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We need not take from the Compendium d,
the Census from which we extract these 8.
ures) tables showing the vast superiority Of Il.
non-slaveholding States in wealth and gers,s
intelligence. Everybody knows it.
But, we have used the term, "Soutbern ~.
and Shareholders" The Northern men NY.
have filed Offices in the General Governmo..
have been taken Unfortunately from ,rI
classes agricultural, mechanical, manulac,r,
ing, mercantile-and from all professionals,
representing the opinions and interests Of al
the People of the free States. But. not so VIII
Southern men. In nearly all cases, they hsu
belonged to one class, represented the wen.
the policy, the interest, of one class, and tina,
not embracing the ma jority of the Soutbern
People. They have been shareholders, and t5a
class to which they have belonged, numbered
in 1850, according to the Census, 3470Oo
Now, suppose that each one of these stand ic,
six white persons-reations and dependents-we
have the Federal Government controlled in al
its departments by a class numbering, all told
2,O82, 900, or one third Of the whole white pop.
ulation Of the South.
1t follows, therefore, that class of PERSON,
living chiefly in one section Of the Union dep.
titled with an Interest peculiar, domineerip,
and aggressive, numbering about two million,
has given to a nation which numbered in lisa
nearly twenty millions of free white persons.
seventeen millions and a half of whom bayr
vast interests which are subordinated and in
many cases impaired by that one Interest two
thirds of its Presidents, nearly all of its Pres.
dents pro tenn. of the Senate, two thirds of il,
Speakers of the House, nearly two thirds of il,
Secretaries of State and its Attorney Generals.
and majority of its Supreme Court. besids,
debating in most instances the organization Of
the Standing Committees in both Houses Of
Congress. And yet, this small sectional Glass.
with its one Idea, and its one Interest, has The
audacity to assume to be the South, and TO
raise perpetual clamor against the aggres.
sions Of the North!
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ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN, IN TWENTY.
FOUR HOURS BY The WATCH.
From the Iri.h Cni1en, New York

RICHMOND, Va, Oc1oIcr %, 1856.
DEAR Sir: i assure you that it would give
me more pleasure than it could afford my
friends in New York, to go to your city and ad-
dress the Democracy upon the issues of the
pending, and ] may add, this 1'erilous canvass.
But my official duties compel me to decline
speaking anywhere which will require n days
absence. Besides am now laboring under
severe cold and cough, which, for the present,
would prevent my speaking at all, and | don't
know when my lungs will be in a state to allow
me to address a large mass, such as usually col
lects in your mammoth metropolis of trade.
| have fought the good fight in the field which
fell to my part of the action, and trust In God
that, by the example of the Virginia Democra-
cy, ever faithful, never defeated, the parties of
the country viii be purified, aud the country it.
self will he saved. Pennsylvania and Indiana
have come gloriously into line. VIII not New
York resume the sceptre of Empire, and use it
TO save, and not to destroy? Will she "muzzle
the OK that treadeth out the corn?" VIII she
be like the fool in the mob of Hogarth, who in
his frenzy forgot that he was saving between
himself and the post Will she not see that if
the sign falls, she must fall with it2 That if
the Union of these States falls, the fall of New
York will be the greatest of all the States?
tell you that Virginia has armories for more
than one hundred thousand men In twenty -four
hours by the watch; and | tell you that she has
men enough TO take arms rather than be SUBJ
jugated to Black Republicanism / tell you,
that if mere forms are depended upon to subdue
her, and to destroy her civil and religious rights,
her State equality and sovereignty, and her Fed
ersl guarantees in the Union, that she will cttt
her bright ,cGy through Heml | tell you that
the first flash of resistance will make an irresist-
able Revolution and the first law Of Revolution
is to break all bonds which bind to oppression
/ tell You, that whatever be the result of this
election, We must have peace in earnest or ,ca,
an earnest
Yours, truly, Henry A. WISE
ToLn Griffin Ee0
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VOL. X.

In other respects, and in the other Den,.
ment, Offices pretty equally distributed.
