New Orleans daily crescent., 1857-07-27
THE DEMOCRACY OF THE SOUTH AND
THE ADMINISTER ALTON.


VIZ. ,.,,,;,,, - a., ,,oora nooa of t,day,s Crescent
49, of ~ from, nemocratic journals
g Da.~..;. ,tatosn,., a,a candidates for
,as., ,,s;.;ors roso,tons of Democ,atc State
,,.-..a..:.,, ,,,att.,, .x,ross;vo of Southern
no-.a..t;o ,ont;,,ont ,onoroiIv resnectinp the in
+roocber of l.overnor Robert j. walker in
r... :; ,.h;,, ,,,,,or, ho bos hoan formally sup
,,...aa .,,d anaors.a h,, tlo oam;nistratonan ad-
,,a.., i .o,,o, ~ Southern yotes-and
-, ,s,,,aa - snsta;n yindicate and
s.r.-.a a., ..,,t;t,t;one1 r;ehts of the Southern
,a'',s ls,o,,o. .,oso r;rhts were threatened with
r.;nr,.n,o,,t ~, ,,a;r Ereesoil enemies,
m.sss .s,ra,t;oas rvo o;ncerelv believe reflect the
,;o,rs of tbe masses Of the Southern Democracy-
ona ~. MOI, sav Of the entire Southern peope. with
m roro y to Marty distinctions. of course the Dem
o,.ie feel deeper INDIGNATION on the subject
tho, tba;r erstwhile nolitcal .onnonents for they
have been delded deceived and BETRAYED and treated
with an nprattn6e that has no parallel in the history
of our countrv-while those who worked against
them during the last Presidential canvass are not
afflicted with emotions of modification or contrition
incident to forfeiture of confidence and reputation
of PROMISES. because then never believed strongly in
the stability or integrity of Mr.. Buchanan, and were
no matter how shameless.
We have whole columns of extracts from Southern
Democratic ionrnals similar to those published else
where. which we shall insert when we deem proper
and as time and occasion serves. We are anxious to
open the ewes of the people, the optics
of our political the great fact that they
have been made the victims of stupendous game of
fraud. and that those whom they have honored con-
fided mighty powers to, and reposed implicit conf
dence in are the very parties that have been first and
foremost in the scheme of treachery. We wish to
enliphten their understandings, and by reproducing
nm array of evidence from sources opposed to our own
wav of thinking to prove to them that their idol of
the last canvass which they fondly thought and main
tanned was pure refined gold has turned out an unut-
terabIy base counterfeit And, if after all this is
done, they permit themselves to be humbugged again
IF thew run off into the realms of deuson and ruin
arain-if tbey will pursue mere name that was once
honorable and meant something, but which is now
used as a cloak for deception, and as a means to
enable unscr,pulous politicians to reach the lojtjest
naces in the Conedercv and are entrapped TO their
own destruction thew will deserve neither the pity
nor the commseration of enemies or of friends. nor
the respect of the world.
Only one wear ago the election of Mr. Buchanan
was maintained 70 he Absolutely necessary to the vim
d;cat;on and establishment of Southern constitutional
rights in the States and in the Territories of the
Northwest. The Kansas. Nebraska bill was to be
the panacea so far as the Territories were concerned
and James Buchanan was to be the mighty "medi.
cine man., Mr.. Buchanan it was said, should and
must be voted for by all true Southern men, in order
to defeat the election of Fremont-secure the Terri
tores-save the south etc.-and thousands of good
Southern voters who liked him neither politically nor
personally, did accordingly support him. Well, he
was elected, and mainly by the South.
What is the condition Of affairs no,p =? Why Ne,
braska is in the hands of the Freesoers neytrcaby
and rredeemably: and there is not a shadow of rea
sonabe doubt but that Gov. Walker, with the know.
ledge consent and appreciation of President Buchan
an. has sold the magnificent Territory of Kansas also
to the Freesoilers! If any of our numerous Demo
cratic readers question the yerty of these assertions
we refer them TO the testimony of leading members Of
their own poitical household prouped together in solid
nbalapx elsewhere
twill be seen that as general thing the denuncia
ton of Walker by the Democratic journals from which
we have ouoted. is unouali6ed while mucb conf
dence is protested in the integrity and good faith Of
the President It is but lust to saw that the editors
of mauy of these Journals could not have known thai
Mr.. ,Bucbanan had endorsed Governor Walker a
the time thew penned the articles in Question. Ani
now that the completely of the President in Walker
eachery is as certain as that the sn ever has sbon
upon the earth thew will be Obliged either to stultif
themselves become objects of scorn and rdcple an,
faitbless Southerners to all ntents and purposes
hurl their denupciations at the incumbent of th
Presidential office.
There is no escaping the alternative we present |
Governor Walker is ameuabe to the almost uniyersa
denunciation of the Democratic party of the soutb
President Buchanan is also amenable, but in large
proportion. He is the chief-Waker is his subord
nate-and he welds absolute control over all his sub
ordinates, There is not one he cannot dismiss a
pleasure-render officially powerless at moment,
potice-and it his bounen duty is among the biphes
obligations his position imposes upon him to remoy
treacherous fathess and corrupt functonaries from
place and power, as soon as their delnquencies ar
exposed.
But when-as in the case of Governor Walker
the nrincinaI endorses makes pooa and enforces tb
outrageous conduct of his agent it ia transnaren
absurdity the climax of supremest nonsense for tb
Southern peope. or any norton of them TO inveiol
against the one and trv to excuse the other
By referring to the authorities ouoted by us If will
be seen that glorious old Virginia speaks steny am
thrillngly that noble North Carolina is not silent
that South Carolina. whose people appear TO have al
| innate. boundless detestaton of donhledea,ing an
duplicity in auy shane. whether among the birb n
among the low talks MAINLY unanimously and to N