The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-01-31

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sesvs IarRs fund ios aistributioa among the
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W. shall accordingly sse 4 number Of South
exa States. moro than heretofore, Involved In
various Dlegitimats and unequal schemes of d.
tribution and expenditure At the expense Of
those who have the consistepcy 10 abstain, and
Of those whose votes are not required. We
already see Congress distracted by the multi
pliuity Of plans and protests. Some very formi-
dahle achievements have already been made In
this policy, but we shall sec when the census Of
1860 is represented, an organized party with
new compromise aehsms ofspoils, based on the
policy Of grasping ~ much as possible, and d.
vlding It among ~ few as prudence will indl.
cate to be necessary 10 enlist in It's execution
The two existing great national parties wilt be
a. completely merged a. they were in the Com
promise of last session. The next scheme, like
the last, will be concocted on the principle of
including barely enough to carry It, and sub
mission to It will be urged on the same grounds
as now. Some Of the victors will get modi-
cum Of the spoils to talk about and vaunt about az
the price Of their agency Or acqulsscence- whilst
those who get nothing, with be entertained with
the dulcet song Of Union. or be denounced as .
pack of incorhgible factionists, who have always
grumbled at being heeced.
The Grst effect Of Southern infrmity was the
loss of the great right involved--the loss Of all
share Of the territory in dispute. The second
was still worse-the loss Of that character for
dignity, 6rmness, and faith, which the South had
previously achieved--a loss which no power Of
computation can compute. The third is the
inevitable division of the South, one part seeing
that power in future is conceded to the North.
will always be tampering bargaining, and shnf-
fling with that section at the expense Of its own
What is the remedy? There is no specific or
effectual remedy. But there is palliation for
this disease which may preserve Southern VI
tality in the States that oppnse, but submit to
the Compromise, until an opportunity occurs for
better things. The strongest department of this
Government, particularly when it assumes as il
d.. Lii I'll II. AL
tive. The great conflict of principle and Of
policy RACES around the Presidential Office And
most fortunately, this was foreseen by the fra
mers of the Constitution. They expected that
faction and heresy would divide and distrac lhe
people--and they provided by specific provi-
sion Of the Constitution, that in such an event
the election should be made by the STATES, on the
Federative principle, through Congress Well,
there never was a timc when this part of the
Constitution was so important as now. For in
the existing atate of opinion, it is impossible
that President can be elected by the districts,
unlesshe conceals or misrepresents his opinions
1t is impossible that any frank and consistent
ayowal of principles can secure majority of
the districts for any candidate, In fact this has
been the state of things for the last twenty
eight years. Not single President has been
elected, vho could have been elected if his prin-
ciples had been as we'll known before as after
his election, not even General JAcKsoN-much
less now.
The difficulty had become so great at the last
Presidential election, that the Wings were CON-
PEELED to abstain from declaration of their
principles at the Philadelphia Convention, and
the Democrats were compelled, at the Baltimore
Convention, to ndopta language Of such equivo-
cation and obscurity, that it could he interpreted
diversely-for, if General CAss had been sup
posed in the South to construe non-intcrvention
MS he has done by his votes in the Senate since,
ho would not have received a Single electoral
vote Of that section. And if General TAYLOR
had been suspected Of the policy he afterwards
actually adopted, he would not hare obtained
single electoral vote Of the South His origi-
nal and most influential friends of the South
cannot deny it-nay, they confess it.
It will be seen at once, that both Of the Pres
Dental candidates at the last election deceived,
deliberately deceived, one of the great sections
and that Of course was the South, the weaker
section
The conflict of opinion that compelled the
great parties to equivocate, or to suppress their
opinions then--and to deceive-is more decided |
now than then. 1t is impossible now that the |
Wings of the South who support the Compro-
mise. can agree with the Wings of the North
who support SEWARD. tits equally impossible
that the Democrats of the South who oppose
the Compromise as scheme of plumber, or the
few who acquesce in it as an Liberal imposition
of the North, can agree with the Democrats of
Ohio, who have sent Mr. CHASE to the Senate,
and want to send another like him; with thu
Democrats of New York, who in the Legislature
have two BarnburHers to one Hunker, or with
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