The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1852-06-02

adjournment and the succeeding session
, 1t is lucky circumstance that the uuan
; tity of new legislation does not keep pac,
with the extension of the time of sitting
The growth of the country and the exten
sion OF tho "area of freedom" of course
must take the responsibility, not the mem.
bers themselves, who, poor fellows, are
always anxious to get home, disdainfully
disregarding the eight dollars per diem,
which Cass Parish's restaurant absorbs a
large proportion Of
Correspondence ofthe Southern Standard.
WASHINGTON, May 25, 1852.
The Delegates to the Baltimore Demo-
cratic Convention are filling up the city rap-
idly, preparatory for the coming week. The
Convention meets on next Tuesday. AL
though we are here upon the scene of ac-
ton, it is impossible to predict with any con-
tidence who will get the nomination, if in
deed, any one should secure that honor. The
prominent Candidates arc Buchanan, Cass,
and Douglass. Cass will get the largest
vote on the first ballot but the two thirds
, IuIo will defeat his nomination, as he will
developc his entire strength at the commence
mcnt, Buchanan will carry into the Conven-
ton majority of the South, but his nomi-
nation can hardly be hoped for. He has
some anteccdents that will weigh like mill
stones around the neck of his party, and in
all probability secure the election of Gencr-
al Scott, who will be the Wing nominee
The hostility Of the Cass and Buchanan in
terests to Douglass, who is the junior of both
these old fogics at least twenty-five years
will very likely defeat him. My speculation
then is that neither Cass, Buchanan or Doug
lass, will be the nominee without some
strange coalition takes place which cannot
now be anticipated The reserre corps of
aspirants all have their strikers industrious
ly engaged in proving their popularity and
availability. will enumerate in the order
which conceive their chances to stand, Dick
inson, Marcy, Lane, Pierce, Boyd, Hunter
and Houston. II would be too tedious to
give you the details of the combinations
whereby each of these gentlemen may be-
come prominent. After Cass breaks down,
his friends will go to Dickinson, and when
old Buck" surrenders his friends will 90
to Marcy. The party will in making the Sc
lection choose man who can probably ear
ry two of the three great States of New
York, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
The city Of Washington is in the most
perfect political ferment | have ever seen
here, and the plots and countcr-plots are as
numerous as the sands upon the sea shore
The Deficiency bill drdgs its slow length
in the Senate, not yet passed, the fiscal year
expires the 30th June, and the probability is,
that it will not get through the house before
that time: 1t appropri lated some three mil
lions of dollars when it passed the House,
ha alr a1u
millions. Five millions will be quite a res
pectable deficiency in the last appropriations
which then aggregated about fifty millions
Of dollars.
Mr.. Bayly, Of Va, made curious speech
in the House, to-day. He laid down two
propositions, first, that repeal by Congress
Of the present fugitive slave law, without
passing another Mt the same time would be
unconstitutional. What monstrous absur-
dity If Congress We're TO repeal the present
law, and fail to provide for carrying out the
clause Of the Constitution, providing for the
rendition Of fugitive slaves, it would violate
its duty and act in bad faith to the States,and
failure to pass law efficient for .n:. r.. .,,ir
pose might De T,1.a..oii . vf the constitution
al oath Of the members, but surely no man
Of common intelligence could for n single
instant suppose, that the repeal Of any exist
ing law would be violation Of the Const-
tuition where rights had not actually vested
under it. Such absurdities coming from the
mouths of Southern men, weaken the South,
and the friends of the South, at the North,
and Bayly's speech 10 day will be n text for
the Abolitionists for five years. The argu-
ment was so weak that the widest fanatic
could answer it by logic and reason in five
minutes. His second proposition was that
the Compromise ought to be endorsed by
resolution. He made some shew of familia-
rity with English history, when he asserted
that Magma Charta had been rc-affirmed by
the British P::-liament thirty-two times
That was his precedent Bayly lost reputa-
ton last Congress as man Of talents, by
being placed on the Committee of Ways and
Means, when he was required to speak Of
ten without elaborate preparation, and am
! sure that his speech to-day will in the esti-
nation of the present House, sink his pre-
tentions both as lawyer and statesman.
Mr.. Carter, of Ohio, replied to him in an
extemporancous speech, and ridiculed the
Judge with pre-eminent success. He warn
ed the Democracy to quit tinkering with the
the Compromise, if they forced it on the par
| ty at Baltimore, il would result in their dis
astrous overthrow in November. He con-
eluded by saying that he would vote as a
Representative against the repeal of the fu-
gitivo slave law. Bayly got the floor yestcr-
day, and made flourish of trumpets about
the speech he would make to-day, no doubt
with the view ofhaving many Of the Baiti-
more delegates his auditors, but sr,spscthe
finds his laurels in expectancys TUNED into
reality. OBSERVER.
p. S.-Mr Toombs has written letter
home in which he denounces, in the strong
est terms, the movement recently made to
Georgia TO have the Wing party represented
in the Wing National Convention. You
will see his letter in few days published
He says there are bnt few hundred (less
than a thousand) Wings in Georgia who IA.
vor the proposition, and that at least forty
thousand ofthe party are opposed to it.
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