Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1856-05-19

After his election as n delegate to Cincinnati, Mr.
Selden introduced TO the Democratic convention
on Friday and made speech defining his position
in reference the several candidates for the nomina-
ton. In the of it, he took occasion to admin
lister hit after hit to Old Buck. arguing the mpocy
and the danger To the South of selecting man not
/ personally identified with the Kansas Nebraska
bill. and contending that the nomination of such
a candidate at the present time would be monstrous
ally Equivalent to aShrking Of the issue involved
in that bill, aud would very probably tend to dis
hearten and discourage those Democrats ut the
North--Such Pearce and Douglas-who had given
it their active and earnest support, and had risked
much for it, all the time, from the moment Of its
introduction to the present hour He told the con-
vention that Old Buck had been identified with the
extension of the Missouri Compromise, but not in
any with its rspedi-and understood him
to intimate quite distinctly that nobody knew where
Old Buck would have been found on thu Nebraska
question il he had been in Congress at the time of
it, passage. Likely enough, he said, that he would
have voted for it, hut then he did not vote for it
which, il not his fault, certainly his misfortune
aud people sometimes suffer for their misfor-
tunes well as their faults this unfortunate world
of ours. lie argued, therefore, to take man who
not only not identified with the Kansas struggle
and thorough Missouri extensionst, would enable
many free soiiish Democrats at the North to come
into his support, whose object it would be to con-
fuse and obscure the main vital issue involved in the
coming campaign, by holding up Old Buck as the
special friend and patron Of measure which the
South had now repudiated, and which the Black Re
publicans are now clamoring loud in favor of la
word, Mr. Sedden wanted the essential principle Of
Sla Tn he boldly firmly
stood upon by his Northern allies in the common
contest; and that could not be done except by the
selection of Presidential candidate who had been
in the Nebraska fight and who still retains the smell
of tire on his garments. Old Buck, therefore,
not the man for the criSis-,t had been his misfor
fortune not only to be out of the Kansas ring but
To have been too closely identified with the extension
of the Missouri Compromise.
Towards the close of the meeting, Judge Crump
of this city was called out, and though it was 10
use the Buchanan men being flat their back-he
undertook the defence Of Old Buck, and the right
calamity did he battle in behalf of his toored avore.
Nothing ,launted by superior odds, lac carried the
war into Africa, ARA gning Mr.. Hunter and comuni
eating al ugly fact in regard to him. which caused
great relief and JOY to the beaten BuchaniteS, and
which had escaped our recollection entirely, II We
ever knew it, He stated that Mr. Buchanan had |
been ia favor ofextending the Missouri Compromise |
line to the Pacific ocean-that is, Of settling the |
slavery question on the line OF 30 81 why, Mr.. Hun
ter had been guilty OF thing much worse; he had |
been in favor Of settling the question The line Of
30 degrees thus being willing to give up tn the
North degree and a half more of territory than
even old Buck u Northern man willing to do
The Judge argued Therefore. that il Old Buck must
be set aside unfit To be run in the present can
va>S because Of his advocacy Of the Missouri extern
sion ON the line Of 30 30 how much more unwiSe
and impolitic would il be u nominate Hunter who
had been in favor Of Compromise the line Of 30
We submit To our readers whether the Judge
didn't get decidedly the better of the argument
whether in fact. lac didn't most eectually retort
on Mr. Se'iden AMI take all the wind out OF his-Sails
We submit further, whether it has been proved
most concusively, upon high Democratic authority
that would he entirely unsafe so far a. the South
!, concerned Gr the CINCINNATI convention to nomi-
nate either buchanan Pcarce, Douglas, or Hunter