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Why We Support Douglas
We are for Douglas and Johnson for the
following good and all sufficient reasons :
Ist. They are the regular nominees of the
only regular Convention of the National De
mocracy, having been nominated in strict ac
cordance with the usages of the party, not by
a mere majority of the Convention, not by a
bare two-thirds of all the votes given (either
of which would have sufficed in the time of
Jackson, Van Buren and Polk) but by a unan
imous vote of more than two-thirds of the
whole Convention.
2d. Because Douglas and Johnson stand
upon the time-honored platform of the Nation
al Democratic party ;—the platform on which
Jefferson and Jackson stood ; on which Polk,
Pierce and Buchanan were elected ; the plat
form which embodies that sacred compromise
between the North and the South, instituted
by Webster, Clay and Calhoun, and ratified
by the people of the whole Union, in two suc
cessive-elections, the principle of "Non-inter
ference by Congress with slavery in State or
Territory."
3d. Because Douglas and Johnson are em
inent statesmen, natiunal and 'Conservative
in their views, opposed to sectionalism of
every sort, and admirably fitted by great nat
ural powers and long experience in public
affairs, for the offices fur which they have
been nominated.
WITO ARE IN FAVOR OF A COMPROMISE ON A
DISORGANIZING FLECTORAL TICKET ?-ISt, Bu
chanan and his office-holders. 2d, a majori
ty of the office-hunters in every county—men
wbo want a nomination and an election to
Congress., to the State Senate, to the House
.of Representatitcs, and to the county offices.
Independent and consistent Democrats—men
who can be relied upon when their party is
in danger of being ruled to ruin by political
desperados, .have but one opinion, and that
opinion for the public ear. We want no cow
ards in our ranks—we want men to take their
positions boldly for or against the regular Na
tional Democratic nominees, Douglas and
Johnson—no others are worthy of a political
trust—no others are derserving public con
fidence—no others should receive the support
of Democratic voters. The great National
Democratic party of the Union has enemies
in its camp, and he who halts between two
opinions as to his duty to his party and the
country, cannot expect the friends of Douglas
,and Johnson to give him their support. If
the present National Democratic organiza
tion should be destroyed, an example will be
set by the highest authority to justify disor
ganization in the ranks of the Democratic
party in every State, county and township
.organization. The Democratic party may
be defeated next fall by the action of the dis
unionists and those under their influence;
but there will be a future—a future when the
Democracy will triumph—then, the disunion
ists and disorganizers of the present day will
be remembered but to be loathed and de
spised as having been enemies to their party
-and their country.
AN ABLE DOCII3fENT.—We find in the last
Bedford Gazette a statement of facts connec
ted with the Democratic National Conven
tion, by lion. John Cesna, a delegate to that
Convention from the Bedford district. We
shall publish it in our next week's issue, and
we hope it may he carefully read by all our
readers.
.A IMPORTANT FACT TO BE REMEMBERED.-
That Breckinridge and Lane are the repre
sentative candidates of all the Disunionists,
Nullifiers, and Radical Firo-Eators of the
country. If not Disunionists themselves,
they are in Very bad company and cannot be
„trusted.
A FACT TO BE REMEHEERED.—TIIO Electo
ral ticket selected by the Reading State Con
vention was selected to vote in the Electoral
College for the nominees of the National Dem
ocratic Convention. If any one of the gen
tleman on that ticket, or any number of them,
refuse to give a pledge to vote in that College
for STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS and HERSCHEL V.
JOHNSON as the regularly nominated Demo
cratic candidates, their names should and
must be stricken off the ticket, and their
places filled by men who will obey the in
structions of the party in State and National
Conventions.
'We desire that our vote shall be counted
for DOUGLAS and JOUNSON, and when we vote
an Electoral ticket we want to know that that
ticket will not sell our interest in the contest to
promote the success of the candidates of the
Disunionists. Every true friend of Douglas
and -Johnson—every Democrat who does not
intend to bolt the regular nominations—will
be satisfied with no other than a reliable
Douglas and Johnson Electoral ticket.
