The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1859-05-18

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Ito repudiate the principles OF the party thai
him to the vice presidency. The lead
ins principles of that party were a tariff dis,
eliminating for protection, a national bank, and
ID iudicious and sectionally impartial system Of
Improvements by the general govern
Ali of these Tyler repudiated, and he
was in turn as promptly repudiated by the great
mass of the wing party of the Union. All OF
his cabinet, save Mr.. Webster, promptly re-
their seats and would have no official
association with such an executive. Mr. WEB
ster alone remained, not because he conceded
In the accidental presidents change OF policy
but because he desired to carry on-lmportan'
negotiations then pending; and Tor ms
continuance in the cabinet he was censured oy
nearly the whole wing party.
James Buchanan has now served the demo
cratic party precisely such a trick asJohn Tyler
off on the whig party. He dlseards the
democratic idea of a tariff solely for revenue
at a time when the national Golfers most sadly
need increased revenue, and recommends pro
~tectiye duties. He scouts the democratic sys-
TEN of adj yalorem assessments, and demands
IA return to the old whig system OF speclhc du,
ties. He disregards the democratic hue and
cry against internal improvements by the gene
.ral government, and urges congress TO embark
with a bankrupt treasury, in the most extensive
Of internal Improvement ever devised
in this or any other country gigantic rail-
road. whose cost will exceed all the national
for half-a-dozen years to come! WITH
a debt of one hundred millions already incurred
by the profieacy, and failure to increase made
.ouate revenues, by his own and the preceding
ADMINISTRATION, he would plunge the
country into debt of two OF three hundred mil
lions more to build a railroad from the MlssIs-
|stppi to the Pacific! Nor is this Is all-he
recommends the passage Of a national
bankrupt law, though the democratic party by
Its repeal Of the wing bankrupt act, distinctly
pronounced against such a measure.
Thus it will be seen that president buchanan
has as fully repudiated the principles OF the
that elected him as did John Tyler. Blu
do the party cast him off, as the whlg party
least off TYLER? Do his cabinet resign? Oh, no
5be holds the patronage of the government yet
land the principles of the party must not comt
lin conflict with its full enjoyment! The mes.
SAGE was received a little coldly by some demo.
~3cratic papers; a few others even go SO Tar as e
sbestow upon it a little general eulogy; but MOI
bone thinks Of dissolying the connection wheel
Ian expectant democracy holds with an apostatt
hut p~urse-holding president! No member O
the cabinet resigns; and when it is shown tha.
between the views of the president and thost
sof the secretary Of the treasury there IS an IRE.
iconcilable conflict. Democratic newspapers
9resort to the work Of hunting up a precedent tt
show that Mr.. Madison and his secretary o
itbe treasury differed on one measure OF pubic
3policy without disseminating their official reia
There is no agreement IN reference L
beading measures OF policy between the che
Executive and the heads Of departments-thert
lis no political sympathy between the Preslden
land the party that s~ustains him. But there /
Ian affinity OF some kind that prevents thel
Separation or even any quarrel between them
land the people will not be slow TO discover tina
3Mr. Calhoun forcibly described it, when h
spoke of sthe cohesive power Of public plum
lder."
] THE OLD SroRY.-Our democratic friends 0
The Holly Springs Herald, in giving place L
ltbe call Of its Waterford" correspondent 70
IL resurrection Of the old wing party, makes th'
following appeal:
Better. a thousand times, would it be l%feyery
iold line whig in the south would unite viii
1.-THE democratic party, the only national party
3new in existence, and present a united and IN
3vincible phaianx against the enemies of tht
asonth and southern institutions. The old willis
3Barty nas- Ian in a hopeIessao;aarity-witI
sbut one or two exceptions-sInce the first or
3ganization of our government, and what car
llbe friends of that party now expect to ettec
IN - -. denominations No l4pa that sglJ, COR
3resnondent, whom we know to be a friend 0
3the south as well as a patriot, will consider thl
1subiect and unite with the democratic party il
Ia war .'even to the kniie's hllt," against th'
Hoes of the south"
This is the old story Of the south savers
3wherewith southern wings have been ~continu
aally cheated out Of their due share of paTtiei
a@pation in administering the government. Fo
5@nearly the last quarter Of a century, there ha
3been quadrennialIy produced by the strateg.
sof the democratic wireworkers, a "~crisls' il
(which it was necessary to save the south! j
9beIieve them, the south has been in continue
limminent peril of utter destruction. 1t ha
abeep resting upon a volcano, to whose terrih
aravages Htna and Stromboli, put into one
awould furnish but a small similitude of demo
aniac power. According to them, ''the south
ahas been trampled on, is now trampIed on, an,
lis still going to be t~rampled upon, unless it ca
sbe saved from the degradation by the election
sof a democratic president. And yet notwith
standing the country has taken these wire
workers at their word, and has installed admin
sistration after administration, chosen from til
democratic party still the old cry is raised-sti
.the south" has to be again saved" fror
Humiliation, by again resorting to the expedi
Gent which has been so often proven to be inefi
~eacious!
We beg leave 10 decline any further partici
spation in this b~Gngling and f~ruitless effort t
save the south!' We prefer to Jet the sout
save itself, as she is ample able and ready t
edo, with the strong arm and the stout hear.
whenever the necessity may arise to call int
FACTION her instinct of self preservation. W
greatly prefer-enlightened by all past exper.
5ence-to trust 'the south" rather than til
democratic party.
Our friend of the Herald-to whom, by tn
way. we award all honesty and sincerity in hi
views in regard to the necessity of again ''sav
hing the south"-is at a loss TO conceive wha
sgood will be aecomf lished by a reorganizatio
of the scattered wings Of the country. We ca
stell him at least one beneficial result to fol
4f,on, # Ii will add onr more conservative an