The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-05-27

mint tn some other merit beside that OF
having been the Editor of the Globe or
| Union, TO recommend him to the favorable
! consideration and support OF Fiilmorlnes.
| Mr.. B. can, if he shall choose, state that on
! all the issues of statesmen, the Bank, curren-
CIV, and sub-treasury questions, the Tariff,
! federal Internal improvements, &c, Bon
eison and Fillmore hold in common no two
opinions. They agree only in one thing !:
| Americans must rule America"-the true
/ Interpretation Of which we have exemplified
7 in their own persons: An alliance of the
tiger and the wolf in pursuit of the ''spoiis'
One of the Spcakers-we do not remember
which one-invcighcd heavily against the
! two-thirds rule. which the Democrats have
adopted in making choice of a candidate for
| President. No argument, however, was
employed against it-and we are unable TO
conjecture whence the opposition of the
Know Nothing party proceeds to that salu-
tary rule. In a country like ours, with its
varied interests and contrariety of opinions,
no candidate ought TO be presented who
! cannot command an almost unanimous vote.
4 convention should always endeavor to
select that man who can command the vote
of delegates from all portions, and if he can
not approach that unanimity, he ought to be
| thrown aside, and some Que else, who can
command the vote, should be selected.
Abandon this rule, and you place the Demo-
cracv of the South at the mercy of the
North The South, being minority, would
have no chance to arrest the nomination of
an exceptionable man. and the disorganiza-
ton of the Democratic party would be the
inevitable result. If the Wing party had
established this rule, and prevented tana-
tics of the North from controlling its action,
its friends this day would not have been
singing funeral dirges over its grave. Sec
tionalism, however, having controlled its
fortunes, and directed its course, the conser-
vative portion of the party were overpow-
cred by numbers, and the party was led
into the quagmires of abolitionism. The fate
of the Wing party in this respect should be
a warming to the Democratic party to avoid
the shoals and quick-sands upon which the
Wing party split. The Democratic party
have suffered no wrong or injustice from
this rule, but on the contrary it has con-
Quoted the party to power, and rid it of
place hunters and camp-follOwers. The
objection that it destroys the prominent
L NH
pared to the great benefits it confers upon
the party. Polk and PIERCE are the re-
suits of this rule, and although compare
lively obscure men at the time of their
nomination, yet tt cir administrations have
been able and brilliant, and all the coun-
try or the party could require. Not even
the most prominent men could have admin
istered the government with more ability or
given more general satisfaction. We care
not what aspirant it destroys, its effect is to
give to the country q sound national and re-
liable man, and one who will sustain the Con-
stitution and the rights of the States. The
Know Nothings doubtless are of opinion
that our candidate should be selected in the
same manner Mr.. Fillmore was nominated
at Philadelphia-not by a two-thirds vote,
nor by majority-but by a small minority.
1t was amusing to hear all the Know
Nothing speakers talking about their ''prin-
ciples." Know Nothing principles! What
are they! Nothing, when applied to poll
teal subjects, to governmental affairs and
policy. The principles of statesmen are
all sunk into the contemplate warfare wag-
ed against the poor foreigners and Catho-
lies! The Bank and currency question
a high or low tarif-the public land ques-
tion-internal improvements by the general
government-and all the great questions
which have hitherto divided the great poll
teal parties of the country are ignored and
sunk, to make way for the two ridiculous
new ''principles" of opposition to foreign
ers and Catholics. We say neU princi-
ples-for how long have these principles
been in existence! Only two or three
years since the Wing, party ceased to ex-
list. When Gen. Scott was the Wing can
didate-the candidate of these very same
huOW NOOtnluS SpedheTS 10 winch we are
alluding-this party was then the foreign
party-the very party who now modestly
claim TO be the American party" The
''rich Irish brogue," and the "s,0eet Ger
man accent was then the song. Now
most wonderful change-the same party
sing altogether another tune. The truth is,
Wing principles having become obsolete, the
party determined on having new principles,
and it was no doubt deemed popular move
to make war against foreigners and Cath
olics, and thus secure, if possible, the sup
port of all friends of Professionalism. But,
the Protestants are not the fools they were
taken for. They see through the motives
of these very pious political hacks, and
treat them accordingly.
One of the speakers alluded to the soon
servative'' character of the Know Nothing
party. 1t was composed, he said, of the
conservatives" and honest politicians of