But, remember, under almost every Adm.
istration since 1929, the Northern men bol5;.
Office have generally been sbetting, or acon;..
cling in, Pro-Slavery Policy-in other We,
members of the Party of Slavery, not that J.
Freedom.
A stranger would naturally infer that a 81.
ton which has monopolized so disproportior,.
a share of power in the Legislative, judicial o.;
executive departments Of the Federal Coz a-'
ment, must be greatly superior in popula,o.
intelligence, and wealth. He will be sprn,i' Oa
to learn that precisely the reverse is the S''
The white populations of what are called = .
non-slaveholding and slaveholding States W.. ..'
as follows, at the periods marked W.T.
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pointment. Meanwhile, however, they ami
mate the hopes of the enemies of the South,
and depress the spirit of our Northern allies.
Can we gain any advantage for the common
cause, by betraying an inordinate ambition,
and by rendering our support to Mr.. Buchan-
an on impossible conditions? Do we not run
the hazard of alternating his confidence, and
losing the influence of his Administration
In the Cincinnati Convention, Mr.. Buchanan
was not the first choice of majority of the
Southern Democracy. But his nomination was
accepted with satisfaction; and he was sup
ported in the South with unexampled unanimi-
ty. Both the Delta and Mercury aided in his
elections, and why? Not certainly because it
was expected that Mr.. Buchanan would come up
to the full measure of our wants and demands
We anticipated no such thing, and hence the
opposition to his nomination in the first instance.
He was supported by those who are stigmatized
as the Extremists of the South, because of
the probity of his personal character, his abili-
ty in administration, and the wellattested fair.
ness and friendliness of his disposition towards
the South. He received the almost unanimous
vote of the South, without which his election
would have been an impossible achievement.
He is therefore, in some sort, the President of
the South-not in a sectional sense, but in the
sense that he owes his election chiefly to the
support of the South. Why then should any
Southern man anticipate his Administration
with distrnst? He was elected under pledges
Implied in the principles of the platform)
which we all accepted as satisfactory in the
progress of the canvass and, as these pledges
were in harmony with his antecedents and
with the spirit of the Northern Democracy,
there is no reason to apprehend their viola
ton. In any event, it will be time enough to
suspect Mr.. Buchanan, and to oppose his Ad-
ministration, when he discovers, by some une-
quivocal act of bad faith, that he does not
deserve the confidence and support of the
South.
The South occupies precarious position in
the Confederacy, and to sustain herself she has
need of every artificial support. Prudence
should be the predominant principle of her
craftsmanship while she is content to remain
in the Union. In the North there is party
well affected to her interests. The President
elect is pledged to protect her rights. For
ourselves we find, independently of the obliga-
tions of party, abundant reason to solicit the
alliance Of the Northern Democracy and the
influence of the Federal Executive Such being
the case, we would strengthen rather than de-
stroy the integrity of the Democratic organiza-
ton so that when the final conflict comes, (if
come it must the South may not find herself
utterly friendless and alone. Such being the
case, we mean to support Mr.. Buchanan's Aa.
ministration, in the confident belief that the
South will never regret her agency in his cleo
ton. Will not our friends of the Delta and
Mercury announce the same resolution
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From The Charleston Mercury, November IL.
We are blamed because we do not recognise
the election of Mr.. Buchanan as a signal of
peace between the North and the South. Per
haps part of our fault is, that We cannot COM
prehend the force of the following "grateful
and inspiring chorus"
Iuzza, huzza, well all prove true
TO Buck and Breck, and the Union toop
We like the men who are celebrated in those
melodious lines, as well as the author himself
but we do not believe that they have any power
OF establishing and preserving peaceable
union between the North and the South. Nor
do we believe that it is for the interest of the
South, nor even of the North to continue a
connection celebrated during the last twenty
years only Tor continuous and embittered con.
troversy, always growing more bitter and more
hopeless of Notwithstanding all legislation
either with rank sectionalism, or with the bar.
gaining of venal politicians to exchange one
| sectional interest against another
Let any man take the whole series of Presi.
dental elections, from the beginning to the
present, and say whether the election of Mr.
