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FOR PRESIDENT,
STIII,PHN A. DEGLAS
DEMOCRATIC STATE NOMINATION.
FOR GOVERNOR,
i-ZENRY D FIMR,
OF WESTMORELAND
The Price of Votes at Charleston
A correspondent of a Cincinnati paper,
hostile to Douglas, writing from Charleston,
was forced to admit that nothing but a most
desperate resort to the most villainous meas
ures deprived Douglas of the two-third vote.
The first contest was to get a platform on
which Douglas would not stand. To obtain
votes for that, every possible means was re
sorted to by the federal government.. The
correspondent we have alluded to said :
" I have no donbt a vot^ on the platform would bring
ten thousand dollars, or a promise of a foreign mission,
'United States marshalship, or postmaster's commission in
this market to-day. How long can this state of things
continue before the people will hold that the couunitsiou
of a federal office holder is a certificate of personal infa
my ?"
We propose, says the editor of the Chicago
(Illinois) TinlCS, to state two eases tending to
corroborate both propositions in the above
paragraph.
One of the Danite delegates from the State
of Illinois was a postmaster, lately resigned
because of a small defalcation of a few thous
and dollars. lie informed the Slidell and
Bright managers that he could not attend at
Charleston because of a want of means.—
Three hundred dollars was the least he could
travel that far upon and kill Douglas. The
money was forthcoming, and paid over to
him. Ile picked up a few dollars from other
sources, and started for Charleston. When
he reached Cincinnati, however, he turned his
face westward, and provided himself with a
good " out-fit" from the federal funds, when
last heard from was camping out some hun
dred miles beyond Kansas, on his way to
Pike's Peak.
A delegate to Charleston—a bonna fide del
egate—representing a constituency unani
mously in favor of Douglas, had the misfor
tune (or perhaps we should say fortune) to
be a defaulter to the government to an amount
ranging between fifty-five and sixty thousand
dollars. lle went to Charleston. He was
visited and set up with, but he knew his val
ue, and did not yield too soon. lle even vo
ted for Douglas on the first ballot. The ter
rors of - the sub-treasury law were held up
before him ; a prosecution by Judge Black
was hinted at, but it was of no avail. At
length he yielded—and the attentive reader
of congressional proceedings will possibly
hear eventually of the passage of a bill au
thorizing the secretary of the treasury to
" settle on principles of justice and equity,"
the accounts of a—delegate to Charleston
who recorded his half vote against Douglas !
All honor to the men who, in the face of
an opposition conducted in that manner, re
mained firm and true to the cause of self
government and the representative man of
the people.
TUE JAPANESE EMBASSY.—The Japanese
Embassy who are now on a visit to this coun
try. are creating a good deal of excitement.
They were formally presented to the Presi
dent and his Cabinet, on Thursday of last
week. They visited the Halls of Congress
while in session and expressed great satisfac
tion at the proceedings. They also visited
all the places of note in Washington, and
seemed to be greatly delighted with our mode
of doing business. They have received an
invitation to visit Philadelphia, which they
accepted, but no definite time has, as yet,
been fixed. Great preparations are being
made for them. It is supposed they will visit
Philadelphia first, and then Baltimore and
New York, as well as several other places of
note. The principal object of the Japanese
Embassy is to get an English copy of the
treaty signed by the President of the United
States. The original was burnt in the great
fire at Jeddo, two years ago. The copy in
Japanese was saved. This they bring with
them, and a copy of it, (not signed,) and a
letter from the Tycoon to the President of the
United States.
THE U. S. TREASURY.—The receipts into
the Treasury last week amounted to $1,181,-
000 ; increase over the sum on hand last week
$536,000; amount subject to draft $7,286,-
000.
key. Hon. J. C. Robinson, M. C., from Illi
nois, will accept our thanks for a copy of
Judge Douglas' late able speech in the Sen
ate.
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he $3OO Law.
