Newbern weekly progress., 1860-05-29

what They Have Been and What They Are
Really 1t seems that those public men who
have turned the most political summersets and
acted with the largest number of parties, have
the best chances, at the present day. of promi-
nence and political promotion. Mr.. Bell one of
the Presidential candidates. they tell US, started
out in life a Democrat, and was Indebted TO
that party for the brilliant victories of his early
manhood, but in the contest between Old Hicko-
| ry and White in 1886 he deserted the flag under
which he started and went over to the enemy.
Since his conversion to Whig principles however
Mr. Bell has been an active jealous and promi-
nent member of that party. He ranks deserved
y high for intellect and as his political integ
rity we suppose it will compare favorably with
that of other gentlemen Of equal prominence in
public life. We are perfectly satisfied that Mr.
Bell will prove, if elected, safe for the South
The Hon. Hannibal Hamin, the Black Republi-
can candidate for Vice President is also deserter
of his original faith, having fallen from grace
1854, up to which time he was Democrat. From
1886 to 1910 he member of the Legislature
of Maine, and for three of those years he was the
Speaker of its House of Representatives. 1n1843
he was elected member of Congress, and re elect
ed for the following term. In 1847 he again
member of the State Legislature, and the next
year chosen to fill a vacancy, occasioned by
the death of John Fairfield. in the United States
Senate. In 1851 he WAS reelected for the full
term in the same body, but resigned being
chosen Governor of Maine in 1857. In the same
month he was again elected to the United States
Senate for six years, which Office he accepted re-
signing the Governorship. He is still member
of the Senate. Ee elected to the Legislature
and as Governor of his State as Democrat he
elected to the Senate of the United States as
democrat and all his life, up to the time of the
passage of the Kansas Nebraska bill in 1854, was
a member of the Democratic party. Then he de-
serted for free territory free niggers, free love-
&c, and went soul and body, boots and
breeches, to the Black Republicans and such is
the man that they running for Vice President
He started life a printer which respectable
cation he abandoned for the less reputable one
Of law and politics wonder that his present
associations degrading and that his end bids
fair to be a sad one. If there is enough Patriot
ism and Conservatism left in the breasts of our
people to make country worth preserving he
will never be Vice President of the United States.
L Mr.. Lincoln, the Black Republican candidate
for the Presidency was, for many years. Whig
but when Republcanism began t. its mon
strous head he was among the first to give it
nourishment He commenced life as fiat boat
man on the Western rivers, and is likely to end
it as fiat politician. He to the profession
of the law, and has served in his State Legisla
ture and in the Congress of the United States
He is coarse vulgar and uneducated, and what
success he has attained in life more attributa-
BILE to his brass and mnscic than to mental NOR
al endowmen:s.
The Hon Edward Everett, who nominated
as candidate for the Vice Presidency on the tick.
ct with Mr.. Bell, is a scholar and statesman Of
whom the nation may we'll be proud. sincere low
er of his country, his course, public and private, has
ever been straightforward and consistent, and a
large portion OF the people of the country, We
| have no doubt, would be glad to see him occupy
the Chief Executive Chair of the nation. The
Baltimore Convention thought proper to put him
second on the ticket and it is not known yet
whether he will accept-it is rumored that he will
not. We have never had any idea that he would,
for it is not to be expected that man of Mr.. Ev-
eretts exalted worth would be willing to occupy
such a position unless the bitterness of partizan
warfare could be lost sight of, for the time, and an
uprising Gf the exhibited in his favor.
Until the action of the Baltimore Democratic
| Convention is Snown, however, child Is AS ca
pable of arriving at satisfactory conclusions rela-
tive to the approaching struggle as the shrewdest
veteran ia the political ranks. Let us wait for
! the wagon.