Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1856-06-05
Huntsville, April 20, 1856.

1OuI lCUCtI VI Guc --clu luSt., IcdCueu ut
to-day. [ am in the midst of hurried pre-
parations for long journey, and have not
the time to answer it as [ wish. am 60
ing to Missouri and Illinois, and from
thence to New York and Washington from
one Of the last-named places [ will write
you at length.
In the meantime [ sincerely hope you
will not commit yourself against the Amer
lean party. l thought the nominations at
Philadelphia premature, and have not been
surprised at the expressions of dissatisfac-
ton it has called forth; still I do not see
how a remedy can be applied that will not
be worse than the evil, try to look at it
practically. The three prominent candi-
dates of the anti-Americans are Buchanan,
Douglas and Pierce. Buchanan is more
deeply attached to the protective principle
than Fillmore. Douglas is fully commit
ted to the river, harbor and road appropria-
tons, and Pierce is committed to everything,
and will prove true to nothing. Neither of
the three comes up to my standard of what
Democrat ought to be. Neither can be
trusted an hour after they have secured our
votes. All of them will be certain to favor
measures from which the North will reap
the benefits while we pay the taxes, and all
of them will be certain to stab us while pro-
Tossing the most profound regard for our
rights. In the very nature Of things, a
party which relies upon foreign voters for
success must enunciate principles, and adj
vocate measures hostile to the institution of
slavery. The foreign hack driver, drayman,
ditcher or bod carrier has no desire to COM
pete for his wages with the negro.
Even the Irish chambermaid looks with
jealousy upon the employment of negro girls
in our hotels There is wide-an almost
universal repugnancy to a domestic rela-
ton which they cannot fail to see reduces SO
materially their own chances of employ
ment; and it is here, at the base of society,
where wise politician ought to look for the
seeds of principles which, sooner or later,
control the destinies Of a nation. Great
events work their way up-not down. ALL
revolutions begin among the Masses
Willberforce himself only gave notice to a
sentiment which existed before his BIRTH
The Parliament of England would have a.
polished slavery if he had never lived. The
harangues Of demagogue are harmless if
there is no prejudices for him to direct-no
sentiment in the hearts of the laboring class
es which responds to his appeals. With
none but an American people to appeal to,
who do not look upon the slaves as rival
whose labor interferes with the sustenance
of their own families, all the political preach.
ers and orators in the land could never get
up slave agitation to dangerous height
It is as a Southern man, born upon the soil
of the South, linked to it by thousand ties,
attached to slavery as domestic relation,
and believing, in my soul, that it is bestfor
both races, that cherish most ardently the
American cause. Whatever best promotes
that cause will be certain to receive my sup
port. cannot hope to have anything ex-
actly as wish, and as practical man |
mean to take the best I can get. At Phil
adelphia, as at all other conventions, things
were done of which do not approve, but [
predict the Cincinnati Convention will do
much worse in regard to a platform; and
that the nominees will be hundred fold
more Objectionable Oliver Cromwell was
wont to say 'snits will be Ice," and a vile
set of trafiekers for foreign votes must Of
necessity give us trafficker like themselves
for candidate. JERE CLEMENS.