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'ES, for Justices of the Peace
From the South
The Henderson (Kentucky) Reporter says
" A few such ultraists in the Convention as
Yancey and Burrows have done more to dis
tract and divide the Democratic party than
all the efforts of the united opposition com
bined. The action of the regular Convention
will be sustained by the great mass of the
party both North and South. The course of
the bolters will meet the severe disapproba
tion of the people, and they (the bolters) will
sink to that political oblivion which their con
duct so richly merits."
The St. Joseph's (Missouri) South treats
them in this way :
" If the Democratic party has so far dero
gated from a due sense of self-respect, and
have so fallen in power as to be unable to
visit contempt upon such disorganizers, the
day of its usefulness is gone, and the sooner
it shall be disbanded the better. But now,
as hitherto, we congratulate the country ; the
action of the representatives of our party at
Charleston is such as to command the respect
and support of the people of the LirnSn.—
These faction ists, when all honorable means
of conciliating them were exhausted, were
told to go. That honorable defeat was to be
preferred to success under such dictation."
The New Orleans True Delta thus hits
them. Speaking of the action of the COnven
tion, and the offer of the free States to abide
by the Cincinnati platform, which offer was
rejected by the fire-eaters, that paper says:
" The free States, when thus harrassed,
insulted, and reduced to the last extremity,
their manhood revolts, certain States which
make treason their boast, secede from fellow
ship with them, and Louisiana, to the humil
iation, astonishment, and mortification of her
Union-loving people, finds herself in company
and partnership with Mississippi, Arkansas,
Florida, Alabama and South Carolina in their
plot to destroy the Union."
The Macon (Georgia) Telegraph sensibly
addresses the citizens of that State. After
mentioning the fact that all the State Con
ventions since 1856 had indorsed the Cincin
nati platform, and further that the last one,
which elected delegates to Charleston, refused
to indorse the Alabama platform, that able
paper says:
" Fellow-Georgians, think fur one moment
of the utter and wild absurdities of asking
Congress for police regulations fur the security
of slave property iu the Territories I Will
you insist upon such a requisition? Would
ypu even accept it, if tendered ? No, no.—
The voice of common sense says, let the peo
ple regulate these matters for themselves.—
Let those who are to compose the State fix
and regulate the social status.
The Raleigh, North Carolina, Standard de
nounces the whole secession movement and
those concerned in it.
The Newborn, North Carolina, Daily Pro
gress, after giving the disunionists some se
vere hits, says :
" We do not know what the delegates from
this State will do at Baltimore, but this we
believe : Had their commission expired, and
had the Democratic party of the State to as
semble in convention again, we are confident
that out and out Douglas delegates would be
appointed. It is evident that the Democratic
masses want DOUGLAS and if a portion of
the Southern fire-eaters are determined not to
support him, let them come out and absolve
themselves from all connection with the par
ty."
The Huntsville, Alabama, Advocate is en
tirely opposed to the disunion secessionists,
and concludes an article thus:
" We therefore deem it the duty of the old
and tried Democracy of Alabama to be repre
sented in the Baltimore National Convention,
there to unite the Democratic party in one
more effort to overthrow the Black Republi
cans, to secure which union and harmony are
requisite, and without which defeat is sure.
Be assured that if the Democracy are defeat
ed, the South will be the cause of it herself,
if she runs an irregular Democratic ticket in
opposition to the regular one."
There has been very loud thunder in New
Orleans, where the masses of the Democracy,
headed by some of the most distinguished
members of the party, repudiated the sece
ders, and expressed their entire satisfaction
with Douglas, and the platform adopted by
the regular Convention. Nor is the thunder
confined to 'the city—the country is indignant
at the course of the seceders ; and as an evi
dence of the tone of the country press, we ex
tract the following, from the Point Coupee,
Louisiana, Echo :
After numerous ballots, Mr. Douglas re
ceived 152 votes of the Convention, but the
two-thirds rule—that is, of all the electoral
votes in the Union—having been adopted, the
nomination of the Illinois Senator was not
effected, as in justice and right it should have
been. Thus it seems that Mr. Douglas, with
a clear majority of the votes in the Union, is
to be choked by a miserable faction of men
who have lost sight of their country and are
blinded by personal animosity and mercenary
objects.
