The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-11-29
fFrom ths Cincinnati Enquirer (Northwestern Democrs,.
Nov - ~

THE NORTHERN DEMOCRACY INDICATED.
Tho New Orleans Delta and Charleston Mercury com-
by their III timed and wholesale denuncistons and
jeremiades Their perpetual cry Is that there s do.
mocracy this section that Mr. Buchanan has been pro-
uouuced sganst In all tine Northern States there
hope for the Union that tue whole become
infected with abotionism and the South must rely
These ideas erated and reiterated In almost every
number OF these able journals They afford texts for or
AZ excellent fuel to keep alive The ares Of sectional dis
sensn and hate these journals desire dsunion per
they are quite conssten. In pursuing this course they
and create wide and Freparabe breach between the
two sections they are employing the proper means 70
aoO, Of ~nfu blindness to the facs unmany aud
ungenerous psensby 70 their own faults and errors In
comprising any end much less so serious one as that
ofthe dissolution Of this Union.
How is i. with the SOUTH Bave you not been lodging
this question for the Last i've yearss Tho writer hereof
was once q member OF one Of your humbug Com
nero al Conventions which met at Memphis, and made
the effort TO Gail your attention from vari silly and
chimerca railroad schemes that have long since been
consigned to the tomb Of tie Capules by presenting
resolution favor Of acquisition Of Cuba O. best
OF promoting the commerce ana prosperity Of the
South and Of binding the Union MOI closely together
nous copdsmpstion. The courtesy Of hssrox vas
denied 70 gentleman who had made great sacrifices 10
beh ali Of Cuban annexatonwho proposed to
the necessity and commercial importance Of that acqus
ton The Old slave Siates-virgnia, South Carolina
Georgia and A'abamahave for years past opposed ali
polfsh and local grounds to which they ready to
sacrifice great sectional political and national interests
and considerations. they afraid that Terri
tory in the South would draw OF the slaves capital
and the enterprise from their old worn and worked
lands, to new and exhaustless feldg.
constant lodging of the Cuban question in
the South; hence their bitter opposition in the National
Convention In this city 70 the resolutions presented by
Mr. Soue looking to this very question or the acquisition
Of Cuba. Hence the earnest and jealous aacry OF
ultra Southern Judge who kept his court open through
the whole In New Orleans to try sus
pected Of a design, intent, to acquire the
island OF Cuba Hence the activeIopposon or Southern
representatives In the Cabinet to all having in
view this great object-whioh opposition contributed
mainly the defeat Of the measure and brought upon
the democratic party all the troubles from which 1t has
90 narrowly escaped You begin now to awaken from
these and delusons but let the recollection tbem
render Southern politicians and journalists just II
charitable to their brethren OF the North The
truth that the South u too conservative and old fogy
ish. II needs infusion OF the blood and energy
that per the great West which tho whole country
must henceorh look for the great progressive agencies
and impulses OF the republic