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FOR PRESIDENT,
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OF WESTMORELAND
The "Constitutional Union Conven
tion," (so called,) met at Baltimore on Wed
nesday last. Delegates were present from
nearly all the States. The lion. Washington
Hunt, of New York, was chosen temporary
Chairman, and was afterwards appointed per
manent President. lion. Joseph R. Inger
soll, of Philadelphia, represented Pennsylva
nia in the list of Vice Presidents. The whole
of the first day's session was taken up with
preliminary matters.
On Thursday morning, a preamble and
resolution were passed setting forth that plat
forms are calculated to mislead and distract
the people and occasion sectional divisions,
and declaring the Constitution, the Union,
and the enforcement of the laws, to be the
only platform recognized by the body. The
Convention then voted for a candidate for
President, the first ballot resulting as follows:
Houston, 57 I Bell, 6Si4
Everett, 25 McLean, 22
Graham, 22 Sharkey, 6
Crittenden, 28
Botts,
Whole number of 'FMCS,
Necessary to a choice,
On the second ballot, Hon. John Bell, of
Tennessee, received 141 votes, and was de
clared nominated. Hon. Edward Everett, of
Massachusetts, was nominated for the Vice
Presidency, after which the Convention ad
journed sine die.
The Chicago Convention.
The Republican Convention meets in Chi
cago to-day. It will be largely attended by
outsiders. Several delegations from this
State, almost unanimous for Cameron, passed
over the Pennsylvania Railroad on Sunday
and Monday. It is impossible to guess, with
any degree of correctness, who will receive
the Republican nomination. The friends of
Seward will push his claims, and will not be
satisfied with the nomination of any other.—
The nomination of Bell, by the Constitution
al Union party, has considerably confused
the chances of the several gentlemen who
have been looking for a nomination at Chi
cago.
TRUNDER FROM TILE SOUTH!—The Democ
racy of the whole South are incensed at the
action of the Disunionists at the Charleston
Convention, and are already actively at work
manifesting their displeasure by holding pub
lic meetings in almost every city and princi
pal town throughout these States. At St.
Louis, Missouri, on Friday of last week, an
immense meeting was held, at which the se
cessionists were unsparingly denounced, and
a salute of 153 guns was fired in honor of
that number . of Delegates who voted for Ste
phen A. Douglas ! Missourians now pledge
that State for the "Little Giant" by 20,000
majority.
LOUISIANA SPEAICIIsTG I—The people of the
South have already begun the good work of
repudiating the action of their Delegates who
seceded from the Charleston Convention.—
The meeting alluded to in the dispatch below,
is said to have been one of the largest and
most enthusiastic political gathering ever
held at New Orleans. Read:
ANTI-SECESSION MEETING IN NEW ORLEANS.
A mass meeting was held here last evening
to denounce the secession movement at Charles
ton: It was resolved to regard all as ene
mies who attempted to produce a separation
of the States.
KEEP IT BEFORE TEE PEOPLE !—lt is a fact
that should be constantly kept before the
people, that Stephen A. Douglas, after the
bolt of the Disunionists, had, on every ballot
cast in the Charleston Convention, a clear ma_
jority of about FIFTY VOTES OVER, ALL THE
OTHER CANDIDATES COMBINED! And
yet this is the man the traitors and Disunion
ists tell us must be withdrawn in order to
conciliate a handful] of reckless, corrupt and
unprincipled office-holding demagogues.
ANOTHER POLITICAL MOVESIENT.-A large
meeting of the friends of General Houston,
from all parts of the Union, was held at the
Metropolitan Hotel, New York, on Friday
evening last. The Baltimore, Charleston,
and other National party Conventions, were
represented, and the determination expressed
that the people shall make their own choice
for President..
Goggin,
Rives,
NEW ORLEANS, May 9.
Southern Sentiment.
[From tho Pennsylvanian.]
