Daily national Democrat., 1859-07-27
Douglas's Letter.

The Atlantic papers are busy with their
comments upon the letter of Judge Douglas,
expressing his determination to accept no
nomination at the hands of the Charleston
Convention, if it enunciate opinions conflict
ing with his views on popular sovereignty.
The New Y York Tribune thinks that this letter
has destroyed all chance for him before the
Charleston Convention, although it aeknowl
edges candidly that he would be the most
powerful candidate that the Convention
could put forward
The New York Daily Times, Republican,
thinks that Douglas will split the Convention
and asserts his power to do so, with ease and
facility.
The Philadelphia Pennsylvania, (Admin-
istration,) openly denounees Douglass letter
and denies his right to appear before the
Convention as a candidate for the Presidency.
The Albany Statesman says, the Demo
cratic party Cannot go into the Presidential
contest, with the faintest hope of success,
with a candidate refuting or ignoring the
principles of Mr.. Douglas"
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The Boston Atlas and Bee remarks that
Douglass position in his letter "either rules
him out of the Charleston Convention, or
splits that Convention in two"
Forney's Press says of it:
There is a gallantry in this letter which we are
not surprised to see has aroused the admiration
of political opponents and excited the enthusiasm
of political friends Judge Douglas proposes no
act of disOrganizaton to the Democratic party
! He plants himself upon the recognized and ac-
ceptcd principles of that party, and, although he
abstained from saying the word the whole tenor
! of his communication is to the effect that when
the doctrines of great political party are reject
ed and betrayed 1t as idle to plead IN its behalf
the skeleton OF Il mere organization. The declar-
alton of principle on the part of Stephen \. Doug
las should go forth among the Democracy as an
olive branch Of harmony. To us Of the free
States 1t offers victory in every Representive SEN
atorial and Congressional District. To the South
it proposes no niustice for the double reason that
he who offers it has been the life long champion
Of Southern rights, and because the principle it.
self has been indorsed and approved by every
conservative Southern statesman, beginning with
Henry Clay, of Kentucky, and ending with Rob
ert r. Nj. Hunter, of Virginia. If the Charleston
Convention is not the mere echo Of Custom
Houses, Post Offices, Navy Yards, United States
MarShals aud Cabinet Ministers, it will rejoice in
the opportunity presented by the position of Ste
phen A. Douglas to consolidate the Democratic
party upon platform which will be the gospel of
our political salvation for generations to come
Judge Douglas, If we know the man, does not
ask as condition precedent that he should be
the candidate. All that he desires is that the
pledges and principles of the Democratic party
should be regiously observed. This done, the
selection OF standard bearer will be a secondary
consideration.
So much for Douglass being hand and glove
with Leeomptonism The whole question of
difference between Judge Douglas and the
Buehananitesis is reduced to this simple result:
Either the Convention at Charleston must
plant the Democratic party upon the Doug |
las (or in other words the Democratic) Plat
form, or a grand bust up must there take
place, Stephen A. Douglas leading the De-
mocracy, and Mr.. Buchanan or some one else |
the opposite faction. The signs of the times
are plainly written upon the political frma
ment. He who runs may read