A Two-Thirds Vote
Some of the rebel presses are making a
huge fuss over the fact that Douglas did not
receive a two-thirds vote of a fun Convention,
as though it was a proceeding without prece
dent. If they will brush the ,cobwebs from
theit: memories and look back as far as 1848,
to the preceedings of the Baltimore Conven
tion, they will find that Lewis Cass was nom
inated by a vote less than two-thirds of a full
Convention ; and they will find that the Pres
ident of the Convention, lion. Andrew Ste
venson, decided—and righteously, too—that
it was not necessary to have more than two
thirds of the votes given. Indeed it would be
ridiculous to decide in any other way; for the
secessionists of little Deleware, or Rhode Is
land, or any single State—or, in case of a
State not instructed to vote as a unit, a single
dissatisfied delegate, might prevent a nomina
tion.
The rebels must resort to a better argu
ment than this against the nomination to
injure Douglas in the estimation of sound
Democrats.
A BAD SIGN.—The Republicans are every
where tapping the Breckinrige traitors on the
back, calling them fine fellows, and urging
them to go ahead. There is no necessity for
this. The Rebel movement was initiated for
the very purpose of electing Lincoln and pre
cipitating disunion. Its object was this, and
nothing else, and as far as they can go to
wards its accomplishment, the Breckinridge
leaders will assuredly go. They nominated
their candidate at Baltimore without any
authority from the people--the small gather
ing of Buchananites and Distmionists who
'brought his name before the nation, was self
constituted, disorganizing, in defiance of all
the rules and customs of the party—and yet
he will have supporters among the politicians
and parasites. The Republicans may safely
withraw their sympathy and encouragement.
The movers in the plot to destroy the Demo
cratic part are acting under orders from
Washington, which they dare not disobey.
MASSACEELTSETTS.—The statement going the
rounds of the Republican and Breckinridge
papers, that " there is but one paper in Mas
sachusetts that sopports Douglas," is a mere
fabrication. Every Democratic paper in the
State, except those owned or controlled by
office-holders supports Douglas and Johnson.
Here is a list of the disunion papers that
support Breckinridge in the old Bay State—
and these have but little influence with the
masses :
Boston Post—editor Naval Officer at Bos
ton—sallary $4,000.
Salem Advocate—editor Naval Officer; sal
ary $1,500.
Lowell Advertiser —editor Postmaster ; sal
ary $2,000.
New Bedford Times—editor Postmaster ;
salary $1,500.
Lawrence Sentinel—editor Postmaster; sal
ary $l,OOO.
Essex Democrat—editor Postmaster ; sala
ry $l,BOO.
Greenfield Democrat—has a friend in the
Custom House at $l,BOO.
This is the strength of the disorganizers in
Massachusetts.
Xter- G. Nelson Smith, editor of the Johns
town Echo, was last week nominated for the
Assembly by the Democracy Cambria
county. Mr. Smith was a do.egate to the
Democratic National Convention from this
Congressional District, and he supported
Douglas throughout the proceedings of the
Convention. A few friends of the Disunion
candidate Breckinridge, seceded from the
Convention and will attempt to defeat the
regular nominees.
No FuszoN.—The Democratic press of tha
State, very generally oppose a fusion with
the disorganizers on one electoral ticket. If
the disorganizors are honest in their opposi
tion to Lincoln they cannot refuse to vote the
only regularly nominated National ticket,
Douglas and Johnson. If they refuse to vote
it they are out of the Democratic organiza
tion, and it would be more honorable in them
to at once declare for Lincoln—their second,
if not their first choice.
gar. The Administration is again at work
in Illinois to defeat the regular Democratic
State Ticket. The office-holders held a State
Convention on the 11th, and put in nomina
tion a full State Ticket in opposition to the
regular one nominated .early in June. They
will do the same in this State when they find
they cannot rule. Rule or ruin is their motto.
