Litchfield enquirer., 1852-02-12
From the Washington Republic.
The Presidency.

We observe that our Democratic friends
speak with habituaI confidence Of effect
ing change in the Administration at the
next election. II we remember rightly.
Colonel BIssELL has expressed him self
strongly on this point in The House; and
General CAss has spoken Of the Demo-
cratic triumph as a matter Of ascertained
certainty. Il is well enough. perhaps.
that these givings out should be noticed:
and that the people should understand
that the confidence of tie Opposition
tests apon no acquiescence or admission
81 the Wings in Washington. We are
we'll persuaded that the result of the next
Presidential election will depend on the
Nominations made by the two parties.
= krhe Democrats have fixed the time for
holding their National Convention. The
Wings, we presume, will select later
Aay, and govern themselves in measure
by the action of the Opposition. Itseems
? TO us that the Democrats will find a dif>
!. 6culty in selecting a candidate hom the
Wings will find great difficulty in defeat
sing.
:. The confidence of tie Opposition arr
ses from the union of the Abolition and
(" Democratic parties in the northern States.
/, The result in Massachusetts has taught
IS them. as they think, the way to succeed
7 on the national stage. BY clubbing their
: strength they expect to carry Ohio, New
York, Illinois, Indiana, and some Of the
New England States; and they regard
:. Virxini4 as too safe FOR the Democracy
:, to De endangered by any alliance with
abolition. The movements of the Barn
8 burners, and the facility with which tie
q main body of the Democratic party has
!. fallen into the scheme Of Blair, Preston
King. and the Van Buleas; the extraor-
binary manner in which these men came,
saw, and conquered at the Congressional
+. caucus-co compelling Major Polk tn disa-
VOW before the House the measure which
he had himself introduced into that eau
Gus, and which his friends had pre-an-
nounced with formalities in he news
papers-all these things indicate the
grounds OF the conf fence in which Col.
Bssell and general Cass indulge when
they speak of the approaching PresideD>
tial election.
In our political experience, we have
never seen or heard Of an operation more
successful than that of the Abolitionists
at the preliminary caucus. If it had
been part of the functions of this body
to elect President. we should have had
an Abolitionist in the Presidency as east,
ly as we have Linn Boyd in the Speak
er's chair. Whether it was that the
Abo!itionists startled the caucus by their
audacity and carried the body by sur
prise, or whether their strength was so
overwhelming as to defy opposition, we
cannot undertake to say. Certain it is,
however, that men who have been in
disgrace in their own party for the last
ten years--men who have been suppo-
sed politically defunct since l840-a ca.
bal of galvanized corpses," as Mr.. Clay
once described some of them-marchsd
into the caucus and dictated their own
terms, not even permitting the Compro>
mise men to m ,rch out with the honors
Of war. The feat was accomplished by
Preston King. Cleveland. Rantoul. No.
lony. Campbell. Blair, and the Ferry
correspondent OF the New York Evening
Post, who was the master-spirit Of the
concern, and the immediate represents.
tive of the Buffers, bikes. and Van Blu,
rens.
These worthy men imagine that they
can work with the American people after
the same fashion in which they control
caucus of politicians. They suppose
that the masses will sympa,hize in their
shameless combinations, and aid in the
restoration of the Van Burens and Ben
tons in the person of Gen. Butler. This
scheme failing. and the ground of their
hope and confidence crumbles beneath
them. Dives, the patty of the support
of Summer. Giddings. Hale, and the Van
Burcns, and their confidence has nothing
to repose upon. Gen. Butler out OF the
questionable coalition breaking down
and what Is left? Gen. Cass and Mr.
Buchanan Douglass and Gen.
Wool--Commodore Stockton and the
two Walkers-run through the whole
lists; and where will you find man
who can stand against the united move.
ment Of the Wing party?
The policy of the friends of the Ad-
ministration is obvious. Stand firm-co-
opcrate-arrange differences-harmon-
ize conflicting seniiments--organize--
understand each other sacrifice person.
al interests and animosities to the cause :;
and unite on the WHIG candidate most
acceptable to the people. If the Admi-
nistration party will act together in this
spirit, ;he Opposition will discover that
the people are we'll content with peace, |
good neighborhoud. observance Of their
own laws, and non>interference with the
affairs of other nations.