Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1855-03-08
Thursday Morning, March 8, 1856
SOUTHERN POLITICS.

SoUTHEUN POLITICS.
a corr espoHJent Of the New York Herald,
writing from Washington gives the follow
ire information with refer ence TO the future
movements Of the Southern Democracy:
Sevcral Of the more prominent dem ocratic
Southern Senators aud members of the House
have decided upon plan Of operation, essen.
tially sectional in lis purposes for holding
political convention in July, and have selec.
ted Virginia us the State TO hold it in. An
address, already written, to the South, will
be issued iE the carly part of March. It. is
determined upon that no Southcrner shall
be presented to- the Office of President or
Vice President, and hat the convention will
insist upon Daniel S. | ickinson, of New
York, Tor first Of these Offices, and in The
bcs.owal Of their sufrragcs for the Vice Pre-
sdcncy they stand ready to support the nom
inee Of the Baltimore convention, providing
that he is not Southern man, and is known
to be II friend oi the South aud supporter
of Nebraska.
"The convention, howcvct, will lead in
the question Of President, aud its selection
not concurred in at Baltimore, will be the
formation of u Nor,hcrn and Southern party,
which canno, but prove fatal TO the democra-
cy throughout the country My informant
assures NE that the South were determined
!" t"ip move y" ,opt ,ho sincerity Of the North
on the question OF sIav cry, und in doing this
she should lake a Northern man for her
champion und stardsrd bearer. A journal
of this city has been selected the orgun for
al. Il No.. Il.
enriched from time to time by voluntary con
tri5ution from the pens of the most emf
ncnt Southern statesmen and representatives
The Southern democratic press will, AS u
matte" OF course. sustain the proceedings o {
the convention ns 80 IN as they shall be made
known. l. is intended that this convention
shall be represented by the first men OF the
SO uth,und that its deiberation shall be mar
ked oy uspirit of moderation aud Justice. -
The day for holding it will be decided before
the adjournment of Congress | his step has
been hastcncd and thought nee essary by the
rapidly growing influence upon the masses
in favor OF Gen. Houston for the Presidency,
in part arising from his Know Nothing prin-
cipies, which are sweeping the South.
Talk of Northern sectional psrty after
that you whey faced hnavos who supported
the Nebraska bill anl trampled upon the
rights OF the North. Talk of n party being
bounded by geographical lines, now, you
back bonc.ess doughiaces who rail at men
because they dare to talk ol Freedom.
Mark the cua ming Of these southern demo
cratic masters! They will not vote for
Southern man for President, nor Vice Pres
iGent. Verify seeming the slave trail has
nude them very acute--the r senses are won-
derlully on the a!er,. They profess 80 grea,
Il love for the North that they must have
Northerner for President. aud another for
Vice President. Whv! For two purpc ses (:
Fn&l--Thcy wish to "p,ll the wool over
tho eyes" OF The Northern Democracy; and
-Secoad--they knop from actual expert cnce
that Northern President can be brought to
do their work much more easily than u South
erncr They judge of the future by the past
and juggling by tho past year they know
that tho North abounds with those strange
contradictions - those anomalies in human
nature -"Norlhern men with Southern prin-
ciples".
II seems that the south in this move are
determined "to test the sincerity of the North
On the question of slavery" Poor doughfa-
ces of the North, we pity you! You are no,
yet devoted enough 10 the inte rest of your
Southern masters II was not enough that
you should swallow that bitter pill. Nebras-
Ia, without sugar costiug;-it was not G.
nough that you should seek to bolster up the
Fugitive Slave Law, alread, ten.fold too
strong for Republc;--it was not enough
that you should send United States vessel
to bear back To chains aud slavery the fugi.
tive Burns, tho stars and stripes, (ah, those
expressive stripes floating shamelcssly at
the mast hcad;-it was not enough that a
man should be lonud guilty and imprisoned
because he found man hungry and gave
him meal--thirsty and gave him drnk--na-
rked and clothed hm--in prison and visited
him;--it was not enough that Booth should
BIO imprisoned fer striving afte. the Divine
promlse-"Blessed are the merciiul, for tho