Southern shield., 1852-03-13
From the Washington RepuU ProspeCts of the Democracy.

at this moment. MT BUCHANAN, MT. DAL- LAS. and MT. NICHOLSON, we notice by thel papers. have been for some days soiou hing in the vicinity, with the charitable view no doubt of soothing asperites and healingl differences in the DEMOCRATIC ranks. Judg- ing from the appearance of the two organs ofthe party in this city-the Union and the Southern Preserve should infer that the mission of these sages and sachems tol this political Mecca is like Y to be quite un- avaing.
 Never within our recollection have such bitter and irreconcilable feuds ragged among "harmonious Democracy" as prevail at the present moment. Never did that party occupy position so little contemplating success. At the South it is soIabsobed by the heresies of Secession, practical and the- oretical, that its fate is sealed. Unhss the Democratic members of the Union partyl are more false and prohigrate than tie op- ponents they have denounced, they mast maintain their organization m opposition to spirit more eager, defiant, and over bearing to-day than at any time during the contests. The Union Wings will of course remain true 10 their connexions and lela- tions, and form the basis of party stIong enough to put down the actual and the amateur DiSuniOniSts. At the North the Democratic party is so entirely abolition ized and Kossuthized, among the Kings, Corrys, Glasses, Summers, and Van Bulens, that the tendency to open disruption be- tween the conservative and destructive wings of it becomes dai y more urgent and conclusive.
 Look now at the party that claims to be Democratic, and let us see how it is con. trolled. N is gorerned entirely by Me Buf- falO ConUentioniStS and the Nashville Con- UentioniSts. It is a pseudo Democratic party, and its majority is composed ofmen who are more Secession ists and more Abo- litionists than they are any thing else. The Van Burens, Blairs, Dixes, on one side, rep resented by and speaking through the old family organ, the EUening Post; and the Venables, Meades, Bococks, and Rtetts, on the other side, uttering themselves through the Southern Press, journal that las been diligently iaboring for months to stir up sectional strife, bitterness, and ami { mostly, with a view to the dissolution of the Union-these are the men, and these are the presses, that not now merely represent but are the organized Democracy of the country. These men, and men like them. wentinto the Democratic caucus at the con- mencement of the session, and pro6ting by the greenness and inexperience of the Eew representatives there assembled, passed the whole concern under the Caudine forks, off Abolition and Secession. They took entire control ot the organiZation--made the Speaker and Clerk-laughed down Major Polk General Bayly, and certain Union gen. tlemen of somewhat infrm purpose-and commenced their Congressional session. amid the shed groanS, of all the sound and conservative presses of their party, and the p9ans of the EUening Post and Soathern Press Starting with a nominal majority in both branches, the harmonious Democ- racy''--'purc and Simple"--cannot carry through a political measure at the present day in either branch of Congress! They cannot occupy together any ground of as- sauIt upon the Administration. They can not pass any one resolution, in our judgment, condemnng any one act of the admiristra- ton, or any one feature of its policy, foreign or domestic. If they think they can do it, we should like 10 see them begin to try. If the Administration is to be attacked; let us know upon what points, and let us see wkoI will make the most of them, the Aministra- ton or its opponents.
 Pretty dark days, we apprehend, are in store for the self-styIed "Democracv." Vel do not believe that any man can be elected ] 10 the Presidency who looks for his support either to Buffalo or Nashville; and it is now well settled and understood that Buffa,o and Nashville control the Democratic pa.- ty, and will dictate terms to the Baltimore Convention. Meanwhile the Wings are coming up kindly to the Compromise plat form of Whig Administration. They are in possession of the vantage ground TheI people have no sympathy with old section- al, lactious politicians who have been keep ing the country in broil by their narrow, petuant, prejudiced crimnatons. The re- cent elections have demonstrated, as a gen cIal fact, that Immense ma]Orltes of the people in all sections are in favor of the pol | icy of President Fillmore in regard to the Compromise, and are disposed to make an emphatic manifestation of their intention to treat it as ''fnaitv." The Whig Pres identia candidate will of course be called | upon to express himseIfin the most marked and distinct terms on this point, unless he is already in print in the premises, while the triple-headed Aboition-Secession-D mocratic candidate will be compelled to play the deaf mute, and neither hear nor speak on the subject.
 We fear that MT. Buchanan and MT. Dallas, and Mir. Stevenson and Mr. Nich- | olson, have undertaken more than they can