This little squad of factionists hope to at
tain their end by maintaining a defiant atti
tude and expect to frighten into submission
to their one-sided and narrow-minded views,
the friends and supporters of Douglas. But
we think they will miss it. The friends of
Douglas are equally firm and determined, and
we sincerely hope they will continue to stand
up boldly and firmly in the support of Senator
.Douglas, who, by all odds, is the choice and
favorite of the people of the United State's.—
His friends have had a large majority, and,
having the power, we trust they will use it
for the success of their favorite, and disre
gard the clamorings of a handful of seceders
and disorganizers. We have arrived at a
pretty pass, indeed, when five or six States
claim the right to dictate to the others and
force upon the Union their sectional, disunion,
and heretical doctrines, and because forsooth,
their sentiments are repudiated, they bolt !
fee'. Gen. Sam llouston's political friends
in the Opposition party are determined to run
him for, the Presidency as an Independent
candidate. A mass meeting is to be held in
'New York to-day for the purpose of placing
him prominently in the field.
Judge Dixon, of Wisconsin, who was
recently elected Judge of the Supreme Court
of that State" on the Democratic ticket, has
come out strongly for Douglas.
WILL DOUGLAS BE NOMINATED ?—This ques
tion is put to us every day by Democrats
earnest for the success of the Democracy this
fall. If delegates can be bought by Admin
istration and Republican money, Douglas may
be defeated in the nomhration—for sure it is
that every means will be resorted to to defeat
the strongest man. The Republicans don't
want Douglas nominated—they will subscribe
their thousands to defeat his nomination.—
Once nominated, he is sure of an election, and
they know it.
An immense mass meeting was held
in Philadelphia on Saturday night last. The
Chicago nominations were ratified ; the cam
paign opened; several able speeches were
delivered ; a procession paraded the streets at
midnight, bonfires, music and pyrotechnics,
enlivened and amused the vast multitude in
attendance. A mass meeting of the good, old
tried and true Democracy will come off short
ly in Philadelphia, which is expected to be
as grand and enthusiastic in every respect, as
the one held by the Republicans on Statur
day night. . .
Douglas' Talents.
In eminence and ability he far surpasses
any statesman now in public life. When he
speaks in the Senate, he draws a crowd to
the galleries and holds them entranced by
his great qualities as a statesman and orator.
His sterling integrity, his unflinching cour
age, his undoubted patriotism and his gener
ous and unselfish nature constitute the great
elements of his character. No man ever had
such a host of ardent and enthusiastic friends
and admirers as Stephen A. Douglas. In
noble contrast with the derogatory of the
Commercial, is the following, which we take
from a Washington letter to the Montgomery
(Alabama) Confederation of April 14th. The
writer says:
" A few days ago I had a conversation
with the llon. A. G. Brown, Senator from
_Mississippi, in regard to Judge Douglas.—
During the conversation I asked him what
he thought of the Judge's speech, made on
the 23d of January last, on the introduction
of aresolution relative to the invasion of States.
He replied that he considered it very able.--L
Judge Douglas,' said he, ' is the ablest man,
in the United States. ,He is all brain. He
has more brain than one-half of the Senators
and Lath sides of the house, Democratic and
Republican. He further stated that he dif
fered from the Judge on the question of Pop
ular Sovereignty; but in most other questions
agreed with him; that he considered him the
most - progressive statesman of the times, and
that he would infinitely prefer his nomination
for President than that of many Southern
men whose names had been mentioned in
connection with the nomination. He then
drew a comparison between Clay, Webster,
Calhoun and Douglas, and placed Douglas,
in point of intellect, above them all, except
Mr. Calhoun."
The Philadelphia Daily IVezvs, Ameri
can, does notlike the Chicagoplatform. In an
article upon the Convention, it says :
" The Convention presented a platform
which is to be taken into consideration. So
far as this piece of work deals in generalities,
it will, doubtless, be received with satisfaction
by most of those who have occupied places in
the People's party.
