Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-04-28

MOVEMENTS IN PoLIucs.-The American
party in the South has by no means yielded
herself up willing sacrifice on the altar of De-
mocracy. The election of Mr.. Buchanan,
which was to have consolidated the South
and divided the North, has had just the op-
posite effect the North is growing stronger
in its position, and the South is looking upon
the Republican issue in the same light that
Bolts and Rayner had the boldness to regard
1t last Fall. The result will, without doubt,
be truly national Republican party before
another Presidential election shall have reach
ed us. Already the people of Virginia and
Tennessee are beginning to adopt the Repub-
Gean position on slavery extension, and are
shaping their political contests of May and
August in conformity to these views. We may
well hope for the future when the chief city
of the South speaks for State emancipation,
and two Southern States witness for the first
time an anti-slavery campaign.
Nearly all the Southern States elect their
congressional delegations this Summer, and
the Republican issue is thus being more di-
rectly presented to the people than it could be
in any other way. Thus far one hundred and
sixty -one representatives have been chosen to
the next Congress, leaving seventy three, all
of them from the South, yet to be elected
The Republicans have ninety three members,
the Democrats sixty-six, and the Americans
two the districts yet to elect were last year
represented by forty mine Democrats and
twenty -four Americans-and from this it is
plainly to be seen that the administration has
not yet acquired working majority in the
House. If the American party does no
more than maintain its present congressional
strength, the opposition will have total of
one hundred and nineteen members, and the
Democrats one hundred and fifteen. 1t is
close calculation, but we do not yet despair of
an anti-Democ-atic majority.
In Tennessee, Emerson Etheridge, a man
strongly allied to the anu-slavery cause, is
openings vigorous campaign for a re ELECTION
to Congress. He was first elected as Wing,
in 1858, and is one of the immortal six who
opposed the Nebraska bill against the other
wise combined South his five associates were
defeated for re- election, but he returned to
Washington, sustained by five hundred and
sixty majority in district that at the same
time gave the Democratic State ticket over
two hundred votes. Although nominally
American, he was at heart supporter of Col.
Fremont, and some of the strongest speeches
against the Democratic party and its slavery
policy, uttered in the last Congress; were his
own; the famous resolutions against the
Southern policy of re-opening the slave trade
were also his. The Democrats are bringing a
strong outside pressure to bear against him,
but he is sanguine of success, and we hope
may not be disappointed. In the eigth dis
trict of the same State the Americans have
dropped Felix K, Zollicoffer, and will make
an anti-Nebraska issue, with Gustavus A.
Henry as their candidate. For the August
State election in Tennessee, the Democrats
have nominated for Governor Isham G. Har-
ris of Henry county, member of Congress
from l849 to 1858.
The disorganization of the Fillmore Ameri-
can party in the Northern States is abundant
ly shown in the cases of Pennsylvania and
New jersey; the recent State council of Penn
sylYania, which, in its palmy days, assembled
full one thousand delegates, had on the 10Th
less than fifty members; of these twenty two
voted to endorse Mr. Wilmot's nomination,
and seventeen +" bolted," and called separ-
ate State Convention. Springfield Repu5Ii-
can.