New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-02-10


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TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARYslo, 1852
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81 fr,sidsnsial Candidates at Dinner,
p,..;aen,ial os,,sIdates. or rather rival can
". ~ Y III dental nomination, love one
anathsr Thsfs can be no question of this
IL ~ occasions they smile apon one smother
Is ssv 10y; compliment one another 80 grace
my and every one Of them puts himself, with
s.lch nedest and touching self-deprcciation, iii
compaiison with his rivals. Every one Of them
is very angel Of charitable goodness oxide
speeches); or else. Of
Hypocrisy demurely looking down,
by But hid the dagger underneath the gown S
But If any one wishes an illustration of what
We say, let him read the 6 Proceedings Of the
Banquet Of the jackson Democratic Association,
washington, 9Th Of January, 1852" As q
Hcenic affair it was we'll gotten up, and offered
I u excellent opportunity for democratic aspir-
SSits Kossuth was very adroitly " secured for
tie occasion; - and in the halo of his popular
isme, Cas-, Douglas, Lane, Marcy, Dix, Dickin-
son and Buchanan, the three first in person, the
others by letter, came forward, like ''well
graced actors,' to play their parts in the can
vass for the nomination.
Cas-, by right Of seniority, played the lead
ing character, and made venturous bid for the
common object Of rivalry. He defined the
principles Of the democratic party, thus:
The ability Of to govern himself, the right to
and the duty Of submitting to the const-
the fundamental principles Of faith In these the
whole Of the Law and the prophets Yes, my felowciti
the right Of and the capacity of man to
himself lie ut the foundation Of the glorious nsttu
tions Ct our country.a
This is very much the creed Of the old gentle
man, who 6 believed in the Bible, the Constitu-
ton and General Jackson
We should think Gen. Cass might feel himself
too well assured Of his position to indulge, as he
does, in the humbugery..of insinuating that the
wings are not REPUBLICANS, that they have not
republican sympathies, that they do not believe
in the right of man and the capacity of man to
govern hinself-and yet what else can be de-
sign to insinuate when he thus monopolises for
his party these as its peculiar principles Such
insinuations are in the spirit Of the most bigot-
I'd partisanship, and must revolt the common
sense and the social sympathies of right think
ing and right feeling men. 1t is creditable to
Wing leaders that they never, even in retalia-
ton, indulge in such bitter and ridiculous stuff
Gen. Cass was, perhaps, fearful that his par
ty might have considered him tooiberal Of late,
and hence this In another direction, he is lib
eral enough He goes fully for intervention in
foreign affairs, and talks very loudly to the Rus
sian Gar, which was probably necessary on ac-
count Of the distance between them. Should
he chance to be President, we shall certainly
have any quantity Of large manifestoes. He
boasts thatsss every one Of the annexations made
to this country has been made by the men and
measures Of the democratic party He says
nothing of the Union 80 lately shaken by those
annexations.
q OF course, Douglas was up after this. He
went q bow-shot further than his illustrious
competitor, He, too, was in favor of the largest
annexation--wished ours to be an ocean, bound
Republic, Canada, Patagonia, and all inter
mediate. we suppose,) including, of course.
the islands on this side of the main channel of
the two great seas,' (there are Cuba and the
Sandwich Islands, and you are trumped, Gen.
Cass!) But Mr.. Douglass /" this side (Which
side!) of the of the main channel of the two
great great seas" is clear as mud This dis
covery Of 60 the main channel of the two great
seas marks him out as an extraordinary man.
and will startle the learned societies of the
world. He has another discovery, political
which is equally curious. He has discovered
that the whig party has distinctly taken ground
g that our territory is already too large for any
one system Of government We had thought
that whig opposition to annexations was chiefly
based upon their dangerous tendency to create
disastrous sectional issues He then says the
mission of the democracy sis the great mis-
sion Of progress in the arts and sciences" Mr..
Douglas has certainly done his share towards
the accomplishment of this mission in the
discovery Of ssthe main channel of the two
great seas "--'s In the science of politics and
government p is another item
Mr.. Douglas is unauestionably doing his share
in this, when he promises that a democratic
administration will build a railroad to the
Pacific; that is, will undertake the greatest
WOIh VI lntciilul improvements ana the greatest
monopoly ever known. Well, this is certainly
progressive" democracy, Mr.. Douglas has a
sweet word for every thing, States Right, the
Union, the Great West, etc. He thinks 1--WE
never knew the talking partisan who did not)
his party principles GO eternal" He is violently
and unscrupulously bitter in his denunciations
Of the present administration behind all which,
q man with one eye may see that he is afraid
Of Mr.. Fillmore's probable candidacy. He
represents Mr. Fillmore as virtually crushing
the ''patriot cause in Cuba, when every man OF
common sense knows the natives of Cuba never
gave the least countenance to Lopez expedition,
and that the report of revolution was a terri
Bile deception. Mr. Douglas was certainly deter
mined to make powerful bid" and did go
beyond Gen. Cass
But Gen. Lane was present. and as he had the
last bid, went magnifcently in advance of his
competitors. Hear how he talks. in favor of
universal annexation:
"I will say, however. that 1 would like to .xt.nd II,
others the principles Of Government and after tbe
have become Independent and free, would nv nnnax
ton. throw around them our protection Then lei am
Russian power say these people should enjoy liberty
and equal rights and the voice OF this people from one
end of the nation the other would thunder out in The
language of the lustrous Jackson By the Eternal they
shall be Free
sMy friend Judge Douglas has said OF the spread
hat he inS