Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1852-03-20
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SATURDAY MARCH 90, 1852.
PRESIDENT Making.

oot thiOhehs among the candidates for
nomination to the Presidency, as the time
liked for the National Conventions draw near.
Gentlemen ambitious of dispensing the govern
ment patronage are bidding for votes, and dodg-
Ing principles, with all the address of harlequins;
and ciiques of lawyers, and coteries of politicians
are scheming and plotting in their several inter-
ests No man can hope or expect to become
Chief Magistrate OF this republic, from intrinsic
merit. "A true man has only one aspect, and
presents the same appearance to the shareholders
OF the South that he does to the freeman of the
North, to the native citizen and to the natural
lied citizen, to states-rights men and to cenra-
zationsts Such man cannot, under present
circumstances, be elected President, and there
fore he who would be so, must be made by his
part'zans, tc seem as many men as the colors and
compilations of the parties he wishes TO conciliate
He must be all things TO all, and it is wonderful
| to behold the rapid and multifarous stages of
transmigration through which the several ambi-
tous aspirants are now passing.
1t would seem from present indications, that
none of the old platforms viii be sufficient for the
two nun ericalIy great parties. The leaders of
the Northern Wings have certainly abandoned
all their old anti-slavery ground, and go in for
eating as much Southern dirt as the pro-savery
section of the party Pleases to present to them.
Will the leaders Of the Northern Democracy go
in for the abandonment of their doctrines of State
Rights, and the endorsement Of the compromises?
The issue Of the elections in ENew Hampshire,
and certain other indications, seem to show that
that they will not unanimously sustain them.
Mr.. Cobb Of Georgia, was lately received with
great demonstrations ofregard by the Tammany
Han Democrats of New York ard made them
speech. In which he announced the principles on
which the Democratic party is to stand in the
next Presidential election. He said:
s'We ia The South look more TO the PRINCIPLES
than to the names of men.-( Grand Sachem-
give US the principles Of 1914 and IS4S1-Yes,
and all other principles you are not ashamed or
afraid to avow. Therefore, affirm The .fnality
aud .fdSt1sfut enforcement Of the Compromise, il
Illustrative it is of thuse Democratic principles
so often proclaimed by the Democracy. When
these principles are laiddown, then put up Your
candidate and the Democra will stand by him
in New York, and stand by him in Georgia, and
there will be triumphant chain of success
from North to South
Mr. Cobb's speech is declaration thatthe prin-
ciples Of 1874 and lS4S will not do in 1851
There must be new graft on the old stock; the
graft of the compromise, which supervenes the
principles of 1844 and lS4S; otherwise the South
will net support the democratic candidate for the
Presidency. ,a
The compromise, or rather that part oft called
the <'Fugtye Slave Law is the cathartic pre-
pared by the South for both the Wlig and Demo-
cratic candidate. It is to be presented at both
Conventions, and he who does not swallow twill
be voted unclean by that arrogant section of the
Union. does not seem if any one now
named would have any difficulty in guping down
the bolus big ard dirty as tits.
Tby doing SO they can obtain power and ex-
ecutive patronage, they will not apparently allow
past principles and resolutions TO be any Obstruc-
ton to their ambition.
The leaders of parties would do well to remem-
Der thattise people of this country constitute a
very important element Of political power; and
that they are not SO apt to be affected by those
considerations Of greed which too often influence
partzans, and cause them to deny their past pro-
fessions. The instincts of the people are free and
humane, and their sympathies are with the prin-
ciples Of pure democracy. In the language of
Benjamin Hailett, endorsed by the democracy of
Massachusetts in convention in ls49, "they are OPP
posed to slavery in any Iorn and color, and in
in favor ofFREEDoM and FREE SOIL, wherey-
er lives, throughout Gods heritage'' A
fugitive-slave-law President is not, and cannot
be, the President of the people The fugitive
slave law afirms no democratic principle, but
meets them all with scowllng negative ANY
man who accepts nomination upon such basis,
is unworthy the confidence Of the people, no mat
ter what party name he assumes. Such man
only seeks power that he may WELD it for the
subversion of liberty, and betrayal Of humanity.
INDICTMENT OF THE PLUEDERERs OF THE
BARqUE MIssoURI.--In the United States Dis
trict Court, Friday morning, 18th inst, the Grand
Jury came in with two indictments, one against