Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-11-08


DO The New Orleans Delta having taken it
Tor granted that Buchanan would be elected,
publishes the following declaration of inten-
ton, as the programme Of the Southern par
ty.
The Northern Democracy will please make
a note of it.
g Mr.. Buchanan if elected will owe his
success entirely to the reaction OF the North
ern mind, caused by the determined attitude
OF the Southern party. We may be called
extremists, or fire eaters, or what mott docs
not matter. While we cannot be driven INTO
the abandonment of principle to serve party
success, we are ready to maintain the rights
and institutions of the South, ey ca to disunion.
This conviction we have fostered in the South
ern mind. 1t is pity it was not iosterd there
twenty years since. 1t would have saved 10
to the parties a deal Of trouble. But the
Southern party has something else to do now
Having checked for time the black republ-
can crusade, we must push forward those re-
forms at home which are necessary for the as
sertion and maintenance of our equality in
the Union and of our nationality and indie
pendence out of it.
Remember that Nicaragua and Cuba are
vastly more important to us than Kanzas ter
ritory, though we should not renounce the
latter. Mexico is not far off. TIE genius of
commercial empire beckoned to us from Te.
huantepec. But Nicaragua is the great pollt-
ical nucleus and while the - national " men
of the South are busy over the spoils of the
victory won through the courage aud bodness
of the Southern party, let US put forth all our
strength to Nicaragua.
We have only four years to prepare for the
great contest of 1860. Give Walker the pow
er, and he will solve not only the Central
American question, but with it that of Cuba.
Once firmly established in Nicaragua, he will
restore the West Indies to their original con-
dition, as slave colonies. 1t can be demon.
strated that the comparative decline of New
Orleans commenced with the abolition pol
icy of England in tie American tropics
1t only requires the defeat of Walker in
Nicaragua and the Authorization OF Cuba to
make the decline more than comparative, per-
haps III etrievable. 1t only requires on the
other hand, the reorganization of Central
America, as slave producing country, with
the redemption of the West Indies from me-
gro barbarism, to make New Orleans the CEN
tire of vast tropical empire, and to realize, in
connection with the pacific trade, the advan-
tages to which she is geographically entitled.
This is work for the Southern party. We
have shown onr power in national olitics,
let us give 1t practical direction at home
What the northern wing of the Democratic
we shall have to leave to future develop
ments: We fear, however, it is deeply i'm
bued with the non extension theory, to which
so many Democratic leaders, North and South,
have given their sanction. 1t was no good
omen to see the younger Van Buren, and John
Z. breckenridge making speeches from the
same platform and in the same cause, and the
elder Van Buren, and Mr.. Buchanan embrace
ing upon the same construction of the Nebras-
ka bill.
These omens have not been improved by
the prCfuse declarations made by Democratic
speakers and journals Of the North, that the
Black Republicans uttered infamous lies in
charging Mr.. Buchanan with beng in favor
of slavery extension Why so earnest in this
denial, if the northern Democracy desires to
| preserve the political equality OF the South, to
which the extension Of slavery is essential
| But after all, we have the Ostend manifesto,
| 10 which Mr.. Buchanan is pledged. There is
sound enough southern doctrine in that, and
] if Buchanan shall live up to it, well and
good we will be the first to throw the man.
tie OF forgiveness over all his past political sins
of omission or commission. Meantime as we
have often said before, though not unexcep-
tionable, he is our choice for President ; but
in supporting him we have chosen to do SO
with our eyes open, and have desired that the
southern people should have their eyes open
also. If they vote with them shut, it will be
no fault of ours; if deceived in any particular,
they cannot shake their heads and say we did
it,
ga distinguished Louisianian," writing
to the Delta, from Washington, finishes his
letter as follows =
q But the time is now past to discuss this
matter Cdisunion.) truce of four years to
words-let us go into action-make our terms
based on the Constitution-and determine not
| to have peace till these conditions, Just in the
| eyes of Heaven and man. are subscribed to by
the whole country. The existence of the
| Union depends upon it. L say for one, and
say it boldly, upon the extension of slave.
| ry hangs the equality and very existence of
the South-the extension of slavery is the
most effective Union preserving plank that
can be dove tailed into the Democratic plat
form. Let us have it in by 1867