The New York Herald Newspaper, February 16, 1856, Page 2

if it ; j ve in which open, “ya oOo cain ee. ‘ . After arguing. in favor o' nomina| Sou‘hero man for the Presidency, the Republican wre caing, thecefere, thas seme Secthorn. sintemman eaocid te icina the queetion arises who shall that one de? There is. to usin Virginia, some embarrassment in determining this question, for it is useless to attempt con- ecalment of the fact that two of her deser’ e@tizens friends desirous of presenting’ respective aims, We have not been, in the ‘that we hare 20 pe tie of social relation us Ser ie Pamaty coet inl ie ae or not the slightest hias of ‘Tho result of our most caretul considera other statesman Virginia has ever produced. There is in him, as in Mr. Madison, a kind of intuitive perception of the fundamental truth of government as a science, combined with an ad- ministrative ability to spply and devolope thom fn prac- tiea! operation. There is in him, as in Mr, Madison, » eam and comprehensive judgment which investi Defore it devices. a ts, ia conclusion—for we confess to but tittie practice in panegyric—the precise man for the insole tabecious, accomplished. perfectly acquaint- ed with all tho questions now absorbing, or Iikely to ab- word public arten‘ion, and ee wee to maio’ain ail the rights of the South or the North. We have thus frankly given our views. We shall hereafter, in future tusues, asnign other reasons for them, There sught to ve ‘wpanimity of action in the coming State Convention, and none should act im any manner tending to prevent that result. There exists not the stighvest reasoa for eonflict between the friends of Covermor Wise and Mr. Banter. We are perierty ready to support elther. We de, however, conscientiously beijeve that the claims of Mr. Hunter are more zeneraily reeognized—that he has @ hina of talent pecaliarly fitting him for the Presidensy —and tnat if Virginia unites upon him, he can,'ta all pro- debility, be nominated. Gen. E.R. V. Wright, of New Jersey, goes heartily aad unanimously for Buchanan. NEW JERSEY AND MR. BUCHANAN. ‘We copy trom the Trenton True American the folowing extract irom the speech of Gen. E. R, V. Wright, de- Iavered before the Democratic Asscciation of the city of ‘Breaton. Ho said :—In a very short time, gentleman, it will be for us to select a candidate for tho Instead of using avy metaphorical lau- geage in approaching this imporiant suoject, I shall matters of fact at onee, aud say that I am fm Saver of James Backsesn for tase pees (Cheers. ) poseesses in a hig] ee the conti- dence and <steem of a!) parties to-day then any cther sified. Biving man in Americs. His life has been strangely diver- |. He has oecupied almost every position within the gift of the nation, and his jife is recorded upon almost every page of cur country’s history. He now holds the most impertant American position in Europe, and he will vet Dles jurn to this country not covered all over with the bau- that adorn the ambassadors who throng the courtiy | halls of Furcpe, but as be went, an uacontamiasted, uo- finching supporter ot American interes's; aad with a re- putation for cemocracy such a8 no man ever yet returned with. He is no sectional wan; he is a purely national man. With and lideral views he looks over the whole field, and if chosen for the Pzeridency will dispense the bievsings of his wisdom as the dews of Heaven de- weend, atike upon the rich and the poor. When a mem- ‘er of the Cabinet, who was more able? When a Sena- ‘ter of the United States, who was hig superior? He has Sepate. He isthe man who has acquired the most inti- mate knowledge of the affairs upon that side of the brook et any man in the nation, and he is therefore better fitted than any other to go into the Presidentlal coair, and ay to Great Britain that she must keep faith in her and that no nie power shall ever hereafver find s lodgment upon the soil of the American continent. (Cheers) It cannot be expected, gentlemen, that - should detain you lenger, but 1 will say tnat I teast, fe the honor of this Association, you will select a man, { not James Buchanan, a man as rood as he is, if you can find him. you sclect Pennsylvania 8 svorite sen, feo: Bergen to Cape from Mercer to Hudson, but one voice will arise, a watchword of success. When the election comes, we m give our opponents the exclusive name of ‘“ Americans, whieh they arrogate, and let them proclaim, if they will ‘the principle that ‘Americans shall rule America. The old Clay whigs will turn to Buchanan, in diagust from the tanatic’ that is stalking over the land; they will be toned side by sice with us in the struggle. I wel- ‘eome the hour that will call us to the contest. With “ Old Buck’? for our candidate, and the constitution for our rallying ery, the democratic cohcrts cannot but be Sesinetbes (énthusisstic and long continued applaud- A SMALL SHOT FOR MR. PIERCE. The Stanton (Va.) Vindicator says:— We believe that Franklin Pierce is the choice of the Routh for the next Presidency, We donot declare tor him. Notatali. Bat from indications of the popular sentiment daily developing, we are forced to the convic ‘Mon what the vote of South will be cast for him. The events which have transpired witbin the past few months have materia!) changed the prospests of the different an's for the chief magistracy. In our opinion the bas been setting in strongly for Mr. Plerce, wr ‘eh Jeads us to believe, with the lights now before us, Laat hhe will be the most formidable man the democracy can present for the suitrages of the American people. Thus much we say, without committing ourselves to any man. It ie siraply the expression of an opinion eommon to the of the South. OPEN REBULLION. ‘The democratic hard shell organ at Washington preaches rebellion against the administration, and carries the war into Africa :. (From the Washington Sentinel—dem. } * * © Notwithstanding the edict has gove forth from the administration mouthpiece that it is too early | to discuss the merits of the several democratic candi- dates, and strict silence is enjoin upon the democratic press of the country, at the sare time, with characteris the consistency, this same mouthpicce fills its columns with the most fulsome adulation of President ‘Pierce and his administration, extracted from the press and pr. 3 of public meetings. Althoogh it is pret- ty generally believed that one of the editors of the same paper fuvors,the nomination of the i’eunsylvania candi- date for the Presidency, yet he has not presented to his readers single commendation of that distimgaished statesman from the press of the old Commonwealth, or ‘the resolutions adopied by her county conventions, with- out connecting #uch expressions of preterence with the ilustrious acts of Presitent Pierce and his glorious (seoond Jackson) administration. This is « xpectmen of whe politieal diplomacy of the ad- ministration. ‘This ix the roanner in which ita * organ’ holds taith with the friends of other candidates. We must not ignore the importance to the stability of our instita tions, of a wise and judicious management of the critical affairs both of our home and foreign policy. Weare vot to be deceived by the honeyed words of fair professions, or the new-born sentimentality for the rights of the States with which messages may abound. We require something more substantial thain the word of promive to the ear, for we have too often seen it broken to the hope. ‘We want to ree at the helm of Siate, a man whose life, position, actions, private and public, give aseurance of steadiness in his xiministration,of the affairs of this great country. {It iso salvo to us, that he should, alter hav- ing directed ali the power o! the ‘ederal arw against the | eonstitutional men of the country and the institutions o: ‘the South, and reviving into new lite and power the whole army of {ree sollers, now turn another lace to catch the wo often deceived sons of the South. Why, what are the facts) What does the reeord And why are the mere office bolling and par. pered politicians ot the South enasavoring to stock the cards Ee tes remeatention of the present chief magis- trate? Are the people—the honoxt peo le of the Southern section of our country—‘o be fe w forget the grievous wrong for two years was perpetrated upon isa rights and dignity, in the soft biandishments that are now heli! out, at this most eonvenient «eaon, for the purpose of ingratiating the administration with them’ Are they to the unholy and uniorgiven crusude aga‘nst Daniel 3 Bickinson and the whole hoet of constitutional State rights men who have fallen under the mischievous power Fike federal government—martyie, a4 it were, to a proud and just cause? Are they to forget the