It has, however, in it what is called a
" Dutch plank," which, we are told, was dic
tated by an assemblage of outsiders, who also
met in the city of Chicago. This we esteem
to be simply an insult to the American ele
ment, which constitutes so powerful a portion
of the People's party in Pennsylvania, and as
such we not only eschew it, but denounce it
as a proposition unfit to be put forth by any
body of men professing to act in opposition
to the Loco Foco party. The day has not
yet come when Americans will give up their
Shiboleth, and although it may be esteemed
as expedient and prudent to postpone a dis
cussion of these distinctive views, until the
great question of " black or white" shall be
determined and disposed of in some way—
the gentlemen who voted in this plank, as well
as the crowd which dictated it, may restassured
that the paramount doctrines of Americanism
must and shall be respected."
POSITION OF Gov. LETCUER.—Precisely as
everybody anticipated, Governor ',etcher, of
Virginia avows himself against the secession
movement of the fanatical fire-eaters of the
"cotton confederacy." These are his words :
" In this letter I must confine myself to a
brief statement of my opinions upon the
points suggested, reserving my reasons for
some future occasion, if it shall become ne
cessary to assign them.
" First. I still approve the doctrine of Con
gressional non-intervention on the question
of slavery. I consider it the only safe posi
tion for the South.
" Second. I disapprove of the course pur
sued by Alabama and other Southern States
in seceding from the Charleston Convention.
I do not pretend to question their motives,
but I consider their action ill-advised. Their
proposed meeting at Richmond can have no
other effect, in my judgment, than to divide
and distract the South still further, and ren
der our defeat in the Presidential contest cer
tain.
[From the Memphis Appeal.]
TnE SECEDERS ARE NOT TEE SOUTEE.--We
observe that a number of our Northern Dem
ocratic exchanges are disposed to regard the
conduct of the seceders at Charleston as a
movement of the South. We beg to inform
them differently. The secession movement
at Charleston, when it comes to be well un
derstood, will meet with but little sympathy
from the great mass of the Southern people.
It was a movement, disorganizing in its na
ture and anarchial in its tendency, and finds
favor with principally a few sore-headed pol
iticians, who have nothing to lose, but every
thing to gain by a disruption of the Demo
cratic party.
We beg to assure our Northern Demociatic
friends that the South, as it ever has been, is
still with them. Ingratitude is one of those
sins that can never be laid at the door of the
Southern people, and as long as they have
the memory that the Northern Democracy
assisted them to annex Texas, pass the fugi
tive-slave law, and repeal the Missouri restric
tion, they will prove their loyalty whatever
may be the course of the lanceyites or se
cessionites.
The Tariff Plank of the Chi cago 1" atform
The N. Y. Evening Post, a leading Repub
lican and free trade paper thus construes the
tariff resolution adopted at Chicago :
That our readers may see for themselves
that the zealots of protection hare no excuse.
for pretending that the Chicago platform fa
vors their policy of compelling the consumers
of the country, the immense class of labor
ers, farmers, artisans, mechanics, shopkeep
ers, trades-people of all sorts, to become trib
utaries to the lords of the mills, the owners
of factories and forges and foundries and iron
and coal 'mines—a species of slavery as de
testable in principle as that which is founded
on color—we quote the resolution, and ask
that it may be attentively considered :
" Twelfth—That, while providing revenue
for the support of the General Government by
duties upon imports, sound policy requires
such an adjustment of these imposts as to en
courage the development of the industrial in
terest of the whole country, and we commend
that policy of national exchanges which se
cures to the workingmen liberal wages, to
agriculture remunerating prices, to me
chanics and manufacturers an adequate re
ward for their skill, labor and enterprise, and
to the nation commercial prosperity and in
dependence.
Not a word about heavier duties—they are
too heavy already ; not a syllable in commen
dation of the principle of taxing the farmer,
as Randolph used to say, to help his neigh
bor set up a spinning jenny. If that was
what the Convention meant, it was easy to
say it. If the taxes we pay are too low for
the good of those who must pay them, the
Convention could have said so in ten words;
if it were intended to ask a restoration of old
burdens for the benefit of the mill owners,
the dictionary is full of plain English terms
which would have expressed their meaning
beyond the possibility of a mistake.
What, then, has the Convention said in re
gard to this question ?
