The southern press., 1851-07-31
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is Democratic. This claim Of kin made by tn
leading Free soil and Abolition paper Of tn
North, with Messrs. FooTE, CoBB aud SHIELD.
is rather too significant The affectionate soici
tude manifested by the Tribune, the organ o
SEWARD, for the triumph of such Democrats a
these, will teach the people of the South thu
real tendency of events.
There is nothing truer in social and politica
life than that man is known by the compan.
he keeps. We invite the attention of the Soutl
to another fact. When FooTE last visited New
York, we believe just before the last session 0
Congress-, the Tribune came out against hin
with most terrible castigation, in which hi'
previous Inconsistency and vituperation were
set forth. Now the Tribune has discovered tbs
advantages to its cause of the election OF F0oTE
and comes out with the beast that the Whil
party of Mississippi constitutes his main body
of supporters. And only two days before tn
Tribune noticed with exultation the appearance
Of CAssIUs M. CLAY, as an Abolition candidate
for governor Of Kentucky, and boasted that he
would probably receive ten thousand votes.
When paper which rejoices in the support
of CAssIus NJ. CLAY, rejoces also that its party
is supporting such Democrats as FooTE, Cobb
& Co., 1t is the duty Of both Wings and Demo
Gratis to reflect on the signs Of the times. We
subjoin the Tribune's five articles:
GEoRcIA LocoFocoIsM.-In the 9th district,
John ID. Stell has been nominated as the Demo-
crufa Sfafoc ri<vtrfo, /oanaou;on\ nd. Dat f,r
Congress- The name of the late member, Gen
Haralson, was laid before the convention, with
what success the following will show:
1t seems" says the Macon Journal and Mes
senger, Z" that the names OF several persons were
before the convention; among othors, that of
Gen. Haralson.-The general, like the honest
Dutchman, had had plenty Of rote, but no elect'
he had the highest number of ballots, but not
majority. A motion was made to nominate
him by acclamation but the Banner says, the
noes came upon the ears of the body like the
sharp peals OF the many-voiced thunder" The
general had foreseen the coming storm, and or
dered his friends not to place him before the
body; but they persisted. A delegate from
Meriwether openly proclaimed that :" he had
come there instructed to vote for no man who
was not member Of the Southern rights party! |!
Accordingly, the chairman of the military CON-
mittee was ANONYMOUSLY drummed out Of camp
because he was not sufficiently open dis sunion-
list; while another of the delegates to the Nash
Vile convention was duly declared the candid te
of the Mcdonald party of the 4th district Verify
the curtain rises: and the horrd visage of dis
union begins gradually to appear in all its naked
defornity."
Only one Democratic" paper in Georgia (the
Athens Banner) supports the election of Howell
(ohk for hot NJ rohh l., N b,,
every Wing paper but one, (the Augusta Re
publicly The Wing organization, with few
Union "Democrats," forms the Union party
while the "Southern rights" (Disunion) party
is made up of the old Locofoco party, Judge
Berrien refusing, as yet, to join the "Union'
| organization. With this exception, all the lead
ing Wings in Georgia belong to the @constitu-
tional Union party" as the new organization is
termed. The Union movement in Florida, Ala
bama, Mississippi and other Southern States re-
ceives the great bulk of its support from the
Wing party, as in Georgia.
NORTH CARoLINA.-Every democratic" pa
per in this State is opposed to the compromise
and some of these papers are ultra for disunion
| as the most rampant secession papers OF South
Carolina; for instance, the Charlotte Hornets
Nesi, the Raleigh Standard, the Wilmington
CfmmE7ClOk, NC. lntTe Is cause IOT Ln8,
of course, the Wings of North Carolina being
oil "Union" men, the Locos have taken diff
ferent tack Clingman, the secession candidats
for Congress in the lst district, is supported by
every Locofoco paper in his district, and since
he ran the democratic" candidate for the u
s. Senate, he has utterly disowned the Wing
party, of which he was a member. He is the
only man Of any prominence now co operating
with the North Carolina Loc0s for secession,
who can lay claim of ever being Whig Every
Loco candidate of Congress is a "Southern
rights" man. and in the 9Th district Calvin Gra-
YES ("Union Democrat'D is supported by the
Wings against venabe, the regular Loco candi-
date.
KENTUcKY.-General William Morrow,
| (Whig,) who had been announced as an inde-
pendent candidate for Congress, declines, eav-
ing the field to the candidates of the old pra-
lies, Presley Ewing (Whig,) and b. l.. Clarke,
(Opp.)
The same game of deception which is played
by the opposition in other States, is practiced
in Kentucky. Robert Wickliffe, the Loco can
didate for governor, in all his speeches de-
nounces President Fillmore as Free Soiler"
and an "Abolitionist," (for certain letter Mr.
Fillmore wrote,) and says that all the Wings
The Hopkinsrille Press the only paper in Ken
lucky which leans openly to secession, is Leo
Foco, and is very much pleased with the course
pursued by Mr. Buchanan, of Pennsylvania, in
writing letters to the South in favor Of non-
intercourse and the extension Of the line of 36
deg 30 min. through California, with suitable
protection by Congress to shareholders who
should emigrate to California with their "pro-
perty" The Wing candidates for Congress
and State offices are all Union men.
ARKAssAs-The Congressional canvass in
this State seems to grow warmer and more
interesting as it progresses. The issue between
Capt. John Preston, (Whig) and Robert w.
Johnson, (Opp) is verv much the same as that
between Foote and Quitmah in Mississippi
Mr.. Johnson, bold man and Of somewhat ultra
tone, cannot abide the compromise measures,
and thinks that continued union promises to be
continued wrong to the South. Capt. Preston
approves the compromise measures and takes
what Is generally known as the Union ground
Senator Borland accompanies the candidates at