The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-01-02
Last week wepublislleda report from Wash

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j VIZ: Messrs. Benjamin, Fish, Pearce, Pratt
+ Jones and Geyer, had signiied to the demo
cratic party in the senate that they declined be
n ing considered as representatives of either {
), THE three parties in the recent electons-kno'
# nothings, democrats and repu5licans-inot he
d words, they preferred to remain whereAthe
g were, wings and nothing else, and to stan
:, alooffrom all other party organisations. w
/ find in the Baltimore Patriot the following cor
E rect history of the new movement:
Senators Fish, Jones, Geyer. Benjamin
e Pratt and Pearce met on Tuesday evening, a
governor Jones rooms. At this meeting it wa
stated that some senators ofthe democratic par
: " had jntimated willingness, and even de
sire, that those who were wings and had no
f joined either the republican, or know nothing
organisation, should meet with them the dem
ocratic senators) in caucus for the purpose Q
arranging the committees, with the understand
ing that they should be treated precisely the
same as democratic senators, so tar as concern
ed the distribution of places on the committees
The reason given by the democrats for making
this proposition was, that in view of the dlvl
t sions in the ranks Of the opposition, the Gus
tomary course could not be adopted in the ar
rangement of the senate into committees. II
] was further stated that the democratic senators
who had authorised the proposition had said
/ that as national party they were unwilling to
treat as party with those whom they regard
as sectional Have the democracy given the
cut direct to southern rights senator's?
The s'six old line wing senators" promptly
declined the above proposition, in the same
courteous and respectful manner in which it
was made. They replied that they were I'M
willing to go into caucus with democratic SEN
ators; that the organisation of the senate was
under the control and responsibility of the de-
mocrats, and that they, as wings, declined to
interfere with it; that as to themselves, indvd-
ualy, they were content to be placed where
the president of the senate might place them,
and would endeavor to discharge their share of
committee duty accordingly. They had no idea
of going into the ''bargain and sale' business
and not the slightest inclination to affiliate or
act with the friends of the present democratic
administration. ..E .. .
The Vicksburg Sentinel (dcmocratic) has a
long appeal to its Mississippi friends to insist
upon the next democratic nominee for president
being from the south, and thinks that if the |
south boldly asserts her rights in the Cincinnati
convention, she will not be refused The poor
success that attended the democracy in making
choice of such northern men with southern
principles as Martin Van Buren, and Franklin
Pierce, should assuredly incline every south
ern democratic paper to be in favor of the SEN
Einel's proposition, But it won't do. The par
ty is ruled by Office holders, who have arroga-
ted to themselves the power of absolute dicta-
,orshp over the democratic masses. These
1ictators are bitterly opposed to a southern
oresldent-he might, perchance, turn some of
hem out of office-and we are informed by the
Richmond Enquirer, the leading democratic
PAPER at the south, that said dictators have al
eady ordained ''that the south should present
10 candidate for the presidency in 1856" 1t
5 singular fact that the Sentinel is the only
Pierce paper in the Mississippi valley that has
AIKEN bold stand in favor of the next presi-
ent being a southerner.
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.ood hit from the National Intelligence, but
re by no means certain that if the Pierce ad-
should stay in power few years :
onger that the Unions prediction may not be. i
erlfied, and the people may survive the lib
rites and constitution of our country" +
can elaborate writer in the Union closes
of three or four columns with i,
re opinion that those even who have reached
le advanced age onthree score and ten "mav !
lrylve the liberties and constitution of our d
ountry."
We remember a report which was in circu- b
ton during the Mexican war of some officer
ding up TO general Taylor, in the height ofthe
attle Of Buena Vista, and exclaiming to him O
lat the day was lost; to whom the old general :,
'lmly replied, Il reckon not!'' We would :,
mply say to tie sensitive writer of the gloomy i.
'edictlon in the Union, ace reckon not. Il
From the tone of many soi-dsant democratic o
'pcrs, one would suppose they were extremely b
lxious for a dissolution of the Union. t.
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The Washington correspondent of the Rich
ond Enquirer, high authority on the subject, -
I
gton from governor Wise, giving it as his opin- .
n, Sin the present state ofparties and attitude !.
the country, that the south should present no
ndidate for the presidency in 1856" He
inks (itis said and believed) that there should tt
cordial union of the party on Buchanan. a
he writer adds that the name of neither Cass
,r Douglas will be presented to the Cincinna- 9 9
convention. ''Of this you may be assured. \
speak knowingly on the subject" {
The Washington Sentinel, (democratc,) of y,
e 18th ult., says: hundreds of office-seekers D
bohurried to Washington on the opening of [
'ngress, have returned home, either their n
carts being sick with hope deferred" or their .
:chequer not justifying longer sojourn. But =,
ere are not few persons left to look after the
.loaves and fshes,'' to be disribu-
after the house of representatives shall have es
zen organised. What sad picture to con- tt
mplate. When will this "Wild hunt after Of