Simply that, as long as we provide a reve
nue for the support of the Government by
laying duties on the merchandise received
from abroad, we should " adj ust"—th at is the
word—we should adjust these duties with the
greatest regard to fairness and equity, in
such a manner as that every public interest
of the country shall be uninjured, and that
the policy of national exchanges is to be
commended—meaning, of course, the ex
change of products between nations—which
shall best promote the welfare of workmen
and employers, farmers, mechanics, manu
facturers, merchants, and all other classes.—
Nothing of all this can be done by high du
ties ; nothing of all this can be done by
making iron dear ; nothing of all this can be
done by cutting off the supplies of coal from
abroad, or restoring the heavy tax on impor
ted woollens and cottons. -. When we talk of
the " industrial interests of the whole coun
try," what do we mean ? Not the ownership
of coal mine, or a forge, or a cotton or wool
len mill. Industry, properly speaking, is
any form' of labor, the multifarious occupa
tins of those who warm their rooms with
coal and employ iron tools, and wear cottons
and woollens—people who pursue any sort of
toil, however humble or isolated. These are
the persons to be considered in the "adjust
ment" of duties ; and the resolution adopted
by the Chicago Convention is comprehensive
enough to include them all. The laundress
must have cheap sad-irons, the farmer cheap
drag-chains ; we must all have cheap cloth
ing and cheap fuel, and the only way we can
get them is by low duties. The system of
national exchanges, by which this is best ef
fected is a system of reciprocal free trade.
Career of a Quack Doctor in Washington
--His Escape and Arrest.
The Washington correspondent of the Bos
ton Traveller sends the following account of
the exposure of a quack doctor in Washing
ton, who pretended to extraordinary skill in
the cure of car diseases :
"A professed surgeon has just been ex
posed as a swindler, and after the most ex
traordinary imposture on his part, and cre
dulity on that of our citizens, has been driven
from the city, after being obliged to refund,
in part, his ill-gotten gains. Dr. J. E. E.
Ealing put up at the National, and by placards
and advertisements, professed ability to cure
deafness by an operation. He claimed to be
operating surgeon to Queen Victoria,' and
spoke of Sir James Clarke as his colleague.
" His theory was that by the removal of a
certain something from the ears, by a process
peculiarly his own, the hearing would be
gradually restored, and be perfect in the
course of a month. His plan was to extract
from the ear of a patient some foreign sub
stance introduced by himself, or some dead
skin and exhibit it in triumph. In this way
he imposed upon many. A relative of Sena
tor Brown, of Mississippi, paid him $5OO for
an operation on her son. It is estimated that
he made at least $l,OOO a day before his de
tection. But at last he was met and recog
nized by Mr. May, the most eminent surgeon
of this city, who is lecturer before a medical
college in Nashville, Tenn., as the same per
son who had flourished there last Winter as
a corn-cutter and quack generally. Dr. May
had the man arrested under the law that dis
allows persons from abroad to practice, in the
district without a diploma. When brought
before the magistrate, the culprit begged and
pleaded for release, acknowledging the tenth
of the Doctors charges, and promising to leave
the city at once. He was enlarged on bail,
and on deposite in the hands of the magis
trate of $3OO in gold. On returning to his
rooms at the National, he locked his doors on
the plea of illness. But as the news got
among his victims, they grew clamorous, and
on Sunday broke his doors open, only to find
the bird flown. An officer was despatched to
the depot to intercept his flight, without suc
cess. But Governor Brown searched in per
son for him, and employed a policeman to
help him, and not finding the man on the
train, kept on to Bladensburg, thinking he
might be concealed. They found him before
arriving at that place ; and though he and
his daughter offered their wathes and jewelry
for his release, took him from the train, and
without warrant put him in a wagon, and
brought him across the State line to Wash
ington. There he assigned the draft for $5OO
paid him by the relative of his captor, to Gov.
Brown, who left him in the hands of the po
liceman.
