Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1859-04-29
THE MAN FOR THE DEMOCRATS.

The Democratic papers of different parts
Of the country are beginning to air the
names of Democratic aspirants to the Prcsi-
dency. of whom there appears to be no lack.
Mr.. Guthrie has been formally brought out
by Kentucky paper. Mr.. Dallas is talked
Of by several southern journals. Mr.. Pierce
has not found anybody Csc willing to sug-
gest him for another term but has written
q letter himself dsclaimng any desire to re-
enter public life, which sounds very suspi-
cously. Mr.. Buchanan as is now well un-
derstood, means to be a candidate in order to
save the Union. Mr.. Douglas has been sus
pected by some evil disposed persons, who
are unacquainted with the disintercstcd pa
triotism of that small goliath, of a very
Barkis-like wilin'-ness to accept the
honor if it should be unanimously urged
upon him by discerning and grateful poo
pie. And there are Hunter and Wise and
Cobb and Walker, and who not
But we have not seen named as yet Me
man, and when he is adopted and elected we
shall take some credit for suggesting him.
1t is Mr.. c. A. L. LAMAR. Now don't let
anybody be asklng-as everybody did when
Pierce was nominated" who is her. Mr..
Lamar has already a national reputation.
He is the grand re-opener Of the STARE trdde
He is the man who informed Mr. Secretary
Cobb that he was going to bring in a
cargo of slaves direct from Africa, and who
went and did it. He is the owner of the
Silver Wanderer, and the SLAYER Rawlins.
He is the worthy who knocked down upon
the spot the only man who ventured to bid
against him at the mock sale of his coniis-
Gated slave yacht who arrested for larceny
the U. S. Marshal that took from him for a
day some of his freshly imported chattcls ;
who waited in person on a young Northerner
who had ventured to write to New England
journal of his doings, and warned him from
Savannah under threat of lynching if he re-
manned, and who would doubtless have headed
the mob to do it, if the obnoxious individual
had not hastily left; who may be seen any
fine morning taking his daily ride in thu
streets of Savannah and at the same tim,
riding over all law. human and Divinc-witl
black boy fresh from Guinea :" per :
Wanderer, at his back
Will any IF our Democratic friends please
mention thing that is lacking for the pur
pose in Mr.. Lamar? They tdo it. IL,
is entirely sound on the goose. lie undouht-
eddy believes fully in the new Democrat,
doctrines of the duty of Congress to enact &
slave code for the protection of slavery in the
Territories, and to repeal the laws agans,
the slave trade; he, of course, is a sturdyad
vocate of modern " Popular Sovereignty
which means the right of any man or set 0
men to do a.whiny in the service of tht
slave power, and the want of right Of any
body to resist them for a moment. This
with perhaps Il bel ief is the duty and exl e.
diency Of fllbustering, in all that is left
of Democracy. and Mr.. Lamar is q
worthy exponent Of the whole article. 7,
this doctrinal sounlncss he adds the chivalry
of Bully Brooks and the courage of Titus
not the distinguished Roman who took Jc-
rusalem, but the Democratic chicftain o.
Kansas and Nicaraguan fame. He will he
acceptable to the FIRE eaters of the South and
of course will be embraced with rapture by
the Post Masters and Custom House officials
Of the North.
II elected he will carry out the bred Scott
decision, by securing the Free States with
the Z. S. army and sweeping all the mig
gers" free and fugitive, into the cotton fields
and rice plantations will carry on the Slave
trade with the L. S. Navy, and when he has
seized Cuba, which he will do ofhand, will
reward each of his friends and supporters
with a box of Ilavanas and Dahomey
darby. Such is Mr., Charles a. L. Lamar OF
Georgia, and if not at once acknowl dyed as
"the coming man" for the Democracy, it
will be because modest merit goes Gas is SO
often the case) unrecognizeu,