Year: 1859

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AwELL Considered ARTICLE.


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Speaking Of the recent elections in the North, and
gazing into the future with udcious eye, the Mobile
eo;ser Of the 18th concludes that the elections In
Connecticut foreshadow coming events and prophecy
the result OF the Presidential election in 1907 Most
lkely We arrived at the same conclusion many
months before the election in Connecticut was held
and have published our convictions time and again.
only to be met as general rule with the objections Of
true men who will persist in hoping against hope
who will declare and maintain in the face OF fact and
probability that good must and will eventually come
out Of evil. We wish we were as sanguine a. they.
But as we cannot shut eyes to the facts and as
our position devoyes upon us heavy responsibilities,
we shall continue to inform our readers fully and
accurately in regard to all matters vitality affecting
their interests and safety in the future as we have in
the past. This being done We shall leave the conse-
uuences to take care Of themselves.
The Register is Of opinion that these elections
"strike the first blow in the warfare between the
North and the South that in the sectionalizing of
the National Democracy will be waged with success
by the former on sectional grounds" True, in all |
material respects; but the first blow" in opin-
ion was struck in 1855. Many strong blows had pre-
ceded that memorable canvass but it was the first
of any great magnitude it displayed the strength
of Freesoilsm with fearful significance, in national
point of view. That canvass will have its parallel in
1860, only with different result, as the Freesoers
will in all human probability, accomplish what they
came near accomplishing in ls56-acheve victory.
Our Mobile contemporary does not see how the
democratic party in Congress can hope to elect the
officers OF the House at the next session." Neither
do we. An open and avowed Abolitionist may not
be elected Speaker in the case Of Banks, but if
such does not prove the case, compromise will be
effected which will eventuate in the elevation OF a
more dangerous man--because he will be "a snake
in the srass'--instead Of well-known enemy. As
things now stand, we see no possible avenue of es-
cape from this alternative. The door to hope seems
closed and we Of the South, to very great extent,
are wranglng and quarreling about questions Of no
great moment, while our enemies are concentrating
and dsciplining their forces and continually gaining
strength.


"Long time ago" we deprecated the formation Of
third parties and boldly expressed the hope that the
the Presidential election would be determined upon
sectional grounds exclusively. Later events have
strengthened the opinions we then entertained. By
all MEANS let the struggle be sectional and if
the honest, patriotic and conservative men of the
North cannot beat down the hosts of fanaticism,


will then know the fact positively and it is of the
utmost importance that we should be unequivocay
informed at the earliest practicable period We are
glad that the Register, to say nothing Of other infu-
entail journals of the dominant party, has adopted
the counsel of the Crescent and is disposed to resist
the introduction of outside issues Anything calcu
!. lated to distract the minds Of the people from the
main point in controversy should be discouraged, and
d il necessary, frowned down.


Speaking of the prospective failure of the Demo
cacy to organize the next House of Representatives
the Mobile Register observes:


Id Failing to do this we consider it the beginning
the end, and we hope that the South will do nothin
to avoid direct issue before the people between th
Northern aggressive policy and Southern defens
nd We would by means desire that the North shout
escape the responsibility of the unwise course the
are determined to pursue, leading, we are CON


PEELED to believe it will, to the humiliation of th


Federal Constitution We entertain the hope tbs


the Democratic party will come regularly into th
field as it has ever done from the beginning OF th
Government to the present time that it will choos
its standard bearer heretofore for the Presidency
and that the Southern people, whatever may hav
been their differences upon the questions of admins


trave policy if they cannot unite upon Democrat
nd candidate, will avoid all intermediary organization
by which the next Presidential choice shall be throw


into the House of Representatives.


If the selection Of President should be referred t
the House of Representatives, Seward, or ma
nd more detestabe and dangerous, will unquestionab
Ia be chosen. There are eighteen free States
ne; fifteen slave States counting Delaware, which
Ell little more of slave State than Massachusetts,
III Kansas and Nebraska the first certain and the latte
,il probable, will apply for and be admitted into th
th Union at the next session of Congress- So refe
ence to the House would inevitably result disastrous
no. to the South. ....


Abiding to the recent mishaps of the Democrat
party North, the Register significantly remarks:


Inf mi and nisfortunpe ha HI


strengthened the hands of the North and moved the
la with moral energy while they dispirted the Mort
ct ern Democracy. Encouraged by the concessions in


piled by these events, the enemies of the South W
the scorn all hesitation in making their strongest eor
for success Commanding the House of Represent


tves, they may well afford to forego direct popul


ISSUE confident in the assurance that they may n
/ only avoid the responsibility Of their policy but 6
- sume the reins of power through the gift of Il


House. For these reasons, seeing that the Nor


may reap the harvest of their iniquitous sowing, Y


trust that the people Of the country will go up to b


tie in two grand divisions only, nor suffer their


tentions to be evaded by the interposition of q


third power that 6. eannot by any possibility furni


should make the issue the South should sustain it
: mass, so that when the contest is decided the wo


may be known. If the Democracy are in the 7


norty at the North they will be absorbed in the n


jority, and if it must be 80, then the North v


stand against the South in open disruption. There


no alternative of safety in any third party, none


act between these great sectional divisions, or 81
ion. the balance of power.


ers We fully coincide, letter and spirit with the 70
8or- going. As the issue must come earlier or later
sr it absolutely impossible to avoid it for any gr
rne length of time-and the it is met and na


determined, one way or another, the better for


parties concerned, trust that all efforts to dodge
eau, alternative and thus induce postponement VIII


can only be productive of evil and no good, '


sgnally fail. Let the sections take their own grou
and Then they will know each other exactly.


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