The southern press., 1852-06-17

~ The Union of yesterday credits to the
I, Charleston Mercury paragraph which appeared
in the Standard Of that city, declaring that the
State would 20 for PIERCEand KING ten to one.
A regard for truth compelj us TO correct the
error into which the Union has fallen. What
the position of the Mercury really is, may be
seen in the last editorial it has contained on the
subject, which we subon. ... -.
We have already given the views of the
Standard and Ecening Neps of the same city,
in favor of the nominees. The Courier stands
neutral as
.r Presidential Candidates
Our correspondent "a delegate from Aaba.
ma" who is gentleman of distinction in his
State and one for whom we have much respect,
has given exaggerated importance to our BRET
comment on the Presidential candidates of the
Democratic party lie seems to have suspected
that it was the beginning of a war upon them
on our part. Quite the contrary it was the
preliminary to letting them alone We have
4 10 hostility to them, but feeling rather kindly
than otherwise Not so kindly, however, that
we are tempted to Ielinqush the position of an
observer for that of PARTISAN; and if our cor
respondent had the advantage Of an equally
/ calm position, he would be one Of the first, we
are sure to admit that his sketch of the candidate
for Vice Presidents such, that no human being
could recognise the likeness without the expla
natory hint of the label ''Wm. r. King"
We don't object TO the election of the Demo
cratic candidates; nor do we suppose there will
be any but trihing opposition. to them in the
| State. But we have several unconquerahle OBJ
jections to becoming their partsans and disturb
ing ourselves and others with Unnecessary noise,
and fermcnt. Our objections are these:
! /. When party throws aside all its most
distinguished men, the only men capable of
giving consistency to its counses and vigor to
its movements --when it disowns its leaders
and representatives, and for motives of tempo.
rary advantage, crowns with highest honors, OBJ
scure men, it ceases in any respectable sense, to
be party, and becomes mere herd of spols
men. We have no ambition to labor in such
crowd. -. g..
2. The difference in respect to general poll
tics between the Wing and Democratic parties,
has almost wholly disappeared, and we can
conJure up no enthusiasm in the cau5e of
tweedle dun against tweedle dee.
3. But decisive objection, if we had no
other, would be found in what follows.
AT the recent session of our State convention,
Co-operationists and Secessonsts united in the
following solemn dccIaration ...
ReSotred, by the people of South Carolina in
convention assembled, That the frequent viola
tons of the Constitution Of the United States by
the federal government, and its encroachments
upon the reserved rights of the sovereign Safes
OF this union, especially in relation to slavery,
amply justify this State, so far az any duty or
obligation to her confederates is involved, in
dissolVing at once all political connection with
her co States, and that she forbears the exer-
else of that manifest right Of sef.government
from considerations Of expediency only
Now what we're the violations" and Ten
croachments" so heavily denounced by the con-
vention. All the world knows that in an
especial degree they were the measures known
as the compromise How stands the Demo.
cratic putty in regard to those violations Of the
Constitution" and entertainments on the re-
served rights Of the Sta:es!" The following is
a part OF their platform:
! ReSotred, That the foregoing proposition ca.
| yers and was intended to embrace the whole
subject of The slavery agitation in Congress;
and therefore the Democratic party Of the Union
standing on this national platform, will abide by
and adhere TO the faithful execution Of the acts
known as the compromise measures settled BY
the ast Congress, the act for returning fugitives
/ from service or labor included which net, being
designed to carry out an express provision Of
the Constitution, cannot with fidelity thereto be
/ rcPeales or 80 changed as to destroy or impair
ils etliclcv
Moreover, We know that If Il had not been
for the position Of small minority in the BaIti
more convention, this resolution would have
been made 10 express n hearty approval of the
compromise, a. well as pledge TO support it.
Here, then, in South Carolina, all parties hsve
united in dcnouncing the compromise, "a so IA
grant wrong that il justified the breaking up
Of the confederacy; aud il surely cannot be ex
pected that we should be so lost to sefrespcct
as 10 plunge into an electioneering campaign
for candidates whose chief meri: is found in
their pledges 10 sustain that system Of wrong |!
The people Of South Carolina have long ieit
that one Of the most fatal influences that brset
every good cause and thwart the advancement Of
Just principles in this confederacy is 90 be found
in the turmoil aud corruption Of the Presidential
elections. They have felt that the cause Of the
South hos been already sacrificed 10 the hopes
and iptrigues that cluster around this centre
and they will not 50 soon after the last bitter
lesson, make themselves party 10 this wretch.
ed scramble for place. and in the fermcnt Of
these coarse and venal ambitions, sink forever
all reverence for the past and all elevated hone
for the future 49, Charleston UsrcUrg
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