Douglas State Convention
On the 26th July, 1860.
As the only official representative of the
-National Democratic organization in Penn
sylvania, I find myself compelled by an im
perious sense of duty, to protest in the name
of the National Committee, and in behalf of
the National Democracy, against the resolu
tions of the State committee of Pennsylvania,
on the 2d of this month, as undemocratic, un
authorized, and impolitic. Iprotest against it
as an assumption of power not conferred by the
Reading Convention ; I protest against it as
a failure to perform duties assigned it by the
Reading Convention, which imposed the ob
ligation to recognize and support the regular
nominees of the National Convention—STE-
ruEN . A. DOUGLAS and lirescnEn V. JOHNSON—
and them only ; and I protest against it as
an act of
,disorganization disastrous to the
National Democratic party everywhere.
The remedy for this unwise determination
of the State Committee has been long and
anxiously considered by others and myself,
and we have found it surrrounded by difficul
ties arising from the absence of any State or
ganization competent to summon a State Con
vention. Meanwhile we have been in daily
receipt of numerous letters from the most
prominent Democrats of Pennsylvania, and
other States, demanding immediate notion.—
I have, therefore, in view of the exigencies of
the cage, and the revolutioner,y . eharacter of
the political epoch, determined to request
National Democrats from all portions of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to meet in
Harrisburg, on the 26th of this month,
in Delegate and Mass Convention, when in
conjunction with the National Democrats of
the State Committee, the National Democrats
of the Pennsylvania Delegation to Baltimore,
and the National Democrats who were Dele
gates to Reading, they may take such action
as in their wisdom should seem best for the
Democracy and the Union.
R. J. HALDEMAN,
Of the National Committee for Pennsylvania.
HARRISBURG, July 16. 1860.
Voice of the Democratic Press of Penn'a
We give below a list of Pennsylvania pa
pei.s with their political preferences for Pres
dent.
FOR DOUGLAS
Doylestown Democrat, Bucks County Ex
press, Huntingdon Globe, Luzerne Union,
Easton Argus, Northampton Correspondent,
Easton Independent Democrat, Allentown
Democrat,flarrisburg State Sentinel, Greens
burg Democrat, Greensburg Argus, Pottsville
Mining Record, Juniata Democrat, Mifflin
town ; Lycoming Gazette, Carlisle American,
Carlisle Volunteer, Wilkesbarre Democratic
Watchman, Sunbury Democrat, Hanover
(York county) Gazette, York County . Dew
crat, Monroe Democrat, Democratic Herald,
Butler ; West Chester American Republican,
Honesdale Wochen-Blat, the Mountaineer,
Ebensburg ; The Western Press, Mercer;
Lewistown Democrat, Democratic Standard,
Hollidaysburg; Blairsville Record, Valley
Spirit, Chambersburg ; Fulton Democrat,
Pittsburg Post, Perry County Democrat, Bed
ford Gazette, Brownsville Times, Washington
Review, Fayette county Genius of Liberty,
" Clinton Democrat," Lock Haven ; Union
Argus, Lewisburg ; Brookville Jeffersonian,
Upland Union, Delaware; Allentown Repub
lican.
FOR P,RECIZINRIDGE
Philadelphia Evenink Argus,* Norristown
Register,- Reading Gazette 4 Carbon Demo
crat, West Chester Jeffersonian, Juniata Reg
ister, Pottsville Standard.]
ON TITE FENCE
Milford 'Herald, York Gazette, Easton Sen
tinel, Harrisburg Patriot and Union, Mon
trose Democrat, Philadelphia Pennsylvanian,*
Huntingdon Union, Lancaster Intelligencer.
* See Covode Investigating Committee proceedings for
the tunonnt appropriated to keep these "machines" in ex
istence.
f The editor is Postmaster, salary $lOOO.
3: See coal contract developments.
Who are to Blame?