We 'find nowhere in the South, save in a
few journals of the fire-eating class, the slight
est disposition to justify or excuse the action
of the Southern Delegates, under the leader
ship of Mr. Wm. L. Yancey and others, in
seceding from the Democratic National Con
vention at Charleston. The secession is held
to have been wholly uncalled for, and meas
ures are already on foot in most of the States
to sand new aad more national men to repre
sent the sentiment of the South in the ad
journed Convention at Baltimore. The Mo
bile Register of May Ist speaks of the action
of the seceders as follows :
RAsn Couusaas.—The latest news from Charleston an
nounces that the delegations of five other States have as
sumed the fearful responsibility, without the warrant in
struction, to join the States of Alabama mid Mississippi in
arraying themselves against the sentiment of the .Vemo
craticparty and against the convictions or judgment of Vir
ginia., North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri—all
the border States, their tier of Southern States most ex
posed to Northern aggression, and which must bear the
brunt of the battle, if battle there be. If this is not " pre
cipitating the cotton States into a revolution," it is be
cause the people will not second the desperate moves
which the mortified pride of injudiciously committed poll
ticians has inspired. - These gentlemen will have to return
and give an account of their stewardship to their constitu
encies. What the decision of the people will be, no cool
headed man will doubt for a moment.
Coor. IMPUDENCE.—The Ebensburg Demo
crat & Sentinel is very anxious to get the Lit
tle Giant of the West out of the way of the
Disunionists of the South. Ilear its cool im
pudence:
"Let Stephen A. Douglas withdraw from the contest,
and allow a conservative statesman, acceptable to both
wings of the party be nominated for President at
Balti
more. If he is a patriot he 'will do this. If he is a dem
agogue ho will remain in the field."
When the Democracy of the Democratic
party are willing to make mud-sills of them
selves, the editor of the D. & S. may expect
to be gratified, by a submission to the will of
the fire-eaters, but not before.
SOUTHERN SENTIMENT.—We find nowhere
in the South, save in a few journals of the
fire-eating class, the slightest disposition to
justify or excuse the action of the Southern
Delegates, under the leadership of Mr. Wil
liam L. Yancey and others, in seceding from
the Democratic National Convention at
Charleston. The secession is held to have
been wholly uncalled for, and measures are
already on foot in most of the States to send
new and more national men to represent the
sentiment of the South in the adjourned
Convention at Baltimore.
JUDGE BLACK'S HOM E.—The following, from
the Somerset Democrat, a paper that has had,
until very lately, the name of Judge Black
at its mast-head for the Presidency, is a com
plete sunzmerset from its former opinions:
"That Hon. S. A. Douglas was entitled to the nomina
tion, after receiving 152 1 /, votes—a majority of the whole
Convention—no candid and lair-minded person will deny.
Mr. Douglas is undoubtedly the choice of nine-tenths of the
Democratic party ;Vora and Soutit, and all attempts to op
pose their will must prove unavailing in the end.
As to the seceders, we have but to say a word. We are
right glad that they left, for they were, for the most part,
tricksters and fire-eaters, and of no possible use to any
party. Their seats will be filled by sound Union Demo
crats, and they will find themselves rebuked by their own
constituents."
THE Tatum—A bill passed the House on
Thursday last, by a vote of 105 yeas to 64
nays. All the Democratic members from
this State voted for the bill. Tie 'bill gives
very general satisfaction. It may possibly
pass the Senate.
Jae— We see it announced in the Pittsburgh
Press, that President Buchanan has appoin
ted R. Bruce Petrikin a Judge for Utah Ter
ritory. If true, God save the Mormons.
From Chicago
[Special Despatches to "The Press."l
CEIICAGO, May 13, 1860.
THE CITY OF CHICAGO.
There is no city in the Union better suited
for Convention purposes than Chicago. it is
easily reached by railroad from all parts of
the Union, and its hotel accommodations are
second to those of no other city.
THE CITIZENS ENTERTAINING THE DELEGATES
Most of the delegates and many of the out
side visitors who have arrived are being en
tertained by private families, who, with a gen
erosity in striking contrast with the sharp
practice of Charleston, have undertaken to
provide accommodations for large numbers
of the strangers free of charge. Democrats
are vicing with Republicans in extending ci-
Ntities.
TUE EXCITEMENT COMMENCING.
There is intense excitement here. Most of
the delegates have arrived, and the friends of
each candidate aro actively urging his claims.
VIE OUTSIDE PRESSURE.
The largest outside pressure is from the
West, particula'rly from Ohio and Illinois,
whilst New York and Pennsylvania are both
well represented, independent of their res
pective delegations.
