The Southern Press

Georgia.

The Federal Union of Milledgeville, contains the following article, which, coming from one of the oldest Democratic journals in Georgia, will be read with much interest at the present time.

The Presidency. -- The call for a national convention of the Democratic party at Baltimore in June next, which has been lately issued, will induce some speculation and no little controversy amongst the press of that party in the South. The utter confusion which prevails at this time in the ranks of the Democracy of the South promises anything but harmony and good feeling in its future counsels. Those Democrats in Georgia who have followed Howell Cobb off into the mazes of Whiggery can never worship more at the same altar with the great body of the Democratic party who have stood firm, and steadfastly adhered to the old faith. Mr. Toombs, Mr. Stephens, and their friends never did, never can, and never will unite with the true Democracy of the country in a national convention.

We have warned the Democrats of Georgia against the coalition of Mr. Cobb with Messrs. Toombs, Stephens, and Fillmore. This step has so far committed Mr. Cobb to the support of the administration of Mr. Fillmore as to have precluded entirely the possibility of his reunion with the old Democratic party. While Mr. Donelson, of the Washington Union, is calling upon the Democracy of the South to cease their quarrelings, forget their feuds, and rally again around the time-honored standard, Mr. Cobb is proclaiming everywhere in Georgia that the Democratic party is dead, and that no other party claims his consideration save the Constitution and Union party - a party composed almost entirely of old Whigs. Such are the elements Mr. Cobb will bring into the national convention if he proposes to unite with it. We do not believe, however, that such is his intention. We sincerely hope and trust it is not.

The convention which met in this place in May last, and nominated Governor McDonald as its standard bearer, was truly a convention of the Democratic party of Georgia. It is true there were Whigs as well as Democrats in that body, but they were men who believed that the Whigs, as a party, could never exist again, and their patriotism and honesty directed them to the Democratic platform as the safest and best refuge in the hour of their misfortune. If the proof is demanded, let any man who doubts the assertion, refer to the platform of the May convention. It is Democratic to the core: the same principles are there promulgated that have ever been the chart and compass of the old Democracy of the country. Was there any objection urged by the Whigs who had a seat in that convention to the policy there indicated? None whatever.

We candidly tell such presses as the Union and the Pennsylvanian that a union of the Southern wing of the Democracy is out of the question. These papers have lent their influence to the scheme of Cobb & Co. to break down the Democratic party in Georgia, and pave the way for a Whig in the person of Hon. A. H. Stephens in the United States Senate. Is this the Democracy Mr. Donelson and Mr. Forney desire? We believe not. It is our honest conviction that these men have been deceived. -- They have been deluded; they could not be made to believe that Howell Cobb had been thrown overboard by the true Democracy of Georgia; they had eyes, and saw not; ears had they, but would not hear. They have changed their company; time will prove how congenial it will be. This assertion we fearlessly make, and we offer it to the Union and the Pennsylvanian as a morsel of our prophetic ken, to be laid aside till called for. Howell Cobb will support Millard Fillmore for the Presidency. What will the Union and the Pennsylvanian then have to say! Will they bury the hatchet - cease their daily philippics against Fillmore, and with Horace Greeley and Cobb, shout hallelujahs to the Democratic Union Fillmore ticket? We shall see.