New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-03-03
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SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH !. 1855.
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1G4 Presidency TIC Aaii Douglas Platform ii
fzs Senate 1hs House Printer contest a Steam
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WAsHIsoros, D. G., Feb. u, lse0.
Mt uresegrx- Mir. Ruchanan's Washington or
gan contests the reports with regard to the action
Of Democratic State Conventions in the North and
Ncfsh wet, 10 far as they ARE represented Id tho
dispatches Of the Associated Press to have been
favorable % Douglas. itsays that the New York
delegation chosen Nv the Syracuse Convention lii
September last Will never vote for any one who is
nst entirely acceptable to the Democracy Of the
Southern states; that the Connecticut delegation
occapy precisely similar position; that the Min
nesOtR Convention, hy 4 vote Of two to one, mega
tived resolution Of instructions in favor Of Mr..
Douglas, that the delegations from Massachusetts
and Maine, which were anncunced to be ..unitsn
for him, are not only not so, but very far from it
and that IN Ohio and Indiana, whence the trum-
Feta have sounded most loudly ana exultngly,
there are very strong parties opposed to Judge
Douglas.
This sblo#ing'' On behalf u MI. Buchanan, him
eel, out trnmpets anything we have heard yet.
But It cannot dssipate the facts Or disturb the in
creased confidence given to Mr. Douglas friends
here sby the official proceedings of the North
eastern and North western De3locracy.
The opponents Of Douglas here have made seri-
O1s miscalcuations Of bis strength the uncertain
basis "a the action of the Senate. They are eager
to parade the substantial adoption in Of Mr.
Jens Dayis' resolutions as an adoption by the
Democratic majority Of IN anti Douglas platform
that's likely to carry more influence at Charleston
than The Douglas delegations. IN this they are
scarcely correct The action of the Senate il in
no ray indicative of the result of the Charleston
Convention. and can have but little power to Affect
Mr.. Douglas In any respect The Democratic en-
gineers forget that from the Northern and East
ern States which have declared for Douglas, there
Is not one supporter Of him in the Senate. with the
exception Of Mr.. pagh Of Ohio; and yet who doubts
but chat the delegations from those States viii
deem their pledges at Charleston BY voting for the
Little Giant The adoption Of an anti Douglas
platform ii The Senate il The great card Of his OPP
Pohents.
Ar. Buchanan and his Senatorial co-schemers
think to control Tie sentiment of the country BY
their mechanical conspiracies, never taking into
account the young and vigorous popular will that
viii assert itself despite Of all trammels and dis
guises.
Those old hose plodding gEave staie pcdsnts,
Forget The youth their crooked prudence
10 basenrss ssrsug. still IL. gets take
Into their Hnespva schemes the generous heart
Tint, through ttle cob-Web xyssem twisting. lays
Their labcrs waste
The House to-day, after fiIhustering about the /
atiair 81 the alleged neglect BY the Washington
Statue Committee Of the New York 7th Regiment,
went into ssll worse squabhle about the election
Ofza Printer. There WINS no election dit the closing
of my correspondence Glossbrenner, the Demo-
cratic candidate, has some seven Of eight parties
interested with him, among them, as understand,
Humphrey MARSHALL, Of Kentucky. If there should
Ne change OK The anti Republican candidate, Mr..
Seaton Of The IntelIigencer and MI, Semple of the
Lynchburg virginian are, each Of them. spoken
Of at present as likely To succeed.
The bill introduced into the Senate in favor of
Col. ButterieId's projected steam mail line from
Mobile Or New Orleans to various Mexican ports,
provides for The transportation of the mails, four
round voyages III eaeh month, at an annual compen-
Sation Of 500 1000 Tor period Of ten years. The
contractor j. to select the point Of departure from
the United States, aid the line ii to touch at Calves
ton Matagorda Bay, Braxos de Santiago, Tampico,
Vera Cruz, Coatzacoalcos, Villa de La Frontera de
Tabasao, Lagnna d Terminus, Uampeaehy and
Sisal. x