Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1860-09-22

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OF full Convention, and thereupon the presl.
gent OF the Convention proceeded to declare
nun the regular nominee OF the Democratic
party. The record proves that, in the Bulti.
more Convention Of this year, received one
hundred and eigbty.one aud half votes more
han two.thrds of a full Convention. Hence
was nominated precisely as General Csss
was nominated, according to the known usages
oil the party. But | suppose MIR. Breckn.
rldge Will excuse himself for not regarding the
nomination OF Cass as regular upon the ground
that, at that time, he did not belong to the
Democratic party, shouts of laughter aud
applause, and was not bound by its usages.
You all remember that in l847, NJ sjor Breck.
lnrldge went into meeting at Lexington
kentucky, and there denounced the Demo.
cratic party as corrupt faction, and declared
in favor of General Taylor for the Presidency
and no doubt bis apology for not being bound
10y the regularity OF the nomination of Cass
Is, that be did not belong to the party at the
time he was nominated, and further that he
went hunting on election day, aud did not
vote (Uproarious laughter) But my friends,
while Major Breckenridge. 10 his Kentucky
stump speech, contesses that be was in favor
OF Taylor 10 lS17, and went hunting 10 lS4S,
so that be could not vote for Cass, be asserts
that he made speeches for Cass because the
old veteran then represented bis (Breckin
rldges) principles. Now, oil you have to do,
IN order to discover what Mr.. Breck nridge's
principles then were, is to inquire what Gen
eral Cass was in favor of. A voice, "The
Nicholson letter.") Yes, my friend you have
hit it exactly daughter, and three cheers
You saved me the trouble Of telling it. Gen.
Cass had just written the Nicholson letter. in
which he asserted that Congress had no power
to interfere with the slavery question in the
Territories.
Mr.. Breckinridge says that he made
speech Tor Cass, although be had up to that
time been for Taylor, when be found that
Cass advocated his principles. Thus it ap.
pears that lS48 Mr. Breckenridge was for
Cass and the Nicholson letter. Laughter
and cheers. And too, was for Cass and
the Nicholson letter. Cries of good" and
applause SO we were together Ia lS48-
Laughter. Again, in 1852, Mr.. Pierce was
nominated at Baltimore, on the platform of
non-interventon by Congress with slavery 10
the Territories. AS | before remarked,
came to Reading that year, and made speech
Tor Pierce and non.intervention from yonder
market house, james Buchanan presiding
over the meeting. Voices That's So"
Ard l appeal to every old citizen here pre-
sent to bear testimony whether or not | did
not advocate then the same principles | do
Douglas, and great enthusiasml Pennsy.
vania sustained Mr.. Pierce by her electoral
vote on the doctrine o. non.intervention.-
| AGAIN, 10 1860, the party assembled in con-
Vent!on at Cincinnati, re asserted the doctrine
oil non-nterference by Congress with slavery
IN the Territories, and Buchanan and Breck.
inridge were elected President and Vice.
President on that platform. | stand to-day
by that Identical principle. The Convention
which nominated me reaflirmed the same
platform on which Buchanan and Breckin.
ridge were elected in 1856, and yet you are
now told that l am no: sound, because
stand where they then stood, on the platform
which Mr.. Breckinridge declares, after his
election, is contrary TO reason and the Con.
stItution." Mr.. Breckinrijge now regards
the Cincinnati platform, aud the doctrine of
! popular sovereignty incorporated in it as so
! great an evil, that 1t is better to break up the
party destroy its organization, aud elect
! Lincoln by minority vote, rather than
allow the regular nominee Of the party TO be
elected on it.
No man doubts but what would easily
have beaten Lincoln il BIeckiuTidge and bis
friends had not bolted at Baltimore. They
all acknowledged that | would have been
elected If they had not bolted, and therefore
they thought it their duty to prevent my
SieStiou III tuuJ why, securing lUt election OF
Lincoln. They certainly did not expect that
the choice of less than one third of a party,
bolting nomination and repudating the old
platform, could be elected himself. All they
hoped for was through Executive patronage
and Federal power to take off enough Demo
Gratis from the regular organization to enable
Lincoln to be elected, and this they now
prefer rather than see the nominee successful
on its time honored principles.
And now, you Penusylvanians, you true
and loyal Democrats of old Berks you men
who never boted in your whole lives are
called upon to sustain the bolter Cries Of
They'll see how we do il" and laughter.
have ohly TO say to you that | never bolted q
regular Democratic ticket in my life. Three
cheers for Douglas, followed by three more
of the same sort never failed to vote the
regular Democratic ticket, and never went
bunting on the day Of u Presidential election.
! Uproarous laughter and cheers.
| Hence, il boiling against the regular or
gan zation constitutes claim to Democratic
support, | am entitled TO no credit on that
score. Applause. But let me ask you,
! fellow Democrats, what is TO be the conse.
quence if you sustain this scheme of secession
aud boiling? How will it work =? Suppose
you call convention to nominate q Governor,
aud two candidates present themselves, one
| receives tWO-tulruS OF all The votes cast and
! is nominated, aud then the other bolts aud
/ proposes a compromise by way of fusion
Laughter aud applause. Or suppose you
call Congressional Convention in old Berks
county to nominate a candidate for Congress,
and of the aspirants the regular Democrat,
who never bolled iu his life, gets lwO-thrds
OF all the votes cast. and the equivoeal Dem.
| ocrat, who goes hunting on election day,
| Tlaughter,] gets the remaining onethird of
the vutes, all the minority man has to do is to
bolt, run against the regular organization,
and demand a compromise and luSiun.-
| When you come to nominate candidates for
the Legislature the same thing will occur
There will be q majority in favor Of certain
men, aud minority in favor of other men,
aud the minority will bolt and refuse to sup.
port the ticket, unless you combine with
them aud form fusion by way of compro.
mise. ask you what kind of Democratic
organization, what kind of Democratic unity
aud strength, which attaches to fidelity, TO
principle, you will have if you sanction this
principle OF boiling aud secession? Why il
seems that in order to be true Breckenridge
man you must vote against regular nomina-
tions every time, or else you must go hunting
on election day. Great laughter
Now, my friends, desire you calmly to re.
| heet Oh these considerations. believe that
the old Democratic party, according to its old
organization and it's old platform Of prnci-