The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-12-12

relation to the results Of the recent State cleo
tons. In Maryland, time out of mind. two 0
the congressional districts have been whig-
The Dorchester and Montgomery districts
II Sometimes, the wings were able to carry one o
two of the other Districts but the first and sixth
were theirs all the while Two years since
they returned Messrs. Franklin and Sellers BY
large majorities, while the other four district
sue is made. Parties are divided; on the on.
side, the Pierce administration forces, usurpins
| the honored name Of democracy. and on thu
other, the American party, conending agains
foreign influence and for the reform ofthe polit
ical machinery of the country. And the re
suit shows that in the four democratic district:
. of Maryland, the American ticket was success
full; while in the two wing districts, they are
defeated, and one anti-American democrat anG
one anti American wing are elected. Yet the
cry will be raised, as ever, BY the office-hold
ers' organs that the American movement is
merely a whig trick In this (Natchez) dis
trict and State too, the same thing appears In
many places. Of the only FIVE wing counties
in the fifth district of Mississippi two, Claiborne
and Perry, give majorities for the self-styed
democratic ticket, while there is hardly a de-
mocratic county, where the American ticket has
not poled a much larger vote than the whig
party has been able to do Had the wings oil
Mississippi supported the American ticket with
unanimity, its triumph would have been mark
ed one. .e IA ..-< . ...
We had an incident of the like character in
this congressional district, at the recent cleo
ton. Rapdes, one of the strongest and most
consistent democratic parishes in Louisiana,
gave a small majority for the American ticket;
while St. Landry, strong old whig parish,
gave a large majority for the anti-Americans.
The true state of the case appears to be moth
ing less than that the know nothing movement
was democratic "trick." Is. ....... g
F1LLMoRE.-At a meeting of the Americans
held in Bardstown, Kentucky, on the 9Th ult,
the following resolution was unanimously adop-
ted: 0.
Resolved, That Willard Fillmore, 'the mo-
del president" is our choice for the chief mag
stracy of the United States in 1856, and that
we present his name to the American people
for that high Office, ''as one whom we best love,
most admire and deem fttest for the general
needs '-confidcnt that his election would be
hailed with qualification and delight by the true
men of all parties, who love the Union the con-
stituion and its compromises and in every sec
ton of the country wherever our banner waves,
and our drum beat is heard. He has Signals
ed his career by a stern devotion to the best
interests of the nation, knowing and recognis-
ing no geographical lines--"no north, no south,
no east, no west'-his public virtue and large
nationality, tried by every test, yet keeping
step to the music of the Unon," regardless of
the cries and clamors of the abo|itonsts and
nullifers, fearing neither and abhorring both,
and trusting to the ultimate judgment and APP
proval Of free and enlightened people.
Thiss well deserved compliment, and the
more to be appreciated coming as it does from
the old admirers and neghbors of Henry Clay.
The New York Courier and Enquirer, in a
leader on the presidency, observes that, dis
guse it as we may. there is no question to
which the public pulse in these States beats
quicker than to the decision of each fourth year
as to the occupant of the executive mansion
Mr.. Webster one day on his way to the Poto-
mac to fish, having as his companion, one of
strongest sons, George Ashmun
and as they passed the white house said as he
glanced towards it, ''Well, George, that as rath-
err pleasant house for gentleman to live in
The people think the same, and they perplex
themselves constantly as to the man who ought
to go in, and particularly as to the man who
ought to go out. We are inclined to believe
that the pulse of the Office holders cheats quick
er" than any other, outstripping even those
of the office seekers.
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A case of some Importance to the owners of
slaves, was decided, few days. since, by the
sixth district court, Baton Rouge. The plain
tiff sued for the recovery of the value of a ne
gro man, killed accidentally whilst in the en-
ploy of the defendant, in building wharf. tt
was alleged that the slave, although common
laborer, had no written pass to hire his time;
that there is law of the corporation forbidding
slaves to hire their own time, and therefore the
defendant was liable for damages. The Judge
gave the plaintiff !. 600 damages, with FIVE per
cent. interest from the day Of judicial demand.
Defendant appealed to the supreme court.
Mr.. Barclay, the British consul at N. York,
has published the following card:
GA newspaper, called the Evening Star, pub
lished in the city of Washington, in its edition
of yesterday, reiterates the charge that have
been engaged in recruiting orretaning men for
the British army, and connects with it the as
sertion that had written dispatch to hernia
iesty's government in regard to the ship Maury.
Whether the article in question was written by
the editor of that paper or one who panders to
it, I beg to assure the public through your
widely circulated journal, that both allegations
are simply and absolutely false.'
The Star, alluded to above, assumes to be
president Pierce's semi official organ.