THE FRIENDS OF WIL.H. SEWARD.
Wm. H. Seward is being earnestly pressed
for nomination by the shrewdest and richest
politicians in the Republican party. His
principal manager is Thurlow Weed, whose
hand is seen in almost every , movement made
so far. The opponents of the New - York
statesman fear and dread Weed's power.
TUE CHANCES OF N. P. BANKS.
The nomination of Bell and Everett is be
ing quietly used against Seward by the friends
of Gov. Banks, of Massachusetts, who assert
that it is necessary to place a man on the track
like Banks, who has been identified with
Americanism, in order to carry Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, and even New York. They point
to the fact that a part of the Republican tick
et was defeated in New York by the Ameri
cans last fall as nn evidence that if Seward,
or any other man who has Been opposed to
that party is nominated, the vvfiole American
vote will be thrown against him, and the Em
pire State thus be lost to the Republicans.
THE PENZ:SYLVANIA DELEGATION.
Most of the Pennsylvania delegates, par
ticularly those from west of the mountains,
are already here. Hon. Andrew G. Curtin,
the Republican candidate for Governor, and
A. K. McClure, the chairman of the Repub
lican State Central Committee of Pennsylva
nia, are also hero. It is understood that Cur
tin and his friends will be satisfied with the
nomination of Simon Cameron, but if this
cannot he accomplished I think they would
prefer Bell, of Tennessee, with a Republican
on the ticket for Vice President.. They say
that if Douglas is nominated at Baltimore it
is very doubtful whether Pennsylvania , could
be carried against, him, even by a combination
of all the opposition votes in the State.
SENVA.RD THE STRONGEST CANDIDATE.
The friends of Seward are the most san
guine, and confidently count on his nomina
tion from the sixth to the twelfth ballot.—
They complain bitterly of the course which
is being pursued by those opposed to him,
declaring that they are not actuated by a de
sire to make a nomination which will pro
dace harmony in the party, but only by a de
termination to defeat him. They charge
further, that packed delegations have been
made up from Virginia, Maryland, Delaware,
Kentucky, and Missouri, for this purpose.—
ILis however, they look upon as
certain, claiming Pennsylvania, New Jersey,
and a part of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, at
an early stage of the ballotings.
DATES AND WADE
Bates has very little strength, and will not
be kept long in the field by Missouri. His
friends are then counted upon for Senator
Wade, of Ohio, who is looming up as a for
midable candidate. If Seward is not nomi
nated, Wade will be. His friends seem to
have a good understanding with the Banks
men of New England, and it is certain he
can control a majority of the Ohio delegation,
though the Sewardites, who seem to be the
only opponents he has, say that McLean and
Governor Chase's friends will never submit
to his nomination.
TILE DEIIOCRACY INTERESTED
The Demodrats are using considerable in
fluence in favor of Seward. They say that
they will carry Illinois for Douglas by a large
majority if he is nominated, no matter who
the Republican nominee may be, but they re
gard Seward as the weakest man who can be
put up against Douglas in the Middle States.
Their indignation is great at the treatment of
their favorite at Charleston, and you may rely
upon it that there will be thousands of the
Western Democracy at Baltimore to see that
the " Little Giant" has fair play.
TEE PLATFORM.
The Philadelphia platform of 1856 will un
doubtedly be reaffirmed. Pennsylvania will
try to get a strong tariff plank in to help
them at home, and it is rather probable that
this will be accorded to them.
Comments of the Democratic Press on
the Charleton Convention.
[From the St. Louis Republican.]
From the very hour of the meeting of the
Convention, nothing can be clearer than that
there was an organized conspiracy, on the
part of the politicians and office-holders, to
defeat Mr. Douglas for the Presidency at all
hazards. We say this IV:_3 palpable before,
at the time of, and in every act of the minor
ity of the Convention up to the moment of
the secession ; and yet, in the face of this
combination, there was not a period when
Mr. Douglas was not the choice of the ma
jority, and when that majority was not able,
on a square vote, to beat down all opposition.
