The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-03-14

earnestly invite an examination.
Respectfully submitted,
B. Ii. GREEN,
Chief Engineer.
llEQma the Cincinnati Commercial.
The Availability of Douglas.
The enquirer accepts our statement Of the
strength 1of Douglas in the several States, as
evidence 6f his availability. We said, in
summing up an elaborate article on the
subject:
We have shown that he is strongest where
the Democratic party is weakest, and the
weakest man in the party where it is strongest
Is that availability ?"
The Enquirer answers
Well, if it is not availability, possibly it is
in the power of the Commercial to tell what
it IS Mr.. Douglas is acknowledged to be, by
all Odds, the strongest Of the candidates in the
free States; the very place where, above all
others, we want our candidate to be strong, at
this time. What would it avail our candidate
to be strong at the South and weak at the
North, when it is as necessary for him to get
some Northern States as it is to get Southern
to secure his election ? We want Northern
S.ates-we can't do without them-and we
can't get them unless we have candidate
who is strong where we need strength.
The strength of Douglas to which we refer,
is that which he has "in his party" He Is
strong in his party where it is weak, and he
is weak where his party is strong. There is
not "hopeles,ly Black Republican State IN
the Union, the majority Of whose delegation
will not be lavorably disposed toward him at
Charleston There is not a State whose
electoral vote is certain for the Charleston
nominee, whose delegation in the Convention
will not he dead against him. There is not
doubtful STATE in the North, or one IN
which the chances are with the Democracy, IN
which he would not be absolutely the weakest
candidate who could be presented. Perhaps
these facts are indications Of his availability.
The Republicans would not have any reason
alb hope Of carrying California, If any other
Democrat were nominated. With him for the
Charleston candidate, they would count upon
both Pacific States As for Illinois, Abe Lin
coin, under Ie,uliar disadvantages, beat him
on the popular vote in the Senatorial contest
Of 1858. In Indiana, the old fashioned workers
in the party are bitterly against him. The
most that he could expect from them would
he the charity Of their passive silence. In
Ohio lie was as distinctly beaten in the Guber-
material canvass last fall as if he had been a
candidate before the people In Pennsylvania
| ne has no party. lie would, beyond question,
be beaten overwhelmingly in that State. by
almost any nominee that could be presented
at Chicago He has deserted those who were
with him in good faith through the heated
term OF the LecoInpton rebellion, and has not
made friends Of those who were against him
lie has lost the support of Forney and HEX
MAJ, while Buchanan and all that are his, are
unrelcnting. The Southern Opposition want
no better fun than to have Douglas nominated
at Charleston. They are confident Of their
ability to carry half dozen Southern, or as
Mr.. Seward has it, Capital States against
him.
The Opposition in Virginia, let it be re-
nembered, very nearly beat John Letcher in
the last GubernatoriaI contest in that State,
by raising the cry of " abolitonist - against
him. What would they not do, with Douglas
nominated at Charleston and the letter of
Henry A. Wise in their hands describing the
doctrine Of Douglas as "a straight cut to all
the ends Of Black Repubiicanism ?'
In Kentucky, Dou slssisin has been repudi-
atea from every sFTIsr1p bnd dcnouncsd ID
every bar-room as the worse sort of Black
Republican hereSy and treason. The nomi-
nation of Douglas at Charleston would be the
death bow to the Democratic party in that
State The Opposition would crush it with
ease, and boot it into its grave.
In Louisiana, Slidell and his legions are
more hostile to Douglas than to any other
man, and the Opposition would have high
hopes Of carrying the State against him if he
were made the candidate of his party. Senator
Clay, of Alabama, has declared in so many
words that he would not vote for Douglas if
he were nom mated. And we might proceed
through the list of Southern States, showing
that in all that portion of the confederacy the
name of Douglas would he weakness and a
burden to the Charleston Convention party. In
every doubtful Southern State, he would be
more easily beaten by the Opposition than any
other man named in connection with the
party Convention at Charleston, while his no.
mination would render several States in that
section doubtful, that would not be so with
any other man at the head of the organization
having in charge the Federal Offices In every
doubtful Northern State he would be far
weaker man than Gen. Joe Lane, Alexander
II. Stephens, or Daniel S. Dickinson. But
the Opposition North and South need not be
SO silly as to imgaine they will have before
them the easy victory that would be theirs if
Douglas were made Genealissimo of his
party. His highest vote will be on the pre-
liminary ballots. When the test voting comes |
on, his strength will rapidly fail him. The |
delegates from the 'hopelessly Black Rcpub-
llcan States" will begin to bid for Federal |
offices for themselves or friends, and all that !
will be left for Douglas to do will be to for |
ward a telegraphic dispatch for the public, !
withdrawing his name for the sake of har- |
mony in the party, and another for his close |
friends telling them for whom they must |
vote. His throat being cut, he will cut the |
throaS OF his execuiionerS and the per-
Torrance of that operation will require all his /
force. A great impulse has been given tho |
notion that Douglas will be nominated. by /
Greeley'S letter from the Northwest, the very |
section in which no impressions worthy OF !
credit could be obtained. Among the weak
nesseS of Greeley is an intense personafad-
mirafon of Douglas. This with the noiseI
made in his ears by the petty politicians who
toady to him while on his lecturing tours, and
4 disposition to write sensation letter and
nakea vivid display Of candor, produced the
which has been so comforting
to the bowling horde Of party spectators and
ieSparadoes who, in shouting up the claims
md chances Of Douglas, are making distur-
Dance out of all proportions to their dimensions.
Consult the figures Douglas will have most
If the New England delegates. A consider
lbe minority Of them will be against him.
however. and the rest will be quite willing to
how their devotion TO the constitutional rights
# the South by yielding everything demand
ID in behalf OF Southern prejudice The de-
c cations from the great central States. New
FORK and Pennsylvania--the Imperial and
Keystone commonwealths-wiH be almost
unanimously anti-Douglas. His chances arc
Glow par in New jersey and Delaware. Ohio
nd Indiana are not units for him. There
Till be two delegations from Illinois. With ,
he exception OF half dozen scattering votes
ne other States of the Northwest will he /
n him. Oregon and California will be dead
sainst him. He will not receive at the out
de, on the test-ballots, more than ten votes a
ON slaveholding States, and the chances are S
lat he will not have moro than six. The c
ro- thirds rule will be operative and rs for f
re adoption of the platform which, in his C
orr letter, he declared must be adopted. or !
would not be candidate-it is out of thu
lestion. And so, when We come to subject
e assumption of the devotecs of the Senator 4
ON Illinois to the analysis of common sense n
d current facts, we find them totally un-
arranted, and that it is difficult to determine
neither there is more impertinence or imbe- II
ity invested in the enterprise of elcvating Il
,uglas TO the Presidency. ii
o. A new stamp for the use of postoffices
5 been introduced in fhiladephia, which W
pears to have soma advantage over the old
,de. No ink is used but in its place the
mp is provided with a number of sharp ar
nts, which form the letters, date, etc, and in
the time the impression is made upon the u
velopes, tho same marks are formed unon 81