Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-11-13

cratic pa peIS VIII ue IedU Will iiiIcfcSt uI tnS
present time Those in this vicinity who
have claimed the election of CoBB as an oppo-
sition triumph, will not relish very well the
exnosition of their brother of the Georgia
Union
From the Georgia Federal Union.
The Presidency.
The call for a national convention of the
Democratic party at Baltimore in June next,
WHICH has been lately issued, will induce some
speculation and no little controversy amongst
the press ofthat party in the South. The utter
confusion which prevails at this time in the
ranks of the Democracy of the South proms-
es ANYTHING but harmony and good feeling IN
its future councils. Those Democrats In
Georgia who have followed Howell Cobb off
into the mazes of Whiggery can never wor-
ship at the same alter with the great body OF
the Democratic party who have stood firm,
and steadfastly adhered to the old faith. Mr..
Toombs, Mr.. Stephens, and his friends, never
did, never can, and never will unite with the
true Democracy of the country in national
convention. We have warned the Democrats
of Georgia against the coalition of Mr.. Cobb,
with Messrs. Toombs, Stephens and Fillmore.
This step so far committed MIR. Cobb to the
support of the administration OF Mr.. Fillmore
as to have precluded entirely the possibility
of his reunion with the old Democratic party.
While Mr. Donelson, of the Washington u
Mon, is calling upon the Democracy of the
South to cease their quarrelngs, forget their
feuds, and rally again around the time hon.
ored standard, Mr.. Cobb is proclaiming every
where in Georgia that the Democratic party
is dead, and that no other party claims his
consideration save the Constitution and Union
partv-a party composed almost entirely OF
old Wings. Such are the elements Mr.. Cobb
will bring into the national convention If he
proposes to unite in it. We do not believe, how
ever that such is his intention. We sincerely
hope and trust that it is not.
The convention which met in this place
! in May last, and nominated Governor Nc
! Donald as its standard bearer, was truly a
convention of the Democratic party OF Geor-
| gia. 1t is there where Wings as well as Dem
| ocrats in that body, but they were men who
| believed that the Wings, as a party, could
never exist again, and their patriotism g.
honesty directed them to the Democratic plat
! form as the safest and best refuge in the hour
! of their misfortunes If the proof is deman-
ded, let any man who doubt the assertion re-
| fer to the platform of the May convention
! 1t is Democratic to the core: the same prin-
ciples are there promulgated that have ever
| been the chart and compass OF the old DEM
ocracy of the country. Was there objection
urged by the Wings who had a seat in that
convention to the policy there indicated J
! None whatever.
We candidly tell such presses as the Union
and the Pennsylvania that union of the
southern wing of the Democracy is out of the
question. These papers have lent their IN
fiuence to the scheme of Cobb & Co., to break
down the Democratic party in Georgia, and
pave the way for a Whig in the person
of Hon. A. III. Stevens in the United States
Senate. Is this the Democracy Mr.. Donel-
son and Mr.. Forney desire. We believe not.
It is our honest conviction that these men
have been deceived. They have been delu-
ded they could not be made to believe that
Howell Cobb had been thrown overheard by
the true Democracy of Georgia; they had
eyes and saw not ears had they and would
not hear They have chosen their company;
time will prove how congenial it will be-
This assertion we fearlessly make, we offer it to
the Union and the Pennsylvania as a NOR
sci of our prophetic ken, to be laid aside till
called for. Howell Cobb will support Mill
ard Fillmore for the Presidency. What will
the Union and the Pennsylvania have to
say! Will they bury the hatchet-erase
their daily phillipics against Fillmore, and,
! with Horace Greeley and Cobb, shout hallelu-
jabs 10 the Democratic Union Fillmore tick
ct! We shall see.