The Yancey platform, which looked to a slave
code, and the re-opening of the African slave ;
trade, was voted down by a deAded majority ;
and finally, an addition to the Cincinnati
platform was adopted, which ought to have'
satisfied any conservative and Union-loving
man in the Convention or in the country.—
But union and harmony on such a basis was
not what was wanted by the enemies of Mr.
Douglas, and instead of yielding, in true
Democratic style, to the will of the majority,
they left the Convention, awl took up a posi
tion on the outskirts to see what further mis
chief could be done. The balloting commen
ced, and of the two hundred and fifty-three
delegates still present, Mr. Douglas on every
vote received a large majority over all others
combined. He not only had this majority as
the Convention was actually constituted, but
upon one of the ballots he received 1521 votes,
being an actual majority of all the votes in
the Convention when full. He not only had
these majorities, but he obtained them in the
face of desertions on the part of office-holders
and others who, it is notorious, were elected
for their voluntary pledges in his favor, but
who were afterwards bought up and paid to
oppose him.
This is Mr. Douglas' position ,before the
country. He is the choice of the •people for
the Presidency. There is not a man in the
Union who can command a greater Demo
cratic strength in any single State than Mr.
Douglas. He will be readeinlinitely stronger
by the efforts of the minority in this Conven
tion to destroy him. lie stands before the
country now in an attitude when every true
Democrat should come up to his support, at
the same time that a proper rebuke may by
this means, be administered to the disunion
ists of the South. That faction do not want
his election, for the simple reason that it will
preserve the Union, by putting down Black
Republicanism in the North and secession at
the South. The nomination of Douglas, if
delayed at Charleston, ought to be consum
mated at Baltimore ; and to this end the
watch-fires of patriotism should be lighted
all over the land. The public will should not
be cheated in this way, but meetings should
be held in cities and towns and counties all
over every State, and such a voice should go
up as will strike terror into the hearts of
those who have been guilty of these gross
outrages upon the party, and who yet threat
en the severance of the Union. There is no
time to be lost, and every good citizen should
join the work. At this hour Mr. Douglas is
the representative man of the people, and
they ought to see that he is put into the Pres
idency regardless of all opposition.
[From the Augusta (Ga.) Constitutionalist.]
Oh, yes, let us have protection, or dis
member the party, for protection will people
with Southern planters the sandy wastes of
the great American desert, crown with vine
yards the earth-bare slopes of the Rocky
mountains, and be justthe thing for the South
when Greenland is annexed to the Union.
Now what is our future ? The National
Convention has adjourned to meet in Balti
more on the 18th of June, and those who re
signed their seats in that body, will have
their places filled with men who will repre
sent the States.
As we have said, the action of the bolting
delegates has defeated their own prime pur
pose, which was the nomination of a South
ern man. We went to Charleston prepared
to vote for Mr. Douglas, if ho was the choice
of the majority, and to support him if nomi
nated—but almost sure that he would not be,
and that a Southern man would be. The
certainty now points the other way, for Mr.
Douglas has got rid of the factionists, and
having received one hundred and fifty-two
votes, which is a majority, he is, by the usage
i of the party, entitled to be nominated by two
thirds.
We now believe that the nominee of :the
party in, National Convention, and the •
,next
President of the United States, -will .be Ste
phen A. Douglas, of Illinois. '
[From the Louisville (Ky.) Democrat.)
These opponents of Douglas - - have been
mistaken all the while in his strength." ."Their
blind hatred misleads them so that.they can't
appreciate the signs of the times. ...That he
is the first choice of three-fourths of the Dem
ocratic party to-day, for the office of Presi
dent is plain enough to any one who does not
obstinately shut his eyes to the facts.—
Against the combinations of politicians, and
the use of Federal patronage, the intrigues of
Cabinets, Senators, Congressmen, and out
side politicians, he got a majority of the whole
electoral vote at Charleston, and did not then
show all his strength in the Convention. In
this condition of things his friends are mod
estly asked to withdraw him, to accommodate
the most reckless and unscrupulous opposi
tion that ever was arrayed against a man.—
His friends, the delegates, can't be so accom
modating, and the people at home will be
much less accommodating than the dele
gates.
