Nebraska advertiser., 1859-02-10
THE ADVERTISER.
II. W. FURNAS, EDITOR.
Who will be the Nominee OF the
Charleston Convention.
agreeable to promise we resume the

above subject this week.
The Hon. JEFF. Davis is not without
friends, a fact which viii appear at the
Charleston Convention. Some of our
southern Democrats look upon the said
Jefferson Davis, as being a few shades
only below his distinguished namesake,
and that as Chief Magistrate Of Tie Ma
ton, he would "cul quite a feure.'-
However exalted in the Gulf States, as a
lion statesman, as we approach the North
II grows beautifully less" and magni6-
Gently small. So much so that he is al
most lost sight of, and many doubt that
such an individual is an actor on the pO-
IiucaI carpet. We DO not feel at liberty
TO say ought against Jefferson; he is po-
liucally dead in the North, and Will new
er be able to raise a '~corporal's guard"
20 rally under the wing Of his Southern
craftsmanship. 1t was said, sometime
ago, he completely electrified certain Sec
tons sup north" by the conservative tone
Of a powerful stump speech. The said
speech wa warmly a~pplauded, as all good
speeches should be; bat at the same time
little confidence was INDUCED in as to the
sincerity of the noble speaker. The con-
sentative Democracy everywhere have
placed their mark on the Hon. gentleman;
his claims are shadows, without the SEM
bl4nce of a foundation, and will be treat
ed as a nudity in 1860.
OF the Hon. Howell Cobb, our present
worthy Secretary of the Treasury, it is
unnecessary to speak at length. His
strength is in the South, and will only
tend TO distract that section.
SeLa.oE Johnson, of Tenn, is spoken
of as another Presidential aspirant. He
is a sslfmGds man, having risen to his
present high aud honorable position, as
United States Senator, by the most hero
&c and p~raise-worthy struggles, and has
done well his part in disseminating De-
.mocracy in his own State, and throughout
the Union. We admire self-made men
such, and Senator johnson is one, who in
early life are deprived of the ~inexpressi.
bic advantages of youthful instruction
buffet the merciless storms of poverty
and succeed in surmOunting them all, and
acquiring a worldwide fame, are entitled
10 the highest regard of their fellow coun,
trymen.
No argument, We opine, is called fol
10 show the inevitable division of The
South; hat a collision will be the result
and doubtless a serious one, as regard.
all the favorite ''sons of the South."-
Their anticipaIOns of white House lux
uFies'' will end in smoke" Judgein(
from Southern animosity to the North
on the subject of involuntary African ser
vitude, The probabilities are, that The
South will fail in obtaining the nominee
Of the Charleston Convention. The agi
tahon Of this subject, in all lis bearings
cannot be prevented, or kept in the back
ground It viii constitute the great ques
ton in the next National Campaign
The Tariff, Cuba, Pacific railroad, ant
other measures will scarcely attract at
tentiOn, compared with that of negro sla
very. Northern Democrats having Away
acted with the party on the expresse,
grounds of Nationality, "knOwing n
North, no South, no East, no West" vii
call for an adherence, or r~e-adoption O
the same principles; demanding non-in
PREVENTION in the Territories, on the sub
ject Of al domestic institutions, and tn,
re-sfirmatiOn of Popular Sovereignty,
which many Of our pseudo Democrats O
late have declared to be a "misnomer,
and "a damnable doctrine" We asser
and time will confirm our prediction
that the Delegates to the Charleston Con
v~ention, viii accept of no other principle
than those embodied in the Cincinnati
Platform. Will the South acquiesce 3
Will Administration Democrats accept O
that which to all appearances they nov
ignOrel If not, viii they attempt the in
SertiOn Of an old Republican plank in III
platform, TO the effect that it is the dut
Of Congress TO interfere directly with tn
subject Of slavery in the Territories, an
thereby abandon the principle of self-goy
ernmentl The affirmative Of these ques
tiOns IS not based entirely upon hypothc
ses. Look at the actions and words
the great mass Of those who style them
selves the master spirits Of Democracy j
the South; among whom are those who's
names have already been mentioned a
asPirants for the Presidency. Then TAX
glance at the Ominous magisterial Ian
guage lately published, and endorsed b
those called "gOOd democrats and say
If you please, hat there is not s%uficier
grounds for surmisinO that administratio