Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-04-28
RICHMOND. VA.
THE PRESIDENTIAL QUESTION.

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Since the clear Development in the Conventions
of the different States, Of State preferences in
regard to the next Presidency, aud in anticipation
of the general nominations there is comparative
lul of the political elements. One general fact,
however, distinctive and prominent one as to the
two parties, is observable ut the slightest glance
The Wing party has in its LEGAL oi CARNATIONS ex-
hbited personal predictions. it is true, but these
have been decidedly governed by and subordinated
to n unity Of national sentiment. With the De-
mocratc party while the strife of personal rivalry
among it, prominent men is not less intense than
usual. there is positive absence of any one COM
mon principle OF political feeling and action. 1t
is true dis He new fact in the history of that
party. Ii mas never achieved or attempted po-
puiai triumph bu BY means of popular fraud
The jackson party with its .iudicious tariff" and
its no-sarg avowals-its .'better Bank" scheme
and It's no-Bank scheme-its ultra State-rights and
its Proclamation prnciples--its practices of tu-
multoous license aud little tyranny-ts outdoor
vioenees and eorruptions and its indoor petty aud
Pettic0at iutrigues formed an amalgam in which
there was 30 principle of fusion or cohesion, but
appetite for ''JEe spoils - and which, if we may
give to ineable littleness the dignity of hiso-
rieal Illustration. like the heterogeneous empire of
the Great Alexander, fell at once to pieces in the
hands of its successors. Then came the Van Blu
rem era-couuption marked it for its own Born
in lies it had its exodus in national dsgrace the
very name by-word kissing, and a reproach
By Its Vaccinations for power the South was
cheated insulted and betrayed-''sold'' by the
Democratic party-in the then language of So
called estate man." who is now that partys
Guide Philosopher and Friend"
The subsequent successful and unsuccessful
gfasps of that variegated faction at the supreme
power, the Kane letter and the Nicholson alike
attest that characteristic trait--that compass
sing OF wicked ends by the worst means, at which
private truth and public honor alike stand startled
and aghast. Truly, if not elegantly, has the De-
mocratic Review, in its last number, denounced
itas Regarding party property and treating Ii
berty like niger, and itself, as its organ I'M
der its guidance hitherto, as the mere scavenger
of political garbage-the mere yagrant partisan of
hoary aud boastful Incompetence" And what
better auspices does that party now hold out for
the best interests of the country Is there par
tlcle more OF honest sincerity in its professions of
dlrectnesss in its aims, any less absence of that
greed tor spoil which permeates its whole svs-
TEN and makes its life For vigorous defence
OF Southern rights, stabbed at by traitors at home
and assaulted by enemies abroad, shall we accept
an endorsement of the resolutions of '9S and '99
For the enormous wrong of State spoation-of
the dIssoute squandering of the public domain in
electioneering bribery-shall we find compensa-
ton in the intrigues which are put tie a pre-
tender. without
sidency of great nation! Shall Pennsylvania
be cozened with tariff letters into the support of
Southern freetrader or free trade itself take
guaranty against protection and Mr.. Buchanan,
IN that good-for- nothing humbug, the Virginia
platform
In proud contrast with such unprincipled dou-
BILE dealing, stands the great Wing party of the
nation That party plants itself upon the Consti-
tuition. what it says, IL means. upon all subjects
1t points with pride and exutaton to the measures
and the policy of the prese mt national administra-
ton, to its pure faith its simple dignity its firm
ness without boast or arrogance, its catholic and
all embracing regard for the rights of all, with
out distinction OF sects of parties, of localities of
DIVISIONS aud sees there the faithful reflex of its
own nationality Of thought, feeling, and senti-
nant and wise, the Wing party labors and will la
bor-truth and reason the weapons of its warfare,
and honest conviction its inspiration and it's guide
Should triumph crown its efforts, its sweets will
be unalloyed with the thought of single sacrifice
OF right TO the false expendiency of the hour-and
even defeat will be borne without bitterness in the
self-approving consciousness, of that moral pur-
pose, which, instead of yielding to l-fortune is
hardened and strengthened by adverse fate
A Washington correspondent of the n. Y Tri-
bune writes that the friends of the various locofo-
co candidates are daily becoming moro and more
lrreconeiable antagonistcal and pugnacous
caas and Buchanan stocks, compared with each
Other stand at par at the "od Fogies board but the
indications OF in Of the former which
has caused holders Of the latter stock to say and
do things fatal to the credit and sovency of the whole
concern As one bFanc must fail and being certain
that its assets viii rot be available to the other dsas
trous failuroof "Old Fogyisn" seems inevitable
The stock Of Young America is regarded of any
basetepon securities Of an anterior era still tbis
repqaated stock Is the ayote in the streets among the
trrlhe ala Ia All oSer places where the outsiders
nost do congregae.g This split among the Old Hunk
ers and the rule ruin antagonisn between them and
Young America. make the assets of the emocracy in
the aggregate, totally insufficient the run that ia
sure 10 be made upea them.
Douglas aa s IL trading on borrowed bat nro
spectIve capital aud lhefgre according Ola Hickory
ought TO break ba5 it is quite certain that the
restless emerge perpetual notion desperate risk and spr
ltlous procvrss CT Young America viii greatly dam
tine business gsnents Of the Old Fogies that
salt calaor sase thl Tae Of the Hanker Dem
ocrats hsreabouts strongly marked with esons
OF deep concert tine Free Democrats and Barnburners
ar9 "9tug tleif thumbs at everybody. while Young
America ike alocoaioJs with full head OF steam on is
"Hred up to clear the track for 1856.
The prospects Of the various aspirants are dis
cussed from day 10 day with great earnestness and
zeal, By correspondents of the Democratic press
nf this civ The rartissns If Pncba,., a