The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-08-25
ell Cobb, John c. Breckinridge, John c. Ere

ell Cobb, John y. bfeckihfldgej Johh u IRE
mont.
Besides accurate details of the personal and
political history of these distinguished gentle
men. the book contains extracts from their
writings and speeches upon the leading topics
of the day; so that no one can mistake their
positions. "The names Of Messrs. Pierce and
Buchanan" says the author, " are omitted, as
men who have gone through campaign, and
through a Presidential term" A favorable
and friendly view is taken of each OF the can
didates, but without falling into the nauseous
vice of indiscriminats eulOgy. Mr.. Bartlett
deserves credit for the skill and taste with which
he has touched the salient points Of character,
and presented the men to view by a few strokes
of the pen The book commends itself to all
parties
Mr.. STEPHENS, or GEoRGIA.-A gentleman
from Mr.. Stephens's district, on his way North,
gave it as his opinion, in the course of CONVEX
sation with a friend in this city few days ago,
that the mailrreason for his declining NOM
nation for Congress was the weugrounded
doubt of his reelection, if again a candidate
Mr. Stephens was regarded and denounced
by many of his old friends as n renegade from
his true principles, and as such had lost their
confidence.
Quietly, in the social politics of his district,
his conduct was very generally and freely com
mented upon, and a powerful opposition was
being concentrated against him, which would
in all probability, have resulted in his defeat,
had he been in the field. SO says Georgian.
He also represents Senator Iverson as ex-
tremely unpopular alleging that his own
friends look upon him as man too weak for
his position and gives it as his opinion, that
the Opposition is very powerful, and that it will
be shortly united upon principles so broad as
to sweep the VERSIONS and Stephens's, and that
class of politicians, from the public councils.
They are regarded as narrow minded men, and
as proving by their narrow, ultra views of pub
lie policy, that they are too little for the wants
and exigencies Of the country. Our informant
expects to see this whole class Of men in Geor-
gia shortly swept from power.
From the whole tenor of the conversation to
which we have referred, and which was ex-
tended to great length, We infer that there is a
prevailing discomfort in Georgia, and through
out large part of the South, with the men who
have for some years past there dominated po-
liticaly; that this discomfort embraces meas
ures as well as men, and that it will at no distant
day assume a form potent for radical change
Blindly subservient as have been the two re-
cent National Administrations to what was
supposed the interests and passions of the
South-one following in the footsteps of the
other with progressive intensity-it is probable
that the country has never known an Admins
tration more unpopular and distasteful to the
sentiments Of the Southern heart than Mr..
Buchanan's
/ Whilst the politicians of all parties there
have, one by one, with few honorable excep-
tons, been driven or seduced apparently for
selfpreservation, to take extreme grounds, and
have been encouraged and sustained in their
conduct by Federal power, the popular heart
has been fostering with dissatisfaction, both
with it's immediate representatives and with the
National head at Washington.
The mind and feeling of the Southern people
are evidently not in harmony with the men as
suming to represent them, or with the system
of measures propounded by agitatOrs for their
support.
There is lurking discomfort, as yet chaotic
and unanalyzed everywhere manifest, which
sooner or later must find an inteIIigibfe and ef-
fcent Interpretation. Extreme and violent as
have been the slavish devotion politicians local
and Federal, Presidents and would-be-Presi
dents, in rivalry with one another for Southern
support, based upon extreme Southern senti-
ment, it is to our mind clear that the majority
of the Southern people have not been won by
them, nor have they given them their conf
dence There has been, behind the popular
vote cast, something unexpressed-a deep
feeling of dissatisfactiOn--of which the vote has
not been the proper exponent.
What will be the analysis Of this dissatisiac-
ton or in what form or tone of expression it
will ultimately find voice. we do not now pre-
tend to say-our present object being only TO
indicate the fact of its existence.