Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1858-08-19

ters oil all these intestine troubles OF every
party. At this late day. on the Threshold
Of our fall campaign, which will probably
decide the complexion Of the next Congress
and the election of our next President-st
this crisis, when the fusion Of the opposi-
ton forces of this commonwealth is mo-
ment of vital moment 10 all the factions con-
cerned, what do we see? Is i, q spirit of
Cancellation and union, or of discurd and
disintegration2 We answer that never
was the Seward party in this State in a
more broken down and unpromising posi-
lion of decay and disruption than at this
very day, and that the prospect Of fusion
of the Seward Republicans, the Fillmore
Know NOthings and the "temperance and
freedom nen" upon any ticket or any plat
form is exceeding bad. In short, from all
present appearances. such are the divisions
and demonstrations among our opposition
cli1ues and factions that if the Democrat,
do not secure majority Of the New York
members 10 the next Congress the failure
will be altogether due 10 their own folly and
stupidity.
! Passing, however, to the more compre-
hensive issue OF the next Presidency, we
perceive in this defeat OF Blair in Missouri,
| and in .he first returns from the Kentucky
election, the turning Of the tide. In the
one case we see that there arc other issues
which are sufficiently powerful toOyerride
the anti. slavery agitation; and in the other,
that even the rump OF the Know Nothing
party in the South is falling 10 pieces, In
1860, then, we shall probably find the De-
nocracy in the South in full possession oil
that section, and the opposition Of the North
split up worse than tie Northern Democ-
racy, into irrecOncileable cliques and iac-
lions. In this condition Of things the ne
cessiies of bolh sides may drive both the
Democracy and the opposition to ssms very
unexpected proceedings.
|. appears 10 be generally understood
that as the last three Democratic Presden-
tial nominations Cass, Pierce and BIchan-
an-were from the North, the next nomi-
nee, if new man, must be given 10 the
South. Blu, where in the South can we
find Tie available man? Not in Virginia;
for if we take either Wise or Hunter, or
any other man than Wise from that State,
there will be split among the Virginia
chvalry, and she will 60 by the board; moi
in Georgia, for there the same trouble ex-
I.ts BET ween the Democratic fire eaters and
the conservatives; and the same may be
said of every other "coi,on State" But
then there are still left Mr.. Vice President
Breckenridge, ant Hon. A. Y. Brown, OIL
present efficient Postmaster General, eacl
representing the conservative democracy o.
conservative Southern States. Very good
Either of these able and conservative men
would answer but for the extraordinary
drawback Of Charleston Convention. Blu
the locality of tina, Convention would give
its most conservative nominee prestige o
notification and secession which il will bt
extremely difficult TO carry across Masor
and Dixon's line.
The locating OF the Democratic Nomina-
ting Convention Of 1860 at Charleston wa,
"a suicidal act South Carolina is rank
dsunion State. She remains in the Union
only under compulsion. For years past sh.
has been induslriuusly sowing the seeds o.
her discomfort among the other "cottor
States" and she is ready at any moment
when they shall be ready, 10 proclaim sep
crate Southern confederacy, and prepare ior
war. The assemblage, therefore, Of the Ma.
,ional Convention of the Democracy within
her borders, and in her principal city, will
be very apt TO be regarded in the North as
an insulIerable conces sion 10 the South Car.
olina disunionists, coupled with the nomina-
lion Of any Southern man. This opinion
had its weight il the committee charged
with G,e subject at the Cincinnati Conventions
and it was only after long debate in com
miltee, and by a majority VI one-sixtten ta
fiiteen-that Charleston secured it over
New York. BY all odds, the majority should
have been the other way.
But the Convention is to meet among the
South Carolina GisunionisIs, the bad poliii.
cal ordor OF that state may prove 10 be toe
strong FOR the nerves Of any Southern can
didate, considering the pro-slavery follies
and disasters into which the Democracy have
|, been carried by that Kansas Nebraska bill
In this extremity, the Convention may be
compelled to fall back upon Mr.. Buchanan
as the only alternative for the balance oi
power in the North. He is not IA candidate;
. but against his wishes and his expectations
|, he NAV be compelled again 10 stand in the