" When the policeman was in search of
Ealing at the cars, he was shown a warrant
for his arrest by the Committing Magistrate,
and ordered to arrest and hold him as a fugi
tive from justice. On the strength of this
existing warrant, but without positive authori
ity, he took Ealing out of Maryland. But
after Governor Brown left him the culprit
was allowed to escape, his captor saying be
had no authority to hol. him. Effort is being
made to obtain the removal of the policeman,
on the ground that he received a bribe from
the pretended doctor. Altogether the affair
has created quite an excitement."
The Republican Candidates
Abram Lincoln, of Illinois, who was nom
inated by the Republican Convention at Illi
nois, as their candidate for the Presidency,
was born in Hardin county, Kentucky, in
February, 1809, and is, we believe of Quaker
descent. In early life he was poor and re
ceived but a lithited education. An interest
ing scene, illustrative of his youthful labors,
occurred in the Republican State Convention,
held a short time ago. A present was made
to it of a fence-rail made by Mr. Lincoln thir
ty years ago, with a banner referring to his
early avocation, and as the subject was re
ferred to in the National. Convention at the
time he was nominated, and he was eulogized
as a man who " could split rails and maul
Democrats," it is probable that during the
campaign the subject will be almost as fre
quently alluded to as the " log cabin" of Gen.
Harrison durina. b the campaign of 1840. Du
ring the Black Hawk war he was a captain
of volunteers, but his military services were
not sufficiently important to achieve any sub
stantial fame as a soldier.
Mr. Lincoln emigrated at an early age to
Illinois, and, occupying his leasure hours in
the study of law, -was finally admitted to the
bar, and he became one of the most able and
distinguished lawyers of the State. During
the existence of the Whig party he was ar
dently attached to that organization, and one
of its most active members. He was four
times elected to the State Legislature, and
was a Representative in Congress from 1847
to 1849. Many of the old Whigs of the State
desired his election to the United States Sen
ate in 1855 ; but, in deference to the Anti-
Nebraska Democratic sentiment of the State
which prevailed at that time, lion. Lyman
Trumbull was chosen. In 1858, when the
State Legislature upon which devolved the
duty of deciding whether Stephen A. Douglas
should continue to represent Illinois in the
United States Senate was chosen, the Repub
licans, with singular unanimity, selected
Lincoln as their most appropriate and able
champion to oppose him ; and they thus paid
a high tribute to his talents as a speaker and
to his popularity, which was justified by the
able manner in which lie conducted the cam
paign, as well as by the large popular vote
thrown in his favor, notwithstanding his de
feat. The contest in Illinois, in that year,
necessarily assumed a very different aspect
from the political struggles - in other Northern
States ; for, while in Illinois the supporter of
the Administration aided directly and indi
rectly the Republicans to defeat Douglas, in
the other States the Republicans directed their
efforts principally to an overthrow of the Ad
ministration candidates for Congress, Particu
larly those who had sustained the Lecompton
swindle, while many of them cheerfully aided
to re-elect those Anti-Lecompton members
who like Douglas had resisted that iniquity.
Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine, the Re
publican nominee for the office of Vice Presi
dent, was born in Paris, Oxford county, Me.,
August 27, 1809, the same year as his asso
ciate upon the ticket. He is a lawyer by pro
fession, and has occupied a number of impor
tant political positions. He was a member
of the Maine Legislature from 1836 to 1840,
and Speaker of its lower branch during the
sessions of 1837, 1839, and 1840 ; a member
of Congress from Maine, from 1843 to 1847 ;
and a member of the United States Senate
from Maine, from 1848 until 1857, when, af
ter serving for a little more than a month as
Governor, he resigned that office, and was re
elected to the United States Senate. During
his whole political life, previous to 1856, he
acted with the Democratic party, notwith
standing his strong free-soil proclivities ; but
after the nomination of Buchanan and the
formation of the Cincinnati platform, he form
ally announced his separation from it on ac
count of its pro-slavery tendencies, and the
State election of Maine, in September of that
year, surprised all parties by its sweeping
Republican majorities.—The Press.
The Great Douglas Demonstration in
New York
The New York Times, of yesterday, gives
a glowing description of the great Douglas
meeting held in that city on Tuesday evening - .
