The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-11-01

1T is now pretty we'll ascertained that Presi-
tent Fierce IS calculating his chances for sec
Ond term and when the National Convention
shall assemble next summer at Cincinnati, it
Is very questionable whether they find more
available man. As the South piH hare TO
elect tie Democratic candidate, if elected at all,
the South soiU be entitled to the nomination !;
and in the present confused state of party poll
tics, see no other course for the South to pur-
sue, than to re-elect the man who has filled to
the re,y letter all his pledges TO the South, and
who has nobly stood by the Constitution and
the Union"
The above beautiful extract" from the
Washington correspondent of the Charleston
South CdrotinG) Standard, is copied approx
ingly into the Cheshire Republican,, one of the
most obsequious supporters of the Pierce and
Nebraska dynasty to be found in this State
1t has therefore a sort of semi-otfcal stamp,
and shows what are the secret motives of Pierce
himself and the agencies upon which he relies
to secure his denomination. As the South
Will have to elect the Democratic candidate, if
elected at all, the South will be entitled to the
nomination." What confession for North
ern man, who, less than three years ago, received
free State votes enough to elect him, if he had
not received a single vote in single slave
State!
Why, let as ask, will the South have to elect
him, if elected? The answer is given by the
writer: because he "has filed to the very let
ter all his pledges to the South !" All! he has,
has he? And how of his pledges to the
North? Perhaps he did not make any. IF he
did not, but was taken on trust, so much the
greater and more sacred were his obligations.
The North thought the free air and free schools
of New Hampshire a pledge. The two mil
lions OF Northern men, whose votes he received,
thought the memory OF his father and the bones
of his mother pledge that he would do moth
ing to the detriment of Freedom, OF for the
strengthening of an institution at war alike with
the laws of God and the rights of man.
How sadly they have been duped and be-
trayed, is seen in the fact, admitted by Pierces
own household, that, from the North, which
rallied about him so overwhelmingly in 1852,
he can expect nothing in 1856. And such is
the sober truth. He can expect nothing but
the scorn and execration which ever follow on
the track of the traitor to Freedom. Of all
the fourteen free States which voted for him in
1852, not one can be regarded as sure for him
next year; not one as probable, unless through
division and distraction in the councils and
candidates of the friends of Freedom.
Whether Pierce shall or shall not be the
nominee of his party in the next canvass, we
must say we take little care. We do not think
| he will be, unless all hope Of success is given
| up. We do not think the South, even, will
stick by him, when the tug of war comes. They
| will by that time have used him to their hearts
| content.
In our Judgment, he will not even receive the
| compliment of a nomination. But if, contrary
| to our belief, he should, what then The writer
above quoted says, the South will have to
elect him y Can they 90 it Let us see The
| strength of the free and slave States in the
| Electoral College is as follows: