The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1859-07-27
THE CHARLESTON CONVENTION.

The tuhkEESiUN CUNtENIlUN.
The last hope of the many hued Opposi.
lion is that the Charleston Convention will
dissolve the Democratic party! When the
honest, intelligent, and thoroughly uniformed
people OF the United States reflect upon
this fact, they will see how fororn are the
prospects of our political antagonists.
Because ambitious, aspiring, and hot
headed politicians here and there, who have
been honored by the Democratic party and
elevated 10 Offices of distinction and trust.
choose TO take grounds on important nation.
al questions antagonislic to each other, OF
TO promuigate abstract theories opposite
not only 10 each other, but 10 the well
known doctrines of the Democratic party,
the prophets of Black Republicanism and
the other sections OF the Opposition delude
themselves into the idle dream that the Ma.
tional Democracy will be broken up al
Charleston
They are joined, if not insiiga,ed, in these
ridiculous predictions by certain "sensa
tion" journals that care not what absurd
fictions or improoabililies they utter, provi-
ded they can succeed in fabricating some
matter of talk TO serve the purposes or the
day.
For the special information of those who
circulate, and those who pretend to believe
ihese!stores of the approaching dissolution
of the great Democratic party, tbe Constitu-
ton notifies them, in advance, that the Ma
tonsl Democracy will show at Charleston
what they have shown on other notable &C.
casions-ihat they have very short and
summary method OF dealing with disorga.
nizers. If any man from any section of the
Union ventures 10 go thither haughtily TO
offer 10 that congress Of equals-of men of
individual character, personal honor and
absolute ndependence-hp utimaium, or a
platform constructed 10 suit his own crotch.
ets-if any man goes there determined TO
produce disaffection. or 10 exasperate it,
we make bold 10 say, from our knowledge
Of the course Of former Conventions, and
from the resolute and independent spirit Of
Democrats, that such a person will very
speedily find out neither the likings or dis
likings Of himself or any other man are ma
,erial 10 the harmony of the Convention, or
the triumph of the Conventions nominee.
Will the forlorn Opposition, with its diff.
fering and antagonistc factions, never AVA
ken 10 the fact that the cause of the Nation
al Democracy does not depend on the ad.
hesion Of this or that man, however really
or fictitousy eminent, 10 their organiza-
lion? Who are they upon whose disafec-
lion TO the general cause of our time honor
ed party the Opposition rely TO break up
the Charleston Convention in confusion,
disaster, and disgrace? What are they be.
yond many other enlightened and distin.
guished Democrats, except so far as the Ma
tonal Democracy has made them eminent, AN
lavished honors upon them
'Sparta has many a worthier son than he''
may well be applied 10 the bes, of them.
Let the Sensation" journals Qhe chief
of which in New-York has been busiest in
this silly twaddieI continue then TO prate
about the coming "break-up" at Charles
ton-let the unfortunate Opposition, split
up, as il is, into fragments, echo these ep-
hemeral prophecies-let the disaffecled
aspirants indulge the fat,ering fancy that
they will have their own way or defeat the
general wil-we Tell the latter that they will
be able neither 10 rule or ,uu at Charleston;
and that the only discontinue exhibited
there will be the discontinue of those who
may be predicting and striving for the de.
siructon of the National Democracy.