condition of IN
Democracy of this State and says that ther
democracy is about disbanded and merge
in Free-solism, but portion will be left t
affirm the national principle, and when thi
is done the rest will hypocritically preten
to be with us, in order to resume their nj
tional relations in the next Democratic AZ
ministration." That the writer has no e,
alted regard for his political brethren in h
own State is pretty clear from what he sa!
of them. He finds consolation in the fact tn
o the Democracy Of Massachusetts will be
''mere cypher" in the next election. Th
! we think will turn out to be very true.
Gen. Commander, that wonderful Der
+ ocrat who represented South Carolina in Il
convention of 1874, and cast the nine vot
d of his State for Mr.. Polk, is in territ
n way. He does not think his precious sta
will trouble herself about the question
= who shall be the next Locofoco President
a candidate. Indeed she expects that s
i will creep, leap, jump, crawl, or turn
D somerset out of the Unon before any natioI
u convention can be held. He says that u
ID less Congress at its next session buy ba
Or California up to the line OF 30 deg. 80 mi
l and permit slaves to be carried up to Il
h: line through to the Pacific, and give Sol
ny Carolina sufficient guarantees that the Z"
ne stitution" will never again be interfel
with, but left entirely to those who are
it most interested in it in the States and T
ad ritories, South Carolina will certainly "sc
ter into fragmens the once glorious Unio
He has no hope that Congress will perio
10 what is demanded, and therefore So
'e- Carolina will be out Of the Union anc
u course uninterested in Democratic NatiO
'e conventions. Poor Commander! he '
IN never figure! again as largely as he did
hu the Polkery convention. His tribula
'h- soul finds little comfort in the reflect