The Valley Spirit, published at Chambers
burg, opposed to Douglas until his nomina
tion, is now doing good service for the regu
lar nominees. The last number has several
good articles, from one of which we make the
following extract 1
" Who are to blame for this disruption of
the great Democratic party? Certainly not
Mr. Douglas or his friends. He or they had
nothing to gain by creating a split in the
party. Their policy and their interest were
opposed to any other course than an amiable
adjustment of all difficulties that stood in the
way of a harmonious nomination. We must
look somewhere else than to the Douglas wing
of the party for the source of trouble and the
real offenders. We have a duty to perform
which we cannot discharge by "silent con
tempt" towards the distractionists in our
ranks. We must speak out for the good of
the whole party and call things by their right
names. We honestly believe that a great
outrage has been perpetrated on the Demo
cratic party by the vindictive course of the
present administration towards Mr. Douglas
and that out of that has grown all our troubles.
Are we to remain silent and tacitly encour
age this outrage, or to rebuke at once, and
without stint, the - high source that gives it
consequence and the suicidal and vindictive
policy that dictates it? Must we enter the
present presidential contest with two candi
dates in the field, in our own party, and as a
Consequence defeat almost certain, and not
raise a finger or utter a word against those
whose perverseness have brought about this
disastrous state of affairs, and would glory in
the overthrow of the regularly nominated
candidate of the party ? The faithful soldier
will as soon shoot down the traitor in his own
ranks as an open enemy. There is but one
course left for every good Democrat to pairsue,
and that is to fight the enemy in front, as
well as the enemy in the rear, and trust for
victory in the righteousness of our cause."
Dar- John Tyler, who attempted to Tyler
ice the Democratic party, goes it strong for
the disorganizing candidate Breckinrige.—
Wm. B. Reed and Josiah Randall, both de
serters from the Old Whig party, four years
ago, are leaders of the Breckinridge disorgan
izers in this State. They came into our
ranks to destroy the party, and will succeed
if not carefully watched.
NO FUSION WITH THE
DISUNIONISTS.
Reply of Ron. Richard Wax to the Pro
position of the Secessionists.
PHILADELPHIA, July 9th 1860.
MY DEAR Sin :—Your printed communion
' tion of July sth, with its enclosure, is most
respectfully acknowledged. By both con
joined you inform me, as one of the " Demo
cratic Electors at large," that the "Democratic
State Committee," of which you are chair
man, desires to know ila the event of my elec
tion, if I will give a pledge to conform to the
arrangement made by that committee, at its
meeting on the 2d July last. This proposed
arrangement provides, as I understand it, that
the Democratic electors for Pennsylvania,
shall, if elected, vote for the regularly nomi
nated Democratic Candidates for President
and Vice President of the United States, if
their vote will select these candidates: if it
will not, then to vote for the candidates nom
inated by a meeting of gentlemen, at the Ma
ryland Institute, in - Baltimore, on the 23d
June, 1860, if such vote will elect them : and
lastly, if neither of these propositions can be
managed successfully, then, that the Demo
cratic electors of Pennsylvania, if elected,
may vote as they may deem best for the in
terests of the Democratic party. This is ray
interpretation of your note, and its enclosure.
. To this most extraordinary and unexampled
proposition from a committee, appointed only
by the chairman of the Democratic Conven
tion, and for certain specific duties, I am re
quested to reply.
The proposed arrangement was made, in
my opinion, without any authority. The
Reading Convention gave no power to its
committee to compromise the integrity of
Democratic principles, the Democratic organ
ization, or Democratic candidates. This so
called compromise, in my judgment, involves
each, and includes all. If it is competent for
the " Democratic State Committee" to pro
pose an arrangement with those not in the
regular organization of the Democratic party,
then I can see no reason why a compromise
might not be offered with any of the political
organizations now existing, under their vari
ous political designations. It is almost incred
ible, that such a proposition should ever have
been considered, much less approved by a
Democratic body, or one assuming to repre
sent the Democratic party of Pennsylvania.
