1. "
it COLUMBIA jSiL
DEMOCRAT.
AND BLOOMSBURG GENERAL ADVERTISER.
lfcEVi.L. TATE, Editor.
2 00 PER ANftUM.
"TO HOLD AND TRIM THE TORCH OP TRUTH AND WAVE IT O'ER MB DARKENED EARTH."
tret
ricf,
i Hi
-hli.
unl-ijaf
DIE.
e,M
r,J
rofr.
-in ill
t P.M.
1 yea
mmrl
Vert,
Irew,
Arert
miilli
iCo.
Vest.
t an
(tin.
t r?!i.
In ii
t.il i
ii
tin'.
i;oi.
. iii.
a i
r f(
Carl",
.vital'
II
ill ..in
I. .lil,
full I'l
lony i
ii n iv
Tilt
.1. ii i
lie ii
III li
u fr
rlflnr
FJ.Vllt
cytr
. ula;i
15, !.
opareJ
sil r'W'
VOL. 14.--NO. 22.
fftlioicc DoeitD I
THE DYING WIFE.
.a j Ihe gem upom my bosom,
Let me feel her sweet, warm breath.
For s strange chill o'er me passes.
And I know that tt li death.
1 would gaze upon tbc treasure -
Scarcely given ere I go.
Feel her rosy, dimpled fingers,
Wander o'er ray check nf enow.
I am passing thro'iga tfa water,
II ut a btdispd short! appear.
Kooal beslda mo, husband dearest,
f-.tt me kiss away tby lean;
AVrcBtle with tby grief, my huiband, '
Htrive from midnight until day.
Jt may Vajx an angel s blessiRg,
f Lav the rem uoon mv bosom,
- uuw ia nif limit nut iiciivi
w Tia the poarll love to wear.
'If, in after yearn, beside tbeo
Bits another in my chair.
ft,Though her voice bo sweiter music
And hcracc than niina more fair
'TV 4!
t 'If a cherub calls thee "father,"
IL vvtln Far more beautiful than tills.
mi Love thy Unit-born; O, my husband!
rV Turn not from the motherless.
jLToll ber sometimes nf her mother.
You will call her by my name f
f Shield her from the winds f sorrowt
If she err. obi gently blame.
4l.iIad her eometimes nhere I'm fleeping;,
"I Mill answer Ifelia ralla,
And my breath w III itir her rlngtiu
"wi...., :. i M.. !.... r.tl.
' I And her aoft black eye, will briehten
2VVith a wonder whence it came.
yln her hfart when yean pan o'ct br,
' '"Bhe Hill find her inulhiir'e name.
ix
It li laid that every mortal
'.i Walka between two angcU here i
VOne rccorda the ill, but biota it,
",'If v fore the midnight drear
f'Man repenteth; if uncancelled,
;if Then ha ai-ala it for the aklee ,
s AnJ the right hand angel wcepetb,
llruding low with veiled ryua.
- I wilt be hr rijht hand angrt,
jaling up tb3 good for hr-aveo,
Striving that the midnicht watches,
Fltiilt no miideedg unfurgivvn.
''t You will not forgit mo, husband,
H -Wnn I'm ulei'ping' ncatlt the sod I
Oh I Iiivb tho Ji-wlI given nf,
Al love tltio next to find.
iiJJoltttcaL
' Important Correspondence.
Anttocf of George M. JCeim to the Inter
' rogatories of Mr. llaldeman.
j
Hon. R. J. Hai.deman :Sir: Your
circular, unsigned, duly reachad me by
mail., Presuming that if it wcro a sincere
purpose, you had forwarded it, I sent it to
Harrisburg for recognition ; it was then
authenticated by your signature, and here
with bo pleased to receive my reply.
The first resolution signed by H. II.
Sibley, temporary chairman at Washing
ton, after an insinuation that all Demo
crats who may be oppos:d to his particu
lar organization are secret enemies to the
Constitution and the Union, recommends
to the several State Committees " that
they tako measures to secure the adoption
ot an electoral ticket in their respective
SUtes pledged to tho unequivocal support
of tho nominees ot the .National democrat
-mm
AW
mm
1
'.4
Hi
i
ic Convention, Stephen A. Douglas and i man of the state Committee, iiotwithsUnd
Hersehel V. Johnson.' ing the very largo and complimentary vote
Tho coond resolution, resolves "that if 1 rcc.-ived troin the members of the Con
any Stato, Committee shall omit to take the ventiou. I hold it to bo inconsistent with
nroner itens for securmer such an clccto-
ral ticket, then the member of this Com-
mittee ia that State is hereby authorized,
either in conjunction with members ot the
State Committee or bj Ids own c,to tako
euoh action as Eo may deem necessary and
proper for that purpose '' 1 copy the res
olution verbatim ; the italics are mino.