restoration of Martin Van Puren and his followers to position and wer, that they might sgain and forever employ their Gepetul influence to weaken their ‘ustiiati«ns and im- pair their rights and honor? Are they to lorget ‘the groves outrage that was attempted to be done, and that would have been accomplished, but for tho indignant resistance of the tate rights party every- where, upon our party creed, in the construction of mammoth improvement to the Pacific, by the federal ument, and out of the means of the pablic treasury? ‘as that resistance softened by the fact that the project ‘was annouroed at s public dinner given in honor of the President and his Cabinet, by one of the then favorite wons of the South, and veritable aposties of «trict con- straction, snd himself a member of the present Cabinet? Is the South prepared to for or forgive the onerons ‘tax that the Secretary of the Treasury recommended in his report, by the protective teature contained in that report, and wnich was only cireumyented vA ‘omnpt interposition of the vigilant and dirtinguished Chairman of Finance (Mr. Hunter) in the Senate of the United States’ Is the South prepared to forget and for- | & © iar as again to confer ber suffrage upon | rank- Pieres, the double dealing thet Charastevised his advocacy of the Nebraska Kansas bill, now, be- conse, it favored the introduction of slavery into Kansas, ond now, because it was a ‘bill for freedom,’ and pledging his opinton that slavery never could go there? Is we South prepared to endorse the policy— Phat most foul and unnatural policy—which he adopted fn the organizstion of the two Terr boning os ond Nebraska, which gave to the Northern osmve State or- aanization, aud to ye Soythern, » ‘rep Ytate organisa the applanse of almost every’emiaent man ia the | Buchasea and Union wiil be the | i 23? ata eg EF HG i : Pablzapprove; but, judging by fore we may see course should suspect, if they ; vin were to evince ever 90 attachment to us.’ They are like the swift witne who injures his cause by proving too much. For theee and reasons we are opposed to the re-establishment of the pesent adminiswation. We have no confidence in the stability or integrity of ite chief and some of his advisers. We know bim to be surrounded by corrupt influences. We know him to have yielded to then; and we stand prepared 1 to "Ove, ‘ough his organ we are chalienged, wi = pay ia true. It ia antill Did that fouls its own neat we areaware; but we are free from any charge of self-in terest, becaure know we are rot, perbays, t: the most, popolar course we might take How were the yotea of certain ra obtained for a3 Gp ben kes ee print " Fs personal pledge from Presiden: to em teat John W. Forney was not to bee participant in and Joh W. Tormey, tbe ‘very eventog ot ths, Say on a A of the day on which the fraud was ecmmitted, avowed himeelf a fall +tands—and we challenge denis!—that parizer. Thus the dignifind Executive of the United States mot only stooped from his high position to interfere in the election ofa printer. but absolutely pledged bis persons! word to ating which, It seems, ¥o wtaout truta onfoundatio. 1s the description of President that the country wants again? No; we do not, and will not, believe tt— net whie we can boast of such men as Dougias, Bucha- an, Dallas, Dickinson, Bright, Hunter. Rusk and others not less distinguished for their patriotism aud eminent services to the country. EDMUND BURKE'S PROCLAMATION. The “Old Guard” of New Hampshire hard shell democrats, having co-operated last year in the de- feat of the Pierce democracy, are called upon to stand aloof and prepare for Cincinnati, by Mr. Burke, of Concord :— Yo 18 READERS oy THR RewonTER:— For reasons which itis uanecessary here to mention, the undersigned withdraws lls mame as a contributor ty this paper ’ x To the Uld Guard democracy he would say, that while they must ever hold in coutempt and repudiate Mr. Frankhn Perce, who in his weakness and his iasatiable cesixe for re-election, has betrayed both the principles and the men to whom he owes his elevation to the highest of earthly honors, (except in the contingency of # choice between bim and black republicanism.) the sigas of the times are propitions for the nomination, by the National Lemocratis Convention, of a man to whom, consistently upon principle, tley can give their suilrages and support. The allinnce of the Old Guard democracy wita the present dominant party of the State had for its only op- ject the overthrow of the spurious Vierse democracy, having no community with that party in sontiment or principle. It was therefore necessarily temporary in its duration. A similar alliance with the same party wasat- tempted by some of the leaders ot the Pierce faction, but without success. The devurciations of the Koow Nothing mcvement in this State by the organs of the Piexce faction are, under such circumstances, but exhi- bitions of the boldest and most impudent hypoorisy. Ii | they had not been foiled in their attempt to get posses- sion ct the American organiz Piecceiom at this day would bave been rampan: in this State under the flag of Kuow Nothingixem. We make this remark in order to furnish akey by which the democracy of other States may be able to understand the true position of both par- ties and men here. Bat, in view of the future, it is now necessary that the Old Guard, or bard sbeli demecracy of ths State, should fall back upon their origina! position, whica is one of hostility to both the Pierce and Know Nothing factions. Therefore we woul say te ail our friends who agree with us in sentiment, and bave acted with us duriag the | last two years, and who have no design by auy claptrap or device to be drawn into the present domivant faction in this State, which is essentially whig and a>olition, ant who are equally determined not to contribute to tke per- uation of our present national dynasty headed by the imbeclle, intriguing and unreliable tierce, and adorned by such sbining lighta of ancient whiggery | aa tbe Cash. ings, the Wises, the Stepbeases, the Toombsres, &e., Ko. who until comparatively a day since were the bitter ene mies of democracy—t» such ot our [rieads we say that i is important, in view of the tuture, that they should maintain an independent position in the pending state canvass, We would respectfully suggest to them to withhold their votes from either of the factions now contending for the mastery. If there shall be no candidate in the tield, norainated by the Oid Guard democracy, cast your votes for some private citizen whom you know to be true and worthy, uo matter who ho is. And with regard to the election of members of the Le- gisiature, select candidates from your own party, in every | town in the State, and vore for them without regard to your prospect of success. You will thus cocure tue elec- ticn of your own men, or prevent a choice in every towa in which you are strong enough to hold the balance in your power. The probability is the clection will be so clove that the Uld (card democracy will hold the balance of power in the next Legisiature, if they shali act ener- gétically upon the suggestions which we have above thrown out. HOMUND BURKE. SOUTH FOR MR. PIERCE. S.C.) Times.) (From the Colum! Who Will BE TIP NOWNEE ? The late message o! President 1'i pears to have given very general satisfaction at the South, espeoiaily that portion which treats of the slavery issues. Lis fair and truthfal exposition of the abolition amtation at the | Nerth, and of the reintions which the ‘peculiar institu. tion” bears to the federal g:vernment, nas everywhere in our zec:ion elieitod the lughest commevdations, scarce stoppirg short of fulsome adulation and x<travayant expressions of gratitade, ‘here fayorabe impressions will no doubt be greatly strengthened by ais more recent mesaege concernirg matters in Kansas. As might have been anticipared, and ax was perhape afmed at, there have appeared numerous indications that Sr. Pieree is now the favorite of the Southern peopie for the next sideucy, and if their wishes are consulted, without any regard to his availability, he will be the nowmee { | A BAD PROSPECT IN THE 1 | of National Convention.’ Our neighbor, the Fr nas truthfully rewarked that “the South, we ured, decires the renomi of Franklin There are inany indications that such i+ i@ of the peopie of the South—we thean the phisticated, uncorrupted people, who are governed in ibeir preferences by a strict regard to pria iple, and not hy policy; whe sre not swayed by party attachments and blind adwiration of some polities! leader and partiean trickster. will Prac) she nominee of the Cinein nati Convention? It j ‘com to predict whe will be installed the leader of the rabble democracy in the next Jresidential campaign, colores tiag slavery men, whose war cry will be ‘ Kansas-Nebrasia or death.” ‘But we venture to predict, and we beg the Ezominer t wark the prelictioa, that Wranklin Pierce will not be that leader. Further than this, we predict that the tea 19 Cincinnati, who may assume to re present uth, will not insist xpon his re-nonination: they ote for seme other man who is more availabe. ferences of the Southern people will be disre and that, too, by the very men wna pretend to { mnt thera, ‘Mr. Pierce will be disappoimted in the | Southern democrat sto whose arms he has throwa ho will Haunt the many bimselt—to whom he bas eavrusted his hopes for re- nomination. ‘on we cite the resolutions of the nvention of Gecrgla, which appointed mati. The iourth resojution begins in is convention deems it dae to its declare, as decided as our pre is, we constrae the 9th ro. olution of the platform propounded by the Democratic end anti-Know Nothing Convention of the Sth of Novem- der fast, a4 restricting us io the exprossion of that pre- ferenco for any particular individual tor President of the United States,’ se. Now, this resolution p: nof kranblin fierce; it was «0 tended. If | to him in the last extremity’ That would not do. liey ead the sue party may require the nom! Ration of anutber n * vbnoxious to she ‘enemies of the public tran ity,’ and tf #0, Franvlin Pierce will heave to be set This is the reason why the de- moeraey of Georg: restricted “in the expression of their proterence fi artigular individual.” f the tisan prose and the ‘‘collar-men’—your national party men. The Augusta Comsi/utionali: says = Gen. Merce is evidently the favorite, at least of the South, for tae nomination. But the ‘Seuth clo-e their ears to argument: be legates should not ny be offered at Cincin- in favor of some other nomination.” is wae written in view of the very «trong probabilf that President ierce will have to be ea yen oC id other, Although he is the favorite of the South, bh be racrificed if objection is made to hi the Northern freesu!l domoora\ msiders- Wie faction. It is more than probablomit iy cortain-—that he wilt be obnoxious to the North: at least, not available to cary the e'ection against the opposition that Fis nom. nation’ wili exelte, He will, therefore, be cortataly thrown overboard, and Senthern democratic n by action journals are making ready for vuch an event. They ex- pect it, aml are preparing to approve it. No, no: F-ank in Pierce stands no chanee of nomination. ' The prefor- ences of the South will be disregarc froexoil and aloiition 4emocrats at (he rth. He hes thrown himeelf full Jength into the arms of the Southey n demoerats, confiding in their #upport aud constancy, and | they are ready to throw him aside if their {reesoil deme | cratic friends require it. Part Second=The American Party and their ference to | Candidate. | The Cabinet organ at Washington thinks that Mr, Banks has a yood show for the black republican joint stock nomination :— Vrom the Waehington Union. | e 8 eg: . 8 * Jt ig always an tingractous task ‘to let a person down’? over that motley crow of fese soilers and prs- | Ki ren the way | the demoer corgis are #0 grateful to “our pre ent chief m ate’ for the noble stand he has taken | | in bir me ; if he has, “by the w ht discbarge | of duty, excited a more active and nuserupulous hos- | thty on the part of the ememies of the pmnblic tran- quillity, and has thereby doubly endeared himaseif to the trys men of the South,’? why did they not put him for- ward as the best man for the South, and resoive to cling | and the: | | Upon that score, but pipes out his pwans ax lusti afver he hag ‘onge been spoken of ia conpegyion wit the | Jeu,ue like thiy bed beeu indulged in, 4 ‘ORK HERALD, SATURDAY,’ FEBRUARY 16, 1856. it neg en of in the closest ‘The hopes of the victims in North Carolma, Georgia, Als- bema, sippi, Louisiana, , time to time, by gentle intimations in candidate for the seecnd fesicnists have the slightest the gentlemen ramed or bin’ nemination most conspicuous in the black re) ranks are Messrs, cores sxt Chase; but and success; and ho has airead; country s capacity to swallow with greceful ‘eave apd marvellous rapidity any and every dogins which may be issued from the abolition churca. The New York Know Nothing) shows decided proclivities to- ir. Banks; and as the Merror was the first journel in the country to nominate General Taylor, and hes ever rince affected to be « presicential Warkisk, the con- clusion is irresistible tha’ our New York cotemporary is the behef that Mr. B. would prove a “ready,” ‘ rough,” candidate, Nor is the Mirvor alone in its presid¢ntial partialfiies for the sucessful candidate for Speaker, € Northern journals have ahown pre moni"ory symptoms equally a8 strong and quite as early and it may be that the gent eman from the ‘seventh distriet’ will yet be ab.e to distance all competitors for sueh joint honors as abolitioniam and Know Nothingism may have it in their power to confer. Bat as it is not at all prooable that the name of Mr. Banks will be subuilt tea to the convention which meets at Philadelphia this menth, we will leave him for the present, for the purpose of brietly noti: oh of the candidates as are ly to be brought prominently before that body. ‘Among the Northern candidates spoken of, ex President Fillmore and Mr. George Law are the moat conspicuous. How the race stands betweon these two gentlemen we are not advised; but we aro advised ef the fact that the order in the Empire Stave is nearly reut in twain in conse- queree of the dissensions of thelr partisans. The New York Day Book thus. notices the competition between there hea! spirants for a Know Nothing Presidential no- mination A pretty quarrel is just now going on among * the dre:hren”” in this Stave in regerd to the claimao? Georgy Law and Millard Milhnore. for President, The: albany Register goes the Law ticket ailthe way through. Abe Butfalo Commercial Advertiser adheres to Fi . Law has “a pocket fall of recks,?” and, althongh hesay she won’t “bleed,” yet he does mot exp ain wao jays jor all the champagne and oyster suppers the Live Oak Brisvnave inthis etty. the contest is evident y narrowed down to“'gold vs. gumption.” Law bas the gold sud Fillmore the ramption, ‘hough it is said that Live Vak spends hus evenings in “‘improvipy bis mind.” Notwithstanding the confident expectation of Mr. Jaw’s friends, there are several Southern competitors for the Snow Nothing nominavion who feel eynally aa conficent in regard to the successful issue of thow aspi- rations. The last combination spoken of, and wi:ica will be prested with much pertinacity, has the name of Hon. W. &. Smith, of Alabama, for President, and Gov. Gard- ner, of Massachusetts, for Vice President, As tho tirst named gentleman may de estely regarded asa fair ein deoiment of Southern Know Nothingism, and as the s9- cond on more than one oecasion bas rhown almselt t0 be no mean champion of abolitionism, we are not quite sure but that the fusionists might go further and fare worse, GEORGE LAW. i An outsider compares “Live Oak George” with the old Roman Didius Julianus:— {From the Horton Chronicle } Mr. George Law, whose name has been, humorosly, we suppore. mextioned ia connection with’ the next Prest- dental contest, has writtem a letter to » Now Jersey gectleman, in which he avows his sublime detorminativa pot “to Dleed’’ for his country’s good, that is, for his own advancement, Mr. Law is, or is reputed to be, a man of immense weaith, and politicians of immense poverty have offered him their valuable services, ‘for a con:ideration.”” This conside a the steam oat Cro sus is by no means disposed to come down with. He not cnly buttons up his pocket with an unction that be- speaky his dete:mization to keep it well guarded—men are always sincere In such proceedings—bnt he de- ciares that hereafter he shail feel ezlled upon to expose al! such mercenary adventurers as may to get their ‘“ifching palms’ into the said pocket. De ehows his poverty in thus resolving, but his determination not to ‘fork over”? amounts w ® sur render of all hope of getting nomination fur the Presi cency. He is not co much shocked at the thought of pay- tug 1ouncly for the first of American oflices, as he is at the ides of parting with his money for nothing. He sees that he has no cbanee of becoming President, or even 0: getting a neminaticn, and so he will sot pay, or “bleed,” which is the better word. He is a nusiness man, and knows the meaning of the words ‘‘value received.” He would buy the White House, but has not the remotest idea of investirg any sum in castles in the air, Coulé he make a succersiui bid for the Presidency, we