Placed on the Democratic Electoral Ticket
by the only regular Democratic State'author
ity., at Reading, on the 29th of February last,
without any interference on my part, I ac
cepted the position, its duties and responsi
bilities, because it was the voluntary offering
of the Democracy of the State, through its
representatives then and there regularly or
ganized into a Convention. I owe fealty to
the Democratic party only. That party ex
pects me, as one of its representatives, frank
ly, honestly and faithfully to execute the trust
thus imposed and accepted. It gave me no
power to adopt a compromise, or an alterna
tive of this trust. The masses of the Democ
racy do not yet understand how its represen
tatives can hold a divided duty. Conscien
tiously entertaining these old-fashioned opin
ions, I beg to state, that in the event of my
election as a Democratic Elector at large, I
shall vote for the only regularly nominated
candidates for President and Vice President,
nominated by the Democratic National Con
vention at Baltimore—S. A. Douglas for Pres
ident, and H. V. Johnson for Vice President,
and shall so vote until the Electoral College
finishes the task the Constitution imposes on it.
If the Democracy of Pennsylvania do not ap
prove of this publicly announced determina
tion of mine, thus unequivocally asserted, I
will cheerfully surrender to the authority
which selected me, the position it gave; but
I will recognise no other authority to receive
it.
If, as it is said, there are difficulties and
doubts as to the course of a portion of the
Democracy in the present crisis, that the only
mode to be adopted, is to convene a Demo
cratic State Convention, and leave to its wis
dom, prudence and omnipotent will, a solu
tion for these difficulties. Every true Demo
crat devoted to his party principles, and wil
ling to be governed by its time-honored usages
and organization, will, or ought to be cheer
fully bound by this action of the party. He
who will not so agree, cannot be sincere in
his devotion to the Democratic party, and
his separation from it will result in no inju
ry, either now or in the future.
With great personal respect for yourself
and the members of the Democratic State
Committee, I have only to add, that my po
litical allegiance is due to a regular Conven
tion of the Democracy of Pennsylvania. I
will obey its commands, or surrender to it the
authority only held by its commission.
I have the honor to be
Most Respectfully, Yours,
RICHARD VAUX.
To the How. Wm. H. WELstr, Chairman
D. S. C.
Another Elector Answers
J. R. Crawford, Esq., of Holljdoysburg,
Elector for the 18th Congressional District,
has answered the interrogatory of Hon. Vim.
H. Welsh, Chairman of the State Central
Committee, in the same spirit that Mr. Vaux
did. We shall undoubtedly have more of the
same sort. Mr. C's reply which we subjoin,
.is short but decidedly to the point ;
HOLLIDAYSBURG, July 9th, 1860.
DEAR SIR :-I have the honor to acknowl
edge the receipt of your circular containing
the resolution of the State Central Commit
tee, passed at their late meeting in Philadel
phia, and to which is appended a pledge, to
which my signature as an Elector is requested.
From a profound sense of my obligations to
the Democratic party, I am constrained to
withhold my assent to any such pledges.—
Stephen A. Douglas and Herschel V. John
son, have been nominated by the National
Democratic Convention, in conformity' to the
recognized, and long established usages of
the arty. I therefore cannot consent to be
made a party to any arrangement, even though
it be of the State Central Committee, the op
eration of which would be to ignore those
usages, and to recognize disorganization and
secession. •
I therefore in the event of my election as
an Elector, will pledge myself to vote only
for Stephen A. Douglas and Herschel V.
Johnson, the candidates of the Democracy of
the Union.
I have the honor to be
Very respectfully yours,
J. R. CRA.WFORD.
To the Hon. W. H. WELSH,
Chairman State Central Committee
055-• The Breekinridge organ in Missouri
is the!St. Louis Democrat, the well known
Mack. Republican Abolition organ.
Action of the State Central Committee.
The Democratic State Central Committee
of Pennsylvania met at the Merchants' Hotel.
