Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-03-14

CdHoi uHQ utsllOudDl} WOuIQ not nave Hau po-
litical capital enough to have practised their
humbuggerles for single term, or to have
kept together for ninety days. They are
both indebted to that sayory fountain Of AT
rican Slavery, for all the power they ever
bad. As Romulus aud Remus derived their
sustenance from one and the same She wolf,
50 Democratic Republicanism and Black Re-
publicanisn have derived their support from
one and the same source-It Is the difference
only, between anti-slaVery aud pro-slayery-
and notwithstanding the extraordinary sue
cess with which panic has been organized on
one side, and fanaticism on the other, the true
conservative men would have been able to
keep both under their feet, but for the con-
slant deserticn Of those who have proies. Ell
to believe with them, on all the great ques-
tons Of the times, and which have late years
divided parties
We have only wanted a fugitive slave law
Tor the recovery Of runaway Wings. With
such law, honestly executed We could, at
any time IN these past twenty years, have
brought back n handouts enough to have
turned tie tables % our Democratic friends
and have done 50 in single month-so
i'm as the South is concerned.
II might have been a punishment uncun-
stltutional, for is excessive seVerlty--lUr We
would MT only have reduced its battallions to
skeleton companies, but We should have taken
from its columns every general, or nearly
every one, that leads them-for believe it
is now 4 settled, and submitted To rule, that
no genuine, unadultcrated, and original Dem
ocrat is allowed to emerge from therank and
file.
r.. rE III.
Dental election is dependent Oh the vote Ut
the Northern, or free States The vote Of
those States for years preponleruting, has
continued t. swell It's disprUpOrtion, with 2
continually accelerating velocity until, fit
has really come to a sectional organization,
it's absolutely irresistible.
Our only hope is, IN preventing il posi-
be, such an o.ganzation-the only enquiry,
how that can be accomplished.
For sixteen years, from 1910 to 1856, the
whole increase 1T the entire vote Of the nj
ted States was eight hundred and ninety-liye
thousand nine hundred and sixty 1895 96O.)
For the next four years ID was nine hundred
and forty-iiyc thousand and ninetyeight
votes, (945,U98. OF this one million one
hundred and sixty-tour thousand four hun
bred and seven votes ,lU4 iU1 Was i'll tile
North, and six hundred and scYenty-iiyc
thousand zig hundred and tiity-one lG15,,
65l) IA the slave States-thus, Increasing, N
the single term Of President Pierce, Ia,yey
more than n the preceding sixteen years
| refer to this excessive diSproportion III tie
rate 81 Northern aud Southern increase, il
order u show that il any hope was lolr Ia
1886, Of recovering any 81 the State, lost by
Buchanan, o. retaining any one 81 tie FIVE
which then voted for him, that such hope can
M longer exist. Because we know thar the
difference has been caused entirely by the
constant influx 81 our most cherished, natur-
allied citizen yoJers-our brethren from the
German Stalcs-qualiiieIi for the duries III i
republican citizenship III training under
the most complicated despotisms Of Europe
our Irish, Norwegian and Free Negro
friends the IugitiYcs from the South All yot-
my from the day they land and nine hun
drcd and nincty-ninc out ot every thousand
sure to vote the Abolition ticket.
Pierce in 1852 took f1urtccu out Of the six
teen free States, Buchanan selected as the
most available Democrat, IA in truth ne was.
in 1876 took only Fre Of the same sixteen
States, three I'M minority vote, tbs two
competitors dividing the majority against
him in New Jersey, III Illinois and in Cali
iurnia, and two, Pennsylvania and Indiana,
by au aggregate majority III less than eleven