We are even less disposed to concede. any
thing now than ever. The whole country
now sees where the heart of this'opposition
comes from. It has made an exposition of
itself by secession from the Convention. The
only honest and intelligent purpose is a dis
solution of the Union. Those engaged in it
will not openly - confess it. Some disguise the
end even from themselves; but one cannot
talk with them a moment without getting an
avowal of the ultimate result. We, there
fore, have no compromise to make with them.
They are gone, and let them go in peace,—
They demand what no party in the free States
can grant, and they know it.
The people of a Territory shall not have
slavery, if they want it, is the Northern Wil
mot Proviso. Would it not be sheer imper
tinence to ask the South to sanction such a
doctrine ?
Well, what is the demand of this secession
party in the South, who have seduced so
many into their purpose ? Stript of all itsdis
guise, it is simply this : The people of a Ter
ritory shall have slavery, no matter how
much they are opposed to it. This is a plain,
unvarnished statement of the position. They
say, if a Territorial Legislature will not make
laws to protect slavery, Congress must make
them. If the legislation be unfriendly to
slavery, then the Federal Government must
interfere and nullify such legislation. Does
any one expect that this Southern Wilmot Pro
viso will be tolerated North, ?
The Catholic zeal of James II led him into
acts which irritated his subjects, until he was
driven into exile. A French courtier said,
in decision : " There goes a man who sacri
ficed a crown for a crozier." The Demo
crats South are repeating the folly of James,
with infinitely less motive for their action.—
Indeed they are more like a spaniel who
dropt a bone of meat to plunge after its
shadow.
We submit the case to the Democracy of
Kentucky. Will they allow the secession
ists to separate them from the Democracy of
`the North, and thus sectionalize their party?
Or will they tolerate this hatred of one dis
tinguished man, which would accept the de
feat of the party to defeat him ?
For our own part, we don't intend to sub
mit to 'any - such factious and unpatriotic
movements. We shall support no sectional
party, and we trust there is virtue enough . in
the Democratic party to repudiate it. If
There is not, then the Democratic party has
fulfilled its mission, and will pass away as
the old Whig party did.
The Baltimore Convention will nominate
Douglas beyond a doubt. The Opposition in
the South, where it is honest, straightfor
ward disunion, is scarcely a fragment. The
political wire-workers who seceded are gone,
and in their places we will have men fresh
from the people. They may prefer another,
but they will not sacrifice the party to favor
itism. Our party will come forth from the
fire purified and strengthened. Many office
holders will be laid in limbo. The sweets of
private life will be conceded tosmany politi
cal aspirants in the Southern seceding States,
and our candidates will sweep the Union like
fire in the prairie, and the nation will have a
new lease of life.
[From the Providence (R. I.) Post.]
We shall be told that the Southern States
which withdrew from the Convention will
maintain their hostility to the Democratic
party. W know better. The PEOPLE of the
South are, not mad, and they will rebuke the
madness of their representatives. The idea
that they will unite with the National Union
party, whose Convention is soon to be held in
Baltimore, is absurdity itself. They can nev
er stand upon a platform which will be satis
factory to the \Vinthrops and Everetts of the
North, and to the Know Nothings of the
South. An independent Southern party—a
sectional, pro-slavery Democratic party—may
do to talk- of for a while, but cannot long find
friends. The idea of throwing the Presiden
tial election into the House of Representatives,
cannot be tolerated. There is no Democracy
in it. Either the candidate nominated at
Charleston, or the candidate nominated at
Chicago, will be elected. It is yet six, months
to the Presidential election. In that time we
are confident, the South will see its mistake.
If it does not, and will not, then let the strug
gle come, and God defend the right.
[From the Petersburg (Va.) Press.]
Much abused, much misrepresented, and
most cordially hated as the Hon. S. A. Doug
las is by extremists of all sections and of all.
complexions, he has planted himself upon and
- defended against "all comers" the constitu
tional rights of the people everywhere, North,
South, East and West. With the comprehen
sive sweep of a real statesman and a true pa
triot, his mighty intellect ranges over the en
tire Confederacy. Taking as his motto the
very first line of the Constitution, " We, the
people of the United States," he stands by
constitutional government and the rightS of
the people, from one end of the Confederacy
to the other. And this we say, is the doc
trine of the National Democratic party, the
firm maintenance of
. which, in our judgment
alone can preserve and perpetuate the Union
of these States.