The conclusion of the circular is in the fol
lowing unusual and unprecedented stylo .
"May I beg that you will bo so kind as to
reply before the 24th of this month of Ju
ly, whether your vote will be cast for Ste
nhen A. Douslas and Herschel V. Johnson
ami Hi WlinOUtOOmpromiSO,eqiJlvocttiioii ur cuaugu
,"'! Your failure to reply by tho date specified,
will be considered as hostile to the Demo
lll'X cratie nomiaecs."
' I presume tho Sibley resolutions are in
' o'i'ii troduccd in order to show mo that jouhave
some kind of apology for tbo abruptinqui
(ia it ry whether my vote will bo cast for Doug-
las and Johnson, "without compromise,
' equivocation or change." I answer cm
"i"i' pbatically, that I do not recognize tho au
V"" " thoritv which assumes this inquestional
rl , t
h't'ii and arbitrary control over the Democratic
organization of tho Commonwealth of
num.! Pennsylvania, and I havo yet to learn
1 " 3 that a peremptory request couched in lan
ncfitu .. it,.! in itself creatos distrust, is cal-
' ulated to inspire cither confidence in, or
regaru'for, the sourco uom wiuen ii comes.
I am of tbo opinion that neithor Messrs.
Douglas and Johnson, nor Breckinridge
and Lane, are regularly nominated candi
dates of the Democratic party which party
Requires neither prefix nor appendix to its
name to ucsiguiuo Its uauunm cuaruuiur.
That feature is stamped upon its history, is
founded upon its immutable principles, and
will long survive the misorable controversies
i ia'' tand disputes of office-huntera and mere
., politicians wmon now temporarily ouioure
iini its clonous pathway,
Km ThaTront Street Theater Convention,
a,w" which called itself the repreentativo of
M ii ,the"'Ifitional Domooratio party, cannot
etaim a regular nomination, nocause ma
Charleston Convention had adopted a res-
olntibn'by a large majority before its ad
journment, that nj on thonm pe neciarod
BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA.,
wis
tho nominee of ihe Convention until be ro- better counsels will prevail. How proud
coived in the Convention a vote equal to ly you coulil return Mr. Siblev's letter and
two-thirds of all tbo electoral colleges.
This resolution was nover rescinded, and
Mr. Douglas never received such a vote.
Mr. Johnson has been selected by the Ex-
ccutivo Committee of that Convention to 1
replaco Mr. Fitzpatrick, who had not ro-
coived such a vote. The two-third rulo
has been provod to bo a good ono by long
cxperionceof its salutary effects, and was
enacted by successive Democratic National '
vjonvenuons, 10 prevent me very evils i
which hirve canio.upon the party in conse
nuenco.of its nonenforcemont. Never Bay"
ing been repealed, I am at a lots to un
derstand the logic which claims a regular
nomination for Messrs. Douglas and John-
The Maryland Institute Convention,
which alto claimed to bo the representa
tive of the National Democratic party .de
mands its recognition upon alleged injus-
tico to Democratic State delegations, and
ius oeciarnuon oi sound democratic pnn- j
cipics. Aitnougii it was composed ot
members Irom nil the Democratic States,
its proceedings were equally irregular
witu mat oi the iTont Street Theater.
In this lamentable pofition, when tho'
to whom the Democratic party of tho whole
Union had confided the direction oi affairs
have proved thcuiselvci unable to control
n political etructuro heretofore magnificent
I and powerful, and thus failed in giving it
the force that should eharacterize it, I look 1 self. It is not to such sources she looks
at home to our own State organization for either for Democratic principles or Demo
relief, and finding that intact and perfect ( cratic usages. She i this day as ready to
have no occasion to consider the oppinion manifest her attachment and devotion to
of Mr. Sibley and his associates as of tho the principles as inculcated by a Jefferson
least importance to tho well being of tint
Demoeracv of nnr rrnnd nlil nnlnmnn-
wealth. abiding intelligence cannot bo convinced
According to ,my understanding of tho how any party can be mado strong by di
custom and usages of the Democratic par- vision. She holds in abhorrence all who
ty in Pennsylvania, when a Democratic havo caused such results, and for my sin
State Convention adjourns line die, hav- gle self, I will not bo linked with any of
ing appointed or made provision for tho them. The conclusion with which I clo
appointment of tho Executive Committee, is briefly to say, that for all these reasons
it confides tho wholo or ganization of the I shall, if elected, cast my vote as Elector
party to that Committee. In any emor- at Large, ''without equivocation, compro
geney they havo full power to do what is mise or change," according to the action
necessary. I havono doubt if aca'ididate of the State Committee. If that Commit
for Governor, Elector, or any other Stato tee should deem it proper to suggest any
officer, died or declined so r-hortly before other service for the eoneral rrood.it would
an election that it would be inexpedient to
call a convention, a nomination made by
sucn vyommiitceo 10 supply me vacancy
would be entirely satisfactory and perfect
ly regular.
