| Show the south mid and tate prate F res the following article copied froni from the new york arih me we insert mherl more for its us raciness rac mess and a certain lirely delineation of uial trait trail 04 charleter fil mind of the different t sats men ell named in in it than for any concurrence in in the opinions and i predictions it expresses esp I 1 the impression is is that the deac r rr a the presidency iden will he be selected from the south A large lage array of statesmen ahen from that section of the union are competing frow tom T ro meation two to or three exceptions they are all a of about the same grade m in respect to talent and poi portion tion perhaps ivie has the most genius he ia doubt doubtless les the most erratic and original slidell slidell is i the most unscrupulous inari intriguer g and the most malignant politician guthrie like his hib old coleal co league ue marcy larcy 1 has a vast ast fund of sound sense but is i rather arbitrary arid and do nia cobb shone as a parliamentarian but has measurably failed in in an administrative administrate e position S stephens m liaa as overrated as a logician while a member of the house tho his self a assurance su rance e c vill rill and intuitive e tact fitted him for leadership in in th thit at turbulent body orr plain practical and taking only lev lei el views lews of things has rare execl tive tn e talent and like hammoud hammond of the senate is is a man marvel el of moderation for a south carolina davis ineta physical and anal wears the prim air air of a martinet 1 of the military academy arid and it is one of the ablest apostles apostle s of the slavery cry kropa ganda brown is is ino commonplace and companionable bl e breckenridge is is plausible pl fusible and popular smoot smooth hand and superficial but as 11 ha insists that he is n not hot a candidate we e exclude him from the list hat we lve need not waste ink in in exposing the absurdity of the feeble attempts to make houston the charleston nominee we lve have thus far omitted but not forgotten the name of R M T hunter a man which in our judgment combines more than any other we have mentioned those positive and negative qualities which tho the southern democracy need to secure all they want during the next four years without driving over t to 0 the opposition the great body of the northern section of the party the charleston convention can only agree upon a candidate who has not been prominent either in in supporting porting or opposing the novel theories ries on the subject of slavery which have sprung into existence within the last dozen years this rule wh while il e it excludes men like douglas on the one side and like davis davi on diluter the he other yec precisely isely fits the case of j i hunter so too while the nominee must be arnan a man whom the south willi will implicitly trust he must be one whom the north can decently support Is I 1 not the suit sure but conciliatory conciliator the 0 un flinching but urbane hunter exactly that man reared and educated in in the be uras southern school and always voting and acting with the states 1 rights lights democracy he yet et eit either h or keeps beeps silence on all conro averted questions respecting re peeling slavery Sla iery or utters his hi hisses sies briefly and in in ambiguous or inoffensive enn e language more than twenty years ears a ago 0 mr hunter entered the house of R representatives a moderate calhoune ume unite then as also in in his early senatorial career caleer ho he nas ambitious to 0 o utter occasional cas ional speeches speecher eche cate carefully fully w written ritten and commuted committed to memory mystical and paradoxical nith carolina meta PY and virginia abstractions glittering avith ft ith harp points gleaming ing arvith ith ornate periods arid and delivered ed with ith the measured gesture ind mellow cadence of the academy ile he his has s i nee nce learned that the high toad road to the presidency ia K paved nei nei with fine spun pun thew theer ies IBS borran nor transcendental rhetoric chary and arac rac lical he now affects finance deals largely in in political economy lauds retrenchment nt speaks apals briefly and p pointedly 0 int edly rarely utters a avord on questions about which the democracy ate are divided and is is a straight forward business member of the the senate when the hour for tajiu up his appropriation bill strikes strides though doulas douglas seward toombs wade avade davis and fessenden are holding the galleries spellbound spell bound by a hand to liand combat over cuba or lecomp ton he mikes makes the inexorable callior call for 1 the order of the day nor yields ields till the point is carried and the senate launched laun died on oil a x sea of figures the excited combatants combatant and spectators chagrined at the sudden term mation of the oratorical fray retiring meanwhile to the lobbies to cool their hot blood mr hunter is is seemingly a middle ground man i where here extremes ma may consist consistently antly i leet he is is neither the founder nor the leader of a party part lile like clay and calhoun nor a and exponent of measures measure 1 i aik like ard douglas chenever he never would h have ave originated texas teas annex anner tn lion or r the repeal of the missouri compromise nor had he lived hied in in the north would he have ever dreamed rf of the independent treasury treasure or the wilnot proviso nor hid had he been compelled to fight the illinois lalie battle would hp he have hae been supple and agile enough to escape defeat under a cloud of generalities about popular sov er lt aej af T fly ia T in in the T territories err stories sir mr hunter has pone none of tl th e infer cities of genius because he has 1 as no constitutional predisposition to the disease di ease calm considerate and strictly strictly parliamentary he is is nevar liable to be called to 0 order and al ways nays shuns those personal per onal collisions in in aich which dou douglas las tooms wade fitch hale iverson green and other courageous or impulsive impulse seria sena tors north and south are so often involved m these qualities qu almes combined ith a prudence bibich trenches on the neighboring of timidity make m ike him rather a commonplace parliamentarian men though his speeches show research and ability abilia abi lit and exhibit au all occasional tasteful and po polished libed passage they never nei or startle by their originality nor electrify by their eloquence in that mental and social magnetism which characterizes leaders he fills falls immeasurably behind clay in intellectual caliber he be belongs longs t rather to the type of but bisbis is his inferior in in power po er of ment s out in comparative breadth of views news and liberality of opinions with no salient points ind and accuse angles to startle and repel like douglas Doug and with nh none of wises proclivity ity to commit follies lie he is is just the smooth oval oal man easily approached and easily handled whom the democracy need as a rallying point in in this crisis can be nominated to take even eien the first step lep in in that direction he must be bad backed ed by virginia and here he meets a serious obstacle in the person of gov wise v whom horn he must either crush appease ap peise or pur purchase chase the gallant go governor arnor is is hard bard io to kill difficult to conciliate and costly to buy if the donnelly letter his has dampened his hopes it has ha inflamed his animosities he ismore is more to be dreaded when nhen fighting an enemy than when hen defend defending inq himself ile he has many friends in in virginia and through il all the south they know that the ifie new york lorl hofts betrayed bet rayel the donnelly letter to ruin ruin him and nd they believe that of all the southern candidates hunter is the favorite of the hofts unless wise lvis is i a vi weaker ealer antagonist than is is gen on orally supposed hunter must drive coax or bribe him out ou t of his path or ile he will prove a serious senous stumbling blackin block in his bis journey to charleston |
