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The Cecil Whig
Elkton, Cecil County, Maryland
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The Charleston Mercury criticizes the Democratic Party's long-term failure to protect Southern rights from Northern aggression, citing inadequacies in tariffs, internal improvements, abolitionism in Congress, California equality, fugitive slave recovery, Kansas fairness, and preventing an anti-slavery president's election.
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We do not believe that the Democratic party is competent to protect the rights of the South. It has been incompetent for forty years to give a just constitutional Tariff. It has been incompetent to defeat the plunder of Internal Improvements made by the General Government. It has been incompetent, with a united South supporting them, to keep Abolition agitation out of Congress by the 21st rule. It has been incompetent to give the South equal rights in California. It has been incompetent to secure to the South the recovery of her fugitive slaves in the North, and it has been incompetent to give the South fair play in Kansas. But for accidental circumstances, such as Mr. Fillmore being supported by a portion of the North in the late Presidential election, it would have utterly failed to prevent the election of a sectional anti-slavery President!
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For Forty Years, Late Presidential Election
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The Charleston Mercury argues the Democratic party's incompetence in safeguarding Southern interests against Northern actions, including fair tariffs, stopping internal improvements plunder, blocking abolition in Congress, securing California rights, recovering fugitive slaves, ensuring Kansas fairness, and averting an anti-slavery president's election except by accident.