Philadelphia, on Monday the 2d inst., being
called together by the Chairman. Deeming
it their duty to consider the Presidential ques
tion, they gave that subject their attention,
and in so doing traveled out of their path of
duty to dictate to the Democrats of Pennsyl
vania how they shall vote for President.—
Inasmuch as many of the country members
were not present, the federal office-holders
had the majority, and took such action as
they considered most favorable to the sece
ding, disunion ticket. Knowing their own
weakness in the State they wished to conceal
it, and therefore fired. up a mongrel Electo
ral ticket, on the following basis :
That if said Electoral Ticket should be elected by the
people, and it should appear, on ascertaining the result in
the other States of the Union. that by casting the entire
vote of Pennsylvania for Stephen A. Douglas for President
and IL V. Johnson for Vice President, it would elect them
over Lincoln and Hamlin, then said Electors shall be under
obligations to cast said vote for Messrs. Douglas and John
son. If, on the other hand, it should appear that said vote
would not elect Messrs. Douglas and Johnson, but would
elect Breckinridge and Lane for President and Vice Presi
dent, over Messrs. Lincoln and Hamlin, then said vote
shall be cast for them, and in case the united vote of Penn
sylvania would not elect either of these tickets then the
electors may divide it between them according to their own
judgment oc what would be best for the country and the
Democratic I)arty.
We have not yet found a single Democrat,
whether a friend of Douglas or Breckinridge,
who is pleased with this stupid arrangement;
the universal sentiment being, that when they
come to put their ballot into box they want
to know what use is to be made of it. Can
any mannvbe green enough to sanction such a
plan ? We hardly think so. Of one thing
the Committee may rest assured, that those
Democrats who support the regular nominees,
Douglas and Johnson, will never consent to
vote for a two-sided ticket. They are deter
mined to have Electors whom they can rely
upon, and who will cast the vote of the State
asthey wish it tobe cast. A man who supports
Douglas wishes his vote to be counted for
him, and we suppose that those who favor
the Seceders' ticket, also desire their votes to
he counted for their candidate. It would
have approximated more nearly to fairness if
the Electoral tickets were to be headed with
the names of Douglas and Breckinridge re
spectively, by which means it could be easily
determined who received the highest number
of votes, and therefore entitled to the Elec
tors. We are opposed to any Union Electo
toral ticket with the Seceders, and are unwil
ling that their disorganizing movement shall
receive either strength or respectability by
being recognized by the regular organization.
If their course is Democratic and right, they
can have no objection to showing their hands,
and ask the people to sustain them ; but if
they are sincere in the desire for a union in
order that the Republicans may be defeated,
we answer that they can accomplish this
much better by giving up their bogus candi
dates and supporting the regular nominees.
The State Central Committee bad no au
thority to take the action they had in this be
half. That body has but a single duty to
perform, which is to advocate the regular
nominees of the party, and it is a piece of
great impudence on their part to attempt to
select any other candidates. What right
have they to present a Presidential ticket to
the people of Pensylvania, in opposition to
the choice of the National Democratic Con
vention ? None whatever. They are our ser
vants and not our masters. The Democratic
party of the State should attend to this matter
in time, and see that we have an Electoral
ticket which will carry out the wishes of the
voters. We should recommend the calling of
a State Convention, at an early clay, to take
proper action •in the premises, and obtain ;the
voice of the Democracy.—Doylestown Demo
crat.
The National Democracy
There is but one National Democratic party
in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, and that is
the party which supports the nominee of the
Baltimore Convention, and the Cincinnati
platform. No other authorized National Con
vention was held. The gathering of restless
spirits—traitors from the North and South—
whether at Baltimore or Richmond, dor's not
deserve to be dignified by the name of Con
vention. In both cases they were self-consti
tuted caucuses of desperate men, determined
to disorganize the party as a preliminary to
the election of a Republican President and a
dissolution of the Union. Whatever preten
sions some of the Southern delegates may
make to authority, there is not a Northern se
ceder from the regular National Convention
who will dare assert that he derived any
authority from the people who elected him to
act in auy other than that Convention, or that
lie did not tear himself asunder from the reg
ular organization the moment he left that
body and acted with separate and sectional
assemblages. They can offer no available
excuse for their conduct. There is none.—
They deserted the only body to which they
were accredited by their constituents, and
struck hands with known Southern disunion
ists, in order first to defeat the choice of the
National Democracy for the Presidency, and
second, to carve out a new and independent
Confederacy in the South. This is their po
sition, and, labor as they may, with all the
skill and sophistry they can command, they
.can not conceal it. They are disorganizers,
traitors, disunionists. There is not "a single
drop of Democratic blood in their veins."—
And of this traitorous faction JOHN C.