It is true that they can and generally
do decline so great a responsibility, yet the
power to call conventions or cupply defi
ciencies, resti with them, and no nliero
else, and the Democracy of tho State will
never submit to having their State organi
zation invaded by a body of men at Vah
ington,'of whom they know nothing, or by
a clique or single person in the State,
whoie caprico may only induce an agita
tion in favor of our opponents.
Tho present State Committee, with a
delicacy which does them honor, stayed
far within the liiuiu of their lawful powers
when they inertly recommended th Dj-
inocracy of Pennsylvania to unite their
votes ior rresiuont on the electoral uckci
nominated by the Reading Convention,
according to tho plan set torth in their
resolution. If I could not have conscien-
tiously endorsed that plan I should in
stantly have placed my resignation as au
elector at large into thu hands of the Chair-
lair and manly conduct to accept a noun.
nation and not carry out the views as ex-
pressed by tho authority that gave it. To
my mind it is under such circumstances
highly becoming to resign, rather than to
persist in maintaining a position that has
nothing to justify it but a mad ambition
uncontrolled by the advisory influences of
a very honorable and proper authority.
Such being my views as to the nomiua-
tions and powers of tho State Committee,
my course seems to be plainly set before
mo. The plan recommcd by the Stito
Committeo is wiso and appropriate. All
true Democrats concedo that it is of the
first importance that Mr. Liucoln bhould
be defeated. lean voto most cheerfully
for cithor Mr. Douglas or Mr. Brcckiu-
ridrre in nrcferenco to Mr. Lincoln, aud
know no other mode by which it call be
done, but by a union ot preferences upon
one electoral ticket. If tho ineiduous de
vices of those who prefer men to principles
should prevail, and two electoral tickets
are thrown into thu field, it will not at
least bo tho fault of the Democratic Party
of Pennsylvania, but of tho'e only who,
regardless of fealty to time-honored priu
ciples, would saerifico all at the shrine of
personal aggrandizement. Thank Heav
en 1 that class of men haTe no weight with
tho conservative sensible, thinking and
efficient portion of tho community, whow
votes must decide tho election. Tho bat
tle must bo fought in Pennsylvania. A
cordial union of all for tho sako of the
Uuion upon the suggestions of tho State
Committeo would secure the triumphant
election of that excellent and worthy citi
zen Henry D. Foster, to the Gubernato
rial chair, a majority of the Senate and
Housa of Representatives, and as a nec
essary consequence a United States Sena
tor. Are all those glorious results to bo
jeoparded for the sako of any one man !
Is it to be done at the dictation of a body,
which can claim no shadow of authority
for its interference with our State organi
zation, and whioh sooms to have so little
confidence in its own innato strength as to
transfer all it poiscases to the keoping of a
cinclc individual, I trust, however, Ihut
join the gallant forces of our Democratic
Commonwealth.
There is no room for a middle course.
If you wish well to our cause, you will
not act with that fragment oT a party who
under tho pretext of purity.and good faith
carried their treachery to tho utmost reach
of tho enemy's camp', and desecrated tho
name of Democracy by voting in the ranks
of those who havo uonstantly opposed it. .
in llcrks county ,ioi several years past.a
i fusion of faction
.present Clerk of
under tho lead1' of the
the Republican House
of Representatives, has accomplished the
gloomy picture of an invasion of this cita
del of Democracy, and for the nonce suc
ceeded in leveling it to the earth. To this
achievement, all dono in the boasted namo
of the regular Democracy, we owe the
Republican organization of the House of
llenrPnniltnllVKfl Mnrn tl.nn mtnn n .L.Ia I
vote might havo saved ui the disgrace we
now witness in their defection and our di
comhturc. 1 find, too, that every movo
I niont which is made in this State bv thrwa
who arc sensitively regular and cntioally
punctilious, U prescribed and heralded
forth by the Editor of the I'rtss. tbo man-1
ifest object of whoso editorial labors is not '
.y iii,n uuuuias, uut to ueicat aim so
utterly that he shall ho powerless hereafter I
lorcver. t rom inch chicanery and deccp-
tion llerkS COUntv hnl rusnlved In rid her
and practiced by a Jackson, as in tho
' r,t 1 tin'.,..! tin:.-..! nf l.-
bo equally proper either to acquiesce or
resign at once. There is, in my opinion,
no condition more degrading than to mis-1 Tod "Convention, that, JJcnjamin Titzpat
represent those who have. conGdcd to you , ricv of Alabama, was nominated hv tho
k-v public tru?t, and which no private con-
' .a 1.1 !
omui atiuii buuuiu vvur impair.
