New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-10

thirty the whole number cast; but of these six
were from the States south OF the Potomac, and
those ,ix from single State, that OF South Car
olps; Virgins, which bad meanwhile taken
the lead. rsnip Of III, Southern sectional party
refusing any longer 10 give him vote. 1t Is
true that the Virginia, North Carolina, and
Georgia electors gave their second ballot for
G.o,ge ChrtjD OF New York; but so far from
receiving those votes in his character of North
ern mar, ard az a reoresentiriTe Of Northern
IDEAS, Clinton o~ed them entirely to bis repu-
tstion Of being NOr'heru man with southern
principes-in modern phrase a doughface-in
which character alone has any Northern man
ever received more than beggarly hslfd)zen
Of scattering Sjuthern electoral votes.
The choice couiDg OIL of Presidential sue
cessor 10 Washington, the secionalism of the
South ives LOW displayed with increasing yio-
lence IL was Ia vain that Washington protes-
TED against il ia his Farewell Address. To that
Address and its solemn warnings, which they
ere so fond of recommending to us, the Slave
holders did not psy then, nor have they ever
paid since. the slightest regard. The electors
in Virginia and one in NershCsrolina, voted in
solid sectional phalaDx against Adams, who
was chosen President--the only Northern Pres
ident tie people of the r hern States always
a majority, and constantly increasing major
ity) were allowed for the first toirty-two years
of the FEDERAL Governmeut-by siogle vote,
and that given to him, it is probable with
view 10 the Vice Presidency merely, since tue
same eector who gave it voted also for Jetfer-
str.
Four years after followed the great struggle
Of 1850. which resulted through the detection of
the doughfaces of New-York, led by Aaron
Burr, in placing in the hands of the slave
drivers, disguised for the occasion aud palm d
off upon the good people of IN Use States "a ultra
national Democrats, that absolute control of the
general Government which they have ever
stree continued to keep, growing more aud
more open and bsrelaced. On that occasion
Adams received but four votes from the south
eide Of the Pot, mac, given by the State of
North Carolina, which now took her turn at
feeble attempt at nitionAlism, in which she
proved no more steady perseyering than
Virginia ana South Carolina had done before
her, an effort which no Soathern State was ever
known to repeat.
Southern slave. driving sectionslsm being thus
Triumphant ard in possession of the NatiOnalGoy
eminent, for the next four aud twenty years not
single vote was given south OF the Potomac
for Northern man for President! The aspira-
tions of George Clinton, of De Witt Clinton,
and Of Daniel ID. Tompkins to that office were
denounced in that quarter as little short OF high
treason, beog spoken Of indeed by the south
eIn OlieaTchs and their doughiace Northern allies
in much more disrespect:ul, bee iuse more inso-
lent, terms than those III which the movement
now going on at the North is characterized by
the same sort of peopl, John Quincy Adams's
aspirations to the Presidency, notwithstanding
the services rendered by him to the Southern
Oligarchs. aud vanly pleaded by him as similar
services had been pleaded just as yainly by the
two Clntons and by TOmpkins, were treated
much in the same way. In the election of 1924
re got but two votes south of the Potomac, and
th.se from the half French State Of Louisiana.
IN the election of 1929 be got none at ali
From this review it appears thai for the first
forty-eigbt years under the FederilCo astitution,
down TO the election Of Martin Van Barren, only
fifteen electoral votes were cast south of the
Potomac for any Northern candidate for the
Presidency. We might indeed properly limit
this numberto four since the five votes given
TO John Adams in 1859 aud the six of 1893 were
given with perfect kuOwledge that they would
only count toward making him Vice.President.
Nor did this Southern sectiOnalism by any
means satisfy itself with the Presidency alone.
The Speakersbip of the House of Representa-
tiyes Except for year or twO), and with it the
Arrangement of the Committees of that body,
the Chief Justiceship Of the Court of the
United States, aud majority of the seats on
that bench, have been held evers since JefIcrsons
triumph by Shareholders who thus have had the
control-small minority as they were-of all
the great departments Of the Federal Govern
ment, Executive, Legislative and Judicial.
Now, supposiDg that something of the same
sort should be acted over again, only that for
the next eight-and-forty years it should be the
North and the non-slav eholders-whO, as it hap
pens, are large and increasing msjority-in-
stead Of dwin6 ling Southern and slayeh ding
minority, that should have the monopoly of the
Presidency. Of the great Federal Offices, and the
complete control Of all the others: will anybO iy
pretend that in such a case the South and the
sayebolder.-to say nothing of what might be
expected from patriotic submission to consti-
tut,d suthori y-would not find quite as many
prudential reasons as the North so long did for
quiet submission 10 what under the circum-
slances is not to be helped, or at least for re-
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