Washington telegraph., 1856-10-01
Shade of General Jackson.

that they vote for Buck and Breck, be-
cause they are the representatives of the
principles which have been illustrated
proudly by the devotion and eminent ser
vices of scores of great, good and true men,
hesitate longer to confess themselves the
dupe of their imagination, when they read
the following? under the head of "MUT-
TERINGs FROM THE SOUTH" The Ameri
can Organ, says:
| Mutterings from the South.
We copy the following from the Charles
ton Mercury; which, in connection with
some of Mr. Brooks's recent speeches, since
his return home, may serve to show how
the current is setting, once more, In South
Carolina:
..Will any man stand up and say, in hon
esty, that, at the present time, there ex-
lists single party in this broad Union,
whose triumph should be the first wish of
Southern men? Any party so true In its
principles, so firm in its policy, that We
should deem unity among ourselves as in
ferior to its success? Even that party,
most acceptible to the South, and for
whose nominee this State viii vote, has, in
tie last lew weeks. given way, point after
point On Internal Improvements it has
rivaled md even surpassed the widest
dream al extravaganza. On the Tariii,
the Democratic party, though stepped In
pledges to free trade, and though the Gov
ernment labors beneath the burdens aud
corruptions OF a surplus revenue, wrung
from the industry o. the South is as un-
sound as Northern manufacturers and
North western spoilsmen could wish it
The Southern man, who looks for a low
Tariff from the Democratic party, is mir
acle of delusiOn.
} And when We consider the last and great
| est question, where is the Democratic par
ty! Six years ago the South was elected
t from California by the triumph of squat
ter Sovereignty Two years ago that
same doctrine, coupled with the repeal of
the Missouri Compromise, line. was engrai-
ted upon tie Kansas bill 1t was the de-
liberate crowning act of the Democratic
( party; and the South assented to it, though
/, already victimized by it, in the hope that
is principles, if faithfully maintained,
would secure Kansas to slave labor. But
what have we seen? In the teeth of re-
t peated pledges on the part OF its leaders, in
: the face of the Nebraska act itself, which
conferred sovereignty upon the Territorial
2 governments, and removed them beyond
Congressional interference; in the face of
, all this, Mr.. Douglas, and others high in
: Democratic influence, have actually pro-
: posed to repeal the Territorial laws of Kan
sas, and thus trample down its admitted
sovereignty beneath Congressional inter
vention They have written, with their
S own hands, condemnation upon their own
9 act they have repudiated the most vaun-
| ted doctrine of the Democratic party
!, popular sovereignty" The principle of
| the Nebraska act, upon which the Demo-
: cratic party laid its claim to Southern sup
port, is no longer popular sovereignty
but any thing which Abolition, in its wild
r ness, would make it. When pressed by
i the sentiment of the North, its Northern
2 supporters are willing to swallow all their
e pledges, and install again the dethroned
5 idol of Congressional legislation. And a
n Representative from South Carolina, a
: loud advocate of the same measure, is
e found still lower in the downward path,
e calling upon the President to strangle the
o Judiciary, that fanaticism may be appeas-
: cd
e These are misunderstanding indica-
e tions, which no true Southern man can
: disregard. Abolish Territorial sovereign
, ty in Kansas-repeal its laws-and the
r South, while raising the Democratic party
to power upon the hopes of the Nebraska
BILL will find herself defrauded of her Just
expectations, and excluded from Kansas.
That the leaders of this party should be
ready to commit such an act of treachery.
warns of what we may expect 1t pro-
claims, in our very ears, that not only upon
: Internal Improvements and the Tariff, but
upon the Nebraska bill itself, the Demo
. cratic party is unsound, and ready even
. now to sacrifice the South Who, we ask,
. can blind himself to such indications
: And if these things be true, will the peo-
b. pie of this district consent at this time to
+. have fosted upon them all the threadbare
&. Iummery about Democratic iaith, ringing
. dIscord in our midst, and distracting our
people ro,n the read dangers which sur
round them VIII taey not look through
the mass party tretchery aud corrup-
ton which, Oh all sides, surrounds them.
i to that only hope and refuge, Southern
union? Will they not recognise the plain.
palpable truth, that no national party can
serve item faithfully in the coming time !
Can we not, Tor once, with the lights of
the past and present full beaming on us,
t pour into the approaching canvass all that
is best and truest patriotism, or wise in
craftsmanship? Canw not spurn all Fed
; eral thoughts or associations, and make de-
E votion to the South, the land of our hope
and love, the one idea by which we will
measure our choice?
1t Is mortlfying (says the Natchez Cou-
rler) to see how the Republicans gloat over
the election to Congress of Mr. Blair, a
Free-soiler, elected from slave holding
State, and how they herald his success as
the entering Medge