Daily national Democrat., 1859-04-22
John Mitchell on Politics.

John Mitchell has been writing in his paper
(the Southern Citizen, letters to a friend in
Ireland, on the political aspects of this coun-
try. 1t is known that it did not take him
long after his arrival from Australia to form
his opinions in regard to the questions which
agitated this country, and to take his ground
accordingly. He became at once, a thorough
partisan, and marched into the political arena
with all the confidence of our Oldest veterans
In two of his letters which we have before
u.s. we read the utterings of vigorous, and
of biased anl uncompromising mind. He
says
Mind, l am not actually President-makng my
self; onlygiving you treatise Presidentma-
king for in truth President of the United States
Is compromise and the country dies daily of
compromises. A President is an acrobat riding
two horses, one foot on the back of each and the
horses have grown so wild and out of training
lhat the poor DucrOw finds it hard enough now
even to 60 round and round-to say nothing of
riding anywhither Behold | speak unto you a
parable the Union is two goats tied together by
the horns, and they are going in different direc-
| tons their only possible compromise is to stand
still and look into one anOthers white eyes.
on President-making no statesman of woman
born can long hope to ride these two untameable
horses, and with melancholy fOreboding look
for the fall of the acrobat.
He does not believe that this is an united
onfederltion-and prefers Mr. Wise for Pre-
sdent, not only for his compaign against the
Know Nothings but also because in his opin-
ion, he is an intensely Southern man. Speak
ing in regard to Douglas, he says:
Just then "Young America" was born, and
while yetin swaddling-cothes was pushing aside
his elders as old fogies, and holding out his infant
arms to embrace the fair Queen of the Antilles
Alas he is old already, and has never yet won
his Queen but it befel in those days that Mr..
Douglas of Illinois, was the champion and expo
nent of Young America. Douglas meant Cuba
and Central America, and his very name breath
ed an atmosphere of palm-grOves. That is all
over. young America, in that sense, is deere
pit and mpotent: the instinct of expansion and
and healthy vital force of the country is choked
and strangled, asphyxiated and comatose under
the chlorotorm of compromise: and for Mr..
Douglas, little he recks now of palm-groves -
Udtter.s0Uereiqnty, this is his creed and gospel:
he is to be saved, fiat ALL by squatter- sovereignty
Of course you have not the least idea what this
may be; and | must endeavor to explain.
He then goes on at considerable length to
explain what squatter-sovereignty is. We
have not space to give his idea. Suffice it to
say that he deems Mr.. Douglas position on
that question as being hostile to the South.
He goes on to say;
This will never do Senator Douglas has not
the least chance of being supported for President
this coming term, by the Southern Democrats
l.. =.
bnt PROFOUND this theory OF his conduct:-He
holds that the orth is destined to rule-that the
South is destined to be her store-farm and kitch-
en- garden-that the Union cannot be broken
that the South will submit to all that can be i'm
posed, provided it come gradually--that when
1864 comes the South W. be eifectually broken,
and the North will have recognized h@Re as her
true friend. Then the White House, and rough
shod riding over all enemies In the meantime
he will probably throw all his influence in the
scale of some very moderate, peaceable, hopeful,
UniOn-loving Southerner For we have at the
South many politicians who inform us that the
South has nothing to dread and that the Union is
blessing. You have seen such kind of men al
so in your own country. Many gentlemen of good
estate and high political connexions in Ireland
say that Ireland also is prospering, that y0ur
Union is a blessing, and that Repealers mis-
chievous fire-brands.
John Mitchell believes that the Union is a
failure; and is doing his utmost to impress
that belief upon others In this respect how
ever he does not stand alone. What effect
the writings of such men may have upon the
country, we will not take upon ourselves to
say. That they do WELD some influence we
cannot doubt,-and that it is an influence for
evil, is equally true. Gifted with the power
to pull down, but not to build up, their W ork
of demolition must be met 10y the united en-
ergies of all Union loving men