have no doubt he would purchase it aa eageriy as the re- tpectable Mr. Didins Julianus purchased the Ro- man empire at an auctiv., Tne Roman Senator paid about a thousand doliars a piece to those who made him emperor, but the American millioa- aire declares that he will ‘accept the purpie only on the eondi‘icn that it stall cost him nothing. Didius, who was probably a member of the ancient family of Did‘lera, matured imrixty days, at the expiration ct’ whlch time, with rix days’ grece, he was rerved as King Riebard’ functicnaries served Buckingham: he had his head taken off, x0 t the crown was of no value to him. Those who haa sold him the empire abandoned him to his enemies, the recollection of which incident bas not unlikely haa its eflecton Mr, taw. Me has no desire to be ‘sold’? him:eif, and therefore ne will not buy politicians wio affect to have it in their power to sell him the Presidency. They bave about a3 much titl: to that which they offer to cispese of a8 & certain exalicd personage had to all the hingdcma of ‘he world, with whith he sought to effect what, had he succeeded, would have been cho greatest case ci bribery mentioned in the bocks. As they bave no title they cannot convey, which Mr. Law knows quite as well as the rest of the worlc, evenif he bea Know Nothing. ‘The plan of bringing forward Mr. Law for the Presiden- ¢y was always a ridiculous one, and we are glad that he has taken effectual means to put an extingni onit. The men who have fouled him with tale ato ‘he Prerideacy Lave had no other end in view but to gs. ivi ofhis money. They are not fools, but they are sos. thing very like Knaves, They have great faith in ( proverb that teaches the shortness of the connection be- tween fools and their moncy. Tne mistake they h mace coxsists in their supposing Mr. Law to bea fool, and that they shouid be allowed to play the part of Alad. ¢in with his money bags. He has not the least objec tions to their laboring for his advancement, but if they do so they must work ‘op tick,” and trust to the offices for the rewards of their active patriotism, and_they are too experienced todo apy euch foolish thing. “Mr. Law ix shelved, and will never be taken down, The Memphis (Tenn,) Lagle and Enquirer which flies the Hag of Millard Fillmore tor Pre | dent in 1556, subject to the decision of a National | Convention, thus speaks of the LiveOak movement: —Could anything be more ridiculous 7 THE GFORGH LAW MOVEMENT--THE SEORET ov rt. ‘We have just received, ae “packing” in » box of sta- ticnery ordered from Louisville, a large lot of ‘“yaller kiverca’” pamphlets, entitled ‘‘A’ Sketch of Events in the Live of George Law, published in advance ot his Thogra- phy.” Save us from the biography, good Messrs, Station- ary Dealers, we pray you; the “sketch” is over 90 pages | long, and the suoject is nothing but Georgs Law spun out. We baven’t read 1t—don’t intend to read it—and the only use we intend to make of the copies we have re- ceived is to ght segars with them. We have also just received a little printed sheet enti- tled “All Knowing: for the Wise and the Fools, No. 1,” written, we presume, by # fool and a madman, one Jr, Ricardo, who signs his name to the words (written in pencil on the margin)—‘‘fifty thousand copies distribu- ted gratis—George Law forever!” Save us, dear, good do, from No. 2; No. 1 has nauseated us, ana we riblé ravings about George Law, ond have yourself put im 4 straight ket at once. So, it <eemi, that the bonght toadies of Geo. Law arc resurting to all the expedients within the reach of inv... to bring his name prominently betore the country candidate for the Presidency. Georzo Sanders and dame Gordon Vennett, of the New York Hanstp, are sain to be at the bottom of this movement, and theic “oeacy oF Law has been accounted for in this way:—They get Law tw endorse their notes, oecasionatly, for five or ten thou- ddohars; have the notes discounted at some bank, they tall due, never trouble therselves about bem, bat leave » “Live Onk George, igeon,’'set down and write bim up for the Pi Pennett, maybe, thinks that as he wrote one ‘sof: exss” into the Presidency four years ago. he may be able to re- peat the achioverent this But we “yaoss” he and ail his nnderstrapping coadjutors will find themselves mistaken. (J rem the Boston Atlas, Black Republi san. CROSUS FOR PRAS'DENT. When we fires heard that Mr. George faw. the man of muskets, the Palinurus of a feet of stesmboats aad the friend o: the filibnsters, was cherishing l’revidentual as- pirations, we laughed, and thought no more about tho matter. But it seems that the ices gavea permanent t tillation to the faney of sundry enthusiastic admirers of Mr. Law. and that they are in sober perionmens organi: clubs in New York to promote the elevation of thetr.favor- ites ‘Uhese aesociations are lruidies|ly called (‘Live Oak bs,” and a# the proceedings of “1, 0.C. No, D” are before us, we suppose there may he a second society of the Live Oakers, and for anything we know, thera may alw ba # third. Not only the power of specie andof st is to be employed in the work of making Mr. Law Provident, but aleo the of song, \ pleasant Iyric, chanted by the Georgians to the air of the “Star Spangled Vanner,” is yrinted in the payers. It is a very proper ani patriotic Nong, in which ite bard styles Mr Low e-chtet. of he man of the day,” ‘the fountain of pevple’s own candidate” and (in » prophetic strain’ “the peorless of Presidents.’’ Ali that was evar vaid of the vatriot fatters, of Washington, Adame, Hamilton ur ranklin is substantially repented in those sianzas of Gecrge Law. Perhaps we are ina dream. Verhaps, enl pabdly regardless of events, we hove fatied to notios the Hereulean etforte of Mr. Law in saving the country. We knew that he had made his own fortune, but we dil not know that he had retrieved that of the ( nited Siaies, The laureate of the Live Oakere, however, hax no misgivings ly a af ‘Su idol had jast returned trom «hard tough: fi Ay in which, sgainst fearful odds, he had wrought out the ‘val. vation of the uation. A new (corgivin Nidus has arisen, before which the planet ef Herschel mux: grow pale, We havo apchen of ail this nonsense inno ligh:ness of spirit, although with some lightness of speech. I ina miciuent of perfees national prosperity, with the eountry andistracted by any Important «ues 4 pioee of bue- #9) wOHIG net hereafter, to let the public alone with your her. | | would su ave deen a rerious one, for it would have showa only levity, and not lunacy. But now, when the necessities of the Union demand a Tresidect of unusual fitness, ot large and of & iy. named in connection with the office at all. Botts was be: Cmape a ‘< a peat een, : fachion, » man. Mr. Law, ically epeakiog, nobedy Pst estimate of the value of our! institutions, wha: conception of treir character these ayo pushing this candicate may poset, eau ¢ivtce, They have the names of great mem con- tinually in their mouths. It is strange that their ideas Of the Teal nature of greatness should ve so limited. Mr. Law has given public notice that he will nov ad- yaneo a sipgie doar the ex; of his elec‘ion, which only proves that Is a prodent man, and is satis- fied that the speculation would hardly pay. A candidate hose sole qualification is weal resents A Vel ie gare “indeed, when he bar ay ne chest ai pate the key in bis pocket. There, we hope, Mr. George law will keep it, and give up all dea of abandoning » position jor which be is qualified, that he will fbaget as soon a1 ostibie that he bas ever been named for a place which be bas no chanes of attaining, and of which he would be a yery dubious ornsment, could be possibly sehieve it. We have never since the formation of the stood so in need of ao first rate man st the head of affairs; and we hope the Live Oak Club, {mre the object of their first love, will, like good citizens, ent for a candidate of very different timber. WHERE WILL THE OLD WHIGS GO? The Commercial Advertiser, of this city, (Fil- more organ) having beldly urged that the old “ straight whigs” will not play second fiddle to the Know Nothings, the Albany Register (Law organ) thus responds * * * * * It is time that the American perty held » little plain talk with the elase of ‘ olf whige”” which the Commercial assumes to represent. They muy as well be told now as ever, that the Know Nothings ar of the old ruts, and will stay out of them. t they are not to be har- nested into the service of the w whether of the ‘old line” or the new. That they will ge straight ahoad in the path marked ont for and by themselves; and if the old whigs are too ‘respectable to walk in dt, the worla is wide enough for both. We have in this city class of +> old whige,” who, because