[From the Chicago Times.]
" What will the Convention do in June ?
The answer is a plain one. It must nomi
nate Douglas. If it does not do that, it is a
matter of perfect indifference what it does.--
The nomination has been long since decided
in the popular mind. Douglas or defeat is as
distinctly the fate of the party in 18G0, and
is as well known by all men_of all parties, as
if it bad been proclaimed by the trumpet of
an angel from on high. There is no use of
mincing matters, and quibbling and equivo
cating. The great mass of the Democratic
party will support as against the Republicans
any nominee; but there is a, vast multitude
of Democrats—men wbo were veterans in the
Democratic party when Bigler was a Freesoil
er and Randall an Abolitionist—who will not
submit to the dictation of Slidell, Bright &
Co., and who will stand still and take the
consequences of a defeat.
Mr. Buchanan has during three years
made the people of the north pretty familiar
with the rule of an opposition president. The
people who do not live by .office-holding nor
by permission of secretaries and senators,, and
who have raised their crops and prosecuted
their business successfully during the last
three years, are not very likely to be terrified
at the prospects of Seward's presidency—
thousands will run the risk.
There .are but few men of - any party who
will not attribute the failure to nominate
Douglas at Charleston to a concerted scheme
on the part of Slidell and Buchanan. And
no man of whom it can be said that he was
nominated at Baltimore by that faction, can
hope to receive the cordial support of a peo
ple who feel themselves cheated out of their
candidate by unworthy means.
But we have no doubt of the nomina
tion of Douglas at Baltimore. It will do del
egates no harm to go home and mingle with
the people. If they are honest men, that com
munion with the people cannot fail to remove
all uncertainty as to their duty to their party
and to their country. There is but one voice
among the people, and that is for Douglas.—
A convention of the Democratic party must
indeed be wonderfully constituted that will
close its ears to the popular voice."
(From the Washington States.]
That the seceders did not withdraw on ac
count of the defeat of their platform is mani-
fest from Their subsequent proceedings.—
They deferred „action in regard to an inde
pendent nomination, and hung around the
Convention, like birds of evil omen, with ar
rogant threats of what they were going to do
if the favorite of the country, who obtained
a majority of the whole Convention, should
be nominated.
With swagger and arrogance they endeav
ored to frighten the body into submission,
and were willing to swallow any platform,
provided they should be permitted to dictate
who should be the candidate.
If the party submits to the arrogant dic
tation, conventions are mockeries, and De
mocracy a by-word and a ,- corn: Is the par
ty so pusilanimous that it will yield itself to
the control of men who, like spoiled children,
set to kicking and bawling unlesa their In
n:mrs are indulged ?
Douglas is the man of the people—because
he is from the people, and the ardent defen
der of the principles the people love. Hence
he is hated by the arrogant, would-be lord-
Hugs, who have nothing to sustain them but
overbearing pretentious, and success in plun
dering the country. They denounce Doug
las, because they know he is not of their
tribe of political gamblers..
We hope that - his friends will stand like
faithful men to their position. If they yield
now, the independence of the party is lost
forever; and submitting to the despotism of
men who are determined to rule or ruin,
must sink, a withered and despised thing, to
everlasting contempt.
An. Interesting Document.
That arch traitor, Yancey, sent a letter on
the 15th of June, to a gentleman, which has
been published, in the Washington States
and Union :
" NiesreoNEßY, June 15, 1858
" DEAR SIR :—Your kind favor of the 15th
is received. I hardly agree with you that a
general movement can be made that will
clear out the Aegean stable. If the Democ
racy were overthrown it would give place to
a greater and hungrier swarm of flies.
" The remedy of the South is not in such a
process. It is a diligent organization of her
true men for prompt resistance to the next
aggression. It must come in the nature of
things. No national party can save us ; no
sectional party can ever do it. But if we
could do as our fathers did—organize Com
mittees of Safety' in all the cotton States
(and it is only in them that we can hope for
any effective movement)---we shall fire the
Southern heart, instruct the Southern mind,
give courage to each other, and, at the prop
er moment, by one organized concerted ac
tion, we can precipitate the cotton States into
a revolution.
