The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-08-06

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n fortunes even Of our enemies. The case OF tn
: hon. James Buchanan is truly hard one
i For many years this distinguished gentleman
II had been an aspirant for presidential honors
Placed ii the safe line OF precedents ever since
Y he was a member of the cabinet, nearly guar
e ter of century ago, he had right to look for
S ward to the democratic nomination, IN prefer
= ence to such comparatively new men as Poll
r and Pierce. Yet the party with strange ane
sullen obduracy refused to recognise his para
n mount claims, and waited until the sage o
j Wheatland touched his grand cllmateric, unit
b Pierce had committed political suicide, ane
: Douglas had grown microscopically minute II
a popular favor, before they yentured to adop
: Mr.. Buchanan as their standard bearer. HI
: was certainly nominated under favorable aus
pices He was regarded at the south as soune
$ on slavery and might be expected to be strong
: " backed in that quarter He was a northern
l man, absent from the country during the Kan
sas disputes, and had taken care to avoid com
: hitting himself too openly. Hence he was
deemed acceptable to the north. He is a
PENNSYLVANIA, and the Keystone State has
) twenty seven electoral yotes-nearly tenth OF
the whole number. These considerations seem
ed to indicate Old Bucks availability SO clear
tentative. He was therefore selected as the
democratic nominee
What there is repelIant about Mr.. Buchan-
an, or his antecedents, his principles and his
party, we cannot say, but this we know, that
his eanddature has been the signal for one of
the NEST extensive political stampedes we have
ever witnessed. 1t surpasses the desertion Of
1910. Weare told that the democratic party
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unit, but it forms very small portion Of the ag
gregate fruit. The democratic party is getting
reduced to its kernel. Every one takes aSslice
from the peach-Filmore here, and Fremont
there, until at length nothing but the bare nu-
cleus will be left-unless for the nonce, though
promising productive yield some years hence.
The Germans, who were to constitute the ripest
and julcest part of the democratic fruit, were
stripped off BY Fremont while the conserve
tlves, who gave it solidity and SAVIOR, have been
sliced away by Fillmore.
Perhaps the evidence of these assertions may
be demanded. We have furnished consid-a
erabie amount already, but have only to open
our exchanges at random to supply any guam
tlty that may be demanded. Hear for instance
what the Albany Evening journal says:
cit is no exaggeraton to say that at least one
half of the old democratic party of western New
York are going for freesoil and Fremont. In
Rochester a meeting is to be held to-day. 1t
will be addressed by Henry R. Seldom, hitherto
the most popular democrat, as he is one of the
most estimable gentlemen, in Monroe county;
by CALVIN Hudson, jr., an eloquent young dem
ocrat, who was the candidate for county Judge
last fall, and John G. Chumashero, who has
made more speeches for the democratic party
than any other man in western New York.
"Among those who concur in the nomination,
as we learn from the Rochester American, is
Mr.. Buell., known all over the State as an ancient
and very Influential democrat, Judge Shepard,
supervisor Banning, of Ogden, D. s. Brown, |
esq, ofScottvle, and multitudes besides, equal
ly efficient.
"The Milwaukee Daily Wisconsin is edited |
by Mr.. Cramer, son ofthe venerable John Cram
er, of Waterford. He was for several years, and
during his palmiest days, an associate with Mr..
Croswell, in the Argus. For some eight years
past he has edited the Daily Wisconsin, and,
by his great talent and bold advocacy of the
right, he had acquired a leading place among
the democrats of his adopted State. His sym
pathles were always for freesoil, but he has,
like tens of thousands Of others, fancied that he
could best serve the cause by continuing with
he democratic party, and endeavorng to in
use into it the spirit of justice. But the nom
nation of Buchanan and the adoption of the
platform upon which he is planted, has exhaust
ID this hope, and the Milwaukee Daily Wiscon-
in is now out, boldly and enthusiastic, for free
oil and Fremont
Wherevera democrat has the least tincture t
" freesoI about him, off he incontnently shoots
o Fremont. AT a Fremont ratification meet {
ng, at PATTERSON, New Jersey, Samuel Smith, II
So, democratic mayor of the city, and one of
he proprletors of the New Jersey locomotive s
works, presided. Judge Robert Mllroy, of Jas q
er county, Ind, hitherto an od-line democrat, u
as formally seeded from his early love, and "
nilsted under the banner of Fremont. The st. G.
lawrence On. " Republican, democratic Il
heet-has raised the standard of Fremont :.
DOCTOR Whittier, democratic member of the d
owa Legislature, from Scott county, has declar- c.
d himself republican. The Democratic Re- !.
ector, of Hamilton county, New York, hosts L
ne black republican flag. But really we tire
citing individual examples. The democrats =,
the north are deserving Buchanan by tens and to
Tenties and hundreds and thousands ~
Long ago we pointed out the freesoil tenden- er
es of the northern democracy; we knew that ~ ~
ley only awaited.a favorable opportunity to ex- ~
hit their reasonable doctrines. The candi- =,
ature of Fremont has enabled them to sink -,
way from the national segment Of the democrat ~;
party, and they are falling from Buchanan as ~
lick as autumn leaves. The solitary chance -,
# for the south is to stand by Fillmore-the 49,
an who knows no section, and whose political F.
eed is catholic and comprehensive enough to - Nv
nbrace the whole country. II the south ad- h.,
sres to Fillmore, he will be elected; ifto Buch- ~
ian, the result will be to subject the presiden-
to the arbitrament of that arena of political
house Representatives.
1t is possible we may be in error. We lay ar,
claim to infallibility, but as at present ad- col
sed and with all the lights before US, we must Sp
y that Mr, Buchanan's strength seems rapid Ba
waning, and that if the desertions proceed in the
e same ratio in which they have begun, his ed
ndidature will soon become as crank infatu-
on, as cotemporary some days ago orac- na
arly pronounced Mr.. Fillmore's ha
sea New Orleans Bee to
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