they supported a part of the American ticket’ and oppesed s part of it, zow cisim to distate its course ana control its action. No such claim can be admitted, The American party re spects and wil! cherieh oll who unite cordially with it— who yield to its princizles an earnest support, whether ‘old whigs’’ or old democrats—but it will not recognise a® members, nor will it be guided by the counsels 0 those who act with itonly to geatify their hates. Tyo American party is a positive progressive party, having a higher mission than tho gratification of hates. It is a party of xeconstruction and reiorm, and those qmiy ean claim its sympathirs who share the inspirations which move it, Again saya the Commercial :— Theee deing the tacts of the vase, ft behooves the Know No- tuing or Americen party to be carerul not i outrage the good sense of thelrown besi men, and ot thelr friends outside the Y, by # nom vation discreditsble to themselves, and tend ng io detract from the dignity of the Presidential ofliee. Any man who is even suspected of attempting to buy the Presidency, will prove a dead weight :o the party that adepts num. ‘We know right weil the meaning of this covert threat, and estimate it at its true value. The Know Nothing< will take eare not to ‘outrage the good sense of their own best men,” or tho real ** friends outside the party.”” They will consult the wisnes, and be guided by the judg- ment of their ‘own best men,” but they will not be moved from their course for the sake of propititing any cutside influence which demands as the prica of ita favor the abandonment of their principles or their frieade—aud this the Commercial and ite ‘old line whiga” may re- gard as a fixed fect, and shape their courre aceordingly. If they suppose the American party is going back to the ancisat fiesh pots to take for its Presidentia candidate one of the Commercial’s “old line whigs,”’ in prefer- ence to one of its “own best men’”—it they suppoae it {8 going to fight the battle of ‘old whigs,” or new whigs—it they suppose that they are to be permitted to Bet astride of its neck and throttle it, like the “@ld Man of the Sea’'—they will find that they have bidden them. selves to @ feast uf the veriest moons that ever danced over the waters at midoight, The American Party has had encugh of “‘old whig” and ‘old democratic” fightivg, and it wants no moze. It has a conflict of its vwn on hand; it is one of principle and not of spoils, ani it in- viies recruits from all sides. But it needs, ard will have, no mercenary troops. If the Commervial, with ita ‘old whigs,” are in marxet, they mnst look elsewhere for bid- ders. If they are purchaseable, the American party wil! not be the rchasereeapecially at the prise tixed by the Commercial. \t aske their support only upon the score cf principle. It invites co-opera‘ion only because it is right. if the “old whigs” demand other guerdon, their demand will be rejected. Ti they threaten hostility, the American party’s banner floats as defiant to them as to any other pohtical organvation. A GLOOMY VIEW OF TH): FIELD. (From tho Newark (N. J.) Mereury.] THE PRESIDENCY. We ave withina few days ot thetime fixed by the Aweri con Council for the selection of their candidate for I'resi- dent and Vice President. As yet no delegates have baen telected to that convention fom the New England States, with the exception of Massachusetts; also none from Obio, Indiana and cther Northwestern States. There being two orgauizations in Peunsylvania, in conse. — of the reguiar council having repudiated the pro- slavery section of the Philadelphia platiorm, there will. in all probability, be two sets of applicants for seats: ond as the concurreace of the delegates from the reguler organization in the action of the convention depenus ‘irely upon the unconéitional repeal of the <yath nec. tion,” we presume that the seceders will, without any real contest, obtain their seats. The representation from the South will be full, and consequently the con vention will be entirely in t! nds of thore whose sin- ‘im is to prostitute all political organization to the uses and purposes of alavery. Under such circumstances it would seem irapesmible to obtain any modilication of the platiorm, unless it be to make it still mare ot- ensive to the sentiment of the free States. It the convention coutd be induced to retrace the steps heretotore taken, and place the party upon gronnd that would conform to the sentiments of the masses of the States which are expected to elect the cancidates, auccess might be obtained; but if the’Ameri- oon organization is to go into the ensuing contest as the ally of stavery, it will have to look to slaveholding com- iyunities for the necessary support. Since the conven tion in June last, nearly every Southern State has been tested upon the ‘national platiorm.” Delaware, Mary- jond and Kentucky have been carried by the Know Nu things, whiue in Georgia, Louisiana, Tennessee and every other Fouthern State they have been disastrously beaten. Of the free States, New York and Massachusetts have been carried by an open and express repudiation of that piatiorm, The party in eaek of these States was obliged to ecmmit itself against the extension of slavery aud in favor of the position assumed by the republicans. Such are the striking and important facts, which would be sutiicient to admonish pract'cal men, who are sin- cere and earnest for the sucsess of the ostensibie objects which fist brought the party into existence, to pormit the people of the free States to ast with them in securing those objects. Tho position arsumed by the Americans South is bold end unmistakeable. They say that they hold the extension of slavery to be paramount to every other con- siceration. Ifthe Americans North will humble themselves before their would-be dictators, and yield implicit aciui- escence in all that Atchison & Co. demand, they will then consent to some reccgnition of the original doctrines of Americanism. They haye no more idea of acting with the American pariy, unless they can subordinate it t> their designs, than they have of abolishing slavery in the slave Bates. We have just had demonstrations of their singerity, in the election of = Speaker of the Hou-n o! Reprosentatives. Nearly every avowed Know Nothioy from the South urheritatingly voted for Mr. Aiken, whe ix a foreigner by birth, and an uncompromuicg enemy of the party, while Mr. Baoks was known to be meniber of the organization and openly committed to the «Ame ricanism’’ of the party. Yet ‘simply because the matter could not be used to’ debace the Speakerahip, and pack the commitices for the sole benefit of the slave power, he is contcmptuously thrust aside, and ali idea of ‘Areri eanism’? promptly ignored. ‘The action of the Southern Know Nothings in the eon- test for the Speakorship is indicative of their conduct in regard to the Presidency. We would rejoice to believe that more reasonable counsels could prevail at Philadel. phia, and that rome man whose position would be accep- table to the republican element, might be selected, But the full delega:ion from the South, and the absence of re presentation from many of the iree States, renders the nomination of Mr. Fillmere, or some one equally offen sive, almoxt a certainty. ‘The preliminary republican oonvention will also 'y heid on the 22d inst., at Pittsburg, when measures wii be taken to give tone and direction to the movements of that party. — A central committee will be appointed, and the time and place selected for the nominating conven- tion, The nomination of Mr. Fillmore by the American Convention, or any action by that body teading to shape tts course adverse to the position cf the repubdticans, will render prompt and decisive action by the republican oom- mittee necessary. If these two elements are to be op- pored to each othor in the ensuing contest, the defend of the American ticket by an overwhelming majority is in- evitable. It they could be united as in the campaiga of 1863, there would be combined a sufficient amount of strength to defeat the administrationas in that coniost— but they can only be onited upon the basis of the union ot fifty-four, and in opposition toany farther extension of slavery. No one asks vr expecta the members ot the American party toyicld or in any way “ignore” their peculiar features of faith, nor will the republicans yield an iiem of the-vital doctrines #hich eharactorime their orgenization. Part Third—Black Republican and Miswecl- lancoas. The New Orleans Bee, ia some general remarks upon the Presidency, concludes that Seward ix ta he thethlack republican candidate, to wit:— * * * * “ The republicans have not yet unequivocally shown their hands, Gat there are & thousud reasons for bolieving that they intend running Wm. H. Seward. Wo once thought this would eer", a formidable nomination. We sro convinced now that Mr. Seward cannoi catry, by a hu jertty vote, & Flngle State in the North, excep! Sasa chusetts and Vermont, aud in the Wert, save, perhaps, Ohio. He may obtain s plurality in others, inslading hia own State, should there be soveral oandtda‘er in the field. As for hun election by the oorle, we emesive i cut of the question. There are thousands upon thou- sands of citizens in the non slavehoiaivg ort Seward’s doctrines at loon | would refuse to sustain him for the first of Of the people. Thers ia ® conservatism, even in cue midst of the madners of factions, whieh will save the Union frem the fate that would befall it in the evant of eo deplorable « calamity as the clection of Wio. H, Seward to the Preridercy. Come ro uow ta tap American party, which truly 7 * ates who lection’, but ¢ in the gift upon the brink of # presipice, and fs destin- consolidated into & powerful party, rest- ie principles, or to be shattered into frag- ment the slavery question threatens it with the same oestructive evergy which was eonstanily, and in the end evcces’ app. to the old whig party. Americans srd southern Americans appear to ditfer 0 radically upon this poiot, that un'ess far more wisdom and patriotiem than were formerly displayed preside at thelr councils, the:e is small prospeci of harmony, But this is not a'l. The nationalization of the party will cez- taivly augment its strength, yet it mustdo more—mush wore, ifi t hopes to win the popular suffrege, and ptant its cardinal doctrines firmly in the heart of the nation. Is mut rid iteeif of the meubus of rerigious intdlerance— ‘8 burden no wearisome to carry, that though it was open. ly thrown aside and denourced by the party in the ate canvass in this State, the suspicion of companionship with those who bo-e it, sufficed to entail upon the Americans a rignal defeat. Uniess the sec'ariaa feature of the creed be utterly expunged, there is no hope of the maintain- pes Amer tier a Vg I platform. The Senth will not so, religious Now the meh whether the Americans North and the Americans south cau be brought to agces. If they cen, their chance cf success will be ejual to cither of their opponents, and the Presldential etection will, in all Loman probability, result ina failure by the people to tffect a choice, in which case the contest will be trans ferred to the Bouse of Rep-esentatives, ani Omniscience alone knews hew it would terminate then. Suould the Awericans be unable to come to terms—ani we contews our fears preponderato over our hopes--the psrty will he divided, ¢sscordent and impotent, and the chances of the demfocratie party will be materially enhanced. Ove thing is absolutely certain, i—That the South will oie fox no wan whose record is not indisputabie, what be the po-itical title conferred upon him. South -annot be arrayed in favor of any candidate whose: 1 pon slavery admits a loop to hang a doub: on. CALL FOR A REPUBLICAN PARTY. From the new Haven (Corn.) Gustier,) fe * * * Jn these circumstances, the question under considera- tion assumes meat importance, and leads us to suggest that ‘‘a repuolican party’’ is needed, because in an en- deavor to unite the vo es of our people, scattered as they are over an immense territory, and living under differeat State governments, possessed also of various prejudices that are difficult to overce it ie of the first importance to make a platform of pricciples so simple and nee hensive, that all who sympathize in the great leading questions that are te control the next Presidential con- test, can heartily coincide, and ultimately concentrate their strength with a moral certainty of success. Io the great c ntest of 1840, the ies were more compact than ever before or since, and yet, then very much diffi- culty existed in both polivical organizations, on account of evetiictyng opinions in re ation to the leading questions in irene. We heard much about “fiscal agents,” ‘na- ‘ional barks,’? ‘Stare deposit banks,’ ‘*aud-treasury,’”? © protective tariff,” “revenue tariff,” “ judicious tariif,’? “tree trade,” &e ; and upon ail these questions there were leading men in both parties, whose views differed widely from ther, and the only “cohesive power”? tbat secur ty of action at that time was found in the fact, that frcm some cause, under the management of the “Ven Buren aominis'ration,” the county had been greatly doprersed im all its business interests, and everybody felt that somethmg must be done, and ery paturally a large majority were disposed to upset tho ad- ministration, and try running the ship of Stave upon another tack; and they did +0; whether wisely or not, is of no epeciai importance in this discussion, But now there is no need of rallying men of diverse sentiments; it we organize upon the republican platform simply, and aH who sympathise in the object unite, casting aide all other issues, we are sure of a victory. ‘There a1¢ wen enough in the country dirgusted with the hollow hearted pro-slavery ‘Union’ saving” democracy, and convirced that tbe time bas come for the free spirit of the free States to say to the slave power, we will wear yeur yoke no longer, if they can concentrate their votes to cruah out the Pieree administration beyond the power of a resurrection. But again the question recurs, how can they be united? And again we reply, only vy a party based upon the simple platf:rm adopted by the repub- licans, But the question is askod, why not rally under the *‘American’? banner? The answer to this question will be reserved for another cocasion, while we conclude with a heerty congra‘ulation to all the lovers of free- dom, justice, truth and prog:ess, over the republican triumph, in the election o: Banks as Speaker of the House, abd the movement in this State for the specdy organization of a republication party. BLACK REPUBLICANISM AND THE NEW YORK DEMO- CRACY—A XY SORRY EXHIBIT FOR CINCIN- NATI—LUWITEE FHOM PLATT POTTER, FSQ. TO THE RDITORS OY THE ALBANY ATLAS. GENTLEM EN—Having ; teen my name among a list of de- legates appointed, af it appears, by the Republican S:ate Executive Committee, to attend a convention to be held at Puttsburgh on the 22d inst., I avail myself of the oc- casicn as weil to correct mistaken impressions of my po- political relations a3 to give opportunity to the mom vers of that cow mittee to fil: the piace thus assigned to me. It is well known to all who know me that from the earliest day of my political action I have been ar- dently attached to the principles and policy of the Cemocratic party. } have regarded the principles of that party a4 caleulatea to secure in the highest de- gree cur national honor and prosperity, if carried ont in the adiinistration of the governmeut. I have con- sidered its policy as identified with the progress of human liberty, and with the highest, and noblest aims and interests cf our race. He who examines will learn that the histcry of this party is nothing Jers than the history of our whole system of free government, and that the patriots and fathers of this system, who devoted to its per‘ection their whole lives of trial and exertion, de- tigned it ws a svetem which could best be carried into ehiect by the great prizciples of the democratic party. Having been eca:ly impressed with these sentiments, I have sided in mapy a hard-contested battle for the ascerdency of its principles and the success of its candi- dates. Subject to the fate ot most ather good and popular things, the democratic principle bas been so largely connterieited and imitated by selfish and designing mon that the spurious has, iu a large degree, taken the place of the genuine, and the country has become as thoreughly filled ané corrupted with mock patriots and counter‘eit democrats as it is with a forged and worthless currency. The question, then, that presents itself to me (and, as I trust it does to every true democrat,) is, how shail I éctermine with which. if any, cf the several political organiza‘ ions now existirg in ‘this State I may properly act in this peculiar crisis in politica! affairs, and still act ecnsistent with domocractic principles? In other wor ig there a democratic party? If so, which is the genuine, and which the counterfeit? Where is now to be found the great body ot the demoerats of this State? Allowing an ual civision of the votes of this State to be democratic, ‘the late census would. show the party to be 300,000 strong. Will it be insisted trat the little 1ac- tion, ciaiming to be democratic, Iresh from a contest in which they rallied thetr entire strength of 50,000 votes, are the true representatives of this grand