"The.idea has been shadowed forth in the
South by Mr. Ruffin ; has been taken up and
recommended in the .Advertiser, (the Mont
gomery organ of Mr. Yancey,) under the
name of 'League of United Southerners,' who,
keeping up their old party relations on all
other questions, will hold the Southern issue
paramount, and will influence parties, Legis
latures and statesmen. I have no time to en
large, but to suggest merely. In haste, yours,
&c., W. L. YANCEY.
" To James S. Slaughter, Esq."
The Judas Kiss
Who would have thought, when Bigler, al
ternately with tears in his eyes and smiles on
his face, at the Reading Convention, went
round among the Delegates begging and sup
plicating to be sent to Charleston, and prom
ising to use his influence to conciliate and
harmonize the conflicting elements which bad
distracted that party, that beneath his vest
was hidden a heart as black with treachery
as ever beat in the bosom of a traitor? Who
would have believed that this miserable,
" weak-kneed" dough-face was kissing but
to betray ? No one. Yet such was the case.
No Disunionist was half so potent for evil at
Charleston as this same traitor Bigler. It
was he who gave "aid and comfort" to the
Secessionists I It was Bigler that urged and
implored these traitors to leave the Convention.
It was the Pennsylvania Senator who prom
ised, in order to induce the Disunionists to
bolt, that a majority of the Pensylvania Del
egation would follow I And this is the man,
(how unworthy the title !) Democrats of Penn
sylvania, that you have honored—warmed in
to life—made rich and given position to.—
Aye, this is the serpent that you have warm
ed into life by the fire of your kind favor,
who now turns round and endeavors to inflict
upon his friends and benefactors the sting of
death. How well he merits the hissing cur
ses of an outraged people that:rare now falling
so thick and fast upon his treacherous head I
—State Sentinel.
FICESIIET IN THE SITSQUEFIANNA.-A des
patch from Williamsport, dated May 11th
says : " There is a freshet in the Susquehan
na, which is now increasing. It was occa
sioned by the heavy storm which prevailed
during the last forty-eight hours. It is sup
posed that an incalculable amount of damage
will be done to the property along the river,
and more particularly to the stock of lumber
now on hand. Over 50,000,000 feet of lum
ber wore swept away.
Squatter Sovereignty.
Those who denounce Squatter Sovereignty
as a new-fangled Democratic doctrine evince.
more ignorance of the subject, in all its bear
ings, than would be pleasant or agreeable to
them, were they aware of the fact. Gen. Cass
has the honor of giving promineney to the
question of Squatter Sovereignty as a party
measure. lie first introduced the subject in
to the arena of politics, and established its
claims to the highest consideration of the
American people. It then grew rapidly
in the favor and esteem of the National De
mocracy. It was warmly espoused by all the•
prominent leading men in the Democratic•
ranks, from its first introduction into politics,
till the advent of the remarkable struggle to
fasten the Lecompton Constitution upon the
people of Kansas whether they were willing .
to receive it or not.
Since that time there has been a regular,
persistent effort on the part. of some of the.
Democracy to cast obloquy upon this meas
ure, under the delusive hope that they would
thereby destroy the future usefulness of a prom
inent statesman, who maintained, with un
answerable argument, his unswerving devo
tion to a fixed and fundamental principle of
his party. The old adage that men may
change, but principles are eternal, should
never be forgotten. If Squatter Sovereignty
was right in 1848, in 1852, in 1854 and again
in 1856, we can see no reason why it should
not he right in 1860. The Bolter's Conven
tion at Charleston, were violently opposed to
Judge Douglas as a candidate for the Presi
dency, on account of his Squatter Sovereignty
principles ; yet we find they were willing to
go for Daniel S. Dickinson, of New York,
than whom there is no greater - Squatter Sov
ereign in the Union.
Fur the benefit of our readers we make a
few extracts from a speech delivered by Mr.
Dickinson in the United States Senate in 1848,
which verifys the truth of our assertion on.
this subject. lle says:
That system of government, whether temporary or per
manent, whether applied to States, Provinces or Territo
ries, is radically wrong, and has within itself all the ele
ments of monarchical oppression. which permits the repre
sentatives of one community to legislate for the domestic
regulation of another to which they aro not responsible;
which practically allows New 'York and Massachusetts and
other Atlantic States to give local laws to the people of
Oregon, Minnesota and Nebraska, to whom and whose in
terests, wishes and condition they are strangers.
