New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-06-07
The Democratic National Convention.

its existence, and dissolved itself into the ele
Inents Of Pierce and King The result is before
the country It can judge of these nominations
as it may think best. and must percmptorily de-
clare upon them in the elections of next No
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The wings can nominate a stronger ticket, a
ticket which would be more worthy Of popular
commentator, or more likely to elicit popular
hurra; Fillmore and Jones, Fillmore and Ber-
rien, Fillmore and Crittenden, Scott and Jones,
Or Webster and Crittenden, or Crittenden and
Brooks, or Crittenden and Lawrence, or Crit
tenden and Cooper, or Crittenden and Ashmun.
Fillmore ii the man we should rate first;
Webster second, Crittenden third, in the contest
for the Presidency, Fillmore first, for position
and merit, and deserving Of the times; Webster
for bollness and power; Crittenden for popu-
larity, gracefulness and availability
Fillmore is q true man; clear-headed man,
an unfaltering Executive, q Northern man who
has been unwaveringly true to the South, in its
ascertained Institutional and Legislated rights
His collection would be positive vindication
Of the just claims Of our section; and would
stand to oil Northern men, in all future time, as
a clear guarantee that the men Of our section
would support those who supported our rights.
This is an important point, worthy of the se-
fious consideration Of Southern men, and the
chief Recommendation to them of Mr.. Fillmore.
If we, Southerners, do not stand by the North
ern men who stand by US, We will dishearten
the true men Of the North into silence and in
activity, and behind their silence and inactivity
Al. II. 4
desert, pursuing an advancing troop (of evils,)
the peril, if not the ruin, of the Union. Calm,
and cold, and as clear in outline, as passionless
and still, as 4 marble statue, will Millard Fill
more stand in American history and the no.
mage Of its student will be paid to him in the
same spirit in which the Pagan worshipper
marked in the Parthenon some statue most wor-,
thy, in graceful and majestic portions, in
:" awful silence in &c marb1ed Stiffness in
:. speaking divinity Of his wreath of laurels
And Webster--with nothing of what we would
style the grand repose Of character in Fill
more-is amano of power. He has heWn his own
niche in American History. He has. in part,
shaped that history. He is part and parcel Of
it-one of its lasting monuments through all
ages Calhoun dead and Clay dying, he is a
Brodinagian among Liliputians in the politics
Of his day and country. He is the mountain top
towering above the dreary waste Of mediocrity
made by death's deluge. He is the last great
man Of his generation-the solitary ship upon
the sen, passing away under the horizon, with
no competitor visible upon the expanse Of waters.
Solitary, he pursues his course, the light of his
own genius shining upon his broad wake of fame,
when every great co-adjutor or opponent has
depository of time and the suggestive reflection
Of eternity 6 The Last Man . of Campbelrs
Ode is sorrowfully in our mind, whilst we thus
write Of the visible extinction of the Trinity of
American Statesmen Calhoun dead, Clay dy-
ing, Webster failing in physical power.
There is Crittenden, comparatively young
graceful in every proportion of character as a
Corinthian column, and as critically correct in
every ornamental development. He has behind
him noble lfe-not wanting even in the mill
tary eelat of character. Of this we may speak
hereafter. To Clay he has been what Brutus
was to Caesar. We fully mean what we say,
and appreciate what we say /; but the great, old
man, dying, remembers Gas we have reason to
know only love and service, and the creation Of
his own hands; and as there was none more
loved in life, there will be none more fearful
and regretful at the death-bed than John J,
Crittenden. Love and Memory will give abso-
tuition for the errors Of the recent past, and
Love and Memory will stand sponsors, in the
death bed aspirations Of the great Kentuckian,
for a glorious future Of fame for his most
cherished friend 4.
Let our democratic friends face these men. |
Like the Roman Senators Of old, they cannot
give way before the irruption of barbarian
Goths. They have past full of dignity and
fame--a past, the consolidated glories of which
might illuminate an historic era. They are
men, like Scriptural or Phidian statues of many
cubits above the ordinary height of their fellow
creatures. They will stand firm in history, as
to this day stand the statues in the Parthenon
Their dignity will oyerawe hostility; their
greatness Of character oyershadow all COMPARE
son, and their weight of service bear down all
comparison. Fillmore, Webster and Crittenden
are Men Of history and the last has upon him
the seal Of approval Of the Man of the Age.
The democratic nominations are excellent
In the contest for the Presidency, Cass, Blu
chanan, Douglas, Houston, Marcy, ETC., have
gone down before Pierce and King. Pierce is an
accomplished gentleman, who has behind him
some senatorial and military history, of which
we shall speak hereafter. His military history
is not closed to attack his political history is
chiefly one of yeas and g nays'-but he has
recently stood manfully and stoutly by the Com
promise, and his faith in and honest committal
to that, like the pool of Bethesda, may purify
him from all political sins, Of revolutionary
descent, working member of the House of
Representatives, an uatalkatipe Senator, and a
General in Mexico, he has capital which may
be invested with a fair prospect of large return
in political interest. And if we are not mis-
taken, he knows g how to play his cards.
The nominee for the Vice Presidency, as a
contemporary (the Picayune) intimates, is a
much stronger, and, in comparison, a more I'M
exceptionable man He has dignity, frmness,
moderation, and tone When we say tone, we
mean character-that we know where to find
him on every question. He is no ultraist,
though positive in his views on sectional ques-
tons.
Both come before the country under good
auspices. The endorsement of the Compromise
by the Democratic National Convention was an
emineptly creditable act; and if the Wing Con-