The daily union., 1852-02-14
ths New Orleans Delta, Feb, l.
Address Of jackson Association OF New Orleans
90 the Democratic Party OF LoulsisAa

FELLOW CITIZENS: The presidential election is again
drawing On the lsi OF March next convention Is
10 assemble at your State capital TO select delegates 10
represent you In the Baltimore Convention OF June. The
vote OF the State OF Louisiana must tell powerfully in
that great assembage and IS full time that yoa
organizing your primary meetings. and selecting such
delegates may faithfully declare your choice OF
didae II is at your duty and privilege TO
The respective merits oil the various distinguished gentle
men whose names are connected win the nomination
for the presidency and. having determined as 10 the quail
incaons OF each, and his claims TO your suifages, 10
select from the most worthy that one who Is best adapted
TO carry with his cause and administer the gov
eminent efficiently.
Believing that such a one is found in the person OF
Stephen A. Douglas OF Illinois, we present his for
your suirages feeling assured that while he will be hon
ored and proud Of your choice you will not the less be
honored by the prudence and wisdom oil your selection
Whilst other OF sister States have, with allowable
parliay, commended their own favone sons, we take
pride in looking beyond the borders OF own State
and magnanmously pointing you TO that noble states
man who, though yet in his early prime, has shown
lofty talent and patriotism, hedged in by no sectional
limits geographical bounds.
Stephen A. Douglas is emneny man OF the nation.
Boundless and free his own great West, his sym.
Pathiss and views are as , broad as the length and
has been before the people AS congressman six years,
senator four years. his irreslsby challenges
your admiration Even from his adyersaries il extorts
the tardy tribute OF praise In times when the experience
and wisdom OF other statesmen seemed to avail them not
and when their rife with political
so s,a to their fair fame. Mr. Douglas stood in the
sbiy and boldly meeting the abes efforts OF his adver
sarles.
1t ma,ered not whether the question was of the cur
rency, the public lands, the tariff, foreign policy,
slavery, (tha fatal rock which many OF abest
statesmen have wrecked their political fortuues he has
always and at all times stood, true and unlaterng by
the great cardinal principles of the democratic party.
Warped by no sectional interest," and blinded by fear OF
no faction, he has, with an eye unquang, looked calm.
and faithfully 10 the welfare OF every Just interest OF
Not around him are gathered the baneful influences
and narrowing sectionasms which so fatally mar the
prospects of most of leading statesmen lie is the
representative OF no oneidea party the object oil no ran
corous hostility local Jealousy, but, if elected, will
owe his success TO the unpreludiced and unbought
choice oil The great democratic party OF the nation
And we care not how true patriot any one may be- II
he owes his success TO any other than the suages oil
our great national party he must, 10 that extent be the
slave OF such influence, and so lar UNFIT to be the object
OF your choice
In every State, and in every latitude, Mr. Douglas is
known as a national democrat. And though he would
not yield one ot title in his principles 10 any or for
any influence, yet strangely mistake the signs OF the
times he would not beyond all others, unite the scat.
tered and broken fragments OF sadly divided party
Nay we sincerely believe that he alone can do it, for
whilst bitter heartbnrnlngs exist towards Others he is
alike esteemed by all. From him all know that even
handed justice will ow and with consent they pro-
nounce him comprehensive and patriotic statesman.
However much they may prefer their own iavorite
candidates, all agree in naming him as their second
choice, indicating most surely his high claim 10 your
first.
staunch friend II matered not whether before the nfu
rated multitude OF Chicago, who denounced the fugitive
slave bill as" violation OF the law OF God and man. or
before the American Senate where all the faction OF free
solsm watched him but TO crush him. he was the same
calm and determined friend of the South Although his
sympahies urged him TO give California, Utah. and New
Mexico government and law he never yielded until the
hateful non slavery proviso was abandoned He left
stone unurned 10 settle that dangerous and momenous
agitation through which the country has just passed As
the author oil the incorporation OF the principle OF The
Missouri Compromise into the bill for the admission of
Texas, he proposed the same principle IN the admission OF
the identical bill afterwards made memorable as the onni
bus bills OF the Compromise. And those were the
bills which, after the defeat OF the Compromise, were
passed by Congress in a separate form, and which
happily aayed that excitement threatening the very
Union with destruction
IL during those memorable debates that he was
told by distinguished southern senator. Mr. Davis, of
Mississippi that he thanked him for the fearless man.
in which he met the question OF slavery and that II
all those OF equal intelligence, representing like consiiu-
ences, would thus speak to the they represented he
would feel that there still patriotism and good sense
enough left in the country TO save il"
Mr.. Douglas has been signaly distinguished by his
bold and manly attitude all questions touching in
ercourse with foreign nations He has been always
the independent asseer OF American rights and American
privileges whenever and wherever they have been tram
Piled We have in his past earnes, oil the calm but
bold and spirited protection he would ever extend 10
commerce and citizens IN the most distant seas or the most
hostile atitudes.
Territories, MIR. Douglas is not the less pre- eminent lie
may be called, emphatcally the friend OF the pioneer
Perhaps no has such hold on the affections OF the
backwoodsman and emgrant and well will they repay
him for his abors in their behalf when his is offer
ed for the surages OF the people The States will
be the centre OF his strength and throughout their whole
extent they will rally to his support and never tire IN has
cause.
But we need not further enlarge on Mr.. Douglass
claims TO your support From The day he left the hum
bic shop OF the cabinetmaker Of Vermont 10 this hour
when he stands leading spirit IN The nobes body OF
the world-he American Senate-his life has been be-
fore and in the service OF the people Through all his
upward he has been the ayore Of Illinois and the
by him in his efforts TO stay the reckless torrent of ia
natlcism. And when once, and but once, her spirit
seemed 10 faer in cause his inspiring voice cheered
her again rescue and she stands true as steel
to the constitution and the South
Democrats OF Louisiana, invoke your sulifages Tor
one who the champion OF him whose life was part
OF your history We ask il for the defender OF the inn
for the remission OF the fine inflicted Jackson was
well nigh failing for advocate, stood forth and made
that memorable argument which, whilst II placed him
in the highest rank OF congressional debaers for
him the far nober return OF the grateful and heartfelt
remembrance OF the dying sage Of the Hermitage.
Fellow-ctzens, we propose Tor your suifages one
who unles all the wisdom and experience oil age with
the energy OF full.rpened manhood-whose sympathies
are broad the wants OF the Union. and whose spnt
is as progressive the onward march OF great re-
public ITSELF who, reveIng the past for its glorious mem
ries and conservative teachings feels that for there
are still greater and higher duties and destnes TO be full
filled.
his way by the toll OF mechanical ndustrynurured and
maured 10 the boundess praires of the Weshis life s
al once an earnest OF the energy OF bis head and the
sympathes OF his heart. and brghAnd cheering star