Daily American telegraph., 1852-06-28
The Way Il w.s Done.


tial candidate of the Democratic party has osen
matter of great surprise to outsiders put 70
the initiated in party management tnere Is nc
difficulty in solving the riddle some people
think that the nomination was the result Of ac-
A cident. but never was there result brought
about by more astute maneuyring.
II was deemed expedient to have "a North
ern man with Southern principles" and expert
ence had shown that Franklin Pierce was such a
man.
The next question to be settled was, how Mr..
Pierce could be made the candidate, to the ex-
clusion of Cass, Buchanan, Douglas, and other
Northern men, who stood prominently before the
country, but whose opinions on internal improve
ment and the protective policy were not deemed
sufficiently clear to satisfy the free-traders and
anti-internal-improvemen men Of the South A
trap was then set by Mr.. Scott, of Richmond,
who knowing that the Compromise was the
hobby of the day, wrote to the different candi-
dates for the nomination, making "finality" on
that subject the ostensible point upon which the
choice would turn
As was anticipated, all of the persons to
whom letters were addressed ran their necks
into the nooses which had been prepared for
them, and were in hurry to sign their own
death-warrants Answers were returned to Mr..
Scotes letters, pledging the various writer's to
support of the fnality of the Compromise, with
the exception Of Mr.. Pierce, who, by some
strange fatality, was not at home, and did not
receive the letter addressed to him To the
Gam fhnrp oh
necessary. They knew their man; and the North
ern Democracy, Freesoilers and all, were left at
liberty to vote for Mr.. p, who had not committed
himself on the Compramise question.
The Convention met First came up one of
the prominent men, and then another, but all
Of course without success; for how could any one
succeed, committed rs all were, with the Free
soilers on one side and the I" fre-eaters" on the
other, and the two thirds rule in force?
Then came the crisis of the game. All had
been weighed in the balance and found wanting,
when, 10 and behold Mr.. Barbour, of Vir-
ginia announces the vote of Virginia--of the "Old
Dominion" the 'Mother of States"-for PIERCE
The fnessc is successful The Northern and
Western States rush to the support of Mr.. Pierce
as a Northern man," while the Southern States
so it with a rush for Southern principles, -
and he is nominated by acclamation, and Cass
& Co. aud their friends are did lied and done
up!
1t remains now to be seen how far the honest
Democrats of the North, East, and West will
bear with this Infamous trick, and suffer them
selves to be made the dupes of mere party names.
We shall see whether the Democracy Of the lake
country will suffer themselves to be hoodwinked
and led blindfold into the support of policy
which, however palatable to the Southern Demo-
Gratis of the Atlantic States, is to put an end to
all improvement in harbors on the lakes and how
far the manufacturers of the Eastern and Middle
States will suffer themselves to be cajoled by free
traders, who care nothing for American industry,
unless it be engaged in producing the material
to be worked up by foreign manufacturers.
Let the Democrats of Michigan, Wisconsin, In
diana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Ohio, Kentucky
Pennsylvania New York, &c., say whether they
will be chained to the car Of the Juggernaut
which is to trample down their prosperity Let
them say whether the commerce of the lakes,
SURPRISING as it does in Importance all our trans
atlantic commerce. is to be left at the mercy Of the
winds and waves, unaided and unprotected
The party managers of the Democracy may
think themselves very cute, and chuckle over the
result Of their tricks but the freemen of this
country will not be deceived by them. The well
fare of the Whols Union is the object they would
promote; and they will not choose for that pur-
pose "a Northern man with Southern princi-
North, no South, no East, no West" but one who
has "served the Union for forty-odd years." and
who feels himself "a CITIZEN OF EVERY PART OF