The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1857-02-12
The South Now.
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been able to ascertain which party wor
| the last Presidential election, the ro-sIa.
very or the Republican party. True
saysstho Enquirer, we elected our candi.
date5}.and 1--WE believe Mr.. Buchanan will
redeem his pledges in each and every
letter of the PLATFORM but adds the En-.
quirer:
"In moral sense, the recent election
seems barren of any permanent effect
For moment, perhaps, the Black Rcpub-
llcan sentiment of the North suffered some
shock and recoil; but we do not perceive
that the party betrays any disposition to
abandon the contest, or even to prose
cute the war with less spirit and vigor.
It's organization exists with a stronger
vitality; and its members are already pro-
Jechng plan of campaign for 1860. If
they understood their recent defeat TO be
equivalent to a popular verdict against
their principles, and to be decisive Of tie
contest, they would not exhibit so much
OF energy and defiance in their prepara-
tons for another trial of the issue. A
party which feels itself smitlen by the
wrath of the people, does not carry so
proud front and SO lofty a crest, but,
like the miserable fragment Of FiImore's S
followers, is apt to hang its head in shame
and 10 shrink obscureIy from the strug-
gle.
"Again: if the consequences of the re-
cent victory be computed by more ma
terial standard, they will scarcely appear
OF greater promise to the security of the
South. Since the election Of Mr.. Buch-
anan the Black Republican party have
been busily engaged in consolidating their
own successes, and in breaking the force
of our partial triumphs in the North. In
Indiana they have postponed the election
OF senator; and have thus wrung the prize
OF victory from our grasp, and secured
Tor themselves the chance of another ar
peal to the people. In Pennsylvania, the
home Of our candidate and the theatre of
his most signal success, they have con-
trlved to neutraize the popular verdict of
November, and to send a representative
OF their interests to the Senate Of the Uni
ted States. Thus does the administration
lose the incaIcuable advantage of hearty
and reliable support from PENNSYLVANIA
state OF whose sympathy the South
deemed itself secure, and to whose CO.
operation Mr.. Buchanan was entitled bv
every consideration of justice and propri- |
city. Then, too, contemplate the over
throw Of the venerable Cass in Michigan,
and the succession Of an out and out
Black Republican to the Senate; the al
most unanimous reelection of Sumner.
Hamlin and Nourse elected by acclama-
ton from the old democratic ate of
Maine, and Simmons sent to ode
James from Rhode 1slandS Contemplate
these things, and say ifthe South iinds
much in recent developments whoreupon
TO congratulate itself with a complacent
of security. II is an un-
gracious task to recitC all these circum.
stances of defeat and disCouragement; but
wise and fearless man always wants an
exact measure Of the strength OF his 40
'ersary. Only the weak and the foolish
Iyert their faces from the unpleasant spec
.acle. Above all things it is the duty of |
he southern journalist to furnish a truth /
ul statement of the forces Of the Black ,
Hepubllcan party, and to utter timely {
'dmonition against too great confidence |
If peace and security