Again he says :
Should the domestic legislation of Territories be left
with their local Legislatures, it would transfer from the
Halls of Congress the bootless sectional struggles which
have eit-ated bitterness at home, and served to degrade our
institutions in the eyes of the world. It would leave local
communities, Territories as well as States, to consult their
own interests, wishes and sense of propriety, and to erect
or prohibit, to continue or abolish, such institutions as
may not be repugnant to the principles of the Constitu
tion.
That was sound Democratic doctrine in
1848. We believe it to be equal sound and
Democratic now.—Kentucky _Democrat.
Southern Fire Eaters.
There is no way of accounting for the se
cession of the Southern extremists from the
Charleston Convention, but by looking upon
them as disunionists anxious to break up the
Confederacy. There is no right given to the
South by the. Constitution which has ever
been denied them by the Northern Democracy.
We may go further and say that the Northern
Democracy hap gone beyond a strict and
correct construction of the Constitution for
the purpose of conciliating the South.. Year
after year have yielded, until at last they find
thnir columns broken, and the enemy trium
phant. It is time now to pause and reflect,
if not to stop. We dare no longer take the
Southern I.lotspurs at their word, because,
from sad experience, we find they do not ad
here to it. No concession we can make, even
outside the Constitution, will conciliate them;
no compromise is held sacred ; simply because
what they desire is a dissolution of the Union,
or the universal spread of slavery. To neither
of these can the North accede. At the
Charleston Convention the Southern disunion
ists, headed by Yancey and Slidell, encour
aged by a few Northern traitors, such for in
stance as Cushing, Bigler, and Dawson,
would listen to nothing rational, They would
not even agree to submit 'the Territorial
question to the decision of the Supreme Court,
but endeavored to hold the party to a recogni
tion of what they claimed to be rights, against
the plain terms of the Constitution. In other
words, they asked, as the price of their action.
with the party, the privilege of doing as they
pleased, in defiance of the Constitution and
the Courts. With such men we have no de
sire to, act, and we have reason to thank
Heaven that they have voluntarily left the
organisation to which they were a positive
injory.-21arrisburg Slate Sc
It Can't be Done.
Now, since the conspirators against the
Democracy of the nation have been signally
defeated in their efforts to "kill off" Douglas,
they have adopted a new dodge, and clamor
for a new man—a compromise man. This is
a pretty piece of impudence, to be sure.—
What I the Great Democratic party compromise
with a knot of dangerous Disunionists, backed
up by a handful of Federal office-holders?—
NEVER 1 DOUGLAS has been endorsed by a
fair majority of the whole Democracy of the
Union, in solemn Convention, and to with
draw him after that would be inevitable de
feat and death to the party! No I no, gentle
men ; Douglas will be nominated at Baltimore
on the 18th of June next, and there is no
power, save that of the GREAT JEHOVAH, that
can prevent him being the ne-,t President of
these United States
Delaware Speaking Out
We have received the following handbill,
which speaks for itself: '
" DEMOCRATIC MEETING.—The Democracy
of Appoquiniraink Hundred, who are oppo
sed to the seceding delegates from the Demo
cratic National Convention, Charleston, are
requested to meet at the hotel of Richard Fer
guson, Blackbird, on Saturday, the twelfth
day of May, 1860, at one o'clock, P. - M., to
take measures to assist in having this county
fairly represented in the Adjourned National
Convention to be held in - Baltimore., on the
18th day of June. Come, all Democrats who
are prepared to stand by your time-honored
principle of submitting to a Deniocratic Na
tional Convention to nominate a candidate
for President. Our delegate appointed from
this County has betrayed the Democratic par
ty; left the Convention, and counselled the
holding of another Convention of the disor
ganizers, and sat as President of it; there
fore the crisis has arrived ; the Democrats of
New Castle county must speak out, and as
sure their Democratic brethren who atood
firm in the regular Democratic National Con
vention at Charleston, that we DETEST AND
RENTDIATE our delegate and sub from this
county, who,proved recreant to their trust.—
By order of the Democratic Central Commit
tee of Appoquinimink Hundred: May 4th,
1860,"