Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-06-12
From The Hartford Republican.
Tha Next Presidency.

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The old political stagers are all IN a quandary'
They cannot deciher the signs OF the times
The sEv has stringe clouds in it,-such clouds
as none of them hGe seen fer twenty-five years
The bunker demcrats, generally, are anxious
to harness the twoold parties to the remains OF
the two old charles, and run a party race, as
heretofore. The Seward wings would like to
do the same thing. with Gen. Scott for the wing
candidate. II t6tcould DO done, Gen. Scott
would, at the propr time, give entire s%atIstac-
ton to all the Compromise Unionlsts and be trl-
umphantly elected perhaps
But the old paares cannot be brought into
line and made d IN the old race over again.
What happened irl824, will happen again
The parties are rokcn. "Natlonal nomlna-
tons" will have lie OF no authority, next year.
There are variousuficient reasons why an old
fashioned party rae must encounter very great
/ THE old issue are obsolete. The Bank
controversy is setGd. The Sub Treasury has
ceased to be an isse. All the old questions are
laid aside. The Cd parties have no longer any
thing TO fpht aboubut the Offices and the spoils.
In a party strueg9 for the Presidency, they
could make no othr fight than to call each 9th.
er Whig," and %"Ioco,' and this would express
the whole issue blween them.
2. The hunkensd both parties have taken the
same side on the bGN questions that have been
raised by the pfeselt administration. They all
support this administration and defend the posi-
ton of Daniel WEBSTER. They must of neces-
sity remain togetBe on the same compromise
platform, during The next Presidential canvass ;
and it will be plank %factious in them not to act
together in the same party. They are not, and
will not be, at issue on the leading questions of
the time the questions raised by the Fugitive
Slave Law and The " pan Of adjustment" How,
then, do they expect to restore and work the old
=" national partiesF'
3. But, in the South West, the old parties
nave been formally abandoned. New parties
have been organized in their stead, and these
new parties repu date the old national parties"
They will not 90 into ; National Convention
with either the Wigs or the Democrats. They
intend TO make tleir own nominations for the
presidency, and D%tesent appearances Indicate
that the Southern" Union party" will nominate
either Daniel Webster OF Willard Fillmore.
A.. Moreover, as the wigs are not all Web
%sterites, so the denocratsare not all " loco hun
kers." In both PARTIES, tie dissent from bunker
ism is holder, mop earnest, more decisive, and
more extensive, tfan it was four years ago. In
both parties, all through the Northern States,
there are masses If men who wlN not be hun
kerized, who wiH iot adopt the new tests which
the hunkers are ANXIOUS to force upon them, and
who will make themselves felt next year
Just now, the huaker leaders Of both the old
parties, are extremely exercised with schemes
for counting the Southern "Unlon party" They
have not the manllness OF consistency, to follow
that Southern example, and openly unite and
form themselves into a new party. But they
court the "UnioR party" of the South, each
very anxious to exclude the other from the favor
of that new party. This counting correspond
ence is now conducted very silently and very
diligently. The letters received by the "Union'
leaders in Georgia and Mississippi, about these
days, are vast in number and very earnest in
spirit.
Now, the Southern Union party is composed
mainly of whigs,-Ubout four -fhths wings and
one fifth democrats. wan it be most likely to
prefer the bunker democrats of the North p
Win it be at all likely to overlook Daniel Web
ster? Time will show what it will do. and, if
its candidates are, Daniel Webster, for PIesi-
dent, and Genera Foote Of Mississippi, for Vice
R~4u+l~"t. . ~ Hh~-I~- r-Et--l An-ha-y
let every bunker show his consistency, by sus,
tanning that Southern party and giving Its nomI-
nees a manly support.
Meanwhile, let those who go for freedom and
the Constitution, against Southern sectionalism,
mark the signs Of the times and prepare in time.
In every State, let them go to work and prepare
for 1852. Why should any of them remain
scattered about in the old parties? Let them
find each other and act together. We shall,
probably, see some half a dozen candidates in
the field, next year. Let the party of freedom
5e re-organized and made ready for a victory.