Daily American organ., 1856-08-13

Delivered im the House Of Representatives., the
7h Of august, 1856, on National politics.
Mr.. DAVIS, of Maryland, rose and said
''Is Philip deadp No, by Jove-but he's sick Z"
Such was the chatter of the factious democrats of
Athens, chilled by the shadow Of the coming
Cheronea. s s.s a..t
"Will Fillmore declineg No, but he's too weak
to get single State" say Democrat and Republ-
can, shivering before the blast of the coming
November #& *.A
MIR. Chairman they consult prophets who pro-
phecy pleasant things Their hopes are the oracle
speaking by the inspiration of their interests And
yet while they trust to the prophecy produce its
accomplishment they confdentally sigh, "Woud
1t were bed time, Hal---and all wellin That bed
time will surely come. But whether the couch of
victory or the bed of death will be spread-7ah !!
| that's the question.
Sir, party at brag and bluff is a suspicious wit
ness to the goddess of his own hand and the by
| standers believe do not usually regard him as
better witness to the badness of his adversary's.
If Democrat and Republican have conspired to-
gether mutually to play by-bdder at each others
mock auction--to put off on the country plated
brass for gold-the people will have the sagaeity
to that though Liberty be on one side,, the
image and superscrption of the Union is not on
the other, and the lacking weight will reveal the
counterfeit
I desire to make this discrimination wish to
inquire into the weight Of this style of brag, which
has, to my poor understanding, exhausted the re-
sources of my opponents
Say the Democrats, "Do not vote for Mr.. Fill
| more, because he cannot get single State at the
North" Say the Republicans, "Do not vote for
Mr.. Fillmore, because he cannot get single State
at the South" And both are SO simple as to sup
pose by thus excluding him from the regions of
their opponents, that they have finally dealt with
his pretenslons: .Ia s as
Why is it that two parties as wide apart as the
southern and northern poles have conspired to-
gether in this significant and novel way for the pur
pose OF denying to their most dangerous opponent
strength in the regions where the adversary Of each
is strong? There two organized parties in this
country which claim to represent adverse local in
terests. The Democratic party rests itself on its
boasted and selfarrogated privilege of supporting
and sustaining the peculiar institution of the South.
Its strength and its whole strength consists in its
assertion that it alone Is the defender of Southern
rights. II is therefore dangerous to them for any
thing to arise within the limits of the South and
claim hearing of the Southern people, which
touches more nearly the rights of the people and
appeals to the more elevated and noble sentiments
of devotion to the Union and the Constitution. The
gentlemen of the Republican party of the North
aspire to represent that sentiment which is like
wise local and peculiarly confined to the boundary
of the North, and having no power beyond it,
They likewise are jealous of the intrusion on their
domain OF any topic of such stirring interest as will
call the minds of the North away from the contem
plation of the perpetual cry: Freedom is ma
tional, and slavery is sectional y "the rights of
man; )" the expressions of the South" "the
equality OF the negro race"
All these minister to the excitement in tho
North. They are ubjects in themselves neither
interesting nor attractive--not 80 interesting or
attractive but that an appeal to the great interests
OF the country, the great fundamental principles
OF our Constitution, to the great danger of the
agitation OF these topics, may possibly reach the
of the most besottcd and startle the reason of
those who still rational that they whose talk is
Of negroes and who think that the servants at the
altar should live of the altar, may find themselves
preaching to empty benches. One, therefore, and
the other, each within his own region, seeks to
drive out and destroy everything that may SOW
wheat among his tares They may touch any
thing else but these rights of sovereignty, but put
forth your hand and touch them in the very body
of their power and they arise and curse you to
your face. # t.3 a
The Democrat is jealous of anything which i'm
peaches the high duty of extending the instita-
tion, and is impatient of men who accept it as an
existing institution, to be protected as any other
great national industrial interest is to be protected
The Republican tolerates no man who questions
the practical honesty of the higher law, and sug-
gests the conscientious duty Of conformity to the
practical enforcement of the Constitution.
Both cry out, no compromise both execrate all
adherence to the existing condition Of affairs az
wisest and best Each boasts conquests inthe fu-
ture over his antagonist Each lives and moves and
and has its being inan atmosphere confined to its
own region; it cannot breathe moment the air
on which the other thrives. Neither has any rep
resentatve in the region of its adversary to soften
their antagonism. They both strictly sectional
parties tending to bring into collision hostile
opinions feelings, and interests concentrated with
out mixture at the opposite polls of the country
each intensified like opposite electricities by the
intensity of the other, and threatening, if brought
into contact, an explosion which may shake the
foundations Of the Republic. Each knows that un-
less it can keep exclusive control of the whole
region there is no hope of triumph, nor even of
collision
In this lies at once their strength and their
weakness.
Unless Mr.. Buchanan can carry the whole South,
and trust-not to party discipline for that has died
away-but to the chance of the bribe Of high
Office to persons in the North to make up the de-
fciency of the Southern vote, my Democratic
friends know full well that they have not the most
remote prospect of succeeding in carrying him to
the Presidential chair. And our Republican
friends ths other side with equal reason, based
on equally notorious facts know, If the State OF
New York is stricken from them, that they are q
poweriess minority, out OF doors, and that no NOM
inee of theirs can darken the doors of the White
House IL is therefore not because of their strength
but because of their edkness that the one and the
other seek to produce the impression which it is
possible, and in charity ought to be conceded each
believes but which il is difficult for men WAC hold
a moderate and middle position like myself not to
regard in very different light. II is for this rea
son that each party, deluded into the idea that it
is enthroned in the exclusive control of its own
sectional interest and it's sectional power, at.
tempts the vain task Of persuading the country