Very respectfully, your fellow citizen,
Ueorok M, Keim.
Letter from James Maomanus,
Esq., m Heply to Mr. Halde
man. Beli.efo.N7G, July 21, 1H60.
R. J. Haldeman, Esq., "National
Committee you Pennsylvania :" Sic:
I received your circular postmarked 1 8th
inst., addressed "to tho National Democra-
Cy of Pennsylvania," issued by you as the
solitary member of the bo-styled National
Committoe for Pennsylvania, in favor of
Douglas and Johnson, requesting all "Na-
tional Democrats of tho Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania to meet in Harrisburg on the
yoth of this munth, in delegate and mass
convention," &c, to nominate a straightout
electoral ticket pledged to the support of
Douglas and Jotuiaon, it l understand
you ; aud protesting against the actiou of
tho State Fxecutive Committee, which met
at Philadelphia on ih) 2d iut., who havo
recommended that theDeiuociaey of Penn
sylvania vhou d unite upou fair, just and
equitable principles against the common
foe of tho Democratic party, by supporting
thu old toral ticket nominated by the De
mocratic State Convention which met at
Readiug, and of which you wore a member.
That jou have plenary power, iuveited by
the resolution ot the Convention over which
Mr. Tod presided, of the friends of Mr.
Douglas, I admit ; and certainly it was a
compliment to Pennsylvania to find ono
Doulasits without, guile, while jou could
wear tue uiusmng honors oi -uie one man
pwr," and sing tho old Scotch song of
, "Wha Wad be King but Charlie." But
that Mr. Douglas was tho Presidential
', nominee of the National Democratic Con-
I ventnn 1 deny ; and when you refer to tho
' proceedings of tiio Convention nt Charles-
ton, before its adjournment to Baltimore,
' inn wlinnlil linv iintlpt.rl tlin mrwf innmrlm
ant ri solution passed by the Convention,
with regard to who should bo declared the
Presidential nominee, and which was in j
full force at the adjourned Convention j
which met at thu city of Baltimore. On
tho 1st day of May, 18G0, and the eighth
day ses-iou of the Convention at Charles
ton, I fiud, in the published proceedings,
that Mr. Howard of Tennessee, offered two
resolutions ; thu second resolution declaring
it the duty ot tho President of the Conven
tion, on a full vote for President and Vice
President by the delegates, "o loaeciaie
any candiduie elected who did not naive
two-thirds oj the volts of the eltctorul col
I'ge," Mr. Stuart, of Michigan, raised a
point of order, declaring that tho rule was
that "two-thirds of the votes given should
be ntcess'try to nominate." Mr. Howard
replied and said, "a case in point had
arisen in 1841, when tho New York delo-
gation wero cxeiuueu iruui tuu vuiivetiiiou,
H't... J ..i.tnn lliim ivna llmf it. rrtntiirnd Iwn.
X I1U UCI.IDIUU ...w " w- -
thirds of the electoral vote to elect." Tho
previous question was ordered on Mr,
Howard's resolution, and a vote by StaUs
called, and resulted in favor of Mr. How
ard's resolution by a vote of 141 yas to
1 1 2 nays j and I find tho vote of the dele
gates of Pennsylvania on this rcfolution to
be 171 yeas, Oi nays. Thus Mr. How
ard's resolution, in full Convention, decla
ring that no candidate who did "not receive
ttiv-lhirJs nf the vol.es nf the whole Conven
tion, in electoral collect , was adopted by a
decided majority. How you voted on this
resolution 1 know not, but judging- from
your'antccedenU as one of the editors of
tho Patriot and Union, I should believe
you voted in the affirmative. This resolu
tion being jn full force and effect when tho
Convention adjourned to-w- etin Baltimore,
andnot'topenled, it waj s binding and as
imperative-on the Convention. at Daltimoro
as it was at'.Charleston. And we find, in
tho proceedings of the Convention, that
after live days of crimination and re-orimina-tiou,
th.e Convention divided into two sepa
rate bodies, tho one nominating Messrs.
Douglas and Fitzpatri0(, tho other Messrs.
Drcckinridge and Lane, and each calling
themselves tho Democratic National Con
vention. Now, sir, I ask you in all candor.
...l..t .1.. .
made in accordance with the provisions of
tho resolution referred to 1 Did cither of
them receive "two-thirds of tho electoral
mtn." m HmJhir, nfinll ih ,
full Convention J You must admit they
did not; therefore neither Mr.Douglas nor
Mr. Brnnklnriilim W Wn nnminntml
according to tho custom, usage or precedent
oi tuc democratic party ot the union, it
wa9 under these ciroumstances that the
State Executive Committeo met at Phila
delphia on tho 2d inst., and offered tho
olivo branch to the friends of tho respective
nominees in Pennsylvania ; and every
Democrat, if ho is honest in his profess
ions, will sustain the Committee in their
patriotio efforts to redeem our old Com
I monwealth from the bligliliiie rule of Black
' II l.l- ! I ir- .