BRECKINRIDGE is the nomineee. We
make no scruple to assert that he will not re
ceive the vote of a single true Democrat in
any Northern or Southern State. It is im
possible that he should. What ! a man nom
inated as he was, by seceders from the regu
lar Convention, by disorganizers, by Congres
sional Interventionists, by advocates of the
African Slave Trade, which our laws declare
to be Piracy I What I a man thus placed be
fore the Democracy in violation of all the
hitherto cherished principles of the party—
the candidate of the traitors, sectionalists,
and banded plunderers—how can he receive
the vote of a single Honest, true-hearted Demo
crat in the Union? He can not; it is out of
the question.
We do not forget that some, perhaps many,
who have heretofore acted with the party, and
who still call themselves Democrats, are rally
ing to the support of this bogus nomination.
No, no, we do not forget this—we have them
of that stripe here, in our midst; men who,
when Buchanan apostatized, either through
sycophancy, cowardice, or interest, aposta
tized with him, and to justify themselves,
preached the brave and manly doctrines that
fin was the master of the party, above all
platforms, and that his word should be the
law to guide us. These panderers to power,
these slaves in the form and stature of free
men, have raised the rebellious flag of.Breek
inridge, and will form the column at' the head
of which their treacherous leader will march
to eternal infamy. But these men are not
Democrats. Whatever they may have been,
they are now only rebels against Democracy,
following the behests of an apostate Presi
dent whose oonscioue guilt has fixed a sting
in his soul which is goading him on to acts
of vengeance and madness. It is sheer im
pudence on the part of these men, these
Breckinridge rebels, to call themselves Dem
ocrats. There is but one test of Democracy,
and that is adherence to the organization,
the candidates, and the platform of the party,
The organization points out the mode by
which the candidates and the platform shall
be determined, and when once determined ill
accordance with the rules laid down, the
man who bolts places himself •outside the
pale of the party, and has no further claim
upon its name or its good offices. He is
thenceforth, until he repents and returns, an
outsider,. a traitor, a disorganizer. In this
position stand the supporters of Breckin,
ridge.
The only National Democratic Convention
that was held this year for the nomination of
candidates for the Presidency and Vice Pres,
idency, assembled under a call of the Na,
tional Democratic Committee at Charleston,
on the 23d of April, and subsequently, by
adjournment, at Baltimore, on the 18th of
June.
That Convention, adhering strictly to the
rules of the organization, after an arduous
session, during which every impediment
which ingenuity ar malice could invent VCRM
thrown in their way, nominated STEPHEN
A. DOUGLAS for President, and HER:
SCHEL V. JOHNSON for Vice President,
by a vote of two-thirds of all the delegates
who remained—and these gentlemen are 71010
the REGULAR NOMINEES OF THE REG
ULAR NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CON
VENTION.
If delegates tinctured with dangerous here
sies, or having mischievous schemes in their
heads, which they could not carry out, chose
to secede, theirs was the fault that a two-thirds
vote of a full Convention was not obtained.
No blame can be attributed to the faithful
and true delegates who remained and -con
summated the work which they were sent to
accomplish.
We expect to elect Douglas and - Johnson.
