The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-07-08

From the Mobile Mercury.
THE CONTEST OF 1860.

The politics of the country seem to be
just now, in transition state. The old
Wings, the Know Mornings and some half
dozen other remnants and fragments of
antiquated organizations now fallen into
decay, to amalgamate themselves into
one grand political conglomeration under
the ad cdpitandum name of the Peoples
Party while the National Democrats"
appear to be determined to de-natiOnalize
themselves as speedily as possible and to
separate into Northern and Southern Sec
Misunderstanding the Black Republican
party as the only one which is pressing
steadily onward to the certain accom-
plishment of the great purpose which or
iginaly brought it into being.
The Peoples Party, however, must
prove failure; it will turn out to be
headless, tailIess, bodiless, and, therefore,
brainless; and a party wanting in such
essentials is not likely to succeed in the
stormy campaign which we are likely to
have in 1860. Nothing in the future is
clearer to our view, than that the next
Presidential contest will be waged by the
North against the South under the names
of the Black Republican and the Demo-
cratic parties; but with a result quite
different, we suspect, from that which at
tended the last election.
No man not stone-blind can for one
moment believe that the Democratic par
ty, at the North, is as strong now as it
was in 1856, when their candidate was
barely smuggled into power by a minori-
ty vote. Since then we have had the
Kansas war, and the Walker, Stanton,
and Douglas defections-to say nothing
of the regular Black RepuJlicanizatios
of the Northern Democracy that is al
ways going on, and family quarrels that
are perpetually breaking out in the Free
States, invariably terminating by one fac
ton or the other pulling down their col
ors and going over bag and baggage to
the enemy. This is certainly q fearful
state of things for our National Domo-
cratic friends to contemplate. If ever
there was necessity to keep the De-
mocracy united, it is now. The Wash
ington States sees this, and in recent
article on similar subject remarks as
follows:
No one will deny the Importance Of
the unity of the Northern Democracy
No one can deny it, Northern union is
actually the most prominent feature of
Democratic power, because, with bro
ken North and Black Republican as
tendency representing it in the National
Legislature, of what use would the De-
mocracy of the South be? The break
ing up of the Northern Democracy would
leave the Southern Democracy power
less; and the party to all intents and
purposes, would be as dead as the Wing
party was the day after the Presidential
election of 1852. The truthful, bold and
just Democracy of the North is, and has
been, the shield and succor of the South
in its struggles against the narrow mind
ed, but keen and relentlessly unceasing
combinations of pseudo philosophers and
fanatical Abolitionists.
But unless the Southern Democratic
party are less patriotic now than they
were in 1856, they will insist on disso-
luton of the Union, in the event of the
success of the Black Republican party;
but without the Union, what should we
want of the Democratic party? The
Union broken up, its mission would be
ended. Why not then change the issuel
Why not appeal to the people of the
uhote South to come up in one solid pha-
lanx to the rescue of the country against
the .abolionists of the Northern States to
fight-once for all-the great battle Of
the section-the battle of the Constitu-
tion--the battle of the Union or no
Union
The contest of the Democracy against
the Black Republicans would be an eva
sion of the real issue but the next Presi-
Dental campaign conducted on the issue
of the abolitionists on the one hand and
the whole South and the friends of the
Constitution and of the perpetuation Of
the Union ereryachere, on the other, would
put very different face on the matter,
and in all probability result much more
favorably to the interests Of the country
at large.
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