New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-10-25
4 GLANCE an THE PAST.
rpfsss 70 an REMEMBRREp.

4 correspondent of 8 capital little campaign
paper in St. Marys parish, called Iae ohioh
Bell.s sends that paper an article under the cap
tien ssWhat Remember These incsdenss N tne
recent political history Of the times ought 70 DC
remembered by everybody. But, IN THESE lat
ter DAYS. people do not remember . great
many things that they ought We can always
farm more satisfactory conclusions in regard to
onr duty in the present by referring to the re-
corded history of the past. These remem-
braaces.r then, may be of some service in deter
mining or confirming, or perhaps reversing some
pel;t;cal OPINIONS and for this reason we give them
publication.
WHAr REMEMBER. - MesSrs Editors Union
Bel !. + remember that when Willard Fillmore be-
came President ofthe United States the North aud
South were very bitter against each other.
remember that Mr.. Fillmore settled some very
difficult sectional questions to the satisfaction Oh
both the Northern and the Southern people.
remember that the Baltimore National Demo-
cratic Convention of 1852 passed this resoiutionL
eThat the Democratic party will resist all attempts
at renewing In Congress or out oft the agitation
Of the slavery question, under whatever shape or
color the attempt may be made.
remember that two years aftef Inns, u loo4,
The Democratic party introduced into Congress
the Kansas Nebraska bill: y and that this move
ment was at that time considered by the OPPOSE
ton to that party. North and South, as renewing
the slavery agitation, m lis worst form, not only
III CONGRESS, but out OF II.
II remember that when that bill was introduced
into Congress, the Democratic party was strong IN
the North and in the South, united and national.
I remember that in tie Northern elections IN
1854 and 1866, nearly every candidate for the
Legislature for Governor, or for Congress, vino
favored the Kansas Nebraska bill, was defeated on
that question alone, and that Repubhcansm, from
| and after the passage Of that BILL became strong
| and menaeing.
remember that Southern Democrats stood up
4 TO, and voted for that bill to man and Southern
| Wings warned them that it would ruin the South.
remember that the Democratic party south
\ promised that the Kansas Nebraska bill should
settle the slavery question forever and completely
crush Northern fanaticism.
4 II remember that the Cincinnati Platform in 1856,
and until 1893, was claimed at the South as a
4 Southern triumph that Southern delegates at Gin
/ cinnati agreed to give the North their candidate,
| and the Northern delegates in return agreed to
! give the South their favorite platform.
remember that the Southern Wings and Know
Nothngs called the Cincinnati Platform g two
| faced, y but the Southern Democrats stoutly de-
| MED the charge. s{l
| remember that Repubeanism had become SO
formidable in 1856 that Southern Democrats
made stirring appeals to Southern Wings to help
| them elect Old Buck-that he was the 6 only ma
tional candidate the only one that the South
4 could rely upon, and that if we would aid in the
/ election Of the nominee OF the Clncinnah Gongen
Il ton the Democratic party would crush out sec
Il tionalism and Repnblicanism forever, and give us
/ lasting national peace.
i remember that MP to the year 1858 Mr.. Dougla;
/ was esteemed by his own party, North and South
4 one of the best national Democrats in the Union
/ and particularly true to the South.
i | remember that the Administration Democrats
began to find fault with the Cincinnati Platform
and quarrel with Mr.. Douglas at about the SAINT
4 time.
i conclude from the above that MIR. Buchanan
4 and his party have utterly failed to verify thei
i promises to quiet the slavery question-to Civ
peace 10 the country--to cement and make stronge
the Union.
i That be and his friends
Broke up the Missouri Compromise
/ Broke up the Wing party
Broke up the Known Nothing party
/ Broke up the Democratic party, and now bid:
| fair to
| Break up the Union, and in the end to
Break down the peculiar institution and the
South.
i They are breaking down party--they never
| build up. The old Wings were peaee-makers, ant
they built up the interests Of the land The UnioI
1 party are the same IN these respects.