The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1857-05-13

platform and policy OF the hihefiSah pas
The Sreseut democratic party cannot exist Ii
own managers will break it to pieces. The pee
pie will not remain blind to its failure TO &C
complish what its friends claimed for 1t dunn
the the past campaign. They see its lrult Win
cred upon the tree. They see that peace ma
been proclaimed when there is no peace. The
see that the election Of Mr.. Buchanan did nc
amount to even truce. They see kansa
given up by the southern democracy. They Sc
that squatter sovereignty-that panacea for tn
! ills that aff1ict the south-has given the mort
four additional senators. Thus they see III
power of the south is weakened. They see
whi1hersoever they turn their eyes, either
! dreary waste of corruption, or passionate
conflict of hostile sectlonalsts. They see NJ
hope of reconciliation without the Intervention
of third party. They see that the teud is too
deep, the hate too intense, the conflict lar toe
deadly for the Union TO survive itmueh longer
The people must look otherwise. The Amels
lean party, slaughtered, to all human appear
ance, is not dead, as may be seen from It's re-
cent movements in different quarters. 1t will
gather up its energies, we trust, in time to con-
'front.' dangers that bcset the Union. 1t is
the true party, and will be, in 1860, asst is
now, the only national party. 1t Will have
national candidate in the field for president. The
other parties will have their sectional cand-
dates, around whom respectively the hostile ex-
tremes will rally. The American party offers
peace, not war, to the people. 1t offers them
no alien influence in the administration OF the
government Of our beloved country. 1t offers
them the proprietorship of their own domains.
as an inheritance for their children forever. 1t
offers them the best constitution the world ever
saw, rescued, saved and redeemed from the
hands of outrageous factions. 1t offers them a
liberal share Gifts provisions, so that the munlt-
cent resources Of their country may be develop
ed In a word, it offers America asst should be to
Americans, the children of the children of the
men who won the battles of the revolution and
erected our great republic. 1t has no partsans
to reward, no enemies to punish. 1t is the
only party that can make peace, heal dissen-
tons and administer the government with clean
hands and upon national principles. All 9TH
ers will fail.
The first election that is calculated to test
he strength of parties, will be for members OF
congress in Virginia, which comes off on the
9Th instant Next will follow the State cleo
ions in Arkansas, Alabama, Texas, Tennes-
ee, and Kentucky; which will take place in the
month of August. In Pennsylvania, n. York,
ohio, etc, The elections take place in Septem-
er, October and November. Prepare your
elves to hear the loud peals Of thunder.
For sometime past there has existed in the
'inds of many respectable people considerable
nxiety in regard to the predicted appearance
the comet of'l857, and its determination
pitch plamp into this wicked word of ours,
alike both saints and sinners. I'm
very recently the appearance Of one of these
ratio bodies has been source Of great terror
people Of most all classes; and even in these
avs Of science, the ignorant and thoughtless
ave no better opinion Of their comctships
Of the nature and composition Of these bodies
ut little Or nothing is known. Some of the
stronomers contend that they are solid bodies,
lille others are Of the opinion that they are
othing but celestial humbugs NJ Babinet
Ills them "yisibIc nothings." HerscLel says
lie entire weight Of ones tail is but few
lnces. DR. Faye goes still further when he
Us that comets aail is not 50 solid as the
'eech Of poitician-that it has not the solidi-
of gas, and that the mcrest cobweb would
fer more resistance. Mrs. Somery1IIe says
at the comet Of 1910 passed within eighty
ousand miles of the earth without affecting
e tides, swept through Jupiters satellites
lthout derangng the motion Of these little
cons. Promising the abosc 70 be true, it is
Try evident that the expected comet, though
should prove to be an ill-brcd body by frisking
tail at US, will have no very serious effect.
On the other hand, should it prove to be a
hid body, the chances Of collision are almost
syond conjecture. In 1882 the people of
rance became SO much terrified at the expec-
ID appearance Of Bieia's comet that the board
longitude felt it their duty to publish a
oFk tor the purpose of removing this useless
rror. That work was by Francois Arago,
nc Of the highest authorities that ever spoke
astronomy. He admits the possibility of
comet coming in contact with the earth, but
lat the chances are so very small that there
no cause whatever for alarm. In his calcu-
'tIon OF possibilities there is but one chance of
collision out Of 281 1000, 900 against it. In
Their words, if you were 10 put 281 ,OOo, 600
lack balls into box with solitary white one,
nd then shake them up well, the chances of
olllson would be equal to the chance ofdraw-
e the white ball at first trial.
Yet in the face Of all this, let us suppose the
omet which can now be seen through a teles-
ope, is solid body, and should come tilt in |
, US, what would be the consequence? NJ.
Arago says that if such an event were to take
lace, and the comet of sufficient mass to ston
be earth's motion instantly, all things on the |
urface, not implanted in the soil, would hv off