Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1848-09-08
THE REGULAR NOMINATION.


IS the regular nominee. They don't like him
he is not right on the question of free soil they
are not certain CT bis with reference 10 har-
Dor Improvements; indeed, generally, he is pnreli
able AMI Objectionable, they admit, but then he is
the regular rominee. o, Slaves lei us look at
this question OF . regularity, for one moment
Ii the fact that the conl enion which made the no
assembled al a certain place, at certain
hour, and made their selection ia a certain manner.
constitutes the nomination regular, then perhaps il
Is so. But if convention is representative OF
party and is bound 10 speak the wishes OF the party
and to govern lis action and selection. by the we'll
known fundamental principles of the party, then
its regularity must be inferred FROM those grounds
If men. protesting 10 be democrats, may assemble
at Baltimore, and there laughing at the known wish
OF the party sending them. may proceed TO consult
their own individual desires, may jeer at, scout, and
set aside, the principles upon which alone they
have any regular existence, and proceed to sell
themselves TO the highest bidder for office, and the
people are bound 10 sustain it all where does il ne
cessaily lead to. The people are at the mercy OF
a set OF rascalIy, trading politicians who wormng
themselves into their confidence, go TO Baltimore
and there set them, the people, up for sale Dele
gates are to have Office and the aspirant is to have
the people it is all regular" fair business tram
saction, and whether the candidate be Zachary
Taylor, Lewis Cass or Henry Clay, it is all the
same. The people have been regularly sold to
them, and nothing remains but to fulfil the con-
tract Conventions are not TO compromise and set
aside principle, but to compromise and harmonize
questions Of policy and eXpediency; and a nominal
ton is regular only, when the known will of the
party has been regarded, and the fundamental prin-
ciples of that party adhered TO- in such nomination.
This constitutes regularity aud is Lewis Cass
then, the guar nominee of the party, far this
state is concerned? If there ever was question
fully and clearly endorsed by the democracy of this
state it was that of the WiImot proviso Not a
democratic press in the state but had again and
again sanctioned and urged it, and so far as we had
any means of Judging the same unanimity prevail
ed among the masses. Can it be possible then,
that Lewis Cass, who had said that measure was
unconstitutional and who must OF necessity as Pre-
sident, veto it, was the first choice of Wisconsin
Tor the Presidency Is not the subsequent action
Of people sufficient evidence that he was notE
Our Legislature with singular unanimity affirmed
principles the very opposite of those entertained 10y
Cass, and at the present time great share. and
believe majority of the party of the state, openly
repudIate him. And yet, with the views and feel
ings of our people we'll known, Wisconsin was re-
presented in National Convention unanimously fol
Lewis Cass, not as second choice, not as com
promise, nor contingency, but first choice, anC
seemingly, as an only choice. In this county there
is not now and probably never has been 200 Gas
men, and yet OF the delegates 10 Baltimore Wa
from this county, and gave his vote all the way
through for Cass. He is a candidate for Judge il
Minnesota, which Office is in the gift of the plesi
dent, but whilst it seyiden the wishes Of the PEG
pie were misfepr"Aontrd, will leave people {,
draw their own in!ereuces as to the cause and ais
10 in.er there:rom the nature OF the regularity
belonging 20 this nomination. The matter is SIM
ply heie. The democracy of this state Ne:e oppo
sed to Lewis Cas-; they sent delegates 10 Baltimore
who basely betrayed them, and we are now impu
IDENTIFY called upon 10 sanction their treason unde
the plea of regularity
But if the difference were one merely Of men, tn,
treason might be excused but the hostility OF tie
people OF Wisconsin to Cass, arose from his position
in opposition to what they believed to be a lunda
mental principle of democracy, and il was not then
preference Tor men which was betrayed. but thei
principles and on the plea of regularity are call
ed on TO sanction this treason. Are we not right
/ in the assertion that the democratic principle wa,
betrayedl Democracy if we understand it, is The
principle which is continually de, clipping the high
est good for the PEOPLE aud the continued applica
ton of which is necessary for the progress OF The
people in republIcanism. This present state o
, Wisconsin was once territory OF Virginia anc
subject to her laws. Suppose the principles OF the
! Wlmoi proyso had not been applied to this terrific
nv, wouI Wisconsin have been What she is
the land of the free and the home of the brave
Would her soil be tccming as it is now with an in
dustIous population from all quarters Of tie earth
would the oppressed of other nations have oun,
here an asylum, ard with cur OWN people be wor
king out the great problem of self government anc
human happiness. We venture to say instead o
all this, this territory would have been a compare
tive waste and we should not have been here to PEI
this article, nor you TO read it, Was not this ther
at that time a question involving the highest prin
clpIes of democracy? No one will dispute it. Is il
not then precisely the same questions and the same
! principles now at issue? This cannot be disputed
Were not then our great principles betrayed in the
nomination OF man, who has signifed his determ
nation to repudiae these principleand act in oppo-
stion TO them? Can this be disputed! How then car
a nomination for the democratic party be regular
when the great principle upon which alone the par.
| ty can exist is repudiated If this nomination is
REGULAR then TIE party is dissolved. for the prin-
cipIe upon which alone the party exists and has a
being has been discarded the soul which animated
the body is gone the vital spark has feel, and We
are party of principle no longer; and those who
seek to sustain principle. are compelled to seek new
organizations.
If the plea of regularity Is sufficient in this
case, then il will always be- and il party OF re-
PubIicans depuie a body TO frame them a consttu-
ton, and that DO IT, to be made Dukes Earls Lords