The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-07-07
MIR. DOUGLAS IN THE SOUTH.

Mr.. DOUGLAS IN THE SOUTH.
The Charleston Mercury speaks for South Car
DINA, and it explicitly states that it viii sus
tain or countenance Mr.. Douglas under no cir
cumstances whatever" However, if Mr. Doug
las only lacked the vote of South Carolina to
make him President, and Il e alternative were
Republican, we doubt if tn, election would be
permitted to go to the House of Representa-
tives. The case supposed isan extreme one
and this side of it there is net ray of hope for
Mr.. Douglas in the Palmetto State
From the Charleston Mercury
The Chronicle and Sentf,,el saws we have
been equally Jealous in sus tanning Douglas
and all that class of politica ms, and all the
Democratic platforms ever Co structed." The
Chronicle and Sentinel shoulf be more careful
of It's statements. The Mercm sustains Doug
las When? Where? How Upon what is
sue? Mr.. Buchanan has be elected Presi-
dent of the United States me three years.
We advocated Buchanan's action in prefer
ence to Mr. Douglas, before the Convention
had nominated candidate. What word since
that time have we said in Mr. Douglass favor2
We believed him demagogue from the begin
ming. If there is journal In the country that,
within the last three years, hi labored to ex-
use his treacheries and host designs against
the South, claim to Re that journal
Throughout the Kansas cor ~oversy, after his
motives and real policy becas evident to us,
and long before many claiAing to be true
Southern men could or wouN perceive it. we
denounced him as shutting, sslfseeking polit-
zeal triekster. In fact, we CT selves run the
gauntlet of abuse from petty ,lticians in the
South who still chung to him, nd to his treach-
cry and to serve their PURPOSE We are Dem
ocrats-we profess to be. BIZ we are no Ma
tional Democrats. We are : emocrats upon
the old principles of strict { Instruction and
limited powers in the Gene Il Government.
But we do not belong to a 6 ational" spoiis
party, ,cith paper principles a. j plunder prac-
fice. ease Democrats, not rty hacks. We
support certain cardinal prin lies, not specu.
latlng politicians.
The Democratic party, so, fled, processes
these principles at least-and IL il does not prac
tce them strictly and honestlx, as it certainly
does not, 1t comes nearer tc F<Aem than any
other party. We support it AZ far as we can,
and we denounce it when we Fsfd it necessary
to do so, as columns will !. lily show. The
party, as national party, we.. ave given over
and despaired of to protect our lights 1t can
not do it. Because to do so it rust exist at the
North strong enough to sustaiH rs in Congress-
This it has and will fail to do. = is overwhelm
ed everywhere at the North. T. has gone down
utterly party based on prissipie. 1t exists
now upon mere spOls. So mus any other par
ty except the Black Republicats And it must
be so of necessity, for the polAos of the coun-
try have become entirely section al-North Us
South. Here is the whole political creed. No
party can live at the North that will sustain the
| rights of the South
G. q Al
| here state that the Mercury Ssll sustain or
countenance him under no Gre instances chat-
coer. He is traitor to the ID. Hlocratic party,
and traitor to those principles which secure
the South. He is dangerous ald designing.
Away with him Let hin, be tGnatIteD,a mar
anatha," say we. Nor shall the Mercury sus-
tain any platform put forth by any party what
ever, which platform or party she'll maintain or
endorse, directly or indirectly, by utilization or
omissions, the fatal positions Saad fraudulent
policy assumed by Douglas with regard to our
/ territorial rights We repud.ste the whole
scheme by which it is soughtt3 tie our hands
and encircle us, as with the foNSs of snake, to
crush out or smother the vitsF power of our
civilization.
Finally, the Mercury shall u1ain no man, of
whatever party, clique, creed, ~ section, who
shall stand upon the platform Ok Douglas prin-
ciples - though he should be dominated by
twenty Democratic Conventions. For the party
which would permit that cree is an enemy
Of the South, and we viii wa with it to the
knife. For ourselves, and we an safely say
for South Carolina, we win Either counte-
nance, sustain nor submit to a. such party,
platform, principles, or politicitss.
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RETRENCHMENT.-Ninety -6vt persons con-
nected with the New York c. tom-house, as
clerks, messengers, &C., were the 3Oth ult.
discharged, as is alleged, with rev to econo-
MIXING expenditures. 1t is strs re that this re-
trenchment was not made two airs ago, when
the revenue commenced falling off, or even a
year ago, when the monthly rect1 DTS were about
third what they now are. The discharge at a
time when the business Of the { Joe was never
greater, Is confession that ssey have been
utterly useless drones during - two years OF
contracted commercial operatifsa. Indeed, it
is fair to conclude that since KY can be dis
pensed with at-his time, they Z e never neces-
sary. For two or three monts. past, the Off
cial and other organs of the Government have
paraded weekly comparisons of the current re-
ceipts at New York with those of the most
prosperous periods Of the past showing that
commerce is quite recovered from the shock it
received in 1857, and hence a strong clerical
force was never more needed. The following,
which we clip, as an item of news in the Balti
more SIN of Monday, illustrates this remark;
"Impo,ts Of Dry GOods.-The imports of
foreign dry goods at New York for the month
of June are larger than for any previous June
in our history--the total being nearly three
times as large as for ths corresponding month
of last year. the total being S7,2e0,060, against
S2.5O3. 769 for June of 1858. The Journal OF
Commerce says:
"'The total value Of goods entered at this
port for the fiscal year ending June Both is
about the same as for the corresponding period
of 1857 but the total thrown upon the market
shows an increase of about Sl2,lOO,GOQ.'"
Here, then, is a full confession that ninety
FIVE men have for years been retained in the
New York custom house, for no other purpose
than to reward them as partisans
Mr.. DepGLAss PosITIoS.-While Northern
Republican journals are eulogizing Mr. Doug
las for his boldness and maniness in cut
ting loose, virtually, from the Slave Democracy,
his Southern friends and admirers still cling to
him, and insist that he will, in any event, sup
port the nominees of the Charleston Convention,
no matter who they may be, or what platform
they may stand upon. We had been led to
suppose that he was totally abandoned by his
| late orran tho STATES hut n seems that III of