Republicanini, bv uniting upon one elco
toral ticket, and that the one put in nomi
nation by the Reading Convention, and
the triumphant election of Henry D. Fos
ter. You protest against tho action of the
Stato Exccutivo Committeo as an assump
tion oj pAccr,'' while you are the State
Committee by appointment of a certain
Southern gentleman, who calls himself
Miles Taylor, and very generously placed
Pennsylvania under your control I sup
pose thero is no assumption oj power in
this ! while you can politically say :
' I am monarch frf all I aurvey ;
My right there ia none to dirpute.'
I ! Arrntti T find Vitr flic npnnnniltnM l!.
same Convention us Vice President, on the
saino ticket with Mr. Douglas; aud directly
aiterwarus the uonventiou adjourned siic
dir. A committee a appointed to inform
Mr. Douglas and Mr. l'itzpatrick of tho
nominations. Mr. Fitzpatrick declines the
proliered honor. But it appears, by the
sequal, that the committee had invested in
them a roving power greater than yours j
for when the nominee lor Vice President
declined, the committee caught Mr. John
son and nominal id him as Vice President.
There is no assumption of power in this I
Yet there is otio thing true, that Mr. H. A
Johnson was not nominated by the Con
vention that nominated Mr. Douglas, but
by a committee appointed to injnrm Mr.
fitzpatrick of his nomination , and after
the Convention had adjourned itie die,
That committee nominated a Vice Presi
dential candidate, aud this you approve of
and sustain as Democratic, and object to
tho State Executive Committee for acting
within the sphere of their legitimate duty,
aud for the best interest of the Democratic
party of the State. I regret to sue this
division in tho Democratic party of the
State. When tho party sustained "meas
ures, not uiet," it was always victorious;
and if you reflect aud look back, when the
partizans of Wolf and Muhlenberg divided
the Democratic party of tho State, the re
sult was that Rituer was elected. Gov.
Rilucr was delighted that he had beaten
two Democrats, but was astonished to find
that tho "lion Uray'" beat him single
handed. And in a more recent Conven
tion, held nt Altoona. another contest
about tntn not measures or principles
resulted in eltcting a majority of Republi
can members of Congress from this State,
tieiug thu Senate, and giving a majority in
tho Hons i of Representatives of that State;
and, if I nin not mistaken, you opposed
this measure, and wnt for union, harmony
and concesion of the Democratic party.
And this was in accordance with Demo
cratic principles. Everything for princi
ple, nothing for men. The old truism of
"united we Hand, divided we tall, is as
applicable now as when it was first uttered.
I regret I cannot give you credit for your
present position, as your circular is dated
the 10th of July. But the editor of the
Philadelphia 1'rtis (whom, as editor of
tho Patuiot and Union, you denounced
for his selfish and vindictive opposition to
President Buchanan) states, in an editorial
of Juno 25, 1800, that "while, howover.
we shall support tho election of Stephen
A. Douglas, Vie Pies will in no respect be
a party newpuper." " To this remark
wo must make ono exception : tho Irtss is
the uncompromising Joe to tho disunion,
secession Administration party ; the foe of
its candidvttstot its leaders, its organs,"
IXU. AUU UgUlU, 11U 13 tUU UTSl, lUTUUgll
the columns of his Prtss, to proclaim that
thero should bo no union of tho democratic
party of this State, unless they bowed
down to tho imperial mandates of John
W. Forney, who is now receiving the wages
of his political prostitution with the Black
Republican disunionists in Congress as-
seiLblod; and, before you, ho has issued
his bull, that separate electoral tickets
should be nominated in every State, and
then, like yourself, protests against tho
course pursued by the Democratic Slate
Executive Committee. And I find you
SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, I860.
following in the wake of the editor of tho
,Trc3-not a leaacr, uu& ins political uu-
tomaton. This no-party Press declares
hostility to any candidate on the local !
tickets that are friendly to tho adminstra
tion of President Buchanan, or its leaders,
or its organs. Under this anathema, where
would you stand, unless ho has given you
absolution 1 Do you suppose that tho De
mocracy of Pennsylvania are to be drag
ooned by any such course I If you do,
you nre mistaken this time. But you think
differently, and so do'thosewho are acting
with you in this scheme of disorganization.
If you aud your colleagues to the National
Convention had pursued the same coucila
tory course as at Reading, tho same result
would have taken place. You know that
the friends of Mr. Wittee and Mr. Fry were
at dagger-points. The office went in search
of the "man, and by acclamation Henry D.
