The southern press., 1852-05-20
- The Gsorla Consti.nlionalist, articls

which we pTomi6eoon Monday, is as follows
AVAILABILITY ,HE Two. THIRDS RuLE-
GENERAL Castle Democrat who believes
that our candidate fr President has only to be
announced to be eleted-that he will be carried
triumphanty in on ne booming tide of Demo.
cracy because lare, majority Of the American
voters are Dcmocras--has underrated the diff.
culties in the case A majority Of the Ameri-
can people were lemocrats in l848, as they
were also in lSi0. Yet, gun-powder popularity
on the part of the Nhlg generals, and general
unpopularity on part of the Democratic can.
didates gave Il dctory in each case, to the
former.
And so will i again, If the Democrats rely
too much on ta. strength of their cause, and
too little on III. popularity of their candidate
Gen. Scott can b. an unpopular Democrat, and
it will not be holI ay pastime to beat him with
the most poIQlt Tippecanoe," and even
with the draw oac of Tyler TOO" is typical Of
what military antn siasm will do among a mill
tary people ~ upset the wisest calculations of
astute politicians Buena Vista," inscribed on
party banners, has yiven some faint foreshadow-
ing of the effect that /" Chippepa," Cerro
G0rdo," Chepultspsc," and !" Merico," will
produce in 1852. These catch-words, associated
as they are, insepgably, with the military glo.
ries OF our county, are decidedly available
particularly in the hands of party that under
stands the science Of clap-trap and humbug to
perfection.
Now, the Democrats must likewise look care.
fully to availability. In doing so, they will
have to come to .he conclusion that Gen. Cass
is not available. The lustrous glories of his
broken sword, and the halo of military herosm
that hovers around that old hollow stump upon
which that trenchent blade was shlvered, If it be
not all an apocryphal tale, did not avail against
the immortal light that flashed from Buena
Vista. Even the truly splendid triumph of di-
plomacy, unsurpassed in its intellectual vigor
and its successful boldness, the Illustration of
the Quintupe treaty, could not vie with the
astute and reche,che skill which guided the
Taylor correspondence, (the celebrated horse
letter always exceptedD
| How, then, can the defeated candidate of
! lS4S, hope to waye triumphant banner over
the political field OF 1852, with such hero for
his antagonist as tile brilliant and magnificent
General Scott Even had Gen. Cass the epis.
tolary powers Of Gpv. Marcy superadded to his
other gifts, they would not avail against the
racy author of the hasty plate of soup letter.
Now, it would prolong this article unneces.
sarily, were we to go into detail to show that
Gen. Cass was stronger in l84S, than he is now
The fact is notorious. His squatter sovereignty
doctrine, and the duplex construction of his
Nicholson letter, which involved in its mystic.
rious folds that curious doctrine; and his re-
.maining mum in his seat, and thus refusing Ia
vote upon the fugitive slave bil-have seriously
damaged his popularity in the South since l848
Should the Constitutional Union party in Geor
gia, Alabama and Mississippi run an indepen
dent candidate, as il may do, Gen. Cass would
probably not carry either of those three Demo
cratic States. There is not one of those South
ern States that he lost in 84S, that he has any
better chance of getting in 1852; while his
chances for South Carolina may be set down az
Just equal TO nothing at all.
II is said that his friends who may be in 3
bare majority in the Baltimore convention, will
in order to secure his nomination, rcpudiate thf
two-thirds rule. Nothing could he more suiGi
dal--not for his prospects alone, but for The
Democratic party-thar such procedure. II
would burst the party into fragments. That
rule has become time honOred. Ii IL the com
mon law Of the party. TO abolish it would be
an outrage that would be fercely and bitterly
resented, and those who would feel outraged by
it, would take stern delight in seeing the can.
didate defeated for whose sake il was done. Il
is very plain that the man who does not sniff
ciently unite in himself the elements OF popu
vote, is net popular enough 10 be elected. Tie
cannot enlist the sympathies and active effof,s
Of the whole party, and this is absolutely re.
uuisite In his success Gen. Cass got two.
thirds vote, and yet failed in 1913. How could
he succeed in 1852, when more thar one third
Of the party are unalterably resolved that al is
nomination mol i'll 10 be made -
From The Georgia Telegraph.
DEMOCRATIC OPTSIoNs OF GEN CAss.-We
have again and again made the assertion tina,
Gen Cass, If the candid lte Of the Democratic
party, could not get the vote of more than one
or two Southern States. We base this asser.
ton on our own knowledge OF the deep seated
antipathies Of the people 10 this incorrgble
stipendiary, together with the expressed opin.
ions and sentiments Of the leading Democratic
Journals in all the Southern States. These
journals without an exception, from Maryland
To Texas, declare with perfect confidence, that
Gen. Cass IL nominated would not only be
beaten but would divide and break down the
Democratic party in all the Southern States
We give this morning, two or three specimens
from lending Democratic journals, OF the opin.
ions entertained by the Democracy Of the sound.
ness and availability Of Gen. Cass We might
I'll our paper with these extracts from leading
Democratic journals from all the Southern
States going 10 show the deep seated hostility
Of the Democracy 10 Gen. Cass, but these will
be quite sufficient 10 show the madness and
folly of tho who still persist in efforts 10 cum