The Nevada journal. [volume] (Nevada City, Calif.) 1851-18??, 1857-08-21
Prosneet for Amerieanism.

ioiN PiOAoii'C IAoh hb tHio AhOihOHe'
In the south the popularity of james
Buchanan is waning day by day. He
was elected as the candidate of the
South, and the defender of southern
views and southern institutions. He
was nominated in the Cincinnati con-
vention by Virginia, and at the election
received the votes of fourteen southern
States and but four northern. He
might we'll then be claimed by the
South as their favorite.
But under the operations of the prin-
ciples of Squatter Sovereignty, carried
out by Governor Walker in Kansas,
that territory is certain to come into the
Union as free State. The course of
Walker has astonished the south, and
southern presses brand him traitor to
the institutions under which he was
born and reared. He is charged with
violating the principles he was sent to
Kansas to carry out, and even the Pres
ident himself is threatened with uncom-
plim entary terms should he not repudi-
ate the action of his Kansas Governor.
From the sentiments promulgated in
southern journals it is evident the south
are chagrined because of the uncom-
Portable position into which Mr.. Buchan-
an and his co-lahorer Walker has plac-
ed them. They expected another re-
turn for the electoral votes of fourteen
States, and have been grievously dis
appointed.
The American presses south labored
during the canvass of last year to prove
that the southern construction of Squat
ter Sovereignty could not be carried
out by Buchanan in the event of his
election. They failed however to con-
vince the people of Mr.. Buchanan's I'M
soundness But time has demonstrated
what the American organs failed to do
effectually. The southern people now
see that Kansas must inevitably become
a free State under the operations of the
Kansas-Nebraska Bill of Douglass, as
interpreted by the President and Gov
ernor Walker, and dislike to the
heads of the Democracy is growing up,
giving unmistakable symptoms of revolt
before another Presidential canvass is
over The sig ms of the times are such
that it would not be surprising to see
Mr.. Buchanan ere the great contest of
1860 arrives lauded and defended BY
the identical presses that supported Col.
Fremont most strenuously in 1885,
Stranger events have happened. Who
knows, or will affirm that Douglass is
not the free soil candidate for the Presi-
dency at the next race, by virtue of his
Kansas-Nebraska Act! The Demo
cratic party has oft-times evacuated its
principles and is likely to do so
again. Popular sentiment may cause
the little giant to ride upon the ebuIi-
tions of northern gratitude for an unex-
pected and unattended favor. The
opinion is gaining ground in the South
that he is mo great shakes" after all,
and before long the idea will be univer-
sal. Where then will the stumpy DEM
agogue find admirers but among the
people his evil acts have CHANGED to
benefit? Besides it would be no viola
ton of precedent or principle for the
Republicans, if Kansas becomes free
State, to nominate Douglass. They
selected Fremont, South Carolinian
over hosts of men who had devoted a
life time to the cause of freedom and
human progress-who had been firm
and consistent opponents of slavery ex-
tension from early manhood down to the
converting of the National Republican
Convention of last year. Precedent is
decidedly in favor of the nomination Of
Douglass by the popular party of the
north.
AT all events the prospects are fiat.
tering that the American party will
sweep the entire South like a whirl-
wind before two winters have passed
The per centage in favor of the Democ-
racy in the Presidential election of last
year was slight, requiring but small
change in the popular vote to overcome
it. The parties south may be said to
be about evenly balanced. The pre-.
ponderapce will doubtless be on the
American side by the time numerical
strength is required. There are many
reasons why this shorld be so, not pos.
sible to give in an article of this length
Narrative OF EDWARD MCGOWAN
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