The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-08-27
THE SOUTHERN PRESS.
WHAT OF PARTIES IN THE NEXT PREsIDEN.
TIAL CANVASS

From the Richmond wa Wing late Know Nothing or
gan, AuguH1-
1t is little too early, as yet, to engage in
specula,ions concerning the probable condition
and relations of parties in the next Presidential
Campaign Az least, such speculsfions must
necessarily be vague, indefinite, and unsatis
factory. But there are some considerations
which naturally suggest themselves, in view of
the next great Struggle for the Presidency, and
which we may sllude to in cursory and gene.
raj manner at the present time.
We perfectly agree in the opinion put forth
by our contemporary of the Lyuchburg Virgin
ian. ths,, from TIE sign. and indications around
us, there will be q reconstruction of parties be-
fore tie commencement of the Presidential
canvass in 1860. Indeed, such an event, in our
Judgment, ia inevitable. Before the cloee of the
nexI Congress, ell the issues at present in con.
troversv, growing cut Of the question of Slavery
In the Territories, will be deGn;uvely and finally
settled. la truth, thie yexed matter Of Slavery
in the Territories has already been adjusted
not indeed, in accordance With the wishes and
expectations Of the South, or In accordance
with fairness and justice, but in obedience to
the desires and demands OF the North, through
the mischievous AID aameless interference Of a
Democratic Administration and its dictatorial
officials In regard to Kansas, the grea. bone
of contention between the North and the South,
what do Wa witness? IL it not fixed, &C.
knowledged, irrevo cable fact, that Kansas will
adopt a Constitution prohibiting Slavery, and
that it Will be admitted into the Union, st the
very next session of Congress, AS free State?
And is it not upon the domestic condition of
Kansas that this whole secona. controversy has
turned, from the beginning? The status of no
other Territory has been in dispute. All the
other Territories have been conceded to the
l.
whether Kansas should be slave or q free
State and that question. as we have said, has
already been decided in favor Of the North 1t
is obvious, therefore, that in the adjustment of
this Kansas question, all sectional parties are
out of sight, and become dissolved into their
original elements. There will be no basis, then,
for either Southern sectional party or q
Northern sectional party in the next Presiden-
tial campaign. The Black Republican oreani-
cation is practically at al end-the Democracy
themselves having accomplished all the objects
aimed at by the R-pnbl:cans, in determining
the question that no more slave States shall be
formed cut of the present territory of the I'm.
ion. And the Democratic party itself, having
no common principles to stand upon, would
also be dishanded bat for its uncomfortable re.
eolve to pe-petui;e its hold upon the public
plumber. That ia, in truth, the cohesive DOW
or" which binds the Democracy together, and
ii is only that which can make them act topeth-
er in the campaign of 1860.
Thus, then, there must be a reconstruction
of parties prior to the next pitched battle for
the Presidency. And IS the Slavery question
is already settled so far as tie Territories are
concerned, and as there is no avowed or enter.
tanned purpose on the par. Of the Republicans
as o party to interfere with Slavery in the States
we consider it probable that ell the elements of
opposition will be compactly and unitedly ar
rayed against the Democracy in 1860. That
this is an object greatly to be desired admits of
no doubt in the mind of any man who has
watched the course of the Democratic party for
long years, and who is cognizAnt Of the tricks
and articles to which it continually resorts for
the purpose Of acquiring possession of the Gov
ernm snt, and sstiating its appetite upon the
spoils of offiee The sum and substance of its
policy-tbe absor brig object Of its leaders,
pluncer. AID hence its readiness to make q
footb Ill of any question in aid Of its eleva-
ton to power. and to push all questions to ex.
tremity no mater What may be the danger and
hazard involved. Iudeed, upon the subject OF
Slavery itse.f--in regard 10 the security and
preservation { f Southern isstitutiops-what rec
reancy and fa;thlessness has it not displayed I
II ia susceptible cf easy demonstration, that
whatever peril the Seu.h has incurred-what.
ever the S5u,h has lost, or has a prospect oil
losing-is attributable, not to the Aboli.ionists
of the North. but to tie National Democracy
North and South. They have fed and -four
ished upon agitation for the last twenty five
years, forever quilting and deceiving the South
into the support OF their candidates and their
pcl;cy, and yet all the while leaving Southern
institutions weaker and more exposed, for al
their pretended eif,rts to strengthen and to for
tify them. Take, for example, the case of Kan
gas. 10 their hslds, and under their control
the whole management of this question ha:
been placed. With msjorities in the Legisla
three of mere than half of the States, with Dem
ocratic Presidents, and with mvjori,ies in Con
gress, trey have had it completely in their pow
er to demonstrate their competency and then
willing ness to save Kansas to the South, and
protect Southern institutions. Bot, notwith
sanding their pledge. ard appeals on the sub
iect lssI tall, Kansas has been lost and not
only Kansss lost, but even the existence Of Sla
very endangered in Missouri, and perhaps Other
border S ates.
Now, suppose that Fremont had been elect
edjpstesd OF Bucharau-wbat worse thing could
have betallen the South, under his Administers
ton, than hss already hefallen it under Dem
ocra,ic Administration Would there have
been any more certainty OF Kansas becoming {
free State than exists at present, under tht
management of Buchanan and Walker? Wouls