The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-08-01

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2 Dickinson is SO far compromised by unsuccess
: full revolt, that he cannot depend.upon the dis
ciplined support which commands success il
democratic conventions. The pretensions Q
ex-speaker Boyd are swelling like seed in th
ground, but are likely to become less formida
!; BILE when the germ is seen.
In this state of the game gen. Pierce vii
enter the convention backed BY the power ane
patronage OF the government. He will de
8 mand popular verdict upon his administra
ton, and will offer to compose the strifes O
ADLER men than himself, but who have notbjpe
more substantial than promises of future favor
TO dispense. There cannot be doubt that i
Mr.. Fillmore had been democrat, he would
have secured a nomination, and i5 is thoueh
that even the unpopularity of general Pierce
may be overcome by a iudcious use of the
patronage within his control. This is free
sketch of the scheme, and the means for the
denomination of Pierce, and certainly, if his
party is to prevail, it would have no more faith
full representative.
The Mississippian and other kindred prints,
instead of showing any objection to the Ameri-
can platform, which they have not been able
to do, confne themselves to misrepresentation
Of the objects and principles of the american
| party-calling it wing trck-the old wing
party revived-and seeking to prejudice the
democratic party and preventing its members
from joining the new party. Now if the new
party be composed of none but wings, why
should the democratic party be SO much inter-
ested in destroying it? Why should they fear
the old wing party, which they declare is dead
and buried? But they knO better than this
they know that the new party embraces thou
sands of democrats-and they publish every
day list of those who profess TO have belonged
to it and have quit it, and nearly every one of
them claim to be misunderstanding conclu-
sively that the new party embraces a large num-
Der of democrats. But when we show that
large number of democrats still belong to the
new party-when they know that prominent
member of that party presided over the Ameri-
can convention in New Orleans-that another
prominent democrat is president of the state
council, that they nominate majority of demo-
Gratis for the important state offices and for
congress throughout the state, all cherished |
heretofore by the democratic party, the only
answer these papers make is, that these men
never were democrats, DC.
The last Mercury puts quietus on this as
sertion, by showing that Mr.. J. c. Carpenter,
the president of the state council, who issued
the authority to institute all the lodges in the
state, and who is the nominee of the American
party Tor clerk Of the chancery court, is, and al
ways has been regarded as a prominent and
trusted democrat, and quotes from the Missis-
sIpplan to show that in 1914, Mr.. G. was one
OF the vice presidents of the democratic asso-
cIatlon-ln 1852, a member of the democratic
executive committee, and on the committee to
get up the great central mass meeting and pre-
pare "Plerce and King banner''-and a mem
Der of the democratic committee to receive |
Douglas, Soule and Cass at the grand baibe-
cue. 1t shows also that gov. Matthews, who
was never known to be charged with the mag
nanmity of appointing wing to the smallest /
possible office, nominated Mr.. G. as aninspec-
tor Of the pententiary-th in 1854, GOV. S
McRae also nominated Mr.. G. as one of the |
of the lunatic asylum-and that
he never was regarded as anything else than e
strong democrat until he became known as |
member of the new party-and there are thou T
sands more of as good democrats in it as Mr.. a
0. as the result in November will show. il
[Nieksburg Wing.
RETURNED TO kANsAs.-We observe with re- s
sret if not indeed with modification, that gov. f
Reeder, the incendiary executive of Kansas $
errltory, who melted the aboltionists to their a
awless and revolutionary proceedings there, is a
eturning to resume bis gubernatorial duties in Il
Kansas. Il was rumored that Reeder had been i,
emoved by president Pierce, but it seems that h
here was no truth in the report. The national h
Executive, we feel compelled to say, in candor v
yves it to the democratic party and to the in a
Iignant sentiment of the whole south, to find
IS speedily as may be successor for this man y
2eeder. This appointment was amistake-an is
innocent bunder, under Misrepresentation of n
lis political principles That biunder can be 7
est atoned by his removal /
[Plauding (1Iiss.) Clarion +;
The Plauding Clarion is, we think, the most :;
influential organ of the democratic party of -
lisslsslppl. Its immense circulation and the y
narked ability with which it has been managed r
or many years, have given it standing and a
over seldom acquired by newspaper Yet u
ne editor although partisan of the straiehtest ~
ect, cannot sustain the administration in the 7
ppolntment to and retention in Office of vio- =
mt and INSCRIPTIONS abolitionist Well, we :.
ont wonder. The strongest party stomach - -
ught to revolt at such Dose Crescent :.
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Monday morning, the 9th ult., completed -
le one hundreth year since the defeat of gen. S'
Paddock by the French and Indians on the
lonongahela rirer. The facts are generally o
nown to our readers. The defeat was total.
4 officers out Of So, and about 600 priyates ~
ere killed. A hasty retreat ensued. The ~
rmy made no halt until it met the division I'M m
er Dunbar, forty miles in the rear There -
Paddock died from his wounds The whole ~
rmy continued to retreat until it reached Cum ::
arland, Maryland, then called fort Cumber- ~ ~
nd, one hundred and twenty miles from the =,
enc Of the catastrophe, and upon the memo 40 40
BILE occasion were exhibited the cool iudg- :
entand Invinclble frmness Of character which
ade Washington the man for the great oeea- re
on in onr countrv's history. III