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by the people, seems to be settled
fact. Although the returns have been
unsettled and uncertain Alternating
between an election by the people and
the cxigcncy that the House of Repre-
scntativcs would DO called upon tc set
tie the difficulty; and although at our
writing the votes Of Louisiana, Nilsson
ii and Illinois arc in CONFERENCE.-THE
have no doabt Of tho success of Mr..
Buchanan. The slavery issue has made
the South almost q unit, whilo the
cards have been stocked" by Locofo-
co gamblers in the North sufficiently to
bring the required amount of free State
aid to their support.
Mr.. Buchanan was held mp to the
people of the South as the great Union
candidate, so straight upon tho vcxed
question as to lean quito perccptibly
10 the proslavery extreme. BY tho
Southern Democratic leaders of the
press and the hastings he was repre-
scented as the champion Of Southern
rights, whose election would uproot and
crush out Black Rcpublicanism.' In
short the election Of Buchanan was to
deliver the South from al its troubles
about "wootiy heads in general, and
any that might be taken to Kansas in
particular! What god-scnd for the
injured South We were to have in the
election of "Buck and Breck !"
How is it now. Buchanan is elected
hy the people, and what is the next
matter OF moment to be settled? A
cabinet is TO be formed, and the trophies
Of victory-the "marrow and the fat
things to be distributed. If
there is one principle to which Locofo-
coism adheres consistently and pcrtina-
ciously it is that to the victors belong
the spoils." Well, Buchanan is victor.
Who aided to achieve the victory for
Buchanan Martin Van Buren,, 'the
little Magician of Undertook, sworc
by his beard that Buchanan was bet
Ter frccsoilcr than Fremont, and thus
aided his success in the Northern states
whose electoral votes he obtaincd.--
And then, thorc is Wise, Of Virginia,
(who would have been a good Democrat
long, long age" when he was abusing
that party, if it hadn't been for the
"gangrcac Of Tam Burenism, yes,
there is Wise, who threatened to call
out the Virginia Militia to go down to
Washington on the fourth of March to
secure tho archives, in case Fremont
should be Constitutionally clcctcd-he,
in consideration of having scared the
people (for Locofoco editors now nc
knowledge that the Militia humbug
was only gotten up to scare the people,
into the support of James Buchanan.
he must be rewarded. Well, pay them
OF, Mr.. Buchanan---call Matty Van to
be your Secretary Of State, and thus
please your frcc-soil friends North =
The South won't like that, but little
'smcar'casc' will fix that all right--just
make Henry A. Wise, Commander in
chief Virginia Militia) your Secretary
Of Var, and thus tickle the Southland
.! yc politicians, what a team we will
have to saye the Union!
Mr.. Buchanan will go to the chair Of
State, as Pierce vent to it, surrounded
by an innumcrablc army Of spoils gor-
morants, hungry and Unsuitable as half
starved wolves, representing every hue
and stripe Of the niger question from
that Of the Southern nullifcr ard fire.
cater to that of Bleeding Kansas and
Bccchcr Abolitionism. They will all
clamor for the spoils because all aided
Buchanan. Meanwhile Rcpublicauism
proper will be taking notes and plying
its energies for the sweepstakes Of 60.
Hence We say, "Me end is not yet."
The peace of the Union is not yet guar.
anticd, because it cannot be by dcccp-
ton, double dealing, hypocrisy and
fraud land such were tho instrumental.
tics by Which James Buchanan was
elected. ,....