Daily American organ., 1856-02-18


Of Dallas. How disinterested politicians are now
a-days.
The Auburn American is describing the new
DOorkeeper of the House of Representatives
Captain Darling was delegate to the State
Council, held in August last at Binghamton, and
also delegate to the American State Convention
held in New York last fall.
Nearly every Democratic paper In Alabama has
hoisted the name Of General Pierce for President
The Sumter Democrat hoists the name of Judge
Butler, of South Carolina, for Vice President. The
Coosa River Argus favors Governor Winston for
the same Office.
The number of Pierce papers, strange to say, Is
found to tally singuary with the number Of United
States Land Offices.
Pierce believes in the power of money, and in
the influence of patronage, and his party is com.
posed of the very kind of material that properly
appreciates money and pap. Money makes the
mare 60" and Piercs thinks it will make him go.
So it will--but to home.
The regrets of the Black Republicans" over
the failure Of James Watson Webb to get elected
House Printer, are very affecting.
The Hard and Soft members of the New York
Legislature are both signing papers recognising the
respective delegations TO Cincinnati as regular.
We think they need not give themselves the
trouble.
Platt Potter, Of Schenectady, New York, Free
Soil Soft, whom the Black " Republicans" had ap-
pointed delegate to their Presidential Convention
declines the honor, in long letter. He admits
frankly that the Soft party has been ruined by the
bogus platform Of the 10th January, and could not
now poll ten thousand votes. But he evidently is
not sure that even the Black Republicans,
judging by the drubbing they got last fall, can
carry the State in future. So he retires from poll
tics for the present.
The PRESIDENTIAL conventions have now been
called--the Democratic at Cincinnati, June 2 ; the
American at Philadelphia Feb. 20, and the Re.
publican at Pittsburg, Feb. %.
The Washington correspondent of the New York
Tribune alludes as follows to one of the childish
political intrigues Of the Capitol;
g 1t may surprise the knowing ones In politics,
but the fact is well understood here that the At
torney General, Mr.. Cushing, claims reversion-
airy interest in the delegates favorable to General
Pierce in the Cincinnati Convention, should the
latter fail to receive the nomination"
The Chicago Times says Senator Douglas " s
the leader of the Democracy of Illinois and the
Northwest"
To which phrase the Detroit Free Press takes
exceptions, saying
"We do not ourselves acknowledge anybody as
the leader of the Democracy of the Northwest"
A Soft paper says that the issue between it's
folks and the Hards--the only question which can
be entertained by the Cincinnati convention s,
which set of delegates are entitled to their seats
on the score of regulariyS
The Hards are ready to meet the question OF
regularity" by reference to the proceedings OF
the Syracuse Convention of 1853, which will clear
" show that the Clinton Convention was regular
and the Verplanck Convention irregular. But that
is not the question. The question for the Cincin-
Abolitionists be recognised as Democrats Can
men who supported the Buffalo Platform in 1s4s
opposed the Fugitive Slave law in 1850, and op.
posed the Kansas Nebraska bill in 1854, be allowed
to sit in that convention? If they are, then the
Hard Democracy have no businhss there. That's
ALL
The National Intelligencer, in commenting on
the conflicting opinions of the administration lead
ers, says:
They always allow both sides of troublesome
question to be represented, and never, like their
opponents, stop by the way to quarrel over con-
trarieties. We have had a recent illustration OF
this policy. The State Convention of the Soft
Shells Of New York have put forth series of res
olutons and address quite :" National, " in which
the " Republicans" are denounced in terms of Sc
verify suited to the suddenly awakened ndigna-
ton of the writer's. And yet, almost before the
ink was dry with which the denunciations were in
dted these same Democrats entered into coali-
ton with the Republicans" and divided with
them the offices of the House Of Assembly.
To which the Newark Eagle adds:
Persons curious in the matter of unravelling
mysteries, who remember the strong anti-savery
resolutions of these same " Soft Shells, adopted
in September last, intimate that there is nothing at
all strange in this; for in politics. as in natural
philosophy afinites will always run together when
put into the proper crucible. This striking Incl.
dent in political alchemy is only referred to for the
purpose of showing how easily elements, at first
deemed insoluble are brought into state of fusion
by the application of the needed power.
The Charleston Mercury is opposed to South
Carolina going into the National Democratic Con
vention, because Pierce cannot, it thinks, be re-
nominated. 1t says:
We are, in fact, to so there in order to disavow
him, and to aid in fortifying the new Democratic
principle that no man can be a candidate second
time, and no man be elected second time to the
Presidency.
What disposition win the Mercury make of Mr..
Orr! He wants to 90 to Cincinnati. Is there a
land Office at Charleston? How else is the Mercu.
rvs love for Pierce to be accounted fors
General E. R. v. Wright, of New Jersey goes
for "0ld Buch." He says:
Instead Of using any metaphorical language In
approaching this important subject, shall come
down to matters Of fact at once, and say that am
in favor OF James Buchanan for that office.
The Washington Sentinel, an ultra Southern Sag