Buchanan is proof that the sentiment oil
| UnioniSm, of Difference to the rights and opin-
| ions of all sections Of the Confederacy, has tri
umphed in this result. Mr.. Buchanan has re-
ceived the vote of four Northern States and
DOutucru DIatto. vi the former, tWC
| illinois and New Jersey cast large maiorities
| in favor of Free Soil Governors on the very day
of the Presidential election. In one of the re-
naming two, Undiana,) the Buchanan ticket
received only plurality; and in but one Of
the four-his native State-had he a majority
of all the votes cast, and this consisted of but
705 votes, out of an aggregate of 400,295.
And the South is called upon to rest satisfied
with this result, and reproached for not holding
our arms, and not saying we arc satisfied thai
it will last our time, or at least that it will last
as Mr.. Micawber says, till something turns
up"
For our part, we see nothing that can turn
up, under this perpetual preaching of Unionism
as the supreme good, but the depressing hu
initiation and final subsection of the South t.
an avowedly hostile country. For, socially and
practically, the North is separated from Us
They are not only hostile to us in their ideas
but they perpetually entertain the determine
ton of dominating over US; of legislating fol
| US upon our most intimate social concerns; in
short, of revolutionizing the entire framework
of our Industrial organization, and leaving it to
| the wild force of chance, whether we shall es
| cape the imminent destiny of barbarism and
generalization.
In the midst of all these evidences of section
al hostility, which were never SO strong as now
we are called upon to receive the election OF
Mr.. Buchanan-elected because the enemies
| of the South could nota agree among themselves
elected by very small majority-elected by 9
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THE ABSENT DAUGHTER.

THE ABSENT DAUGHTER.
long to lay my head, mother,'
Upon thy kindly breast
To hear thy loving tones, mother,
Woo me to tranquil rest.
This world TO me charm Affords
Like thy kind smile and loving words
long 10 see the home, mother
Where Oft, in chdhood's hours !
Eve rambled by thy side, MOTHER
And culled the fragrant flowers
The Linden and the locust trees, !
Shed sweet pc rfume upon the breeze
The birds used TO feed mother,
Who built their nests no high,
And lulled me to my rest, mother, 4
With their sweet laby, 4
Do they their trysting places find,
Within those haunts I've len behind!
Does brother sing at eve, mother,
The songs loved 10 hear,
When in the mo onlit halls mother
He played those strains so clear?
Those liquid strains, so soft, sweet,
hear their melting cadence yet.
Does father miss my voice, mother
My songs and merry glee'
Full well know, dear mother
You often speak of me.
And in my dreams Pm with you all, !,
A happy group in fancy's hall.
My loved companions all, mother,
Are they too, gone from home.
Who often called for me, mother
Through howery lanes TO roam;
Or in some pleasant shady nook,
We chose to read some favorils book
The lake, the placid lake, mother,
Where often we have sailed,
With those we tondy priced, neither
With every sweet RECALLED
Its mirrored shores seem TO see
As home again they welcome me.
Oh, when shall see home, mother,
When hear thy gentle voice?
'Twould calm each troubled thought, mother
And make my heart rejoice. :
oh, home, sweet home, how dear TO me,
That home of homes shall ever be!
July 26. A,
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prevalence of Union and constitutional prlnci-
Piles, and as pledge that the conditions OF the
Confederacy are hereafter to be faithfully tul-
filled. We think we have a reasonable quantity
of credulity, but we have not enough to swallow
this creed.
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The Speaker, as we have often explained,
exerts great influence on legislation, having
the appointment of all the standing commit
tees, In which the business of the House is
prepared, and being able so to enforce the
rules and decide points of order, as to shape
to considerable extent the action of that
body.
There have been thirty -four Congresses since
the organization of the Government of twen-
tyone, Southern men and Shareholders have
been the Speakers; of twelve, Northern men !;
the remaining Congress was divided between
them, Southern man being Speaker at one
session, a Northern man at the other.
