The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-07-30

cratic party possesses the desirable elements G
union and harmony to insure 1t success IN TIL
Il ensuing presidential canvass. beyond perad
] venture the impression is downright fallacy
Neither does the platform adopted at Cincin
natl as the general confession Of democrati
: faith, meet with universal approval, nor is TIL
nominee, personally, or politically, general,
acceptable. Great efforts were made, as pre-
+ liminary proceeding of the convention, to re
concile those two antagonstic factions, the hard
and softs of the New York democracy. The
attempt was apparently successful; the opposing
delegations mingled with seeming harmony
and fraternised on the momentous occasion
The effect was that the great State of New YORK
was represented and consequently felt in the
convention, and her vote, not neutrased as il
was in the Baltimore convention of 1852 II
never would have done, that the Empire State,
by the logged and refractory rivalry of few
selfish and scheming politicians, should have
been shorn of any participation in the spoils-
The same consideration of policy which sug-
gested this temporary reconciliation Of the
specific purpose, was sufficiently potent to in
duce the chivalry South Carolina to bow down
to the golden calf, to make that hitherto proud
and independent State yassal of democracy
and to force her ANONYMOUSLY to abandon her
consistent and boosted line of domestic policy
But dscerning and sagacious politicians have
no confidence in this ostensibly fair, but really
treacherous, coalition; it is nothing more than
hollow truce, and the great body of the "softs,"
who recognise opposition to slavery as cardi-
nal article of their faith, when the true issue is
to be tried, will not confirm and ratify the bar
gain and sale made for them by their unac-
credited agents. Even supposing the hards and
softs combined. were more than match for the
Americans and republicans, which is far from
being the fact, there could be no well founded
hope of Buchanan's obtaining the vote of New
York.
The dissatisfaction in the democratic ranks
with both the platform and the nominee isnotlo-
cal or sectional, but general and national There |
is scarcely politician Of note belonging to the
democratic party in the northern States, discon- |
nected with Office or the hopes Of Office, who
takes hold Of them with that enthusiastic ala /
Gritty which bespeaks hope and success. Both I
platform and candidate are adopted as necessi-
lies, or the expedients of party emergencies,
and not from spontaneous choice and hearty free
will. They will be supported by the compar-
stlyely small cliques and partisans, office-hold-
.rs and office expectants, with the zeal that or
ilnarly characteristics the hungry seekers of Of
lclal esculence; but the masses, the great body
If disnterested and incorruptible voters hold
Jack with most significant and portentous
lesitancy.
In fact, the canvass is assuming SO sectional
n hue, that were any of the free States TO cor I
Tally sustain Buchanan, it would afford plausi- !
lie ground for suspicion and apprehension
uch suspicious have already been aroused in +
dvance. They were plainly manifested in the =
invention. In the preliminary voting, his G
omination was almost unanimously opposed $
y southern delegates; and they gave in only
hen it was apprehended his northern support +
rs would secede from the convention, and set +
P for themselves. A staunch southern dem u
cratic Journal opposes him because he "is the n
preventative of the north and was nominated 4
y the north in opposition to both Pierce and s.
ouglas, the first and second and only choice 81
the south, and, if the south shall vote for him,
will be because the ties of party are stronger A
AN the love of our section. He was selected a
r his availability-chosen as leader, because 4
ore acceptable to northern freesoi democrats .,
an either Pierce or Douglas; for the reason h,
at he can command more of the votes of the r.
gh tariff democrats of Pennsylvania, of the !,
ternal improvement advocates of the north
est, and of the freesoilers of New York and
hio.''
By way of cumulative testimony of Mr.. Buch- i,
ans not being generally acceptable to his fl
rty, any more at the south than he is at the ~
nth, we will cite few examples. We con- wi
Ter the press of South Carolina as the true, III
tettered and independent exponent of states tc
hits, and particularly ofthe rights Of the south on
lat press is entirely free of all party organiza-
ms, unshackled by the subserviency of parties n,
d party dictations, but professedly, and hon r.
y we believe, devoted to the best interests
the country, and particularly the south
this respect lit may be regarded as section of
Now, what says South Carolina be
The democratic platform, and the democratic ka
1dldate? We have before noticed the reluc- tat
It and hestatiDg adhesion of the Mercury, of
leading journal of the State, and deserved
regarded as the champion of southern rights Nc
ere Were at least two of the prominent planks
the platform which in its opinion were most wit
;idedly exceptionable The Mercury swal-
IS both the platform and the candidate but Pc
h an i'll grace
The South Carolina Times opposes Mr. Buch- mo
IN out and out, because he voted for the tar ]
in 1912, and because he declared in 1874 Rit
t she felt strong repugnance to extending !
Union over any more slaveholding ter Bis
ry." \
The Southron published in Orangeburg, in Pet
same State, thus declares its utimatum 4
We cannot fight under Mr.. Buchanan's witt
ner, because we want the evidence of his 4
ndness on slavery-that question which ex- Wo
ts all others in importance; and unless we I
e the proof of Mr.. Buchanans orthodoxy, aga
do assert that blind advocacy of his claims 7
the Office to which he aspires will amount nay
virtual ignoring of the faith of our fathers, aga
will result the Inauguration of IA new pol and
in South Carolina; it will bind us to the car the
ederal power, and erect into supremacy the
onal party of our State. b
What claims has Mr.. Buchanan upon us for mer
port? Does he wear upon his person. the iron
nds and scars of honorable warfare? Has 10 n
yer periled anything in behalf the constitu- IKE
al rights of the south? We have not vet Intel
ned to school our lips to the notes of adu- cert
n and until we possess more unerriup nroofI resp