army of demo- Wall the National Convention, to be held in Cin ati, regard this section as representing a constituency that can avail the Presidential nominee? What chance, then, do they standof optairing admission there, repre- reviing, as they do, but one sixth of the Cemocracy ot New York ‘Truc, they have sought the accustomed passport to favor—a dailiance with the slave pywer—by tvery required act of subserviency to its behests, ex- cept that of approving of the administration of their fayonite Executive. But itis even said that they have not been able to control a portion ot their own chosen delegates to that ecnvention, seme of whom have already rushed from their embrace into # still ieas democratic and mere prescriptive party. I cannot regard this fac- tion, with their avowed principles, as the true represen- tatives of the great Looy of thedemocracy. Two hundred and fifty thousand other cemcerata in this State are of the same opinion. ‘There {s also another organized section claiming to be democratic, whose last declaration of principles was lave- ly issued forth tron yracuse, To the regularity of the organization of this body I agree; to some of their de- clu d sentiments I yield my assent. I'rom some of their resolutions 1 totally dissent. It is my most deliberate conviction, based upon a very considers le acquaintance with the rentiments of the masses, that the platform of prinelples, ax a whole, contained In these resolutions, cannot command in this State, beyond the influence of government officials, exceeding ten thousand democratic yotes. 1 look in vain, then, to the declaration of prin- cipler from either of these two sections claiming to bo democratic organizations, for that bold and maaly enun- ciation of the democratic sentiment which distinguisned the psrty in its day of purity—in the day of its union and ony. On the contrary, just in proportion as the continued aggressions of the slave power seem wo have become more demanding, reckless and daring, and just in proportion as it has controlled the action of the government to favor its demands, #0 in like proportion has been the unmanly yielding up by these organizations to is imperative behests, until the last semblance of charactor ano consistency was publicly east off, and the lowest depths of subserviency finally reached by the action of the late Sy- use Convention. Yes, strange ax,it may seem, in that ntion, claiming to be the representatives and snoces- pi tie radical free soil Buffalo platform slavery hating Wilivot proviso corner stone Van Buren democracy ot 1848, we nee an exhibition of sudden conversion unpara- Jelled in political history, that of resolutions treasonable to the time honored principles of the democracy, approv- ing not only ct the perfidious violations of the most so- Jenn plighted perscnal and official faith of the national execulive—that to the extent 0! his power and influchce he would prohibit all agitation of the slavery question —but also an approving of the boldest and most daring ag- grossions of the alave power—the repeal of the Missouri compremive, andthe whole Kansas Nebraska iniquity, not excluding the border ruffianiain of Atchison, String: fellow and t heir associates, armed with bowie knives and revolvers, in their murderous attacks upon the (uiet and peaceful citizens of Kansas. ‘Thus is presented to the maxses of the aston!shed honest demeeracy, the humiliating spectacle of two organized rections of the democratic party, both of whom unitel will reprovent a constituency of lest than one-third of the whole democracy, enguged ina weewingly hostile strife,mot against a common foe, but with each otper—in the prepa. ra.ion of platforms, not of manly, independent demosra- Ue principles, but of euch tone and spirit, and of sueb careful, siu andsubmissive phraseology 28 would be mest asceptabie and least offensive to Southern States, ond deemed most certain to secure its chosen delegates « wat in the National Conyentien, Nor is it a Jess haritiating view of the prevent eondi- tion of the demoeratie party, that « President elected by it upon the national pintiorm of 1852, containing « plo'zs *geinet all further slavery agitation; who, in his own inaugural addres, again most eolomnly repeated the pledge to the naticn, as the basis of harmonious action, should, before the expiration of half of his constitutional term, make the leading measure of his administration ne which called forth the most excitlog avery agitation known tothe nation fora period of 54 years; and still more, to demand that the approval of the obnoxious moa: sure abculd be e text of political faith, to be incorporated in all future democratic platforms; and more than all sroclaim it ax arnie of Executive ac tion, i visit proseription upon all who fail to utter, with ready fluency, this “ahibbolet’” of party fenity, {cannot permit this mere governmental echo, lately proclaimed from Syracuse, with all ils preten-ions to regularity of organization, to ‘evtroy my self-respect or to change my long chettehed sentiments of demo- cracy. Leannot consent to u blow so dendly aimed at the cause of freedom and of free government. The convention foiled to express the democratic sentiment of the State, sud i du mo) hesitate t repu diate its course r Con ion I cage one to ye o prince Se the unmeaning pop caren ular sove- reignty im the Territories.” and “‘non-intervention.”” ‘the oniy mstance where these catch-words have becn substituted tor « inciple is a history of end of ¥ violations of solemn national com- romt e-—«factual inte veatizm to abvlish » boundar: pe cf freedom, that the tartitution of slavery way mare! over it~offactual invervention oy the appointment of pererrr Judges, pro-alavery Governors, pro-slavery jarrhils, and other officers, to take theie own slaves into the Terri'ory not only, but to influence and controd the action oe yyssee Lee rwad < we oe Capesed therein. 1s he new ealled * sovereignty.”? With such surroundings and Mtincdeeats, I cannot sustain ‘‘populsr sovereignty.” In its true sense I sm not opposed to it. Whether tke truckling to power. so manifest in the action of both there organizations, will secare the admis- sion of their eeveiion delegates into the Cincinnati Convention, is a matter cf no importance; the one will represent a constituency of but 50,000 votes, the other comparatively pone at ail except themsel = tal placemen, dependents and hopeful expectants. This wil RE, be duly appreciated at Cincinnati. Certain it is that by far the test number of the sound demo~ eracy—the great offreedom in this State—will be without a representation in that body. 1 propose for myself toremain with them, uncommitted to anything | Wi sound dovtociatie.selas ‘to be made man fest in ur own way. Tue political voice of this unrepresented ved sate ereee be heard; if not before, at least at the at the next Presi¢ential contest. I regret the length to which this communieation has xtended, For the reasons I have given I have been com- elled to decline an appointment, made without my nowledge or approbation, by « political tion to- which I bad not attached myself. In | over its list of delegates, however, I see, as I do also im each of vhe democratic rections of which I have spoken, the che pames of distinguisted democrats who have once 1 cted in concert—men of exalted worth and personal character, with whom I have been proud to battle in. many @ hardcempaign—and whom it is fa to me to eo reparated and to ne separated from. I have givenmy nd, it having become p , Thavedefined my position. In | tois Tshall not be c' with political aspiration. It is never popular to enor of ofizers it and boldly of orguxived political if is & and pover. Itis high position, ioves'ed with petronses, not popular, in the view of office seekers, to speak boldly of 1 @ aggréarlons of the slave power. Nor can I be pro- soribcd. 