Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-08-11
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TUESDAY, AUGUST IL, 1857.


The result Of the August elections in the
Southern States of Kentucky, North CarOlins, and
Tennessee, formerly the strongholds of the Wing
party, and, more latterly, of "Americanism," at
the South, cannot be considered so much an
indication of growing Democratic strength in that
section, as a sign that the people of the South
look at politics in sensible manner, for their in
terests, in No longer persistng upon foolish di-
vision upon minor issues, so long as the one great
overshadowing issue of slavery, upon which they
all politically agree, remains to be settled.
Would that the people Of the free States would
exhibit equal wisdom by like union fOr free.
dom TO counterbalrnce it,
In Kentucky the Democrats have all but two
OF three members of Congress, Gt being entitled
to ten and large majority of the new members
oftne State Legislature, ensuring administra-
ton United States Senator, in place of j. B.
Thompson, American, whose term expires March
4th, 1859.
In North Carolina, the Democrats have six, to
two American, members of Congress; and in Ten.
nessee the Americans e.elect only Zokofer and
Ready,while the Democrats secure the other eight
congressional districts.
One thing is particularly noticeable in the new
metamorphosis of politics in the old Southern
Wing States, and that is the great use which is
made of former Wings, who make model Demo
Gratis" of the modern stamp, like Cingman in
North Carolina, ] 3. Clay and A G. Talbot in
Kentucky, &c Men like these are selected to
send to Congress to represent modernized pro.
slavery Democracy at Washington, instead of
h.. ~ A. e ~ H.,
it from the first. The idea is rather ludicrous
one, OF the only surviving son of Henry Clay rep
resenting the old Ashland district in Congress- as
regular Democrat of the Buchanan stripe. But
so it is.
The majority of the members in the late Con-
gress, from the three States named. were elected
as Americans, but portion of them gradually
went over with the rest of the South, to the sup
port Of the administration, and now, by the re-
turns Of the election of new members, it appears
that the administration has secured all but six
Or seven out of the twenty. eight members from
these States, from which majority in the last
Congress were opposed to them.
Among the defeated ones is Emerson Ether
idge in Tennessee, who for Southern man stood
out manfally in the 33d Congress, against the re-
peal of the Missouri Compromise, and in the
34th, moved so nobly in his resolution against
the re-opening of the African slave trade. 1t
seems he was not deemed sufficiently sound on
the goose," so an ultra pro-slaVery adherent Of
the administration was elected over him. When
will the North learn lesson by this, to stand by
her true men, and repudiate in like manner those
who have proved recreant to the interests of free
dpm, as the South invariably repudiates every one
in that quarter who relaxes in his devotion to the
interests of the peculiar institution? We
trust the day may not be faI distant when it will
be done.
In Texas, poor old Sam Houston, who lost
caste with his constituents by his opposition to
the Nebraska bill, is Overwhelmingly defeated for
Governor Che running as an American, against
the regular administration Democratic candi.
dste), by more than u, 600 majority against him
Besides this, the new Legislators is nearly unan-
imousy Democratic, and both the new members
of Congress are of the administration stripe; and
all this in State now represented in Congress
by an American, and in which that defunct party
not long since claimed majority of the popular
vote.
These things, taken altogether, show that the
South cares nothing whatever for American.
ISM" or any other eide issue in politics. any far
ther than she can make the agitation of it sub
serve her own darling interests. When, we ask
again, will the North be as wise, and come out
in equally united phalaDx, for her own interests
of free labor and free mens