Foster, tho Democratic nominee for Gov
ernor, is to be compelled to take sides with
one or the other of tho two political Presi
dential parties or factions in this State ;
and the Philadelphia 1'iess, that "nc-pir-ty
pape?," has sounded the bugle, and its
editor informs us ho has written a letter to
Gen. Foster, and he must answer it.
Whether this letter contains a9 much hon
esty and m'orAl principles as his J'imois
Jmifson letter, we are left in tho dark.
But if Gen. Foster is half tho man I be
lievo him to be, ho will treat that letter
and all others of like import, with silent
contempt, and the true Democracy of the
State, and every true friend of the Union
will sustain him. Now, sir, I am opposed
to having two Democratic electoral tickets
in the field at the same time ; and those
who aid in so doing, disguise it as they
may, intend to givcthe electoral vote of
the Stato to Lincoln and Hamlin, and de
feat, if they can, the election of General
Foster. But so far as Centre county is
concerned, I ain.satisficd that her united
Democracy will sustain the action of the
State Committee, support tho clctoral
ticket put in nomination at Reading, and
frown down any attempt at disunion of
the Democratic party by those to use your
own language) "composed of schen ers,as
pirants and victims, which, as a whole,
now forms an organization that appals ev
ery true lover of tho Union. 1
Yours, &o , JAS. M ACM ANUS.
' The Harrisburg Circular.
Heply nf II. B. liurnfiam, Esq., one of
the ttecrttaries of the Aisle Executive
Comniiitee.
Maucii Chunk, July 23, 1800.
Gentlemen: Your circular addressed
to mo, under date of the ltith inst., com
municating the action ot tho members ot
tho Stato Executive Committeo, resident
at Harrisburg, and inviting an early re
ply, is just received, and I avail myself of
a few leisure moments to stato my opinion
of the basis of concurrence recommended
by the Democratic State Committee for the
government of the party at largo in our
State. That no misapprehension may
occur, you will allow mo to stato that,
having reviewed all their action, I feci
bound by the Democratic Conventions of
Charleston and Baltimore to sustain Messrs.
Douglas and Johnson as the nominees of
the Democratic party, under existing cir
cumstances. Whatever preferences I may
have had before the decision of the Conven
tion was pronounced, I have now merged
them iu my fealty to tho Democratic par
ty, and propose to support those gentle
men (if I may) as the standard bearers of
tho distinctive principles tho Democracy
profess. My vote was for the resolution
adopted in tho Committee on the 2d inst.,
and in casting that vote 1 was governed
by a desire to obtain for Judge Douglas j
such united support from the party as
would, in my opinion, assist tho obtain-'
ment for him of the electoral voto of
Pennsylvania. The axiom is specially
truo in questions of polioy "unity is
strongth.
Actuated by th:sc feelings, I unhesita
tinfly voted for the resolution adopted by one whose ancestors and blood connections ? clocl ? Saturday evening last, at fcck
theCouimittco : i have been eminent for integrity, stability, y?StoE Lls aio residence, near this city.
1. Because I believed that tho undivided intelligence, statesmanship and patriotism. lla was in tue 7,tn J'car of his ago.
vote of the Democratic party in our Stato There is true philosophy in this that we! "Though this melancholy event was
was necessary to outnumber the combined will not stop now to cousider; but it is in 1 not entirely unexpected, in consequence of
Opposition, and that by such union and favor of Mr. Breckinridge that ho is from Mr. Gale s infirm health for somo months
fraternizatiou only could tho electoral vote one of tho best families in the country, 1 past, it is none tho less truo that the blow
of this State be tccurcd for Judge Doug- known in our history from the early days , so long suspended has at last fallen with a
las. ( of Virginia, aud always distinguished by 1 weight as sudden as it is afflictive. It is
2. That if such electoral voto could not striking aud commendable traits of char-1 some consolation, however, to know that
be made available to secure the success of acter. j his end was calm and vaiulcss, as his lifo
the nomiuecs, that our principles might 1 Tho Breckinridgcs of Virginia wore ac- had been screno and virtuous. Full of
still bo triumphant t the election of any tive participants in our revolutionary strug- years aud fall of honors, rich in tributes
other Democrat, judging it better to tied glo ; they were tho associates and friends of veneration and regard awarded by good
u Democrat Willi or without a tionina- 1 of Washington in tho war of independence; 1 and great men throughout the land, and
tion, than by any means to aid in electing ' and they stood afterwards by the side of beloved, as falls to tho lot of few, by all
a lvcpublican,
3
as
therefrom
concerning the action of tho National
Convention, yit upon the important, car-
dinal principles a good degree of uuani -
mitv contitiued to exist, and that it would
, bo exceedingly unwiso to hazard the pro
spect of defeat to our Congressional, Stato,
I UUUilfcUUUl , JIITpi CaClllUll Y HUV4 1UVUI IIV1U
! inces, by pursuing such a course as would
hopelessly divido our integrity as a Stato
' organization, and secure tho election of
Republicans to fill all thoso important
stations, and that therefore every truo
Democrat must and would approve and
sustain such action as would hca' past
J disseusions, and complete tho consolidation
of the Democracy, and avoid the intestine
conflict which threatened our. very oxis.
j tenca with entire annihilation, leaving no
PTospect of futuro reconciliation and con -
cord, and thus ultimately sacrificing tho
3. That although differences of opinion the old Commonwealth and founding insti
to minor points existed, and, emanating tutions of learning that have made Virgin.