It says :
Some time before the hour for the com
mencement of the proceedings, there was a
large gathering in front of the Institute,
where an excellent band performed national
and patriotic airs ; and as soon as it was dark,
bonfires were lighted, and the people poured
into the large hall, which was soon filled to
overflowing, and those who could not enter,
organized meetings outside. Inside, the front
and rear of the platform was decorated with
American flags and inscriptions. In front of
the platform and immediately over the speak
er's desk, was the inscription
For President—STEPllEN A. DOUGLAS.
On the right of the speaker there was sus
pended the motto :
" The Constitution and the Union."
While on his left hung a banner with the
following :
"The People's Choice."
When the time had arrived, John S. Sted
mans went forward upon the platform and
said he had been requested by the committee
of arrangements to nominate Francis B. Cut
ting, Esq., for president of the meeting.—
The nomination was received with applause,
and he was chosen unanimously.
George W. Lane, Esq., then nominated the
vice presidents, and they were accepted unan
imously, as were the secretaries nominated
by R. B. Conally, Esq.
When the organisation had been completed
and many of the officers had taken their seats
upon the platform, the following resolutions
were read by Mr. J. McMasters, and adopted
amid great enthusiasm :
RESOLUTIONS
Resolved, That the delegates from the State
of New York to the Charleston Convention
have well and truly responded to the trust
committed to them, and to the overwhelming
sentiment of the people of the State of New
York, in casting their vote from the first to
last, for Stephen A. Douglas, the champion
of the equal constitutional rights of all the
States, the firm friend of the Union, and the
bold and fearless foe of abolitionism at the
North, and of sectionalism at the South.
Resolved, That " Democratic principles are
unchangeable, when applied to the same sub
ject matters ;" that the platform re-enacted at
Charleston, was reported at Cincinnati unan
imously by the committee representing every
State in the Union, was voted for by every
delegate in that Convention, accepted and
construed by the nominees, endorsed by the
'entire Democracy of the nation by the elec
tion of those nominees; and that we hail in
it the reaffirmance of old land-marks that
have given success to the Democratic party,
and peace and prosperity to our whole coun
try.
Resolved, That we recognize the announce
ment by Judge Douglas at Cincinnati, when
Mr. Buchanan received the vote of a majori
ty of that Convention, that this " entitled him
to the nomination," as an example worthy of
imitation, and calculated to give harmony and
effect to Democratic action.
Resolved, That the Democracy of New
York, devoted to the national organization of
the Democratic party, sincerely regret that
the late delegates of a few States in the
Charleston Convention seceded from that
body ; and that we heartily approve of the
resolution of the Virginia delegation, adopted.
by the Convention, whereby the Democracy
of those States whose delegates seceded shall
have an opportunity to fill the vacancies thus
occasioned.
Resolved, That as, in the language of Judge
Douglas, "this is the Government of the
white man," therefore all efforts to establish
for negroes political equality or citizenship
are alike in violation of the spirit of the Con
stitution and the manifest meaning of its
framers.
Resolved, That Stephen A. Douglas, in
view of the action of the Charleston Conven
tion, cannot now be set aside with the im
plied abandonment thereby of the well-set
tled principle of the Democracy regarding
non-intervention by Congress ; and that, with
him as our standard-bearer, we confidently
pledge the State of New York, that she will.
next fall right herself in the Democratic
track, by casting her thirty-five votes for Ste
phen A. Douglas.
When Mr. McMasters, while reading the
resolutions, came to pronounce tl.-.1 - 2 - name of
Stephen A. Douglas, the entire audience
arose and gave three loud and hearty cheers,
and they renewed them every time the name
of the Senator was repeated.
Able speeches were delivered by the chair
man, Hon. T. B. Cutting, of New York ;
Hon. William 11. Richardson, of Illinois ;
Hon. 11. M. Waterton, of Tennessee ; Hon.
Henry S. Foote, of Tennessee ; Hon. D. Lo
gan, of Illinois; lion. E. C. Marshall, of
Kentucky ; Judge Larrabee, of Wisconsin,
and Thomas C. Field, Esq., of New York.—
A number of addresses were also delivered
at a meeting outside of the hall by other gen
tlemen.