1 bave not, I have not had, apy aanbition, ‘but to All with credit the place ofa private citizen. I love wy country, I love the Union, I love our institutions, and, not least of al, I love om, Scnmyectapy, Feb. 7, 1866, PLATT POTTER. [From the Hartford (Conn.) Times, Feb. 12, Democratic.) THE “ REPUBLICAN” MEETING. A public meeting was beld at Cnion Hal: last evening” to organize the “republican” or free soil pacty in Hart- ford, and to biing about a similar party organization fa the State—or rather to put new lie into the old fcee soll’ party which has been organized here ond in the State for many years, with Francis Gilicts, Jotun Hooker, Burleigh, J.B. Hawley, Jon | Boyd, &c., as leaders—eas ing annu- ally from 2,460 to 5,000 votes, ere were about 200 or 250 persons in the hall—near- Ty all of them past whigs. Tao editor ot the Courant is right wher be says, ‘The great masses, the working wen, the day laborers, were not there,” They were not. ‘Tho Bopk men, the whole brood ot old Cuted States Bank men— the “protection for the sake of protection”? men— the old bitter opponents of Jackson, of Van Baren before he deserted, of ’oik, were the.c. Tue monied and mono- roly influence was there—the men who havo all their lives believed tn a strong cen‘ral government, sneered at State rights, and hissed at democrats and democracy, were there; the ‘select few,” no: the masses of the voters—not ino bone and’ sivew- would gcvern and control, by talse protensi labor, when ther business, thelc interests and their sym- pathies would give capital the advantage of labor, were there. The heart of the old federat party—afterwards national republican, subsequently whig, and now repab- lican with the ‘natiopal’’ omitted— were on band. There did not appear to be six men present to ald the meeting who bad ever acted with the democracy. A more exslu- sive, monopolizing, cent:alizing, banking asd brokerage set of men, with thar well known runners, eould not have been selected in Hurtfor?, had great been taken to get just euch a corgregation together. The meeting was in‘ Panic Hail,” which was christened by the whigs in 1844, whon one of their number stood upom the ridge pole ard broke a bottle as its name was an- nounced. It in the same hall in wuich, in 18:4, the whigs astembled. with @ barrel of ale upon toe tabie, and the floor wet with liquor mixed hke swill, wita crazkers and cheese, and raised the windows and hissei at Gideon Weiles as he was pasting peaceably by on the opposite waik—hissed at him because he was a cemocrat, and had given the ‘(money changers”? who now surround hum some wholesome sessons—and some of tno same men who were there in 1854 amorg the hiscers, were there again last mght—tho hissere ard the hissed, ‘It was a spectacle which could not but reuse a train of thougnt some like tkat of the Widow Bedott’s amiable better hal when he solemnly deciared, atter a long and tortuous course of conversation, “We are all poor creaturs,’? The meeting was organized by the appointment of the Hon. Thomas 8. Wiliams as President; Phillip Ripley, Ames M. Collins, Caivin Day and John Mf. Niles, as Vice Presidents; and ihomas Y. Fisher and Dr. Riggs, as Se- cretaries. Mr. Niles moved that » committes be be appoint- ed to bring torword business. Carried, Mr. Day rooved that the ebair appoint the committee, at the same time thrusting » paper egmtaining the namen of said com- mittee into the cbairmun’s hatde; also carried: and the chairman read from Mr. Day’s paper, promoted by Mr. Day, (she names evidetly not being written piain enougtt for the chairman.) Mr. Niles was chairman, and Eldad Taylor was atthe cther end. The commitiee retired to tbe ante room. ‘hey were absent just three minutes and fifty-seven seconcr, by the wateh, and returned with written resolutions, which they had matured, of course, in the ante-room. Mr. Hammond read not in their roper order, for Mr. Niles bad got them jostled together, snd was bothered to separate them; but he read the ourth second, and the second sixth, and eoon. The tme occupied in reading these resolutions, which were matured in less than four minutes, was just twenty mi- nutes and forty seconds. “Kansas” was the main theme of the resolutions, nul- Ification, s¢ctionahsm, and the Ostend Conference being used to fill up the crevices, or forced m as respirations s@ that the mainstay shouldn’t collapse. President Pierse, of course, was raked down. He didn’t offer Mr. Niles the office of Postmaster General; of course not, or the ho- norable gentleman wouldn’t have been in Panic Hall last evening. ‘The “new party” was ebristened “republican,” and a committee was appointed to secure the attendance, at Hartford, of a State Delogated Convention next March— this being the first step towards the re-orgamizatton of the party throughout the State. They are not “Sam,” but intend to swallow ‘Sam,’ and make a full lown “Gillette aud Nilee”? man of him. He shail be ”? Gillette or ‘Sam’? Niles. That’s the order. Not one word was said in the resolutions or 4] in favor of restoring the Mixsouri compromise, They jowp that iesue. ‘Messrs, Williams, Niles, Hammond, Fisher aud Haw- ley addres<ed the meeting Their topics were, of course, Kansas, Pierce, border ruflians and slavery. Mr. Haw- ley made the ablest speech of the evening. ‘He approved. of the revolutions, bat bad the boldness, which the reso- lutions did not, to stand square out sgaiast slavery im the abstract everywhere. He claimed if a Southerner has a right to hold a s'ave at home (the resolutions ad- mutted that,) ther he has a right to bring nim here, hold him, and to hunt him here. But he argued thst there ‘was po such right as property in man anywhere, Whether he would go with Garrison and Abbey Kelley, in abolish- ing slavery im other States, ho did not say. Bat he took a very radical position, and exhibited considerable abl- hity in his argument. The Bankruptcy of P. T, Barnum and the Jerome Clock Company. {From the Post, Fob. 14.} On Monday night last the creditors of ths Jerome Com- pany held a meeting in New Haven, at t e law office of Wr. N, A. Cowdrey. It is nid that the creditors present reprorented only £137,000 out of $560,000 of the indebt- edness of the company, After some discussion, a resolu tion was passed recommending the Jeromo Company to go into liquidation, The next day the advice was ap- Proved, and the company made au assignment to Mossrs. Anderson and Rowland of New Haven. Barnum, the same day, we believe, also made an assignment, The arsuts of the Jerome Company consis: of their fue- tory and a large amount of clock machinery. The latter, in their present rtate, it ia aaid, will not realize mach for the creditors. ‘The mortgages on Barnum’s country seat in Fairfield, just out of Hiicgeport, oniled “iranistan” and the pro” perty acjacont, amount to $125,000. The gronuds eom- price veventoen acros, most of which {p beautifully laid out a8 a garden, anda large mansion in toe Oriental atyle, ait of whch lis cont him abont $1600), e mortgages on his property in Kast Beid where be owned a very large quantity of land, ph atl he began founding a city Ly erecting hotel,” dwellings, and workshops, amount to $184,274 48. To connect the city of Drldgeport proper with East Briigeport, he, a few years ago, built « handsome free britge over the Houss- tonic river, at a coxt of ten thonsand dollars. The squabble abont Barnam's properts the caeditors, we learn, is, just. beginning. “Ths. New Haven people, on the petition of the New Haven County Bank, have appointed Mr. irederick Croawell their agai ». In. Lridgeport, cn the pevition of the Marmers’ Bank of Briogeport, Mr. Hemy San¢ford has been sppointed ar signee, Fach representative, it is said, claims that the ther js tilegaily appointed, snd the materia to be settled y the State Court of Connecticnt. All claims not pro- ented within sixty days, from the time the nasignose ake the announcement, are cut off from dividends, Mr. Chauncey B. Jerome, the founder of t sony, who owned $175,000 of the stock, has alko been { reed inte bankruptcy by the Stamford Hank. He is re- rorted to have made @ voluntary assignment the day of tho meeting of the erediters in Now Haven, Mr. Barnum retired from Iranistan some time ago, and took up his residenee in the upper part of this elty.” An impression has obtained in New York, as well as in other Jucos, that he owned the Museum builcing. such is not ie jact. He purchased the collection of curiosities, but Teased the building of heirs of Mr. Vranciy W, Olmsted, for whotn Mr. H, W. Sargeant, of Fishkill Landing, N. Y.; in the executor. ‘The Museum is now, and bas been for some time past, in the porsession of Mews. Greenwood & Butler, Nott withstanding this crushing weight of bankraptey, aa it ix allel, Betaum ec ems $0 bear the burden with solrit. ranisten ia untevanted, all of the furniture In been removed to this city and sold, pied . The records in New York saow that the mortgages and Judgments agains: Mr. Barnun’y real estate amounted to #179,000, to which ix added some 00,000 ror confidential cebts, derignated in the list of preferred creditors, in his assignment, i Tom Thumb, the foundation of hig late fortune, 4 rest- Ing at Ueidgoport, and in all probability will oome to the reseue of the showman. vanessa A Kansas Stony Srommp—The story that Gov. Jovoph A. Wright, of Indiana, had rent a despatch to Cou Lane, at Lawrence, asking if ho wanted aid, and promie- ing not only to go but to iake his sons and five hundred men to help blm, ls somtradicted by the Coyernor bim- * elt clock com-