Or, counting by years, Southern men and
Shareholders have filled the Speakership of the
House for fortythree years, Northern men,
twenty, five years.
Since 1920, or during the thirty.six years
closing with the present Congress, Northern
men will have filled the Speakershp eight years,
Southern men and Shareholders, twenty eight.
Behold another Chapter of the lamentable
sectionalism of the North Its aggressions
are intolerable.
Tho Supreme Court.
The judicial districts are organized so as
to give five Judges to the slave States, and
four to the free, although the population,
wealth, and business of the latter are far in
advance of those of the former. The arrange
ment affords, however, an excuse for constitu-
ting the Supreme Court, with majority of
Judges from the slaveholding States.
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and it is perhaps of the most sacred Obligation
that we should give it the means of expansion,
and that we should press il. forward to a per ,e-
tuity of progress" y
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MIGHT AND MAIN.-Gordon Cummings, 7 e
great lion slayer, was telling Rogers one d y
how he came unarmed upon q huge Eal 4.
Thinking to brighten him, ran at him vi h
all my might" said the hunter. "Whereupok'
said Rogers, " he ran away with all his ma'ss,
suppose" "Exactly so," said Cummings.
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At the close of the term for which Mr.. Blu
chanan is elected, it will have been seventy-two
years since the organization of the present Gov
eminent.
In that period there have been eighteen
elections for President, the candidates chosen
in twelve of them being Southern men and
Shareholders, in six of them Northern men and
Non-slaveholders.
No Northern man has ever been reelected,
but FIVE Southern men have been thus honored.
General Harrison, of Ohio, died one month
after his Inauguration, General Taylor, of Lou
isiana, about four months after his Inauguration.
In the former case, John Tyler, of Virginia,
became Acting President, in the latter Willard
Fillmore, of New York.
OF the seventy-two years, closing with Mr.
Buchanans term, should he live it out South
ern men and Shareholders have occupied the
Presidential chair forty eight years and three
months, or a little more than two thirds of the
time.
Of the Presidents elect, Washington from the
South, John Adams and John Quincy Adams
from the North, are the only men who have
been elected without specific reference to the
claims of the Slave Interest; but this Interest
has been the preponderatiug influence in the
nomination of all the Others
So reads Chapter LIST of the History of North.
ern Sectionalism.
Presidents Pro Tenn. of the Senate
Since the year 1909, every President pro
tenn. Of the Senate of the United States has
been Southern man and Stakeholder with
the exception of Samuel l.. Southland of New
Jersey, who held the office for very short
time, and Mr.. Bright of Indiana, who has held
it for one or two sessions, we believe, having
been elected, however, as q known adherent of
the Slave Interest, believed to be interested in
slave property.
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Tho Supreme Court.
Secretaries of State.

Secretaries of State.
The highest Office in the Cabinet is that of
Secretary of State, who has under his charge
the foreign relations of the country. Since the
year 1889, there have been twenty-five appoint
ments to the Office, fourteen from slave States,
eight from free. Or, counting by years, the
post has been filled by Southern men and Slave
holders very nearly forty years out of sixty-
seven, as follows:
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u F. A. Muhlenberg, Penn.
~ j. Trumbull, Connecticut.
* +. A. Muhlenberg, Penn.
~ Jonathan Dayton, Neao Jersey
55s}
., Theodore Sedgwick, Mass.
~ Nathaniel Macon, N. Car.
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4 Henry Clay, Kentucky.
!, Langdon Chsves, S. Car.
% Henry Clay, Kentucky.
~ j. W. Taylor, Ne,o York.
% P. B. Barbour, Virginia.
,5 Henry Clay, Kentucky.
~ j. W. Taylor, Meac York.
A. Stevenson, Virginia.
y John Bell, Tennessee.
20 James X. Polk, Tennessee.
Il K. M. T. Hunter, Virginia.
f. John White, Tennessee.
q J.W. Jones, Virginia.
Il j. w. Davis, Indiana.
- r. c. Winthrop, Mass.
II Howell Cobb, Georgia.
81 Linn Boyd, Kentucky.
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