The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-05-19
g. The Georgia Conslitattonalisfs article


which we promised on Monday, is a. follows
AvALAsILTY-TH Two THIRDS RULE
GENERAL CAss.--Ths Democrat who believes
that our candidate for President has only to be
announced to be elected-that he will be carried
triumphAntly in on the booming tide Of Demo.
cracy because large majority OF the American
voters are Dcmocrats-has moderated the difil
cultes in the case A majority OF the Amerl-
can people were Democrats in l848, as they
were also in l84O. Yet, gun-powder popularity
on the part of the Wing generals, and general
unpopularity on the part of the Democratic can
didates, gave the victory in each case to the
former.
And so will it be again, if the Democrats rely
too much on the strength of their cause, and
too little on the popularity of their candidate;
Gen. Scott can beat an unpopular Democrat and
the most popular. "Tippecanoe." and even
with the drawback of Tyler too," is typical of
what military enthusiasm will do among mill
tary people to upset the wisesl calculations of
astute politicians Buena VISTA" inscribed on
party banners, has given some faint foreshadow-
inc of the effect that /" Chippewa" Cerro
Gordo," Chspultepec," and :" Merico," will
produce in 1852 These catch-words, associated
as they are, inseperably, with the military glo-
ries of our country, are decidedly apailable-
particularly in the hands of party that under
stands the science of clap.trap and humbug to
perfection.
Now, the Democrats must likewise look care.
fully to availability. In doing so, they will
have TO come to the conclusion that Gen. Cass
is not available The lustrous glores Of his
broken sword, and the halo of military heroisn
that hovers around that old hollow stump upon
which that trenchent blade was shvered, if it be
not all an apocryphal tale, did not avail against
the immortal light that flashed from Buena
Vista. Even the truly splendid triumph of d.
plomacy, unsurpassed in its intellectual vigor
and its successful boIdness, the Illustration OF
the Quintuple treaty, could not vie with the
astute and recherche skill which guided the
Taylor correspondence, (the celebrated horse
letter always excepted)
How, then, can the defeated candidate OF
I84S, hope to wave a triumphant banner oveI
the political field of 1852, with such hero fol
his antagonist as the brilliant and magnificent
General Scott Even had Gen. Cass the epis
tolary powers of Gov. Marcy superadded to hi:
other gifts, they would not avail against the
racy author Of the hasty plate of soup letter.
Now, it would prolong this article unneccs
sarly, were we to go Into detail to show thai
Gen. Cass was stronger in l848 than he is now
The fact is notorious. His squatter sovereignty
doctrine, and the duplex construction Of his
Nicholson letter, which involved in lis mystic
rious folds that curious doctrine; and his re-
manning mum in his seat, and thus refusing To
vote upon the fugitive slave bilI--havc seriously
damaged his popularity in the South since I84S
Should the Constitutional Union party in Geor
gia, Alabama and Mississippi, run an indepen
dent candidate, as it may do, Gen. Cass would
probably not carry either of those three Demo
cratic States There is not one Of those South
ern States that he lost in 1913, that he has any
better chance of getting in 1852; while his
chances for South Carolina may be set down as
Just equal to nothing at all.
It is said that his friends who may be in
bare majority in the Baltimore convention, will
in order to secure his nomination, repudiate Tho
two thirds rule. Nothing could be more snci
dal-not for his prospects alone, but for the
Democratic party-thaI such procedure. II
would burst the party into fragments. Tha
rule has become time honored. 1t is the com
mon law of the party. To abolish it would be
an outrage that would be fercely and bitterly
resented, and those who would feel outraged by
it, would take stern delight in seeing the can
didate defeated for whose sake it was done. |
is very plain that the man who does not snf
GENTLY unite in himself the elements of popu
arity to get the nomination by two-thirds
vote, is not popular enough to be elected. He
cannot enlist the sympathes and active efforts
Of the whole party, and this is absolutely re,
ouisite to his success. Gen. Cass got two
thirds vote, and yet failed in l848. How could
he succeed in 1852, when more than one third
of the party are unalterably resolved that sit is
nomination not fit to be made 2"
From the Georgia Telegraph.
DEMOCRATIC OPINIONS OF GEN CAss-W,
have again and again made the assertion thu
Gen. Cass, if the candidate of the Democrats
party, could not get the vote of more than ont
or two Southern States. We base this asser
ton on our own knowledge of the deep seate,
antipathies of the people to this incorrigibl
stipendiary, together with the expressed opin
ions and sentiments of the leading Democratic
journals in all the Southern States. Thes
Journals without an exception, from Maryland
to Texas, declare with perfect confidence tina
Gen. Cass if nominated would not only bt
beaten but would divide and break down thu
Democratic party in all the Southern States
We give this morning, two or three specimens
from leading Democratic journals, of the opin
ions entertained by the Democracy of the sound
ness and availability of Gen. Cass. We nigh
fiji our paper with these extracts from leading
Democratic journals from all the Southerr
States going to show the deep seated hostilit,
of the Democracy to Gen. Cass, but these will
be quite sufficient to show the madness ant
folly of tho who still persist in efforts, tocum
Der the party with this exploded demagogue.