. diversity of feelings had arisen ia great ever bince the Revolution. I hoy
union of theso States, founded upon the
vinuo auu m mu bcusq ol justice oi our
forefathers, who sealed and sanctified it
by their sufferings and blood I Feeling,
therefore, that, under tho circumstances,
tho aetion ot the Dcmocratso state Com
mittee was wise and patriotio, and that if
any wrong is committed by tho Domooratio
party, that efficient and amplo remedies
may bo found within its organization, I
cannot now concur in any action which
repudiates the legitimate obligations in
cumbent upon Democrats, of " submission
to tho will of tho majority ;" or which
shall sustain or create causes of conflict in
matters so vitally affecting our harmony
as a State organization. It may be a sub
ject worthy of consideration whether, if
tho Democracy of Pennsylvania are called
upon to go outside of their State organiza
tion, ana dissover their State allegiance,
any strength would be obtained for Doug
las aud Johnson, and if thero oven would
whether it would not bo buying it at too
large a price 1
Those who carefully and candidly re
view tho history of the Conventions at
Charleston and Baltimore, cannot fail to
be convinced that "all tho wrong is not up
on ono side."
The iil-titned assertion proclaimed, 'We
will stay hero at Charleston until the
yellow fever comes," provoked similarly
intcmpcrato reply, and crimination and
retort exasperated the one side and the
other to an extent heretofore unknown,
and which, I hope, may never find an ex
emplar. The concluding resolution of the Read
ing Convention referred to in yours, was
made most effectual by the resolution of
the Committee, which sought, in an unex
pecto I emergency, to adapt the spirit of
the resolution to the actual circumstances
of the country, and ombine and harmo
nize by ktn dy forbear ince and judical
counsel. The great body of the party seek
only the ascendancy of correct principles
and do not sympathize with the causes
which are fruitful of discord, and there
fore they generally accept and approve the
spirit and purpose of their Committeo in
adopting the resolution.
Trusting that I shall havo the pleasure
of meeting you again soon, and that all
will concur in aiding to procure a new
triumph of Democratic principles and men
and that tho union and equality of the
States may be preserved and continue to
bless our age, nation and the world,
I am yours, respectfully,
H. B. BURNHAM.
To General A. L. Roumfort, W. H.
Miller, J. Monroe Krciter and others,
Harrisburg, Pa.
The Patriotic Ron of Patriotic
Sires John C Breckinridge.
Wo extract the following from an elabo
rate editorial in the Newburyport Herald,
an Opposition journal, on the character of
the distinguished patriot and statesman
who has been selected as the Democratic
nominee for the Presidency. It speaks
for itself :
rjut at the same timo that
we sincerely hopo to see the defeat of Mr,
Brcckinridgo, whoever of the others may
be chosen, it is not from dislike of the man
personally or any unworthinoss that attach
cs to him as a citizen. The sccedcrs have
given it candidate personally unexceptiona
ble, one of whom Kentucky is as proud,
and has reason to be, as in former times
she was proud of Henry Clay, and ono
who is worthy of a nation s boast. Of all
the young men in America, thero is scarce
ly one, apart from his politics, of grcsrtcr
promise. We do not recognize in
Wc do not recognize in this
country tho claims of families ; we neithor
reward a son for tho virtues of his father,
nor punish a father for the vices of his son.
Siill thero is a certain reflection of lights
and shadows from the ono to the othir that
we cannot forget; and, as wc expect good
fruit from a good tree, we arc at the out
set, and bclorc trial tavorably inclined to
uenerson in giviug tuut uivii uunrucicr iu
i wcro eminent at the bar, clonuent In the
pulpit, learned in tho schools, bravo in tho
1 army, industrious in busines, and of the
highest personal integrity. If wo ever had
a family in the nation in whoso honor and
rectitude the public might confide, it is in
lllli illtVAim .jj" .uv , vv.
ward with tho settling tide, they carried
their characteristics with them, and hence
wealth, influence, and publio esteem have;
been handed down from father to son.