We look upon the Breekinridge army in the
North as a mere puppet show, of no conse
quence except to those engaged in it. The
Northern Democracy will not readily fall into
the Slave Trade and Disunion schemes of
Yancey, Slidell & Co.; nor, leaving this nut
of the question, will they, to oblige Mr. Bu
chanan, Mr. Breckinridge, Mr. Bigler, or
any of their mere statellites, break up the
of the party and bring defeat
and disgraoe upon it in the State and Union.
There are but few Democrats, we fancy,
outside of the Breckinride faction, who wish
to see Curtin elected Governor, or Abe Lin
coln President of the United States. We
calculate, therefore, on a full Democratic vote
in Pennsylvania for Douglas and Johnson, to
which will be added thousands more from the
ranks of the Opposition—the votes of moder
ate, National men, who have grown tired of
the sectional bias and shifting policy of the
Republican party.
We repeat, we have no fear of the Brech
inridge party in this State. Let his friends
run an Electoral ticket in opposition to the
regular Douglas Electors—let them dare
boldly to unfurl his rebel banner—and the
hisses of the Democracy, coming like a torna
do from the four quarters of the State, will
prostrate in the dust their treason-stained flag
and the mercenary battalions that follow it.
Democracy never compromises with traitors.
Harrisburg Slate Sentinel.
Black Republican President.
The Rebels seem to be seriously alarmed
lest Lincoln should he elected President of
the United States. In the annals of villain
ous politics snch base hypocrisy can find no
parallel. They should have thought of this
before Buchanan attempted to disorganize the
Democracy of Illinois in order to elect this
same bugaboo, Lincoln, to the United States
Senate. They should have thought of it be,
fore they seceded from the National Demo
cratic Convention at Charleston and Baltimore,
They should have thought of it before they
united with the Yancey disunionists and, in
a bogus Convention, nominated that arch-trai
tor, Breckinridge, and that aspiring numb
skull Lane.
Take all their actions together, since Bu
chanan's first move in that direction to the
closing scene at Baltimore, and he is little
less than a fool who cannot trace a deliberate
design on their part to bring about precisely
the result which they pretend to deprecate.
Yancey and his "revolution" "precipita
tors" are laughing in their sleeves at the
miserable northern dolts whom they have
caught in their net. Those gentlemen who
have fallen into the disorganizing movement
are so many fish hooked in the gills by the
Southern fire-caters, and they cannot loose
themselves from the barbed steel that holds
them. They must follow wherever the line
draws, whether pulled by Buchanan or Yan
cey. They are helpless, impotent, and the
true Democracy cannot forbear smiling at
their vain efforts to obtain relief, or freedom.
—HarriAzov State Sentinel.
[From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.]
The Bolting Breckinridge Ticket Dead.
"Hung be the Heavens in black."
We thought when Mr. Breckinridge was
serenaded and Jeff Davis, a notorious disun
ionist, made the speech of the occasion en
ondorsing Old Buck and going for Breck, that
said ticket was dead from that moment. But
as if to make it deader, Yancey, the confessed
conspirator in a plot to " precipitate the cot
ton States into a revolution" must appear on
the balcony and endorse the bolting move
ment. And now last of all comes the funeral
pall. Old Buck himself has formally and
publicly given his adhesion to the bolters' tick
et. That buries it. It is deader than Julius
Ceasar. The trump of the Arch Angel can
not resurrect it.
It is a remarkable fact noticed by all the
delegates that at Charleston and Baltimore
in the Convention and out, no man, office
holder or not, had the temerity to defend the
corruptions and rascalities of this Adminis
tration, although anathemas long and loud
were constantly uttered against it by Demo
crats from every, part of the Union. If Old
Buck goes for Breck that is damnation enough
for any one man.
Jl?.. The Allentown Demoeiat closes an
article upon the Democratic National Conven
tion with the following paragraph :
As is known, we never expressed prefer
ence for any particular candidate, but all
along stood ready to accept the nominees of
the Convention, and therefore to-day hoist to
our mast head the names of Stephen A. Doug
las and Herschel V. Johnson. Did we not
do so we would prove false to our regard for
party organization—lend our favor to a die
ruption of the party.