Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-01-09
Prom the Now o.lesns Delta, Dec. 10.
PRESIDENTIAL PROSPECTING.

TIE political cauliron is boiling fnrously at
Wnshir gton, and every day new bubble APP ears
non The surface new ingredient is cast III to
make it '.thick and slab. n" less an Ssua than
the fate Of the Presidential struggle Of G0 seems
10 hang UPON the awful conf iuratun. Thus tar the
powers OF darkness seem Ia favor the political COM
pexIun mus akin to their uNn--ln other words.
the Black Republican maGclans have cunlured
wisely aud we'll und have received signs and to.
kens called and evoked uppartuns and utterances
altogether To their comsort and good cheer.
On the other Ia d. the Old lIunker body guard
of the Administrator are cast down and pcrplcx
ed in the extreme, and it requires very
vivid conception of three years more q: Executive
patronage to keep their spirits up, and ENABLE
them to exhibit even an appearHuce OF pluck
rnus the tables are turned upon them or at least
slantlng in that direction. Only the other day the
hopes OF the Black Republicans we're down to zero
now they are apparently up to verhal heat. What
has led to such IL state OF things, and what il to be
its urohabe outcome? Lot uS briefly consider.
In the outset, it must be remembered, a. we de-
uiarea at the time. that in 1886 she Black Repuh
Iicap snake was only slightly ScOrchcd, not killed
The issue indeed. with few EXCEPTIONS was not
made with il at the North, in mlutul bold and
distinct manner on the Slavery question, through
out tho canvass Yet in spite OF u studious avoid
ancs by the Northern Democratic managers of any
net or expression to offend the Slavery sent
ment; 10 spite of Free Kansas" emblems and
poitical meetings in the interior Of many Of the
Northern States in spite of the fact that Mr.. Bu-
rhannn was nominated because be could plead an
alibi on the Kansas bill and WAS therefore less OBJ.
iecton.ble 70 the Black Republicans, of Democrat
ir extraction and lineage; in sp.e of all this the
Democratic party was in minority ~ the election
of 1856 in every Northern State with, perhaps the
exception of Pennsy ylvania. and the loss of that
State would have given the presidency to the Black
Republicans They did not achieve the Presidency
the result was rather victory than defeat. They
proved the alarming abundance nt their resources
they showed with what wonderful rapidity they
could organize far camp iign; they forced the
National Democracy to terms causing it to pledge
itself to an attitude of hostile neutrality towars
the South aud now they show determination Il
hold it to that pledge under the penalty Of the des
traction of the Northern wing of the party.
Mr.. Buchanan having boggled in his Kansas
policy-hav.ns given Walker he benefit of his ar
gument, and presented to the Democratic party al
absurd expediency which his argument condemns
the Black Republicans and Free Kansas" anC
popular sovereignty" Democrats, Of the Walker
Forney, Douglass Co. school, are preparing tC
execute the above mentioned penalty. The Capi
to is the present scene of the struggle to that end
The Gauls are laundering and shouting the gate
and the Cuns.ript Fathers of the Democracy ar'
turning as pao the ivory of their cOrule chairs.
There can be Disgusting the fact that th'
Presidency in 1860 is involved in this squable or
the new phase o! the hahshs question. Inc Dlact
Republicans are in ecstaces ut the defiant manner
| in which tho leonine Senator from Illinois shake
his name in the face of the Administration. Blu
the other day, in their eyes he was pestient pig
nv; now he is a very Titan, and even Greedy il
glad to hug his gigantic knees. They will MAKE
the most of him. If he seek to revehGe himsel
for the treatment he received in Cincinnati in 1885,
they will aid and comfort him even, it may be
sa far as TO support him for President a coalition
Democratic ticket based upon the popular sOver
eighty" idea. Altogether, this Kansas imbrogli'
at Washington is big with tremendous results. /
is an immense political fact. 1t is an algebrai'
equation containing stupeudous unknown guam