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Seward and the Democracy FRANK tonitSsion'
We have already maintained that the Democratic
party Of the South-that is, the politicians and lead
ers and wire puers of the party-would prefer the
election Of Seward or Wilson, Sumner, to the
Presidency, to that Of Willard Fillmore The evil
dences Of this singular and unparioc fact have ac-
cumuated upon us in rapid succession, until there
can no longer be particle of doubt ON the subject
The preference of these Democratic hgemen, even
here in Virginia, for Seward over Fillmore, Is now
openly, boldly, unblushngly proclaimed.
A writer in the fredericksburg Recorder, whom
the editors of that paper describe "a gentleman OF
eminent talents" publishes communication therein,
in which he expresses his decided and emphatic pre-
ference for Seward over Fillmore for the Presidency.
He says:
"wcre We compelled to choose between Seward
and Fillmore for President, SHOULD not hesitate
moment to prefer the former"
Again
"Sewarl is a man of far greater abilities, of much
more courage and possessed Of more inordinate am
bition He would hold the sceptre with hrmer
grasp and WELD it with greater power His whole
action would be directed to preserving the Union for
his first term and to securing his election for Sc
cond There could be President of a divided
Union and he would court the South to prevent
division We never shall have radical or Abolition
President"
These are the bold announcements Of Virginia
Democrat OF eminent talents" lie comes out IN
fayor of the rankest shrewdest and most unscrupu-
lous Abolitionist in the land-of man whom all
parties al the South have agreed in regarding aud
denouncng as the arch-agitaor and arbitrator OF
the Union-oi one who daily threatens from his seat
in the Senate and the stump, to drive the South
out of the common Territory, and to struggle for
the extinction of slavery wherever 1t exists; and 10
that end IL need be- even TO ravage the South with
fire and sword we say, this Virginia Democrat OF
".minent talents" and Of course, Of corresponding
influence with his party. takes the broad ground
that As between Seward and Fillmore for the PreS'-
dency he should not hesitate moment to prefer
the former" We have long believed, as we have
said above that such the general sentiment
among the Democratic politicians Of the South; but
il is the first time that the fact of their preference
for the acknowledged leader of the Abolition forces,
over the most conservative and national statesman oil
the North, has been explicitly and publicly eN-
pressed and boldly and shameleSsly avowed to the
country. The consequence Of the position thus pro
claimed is that matter whom the Cincinnati Con
yention NAV nominate-whether il be Francis u.
Blair, or John Van Buren,, or David Wilmot, or Sc
ward or wilson-the writer in the Recorder and his
political associates IN Virginia., WOuiu
to LIS support rather than contribute the remotcst
and to the election of Willard Fillmore. We invoke
the serious attention of the of Virginia and
the South, of all parties, to the declaration, here
made and published, of an eminent and Influential
member OF the Virginia Democracy. lie takes ia,
bull right by the horns-he goes for Seward with all
his heart in preference to Fillmore! Now, We beg
to know-does the writer in the Recorder express
al a,,It ha nf he
ginia Democracy, Is the Democratic party here IT,
Virginia ready its preference for Seward
over Fillmoreg Docs the Enquirer agree with th.
gentleman of eminent talents alluded to? IL
is it not its duty inform the public of the fact il
clear and emphatic termsg We venture the
ton that the position assumed by the Recorder =.
correspondent is the precise position of nineteei.
twenteths of the leaders of the Virginia Democrac
IL il is not then il is incumbent upon them fort.
with to dsavow and repudiate it We shall await
with some anxiety TO what course they will tch-
in the matter IL is thing Of no little interest
the honest and independent voters OF the Comm.
wealth who caring nothing for office and the spo.
are concerned only to safe and wise adm 90
istration of the government and thereby to proIno.
the public welfare, and preserve unimpaired aud in-
tact the Constitution and the Union in the spirit
which they were established by the fathers an,l
founders Of the Republic.
According to the logic of the writer in the RecO.
der, It should he matter of no moment TO the South
whether AboitOnist is elected President or not
lie maintains that matter what may have
been before his electon-nO matter how vile and
desperate Abolitionis-the will certainly he good
Onion man afterwards, and even court the Sot ia
during his first term, for the purpose of securing his
election for second-whch means We suppose,
that his course, President on the issues growing
out Of the slavery question, would always be in
accordance with the sentiments and wishes of the
South IL this be 50, then it is true enough that it
makes manner Of difference who is elected Presi-
dent-an AbolitiOnst wouldah Just as well as a
pro-slayery Southern II follows also that all
the fuss which the Democracy are 10 the habit Of
making about the necessity Of ecctng a sound va.
tiona man President, is the merest moon.hine in
the world IT, the gentleman Of eminent talent,
maintains I'VE never shall have radical or Aboliton
President even though Seward himself should or.
cupy tie office, then Southern men are maxim,
ourselves extremely ridiculous in attaching any iu.
portance whatever to the election Of President In
fact, If II be impossible 10 have an Abolition
PrcsideHt' though AbotOnist himself slouiJ
fill the Executive chair Of the nation il is our dty
20 prefer Seward over Fillmore or Hunter or INV
other Southern man, five honestly think him 90. MAJ,
Of far greater abilities, Of much more courage" anal
one who would " hold the sceptre with a firm,
grasp and consequently WELD it with greater aa
vantage TO the country than either Of them
We doubt whether the honest practical voters a.
the South will adopt the views and purposes Of h,
writer from which have quoted We have r..
ferred to them simply to illustrate the position Of th
leaders and politicians Of the Virginia Democracy
And this done, we leave the expression OF A pref,
ence for Seward over FILLMORE for President 10 III,
rebuke and condemnation Of the whole Sont,e,, ,.,
pie, without distinction Of party
The Philadelphia Election.
IL appears from al accounts that The Democratic .
In Phisdclpha week or two ago va no great t,;, a.