The Yazoo Democrat. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1858-18??, 1859-03-12
THE NEXT PRESIDENT.

to be an opinion, unanimous and decided that
the coming contest will be the most i'm )ortant vet
felt by our young Republic
If the campaign terminates in tie triumph of
Black Republican politics, the mind recoils with
horror from the contemplation of those disastrous
results which will inevitably follow either resist.
ance or submission. In the one case there will
probably be war between the sundered sections :;
there will certainly be the great evil of temporary
bankruptcy, which is the never falling attendant
upon revolution, whether bloody or pacific In
the second alternative is involved the more terrible
necessity of Southern dshonor These awful
consequences, which do not require the eve of
prophecy tc be foreseen, make it necessary that
men should we'll weigh the respective merit of
contesting applicants for Presidential honors 1t
devolves upon Southern patriots to think deeply
and long before they determine which of the
various aspirants is best able to preserve the
Constitution intact by the traitorous assaults of
q sectional, abolition party 1t is a question of
much moment to the South and deserving of her
serious consideration. 1t should first be inquired
by this section whether it is best to run the most
available man. or the man whose distinction in
the advocacy of Southern rights will bring directly
before the people the plain question, Shall the
Constitution or Black Republicanism be sustained
1t the man who can accomplish the last be prefer
able, then the South should assert and insist upon
Der just claims to having the next chief magistrate
and put in the field a staunch, unhiuohing States
rights man. True he will raise the standard with
small, if any probability of success but he will
serve to bring the crisis on the country and decide
without delay the fate of slavery Such man
would be jeff. Davis, or A. G. Brown, or Stephens
of Georgia, or Yancey of Alabama, or any one of
many others who might be named Hunter or
Mason, of Virginia, would answer the same pur-
pose.
But, if this section is to pursue the policy of
attempting once more to defeat abotionism at
the polls and trusting to the doubtful contingencies
of reason and possible reactionary Influences for
her rights hereafter, she will then have to unite
upon Northern man. Either one of the men
above mentioned would undoubtedly make as able
an Executive as the North could furnish, but it is
equally clear that either would be badly defeated,
for the simple reason that the North would 20 en-
mdsse against him. and the South is numerically
weaker than that section. Now, We make no
hesitation in confessing that we would greatlv
prefer seeing the Quitman sentiment adopted and
the country acting upon the principle that she is
as well able to meet the question at present as she
ever will be in the future that she is right, and
that slavery is right, and that she can as we'll
fight for it now as she can hereafter But, if
conservatism is to be our watchword and available
ity rpclitcal maxim in the approaching contest,
it is folly to hope for the election of a Southern
man, unless it be Wshy-washy politician of
Northern principles and traitorous, assassinating
prOclivities. Such man of course is not desired
Seward would be preferable, and it is beyond the
cavll of doubt that no man, except he be fool
or knave, can be President if he lives below
Mason & Dixon's line. The issue is then before
us, of inevitable defeat the probable election of
an available Northern man. If the last DO our
choice, George NJ. Dallas is the man to bear the
standard safely through the fight, the only helms.
man to guide the Constitution unwrecked by the
shoals and quicksands of Scylla and Chary bds.
and prevent the dishonor of servile submission or
the affection of civil war.
There can be no doubt Of his being the m7st
available of all our public men, His record is
untarnished by inconsistency in his public acts,
or by treason TO the Constitution. AS statesman
of prudence, foresight and profound wisdom. he
stands second to none in the confederacy. As n
diplomatist he has won laurels among the first of
Europe. AS an official of fidelity, integrity and
reliability, where is his superior? He shed iusre
upon the brightest administration we lnve vet
had, and no man can show an instance where
sectional prejudice has yet BIASED his Judgment
he has lived long and will not be likely to afford
such an instance in future. He is from Pennsyl-
vania which State has been Southern stand by
in every emergency, but threatens to forsake us
ncw Try her with her own man, whom she loved
to honor, and who is unsurpassed in popularity
among her people, and she will yet sc found our
aid. George NJ. Dallas has been far removed, by
his European appointment, from the equally fatal
effects of Lecompton or anti Lecomptonsm. His
record is clean on this subject before the scrutiny
OF either section. He is a Northern man who has
ii''ei JSO Idlieu 10 JOIN US IN opposition TO en-
enactment. He is statesman whom we ought
to honor, and who can carry every Southern State
and probably enough of the Northern to ensure
his election-certainly more than any other whom
the South can trust. Therefore is he the most
available politician to defeat the Black Republi-
cans.
We hope he may be the nominee of the next
Federal Democratic Convention unless it is de-
termined to draw the sword now and claim the
Presdentfro the South with the express assertion
that the success of anti-slnyery candidate shall
entail dsunion upon u.s. This we would prefer
to the nomination Of Mr.. Dallas, because we
think that if the worst is bound to come it would
be best if it came quickly. But if our delegates
insist upon Southern nominee, we want to see
them take no halfway ground and choose no
halfway man. JEFF. Davis and a plain, fair fight
between slavery and its enemies, or George NJ.
Dallas and availability is our motto respectively
for the two alternatives Of policy for the mkt
campaign.