Washington telegraph., 1855-10-10
From Ike Memphis Whigl
= l. IL E e 4 PIX E'S EETTE
The Only National Party.

We publish this morning letter from
Captain Pike. addressed 10 Committee of
the American party al Jacksonport. Arkan-
sas. who had invited him to be present at
the ratification meeting recently held at that
place
There is one PORTION of this document to
which we invite the especial attention of our
readers 1t is this:
Experience has shown us that the old
parties were poweriess to control their al
lies IN the North, and unless the American
feeling there oveFrnwers all others can car
~ with it the doctrine Of non-interference
hereafter in Congress. in any possibles shape.
ssi,h The subject OF slavery. IN plat form just
TO the South and true 10 tine constitution will
Yer je successful, NO matter by what party
adopted
Now we take it for granted that no man
at all familiar with the state of parties and
feeling at the North. will gainsay a word
that Capt Pike here utters In New York.
the great focus of Northern politics. The
friends of the South outside the American
Order, are TO be found either among tie + Ill
more Wings or the Hard Shell Democracy
Ne her Of these parties are. for any practi-
cal purDose. in tbe field Conscious Of their
weakues, iiey have snbside1 from the con-
tl.c-, and have not even appointed dclega:es
to represent them in the National Conyen-
tion.
Commenting upon this subject the Charles
ton Mercury. the leading organ of the Cal
houn Demecracy, says:
WAR. sectional war-upon our in@titu-
tions anu ri4hts-is before u~. And in all
the North. amid the nlarshaling hosts of an
ii-Slavery, the eve turns in vain to discover
anv hope of an alliance which can avail US
With the exception Of a little and powerless
handful, AL IS hostility and rernors-less ag-
gression. The Democratic party itself is
In wretched minority. and there remains
true to the South. the lesser portion only
even Of tIlat-the naiuorify of 1t minoyiky
Yet this Is the party upon which the South Is
called to rally, aud this the security in her
coming trials.
But there is to be another National De-
noeratic Convention, and accordingly the
SOfis adopted resolution to appoint dele
gates The Hards. as though conscious oi
their weakness. refrained from taking simi-
lar steps So that in the great National
Democratic Convention 1T Cincinnati, in
T 1856, the whole representation from New
York will be FreeSoil Is this an assembly
into which the South. and above all, South
Carolina, shoul1 be found? Do Southern
Democrats desire the repetition of the
scenes at Philadelphia In 1S4S. when
first Abolition severed the Democratic par
ty in New York, divided deiegation-the
friends and foes of the Souih-represented
that State. In 1852. friends and foes. Softs
ard Hards, united in the nomination and
election of President Pierce. Now, how
changed, In the Convention of 1886 bro
I ken, dispirited, overwhelmed, the friends o
/ the South will not be found; and Southern
delegates, if they enter Its doors. become
the willing allies of AbolitionistS, the partl
sans of their aggressors and revilers. I'll
couipanionship for the selfish and corrup
worshippers of party-ibe betrayers Of tt'
South The next National Convention vii
be to great extent nothing but an abolition
conyenticie."
Thus speaks the leading organ Of tn
Southern Democracy In reference to th'
Nationality Of it's own party; and. in th'
course of the same article. strenuously urge
that the South shall abstain from any par
ticipation in a Convention Says the Aler
curry
What, then, can the South effect by tax
ing part in the next convention She can
not nominate, and, if she nominates. canno
elect any candidate unacceptable to the Al
olitionists. Northern democrats themselve
will repudiate the nomination. Is not thl