John Breckinripge, of Kentucky ,grand-
father of the candidato for tbo Presidency,
was a-distinguisbed jurist, who, as United
States Senator,in 1802, introduced reforms
into our judiciary system that havo given
, system to our oourta ever nineo. Ho was
Attorney.GeneralofthoUnitedStatesundcr
1 Jefferson. The sous of John Breckinridge,
wore like bim. Rev. John Breckinridge,
VOL. 24.
D. D., educated for the bar, becamo ono of
the lights of the Presbyterian chnrch.
For somo years he was T professor at
Princeton, and a man of much loarning
and eloqucncci Rev. Robert Breckinridge,
his brother, a Doctor of Divinity and Doc
tor of Laws, is known to-day through all
tho Protestant Church. Ho was educated
for tho bar and practiced law for some
years, and then entered the ministry,
whero by learning aud oratory ha has
reached the first rank of great men in tha
American Pulpit. For nearly forty years
ho has been active in the educational, mor
al, philanthropic and religious controvers
ies, being a pillar of fire in the Presbyto
riau school, as wero his fathers from the
days of tho Reformation. John Cabell
Breckinridge, father of the Vice President,
died at the early age of 313 years, while
holding the office ot Secretary of State.
He was a prominent member of the legal
profession, and an active politioian. His
wife wne tho daughter of Rev. Stanhold
Smith, President of Princeton College, N.
J., and grand-daughter of John Wither
spoon, another President of the same col
lego, aud one of the signers of the Declare
ration of Independence. .
We say of John 0. Breckinridge, Vice
President, and candidato for tho Presi-'
dency, that ho is not unworthy of such an
ancestry. jg i,;3 revolution
ary and Virginia ancestors, ho is full of
chivalry and patriotism. ThesS6haraeter-
istics were seen in his readiness to ongago
in the Mexican war, where he was major
of a regiment that was mustered into the
service too late for strife on the bloody
field ; and his notions of honer wero exhib
ited in the altercation1 with Mr. Cutting, of
New York, where the preliminaries of a
duel wero arranged before friends could
stop the proceedings. He has the best
education scientific,' literary and legal
that the schools of Kentucky can afford,
and though he has devoted much time to
polities, few men hare such scholarly at
tainments, whilo fetter still are his equals
in oratory. In all respects ho is fitted for
the forum. Ho is tall, commanding and
graceful in person, of mucb physical endui
ranee, and with a fund of knowledge, beau;
ty of utterance, and a brilliaucy of thought
and style, that cannot fail to render him
popular with the learned and polished, and
powerful with the people. Hence it is that
he has walked more rapidly over the po
litical course than any statesman who has
prcceeded him in this country, and could
all the people bo acquainted with him, as
are the inhabitants of Lexington and tho
State of Kentucky, his personal influence
might so far excuse his political heresies
as to give him a present success, whict We
think the publh? good does notrcquiro.
Mr. Breckinridge's first appearance in
political life was after his rcttirh from
Mexico, in the Legislature of Kentufcky,
where ho at once took the Icnld of his party
by his readiness and tact in debate. Twice
he was elected to Congress, in 1851 and
1853, over tho strongest competitors, Gen.
Leslio Coombs and Goy. Robert Letcher,
which could not havo been done by any
ordinary man. President Pierce pressed
him to accept tho mission to Spain, but he
declined to go abroad. In 1850, without
any solicitation on his part, he was chosen
Vico President, and has presided in the
Senate with much dignity and impartiality.
In the meantime tho Kentucky Legislature
has elected him to the vacancy in the Uni
ted States Senate, to o6cm' in JSlarch,18Gl,
by the retirement of tho veteran Critten
den. This is a high compliment, sinco ex
Secretary Guthrie, an aspirant for the
same place, w.i3 set aside on his account.
The DeatH of Jossru Gales. Tho
National Jnte ligencer of Monday comes
to us in mourning, and announces the
death of Mr. Gales as follows:
"Death or Mk. Gales. It becomes
our painful duty to aunounco to tho read
crs of this journal that Joseph Gales is no
more. He died a few minutes after seven
u ouaivu ma ncmei tuuipauiuusuip iu
the home and the walks of private life, ho
has been gathered by the great reaper
Death, a sheaf fully ripe for tho harvest,
into a garner made fragrant and precious
by tho fruits of a life ever noble in its as
pirations, aud ever laborious in good work.
"It is not for us, least of all at a mo
ment like this, to writo his epitaph, nor
are words of formal commemoration need
ed to indito for our readers that eulogy
which they, equally with us, are compe
tent to celebrato in memory of his intel
lectual greatness, It were better that wo
should keep silent whilo as yet the startled
car seoms caught by tho bouud of a voice
crying with such thrilling emphasis from
tbo keeno of his former activities, like that
voice which tho Revalator heard from
heaven, saying. 'Write, blessed aro the
dead in the Lord from henceforth j yea
sa'uli the spirit, that they may rest from
their labors ; aud their works do follow
them."