Des Arc citizen., 1859-11-30
The Charleston Convention.

The Charleston Convention.
 The following article from the Memphis
 .Avalanche expresses our sentiments in re- ference to the Charleston Convention:
 With single exception, the Presiden- tia candidates of the Democratic party | for the last seven terms have been from
 the Free States. Under such circumstan- ces, the right of the Slave States to pre-
 sent the next candidate, is too clear to be
 disputed. We believe the Northern De-
 mocracy are fully willing 10 conceGe the
 exercise of this right 10 us; and that
 Southern delegates will only have to con-
 centrate upon some candidate at the
 Charleston Convention, so as unmistakably
 to indicate their choice, to induce the Northern delegates to fall in with and ra- | lify t. In the present political condition 1 of the country, this is an important pre- ragauve of the Southern Democracy. If properly used, it nsures the selection of candidate whose elevation to the Presi- dency will constitute a foar years guar
 antee of tue maintenance of all our con-
 stitutional rights. There is as yet no dan ger but that the Presidential veto will be
 able to prevent agresslons by Congress,
 even should the Opposition secure @ ma jority in both branches of the National
 Legislature, and it is the duty of the South to provide this safeguard by securing President whose antecedents constitute an assurance that his negative would be promptly interposed to prevent any preju- dicial interference with Southern instisu- tions. We believe the South will have the power 10 do this, because We believe the nomination at Charleston will be tant- amount to an election. How can this dis jointed Opposition succeedl It seems pro- bable now that the next fight will be like the last, mainly sectional. But if, with all the factious issues-the Kansas distur- bances; the maudlin excitement created ner, and the attraction of change and novelty which in the outset Black Repub- licanism presented to the Northern mind if with all these circumstances in its favor, sectionalism was ingloriously defeat- ed in 1856, how can 1t ever expect success in calmer times, when reason sways the public mind. One more defeat will banish the slight hope it Yet clings to of being able to grasp the spells of office by ap- pealing to local prejudces and schemng treason, and Black Republican sectionalism will be abandoned, given over as a bad speculation, and will become as much a reproach to its present supporters as Know Nottingham is to-day with those who rung its paans four years ago.
 Such being the case, let us be discreet. We are not inaexibly tenacious of the of Southern man, but we want true man. If 1t be advisable, as we believe i, is, to select Northern can didate, we can indicate several in whom the South have the fullest confidence and whose nomination would be entirely satis- factory but we would have the South, as we believe 1t is her right, make the selec- ton. Gen. Jo. Lane, of Oregon, Gen. Pierce, Dickinson and Seymour, of New York, President Buchanan, Secretary Toucey, Mir. Dallas-in fact, any true National man will do, and there are so many of these worthies in the ranks of the Democracy North that 1t is almost in- vidious to mention individuals among them, and we would not have done so save that the above list are made prominent by their devotion to the Constitution and firm main- tenance of the rights of the South. But we want no Douglas to make war upon our Constitutional privlleges-and who is now opposing the extension of our insti- tutions-but a Southern man to protect them, if, after due consideration a South ern nomination shall commend itself to the judgment of the Convention; if not, a Northern man selected by the South and upon whom the South can depend.