The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-04-30

ioi VIC view IidHlpsnlFc democracy TO gal
5000 votes in one year, is doing very we'll
Why docs not the Union state how this gal
was made; for he knows as well as any bod
else, that the liquor question was one of til
Issues at the last election in New Hampshire
an issue, too, that was more potent for the sue
cess OF the democratic ticket than the combine,
\ influences of president Pierce's popularity wit
/ the assduous labors of all his free-soi offic
holders thrown in. There is another idea con
\ necsed with the efforts of president Pierce
-office holders, il and out Of New Hampshire
which the Union may not have noticed, bu
which doubtless had an important bearing to
wards the enormous ssgain in one year." abov,
referred to. The New Haven Journal state
that something like $4,000 were sent from
! Washington City to the softs of New Hamp
Shire just before the election This may no
be 50; but money is an engine which party
leaders frequently use to bring the refractory
into line, and we hardly think The present pure
ard immaculate administration altogether guilt
less Of such appliances in extreme cases. ssThe
end Justlfies the means is frequently tratin
the Irecepts and practices of falling kings, and
when 9 presidents house hold friends las in
New. Hampshire, give him the cold shoulder
OF support, something more than fine "honeyed
words are needed to ''bring them into line in
greater numbers" VIII another $50, 900 be
used ~ the ides of November? If so, we shall
almost despair of the 1000 who have not vet
bowed the knee, and really shall have reason to
fear that the prophecy of the Union may, in
some: degree, prove correct.
However, one question remains If, as the
Unlon asserts, emo leader can bring the New
Hampshire democracy" into line with better
effect and better spirit than president Pierce,
how il it, since his election and since his official
honors have been SO signally showered upon
tree-soll democrats, that more than IS 900 in
single State have deserted his flag if not the
flag of the party that elevated him to his pre-
sent position? When the Union gives us the
true reason for such stampede of the faithful,
we may be the better prepared to appreciate
its estimate of the power Of such leader to
wheed2e freemen into party lines.
Public curiosity is becoming much excited
o know who will be selected as the candidate
or the presidency by the Cincincinnati conven-
ion. This depends, we think great deal upon
what the convention may think of the availa-
'ility Of particular men. The friends of Mr..
Buchanan are urging his claims; the support
rs Of president Pierce are patting him on the
Jack ard telling him to 60 ahead; and recently
Douglas has been reentered for the stakes:
'hilst g host of others stand gaping and grumb-
ne around, waiting to see what chance game
lay bring them forward
50 far as we can understand the game which ;
e democracy are playing, it amounts to about :
is, they are willing to run any body that can p
'mmand the vote of the south. They pretend
is true to be national party, but they will
It no man on the track for the great sweep Il
likes W 40 has not been adroit enough to make $
e southern people believe that he will stand u
to their rights and defend their institutions u
the first and last resort. o
Northern men with southern principles have "
en- tried. They have been weighed in the
ances and found wanting. After having
IN discarded by the SOUTH they have proved tic
most inveterate enemies we ever had an
is is not forgotten, and will not be forgotten vo
the present contest. Are Buchanan, Pierce II
Douglas better than the immaculate Van bl
rem, towhose sinking fortunes the democracy
The soIth chung with such unbroken hold in 60
10? Not single whit. The arch magician Cd
ned uEonus with all his power the moment f.,
ceased to serve his political purposes, and 20
will any Of the gang of which we have Just 60,
ken. - .....-
n contrast with this crowd Of ambitious as
'nts, tae name of one is presented, who has 'a'
n trieq and proved true to the whole coun- an
In 'he election of Mr.. Fillmore, the peo- n
have asothing 10 hazard. His enemies are
called upon to show one official act of his no
list clothed with the executive authority of err
country, inconsistent with the honor peace,
prosperity of the people whose chief execu- 49,
otfcet he was A citizen of the great re- tL[
lie, raised to its highest honors from the very
est obscurity by the force of his own intrin- spe
worth: he stood as the chief magistrate Of OF
mighty republic, calm, collected and I'M zef
ken, when the factions of the day were even MOI
ing earth and heaven to overthrow the pov- mi,
nent and bury him under its runs. We the
Eat it, he has been tried And now, will see
democracy tell US that they have any such a a,,
an to present as a candidate for the first con
e OF The country? Will they pick up, as of
have done before, some obscure Hunoa- be
OF their party, whose only chance of sue lhsl
rests son the fact that he has heretofore ooll
too Insignificant to render lin RESPONSE " ,
1t the bar of public opinion? This game 4"
been played until it is thought the people con
opened their eyes. The party that tries OF /
am does it at their peril. a 't'
MODEL PosTMAsTER.-Mr. J. Fisher, the mer