Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-11-25
TKeE MISREPRESENTATION For
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that It is quito too soon to tell who will
be candidates Tor President in 1867
"a great many important events may
take place between this time and that.
NeF issues may arise, and old candi-
dates may take rev positions upon them.
We-may have wars waged or threaten
od-we may have submissions to tor
eign demands advised or made,-we may
have questions of Tariff, of Currency
ofPublic Expenditure and public hon.
or presented to our public men aud the
country within the mex two years;-and
men who may seem to be right and
strOnS now, may prove to be wrong and
weak then. Nobody can tell what a
yeacsor q session of Congress, in our
busy politics, may bring FORTH still, as
matters stand now-as parties are ut
present arrayed, and upon the issues
now before the eo%untry,.we think it is
very evident the Republican candidate
wil~be FAr. Seward. Who the Democ-
racy win rally around is not so certain
1t may lie Breckenridge, or it maybe
Douglas; or it may be, what the past
tells US is not at all unlikely, an entire
ly NEW man-some one who has neither
the taiut of Lecompton nor anti-Le-
compton attached to his skirts. But
whoever it is, it matters not; with the
platform presented to US by Senator
Seward and Senator Seward as n candi-
date, the result will not be doubtful
the Democratic party will triumph
BltITiN Mr., Seward, be the candidate
of the Republicans in 1860? We think
the result Of the New York election has
settled that question. The refusal o.!
the Rcpublicans.to ''fuse'' with the Amer
leans oaa nuIoasstate ticket, though
the measure vas earnestly advocated by
thousands of reliable republicans, was 4
Seward triumph. 1t said to the Amer
leans, in SO many words, We are now
preparing for The great contest. of 1860
1t We unite with you, the victory won
viii be a partnership victory, and hence
will Indicate nothing.-while on the
other hand. If, we maintain our separa:.
organization and achieve a victory, it is
. proclamation to the world that We can
carry the State in 1860 with whoever
We nominate. We say then that the re
fusal. of the Republicans to unite with
the AmerfeaDssi In New Norkwas a Sew
ard triumph; the nomination of Morgan
was another; and his election must be
eonsidseed by every unprecedented poll
ticisn as the most substantial triumrl
of ~ Weknow the Americsuss and
thatzportion ofther Republicans in the
State of New York who are opposed to
Seward try to look upon it in another
light but Il is all in vain. The victory
achievedin New York on the I'd of this
-mtn-h is a Seward victory, and as Ger
tainly makes him the Republican candi
d1te for President as the DAY of nemina-
ton arrives. Chase, and Cameron, and
Banks; and the other aspiring gentle.
men of that ilk, may as well come down
81 once like Capt. Scott's coon, for the
batle has been fought and the chapiet
oEvietery rests upon the brow of the
New York agitator: Of course we make
this prediction upon the superstition
that the "nigger" question is to be kept
open until 1860, and is to be the issue
upon which the contest turns. This be-
ing so, it may not be auiss to examine
the platform upon which Mr.. Seward
proposes to stand at that time. We
quote from his speech delivered at Ro-
chester New York, on the 25th ult.
"Hitheste the two systems haye.exis-
ted in different States, but side by side
within the American Union, ** These
a~ntaSonistie systems are continually
coming into closer contact, and collision
results. Shall I tell you what this col
ision means? They who think that it
is accidental, unnecessary, the work of
interested or fanatical agitators, and
therefore ephemeral, mistake the case al
together It is aRirrepressible con fict
between opposing and enduring forces
AMI It meaas tn 1t ths UHited, States M us:
and loiW sooneIsor later, become either en-
firely a sLtve holding nation, o. entirely.
a free labor nation. Ether the cotton
md rice fields Of South Carolina and
the Sayar plantations Of Louisiana uoii
ultimately be killed BY free labor, and
Charleston and NeU Orleans become
n,arts for legitimate merchandise alone
or else the rye fields and wheat fields OF
Massachusetts, and New York must again
be surrendered by their farmes to slave
culture and to the production of slaves
and Boston and New York become once
more markets for trade in the bodies
and souls of men. 1t is the failure to
apprehend this grert truth that induces
SO many unsuccessful attempts at final
compromise between the slave and free
States, and it is existence of this great