The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-10-01

as old line whigs-by all in fact who are anxi-
: Gus for the preservation Of the Union and the
: consequent perpetuity Of free institutions:
/ Mr.. Editor: In your daily of yesterday morn
. ing see an article advising your friends to sup
e port the democratic nominee for president, urg-
. ing as reason s'that nothing short of success
in prostrating the black republican party in this
: contest will save the republic Now we all
} believe that to be true; but the means by which
: it is to be accomplished is the trouble with the
: wings here. The whg party are not now as in
! days of yere--they have no candidate around
, whom they can rally, and in whose hands they
, know the Union and our beloved institutions
would be safe, and they are therefore compell'
ed to give their vote to one of the candidates
presented by the other parties.
But yet, Mr. Editor, our case is far from hope
less; we still hold the balance of power, and we
are the sovereigns who give the casting vote,
and hence the responsibility Of election willrest,
where it generally does rest with the old whig
party, whose banner is stained with the blood
of many victories. But her PALMER days are
past, and it is not her prerogatire now TO say
who shall be president but who shan't be-
We undoubtedly have this power if we are uni
ted, but If not we are shorn of our strength, for
house divided against itself cannot stand and
Inasmuch as we have this power, we ought to
examine into the merits Of the candidates and
their claims on the people. Now, I confess
that don't ike this democratic party; they are
our old enemies, we have fought them often
single handed against their allied forces. New;
SIT, suppose we fall into their ranks and fight
| their battles for them; so soon as we begin to
come out from among them, for nobody ex-
poets to stay with them, their steel, with its
redoubled energy, acquired by its late victory,
will be turned against us, and before we can:
acquire our strength, we will again be cut off,
and be forever kept down. But let US not be
too hasty in pledging ourselves to any candi-
date until we have examined the political ten
cts and chances of all. Fiat justitia, ruat coe-
lum. Let justice be done, though the heavens
fall In our just hatred to the know nothings,
Remember tI1ac -he. ELL more is their candidate
whig party of Missouri in 1852, and that he is
the statesman whose patriotism may be trusted
We have seen him plotting the ship Of state
through the seyerest storms that we have ever
passed, when the great deep of politics was agi-
tated from centre to circumference.
But it is unnecessary to mention his antece-
dents; his history is the history of our common
country, and he has gained for himself descrv-
ed honors, which no ruthless hand can snatch
away, and an Immortality which cannot be sti-
fled by designing politicians, nor ec!ipsed by the
great men of the nation. He knew no north,
no south, no east, no west-nothng but the
Union-one and undivided. We care not for
the political dogmas of the party to which he
has attached himse]f-they are hard to be sure,
but not worse than democracy. So long as he
points us to history for assurance of the future,
we know him to be the patriot in whose tried
ability our confidence may be reposed.
But let us examine Mr.. Buchanan's antece-
dents little, and see what his chances of An
election are. Now, sir, the southern States viii!
support that candidate who has always been
true to her interest," and the candidate support
ed by the southern people in the present con-
test will either be elected, or at least the fore
most candidate. Mr.. Buchanan has never eth
er by word or deed committed himself to the
Institutions of the south until 1856, and after
his name was spoken of for the presidency
In 1919, when the north had arrayed itself
against the south, and fearful agitation was
going on in congress in consequence of the
north's opposition to the admission of Missouri
into the Union AS a slave State, we find him in
a convention of his own State, offering inf1am-
matory resolutions.
Now, how can he, being among the first to
make deadly stab at the institutions of the
south, and thereby set price upon the Union;
who first taught treesoilers and abolitonists that
it was not sacrlegous to agitate this question
in the halls of congress-; how can he, after be-
ing the first to teach northern men that slavery
was against '.justice, humanity" and "pat-
riotism," and that they were serving God and
their country by opposing the admission of Mis-
souri, into the Union, with its slave constitution,
how can he ask southern men, and Missourians-
and especially the wings of Missouri-to sup
port him in the coming contest? Nor did he
make this his last aggression against southern
rights. After opposing the admission of Mis-
souri, into the Union, in 1919, in 1847 we find
lim endeavorng to extend the Missouri COM
promise line to the Pacific. And if he is to be
snown by the company be keeps, we are led to
nfer that he was opposed to the reception of
he Kansas Nebraska bill, which you have al
ways made a test of southern faith. Now, sir,
t seems to me that if southern people are true
o their interests, Fillmore must the foremost
candidate in the south.
COMMERCE OF New YoRK.-The month of
|une closed the fiscal year established by con-
,ress. The Journal Of Commerce contains its
Usual annual statement, showing the total value
If forci ign imports at New York for the year to
,e $198, 7l8, or $43, 7O9, ,192 greater than
or the year ending June 80, i 1885, The Jour
lal says:
"The impression with many has been that
he great increase in the foreign imports during
he last year has consisted of dry goods, most
y fabrics which might as well have been made
'ere. This is not, however, the case. In for
ner years the receipts of dry goods formed
bout one half of the imports--thus, in 1854
he imports of dry goods were S92 100000
gainst S98 100000 in general merchandise;
q the year ending June 80, 1855, the receipts
fdry goods fell off, and were only S62 .oOo, 900
gainst s9l 100000 of general merchandise;
nd in the year just ended nearly the same re-
atve proportion is preserved, the total of dry
oods being Ss5 100000 against s. 12, 900, 900
a general merchandise. This comparatively
mall total of dry goods in year of such large
IMPORTS is very remarkable"
The increase in the shipments of domestic