The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1858-11-10

Mafun y an Dufen was The soft freeSOli can
didate for president, and was opposed By the
''hard' democracy and the old wings of New
York. In 1856, the principal portion of the
j"sofls" in connexion with all the other ullras
and isms, combined under the high sounding
title Of republicans and nominated Fremont
for the presidency. Happily forthep peace and
prosperity of the government, in both instances
the lntriguants were vanquishea. But they can
not remain quiet for many months. In 1855,
the ''hards. by some peculiar management on
the part Of the sachems Of Tammany hall, have
been excluded in grea; measure from the en-
Joyment of federal offces-a majority OF which
/ have been conferred upon 'tsofts and, as a
consequence. few weeks age, presented the sig
nifcant spectacle at Syracuse ofthe ''softs,' the
old friends of Van Buren, in 1843, excluding
the "hards' from the democratic convention
convened to nominate State ticket. If We are
to credit the assertions of the democratic press,
| the present administration mus! be held respon-
sible for the prominence enjoyed BY the ''softs''
which threatens to extinguish the democracy.
The Daily News, the organ of the New York
| 'hards' and an ardent supporter Of the admin
istraton, short time ago said:
''Since the Inauguration of the president, he
has been compelled to place in the important
Office of marshal of the northern district Of the
State, colonel Simeon B. Jewett. Now, in the
month of September, l 849, less than ten years
ago, a certain treesoi state convention was held
| at Utica, Mr.. E. B. Talcot Of Oswego, presided.
Congressman John Cochrane, senator Wads-
worth of Buffalo, and other distinguished gen
| tlemen were members OF that convention
John A. Dix was nominated for governor In
| that convention colonel Jewett figured promi-
nenuy, as he had in August of the same year,
at the famous Buffalo convention. After the
organisation of the body was completed, colonel
Jewett rose to make a motion He stated that
the Gerritt Smith ''Lberty party" (outand-
out abotionists) were then in session in that
city, in another building. That this liberty
party would fra.ernze and unite with Mesr con-
vention, provided the latter would pass certain
resolutions on slavery. The freesoil convention
passed these abolition resolutions; and then the
two bodies cordially and fraternally united in
one, colonel Jewett officiating as marshal and
grand master Of the ceremonies. The same
colonel Jewett was delegate to the Buffalo
convention, where he voted for the nomination
of Van Buren, and Adams; and he was also
delegate to the Cincinnati convention, where he
voted. EVERY TIME, against Buchanan! Col.
Jewett, since he became United States marshal
has appointed as his deputy Mr. VIM. G. Dry
err, of Ontario county. This Mr.. Dryer was
moved, in 1348, from the office of postmaster
of the village of Victor, for aboitlonism by the
hon. VIM. J. Brown, the postmaster general
under James K Polk. Mr.. Buchanan has also
sent to the Sandwich islands, Mr.. Benjamin F.
Angel, of Livingston county, who was rejected
by the United States senate, in April, 1854,
when nominated for the same place by presi
dent Pierce, because of his abolitionism. Mr..
Angel, like colonel Jewett, was an out-and out
Van Buren, man. President Buchanan has al
so appointed as consul at Hamburger, Germa-
ny, ex-governor Seymour's brother-in-law, j.
B. Miller, of Utica. This gentleman was an
original freesoiler; his last political movement
was speech at an anti-Nebraska meeting, in
1854, when Stephen A. Douglas was burned
efGgy."
istration for the s'soft' leaders. We will now
glance at the News review of the present posi-
ton of the "soft'' or Tammany hall democra-
cy. 1t says:
"We have deliberately and repeatedly charg-
ed that the late democratic State convention
and the present committee, controlled BY Fow
Ter, Hart, Sckles, Rynders & Co, were man
| aged and rum for the benefit of Stephen A.
| Douglas, and with an eye to aiding Douglas to
obtain admission to the Charleston presidential
convention, and of giving to him the nomination
as Mr.. Buchanan's successor. When we look
over the array of names Of those who assume
| this 'tcontrol' of our party organisation, no
man acquainted with our State and local poll
tics can doubt the truth of our assertion. If
there be any who deny it, they are of the class
who are blind because they will not see. In
1852, when the name of Douglas was first
| brought forward in connection with the presi-
dencv, we well recollect that the hon. Emanu
ell B. Hart. now surveyor ofcustoms for the port
of New Y ork, was Douglas candidate for cleo
ton as delegate to the Baltimore convention,
and was beaten by Oliver Charlock, esq, who
voted il convention for Lewis Cass. Daniel E.
Sickles, George N. Saunders and others, prom
inent with them, now in Tammany councils,
were at that convention laboring strenuously
! for the Little Giant. 1t is folly to pretend now
that the alliance of that day has ended ere this.
Do not all men know that through the inhu-
ence of Douglas-then unsupported in his pro-
fessed friendship to the south--such nomina-
tons as those of Isaac V. Fowler and others,
Objectionable from the association of their name
with Van Burenism and Buffalo platformism,
were got through the senate, under Pierces ad
ministration? Do we not know that Douglas
stood by Pierce in his persecution of the poor
'hard shells" in this State for four long years?
| Do we not we'll remember the ballots cast for
Douglas in 1885, at the Cincinnati convention,
| by Seymour, Fowler, Richmond, Cagger &
Co., in grateful recognition of this aid and coun-
tenance? Some people have thought that our
oficeholding friends in Tammany and at SYRIA
cuse, were looking to southern president in
1860, with Horatio Seymour for vice. They
forget that large majority of these mana
gers" and directors pledged themselves ''be
fore the world at Buffalo, in i848, ''never to
vote for STAKEHOLDER as candidate for presi-