Mr. Curtin affiliating with Giddings at
Chicago.
The character of a man is justly estimated
by the company he keeps. After the nomi
nation of Lincoln at Chicago, Mr. Curtin, of
Pennsylvania, appeared on the same Platform
with-Joshua R. Giddings, of Ohio, to endorse
the nomination. Giddings is well known as one
of the most violent and uncompromising Abo
litionists in the country, who has done as
much to create and promote this anti-slavery
agitation as any other man in the land—his
long Congressional career was devoted en
tirely to the encouragement of abolition fanat
icism—he has uttered the most fearful impre
cations against the South, rivalling in ferocity
those of Garrison and Phillips—he has re
peatedly declared within the past year that
he and his followers in the Western Reserve
would not support any man not known to be
a sound and radical Republican, untainted
with moderate or conservative views. The
nomination of Lincoln, a man of the same ex
treme stamp, proved entirely satisfactory to
Giddings. lie appeared on the platform and
endorsed Lincoln without the slightest hesi
tation—and he was followed by Mr. Curtin,
the " People's Party" candidate for Governor
Of Pensylvania—Mr. Curtin who has hesi
tated to avow himself a Republican—the same
Mr. Curtin who could not support Fremont
in 1856, and who professes to be opposed to
radicalism of the Republican party. This
association with the most bloody and vindic
tive Abolitionist in the West is a beautiful
commentary upon Mr. Curtin's professions
of moderation. lie seems to have forgotten
the part he was to play in his joy at the suo
cess of the plots he went to Chicago to pro
mote, and in the flush of excitement following
successful treachery, he embraced old Gid
dings and shouted congratulations from the
same platform at the nomination of a candi
date who has surpassed even Seward in anti
slavery fanaticism. Since Mr. Curtin has
recognized Giddings as :-. friend and fellow
worker in the same cause, we hope that he
will not come back to Pennsylvania and labor
to play the role of moderation any longer.—
It will be the worse for him if he does, for
after his performances at Chicago, that man
must be blind and deaf who does not know
that he is a Republican and nothing else—a
Republican of the Giddings-Lincoln " irre
pressible conflict" school.—Patriot cf✓ Union.
STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS.—We, with the al
most unanimous wishes of the Democracy of
Westmoreland county, place at the head of
our paper the name of Stephen A. Douglas,
as Pennsylvania's Democratic candidate for
nomination at the Baltimore Convention, for
Presidency. Since the Charleston Conven
tion there has been a very marked and deci
ded change for
,Mr. Douglas, and too much
credit cannot be given to Col. Israel Painter,
and 11. W. Weir, the representatives from
this Congressional district, for the firmness
and consistency with which they supported
Mr. Douglas.
We are firmly of the opinion that the nom
ination of Judge Douglas would secure to the
Democratic party the electoral vote of Penn
sylvania.. lie has hosts of warm and ardent
friends—men who would be enthusiastic for
his election. It is an old adage, "as goes Tenn.:
sylvania, so goes the Union." If this be cor
rect, why not give us our favorite ? We trust
the Baltimore Convention will look to this
matter, and put Pennsylvania on a footing
that she can show her hand in the coming con
test—Douglas and Foster can
. and will carry
the State by an overwhelming majority. The
policy of the Democratic party throughout the
Union is to give us a man we can all unite
upon, and victory is certain to perch upon our
banners.—Greensburgh Republic.
Out For Douglas.
The Union, published at Wilkesbarre, the
old organ of the Luzerne Democracy, has
come out strongly in favor of Judge Douglas'
nomination at Baltimore. The following is
the concluding article in the last issue of that
paper :
" On this great question, we cannot enter
tain a doubt as the result at Baltimore on the
18th proximo. Let the Douglas union men
stand firm, and the result is not clouded by a
solitary doubt. It cannot terminate but one
way, and that will be in the nomination of a
man who is near the heart, and has the good
will and wishes of the great masses of the
American people ! DOUGLAS AND THE AMERI
CAN UNION 'WILL BE THE INSPIRING WAR-CRY,
AND THE END WILL BE AS GLORIOUS AS THR
GINNING HAS BEEN."