Daily national Democrat., 1859-08-18
The Charleston Convention.

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ea and South Carolina, to take counsel upo. 'Ie
Sond;tir, tho marty and 10 discuss the eXpedl-
encv of letting the Charleston ConVeu 'lon ~ u3
default The marty in the free states mas Oecome
so thoroughly freesOiled that they utleriy uespul,
of electing sound democrat IN le6o, ana regard
n union with the southern opposltlon ana the con
sor,,.t;,.o mon ofthe North and West as the only
means of defeating the Black Republicans in the
Presidential contest of the approaching year. 1t
i said the movements only await the termination
of fhe elections in Tennessee and Kentucky
Should the opposition carry those two States OF
which there is now but little doubt, 1t will imme-
dately so forward"
This is from a hot.headed Southern paper,
which considers everything FREE SOIL that
does not 60 the whole hog for slavery. 1t
dislikes Douglas because he is opposed to
slave code for the Territories and because he
does not believe in forcing slavery into a Ter
ritory, whether the people like it or not
This paper and others in other portions Of
the South, together with many Southern fire
eating politicians, are opposed to going into
the Charleston Convention, at all, because
they believe that majority of the delegates
to that Convention from the North will be
Douglas men. They are very correct In this
latter opinion, for nearly all the regular dele
gates to that Convention will certainly be
Douglas men, and it is only by admitting ir-
regular Anti-Douglas delegates that Douglas
can be defeated for the nomination. This
result may be brought about, by the uneon-
tested Southern delegates excluding the con-
tested Northern Douglas delegates, and ad-
hitting the bogus Administration delegates
who have been elected by boiling Conven-
tions The extreme fire eaters do not pro-
pose to run the risk of losing this chance, and
so they contemplate refusing to go into the
Convention at all Some of them, however
as we learn from reliable sources, intend go
ing in and boiling, if Douglas is nominated
or the Cincinnati Platform, on which he
stands, is re-afiirmed
We may as well state, here, that the report
that the delegates from the State of Maine to
the Charleston Convention were in part OPP
posed to the doctrine of Popular Sovereignty,
is wholly false The following remarks from
the Franklin (Maine) Patriot, formerly Blu
chanan paper, sets this matter in its true
light:
The Democratic State Convention which
met at Bangor, Thursday of last week, was
large, spirited and harmonious Convention
Tie Democratic party Of this State is nor titl-
ly committed to Popular Sovereignty, as er-
pounded By Douglas. The resolutions are
square edged and explicit We see no rea-
son why the democracy of Maine should spend
their tine in the further discussion of differ
ences of opinion, as the party has taken an
unequivocal position, and one which it is
bound to maintain. We make the following
extracts, showing what the opinion of the
democratic press of the State is
The Augusta Age says;
"The interest manifested in this conven.
tion exceeded that of any one we ever atten-
ded. The occasion of this interest was two
fold-.frst, four delegates at large to the ma
tional democratic convention were to be
chosen, and secondly, it was generally under
stood that efforts would be made to prevent
a full and unreserved expression of the senti-
ments of the democracy of Maine on the
territorial policy of the party as proclaimed
in the subsisting national platform
so overwhelming, however. was the rep
resentation in favor of Popular Sovereignty,
that no appreciable opposition to that doc
trne manifested itself in the convention, if
any was INDUCED by individual members
Strong popular sovereignty resolutions which
had received the previous assent ofthe friends
of that doctrine, were, therefore, unanimous
! ly reported by the committee on resolutions,
and as unanimously adopted by the conven-
tion, but single member raising his voice
in opposition to them.
"Ihe platform being thus established the
election of our delegates at large to the
Charleston COnvention-two from one ticket
and two from the other was the result
They 'CW all unquestionGbly fait!fuiiy reflect
at Charleston the sentiments Of the Democracy
Of the State. as oppressed IN the resolutions so
overwhelmingly and so enthusiastically ddop-
ted Indeed Mr. Shepey, who was on the
committee on resolutions, made a speech near
the close of the convention, in support of the
resolutions, which was an able and satisfac
tory exposition of the doctrine of popular
sovereignty as understood and defined by the
staunch advocates of that doctrine"
AS Maine and Illinois are, so are nearly all
the Northern States on this question of Popu-
lar Sovereignty, and the Charleston Conven-
ton will either nominate Stephen A. Douglas
for the Presidency or split wide open. If it
scquiesces in the will of the Democracy OF
this Union, it will nominate him. If it doe.
not reflect the will of the Democracy, it ought
to burst in two. and it will
APPLE MELoYs,-This fruit is one of the